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Takahashi Takako. Lonely Woman. Weatherhead books on Asia. Essay and English translations by Maryellen Toman Mori. Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-231-13126-1.
Takahashi Takako. Mirror, Gems, and Veil: The Life and Writings of Takahashi Takako (1932-2013). Essay and English translations by Maryellen Toman Mori. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2018. ISBN 9781495506444.
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2019-04-21T16:40:32Z
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https://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E6%A9%8B%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8B%E5%AD%90
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Did Changing Sentiment Drive China Development Bank International Investment's (HKG:1062) Share Price Down A Worrying 66%?
Can We See Significant Insider Ownership On The China Development Bank International Investment Limited (HKG:1062) Share Register?
Does China Development Bank International Investment Limited (HKG:1062) Have A High Beta?
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2019-04-19T08:30:36Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/1062.HK
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Who's Shooting at Givhans Ferry?
We have a wide variety of people shooting at the Gungfight At Givhans Ferry.
All ages. From 10 year old Buckaroos and Buckaretts to Elder Statesmen over 80.
All concerned about safety and FUN!
So there is a place for YOU!
They will be taking posse and match photos as well as being available in the big tent on Saturday Night.
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2019-04-21T16:28:45Z
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http://givhansferry.homestead.com/photos1.html
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Lee Malvo, one of the Beltway Snipers, explained that “one reason for the shootings was that white people had tried to harm Louis Farrakhan.” His partner John Allen Muhammad claimed his innocence to the death chamber.
Mohammed Taheri-azar, who tried to kill students on the University of North Carolina by running over them in a car and issued a series of jihadi rants against the United States, later experienced a change of heart, announced himself “very sorry” for the crimes he committed, and asked for release so that he can “re-establish myself as a good, caring and productive member of society” in California.
These efforts fit a broader pattern of Islamist mendacity; rarely does a jihadi stand on principle. Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11’s would-be twentieth hijacker, came close: his court proceedings began with his refusing to enter a plea (which the presiding judge translated into “not guilty”) and then, one fine day, pleading guilty to all charges.
Shahzad, 30, acted in an exceptional manner during his appearance in a New York City federal court on June 21. His answers to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum’s many inquisitive questions (“And where was the bomb?” “What did you do with the gun?”) offered a dizzying mix of deference and contempt. On the one hand, he politely, calmly, patiently, fully, and informatively answered about his actions. On the other, he in the same voice justified his attempt at cold-blooded mass murder.
I want to plead guilty and I’m going to plead guilty a hundred times forward because – until the hour the U.S. pulls it forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan and stops the occupation of Muslim lands and stops killing the Muslims and stops reporting the Muslims to its government – we will be attacking [the] U.S., and I plead guilty to that.
When Cedarbaum pointed out that pedestrians in Times Square during the early evening of May first were not attacking Muslims, Shahzad replied: “Well, the [American] people select the government. We consider them all the same.” His comment reflects not just that American citizens are responsible for their democratically elected government but also the Islamist view that, by definition, infidels cannot be innocents.
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2019-04-25T18:21:50Z
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https://americankafir.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/faisal-shahzad-jihadi-explains-terrorism/
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April | 2013 | What Matters? The Journey!
So, I heard this story about a speaker who holds up a $20 bill and asks “Who wants this?”. Not surprisingly, all the hands go up in the room. He says, “I’m going to give this to someone, but first let me do this.” He proceeds to wad up the bill and asks again…still the hands were up in the air. “What if I do this?” as he drops the bill on the ground, pours coffee grounds on it and steps on it. Still some hands stay up in the air. From his antics we learn a valuable lesson. No matter what he did to the money, it didn’t lose its value. It’s still worth $20. He says that we are like that $20 bill.
So many times in our lives we are dropped, crumbled, trashed and stepped upon. We survive the evil stare, the trash-talk, the looking down upon, the lies and gossip and walk away feeling worthless. BUT, no matter what happens in our lives, just like that $20 bill, we never lose our value. We are priceless to the ones who love us, to our family and friends, and to God, we are precious, loved and adored.
Our value is not in where we live, what car we drive or who we know. We are not defined by where we studied, if we studied or where we send our kids to school and where we vacation. We are defined by who we are. How we live our life. What we teach our children and how we treat others. Our value lies not in our possessions, but in the grace through which we live our lives.
You are special. You are beautiful. You bring value, love and insight. You are loved by your friends your family and by God, in whose eyes you are perfect.
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2019-04-25T15:53:07Z
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https://lindaebauer.wordpress.com/2013/04/
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Heh, I do hope it was Michael pretending to be the travelling monk!
I am reluctantly beginning to think I might have to start a Tumblr just because fandom is all over there these days, even though I don't really see the point of all the reblogging and I'm not much interested in fanart in the first place. Hmm.
Good news about Morena too, she seems cool and will bring plenty of fannish interest with her.
Hope you get enough snow for skiing!
The snow was unexpectedly great - my legs are aching like crazy now, in a good way!
Hopefully both Michael & Morena will hit the con scircuit this summer - did you see he's been getting "I saw you!" and "Please hire me?" tweets from the locals? Would love an update from him.
Tumblr is certainly busy - my Tom pic gor reblogged 60 times in about 15 minutes; I was astounded. I imagine Sherlock fandom must generate thousands of posts a day.
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2019-04-20T08:31:58Z
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https://tasabian.livejournal.com/199659.html?thread=4219627
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I was skeptical of this one. It was a book club pick but I saw a low number of ratings on Goodreads. We usually pick rather popular novels so I was a bit surprised but tried to go in with an open mind.
When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins–one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals, which seem to tell the story of Heshel’s life, are so harrowing, so riveting, so passionate, and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father.
As Michael struggles to come to grips with his father’s elusive past, a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to him–a world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one man’s terrible–or triumphant–transformation calls history itself into question. Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I?
I liked the premise of this book and it shared elements with a manuscript I’m working on. I liked the mystery of it and the parallel plots between Heshel and Michael. But I felt this book started to fall apart toward the end. I was skeptical when I was 20 pages out because I suspected I was not going to get a clean ending to what was going on and I was right. I felt Michael had to make some wild assumptions to get to the conclusion he drew about his father and his secret life. It ruined the end of the book for me, though I wonder if the book club discussion will completely reverse my hostility.
Michael felt very real to me. He was distracted and angry which felt like very real emotions given his relationship with his father and where he was in life. He was confused and he did some odd things in his confusion that didn’t make sense to me but seemed to help him cope. I didn’t understand his clues or what he thought he’d find or how his wife and child connected to his father’s past. It was frustrating to read, but it felt real, like what someone would do when dealing with loss.
I didn’t particularly like any character in this book. I wanted to like April, but I didn’t understand what he role in the book was and I wasn’t sure why she was a part of the story. Michael was hard to understand and Heshel wasn’t really himself in either plotline. Perhaps that’s why I had trouble connecting to the book. I kind of wanted it to be over by the end.
Losing a family member is hard. I haven’t lost a parent but I’ve lost my grandfather. He went quickly, but my other grandparents are holding on tight and letting go slowly. I’m far away like Michael was from his father, and it’s hard to stay as close as you were when there’s distance. When I talk to my grandfather now, I know I’m talking to a shell of the man he used to be and it’s frustrating because I can tell he knows that. I could feel some of Michael’s pain but I pray I don’t have to experience it.
I liked the story in the journals best. I was much more invested in that story because I knew how the modern story was going to end. I wanted to see what changed in Heshel’s heart and what inspired it. I didn’t see the ending coming the way it did. Maybe that’s my ignorance of Isreal’s history. Either way, it kept me reading more than Michael.
Spoilers here so skip this paragraph if you want to avoid them. The ending frustrated me beyond reason. April came to nothing, which felt like poor writing. Even worse, I’m still confused about how Michael came to the conclusion he did. There was far too much left up in the air and they were things he could have investigated after his father passed. If there is an Israel Rosenheim, he can be looked up and found. Michael seemed set on his existence but had no motivation to follow-up. It felt rushed and lazy to me and it brought down my impression of the book.
We don’t get to choose our parents. We may not even like our parents. Sometimes their lives are mysteries to us. Is it what we don’t see that could make us like them? Heshel hid a lot from Michael. If he’d been more open, their relationship may have improved. But maybe not, maybe it would have been worse like when Heshel came clean to his wife. Learning something about a parent can change how you see them. Michael has to decide what to remember about his father.
Writer’s Takeaway: A rushed ending can be very tempting for a writer and this is a good example of how it can make a book fall apart. Even if he doesn’t want to believe it, the story in the journals was true and Michael has to face it. The way he decided to compartmentalize and justify his father’s actions bothered me. It felt unfinished and left me with a sour taste in my mouth. It was too convenient and left a lot of things still dangling.
A good story with a disappointing ending. Three out of Five stars.
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2019-04-22T08:25:22Z
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https://samannelizabeth.wordpress.com/tag/michael-lavigne/
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I haven’t posted an update in a while and I looked back then realized that I almost forgot about this series I started. Hi, I’m Cliff. I like to post topics of interest, start a random series and abandon it part way in. If you’ve been here before then you probably already knew that. Today We’re going to take a deep look at the UDP component of my streaming audio experiment. Actually, it never was my experiment, instead I borrowed it off of some forum I found online but that’s irrelevant. In my last post I explained how audio is captured on the server at a high level and covered the basics of how audio works. I also hinted at two key methods in the program, sendThruUDP() and receiveThruUDP(). These two methods send audio bytes over the network from the server and receive them on the client respectively.
There’s a lot happening inside this method even though there are very few lines of code visible. Here we see code which starts by creating a DatagramSocket object. It then creates a DatagramPacket object and stuffs the packet object full of sound packet bytes using the constructor parameters. We also pass the length of the packet byte array along with the IP address and port of the client that we are streaming to. On the same line that we create the DatagramPacket we call send on the DatagramSocket instance, passing this newly created DatagramPacket object. The send() method will take this Packet, which contains the raw audio data, and send it to the IP address and port info that is recorded inside the DatagramPacket. We end the method by closing the datagram socket then continue with the loop that originally called it.
Our first series of major problems are right here in this method. Remember what I said above about reducing overhead? Well there is a ton of overhead in this method, much of it is in the form of constructors. An object constructor usually contains the most expensive parts of any program as such you want to call them as infrequently as possible. Java attempts to make programing fun and simple by removing the many details of what your operating system and hardware are doing behind the scenes but in reality it helps to have a cursory understanding of what happens in general. Start with DatagramSocket(). This isn’t just a magical object. (Let’s try to imagine what ultimately needs to take place for sound to fly from one machine to another.) In reality the object has to establish communication bridge between your program and the operating system and eventually with your network card. This work would most likely happen in the constructor. Now consider the DatagramPacket object constructor. It doesn’t have to do as much work, however it does need to set aside (or allocate) a chunk of memory to hold the audio data. You may tend not to ignore it but allocating memory also takes some time. (As a Java programmer you are not supposed to think about memory allocation because it’s done auto-magically for you!) The operating system has to scan the available RAM and sometimes shuffle things a bit to find room for what you want to do. Finally the call to sock.close() adds even more overhead. The close() call destroys all of the bridge work that was established in the constructor.
To visualize what is happening, imagine you wanted to carry a bunch of wood from Home Depot to your condo. Pretend you needed a truck and that there was a bridge between Home Depot and where you lived across town. Let’s say the truck could only carry so many blocks of wood and required several trips back and forth between your home and Lowes. (Yes, I started the analogy with Home Depot but work with me, Lowes is easier to type.) The bridge represents the Datagram socket, the truck would be the DatagramPacket, and the repeat trips would be the while loop calling the method. What this method does is build the bridge, then build the truck before driving a single load of wood home. It then places dynamite under the bridge and under the truck completely demolishing them before exiting and returning to Home Depot for the next load. (The sock.close() method is represented by the sticks of dynamite in my analogy.) Hopefully you can imagine how inefficient it is to move all of the wood from Lowes to your apartment. If there were a crew of wood workers at your home they would be annoyed by how long it took for each load of wood to arrive, thus there would be a lag in their productivity. On each trip they would likely takes a coffee break and watch an episode of Judge Judy.
We’ve found one major source of lag in our program but now let’s look at the client logic. Recall how I highlighted the run() method in the client?
This method begins by creating a DatagramSocket. It then creates a byte array of 1000 bytes, and then goes on to create a DatagramPacket where it passes the empty sound packet byte array, it’s length, and the IP and port we are streaming to. Next it calls receive on the socket passing the empty datagram packet. The receive method will will the packet with the sound data that was sent from the server. Finally the method ends by calling close on the socket and returning the received data to the calling code. Again, the logic in the method is intended to be fast. However, based on our learnings from above we can probably identify some very similar inefficiencies in this method. Creating a socket establishes a bridge with your operating system and your network card, creating the sound packet array and the Datagram Packet each need to allocate memory, closing the socket destroys all of the communication bridge that was set up in the beginning, then the entire process is repeated on each iteration.
How do we optimize these inefficiencies? The simplest thing would be to remove all calls to object construction from the inefficient methods. You also don’t want to call close in either the send or receive method. Instead you want to create the objects when the program starts and reuse these objects inside the send and receive methods. There are likely other inefficiencies in the program but these are, by far, the most critical. Like I said earlier, I was amazed the program ran and produced any audio at all as the logic is terribly inefficient. The fun part of the project was working incrementally through both the client and the server while running the app and hearing the incremental improvements real time. In other words, I was running both the client and the server and listening from the client. I would then make little small optimizations on either the client or server, recompile and re-run. The compile and run step happens quickly causing only a brief interruption in the audio. The result felt like I was massaging the sound into the correct shape… truly amazing!
I’m going to continue on this path of discovering the capabilities and possibilities of network streaming. Stay tuned for additional updates.
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2019-04-21T18:46:06Z
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https://codeforfun.wordpress.com/2017/07/
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So why did you choose to rip off Magritte?
Well, I wouldn’t call it a rip off, but really a dedication to the genius of Magritte in a modern take. The original was done as a statement against realism in painting.
How did Magritte respond to the public’s reaction to the painting in 1929?
Why does Ronald Reagan sign your painting?
Again, I took the joke one step further by having a dead US President signing the work as well, so in 100 years from now they will wonder if Reagan commented on Magritte or I came up with it myself.
The curious fact is Reagan actually induced smoking of Chesterfields earlier as an actor.
Later he came up with the “Just say no to drugs” campaign with Nancy helping to promote the campaign to eradicate the rising cocaine trade in the 1980s. Nancy Reagan travelled over 250,000 miles trying to campaign to stop the use of drugs during the Reagan administration.
How did the Reagans go about the war on drugs?
Below is the classic TV commercial on the the effects of drugs on your brain used by the US government.
During the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan with the CIA helped supply weapons to the Contra. Some members of the Contra were actually selling cocaine after US aid was cut off. Politicians speculated that the CIA had been involved in the drug trade.
Why is your pipe metal vs. a wood pipe?
This gets to the actual subject of the painting. In Magritte’s painting he is talking about a tobacco pipe. In my painting I am referring to a crack cocaine pipe. I choose metal over glass to enhance the gruesomeness of the habit.
What are the other symbols in the background?
I have the three big cities where cocaine and later crack hit the streets: New York, Miami and Los Angeles. I used the symbols of popular sports teams to symbolize those cities and the sports stars who were also using the drug.
Besides the illegal drug ingredient, you need baking soda or alumunium bicarbonate or ammonium bicarbonate. I symbolized the other ingredients from the two companies likely profiting during the 80s scurge.
Additionally, the tools are a lighter and a spoon. So I have the top lighter and silver spoon makers in the US.
Of course, the most famous victim was Whitney Houston, who I used from her star on the walk of stars in Hollywood.
Was there any particular event that drove the idea?
Yes, I was reading about Whitney Houston and her tragic death from cocaine overdose and passing out in a hotel bath. I found that story bizarrely attractive, but the public really loves Whitney for a lot of the positive things she did like take a stand against South Africa apartheid and supporting Mandela when he was in prison. It takes balls to take an unpopular view once you have made it as a major star. The other thing I realized as I researched the topic is that there are stars and 1000s of nameless people that die each year, so the attraction of covering the large crime bosses and pop culture around it became the calling in the painting.
Why did you do base your painting on Scarface?
Scarface was one of my favorite movies as it captures an immigrant’s dream to make it big in a new country and scaling up the drug latter only to fall completely. It also captures well this pop culture fascination with drugs.
Interesting question. I know as soon as I finished the painting an artist asked me, “is this about Sandy Hook shooting and gun control?” In a way it is as we are living in that moment of considering banning automatic weapons, but really its a larger question of what are we doing about illegal drugs and why are they illegal.
Are you suggesting that we make hard drugs legal?
Well, if you look to the 1800s to early 1900s, we did have legal hard drugs. You could stroll down to your local opium den to have a puff and pass out for hours. You could mail order your needles and drugs from Sears. Additionally, you could by a coke with cocaine in the recipe. Hence the reference in the painting.
Nowadays, if you look to Holland, they have had success in having coffee shops for soft drugs like hash or marijuana and drug usage has fallen. This seems like a safer route to tax and regulate these drugs while prosecuting crime resulting from users rather than having massive ongoing drug wars that come from its illegal status and still users robbing others to buy drugs.
If you look at Mexico, there have been 60,000 people killed in 5 years… that is truly a sad event, which had nothing to do with drug overdose.
Who is the figure in the background repeated?
Pablo Escobar is the figure repeated in the background. He is the real version of Scarface. He rose as a local thug in his teens to controlling most of the cocaine trade out of Columbia by his late 20s. By his 30s he has amassed $3 billion in wealth and was listed on Forb’s 227 richest men in the world. By 43, he had made enemies with the whole of Columbia and was shot down by the police. He had had 1000s assassinated, 10 judges killed, the Supreme Court blown up with tanks, an airliner blown up midair and half a government building blown up. The crazy thing was he was the best philanthropist in the country giving out toys, food, building schools and sports stadium to have the poor as his look-outs that today they still celebrate his birthday in parades. This is despite having killed 1000s of people mostly in government.
Is there a connection from movies to real violence?
Hard to say. I definitely see that celebrities are all shot in movies shooting others casually like they’re getting coffee. For example in Rambo III there are 132 people killed by Rambo. In Terminator, 34 people die. In Halloween III, there are 23 deaths. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, there are 11 deaths. So yes, Hollywood loves to kill people without a thought.
There is a chicken and egg problem. Are people drawn to these movies because of the death count or are the movies pushing the limits of death impacting people to kill others. I still say the responsibility is with the viewer not to go kill people based on a film. For sane people, I think they can clearly differentiate this difference. The mentally instable may be influenced by these types of movies.
Maybe the solution is to give an X rating on 3+ murders in a film and be less worried about naked breasts in films as well.
Why did you dramatically change your style?
I was ready to try something new in my work. I have plenty of abstracts already, so I was ready to try something new. I was really inspired also from watching the development of Mr. Brainwash to a major artist after only 6 months (seemingly). He obviously learned a lot filming and bombing with various graffiti artists as well.
No, it is in a private collection.
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2019-04-19T04:42:14Z
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https://shawnshawnartist.wordpress.com/tag/whitney-houston/
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Immigration of low-skilled undocumented workers to the United States is petering out -- even without a border wall.
That's the conclusion of a research paper published by the Brookings Institution on Thursday.
The researchers, from the University of California San Diego, say the population of low-skilled undocumented workers has been declining for years and will keep declining, even if President Trump doesn't follow through on the wall.
"The current U.S. debate about immigration policy has a backward-looking feel to it," the researchers write.
There was a big influx of low-skilled workers into the United States from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Then the Great Recession crippled the housing market and the construction industry -- the second-leading employer of undocumented workers in the U.S.
Worker arrivals from all of Latin America are expected to keep falling. And the authors expect immigration of young workers from Mexico to fall to practically zero by 2050, even without new policies to deter immigration.
Mexicans have long made up the largest proportion of low-skilled undocumented workers in the United States, but previous findings from Pew Research have suggested that more Mexicans are leaving the United States than coming in.
Beyond the economic downturn, the authors point to other factors keeping low-skilled immigrant workers at home.
The Baby Boom in the United States slowed in the 1960's, but the researchers say the Latin American Baby Boom didn't ease up until the '80s.
So while the supply of working-age Americans began to decline in the '80s, the supply of working-age Latin Americans kept growing, and they were drawn to the United States by strong demand for labor and higher wages.
But today there are fewer working-age people in Latin America, and the researchers say there will be even fewer in the future.
Trump's rhetoric may be new, but immigration enforcement has been increasing for years.
Between 2000 and 2010, the researchers say, the number of Border Patrol agents doubled to 17,500. Deportations of non-criminal immigrants rose from 116,000 in 2001 to an average of 226,000 a year from 2007 through 2015, they say.
It was in trouble in the '80s and '90s but has vastly improved. The 2000s were a time of steady economic growth, the researchers write. So earning power for low-skilled immigrants in the United States dropped compared with what they could make in Mexico.
In the '90s and early 2000s, a middle-income worker in Mexico could expect to make 2.3 times as much in the United States. Since 2007, that has fallen to 1.75 times, the researchers say.
That's why the researchers say they don't understand the urgency for stricter immigration enforcement and a border wall.
"In light of the changing demographics of migrant-sending nations, the current emphasis of the U.S. government on further intensifying immigration enforcement is puzzling," they say. "Why build a wall to stop an immigration surge that has largely already occurred?"
It isn't how to keep immigrants out, but how to deal with the aging of those already in the United States.
The average age of an undocumented worker in the United States today is 40, and the researchers forecast that by 2040 it will be 70. In the next 15 years, the researchers expect the Latin American-born population over 40 years old to grow by about 8.5 million, or 82%.
"We should expect sizable growth in individuals relying on public safety-net programs," they say. "Under existing financing rules, U.S. states and localities would be the entities primarily responsible for shouldering these costs."
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2019-04-20T07:06:53Z
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https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/23/news/economy/brookings-border-wall/index.html
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Being a sick chick is rough, but these items make it a little more bearable! This is my must-have list for making chronic illness a little more manageable and going through it with sanity and style.
I have tried a dozen different medication organizers, and this is my absolute favorite! In fact, it’s the only pill organizer I will use. I LOVE how all my meds for the week are in one place. No more misplacing my “Thursday” pill container, losing the lid to “Monday,” and no annoying tabs to flip open for each time of each day. In these stylish pillfolds, each day has a line that unzips to reveal two good-sized pockets where you can stash your pills. It folds up into a cute little pouch that looks like a change purse or small wallet – not a clunky plastic rectangle that just screams, “LOOK AT ALL MY PILLS!!” The quality is great, and although I was afraid at first of the white on the material, the bag really is stain-resistant just like the site says! This product is ingenious and so. stinking. stylish. Love! Sarah also sells “pillbags” which look super cute. Do you want to try one for yourself? Use coupon code AMANDA to get 5% off your purchase! Thanks, Sara!
The Ferris Wheels Heat & Ice Therapy!
I LOVE my heating pads/freezer pads by Sally at the Ferris Wheels. She made me a custom order and from order to delivery, it only took 3 days! I have several of their products including the neck/shoulder wrap which I love the most! It is made so that it truly covers the neck, shoulders, and upper back. I just microwave for 3 minutes and have long lasting heat and beautiful aromatherapy. (Sally can custom-scent your order, and my pads are all clove-scented! Mmm!) I also have the large lumbar heat pad (amazing for any large area of the body!) and the migraine set which includes 2 packs for the eyes and neck and a set of foot pads. (The eye/neck pads go in the freezer, and the foot pads get microwaved. As a result, the blood flows to your feet, away from your head, and provides headache relief.) All of the products are made so carefully. They are durable and truly work. The pads are divided into sections so the rice/flax don’t all settle in one area. Sally also makes computer rests, hand wraps, kids’ “boo boo bags,” and anything else you could imagine. I had such a great experience ordering these products, and Sally was so kind to custom-scent them and get them out to me unbelievably fast! Check them out and let them know Amanda sent you!
Oh. My. Goodness. are these AMAZING! This product is by cool etsy chick Marlo Bontempo and these are – ta da – called “The Perfect Hair Ties.” I LOVE these because unlike other elastics or “ponies” they don’t leave creases in my hair, and I can comfortably lay on them without feeling like I’m laying on a rock. They come in a huge array of pretty colors and are also available in headbands, too. They add glam to a snarly pony tail and can make even lounge days look beautiful. Go check out her shop yourself!
Typically, I think of Soma as a store for my mom or grandma. But then I found their Cool Nights line of pajamas and loungewear. Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Oh yes! I love their chemises, camis, shorts, and pants. The material is amazing, and all of the tops have support. Which means you can wear them in the hospital and not feel exposed or if you’re sick and getting visitors at home, they’ll do you just fine. They even make a light wrap. I have a whole collection of colors and options and oh. my. word. Love.
I love their shorts. They are cute and so lightweight, and I cannot even begin to explain how stretchy they are! Perfect for a sick day!
Disclaimer: These items have all been purchased and loved by me. They were not free gifts to me, and I was not paid or compensated to endorse them unless otherwise noted. I’m simply sharing the love!
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2019-04-24T06:10:18Z
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https://crazymiracle.wordpress.com/reviews/be-a-hip-sick-chick/
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Naz Aydemir Akyol shot was one i was to get but no luck, currently on en.Wiki is fine. See more shots of Vakifbank. And to bad Demir Neslihan isnt covered well. For such shot, not just DSLR, but stong zoom lens. Željko shot was very bad, light wasnt appropriate and that white t-shirt...he seems more to escaping from Dachau logor than coach of sport team. Now if you are in Istanbul, try to cover more volleyball temas as well. And if you get better shots of other so be it, i want good shots of all, i would easily change my photo for better.
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Absolute Write Water Cooler > Publishing > Self-Publishing: Print, Audio, Digital, Papyrus or Clay > P.O.D. Amazon sales rankings you may find INTERESTING!
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Since posting this thread I have come to realize that this was nothing more than a cheapshot at several authors posting on this forum who did nothing to deserve it.
And while none of them have mentioned it, I would like to formally submit my apologies to them (Maestro, Jenna, Victoria) for making an issue of Amazon rankings to prove a hollow point about self publishing.
I don't believe it was warranted or professional behavior and I would like to be seen as professional. We as writers, whether published or unpublished need to respect one another and of course that means not taking potshots at one another. I personally have found this forum to be very valuable and it goes without saying that much of its value comes from the advice given by those authors who have found success in traditional publishing.
I know that no author in his right mind would choose to self publish their book if they believed they had a genuine shot at traditional publishing, and had real intentions of becoming successful as a writer. While it may seem a dead end so to speak it is nice to know that the opportunity is there to publish a novel for those who wish to simply have it for themselves and have the satisfaction of simply completing a novel.
I for one am persuaded to get over rejection and continue trying to traditionally publish, for I have not by any means exhausted my opportunities for submission. It would be wise to do so before I relegate a work I believe in to relative obscurity.
Once again, to the authors...Please except my apologies for any hurt feelings and I hope you will recieve it in the manner it is offered...Sincerely.
Our books got sold in real stores, some across the country, where people can actually look at them, flip through them, and take them to the cash register.
Besides, do you know the difference between a 24K and a 500K ranking could be as little as two books in a particular week? My highest ranking just a week or so ago was around 35K. I didn't make much out of it -- it meant two people bought my book on Amazon.com that week, that was all. I sold more books at the stores.
What I really want to know, is the overall sales of Robinson's book, as compared to, say, Victoria's. That's what really matters, don't you think?
I generally find your analysis and thought process a sign of lack of understanding of how publishing and book selling really works.
Just do a Google search for "Amazon sales ranking" and you'll learn how their system works; you can't really judge how one book has sold relative to another just by looking at the sales ranking at one particular time.
And, I noticed you were a newer member, welcome to AW.
Amazon is arguably the biggest online bookseller period...so I think these figures do obviously say something!
They do say something. They say for this week, book a sold more copies than books b and c on Amazon.
What were Mr. Robinson's bookstore sales? Big-box sales? And the number that really counts, lifetime total sales?
Also, Amazon might count for 10% of a publisher's volume by units and only 1-2% of the publisher's actual revenues because their discounts are so terrible. My publisher actually stopped selling to Amazon for that very reason.
Also, the book coulld have achieved that ranking with as few as 10 sales in a short period of time. We've seen situations in which employers who have written books tell their employees to all go to Amazon on a certain day at a certain time and buy their book. Then they get a screenshot of that sales ranking and use it to promote the book. "8,231 ranking on Amazon! Buy it now!"
While it's an interesting snapshot, it doesn't provide enough information to draw any conclusions.
It is a very negative environment for those who might seek to self publish when they have a story they really believe in, yet find it rejected in the traditional market.
My point is not amazon sales rankings, I just thought it says that all hope is not lost on self publishing.
Besides as you are probably well aware, just because someone flips through your book in a bookstore, doesn't mean they buy.
Also as i have posted before, some self published books do get picked up by major publishers and have had success ie... my previous examples "Eragon" by christopher Paolini, and "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield.
I admit its not the norm but neither is it the norm to publish with a traditional publisher and become a bestseller...one provides more exposure admittedly, but it may not be the best advice to say shelf the book and write something better when the story may be good and yet rejected.
You may not like it but i think it would bear saying that of all that flows from traditional publishers into the market, many are not very good or enjoyable and have plenty of bad reviews and authors who complain about it.
I'm Not a P.O.D. crusader...but if I believe in my story and ultimately find no satisfaction in the traditional market...I'm glad to know that for very little monetary investment I could market my book myself and at least give it my best...Beyond that, who knows.
By the way very cool SNOOPY avatar, how can i find those? I love SNOOPY!
Anyway, people I think will stand for whatever they are a part of: The Traditional writer will stand for Traditional Publishing and generally anything else is not worth the effort.
The P.O.D. author will stand for that and snub the traditionals and so forth. It seems we have a Literary Caste System going on and its sad.
Personally, I hope to find a Traditional Publisher, but I'm not going to wait around forever hoping. I'll self Publish and keep writing and if it does well and gets picked up by the big boys...yippee...if not, so what. This isn't my day job anyway, I have an income...this is a passion to tell a story and pass that on to others to enjoy (hopefully).
But I don't think it hurts anyone by saying "ya know, i'm going to try and see what happens" and it doesn't hurt for these authors to be realistic either.
By the way as far as Mr. Robinson's sales, I saw an interview where he said he had sold more than 500 copies in the first two months and has a goal of 10,000 copies in a few years...but he's hoping to take those things and the agent who noticed him on AMAZON.com and signed him and go on to traditional...but where did he start and others...with a little investment and a P.O.D. version of a story they believed in enough to not be turned away from trying.
Giving it your best hurts no one else but you, if you don't...I like what one writer says on this forum..."A professional is an amateur that didn't give up"...or something to that affect.
Just out of curiosity, what does Eragon have to do with the topic of self-publishing? I hope you're not claiming it was self-published.
Right... Paolini's parents published his book -- they happened to own the small press. Even though they're his parents (and gave him special treatments, of course), it would still be considered traditionally published.
I'm just wondering . . .
It is a very negative environment for those who might seek to self publish when they have a story they really believe in, yet find it rejected in the traditional market.Wouldn't a publisher or an agent have a better understanding of what will sell and what won't . . . hence the process they put everything through during submissions? Isn't it their job to have this kind of knowledge and experience? The same knowledge and experience self published/POD are believing they have? It's great that authors believe in themselve, but belief doesn't turn over sales . . . right? Or does it?
I've done both. My first book was from a small PoD press that does LGBT titles. Sold a few hundred copies, mostly through my own efforts. Made a few hundred bucks.
My second was to a small but traditional press. $1000 advance, and it out-sold the first book in a matter of weeks.
Third sale is two books to a big New York publisher. The first should be out this November, and the advance is 2-3 times what I've made on the other two books combined.
The kicker? That first book, had I held off, would have sold to the second publisher. (One of the editors there read it and liked it, but they don't take previously published work.) Had I been patient and kept trying, that book could have made more money, sold more copies, and I wouldn't have had to do half the work.
and they went school to school to push it - something most people have neither time nor money nor connections to do.
The story i believe was that he and his mother had to hoof it around to different schools dressing him in costumes and stuff trying to promote it.
And while they had the company, I haven't read that they were a book publisher in any way, but had the resources to publish his book...they did the work but I don't think It was traditionally published in the sense that bookstores were carrying it and so forth. The mother and he were selling it door to door to coin a phrase. According to his own account on his website and so forth it was bought by someone's child who passed it to the parent and they had connections with a publisher as an author or something and the book was picked up by traditional publishers.
How that propagates a self publishing myth I'm not sure...I never said people have great success, JUST BY SELF PUBLISHING, only that it may get picked up as Paolini's book did and Redfields "The Celestine Prophecy" and on his site he definitely states that it started as a self published novel.
I only pose that self published can be a beginning, Not an end to success and that trying is better than not.
so... how seriously did you try to market your story to publishers and agents before you went the self-pub route with Lulu?
I thought that with all of the negatives you here around here about P.O.D. and self publishing efforts and how the books aren't good enough and so on... I think you are conflating print on demand technology with self publishing. P.O.D. technology can be used for either "self published" or "traditionally published" works. Self publishing can use P.O.D. technology or offset printing. The advantage of P.O.D. is that the books are only printed when there is a demand, so it's great if you aren't going to sell too many copies. It's not so great if you expect your sales to be in the 1,000s.
Also, I haven't seen anybody here say that self-published books "aren't good enough". The trouble with self-published and vanity published books is that they don't go through any vetting process, so there is a higher percentage of poorly written books than the output from a "traditional" publisher. That doesn't mean the books are necessarily bad, just that it's harder to find the good ones.
As others have pointed out, the Amazon rankings are usually pretty volatile, with sales of one or two books (and apparently page views even without sales) changing the numbers dramatically. Maybe someone with Booksurge access can fill us in on some of the actual total number of books sold.
I researched publishers galore for submissions guidelines and agents through publishers marketplace, sent out 30-40 or more queries including email, fax, and Snail with synopsis, chapter, full manuscripts depending on the guidelines.
some rejections came faster than they could have read the stuff.
others never sent back anything at all. Those independents who were smaller that i have recently sent material to, have stated they found the concept of my novel very interesting, intriguing, so forth and upon reading the manuscript quoting page numbers, that they were enjoying it and looking foward to reading more.
I haven't given up on traditional, but i'm just moving ahead with my own plans until i find out otherwise. I still send email queries and so forth, sent 3-4 today to agents who say they accept these kinds of storie...we'll see.
Most of all I want the book myself and for my kids and so forth and to see if anyone else enjoys it. I have a job and don't need to write to survive. My wife would say I probably spend to much time on it now. But the thrill of telling a story, the kind I like to read and would buy, that is a wonderful feeling and to see it in a professional cover and available is nice too.
has anyone any knowledge of "The Celestine Prophecy"...it was self published I think by a vanity press (Infinity, Iuniverse) maybe...I only remember on one of their sites they stated he had published with them...and yet a publisher still picked up, so maybe the reprint rights and so forth wasn't an issue??
I have nothing against anyone here...in fact i listed it on my website as the best writers forum around, now to just get people to my website..LOL.
Now, are you willing to devote all your time dressing up in costumes and promote it to schools, malls, shops, etc.? Paolini could do that because he had nothing else to do? Do you have a job? Do you have a family? How much time and effort are you willing to put into selling your books out of your car trunk?
If you can devote all your time and effort in doing that, then maybe you're on to something. Still, the book has to be good. If you self-pub, how do you know the book is good?
How that propagates a self publishing myth I'm not sure...I never said people have great success, JUST BY SELF PUBLISHING, only that it may get picked up as Paolini's book did and Redfields "The Celestine Prophecy" and on his site he definitely states that it started as a self published novel. According to this story (http://www.rickross.com/reference/cut/cut32.html), Paolini's parents did have their own small publishing company. It's true that they sold it door to door, but what made the book really successful was that novelist Carl Hiaasen read it and touted it to his own publisher, Knopf. The book was only successful after it was picked up by a major house by what amounts to a lucky coincidence. On top of that, Paolini's book was probably published at much lower cost that it would be for other self-publishers, since his parents already had a publishing company. His experience is such an exception it proves the rule "it's better to be 'traditionally' published".
I don't think i ever said it wasn't better to be traditionally published and I would like to be myself.
Gee my query letters should have gotten so much response!
And I have noted on a number of occasions that people like "silverhand" were told to put the story aside and write something better if traditional publishers wouldn't take it.
And there is nothing to say that a self publishing author can't have his book edited, proofed, typeset etc...it all depends on what you can do and are willing to do.
I have nothing against anyone on this site, I even listed it as the best writers forum i know on my own author site...now if i can just get people to my site...LOL.
Amazon sales rankings are almost meaningless. Their algorithim weighs purchases/date, so a book that sells x copies /day is going to rise, and have a highter rank than a book that sells fewer copies on a given day, but more over time.
Bookscan is more accurate, but doesn't track POD books.
That the Celestine Prophecy, had 100,000 copies in print as a self published novel by James Redfield, before Warner ever picked it up and since then has been a best seller.
he said he and his wife bought 3,000 copies and gave many away to start. then word of mouth did the rest for him.
It's difficult for anyone to know what will take off in the marketplace these days...if you ever saw the documentary on the making of star wars, it looked like Lucas' movie almost didn't even make it to release...and now look at the empire he built out of it (pun intended).
he said he and his wife bought 3,000 copies and gave many away to start. then word of mouth did the rest for him.It must be wonderful to have enough money to buy 3,000 copies and give many of them away to build word of mouth.
Just because something is put out by a big publisher, sure doesn't mean it's good.
Walking through a bookstore, I might pick up 30 books before I find one interesting enough to look at the first page. After opening the 30th book, I can read the first page or two and see if I think it's worth buying and or/reading (the same applies at the library).
By the same token, I am not buying a book based on its cover, who wrote it or whether or not it is sitting in a store window. I, therefore, can find plenty of interesting books I want to read by shopping online. I think it's Lulu or Iuniverse (I have purchased decent memoirs from both sites) that lets you read the first several pages of a book, and that's all I need to see if its written well, and if it sounds interesting. Of course, some books stink so bad, I can't finish them. (Traditionally published, too).
I guess in my 42 years, as an avid reader of non-fiction only - I have read thousands of books.
My opinion is that many commercially successful books are only better because they have been professionally edited.
I'm not convinced that books in bookstores have any better stories in them than books that haven't made it there; anymore than I am convinced that Britney Spears can sing better than the first 5 ladies I can find in the closest church choir I stop at next Sunday ........Britney has been doctored up, prettied up, and has alot of money put behind her look .......but she certainly isn't a better singer than average.
Does it really come down to talent, or marketing?
There is NOTHING wrong with self-publication. I never said there was. I am just saying that don't go into self-publication thinking you will be the next Paolini or Richard Paul Evans. Dreaming is nice, but be realistic. Of the hundred of thousand self-pubbed authors, only a very small handful succeed, as compared to the number of traditionally pubbed authors (again, Paolini would be considered traditionally pubbed). That was my point.
If you want to self-publish, go ahead. But do know what you are getting into and do understand why you want to get published in the first place and do understand the possible outcome. If you want to get published because you have something to say and you want a lot of people to read you, just remember, you may only sell 200 copies of your book if you self-publish. Are you achieving your goal that way?
Once you weigh in all the pros and cons, and still want to self-publish, I'd say go ahead.
To be honest, I thought about doing self-publishing, too -- but not my fiction. I have some non-fiction ideas that I might want to go self-pub. But that's another story.
*sigh* 100,000 in print, not 100,000 sold. I am sure it eventually got sold and went on to become the best seller that it was... but!
Also, 100,000 copies. Do you know how much upfront cost it takes and how much storage room you need for warehousing that? Do the math. Let's just say $2 a book just to print (don't add other costs).
Do you have $200,000? What if they don't sell? Are you willing to be stuck with 100,000 books and a $200,000 debit?
I would say it takes at least a little of both.
traditional will get more makeup applied and more exposure because there's money to do it.
Self published will try and languish, but if your story is good and you believe in it then I still think its better to try and fail than to not try at all.
I'm not speaking as one who would tell you to write for your next meal. Thats not good advice. But just to tell the story...Your story.
Personally if you want a career, I'd say go to college get trained in something someone needs. People don't need entertainment, but they do like it.
I like to write but I don't need it to pay the bills. I just want to share a story. That's all.
Isn't that what the "craft", the "Art" of it is all about?...Maybe not. People all want to be a bestseller and famous or forget about it.
If all you want is to tell a story, what's wrong with putting it on a free website? It'll cost less than self-pubbing and take less time.
As cool a name as "Captain-POD" might be, I'm no caped P.O.D. crusader.
Sorry if you felt dissed by the Amazon stats...it wasn't meant to be taken that way.
much success to you and all.
In the beginning my Amazon rankings were around 700,000 to 1,000,000.
No one knew my book, "Methadone Clinic" existed so who's gonna buy it?
NEWSPAPER AND SOME TEPID WORD OF MOUTH, IT'S SOMETHING !!!
can garner you more sales by good word of mouth.
NUMBERS EVEN IF THE ACTUAL SALES ARE MINOR.
AND THANK YOU AMAZON FOR PROVIDING US WITH A RANKINGS SYSTEM.
PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING TO ALL KINDRED SPIRITS !!!
I would, if the ranking system they provide us with had any meaning at all. It doesn't. It's worse than useless, it's completely meaningless.
I think the nice thing about the web and web based book sellers is that the playing or selling field, is a little more even.
As more people get online and shop online, that creates more opportunity, but also i think that much of the stigma for self published books is deserved... there are tons of horrible books available that foster that opinion. One good thing i think is that most of those will not see much more marketing than what it took to actually create them and post them to some site. Many will not be bought except for one copy to the author and thats fine.
Others though, that have truly engaging stories and authors who really do believe in them, have more opportunity on the web. It just needs to be utilized. I have read reviews of some books that were self published and got just as good reviews from buyers as the traditional books are getting online anyway, where customers post their reviews. So I would say that they felt the money was well spent, they were satisfied and enought to tell others so.
And global warming is inversely correlated to the number of pirates worldwide. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster -- scroll down to the Pirates section ) Correlation does not mean there's a statistically useful relationship between the two factors.
It does make sense that if there's some event which helps publicize your book, both overall sales and Amazon sales would increase. And one can assume that a book on Amazon which stays in the double-digit rankings is selling better than one in the six-digit rankings.
But Amazon rankings are a statistically minute proportion of overall sales. The rankings fluctuate hugely based on what you sold today, as opposed to how the book has done over its lifetime.
For instance, if you kind folks go and pre-order a half-dozen copies of my book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756404002/), that ought to bump the ranking into the five-digit range, or maybe the low 100,000s.
Fellowship of the Ring (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618346252/qid=1146570427/) is currently ranked 240,000. Does that mean my book would be more popular or making more money than Tolkien's?
The rankings may not be completely meaningless, but I'd argue they're pretty close. Unfortunately, they're also one of the only places authors can go to see real-time numbers about their books, so we tend to obsess a bit.
I've said this before and I'll say it again (and again, and again): there's nothing wrong with self-publishing as long as you are aware that trade publications won't review them, distributors won't rep them, and bookstores won't sell them. So the only venue left for self-published authors is via amazon or on their own web sites. So if you're okay with that, then go for it. For every story about how a self-published author became a wild publishing success, there are hundreds of thousands of others that talk about the boxes of unopened books in the author's garage.
If you know what you're getting into and set your expectations as low as the inevitable outcome, then go for it.
This has a (currently free) service for tracking books on Amazon so that, as well as getting current ranks, you can get the average ranks for the past 7, 30 and 90 days, plus a lifetime average. These are much more useful figures for comparing two books, or tracking one book over time.
But Amazon rankings are a statistically minute proportion of overall sales.
Yes, for traditionally published books, but not for vanity POD published books. They are the PRIMARY proportion of overall sales for most vanity POD published books, I imagine. I would estimate that 80% of my books sold through Amazon. So, for me as an author, the sales rankings do help to give me a general idea of how many copies I am selling in any given week (though it requires a translator), and this helps me to keep tabs on my publisher. That said, the rankings are useless for any kind of comparison of books.
Yeah, that's the long and short of it. Well, bn.com also has sales rankings. I imagine the system is similar to Amazon.
Thank you. That was very interesting to see, especially the "lifetime" average sales rank.
I believe BN.com ratings are more of a longer-term average, and less likely to change as often.
I believe a bn.com rating refers to sales over the past 60 days or six months - I don't recall which.
[quote=eldragon]Just because something is put out by a big publisher, sure doesn't mean it's good.
Right on, kindred spirit. I totally agree with you because you tell it like it is. Rock on, Eldragon !!!
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Netrani (historically known as Pigeon Island and also Heart Shape Island) is a small island of India located in the Arabian Sea. It is off the coast of Karnataka situated approximately 10 nautical miles (19 km) from the temple town of Murudeshwara in Bhatkal Taluka. The island can be seen from the main coast over 15 km away, including from various beaches in Bhatkal city as well as from the Murudeshwar Beach. Views above give this island the appearance of being heart-shaped. Besides pigeons, the other inhabitants of the island are wild goats. This island has scuba diving facilities and the place is easily accessible from Bhatkal, Mangalore, Goa, Mumbai or Bangalore. There are dive shops at Murdeshwara and Goa, that regularly organize diving tripes to the island. Those that do not want to dive can just visit the island and hike in by hiring the full fishing motor boat at the Bhatkal Fishing Harbour/Bunder. It would be beneficial if in big groups. This place is Locally in Bhatkal city known as Nitra Gudo.
Netrani is a coral island which has a coral reef with many varieties of coral, butterfly fish, trigger fish, parrot fish, eels and shrimps can be seen here. Divers have also reported seeing orcas and whale sharks around the island. Normally diving/snorkelling is done from a boat which is anchored close to the island and usually visitors do not climb on to the island because of the sharp rocks and steep cliffs on the island. The Indian government was using this island for target practice for its armed forces. One can still find craters and unexploded bomb shells in the island. Fish eagles are thriving in this island primarily feeding on sea snakes and fish. A species of mongoose was also spotted in the island confirming mammalian inhabitants apart from bats. Whale sharks were also spotted by snorkellers. Eighty nine varieties of coral fish were found in the area during a study. This island offers diving suitable for professionals. Corals are a fragile ecosystem and calls for minimal anthropogenic interference. The growing concerns of climate change need to be addressed earnestly.
A 16-metre (52 ft) rock is used as a target by Indian navy for bombing and concerns were raised that this target practice is disestablishing the ecological balance of the area including that of Netrani Island. In 2012, Karnataka High Court issued stay on target practice and Naval authorities admitted that they are using a big rock, which is located at a distance of one kilometre (0.62 mi) is being used by them for bombarding during target practice. One can see empty shells rusting around Netrani and adjacent island. It is not recommended to visit Netrani without permission.
The best time to visit is between December and January. The resort stops taking tourists for snorkelling and scuba diving during June–September because the sea becomes rough. There are small shrines in the island and the light lit to offer pooja occasionally gives way to small-time forest fire in the island.
Netrani Island has some of the best diving on the west coast of India.The dive sites are comparable to the Andaman Islands. The visibility is in the 15 to 20 meter range. There are healthy coral reefs and a huge variety of reef fish around the island. After a brief period when the local fishermen protested against scuba diving, saying that Scuba diving has driven away the abundant fish they once used to catch regularly, Scuba diving is now being actively promoted by the Karnataka Tourism.
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The logic of the dungeon is something that used to bother me when I was in my teens. Even in a world featuring magic, gods, and other inexplicables the idea of an underground fortress filled with random traps, tricks, and puzzles, well, sometimes I would get distracted by disbelief. Other than “mad wizards and insane geniuses” or their close relations, inscrutable deities, who would bother to build such a thing, for any reason? I spent time trying create dungeons that would make “sense” and be designed according to some purpose.
But I have been cured of that now. Now I know that any sufficiently powerful intelligence able to casually play with the weft and warp of reality will create haphazard environments as a matter of course. There will be dead ends, half-completed projects, empty rooms, traps, traps that don’t work, random features in random places.
Oh, there will be some completed projects, certain things that make obvious sense. But around them will be forgotten or incomplete efforts, prototypes, projects that make sense to no one but the creator. Little of it will make any sense to an observer exploring the results.
I know this because I have seen my six-year-old play Minecraft.
And I have played Minecraft too. Given the opportunity to randomly create stuff in a sandbox environment it is easy to see how a dungeon created by a magical power would end up unexplained by architect’s benchmarks of usability, engineering, and cost-per-square foot.
If you have the resources to create, you will be creative. The process is messy. And I believe dungeons I create in the future will be more interesting and fun if I can imagine like I am six again.
I still need to actually see or show the logic peg that the rest can be hung on. It can be as simple as a crazy hermit yelling that the valley was touched by the old gods, or the book saying the dungeon was built for a mad wizard’s testing ground. That’s enough, but I need it in the presentation for my brain to let it go.
If you’re using ‘logic’ in the sense of our world’s reality, you’re bound to be disappointed by fantasy. Fantastic worlds that have their own internal logic or consistency, which makes them feel right.
“Oh, there will be some completed projects, certain things that make obvious sense. But around them will be forgotten or incomplete efforts, prototypes, projects that make sense to no one but the creator. Little of it will make any sense to an observer exploring the results.
The joy of coming back to an stronghold that you crafted months ago and exclaming: wtf? what was i trying to build here?
Minecraft is so much fun.
Jorgeman: Exactly! And when you are looking at something someone else built the fun is doubled. Even better when your six-year-old explains with complete seriousness that OF COURSE you can only place trees on top of a 30-meter tower, that is why there is an entire forest built on top of these tall, narrow stone pillars.
Fractalbat: It is that need for a last peg that I finally lost. Once you realize the real world does not have any logic to it, why bother looking for it in a fantasy world?
Oh I agree, but my brain still looks for it. I’m sure it’s because I just like coming up with those little details so I tend to keep looking for them. It’s much less of a thing now that I’ve gotten back into designing sandboxes and playing OSR games.
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Nestor Aloiziyevich Buinitsky (Russian: Нестор Алоизиевич Буйницкий, 1863–1914) was a Russian military engineer, professor of fortification, inventor and lieutenant general.
Nestor Aloizevich Buinitsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, he studied at the 2nd Saint Petersburg Military School, and became a military engineer, after graduating from the Military Engineering-Technical University in 1889. He served as a military engineer at the Osowiec Fortress, where he would help in the construction of fortification buildings for four years. In 1893 Buinitsky began to teach about fortification in a native university, and became a professor. He co-operated with the Engineering Magazine, Military Collection, Artillery Magazine, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Brokgauz-Efron, Encyclopaedia of Military and Marine Sciences, and the Military Encyclopaedia. In 1909, he became a member of the engineering committee, supervising creation of fortresses. His advanced studies have large value for the development of Russian fortifications, for example he was the supporter of the creation of integrated systems of fortifications. Buinitsky was known as a phenomenal expert on fortification, but he was also a talented writer. Buinitsky died in December, 1914.
"Navy fortresses" (the Engineering Magazine, 1911).
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This is the first in a series exploring the best design in crime and detective novels, starting with an absolute icon, the Marber Grid.
As an artist myself and being married to a graphic designer I am always drawn to a book by its cover, and classic crime is no exception. The green hue of the vintage penguin crime paperback always brings a joy to the heart. But one format in particular stands apart as being one of the most influential and beautiful layout designs of all time.
The Marber grid was designed by Romek Marber in 1961, after Penguin Art Director Germano Facetti commissioned three designers to devise a new grid system to allow for illustrations alongside the bold typography associated with Penguin covers. Marber’s grid was chosen and he went on to illustrate around 70 titles for the Penguin Crime series. Marber retained the classic penguin green but significantly lightened the shade. The text was cropped at the top, which allowed for a broad section of two thirds of the cover to be used for illustration, something which hadn’t been done before across the Penguin brand.
These news covers, with striking imagery at an affordable cost brought high quality art and design into everyone’s home. These illustrations perfectly capture some element of the story or characters, as with one of my favourite designs, the covers for the Father Brown series, which show perfectly how Brown reaches his solutions through intuition and and meditative thinking, rather than through scientific or straight deduction. The design is so classic that in even more contemporary re-releases of Brown this same illustration concept has been retained.
It was later decided that recurring series works should have a recognisable recurring image, as with the covers for Dorothy L Sayers releases, which contained a hand cut white figure placed somewhere on each design.
Marber’s own story is a fascinating one. Born in Poland in 1925, he escaped the Nazi death camps with the help of Sergeant Kurzbach, who helped saved large numbers of Jew’s during WWII. Arriving in Britain in 1946 he enrolled at St Martin’s school of art (a member now of the UAL group of universities, where I also currently study), to study commercial art. He then went on to attend the Royal College of Art in 1953. Marber then designed a number of covers for the economist. These bold typographic designs were noticed by Germano Facetti who then asked him to work on some Penguin titles, which lead to the commission of the Marber Grid.
Marber is still alive and retired from the design world, holding a place as Professor Emeritus with Middlesex University. Designers today still look back to this iconic grid and its influence on cover design the world over. I think it’s also helpful in our current climate to think that a Polish immigrant to the UK who lived through Nazi occupation, changed the face of crime and book cover design the world over.
Great post. It was good to hear about the story behind the covers, as I must admit I whilst liking them I hadn’t twigged there was such a specific formula or pattern.
Thanks Kate, yeah it’s pretty influential over time as a grid system, and it’s interesting how Marber used the old and brought it up to date keeping both the weight of Penguin’s reputation up till then and making the titles stand out.
I, like Kate, had absolutely no idea that these covers were designed along such…strict, I guess, lines. It make sense that there’s some sort of template or general design consensus, but the actual specifics of that shown near the top of this post are fascinating — thanks for bringing this to our attention.
All that said…I’ve never been a huge fan of these covers. I typically find the image selection to be, at best, distracting and at worst just awful — that Police at the Funeral cover for one, what the hell is going on there?! Of all the different editions of the classic detective paperbacks I’m apparently destined to spending the rest of my life tracking down, I gotta say that these would be pretty near the bottom of the pile. Although I will admit that is also in part due to the fact that the books also feel so damned cheap — they were undoubtedly produced along the cheapest lines possible, and as a physical object are clearly hugely inferior to the earlier green-banded, text-only covers.
But, for an artistic ignoramus like myself, that makes the history no less compelling.
Gah! Also meant to say that I love that side-by-side Chesterton comparison. Again the image itself is just a terrible choiuce, but great to see the impact these designs clearly had.
I must admit, I am of the opposite opinion when it comes to the imagery, indeed some are better than others, but I find them hugely enigmatic and great pieces of response to the stories. And I must say that the Chesterton one is probably my favourite!
And your right about the cheap quality, I think it was to with the idea of bringing these works and other works to the man in the street, therefore made with an easier to produce set of materials.
That’s the beauty of art, I guess — there’s a great discussion to be had on covers and what makes a good one, though perhaps with a few too many possible perspectives to make it really worthwhile.
A really interesting thought, I need to look deeper into that. It seems that these books in many ways might represent a number of post-war cultural shifts from the 50’s to the 60’s that would be worth studying more.
You’ve got something there; there’s a kind of 1950s/60s Brutalism about them.
And Marber was coming from a European tradition as well, so he brought that in. The type he chose was apparently being used a lot in Sweden at the time.
Just been thinking about your suggestion of a further discussion to be had on good covers and I think that would be a great idea. I’m hoping with this series to get that going generally, but it would be great to do a post just on that theme, as with crime covers (and thrillers to some extent) there is the extra layer of not wanting giving away anything, while also drawing something out.
I have been chatting with my wife about it, who does a lot of illustration for print, and she said (as I was just mentioning to JFW below) that there are a few different illustration types. Ones that literally describe ideas, like a book mentions a gun, so you draw a gun on the page somewhere, which is a literal interpretation. She was saying that good illustration in someway elucidates the text, drawing something out or sheds light on something you hadn’t seen. The She Died a Lady one at the bottom I think is a really gorgeous example of that.
Both types do the job of selling books, as ultimately that’s what the publisher wants(!), and both can be appropriate in the context. Interestingly Marber was saying that the early green versions with just the text (which I love also, and will do a post on as well) were dropping in sales, they were getting lost in the shops as book design was changing. Penguin crime had always been there most popular range so Marber suggested a radical shift to make them eye catching once more, and sales shot up again.
Fascinating post! I love that particular Penguin design and so thanks for giving the background. Good to know Marber is still with us and I’ll never look at an old Penguin again without thinking about him.
I have really just skimmed the surface here as well, the choice of typography , the letter sizing, capitalisation, the layering of photography and hand drawn and the placement of the Penguin logo were all intricately determined as well. And it worked, these have lasted a long time and influenced a lot of work.
Yes I have heard that some cheaper published copies of Suicides have just given away the solution!
Love the Marber covers for these two books you mentioned. There are definitely a number of different illustration styles at work in this series. The ones that go for getting the atmosphere across as with Suicides, and ones that draw out or elucidate something of the themes of the story as with the Death-Watch cover.
Marber said that after reading them he would immediately make the illustrations and try to get across some sort of essence from the book. I guess either character, deduction method, the main trick, plot or atmosphere, whatever seemed most present.
Haven’t read Death Watch yet, but keep hearing good things of late, thanks for your recommendation.
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Today we toured a couple of locations in Mumbai. Our bus took us first to RIIDL a technology business incubator. Located on the Somaiya Vidyavihar University campus, the centre was started as an offshoot of the engineering school. We were introduced to the centre by founder Gaurang Shetty who discussed how the centre evolved out of a desire by students to do more impactful and meaningful projects.
I could really appreciate Gaurang’s effort to create this kind of change, and I think it’s one of the most impressive things about RIIDL. Creating an environment where more real world and authentic tasks are the focus changes the engagement that students feel with their studies. We were introduced to a couple of projects including Square Off, a robotic chess board which definitely has a bit of a wow factor when you see the pieces float across the board.
Visiting from MIT was Suryateja Sharma and he discussed his work on bringing biotech equipment to the masses. One of his recent successes was working to reduce a $3000 diagnostic tool to make it available for $10. It was incredible to hear his passion and ethos to bring this technology to the masses.
After the speakers and demonstrations were done we explored a few of the student projects underway. As we exited the the building there was a bit of a throng in the courtyard below. One of the benefits of a university campus are those impromptu social happenings, and a tug-of-war competition had begun. We watched a couple of rounds and then somehow the Bootcamp Team ended up having a couple of rounds. It was a bit of fun and the crowd were good sports.
After having lunch in the student cafeteria we hopped on the bus and headed to SINE – the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay. We were introduced to the program there and also a number of the startups in residence. The spread was quite interesting from waste management through to an electric wheelchair built for India’s rural road system. One of the programs that had been started at SINE that I thought had real importance was an advice service. Quite often I’m startup world there’s a lack of actionable advice. Plenty of people will give you there opinion but there’s rarely anything you can do with that. What you need is some clarity over what to do in order to address problems or shortcomings. Something worthwhile adopting in the Australian context.
I was really impressed by what we’d seen at both locations but also to hear about the efforts by governments and institutions to engage with innovation and entrepreneurship. With such a young population India seems to be keen on developing new opportunities rather than relying on their existing industries.
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2 Eriksson JW et al. Effects of dapagliflozin and n-3 carboxylic acids on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in people with type 2 diabetes: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled study. Diabetologia. 2018 Sep;61(9):1923-1934. doi: 10.1007/s00125-018-4675-2. Epub 2018 Jul 3.
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What hashtags should you use for your event?
One of the fun and interesting uses of Twitter is the way that people are using Tweets to share the excitement of conferences, allowing non-attendees to get a flavour of what is happening. However, I think that many organisations are missing a trick in their choice of hashtags, by choosing a specific tag for an event rather than using their general tag.
A good example of this is happening at the moment with ESOMAR’s summer academy. Today it sounds as though the neuroscience event is going really well, with plenty of interesting and provocative comments being tweeted. If the tweets were all associated with the #ESOMAR hashtag they would have reached a wide audience. However,, some of the people at the event are using the event specific tag #ESOWS, which helps people who want to see these tweets and avoid #ESOMAR tweets, but restricts the circulation of the information.
My recommendation to MRIA, AMSRS, ESOMAR, and the like is to use their main hashtag for all events, rather than use event specific tags, at least until the traffic levels using their main hashtag are so heavy that the event specific tweets are being lost in the general flow.
Many of you probably already know this, but just in case here is a tip about changing case in Word 2007. In previous versions of Word I always knew how to select the option to change a piece of text from upper to lower, from lower to upper, or from a mixture to title case. But, with 2007 I could not spot it and lived without it for the last year (laziness is a really killer of efficiency).
But today I was editing somebody else's prose and my patience snapped. All the headings were in upper case and looked terrible. I needed to shift them into either sentence case (first letter in upper, the rest in lower), or Word's approximation to title case (first letter in upper, all other letters in lower).
The first thing I found was the shortcut, evidently Shift-F3 with change the selected text through a cycle of options. Although I like shortcuts, they have to be for things I use frequently enough to remember them, and changing case does not fall into that category.
I then found that the option I had been looking for had been staring at me all along, on the main (Home) ribbon. The picture below shows you what I mean. The red arrow points towards the button you click to show the options, and the picture also shows the options you can select.
Clone Brush - What a lovely tool!
I am sure many of you will already be aware of PaintShop Pro's Clone Brush, but if you are not, it is a real joy. What the Clone Brush does is let you pick up some reference material from elsewhere in the picture and to paint it over something you want to remove. The classic example is when you want to remove graffiti from a picture of a building.
Below is a quick example of removing me from a lovely picture of a lifting bridge from a recent barge holiday.
For notes on how to use the Clone Brush click here.
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One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne: My favourite piece of the day, especially the second act, tenderly performed by Andrew Sheridan and Maya Alexander. Nick Payne is currently riding an immense high, with Constellations at the Royal Court being a huge success (and transferring to the West End) and his play “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet” playing in New York. “One Day When We Were Young” is a story of an unlikely and brief love affair that marks two people in different ways for the next sixty years. Payne’s writing probes difficult places of loneliness and heartbreak, and the actors, especially Andrew Sheridan (who has the rare ability of drawing you in so effectively and with so little fanfare that takes you by surprise) make the play justice.
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan: in some ways the most accomplished play of the day, superb dialogue and a frighteningly astute insight in modern love. Directed by Richard Wilson with dazzling energy, performed by Kate O’Flynn and Alistair Cope with effortless emotional precision, it focuses on a young middle class couple as they contemplate the choices in their lives. I liked its energy and its sharp turns but it had some of the self indulgence of its subject matter.
The Sound of the Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner: the final play of the evening was also the oddest. A private detective has visitors, visions and a new case to solve. Echoes of the Singing Detective, the play never finds its place: mostly played for laughs, at some point it abruptly changes to something deeper and more profound, only for that to be abandoned almost immediately. The ideas are interesting and bold but the play is unfinished. All four actors from the other two plays come together for this, and they definitely have fun with it, with Alistair Cope revealing hidden depths.
A final word for the venue, the very beautiful Shoreditch Town Hall: I have never been to the building before, and the main chamber is as grand as you would expect. Within that space, a temporary wooden in-the-round structure is built hosting actors and audience. The humble feel of the wood within the grand surroundings made for an interesting contrast, adding to the excitement of the day.
Revstan makes her own assessment and we might not agree in everything.
P.S. Nick Payne, Duncan Macmillan and Penelope Skinner were interviewed for the Metro a few days ago, all looking impossibly fresh faced.
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14ymedio, Generation Y, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 22 March 2017 — A year ago Cuba had a once in a lifetime opportunity. US President Barack Obama came to the island willing to turn the page on political confrontation. The gesture transcended the diplomatic situation, but Raul Castro – fearful of losing control – responded by putting the brakes on economic reforms and raising the levels of ideological discourse and repression.
Nations are not presented with opportunities every year, nor even every century. The decision to entrench itself and not to undertake political flexibilizations has been the Plaza of the Revolution’s most egotistical measure of recent times. Failure to know how to take advantage of the end of public belligerence with our neighbor to the north will bring this country lasting and unpredictable consequences.
These effects will not be suffered by the so-called “historic generation” – those at the forefront of the 1950s Revolution – now diminished by the rigors of biology and desertions. Rather than the generals in olive-green, the ones who will pay the price will be those who are still sleeping in their cradles or spinning their tops in the streets of the island. They don’t know it, but in the last twelve months a short-sighted octogenarian tricked them out of a share of their future.
The greatest waste has been not exploiting the international moment, the excitement about foreign investments, and the expectations everywhere in Cuba of taking the first steps towards democratic change without violence or chaos. It was not the job of the White House to encourage or provoke such transformations, but its good mood was a propitious setting for them to be less traumatic.
Instead, the white rose Obama extended to Castro in his historic speech in Havana’s Gran Teatro has faded, beset by hesitations and fears. Now, it is our job to explain to these Cubans of tomorrow why we were at a turning point in our history and we threw it away.
Drama for the nth time in Vzla. Latin America has stated to notice. The trick is to make the Chavista criminal outfit unable to pay the military.
Most of the comments here have railed against the lack of human rights, justice and just about everything else.The causes however, are historical, geopolitical, socioeconomic, etc etc etc.
For US Prez BHO what he did was a symbolic prestige project. Could he have initiated more economic change that would have undermined Castrismo and truly lifted the Cuban people? The US has its own challenges and isn’t in the mood for long term projects anywhere abroad that isn’t military presence.
The OAU is completely pathetic and unwilling to do anything about Venezuela. History takes its course, and CubaZuela will shine eventually. Then at least, when change hasn’t been imposed from outside, will lessons be learned well.
There is no reason for a revolutionary retreat and comprise of principals like that suggested by Ms. Sanchez. A return to capitalism regulated by a new or old ‘democratic’ ruling class would bring only poverty and devastation upon the revolutions children which is the path that Ms.Sanchez sanctimoniously proposes as away to protect the revolutions children. Ms. Sanchez no doubt has been missing the debate in the US Congress on how to provide health care for all without turning the great majority of the population into paupers like those currently pushed into bankruptcy by healthcare costs. She either has never seen or ignores the prisoners who face a two meal starvation diet and the families living in automobiles in the great protector of democracy to the North of Cuba. A democracy where the newly elected President has a 37% approval rating after being elected by 30% of the population.
Unlike the Soviet Union, where the massive theft of natural resources allowed the red aristocracy to become multi-billionaires, there is no incentive whatsoever for the Cuban bosses to give up their power, however pathetic their fiefdom.
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The regulations mention no pattern for general's swords. This particular design was worn by General John A. Dix. Photographs show a wide variety of swords, many of them presentation.
This sword became the standard staff and foot officer's sword replacing many of the other models during the post-war period.
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1992-06-29 Assigned to REVLON CONSUMER PRODUCTS CORPORATION reassignment REVLON CONSUMER PRODUCTS CORPORATION ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST. Assignors: REVLON, INC., A DE CORP.
A computerized transceiver repeatedly sweeps through a set of transmit/receive frequencies to interrogate collectively a plurality of groups of items in a stocking area. Items in each group are tagged with a printed circuit transponder tuned to frequencies uniquely assigned to each group. Data returned is stored and combined mathematically by the computer to arrive at the total number of items in each group. The system is particularly adapted for taking inventory of a large number of retail shelf goods using a mobile transceiver.
This is a division of application Ser. No. 566,534, filed Dec. 29, 1983 U.S. Pat. No. 4,673,932.
The present invention relates generally to inventory control and more particularly to automatic shelf inventory data systems.
The availability of inventory technology coupled with the sales downturn and increased operating costs of recent recessionary periods have combined to force retailers to meet competitors' aggressive pricing by using more stringent inventory control techniques. The hidden costs associated with excess inventory or overstocking in the competitive retail industry are critically important. Large retailers estimate that the true cost of carrying inventory is on the order of 40% of the cost of the item per year. Moreover, the more inventory, the more manpower is required for inventory control. Most importantly to the retail food and drug trade, however, overstocking results in inflexible pricing. In many stores, electronic cash registers at the checkout counters have been replaced by computerized point of sale terminals. Optical scanners and bar codes on products, while posing other problems, allow flexible pricing and computerized real time inventory control and automated stock ordering. All in all, the various types of material requirement planning systems available today throughout the retail, wholesale and manufacturing sectors have become a indispensable tool of cost control.
Establishing precise control over retail inventory, however, requires more than reading bar codes at the checkout counter. In order to be purchased, products have to not only be ordered but delivered, uncrated, unboxed, marked and moved from the stock room onto the shelves or peg racks in the retail store. Even overstocked items will fail to reach the checkout counter unless they are on the shelf.
Taking inventory for reordering or restocking of shelves is time consuming but essential, particularly where individual stores such as discount drug stores, stock thousands of shelf items. Shelf stock-taking should be fast and inexpensive to encourage daily adjustments. However, today shelf inventory taken by visual inspection often requires manipulation of individual products hung eight deep on a peg rack. Bar codes are of little use on the shelf since they are usually hidden from view and in any event must be individually scanned. Ironically, the optical techniques which are so efficient at the checkout counter are ill adapted for inventorying shelf goods.
Accordingly, the general purpose of the invention is to automatically inventory shelf goods without individual scanning or manipulation.
A corollary object of the invention is to produce an inventory of individual products by stock keeping unit (SKU) by collectively, remotely and automatically ascertaining the quantity of products for a series of SKU's comingled on a given shopping aisle.
These and other objects of the invention are achieved by tagging each product with a tiny passive resonant transponder, preferably in the form of a printed circuit small enough to be attached unobtrusively to a lipstick, and employing a computerized transceiver, preferably mounted on a wheeled cart, to repeatedly sweep through a set of transmit/receive frequencies to interrogate collectively all the products belonging to specific SKU's arranged on a peg rack, for example. The data returned during interrogation at each SKU-specific frequency set is stored and combined mathematically by the computer to arrive at the total number of products in each of the interrogated SKU's for a given stocking area in a drug store or supermarket, for example.
In the preferred embodiment, the mobile transceiver transmits at a pair of frequencies specific to a given SKU. Products of that SKU are equipped with tags which resonate at the unique pair of frequencies and reradiate simultaneously a third frequency to which the receiver portion of the transceiver is tuned. The amplitude of the third frequency detected by the receiver is a function of distance, receiver antenna pattern and the number of tag products present on the shelf or peg rack of the particular SKU. As the transceiver moves down the aisle, the transceiver, preferably under software control, sweeps through the plurality of SKU specific transmit/receive frequency sets.
In the preferred embodiment, the frequencies are derived from a master crystal oscillator and tuned in phase-locked loop frequency synthesizing circuits so that they will track precisely the nominal SKU frequency sets.
The preferred form of the tag itself is a circular printed circuit having three sets of two interleaved, coaxial, sprial conductive arms providing three tuned circuits. Each pair of arms can be cut to length corresponding to a frequency. The arm pairs are nonlinearly, mutually capacitively and inductively coupled so that upon excitation at transmit frequencies, the tage emits a third frequency which is a function (preferably the sum) of the first two frequencies.
FIG. 1 is a pictorial perspective view of the transceiver cart in a shopping aisle according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the transceiver interrogating a tagged product according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of a printed circuit tag according to the invention.
FIG. 4 is an electrical schematic drawing representing an idealized equivalent circuit for the tag of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the transceiver according to the invention.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of one of the phase-locked loops of the transceiver of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an alternate embodiment of a portion of the transmitter circuitry.
FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an alternate embodiment of a portion of the receiver circuitry.
FIG. 9 is a schematic representation of a retail pegboard rack from the front displaying products of a specific SKU as dots.
FIG. 10 is a histogram representing the quantity of products in each incremental unit of distance along the peg rack.
FIG. 11 is a graph showing the radiated signal pattern as a function of displacement along the peg rack.
FIG. 12 is a three-dimensional graph of the radiated signal pattern as a function of displacement along the peg rack and the product's elevation above the floor.
FIG. 13 is a graph of the received energy from plural tags as a function of displacement along the peg rack.
As shown in FIG. 1, the interrogation system is mounted on a cart 10 which can be wheeled down an aisle in a retail store alongside a pegboard type display rack 12 bearing products which are to be inventoried. As shown in FIG. 2, the transceiver 14 under the control of the microcomputer 16 transmits a pair of frequencies F1 and F2 corresponding to a given SKU. A packaged product 20 of the SKU being interrogated is equipped with a specially designed printed circuit tag 22 which is resonant at the transmitted frequencies and simultaneously reradiates a third frequency signal F3 which is picked up by the antenna 18 and received in the transceiver 14. The strength of the return at F3 is measued and stored as the cart 10 rolls along the display rack 12 and the stored data is processed by an on-board programmed microcomputer 16 to produce a numerical display 24 of the total number of units in the given SKU corresponding to the frequency set F1, F2, and F3. As the cart is wheeled down the aisle, the microprocessor controls the transmitter in the transceiver 14 to sweep stepwise through all of the pertinent SKU's entered via the keyboard 26 (FIG. 1). The resulting numerical quantities of products in each designated SKU are printed out on command at the end of the aisle or when the shelf inventory for the entire store is completed. As an aid in processing the return signal strength, the cart 10 is equipped with an odometer 30 which keeps track of displacement in the X direction along the length of the peg rack and a sonar ranging device 32 for keeping track of the distance of the cart 10 from the peg rack 12.
As shown in FIG. 3, each product tag 22 comprises six coaxial interleaved conductive arms 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 mounted on a flexible nonconductive substrate 46. The arms themselves are made of etched copper foil in the manner of a printed circuit. The inner ends of the arms are connected to an array of six spaced terminals, while the outer ends are trimmed to length. The interwoven spiral arms are paired in such a manner that there is a pair corresponding to F1, another pair corresponding to F2, and a third pair corresponding to F3. Each pair is tuned to the corresponding frequency by trimming the length of the corresponding arms. The respective pairs are nonlinearly mutually capacitively and inductively coupled so that upon excitation at frequencies F1 and F2, the tag emits a third frequency F3 which is the sum of the frequencies of F1 and F2. By assigning uniquely cut tags to each SKU, all of the products on the shelf can be differentiated by their frequency response. The nonlinear capacitance effect is equivalent to a mild piezoelectric effect and is designed to be essentially nondirectional so that the response will be independent of the products attitudue or orientation on the shelf. The tag is intended in the preferred embodiment to be about the size of a fingernail, approximately 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch in diameter and can be concealed in the packaging itself since it is unnecessary to optically scan the tag. Moreover, the tag can be bent or wrapped, e.g., around a lipstick, without noticeable effect on the function.
The equivalent circuit shown in FIG. 4 illustrates the nonlinear mutual coupling capacitors between the spiral arms. The needed capacitance provided through the proximity of the antenna elements in the tag can be enhanced by the use of a solid sheet conductor on the other side of the nonconductive substrate 46. The coaxial resonator tag system is a completely passive transponder in the sense that the only energy which it consumes is that which it receives from the transmitter on the cart.
The transceiver 14 consists of three major portions: the transmitter, receiver and the microcomputer 16 which controls the system. In the transmitter, two precise frequencies are generated under computer command by phase-locked frequency synthesis. The two frequencies are radiated to the SKU-specific tags which act as radio frequency resonantors and transponders. A particular tag will reradiate a frequency equal to the sum of the transmitted frequencies if the transmitted frequencies are the particular ones that the tag is tuned to. If the tag is not tuned to the transmitted frequencies, it will not return a signal. The receiver section is instructed by the microcomputer to "listen" for the sum frequency corresponding to the two transmitted frequencies. The receiver is tuned by means of another phase-locked synthesizer. The computer sequences the synthesizers through each selected set of frequencies.
In the transceiver circuit of FIG. 5, the 1 MHz output of a crystal oscillator 50 is divided by 200 in counter circuit 52. The resulting 5 KHz reference signal is fed in parallel to three phase-locked loops 54, 56 and 58 corresponding to frequencies F1, F2 and F3, respectively. Each phase-locked loop is implemented as shown in FIG. 6. The 5 KHz reference signal forms one input to a phase comparator 60 whose output is fed via a charge pump 62, phase compensation circuit 64 and amplifier 66 to the conytrol input of a voltage controlled oscillator 68. The output of the oscillator 68 is a continuous wave signal which is fed via the power amplifier 70 to coaxial output cable 72. The output of the voltage controlled oscillator 68 also forms the input to a feedback loop comprising buffer amplifier 74, a frequency halving circuit 76 and a divide by N circuit 78. The divided down output of the phase-locked loop circuit forms the other input to the phase comparator 60. The value of N is determined by the microcomputer via a suitable interface chip 80 in order to select the specific value for frequency F1, F2 or F3 associated with each SKU.
As shown in FIG. 5, the output of two of the phase-locked loops are in nonoverlapping respective ranges 20-24 MHz and 25-29 MHz. These outputs are combined in a summation circuit 82 and amplitude modulated in modulator 84 by a 1,000 Hz square wave derived from the 5 KHz reference signal via divider circuit 86. The amplitude modulated sum of signals F1 and F2 is fed via RF amplifier 87 and diplexer circuit 88 to antenna 18. The other side of the diplexer 88 feeds the received signal via another RF amplifier 89 through a 43-53 MHz bandpass filter 90 to a first mixer 92 which sums the received signal minus higher and lower frequency noise with the unmodulated F3 output of phase-lock loop circuit 58 which serves as a local oscillator. Mixer 92 produces a 10.7 MHz output signal which is amplified in IF amplifier 94 and passed to a second mixer 96 which mixes the first IF output with the output of a 10.245 MHz crystal oscillator 98. The output of mixer 96 is fed via a 455 KHz IF amplifier 100 to a synchronous demodulator 102 which demodulates the received signal with the benefit of the 1,000 Hz modulation signal. The demodulated received signal is fed via analog-to-digital converter 104 (preferably 12-bit) back to the microcomputer 16 for processing.
A variation on the transmit circuit of FIG. 5 is shown in FIG. 7 in which the frequencies F1 and F2 are kept entirely separate. In experiments with a circuit constructed according to FIG. 5, it was discovered that third order intermodulation distortion of the output amplifier was high enough that simple filtering left the harmonic sum of F1 and F2 at a higher strength than the received reradiated signal from the tags. This problem is addressed in FIG. 7 by providing separate modulators 110 and 112, RF amplifiers 114 and 116, filters 18 and 120 and separate transmit antennas 122 and 124. Filters 118 and 120 should be carefully designed to eliminate mixing of the other frequency at the output of either amplifier 114 or 116.
An alternate design for a portion of the receiver is shown in FIG. 8. A separate receive antenna 126 is used and after RF amplifier 89, the bandpass filter 90 is replaced by an varactor-tuned dual helical filter 128 which is controlled by the microcomputer via a digital-to-analog converter 130. The filter 128 can be approximately tuned to the desired received frequency to exclude unwanted interference.
Antennas used in the designs of FIGS. 5, 7 and 8 are center-loaded, short, vertical dipole whip antennas. Common practice is to make such antennas one-quarter wave length in length. However, at 30 MHz, this results in an impractically long antenna. Thus, the efficiency of the antenna is sacrificed to reduce its length. At higher frequencies more suitable for use with the tag design of FIG. 3, a more efficient antenna design will become practical. The vertical whip-type antenna, which exhibits linear polarization may be effectively replaced by a circular-polarized design to minimize variations in signal strength due to tag orientation.
With reference to FIG. 9, assume that the pegboard rack has a number of products of the same SKU distributed as indicated by the dots. Displacement of the interrogation cart 10 (FIG. 1) in the X direction is indicated by the arrow marked X.
The histogram in FIG. 10 represents the exact quantity of products in any incremental slot delta X. This function is designated V(x) where V represents the specific number of products at any given location along the x axis. A single radiating tag, for example, tag 22 in FIG. 9 produces a radiated field with an intensity which exhibits an exponential distribution over the x axis as shown in the graph of FIG. 11, H(x) representing the signal strength. Signal strength is also, of course, a function of displacement in the vertical direction from the radiating tag 22, however, as shown in the graph of FIG. 12, the slight variation can be safely ignored in most instances.
If the cart 10 were rolled along direction x from right to left in FIG. 9, transmitting at the combination of frequencies F1 and F2 uniquely assigned to this particular SKU identified by the dots, the strength of the received signal would be distributed over the x axis as shown in the graph of E(x) in FIG. 13.
Due to the overlap produced by the finite width of the radiated signals, the waveform in FIG. 13 does not duplicate the histogram of FIG. 10. Since the desired quantity, the inventory, consists of a sum and does not require reconstructing the exact shape of the waveform as received, the microcomputer 16 is programmed to perform a numerical integration of the area under the curve of the graph of FIG. 13.
Assume that E(delta xi) is proportional to m, where m is the total number of products in the ith delth x slot. E, a function of x, is generally the convolution of the distribution function V(x) convolved with the radiated signal pattern function H(x) as given by the Equation 1.
which, when solved for the actual distribution function as a function of the frequency ν, results in the following equation (Equation 3). ##EQU1## Thus, the actual distribution function is a ratio between the reconstructed pattern as measured and the transformed radiated signal pattern. The total number of products on the shelf T is (Equation 4).
Equation 4 can also be represented as the Fourier transform of the distribution function evaluated where frequency equals 0.
Thus, the ratio shown in Equation 7 is sufficient to produce the total number of products on the shelf as measured during a walk-down of the shelf. Hence, a simple numerical integration can be performed on the received data by the microcomputer 16 contained in the transceiver unit to produce the readout shown in FIG. 2 of the quantity of a particular SKU on the shelf.
The numerator of Equation 7 is a running numerical integration; the denominator is a measured system constant related to the signal pattern radiated by each tag. The running integration is best performed by a separate mathematical processor such as the Intel 8087 used as a coprocessor in conjunction with a main controller microprocessor such as the Intel 8086.
Since each product responds to a unique combination of frequencies F1 and F2, the microprocessor must be fast enough to sweep through all possible combinations so that for a given minimum interproduct spacing delta x, each such delta x is sampled at least once for each SKU specific frequency set. The response at F3 is processed by numerical integration providing a running sum for each product on the rack.
The advantages of the above described automatic shelf inventory system are be readily apparent. Radio frequency interrogation of comingled tagged products on a rack eliminates hand counting, visual inspection of thousands of SKU's in a given retail store. The ability to establish precise control over the shelf inventory assures optimized inventory flow from the stockroom to the checkout counter. The retailer's profits are increased by eliminating inadvertant stock-out conditions. Moreover, the system is so fast and potentially inexpensive that it can be used on a daily basis to track shelf inventory trends and make adjustments to inventory.
The unique tag of the present invention can be mass-produced by printed circuit techniques and can be made small enough to be invisibly incorporated in the packaging of even the smallest shelf items. The novel mobile interrogator enables an unskilled operator to completely inventory the shelf stock in a retail store without counting a single SKU. Thus, human error is eliminated. The appropriate SKU numbers can be entered for a given aisle by preloading the computer memory with the SKU's which are normally stocked on a particular rack. Thus, the operator would only have to enter the rack number. Alternatively, given sufficient computer speed and settling time for the transceiver, all of the store's SKU's could be interrogated on each walk-down of each rack. Because the frequencies are all derived from a single master crystal oscillator, any drift would be experienced on all three frequencies simultaneously and the effect will be minimized.
The foregoing description of the presently preferred embodiments is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive. Many variations and modifications of the overall system or individual components are possible, still employing the underlying principle of the invention, without departing from the scope of the invention as indicated by the appended claims and equivalents thereto.
whereby collectively testing the tags on an arbitrary number of items ascertains the membership of said groups.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said arms consist of three pairs of juxtaposed arms, two of the pairs corresponding to a remotely transmitted pair of frequencies, the third pair of arms corresponding to a third frequency which is an algebraic function of the pair of transmitted frequencies.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of assigning a unique set of electronic properties includes determining a unique set of said three frequencies, said step of adjusting including altering the lengths of the arms in each of said three pairs to correspond to said unique set of three frequencies.
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For other uses, see Street Smart.
Street Smarts was a United States game show that featured two in-studio contestants trying to predict the outcome of interviews of people who were found on the street. The show, which was presented by Frank Nicotero, aired in syndication from 2000 to 2005.
Before the game actually starts, two studio contestants are introduced, as well as three "street savants", whose interviews were pre-recorded.
A question is posed, and the studio contestants must choose which of the three "savants" gave the correct answer. A correct guess earns $100. Three questions are asked in this round, and sometimes two "savants" will have answered a question correctly. Sometimes, as an aside, Nicotero will call for a wrong-answer clip to be played to add humor to the show.
This is similar to the first round, but the object is to guess who got the question wrong; for each question, only two of the "savants" are considered (one of whom answered correctly), and correct guesses are now worth $200.
Also, a Dunce Cap is in play in Round Two; Once the question is posed, an in-studio contestant can hit their buzzer if he/she thinks that his/her opponent does not know the answer. The person hitting his/her buzzer usually placed the Dunce Cap on his/her opponent. The "dunce" is allowed to hear the question in its entirety, and must then answer the question within 5 seconds. If the dunce gets the question wrong, $200 goes to the person who hit the buzzer. However, if the dunce does know the answer, then the "dunce" gets the $200 and is allowed to place the dunce cap on his/her opponent (that is, the person who hit the buzzer originally). In either case, the cap must be worn for the remainder of the round. Also, only one dunce cap opportunity is available.
The third round saw the two contestants choose one of the "savants" to work with for the entire round. The round was known as "Pick Your Pony" for the first three seasons and "Pick Your Brain" in the final two seasons. Each question goes to an individual contestant, who must decide whether their "brain/pony" got the question right or wrong. Three questions are asked of each contestant, for a total of six in the round. Correct guesses are now worth $300. The Dunce Cap is back in this round, regardless of whether it was used in the previous round. Once again there is one dunce per round, but dunces are now worth $300.
The "right" reference is indicated in green; the "wrong" reference in red.
Before the final commercial break, a question is asked. During the commercial, the contestants each choose, in secret, 1) which "savant" they wish to pick, 2) whether they got the question right or wrong, and 3) the amount of their score that they wish to wager. A correct guess adds the contestant's wager to his/her score, while an incorrect guess loses the wager. High scorer at the end of the game keeps their money, and, in season 5, has the opportunity to risk their winnings for the possibility of a slot in the season-ending Tournament of Champions (see below). An exception to this rule occurs when celebrities play for charity: the winning player's charity receives the money won, with a minimum of $1,000; the losing player's charity receives $500, regardless of the actual score.
The theoretical maximum win on Street Smarts was $4,600, this required getting all questions right, an all-in bet on the "Wager of Death," and winning both "Dunces."
If the game ended in a tie at more than $0, one final question was asked to both studio contestants. The first player to buzz-in chooses to either answer the question or pass it to his/her opponent. If the buzzing player chooses to answer, he or she must answer based on the information given to that point; if he or she passes, the other player is allowed to hear the entire question. A correct answer by the responding contestant wins the game; answering incorrectly awards the game to their opponent. The tiebreaker only takes place if the players have money; if both players have $0, then the game is over and nobody wins.
In all celebrity episodes, the game ends in a tie and both charities receive the same amount.
For the first season of Street Smarts, the contestants sat in chairs and recorded their answers in the first two rounds using a mechanical trilon and a paddle for the "Pick Your Pony" round. For the Wager of Death, the contestants would write their wagers and predictions down. Meanwhile, television screens positioned next to their chairs would show the score.
Beginning in season two and continuing for the remainder of the series, the contestants stood behind a desk for the whole show and recorded their answers by way of pushing buttons.
Most of the questions asked of the savants are designed to be things people should know, but apparently do not (similar to the segment Jaywalking on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno). For example, in one episode, a savant was asked "What color is the exterior of the White House?" After some thought, the savant answered "Beige." Another notable example was an elderly woman who claimed to be a nurse and, when asked what HMO meant, she got it confused with the premium television channel, HBO. Occasionally Nicotero, when asking the savant, would break the fourth wall, such as when a savant who was in the US Navy was asked to define "league" as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. After getting it incorrect, Nicotero walked up to the camera and said to the contestant "I bet you thought she would get this right!" Sometimes the questions would be vocabulary-based, in which a word, such as pinochle, was shown to the contestant, who would then have to speculate whether or not the savant used the word properly in a sentence.
Other questions are trick questions that are designed to catch some people off guard. These are also to see if the savants are paying attention. For example, Nicotero asked one savant, "Canada is the capital of what state?" (Mark DeCarlo was able to successfully put the dunce cap on Mark L. Walberg on that same question and earn $200 for it.) The savant replied, "Australia!" Later, another savant pointed out the right answer by saying, "It's not! It's a country!"
Sometimes shows took on a certain theme, with Nicotero interviewing the savants in a costume akin to the theme. A couple episodes had been known as "Revenge Episodes", in which savants who believed they had been humiliated on air could get the chance to make money as contestants themselves. Some of the people who were invited back for "Revenge Episodes" were not humiliated, but simply very entertaining. One of these persons was Russell Fletcher who showed up as a savant and then was invited back as a contestant. Fletcher was mostly invited back to the show due to the enormous amount of e-mail and snail mail that was directed at him because of his showing of real knowledge in most areas of questions. In November 2000, one episode revolved around the United States 2000 presidential election where Nicotero wore an Uncle Sam costume when questioning savants and all questions pertained to American elections or political workings, such as "Why did Bill Clinton refuse to seek a third term?"
Other shows invited classic television stars and game show hosts to play for their favorite charities. The episode that pitted Mark L. Walberg (who at the time was hosting the game show Russian Roulette) against Mark DeCarlo (who at the time was voicing Hugh Neutron (the title character's dad) on Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) was notable in that Walberg won the game with $2 to DeCarlo's $1. But because it was a charity episode, Walberg received $1,000 for Goodwill Industries of Southern California while DeCarlo received $500 for the M.S. Society of America.
To celebrate the series being the first street-interview show in 20 years to be renewed for a fifth season, Street Smarts offered its winning contestants an opportunity to compete for $100,000 in a season-ending, single-elimination tournament for what proved to be its final season. On each episode the winning contestant was given the choice to either take whatever money he/she had won and leave, or forfeit the money and receive a spot in the tournament instead. Thirty-two contestants elected to give back their winnings to take the chance at winning $100,000.
The tournament took place over the final thirty-one episodes of the season, and each game was played for points instead of money. The first sixteen episodes comprised the first round, referred to as "The Thunderous 32" on air. The winners of those episodes advanced to the second round, consisting of eight episodes and called "The Savvy 16". The eight winners from those episodes advanced to the third round, consisting of four episodes and called "The Great 8". The winners would face off in the last two episodes before the final, called "The 'Phat' 4", and the winners of those two games faced off in the final match, referred to as "The Six-Figure Showdown", for the $100,000 grand prize.
The tournament concluded on May 25, 2005, with Teresa Lee winning the final match and the $100,000. The tournament final also served as the final episode of Street Smarts (as the series was not renewed for the 2005-06 season), and reruns continued until September 23, 2005.
Reruns of the show have aired in the past on both WGN America and Game Show Network.
Originally, the show was to have three "field reporters" who would appear on location with the savants and ask them the questions with the main host only appearing in the studio. The idea was later scrapped mostly due to lack of talent from those who auditioned, and Nicotero, who originally signed on as a field reporter, was promoted to main host as well as asking questions to all savants.
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For other uses, see ARTE (disambiguation).
ARTE (Association relative à la télévision européenne) is a Franco-German free-to-air television network that promotes cultural programming. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE GEIE, plus two member companies acting as editorial and programme production centres, ARTE France in Paris (France) and ARTE Deutschland in Baden-Baden (Germany). As an international joint venture (an EEIG), its programmes focuses to audiences in both countries. Due to this, the channel features two audio tracks and two subtitle tracks, each in French and German.
ARTE France was formerly known as La Sept. ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH is a subsidiary of the two main public German TV networks ARD and ZDF.
ARTE started out as an evening-only service. In the daytime, the frequencies were shared with other channels. A public channel called Télé emploi occupied the French frequencies for about a month during 1994, before the start of La Cinquième (now France 5) in December that year. For German viewers, ARTE was assigned a frequency on the Astra 1D satellite in late 1994, and it was eventually shared with Nickelodeon Germany, later replaced by the new public children's channel Kinderkanal.
ARTE programmes are available with multi-channel audio: all programmes go out in French and in German. Further the original version is screened whenever possible with subtitles in French and German and the hearing or visually impaired may get subtitles or an audio description. Since 2015 a selection of programmes are available with English and Spanish subtitles online, with Polish to follow in late 2016.
The channel enjoys a major footprint in Europe. Both the German and the French version can be received in nearly whole Europe via the satellite Astra1 (19, 2° East), the French version is also available via Hot Bird (13° East). In addition ARTE is relayed not only by all cable networks in Germany and France, but by numerous cable networks in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and in the Netherlands too.
Since 2008 ARTE broadcasts in HD in Germany and in France. Like the national channels of its own respective countries, the German HDTVversion of ARTE broadcasts in 720p50, while the French one broadcasts in 1080i25. In April 2016 ARTE co-produced (with Astra satellite owner, SES) a live Ultra-high-definition television broadcast of the Le Corsaire ballet from the Vienna State Opera. The programme was transmitted free-to-air on the UHD1 demonstration channel from the Astra 19.2°E satellites.
Online ARTE programmes can be streamed live or watched on catch-up TV for at least 7 and up to 700 days on ARTE+7 and the theme platforms ARTE Concert, Creative, Info, Future or Cinema.
In Africa, ARTE is broadcast via satellite, cable, MMDS and ADSL in many other countries, via the digital service CanalSat Horizons. Many French-language ARTE programs are also broadcast in Canada on the Ici ARTV cable channel, partly owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (85%) and ARTE itself (15%). The Australian Special Broadcasting Service translates many ARTE programs into English for broadcast on its own television network and overseas.
ARTE usually has more viewers in France than in Germany. In 2015, its share of overall viewing was about 2.2 % in France and about 1% in Germany. The differences can be put down to the different television markets in both countries. In France, ARTE was for a long time available to almost everyone as one of six analogue terrestrial channels. Relatively few French households received cable and satellite television, and the other terrestrial channels didn't really compete with ARTE. Meanwhile, thanks to widespread roll-out of cable television, the vast majority of German households had access to about three dozen channels, including several from the public broadcasters with content similar to Arte. After the introduction of digital terrestrial television in France, ARTE's market share has fallen there, while it has been more or less flat in Germany.
ARTE Future: Platform that joins viewers and online users with experts and takes a closer look at tomorrow's world. Documentaries and fictions fuel the debate on social problems covering ecology, the economy and technology.
Culture Touch : especially developed for tablets, the magazine gives a weekly overview of the latest cultural events in Europe, it presents the best of ARTE's programme in short videos, articles, photos and exclusive interviews.
ARTE has also a radio web site, called Arte Radio.
Since November 2015 ARTE offers selected programmes online with subtitles in English and Spanish, and since November 2016 in Polish. The free offer is a project that ARTE is running with financial support from the European Union. The subtitled programmes are available at www.arte.tv/en, www.arte.tv/es and http://www.arte.tv/guide/pl/.
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The idea of mashing together two shorts is an intriguing one. I have a friend who wants to write a book. He said he had four storylines in his head that just blended together one day. Now he just needs to write it!
I wish your friend much luck. It sounds like he’s starting with a good level of complexity!
I think the exercise he mentions would be really useful when learning to write good scene transitions. Interesting!
Good point Elizabeth! I’ll keep that in mind during my revision. Thanks!
Roasted moose with mango sauce…mmm!
Matt’s idea sounds fascinating. I may have to try that.
Vonna, I’ve used Mango Chutney on Salmon. I’m sure it would be good on moose, too! When I paired the two together I was thinking more about bioregions than culinary combinations. But next time I have moose I just might pull that chutney out.
Ooh, I strongly dislike driveways like yours especially when they get icy in winter and I”m trying to back out in a minvan so I can’t see very well and I drive off the side by accident so have to call a tow truck and can’t pick my kids up at school. Not that it has ever happened to me.
Laura, some of my friends park at the bottom of my driveway in the winter, especially if they don’t have four wheel drive.
Thanks for the book recs and the link. The books sound great and I will read the interview. I love when folks talk writing. You have never steered me wrong! I am also intrigued by mashing the two things together. Thanks for the post it is full of good stuff.
Tina, you are welcome. I hope you enjoy the books, I did!
That’s so lame that the kid in the back never got out to help.
Also, what a cool metaphor…mashing the mangoes into the moose meat. Brilliant.
K.M., yes, it was pretty wierd that the kid in the back acted oblivious to the whole thing.
When I saw Cassandra Clare, Kelly Link, and Holly Black, they said a similar thing. They said that their stories came about because of trying to mix seemingly unrelated and unrelatable things together. That is what they think makes a story interesting. I love that this idea is coming around and around and around these days. It means the universe wants me to sit up and take note. I’m taking note.
Heather, I hope how you take note blossoms into some cool story twists and turns. Have fun!
I read Talk, Talk by T.C. Boyle. His books are intense. I’m now interested in reading Matt de la Peña.
Medeia, I’ll have to put Talk, Talk on my list! Thanks!
I love the idea of putting two different story ideas together. Imagine the possibilities. It might be our best bet at coming up with a unique premise.
Susan, I hope you have fun playing with the idea and it proves to be productive for you!
In all seriousness, I think you’re onto something with your idea of adding in the unexpected and the original!
The books you mention sound great!
Dawn, I hope you enjoy the books. We Were Here was excellent. And have fun mixing stories!
Elana, I’ve read all three of Sara Zarr’s books and heard her speak once. Maybe some day I’ll get to meet her too! Lucky you!
Natasha, I hope you have good luck mashing your stories together!!
Yes Terri we have snow and tons of sunshine. It is a very bright time of year!
I like this idea of merging two completely different ideas. I have a whole host of unfinished short stories on my hard drive. I think I might have to give it a try and see what happens.
Alissa, sounds like you have lots of material to mix and match. Good luck with that!!
Juxtaposition of two disconnected stories – I like it.
I really dig TC Boyle. My favorite of his books is Tortilla Curtain, a story in which Boyle tells the story of an illegal imigrant couple living on a hill beaneath a spoiled American couple.
A friend of mine took a writing USC class taught by Boyle.
W.Z., I really enjoyed Tortilla Curtain, too! Great book!
It is when you combine things that appear opposite or conflicting that beauty emerges.
Good point, Maribeth, and poetically written. Thanks!
I like this idea! Oh, your title today really hooked me!
Jill, I’m glad you like the idea and the title, too!
Happy Sunday. I left a blog award for you on my blog.
these look like great reads. I love hearing about new books.
Way to go helping out the kids!
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When you get back from a vacation, do you experience the Post-Vacation Blues? The post-vacation blues are what I refer to as the time after a vacation when you feel sad, depressed, unhappy, unmotivated, and grumpy about life, relationships, and work. It’s that period of time when you have to come back down to reality and get back to the often-irritating daily grind of life.
For me, it can be really challenging. I get extra-frustrated because vacations are supposed to be rejuvenating, right? We’re not supposed to come back and feel worse than when we left. But sometimes we do. So what can we do to maintain those positive feelings when we get back from vacation?
1. Write. Write about your vacation – all the fun stuff. Even if it just happened (that’s actually the best time to write so you’ll remember the details), writing about how great your vacation was (and why) will have a positive influence on your state of mind. So sit down and journal or write a blog about it. Throw in some pictures so you can look back at it and make yourself happy.
2. Keep vacationing. Sure, you have to go back to work, family, and life, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop having fun. Think of atleast one thing you can do after your vacation that is fun and may even have some vacation-like characteristics. Can you find a new park and go for a walk after work? Paint a picture? Take some pictures of random stuff around your town or neighborhood? Find an entertaining activity to remind yourself that “getting back to the daily grind” can still mean having fun.
3. Start planning. Just because you might need to save up for another 6 months to afford your next vacation doesn’t mean you can’t start planning it now. Fantasizing about your next fun adventure can be just the thing to help you disassociate from reality for a little while. Don’t get carried away, but a little planning may be just the thing to lift your spirits.
4. Music. While you’re on vacation, buy a CD. It doesn’t have to be related to your vacation at all (you don’t have to buy Hawaiian music if you go to Hawaii) but it can if you like. Listen to it while you’re there and associate your positive vacation feelings with the music. From now on, listening to that CD is going to make you think of that specific vacation. When you get back, put it in the player, and when you’re getting ready in the morning and feeling particularly cranky about being back, pump up the volume and jam out. Remind yourself that the vacation was meant to rejuvenate you, and this music is the tool to help that happen.
5. Short work week. Do not return on a Monday! Schedule your return for a Wednesday or Thursday so you have a super-short week to reacclimate yourself to the work day. Even when you love your job, it takes a few days to get back into the groove.
Many of us struggle with falling asleep when we want to. It’s incredibly frustrating when you trudge through a day completely exhausted, and then when your ready to clock out and get some rest – you can’t. The most common probably preventing people from falling asleep?
That darn brain. Thinking keeps your brain awake, which in turn keeps YOU awake. Most of the solutions for helping individuals fall asleep involve quieting those thoughts.
As an individual who doesn’t have problems falling asleep, I was struggling to come up with some good ideas. And as I promised, the content on these Happy Lists are 100% original. So, since I was unable to come up with a good list, here are some GREAT lists that did a better job than I could have. Good night and good luck!! Hope you find some rest!
If you try a TON of things, and you’re still struggling with Insomnia – go see a doctor and get a referral to a sleep specialist. Your regular MD may be tempted to drug you up with prescriptions, but if you go to a sleep center, they can hook you up to machines 🙂 and will have a better chance of discovering the real reason why you’re not falling asleep. Good luck!
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Too Short, E-40 and MC Hammer have been hired as consultants for a 2010 film called "Weight," which tells the story of one of the Bay Area's youngest drug kingpins.
Executive producer Todd “Hollywood G.” Graham told AllHipHop that the veteran MCs were brought on board to increas the "authenticity of the project." All three were rising in popularity in the Bay Area and beyond at the same time as Darryl "Lil' D" Reed was taking charge of the Oakland drug scene. Reed took over in the late '80s and was allegedly making millions by 18, but ended up sentenced to 35 years in prison on federal drug charges, 20 of which he has now served.
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Christmas time is the most green-house gas intensive time in North America. With masses of gift wrapping, excessive travel across the country, eating more food than we need, and buying more gifts than we can afford… what is the outcome? What is it all for? Could we still enjoy the happiness and warmth of the holidays without creating so much junk? Of course you need to ask yourself that question, and find your own ways of reducing your waste this season.
Have you ever seen the story of stuff? It says that out of all the stuff that is mined, produced, shipped and purchased, only 1% of it is still in use after 6 months! We are shopping and living our lives in a completely unsustainable way. If you feel inspired to change this holiday season, then the rest is easy! Rocky Mountain Education Society has been making eco-gifts with hundreds of kids in Vancouver schools this season, so there is no reason you can’t make them yourself. A simple gift idea to start us off, using a re-used masonry jar, is a batch of delightful bath salts scented with essential oil. Stay tuned for more great eco-gift ideas in the weeks to come. And please share with us your ideas.
1. Fill a masonry jar with Epsom salts (buy from any drug store).
– (optional) Mix in 1/4 part of sea salts – gives more minerals for the soak!
3. Add 5-10 drops of essential oil of your choice. Relaxation: Lavender and peppermint essential oils. Rejuvenation: Grapefruit and Bergamot essential oils. Creativity: Try mixing your own scents. Don’t mix too many however, and test out the smells before you add them to your bath salts.
4. Decorate the jar simply by adding a home-made gift tag.
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The country’s biggest book event is right around the corner: the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), which heads back to the SMX Convention Center at the SM Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City on Sept. 17-21, 2014.
Now on its 35th year, the MIBF still remains the country’s biggest and longest-running book fair. It showcases the largest and most varied collection of literature for leisure and academic reading. Everything you need from fiction bestsellers, to textbooks, to graphic novels, and even educational materials are all under one roof. Moreover, the MIBF is also the go-to venue for this year’s most awaited book launches and signings, dialogues with readers, contests, and other literary events.
For more information, visit www.manilabookfair.com.
Photo from MIBF Facebook Page.
Note: This is not a paid article/post.
Be at the MANILACON on September 2-5, 2010 at the SMX Convention Center. With registered visitors around 23,000 in 2009, MANILACON is fast becoming the popular meeting point for industry players & people for whom sustainability matter most.
Gain insights to this expanding new market. For suppliers, position your brands for your long-term success as Sponsors/Exhibitors. For trade professionals, be there to view the product showcase; meet new suppliers; learn from industry experts on sustainability; network with other industry players.
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Sahab Uddin Ahmed (born 12 March 1963 in Katarihara, Assam is an All India United Democratic Front politician from Assam, India. He was elected in Assam Legislative Assembly election in 2016 from Jaleswar constituency.
^ "Sitting and previous MLAs from Jaleswar Assembly Constituency". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
This page was last edited on 6 October 2018, at 03:49 (UTC).
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On Grits – she eats.
Why grits? Why eat something that has the visual consistency of wallpaper glue (as Richard so lovingly puts it)? Why do I have such strong feelings for what is, essentially, corn porridge?
Because, in addition to its nutritional properties (which are many), grits are “…an inexpensive, simple, and thoroughly digestible food [and] given enough of it, the inhabitants of planet Earth would have nothing to fight about. A man full of [grits] is a man of peace.” This beautiful quote was published The Charleston News and Courier in a 1952 article about grits, and I’m happy to say that not much has changed since then. Grits don’t recognize racial and socioeconomic barriers, they can be served at any meal, they are incredibly versatile, can incorporate any number of ingredients, are wholesome and full of nutrients, can be served sweet or salty or savory and — most importantly — they give you a warm, comforted feeling that transcends the stomach and fills the soul.
Grits can be prepared very poorly, and I realize that this is what turns people off upon their initial introduction to the food. Not prepared correctly, they are a tasteless, runny sludge with grainy bits of hominy that are unappetizing to even the hungriest Southerner. Unfortunately, this is what most people get when they order grits in a Waffle House or Denny’s or any other breakfast chain across America.
Use real, stone-ground grits if at all possible. Instant grits will inevitably lead to the nasty, runny mess described above. Here’s an excellent site for “real” grits: Falls Mill, based out of Tennessee.
No matter what your recipe says, don’t cook the grits down with only water. You need to use at least half milk, half water. For truly rich grits, use all milk.
Grits are like risotto: you must stir, stir, stir and then stir some more. Don’t stop stirring!
Use real butter. This means no margarine, no I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, no cheap-o supermarket brand butter. Use good butter or go home. No exceptions.
If you like your grits salty, use koshering salt. Regular table salt is too small to hold up to the coarse granules of corn and you’ll end up oversalting. Koshering salt allows you the right amount of control.
If you like your grits sweet…well, I frankly don’t have much use for you. Sorry. But I’m sure there are other websites that can assist you in ruining a perfectly good meal.
If you want to learn more about grits, from people with a bit more journalistic background than I have, check out this excellent feature at NPR: Grits, Present at the Creation.
And if you’re ever feeling a little worn-down or world-weary, go have yourself a big bowl of grits, and tell me if you don’t feel better afterwards.
I’d just like to let you know that I’m from Pennsylvania and love grits. My family thinks that I may have hit my head and damaged something permanently. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to find grits in the grocery stores here to make them myself. I should just pack up my love of grits, sweet tea and pecans and head south!
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Based in the North East of England, Master Musicians International hosts recitals of classical musicians from all around the world. The photo shows Jonathan Middleton playing the theme from the film The Piano on the beach at Whitley Bay in Northumberland in 2012. The film itself was then shown in the adjacent Rendezvous Cafe.
That wise old Greek, Plato, defined music as a moral law that gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, charm to sadness and life to everything.
Explain music whatever way you will, the reality is that we are all affected at some time in our lives by the powerful emotions and sheer pleasure that it inspires: and because of this MASTER MUSICIANS, has been founded in North Shields to bring to this region the best of music, LIVE, and at affordable prices.
Back in 1985, ERNEST SCOTT, our Concert Director, promoted a number of recitals by local artistes, at the Christ Church Centre, in North Shields, soon after it was opened… and from that modest beginning he set out to bring to the Centre some of the world’s finest young pianists.
The big break-through came in 1987 when he managed to persuade the American Marcantonio Barone, a finalist in that year’s Leeds International competition, to give a recital in North Shields before going on to perform at the Wigmore Hall.
Since then the number of recitals has grown steadily each year … and so, too, has Master Musicians’ reputation: and over the last decade we have been visited by musicians from America, Peru, Russia, Australia, Japan, China and France and of course, the best of young British talent.
The American MARK ANDERSON, who many thought should have won the 1993 Leeds competition, certainly proved a winner here.
SA CHEN, from China, a finalist in the Leeds when only 17 gave a stunning performance before a packed Christ Church audience… and another memorable recital featured the brilliant Russian pianist MARGARITA SHEVCHENKO.
NORIKO OGAWA, from Japan, inspired one critic to write: ‘for sheer beauty of sound and clarity of texture her performance would be difficult to beat’.
The Australian PIERS LANE has been another outstanding visitor…and always welcome are the British players JONATHAN PLOWRIGHT (a special favourite), ANDREW WILDE (compared by some with Myra Hess and Solomon), and GRAHAM SCOTT (described in Classic CD as a pianist of wide ranging musical sympathies and intelligence’).
with Marcantonio Barone, I discovered they were only too eager to visit and perform in so-called backwaters like North Shields.
Though playing host during their visits, I have found them warm human beings; as keen to share their talent with our smaller, but appreciative audiences, as they are with those attending the major concert halls. Many times they have told me how much they appreciate our unique approach to classical musicians…it makes them feel one of the family. That’s what makes it all worthwhile.
In this BLOG I will attempt to post updates and changes in Master Musicians events as they happen. A BLOG (short for weB LOG) allows changes to be made ‘on the fly’ much easier than on our website. It is FREE to use, you do not need to log in or give your email details. However you may see some advertising from time to time – there’s no such thing as a free lunch’.
Just to thank you for organising, and let you know safe arrival of, 2 splendid Piano-Classics CDs – Alkan, 12 Etudes Op.35 & Liszt, Opera Fantasies – both by Mark Viner and posted by him as arranged, following his exquisite and moving concert at St.James’ & St.Basil’s Church on February 17th, 2018. Endless hours of great pleasure!
Found him. It was a snail mail address. I’ll fix it for next time as the current post may have gone already.
I just wanted to say hello after many years. Back in 2005 I stayed at your house and gave a few concerts which you kindly organised. I am playing at the Sunderland Pianoforte Society on Tuesday 9 April at 7:15 and I wanted to invite you to that. Unfortunately I don’t have an email address for you. Could you email me at Valentin_Schiedermair@yahoo.com ?
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One bane of working in the field of creativity is the curse of certain ‘lateral thinking’ problems like the nine dots you have to join up without your pen leaving the paper or the paragraph were you have to count the occurrence of the letter ‘f’. Very few people manage to solve these problems and they seem to serve only as examples to prove how stupid we all are, especially as once the obvious answers are pointed out, we’re kicking ourselves that we couldn’t think ‘out of the box’ enough to spot it.
The tedious answer is that in all of the words listed if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word and then spell the word backwards it will be the same word. Did you get it? Probably not. These tests in no way reflect your intelligence or your creativity. There is no evidence to suggest that becoming good at them in any way increases your creative output. In fact, highly creative individuals, those who actually do produce great creative works or ideas, are no better than average on these tests. Being good at these problems means that you will now be better at that particular problem (obviously as you now know the answer). These ‘problems’ are worthless and the reason is that they aren’t about anything. They have little or no meaning. If you failed on the word test above you were probably looking for meaning in the connection of the words. You were actually being creative but unfortunately the solution required you to ignore meaning and look at the features of the letters.
It was a trick, like so many of these so called tests, designed to catch you out. A cheap trick to place the perputrator on higher intellectual ground than his audience. This sort of thing is an anathema to me. It goes against everything I talk about which is that everyone can be more creative. The main thing stopping us is confidence in our abilities which smug little problems only eat away at.
So pay no attention to these parlour games and continue to work on developing your true creativity that will enrich your life and work.
What would be a realistic but unusual answer to this problem?
Grandma is knitting but her three year old granddaughter keeps playing with the wool. Father suggests putting the child in the playpen. Mother comes up with a better idea – what is it?
Some people suggest taking the child out of the room or telling Grandma to stop knitting. Better than that is to give the child a spare ball of wool. All these solutions are acceptable – but a bit boring, a bit obvious. The point of the exercise is not simply to solve the problem, but to solve it in a realistic but unusual way. A better answer is then to put Grandma in the playpen. Doing that would mean Grandma could carry of knitting without interruption and the child can be in the room with everyone but doesn’t feel imprisoned. It works, it’s simple, but something odd is going on.
Grandmas don’t belong in playpens you cry! That’s a convention yes, but not the law. There’s nothing to say we can’t do it. The point of this problem and the solution is that there are many answers to the problems in your life and in your business. Most are obvious – they are the ones your competition have already thought of. You cannot afford to be obvious.
So when you have a problem and you need a solution don’t be concerned with convention. Don’t be concerned with what’s expected. Don’t be concerned with what people will think. Don’t even be concerned with what’s possible. If you put constraints like these on your ideas or if you judge your ideas during th e brainstorming phase you might was well give up and join the legion of mediocrity because these things will prevent you from having the best ideas at best, but will more than likely totally kill the process at worst.
Working out what is actually possible and allowed is done later, in the planning phase, not in the creative ideas phase. Learn to play, to make new associations, swap things around, wonder, be silly, experiment. These are the attributes that will enable you to solve the problem with a unique solution and to think of that elusive winning idea.
Lateral Thinking, Blue Sky, Out of the Box – we hear these phrases bandied about but what does it all really mean? The term ‘Lateral thinking’ was first coined by Edward De Bono who described it as the process to achieve pattern switching from one way of thinking to another. Ok, but what does that mean and why should we care?
All thinking is an associating process. We think of one tho ught and that leads to another thought and that leads to another and so on. If you could be bothered you could trace your line of thought back throughout the day and you’d see that you live in a continuous associative stream of consciousness.
Playing ‘word association’ is easy – if we had a room of people and I said apple, the next person may say tree, the next could be woodland… etc. It’s very easy because that is how the mind works. If we were to play ‘word disassociation’, we’d find it a lot harder. The only way to do it is to associate to something else to get away from the word. It’s like our mind has rail tracks on which our thoughts travel. We’re essentially heading in a set direction which, like a train, is hard to deviate from without crashing.
This is why so many people do exactly the same things, say exactly the same things and come up with exactly the same solutions when faced with a problem. They don’t have any new ideas because they’re travell ing on the same straight tracks as they always have.
So when we talk about lateral thinking or pattern changing we’re essentially talking about jumping off the tracks onto another railway line that is going in a different direction. This is only possible if the rail network of neurones (brain cells) in your brain is a complex network of intersections instead of a set of parallel tracks.
Einstein’s brain is stored in a jar in Kansas City. It has been studied by many experts for decades. It is by all accounts a very average male brain, the same weight and size as most. But it differs from the average in one important respect. When samples were studied under the microscope it was noticed that the neurones had dramatically more connections to each other than in the average brain.
So how do you form these connections? Like a muscle, the brain needs to be exercised. To make new connections you need to make new associations between disparate things . You need to fantasise, experiment. Force yourself to change habits of action, speech and thought. Do things differently. Do different things. Connect the new experience back to something you’ve done before. Learn to disassociate! Break out of that pattern of thinking by being random. Play!
Here’s a lateral thinking task to end with. What would be a realistic but unusual answer to this problem?
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I go to a gym where a strength class is co-taught. It is so great to have one person coaching people on form and one person guiding the class. I learned so much from doing that class. It made me feel so much more comfortable and safe with the moves especially as I was learning.
Definitely! It can be tough to give all the form cues and keep moving, so having a little help goes a long way!
Love it! Co-teaching can be such a fun way to take a class to the next level. It can also be an awkward situation is you don’t agree with the other instructor’s methods. My favorite class to co-teach right now is Body Pump. It’s so much easier with an extra set of hands!
Definitely! Luckily the ladies I’ve “shared” with were super easy to work with. I imagine pump is a little easier wit some help-I just think of all the equipment alone used in that class!
Of the teacher! I’ve always just Been nervous as a student in the class. It must be stressful too! Thanks for that point of view.
It can be interesting, especially in the beginning! Like anything just takes a little time to put you at ease.
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I can’t bear to continue watching Game of Thrones. In the months between the end of Season 5 and the beginning of Season 6, I might very well change my mind, but as Oliver Griffin comments in The Independent – http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/game-of-thrones-season-5-finale-seriously-what-is-the-point-any-more-10325106.html – what is the point?
GRR Martin (grr indeed) is a sadist. I am exhausted with tears unshed for the honourable characters (beginning with Ned Stark) who met gruesome ends. And horrible Joffrey had too easy a death. Some painful vomiting before conking out is no worse than a severe bout of food poisoning. I’ve been there. I felt like dying the last time I hurled my guts out. My spasms left me doubled up in agony for several hours. Joffrey was gone in minutes. Now, is that fair?
I have no sympathy for Cersei. She can dry out in the dungeon for all I care. But I was hanging on for Jon Snow. And dear Sam. I’m still rooting for Tyrion, the Lannister who drew the short straw, and Jaime has become a bit of alright. Drogon the dragon? Absolute darling!
In Westeros, decency is such a rare commodity that the slightest display of kindness stands out. Of course, in the GoT world of psychopaths and sociopaths, this is a weakness likely to earn, not a reward, but an unpleasant death.
I got more satisfaction watching Jurassic World. It was rather predictable but the raptors were cute, and the human who deserved to be eaten got his just desserts, or rather the dinosaur did.
Okay, so it’s unreal but I try not to watch art movies because the story lines cut too close to the bone. If I want like-real tragedy and misery, I just catch the news. Life is hard enough. Give us justice and something to live for. GoT is full of fabulous characters and the story is riveting, but is it too much to ask for Ramsay to be castrated (slowly) and then given a lobotomy? For Sansa to find true love?
Gimme hope, GRR Martin, Gimme hope … (with apologies to Eddy Grant).
You can find anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant*…and Singapore’s Mustafa Centre.
A veritable Aladdin’s Cave of things edible, cosmetic and electronic, plus jewelry, pharmaceuticals, and more, Mustafa Centre is open 24/7. First-time visitors will be exhausted just checking out a fraction of the goods. At 2am, you can find insomniac families wandering around.
Mustafa shoppers like the variety available – many items can’t be found anywhere else. Deciding on toothpaste or tea can be mind boggling. Take sweetener as an example. Choose from organic or non-organic sugar. Or Lion Date Syrup (800g, $8.50), Pure Harvest Rice Malt Syrup (500g, $6.50), Cecil Coconut Treacle (180ml, $2.50), not to mention Southeast-Asian palm sugar and neatly packaged jaggery (Indian palm sugar).
The fact that I find Mustafa Centre irresistible despite the sucky service is a tribute to the store’s merchandisers. Perhaps service can take a back seat when the goods are the draw. That doesn’t seem right, but how else can I explain why I keep returning when service is at-best casual indifference?
Last week to my amazement, I ran into one staff who appeared keen to serve. Maybe he was a promoter in the health section. That’s how used I am to the usual dour faces.
It was 3pm on a Friday. I brought my basket to a cashier with no queue. Her expression could have curdled cream. Sorry, I must have interrupted her reverie.
My worst experience was some years ago in the jewelry department where I waited 10 minutes for the woman behind the counter to fish out gold earrings – a gift for my then helper. I tried to get her attention by waving. I said, “Er, excuse me….” She pointedly ignored me as she leisurely pushed earrings onto a display board. I wouldn’t have minded if she’d just looked up and said, “Just a moment, let me finish this.” Finally, when I wouldn’t go away, she snapped, “Yess!” in a whaddya-want tone.
Even vinegary countenances won’t keep me away. Other stores have something to learn from this.
Last month, regular shoppers at the Salvation Army Family Thrift Store might have noticed an influx of non-matching picture-pretty tableware. I must have donated several basket-loads of bowls, plates, cups, platters etc collected over my 30+ years of producing recipe pages for the magazines I worked for.
It took 18 months into retirement before I was ready to part from what had been part of my working life. While some pieces were unused, other attractive old crocks brought back memories of photography sessions, of the cooks, and even of the food so artfully placed in them. Reminders of busy days and a different phase.
But it’s time to let go, and once I am recharged, I will go through the garden shed and hall cupboards where more props are stacked. More stuff will go to a friend who has a food blog and can use my carefully curated pieces from enamel to china to placemats. What I want is a good home for these much-loved items.
Minimalism has never been attractive to me. But there is just too much of everything. The clothes and shoes, all in good condition, were gladly received by neighbourbood helpers and will be put to good use in the Philippines and Myanmar. In the searing tropical heat, I just need to dress for comfort.
Now that I finally have time to explore my book collection, I am reading the books – some sent eons ago by book distributors for possible review. It’s read-and give away. Each time, I can easily fill 3 of the National Library’s donation shelves. Eighty per cent of the last batch disappeared in 10 minutes.
I hope to only end up with an excess of beads and dogs. But the clearing will keep me busy for a long time yet as it’s hardly left a dent. Here are parts of a poem that can be a hoarder’s mantra. Titled The Cycle of Letting Go by Ryan Nicodemus, half of The Minimalists (http://www.theminimalists.com/), it captures the trap of possessions and the freedom from cutting loose.
It steals time from me.
I am happier with little.
Retirement has been both unsettling and wonderful. I stopped work at the end of 2013 and in the blink of an eye, it’s almost mid 2015! At first, I felt displaced. After 40 years of dashing to and from work, and being switched on even on public holidays, it felt discomfiting not having an office to head to. My days were no longer organized into blocks of time.
But hey, after the first few months, I couldn’t believe the joy and freedom of not having my life sucked dry by deadlines, meetings, appraisals and the politicking inherent in any organization with power-hungry individuals. Trying not to fall in step with the brown-nosers and sociopaths had been exhausting. As much as I enjoyed my editorial work, I realized what I missed most was a regular paycheck and bonuses.
Once I got into the rhythm of the perpetual weekend, I fell into a beading-and-reading frenzy, rediscovered radio and caught up with friends over lunch, tea and dinner. Bored? Never!
But too much jollity led to total neglect of my blog. My reasoning: Blogs are nothing more than personal diaries. Non jetsetting bloggers like myself who don’t post photos of their gorgeous selves, are probably floating in darkest cyberspace. Really, who cares what we’re up to?
This all sounds very altruistic but the truth is, I’m popping up for a gulp of air simply because of RSI. Yes, intensive beading has led to repetitive strain injury. It is not the needle hand that’s hurting, but the holding hand (my left). Whatever you do for hours – move the mouse, play the guitar, craftwork – remember to stop and flick/flex fingers, stretch arms and get the blood circulating. Keeping your hand in the same position for long periods will result in tendonitis, swelling, inflammation etc. Very unpleasant.
When I make one earring, I will push myself to finish the other side, usually on the same day. If it’s something more complicated like a necklace or dreamcatcher, I might take days or weeks, but with so much time already invested, the discipline to complete what I’ve begun is a sure thing.
The crafty too must look after our tools and have materials at the ready. You’ll soon lose the mood to do anything if you’re running around searching for bits and bobs.
There’s always something new to learn, or technique to perfect. And with every step, patience is required. When I attended pottery classes, some students just wanted to throw pots and get them fired. The working of the clay bored them, but sloppy kneading and not slapping out air pockets might result in pots cracking in the kiln. The same persistence applies whether you’re trying tubular peyote stitching or breadmaking.
Even now I sometimes find myself speeding along to finish, and then discovering an unwelcome thread, or something awry when I’m all knotted and done. It means snipping off the offending section and fixing the mistake. Or living with it – and being forever irritated. If everyone did this at work, i.e. spot-check and backtrack, more errors would be caught before they snowball into something too difficult to fix.
When you get interested in something, you will suddenly notice everything connected with it. Or even indirectly connected. Beading has made me more observant and appreciative of colours of fabrics, the ocean, sunrise, sunset, nature, tableware, art… It’s opened my eyes to the beauty around me and to the far superior skills of other crafters.
After you make a whole lot of stuff, you’ll either want to sell, or make gifts of them. The trouble is not knowing whether the recipients are too polite to tell you to keep your handiwork. Hence, it would be best to set up a table at an event and sell my beadwork for money which can go to an animal shelter. But an introvert like me is not likely to face the public, so someone else will have to actualize my do-good idea.
It might sound odd, but having a hobby keeps me in touch with my mortality. It means prepping for the eventuality that I’ll leave behind a pile of beads from stones and quartzes to glass, acrylic and delica plus findings, tools, wire, threads and so on. What is my son to do with these? To cart them all to the Salvation Army would be a waste, so I shall have to find a worthy donee. It certainly bears thinking about.
When you love something like reading – or drawing or music or nature – it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great. If you are lucky enough to know this, then your search for meaning involves whatever that Something is. It’s an alchemical blend of affinity and focus that takes us to a place within that feels as close as we ever get to “home.” It’s like pulling into our own train station after a long trip – joy, relief, a pleasant exhaustion.
Ageing is nothing to look forward to. The best part of it is a gradual release of responsibilities as you no longer have to prove anything beyond being able to walk and eat independently. In fact, ageing can be downright depressing as all the hormones that kept you racing and mating with the other rats slide to a low and you worry more about losing your mind and mobility than losing your hair.
Would it be better to die in early middle-age like many humans did a few centuries ago? Of course not, because we’re discovering more ways to stay fit and enjoy the extra years. With longer life expectancies though come problems for caregivers ie family, so we should be thinking of how to make it easy on them – considerations most of us shove aside because they’re so unpleasant to discuss.
Spring is here. The daffodils, peach and plum trees are in bloom and we have spotted geese and cranes flying north.
Every year, during March, my elder son and I celebrate our birthdays and despite the fact that I am getting older each time, the arrival of spring always makes me feel young and I look forward to the newness of this part of the seasonal cycle. This spring, however, I feel somewhat older. Older because my husband and I have a new responsibility. We are at a point where we have to take care of both our still-young children as well as our aging parents.
My father-in-law has recently been diagnosed with having a blocked vessel in the brain as well as the beginnings of Alzheimer’s. Because he is quite a character (I shall not go into that), it took us some time before we realized that something was really wrong. And because of his character, it has been difficult coming up with an appropriate solution that is best for his well-being.
I, being the ever-efficient and practical type, have been angry and frustrated by his stubbornness and seeming ungratefulness for what we are doing for him. And then a good friend taught me this lesson. She said that first, it is never pleasant or easy for a person to get old and come to a stage where he has to ask for help, and second, different people ask for help in different ways.
And it is true. Our parents have not only brought us up, many of them (in Singapore) have also helped bring our children up. It must be difficult for them for them to metamorphose from being care-givers to having to be cared for. And just like children, aged people express themselves and do different things to get attention and help.
For young people, we must remember that when we look at an elderly person, we should see beyond the shell that he is and recognize that he has lived a (probably more) colourful and challenging life than us. We should not to be dismissive of his needs, disdainful of his abilities or indifferent to his contributions. And we should respect his wisdom and his rights.
For older people who are still autonomous and clear-minded (the ‘silver generation’) Marie Murray, a clinical psychologist and columnist of The Irish Times has this advice – it is during this time that plans should be made to cater for future decline in physical and mental abilities. These include learning email or internet skills so that there will be no deprivation of communication or information, planning maintenance-free homes or discussing with children about living arrangements, getting good legal advice about wills and decisions about whom to trust with power of attorney etc.
Planning for the future liberates the present, and this is most true for the silver generation who now has the time, financial, physical and mental abilities to live life up to the fullest.
What would you do if you saw the Virgin Mary?
I would seek medical help.
David Guterson’s book Our Lady of the Forest (Bloomsbury) brings the phenomena of Marion sightings to life, not in some misty, ethereal way, but in today’s chaotic, skeptical world.
Would the Virgin Mary appear to an asthmatic 16-year-old non-Catholic mushroom picker sheltering in a campsite? This darkly funny story of losers in a fading town is as mesmerizing as Ann Holmes’ visions. When word of Ann’s forest encounter leaks over the internet, the community of faithful descend in hordes to share in the miracle while the investigating priest is convinced the girl is hallucinating.
In the end, it doesn’t matter whether the visitations are real or imagined. Whether balderdash or God working in mysterious ways, it makes you think about where you stand, and that theology and evidence go out the window when pitted against faith and hope. But surely, that can’t be bad when it brings solace and comfort – something to ponder on Christmas day.
On 10 December 2013, Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the company Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) that made defective breast implants not conforming to medical standards, was judged in court in Marseille. He was condemned to four years’ imprisonment, fined 75 000 Euros and not allowed to work anymore in medical-related fields.
I suspect I was one of the last people implanted with a PIP because just two months after having the mastectomy operation, I received a letter from the hospital informing me of this. The ‘re-shock’ was almost too much to bear. And of course, over the following months, the hullabaloo over this scandal was reported almost daily in the news and it certainly was not good for the morale especially when one was undergoing chemotherapy.
You might ask – why did I have an implant in the first place? Am I so vain about keeping my breasts? Or did my husband want me to have an implant? The answers are ‘No’. I never wanted an implant or any breast reconstruction. My husband’s only aim was that I get well, and if he ever mentioned the possibility of an implant, it was because he was concerned that I might be psychologically ‘disturbed’ by my asymmetry.
I had an implant because every one of the doctors I met related to my cancer strongly advised that I should. At that time, I had the impression that feminity is an important aspect for French women since at first, nobody could believe that I really did not want an implant. ‘You are still young!’ they said.
So why did I give in? I did so because I did not know otherwise. I had never had cancer or a mastectomy, never knew what it would be like to be flat on one side nor what it would feel like to have an implant. In the end, shouldn’t doctors know best? Which is why I wished that, because they knew better than me, they had fought harder to stop using PIP implants once problems started, not continued to do so until the last few months before ‘higher authorities’ decided against it.
I have been advised to remove, no – to change – the implant. So far, I have not plucked up the resolve to go for another operation. Also, I have been considering not having a new implant. But then, I am now so used to having it that I am scared to have to readjust to being asymmetrical.
The one thing I have learnt from all this is – let’s not cry over spilt milk (or silicone – ha ha!). I could have regretted listening to the doctors, but then without an implant I could have hated my lopsided body, too. I can continue to rave and rant at Monsieur Mas but what good would that do to my health? Better to just let go and get on with life.
My annual check-up is coming up soon and I will have to make a decision by then. So maybe – a new right breast would be what I will be getting this Christmas.
My husband is contemplating sitting with a friend who waits alone in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, keeping vigil by his wife’s bedside. She has slipped into unconsciousness and he knows this is all the earthly time he has left with her. She appeared to have beaten the cervical cancer which troubled her a few years ago, but fell ill recently. Her deterioration was so rapid that the medical staff prepared him for the worst.
As the year rolls to a close, my thoughts turn to the many dear ones I miss. Besides my mother and favourite aunt, there was the friend who passed on just two months ago. Fortunately, we managed to visit and spend an afternoon with him when he was still able to entertain visitors, albeit with his oxygen tank (he had emphysema).
One of my regrets will always be not making it to Belfast where Sister Finbarr retired. She was the Irish Principal of the convent school (Katong Convent) I attended and I was too callow to realise how fond I was of her until long after she had left Singapore. I remember being summoned to her little office because she found my reading report (we were encouraged to maintain reading lists) unbelievably long.
Quaking, I would give her a synopsis of any book she picked from my list. After a couple of visits, we became quite pally as it dawned on her I was devouring my way through the children’s section of the National Library. Very astute, she must have noticed that I was too timid to make things up, so she would pat me on the head and send me on my way. Henceforth, for a painfully shy child, I felt quite chuffed to have her call me by name every time I was in her line of vision. But, more importantly, close proximity allowed a glimpse of the kindness and concern behind the steely blue eyes and stern demeanour.
Someone else I regret not making time for was my best friend in my first two years of school. Her name was Mary Ng and she was too good for this world, and probably too good for me. We drifted apart as we grew up and while I can’t remember why, I’m sure we would have stayed firm friends if I had made an effort. When we were 16, Mary died from something related to her asthma problem. Again, it took years for me to feel the loss.
However, not to end on a sad note, death while wrenching for the ones left behind, reminds us to be mindful of life. As the fellow with the scythe can haul any of us off at his convenience, I am going to try to keep contact with the people I’m fond of – a colossal task for someone about as sociable as a tarsier. Let me ponder whether I even want to join Facebook. Nope! But there’s always the phone and old-fashioned email.
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Flame Retardant Products, who knew?
I thought this was an interesting article as I don’t know much of anything about flame retardant products. It will be a saga I’m sure with what they come up with to replace the decaBDE. The full article was posted on Healthy Child Healthy World.
On Thursday December 17, while the world was waiting to learn if talks in Copenhagen would produce a plan to keep the planet from heating up any further, the EPA made a flame retardant announcement of its own: Within three years – by the end of 2013 – the two U.S. producers and the largest U.S. importer of the flame retardant known as decaBDE (decabromodiphenyl ether) – used widely in plastics of electronics, motor vehicles, aircraft, in textiles and furniture – will end production, use, and sales of the chemical in the United States.
This may sound arcane but it’s significant in a number of ways, not least becausedecaBDE is a persistent and bioaccumulative synthetic chemical – one of a class of flame retardants known as PBDEs – that most of us have been encountering daily for years. Contrary to initial expectations, deca- is not staying put in the finished products where it’s used. In numerous scientific studies it’s been shown to migrate out of finished consumer products and has been found in household dust, in vacuum cleaner and laundry dryer lint as well as in rivers, wildlife, food, and people, most disconcertingly in nursing mothers and children.
Deca- is one of several PBDE flame retardants that have been used widely in consumer products for years in ever increasing volumes, beginning largely in the 1970s. Other PBDEs have been taken out of use, either voluntarily or by regulation, as evidence of their adverse environmental and health impacts – as endocrine disruptors and possible carcinogens – has grown. Deca- was initially thought to be safer than other PBDEs, but evidence of its adverse effects has also grown, including its ability to break down into smaller more hazardous compounds that can adversely impact thyroid hormones, neurological and immune systems. In Europe, PBDEs, including deca-, are no longer allowed for use in electronics.
PBDEs themselves came onto the market after some of their predecessor flame retardants – among them PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls) and perhaps most notoriously a compound known as “Tris” that was used in children’s pajamas was linked to cancer in animal studies.
While agreeing to the phase-out, PBDE producers continue to maintain their product safety. “While hundreds of science-based and peer-reviewed studies have shown decaBDE to be safe in use and one of the most efficacious flame retardants in the world, Albemarle [one of the two U.S. deca- producers] is committed to delivering safe and effective products with increasingly smaller environmental footprints,” Brian Carter, global business director of Albemarle’s flame retardant group told Chemical and Engineering News.
Concern about PBDEs’ health effects has, in the absence of any federal regulation, prompted a number of U.S. states to ban their use – including that of deca-. How this phase-out will influence legislation remains to be seen but Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME) has introduced a bill to ban deca- and ensure its replacement with safe alternatives.
PBDE producers say they are working on environmentally friendly alternatives. Exactly what they are and how they behave remains to be discovered – although at least one is yet another brominated compound. Flame retardants already widely in use as alternatives to PBDEs, among them chemicals known as HBCD and tetrabromobisphenol A, or their breakdown products have been identified as environmentally persistent and are turning up in water, soil, wildlife, people and food samples.
One of the big challenges will be getting behind the websites depicting ladybugs and grassy meadows to find out how “green” this next generation of flame retardants actually is. Right now all we have is the manufacturers’ word.
Elizabeth Grossman is the author most recently of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry. She writes from Portland, Oregon. This was originally published by The Huffington Post.
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When climbing the Sabine hills to Casperia, whether from Passo Corese or the motorway A1 Milan-Naples (exit: Ponzano-Soratte), there is a sense of amazement looking through the windows at the scenery that runs beside us. Olive groves, pastures, fields and farms litter the “small Umbria”, before uncovered, perhaps by negligence, perhaps because we never ventured there before.
You may have ended up there after visiting the Farfa Abbey and its quaint village (borgo in Italian), which was easily accessible from Rome and undoubtedly more popular. However, those who dare venture further north, within the so-called Sabina Tiberina, are rewarded, arriving at Casperia, with the scenery of a small country village dense with houses in stone wall, olive and cypress trees, all perched on the top of the sweet hills.
Those who return are never disappointed; for the first-timers, it is a delightful surprise. The rustic and well-cared for look of the village immediately shows that you are in a special place, loved by residents and welcoming for those who come and visit it.
Casperia does not have monuments of particular fame, but offers glimpses of rare environmental value. Do not miss Via Massari, one of the most characteristic streets of Casperia, where the Palazzo Forani is beautiful, unmistakable for the two bears carved on both sides of the portal – revealing it once belonged to the noble house of the Orsini.
Just outside the city walls, worth mentioning is the elegant Church of the Annunciation, which houses The Annunciation by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato.
Houses and steps decorated with flower pots and climbers – often revealing the good taste of the owners – follow in a seemingly random, labyrinthic manner, but they seem to be structured in a spiral (or “onion bulb”). In the 1960s an analysis of the Lazio country villages revealed that each one had been organised in a precise geometric or structure-type shape: pyramid, cascade, spur, spike, spiral, etc.
Casperia follows a picturesque cobbled road that goes back to the large secular holm-oak that marks its skyline from far away, along with the Romanesque bell tower of the Church of St. John the Baptist – featuring the nativity scene (in Italian: presepe or presepio) within a reproduction of the whole village, skillfully made by Giannicola Mariani, a distinguished blacksmith living in Casperia.
The characteristic urban architecture probably comes from the high-medieval establishment of a castle (perhaps of Longobarde origins), which sought to adapt to the natural morphology of the hill (standing 397m above sea level) to strengthen its defenses. In 1189, Aspra (original name of Casperia, changed in 1946) became free, albeit under the influence of the Holy See: in 1461 it resisted the siege of Federico da Montefeltro. The origins of the first nucleus are however Sabino-Roman, as evidenced by the remains of rustic villas scattered throughout the territory and according to various literary sources. It is no coincidence that the country changed its name in 1946, in the wake of a “fashion” that had settled in the days of Fascism, and recaptured classical toponymes with the aim of ennobling the origins of cities and countries: “Casperia” was in fact the name of an ancient Sabine city quoted by Virgil in Book VII of the Eneide.
We could say that Casperia, despite its nearly 1,200 inhabitants, is becoming a bit ‘the queen’ of Sabina Tiberina, since it is the country that has managed to develop further than the Sunday “hit and run” touristic tradition perpetrated by the neighbouring Romans (in Italian: scampagnata): it is evidenced by the fact that the village has its own small community of English speakers from all corners of Europe and beyond.
This unexpectedly international and increasingly bohemian atmosphere contrasts with the collective imagination that the provincial village would like as a typical microcosm closed in itself. In fact, these are signs of a profound change not only in the way of vacation but also of contemporary society in itself. Many foreigners, mostly of a high cultural level, prefer to visit Rome or Florence while lodging in the surrounding countryside, in order to enjoy and get to know the locals as well as those who have decided to make of this great historical and artistic heritage their new home.
It is now known that the great art cities have become “fun shops” (think of the case-limit of Venice) where local culture, the genuine and authentic culture, is disappearing altogether: you admire the art, the monuments and the reliable architecture, but the locals have largely lost customs and traditions – not mentioning that an Italian cook in a restaurant or trattoria in these larger cities is now a rarity. In Casperia, on the other hand, the “stringozzi” (a pasta typical of Alto Lazio and Umbria) are still the home-made (and hand-made!) by the locals.
In short, destinations such as Casperia, blessed by their strategic position, are the way to combine the usability of the nearby and easily reachable “eternal city” with the enjoyment of a splendid and still unknown natural landscape, genuine gourmet cuisine, a healthy hospitality that really expresses the spirit of the people of what in the view of the stranger is the legendary “Campagna Romana”. Moreover, Casperia, for its proximity to the motorway A1 and to the Via Ternana (SS313, from Passo Corese to Terni), offers the possibility of easy trips to Tuscia and Bassa Umbria as well as of course in the rest of Sabina and Rieti territory: with a “bio-regional” approach you can create crossroads between Lazio and Umbria along the axis of the Tiber Valley, knowing a vast area of homogeneous characters even in the precious local diversity.
But is Casperia’s success all in the happy geographic location? Not just. The village preserves an intact historical center, not ruined by heavy modern maneuvers, and an unspoiled beauty that for a decade has fascinated Anglo-Saxon visitors, recalled by a handful of “discoverers” of this treasure that was lost among the green and endless expanses of holm-oaks and oaks of the Sabini Mountains. Other villages in the area have similar characteristics, of course, but in Casperia they take on more decisive and convincing lines to make it a sort of “manual” of the Sabino village.
The landscape, at the same time gentle and mountainous, the pines and cypresses, the medieval churches (Madonna della Neve, Montefiolo, Santa Maria di Legarano, etc.) and the Roman ruins scattered throughout the countryside, the beautiful stone-walled houses and steps of the village have been able to break into the hearts of romantic travelers of the 21st century, who in the wake of the myth of the “Grand Tour” in Italy are finding in our village those landscapes that can only be found in books and museums, as painted by the great artists of the past.
The so moving, flamboyant and multicolored sunset from the Casperia terraces; the softest profiles of the hills that go down to the Tiber, it flowing placidly down to a magnificent plain with its loops and its fields, all crowned by the mystical background of Mount Soratte, as immortalized by the lines of Horace. Literature, artistic memories, and visual poetry thus merge into a unicum of fine cultural value and very emotional impact for the visitor of scholastic studies.
But what are the best times to go to Casperia? Theoretically the village offers much at any given moment of the year, but the milder seasons offer greater emotions thanks to the colours of the nature.
If, at the end of October, olive harvesting begins and you can observe closely the ancient and rooted tradition of sabit olive cultivation in November, you will enjoy the intense smells of the pruning roaches and the fuzzy colors of the foliage; in April and May an explosion of colour glitters through the countryside, while in the village wisteria, roses and geraniums color the gray limestone steps. In June, the fields are dotted with daisies, poppies and other spontaneous blooms. At last, July is blessed with golden wheat, and sunflowers and cicadas entertain the senses and the spirit.
Self-catering holiday home “pietre di ASPRA” , 2 brand new apartments, drawn from an independent stone building of the XVI century in the historical city center of Casperia. As a result of a complex and careful process of restoration and renovation, the building now offers all the comforts of the modern living without sacrificing the ancient rural nature of the original structure.
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Santa Maria de Serrateix is the Romanesque church of a former Benedictine abbey located on the BV-4235 road in Serrateix in the comarca of Berguedà, Catalonia.
The monastery dates to c. 940 when a group of monks settled in the area. From 977, it came under the protection of the Counts of Cerdanya and Besalú while Froila became the abbot (977-993). Housing 13 monks, it later received donations from Oliba Cabreta (whose sarcophagus lies here) and his brother Miró. A new church built in 1077 was consecrated in 1126. In the fourteenth century, while only six monks were living there, the bell tower was destroyed but was rebuilt under the abbot Berenguer de Lluçà in 1373. The monastery later came under the authority of the Bishop of Urgell.
The church was rebuilt in the Neoclassical style between 1798 and 1827. The monastery was also transformed in the Neoclassical style by the architect Josep Torrevedella, the work being completed in 1793. The buildings suffered considerable damage during the Spanish Civil War that destroyed several monastic dependencies. The tomb of Abbot Berenguer de Torigues was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1982, now preserved in the Museu Diocesà i Comarcal de Solsona. Santa Maria de Serrateix became a Bien de Interés Cultural site in its own right on 1 June 1999.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Santa Maria de Serrateix.
^ a b "Monestir de Serrateix" (in Catalan). Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ "Documento BOE-A-1999-15008" (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado, Government of Spain. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
Bolòs, Jordi, Diplomatari del monestir de Santa Maria de Serrateix (segles X-XV), Fundació Noguera, Barcelona, 2006. ISBN 84-9779-465-6.
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We did not post anything for quite a while. It was a very busy time for us. Among other things we had to process all images, organize judging, Awards Gala evening here in Roseau, Dominica, and take care of other tasks to finalize the 3rd International Ozone Zone Photo Salon 2015. And yes – the Salon is closed and the catalog of winning and accepted images is already posted on line.
If you enjoy fine photography, please have a look. There are some amazing entries, and we are proud to see so many great works. We already work on the next competition – our 4th Salon, to be open in early June. Here are links to the winners’ list and the catalogue. Enjoy!
The image below is our Grand Prix winner, titled Awakening, by Marek Biegalski from Ireland. Congratulations to the author!
Awakening – Marek Biegalski, Ireland.
See you next time, cheers!
The Nature Island Still Rocks!
Congratulations on all your prizes and awards! I have thought of you both so much, and enjoy immensely your postings and pictures.
Your life in Domenica seems full and lovely and truly paradise. I loved your post of forgetting your hat on a bench, and when you went back hours later to retrieve it, it was there, undisturbed.
I always miss you when I am in Victoria, and I think of you especially when I am in the Villa garden, or pouring through photos taken by Derek. I have photos of your work in the garden – it makes me nostalgic!
I have been too too busy trying to keep my head above water. My Mum, shortly after her 100th birthday celebrations, was operated on for a tumour in her sinus, and that was followed by radiation. The radiation exhausted her, so it has been a long haul for her to get back on her feet again. Clarke is doing a little better, but still has a lot of struggles.
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I realised two things the other day. First, I hadn’t done any post about books I’ve read since January. And two, I’ve only read 8 books so far this year. According to Goodreads.com I’m 9 books behind in my reading goal for the year.
To catch up, I can either stop trying new things or stop sleeping! I don’t see either happening, so maybe I’ll just pick up a few books that are short. To clarify, I consider around 200 pages to be a short book.
In January, I included a checklist of books to read. Not specific books, but books that fall into certain parameters. I decided that each book can only count for one check. Otherwise, I’d be halfway done with my measly 8 books.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – A great book. It is a Newbery Award Winner.
Night – Also a great book. I didn’t know it was a series and my find the rest of the books. It was translated from Yiddish.
The Light in the Ruins – This was an okay story. I felt it dragged a bit. I switched from paper to audio in order to finish the book. The book is based in Italy.
Jane Eyre – While I enjoyed the story, I felt Mr. Rochester spoke for lengths for no reason, really, all the characters did. This book is beyond 100 years older than me.
A Little Princess – I loved the movie with Shirley Temple and when it showed up as an audio book, I had to give it a go. There are similarities, but the book is a pinch better. I was considering this my classic, but I fear it may be from the wrong century.
The Magicians – I almost don’t want to admit I read this book. Ugh. I kept hoping it would get better. For now it’s my sci-fi novel, but it may be replaced.
The Astounding Broccoli Boy – A great young adult book about a boy who turns green and befriends his bully. Oh, and it takes place in London, which is an island.
The Night Circus – The story is a little twisty-turvy with its plot, but I enjoyed it none-the-less. The book refused to conform to any parameters on the list.
I may need to be a little more particular about choosing books to make certain I complete the list.
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Maturi Venkat Sridhar (2 August 1966 – 30 October 2017) was an Indian first-class cricketer. He represented Hyderabad between 1988/89 and 1999/00, making 6701 runs at 48.91 with 21 hundreds. His highest score of 366 was the cornerstone for Hyderabad when they posted the record breaking total of 944/6 (declared) against Andhra in the 1993–94 Ranji Trophy. While Sridhar was batting, 850 runs were scored - the most runs added during a batsman's innings in first-class history. He was the secretary of MVSR Engineering College in Hyderabad.
On 30 October 2017, Sridhar suffered a heart attack at his home. He was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
^ "In Memoriam 2017". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
^ Acharya, Shayan. "Sridhar and the memories of 944". sportstarlive.com. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
^ Frindall, Bill (1998). The Wisden Book of Cricket Records (Fourth ed.). London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 0747222037.
^ "MV Sridhar passes away aged 51". Wisden India. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^ "Former Hyderabad cricketer MV Sridhar passes away". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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Why does every open mic club have Golden Tee? Golden Tee reminds me of where standup comedy sits on the food chain -- bounce a check to the karaoke guy, you're left with comedy and video games.
Well, at least I don't work in radio. That would drive me to drink the bad Kool-Aid.
The new host shows up. He doesn't have my name on the list. Thank you, Higher Power. I prefer the sleep.
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According to source repository log, Polar Navy applications just quietly turned 2 years old. Much has been done and achieved since. However, we are still very much a “work in progress” and a lot of work lies ahead.
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Planets behave as benefics and malefics depending on the houses they own. The ownership would naturally vary from one lagna to the other. In other words, for a give lagna, certain planets will behave as a benefics while others will behave as malefics or neutrals. This will be independant of their inherent nature. Planets thus are subservient to the lagna. On the basis of the principles discussed hereunder, a natural benefic may assume the role of a malefic while a natural malefic may assume a benefic role.
(a) Natural benefics as lords of quadrants (houses 1,4, 7 and 10) shed their beneficence.
(b) Natural malefics as lords of quadrants shed their malefics nature.
(1) Natural benefics are the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus; natural malefics are the Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu.
(2) Lordship of quadrants has a neutralising influence on the nature of planets. The natural benefics thus lose the capacity to give benefic results, while the natural malefics lose their capacity to do harm.
(3)Only the ownership of quadrants does not convert benefics into malefics, and vice versa.
(c) Lords of trines (houses 1, 5 and 9) give benefic results no matter whether by their inherent nature they are benefics or malefics.
Note : Lord of the lagna is both the lord of a quadrant and a trine. it is thus supposed to give benefic results irrespective of it’s inherent nature.
(d) Lords of the third, the sixth and the eleventh houses are always malefic.
(e) Lords of the second, the eighth and the twelfth houses behave as neutrals. They give results according to their location as well as association.
Note : Lords of the 2nd, 8th and 12th houses are impressionable neutrals.
(a) Of the lords of the quadrants, the 4th lord is more powerful than the lagna lord; the 7th lord is more powerful than the 4th lord; and the 10th lord is more powerful than the 7th lord.
(b) Of the trine lords, the 5th lord is more powerful than the lagna lord, while the 9th lord is more powerful than the 5th lord.
(c) Of the 3, 6, 11 group, the sixth lord is more powerful than the 3rd lord while the 11th lord is more so than the 6th lord.
(d) Of the 2, 8, 12 group, the 12th lord is more powerful than the 2nd, while the 8th lord is more so than the 12th.
The lord of the 8th house, though considered a neutral, has a special propensity to do evil. The eighth house represents obstructions, obstacles, failures, intrigues, ailments, death and the like. The following points must be remembered while considering the 8th house.
(a) Eighth house is the 12th from 9th (indicating loss of Bhagya); hence its lord ie ever malefic.
(i) 12th house from lagna indicates loss. 12th house from any house indicates loss of that house. Since the 9th house stands for Bhagya (luck), virtues, pious deeds, religious inclinations, father, etc., the 12th from it (i.e., the 8th) indicates the loss of all these. Loss of fortune or luck is considered the biggest loss.
(ii) When the 8th lord is also lagna lord, the benefic nature of the lagna lordship prevails, and the 8th lord tends to behave as a benefic unless it is particularly afflicted or ill placed.
(b) The 8th lord is still more malefic when it also lords over the 3rd or the 11th house.
(i) For Pisces ascendant, Venus is the lord of the third and the 8th houses and is bad.
(ii) For Virgo ascendant, Mars is the lord of the third and the eighth houses and, therefore, adverse.
(iii) For Taurus ascendant, Jupiter is the lord of the 8th and the 11th houses, and is adverse.
(c) The eighth lord becomes a benefic when it also owns a trine.
(i) Jupiter and Mercury for Leo and Aquarius ascendants respectively own the 5th and 8th houses, and behave as benefics.
(ii) For Gemini ascendant, Saturn as the lord of the 8th house as well as the 9th house (a trine) does not become an outright benefic, and, according to the Bhavartha Ratnakara, gives mixed results only.
(d) The evil effects of the 8th house lordship do not apply to the Sun or the Moon.
Note : The Moon is the 8th lord for Sagttarius ascendant, and the Sun for Capricorn ascendant. According to the sage Parashara, the Sun and the Moon remain un-afflicted by the 8th house lordship. This, however, may not hold true in actual practice, at least in medical astrology.
(a) When a planet owns both a quadrant and a trine, it becomes particularly useful and is called a Raja-yoga-karaka (doer of great benefit). It gives additional benefit if it is also located in a quadrant or a trine.
(i) Mars for Cancer and Leo ascendants, Venus for Capricorn and Aquarius ascendants, and Saturn for Taurus and Libra ascendants, become Yoga-karakas because of the ownership of a trine and a quadrant.
(ii) Some people doubt the efficacy of Saturn as a benefic for Taurus ascendant despite its ownership of the 9th and the 10th houses (a trine and a quadrant respectively). This is because the 9th lord is considered a Badhaka (an obstructing agent) for a fixed lagna like Taurus. This , however, is not the view of Parashara which is more authentic.
(b) Only the ownership of a quadrant does not convert a malefic into a benefic. The malefic must also own a trine to completely shed its malevolence.
Note : Saturn, as the lord of the 10th and the 11th houses for Aries ascendant, as lord of the 3rd and the 4th houses for Scorpio ascendant, and as the lord of the 6th and the 7th houses for Leo ascendant, remains a malefic despite owning a quadrant in each case.
(c) The blemish of kendra lordship (ownership of quadrants), as applicable to benefics, increases progressively from the Moon, to Mercury, to Jupiter, to Venus.
(d) Full Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, in this order, are progressively more powerful as benefics.
(e) Waning Moon, the Sun, Saturn and Mars, in this order, are progressively more powerful as malefics.
(a) By location in the same house (conjunction).
(c) By an exchange of houses (Parivartana Yoga).
(d) When one of them is placed in the other’s house and this latter aspects the former.
Note : When the lords of quadrants and trines are related in one of the ways indicated above, they still do not produce a Raja yoga if they also own the Papasthanas (adverse houses), i.e., houses 3, 6 and 11.
(a) Rahu and Ketu give results according to the house where they are located, and according to the planet (i.e., the lord of a house) whom they join.
(ii) When they are placed in a trine, and join a quadrant lord.
(c) Rahu also behaves as Saturn and Ketu also as Mars.
Houses 6, 8 and 12 are known as Trika houses. While these houses, their lords, as well as the planets that associate with these houses and their lords are productive of adverse results, they are particularly adverse in relation to health. The sixth house and the sixth lord, among other things, indicate disease and accidents. The eighth house and the eighth lord indicate chronic disease, incurable disease, or death. The twelfth house and its lord indicate suffering and also hospitalisation. The dasha periods of the planets associated with these houses and their lords must be carefully watched for determining illness.
Because of the dual ownership Rasis by planets, a planet placed in a particular house as lord of one house may be good, but bad as lord of the other house.
This is the third important parameter to remember.
Let us see the example horoscope to make things clear.
Remember the house counting is done from the lagna, which is the 1st house.
Lagna is Capricorn. Lord of the Lagna Saturn is placed in Cap in his Own House.
Lord of the 2nd House Aqu is Sat is placed in his own House Cap. Lord of the 3rd Pisces is Jup and is placed in Cap in the Lagna and is in Debil. But as Sat is in Lagna Kendra and Mar is in a Kendra from Moon Jup gets Neecha Bhanga and gives Auspicious results. 4th House is Aries and its Lord Mars is in the 8th House in Leo. Mars in the 5th House in Navamsa reduces the malefic effect and gives Neutral results. 5th House is Tau and Lord Venus is in the 6th in Gemini. His dispositor Merc is exalted in Virgo in the Navamsa. Lord of the 7th Moon is in Exaltation in Tau in the 5th House. He give very good results in his Dasa Bhukti. Lord of the 8th House Sun is placed in the 7th Kendra, hence does not give inauspicious results. Lord of the 9th Virgo is Merc and I placed in the 7th Kendra and is in exaltation in the Navamsa. This gives Rajayoga results. Lord of the 10th Libra [House of Profession] is Ven which is placed in the 6th House.[ House of Service] The dispositor of Venus is Merc which is exalted in Navamsa. So this gives the Profession a lift from Humble background to a highest position in his own right.
The Lord of the 11th is Vrischika is Mars which is placed in the 8th in Leo . His dispositor Sun is placed in the 7th Kendra in the Rasi and 5th Trine in the Navamsa and is on his way to Exaltation Sign Capricorn in the Navamsa. Hence Mars gives auspicious results. As a matter of fact the Houses 2nd ,8th and 12th Houses are Nuetral and will get modified with respect to its placing.
Lords of 1,5,9 houses are always benefics.
Lords of 4, 7, 10 houses if placed in auspicious houses produce good results.
Lords of 6, 8, 12 house if placed in 6, 8, or 12 houses produce good results but are bad if placed in the good houses.
2nd and 11th lords are better placed in the auspicious houses.
When two or more planets are placed in a house, it is called the conjunction of planets. The results of these conjunctions of planets will depend on whether they are benefics or malefics from the lagna point of view. The conjunction of the Kendra lords or the Kona lords or the Kendra or Kona lords is highly auspicious. These are called Raja yoga combinations. The Raja yoga combinations give rise to authority, power, position and wealth. However, if a dusthana lord. i.e., 6th, 8th or 12th lord joins them it spoils the rajayogas.
When two planets exchange houses, i.e., let us say Mars is in Venus house and Venus in in Mars house, it is called Parivartana Yoga or Exchange Yoga. The Parivartana Yoga is a very powerful one. The Parivartana Yoga becomes auspicious if the exchange is between two auspicious houses, i.e., between the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th houses. Similarly if two dusthana lords, i.e., 6th, 8th and 12th, exchange houses then also it is auspicious. However, if a benefic house lord exchanges houses with a malefic house lord, like 9th lord with the 12th lord, then the exchange is inauspicious.
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Establishing habits over a lifetime is worthwhile. Through them we can nurture community, wildlife and relationships. By supporting each other in our contribution – whatever that looks like – we can align with nature.
Whether you’re wielding axe, pen, brush or trowel – happy making!
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Now this is not quite how the bible story goes, but these are the sentiments of the British government as expressed in the House of Lords this week, courtesy of the Foreign Office Minister Baroness Anelay. So, Britain can afford tax cuts for the rich, but it can’t afford to rescue refugees running away from the multitudinous conflicts taking place all over the world (some of which we have had a hand in). It can afford to focus its attention on countries of origin and transit, and take steps to fight the people-smugglers who put lives at risk. But it point blank refuses to pay for helpless people to be pulled out of the water.
I’m wondering this Sunday evening which part of the bible members of the Conservative party read when it comes to issues like this. Could it be the section talking about sowing and reaping? I doubt it, because this looks mighty like that part of the bible where Pharoah observes the burgeoning numbers of the Hebrew tribe and right there and then, decides to drown the lot of them. Only he keeps himself at a distance as it were, promulgating the propaganda (sounds an awful lot like Nigel Farage) and leaving the rest of them to get on with it. The combined efforts of the Italian navy and coast guard have saved over 150,000 men, women and children attempting the perilous crossing from the coasts of North Africa this year so far. That’s almost 200,000 lives that would have wound up rotting at the bottom of an ocean had the Italian government not examined its consciense and intervened.
The Arab Spring has now degenerated into a brutal Arab Winter, the political vacuum created by hopes for democratic rule have been filled by fundamentalist regimes. And we can only look on in horror as ‘Extremistan’ comes to the Middle East. Western journalists and aid workers are kidnapped (because they supposedly represent the oppressive forces of the west). Put on screen (via YouTube), and then beheaded whilst a jihadist presents his intellectual justifications for each murder in impeccable English. Such psychotic behaviour should make people think twice about joining up with these extreme ‘Islamic freedom’ fighters. But conversely, the number of people travelling from the West to Syria is surpassing those who turned up in Afghanistan.
An extraordinary Jihadi recruitment process is taking place in U.S, France, Belgium, Netherlands, U.K, Germany, South Asia, Africa & Austrailia. With people from more than 57 nations now taking part in the Syrian war. YouTube & Twitter & Facebook accounts encouraging people to join the jihad and talking about the beauty of being a jihadi, abound. The seductive draw is such that it is possible to wave your child off to University one minute, and find that they’ve travelled out to join ISIS the next. The reported total of Britons killed in the conflict now stands at 25. With the most notable case being that of three brothers, two of whom aged 17 and 18 years respectively, have died in Syria,in the past year. The third son, refuses to return home to his family stating that,’he was praying for his ending to be the best martyrdom in the front lines’. The whole world is supposed to believe that this is what espousing Islamic beliefs is all about, not family, not the care of parents and especially not the protection of women and children, just this obsessive and inevitably nihilistic jihad.
Is there a moral imperative for jihadists to hide behind? Well yes, Assad has slaughtered his citizens with chemical weapons, starvation sieges and the onslaughts of his soldiers on the ground, civilians have needed to take up arms. 9.3 million Syrians are refugees in other countries, the majority of them are refugees in their own country and those who have left the country count themselves lucky to be alive. Russia, Iran and Hezbollah could use their influence as allies of Assad to nudge him towards negotiations with some of his more moderate opponents. But, neither Assad or his opponents are battle fatigued, and then there is the problematic emergence of ‘the state of ISIS’.
Iraq has experienced violence within the country since 2003 but they have experienced nothing like ISIS, who have emerged as a potent force within Iraq’s borders, flying in the face of all political rationality. They are not indigenous citizens whose grass roots work in Syria or Iraq has given them a military and political mandate. They are not the product of the disaffection of a political or military elite. Supposedly a religious order, with the weaponry to back up the creation of their ‘Caliphate’, they have a military strategy that is working in the midst of the chaos that has been wrought by both the Iraq war and the Syrian civil war.
Their Islamic beliefs are simplistic, straight down the line and highly attractive to all those who aren’t Christian, secular Muslims, moderate Muslims, liberated women, gay or espousing the values of the west. Ironically, it is believed by some western analysts that sooner or later there is bound to be an uprising against the fanaticism of ISIS. But they’re forgetting how reassuringly welcome even a harsh caliphate can seem, in the face of despotic oppression and social anarchy.
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This article is about the capital of Guinea-Bissau. For the town in Rajasthan, India, see Bissau, Rajasthan.
After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the rebel territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, while Bissau remained the colonial capital. When Portugal granted independence, following the military coup of April 25 in Lisbon, Bissau became the capital of the new independent state.
Bissau was the scene of intense fighting during the beginning and end of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War in 1998 and 1999.
Bissau is located at 11°52' North, 15°36' West (11.86667, -15.60) , on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean. The land surrounding Bissau is extremely low-lying, and the river is accessible to ocean-going vessels despite its modest discharge for about 80 kilometres (50 mi) beyond the city.
Bissau has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), not quite wet enough to qualify as a tropical monsoon climate (Am) but much wetter than most climates of its type.
Almost no rain falls from December to April, but during the remaining five months of the year the city receives around 2,020 millimetres (80 in) of rain. During the wet season and even during the three months beforehand, high humidity makes heat discomfort extreme.
At the 1979 census, Bissau had a population of 109,214. By the 2015 census Bissau had a population of 492,004.
Bissau is the country's largest city, major port, educational, administrative and military center. Peanuts, hardwoods, copra, palm oil, and rubber are the chief products. The airport that serves Bissau is Osvaldo Vieira International Airport.
Attractions include the Portuguese-built Fortaleza de São José da Amura barracks from the 18th century, containing Amílcar Cabral's mausoleum, the Pidjiguiti Memorial to the dockers killed in the Bissau Dockers' Strike on August 3, 1959, the Guinea-Bissau National Arts Institute, Bissau New Stadium and local beaches.
Many buildings in the city were ruined during the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–1999), including the Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace and the Bissau French Cultural Centre (now rebuilt), and the city centre is still underdeveloped.
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^ "GUINEA-BISSAU - BISSAU". Centro de Investigaciones Fitosociológicas. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
^ "Bissau Climate Guide". Centro de Investigaciones Fitosociológicas. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
^ "ESCOLAS COM CURRÍCULO PORTUGUÊS NA GUINÉ-BISSAU" (Archive). Direção de Serviços de Ensino e Escolas Portuguesas no Estrangeiro (DSEEPE) of the Portuguese Education Ministry. Retrieved on October 26, 2015.
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Lobban, Richard Andrew, Jr.; Mendy, Peter Karibe (1997). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 91–96. ISBN 0-8108-3226-7.
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Old Oscott (originally Oscott) is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England (previously in the parish of Handsworth, Staffordshire). The suburb forms a triangle bounded to the north by Pheasey, to the west by Perry Beeches, and to the east by Kingstanding. The Birmingham City Council ward that covers the area is called simply Oscott.
The area has been known locally as "Old" Oscott since St. Mary's College, the Roman Catholic seminary, moved to a new site in an area that became known as New Oscott.
The area was mostly developed between 1920 and 1960, with a mix of both private and council housing.
Old Oscott F.C. takes its name from the area.
This page was last edited on 5 March 2017, at 07:37 (UTC).
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The play that kicked this all off was The Last 5 Years. It’s one of my favourite plays – a song cycle with an innovative structure that follows the doomed relationship of a couple in their mid twenties living in New York. Written by Jason Robert Brown and first staged off-Broadway in 2002, it was based on his failed first marriage, and has since been performed all over the world, acquiring somewhat of a cult following amongst musical theatre fans.
The play starts with a song from Cathy at the end of their 5 years together, and then the songs alternate between her and her partner Jamie – she progressing backwards through their time together and he going from start to finish. They only meet once, in the middle song, and the accompaniment for all of the songs causes them to bleed into each other, leaving a seemless transition from one to the next. There is certainly no time for applause in between numbers, let alone for the actors to rest their voices, in what must be a hugely demanding show to perform, running for 80 minutes with no interval and minimal straight speech.
The Tabard staged it interestingly – the tiny 80 seater theatre above a pub in Turnham Green is the perfect setting for such an intimate show – with the stage split in two, digital photos on the back wall lighting up/extinguishing as each character progressed through their story. It looked good and worked well, although by not moving into each other’s space the characters seemed more disconnected than in other productions I have seen, where their proximity really highlighted the tragedy of whichever character’s early excitement is being expressed.
In such a song-heavy show the singing voices have to be faultless, and Lauren Samuels (of Over the Rainbow fame) was astonishing. Note perfect and achieving the balance of vulnerability, neediness and optimism that made her Cathy sympathetic rather than the whiny that can sometimes be the result, she completely blew my socks off. This girl is without doubt one to watch.
The trouble with the 2-man play is that comparing the two leads can’t be helped, and unfortunately Samuels’ co-star came away as the definite loser. An understudy for Christopher Pym whose name I can’t even find, he did a stirling job of getting through (god knows how understudies stay motivated when there isn’t even a chorus part) and undoubtedly warmed up as he went, but his Jamie came across as smarmy, his performance was a little shaky at times and his voice just couldn’t live up to Samuels’ high standard. It’s particularly upsetting to see an actor forget his lines… however this may well have been lost on members of the audience with a lower lever of ‘L5Y’ geekery… and certainly didn’t drag down the whole show.
I came away feeling my favourite music theatre glow and extremely impressed with both the theatre and lead actress. Unfortunately the run ended this week, but keep an eye out for Samuels and future productions at the Tabard – both gained strong recommendations as a result of this performance.
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5) Now comes the motion blur.
10) Create a new transparent layer.
Get out your gradient tool. Make the gradient go from foreground to transparent and drag it from the bottom to the top. (You can use a bright color so you can see the gradient easier).
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Make sure you have the layer with you lines selected now.
Go back to your image.
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So, here we go. This is the first post of new blog. Over the spring and summer of 2013 I’ll be following in the footsteps of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) across Albania.
Created by Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”, in Albania SOE only ever managed to create a small puff of acrid smoke. Here, I’ll be exploring why – and exploring the spectacular mountains and valleys where SOE’s agents operated.
I was introduced to the subject by my friend Elton Caushi of Albaniantrip. I was staying in Tirana, at his charming Villa With Star (a corner of a 1930s villa, now surrounded by tower blocks and with an uncertain future), when he handed me a copy of Roderick Bailey’s The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle. I was then pretty much out of circulation for 24 hours. It is a quite incredible story, brilliantly told by Bailey, with a tragic sign-off. Could SOE have been responsible for the 40 years of Communist dictatorship that followed the war? Bailey, after carefully sifting the evidence, reckons not, but till their deaths many of the BLOs (British Liaison Officers) who served in Albania were convinced otherwise.
Postscript aside, it’s certainly doubtful that SOE’s activities in Albania shortened the war by even a minute. What can’t be doubted, however, is the bravery of the men who dropped in by parachute, or slipped across the Adriatic, dodging German E-Boats, by night.
To my mind, the story of SOE in Albania can be split into four parts. First, the period up to April 1943, with the only activity on the ground being an ill-conceived 1941 mission led by Dayrell Oakley-Hill, one of King Zog’s ex-gendarmes, who was soon forced to surrender to the Germans and spent the next two-and-a-half-years as a prisoner-of-war. Second, Major Neil “Billy” McLean’s and David Smiley’s misspelled CONCENSUS mission, from April to October ’43. Third, October ’43 to February ’44 – Brigadier EF “Trotsky” Davies’ SPILLWAY mission, culminating in his wounding and capture by the Germans and the death of his second-in-command, Arthur Nicholls (who remains the only member of the Coldstream Guards to be awarded the George Cross). The fourth and final part runs from April ’44 to 1945 and war’s end, when the true nature of the Hoxha regime was becoming clear, and the bitter recriminations among BLOs began.
I say “final”, but in truth there was an unsatisfactory epilogue – a bizarre and amateurish joint MI6/CIA attempt to oust Hoxha in the late Forties and early Fifties. Roderick Bailey promises to turn his attention to this story in due course – I can’t wait.
The main focus of this blog will be Part Three – the winter of 1943/44. Why? The 70th anniversary is coming up, for one thing. For another, the area of Albania where most of the action took place – the mountains to the east of Tirana – is remarkably unspoiled and just a delight to explore. Key to the story is Illyrian Venture, the postwar memoir by Brig Davies. It’s an incomplete tale, which glosses over some key facts (of which more later). But when read alongside the mission diary kept by Nicholls, which Roderick Bailey managed to unearth in his research and is now available to view in the Imperial War Museum in London, and various documents held in the National Archives which have only recently been declassified (some files are still closed), a clear picture of events does begin to emerge.
There’ll be more of this sort of thing over the coming months, along with (hopefully) useful travel advice for anyone visiting Albania.
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Saggy, upholstered dining room chairs often only require new webbing to make them like new again. The jute webbing gives the seat its firmness by providing a sturdy yet flexible base for the cushion and fabric. Old webbing may stretch or tear, resulting in a lumpy and uncomfortable chair. You can replace the webbing but use the same upholstery if you like, or update the entire chair with new fabric that matches your decor.
Remove the old chair seat from the chair frame. Depending on the construction, the seat may require gentle tapping on the underside to pop it out, or you may need to remove nails or screws holding it in place.
Pull out the staples or tacks holding the old upholstery in place. Strip off the layers of fabric, padding and burlap covering to reveal the old jute webbing. Remove the tacks holding the old webbing and strip them from the seat frame.
Fold under the end of a length of jute and staple it to the edge of the seat frame. Stretch the jute taut to the opposite side of the seat. Set the padded or blunt end of a webbing tool against the side of the frame and hook the taut webbing over the sharp end of the tool to hold it in place tightly. Staple the jute to the opposite side of the chair and trim the excess. Add additional rows of webbing, leaving 1/2 inch between each length, until you reach the other side of the frame.
Staple a length of jute perpendicular to the initial horizontal rows of jute webbing. Weave the webbing over and under the horizontal rows until you reach the opposite side. Tighten and hold the jute in place with the webbing tool. Attach additional rows of jute side by side, weaving them into the horizontal rows. Tighten, staple and trim each row of webbing when you reach the opposite side of the seat frame.
Trace the seat frame onto a piece of burlap. Cut the burlap 1 inch larger on all sides than the frame. Lay the burlap over the top of the frame and fold the edges under the frame. Staple the burlap to the underside of the frame, pulling it taut as you staple.
Cut a foam pad to the same dimensions as the seat frame, or use the old pad if it's still in good condition. Set the pad on the frame and cover it with a piece of cotton fabric. Wrap the fabric to the underside of the frame, pulling it tight, and staple it in place. Trim the excess fabric.
Trace the frame shape onto a piece of heavy upholstery fabric. Add 1 inch plus the height of the cushion pad to each side of the fabric, and then cut it out. Lay the fabric over the seat, wrapping the raw edges to the underside of the frame. Fold under the raw edges and staple the fabric in place, pulling it taut as you work around the frame.
Set the reupholstered seat on top of the chair. Reattach it using the same method originally used to hold it in place.
Trim the edge of the seat with brass or silver upholstery nails, or glue fabric or ribbon trim around the edge to dress up the chair. Glue-on trim can also disguise minor wrinkles or unwanted folds that occurred during reupholstering.
Harrington, Jenny. "How to Reupholster a Dining Room Chair With Jute Webbing." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/reupholster-dining-room-chair-jute-webbing-101525.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.
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2019-04-22T23:11:31Z
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https://homeguides.sfgate.com/reupholster-dining-room-chair-jute-webbing-101525.html
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2019-04-26T07:49:17Z
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https://nycwebsites123.wordpress.com/tag/website-maintenance/
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newgrounds
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Hello! I like to watch anime, read manga and play video games. ovo I also like to make cute art so that is pretty much what I do. Yup.
Wake up the computer and access the internet.
Kill the zombie locked in the computer lab.
Bad hip-hop to describe bad classes.
Young Link meets Zelda for the first time.
On the brink of suicide, a teenager looks back at his mundane week.
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2019-04-25T00:16:57Z
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https://lilheart.newgrounds.com/
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Porn
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Computers
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tripod
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Clown 1: "My Dad is Bigger than your dad."
Clown 2: "My Father's bigger than the universe."
Clown 1 "My dad's rich."
Clown 2: "My Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills."
Clown 1: "At my dad's work, he has 30 people who have to answer to him."
Clown 2: "The winds and the waves obey my Father."
Clown 1; "My dad can beat up the meanest, toughest guy around."
Clown 2: "My Father has the power to turn your fathers life around."
Clown 1: "My dad buys me the neatest gifts."
Clown 2: "With my Father, I have need of nothing."
Clown 1: "My dad spends so much time with me when it's possible."
Clown 2: My Father never leaves me."
Clown 1: "All right, you win, I can't top that one. "
Clown 2: "No, we both win."
Clonw 1: "How do you figure?
Clown 2: "Well, that's the best thing about my Heavenly Father, He can be your Father, too!!!"
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2019-04-18T17:50:46Z
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http://polkadoddy.tripod.com/dad.html
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tripod
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Willie really needs to take better care of his Wheeler !! That's Tugg Hill diallect, for quad.
Jimmy Booterbaugh is always digging for something. Its like a womans purse in there!!!!!
What can I say , Rich was looking at this mud pit and just could not wait any longer.
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2019-04-25T05:55:03Z
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http://pmatvc.tripod.com/id26_m.htm
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Oh my gosh, time is FLYING by.
I had such a wonderful time on my trip. It was nice and relaxing and full of good food and amazing friends. I came back feeling all filled up...know what I mean?
But this morning I already made rice in the rice cooker, roasted red potatoes and onions with some dill (smells soooo good) and cooked some gorgeous green beans so all that is ready to go for next week. I also have looked up recipes for baked grapefruit and parmesan roasted broccoli, which I will make next week.
I also impulse-bought an ice cream maker and it will be delivered tonight and tomorrow I'll try that out.
So excited to see that American Pharaoh won the triple crown! In 1978, I was six year sold and remember hearing about it. I went through a horse-obsessed phase and remember reading every horse book I could get my hands on, many of which talked about the amazingness of winning all three races. So, it's like a dream come true to witness that feat accomplished again, so many years later. Cool stuff!
spn_j2_bigbang starts posting TOMORROW! I barely can believe it.
SO EXCITED to see Jared at the Gilmore Girls reunion yesterday! I was never into the show though I have, of course, watched the episodes with Jared in them. He looked rough but amazing. So happy to see him out and about again. Hopefully he's enjoying his time off.
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2019-04-20T04:29:50Z
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https://wendy.livejournal.com/2227955.html
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wordpress
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Like most metal workers, I have a love-hate relationship with steel. It is heavy, dirty and loud to work with. Welding involves all kinds of hazards and assaults to the body: burns, cuts, and metal slivers, the fumes of welding and the dust from the resin-bonded grinding disc. I have tinnitus from years of grinding metal and a piece of titanium in my wrist, surgically implanted after a drilling accident. In the winter, my shop is freezing and it’s a constant battle between turning the fan on or conserving what heat there is.
Oh, yes, I wear safety gear—when I can stand it: safety glasses, ear protectors, welding helmet, face shield, respirator and an assortment of gloves. It’s a constant on-off-on-off and not everything is compatible; hearing protectors don’t fit under a welding helmet, respirators fog up the safety glasses, and gloves make certain fine task impossible. None of it is comfortable.
So, at times, I hate what I love. Like yesterday when my task was to clean the mill scale off of a 1,000 pounds of mild steel for a new sculpture in my Landforms series. Mill scale is a hard, black crust on the steel that comes from the heating and cooling of the production process. It actually protects it for a while but is a poor surface to paint over and, thus has to be removed. It is so hard that it resists sanding and it has to be sand blasted or removed with acid. I don’t have a blasting set-up so I am stuck the latter.
Steel is a poorly understood material. Everyone knows it is hard and strong but what they probably don’t know is that its strength comes from its malleability. It bends before it breaks and it can easily be persuaded to take on new forms. The most misunderstood aspect is the oxidation process. Oxidation, like combustion, is the combination of oxygen with the fuel material, in this case iron. Usually it is slow, but with enough heat and a jet of oxygen, the steel actually burns—which is how torch cutting works. So, while steel is strong and versatile, it also has this transient quality; when metal work leaves the shop, the goal is to have some permanent coating on it so that it doesn’t rust away, but, left alone, it will go through an organic transformation with moments of beauty so fleeting that few of us get to fully appreciate it.
One of my Landforms sculpture groupings with a slowly rusting waxed surface.
To remove the mill scale I wash it with acid (a process that involves a kiddy-pool). In doing so I expose the soft underbelly of the plates and get to witness this instant transformation of the patina. There are subtle greens, magentas and yellows, like a color-field painting. Once I rinse the metal, it instantly starts to burn with soft orange haze of rust. It is hard to describe and harder to photograph. It is at this point that I wish I could hold it, but I can’t. Sometimes I try by using a wax finish, but for outdoor works in public display, a slowly rusting finish just doesn’t fly. People want control and permanence. They expect steel to hold fast against the elements and for surface to be predictable. They will never see the soft, delicate, fleeting surface of the steel that I love.
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2019-04-24T23:59:17Z
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https://roblichtblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/for-the-love-of-steel/
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Arts
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salon
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The Saddelback pastor releases 3-graph statement about controversy surrounding his selection.
"I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony.
I poked around the Saddleback website while there, and I have to say there aren't any signs of grandstanding. In the community blog section or anywhere else, there are no references to Obama, at least that I could find. At one link there is a picture, among a group of pictures, of Warren with Obama and John McCain taken during their presidential sit-down event, but there's no gloating or self-promotion.
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2019-04-20T18:47:16Z
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https://www.salon.com/2008/12/19/warren_statement/
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In this edition of How To (X), the author of the blog will detail the inception and creation of an advertisement on the internet website Craigslist, whilst the whole time referring to himself in the third person.
The ad must not mention certain critical details. If the poster wishes to sell a car, for example, he or she must leave out the mileage, color, mention of previous wrecks, the condition of the interior, or any combination of all of these options.
The ad must contain several misspelling and blatant grammatical errors. The author has observed several advertisements that do not contain errors, and he is certain that no positive conclusion shall result. Make liberal misuse of homonyms.
When taking pictures to display your items, make certain that the images do not represent the true nature of the goods. Preferably, use a camera phone to capture the images, and never frame the image from a flattering angle. The display of damaged portions is left up to the poster’s discretion, but the author highly recommends the omission of such images.
When crafting the wording of the title, consider inserting random acronyms and meaningless phrases. Be sure to transpose a few letters in a word or two!
If you are so brave as to include a video, record the footage with a low-quality camera, and be sure to turn off any image stabilization–this will ensure thatt he image meets Craigslist’s strict quality guidelines.
Never post the actual price of anything. Insert a few periods into the price to confuse the buyer: $3.50.0.00.
If your post fits perfectly into a set catagory, be sure to place it elsewhere on the site.
Save the negative aspects of your sale for last. Write them in small print near the bottom of the post.
The author has had a fair amount of experience with Craigslist, and he feels confident that these tips will aid in the production of a successful sale ad. The rules for a wanted ad differ slightly. In fact, they are altogether different.
A wanted ad must be incredibly complex; use as many obsolete phrases as possible.
To weed out the disinterested, increase the volume of the verbiage to substantial levels.
Double and triple check the ad to ensure that no typos or grammatical errors are present.
If possible, employ the use of a rhetorical fallacy, such as a parade of horrors.
Feeling that these suggestion will prove invaluable, the author offers a kind “you’re welcome” to all of the “thank you”s that are certain to come flowing in.
This entry was posted in How-To's and tagged Cars, Craigslist, Ebay, Grammar, Satire, Satirical, Selling, Selling On The Internet, Shtuff, Thrift, Writing.
I had three things that I really loved when I was a kid: my sock monkey, my Lab, and my Legos. As I got older, the sock monkey fell apart and the Lab got lazy. My Legos, though, never failed me. Needless to say, I really like Legos. Even now that I’m in college, I have Legos sitting on my dorm room’s windowsill, and I’m super-excited about the upcoming release of the Lord of the Rings Legos. I must say that I’m proud of Lego for bringing back the old-style sets like City and Space. Here’s a list of the top ten things to do with Legos.
Crasher Cars — This was one of my favorite games that I used to play with my friends (Jeff and Josh). The first step is for each player to build a vehicle of some sort. A Lego minifigure is placed in the car, but he has to be visible. The cars are then propelled towards each other with great force. The goal is to have your minifigure still attached to the largest chuck of Lego pieces, you get a bonus if your car doesn’t break. You get parent bonuses if you don’t break anything in the house.
Ships/Boats — Lego has always had some really cool nautical sets with boats that actually float. Legos always improved any childhood bathing experience. I don’t recommend this for older children; college-aged student playing with Legos in the shower is a bit strange.
Flying Devices — I must admit, the aerodynamics of the spaceships, planes, and other flying devices that I built were not always the greatest, but I had some cool looking spaceships! With guns. Lots and lots of guns.
Cranes — I had a thing for winches, pulleys, and rope. I really liked those little hand-cranked Lego winches; they have to be one of my favorite pieces. I was always making and improving crane designs.
Minifigure Armies — Like any boy, I really loved playing war. My Legos didn’t often escape the conflicts that raged through my room and house. The minifigures were often conscripted into armies made up of all sorts of toys, imaginary and real. Unfortunately for me, my parents frowned upon the use of explosives–a rule my minifigures were most thankful for.
Star Wars — Star Wars Legos have to be some of the best Legos ever produced. From the tiny lightsaber duel sets to the massive “collector” level models of Blockade Runners and Star Destroyers, Lego really put a lot of effort into the plastic re-creations of the cult-classic film series. Join the dark side, we have awesome plastic stormtroopers.
Movie Reenactment — I never actually filmed any of the movies that we reenacted, but I know that we did recreate a lot of movie scenes with Legos. Sure, they might have featured divers as soldiers and police minifigures as shop owners, but I’m sure the critics over-looked those minor details.
Castles/Buildings — I really like castles and medieval times, so castles were always a favorite construction project. Of course, the best part of building any castle is the destruction. Many different demolition methods were used, often consisting of catapults and rampant time-traveling motor vehicles.
Lightsabers — I know I already mentioned Star Wars, but I think lightsabers are important enough to be in a category of their own. The multi-colored translucent rods are some of the simplest and best Lego weapons.
Robotics — Finally, I have to mention Lego Mindstorms. Used even today in high schools and college engineering programs, these kits are really cool. My school uses them along with a professional data analysis program for introductory programming and data acquisition projects.
That’s just a taste of some of the things that you can do with Legos. I’d love to hear some of your favorite Lego-related stories. I’ll leave you with this video of an awesome Lego Rube-Goldberg machine.
This entry was posted in Slightly Serious and tagged Buildings, Cars, College, Demolition, Film, Legos, Lightsabers, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Movies, Robotics, Star Wars, Top Ten, Toys.
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2019-04-26T16:18:35Z
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https://xanthuskidd.wordpress.com/tag/cars/
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Porn
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Shopping
| 0.883428 |
wordpress
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These places are alway buzzing with people, but I can’t figure out why. This is an old-school coffee-house, one of several in San Francisco. The three I’ve been to are all about the same, always dirty, and don’t talk to the hippies – they will either try to sell you something (because those trust funds just aren’t holding up in this economy anymore), or they’ll rope you into helping them find resolve for some deeply rooted childhood issue.
I came here for Wi-Fi and a bathroom and while ordering my decaf-drip I noticed that the Wi-Fi password is “bluefig” which is another, seemingly (haven’t been there) much more fancy café near by. I think what the Barista explained was that the owner of the Muddy Waters chain also owns Blue Fig. This guy has built an empire in coffee houses, not a bad thing; however, It seems to have triggered a more critical reaction in me. I’ve got nothing against a good stripped down, old-school, coffee-house, but the Zen, counter-top, fountain I’m sitting next to is full of stagnate, smelly water – either that, or something dead and rotting is near by.
The bathroom was disgusting and contained NO paper products at all, not even toilette paper. There is nothing classier than being buzzed into a dirty bathroom that probably only gets cleaned after every third or fourth homeless bath takes place there in – I’m going to speculate further to say that the barista controlled remote lock insures the homeless little access, and this clearly means the “john” sees very few buckets of bleach water. Furthermore, The “Hershey’s Kisses” stuck to the toilette’s water tank make me wonder if my assumptions about the meaning of Muddy Waters were correct, or if I was way off base.
This is why I’m not going to go into the coffee so much, but I will say this isn’t a bad decaf-drip. Its got a little body to it, and it isn’t weak. Points for that.
Refills: Don’t care – don’t want to be here too long.
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2019-04-22T20:50:04Z
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https://mikemikey.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/muddy-waters-coffee-house/
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Porn
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Recreation
| 0.843248 |
imdb
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Russell Howard and Clive Anderson make their first appearances on the show with new team captain Andy Parsons. Gina Yashere joins Hugh and Frankie's team.
Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle are joined by Ed Byrne, while Andy Parsons' team features Jo Brand and Robin Ince. Hosted by Dara O'Briain.
With new joint team captain Russell Howard and guest David Mitchell beside him, Andy Parsons takes on the team of Hugh Dennis, Frankie Boyle and Mark Watson.
How many episodes of Mock the Week have you seen?
A raunchy spoof edition of Countdown (1982) with the stars of 8 Out of 10 Cats (2005).
British comedian Russell Howard shares his views on the topical news of the previous week.
British television show with a comedy panel in the style of a pub quiz.
Comedy talk/game show in which celebrities present an argument for their pet hates in various categories to be banished forever to Room 101.
A comedy panel game in which being Quite Interesting is more important than being right. Sandi Toksvig is joined each week by four comedians to share anecdotes and trivia, and maybe answer some questions as well.
A game show where contestants aim to score the fewest points possible by guessing the least popular answers given by people in polls on various subjects.
A part-improvised comedy about a couple bringing up their three young children.
Hugh Dennis: [If this is the answer, what is the question: Up To 18 Months] How long does it take Abu Hamza to tie his shoelace?
Q: When will Monsoon Poultry Hospital restart?
This incredible programme that has been aired on the BBC over the past three years combines the hilarious satirical comedy of Have I Got News For You with the witty improvisational skills of Whose Line Is It Anyway? to create what is - in my opinion - the ultimate panel show - Mock the Week.
The regulars are some of the finest comedians in the country at this moment in time; Frankie Boyle is simply a comic master, generating hysterical laughter from his frequently funny cracks at the leaders of the country; Hugh Dennis is a very skilled impressionist who comes up with unbelievably quick improvisations; Andy Parsons is probably the best satirist on TV; and Russell Howard happens to be one of the brightestup-and-coming talents around.
David Mitchell, Ed Byrne and Jo Brand make regular appearances, and Dara O'Brian is the perfect presenter for a show of this quality.
Tune into Mock the Week next time it's on Dave or the BBC to watch the funniest thing you've ever seen. Trust me - you'll be dying with laughter.
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2019-04-19T18:38:54Z
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463827/
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a projection type display device having high use efficiency of light which does not require a polarizer, in which the optical axe of incident light in an optical modulator coincides with that of light emitted from the optical modulator, and which h as little rise in temperature of an element due to absorption of light and little loss in light quantity of the incident and emitted light. SOLUTION: Three light sources, R, G and B, are provided, and after beams are made to pass through lenses 86, 87 and 88, the beams are formed into parallel beams by a dichroic prism 89, then are made incident on an optical modulator. The optical modulator consists of three kinds of optical modulation elements corresponding to R, G and B, respectively. Each optical modulation element is an interference modulation (IMOD) element in which a translucent fixed layer part is opposed to a translucent movable film through airspace.
素子を使用する投影型表示装置に関する。 A projection type display apparatus using the device.
【従来の技術】従来のＣＲＴに変わる様々な表示装置が開発されてきている。 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION a variety of display devices to replace the conventional CRT have been developed. その例として、液晶表示装置、プラズマ表示装置、フィールドエミッションディスプレイ（ＦＥＤと称す）等がある。 As an example, a liquid crystal display device, a plasma display device, and the like field emission display (referred to as FED).
【０００３】なかでも液晶表示装置は、プラズマ表示装置やＦＥＤに比べ真空を用いる必要がなく、素子の構成及び製造が比較的容易であり、薄型化や小型化がしやすいメリットを生かし、ノート型コンピュータ用ディスプレイや、投影型表示装置用マイクロディスプレイとしての応用が盛んになされている。 Among these liquid crystal display devices, plasma display devices and there is no need to use a vacuum than in the FED, a relatively easy construction and manufacture of elements, taking advantage of thickness and size reduction is likely, notebook displays and computers, have been actively applied as microdisplay projection type display device. その反面、液晶表示装置においては、液晶層の前後に偏光板を設ける為に入射光量の少なくとも５０％以上が偏光板によりけられてしまい、入射光の利用効率が低いという課題がある。 On the other hand, in the liquid crystal display device, or at least 50% of the incident light intensity to which a polarizing plate is provided on the front and rear of the liquid crystal layer will be kicked by the polarizing plate, the utilization efficiency of the incident light is a problem that low. 光変調器の画素毎の開口率改善を図っても、射出光の取り出し効率が５０％を超えることはできない。 Even aim to improve the aperture ratio of each pixel of the light modulator, the extraction efficiency of the emitted light can not be more than 50%.
【０００４】高輝度化の要望はますます大きくなっており、液晶に変わる光利用効率の高い表示装置の開発が望まれている。 have become increasingly demand for high luminance increases, the development of light use varies in the liquid crystal efficient display device is desired.
【０００５】近年、上記要望に答えるように、液晶表示装置とは異なり干渉を用いる機械式光変調器の開発の取り組みがなされている。 Recently, to answer the above demands, development efforts mechanical optical modulator using Unlike interfere with the liquid crystal display device have been made. 干渉を利用した機械式光変調器は、半導体回路製造技術を利用し微小な可動機構を形成するマイクロメカニクス技術を用いて作製され、可動機構をマイクロメーターサイズに小型化することでアレイ化でき、さらに高速応答性を期待でき、表示装置への応用が可能となっている。 Mechanical optical modulator using interference is fabricated using micromechanics technique for forming a semiconductor circuit by using the manufacturing technology micro movable mechanism can be arrayed by downsizing the movable mechanism in micrometer size, further it can be expected to speed response, and can be applied to the display device. このような光変調器では偏光板が不用であることより、画素に占める変調部の開口率を向上することで入射光の高い利用効率を期待できることにある。 Than that such an optical modulator polarizing plate is unnecessary is to be expected with a high incident light utilization efficiency by improving the aperture ratio of the modulation unit occupying the pixel.
【０００６】干渉を利用する光学変調器の代表的な例を以下に説明する。 illustrating a typical example of an optical modulator that utilizes interference below.
０４−８０７）がある。 04-807) there is. これは、電圧を印加することで、ハーフミラーが基板側に移動し、基板側からの反射光がハーフミラーからの反射光と干渉し、これより反射光の明るさを変調するものである。 This, by applying a voltage to move the half mirror on the substrate side, the reflected light from the substrate side interferes with light reflected from the half mirror, it is to modulate the brightness of the reflected light from this.
ｄ ａｂｓｏｒｂｅｒを有する干渉型共振器との間での多重光束干渉により入射する多色光（自然光）の特定波長領域の光のみを反射しカラー表示を可能とするものである。 Polychromatic light incident due to multiple beam interference between the interferometric resonators with d absorber is intended to allow the reflected color display only light of a specific wavelength region (natural light).
Ｐａｔｅｎｔ Ｎｏ． Patent No. ４，４０３，２４８）が提案されている。 4,403,248) has been proposed.
【００１０】また、ファブリペロー干渉を用い紫外線光源からの光を光変調し光変調器から射出される光を、光変調器に対向配置した蛍光体照射する表示装置（特開平１１−２５８５５８号公報）も開示されている。 Further, the light emitted light from the ultraviolet light source using a Fabry-Perot interferometer from the light modulated optical modulator, the display device (JP-A 11-258558 discloses that a phosphor irradiated placed to face the optical modulator ) it has also been disclosed.
【００１１】上述の光変調器では、液晶表示装置とは異なり偏光板が不要であり、光源から光変調器に入射する光の利用効率を飛躍的に上げることが期待できる。 In the above optical modulator, it is unnecessary to vary the polarizing plate and the liquid crystal display device, the use efficiency of light incident from the light source to the optical modulator can be expected to increase dramatically. データプロジェクタや映画用表示装置では画面サイズが大きく、高輝度化の要望が特に大きい。 Large screen size is a data projector or a movie for a display device, is particularly large demand for high brightness. 投影型表示装置への応用が期待される。 Application to the projection type display device is expected.
【発明が解決しようとする課題】上記干渉を利用する機械式光変調器を投影型表示装置に利用しようとする場合には、以下のような課題が現れる。 When trying to use a mechanical optical modulator that utilizes the interference the projection type display device, it appears the following problems.
の干渉条件では、光源より出た光線はデバイス直上より入射することとなる。 In the interference condition, rays emitted from the light source so that the incident from directly above the device. このような光源とデバイスの配置を投影型表示装置に応用した場合には、ビームスピリッタやハーフミラー等が必要となり偏光板が不要にも係らず、デバイスへの入射光量が低減されてしまうことになる。 When applied to such arrangement of the light source and the device to a projection type display device, despite the unnecessary beam splitter or a half mirror, etc. are required polarizing plate, the amount of light incident on the device from being reduced become. また、反射型表示装置とすることで、透過光はシリコン基板に入射するが、投影型表示装置に用いる光源の可視光が、シリコン基板にて光吸収し基板温度が次第に上昇していく事が予想される。 Further, by the reflection type display device, but the transmitted light is incident on the silicon substrate, a visible light source used in the projection type display device, be a substrate temperature of absorbing light at the silicon substrate gradually rises is expected. 可動機構は温度上昇に伴い熱膨張することとなり、梁の撓みが変化し空隙間隔δのずれ、反射波長のシフトが発生してしまう。 Movable mechanism becomes thermally expands with increasing temperature, it is changed deviation of gap spacing δ deflection of the beam, shifting the reflection wavelength occurs. 表示装置としてはカラーバランスずれ、色ムラや輝度低下に繋がる。 Shift color balance as a display device, leading to color unevenness and brightness reduction.
ｕｃｅｄ ａｂｓｏｒｂｅｒを有することで、上記温度上昇が発生しやすく、上記と同様な反射波長シフトが生じる。 By having Uced absorber, the temperature rise is likely to occur, similar to the above reflection wavelength shift occurs. そのため、投影型表示装置として用いる高輝度光源が利用できず、暗く且つコントラストの低いものしか期待できない。 Therefore, high-intensity light source is not available, can only be expected dark and low in contrast to use as a projection type display device.
ｔ Ｎｏ． t No. ４，４０３，２４８（反射型）ではガラスを基板に用いることで上記温度上昇を回避することが可能となっている。 4,403,248 it is possible to avoid the above-mentioned temperature rise by using a (reflection type), the glass substrate. しかしながら反射型表示装置では、光変調器へ入射する光軸と、光変調器から投影光学系を結ぶ光軸とが直線上になく、光学の位置調整が液晶パネルのような透過型タイプに比べ精度が必要となり、精密調整を行う事により製品価格が上昇してくる。 However, in the reflection type display device, an optical axis entering the optical modulator, the optical axis of the optical modulator connecting the projection optical system is not on a straight line, than the position adjustment of the optics to transmissive type, such as a liquid crystal panel accuracy is required, product prices by performing a precise adjustment comes to rise. さらに干渉を用いる光変調器では光の入射角により多重光束干渉する波長が変化する。 Further a multiple beam interference wave varies with the angle of incidence of the light in the optical modulator using interference. これにより表示装置としては、光軸ずれによる色ムラや輝度低下に繋がることとなり、ミラーを用いる光変調器と比べてみてもその調整は厳密にする必要がある。 The Thereby display device, will lead to color unevenness and luminance decrease due to optical axis misalignment, the adjustment try compared with the optical modulator using the mirror, it is necessary to strictly. このことは、調整コストの上昇に繋がる。 This leads to an increase in the adjustment costs.
【００１６】特開平１１−２５８５５８号公報には、透過型表示装置が開示されており、上記の入射光線の吸収によるデバイスの温度上昇が生じにくく、平面光源を用いることで光軸調整等が容易となる可能性がある。 JP-A-11-258558, the transmission type display device is disclosed, the absorption temperature rise of the device according to the above incident light hardly occurs, easy optical axis adjustment or the like by using a flat light source there is likely to be. しかしながら、紫外線にて発光する蛍光体からの光は表示面側のみではなく光変調器側にも出る為、トータルとしての光利用効率は半減する。 However, light from the phosphor emitting in the ultraviolet because out to an optical modulator side not only the display surface side, the light utilization efficiency as a whole is halved.
【００１７】そこで、本発明は、（１）偏光板の不要な、（２）光変調器へ入射光と光変調器からの射出光の光軸が一致する、（３）光線の吸収による素子温度上昇の少ない、（４）入射光及び射出光の光量損失の少ない光の利用効率の高い投影型表示装置を提供することを課題としている。 Therefore, the present invention provides (1) a polarizing plate unnecessary, and (2) the optical axis of the exit light from the incident light and the optical modulator is matched to the optical modulator, (3) devices by absorption of light less temperature increase, and an object of the invention to provide a (4) high utilization efficiency of the less light quantity of light loss of the incident light and exit light projection display device. また、その投影型表示装置に好適な光変調素子を提供することを課題としている。 Also an object to provide a suitable optical modulation element to the projection type display device.
空気層を介して対峙させてファブリペロー共振器を形成させ、前記半透明可動膜を変位させて、入射光を変調する干渉性変調（ＯＭＯＤ）素子を使用する投影型表示装置であって、狭波長域の複数の光源と、前記複数の光源からの光をそれぞれ変調する複数の前記ＩＭＯＤ素子と、前記ＩＭＯＤ素子で変調された前記光源からの光を一つの光軸に出射させるダイクロイックプリズムと、前記ダイクロイックプリズムから出射する光を投影する投影レンズとを備えている。 By opposed through an air layer to form a Fabry-Perot resonator, said by displacing the translucent movable film, a projection display apparatus using coherent modulation (OMOD) element for modulating incident light, narrow a plurality of light sources in the wavelength range, and the plurality of IMOD devices respectively modulating light from the plurality of light sources, a dichroic prism for emitting into a single optical axis of light from the light source modulated by the IMOD devices, and a projection lens for projecting the light emitted from the dichroic prism.
ＯＤ素子で変調された前記光源からの光を投影する投影レンズとを備えている。 And a projection lens for projecting the light from the modulated light source in OD element.
前記透明基板上に設置された半透明固定膜部と、前記半透明固定膜部と空隙を介して配置された導電性の半透明可動膜と、前半透明可動膜を支持する可撓梁と、前記可撓梁を基板より支持するポストと、前記半透明可動膜を変位させる変位手段とを備え、前記変位手段は；前記半透明可動膜に電流を流す手段と、前記半透明可動膜に流れる電流方向に直交し且つ前記半透明層に平行となるように磁束密度を生じさせる磁界発生手段とを有している。 Translucent fixed film portion disposed on the transparent substrate, the translucent fixed film portion and the semi-transparent movable film arranged conductive via a gap, a flexible beam supporting a first half transparent movable film, a post supporting the flexible beam from the substrate, and a displacement means for displacing the translucent movable membrane, said displacement means; and means for flowing a current to the semi-transparent movable membrane, flowing through the semi-transparent movable film and a magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic flux density so as to be parallel and perpendicular to the current direction in the translucent layer.
【発明の実施の形態】以下、図面を参照して本発明の実施の形態について説明する。 BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the drawings.
同一基板上に、１次元、又は２次元に複数配置したものである。 On the same substrate, one-dimensional, or one in which a plurality arranged in two dimensions.
前記２枚の半透鏡薄膜の間隔を変化させることで、入射する光線により多重光束干渉を生じさせ、光線を透過又は反射させる。 The two by changing the spacing of the half mirror film, causing multiple light-beam interference by rays incident, transmits or reflects light rays.
ＳｉのＴＦＴ等の駆動用回路等を形成することができる。 It is possible to form the driving circuit and the like such as a TFT of Si.
【００２５】シリコンウエハも使用することが可能であり、この場合にはシリコンウエハ上に光変調素子を形成した後に、ウエハ裏面に貫通孔を開け、可動半透鏡薄膜直下のシリコンウエハを除去することとなる。 The silicon wafer is also possible to use, after forming the light modulation element on a silicon wafer in this case, opening the wafer back into the through hole, removing the silicon wafer immediately below the movable semitransparent mirror film to become.
光源として単一波長に近い狭波長域の光線を出す光源を用いている。 It uses a light source that gives a light beam near the narrow wavelength band in a single wavelength as the light source.
【００２７】狭波長域の好ましい範囲としては、光変調素子に入射する光の半値全幅に比べて、入射する光の最大光量となる波長に対し、光変調素子の透過する光の半値全幅が広い範囲である。 Examples of the preferable range of the narrow wavelength band, as compared to the full width at half maximum of the light entering the light modulation element with respect to the maximum amount of light to become the wavelength of incident light, the full width at half maximum of the transmitted light of the optical modulator is wide it is in the range. これにより、たとえ半透鏡の間隔に変動が起きても色ムラを低く抑えることが可能となる。 Thus, even if occurs variation in spacing half mirror and it is possible to suppress the color unevenness. 狭波長域となる光源としては、レーザーや発光ダイオードがあり、これら光源では光線の半値全幅が狭い。 As a light source comprising a narrow wavelength band, there is a laser or a light emitting diode, a narrow full width at half maximum of the light beam in these sources. レーザー光は半値全幅が狭く、より好ましい光線である。 Laser light has a narrow full width at half maximum, it is more preferable light. 光線しては、白色光源にフィルターを設け狭波長域にした光線を用いてもよい。 Is to light, may be used light rays in narrow wavelength band provided a filter in the white light source.
【００２９】この条件により、素子を変位させない場合、表示装置としては「暗」状態となる。 This condition, if not to displace the element, the "dark" state as a display device. 素子温度の変化や変位制御信号のノイズ変動等が生じた場合でも「暗」であり、空隙間隔の変動による透過光量変動は無い。 Even if the noise fluctuations of the change and the displacement control signal of the element temperature occurs is "dark", there is no amount of transmitted light fluctuation due to variations in the gap spacing. 空隙間隔を連続的に短く変化させることで画像として「暗」から「明」への連続諧調が出せる。 Continuous tone of the gap spacing from the "dark" as an image by varying continuously shortened to "bright" is put out.
λ／２（ｐは整数）にするとき（表示装置としては「明」状態）、上記変動があると透過光量が低下する。 lambda / 2 when (p is an integer) to ( "bright" state as a display device), and the amount of transmitted light is the fluctuation is reduced.
静電引力により空隙間隔を変化させる場合には、常に空隙間隔は狭くなる方向であり、入射光の波長と反射率の中心波長を等しくさせると、変動に対処できず、輝度向上をみこめない。 When changing the air gap spacing by electrostatic attraction, it is always gap spacing is narrower direction and is equal to the center wavelength of the reflectance of the incident light can not cope with variations, not expected brightness enhancement . 本発明では、温度変化や制御信号ノイズ等の変動に強い投影型表示装置を提供できる。 In the present invention, it can provide a strong projection display device to variations such as temperature change and control signal noise.
【００３１】光変調素子の変位手段としては、静電引力、磁気力が用いられる。 displacement means of the optical modulation element, electrostatic attraction, magnetic force is used. 具体的には、可動半透鏡薄膜と固定半透鏡薄膜が導電性を有している場合には、この間に電圧を印加することで静電引力が発生し、可動半透鏡薄膜が固定半透鏡薄膜の方向に変位し、空隙間隔ｄを変えることができる。 Specifically, when the fixed half Torukyo thin film and the movable semitransparent mirror film has conductivity, during which the electrostatic attractive force by applying a voltage occurs, the movable semitransparent mirror film is fixed semi Torukyo film the displaced in direction, it is possible to change the gap spacing d.
【００３２】変位手段に磁気力を用いる場合には、可動反射薄膜が固定半透鏡薄膜と対向する方向、及び可動半透鏡薄膜に流す電流の方向に直行する方向に磁束が形成されるように磁石を配置する。 The magnet as in the case of using a magnetic force to the displacement means, the direction in which the movable reflection film is opposed to the fixed half Torukyo thin, and the magnetic flux in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the current flowing through the movable semitransparent mirror thin film is formed to place. 可動半透鏡薄膜を変位させる力は、電流・磁束密度・力のフレミングの左手の法則に従った方向に作用するローレンツ力から求められる。 Force for displacing the movable semitransparent mirror film is determined from the Lorentz force acting in a direction in accordance with the Fleming's left hand rule current-magnetic flux density, force. このことにより、流す電流に比例して空隙間隔δを変えることができる。 Thus, it is possible to change the gap spacing δ in proportion to the current flowing.
シリコン、ｐｏｌｙ−Ｓｉ等を使用することができ、ドーパント濃度を調整することで低抵抗化でき、導電材料として利用できる。 Silicon, can be used poly-Si or the like, can be low resistance by adjusting the dopant concentration can be used as a conductive material.
数百オングストローム程度の薄膜では金属の種類により機械的強度が低下する場合があり、この場合には、入射光を透過する波長に対して透過率の高い誘電体薄膜と金属薄膜の２層よりなる可動半透鏡薄膜を用いる場合がある。 Several hundred in angstroms of film has the mechanical strength is reduced due to the type of metal, in this case, consists of two layers of high permeability dielectric thin film and the metal thin film for the wavelength of incident light is transmitted some cases of using a movable half mirror film. 前記誘電体薄膜の変わり、可視光に透過性のある透明導電性薄膜であるＩＴＯ、ＳｎＯ ２ 、酸化亜鉛等を用いても良い。 The change of the dielectric thin film, ITO is a transparent conductive thin film is transparent to visible light, SnO 2, may be used zinc oxide.
【００３５】透明導電性薄膜と金属薄膜との構成からなる可動反射薄膜では、可動反射薄膜を低抵抗にすることができ電流も十分に流すことができる。 In the movable reflective thin film made of configurations of the transparent conductive thin film and the metal thin film, can flow movable reflecting membrane current can be low resistance sufficiently.
【００３６】以下、図面を参照して実施形態ごとに説明する。 Hereinafter, will be explained for each embodiment with reference to the drawings.
【００３７】（第１実施形態）本発明の投影型表示装置の第１の実施形態について以下説明する。 will be described below a first embodiment of a projection type display device of First Embodiment present invention.
０とダイクロイックプリズムからの光線を投影する投影レンズ１１よりなる。 0 and consisting of a projection lens 11 for projecting a light beam from the dichroic prism. ここで、一つの光変調素子は一画素を構成している。 Here, one of the optical modulator constitute one pixel. 本発明の投影型表示装置は、光変調器裏面に狭波長帯の光線を入射し、透過する光線を前記光変調器にて変調し、投影レンズにて投影する表示装置であり、光変調器が空隙を介して平行に配置した２枚の半透鏡薄膜と前記半透鏡薄膜を変位させる駆動手段よりなり、前記２枚の半透鏡薄膜の間隔を変化させることで、入射する光線により多重光束干渉を生じさせ、光線を透過又は反射させる。 Projection display device of the present invention, a light of a narrow wavelength band optical modulator backside incident, the transmission to light modulated by the optical modulator, a display apparatus for projecting at the projection lens, an optical modulator There consists driving means for displacing the two said half Torukyo thin and semi-transparent mirror film of which are arranged in parallel with a gap, by changing the distance between the half mirror film of the two, multiplexed light beam interference by light rays entering cause, to transmit or reflect light.
【００３９】次に、光変調素子の構成及び駆動原理、変位特性について、図２、図３（図２のＡＡ断面である）、図４を参照して説明する。 Next, the configuration and the driving principle of the optical modulation element, the displacement characteristic, FIG. 2, (a AA section in FIG. 2) FIG. 3 will be described with reference to FIG.
【００４０】図２、３に示すように、基板２１に固定半透鏡薄膜２２が形成され、可動半透鏡薄膜２３が空隙間隔ｄを保ち固定半透鏡薄膜２２に平行に、ポスト２５に連結した撓み弾性変形の可能な可撓梁２４により、支持されている。 As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the fixed semi Torukyo thin film 22 on the substrate 21 is formed, bending the movable semitransparent mirror film 23 parallel to the fixed half Torukyo film 22 keeping a gap spacing d, and ligated to the post 25 the possible flexible beams 24 of the elastic deformation, is supported. ポスト２５、可撓梁２４及び可動半透鏡薄膜２３は導電性を有し、固定半透鏡薄膜上に設けた絶縁層２７上に形成した配線２６に電気的に接続している。 Post 25, the flexible beam 24 and the movable semitransparent mirror film 23 has conductivity and is electrically connected to the wiring 26 formed on the insulating layer 27 provided on the stationary half Torukyo thin film.
固定半透鏡２２は、電圧電源２８に電気的に接続している。 Fixed half mirror 22 is electrically connected to a voltage source 28. 可撓梁２４は、４つの梁にて可動反射薄膜７３を機械的に支持している。 The flexible beam 24 is mechanically support the movable reflective film 73 at four beam.
【００４２】ここで、εは誘電率（本発明では空隙の誘電率となる）、Ａは電極面積である。 Here, epsilon is the dielectric constant (the dielectric constant of the air gap in the present invention), A is the electrode area. 可動半透鏡薄膜は可撓梁により支持されており、この可撓梁の弾性率と（式２）が釣り合う位置が空隙間隔Ｌ＝ｄとなる。 Movable half mirror film is supported by a flexible beam, the elastic modulus of the flexible beam and (Equation 2) are balanced position is the gap spacing L = d. この釣り合い条件は図中電圧Ｖｔ（崩れ電圧と称す）までなだらかな変化を示す。 This balancing condition indicates a gradual change to the drawing voltage Vt (referred to as a collapse voltage). 印加電圧がＶｔ以上になると（このときの空隙間隔をｄｔとする）、静電引力が弾性による復元力に勝り、可動半透鏡薄膜が固定半透鏡薄膜に接触した状態となる。 When the applied voltage is equal to or greater than Vt (the gap spacing at this time is dt), the electrostatic attractive force overcomes the restoring force due to elasticity, a state in which the movable semitransparent mirror film is brought into contact with the fixed half Torukyo film.
つ方法がある。 One method there is. ２値変位動作で使用する場合には、接触した際に可動半透鏡薄膜２３と固定半透鏡薄膜２２の間で導通しないように、本発明では図６に示すように固定半透鏡薄膜上に絶縁層を設ける必要がある。 When using a binary displacement operation, so as not to conduct between the movable semitransparent mirror film 23 fixed half Torukyo thin film 22 upon contact, insulated on the fixed semi Torukyo film as shown in FIG. 6 in the present invention it is necessary to provide a layer. 絶縁膜としては、図２の固定半透鏡薄膜２２と配線２６の絶縁を保つ為に設けた絶縁膜２７を用い、固定半透鏡膜上を覆っても良い。 As the insulating film, an insulating film 27 provided to maintain insulation of the fixed half Torukyo thin film 22 and the wiring 26 2, may be covered with fixed half Torukyo Makujo. 図４の０≦Ｖ＜Ｖｔの印加電圧Ｖの領域で変位をする場合には、透過条件での空隙間隔ｄｏｎと反射条件での空隙間隔ｄｏｆｆがＬ＞ｄｔを満たすよう狭波長幅となる光源を用いる事となる。 0 ≦ V in FIG. 4 <when the displacement in the region of the applied voltage V of Vt is gap spacing doff in gap spacing don the reflection conditions in the transmission condition L> source to be narrow wavelength width to meet dt the be used.
ｍ、６３３ｎｍ、４７６ｎｍの光が、透過率が最大となるように設定してある。 m, 633 nm, light of 476nm is, the transmittance is set to be the maximum. 入射光の入射角は０°である。 The incident angle of the incident light is 0 °.
ｎｍ程度であった。 It was about nm. 光源１、３として、アルゴンイオンレーザー（５１３ｎｍ、４７６ｎｍ）を用いて、光変調器７、９について、電圧の印加の有無による透過率を計測したところ同様に、無印加時には透過光が測定されたが、電圧を印加すると透過しなかった。 As the light source 1 and 3, an argon ion laser (513 nm, 476 nm) using for the optical modulator 7 and 9, as was measured transmittance due to the presence or absence of application of voltage, the time of no application of the transmitted light is measured but not permeated through the application of a voltage.
【００４６】以上より、図１の投影型表示装置に用いる光変調器を構成する光変調素子に電圧を印加することで投影レンズを通して投影された画像を形成することができる。 From the above, it is possible to form an image projected through the projection lens by applying a voltage to the light modulation elements constituting the optical modulator used for the projection display device of FIG. 本発明の投影表示装置では偏光板を用いることなく高輝度の画像形成が可能である。 In projection display device of the present invention is capable of high brightness of the image formed without using a polarizing plate.
【００４７】（第２実施形態）図７は本発明の投影型表示装置に用いる光変調素子の第２の実施形態の構成図を説明する上面図（ａ）と断面図（ｂ）であり、図８は図７に示した光変調素子の変位特性を説明する電流−変位関係図である。 (Second Embodiment) FIG. 7 is a top view illustrating a configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the optical modulation element used in a projection type display device of the present invention (a) and a cross-sectional view (b), Figure 8 is a current for explaining the displacement characteristic of the light modulation element shown in FIG. 7 - the displacement relationship diagram.
とすると、Ｉ×ｌ×Ｂとなる事より、図８に示すように、空隙間隔ｄと電流Ｉは線形関係となる。 When, from becoming a I × l × B, as shown in FIG. 8, the gap distance d and the current I becomes linear relationship.
本実施形態で示した光変調器では、変位が電流に比例しているために駆動制御が行いやすい。 In the optical modulator shown in this embodiment, the drive control is easily performed in the displacement is proportional to the current. また、崩れ変位がなく、可動半透鏡薄膜の変位距離を長くとれる。 Further, there is no collapse displacement, take the displacement distance of the movable semitransparent mirror films long. さらに、電流の流れる方向を変えることにより、可動半透鏡薄膜を基板側とは逆方向に変位させることも可能である。 Further, by changing the direction of current flow, and a movable half mirror film substrate side it is also possible to displace in the opposite direction.
各光変調素子に流す電流を変えることで、ＲＧＢ３色の干渉に対して、空隙間隔をそれぞれ変えることができる光変調器をて提供できる。 By changing the current supplied to each light modulator element, relative RGB3 colors of the interference, can be provided an optical modulator can be changed gap spacing, respectively.
【００５１】基板７１はガラスであり、膜厚５０ｎｍのＡｌ薄膜の固定半透鏡薄膜７２が設けてある。 The substrate 71 is a glass, fixed semi Torukyo film 72 of Al film with a thickness of 50nm is provided. 可動半透鏡薄膜７３及び可撓梁７４、ポスト７５は、半透鏡となるＡｌ膜と１００ｎｍのＩＴＯ膜の２層薄膜からなる。 Movable half mirror film 73 and the flexible beam 74, the post 75 consists of two layers thin ITO film of the Al film and 100nm which is a semi-transparent mirror.
ｌ膜より成っている。 It is made from l film. Ａｌ膜の厚みは、反射係数が０． The thickness of the Al film, the reflection coefficient is 0.
９となるように調整してある。 It is adjusted to 9.
緑、青夫々の色に対し多重光束干渉による変調を行うことができている。 Green, and can be color blue respectively for performing the modulation due to the multiple light-beam interference.
８７、８８を通して平行光に整形された後にダイクロイックプリズム８９にて混合され、光変調器に入射する。 After being shaped into a parallel light through 87 and 88 are mixed by the dichroic prism 89, and enters the optical modulator.
ｅ−Ｎｅレーザー、アルゴンイオンレーザーを用いており、光変調素子に上記に示したと同様の電流を流すことで各波長の光のＯＮ、ＯＦＦを制御することが可能となるカラー表示像を形成できる投影型表示装置を提供できた。 e-Ne laser, and using an argon ion laser, the wavelength of the light ON by flowing the same current as shown in the light modulation device, a color display image can be controlled to OFF can be formed It was able to provide a projection-type display device. 同位置の光変調素子にて、赤、緑、青を変調することができるため、夫々の色に応じた光変調素子を設ける必要が無い。 By the optical modulation element of the same position, red, green, since it is possible to modulate the blue, there is no need to provide a light modulation element in accordance with the respective colors.
【００５４】（第３実施形態）本発明の光変調素子の変調について図１０を用いて説明する。 Modulation for the Third Embodiment light modulation element of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 10.
空隙間隔ｄは３１７ｎｍとし、入射光の入射角は０°である。 Gap spacing d is set to 317 nm, the incident angle of the incident light is 0 °. 空隙間隔ｄはδ＞λ／２を満足している。 Gap spacing d is satisfied δ> λ / 2.
【００５６】素子を変位させない場合、表示装置としては「暗」状態となっている。 If not displacing the elements, and has a "dark" state as a display device.
【００５７】電流量を上げるに従い、透過光の光量が増し、３８ｍＡで光量が最大となった。 In accordance with increasing the amount of current, the amount of transmitted light is increased, light amount is maximized at 38 mA. 電流量を下げることで、光量が徐々に減っていった。 By reducing the amount of current, the amount of light was gradually reduced. 本発明の駆動は、第１実施形態にて用いた静電引力による変位手段を用いた光変調素子においても有効である。 Drive of the present invention is also effective in the light modulation element using displacement means by electrostatic attraction using in the first embodiment.
【００５８】この光変調素子を用いて図１の表示装置を製作し、画像を投影した結果、連続諧調が可能であった。 The light modulation device was used to manufacture a display device of FIG. 1, a result of projecting the image, it was possible to contone. 連続諧調表示は、空隙間隔を変えることで、光変調素子の透過率の波長域と入射光線の重なり部分を制御して行った。 Continuous tone display, by changing the gap spacing was performed by controlling the overlapping portion of the wavelength range and the incident light transmittance of the light modulation element.
【００５９】（第４実施形態）図１１には、第４実施形態の投影型表示装置を示す。 The Fourth Embodiment FIG. 11 shows a projection type display device of the fourth embodiment. 図１１は夫々異なる空隙間隔を有する光変調素子を複数設けた本発明の光変調器の構成図である。 Figure 11 is a block diagram of an optical modulator of the present invention the light modulation element plurality each having a different gap spacing. 図中では３つのみ表示してある。 In the figure it is displayed only three.
２２ｎｍ、１０３ｎｍであり、夫々多重光束干渉にて波長６３０ｎｍ、５１４ｎｍ、４７６ｎｍの光が、透過率が最大となるように設定してある。 22 nm, is 103 nm, the wavelength 630nm at each multiplexed light beam interference, 514 nm, light of 476nm is, the transmittance is set to be the maximum. 各光変調素子毎に電圧電源２３１、２３２、２３３が設けられている。 Voltage power source 231, 232, and 233 are provided for each light modulator element.
【００６１】この光変調素子を２次元に配置した光変調器を用いて図９に示した投影型表示装置を製作した。 was prepared a projection type display device shown in FIG. 9 using an optical modulator arranged the light modulation element in two dimensions.
赤、緑、青の光源としては、赤色ＬＥＤ、アルゴンイオンレーザー、アルゴンイオンレーザーを用いた。 Red, green, as blue light source, a red LED, a argon ion laser, an argon ion laser was used. 電源からの印加電圧のＯＮ、ＯＦＦにより可動半透鏡薄膜が絶縁層に接触、非接触状態となる。 ON of the voltage applied from the power source, in contact with the movable semitransparent mirror thin film insulating layer by OFF, a non-contact state. これに伴い、各波長の透過光をＯＮ、ＯＦＦ制御することが可能となっている。 Accordingly, ON transmitted light of each wavelength, it is possible to OFF control. 点灯時間を制御することで投影レンズより投影された表示画素毎の諧調を制御することができた。 It was possible to control the gradation of each display pixel that is projected from the projection lens by controlling the lighting time. 図１に比べ、本発明の光変調器では、一基板上に赤、緑、青に応じた光変調素子を並べたことで、１枚の光変調器にてカラー表示が可能な投影型表示装置を形成できた。 Compared to Figure 1, in the optical modulator of the present invention, red on one substrate, green, by arranging the light modulation elements in accordance with the blue, one color display capable projection display by the optical modulator It was able to form a unit.
【発明の効果】以上説明した本発明によれば、干渉を利用する機械式光変調器を用いることで光変調素子への入射光及び光変調素子からの射出光の光利用効率を高めることができ、明るい投影型表示装置を提供することが可能となった。 According to the present invention as described in the foregoing, it is possible to enhance the light utilization efficiency of light emitted from the incident light and the light modulation element to the optical modulation element by using a mechanical optical modulator that utilizes the interference can, it has become possible to provide a bright projection type display device. また、光変調器へ入射光と光変調器からの射出光の光軸が一致することで光学系の位置調整が容易となり、調整コストを下げられる投影型表示装置を提供することが可能となった。 The position adjustment of the optical system in the optical axis of the light emitted from the incident light to the optical modulator and the optical modulator is coincident becomes easy, it is possible to provide a projection type display device to be lowered adjustment costs It was. また、多重光束干渉の透過型の機械式光変調素子を用いるたことで素子での光吸収を下げることができ素子温度上昇を低減できる投影型表示装置を提供することが可能となった。 Further, it becomes possible to provide a projection type display device capable of reducing the element temperature rise can be reduced optical absorption of the element by which use of the transmission type mechanical optical modulation device of the multiple beam interference.
【図１】本発明の投影型表示装置の第１の形態を説明する為の図である。 Is a diagram for explaining a first embodiment of a projection type display device of the present invention; FIG.
【図２】本発明の第１の光変調素子を説明する為の斜視図でする。 [Figure 2] is a perspective view for explaining the first light modulation element of the present invention.
【図４】本発明の第１の光変調素子の変位特性の説明図である。 4 is an explanatory view of the displacement characteristics of the first light modulation element of the present invention.
【図５】本発明の固定半透鏡薄膜の構成例を示す断面図である。 5 is a sectional view of fixing illustrating a configuration example of a semi Torukyo thin film of the present invention.
【図６】本発明の複数の光変調素子からなる光変調器の動作説明図である。 6 is an explanatory view of the operation of an optical modulator comprising a plurality of light modulation elements of the present invention.
【図７】本発明の第２の光変調素子の構成を説明する上面図及び断面図である。 7 is a top view and cross-sectional views illustrating the configuration of the second optical modulation elements of the present invention.
【図８】本発明の第２の光変調素子の変位特性の説明図である。 8 is an explanatory view of the displacement characteristics of the second optical modulation elements of the present invention.
【図９】本発明の投影型表示装置の第２の形態を説明する為の図である。 9 is a diagram for explaining the second embodiment of the projection type display device of the present invention.
【図１０】本発明の光変調素子の波長域を説明する図である。 Is a diagram illustrating a wavelength band of the optical modulator of the present invention; FIG.
【図１１】本発明の第３の光変調器を説明する断面図である。 11 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a third optical modulator of the present invention.
【請求項１】 透明基板と、前記透明基板上に設置した半透明固定膜部と、半透明可動膜とを、空気層を介して対峙させてファブリペロー共振器を形成させ、前記半透明可動膜を変位させて、入射光を変調する干渉性変調素子を使用する投影型表示装置であって、 狭波長域の複数の光源と、 前記複数の光源からの光をそれぞれ変調する複数の前記干渉性変調素子と、 前記干渉性変調素子で変調された前記光源からの光を一つの光軸に出射させるダイクロイックプリズムと、 前記ダイクロイックプリズムから出射する光を投影する投影レンズとを備えることを特徴とする投影型表示装置。 And 1. A transparent substrate, a semi-transparent fixed film portion and disposed on the transparent substrate, a semi-transparent movable film, by facing through the air layer to form a Fabry-Perot resonator, the translucent movable by displacing the membrane, a projection display apparatus using coherent modulation device for modulating the incident light, a plurality of the interference modulation and a plurality of light sources of narrow wavelength band, the light from the plurality of light sources respectively and wherein the sexual modulation element, a dichroic prism for emitting into a single optical axis of light from the light source modulated by the interferometric modulator element, in that it comprises a projection lens for projecting the light emitted from the dichroic prism projection-type display device that.
【請求項２】 前記干渉性変調素子に入射する光の半値全幅に比べて、入射する光の最大光量となる波長に対し、前記干渉性変調素子の透過する光の半値全幅が広いことを特徴とする請求項１記載の投影型表示装置。 2. Compared to the full width at half maximum of the light incident on the interferometric modulator element, to a maximum amount of light to become the wavelength of incident light, wherein the full width at half maximum of the transmitted light of said coherent modulation element is wide projection display device of claim 1 wherein.
【請求項３】 前記空気層の厚さδが、前記複数の光源の各波長λに対し、δ＞ｐ・λ／２（ｐは整数）を満たすこと特徴とする請求項１、２のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 The thickness of wherein the air layer [delta] is, for each wavelength lambda of the plurality of light sources, δ> p · λ / 2 (p is an integer) any claim 1, characterized by satisfying the projection-type display device according to one or.
【請求項４】 前記干渉性変調素子に入射する光の半値全幅波長域と、非駆動時の前記干渉性素子の透過率の半値全幅波長域が重ならないことを特徴とする請求項３記載の投影型表示装置。 A full width at half maximum wavelength region of light wherein entering said interferometric modulator device of claim 3, wherein the full width at half maximum wavelength region of the transmittance of the interference element at the time of non-driving, characterized in that the non-overlapping projection-type display device.
【請求項５】 駆動時の前記干渉性変調素子の透過波長域と入射する光線の波長域での重なり領域により透過光の強度変調を行うことを特徴とする請求項１乃至４のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 5. The one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the intensity modulation of the transmitted light by the region of overlap in the wavelength region of light rays entering the transmission wavelength range of the interferometric modulator device at the time of driving one projection-type display device according to One.
【請求項６】 透明基板と、前記透明基板上に設置した半透明固定膜部と、半透明可動膜とを、空気層を介して対峙させてファブリペロー共振器を形成させ、前記半透明可動膜を変位させて、入射光を変調する干渉性変調素子を使用する投影型表示装置であって、 狭波長域の複数の光源と、 前記複数の光源からの光を一つの光軸に出射させるダイクロイックプリズムと、 前記ダイクロイックプリズムから出射する光を変調する前記干渉性変調素子と、 前記干渉性変調素子で変調された前記光源からの光を投影する投影レンズとを備えることを特徴とする投影型表示装置。 6. A transparent substrate, a semi-transparent fixed film portion and disposed on the transparent substrate, a semi-transparent movable film, by facing through the air layer to form a Fabry-Perot resonator, the translucent movable by displacing the membrane, a projection display apparatus using coherent modulation device for modulating the incident light, a plurality of light sources of narrow wavelength band, is emitted to one optical axis of light from the plurality of light sources a dichroic prism, the dichroic said interferometric modulator element that modulates the light emitted from the click prism, projection, characterized in that it comprises a projection lens for projecting the light from the light source modulated by the interferometric modulator element display device.
【請求項７】 前記半透明導体層と前記半透明可動膜に電圧を印加することにより、前記半透明可動膜を変位させることを特徴とする請求項１乃至６のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 7. By applying a voltage to the semi-transparent movable film and the semi-transparent conductive layer, as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that for displacing the translucent movable film projection-type display device.
のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 Projection-type display device according to any one of.
【請求項９】 前記光源はレーザー装置であることを特徴とする請求項１乃至８のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 Wherein said light source projection type display device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that a laser device.
【請求項１０】 前記光源は発光ダイオードであることを特徴とする請求項１乃至８のいずれか一つに記載された投影型表示装置。 Wherein said light source projection type display device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that a light emitting diode.
【請求項１１】 ファブリペロー共振器構造の干渉性変調器であって、 透明基板と、 前記透明基板上に設置された半透明固定膜部と前記半透明固定膜部と空隙を介して配置された導電性の半透明可動膜と、 前記半透明可動膜を支持する可撓梁と、 前記可撓梁を基板より支持するポストと、 前記半透明可動膜を変位させる変位手段とを備え、 前記変位手段は：前記半透明可動膜に電流を流す手段と；前記半透明可動膜に流れる電流方向に直交し且つ前記半透明層に平行となるように磁束密度を生じさせる磁界発生手段とを有することを特徴とする干渉性変調素子。 11. A interferometric modulator of the Fabry-Perot resonator structure, disposed over the transparent substrate, the semi-transparent fixed film portion and the gap the installed semitransparent fixing film portion on the transparent substrate comprising guiding the conductive translucent movable film, a flexible beam supporting the translucent movable membrane, and a post for supporting the flexible beam from the substrate, and a displacement means for displacing the translucent movable film, the displacement means: the means for flowing a current to the semi-transparent movable film; and a resulting magnetic flux density so as to be parallel to the perpendicular to the current direction flowing through the semi-transparent movable film and the semi-transparent layer magnetic field generating means interferometric modulating device characterized by.
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AGUA (Adult Gathering, United and Autistic) is sponsored by three local ASA (Autism Society of America) Chapters. AGUA members must be able to manage their own behavior at meetings or are allowed to bring aides. AGUA has a wide spectrum of people ranging in age from 18 to 52. Comparable variation exists on every level. Meetings are held on the third weekend of each month, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, in West Los Angeles.
Beyond meetings, AGUA members are involved in the local community on all fronts, inclusion consulting, self-advocacy, panels, ASA and other autism activities, and social and vocational networking. Informal outings have included art museums, zoos and whale watching. Some AGUA members also belong to other adult organizations such as the Autism National Committee and People First of California.
The primary focus of this group is for parents of kids diagnosed with Aspergers. Adults with same will be allowed to attend meetings, but the kids will be the top priority, as the adults already have a support group in the area, AGUA (see below).
Aspergers Resource is a parent support group for those with kids diagnosed with Aspergers and other ASDs.
We meet the second Monday of each month at the Barnes & Noble book store in Walnut Creek at 7:00pm. We often have guest speakers that provide information for parents and professionals who have kids along the entire autism spectrum.
Self-Help Connection (San Diego County) Provides information and referral to support groups in San Diego County.
SHARE! Serves the Los Angeles area. Provides information and referrals to self-help groups in Los Angeles County.
A support group for families and individuals affected by Aspergers, HFA and PDD-NOS. We meet on the third Thursday of every month at the Rockrimmon Library from 7:00pm – 9:00pm. We are also an online support group.
ASRC is a non-profit organization founded in 2000. The Center grew out of The Greater New Haven PDD/Aspergers Support Network, Inc. which was established in 1993. ASRC offers workshops, conferences, and support groups.
FAVAN is for parents or other caretakers of kids with Aspergers, PDD or HFA. FAVAN has a lending library for members and meets monthly.
Connecticut Self-Help Support Network Publishes directory of self-help groups.
Support group meetings that cover the autism spectrum, different ages, and functioning levels.
Meeting on the 3rd Saturday of each month at AI DuPont kid’s hospital at 10:00am.
Aspergers Delaware is a support and advocacy group for and by both parents of (or others with responsibility or interest in) kids and individuals who have Aspergers. In addition to those who have kids who are formally diagnosed as Aspergers, also included are individuals and parents impacted by related or concurrent items such as PDD-nos, HFA, and any similar groupings of Autism characteristics such as social skills deficits, auditory proceeding issues, sensory differentials, executive function differentials (attention and processing for examples), or any of the other close to 100 characteristics which can be are part of Autism genetics, for which the related experience and advocacy of Aspersers may be helpful.
Additionally clinicians, educators or others who wish to support or learn about Aspergers are welcome.
For additional information, directions, meeting room number or other questions please Email Address DelawareAspergers@verizon.net.
T*A*S*C* is a small, but reasonably active community-based, all-volunteer organization in the Big Bend region of Florida.
The Tallahassee Aspergers Adult Peer Support Group is intended to work as a safe, “aspie friendly” environment for participants to develop social skills, acquire new knowledges and gain perspective on life on the autism spectrum in the world. This group is for those from the North Florida and Southeastern Georgia areas, including Tallahassee, Thomasville, Bainbridge and surrounding counties or to anyone who is moving to those areas who is a higher-functioning adult with an autism spectrum disorder, such as Aspergers.
T*A*S*C* provides information, referral and other support as possible for higher-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorders, their family members and friends. Currently, T*A*S*C* runs two programs.
The Gathering is a mainly social club and only indirectly a social skills practice venue. The purpose is to provide a safe, aspie friendly environment for members to experience social contact and have some fun around shared interests and new interests. It meets weekly, Saturdays from about 1:00pm to around 2:00pm in the coffee shop of the Borders Books on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee, Florida.
The Tallahassee Aspergers Adult Peer Support Group is intended to be involved in peer-led, participant-directed more-or-less formal support group work for more higher-functioning adults with the autism spectrum disorders (such as Aspergers). It will meet at least monthly, from between around 7:30/8:00pm until 9:00pm in the Education Building of the First Presbyterian Church, 110 North Adams Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida.
Meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month from 6:30pm – 8:00pm. Contact Naomi Grossman for location.
Offers support groups for military parents of kids with autism. Call for more information.
Holds informational group meetings for parents and interested professionals the last Monday of the month at 7:00pm at Kaimuki Christian Church (1117 Koko Head Ave.) Provides a parent-to-parent match for information and support.
Issue specific support groups for any military family in the Exceptional Family Member Program: 1) 1st autism support group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 5:30pm – 8:00pm at the Schofield Main Post Chapel. 2) 2nd autism support group meets the 1st Tuesday of each month, 5:30pm – 8:00pm at the Aliamanu Military Reservation.
Provides support & education to parents and caregivers living with persons with autism spectrum. Meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:00pm at the Easter Seals Conference Room in Lihue.
Provides support & education to parents to enable them to be effective partners in the IEP process. Meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 6:00pm at the Lihue Public Library.
Meets every other month (except November and December) on the 4th Saturday at Cameron Center, Conference Room #1, 95 Mahalani Street, Kahului, Maui. Open to direct care providers and families of kids with autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental disorders and other neuro-developmental disorders.
Offers a network of individuals with developmental disabilities aimed at becoming partners in planning, developing and implementing policies and programs for persons with developmental disabilities.
Brothers and sisters 6 – 12 of siblings with disabilities meet six times a year, usually on the 1st Saturday of the month from 11:00am – 2:00pm. Cost is $10 per youngster per Sibshop and includes lunch and all activities. Call to register.
The Idaho Aspergers Support Group is based in Boise, Idaho. Their meetings are held monthly on the second Friday of the month. They also offer a teen group that meets weekly.
They are dedicated to providing support for those affected by Aspergers and other high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. In addition, welcome and encourage educators, medical professionals and anyone interested in learning more about Aspergers to join in.
For more information, contact amy@idahoasg or nicole@idahoasg.
Group meetings are the first Thursday of each month excluding January, June, July and August.
Fourth Monday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, August to May. Speakers, open forum, parent to parent support.
Self-Help Center (Champaign and surrounding Counties) Referral to local support groups.
A support group for adults (18 and over) on the autistic spectrum from Iowa City, Coralville, and surrounding areas. We support each other through monthly meetings for discussion, information, and advocacy, and maintain an online forum and listserv. We are a local network of the Global and Regional Aspergers Partnership. We meet during the Second Saturday of the month from 3:00pm – 5:00pm.
This group sponsors a support group for parents of kids with AS. In addition, The University of Kansas offers a Graduate Degree with a Specialization in Aspergers.
This is a large and well-established support group affiliated with Kansas University Medical Center.
Meets on the 2nd Monday of each school month.
Offers support groups in the Central Louisiana/Alexandria area, and information and referral services. ARISE’s mission is to assist parents of kids with autism by providing knowledge, training, and behavioral services.
Generally located in southern and central Maryland. We meet in the Bowie area because it is most central to where our members live.
This is a support group for parents of AS and high-functioning autism kids of all ages.
Meets on the third Wednesday of the month at St. Martin in the Fields Church.
Comprehensive assessment services including neuropsychological, psychological and developmental evaluations. Therapy services for individuals (adult, teen and youngster) and families, as well as parent guidance.
We provide support, information, and advocacy for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families in Central Mississippi.
We meet on the second Thursday of each month at the Pine Belt Family YMCA from 6:30pm – 8:00pm. This group serves families with kids in the broad spectrum. The support group primarily studies and discusses research, treatments, and therapies believed to be relevant to the treatment of kids in the spectrum. IDS assists, supports, and sponsors this activity. Child care is provided (at no cost) by Southern Miss students at the YMCA while parents meet.
A volunteer organization made up of parents and professionals dedicated to supporting (IEP’s, IDEA), educating, and empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Educational rights-community based non-profit organization which plays an important role in the evolution of standards-based school reform and the potential for improving the quality of education for kids in the Delta area of Mississippi.
A support group for family and friends of individuals with autism. Meets the second Monday of each month at the Ocean Springs Hospital Library from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
Monthly support group for parents; also an Email Address listserv offered.
Autism / Aspergers Parent Facilitated group. Affiliated with the Autism Alliance of Greater Kansas City. Monthly support group meetings. Meets the 2nd Saturday of each month at 10:00am at the K.U. Regents Center on 126th and Quivira.
Providing Support and Information from Montauk to Manhattan.
Meets on the second Wednesday of the month.
An educational and advocacy organization serving adults on the autism spectrum.
Support group meetings every Tuesday at noon and one Saturday morning per month. We also have developed an outreach program and have given educational presentations to many schools in the area, and also at the ND school administrators’ and teachers’ conferences last fall.
Check the calendar on our site for support group meetings for families and adults with Aspergers/High-Functioning Autism.
Meets the fourth Monday of each month in Mansfield, Ohio.
The Greater Akron Chapter of the Autism Society of America, serves Summit, Stark, Medina, Portage and Wayne counties. We offer support, guidance and general information about Autism and other related spectrum disorders such as PDD and Aspergers.
Meets periodically for informal conversation and sharing in the Independence-area of northeastern Ohio for parents and caregivers of kids with Aspergers, Pervasive Development Disorder and HFA.
Offers an e-mail forum for posting questions and exchanging information.
A support group for parents of teens and adults diagnosed with Aspergers and related developmental disorders.
Open Forum: Your chance to talk to other parents about any questions or concerns you might have. Meeting last Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm in Midland, Texas at the “CP” center (806 Ventura) next to Opportunity Park. Daycare is provided.
A support group for parents of Kids on the autism spectrum in Southeastern Wisconsin.
*Ahead with Autism – Dedicated to raising awareness of ASD, improving the lives of people afflicted by Autism and educating professionals worldwide.
*Aspies for Freedom – Support group building an autistic culture and bringing ASD individuals together to help oppose abusive therapies.
*Autism Association for Overseas Families – Support groups for expatriate families with a youngster with an ASD.
*Autism Community Connection – Support group in Naperville Illinois – resources, forum, online newsletter, and links.
*Autism Friends – Support resource site for families.
*Autism Info.com – Provides information to moms/dads, doctors, teachers, tutors, caregivers, and anyone interested in learning more about autism and ASD.
*Autism Link – Online information on events, news, seminars, conferences, where to find help, support groups, and early intervention.
*Autism Network International – An autistic-run self-help and advocacy organization for autistic individuals.
*Autism USA – Community for moms/dads, caregivers and educators of people with autism.
*Autism-Comorbidity – Online group and mailing list for people who have, or are related to someone who has, an autistic spectrum disorder and one or more other disabilities or health conditions.
*Autistic Society – Support community for moms/dads and families, news, photo-art gallery, information and interactive features.
*BBB Autism – Positive support and information regarding autism, pdd, aspergers and all disorders under the spectrum.
*Extreme Enthusiasts – Promoting the bug hobby and increasing autism awareness.
*For Autistic Kids Foundation – Organization feature events and sponsor information to raise funds to broaden public awareness and understanding of autism and for the research of early detection.
*Interactive Autism Network – Designed to link researchers and families together through an online support community.
*MCASA: Montgomery County Maryland Chapter of the Autism Society of America -Advocacy, information referral and support.
*MyOutOfControlTeen.com – Preventing meltdowns and tantrums in Aspergers children and teens.
*Open Doors – An information/support group for moms/dads and teachers of Aspergers and HFA kids in Southern California’s Inland Empire.
*ParentingAspergers.org – Mother of a child with Aspergers tells her story.
*Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome Contact Group – Support, advice and information to anyone involved with an individual diagnosed with PDA, a pervasive developmental disorder related to autism.
*TogetherForAutism.org – Community site and message board bringing together people together who are affected by autism.
*University Students With Autism And Aspergers Syndrome – Support and resources for students with autistic spectrum conditions in higher education. Advice on attending school and getting a job.
*Unlocking Autism – A Christian awareness and education organization.
*Wrong Planet – Online community and resource for those with Aspergers.
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Li, R., Zhang, B., Xiu, S., Wang, H., Boaten, N. A. B., Holmes, B. M., Wang, L., and Shahbazi, A. (2016). "Characteristics of pine gasification ash and its effects on Chlamydomonas debaryana growth," BioRes. 11(1), 1919-1929.
Large amounts of ash, generated from biomass gasification, often contaminate syngas and the ecosystem. This study showed that the ash obtained from the gasification of pine wood was primarily composed of carbon (15% to 25%), minerals (~21%), and oxygen (52% to 63%), and exhibited low surface area (8.4 to 11.2 m2/g). The size of ash particles was between 600 nm and 600 μm. Calcium, potassium, and sodium were the three most common mineral elements in the ash. Leaching tests showed that adding ash to water raised the pH value from 5.7 to between 11.2 and 11.5, and, as time progressed, more mineral elements were released from the ash. For growing microalga Chlamydomonas debaryana in media containing ashes, no toxicity of pine ash was found.
1 These two authors contributed equally to this work.
Over the past decades, biomass gasification has been considered as a promising renewable energy technology, because of its potential for advanced applications (Kirkels and Verbong 2011). Gasification is an oxygen starved process whereby carbonaceous materials, such as woody products, vegetation, and solid waste, are converted to synthesis gas (syngas). The composition of syngas includes carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4), and nitrogen (N2). Contaminants, such as ammonium (NH3), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), tar, water vapor, light hydrocarbon, char, and ash are additional products of syngas (Ransford et al. 2013).
Since the average ash content of wood is typically between 1.1 to 4.8 wt.% (Nanda et al. 2013), a huge quantity of biomass ash, including bottom ash and fly ash (i.e., fine particles), result from the gasification processes because of the available abundant agricultural residues. Environment protection agencies have strict regulations on the emission for fine particles (US EPA 2013). Currently, the proper disposal for biomass ash is in the form of slurry, as a soil amendment, or as an additive in concrete (Barrows 2011). However, its usage is still limited and no longer satisfies the environmental concerns. New technically and environmentally friendly methods are a necessity, not only for the sustainable development of the gasification industry, but also for the protection of environment (James et al. 2012). Recent investigations suggest that the ash of coal combustion can be used as a nutrient for tree fertilizer (Pandey et al. 2009), which prompts that biomass ash may also serve as the fertilizer additive. Based on our knowledge, this is the first investigation into the potential utilization of wood ash as a fertilizer for microalgae. For this paper, pine ash from woody biomass gasification was first characterized. And then a native North Carolina algal species Chlamydomonas debaryana, which was considered as a potential source of biofuels and food supplements (Zhang et al. 2014), was exposed to ash particles of different sizes, and the growth response was evaluated.
A fixed-bed downdraft gasifier (Gasifier Experimenters Kit, All Power Labs, Berkeley, CA, USA) was used to process pine wood chips (Pinus spp.) that were provided by Beard Hardwoods Inc. (Greensboro, NC, USA). The range of wood chip sizes was 6 to 10 mm. The gasification process was carried out at temperatures > 700 °C. Approximately, 1.0 kg of wood was processed per hour, producing around 2.1 m3 of gas or 3.1 kW of heat from the burning cycle according to the manufacturer’s procedure (All Power Labs 2011).
After each experiment, the pine ash was collected, sealed in plastic buckets, and stored at room temperature until further analysis. Size fractionation of the ash samples was conducted using specification sieves of 30, 50, 100, and 200 mesh, with equivalent opening sizes of 600, 300, 150, and 75 μm, respectively. The size of ash particles was mostly in the micron-scale range. In order to compare the effect of ash particles with that of nano-scale particles, particles of cerium-zirconium oxide (CeO2-ZrO2) (< 50 nm, Sigma-Aldrich, Mo, USA) was selected as the reference in this study. The reason of using CeO2-ZrO2 was due to its high stability and low bio-toxicity (Wu et al. 2007).
The size distribution of the ash particles was evaluated by dynamic light scattering (DLS) using a Zetasizer ZEN3600 analyzer (Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK). The moisturecontent of the ash was determined according to the ASTM E871-82 standard (2006). The total ash content, representing the total inorganic fraction of the sample, was determined according to the ASTM D1102-84 standard (2007).
Elemental analyses for carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and nitrogen (N) were determined using a Perkin-Elmer 2400 CHN/S analyzer (Waltham, MA, USA). A mineral analysis was performed for additional elements (Ca, Na, K, Al, S, Fe, Mg, P, B, Mn, Si, Zn, Pb, Cd, and Cu) using a Varian 710-ES inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) (Santa Clara, CA, USA). The oxygen (O) content was calculated by weight difference (Li et al. 2015; Yan et al. 2015).
Physical nitrogen adsorption was measured using a Micromeritics ASAP 2020 surface area and porosity analyzer (Norcross, GA, USA). The surface area was calculated using the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method (Brunauer et al. 1938).
The surface topography of the solid residues was measured on a Hitachi SU8000 scanning electron microscope (SEM) (Tokyo, Japan) operating at 10 kV. For morphological observation, microalgae cells were observed using a Zeiss Axio Scope A1 microscope (Jena, Germany, UK).
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was performed via a Varian 670 FTIR spectrometer (Santa Clara, CA, USA), equipped with a single-bounce diamond attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory.
For quantifying the mobility of chemicals present in the pine ash in water, the ash was weighed and added into flasks containing 1.0 L of deionized water to make a final ash concentration of 2.0 g/L, and was stored at room temperature. The concentrations of nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium in solution were analyzed according to the LaMotte Smart 3 Colorimeter Manual (LaMotte 2011) over a period of 30 d.
A green microalga of Chlamydomonas debaryana AT24 that was used in this study was originally isolated from the lagoon at the farm of NC A&T. This species showed lower temperature tolerance and higher lipid productivity than Chlorella vulgaris (Zhang et al. 2014). C. debaryana AT24 was cultured with deionized water, Bristol medium, or proteose medium. Bristol medium consists of the following ingredients: NaNO3 (2.94 mM), CaCl2.2H2O (0.17 mM), MgSO4.7H2O (0.3 mM), K2HPO4 (0.43 mM), KH2PO4 (1.29 mM), and NaCl (0.43 mM). Proteose medium was made by adding 1 g proteose peptone into 1 L Bristol medium (Rahman et al. 2015). To investigate the effects of gasification ash and nanoparticles, the ash and nanoparticles (CeO2-ZrO2) were weighed and added into separate Pyrex® Erlenmeyer flasks containing 1.0 L of medium to make a final solute concentration of 2.0 g/L. Then, the flasks were autoclaved for 15 min at 121 °C and 100 kPa saturated steam. Media containing nanoparticles and ash particles (< 75 μm) were sonicated for 30 min. The cultivation of C. debaryana AT24 was conducted at room temperature under 150 μmol m-2s-1 for 10 to 120 d, and the light was provided by fluorescent light bulbs. The flasks were manually agitated at minimum once per day.
For evaluating the biomass yield, 50 mL of microalgal broth was collected from each flask, and centrifuged at 2600 × G and 20 °C for 15 min. Supernatants were analyzed for the contents of nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium. The biomass yield in grams per liter was used to evaluate the effect of the particles on the algal growth. All experiments and analyses were performed in triplicates.
Ash samples were separated using woven wire test sieves into four size fractions: 300 to 600 μm (P1), 150 to 300 μm (P2), 75 to 150 μm (P3), and < 75 μm (P4). The total percentage of ash content was 27.2%, 26.9%, 20.8%, and 25.1%, respectively. Then, the P4 ash particles were measured using a DLS and the hydrodynamic diameter of ash particles ranged between 600 and 2000 nm, with a mean diameter of 1342 nm.
The P4 ash particles were analyzed using SEM (Fig. 1). Compared with the pine wood chips, the ash particles had irregular shapes and were smaller in size. The smallest particles were approximately 600 nm. The results were in good agreement with the measurement made on the basis of DLS.
Tables 1 and 2 show the elemental analyses, ash content, and BET surface area of four ash fractions. The ash fractions with larger particle sizes contained more unburned carbon than those with finer particle sizes, while the ash content of each fraction was inversely proportional to the carbon content. The BET surface areas of the ash samples were in a range of 8.4 and 11.2 m2/g. The difference of BET surface areas among all ash samples, which was mainly due to the selection of measuring points, was not significant.
The ICP analyses showed that calcium (Ca), potassium (K), and sodium (Na) were the three most common elements overall. Because Ca is usually the most abundant inorganic element in pine wood, Ca comprised approximately half of all inorganic elements detected from the ash samples. The content of heavy metals was relatively low.
Figure 2 shows the FTIR spectra of the organic functional groups during the progress of feedstock to ash residues. Spectral peaks were interpreted based on previous reports (Silverstein et al. 2005; Qian et al. 2013). The FTIR of the pine wood chips exhibited -OH groups (broad band between 3600 and 3000 cm-1), aliphatic C-H stretching vibrations (bands of 2921 to 2845 cm-1), asymmetric stretching of C=O in carboxylic groups (1550 cm-1), and the dominant C-O stretch (1030 cm-1) associated with the β-glycosidic bond in cellulose and hemicellulose.
The FTIR spectra of ash samples were completely different from that of the pine wood. The disappeared peaks indicated that major components of pine wood decomposed in the gasifier. The peaks at 1400, 870, and 708 cm−1 corresponded to carbonate-related bonds.
The pH values and concentrations of nitrate (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) were monitored over a period of 30 days. The results of the leaching tests (Table 3) showed that adding ash to water raised the pH value from 5.7 to between 11.2 and 11.5. As time progressed, more chemicals were released from the ash. Nitrate and phosphorus are major nutrients required for algal growth. In addition to nitrate and phosphorus, most other elements shown in Table 2 have the potential to be used as nutrients for algae growth.
C. debaryana was grown for 10 days in deionized water, Bristol medium, and proteose medium containing ash particles, which showed initial pH values of 11.3, 8.3, and 8.4, respectively. The algal biomass yield after a 10-d culture in deionized water was below 0.1 g/L, and its pH was reduced from approximately 11.3 to 10.9. The results indicated that water containing the pine ash was not a favorable medium for C. debaryana. Possible reasons are that high pH may inhibit algal growth, or the release of ions from the ash was limited because of its low solubility.
Bristol medium contains only minimal nutrients to keep algae alive, while proteose medium was rich enough to support rapid growth of algae. The starting N:P ratio of Bristol medium and proteose medium were 20:45 and 60:45, respectively (Hill 2014). When growing in Bristol or proteose media for 10-d, no notable inhibition of microalgal growth was observed for the either the nanoparticle (CeO2-ZrO2) or the ash fractions, with the exception being P1 (Fig. 3). The particle size of the P1 fraction was between 300 and 600 µm, and large particles may block the light illumination under higher algal cell density.
To study the long-term effect of ash particles on the algal growth, C. debaryana cultures were maintained in media containing ash over a 120-d period. As shown in Fig. 4, the algal biomass production from ash media was relatively stable over a long period, while media containing only nanoparticles could not support the long-term growth of algae.
The initial contents of N, P, and K in the Bristol medium were approximately 20 ppm, 25 ppm, and 32.5 ppm, respectively. These nutrients were depleted within 60-d, and then the released ions from pine ash might serve as additional nutrients for algal survival. After 120-d, the concentration of N, P, and K in the Bristol medium were 0.8, 5.9, and 100 ppm, respectively. These results indicated that C. debaryana culture could be effective for the bioremediation of ash-containing wastewater. Furthermore, pine ash may be valuable as a fertilizer, providing nitrogen, phosphorus, and other micronutrients.
Algae are often selected as the model microorganism for environmental assessment (Rai et al. 2004; Tripathi et al. 2008) because they are easily cultured under challenging growth conditions and are the primary producers in aquatic systems, permitting utilization of population growth (Vocke et al. 1980).
The effects of fine particles on algae might be toxic or beneficial. The reasons of toxicity include the dissolved ions, the interaction of nanoparticles with algae, and the entrapment of algal cells (Quigg et al. 2013). In this study, the algal cells were surrounded by ash particles or nanoparticles (Fig. 5); however, the size of ash particles is at the micron scale, and the toxicity was not considerable under the experimental conditions.
Syngas generally contains many contaminants, such as fly ash, carbon dioxide (CO2), tars, sulfur compounds, nitrogen compounds, and alkali metals. The size of the particles that are released from a gasifier is normally in the range of 1 to 100 µm. A wet scrubbing process is typically employed to remove the particles in syngas for industry purposes.
The present results indicated that the particles in syngas produced from pine woods do not have a notable negative impact for the algal species, C. debaryana. Algal culture may purify the wastewater generated from the syngas cleaning process and provide positive effects for the ecosystems.
Ash obtained from the pine wood gasification process primarily consisted of carbon (15 to 25 wt.%), mineral (approximately 21 wt.%), and oxygen (52 to 63 wt.%), and it had low surface areas (8.4 to 11.2 m2/g).
The size of the ash particles were between 0.6 to 600 μm. The Ca, K, and Na contents were the three most common minerals present in the ash, and Ca comprised approximately half of all inorganic elements detected.
Leaching tests showed that adding ash to water raised the pH value from 5.7 to between 11.2 and 11.5, and as time progressed, more chemicals were released from the ash.
No toxicity of pine ash was found for growing microalgae, indicating that pine ash might provide a valuable nutrient source for Chlamydomonas debaryana.
This research was partially supported with funds from the US-Department of Energy, Renewable Energy Center (award number: DE-EE0003138), and NSF-CREST Bioenergy Center (award number: HRD-1242152).
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Article submitted: August 10, 2015; Peer review completed: November 22, 2015; Revised version received and accepted: December 20, 2015; Published: January 11, 2016.
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When pondering the Target: Container, I came across the Ars communities thoughts on adding a new Duration: Seal as an allowed Hermetic spell constraint. Its a very good idea thrashed out by these community members (Ezzelino, Xavi, Timothy Ferguson, Gerg, YR7, Cuchulainshound, MarioJPC, GribbletheMunchkin, Jabir, Tellus, Richard Love).
Seal – this duration lasts until either the seal on the object is broken, or the object is opened in another way; the seal is active until it is effectively bypassed. The seal duration would be valid when used on a flask sealed with lead, but the spell would end immediately if the flask was broken, even if the flasks lead seal was not damaged.
The target of the spell using a Seal duration must be contained by the seal, the container, or the seal itself. Thus the contents of a bottle are valid, but a the object within a room behind a sealed door are not.
The seal must be intended to hold the object closed in a permanent manner, and must be applied to an object which could reasonably be sealed. Closing a door, or locking a chest is not permanent enough to use the Seal duration. Typical seals are wax sealed bottles, sealed letters, doors sealed with clay.
When used in this manner the seal is inscribed and marked in detail when initially created. Seal is a base: +3 magnitude duration when used.
This is a Duration that would require a Hermetic breakthrough to utilise, as while it has a narrow range of applications it does also extend some durations far beyond normal hermetic limits.
As a response to the confusion* I had when my players were creating characters, here is a summary how XP is calculated for characters in Ars Magica; using a slightly different method from the default in the style of explanation. The outcome is the same, and I find the points breakdown far easier to spend during creation, especially when done by hand.
As there are two broad character types in Ars Magica, the character generation is also designed in two ways: there are rules for Magi, and rules for everyone else. The Companion and Grog (mundanes) rules are very simple, and the Magi rules are far more complicated.
XP in 5th edition has been heavily base-lined, so that the points spent in Abilities (skills) are the same as the points spent on Arts and Spells (magical powers). The characters spend them in different ways, but essentially as the points are the same, I sum up the totals, and set checkpoints for the minimum spend in the different areas.
The examples below for Magi demonstrate how powerful having post-apprenticeship years are before play begins, so it is worth noting that it is not typical to do this for young Magi, or that it might create an imbalance between characters. Be wary allowing too many years post-apprenticeship, and always enforce the Warp point penalties (2 per year post-apprenticeship).
Pick them from MMO directories.
The Wow Armory is good and searching by a guild or server will give you a toon list to start from. That said though warcrat players are also a bloody stupid bunch at times as proved by a GuildOx article which shows the popular names by class – no surprise the most popular are god damned horrid.
There is a pool of millions of players out there that create characters in mmos every week. Amongst them are truly great,and totally awful names; don’t be shy.
Grab a baby naming book.
Baby name books are great when your setting is quasi-earth, as they often have lists for “powerful, “fun”, “biblical”, etc. Most used book stores will have one or two, and you’ll not pay much for them.
A good book Pdf is also good, and recently I grabbed a 25001 baby name book on Pdf, and its made is so much easier.
I was pondering the well known carrying items, like a magic chest, or bag of holding, and thought that the Ars Magica spell guidelines could be extended to have a new target called Container. It would function much the same as T: Room (a +2 mag Target), where all inhabitants of the room are affected.
Container – the spell affects everything within a container. This container must have an opening, have a easily discernible structure and boundaries, and be crafted specifically for carrying or moving. The base container may be of any size up to a coffin, large barrel, or cauldron (size +0 as base).
A key difference is the container does not have to be closed or locked to be valid, or even be water-tight as cups, bird cages, vases, sacks, or backpacks are examples of valid containers. A sack or pouch could not really be considered a room. Container may also be used as a valid target for Creo magic, allowing the mass crated to be up to the volume of the container, as long as the amount of material crated is large enough; thus an advantage over T: Room which cannot be a valid target for creo spells which create things.
With an increase in magnitude larger containers are allowed, such as +1 mag to allow affecting the contents of a massive chest, and +2 mag to affect the contents of a horse drawn cart.
The fundamental difference between using T: Room vs T: Container is the usage of the containers as typically being portable. Some hermetic spells may make use of T: Room to achieve T: Container in the setting, and I’d suggest this guideline be along side (although probably replacing it) for those effects.
As a minor hermetic breakthrough T: Container seems good enough to be worthy of a Bonisagus’s time, but still not so overt in power to be abusive. It would sit within the spell mechanics at the same degree of power as T: Room, and is intended as an extension to the regular targets already in the game, rather than as a target that would require a special virtue to use.
These spells and effects demonstrate the use of hermetic magic in enhancing physical combat, typically for others. While it is easy for a magus to destroy or impair a mundane opponent in an overt manner, these effects can be used in combat in a far more subtle way than fireballs, walls of earth, or lightning bolts; and may also be the basis for effects in enchanted devices for companions.
A spell to increase Soak for a character matches the guidelines as a core effect. As a base effect a +2 bonus to soak is a significant combat advantage, while keeping the spell level small enough to not be considered a powerful effect.
The bonus to soak guidelines offer a +1 Soak for each +1 magnitude of spell, so the spells above could be raised or powered by a few levels to provide a different bonus subject to what the caster desires.
The casters body is enhanced and toughened, gaining a +2 bonus to Soak for the duration. From the Ars Magica muto corpus guidelines p. 132.
Back in the dim dark of my rpg life I was involved in writing and publishing an role playing game magazine. We were a rag tag (unskilled) group of optimists (confused) who thought it could be done better. And for one issue at least it was.
I learn more about making people complete work, deadlines, printing methods, budgets, and haggling with stores than I did about roleplaying, and it was my first real action as a author that went somewhere.
Just recently I went sifting through the inter-web and found a rough table of contents, and the cover design. I’m chuffed something of it still exists, as I really thought it was only memory.In that edition I wrote an article about advancing Ars Magica magi from apprenticeship, which fitted to the third edition rules, and another article about using sorcery with an Egyptian feel. From memory the Apprenticeship rules would stand up today, as I remember being really proud of them.
On the other hand I really had no idea if the lore of Egypt in the middle ages matched at all what I wrote, so I suspect the “sorcery” was far from historic, but hey; it was content. Starting a mag with two articles on Ars Magica seemed like a great idea at the time.
It makes me think that the content freely given via blogs is content that would probably never see the light of day, and a slight percentage might have been used in fanzines and publications like this one.The Internet age grants us a massive capacity to share our rambling thoughts, but also to share real value, and if i had my time again I’d probably opt to produce an e-mag rather than a print mag, and pay for it via ad-clicks.
The cover art was by my brother Simon, who I think did an excellent job too, and given this was the pre-internet days (well very early use-net and pine days) having a team collaborating on a single edition, with fancy layout and artwork throughout was something different for a bunch of smelly gamers.
Apprentices in Ars Magica Starting out puny.
Interview with Katherine Kerr Roleplaying and books interview.
Sorcery for Ars Magica Rules for incorporating a new magic type into Ars Magica, the ancient Egyption srt of Sorcery. Also has conversion notes for GURPS and AD&D.
Magic in Roleplaying and Reality Magic, magic everywhere….
Subscripions are $20 for 4 magazines. The magazine has a light cardboard cover and is 64 pages long. The magazine is printed in black and white and is set out quite well.
If only I could get a digital copy again, and post that up too.
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The only other friendly will be against foreign opposition at Molineux on August 7.
Ticket details have been confirmed for most of Wolves’ pre-season fixtures in July.
Wolves played Bohemians in Ireland three years ago.
Wolves will play Bohemians in Ireland as part of a four-day tour in July.
Mick McCarthy and his squad will be over there from July 14-17 and are set to play Bohs on Saturday July 17 (3pm).
Another friendly has been been confirmed with Wolves travelling into Europe to play Charleroi on Saturday July 24.
*Wolves’ development squad are going on a short tour of Northern Ireland. A benefit match for Daniel Wright against Glenavon (July 17) has been arranged.
Wolves have announced four pre-season friendlies due to take place this summer.
Wolves will more than likely play some kind of foreign opposition at Molineux a week before the season starts as they did against Real Valladolid last August.
More games are expected to be announced in due course but here are four games already confirmed.
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Alfred William Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919) was the second Prime Minister of Australia.
He was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia, the second child of William Deakin. In the 1890s he helped Australia become a country. He was Australia's first Attorney-General (head lawyer) when Edmund Barton was Prime Minister and then became Prime Minister after Barton left. He introduced the Bill to start Australia's High Court, began planning for a railway to cross Australia, took over control of New Guinea from Britain, and introduced old age pensions.
Deakin married Elizabeth Brown on 3 April 1882. They had three children.
When he was old he had Alzheimer's disease which made him forget a lot of things. Alfred Deakin died on the 7 October 1919 in South Yarra, Victoria.He was buried at St.Kilda Cemetery.
↑ Alfred Deakin/ Prime Facts 2. The Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
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This site is owned by Kentucky Divorce Law Consulting LLC whose member, Diana L. Skaggs, is a member of the law firm of Diana L. Skaggs + Partners, PLLC. Skaggs is A.V. rated by Martindale-Hubbell. The other lawyers in the firm are partner Michelle Eisenmenger Mapes and associate Elizabeth M. Howell.
The attorneys of Diana L. Skaggs + Partners, PLLC practice exclusively in the area of divorce and family law offering competent, quality, and creative solutions to family law problems.
In practice for more than 30 years, Skaggs is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a former member of its Board of Governors and was the 2007-2009 President of the Kentucky Chapter. In 2011 she was honored to be elected a Diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, a national organization of 100 divorce litigators and the only member from Kentucky. She was selected for inclusion in 2008-2015 Best Lawyers in America, in the field of family law (Copyright 2015 Woodard/White,Inc. of Aiken, S.C.). Diana was also named in the 2007-2015 editions of Super Lawyers as being among the top 5% of family lawyers and from 2007-2012 one of the top 25 women attorneys in Kentucky across all fields of practice. In January 2006, she was honored by the Louisville Bar Association with the Richard A. Revell Family Law Award for being in the forefront of new developments in the practice of family law in addition to exhibiting dedication to families and children, public service, and innovation in her practice. In 2010 she received the "Raising the Bar Award" from the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Skaggs’ extensive litigation experience enhances the ability of her firm to pursue reasonable settlements to avoid trial. Two attorneys in the firm are trained in collaborative family law and share a commitment to strive for settlement at the earliest possible time. All attorneys also participate in high quality, continuing, national family law education. Furthermore, Skaggs has been a frequent lecturer to other family law attorneys. She is also a family law arbitrator, certified by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
While Skaggs concentrates her own practice in complex financial, tax, business valuation, and extensive property family law issues, her firm represents a range of individuals with family law issues such as child custody and parenting plans, spousal and child support, and division of retirement assets. Several of their appellate cases have created important precedent in Kentucky.
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The opera area joins forces with the MacMillan Singers (Hilary Apfelstadt, director) to present Benjamin Britten's Paul Bunyan, based upon the story of the mythical American lumberjack. The operetta, which received its Canadian premiere at the Faculty of Music in 1998, unites a clever libretto by W.H. Auden with a fresh and melodic score by the youthful Benjamin Britten. Michael Patrick Albano directs with choreography by Anna Theodosakis. The production design is by Fred Perruzza and Lisa Magill. Sandra Horst conducts.
Additional funding provided by donors to the Opera Production Fund and by members of Continuo, U of T Opera’s annual giving program.
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There is an old saying “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” but I believe we can have free things by proper planning and implementation. In the next couple of pages I will demonstrate how India can have free solar power installed.
Mother Nature has truly blessed India with a great climate and particularly 300 rains free sunny days. Legendary Thomas Alva Edison famously quoted in conversation with another legendary Henry ford “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! “. Now it’s the turn of Government of India to put their money on solar and get the enormous benefits on free.
Now not taking a long I will try to justify how GoI can install solar for free. Currently if we look installation of solar is costly (as per CERC it costs a whooping 6.5 Cr as compare to 3-4 Cr for Coal). But the long term cost of solar is very low (infact lower than coal as no input cost). Solar power plants have a life cycle of 25 years and once installed there is no input cost with a very small operational cost. The cost of solar per unit is now reaching INR 5.5 (way below Industrial rates) and by 2015 it will achieve retail level grid parity as well.
To install 1 MW GoI needs money and this money can come from any Financial Institution like SBI. Solar PV plant installation doesn’t take a long time (less than 6 months). Meanwhile in these 6 months GoI should replace or purchase 1066 Mahindra E20 at a cost of 68.2 Cr (E20 will cost 6,40,000). This replacement is not necessary for employees and GoI can tie up Mahindra /Individual to meet this target.
After the solar plant is installed it will start generating electricity which can be used by these cars. Now the best part of these Electric vehicles is that they don’t use Petrol/DieselJ. Also any automobile engineer can tell you that internal combustion engines are very inefficient as compared to electric counterpart. This results in having difference in the average of Petrol/Diesel and Electric cars. The average efficiency of petrol car is 15KMPL while electric car can drive 100 KM in 10 units. Currently I am comparing apples with oranges but to compare on the level ground lets move to expenses i.e money spend for travelling.
In general 1 MW solar plant produces 1.6 Million units (1600000) in full year. Currently E20 has the efficiency of 100 KM per 10 units so these 1.6 Million units are sufficient to drive 1066 E20 for 1 year with monthly average of 1000 KM. Basically by installing 1 MW you can drive 1066 cars for free in entire year. Now we look how much it will cost to run petrol cars. Assuming a 15KMPL petrol car with a monthly run of 1000 KM will cost INR 5000 per month with petrol at Rs 75. So in a year it will cost INR 60000 and all 1066 cars would cost INR 6, 40, 00,000 i.e 6.4 Cr.
Here I am even not considering the health benefits or employment benefits. Generally a petrol car emits 0.465 Kg/Ltr of Co2 and by running these electric cars we can stop 396800 Kg of Co2 emission.I assume till this point you would have guessed why I was saying that installation of solar is free for GoI. It saves around 6.4 Cr in running cost in 1st year only which can be used to pay back to SBI. However this is just one variable of the profitable equation. GoI will also earn from the excise duty, sales duty & various taxes on sales of 1066 E20. Assuming these taxes to be 10% of the car cost GoI will earn 6.8 Cr.
Obviously people will say that GoI needs to spend 68.2 Cr for these cars but the running cost savings will pay for themselves (EMI) in next 8 years. Since electric cars have less number of moving parts hence the maintenance cost is also very less which increase more savings. Only cost is the replacement of battery in 6 -8 years which is 1,00,000 per car and can be recouped in very next year by the car.
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Announcement for an event tomorrow, Wednesday March 27th at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN (6-8pm).
This is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even a put-down. The reading will feature members of the Vanderbilt community who are proud to speak out to end violence.
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10. Navy 14, Army 2, 1950: The Cadets had a 28-game unbeaten streak ended by the Midshipmen, who were 2-6.
9. Georgia Tech 3, Notre Dame 3, 1980: No. 1 Irish were 7-0 and Tech was 1-7. No wonder Notre Dame coach Dan Devine resigned after the season.
8. Oregon State 21, Washington 20, 1985: The Huskies were 37-point favorites at home against the Beavers, who had three Pac-10 wins since the start of the 1981 season.
7. Notre Dame 7, Oklahoma 0, 1957: The Irish were coming off two straight losses when they ended the Sooners' 47-game winning streak in Norman.
6. The Citadel 10, Arkansas 3, 1992: Losing to a Division I-AA team got Jack Crowe fired as the Hogs' coach the next day.
5. Carnegie Tech 19, Notre Dame 0, 1926: The 8-0 Irish had yielded seven points all season, so coach Knute Rockne decided to attend the Army-Navy game rather than be with his squad against Carnegie.
4. Centre College 6, Harvard 0, 1921: The school with 254 students ended the 25-game winning streak of the national powerhouse Crimson.
3. TCU 6, Texas 0, 1961: The No. 1 Longhorns were 8-0 but lost at home to the Horned Frogs, who were 2-4-1 and coming off consecutive losses.
2. Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32, 2007: First time a Division I-AA team (now Championship Subdivision) beat a ranked I-A (now Bowl Subdivision) team.
1. Temple 28, Virginia Tech 24, 1998: The No. 14 Hokies blew a 17-0 lead at home against the 351/2-point underdog Owls, who were 0-6, including a loss to Division I-AA William & Mary.
4. Boone, N.C., travel bureau: Folks might want to visit the beautiful secluded town of 13,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains, home of Appalachian State.
3. Appalachian State coffers: Not only did the Mountaineers take home $400,000 for the visit to Ann Arbor, but applications and visibility figure to rise.
2. Daniel Boone: We have not heard much about the American pioneer, for whom Boone, N.C., is named, since the Fess Parker TV show was canceled in 1970.
1. Appalachian State chancellor Kenneth Peacock: Notified that celebrating students had torn down the goalpost on ASU's home field and deposited it in his front yard, Peacock dismissed stodgy university-president protocol, and said, "I can't wait to get there and see it."
2. Michigan's Mike Hart: Despite returning from a thigh injury to nearly lead a comeback win, the running back's Heisman Trophy hopes disappeared.
1. Lloyd Carr: Rumors of the Michigan coach's retirement after this season will intensify, and he will be remembered for this loss rather than for sharing the 1997 national championship and having a 16-8 record against top-10 teams.
4. Alabama State University: A 24-19 win over Jacksonville State in the coaching debut of former NFL player Reggie Barlow.
3. Arkansas State University: The Indians held their own in a 21-13 loss at No. 4 Texas.
2. Arizona State University: The Sun Devils crushed San Jose State 45-3 in Dennis Erickson's debut.
1. Appalachian State University: The pride of Watauga County.
5. Hawaii's Colt Brennan: He threw six TD passes and played only one half against Northern Colorado.
4. Colorado's Cody Hawkins: Redshirt freshman, the son of Buffs head coach Dan Hawkins, was solid in his debut, a 31-28 overtime win over Colorado State.
3. Washington's Jake Locker: If the redshirt freshman is as good as he showed against a lousy Syracuse team, the Huskies are the Pac-10's dark horse.
2. Oklahoma's Sam Bradford: Quarterback is the Sooners' only question mark, and this redshirt freshman completed 21 of 23 passes (91.3 percent) for three touchdown and no interceptions against North Texas.
1. Appalachian State's Armanti Edwards: Only one Division I-A school, New Mexico State, offered a scholarship to Edwards, who led the Mountaineers on the winning drive in front 109,218 spectators at the Big House.
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Beautiful day for a picnic! Today’s lunch from Gulick Delicatessen: furikake spam musubi, tuna roll, sweet potato tempura, tofu patty, potato mac salad.
We were finally able to make use of our gift certificate to celebrate a belated anniversary. We said good bye to Nomz as we left her at her cousin’s and headed off to our reservation at Alan Wong’s.
Neither D or I drink much alcohol. Our virgin passion fruit mojito and yuzu soda. So refreshing!
After studying the menu, the Chef’s Tasting Menu seemed very attractive, but we decided to go ala carte and share everything. First came the Seafood Cakes with tsukemono relish ($20.00). The delicious cakes are made of lobster, shrimp and crab and topped with chopped tsukemono which I loved.
Hudson Valley Foie Gras with Vermont cheddar, maple syrup and macadamia nuts ($20.50) – such a rich decadent dish.
Hawaii Island Goat Dairy Chèvre and Pickled Beet Salad ($15.00). The tomatoes were lightly marinated in sweet ume and matched perfectly with the creamy goat cheese hiding under the greens.
D’s entree was Beef Tenderloin ($45.00) served with spicy chèvre on top, bearnaise sauce on the side, and mushroom purée.
My Pan Steamed Opakapaka ($42.00) with shrimp pork hash, gingered veggies, green onions and cilantro, and truffle nage all around. So much going on in this dish!
We skipped dessert since I had already put in a request for a stop at Bubbies afterwards, but macadamia nut chocolates were served as mignardise.
Everything was so elegantly done and delicious it’s no wonder after so long in business they’re still booked full every night. I most of all enjoyed slowly savoring a multi course meal in a fine dining restaurant, a rare opportunity these days. I can’t believe we are celebrating 10 years of marriage! What a wonderful 10 years it’s been, especially the last year with the addition of our daughter. If I had to choose one word to sum up how I feel, it would probably be “gratitude”.
On a recent outing to Ko Olina, we enjoyed lunch and a stroll through the impressive grounds of Disney’s newly built Aulani Resort. It’s no theme park, but with a waterpark-like pool area, cheery cast members and the occasional Mickey Mouse sighting, you can still feel a bit of Disney magic in the air.
For lunch we enjoyed a fun presentation of Kahuku Corn Chowder ($9.00): the potage is poured into a bowl over bacon powder, lomi salmon, and taro chips, to be stirred together.
Chargrilled Vegetable Sandwich ($12.00): portabello mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini on focaccia with basil aioli. Served with field greens.
Today’s Hawaiian Sustainable Catch (Fish) Tacos, $19.00, with slaw and salsa, served with sweet potato fries. This was refreshing and light, with fresh cilantro. The sweet potato fries were addictive.
Grilled Sirloin Steak ($24.00) with sauteed mushrooms and sweet potato fries.
Lilikoi Meringe Mousse with Caramelized Bananas ($10.00): this was delicious and just the right size!
Spacious Ko Olina Resort is a nice escape from the usual where you can experience a neighbor island feel without having to hop on a plane. Whether you go for lunch or for the weekend, you’re sure to go home feeling refreshed and relaxed.
We celebrated my niece’s 1st birthday with an intimate family party at SIL2’s. Cherry blossoms and pink butterflies adorned the house, and the birthday girl looked so adorable in a pink cherry blossom outfit and butterflies in her hair.
SIL2 ordered a fabulous custom cake from Cake Works, and hand-strung and hung butterflies from the ceiling.
Lunch was like a sampling menu of local favorites: fried noodles from Jurison’s Inn, maki sushi from Kabuki, fried chicken, furikake ahi, and bbq beef from Aiea Bowl, 3 different kinds of poke from Foodland, and potato mac salad handmade by Grandma (MIL).
The room was filled with lots of love for the sweet girl, and we wish her every blessing in life as she continues to grow…!
Hubby’s brother (BIL4) and his wife (SIL4) are in town for a short visit from L.A. The family met up for dinner at the original Side Street Inn for some casual, local style eats.
Side Street Inn is very popular for local style pupus and comfort food and I know a lot of chefs and cooks who like to hang out there after they get off work late at night. The menu here is unapologetically filled with deep-fried, buttery, carnivorous goodness. But that is what local comfort food is all about, and although I try to eat healthy most of the time, I can definitely appreciate a great, soul-satisfying meal at Side Street Inn once in a while.
Chinese Chicken Salad ($7.50, half order) – my attempt at including at least some type of plant source in every meal.
Original Fried Rice ($11.00) – with bacon, portuguese sausage and peas. Enough to feed 4 people at least!
This place is so famous and popular and it’s no mystery why. Great food, friendly service, generous portions, reasonable prices are the cornerstones of a successful restaurant in Hawaii. Side Street Inn’s got it down. I would recommend going in a large group and sharing everything pupu style.
Today’s lunch was take-out from Gulick Delicatessen. I haven’t been to the original location in Kalihi but this one on S. King Street is close by and convenient. Known as an “okazuya”, this type of eatery has a spread of classic local and Japanese dishes like musubis, fried chicken, shoyu hot dog, mac salad, tempura, cone sushi and teri beef, all on display and priced per piece or single serving.The prices are cheap, the portions are big and I just love the freedom of picking out as much or as little as I want for a customized plate lunch.
Hubby’s plate was so heaping big the lid wouldn’t close and only cost $6.40 total! Spam Furikake Musubi ($1.35), Chow Mein ($1.35), Spicy Garlic Chicken ($2.85) and Veggie Tempura ($0.85).
My plate of Furikake Musubi ($0.95), Omelette with Spam and Kamaboko ($1.95) and Nishime ($2.55) for a total of $5.45.
It’s been a busy week for me, playing tour guide to my mom and auntie. I forgot to take photos of most of our meals as we ate our way around the island but one meal I did manage to take was our garlic shrimp plate in Kahuku.
Kahuku shrimp has now become a must-stop spot for visitors with so many shrimp trucks to choose from. My sister swears by Sachi’s (I think that was the name – I don’t remember any large signage), between Giovanni’s and Fumi’s, right across the street from Kahuku High School. I’ve tried others and like Sachi’s so far, but am also interested in trying out others.
There are many flavors to choose from, but it’s always the Garlic Butter Shrimp Plate ($11.00) for me. This is no time to be modest: this plate requires digging in with your hands, sucking the garlicky goodness from the shells, then licking the dripping butter from your fingers. Yum!
A circle-isle drive is just not complete without a stop at one of Kahuku’s famous shrimp trucks.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (foje mallongigita al Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) laŭvorte La Historio de la Malpliiĝo kaj Falo de la Romia Imperio aŭ La Historio de la Malkresko kaj Falo de la Romia Imperio, estas verko pri historio verkita de la angla historiisto Edward Gibbon, kiu skizas la itineron de la okcidenta civilizo (same kiel la konkeroj fare de Islamo kaj de Mongoloj) ekde la epoko de la pinto de la Romia Imperio al la falo de Bizanco. Ĝi estis publikigita en ses volumoj. Volumo I estis publikigita en 1776 kaj ricevis ses presaĵojn. Volumoj II kaj III estis publikigitaj en 1781; volumoj IV, V, kaj VI en 1788–89. La originaj volumoj estis publikigitaj en kvaronsistemo, ofta publikiga praktiko de la epoko. La verko kovras la historion de la Romia Imperio, Eŭropo, kaj la Katolika Eklezio el 98 al 1590 kaj studas la epokon de la Deklino de la Romia Imperio en la Oriento kaj Okcidento. Pro ties relativa objekteco kaj granda uzado de unuarangaj fonotoj, malkutime en la epoko, ties metodologio iĝis modelo por postaj historiistoj. Tio kondukis al fakto ke Gibbon estis nomita la unua "moderna historiisto de antikva Romo".
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Brownley, Martine W. "Gibbon's Artistic and Historical Scope in the Decline and Fall," Journal of the History of Ideas 42,4(1981), 629–642.
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Craddock, Patricia. "Historical Discovery and Literary Invention in Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall'," Modern Philology 85,4(May 1988), 569–587.
Furet, Francois. "Civilization and Barbarism in Gibbon's History," Daedalus 105,3(1976), 209–216.
Gay, Peter. Style in History (New York: Basic Books, 1974); [ISBN 0-465-08304-8].
Ghosh, Peter R. "Gibbon's Dark Ages: Some Remarks on the Genesis of the Decline and Fall," Journal of Roman Studies 73(1983), 1–23.
Kelly, Christopher. "A Grand Tour: Reading Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall'," Greece & Rome 2nd ser., 44,1 (Apr. 1997), 39–58.
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Lovely story! Yours? Happy V-day!
😉 Thank you dear Mridubala, I’m really glad that you liked it! Bleated V-day greetings to you too!
that’s a lovely story…and the name “All’s well that ends in love ” …is as always what i believe too…though there were many questions unanswered for Tia but what’s more comforting than a true love?
Absolutely, Anjan. It makes you feel so blessed!
A very happy Valentine’s day greetings to you too.
LOL. Thank you for another classic Teju tale…I loved this very touching story of your courtship. A great Valentine’s Day post! Just an aside, my husband also proposed to me more than once over a period of years. I am grateful that I finally accepted and happier than ever.
Logging in to see your comment, always instantly brings a smile to my face.
This is a great story Teju. How else could have Tia acted to make Rahul see the correct picture ?
Thank you Shakti, I’m really glad that you liked it.
Many are influenced by the life – light you share in your words for your spirit brightly shines through it to all who embrace them…I feel you have so much more within you to give through your pen! Share, share, share the goodness within, you have influenced us all with your messages and poems. This is for you my sister, and may it bless you abundantly…I have nominated you at my blog site tonight for the Most Influential Blog Award 2012. You deserve it for 2012, and you will also continue I can feel it. Continue to share and lift hearts and minds around the world! God bless you Teju!
Thank you so much for the very kind, appreciative and motivating words, brother Wendell. I feel humbled to know you find my blog worthy of this recognition. You were right when you said that there are still lot of thoughts within me that’s waiting to erupt, and I’m really longing to share it all with my family, here on WordPress. Thank you again for this wonderful gesture. It’s the thoughts behind these awards that really matter to me. Stay blessed, dear Wendell.
A lovely story, you should consider writing a book, keep up the good work. Love from me.
Thanks, Dilip, glad you liked it!
Have a read on my blog.
Hey dear where’re you? No posts for so long time… Is everything okay ??
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Lower-level female employees benefit from other women breaking through to upper management, a new study says.
According to the study, titled "Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap," women in the United States are entering managerial positions in increasing numbers. Until now, though, most research on the topic has looked only at how that shift has affected women in management; there has been minimal research examining the effect of these promotions on all working women, and previous data relied on small samples from within specific industries. In the "Working for the Woman" study, researchers checked out the issue on a national level, across industries, and across employee pay grades -- their research drew data from the 2002 U.S. Census, with a sample of approximately 1.32 million workers across 155 industries and 79 metropolitan labor markets -- and questioned whether the increase in the number of female managers has made a difference for women lower in the hierarchy.
And the answer seems to be yes. Broadsheet talked with study coauthor Matt Huffman, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, who explained, "What we were really looking at was how the 'glass ceiling' issue extends to all women, beyond just the managerial level -- to subordinate or lower-level female employees. So, what are the consequences of some women breaking through that glass ceiling? And what we found is that women making it to these upper-level managerial positions [do] lift all boats -- the benefits, the narrowing wage gap, filter down to women in non-managerial positions."
Seem like a no-brainer? While this information may appear prosaic at first, the results seem to turn previous findings on their head. Prior to the current study, there was little empirical evidence that the movement of women into managerial positions resulted in any material benefits for women who didn't make the jump.
The "Working for the Woman" study tried a different angle. Huffman, along with Phillip Cohen, an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, performed detailed analyses of previous research on the topic. Their work "extends the existing literature by considering whether the relative status of female managers affects the pattern of gender inequality beneath them."
For instance, previous research suggested that women who make it to management roles aren't necessarily invested in changing the system. (This may have been especially true in the early years of women in the workplace, when very few women attained management positions.) Huffman and Cohen's report suggests that this factor may partially explain why previous research didn't see female management benefiting other female workers, and why greater numbers of women in management roles haven't yet translated to great gains for all women.
"Although there are reasons to believe female managers might reduce inequality, the underlying motivations and power assumptions are debatable," the report notes. Women who display "affinity with the existing hierarchy" may be more likely to get promoted. "There are a variety of factors that play into the selection of management," Huffman says. "You know, if the women who made it to management did so because they were seen as being a team player or were seen as being traditional, they may not be so willing to help other women."
Second, as previous studies have found, benefits to women workers seem to trickle down only when women are employed in high-level managerial positions and can influence policy. If female managers don't have a say in wages or promotion schedules, they're less able to give fellow workers a boost. The study found that in the construction industry, for instance, women tend to be clustered at the low end of managerial hierarchies and may not have enough power or motivation to pass along benefits to subordinate female workers. So if the upside of these findings is that women help each other out when given the chance, the downside is that the so-called glass ceiling has broad effects. "Not only are qualified women blocked from upper-level managerial positions and denied the benefits of those jobs, but their absence has ripple effects that shape workplace outcomes for non-managerial women as well," the study observes.
Interesting/potentially distressing side note: Some data analysis in the research found that wages for men are lower in the industries with more female managers. Huffman observes that there is not enough information to draw specific conclusions, but it'd be interesting to learn why this is -- do male workers find it harder to get ahead under a female manager, or do women managers remain concentrated in workplace settings with lower wages across the board?
All in all, the results are provocative. Huffman says that the hope is that this study will draw increased attention to the role that managers play in producing and sustaining labor market inequality, and that it will shed light on the potential influence of women who do break through the glass. Further questions remain: If women in high management positions bring material benefits to women in all positions, will minority and/or LGBT workers in upper-management roles help advance their respective communities? Will we see similar changes in networks outside the traditional work world, like activism and politics? It would be nice to see the "Working for the Woman" study act as a catalyst for similar research in disparate fields.
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Hey #SamoreLoveBugz be sure to like, share and thumbs up if you would like to see more natural hair videos by yours truly! In this video I recreated a style that I recently saw ambrosia do which was on jumbo bantu knots (see here: http://youtu.be/ITVqw4UCPVM . I was like hmm let me try this out. Well in this video you will see the results.
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I couldn’t resist. I treated myself to an afternoon of drawing.
To start, a sketch in china marker, 11 x 8½. Having learned from that exploration, I did a second drawing, 14 x 11, in china marker and Stabilo pencil.
Another drawing followed. More on that and students’ reaction in the next post.
Traditionally, flowers are a sentimental subject in art. The perfume of the cliché hangs over them. The viewer’s mind goes soft. Oh, how pretty! Oh, how boring.
Still, there it is, a luscious amaryllis. It helps, of course, that it’s presented with a twist: just plopped down on this heap of cloth with the plastic stem coiling and creasing, like a cheap garden hose. This is good for the imagination.
In her drawing, Maggy S. is working in china marker on gloss paper, about 14 x 11. On gloss paper the china marker can be scraped off with a razor blade, but only to a limited extent, making for a pretty focused drawing process.
The artist puts down the amaryllis in red and then starts to work the background in black, keeping the texture lively. The flower is readable as what it is and the stem coils clearly, though it alerts us right away to the possibility that what we’re facing here is not all plain, up-front and literal. Now, what to do with the black! If she fills in the black as background, which is what she actually sees (please go back to the previous post to see the still life set up), then the whole thing will become too literal—red flower on black background, get it!!—and the drawing will fall flat. But if the black “background” goes beyond being merely background and takes on a life of its own, we may be getting into art. The artist restrains herself from filling in the left side of the page with black and just leaves that to the imagination, with two results: 1) The white on the left sets up tension in relation to the black on the right. 2) The black now moves through the page in an s-curve of its own. This black s-curve echoes the s-curve in the flower’s stem. Just seeing this is thrilling. Because of that, the drawing may be considered finished.
Given their sentimental association in our history, flowers present a challenge to the modern artist. But many of our mentors-in-modernism have approached the subject with plenty of irony and grit. You may want to look up paintings of flowers and still lifes by Cézanne, Redon, Schiele and Van Gogh.
Models for life drawing do whatever they want.
A model will alternate standing poses with crouching poses and then she may feel like folding herself up and after that she’s likely to invert herself, feet up against the wall. Since I like to create a dense drawing surface, with overlapping figures, I tend to have several sheets of paper in the works. Let’s see, now her head is down and her arm is draping off the model stand…where should that go…there’s not much time to decide. The pose may last only three minutes. Then the paper has to be taped down…the timer ticks away. But this urgency is all for the good. It concentrates the mind.
The paper here was prepared in the manner discussed May 6, 2011.
These are some of my ten minute drawings from last Monday. We are a group of artists who meet at the Evanston Art Center for three hours to draw and paint from the model.
I drew on gloss paper with China marker; 11 x 14.
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Freedom of information is the right to freedom of expression on the Internet and other information technology. Freedom of information is the ability to access the Web without censorship or restrictions.
Freedom of information is a human right recognised in international law. Freedom of speech includes not only the text and pictures but also the means of expression. Freedom of information may also refer to the right to privacy in the context of the Internet and information technology. The right to privacy is a human right and freedom of information is an extension of this right.
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Once again, GMA is promoting the impending conclusion of ‘The Half-Sisters’.
Recently, GMA released a teaser for the long-running Afternoon Prime series, which suggests that ‘The Half-Sisters’ is coming to an end anytime soon. The series, which stars the likes of Barbie Forteza, Thea Tolentino, Jean Garcia, Andre Paras and Ryan Eigenmann, has been airing for over 19 months now.
This is the second time that the Kapuso network advertised the conclusion of ‘The Half-Sisters’. They previously released a similar teaser in October, only to pull it out amid news of an extension.
Unless they change their minds yet again, the countdown to the conclusion of ‘The Half-Sisters’ is now underway. For loyal viewers of the show, this is long overdue, and now they hope that the series will end on a high note.
eto ang 3rd longest running / top rating afternoon drama series sa GMA after the successful of GMA’ s afternoon drama series: 1. Valiente (which run for 2 yrs. from 1995-1997) & 2. Daisy Siete (which run for 6 years & 26 seasons from Sept. 1, 2003 – July 2, 2010), yan ang pinakamatagal yung Daisy Siete ng Sexbomb Girls.
Daisy Siete is technically an anthology, not a drama series. Paiba-iba sila ng istorya per season, that’s why they’re an anthology.
Madalang ngayon ang mga drama series na nagtatagal ng at least dalawang taon. Be Careful with My Heart is one recent example.
Finally. You know what they say: Walang Forever.
Well, GMA should keep that promise. They always tend to retract such announcements in short notice, and they did it twice on The Half-Sisters.
Potential replacement: Wish I May, featuring the BiGuel tandem.
The press release of GMA, which is definitely not as consistent as ABS is, will have to wait.
A plug that announces the final few weeks of THS has been aired. This means THS will end in early January 2016.
This means, no more extensions for the series. The time has come indeed for a new one.
Sobrang demoted at overdue na ang Wish I May. We thought sa primetime ang bagsak nito, but as it turned out, sa hapon lang siya mapapanood. Maybe it’s because of the AlDub thing that forced GMA to wait for the perfect opportunity. Oh well, it’s either success or disaster for the show.
Aside from THS, Marimar will on the way on its last two weeks of airing.
We don’t know its replacement yet though.
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What can I say, I just love being different so I've had so much fun using Typography to make Valentine's cards! This card has a cute little door on the front, that opens where you can write your sweetie a message. Again, I've used the Flourish Heart Frame from Creative Embellishments and colored it with Lindy's Golden Lump O' Coal.
Here's a start to finish build a card if you want to make a card similar to this one.!
Love the litle door where you can write a "secret" message!
Give my card a try and be sure to post your creations to our Facebook page!
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In our previous posts we provided some tips about building a website and talked about website structure. Today we want to give you some advise regarding online advertisement which helps to generate more traffic to your website. But before we get started we would like to mention our post about Online Marketing, which will give you some general information.
Having a well designed website is the first step to promote your business, products, services and even events online. The second is to generate traffic to your site and to hopefully get customers. One way to get more visitors to your website is to do online advertisement. Online ads can be in form of a simple text ad or a more engaging and colourful banner ad. Thanks to increasing internet speed and acceptance you also have the option to do online video advertisement.
This is a simple ad which you can find when you use the Google search engine. The ad appears either on top or on the right hand site. It is important to mention that Google has many partners across the internet so that your ad might also appear on other websites. You will have a title, description and link. When you are setting up your ad you can select keywords related to what you want to promote as well as a target group.
A Banner is a fantastic way to give your ad a bit more colour. The Banners sizes vary from a small square size banner to a so called skyscraper or larger vertical banner. Similar to the Text ad you select your target group and pay only if someone clicks on it. If designing a banner is not your thing there are many possibilities to get a banner made. We would be happy to help you out.
We would like to remind you that the goal was to run each campaign for an overall cost of $3,000 for 3 month. If we compare now those 3 campaigns we can see that even if the initial costs for a video ad was much higher and because of it the budget for the campaign so much lower, we reached in the end more potential new clients compare to a regular text ad.
Of course the best way to advertise is not putting all eggs into one basket. Diversity is a much better approach, but we hope the little comparison did help you decide where your investment will give you the best return.
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Federal Allies Institute is pleased to inform its small business members London-headquartered Eversheds and U.S.-based Sutherland Asbill & Brennan have merged, creating a new global law firm known as Eversheds Sutherland.
The combined entity, which now boasts of more than 2,300 lawyers in 61 offices across 29 countries, will be led by joint CEOs as part of a six-strong global management team.
Eversheds Sutherland (International) managing partner and CEO-elect Lee Ranson and Eversheds Sutherland (US) managing partner Mark Wasserman have been appointed as joint CEOs.
According to a media statement, no significant internal structural changes are expected within either firm, and respective practice group heads will work together to co-lead client initiatives.
The move comes months after merger plans were announced in December 2016. “During the past two years under its new name Eversheds Sutherland has become a top supporter of Federal Allies Institute providing great assistance to our national Federal Allies Summits and Washington Days Conference and we very much look forward to continuing this alliance, said David T. Boddie, Founder & Executive Director, Federal Allies Institute.
This entry was posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2017 at 7:33 pm and is filed under DoD, Federal Allies Network, Legislation & Reg-Flex, U.S. SBA Advocacy, Uncategorized, Web Posts. 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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A Visit to Kentucky for Evan and Danielle’s Wedding!
Well, it’s official: wedding season has begun! One of my favorite things about Springtime (besides the increasingly warmer hot weather-Atlanta is supposed to be in the high 80’s all week!), is the steady trickle of wedding invitations that start coming in through the mail. Our fridge has several save the date magnets for 2012 weddings on it! This past weekend we traveled back home to Kentucky, more specifically Louisville, to celebrate the wedding of Drew’s cousin, Evan, to Danielle. The weekend was absolutely amazing, especially since we got to visit and spend time with so many friends and family members.
Drew and I got an early start Friday morning, taking Theo to the boarder for the long weekend, and then making the drive Louisville. Unlike 99% of our other road trips to Kentucky, we didn’t encounter any traffic and were even able to make a leisurely lunch stop before reaching Nanny and Granddaddy’s house. That night we headed to the beautiful church downtown for the rehearsal ceremony. It was so great to see that side of the family, many of whom we hadn’t seen since our own wedding. We sat with Andrew and Bethany, and had a good time catching up with them since we last saw them over Christmas. Throughout the rehearsal, Evan and Danielle didn’t seem too nervous, I’m sure they were excited and ready for their big day as much as anyone.
We spent the day on Saturday visiting with Bethany, Andrew and Venita, who came over for lunch. We can always count on being fed well whenever we visit Nanny and Granddaddy; there is never a shortage of sweets, that’s for sure! Drew’s parents arrived not long after, along with the always fashionable Smokey. We were able to visit with them a bit before heading on to the church. When we arrived, we were able to see Danielle posing for a few photos in front of the big red doors of the church. She and Evan did a “sneak peek” photo shoot, as he reached for her hand on the other side of the door. It was so sweet to see them both so happy, knowing that they were holding the other’s hand even if they couldn’t see each other just yet. No doubt those photos are going to turn out beautifully!
The ceremony itself was beautiful and the church was filled with friends and family. We sat closer to the front as Drew was to read a passage of scripture during the ceremony. When the doors opened and Danielle and her father walked down the aisle, I had to steal a glance at Evan. I know everyone always looks at the bride during this moment, but it was amazing to see the look on Evan’s face as he watched his bride walk toward him. I hope their photographer was able to capture that moment because it was truly special.
The reception took place at the Louisville Zoo and definitely turned out to be as fun as we thought it would. After being greeted at the entrance by several zoo animals, we took a short golf cart ride to where the tented reception was taking place. After grabbing a drink and heading inside to find our table, we took a look at the menu. Once again, there was no shortage of food–several stations were set up all throughout the tent offering different cuisines: sushi, fajitas, pasta and a mashed potato martini bar were just a few of the goodies being served. The highlight had to be the chocolate cake with the most amazing frosting I’ve ever tasted (and trust me, I’ve eaten a lot of frosting!) The lighting, table settings and decorations were absolutely beautiful; the zoo theme was in full effect with tables named after animals and a zebra-striped candy buffet table.
The wedding cake that was (almost) too pretty to eat.
Mid-way through dinner, the weather outside took a turn for the worse and it ended up hailing the size of golf balls. It was a little alarming at first since it had been bright and sunny when we arrived. Thankfully it settled down after a bit and we were able to continue enjoying the evening. The best part is that I don’t think the weather even fazed Evan and Danielle as their smiles didn’t leave their faces the entire night. After mingling with the family and bit more and dancing to a few songs, Drew and I said our goodbyes to everyone and headed back to Nanny and Granddaddy’s house.
The giant hail that came down during the reception. We didn't late it spoil our fun though!
The next morning we awoke early and enjoyed a quick breakfast with Nanny and Granddaddy before they headed off to church. One of the things I was most excited for during the weekend was meeting my Mom and Dad and Uncle Doug for lunch at Cheddar’s before having to head back to Atlanta. I hadn’t seen any of them since around Christmastime, so it was a visit very much overdue! I’m so glad we were able to visit with them as phone calls and email just aren’t the same. Thankfully it sounds like we won’t have to go as long until our next visit. Mom and Dad sent us back with a large cooler full of goodies so it looks like Drew and I won’t have to cook for ourselves for quite a while. Thank you both so much for taking care of us as always. Uncle Doug, thanks for treating us to lunch!
Meeting Mom and Dad for lunch at Cheddar's. So happy we got to see them!
It was a wonderful weekend, and we’re so happy we were able to see as many friends and family members as we did. Nanny and Granddaddy, thank you both so much for allowing us to stay with you-we always have such good visits with you all and are very much looking forward to a weekend at the lake. Bethany and Andrew, we had so much fun with you both—you all need to make a trip to Atlanta ASAP 😉 And finally, to Evan and Danielle, we wish you nothing but the best as you begin your new life together. We’re so incredibly happy for you two and we’re honored we were able to be a part of your special day!
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Jim agrees with you on the icing!! He told me how good it was!
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Hello everyone! I was just wondering if any of you non British out there have ever read a novel that is laden with typical English/British slang. Like Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting for instance. And if you got on with it ok or if it was a struggle? Did you lose interest due to not understanding a lot of the lingo?
haha oh I see. Well what I am currently writing is riddled with London urban slang and when I get to a point where I can share it on here, I was worried that the critique would be focussed on the not understanding London "ghetto" talk!
Actually that sounds pretty neat. But yeah, it might be difficult to understand. I think some authors include little dictionaries at the back of their books, but a lot of it is working things out from context.
I've read a lot of P.G. Wodehouse, which seems to include real and made-up upper-class slang. And I was fascinated by Nancy Mitford's explanation of U and Non-U words. If you can somehow make it clear what the words mean, at least once in the story, people should be able to catch on. And since it's more fun to learn real slang than made-up words, I think readers would be willing to give it a go.
Slang doesn't bother me nearly as much as when someone tries to write it phonetically.
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Sometimes the use of slang, especially in large amounts, can be difficult. But at the same time, some readers prefer that. It's sort of like - why do all the aliens in Star Trek speak English?
If I'm reading about something in the ghetto of London or whatever I want to be reading dialogue that reflects that, even if it is difficult to understand.
I don't think you need a dictionary for slang, though. Slang should easy to figure out from context I think.
Another good reason to include slang... it's hard to write accents into a story. People don't think in accents. Even if you say "Dorothy speaks in an accent when she says..." that really doesn't change it in my head. Using coloquialisms and slang can help differentiate ethnicity, race, gender, etc. Especially in England where there's a new accent every 50 feet.
I have. It just added interest, no problems.
Exercising care with the context in which the slang is used is the easiest way to enable readers to follow slang.
I'm in the UK currently - when I moved across from South Africa (I'm English speaking by the way) I was lost with all of the slang and at first had no idea what the heck they were talking about. Slowly have had much of it explained to me and I understand more of it now, although I don't think that I'd fancy reading it in a book if I was still green to the meanings. If you're aiming at an international market, perhaps cut down a little or give a glossary of the meaning to the words at the back of the book. Perhaps that would help. Just my opinion.
American in North Yorkshire, here. It was frustrating to move here originally, struggled with the NY accent and slang - and I love learning about that sort of thing.
However, if the slang is incorporated well, I think it could add, not detract. Like others have said - if the context makes the meaning clear, that could be fun to read. I have struggled through some books with difficult dialect, but at the same time, I hate it when they Americanize UK lit.
I don't like dictionaries in novels if I am forced to refer to it constantly just to understand the story, it takes me out of the story. I prefer to work out the slang from context. I will slog through the slang-dictionary back-and-forth for a very good story, but I don't know if I represent the average reader in this.
I used to live in northern England (I really miss it) and as an American I think most Americans can figure out the British slang. There have been a few terms that have thrown me off a bit, such as "What's the crack?" and "Faffing about," but otherwise I think using a bit of British slang adds to the story and helps the reader escape Hee-Haw Land and head to the land of young wizards and intelligent detectives ;).
Good thread, but I'm coming from the other angle. I cannot understand New York slang. Does anyone remember the TV series 'Taxi' - I could hardly follow the drift.
There is a classic comedy series in the UK - every Brit has ROFLOL, called 'Only Fools and Horses' - I lent a DVD of it to a friend from Chicago, she just could not get it! It amazed her that we found it remotely funny.
I am currently reading (researching) a book written over 170 years ago by an upper class lady from PA, US - it's so easy to follow.
I come from the North of England and I married a man from the South (London) he didn't understand some of my language either, such as 'draw' the curtains, 'side' the table, 'bottom' the bedrooms (close curtains, clear the table, give the bedrooms a good old clean).
Language is evolving, I just love to watch it happen. Wonder what Shakespeare would have made of it?
Being from a Commonwealth country, I still use a lot of English words, many of which are in my memoir especially in dialogue. I also used metric for distance, weight and height.
The freelance editors I worked with (to help me polish my ms) said i should change some words and use only Imperial measure for the American market. So out went words like "miffed", "naf", "bugger all" and "swish" only to be relaced by "annoyed", "tacky", "damn all" and "effiminate". Not quite the same but at least the words would make more sense to an American audience.
People's heights are in feet and inches, weights are in pounds and distances are in miles. I felt like I went back thirty years when i did that made those changes. Then again, the UK still uses Imperial measure. I think they do it just to spite the French.
I just read through your WIP in the SYM forum. Since you asked here about the slang - I thought I'd respond to that here. I liked the dialogue - the slang worked for me. Of course, I've watched UK Skins and other shows here with some slang, so I can kind of "hear" how it should roll a bit better than an uninitiated American might.
I felt like I could see the characters when reading their dialogue and didn't find the slang too heavy. In the context of your story, I can see how you would even need to use the slang for that passage to work or at least to have the same gritty impact.
I think they do it just to spite the French.
Agreed, with basically everyone above.
Pity to americanify UK novels. Slang adds flavour to any language.
My biggest laugh was when an American reader told me my novel was full of misspelled words. Example: flavour, cancelled, honour and the best: gynaecologist.
Second big laugh: since I live in France, I am constantly asked why the heck I write in English and not in French.
Answer: because I have done so for nearly 50 years now and think and even dream in English.
Question: But how come you speak perfect French?
Answer: Because I live here and have done so for nearly 20 years now.
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This is probably the most common question I’m asked by my readers, so I decided to devote an entire article to clearing up the confusion. Doctors and scientists often throw around words like “dementia,” “Alzheimer’s,” and “mild cognitive impairment” without making it clear what the difference is between them. Understanding what each of these terms mean is important for being able to interpret articles and recognize how scientific findings may apply to you.
Let’s start with dementia. Dementia itself is actually not a disease, but a set of symptoms. The most well-known dementia symptom is memory loss, but it also includes other things such as difficulty communicating, impaired attention, poor judgement, and a decline in visual perception.
Dementia symptoms can be caused by many different diseases. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which makes up around 60% of all dementias. However, many other diseases can cause dementia, including Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and Lewy body disease. Dementia is often referred to as an “umbrella term” for a range of symptoms than can be caused by multiple diseases.
I like to use an analogy to make this distinction a bit clearer. Think of Alzheimer’s disease like the flu. These are both diseases with a particular cause. Now think of some of the symptoms of having the flu: congestion, chills, nausea, and so on. There are many different diseases that can cause these symptoms, like a cold or sinus infection. In the same way, there are multiple diseases that can cause dementia symptoms.
To put it another way: everyone with Alzheimer’s disease has dementia, but not everyone with dementia has Alzheimer’s disease.
Now, there’s a third term you may have also heard thrown around: mild cognitive impairment, or MCI. It’s characterized by memory problems that are noticeable but not severe enough to interfere with daily life, such as forgetting appointments, losing your train of thought, and having trouble with planning or organization. Some people with MCI later progress to Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias, while others do not. Around 20% of adults over age 65 have MCI.
Dementia is a set of symptoms that include memory loss, impaired attention, and and poor judgement.
Alzheimer’s is one of several diseases that can lead to dementia symptoms.
Mild cognitive impairment is a less serious memory problem than can, but does not always, progress to dementia.
Hopefully that helps to clear up some of the confusion surrounding these three terms! As always, feel free to comment or send me a message if there are any other topics you’d like me to explain.
This entry was posted in Science Articles and tagged alzheimers, dementia, difference, mci, mild cognitive impairment on March 3, 2018 by AlzScience.
Very well covered and details help understating.
I believe you are saying that Alzheimer’s is a manifestation of dementia, but that in the very early stages of the disease, the symptoms of dementia may not yet be present (“can lead to dementia symptoms”).
This was a really clear explanation of the difference between these terms, as I often struggle to understand and distinguish them. Your grandmother had the vascular dementia type, I believe, though people seemed to just call it Alzheimer’s Disease. Good blog, Maya!
Excellent! This is a very clear and simple explanation of 3 terms that are tossed about in every day conversation, and often misused by many of us, including me. thanks Maya.
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Lane Kiffin just can’t help himself.
Yeah, that’s Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea. According to the internet, not even he would accept the Vols job after the firing of Butch Jones and the whole Greg Schiano fiasco.
Kiffin won’t be the guy, either. He said Wednesday morning on the Dan Patrick Show that he has not been contacted by Tennessee officials. Purdue’s Jeff Brohm and NC State’s Dave Doeren were the two names to emerge Wednesday after Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy said no on Tuesday.
Kiffin’s FAU Owls will host North Texas in the Conference USA title game. Maybe Tennessee will have a coach by then.
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In my 101st post, I start a new century of posts.
1. Bet Placement: Pattern-based bet placement procedures cannot systematically provide a positive player’s edge, simply because they commit the Gambler’s Fallacy or its Inverse (ref: Fallacies and Illusions). The past has no bearing on the future for independent events.
2. Bet Selection: All bet progressions will eventually bust the bankroll, because the odds do not depend on the size of the bet, and in the long run, any given winning wager will be neutralized by a corresponding losing one, and the House always earns its guaranteed edge in the process. Ultimately, bet progressions simply accelerate loss. Eventually, the required wager will bust the bankroll or exceed the table limit.
3. Money Management: No strategic stop loss or take profit point will help in the long run, because if you return to play the next session, you still face the exact same odds as before. Whether you pause, stop, or not, it does not matter, because it is really just one long, continuous game in the end. Money management simply delays the inevitable. The only money management strategy which might beat the casino is: Walk away forever the moment you are up!
Thus, any computational simulation of a pattern-based baccarat system must yield the same negative player’s expectations which are calculated from the one-lined odds equation. The final expectations will range between that of Always Bet Banker (which has the best odds) and Always Bet Player (which has the worst odds). After all, baccarat is a simple, linear game, and the pattern of bets you can make will always be some combination of Banker and Player bets; the more Banker it bets, the closer the final expectancy will be to that of Always Bet Banker; and the more Player it bets, that of Always Bet Player.
We shouldn’t expect anything different, since the game itself is explicitly designed to guarantee the House its edge at a minimum over the long run. Computational simulations and analyses of such systems will always yield the expected answer, because baccarat is based on the same, linear, deterministic mathematics which always guarantees that 1+1=2. It is a rule built into the way things work. Find an instance where 1+1 does not equal 2, and you will have found a holy grail.
Think about it: Someone challenges you, “You will be rewarded with fortunes beyond imagination if you can find a case where 1+1 is not 2.” It is not a challenge. It is a cruel joke. The potential reward motivates you to believe it must certainly justify any effort necessary. Here’s a short-cut: just buy the solution from someone else.
Based on the above, no one should play baccarat, because everyone is eventually bound to lose. The math and computer simulations have merely confirmed our parents’ sage instruction: Don’t gamble! And, if heeded, they would have helped us to avoid a lot of loss and grief.
But suppose a holy grail bet placement method actually existed. Suppose this grail is the holiest of holy in the sense that it predicted with 100% accuracy the exact pattern of Ps and Bs of any and all shoes. Like the unholy grails before, this holiest of holy grail produces a pattern of bets which is some combination of Banker and Player bets. But while the unholies’ expectations are negative, the holiest holy boasts an infinitely positive player’s advantage.
We don’t need an infinitely positive expectation. Just a modestly positive one will do. A holy-enough-grail is one which wins more than loses in the long run and overcomes the house edge, if even a little. It would take the gamble out of gambling, and it can, because using it, 1+1 no longer always equals 2.
What can we say about these holy grails? How do they differ from the unholies?
1. Bet Placement: Bet placement decisions must not be solely and blindly based upon the history of the shoe, that is, what had happened in the past.
2. Bet Selection: Simply flat bet. Using any progression will just help to win more money faster. Drawdowns, if any, are temporary, and recovery is always guaranteed.
3. Money Management: Completely unnecessary, but feel free to stop when you get sleepy or bored of winning chips. Resume upon rested, and repeat.
Thus, the baccarat sangreal must require something else.
If the goal is to find it, then two things are in order: First, stop developing, simulating, testing, and analyzing systems which are solely based upon pattern-based bet placement, selection, and money management. We already know the answer, and it is boring. The math and the computer will always confirm that 1+1=2. Second, start pondering and investigating something else.
Indeed, by the above reasoning, it is something else that makes all the difference between winning and losing in the long run, which means the mechanics involving bet placement, selection, and money management are of relatively minor importance in the final analysis. So, why earnestly focus on these mechanics alone? They cannot and should not win alone. So, why spend so much time and attention (and money) on them?
What might this something else be?
If we insist on venturing down the path of finding a consistently winning way, we can ponder some possibilities, cluttered in the shadows at the bottom of a very slippery slope.
What about luck? Are winners just lucky? That is, is something else actually just nothing else? Statistically speaking, in a group using a given methodology of playing baccarat, roughly half will be winning, while the other half losing, and the difference between them is the House edge. Over a sufficient number of shoes (on the order of hundreds to thousands of shoes, depending on the betting frequency), everyone hits the wall labeled “long term” and should expect to lose the House edge.
So, are those who are consistently winning just under the illusion they are winning due to anything other than Lady Luck? In other words, are they enjoying nothing more than self-delusion?
But what about those winners who claim to be winning far longer and greater than what normal statistical variance would objectively allow. Assuming they are reporting their winnings accurately (selective memory is always a possibility), they certainly belong to the “Sixth Sigma Club” of baccarat winners.
Is it possible that such consistent winners are somehow able to either consciously or unconsciously engineer good luck? After all, luck is the happy state of fortuitous circumstances which have apparently no definite, rational, repeatable causes, at least not within the modern scientific paradigm of strict reductionism. Perhaps there are forces we have yet to qualify and quantify which would explain why good fortune smiles upon some, while not others. Perhaps these forces are manipulable by some subjective means, conscious or otherwise. Perhaps there is a hidden order in the apparent chaos, caused by an invisible but very real hand, or a natural consequence of the dynamics of an infinite number of parallel realities allowed by one interpretation of quantum mechanics. Call it Luck, Fate, Karma, Magic, the New Physics, God, whichever you prefer.
What about intuition? I corresponded briefly with an expert baccarat player who believed his consistent success relied on a very simple method, a very aggressive progression, a great deal of luck, and a bit of his wits. He has never lost his initial bankroll, and he had paid off two rental properties with his winnings. Somehow, he just “gets” it, and he can predict with sufficient accuracy what the next decision will likely be. He would watch the shoe and be able to notice a pattern in the patterns, which repeated regularly enough to be consistently exploitable. He can’t really explain how he does it. It just comes to him, like a natural intuition. Of course, he isn’t always right; that’s where the luck and progression help. But somehow he is always able to stay ahead, well past what normal statistical variance would seem to allow.
Strictly speaking, he is guessing. But given that his guesses are more often right than wrong, something is educating his guesses, and he takes action upon his belief that the patterns he notices would continue to repeat. Yes, he admits he gambles on that premise, and fortunately, his gambles pay off.
Another player who often appealed to the fuzzy notion of intuition is Mark Maverick. One of his favorite lines is, “I can’t teach intuition.” I have never personally witnessed Mark use his intuition playing forward, but only backward with 20/20 hindsight on practice shoes. But I’ll assume he’s able to do just as well in live, forward play.
I spent some time with Mark to try to better understand his thought processes when he gets an intuitive hunch that otherwise breaks his mechanical rules of play. I tried to objectify his thought processes and convert them into a logical set of sub-rules, which were then applied to my computer simulations of Maverick and Maverick Ultimate. But no matter how many of these intuitive sub-routines I tried to include in my simulations, none helped the methods consistently stay ahead. I’m unable to verify the accuracy of Mark’s intuitive hunches in live, forward play. Taking him at his word, they usually are.
Scientists at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (P.E.A.R.) have collected evidence which suggests that human consciousness can exert a small but significant influence on the results of random number generators. That is, their research suggests that human subjects can intentionally skew the normal distribution from otherwise perfectly random number generators to a degree well beyond what can be explained by normal statistical variance.
Taken at face value, P.E.A.R.’s research has scientifically identified an inexplicable connection between mind and machine. To what degree does this ability exist in the broader population? Are some people better at using their intention to bring about desirable outcomes which to others appear to arise from just good luck? If it exists, can this ability be developed to help someone consistently win games of chance such as baccarat? Perhaps some are already unknowingly using these mind-over-matter abilities to their advantage and profit.
We have barely scratched the surface of understanding human consciousness and its implications. Perhaps we are more connected than we presently realize.
Can some methods take advantage of inherent deficiencies and inefficiencies of the game, which the creators of the game have not yet realized? For example, I know a baccarat player who claims to have developed a card-counting method which is both effective and efficient to the tune of +1% player’s advantage, demonstrated both computationally over a large data-set and in live, forward play over thousands of shoes. He admits it is a grind to play and easily thwarted by casino countermeasures. Even so, he claims to win with it regularly. I am unable to verify his claims computationally, because I don’t know his method, nor have I ever personally witnessed him winning. He sounds sincere and honest, and I will assume he is telling the truth.
Or, is there something about the way the game is presented which offers players a chance to gain an advantage. For example, Ellis teaches that casinos can and do intentionally manipulate the shuffle to try to increase their winnings. As a result, Ellis believes that baccarat as presented by casinos is not a perfectly random game. He claims to be able to turn the tables on the casinos by using this knowledge against them, a process he terms table selection.
While I offer several reasons why it would not be in the casinos’ best interest to manipulate the shuffle in my previous post Shuffle Control: Why It’s Bad for the House, if Ellis were correct, then his approach would provide a real, consistent edge to the knowing player.
Perhaps one, bits of some, all, or none of the above have something to do with helping consistent winners stay ahead. Perhaps it is due to other reasons yet to be identified. (Please leave comments and add to the list of possibilities!) I just know that consistent winners must be doing something else besides bet placement, selection, and money management.
As my journey reaches a new level, I am looking forward to investigating and exploring some possibilities. By their very nature, they must be experienced and not computed. If nothing else, they will make great stories.
This entry was posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:31 am and is filed under Life with tags baccarat, consciousness, Ellis Clifton Davis, engineering luck, fate, intention, intuition, karma, luck, Mark Maverick, non mechanical, parallel universes, physics, quantum mechanics, systems, table selection, transcendental baccaratology, winning. 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.
Excellent article David! It should really open up people’s minds.
Well i think from all the millions of people playing baccarat and a 100 years that have gone only a handful of person knows something that we all do not know.
and for a fact this guy’s won’t bother sharing that secret to other people which i strongly agree for lots of good reasons, just think of the process that they have undergo before discovering that “so called holy grail”.
OR this guys work for the casino to spread a marketing gimmick to attract new people(including me) make them think that every one can go out of a casino with a pocket full of money or reigniting those gambler fallacies.
but i myself believe everything has a flaw, like once in blackjack and roulette like (Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo) this handful of individual discovered imperfection in the game.
One thing I know for sure: I know both Mark and Ellis personally, I have interacted with both extensively, I have played with Ellis in person with real chips, and I can verify with 100% certainty that they are both genuine, real people, who are trying their best to beat the casino, and help others do the same.
Great article! Logic and rational.
Are you saying that there are proven consistent winners?
How do you know? My experience has been that there are two kinds of gamblers: Losers and liars.
No proven consistent winners in baccarat.
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Ifin I had my druthers, I’d write all of the time. Alas, knowing this is a virtual impossibility, I’m bound to taking care of all the other stuff that pops up. Of course, I’m speaking within the parameters of writing and its many aspects.
I spend an enormous amount of time on marketing. When I published my first novel, I didn’t realize this milestone was the easy part. With a thousand or so new titles jumping out each day, how do you get your work before the eyes of the public without this valuable tool?
All right, so I know I have to market . . . what does this mean? Sometimes I wonder if there are as many ways to market a book, as there are books? I know I’m being a bit facetious but there are many methods to employ into your marketing scheme.
My day goes something like this: In the morning, I’m ready to play. What’s the first game? Marketing for Money. I try to limit my time to several hours in order to promote my books each day. What’s the next game? Depending on the day, it could be “What’s my Blog” or to keep my website interesting there’s always, “Name that Newsletter.” Every once in a while I’ll slip in, “Support my Short Story.” Then comes the time of day I actually get to work on my latest manuscript. I call this, “Recess.” When done, I usually find I’m satisfied with the day’s work and fired up for tomorrow.
Well, here we are in February. The same place we are every year at this time. As a writer, different months lend themselves to a multitude of subjects to record on paper. March, April and May bring new life, the budding of flowers and trees, the chirping of birds and the lifeline we all love. For without it, the flowers, vegetables and trees would not experience this rebirth. I am of course referring to the sneezing, eye watering, snot locker filling and extra throat drainage we endure due to this lifeline, POLLEN! We huddle inside waiting for the green dust to exit. June through August lend themselves to vacations, family outings and a plethora of fodder in the surrounding foliage, to create all sorts of creatures and little nasties to highlight fantasy and science fiction novels.
September and October bring us the beautiful fall colors; November-Thanksgiving, December-Christmas, January, a new year and February . . . well, February is kinda just February. There is Valentine’s Day. You know that made up holiday where couples feel obligated to buy cards, go out to dinner, pay twice the amount for a dozen roses as you would any other day. Do we really need a day to say, “I love you?” I think we’d be better served using the template for Valentine’s Day without spending the money but expressing the love every day.
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