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Excellent, Caeli! I’m happy for you, both to love and give wise counsel.
Thank You Maria. It is hard to contain the goodness God has bestowed on me and my family. My hope is that people would actually take notice of God’s goodness rather than believe the devil’s lies.
Yes, Caeli – much prayer for this, God’s desire!
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My first #etmooc experience… here we go!
I’ve mentioned previously that I worked with a number of colleagues developing a technology catalyst team last year. Our primary goal was to use technology in a meaningful way, to foster engagement while reaching outcomes but also, teaching students about digital fluency and their role in achieving it. I adored my experience with the Thom Technology Catalyst team, primarily because it truly forced me to think about my own teaching practice, my love of technology, and how to fuse the two in a way that is truly meaningful and authentic for students. How do I become a better teacher? How can I have a best practice with new skills around technology?
I’ve continued to try to grow my PLN since then, and as I have much to learn, I have participated in a number of online “sessions” regarding edtech, the tools, the applications, the discussions. I very much enjoy the online component as I am balancing parenting two small children, a new job and a masters class, and the online piece permits to advance at my own pace (or, you know, when the children are sleeping!).
Enter #etmooc. A while ago I began to hear about this online course; many of the staff in the tech catalyst team were involved, and another school that I support (#hawrylak) has a number of teachers that do an amazing job integrating technology. I’ve been working with another technology team at a different school (#cctech) this year and since I presented this as a PD option, I decided I needed to jump in headfirst.
#Etmooc = Massive Open Online course for educational technology and media. This online series of courses related to technology integration, primarily, has hundreds of professionals from around the world collaborating to learn, to share, to expand their own knowledge and experience. I am very excited to get started tomorrow night and since the first “assignment” is to create some sort of visual representation presenting myself, my interest in #etmooc and what I hope to gain from the experience, more postings to come!
Hi, glad to meet you and looking forward to reading more about your mooc impressions. I’ve done a few and now #etmooc. Orientation and making sure I’m on feeds tops today’s to do list.
Hi Vanessa! Nice to meet you and thanks for following! I will check in and follow you (and others) as well – look forward to learning with you.
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The Primal Wound knocks it out of the so-called park with directness, superb research, and validation for what an adopted person might feel regarding being adopted. This book is full of personal accounts from actual adopted people and well-respected theorists and therapists who have expertise in human development. Many readers have considered The Primal Wound to be an adoptee “Bible” because there are so many poignant observations and quotes regarding the adopted person’s experience.
It was originally published in 1993, with the cover design done in 1991, according to my 2016 edition. Verrier dedicated her book to her daughter, (an adoptee), who came into their lives “on a path of sacrifice and pain yet whose love and courage have brought us understanding and joy.” Verrier was motivated to write this book due to her experience as an adoptive mother and as part of her master’s thesis in clinical psychology.
Verrier defines what The Primal Wound is for adopted people and how it plays a part in the lives of adoptive parents and adoptees alike. It cannot be covered up. It cannot be reversed once separation from the biological mother and adoption have happened. It can only be recognized as a real thing which carries with it issues such as guilt, (mis)trust, shame, identity, loyalty, rejection and control/power. The Primal Wound book never places blame or judgment on any party involved in the adoption system. This book simply points out many pieces of factual information and how even routine life events which all individuals may experience, have unique and lasting effects for adopted individuals.
Although Verrier bases her observations and writings on interviews with adoptees, personal experiences as a therapist and an adoptive parent, this book is not memoir nor creative non-fiction. It is for information seekers and especially for adopted people who seek validation and credibility. It is an excellent source for knowing that what you believe or perceive about being an adopted person is not silly, false or unrealistic.
Verrier has realistic advice for prospective adoptive parents as well, regarding their motives for adopting, coping with their own losses and limitations and long-term goals and expectations when considering the adoptive child’s developmental and emotional needs.
This is an excellent resource book for adoptees, adoptive parents and anyone studying human development issues. Verrier’s writing is organized and to the point while maintaining one of the fairest and most objective tones. There are professionals who disagree with Verrier’s opinions, (Jean Mercer, PhD. who has expertise in attachment theory), however, in reviewing several internet links, I found no evidence that Professor Mercer has personal experience with adoption and Verrier indeed does. Verrier relied on input from her adoptee daughter and openly shares this with consent from her daughter in The Primal Wound.
Great review, Paige! I read “Primal Wound” a couple of years ago, and it was eye opening. Adoptions can seem to go smoothly with no problems or issues, but under the surface there can be trouble brewing. As you mention, some people disagree with her perspective and refuse to acknowledge it. However, acting as if an adoptee doesn’t have painful baggage when he or she arrives as a little bundle in your life might be doing the adoptee or adopter no favors. Denying potential problems doesn’t keep them from happening and it diminishes what the adoptee might be feeling.
Beautiful review, Paige. I read P.W. during my “honeymoon” time with my new found birth mother and 1/2 sister. It blew my mind, it resonated strongly with me. I’ve been writing for about 8 years, as I reconstruct my own memoirs of infancy, childhood and adolescence, and work through the realizations, a needed self-therapy. Thanks for reminding me the value of Verriere’s work.
Great review. I agree, it is the “bible” for many of us adoptees!
This was the first ever book on adoption I read and as such it was an eye opener as I’d never even considered it was a subject of research, nor had I ever been made aware that there might be issues, and yet there was so much to relate to, it was overwhelming. That was back in 1995 (two years after I’d met me birth mother for the first time), a friend sent it me, a self-published book she found, as she said in her note tucked inside the front cover, ‘the good ole Women’s Bookshop’ in Auckland, New Zealand. I was living in England then, so she must have posted it to me.
Now, 28 years later, I’ve just bought, her follow up book, Coming Home to Self and I’m reading it as the same time as writing my own memoir. I am surprised by what gets stirred up and wants to be written down, even after all these years. I think it’s wonderful that these resources are available and that there is such a support network available now for adoptees and birth mothers, something I’m only just becoming aware of.
I agree…One adoptee at a time, we are getting there.
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1993-02-18 Assigned to SECURITY PEOPLE INC. reassignment SECURITY PEOPLE INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST. Assignors: GOKCEBAY, ASIL T.
An access control system combines card type keys or mechanical keys and lock cylinders with keyholder authentication, so that only the authorized keyholder or keyholders can use a key at an access control point. The access control point can be a door, gate, drawer, safe, safety deposit box, computer terminal or other situation wherein high security is desirable. In a preferred embodiment, the access control system includes a series of mechanical keys (or card type keys) having encoded data stored on the bottom edges of the keys. The encoded data may be in the form of a bar code or optical data storage, either directly formed onto the key or on a strip of plastic or other material bearing the encoded data, secured to the key. In one form of the invention, user authentication involves a biometric feature such as a fingerprint of the intended keyholder. The fingerprint is digitized, encoded and placed on the bottom edge of the mechanical key for that intended keyholder, preferably along with an encoded keyholder identifying number. An authentication reader at a high security access control point includes a keyway with a reader for the encoded data representing the encoded fingerprint, and also a fingerprint reader for reading the user's fingerprint at each instance of attempted entry. Comparison of the attempted user's fingerprint with the stored fingerprint is preferably made directly at the access control point, so that only the access decision and a keyholder identifying code (also in the encoded data) need to be sent to a central processor. A decision to grant access effects the release of an electric release or electric strike. The purpose of the mechanical keys or card type keys is to enable the keyholder to also gain access to lower security access points in the system without having to carry more than one key or access item. If desired, a write feature can be included in the system, whereby each access control point accessed (or attempted to be accessed) by a keyholder will be recorded on the key, providing for later reading of the key to determine where use has been attempted.
This application is a continuation-in-part of parent application Ser. No. 07/315,547, filed Feb. 27, 1989, now abandoned.
This invention relates to access control, and more particularly it is concerned with a high security access control system involving credit card type keys or mechanical keys and locks as well as keyholder authentication to prevent unauthorized use of a key.
A number of different types of access control systems and devices have existed in use or in previous patents--for example, the systems of National Computer Systems, Inc. and Continental Instruments, Inc.
unlocking devices have also been known. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,603,564, 4,658,105, 4,633,687, 4,458,512, and 3,733,862. In some of these devices, keys and cylinders could be coded by the manufacturer or by the user, with the non-mechanical aspect of the key affording additional security against opening of a lock without the proper key. In these combinations of mechanical and non-mechanical security features on a key, the non-mechanical code or configuration or pattern simply added to what was required to open the lock, generally not carrying other readable data useful for other purposes.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,537,484 shows one example of a finger-print reader system for use in identity verification. Another such reader is manufactured by ThumbScan, Inc. of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., for the purpose of computer terminal security. Such scanners have also been suggested for use in identification in access control systems involving granting of entry only to authorized persons. However, these systems have not cooperated with keys and locks which could be used in the same facility. Also, they have generally required processing of the attempted user's fingerprint in a central processor which would have to either compare the attempted user's fingerprint with hundreds or thousands of stored fingerprints in a database, or would receive a user identification number keypunched in by the person seeking access, and then look up a database-stored fingerprint corresponding to that code and make the comparison. Such a central look-up and comparison would involve a great deal of central computer memory and power, and the us of many-conductor bus cables between each access control point and the central processor, and would tend to require considerable time or a very high powered computer, to complete the access control decision. This equipment and installation of the cables can involve great cost, particularly when added to an existing building.
A different approach to access control decision making is taken by the present invention described below. In a preferred embodiment, a keyholder carries a key which not only has a mechanical configuration for accessing mechanical locks (or a card type key with non-mechanical lock access features), but also carries encoded data representing a personal identifying code or feature of the keyholder, as well as a simple identity number or code. The high security authentication comparison can be made directly at the access control point, by a small processor board located behind a reader panel.
In accordance with the access control system of the present invention, the system includes a series of mechanical keys or card type keys which can optionally be high security keys themselves. At least some of the keys carry encoded data which represent a personal feature of the intended keyholder assigned to that key. In preferred embodiments, the personal identifying or authenticating feature of the keyholder is a "biometric" feature, such as a fingerprint, a retina scan, a facial photograph or other feature unique to the intended keyholder. A retina scanner is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,685,140, for example.
The encoded data preferably is placed on the bottom edge of a mechanical key, and may be in a groove formed in that edge of the key. Alternatively, the data may be placed on one surface of the key's head. It may be read by swiping it through a reader slot. On a card type key the encoded data can be in a stripe on the card surface. Optical data storage such as used in audio and video discs may be used, or high-density optical storage such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,145,758, 4,304,848 or 4,503,135.
The key also has a mechanical configuration (or lock accessing feature) matched to certain mechanical lock cylinders (or non-mechanical locks) to which the intended keyholder is to have access. Some of these may be lower security areas; for some high-security areas, keys may combine the mechanical or non-mechanical lock features with the user authentication access control feature, for high security.
It is a central feature of the present invention, and an important distinction from prior access control systems or high-security keys, that the key itself bears encoded data which is not merely picked up by the lock apparatus to establish a higher security in allowing rotation of a lock cylinder (or opening of a non-mechanical lock), but which carries digitized information relating to a personal authenticating feature of the intended user of the key, for reading and making a comparison before access is granted to the attempted user.
At some high-security access control point in the system, the keyholder places his key into a keyway or slot or against a reader, which reads the encoded, digitized information which relates specifically to the intended keyholder. This information as read is briefly stored in a memory associated with a small processor connected to the key reader. The keyholder may then be prompted to place a selected finger against a transparent window of a fingerprint reader. The fingerprint reader scans the fingerprint, and this scanned information is compared with the encoded information. It should be understood that other features unique to the intended keyholder can be used, as mentioned above such as a retina scan or a photograph.
If the actual fingerprint as read matches sufficiently closely to the fingerprint as encoded and stored on the key, a provisional decision is made by the small processor to grant access to the keyholder. In some applications a time/date access decision will also be required, with that decision made by a central processor, based on whether the particular keyholder is to be permitted access to that area at that particular time.
Optionally the keyholder can also be required to use his key to access a lock at the same location. The key can be used to rotate one cylinder, for example, while a second lock or bolt is released electrically, automatically, based on the decision of the system to grant access.
In a preferred embodiment the keyholder can be granted access by an electric release or electric strike based on the positive user authentication decision (with or without time/date decision from a central processor, as above), without using the mechanical key configuration (or other lock accessing features). In this case, the mechanical key configuration is used for other locks in the system, wherein lower security is required, with the encoded key enabling the keyholder to carry only one item for access to all permissible locks. With the authentication comparison made directly at the access control point, and no personal authentication (e.g., fingerprint) data required to be imported from any remote database at a central computer, the access control system of the invention can employ only a very small cable connecting each access control point to the central processor, e.g. two conductors, for time/date decision from the central processor and for reports to the central processor. Whenever access is attempted, the small local processor at the access control point can send a report which includes an identification of the keyholder, derived from encoded information on the key, and a "yes" or "no" decision as to whether access was permitted. The time of day and the access control point location can be added to the report by the central processor.
The system also enables access management for allowing different personnel entry at different times of day or different days of the week or calendar days, etc. The small on-site processor can be programmed to allow access to certain personnel by personnel code or number (at certain times), but preferably, for large numbers of personnel this is controlled by the central processor (again via a simple two-conductor cable). This can be adjusted, or access can be canceled for certain personnel (such as discharged employees) by instruction input at the central processor.
In another preferred embodiment of the invention, at each high-security access control point there is a keyway configured specifically for keys of keyholders who are to have access at this point. The keyway is at the key reader, instead of (or in addition to the keyway being in a lock cylinder. When a key of the correct type is inserted into this keyway, the reader scans the encoded data. Keys of the wrong mechanical configuration cannot be inserted, so that access will not be possible. The keyway can be of a high-security type, rather than one in common use.
In addition, a high-security key cut configuration can be used, such as of the type shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,635,455 and 4,732,022 assigned to Medeco Security Locks, Inc. Such key cuts are made at an oblique angle with respect to the side faces of the key. For the purposes of this invention, at least one pin can be cooperative with the keyway, with the pin having an angled bottom end which becomes rotationally oriented when it engages against the angle cut key. If the pin does not engage properly against the key's angle cut, access can be automatically denied (even though the keyholder identification will preferably still be read from the key). This enables a report to be made to the central processor, regarding the attempted entry, and the fact that a certain keyholder's key was apparently defective or was attempted to be used improperly, at the wrong access control point.
An alarm can be activated under such condition of attempted improper key use, or a silent signal can be sent elsewhere in the system where preferably personnel will be alerted.
The same alarm or signal can be sent whenever access is denied in any of the various forms of the system of the invention, and for any reason, including the reason that the keyholder's fingerprint (or other personnel identifier) did not match the code on the key.
If desired for extra security, the keyway provided at the key code reader can comprise an actual lock cylinder which must be rotated before a positive access decision can be completed. Such a cylinder can include a full complement of pins in a high-security configuration if desired, so that a combination of user authentication and mechanical keying is relied upon for added security.
In one aspect, the invention comprises a card type or mechanical key, either of the pin type or of other high-security type currently in use, such as the dimple type or the tubular type, in combination with encoded data secured to the key--data which is readable by a scanner or reader and which does not directly help enable the keyholder to rotate the key in a lock. Instead, the encoded data is representative of some personal identifying, authenticating feature known by or held by or on the person of the intended keyholder. Such an authenticating feature preferably comprises a biometric feature such as a fingerprint scan, a retina scan, a voice pattern or a facial photograph; more broadly speaking, however, it can include other items such as a memorized number or code which is known only to the intended keyholder or keyholders and which must be input to a keyboard by the keyholder to be matched with what is read from the key. The prior art did not contemplate a mechanical key which itself bore such separate data which would enable authentication of the keyholder attempting access.
The encoded information on the key, if it represents fingerprint, retina scan, voice or other characteristic of the intended keyholder, also preferably includes a central keyholder number or code, for the purpose of reporting the identity of the intended keyholder in a transaction record whenever the key is attempted to be used for access.
In another aspect the invention comprises a card type key having normal lock accessing features, encoded data relating to the personal authenticating feature, and a photograph of the intended user, with other appropriate printed matter to allow the card to be used as an identifying card or badge. In a still further aspect, the card can at a minimum have encoded data carrying a biometric feature to be used in an access control system of the invention having corresponding biometric readers (e.g. fingerprint).
It is therefore among the objects of the present invention to improve over previous access control systems and high-security mechanical key systems by encoding keys with a user authentication code which can be read by scanners or readers at access control points, so as to prevent anyone but an authorized, intended keyholder from gaining access at such control points. An associated object is to provide an access control system wherein the key configuration or access control feature is effective to open locks at other points where keyholder authentication is not required, thus enabling personnel to carry only one key for access to both high-security points and lower-security points. These and other objects, advantages and features of the invention will be apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments, considered along with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic drawing indicating components of an overall access control system in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing a mechanical key forming a part of the system of the invention in one embodiment, with encoded data formed on or secured to the key.
FIG. 3 is a frontal elevation view illustrating elements of the system of the invention in a preferred embodiment, at one access control point in the system.
FIG. 4 is a schematic system diagram partially in the form of a block diagram, indicating several access control points and security components, and indicating some information and control flow to and from a central processor, in accordance with one embodiment of the system of the invention.
FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram indicating information which might be included in the encoded data on the mechanical key indicated in FIG. 2, and illustrating flow of information from the key and from a fingerprint scanner which may be included, and showing operation of the system to grant access or deny access and to make reports.
FIG. 6 is a schematic view, partially in perspective, showing elements of an optical key reader which may be included in the system of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of a system of the invention wherein access control points are formed into groups.
FIG. 8 is a flow diagram indicating operation of the system in accordance with one preferred embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 9 is a flow diagram illustrating the use of the access control system of the invention with an employee time management and payroll system.
FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing a credit card type key with non-mechanical lock access features and with encoded data representing a personal identifying feature of the keyholder.
FIG. 11 is a view similar to FIG. 10, showing a card with encoded data representing a personal biometric identifying feature of the keyholder and also a photograph of the keyholder, so that the card can be used as a security pass as well as an authenticating pass for high security access.
In the drawings, FIG. 1 shows schematically an access control system 10 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. Principal components of the system 10 include a series of high security access control points 12, including different security levels at 12a and 12b, and a series of lower security access control points 14. The system also includes a central processor unit 15 with associated memory, as well as a number of distributed mechanical keys 16 which are controlled in distribution and each registered to a specific intended keyholder or keyholders.
As schematically indicated in FIG. 1, the processor unit 15 is connected only to the high security access control points 12. The processor 15 may have a programmer unit 17 and an optional printer 18 connected to it.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, a mechanical key 16 as used in the system includes a mechanical configuration 19 for engagement with a mechanical lock, and it also includes encoded data related to high security access control located, for example, at a position 20 on or in the bottom edge of the key 16. The encoded data may alternatively be located on the head 22 of the key or on another edge, such as edges 24 of the key head 22. In these alternate locations the encoded data can be read by placing the key against a reader, or by insertion into a slot or by swiping through a slot.
Although FIG. 2 shows a conventional mechanical key configuration, for use with pin and shear plane type rotatable lock cylinders, the mechanical key 16 can also be of the higher security type with angle cuts as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,732,022 referenced above, or it can be a tube-shaped key of type often used on computers and burglar alarms, etc., or a dimple type key or any other type of mechanical key.
It should be understood that the present invention also applies to credit card type keys, hole punched type flat keys, and other flat plastic or metal card type keys, as well as conventional mechanical keys. The term "key" as used herein and in the claims is intended to encompass all such keys, except when accompanied by the term "mechanical."
An example of one kind of credit card type key 16a is shown in FIG. 10. All of FIGS. 1 and 3 through 9, and the accompanying description, should be understood as encompassing the use of any of a number of such card type keys, in many different configurations and with different types of lock accessing features. The card type key 16a in FIG. 10 may have hole-punched type lock access features 21, and a small strip of encoded data 23 carrying the personal identifying feature, such as a biometric feature.
Each key has two separate functions--a mechanical function of opening mechanical (or magnetic, hole-punch, etc.) locks in the system, and an electronic or data function involving the carrying of data as discussed above. The data borne by the key 16, in accordance with preferred embodiments of the invention, does not itself open a lock or help enable opening of a lock or enable access at an access control point. Rather, it includes information specific to the intended keyholder, for authenticating the keyholder when access is attempted by a keyholder using the key. At the minimum, the encoded data will include a personal code, e.g. a combination of numbers which are memorized by the intended keyholder and which only the intended keyholder (and perhaps supervisory personnel) is supposed to know. A comparison is made between the encoded information, or some of the encoded information from the key, and similar information input in another way (e.g. input manually by the keyholder on a number keyboard or input via fingerprint).
Thus, the system of invention differs from prior systems, even in the form of the minimum system just described, in that when access is attempted, the system does not retrieve a secret code from a central database or processor, for comparison with a code input by the attempted user. Instead, the secret code is carried on the key itself, and can be read by a small local processor at the access control point and there compared directly with a code input by the attempted user. The on-site comparison is one important feature of the invention.
However, in preferred embodiments of the invention the keyholder authenticating data carries not merely a secret number or code memorized by and known only to the intended keyholder, but instead or in addition carries data related to a personal identifying characteristic or biometric feature of the intended keyholder. This identifying biometric feature or characteristic advantageously can be the intended keyholder's fingerprint, but it could also be any other unique personal characteristic as discussed above, such as a digitized facial photograph or a voice pattern or even a retina scan.
At each high-security access control point in such a preferred system, there is provided both a key reader for reading the encoded data on the key, and a reader of the attempted user's biometric feature such as fingerprint, voice pattern, photograph, retina scan, etc. FIG. 3, showing an example of a high-security access control point, shows a fingerprint reader window 25 and a keyway 26 for reading of the encoded data on the key. A reader panel 28 shown in FIG. 3 also may include an optional key pad 30, for manually inputting a code, which can be an alternative to a fingerprint reader or other personal identifying feature reader as discussed above, in a simple form of the system.
Fingerprint readers are well known and well developed. For example, see U.S. Pat. No. 4,537,484 referenced above. Retina scanners are also known and effective for distinguishing between individuals and matching a known retina scan of a person, as discussed above. If a retina scanner is used in the system of the invention, the window 25 can have behind it a retina scanner. However, many individuals may find retina scanners objectionable.
An individual's facial photograph can be digitized and stored as encoded data carried on the key 16. The window 25 in FIG. 3 can have behind it a camera, such as a video camera, for producing a video image which can be scanned by associated electronics and compared with the image encoded on the key 16, to determine whether a close enough match exists.
If voice identification is used, a microphone can included on the panel 28 shown in FIG. 3, indicated as grid lines 32 in FIG. 3.
It should be understood that ordinarily not all of the items 25, 30 and 32 will be included on the access control panel 28--they are illustrated primarily as alternatives.
When a keyholder approaches a high-security access control point such as exemplified in FIG. 3, he may not be required to actually use his key in a keyway (indicated at 34) of the door, gate, computer, safe, drawer, etc. Instead, the keyholder positions his key 16 in a position to be scanned for the encoded data (as by inserting it into a keyway such as shown at 26) and he inputs his personal identifying or authenticating feature, e.g. his actual fingerprint, to be compared with the data from the key, using the panel 28. If a match is found, access preferably is granted electrically (optionally other criteria may first be required as described below). Thus, if the access control point has a door 36 such as shown in the example of FIG. 3, the panel electronics can actuate an electric release 38 in the door jamb 40, or an electric strike 41 in the door 36. This enables the authenticated keyholder to merely pull or push the door 36 open, without rotation of any lock cylinder in the door.
However, in an embodiment of the invention the keyholder may also be required to use his key 16 in a keyway 34 in the door. For example, the door may include a deadbolt or catch (not shown) which cannot be released by any key within the possession of a certain class of personnel, but which will be released, allowing the door to open, by an electric door jamb release mechanism 38 or electric strike mechanism 41 controlled by the panel 28. In addition, a different mechanical strike or deadbolt 43 can be controlled by the mechanical lock cylinder 34, which the authenticated keyholder will be required to use in addition, when access has been granted electronically via the panel 28. This can also serve as mechanical backup security in the event the electronic system is shut off or malfunctions.
Alternatively, a keyway 34 can be provided in the door which will receive a different key, other than the key 16 in the possession of the keyholder. The special key for the keyway 34 can override the electronic system under certain conditions such as an emergency, but with special high-security key for this keyway 34 only possessed by certain high-security personnel. In addition, preferably a record is made and sent to a central processor whenever the door is opened by such a special key, without authentication via the panel 28. This is discussed further below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
As another alternative, the keyway 34 shown in the door 36 can fit the keyholder's key 16, but with the cylinder associated with keyway 34 normally disabled against unlocking the door in this way, thus normally requiring the panel 28 to release the door. The disabling mechanism for the key cylinder 34 can be electrically released, such as in times of emergency or certain times of day when high-security access control is not required. During these periods, access can be gained, e.g. the door 36 can be opened, merely using the mechanical key 16 and the keyway 34, in the conventional manner.
Such a cylinder's disabling mechanism can simply be a solenoid operated or otherwise electrically actuated pin internal to the door 36, which locks the cylinder 34 against rotation except when electrically released.
FIG. 3 shows an optional door or cover 25a (dashed lines) which can be included to cover the reader window 25 when not in use. The cover 25a can be slidable and solenoid operated--normally closed but openable automatically when a key is inserted in the keyway 26. The cover can comprise a pair of doors which slide in and out from left and right or top and bottom. In a system with date/time access control the opening of the cover 25a can be delayed until after a signal is received from the central processor authorizing entry to the particular personnel number or key number at the particular time.
In preferred embodiments of the overall system of the invention, once the keyholder has gained access at the access control point 12 shown in FIG. 3 (e.g. he has opened the door 36 and entered), the keyholder may encounter additional high-security access points 12, or he may simply encounter lower security access points 14 (FIG. 1). These latter access points 14 will require only the mechanical key 16 with its configuration 19, without use of the encoded data. In this way, the single access item (the mechanical key) is used for several purposes within the system.
FIG. 1 shows that the high-security access control points 12 may include different levels of security. The highest security is illustrated at 12a, where a fingerprint verification reader 24 and a keyway for a key code reader 26 are both included; at 12b, only the keyway/key reader 26 is included, without fingerprint verification. At this type access control point, the key identification number or code is read from the key and sent to the processor unit 15, which will send back a signal to grant access only if the person associated with that key number is to be admitted at the particular date and time involved. This information is stored in memory at the processor 15.
Similarly, time/date control may be a part of the access decision at all or some high-security points 12a depending on the type of facility and whether differentiation is needed among personnel and as to dates and times of permitted access. Each user's key preferably includes the encoded key number or ID number which is read by the key reader. This is sent to the central processor 15, which determines whether access is restricted at this particular time, and sends back a signal to the panel 28 confirming or denying access. This decision, as well as the comparison, must be positive for access to be granted.
FIG. 4 is another schematic representation showing several access control points including a high-security access control point 12, in elevational section. Various components of the security panel 28 are shown, as well as connection to the central processor 15. As in FIG. 3, FIG. 4 shows the system with a fingerprint reader 42, behind the window 25, as one preferred embodiment; however, it should be understood that other types of personal authentication biometric feature reading devices may be substituted for the fingerprint reader 42, as mentioned above.
As indicated in FIG. 4, and also in reference to FIG. 5, the control panel includes a key scanner or reader 44 for reading the encoded data on the key. This may be associated with a keyway 26 as illustrated in FIG. 3, although the encoded data be alternatively be on the head of the key (or on a card key, as discussed above), with the key simply placed up adjacent to the key scanner 44.
If a keyway is included, the encoded data (which may be optically encoded) may be scanned using the movement of the key in entering the keyway. This is shown schematically in FIG. 6. Data on the key, which may be encoded in the recess 20, is scanned by a beam such as a focused laser beam 44a emanating from a laser diode 44b and focused by focusing optics 44c. As the key 16 is pushed into the slot or keyway 26, the encoded information is moved past the beam 44a and this movement produces a scan, eliminating the need for a beam scanner. A reflection signal from the encoded information returns and is reflected by a beam splitter mirror 44d and another mirror 44e to a photodetector 44f. The electrical voltage signal from the detector 44f is fed to a special data decode processor 44g and the decoded signal is sent to the local processor 46. Alternatively, the raw signal from the detector 44f can go directly to the local processor 46, provided with decode software.
FIGS. 4 and 5 also show schematically an electric release or electric strike 45 in the door jamb or door, to be activated by the panel 28 when a keyholder is authenticated and granted access.
A small local processor 46 at the panel 28 receives inputs from the electronic key scanner 44 and from the fingerprint reader 42, with the scanned fingerprint preferably digitized in the manner the encoded data is digitized. The processor 46 makes a comparison to determine whether the live fingerprint just scanned is close enough to the fingerprint data as digitized in the encoded data to constitute a match, within preset criteria, and if so, a preliminary decision is made to grant access. If time/date control is not included the electric release or electric strike may be activated at this point to admit the person.
At the same time, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the key scanner or reader 44 preferably reads an encoded identifying number (or other ID code) from the data carried by the key, and this information is sent to the central processor 15. It can either go into the local processor and from there to the central processor in a report, or directly to the central processor as shown in FIG. 5, to be there correlated with an authentication report as discussed below.
If date/time access control is desired, this ID information is used by the central processor 15 to determine (via a database) whether access should be granted at this time. As indicated in FIG. 5, and in the flow chart of FIG. 8, both "yes" decisions are required in order for the electric release or strike 45 to be activated. The central processor looks up the ID number and checks whether that ID number should be permitted entry at the particular date and time of attempted entry.
The ID information is also used to make a record of the transaction in the central processor 15. A transaction record or report 47 (FIGS. 5 and 8), sent to the central processor 15, can comprise only the access decision, i.e. yes or no, from the authentication comparison. A signal carrying this information can be sent to the central processor with a simple two-conductor cord, indicated by a line 48 shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. In the central processor 15 this report is correlated to the personnel or key identifying number or code (ID number), which has been received almost simultaneously.
The flow chart of FIG. 8 outlines functions carried out in a preferred embodiment of the system of the invention. These functions are illustrated without regard to which processor or other element is used to perform each function. The flow chart does not need further explanation, beyond the description on the chart and the description herein.
FIG. 4 also indicates a form of switch 50, such as a mechanical limit switch or photoelectric sensor, which optionally may be actuated every time the door or gate or drawer, etc. 36 is opened. This information can be sent to the central processor (via line 52, which can be the same conductor wire as represented by the line 48), and it will normally match a positive access decision as described above. If the door is ever opened in the absence of a positive access decision, a report of such occurrence can be made by the central processor (it can be printed out via the printer 18). An audible alarm and/or indicator light can also be activated, if desired.
FIG. 7 shows schematically a variation of what has been described in the other drawing figures. In FIG. 7 an access control system 70 in accordance with the invention includes a large plurality of high-security access control points 72 (labeled in FIG. 7 as 72a, 72b and 72c). Each of these access control points 72 may be similar in most respects to the high-security access control points 12 shown in FIGS. 3, 4 and 5.
However, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 7 these access control points 72 are grouped into an "A" group, a "B" group and a C group. The A group of access control points 72a are each connected to a processor A, with the B group connected to a processor B and the C group connected to a processor C. The access control points within a group are physically located close to one another, so that they can easily be connected, as by a two-conductor wire, to the processor for the group.
Each of the processors A, B and C serves the function of the small processor 46, but is of somewhat larger capacity so that a group of access control points can be served.
The system 70 also includes a central processor 15 such as described above with reference to FIGS. 1, 4 and 5. With the group processors being of larger capacity than the local processors 46 in the earlier embodiment, the processor 15 may be used to program the group processors A, B and C to handle some functions which otherwise would have been performed by the main processor 15. This can include the date/time control information discussed above, which can also be used to exclude certain personnel (by ID number or key number) who should no longer have access, such as discharged employees.
The processor 15 is also used, as in the previous embodiment, for maintaining a database and for receiving reports from the processors A, B and C and for itself generating reports. The printer 18 may be included, as above, as well as a display monitor 74.
FIG. 9 is a simple block diagram illustrating the interconnection of the system of the invention with an employee time management system, as for time and payroll management of hourly employees. FIG. 9 shows that an employee on beginning a work shift will approach one or more high-security entry doors (which can include non-authenticating access points 12b shown in FIG. 1). The employee inserts his key, which is read at least for the employee number or ID number (block 80), and preferably also is read for the authenticating feature as indicated in the figure. After the central processor checks a database for time/date control (block 82), and the employee is approved to enter at this time, and assuming keyholder authentication is positive, if necessary, as in the block 84, the door is released and access is permitted (block 86). This causes a report 88 to be created, indicating the date and time of entry and the employee identity. The report is sent to time management and payroll 90, which may be operated by the central processor.
When the same employee exits, at the end of a shift or for a meal break, he again inserts his key, but into a key reader at the inside of the door, which signifies that he is exiting. This is indicated in the block 92. Keyholder authentication (block 95) preferably is again required to assure that the proper employee is checking himself out. The employee removes his key and exits (block 94). The opening of the door itself does not require keyholder authentication or even key insertion, but properly taking these steps is in the employee's interest for payroll records. A report 96 is generated, which goes to time management and payroll 90. The record of the employee's entry and exit times enables the compilation of a weekly (or biweekly, monthly, etc.) time report and the automatic printing of checks for the employee (block 98).
FIGS. 10 and 11 show card type access control devices encompassed by the invention. The credit card type key 16a of FIG. 10 was discussed above. In FIG. 11 a different type of card 100 is shown, not necessarily containing any locks accessing feature such as the feature 21 shown in FIG. 10. The card 100 serves as an ID card or security pass, preferably with a photograph 102 of the intended bearer. It also serves as an access control device, having a biometric feature (e.g. fingerprint) encoded in a strip of encoded data 23. Thus, the card 100 is used by the bearer for accessing high-security access points in the manner described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3 through 9, while also serving as a security pass of visual inception. A principal difference is that the card 100 may not be capable of directly accessing any lock.
a user verifying reader adjacent to said one access control point, including user authentication reader means for reading the encoded data on the key when the key is placed at the reader means, and for comparing the read data with a personal identifying feature of the keyholder using the key, and, if the encoded data matches the personal identifying feature, for enabling access to the keyholder via the electrically operated release or strike.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the personal identifying feature comprises the keyholder's fingerprint.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the personal identifying feature of the keyholder includes characteristics of the retina of the keyholder's eye, and wherein the reader means includes means for scanning and reading the characteristics of the retina.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the encoded data is positioned on the key's bottom edge.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the key's bottom edge has a longitudinal groove within which the encoded data is positioned, in an elongated strip.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the encoded data is in the form of optical data storage.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the encoded data is in the form of a bar code.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mechanical key has a cut configuration including angled cuts with cut facets which are oblique rather than perpendicular with respect to the side faces of the key, and including in the reader means a keyway shaped to receive the mechanical key for reading the encoded data, and angled pin means cooperative with the keyway for orienting a bottom surface of a pin against the angled facet and for preventing access if the pin does not mate complementarily with the angled facet.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the encoded data on the key includes digitized information representing the intended keyholder's fingerprint, and wherein the user authentication reader means includes fingerprint reader means for comparing the read actual keyholder's fingerprint with the fingerprint as stored in the encoded data.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user authentication reader means includes a keyway configured to receive the key, and an optical data reader means adjacent to the keyway, with light beam generator and detection means for directing a stationary light beam toward the data encoded on the key, such that the movement of the key in entering the keyway effects a scan of the encoded data positioned on the key.
11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user authentication reader means is located directly at the access control point, and includes means for comparing the read data with the personal identifying feature directly at the access control point, rather than at a central processor.
12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user authentication reader means includes a local processor, and wherein the system includes central processor means for receiving reports from the local processor.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a two-conductor wire connects the local processor at the access control point to the central processor.
14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the encoded data on the key includes a key or keyholder identifying code and wherein the local processor includes means for generating transaction records or reports including a "yes" or "no" regarding the decision of the user verifying reader as to whether or not access was enabled, and including means for sending the key or keyholder identifying code to the central processor means to be correlated with the "yes" or "no" decision report and a date and time of occurrence.
15. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the encoded data on the key includes a key or keyholder identifying code and including means for sending the key or keyholder identifying code to the central processor means, and further including date/time control means associated with the central processor, with an associated database, for looking up the keyholder identifying code in the database and determining whether the keyholder is to be permitted access at the particular time of attempted access, and for sending a "yes" or "no" date/time control decision from the central processor to the local processor so as to prevent access even to an authenticated keyholder if the date and time are not appropriate for access.
16. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the system includes further access control points without said electrically operated release or strike and without said user verifying reader, with locks which are operable without user verification by at least one mechanical key which is also effective at said one access control point for user authentication, whereby a keyholder can gain access to a series of locks in the system by carrying only one key.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said one access control point comprises an employee entry to and exit from a work area, and wherein the system includes a user verifying reader positioned to be used by an employee on exiting, as well as on entering, and including employee time management means for receiving information from the user verifying reader on an employee's entry as well as exit, and for automatically computing the employee's time at work for payroll purposes, based on said received information. and a reproduction of the keyholder's photographic image is generated for comparison with the keyholder's appearance.
providing at the access control point a reader for the encoded data on the mechanical key, and a means for inputting the personal identifying feature of an intended keyholder, as well as local processor means for comparing the read actual personal identifying feature with the digitized personal identifying feature as read from the key, and for enabling access at the access control point only if the encoded data substantially matches the personal identifying feature as actually read.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the personal identifying feature is the intended keyholder's fingerprint.
20. The method of claim 18, wherein the key reader includes a keyway slot configured to receive a particular keyway configuration, with the key reader being adjacent to the keyway slot.
21. The method of claim 18, wherein the access control point comprises a door including an electric release or strike, and wherein a positive comparison by the processor means is necessary for activation of the electric release or strike so that the door can be opened.
22. The method of claim 18, further including encoding on each key a keyholder code or number for the particular intended keyholder, and including reading the keyholder code or number with the key reader, sending the keyholder number to a central processor in the system, looking up the authorized dates/times of permitted access for that keyholder number with the central processor and a data base, and sending a signal back to the local processor means to enable access only if the date and time are proper, as well as said substantial match occurring.
23. The method of claim 18, including providing in the system a series of secondary access control points wherein the mechanical key alone is effective to gain access, without use of the encoded data on the key, whereby a person need only carry one key for access to a series of different access control points with higher levels of security and lower levels of security.
24. The method of claim 18, wherein the personal identifying feature comprises a personal code number known to the intended keyholder, and including providing a keyboard for inputting of the personal code number by the keyholder, for comparison with a personal code number encoded on the mechanical key.
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I know history is a difficult and boring subject for most but since our schools are closed today, I thought I’d take a moment for some thought and reflection.
Remember way back, and I know it’s a struggle, but try and picture February 14, 2018. Remember that day? You might because it was Valentine’s Day. Perhaps you enjoyed some overpriced roses and chocolate that day. In the media frenzy and chaos of Valentine’s day, it would have been easy to miss it but that was the day we first started discussing on a national level the notion of arming the teachers.
Remember it now? That’s right, the Parkland Florida shooting. The rhetoric surrounding that day was incredible, the memes amusing.
No matter where you fell in that discussion, everyone had an opinion. So what was the result? Protests were held, people got angry, more protest were held, people protested the protests, and people got louder and angrier. A lot of energy went into this.
It didn’t take long before the teachers spoke up. “Wait a minute, you want to arm me? Let’s talk about what you’re going to arm me with.” The dam burst. Years of low pay and declining funding and resources came flooding through. Teachers, realizing their job description had slowly been shifting to glorified babysitter at best and armed guard at worst started to come out of the closet and proclaim, this is not what I signed up for. The fire spread. Then, as fires do, it jumped the road.
We began to forget about the devastation of Parkland, the damage was done, the debate gridlocked. Sure, there were tears and speeches and protests, but what of that now? Nothing. History, moved forward. A new fire began to burn.
Within weeks the thought had spread like a virus. We can’t control guns so arm the teacher’s with funding and resources. Of course money doesn’t come out of thin air, and if you’re a capitalist there is always money to be made.
The teachers began demanding more. More counselors. Smaller class sizes so we have the opportunity to know our students better. We have more students in our classroom than we have desks. By-the-way, have you seen our desks? Half of them are broken. We will take a bullet for your child if we have to (we’ve proven that) but please, we would really prefer to not have that happen. We are overwhelmed, overworked, and grossly underpaid.
The idea of supporting education in and of itself is not controversial. After all, I prefer uneducated, easy to manipulate masses is not a popular platform. While it may be true, no one can come right out an say it. That’s why they call it politics.
April 12, 2018. With very little resistance the governor of Arizona takes to the news announcing, we will pay teachers more! A lot more. Teachers will have a 9% pay raise by next school year. (Folks, that’s three months away, other than mobilizing for war, when has our government ever pulled anything off in three months?) He promises a 20% pay raise over the next three years. He takes to the news among a back drop of clapping Arizona school Superintendents and school leaders and proclaims, “Now we know that there are other needs in public education so there will be no shell games. This investment is in addition to the $371million dollars in district additional assistance which will provide flexible funding for Arizona’s schools most pressing needs, fixing school infrastructure, modernizing curriculum, school busses… updating classroom technologies.” (Governor Ducey 2018).
Skeptical, the teachers ask, where is this money coming from?
The Legislature has to approve tax increases.
#RedforEd is a pretty good slogan, and it already has momentum. The teachers press on playing the last card they have, we’re going to walk out.
No response from our governor.
We mean it, shout the teachers. We’re outta here.
No response from our legislature.
The teachers wear t-shirts, stand on the sidewalks holding signs before and after school, and hand out flyers. The idea of walking out becomes more real. The teachers vote, should we walkout? Will we really do this?
School administrators begin to crunch the numbers based on the information they have. Will we be able to remain open if the people who say they will walk out actually do?
No response from our government.
Schools realize they can’t stay open and tell their employees not to come to work. It no longer matters if you were planning to walk out or not. The schools have crossed the threshold of what they can handle safely, they must close their doors. They make as many provisions as they can for as many students as they can. They warn parents as best they can and tell them, prepare now our doors will be closing.
Finally, our government speaks up. Our brilliant Superintendent of education takes to the news and threatens to go after teacher’s certificates if they walk out. (Like the student who raises their hand after explaining the directions twelve times and asks, “what are we doing?” It is painfully obvious someone missed the lesson and needs remediation as this is so jaw-droppingly stupid it’s difficult to grasp.) Who is walking out and who is just following directions?
Thursday, April 26, 2018. The schools fall silent. A day without a teacher. A day where we seek not to put new information into our brain, but rather to reflect on the information that is already there. After all, knowledge is not the information itself, but rather what we make of it.
By looking to our history, can we predict our future? What will come of this? What will be our history lesson? Who will benefit? Who will profit? What will be the cost?
The schools are closed today, but that doesn’t mean that education must stop. Pause here for reflection. Form your own thoughts. This is the job of a teacher. We do not have the right answers, but we do seek to help others learn to ask the right questions.
Extension of learning. If you feel so compelled, read on.
Homework, never present a problem without a solution. WARNING: If you don’t know what the word satire means, look it up.
May 1, 2018 – Breaking news, in a bizarre full-circle turn of events Arizona legislature teams up with Arizona schools #RedforEd movement and the NRA to propose the first ever gun tax for public education. You heard that right. The only thing Arizonans loves more than their guns, is their kids. Much like a cigarette tax, Arizona is taxing all things associated with firearms in order to raise money to fund teacher salaries and the schools “most pressing needs.” While early talks considered following the example of Colorado and taxing marijuana, Arizonan’s found the subject to be too controversial. However, after much reflection Arizonans determined that guns was a more palatable and agreeable topic. In doing so, they have come to believe that the best kind of gun owners are the educated kind and are aiming to be the first to set a higher standard. In an unprecedented historical move, Arizona citizens and legislatures have agreed to fire up a knowledge tax on guns.
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Spokane County Sheriff responds to death threats The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said it checked the Facebook account with the name that the caller provided and found a comment referencing Republicans stating, “i am going to kill every single one of them.” Investigators said they found more…………….
Gun Control Works Great If You’re The One Who Controls the Guns…..
If you call 911 they will have a nice recording of your death. Arm yourself and learn how to use it is various situations.
Only you can prevent a chalk outline around your body.
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is it just me, or has september flown by?
messing around with watercolor and adding faces to it. in the past, i would just ink over the top, but this time i wanted to see what would happen if i did the facemaking in illustrator. not completely convinced, but a fun experiment.
slate: why won't anyone give me a credit card?
trying to get a credit card with good credit, but no credit history. maybe i’ve seen too many of those stupid and predatory (yeah, i went there!) capital one commercials with the vikings (or i just wanted to draw 2x4s).
slate: why won’t anyone give me a credit card?, by kevin o’donnell.
slate: why won’t anyone give me a credit card?
it’s cooler, the days are getting shorter, and the apples are tasty. much like the leaves changing color, it’s time for a portfolio update, so throw on some corduroys and a sweater and take a look.
view of manhattan skyline from the new WNYC transmitter park.
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Canada Day is just around the corner, which means your go-to clinic might just be closed. Even though everyone across Canada will be busy celebrating, you never know if you’ll need to see your doctor or pick up a prescription from your local pharmacy.
Well, you’re in luck! iamsick.ca’s easy-to-use website or app can quickly help you find the healthcare information you need! This Canada Day, you will be able to effortlessly find the holiday hours for about 90% of various healthcare professionals as soon as you need them!
Sound interesting? Read on to learn about how our healthcare platform works.
When something unexpected happens and you need to see your physician as soon as possible, it’s not always easy to find their holiday hours. With a click of a button, you can use our accurate and complete holiday hour coverage to find what you need, including holiday hours for a wide-range of healthcare services.
Along with providing holiday hour info, iamsick.ca offers an incredibly useful platform that connects patients to a wide variety of healthcare providers including clinics, pharmacies, community health centre, diagnostic labs, etc. With a simple search option, you can find a physician who speaks your language, who works after hours, who is available on weekends or generally fits your needs.
Once you’ve found the physician or healthcare provider that you need, you can use our flexible online booking system to effortlessly schedule an appointment. You don’t need to wait on hold on the phone to book an appointment anymore. You can also take advantage of the Waiting Room Concierge which will place you in a queue and notify you when it’s almost your turn for your schedule appointment. You can avoid those long and often irritating amounts of time that you would normally have to spend in the waiting room.
We’re continuously expanding our physician holiday hour coverage across Canada, and offer a wide range of convenient filter options so you can find the exact healthcare service you’re looking for! Check out our services here to learn more!
Identify the five most promising areas of innovation in Canada and internationally that have the potential to sustainably reduce growth in health spending while leading to improvements in the quality and accessibility of care.
Recommend the five ways the federal government could support innovation in the areas identified above.
industry as an economic driver and innovation catalyst.
Should the agency be created, the HIAC will be an arms-length organization supported by the Healthcare Innovation Fund. The agency will support national collaboration across pan-Canadian organizations. In particular, the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, and the Canada Health Infoway will be included in HIAC.
The Healthcare Innovation Fund’s general goals are to “support high-impact initiatives proposed by governments and stakeholders; break down structural barriers to change; and accelerate the spread and scale-up of promising innovations”. Rather than a formulaic allocation of funds, the Healthcare Innovation Fund will be allocated based on transparent specifications, measurable healthcare outcomes, and economic and social value.
iamsick.ca is pleased to see the efforts being made to promote and encourage healthcare innovation in Canada. Improving healthcare outcomes and fostering innovation is at the core of iamsick.ca’s work. In particular, we are encouraged to see the spirit of collaboration and partnership embodied throughout the report. We look forward to seeing new developments and measurable changes as the federal government moves forward with these recommendations.
No-shows, or missed appointments, are a costly and unfortunate reality for many healthcare providers in Canada. In 2014, 90% of surveyed Canadians expressed a desire for online appointment booking, yet only 7% of Canadian family physicians offered it. This falls far below the 66% of Swedish physicians and 30% of American physicians who offer online appointment requests (2012).
The number of online bookings increased by 32%. The number of users/registrants also increased.
Patients perceived three major benefits: scheduling flexibility, time savings, and automated reminders.
The e-booking system’s automated appointment reminders (via telephone, e-mail or text message) proved to reduce the number of no-shows experienced by each clinic.
The study found that an overwhelming majority used the online appointment booking system to book appointments for themselves rather than for a relative.
In 2015, still fewer than 10% of Canadians can book family physician appointments online. This number can be improved.
For more information on the benefits of e-booking and Infoway’s work in promoting the tool across Canada, take a look at our previous blog post.
Canadians are ready for a change, and we’re here to help. iamsick.ca‘s e-booking platform was designed to integrate with clinic workflows and software. With complete EMR-integration, appointments booked online can effortlessly appear in your scheduler. Reduce no-shows, time spent managing phone-calls and improve clinic efficiency with valuable analytics.
If you’re interested in offering e-booking in your clinic or pharmacy, contact us at partners@iamsick.ca for more information.
Digital health solutions provide us with numerous benefits.
Recently, Canada Health Infoway explored how digital health solutions can improve healthcare, including e-visits and the ability to view test results online. What’s most interesting to us is their take on e-booking, and the benefits that it offers to patients and healthcare providers.
Simply put, using e-booking can help clinicians run a more efficient practice. More importantly, e-booking allows patients to take control of their health by giving them tools to connect with healthcare providers, when and where they need it.
Most clinic software, referred to as electronic medical record (EMR) software, do not offer the ability for patients to book appointments online. That’s why we designed and built an e-booking platform that can integrate with existing clinic software. In the future, if EMR software companies offer their own e-boking service, our system can complement their service to offer patients choice and additional functionality; like our virtual waiting room, healthcare system wayfinding, and other services that we’re building.
The first is our integrated e-booking platform. This platform integrates with existing scheduling module of EMR software to create a seamless workflow. Appointments made on iamsick.ca will automatically sync with the clinic’s calendar.
The second service is a stand-alone e-booking service that lets patients book appointments online without EMR software integration.
The third service is an appointment e-request service that lets patients request appointments online, and allows for a level of interaction between the patient and clinic staff to help find the best time for an appointment.
Are you a patient who is itching to booking appointments online? If you have a doctor who doesn’t yet offer e-booking, please visit book.iamsick.ca and fill out the form at the bottom of the page to let us know your doctor’s contact information. We will follow-up with your doctor to let them know about the benefits of iamsick.ca e-booking at their clinic.
If don’t have a family doctor and want to book appointments online, you can also use iamsick.ca to search for family doctors accepting new patients. And, some of these family doctors, as well as some primary care walk-in clinics, accept online appointment booking using iamsick.ca.
Are you a healthcare provider who wants to improve the patient experience in your clinic? Contact partners[at]iamsick.ca to schedule a demo and learn more about how the iamsick.ca e-booking platform can help you.
#HealthKick2015 – We are ready!
It has been 10 weeks since we were announced as finalists at this year’s MaRS HealthKick 2015 Showcase.
Since then, our co-founder and president, Ryan Doherty, has been hard at work with our team and advisors to create the perfect pitch. The showcase is tomorrow, and we’re more ready than ever!
We are a young, up-and-coming startup that is ready to take on the challenge of helping patients navigate the healthcare system. Ryan’s vision to connect patients with appropriate care drives the team to improve our platform and find new ways to help Canadians to maneuver across the confusing healthcare landscape. Recently, we’ve even started exploring features that will improve the delivery of healthcare – from our virtual waiting room to same-day/same-week advanced access.
At HealthKick, we are seeking angel round investments. If successful, the investments and opportunities will help us grow and spread the platform across different disciplines, and across Canada.
We are looking forward to see you at HealthKicks 2015. Good luck to our fellow finalists!
iamsick.ca will be at the second Annual Primary Care Day this Friday, March 27, 2015. The event is presented by the Mississauga Halton LHIN and MIssissauga Halton Primary Care Network. Primary care providers will have an opportunity to chat with our co-founder, Ryan, and the rest of our team about our platform.
In late 2014, we started working together with Mississauga Halton LHIN to bring patients better access to timely and appropriate care. A core element of our platform is helping patients see relevant information. We believe that will help them find the right care at the right now. We have been working hard with MH LHIN prepare features that will help patients and health care providers in the Mississauga-Halton region.
Health care providers will be able to use iamsick.ca to update any facility information, including holiday hours, after hours, and any contact information that is included in our system. This feature was designed with flexibility and convenience in mind. It is important to us that health care providers can easily update their patients with the most up-to-date and accurate information.
Each healthcare facility’s holiday hours will be prominently displayed. We understand there are challenges around holiday surges. These challenges can burden hospital emergency departments, while patients risk not receiving appropriate and timely care. With this feature, we hope to address these challenges. Patients will be able to view holiday hours and visit the appropriate care provider for their medical needs over holidays.
Similar to our Holiday Hours feature, we are also displaying after hours recommendations for primary care clinics. We know that each care provider wants to make sure that patients are receiving the best care. This means providing patients with the right after hours information, in the event they may require medical attention outside of regular business hours.
We look forward to presenting our new features on Friday at the Primary Care Day conference. Attendees will be able to try out these new features, provide feedback, and learn about how to use iamsick.ca to enhance their practice.
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Hello. In this tutorial post I am going to show you how I made my simplified version of Craps. The purpose of this tutorial is to show the basics of using the HTML5 canvas tag and drawing simple 2D shapes. You can see the game in action on my website.
To start off lets lay out the simple rules so we know what we are trying to accomplish.
On a roll of 7 or 11 the player wins.
On a roll of 2, 3, or 12 the player looses.
Any other roll is stored as the players ‘Point’ and a Follow Up Roll is played.
On a roll of the players ‘Point’ the player wins.
Any other roll is discarded and play continues with another Follow Up Roll.
This is a very simplified version that only takes into account one player. If you want to expand this simple game with the full rules you can check out the wikipedia article for more info.
This is the canvas tag. This is where we will be drawing out the dice when the player makes a roll. You can use the canvas tag to draw anything you need be it simple 2D graphics, 3D scenes, or just about anything you can think of. We will be covering how to draw basic 2D shapes.
I do not use anything out of the ordinary for the CSS so I won’t go over that in detail but for completeness here is the CSS code I use.
Our next variable is ctx. This holds our canvas context object. We use this object to draw the dice onto the canvas. We will learn how to use it in more detail as we go over each function used in the game.
The last 7 variables holds various information needed to process each roll. We start with roll1, roll2, and rolltotal. Each of these store the current die roll and the total of the two. Next is point. This will store the current rounds ‘Point’ value. Then comes round. Here is a simple string to distinguish what round we are on. I could have used a boolean variable here which may be a better choice in the end. It’s not hard to change the code to use a boolean instead of a string so feel free to make the necessary adjustments. Next we store the players ‘total loot’ in a variable called total_loot. This will increase or decrease as the game goes by depending on if the player won or lost a round. The last variable needed is current_bet. This will keep track of the players current bet. The player wil have a chance to change this before each round starts.
After this I have a basic initialize function called when the page is loaded.
// be in their default state.
We start off this function by setting the dicex variable to it’s default of 25. This will make sure when when actually draw the dice the first die will be drawn in the correct position. Next we get two random numbers and assign them to roll1, and roll2.
We repeat the above to get a random value for roll2. Next we add the two rolls together to get the value we will be using to check against for the rest of the function. You may wonder why I am getting two random numbers between 1 and 6 and not one random number between 2 and 12. I could have done this but I would have to split the number somehow in order to display the values of each individual die when we go to draw the dice. This way will make it much easier to call the drawing function to draw each individual die.
The next part of the function we determine what round we are in. If it is the Initial Roll we will be making different checks then if it is the Follow Up Roll. In the Initial Roll part of the if statement we use a switch() to see what the total roll is. If it is a 7 or 11 we display the message YOU WIN! then call the setScore() function to add the players bet to their total loot. If the total roll is either a 2, 3, or 12 we display the message YOU LOSE! then call setScore() to subtract the players bet from their total loot. If any other roll is found we set the point variable to the value of rolltotal and display the number in the Point box. We also update the round text to Follow Up Roll and update the round variable accordingly.
If we are already on the Follow Up Roll we check to see if the rolltotal is equal to 7. If it is we display the YOU LOSE! text and call setScore() to subtract the players bet from their total loot. If this isn’t true we check to see if the rolltotal equals the players point value. If it does we display YOU WIN! and call setScore() to update the score appropriately. If any other number is rolled we ignore it and move on.
Next we check to see if the players total_loot is less then or equal to 0. If it is we set the players total_loot to 0 then update the HTML Elements so the New Game button is showing. We then display the current totalroll in the appropriate spot.
After this we call the crapsDrawFace() function to draw the result of roll1 onto the canvas. Next we move dicex over the width of the die plus 50. Lastly we call crapsDrawFace() again to draw the results of roll2. crapsDrawFace() will take care of drawing the dice. I’ll be going over this function and it’s accompanying functions in a minute.
Now we get to the fun part, crapsDrawFace(). This function will draw a die onto the canvas at dicex and dicey. This function will call other functions depending on the number we need to draw. These function are crapsDraw1(), crapsDraw2() and crapsDraw2mid(). I’ll go ever each in turn.
The first thing we do inside this function is set the line width we will be drawing with. We do this by setting the lineWidth data member of our ctx variable. This is the complete call: ctx.lineWidth = 5;. This is setting the width to 5px. The next function should look familiar. We used it in two previous functions. It’s the clearRect() function. The difference here is that w are clearing only the space that the dice is occupying. Next will set the fill color we want to use, in this instance #FFFFFF or white. We do this be setting the fillStyle data member of the ctx object. The next function is new, fillRect(). This function is identical to clearRect in all ways except one. the fillRect() function will fill the rectangle provided with the setting of fillStyle. This gives our dice a nice white background (if your game is on a white background you can skip this). Next we change the fillStyle so it is #000000 or black. We want this to be the color of the border for our dice. We create this by calling the function strokeRect(). Once again this takes the exact same parameters as clearRect() and fillRect(). The only difference here is that the function will stroke (put a border) around the outside of the rectangle with a width of lineWidth and the color stored in fillStyle. Lastly we set the fillStyle one last time to a nice green color, #009966. This color wil be used for the dots on the face of the dice.
The function then uses a switch() statement to determine how to draw the dots. It will call one of the crapsDraw?() functions or a combination of them to accomplish this. All of these functions are almost identical besides how they calculate the dot position. I will show all three functions then go over the most interesting parts.
* This function draws a dot in the center of the die.
* This function draws a dot in two oposit corners (lower right and upper left).
* If reverse is true it draws the dots in the oposite corners.
* on the y axis. It is used to create the '6'.
There are four functions that we are concerned with that we need to look at, beginPath(), arc(), closePath(), and finally fill(). I will go over arc() last as that is the more interesting function of the bunch (Don’t forget to add ctx. in front of each function call). To tell the context we want to start drawing a path we use the beginPath() function: We tell the context we are done when we call closePath(). We then can either use fill() or stroke() to either fill the path or stroke is accordingly. I do not use the stroke() function in this game but the work the same as fillRect() and strokeRect().
Finally at the end of the file we add the crapsInit() function to the document ready queue. I use jQuery but you can assign it in any manner that will work if you do not use the jQuery library.
Thats about it for the code. When the page is initially loaded it will call the crapsInit() function. This will set the stage and display the New Game button. Once the player clicks this it will call the crapsNewGame() function and prompt the user to set the bet for the round. Once the player enters their bet and clicks the button the crapsSetButton() function is fired off. Next the player clicks the Roll Dice button to call crapsRollDice() until they either win or loose the round. At this point it prompts the player to enter another bet and play continues till either the player stops or looses all his loot.
I hope this tutorial on how to build my simplified version of Craps was useful. The main parts I wanted to make sure to hit was how to draw basic 2d shapes on a canvas. You can do so much more with the canvas then I did here but hopefully this gave any one just jumping into HTML 5 some useful info to help them along.
I plan on doing more tutorials based around more complex games that will take full advantage of the canvas. I will also do some 3D based ones as well. If you liked this let me know. If you found any mistakes or know how I can do something better don’t hesitate to submit a comment.
A screenshot of me winning a round!
This is a screenshot of me losing a round!
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3/15/03 - Biola split a double-header Saturday, beating Western State College (Colorado) Mountaineers, 11-10 in OT, and falling to the University Nevada in Las Vegas Rebels, 12-11.
Senior Dave Crandall led the scoring with 4 goals and 1 assist against Western State College. Senior Sean Connally had 3 goals and Freshman Josh Agadoni had 2 goals and 2 assists. Senior Ryan Agadoni and Junior Stitch Buckhout had one goal each and Freshmen Duncan Campbell and Josh Bouck had 1 assist each.
Against UNLV Crandall led the scoring again with 4 goals and 1 assist. Connally had 3 goals and Campbell had 2 goals. Tiffin and Freshman Jacob Walkowski had 1 goal each. Bouck had 2 assists. Ryan Agadoni and Freshman Chris Williams had 1 assists each.
Freshman Jacob Walkowski scores his first goal of the season against UNLV on Saturday.
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As we continue on our series about old Hollywood lighting, another great classic type of lighting is Split Lighting. This is something that has been used for several decades and can really add a dramatic effect to your images!
With Split Lighting the technique is to have only one light source and it is placed at a 90 degree angle from your subject and your subject is facing directly towards your camera. This type of lighting is definitely meant to help create a mood and add drama to any photograph. It is not really used much for any traditional portrait work but has been used quite often in commercial and fashion photography over the years.
Once you start to experiment with Split Lighting you can then begin to add that fashion feel to your boudoir images. Position your subject’s head 90 degrees from the light but let their body move towards the light. This will give you the dramatic effect on their face while lighting up their body.
With learning about the classic lighting techniques the thing to remember is that once you learn the rules then you are allowed to break them! With a good understanding of lighting you can really expand your imagination and start combining different variations of posing and lighting techniques! All this does is add more tools in your photography tool box!
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So this is another one of those movies that is like a Jane Austen book, in how you have all these different characters and story lines, but in the end they all link together somehow.
Yep, just like He’s Just NOT That Into You or Love Actually it is one tangled web.
The film follows many people all trying to accomplish something on New Years Eve. Paul (Zac Efron) has been hired by Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) to help her achieve all her New Year’s resolutions. Ingrid has recently quit her job at Ahern music company, but still has four tickets to their amazing party, which she will give Paul, if he completes everything.
Mrs. Rose Ahern is the matriarch of the industry and is trying to pull of a phenomenal party. She has hired Chef Laura (Katherine Heigl) to cater the event, and Laura is determined to make a name for herself and get more clients. Only problem is, her ex-fiance, rock star, Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) who broke her heart, is headlining the event and trying to get them back together.
Hailey (Abigal Breslin) has a huge crush on guy in her class, Seth (Jake T. Austin), and escapes from her mom to spend New Year’s Eve with him in Times’ Square. Kim (Sarah Jessica Parker) is upset as she wanted to spend the evening with her, and has to get her brother, Paul, to help her find her daughter.
Claire Morgan (Hilary Swank) as always loved watching the ball drop on New Year’s Eve. This year she is in charge of the whole event, and when the ball has some mechanical difficulties, she has to figure out how to get it rollin’.
Randy (Ashton Kutcher), Paul’s roommate, hates New Year’s Eve, ever since a girl broke his heart. He was going to spend the night wallowing in pity, but ends up getting stuck in an elevator with Elise (Lea Michelle), Jensen’s back-up singer. Through spending time with her, he starts moving past his broken heart and learning to love again.
Tess (Jessica Biel) and Griffen Byrne (Seth Mayer) are competing with another family to have the first baby of the new year and win $25,000. Also at the hospital is Stan (Robert De Niro) who is dying of cancer and trying to make it to midnight. Nurse Amy (Halle Berry) is caring for him.
Sam Ahern (Josh Duhamel) is stuck in Conneticut, having been best man for his friend’s wedding. He hitches a ride with the local minister trying to get to New York so he can deliver a speech and meet up with a women he met on New Year’s Eve of the year before.
So the thread I’m going to focus on is that of Sam Ahern. So here we have the very rich, handsome, suave, charming Sam Ahern; who could get any woman he’s ever wanted. I mean he’s played by Josh Duhamel!
Anyways, so even though he wants to get back to New York to give his speech, he has an even more important reason. Last year he had to give a speech at the company party and was super nervous, so he ducked out to grab a slice of pizza and relax. While he was there he met a girl and had an amazing night just talking and hanging out with her. He left for the bathroom, and when he got back to the table she was gone, but she had left a note asking him to meet her at the same place, same time, next year. Sam has no other way of finding her as she never gave him her name.
So fast forward the year, and here is Sam hanging with the minister’s family and telling them the story of what had happened. As he tells the family the story of what occurs, he pulls the note out of his wallet, laminated.
That’s right folks, not only has he been carrying her note around for A WHOLE year, BUT he had it laminated. Yes he knew he would be constantly taking it out and looking at that he had to have it on him at all times and have it protected.
How can you not be swayed by that. Sooooooooooooooo romantic!!!! I know to others it might not seem like much, but like I said, I find it incredibly romantic!
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Song of the day: The Candy Strypers – "Dance On"
No blurb, no photos, no “we’re fantastic and you gotta hear us!”, no nothing. Just that link.
It turns out that Paul (Hi, Paul!) is from England (i.e., The Land of Engs) and is basically The Candy Strypers.
By the way, when looking for links to the band I found another band called The Candy Stypers. They’re from Texas, and describe their music as “Afro-beat / Chinese pop / Rap”. Well, why not?
You are currently browsing the archives for the Candy Strypers category.
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According to an important Twitterer that everyone should follow @KristiePie, Joel Hanrahan, not Evan Meek and not a timeshare will nail down the door for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
While this might seem like small potatoes, I think it is a relatively important change to note for the fantasy baseball community. I originally thought Hanrahan would see the multitude of early save chances in the hopes of driving up his value to trade him come the second half – but this adds a lot of certainty.
I’ve always been a big fan of Hanrahan (and for some reason Pirates closers, in general). Hanrahan burst on the scene in 2008 with a nine save performance and a brilliant 9.9 K/9 rate. Next season saw an increase in that K-rate to 10.13, however he had a .378 BABip, a 66.2% strand rate and some injuries. It was a down year by any measure.
However, he bounced back nicely in 2010 to post an even better k-rate (12.92) and a more stabilized BABip and strand rate, which lead to a 3.62 ERA.
Hanrahan has also averaged 88 Ks (including the somewhat short/injury-riddled 2009 campaign) over the last three seasons. While he’ll be volatile (given his career 4.7 BB/9 rate) and Evan Meek is always present, Hanrahan will be a top closer over the first part of the year.
Hanrahan has been the 251st person off the board in early mock drafts, making him considerably undervalued. Obviously, that will change, but I see him as a top 90 pitcher (he was previously 119) and a top 20 reliever (he was previously 27).
Ok, I am, by no means, a star on the radio. Last night, I sure stumbled over my words in some parts, but I think we had some great discussions on fantasy and, more broadly, baseball related topics.
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The GBC Outreach is a student run non-profit initiative at Rotman. Their mandate is to find fun and creative ways to get the Rotman community involved with supporting local charities in the Greater Toronto Area. Each year, the dedicated group of students organize fun events and initiatives. In 2015/2016, the Rotman community raised $20,000 for four local charities thanks to flagship events such as the Annual Charity Auction. Feeling strapped for cash? Not a problem. GBC Outreach helps students give back to the community through volunteering events such as the Junior Achievement program, where our volunteers had the opportunity to teach and inspire grade school children for a day.
Provides support and awareness for Canadians affected by Mitochondrial Disease.
Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres.
Promotes the humane care and protection of all animals and prevents cruelty and suffering.
In 2016/2017, we donated $30,000 to charity.
Contact Oliver Feniak at oliver.feniak19@rotman.utoronto.ca for more details.
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2019-04-21T16:44:30Z
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https://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/gbc1new/2408-2/rotman-life/outreach-program/
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Book Launch "Blocked on Weibo"
Jason Q. Ng is a Google Policy Fellow at The Citizen Lab and a research consultant for China Digital Times. His writing and research have been featured in publications including Le Monde, Foreign Affairs, TheAtlantic.com, and Shanghaiist. He blogs about Chinese Internet issues on his website Blocked on Weibo (blockedonweibo.com).
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2019-04-23T04:47:09Z
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https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/14410/
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After the ‘Straight Between The Eyes’ US tour dates, all the members of Rainbow had been given notice of dismissal by Blackmore and the management team; the highly likely Deep Purple reformation being the cause. Initially, with Blackmore and David Coverdale patching up their previous differences, Coverdale had been offered the vocalist position but he turned this down sensing major success with Whitesnake (a wise decision as it turned out). Deep Purple Mk 2 looked to be on the cards for getting back together but an alleged argument between Gillan and Blackmore over publishing rights/royalties scuppered the reunion. Blackmore promptly resurrected Rainbow and re-hired everyone with the exception of drummer Bobby Rondinelli, replacing him with Chuck Burgi.
Roger Glover was too busy with his own solo album to get involved with song writing duties for ‘Bent Out Of Shape’ but was happy to play bass and produce as before, returning to Flemming Rasmussen’s Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen – Blackmore liked the guitar sound there.
This album featured virtually all Blackmore/Turner compositions with only one song featuring Glover and Rosenthal as additional writing credits.
After touring this album in 1983 and early 1984, Rainbow finally disbanded after the Japanese dates with Blackmore and Glover joining the well publicised and long rumoured Deep Purple Mk 2 reunion with Gillan, Lord and Paice.
‘Stranded’ opens the album and sets the scene with a straight forward no-nonsense riff that works well. Blackmore’s solo style has definitely changed by this album, playing in a more staccato, less melodic way, but it remains very distinctive and individual.
‘Can’t Let You Go’ starts with an impressive church organ introduction that would have made for an interesting opener to the album. The guitar riff is quite laid back and features a lot more keyboards than normal. Superb vocals from Turner. Rosenthal received a writing credit but only for the organ introduction.
‘Fool For The Night’ is again a little rockier than some previous offerings. This is another better than average track but doesn’t set the album alight. Distinctive octaver guitar solo from Blackmore.
‘Fire Dance’ features one of Blackmore’s best guitar riffs in years. Shame the chorus isn’t a bit more catchy? This could have been one of Rainbow’s best ever tracks. The song features a great keyboard solo from Rosenthal and a return to form with the guitar solo too. Impressive screaming ending from Turner!
‘Anybody There’ is another of Blackmore’s instrumentals, but really it just seems to be a reworking of previous similar instrumentals such as ‘Weiss Heim’ and ‘Vielleicht Das Nachster Zeit’. A bit pointless in my opinion.
Side 2 opens with ‘Desperate Heart’, another melodic, well crafted song featuring plenty of keyboards again. The guitar is very laid back on this track though and it seems this could have been slated as a possible single as it is very ‘radio friendly’ with a strong vocal and melody. The guitar solo again features Blackmore revised method of playing in a more staccato style.
‘Street Of Dreams’ is next and is definitively the single off the album and proved to be another huge commercial success in the US. The video of the song featured a hypnosis sequence that resulted in the video being banned due to fears that the audience might be hypnotised! A superb Rainbow song and one of Turner’s best performances by far.
A very up tempo rocker follows with ‘Drinking With The Devil’, but it features a decidedly average chorus and arrangement that is far too predictable and not really worthy of Rainbow’s collective talents. Definite filler.
Another instrumental follows: ‘Snowman‘, which initially is just keyboards and although moody and atmospheric doesn’t really deliver much until Blackmore’s superb guitar solo which hints a little of the solo on ‘Gates Of Babylon’. A pity there isn’t a bit more guitar throughout the track rather than just over the ending refrain.
The album finishes with ‘Make Your Move’, which sadly also falls into the ‘filler’ category. A fairly pointless, meandering guitar solo punctuates a fairly pointless and forgettable song.
The ‘Can’t Let You Go’ intro is, although completely different, as much a classic as the ‘Tarot Woman’ one.
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2019-04-21T13:22:02Z
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In order to let some Hong Kong people know that there is a world beyond their tiny little city (sigh), I’m going to post some international headlines here from time to time. I’m not a journalist, so don’t expect in-depth reporting (And I’m not getting paid for this).
The Bradley Manning Trial begins today. Bradley Manning, a 25 year-old intelligence specialist in the US Army from Oklahoma, faces a potential life imprisonment sentence for leaking information that showcases US military’s atrocities, including a video that shows an U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed civilians in 2007, to WikiLeaks. Manning has already pleaded guilty to other charges that will land him up-to-20 years in prison. Today’s trial is around the charge of “aiding the enemy". If found guilty, Manning could be imprisoned for life.
Manning has been adequately dealt with in his previous pleas. He should not be tried for this espionage charge. He was facing a dilemma of being accused a traitor or out of his conscience to leak the materials to stop further atrocities.
I am always critical of Uncle Sam, not because I do not pursue democracy. I always want people to open their eyes to see the reality instead of being a blind worshipper of the Big Brother. The nature of this trial is analogous to that of the people exposing materials in China to show the atrocities of the communists. While the HK people just chant what they desire to see and worship with their blinkers on, the good deeds of the Big Brother and turn a blind eye to the obvious fact of misdeeds.
To many, HK is the centre of the world, a back stepping for thousand years to the ancient dynasties. Microcosm overshadows the macrocosmic universe.
Apparently, the guilty pleas weren’t enough to the Obama Administration, whose chief has a Nobel Peace Prize under his belt. I hope the sense of irony isn’t lost on him. Manning is being made an example of, this much is very clear.
I don’t think the people of Hong Kong truly understand democracy. It’s become a buzzword to them.
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2019-04-20T20:43:17Z
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https://montwithin.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/in-other-parts-of-the-world-bradley-manning-trial/
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Griffin (8): How long is a tortoise year?
Me: Good question. Maybe six months?
G: Huh?…A tortoise lives 250 years and a person lives 75 years…I need to divide those.
G: A tortoise year is three years then.
Me: No. It’s the other way around.
G: Oh. Then it’s four months.
G: A dog year is . I’m not sure how many months that is.
Me: Is a dog year of a year, or is it seven years?
G: Well a dog would age one year in of a year, so it’s .
Now I don’t know what a dog year is!
The boy makes a good argument.
So I work for this curriculum project.
Nice task. But where it sat in the curriculum, it was too much. Too much data, too much variation in size of groups, too much everything. It crashed and burned for me and many others every year.
Much cleaner and more manageable.
Now we’re revising again. I’m looking at the problem not through the lens of whether it’s manageable in class (which this one is), but through the lens of whether the comparisons it generates are as engaging as they could be for kids (I think they’re not).
It’s unclear why I would compare the Giant Sequoia to the White Oak, except to notice that even a big oak tree pales in comparison to a Giant Sequoia.
But what if I’m dealing with bonsai trees? In Karate Kid, Daniel-san calls them baby trees. Are bonsais really miniature versions of real trees? If so, how can we describe the similarities? And if not, how can we ferret that out?
We’re comparing heights and widths (essentially) of trees. I want to see that, not just have it be numbers in a table.
In both cases, that’s a 1 foot by 5 foot rectangle.
And we ask students to compare heights, spread and trunk-circumference of the bonsai and full-sized trees. Then there’s another pair-this one two Ponderosa Pines. Long story short: height/spread ratio consistent within species, but the trunk is out of whack.
Personally, I am more interested in comparing the bonsai to the real than I was in comparing two different types of trees in a table. It’s a better task, I think. But the visual isn’t quite right.
This one is more provocative. Not as good for making estimates of measurements, but better for seeing the comparisons in question.
So we launch with something like this one. And provide something like the initial pairing while students work. It’s on a photocopy so they can write all over it.
And then we follow up with that table of trees and ask kids to give reasonable measurements of bonsai trees for the other tree types.
Since the new pictures will be from scratch in the spring/summer, what modifications would make the images more compelling?
What’s up with those triangles?
I have no beef with the mathematics here. Close readers will recognize echoes of recent proportion discussions on this blog.
But really, what’s up with those triangles?
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2019-04-25T16:47:00Z
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https://christopherdanielson.wordpress.com/tag/ratios/
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In the dory. Alone with gasping Codfish. Intestines bulging from bellies swollen by decompression. Eyes goggling in the drying wind. Blinded by the searing light of day. Crimson gills flex spasmodically seeking to draw oxygen from the air. Useless to them without the cold comfort of dark, deep water. Fish piled higher and higher, forty to sixty pounds each, three to five feet long. Head to tail and tail to head. Golden or greenish. Slipping inexorably from fresh alarm – indignant at such a rude interruption – they fade through dogged resistance to arrive at a fatal resignation. A glazed-eyed acceptance of what they have no capacity to understand. No power to change.
As their concentrations tightened bursts of panic swept the enclosures. An endless circling might create – in the right conditions of calm, slack water – a whirlpool. Faint yet visible evidence of an aquatic Tarantella. A dance no more effective than its medieval counterpart at protecting its adherents from sudden death.
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2019-04-24T10:30:04Z
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https://fragmentsofashoalhope.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/two/
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I am happy to find that the states have come so generally into the scheme of the Federal Convention, from which I am sure we shall see wise propositions. I confess I do not go as far in the reforms thought necessary as some of my correspondents in America; but if the Convention should adopt such propositions I shall suppose them necessary. My general plan would be to make the states one as to every thing connected with foreign nations, and several as to every thing purely domestic. But with all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing or that ever did exist. It's greatest defect is the imperfect manner in which matters of commerce have been provided for. It has been so often said, as to be generally believed, that Congress have no power by the confederation to enforce any thing, e.g. contributions of money. It was not necessary to give them that power expressly; they have it by the law of nature. When two nations make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. Compulsion was never so easy as in our case, where a single frigate would soon levy on the commerce of any state the deficiency of it's contributions; nor more safe than in the hands of Congress which has always shewn that it would wait, as it ought to do, to the last extremities before it would execute any of it's powers which are disagreeable.--I think it very material to separate in the hands of Congress the Executive and Legislative powers, as the Judiciary already are in some degree. This I hope will be done. The want of it has been the source of more evil than we have ever experienced from any other cause. Nothing is so embarrassing nor so mischievous in a great assembly as the details of execution. The smallest trifle of that kind occupies as long as the most important act of legislation, and takes place of every thing else. Let any man recollect, or look over the files of Congress, he will observe the most important propositions hanging over from week to week and month to month, till the occasions have past them, and the thing never done. I have ever viewed the executive details as the greatest cause of evil to us, because they in fact place us as if we had no federal head, by diverting the attention of that head from great to small objects; and should this division of power not be recommended by the Convention, it is my opinion Congress should make it itself by establishing an Executive committee.
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2019-04-24T04:39:11Z
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http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch5s20.html
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Nokia's Stephen Elop is set to receive an 18.8 million euro ($25 million) payout when he leaves the company and moves to Microsoft.
Nokia's former CEO Stephen Elop is set to receive an 18.8 million euro ($25 million) payout when he leaves the Finnish tech company to join Microsoft, upsetting many who think the windfall seems unfair.
Elop announced earlier this month that Nokia (NOK) had inked a 5.4 billion euro ($7.2 billion) deal to sell its mobile phone business to Microsoft (MSFT). The takeover -- considered a win-win for each company -- also stipulated that Elop would move to Microsoft.
Nokia then amended its employment contract with Elop, ensuring he received the large payout when he leaves, even though his previous contract would not have allowed the payment.
Elop's windfall will be paid by both Microsoft and Nokia, with Nokia paying 30% of the tab and Microsoft picking up the rest.
The move, which caused shock and anger to ripple through Nokia's Finnish homeland, created an uncomfortable situation for the firm's chairman and interim CEO, Risto Siilasmaa.
According to reports, pressure from the community led Siilasmaa to privately ask Elop to forgo part or all of his payment package, though Elop is reported to have declined, explaining that he was in the midst of divorcing his wife.
Nokia would not comment on this development.
Elop, who previously worked at Microsoft before taking the helm at Nokia, is widely expected to succeed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he retires.
Though Elop wasn't able to turnaround the struggling Nokia, Microsoft is surely hoping he'll have more luck once he's back in the States.
Nokia was once a dominant player in the mobile handset industry, but quickly lost relevance as competitors such as Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (SSNLF) gained ground.
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2019-04-22T04:45:11Z
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https://money.cnn.com/2013/09/26/technology/nokia-microsoft-elop-pay/index.html
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Q: Is there any significance to the font styles of Leonard's tattoos?
Q: Is the condition in the movie real?
Q: Who killed Leonard's wife?
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2019-04-20T23:23:15Z
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=8a1dcea8-e7fa-4fae-a468-6ad4d936f785&pf_rd_r=4NBAPYZHF2H96QTPD13F&pf_rd_s=top-2&pf_rd_t=90301&pf_rd_i=freedive&ref_=dvm_us_as_imdb_fdv-c4-t2
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In this talk I will review the status of the 2HDM taking the muon magnetic moment as main constraint. I will show some recent calculations which delivered the two-loop complete result for this observable in the context of the flavor-aligned 2HDM (the usual four choices for the Yukawa couplings can be obtained as special cases). I will then apply a set of phenomenological constraints to the parameter space of the model in order to find the maximum allowed values for the muon magnetic moment in this scenario.
This entry was posted in Season 08 and tagged 2HDM, flavor, Higgs, Muon magnetic moment, particle physics. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-23T18:33:37Z
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https://lawphysics.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/w70-adriano-cherchiglia-2hdm-in-view-of-the-new-muon-g-2-experiment/
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Memorial Day Special. Save $10 off the Purchase of $30 or More.
To receive $10 off the purchase of $30 or more, please go to www.GreenIrene.com/hollis and use this coupon code OURFRIENDS10 when you check out. This coupon expires Tuesday May 31 at 9:59p.m. so don’t wait.
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2019-04-23T03:04:41Z
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https://greeleygreen.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/memorial-day-special-save-10-off-the-purchase-of-30-or-more/
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So this gave the Creator’s current incarnation the physical capacity to write about William Mervyn Gumede.
That book, Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC , has been sitting on the Creator’s bookstack for a couple of years. It’s very large. It’s notoriously plagiarised to a substantial extent. But it’s also a sort of Bible for South African crazies. Every political writer who has ever generated anything imbecilic has, sooner or later, praised Gumede. On the other hand, one rarely finds it being cited, in much the same way that most Christian religious fanatics appear incapable of reading vast chunks of the Bible and instead focus on those murderous, racist or sexist elements which they have heard about and which suit their psychoses.
So, yesterday, the Creator dipped into the work. Perhaps one should begin by explaining what the book is. It’s a presentation of the thesis that everything which has gone wrong in South Africa between 1989 and 2006 was Thabo Mbeki’s fault. Mbeki, being all but omnipotent, was able to make everything bad. Where he couldn’t do it himself, he corrupted others into doing the dirty work. Much of what a normal person might have considered good (restructuring the ANC, restructuring the economy) is transmogrified into badness by Gumede’s diktat .
It’s a mildly interesting but hardly unfamiliar thesis. It is a thesis which has been presented very frequently down the decades, sometimes from within the ANC or the Tripartite Alliance, sometimes (up until recently, more often) from within anti-ANC political bodies in and out of South Africa. It is the standard journalistic model of South African politics, which is why it appeals to crazies.
The obvious problem with this is that one needs to simultaneously show that things would have turned out very differently with the right people in charge. This is extremely difficult to demonstrate, because South Africa faced some tough problems during this period and those problems could easily have led to serious crises. In each of those cases one would have to show that there was a credible alternative which was considered and rejected by Mbeki and/or his allies. That could account for the fatness of the book, but it does not, for Gumede nowhere does this.
One must return to the title for guidance as to how Gumede gets away with this bizarre claim. The answer is, apparently, that the ANC had a “soul”, which was the good thing about it which led it to do the right thing, infallibly. However, Mbeki battled for the soul of the ANC and eventually won it. Now the ANC has no soul (or at least didn’t, while Mbeki was in charge) and therefore everything had to have gone wrong.
The first thing to notice about this is that, even on the evidence presented by Gumede, this is arrant balderdash. The ANC did not have a soul. Nor did it have a single political tradition which could be presented metaphorically as a soul. It had, instead, a variety of political traditions, most of which — the bourgeois tradition which dominated it until the 1940s, or the Stalinist tradition of the SACP, or the Africanist tradition which eventually formed the PAC — are remarkably unhealthy. The bulk of these traditions may be summed up as “Money and power for me!”. The traditions differing largely in tactics, where the bourgeois tradition wanted no change, the Stalinist tradition wanted a dictatorship in the name of the workers, and the Africanist tradition wanted a dictatorship in the name of the blacks. The latter two dictatorships were convenient devices for channelling national wealth into the pockets of a new ruling class which would replace the old, whereas the bourgeois tradition just wanted to seamlessly merge with the old ruling class.
So the “soul of the ANC” stank overall, albeit that there were some favourable elements within it which did not stink quite so badly.
The second thing to notice is the terminology. Who battles for a soul? The answer, surely, must be angels and demons. Ergo, Gumede’s choice of phraseology automatically demonises Mbeki, which is not unusual and not necessarily unjustifiable (demonising political leaders is often a good thing). However, it declares Mbeki’s opponents to be angels — which is almost always a bad thing, and particularly when the people declared to be angels are not only politicians (hence not angels by definition) but unusually sleazy and dishonest politicians, at that. Also, of course, the implication is that anyone opposing Mbeki is admitted to the angel band, come and around us stand, bear us away on thy snow-white wings to mine immortal home (which under present circumstances could be either the poorhouse or the concentration camp).
This prefigures the whole politics of contemporary South Africa, as reflected in the ruling class which Gumede served, with chilling accuracy, and it’s remarkable that nobody seemed to notice anything of this.
But there’s one problem here. Gumede does not provide any references at all. There is no way to check whether Gumede’s claim is true or not. (Which is quite important — it is certainly not common knowledge that the issue was raised, whereas Gumede offers references to many other things which are common knowledge, or alternatively, far less interesting.) Again and again, indeed, Gumede makes controversial claims which are completely unsubstantiated by evidence (and where there is substantiation, the substantiation often does not directly support the claims, to put it politely).
When an academic provides important, controversial but unsubstantiated claims, it is tempting to suspect that these claims are fabricated. (The book the Creator is reading is the second edition, so Gumede had plenty of time to set matters straight.) Alternatively, of course, Gumede might have heard these things as stories, or rumours, or gossip, and might have decided to include them in his book because they made good copy. How, after all, could anybody in South Africa sue Gumede for making false declarations about economic or political decisions? It would be necessary to prove that the declarations were false and that someone had been damaged, and even then, the “public interest” defense would apply.
But the problem is that we have no means of knowing whether these rumours that Gumede publishes are valid or not. Some of them seem to have been disproved over time, which suggests that the others might also be invalid but still awaiting actual disproval. Gumede never provides any basis for judging the merits of those of his claims which are unsubstantiated. Nor, indeed, does he provide much basis for assessing the conclusions which he derives, many of which seem to rely more on unsubstantiated claims than on substantiated ones.
For instance, his chapter on AIDS presents a number of pieces of evidence suggesting that Mbeki’s position on AIDS was fairly progressive, as such positions go; certainly better than that of his predecessor. He also presents a large number of accusations that Mbeki was an AIDS denialist. He provides exactly one piece of evidence suggesting that Mbeki was an AIDS denialist (an allegedly hand-delivered letter to the White House, which exists only in the form subsequently released by the White House to the American media — there is no South African copy, which is odd), which evidence contradicts most of Mbeki’s actual public statements on the matter. It seems that Gumede is not a very good judge of evidence or fact.
Of course the AIDS issue is one in which people are rarely honest and so it is a bit much to expect Gumede to be more honest than his contemporaries. However, most dishonest people are careful not to undermine their case as thoroughly as Gumede does here. There is a certain deranged honesty about such behaviour. Deranged because if Gumede cannot actually prove his case in most instances, how is it that he insists on presenting it consistently?
The answer is simple. Gumede knows the answer already. The book is an assemblage of whatever came to hand to prove the answer. The facts, however, are there as ornaments to the substance, no better than icing or silver balls. The substance of the book is the insistence that Mbeki is evil and a demon and corrupts whatever he touches, because he is evil and a demon. Saying that over and over while piously proclaiming one’s intellectual integrity and deep scholarship is what Gumede is paid to do.
This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 10:04 am and is filed under ANC stuff, South Africa. 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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2019-04-20T20:31:08Z
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https://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/the-astounding-reality/
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It’s sad that many writers end up committing suicide, have alcoholism problems, or drug issues, and/or present symptoms of insanity or a mental illness.
Well it is sad I believe this happens because as a writer you find out many things, you think more than the usual people would, feel more, see more, you reflectionise more than the average human does, and you find out the truth about a lot of things. And, well sometimes this is bad. There are a lot of things that you shouldn’t know or maybe things that are best if we leave them in the forgotten. Sometimes the truth hurts just way too much and sometimes we realize our own faults or become to obsess with a certain something which drives to insanity and maybe death. An artist is like a different type of human being. We have developed and live in a different perspective, we see things that others can’t, we feel things differently, read people different, we are different and sometimes this can kill. Other people can’t truly understand us, they can relate to us, I mean maybe a phrase or two or a piece or more strike them and they feel a certain way, but, they can’t understand unless they become us. Many great writers have fallen in this mess. Like Hemingway or like Tennessee Williams. Mr. Williams’s story is just such a sad tragedy, his beloved mentally ill sister, his alcoholism, the death of his one true love, among other events. It’s a shame that many artists end like this! Not just writers but painters as well and musicians. For example, Stephen King, who has been in mental hospitals and F. Nietzsche who had also ended up there as well. So many artists so many wonderful talented people have had so many misfortunes and even though they had most of what we desire their lives were just not that pleasant. These artists are some examples of some who ended up committing suicide, had an addiction, or a tragedy. Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Edith Piaf, Pedro Armendariz, Vincent Van Gogh, Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo…… Sometimes as an artist, writer, musician, etc. you can think more or see beyond more than the needed sometimes this is good and sometimes bad. You can become wiser than others and find the truth which is not always pleasant. Is it better to know or to not to know? Or to pretend you didn’t go beyond that thin transparent line? ©2009 Alessandra Paul. All Rights Reserved. Lyrics and poems shall not be taken or re-printed unless given permission. For more information, booking, and permission please contact: alessandrapaul_photography@yahoo.com .
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2019-04-26T14:06:05Z
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https://alessandrapaul.wordpress.com/tag/suicide/
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Each year, the Warrior Club recognizes student-athletes who will play their sport at the collegiate level. Families and friends of the athletes are invited to attend this event that is publicized with local media.
2019 COLLEGE SIGNING DAY will be held in the Spring!
Sherwood High School and the Warrior Club, recognized 19 student-athletes who will play their respective sport in college on May 16, 2017.
Sherwood High School and The Warrior Club recognized 25 senior student-athletes who intend to play sport at the next level on Thursday, May 5th, 2016. One dozen different sports programs were represented in the event, reflecting the diversity and strength of Sherwood athletics.
Front Row Left to Right: Megan Enright (Track& Cross Country/Hood College), Caitlin Mercado (Dance/University of Maryland), Kara Carney (Softball/Heidelberg University), Marisa Mancini (Softball/Swarthmore College), Hannah Brown(Volleyball/Frostburg State University), Christopher West (Basketball/Positive Day Post Grad School), Josh Sweeney (Football/Salisbury University), Tyler Bernstein (Baseball/Johnson & Wales University), Sebastian Lambert(Soccer/Saint Vincent College), Delaney McMenamin (Lacrosse/George Washington University), Ted Devers (Warrior Club President).
Back Row Left to Right: Rebecca Phillip (Soccer/Frostburg State University), Ariella Amaguana (Soccer/Montgomery College), Lea Owen (Tennis/University of Richmond),Margarita Ryan (Swimming/Virginia Tech University), Morgan Hill (Swimming/Universityof Virginia), Jaime Schmier (Softball/ Washington & Jefferson College),Shawn Bliss (Football/West Virginia Wesleyan University), Bailey Doan (Baseball/York College), Charlie Siarkas (Football/West Virginia Wesleyan University), Kristen Russell (Lacrosse/James Madison University), Taylor Andrews (Lacrosse/Army West Point).
Missing in the photo: Bob Jonjo, Jr. (Football/Lackawanna College), Barbara Pizarro (Soccer/Frostburg State University), Danielle Rohrman (Lacrosse/University of Mount Union), Marcus Simms (Football/West Virginia University).
Volleyball-Girls: Kerra Tirado, Rollins College.
Alia Smith, York College of PA (Basketball).
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2019-04-23T14:51:33Z
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https://shswarriorclub.wordpress.com/events/signing-day/?shared=email&msg=fail
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November 10, 2016 in CFFC, Chicago, Photography, Travel.
It’s been almost a year since I visited Chicago and I’m feeling a bit nostalgic.
October 1, 2016 in CB&W, Chicago, Photography, Travel.
After scouring my archives, I finally came up with a picture for this week’s topic – Eyes.
September 18, 2016 in CFFC, Chicago, Photography, Travel.
I’m usually stumped when the words, “store, shopping, or pets” pop up in a challenge but in this case, I was prepared.
July 3, 2016 in CB&W, Chicago, Photography, Travel.
I’ve only ever ridden an airplane maybe five times, not counting the return trips and I’ve never really notice how bumpy the ride can get sometimes until my trip to Chicago a few months ago.
January 13, 2016 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
January 10, 2016 in CB&W, Chicago, Photography, Travel.
December 13, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
I came across this challenge and couldn’t resist. I took this picture on the third day of my Chicago trip. This picture was taken at the entrance of Lou Mitchell’s Diner located at the start of Historic Route 66.
December 6, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
November 17, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
I love going to museums because first of all, I’m kind of a history lover and secondly, museums are quiet rich learning environments and I get to see something different every time I go.
November 10, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
It’s hard to believe I was in the Windy City just two Sundays ago. I can still remember that day as if it happened yesterday. I was wandering around Millennium Park searching for my group while feeling irritating and panicky.
November 8, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
One of the things we did most on the trip beside walking was eating. I am not complaining here. I am actually a foodie. I enjoyed every minute of it. It was like I’ve landed in food paradise.
November 1, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
This picture was taken during my first night in Chicago.
October 26, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
So yesterday, I took my first solo trip (first time without mom by my side) and I must say, it feels different. There is a degree of freedom I’ve never thought I’d feel.
October 25, 2015 in Chicago, Photography, Travel.
October 24, 2015 in Chicago, Diary, Travel.
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2019-04-23T18:18:42Z
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https://yzhengblog.wordpress.com/category/travel/chicago/
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Fun project coffee heatmap based on OSM data…. Friends of mine are planning to open a coffee bar in Nürnberg city centre. Where is a blank spot?
Starting point: You have data stored in a vector point data layer with attributes attached to each point, however, the points are overlapping.
For this tutorial I used QGIS 2.12.3 Lyon, Ubuntu.
Task: A heatmap would be a solution, however, you want to count the overlapping points in a defined raster in order to make the map more clear and to be able to do further analysis of the data. In other words, you want to realise a point clustering.
If you want to make comparisons among specific attributes, please refer to the optional step at the end of this tutorial.
Depending on your project settings and your specific aim you may choose different parameters here. In my case I the took the extend of my point layer and set the grid distance to 0,001.
The tool will count the points in each polygon raster cell and it will aggregate the attributes attached to the points. You can choose various attributes that will be aggregated to the new shape layer. Unfortunately you can only choose very basic statistics to aggregate the data, e.g. the mean value.
To display the data as a point cluster, you have to create/convert the polygon centers as a new points layer.
Please remember to select the last generated polygon layer (pointcount). I called the layer centroids.
The layer generated in the last stepcontains all the attributes of the pointcount layer. We can use this attributes to make the map more understandable.
First hide all the other layers except the basemap and the centroids layer.
Next is to label the points with the PNTCNT (pointcount) attribute. This will display the quantity of points (from the original dataset). Please set the PLACEMENT of the labels to offset from point. Alternatively you could label the mean values of the attributes of the point cloud.
If you want to compare the dataset in such a cluster map based on a specific attribute, you have to first “split” the dataset.
The attribute you select as the Unique ID field will be the attribute among which the layer will be splitted. In my case the result are three diferent shape files. Each one containing only the points that have the “farbcode” of 1, 2 or 3.
If you want to compare the layers as a cluster point map, you have to repeat step 2–4 for each of the three created layers.
There is no doubt that the transcription of audio files is one of the most exhausting tasks in qualitative research – better: was!
Certainly, there are several speech recognition software providers, however, I found the Google Speech API in Chrome Browser most helpful.
The files have to be perfectly recorded without surrounding sounds or echo (I used a high quality ZOOM audio recorder). There are currently over 40 languages supported.
Data privacy: Please be aware that you have no control about how Google uses your audio files. Please use this only if you have the agreement of your interview partners to publish their statements and/or the information is public (see https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html).
1. Open Google Speech API Demo page on https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html in a Chrome Browser window.
With the recently relased version of the package RGL (V. 0.92.879) there is a new option to publish 3D plots as an interactive WebGL graphic.
Nearly every 3D plot you set up in a RGL window can be exportet via a very easy command. Just plot as usual into your rgl device and then use the command “writeWebGL()”.
To get a quick impression about the temporal stay of places it is helpful to generate a plot of the trackpoints spatial density (intensity).
As the 3d visualisation has both advatages and disadvantages, a combination with a 2D plot is useful to interpret the data. The data used in this example is a gps record of the “everyday life” of a test person.
With the rgl package it’s possible to interact with the 3d visualization of the timespace tracks.
In the posted example individual waypoints were added by drawing vertical lines.
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2019-04-21T18:43:26Z
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https://geolabs.wordpress.com/
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
[C]opyright © Ms.Waltz All Rights Reserved.
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2019-04-22T00:58:13Z
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http://ciacha.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-169.html
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For the second assignment, we will have to produce a wearable jewellery piece and then the other part is to scale it or part of it up into a architecture sculpture.To be able to get what we want to do, we we were introduced to two different software, which are TopMod and Magics.
1. As a start, we will need to use TopMod to create a shape that we would like to use as the jewellery piece. Starting with TopMod, I started with a square and then play around with different command, playing with surface and edges. I finally came up with my piece of jewellery piece in wire frame. We’ll have to save it as *.obj file and to be ready to be used in Rhino.
2. Open up Rhino, then open up the *.obj file that we have. After that we’ll have to check the scale of the object as TopMod is a software that don’t give measurement and so we have no idea how big our jewellery piece will be. Scale it to a correct size, refer to the minimum thickness of the material that you wish to be printed on, for example, powder print and stainless steel print are both 3mm. It’s ready to be export and save. Save it as a *.stl file and it’s ready to make some fix-up in Magics.
3. In Magics, after loading in the file, go to Tools>Fix Wizard and perform an auto fix to the model. Tick all the boxes if the model is to be printed in Shapeways, the last two boxes could be remained untick if the model is just to be printed in powder print in RMIT. (I tick all for both) Keep repeat updating and fixing the model. If we really couldn’t fix the model at the end, go to Stitch, increase the tolerance to 0.5mm. At the stage, model should be perfect and to be printed in whatever material. I’ll still use the Dimension tool in Magics to check the thickness of the model. Save it and it’s ready to be printed!
*Save will only save the project as a Magics file, which is not the correct file to be sent to the printer. What we have to do is Save Part As, we are suppose to save the file to *.stl file and it’s ready to be printed!
For the big folly model pieces, we are to create a space or a architecture sculpture from our jewellery piece. Take part of the jewellery piece or cutting it into different shapes, then make it into a space.
1. In Rhino, bring in the jewellery piece, scale it up even bigger, as required is max 100mmx100mmx100mm, min 75mmx75mmx75mm. Unweld the object and ungroup them and it’s ready to be cut. Draw a surface, that acts as the ‘knife’. I took the top part of the jewellery piece and multiple it and play around and then I came out with this. For my architectural model, it’s towards a longer model, therefore, it’ll be in a different measurement as required. For a smoother surface, you could try using this command: selsurface>mesh>moredetails, so that it’s smoother. Move the original surface to another layer, then select all, join. Then, we can weld it back again to make it look better. At last, we should check the mesh before we export it. Type in checkmesh, then select the object, then a report about the mesh will appear, telling you whether it’s a good or bad mesh. Finally, export! We’ll have to export it as a *.stl file for Magics to do the final fixing.
2. Open up the file in Magics, repeat the fix-wizard as we did for the jewellery piece. Export the fixed file to a *.stl file and it’s ready to be sent to print.
*Both model are being printed at the moment. Will post photo soon.
I use TopMod for everything! I love it!
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2019-04-18T15:18:10Z
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https://fabulouslyfabricated.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/kevin-assignment-2/
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Viewing Syriza through the prism of British Marxism is not a wholly rewarding experience. I do not feel much sympathy for that minority of my former comrades who admire Syriza because they seem to see it as offering an example of a clique capturing the leadership of millions of people, who are attracted to Syriza not in so far as it is often principled but because it is sometimes opportunist, and who want to offer their services as leaders of the movement here by claiming some of the qualities of Syriza (such as its leaders’ sharp-dressing and their relative youth) that are easiest to separate from the intense political crisis that makes these features engaging.
Nor am I altogether persuaded by others who complain of Syriza that it does not say enough about smashing the state. Undoubtedly, Syriza will fight its final battle against social forces (New Democracy, the fascists, the army) in Greece. But its immediate struggle is not against domestic so much as international adversaries. In this respect it is a harbringer of the social movements of the epoch to come.
Just as a century ago, Stefan Zweig described the way that the dramatic change of speed associated with new technologies (cars, telephones, aeroplanes) altered the rhythms of humanity, displacing generations that had walked slowly and spoke to each other in measured tones, who were fat at forty and proud of their corpulence, with younger, impatient people, so something like the same dynamic is working itself out in all our lives: the speed of global communication is altering the way we do politics. It is not just making people more confident to be contemptuous about politicians (“anti-politics”) it is also creating problems whose solution can only be international. And as one of Zweig’s contemporaries pointed out, when social movements cross borders the rules that ordinarily require all revolutions to limit themselves to political rather than social objectives cease to operate.
It could be that Syriza will smash the state to pieces, using workers, unions and co-operatives to forge a new workers’ state – but even such a formation would still face the problem of paying Greece’s debts. You could no more have socialism in one country in 2015 than you could a century ago. Syriza is interesting because it rejects the orthodoxies of neoliberal capitalism, an in so far as its relationship with its supporters may be changing, and the relationship may be radicalising and the party may be taking on (as in Venezuela a decade ago) something more like the character of an insurgent state. I do not say that it has yet done any of these things, only that the possibility remains open. Syriza remains interesting, then, as a serious project of left reformism, and to criticise it for not being revolutionary is to criticise it for lacking strengths which it has never claimed.
The idea that troubles me most is that Syriza is somehow just the product of a rising Greek social movement, which would inevitably be replicated in other settings – in Britain – if only we enjoyed social movements (strikes) of a similar scale. The usual criticism of the British left is that we demand the credit for all our successes and put the blame for all our defeats on other forces. Syriza gets the same treatment in reverse: when it fails to meet our hopes, Syriza gets all the blame but in so far as it does well, its success is put down to luck.
The method I am criticising is a way of thinking about social movements which replicates in the sphere of politics the mistake that “Leninists” used to ascribe to “syndicalism”. In other words, a politics which does away with contradictory consciousness and assumes that the mass of the people are always on the verge of protesting, and that the only direction of future protests is of continuous, further advance.
When this way of thinking is applied to Syriza, it operates by saying that the political sphere may show gains (or defeats) but in the end neither matters provided that political activists spend their time building social movements. For the calibre of any political leadership is determined ultimately by the mass movements which police it. No political victory can take place ahead of the extent of the political education of the masses in socialism, therefore it is there, in the movements, rather than in the political sphere, that all hopes must be aimed.
It is odd to find this argument, which reheats early Menshevism, asserting itself in the publications of people who consider themselves Leninists.
What Syriza is showing, and what they are missing, is the capacity of political actors to make decisions which change the balance of forces. Of course, this process cannot go on indefinitely, but at rare, key moments history is ruptured – time is beaten – objective circumstances are defeated and altered. “The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself … The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice.” When a group of socialists are trying to do this, the only legitimate response open to those who consider themselves revolutionaries is to show interest, to give support, and to seek (in whatever limited way we can) to deepen this process.
No recent movement better illustrates the need to go beyond a syndicalism of protest than the revolution in Egypt, where the left was conscious of the need always to build the mass movements, and shy about intervening in the political sphere. Egypt involved hundreds of thousands of people in strikes and in protests. They burned down police stations; they toppled a hated President. When counter-revolution began there, it arrived in the form of demonstrations and further protests, with counter-revolutionaries taking on the garb of social movements for democracy (tamarod). And, in Chile, it was the same process: before Pinochet there were the truckers’ strikes.
The reason why an international generation of anarchists, syndicalists, and revolutionaries of every stripe adopted Communism in the 1920a was because they thought Lenin had discovered a theory of politics which classical Marxism lacked; ie that he and his supporters looked in every moment for the social forces that brought closer the revolution of all the oppressed, and that they did not wait for social movements, but believed that conscious political activity could open new opportunities into which the movements could advance.
It is one disgrace of our Leninists that they cannot learn even this from Lenin.
For more on the relevance of the electoral arena, check John Riddell on the Worker’s Government. Given the almost anarchistic purism of the British left, they probably would regard this as a Comintern error of major proportions.
Who is that minority of comrades you allude to at the beginning of the article?
1) People making “decisions” is one thing, but, just to be clear, decisive successful action is another matter, for here what was physically possible – not just ideationally possible – already existed. To believe otherwise is voluntarist and necessarily adventurous.
The Greek government may take the unlikely step and decide to default, but without loans from Russia (or China even) there won’t be any meaningful increase in state spending. Decisions need means.
2) On your imagery and metaphor of “history is ruptured – time is beaten”, as the authors of multiple times put it, one possible temporal extension is always projected at the expense of the others. Temporality has both a generative and a generated dimension, and temporality is a quality of human living, be it of the relations we live in (such as the turnover time of capital) or of ourselves as both agents and patients. It means that temporality is not an external metric – reduced to duration, and quantified – but is an inner-relational quality of organised people.
As I’m sure you agree, it is up to those not in the government, within SYRIZA and outside, to promote a different horizon.
4) And what does the January election indicate on this front?
a) Golden Dawn’s vote went down 16% (from 462 000 to 388 000), and was one-sixth of SYRIZA’s.
b) The electoral front involving the International Socialist Tendency, ANTARSYA-MARS, didn’t do too well: their vote (40 000) was just over one-quarter of the spoilt and blank votes.
c) Turnout was 64%, even when Samaras had made it plain the chips were down and the nation needed to decide. Nevertheless this was up 1.4 percentage points on the last general election, 2012.
The SYRIZA victory rally outside the parliament was a mere 2 000 to 3 000. And this for the first government in Greek history formed by a capitalist workers party. The simple fact is that the Greek people are exhausted. By and large they just want to sit back and hope the Tieless Guys can strike some deal or two, with whoever, as soon as, to end the hell all classes have been enduring. They know money doesn’t grow on trees, and are simply hoping for the best.
5) To finish with Varoufakis and chief negotiator Dragasakis. To be frank, Varoufakis is Adenauer – but without the tie. And not as militant. Why do I say that? London 1953. We all know about the Marshall Plan but this was its necessary counterpart. Just over half of Germany’s debts were written off, and all sorts of other concessions were won. One civil servant must have garnered some Brownie points by coming up with the bright idea of effectively forgiving some debt by making repayment conditional on there ever being a re-united Germany: who imagined that in the early ’50s?!? Achieving the London unburdening was the real German economic miracle.
When Varoufakis met Schäuble in Berlin last Thursday he had the opportunity at the press conference to directly inform the German people of the Wunder their government had achieved in 1953. He chose not to. Instead he spoke about the spectre of fascism in Greece. He missed a great opportunity to put today’s Greece in the right – even capitalist – historical context. But Varoufakis plays by the rules.
Jara Handala – Your suggestion that Varoufakis “missed a great opportunity” when he met with Schauble is ridiculous. Varoufakis was 100 per cent correct to remind Schauble (who has an anti-fascist record) that Golden Dawn Nazis are waiting their moment to strike if Syriza offensive fails. THAT is the reality.
1) John, I don’t think it ridiculous to take advantage of an early opportunity to both put Greek debt in perspective and inform the German public of a major cause of their current luxury – even though they have moaned for decades now about how stressed they are and how predictable most of their lives are.
Their pervasive folk explanation is that German hard work and sacrifice, decade after decade, brought the goodies. The obverse is that those without, both the German working poor & those poor Greeks, have only themselves to blame: lazy but profligate, tax evaders but seekers of entitlement, for the Greeks a society based on corruption, nepotism, clientelism. Economic history is not a strong point amongst the German populace, and it would have come as a shock to hear someone mentioning a 62.6% write-off, and other measures, that allowed the German state to pay off almost all its debts within seven years – whereas Britain paid off its war debt to the USA a full 50 years later, in 2010.
But it seems the SYRIZA approach in government is to be ‘polite’ in public, not to speak bluntly. Talk of fascism is so hoary for a German audience: here we go again, 70 years on, this time not the Brits going on about the Nazis but the poor Greeks, going on about their own Rechtsextremismus. It’s so old hat, Peter crying wolf. Oh just stop bleating and knuckle down and pay off your debts. That was the effect of Varoufakis’ plea. Water off a duck’s back. Whereas mention of London 1953 would have pricked the ears of anyone under 80. That would have been news. That would have set people talking: what on earth is that trendy Greek guy on about?
2) Varoufakis’ declaration of inconsistency was made at the 6th Subversive Festival, Zagreb, May 2013. In the Q&A he said two interesting things that weren’t in the write-up on his blog. First, at the time he thought it would be possible for a SYRIZA government to borrow more advantageously from the IMF as that organisation judged the Eurozone (that is Germany) as being too hard on Greece. Second, organising a return to the drachma couldn’t be done in less than eight months – with the inevitable capital flight in the form of money; antithetically to Schumpeter, this would be destructive destruction, property rights exercised to blight a society.
In his main speech he also used a phrase evocative of Rakovsky’s ‘”professional dangers” of power’. Recalling an airport experience, breezing past a queue of plebs in Economy, First Class ticket in hand, and ushered to a vacant X-ray machine, Varou confessed, “deep down I suddenly realised that I felt I deserved that”. Instantly he knew the thought was wrong. As he had just said, “[t]he lure of power must never be underestimated”.
In his write-up, to his great credit, he admitted, “I know that I run the risk of [. . .] indulging a feeling of having become ‘agreeable’ to the circles of ‘polite society’.” Time will tell.
3) Readers may be interested to know that this YouTube channel has rich material, & like a resurrection from 40 years ago it has these on the continuing crisis: Poulantzian offerings from Jessop, Kannankulam, and Wissel; Bonefeld on ordoliberalism and the EU; and two general discussions.
4) In the Q&A Varoufakis mentioned Alpha Bank. One of its directors appeared in a vid last November, ‘Greece reinvigorated by PPP projects’, the accursed public-private partnerships. It was an exemplary production by that neutral media outfit, World Finance: the Voice of the Market. All that was missing was a host of vampires. By the way, does anyone know the SYRIZA government’s policy on PPP? Will it uphold the sanctity of contract but try to re-negotiate the terms?
I wasn’t hugely impressed by the Golden Dawn riff. I thought it was one of those occasions when an advocate thought they had come up with a brilliant point, only that it wasn’t brilliant outside their own mind. And while I’ll park 1953 certainly a different argument may have been more compelling.
Re the IMF I do think Syriza read that institution as in the short-term more amenable (aren’t a relatively high proportion of the immediate debts owed to it)?
I suppose – on the tactics – the key questions are surely how much are the other side, and Syriza, offering now?
In a way I asked the wrong question about PPP: all that matters is what the Troika wants. And, not surprisingly, it’s a case of PPP rules.
• Commit not to roll back privatisations that have been completed. Where the tender process has been launched the government will respect the process, according to the law.
• Safeguard the provision of basic public goods and services by privatised firms/industries in line with national policy goals and in compliance with EU legislation.
• Review privatisations that have not yet been launched, with a view to improving the terms so as to maximise the state’s long term benefits, generate revenues, enhance competition in the local economies, promote national economic recovery, and stimulate long term growth prospects.
So it means the government will try to privatise Piraeus docks: “[c]ommit not to roll back privatisations that have been completed. Where the tender process has been launched the government will respect the process.” The SYRIZA leadership has decided to combat its own membership & supporters – and the Greek Communist Party.
Please, David, do not under-estimate the ugliness and despair which could characterise the public mood in Greece if Syriza were seen to have suffered a humiliating failure. The far right would be well placed to exploit this to their advantage. Of course the Euro-area negotiations can – at best – only result in a compromise. Much like the Brest-Litovsk “peace negotiations.” Interestingly the Greek media is reporting that even limited and partial concessions won by Syriza will probably boost popular confidence. The current stand off is about securing positioning for a much longer struggle. But dramatic breakthroughs depend on Syriza type breakthroughs elsewhere in Europe (starting with Spain?).
Also to say that readers may enjoy Chris Jones’ and Sofiane Ait Chalalet’sopen letter here, which develops the notion of reforms in the Venezeulan style – ie to change the relationship between the people and the state, something I too have previously suggested we should be looking for.
So SYRIZA are agreeing to try to address what they call Greece’s humanitarian crisis by not even running a balanced budget. No, they want to demonstrate how trustworthy they are as managers of capital, how fiscally responsible they are, by allowing distressed people to not only continue to suffer but to receive even less, thereby playing their part in contributing to the achievement of a budget surplus. We’re all in this together, we can all do our lil bit, however small, however farcical, however much it drags us down.
SYRIZA is now the party not of Kaleckian deficit budgeting, not even of balanced budgets, but of Chicago School budget surpluses. George Osborne & UKIP can only dream of creating such a power block, such a hegemonic force, such a strategic-relational approach to politics.
In Hell’s kitchen only the Devil’s brew can be made. A month is proving a short time in politics.
If we didn’t know before, this is indeed a time when it has been demonstrated that demonstrations are not enough. Change needs the means, & if you can’t borrow & you won’t expropriate your own rulers then your talk of change is largely talk – not least in trying to explain to those whose hopes are dashed that you did all you could. Change needs the means.
They may be austerians – but they’re our austerians.
Yes, Syriza will have to hold the Greek front for some time. But I am not sure that their supporters believe everything can change overnight (as a reported poll in Katherimini underlines). Incidentally there MAY (just MAY) be another left/centre actor emerge after the UK general election. Of course little can be expected from a Labour government. But IF it is dependent on the SNP for office, I would not entirely rule out changes in the priorities of government economic policy. This will not be a social revolution or anything remotely like it. But it may add to the growing opposition across Europe to endless austerity.
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https://livesrunning.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/when-demonstrations-are-not-enough/
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We reluctantly took our leave of Ayr. We had spent a wonderful time there; but the Highlands called. We went through Glasgow and were gobsmacked by the size of it. I had an image of Glasgow being a quaint little village. It’s huge! We had intended a visit to Glasgow on our last visit 3 years ago. Unfortunately, Grams took ill and we never made it. Glasgow is a real metropolis and it has real traffic to prove it. Now that I look back, we wouldn’t have done well the last time since we didn’t have a vehicle then. You definitely need a vehicle to get around Glasgow.
We drove past incredible scenery and wee villages just soaking in the beauty. Loch Lomand appeared suddenly on our right. We ooh’ed and aah’ed for miles. Stopping at the town of Luss about half the way up the west side of Loch Lomond; we left the van and took the wee path to Loch Lomond. While we had been looking at the loch for some time, nothing prepared us for the view beyond the bushes. Right here I should talk about fortunate we were with the weather during our time in Scotland. As you can see the day was brilliant as were most of our days there. The weather turned fierce the day after we left for Wales.
Now, Emlyn has a pond and keeps water fowl at his home in Wales. So, naturally, when he saw the swans he had to go talk to them. I kept my distance, since I know how territorial swans can be (I had a brief encounter with some swans in Chester once. ‘Nuff said). But, Emlyn and Marian enjoyed their visit with Her Majesty’s swans (they’re all HM’s swans in the UK).
Big Guy couldn’t get over the scenery. Grams and Bronwyn had their hands full with Declan. The child acted as if he’d never seen a large body of water before.
On the steep, steep side o’ Ben Lomond.
Tho’ the waefu’ may cease from their greeting.
LOVELY weather!!!! Nice to see blue sky over the lochs.
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https://mygweeds.typepad.com/journal_of_an_urbane_gori/2007/10/on-the-bonnie-b.html
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Matt Bucher and Dave Laird invited me to be a guest on the latest episode of their David Foster Wallace podcast, The Great Concavity. We had a thought provoking conversation, and a lot of fun. (I also make some dumb mistakes, eg. at the beginning when I am talking about the Cistercian order and put our founding in the wrong century). I got to discuss the dissertation that I have been writing about Wallace and moral theology, which will hopefully be done soon, and to hear a summary of Dave’s master’s thesis on Christian soteriology in Infinite Jest.
This had been one of Hal’s deepest and most pregnant abstractions […] That we’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that he goes around feeling like he misses somebody he’s never even met? Without the universalizing abstraction, the feeling would make no sense. (Infinite Jest, p. 1053, note 281).
I think this a marvelous description of what I have called nostalgia, the condition for the sense of recollection of amnamnesis when one then meets the somebody one has not yet met.
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https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/tag/david-foster-wallace/
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She paused, and seeing her shiver I drew the blanket more closely around her. There was just a handful of us still gathered round the fire. Her words might have seemed overblown or contrived at any other time. But the fire and the evening and the mead had each done their work. We were ready to hear almost anything. The dew had descended a couple of hours ago, but the night chill only now was lapping at our skin. Dragon built up the fire again, and raked the coals together so the new logs would kindle sooner. The old woman smiled at us and continued.
She spoke now quite deliberately, not expecting questions as she had earlier, when a lot of good-natured banter enlivened the fire circle, and anyone who held forth and pontificated, never mind the subject, soon had to give it up and relearn if necessary the arts of true conversation, of actual give and take, rather than expecting a reverent silence from the rest of us. That earlier hour also saw the old woman depart for a nap after a brief appearance, so that she would be fresh for later. Which was now. And now we wanted her to hold forth, because she had something of considerable value to share with us, and because what she said was new to us. The singing and drinking carried us here, where we needed to listen. Night had shaped this place and space. So we were quite content mostly to listen and ponder her words.
Questions, however, bothered her not at all, and she sat at her ease when we occasionally asked them. Earlier she asked a good few of her own, though her hearing sometimes played tricks on her. Someone inquired where she had first encountered this Order, and this led to a sad but funny story that must keep for another time. Though she must have been in her late nineties and stooped, and the age-spotted skin of her hands slid loosely over her bones, her thought darted swift and sure, and her gaze out of eyes filmy with cataracts was nonetheless keen.
*the th of this respelling of the sound dd in Welsh urdd and ddu is voiced, as in English this, them, not as in thick, thin.
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Von D Makes a Splash!
Happy Mother’s Day, Julie Sheep!
First time playing in the pasture for rescued baby goats Duncan, Thomas, and Tove!
Happy “Rebirthday” to Patrick Goat!
Meet Pickles, a piglet who’s small but mighty!
On National Pig Day, a visit with Truffles, Maggie, and Sebastian!
Farm Sanctuary residents enjoying the warmer weather!
Meet Tofu chicken, a true survivor!
Saying goodnight to our bovine friends at our New York Shelter!
Valentine’s Day Salad with a Twist!
Pigs going to bed at Farm Sanctuary!
Meet Regina, a three-legged lamb who’s a true survivor!
Thank You for Helping Farm Animals in 2016!
Farm Sanctuary VR Tour Experience!
Happy Birthday to Julia’s Babies!
Snack time for Patrick goat!
Mouse pig gets a belly rub!
Piglets at play: Meet Lucy and Ricky!
Pip the former Buzzfeed duckling finds his forever home!
Monet and Matisse: From foie gras farm to fun in the grass!
Belinda cow eating her hay: No teeth, no problem!
Happy Thanksgiving from Our Flock to Yours!
Patrick goat reaches for the high leaves!
Smart piglets Anna and Maybelle know how to sit!
Moo Monday at Farm Sanctuary!
Introducing Hazelton the Lamb Born at Farm Sanctuary!
The Conscientious Table – Rethinking our food system @ Crossroads in L.A.
Leona Lewis – Speaks about when she first became involved in animal rights.
When you learned about Julia, What Did You Do?
When you learned about Sonny, What Did You Do?
Emily Deschanel, Joan Jett, Kevin Nealon, talk about when they learned about animal cruelty.
National Conference to End Factory Farming – Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
National Conference to End Factory Farming – Holly Cheever, D.V.M.
National Conference to End Factory Farming – Michael Greger, M.D.
Peter Dinklage Leads the 2012 Walk for Farm Animals!
Emily Deschanel Leads the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals!
Celebrities speak up for the animals!
The GZA say “YES ON PROP 2”!
Take Action for Downer Animals!
Joan Jett promo for Farm Sanctuary Halloween Bash!
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Well…I absolutely love this picture! I really like the back of the dress, I find it really cool and the accesorizes are amazing.
I love her blog, her style is incredible and amazing. I think that the “all black style” is always a good idea and in this picture I absolutely adore the top and the belt.
She’s a gorgeous model, I find this dress really simple but at the same time really cool…I love it!
I find Kylie’s style really cool but,honestly, sometimes I don’t like her outfits. In this case I absolutely love her outfit and especially her hair!!
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2019-04-20T00:54:01Z
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https://madeoflighting.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/coachella/
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As I arrived last Wednesday at Vancouver, Washington's newly redeveloped stretch of Columbia River waterfront, it seemed like a scene out of a movie.
Though rain and fog had blanketed the region, in the distance to the west I could still make out the industrial facility on the edge of the property: the LaFarge North America concrete factory. As I walked towards the development's quartet of new buildings in various stages of completion, a World War II-era fighter plane zoomed overhead at low altitude as if ready to dive-bomb. Turns out it was merely in the process of landing at Pearson Field, the small airport just east of here. Across the Columbia, a steady stream of commercial jet planes descended towards PDX. Just south of this new waterfront enclave, traffic whizzed by on the Interstate Bridge, and more slowly, a succession of barges and small watercraft cruised by on the river itself. And to the north, from time to time a freight train would sound its horn as it continued along the trestle that has long severed Vancouver from its waterfront.
There is a lot to like about The Waterfront, as this new development is officially known. The developers' approach to the mix of architecture, landscape and urban design is quite different than what has transpired in Portland's most comparable 21st century riverside neighborhood: South Waterfront. More on that soon. But it's worth saying first that the most impressive thing about The Waterfront, or at least the most welcome aspect, is that it exists at all.
For the past century or so, this stretch of the Columbia, just west of the Interstate Bridge and just south of downtown Vancouver, has been cut off from public access and devoted exclusively to industrial use. In that way, The Waterfront is part of the larger story of American cities reclaiming their industrial waterfronts and giving them back to public use. In Vancouver's case, this land was established as a saw mill and lumber finishing plant in 1911, then in 1928 it became home to the Columbia River Paper Company, making pulp and paper products. In 1962, the Boise Cascade Corporation assumed ownership of the facility and produced paper products there until 2006.
It took another 12 years before developers from Gramor Development were able to break ground.
Boise Cascade first had to remove its paper mill, then clean up contaminated soils. Then there was the pesky fact of the railroad trestle, which has long enacted a terrible cost to Vancouver by severing the city from its greatest asset: its Columbia River waterfront. The trestle has amounted to a kind of Berlin Wall or something like Trump's ridiculous and race-baiting proposed border wall with Mexico: one big warning that says "go away" to not only people but to economic opportunity. (At least Vancouver never tear-gassed anyone.) The developers and their partners had to convince Vancouver's city council to approve rebuilding the trestle in order to punch roadway openings through it, a $44 million investment.
Did I mention it was a rainy Wednesday when I visited? This is noteworthy because, while the primary multi-story residential and office buildings (across the street from the main promenade) are still under construction, the two waterfront restaurants when I visited them last week (part of a pair of two-story retail buildings) were packed. And while my French dip was tasty enough, I don't think it's just because of the food.
Walking the site with Gramor president Barry Cain, we talked about how to approach a development like this, where the waterside is the obvious attraction but ultimately it's meant to be a fairly high-density urban neighborhood. In Vancouver's case, Cain's team decided they wanted to emphasize public access. Whereas South Waterfront's riverside couldn't be quieter, its residential towers coming almost all the way to the riverbank without any retail amenities to attract the public and a fairly narrow walkway to hold them if they do arrive, here in Vancouver the developers hired an acclaimed Vancouver, British Columbia landscape firm, PWL Partnership, to design a waterfront promenade that features over half a mile of walking trails as well as beach access at its western edge.
Thinking about how empty South Waterfront can feel along the riverside, or even the similar problems plaguing Tom McCall Waterfront Park, where Naito Parkway remains under-utilized, I couldn't help but wonder if they could have been enlivened by this approach. Particularly in South Waterfront, I think we made a mistake not making the riverside more public-oriented with retail, a large promenade and smaller buildings.
The undeniable centerpiece of PWL Partnership's waterfront park, however, is what's known as the Grant Street Pier. Situated between the pair of two-story buildings fronting the park, it extends the promenade 90 feet out over the Columbia River, suspended by cables on the shore in order to avoid driving support poles into the riverbed. The Grant Street Pier really does give one the sensation of being out over the water, much like being at the very front of a sailing ship. Don't worry: I didn't do a Leonardo DiCaprio impression, shouting to Cain and my PR contact, Heather Villanueva, that I was king of the world (a la James Cameron's rapturously schmaltzy Titanic). But it did feel transporting to stand there on the pier, as if I'd left the shore behind.
In fact, as I stood on that cable-stay-suspended pier over the river, a larger thought occurred to me: that Vancouver has in effect staked a claim to the Columbia River's banks that Portland has never convincingly made.
The cables that support the pier are pretty big and heavy, as if to communicate an extra dose of pride at suspending the pier over the water. But the effect really is compelling. I liked not only being suspended over the Columbia but the triangle of space that is created between the bank and the diagonals of the pier.
Portland is technically situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia, but in reality the city center is of course a few miles downriver on the Willamette from where the two rivers join. Portland's side of the Columbia has shops, restaurants and even a hotel clustered at Jantzen Beach on Hayden Island, but only at the Red Lion Hotel just east of the Interstate Bridge are there waterside views, and that's not even directly comparable to a waterfront park and pier. When I was standing on the Grant Street Pier last Wednesday in Vancouver, west of the bridge, I looked directly across the Columbia and saw cheap mobile homes on the Portland side.
It begs the question: even though central-city Portland lies downriver along the Willamette, and even though the Portland side of the Columbia waterfront is not a high-density area, why have we so missed the opportunity to make the Columbia River waterfront something special? I mean, most of Jantzen Beach is just a woefully outdated shopping mall of the sort we embraced back in the 1970s and '80s, surrounded by big-box retail establishments and seas of parking lots. Jantzen Beach is effectively a suburban wasteland. But it has something to offer that Beaverton, Hillsboro and Gresham do not: a natural amenity in the form of one of America's most iconic rivers, where Lewis & Clark once traveled on their way to the Pacific. And what buildings do we devote to this priceless riverfront? Sure, there is a marina east of the Interstate Bridge, but for the most part, we turn our backs to the river.
The Waterfront, as Vancouver's development is known, starts with some unremarkable architecture, at least on the surface. Phase 1 includes the two waterside retail buildings as well as four additional buildings across Waterfront Way — designed by a combination of three local firms: Portland's Ankrom Moisan and LRS Architects, and Vancouver's LSW Architects. If I'm not mistaken, LRS designed the pair of two-story restaurant buildings fronting the property; LSW designed Block 8, which features brick-clad, market-rate apartments over retail and a west-facing, third-floor courtyard; and Ankrom Moisan designed Block 6 West and Block 6 East, which feature luxury apartments and offices, respectively. Of these, I suppose I like Block 8 best, but all five buildings to my eyes look a bit corporate and suburban, as do some of the upcoming buildings such as Block 4, the Hotel Indigo and the Residences at Kirkland Tower, designed by Otak for Kirkland Development (which apparently has named a portion of the building for itself).
Yet at least for me, the architectural aesthetics do not necessarily take away from the overall success of the development because the scale seems right. Award-winning firms might have put cooler-looking buildings here, but very well might have arrived with the client at the same decision about how tall to go — or, more accurately, how short to go. Instead of placing tall buildings along the waterfront, like in SoWa, they start with small structures. The dual retail buildings on the water are two stories. The aforementioned buildings on Waterfront Way are mostly five to seven stories. In subsequent phases there will be additional blocks constructed (there are 21 in all) of gradually greater heights as one moves away from the river.
Given what an epiphany The Waterfront is—how it extends downtown Vancouver to the river—it's natural to look east and west in contemplation of how the city might extend this connection.
To the west are industrial and port facilities. In general, we have to let industry retain portions of the riverfront for loading and unloading cargo. It's an essential component in our economic engine. Yet it doesn't seem absurd to let the public and downtown Vancouver claim a little bit more. Industrial/port acreage covers vastly more land along the Columbia in this area west of the bridge than this new development and promenade do.
To the east, there are two barriers between Vancouver and the river: the SR 14 highway and Pearson Field. It's pretty doubtful that the highway is going to go away any time soon, but eliminating Pearson—which, as it happens, is directly across the river from another airport—would allow the adjacent Fort Vancouver to the north to connect with cityscape that gets pretty close to the Columbia, and coupled with some kind of path above or below the highway, it could connect to some existing waterfront area further east still that includes a residential neighborhood and a waterside McMenamins.
There is actually one extension of this riverside area coming. The Port of Vancouver owns six acres next door to The Waterfront, and is redoing the pier there to make it suitable for cruise ships. It's not so difficult to imagine a future where more ships choose to stop here than to continue down the Willamette into Portland, because Vancouver will be the place where a lot of tourists go to interact with the Columbia.
The developers commissioned Portland's Johnson Economics to perform an economic study of Waterfront Vancouver's impact. Johnson found the total economic impact for Clark County from the development to be $1.2 billion. Normally I'm not one to cite economic figures as it relates to justifying a development, because trotting out figures about construction jobs can distract us from the question of whether this is a good design and good place-making. I mean, Portland's long-awaited convention center hotel will do a lot to help bring more big events to the city, but that doesn't change the fact that it's ugly. The City of Portland might generate a lot of jobs and economic impact building out the former post-office land on NW Broadway, but if it's homogeneous and antiseptic, who cares?
But in this case, the $1.2 billion speaks to the fact that Vancouver is perhaps more than just a Portland suburb. There's more of a true there there, more so than Gresham or Beaverton or Tigard or Hillsboro. All those suburbs do have modest downtowns of their own and are carving out more walkable spaces. Yet being on the other side of the Columbia has always, of course, set Vancouver apart. It just always stopped short of what it could be — because it stopped short of the river. With the railroad trestle and the SR 14 highway and the lack of any local bridges, you'd almost think these were battlements, almost like Nike's berm can feel like sometimes. Yet claiming that riverfront, no matter how mediocre the buildings themselves may be, is almost indeed like a military victory. This isn't June 6, 1944, but I do feel like Vancouver has established a beachhead that could alter the city's history.
Thank you, Brian. The development team that created these lots had a lot of vision in the City and the experience of walking the waterfront promenade is a tradition for many families here North of the border. I was happy to see how the lots were designed perpendicular roads to the freeway. Allowing more view corridors and corner views with respect to building setbacks. A lot of thought went into this. I hope we get some good thought about the marketplace and continued development design here.
Appreciate you making the trip North.
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2019-04-26T06:09:40Z
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https://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2018/11/columbia-rising-a-visit-to-the-vancouver-waterfront.html?cid=6a00d8341c86d053ef022ad37e1007200c
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In celebration of LA Beer Week, Beachwood BBQ is delighted to be hosting our second annual beer dinner featuring The Bruery. As many of you know, for special dinners we like to change things up from the BBQ that you are familiar with. For this particular evening we have planned a six course molecular gastronomy dinner. For those of you unfamiliar with this style of cooking, we’re taking familiar ingredients and reintroducing them to you using a host of advanced cooking techniques and equipment.
Because of the experimental nature of the beers produced by The Bruery we thought it appropriate to pair their beers with this style of food. Patrick Rue and his team will be on hand to guide you through the beers.
The dinner will be held on Monday October 11, 2010.
There will be ONE SEATING at 6:30pm.
Before and after the event, the bar will be available for you to enjoy pre and post dinner brews.
This is a reservation only dinner. The seating will be limited to 40 people. No parties larger than 4. Parties of 2 may be seated with other parties of 2. The option to split meals is not available. The regular menu will not be available.
Credit card numbers will be taken to secure reservations.
Reservations must be cancelled 48 hours before the event or you will be charged the full amount of the dinner.
Reservations are on a first come, first served basis. In order to make your reservation you must send an email to thebeerdinner@gmail.com. In the email you must include, name, phone number and number of people in your party. You will be notified by email if your reservation has been made. We will contact you directly for a credit card confirmation.
The menu is as follows, please note no modifiers or substitutions and there will be no vegetarian option available. Food allergies need to be discussed with Gabe ahead of time to ensure you can participate. The menu might alter slightly as better ideas are born.
Paired with Barrel Aged Coton, Black Tuesday and Mélange #3.
This entry was posted in Events and tagged Beachwood BBQ, events, local, pairing, The Bruery. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-21T15:05:30Z
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https://extolbeer.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/beachwood-bbq-the-bruery-beer-dinner/
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This hard to find album features these two fine dobro / sho-bro players. Various songs feature Bob Lucier on the Dual-16 String Sho-Bud.
About Bob Lucier: Bobby Lucier has been a leader in steel guitar and is world renowned for his unique style and ability. Bob was the resident Steel Player for “The Tommy Hunter Show” while it aired on the CBC television network from the mid ’70’s until its demise. He was also the first steel guitarist with the famous Johnny Burke and Eastwind. Before that, he played in Bill Anderson’s “Po’ Boys band”, “Myers Brothers and the Jubilaires”, and a few others. Bob’s steel guitar playing appears on countless records over the years, with his session work. Of note, is Bob’s many records done with the world famous Canadian singer Ann Murray.
I would like to see more of Bob Lucier on this page and more of his music.
Much more is in the works. Thanks for visiting.
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2019-04-19T05:23:16Z
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https://demokidblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/shot-jackson-and-bob-lucier-1985/
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A couple of years ago, my son, David, a graphic designer, finally convinced me to switch from my ageing Windows PC to an Apple iMac. For a long time I had held out, fiercely resisting David’s attempts to alter my old-fashioned ways, but he eventually wore me down. So, in September 2009, still unconvinced of the benefits of making such a radical switch, I hesitantly splashed out on a shiny new Apple iMac… and I never looked back.
Having endured countless years of problematic computing on my PC, my new iMac was like a breath of fresh air. It brought fun and efficiency back into my working life. It was intuitive, and simple, and a joy to use. It was everything that my Windows PC was not. I became a convert, (a “fan boy,” my son teases), and have since added an iPod Nano and an iPad 2 to my Apple arsenal.
So I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Steve Jobs, the mastermind and visionary behind Apple. The genius who invented and developed these revolutionary products that have unexpectedly changed, and improved, my life.
I really liked Steve Jobs, even though I only knew him from watching his contribution to Apple’s occasional Keynote Presentations online. But there was something about the man… his passion, his charisma, his vision, that made me warm to him.
It’s heartening to know that calligraphy played a part, however small, in the creation of Steve Jobs’ Apple empire. In designing his products, he always balanced science with craft, technology with tradition. Each product was simultaneously functional and beautiful, the essential characteristics of a fine calligraphic script.
On the day after Jobs’ death, it is estimated that 8,000,000 people viewed his Stanford commencement address video online. If even a tiny fraction of those people become more curious about calligraphy through Jobs’ relationship with the craft, it may help to create renewed interest in hand-lettering. If so, a revival in calligraphy would be a fitting tribute to a man who literally changed the world with his technological vision.
Surprisingly, I only learned about Steve Jobs’ love of calligraphy in recent months. Maybe if I had been more aware of our shared passion for the craft back in 2009, I would have been more of a pushover for my son, David, in his attempts to lure me away from my Windows PC and into the world of Apple. I’m glad that he continued to chip away at me, despite my resistance.
So thank you, David, for your perseverance in persuading an old dog to learn new tricks.
And thank you, Steve Jobs, for the unbelievable magic you have brought to my life, and to the lives of so many others. The future will be a much poorer place without your vision and your inspiration.
I’d be the first to admit that my Italics in the above screenshot are pretty poor. But if you consider that I created each letter by sliding my fingertip directly across my iPad’s screen, I think there’s an excuse for my sloppy serifs and inconsistent spacing. Despite my embarrassment, you can click the image to magnify my poor penmanship. Or should that be poor fingermanship?
More of my fingertip lettering. I think my Gothic is a slight improvement on my Italics, although the decorative flourishes are not fluid, and need some more practice (click to enlarge).
Being a calligraphy tutor, I was quite excited to discover the app, and purchased it purely out of curiosity. Having tested it for a few hours (it is quite addictive) I would suggest that it is definitely not a substitute for a good calligraphy manual or formal tuition. Some of the instructions on how to create strokes are definitely wrong (eg. see the instructions for creating an Italic “a” in the screenshot above). And it refers to “Italics” as “Foundational Italics” which is a contradiction as far as I’m concerned (unless anyone out there can enlighten me). But the one thing it has in its favour…it is FUN!
By simply touching the screen, you can instantly vary nib thickness, stroke texture, pen angle and “ink” colour. You can also choose a pointed nib for adding hairlines. You can use an “eraser” to rub out small mistakes, undo your previous stroke, or wipe the screen clean with a single click. You can also choose from a variety of backgrounds, including vellum and parchment, then email your calligraphic masterpiece to yourself or anyone you might want to impress.
When working with a normal calligraphy pen on paper, I tend to manipulate the nib angle constantly… flattening and steepening the nib to get a desired effect, and tipping it onto its corner to produce spontaneous hairlines. Frustratingly, but understandably, the app’s nib angle is rigid… so if you start with a 45 degree angle, you’re pretty much stuck with it till the end. But not everyone will regard this shortcoming to be a hinderance.
Although I created passable letters using my fingertip (producing calligraphic letters by this method offers the same precision as threading a needle while wearing boxing gloves), I expect a stylus would produce better results. Before you purchase the app, however, keep in mind that it is unlikely to improve your calligraphy skills, since working with pen on paper is the absolutely only way to learn the craft. But as a simple fun tool for creating “fancy writing” on the go, it’s definitely worth the £1.99 asking price.
If you own an iPad, and enjoy creating calligraphy, you should treat yourself to this app now. As long as you don’t expect to be transformed into a master scribe overnight, I’m confident you won’t be disappointed in what it has to offer.
Find out more about the Calligraphy Art app, including videos of the app in action, at the official Calligraphy Art blog.
Or download the app from the app store here for £1.99 (at time of writing).
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2019-04-18T19:25:31Z
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When I set out to blog my experiences with SCCM and engineering the desktop environment, I expected it to help only a few others whom searched hard for a solution over the Internet. I didn’t anticipate how widely used it would become. In just under 3 years, the blog has surpassed 100,000 site visits! More honoring though has been when other SCCM folk throughout the industry have told me in person how my blog has helped them. Even someone I’ve befriended during my tenure at the Microsoft Management Summit, was surprised and excited when he discovered that I had a blog and that I was this “t3chn1ck”!
Here’s to the next 100,000 visits – cheers, and thanks for reading!
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2019-04-26T11:12:08Z
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"Characterization of Protein–Protein Interfaces" by Changhui Yan, Feihong Wu et al.
We analyze the characteristics of protein–protein interfaces using the largest datasets available from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). We start with a comparison of interfaces with protein cores and noninterface surfaces. The results show that interfaces differ from protein cores and non-interface surfaces in residue composition, sequence entropy, and secondary structure. Since interfaces, protein cores, and non-interface surfaces have different solvent accessibilities, it is important to investigate whether the observed differences are due to the differences in solvent accessibility or differences in functionality. We separate out the effect of solvent accessibility by comparing interfaces with a set of residues having the same solvent accessibility as the interfaces. This strategy reveals residue distribution propensities that are not observable by comparing interfaces with protein cores and noninterface surfaces. Our conclusions are that there are larger numbers of hydrophobic residues, particularly aromatic residues, in interfaces, and the interactions apparently favored in interfaces include the opposite charge pairs and hydrophobic pairs. Surprisingly, Pro-Trp pairs are over represented in interfaces, presumably because of favorable geometries. The analysis is repeated using three datasets having different constraints on sequence similarity and structure quality. Consistent results are obtained across these datasets. We have also investigated separately the characteristics of heteromeric interfaces and homomeric interfaces.
This is a manuscript of an article from The Protein Journal 27 (2008): 59. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10930-007-9108-x.
Yan, Changhui; Wu, Feihong; Jernigan, Robert L.; Dobbs, Drena; and Honavar, Vasant, "Characterization of Protein–Protein Interfaces" (2008). Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Publications. 110.
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https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/gdcb_las_pubs/110/
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In the months before she died, my mother obsessed over a single event from her early life—a time when she scrawled an image on the kitchen wall, displaying her skill and testing the bounds of parental authority. Why she returned to that event, telling the story over and over despite the fog of dementia, no one can ever say. But I speculate her passion for creative expression had a lot to do with how she lived her life, what she chose to remember about it, and what she was proud to pass on.
Not the word my older sister would likely use to describe herself, and yet, she too has a good dollop of my mother’s legacy. In her case, the inheritance is more a liberal sprinkling of creative dust, like a first winter snow across the landscape.
Recently, she took up the almost forgotten art of quilting. While our grandmother taught us to knit and crochet so many years ago now, my sister’s quilting is self-taught. Quilting is a process she describes as creating pattern out of chaos. Though influenced by available colors and patterns, she says the quilt comes together only after experimenting with myriad arrangements of pieces of fabric. Her “quilt in progress” is a compilation of hexagons in a dozen ice cream colors, sure to delight a three-year-old granddaughter in her pink phase. Assembled on a spare wall where she can arrange and rearrange the pieces, the effect is more free-flowing than a series of straight-edged hexagons might suggest. Still as she contemplates the design, my sister wonders if she’s made chaos out of pattern rather than the other way around.
My mother’s batting three for three, so to speak.
As I consider her endowment, however, I realize how much or little I know about my siblings. I know, of course, they are wives and mothers and grandmothers and aunts (or in my brother’s case a husband and father and uncle). But, if asked, I couldn’t say how each would describe their life’s work and their legacy.
From the perspective of a writer (the creativity manifestation I’ll claim), I challenged myself. I’d explore my sister’s psyche from a distance. The effort, familiar, like breathing life into a fictional character.
Let’s call her “Liz” and say she is five feet three inches tall with blond hair and blue eyes, though the sterile description offers little insight. Instead, I could say, she has my mother’s hands, slender fingers with nails in perfect ovals compared with my flat and stunted ones, or she wears her hair in close-cropped curls that conceal gray more effectively than any salon’s dye. Still, these are barely more than physical attributes. And I want to give my character more flesh, more color, more life.
As we’re separated by considerable distance, we see each other only once or twice a year. So what I have to complete the exercise are bits and pieces of a life, images and memories of her logged away in my head. They’re like little hexagons and squares and rectangles I have to arrange to reveal the woman, or, in quilting terms, make pattern out of chaos.
In her role as mother, and endowed with another family trait, a love of food, my sister cooked countless family dinners. Occasionally, she shared recipes she’d borrowed, tweaked, worked and reworked, and perfected. While I experiment in the kitchen, and sometimes relegate an entire meal to the garbage disposal, a few of Liz’s recipes are family lore. If her thanksgiving specialty, caramelized pecans and sweet potatoes, is absent from the table, everyone is disappointed.
And, while I am on the subject of mothers, let me not overlook the art of motherhood. Liz is mother to three—all adults, all gainfully employed and all with families of their own. Not one has robbed a bank, dealt in drugs, or run off to join Ringling Brothers, at least, not that I know. It’s an achievement deserving of the word “art” in capital letters.
Liz also has a facility with words, this perhaps inherited from my father’s side. She’s a wordsmith, someone I would not want to tangle with in a game of Scrabble, or “Words with Friends”. She’s fluent in French, a language we both learned as children. I long ago forgot all but a token tourist phrase or two, but somehow the language stayed lodged in her brain and on the tip of her tongue. She’s worked as an editor and copy writer and authored a children’s book. She’s a voracious reader and devours two or three books a week. And, as far as the more traditional visual arts go, she’s painted landscapes and still lifes, even sold a few.
As I reflect, I realize how many pieces and shapes I’ve unearthed from memory. Perhaps, if I tack them to the wall, step back, and squint my eyes, I’ll see my sister as a whole woman. Sister, daughter, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, and artist.
One you can expect to see in disguise in a future novel.
Postcards from Wonderland. The title of a blog, and a website, and a Pinterest board and Instagram site and Facebook page and email address. Three words to inform about wondrous things. Or as Marta Mela and Angie Grau, owners of the various postcards-from-wonderland sites, put it “las maravillas particular”, literally special wonders.
Special wonders indeed. The two young women live in Barcelona and are coworkers as well as lifelong friends. On their sites, as I suspect they do in real life, they share the many things that fascinate them all artfully photographed and described.
It’s not hard to find something that appeals. The sites run the gamut from decor to dress, from travel captured in the bold sea-washed colors of the Mediterranean, lavender fields, warm hues of sunset, and lush greens of rain forests to cuisine. Numerous shots of inviting place settings, bowls of steaming mussels or golden sweet potato soups discovered and indulged in favorite corners of their city.
Besides blogging, both women are writers as well. Angie keeps a log of the things she wants to do in life, marking them off as she meets her goals. Marta’s the photographer and journalist. She claims her journal is where she stores thoughts that pop into her head so she won’t forget them–as if there’s any danger in that as she’s rarely shown without her camera.
Like Marta, I have a passion for photography. The scenes from four vintage postcards of the actual Wonderland Park are included on the pages of my novel. I had to scour the internet for them, but collected a few and persuaded my publisher to include the four as introductions to parts of the book. And, I maintain a second blog and second website that focus on photography, marrying my passions for writing, travel, and photography. Mostly these sites are for my reflection whereas Marta and Angie share their lives with each other and the world.
In a recent post I found hints of an addition to their world. Angie’s new baby. As you might expect from these prolific bloggers, the event has spawned posts and photos and thoughts about a new life and the promise that brings.
Here’s hoping the newest member of the Postcards from Wonderland family will find many special wonders ahead.
I visit gardens when I travel, whether they are public gardens, private gardens, arboretums, nurseries (not the box stores but the old-fashioned kind, the ones owned by people with rough hands and dirt under their nails), garden exhibitions, or even local enthusiasts’ plant sales. These venues are marvelous places, full of beauty and inspiration and often a kindred, sometimes eccentric, spirit, or two, meandering about. Rarely do I leave without an idea to implement in my own garden.
As you might expect, I’m smarter now than when I first began my garden journeys.
At the outset, like other novices, I’d return from a foray with a new plant in hand and sink it into what I deemed to be its rightful place in the garden. With a minimum of effort (including those tiresome but no less important things like weeding, watering, pruning and fertilizing), a modicum of time, and a large dollop of good fortune, nature rewarded me when she chose with wondrous blooms.
My garden awakening came with the purchase of my third or fourth treasure. Suddenly I realized I had to take a step back and consider the larger picture—the canvas, you might say.
Did the color of the new rose, or camellia, or azalea compliment the established ones? Would they bloom at the same time, exploding in one single burst of riotous color but leaving me with nothing but dried leaves and bare boughs in the long winter months ahead? Would they surprise me with something new each time I ventured into the garden, heralding the circle of seasons? Was the arrangement defying the principles of design or did it adhere to the tyranny of triangles?
Sinking further into my self-imposed form of madness, I began to obsess over textures, scents, and associations. Was there variety in my garden—magnolias with their wide, glossy leaves and boughs studded with lemon-scented summer flowers that spoke of the old south as well as pines, three and five-needled cultivars with cones to collect and toss on a winter night’s fire? Were there pathways through my garden that drew the visitor’s eye, teasing them to take a first step then another, tantalizing and engaging them?
I came to realize that I wasn’t merely gardening. I was creating a work of art–a painting on a canvas of earth, a short story in colors and textures and living things. For inspiration, I sought role models from a different sort of gardener, those with a discriminating eye and experience with a trowel. Artists who garden.
Fortunately, I have had the privilege to come to know one particularly artful gardener, Brenda Addington. Brenda approaches her garden as an artist first. She brings to it both an inherited sense of grace and craft from her father, a highly skilled artisan in another media, and her own eye for color and line.
She is not one to sit inside and admire her garden through the window. I know. On one of the coldest days of the year, I found her planting a few of the thousands of bulbs she had special ordered, just the right colors for just the right spaces. In the spring, if she’s not tending to the dozens of containers that accent her garden, she’s photographing them for her website or blog. And, in the fall, she’s likely to be constructing a cascade of pumpkins on the stairs leading from her front door to her garden.
Brenda’s garden embodies all of the aspects of an artful garden. It is a delight for the senses. Her colors flow, huge white blooming Annabelle hydrangeas yield to beds of pink Angelique then mutate again to a stand of mauve tulips. Her textures weave together seamlessly—a burnished iron frog sits above delicate tendrils of a Mandevilla vine in one corner, peach-colored roses soften the blue needles of a deodar cedar in another, and, in a far recess, a stone bridge carves a path to the graceful threads of a lime-green conifer.
Try as I might, my garden just never quite measures up. Thankfully, Brenda does not live too far away allowing me the opportunity from time to time to view what she has created and see where I’ve gone wrong.
Note: All photos courtesy of Brenda Addington.
PS. My conscience won’t let me close without saying that my garden is really our garden. My husband, one of those slightly eccentric characters that inhabit this world, is largely responsible for our garden. He is the expert who reins in my dabs on the canvas, insisting that the plants we come by are sited according to their cultural needs first—artistry be damned!
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Bengaluru haven't tasted defeat this season, with eight wins and three draws. Mumbai City FC, under Portuguese coach Jorge Costa, showed good results by employing a pragmatic style of play.
After a break of over a month, owing to India's participation in the AFC Asian Cup, the fifth season of the India Super League is back to business again, with as many as six teams vying for a top four spot. On Sunday, the league will witness its first high-profile match post the break as table-toppers Bengaluru FC take on second-placed Mumbai City FC at the Mumbai Football Arena. Carles Cuadrat's Bengaluru haven't tasted defeat yet this season, with eight wins and three draws while Mumbai City FC, under Portuguese coach Jorge Costa, showed good results employing a pragmatic style of play.
Going into the match, Bengaluru will feel like they are little more under pressure as compared to their opponents. Quality wise, surely they are better, but the pressure of maintaining the unbeaten streak and also considering the long gap " during which some of the club's key players were also involved with the national team duty in UAE " might end up being decisive factors in the match. The likes of Sunil Chhetri, Udanta Singh and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu have all had a busy last few weeks, leading them to not getting much rest because the Asian Cup. It will be interesting to see head coach Cuadrat's playing XI on Sunday.
The selection part is vital for Cuadrat because the team also has its fair share of injured players. Nishu Kumar suffered a knee injury during their game against ATK in December and his replacement in that match, Rino Anto, is also struggling to regain fitness ahead of Sunday's match. In the absence of both, it is likely that Harmanjot Khabra will start at the right-back position.
Bengaluru's attack will be bolstered by the return of their star striker Miku from injury. The Venezuelan forward had to miss most of the matches this season due to an ankle injury and he had to undergo treatment in Spain. If Chhetri, scorer of five goals for Bengaluru this season, doesn't make it to the playing XI, Miku has to step up and the lead the attack for his team. Cuadrat will look also to his influential midfield trio of Erik Paartalu, Dimas Delgado and Xisco Hernandez to create opportunities from the middle.
"It's nice to have this unbeaten run going, but the key aim is to book a place in the play-off stages as soon as we can. Whether the long break will affect our momentum or not, only time will tell. But we have been working hard and hope to keep the run going for as long as we can," Cuadrat said ahead of the match.
It is vital for Cuadrat to maintain his team's momentum after the break. Now that Miku is fit to play and his team is ahead by three points in the league table, despite having played a match less, Cuadrat can think about resting Chhetri. But against Mumbai, who have a better defensive record than most of other teams " 12 goals conceded in 12 matches, second only to Bengaluru " Chhetri's goal-scoring prowess might come in handy.
Mumbai City FC's season didn't start the season with a bang. In the first four matches, they suffered two defeats, including a 0-5 drubbing at the hands of Goa. But as the season progressed, Jorge Costa's side has improved significantly. They are undefeated in the last eight matches and last time they played at their home, the team made easy work of their opponents Kerala Blasters FC, scoring as many as six goals in the match.
A lot of Mumbai's good form this season has to do with the display of their foreign players. Moudou Sougou has been vital when it comes to goal-scoring. The Senegalese forward netted nine goals for his team this season while Rafael Bastos' exploits in the wing were critical in breaking down defences multiple times.
Unlike Bengaluru, Mumbai City FC do not have many injury problems, though Joyner Lourenco picked up an injury right before the break. The team agreed a loan deal with Jamshedpur FC for defender Sanjay Balmuchu, who is set to be the replacement of Lourenco.
Bengaluru might have a superior squad, but Costa might be feeling more upbeat about Sunday's tie. His team had a remarkable turnaround post the defeat against Goa, and since then they have managed to implement their plans to perfection. Costa has spoken before about his style of play, putting emphasis on getting all three points instead of developing a philosophy. Mumbai might not be the most attractive team in the league, but recent form shows that they do know how to win a match.
Costa will also take confidence from his team's performance against Bengaluru when they met first time around this season. The match ended in a 1-1 draw, but Mumbai were highly competitive and threatened to take the match away despite playing with 10 men.
Both the teams have proven goal-scorers in their ranks, but it will be more interesting to witness the battle in the midfield. Delgado, who has been in terrific form this season, will have his task cut against the likes of Raynier Fernandes and Paulo Machado. Playing at home, if Mumbai City halt Bengaluru's run on Sunday, they would've taken a significant step in sealing a playoff spot.
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This was originally a bit of an accident post but I’m going to fix it up now for Pinning purposes.
Supplies a slice of cheese and a sharp knife and a cutting board.
3. Mummy Dogs – there are actually tons of videos on this. For the record I used scissors to cut the dough and all wrapping was done by a 3 and 5-year-old. I added blue sprinkles post cooking.
Yes, I choose to move. That means I can’t go to the bar with my highschool or college friends. Apparently that also means that I am removed from consideration on things like weddings.
True, I can’t make every wedding (even if I did live close). I don’t even vaguely expect invitations to weddings of people I don’t have contact with, or, if the wedding is tiny or family only etc just because we were friends way back. I understand completely. The thing that gets me is when I see group pictures from a wedding of a friends group that I was a part of, that I have fairly frequent interaction with…. etc.
So many people just walk away from friends when they move and I suppose they feel that’s what other people do too. I don’t. I’ll get over it, I understand. I’m not going to sever a positive relationship because I value that relationship even if the other person(s) don’t.
I’m starting to really love time hop. This app reinforces my tendency to compare now to last year or 4 years ago by literally telling me what I published in previous years. Yesterday it noted a blog post and I semi-forgot what I wrote so I clicked. When I read it I was transported to a time that I thought I would never forget, a time I have forgotten… I wrote the post because I loved the messy snapshots that were with all the photos of baby Lars. The unposed, un fixed. That day I dissected a snapshot and I’m so glad I did because yesterday I remembered so much that I had forgotten.
This is the same corner of the house as 4 years ago but instead of a 1 year old Zoe you can see a 3 year old Fiona. A person who didn’t even exist yet! Instead of the constant interaction of the 1 year old crowd, Fiona is upstairs playing and fairly indipendant – I actually had to call her to be in the picture and she was busy ‘reading to her babies’. She doesn’t really let me get away with doing my own thing for long, I need to be on call at all times for potty help, doll dressing, to look at something, or to kiss whatever part of her body she has hurt.
I feel like I have to say that our kitchen and stairs are suffering from us being away for the weekend and we just dumped things in the hall. But yes… it is rare to have a perfect kitchen in our house and this is all about the real way not the way I like to see in pretty pictures.
The detail in the last post hooked me because I know I was writing totally mundane details but 4 years later I was so happy for the reminder. Today you can see Halloween decorations up – the kids actually leave them alone and are glad of the glowing pumpkins. Zoe helped make the paper flowers and the only decoration that gets messed with are the little Halloween ducks you can hardly see on the ledge. I also like the look of my nice wood stairs and ledge, way better than builder grade carpet that was impossible to get clean. I don’t miss that stuff!
The table has some breakfast still, Fiona and I eat second shift breakfast. We send the bigger kids off to school and we eat before we go off to whatever we are doing. We go out almost every day and this day we were out to a workout by 9:30 so it was an eat and run day. Same goes for the cereal bags on the floor, I feel like I should leave them there, but I promise, they do go away daily. The table also has a pile of school product – I’m not quite sure what to call the ‘bounty’ of paper we get daily from school but I sit every afternoon with them and go through it all. Sometimes they love the snuggle and attention and tell me about each paper, other days they are too into playing and I peruse it solo. I pull out the most important things and the rest gets recycled.
The bag on the chair is from a playdate from last week. It has moved from in the car to the hall and from the hall to storage but then it was used to pack animals for the trip and when it ripped (pre trip) it was abandoned. I like to let the kids pack themselves, they are learning about space and what is good for packing into etc. That bag now is holding the newest batch of recycling, waiting for a child chore time to bring it out.
And I want to remember the things you don’t see too. There are no boosters, they rejected them a few weeks ago. There are no sisters, they are in school every day. There are no sippy cups or bottles or multiple sets of spoons because I need to feed someone. There are no toys, no highchairs, no exersaucers… I’m happy for every step forward but there is still a fond memory of the other things too.
My days now are busy in a new way. I go workout 3 days a week at 9:30 and except for a rare day we have playdates the other 2. We do school ‘stuff’ when the bigger girls get home but Fiona likes to play school in her room with her animals and barbies. We do some housework together but usually I tidy wherever she wants to be and get the other things when she naps or is playing. This is my last year with a full time child at home so next years ‘normal’ will be radically different again.
This past weekend Lars and I and the kids and two friends drove to Minot ND and back. For those not in the midwest, that is around a 9h trip each way but it is a very very easy 9 hours. The road is good, there are 3 turns, there are no cities or things that might cause a slow down (barring utter craptastraphy). There are enough gas and potty options and with 4 adults nobody even got burned out driving.
We had a great time with the visit on the whole. It met the criteria of us being there longer than it took to travel so good start. It also had a laid back agenda and that is nice for a change since we usually try to cram 10x what we should do into any given situation. In the evening we had a mini party with a bunch of other friends from the area that we don’t normally see/spend much time with and we played a very fun and silly game.
Other than the random meandering discussions during the visit there was also the solid 18 hours of travel to THINK. I love that time, time where I can’t be doing anything else – I can’t clean or work out or read Facebook (much), I can’t really even read because I dislike the feeling of puke. I’ve planned so many things in my head during various road trips, the perfect tent, gardens (didn’t happen, probably because I drive a lot and leave my house for a month), book ideas, what-ifs, discussions of political situation… you get the picture.
settled on a book to work on. Not the only story in my brain but the one I talked about with a friend out there sparked him to want to co write and with that push we are off.
So now I’m home, sent kids off to school, got back to the workout thing, then walked to force nap and now I have a list of items like bake bread and find kitchen and post blog (and book planning) so see you tomorrow!
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How do I access my web space from a browser?
I created a new user via panel and it auto generated a password. I am able to log in via a FTP client by using ‘chiclet.dreamhost.com’ as the IP address.
I created a directory called ‘whatdidifindouttoday’ and uploaded one index.html and Winter.jpg.
What’s the URL of this web space?
It doesn’t have a URL, as it is not publicly accessible.
To expand on this; directories in your user’s home directory are not accessible via HTTP unless you have added a domain or sub-domain to the hosting system and specified that directory as the ‘Web Directory’ for the domain.
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The government has just announced that Clapham Junction, with 9 other railway stations in England, most in need of modernisation, are to get £50m to carry out urgent improvements.
Already last week, rail operator Network Rail announced plans to spend £3.25bn to improve more than 2,000 stations across England and Wales by 2014: this includes Birmingham Station, but also Leeds, Blackfriars, King Cross… (diaporama on the BBC website).
But Chris Green (appointed by the government to look at the railway – former Virgin Trains chief executive) and Town and Country Planning Association president Sir Peter Hall – have identified 10 that are in need of the most urgent work and that they described as having been “left behind“.
Manchester Victoria was judged to be the worst followed by Clapham Junction and Crewe (customer satisfaction ratings), with all three suffering from overcrowding.
The station badly needs a new entrance which links into the overpass, relieving pressure on the congested tunnel linking the platforms, and this is now proposed.
Local controversy has focused on the extent of commercial development around the station needed to generate the income for the station upgrading.
You can read more comments on his tour on the Timesonline website.
“I support the report’s recommendations of minimum standards for stations – classed by size – in terms of information, car and bike parking, facilities and environment.
He also added that rail operators would be required to ensure minimum standards in future.
It is good news for Clapham Junction, at the time where we have just launched an initiative to debate on the redevelopment of the station.
“The Government is already installing lifts and building a tube station at Clapham Junction, but it’s still a very overcrowded, old-fashioned station that is in urgent need of better facilities for travellers.
The new entrance opening soon at the top of St John’s Hill will give direct access to the lifts and this will be a huge bonus for the public as well as for people with wheelchairs, buggies, bikes or heavy luggage. But my top priority is to give access to the lifts from the Grant Road side of the station as well.
Together with the Clapham Junction Action Group I will also press for a bigger main entrance with more ticketing facilities and with escalators from the concourse to the overbridge to relieve overcrowding in the tunnel.
We’ve expanded the capacity of Clapham Junction from four-carriage to eight- and ten- and eventually to twelve-carriage trains, and we need more entrances and facilities and escalators to ease congestion and to make travelling a more pleasant experience.
I know that all the people who objected to the 42-storey towers were still keen to get the station improvements and I’m delighted that the Government has come forward with some funds to pay for the most urgently needed improvements.
There’s no reason why we should have to pay for urgently-needed station improvements by agreeing to giant tower blocks which would be totally out of place and I’m glad we didn’t agree to the scheme.
It is exciting to see that things are moving, and fast. We hope to be able to meet with Network Rail as soon as possible to discuss on the new possibilities.
£5m or more is expensive for paint, and I wonder then how you could call the £300k that WBC put aside to help improve the new station entrance: a droplet?
Seriously, why not simply say, as we press for, that this funding is welcomed, and we hope that it shows concerns at the government level and that it will be followed by additional funding to eventually make a proper redevelopment?
Its fantastic news that the problem is finally getting the recognition it deserves, I just hope we get these improvements sooner rather than later!
Will> The question is in your sentence: “these improvements“…. what are they? I think we have to tell NR what are users concern and make proposals, instead of fighting back. That’s what the CJAG is concentrating on and we will be launching a consultation soon.
(2) that improvements are needed NOW, and not in 4-5 years time.
stage 2 to improve the facilities south of the tracks with a new station building linking overpass and underpass and extending the access between platforms (whether by means of widening the underpass, or by the provision of a new access between platforms).
Stage 1 appears to have been taken firmly on board. Let’s continue pressure on this and press for stage 2 receiving funding as a major priority in CP5 (2014).
How can we say less than: the cash boost is good news and we hope that more will come?
I am sure you meant to say it is an ‘understatement’ Cyril!
“It is a shame that the Council is not welcoming this news. Even if Clapham Junction only receives a tenth of this funding, this is still £5m more than was initially earmarked for this spending review period (i.e. up to 2014) and will hopefully buy more than a ‘lick of paint’. Lord Adonis referred to the need to link subway and overbridge north and south of the tracks, and it is our hope that the funds will go some way to enabling a new station in Grant Road to achieve this.
Anyone can comment on the Wandsworth article by following the link in Cyril’s piece above.
Prompted by today’s article in the local Guardian, I’m wondering why you refer to ‘building a tube station’ in this way. Are you perhaps referring to the ELL phase 2 extension – which was part of the tube network before closure for rebuilding?
‘Connecting to the tube’ via the ELL is just so much spin, isn’t it? The station is already far better connected to the tube via Waterloo or Victoria.
I was not quoted “building a tube station” in the WG therefore I assume that you refer to our article above. But it is actually not me referring to a Tube Station but Martin Linton making a case for Grant Road entrance redevelopment.
However I might be using a similar wording to refer to the fact, indeed that the ELL line will arrive at CJ in 2012. It will be on platform 1&2, therefore the closest platform to Grant Road, which could be nicknamed the main Tube entrance, whereas St John’s Hill will be the main Train entrance.
– Overground service (frequency of overground services to be increased to 4 trains per hour from 2011) – plat 1&2 ?
– Heathrow Link – plat 3&4 ?
All additional traffic (people entering the trains at CJ and inter-change) has not been considered yet, and it can only be more evidence of the increasing necessity to improve the station with an appropriate development plan!
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Maverick County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 54,258. Its county seat is Eagle Pass. The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1871. It is named for Samuel Maverick, cattleman and state legislator.
The Maverick County Jail, established 1949, is adjacent to the county courthouse.
The Eagle Pass, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Maverick County. It is east of the Mexican border.
Prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples were the first inhabitants, and their artifacts have been found in various areas of the county. Lipan Apache, Shawnee, and Coahuiltecan culture followed. The abandonment of Fort Duncan on March 20, 1861, during the Civil War, enabled the Indian population to gain control of the region; both American and Mexican inhabitants suffered tremendous loss of life and property. The fort was reoccupied in 1868. In early 1871, a number of Black Seminole Indians living along the border were organized into a company of scouts and brought to Fort Duncan. The last Indian raid in the county occurred in 1877. Three traders were murdered and mutilated by Lipan Apaches. The site of the incident, eight miles (13 km) northeast of Eagle Pass, became known as Deadman's Hill.
The El Camino Real, later known as the Old San Antonio Road, that crosses the Rio Grande, begins in East Texas and crosses southern Maverick County. The trail was originally blazed by Alonso De León in 1690, and is said to have been traversed by more early Spanish explorers and settlers than any other section of the state. In 1989, the legislature authorized the Old San Antonio Road Preservation Commission to coordinate the 1991 300th anniversary of the trail’s founding.
Saltillo alcade Fernando de Azcué in 1665 pursued Indians into the county. In 1675, Fernando del Bosque traversed the area near Quemado, and Franciscans with the expedition are said to have celebrated the first Mass on Texas soil. In 1688, Alonso De León followed the Camino Real across the county en route to Fort St. Louis. Domingo Terán de los Ríos, the first Governor of Spanish Texas, led an expedition through the county in 1691. Spanish Texas Governor Martín de Alarcón crossed the county in 1718 on the expedition that resulted in the founding of San Antonio. Governor of the Mexican provinces of Coahuila and Texas, Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, in 1720 passed through on an expedition that brought goats, 2800 horses and 6400 sheep that was the onset of Spanish ranching in Texas. Pedro de Rivera y Villalón crossed the county in 1727 as part of an expedition to inspect the frontier defenses of New Spain.
Antonio Rivas was the first known rancher on the land in 1765. The county still has a considerable ranching community.
On March 27, 1849, Capt. Sidney Burbank established Fort Duncan, previously known as Camp Eagle Pass, on a site two miles (3 km) north of the ford at Adjuntos Pass.
General William Leslie Cazneau, credited several years earlier with burying the Alamo casualties with full military honors, began ranching in the area around 1850. He partnered with Irish-born San Antonio banker and county settler John Twohig to lay out a plan of Eagle Pass in 1850. That same year, a Mexican garrison established Piedras Negras across the border.
Freight operator Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Groos secured a contract to haul supplies for the army at Fort Duncan. At his urging, several early settlers of Eagle Pass were emigres of the Mexican river villages and missions of San Juan Bautista, San José, Santo Domingo, San Nicolás, La Navaja, and San Isidro.
Emigres Refugio and Rita Alderete de San Miguel used the profits of their freighting business to establish a large-scale cattle, sheep, and horse ranch on Elm Creek in 1853. They were joined in ranching operations by stranded pilgrims on the California Gold Rush trail and discharged Fort Duncan soldiers. Among these was Infantry veteran Jesse Sumpter, who also worked at many odd jobs before becoming sheriff in the newly formed Maverick County.
Landscape pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted visited Eagle Pass in 1854, and noted the many slave hunters and runaway slaves residing in Piedras Negras, as well as the many saloons and gambling houses, which catered to Fort Duncan's soldiers and other unsavory characters.
In 1855, Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease authorized a raid into Mexico. An international incident was brought about by James H. Callahan and William R. Henry, whose pursuit of Lipan Apache raiders and runaway slaves into Mexico ended in the looting and torching of Piedras Negras, after an encounter with Mexican forces at La Marama on the Río Escondido.
Maverick County was established from Kinney County and named for Samuel A. Maverick in 1856. The county was organized some years later on September 4, 1871. The estimated population of the county in 1860 was 726. Eagle Pass voted 83-3 against secession from the Union.
Fort Duncan was occupied by Confederate troops during the Civil War. Eagle Pass was chosen as a trade depot for the Military Board of Texas. Eagle Pass was a major terminus of the Cotton Road, custom house and Confederate port of entry into Mexico 1863-65. A cotton press was installed at Piedras Negras to handle the enormous quantities coming across the Rio Grande. At the close of the Civil War, General Joseph Orville Shelby’s brigade never surrendered, but hoped to continue their fight across the border. On July 4, 1865, Shelby stopped in the middle of the Rio Grande to bury the last Confederate flag to fly over his troops. To the sound of drum and bugle, he wrapped the flag around the plume of his hat, weighted it with a stone from the river bank, and lowered it into the river. Shelby’s unit became known as “The Undefeated” and was used as a basis for the 1969 John Wayne-Rock Hudson film by the same name.
Saloons, gambling houses, and smuggling operations proliferated in and around Eagle Pass during Reconstruction. The infamous J. King Fisher and his followers dominated the era in the region.
Telegraph lines reached Eagle Pass in 1875. In 1880, the main line of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway was extended west from San Antonio, connecting to the Mexican Railway in Piedras Negras.
Irrigation has been vital to area farmers. In 1885, rancher Patrick W. Thomson formed the Eagle Pass Irrigation Company to construct a huge gravity-flow irrigation system to draw water from the Rio Grande. Thompson died in 1910, but his efforts came to fruition as the Maverick County Irrigation Canal system, operational by April 1932.
March 3, 1911, when Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois and Philip O. Parmalee made the first official military reconnaissance flight, looking for Army troops between Laredo and Eagle Pass, Texas, with a ground exercise in progress. In 1942, the Army Air Force built a single-engine advanced flying school 12 mi (19 km) north of Eagle Pass.
Oil and gas exploration in the county began in the 1950s, with the largest fields being the 1969 Fitzpatrick and Wipff, and the 1970 Burr.
The coal industry of Maverick County is located along a section of the Olmos Coal Formation immediately north of Eagle Pass. Mining operations developed by Dolch at Dolchburg and by the Olmos Coal, Coke, and Oil Company at Olmos were the largest coal producers in Texas around the turn of the 20th century.
The former Pack-Way Grocery between Eagle Pass and Quemado has long since closed, a remnant of a by-gone era on U.S. 277.
Industries located in the county in 1977 included a cotton gin and two cattle feedlots with capacities of 25,000 cattle at El Indio, one at Normandy, and another between Eagle Pass and El Indio. A spinach-packing shed was at the southern edge of Eagle Pass. Industries which have located in the Eagle Pass–Maverick County area since 1977 include the Eagle Pass Manufacturing Company (a division of Hicks-Ponder, Inc) and the Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co, both makers of work clothing; the Reynolds Mining Corp fluorspar plant and the Tejas Barite plant; Alta-Verde Industries and Maverick Beef Producers, and the Big River Catfish Farm.
In 1982, 88 percent of all land in the county was considered farmland and ranches, but only 2 percent of the farmland was under cultivation, and most of that was irrigated. Primary crops were hay, oats, and wheat.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,292 square miles (3,350 km2), of which 1,279 square miles (3,310 km2) is land and 13 square miles (34 km2) (1.0%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, 47,297 people, 13,089 households, and 11,230 families residied in the county. The population density was 37 people per square mile (14/km²). There are 14,889 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile (4/km²). The racial makeup of the county is 70.89% White, 0.31% Black or African American, 1.34% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 24.08% from other races, and 2.95% from two or more races. About 95% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 13,089 households, 51.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.50% were married couples living together, 16.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.20% were not families. About 12.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.60 and the average family size was 3.98.
In the county, the population was distributed as 36.90% under the age of 18, 9.20% from 18 to 24, 26.70% from 25 to 44, 17.70% from 45 to 64, and 9.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.40 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $21,232, and for a family was $23,614. Males had a median income of $20,956 versus $15,662 for females. The per capita income for the county was $8,758. About 34.80% of the population and 32.00% of families were below the poverty line. Of the total population, 40.60% of those under the age of 18 and 40.90% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Based on per capita income, Maverick County is one of the poorest counties in the United States.
According to the 2000 census, Maverick County has the nation's highest percentage of people who speak Spanish at home, at 91%.
The county is located in Texas Senate, District 19 so is represented by Republican Pete Flores in the Texas Senate. As part of the 74th district of the Texas House of Representatives it is represented by Democrat Poncho Nevarez. In the United States House of Representatives it is part of Texas's 23rd congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+1 and is represented by Republican Will Hurd.
All of Maverick County is served by the Eagle Pass Independent School District.
Sul Ross State University and South West Texas Junior College also serve this community.
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The Warming Center has been closed for two weeks, despite the winter-like weather that has continued into this month. It is always difficult to close as many people come to rely on the Warming Center as their winter home. We’ve done our best to encourage our guests to find other options, including the shelter system, friends and family.
I want to thank you all at Church of the Holy Trinity for hosting this program for just over six weeks this season in December, February and March. Your hospitality is greatly appreciated by the guests and monitors. We use your chapel, the entryway, the bathrooms, the kitchenette, and we park a trailer outside for our guests’ belongings – that’s quite a lot of space and I’m sure that it presents some challenges on your end. This year we outgrew the trailer and ending up using the chapel to store the guests’ belongings during the day. Yet you continue, season after season, to open your doors to the most at-risk and vulnerable people in our community.
We try to be good guests, but we do not always succeed. We realize that we often leave cigarette butts in the entryway outside, we fill the dumpster, and the floors aren’t always clean or vacuumed or left smelling nice. We put a lot of stress on the plumbing and heating systems. We also know it is difficult (and sad) to see so many guests huddling outside the doorway in the early evening waiting for us to open. Despite all that, you continue to welcome us, to partner with us, and to care for the poor and homeless.
This winter we served 215 unduplicated men (73%) and women (27%), averaging about 22 every night. There were 19 nights that we served more than 30, and one night that we served 40! About 25 of the guests stayed at the Warming Center for 6 weeks or more; 7 of them stayed almost the entire season. It amazes me that there are so many people who live “on the edge,” who don’t have a good and safe and permanent place to call home.
Thank you for being CHURCH – for actively living out your faith as caring people, for loving your neighbors as yourselves.
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Jason Sheasby, an Irell & Manella litigator, loves food and every aspect of the culture and vibe that surrounds it. Whether it’s trying a new dish at a new location with his family or whipping up one of his tried and true favorite recipes, food is somewhat of a passion of his.
Food is the one thing that unites us all. No matter where we’re from or what we do in life, food is a staple that connects us and carries us through life. Jason Sheasby understands that food is part of life and culture, and he uses the food he makes to create these bonds and build memories with his family.
For the latest recipes that Jason Sheasby is trying or to stay up-to-date on the latest foodie news and trends, visit his website regularly and check out the blog!
For close to twenty years Jason Sheasby has worked as a litigator at Irell & Manella LLP, a law firm based in Southern California. His work focuses on litigating complex cases related to intellectual property in the pharmaceuticals, universities, and the medical sector.
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If you ever get the urge to terrify me, stinging insects that fly are the best bet. I shudder in fear at wasps and bees alike. My mentor and friend Julian Boyd, who was schooled in linguistics, suggested that my aversion had to do with anxiety about penetration with duration. A "sting," as the nasal phoneme that ends the word indicates, lasts a lot longer than a "stick." I will leave it to you, my much-loved readers, to draw further conclusions.
To me, the truly frightening creatures are the ones that can sting you and not die in the process. There's something heroic about a bee willing to give up her life to cause me a bit of pain. A centipede or scorpion, on the other hand? They're just being assholes.
Wasps, too. I do see how the perception of malice could lead to greater fear. For me, though, the multiplicity of bees and wasps is also a factor. I guess that makes wasps, which sting in groups and don't die, my most feared antagonists!
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The art center, Art Works Downtown is such a stimulating place to have a studio, especially one right down the hall from the gallery – you can see the “Ann Brooks” shingle just above my door on the right.
The communal altar above was created by students at San Rafael High School. Detail is below, left.
This selection of Day of the Dead altars is from both groups, as in the case of the San Rafael High students and individual artists or general public who wish to honor departed friends and family members.
Several of the altars honor the people of San Rafael of the past as well as early settlers like Don Timeteo Murphy.
The exhibition was juried by Sharon Christovich, Folk Art Gallery owner, and Carol Durham, Art Works Downtown studio artist.
Above and right, an altar which invites the public to write their own wishes, prayers for people dear to them – see the detail below on the left.
The altar directly below by Petrina W. was given the Jurors’ Award. In it she pays homage to so many friends and relatives she has lost. She writes about them with such elegance that one ends up breathless over the losses she has suffered, yet wonders at her open, friendly personality!
To the left, Patrick Gavin Duffy has created an altar honoring one of San Rafael’s earliest founders, Don Timeteo Murphy, the legendary six foot, 300 pount, red-headed Irishman who was granted the “Rancho de las Gallinas” and most of the former mission lands by the Mexican Governor. This altar references items from the Rancho period when this western edge of the ‘world’ system was Spanish, not American.
Fine Arts Department student at College of Marin, Novato. Isabel Hayes’ altar “Home is Where We Rest Our Bones” is a memorial dedicated to the people of San Rafael, then and now. Isabel calls San Rafael her home.
Friday, November 11th Art Walk will be the closing reception for this very stimulating show.
All photos by Ann’s iPhone 4s with post production in Photoshop.
Above: detail from “Home is where we rest our bones” by Isabel Hayes.
… and more in my Art Works Downtown studio or at my online shop.
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Rock Your Summer Body Now!
With the weather warming up and summer fast approaching, are you doing all you can to get ready for shorts and swimsuit weather? I mean seriously…do you want to feel comfortable in your summer gear and look great this year?
If your answer is YES….read on!
Do not wait for the hot sweaty days of summer to feel that moment….do it now and do something about it! When you are working out, your body begins to crave healthy foods such as veggies and fruit. The more you work out, typically the more good foods you choose to put in your body. Do not worry about scales and are you over or under on weight. Go by how you are feeling. Are you feeling uncomfortable? Are you tired? Are you bloated after you eat?
Your body really will tell you what it needs if you listen to it.
Be happy, Be healthy and ROCK YOUR SUMMER BODY by starting TODAY!
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Take Time Out to Enjoy Your Day Everyday!
I completely understand the world of deadlines, late meetings, early mornings and everything in between. I used to be that person that made no time for myself because I was always like the hamster chasing the wheel….wanting to be better, make more money, be praised more for what I could do.
I reached a point where my health was paying the price for my “better, faster, wealthier, harder working” mentality.
There was a day when the line got drawn in the sand and I knew I was going to start taking small steps to taking care of not only all of my responsibilities but also to take care of myself.
Honestly, no one will take care of you unless you are willing to take care of you. YOU are the first person you wake up to everyday….in fact you are the FIRST person YOU talk to everyday! You tell yourself how the day is going to go, how you will feel, whether you got enough sleep last night, etc.
Why not tell yourself that you deserve 45-60 minutes a day to either exercise, dance, laugh, meditate, go for a run, take a class, ride a bike, go for a swim?
Many people find that taking 45-60 minutes to themselves each day to work out in some way, allows them to be more productive on whatever task they are embarking on.
I challenge you to take a 30 day challenge!
For 6 weeks, I challenge you to take 60 minutes to work out for 5 days a week and keep a journal of how you are feeling and what accomplishments you make during this time frame. Then come back here and let me know how you did. You choose the fitness and time frame for each week 5 days a week. If you are not sure what to do, contact me and we can put together a wellness plan, otherwise, pick your own and go for it and let us know how you made out!
If there is one thing I have learned in this life, is that life is much too short to wait for “some days” to show up.
The Great Gravity Pull…Zumba Toning Can Help!
Have you noticed that gravity does not like you as you age? Like where your bosoms once were closer to your shoulders they are now having a party with your belly button…..or the fact that when you are wearing a sleeveless top your arms keep waving long after your hand stops….Has this happened to you?
It is not out of the ordinary to have this experience so don’t hide it! It happens!
Let me tell you from experience….the arm jiggle can be a thing of the past with this. I began teaching Zumba toning just twice a week and saw results! The whole concept behind using these weights is to move them as if you are moving 10 lbs, not 1-2lbs. When you are moving your arms as if you are moving 10lbs, you will see that you have a fluid motion and your muscles will tighten and tone much faster!
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Regular readers may have noticed that I am well versed in classical mythology and make frequent use of several stories as symbols. Stories don’t survive thousands of years without having a certain power over the imagination. I’ve spent years reading, studying, exploring. I was fortunate to have several great teachers and the opportunity to learn just because I loved to learn. These days I drive an hour once a week just to attend Bible study. I don’t really like spending so much time on the road. It gets old. But such is reality in the rural Southwest. And all those hours behind the wheel, they aren’t just lost and wasted. If I shut up and turn the music off and just drive I find myself with much needed prayer time.
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Then, after spending months condemning Hillary Clinton for her intentions to escalate U.S. military aggression in the Middle East--especially in Syria--and assuring the American people that if he were elected President he would NOT try to depose Syria’s President Assad or use increased military force in Syria and elsewhere, and stating that he looked forward to building a closer relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin, it took him exactly 77 days after being inaugurated to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles into, guess where? Syria! And guess what the pretext was for this military attack? You guessed it: Assad used a chemical attack against his own people. What was it that Yogi Berra said?
You must understand: politicians live in this encapsulated, insulated world in which it is absolutely accepted that the American people cannot remember ANYTHING past yesterday’s FOX or CNN newscasts.
For years, I have been trying to get people to understand that the key agenda driving both parties in Washington, D.C., is WAR. Neocons and neolibs are all about WAR. They can argue and wrangle about social and domestic issues as much as they want, but what unites them is WAR. When will the American people come to realize that there is just ONE PARTY in Washington, D.C.: THE WAR PARTY?
Even Democrats are not immune from the wrath of the War Party. “Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN Friday and said she's not sure Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was behind the attack. The Iraq War veteran said, ‘I'm skeptical because we have to take at a premium the cost of these wars not only on the Syrian people and the people in the middle east but the cost of these wars here in the United States.’"
No sooner than the words were out of the congresswoman’s mouth, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean fumed, "This is a disgrace. Gabbard should not be in Congress."
Don’t you see? Republican Party or Democrat Party doesn’t matter; it is the War Party calling the shots.
There is a real correlation here between Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Obama deceived his voting base into believing that he was going to change the Bush war doctrine. He was going to be the “peace” President. But after being elected, Obama ordered ten times more drone attacks than Bush. In 2016 alone, Obama dropped more than 26,000 bombs. He arranged the largest weapons deal in U.S. history to the terrorist regime of Saudi Arabia. And he deployed thousands of U.S. military forces on Russia’s doorstep in Poland. Now, Trump is doing much the same thing.
Donald Trump campaigned on a message of peace and goodwill. But he is governing completely opposite of his campaign rhetoric. He has increased Obama’s military transfers to Saudi Arabia (weapons that are being used to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Yemen). Just last month, Trump carried out more air strikes on Yemen than Obama did in all of 2016. He has increased Obama’s troop strength on Russia’s border. He has sent thousands of troops (including U.S. Special Forces, Marines, and the 82nd Airborne) into Middle Eastern countries--not to mention a massive show of naval power in the Sea of Japan. And now, he has launched a missile attack against Syria.
Acclaimed American journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote, “In the last two months, Trump has ordered a commando raid in Yemen that has massacred children and dozens of innocent people, bombed Mosul and killed scores of civilians, and bombed a mosque near Aleppo that killed dozens.” And that was BEFORE launching missiles against Syria, of course.
1. a classical US-executed false flag.
Whatever option you chose, the Syrian government is obviously and self-evidently innocent of the accusation of having used chemical weapons.
The US attack happened in direct violation of US law, of international law and of the UN charter. First, I would say that there is strong legal evidence that the US attack violated the US Constitution, Presidential War Powers Act and the 2001 Authorization of Military Force (AUMF) resolution. But since I don’t really care about this aspect of Trump’s criminal behavior, I will . . . just simply summarize the argument of those who say that what Trump did was legal. It boils down to this: “yeah, it’s illegal, but all US Presidents have been doing it for so long that they have thereby created a legal precedent which, uh, makes it legal after all”. I don’t think this kind of “defense” is worthy of a reply or rebuttal. So now let’s turn to international law.
I have no idea who “The Saker” is, but he is the only person, other than myself, that I have read who publicly acknowledges that “The Crime of Aggression” is the most serious crime any nation can commit. I reached that conclusion through my study of Natural and Revealed Law. I am guessing “The Saker” came to that conclusion via other studies, but I am proud as a peacock that he had the heart and mind to understand and speak it.
In my mind, it is no coincidence that Trump has suddenly decided to join the War Party. After Trump betrayed General Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon (signaling everyone close to him that he will quickly throw anyone under the bus no matter how loyal they are to him--and to the principles he articulated on the campaign trail--and that his word is absolutely meaningless; not to mention the fact that Flynn and Bannon were the two guys Trump appointed to ostensibly keep an eye on “the swamp”), he immediately took counsel from two of his warmongering CFR appointees, General Herbert McMaster and K.T. McFarland. And never lose sight of the fact that Zionist son-in-law Jared Kurshner is the man who, for all intents and purposes, is overseeing Trump’s entire cabinet and overall foreign policy.
Bombing Syria and escalating global military aggression is EXACTLY what Hillary Clinton would have done had she been elected President. Although, I’m not sure she would have done it as quickly as Trump. And you can count on this: if this was President Clinton bombing Syria instead of President Trump, “conservative” radio talk show hosts, websites, and publications would NOT be giving her a pass on it like they are Trump. It seems that’s why the gamemakers let neocon Republicans win elections: they are the ones who are better able to take America into hot wars. “Conservatives” will let a Bush or a Trump do in the war department what they would never let a Clinton or an Obama do. And we MUST face it: talk is indeed cheap. Donald Trump has proven that he is just another neocon warmonger.
Folks, this could get REAL serious REAL fast. Of course, it’s been serious for those poor folks in the Middle East who are the victims of both ISIS and U.S. aggression. If you are a mom or dad living in the Middle East, what difference does it make to you whether your family is killed by ISIS terrorists or American drone and missile attacks? Your family is just as dead. But this could get real serious for the people of the United States as well.
People in America think themselves impervious to the violence and bloodshed taking place all over the world: violence and bloodshed of which we are a major instigator. We are constantly told that America is the “exceptional” nation and that God would never let anything like that happen HERE. We are wrong!
God is VERY angry with the United States. The blood of over 60 million unborn babies cries out from the ground. The Zionist-led war against America’s Christian heritage has totally triumphed, leaving America in the throes of a burgeoning godless, pagan country--no better than any pagan country on earth. For the most part, our churches are little more than carnivals and our pastors carnival barkers. Our economic, education, and political systems are totally corrupt. Our news media are mere puppets and propagandists. The Gospel is thriving in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and it is dying in Western Europe and the United States. Don’t blame Muslims for the proliferation of mosques in the West; blame Christians.
From Day One, this has been my nagging concern about Donald Trump. No, Hillary Clinton was not an option. (The power elite always make sure that the real options, i.e., Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, et al., are always defeated in the primaries.) But neither is sitting back and excusing Donald Trump’s warmongering an option. The voting public did NOT elect Donald Trump so that he might continue these endless Middle Eastern wars--all fought on behalf of Israel, of course. Neither did they elect him to take us into a nuclear war with Russia.
If the voting bloc that elected Donald Trump doesn’t stand up LOUDLY and CLEARLY against Trump’s warmongering RIGHT NOW, what was 59 Tomahawk missiles raining down on Syria a few days ago could be scores of ICBMs raining down on the United States a few days from now.
P.S. We carry Major General Smedley Butler’s (USMC) outstanding book, “War Is A Racket,” in our online store. At the time, General Butler was the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. He twice received the Congressional Medal of Honor. He led several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, General Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of war.
Read this book, and you will NEVER look at war the same way again. And the book is inexpensive enough that you should get several copies for your friends.
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Hmm I wonder how much of this is the actual truth…..
Yeah this is crap. There are no real connections, and one of the transitions used was “in addition”. Sixth grade writing paired with sixth grade connections and sixth grade evidence.
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Here’s a super easy and tasty treat you can make next time the kiddos come in from the cold. Hot vanilla milk is quite a bit like hot chocolate, except (obviously!) it’s made with vanilla and it’s also way easier!
Heat a cup of milk in the microwave or on the stove until very hot. In my microwave, that’s about 1 minute. Stir in a dash of vanilla (I just pour about a cap full, it doesn’t take much) and sugar to taste (try about a teaspoon and tinker to your child’s taste, you could obviously use honey too). Stir and serve!
I have an aunt who only sends me pink things (don’t ask, and no, I don’t particularly care for pink!) and she sent me some junky pink marshmallows recently so we topped our hot vanilla milk with some of those last time. You can also go all out and dollop whipped cream on top.
For a different taste, you and the kiddos can experiment with other extracts (butterscotch, peppermint, etc.). Enjoy!
That looks delicious! I look forward to trying it!
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(This is entry that was on my MySpace Blog back in 2007. Since MySpace went nalistic and destroyed/erased the archives of all its Bloggers, I have been going thru my files, seing what I still have, and what is worth repsoting here.
One of my best long distance friends – and I do mean friend – is Rowland Croucher , who has one of the best Christian Websutes anyone is ever going to come across.
Not because I agree with everything on it – it is a fact that he’ll post some things now and then that I find quite disrurbing – but rather because it is does the job of giving voices to many of the many flavors and views, tthe diversity that exists in what some of us call t”he Body of Christ”.
Anyway, we were “talking” the other day about me putting a regular link to his Website on my Blog…and that led me to do some exploring on his site…which led me to this interesting and thought ptovoking article.
Each mind-set makes *part* of Christianity the *whole* of it.
There’s nothing wrong with the parts. But like a car, if you’ve only got parts lying around you’re not going anywhere.
Sadducees are rationalists. If your *reason* can’t comprehend something (miracles, resurrection, angels) you don’t have to believe it. Their God is very reasonable; their theology is ‘liberal’; they inhabit mainline church seminaries.
Zealots are passionate about *justice*. Justice is all about fairness, the relationship of the strong to the weak, the right use of power. Their God sanctions terrorism; their theology is ‘liberationist’; today they’re priests and others who advocate the violent overthrow of oppressive Latin American regimes.
Herodians love *power*. They climb to the top of religious institutions. Their God bestows favours on the ‘haves’ who are ‘born to rule’. They do not realize that love of power is inimical to a devout spirituality.
Scribes, elders, teachers-of-the-law regard *tradition* as master, rather than servant. Their religious way of life is ruled by precedent, what has been. ‘Come weal, come woe, their status is the quo’. If it’s new, it’s suspect. Their God is unchanging, not merely in faithfulness, but operationally.
Essenes are liturgists. ‘If only we get our *worship* right, the Messiah will come.’ Their God is ‘wholly other’. Their liturgies are exact, their worship-forms utterly predictable.
Mystics major on *experience*. They are right-brain, rejecting rationalism, cerebralism, dogmatism. For them prayer (perhaps divorced from labour) is the essence of the spiritual life. They sometimes form monastic orders.
Gnostics are syncretists. They believe there’s truth in every *religion*. They invite us to make up our own identikit picture of God. They’re at home somewhere in the New Age Movement; they develop conspiracy theories from the Dead Sea Scrolls; they love the Gospel of Thomas.
Sophists or sages place a high premium on *knowledge* or *wisdom* (they’re not the same). They develop beautiful theories about redaction criticism, whether the four gospels are ‘reliable’ when they describe what Jesus said and did. They write learned papers, which like those of their predecessors, will be seen in future academic circles to be largely nonsense.
Sign-seekers love *miracles*. With Herod (in Jesus Christ Superstar) they’d love Jesus to ‘walk across their swimming-pool.’ Their God wants everyone to be healthy, wealthy (but not necessarily wise: academia is suspect). Anything can be cured, instantly, given enough faith.
Materialists measure everything, not just *money*. The bigger, faster, more brilliant, the better. Bigger churches are better than smaller churches; brilliant preachers than ordinary ones. Success, fame, ambition, optimism, ‘imaging’ are their watch-words. They attend Amway conventions.
Do-gooders are given to paternalism. They do works of *mercy* for their own benefit, not just for the sake of the one done good to/against. Thoreau said of them, ‘If you see someone coming towards you with the object of doing you good, run for your life.’ These ‘people-helpers’ don’t realize they’re in it to solve their own problems: pure altruism is very very rare.
Antinomians despise holiness – at least for themselves in private. As the term implies, they’re ‘against law’ and misuse *grace*. ‘God loves to forgive, it’s his business’ – so they give God every opportunity to do just that.
Finally, pharisees are preoccupied with two things – *law* and *doctrine*. So they become legalists and dogmatists. They talk a lot about ‘truth’ and ‘error’. Their God is unambiguous, reducible to creeds and doctrinal statements. Their ‘gospel’: repentance precedes acceptance (with Jesus it was the other way around). The acid test: their non-concern for social justice and mercy amd true faith (Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, cf. Micah 6:8). They’re fundamentalists, and proud of it.
All the entities *emphasized* are O.K. as part of a religious system, but are deadly if divorced from any/all of the others. Jesus did not align himself with any of the above groups: go and do likewise!
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For other uses, see Polis (disambiguation).
Polis (/ˈpɒlɪs/; Greek: πόλις pronounced [pólis]), plural poleis (/ˈpɒleɪz/, πόλεις [póleːs]) literally means city in Greek. It can also mean a body of citizens. In modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". These cities consisted of a fortified city centre (asty) built on an acropolis or harbor and controlled surrounding territories of land (khôra).
The Ancient Greek city-state developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of city, state, and citizenship and persisted (though with decreasing influence) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning "citizenhood", while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity. The term "city-state", which originated in English (alongside the German Stadtstaat), does not fully translate the Greek term. The poleis were not like other primordial ancient city-states like Tyre or Sidon, which were ruled by a king or a small oligarchy, but rather political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens. The traditional view of archaeologists—that the appearance of urbanization at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis—was criticised by François Polignac in 1984[a] and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta, for example, was established in a network of villages. The term polis, which in archaic Greece meant "city", changed with the development of the governance center in the city to signify "state" (which included its surrounding villages). Finally, with the emergence of a notion of citizenship among landowners, it came to describe the entire body of citizens. The ancient Greeks did not always refer to Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and other poleis as such; they often spoke instead of the Athenians, Lacedaemonians, Thebans and so on. The body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.
The Greek term that specifically meant the totality of urban buildings and spaces is asty (ἄστυ).
Plato analyzes the polis in The Republic, whose Greek title, Πολιτεία (Politeia), itself derives from the word polis. The best form of government of the polis for Plato is the one that leads to the common good. The philosopher king is the best ruler because, as a philosopher, he is acquainted with the Form of the Good. In Plato's analogy of the ship of state, the philosopher king steers the polis, as if it were a ship, in the best direction.
Books II–IV of The Republic are concerned with Plato addressing the makeup of an ideal polis. In The Republic, Socrates is concerned with the two underlying principles of any society: mutual needs and differences in aptitude. Starting from these two principles, Socrates deals with the economic structure of an ideal polis. According to Plato, there are five main economic classes of any polis: producers, merchants, sailors/shipowners, retail traders, and wage earners. Along with the two principles and five economic classes, there are four virtues. The four virtues of a "just city" include, wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. With all of these principles, classes, and virtues, it was believed that a "just city" (polis) would exist.
Temples, altars, and sacred precincts: one or more are dedicated to the poliouchos, the patron deity of the city; each polis kept its own particular festivals and customs (Political religion, as opposed to the individualized religion of later antiquity). Priests and priestesses, although often drawn from certain families by tradition, did not form a separate collegiality or class; they were ordinary citizens who on certain occasions were called to perform certain functions.
Political life: it revolved around the sovereign Ekklesia (the assembly of all adult male citizens for deliberation and voting), the standing boule and other civic or judicial councils, the archons and other officials or magistrates elected either by vote or by lot, clubs, etc., and sometimes punctuated by stasis (civil strife between parties, factions or socioeconomic classes, e.g., aristocrats, oligarchs, democrats, tyrants, the wealthy, the poor, large, or small landowners, etc.). They practised direct democracy.
Publication of state functions: laws, decrees, and major fiscal accounts were published, and criminal and civil trials were also held in public.
Synoecism, conurbation: Absorption of nearby villages and countryside, and the incorporation of their tribes into the substructure of the polis. Many of a polis' citizens lived in the suburbs or countryside. The Greeks regarded the polis less as a territorial grouping than as a religious and political association: while the polis would control territory and colonies beyond the city itself, the polis would not simply consist of a geographical area. Most cities were composed of several tribes or phylai, which were in turn composed of phratries (common-ancestry lineages), and finally génea (extended families).
Citizens with full legal and political rights—that is, free adult men born legitimately of citizen parents. They had the right to vote, be elected into office, and bear arms, and the obligation to serve when at war.
Citizens without formal political rights but with full legal rights: the citizens' female relatives and underage children, whose political rights and interests were meant to be represented by their adult male relatives.
Citizens of other poleis who chose to reside elsewhere (the metics, μέτοικοι, métoikoi, literally "transdwellers"): though free-born and possessing full rights in their place of origin, they had full legal rights but no political rights in their place of residence. Metics could not vote or be elected to office. A liberated slave was likewise given a metic's status if he chose to remain in the polis, at least that was the case in Athens. They otherwise had full personal and property rights, albeit subject to taxation.
Slaves: chattel in full possession of their owner, and with no privileges other than those that their owner would grant (or revoke) at will.
During the Hellenistic period, which marks the decline of the classical polis, the following cities remained independent: Sparta until 195 BC after the War against Nabis. Achaean League is the last example of original Greek city-state federations (dissolved after the Battle of Corinth (146 BC)). The Cretan city-states continued to be independent (except Itanus and Arsinoe, which lay under Ptolemaic influence) until the conquest of Crete in 69 BC by Rome. The cities of Magna Graecia, with the notable examples of Syracuse and Tarentum, were conquered by Rome in the late 3rd century BC. There are also some cities with recurring independence like Samos, Priene, Miletus, and Athens. A remarkable example of a city-state that flourished during this era is Rhodes, through its merchant navy, until 43 BC and the Roman conquest.
The Hellenistic colonies and cities of the era retain some basic characteristics of a polis, except the status of independence (city-state) and the political life. There is self-governance (like the new Macedonian title politarch), but under a ruler and king. The political life of the classical era was transformed into an individualized religious and philosophical view of life (see Hellenistic philosophy and religion). Demographic decline forced the cities to abolish the status of metic and bestow citizenship; in 228 BC, Miletus enfranchised over 1,000 Cretans. Dyme sold its citizenship for one talent, payable in two installments. The foreign residents in a city are now called paroikoi. In an age when most political establishments in Asia are kingdoms, the Chrysaorian League in Caria was a Hellenistic federation of poleis.
During the Roman era, some cities were granted the status of a polis, or free city, self-governed under the Roman Empire. The last institution commemorating the old Greek poleis was the Panhellenion, established by Hadrian.
Derivatives of polis are common in many modern European languages. This is indicative of the influence of the polis-centred Hellenic world view. Derivative words in English include policy, polity, police, and politics. In Greek, words deriving from polis include politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance, and other European languages, respectively civis ("citizen"), civilisatio ("civilization"), etc., are similarly derived.
Located on the northwest coast of Cyprus is the town of Polis, or Polis Chrysochous (Greek: Πόλις Χρυσοχούς), situated within the Paphos District and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula. During the Cypro-Classical period, Polis became one of the most important ancient Cypriot city-kingdoms on the island, with important commercial relations with the eastern Aegean Islands, Attica, and Corinth. The town is also well known due to its mythological history, including the site of the Baths of Aphrodite.
Acropolis ("high city"), Athens, Greece – although not a city-polis by itself, but a fortified citadel that consisted of functional buildings and the Temple in honor of the city-sponsoring god or goddess. The Athenian acropolis was the most famous of all acropolises in the ancient Greek World and its main temple was the Parthenon, in honor of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin).
Constantinopolis or Constantinople ("Constantine's city"), the former name for Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul (derived from the Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" meaning "to the city"), Turkey.
Some cities have also been given nicknames ending with the suffix -polis, usually referring to their characteristics: Cardiff, Wales, UK, once dubbed "Terracottaopolis" due to its fame for buildings faced in terracotta, local red brickwork and ceramics.
Gallipoli, city in Apulia, Italy. It probably means "Beautiful City" (from Greek "Καλλίπολις").
^ Polignac, François (1984), La naissance de la cité grecque (in French), Paris .
^ MacDowell, Douglas Maurice (1986). The Law in Classical Athens. Cornell University Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780801493652.
^ Dmitriev, Sviatoslav (2005), City government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia minor, p. 68, ISBN 0-19-517042-3 .
^ Wilson, Nigel Guy (2006), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, p. 627, ISBN 978-0-415-97334-2, archived from the original on 2015-03-17 .
^ Howgego, Christopher; Heuchert, Volhker; Burnett, Andrew (2007), Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces, p. 158, ISBN 0-19-923784-0 .
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The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday. Online retailers fought back with Cyber Monday. Some local companies promote Small Business Saturday. It’s all about shopping. Even if you’re shopping for others, you’re still spending money –sometimes, money that you don’t have.
Let’s take back our Thanksgiving weekends. Instead of rushing out after Thanksgiving dinner to wait in line for Black Friday deals, let’s spend time with family. Instead of elbowing our way through crowds or digging through sales bins, let’s be thankful for the gifts we already have. Instead of choosing cash, debit, or credit, let’s choose to give.
You don’t have to follow the crowd to the mall; you can start your own Friday tradition. Make your own Green Friday (do something green), Red Friday (pay down credit card debt), or Purple Friday (do something creative), suggests Winona Dimeo-Ediger (there are more colorful ideas in her blog post “7 Colorful Alternatives to Black Friday“).
1. Turn off the TV and throw out the newspaper. Unless it’s something that you already intended to buy, holiday commercials and ads are trying to sell you something you probably don’t need, and may not even want once the novelty wears off. So ignore temptation.
2. Give back. Donate food, clothes, and household goods to a local charity. You will be able to clean up your pantry and closet, as well as appreciate all the things that you already have.
3. Clean up. On Sunday, December 1 at 8:30 am, join the Sierra Club to help clean-up Sandy Beach, Oahu. Meet at the eastern restroom. Wear closed-toe shoes and bring water and sunscreen. Bags and gloves will be provided.
4. Work it off. Work off the extra turkey, stuffing, gravy, and pumpkin pie. Go on a hike. Jog around the park. Swim at the beach. Paddleboard. Surf. Skateboard. On Thursday, November 28, you can join the 10-mile Turkey Trot with the Honolulu Marathon Clinic ($5 registration). On Saturday, November 30, you can hike Pu’u Ke’eke’ehia in Kula, Maui with the Maui Sierra Club (reservations required; donation requested); or take your dog on a hike along the Maunawili Ditch Trail in Waimanalo, Oahu with the Hawaiian Humane Society. On Sunday, December 1, you can hike the coastal sand-dune area of Maha`ulepu on the south shore of Kauai with the Kauai Sierra Club (donation requested); or run in the Silvia A. Martz Memorial 5K Run around Kapiolani Park in Waikiki ($15-$30 registration).
5. Get crafty. Encourage kids to make homemade cards and gifts for Christmas. Start a hobby that lets you make your own gifts, such as knitting, quilting, pottery, baking, or soap-making. On Friday, November 29, learn lau hala weaving or pua/haku lei making at Native Books/Nā Mea Hawai‘i in the Ward Warehouse in Honolulu (call Native Books at 596-8885 for details). On Saturday, November 30, learn the art of furoshiki (square fabric gift wrapping) with Evelyn Nakamura at the Manoa Public Library (RSVP required); or learn how to make a Xeric Holiday Wreath with Arthur Aiu at the Board of Water Supply’s Haleiwa Xeriscape Garden (call 748-5363; $5 registration).
6. Reach out. Call, write, or visit someone you’ve lost touch with. Whether it’s a relative, friend, neighbor, or teacher who inspired you, they will appreciate hearing from you.
7. Grow your garden. On Saturday, November 30, take a free “What’s Bugging You” workshop with Sharon’s Plants in Waimanalo, Oahu (RSVP required). On Sunday, December 1, go on a free aquaponics garden tour courtesy of Aquaponics Oahu in Aina Haina (RSVP required).
Do you enjoy the Black Friday shopping frenzy? How do you spend Thanksgiving weekend? Has the way you spend the Thanksgiving weekend changed in the past years?
I first heard about inquiry-based learning from Jessica Masterson, an English teacher at Aiea Intermediate School, who wrote an article about her rich experiences with Philosophy for Children – and the frustration and disillusionment of being forced to switch to the standards-based SpringBoard curriculum.
My son is 7 years old, and we haven’t really discussed complex issues like fairness and goodness. But after reading about Philosophy for Children, I wondered if maybe he’s not too young to think about these things. When he read the junior novelization of “Despicable Me,” I jumped on the chance to ask him questions – not just about the characters and plot, but about philosophical themes in the book.
I had a few ideas in mind: good vs. evil (Is Gru a villain? What makes someone good or evil?), family (What makes a family? Do you need to be born into a family? Can you choose your family?), priorities (What is Gru’s priority in life? Does his priority change?), and truth (What is a lie? Does Gru lie in the book? Is it okay to lie?).
Me: Is Gru a good guy or a bad guy?
Boy: Good. Bad. Good and bad. Remember when he knew that he had to save the girls, so he did?
Boy: Bad at the beginning, good at the end.
Me: Why does he change?
Boy: The girls… because he likes them and he wants to keep [sic] good care of them. They become a family.
Boy: Yes. Family will be nice to you.
Me: Is it good to have family?
Boy: Yes, because your family won’t hurt you, they will help you.
I could have taken it further, by asking: How does Gru treat the minions? Are the minions a family?
When my son wrote his book report, he ended it with this: “Gru learned that if you have a family nobody will hurt you, only help you.” If I hadn’t taken a few minutes to ask him about the book, I think he would only have remembered the shrink ray gun, the minions, and the cookie bots.
Do you think that philosophy should be taught to young children? Should we let young children enjoy movies like “Despicable Me” purely for entertainment, or should we ask them meaningful questions?
A man held the door open for me. A cashier chatted excitedly with customers, giving them her attention. A man held my arm when I felt faint, and a woman gave me a cold drink. My son wrote thank you cards for people who gave him Box Tops for his school.
November 13 is World Kindness Day. Tomorrow, and every day, let’s brighten someone’s day with small acts of kindness. Whether it’s a smile, a helping hand, or a simple thank you, we can help make the world a better place.
* Do an anonymous act of kindness – and leave a smile card behind.
* Give a kindness card. Spread some nice around with a kindness note or thank you card.
* Write an “Acts of Kindness” list. Instead of giving kids a list of rules, work with them to create their own list of ways they can be kind to each other.
* Create a kindness banner. Hang a large banner at the front of the school, and invite students, teachers, and parents to share their kindness stories.
* Start a kindness journal (or blog). Write down the kindnesses in your life – the ways you have been kind to people, and how others have been kind to you. You can even publish a book of kindnesses!
* Take the “Be Kind Kid” pledge. Pledge to be encouraging, be supportive, be positive, be helpful, be honest, be considerate, be thankful, be responsible, be respectful, and be a friend. Sponsored by the Be Kind People Project, it’s a way to inspire classroom kindness.
* Start a Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Club. Be inspired to start (or join) a kindness-related student organization, and perform at least one random act of kindness each week. Share your kindnesses with others.
Aesop wrote, “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” What acts of kindness brighten your day? What acts of kindness will you do to brighten someone else’s day?
On October 29, Marilyn Travenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, began her testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee with an apology: “I want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should.” Like everyone else, she had previously assured Congress and the nation that Healthcare.gov was ready to launch on October 1.
I admire Travenner and Sebelius for their apologies, but I would like to call on more lawmakers and government leaders to take responsibility for both the government shutdown as well – and the promises that were made about the Healthcare Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590). Admitting your mistakes is part of the healing process for our country. It’s one way to regain some of the public’s respect.
Here are just a few things I’d like to hear from our government leaders, with sincerity and humility.
What could our government leaders say that would start to regain your trust? What would you like to hear from our president and elected representatives?
With these words, in the first chapter titled “Red Nail Polish,” I was drawn into the life and words of elementary school teacher and poet Frances H. Kakugawa. They told me so much about her: that she has a sense of humor, a touch of rebellion, a desire for glamour, and a determination to make choices in her life.
Despite these humorous observations, Kakugawa’s lifelong teaching started with her love of children and is strengthened by her love of words. She shares her experiences and insights about teaching in Hawaii and Michigan elementary schools, as well as the children and their writings that taught her to be a better teacher.
She reveals that “A person who explores herself with turn her class room into one of exploration of new ventures and a safe place for learning” (page 4). Some of the memorable lessons for teachers (and parents): * Good teachers enjoy children. * Good teachers ask “How do students learn?” * Good teachers are honest with older students, acknowledging that sometimes students will not be treated equally (because of special needs or family situations). * Good teachers trust children to make decisions about their education.
She cautions that a good lesson plan doesn’t guarantee learning – “Rather, it is the involved and interested interaction between our students and the lesson plans that makes for good learning, with the students taking lead” (page 10).
Kakugawa was not afraid to acknowledge that sometimes teachers cannot treat every student the same. On the first day of school, she would tell her sixth grade students: “As your teacher, I have information about each of you which the rest of you don’t know about. Because of this information, there will be times when I will not be able to treat you equally and I will sometimes appear to have a teacher’s pet. I won’t be able to be fair all the time” (page 23).
Throughout the book she reveals her love for children, reading, and words. For Kakugawa, poetry is like using words to help blind people see. It lets students explore feelings rather than ignoring them, and teachers should encourage them to write from their own experiences and feelings. Journals can create strong relationships between a teacher and students, if they write honestly and the teacher can offer privacy when the students need it.
Kakugawa used journal writing to foster two kinds of relationships with her students: group relationships, in which she saw the students as a whole and developed mutual group respect; and individual relationships, in which she fostered personal, interactions and a respect for their privacy.
Her writing is informal, sprinkled with short poems and journal conversations with students that tell us so much about her: that she loves children, that she is hopeful and generous, that she approaches teaching with honesty and fun, that she is open to the things that children can teach us. It was gratifying to read the words of students Kakugawa has inspired and kept in touch with over the years. And I loved Arthur T. Bear, who sat in the Author’s Chair in Kakugawa’s classroom, and inspired notes, stories, and poems, and even the Bearshop Estate condominium.
Kakugawa reminds us all to notice the many magical, golden moments that happen between teacher and students (or parents and children), which might otherwise be ignored. “My wish for you is that you not only enjoy reading about these children but, best of all, come to the realization that if you will let it happen, ‘by the children you’ll be taught.’” You can find out more about Frances H. Kakugawa and read her blog at http://francesk.org.
You are currently browsing the Better Hawaii weblog archives for November 2013.
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Google is extending its warning for non secure sites – those served via http an not https.
From October 2017 any forms submitted via the latest version of the chrome browsers that use http will flag any fields as not secure.
It should look like the above images what the efect will be is as yet unkown many sites have over 30% or users using chrome and obvisly not all chrome users will update to the latest version.
The soulution is to switch to usig https for at least all your forms though it might be an idea to convert the entire site.
Next Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne actual play.
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Your wedding should be special, but if you set your expectations too high, you will find yourself spending more than you can afford to. You can have a great wedding AND keep your budget under control. Utilize the advice contained here, it will help you stay on top of your wedding expenses and still have the day you have dreamed of.
Is there anything more stressful–yet very exciting–than planning a wedding for yourself or a loved one? Well, you have come to the right place! This piece will show you some great tips and ideas to make planning a wedding easier and allow you to create some great memories that will be with you always.
Weddings are a magical time in which a couple cements their love for each other. Planning dreams can become nightmares all too easily. This advice will reduce the severity of the planning process.
The right wedding dress can be quite expensive. When shopping for your dress, consider dresses that may not be categorized as a wedding dress. For example, a bridesmaid dress is typically much less expensive and may be just what you’re looking for. You can also make additions and changes to these dresses to make them more wedding appropriate and still come out ahead financially.
Planning a wedding can be a wonderful and romantic time, but it also brings a lot of challenges and stress into the relationship. There is so much to plan, such as the cake, the flowers, the venue, that it can all be overwhelming at times. This article will provide you with some suggestions on how to improve your organization, and reduce your stress during the wedding planning process.
One way you can cut hundreds of dollars from your wedding budget is by purchasing your wedding gown online. However, make sure you do this early enough that there is time to make any needed alteration to the gown. Even though a gown can be fairly cheap, having it altered to fit your perfectly can sometimes be more costly. Keep in mind any additional costs, and include it in your budget.
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Although local laws do not enforce strict standards for classifying them, generally urban townships have a larger population and more business and industry than rural townships, but not to the extent of county-controlled cities. Under townships, there is still the village as the fourth or basic level of administration.
As of 2017, there are totally 184 townships in Taiwan, including 38 urban townships, 122 rural townships and 24 mountain indigenous townships. Penghu and Lienchiang are the only two counties that do not have urban townships.
Zhudong, an urban township in Hsinchu County.
Jiadong, a rural township in Pingtung County.
Jianshi, a mountain indigenous township in Hsinchu County.
Township names are now transliterated using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system without tone marks. Note that the county names do not necessarily use Hanyu Pinyin or special case such as Lukang.
Colors indicate the common language status of Formosan languages, Hakka or Matsu dialect within each division.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Townships in Taiwan.
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We got off the train in Sturova, on the border of Slovakia. I was very excited about the idea of walking across the Danube into Hungary. So trudged along, behind the group of course, at the pace my silly legs can only carry me for the best part of an hour. The train was divided into compartments of 6 seats each with its own door and heating that seven of us had squeezed into.
It was a curious notion for me that on one side of the river was one country and on the other, another. That too, on one side of the river people spoke one language and used one currency and on the other a different language and a different currency. For a mile of the walk towards the river there were numerous places offering currency exchanges. Not only were there banks and Bureau de Change, but ramshackle little sheds at the side of the road with hand written exchange rates and someone sitting behind a window listening to the football. There was also no border control, no passport check (thank god cos I had forgotten mine) nothing very obvious other than a sign about half way across the bridge with the Hungarian flag on it. This puzzles me slightly, and maybe my ignorance will become apparent in the next sentence, but you can travel freely around Europe, moving across borders with little to worry about unless you forget that the currency has changed. But you can’t even consider entering the UK in the same way.
So the town itself was pleasant enough, although unfortunately blanketed with mist and drizzled with rain. We were surprisingly hard pushed to find a restaurant to eat in, and there were few shops open or people on the streets. I wondered if we had crossed a time zone too, as I was certain it was Saturday and couldn’t understand where everyone was. Restaurant chosen, seven of us poured over the menu hungry and eager to try Hungarian cuisine. Unfortunately it seemed that all the people we hadn’t seen earlier must’ve had an early lunch in our restaurant and eaten everything on the menu! I tried, with my little phrasebook to order my food in Hungarian, but was answered, as I so often am, in perfect English. Most of us half way through pronouncing what we’d like were interrupted with a wag of the finger and “no”. So my final choice was pork medallions, cooked in a tomato sauce with “Hungarian” potatoes. All our dishes were served in a clay casserole pot of metal dish like a mini paella.
A trek up some slippery wooden steps led us to the Basilica which loomed majestically over the city and the Danube. Inside the beautiful domed roof was painted in gold with intricate carvings. The area and the views around the Basilica were obscured by the mist, leaving us with a somewhat eerie view of the city. Some group photos were taken before realising that it was time to make the trek back to the train. This seemed to take over an hour, in the rain now and when we finally slumped into our seats, it’s fair to say we were all exhausted.
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After leaving San Antonio we drove to Waco, Texas. We stayed at North Crest RV Park. A very nice, quiet campground, with a super owner, Mark. He checked you in, gave you a site where your satellite would work and even helped you park. We liked it so much, we stayed 2 days.
I had always wanted to visit Magnolia Farms, the home of Chip and Joanna Gaines from the TV show. So we got up early and drove into downtown Waco to see what it was like. It is a very touristy property. The stores reminded me of being in a Williams and Sonoma, and the prices were about the same. The only thing we bought were 2 cupcakes, from the Bakery. They were very good – mine was a lemon lavendar and John’s was crusted coconut.
From Waco, we drove directly to Motorhomes of Texas, in Nacogdouches, Texas, to have service done on our rig. We got here Friday and are able to stay free. Our service appointment is Monday and since Sunday is Easter, we got here early to get settled.
We spent every day with Cookie and Frank at their nice house in San Antonio. They have been our best friends for 10+ years and we have missed them since they moved to Texas.
While in San Antonio we stayed at a campground that Cookie found for us. We stayed there one week. It was Green Tree Village.
The last night in San Antonio we went out with Cookie, Frank, Lance and Melissa, friends of their’s from the place they live. Lance is a retired Police officer from VA so he and John had lots of stores to compare.
This was our favorite Mexican Restaurant, Taqueria Lago De Chapala Jalisco; we ate there 3 times. We even had breakfast there the last day, with Cookie and Frank, as we left San Antonio.
We arrived in San Antonio on April 10, 2019, for a week. We have been spending time with our friends, Cookie and Frank, who used to live in Murrietta, CA but moved to Texas 9 months ago.
On Saturday they took us to the world famous Buc-ees! What an experience. It has 50 gas filling tanks and is huge. Buc-ees was started in Texas in the 1990’s and has 40 establishments in Texas and is expanding into Alabama.
After visiting Buc-ees we went to Black’s Family Barbeque in New Braunfels. We had eaten at Black’s 10 years ago when it was in Luling, but they opened a new one here so decided to try it. It was as good as we remembered.
This recreational area is on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville. It was originally a Texas State park developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935 and 1937, and the state transferred the park to the City of Kerrville in 2004. While there we drove into Kerrville, which is a nice sized city, and to Comfort, which is a very small town.
Next stop, San Antonio to visit friends, Cookie and Frank, who moved here from Murrietta, CA. 10 months ago.
Leaving Junction we traveled through Eden and Brady on our way to Llano. Basically we are following the Hill Country Trail. In Llano we stayed at the Riverway RV Park for 4 days and drove around the area, also to Marble Falls, Georgetown, and Kingsland . Driving around we saw the beautiful wildflowers all along the roads.
When in Llano we ate at Inman Barbeque, which is famous for the turkey sausage. Several nights later we ate at Coopers Barbeque, where we had eaten 10 years ago when we traveled the Barbeque Trail in Texas.
From Llano we headed to Black Rock Park, on Lake Buchanan. This was another scenic, quiet park. We stayed there 2 nights. Again we drove around the the other side of Lake Buchanan.
From Lake Buchanan, we traveled to Blanco State Park, in Blanco, Texas. This is a very nice park, with lots of trees. We stayed there 2 nights. Then, because on weekends it is impossible to find a campsite, we went back to Llano and the Riverway RV Park. They had a cancellation so we were able to stay there Friday and Saturday nights.
The next morning we left for Kerrville, where we are staying at the Kerrville-Schreiner City Park for 3 days. I will post pictures on my next blog entry.
We left Jojoba Hills on March 12 for a 7 month trip. Our first stop was the Escapade in Tucson, Arizona, where we served on staff. We were the lead Customer Service crew, and with another couple, checked in latecomers, people who were not registered, and those that wanted to come in earlier than they paid for. We had a great time there and saw lots of friends from previous years, and many Jojobians. We left there on March 23, and spent the first night at Dream Catcher, the Escapee park in Deming, NM.
From there we traveled to Van Horn, Texas, and stayed at Desert Willow RV Park, which was a Passport America park. It was OK; nothing great. Leaving there, John noticed some wear on one of our tires, so we headed Freightliner, in El Paso, to have the tires rotated. It was late in the day when they finished, so headed back to Desert Willow RV Park for the night..
The next morning we headed out for Ft. Stockton, Texas. We stayed in a really nice campground called Ft. Stockton Hilltop RV. Very clean and quiet, with great views.
From Ft. Stockton we traveled to Junction City to a city park that we had stayed in 10 years ago. They had major flooding several months ago and you couldn’t get near the water. This was a free campsite, though, and very quiet even thought there were several rigs there. An RV park across the river was completely washed out from the floods. I have a picture of what our site looked like.
Ten years ago you could walk right down to the water.
Not many pictures on this post but I promise to get better.
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The star ship Voyager is a federation research ship.
It was lost during the chase of a Marquee ship.
the Marquee crew only too survive, stay alive and travel home.
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I get the feeling that this film might've been advertised as a comedy, but yes, it does border on some serious issues that should be acknowledged.
Still, there are several scenes in WHITEBOYS that had me busting up, most notably Flip's daydreaming sequences, which has him imagining about being accepted by urban thugs just because he's "down" with hip-hop.
Overall,I ended up being impressed by this film. Well acted, well written, and well filmed. I would'nt mind catching it again!
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Telecommunications in Fiji include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
13 AM, 40 FM, and no shortwave stations (1998).
Fiji TV, a publicly traded company on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, operates a free to air channel ever since its inception in 1994.
Radio is a key source of information, particularly on the outer islands. There are publicly and privately owned stations. State-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation operates Fijian-language Radio Fiji One, Hindi-language Radio Fiji Two, music-based Bula FM, Hindi station Mirchi FM, and music-based 2day FM.
Communications Fiji Limited, a public listed company on the South Pacific Stock Exchange was established in 1996 and is located in 231 Waimanu Road, Suva. It broadcasts English speaking stations FM96 and LegendFM on 96.2FM and 98.6FM respectively, Fijian language station, VitiFM, Navtarang and Radio Sargam - Hindi speaking stations. The BBC World Service broadcasts on 88.2 FM in the capital, Suva.
Under the military government's Media Decree, the directors and 90 percent of the shareholders of locally based media must be citizens of, and permanently resident in, the country. The Fiji Media Industry Development Authority is responsible for enforcing these provisions. The authority has the power to investigate journalists and media outlets for alleged violations of the decree, including powers of search and seizure of equipment.
A code of ethics contained in the Media Decree requires that all stories run by the media be balanced, with comment obtained from both sides where there is any disagreement on the facts. This requirement enables government departments and private businesses to prevent stories from being published by not responding to media questions, thus making it impossible for the media to fulfill the decree's requirement for comment from both sides. However, media sources report that if the story is positive toward the government, the balance requirement could be ignored without consequence.
A public payphone in Fiji, c. 2010.
112,500 lines in use (2005).
Telephone system: modern local, interisland, and international (wire/radio integrated) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities; regional radio communications center; telephone or radio telephone links to almost all inhabited islands; most towns and large villages have automatic telephone exchanges and direct dialing; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 100 per 100 persons (2011).
Communications cables: Southern Cross Cable, links to the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia; Vanuatu-Fiji Interchange Cable (2014); Tonga-Fiji cable (planned).
Satellite earth station: 2 Inmarsat (Pacific Ocean) (2011).
114,200 users, 157th in the world (2009).
Fixed broadband: 13,734 subscriptions, 142nd in the world; 1.5% of the population, 133rd in the world (2012).
Wireless broadband: 96,277 subscriptions, 118th in the world; 10.8% of the population, 89th in the world (2012).
Internet hosts: 21,739 hosts, 115th in the world (2012).
IPv4: 134,656 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 151.3 addresses per 1000 people (2012).
The Internet is widely available and used in and around urban centers, but its availability and use are minimal or nonexistent outside these areas.
The government in a parliament sitting on March 15, 2018 passed a bill known as the Online Safety Bill to the Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights that was tabled in the Parliament of Fiji to enforce tougher restrictions on those that may share explicit photos of individuals on social media or spread anti- government remarks as well.
Currently, there are no government restrictions on general public access to the Internet, but evidence suggests that the government monitors private e-mails of citizens as well as Internet traffic in an attempt to control antigovernment reports by anonymous bloggers.
The country has operated under a military-led government since 2006 and has had no constitution or functioning parliament since 2009. A series of decrees have been issued, including the Public Order Amendment Decree (POAD), the Media Decree, and the Crime Decree.
By decree all telephone and Internet service users must register their personal details with telephone and Internet providers, including their name, birth date, home address, left thumbprint, and photographic identification. The decree imposes fines of up to F$100,000 ($56,721) on providers who continue to provide services to unregistered users and up to F$10,000 ($5,672) on users who do not update their registration information as required. Vodafone, one of two mobile telephone providers, also requires users to register their nationality, postal address, employment details, and both thumbprints.
The POAD gives the government the power to detain persons on suspicion of "endangering public safety or the preservation of the peace"; defines terrorism as any act designed to advance a political, religious, or ideological cause that could "reasonably be regarded" as intended to compel a government to do or refrain from doing any act or to intimidate the public or a section thereof; and makes religious vilification and attempts to sabotage or undermine the economy offenses punishable by a maximum F$10,000 ($5,672) fine or five years’ imprisonment. The Media Decree prohibits "irresponsible reporting" and provides for government censorship of the media. The Crimes Decree includes criticism of the government in its definition of the crime of sedition, including statements made in other countries by any person, who can be prosecuted on return to Fiji. The government uses the threat of prosecution under these provisions to intimidate government critics and limit public criticism of the government. Journalists and media organizations practice varying degrees of self-censorship, with many reportedly fearing retribution if they criticize the government.
In May 2007 it was reported that the military in Fiji had blocked access to blogs critical of the regime.
In 2012 police investigated former University of the South Pacific (USP) professor Wadan Narsey, a prominent Fijian economist and long-time critic of the military government, for alleged sedition in writings published on his personal blog.
The POAD permits military personnel to search persons and premises without a warrant from a court and to take photographs, fingerprints, and measurements of any person. Police and military officers may enter private premises to break up any meeting considered unlawful.
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.fj Domain Name Registry, at The University of the South Pacific.
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Hill House offers an alternative to those who, for whatever reason, are not able to be cared for at home, but who do not wish to die in a hospital or institutional setting.
deemed to have a life expectancy of less than one month.
Referrals will be accepted from attending physicians, hospitals, homes for the aged, community hospice organizations, other health care professionals or family members.
Prospective residents who are able and/or their families will be required to visit the house. They will receive an orientation package that describes the care provided and will have an opportunity to ask any questions they have. Prospective residents and their families must understand and agree to accept the level of care offered at Hill House Hospice before they are added to the waiting list.
The Executive Director will be responsible for determining whether prospective residents meet the established criteria.
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In Sunday’s paper, Carl Nolte dedicated his “Native Son” column to Geary Street’s pair of classic hofbraus: Lefty O’Doul near Union Square and Tommy’s Joynt on Van Ness Avenue.
“A place for the working man,” said Nick Bovis, who owns Lefty’s. Also a place for tourists, folks from small towns in Iowa and big cities in Japan, who have trouble navigating the city’s high-end restaurants. They find a slice of the old San Francisco, a town where everybody was somebody’s cousin.
Makes you wonder why no one has tried to update the hofbrau genre, eh?
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A fragrance hitherto unknown, tingling my five senses.
Speckles of love, dancing all around.
Filling my soul with droplets of your feelings.
Of a love so sweet, delicate and sublime.
Nor felt like a feathery touch so achingly soft.
Merci Gyslaine. Et je trouve tres beau vos poemes.
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For the Championships in Madrid this year, those who participate in the Referee Course and pass examination will be able to officiate in the World Championships as confirmation event. Those who do not pass will only be authorized to do so in the case they show the necessary 2PL + 1SA in 3 continents in 2018.
For those officials going to Madrid for the license renewal (written examination), they will be able to do the renewal, but will only be able to officiate the Championships if they have participated in 2PL + 1SA in 3 continents during 2018; the same for 2019.
Officials that want to do the license renewal in 2020, have to officiate in the 2019 World Championships (not applicable when it is the confirmation event after passing the referee course examination). For 2021 and onwards in order to be able to do the license renewal, Officials have to participate in at least 1 World Championships after the last license renewal.
We are confident that these measures will allow us to keep the top quality required from all of us and as an Olympic sport we have the vocation to stay in the Olympic Games beyond Tokyo.
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That a DSLR camera makes a sea of difference to your life is no exaggeration. My recent trip to the beautiful hill-town of Madikeri exemplified this and more. This was not my first visit. I have been here innumerable times mostly during my childhood. This was were my grandmom stayed for a good 20 years of her life, reason enough for me and other kids in the family to spend many memorable school vacations complete with games and story-telling. Little would I have known then that my fairy tale land would one day turn to a photographic haven.
I woke up early one Sunday morning before the crack of dawn to trek all the way to Raja’s Seat, Madikeri’s most famous tourist spot. The idea was to capture the sunrise but sadly I was a tad late. However, the walk uphill made up for the disappointment in a large way. The air was filled with a mélange of fragrances. The faint drizzle added to the romance of the surroundings. Every now and then Magpie Robins broke into a song. At a distance the rooster crowed, “kookra-a-koo ku”, not once but thrice. There were so many sparrows chirping around. The road was lined with dwellings large and small, some old others trendy. All along, there were narrow mud roads wet because of the incessant drizzles. The 4-km walk was simply out of the world. And to add to all the nature’s treats was a soft-as-satin breeze blowing against my face.
I looked everywhere except at my watch so I wouldn’t be able to say for how long I had walked before I eventually reached Raja’s Seat. There were a lot of people at the park. I could see joggers, walkers, and a lot of tourists. The flowers were wet and looked fresh and pretty. They stood out against the lush greenery. Birds chirped and sang in concert.
As I approached the Raja’s Seat, the air smelt sweeter. The sight of clouds kissing the mountains was breathtaking. Once upon a time, this was where the erstwhile Rajas of Kodagu (Coorg) spent a lot of time enjoying nature and watching the emerald mountains and blue skies.
A group of tourists had completely let their hair down running around trying to catch each other, some others were playing musical chair and then there was a group tugging at each others shirts and saree pallus reciting “Fire in the Mountain, run run run …”. Perhaps the beauty of the surroundings had driven them nuts.
A good half-an-hour later, I made my way back. This time my walk was downhill. The experience was similar to my walk uphill. I felt like in heaven.
A week later, the songs of the magpie robins linger in my mind. I can still smell the fragrances of the flowers. The mountains of Coorg are a great place to be in summer!
Through his illustration-laden coffee table book “Bangalore – Swinging in the 70s”, artist Paul Fernandes has paid a very colourful and apt tribute to the 70s’ laid-back life in one of India’s finest cities. Complementing the delightful illustrations is the eloquent text with lots of humour thrown in for good measure.
The book vividly describes how life was in Bangalore’s Cantonment area as seen through the author’s eyes from his large bungalow on Pottery Road where he spent his childhood, his daily commutes to school and college, visits to the market place, theatre and more. A highlight is the page of contents. The author has deviated from the usual list style and instead laid out the titles across an illustrated map of the Cantonment area.
The 70s in Bangalore was when bell bottoms were in vogue, TV was not heard of, visits to a theatre a celebration of sorts, riding through the roads on a cycle was a pleasure, and cops wore parachute shorts and extremely tall hats that would be dislodged by mischievous school boys. The city then had a sizeable Anglo-Indian population. Those were the days when policemen were paid to grow handle-bar moustaches. Sparrows were in plenty and had nests in almost all homes. The majority of the roads in the city were lined with trees. Throughout the year, trees were in bloom at some part of the city thanks to the efforts of botanist extraordinaire Gustav Krumbiegel.
Chapters on Victoria Hotel fondly referred to by the author as Old Vic, Dewar’s Bar near Bamboo Bazaar and Hotel Udyavan on MG Road will make one feel very sad and wonder why these popular age-old edifices had to go. The references to the oil-bodied mango thieves of the 70s is very cute. It goes without saying that Paul Fernandes has a flashbulb memory.
Being a 70s’ child, the book made me feel nostalgic of the Bangalore of my childhood and flooded my mind with lovely memories.
“Bangalore – Swinging in the 70s” makes for wonderful reading. A must-buy if not a must-read for all Bangaloreans especially the ones who have been here since the 70s!
The best place to buy the book would be at Paul Fernandes’ gallery Apaulogy in Richards Town, one of the few localities in Bangalore which still has an old-world charm. If lucky you could get to meet the man behind the book. And of course you could spend time looking at the amazing illustrations on view. The book is priced at INR 2600 and I must say worth every rupee.
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^ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Goldberg, Matt. THE EXPENDABLES 3 Begins Filming; Synopsis Released; Cage, Chan, Rourke, and Jovovich Absent from Cast List. Collider. August 19, 2013 [August 19, 2013]. （原始内容存档于2013-08-19）.
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In seeking to establish the Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies (MCCS) the Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network brings together academics across the University of Manchester and beyond, with the goal of consolidating the work already done and further encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation and discussion. The Centre will also bring librarians and archivists further into the conversation in order to foster exchanges regarding description standards and best working practices. Finally, it aims to promote the study of correspondence as a key research tool across the university and beyond, to enhance the dissemination and impact of research current and future research, as well as train and grow the next generation of scholars working with correspondence.
The Centre maintains strong links with the John Rylands Research Institute; the rich collections of correspondence at the John Rylands Library are one of Manchester’s strengths in the study of that medium. Collections range from ancient cuneiform tablets and papyri, to contemporary email archives; from small collections of little-known figures such as the 32 letters of the artist William Artaud, to large collections of well-known individuals and organisations such as the Guardian Archive. There are numerous projects that work with the Special Collections at the John Rylands Library, such as the Mary Hamilton papers led by David Denison, but also several which deal with correspondence more broadly, such as the AHRC funded project on Ancient Letter Collections (2016-2021) led by Roy Gibson and Andrew Morrison. Building on the success of these and other projects, the MCCS looks forward to working with researchers from the University of Manchester, and beyond, to develop correspondence projects both linked to the rich Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library, and also those examining a wider range of correspondence from a different disciplinary and methodological perspectives.
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I've been collecting off and on while I've been traveling. Here's what I have to date. Also, just checked milage. As of today, we've done 2,229 miles across the country from Moscow to Beaumont. Final milage is going to be around 3280-something, so not quite as long as estimated when we were initially planning this.
Okay, I've got it unlocked to public view for you.
I had fun collecting them. I'm surprised at some of them, honestly. I think I was sleep-collecting.
I did, too, I think. A couple of them weren't *that* obvious.
It would! Getting on for 800 miles less than you thought is cause for celebation! Or a smile, anyway. Celebrating is too tiring!
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My mother passed away a few years ago from Alsheimer’s. The last couple of years she didn’t recognize anyone, and had returned to her parents’ home living with her two older sisters and her parents. Her younger brother and sister hadn’t yet been born. Sad, yet she at times found joy with her “family” of old.
Thanks for sharing and I’m sorry for your loss. I have had multiple family members with the disease and yes, they did return as well to their youth. It’s not an easy journey for any of us in this position. Not the elderly with the disease nor the caregivers. It is sad, but it also reinforces to me the benefits of being in the moment aka The Presents of Presence. Have a lovely week Michael.
At least they are all free from this now. So many stories like this, far too many. It is another health condition that seems to fatten a few bank accounts and empty most everyone else’s. People shouldn’t have to go through this! I hope someday Western Medicine will get beyond the profit from misery modality. Hugs to you Misifusa and your enormous and compassionate heart.
This is an amazing story that I needed to see. My Dad is in the beginning stages of dementia and it’s very sad to watch. It seems so unfair.
It sounds like Molly was an incredible person, and so is her son. I guarantee you that she does know what’s going on and she sees what she has created and the people she has and continues to benefit.
Sorry, Misifusa, I am on vacation and on the iPad and don’t have the control that I would normally have if on my computer … I just wanted to add that Joey’s message also touched me. The part of the video that resonated with me where Joey mentioned that his Mother would not let the Alzheimer’s define her life, and he can carry that with him as he continues his own personal journey … thank you for sharing his message.
I had just begun to watch your videos with your beautiful mom and am truly sorry that she has passed. Lost our mom two years ago, not from dementia but from stroke complications that limited her speech and swallowing. Still spent everyday with her doing as much as we could to brighten her days as much as she brightened our lives. Even so we still feel we hadn’t done enough but I know in my heart that she knew how much she was loved and appreciated. You were lucky to have your mom but I am sure she was even more lucky to have you! I wish you peace and comfort in the years ahead and please continue to become the man she brought you up to be….a kind, caring, loving son and friend to so many others who were encouraged by your strength and devotion! May her love surround you and your family every day! Thank you for all you did and continue to do for so many!
Angela, what a lovely share to Joey! I hope he reads this. I heartily agree with you. I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of your mom. ♥ I am sure you brightened her days simply by your caring and kindness. You are a great daughter!
I’ve watched every episode and fell in love with your precious mother. Thank you for sharing her and helping others to learn just what Dementia slowly takes ones memory. I’m so sorry for your loss, but happy that Molly is free from this horrible illness. She will always look after you all. You will always feel her presence. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. God Bless You!
Thank you for your kind words. I do hope that Joey will see this post and see all of the support and love that is sent to him after his mom’s passing…God Bless You too!
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The 9th Street Bridge in Des Moines is the first bridge in Iowa that uses a unique integral abutment design. The integral abutments are supported on steel H-piles that are embedded into concrete drilled shafts, which are seated in glacial clay. This unique design was developed in an effort to address environemental concerns–namely vibrations from pile driving–while also providing a long-lasting stucture in the form of a jointless bridge. Although this innovative work is promising, it is unproven and will not become a common option unless adequate testing and monitoring are performed to validate design and behavior assumptions. A total of three pile/shaft elements will be instrumented and monitored over a minimum two-year period.
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That is the connection to Dadri – for the man they murdered was Mr. Mohammad Akhlaq, 50 years old, a blacksmith and a Muslim. While he was resting at home with his family, so the accounts go, an accusation was made in a nearby Hindu temple that he had killed a calf and consumed its flesh. The cow being holy to Hindus, this outraged the faithful, and they found their way to his home, dragged him out of bed, and beat him to death with bricks and sticks. They also attacked his son, and the female members of his family. The men who murdered him were probably not scholars of Arndt, but they would have agreed with his ideas on freedom, for is India not their land, and are not the Muslims outsiders, with foreign ways? In their romantic view of ancient India, cows were treasured, and slaughtering them quite unthinkable. When they heard of Mr. Akhlaq’s alleged transgression, they decided that mercilessly beating him and his family would pave the way to a return to a nobler age. They dispensed with contemptible innovations such as due process, tolerance, privacy, and respect for human dignity. The rumor of a basic value of the community being outraged is reminiscent of Göring’s goons who spread tales of the ritual killing of (Christian) children by Jews as part of a vilification campaign that resulted in loot and murder.
Mr. Akhlaq is beyond our help. His death is yet another warning that we may not stay silent, not just when the mob is gathering in an unknown provincial town, but when we hear the intolerant remarks at the breakfast table in our own homes. Quite harmless remarks, and everyone is entitled to an opinion, surely, and it is tiresome to have a political debate over a casual utterance. Yet every unchallenged remark disparaging a certain group of humans confirms a certain antagonistic weltanschauung, and someone will pay with blood. Surely, this we have learnt.
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A few of our LillyBits have become little celebrities! We thought this page would be just the place to brag about our little dogs getting noticed!
Pablo was featured on cuteoverload.com as a puppy! Pablo is a Maggie son and we have to agree he is super cute!
Pablo on Cute Overload! <—— Click here to see his original debut!
Miss Katie Begonia ran into a popular Seattle blogger, needleplusthread.com, at Starbucks. Of course, she had to take a picture of Katie for her blog. She called her the cutest little Ewok. LillyBits are often mistaken for Ewoks ;).
Katie on Needleplusthread.com <————– Click here to see Katie’s little moment in the spotlight!
When Pablo was featured on cuteoverload.com, what ensued afterward in an onslaught of folks contacting us for their very own Pablo, we still fondly call “Pablomania”. We weren’t surprised when a little local paper called the Puget Sound Business Journal featured him. I think it was a combination of bring your pet to work day and his owner’s adorable write up!
Read Pablo’s adorable write up on PSBJ <—————- See Pablo at work by clicking here!
Fletcher and Bayley are very special to their owners. So special that they walked down the aisle in their owners wedding. Now this makes Fletcher and Bayley celebrities in our book, so we could not leave them out, because they are certainly the talk of the wedding!
Some dogs are just Wallyriffic. It wasn’t long before cuteoverload.com featured another Lillybit! Wally made his debut in January. Wally is cute an absolute overload of it, all packed into a sweet little eleven pound package!
Wally on cuteoverload.com <—— Click here to see Wally!
Pablomania on Pinterest! Pablo’s cuteoverload.com debut… the first one we mentioned, well anyhoo, someone pinned that picture on Pinterest. Pablo was an overnight viral Pinterest sensation. Last we checked he was over 8,000 pins.
Who knows what is next, but it was fun to see our puppies published here and there. I am biased. I think they are the cutest and sweetest dogs around.
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Sartaqin (Persian: سرطاقين, also Romanized as Sarţāqīn; also known as Sartaghin and Sarţāqī) is a village in Amjaz Rural District, in the Central District of Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
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Thoughts on Culture – pt.1 – What’s in a Name?
As I sit and write my Thesis, I am constantly having to backtrack and rethink what I am doing. This reexamination is not a result of my arguably (read: “definitely”) terrible lack of ability to spell, nor is it particularly a result of any primal urge to proof-read. Instead, I am regularly uncertain as to what my position is on the whole matter of “culture”, in which my current project deals heavily. The chapter I am currently writing seeks to examine the concept of culture within a National Socialist context. Perhaps it would be best to frame this thought within the greater work of my project.
My Thesis work looks to examine the relationship between time and cultural (for my purposes, “history”) and state-sponsored architectural works within the National Socialist regime. Specifically I want to suggest that the building projects of the National Socialists reflect their unique relationship to historical consciousness. My project covers three aspects of this relationship: the aesthetics of the early to mid 1900s, the National Socialists’ understanding of time, and the conceptions of culture then and now. Currently I am working on the latter of these points.
Back to my consternation. The primary issue I am currently having is wrangling with the concept of culture as a unique and definable thing. For my project I would like to put forth the idea that the ways in which the National Socialists understood themselves as existing within a specific historical ideal and expressed this idea through their architectural works denotes them as the holders of a very specific and uniquely National Socialist culture. I will have an entire chapter dedicated to arguing that the aesthetics of their architecture reinforce this argument (of which I am fairly confident in myself), as well as a chapter on the perceptions of time (which requires the completion of this thought to proceed). Where I am at odds is on the point of a “unique culture”. My problem here is that I myself, as an historian and a thinking assemblage of skin-and-fat, have a very (read: “VERY”) hard time believing that the term “culture” really implies anything worthy of its own word. My feelings on this subject, I have found, are exceedingly hard for me to communicate, particularly with anything beyond wild hand-gestures, grunts, and chirrups. This being said, I’m going to take a risk and try anyway.
I should preface this part of the discussion by first noting that I am coming at this from a very specific background: I am white, identify as a heterosexual male, and am from the higher-end of the lower-class of a western country. I am a university-educated history major who studies an extremely specific historical period (I pretty much exclusively study overtly depressing historical topics). In addition to this, I am also currently attempting to derive my thoughts from my own understandings, avoiding simple regurgitation of the ideas of other, more established thinkers. My reasoning for this is to establish a more raw base from which to examine my own thoughts before digging right into self-dissection. So when I approach this subject, I am at least acutely aware of where my thoughts are coming from.
I have a difficult time accepting the term “culture” as having any real meaning anymore. While I would like to be able to apply it as a label for the combination of sentiments and ideas that the group of people I am studying more-or-less have a consensus about, I find it increasingly difficult to detach the word from its inherently catch-all nature. I have heard the term culture applied to national, ethnic, religious, athletic, social, academic, virtual, distant, and recreational groups. Each time it appears to me to be a simple placeholder for “set of ideas and thoughts that some of these people accept or at least acknowledge as being accepted by others in the group.” Before we get to uppity about “but yes, that is how words work”, I understand that it is, by its nature as a word, a placeholder for an idea. Where I take issue is with the seeming lack of acknowledgment of this in the general use of the word. If we accept, let’s say, that Canadian culture is a thing that is real then I as a Canadian citizen, as a person living in Canada, as someone whose family has lived in Canada for a period of time, should fall under the sway of “Canadian” culture. But what does this mean? To me, “Canadian” culture has such a varied and contradictory assortment of identifiers that it is exceedingly difficult to pin-point what constitutes a coherent narrative of “Canadian” culture. Is it what we see on the Heritage Minutes? What beer commercials promote? Our (apparently) unanimous love of hockey, Timmies, and all things reminiscent of Strange Brew? I’d like to note that the point I am trying to make here is not to lambaste Canadiana but instead to point out the exclusive nature of identifying groups by the things that unite them, specifically when those things are not shared across the entire community they purport to represent.
Continuing this experiment wherein Canadian culture exists as depicted in commercials and stereotypes, can I be part of Canadian culture if I do not like hockey? What about those who like hockey, affordable coffee, and Rick Moranis, but are not from Canada, nor do they reside here? Arguably culture cannot be dictated by geography as this would leave the lingering question of diaspora culture. The scope of the word lends itself to abuse, allowing for such a malleable and all-inclusive definition as to render the word meaningless. There are, perhaps, more appropriate words out there to signify the idea that I have for culture. It has been suggested to me that “community” is perhaps a better label. My understanding of “community” is even less informed than that of culture. To remedy this, I have retrieved two of the versions of the Dictionary of Anthropology that I could get at my school’s library. what follows are the definitions for culture and community from each text.
It would appear that where anthropology is concerned, community is largely a geographic concept, relating to the closeness of relationships. Now, arguably these definitions are dated (the books are from 50s and 80s) and do not take into account the pervasiveness of the internet and the ways in which it bridges geographical divides. This being said, I am still unsatisfied with the definition of community as I am more interested, not in the division of people into cultures or communities, but in the concept of culture as a thing which one can have, or be part of. If one can have “community”, I do not believe that it would be the appropriate word to define the concept I am dealing with.
The definitions of culture found in these texts also suffer from the focus on division of people rather than that which defines people (in addition to being pretty antiquated in their definitions). If you would permit me to jump around a bit here, I would like to propose another of my thoughts on the inherent meaning of culture. Remembering our scenario of a specific Canadian culture, we can argue that culture (if this is a facsimile of a “real” culture) is exclusive by-nature. The terms by which culture dictates inclusivity are inherently a response to what members dictate or perceive as that which lies outside of the group. I may not like hockey, but I like Rick Moranis and doughnuts so hey, I’m close enough. This act of acceptance (I find) belies a deeper reliance on the othering of those not deemed appropriate in their actions or beliefs to be part of the culture. When the terms of what constitutes “culture” are expanded to be more inclusive and avoid the issue of inclusive/exclusive it generally expands to such a state as to remove any meaning to the word.
I have found, in my studies and general milling about places, that the ways in which most people I interact with perceive culture through a fairly optimistic/positivist lens, which lends itself to the inclusive understanding of culture that has a meaning and is important. The argument often devolves into a glass-half-full/empty scenario which tends to result in a lot of “well I guess everyone is right.” This is always an interesting conversation and generally helps me to work though my own ideas (which very often lean toward the more pessimistic understanding of things). Unfortunately, this is a problematic issue to have when attempting to argue a point that has two equal sides, but on which you fall pretty exclusively to one side. As I had mentioned above, I generally study some of the more morose historical topics. I say this, but realistically I should add the qualifier more overtly morose historical topics, as the vast summation of human history is pretty violent and awful, but generally we tend to avoid discussing that when we can.
Well i am out of time for today, so perhaps I will wrap-up this post with a few summarizing questions which I am currently thinking about, and for which I have decided to ramble these past few paragraphs.
What is “culture” in the sense of a way of describing people? More specifically, is there such a thing as Canadian/American/German/French/Nazi/Liberal/Kayaking culture? If so, how is it defined? Is culture a definable idea? Bearing in-mind that this is an expression of one of my rough thoughts, is there something I am completely missing in my rambles above?
I’d love to hear your thoughts, please leave a comment. I don’t think I will answer questions or respond to comments directly, but I will most definitely take things into consideration as I continue to work through this thought.
1 – the existence of “real” is best left for another discussion.
2 – Strange Brew is a great movie!
3 – Pearson, Roger. Anthropological Glossary. Original ed. Malabar, Fla.: R.E. Krieger Pub., 1985. 54, 60.
4 – Winick, Charles. Dictionary of Anthropology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 126, 144.
5 – I’m fairly certain I am conflating my ideas here. What I mean by this is a sense that things are a certain way, which is what has been said publicly, or is generally understood by most people, and which actively but not overtly attempts to promote a positive and upbeat interpretation of events while avoiding any discussion that the entire framework of understanding being used may depend on a rather grim or horrific principle.
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I got some questions about shopping apps and how to resell your clothes in a “safe” way – making sure you get your money, and you don’t get scammed! An app that I have more experience with than most is Poshmark. So here’s a quick little how-to with the app.
Download the app – without the actual app (you can also access it online) you cannot post or sell anything, you can only search and purchase.
Fill out your user info and profile! Add an email in there that you can access easily, that way when someone makes a purchase from “your closet” it is easy to find and print the shipping label. When you first set up your profile, it asks you questions about brands you like, your sizes, etc. Be as honest as possible! That information will influence what your “feed” looks like – essentially the equivalent of your Home Page on Facebook – posts from all different people you follow on the app that you can scroll through, and based on brands you select, the app will offer you options to see “Just In” listings of what you like!
Take pictures of items you want to list and sell! Keep in mind that Poshmark is like Instagram in that every picture posted has to be a square (bizarre, I know). Also, only 4 images can be included per listing, so make sure you take photos that show off your clothes as well as possible! Take overall pics, and depending on the item (take shoes as an example here) take pictures from different angles!
Select the small camera icon on the bottom middle of your app and you can “list” pictures from your camera roll. Name your item, add a description, then select a category, the brand, size, color, etc. Then, include the original price of your item (required – if you don’t know, I suggest just putting 0!), and the price that you want to list your item at. Know that Poshmark does take a percentage of whatever you list your item at. Lucky for you, the app shows you exactly what you earn from your listing price (example: if I list a shirt for $30, my earnings when sold is $24).
Select Next (on the top right) and then select List!! Ta-da you did it!!
You can then “share” your post with your followers. Additionally, Poshmark hosts “parties” – places you can share your listed items that fit a certain category. Examples being “wardrobe staples” and “boho chic.” If your item fits, share it there too! In the list screen, it will show you if a party is happening, and if one is, what category it is.
Wait for people to bite at your fab gently-used clothing!
It makes life easy in such a technology-oriented world. You can literally purchase something (and sell something!) in just a few clicks. People will “favorite” listings and comment on them – much like Instagram – and then they can buy your item at the listing price, or make an offer on it! It is up to you whether you want to counter their offer, accept it, or decline it! Once something is purchased, the shipping label is automatically emailed to you, you print in out, stick it on a box (with your item in it) and send it off!
I hope this helps you get a start with approaching the shopping and resale app world!
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VERIFICA DEI CRONOTACHIGRAFI: COMPETENZA AGLI ISPETTORI DEL LAVORO.
AL VIA L’ATTIVITA’ DELL’ISPETTORATO NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO.
VERIFICHE ISPETTIVE A SEGUITO DI RICHIESTA DI TRATTAMENTO CIGS.
VISITE ISPETTIVE: OPERATIVITA’ ED INDICAZIONI INPS.
VIGILANZA SUL LAVORO: IL RAPPORTO ANNUALE 2015.
ESONORO CONTRIBUTIVO TRIENNALE: AL VIA I CONTROLLI MIRATI.
ISPEZIONI: L’INPS DEFINISCE LA NUOVA “MISSION” PER IL 2015.
ISPEZIONI NELLE AZIENDE: LE LINEE GUIDA 2015 PER GLI ISPETTORI DEL LAVORO.
ACCESSI ISPETTIVI: IL TERMINE DI 30 GIORNI NON E’ PERENTORIO.
RIQUALIFICAZIONE DEL LAVORO AUTONOMO IN LAVORO SUBORDINATO: POSSIBILE L’APPLICAZIONE DELLA MAXISANZIONE.
VIOLAZIONE DELLA DISCIPLINA SULL’ORARIO DI LAVORO: IMPORTI DA RIDETERMINARE SECONDO IL REGIME SANZIONATORIO PREVIGENTE.
FISIOTERAPISTI TRA PARTITE IVA E SUBORDINAZIONE: GLI INDIRIZZI DELLA DIREZIONE GENERALE PER L’ATTIVITA’ ISPETTIVA.
ISPEZIONI SUL LAVORO: I CHIARIMENTI OPERATIVI PER IL PERSONALE ISPETTIVO.
LAVORO “NERO” E ORARIO DI LAVORO: IL MINISTERO DEL LAVORO CHIARISCE LE NUOVE SANZIONI AMMINSITRATIVE.
ASSOCIAZIONI SPORTIVE: VIGILANZA ISPETTIVA PIU’ SOFT.
ISPEZIONI NEI LUOGHI DI LAVORO: IL MINISTERO DETTA LE REGOLE DI COMPORTAMENTO.
SANZIONI PER LAVORO NERO: AUMENTO DEL 30%.
ISPEZIONI IN AZIEDA: IRREGOLARI PIU’ DEL 50% DELLE AZIENDE VISITATE.
ISPEZIONI NEI LUOGHI DI LAVORO: CODICE DI COMPORTAMENTO PER GLI ADDETTI AI CONTROLLI.
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By now, if you believe much of the media, you have come to believe that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been using water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition on innocent children protesting on the Gaza side of the fence. They have also told you that these youths are protesting the miserable conditions under which they live with the oppressive Israeli masters lording over Gaza. The sob story is an entire fiction and there is much which has been ignored by much of the world media, especially the European and American leftist media outlets. They have taken the usual adversarial approach to Israel and now they have an additional reason to do so, President Trump appears to be supporting Israel. The leftist media in Israel along with some outlets beyond Israeli shores have also been attempting to drive a wedge between the Israelis and President Trump which we will explain quickly and then tell you what you have not heard about Gaza and the demonstrations. The most recent rumor being spread is that President Trump is going to demand that Israel surrender half of Jerusalem to the Arab Palestinians and give much of the remainder of the city beyond the Green Line to the United Nations to care for as an international zone while having Israel also surrender much if not the remainder of lands beyond the Green Line for an Arab Palestinian State. They claim these are the rumors circling from aids off the record from within the White House. Fortunately, the reality is that none of this is even close to being truthful and is a smoke screen being put out to try to have Israelis react with defiance towards President Trump and possibly offend him to the point that he cancels the announced moving of the American Embassy to Jerusalem later this month. This is highly doubtful as there are also reports that President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner may be planning to attend the opening of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem. This definitely does not sound as if there is any possibility that President Trump would be making any plans other than what has been announced and expected concerning the moving of the embassy.
Now, let us return to Gaza and the presumably peaceful demonstrations. The one item they have gotten correct is that the Arabs residing in Gaza are largely facing a humanitarian crisis due to the complete mismanagement of their entire governance. What they have completely wrong is that Israel has anything to do with their problems or the deplorable conditions forced on all too many Gazan families. The supposed blockade is nothing more than an inspection of what is imported into Gaza in order to make certain that Hamas and the other terror organizations are not importing weapons making materials or actual weapons. All aid is sped through often being inspected and delivered the same day it is unloaded and the rest is delivered the next morning. The main problem is there are times when Hamas closes down the transfer point and then claims to a willing media that Israel has stopped the deliveries. Hamas has been known to simply leave the delivered material sitting until it is no longer usable which has deprived Gazans of much needed medical supplies and other perishable goods. Hamas and the other terror groups have been known to fire rockets and mortars at the trucks delivering the goods hoping to kill the drivers. Israel delivers the goods across the Kerem Crossing where it is then left for Hamas drivers to take the remainder of the way and to the distribution points. According to Xinhua, Gaza’s border authority has registered a decline in number of trucks since 2017, Gaza border official Raed Fattouh stated, “Roughly 1,000 trucks of goods destined for Gaza passed through Kerem Shalom crossing every day in the upper half of last year, but the figure has been declining for the past six months, to the lowest level now,” Part of the problem is that Israel can only provide the aid received at their port and aid has dwindled over the past eighteen months as the world has had their attention diverted to other more pressing problems and is tiring of attempting to fill the bottomless pit which is the demands of the Arab Palestinians who never appear to improve no matter the amount of aid they receive, they just demand more.
The other thing is that Israel does not oppress the Gazans and has little to no influence over their governance as Hamas ruled the entirety of Gaza with the Israelis having completely pulled out from Gaza in August of 2005. The economic problems and lack of rebuilding of apartment buildings and other structures is completely on their own governance which is under the steely grip of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Hamas has taken repeatedly building provisions which have been provided by the United Nations once, the European Union twice and others have also arranged to send cement, concrete, rebar, lumber and electrical wire and fixtures and the main thing that Gazans have to show for this are the Hamas bunker and tunneling network which includes infiltration tunnels built under the border into Israel, most of which have been destroyed upon discovery by Israel as any government would do to tunnels built by terrorists from across their border in order to attack their people. This has not been a surprise to any in the world except those turning a blind eye. The proof is below in the image of Ban ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General inspecting the new Hamas Tunnels on one of his visits to Gaza and in this video. The world knows what has happened, what is happening and who needs to have the blame laid at their feet but prefer to try to complain that Israel needs to do more. The truth is they desire to do less as their efforts of aiding Hamas have not produced the results at a level they find adequate and are less and less interested as time passes. They have witnessed their aid being diverted and not being utilized as intended to aid the people of Gaza but instead gone to attempt and destroy Israel, something which Hamas will never succeed in doing. These failures by Hamas are part of why there has not been the huge deal with meetings at the United Nations and European Union over these Gaza riots on the border outside of the breathless media reporting, and even this has been at a less fevered pace than past times.
We have already reported about the Hamas demonstrations being driven by Hamas partially to distract from the horrid economic situation their stealing of resources and heavy taxation have produced. This is the reason that there have been reports of near economic collapse in Gaza and not because of any actions by Israel. There will still be those who will insist that it must be Israel for reasons which are easily realized by any reasonably astute observer. But the latest actions go well beyond their burning of tens of thousands of tires ruining air quality over a wide area just to provide their terrorist with a smoke screen to attempt to breach the border fence. They have caused more damage and losses of productivity for the Israeli farmers near the Gaza border than had the sniper fire across the border. Their throwing Molotov cocktails and slinging rocks were mostly a problem for the IDF troops manning the border, but they have berms behind which they stay fairly safe. The IDF has utilized mostly crowd control measures with some use of rubber bullets when there were actions to storm the fences. They have restricted live fire to people damaging monitoring equipment along the border, attempting to breach the border fence or shooting at IDF position and Israeli civilians working their fields near the border with approaching 80% of the 32 Palestinians killed by the IDF during the ongoing Gaza border crisis as of April 11, 2018, were terrorist operatives or identified with terrorist organizations according to an intelligence report. The reports of IDF having shot at journalists has been refuted as half of those shot have been confirmed as actually belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terror operatives or having been members of Hamas media outlets.
But the one most under-reported set of incidents has been the “kite-bomb terror” which consists of Gazan youths, always youths so if they are harmed they have a great camera op for the reporters and stringers to give to the media waiting for just such evidence while comfortably in five star Tel Aviv hotels and coffee bars, flying kites with incendiary materials and allowing the kites to fall onto Israeli farmer’s fields in order to set them ablaze. They have wiped out a number of wheat fields and set a forested area on fire which took ten fire companies several hours to extinguish. The Israeli Air Force struck one of the Hamas positions near the border fence which was used by Palestinians to send firebombs tied to kites into Israel. Below find an Al-Jazeera produced video showing Gazan who had successfully breached the border fence and entered Israel. Their efforts appear to be more of a joyful run allowing them to later brag how they made their assault into Israel, with some flourishes. These were obviously taken by one of the youths with their cell phone.
The Gaza demonstrations have had two separate complexions, one which has gotten the most coverage has been families having picnics over five hundred meters from the border and many teens using slings to hurl rocks across the border from a fair distance from the fence and then the other side where terrorists have crawled to the fence with AK47 in hand and engaged the IDF in live fire, much to the terrorists being shot dead (see video below which has several tactical video showing damaging of border fence and shooting attack at border fence). These have been the individuals which have drawn live fire from IDF forces as they are guarding the border. Another item not being told is that it is well known that as long as Gazans allow a respectful distance between them and the fence and are otherwise not posing a threat, then they will be perfectly safe. These riots have been anything but passive events and Hamas has been behind the entire series of events.
The events can be and are summed up by the video below and show some of the tactics being used by Hamas and the disinformation being spread by much of the media. It depicts why some innocents end up caught in the deadly crossfire and how Hamas has intentionally used smoke to screen events which leads to innocents being placed in danger, as they are encouraged to accompany the terrorists in attacking the fence and as shields for Hamas shooters.
Israel may next have to consider how to react to those flying the firebomb-kites. These are an attack on the fields and property across a border. They are as, if not more, destructive as artillery would be and are doing just as much damage as Hamas rockets have done in the past. How long would France stand still while somebody was setting French farmers’ grape orchards on fire? How long would the United States stand down if a foreign party were flying incendiary balloons and setting corn and wheat fields ablaze along with national forests? How long does any nation stand for their borders being breached with the intent of causing damage to their fields, homes, businesses, properties and murdering their citizens? How much is too much? Obviously, according to many around the world, Israel is supposed to simply absorb everything thrown at her simply because we are supposed to be the nice ones. Well, nice ones eventually get upset beyond reckoning and then really bad things happen. Perhaps if the Gazans would demand that their rulers, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, would spend the time and effort they put into harming Israel into helping their people and working towards having a healthy economy rather than syphoning off as much as they are able to spend on a fruitless war against Israel, then perhaps their would be jobs and even possibly have peace and prosperity. The same problem exists with the Palestinian Authority to a slightly lesser degree, but both sides have actually worn out their one good will with the world with only the media carrying their water any longer. It is sad to see governance so preoccupied with destroying their neighbor that they are willing to sacrifice their youth in the name of hatred. What is happening in Gaza is so cruel to the Gazans and it will not gain them anything beyond a shortage of tires. It is almost predictable, but there will be a complaint that many Gazans vehicles are no longer serviceable because there is a lack of tires in Gaza, and the media will claim Israel burned their tires. When that report ever reaches the news, please just laugh at the report as it will be just as ridiculous as is much of the reporting on the Gaza peaceful demonstrations, or should we be truthful and call them riots.
There actually is life outside of politics and sometimes it becomes more challenging and fraught with agony, tragedy, fears, hopes, frightening possibilities and a few slivers of hope. That would be one way of describing this past month in Mexico where they have been struck by a series of devastating earthquakes with perhaps Mexico City feeling the hardest strikes. Nations have sent their teams to assist with the recovery and searching for survivors in the aftermath and, as usual, Israel is amongst those nations. Israel dispatched their Israeli Defense Force (IDF) specialty teams and they are on the ground working with the Mexican authorities and coordinating with other units to maximize their assistance. Below is a short video showing, amongst other items, the reception they received upon their arrival in the hard hit center of Mexico City.
These IDF soldiers of mercy have left their families behind and are spending the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, in Mexico. They did not let being in Mexico interfere with one very important part of the Rosh Hashanah service to go unheard as they gathered when able to hear the shofar as seen below.
The introductions aside, the events which brought the IDF relief services as well as those from other nations were some devastating earthquakes. These quakes have shook Mexico throughout this month with measurements of 8.1, 7.1 and finally another at 6.1 starting with the largest on September 8 off the southern Pacific coast, near Chiapas state. The damages have been extensive and hundreds have lost their lives and many thousands injured with the searches continuing for survivors as well as other victims still buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings. Below is a video showing some of the events from the latest earthquake.
These IDF soldiers and officers are different from the usual medical as well as search and recue teams which Israel is well known for providing, but the Mexican authorities informed Israel that they had these areas well covered and requested Israel assist in other areas. So, responding to the extraordinary needs, this Israeli delegation consists of seventy-one soldiers from Home Front Command including construction specialists and engineers. They will be tasked with scanning and inspecting buildings damaged from the earthquakes to determine whether they are reparable, need to be demolished or are habitable. Col. Itamar Cohen announced that as they arrived thirty-six hours after the earthquake struck, the units were still able to assist in lifesaving operations. Col. Cohen stated, “We will stay here as long as it takes to continue carrying out rescue operations.” The earthquakes were spread seemingly along a single fault line, but they are actually located on what is called the Mexican subduction zone, a weakened area in the earth’s crust. The largest of the earthquakes occurred along a known major fault with the others falling along the weaker zone likely triggered by the large 8.1 quake. Let us pray that we have heard the end of aftershocks, if you can call 7.1 and 6.1 aftershocks and not subsequent earthquakes.
The World Para Swimming Championships which were to be held in Mexico City near the end of September have had to be postponed. The Israeli delegations of six swimmers, their coach and three assistants returned to Israel aboard the same plane which brought the relief team. Meanwhile, the damages to the Mexican nation are beginning to be realized and it has been extensive with numerous structures having collapsed and an unknown number potentially having been damaged beyond repair and thousands likely to be made homeless. The Apostle Catholic Church in Atzala collapsing has been considered an example of the disheartening destructions across a large swath of Mexico resulting from the series of devastating earthquakes (see below). The church collapsed during the baptism ceremony for a two-month-old baby and resulted in the death of eleven family members, including the infant and three other children. The sole survivors were the child’s father, the administering priest and his assistant. Three days of mourning have been announced by the Mexican President. Meanwhile, orders have been given for the evacuation of many of Mexico City hospitals fearing their structural integrity. Hampering the caring for the injured and other efforts, have been constant intermittent power failures.
Numerous roadways and highways have been damaged by these earthquakes. A major bridge in the Oaxaca highway system finally collapsed after the most recent earthquake along the Coatzacoalcos-Salina Cruz Branch of the highway system (see below). This was just one of the major roads to suffer closure due to cracks in the road surface to structural damage rendering overpasses and bridges unsafe for traffic bearing loads. Such a series of earthquakes has been devastating to Mexico in every way possible disrupting businesses with many ventures unlikely to continue, as they will be unable to recover from the damages. The disruptions have struck lives, families, businesses, cities and the nation as a whole all of which will take quite some time for the nation to make a full recovery. It will take aid from numerous sources and assistance from experts across numerous fields and likely from many nations. As already stated, the Israeli team of IDF structural, construction and engineering teams from the Homefront Command will remain in Mexico for as long as required. President Trump has also offered any assistance and expertise which the Mexico government requests as well as disaster relief. We can only hope such will be sufficient and that with the prayers and an end to these disastrous earthquakes, that Mexico will recover before too long.
The only thing left to accomplish is to offer a prayer for the people of Mexico and may the rescue efforts succeed in reaching everybody trapped in the rubble in time and with only the most minor of injuries. We hope the worst has passed and the future will bring relief and rescue to those in need and hope for those now in pain. Here is a prayer that Mexico recovers and will be reinstated to her full glory and find herself restored in all ways and means possible.
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Leah has always loved to write, so much so that when she's really in the zone, she has to be bribed away from the keyboard. She accepts all kinds of tribute, the earliest of which was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from an excited sister that was desperate to lure Leah away from the computer for a few minutes, so she wouldn't be caught in the terrible sin of reading over Leah's shoulder. Being older now, Leah is also wiser. This is demonstrated by the fact that the bribes have to be of higher quality now to have an effect. Also, that occasionally her writing is considered entertaining to people other than her sister.
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Thrilling matches at the 14th Carrom Euro Cup in Rome, Italy.
The 14th Carrom Euro cup held from 11th to 13th June in Rome ended on Sunday by the Prize Distribution Ceremony, in which ECC president Arif Naqvi announced that the 15th Euro Cup has been alloted by the ECC to France.
About one hundred Carrom players from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovania, Switzerland and United Kingdom participated in this year's Euro Cup, which was held in three disciplines: Singles, Doubles and Team Event.
who appreciated that the Carrom Euro Cup has been held every year without any interval and has contributed to its popularity and rise of the standard. He said that the 14th Euro Cup should be taken as a rehersal for the 3rd World Cup which would be taking place from 27th September to 1st October in Richmond, Virginia USA. Naqvi appreciated the dedicated hard work done by Elisa Martinelli and other members of the Italian Carrom Federation to make the event successful.
The teams Championship conducted on first day, 11th June, was won by the UK with an edge of only one point against Germany. Switzerland came on third place.
Simultaneously the doubles Campionship was conducted on the same day which was won by Italy's Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca agians Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois of France, with 25 to 24 . Both sides gave a excellent performance. At one point the score in the final game was 24 to 24. Leu Jonathan and Pierre Fabian of France came on third place.
The Singles Event , which was conducted on 12th and 13th June, was won by Karnal Abedin of UK for the third consecutive time. After the 11 round of matches the final was held between Karnal Abedin of UK and Pierre Dubois of France. While Karnal was leading clearly after 11 rounds with 20 points in hand Pierre Dubois of France, Peter Boecker of Germany and Abdul Malik of UK followed him with 18 points each, while Pierre had edge with Bucholz points.
The final between Karnal Abedin and Pierre Dubois was extremely exiting. While Karnal won the first game clearly, Pierre gave him a very good fight in the second game, winning the game clearly. The third game was however dominated by Karnal Abeding and he won the match and the trophy for the third consecutive time. Peter Boecker of Germany came on the third place.
The meeting of the General Council of the European Carrom Confederation was also held during the Euro Cup in Rome. It was attended by the representatives of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Slovania (as guest), Switzerland and United Kingdom. The 15th Euro Cup was alotted to France and is to be held near Paris.
Poland's Paulina Nowakowska and UK's Nazrul Islam were included in the ECC General Council as two new Vice Presidents.
at a restaurant rear the sea side of Rome. Naqvi asked the players to forward to 3rd. World Cup (2010) in USA, while Elisa Martinelly thanked on behalf of the italian federation to all players and sponsors for the coperation.
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Hope you’re enjoying this ride through the haiku alphabet – if you feel inspired to make your own alphabet, please share the link in the Comments section.
Hope you’ll enjoy this ride through a fairly random haiku alphabet – there are a myriad of alternative choices for each letter. If you feel inspired to make your own alphabet, please share the link in the Comments section.
On May 20 Princess Akiko of Mikasa participated in rice-planting in Niigata Prefecture in Japan. The rice-planting event was held by Shinyu-sha, the association established by Princess Akiko which encourages and fosters Japanese traditional culture.
Princess Akiko (standing) during this year’s rice planting.
The same day Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko sowed dry-land rice and millet at the Imperial Palace. Both the couple’s sons and their families also participated in what is a long-standing tradition.
The Emperor followed this up on May 25 by planting more rice at the palace – the last time he will carry out this duty as Emperor. Akihito abdicates on April 30 next year, after 30 years on the throne, in favour of his older son Crown Prince Naruhito.
Emperor Akihito plants rice at the Imperial Palace in 2018.
The sajiki (dictionary of season words) at Gabi Greve’s World Kigo Database says: The Emperor, embodying the god of the ripened rice plant, plants the first rice of the spring and harvests rice from the plants of the autumn. In one of the most solemn Shinto ceremonies of the year the Emperor, acting as the country’s chief Shinto priest, ritually sows rice in the royal paddy on the grounds of the Imperial Palace.
I went to see the willow tree which Saigyo celebrated in his poem when he wrote, ‘Spreading its shade over a crystal stream’. I found it near the village of Ashino on the bank of a rice-field. I had been wondering in my mind where this tree was situated, for the ruler of this province had repeatedly talked to me about it, but this day, for the first time in my life, I had an opportunity to rest my worn-out legs under its shade.
June 15: Just found the following while searching for something else and thought it was a natural fit for this post.
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