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What is our great responsibility in this life? To ourselves? To others? To God? What is this life all about anyway, and what is it all for?
While philosophers of all ages have debated these questions the prophets of God have spoken. There are prophets today and they speak the truth as they received it from the Lord himself. All we have to do, if we are truly seekers of truth, is find their words, read them, internalize them, and apply them into our lives. If we follow this divinely appointed pattern our hearts will be changed, our faith will grow, and peace of conscience will settle upon our souls as the dews at dawn.
This week I read, in the words of a prophet, some of the most direct and eye opening comments on this topic I have ever read with relation to the topic of individual responsibility and accountability. For our mutual benefit I share them with you today.
“We are here for a great purpose. That purpose is not to live 100 years, or less, and plant our fields, reap our crops, gather fruit, live in houses, and surround ourselves with the necessities of mortal life. That is not the purpose of life. These things are necessary to our existence here, and that is the reason why we should be industrious.
“The object of our being here is to do the will of the Fatheras it is done in heaven (which is what?), to work righteousness in the earth, to subdue wickedness and put it under our feet, to conquer sin and the adversary of our souls, to rise above the imperfections and weaknesses of poor fallen humanity, by the inspiration of the Lord and his power made manifest, and thus become saints and servants of the Lord in the earth.
Then, if I still disagree with the action I talk to their mother about it. The accountability for that action belongs to the mother because she is telling the child what to do.
It is the same with the Lord. If He made us act a certain way we would not be accountable for our own actions. This goes against the whole reason we are here: to learn and to grow. The Lord will not make us do anything in this life. He has left it up to us to choose.
Now He has given us commandments, and told us how we can obtain happiness, but He will force no man towards it. It is up to us to choose our own destiny, be it eternal happiness on the one side, or eternal damnation (or being stopped in our progression) on the other.
We will be held accountable for we have been given our agency. The choice is ours. What will we choose? What consequences will we allow to remain in our lives? If we choose to live righteously they will be sweet indeed.
That is what it means to be Mormon – to learn correct principles, conform our lives to them, and govern ourselves appropriately.
What principles have you learned, or been taught of the Lord, in your life? If you could teach, or pass on, one lesson on how to be happy to your children what would it be?
It is our duty TO DO OUR BEST to do ALL WITHIN OUR POWER – because Christ has already done the rest – and NOT SHIRK. It is our duty to STAND UP, CHOOSE RIGHTEOUSLY, and BE MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD.
As I write today I am filled with a profound hope for the future. We live in an amazing time of difficulties and challenges. Everywhere we go we are asked to do more, to be more, and to become more.
As a Mormon we receive callings, or invitations to serve in a capacity of responsibility within our church. All positions within our church are filled by volunteers. They are called in to be interviewed by those who have already been chosen as leaders in the church and are then asked if they would be willing to volunteer their time, talents, and abilities to serve in the offered position.
There is also an expression within our faith that speaks of doing our best: Magnifying our callings. To magnify is to make something larger and bring it into clearer focus. In this context it means to do our best in applying our time, talents, and abilities towards the completion of whatever task lies before us in the performance of our responsibilities.
Almost a month ago now I was extended such an opportunity to serve, a ‘calling’ if you will. All callings operate under the direction of the priesthood keys held by the Bishop of the church, or ward. If you would like a better understanding of the difference between the priesthood and priesthood keys are, as well as what it means to operate under them please review this talk by Elder Dallin H. Oaks, of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
In that scripture we are promised that if we magnify our callings our bodies will be renewed and that we will become the elect of God. The quality of our lives will reflect our commitment to the Lord. Receiving the Priesthood is a covenant between ourselves and our God. Because it is a covenant between us and the Lord it is immovable and unchangeable. The blessings promised are assured us if we fulfill our part of the bargain. It is promised. And the Lord cannot, and will not, break His promises.
One priesthood office or calling is not greater than another in terms of priesthood power. The priesthood does not change. It is the same for each and every man in the church. The only difference is found in the keys one holds and the responsibilities over which one has authority to function as one holding power in the priesthood. In our personal lives and in our homes our priesthood power is fully operational, according to the dictates of the spirit and our righteous desires. Otherwise it is only restrained, or limited, by the limits of our respective callings. We have the authority to use our priesthood for each and every stewardship over which we have responsibility.
What about you? Is there anything in your life more important than the things of God? More important than His work of salvation on our behalf? What is so important that you would be willing to risk eternity to experience in the space of this life?
Will you fill your callings, dedicate yourself to make a difference, and serve others to the best of your ability today?
In a world that is self-destructing itself into darkness we ask ourselves where we can turn to stem the tide of decaying morals and values, dishonesty, selfishness, and pride? Must we focus on our politics, our institutions, or ourselves as individuals?
The answer is surprisingly simple. If we wish to save our country then we must start that saving process in our homes and families. Our homes are the first line of defense in this decaying world of darkness. If they fall prey to the degradation that surrounds us then our civilization falls as well.
Strengthening the home and defending it from any unwanted influences should be our primary goal. The answer to every problem we face as a nation lies in the rearing and raising of the rising generation, and the protection and establishment of the solid homes from which they come. In those homes they will grow and mature as a young plant seeking the light. Let us fill our homes with light that they may drink in the sustaining power of a powerful home.
As Americans we often believe ourselves above the decay taking place all around us, but there is a reason it is called decay. It is often unrecognized until it is too late. Do we take the time to let our children know we love them? Do we teach them about the reality of natural consequences – or do we mitigate all consequences in an effort to ‘keep them from harm’? Do we show them, by example, how they are to live? Do we exemplify moral rectitude, honesty, integrity, honor, and faith in God?
The very cures for the times we live in are found in the children who surround us. The question remains, however, will we raise them in such a way, and from such a place (the home), that they can face the challenges of this world and stand up to the darkness that is spreading even as you read these words.
We must remember that the light is always stronger than the darkness. But that light, it begins, grows, is nurtured, and developed in the home. That is where we must focus if we are save some semblance of the society we cherish in our hearts.
Whatever happened to the America where neighbor serves neighbor? And where when something bad happens the entire community turns out to help and repair whatever wrong was committed? And the most important questions: Do you exemplify such an America? Will your home exemplify these things?
If enough homes in America come to exemplify these values then we will save our country, for in the face of such great light what darkness can stand against it?
If we fortify our homes, we may yet save our country. If we do we will be part of the solution, not the problem.
Will you do your part today? Will you put your family first? Will you fortify and strengthen the presence of your home in the lives of your children, and make it a place of peace, love, and light from which they can go forth and change the world?
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I treasure the small adventures in life. Such as, listening to records, making jam from farmer's market produce, seeing new sites, eating the best tomato I've ever had, reading a good book, watching a film, appreciating a good font, going for a long bike ride or walking down a street I've never walked on before. The list goes on.
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Come join Soup-a-Palooza with TidyMom and Dine and Dish sponsored by Bush’s Beans, Hip Hostess, Pillsbury and Westminster Crackers.
Woo Hoo! I received my new LeCreuset Pan this week and I don't have a regular recipe to share with you all today for Foodie Friday...but I did want to show you all how having a great pan makes all your food preparations Quick & Easy!
It has been quite the Rooster's Tale going on these past couple of weeks at Michael Lee's house...so be sure to hop on over to her blog, Designs by Gallum and read all about it. While you are there you can check out over 100 recipes this week for Foodie Friday...that should be enough motivation for anyone! And...boy do I have something to crow about...I'm a winner of this beautiful Le Crueset pan...thanks very much to Michael Lee and her wonderful facebook giveaway.
How cool is this beautiful carribean blue pan...now I won't be so sad about summer being over ;) Thanks so much Michael Lee!
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• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 894, of which 829 are confirmed and 65 are probable. In total, there were 561 deaths (496 confirmed and 65 probable) and 302 people cured.
• 2 new deaths of confirmed cases (community deaths), 1 in Katwa and 1 in Butembo.
Back to work with a smile at Butembo ETC. Credit: DRC MOH.
• The Butembo Ebola Treatment Center, which was attacked by armed men on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, reopened this Saturday, March 2, 2019. To date, 12 confirmed patients, temporarily hospitalized at the Katwa Transit Center, have already been transferred to the Butembo CTE.
• The logistics teams have rehabilitated in a few days the main parts of the CTE to allow the proper and dignified care of confirmed patients. The Butembo CTE is now managed by the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF. All the caregivers and support staff who were already working at the ETC went back to work with a smile. This Monday, March 4, 2019, reconstruction work of the Katwa CTE set on fire on the night of Sunday 24 to Monday 25 February will be launched.
• This weekend, the Ministry of Health, in partnership with Kinshasa Digital, Path and Internews, organized an Ebola hackathon for students in Kinshasa. The theme for the hackathon was: "How can Ebola response agents better utilize new technologies to achieve their communication goals locally, nationally and internationally?" The objective of the event was to raise awareness among young people in Kinshasa, living several thousand kilometers from the epicenter of the epidemic, on the problem of Ebola.
• For 24 hours, about fifty students worked as a team to develop innovative solutions that can help the response teams in their work. The thematic touching several areas, the students had been instructed to form multidisciplinary teams mixing students in computer science, communication/journalism and medicine.
• The Minister of Health, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, as well as Ministry of Health partners spent the hackathon in the afternoon of Saturday. They met with students who briefed them on the projects they were working on. All guests were particularly impressed by the quality and relevance of some projects designed by students who have never worked in an Ebola response.
• This Sunday, March 3, 2019, the ten teams presented their project to a jury composed of representatives of the Ministry of Health, Path, Kinshasa Digital, Internews, Congolia, TMB, Viamo, and BlueSquare. The competition was tight and several projects stood out. Creativity and innovation were at the rendezvous. We were able to discover the idea of a mobile app to help healthcare providers identify suspicious patients or a connected bracelet that monitors the temperature of contacts during the follow-up period.
• The winning team will be announced at Kinshasa Digital Week from April 12 to 13, 2019. She will receive three months of coaching and coaching at Congolia Incubator as well as a financial contribution from a bank. In addition, during the competition, the Ministry of Health identified some talents who could work part-time in the Ebola response, particularly at the level of the new information management system. A second Ebola hackathon will be organized by Internews in Goma in April.
• Since the beginning of vaccination on 8 August 2018, 85,226 people have been vaccinated , including 21,859 in Katwa, 20,738 in Beni, 10,628 in Butembo, 6,109 in Mabalako, 2,839 in Kalunguta, 2,624 in Goma, 2,317 in Komanda, 2,084 in Oicha, 1.973 to Mandima, 1.357 to Karisimbi, 1.340 to Kyondo, 1.330 to Kayina, 1.254 to Bunia, 1.064 to Vuhovi, 920 to Masereka, 772 to Mutwanga, 769 to Lubero, 767 to Biena, 690 to Rutshuru, 600 to Musienene, 527 in Nyankunde, 496 in Mangurujipa, 469 in Rwampara (Ituri), 355 in Tchomia, 333 in Lolwa, 280 in Mambasa, 254 in Alimbongo, 207 in Kirotshe, 161 in Nyiragongo, 97 in Watsa (Haut-Uélé) and 13 in Kisangani.
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Saturday’s Adventures | claire can't see me.
LOL! We hit up Five Guys last Saturday… Those burgers are addictive!
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Recent reports have unearthed what could prove to be a chilling link between highway automobile accidents and the recreational use of marijuana. Two new studies have found that in at least four of the states where recreational cannabis use is legalized, the rate of highway crashes have increased between five and six percent.
The studies both sampled data from police reports as well as insurance claims to draw their conclusions. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) was thorough in their assessment of the data and not only compared the rates of highway crashes between states but also accounted for differences in weather and economy.
In light of this fact, what is perhaps the most troubling aspect of the findings is the manner in which children are involved. Around 14 percent of the motorists who were found to be under the influence of cannabis behind the wheel also had a child in the car. This would be an easier pill to swallow if the conclusions about how cannabis use impacts driving were more conclusive.
It’s only fair to point out that these studies aren’t saying that there is a causality. What the studies are pointing to is that the increase in highway accidents in places where cannabis is legalized for recreational use should be cause for some alarm. Moreover, there is far from a foolproof way to discern whether a motorist is under the influence of cannabis while they’re behind the wheel of a car. Beyond the fact that on the fly cannabis tests are questionable, cannabis is used for a myriad of different things. So understanding the exact why of it all is challenging. While many people use it recreationally, there is a large contingent of people using it for medical reasons.
Dude to Dad Episode Thirteen: "The Sick Day"
The post Legal Weed Has Been Linked to an Increase in Car Crashes appeared first on Fatherly.
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New ‘Loonie Bin Comics’ Logo, RZH Style!
I have had this planned for a few months and finally got around to colouring and compiling it the way I want.
It’s not a replacement logo in the least for the crazed bird&nut you’ve (hopefully) come to know&love, but instead this might be used on properties other than Russian Zombie Hat (which I’ve talked about before on here).
…on a side note: I know Ditzy’s hand covers up a bit of my name, but it’s cool, you can call me D.L Klöepfer if you want.
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Last week the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) released a new report that explores the reasons why doctors and other healthcare professionals find it hard to talk to their patients about dying.
Four English hospitals leading the way in supporting end-of-life care (EOLC) have contributed good practice case studies to the report.
One of the major issues identified within this report and the one that much of the UK media is reporting most frequently is the need for healthcare professionals to begin conversations about planning for end-of-life care nearer the time that patients are given a terminal diagnosis. They point out as would I, that there are multiple opportunities in a patient’s healthcare journey to start honest conversations even earlier than this, when discussing future goals and treatments whether that’s at outpatient appointments, hospital admissions, in social care settings or best of all out in the community.
And why are these conversations so important?
Because the sooner we have these early conversations the sooner we are allowing those we care for opportunities for choice and control over the remainder of their lives. Like many others I would call for anyone with a known life limiting illness to consider creating an Anticipatory Care Plan to manage their health and well-being at the earliest opportunity. Why is explained quite nicely in the video.
Maybe this will inspire you to host your own community Death Cafe!
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Ribɔn si de ama abe antiɖiɖi ene — ribɔn si ɖea dzeside na nunyiamemademade.
Nunyiamemademade alo nunyiameɖuɖumademade nye nɔnɔme si tsoa nuɖuɖu si me nunyiamewo me li o alo si me wobɔ ɖo fuu si hea dɔlelewo vɛ. Nunyiame siawo nye : lamemiwo, protein, carbohydratewo, vitaminwo alo mineralwo. Zigeɖe la, woyɔ ne be nunyiamemademade ne lamemiwo, protein alo nunyiamekuiwo mebɔ o; gake, woga yɔ ne be nunyiamedewu. Ne nunyiamemademade le vidzi le fufɔfɔ alo hafi woxɔ ƒe eve me la, ateŋugble nu le eƒe tsitsi ŋu tegbetegbe. Nunyiameɖuɖumademade ƒe sesietɔ si woyɔ na be numaɖumaɖu, ateŋu ahe dzesiwo abe: kpuienyenye, makɔmakɔ, ŋusemanɔamesi, kple afɔ kple dɔme ƒe tete. Zigeɖe ha la, amewo kpɔ na infectionwo eye wogakpɔ na fafa edziedzi . Nuɖuɖukui mademade ƒe dzesiwo tsoa nuɖuɖukui si me le nuɖuɖua me o.
Undernourishment zigeɖe la tsoa nuɖuɖu nyuie maɖumaɖu gbɔ. Etsoa nuɖuɖu xoasiwo gbɔ kple poverty. breast feeding manɔanyi ateŋu he vɛ, nenemake infectious diseases abe: gastroenteritis, pneumonia, malaria kple measles siwo hia nunyiame le agbɔsɔsɔ me. Undernutrition ƒe ha evee le: protein-energy malnutrition kple dietary deficiencies. Protein-energy malnutrition ƒe sesie ha eve le: marasmus (a lack of protein and calories) kple kwashiorkor (a lack of just protein).Micronutrient manɔanyi bɔbɔtɔwoe nye: iron, iodine kple vitamin A manɔanyi. Le pregnancy yi la, le nunyiamewo ƒe zaza le agbɔsɔsɔ me ta la, woƒe vɔvɔ bɔ ŋutɔ. Le developing countries la, overnutrition le obesity ƒe nɔnɔme me la, nyea undernutrition le teƒe ɖekawo. Malnutrition ƒe dzɔtsoƒeɖewoe nye anorexia nervosa kple bariatric surgery. Malnutrition bɔ wu le elderly me ɖe woƒe physical, psychological kple social nyawo ta.
Mɔnuwo be woahe nutrition ɖe ŋgɔ nyea mɔnuwo abe development aid. Notsi nono ateŋu aɖe malnutrition dzi kple ku le ɖeviwo me, eye mɔnuwo be woado eƒe wɔwɔ ɖe dzi ha hene ɖe dzi. Nuɖuɖu kple notsi nana ɖeviwo le ɣleti ade kple ƒe eve me la hea dometsonuwo vɛ. Nutsotsowo de megbe na supplementation tso micronutrients zaza le fufɔfɔ me kple le ɖeviwo me le teƒesiwo heɖe megbe le ŋgɔdonyawo me le ɣeɣeame. Be woana nuɖuɖu amesiwo wohia wu la nuɖuɖua tsɔtsɔ na kple ga nana be amewo ateŋu aƒle nuɖuɖu le woŋutɔ ƒe asime nyo ŋutɔ. Nuɖuɖu nana amewo le suku ko mede o. Malnutrition sesietɔ ƒe dada le aƒe me kpeɖe ready-to-use therapeutic foods ŋu le bɔbɔe ɣesiayi. Ame siwo le malnutrition sesietɔ kpeɖe dɔlele bubuwo ŋu la, elebe woaxɔ dɔdada le kɔdzi. Esia kuɖe asitɔtrɔ le low blood sugar, body temperature, dehydration, kple edziedzi nuɖuɖu. antibioticwo zaza edziedzi hia ɖe infection kpɔkpɔ ta.Ŋugɔgbe mɔnu aɖewoe nye: agbledede mɔnuwo dzi tutuɖo, kotɔnyenye dzi ɖeɖe, tutuɖe sanitation, kple empowerment of women.
Le 2010 me la, ame million 925&nbs undernourished woe le xexeame, eye ame million 80  kpeɖeŋu tso ƒe 1990. Wobui be vitaminwo kple nunyiamewo me le ame billion bubuwo si o. Le ƒe 2010 me la, wobui be protein-energy malnutrition he ame 600,000 ɖe ku me tso ku abe 883,000 le ƒe 1990. Nunyiame manɔamesi bubuwo abe iodine deficiency kple iron deficiency anemia, ame abe 84,000 bubu geɖe ɖe ku me. Vaseɖe ƒe 2010 dzi la, Undernutrition hea 1.4% na disability adjusted life years va nɛ. Abe akpa etɔ mama na ekuwo kata tso undernutrition gbɔ; gake, zigeɖee womebune nenema o.Le ƒe 2010 me la, eyae he nyɔnuwo kple ɖeviwo ƒe ku abe mellion 1.5 gake wobuibbe xexlemea wu ame million 3 . Ɖeviwo abe million 165 le stunted growth tso dɔlelea me. Undernutrition bɔ le dukɔsiwo ŋgɔ yiyi me bɔ ɖo o.
↑ "Xexeame godoo ƒe dɔwuame nu le ɖeɖem kpɔtɔ, gake edzitsotso ƒe didiwo nu le sesem" (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. September 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
↑ Food; (FAO), Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2008). The state of food insecurity in the world, 2008 : high food prices and food security : threats and opportunities. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). p. 2. ISBN 978-92-5-106049-0. FAO ƒe bu amesiwo dɔ wu na [actually, malnourished] ƒe ɣeɣleme abe million 923 le ƒe 2007, esia dzi ɖe edzi abe million 80 tso 1990–92 ƒe ɣeyiyi me.
Wotrɔ axa sia susuea le 09:47, 26 Kele 2015.
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2019-04-26T01:52:15Z
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As many of you know, college football season has started. Now I am not a super fan, myself. I mean, I can get into it some times. But my husband is a fan and loves the Georgia Bulldogs. So, today we went to the local Bulldog fan club and watched the game on lots of tvs. The kids kicked off the season in style with Nat’s cheerleading outfit and Nick’s football uniform. They also sported some big “G” tatoos.
It was fun and the kids are becoming big fans!
So, who is your favorite team?
Do you notice anything unusual in this picture?
I just loved this video of this sweet lady! Hopefully I’ll never be put in this position, but if I am, I sure hope I can respond like she did. Enjoy!
Seriously…does anyone really sit and listen to those political phone calls? Especially considering they call like 5 times a day!!!
SO, right now may not be the best time of year to participate in this activity. But when the hustle and bustle of the Holidays slows down here’s something you can do to pass time. Benefit by helping feed the hungry, and feed your brain by learning more vocabulary.
You can visit this site and play a game where you define vocabulary words and for each word you answer correctly, 20 grains of rice gets donated to United Nations World Food Program. Pretty cool! I felt very encouraged that I knew as many words as I did on there. I didn’t play for very long, but I donated over 500 grains of rice.
So, vocab away friends, and help end world hunger.
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2019-04-25T16:11:05Z
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It’s no secret…I grew up in Orange County, California. I was even born and lived a few early years in a city named Orange. Later, my family lived in Anaheim (also in Orange County). As an adult, I moved back one more time to the city of Orange before finally leaving California for the southeast U.S. The city of Orange is one of my favorite places in the world…very small-town.
There’s a reason there is a city in California named “Orange”. Oranges were everywhere. My dad has lived in Orange County since the 1950’s and has distinct memories of orange groves as far as you could see. Even for me, growing up in the 1970’s, the orange trees were ubiquitous. There were trees on street corners, stands of trees along the road, in people’s yards, and huge groves of trees up hillsides. The street I lived on in Anaheim backed up to a large grove of orange trees before they were all torn down to make way for new tract homes.
Going home to California earlier this month reminded me of how much I love the sight of an orange tree. They were full of fruit (as they often are in winter months) during my visit, and it was a pleasant sight.
For the last 3 years, I have been formulating a song about the orange groves. I wrestled with several ideas for the song’s style and production (as well as lyrics) for a long time before settling on an Everly Brothers-styled ballad. I’m proud to roll out (no pun intended) a new demo recording of Orange Grove – a tribute to my memories of the orange trees of Southern California. I hope you enjoy it…just click the picture below to visit my music website and check out Orange Grove.
This entry was posted on January 13, 2013 at 5:45 am and is filed under California, Music. 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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Is It Time for a Green Tea Party?
Kermit the Frog, a veteran of stage and screen, is seeking the White House in 2012 on the Green Tea Party ticket! PERC fully supports Kermit, a wetland activist, who believes in empowering citizens through property rights and markets to act in their own best interests. Learn more about the Green Tea Party here and don’t miss Terry Anderson’s oped in The Wall Street Journal today on the same topic.
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2019-04-19T16:25:48Z
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that he would still attend a large investment conference in Saudi Arabia this month, in the face of growing evidence that a Saudi journalist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Top Wall Street banks will also attend the high-profile Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, even as a growing list of major media companies and business leaders withdraw from the event and sever business ties with the Middle Eastern country.
British billionaire Richard Branson said Friday that he would end talks over Saudi investment in his Virgin Group’s space ventures. “What has reportedly happened in Turkey around the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, if proved true, would clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government,” Virgin Group said in a statement.
AOL co-founder Steve Case, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Viacom CEO Robert Bakish have said they won’t attend the conference in Riyadh.
Media giants such as the The Financial Times, The New York Times and CNN, as well as reporters and editors from The Economist and CNBC, said they would also pull out of the conference, which has depended heavily on journalists to moderate the larger sessions at the annual event.
Former U.S. energy secretary Ernest Moniz said he had suspended his role on the board of Saudi Arabia’s planned NEOM business zone until more was known about what happened with the journalist.
The Saudi crown prince said last week that NEOM would build two to three towns each year starting in 2020 and be completed by 2025.
The Harbour Group, a Washington firm that has been advising Saudi Arabia since April, ended its $80,000-a-month contract. “We have terminated the relationship,” said a managing director.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who was listed as a speaker, will not attend because of a scheduling conflict, a World Bank official told Reuters on Friday.
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank and strategic partner of the event, declined to comment on whether CEO John Flint would still attend.
Tidjane Thiam, the CEO of Credit Suisse, another strategic partner, still plans to attend, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The multinational financial services company Standard Chartered is also planning to attend, a spokeswoman told Reuters.
The CEOs of JPMorgan Chase and Mastercard are scheduled to speak.
Siemens AG, the German manufacturing conglomerate, said there were no changes so far for CEO Joe Kaeser to attend.
News of Khashoggi’s disappearance came as the Saudi kingdom was finalizing preparations for the three-day conference that is scheduled to begin Oct. 23.
Last week, Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate in Turkey to get a document for his upcoming wedding. Khashoggi, a U.S. resident who wrote columns for The Washington Post that were critical of Saudi Arabia, apparently never came out of the consulate.
The newspaper reported Thursday that the Turkish government informed U.S. officials it had video recordings that proved Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate.
Saudi officials have denied any involvement in the reporter’s disappearance and said he departed the consulate shortly after entering.” https://www.voanews.com/a/saudis-face-business-backlash-after-journalist-disappears/4611271.html As Moniz appears to have zero ethics, he is probably simply frightened.
Trump’s been a friend of the Saudis for a long time.
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Skyscrapers and shanties, gleaming malls and run-down markets, palatial houses and the piss-poor guys who build them: those are the divides in cities like Mumbai, Nairobi and Manila. Rich and poor do not mingle much.
But a movement's afoot to change that. It aims to integrate the poor into the urban bloodstream, instead of shunting them from sight. For this "inclusive cities" movement, urban renewal doesn't require razing slums and markets. Instead, a world-class city embraces its informal workers, those who work for cash and usually lie outside the tax system, uncounted.
Some shining examples: Bogotá recently incorporated 15,000 informal trash pickers into its municipal rubbish and recycling program. In February, India's parliament passed a law to regulate and protect street vendors, and last year saw the creation of the first worldwide domestic workers union.
The poster child for inclusive-city efforts is Medellín, the Colombian city where a 1,300-foot escalator links hillside shanties with the city's commercial center. Credited with fostering the city's renaissance, the escalator is the centerpiece of a transport network that includes cable cars and trains and a living metaphor besides: a ladder from poverty to economic opportunity.
The inclusive-cities movement is small but gathering momentum, even as people within it debate what inclusiveness really means. This year's gathering of the UN's World Urban Forum focused on equity in the developing world, while the Fletcher School of Diplomacy's annual inclusiveness forum focused on cities. Grassroots groups and networks have long championed the plight of the informal worker, but recently a glossier benefactor stepped in: finance behemoth MasterCard last year launched a think tank called the Center for Inclusive Growth.
"The success or failure of the human species will be determined in cities," says Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, of the Center, explaining MasterCard's interest in inclusive cities. Rapid urbanization over the past 50 years — with more to come — as well as a sense of growing inequality are to credit for the focus on inclusive cities.
As of 2010, the majority of humankind lives in cities, rather than in rural areas. "Humanity is now an urban species," says Hedrick-Wong. The proportion of city dwellers is rising. It's expected to reach 70 percent by 2050, and most of that urban growth will happen in the developing world.
Who's building and maintaining the infrastructure in the developing world's megacities? Usually it's informal laborers — construction workers, welders, ditch diggers, trash pickers, domestics and gardeners. (In India, for instance, four out of five workers are in the informal sector.) Many migrate from the countryside, and while the city generally offers them a better income than they had at home, most barely scrape by. Nearly 900 million people lived in urban slums in 2012, according to UN-Habitat.
Which is one reason inequality is on such vivid display in the cities. Just for stability's sake, politics needs to respond to informal workers, observers say: The threat of protests and demonstrations challenging political authority is greater in cities than in the countryside. "The economic growth in cities is rarely inclusive," says Oren Ahoobim, of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a consultancy. "With the resulting inequality you'll get more people showing up on the streets to advocate for policies that let them tap into that growth— and that's part of what's driving this thinking."
"When growth is not broadly shared, it tends not to be sustainable."
The question at the heart of this nascent movement is what it means to include informal workers. Does it require formal sector job creation (not often feasible), or does it allow a "harm-reduction" approach that makes life in the informal sector more bearable?
"It's really a field in the making," says Sally Roever, urban research director of WIEGO, a global network of women in the informal economy. "There just aren't legions of city planners who have a good grasp on how the informal economy works and how it fits in with the formal economy."
For WIEGO and other grassroots groups, inclusion means things like recognizing informal workers, protecting them from displacement and extortion, and providing health and pension benefits. For the World Bank and others, inclusion often means getting informal workers to pay taxes, access loans and participate in the formal consumption market, says Roever.
For Hedrick-Wong, though, it's not either-or. "Actually, it's good for business, too. When growth is not broadly shared, it tends not to be sustainable."
Although inclusiveness is a growing political concern for leaders, it's not without risks, as the case of Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro suggests. In 2012, the controversial leftist moved to incorporate the city's informal trash pickers into the official economy, which would reduce its reliance on private collectors. The hand-off was bungled. For three days, mountains of garbage piled up on the city streets. In December 2013, the country's inspector general removed Petro from office and banished him from politics for 15 years, alleging he violated the principles of free competition and threatened public health. Uproar ensued. The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights protested. The man was eventually reinstated, and for the moment, Bogotá's waste-pickers are still on the job.
For now, the movement to redefine the world-class city still has a very long way to go. Markets and slums are still routinely razed, and so far, poor-friendly transit remains rare. Says Ahoobim: "It would be great if we had 10 other examples we could talk about, but we always talk about Medellín."
At least, we suppose, until another city builds a more resplendent ladder from poverty.
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Why is writing tests for your code as important as writing code for your product?
If the functionalities of the code you wrote or added are working properly.
If the new code you added is not breaking the old existing one.
So it’s better to catch the bugs of your code before it reaches to others 😉 .
I was working on fedora-bodhi for last few days and I chose an issue from there to work on. Though it looked simple enough but it really needed some tricks to solve the bug. The interesting thing is that it was not clearly visible that we have to apply some tricks to solve the issue. And I came to know that I had to apply some tricks after I wrote tests for the code I added.
When an update of a build in bodhi is ‘pending’ and it requests for ‘testing’ and if that request is revoked, the status of that build should be set to ‘unpushed’.
When an update of a build in bodhi is ‘testing’ and it requests for ‘stable’ and if that request is revoked, the status of that build should be set to ‘testing’.
I pushed a patch for it accordingly and received positive comment from threebean 🙂 . Then threebean and lmacken told me to write test for it, because “Sometimes what we see is not the truth!!” . If you look at the patch it really seemed to work. But when I wrote test for the code I added, the test was failing. As pingou suggested I tried printing some debugging statements to make sure if the test is exercising the code I added. Hence I came to know that the test is not going through the code :|. After struggling for a day I catched that my code was conflicting here which also has action ‘revoke’.
Then I modified my code to solve that conflict and received positive review from pingou 😉 .
The PR can be found here which is finally merged. Thanks to pingou for continuously reviewing my patches and thanks to threebean and lmacken for encouraging and helping me to write tests 🙂 .
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This episode of Mystery Bando Theater 19XX we are conquered by the awful of Yoshiuki Tomino‘s 1999 dumpster fire, Garzey’s Wing. Vorgelia is back with Shadon and TheSubtleDoctor to laugh and laugh at quite possibly the worst (best?) English dub of all time.
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It’s that time again! Today, I bring you another author spotlight from †3Dark. This time, we’re beaming the light down on Richard Thomas.
For those who don’t know, Richard Thomas is one of the most prominent horror-authors writing today. His work is lyrical, gripping, and full of pathos. Chuck Wendig once said that Richard Thomas writes like ‘a guy with a gun to his head’, and I wholeheartedly agree. There’s a mania there, a fervor that almost speaks of therapy, but then this is coupled with a restraint, a control and precision which only masters of the craft can exercise.
What’s truly innovative about his work is his constant drive to do something “new”, rather than relying on old horror tropes, or blood and guts, to achieve a gripping narrative. I’m humbled to be working with him!
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books—Disintegration and Breaker (Random House Alibi), Transubstantiate, Staring Into the Abyss, Herniated Roots, Tribulations, and The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). His over 100 stories in print include Cemetery Dance, PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Arcadia, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2 & 3, and Shivers VI. He is also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. In his spare time he writes for LitReactor and is Editor-in-Chief at Gamut Magazine. For more information visit http://www.whatdoesnotkillme.com or contact Paula Munier at Talcott Notch.
I first came into contact with Richard over Twitter, funnily enough. I was bemoaning the difficulty of breaking into publishing, having recently had a series of rejections for a manuscript I was actually pretty confident about. I was already following Richard, being a big fan of his early work like Disintegration. Somehow, inexplicably, Richard saw my tweet and decided to respond, offering some suggestions of good publishing houses to try. That random act of kindness, so unexpectedly out of the blue, was a real turning point for me.
Later, I would go on to read Richard’s third collection Tribulations and write a review of it. I would also join the team at Storgy. Things coalesced, Storgy wanted to do an interview of Richard, and I wound up, still pinching myself with disbelief, interviewing the great man himself. It was a two hour interview, jammed full of generous, generous insight. I don’t think he skimped on a single question. The openness with which he discussed aspects of his personal life, publishing, his journey, his writing process, was pretty dumbfounding. And the fact he was prepared to give so much time to essentially a young enthusiastic geek.
So, from then on, I had a dialogue with Richard, and when I made my decision to make †3Dark a living, breathing thing, I knew that I wanted a story from Richard.
Richard will be taking the October 2017 story slot – and so far has remained fairly mysterious about what he’ll be writing for us! Of course, all the stories in †3Dark have spiritual, religious themes – but that is open to broad interpretation.
Want to see a unique, never-before-seen story from Richard? Then help us make 13Dark happen by backing our kickstarter! There are 14 days left, so please, help us out (and reward yourself) by getting your hands on a story from the master!
That’s enough from me for now!
Keep hale & see you next time!
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it. The pleasure is all mine, thanks for the continued support. Very excited about 13 Dark, can’t wait for it to roll out.
This sounds really exciting and Richard Thomas a great guy – this is not my genre normally, but I will have to get one of his books and give this a shot!!
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St. Louis Rams 4-12 The Rams will be much improved this year compared to last year. Sam Bradford will be the franchise quarterback they are looking for.
Do you perform a movement like a stomach crunch at work or on the playing field? Probably not! I believe that traditional exercises can set up performance-limiting habits that will adversely affect your movement. We develop these habits unknowingly until our movement is compromised to the point it will damage out fitness. If your body is not moving as well as it should then your chances of getting a sports injury are increased.
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Carpentry renders great personal satisfaction. Success in business yields great pride. Building houses for families to make their home is priceless. The following was recieved from the young family nesting at Home Revival. The mission of ACI includes leaving a "legacy home" where their national conferences meet. For the 2008 Pittsburg Home Performance Conference, it is officially "mission accomplished"
I wanted to send you some pictures of the house and give you a little update. We absolutely love the house! It has really become home to us and are so grateful for everything you did for us to get us in here! Although we are still not quite sure how to work all the gadgets of the house they seem to be doing a great job. Even though we did not have air conditioners the first summer months we lived here, the house was naturally cooler than outside and made those hot summer days bearable! Although fall has just begun we have experienced some very chilly nights and had to put on the heat. I was amazed at how quickly the house warmed up and how it retained the heat even after I turned the heat off! We will send you some of our utility bills for your records in the upcoming months so you can see how the new technology has paid off.
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The 2013–14 Taça de Portugal was the 74th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football knockout cup competition organised by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). It was contested by 156 teams from the top four tiers of Portuguese football. The competition began with the first-round matches in September 2013 and concluded with the final at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, on 18 May 2014.
The title holders were Primeira Liga side Vitória de Guimarães who entered the 2013–14 competition in the third round, together with the Primeira Liga teams, advancing as far as the next round, where they lost 2–0 to Porto.
In the final, Benfica defeated Rio Ave 1–0, courtesy of a first-half goal by Nicolás Gaitán, and won the competition for a record 25th time. In doing so, they also established a new Portuguese record of doubles (10) and became the first club to win the domestic treble of Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.
As the winners of the Taça de Portugal, Benfica earned the right to play in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group stage. However, since they had already qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League as the 2013–14 Primeira Liga winners, Rio Ave took their place as the cup runners-up. As they did not win the Taça de Portugal, Rio Ave had to enter the competition in the third qualifying round. In addition, Benfica qualified for the 2014 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, where they faced again Rio Ave, as a result of having won both league and cup titles.
As in the previous season, the competition format was organized in a knockout system consisting of seven rounds preceding the final match. The 79 teams competing in the newly formed Campeonato Nacional de Seniores (third tier), the 26 best relegated teams from the 2012–13 Third Division (extinct fourth tier) and the 18 champions of the District cups will enter the first round, with 35 of those teams receiving a bye. In the second round, Segunda Liga teams will join the first-round winners and the remaining teams that received a bye in the previous round. The second-round winners will advance to the third round, where they will meet the top tier Primeira Liga teams for the first time. Unlike the previous rounds, which are contested as one-legged fixtures, the semi-finals were played over two legs in a home-and-away basis. The final will be played at a neutral venue, the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras.
All draws were held at the FPF headquarters in Lisbon.
A total of 123 teams from the Campeonato Nacional (CN) and District Leagues (D) entered this round. The draw was held on 29 July 2013 and determined the 88 teams contesting this round and the remaining 35 teams receiving a bye. Matches were played on 1 September 2013.
Seventeen teams from the Segunda Liga (II) joined the 44 first-round winners and the 35 teams given a bye into the second round. The draw was made on 9 September 2013 and matches were played on 21 and 22 September.
The 16 teams from the Primeira Liga (I) joined the 48-second-round winners in the third round. The draw was held on 30 September 2013 and matches were played on 19 and 20 October 2013.
The draw for the fourth round took place on 24 October 2013 and matches were played on 16, 17 and 24 November and 4 December 2013.
The draw for the fifth round took place on 22 November 2013 and matches were played on 4 and 5 January 2014.
The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 9 January 2014, and matches were played on 5 and 6 February 2014.
The semi-final pairings were determined on 9 January 2014, following the draw for the quarter-finals. This round was played over two legs, with the first leg played on 26 March and the second leg played on 16 April 2014.
^ Vitória de Guimarães B, a reserve team which plays in the Series B, is ineligible to play in the competition.
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^ "Benfica em Cinfães, Trofense no Dragão e Alba em Alvalade". fpf.pt (in Portuguese). Portuguese Football Federation. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
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The Isuzu Trooper is a mid-size SUV that was produced by the Japanese automaker Isuzu between 1981 and 2002 and exported internationally as the Isuzu Trooper II, Caribe 442, Acura SLX, Chevrolet Trooper, Subaru Bighorn, SsangYong Korando Family, Honda Horizon, Opel Monterey, Vauxhall Monterey, Holden Jackaroo, Holden Monterey and HSV Jackaroo.
In total, there were two generations of this vehicle: the first, produced between 1981 and 1991; and the second (UBS) produced between 1991 and 2002, with a substantial refresh in 1998. Production ended in 2002.
The Trooper began as a rather basic and somewhat underpowered on- and off-road vehicle, offered only with four-cylinder motor, four-speed manual transmission, and part-time four-wheel drive. The first generation evolved to add both amenities and luxuries, including optional air-conditioning, power windows, and a more powerful V6 engine. The second generation was even more refined and available in two-wheel drive as well as four-wheel drive.
The first-generation Trooper was available as a three- or five-door wagon with independent front suspension. In the Japanese market, the car was originally introduced as the "Isuzu Rodeo Bighorn", but the "Rodeo" part of the name was soon dropped. Early engines included a 1.9-liter gasoline and a 73 PS (54 kW) 2.2-liter diesel, lightly powered even by early 1980s standards for the vehicle's 3,700 lb (1,678 kg) empty weight. The four-wheel-drive system was engaged by operating a three-position shifter adjacent to the transmission shifter. Both Aisin manual-locking and Isuzu's own auto-locking hubs were employed.
The Trooper was also sold in Australia and New Zealand as the Holden Jackaroo, named after an Australian slang term for a young man working on a sheep or cattle station. The standard Trooper was also sold under the Isuzu nameplate in New Zealand only. In Indonesia, where it was locally assembled by Garmak Motors, it was sold as the Chevrolet Trooper. Around 1987 a two-wheel-drive version called the Chevrolet Stallion was developed there; it has the Trooper's body on the chassis of a rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet LUV. It also has a rigid front axle instead of the Trooper's independent design. There was also a locally developed SUV model of the Isuzu Pickups built in the early 1980s called the Holden Lincah and Holden Raider. While similar to a Trooper in many ways it was a simpler vehicle and has bodywork partially made of fibreglass. In Venezuela was known as Caribe 442.
In 1991 for the 1992 model year, Isuzu completely redesigned the Trooper to keep pace with changes in the SUV marketplace, making it larger, more powerful, and more luxurious. These 4,155 lb (1,885 kg) vehicles used a 3.2 L 177 PS (130 kW; 175 hp) (SOHC) petrol engine or 3.2-liter dual overhead cam (DOHC) version rated at 193 PS (142 kW; 190 hp). A SOHC 3.2-liter engine producing 193 PS (142 kW; 190 hp) was introduced in 1996, replacing the earlier DOHC engine in selected export markets. Most models still used a part-time four-wheel-drive system, which required stopping the vehicle to engage and disengage the front axle. Starting in model year 1996, some Troopers came with a "shift-on-the-fly" engagement system.
From 1992, the UBS series was available with a pushrod overhead valve (OHV) 3.1-liter inline-four engine intercooled turbo diesel (designated "4JG2") producing 114 PS (84 kW; 112 hp) at 3,600 rpm, and 260 N⋅m (192 lb⋅ft) at 2000 rpm. It was offered as a more rugged and fuel-efficient option for towing and heavy-duty operation, relative to the standard 3.2-liter petrol. The diesel-powered Jackaroo was available with a five-speed manual transmission and manual front hubs only coupled to a part-time four-wheel drive system with open front and limited slip rear differentials. The 3.2-liter V6 petrol engine version was also available with an optional four-speed automatic transmission with automatic locking front hubs. The same diesel engine was also available in the UK and other markets with a belt-driven overhead camshaft, which developed slightly more power. After 1998, and the introduction of the "4JX1" 3.0-liter diesel engine, a four-speed automatic transmission was made available in addition to the five-speed manual transmission.
The Australian version of the UBS-series was sold as the Holden Jackaroo/Monterey. In July 1993, Holden Special Vehicles also launched 79 HSV Jackaroo models, which were just a cosmetic upgrade to Holden donor powered by the same 3.2-liter 177 PS (130 kW; 175 hp) (SOHC) petrol engine. Around the same period, Isuzu and Honda established a working relationship that saw Honda sell a rebadged Trooper. The car was thus sold in Japan as the Honda Horizon (1994 to 1999) and in the United States as the Acura SLX (1996 to 1999).
Beginning in 1998, the US-spec Trooper became equipped with a DOHC 3.5-liter engine producing 215 hp (160 kW; 218 PS). European and Asian buyers could opt for the diesel engine option of the 4JG2 3.1-liter (later superseded by the more problematic 4JX1 3.0-liter of 159 PS or 117 kW). A Borg-Warner torque-on-demand ("TOD") all-wheel-drive system was introduced, along with freshened styling. The grille was redesigned again for the 2000 model year.
Transmission options included a five-speed manual transmission, the Aisin AR5 and the electronically controlled 4L30E four-speed automatic. The 4l30E was fitted with both a "power" shift feature allowing the gearbox to take better advantage of the engine's power by adjusting the shifting nature and a "winter" mode permitting third gear starts for added stability in slippery conditions. The 2000 to 2002 Trooper included a feature called "Grade Logic" which allowed the transmission to automatically downshift on steep grades in order to slow the vehicle down.
The suspension consisted of a fully independent torsion bar front suspension, and a multilink coil sprung rear suspension integrated with a solid rear axle.
The Trooper LS and S models offered 117.8 cu ft (3,340 L) cargo space, while Limited models had 112.3 cu ft (3,180 L).
While US-spec Troopers came only in the 5-seat models, in Europe and the UK seven-seater version was also offered. Optional on all models was a rear limited slip differential. In the US the three-door RS model was sold only from 1993 to 1995.
In 2002, the Trooper was discontinued in the United States in favor of the smaller Axiom and the larger GM-produced Isuzu Ascender, a re-badged GMC Envoy.
A Trooper with the 16-valve 159 PS (117 kW; 157 hp) 3.0-liter 4JX1-TC engine was sold in the Philippines from 2002 until model year 2005. Known as the Skyroof Edition, it came in a rear-wheel-drive configuration with anti-lock brakes, a limited slip differential, billet-type radiator grille, and large power moonroof. Other standard options included leather seats, wood trim, and a VCD entertainment system. It was later succeeded by the Isuzu Alterra.
The "Acura SLX" was a lightly upgraded and re-badged Isuzu Trooper sold by the Acura division of Honda from 1995 to 1999, as 1996 to 1999 year models. Sold only in the United States, the SLX was later replaced by the Acura MDX in 2001.
The SLX omitted some of the options available on Troopers from concurrent model years, including the manual transmission and certain engines. From 1996 to 1997 the SLX was only available with the 3.2-litre SOHC or DOHC V6 engine, switching to the new 3.5-litre DOHC V6 engine in 1998. The SLX received a restyled front end for the 1998 model year, but continued to sell poorly and was ultimately discontinued after 1999. It is said that sales were affected by bad press when the 1996 to 1997 models were rated "Not Acceptable" by Consumer Reports for their tendency to roll over during testing.
In Europe, the Trooper/Big Horn was sold in Europe as an Opel or Vauxhall from 1992. Called the Monterey, the plate lasted until 1999 on the continent (as an Opel) but only until 1998 in Great Britain, where the Vauxhall badge was used. The Monterey name also saw use by Holden in Australia, at first (from 1994) as the top equipment level (V6 only) for what was there called the Jackaroo, but later as a standalone nameplate for the more luxurious part of the range. The Opel, or Vauxhall, was a big hit.
The second-generation Trooper received negative press in the United States when the 1995–1997 models were rated "Not Acceptable" by Consumer Reports for an alleged tendency to roll over under testing. In response to a petition from the publication's publisher, Consumers Union, the National Highway Traffic Administration conducted its own tests and found no issue that could lead to a need for a recall. However, the magazine's claims had hurt sales of the vehicle.
After the release of the NHTSA report, Isuzu filed a lawsuit against Consumers Union seeking $242 million in damages, claiming that during Consumer Reports's tests the steering wheel had been twisted more sharply than "a driver is willing or able to make in response to an unexpected event. The judge in the suit, Richard Paez, determined that because Isuzu had engaged in an extensive public relations campaign to refute the claims prior to filing suit, it was considered a public figure, raising the standard for defamation from a simple preponderance of evidence that the report was false to "clear and convincing evidence" that Consumer Reports published the article knowing it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was true or false. The defamation suit went to a jury, which found that eight of the 17 statements in the report questioned by Isuzu were false, with one displaying "reckless disregard" for the truth on the part of Consumer Reports magazine, but that Isuzu was not damaged by that statement. Two of the 10 jurors on the panel did not believe the magazine believed that the other seven statements were untruthful when they published them. Consequently, the full jury panel did not award Isuzu monetary damages for the alleged damage to its reputation and lost sales. Isuzu calculates the total cost of the Consumer Reports claims at $244 million. As Isuzu was denied damages on all counts, the formal court judgement in favor of Consumers Union entered by Paez required Isuzu to pay CU's "reasonable costs" of defending itself against the suit, not including attorney's fees.
1992 – Trooper won class victory in '92 Australian Safari.
1993 – Troopers took first and second place in the class of '93 Australian Safari.
1994 – Trooper won the Marathon class victory at the 1994 Paris–Dakar Rally.
1994 – Trooper finished first in its class at the Pharaoh's Rally.
Asia – Isuzu Trooper, also sold by Chevrolet as Chevrolet Trooper.
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The Replacements, the alternative rock heroes that emerged out of Minneapolis in the 1980s, remain one of rock 'n' roll’s legendary bands. The mythos was created by a combination of classic elements: the stories of amazing gigs, where you believed they were one of the best bands in the world; the tales of drunken outings, filled with medleys of hits from the ‘70s; the discography of albums that influenced bands and musicians from Kurt Cobain to Titus Andronicus, Billie Joe Armstrong to the Hold Steady. Lorde covered “Swingin’ Party” from 1985’s “Tim”; Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy’s declared onstage, “Everything we do is based on the Replacements.” The songs continue to attract new fans and still hold up 30 years later.
“Trouble Boys,” the new biography about the Replacements, dismantles (or upholds!) the myths with an artful, patience diligence. Author Bob Mehr painstakingly tells the entire story of the band, and delves into every relevant detail necessary in order to accomplish this task. It took Mehr over a decade to complete his research, talking to literally hundreds of individuals. The book is not authorized, but rather written “with the participation of.” That doesn’t just mean that the band members granted interviews, but also that they clearly gave the nod to anyone else in the continuum of their lives and history to speak to Mehr. This allowed him to follow the story wherever it went, for good, bad and tragic.
There’s no spoiler here: Those who followed or cared about the band already know that there’s an awful lot of tragedy around the Replacements, from the way success seemed to elude their grasp, to the dismissal and departure of founding guitarist Bob Stinson. Mehr’s approach to this is unstinting and unvarnished--this isn’t a glossy feel-good story, there’s no artful spin to the tales. The reader will come out of the book not wondering why the band didn’t make it, but rather wondering how they managed to go as far as they did.
“Trouble Boys” opens with Bob Stinson’s funeral in 1995. Mehr starts here because Bob founded the band. He starts with Bob because he was the soul of the band. He starts with Bob because everyone who ever loved the Replacements wants to know what really happened with Bob, even if they already likely carry their own strongly held opinions on the subject. The book then digs deep into the family history and the childhood of each individual band member, because where you come from has a lot to do with who you are and who you become. No spoilers, but it is literally a wonder and a testament to a special brand of dogged inner determination that each member of the Replacements made it to adulthood.
This early background isn’t presented in a vacuum the way it is in some artist biographies, where the reader is never given any assistance in weighing the information or understanding why they’re being told something; the real art in Trouble Boys is how no detail is wasted or there simply because it was acquired. So a note about Paul’s mother’s pregnancy is immediately connected to a quote about "Bastards of Young," a detail about the Stinson kitchen that comes back to "Sorry Ma, I Forgot to Take Out the Trash," or an observation about Alex Chilton’s behavior next to a trash can on a New York street, which, of course, connects to the song named after him.
The book is insanely dense with this kind of detail, which Mehr doggedly closes the loop on, over and over again. Early in the book, there’s a paragraph about the history of rehab centers and why there are so many in Minnesota. This directly connects to why so many teens in the Minneapolis music scene had been in rehab programs, which gives further background to the band’s first show, played at a teen "sober dance," and all of this together explains how a song called “Treatment Bound” ended up on their 1983 "Hootenanny" album. This type of connection happens over and over again during the course of the book.
Along the way, "Trouble Boys" also relates necessary history regarding the Minneapolis alternative rock scene, because without it, the reader would be missing critical context. So the birth of Twin/Tone Records (who would sign the Replacements), the individuals who worked in and around the local music business, and the life and death of various clubs and music venues is presented alongside the rest of the tale. This includes the story of Peter Jesperson, the man who discovered the Replacements, who later became their manager, “fifth Replacement,” biggest cheerleader, and whose life was deeply impacted in a permanent way from his association with the band, as well as the role of other musicians who joined the band in the later years -- most important, that of Slim Dunlap, who stepped into the second guitar role after the departure of Bob Stinson.
It’s important to note that author Bob Mehr didn't grow up in Minnesota, didn’t live there, wasn’t part of the crowd. While some people might discount the authority of this book because of that, it’s actually one of its strengths. This distance means that Mehr has to work at recognizing, identifying and explaining the inside jokes and local references. He also doesn’t have to see these people every time he goes out to see a show, which makes it a lot easier when it comes time to reveal hard truths, or stories of a person’s younger days that might not shed a positive light.
Where the book shines the brightest is when it comes to talking about the most important part of the Replacements’ legacy: the music. There is wonderful, incredibly descriptive detail of recording sessions, and of the songwriting process. It’s here where Mehr’s appreciation of the band serves the material well, and that’s not meant in a negative way: someone who wasn’t a fan of the band wouldn’t be able to describe the songs in the type of bright, evocative detail that’s a highlight of Mehr’s music writing in general. But he also writes from the perspective of someone who’s been an informed observer of the band’s music for decades.
By the book’s end, though, your heart will be broken. You’ll be furious at the band’s inability to play it straight, to grab the gold ring, to step into the spotlight. You’ll understand exactly why the band’s career played out the way it did, but that won’t make you less angry about the lost opportunity, the songs left unfinished, the gigs we never got to see. The epilogue, usually the place in a biography for some ray of sunshine, will either make you weep or turn you catatonic, page after page, waiting for the roller coaster to come to a stop.
Not everyone will be thrilled with "Trouble Boys." The reader who’s just looking for a celebration of the chaos, the same way some fans used to come to ‘Mats shows demanding drunken spectacle, will probably be unsatisfied. There are so many people who are happy to continue believing in their own version of the truth, even if it’s completely wrong. That is rarely true more than it is with fans of the Replacements, because they were so loved and so hated and so much the band of the forgotten misfit, and it’s hard to let go of something that meant that much to you. But for everyone else, students of rock 'n' roll, or those who wondered what the big deal really was, "Trouble Boys" is a tremendous piece of research and writing, and absolutely the Replacements biography we’ve been waiting for.
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Students participate in You+Me=Us, a workshop about negotiating healthy relationships.
On Mar. 4, young men and women from Westview, Emery, Jeffreys and other secondary schools in our area met at York University’s Student Centre and shared how women and men can better understand and appreciate each other.
The BeLovEd movement sponsored this event. The Black Creek Community Health Centre launched this education campaign in 2009 to promote healthy relationships between genders.
Lisa Brown, of the Black Creek Community Health Centre and comedian Owen Blakka Ellis co-hosted the event.
Other leaders were Kevin Sutton of the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) Equity Program, Kelli Leizer, teacher at Westview, Jason To, teacher at C.W. Jeffreys, Carmen Fuentes, teacher at Emery and Jen Wheelan of York University social work.
Sgt. Steve Hicks of the Toronto Police Services 31 Division gave an inspiring talk on how to avoid unhealthy relationships.
The following are student’s personal stories of their impressions of the gathering.
Recently, I had the privilege of attending an awe-inspiring conference at York University, led by the BeLovEd Movement where I participated in some incredible workshops.
The purpose of the conference, entitled Be Inspired, Love Yourself, Educate Others held on Mar. 4 at York University, was to instill inspiration, love, and greater knowledge into the students who attended.
As someone who was in attendance, I can honestly say that they had successfully achieved their goal.
The conference, which coincided with International Women’s Day, delivered a powerful and important message through fascinating speeches, video screenings, and performances. We were educated on everything from healthy relationships, to gender stereotypes, as well as the prevention of violence against young women.
Overall, the theme of this entire day was the importance of equality: treating everyone equally regardless of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or class.
Participants debate what should go in to a "man box" during a seminar called "Deconstructing the Hype: Gender-based Violence 101"
The people I met, the speeches I heard, and the workshops I took part in taught me that love and acceptance should be the guiding forces in our lives.
I hope that one day, for the sake of our mothers, daughters, sisters, and suffering females around the world, love will finally overcome hatred, and violence against women will be a thing in the past, never to be looked upon again.
During the "Deconstructing the Hype: Gender-based Violence 101" workshop, students came up with ideas to place in a "woman box"
At the BeLovEd Movement Conference, I increased my knowledge about abuse and brutality towards women.
The entire Generation Change group and I watched videos about relationships, then as a group we discussed and gave our opinions about them.
After, the Generation Change group had split up into smaller groups, we talked about different topics, including, people who are survivors of emotional and physical abuse in their every day relationships.
I was in a group established for guys only. What I learned was, women, can influence how a man acts. For example, when a man is with a woman, he wants to portray himself as a tough, cool, smooth guy, without any feelings. However when he sits among men he is comfortable with, he can express and talk about his feelings much more.
After all, the day was successful and awesome. I am glad to be a part of Generation Change and I thank all of the coordinators and sponsors for putting together this wonderful learning experience.
Staff of the Oakdale Golf and Country Club volunteered at the Gala to help reduce costs.
Green Change Agents pose with representatives of the major sponsors of the Gala, the Oakdale Golf and Country Club and Carpenters Union, Local 27.
Jane Finch Youth Steel Pan Group plays to guests as they enter the Gala.
CBC News Co-Anchor and Gala Co-Emcee, Dwight Drummond, with Inspector Tony Riviere of Toronto Police Services, 31 Division.
All photos by the community photographer.
More than 200 local residents attended a town hall meeting held by Councillor Anthony Perruzza at the York Woods Library Theatre on Feb.22.
Councillor Anthony Perruzza (Ward 8 ) held a Town Hall meeting this last Tuesday, Feb. 22.
With over 200 people in attendance, local residents had an opportunity to talk local politics with their councillor. There were presentations from different City departments: Ted Zander, Resident Superintendant with the Spadina Subway Extension Project gave a presentation on the transportation plan that deals with subway construction.
Josie Lavida, Director of Financial Planning, gave an in depth presentation on the City’s budget report for 2011. Her father, a local resident, was in attendance. Bill Blake, District Manger of Municipal Licensing and Standards, gave a presentation on the MRAB program, which audits multi-unit tenant buildings to ensure a high standard of maintenance and has had a serious effect on a number of local buildings in Ward 8.
Among the topics discussed at a Town Hall Meeting held by Councillor Anthony Perruzza (above) were public transit as well as the effect that budget cuts could have on the local community.
Residents also had an opportunity to ask questions, which ranged from the effects of budget cuts on local programs, like the basement flooding program, to public transit questions.
The meeting was also attended by activists from www.ttcriders.ca which are working to save the construction of the future LRT line on Finch Avenue West. The line was due for construction in the coming years, but the current mayor has recently announced that the money for this part of the public transit project slated for this community will now be spent elsewhere.
Majora Carter said she has something in common with the Tea Party movement in the United States.
Carter, a renowned environmental activist from the South Bronx, N.Y. made this bold statement when delivering her keynote address for the Green Change Exposition and Gala, sponsored by the Jane-Finch Community and Family Centre on Feb. 12.
On paper, one might assume that Carter, who now runs her own environmental consulting firm, The Majora Carter Group, has spent more than a decade actively campaigning for environmental sustainability, particularly in at risk neighbourhoods, would have little, if any common ground with the populist movement which is sweeping up many parts of the United States.
For starters, Tea Partiers, as they are called, are generally opposed to any sort of government spending on social programs, preferring to leave such endeavours up to the will of individuals and the market.
In her speech, Carter, however argued that creating environmentally sustainable initiatives is not more costly to the average taxpayer, but, in fact, it will save them money in the long run.
Carter explained that environmental sustainability can be a win-win situation for the environment, taxpayers and especially for communities facing severe economic challenges.
According to Carter, many people in at risk communities feel as if there is no hope for them and this in turn, leads to a higher incidence of crime.
Carter said legitimate opportunities can be created around green jobs.
“Those are the type of jobs that if you realize it, making investments now, actually pays you back in the future and it makes people instead of becoming tax burdens, they become tax payers,” she said.
Anthony Perruzza, Toronto city councillor for Ward 8, said that on a smaller scale, some of these initiatives are beginning to happen in the community.
“I agree with [Carter] very profoundly on the notion that if you take care of the smaller stuff at a community level, then the big problems nationally and internationally take care of themselves and it’s really up to us on a community level and at a local level to focus and produce some of those results,” he said.
One example of this is the Centre for Green Change, the organization for whom the exposition and gala was raising money towards, has been involved in many environmentally positive initiatives in our community through their many green change agents.
In addition to this work, the Centre for Green Change has already created two dedicated community gardens at Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) properties at 2999 Jane St., 4400 Jane St and are looking at creating one at Shoreham Court in the spring.
In order to continue with their initiatives, they have received dedicated space from TCHC at 2999 Jane St. However, that space needed to be renovated at an estimated cost of $500,000 and so Powell said the organization decided to turn their second annual Green Change Gala into a fundraiser event to help make this possible.
“This year our aim is to raise about $30,000 on our own to combine with other funds that we’ve requested from the government and also other partnerships,” she said.
One of the partnerships the organization has is with the Carpenters and Allied Workers Local 27, who have donated their time and expertise to help with the renovation process as well as partially funded Carter’s speaking engagement.
Yorke said that local 27 training instructors would be involved in helping community volunteers to complete the renovations.
Carter ended off her speech with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., stating that there is a “legitimate and unavoidable impatience,” in order to create a green economy in communities such as this one.
“We have people that are suffering for no good reason and we’ve got an opportunity to make that we can use right now that can impact everyone positively including our national debts so for that I think there’s no reason to wait at all,” she said.
Anthony Perruzza, city councillor for Ward 8 will hold a town hall meeting at the York Woods Library theatre on Tuesday Feb. 22 at 7:00 p.m.
Topics for discussion are the 2011 city budget as well as an updates on TTC subway construction and transit on Finch Ave. W.
Feb. 22: InCharge Canada Debt Solutions for Life: A Personal Finance Workshop, from 6:00p.m. to 8:00 p.m. York Woods Library, Meeting room 2. Register in person or by calling 416-395-5980.
Feb. 23: Andrew Craig, motivational speaker and CBC radio host visits the York Woods Library Theatre from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Register in person or call 416-395-5980.
Feb. 24: African music and dance performance York Gate Mall at 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 26: Screening of The Hope dealer, a film about a martial arts instructor who inspires and changes the lives of at risk youth at York Woods Library Meeting room 2 from 3:00p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Discussion to follow. Register in person or call 416-395-5980.
Mar. 2: Lost and Found: (Finding) Hidden Beauty in the ‘Hood group exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University on from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
For Bruno d’Andrea, Scouting is in the blood. ”When I put on my uniform, I feel like myself. I get so much energy from it,” he says.
For more than 30 years, Bruno has directed that energy towards meeting the needs of 11-16 year old boys and girls for fun, discipline, nourishment and love every week at Scout meetings held at St. Augustine of Canterbury, and most recently, at St. Charles Garnier Catholic elementary schools.
Over the years, the Scout Troupes have always been as diverse as the community itself, not only culturally, but also religiously, as can be demonstrated by the leaders themselves. Bruno is a Christian, his co-leader of 20 years, Mandy Saadia is Jewish, and their third leader, Amananth Hosein, is Muslim.
Bruno’s dedication to Scouting started with a love of the outdoors passed down to him by his father in the mountainous region of Italy called Abruzzo. Bruno came to Canada at the age of 18 and within 5 years, he got married and started his own Scout Troupe.
Bruno (far right) leads boys and girls in the Scouting Circle at the beginning of a fun day of camp in May 2009.
Over the years, Bruno’s massively popular Scout Troupes have touched the lives of hundreds of kids, so much so that they still come back to visit him as if he were a surrogate father or an older, wiser, contagiously fun friend. Just recently, they organized a shower for a former Scout, who was about to have her first baby.
In all things, Bruno gives from his heart. He and his wife often feed the kids with homemade Italian meals and BBQs in the park. He personally drives to pick up the Scouts in his passenger van before meetings and drives kids back home again to ensure their safety.
The Troupe often holds fundraisers to pay for scouts’ enrollment fees, uniforms and camping trips, and when that isn’t enough, Bruno gives from his own pocket. He even takes on extra shifts at work to do so.
But you can only give so much before you burn out. Bruno’s Scout Troupe had to close this year. He says because there wasn’t enough enough help. The time and organization required to run programs for 28 energetic boys and girls every week is exhausting – especially for the three leaders who are all getting older, he added.
The Scout Troupe is trying hard to stay connected even though they don’t have weekly meetings. Just last week they joined other Troupes in the area to deliver more than 300 Toronto Star Santa Claus Boxes of food and gifts to families in need.
Bruno, his co-leaders and the Scouts are itching to start meeting again. They are making their own Christmas Wish for volunteers. Here are three ways you can help, by providing transportation for the kids, or you can help with fundraising or at weekly meetings once or twice a month.
-If this is something you can do, or would like to speak with Bruno, please contact him via email: camperbruno@hotmail.com or via phone (416) 708-0133.
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Urgent threat, a new warning tonight that the danger posed by North Korea is much more immediate. President Trump's national security adviser publicly discussing his escalating concerns and preparations for possible military action.
A little more time, the president predicting Republicans will get their act together on health care and pushing a stalled bill through the U.S. Senate. GOP leaders setting a new deadline as more members of their party reject the legislation and suggest Mr. Trump deserves some of the blame.
In denial? Sources tell CNN the president seems unwilling to accept that Russia's election meddling still poses a threat to the U.S., even as top advisers try to convince him. We are learning more this hour about growing fears that the president isn't taking the Russia problem seriously.
And never-ending campaign. Just 160 days into his first term, Mr. Trump holds his first reelection fund-raiser tonight. Why is he in such a rush to focus on 2020?
BLITZER: Breaking news tonight, the president's national security adviser is publicly warning that the threat posed by North Korea is much more immediate right now. General H.R. McMaster telling a defense group that Mr. Trump has asked for a range of options, including possible military action to respond to Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions and defiance.
enough conservative and moderate Republicans together to pass a bill, but he's predicting they will pull off what he is now calling a big surprise.
Also this hour, multiple sources tell CNN that the president's top advisers are struggling to convince him that Russia's election interference still poses a threat. We're told there are few signs that Mr. Trump is paying attention to Russian cyber-attacks, even as he slams President Obama for not taking a harder line against Moscow's meddling.
This hour, I will talk with Senator Mark Warner. He's the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
First, let's go to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, with more on the North Korea threat.
Barbara, we are hearing new urgency from the president's national security adviser.
The language growing tougher, growing indeed more urgent. A couple of days ago, President Trump suddenly said that the North Korean threat might have to be dealt with rapidly. That's the president's words. Now we know why. CNN can report that two defense officials say military options have recently been updated and are ready for the president if he were to make a decision to proceed with military action.
They are ready because now the U.S. is watching very carefully every ballistic missile test, the possibility of an underground nuclear test, and watching all of this to see when North Korea is able to make some significant advance in its ability to have a weapon that could attack the United States.
The national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, laying it all out just a short time ago.
H.R. MCMASTER, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: The threat is much more immediate now, and, so, it's clear that we can't repeat the same approach, failed approach of the past. The president has directed us to not do that, and to prepare a range of options, including a military option, which nobody wants to take.
There is a recognition that there has to be more pressure on the regime, and I think what you will see in coming days and weeks are efforts to do that.
(END VIDEO CLIP) STARR: Look, General McMaster making the point everyone hopes for a diplomatic solution, that China's pressure on North Korea can actually work.
But at the same time, North Korea is making some advances that worry the U.S., and a defense official tells me tonight one of those is its ability simply to move faster, to be able to test missiles, to conduct underground nuclear tests with little warning time.
The U.S. finding it much more difficult to keep track of what North Korea is up to because they are better able to disguise their moves. It is increasingly likely that Donald Trump will be the president in the Oval Office when the United States has to deal with North Korea one way or the other, Wolf.
BLITZER: All right, Barbara, thanks very much. We will have much more on this story coming up.
But I want to quickly get to the stalled Senate health care bill and the Republican leadership's new self-imposed deadline.
Let's go to our congressional correspondent, Phil Mattingly. He's up on Capitol Hill for us.
Phil, for Senate Republicans, the clock now is ticking toward Friday.
PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that is exactly right, Wolf.
Look, there is no question there is a release valve of sorts of the pressure that had been them to try and get a vote this week. And there is some optimism that came from that, that they can figure out a way to hammer out a deal. But the reality remains they are still far apart on central issues.
And the question becomes, as they try and finalize a draft by the end of this week, will they ever get there?
MATTINGLY (voice-over): For Senate Republicans, more time, but still no clear path.
SEN. SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO (R), WEST VIRGINIA: I think we also know that it's the art of compromise here in the Senate, and so, at this point, we haven't reached that critical point of compromise.
PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After a multiday frenzy, public attention and debate, the process now back behind closed doors.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pressing his members, nine of whom have already publicly announced opposition to the draft bill, to find a way to get to yes.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER: We know that we cannot afford to delay on this issue. We have to get this done for the American people.
MATTINGLY: But senators and top GOP aides tell CNN that roadblocks to the 50 votes needed are far deeper than simple pet issues or interests, instead, a debate that lays bare the deep ideological divides inside the Republican Party. How much of a role should the government have in health care?
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R), MAINE: The opposition comes from various quarters and the ideological spectrum is really wide. So it's going to be a challenge.
MATTINGLY: Senators from states heavily dependent on Medicaid issuing stark warnings about the bill's effects.
CAPITO: The 184,000 West Virginians, I have said repeatedly, I'm not going to drop you off the edge of a cliff. And in my view, the Senate bill was too much of a cliff.
SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY: We have given moderates in our caucus lots of money to keep spending. They get to keep the Obamacare subsidies. They get to keep the Obamacare regulations. So, there are all things that big-spending Republicans want. Now, if they want conservatives to be on board, they have to start talking about, you know what, we promised repeal.
MATTINGLY: The president, though congressional aides tell CNN he stays away from the in-the-weeds details, keenly aware of the existing dynamic.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Always tough. It's probably the toughest subject the standpoint of approval because every state is different, every state has different needs.
MATTINGLY: Even still, as it stands, GOP aides tell CNN there is an ongoing effort to try and thread that needle with money for opioid treatment and support for the Medicaid program and rural hospitals in the short-term, while searching for a way to give conservatives more options for states to cut back on Obamacare's existing insurance regulations.
The issues well-known. The path to 50 votes still unclear.
CAPITO: We're all strong-willed people, and at the end of the day, I have to go back to my state, as they go back to theirs, to defend my policies and my decisions.
MATTINGLY: And, Wolf, just to give you a sense of what was happening today, senator after senator after senator going in for private meetings with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and a very key player attended at least some of those meetings, someone who is probably under appreciated in this process.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma, the individual who over sees Medicaid and Medicare, she was extremely important in the House process, assuaging a lot of concerns of wary Republicans, even promising regulatory action CMS could take to ease the transition if this new bill came into law.
She was there today, walking through skeptical senators, trying to get them on board, another key component as they try and get people to a yes. The reality remains, though, they can do a lot administratively, but legislatively, they still have a lot of work to do, Wolf.
BLITZER: Good point. All right, thanks very much, Phil Mattingly up on Capitol Hill.
Also tonight, new developments in the Russia investigation. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he's confident that the FBI will grant his request and give the panel access to the memos of former FBI Director James Comey.
Let's go to our senior congressional reporter, Manu Raju. He's up on Capitol Hill for us also.
Manu, what more are you learning?
Senator Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the committee, said that he did have a conversation with Robert Mueller, the special counsel, about the special counsel's investigation in an effort to make sure that their investigation can move forward in the Senate, and that the special counsel's inquiry can also move forward, Burr saying earlier to our colleague Jeremy Herb that he's confident that actually that they can get access to those memos written by fired FBI Director James Comey about his interactions with President Trump.
Now, this comes as the committee is still looking into the issue of collusion, if any collusion existed between Russian officials and Trump officials. There is a question that is still outstanding as they try to interview some Trump associates and dig through records that are being provided to the committee.
Richard Burr addressed this just earlier today.
RAJU: Do you believe we're any closer to that key central question about collusion at this point?
SEN. RICHARD BURR (R), NORTH CAROLINA: Well, I would only say that there have been comments, public comments, that suggest that there's been no overwhelming evidence to suggest that there was collusion.
But we have to chase down every potential -- every potential pathway that we see. When we conclude all those, we will make a final report.
RAJU: Do you still feel like there is no overwhelming evidence of collusion at this point?
BURR: Well, it's not for me to judge before we end. I can only address it with the milestones of what we know as of today.
RAJU: Now, also, Wolf, earlier today, the Senate Intelligence Committee did hear testimony from a number of officials talking about Russia's intervention in a number of European elections.
Now, one of the persons who testified, Nicholas Burns, a former State Department official, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, raised some serious concerns that President Trump is not doing enough on Russia.
NICHOLAS BURNS, FORMER U.S. UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS: I find it dismaying and objectionable that President Trump continues to deny the undeniable fact that Russia launched a major cyber-attack against the United States, regardless of what party he launched it against.
RAJU: Republicans across the board do seem to echo those concerns, wanting the president to take a tougher line on Russia. Still uncertain about why the White House has not done just that, as Congress tries to move forward on a new Russia sanctions bill that the White House is not really embracing at this point, Wolf.
BLITZER: Manu, we are also learning, what, that Roger Stone is also expected to testify next month?
RAJU: Yes, that's right, before the House Intelligence Committee. Now, this is going to be done in a closed session. Now, this despite Stone's own request to do this in a public setting, but the House Intelligence Committee is rejecting that.
Adam Schiff telling our colleague Tom LoBianco earlier today that the reason they are doing it in a closed session is to ensure that they can interview eyewitnesses behind closed doors. They don't want to give them that public forum.
Now, also, Wolf, we are learning that J.D. Gordon, a former national security adviser to the Trump campaign, was actually scheduled to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee today, but that interview was actually abruptly canceled because of a scheduling conflict. Gordon telling me earlier that he is more than willing to go before the House Intelligence Committee to answer any questions they may have about his -- what he says are brief interactions with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
It all shows you, Wolf, that these investigations over in the House and the Senate side to interview these big-name Trump witnesses are starting to move forward here in the coming weeks and months, Wolf.
BLITZER: All right, Manu, thanks very much, Manu Raju on the Hill for us.
As the Russia probe escalates, we are also learning about growing concerns within the Trump administration about the president's lack of a response to Moscow's election meddling.
Sara, you have been doing great reporting on this. What are you learning?
SARA MURRAY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Wolf, we are hearing that there are multiple senior officials who are saying they are struggling to convince President Trump that Russia still poses a threat to the integrity of Americans' elections.
One official told me there is -- quote -- "no evidence" to show Trump is actively engaging on the issue. Now, the president is still getting his daily briefing. And of course that includes updates on Russia. But beyond that, an administration official says there is really no paper trail, no schedules, no readouts, no briefing documents, nothing to indicate the president is convening meetings or roundtables on this subject, the way he has with other threats, for instance, threats against the U.S. power grid.
And on top of that, sources tell my colleagues Dana Bash as well as Jim Sciutto that National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers actually expressed to lawmakers how frustrated he is that he can't convince Trump to even accept U.S. intelligence that Russia meddled in the election.
BLITZER: Sara, as you know, top officials are describing this as a major threat to the United States. So, here's the question. Why is the president so reluctant to address it?
MURRAY: Well, it's a good question, Wolf.
And people who have spoken with the president about it say he's struggling to separate the investigation into his campaign's possible collusion with Russia from this investigation into Russia's meddling in the election itself.
So, one source close to the president said, Trump basically sees everything regarding Russia as being organized as a challenge to him, essentially everything is a move to undermine his presidency.
BLITZER: What are you hearing from the White House about all of this?
MURRAY: Well, the White House pushed back on the notion that Trump is not engaged on the issue. Sean Spicer insists Trump is taking the threat seriously and Sean says the White House is taking action, they're just doing it quietly.
So, in a statement too CNN, Spicer said: "The United States continues to combat on a regular basis malicious cyber-activity and will continue to do so without bragging to the media or defending itself against unfair media criticism."
Now, Spicer also pointed to the fact that Trump upheld those sanctions against Russia that the Obama administration put in place, but we have heard from congressional sources they are worried the White House is trying to water down this other package of sanctions that Manu was referencing that's already passed the Senate and is now awaiting action in the House, Wolf.
BLITZER: All right, thanks very much. Great reporting, Sara Murray, doing a great job for us. Thanks very, very much.
Let's get back to the breaking news on North Korea right now.
We're joined by Senator Mark Warner. He's the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
BLITZER: So, we all heard the president's national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, say today that the North Korean threat is immediate. He used that word. He's warning of more pressure in the coming days and weeks.
What do you think that pressure should look like? Are there any good options right now for the U.S.?
WARNER: Well, I have not been briefed on Mr. McMaster's use of the word immediate. I'm sure we will get that brief immediately.
But, clearly, I think there's more that China can do. China has the ability to really squeeze North Korea. And while we have seen some efforts, we have not seen China, in effect, all in.
My hope is that we can make it very, very clear to the Chinese that this is going to have ramifications on our trade policies, on other policies if they don't step up and try to rein in North Korea.
BLITZER: Yes, he says McMaster, the president wants some options , including potentially a military option as well. And we all know how dangerous that potentially could be.
Senator, let's turn to the Russia investigation right now. Has your committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, been given confirmation that you will receive former FBI Director James Comey's memos about his conversations with the president?
law enforcement, worked with lots of presidents of different parties. He felt so bothered by the nature of the conversations with this president and fearful that this president might lie about those conversations that he had to create contemporaneous memos.
I want to see those documents, and it will give us, again, I think further guidance as we move forward.
BLITZER: Who gave you the commitment that you will get those documents, the FBI?
WARNER: Wolf, I'm not going to get into how we get them and who we got them from or who we will get them from. We don't have them yet, but we will get access to them.
BLITZER: When do you think you will get access to those memos?
WARNER: I think very shortly.
BLITZER: Well, we'd love to invite you back on the show whenever you receive those memos.
The chairman of your committee, Senator Burr, he also told our CNN reporter Manu Raju today that, on the Russia investigation, public comments indicate there has been no overwhelming evidence to suggest that there was collusion. Do you agree?
WARNER: What I would say is, I would thought we would have been further along in the investigation. But who could have ever expected that the president would have fired the guy that was heading up the criminal investigation, Jim Comey?
That took us down a path that has required a lot of time and work. It also took us down a path of trying to bring in front of our committee the attorney general, again, who had to recuse himself because of his nondisclosed contacts with the Russians.
Today, we had a hearing where we had, again, a series of experts confirming what we already know, that the Russians intervened in our elections, intervened in the French elections, other European elections. And it became clear, as Ambassador Burns said, the only elected official in Washington that seems to still deny that basic fact is Donald Trump, which in my mind raises a host of questions why he won't listen to his own intelligence leaders.
He won't listen to other world leaders about the clear and imminent threat Russia poses, the fact last week that we saw that DHS has acknowledged that 21 states had their electoral systems at least attempt to be hacked into, and we have got no organized plan on how we're going to improve our defenses in terms of 2017 in my state and 2018 across the country.
We have got to go through all that. Now we're actually, in terms of the names of the individuals that have been bandied about, Trump associates that have been bandied about as having ties with Russia, we are actually getting to the time, having received documents from many of those individuals, where it's actually time for us to bring them in and question them.
And I think then we will be able to answer these very real questions about collaboration, collusion, or what level of communication took place. Boy, there are a lot of questions to be answered.
BLITZER: Well, I just want to be precise, Senator, because the chairman, Senator Burr, he says that there has been no overwhelming evidence to suggest that there was collusion.
Based on everything you have seen and heard over these many months, have you seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians?
WARNER: We have been receiving a number of documents that we have not fully gone through yet. I don't want to judge -- respond to that question until we go through those documents and then we get a chance to talk to those witnesses.
I said a number of weeks ago that there's a lot of smoke, and every week, there's new smoke, smoke that we have got to sort out. I said at that point I hadn't seen fire. That's probably still where I'm at, but I can assure you I would not have even expected to see any of that evidence until we move into this next phase. So, I don't want anybody drawing conclusions.
BLITZER: You disagree, at least at this stage, with your chairman, Chairman Burr. Once again, he says there's been no overwhelming evidence to suggest that there was collusion.
WARNER: The chairman and I are working very closely. We may be the last bipartisan group in town that's working on a project together. I'm going to continue that bipartisan effort.
I am going to simply reserve answering that question until we get through some of these, particularly some of the more recent documents.
BLITZER: All right, Senator. Stand by. There is a lot more we need to discuss. We are following all the breaking news. We will take a quick break. We will be right back.
BLITZER: We're back with the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democrat Mark Warner.
Senator, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns testified before your committee today. I want you to listen to his assessment of President Trump's responsibilities to counter Russian meddling. Listen to this.
BURNS: It is his duty, President Trump's, to be skeptical of Russia. It is his duty to investigate and defend our country against a cyber- offensive, because Russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. And if he continues to refuse to act, it's a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country.
And Russia's going to do this again.
BLITZER: You agree, Senator, that not taking this seriously is a dereliction of duty?
WARNER: I agree with the ambassador.
I just don't understand why this president won't accept the unanimous conclusion of his entire intelligence community, the experts we had today, foreign leaders, who will acknowledge -- I'm sure President Macron has acknowledged the Russians tried to intervene in the French elections.
Every Democrat and Republican senator I know totally accept that fact, yet for some strange reason, the president, who is obsessed about this investigation, at least from his tweetage, but still calls this whole effort fake news and a witch-hunt, when instead we should be having a whole-of-government approach on how we're going to take on this threat.
For example, how we will engage the social media companies, the Facebooks, the Twitters, the Googles. Facebook, which became much more responsible after the 2016 U.S. elections in France, they took down 30,000 fake accounts before the French election to try to limit the amount of fake news.
The fact that we have 21 states who the Russians tried to at least probe in terms of their electoral system, why don't we have a national policy? First of all, that information ought to be shared with all the state election officials. It hasn't. So that every state is fully prepared to make sure that the Russians who are going to be coming back and trying to cyber-attack us again in our electoral systems, unless we have this comprehensive approach.
I don't understand why the president is unwilling to acknowledge what everyone else in the intelligence community and the community of leaders abroad, and, for that matter, every Democrat and Republican that I know of will acknowledge. Russia massively intervened. They didn't do it because Putin's a Republican or a Democrat. It was because Putin felt it was in Russia's best interest for this individual to win.
And next time, though, he may have a different candidate. So, we have to be on guard.
BLITZER: Do you think it's advisable that President Trump should meet with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at the end of next week at the G20 summit?
WARNER: What I wish would happen, and wish would have happened would have been that the administration would have supported the overwhelming vote, 97-2 out of the U.S. Senate, that -- on a strong Russia sanctions bill, to send the message that we won't allow that kind of intervention.
Instead, this administration has actually been trying to weaken that legislation or slow it down in the House. I don't understand that. If you send a strong message, let's put that Russia sanctions legislation in place and then have the president meet with Putin, so coming in with a strong hand and a strong bipartisan hand united against these type of Russian interventions.
BLITZER: And if he does meet with Putin, you want him to read him the riot act and bitterly complain about all of this or ignore it?
This was an assault on our basic democratic process. There was no effort decide for one team over the other. But it was a basic assault on our democratic process, from hacked information to fake news to an assault on our electoral system. We cannot allow that to stand.
If you look Pat what President Macron did in France in terms of his first meeting with Putin, it was very frosty because of the -- because I believe Macron read Putin the riot act in terms of what Russians had done on the French elections.
We ought to at least have that same kind of strong message coming from an American president.
BLITZER: Senator Warner, thanks so much for joining us.
BLITZER: Just ahead: President Trump is ramping up his war against the news media. Again, we're going to talk about the fall-out for the White House, for journalism, for the American people.
And their seemingly warm moment in the Oval Office, is it a distant memory? Take a closer look at the president's open and unprecedented hostility toward former President Obama.
[18:35:12] BLITZER: President Trump is back on Twitter once again after beginning his day with multiple tweets against a familiar target, the news media.
Let's bring back our analysts and specialists. David Chalian, in the past day or so, the president has used Twitter to go after several major news organizations, attacking by name CNN, "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," NBC, CBS, and ABC. What's his strategy here? Why is he doing that?
DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Well, the strategy is to create enthusiasm among his base, because they agree with him on this point. They don't think he gets a fair shake from the mainstream media.
This is actually -- this is not new to Donald Trump. Taking on the media as a tactic, it's something Richard Nixon made a lot of use of back in the day, and several of -- presidents since then.
But what Donald Trump is trying to do is help program talk radio on the right, conservative media outlets by saying this, and then entering the echo chamber back to his supporters to gin up support.
BLITZER: Because Phil Mudd, there's a lot of major issues facing the U.S. right now. But at least on Twitter -- and these are statements from the president of the United States -- he seems to be obsessed with going after the news media.
PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: Well, and still, his spokesperson, who was out today echoing the same things.
Look, there are issues to discuss. You saw the national security advisor today talking about North Korea. There's a conversation that's relatively new that we need to be having about Syria, including safe havens and how to deal with the Iranians. There's obviously conversations about things like immigration.
But I would object to this differentiation we have between fact and fiction, between fact and fake news. Let's talk about three stories in 60 seconds or less, and note, Wolf, how many times I use the word "media" or anonymous source.
One, Russia, that's the executive branch. It's the CIA and others, executive branch, who talked about Russian meddling. It's the FBI, executive branch, who opened the investigation. It's the Department of Justice who said we need a special counsel.
No. 2, immigration. It's the judicial branch who said repeatedly, "We do not agree with Muslim bans, and we will severely limit your capability to impose a Muslim ban."
No. 3, let's continue down this road. Legislative branch. It's the legislative branch, including Republicans, who said, "You cannot move forward on what you wanted to do on health care."
So, people keep saying this is fake news. It is the executive, legislative and judicial branch that have told the president, "You can't do this."
I mean, all these crocodile tears. I feel like we're watching "Titanic" on Netflix.
BLITZER: Yes. MUDD: These are facts, and they're important to face. They're not fiction.
BLITZER: Ryan Lizza, how do you see it?
RYAN LIZZA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Can I just say one point about -- about -- to add to what David said about why a president attacks the media?
You know, I mean, if you think about it, in a democracy where we have the First Amendment, the government's only tool to sort of go after we in the press is verbally to attack us. And why do they do that? To discredit us, right?
If you're in a country that doesn't have those kind of protections, you just shut down the press, or you make it very hard for journalists to do their job in other ways. Fortunately, our president doesn't have those tools.
So, what you do is you attack it to discredit independent sources of information, because politicians want themselves to be the only real sources of information.
Trump has taken this to a level that no other president has taken it to. Usually, most presidents previously had their surrogates. Even Nixon's vice-president was more of an attack dog than he was. Trump does this himself, often through social media.
I think the worrying line that we have seen recently is he has taken this to -- in the few tweets over the last week, is he has suggested some kind of government action perhaps. And he did this when he talked about Amazon and "The Washington Post" in a tweet and suggested that there was a relationship between "The Washington Post's" coverage and protecting Amazon, because "The Washington Post" is owned by the head of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. And he sort of hinted something I thought that was very odd.
BLITZER: Let me read it.
BLITZER: The hashtag, "#Amazon 'Washington Post,' sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying Internet taxes, which they should, is fake news." That's the tweet you're referring to.
LIZZA: Yes. And look, have there been any government actions associated with that? No, but he's starting to connect policy, federal policy with the news media's role and that is dangerous and that is a line that has now been crossed that we have not seen previously.
BLITZER: There was an incident yesterday when the president was on the phone with the Irish prime minister, and there was a photo op in the Oval Office. He interrupted the conversation with the prime minister to call over an Irish journalist. Watch this.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, we have a lot of your Irish press watching this. They're just now leaving the room. And where are you from? Go ahead, come here. Come here. Where are you from? We have all of this beautiful Irish press. Where are you from?
CAITRIONA PERRY, JOURNALIST, RTE NEWS: I'm from RTE News. Caitriona Perry.
TRUMP: Caitriona Perry, she has a nice smile on her face, so I bet she treats you well.
BLITZER: What was your reaction to that?
REBECCA BERG, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I'm sure that reporter and others would prefer that the president is taking their questions and answering their questions instead of schmoozing with them.
[18:40:06] It was a classic Trump moment, though, Wolf. I mean, this is the way he talks to people, the way he talks to women. He was trying, I think, to be friendly and to create a light moment and to call attention to this Irish reporter while he was speaking with the Taoiseach, which makes sense in the context of that call.
But using the word "beautiful," complimenting her smile may be a little too far for a president.
BLITZER: Yes. A lot of people are suggesting it was inappropriate. David, what did you think?
CHALIAN: I think the reporter described it as bizarre. I think that was her word. So you know, far be it from me to impose my own assessment on that, if she thought it was a bizarre interaction.
But I agree with what Rebecca is saying. I think that the Trump charm offensive, if you will, to try to disarm reporters and woo people to his side, is something that we've seen time and again. That's sort of part of his playbook.
BLITZER: All right. Everybody stand by. There's much more we need to discuss, including what's driving President Trump's almost constant attacks on his predecessor.
[18:45:51] WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: Tonight, we're following an unprecedented rift in one of the most elite clubs in the world. President Trump is refusing to back down from his verbal attacks on former President Barack Obama, and the former president is refusing to take the bait at least publicly.
Let's bring in our White House correspondent Athena Jones.
Athena, the relationship between the current and former presidents has grown very chilly.
ATHENA JONES, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Wolf. Yes, it has.
The Trump Obama relationship is rather unusual one. The two men haven't actually spoken since the inauguration, but President Trump has spent a lot of time tweeting and talking about President Obama. In fact, never in modern times has there been such a sustained public display of animosity by a president towards his predecessor as we are seeing now with Trump's frequent attacks on President Obama.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I just heard today for the first time that Obama knew about Russia a long time before the election. And he did nothing about it.
BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT: How are you?
JONES: President Trump making it abundantly clear that more than six months after replacing President Obama, his predecessor remains top of mind.
TRUMP: We've been talking about this for a long time.
JONES: Not content with simply undoing parts of Obama's legacy like pulling the U.S. out of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and the Paris climate accord, Trump is increasingly using Obama as a political foil, blaming him for not doing enough to stop Russian meddling in last year's election, despite calling such meddling a phony story for months.
TRUMP: The CIA gave him information on Russia a long time before they even -- you know, before the election. And I hardly see it.
JONES: President Trump even accusing President Obama of criminal acts, from collusion and obstruction, to spying on him in Trump Tower, a baseless claim he made in March that was widely refuted. That was also when Trump called Obama a bad or sick guy, a level of public nastiness not seen in modern presidential history.
TIMOTHY NAFTALI, PROFESSOR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: These personalized attacks are unusual and unfortunate, and sets a very bad precedent.
JONES: Trump has a long history of antagonizing Obama as one of the loudest proponents of the false conspiracy theory that America's first black president wasn't born in America.
JONES: A campaign that eventually led Obama to release his birth certificate to the press. He later had some fun with the issue at Trump's expense.
OBAMA: No one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest to the Donald and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. Like did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?
JONES: And while 44 has mostly pulled his punches since 45 took office, he made his opinion known on the campaign trail last year.
OBAMA: Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. No, I'm not joking. You laugh. I'm not joking.
OBAMA: I'm confident that if I -- if I had run again, I think I could have mobilized a majority of the American people.
Because if you succeed, then the country succeeds.
JONES: After November's election, the pair made nice in an Oval Office meeting, but they have not spoken since inauguration day.
TRUMP: He was very nice to me with words but -- and when I was with him. But after that, there has been no relationship.
JONES: Now, one former Obama official told me that one of the President Obama's attributes is he's a pragmatist. And while he disagrees with most of the Trump agenda, he doesn't want to see him fail as president. When they met, Obama treated Trump as his successor, offered him candid advice and his perspective on a range of issues.
But in this person's words, Trump never struck Obama as a particularly deep or intellectually curious guy, and we're seeing that in real time now -- Wolf.
[18:50:08] BLITZER: All right. Athena, thanks very, very much.
Let's get to the panel.
You know, it's very fascinating, not only the relationship between the current president and the former president, but the current president tonight within the next hour or two, he's going to leave the White House, head over to the Trump International Hotel down Pennsylvania Avenue. You're looking at live pictures coming in from there, and have a fundraiser. A lot of fat cats are going to be there.
A fundraiser for his re-election campaign in 2020. That's years down the road.
Jeff Zeleny was reporting, according to Republican sources, to ward off a potential primary challenger. At least say, hey, I'm not going anywhere. I am running for re-election. But two years earlier than we saw George W. Bush do this or Barack Obama do this.
BLITZER: It's interesting. We hear some protesters already outside the hotel, Ryan. Originally, there was going to be some cameras allowed inside but apparently now, none.
RYAN LIZZA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, all day, the White House seemed to go back and forth on this. First they said, no cameras, which breaks with the precedent of most previous presidents.
And then they said they were going to bring in a pool. And that's a small group of reporters that travels with the president. And then a couple hours later, the White House, no, we're not doing that. No press at all.
So, another confusing day in the relationship between the White House and the press. And I don't know if you heard, David, but someone in the White House obviously decided that they just put the kibosh on having a pool there after the press was told they could go in.
CHALIAN: They're blaming logistical reasons, which, of course, does not hold -- doesn't wash at all.
LIZZA: Yes. You can always open the door. It's not too hard to get a reporter in there.
REBECCA BERG, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: The press has been in that hotel many times for Trump campaign event.
LIZZA: So, I mean, this is highly unusual. One, this president running for re-election, raising money a few months into his administration. Two, he's having the fundraiser at his private hotel, just dismissing all of the arguments that the watchdogs said about that and, three, no transparency, no press in that building. So pretty unusual.
BLITZER: All right. We'll try to cover it as best as we can.
LIZZA: It will leak out, though.
BLITZER: All right. Guys, thanks very, very much.
An important note to all of our viewers: please be sure to join us tomorrow here in THE SITUATION ROOM. I'll speak live with John Podesta, the former Clinton campaign chairman, and a prime target of Russia's election hacking. That's tomorrow in THE SITUATION ROOM.
Just ahead, the final push to drive is out of its former stronghold in Iraq.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [18:57:11] BLITZER: The battle to recapture Iraq's second largest city from ISIS is now nearing its final days. Tonight, Iraqi troops are on the verge of pushing the last of the terrorist forces out of Mosul.
CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh takes us inside the fight.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over) The end is near for ISIS. You can just feel it. And normal life is springing back out of these pancaked buildings. Yet, turn one corner in Mosul towards its old city and the nihilism of the very final chapter in this war emerges.
Liberation leads little life behind. Bodies still where they fell in the scorching heat.
Senior commanders take us in in the calm before their final storm to wipe ISIS off the map.
(on camera): And how many more days do you think ISIS have in Mosul and in Iraq?
(voice-over): Brigadier General Asadi (ph) beckons us on to see their prize. These are the last rooftops ISIS own in Mosul, rarely hundreds of meters to go now. In the distant left, the river bank marking where ISIS's world ends.
And in the dust, the ruins of the sacred al-Nuri Mosque. ISIS blew it up, rather than let it to be captured. A terrifying omen for civilians held underground as human shields here.
(on camera): Well, that mosque has always been a distant target for Iraqi forces, and now, they literally are able to see it from neighboring rooftops.
(voice-over): U.S. trained Major Salam (ph) took us into Mosul eight months ago, and now he's here to see the end.
(on camera): We're at the beginning. And now, we're at the end of it all.
WALSH: So, we seeing on the screen?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This digital camera that we try to recon the enemy, where are they located, and we try to find where are the civilians also. Nobody is sure exactly how many civilians there are. They located and saw many different houses. Many families in one house.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: More than enough. I am so happy for all the support from Australian (ph) side, from American side.
WALSH: There is the occasional stench of death here from the bodies of ISIS fighters like this one below me here left behind and also at times an eerie silence when the gunfire subsides. But it's in these dense streets that you can really feel how hard the fight against ISIS has been in these final moments, but also, too, how many few meters they are away from kicking the terrorist group out of Mosul, but also out of Iraq entirely.
(voice-over): Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Mosul, Iraq.
BLITZER: Don't forget, it's been three years, three years, since ISIS took over Mosul, a city that once had a population of nearly a million. Look at it now.
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Category Archives: Have a … week.
Along with the end of 2014, I’m working on finishing up some other things in my life this week. It’s so amazing that we are so close to Carter’s arrival and I’m finally feeling like we are about ready. The nursery is coming together and yesterday, our rocker was delivered!
It’s here! The week we’ve all been looking forward to all year for a variety of reasons. You either 1) love Christmas and all that this entails or 2) look forward to the time off from work. For me it’s a lot a bit of both. This past week a co-worker commented, “You really love Christmas, don’t you?” Am I that obvious?
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As you may know if you have met me recently and/or have been reading my blog regularly, I am in the midst of starting a new company, Nearness Function, which is an ad network focused on placing commercial messeges, especially branding messages, inside of applications. We take an expansive view of what an application is – so we will work with web applications using AJAX, widgets, Flash applications, desktop applications (which connect back to the web), mobile applications. We are also exploring helping publishers of certain types of rich content such as podcasters and video bloggers – we’ll definitely work with media players which might play such content and as rapidly as we can build out the infrastructure we will expand the ad formats we can serve to include video ads which have had great success as an ad unit in many applications already.
As I speak with publishers (in our case mostly software companies) and with advertising agencies, media buyers and direct advertisers I have been struck by the range of experiences and questions around how to best place ads inside of dynamic applications. These questions range from debates about the formats that work to questions about what metrics and pricing models can be used to sell and track these ads. In our role as a network we have to provide solutions to the technical issues of getting the right, targeted ads in front of the individuals who use a given application, we also have to address the business needs and goals of both the media buyers, ad agencies, advertisers and publishers – all while also remaining focused on the experience of those individual users whose actions and reactions form the basis for the value of the advertising.
So, starting at the end of January and continuing on a regular basis we are starting a workshop series on Ads in Applications. This will be a long lunch to start with the first event to be held here in San Francisco at the end of January. Future events will include more lunch workshops and, I hope, some open to the public events in the evenings which will have a more traditional speaker format.
The first lunch workshop will be by invitation only. If you are reading this and would like an invitation contact me directly – please include a note about why you are interested in participating which includes your current role & company (or companies). The workshops are intended for senior people from application companies (often founders) and senior folks from the ad buying side. Select investors who have a portfolio of firms in the application space will also be welcome to participate – though they are encouraged to invite representatives from their portfolio firms. For the workshops press, including bloggers, are specifically not invited – these will be off the record, working discussions. My hope is that from these closed events we will also organize some open to the public events and/or come up with some public proposals – either for standards or as suggestions to standards efforts at organizations such as the IAB.
For the first workshop the format will be highly collaborative discussion, we will be a relatively small group and will all have a chance to both talk, listen and ask many questions. My hope is that in a few hours we can cover a range of ongoing questions and issues – including formats, metrics, measurements, definitions of “targeting”, acceptable pricing models (which both drive metrics and are in turn driven by what can be measured), how to define success, and various best practices around the integration and targeting of ads. I hope also that we have some discussion about how to disclose commercial content inside of a variety of types of dynamic applications – in many small widgets and in many types of other content what is an “ad” can not always be fully obvious.
Watch this blog for more details about the workshop and contact me directly (and/or leave a comment here) if you would be interested in attending, hosting, or helping organize these workshops.
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EMOOCs2016 papers have been reviewed. We are giving the final touches before informing the authors. Good Luck and Stay tuned.
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Soon it will be Thanksgiving and then Christmas.
As the holidays draw near some of you may be feeling the financial crunch as many have this last year. This, for some will cause the lack to want to celebrate. Don’t allow the economy keep you from spending quality time with your friends and family. These are the times to draw close to your friends and family, being wise not to avoid them. They are experiencing hard times too and need your companionship as well. But do remember, they need you all year.
Always remember to call on Jesus to meet all your needs.
Thanksgiving Day. It’s a very special day for many people. It gives them a chance to come together with their family and friends, and give their thanks.
But what about the other 364 days of the year? They just click on by without a thought for some people, while there is so much to be thankful for on those days too. I could go on with a huge list of things to be thankful for, but what would my list mean to you? I believe with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ, that if you ask, He will show you things to be thankful to Him in each day, and throughout the day. Setting just one day a year aside to be thankful is the worlds way. But being thankful everyday is pleasing in the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God understands that sometimes it takes a holiday for many to break away from work to visit their family’s and that alone is something to be thankful for. Be blessed by giving thanks everyday, and give God all the glory for your blessings.
Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful.
I pray that your day be filled with love and joy as you come together on this day, and to come to know of all things that you can be thankful for each and everyday. Be thankful, be whole, be love. In the name of our precious Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
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C ~ I’m with you!! My idea of roughing it means there’s no room service and no Starbucks within walking distance. Give me all the modern conveniences, every day!! Don’t like camping for that same reason. I’m a very modern Darla, LOL!
Yeah, and what woman in her right mind would suggest going through mountains shrouded in miles of snow in the dead of winter? That was a guy. What was he thinking?
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RATCHAPRASONG, MAY 10, 2010: After several days of internal discussions leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) today responded to the five-point road map of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. RATCHAPRASONG, MAY 10, 2010: After several days of internal discussions leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) today responded to the five-point road map of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
UDD secretary-general, Natthawut Saikua said the groups two-month long rally has constantly used peaceful methods to bring about social change to Thailand and this approach will not change. UDD secretary-general, Natthawut Saikua said the groups two-month long rally has constantly used peaceful methods to bring about social change to Thailand and this approach will not change.
Describing the rally as “an historic struggle” … “the first led by ordinary people” he said the red-shirt rally was now recorded in [Thai] history. Describing the rally as “an historic struggle”… “the first led by ordinary people” he said the red-shirt rally was now recorded in [Thai] history. While the red-shirts had used peaceful methods in its attempt to bring about change, Mr. Natthawut said the government had embarked on a campaign of violence, lies, defamation and censorship in an attempt to discredit the movement and fool the people. While the red-shirts had used peaceful methods in its attempt to bring about change, Mr. Natthawut said the government had embarked on a campaign of violence, lies, defamation and censorship in an attempt to discredit the movement and fool the people.
“We do not want violence. “We do not want violence. We do not want any additional injuries and deaths no matter who causes them. We do not want any additional injuries and deaths no matter who causes them. We are sincere in embracing the Prime Ministers road map and unanimously accept it. We are sincere in embracing the Prime Ministers road map and unanimously accept it. This is a complex situation that has been years in the making “, he said. This is a complex situation that has been years in the making”, he said.
Mr. Natthawut said the unanimous decision of the core UDD leaders is that they accept the November 14 election date proposed by the Prime Minister. Mr. Natthawut said the unanimous decision of the core UDD leaders is that they accept the November 14 election date proposed by the Prime Minister.
However, Mr. Natthawut said the violence of April 10 had resulted in the deaths of 25 red-shirt protesters and injuries to more than 800 others. However, Mr. Natthawut said the violence of April 10 had resulted in the deaths of 25 red-shirt protesters and injuries to more than 800 others.
“We are accused of being terrorists. “We are accused of being terrorists. We have not asked for amnesty and are prepared to fight the charges laid against us through the courts. We have not asked for amnesty and are prepared to fight the charges laid against us through the courts. If we are declared guilty and receive the death penalty, we accept it. If we are declared guilty and receive the death penalty, we accept it. But Abhisit and Suthep must face the same court process and accept the same fate if found guilty. But Abhisit and Suthep must face the same court process and accept the same fate if found guilty.
“This is not to raise bargaining conditions. “This is not to raise bargaining conditions. This will be a historic case because in the past wrongdoers have received amnesties. This will be a historic case because in the past wrongdoers have received amnesties.
“The leaders have unanimously agreed that we will end our rally on the same day that Suthep gives himself up to the police. “The leaders have unanimously agreed that we will end our rally on the same day that Suthep gives himself up to the police.
“Next, the UDD is ready to end our rally to enter the roadmap process, but PTV must go back on the air at the same time. “Next, the UDD is ready to end our rally to enter the roadmap process, but PTV must go back on the air at the same time. Stop interfering with our TV signal and get us back on the air immediately “, he added. Stop interfering with our TV signal and get us back on the air immediately”, he added.
Mr. Natthawut said the red-shirts “are determined to work with all segments of Thai society to work towards reconciliation and a democratic election, but, at the same time, there must be an independent agency established to investigate violent incidents that is acceptable to. everyone “. Mr. Natthawut said the red-shirts “are determined to work with all segments of Thai society to work towards reconciliation and a democratic election, but, at the same time, there must be an independent agency established to investigate violent incidents that is acceptable to everyone”.
Describing the decision to end the protest rally as “a difficult one”, Mr. Natthawut said “the leaders felt it was the only way to avoid further deaths and injuries”. Describing the decision to end the protest rally as “a difficult one”, Mr. Natthawut said “the leaders felt it was the only way to avoid further deaths and injuries”.
“No one group should claim victory. “No one group should claim victory. This should be a victory for the entire country. This should be a victory for the entire country. We are sorry for problems we have caused, but we ask for understanding for why our actions were necessary “, he added. We are sorry for problems we have caused, but we ask for understanding for why our actions were necessary”, he added.
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Despite all the cheer and optimism officials are expressing (see the post just below), the Ebola DRC KIVU 2018 Dashboard shows a trend I don't like. Week 4 has recorded 48 cases, up from 40 in week 3, 23 in week 2, and 27 in week 1.
The relatively low numbers in previous weeks may be an artifact of interrupted contact tracing due to civil unrest, but if so WHO or the MoH should explain it.
Speaking of contact tracing, the dashboard also reports a gap: out of 7,600 contacts, 700 have not been traced.
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I don’t expect to ever again make the kind of money I made playing baseball, or receive the acclaim I received as a major-league pitcher. God’s idea of prosperity for us goes much deeper. He wants us to prosper in our relationships—in our families, with others, and ultimately with him.
That’s why last Thanksgiving, when I sat down to make a list of the ways God had blessed me, I came up with a strange list, including a bad marriage; infertility; my drinking problem; Christine’s broken neck; the end of my baseball career; and four adopted special-needs children, including Nicole, a brain-damaged, one-handed little girl who may or may not ever by potty-trained, say “I love you,” or call me Daddy.
I can honestly say I’m thankful for those things because each has played a major role in drawing me closer to the Lord. Take Nicole. She throws her arms wide in joyous welcome whenever she sees me across the room, and clings tightly to me when I hold her. Her unconditional love challenges me every day. She’s like an angel in the midst of our family, modeling God’s perfect, abundant love.
Prayer for the Week: Give me a fresh awareness, Lord, of those gifts I’ve taken for granted.
Similarly, as choices multiply, notes The Paradox of Choice author Barry Schwartz, people feel overwhelmed by the burden of having to research the best option. After they buy, if they feel they made the wrong choice, then they’re miserable.
Gregg Easterbrook’s book The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, documents how as people’s material lives have improved dramatically, their inner lives have declined. Depression, loneliness, and frustration are all much higher than 50 years ago. Easterbrook’s prescription? Stop focusing on ourselves. Instead concentrate on being grateful for our daily blessings, on the deeper truths of what really matters in life, and on how we can help our neighbors around the world.
My Response: Do I match the research profile of resenting a “time squeeze” and feeling overwhelmed by choices to be checked out?
The saying goes, “I’ve been poor, and I’ve been rich. Rich is better.” Those who’ve only experienced poverty are certain that plenty is more appealing. And those who’ve experienced both would probably agree. But the writer of Proverbs understood the perils that came with plenty. “Give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs,” he wrote. “For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name” (30:8-9). A remarkably mature—and rare—attitude!
As the children of Israel prepared to enter a land of plenty, the Lord told Moses to warn them about the perils. In their wilderness journeys, the strict discipline imposed on them had forced obedience. And because the Lord alone provided food for them, they had no alternative to trusting in him. But once they entered the Promised Land, they’d encounter plenty, and were to respond in praise and thanksgiving.
But sometimes plenty provokes pride. The more successful men become, the more self-sufficient they tend to be. The wiser men become, the more thankful they are to the Lord who gave them success.
My Response: In what ways have I trusted in my own successes rather than in God’s provision?
We are as accustomed to seeing and hearing as we are to breathing and to the operation of the cardiovascular system. So we pay no attention to any of them—until something goes wrong, of course.
The writer of Proverbs commended equal appreciation of both eye and ear. We need to make use of our God-given opportunity to enjoy the wonders of the created world laid out in such profusion and grandeur before our eyes. We need to listen to the wealth of knowledge, beauty, and experience available to our ears. Rather than taking sight and hearing for granted, these sensory faculties and what they provide for us should take on even greater significance when seen as gifts from God.
To embark on a day with eyes literally wide open and ears pricked so as not to miss a sight or a sound is to live at a higher level. Doing so from time to time will enrich the life, because God planned for it to be so enriched. At the end of the day, to reflect on what you have heard, and to give thanks to the Giver of gifts who made it possible, is to live with a sharpened sense of enjoyment and a richer sense of worship.
My Response: What sights and sounds have I been taking for granted?
Health issues are often discussed in Scripture. David’s words [in today’s Key Bible Verse] are an example. We don’t have details of his ailments, but they were serious enough for him to say, “You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death” (Psalm 30:3).
Many a man has been brought to his spiritual senses when his health failed. The healing of his body has led to a cleansing of his soul, and he has lived to thank God for illness. Some men only look up when they’ve been put on their backs!
But a little thought shows that if we thank God for healing, we should praise him for health. Health is perpetual healing. Given the intricacies of our bodies, the prevalence of viruses, and the incidence of accidents, it’s quite remarkable that we are ever well.
Yet most of us are. We live our lives assuming that the robust health we enjoy will continue unabated. In fact, we assume that it’s a right, not a privilege. The problem is that the more we enjoy good health, the less we depend on the Lord for it; the less we suffer, the less we turn to the Lord for help. David’s lost health, shattered him. But once it was restored, it led him to worship and thanksgiving.
This British-born pastor has taught fellow pastors and lay leaders in more than 100 countries. He is currently minister-at-large for Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, after serving as its senior pastor for 30 years.
Stuart has also ministered with his wife, Jill, through their Telling the Truth media ministries. They have three children and thirteen grandchildren.
Benjamin Franklin’s saying, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” contains more than a grain of truth. Whether or not there’s an exact correlation between good sleep habits and “the good life” is hard to say. But Franklin’s epigram does identify three areas of concern for men in all ages: health, wealth, and wisdom. These issues are often discussed in the pages of Scripture.
Lost wealth is drastic medicine; so is lost health. But men absorbed with their own lives respond to little else. When the Lord restores lost health and wealth, and men respond by praising the Lord, they get wise. So be wise—get to bed early, but rise up to bless the Lord.
God gave Isaiah a message to deliver to a people whose hearts had become hardened and rebellious beyond repentance. So a fed-up God made the punishment fit the crime.
He decreed that even when they heard they wouldn’t learn anything. However, when Jesus quoted this prophecy to his disciples, he put a positive as well as a negative take on it.
What reason (v. 27) did Jesus give for not worrying about our needs?
What did Jesus observe (vv. 26-30) about the welfare of birds and flowers?
What conclusions about worrying (vv. 26 & 30) did Jesus draw from this?
What (vv. 31-32) should distinguish Jesus followers from the unbelievers around them?
What frees them up to be different?
What is promised in verse 33? What must we do to receive this promise?
What does verse 34 tell us about daily struggles? Why do you think Jesus ended his words on worry with these sobering thoughts?
Spend Time in Prayer: Three times in this passage, Jesus told his disciples not to worry. Ask God for the resolve to treat this as a command rather than take-it-or-leave-it advice.
Prayer for the Week: Teach me, Lord, how to tune out distractions and to pick out and respond to the voice of Your Spirit.
If he continued on this path, there would be a day when he would never again hear the voice of God. There would come a day when he would deny that God even speaks or has ever spoken to him.
But if he treasures God’s voice however it comes to him—through the Scriptures, through his conscience—and responds to him with obedience, then his heart would be softened, and his ears would always be able to hear the whisper of God into his soul.
Aaron chose to stay, I’m grateful to say. If he had chosen differently, he would have begun the path toward nominal discipleship. Perhaps he never would have rejected the faith overtly. He might have even chosen to be a faithful attender at a church and been by everyone else’s estimation a good man, but he would no longer be a close Jesus-follower.
My Response: Have I resolved to obey God’s voice whenever I hear it?
A few years later, Aaron went off to his first junior high camp at Big Bear. In the middle of the week, I went up with another pastor at Mosaic to see our kids. Aaron, I learned, had started to assault another kid but had been held back by his friends. He was unrepentant, wanted to leave camp, pulled together his stuff, and shoved it into the car.
“Yes,” he said immediately, “It’s God.” It was the moment I’d waited for.
Listen to the Spirit – Get the Point?
One problem with language is that it changes. Without realizing it, we can be misled into repeating phrases that have lost their original meaning. One example is the way the King James Bible refers to the Holy Spirit as the “Comforter.” The seventeenth-century translators didn’t envision a sympathetic ear.
The Bayeux tapestry helps us comprehend what the word meant. This massive cloth was produced in France to commemorate the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066, and their victory at the Battle of Hastings. It depicts one of Duke William’s supporters prodding a reluctant Norman soldier into battle with the point of a spear in his rear. Underneath is the incisive comment that King William “comforteth his soldiers”!
The comfort the Holy Spirit brings is not an arm around us, but an empowering and equipping to mobilize us for battle. His anointing power isn’t only for the healing of the broken-hearted, but also for the defeating the enemy. That power does make him a great “Comforter”—just not in the sense the word conveys today.
My Response: When have I sensed the Spirit giving me an empowering push rather than a hug?
Before I learned the way of the Spirit, I was like a man running with a self-wielded goad sticking in my ribs, a self-dangled carrot bobbing before my eyes. My motivation for doing the right thing was guilt if I was falling short, pride if I was out in the lead. I experienced neither the zing of God’s pleasure nor the sting of his rebuke. I feared, rather, to incur the scorn of church-folk and hankered after their nodding approval. A few seasons of this made me weary in doing good, and sour as Jonah.
I can’t point to a single revelation that changed my mind. But gradually I realized that Jesus lived in me by his Spirit, and that I could live as he did by simply paying attention, listening to his gentle whisper, responding to his nudges. As I attended to the Spirit, I was able to trade in my motivations of guilt and fear for an invigorating hope, a vision, an invitation. More and more, it’s for the joy set before me that I run the race.
The Spirit is a wind. I’m learning to run with his gentle pummeling on my back, keeping me from growing weary. Some days, I spread my arms like wings and catch that wind beneath them and for moments I fly.
My Response: How could I trade in self-generated motivation for Spirit-empowered inspiration?
God certainly can speak in many ways. Most often, it seems to me, he speaks through his Word and in a small voice—even a whisper—and uses the Third Person of the Trinity to do it.
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit spoke to a few people directly and enabled them in special ways. In the New Testament, Jesus was limited to how many people he could address or touch because of his physical body and its restrictions. But after Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, who isn’t limited in this way, became available to everyone. From that point on, if the person knew Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, the Holy Spirit resided in him.
To hear the Holy Spirit, we have to get in tune with Jesus. And the better we know Christ and live like him, the clearer the voice of the Spirit becomes. Sin quenches his voice, but obedience turns up the volume—or at least enables us to hear the small voice.
It’s a lot like DW driving a race car. When he knows his car, what it tells him can keep him from wrecking. This illustrates what happens as we get to know Jesus. When we listen intently to the Holy Spirit, we won’t wreck as much.
My Response: Have I attempted intense listening? What have I heard?
Here is an amusing article from today’s issue of Christianity Today that describes how Churches came to use unfermented grape juice instead of wine for Communion.
The weird story behind the church’s go-to communion wine substitute.
In this biweekly feature, we seek to encourage the local church by remembering the times when things were much, much worse.
It’s weird to think about, but a lot of the things we take for granted are almost shockingly recent inventions. The can opener didn’t exist until 1870—nearly a full century after canned food was first produced (people ate so much canned food that year, you guys). Doors have been around forever, but doorknobs weren’t invented until 1878 (and people were finally able to leave their houses). And grape juice?
Grape juice wasn’t a thing until 1869.
That may surprise you. There have always been grapes, and they’ve always had juice, right? Well, yeah…no…sorta. See, the thing about grapes is that their juice is loaded with sugar, and their skins naturally cultivate yeast, so the moment you squash a grape, the yeast gets in the sugary juice and starts turning it into alcohol. The label on that thousand-dollar bottle of cabernet you’ve got in your cellar might tell you otherwise, but, like most of Francis Ford Coppola’s career, winemaking is something a toddler could do by accident.
Christians generally recognized this as true—that is, until Methodists decided it wasn’t true sometime in the early 19th century.
The problem with the Christian campaign for prohibition, of course, was that throughout the entirety of church history to that point, the most sacred of Christian rituals had involved the consumption of wine. We couldn’t exactly crusade against alcohol while also drinking the stuff, could we?
Enter Methodist pastor Thomas Bramwell Welch. Yes, that Welch.
In addition to having a ridiculous name and a Walt-Whitman-caliber beard, the Reverend Welch was determined to get alcohol out of Christian worship, and he set out to make an alcohol-free wine. His fix for the automatic fermentation problem was to use pasteurization (invented in 1864) to kill the yeast in the grape juice, and then use refrigeration (invented in 1835 or so, depending on who you ask) to keep that yeast deader than dead.
The result was a totally sterile, Space Age beverage that wouldn’t get anyone sloshed, no matter how many thimblefuls they swiped off the Communion tray. He called the result “Dr. Welch’s Unfermented Wine,” because in the 19th century no one would buy a product that didn’t have at least nine syllables and an honorific in its brand name. The drink, which was later renamed Welch’s Grape Juice, was an immediate success, at first because it made a nonalcoholic Eucharist possible, and later because it became a guilt-free excuse to sell sugar-water to toddlers.
The upshot, of course, is that if your church uses grape juice for Communion, you’ve adapted an ancient ritual by grafting in a beverage that’s roughly as old as Coca-Cola. Whether that bothers you or not, I think we all can admit that it’s still kind of…weird.
I’m not saying anyone should or shouldn’t use grape juice for Communion—I know every congregation has their reasons for what they do. But something is lost when rituals are altered, even if it’s for good reason.
“Wine mixed with water” was actually somewhat common in the ancient world; the wine and the water were both usually pretty gross, so they would mix them together to make something palatable, much in the same way you might put a McChicken inside your McDouble. But in the context of the Eucharist, it took on special significance, symbolizing the blood and water that flowed from Christ’s side when he was pierced with a spear.
That, in the end, is the beauty of wine: It’s new life, a living beverage. The grape dies, but it’s reborn through the yeast, just as Christ died and rose again—and just as the church is granted new life whenever we taste and see that the Lord is good. That’s a message that the sickly-sweet stuff in your fridge can’t quite convey: Here is the fountain of life. Come be reborn.
Darrell Waltrip started racing go-carts at age 12 and entered his first stock car race just four years later. During his NASCAR Winston Cup career from 1972 to 2000, “D-Dubya” won 84 races, fourth on the all-time list. Now an analyst for Fox Sports, Waltrip dishes up colorful commentary with a Southern accent for NASCAR Nextel Cup telecasts.
DW and his wife, Stevie, live in Franklin, Tennessee, where he hosts a weekly Bible study in his garage.
“It’s getting ready to blow up,” I’d say.
“Are you sure?” he’d ask. I’ve driven for people who wouldn’t believe me. I’d have to let the car blow up before they did. That usually meant a wreck; it sometimes meant getting hurt; it always cost lots of money.
In Titus 1:5-9, Paul presented a well-thought-out checklist of qualities required to become a church leader.
A list he wrote for the church in Ephesus (1 Timothy 3:2-7) is nearly identical. In both, the qualifications mostly involve character, rather than knowledge or skill.
Of course, these standards make an excellent yardstick by which all believers can measure their effort and self-discipline.
Why (v. 6) is a man’s reputation of primary importance?
How does how a man’s treatment of his family provide a window into his character?
Christian workers and volunteers sometimes think their work so important that it justifies ignoring their families. How do these standards deal with that view?
How (v. 7) does a man’s lifestyle figure into his fitness to lead?
How (v. 8) can you tell if a person is wise and fair?
Self-discipline is essential for achieving “a blameless life.” What are the characteristics of a self-disciplined man?
The last criterion listed (v. 9) is strong belief. How strong and steadfast is your confidence in the gospel?
Spend Time in Prayer: Ask God for the self-discipline to enable you to live the devout and disciplined life Paul describes in this passage.
I left you on the island of Crete so you could complete our work there and appoint elders in each town as I instructed you. 6 An elder must live a blameless life. He must be faithful to his wife, and his children must be believers who don’t have a reputation for being wild or rebellious. 7 For an elder must live a blameless life. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered; he must not be a heavy drinker, violent, or dishonest with money.
Prayer for the Week: Ask God for the resolve and discipline to be consistently faithful with routine matters in ordinary times.
Paul charges Timothy to select some—not all—to entrust with the ministry of gospel multiplication. So, whom to select? The criterion could not be simpler: it’s “faithful men.” A man who is trustworthy, dependable.
Paul (in today’s Bonus Reading) gives faithfulness as the reason that God chose him for ministry. Likewise, those Paul personally selected to minister alongside him were often listed as faithful. Of Timothy he writes, “he is my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 4:17).
He speaks similarly of his associate Tychicus, calling him a “faithful helper in the Lord’s work” (Ephesians 6:21).
Onesimus, Paul says, “is a faithful and much loved brother” (Colossians 4:9), and he calls Epaphras “Christ’s faithful servant” (Col. 1:7).
Of course whether someone is faithful isn’t always immediately clear. How can you tell? Phillip Jensen, dean of St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, has a category of young men he calls “Blokes Worth Watching.” These are men to test against the descriptions of faithfulness in Titus 1:5-9 and 1 Timothy 3:1-7. Those who measure up may be entrusted with the gospel ministry.
My Response: Who do I know who would measure up for ministry? Would I?
The problem with looking to Hollywood for the image of masculinity (even those true-to-life stories of courage) is that it feeds my desire for glory. Courage isn’t only in the big accomplishments. It’s in the small acts too.
When I leave the theater and scratch the car door next to me getting into my car, my decision about whether or not to leave a note admitting my mistake isn’t glorious. Nobody will make a movie about my choice. I can hide if I choose to. But situations like this shape our courage and virtue.
Or imagine leaving the theater and returning home to a wife who is sexually unresponsive. Or perpetually angry. Or domineering. Or unkempt. The temptation to find release and fulfillment elsewhere can be overwhelming. Escape promises what reality can’t provide. Our response in that moment can be just as courageous as what we do when we decide to protect a fallen pilot or storm a cockpit.
Courage is visiting our moms and dads and caring for them as they grow older instead of abandoning them to others’ care. Courage is integrity in business when no one else sees it, or keeping my promise when I’d rather do anything else. Hollywood doesn’t make movies about this true masculine courage.
Regan was vacationing in Italy with his wife and children, just as we were. After we made introductions all around, Regan brought up our time together with the Buccaneers.
“Coach, I just want to thank you,” he said. “I remember how you were always talking about responsibility and doing things right off the field. Why are you on me about all this stuff that doesn’t matter? I thought.
The next time I saw Regan was at our hotel the night before the Super Bowl. Tarik Glenn, our Pro Bowl offensive tackle, had been Regan’s teammate at the University of California, and Regan had come to see him play.
Once again, Regan thanked Lauren and me for the example we’d been to him and then joined Tarik at our chapel service. I saw a real difference in Regan—ten years after missing those appearances at that fourth-grade class.
My Response: Do I resent or appreciate someone who points out a flaw in my behavior?
Adapted from Christian Reader (9-10/01).
I was upset the Wednesday before our game against the Raiders, but not about our losing streak. Two players had missed personal appearances. Errict Rhett was 30 minutes late for a car dealership autograph session.
Regan Upshaw missed a fourth-grade class visit, rescheduled after missing his first appointment! I’d just read a letter from that teacher. She’d explained Regan’s first absence as a misunderstanding. Now, reading about the class’s disappointment when he didn’t show up the second time, I was beside myself.
My Response: What “off-the-field” area in my life needs shaping up?
As I consulted with the leadership team of a major medical system’s cardiac care division, I was startled by what one nurse told me. Modern medicine, she said, can repair or even replace a heart and save a person’s life—but only temporarily.
“We can repair the heart,” she asserted, “but we can’t change the behavior or the environment.” Many patients return to an environment that encourages the poor eating habits that contributed to their first attack. The hearts of patients who fail to replace old habits with new ones will grow weaker over time.
Our spiritual situation is similar. Out of his endless love for us, God gave us new hearts with the capacity to hear his guidance and overcome any obstacle we face.
But he didn’t give us new hearts so we could revert to our previous way of living. He gave them so we could see through deception and choose to do the right thing. It’s up to us to change our thinking, amend our habits, make new choices, and find our path in life.
A heart, if not exercised, will weaken and atrophy. A heart that is nourished and exercised will grow healthy and strong. We exercise our hearts every day by being obedient to his call.
Who Said It … Fred Smith Sr.
Before establishing his food packaging brokerage in Dallas, Fred Smith Sr. was vice president of operations for Gruen Watch Company and consultant to Mobil, Caterpillar, and Genesco.
Fred was a Christianity Today International board member, and a contributing editor for Leadership journal for 20 years.
As a mentor, Fred had few equals. He died in 2007 at age 91, but his sage advice can still be savored in his book, Breakfast with Fred (Regal, 2007).
Sanctification flows into the Christian’s life not from the pump of works to manipulate God’s favor but through the pipe of faith. By faith he looks to the Scriptures for principles to live by. Every time he puts them into practice, he is living by faith.
One time when I was in negotiations with the steelworkers’ union, our lawyer was convinced that they were going on strike. Therefore he recommended that we not make an offer because it would be used as the basis for the next negotiation.
As I left home to go to the meeting, I did something I’d never done before. I opened the Bible and read the first verse I saw: “Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them” (Proverbs 3:27).
I knew what my decision would be. Against the lawyer’s recommendation, I opted to make a reasonable offer.
To our amazement, the union members readily accepted it. So we avoided a strike. I felt that I had been given divine guidance.
Anniversaries mark significant events in our lives. Anniversaries can be joyous occasions when we celebrate birthdays, weddings, job hiring, etc., but not all anniversaries bring us joy. Anniversaries can also be somber times when they mark events in our lives that have been particularly painful such as a death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a national tragedy.
It has been fifteen years since the unforgettable attacks on September 11, 2001. We all remember where we were when we learned of the events as they unfolded. Four planes were hijacked by terrorists and used as weapons against the American people.
As a result, approximately 3,000 people lost their lives; a countless number of people lost their loved ones; and a nation lost its sense of security. We will never know the number of people that have been affected directly or indirectly by these attacks. This anniversary has a permanent place in our collective memory.
As with all anniversaries, we each deal with the aftershocks of such events in different ways. Some people prefer to carry on with life as usual today, while others cannot keep their eyes off their television sets as they watch and relive the events of that day. Ceremonies are being held throughout the nation to commemorate the fiftteenth anniversary of September 11.
The anniversary of September 11 evokes many emotions within us: anger, grief, fear, revenge, brokenness; hopelessness, etc. How can anyone wait patiently for God in a time like this?
Psalm 27 reminds us that there will always be someone or something that seeks to wreak havoc in our lives. At times we will feel like we are being swallowed up in the destruction, but we must not let these things defeat us.
“Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident.” The psalmist was able to remain confident because he knows that God is faithful and steadfast.
Rather than being tossed about the stormy seas, the psalmist reexamines his priorities and puts his focus on God. Focusing on God in times of turmoil does not diminish or trivialize the tremendous losses that so many have been forced to endure or the potential threats that lie ahead; rather by making God a priority, we put our faith in the One that will be steadfast and bring us through.
On this fifteenth anniversary of September 11, remember the lost loved ones and gain strength from a deeper relationship with God.
The salutations of the letters Paul wrote to fledgling churches and to ministry colleagues were far from routine. They revealed that he was out to do more than present theoretical truth.
He was addressing individuals he cared about deeply, with whom he’d forged strong ties, and for whom he wrestled in prayer.
In each greeting, what does Paul say about his feelings toward his letter readers? How do you think this affected their openness to his instructions?
What aspects of the Thessalonians’ faith (1 Thess. 1:3) did he single out to thank God for?
What was the environment in which the Thessalonian believers (2 Thess. 1:3-4) were “flourishing”?
What qualities of the Ephesians did he commend?
Paul maintained that he constantly interceded for those he wrote to. Do you think this was a figure of speech or actually true?
Are you surprised by the intensity of Paul’s loneliness for his understudy Timothy?
Spend Time in Prayer: Ask God to help you model Paul’s example of generous praise and fervent prayer for fellow Jesus followers.
3 Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing. 4 We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.
Prayer for the Week: Teach me, Lord, how to mirror you by becoming a positive force in the lives of my family and acquaintances.
The first time I met the pastor of Parkway Hills Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, was at a prearranged lunch discussion. I soon realized that this man had a magnetic personality that made people just want to be around him. As we entered the restaurant together, we were greeted by the maitre d’, a man who spoke with a heavy foreign accent.
Talk about making someone’s day! The maitre d’ was smiling like he’d just won the lottery. I was completely dumbfounded as I watched this unfold.
My Response: A person whose day I could make if I gave him a word of appreciation is ____.
Not hearing any of that from him created a wound in me that I eventually tried to heal through workaholism, striving to earn from him the respect I so needed.
I sat there stunned. I had no idea my dad felt that way. He hadn’t told me. I had to wait until he was dead to find out. What would it have done to our relationship if he’d told me himself while we still had time together?
The lesson is this: never assume that your friend, wife, or child knows how you feel about them. Tell them!
James was out on his first “daddy/daughter date” with his four year old. They’d gone to a local fast-food restaurant where his daughter ordered pancakes.
After James listed more reasons and ways they loved her, he finally got to eat his breakfast. But that morning his daughter was hungrier for his words of praise than pancakes.
My Response: Today I’ll look for and voice something praiseworthy for each family member.
Adapted from Christian Parenting Today (Summer/05).
After we’d been married for a year, Steve and I decided we’d get a puppy. McPherson, a young, untrained German shepherd/Australian shepherd mix, had a lot to learn. So did we.
Like all puppies, McPherson loved to chew. He chewed on Steve’s work boots until he put a hole in one. We showed him the shoe and scolded, “Bad dog!” He looked at us with his big, brown puppy eyes and slunk away.
Another time I was baking a special pie for Steve. McPherson jumped up at the table and swiped the mixing bowl with his paw. Sticky, sweet apples splattered across the kitchen floor. Again I yelled, “bad dog!” and shooed him outside. We yelled at McPherson a lot more than we hugged him. Soon his puppy spirit was broken. He didn’t play with us as much. He no longer looked us in the eyes with his puppy smile.
We finally realized we were doing things wrong and asked others for advice. McPherson, they told us, needed to hear “good dog” to know what he was doing right. He needed more approval than correction, and the correction should be gentle. We took the advice. Soon McPherson was running, jumping, and joyful again. He could see and hear that we loved him.
I was poor in math until I hit eighth grade. For some now unfathomable reason, I found it easier to cheat and get failing grades than study and get passing grades. My math teacher caught me cheating but never told my parents. He had the grace to help me see the difference between what I was becoming and what I could be.
He came alongside with helps that appropriately addressed self-esteem, learning skills, and socialization. I was pretty much an introvert in those days. What he did was always exude optimism about my potential and the inevitability of becoming an A student. He created a space into which dropped hope. I became as hopeful as he was.
He sheltered me from the ridicule of other students and the rejection of my parents, and had nothing but confident expectation in my ability to succeed. I did succeed. To this day I’m the math whiz in the family. I never cheated again.
My world is a far different place now, not simply because I succeeded at junior high math. It’s different because in the eighth grade someone breathed hope into my life—and showed me how to breathe it into the lives of others. When I became a believer a decade later, this lesson took on new meaning.
My Response: Someone whose life I could breathe hope into is ____.
Tim Stafford started his writing career with Ignite Your Faith magazine (then Youth for Christ’s Campus Life). He moved his family to Kenya and founded Step magazine, for Christian youth in Africa.
With Philip Yancey, he co-authored notes for the popular Student Bible. Now a senior writer for Christianity Today, Tim has written many books. He lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife Popie, a counselor.
I learned about affirmation from the woman who became my wife. She and a circle of friends blew the cover off my guarded words. When they saw something they liked in someone, they just said it. They showed appreciation with hugs and smiles. They were so free and warm some people didn’t know how to take it. But everyone who came into their circle was delighted.
I could see stiffness and cynicism falling off others as they fumbled to acknowledge the compliments given to them. I saw their lives begin to open up and respond. For the first time, I realized that affirming words were more than a social grace. They had the power to change lives and relationships.
Almost without my realizing it, a response was awakened in me. I began to do my own share of affirmation. One friend told me he was quite startled at the bloom of compliments, hugs, and pats from me. Appreciation can spread from one person to another and through a whole community. But somebody has to start it.
David and Jonathan. Even centuries later those names linked together spell close, committed male friendship. They shatter our era’s stereotypes.
These men were, after all, battle-hardened warriors with a daredevil streak. And natural rivals. But mutual loyalty took priority over career calculations.
From the get-go (18:1), Jonathan and David hit it off. Have you ever felt that way about another guy?
What do you make of Jonathan’s vow (18:3)? Why does maintaining a deep friendship require deliberate effort?
What do Jonathan’s words, in 20:9, tell you about the transparency a close friendship requires?
Their covenant (20:14-16) committed David and Jonathan to sacrificial care for each other. How do we know (see 2 Samuel 9) that David took this obligation seriously?
Jonathan’s concerns were as strong for David’s welfare as for his own, we’re told in 20:17. What did this mean (23:17) for prospects of succeeding to his father’s throne?
Commitment to God (23:16) anchored David and Jonathan’s relationship. Is another man encouraging you to stay strong in your faith? Are you doing the same for him?
Spend Time in Prayer: Ask God to help you build a mutually supportive relationship with at least one other man—one that digs deep into matters of faith and character.
1 Samuel 18 1 After David had finished talking with Saul, he met Jonathan, the king’s son. There was an immediate bond between them, for Jonathan loved David. 2 From that day on Saul kept David with him and wouldn’t let him return home. 3 And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself. 4 Jonathan sealed the pact by taking off his robe and giving it to David, together with his tunic, sword, bow, and belt.
16 So Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, a saying, “May the Lord destroy all your enemies!” 17 And Jonathan made David reaffirm his vow of friendship again, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
1 Samuel 23 15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him. 16 Jonathan went to find David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith in God. 17 “Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be next to you, as my father, Saul, is well aware.” 18 So the two of them renewed their solemn pact before the Lord. Then Jonathan returned home, while David stayed at Horesh.
Key Bible Verse: A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. – Proverbs 17:17.
Recently I underwent a battery of medical tests to determine the cause of severe stomach pain. I feared the worst. An upper G.I. test revealed some kind of inflammation in the intestines. There was also a spot on my spine that looked odd. I lost about seven pounds and became so overwhelmed by fear that I closed up and sealed myself off from others.
Yikes! Did he really say that? But he was right. I’d called some of my friends to let them know what was going on, but I hadn’t really included them in the process. It was too painful. I didn’t want to talk about it. I just wanted it to go away. You always know who your friends are. They’re the ones who never give up on you.
My Response: How does the male tendency to tough it out alone frustrate friendships?
If a friendship deepens over time, intimacy increases in depth and breadth. In fact, this is one of the best measures of a growth in a friendship.
Spiritual friends share with each other at the level of their soul. This doesn’t mean that they talk about only serious, personal, or spiritual matters. However, if they never share at this level, the relationship is not worthy of being called a spiritual—or soul—friendship. Soul refers to the whole person, with particular attention to one’s inner life. Soul intimacy, therefore, is built on sharing the inner self. Sharing at the level of their souls means that friends’ intimacy is not restricted to experiences with the external world.
Friends who enjoy soul intimacy never settle for gossip or simple information exchange. Instead, they use the data of events as springboards for the sharing of feelings, perceptions, values, ideas, and opinions.
The conversations of such friends are never merely about what happened in their lives or the world, but move from this to how they experience, react to, and understand what happened. Dialogue continually moves from the surface to the depths, from the external to the internal. This is the crucial distinctive of dialogue in spiritual friendships.
My Response: Would I find sharing at this level scary or attractive? Why?
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Tuesday was my birthday. My husband bought me flowers, an ice cream cake, and took me to lunch. Simple but so enjoyable.
When I was young, every year on my birthday I wished for a pony. I never got one. Now that I’m older I understand why that wish was never granted. A horse is too big to wrap. There wasn’t enough room in a bedroom shared with my two other sisters. And a horse is definitely not a house-friendly pet when you live in a city.
While growing up, our family birthdays were never extravagant, but they were always memorable.
Birthday wishes began in the morning from my mother, father, and siblings and ended with a special homemade birthday dinner of my choice. The pièce de résistance was Angel Pie. It’s a cherished family recipe that I requested for my birthday every year. Chocolate perfection made with my mother’s magic touch!
Then there was the year our oh-so-fun next-door neighbors brought over a watermelon half with birthday candles stuck in it.
There were always cards from family and friends lined up for me to enjoy.
On my 16th birthday, my mother prepared a party luncheon that included fresh flowers, silver, china, a delicious main dish, and Angel Pie for dessert.
On my 21st birthday, my parents took my best friend and me to a nice restaurant where we celebrated our September birthdays with champagne.
When I went away to college, my father made sure a proper birthday wish was always there for me. In the early morning hours of my birthday, and that meant in the middle of the night, he would call to be the first to wish me a happy birthday. He never ever missed a year.
The year my father passed away, I realized how much I would miss those obnoxious early-morning birthday calls. Then sometime in the middle of the night on my birthday that year, my phone rang. Being in a sleepy daze, I imagined it was a call from my father in heaven. On the other end of the phone was not my father’s voice but the voice of my daughter saying, “I’m calling to wish you a happy birthday, just like grandpa always did.” Ah, the pleasures of having a wonderful, thoughtful daughter!
At 1:32 am on Tuesday of this week, my phone rang. It was my daughter calling to say happy birthday. She is insistent on keeping up the tradition that she knows means so much to me – no matter how annoying!
It’s the simple pleasures of life that bring you happiness.
It’s not Angel Pie but ice cream cake will do!
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It’s been almost a week since my first injection. I thought I’d take a break from working on my presentation to make a quick update since I probably won’t have time tomorrow due to my presentation, midterm, and going to see a sneak preview of Iron Man 3 tomorrow night! And I’m waiting on some images to upload into Google Drive, so it seems like a good time.
I actually haven’t noticed much as far as changes go. That area below the belt is still quite sensitive, and I was told that there might have been some growth, but I’m kind of skeptical. =) I feel like my muscles might have increased in hardness a little, but it’s really hard to tell since I feel them several times a day, lol. I’m pretty sure my voice is still the same, but I will make a short video to do a comparison in a little bit. I may even work on embedding them hear at some point. I’m a bit awkward on camera though, so we’ll see about that.
Other than that, I came out to the grad student that I consider to be a mentor of sorts. It may be helpful if I give a little background on my school/work situation. I’m a full-time student currently enrolled in a contiguous B.S./M.S. program. I’m currently in my last quarter of my undergraduate studies. I also work in two labs on campus. In one of the labs, I basically work on my own cleaning, organizing, and preparing various things. My employment will end there either when I graduate or at the end of the summer. That’s still up in the air as of right now. The date of the end of my employment there will determine if I come out to my coworkers or not. My second job is in a research lab within my department. I have been working there for just shy of a year now, and I will be continuing to work there through next year (my Master’s year) since I will be doing my thesis work in the lab. This means that I will have to come out to everyone in my lab and to my department. Anyway, I told the grad student I work with about myself Monday evening. He was really supportive and offered his help if I need any. I knew that he would be cool before I told him. There are others in the lab that I’m not so sure about, but I feel like I should tell them before changes become too noticeable. I also plan on getting my name and gender changed legally, so it’ll reflect in my records. I don’t think I’ll be able to do this in time to get my correct name on my Bachelor’s degree, unfortunately. I’m not sure what the school’s policy on name changes after already completing your degree. I read that to have a name change reflected in a degree, it has to be shown a few months ahead of graduation. It’s already too late for that, but I at least have time for the Master’s. I suppose I can check with the LGBT Resource Center on campus. I’m sure they know the ins and outs of the system.
That’s it for now. I should continue to work on my presentation, even though I have a bad case of senioritis.
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Back to Home Page Curriculum Personal Achievements. Research Interests I am currently writing a PhD Thesis. PC Programs I wrote for my PC. RC Flight Simulator Learn to fly your Radio Control model airplane. Spectrum Published programs I wrote for my Spectrum Electronics Electronic Circuits I designed and built. Personal Bookmarks VRML Model of my face! PC The programs I wrote for my PC. This page contains a selection of programs I wrote for PC. Most of them include source code which you can use and misuse at will.
3D Graphics Stereo Demo (1994).
Using a pair of magnifying lenses at 15 cm from the screen you can focus your eyes on the screen. A three-dimensional tank will appear in front of you. Use the keyboard to move around and fire at will.
Stereo pair. Experience the effects of 3D in your computer!
Game like aeroplane simulator v1.1 (1996).
Demonstrates basic use of aeroplane control surfaces, radar, compass and altimeter.
This is not a physics based simulator, but a game like aeroplane. The one you really want to see is here.
For your first lesson get familiar with Aileron, Rudder and Elevator controls. Then press 'Q' to move forward. Press 'SPACE BAR' at any time to return the aeroplane to the start position.
SPACE BAR Return to start position.
Radar Shows position of aeroplane.
Compass Shows orientation of aeroplane.
Altimeter Shows altitude of aeroplane.
Game-like flight. Have some fun flying around!
Shows 45 different spherical meshes. The scene can be viewed in stereo.
Spheres and the view point can be controlled by the user. Stereo view of triangular mesh. Use with red/green glasses.
This project was realised by 4 people in collaboration including me.
Performs a Fourier transform of a function, then the Inverse Fourier Transform, and presents the results graphically.
This technique achieves about 200% compression for text files (zip and arj achieve 800%). So if you were wondering why the downloadable files in my page are not compressed with my compressor, there you have the answer.
output file: Optional target file name, only when compressing.
Based on the article "Programming the Keyboard" in PCGPE.
This program shows how to read simultaneously several key status in MSDos.
On each turn the player must draw a new line between two dots in the grid.
The player that completes more cells wins. Playing against the computer is not easy! There's still one line you can draw without giving away any precious cell. Can you spot it? Fight for the cells!
<filename> must be a Targa (TGA) file.
You will need a SVGA video card VESA compatible (most of them are).
Five screen modes are selectable to view your image.
Two selectable types of function can be filtered and displayed.
The Sample Rate can also be modified with Cursor LEFT/RIGHT. Parameters can be modified and results are displayed immediately. Filtered pulse.
The selected source triangle on the TGA image will be mapped onto a target triangle on the screen.
Left Button Click on target vertices to drag target vertices.
Right Button Click on target vertices to drag source vertices.
Starting position of triangles. Source triangle has been chosen to include tree. The tree is mapped onto target triangle on the screen.
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These maps provide an index of all trees, shrubs, and plantings on the ISU campus.
Maps of the ISU campus going back as far as 1875.
ISU Printing & Copy Services can print high-resolution maps for you. You can even have custom maps made.
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It takes guts to be a pioneer, especially when everyone around you disapproves of your passion. That’s the case for 18-year-old Bangladeshi surf star Nasima Akter. Despite the conservative country’s cultural taboos frowning upon women swimming, Akter not only took on the waves, but has beaten the boys in local surf competitions. Akter is now the star of filmmaker Heather Kessinger’s upcoming documentary The Most Fearless chronicling three years of Akter’s struggle to keep doing what she loves, despite judgment, name-calling, and her husband’s insistence that she not surf.
Akter who has been in and out of homelessness, and estranged from her own family since the age of seven, discovered surfing while working on the beach in the town of Cox Bazar. When she was in her early teens, she convinced one of the young surfers to teach her the sport. When a group of kids formed a local surf club, Akter was one of a handful of girls who joined. But after the girls faced disapproval (they were called whores for going in the water) Akter was the only one who remained. Because Akter was separated from her family, she didn’t have the same pressures as girls who wanted to surf but were forbidden by their parents. “She had nothing to lose,” states Kessinger.
While Akter’s story is inspiring, however it’s also complicated. This isn’t a simple girl-takes-on-world tale with a happy ending, which is one of the reasons it is so compelling. Akter married at 16 and her husband and his family have forbidden her from surfing. “Initially her expectation was that if he’s a good man he should understand her dream. That was her hope but it didn’t turn out to be true,” explains Kessinger. “Nasima tries very hard to do the things that are expected of her, but when they have a fight or she just gets to the end of her rope with him she will reconnect with her surfing community.” However, over the years those breaks are frequent, but just that, breaks. “She eventually goes back to her husband, so right now she is not surfing,” Kessinger reveals.
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In the spring of 1943, right next to the Warsaw ghetto, a merry-go-round was built for the recreation and regeneration of the polish citizens. While professionals slaughtered the Jews of the ghetto, their neighbours laughed and played. They did not laugh about what was happening to the Jews. No, many of them were likely against such things. Most of them simply never thought about it. But right when the Jews most needed neighbours, these individuals continued on with their lives as if everything was normal.
Would I have done any different? Would I have made faith, family, school, and recreation my priorities? Or would I have sacrificed my comfort for the wellbeing of the marginalized and the decimated. I cannot answer that question, for I would have been one of those starving in the ghetto, and even if was a gentile Polish citizen it would only be speculation as to what I would have done. But I can answer the question with regard to how I will respond to the human rights violations of today. My question to myself is not how have I lived thus far, but rather what will I do today?
This entry was posted in advocacy and tagged activism, advocacy, by Daniel, Holocaust, support on May 2, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
In my initial call to action I stated that, “Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party are scheming to force the Conservative Government to promote abortion as part of Canada’s push to fight maternal and infant mortality at the G8.” This statement was based on an article from the Canadian Free Press appearing on the CTV and the Globe and Mail as well as reports from 4MyCanada . Having actually read the Motion for myself, I see that it does not explicitly use the word abortion, but I do agree with the assertion that this motion is about abortion.
The Conservative Government had already stated that they are open to including contraception as part of this initiative. The Liberal Motion goes beyond talk of contraception and states: “the Canadian government should refrain from advancing the failed right-wing ideologies previously imposed by the George W. Bush administration in the United States, which made humanitarian assistance conditional upon a “global gag rule” that required all non-governmental organizations receiving federal funding to refrain from promoting medically-sound family planning.” This is referring to President Bush’s “Mexico Policy” that organizations which promote abortion abroad would not receive federal funds.
Again, please continue to let our politicians know that Canadians do care about improving maternal health and combating infant mortality and that we emphatically oppose exporting abortion.
This entry was posted in abortion, activism and tagged abortion, abortion politics, by Daniel on March 23, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
Your voice is needed urgently! Whether or not you are Canadian, please take a few minutes and email Canadian Members of Parliament ASAP!
As president of the G8 in 2010, Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world’s poorest regions. Members of the G8 can make a tangible difference in maternal and child health and Canada will be making this the top priority in June. Far too many lives and unexplored futures have already been lost for want of relatively simple health-care solutions.
But the Liberals are introducing a motion in Parliament on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 that would force the Government to include abortion and contraception in this effort to help mothers and infants among the world’s poor.
Please contact all interested friends and family regarding this issue and encourage them to make their voice heard ASAP!
This entry was posted in abortion, activism and tagged abortion, abortion politics, by Daniel, G8, infant mortality, maternal health, women's health on March 21, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
Behind the veneer of pro-choice rhetoric is a very lucrative abortion industry. This money making industry is documented in a brand new documentary called Blood Money. This documentary has not yet been picked up by any distributors, ostensibly with the thought that few people care about these issues.
This entry was posted in uOSFL and tagged abortion, blood money, by Daniel, news, planned parenthood, public opinion, supreme court, women's health on March 18, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
As a little child I dreamed of great adventures, and as a teen I loved Lord of the Rings. But as a student at the University of Ottawa, I’ve had the privilege of making a practical difference promoting respect for all human beings through my involvement with Ottawa Students for Life. Yes. This has everything to do with you putting your name forward for the OSFL election: please keep reading.
Seriously, the closest I’ve ever come to being part of anything like the comradery of the Fellowship of the Ring is through this club. Just like in the Fellowship, we’re made up of a great variety of people united by a respect for the sanctity of human life.
Just like in any of those fairytale adventures, our journey is sometimes rough. It is sometimes discouraging, often feels futile, and always takes time away from home work. It’s a tough cause. Few people today advocate for children in the womb. Few people today take the time to listen to women suffering from an abortion. Few people today are willing to do anything to educate their peers on the reality of foetal development. I don’t always feel as if I’m like living my childhood dream. Sometimes I feel like an integral member of the team, and sometimes I feel redundant and out of sync. But I am committed to this cause regardless of how I feel. I pray that I will have the strength to endure.
And while I used to dream of being part of the Fellowship of the Ring, I now realize that those characters should be envious of me because I am making a difference in the real world, while they’re relegated to the realm of fiction. Being part of OSFL is like being part of Lord of the Rings but way more awesome–it’s real!
This entry was posted in uOSFL and tagged by Daniel, club, elections, events, LOTR, uOSFL on March 10, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
From coast to coast students are initiating resource drives to provide material support for mothers in difficult circumstances. Future doctors, politicians, and businessmen are being equipped to promote and protect the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. We’re hosting lectures and facilitating debates, raising awareness and making a difference.
Women and men who have been impoverished by abortion are increasingly informing the public of their experiences, and many mothers are carrying their pregnancies to term. While mainstream media traditionally ignore pro-life initiatives, new media is empowering the populace to be factually informed. Pro-life momentum is building.
This isn’t the first time that popular support has been mobilized. Back when I was a very young child there was also growing momentum. In response to the devastation caused by the law regulating abortion being struck down in January of 1988, there was significant support mobilized in favour of varied initiatives to protect the unborn children. But the momentum fizzled, people quarrelled, some were alienated, and many moved on to other things. I write this post because we face the possibility of the same thing today.
While much work has been done on campuses throughout Canada, many campus club leaders are graduating this year. The opportunities to make a difference on our campuses remain, but in order for the good work to continue new students must become involved. In order for the club to make a difference, we need more than just people interesting in helping out as time permits. We need students to make time. We need people to take on specific responsibilities by filling the executive and co-ordinator positions.
OSFL will be having its annual election in just a few weeks. If you’re interested in putting your name forward, please contact us at ottawastudentsforlife@gmail.com.
This entry was posted in uOSFL and tagged abortion law, by Daniel, club, uOSFL, uOttawa on February 12, 2010 by uOttawa Students For Life.
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Type section and synonyms: The name Danville was first used by Bradley (1870, p. 250-252) for a coal near Danville, Ill. Wanless later (1956, p. 11) designated the E2 sec. 7, T. 19 N., R. 11 W., Vermilion County, Ill., as the type locality for this coal, which Kosanke and others (1960, p. 35) recognized as the Danville (No. 7) Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. Use of this name was extended to Indiana by Wier (1961, 1965) and Wier and Gray (1961), and the coals previously known as Coal VII (Ashley, 1899, p. 842), the Millersburg Coal (Fuller and Ashley, 1902, p. 2), the Upper Millersburg Coal (Wier and Stanley, 1953; Wier, 1958), and the Little Newburg Coal (Owen, 1839, p. 11: 1856, p. 36: Ashley, 1909, p. 97) were designated the Danville Coal Member of the Dugger Formation (Wier, 1961, 1965; Burger, 1970).
Description and correlation: The Danville Coal Member in Indiana is a bright-banded bituminous coal cropping out from the Ohio River at Newburgh, Warrick County, northward to southern Vermillion County. It ranges from 0.2 to 6.5 feet (0.1 to 2 m) in thickness and thins generally from north to south, averaging 4.3 feet (1.3 m) in Vermillion and Vigo Counties, 3.3 feet (1 m) in Sullivan and Knox Counties, and 2.1 feet (0.6 m) in Pike, Gibson, and Warrick Counties. The coal contains clay and shale in thin partings, films of clay in vertical joints, and local concentrations of pyrites or marcasite.
The Danville coal, the uppermost member of the Dugger Formation, has been strip mined in places along its Indiana outcrop. It is erroneously called Coal VI by the miners in northern Vigo County and southern Vermillion County. The correlations of the Danville Coal Member and the older Hymera Coal Member, which are recognized throughout much of the Indiana coalfield, with two coalbeds that are locally called respectively the Upper and Lower Millersburg Coals in the southern part of Indiana are still tentative. The correlations are uncertain because continuity of the beds is interrupted (Gray, 1979).
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I have a five-year old son and living with him is a learning experience. When I wake up in the morning, you know, they talk, and sometimes they’re stubborn to get up in the morning for school. They don’t want to go to school. When they come home from school, they tend not to want to do their homework. They would rather watch cartoons or play as opposed to doing their homework. During dinner time it’s hard to get them to sit down and eat dinner without them getting up to play and run around. During bath time they make a huge mess in the bathrooms. They splash water. They smear toothpaste all over the bath tubs and sinks. During bed time, they rather sleep with you as opposed to sleeping in their own bed. But, overall, having a five-year old is a learning experience.
I’m going to talk about my family. I was born in Germany a long time ago. My father and my mother were both Germans. And I have no brothers and sisters, which is good because I had all the attention to myself and every Christmas when it was time to receive presents. I received them all because I didn’t have to share with any silly brother or sister. I had two uncles and I had several aunts, all of whom loved me very much and gave me many many presents, and I had one grandmother. My grandfathers, they died. My other grandmother died. But I had one grandmother whom I cared for very much. She loved me. She read to me. She recited poetry. And she taught me certain things very important about life, and I will always thank her and always remember her.
My father was born in Italy and he was trained in Italy to be a blacksmith, but when he came to this country he was 17 and there was not much call for blacksmiths. So, he relearned a trade. He became a carpenter, and after 10 years working in that trade, he went into business for himself and became a building contractor. Um, my mother was born in Italy. Came here as a child. Went to secretarial school here. And worked as a secretary for 3 or 4 years ‘til she married. And then she became a stay at home mom. And that’s what she was for the rest of her life.
The best character trait that I inherited from either parent I would have to say is my mother’s good humor. My mother has a lot of spice and she got a lot of energy and, and it travels with her, and it, it fills a room wherever she goes, and uh, it makes everyone feel comfortable, and I think I’ve acquired that whenever I feel comfortable it definitely comes out and I like to make people laugh and I don’t mind making a fool out of myself for a second just to make others enjoy and have a great time.
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Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context – bloggERS!
In 2014/15 I worked at the New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO) as the Project Manager for the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program in New York City, providing administrative support for five fantastic digital stewardship projects. While I gained a great deal of theoretical knowledge during that time, my hands-on work with born digital materials has been fairly minimal. When I saw that METRO was offering a workshop on “Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in An Archival Context” with Shira Peltzman, former NDSR-NY resident (and currently Digital Archivist for UCLA Library Special Collections), I jumped at the opportunity to sign-up.
For the last two years I have served as the archivist at SUNY Maritime College, working as a “lone arranger” on a small library staff. My emphasis has been on modernizing the technical infrastructure for our special collections and archives. We’ve implemented ArchivesSpace for collections management and are in the process of launching a digital collections platform. However, most of my work with born-digital materials has been of a very controlled type; for example, oral histories and student photographs that we’ve collected as part of documentation projects. While we don’t routinely accession born-digital materials, I know the reckoning will occur eventually. A workshop on descriptive practices seemed like a good place to start.
Shira emphasized that a great deal of technical and administrative metadata is captured during processing of born-digital materials, but not all of this information should be recorded in finding aids. Part of the archivist’s job is figuring out which data is meaningful for researchers and important for access. Quoting Bertram Lyons, she also emphasized that possessing a basic understanding of the underlying “chemistry” of digital files will help archivists become better stewards of born-digital materials. To that end, she started the day with a “digital deep dive” outlining some of this underlying digital chemistry, including bits and bytes, character encoding, and plain text versus binary data. This was followed by an activity where we worked in small groups to analyze the interdependencies involved in finding, retrieving, and rendering the contents of files in given scenarios. The activity definitely succeeded in demonstrating the complexities involved in processing digital media, and provided an important foundation for our subsequent discussion of descriptive practice.
The need for transparency and standardization were themes that came up again and again throughout the day.
To deal with some of the special challenges inherent in describing born-digital materials, a working group under the aegis of the UC Born-Digital Content Common Knowledge Group (CKG) has developed a UC-wide descriptive standard for born-digital archival material. The elements map to existing descriptive standards (DACS, EAD, and MARC) while offering additional guidance for born-digital materials where gaps exist. The most up-to-date version is on GitHub, where users can make pull requests to specific descriptive elements of the guidelines if they’d like to propose revisions. They have also been deposited in eScholarship, the institutional repository for the UC community.
Working in small groups, workshop participants took a closer look at the UC guidelines, examining particular elements, such as Processing Information; Scope and Content; Physical Description; and Extent. Drawing from our experience, we investigated differences and similarities in using these elements for born-digital materials in comparison to traditional materials. We also discussed the potential impacts of skipping these elements on the research process. We agreed that lack of standardization and transparency sows confusion, as researchers often don’t understand how born-digital media can be accessed, how much of it there is, or how it relates to the collection as a whole.
For our final activity, each group reviewed a published finding aid and identified at least five ways that the description of born-digital materials could be improved in the finding aid. The collections represented were all hybrid, containing born-digital materials as well as papers and other analog formats. It was common for the digital materials to be under-described, with unclear access statuses and procedures. The UC guidelines were extremely helpful in terms of generating ideas for improvements. However, the exercise also led to real talk about resource limitations and implementation. How do born-digital materials fit into an MPLP context? What do the guidelines mean for description in terms of tiered or efficient processing? No solid answers here, but great food for thought.
On the whole, the workshop was a great mix of presentation, discussion, and activities. I left with some immediate ideas to apply in my own institution. I hope more archivists will have opportunities to take workshops like this one and will check out the UC Guidelines.
Annie Tummino is the Archivist & Scholarly Communications Librarian at SUNY Maritime College, where she immerses herself in maritime special collections and advocates for Open Access while working in a historic fort by the sea. She received her Masters in Library and Information Studies and Archives Certificate from Queens College-CUNY in December, 2010.
Hi Annie, that was a fantastic workshop. I am trying to remember the software that they introduced to use, allowing for a bit by bit examination of material (it had this pretty “cool” visualization component)…do you happen to remember?
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The 1st show starts off with Yugi battling Joey. Yugi wins as usually and Yugi offers Joey a lesson in Duel Monsters with his Grandfather. At Grandpa's shop, Yugi's grandfather shows the group the rare card, Blue Eyes White Dragon. Suddenly Kaiba shows up and offers Grandpa tons of money for the card. When Grandpa did not accept, Kaiba challenged him and so Grandpa was forced to go to KaibaCrop to battle and lose. Grandpa lost his Blue Eyes White Dragon, which Kaiba then tore into piece, and it was Yugi's turn to battle for the sake of his Grandpa. The battle was going along fine until Yugi found out that Kaiba had the other three Blue Eyes White Dragon cards and all three of them were on the field. Yugi then realized that he had 4 pieces of Exodia and only needed one more piece of the puzzle in order to release the Ultimate Monster. By believing in the cards and his Grandfather's hope, Yugi assemble all the pieces of Exodia and won the match against Kaiba, the Duelist Master.
This show begins with Tea beating Joey in Duel Monsters for 5 times in a row. After long hard training with Grandpa, Joey actually finishes 8th in the regional champions. The setting then goes to Yugi living room as he and his friend watch Rex Raptor battle Weevil on television. Weevil was able to win with a trap card. Just then, Yugi remembers a package that came in today. It was from Maximillion Pegasus. Inside was a dueling glove and two star chips along with an invitation to the Duelist Kingdom and a video. Yugi popped the video into the TV and engaged in a battle with Maximillion Pegasus. There was a 15 minute time limit and when Yugi was about to win, the time ran out and Yugi lost. With the Millennium Eye, Pegasus took Grandpa's soul and Yugi now must go to the Duelist Kingdom to regain his Grandfather back. Pegasus created the Duelist Tournament in order to draw in the holders of the Millennium pieces.
Joey receives a letter from his sister, Serenity. She was born with very poor sight and could go blind very soon. Joey loves her very much and decides to go to the Duelist Kingdom to battle and win the two million dollar prize. With this money, he could then pay for a surgery that will help serenity. So it was set, Yugi and Joey were now going to both enter the Duelist Kingdom competition and win for their loved ones. However, Joey couldn't board the ship leaving to the Duelist Kingdom because he wasn't invited so Yugi gives Joey a star chip so he can board. They are both at a disadvantage because they both only have one star chip while everyone else has two. Tea and Tristan also board the ship by taking the sneaky approach. Later that evening, Mai is complaining about her room and battles Rex raptor for his room and wins by using some fake ESP. Weevil also asked Yugi permission to see the legendary Exodia and was granted this. He found a way to beat it and that was to destroy the cards so they can never be used against him in a battle. Weevil threw the pieces of Exodia into the ocean and Joey jumps in to try to retrieve the pieces but fails. The next day, the group arrives at the Duelist Kingdom.
Now that the gang are at the Duelist Kingdom, Pegasus explains the rules of the competition and lets all of the duelist free to wander and battle as they please. Those with 10 star chips in their possession will move on to the finals. Yugi and his friends wander into the forest and spots Weevil. Yugi challenges Weevil for what he did on the ship. They battled greatly and when it came down to the final points, Yugi used water and electricity to win over Weevil's bug type monsters. Yug now has 3 star chips and 7 more to go.
Episode # 5 - First Duel!
The friend are wandering around again wondering about how Joey will do when he battles. Just then they see a kid complaining about how Mai cheats and know the cards faced down. Mai see the gang and challenges Joey because he only had one star chip. Joey accepted and battled blind because Mai tricks made him hesitate about his strategy. Mai then used a magic card to multiply her cards, but with some thinking and the help of Yugi's borrowed cards form aboard the ship, Joey caught on to Mai's tricks. Mai used perfume on the cards and by smelling the different scents, she was able to tell which card was which. Joey then regained confidence and used the Time Wizard to transform a Baby Dragon to Thousand Dragon and to make Mai's Harpies Ladies older.
Pegasus plans on taking complete control of Kaiba Corp and in order to do so he must get rid of Kaiba and take advantage of his brother, Mokuba. Also, to make his plan even better, he sends out a fake Kaiba to battle Yugi. The fake Kaiba has all the cards as the real Kaiba's deck. Meanwhile, the real Kaiba is in a secret computer room trying to hack into the Duelist Kingdom's computer main frame to help Yugi and avoid losing Kaiba Corp. Can you believe that the password to the Duelist Kingdom was Pegasus!!! Now just as Kaiba reaches the mainframe, Yugi is up against a Blue Eyes White Dragon!
The battle between Yugi and the fake Kaiba continues. The real Kaiba and the Duelist Kingdom's computers are battling it out by hacking into each others computers and working their way through to find the area in which Yugi is located. Kaiba finds the field just as a Blue Eyes White Dragon is about to attack Yugi. Yugi was able to buy sometime by using the Magical Hats magic card. Just as The Blue Eyes White Dragon began to attack, his attack points began to lower dramatically as the real Kaiba uploaded a virus. In the end, Kaiba had to run away to avoid getting caught, but he helped Yugi enough to make Yugi victor. The fake Kaiba was actually a spirit from the demon realm that possessed Kaiba in the 1st episode. With the help of Yugi's shadow powers, the demon was returned back to the realm and was sealed there.
Mai spots Rex Raptor and makes herself visible to get his attention. Rex Raptor then challenges Mai to seek revenge for kicking him out of his room. Mai said she will accept only if Rex defeats Joey in a battle. Meanwhile, Joey receives a card from Tristan and says he doesn't need any help or pity from his friends. Then, Rex Raptor challenges Joey and he accepts but he must receive no help from his friends or else he'll be disqualified. Joey still accepts and begins the battle very overconfident and then drifts off into the unsure world. At times, he accidentally defeats one of Rex's monsters but in the end, it was the friendship of Tristan and his card that helped him with the battle.
Joey duels valiantly, but Rex Raptor has unleashed his secret weapon: the Red Eyes Black Dragon! Joey must figure out the secret of the card Yugis gift, the Time Wizard card, without YugiS help or hes taking the next boat out of the Duelist Kingdom!
Yugis classmate Bakura, possessed by his Millennium Rings dark powers, traps Yugi and friends in a Shadow Game where they become the cards themselves! Not only must Yugi battle to avoid becoming a permanent part of the card game, but also free Bakura's soul from the Millennium Rings control!
Pegasuss hired duelist Panik cheats Mai of all her star chips, and Yugi vows to defeat him and win them back. But when Panik's Castle of Dark Illusions enshrouds his monsters in a black mist, how can Yugi defeat an enemy he cannot see?
Kaiba descends to the kingdom to face Pegasus! Has Kaiba changed since his battle with Yugi, or is he still the same merciless duelist? A battle between Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon and Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon holds the answers!
The #1 American duelist Bandit Keiths gang kidnaps Joey to a secret cave with a Graveyard playing field. As Yugi and friends search for him, faces Bandit Keith's zombie monsters which become stronger as they return from the grave! Joey is all alone in the battle this time!
Joeys last ditch effort, his lucky Time Wizard card, fails against Bandit Keiths zombie monsters. But as his lucky streak comes to an end, will his improving skills as a duelist and his love for his sister inspire him to victory?
Trapped in the labyrinth cave, Yugi and friends find an alternate exit, but the door is guarded by Pegasuss Paradox Brothers. Yugi and Joey will no longer be battling solo; they band together in a team battle against the Paradox Brothers! The battle for all the star chips and entrance to Pegasuss castle is on the line!
Yugi and Joey pool their strengths and manage to fend off their opponents monsters, but things are about to change as the Paradox Brothers summon the almighty Gate Guardian, a monster that reflects all attacks! Is Joey helping Yugi in this duel, or his lack of experience sealing their fate for defeat?
Yugi and Joey each unleash their strongest monster, the Summoned Skull and the Red Eyes Black Dragon, but their strength pales in comparison to the tremendous power of the Gate Guardian. Individually, our heroes have no chance, but they will unleash the greatest power of all: teamwork!
Using the magic of the Millennium Eye, Pegasus traps Mokubas soul inside a card right before Kaibas eyes! In order to earn the right to challenge Pegasus, Kaiba must first beat Yugi and take his star chips. The rematch between Yugi and Kaiba is about to begin!
Yugi begins spinning a strategy to put the Blue Eyes White Dragon to rest,, but he must decide whether to claim victory or spare Kaiba his life. Yugis heart is split in two!
Having lost his star chips to Kaiba and his only opportunity to save Grandpa, Yugi is in a state of shock. Can Tea bring Yugi back to consciousness by defeating Mai for her extra star chips and teach Yugi the heart of the duelist?
Kaiba was already in side Pegasus's castle and was getting ready to duel Pegasus. Kaiba wanted to use his new device to play play Pegasus but Pegasus wanted to play mind games with Kaiba so he brought out his souless brother out to use the device. Then Kaiba let Pegasus use his arena instead, because Kaiba didn't want to face his brother in a duel. Kaiba ends up facing Pegasus's toon monsters.
Having the advantage of looking at the opponents cards through his millenium eye, Pegasus beat Kaiba really bad. He even uses Kaiba's favorite Blue Eyes White Dragon against him, but not only did he use the BEWD, he turned it into a toon monsters! Kaiba was then souless as he had bet Pegasus.
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I strongly believe that it’s perfectly healthy to get obsessed, every now and then, with a piece of pop music. It happened with Patti Smith’s ‘Birdland’ (post here), it happened with The National’s ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ (post pending) and it happened last week with the Pixies’ song ‘Hey’, from their Doolittle album.
I said there might be Fat Boy Slim’s ‘Bird of Prey’ on the thing, but my wife, scrolling through the listings, said it wasn’t. She read out the nearest options – ‘Bird Stealing Bread’, ‘Birdland’, Neil Young’s ‘Birds’. How about those, she asked?
Yes, play those, came the order from the back. Play those for Feagle.
Well, driving round the M25 in a Renault Scenic is never going to be the best environment for listening to Iron & Wine’s delicate Americana (how does he do that with his voice?), but then Patti Smith came on, those first tentative piano chords and Smith’s matter-of-fact spoken word intro, dipping its toes in punk sentimentality, and immediately I knew something was going to happen.
We passed into the Dartford Tunnel and I found I was gripping the steering wheel tight, focusing on the lights of the car in front. The lyrics, once she starts singing, becoming increasingly distorted, as if someone’s forcing the words through her head, using her as a loudhailer set to maximum distortion – “I am not human” – until they give up half their meaning. This is the kind of music that perfectly fits a car stereo environment. It comes at you like meat, slabs of it, bouncing off the metal frame of the machine, you’re trapped and you can’t escape it, like being caught in waves full of roiling sand. By the time we came out of the tunnel into Essex, it was building to the powerhouse crescendo, Smith clearly channelling something witchy, troll-like, chthonic, stubbing herself on her own words – “like like like Mohammed Boxer” – and I was driving with my face half-averted from the road, watching the flat autumn Essex fields, physically holding back tears.
Obviously, music can get to you at odd times.
Was going through the tunnel part of it? Was it the fact that I was travelling into Essex, county of my childhood, country of birds and farms and no doubt red tractors, and so of my own parents, who however had moved to Wales ten years ago?
Was it about parenthood? The song has a dead father, and a son, his face “lit up with such naked joy.” Perhaps, but if the song was ambushing me, then I’d seen what I’d walked into as soon as it started. I knew, as soon as it started, that this song was catching me at the perfect moment of my… what? vulnerability? receptivity? And why? It had been an ordinary morning. I’d spoken to my parents on the phone recently. There were no signs I was going through any kind of low-level mid-life crisis.
Horses might have been one of the first albums I bought specifically following lines of influence back from contemporary bands I liked to the stuff that inspired them. (I’d never even considered, in contrast, that anyone had ever been influenced by The Beatles. It would be like being influenced by air, or water.) It was through that album, in part, that I learned about the possibility of art existing outside of time, and not necessarily speaking directly to the people in the particular moment it was made, but to people for whom it was not made, like me. It was Horses that made me look at ‘my’ pop music – the music made for me, that I felt I owned, was mine by right of my existence in a particular time, in a particular place – with a harsher critical eye. Perhaps it wasn’t enough that it spoke to me, now, at the moment it was made. Perhaps it would have to face a reckoning beyond those contingent conditions.
My father’s not dead, and he’s unlikely to leave me a little farm in New England, but he has given me a feeling for Essex fields – the turned clay stretched in vanishing lines towards the horizon and scattered with a thousand lapwings, perhaps, birds you never see anymore – though of course I never knew that sensitivity was growing in me at the time, because I was too busy listening to Patti Smith, inching my way back, with growing confidence, into the exotic crags and gorges of art and creativity.
And now, as these things go, I’m a father – and although it’s the parents dying on you that brings you to a certain critical pitch of existence (what’s that line by Martin Amis, something about finding yourself suddenly at the front of queue?) being in the lucky position of having both children and parents has its own weirdness. It’s like being caught in a hall of mirrors, surrounded on all sides by visions of what you were and what you will be. You’re falling unavoidably towards a future you can see etched on your father’s face, and, at the same time, as if you’re all tied together like mountain climbers, you’re dragging your own sons after you, to take your place in the middle ground.
So, because of the importance that music has, or has had, for me, my children spend less time tramping across fields and nature reserves, and more time listening to music. (Not a direct correlation, but still, you get me.) They have their JLS and their Michael Jackson, and that’s all on the iPhone for car journeys, and they have They Might Be Giants, and some lovely covers of Woody Guthrie kids songs, and they know a certain amount of Beatles, some Kinks, Madness, Flaming Lips, White Stripes… all those classic kids groups. Patti Smith, though, that I’d never force on them.
Yet now here I was, driving, arms not shaking exactly, but certainly internally vibrating, out of the Dartford Tunnel, finding myself in the throes of some kind of emotional rubdown, in that way music has of working on you like sandpaper, rubbing you raw. And the music, with its strange, warped spine of alien guitar, and with the hugely, beautifully and in the end incredibly ordinary and necessary pounding piano chords under it, and Patti Smith dragging out her words like they’re her intestines that are being dragged out – “We are not humaaaaaaaaaa” – until the statement becomes at once undeniably true and absolutely its own contradiction (nothing more human than denying your humanity, nothing more hopeful than singing the blues).
Does this music have the same effect (might it one day have the same effect) on them as on me? Is there a gene for getting all torn up over Patti Smith? Or will I have to drum it into them? Or, most bathetically of all, am I going to respond to their Patti Smith moment, when it comes, as my father responded to mine – in such a way as they’ll think their music means nothing to me, because I just haven’t got that kind of connectivity in me?
Art – with music, naturally, as human artistry’s pinnacle and consummation – is the great connector, but the connection is momentary, and uncertain, and in the end you find it connects you to yourself, alone. That’s what Patti Smith was singing about, in 1975, and that’s the response she produced in me, 35 years later. And I would trade my cassette of Horses, just now, to see a flock of lapwings in an Essex field.
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so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
give me a book I have not read.
keep swimming or they die? I’m like that.
If I stop reading, I die.
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↑ "平成１０年全国都道府県市区町村の面積の公表について(Official announcement on the national territory and area of 1998, by prefectures, cities, districts, towns and villages)", Geographical Survey Institute, Government of Japan, January 29, 1999.
↑ "2006 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan, Japan Small Business Research Institute (Japan)" (PDF). สืบค้นเมื่อ 2007-03-13.
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Light is most easily controlled through the use of the camera's aperture (measure in f-stops), but it can also be regulated by adjusting the shutter speed. Using faster or slower film is not usually something that can be done quickly, at least using roll film. Large format cameras use individual sheets of film and each sheet could be a different speed. Also, if you're using a larger format camera with a polaroid back, you can switch between backs containing different speed polaroids. Digital cameras can easily adjust the film speed they are simulating by adjusting the exposure index, and many digital cameras can do so automatically in response to exposure measurements.
For example, starting with an exposure of 1/60 at f/16, the depth-of-field could be made shallower by opening up the aperture to f/4, an increase in exposure of 4 stops. To compensate, the shutter speed would need to be increased as well by 4 stops, that is, adjust exposure time down to 1/1000. Closing down the aperture limits the resolution due to the diffraction limit.
The reciprocity law specifies the total exposure, but the response of a photographic material to a constant total exposure may not remain constant for very long exposures in very faint light, such as photographing a starry sky, or very short exposures in very bright light, such as photographing the sun. This is known as reciprocity failure of the material (film, paper, or sensor).
A photographic lens is usually composed of several lens elements, which combine to reduce the effects of chromatic aberration, coma, spherical aberration, and other aberrations. A simple example is the three-element Cooke triplet, still in use over a century after it was first designed, but many current photographic lenses are much more complex.
Using a smaller aperture can reduce most, but not all aberrations. They can also be reduced dramatically by using an aspheric element, but these are more complex to grind than spherical or cylindrical lenses. However, with modern manufacturing techniques the extra cost of manufacturing aspherical lenses is decreasing, and small aspherical lenses can now be made by molding, allowing their use in inexpensive consumer cameras. Fresnel lenses are not used in cameras even though they are extremely light and cheap, because they produce poor image quality. The recently developed Fiber-coupled monocentric lens consists of spheres constructed of concentric hemispherical shells of different glasses tied to the focal plane by bundles of optical fibers. Monocentric lenses are also not used in cameras because the technology was just debuted in October 2013 at the Frontiers in Optics Conference in Orlando, Florida.
All lens design is a compromise between numerous factors, not excluding cost. Zoom lenses (i.e. lenses of variable focal length) involve additional compromises and therefore normally do not match the performance of prime lenses.
When a camera lens is focused to project an object some distance away onto the film or detector, the objects that are closer in distance, relative to the distant object, are also approximately in focus. The range of distances that are nearly in focus is called the depth of field. Depth of field generally increases with decreasing aperture diameter (increasing f-number). The unfocused blur outside the depth of field is sometimes used for artistic effect in photography. The subjective appearance of this blur is known as bokeh.
If the camera lens is focused at or beyond its hyperfocal distance, then the depth of field becomes large, covering everything from half the hyperfocal distance to infinity. This effect is used to make "focus free" or fixed-focus cameras.
Motion blur is caused when either the camera or the subject moves during the exposure. This causes a distinctive streaky appearance to the moving object or the entire picture (in the case of camera shake).
Motion blur can be used artistically to create the feeling of speed or motion, as with running water. An example of this is the technique of "panning", where the camera is moved so it follows the subject, which is usually fast moving, such as a car. Done correctly, this will give an image of a clear subject, but the background will have motion blur, giving the feeling of movement. This is one of the more difficult photographic techniques to master, as the movement must be smooth, and at the correct speed. A subject that gets closer or further away from the camera may further cause focusing difficulties.
Light trails is another photographic effect where motion blur is used. Photographs of the lines of light visible in long exposure photos of roads at night are one example of effect. This is caused by the cars moving along the road during the exposure. The same principle is used to create star trail photographs.
Generally, motion blur is something that is to be avoided, and this can be done in several different ways. The simplest way is to limit the shutter time so that there is very little movement of the image during the time the shutter is open. At longer focal lengths, the same movement of the camera body will cause more motion of the image, so a shorter shutter time is needed. A commonly cited rule of thumb is that the shutter speed in seconds should be about the reciprocal of the 35 mm equivalent focal length of the lens in millimeters. For example, a 50 mm lens should be used at a minimum speed of 1/50 sec, and a 300 mm lens at 1/300 of a second. This can cause difficulties when used in low light scenarios, since exposure also decreases with shutter time.
Motion blur due to subject movement can usually be prevented by using a faster shutter speed. The exact shutter speed will depend on the speed at which the subject is moving. For example, a very fast shutter speed will be needed to "freeze" the rotors of a helicopter, whereas a slower shutter speed will be sufficient to freeze a runner.
A tripod may be used to avoid motion blur due to camera shake. This will stabilize the camera during the exposure. A tripod is recommended for exposure times more than about 1/15 seconds. There are additional techniques which, in conjunction with use of a tripod, ensure that the camera remains very still. These may employ use of a remote actuator, such as a cable release or infrared remote switch to activate the shutter, so as to avoid the movement normally caused when the shutter release button is pressed directly. The use of a "self timer" (a timed release mechanism that automatically trips the shutter release after an interval of time) can serve the same purpose. Most modern single-lens reflex camera (SLR) have a mirror lock-up feature that eliminates the small amount of shake produced by the mirror flipping up.
Focus is the tendency for light rays to reach the same place on the image sensor or film, independent of where they pass through the lens. For clear pictures, the focus is adjusted for distance, because at a different object distance the rays reach different parts of the lens with different angles. In modern photography, focusing is often accomplished automatically.
The autofocus system in modern SLRs use a sensor in the mirrorbox to measure contrast. The sensor's signal is analyzed by an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and the ASIC tries to maximize the contrast pattern by moving lens elements. The ASICs in modern cameras also have special algorithms for predicting motion, and other advanced features.
Aberrations are the blurring and distorting properties of an optical system. A high quality lens will produce a smaller amount of aberrations.
Spherical aberration occurs due to the increased refraction of light rays that occurs when rays strike a lens, or a reflection of light rays that occurs when rays strike a mirror near its edge in comparison with those that strike nearer the center. This is dependent on the focal length of a spherical lens and the distance from its center. It is compensated by designing a multi-lens system or by using an aspheric lens.
Chromatic aberration is caused by a lens having a different refractive index for different wavelengths of light and the dependence of the optical properties on color. Blue light will generally bend more than red light. There are higher order chromatic aberrations, such as the dependence of magnification on color. Chromatic aberration is compensated by using a lens made out of materials carefully designed to cancel out chromatic aberrations.
Curved focal surface is the dependence of the first order focus on the position on the film or CCD. This can be compensated with a multiple lens optical design, but curving the film has also been used.
Black-and-white film has a "shiny" side and a "dull" side. The dull side is the emulsion, a gelatin that suspends an array of silver halide crystals. These crystals contain silver grains that determine how sensitive the film is to light exposure, and how fine or grainy the negative the print will look. Larger grains mean faster exposure but a grainier appearance; smaller grains are finer looking but take more exposure to activate. The graininess of film is represented by its ISO factor; generally a multiple of 10 or 100. Lower numbers produce finer grain but slower film, and vice versa.
Since light propagates as waves, the patterns it produces on the film are subject to the wave phenomenon known as diffraction, which limits the image resolution to features on the order of several times the wavelength of light. Diffraction is the main effect limiting the sharpness of optical images from lenses that are stopped down to small apertures (high f-numbers), while aberrations are the limiting effect at large apertures (low f-numbers). Since diffraction cannot be eliminated, the best possible lens for a given operating condition (aperture setting) is one that produces an image whose quality is limited only by diffraction. Such a lens is said to be diffraction limited.
The diffraction-limited optical spot size on the CCD or film is proportional to the f-number (about equal to the f-number times the wavelength of light, which is near 0.0005 mm), making the overall detail in a photograph proportional to the size of the film, or CCD divided by the f-number. For a 35 mm camera with f/11, this limit corresponds to about 6,000 resolution elements across the width of the film (36 mm / (11 * 0.0005 mm) = 6,500.
The finite spot size caused by diffraction can also be expressed as a criterion for distinguishing distant objects: two distant point sources can only produce separate images on the film or sensor if their angular separation exceeds the wavelength of light divided by the width of the open aperture of the camera lens.
Light comes in particles and the energy of a light-particle (the photon) is the frequency of the light times Planck's constant. A fundamental property of any photographic method is how it collects the light on its photographic plate or electronic detector.
Photodiodes are back-biased semiconductor diodes, in which an intrinsic layer with very few charge carriers prevents electric currents from flowing. Depending on the material, photons have enough energy to raise one electron from the upper full band to the lowest empty band. The electron and the "hole", or empty space where it was, are then free to move in the electric field and carry current, which can be measured. The fraction of incident photons that produce carrier pairs depends largely on the semiconductor material.
Photomultiplier tubes are vacuum phototubes that amplify light by accelerating the photoelectrons to knock more electrons free from a series of electrodes. They are among the most sensitive light detectors but are not well suited to photography.
Aliasing can occur in optical and chemical processing, but it is more common and easily understood in digital processing. It occurs whenever an optical or digital image is sampled or re-sampled at a rate which is too low for its resolution. Some digital cameras and scanners have anti-aliasing filters to reduce aliasing by intentionally blurring the image to match the sampling rate. It is common for film developing equipment used to make prints of different sizes to increase the graininess of the smaller size prints by aliasing.
It is usually desirable to suppress both noise such as grain and detail of the real object that are too small to be represented at the sampling rate.
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Q: Will Elena keep her word to Elijah?
Nina Dobrev: I think so. Elena will do whatever it takes to keep everyone around her safe. So whether that ends up being keeping a promise or in the spur of the moment, something happens and she has to, in order to keep her friends safe, not keep her promise, then she will do whatever it takes. She’s a very selfless person who, as you can see, is willing to give her life for those around her.
Q: Will Katherine die in the tomb or will she escape?
ND: I don’t know, will she? I will tell you that I am going tomb crazy myself. I’ve been in the same wardrobe for six episodes. Every time I shoot that, they have to actually make my hair dirty and mess it up. I feel dirty and gross and I want to shower. I’m ready to come out of the tomb too. I’m ready to never be in the tomb ever again.
Q: They actually put dirt in your hair?
ND: Yeah, they do. They put dirt and they tease it. It’s weird because when vampires are desiccating and they don’t have blood, they start to look sickly and look like they’re dying. Usually as actors we want to look our best. You’re on national television! But when the character calls for it, you draw on undereye dark circles. It is cool. I personally love it. I love getting nitty and gritty and doing the opposite. I actually really love that.
Q: How do you like kissing the hottest guys on TV?
ND: Between the two characters on the show, I’ve literally kissed almost everyone in the cast.
Q: Wait, that doesn’t answer the question.
ND: I’m not going to kiss and tell. Everyone always asks me but I never answer.
Q: Who do you think Damon should end up with?
ND: Whoever he wants to be with.
Q: Have you thought about what you’d like to see Elena do after graduation?
ND: Yeah, of course, but she hasn’t really been in school much lately so I don’t know how she’s going to graduate. She probably still gets A’s in all of her schoolwork even though she doesn’t go because her aunt is dating her teacher.
Q: Would you like to do a Vampire Diaries movie?
ND: I would like to finish season two of The Vampire Diaries first before I do anything. I’m so overwhelmed right now, in a good way.
Q: Does it get confusing playing both Katherine and Elena?
ND: It’s confusing to be in my head and to do this. It’s not easy and I think I’m slowly becoming a schizophrenic because of it, but it’s cool. I even forgot the question. I’m so like confused now.
Q: It was about playing both characters.
ND: About playing both, and there’s a lot going on but I’m loving it and it’s never a dull day on The Vampire Diaries. For me, I’ve always got something to do and it’s pretty awesome.
Q: Do you enjoy playing Katherine or Elena better?
ND: Not better, not one better than the other. They’re both so different. Elena I get to do a lot of emotional scenes. She goes through such a roller coaster ride where as Katherine, I just get to f*** with everyone. Excuse my language but I just get to play around and have fun and be bad and get away with things that all throughout my life I’ve been taught by my parents not to do and now I get paid for it.
Q: Could you see playing a third character at some point?
ND: Hypothetically because Katherine is the first doppelganger that means there was one before her. So I guess we’ll see what happens.
Q: Would you like to do that?
ND: I have my hands very full right now, but I’m sure it would be interesting.
Q: What are your thoughts on the arrival of Klaus? Who should be cast and have you imagined an actor playing him in your head?
ND: I can’t tell you too much because I don’t want to give it away, but Klaus is coming at some point by the end of the season. He hasn’t been cast yet as far as I know. We don’t really know that much. We won’t find out again until it’s actually written on the page, but he’s going to be a big, bad vampire. I think Sacha Baron Cohen should be cast, do one of his crazy characters with an accent. So Sacha. Anyone can just pass along the message.
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A remarkably beautiful animation inspired by William Blake.
"Tyger" is a dazzling animation by Guilherme Marcondes, created for an annual festival thrown by the British Council in Brazil. The only requirement was that it reference English culture in some way, so Marcondes chose William Blake's "The Tiger" for inspiration. Marcondes writes on his Website that he loves the poem because it "gives us a hint of wonder along with a fear of progress." We love this short, which had us wondering aloud, What immortal hand or eye/Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Are you sure it's a magnet? It could be a toroidal transformer thingymabob.
I think that the only part of the computer aversely affected by magnets anymore is the 3.5" floppy drive. I've not been brave enough to try this claim my self though.
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Lisa Park is an interdisciplinary artist living in New York City and Seoul, South Korea.
She received her BFA in Fine Arts Media from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. She also holds an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
On her own website, Lisa Park said she "has been working with biofeedback devices (heart rate sensors, commercial brainwave headsets) to display auditory and visual representations of physiological measurements. These performances explored the possibilities of self-monitoring her physical and psychological states."
For example, she did some works visualizing emotive states and the subconscious. In Eunoia and Eunoia II, she controlled pools of water with her brain-waves. This was done by using electroencephalography (E.E.G.) data to create sound-waves which were pushed through pools of water, causing them to ripple. Park sat in the center of the pools as this occurred. For Eunoia, Park separated the E.E.G. data into five emotions, each of which fed into one of five pools of water. For Eunoia II, she expanded her conception of brain activity to cover forty-eight pools of water, matching the forty-eight emotions described by philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Also, while Park strove to control her emotions in Eunoia in order to keep the pools of water still, she changed her approach in Eunoia II to focus on expressing emotions.
She collaborated with fellow student Adria Navarro to create "I Wish I Said Hello," a work that used physical locations mentioned in classifieds such as Craigslist to map out places where people missed connecting with each other.
In 2017 she participated in "Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions", a group exhibition at the Mana Contemporary in Miami, Florida.
Park was a member at the New Museum's by-application-only incubator, NEW INC, from 2015 to 2017. Park was selected to be an artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs in 2017 as part of their Experiments in Art and Technology residency program with NEW INC. As part of the residency, Park was commissioned to create, "Blooming," which was featured in the exhibition Only Human at Mana Contemporary in May 2017 and written up in Wired. Blooming was an official selection of SXSW Art in 2019.
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^ Stinson, Lisa. Watch An Artist Control Pools of Water With Her Brainwaves." Wired Magazine. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ Chen, Brian X. "Send an E-Mail to the World, and Other Student Projects." New York Times Bits. 2012 May 15. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
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^ a b Faires, Robert; 6:53PM; Feb. 6, Wed; 2019. "SXSW 2019 Announces Art Programs". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
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^ 香港藝術中心, Hong Kong Arts Centre. "ifva". www.ifva.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
^ "Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center Debuts Culture Lab in New York City Veterans Day Weekend". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
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I just published a post on WaterPoloTraining.net about loading a sport skill.
Examples of this would be: throwing weighted baseballs or swinging heavy golf clubs.
Although the article is written for Water Polo the implications apply to all sports.
If I can train with a heavier ball, then when I go back to the regulation size and weight I should be able to just "kill it".
Get stronger by using heavier loads doing the same motion as your sport skill, it is basic strength training science.Although this is a really good idea in many circumstances (i.e. trying to copy or mimic exactly what you do in your sport with heavier loads) it may not always be a good idea.
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New Europe/UK Mobile Number! - When pigs fly.
In order to make things easier for everyone, I've now got a separate UK mobile phone and I no longer forward North American calls to Europe.
When visiting Europe, I used to swap the SIM card from my U.S. mobile phone into my GSM phone allowing my local Massachusetts mobile number would work there. It was a contrived, pricey pay-as-you-go scheme that cost about £1.20/minute ($2.40/min, €1.52/min) for every call (inbound or outbound.) To make matters worse, sometimes people completely unaware of the 5-8 hour time difference would call me at 2, 3, 4 or even 5 AM, and I was paying for these lovely wake-up calls!
So... rather than paying for all of these incoming calls from folks in the United States, they now have to call my European number directly if they want to reach me in the UK "on their dime." Of course, all incoming calls are free for me -- you see, in Europe, people calling a mobile phone pay a premium; therefore, I don't pay through the nose for wrong numbers or simply annoying calls from clueless people back home who have no idea I'm in Europe. Also, as it is a "real" European mobile, I am now able to send/receive text messages (my world phone never worked for texting -- Sprint couldn't tell me what was wrong or how to resolve it.) Texting is very popular in Europe and very much needed to communicate with mates.
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Welcome back! This has been still another new year and spring consumed by family health issues. I so appreciate your patience while I have been away.
During these weeks, I have thought about you and this blog a great deal, have numerous things I want to share, and look forward to resuming our reading/writing lifestyle together. I even woke, a couple of times, in the middle of the night and got up to write down what I was thinking about because I was thinking about you.
So how did my literate lifestyle fare during the weeks of this hiatus?
First of all, in spare moments, I enjoyed journaling and sometimes writing emails to family or friends. I downloaded some journaling prompts from my Pinterest Journaling board, and rotated through them, so each time I went to journal, my prompt was very different from the last.
Sleep comes hard to me even in the best of times, so at night, as I lay waiting, I prayed; wrote prayers in my head and memorized them so I could write them down in the morning; sang songs in my head, to which I often altered the words to suit the circumstances, especially the ones I could not remember (something my Dad often did when I was kid, to great comic effect for myself and my siblings). Some I made silly, some just right for the moment’s need.
I could tell things were beginning to turn for the better when finally, I did not fall into bed too tired to read. Reading before going to sleep has been my rhythm ever since I first learned to read, therefore resuming bedtime reading gave me hope our family was on its way back to normal.
Through these weeks, God has been so good both in our family’s situation and in my writing life. As he often does when my actual writing must move slowly, he’s sent all kind of ideas—for the novel I’m working on and other novels in my queue, so while I have not been actually writing fiction, I’ve been thinking a lot about my novels and jotting down scads of notes.
How has your literate lifestyle fared during the time of this hiatus? What literate practices carry you through when your life gets stressful?
Please use the comment box to share. Let’s encourage one another!
As someone whose famous last words as a child were, “Just let me finish this chapter!” and who discovered at an early age that I think best with a pen in my hand, the crazy, joyous, busy holiday season, while wonderful, is also a severe challenge to my quiet spirit, and no more so than this year, when I came down with a cold the Monday before Thanksgiving and never quite got over it until nearly Christmas Eve.
As with most families, the holiday season, like any other time of year, came with both its trials and joys. I relied on emails and letters to support an uncommunicative relative who was going through a difficult time.
Also, due to how hectic the days felt, if I needed to contact someone, I relied on emails and texting whenever possible, thus avoiding long drawn out phone conversations.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? Prioritize your time by using the most efficient means of contacting people, and save phone conversations for meaningful interactions.
When you work full-time, are a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, friend, blogger, and writer, you have a lot of relationships and responsibilities to juggle. This December, I did not rely on my memory. I made lists for what I wanted to accomplish each day, lists for baking plans for the season, multiple lists for the grands’ Christmas craft party, not to mention shopping and gift lists, and lists for our family’s Christmas Eve gathering. I was able to do, complete, and provide everything that mattered most to me.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? When things matter to you and there’s a lot going on in your life, commit them to lists so they do not get forgotten, you can track your progress, and you will not be disappointed when you discover it’s too late to do that thing you were looking forward to.
I love Sybil Macbeth’s Praying in Color book and website. This year she posted an article on honoring Advent, the season before Christmas, by doodling an Advent themed word each day. She had a list of words I started with, then I brainstormed some more of my own. While I did not do this every day of Advent, I found when I did practice this, using a 3″x 5″ card, I experienced a sense of stillness, calm, and deep meaning in the present moment (which served as a great stress-buster as well).
Often functioning in a state of overwhelm or exhaustion, I did not have the energy to sustain the attention necessary for my favorite form of reading, the novel. So, I read a lot of blog posts–much shorter, more easily digested–and thus kept my reading-loving brain satisfied.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? What types of short works do you like to read? Switch to “shorts” during challenging times–short stories, poetry, essays, magazines, blogs… There is much to be gleaned from short, tight writing that can be satisfying to the spirit.
I love to read Christmas novels and novellas in December. So when I had the leisure and energy, I indulged. The stories were lighter fare than my usual reading rotation, which helped with my lack of energy and time, and they helped remind me of what I love about the Holiday season.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? Read something seasonal, whether it’s a romance novella for February, a beach read for summer, or a cozy mystery for fall, to remind yourself to savor the season you are in.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? You don’t have to be a Christian to enjoy inspirational reading. There are so many themed books of readings in the marketplace. Topics include: seasonal thoughts, collections excerpting a particular writer or group of writer’s work, themed collections of daily thoughts, and of course, publications from your own philosophical tradition. These kinds of readings can remind you of what you love, what you value, and what you want to focus your attention on.
I love words; I love quotes. A short quotation can be so meaningful, comforting, and inspiring. So, whenever I found a quote that “spoke” to me, I either cut and pasted it into an email to myself or jotted it down for my collection.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? When you hear or read something that makes you stop to think or appreciate, collect it. It doesn’t take long, but to your inner reader will find it most satisfying.
I keep a journal, but during times like this past holiday season, I do not have time to sit down and write in it in a leisurely manner. Christmas Eve, my husband and I had such a wonderful time with our kids and grands, and fell into bed exhausted, with a travel day planned the next morning to see my parents and brother. But I so wanted to remember all the highlights of our own Christmas party. So, that morning, while I drank my coffee, I did a braindrain of all the special memories. I didn’t worry about, spelling, grammar, or complete sentences. I didn’t worry about putting everything in the right order. I just jotted each delightful memory down so it could be savored latter. And I thoroughly enjoyed the process.
How can you apply this to any busy or stressful season? Sometimes our minds are so full and we long for time to just sit down, pen in hand, and reflect on it all, but there are no big enough chunks of time in which to do so. In such situations, a braindrain can be most satisfying.
Thanks to these strategies, I enjoyed a peaceful, meaningful, joyous holiday season.
How do you nurture your literate spirit when times get tough? Please use the comment box to share a strategy that you love or have found particularly effective. Thanks for you willingness to nurture our literate lives.
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It’s Your Call, Don’t waste it!
And live your life worthy of your call.
His point is clear. We should be giving thanks to our great God more than once, or twice, or even 52 times a year. It should be a daily routine for us. An author in my denomination recently wrote a book titled “364 Days of Thanksgiving.” I do recommend this book or any devotional book that encourages you to either read a devotional thought on a daily basis or lead you to think about God’s grace in your daily life.
My brother, Bob Brown, has spent the past year working on his third book titled Spiritual Passion which is free today only in Kindle Ebook format.
If you have read either of Bob’s first two books, no doubt, you sensed his struggle with organized religion. Make no mistake, Bob has a command of scripture and a gift to explain God’s Word clearly and vividly through poetry but he has a deep hurt from some aspect of church life in his past that comes out when he writes. In some respects, this is a good insight for pastors and us worship leaders to hear.
I do recommend this book as an uplifting read that can be picked up and read in bite-sized chunks. The book contains about 500 poems, about 1/3 dealing with scripture, church life, and faith.
Do you hear His voice in the wind?
Is He calling to you?
I enjoyed Philip Yancy’s book titled “Where is God When it Hurts?” There is actually a sequel to this book titled “The Question that Never Goes Away.” Of course the question that he is talking about is the subject of the first book.
Why do we continue to think that good and evil, pain and pleasure are doled out according to our merit, when the Book of Job teaches just the opposite?
The wealth of lament and protest in the Old Testament makes clear that we cannot count on God to intercede directly in human history, no matter how monstrous the injustice.
“I will fear no evil, for you are with me. . . .” God has come close. Those few words, “you are with me,” reveal the one thing we can count on in calamitous times.
From Jesus I learn that God is on the side of the sufferer. God entered the drama of human history as one of its characters, not with a display of omnipotence but in a most intimate and vulnerable way.
We go through suffering not alone, but with God at our side.
Jesus said he could have called on legions of angels to prevent the crucifixion. He did not. The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.
To redeem a planet, Someone must die.
This is not the worst thing to ever happen! Cancer is so limited. It cannot cripple love, shatter hope, corrode faith, eat away peace, destroy confidence, kill friendship, shut out memories, silence courage, quench the Spirit or lessen the power of Jesus.
Life is on loan, and will return to the Lender.
Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.
Where is God when it hurts? God is now in the church, God’s delegated presence on earth.
One commentator worried that Newtown had forever “spoiled” Christmas, as Virginia Tech and Columbine had spoiled Easter. Perhaps—but only if you celebrate them merely as holidays rather than as real events.
Christianity doesn’t in any way lessen suffering. What it does is enable you to take it, to face it, to work through it, and eventually to convert it.
God, please bless my soil and plants; that my soil will yield her strength. I thank the Lord for the privilege of being a sower, the honor of being a tender, and the blessing of being a harvester. Amen.
I wrote this prayer based on a particular chapter in scripture. It is one of my favorite chapters.
You have blessed me in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
You chose me in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
You take pleasure in me.
You have forgiven my sins.
You have lavished me with the riches of God’s grace.
Through you I have unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
I am here for the praise of your glory.
You have marked me with a seal – the promised Holy Spirit.
The question is, what chapter of scripture is this based on? Reply if you know the answer and receive a FREE copy of my Kindle-version E-Book (first 3 correct repsonses)!
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So William Thornton, the guy who designed the U.S. Capitol, wanted to bring George Washington’s corpse back to life. Good to know.
I proposed to attempt his restoration, in the following manner. First to thaw him in cold water, then to lay him in blankets, and by degrees and by friction to give him warmth, and to put into activity the minute blood vessels, at the same time to open a passage to the lungs by the trachæa, and to inflate them with air, to produce an artificial respiration, and to transfuse blood into him from a lamb. If these means had been resorted to and had failed all that could be done would have been done, but I was not seconded in this proposal; for it was deemed unavailing. I reasoned thus. He died by the loss of blood and the want of air. Restore these with the heat that had subsequently been deducted, and as the organization was in every respect perfect, there was no doubt in my mind that his restoration was possible. It was doubted by some whether if it were possible it would be right to attempt to recall to life one who had departed full of honor and renown; free from the frailties of age, in the full enjoyment of every faculty, and prepared for eternity.
Hey, it’s the bicentennial of the War of 1812!
Remember that one? Old Hickory, the White House on fire, the rockets’ red glare, and all that? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on what folks are doing to commemorate it.
…to help preserve early American sites is an idea whose time has come. More info here.
I’ve been thinking about all the irrelevant and sometimes false Lincoln quotes that pop up in the news, which prompted a post over at the Lincoln Institute blog. Enjoy!
…over at the Times blog about early Civil War battles in Appalachia. Check it out.
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Although Ireland failed to qualify for the final this year I will still be contently watching the show in Moscow tonight. To me it seems like the competition is wide open this year and there are a number of contries in with a chance of taking the eurovision crown. With there beign so many entries I like this year I have decided to pick the Five outside bets that could be dark horses in tonights final. I am not going to pick from the top favourites as I feel that most people will have heard enough about these songs already!! I will post their current odds according to Paddy Power also. Now im not a betting man but if I was I would certainly put some money down on one or two of these entries!!
2. Germany: I have only heard little clips of the German “Miss Kiss Kiss Bang” song live as yet but from what I gather, this is a great swing tune with loads of soul and attitude. Famous American Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese who is the former wife of singer Marilyn Manson has been added to their performance which is sure to generate great attention. The song performers are Alex Swings Oscar Sings!
Watch the Music Video to “Miss Kiss Kiss Bang” HERE. I Love This Song!!
3.Portugal: Their entry this year is entitled “Todas As Ruas Do Amor” (All The Streets Of Love) and is sung by Flor-de-Lis. I think that this is a vert sweet and simple feel good song and I like the fact that it is in the countries native tongue, Portuguese. Many countries sing in English these days which I feel is not in the true spirit of Eurovision.
Watch Flor-de-Lis’ Semi Final performance HERE. The stage backdrop was amazing!
4.Lithuania: have placed their hopes of winning in the hands of 25 year old singer “Sasha Son” with the song “Love”. I wasnt sure of this song on the semi final night but after listening to it again I really like it. Sasha also plays the piano in this slow ballad type song. Lithuania have very long odds to win and they may be at a slight disadvantage as they are first to perform tonight. I hope that with the help of the jury voting they will break into the top 10.
Watch Lithuana’s performance in the Semi final HERE. His final flourish is a bit over-dramatic though!
5. Armenia: Their entry this year is a fun song “Jan Jan” which is performed by the sister act Inga and Anush who seem to be Armenia’s answer to the Cheeky Girls. I really like the Eastern sound to this sound and think that it is extremely catchy. The stage performance is also great to watch!!
So there you have it, these are my tips on the acts to look out for in the show tonight. Knowing my luck they will probably rank nowhere in the final results. Hopefully we will see a surprise and one of these acts will win!
I think Ukraine or Turkey will win. I agree that Armenia and Iceland have a good chance. However, though I like the Portugal song, I don’t think it will do well because it is soft and because of Portugal’s geographic position. They didn’t do well last year, despite producing one of the best entries.
yes unfortunately geography is now playing a pivotal part in determining the winner and it is not the best song that usually wins. what did you thunk of Irelands entry this year??
Ireland was amazing.. Don’t know how it didn’t gain the votes anyway Ireland won 7 times Eurovision and I think is better for the countries that never won it to taste the host role.
I like Albania and Iceland and wish them a good luck!
Ya I agree that Ireland definitely deserved a place in the final this year. It is very disappointing for the acts that are knocked out at the semi final stage after all the time and effort put in by all!
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I always tell myself i will read more graphic novels and this was high on the list. Haven't managed to read it this year, but i did manage to read Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Defo planning to read Saga next year.
Nice! I’m looking forward to reading The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina soon as well. 🙂 What did you think of it? I really liked season 1 of the show and the Christmas special, so I’m really excited to read the comic.
I really enjoyed the series. Great atmosphere, and even the music was really good.
I found the graphic novel quite different, but still really fun.
No one is safe in BKV’s universe!
Awesome spoiler free review! Have they said why they’re doing a hiatus?
Thank you! ^_^ I actually don’t recall a reason being given for the hiatus. I’m not sure if it’s to work on different projects or to just take a break. I can’t wait for it to come back though! The wait is going to be torturous.
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Vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer powders are obtained by spraydrying of the corresponding aqueous polymer dispersions while simultaneously adding finely divided inorganic materials as anticaking agents. The polymer powders thus obtained have an excellent storage stability, are easily dispersible in water and yield plastics mortars of high water resistance and plasterings made therefrom which are free from cracks.
United States Patent Matschke et al.
Primary ExaminerJoseph L. Schofer Assistant Examiner.lohn Kight, lll Attorney, Agent, or FirmCurtis, Morris & Safford ABSTRACT 3 Claims, No Drawings PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A DISPERSIBLE VINYL ACETATE/ETHYLENE POLYMER POWDER This invention relates to a process for the preparation of an easily dispersible vinyl acetate/ethylene polymer powder which is used e.g. as binding agent in plastics containing mortars.
Dispersible powders of vinyl acetate/ethylenecopolymers are known. The following requirements have to be met by such a polymer powder: it should be capable of flowing freely, have a long storage life and good dispersibility in water. The dispersion obtained with water from the polymer powder should have a minimum film forming temperature of approx. C and its particles should have approximately the same average particle size as those of the initial dispersions. The dispersions should also be stable over a longer period of time, i.e., they should have no tendency to sedimentation. Furthermore, the polymer powders should be suitable as binding agents for plastics mortars. The plasterings made therewith should be free from cracks and resistant to water.
These requirements are fulfilled only partly by the known vinyl acetate/ethylene-copolymer powders which are prepared from vinyl acetate/ethylenecopolymer dispersions by spray drying with the addition of anti-caking agents. In particular the plasterings prepared with mortars containing these powders are not free from cracks and are not very water resistant. Both these properties are, however, most essential for the application of the mortars.
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a free-flowing and easily dispersible polymer powder comprising a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer, wherein an aqueous dispersion prepared by polymerization of vinyl acetate at an ethylene pressure of up to 100 atmospheres, and in the presence of from 0 to l by weight, calculated on the polymer, of an ionic emulsifier of from to by weight, calculated on the polymer, of at least one polyvinyl alcohol with a degree of saponification of from 80 to 92 mol and a viscosity of the 4 aqueous solution at 20C of from 3 to 35 0F, and ofa free radical initiator, is spray dried, and simultaneously of from 3 to 30 by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion of finely dispersed aluminium silicate, silica or calcium carbonate having an average particle size of from 0.01 to 0.5 u are introduced in the dry state in the spray tower as anti-caking agents.
The aqueous vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer dispersions contain approximately 5 to 40 by weight, calculated on the polymer, of polymerized ethylene. If further monomers are used together with vinyl acetate and ethylene the polymer should, preferably, contain polymerized vinyl acetate in an amount of at least 45 by weight. As further monomers there may be used olefinically unsaturated monomers, for example vinyl esters of straight chain or branched saturated aliphatic mono-carboxylic acids having 3 to 18 carbon atoms, acrylic, methacrylic, maleic, or fumaric acid esters of straight chain or branched saturated monohydric aliphatic alcohols having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, vinyl chloride, isobutylene or higher oz-mono-olefins having 4 to 12 carbon atoms. Further to the monomer combination vinyl acetate and ethylene other suitable monomer combinations are, for example, vinyl acetate/vinyl pivalate/ethylene, vinyl acetate/Z-ethyl-hexanoic acid vinyl ester/ethylene, vinyl acetate/methyl methacrylate/ethylene and vinyl acetate/vinyl chloride/ethy lene. Preferable are monomer combinations having a minimum film formation temperature of the corresponding aqueous dispersions of approximately 0C. Besides the monomers mentioned also other monomers having a stabilizing action can be used, for example, the sodium salt of vinyl sulfonic acid, monomers containing carboxylic groups, such as acrylic, methacrylic, crotonic, or itaconic acid or moiioesters of maleic acid, the alcohol components of which can contain 1 to 18 carbon atoms, in a concentration of up to 5 by weight, calculated on the total polymer. In addition monomers with two or more unsaturated double bonds can be used as crossJinking components, such as diallyl maleate, diallyl phthalate, triallyl cyanurate, tetraallyl oxyethane or adipic acid divinyl ester.
The aqueous vinyl acetate/ethylene dispersions can be prepared in various ways at ethylene pressures of up to approximately 100 atmospheres, preferably from 10 to 60 atmospheres. For example, a batch-process can be used in which the total amount of monomer is emulsified in the aqueous medium before the beginning of polymerization. Preferably, however, a monomer feed process is used in which at a certain ethylene pressure, vinyl acetate or mixtures of vinyl acetate and other olefinically unsaturated monomers are added continuously to an aqueous medium. The ethylene pressure can be kept constant during the whole feed period, the process can, however, also be carried out at increasing or decreasing pressure. As protective colloids for the preparation of the vinyl acetate/ethylene dispersions one or more polyvinyl alcohols are used having a degree of saponification of from to 92 mol preferably from 86 to 89 mol and a viscosity of the 4 aqueous solution at 20C of from 3 to 35 cP. The quantity of polyvinyl alcohol, calculated on the polymer, is from 5 to 20 by weight, preferably from 10 to 15 by weight. For the preparation of the polymer powder of the invention 50 to 90 of the protective colloid used is advantageously contained at the beginning of the polymerization in the aqueous medium and 10 to 50 is added to the finished dispersion in the form of an aqueous solution.
In addition to the polyvinyl alcohols used as protective colloid up to l calculated on the polymer of ionic emulsifiers can be used, preferably emulsifiers of the alkyl sulfate type having 10 to 16 carbon atoms.
The pH of the dispersion medium is adjusted in the range of 4 to 7.5. For adjusting the desired pH of the dispersion medium a suitable buffer, such as for example sodium acetate, sodium bicarbonate or sodium phosphate can be added.
The polymerization temperature is between 20 and C, preferably between 50 and 70C.
As polymerization initiators free radical initiators are used. There can be used the usual water-soluble peroxo compounds, such as ammonium, sodium or potassium persulfate, hydrogen peroxide, or perborates, or monomer-soluble compounds, such as for example t-butyl hydroperoxide or cumene hydroperoxide, alone or also in the form of redox systems. The individual components can be added to the dispersion medium either before the polymerization or at the same time as the monomers or separately during polymerization.
The solids content of the vinyl acetate/ethylene dispersions prepared in this way is approximately 30 to 60 by weight. Preferably, dispersions are prepared with a solids content of approximately 40 to 60 by weight. After the polymerization is finished a solids content, suitable for the spray drying, of approximately 30 to 45 by weight is set by adding water or an aqueous polyvinyl alcohol solution.
The aqueous vinyl acetate-ethylene dispersions are converted by spray drying into dispersible polymer powders When using dispersions with a minimum film forming temperature of approximately C it has proved necessary to add fine particle inorganic substances as anti-caking agents during spray drying. If these admixtures are not used the dispersible powders do not have a sufficient storage life. Suitable inorganic admixtures are silica, calcium carbonates or aluminium silicates with an average particle size of 0.01 to 0.5 1.1..
Silica or aluminium silicates have proved especially advantageous as anti-caking agents. Polymer powders of particularly high storage stability are obtained when the anti-caking agents are contained in the polymer powder in a quantity of 4 to by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion. The finer the particles of the anti-caking agents are, the less is the quantity necessary for stabilization.
The vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer powders of the invention are free flowing, their storage life is also good at elevated temperature. They can be dispersed in water within a few seconds forming creamy aqueous dispersions having a constant viscosity and good shelf life. The size of the latex particles of the dispersions obtained from the polymer powders practically corresponds to the particle size of the latex particles of the initial dispersions. The polymer powders have as good an alkali stability as the initial aqueous dispersions.
The vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer powders of the invention are exceptionally suitable for the preparation of glues, adhesives and paints. A preferred and especially suitable application is as binding agent in plastics mortars. Mortars of this type are prepared by intensive mixing of mineral aggregates of different grain sizes with the vinyl acetate/ethylene polymer powders of the invention with final addition of water. Plasterings prepared with plastics mortars containing these powders are, surprisingly, free from cracks and very water resistant.
approximately 15 by weight 0.5 by weight 2. Preparation of the vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer powder Before spray drying the vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer dispersion prepared as in Example l,l was diluted with water to a solids content of 40 by weight. As drying equipment a spray tower was used the cylindrical part of which had a diameter of 1.6 m, a length of 4 m and the conical part of which had a length of 2 m. The dispersion was supplied with an eccentric screw pump to a two-product spray nozzle, the bores for the products having a diameter of 2.5 mm each. The drying was carried out in uniflow current, as drying gas nitrogen was used in a quantity of 750 m /h. The temperature of the drying gas was 90 to 91C at the tower entrance and 58 to 62C in the cyclone separator. The throughput of the spraying air for the product nozzle was 20 kg/h, the pressure in front of the nozzle was 5 atmospheres gage, the temperature was 23C. Over a second two-product nozzle which was situated near the wall, only a little below the first two-product nozzle, anti-caking agents were sprayed in the dry state.
The vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer dispersion prepared in Example l,( 1 could be sprayed perfectly over a period of several days. The product discharge over tower cone, cyclone separator and collecting vessels took place by itself, it was not neccessary to tap these parts of the apparatus. The tower walls were covered only slightly with dryproduct after spray drying of over a week. This deposit could be easily blown off and had the same properties as the free flowing powder obtained in the collecting vessels. Using various anticaking agents in different quantities free flowing vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer powders were prepared. The properties of 2 powders are given below.
a. As anti-caking agent a synthetic silica having an SiO -content of 93 a surface area according to BET of 230 m /g and an average particle size of approx. 0.018 p. was used in a quantity of 6 by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion. The powder was very free flowing and had an excellent storage life. After a 24 hour storage at 50C under a load of 200 g/cm the powder could be loosened easily. The bulk weightwas 40 g/l, the volume after vibration 83 the weight after stamping 49 g/l. The powder could be stirred with water within a few minutes to give a 50 aqueous dispersion. The viscosity of the dispersion was 160 Ps (Epprecht-Rheometer DI"), the minimum film forming temperature approx. 0C, the size of b. As anti-caking agent an aluminium silicate having a SiO content of approx. 82 and an Al O content of approx. 12 and an average particle size of approx. 0.5 p. was used in a quantity of 14 by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion. The powder was very free flowing, the storage life was excellent. After 24 hours of storage at 50C and under a load of 200 g/cm the powder could be loosened easily. The bulk weight was 47 g/l, the volume after vibration was 82 the weight after stamping was 58 g/l. The dispersion obtainable within a few minutes with water had a viscosity of 60 Ps (Epprecht-Rheometer C II), the minimum film forming temperature was approx. 0C, the size of the latex particles approx. 0.8 p.. The powder could be worked excellently according to the given instructions 1 to 4 in the following table to mortars yielding crack-free and water resistant plasterings.
0.l mm 450 g 260 g quartz sand, size of grain 100 0.3l5 mm, 0.2 mm 0.] mm g quartz grit, size of grain 5 mm g quartz grit, size of approx. 4 mm 90 g quartz powder, size of grain 80 40 u 37 g water g l20 g 140 g g EXAMPLE ll 50 1. Preparation of the vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer dispersion tions were prepared and applied on asbestos cement plates in a thickness increasing from 1 to 10 mm. The mortars were prepared by intensely mixing the powders with mineral aggregates of different grain size subsequently adding water and anti-foaming agent and intensely mixing again for a short time. A part of the mortars was immediately applied after the preparation, a second part was applied after a 24 hour maturing time. All the plasterings prepared with the mortars were completely crack-free. Furthermore it was ascertained that the plasterings were surprisingly completely waterresistant. Also after a weeks storage in water the plasterings remained hard and the water completely clear. The polymer powder was also suitable for preparing glues and adhesives, for example for sticking PVC- furniture foils onto chip boards and as binding agents for pigments, for example for the preparation of paints.
(Epprecht-Rheometer C III): 8 Ps Average size of the latex particles: 0.8 p.
2. Preparation of the vinyl acetate/ethylene compolymer powder (Epprecht-Rheometer C ll), an average size of the latex particles of l .t and a minimum film forming temperature of approx. 0C. The storage life was excellent, after 24 hours storage at 50C and under a load of 200 g/cm the powder was unaltered. According to the given instructions plastics mortars were prepared. The plasterings made therefrom were, without exception, crack-free and water resistant.
vicosity'of the 50 aqueous dispersion prepared from the powder, was 1 10 Ps, the minimum fim forming temperature was approx. 0C, the size of the latex particles was 0.9 ,u. According to the given instructions mortars were prepared using this polymer powder. The plasterings made therefrom were crack-free and waterresistant.
approximately 19 by weight 0.5 by weight Viscosity (Epprecht-Rheometer D III): 78 Ps Average size of the latex particles: 0.8 p.
used in a quantity of 6 by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion. The powder was free flowing and stable on storage, it could be easily stirred with water to a stable, creamy 50 aqueous dispersion and plasterings produced with plastics mortars containing the'powder showed no cracks and were stable when stored under water.
1. A process for the preparation of a free-flowing and easily dispersible polymer powder comprising a copolymer of vinyl acetate and ethylene and optionally at least one further olefinically unsaturated monomer, wherein said copolymer is dried in a tower as an aqueous dispersion prepared by copolymerization of the monomers in an aqueous system at an ethylene pressure of up to 100 atmospheres and in the presence of from 0 to l by weight, calculated on the polymer, of an ionic emulsifier, the improvement comprising adding to said aqueous system from 5 to 20 by weight, calculated on the polymer, of at least one polyvinyl alcohol with a degree of saponification of from to 92 mol and a viscosity of a 4 aqueous solution of said polyvinyl alcohol at 20C from 3 to 35 0?, said copolymerization being in the presence of a free radical initiator in said aqueous system, and spray drying said aqueous dispersion by simultaneously introducing into a spray-drying tower at least one dry anticaking agent selected from the group consisting of aluminium silicate, silica and calcium carbonate in an amount of from 3 to 30 by weight, calculated on the solids content of the aqueous dispersion, said anticaking agent having an average particle size of from 0.01 to 0.5 u.
% by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol is added to the aqueous system before polymerization and 10 to 50 by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol is added to the aqueous dispersion after polymerization.
1. A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A FREE-FLOWING AND EASILY DISPERSIBLE POLYMER POWDER COMPRISING A COPOLYMER OF VINYL ACETATE AND THYLENE AND OPTIONALLY AT LEAST ONE FURTHER OLEFININCALLY INSATURATED MONOMER, WHEREIN SAID COPOLYMER IS DRIED IN A TOWER AS AN AQUEOUS DISPERSION PREPARED BY COPOLYMERIZATION OF THE MONOMERS IN AN AQUEOUS SYSTEM AT AN ETHYLENE PRESSURE OF UP TO 100 ATMOSPHERES AND IN THE PRESENCE OF FROM 0 TO 1 % BY WEIGHT, CALCULATED ON THE POLYMER, OF AN IONIC EMULSIFIER, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING ADDING TO SAID AQUEOUS SYSTEM FOR 5 TO 20% BY WEIGHT, CALCULATED ON THE POLYMER, OF AT LEAST ONE POLYVINYL ALCOHOL WITH A DEGREE OF SAPONIFICATION OF FROM 80 TO 92 MOL % AND A VISCOSITY OF A 4% AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF SAID POLYVINYL ALCOHOL AT 20*C FROM 3 TO 35 CP, SAID COPOLYMERIZATION BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF A FREE RADICAL INITIATOR IN SAID AQUEOUS SYSTEM, AND SPRAY DRYING SAID AQUEOUS DISPERSION BY SIMULTANEOUSLY INTRODUCING INTO A SPRAY-DURING TOWER AT LEAST ONE DRY ANTICAKING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALUMINUM SILICATE, SILICA AND CALCIUM CARBONATE IN AN AMOUNT OF FROM 3 TO 30 % BY WEIGHT, CALCULATED ON THE SOLIDS CONTENT OF THE AQUEOUS DISPERSION, SAID ANTICAKING AGENT HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE OF FROM 0.01 TO 0.5 $.
2. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein said further olefinically unsaturated monomer is a vinyl ester of a linear or braNched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having 3 to 18 carbon atoms, an arcylic, methacrylic, maleic or fumaric acid ester of a linear or branched saturated aliphatic monohydric alcohol, having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, vinyl chloride, isobutylene or a higher Alpha -mono-olefin having 4 to 12 carbon atoms, the sodium salt of vinyl sulfonic acid, acrylic, methacrylic, crotonic or itaconic acid, a maleic acid monoester of a linear branched saturated aliphatic monohydric alcohol having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, diallyl maleate, diallyl phthalate, triallyl cyan urate tetraallyl oxethane or adipic acid divinyl ester.
3. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein 50 to 90 % by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol is added to the aqueous system before polymerization and 10 to 50 % by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol is added to the aqueous dispersion after polymerization.
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2019-04-23T05:31:59Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US3883489A/en
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Carter Wilkerson likes his nuggs.
If you're also into chicken nuggets, or just random, viral content on the internet, then you've probably seen his Twitter campaign for a year of free Wendy's nuggets.
Wendy's said he needed 18 million retweets for the year supply, but after Wilkerson's original tweet reached 3.4 million retweets — officially beating Ellen Degeneres' epic selfie at the Oscars three years ago — Wendy's has decided that breaking the the all time record is good enough, and the man will get his nuggs.
Even though 3.4 million retweets is barely 20 percent of Wendy's original offer, Wilkerson has used the attention and social media support to raise money for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, by selling #NuggsforCarter merchandise backed by a full on Nuggsforcarter website. This kid is serious.
According to Wilkerson's website, this all started as a joke, but his love for chicken nuggets is real. He said, growing up, all his friends wanted to be doctors and firefighters, but Wilkerson just wanted to be a chicken nugget: "When I got older, I realized that this dream of mine was not physically possible. I was deeply saddened until I thought of a solution. People say 'You are what you eat,' so I ate chicken nuggets. I was running low so I reached out to my favorite nugget supplier Wendy's in hopes they would fulfill my dreams. And here we are today," he writes. Wilkerson says now, he's "making Twitter history."
Although Wilkerson got his nuggs, he's still not giving up on the 18 million goal.
Did Wendy's just give Carter Wilkerson the participation award or is the way he mobilized on social media inspiring? Your retweet tells.
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2019-04-25T12:13:52Z
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https://www.salon.com/2017/05/09/wendys-caves-to-twitter-user-gives-him-a-year-of-chicken-nuggets-despite-not-reaching-his-goal/
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You’ve got to be kidding…!
I don’t often comment on the publishing industry, but I could not let this article from The Bookseller [thanks Passive Guy!] pass me by.
“If you would like to buy stock of your titles, it may be prudent to act sooner rather than later”, Samrai said. “I appreciate this may cause unease but depending on quantities, I may be able to supply at a better discount than the regular author discount. If you would like to secure books – please email me your requests and I’ll do all I can to ensure you receive your books.
Being Indie can be tough at times, but I’d still rather be Indie than a ‘published’ author with a company like Freight. I cannot imagine anything more demoralizing than having my dreams come true one day only to disappear down the gurgler the next.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 at 8:55 am and tagged with authors, Davindar-Samrai, Freight, The-Passive-Guy, traditionally-published and posted in Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Gosh, that is awful! This isn’t the first I’ve heard of this with a smaller press, either.
I’m seriously considering Indie, myself. It works well for the genre I write in, and as an unknown, I’d have to do most of my own marketing anyway. This just further makes it look more appealing.
I went straight to Indie so I have no experience of the other side, but I believe all but the most popular, best selling authors have to do their own marketing these days so…why bother with a publisher?
I suspect the company’s in trouble through poor business management than out and out fraud, but that’s of no comfort to the authors.
Yeah. I’ve known a couple of people now who’ve been stung like this. It’s a lottery, in a bad way.
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2019-04-21T22:40:46Z
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https://acflory.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/youve-got-to-be-kidding/
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My little girl is in the air tonight. She’s flying to Germany, the place she was born thirty years ago. Why am I crying? Maybe because I feel old!
I’ve lived here and there!
I got married and moved to Dorset, a beautiful county in the south-west of England.
we moved to Winchester. Aren’t I lucky?
All of these places are gorgeous, and I’m happy I had the opportunity to live in them. However nothing compares to my home here in Franktown Colorado. It’s what inspired me to become a writer and where I’ll spend the rest of my days!
The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from 11 to 30 July. England beat West Germany 4–2 in the final, winning the World Cup. With this victory, England won their first FIFA World Cup title and became the third World Cup host to win the tournament after Uruguay in 1930 and Italy in 1934.
Oh th memories. My (soon to be) step dad and I watched this game together in the livingroom of his old stone house in Gilling West, North Yorkshire. The black and white TV was turned up full blast and the air heavy with cigarette smoke and the aroma of beer. Even at nine years old the excitement of the game consumed me.
The final score – 4 – 2 to England. Geoff Hurst was a hero when he scored his third goal, a hat trick. England were the victors against the West German team. My (soon to be) step dad, who was not the athletic sort, stood up, slopping beer everywhere, danced a little jig and then hugged me. I still remember that hug. It was special, it smelled of beer and cigarettes, but it made me feel like I belonged to a family again.
I’ve watched the World Cup ever since. I love the skill of the players, the excitement, the drama, and it brings back happy memories of my step dad. Enjoy the 2014 games everyone. Italy v. England today…….let the fun begin.
My first novel, Dead of July, is set in West Germany in 1982. World Cup Fever was rampant. The final was between Italy and W. Germany. I was living in West Germany at the time and cheering for Italy to win. That was a game to remember!
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2019-04-25T12:33:46Z
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https://travelwithsandra.wordpress.com/tag/germany/
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(CNN) -- The swine flu outbreak is spawning debate about how people get information during health emergencies -- especially at a time when news sources are becoming less centralized.
Buzz about swine flu on Twitter is stirring conversations about how people get health news.
Some observers say Twitter -- a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages -- has become a hotbed of unnecessary hype and misinformation about the outbreak, which is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives in Mexico.
"This is a good example of why [Twitter is] headed in that wrong direction, because it's just propagating fear amongst people as opposed to seeking actual solutions or key information," said Brennon Slattery, a contributing writer for PC World. "The swine flu thing came really at the crux of a media revolution."
Twitter's popularity has exploded in recent months, and Slattery said it's a new development that a wide number of people would turn to the site in search of information during an emergency.
A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, said that the online buzz about swine flu is a good sign. It means people are talking about the issue, and that's the first step toward learning how to reasonably protect yourself.
"I think it's generally a useful development, but I would encourage people to look to other sources, especially established, recognized medical authorities," said Glen Nowak, chief of media relations at the CDC. "It shows that people are engaged and they care and that it's caught their attention -- and those all are good things."
About 36,000 people die from flu-related symptoms each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The fast pace of new swine flu cases and their relevance to global public health policy makes the situation newsworthy, Tompkins said.
Tompkins said there is a tendency for television stations to hype health emergencies to boost their ratings, but so far coverage of the swine flu outbreak has been responsible. Coverage of the story is just ramping up, though, he said.
Of the swine flu news on Twitter, Tompkins said, "Bad news always travels faster than good news. I'm sure that was true in smoke signal days."
Unofficial swine flu information on Twitter may lead people to unwise decisions, said Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at the Open Society Institute and a blogger on ForeignPolicy.com.
Morozov said there's incentive for Twitter users to post whatever is on their mind because it helps them grow their online audiences.
But in an emergency, that tendency means people write about their own fears of symptoms and widespread deaths, which can create an uninformed hysteria, he said.
The debate about swine flu on Twitter is not one-sided, however. And the site is not the only place online where people are talking about the outbreak.
Some Twitter users have expressed concern that the swine flu story is being hyped. Several media outlets, including the BBC and CNN's iReport.com, give readers and viewers a chance to express their own views about the outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also maintains its own Twitter account where official government information is given straight to the public.
And on Monday, President Obama seemed to try to calm national fears by saying the outbreak is "cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert" but is not a "cause for alarm," CNN reported.
Twitter traffic about swine flu has been strong. According to Nielsen Online, swine flu has worked its way into about 2 percent of all notes posted on the site on Monday. You can follow that Twitter conversation here.
Chatter about swine flu is also loud elsewhere online. About 10 times more people are writing online about swine flu than wrote about the salmonella and peanut butter scares from this winter, Nielsen says.
Slattery, the PC World contributor, also criticized television news stations like CNN and Fox News for hyping the story and adding to public fear.
He said he generally was excited about Twitter until recently. Now, it's changing, and he finds the site to be "an incredibly unreliable source of information."
Nowak, of the CDC, said the media has done a good job of informing the public about the outbreak. He said some headlines, however, have been a bit sensational.
Tompkins said people who post information on social media sites should think about the credibility of their sources before they pass something on.
That's the "online equivalent of washing your hands," he said.
"Before you pass it on, wash your hands a little."
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The side effects of the medication are worse than the symptoms of the disease.
Ali is perfectly coherent and easy to talk to in the morning before he takes his meds. After he takes his meds you can’t talk to him.
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2019-04-25T20:25:20Z
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https://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/parkinsons-freddie-roach/
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Alone in the dark | Print, Play... Participate!
“And the angels sing at his (re)birth” – A DmC Devil May Cry review.
When I was but a wee lad in his earliest teens a good friend of mine invited me to his house one day to introduce me to a new game he had bought. It was an intriguing venture in the realm of “hack ‘n slash” adventure games featuring a demon-infested castle, crazy weaponry and an unendingly cool protagonist by the name of Dante, and I instantly found myself drawn into its frantic action, creepy atmosphere and awe-inspiring music, and though it would take me a few years before I would eventually own a copy of the game for myself, between all-night gaming sessions at his place, the occasional stint of borrowing and a swift purchase of the sequel upon its release, I found myself to be an avid fanatic of Capcom’s Devil May Cry series. Since then I have followed it incessantly, through the blistering highs of its initial and third outings, its less than thrilling second attempt and the rather lukewarm-yet-still-enjoyable final release under Capcom’s supervision. Many days of my life have been spent mastering the complicated combo-system, learning the ins-and-outs of each weapon, exploring every nook and cranny of each level in search of secrets and bonuses and working my way through the numerous, increasingly chaotic harder difficulties to become (in my humble but biased opinion) a worthy player of such an impressive series. I have even spent a fair amount of hard-earned cash on various bits of merch, from clothing to soundtracks (which are, to this day, some of the greatest combinations of gothic, metal and electronic music I can imagine) and upon hearing that Capcom would no longer be producing the ongoing exploits of Dante and his girls Ebony & Ivory, I held a silent vigil to the Devil May Cry name and knew that the gaming world would be a little less brighter (or darker, depending upon whether you take it on face-value or aesthetics).
Then came 2010, and with it the announcement that the Devil May Cry series was to be returning, but not entirely as we knew it.
I’ll admit that when I first heard about DmC Devil May Cry (as it is known, to offer a distinction between the old and the new) my reaction was a mixture of mild excitement and overwhelming cynicism. While I was hyped at the promise of more of one of my favourite franchises, the idea of a reboot is rarely a good thing, going back to basics and starting again with a whole new outcome, erasing the Dante I had known and loved and replacing him with a new, fresher one was blaspheme (I’m sure, if you’re reading this and a fan of the series, you will know personally, or from a likeminded friend, the initial horror of seeing Dante’s redesign, sans iconic white hair), and from past experience with reboots in general, I was not entirely convinced it would be a good idea (I’m sure you remember the carnage that was the Alone in the Dark, Legend of Spyro and Splatterhouse reboots, if not, you either missed the originals or didn’t care about the franchises, both fine with me, but look it up if you require the context), but, being just a humble consumer and in no way capable of doing anything about it, I had no choice but to sit back and wait.
The first thing that comes to mind about DmC is something that often annoys me to no end about people who reboot franchises: it quickly becomes evident whether or not the new bloods have any idea what the source material is, whether they have ever played/seen the old game/film and understood what it was about it that the diehard fans enjoyed, what made it good enough to warrant being revived in the first place. The Devil May Cry franchise was acquired from Japan’s Capcom and developed by UK-based Ninja Theory, the company behind two mildly underwhelming (but both fairly successful) titles, Heavenly Sword and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and when it comes to this rather integral point of knowing the original IP, I think it’s fair to say they hit the nail on the head. DmC plays and feels like a classic Devil May Cry game, with all the style and difficulty that the previous instalments were so well-loved for. Combat feels as tight and exciting as ever and the stages, though somewhat linear in places, still offer a good deal of exploration and secrets to find. Even the new Dante feels right, despite my initial aversion to him. Though it is clear this is not the Dante of old, the new one still retains much of what made him such an icon, and perhaps handles it a little better.
He is cocky (and who wouldn’t be, being a near-indestructible demon-angle hybrid?) but clearly cares about what he is doing. He is detached from the rest of the world, yet holds the drive (and power) to save it. It’s as if they took the basic attitudes of Dante’s Awakening and used them to make a more realistic person, making it clear to see that he can grow and mature as a character over the (inevitable) sequels. He is an enjoyable protagonist, dragged roughly into the middle of a seemingly impossible fight, forced to make some pretty tough decisions in order to stop an absolute evil in its reign, though even that plot device is somewhat deeper than simply “Bad guy is bad”. The re-imagined Mundus, villain of the first Devil May Cry, is simply a power-hungry monster, yet you cannot help but feel that, sometimes, what he is doing to the world is kind of for the better, considering the alternative. The much more modern setting of staggering technology and subversive control gives the old gothic castles and droves of mindless demons a somewhat more realistic setting that could almost be paralleled to some of what we go through in daily life, issues of total media control, massive financial debt and attempts to placate the masses through consumerism and greed are the villain’s means of power. DmC even holds up the tradition of Dante’s twin brother Vergil, and offers a pretty interesting personal-history level to set everything up in the form of their childhood home.
Other welcome alterations to the classic Devil May Cry mythos include Dante’s mother, who was a human woman with whom a demon fell in love in the original, being an angel in the reboot, making Dante not a human/demon hybrid, but a much more interesting angel/demon hybrid called a Nephilim in the game. This quite nicely sets up the idea of the two distinct styles of combat (three if you include the standard sword and guns, which are aligned to neither side) with the angel (fast, group-combat) and demon (powerful, single-enemy combat) weapons that each have their own unique effects and uses and can, when used correctly, offer some pretty badass strings of combos. Also new is the concept of purgatory, a sort of alternate-reality in which most of the game takes place. By taking the basics of the standard human world, purgatory distorts and breathes life into the games environment (for example, a simple street becomes a series of crumbling, floating platforms with an endless drop across which you must manoeuvre) offering some pretty intense platform and gauntlet segments, and even making the very buildings come to life in order to kill you. While I enjoyed the standard thoroughfare of the originals’ castles and old towns, the purgatory versions of DmC’s world help to keep everything fresh and exciting, changing things at the last moment so that you’re never entirely sure where you’re going until you get there and offering some pretty breathtaking environments to explore. And not everything is all city-streets, either. This world-distortion allows for some pretty spectacular thematic changes as well when facing certain situations. Two particularly outstanding missions involve a visual representation of the inside of media itself, with a series of screens showing news broadcasts and data flying every which-way, and the personification of the environment of a dance-club, neon-coloured shifting platforms in a void of oscillating sound bars with a rather amusing parody of a famous reality music contest show, both of which will stay near the top of my list of most interestingly designed levels for quite a long time. The whole thing from start to finish is a gritty, grim, brightly coloured, fascinating shift of enjoyable environments.
And where would Devil May Cry be without its ever-present soundtrack? The work of Masato Kouda and Tetsuya Shibata in the originals, with Shawn McPherson’s gruff vocals overlaid on metal, electronic and gothic compositions perfectly complimented the onscreen action and design of the world, and once again Ninja Theory delivers here. This time around the game’s soundtrack is handled by Noisia and Combichrist (only the latter of which I was previously familiar with) and once again it works brilliantly. With each change in environment you are presented with a change in sound, the “real” world full of slow, quiet drumbeats and subdued thematic accompaniments, while action scenes are awash with driving guitars and up-tempo riffing. The more distinct levels also have their own feel, such as the approach through Bob Barker’s media empire with its traditional Newscast sound-bites and attention-grabbing fanfare, and I have never been much of a dub step fan, but Lilith’s club feels perfectly accompanied and in synch with the throbbing bass lines and heavy drums. It will certainly be another soundtrack for my growing collection.
Of course, DmC does still have its flaws, but considering my viewpoint while going into it, they are much, much fewer than I had anticipated. The collectables aspect of the game is a little disappointing, with only a handful of hidden doors and their corresponding keys to locate scattered throughout most (but not all) of the levels, creating further annoyance by being integral to your overall level performance: each collectable is measured as a percentage and collecting all will boost your score dramatically, but being short by even one can drop a perfect streak straight out with no way of correcting it until a later play through when you have already gotten everything, at which point it remains permanently collected, entirely removing that aspect of the game the more you play. I was also rather disappointed by Vergil throughout. Though he clearly maintains his persistent drive to accomplish things, this version of Vergil comes across as a little too desperate, and without giving away some of the story’s plot points, his actions seem somewhat over the top, given his control of the situation. DmC’s new addition, a girl named Kat who helps you during a number of missions, is also little underwhelming, with only a brief moment of background story being offered before she is relegated to off-screen voice and damsel in distress. I would also like to know what that giant statue was all about, but I’m hoping it’ll become a major plot point in the sequel (not really a spoiler, but if you’ve played the game, you’ll know what I’m on about, and maybe you can send me a message if you think I missed something).
Until then, I shall continue to enjoy DmC Devil May Cry. It is a good example of how a reboot should be done, and has helped to revive my trust with the gaming industry. If you haven’t played it and are, like I was, looking for validation, consider this it. DmC is a good game done well. It is worth it.
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Could acupuncture be the ultimate treatment for period pain?
Anyone who’s ever suffered from period pain will testify that when those cramps kick in you’ll try near on anything to get rid of it.
But while necking painkillers, hitting the sofa with a hot water bottle and stockpiling the chocolate are the more conventional remedies women turn to for relieving the symptoms, a new study has put acupuncture at the top of the period pain treating list.
Researchers from Western Sydney University and the University of Auckland have found that the ancient Chinese practice can significantly reduce the severity and duration of period pain.
And the good news doesn’t end there because not only does the study claim acupuncture can reduce pain at that time of the month by half, it also found it relieved associated headaches and nausea.
“Our pilot study found that using manual stimulation of the needles, rather than an electrical pulse, commonly used in many Chinese studies for period pain, resulted in reduced need for pain-relieving medication and improvement in secondary symptoms such as headaches and nausea,” explained study author Dr Mike Armour.
The pilot study, published in the international journal PLOS One, saw 74 women aged between 18 and 45 undergo acupuncture treatment for three months and found that more than half had at least a 50 percent reduction in the severity of their period pain after treatment.
Many of the women also claimed they needed fewer painkillers to treat their period pain and reported an improvement in secondary symptoms such as headaches and nausea.
During the study, the women kept a diary and underwent one of four types of manual or electro acupuncture treatments.
The women reported significant reductions in “peak pain” during the first three days of their period and in “average pain” experienced over their entire period, with the effects lasting for a year.
“Treatment timing appears to play a small role, with high frequency of treatment providing greater improvements in health-related quality of life,” the researchers wrote.
It’s not the first breakthrough in the search for a cure for period pain. Last year we reported on a magical chocolate bar that has been specifically designed to tackle menstrual cramps.
Chocolate With Love has created ‘Frauenmond’ which rather sweetly translates as ‘women’s moon’ and contains 17 different pain-relieving herbs from the mountains in Switzerland.
The effect is a chocolate bar that not only gives us that delicious chocolatey feel-good hit, but that also works to create a soothing effect on our cramping bodies.
Two potential new remedies for period pain will come as welcome news for many women who’s every day lives are often inhibited by severe period cramping.
A YouGov survey of 1,000 women for BBC Radio 5 live’s Emma Barnett programme found that 52% of women have found period pain severe enough that it has affected their ability to work. So much so that nearly a third have taken at least a day’s sick leave as a result.
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or, given Teddy's other interests, a Supermodel/Plumber/Dentist's Income Statement.
I'm not including food, though it was a bit more expensive in NYC, because we've been truly dreadful about eating mostly take-out recently at home (and we ate on the cheap, to the greatest extent possible). I'm also not including the cost of extra clothes, because I bought them mostly at the 99¢ store and Duane Reade and we will continue to use them (so while the timing of the expenditure was not voluntary, the money would've been spent for the same thing later). I didn't include the $100 traffic ticket, because the IRS doesn't consider it a legitimate business expense. Go figure.
* We're hoping that other (LOCAL) gigs will push this number up, so we can take all the expenses that I can document. And I suppose the book fee could be amortized across its two-year effective span.
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Layard, A. H. (1848–49). Inquiry into the Painters and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians (vol. 1–2).
Layard, A. H. (1849). Nineveh and its Remains. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1849). Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
Layard, A. H. (1849–53). The Monuments of Nineveh. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1851). Inscriptions in the cuneiform character from Assyrian monuments. London: Harrison and sons.
Layard, A. H. (1852). A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1853). Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1854). The Ninevah Court in the Crystal Palace. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1894). Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia. London: John Murray.
Layard, A. H. (1903). Autobiography and Letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid. (vol. 1–2) London: John Murray.
Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853).
Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adnventure. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978 (hardcover, ISBN 0-07-007030-X); New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 (paperback, ISBN 0442282605).
Jerman, B.R. The Young Disraeli. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
Larsen, Mogens T. The Conquest of Assyria. Routledge. 1996. ISBN 041514356X - the best modern account of Layard.
Lloyd, Seton. Foundations in the Dust: The Story of Mesopotamian Exploration. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1981 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05038-4).
Waterfield, Gordon. Layard of Nineveh. London: John Murray, 1963.
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The Department of Education announced the official start and end dates of school year 2016 to 2017. Classes will begin on June 13, 2016 and will end on April 7, 2017. Private schools may not necessarily follow the dates however, they are not allowed to start classes earlier than the first Monday of June or later than the last day of August.
Enrollment is ongoing in public and private schools. One of the basic requirements, especially for new incoming students and those transferring to a different school, is the child’s PSA birth certificate. For convenience, parents may have their children’s birth certificates delivered by calling the hotline (02) 737-1111 or by visiting the website psahelpline.com. The certificates will be delivered to your preferred address in 2 to 3 days.
For everyone’s reference, we are sharing the following school calendar lifted from the http://www.gov.ph website. Please share to parents and students.
School enrollment na naman, and I’m sure all of you are excited for your kids. Excited na rin sa mga kakailanganin sa pag enroll :).
So in order to help you out, I researched a list of the common and generic school enrollment items you might need to get your kids set for the upcoming school season.Note that this is not an official listing but a general idea of the basic stuff you will need for enrollment.
In light of this idea, may I invite others to comment and update the generic list based on their knowledge and experience. You will be surprised on how helping others with what you know can bring about a great relief to other people.
It’s better to be prepared than to be surprised.
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Tesla owes Shashank Chitti $1,000.
That’s how much the Bay Area tech consultant paid to reserve a Model 3, the automaker's highly anticipated electric sedan for the masses. Chitti was among tens of thousands of people who waited in line to reserve the car sight unseen, hours before Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed it to the world on March 31, 2016. In the days following the Model 3's debut, hundreds of thousands more people placed deposits, netting the company what amounts to a humongous interest-free loan. How humongous? According to its latest earnings report, Tesla holds $616 million in customer deposits. Most of that money comes from Model 3 reservation holders.
But not all of those reservations (more than half a million, by the latest count) will translate into sales. Placing a $1,000 deposit is one thing. Throwing down for a car that starts at $35,000 is another matter. And while Tesla may have delivered its first 30 Model 3s on Friday, most reservation holders won't receive their cars until 2018 at the earliest, leaving plenty of time for second thoughts and changed circumstances.
"Every time, they ask for my address and say that a check will be promptly on its way. The check never comes."
What’s taking so long? It depends on who you ask.
Here's how it went down for me: I called Tesla's customer service twice after cancelling my reservation on April 23. The first time, in mid-May, the sales rep told me the company was working through a backlog of reimbursement requests, but that I'd receive my refund in the mail within 10 business days.
About two months later, in mid-July, I called again; by this point I'd begun reporting this story, and had spoken with some refund-requesters about their experiences.
In as unthreatening a tone as I could muster, I told the representative who fielded my call that I was not only a reservation holder, but also a journalist investigating late Model 3 deposit returns. He apologized about my late refund and gave me a familiar explanation: The team tasked with processing refunds had run into an IT issue, he said, delaying payments by two to three weeks. The representative noted how long it had been since I’d cancelled, and told me he’d make my refund a priority (another familiar line from Tesla’s customer service).
"The total number of Model 3 reservations has continued to grow, with new reservations far exceeding refund requests. At times, refund processing slows down when additional confirmation is needed to prevent fraud via identity theft. That is what occurred in the case of this journalist."
The next day, I found a FedEx envelope on my doorstep. My refund had arrived — 61 business days after I cancelled my reservation.
Not every Tesla refund takes this long — or this much work. "It was easy," says Jeff Maggard, a former reservation holder from Ithaca, New York, who cancelled his deposit in February after a career change made it hard to justify buying a new car. His refund showed up on his credit card less than two weeks later. "I did it all online without talking to anyone. There was no number to call so I could be talked out of it by a representative. No dumb tricks to make me stay. It was great," Maggard says. "Very customer-centered."
When I followed up with Tesla PR to ask why some customers get their money back sooner than others, the company declined to comment. But my reporting suggests that Tesla took longer to return deposits to customers who cancelled their reservations more than a year after placing them.
Jad Limcaco, a user experience designer in San Jose, California, placed his deposit on April 1, 2016 and cancelled it in May 2017. In July, he emailed Tesla in search of his money. A representative called him a few days later. "He mentioned that their system was having trouble refunding to people's cards who ordered over 1 year ago," Limcaco says. "He said I would receive a check in the mail in eight to 10 weeks, which is pretty frustrating, when I live in San Jose and could easily drive to their facility to pick up a check if I needed to."
"We are processing the refund for your Model 3 reservation. In order to do so, we need to confirm the mailing address where you will receive the refund check. Please reply to this email to confirm your address below is correct, or reply with any changes."
For some, Tesla's response has been too little too late. "3 mths, 14 emails, 6 support tickets and 4 phone calls later, still no refund from @TeslaMotors on cancelled Model 3 order #scam #lawsuit," one frustrated refund-requester recently tweeted. But there's not much customers can do, other than nag Tesla.
Consumer rights experts say there's little incentive for people to go after the company in court. "It's likely they would have a claim, but unlikely they would be entitled to very much," says Richard Alderman, executive director at the University of Houston's Center for Consumer Law. He estimates refund requesters would be entitled to interest they could have earned on their money between when Tesla said it would return the money and when it actually did — which, assuming a 3-month-late refund and a (generous) 1 percent interest rate, amounts to $2.47, about the price of a gallon of gasoline.
A greater, and more likely, threat to Tesla is the effect late refunds could have on the support of its devotees. For years, Tesla has mostly sold cars to early adopters, technology buffs, and fans of Musk who were willing to tolerate the company's growing pains. The Model 3, which starts at $20,000 less than an entry-level Model S, gives more people than ever the chance to personally invest in Tesla's vision.
But it also gives the company more people than ever to appease — and, potentially, disappoint. "A deposit says, I'm part of your team, I believe in you Tesla, I believe in you Elon," says Ethan Mollick, a Wharton Business School professor who studies customer loyalty and crowdfunding campaigns. "But it also hurts more when Tesla takes two months to return your money, instead of two weeks. It breaks the social contract, as much as it does any financial contract."
Tesla's struggle to refund deposits in a timely fashion adds to existing concerns over the company's ability to dole out quality customer service at scale. "The dynamics are tricky, especially for a company like Tesla, whose customers' loyalties hinge in large part on the company's extraordinary customer service," Mollick says. "When that service starts to flag, you start to feel like the company owes you — and that can be dangerous."
I've asked every refund-requester I've spoken with how their experience has affected their perception of Tesla. Everyone who received their money quickly responded favorably — and so did several who waited. "I think they need to do a better job at customer service," says Limcaco, who after two months of waiting received his refund last week. "But I still think Elon Musk and Tesla are innovating and pushing the boundaries, which is more important in my eyes than one poor customer service experience."
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https://www.wired.com/story/canceling-your-model-3-deposit-dont-count-on-a-timely-refund/?mbid=social_twitter
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Commentary on the Illuminatiam book.
Rabbi Ba’al Shivah on Stalking and Shamanism.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK LON MILO DUQUETTE FOR POSING FOR THIS PICTURE AND THE PERMISSION TO USE IT FOR THIS PIECE AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK LYNN MARIE LE FOR TAKING THE PICTURE AND OBTAININING THE CONSENT.
Since the dawn of mankind there have been 3 different types of major totems for witch doctors, holy men, shamans, and seers. The lion, the bull and the eagle. We are here today to talk about the lion especially as a symbol for predatory cats. People who study the human brain know that there are different types of intelligences. One of the more common analogies for describing different but highly functional mentalities is the comparison of the fox and the hedge hog. Richard Feynman was referred to as the fox because his way of understanding things that nobody else could, and wrapping his mind around them. Einstein was referred to as the hedgehog because of the way he could humbly edit his consideration set and burrow his way towards the answer and ferret it out. Richard Feynman was the guy that figured out how the space shuttle Columbia blew up and he had to explain it very slowly and deliberately to other people who didn’t believe him and couldn’t understand his brilliance and the fact that he was correct.
The reason that I bring this up is that for shamans being philosophers the way they hold a question in their mind and follow its sent was symbolized by the ancient super-genii as a stalking cat. A predatory cat stalking it’s prey. This symbolism was universal and one particular cult is marked by their use of the predatory cat skin.
Even though priests, it did not mean serving their god would mean just approaching and proclaiming themselves as priests. They washed themselves several times per day to eliminate off all the body hair to be untainted enough to approach the god. Because of being cleansed to approach the god, they did not wear leather sandals or wool clothing, as it was considered unclean. When serving the god Amun, they would wear leopard skin robes.
In many cults, also known as churches, they did not wear a wig as all men and women wore.
In his book The Chicken Kabbalah, Lon mentions having a rabbinical experience in his cat skin skirt demonstrating the continued theme from Egypt into Occult Judaism, but this metaphor goes back even further all the way to India and Shaivism. If you are familiar with my theory on the Origins of the True Religion, you will see how consistent this theme is and how many questions it answers.
The first task of Hercules whose name itself is a deviation of Horus the sun god, was to kill the Nemean Lion. Having done so he wore the skin, in a way becoming the sun. Remember that in astrology, the lion represents the sun. This is also were the soul enters the zodiac, from the ancient perspective the soul split itself into male and female before incarnating in the zodiac. The sun and moon are the only two planets that don’t repeat as rulers of two houses (in the original 7 planet horoscope). The 12 labors of Hercules are the sun moving through each house and understanding the trials in that house as the soul (sol,sun) perfects itself and learns its lessons through struggle, trial and tribulation. The Rosicrucian initiation process uses Hercules as a model to this day.
Samson, in the Bible is actually Hercules as well who is also shown above killing a lion. Samson is also named after the sun with a word that derives from Persian.
In Taoism the Yin and Yang symbols are associated with the tigress and the dragon. The tigress represents earthly power or success, while the Dragon represents the masculine and heavenly element. Remember that the symbol for the Ankh is a metaphor for heaven and earth, the male and female symbols juxtaposed, and Thelema, the religion started by Aleister Crowley is the western version of Taoism from an original authentic living guru lineage. It is the philosophical connection that rationalizes the philosophical systems from all over the world. In the Osho Zen tarot Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh demonstrates his understanding of the same principle, remember he was also known as the Rock and Roll Guru.
Well I think that is all the dots I am going to connect for you today. I hope you have enjoyed that little romp through time and across continents and have arrived at a deeper understanding. Oh yeah, if you want a little more I have included a story that explains how the leopard got its spots from the ancient perspective, not factual but allegorical.
always posing as the Truth.
But Anubis was able, by means of his keen canine senses, to sniff out Seth in whatever form he takes.
Once, Seth assumed the form of a leopard and blended into the desert sand so well that Horus was unable to spot him from the air as he circled high in the sky upon his falcon wings, using his sharp falcon eyes to scan the Earth.
But Anubis sniffed out Seth and decided to brand him so that everyone would be able to see him. Anubis trotted over to the banks of the Nile and dunked his paws in rich black Nile mud. Then he lept onto the leopard and left indelible muddy paw prints all over Seth’s hide.
That is how the leopard got its spots, according to the Ancient Egyptians.
The highest caste of Egyptian magician/priests wore leopard skins to symbolize the never-ending struggle between the Truth and the Lie. The Lie persists. Seth the Deceiver was not killed by Anubis. But Anubis revealed Seth for the Lie that he is.
And that is why the Priests at the Great Temple of Antinoopolis may have worn leopard skins — to demonstrate that it is possible to see through the Lie to uncover the Truth that lies underneath.
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2019-04-25T12:51:23Z
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May 13, 1919 at 10:43AM – The library’s “official” birthday!
Permission from the Cliffside Park Board of Education was granted, to move the growing library to the basement of Cliffside Park Public School #3. In 1939 Miss Clarice Blake became the library’s director (ret. 1960).
When libraries began to automate, BCCLS, formed a computer consortium to share the costs. Cliffside Park’s library was a charter member of the consortium and remains a member today. Cardholding members of the Cliffside Park Public Library can borrow items from any of the other 73 BCCLS member libraries including several that are outside of Bergen County.
An early morning fire destroyed much of the library. Much of the collection was able to be restored but sadly, the hardest hit room in the building was the Local History Room. From March 2010 through August 2011, the library operated out of a small temporary storefront location at 781 Palisade Avenue. During that time, the location of 505 Palisade Avenue was being renovated and expanded. The architectural firm for the project was Arcari & Iovino, P.C.
Over 9,000 Cliffside Park residents have a library card. To obtain a card you must have proof of residency. You can apply online or in person. The library owns over 51,000 physical items and provides access to many e-resources including e-books. The library’s annual circulation tops 124,000. In 2013, the library received over one million dollars in municipal appropriation from the Borough. Proudly, the library is funded slightly higher than thestate mandated 1/3 mil. Stephanie Bellucci is the library’s director. A current list of trustees can be found here. The library operates seven days per week to best meet the needs of the residents. The library offers a wealth of services as well as many programs for children through adults. Please take some time to explore our website or stop by for a visit to learn about all that the library can offer you!
“Certificate of Incorporation.” Letter to Free Public Library of the Borough of Cliffside Park. 13 May 1919.
Concert Program. Vol. 1. Cliffside Park: Support Your New Library Fund, 1965. Print.
Wilderness , LLC, 2013. “L” Print.
Cliffside Park Public Library, 2007. 167 & 168. Print.
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Polygon: Co-founded by the sharp-elbowed Reade Griffith (ex-Citadel), Paddy Dear (ex-UBS), and Alexander Jackson (ex-Highbridge – since ousted from Polygon & Tetragon as an active principal/director). Polygon was a high profile firm in the boom years, with a top reputation as an aggressive credit, convertible, event-driven & special situations investor. Couple this with strong risk-adjusted performance, and their AUM peaked at $8 billion plus. Then 2008 arrived, and things fell apart…awful investment returns, over-whelming redemptions, gating, incensed investors, lawsuits, etc.
But very few came up smelling of roses during/after the credit crisis… All we can really focus on is who actually survived & absorbed some real market wisdom. Polygon essentially re-invented itself in 2009, restarted most of its business from scratch, and has since returned to racking up good performance.
Corporate Governance: Griffith & Dear are both on Tetragon’s board! This is increasingly frowned upon, as it inevitably creates a potential conflict of interest. However, there are 4 independent directors…except I can’t help noticing two have a prior Polygon connection! But this pales into insignificance when we discover TFG’s only got 10 voting shares (the listed shares are non–voting), controlled by….c’mon, have a guess?!
Yep, the investment manager essentially exercises total control. Shall we assume they are perfectly happy with their appointment, now & forever!? What a f**king travesty… Only matched by the sheer idiocy of pre-crisis investors – who the hell bought into an IPO with this kind of governance?
Compensation Structure: Time to touch your toes… TFM charges 1.5 & 25 (a 1.5% management fee, plus 25% incentive fee of all NAV gains). OK, that’s not so extraordinary – Tetragon’s clearly an alternative assets investment fund, and many charge 2 & 20. And there’s a hurdle rate – though at 3 mth LIBOR + 2.65%, it’s now a measly 2.95%.
Except for an important little footnote: Incentive fees crystallize quarterly, with no high water marks! Such rapacity is pretty unprecedented… Again I ask, what idiot investors signed up for this kind of shafting? To add insult, 12.5 mio options (to purchase TFG shares @ $10, exercisable ’til 2017) were awarded to the investment manager for arranging the IPO. Erm, surely the (semi-permanent) investment contract would have been more than ample reward..?
Analysts seemed puzzled the deal didn’t include TFM (the investment management contract for TFG). I mean, really, that was never going to happen! Think about it, TFM currently earns $102 mio annually – slap on a hefty margin, and what would you consider a fair price for TFM? Arguably hundreds of millions…to internalize the management of a fund with a current $1.1 bio market cap?! Even Griffith & Dear don’t have the pig’s balls to attempt that deal.
But investing in CLO residual equity tranches is inherently leveraged – they generally comprise only 5-10% of total CLO liabilities. This ties back to TFG’s end-Q3 exposure – the CLO portfolio was approx. $1.2 billion, but total indirect leveraged loan exposure was actually $18.7 bio.
Yeah, sounds kinda horrifying, but don’t forget the CLO risk mitigation & loss protections I’ve already highlighted. These are enhanced by TFG’s own macro/micro hedging. And the default assumptions embedded in TFG’s valuation models are relatively conservative vs. the current run rate for leveraged loan defaults. In addition, Tetragon usually acquires a majority stakes in its equity tranche investments, which will enhance their rights & negotiating power if things start turning sour.
With just over two thirds of the ALR now reversed, and no high water marks, Dear Griffith & Co must be gobsmacked to have earned the best part of $61 mio in additional incentive fees from this round-trip. That’s real money, even for hedge fund guys…warms your heart to hear such a good luck story, eh?
And an excellent reminder TFG’s mid-09 ex-ALR NAV was actually $7.52. In my opinion, to see a credit-fund IPO at the peak of the bubble & only suffer a max. NAV drawdown of 25%, provides investors with a reassuring worst-case scenario. [But don’t forget market risk – despite the limited NAV decline, TFG’s share price was completely hammered during the crisis].
The portfolio‘s currently throwing off an annual $445 mio in CLO cashflows. This corresponds to total P&L income (inc. LCM fees) of $256 mio, a 16.9% gross return on average net assets & a 20.2% return on avg. (ex-cash) investment assets. Management/incentive fees eat up an absurd 6.7% of avg. net assets, while custody/admin/etc. fees eats up another 1.5% (but remember, this includes LCM’s expense base). Investment gains are well in excess of fees, though, while taxes are minimal. This produced EPS of $2.46 & a 20.4% return on equity (RoE). I’m astonished to see TFG trades on a 4.4 P/E!
I don’t want to see any debt issuance here (due to TFG’s inherent leverage), but the investment of surplus cash into share buyback & portfolio investment would significantly enhance RoE. That strategy is only logical anyway, in light of the sheer volume of cash the portfolio’s currently throwing off.
Valuation: Residual equity tranches are very much mark-to-model, not mark-to-market. Let’s focus on US CLOs – they comprise over 80% of the investment portfolio. [TFG hasn’t been increasing their European CLO & US leveraged loan holdings. Since these suffer higher WARFs/default rates and lower yields/IRRs, ideally we’ll see them gradually divested]. The lagging 12-mth loan default rate for TFG’s US CLO & leveraged loans is only 0.6%, vs. a US institutional default rate of 1.0%. The weighted-average WARF is now at 2,528 – a 300 pt improvement in the last 3 yrs. In addition, 100% of their US CLOs are currently passing their junior-most O/C test.
TFG’s valuation model actually assumes an average 2.6% default rate (and a recovery rate of 73%). The weighted-average IRR on US CLO equity’s now at 20.0%. The ALR further increases discount rates within the portfolio. The average carrying value for US CLO equity is now at $0.75 on the dollar, while European CLO equity’s at EUR 0.43.
As long as you believe assets are fairly/conservatively valued, a fund discount based on risk makes no sense. The risk’s already reflected in the pricing (riskier assets are generally valued at far higher discount rates). Of course, there are other reasons for a discount – investor sentiment, for example. But over time, that works both ways – my favourite investment strategy is to buy at a discount & harvest at a premium. And sentiment’s often backward looking – it can fail to notice a new/evolving strategy, or set of circumstances, and relative valuations are frequently ignored.
i) Greenwich Loan Income Fund (GLIF:LN) – 11% premium.
ii) Carador Income Fund (CIFU:LN) – 6% premium.
iv) Volta Finance (VTA:NA) – 11% discount. VTA’s a bit of a hybrid: It has almost two thirds of its portfolio invested in CLOs, but only about a third allocated to residual equity tranches.
Peer valuations definitely flag up the potential for Tetragon shareholders to benefit substantially from discount compression.
IR (& Share Repurchase): Aside from the obvious…I’ve generally found TFG’s investor relations to be otherwise quite exemplary. A wealth of information is provided in their reports, presentations and website. Residual equity is pretty exotic, and its inherent leverage isn’t immediately apparent – they do a pretty good job of laying out the portfolio & highlighting the risks involved. [I look at certain funds, and shudder – I have to wonder how many of their investors think they’ve bought into some kind of low-risk loan fund].
TFG has paid a cumulative $2.12 in dividends since inception. The current annualized dividend is $0.46, a 4.3% dividend yield. They’ve also maintained an aggressive & opportunistic share buyback programme. Up ’til end-Q3, they’ve purchased a cumulative 19.4 mio shares, at a total cost of $106 mio. This equates to $5.44 per share – a v substantial discount to the current share price & NAV! Since then, they’ve executed a fresh $150 mio dutch auction buyback at $9.75. And just last week, news came they plan to continue with a significant level of market buybacks in the next few months.
Activist Investors: Shareholders are in good company here. One investor, Daniel Silverstein, launched a derivative shareholder lawsuit in 2011, stating: ‘…defendants have engaged…in the looting of TFG. The investment manager, with the active complicity of the TFG board, has expropriated almost $205 million in unjust fees.’ Unfortunately, that case has since been dismissed.
Leon Cooperman, a 10% shareholder, has been equally vocal – read his letter! Even if they ignore him directly, I suspect we should thank his efforts & vigilance for the ongoing IR improvements, the recent dutch auction buyback, and a tentative commitment to a US listing. Despite his distaste, the size of Omega’s stake speaks volumes about his opinion of TFG’s value (in fact, he’s nominated it as a top pick for 2013).
LCM’s AUM has subsequently increased another 13%, to $4.5 bio!
This signals an acceleration in Tetragon’s new strategy, and brings Polygon’s expertise & asset management platform in-house. This infrastructure is capable of supporting multiple alternative asset managers, and of handling multiple securities/ & geographies. The intention is to now transform TFG into a ‘world-class financial services company‘. This comes at a time when banks are reducing/de-risking their lending capacity & forcing out their proprietary trading talent, when institutional investors are desperately seeking genuine alpha, and increased regulation & due diligence are consolidating resources and capital into larger asset managers.
Seeding is the ideal expression of this strategy: Backing new alternative managers, ideally in-house, with capital, administration & marketing/fund-raising resources – in exchange for partial/total ownership of the resulting fund management revenues. This would also diversify Tetragon away from CLOs ultimately, into a much wider range of uncorrelated/alternative investment strategies.
The deal also aligns management far more closely with investors. Obviously, ongoing TFM revenues & profit will remain substantial, but Polygon principals will now own 11.7 mio TFG shares, which vest over 5 years. They also own 12.5 mio share options, which have only recently come in-the-money. This offers them a huge new incentive to increase NAV & (more importantly) the share price. They also now operate under a non-compete/exclusivity clause – all new Polygon fund-raising & growth is within TFG.
Current NAV: TFG’s end-Nov NAV doesn’t include the impact of the dutch auction, or the current EPS run-rate. I calculate subsequent share buyback adds a full $0.81 in NAV-accretion, plus an additional $0.34 in subsequent net earnings (based on a $2.46 EPS run-rate). [Obviously, investment gains/losses could exert a significant impact, but v recent market/peer indications are positive]. This pegs the current NAV 8% higher, at $16.06 – which puts TFG on a current 33% discount, or an (ex-cash) discount of 37%.
Intrinsic Value: I’m sure investors will continue to focus on Tetragon’s published NAV, but success with their asset management strategy should mean intrinsic value increasingly diverges from & out-paces NAV. Calculating intrinsic value is a far less simple approach – one needs to factor in the dilution from the Polygon acquisition shares & share options, assess the true value of the asset management businesses, and perhaps include an eventual unwind of the ALR. I actually calculate TFG’s intrinsic value is currently within 3% of its NAV, so I won’t bore you with the math right now. But intrinsic value will clearly become an increasingly important metric, so I expect I’ll revisit it in more detail at a later date. [Just email me if you wish to discuss further].
Focusing on Tetragon, we have: Excellent relative performance during the crisis, substantial post-crisis NAV growth, a history of share repurchases, current 20% RoE & IRRs, far higher peer valuations, plus the growth potential offered by its evolving asset management strategy & platform. [An eventual US listing would potentially add far higher visibility & valuation. A higher dividend ultimately would also attract more investors, but at the moment I prefer to see cash being ploughed into NAV-enhancing share buybacks]. In my opinion, this certainly deserves a 1.0 Price/Book Fair Value – in fact, sustained success in their asset management business could usher in a significant premium to book eventually – which corresponds to a $16.06 Fair Value, and a 49% Upside Potential.
I now own a 2.8% portfolio stake in Tetragon. The inherent leverage/risk of their CLO residual equity tranche portfolio has somewhat limited my position. If TFG does, in fact, evolve into having a more diversified investment portfolio, and a much larger asset management & seeding business, I’d accordingly expect it to become a larger & more permanent portfolio holding.
All credit to TFG for highlighting their diluted NAV – in fact, it’s frankly too conservative – as I pointed out above, if you fair value the asset mgmnt biz, a potential ALR reversal, etc. my proforma NAV/intrinsic value is actually v close to published NAV (and shd exceed it in due course, possibly substantially, presuming continued (rapid) growth in AUM).
I bought in some years ago (a very modest stake) when the cash in the balance sheet nearly exceeded the share price (buy price under $1.50) and I now love the running dividend return on my (small but 7+ bagged) original investment.
You are correct the governance and fees are a disgrace (not a great advert for Amsterdam listing requirements), but I have enjoyed the ride and will continue to hold. I agree that fund management will help enhance more common interests of management and shareholders.
I also took positions in GLIF, RECI & Carador as the market mis-priced the value.
Thks, Flying Pig – unfortunately, TFG wasn’t on my radar when the share price traded down in the $1 direction. Considering the colossal discount at the time, I hope I wd have least considered buying it – but a good buy on your part, that took balls at the time!
And, yes, RECI was a v obvious value not that long ago..!
Convincing stuff as usual Wex but do the potential positives and inherent value of Tetragons AUM really outweigh the glaring governance issues you’ve exposed?
Specifically, Cooperman’s letter would be more than enough to spook me. Granted many minority shareholders are forever complaining about this and that to keep management on their toes but the allegations Cooperman and Silverstein have raised are particularly serious, albeit the lawsuit dismissal.
“Why is it that from the date of the company’s IPO in March 2007, through the end of 2011, cumulative management and incentive fees paid by Tetragon to Polygon, at $300 million plus, exceeded cumulative dividends distributed to Tetragon shareholders by almost 50%”.
It’s blatantly clear to even a novice like me that Tetragon’s management view shareholders as a source of capital and nothing more. A “we win now, you win later…maybe” mindset is pervasive as you repeatedly acknowledge.
So I guess I’m just intrigued by this paradoxical purchase of Tetragon despite the fact you have clearly unearthed shocking revelations about its treatment of shareholders???
All in all, I now reside in the same camp as Mr Cooperman – money talks, his stake tells you his real opinion here.
I sometimes joke: ‘When bad things happen to companies, good things happen…to new shareholders!’ Everything bad abt TFG is true, but the fee structure is already embedded in a highly attractive 20% RoE, and you get a whopping great discount as well (in absolute & relative terms).
You prob didn’t need to say ‘allegations’ above – it all happened…legitimately. In fact, from one perspective, shareholders even agreed with the ALR at the time ( because they drove the share price far lower!).
I will have to be proved right or wrong, but I think we may have seen an inflection point – asset management will become increasingly important, and also management’s shares & options create better alignment. I also think management wd like a US listing as much as shareholders would ( though I think that event is not so close right now), and that may demand a real governance/fee/etc. overhaul beforehand, on a voluntary & involuntary basis.
Hi Wexboy – does the NAV of tetragon take into account the horrible fee structure ?
My conclusion was that TFG trades at a discount because of it’s egregious fee structure a – i.e. if you have the same underlying risk on two bonds and someone “steals” 20% of your coupon then that bond should naturally trade at a discount… I chose to invest in CIFU as it consistently pays out 50% of all free cash as dividend and reinvests the other 50% in similar asset and its running at much lower cost base and REALLY is a pure play (i.e. no Asset Management assets) – adding to that ISA eligible and CIFU stands out from my perspective.
TFG seems to be hoarding cash and has argued against paying dividends – that makes me worried – rather pay dividend and let investors decide what to do with it ? Look at the dividend yield of CIFU / VTA and you will see the difference. Management hoarding cash and not significantly doing anything with it is not ideal (justification given on a conference call was: “if you look at the cost income ratio of a bank we have a better dividend yield”… – smart argument comparing yourself to a bank but does not do it for me). The buyback program is hampered by their listing apparently – where on A’dam stock exchange you can only buy back x% of daily volume – which is naturally low. They really should pay a big dividend with the cash – but would you if you had such an egregious overlaying fee structure ?
On VTA: difficult to build size in and it has some synthetic CDOs – which makes it less of a pure play compared to CIFU. Lastly, you should look at KFN as well – very similar.
Anyways this is my 2 cents… like your blog!
I will often haircut an NAV by one year of fees, if they’re over 2% of NAV ( I do something similar for regular cash-burn companies too). When NAV growth is steady – that is, there’s a run-rate – I generally see no need for that.
I am sometimes puzzled by the widespread focus on fund fees & discounts. If a company was similarly earning a 20% return on equity, and with a high cost base, people would price it generously and v few would ever comment on management salaries etc.
I actually approve of TFG’s cash policy to date. They eliminated debt ( a long time back now), and the IRRs available on share buybacks & US CLO equity investments have been far more attractive than dividends.
Yes, KFN is among the half-dozen funds I mentioned I keep an eye on.
I know…er, strike that, there are plenty of young ladies who would cross the road for 14 dollars even..!
a) I have to do the research first anyway before even thinking of buying/sizing a stake, b) research takes abt same time for big & small positions, getting it down on paper adequately is sometimes the longer/more difficult challenge, c) not v sensible to factor it into my target, but obviously NAV is a moving target, so that may offer plenty of additional upside potential, and d) TFG may become a v different beast in due course, so better research now will prove useful & may permit a quick increase in my holding size at some point.
i feel your pain: sometimes I read up on something and it is so BAD/useless that i have to write it up PRECISELY because it is so god awful– stuff like MVO – talk about ripping off the dumb individual investor’s face with grade 7 sandpaper! this case is a fascinating situation, the brazen-faced proctolo-analizing of investors by management blows the copulating mind of this little white mouse, i got to say.
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I found this pattern in an Australian magazine several years ago and it was love at first sight! I started it in 2006 with the idea that it would be queen sized. I had so many problem piecing it that I struggled to get it into its current 50×50 inch square. I’m a pretty good piecer and have done a couple of DWRs, but with this one, I just couldn’t get the center diamonds to be consistent. Rather than let it languish as a UFO, I loaded it today and started stitching around the rings. I haven’t settled on a design for the centers yet — I’m thinking of a freehand rose. I would do feathers, but the intended recipient doesn’t care for feathers.
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I wouldn’t normally use two quotes for a post, but it was impossible to choose between these two. Thanks to his many dynamic and modern Marvel creations like Spiderman, Thor, Hulk, Black Panther and the X-Men, the 95-year-old Lee helped launch the comic books revolution that has led to the incredible popularity of blockbuster superhero films. Thank you Stan Lee (1922 – 2018).
One post on the insightful quotes of Oscar Wilde was never going to be enough. Not even close. That’s why the first one was geared to his more wittier quotes and the second part is focused on his more philosophical, more profound quotes. Before you do, here are two extra quotes.
With Novak Djokovic’s life on court continuing to unravel after his unceremonious dumping out of the French Open tournament, his relationship with his newly-hired coach Andre Agassi will be more vital than ever. As the finals of the male and female take place this weekend (Agassi is the last American male to win in Paris), here are eight quotes from the Las Vegan’s seminal autobiography Open. Published in 2009, three years after his retirement, it tells of the 47 year old’s struggle in losing is childhood to tennis, being a prodigy, his rivalries with other competitors and fall down the ranking after years of success. The hugely honest and insightful memoir also tells of his inspirational recovery to the top of the game and later contentment in retirement. You can also see my review of the book here.
There should be no boundaries to human endeavour. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) in the 2015 biopic The Theory of Everything.
Peserverance: secret of all triumph.
Influential French poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885).
Noted essayist, lecturer and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1822). I was reminded of this quote yesterday by the very cool and creative Karen Gadient.
British computer programmer Alan Cox (1968 – ), who was an early pioneer in the Linux network.
The extraordinary Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), who among his many interests was a philosopher, abolitionist and historian.
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Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chad, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zambia.
There was also an extensive exhibition of stands and posters.
The programme below provides links to the papers and presentations given at the Forum.
Community Managed Rural Water Systems: What makes them Sustainable?
Is Fluoride Removal Affordable in Rural Ethiopia?
Promotion of appropriate technologies in water and sanitation using the Village Model Concept: The Case of Kikandwa village, Mukono district, Uganda.
Malawi’s Mpira-Balaka gravity fed rural piped water supply scheme: what can be learnt?
Presentation 24.3 – Aaron Kabirizi.
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Tiny Homes Still Full of Goodness!
The B-53 is the largest home. It can be built as a 2 bedroom (777 sq ft) or 3 bedroom (874 sq ft) house. The 3rd bedroom is an optional add-on bedroom that is on the first floor level. The top floor houses two additional bedrooms. Each story of the house is 7’6″ tall at its peak. The upstairs bedrooms have sloped ceilings on the sides, and the closets are positioned in the lower ceiling space. The exterior height of the B-53 is 20′ 9″.
I've been looking at them for a backyard cottage.
One of the smaller models would indeed make a perfect guest cottage.
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I decided to surprise my husband with some cupcakes. I love cupcakes, as do most people, which explains why cupcake shops are now the rage and springing up everywhere. My husband and I attended a wedding recently and the bride and groom served cupcakes. These little cupcakes are showing up everywhere!
So, inspired by the red velvet cupcakes we had enjoyed at the wedding, I settled upon a recipe from one of my favorite food blogs, Joy the Baker, which I have featured on my blog in the past. She lists this recipe under her cupcake category and mentions that these are her favorite red velvet cupcakes. So on my husband's birthday yesterday, I headed off to the grocery store with my list of ingredients that I didn't have in my pantry and refrigerator. My list included things like white distilled vinegar, cream cheese, baking soda, buttermilk and some fresh eggs. After buying the ingredients, I pulled out my mixer, put on the paddle attachment which Joy suggested I use, put on some music, and went to work making the cupcakes. I had my computer out and would refer to Joy's recipe from time to time. I wanted to make sure I followed her directions so that my cupcakes turned out as delicious and beautiful as they were in her photos.
I mixed all the ingredients together and popped them in the oven at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. After the inserted toothpick came out clean, and I knew they were ready, I let them rest for 10 minutes in the pan and then removed them. While they cooled, I assembled my ingredients for the cream cheese frosting. Joy's frosting recipe was very easy and delicious. I love a good cream cheese icing which is part of why I love carrot cake so much. Joy's icing has a touch of cinnamon in it which gives it a great taste. After the cupcakes were cooled completely, I spooned the icing into my icing bag and piped some of the delicious, creamy icing onto each cupcake. For fun, I put a few sprinkles on each one after they were iced. Then, stuck a green candle on each finished cupcake.
A few months ago, I had purchased a white wire tiered cupcake holder at a nearby World Market store. I pulled this out and arranged all the cupcakes on it....putting a few on each tier. I was pleased with my display and hoped my cupcakes tasted as good as they looked. I put them on my dining room table and hung some balloons on my chandelier...just as I always do for family birthdays.
Then, I pulled out some of my favorite desert plates that my sister brought back from England for me. My sister and I both love beautiful china. My sister, Jeri, was working as a flight attendant and hand carried a piece of the china back each time she flew to England several years ago. We both have the desert and teacups and saucers in this pattern. The name of the pattern is Provencial Flowers. I selected plates from my china cabinet and then pulled out champagne flutes to set up near the cupcakes.
I placed two cards I had bought for my husband on the table.
Right before the birthday boy arrived home from work, I poured some champagne in our glasses and garnished each one with a fresh strawberry. With everything in place, Sadie Mae, our Maltese, and I were waiting at the front door to greet my husband and wish him a happy birthday as he walked in the door. My husband, Mark, was surprised and happy to see the cupcakes I had made him and the balloons tied to our chandelier. We toasted his birthday together with the champagne, and then he enjoyed one of his cupcakes.
After a delicious dinner enjoyed with friends....and a few birthday hugs and kisses, it was time to head back home.
Thank you to our friends, Pam, Gina and Mike, for joining us for an evening out to celebrate Mark's birthday. Thank you, Marilyn and Kristina, for the wine and card that you, thoughtfully, left by our door. Thank you to our loved ones.....Ashley, Brandon, Amy, and Elliott and all who called to wish Mark a very happy birthday. Thank you to my dear sister, Jeri, who never fails to deliver a beautiful and fun rendition of Happy Birthday on the phone each year. Thanks to the many facebook connections...friends and family....who took the time to write a personal message to Mark on facebook.
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Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Holiday, Offline, Papers.
However, I have been using the silly season for working on my paper for the upcoming AoiR conference in Copenhagen in October. The paper is entitled “Online Social Networking: From Local Experiences to Global Discourses” and explores the many different experiences that Danish teenagers have through the use of social networking technologies. I will be sure to upload an abstract later.
BUT. Now it’s time for my vacation. So while everyone else in Denmark returns to their jobs (and Facebook), I will be offline (more or less) until September 1st.
Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Holiday, Reading, Social Networking, Travel.
I am in Greece at the moment. At a beautiful summer resort in the breathtaking Halkidiki, which is located in the south eastern part of Central Macedonia. I am here on a working holiday – not attending the Networked Learning Conference, which will take place here the next couple of days, but Thomas, my boyfriend, is attending, so I thought it would be a nice idea to come with him and get a bit of reading done.
So far, it has been really nice. The weather is great and I have been sitting by the pool reading. One of the books I am reading is “Connecting – How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age” by Mary Chayko. It is rapidly becoming one of my favourite books. It deals with how people form different sociomental bonds with others with whom they seldom communicate face to face, who they don’t even know or have never met IRL.
The book was published in 2002 – before online social networking was really an issue, and nowhere in the book the them ‘social network site’ is mentioned, but I feel like I am reading about online social networking and how people form and maintain online connections on e.g. Facebook – and why it is important to have connections to both particular and typified others (e.g. a chat friend, a faraway relative, a deceased family member, a celebrity or even a fictional character) and why these connections are just as important to us as our daily face to face interactions.
I think that I will use the book and some of its concepts in my dissertation when explaining and defining online social networking. Even though it doesn’t deal with social network sites, Chayko acknowledges the fact that she could be writing about upcoming technologies that might change how we connect and form social bonds in the age of the Internet: “It is a safe bet that technologies that are being developed, refined, and disseminated as this is written will lead to currently unimaginable changes in our society, in the nature of connectedness and in thinking itself” (p. 15). Did someone mention Facebook, Bebo, Orkut…?
Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Holiday.
By the way, my paper in progress is called ‘Understanding Social Networking – On young People’s Construction and Co-construction of Identity Online‘ and will present some of the results from my thesis which many of you have been asking for in an English version.
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06:37:37: Fishing for opinions: if I do a retro column, should it be daily or weekly? Also, should I limit it to Japanese stuff?
07:39:33: @jlist Wait, is that the remake?
12:05:29: @dmataconis I'm getting really tired of people on both sides using us, and especially our dead, to drive their agenda home.
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2 Paneer Recipes For The Price Of Yum!
Paneer is a totally vegetarian Indian white cheese. I would say it has a texture similar to halloumi, (but without the salty flavour) and is delicious in Indian cooking.
Although I am half Indian, I can’t remember eating much paneer at home. Strangely enough, I fell in love with paneer in Vietnam. When I was travelling around South East Asia with my boyfriend, we met an interesting guy in a guest house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We discussed books, the best hotels and places to eat. He had been living in Ho Chi Minh City and drew us a map on the back on a receipt. He recommended an Indian restaurant called Mumtaz on Bui Vien (road) and said we had to order the paneer tikka (grilled paneer). So of course, a week later, after we took the $10 bus crossing over from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City, Lewis and I went to try out this personally recommended restaurant. The food was absolutely delicious, especially the paneer tikka which was coated in spices, skewered and grilled.
Since then, I often choose the vegetarian option in Indian restaurants simply to eat paneer. I understand that the slightly rubbery texture is not for everyone, but if you haven’t tried it then here are two recipes for you to try. I can only hope that you like at least one of them!
You can buy paneer at most supermarkets (in the cheese aisle) and it is very easy to cook. Here are my two favourite ways.
Both my recipes are designed as side dishes. They are perfect served hot with rice, a chapatti and any curry or a lentil dahl.
1. Mix all the coating ingredients in a bowl. Add the cubed paneer and stir it up so that all the paneer is covered in the mix.
2. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan and add the paneer. Fry on a high heat and keep tossing the paneer so that is doesn’t burn.
3. When the coating looks golden and crispy, move the paneer to a plate covered with a napkin and dry off any excess oil.
1. Gently fry the onion, ginger and garlic in the oil until softened. Heat the spices in a separate pan and then add to the onion pan.
2. Add the frozen spinach and peas and stir through. When the spinach has started to cook, add the water, coriander and tomato puree. Stir through.
3. In a separate pan, dry fry the paneer until golden and then add to the main pot. Keep stirring on medium heat for about 10 minutes to allow the flavours to mingle. Add salt and pepper to taste.
You can also experiment with other vegetables, such as: cauliflower, tinned tomatoes, and cubed potato.
What is your favourite paneer recipe? Did you try my recipe? I’d love to hear from you.
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Science and philosophy speak about races, and some of this creates a sense of the vast sweep of evolution that helps take our eyes off our small personal sphere with its provincial concerns. A large history and cosmology may serve to give some perspective.
On the other hand, talk of the races and evolution, with its implications of more and less advanced types can be divisive and misleading. It helps to think toward the more subtle meaning of types but, in people’s minds, race is virtually synonymous with body. The idea of race as consciousness and race as culture is of real value, and the trend of adopting the image of a rainbow is a real insight.
Differences, diversity, variations of body, type, culture, heritage, are all OK in their evolving expressions. Differences are inherent in forms, in manifestation, and theses divisions are useful for understanding the phenomenal world. Yet, emphasis on differences creates divisions and feeds egotism and discord between individuals and various subsets of the one humanity. A wrong sense of race feeds the separative sense of them and us. Groups war and fight based on narrow self-interest and ignorant identifications. So is mapped the tragic history of egotism and cruelty based on ignorance and the stupidity of bodily identifications. The only salvation is perseverance in primary identification with the one humanity that includes all.
The Transpersonal Semantics of "and"
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The terms introvert and extrovert were devised by Carl Jung in the 1920s. They've since adopted a prominent, if not undying, life of their own. They're the cornerstone of Myers-Briggs and one of the Big Five traits. Most simply, Jung conceived of introverts as drawing energy from being alone, while extroverts draw it from their surroundings and relationships.
But Jung himself conceded that "There is, finally, a third group, and here it is hard to say whether the motivation comes chiefly from within or without." In Psychological Types, Jung wrote that this third group is "the most numerous and includes the less differentiated normal man." In other words, Jung believed that introverts and extroverts are minorities.
Research supports this idea, increasingly pointing to the existence of ambiverts — people with balanced, nuanced personalities composed of both introverted and extroverted traits.
In a Wall Street Journal interview, psychologist Adam Grant estimated that ambiverts make up between half and two-thirds of the population. This is good news, because ambiverts win at life and business. The research-based "ambivert advantage" explains how these individuals combine the best of both sides. In one of several such studies, ambiverts achieved higher sales productivity than introverts or extraverts — in some cases, twice as much. Because ambiverts can listen as well as assert themselves, they're ideal salespeople, coworkers, business owners, and leaders.
To be sure, diehard introverts and extraverts do exist, but they're exceptions, and they may be worse for it. In fact, such extreme leanings could be the result of what psychologist Carol Dweck calls a "fixed mindset." Over several decades, research by Dweck and others has differentiated between growth mindset (believing you can cultivate your qualities and personality with effort) and fixed mindset (the conviction that you have a set amount of intelligence or talent, a fixed personality, and an immutable character).
A recent study positioned fixed mindset as "self-as-story": You believe you're a certain way; that's just how you are. It's the story you tell yourself about you. The study explained, as an example, that "a person who conceptualizes themselves as introverted may have difficulty recognizing or remembering their own extraverted behavior, or they may avoid potentially stressful social situations and come to live in an increasingly insular world."
After taking some personality tests in college, I decided I was an introvert. But then I noticed that the more I saw myself as an introvert, the more introverted I became. At 18, I thought I was the life of the party. By 25, I had almost convinced myself that I was psychologically incapable of speaking in public.
"Self-as-story" tendencies are associated with reduced well-being, particularly if those self-conceptualizations are negative. Fixed mindsets are correlated with reduced performance, as well as lower self-esteem, creativity, resilience, and self-awareness.
Still worse is that these stories about ourselves aren't true.
The uncovering of ambiverts is part of a larger investigation suggesting that healthy personalities are situational; some experts even think personality is a myth. We're inconsistent. We change more than we think we will, depending on what happens. There may be no permanent, fixed "me" to expose, introvert or extrovert.
Research shows that we feel how we act — when we smile, we feel happier — and that we act how we believe: If we believe we're introverted, for example, we act that way). These are adaptive, evolutionary responses. The problem is when our beliefs are based on the results of one-off multiple choice personality quizzes, and not our everyday reality.
We don't need to understand ourselves so much as we need to understand our situations. We need to ask, "Does this meeting call for sitting back, listening, and taking notes, like an introvert would, or does it require confidence, assertiveness, and charisma like an extrovert would display?" Or, "How can I combine the two approaches here effectively?"
Ambiverts recognize that identifying with one trait exclusively is exhausting. You probably do, too: Recall a situation in which you had too much of what your introverted or extroverted personality stereotypically wants. Jung quipped that anyone who was truly 100 percent extraverted or 100 percent introverted would be a "lunatic."
We need both. We are both.
Of course, people's personalities differ. We repeatedly learn this. But the ongoing introvert/extrovert debate has had a polarizing, restrictive effect on our potential to see and accommodate what a given scenario needs — or even what we need. Over time, our success shrinks to a minute sphere of what we imagine that our personality types can "handle."
If we resist labels that others try to pin on us, why do we give them to ourselves?
Hopefully continued research on ambiversion and situational personality can shed light on what introversion and extraversion really are — self-limiting beliefs.
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Great article, as a self confessed introvert I'm now inspired to see myself as an ambivert. That alone opens so many possibilities.....!
I've been saying that I adapt to the environment and people don't believe me. Now I have at least one reference to back me up.
I'm a sales person who gives speeches and I'm also a computer programmer who can spend 3 days in front of the computer without talking to anyone because sometimes that's what you need to figure out an issue.
Both are equally interesting to me and I need both my time alone and time with others to feel complete.
I never thought about introversion/extroversion until I was in my late 50s, and in fact was not at all familiar with the Jungian definitions, until a friend told me I was very introverted, and I started reading. I realized that this "label" of introversion explained many things about myself that I had always known but thought were defects and tried without success to overcome (hating the phone and parties, for example).
For me, the label didn't box me in, it liberated it to accept myself and arrange my life to play to my strengths.
I'd also like to question the implications of this statement: "Because ambiverts can listen as well as assert themselves, they're ideal salespeople, coworkers, business owners, and leaders." Introverts are as capable as anyone else of asserting themselves. And I think extroverts are as capable as anyone else of listening. In each case, these abilities may be greatest when the individuals are well-rested and at ease -- but that's true of all our talents and abilities.
I think the real problem with these labels is treating them as proxies for traits that are only loosely associated with them, if at all.
"By 25, I had almost convinced myself that I was psychologically incapable of speaking in public."
Being introverted has nothing to do with the capability to speak in public. That thought is erroneous but understandable given how widely misunderstood extroversion and introversion are. I agree with the above commenter that: "I think the real problem with these labels is treating them as proxies for traits that are only loosely associated with them, if at all.
Most people are ambiverts. No, rather, a better way to see all of this is on a spectrum--with percentages. There's the big majority around the middle of the spectrum, and the extreme (introverts or extroverts).
...then she’s right ... right?
My disagreement is not about that (the last paragraph I wrote), but about what I wrote in the first and second paragraph.
Why boredom and burnout are correlated.
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