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The Zoinks reveal one of their strange life cycles.
This is a very short flash that has PirateClock in it. I have nothing further to say.
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30 Rock, “Black Light Attack!” Season 4, Episode 10.
Went to Alice this weekend with Special K, as I mentioned, and there was a trailer for the upcoming sequel to Tron. I’d heard about this before and was apprehensive, but this was my first time seeing any material from the new film.
Color me wrong. It looks amazing and I can’t wait. I know what I’m doing December 17th!
Katohs shared a nugget she’d come across.
“Some people are spoiled. Don’t eat them.” (slogan by Lawrence Pernika on Threadless).
So true. Steer clear of the rotting fruits.
Self-audit (finally starting it up again) and Advice: FROM me ABOUT Zooey Deschanel, totally SFW!
Today, Special K sprung from school (last year before college auuugh!) at 1:05 and she and I had plans to go to Maisie’s Sushi, a newish place near downtown that I’ve been wanting to give another spin since the Gentleman and I went a few months back and found it to be, like, “on its way” but not “there” yet, if that jives. However, that plan fell through pretty much immediately as we were unaware that there is a special ordinance in Motown forbidding the operation of a sushi restaurant between 2:00 and 5:00 of a Friday afternoon. Did you know? We did not. We’re not certain, but it’s all we can conjecture given that literally every mothereffing sushi joint in the entire city was closed.
And here is the kicker: three of the some four or five we thought of and buzzed past still actually had their signs on and doors unlocked from lunch. We’d walk in and they’d shake their heads and ruefully claim they were closed. Really? Because there are literally people eating right there at that table. No lie, there were people looking at us with their mouths full of food as we were told no sushi for us. Total sass. Special K remarked as we left Soosh Gardino, “It’s no wonder that restaurants have the highest fail rate of all new businesses,” and we agreed actually being open is always the first step in increasing your customers.
Aye, Kathleen, I guess we will have to try again someday when they are serving the Irish.
So we were like, well, screw sushi then, apparently, and, partly because I wanted to take her somewhere new, partly because we weren’t too far from it, but mainly because Mr. Kite and I were talking about China and the recent 60th birthday of its form of communism, I took her to an old favorite, Beijing. The restaurant, not the city. She has been to the city of Beijing before and I wanted to take her someplace new, remember? You think I’m kidding but I’m not, my girl is a straight-up citizen of the world! I bought her a messenger bag to that exact effect, and put a long crinkly hot pink scarf with black music notes on it inside, because I am pretty sure it is bad luck to give someone an empty purse.
Beijing was just like I remembered: Running long cause I loves my Katohs AND Beijing’s amazing food toooooo much to be silenced! Click here to continue reading the review and see more pictures.
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Where you stand and think of going no further."
Reflections on a poem bolted to a steel bridge: a photo journey.
Happy hour is an cross-cultural experience, no matter what your time zone.
image via Anne Taintor, Inc.
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Is there a place here in the hives and pods of Pennsylvania for a lone cat such as me?
"A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?"
She doesn't care what you think."
A monk once said that unforgiveness is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
How does one find a healthy balance between forgiveness and anger? Must we choose between the two, or can the two co-exist?
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1. Fraud, false advertising, con artistry, and other forms of deceitful promise for personal gain.
2. Libel, slander, and defamation. This includes not only attempts to damage reputations, but also taunts intended to provoke a violent response — “fighting words”.
3. Threats, intimidation, attempts to create panic (e.g. “fire!” in a crowded theater), or other means of trying to coerce people through fear.
4. Incitement of others to carry out violent or criminal acts.
5. Sedition — advocacy of overthrowing the government by force.
The courts may, for many of these categories, require strict or narrow conditions before ruling them to be unprotected and criminal forms of speech, but the point is that you do not have a right to deceive, a right to slander, a right to threaten, or a right to advocate violence.
If nazis and other racial supremacists think they have a right to advocate their point of view like the rest of us, well, let’s see if they can actually do so without committing any slander, making any threats, inciting any violence or insurrection, or making any fraudulent promises. Since their actual program for society involves defaming large groups of people, using lots of violence and threats of violence, and overthrowing at least some parts of the Constitution, the only way they could advocate it without mentioning these would be by lying.
Nazi speech is sometimes suppressed, but if they think their rights of free speech are being violated, they’re wrong. They never had any right to this form of speech.
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This may be me next Halloween. It doesn’t look too expensive or uncomfortable. It also doesn’t look like it requires a lot of explaining to the not-we, since scarecrows occur in mainstream culture as well. But fans will recognize the style.
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Abstract: Definition and measurement of the fundamental units is essential to the principles of physics. Distance has an obvious and simple relationship with the measuring scale. Such a relationship is absent in measuring the mass of an object using the balance scale. This is one of the important factors for the present chaotic scenario in the field of physics.
The concepts of mass and force were deep rooted in the principles of physics. A thought of something wrong with these fundamental concepts is unimaginable. Our whole understanding of physical phenomenon and countless theories are based on these very fundamental concepts. Can these basic concepts stand for scrutiny with simple reasoning?
Mass is defined as the amount of matter inside an object and the matter is defined as the basic particles. Amount by any standard is a count of elements of a particular unit. In the case of mass, it is the count of basic particles inside an object.
It is not sure of how many basic particles were there in the platinum bar approved as the international standard for a kilogram of mass and went onto to compare that standard kilogram of mass with other objects using a balance scale. Here, the balance scale doesn’t compare the number of basic particles inside an object, rather it compares the amount of gravity earth exerts on each the objects. By comparing the objects using the balance scale, we are equating the gravity of the objects with the amount of matter inside those objects.
As it is already evident, a group of same number of basic particles will never measure same amount of mass or in other words gravity. Different nuclei with same number of baryons will measure different amount of gravity to the earth. To bridge the gap between the definition and the observed difference in measurement of mass, a fancy word called “deficit of mass” was coined.
Whatever we do with an object, as long as the number of each type of basic particles within that object remains same then there is no possibility for the mass to be deficit inside that object because the mass is simply particles. The object gains mass if we add a particle to it and the mass will be deficit only when we take out particles from the object.
We observed deficit of mass in each and every nuclei because we were measuring the mass using a wrong scale. We attributed the deficit of mass to the binding energy inside the nucleus but the binding energy was never part of the definition of mass. Even the standard kilogram of titanium bar also contains millions of atoms and each of those atoms has a nucleus. Each nucleus will have certain amount of binding energy. While manufacturing the standard titanium bar for a kilogram, we never considered the binding energy and the deficit of mass within that bar as part of the standard.
First of all, with the measurement of mass, we are not sure what the standard mass is meant for and went onto compare that mass using a wrong device. In my opinion, it is similar to measuring the distance in gallons. Mass is one of the fundamental concepts in physics and we got it completely wrong.
The mass, according to the definition, can only be measured by a count of basic particles. There is no possibility for the mass to be deficit in this scenario. As long as the number of particles were same, irrespective of the shape and size of the object, the mass within that object remains same. Each of the nuclei with same number of baryons should measure same amount of mass.
But none of the two nuclei with same number of baryons were measuring same amount of mass as we are measuring it today. In reality, they were exhibiting different amount of gravity, not the amount of matter. It means, same amount of matter can exert different amount of gravity to the earth. What makes a nucleus to exert more gravity than the other nucleus with same amount of baryons? Gravity exerted by a nucleus depends upon how closely the matter is grouped together within the nucleus. The same is true for an object as well. If two objects were having same number of particles, the one in which the matter is occupied in less space will exert more gravity to the earth. If we convert the sun to a point size object then that object will exert more gravity than the present volume of the sun. The same amount of matter inside the sun will exert less gravity on earth if its radius increases more than its present size. Pioneer anomaly is due to the additional gravity exerted by the sun when it appears as a point size object from the outskirts of the solar system.
Distance and the meter have obvious relationship with each other. In the case of mass, the definition and the measurement have no relation to each other. Balance scale was being used for centuries to compare the gravity. Mass was defined around three hundred years ago when the concept of matter was not even existent. The matter, as we call it today, was discovered in the early 1900s. We mixed all these three different things even though there is no commonality between them and went onto build the modern physics based on these loosely coupled fundamental concepts. It is no wonder why we have so many inconceivable theories prevailing in physics at this time.
The concepts like force, work, power and energy were developed over the centuries just like the balance scale, definition of mass and the concept of matter. There is lot of overlap between these concepts. The incompleteness between these concepts can easily be made evident with a question like how much gravity is there on an object kept at the center of the earth.
Let’s assume a one meter diameter hole at the center of the earth and place a half meter diameter object made of iron at the center. Both of these objects are two different objects and they are not touching each other. According to the shell theorem, the gravity between these two objects is zero. It means, nothing happens to the object at the center in this scenario because the forces get cancelled all around the body.
There is certain amount of gravity between two objects for example earth and moon. We see the strength of gravity between earth and the moon in the form of waves in the ocean. Let’s assume earth and the moon, nothing else in the picture, with the moon revolving around the earth. Let’s keep another object similar to the moon on the other end of the moon’s orbit. Even though the resultant force of the two moons on the earth is zero, the strength of individual moons doesn’t change. In fact the strength of the gravity on the ocean doubles. As a result, we will see two bigger waves in the ocean aligning with the two moons. In the next step, let’s cover the entire orbit of the moon with similar objects in a form of ring around the earth. Approximately we fit around three fifty thousand pairs of moons in the orbit of the moon. Even in this scenario, the resultant force will be zero but the actual strength of gravity pulling the ocean increases by seven hundred thousand times. Now we will have that many waves covering the entire ocean and it will probably form like a continuous bulge in the ocean.
Let’s increase the number of moons by covering the entire sky at the orbit of the moon with objects like moon, in a form of shell over the earth. At this stage, the water in the ocean will probably flood the entire earth. Now, let’s cover the moons in a thick layer around the earth from the orbit of the moon to a million miles. All the water and the earth will gradually disintegrate and attach to the inner edge of the moon shell because of the enormous amount of gravity exerted by the moon shell.
The concept of resultant force only concentrated on the displacement of the object and ignored the effect on the object itself. This led us to ignore one of the important entity in the interactions between objects, i.e. energy.
I wonder how Newton would have incorporated the energy into his equations if it is known in his period. The concepts of work and energy remained as a patch work over the concepts of force and resultant force. They all never merged seamlessly into each other.
Gravity is nothing but energy. As more and more moons revolve around an object, the central object goes under tremendous amount of stress and releases energy in keeping the objects in orbit. The recent discovery of Jupiter releasing energy in infrared radiation [1, 2] is due to fact that there are more number of moons revolving around that object. Just like Jupiter, all other planets with moons orbiting around them will release energy. Our star, the sun is no exception. The cause for the brightness of sun is the gravity between the layer of plasma and the core both of which are physically separated.
The iron sphere kept at the center of the earth will stretch and melt, eventually attaching to the inner side of the hollow earth due to the enormous amount of gravity exerted by the rest of material in the earth from all directions. If we keep more massive object in place of iron sphere at the center of the earth then the earth itself will collapse onto that object.
From these observations, the standard concepts of mass and force make us to wonder whether we made any mistake in conceiving these concepts. And it does appear to be true.
Definition of mass and the concept of mass deficit are flawed. The mass of an object, when measured using the balance scale, will be dependent on the volume of the object along with the amount of matter inside the object. Mass deficit is simply the variation in the mass of the object due to the change in volume of the object.
Deficit of mass or mass defect doesn’t describe any physical phenomenon related to an object. It wouldn’t even describe any physical aspect of an object as well. Before exploring the deficit of mass in detail, let’s first look at the mass itself.
Mass can be described as the amount of matter inside an object. The standard definition for the mass is given below.
If mass is amount of matter, what is the matter itself? The best definition for the matter is as a thing that causes the mass in an object. Beyond this obscure definition, there is no clear description for the matter.
With mass and matter, we are using one to define the other in a circular fashion.
When we say an object contains 1 kilogram of matter, what exactly the 1 kilogram represents in regard to the object?
· Is it the color, shape or the volume of the object? Answer is a “No”.
· Is it the number of basic particles inside the object? Answer is still a “No”. If the mass is a number of basic particles then the mass should be represented in (x, y, z) format in which the x, y and z will be the total number of electrons, protons and neutrons inside the object.
· Is it the combined mass of the basic particles? Again the answer is a “No”. Combined mass of all the particles in an object will always be more than the mass of the object.
So, the measure of 1 kilogram for the amount of matter inside an object doesn’t represent any physical characteristics of an object. Then, what it means when we say an object contains 1 kilogram of matter? When we measure the mass of loose cotton and an iron bar in a balance scale, we are simply comparing the gravity of the earth to these two objects as they were being pulled down at both ends. If both these objects measure equal amount of gravity, then we say that both of these objects contains same amount of mass or matter. So, the mass, as we measure it today, is simply a comparison of gravity. If one object exerts more gravity to earth then that object can be said to have more mass and if another object exerts less gravity, then it will have less mass.
Strength of gravity an object exerts to earth certainly dependent on the total number of basic particles it contains. This number is certainly not equal in one kilogram of loose cotton and in the same mass of iron bar. Is there any other aspect of these objects influencing to make them equal in mass even though the number of particles was not same in these two objects?
Mass was defined in the works of Isaac Newton around 300 years ago as a constant value for any given object. The concept of mass deficit or mass defect came into picture in the early 20th century after using the definition of mass, as provided by Newton, for about 200 years. Combined mass of all the basic particles inside an atom turned out to be more than the mass of the individual atom. The difference in mass was described as the mass deficit. With the addition of mass deficit in physics, one way, we are saying that the mass of an object is fixed and in another way we are accepting the deficit of mass with same amount of basic particles.
If we consider the matter as the number of basic particles in an object and the mass as the amount of matter, then the mass should always be a fixed amount no matter what we do with that object as long as the number of basic particles within that object remains same. Then why physics invoked the “mass deficit” into the picture? Mass deficit is simply an observation. Is there any alternative way to interpret this observation of loss of mass in the atom?
An object will have more binding energy if the particles within that object are close to each other. In similar way, binding energy within the particles will be less if the same particles are further apart. An one kilogram of iron Sphere will have more binding energy than a thin wire of 1 mm in diameter stretched from end to end made from the same one kilogram of iron.
Binding energy will be maximum when all the particles merge into a single particle or all of them occupy the same space as a single particle. Combined gravity of the particles will increase as they merge into single particle. Mass of the object and the combined mass of all the particles within the object will be equal when all the particles occupy a space equal to a single particle. It means the deficit of mass will be equal to zero when all the particles merge to form a point size object. Mass deficit will increase as the distance between the particles increases. In other words, the object will have less mass or gravity as the volume of the object increases. Amount of mass deficit in an object and the binding energy within that object will be inversely proportional to each other. Mass of the object and the binding energy within that object will be proportional to each other.
In nuclear reaction, an element with high binding energy will be converted into less binding energy elements. The difference in binding energy will be released as the energy. The final products in this reaction will have less binding energy and occupies more space than the initial object. If energy is consumed in a nuclear reaction then the final product will have more binding energy and occupies less space.
Here, we see a clear relationship between the amount of space an object occupies and the amount of gravity it exerts to earth. It means, if matter is compressed or occupies less amount of space, it measures more gravity and if the same amount of matter within the object occupies more space, then it measures less gravity to the earth. Gravity of the object, in other words, the mass of the object depends on the amount of matter inside an object and the amount of space that matter occupies. If an object compresses to a point size then it will have maximum amount of gravity with that particular amount of matter. This observation goes against the definition of mass, which says that the mass doesn’t depend on the size of the object.
Concept of binding energy was misrepresented nuclear physics. If an object releases energy then the final products should have less energy. Mass deficit in the final products was interpreted as the binding energy. As a result, final products were shown as having more binding energy. Point mass object will have zero mass deficit. Then can we say that all the material in a point mass were holding together without any binding energy in the object?
Definition of mass itself was flawed. To make it more authentic, deficit of mass was introduced which in turn made the mass even more complex to comprehend. Scientific community got an excellent opportunity to revise the definition of mass when the deficit in mass was observed. Instead of correcting the definition of mass, it was awkwardly extended to incorporate the deficit of mass. It is the most unfortunate thing to happen in modern science. When mass is simply the strength of gravity then mass deficit can be best described as deficit of gravity due to the change in the internal arrangement of basic particles within that object.
If we call the matter as the number of basic particles in an object, the object exerts more gravity if all that matter occupies less space. If the volume of the same object is more, then the same amount of matter exerts less gravity. The mass, as we measure it today, is dependent on the size of the object as well as the number of basic particles it contains. The definition of mass and its measurement needs to be redefined to incorporate the amount of matter inside an object as well as its size. The need for the deficit of mass will be eliminated with the new definition of mass.
Mass is being used in almost every principle within the physics. If the present definition of mass is flawed then all the principles which were dependent on the mass needs to be revisited. Physics is considered as the foundation of all branches of science. If the core concept within the physics is flawed then all our understanding of nature has no base.
Prevailing principles of physics can’t describe beyond the big bang because we don’t differentiate between the matter in the universe and the point size object where all that matter came from. Here, the point mass universe exerts tremendous amount of gravity and the same amount of matter in the present universe exerts less amount of gravity to an external object at same distance from these two forms of universe.
Gravity was assumed as a weak force based on the present definition of mass and the inverse square law of gravity. Inverse square law of gravity inherently uses the definition of mass in its derivation. An object like the sun was compressed to a point size and still mentioned as exerting same amount of gravity. If the definition of mass and the way we measure it is flawed then there is no base for the inverse square law for gravity.
Shell theorem, which was derived using the present definition of mass and the inverse square law of gravity, is also flawed. Gravity of a sphere to an external object will increase when the size of that object is decreased by keeping the same distance between the two objects.
The simplest explanation for the pioneer anomaly is that the sun exerts more gravity when it looks like a point from the outskirts of solar system.
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Today I’m struggling with embracing the mess in my life so I thought it was the perfect day to write about how beautiful it all is. At least, I’m trying to convince myself of that. I like a good challenge and I am definitely sweating the small stuff.
And I thought I was winning and reveled in that smug sort of way I just KNOW those Pinterest-posting people feel. I felt, for about 3 days that I was one of them. It’s impressive, right? Okay, so I didn’t actually use the leveler nor did I drill holes into the wall or hang the wire. I could do all that if I wanted, but someone else around here loves levelers more than I do so I sacrificed my opportunity to bring joy to this man that I love.
After the 3rd day, the other MILLION works of art proved to me that I was not Pinterest-worthy because what do you do with the rest of it?! I’m not one of them. The Pinterest-posting folks are still on my pedestal and I’m not on it with them. Oh – and please don’t notice that those masterpieces have been up there for 2 years now.
I’m still searching for beautiful in the mess. Still sweating the small stuff. I’m also feeling a little miffed that I came home and spent an hour planning and cooking what I consider to be a nutritious, delicious, veggie-packed, made-from-scratch, natural, mostly organic and definitely no high-fructose corn syrup nor Blue no. 7 nor Red no. 40 meal only to have it all negated by a giant-sized cookie packed with an entire bag of M&Ms – and the kids tell me that Daddy is so nice because he sits and watches TV with them (I was cooking, remember) and also lets them eat the stuff they like to eat (said cookie containing a bag of M&Ms each). Seriously, we should have a rule about this. The rule should be that you can only destroy what you built. I think they have this rule in Kaya’s pre-K class. It’s not fair to be the one putting time and effort into the good-FOR-you stuff and also be the unfun parent.
I was quite hurt. When the dinner was all ready, they were not excited enough to come eat. They requested longer in front of the TV (with Daddy). Then, when they finally came to the table, they looked suspiciously at their plates and poked at the few beets I placed on their plates – just to try – don’t judge me. THEN they argued over whose plate belonged to whom, i.e. the plate that looked like it had the fewest veggies was most wanted. Then there was crying. Well, I did take away a plate and muttered something about the food not needing to be eaten because there were other kids in the world who would appreciate even a bite of what was on the plate. No need to force anyone to eat this great meal was my rationale. So the crying was sort of expected. Still, don’t judge me.
And I was still searching for the beautiful in the mess and still sweating the small stuff.
So then I left the house in the hopes of getting some retail therapy. Retail therapy is real. You can’t convince me otherwise. I drove all the way to the closest mall, enjoying the first quiet moment in my day. And then when I got there and opened my door to get out of the car, I shut it again quickly because it was way too cold and windy to step out of my car and walk in for my therapy session.
So I drove back home thinking about it all and wondering how to stop sweating the small stuff and how to truly live out all the beautiful quotes and stories and messages I have received from the universe my entire life through the Glennons and Oprahs and Freires and Brenes and Mayas and many, many self-help and spiritual books. The truth is I know so much more than I live out in my everyday life. I could stop reading all of that and know all that has ever been written and all that will ever be written about truth because it’s all inside me and it’s also all inside you. I know it and you know it when we come across it because we recognize it.
Living out these truths is my quest in life. It’s my journey. It’s our journey.
And I realized another truth and that is that there will only be one time in my life when I will have arrived at that place of perfection and it will be when I take my last breath. Until then, I must keep at it. The mess will always be there whether physically or emotionally or socially or mentally. The mess is part of life and if we didn’t have it, we would never see the beautiful that exists in it all.
Do you see it? There, in middle, but not entirely hidden was a See Beautiful sticker from a remarkable woman and friend who started a movement to get the world to See Beautiful. If you haven’t come across her website or blog or Facebook page, you must. She has encouraged and challenged and pointed out the beautiful in this world at all the right times and in the best ways and sometimes when she doesn’t even know it, e.g. the sticker showing up at the bottom of my messy desk on a day that I was struggling to see beautiful in my messy life. See Beautiful is all about spreading beautiful through messages, projects and sales in the same way that Monkees do. And since I’m writing this post as part of the Messy, Beautiful Warrior Project by Glennon Melton of Momastery (one of my favorite blogs), it seems appropriate to spread the word about the See Beautiful movement.
I’ve stopped sweating the small stuff for now (as in just for today until my slightly neurotic PMSy self returns). And I can see my messy, beautiful life again.
To learn more about the Messy, Beautiful Warrior Project and join us, CLICK HERE! And to learn about the New York Times Bestselling Memoir Carry On Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life, just released in paperback, CLICK HERE!
Some days it really is so hard to see through the mess. This post was simply one of the many times I struggled through the lesson. Thanks for reading and commenting!
Wow Rhina this was awesome. I have four kids and I live what you have written every day. I get so frustrated with the mess and having to clean up all the time. Also with the dinner fights. This article has made me realize that I should cherish the time I have with their kids as they grow up very quickly. My baby turned 2 today. Thanks for this Rhina.
Rina – you are awesome for raising 4 kids. Period. Cherish all the times – the good, the bad, and the extremely messy and be good to yourself often.
My truth? I sit here with tears in my eyes because, truth is, I don’t always see beautiful and your post helped me do it today. It IS hard to always see beautiful. It DOES seem pie-in-the-sky-ish at times, but in unique or unexpected or really, really tough times, it does seem to find its way back to my heart and I do take great solace in this lifestyle of seeing beautiful. It’s always there, even in the messy. Thank you, Rhina!
Sweet, beautiful friend. I can only imagine that this is a really hard time to see beautiful. The thing is, Lydia, you ARE beautiful and whether you are able to see it every single minute of your life doesn’t always matter. The rest of us will see it for you while you do what you have to do to get through the hard stuff. Know that love is holding you up, friend.
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Joe Ed Coffman was 49 in 2007, the year Dan Fogelberg, one of his musical inspirations, died of prostate cancer. Coffman was entering the prime age that prostate cancer strikes.
He knew a lot about Fogelberg’s music, but not so much about what ended his life at age 56.
Since then, Coffman has carried the torch locally for prostate cancer awareness and fundraising. He started Friends of Fogelberg, a grassroots movement that legally became a second-party fundraiser.
Its primary event is a benefit concert where, beginning in 2008, local musicians came together every other year for a message and music. The last two concerts, including one in July, helped raise nearly $30,000 apiece for the Don & Sybil Harrington Cancer Center for screenings for indigent and uninsured men. Free screenings for any men are scheduled for Sept. 22.
In a secret right up there with the Mason’s handshake, September is prostate cancer awareness month. Who knew? Probably not a lot of men, though a major step like Sunday’s blue Amarillo Globe-News, spearheaded by Dr. Gerald Holman, is progress.
At the end of September, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure will take over downtown Amarillo. That’s instant recognition and name identification for a national brand.
Last year, more than 5,000 people entered the Amarillo event, turning the heart of downtown into a lively corporate and community cause in the fight against breast cancer.
This is what organized, motivated, committed women can do, compared to what mostly disinterested men won’t. Komen is the 30-year-old foundation with 124 network affiliates that has invested $2 billion to fight breast cancer.
Prostate cancer groups have been mostly a collection of underfunded, loosely organized groups that meet with modest success.
The two cancers are almost identical in their incidence and death rate.
The Komen Foundation estimates 226,870 new cases of breast cancer and 39,500 deaths in 2012. With rare exceptions, it exclusively strikes women.
The National Cancer Institute estimates prostate cancer striking more men this year — 241,000 — but with a lower death rate of around 32,000.
What is not similar is funding and awareness. Federal funding in 2010 for breast cancer research was $890 million, more than twice the $400 million for prostate cancer. Again, much of that can be traced to women’s focus on health and men’s inattention.
“Women are diagnosed and they’re out there getting information, going online, talking to friends, looking for others with similar diagnoses,” said Dan Zenka, senior vice president of communications for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. “Many men want to shut down and take care of the problem and say they’ve never had it.
There’s more of a bonding among women, which leads to strength in numbers, which leads to more money, more education, better organization.
“There’s not the same dynamic when you compare the sisterhood of women to the brotherhood of men,” said Jamie Bearse, spokesman for Zero — The Project to End Prostate Cancer.
Reality says prostate cancer funding, matching the branding of Komen’s color of pink, will never equal that of breast cancer activists. But Coffman knows men can do much better, locally and nationally.
He knows with just more organization and commitment, and a little bit more help in the corporate world, more men beginning at 50 will know the importance of annual testing. And those who know the importance but can’t afford the cost will still have the means for screening.
Last year 300 men took advantage of free screening at Harrington, and of those, 10 were flagged for further tests. That’s motivation to keep pounding the drum.
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I got this book as an ARC. It was wonderful. The settings and protocols of the regency period are in full use in this book, which helps to bring you into the story.
From page one I was caught in this story. Lady Temperance Lattimar is saying good by to her sister, her twin sister. Prudence is heading to Bath with their aunt to attend the Season there so she can find a quiet husband away from her mother’s latest scandal. But Temper has decided to ride the scandal out in London, She is determined not marry any way, so a Season and no takers, maybe a minor scandal society will blow out proportions will help, and she’ll get her inheritance from her father and go exploring antiques for her father in the world.
Griffinel Newell, second son and member of Parliament who also happens to be a long time family friend of her brothers, steps in to help since no one will sponsor her. He offers to ask his godmother and aunt, Lady Sayleford, a lady no one in Society dares to cross. The Countess agrees with the stipulation that Giff acts as her protector at all functions.
At one point to get out of the Season, and to help Griff who is taking flack from his mother for taking money away from estate (and her) by living in London and being part of Parliament, to a marriage blac. Or a marriage of Convenience. He turns her down at the time, thinking that she will change her mind about some young buck. And that with her hoyden ways she really wasn’t the political wife he was looking for.
One young miss is very jealous, and wants Giff for herself. When she realizes he is not in the market for a wife, and disbelieves Temper is not in the market for a husband, she connives to get them caught together in a room, locked from the outside I might add, ruining Temper.
We all know what happens from there, Griff being an Honorable young man. I liked this book a lot. It was a fun read with a spunky heroine who knew what she wanted. A darkness from her past haunted her, and her mother’s reputation made things extra hard for her. But she took it in stride and loved her mother. I give this book 4 1/2 stars. If you like Regency Romances you must pick this one up for a wonderful read.
The only real problem I had with book was the fact that it was Earl’s Inconvenient Wife. So I knew at some point his brother would die. And since we never hear anything about the brother except how perfect he was back home, you knew it was going to be an unfortunate death. I was of course still sorry when Giff got the news – on his wedding day to Temper – it wasn’t a surprise. I did enjoy the book and give it 4 1/2 stars. The title was the only thing that really caught me. Excellent writing, keeping the reader in the era well done, protocols well established and followed through with. Well, done, Ms. Justiss. Going to get the first book in the series now.
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Posted in TravelingTagged Deepak Acharya, Freelance Travel Photographer, Indian Photoblog, Thailand, Thailand TourismBookmark the permalink.
Hey Deepak, are you travelling to Romania? I remember you said you’ll be going there ariund october?
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My month-old, three hundred euro, REALLY PRITTY PHONE, was in my gym bag when my water bottle decided to leak out all over it. It is dead as a very dead thing that was never alive, and there's no chance of a refund/replacement besides. Then, like a tool, I went and left it behind in the hospital, where it will probably be stolen ere morning.
Yesterday, a fellow student of my university died in the resus after having a car roll over his head. There were brains left on the wall of his house. His dad didn't recognise his own son when he came to identify the body.
That's the thing with A&E - you're guaranteed that someone is ALWAYS having a worse day than you.
I'm sorry about your phone.
Yeah - the unfortunate thing with perspective, though, is that is just reminds you that some bad things aren't happening to you but others are. Ugh.
ergh. that's ... um... awful?
and sad about the phone, too.
Eh, I've stuck it in the hot press. Mayhap it will dry out.
How did his brains get on the wall when the car would have rolled over his head on the ground?
It was actually, like, crushed between the bumper and the wall.
It's kinda not as bad as I'd imagined. I was thinking more along the lines of stepping on a grape.
omg, that's awful. What a terrible thing.
I got my phone back this morning - decently, no one touched it - but I'm incubating it inside my electric blanket at the mo.
Yeah, I was talking to a garda about it - he'd come in for the coroner's report or something. Crazy horrible.
On the bright side, if your phone still doesn't work, and it's insured, and gets stolen, you could probably get it replaced!
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Bruce was an Internet surfer in his own sort of way. He relied upon his "funky" WebTV system, which to tell you the truth, was so distasteful as far as trying to adapt his pages too. I finally gave that little problem to the ghost's and the vault entitled "waste of time", and went about to just build the damn pages to conform to the typical PC and MacIntosh. Anyway, he had me come in about once a month and clean his storage of all the trash, favorites and everything else. These are some of his best kept sites and I hope they serve you well too.
A Blank Page "Word Processor"
This page was constructed with W3e Editor, and was last updated at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, on the 18th of June, 2001. All Rights Reserved.
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So, sometimes you may have little difficulties. It’s natural, just like Kombucha. So, when I first got my GORGEOUS new brewer, i did everything jusssst as I should have, but when I got up the next day, i noticed leaking. LOTS of it.
What did I do? I called Dave. Guess what? I didn’t need too.
3. a very wet hand.
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Writing for yourself is great. I encourage you to do so. Create articles, books, eBooks and reports under your own name. But if you find it difficult to get paid for your own work, then turn to ghostwriting to augment your income. Clients with funds who have something to say in print but lack the ability to write expertly will hire ghostwriters to write and polish their manuscripts. With a good, solid contract with all terms spelled out clearly, and with clients who value the services of a professional writer, you will receive payment for your work.
When you create your own works, you have to market them. For some writers this is fun; for many, it isn’t. If you want to focus on writing, then ghostwriting is a good gig. In the majority of ghostwriting projects, the writing and editing fall into the writer’s domain while the marketing side is the responsibility of the client.
Many people who want to write a book or an article (but lack writing skills) are very interesting people. They’ve traveled the world and want to tell their stories. They have interesting jobs and need to share their expertise with colleagues. They might be an astronaut, a rock star, or a surgeon who’s pioneered a revolutionary new procedure. As a ghostwriter hired by people like these, you first hear their fascinating stories and then come up with effective ways to write them.
With practice and care, you can make money as a ghostwriter doing what you love (writing) working for fascinating people.
Find out where the ghostwriting jobs are.
Join a community of ghostwriters on Facebook.
What Do Other Ghostwriters Charge?
After reaching a certain level of writing experience and expertise, you need to be able to say no to low-paying jobs and actively go after higher-paying ones. That’s the trick to moving up the ladder in writing.
In How Much Should I Charge, you’ll find a table listing what other writers, including ghostwriters, charge for their services. The rates for ghostwriting a book run from $5,000 to $100,000 per project. Why such disparity? It has to do with the many different factors involved, from the experience of the writer to the length of the project, from how much a client is willing to pay to how good the writer is at negotiating.
The table indicates that the going rate for ghostwriting for business (such as business columns or trade magazines) is $25 to $135 per hour. And for ghostwriting articles, the rate stated is between $50 and $200 per hour.
If you’re charging significantly less than the low end of these rates, it’s time to increase your rates. The start of a year is a good time to raise your rates. You may lose some clients who can’t afford to pay your higher fees; don’t be discouraged. Keep marketing your services (there are ways to do so for free) and keep going after higher-paying jobs and clients who can afford to pay you a better wage.
This way, your fees will begin to approximate what other more experienced ghostwriters are charging (and getting), and you will be able to make a living wage as a freelancer.
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It’s clear that the world needs development banks both to scale up the level of investment and to give developing countries better representation in the world of development finance. Yet these new banks need to play another role: championing sustainability as they usher in more development. Will this really happen?
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was proposed by China in 2013 and was launched at a ceremony in Beijing in October 2014. AIIB was to be fully established by the end of 2015.
like the United States. The United Nations has dubbed the launch of AIIB as ‘scaling up financing for sustainable development’ for the concern of Global Economic Governance.
As of April 15, 2015, almost all Asian countries and most major countries outside Asia had joined the AIIB, except the US, Japan (which dominated the ADB) and Canada. China is a major contributor to AIIB followed by India and Russia.
sitting next the two Premiers.
I was also around, but was not officially included in the list for obvious reasons. I was asked to be disguised as a waiter and serve a blend of Chinese and Indian (means Gujarati) food. Fortunately, the members of the AIIB were cooperative and tolerant of such a terrible cuisine combination.
Strict instructions were issued to ensure that there was no American presence inside and outside of the Taj property. All American tourists in the Taj Mahal hotel were evacuated and sent to hotels in Kabul at discounted rates. This was because Americans were not supporting AIIB and, in particular, the World Bank Group had considered AIIB as a threat.
To sabotage AIIB, I was told, the World Bank had instigated a host of international NGOs to ask AIIB questions on their Environmental and Social safeguards. A special capacity building program for NGOs was launched to this effect, under the Technical Assistance of some Trust Funds. I was told that these funds generally dump money and don’t look at the outcomes.
In an interview to the Wall Street Journal, the President of the World Bank had said that AIIB will be diluting the ESS while funding trillions of dollars of infrastructure projects. This will cause unevenness across development financing institutions of the World and pose risks to the very sustainability of the planet. He sounded concerned.
The management of AIIB strongly disagreed with the President’s statement.
My Professor friend had completed a research investigation and had found that it was in fact the World Bank (WB) that was systematically diluting the ESS over the past two decades. The new draft ESS of the World Bank was a glaring example of how one can make a clever blend of dilution and complexity a maze of ambiguous procedures and of passing the buck when it came to the accountability.
A Chinese version of the Professor’s report was intentionally leaked. This led to a fierce global discussion and arguments on AIIB vs. WB safeguards. Several people undertook lessons in Mandarin just to read and understand Professor’s findings and participate in the debates. The percent of population ‘able to read and speak Chinese’ was in fact expected to increase over the next three months. I was really impressed with Chinese Premier’s strategy. I suggested to my Professor friend that India should also leak this report in the national language Gujarati, Oops! Hindi.
While the dinner was getting served at the round tables, the Premiers opened the meeting. The Chinese Premier introduced the purpose of the meeting and Indian Premier welcomed the members of AIIB. Discussion on AIIB’s environmental and social safeguards was the focus. My Professor friend presented his investigative report on what’s happening on ESS across institutions like the WB, Asian Development Bank, European Investment Bank, JICA, and KfW etc. It appeared that most of these institutions were (happily) following the WB ESS. WB was the ‘big daddy’.
The Indian Premiere smiled and said “Look, it’s easy. First put all the environmental activist organizations under the scanner of Ministry of Home Affairs. Get their books of accounts checked by the Enforcement Directorate. More than 80% of such organizations would have flouted the rules under Foreign Exchange Regulations Act (FERA) one way or other. Issue notices and freeze their accounts/funds transfer. Once done, no activist organization will raise a voice against what AIIB will do. We have already done this in India and this step has removed all the barriers to the investment flows in India’s infrastructure sector. There is now a queue of international investors. There are no public protests anymore! In fact the other day, leaders of Indian media approached me in despair that there were no more stories to tell about people protesting infrastructure projects even if the projects posed risks to our natural reserves. Media is now asking me for alternate news bytes. I am helping them by exposing some of our own scams and scandals! But that’s another story”.
Member from Russia got convinced.
“How about the process of public consultation and conducting of analyses of alternatives etc.” The member from Brazil said while sampling Undhiyo. I served another portion of Undhiyo to the Member to show my appreciation for the pointed question he asked. I also placed a glass of Lassi on his table because I knew he did not know the impact of the spice in Undhiyo.
Wow! I was impressed. This was a great example of avoidance and passing the buck.
I found this approach really strategic. I decided to add a scoop of chocolate ice cream with Chinese wheatgrass on the gentleman’s plate.
The question & answer session continued further and several bright ideas emerged on AIIB’s comprehensive ESS. My Professor friend was taking meticulous notes. Meet me tomorrow to write down the minutes, he whispered to me while gobbling a piece of crunchy Chinese chicken rolled in amsul sauce.
As the meeting was about to end (and so was the food), the member from Mongolia asked a question.
“What about the environmental and social mess the mines create – how can AIIB invest in mines?” I was about to ask this question but realizing that I was supposed to be in disguise, simply zipped my mouth.
Well, this is just a satire and not the real story!
This page poses a number of critical questions to the ESS of Development Financing Institutions and these questions are worth pondering over.
I received an invitation to speak at a Cleaner Production Seminar in Lisbon around 1993. Mrs. Pineda from the Department of Industry, a very enthusiastic personality and a person of passion and action was my host. Two more colleagues were invited – one was an Australian and the other was a Dutch. We knew each other before.
We arrived a day early. Mrs. Pineda had organized a dinner with the Minister of Industries in the evening with select officials and industry representatives. Dinner was served on the terrace of the Ministers bungalow with range of Portuguese wines and cheese to start with. The terrace gave a great view of the city of Lisbon with old mansions and thick tree foliage.
Just then we were mingling with the invitees and having a chat on their interest in Cleaner Production, Mrs. Pineda approached me. “Ministers Secretary wants to speak to you” she said and ushered me to a room adjoining the terrace. After some pleasantries, Ministers secretary asked me for a short CV for introducing me the next day at the Seminar. “You are an Indian I know – but currently based in New York – right?” When I said no and said that I always lived in Bombay/Mumbai, India; he asked me once again the same question and this time added that of course your original base could be Mumbai but isn’t it that for past several years you have been away and mainly residing in the United States. I said politely negative. I have always been a Bombay person! I said this with no loss in the pride.
The Secretary got me a glass of Portuguese red wine and disappeared.
After few moments, Mrs. Pineda approached me once again and asked me to follow her to the Minister. Minister wants to have a word with you she said.
I was of course very keen to listen to Fado.
Minister then came a bit close to me and spoke in low voice and with some concern “Dr Modak, I know about your work internationally and that’s the reason why we invited you here. However, the industry in Portugal is still kind of biased when it comes to listening or sharing of knowledge – they won’t be able to take it from an Indian living in Bombay. It’s alright for them to receive these inputs from a Dutch, an Australian expert or someone from the United States”. He paused. I could see he was embarrassed on what he just said. He continued.
I did not know what to say! I told the Minister in all polite way and respect that I will go by my true introduction and that I should be introduced as born, living and working in Bombay. The Minister listened.
When Mrs. Pineda came to drop me to the hotel post dinner, she brought up the conversation I had with the Minister and his suggestion. “I am sorry what he said – but he really has a point. You may find response from the industries tomorrow rather lukewarm after the introduction”.
“Well Mrs. Pineda. I rather be what I am” I said this now in a bit of firm tone.
The next day Seminar was opened by the Minister and all three of us were introduced. I was the last speaker. All three of us did pretty well. The Minister stayed throughout the session.
Contrary to the worries of the Minister, my presentation was well received by the industry participants. There were number of questions asked and specific advice was requested. The translator had a tough time as the discussions became rather animated after a while. The Minister was extremely pleased.
I was simply excited as I was keen to take on an excursion outside Lisbon.
Paulo drove me to Covilha. It was around 280 km of distance each way. We travelled to the mountains via wine yards, stopped at a Fado cellar in the evening and sampled the famous Adega wine.
Paulo turned out to be very talkative person. He kept talking about his life and narrated to me all about his family, especially his elder sister Maria. He simply adored his sister. In our journey to and fro Covilha, I learned so much about Maria – her moods, her dress sense, her fancies, her career interests etc. Maria was specializing in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). “One day I will introduce you to Maria” Paulo said and a bit proudly.
Of course in the process of our non-stop dialogue, Paulo extracted everything about me – my wife Kiran, kids Devika and Pranav and our life in Bombay. I also told him my Minister story.
I returned from Lisbon with great experience of being in Covilha. The travel, stay and interactions with industries was memorable.
The very next month I was in Shanghai to attend the annual convention of International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA). I was standing in the registration queue.
There were two women chatting in the front of me. One of them was extremely talkative. She was telling her friend “my brother Paulo drove an Indian to Covilho last month– this Indian guy was very interesting and both had long conversations. Paulo is now so much enameled with him that he wants to holiday in India and visit Bombay. He wants me to join too”.
“May I” I interrupted their conversation and introduced myself without mentioning Paulo.
The queue was long enough for more conversations. Amongst other topics, I spoke about face reading, science of phrenology and works reported in the Purushsuktam of ancient Indian scripts on how to read minds.
Then concentrating on Maria’s face, I offered to tell her “her story”.
“Maria -you like green color, you are allergic to milk products, you like to travel, especially on the sea coasts, you tend to spend a lot. You are a professor at the Lisbon University. And I went on and on and told her everything I knew about her from Paulo.
Maria was simply amazed. She told her friend that all what I said was really true. “This makes even a more interesting case to visit India. How could you make out so much about me by simply looking at my face? And so much personal information that only my brother will know – and so much in detail? She exclaimed. You must teach me how did you?
I just smiled – decided not to tell her the secret – but then eventually did.
Maria and I met couple of times later in the IAIA meetings. Last I saw her was in a meeting organized by UNEP in Geneva. Today, Maria has published extensively in EIA and has a book that is well respected on the subject of Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment. I really respect her work.
This is a pretty old story – some 20 years ago and I don’t know whether the bias still remains.
I never met Paulo nor Mrs. Pineda. I plan to visit Covilha once again this November.
Listen to Fado and sip Adega wine.
Science, Administration and Politics are often difficult dots to connect. But if you do connect them well, to form a circle, then the magic of “ripples” happens! You can potentially bring in the change.
Dr R D Deshpande (RD) was one personality who showed me how.
He was a friend, guide and a storm in my life. I miss him today very much.
A very powerful, turbulent and impatient personality – Dr Deshpande held a doctoral degree on Marine Biology from the UK. He spent years in Department of Science and Technology (DST) as Director in Government of India. Did a stint at the Indian Consulate in Washington DC over four years. Accompanied Mrs. Indira Gandhi on key missions as scientific attaché. He had a great understanding of politics of science and knew how to cultivate connections.
He used to be in the circle of Who’s Who in India. Some told me that he was connected to the Indian intelligence agency – RAW. I don’t think this was true. And he was close to the senior politicians – I recall with people like Chief Minister Sharad Pawar.
I met Dr Deshpande for the first time in Bangkok, when he was working with UNEP Regional Office. We were attending a meeting organized by ESCAP. We took an instant liking for each other. He was very warm to me. I was only 26 years then. He must be close to 55.
Dr Deshpande discussed with me my career plans and we met in his office few times. He used to narrate to me his own career, his experiences and stress on how one must integrate science, science administration and the politics of science to be “effective”. Mere science is not enough he used to say. I found these conversations very stimulating. This was a great learning for me.
I started teaching at the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay in 1984. One day when I was holding my class, I got an urgent message from the Office of Director to come right away to his office. I was wondering – did I do something wrong? I closed my class abruptly – and wrapped up.
When I reached Professor B Nag’s office, who was then IIT Bombay’s Director, I saw Dr RD sitting there. That was a pleasant surprise. “Dr Deshpande dropped in just now and was keen to see you. He wants you to accompany him to the Chairman of HLL, Dr Dutta – that’s why I asked you to come right away” Professor Nag said.
Dr RD was in a hurry. He told Professor Nag “Prasad is my old friend, take good care of him!” As he left for the loo, Professor Nag turned to me and whispered “How the hell you know this man? He is very influential. He seems to like you, do stay in touch with him”. And we continued to remain in touch.
Dr RD used to live in Pune after his “retirement” and in the later part of his life, became Senior Advisor to the Tata Group. He was heading the Environment and Natural Resources Division of Tatas. I worked with him on a project from Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Consultant and used to shuttle to Pune. In the evening we used to spend time at a pub either 10 Downing Street in Gera Plaza or Zamus on the Dhole Patil Road. We used to order garlic mushrooms and draft beers. The conversations used to be on varied topics– such as diplomacy in organizations such as UN, ADB etc., scientific administration in DST, Corporate behavior and political obligations etc. I still cherish these conversations, some serious and some fun stories with implicit pieces of advice. He used to say that when you take up an assignment, map the people who matter, work on them to ensure that studies or advice you would provide is heard by the right people. You need to network and cultivate relationship with some of the powerful personalities in the society not always for professional reasons but to understand their vision and the power they wield.
One day, I was in Nariman Point area of Mumbai and got a call from Dr RD to show up right away to the Commonwealth Building opposite the Air India tower. There was never a chance to say no to Dr RD. So I took a taxi obediently and reached Commonwealth. Many powerful personalities of the Tata group lived in the Commonwealth building. It’s an address in Mumbai.
When I reached Commonwealth, I saw Dr RD waiting for me impatiently in the lobby. Why so late? He frowned. I am taking you to Nani. “You mean Nani Palkhivala?” I said in a tone all shell shocked. Who is other Nani – Dr RD shouted.
We reached the elevator and the liftman sitting on the stool got up to open the collapsible door. Dr RD said “Give this man 10 Rs.” I did not know why, but simply followed Dr RD’s instructions and gave the liftman 10 Rs. When we reached the sixth floor and were getting out, Dr RD turned to the liftman, pointed at me and said “Ye apne Saab hai, jab dekhoge tab salaam karna mat bhulo” (He is the boss, whenever you will see him don’t forget saluting him).
When we rang the doorbell, the door was opened by a simple looking tall man with thick spectacles – and that was the legendary Nani Palkhivala. Nani greeted us and made us sit in the drawing room. I was introduced. Dr RD and Nani must be old and close friends and so the conversations began like a breeze. I was made party to the conversations and was not left out. The topic of discussion was India’s measure of true progress – not GDP but the Gross Ecological Product. I was quite excited to chip in and gave my views to my abilities. Both gave me patient hearing. We had I recall two rounds of masala tea with masca biscuits. The conversations were simply phenomenal and listening to Nani Palkhivala on extempore basis and in person was a treat.
When the clock on the wall chimed to six, Nani Palkhivala stopped and told Dr RD that now was his time to take a walk on the Marine Drive. Dr RD also had to go to take flight to Nagpur. So we all got up, Nani changed, told his servant to prepare the dinner. We opened the door, came to the sixth floor foyer and pressed button for the lift. The lift arrived and so the liftman sitting inside on the stool. He opened the collapsible door, saw me, and saluted to me in style. Nani Palkhiwala was surprised.
“You seem to be a regular to the Commonwealth then” he said.
Of course I was not in a hurry. I joined him for the walk. Walking with one of India’s intellectual giants along the sea was so illuminating and memorable.
We returned to the Commonwealth after an hour. Nani took the lift upstairs after saying goodbye. Drop in again he said– and need not be with Dr RD.
I gave him another note of 10 Rs and said – “rakho” (keep). To me this was an advance for the next visit. The liftman saluted.
I understood Dr RD’s strategy. The key was timing. When and whom to give 10 Rs mattered.
10 Rs made my life that day.
When I was contracted for the first time by the World Bank, I remember the conversation with the Task Manager. After the scope of work was discussed, he asked me – can you estimate the number of days effort you will take to complete the tasks? And send me your CV in the World Bank format so that I will get your daily rate fixed by the HR.
I didn’t understand the concept of daily rate then. It took some time for me to get my CV cast in the World Bank format. It was quite a self-revelation. Estimating the number of days of effort was also not easy. I did few iterations so as to propose something reasonable and acceptable.
After the CV was forwarded, a few weeks later I received the contract that stated that I will be paid at the rate of US 500/day over 20 days to deliver the tasks stated in the Terms of Reference attached. And I was commissioned.
I did many such assignments afterwords. Each year, the daily billing rate was enhanced by some 5% and sometimes by 10%. Most senior consultants hovered around the rate of USD 600 to 1000/day across institutions.
I always wondered how the HR fixed the daily rates just based on the CV. Of course the qualifications and experience were always considered but honestly how could a CV alone reflect a person’s competency for the task? For example, REAL number of years of experience differs from the INTEGER number! I therefore had reservations on the logic of arriving at the daily rate. I hold these reservations even today.
I was working with a senior Dutch colleague on a project where we were contracted by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. During one of the dinners, he asked me whether I work on the daily rates. When I said yes, he strongly advised me not to follow this practice. Getting paid by daily (or nightly!) rates is just like prostitution he said. You should be charging based on the outcomes. Charge low if outcomes intended don’t materialize and charge a premium if the outcomes do happen. This has nothing to do with the daily rates and the number of days.
“Recently, Vice President of SAS Airlines contracted me. He had developed a Sustainability Awareness Program (SAP) for SAS and its customers but did not have buy in from the CEO. He asked me to make a presentation to the CEO, improving further on his ideas. The objective was to get a fund sanctioned of a minimum of 800,000 USD for the SAP.
The Vice President said – “I will pay you 50,000 USD as the fee if you get me this budget sanctioned and if not I will pay you only 8000 USD”. If I had gone by your daily rates logic, then the presentation would have taken 10 days of my time for research and improvisation and I would have got paid a flat fee of 10,000 USD. So his offer was fare. Fortunately, I did well and got the budget for the Vice President sanctioned. Made good money.
I thought this was like a jugad. But then my Dutch friend had a point.
I told him that organizations like the World Bank don’t think that way. Whether there are outcomes or not, you get paid for the time you spent! Few care for the outcomes. My Dutch friend said, then don’t work for the World Bank. Go to the clients who want to see outcomes, do partnership or a deal with you on risk and opportunity and through this – understand your value better. And if you follow my advice then you won’t need to work for 200 days in the year – as you will make same money over just 60 days. You can live life better, feel good and do something else useful for society. You don’t live life just for yourself.
I started working in Indonesia for a Asian Development Bank (ADB) project on development of a Computer based EIA using Expert System. I used to frequent to Jakarta to conduct knowledge engineering workshops with Indonesian EIA experts. Dr Emil Salim was the Minister of Environment then, He is a well-known conservation economist. A towering personality. One day, Dr Salim asked me to accompany him to Bogor. He was to address a meeting on Biodiversity Conservation and wanted me to visit some of the botanical gardens in Bogor along with him. Bogor is a city near Jakarta with thick forests and rains drizzling all through the year. It’s also a place where maximum frequency of lightening takes place.
We reached Bogor during the lunch time and Dr Salim took me to a place where you get some of the best beef pepper steaks. Both the place and food were enjoyable and the lunch was indeed a gastronomical treat with enlightening conversations with Dr Salim. Our conversations drifted along various topics – crosscutting professional and personal interests. When I mentioned to Dr Salim my dilemma on consulting in general, the illogical concept of daily rates and feeling of getting trapped as number of days get booked over the year through contracts etc., he smiled.
“I must introduce you to the four Canadian consultants who work in Bogor. I will drop you to their office – then go to my meetings and later pick you back for the tour to the botanical gardens. You will enjoy meeting with them”.
We reached a complex of 5 villas tucked in a thick cluster of trees after taking a few detours little in the outskirts of the city. There was a large Vila at the Centre and the four other villas were around placed like quadrants. We reached the central Villa through a winding road with tall trees dotted on the either sides. I learned later that the central Villa was the office or headquarters of the “company”.
The company was founded and run by four Canadians. All the four were working in the environment, natural resources and social sectors focusing in biodiversity conservation and impact assessment. Three men and one woman. They actually followed my Dutch friend’s model. Being really on the top of the line, they were successful to deliver the outcomes to the clients and the clients paid them “success fees” at the premium. So they worked only three months in the year and again intermittently. They were always “booked” in advance.
What about the remaining time? I asked John, one of the senior Principals of the Company.
Peter told us that they love to receive guests of equally creative minds. So there are weekends generally with the visitors. This has been always refreshing.
All the four families live in the Vilas around the Central “office”. That’s the privacy. Being old friends however, there is a continuous mingling between the Vilas, especially the children. Jim’s family (Jim is a biodiversity specialist) does not have children so he has volunteered mentoring of all the kids. He is a great teacher. “Our children are brought up differently” Laura said. (I soon learnt that the four families were doing a commendable work on the social front, especially education to the poor) I wanted to chat with Jim but he was immersed in a large bath tub with a cigar on the first floor of the office. I was told that it was his “thinking den”.
I was impressed how business and art of living were blended together – collectively – and leveraging on each other’s expertise like an ecosystem. The key however was to reach the status of top of the line consultant in the early stage of life, and demonstrate outcomes working with the client not as a vendor but more as a partner. Share risks and ride on the opportunities.
On our way back I told Dr Salim that meeting with the four Canadian’s was inspirational and an eye opener.
On return, I asked one of my real estate friends to look for 5 villas near the Mulshi dam close to Pune. Mulshi is a wonderful place with a sprawling lake. My friend found one 5 villa complex in a weeks’ time.
I kept looking for connecting with the other three.
For several years, I am not able to get even one.
Message – Plan early and action in time if you want to live a different kind life.
I decided to go back home.
Newspapers had arrived. I read the headlines. Pretty depressing I thought. Can there be a newspaper that just gives the good news and not the (heart) breaking news?. I thought of talking about it to my journalist friends.
I turned to the Kitchen to make a bowl of Eggie noodles. I like Eggie as it just takes little more than 2 minutes to prepare. In the busy life on Mumbai, every minute costs and counts.
When I opened the shelf, I did not see any packs of Eggie Noodles. My wife said “Eggie is in the soup as the company violated the limits set on the lead and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) content (see http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/maggi-noodles-in-soup-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy/article1-1354268.aspx ) No more Eggie noodles in the shop. There will probably be a nationwide ban.
I got ready for the office, picked up a couple of apples for lunch (I believe in healthy food) and walked to my car. Driving to the office in the messy traffic was always a pain of the day. I put on the AC and drove my way through to the parking lot near my office with sun scorching around. I always carry a bottle of water and keep it in the car. I took a few large gulps of water to wet my throat, took the elevators and reached my desk.
*AMONG A LONG LIST OF OTHER PROBLEMS*, drinking water from plastic bottles left to bake in your car WILL INCREASE YOUR RISK OF GETTING CANCER, although the risk factor is a function of your current level of health, the relative quality of the plastic containing the water (THERE ARE NO SAFE PLASTICS, but some are worse than others), the temperature achieved, the length of time it was in the sun, & whether or not a person consumes water from hot plastic on an ongoing basis, not to mention the quality of the water pumped into the bottle to begin with.
I was shocked. First of all, I dislike magazines on subjects like Cancer and don’t know why our company does not subscribe to Film fare or stock old issues of Debonair. This piece of information on Cancer due to plastic bottle water was particularly disturbing to me.
During lunch, I asked my peon to cut the apples for me and bring as a “fruit platter”. Just last month, we purchased Zent Ozone Purifier that promised removal of pesticides and chemicals retained on the vegetables and fruits. This Zent Purifier brought a sense of safety to our family.
As my mouth was gaping with this new information, my friend said in a hush hush tone, Neha, the Actor who is the brand ambassador of this product is withdrawing her contract with Zent. She is worried that she may be sued for false claims!).
I felt cheated and angry and then scared.
I decided to go the Gym on my way back home. Some exercises, especially on the tread mill will be good for my health – I muttered.
Last week, I had purchased a nice Tee shirt, at cheap price and with psychedelic colors on the streets of Bandra. When I changed into this Tee shirt, it caught the eyes of everybody in the Gym.
When I reached home, I felt defeated, frustrated and scared. I wished I was born on some other planet. Every moment of living here on this Earth and particularly in Mumbai was a risk proposition. The increasing strings of knowledge about these risks were looming around me like a spider web. I felt trapped.
I had no clue on what Professor was up to.
Well, you probably do not know my latest invention. I have come up with a medical procedure called Selective Knowledge Destruction (SKD). In this procedure, we simply “wash out” or “destroy” person’s knowledge about the chosen subject – in this case “environment”. Once the SKD is performed, the person treated knows NOTHING about that subject. More interestingly, the effect lasts over a year – that means no new knowledge gets transferred to the person in this period. After a year you will need another SKD like putting on another stent. Procedure is very simple and straightforward but requires some training. Its like putting on a saline to the brain with my secret electrolyte.
The SKD treated person is blissfully unaware of the environmental risks he or she is subjected to. So one can live life normally without any tensions, fears or anxieties. If someone falls sick or dies, you don’t know why – as there is simply no point to know .. And these risks are never fully understood nor actioned upon. Knowing the probable cause is therefore irrelevant or inconsequential. So you can live the life you normally would – like go for the morning walks, eat Eggie noodles to your content, use Zent Ozone Purifier for making your fruits and vegetables healthy. Plus you can keep a plastic bottle water in the car to drink when thirsty and wear cheap Tee shirts because you like them…. Professor went on and on with more examples.
I said – My friend, can you give me an out of the turn appointment for the SKD. I badly need one…. I am looking forward to live a normal life.
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A list of actors that I can personally vouch for as a producer/director. The talent, reliability, and professionalism of every actor on this list based on my personal experience with them. If you have a role they fit- hire them and you won't be sorry!
Hayley Derryberry is known for her work on Rabid Love (2013), Rabid Love (2012) and A Bit of Danger (2016).
A pleasant, talented, down to earth, and knowledgable young actress- Hayley is on her way up!
Jessica Sonneborn was born on August 9, 1978 in Connecticut, USA as Jessica Babette Sonneborn. She is an actress and producer, known for The Haunting of Alice D (2014), Dog Eat Dog (2016) and Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012).
Jess is a total pro!
Versatile and fun to work with!
Colin is intensity personified and will bring high energy to any project!
Daniel Knight is an American actor who has appeared on various network television programs such as AMC Network's Better Call Saul, NBC's Grimm, ABC's Killer Women as well as playing roles on several award-winning independent feature films.
Kind and relatable, Daniel is talented, dedicated, and will inspire your entire cast and crew!
Brandon will become the character and deliver amazing results!
A US Marine, Nick is the epitome of professionalism and strength in front of the camera!
Josh is highly directable and a pleasure to work with- easy going and fun on set!
Brian Reece was born on August 26, 1975 in Florence, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Terminator Salvation (2009), Transformers (2007) and 500 MPH Storm (2013).
Brian is highly talented on both sides of the camera and is an asset to every production he is a part of!
Megan Hensley was born in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Center (2015), The Crazies (2010) and The Toy Soldiers (2014).
Megan is easy to work with and will do everything she can to make your project all it can be- be sure that when she's not acting, she'll be behind the camera helping out however she can!
Joe Backer is an actor and writer, known for If Night Comes (2014), Rabid Love (2013) and Play On (2010).
Casper is enthusiastic and will push himself to the max to bring his character to life and ensure the success of your project!
Sarah is wonderful to work with and will enhance any project she is a part of!
Amy Baklini is an actress and producer, known for The Merry Maids of Madness (2016), Enter the Dojo (2011) and Furthest Witness (2017).
Mike Miller was born on January 4, 1949 in Phillips, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Ideal Home (2018), Justice Denied (2013) and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). He has been married to Tish Rayburn-Miller since September 12, 1982. They have five children.
Basil will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to any project and sets an example for others to emulate.
Devin Hennessy is known for his work on 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Legends (2014) and Too Deep in the Forest (2016).
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One might assume that, like other recent films, Oz the Great and Powerful takes place in an entirely computer-generated environment. Surprisingly, it doesn't. Producer Joe Roth explains, "I think one of the misconceptions is that we were making a CGI film; we built seven full-size sets."
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Schindler's List and the release of the newly-remastered Blu-Ray edition, Universal Studios Home Entertainment has partnered with the USC Shoah Foundation to create the IWitness Challenge, a video contest for middle and high school students that aims to bring the testimonies of Holocaust survivors into the classroom in new and engaging ways.
This week's episode of Arrow ("Dead to Rights") features a few revelations and some surprises; written by longtime comics writer and fan-favorite Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics, the episode puts Oliver in a difficult position between his best friend, Tommy Merlyn, and Tommy's father, who is secretly the evil "Dark Archer." I spoke to Johns by phone and asked him a few questions about writing for TV and comics, his work on the current episode of Arrow, and the future direction of the show.
When my son Christopher was in preschool, Peter Pan was his favorite film. When Disney sent me a copy of the new 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition, it seemed only obvious that a father-son review was in order. Chris is 22 now, and though he says he likes to re-watch all the Disney classics at least once a year, it was clear early on that he hadn't seen this one in a while.
Georgia attorney Loren Collins, in his new book, Bullspotting, takes aim at the logical fallacies that underlie many of today's most popular delusions. Where websites such as Snopes and the About Urban Legends page diligently catalog and refute individual examples of net-based misinformation, Bullspotting aims to equip the reader with their own internal "baloney detector" by learning to recognize the telltale signs of a phony story when they see one.
Controversy continues to surround National Gorilla Suit Day; some, like Fester Bestertester, believe that it is a fake holiday invented by the gorilla suit manufacturers to sell their wares. Others, this reporter among them, consider National Gorilla Suit Day to be one of America's more important holidays.
The Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie includes multiple versions of the film and a small but well-done collection of bonus features that make it a worthwhile purchase for fans of the idiosyncratic director's work.
As the new year gets underway, we all begin to look expectantly toward those things we know will happen in the near future. I've compiled a short list of some highlights for this year: Snake Plisskin will escape from LA, the Sentinels will conquer the mutants, the Postman and Eli will wander post-apocalyptic landscapes, and more.
Disney-Pixar continues their ongoing program of reissuing their catalog in the popular 3D format with Monsters, Inc., which opens on December 19. Like Finding Nemo, the 3D version of the 2001 film has been completely re-rendered in higher definition, and the detail is incredible. Though not as stunning as the underwater world of Nemo, Monsters, Inc. has some effective moments; in particular, the massive door-storage warehouse sequence is pretty spectacular.
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Folks, I have got the blogging blahs. I don’t know what my problem is, but I hope I snap out of it soon because I am driving myself crazy.
Thanks to a blissfully relaxing ten-day vacation last month, I tore through an usually large number of books. Ahhh, to have ten (paid) days off every month . . .
Worst Book-to-Film Adaptation Award: Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman (read in June). This movie was so atrocious I hardly know what to say. It bore so little resemblance to the book it was appalling. Even viewed independently of the book it was a terrible movie. I think the actors did the best they could, but it felt like they were trying too hard create interesting, complex characters. I never connected with any of them. The plot itself sort of wandered aimlessly about, too, which drove me nuts. Ugh. Helen Hunt and Colin Firth, can we pretend this movie never happened?
The I Can’t Seem to Figure Out Who Wrote This Book Award: I’ve Got Your Number. Seriously, guys. Who wrote this book? I’ve looked all over the cover for the author’s name and I just can’t seem to find it anywhere! Wait . . . I think I might have . . . no, that’s not it . . . Oh! There! There it is! It’s those giant letters that take up HALF THE COVER. Whew, I’m so glad I found it. It was really starting to worry me.
This cover is a much better fit for the book than the covers I discussed earlier, and I just love the sharp contrast between the black silhouettes and the green background. Kudos to Knopf Books.
Did anyone else notice that I read only female authors last month? I didn’t realize I was doing it until August was nearly over and the books sitting on the top of my TBR were also by women. Huh. Interesting. Reading goal for the rest of the year: diversity.
Come on and cover me . . . No, wait. Don’t.
I try not to judge a book by its cover. (Okay, I mostly try not to judge a book by its cover.) I also try – mostly – not to hold it against a book when it has a lousy cover. But being human and all, I frequently fall prey to my own flaws. Such was the case with Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage.
I look at that cover and I think light, fluffy beach read. I think drinks with little umbrellas, wide-brim hats, maybe a hot guy or two, female bonding, and lots of pool shenanigans. And if it wasn’t for Pearl Cleage’s name on the cover, I would also think, Meh. No, thanks.
Of course Babylon Sisters was none of those things. Yeah, there was a hot guy and some female bonding and the pool showed up in the story a few times, but overall the book was nothing like the cover. There was never a scene with three women lounging by a pool. (I don’t even know who those three women are supposed to be.) And sure there were light moments, but the book took on weightier issues, too. Clearly the publishers are targeting a specific audience, but surely they could have come up with a cover that better represents the book itself.
So what did I do next? I read Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel, knowing full well the cover was going to piss me off.
I’m assuming the girl we see here is Callie, our protagonist. It’s actually a pretty big assumption to make seeing as how Callie is biracial and that girl is not. Callie’s mom is white and her father is black – which we learn in the second chapter – and her hair is described as “coarse” in the very first chapter. In the beginning of the book her skin is cream-colored due to a lifetime of covering up every time she goes outside. Why does Callie have to keep her skin light-colored? you ask. Oh, see that’s because the book takes place in Kansas in 1935. Apparently not much has changed in 77 years.
That cover is insulting. It’s insulting to Callie. It’s insulting to the author. It’s insulting to biracial readers because not only does it send the message that people with their racial makeup aren’t worthy of honest representation on book covers, it also sends the message that publishers don’t think their skin tone will sell. It’s insulting to non-biracial readers because it assumes they won’t read a book that features a character who has a different skin color than their own. And to that I say: BITE ME.
This is 2012, people. Enough with the whitewashing already.
Before I launch into my usual monthly report, I want to apologize for flooding your Google readers last weekend. What happened was this: on Saturday I updated the tags on several old posts. For some reason Google interpreted these updates to mean that the posts were new. When I logged into my Google reader and saw that The Alcove had 44 unread posts I nearly choked. I don’t know why it did that so I can’t promise that it won’t happen again, but I am really, really sorry.
In July I read . . .
The I May Have Checked the Floor For a Disembodied Hand Award: Coraline. I know Coraline is a creepy book. I’ve read it several times before. But somehow I had forgotten just how deliciously creepy it is . . . until last month when I was reading it late at night. When I got out of bed, I may have first checked the floor for disembodied hands. No, I haven’t pissed off any button-eyed other mothers lately, but you can’t be too careful about these things.
The Caps Lock Award: Going Postal. Usually Excessive Use of Capital Letters Drives Me Crazy. When Used In Titles Or To Drive Home A Point, I Don’t Mind It. Used All The Time, However – Yeesh. No Thanks. But When I Met Mr. Pump, A Character In Going Postal, I Changed My Mind. He Talks Like This And It Just Suited Him So Perfectly I Couldn’t Get Annoyed. I Don’t Think Pratchett Could Have Portrayed His Slow, Deep, And Rumbling Voice Any Other Way. He Was, Hands Down, My Favorite Character In The Book.
How was your July? No disembodied hands creeping around your house, I hope?
And now presenting Heather Dixon, author of Entwined. Welcome, Heather!
When I was in college and just writing Entwined and discouraged about it because it was in the horrible early stages and was all dark and weird and depressing (and it was, too–it was closer to the original fairy tale, which had witches and poisoned wine and such) I read my first Terry Pratchett book.
It was “Going Postal.” My family–already die-hard fans of the Discworld series–leant me the book, which had pages falling out from being thumbed through so much. I read the prologue, “The Nine-Thousand Year Prologue”, which had beautiful prose and made absolutely no sense. When I turned the page, there was another prologue–“The One-Month Prologue.” That one also didn’t make any sense.
And then, in the first chapter, the main character, Moist von Lipwig, is hanged.
What kind of sorcery is this? I thought.
He’s brought back to life, of course, and the city’s patrician (tyrant) forces him to get the derelict post office up and running again. Moist had been a conniving thief and swindler, and does whatever he can to get out of his new job. But as he resurrects the struggling post office, he begins to realize what a jerk he was, and by the end of the book, through clever prose, soulful, funny characters, and brilliant dialogue–my gosh, the dialogue. Such incredible dialogue. I could slice up Terry Pratchett dialogue and eat it as three square meals a day–and angels, Moist is redeemed.
I flipped back to the two prologues, re-read them, and now they made sense. They were about characters that had died, but who Moist, in his own redemption, had redeemed.
In the world of creative writing, there are a lot of proclaimed do’s and don’t’s. Don’t start your book this way. Do make your chapters this long. Don’t write what people actually say. Do write what people actually say. Editors like this. Agents like that. Show, don’t tell. (<–that’s one “fix all” phrase I absolutely hate.) It’ll make any writer paranoid to distraction.
With Going Postal, I felt I left those pretensions behind. He broke all the rules. Prologues, jumping POV’s, footnotes, varying fonts and sizes, chapters of all sizes, such stylized characters, and he was funny. Every page made me laugh. In my reading journey, like Moist, I had transformed. I realized that I’d been caring too much what other people thought, and not being me.
With that in mind, I was able to tackle Entwined (then called The Great Slipper Scandal) again with a renewed sense of what the story–and my writing–needed to be. And, wouldn’t you know, I was able to craft it into a story that I hope, like Going Postal, told a story of redemption in a funny and entertaining way.
If there’s something I hope that readers of Emily’s blog here, and also writers (since book blog readers & writers are often one & the same), it’s this: Don’t be afraid to create things your way. The literary world is rife with people who criticize and woefully lacking in people who create. Find your song in creators and writers whose work you recognize transcendence, and learn from them.
Thanks, Em, for letting me be a guest here!
Thank YOU, Heather! You are welcome to stop by any time.
Want more Heather Dixon and/or Utah Book Month awesomeness? Read Entwined, check out Heather’s blog, or stop by the Utah Book Month blog for more Utah book goodness.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are just three short days away from a monumental Alcove event. On August 1, I will host my very first guest post by . . . *drumroll, please* . . . a real, live author.
A real, live author. Here. On my blog. To say that I’m ridiculously giddy would be the understatement of the world.
So how did this amazing occurrence come about? Well, I’m glad you asked! Several months ago, my favorite new-to-me blogger Jessica at The Bluestocking Society announced that she and several other Utah book bloggers were going to host a Utah Book Month in August. She invited all interested book bloggers to participate, and even though I live approximately 2,000 miles away and my Utah experience is limited to three (yes, I said three) trips across the Utah salt flats in the Summer of 2004, I eagerly signed up. Shortly after that I received an email informing me that Heather Dixon, author of Entwined, had agreed to write a guest post for my little ol’ blog. All I had to do was email her a topic.
Come up with a guest post topic? For a real, live author? I had absolutely no idea what to tell her, so I did what every reader does in a situation like this: I read. I read her book, I read her blog, I read interviews. And then I came to the conclusion that I completely adore Heather Dixon. She has a fantastic sense of humor (if you don’t have time to read her entire blog – which you really should do – at least read her Oregon Trail post. I read it multiple times and it never stopped being funny), and as if that isn’t enough to endear her to my heart forever and ever, she also loves Terry Pratchett.
When I learned this, I really, really wanted to write her a gushing “OMG-I-so-totally-love-Terry-Pratchett-too-we’re-soul-mates-be-my-BFF-forever-and-always” email, but I thought that might terrify her. Instead I played it cool, like I email real, live authors all the time, and just sent her a list of possible guest post topics. I gave her the option of writing a post about Terry Pratchett, and even though I told her she could choose whichever topic she wanted, I secretly hoped she would choose that one.
And she did! So come back on Wednesday to read Heather Dixon’s Terry Pratchett post. It’s going to be awesome.
Many moons ago,* I read this review over at things mean a lot and learned that Diana Wynne Jones wrote two companion books to Howl’s Moving Castle. Since I completely love and adore Howl’s Moving Castle, I decided I absolutely had to read Castle in the Air and I was going to do it for the Once Upon a Time Challenge and it was going to be Awesome.
Well, I read it. But folks – and this pains me to say this – it was not awesome.
I know. It doesn’t seem possible. Diana Wynne Jones not be awesome? After I finished reading Castle in the Air, I had the hardest time admitting out loud that I didn’t like it. It’s been a few months since I read it so most of the specifics have already left my brain, (and I don’t even want to skim the book to refresh my memory), but from what I remember the book felt not like the carefully work I’ve come to expect from Jones but like it was haphazardly thrown together. I never connected with any of the main characters. When Sophie, Howl and Calcifer arrived on the scene, it felt like a last-minute decision, like Jones suddenly remembered that this was a companion to Howl’s Moving Castle and she better find a way to tie the books together.
Did anyone else feel this way about Castle in the Air, or am I alone in my disappointment? I haven’t given up on Jones, but I don’t think I’m going to read the third book in the series, either.
Did you write a review? Let me know and I’ll add it to the list!
*I just realized that I started this review the exact same way I started the Howl’s Moving Castle review I wrote two years ago. Weird.
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Talita Nogueira is a Brazilian practitioner and mixed martial artist. Talita Nogueira is most notable for being the 2011 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship winner. Talita Nogueira is currently signed to Bellator.
Prior to signing with Bellator, Nogueira fought exclusively in her native Brazil. Until June 2018 she has 7–1 record.
Nogueira signed with Bellator in August 2014.
Nogueira was expected to make her promotional debut at Bellator 133 against Julia Budd on February 13, 2015. However, Nogueira pulled out of the fight due to a knee injury and was replaced by Gabrielle Holloway.
Nogueira was scheduled to face Marloes Coenen at Bellator 163 but the bout was cancelled the day before the event when Talita failed to make weight.
Nogueira faced Amanda Bell at Bellator 182 on August 25, 2017. She won the fight via a rear-naked choke submission in the first round.
In her first title shot, Nogueira faced Julia Budd on July 13, 2018 at Bellator 202. She lost the title fight via TKO in the third round.
Loss 7–1 Julia Budd TKO (punches) Bellator 202 July 13, 2018 3 4:07 Thackerville, Oklahoma, United States For the Bellator Women's Featherweight World Championship.
^ "Jiu-Jitsu world champion Talita Treta signs with Bellator: "New Phase"". Gracie Mag. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
^ "Talita Nogueira Tapology Profile". tapology.com.
^ Shaun Al-Shatti (August 21, 2014). "Bellator signs undefeated women's jiu-jitsu champion Talita Nogueira". mmafighting.com.
^ MMAjunkie Staff (December 15, 2014). "Bellator 133 adds Pat Curran vs. Daniel Weichel, Julia Budd vs. Talita Nogueira". mmajunkie.com.
^ "Gabrielle Holloway replaces injured Talita Nogueira vs. Julia Budd at Bellator 133". mmafighting.com. February 3, 2015.
^ Ariel Helwani (2016-11-04). "Paul Daley pulled from tonight's Bellator 163 card after difficult weight cut". mmafighting.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
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Matt sighed, heading for Jess’s desk.
She looked confused but followed Matt into Becker’s office.
LOL. Poor Becker ;) And Jess to the rescue.
Lol at Becker's emergency hat!
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Single molecule and nanoparticle imaging has become a very important tool to investigate many biological and chemical processes. This dissertation presents the applications of single molecule and nanoparticle imaging in biophysical, surface, and photocatalysis studies using far-field optical microscopy. The work was mainly carried out under a differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope and a total internal reflection (TIR) microscope.
First, a DIC microscopy-based single particle orientation and rotational tracking technique that allows for resolving the full three-dimensional (3D) orientation of single gold nanorod (AuNR) probes has been developed. The angular degeneracy was overcome by combining DIC polarization anisotropy with the image pattern recognition technique. The usefulness of this technique in biophysical studies was further verified by real time tracking of rotational motions of single AuNRs rotating on live cell membranes. Therefore, it is expected that this method will enable us to elucidate the comprehensive interaction mechanisms between the functionalized nanocargoes and the membrane receptors in live cells. Detailed in situ conformational information on how they bind on the cell membrane and how they move and rotate in live cells at single particle level would provide new avenues for the development of new generation of high efficient drug and gene delivery carriers.
Second, a high-throughput focused orientation and position imaging (FOPI) technique with 3D orientation resolvability for single AuNRs deposited on a gold film has been developed for surface studies. The FOPI method presented in this dissertation provides a new approach using the interaction of AuNRs with their surrounding environment for resolving the 3D orientation of single AuNRs. Therefore, it is expectedthat this method can be used as a tool to study interactions of functionalized nanoparticles with functional gold surfaces.
Last, single molecule TIRF imaging was successfully employed in photocatalysis study to reveal the nature and photocatalytic properties of the surface active sites on single Au-CdS hybrid nanocatalysts. Single-molecule photocatalysis with high-resolution super-localization imaging allowed us to reveal two distinct, incident energy-dependent charge separation mechanisms in single Au-CdS heterostructures. This finding will help us design and develop better metal-semiconductor heterostructures that are highly active for photocatalytic reactions under visible light. Furthermore, the finding will enable us to potentially engineer the direction of energy flows on the heterostructured nanomaterials at the nanoscale. Therefore, it is expected that the results presented in this dissertation have a potential impact on the development of better photocatalyst structures.
Ha, Ji Won, "Single Molecule and Nanoparticle Imaging in Biophysical, Surface, and Photocatalysis Studies" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13494.
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As I’m writing this entry for the OMP blog, it’s summertime. This is the time of year when, traditionally, people go on their main holiday of the year. For some people, the holiday is something to be planned in meticulous detail, from the destination to the activities for the day. For others, a holiday is more of an ad hoc thing, where they go somewhere on a whim and do whatever takes their fancy.
Then, there are those of us who fall between the two. I’m one of those people who has to block out their holidays in advance. The demands of work mean that I have to negotiate what dates I can go away. However, when I actually get to my destination, I rarely have any plans as to what to do. Unless I am going somewhere for a specific reason (it happens!), I prefer to take each day as it comes. I rarely make plans for more than a day in advance.
You see, for me, a holiday is a chance to get away and recharge my mental batteries. I like to wander, following my instincts and senses. It gives me a chance to discover things and to do things that I want to do, without having to worry about anything more taxing than where I am going to stop for lunch. It also gives me time to sit and contemplate the world.
My holiday tactics have served me well so far. I have stood on the rocks at Carrick-a-Rede, watching dolphins playing in the bay. I have climbed to the very top of the lantern in Saint Paul’s Cathedral and seen the City of London spread out below me. My wanderings have taken me to the otaku shrine in the Akihabara and the Imperial Gardens to see the cherry blossoms. And, everywhere I have gone, I have taken my notebooks and pens with me, so I can write down the things I have seen and the emotions I have experienced, and I can then use them in my stories. Sometimes I even take pictures (!), but words are the way I express myself best.
So, when you go on your holidays, what are you going to do? What are you going to see? Whatever you do end up doing, just stop for a moment and try to remember it through the lens of your writing.
What could possibly lighten the burden of this bringer of darkness to the soul – this cruel destroyer? And pondered some before realising the answer was already right in front of us – DAFFODIL DAY.
The Cancer Council Australia began in 1961, expanded nation-wide in 1997, and adopted the glorious Daffodil as their emblem to raise awareness and produce messages and merchandise to raise money for Cancer research, education, support – and inspiring care and renewed hope in the hearts of victims AND their families.
The Daffodil was chosen because of its reputation as a hardy annual flower; pushing its way through the frozen earth after a long winter to herald the return of spring, new life, vitality and growth. As one of the first flowers of spring, the Daffodil symbolises rebirth and new beginnings. To Cancer Council, and many affected by cancer, the Daffodil represents hope for a cancer-free future.
AND then the Cancer Council divulged that recent research revealed a natural extract from Daffodils holds cancer-killing properties – a concentration that could trigger cancer cell death. Imagine… all that wrapped in a supremely beautiful parcel.
Our individual way to observe and salute this emblem of hope and renewal took place at our two mothers’ funerals. Each had died a year apart in August. We held each funeral on Daffodil Day and requested donations to the Cancer Council in lieu of flowers – despite which some dear souls gave both.
What we gave, apart from a wondrously huge wreath of mainly roses on each coffin, were dozens of daffodils on their proud, long stems for each of the mourners to set into those great wreaths. In the shortest time, the final resting places of our darlings were transformed into a blaze of golden joy – a wonderful symbol of all they gave to every life they touched, bringing countless smiles to shine through the tears.
This hole in your heart is the shape of the one you lost – no one else can fit it.
There are so many things my mother never talked about. One of them was money, so it was quite a surprise to me, as her executor, to learn that she actually had some. Since she never talked about it, I was also surprised by one of the charities she made bequests to. The British Heart Foundation made sense – she had a heart condition – and likewise the diabetes charity, but the one that initially puzzled me was Cancer Research UK, because I saw no immediate connection. There didn’t need to be one, but the other causes she supported were things she had had a close association with, so I expected something.
Of course, illness was another thing my mother never talked about. Yes, she would tell you all about her glucose levels, how the latest pills were doing, but she only ever mentioned her own health. She skipped over Grandad’s health twenty years ago, yes he was quite ill so she was staying with her parents to help out, but that was about it. I knew he was ill, in a subliminal way, because his vegetable patch wasn’t dug over – the first time in all the years I was old enough to notice – and he looked short.
I don’t have any good way to describe it properly. Grandad was taller than me and broad in the shoulders, but now he looked short. My mother did say he wasn’t feeling well.
What my mother avoided mentioning, discussing or otherwise bringing out into the light of day was that Grandad had cancer. Some months later I took the umpteen hour drive down again, and saw him in hospital a few weeks before he died – he looked terrible, but he was being discharged and I drove him home. Just being away from the hospital perked him up and by the time I left at the end of the weekend, he was looking good. Of course, no-one was mentioning the C-word, let alone the terminal diagnosis.
I’m sure I must have worked it out, but I wasn’t telling myself either.
So, I shouldn’t have been surprised by any of my mother’s bequests. They all touched her.
Nine months ago, I was asked if I would like to contribute a story to a charity anthology and I agreed. It seemed like a good idea, supporting a worthwhile cause, and there it was again, Cancer Research UK.
I wonder what my mother would have thought? She didn’t really talk about that sort of thing.
OMP Admin Note: Mark Huntley-James writes science fiction and fantasy on a small farm in Cornwall, where he lives with his partner and a menagerie of cats, poultry and sheep.
He has two urban fantasy novels out on Kindle – “Hell Of A Deal” (http://relinks.me/B01N94VXBC ) and “The Road To Hell” (relinks.me/B07BJLKFSS ) – and is working on a third.
He can be found online at his blog (writeedge.blogspot.com), his website (https://sites.google.com/site/markhuntleyjames/), and occasionally on that new-fangled social media.
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How Much Preparation Goes Into Your Art?
The following was originally the answer to a question from Deirdre Abbotts in the blog comments, but I felt it was worth a blog post of its own. What follows is a correct and honest description of how I work. I’d love to hear how you approach your own work.
Deirdre’s question was concerning how I manage to utilize “studies” if my work is spontaneous to begin with. I can see how this might be a little bit contradictory. Basically the question is how can studies play a role if it’s my goal to work intuitively?
I love spontaneity, but sometimes it’s hard to get into the groove. So in between times I will play around with images — things that started out as spontaneous and random marks, such as my old squeegees, palettes, paint skins, and table cover. I scan and take pictures of all that stuff. Then I look through these and usually can get really inspired by them to make something entirely new based on their texture, or quality of marks, or compositions I see within them.
Other times I will like something I’ve scanned exactly as it is, and I will try to duplicate it as a painting while still working to keep it “looking” spontaneous. Sometimes I’m successful at that part of it, and sometimes it flops completely. Other times it turns into something that I like even better, and will end up being spontaneous by accident.
That is basically how I work, start to finish. How about you? How much planning goes into your work?
Hi Martha. My approach is ‘same but different’! I keep notebooks full of things I have seen that I like; paintings, adverts, colours, photos, words, postcards, shapes etc. When I am starting some new works I sit round leafing through all this inspirations, thinking about what colours I feel like playing with, and how I want the pieces to feel. Then I put the books away and work from within.
It’s interesting when I write about my approach, how often I say ‘feel’. I really FEEL my art, but when I have done Myers Briggs assessment for work, I am right at the opposite end of the scale – very logical and systematic. Funny..
Cath, I wonder how you’d test if you did Myers-Briggs again. Do you think it might come out differently? I think it’s a wonderful thing to have a balance of left and right brain abilities.
White canvas makes me shy. I need traces on the space I’ll work on. My best portraits are painted on boards I found in the street, discarded pieces of a shelf, painted in the most ghastly olive grey. — Sometimes I paint with watercolors or acrylics on paper, stuck on a board; in this case, I have to prepare it and let dry overnight. But what if the inspiration is gone next day? Carpe diem. Each day has its own character. I have to work with what I got and hope there will be a kiss of a muse tomorrow, too.
I’ll post a link to one of these portraits later.
You’ve articulated the process perfectly. Yes, a white expanse makes me shy too. And I often put a lot of random marks onto it, sometimes the uglier the better, just to get moving through that block.
Oh, I forgot. This turquoise is supernatural. True to the title!
🙂 It was probably on a day that I couldn’t come up with a title. But I love your description.
Perfect explanation – thanks so much for describing your process.
Deirdre, thanks for providing me with more food for thought!
Almost none. And years’ worth. And both answers are correct and honest.
I spend months at a time making what I call “elements”… large and small pieces of paper, fabric, fibers and wonky textiles that I test and play with using quite a lot of different techniques. I tweak, I remake, I refine, I even give up on some notions.
I might engage in this creative tinkering for months. And then something happens, some kind of fission, and POW- I’m ready to Make Art. I start tearing and stitching and gluing and refining, and at the end of that period, maybe I’ll get lucky and have one or two pieces I can honestly call “art”.
Then mysteriously the process resets and, after a short rest period, starts again.
Judi, this is a wonderful description of your process. And mine, actually. What you’re describing applies to the way I do my collages especially. But I guess the textured paintings too, because a lot goes on beneath awareness when paint is not actually involved.
i work exactly as you do. this is a timely post because i was just commenting to a friend the other day that i can’t recreate a piece if someone wants another because i work spontaneously. i tried to use a cropped ,scanned successful section of an otherwise weak piece as a starting point for a new work but it evolved into something different as i developed it and the act of deriving one work from another and planning it kind of robbed it of freshness.
i used to feel kind of …. uncomfortable about the fact that i just “fling paint” so to speak and don’t labor over careful sketches and underpaintings. then i realized that my way is just as valid and that i was being insecure about my ability to create. julie camerson says ” art is not putting something down. it’s getting something out.” that is how i feel about my own art making.
Donna, you’re not alone at all. And I love, love Julia Cameron’s quote! Perfect.
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This is the twelfth in a series of articles addressing the beloved standards that comprise the Great American Songbook (GAS). Music for the 1926 “Bye Bye Blackbird,” is by Ray Henderson and the lyric by Mort Dixon. This entertaining song was immediately successful (four versions were hits in 1926) and become a fixture, particularly among jazz players. It has components that improvisers love in a standard: an infectious melody, beautiful chords, an elegant structure and enough space to “stretch out” creatively.
Due perhaps to Josephine Baker’s sassy Paris 1927 recording, leading up to World War II “Bye Bye Blackbird” was more popular in Europe than in the United States. During the war and the early postwar period, few pop or jazz versions were available in the US. But in 1948 “Bye Bye Blackbird” was recorded by Russ Morgan and his Orchestra and, beginning in the early 1950s, it gained significant attention via its appearance in the 1954 movie The Eddie Cantor Story and the 1955 Pete Kelly’s Blues. Peggy Lee, who received an Oscar nomination in the latter movie, recorded the song (although did not sing it on the screen). “Bye Bye Blackbird” got a bigger boost the following year when Miles Davis recorded a relaxed medium-tempo instrumental version with John Coltrane. Thanks, perhaps, to those Lee and Davis recordings more jazz versions were made in the three following years. In addition to the above two movies, “Bye Bye Blackbird” was also performed by Frankie Laine in the 1952 Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder, Marilyn Monroe sang it in the 1954 River of No Return and Jerry Van Dykes sang the song in the Palm Springs Weekend (1963).
The song’s attraction to vocalists is easy to understand. The melody is full of repeated notes and has a very modest range of only a major seventh. The intervals and step-wise motion are easy for singers. But there is much speculation as to the meaning of Dixon’s carefree lyrics. Does “blackbird” refer to an antebellum slave or – according to one popular view – a prostitute leaving the business and going home to her mother. But these views make little sense when the verse is included.
Right outside of my door.
Now I begin to feel homeward bound.
Additionally, the original sheet music has a picture of a typical 1920’s couple. He has his arm around a woman and with the other hand is waving to a blackbird up in a tree. Therefore it seems there is no hidden meaning or reference – at least in the artist’s opinion. So perhaps the more obvious literal (and ornithological) interpretation of the title-phrase is the best. In any case, Dixon’s lyric seems to endure due to its universal expression of the longing to pack up all one’s cares and return to “where somebody waits” for us, since “no one here can love or understand” us.
Pianist Keith Jarrett recorded the song a few times, generally extending it to ten or more minutes. Here is a live 13-minute trio version, complete with his iconic grunts.
from the 1956 “Round About Midnight” recording.
With a Ralph Burns chart Carmen McRae takes it up-tempo. This is from her exquisite 1958 Birds of a Feather recording, enhanced by the glorious tenor of Ben Webster.
You may also wish to investigate worthy recordings by the following.
Vocal versions by Bill Henderson, Julie London, Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jr. and Rosemary Clooney. Singers as diverse as Joe Cocker and the Ink Spots have also recorded the song.
Instrumental versions by Chet Baker, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Kenny Burrell, Chet Baker and trombonist Kai Winding.
Interestingly, two former Beatles have each recorded “Bye Bye Blackbird,” Ringo Starr for his 1970 album Sentimental Journey, and Paul McCartney for his 2012 album Kisses on the Bottom. Both men have commented that the song was one of many standards that they grew up singing with their families.
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Considering that Community is pretty much the funniest show on TV and the most creative, and Big Band Theory isn’t funny, we all know who wins out there.
I like this. Judgement is human nature. People who claim not to do it I struggle to believe. Also on board with community statement.
Who isn’t on board with that Community statement?
I think its hard to work a customer service job ( retail for me) and not become judgmental. I know when i see a particular ethic race i automatically become defensive and prepare to guard my department like a king protecting his kingdom because every time, every time, they toss up tables and shelves and make a damn mess.
Is that race children? I immediately hate anyone who brings children into a store. If someone’s kid starts whaling then you should be allowed to ask them to leave.
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"Academic Ranking of World Universities" (azərb. Dünya universitetlərinin akademik reytinqi) və ya "Shanghai Ranking" (azərb. Şanxay reytinqi) və ya qısaca ARWU — Dünyanın ən nüfuzlu ali məktəb reytinqlərindən biri. 2003-cü ildən Şanxay Jiao Tonq Universiteti tərəfindən tərtib olunur.
↑ Son nəticəyə müvafiq olaraq göstərilmişdir.
↑ "ARWU - Stanford University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Stanford-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Massachusetts Institute of Technology". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Massachusetts-Institute-of-Technology-(MIT).html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Princeton University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Princeton-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Oxford". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Oxford.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of California, Los Angeles". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-California-Los-Angeles.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of California, San Diego". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-California-San-Diego.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Washington". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Washington.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - The University of Tokyo". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-University-of-Tokyo.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Michigan". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Michigan-Ann-Arbor.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Imperial College, London". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-Imperial-College-of-Science-Technology-and-Medicine.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Kyoto University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Kyoto-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Illinois-at-Urbana-Champaign.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Minnesota-Twin-Cities.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Duke University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Duke-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Rockefeller University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Rockefeller-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Copenhagen". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Copenhagen.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Pierre-and-Marie--Curie-University---Paris-6.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - The University of Texas at Austin". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-University-of-Texas-at-Austin.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of California, Santa Barbara". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-California-Santa-Barbara.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Paris-Sud-(Paris-11).html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Maryland, College Park". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Maryland-College-Park.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - The University of Melbourne". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-University-of-Melbourne.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.cn/World-University-Rankings/The-University-of-Texas-Southwestern-Medical-Center-at-Dallas.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Heidelberg University". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Heidelberg-University.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - Karolinska Institute". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Karolinska-Institute.html. İstifadə tarixi: 26 aprel 2015.
↑ "ARWU - University of Southern California". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 2014. http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Southern-California.html. İstifadə tarixi: 1 June 2015.
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Super easy weeknight meal. Prep + cooktime = about 50 minutes. Both come out of the oven at the same time !
Arrange sweet potato, onion, and garlic in a roasting pan – low edges are preferable. Spray with oil (I use a Misto sprayer), sprinkle with salt and pepper, and mix with your hands to insure all sides of the potatoes/onions are coated.
Trim fat from the chiken, remove the skin if desired, and arrange on the roasting pan (skin side up). Again, low edges are preferable. Evenly distribute the melted butter over the 6 pieces. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika.
Cook at 375 F for 10 minutes. Pop the sweet potatoes in the oven on the bottom rack and continue cooking chicken and taters for 15 minutes.
Turn the sweet potatoes with a spatuala, and continue cooking chicken and taters for another 15 minutes. Total cook time is 40 minutes for the chicken and 30 for the sweet potatoes.
Great blog you have some real nice looking dishes. Thanks for liking my cooking for kids post, as you can see I’m new to blogging so a real buzz when someone has a read.
Like yourself I have found that involving my daughter in the prep heavily influences her ability to try new things and expand her horizons on the food tasting front. Keep up the good work with your kiddo, it pays off !
Thanks so much Elaine !
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As I was scrolling my Facebook feed the other day, this story caught my eye. I was moved by this couple’s complete trust in God and in his ability to bring something positive out of an otherwise dismal situation. Please read below. I am constantly amazed by God’s power, love and grace.
Frogs. Have you ever gotten warts from them? I haven’t and I have held lots of frogs in my lifetime. Some of us grew up believing that same lie though, didn’t we? Our parents and grandparents innocently fed us this lie (probably because they just didn’t want us holding them in the first place). After hearing that same lie over and over again, we begin to believe that it is actually true.
Someone else feeds us lies. His name is Satan and his goal is very much to distance us from God. He speaks nothing BUT lies. Everyday he feeds you the same lies, hoping that after a while, just like the frog and warts lie, you’ll begin to believe it as truth. Satan’s lies are very specific each individual. Your lie may be that your marriage will never improve, that your kids will never turn their lives around or that you just aren’t talented enough to find a new job and leave the one you hate.
My challenge this week to you is to flip the lie that the evil one fills your head with. Begin to fill your spirit with the word of God and your mind will soon follow. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available to you through the healing powers of God’s word. God’s word has the power to tear down the walls of Satan’s lies.
This verse may be your verse too as it is one that can be applied, quite honestly, to almost any situation. God doesn’t say ‘you only have Christ’s strength while driving through rush hour traffic or during a job interview’. It says ‘I can do ALL things’.
I challenge you this week to come up with the bible verse that you will bathe you heart and mind in. His words are alive in you and have the power to reverse the lies you are being fed. Your life will change.
Please comment below what YOUR empowering bible verse is. Your verse may be just what another reader needs to see.
Aren’t grandparents just the cutest? I’m not talking about “new age” grandparents. I’m talking about grey-haired, perfume wearing, pie making, go-on-a-long-stroll type of grandparents. This was mom’s parents and they were married for 72 years. They were the most kind-hearted, God-honoring people I’ve ever met. And oh, did I mention, they died 3 days apart and never knew that the other one had passed away.
In his youth, my grandfather was a preacher and delivered milk for Purity Maid. He was retired from preaching by the time I was a youngin’. I remember him as a farmer and I LOVED summers at my grandparents. They grew and sold flowers and people from all over their small county would stop and purchase their grown-with-love plants. Everyone loved my grandparents. I think some people just used buying some plants as an excuse to stop by and say hello. They were those kinds of people.
My cute grandmother who wasn’t too proud to rock hair rollers and sell plants!
My grandmother was the ultimate grandmother. She could cook Betty Crocker under the table and sing hymns while doing it. She crocheted. She let me “cook” in the kitchen. She could shoot a BB gun. She gave the best back rubs. She was a champion checker player (in my eyes anyway). She loved picking wild blackberries along the road during our long summer walks. She called me “bubbles” and used to mail me dollar bills when I was in college. I could go on and on and on. Personally, I like to think that I’m her “mini me”.
My grandparents had their share of adversity in life. Their son, who suffered from seizures, fell out of a tree when he was fishing and drowned when he was 19. I can’t imagine losing a child, but my grandparents held no resentment to God for such pain. They loved Him with all of their hearts. When I would have sleepovers with them, we would all 3 kneel at the bedside to pray (my grandfather would do it). I remember it fondly now, but at the time, I probably groaned in my head. You see, my grandfather was a bit long-winded. To this day if someone says a long prayer before a meal, we’ll say “That was a Bob Stark kind of prayer”.
The years passed and my grandmother suffered from a heat stroke while outside one day in the garden. It affected her gait and required physical therapy for years. We would do exercises with her too with green bean cans as her weights. She was so cute. It was during this time that the decision was made for her to begin wearing pants and I know it broke her heart. Her speech was also greatly affected by her stroke and it never returned to it’s full capacity. Even through this storm, she kept her positive attitude. I know that she is responsible for planting the seeds of Jesus’s love into the hearts of her therapists, doctors and care takers.
My grandfather, who suffered from heart failure and kidney failure in his later years, would tell his nurses (and anyone who entered his room for that matter) about Jesus.
They died 3 days apart unaware that the other one had died. She was in a nursing home with end stage colon cancer and he was in the hospital with kidney failure. They are a big part my testimony. I don’t think it is coincidence that they died 3 days apart. Jesus was crucified and 3 days later was raised to life. God blessed them even in their last moments on this earth. Wow.
…They will condem him to death (19) and turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the 3rd day he will be raised to life.
I can only imagine what a glorious reunion they had in heaven. I can’t wait to see them again. Their lives continue to be a blessing, even in their death. What tremendous lives they lived for Christ.
Monday motivator: Sell it all?
I registered for everything! It was addicting. I’m talking about the scanning machine that they give you when you complete your wedding registry. We scanned everything from board games to camping gear and it was exhilarating! Starting married life together is exciting in many different ways. Getting presents on top of marrying the love of your life is just icing on the cake!
15 years, 2 kids, 2 dogs and several goldfish later we are still happily married. Some of the items that we registered for back in that blissful period of time have not weathered the journey quite as well as we have :-). One such item is our collection of stainless steel silverware. A few teaspoons have fallen victim to the garbage disposal monster and a few have been accidentally tossed in the garbage by our children. Needless to say, our collection is hobbling along on crutches!
As some of you may know, we have been following Dave Ramsey’s financial principals for a good 6 months now. It has been a blessing in our marriage, both financially and relationally. Dave jokingly says that in an effort to pay off debts with “gazelle-like” intensity, “sell so much stuff that the kids think they’re next”. We have done just that. This brings me to our before mentioned silverware.
I decided to sell off our silverware on eBay as we no longer had a complete set. May sound like a simple task to you, but to me, there was emotion attached to it. We had gotten it for OUR wedding. How could I part with it?
It was decided. I have began to sell it off, and like all of the other stuff that we have sold, there are mixed emotions. I know however, that it is getting us one step closer to financial freedom. Working together on this financial project has made our marriage stronger too and that’s something that a collection of silverware in a drawer can’t do.
If you have a desire to learn about Dave Ramsey and his financial principles, I encourage you to visit Dave Ramsey at www.daveramsey.com or feel free to message me ( livehisloveblog@yahoo.com ) with any questions. I’d be happy to help.
Love, love, love this. I just laughed and cried simultaneously while watching this. Have a blessed day and remember to liveHislove.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem “Lady of Shalott” is inspired by one of the first tragic love stories, the story of Elaine of Astolat, who dies because of a broken heart due to her unrequited love for Sir Lancelot.
The Lady of Shalott lives in this tower on an island in the middle of a river. She lives there alone. The only thing people hear or see from her is her singing.
She weaves pictures she’s seeing in a magical mirror into a carpet, she’s not allowed to look outside the window.
One day Sir Lancelot appears in her mirror and, to get a better look at him, she looks out of the window and falls in love with him. The mirror then breaks and a curse is set upon the Lady of Shalott.
She climbs into a boat, writers her name down and sets out to find Sir Lancelot in Camelot. Slowly but surely she’s losing strength the farther she is from the island. Dying, she sings a last song.
The boat is floating to the palace, but the Lady of Shalott died before arriving. There at the palace everyone is moved by her death and stunned by her beauty. Lanzelot is the only one finding words.
This poem inspired countless adaptations, both in literature as well as in art.
My personal favorites are the paintings John William Waterhouse, especially “The Lady of Shalott.
There is a Agatha Christie novel inspired by one of the lines “The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side”, the poem being important to the novel itself.
And a very famous adaption is when Anna in the film for Anne of Green Gables acts out and recites some lines from the poem.
There are many interesting interpretations of this poem, I will be focusing on three of them today.
Firstly, there’s the one heavily focusing on the autobiographical and self-reflecting aspect of the poem.
Therefor, it could be seen as Tennyson’s artistic musings on the dangers writers face in isolation. Touching on the high price an artist has to pay to fully be able to do his art. Tennyson himself lived many years in isolation, his art the only escape and consolation. Many interpretations see “The Lady of Shalott” as Tennyson’s critique on society, a reflection on how distant he felt towards society. As the line “I am half-sick of shadows” sums up beautifully.
It is not unusual that writer use an alter ego of a different gender to write about autobiographical episodes. Heinrich Böll did that with Katharina Blum in more modern times.
With a closer look, you realize there is more to it than that though.
No matter how it ends, this can be seen as the story about a woman wanting to break free from the social boundaries she has to face and trying to discover her sexuality.
I definitely see the empowering act of breaking out of what a lady was expected to do and be at that time.
Looking at how the poem ends, there is undeniable another critique woven into this poem.
How does this time period treat women? Locking them up in towers, so they are not trying to discover themselves, their sexuality, the world around them.
If they in fact want to have their destiny in their own hands, want to discover and learn, the seduction of sexual desire won’t bring them fulfillment, but rather complete destruction.
Their beauty and grace is only discovered after their downfall.
The Lady of Shalott is not only a beautiful poem working perfectly with traditional rhyming, but there is also so much to discuss. And that’s why I love it so much!
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I want to think up a cool name for my garage band, but I'm completely at a loss. I just can't conjure up that magic word combination to make the torn-jean teenyboppers swoon.
We might consider a random word list. We can cough up a scrambled list of English words varying in length between some two limits. Then, you can scout about and see if the morass of wordage triggers something in your brainpan.
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Elder Benar spoke at Sunday devo. He gave an insane Q&A and i never knew how funny he is, you cant even record the talks that the prophets give in the mtc cause they are filled with jokes that can be taken the wrong way.
Bedar gave a lot of insight, about the love of christ, and how prioritise others before yourself.
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•20. September 2011 • Comments Off on Fall training is ongoing!
Luis and Clyde after theirs run. Yearlings doing very well till now!
Rusty is serving the soup of the day.
Young dog training is underway, two teams with four and three youngsters in each team.
Rust and Luis after their run.
The serious side of life is on!
Clyde, Luis, Panda and Rusty at their third training run.
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So, I put before you, some “But”-Kickin’ affirmations, which might remind you of your priorities. Pick the ones that apply to you and post them in a place where you can see them on a daily basis. Then, use and apply them!
I will evaluate troublesome situations in my life and set boundaries.
I will change one thing which is making me feel stressed, unappreciated or crabby!
I will stop making excuses for not trying new things.
Knowing that there are only so may hours in the day, I will decide what responsibilities can be delayed, delegated or dumped!
I DO deserve to enjoy life and will make no apologies for it!
I cannot change anyone else (unless they’re in diapers) but I CAN change my attitude.
When the elastic of my life is stretched to the max, I will take time to find balance in mind, body and spirit.
I will not measure my appearance, success or life against anyone else’s, nor will I live my life to please others. Instead, I will strive for self-improvement.
I would rather climb the mountain and slide down, than to sit at the base of the mountain looking up and wondering what it would feel like to be at the top.
I know that laughter won’t make everything better, but it will make me better for everything. Therefore, I will laugh at least two times per hour. If I can’t think of anything funny, I will fake it ’til I make it! I will continue to connect with the elf in mysELF!
You are currently browsing the Laughlady's Weblog blog archives for September, 2013.
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It took me two weekends to have all my old articles up and posted. This is the price you pay when you venture into space with half knowledge.
Exactly a year ago I moved to an independent hosting. Setting up the website is easy. You need to know just a little bit of coding. The hard part is keeping the website secured and assuring that all your content is safe and sound. Well, I learnt the hard way.
That’s the biggest and stupidest mistake anyone can make! Thing is creating and getting the website (read blog) through WordPress is piece of cake. But the real deal is keeping it secured from the claws of hackers. And always, always keep a backup of your website and more importantly your content.
Do not believe what hosting company says. And do not rely on them for a backup.
Hack for content backup: Export the xml file of your content (posts, media, pages, authors, etc) on a local and/or cloud periodically.
Regular export of these file would actually be a best practice to follow.
Having a chance to beautify your WordPress website could be very tempting. I could say it with confidence as I was too. Getting a plugin that gives the liberty of drag-and-drop could be the cherry on top to get that plugin activated on your website. But be cautious of the Page Builder you use. That could actually be the opportunity that a hacker is looking for.
One way to check the reliability of the plugin is check out when was the plugin last updated and the number of active downloads. If it has not been updated for long (say 10 months or more) then be cautious of the plugin.
Don’t ever do that! While installing WordPress it asks you to choose a username, by default it is set to admin. Do not be lazy and make the username as secured as your password. Don’t even keep it as your first name. It’s always good to be safe first than regret later!
That’s all folks! This is what I have learnt from using the WordPress. I am now taking regular backups in fact, I always take a new backup once I publish a new post. That’s it for now. And while I take the back up, let me know in the comments below of what has been your experience with using WordPress as a first timer? Do not forget to share this post with someone who would be considering using WordPress for creating their first blog, it might help them. After all, sharing is caring.
Posted in Technology. Tagged blog, creating blog, website, wordpress.
Next: Next post: While I watch them take their first steps.
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According to the Human Development Report 2007, launched by the United Nation Development Program, the Human Development Index (HDI) for Indonesia is 0.728, giving the country a ranking of 107th out of 177 countries, and 7th among the Southeast Asian countries.
The most significant reason for this situation is the drawbacks caused by sustainable development in Indonesia. Some people strongly believe that raising the challenge of sustainable development can help the Indonesian policy debate go forward in a better direction.
At the heart of the problem is how to deal with promoting the sustainable development of Indonesia. One of the best approaches can be viewed from the perspective of human rights protection for the people.Basically, sustainable development encompasses three pillars based on environmental, economic, and social values that are interdependent and mutually reinforce human rights. Between sustainable development and human rights there is an inseparable relationship and a respect for human rights that has been recognized as a prerequisite for development.For instance, the ability to participate in sustainable development is hindered when fundamental human rights are threatened by a lack of food, health, education, shelter, freedom of expression and the right to political participation. In other words, without respect for human rights, the ability of people to move toward a sustainable future will be hindered.Furthermore, development is unsustainable where the rules of law and equity do not exist; where ethnic, religious or sexual discrimination is rampant; where there are restrictions on free speech, free association, and on the media; or where large numbers of people live in abject and degrading poverty.Human rights, based on respect for the dignity and worth of all human beings, are usually rooted in the country’s constitutional and legal framework.The legal system of Indonesia is based on the idea of the supremacy of the Constitution, whereby the Constitution is given the highest authority. Implementing the essential rights and freedoms for human dignity, as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, creates a common standard of achievement for all people and all nations.The Constitution of Indonesia has clearly provided similar provisions under Chapter XA on the fundamental rights of citizens. The protection of human rights, guaranteed by the 1945 Constitution, therefore becomes imperative as a prerequisite for development. According to the Legal Aid Institution’s (Jakarta) annual report, in 2007 it received 1,140 complaints on human rights violations with the number of victims roughly at 20,837.Then the question arises, what mechanism can protect human rights as constitutional rights of citizens? According to Danie Bran, the best way to deal with human rights protection is to challenge the state and constitutional issues throughout the courts.In recent history, the concept of a constitutional adjudication has become a consistent feature of democratic governance, particularly in Europe. At present, however, this no longer applies only to Europe. After the amendment of the 1945 Constitution, Indonesia established a Constitutional Court in response to the demand for a strengthening of checks and balances in the system of state administration.
Its responsibilities are stated in Article 24C of the 1945 Constitution, namely: reviewing laws against the Constitution, determining disputes over the authorities of state institutions whose power is given by the Constitution, deciding on the dissolution of political parties, deciding on disputes on the results of a general election, and an obligation to decide in cases regarding the impeachment of the president and/or the vice President.
In the context of human rights protection, the power of constitutional adjudication by reviewing laws against the Constitution, known as a “Constitutional Review”, is the core of the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court.
As of late 2007, barely three years after its establishment, the Constitutional Court had decided on 33 out of 133 cases of constitutional review, with the verdict that the laws reviewed were unconstitutional. Most of these cases violated the human rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Nonetheless, the constitutional review system is confined to the review of laws. Consequently, all government actions and government regulations believed to violate the provisions on human rights contained in the Constitution cannot be reviewed comprehensively either by the Constitutional Court or the Supreme Court.
In order to strengthen sustainable development in Indonesia by promoting human rights protection, the constitutional review system should be reformed. Using the comparative studies analysis, however, we can learn and find possibilities to adopt features from constitutional review systems in Germany and Korea, since their systems are comparable with Indonesia’s.
First, the constitutional review system should be allowed to review the constitutionality of all type of legislation.
Second, constitutional complaints can be lodged by an individual toward their constitutional rights.
Using two additional systems of constitutional review already mentioned, we can promote the human rights protection of the people as the basic foundation of sustainable development in Indonesia.
* Pan Mohamad Faiz is a postgraduate student in comparative constitutional law at the University of Delhi. He can be reached at http://faizlawjournal.blogspot.com/.
Picture Note: The PPI-India Umbrella Dancers took a picture after performing in International Student Festival in New Delhi.
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Bob – legend, musical icon, husband, father, mixed- race boy from the inner city & country. Perhaps most important of all, depending on how you look at it, he was undoubtedly, unapologetically Jamaican. One person, many sides and all of them portrayed in the documentary set for worldwide release April 20th – Marley. Last night the Jamaican population was given the distinct honour of sitting with musically royal Marley family to share their stories, thoughts and moments with Bob (image borrowed from net, no copyright infringement intended).
The venue – Emancipation Park, in the heart of New Kingston – was packed to overflowing as thousands of Jamaicans came out to see their beloved. Most sat or lay on mats, cushions, blankets, sprawled on the damp grass, beneath the night sky and the large screens. Complete strangers, through their love for the man and his music were united in this droplet of time. Two ladies I never met before offered my friend and I a seat on their red blanket. Adults swayed and young ones bobbed to the lure of the Bob’s voice. Scents of boiled corn, pan chicken and other street delicacies filled the night air with, of course, the inevitable smoke of herb.
My pores raised as the song “One love” was sung by various persons around the globe – from South Africa & the Congo to California, and on to India & Nepal. No greater reminder was needed of the far reaching tentacles of the message Bob had to share. As the documentary opened we were taken to Elmina Castle, Ghana – site of slave trade. We were wa lked to the “Door of no return” where slaves were stripped, branded and taken to waiting slave ships. As we went through the door we exited to images of Bob singing “Exodus”. The journey had truly begun.
Depending on how good a student of history you are, you may well find that not too many “new” details were given, but for many I am sure it was a riveting and very moving experience. Seeing Bob’s first teacher sing his favourite song about a donkey, hearing the reason for the choice of name “Wailers” – because they came from a place where people were always wailing and bawling – and finding out that part of the the group’s preparation for success involved performances in the dead of night for duppies (spirits) in the cemetery – all added to the tale. Read between the lines and it is easy to see where the man who gave himself to the world fell short in being father and husband. Perhaps most priceless of all was the slight tremor when his cousin and half sister publicly admitted that the boy who had been shunned by his father’s family had indeed become the cornerstone of the Marley name.
As images of Trenchtown 50 years ago and at present flashed, one couldnt help wondering whether much had changed in the inner city since Bob moved uptown to 56 Hope Road. Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth and Culture in her speech described Marley as the consummate student of the sidewalk university. Certainly an apt reminder that in life it’s not so much where you came from but where you are headed. Thanks Bob for sharing one night with me.
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We keep trying to get together, my friend Mandy and I. I think we’ve had to cancel three or four times just over the past few months, for one reason or another. The latest cancellation was today, with me mending but not quite over some crud that finally chased me down. I try hard to be invincible, but my humanness rats me out sometimes.
I thanked her, and after we chatted for a minute I gave her a mostly-sterile hug and she was on her way.
Inside, I got Belle settled with her new-to-her books and opened the bag Mandy had said was for me. Peering inside, I found a Pepsi and a Hershey’s with almonds. My favorites. Best thing of all, she knew they were my favorites.
There are friends, and there are what I call chocolate friends–those who bring you simple (but wonderful) things like Hershey bars because they know you love them and because they want to make you smile.
She made me smile today, and I’m already looking forward to the next time we don’t have to cancel.
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They asked us when we would leave.
But they said it with hope and relief.
They never told us goodbye. They just… watched us leave.
I remember those moments very clearly. I remember climbing into the van wondering why nobody would even look at us.
Kingwood didn’t give us any new relief, either. I had a moment of acceptance.
It just left as soon as it came. Meaning that she turned her back just as quickly as she smiled and said hello.
I came here thinking that I would start over 100%. And, in a way, I did.
Everything changed. Only, nothing changed.
I sat at a park with some friends a couple days ago, drinking our lemonade and coffee and root beer. We talked about things only fellow believers could understand.
But it never lasts. What used to be never is anymore. What still is differs from what it used to be.
It’s the same game today as it always is.
What is it about me? Us? I don’t understand.
Sometimes, there is no solution. Sometimes, all there is is trust.
I have doubts. And insecurities. God doesn’t take them away, but He gives us ways to fight them.
It doesn’t matter how many goodbyes they say or don’t say.
It doesn’t matter how many places I go and the looks are still the same.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. His consistency surpasses the world’s inconsistencies.
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Citizens of Greece are currently having their freedoms of speech and press taken away. According to Reporters without Borders the World Press Freedom Index ranked Greece at 84 with one having the most freedom and 179 being the least free. In 2010 to 2012 Greece was ranked at 70, stating they fell due to the violent attacks on the journalists from the extremist groups and police.
Greece’s economy is on a slow rise after the past three years of being in an economic crisis and having the European Union bail them out. This crisis has caused many cut backs with the Greek Broadcasting Organization or ERT in Greek being shut down and establishing the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television or NERIT with 500 decreased to 132 members of staff.
There have been protests that are being investigated by police that questioned the people’s right to assemble peacefully. The Golden Dawn Party or Neo-Fascists are growing in population with protests on both sides as the result. Protests have been broken up violently by police and people were later questioned for their attendance at the protests.
Greece has a rich history that involves freedom of speech, which started in 640 B.C. when Athens began forming a democracy (Martin 92). Athens grew into a republic where full citizens had the right to be a representative of the city-state. Full citizenship required native-born men to be free and own land. In the Late Antiquity Era (300-1453), the Byzantine Empire controlled Greece (Aral 456). The Law of the Twelve Tables was brought over from the Roman Empire to be enveloped by the Justinian’s codes. Not much can be stated from these codes for speech because of the destruction of the originals.
In 1071, the Ottomans defeat the Byzantine army and governed in a constitutional monarchy where there was a parliament, but no political parties (Birtek 19). They saw human rights not in an individual perspective, but in entities. The two distinct types are classical rights and economic, social and cultural rights. Classical rights include freedom of expression, but neither writes about speech nor press.
King Otto was succeeded in 1862 and with the new king, King George I, came a democracy monarchy. From the end of the 19th century throughout the 20th Century, Greece seems to set itself up for a promising democracy time and time again, but it ends up failing in part to world powers and leaders (Woodhouse 312).
Greece can be found on the Mediterranean Sea in between Italy and Turkey. It is a country known for mythology, Socrates, and their food. Greece’s population is at 11.8 million with the highest number part of the population in the 35-44 age group, which can cause stress on the younger age groups. (Index Mundi 2013). Greece does not collect data on ethnicity.
Throughout Greece’s history, the people wanted to have power in their government. They focused their speech mainly on trying to get the correct government out of the changes their history had seen and becoming full citizens. Greeks and other European countries, wrap their human rights around with citizenship. The immigrant laws in Greece are very strict. If you are not born in the country or married into it, you are not a full citizen. Currently, Greece is going through controversial protests, like the one after the hip hop artist Pavlos Fyssas was murdered, that the population sees being handled by the government and police in a questionable manner.
In May 1993, four students were brought to trial for distributing one pamphlet that criticized the government for not recognizing Macedonia (Selfa, 1993). Macedonia was a republic that used to be apart of Greece but now shares only a northern border. Greece did not recognize the country as an independent republic until 1995.
This trial goes against Greece’s constitution, Article 5, “persons shall have the right to develop freely… to participate in … political life of the country,” and brings up the question of the state laws with Article 14, “Every person may express and propagate his thoughts orally, in writing…in compliance with the laws of the State.” (Greece 2008) The victims were members of the Organization for Socialist Revolution and were sentenced to 19 months in prison. Only after the issue was brought to America did Greece and Macedonia resolve their disputes over Macedonia’s name and flag. Greece started to recognize them as country.
Students and teachers were protesting the police interrogation that occurred during the week of February 17, 2014(Syllas 2014). Students were questioned about their teacher’s, parent’s, and own political beliefs. Some students claimed that they were threatened with having a criminal record. The students were being interrogated, because they and teachers attended the protests for Pavlos Fyssas’s death. February 20 Piraeus’ public prosecutor temporarily withdrew the case, but No. 2811 states if people are interrupting the “smooth functioning of public primary school” they can receive at least six months in prison (Greece 1999).
There is a new amendment to Article 19 that has been introduced to the government that will change the immigration code. Current this article only covers, “free correspondence” for the citizen and the right of judicial authority to, “not be bound by this secrecy for reasons of national security” (Greece 2008). This amendment will automatically deport an immigrant that makes a complaint about being a victim of unlawful violence and not able to have evidence of the occurrence (Muiznieks 2014). This may silence immigrants when something illegal happens to them. Chillingly this can be compared to how the immigrants or non-citizens of Germany were treated during Hitler’s reign.
In March 2009, armed groups in Greece started attacking journalists. One attack happened when two men barged into Alter TV, a private television station and fired shots and explosives right before the main broadcast was about to happen. Police did not make any arrests and were unable to pursue the men (INFLEX 2009).
Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis published “Lagarde list” in 2010 that had 2,000 Greek citizens names holding Swiss bank accounts (IFLEX 2013). This story was so controversial, because it suspected these citizens to be tax evaders. Christine Lagarde, finance minister, gave this list indirectly to Vaxevanis to shed light on the tax evasion problem that is a big part of the debt crisis in Greece. Vaxevanis went to trial for publishing this list in October 2012. In November 2013, more than a year later, he was acquitted of the charges.
Later, in October 2012, two journalists were suspended from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) for criticizing a minister over the subject of torturing anti-fascists. Article 15 of the Greek Constitution states “television shall be under the immediate control of the State” which makes this suspension completely legal.
In June 2013 the government shut down the ERT completely with no discussion. They fired everyone, but the 2,600 employees had a sit in and kept broadcasting for another six days in the building (Freedom House 2013). This shutdown was part of the cutbacks in the austerity policies. The plan is to create a new broadcasting foundation with less money spent which is exactly what happened in January 2014 with the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT). Only 133 staff members from the once 500 are to now cover all the news in Greece. The Journalist’s Union of Athens Daily Newspaper is advocating that NERIT will favor no work experience applicants over fired ERT colleagues (Iflex 2014).
There are a lot of similarities and differences between the United States and Greece’s free speech and press issues. The U.S. has imprisoned citizens for giving soldiers pamphlets that were against the Great War in Schenck v. US (1918). Yates v. US makes this pamphlet okay to distribute to anyone, still in Greece if a student was distributing pamphlets against the government they have the chance of going to jail.
When it comes to the right to assemble, the U.S. riot police have not been the most proactive group. A big example is the 1968 Democratic National Convention. At the convention citizens were having a, “ A Festival of Life” outside the convention and a riot between the citizens and police (History). A more recent police brutality was when they used pepper spray on groups of people wanting to get into a music performance at SXSW.
The United State’s immigrant laws are very flexible compared to Greece because the children are able to go to public school, parents can obtain visas and there are specific learning programs directed towards immigrants to strengthen their education. Greece is going into the direction where immigrants will soon be invisible to the system and have no protection. This is taking away rights of humans for being in a different country.
Police in the U.S. pursue any attacks that are done in front them or that involve the media. When police do not take action against of a wrongdoing, the media is easily able to bring it to the population’s attention, which would force the police to do something about it. This is difference media’s power in Greece where the media power is very weak and can cause delays.
Comparably the United States has a higher ranking than Greece on Reporters without Borders and can be seen by Internet use, immigration laws, and journalist protection. Greece has gone through its ups and downs by first being the founder of human rights to now having some of those rights stripped from the citizens. Hopefully through the steady economic rise those rights will be able to be given back to the people in Greece.
Deutsche, W. (2014, March 18). Greece secures further Troika funding without new austerity measures. DW.
Martin, T.R. ( 2013). Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times.
Miller, W. (1936) The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors. Great Britain: Cambridge.
Rodriguez, M.E. (2009). Under the Flags of Freedom: British Mercenaries in the War of the Two Brothers, the First Carlist War, and the Greek War of Independence. Maryland: Hamilton Books.
Woodhouse, C.M. (1977) Modern Greece: A Short History. London: Faber and Faber Limited.
Schenck v. US, 249 U.S. 47. (1918). Retrieved from Westlaw Campus database.
IndexMundi, ( 2013, January 3). Greece Demographics Profile 2013.
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I sold my laptop a few days ago for $1035, the new was 1550. This is about in-line with what I wanted and almost what PowerMax was going to give me for the unit with a trade-in. I was all excited to do business with PowerMax, but they took too long to get back to me and I bought from B&H with overnight shipping instead. I also won’t have to wait 3-5 weeks to get my money. Taking a hit with shipping and fees, but sometimes it’s worth it.
I got 4 Nexus 5000 215/55/R17 tires installed, mounted and balanced for $396, but during inspection another issue came up with my car. Hole in my exhaust system, went to a Midas and two different Nissan dealerships to see if it would pass inspection. The answer each time was no. I tried going the extended warranty route but it wasn’t covered. There is a lot of rust in the system and I’m thinking replacing the catback system and front catalytic converter might be the best route. Slightly more power on the high end and better exhaust note. Also from what I’ve been reading an upgrade to stainless steel will last for the life of my vehicle. If I stay in the south where the roads aren’t salted, I shouldn’t have to worry about this going forward.
A new Standard Front Catalytic Converter will run 360.00 and 735.44 for a Stillen Cat Back Exhaust system =1095.44 plus a couple hundred in labor. I really don’t want to spend that much, but if I buy parts from a junkyard I will still have to pay labor and no guarantee the parts will be reliable long-term.
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....But only in the sense that a fish is better than a bicycle. Need food - eat a fish, need effective personal transport get a bike. I read a newspaper article today which was essentially a regurgitated press release puffing up a new book which claims that even old fogies get more benefit from the internet than books.
Usual story - the scientific approach was the ever-popular "let's look at which bits of the brain light up". Since we are essentially clueless on the details of brain function it's a bit like using television adverts as an experimental tool for understanding how electronics work.
...Anyway back to the point. You can use the internet to enhance your enjoyment and understanding of books and I have no doubt that whilst you are doing that you will light up similar areas of the brain involved in reading and understanding text.
Can books enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the internet. No they can't which neatly completes the circular argument that if your main source of interest is the internet then the internet is better than books.
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hey there guys well i guess my friends and i are getting into the holiday spirit cause we took a trip to Joann’s fabric today, and we decided to get some stuff to make clothes pin reindeer christmas ornaments so i took some pictures and step by step intrusions hope you enjoy.
when you get all of it put together you take your sharpie and color the bottom of the cloths pin too look like black huffs. it’s pretty simple and very easy to make and lots of fun . hope you enjoyed this little project.
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His father, Herbert Homan Glover, was of half English and half Bohemian (Czech) ancestry. His mother, Eva Elvira (Hedstrom), was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Swedish parents.
That's why gurus or teachers who have found the truth are effectively dead. The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.
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My eyes! My eyes! ARRGGGHHH.
In the US, Tony Blair getting roundly smacked -- or at least Tony Blair's constituents wanting very much to roundly smack him -- was mentioned probably on all three evening news programs, but if ABC is a standard, it was a footnote, sort of a Kent Brockman-esque (after he won the lottery) aside: "So war is pretty much inevitable and by the way the prime minister of Britain was pelted with ninety pounds of moldy liverwurst today for being a big wanker. In other news, how about that shuttle explosion, eh? Messy, that."
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MAY 19 / Today's vicarious photo expedition: the Norman & Vi Petty . . .
. . . Rock 'n' Roll Museum in Clovis, New Mexico.
MAY 18 / Take a (vicarious) break. Go out to the ballpark for . . .
. . . a nice high school softball playoff game, courtesy of Unca D, photographer.
APRIL 5 / One of Houston's finest photographers . . .
. . . has an extraordinary exhibit running at Archway Gallery. His name is Fikry Botros. I won't even try to describe his work. It speaks for itself. You owe it to yourself to see the exhibit. Not just for the craftsmanship and artistry, which are breathtaking, but for the humanity.
To prepare yourself . . .
DECEMBER 7 / "The three tribes that run Houston City Hall" or . . .
. . . "Why I expect Sylvester Turner to win the runoff election."
OCTOBER 7 / Geezers rule! Paul McCartney, 72, concertized in Lubbock . . .
Not long ago I was introduced . . . as an "intellectual." To me, an intellectual is . . .
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Just like today, the Golden Age of radio took place at a scary time in the world. Radio was there to help cathartically. Matthew suggested this topic on Facebook. We are on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt. Find more at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Learn more about “Lights Out,” “The Witch’s Tale,” and “Suspense” from Wikipedia. Website The Art of Manliness, OTR Cat, The Nitrate Diva and The AV Club/Aux have some of their favorite spooky shows. And OTR Cat has more on classic horror drama. Did I mention “The Horror” podcast? Yes, I did.
Who’s up for a swim? Just make sure there’s a net near you at all times. Thank you, Bruno on Facebook, for the suggestion. You’ll find lots of Halloween on our Twitter feed @HalloweenHaunt, on Facebook, and Google+. Tell us what you think and find more at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Old standby Wikipedia has a lot of information on the Creature. And IMDb has interesting trivia and credit information.
We haven’t discussed as many of the Universal monsters as I’d expected, but if you go to Universal.TheHalloweenHaunt.com you’ll find more.
What child doesn’t love getting a toy doll? That used to be true, until 1988 when Chucky came on the scene. Thank you for the suggestion, Theo. The Halloween Haunt is very social: Google+, on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, and Facebook. And of course at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
If, for some reason, the Child’s Play charity or the Child’s Play publishing program, well, click the links.
We explore another of the famous Universal monsters, as portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Much more is at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. Come to our other online haunts on Facebook, Twitter @HalloweenHaunt and even our Google+ page.
Learn more about the werewolf legend from…me.
Learn more about “The Wolf Man” from Wikipedia and IMDb.
By all accounts, horror actor Vincent Price was a lovely man who, while somewhat eccentric, seemed to have lived a fairly pleasant life. We will discuss him anyway, because he is such an important figure in horror history, and because Skyler suggested it at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. But don’t expect to be creeped out by this episode. Who is your favorite? Let us know on our Facebook page, Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, or HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
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The collision = no energy is pretty annoying.
Should've had medals on here (didn't affect rating).
very fun, but it is too short :(( and the items tht the show at the beginning of each level, are you supposed to be able to find those items in each level?
Road Rage format, great and original graphics.
Rated five and nine stars!
I'm with-holding a star in the hopes you'll sequel this baby up and make more features. Perhaps more customization, a lot of potential there.
in short words : the game play is fun ... the graphics R great ... but still super mario cart classic on s Nintendo is more fun !
but as a player, I want something new, a weapon, a new upgrade... funny characters, there is much you may add to make the game feel different.
Help return all the chocolate animals to the barn for winter in this cute remover puzzler!
Rescue the animals using Snakes, Bubble Gum, and Bossa Nova.
Overtake top speed cars !
Race as some wacky characters as you try to become the champion!
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A few weeks ago a random girl at a restaurant spotted me saying she knew someone who’d like to shoot with me, lot long after, another photographer showed me his friend’s instagram and said exactly the same… about that same photographer.
Naturally, I thought that couldn’t have been a coincidence. However, we found it difficult to find some time to work together due to us both being busy and having different schedules.
We finally got to meet and shoot some quality pics last Saturday and i have never been so hyped to share my pictures so much.
Basic busy person who's decided on filling all the spare time gaps in my timetable. Here you will find out how the hell do I find the time and motivation for everything. I study, I dance, I pose, work and foremost annoy people around me.
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This paper describes the Network for College Success (NCS) model and organizes chapters around its four key elements: 1) Creating professional learning networks; 2) applying research-based data to practice; 3) coaching and capacity building; and 4) distributing leadership and building high-functioning teams.
This paper captures the model and history of the Network for College Success (NCS), and situates NCS’s work within current research. It uses Freshman On Track as an example of how NCS’s model builds school-level capacity for improvement.
Located at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, NCS bases its model on the belief that educators want to improve their outcomes, and need the tools, skills, and strategies to effectively implement real changes. To facilitate this, NCS has developed a dynamic model of supporting schools to build the systems, structures, and capacity to engage in a process of ongoing improvement.
The UChicago Consortium has worked closely with NCS since its founding, providing research for practitioners working to improve student outcomes. NCS grounds its work in the problems faced by schools and school leaders. Consortium researchers’ work with NCS staff and other practitioners helps them to better understand the nature of problems from the ground, and what evidence could help practitioners be more effective in their work with students.
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RSVP to the Facebook event and come out to support other local business owners!
In honor of Women’s History month, I posted an article on how to research female ancestors using military records by the National Archives. Even before women were able to enlist in WWI, women served in many important capacities as nurses, stewards, and volunteers in order to support the cause. Earlier this month, I wrote about the value of city directories for genealogical research, specifically on how they can be utilized to find information about your ancestor’s neighborhood and community. Visit the Legacy News page to access all of my articles.
Source: LOC Prints and Photographs Division.
The location of these reports are somewhat scattered but some can be viewed for free online. Hathitrust Digital Library has digitized copies from 1880 and 1894-1931. Some personnel information can also be found in the Lists of Officers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sailor Vessels that were compiled by the Steamboat Inspection Service. Hathitrust Digital Library holds volumes for 1897 and 1907-1915.
The National Archives has records of the Steamboat Inspection Service including correspondence, letters, and reports in Record Group 41, Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Be also sure to check archives and city libraries for any files they may have on the Steamboat Inspection Service. For examples, the Boston Public Library holds reports of the Steamboat Inspector General for Boston in their Manuscripts Department from 1872-1884.
“Denis J. Oliver’s Gift to Pope Pius IX,” posted 27 Mar 2016.
“St. Patrick’s Day: The Birthday of General Connor and Many Other Irishmen,” posted 17 Mar 2016.
“Land Records and Estate Files for Owen O’Neill of Belmont, California,” posted 12 Mar 2016.
“Three Cheers: How The Oliver Family Met Theodore Roosevelt,” posted 7 Mar 2016.
Kay Caball. “Kerry Land & Estate Records.” My Kerry Ancestors, 12 Feb 2016. Shared by Kimmitt Genealogical Research.
Amy Cohen. “The Brother Who Stayed Behind: Adventures in Genealogical Research.” Brotmanblog: A Family Journey, 11 Mar 2016. Shared by Amy Cohen in the Genealogy Bloggers Facebook Group.
“Cape Cod Captain Elijah Cobb Meets the French Guillotine and Lives to Tell Of It.” New England Historical Society. Shared by New England Historical Society.
Jennifer Beeson Gregory. “Who’s the most photographed man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s Not Abe Lincoln…” The Washington Post, 15 Mar 2016. Shared by Marian Pierre-Louis.
Pamela Guye Holland. “Finding Historical Images Online.” Finding the Stories of Your Ancestors, 29 Feb 2016. Shared by Pamela Guye Holland.
John Laidler. “Turning hard-to-read cursive into computer type.“The Boston Globe, 18 Mar 2016. Shared by Kate Lowrie.
Donna Moughty. “Creating a Reference Library for Irish Research.” Donna’s Irish Genealogy Resources, 22 Feb 2016. Shared by Stone House Historical Research.
Judy G. Russell. “Educable Children.” The Legal Genealogist, 10 Mar 2016. Shared by Judy G. Russell.
Frederick Wertz. “What you need to know about original and derivative sources.” FindMyPast Blog, 23 Mar 2016. Shared by FindMyPast.
U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service. Annual report of the Supervising Inspector General to the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1895,) 20.
With spring less than a month away, it’s hard to not have something to look forward to. The winter months are great because there’s no excuse to make some progress on research, but I’m looking forward to warm weather again. My hope is that research for clients will allow me to do some traveling and enjoy new sights during the spring and summer.
Even though I did not receive a personal valentine, there was certainly a lot of love this month for my blog. Thanks to all the readers and followers. My posts were even shared by big names such as FindMyPast for my discovery on Bartholomew Oliver of Galway, Ireland.
Last night I presented my talk, “Researching Maritime Ancestors in the National Archives” to the Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society. They are a fantastic group, which I am proud to be a member of. Thanks to all who braved the poor driving conditions to come out and listen.
Unfortunately, the seminar “Genealogy: Bringing Together Past, Present, and Future” scheduled for Feb 24th at Monty Tech has been cancelled. There are still plenty of seats available for the 4-week genealogy course in March. For more information and to view my upcoming schedule of programs, visit the Lectures page.
Genealogists in New England should not miss out on the annual seminar held by Massachusetts Genealogical Council. The speakers are top notch including Saturday’s keynote speaker Mary Tedesco, a host on the Genealogy Roadshow, and a whole day devoted to DNA with lectures with genetic genealogist CeCe Moore. MGC will be hosting this year’s program at the Courtyard Marriott in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Registration and details are available at massgencouncil.org.
NARA Archivist Jason Klingemman had recently announced in his post for NARAtions, “Searching for Something? Try the New Catalog!”, a more intuitive upgrade and facelift to NARA’s online catalog. The new update allow users many more options for finding archival descriptions, documents, and web pages.
4. This document will provide you descriptions of the rolls including dates, subjects, and details about the specific content. You do not need to order anything.
Occupation titles in the maritime industry are somewhat unusual and therefore perhaps unfamiliar to genealogists who come across these terms. My latest post for Legacy News, “Maritime Occupations in the U.S. Federal Census” intends to guide those with definitions. More importantly, it points out that we need to consider the meaning of words and their connection with the culture and time period from which it originated.
“FindMyPast’s Maritime Collections Led to New Documents on Bartholomew Oliver.” Posted 17 Feb 2016.
“Analyzing Margaret Darte Bartlett’s Genealogical Profile.” Posted 12 Feb 2016.
“The Peculiar Absence of Jacob Olswang’s Passenger Manifest.” Posted 2 Feb 2016.
Rachel Devaney. “Connecting with the past one goal of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Genealogy.” shared by Massachusetts Genealogical Council.
Thom Reed. “Breaking Through the 1870 Brick Wall: The Significance of the Freedmen’s Bureau Records.” shared by Barking Up The Wrong Tree.
Heather Wilkinson Rojo. “The New Hampshire State Papers – You can’t do colonial NH Research without them!” shared by Nutfield Genealogy.
Amy Johnson Crow. “How to Build a Genealogy Research Plan.” shared by Experts in Genealogy.
Cheryl Hudson Passey. “Marriage license reveals shocking twist in one family’s history.” shared by Carolina Girl Genealogy.
Randy Seaver. “Searching Newspaper Records on FindMyPast.” shared by Randy Seaver.
Kate McGillivray. “Eastern Townships historical archives go online for new databases.” shared by Charter Oak Genealogy.
Last night, I attended a talk given by journalist Mike Richards who gave his “View of the Gardner Scene.” Gardner is a small city in North Central Massachusetts that is struggling in the post-industrial world. While I’m not from Gardner, I could appreciate what he was talking about and understood how important his role as a local historian and journalist was. He and many others take the time to keep the stories alive and preserve them for the generations. This is an important action for communities to take and we should be grateful to those who give their time so we can reminisce and revel in the days of old. My observations have led me to conclude that interest in genealogy is not particular to any region. From large cities to the smallest hamlets, there is a universal desire to learn the stories of our ancestors. I am especially glad this remains true for my own area based on the fact I am booked for so many lectures locally. For more information on where I’ll be appearing and teaching genealogy, visit the Lectures page.
Most of my readers are already “GeneaBloggers.” but for those who are not or if you know someone who is just getting into genealogy, consider sharing some of the benefits of having a genealogy blog with my newest post for Legacy News, “How can blogging help your family history?” I did not underestimate the importance of the research I conducted over the last seven years, therefore I was very excited to receive a print copy of my blog this month. Not only is it wise to keep a hard copy backup, but it serves as an important tool in my genealogy library.
Hope you all enjoy all of the links I shared and find them useful. It seems that the genealogy community is back to it’s normal level of business and it seems I’m finding multiple useful articles daily. It is an exciting time to be involved with genealogy!
Looking forward to updating everyone next month, in the meantime, new research posts are coming to you shortly.
“Who is Elizabeth Shields?” posted 15 Jan 2016.
“Azrow D Freeman, Postmaster of Belmont, Portage Co., Wisconsin.” posted 23 Dec 2015.
Recommended Articles, Resources, and More!
Copyright © 2015 Jake Fletcher. All materials protected under the laws of copyright. Do not copy or reproduce without author’s permission.
Thank you for following Travelogues of a Genealogist and the monthly newsletter. It feels as if the time when I need to remind myself to write a newsletter comes quicker and quicker. Fall is traditionally a busier time of year and I am attending as many genealogy seminars as possible. Seminars allow us to be around others with a shared interest. Personally, I experience a feeling of solidarity with other researchers regardless of their expertise. I am happy to be bringing you this newsletter with exciting news about my multiple genealogy projects. I hope in the coming months to add more content about my ancestors, which will allow me to present my methodologies and techniques for solving brick walls.
There are a couple new features of the blog page that deserve mention. I have added a calendar that allows you to access my archive of blog posts. I am available for webinars and live lectures on many topics in genealogy. Check out the lectures page and contact me if you would like to present on a topic for patrons of your organization.
I have received several inquiries about ancestors who worked on ships. Researching maritime ancestors can produce some fascinating family stories, but are among the most difficult or time consuming to locate evidence of their occupation. Many of us can recall a sea captain or shipmaster in our past, but we do not have any actual record of it. My interest in the subject stemmed from a volunteer project at NARA Northeast Branch in Waltham, Massachusetts where I am creating an inventory of records of the U.S. Customs Service in Salem, Massachusetts. These federal records are overlooked and could certainly hold the clue to your ship captain. What I have compiled is a working bibliography that could get you started on finding your mariner in a crew list or view his protection certificate. Head over to the publications page and download the pdf, “Maritime Genealogy Bibliography”. I would also suggest downloading the Maritime Terms Glossary to assist you in understanding the documents related to your seafaring ancestor.
If you enjoy genealogy talks on maritime ancestors and researching at the National Archives (NARA), check out my upcoming lectures. Members of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists are welcome to attend my webinar 19 Jan 2016, now titled, “Using Records of the U.S. Customs Service to Locate Seafaring Ancestors”. For those live in northern Worcester County, the Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society will be hosting a live talk where I will present on “Maritime Research at the National Archives”. The date of this talk is scheduled for 23 Feb 20161 and will be held at the American Legion in Gardner, Massachusetts.
“Obituary of Owen O’Neill and wife, Ellen Russell,” posted 9 Oct 2015.
“Thoughts on Fall Conference in Chelmsford,” posted 27 Sep 2015.
One of my theses as an undergraduate history student looked at published memorials made in commemoration for fallen soldiers of the Union Army. While this thesis discussed their function in northern Protestant culture during the Civil War, I decided to put a genealogist’s spin on it. The resulting blog post demonstrates that my topic’s connection to genealogy comes from the importance of how re-evaluating analyzing the original purpose of a genealogical source can add new clues to our research. Judy G. Russell, a prolific genealogist and lecturer, offered a venue for my blog post with her own blog The Legal Genealogist. Follow Judy Russell and enjoy her thoughts connecting the law and its history to genealogy. You can view my guest post here.
FamilySearch Wiki – Wherever my genealogy research paths may take me, the FamilySearch Wiki is there to provide answers on new locales, records, and many more genealogy subjects.
Virtual Genealogy Fair – Access the expertise of NARA archivists and historians. Lectures are 21-22 Oct and are available on NARA’s Youtube channel.
Facebook Group “New England Witchcraft Trials” – A group on the New England Witchcraft Trials to include history and genealogy of the accused, the accusers, and the investigators.
http://genealogy.julietarr.com/blog/ – This is a great blog to visit if you are just getting started with genealogy.
http://ellengtodd.com/wp/ – Ellen Todd has been a genealogist for 30 years in the New England area. Her blog focuses on her Ohio and Mid-Atlantic Ancestors.
Copyright (c) 2015 Jake Fletcher. All materials protected under the laws of copyright. Do not copy or reproduce without the author’s permission.
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A tip of the hat to the ESA team, Claudia Alexander(shown in photo) who is heading up NASA’s involvement and Auset(Isis) the “Lady of Philae” to whom many important buildings were dedicated.
Many people asked the author how he got the idea of the Entity-Relationship model. After he kept on getting that kind of questions, the author thought it might be related to something that many people in Western culture may not have. After some soul searching, the author thought it could be related to his Chinese culture heritage. There are some concepts in Chinese character development and evolution that are closely related to modeling of the things in the real world.
“The entity-relationship model adopts the more natural view that the real world consists of entities and relationships. It incorporates some of the important semantic information about the real world.
He is here in accord with philosophic and theoretical traditions from the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (428 BC) through to modern epistemology, semiotics and logic of Peirce, Frege and Russell. Plato himself associates knowledge with the apprehension of unchanging Forms (The forms, according to Socrates, are roughly speaking archetypes or abstract representations of the many types of things, and properties) and their relationships to one another.
As we saw in Part 2, Shabaka, several hundred years before Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, had preserved this knowledge that had been codified in Memphis much earlier, perhaps several millennia.
These operations, identified in 1983 are known as CRUD and remain in widespread use. The web’s HTTP protocol is based on a similar set of four operations.
Every day you use the web, you’re using techniques of African Information Engineering!
Perhaps connections between African Information Engineering and cellular automata can help African cultures get back in the game.
Digital technology really did get started in Africa as this Ted Talk asserts.
these facts are not generally disputed. Moreover there are still lessons to be learned by looking at STEM through the lens of African history. The Art of Memory by Frances Yates are helpful in this regard as is Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures by Claudia Zaslavsky.
Joseph McNeill – a engineering physics major was one of the Greensboro Four . It should be noted that Franklin McCain, another member of the Greensboro Four, was also a STEM major(dual degrees in chemisty and biology).
Ronald McNair became the second African-American astronaut to fly on the Space Shuttle. His plan to be the first human to record an original piece of music in space was cut short by the Challenger explosion.
a pioneer in the field of cellular and wireless communications. In 1988, Russell led the first team from Bell Laboratories to introduce digital cellular technology in the United States.
demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology.
Biologically we have many ancestors. Sometimes it’s clear where a particular trait came from but often it’s not. Still we can tip our hat.
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A system and method to form a stacked barrier layer for copper contacts formed on a substrate. The substrate is serially exposed to first and second reactive gases to form an adhesion layer. Then, the adhesion layer is serially exposed to third and fourth reactive gases to form a barrier layer adjacent to the adhesion layer. This is followed by deposition of a copper layer adjacent to the barrier layer.
Barrier materials have been introduced to improve both the step coverage and gap-fill of aluminum, while limiting diffusion of the same. Barrier materials must also provide good adhesion properties for aluminum. Otherwise, the thermal and electrical conductance of the resulting contact may be compromised. Examples of barrier materials providing the aforementioned characteristics include TiN, TiW, TiB 2, TiC and Ti2N.
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method to form a stacked barrier layer on a substrate disposed in a processing chamber by serially exposing the substrate to first and second reactive gases to form an adhesion layer. The adhesion layer is then serially exposed to third and fourth reactive gases to form a barrier layer adjacent to the adhesion layer. A copper layer is disposed adjacent to the barrier layer. To that end, another embodiment of the invention is directed to a system to carry out the method.
FIG. 10 is a graphical representation showing the concentration of gases introduced into the processing chamber shown above in FIG. 2, and the time in which the gases are present in the processing chamber to deposit the Tungsten layer shown above in FIG. 4, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, an exemplary wafer processing system includes one or more processing chambers 12, 13 and 14 disposed in a common work area 16 surrounded by a wall 18. Processing chambers 12 and 14 are in data communication with a controller 22 that is connected to one or more monitors, shown as 24 and 26. Monitors 24 and 26 typically display common information concerning the process associated with the processing chambers 12 and 14. Monitor 26 is mounted to the wall 18, with monitor 24 being disposed in the work area 16. Operational control of processing chambers 12 and 14 may be achieved with use of a light pen, associated with one of monitors 24 and 26, to communicate with controller 22. For example, a light pen 28 a is associated with monitor 24 and facilitates communication with the controller 22 through monitor 24. A light pen 28 b facilitates communication with controller 22 through monitor 26.
Referring both the to FIGS. 1 and 2, each of processing chambers 12 and 14 includes a housing 30 having a base wall 32, a cover 34, disposed opposite to the base wall 32, and a sidewall 36, extending therebetween. Housing 30 defines a chamber 37, and a pedestal 38 is disposed within processing chamber 37 to support a substrate 42, such as a semiconductor wafer. Pedestal 38 may be mounted to move between the cover 34 and base wall 32, using a displacement mechanism (not shown), but is typically fixed proximate to bottom wall 32. Supplies of processing gases 39 a, 39 b, 39 c, 39 d and 39 e are in fluid communication with the processing chamber 37 via a showerhead 40. Regulation of the flow of gases from supplies 39 a, 39 b and 39 c is effectuated via flow valves 41.
Depending on the specific process, substrate 42 may be heated to a desired temperature prior to layer deposition via a heater embedded within pedestal 38. For example, pedestal 38 may be resistively heated by applying an electric current from an AC power supply 43 to a heater element 44. Substrate 42 is, in turn, heated by pedestal 38, and can be maintained within a desired process temperature range of, for example, about 20° C. to about 750° C., with the actual temperature varying dependent upon the gases employed and the topography of the surface upon which deposition is to occur. A temperature sensor 46, such as a thermocouple, is also embedded in the wafer support pedestal 38 to monitor the temperature of the pedestal 38 in a conventional manner. For example, the measured temperature may be used in a feedback loop to control the electrical current applied to heater element 44 by the power supply 43, such that the wafer temperature can be maintained or controlled at a desired temperature the is suitable for the particular process application. Pedestal 38 is optionally heated using radiant heat (not shown). A vacuum pump 48 is used to evacuate processing chamber 37 and to help maintain the proper gas flows and pressure inside processing chamber 37.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, one or both of processing chambers 12 and 14, discussed above may operate to form, on substrate 42, a contact in accordance with the present invention on substrate 42. To that end, substrate 42 includes a wafer 50 that may be formed from any material suitable for semiconductor processing, such as silicon. One or more layers, shown as layer 52, may be present on wafer 50. Layer 52 may be formed from any suitable material, including dielectric or conductive materials. Layer 52 includes a void 54, exposing a region 56 of substrate 42.
Referring to FIG. 4, formed adjacent to layer 52 and region 54 is a layer containing a refractory metal compound, such as titanium. In the present example, layer 58 is formed from titanium nitride, TiN, by sequentially exposing substrate 42 to processing gases to chemisorb monolayers of differing compounds onto the substrate, discussed more fully below. Layer 58 conforms to the profile of the void 54 so as to cover region 56 and layer 52.
Referring to FIG. 5, adjacent to layer 58 is formed an additional refractory metal layer 60. In the present example, layer 60 is formed from tungsten in the manner discussed above with respect to layer 52, except using different process gases. Layer 60 conforms to the profile of layer 58 and, therefore, conforms to the profile of void 54.
Referring to FIG. 6, shown is one example of a contact 62 formed in void 54 in accordance with the present invention by deposition of a layer of copper 64 that fills void 54, using standard deposition techniques. With this configuration, a stacked barrier layer consisting of TiN layer 58 and W layer 60 surrounds contact 62. TiN layer 58 serves as an adhesion layer to facilitate nucleation and deposition by W layer 60. TiN layer also serves as a diffusion barrier to reduce, if not prevent, diffusion of W into the surrounding environs, such as region 56 and layer 52. W layer 60 serves as a barrier layer for contact 62, thereby preventing copper material from diffusing into or through TiN layer 58 and into the environs surrounding void 54. Employing sequential deposition techniques, such as atomic layer deposition, provides superior thermal and conductive characteristics of the aforementioned stacked barrier layer. Specifically, the sequential deposition techniques described below enable precise control over the thickness of both layers 58 and 60.
Referring to FIGS. 1, 6 and 7, one or both of processing chambers 12 and 14, discussed above, may operate to deposit layers 58 and 60 on substrate 42 employing sequential deposition techniques. Specifically, the initial surface of substrate 42, e.g., the surface of region 56 and the surface of layer 52, presents an active ligand to the process region. A batch of a first processing gas, in this case Aax, results in a layer of A being deposited on substrate 42 having a surface of ligand x exposed to the processing chamber 37. Thereafter, a purge gas enters processing chamber 37 to purge the gas Aax. After purging gas Aax from processing chamber 37, a second batch of processing gas, Bby, is introduced into processing chamber 37. The a ligand present on the substrate surface reacts with the b ligand and B atom, releasing molecules ab and Ba, that move away from substrate 42 and are subsequently pumped from processing chamber 37. In this manner, a surface comprising a monolayer of A atoms remains upon substrate 42 and exposed to processing chamber 37, shown in FIG. 4. The process proceeds cycle after cycle, until the desired thickness is achieved.
Referring to both FIGS. 2 and 8, although any type of processing gas may be employed, in the present example, the processing gas Aa x is a titanium-containing gas selected from the group that includes TDMAT, TDEAT and TiCl4. The processing gas Bby functions as a reducing agent and is selected from the group including H2, B2H6, SiH4 and NH3. Two purge gases were employed: Ar and N2. Each of the processing gases is flowed into processing chamber 37 with a carrier gas, which in this example, is one of the purge gases. It should be understood, however, that the purge gas may differ from the carrier gas, discussed more fully below. One cycle of the sequential deposition technique in accordance with the present invention includes flowing a purge gas into processing chamber 37 during time t1 before the titanium-containing gas is flowed into processing chamber 37. During time t2, the titanium-containing processing gas is flowed into the processing chamber 37, along with a carrier gas. After t2 has lapsed, the flow of titanium-containing gas terminates and the flow of the carrier gas continues during time t3, purging the processing chamber of the titanium-containing processing gas. During time t4, the processing chamber 37 is pumped so as to remove all gases. After pumping of process chamber 37, a carrier gas is introduced during time t5, after which time the reducing process gas is introduced into the processing chamber 37 along with the carrier gas, during time t6. The flow of the reducing process gas into processing chamber 37 is subsequently terminated. After the flow of reducing process gas into processing chamber 37 terminates, the flow of carrier gas continues, during time t7. Thereafter, processing chamber 37 is pumped so as to remove all gases therein, during time t8, thereby concluding one cycle of the sequential deposition technique in accordance with the present invention. The aforementioned cycle is repeated multiple times until layer 58 reaches a desired thickness. After TiN layer 58 reaches a desired thickness, W layer 60 is deposited adjacent thereto employing sequential deposition techniques.
Referring to FIG. 2 and 10 to form W layer 60, processing gas Aax may be any known tungsten-containing gas, such a tungsten hexafluoride, WF6. The processing gas Bby functions as a reducing agent and is selected from the group including SiH4, B2H6 and NH3. The same purge gases may be employed, as discussed above. Each of the processing gases is flowed into the processing chamber 37 with a carrier gas, as discussed above. One cycle of the sequential deposition technique to form W layer 60 in accordance with the present invention includes flowing a purge gas into the processing chamber 37 during time t9, before the tungsten-containing gas is flowed into the processing chamber 37. During time t10, the tungsten-containing processing gas is flowed into the processing chamber 37, along with a carrier gas. After time t10 has lapsed, the flow of tungsten-containing gas terminates and the flow of the carrier gas continues during time t11, purging the processing chamber of the tungsten-containing processing gas. During time t12, processing chamber 37 is pumped so as to remove all gases. After pumping of the process chamber 37, a carrier gas is introduced during time t13, after which time the reducing process gas is introduced into the processing chamber 37 along with the carrier gas, during time t14. The flow of the reducing process gas into processing chamber 37 is subsequently terminated. After the flow of reducing process gas into the processing chamber 37 terminates, the flow of carrier continues during time t15. Thereafter, the processing chamber 37 is pumped so as to remove all gases therein, during time t16, thereby concluding one cycle of the sequential deposition technique in accordance with the present invention. The aforementioned cycle is repeated multiple times until layer 60 reaches a desired thickness. After W layer 60 reaches a desired thickness, the contact 62, shown in FIG. 6 may be deposited employing known techniques.
In addition, the thickness of the layers 58 and 60 may be easily controlled while minimizing the resistance of the same by employing sequential deposition techniques. In one example of the present invention, layers 58 and 60, as well as contact 62 may be deposited in a common processing chamber, for example chambers 12 and 14. To provide added flexibility when depositing layers 58 and 60, as well as contact 62, a bifurcated deposition process may be practiced in which layer 58 is deposited in one process chamber, for example chamber 12, and layer 60 is deposited in a separate chamber, for example chamber 14. This may reduce the deposition time of each of layers 58 and 60 by, inter alia, having each processing chamber 12 and 14 preset to carry-out the process parameters necessary to deposit the requisite refractory metal layers.
Referring again to FIG. 2, the process for depositing the tungsten layer may be controlled using a computer program product that is executed by the controller 22. To that end, the controller 22 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 70, a volatile memory, such as a random access memory (RAM) 72 and permanent storage media, such as a floppy disk drive for use with a floppy diskette, or hard disk drive 74. The computer program code can be written in any conventional computer readable programming language; for example, 68000 assembly language, C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, and the like. Suitable program code is entered into a single file, or multiple files, using a conventional text editor and stored or embodied in a computer-readable medium, such as the hard disk drive 74. If the entered code text is in a high level language, the code is compiled and the resultant compiler code is then linked with an object code of precompiled Windows® library routines. To execute the linked and compiled object code the system user invokes the object code, causing the CPU 70 to load the code in RAM 72. The CPU 70 then reads and executes the code to perform the tasks identified in the program.
serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases to form a barrier layer adjacent to said adhesion layer.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 further including depositing a layer of copper adjacent to said barrier layer.
3. The method as recited in claim 1 further including repeating serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases to form said adhesion layer to a desired thickness before serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases.
4. The method as recited in claim 3 further including repeating serially exposing said substrate to third and fourth reactive gases to form said barrier layer to a desired thickness after serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases.
5. The method as recited in claim 1 further including providing first and second processing chambers wherein serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases further includes serially exposing said substrate to said first and second reactive gases while said substrate is disposed in said first processing chamber and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases further includes serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases while said substrate is positioned in said second processing chamber.
6. The method as recited in claim 3 further including providing first and second processing chambers wherein serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases further includes serially exposing said substrate to said first and second reactive gases while said substrate is disposed in said first processing chamber and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases further includes serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases while said substrate is positioned in said first processing chamber and depositing a layer of copper adjacent to said barrier layer further includes depositing a copper layer adjacent to said barrier layer when said substrate is positioned in said second processing chamber.
7. The method as recited in claim 3 further including providing first, second and third processing chambers wherein serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases further includes serially exposing said substrate to said first and second reactive gases while said substrate is disposed in said first processing chamber and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases further includes serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases while said substrate is positioned in said first processing chamber and depositing a layer of copper adjacent to said barrier layer further includes depositing a copper layer adjacent to said barrier layer when said substrate is positioned in said third processing chamber.
8. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein serially exposing said substrate further includes introducing said second reactive gas into said processing chamber and further including purging said processing chamber of said second reactive gas before exposing said adhesion layer to said third reactive gas.
9. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said first and third gases each includes a refractory metal compound, with the refractory metal compound associated with said first reactive gas differing from the refractory metal compound associated with said third reactive gas.
10. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said first reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of TDMAT, TDEAT and TiCl4 and said second reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of H2, B2H6, SiH4 and NH3.
11. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said third reactive gas is WF6 and said fourth reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of SiH4, B2H6 and NH3.
12. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein serially exposing said substrate further includes serially introducing said first reactive gas and said second reactive gas into said processing chamber, and purging said processing chamber of said first reactive gas before introducing said second reactive gas by introducing a purge gas into said processing chamber after exposing said substrate to said first reactive gas and before exposing said substrate to said second reactive gas.
13. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein serially exposing said substrate further includes serially introducing said first reactive gas and said second reactive gas into said processing chamber, and purging said processing chamber of said first reactive gas before introducing said second reactive gas by pumping said processing chamber clear of said first reactive gas before introducing said second reactive gas.
14. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein serially exposing said adhesion layer further includes serially introducing said third and fourth reactive gases into said processing chamber, and purging said processing chamber of said third reactive gas before introducing said fourth reactive gas by introducing a purge gas into said processing chamber after exposing said substrate to said third reactive gas and before exposing said substrate to said fourth reactive gas.
15. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein serially exposing said adhesion layer further includes serially introducing said third and fourth reactive gases into said processing chamber, and purging said processing chamber of said third reactive gas before introducing said fourth reactive gas by pumping said processing chamber clear of said third reactive gas before introducing said fourth reactive gas.
depositing a layer of copper adjacent to said barrier layer.
17. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein said first reactive gas being selected from the group consisting essentially of TDMAT, TDEAT and TiCl4, said second reactive gas being selected from the group consisting essentially of H2, B2H6, SiH4 and NH3, said third reactive gas being WF6, and said fourth reactive gas being selected from the group consisting essentially of SiH4, B2H6 and NH3.
18. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases further includes removing said first reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said second reactive gas by introducing an inert gas into said processing chamber, and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases further includes clearing said third reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said fourth reactive gas by introducing an expulsion gas into said processing chamber, and purging said processing chamber of said first and second reactive gases further includes purging said processing chamber by introducing a purge gas into said processing chamber.
19. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases further includes removing said first reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said second reactive gas by pumping said processing chamber clear of said first reactive gas, and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases further includes clearing said third reactive gas from said processing chamber by pumping said processing chamber clear of said third reactive gas, and purging said processing chamber of said first and second reactive gases further includes pumping said processing chamber clear of all gases present therein.
means, coupled to said processing chamber, for depositing a layer of copper adjacent to said barrier layer.
a memory in data communication with said controller, said memory comprising a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program embodied therein, said computer-readable program including a first set of instructions for controlling said gas delivery system to serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases to form an adhesion layer on said substrate, and a second set of instructions to control said gas delivery system to serially expose said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases to form a barrier layer adjacent to said adhesion layer.
22. The system as recited in claim 21 wherein said computer-readable program includes a third set of instructions to control said gas delivery system to remove said first reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said second reactive gas by introducing an inert gas into said processing chamber, and a fourth set of instructions to control said gas delivery system to clear said third reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said fourth reactive gas by introducing an expulsion gas into said processing chamber, and a fifth set of instructions to control said gas delivery system to purge said processing chamber of said first and second reactive gases before introducing said third and fourth reactive gases by introducing a purge gas into said processing chamber.
23. The system as recited in claim 21 wherein said computer-readable program includes a third set of instructions to control said pressure control system to remove said first reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said second reactive gas by pumping said processing chamber clear of said first reactive gas, a fourth set of instructions to control said pressure control system to and clear said third reactive gas from said processing chamber before introducing said fourth reactive gas by pumping said processing chamber clear of said third reactive gas, and a fifth set of instructions to control said pressure control system to purge said processing chamber of said first and second reactive gases before introducing said third and fourth reactive gases by pumping said processing chamber clear of said first and second reactive gases.
24. The system as recited in claim 23 wherein serially exposing said substrate includes serially exposing said substrate to first and second reactive gases to form a titanium-containing adhesion layer, and serially exposing said adhesion layer to third and fourth reactive gases to form a tungsten-containing barrier layer adjacent to said titanium-containing adhesion layer.
25. The system as recited in claim 23 wherein said first reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of TDMAT, TDEAT and TiCl4, said second reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of H2, B2H6 and SiH4, said third reactive gas is WF6, and said fourth reactive gas is selected from the group consisting essentially of SiH4, B2H6 and NH3.
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I don't have any imparticular hobby, but I enjoy reading, writing and drawing.
So if I had to say which one is my favorite it would be a toss up between drawing and writing. I love to doodle and draw all kinds of things and would definatly love to attend an art college sometime in the near future to see if I could further and improve it, the same would go for my writing, I have infact had an offer of doing a home course on poetry which I am seriously considering doing. It would be great to become a known poet and my own publisher. So keep your eyes peeled you never know it just might happen.
I do read alot, mainly horror thriller novels and occasionaly the old romance novel but not the kind where you know what is going to happen by the time you've finished reading the first page, hence the reason why I don't read them very often.
Another of my pass times other than reading, writing and drawing aswell as caring for my pets is gardening. I enjoy getting out there and planting to watch the outcome of my work. A yard with out a flower garden is like a person without a soul of which I can say I've met a few people in my time that seem to be just like that, it has to have life.
remember what I was drawing...lol my best drawing I think.
I have yet to finish...uhoh.
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1 Am I Harming the Environment by Driving?
2 How Does Car Pollution Affect the Weather?
4 How Does Air Get Polluted?
More likely than not, getting a vehicle from point "A" to point "B" involves combustion of a fossil fuel, a process that emits gasses and affects the environment. In December 1970, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported over 89.9 billion vehicle miles traveled, or VMT. (See Reference 4) That number nearly tripled to over 246.3 trillion VMT in December 2011. (See Reference 3) Such a sharp incline in traffic volume begs the question: how does car pollution affect the environment and the ozone layer? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than half of the air pollution in the nation is caused by mobile sources, primarily automobiles. (See Reference 6) Further contributing to the pollution potential of cars is the fact that they are filled with numerous fluids, which can harm the environment in the cases of leakage or improper disposal.
EPA: What is Acid Rain?
King, Jennifer. "How Does Car Pollution Affect the Environment & Ozone Layer?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html. 27 December 2018.
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And then we say goodbye to Etienne and Abi, hop on a minibus to the airport (sorry Yeon for being stressed-out), and wait for our flight to Dubai. We spend our last Rands on something I’ve already forgotten.
Anything happens? Dialectics: this is a day to make other days appear spicier.
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Soweto was just a word associated with danger and death. I’ve heard many warnings not to enter there and I expect the corresponding danger. Soweto! But it’s not dangerous at-all. We take a bus to Nelson Mandela’s place, a boring concrete museum, and ask for some NGO operating in the area. They send us to the Ikageng Centre a couple of blocks away. By the way we are with Rodrigo from Argentina who is interested in our way of traveling.
The Ikageng Centre serves a large community in the Soweto area (South West Township). It is located in a part of the township that has been substantially reconstructed and has paved roads. They explain us the biggest problems the people here are coping with on an everyday basis. Lack of education, AIDS, teenage pregnancies. And they introduce to us the programmes they run to tackle these issues. We decide to support Ikageng and hope to incorporate it in our future initiative to send spontaneous volunteers, individual low-key travelers who just want to help out. There is more they can do than we realize.
The next day we visit the place again but there is not much going on. Judging by all the facilities and programmes they are offering, they do have accumulated a great amount expertise. We hope that one day, other start-up NGO’s can benefit from sharing this expertise.
Have we made our point? This was Charity Travel Africa for now. We’ve seen some countries, we’ve missed some other countries, we definitely want to come back to this continent, we want to do more to encourage YOU to go there and help setting up any sustainable activity, help individuals strenghtening their African spirit while their corrupt leaders keep sucking in Western loans and wrong dependencies that drain creativity and a pride identity that is ready to venture beyond post-colonialism.
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Dobermann puppies cuddle on the couches as we enjoy a “farm” breakfast in the guesthouse. It will keep us going for a while and we walk back to the main road. The 15-minutes rule does apply today: Guy the beekeeper picks us up and takes us to Johannesburg via Pretoria. We go shopping for equipment for his bee-hyves and learn about it. It’s quite interesting. Guy turns out to be a friend of Abi’s, who is living with Etienne, our couchsurfing host. The world is small.
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Now we walk along the highway to Kempton park, take a minibus to downtown and swoosh up the 50 floor Carlton center tower to oversee the city. Square blocks, highrises. Only the distant African landscape reminds us we are still in Africa. We see buses meandering around Ghandi square, and being fans of Ghandi we decide to go there and sit down in the shadow of his statue.
We do some shopping. The purchase of a South African SIM card and we connect to Etienne, our couchsurfing host. He is available at night so we spend a worry free afternoon in downtown Joburg. The purchase of a nailclipper further removes some rough edges. And the purchase of a banana keeps me going until we arrive in Randburg, a quiet neighbourhood north of Johannesburg that makes both of us feel we are in Los Angeles.
We eat out in a Vietnamese restaurant that serves a good, yet westernized version of Vietnamese porc chops and noodles. After dinner, in a nice cocktail bar, we have a watery whisky cocktail whose description tastes better than its actual ingredients.
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My name is Alex AMOQ. Exactely Alexandru AMOQ. I try to prepare a wonderful expedition on the great rivers with some SUP paddle boards and with a new water-raft named „Float-Cube”. The name of the new sport could be…”CUBEING”. The date of the beginning: April13,2017. The place of the beginning: LIBERLAND Island on Danube River (10 -12 km. South of the border between Hungary, Croatia and Serbia). I need a great network in all countries. Let’s do it!
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Before I start this post, I first want to apologize for the long delay between posts. I have been very busy the last couple weeks as I have been working at Churchill Downs during the recent Kentucky Derby. It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun (as you can see here: The 140th Running of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby). I am glad to have some free time back to do some cooking and blogging though.
As the winner of the mystery box challenge, Adrien was able to choose between three of Joe’s favorite ingredients: Octopus, Veal and Mushrooms. He chose octopus for himself. Then, Christian was able to select his and Jennifer’s ingredient. Christian selected veal for himself and gave Jennifer mushrooms to work with.
Each contestant had positives and negatives to their final dishes, but the judges decided to send Adrien (Pan Seared Octopus) and Jennifer (Mushroom and Egg Ravioli) to the Final Challenge. This eliminated Christian (Veal) from the competition.
However, for this challenge, if I were to follow this rule, I would have to cook with octopus. While I would love to tackle the challenge, I know that I am just not going to be able to find octopus to work with. So to try and follow the rule at least a little bit, I will cook with the ingredient given to the challenge’s “target.” That ended up being Jennifer, who was stuck with mushrooms.
I knew I wanted to try something a little different and crepes have been on my list of “dishes to attempt.” I was lucky enough to find this recipe that met both criteria: Mushroom Crepes with Poblano Chile Sauce. Since most of this was new to me, I mostly stuck to the recipe with the one exception being my addition of chicken. This was going to be my dinner, after all, and I wanted protein! However, this dish would be just a delicious as the original vegetarian option. I also halved the recipe to make only 8 crepes, which brought down the expected cook and prep time of 4 hours to just under 3 hours.
The first thing I did was make the crepe batter. I blended 1 cup of whole milk, 1.5 eggs (I guesstimated this – I know its a weird amount but that’s what happens when you only do half of a recipe), 1 tablespoon of melted butter (that had been cooled), and 1/2 of a teaspoon of fine sea salt in a blender for 5 seconds. I then added 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup at a time, blending the batter until it was smooth after each addition. I let this rest for 1 hour and then re-blended for 5 seconds just before using.
While the batter was resting, I started to prep some of the other components. First, I charred 3 poblano chiles in the broiler until they were blackened on all sides. I then enclosed them in paper bag for 10 minutes. Finally, I peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced the chiles. For this part of the recipe, I used this tutorial as a guide: How to Roast and Peel Poblano Peppers.
Next, I prepped the other ingredients: diced white onions, minced garlic, minced cilantro, sweet corn sliced off the cob, and shredded chicken (I cheated and just got the pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from the grocery store). All of these were fairly simple but I decided to use this post as an excuse to try this: The Magic Corn Trick. While it worked really well for cooking the corn, the cob didn’t exactly slide out without any silk. Maybe I needed to cook it longer or maybe I needed to trim it more. Either way, there was something there that didn’t quite work but I’ll definitely try it again sometime.
After all the prep work was done, I moved on to the crepe making. I heated a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat. I brushed the bottom of the pan with melted butter. Then, I poured 3 tablespoons of batter into the skillet and swirled until the bottom of the skillet was coated evenly. I let this cook until the bottom of crepe was golden. (The recipe said that this should take about 30 seconds but it took much longer than that). Then, I loosened the edges gently with a spatula and turned the crepe over. I cooked this until the bottom was brown in spots, and turned the crepe out onto a paper towel.
The first crepe I made was a disaster. It wasn’t really cooking all that well and I turned it too early so it looked completely screwed up (as seen below).
But I turned the heat up and got the hang of the cooking process on the second one and it only got better from there. I repeated the cooking process for each, making about 8 crepes (plus the one wonky crepe) and stacked them between paper towels.
Next, I moved on to the poblano cream sauce. I melted butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. I then added 2-3 tablespoons of diced white onion and 1 clove of minced garlic, and sautéed for about 2 minutes. Next, I stirred in 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of flour and sautéed for 1 minute longer. I then whisked in 1 cup of warm whole milk and brought the whole mixture to a boil (while whisking constantly). I reduced the heat to medium-low and let the sauce simmer until it thickened, about 5 minutes.
Then, I poured the sauce into a blender with 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream, half of the roasted poblano chiles, and salt and pepper to taste, and blended the sauce until it was smooth.
After completing the sauce, I moved on to the filling. I heated a few tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. I then added 1 cup of diced white onions, 8 ounces of sliced shitake mushrooms, 3-4 cloves of minced garlic, and half of the reserved poblano chiles (chopped). I sautéed this until the mushrooms were brown and the mushroom liquid had evaporated, about 10 minutes. Then, I added the shredded chicken, 1 tablespoon of minced fresh cilantro and salt and pepper to taste. I let that mixture cook together until the chicken was warmed through.
With most of the components finished, I then started to fill the crepes. I spooned some of the filling in the middle of the crepe, wrapped it and placed it in a baking dish. I drizzled about half of the poblano cream sauce over the top of the crepes, and then sprinkled 1/2 of a cup of grated manchego cheese over top. I put this dish in a 350-degree oven until the cheese melted, about 12 minutes.
While the stuffed crepes were in the oven, I worked on the final component: the garnish. In a large skillet, I sautéed some sweet corn with the rest of the poblanos (chopped) in some olive oil with salt and pepper until they were heated through. I also prepped some cilantro and fresh lime as a garnish.
When the crepes came out of the oven, I spooned some additional poblano cream sauce onto the serving dish. Then, I placed 2 stuffed crepes over the sauce and garnished the dish with fresh cilantro, the corn-poblano mixture and a squirt of fresh lime over the top.
Overall, this dish was delightful. It was very unique and would have definitely caught the attention of the judges. While the crepes took a great deal of time (and probably should have been a bit thinner), the rest of the components were fairly simple. In the future, I might use pre-made crepes or flour tortillas instead in order to cut out a lot of the prep work. The flavor profile also didn’t feature mushrooms as prominently as the challenge called for, but I’m sure there’s a way to tweak this dish to do so. Regardless, this a delicious dish that should definitely be tried.
I am certainly happy to be back to blogging. Here’s to hoping there won’t be too many delays like this in the future.
This week’s mystery box gave the contestants three types of ground meat to build a dish around: ground veal, ground pork, and ground beef. The mystery box also included: celery, corn, carrots, peas, mushrooms, lemon, tomato, bell peppers, garlic, eggs, milk, potatoes, red onion, worcestershire sauce, rice, mango, tomato paste, several fresh herbs, 3-4 different types of cheeses (among others).
Jennifer (Meatloaf), Adrien (Trio of Meatballs) and Ben (Shepherd’s Pie) were named the top three with Ben winning the chance to pick the focus of the next elimination challenge.
When I saw the ingredients available in this mystery box, I thought that I could put together one of my favorite dishes: stuffed peppers. I have never actually made these myself, mostly because my mom’s version is pretty well perfect and I didn’t want to create a poor impression. So I decided to find a recipe online that would be different enough to avoid the comparison. I settled on this as my guide: Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef and Rice.
I essentially stuck to the recipe, except for few minor changes and additions, mostly dealing with the tomato sauce. I substituted fresh vine-ripened tomatoes (which I diced) and tomato paste for the canned diced tomatoes and tomato sauce that the recipe called for. I also added 2 cloves of minced garlic and 1/2 of a banana pepper (minced) to the bell pepper, onion, and celery mixture. This made the sauce very chunky but it definitely added a lot of nice flavor.
Everything else from the recipe was the same (including the sprinkling of shredded cheddar cheese towards the end of the cook time). Overall, the peppers turned out great but they were definitely not as good as my mom’s. (I’m going to have to ask her for her secret). I really wanted more tomato sauce throughout the beef mixture. When I make this in the future, I might put some sauce in the bottom of the pepper before adding the beef and rice mixture or maybe layer the sauce throughout. Either way, I will want more tomato flavor!
To serve as a side, I went for this recipe: Delicious Corn Dish Recipe. I saw this on buzzfeed a while ago and I have been waiting to work it into meal until now. I followed the recipe completely with just a couple exceptions. I had to substitute banana pepper for jalapeño because my grocery store was out. (This would be a good substitution for people that don’t like spicy foods though). I also added some minced garlic to the corn when sautéing it in olive oil (because I have to add garlic to everything). Finally, I used equal parts of lemon and lime juice instead of just lime.
I served the stuffed pepper on a bed of the manchego-lime corn, making a very colorful plate. Overall, the corn and the stuffed pepper worked well together. It was a pretty solid dish but nothing super special. The corn was awesome though. I will definitely do that again. The stuffed pepper was just ok. It really needed some more flavor but maybe I’m just spoiled by my mom’s version.
BONUS RECIPE: The same night I did the stuffed peppers and corn, I also decided to try my hand at some duck fat fries. I had some extra duck fat lying around from this blog post and I was really craving potatoes, so this was the perfect solution. I found this tutorial: How to: Duck Fat Fries, and followed it completely (including the soaking and two-step frying processes).
When they came out of the duck fat the second time, I seasoned them with truffle salt, paprika and grated parmesan cheese. And they were DELICIOUS!!! Seriously, far and away the best thing I that last night, and I can’t wait to make some more soon.
This week’s mystery box contained a surf and turf theme in which contestants were asked to create a dish showcasing beef and seafood with the following ingredients as options to incorporate into their dish: live jumbo shrimp, alaskan king crab, live crawfish, buffalo ribeye, dry-aged porterhouse steak, and short ribs.
Adrien (Short Ribs and Crab Salad), Jennifer (Risotto with Short Ribs and Crab) and Suzy (Prawn Bisque and Bison) landed in the top 3 but it was Jennifer’s risotto dish that gave her the win and the advantage of getting to pick the dish for the next challenge.
For this challenge, I immediately decided that I wanted to do some sort of Thai recipe featuring beef and shrimp. After some intense Google-ing, I settled on this recipe as my jumping off point: The Best Thai Coconut Soup. I also enlisted my brother, the Grill-Master, and my mother, the maker of the best shrimp I’ve ever had, for assistance in this culinary venture.
The first thing we did was create a marinade for the porterhouse steak. In a small bowl, we combined 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of rice wine vinegar, 3 tablespoons of peanut oil, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 3 cloves of smashed garlic, and some cracked pepper. We put the marinade and steak in a large Ziploc bag and put it in the fridge for almost two hours.
Then, I cooked the shrimp using my mother’s flawless instructions. I brought a pot of salted water to a boil with a bay leaf in it. I then added 1 pound of frozen shrimp to the water and brought it back up to a foaming boil. (The foaming is the important part and this will take a while). After 1 full minute at the foaming boil, I removed the pot from the stove and drained the shrimp into a colander. Then, I rinsed the shrimp with cold water until the shrimp were cooled down to room temperature, and I let the shrimp stand in the colander until they were completely dry.
Next, I started on the soup. In a large pot, I cooked 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of fresh grated ginger, 1 stalk of lemongrass (minced), and 2 teaspoons of red curry paste for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly. Then, I added in 4 cups of chicken stock, 3 tablespoons of fish sauce and 1 tablespoon of light brown sugar and let that simmer together for 15-20 minutes.
Then, I stirred in 3 cans (13.5 ounces each) of coconut milk, 8 ounces of sliced Shitake mushrooms, and a small red bell pepper (thinly sliced) to the broth. I let this all cook together while the rest of the components were finished up.
My brother grilled the steak for 5 minutes per side, taking it off when it reached 140 degrees. We let it rest for 5 minutes, and then I sliced it into thin strips for serving.
While he was grilling, I made the jasmine rice. I brought 3 and 1/2 cups of water, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of salt to a boil. Then, I added 2 cups of jasmine rice, stirred and covered, and let simmer for 15 minutes on low heat. When all of the water was absorbed, I removed the rice from the heat and let stand for 5 minutes while covered until we were ready to plate.
Finally, I took the soup off the heat and stirred in the fully cooked shrimp, 2 tablespoons of fresh lime juice, 1/4 cup of fresh cilantro (chopped), and several healthy pinches of salt (to taste).
I plated the dish with a spoonful of rice in the middle with the soup surrounding it in the bottom of the bowl. I put three strips of steak over the rice, and garnished with a lime wedge and a cilantro leaf. This dish is definitely the prettiest plate of food I have ever made. It was pretty darn delicious too. The flavors worked together wonderfully, and it was a very filling and unique meal. I definitely think that this dish would have been a contender in this challenge due to its creativity and great taste. And even though it requires some unique ingredients, this is a very simple recipe that I suggest you try for yourself.
This week’s mystery box contained some hand-dived scallops along with the unique combination of bananas, papaya, peas, lime, jalapeño, red onion, eggs, a croissant, pecans, cauliflower, parmesan, avocado, corn, cilantro, arugula, cinnamon, pancetta, and brandy.
The top three consisted of Christian (Scallop Succotash), Adrien (Trio of Scallops) and Ben (Scallops and Bananas). Adrien’s Trio of Scallops won over Ben’s risky combination of scallops and bananas.
Mystery Box challenges are always my favorite. I really enjoy trying to find creative ways to incorporate as many of the ingredients as possible. And this was no different. I decided to do just a classic seared scallop (by using the incomparable Chrissy Teigen’s Perfect Scallop tutorial as a guide, of course) with a cauliflower-avocado mash and mixed vegetables with pancetta.
For the avocado and cauliflower mash, I used this recipe as a guide: Garlic Parmesan Avocado Cauliflower Mash. I stuck mostly to the recipe with the seasoning being the main exception. I steamed 4 cloves of garlic along with the cauliflower that I mashed up with it. I also used a decent amount of salt and pepper for flavor and thoroughly mashed the avocado up to give the whole component a nice light green color.
For the mixed vegetables, I first cooked the peas and corn separately. There were no fresh peas at the store so I had to simply steam the frozen variety in the microwave. But I was able to get fresh corn, which I cut off the cob and boiled for a few minutes in salted water. I then sautéed 1/2 of a jalapeño (finely chopped), 3 cloves of garlic (minced), 1/4 of a red onion (chopped), and 10 cilantro leaves (finely chopped) in some olive oil, butter, and the juice of a lime. I wanted to put the pancetta into the mix at this time, but I forgot until later in the process because I was distracted but the numerous other components that were going on at the same time. But if you are doing this yourself, definitely put the pancetta in now. I cooked this together for a few minutes until the onions were translucent and then added in the corn and peas with some salt and pepper. This all cooked together for several minutes until the rest of the components were complete.
I plated the dish with the avocado-cauliflower mash on the bottom, followed by the scallops and topped by the mixed vegetables with pancetta. Each component tasted good but I was disappointed with several things. First, I was only able to get frozen scallops, and as much as I tried, I could not for the life of me get them dry enough. They did not sear very well as a result. Also, since I forgot the pancetta until the end, it did not give a lot of flavor to the vegetables and did not get crispy the way I wanted. I think this dish has the potential to be very good but I executed poorly and didn’t have that great of ingredients. This is a fairly healthy and nice dish. I will definitely try this again but I will need to get more high-quality ingredients to make it worth it.
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Use of byproduct from cellulosic ethanol production as an additive for concrete: A possible win-win strategy?
Hao, X., Liu, C., Cao, H., Liu, Y., Peng, H., and Shen, J. (2015). "Use of byproduct from cellulosic ethanol production as an additive for concrete: A possible win-win strategy?" BioRes. 10(4), 6314-6317.
Technologists are facing increasing demands to achieve ecologically sustainable industrial practices. Currently the concrete industry is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand, the scaling up of cellulosic ethanol technology has not been a very easy task. In this context, the integration of “greener” concrete with cellulosic ethanol technology may open up promising possibilities. The solid byproducts from cellulosic ethanol production process have been demonstrated to increase the strength of concrete structures when used as a partial cement replacement. Such a delicate integration can also lead to reduction in both carbon footprint and product cost. The possible commercialization of the integrated technologies would provide win-win benefits for both industries.
Concrete is a frequently used construction material in the building industry and can be found everywhere in the world. It is used globally to build roads, buildings, bridges, runways, and sidewalks (Sullivan 2009; Rubenstein 2012). The development of civilization has been highly dependent upon the use of concrete.
Essentially, concrete is made from three major components: cement, water, and aggregate (Kansas State University 2013). Cement and water combine to form cement paste for use as the binder for the aggregate. The terms “concrete” and “cement” may be used interchangeably (Houghton Mifflin Company 2005), but it would be better and more reasonable to understand these terms separately.
The greenhouse impact associated with concrete production is very significant (Amato 2013). In this regard, cement is the predominate contributor. Despite the fact that making concrete is less energy-intensive than making steel or other building materials, concrete production can account for between 3 to 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions (Rubenstein 2012; Kansas State University 2013). Note that carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas released as a result of human activities. The carbon dioxide emission from concrete production can be derived from the calcination process that releases carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide also is released due to the energy input to the production processes and for transportation of materials (Rubenstein 2012). As a construction material, concrete is not likely to be truly sustainable, but it is possible to reduce its impact on the environment using various technologies (Leung 2009).
The replacement of fossil-derived nonrenewable fuels with biofuels is essential to a sustainable future. As a combustible liquid suitable for use as a transportation fuel, a versatile solvent, and a chemical raw material, ethanol can be produced from inedible lignocellulosic feedstocks including wood chips, forest wastes, agricultural crop residues, industrial wastes, and energy crops (Wang et al. 2011). While first-generation bioethanol is derived from sugar or starch produced by food crops (e.g., wheat, corn, sugar beet, sugar cane), cellulosic ethanol may be considered as second-generation bioethanol. The feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol production are more abundant and generally considered to be more sustainable (EBTP 2015). A process for the production of cellulosic ethanol is illustrated in Fig. 1. It is noted that although hemicellulosic components of lignocellulosic feedstocks may also be utilized to produce ethanol, the process still is named “cellulosic ethanol”.
Currently, there are some commercial-scale plants around the globe for production of cellulosic ethanol. It may be predicted that ongoing efforts to commercialize this clean energy would lead the world to a more independent energy future (Christian 2015). However, partly due to the complex and not-easily-accessible structure of lignocellulosic feedstocks, scaling up the cellulosic ethanol technology has proven difficult and costly (Fitzpatrick 2015). Overcoming the barriers to cellulosic ethanol may involve a combination of different strategies (Fig. 2). In this sense, making better use of the waste streams for the production of value-added products can facilitate the survival and sustainable growth of the cellulosic ethanol biorefinery industry. On the other hand, the government policies and economic factors would play a significant role.
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is Victoria Hamilton's performance as Hilde. It's her first West End role.
rucksack, with a suddenness and immediacy that is quite unselfconscious.
between the realistic and the metaphysical without plumping for either.
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I love when books have a premise involving crossing things off to-do lists.
Prior to entering high school, best friends Dave and Julia created a list of things to avoid over the next four years. Now that they are seniors, the duo has decided that their next great adventure will be to do each and every one of those things.
Dave has been nursing a crush on Julia throughout high school, but she seems oblivious. Just as steady, nerdy Dave starts to move on, wild and passionate Julia starts to realize her feelings for him may be stronger than she thought.
This is hard for me, as most of the teen books I read have mystery or fantasy elements. This one is more just plain fiction. Some of the characters are similar to John Green characters (particularly Paper Towns), but I don’t think it has the same mysterious elements as the Green books I’ve read.
I love love love Alsaid’s writing style, and the way the characters sound. They way they talk and think resonated with me and what I remember about my high school years, and their adventures were the kind of thing my friends and I would have done in high school (or at least would have dreamed of doing). I thought that Julia was a bit over-the-top for me sometimes, kind of like Margo in Paper Towns, but this book has inspired me to read the rest of Alsaid’s novels.
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At present Liverpool is the only major city in the North and Midlands not directly connected to HS2 and it is estimated that a dedicated link would help increase the city region’s Gross Value Added by £8 billion over 20 years. Without a direct link the potential of HS2 would be jeopardized with rapidly increasing passenger and freight traffic having to share an already congested Victorian railway.
who are aiming to get 30+ km of additional HS2 railway into Liverpool.
But aren’t Stoke-on-Trent, Wakefield, Coventry, Bradford and Kingston upon Hull all “major cities in the North and Midlands” too? Some of their citizens might well be offended by 20 Miles More’s claim that “Liverpool is the only major city in the North and Midlands not directly connected to HS2”. Of course, HS2 would not directly connect into Derby, Nottingham, or Sheffield either.
The Port of Liverpool is a national strategic asset being the main port for two of our three largest trading partners (US & Ireland) and in linking Northern Ireland to the UK. It’s the only West Coast port with post-Panamax capacity and is thus vital to the UK’s aim to remain one of the world’s major trading nations.
Liverpool City Region has nationally important strengths in sectors like wealth management, life sciences, creative and digital and is home to leading manufacturing companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Vauxhall and Unilever. Improved business connectivity will help these sectors to grow and enable Liverpool to contribute even more to UK plc.
We estimate that an HS2 link would boost the GVA of Liverpool and the wider region by £400m every year – that’s worth £8 billion over 20 years. If the UK is to renew and rebalance its economy than it needs to harness the potential of cities like Liverpool, For 20 Miles More that potential can be unlocked through a direct link to HS2.
The financial cost of a 20 mile HS2 link to Liverpool is between £1.5 billion and £1.9 billion – about 4% of the £42.6 billion cost of the project. The economic cost of not taking this opportunity now – to the local, regional and national economy – is almost impossible to calculate. There are numerous inventive ways in which this finance could be raised and a Liverpool link funded.
We will investigate these as part the research that we will be carrying out to develop the case for 20 Miles More. We will continue to campaign and argue the case for a Liverpool link based on robust evidence and hard economic logic. We look forward to widening our support and building alliances with people across and beyond the City Region.
In the coalition’s HS2 phase 1, all London to Liverpool fast trains would run 125 km on the existing West Coast Main Line tracks beyond a HS2 junction near Armitage. In phase 2, another junction would be built on HS2’s Western leg just south of Crewe and one of the two Liverpool trains would use that link, continuing 63 km on the “19th century” tracks into Merseyside. The others would continue to use the slower route, via Armitage and Stafford. All Liverpool trains would be 200 metre classic compatibles, with less seating than current Pendolinos.
where in Britain the Port of Liverpool’s extra railfreight would actually be headed.
From 31 July 2011, central government funded programmes requiring HM Treasury approval were placed under the scrutiny of the Major Projects Authority (MPA). Creation of the Authority had been announced by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 9 February 2011.
The MPA is a partnership between the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. It has an enforceable mandate from the Prime Minister to oversee and direct the effective management of all large-scale projects that are funded and delivered by central government. The MPA will scrutinise projects, ensure accountability and inform the Treasury’s decisions on whether to approve projects.
Previously government projects have had a poor delivery record. There was no cross-governmental understanding of the size and cost of the government’s Major Project portfolio, and projects often began with no agreed budget, no business case and unrealistic delivery timetables. This government will not allow that costly failure to continue. The MPA will work in collaboration with central government departments to help us get firmer control of our major projects both at an individual and portfolio level. It will look at projects from High Speed Two to the Rural Payments Agency’s ICT system.
“Today’s announcement builds on the work we have already done to put an end to wasteful and unnecessary projects. Last summer we launched the first comprehensive review of its kind of government’s Major Projects. That initial review found common and unacceptable failings in projects. We believe the Major Projects Authority will help further drive substantial improvement in the success rate of all major projects across government.
In 2012 a member of the public attempted to get details of MPA scrutiny of HS2, but the government refused to oblige. On 6 June 2013, the Information Commissioner decided that the Cabinet Office should disclose MPA’s November 2011 Project Assessment Review report.
However, no disclosure was forthcoming, and on 30 January 2014 transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin used the power of ‘executive override’ to block publication. The government insisted the decision was made on the principle that releasing such a document would undermine the MPA’s ability to assess projects, wrote the Financial Times’ Mark Odell.
When the MPA was established, it was said that reports would be made available two years after production, the Lichfield Mercury reported. There have since been a further four HS2 reports by MPA and it was expected that, if the Government was forced to publish the November 2011 report, it would then have to publish the later ones.
The government’s position was that disclosure would ‘undermine the decision-making process’, as MPA interviews were given by officials and employees with assurances of confidentiality in a “safe space”.
McLoughlin said the decision to exercise the power of veto “was not taken lightly” and it was “an exceptional case” but claimed the move was to preserve future policymaking rather than suppress damaging information. He said that interviewees needed to know they could “speak with absolute frankness and candour” and the subsequent reports needed to be “drafted in frank, and if necessary blunt, language” so that “problems are confronted and addressed, and are not avoided or overlooked”.
Intermodality for the UK, it’s coming sometime, maybe. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Integrated Transport Strategy has published a report asking ‘How do we better link up the UK’? The answer, apparently, is to redesign the HS2 railway in accordance with the wishes of Conserve the Chilterns, and Heathrow Hub Ltd.
and there should be a ‘full-capacity’ link between HS2 and HS1.
The Group was formed in response to increasing concern at the lack of joined up thinking in the UK’s transport strategy. This is highlighted most clearly in the disconnect between HS2 and airports policy, where Government deposited a Hybrid Bill for phase 1 of a new railway between London and the West Midlands just a few weeks before publication of the Government ‘s Airports Commission interim report on the UK’s future hub airport capacity. HS2 is also excluded from the draft National Networks Policy Statement, issued for consultation in December 2013.
This contrasts with the integrated approach to the strategic planning of air and rail infrastructure in many other countries, and which has proved so successful in meeting a wide range of economic and environmental objectives.
This paper, the first of what we envisage to be a number of studies, considers air/rail integration, and whether HS2 as currently designed represents international best practice.
* A ‘fresh look’ at transport planning in the UK – based on integration, across all modes of transport.
The UK has a unique opportunity to consider an integrated approach to its air and rail strategies. This is particularly important in view of the UK’s peripheral offshore location in Europe, and the country’s dependence on global access for its future competitiveness in an increasingly connected world.
By coming relatively late to such decisions, the UK has the opportunity to learn from the success – and failure – of transport strategies elsewhere in Europe. These lessons are reflected in European legislation, which requires an intermodal approach to transport planning.
UK Governments have however consistently failed to consider an integrated approach, or to draw on European experience. HS2 and the UK’s hub airport strategy are being developed in isolation, resulting in HS2, the UK’s biggest ever peacetime investment of public monies in a single project, bypassing, by just a few miles, Heathrow, the UK’s only hub and world’s busiest international airport, directly contributing around 1% of GDP.
Despite capacity constraints, Heathrow retains the highest business connectivity score amongst major European hubs, and is at the end of seven of the top 10 business routes in the world. Some see the airport as being as important to the UK economy as the competitive advantage afforded by the English language, legal system and time zone.
HS2 was designed on the specific assumption that Heathrow would not be expanded. As the Airports Commission have now concluded that only Heathrow or Gatwick are candidates for new runway capacity, there is a clear need to revisit the assumptions that were fundamental in HS2’s development.
Importantly in these economically challenging times, HS2 Ltd’s own estimates confirm an alternative HS2 route via Heathrow would be less expensive. The only disbenefit of a route via Heathrow would be slightly longer journey times – by just three or four minutes. This seems insignificant, particularly as Government have now confirmed that HS2’s early focus on speed alone was wrong, and that connectivity is instead more important.
An alternative route could also follow the principles established by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, now HS1 – for example, adopting a design speed to allow the line to follow motorway corridors, tunneling through urban areas below existing railways and tunneling too through the narrowest part of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). This would significantly reduce the environmental impacts that have contributed to such widespread opposition to HS2.
European experience is clear. Major airports should be directly served by rail lines, carrying a mix of local, regional, long distance and high speed services via airport interchanges located on through lines, not branches or loops. This enables trains to carry both airport and non-airport passengers, allowing increased frequencies and a wider range of destinations at commercially sustainable loadings.
Integrating air and rail in this way has numerous benefits including modal shift from road to rail, potential air/rail substitution of short haul flights to release scarce airport capacity, wider airport catchments and customer choice, easier regional access to global markets, and a transformation of inward investment perceptions of the attractiveness of regional economies.
In addition to Heathrow, the Airports Commission has shortlisted Gatwick for additional runway development. Although Gatwick, unlike Heathrow, is already located on a main line railway, its peripheral location, on the far side of London from the majority of the UK’s regions and principal markets, makes it more difficult to envisage the step change in surface access that would be essential to support a potential doubling of traffic.
There is therefore a unique opportunity to develop an integrated approach to the UK’s air and rail strategies before the Airports Commission issues its final report in Summer 2015.
Whilst the HS2 Hybrid Bill has now been placed before Parliament, it is not too late for Government to consider amending the scheme, as the Secretary of State has already indicated may be necessary, to provide proper intermodal integration and secure the UK’s future connectivity and competitiveness.
However, there is increasing urgency, as over £0.3bn of public money has already been spent on HS2 from a budget, in this Parliament before May 2015, of more than £1bn.
If, as this paper proposes, HS2 needs to be adapted to reflect the Airports Commission’s recommendations, this should be considered as soon as possible to minimise the abortive costs to the public purse and enable the Commission to bring forward the best possible option for the UK’s future hub airport.
The report’s contributors included David Stewart, Head of Airport Development at the International Air Transport Association, and Jacques Gounon, Chairman and Chief Executive of Eurotunnel. Whether IATA or Eurotunnel have financial interests in Conserve the Chilterns and Countryside or Heathrow Hub, is not known. What is known, is that PR company Cavendish Communications “has been paid to act as APPGITS’s secretariat by its clients Heathrow Hub Ltd and Conserve the Chilterns and Countryside”.
The report scores plenty of direct hits on the coalition’s HS2 project, which of course is as easy as shooting fish in a proverbial barrel. However, a lot of the material is surprisingly unhelpful to Heathrow Hub’s own case, which was presumably not the intention.
Even “where new high speed rail services have eroded air market share, airlines have continued to operate on routes in direct competition with high speed rail, albeit at reduced frequencies – for example Paris-Lyons and Paris-Amsterdam”. And “only 2.8% of Heathrow passengers come from the major conurbations of Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Bristol combined” (unaccountably seen as a problem by the APPG).
The report also noted that Deutsche Bahn had reduced services to Frankfurt Flughafen — which is probably just a reflection of the reality that airports tend not to be particularly important destinations for long distance rail traffic.
Like coalition_HS2, the APPGITS_HS2 proposal is needlessly environmentally damaging, poor value for public money, and shaped by the demands of special interests.
Transport minister Stephen Hammond said the government ‘cannot guarantee’ recovery of Britain’s domestic rail industry as he unveiled a German-built train ‘mockup’ commissioned for London’s Thameslink, the Guardian reported (28 January 2013). The Class 700 mockups were displayed for ‘stakeholders’ and the press at the ExCel conference centre in east London yesterday, and for public viewing today (29 Jan).
Siemens is building the energy-efficient Class 700 train for the government’s £6.5bn upgrade to the Thameslink network, which runs through London from Brighton to Bedford and is being extended to Cambridge and Peterborough.
Surely the time to display ‘mockups’ would have been at the project definition stage, rather than after design freeze. After jigs have been created and metal has been cut, there is very little scope to incorporate public feedback, or optimise anything. No engineering or layout drawings, and few technical details, appear to be available, so it’s difficult to assess provision for airport passengers’ luggage, etc.
Previous builds of Siemens trains for the GB market have been so energy hungry that hundreds of millions of pounds had to be spent on upgrading power supplies. The Class 700 features a new lighter-weight bogie called the SF-7000, but how energy efficient the trains really are, is open to question. The decision has been taken to acquire a fleet of fixed formation 8-car and 12-car trains, which probably isn’t a particularly good fit with demand (or energy efficiency) over the course of the day.
There is a minor passenger space advantage in not having so many driving cabs, but it still looks like barmy planning. If there is a fault with just one carriage, an entire 8-car or 12-car unit would have to be taken out of service. Like Boris Johnson’s New Bus for London, the Class 700 appears to have no openable windows or backup ventilation, so in the event of airconditioning problems, things could quickly get unpleasant.
The current Class 319 Thameslink stock has standard class 2 + 3 seating, but in the Class 700 it is 2 + 2. Much of the bigged-up ‘capacity increase’ in the Class 700 comes simply from having a larger fleet of trains, and more standing room.
The Class 700 mockup interiors look quite cold, plasticky, and just not thought through properly. The seats don’t look particularly comfortable, but who knows, they might be better than they appear. The provision for standees to hold on looks inadequate, and the ridges on the awkwardly-sited seat handgrabs are likely to be bacteria traps.
The heavy-set front ends of the Class 700 have a full width cab formed from what looks like large plastic or fibreglass mouldings, rather than environmentally-friendlier contoured sheet metal. It’s difficult to tell how much of the driver’s windscreen is swept by the centrally-situated wiper blade.
Other readily-apparent shortcomings can be seen in the toilet design. The excuse for a washbasin is likely to result in water going all over the floor.
Reproduced below is an interesting account of the Greengauge 21 event ‘High Speed Two: the wider network, the wider benefits‘ held at Birmingham Think Tank on September 19, 2013. Speakers included Lord Deighton (HS2 Growth Task Force); Sir David Higgins (now chairman of HS2 Ltd); Paul Ormerod (Volterra), and Laura Webster (HS2 Ltd).
I attended this event with Bhanu Dhir from the Black Country Chamber of Commerce and attach a copy of the agenda showing the items for discussion and those presenting. Clearly it was intended to be a highly publicised “Showcase” event to help increase support for the project. There was no opportunity for any serious debate or questioning and it was managed in a way which discouraged anything seen as contentious. No new information beyond that which we already have was made available.
Reference was made to the supportive conclusions assumed from the KPMG Report “HS2 (Phase 2) Regional Economic Impacts”. I have read this report as well as I can. I believe that the Black Country has the right to hold the highest expectations for significant benefit from the HS2 Project in both direct local terms and indirectly from national advantages. Our support should be dependent upon clear expectations in both of these. I continue to be concerned at the poor standard of work done by HS2 and Greengauge 21 in producing reliable and verifiable information to absolutely support the business case.
Continually, they avoid direct questions or give answers of a quality which is very disappointing. Sir David Higgins, the Chief Executive of Network Rail, confirmed the view that as much as possible has been done to improve and increase the capacity of West Coast Main Line. He stated that continuing costs of maintaining it are so high that the money might as well be spent on building HS2. However, he failed to address the point that the proposed continuing high level of utilisation of West Coast Main Line for improved local services and freight utilisation means that there will always be high maintenance costs associated with it even if HS2 is built, so that argument does not appear to make much sense. I tried to ask a question on this but did not get any response.
A particular interest for UK manufacturing, of which the Black Country is an important element, is that the greatest possible proportion of the total manufacturing and building work associated with HS2 should be placed in the UK and the money not significantly spent overseas as we are currently seeing with Wind Energy. Therefore, the presentation by Steve Scrimshaw, the Managing Director of Siemens Rail Systems UK and North West Europe was very important. He spoke about the spread of jobs through the supply chain, the importance of manufacturing capability and skills development within the UK, particularly including the mention of apprenticeships.
This was a good presentation, with much said that we would agree with. Clearly Siemens stand to benefit massively if HS2 goes ahead. Even the publicity photographs prominent on the day showed all of the HS2 locomotives with Siemens logos. This is a German owned company but Mr Scrimshaw described the position of Siemens here going back to the 19th century and its strong commitment to the UK. When he finished, I congratulated him on an excellent presentation and asked him directly what proportion of Siemens’ contribution to HS2 would be manufactured in the UK? I was surprised that he tried to avoid the question and said shortly that “they were aware of it and thinking about it”. I was asked by the Chair if I was happy with the answer and I said no, not really. I asked Mr Scrimshaw the same question again and added would it be 50%, 75%? He did not want to answer and gave the same response as before, then left the stage. Personally, I was not happy with the response.
One of the best quality presentations was that given by Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans in the Scottish Parliament. Understandably the Scottish Government strongly supports the development of High Speed Rail and clearly, it is on long distance journeys that benefits become most apparent. He said that development of High Speed Rail north of the border would be expensive and that Scotland would be prepared to contribute financially.
Geoff Inskip from Centro made a good presentation which described his organisations’ support for HS2. He emphasised the opinion that the most important characteristic of HS2 should be connectivity and that its success will be a function of that. I agree with this point and it emphasises that it can only contribute significantly to the economy if it is part of a fully integrated wider transport network which will include significantly up rated road and other local transport networks.
The final presentation and one of the most important because of the limited understanding of the way freight services will operate on West Coast Main Line was the last one on the “Wider Benefits: Integration and Freight”. I was not able to stay through this because of another appointment but Bhanu Dhir has briefed me. It does not appear that much new light was thrown on the subject beyond describing the benefits of increasing the amount of freight travelling by rail instead of by road. Clearly there are concerns about just how much capacity will be available because a number of questions were asked about whether any freight could be carried on the new HS2 line. Bhanu advises me that this question was not answered.
I think my experience of this event as well as those already reported to you confirms that we must sustain clearly stated high expectations and also significantly question those points which remain unclear or misleading.
I have read the KPMG Report and this, alongside the Network Rail Report on “Better Connections” includes significant detail on anticipated improvements to local services. However, as became apparent from my previous meeting with the HS2 Taskforce, no significant investigation has yet been carried out into what the increased freight utilisation on West Coast Main Line will actually be. As the major case for HS2 currently being made is the lack of capacity on West Coast Main Line; there must be a clear understanding of what that capacity is. Therefore, how can there be a detailed analysis of improved local services without any understanding of how much capacity in terms of track length and time will be taken up by slow moving long freight trains? Jerry Blackett and I will shortly be meeting Geoff Inskip from Centro and representatives from HS2. I will raise this question during that meeting.
1. High ticket prices which will limit utilisation and certainly minimise commuting opportunities.
2. Considerable public subsidy of ticket prices which will reduce funding elsewhere.
1. The productivity calculations include Dft estimates of work done by businessmen while travelling on the train. If this is adjusted for the reduced time spent on the train, the GDP impact is reduced to 12 billion pounds.
2. There are assumptions about connectivity to labour. A scenario is described in which connectivity to labour, by either road or rail, is not a driver of business productivity. This assumption reduces the GDP impact to 8 billion pounds per year.
We need further clarification on these points and particularly it seems to me that if considerations of labour connectivity are crucial to calculation of impact on GDP, then some clarification about the position of ticket pricing is essential.
A final observation reflects my concern at the apparent lack of understanding and “joined-up thinking” at even the highest political levels. Recently George Osborne said that he is “passionate” about HS2 and thinks it will be a major factor in achieving a more even balance of the economy across the UK and help reduce the excessive concentration in the South East of England. This of course in itself makes a strong case for HS2. However, if that passion is true and represents laudable Government perspective, why are we not seeing a similar approach to a future airport strategy?.
It is already clear that the Davies Report will continue to focus on the South East and yet, it seems clear to me that a coordination of HS2 development with an airport strategy which distributes strategic hubs further North would be a very strong driver of economic development in parts of the UK other than the South East. I have described this thought to John Morris at Birmingham Airport.
Local communities being able to take the decision on fracking is a good thing, according to the Centre for Cities’ Nada Nohrová.
Centre for Cities’ thinly disguised support for fracking seems to be based on it being in the ‘national interest’. But there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it is. Nor is it clear what ‘local communities being able to take the decision’, actually means. The ‘interests’ of local politicians in office are often not the same as those of local communities.
Oddly enough, Ms Nohrová’s blogpost appeared alongside a Centre for Cities tweet about the musician Little Boots appearing on Channel 4 to discuss the Centre’s latest cities research. Little Boots is from Blackpool, where fracking company Cuadrilla admitted that its activities were responsible for “little earthquakes“.
As might be expected, the ‘pro-business’ Westbourne Communications PR outfit has also clambered aboard the pro-fracking bandwagon.
Judging by business group London First’s diagram of anticipated London rail passenger growth to 2031 (below), one might wonder why Network Rail’s 2009 New Lines Study did not consider the case for a new railway in the Great Eastern corridor, rather than HS2.
The southern section of the West Coast Main Line has substantial unused capacity, as both Network Rail and Department for Transport have, on occasion, conceded. Even the Department’s October 2013 HS2 Strategic Case noted that adding an extra two Euston commuter train paths (in the peak hours) on the West Coast Main Line as soon as 2014, was “under active consideration”.
[2.6.4] This would require multiple unit operation at higher speeds which causes certain technical challenges. But if they can be introduced successfully, they would help to alleviate commuter congestion over the next 10-12 years. But it will be for the ORR to decide if this is possible and consistent with achieving the required level of performance reliability. At 15 trains/hour in peak periods on the fast pair of tracks out of the capital, this is at the highest end of levels achieved on main line railways elsewhere in Europe – even those such as high speed lines with purpose-built train control systems, let alone a railway with a mix of diesel and electric traction, commuter, freight and intercity services. Once this level of throughput has been achieved, it would be very difficult to add further commuter trains to the route.
The Department subsequently issued a list of Strategic Case ‘Clarifications‘ (date unknown), one of which stated that the text should have read “At 15 trains/hour in peak periods on the fast pair of tracks out of the capital, this is at the highest end of levels achieved on main line railways elsewhere in Europe…” and “Once this level of throughput has been achieved, it would be very difficult to add further commuter trains to the route”.
Contrary to the impression given by DfT, 15 trains per hour in peak hours on Euston’s Fast Lines would not really be an ambitious target; Network Rail’s 2009 Great Western Route Plan set out a frequency of 18 on the Fast Lines out of Paddington (with a mix of Heathrow electric and InterCity 125 diesel). So there is no reason to believe that 17 per hour could not be reliably operated on the Euston Fast Lines.
undertaking electrification of routes such Crewe — Holyhead / Wrexham, Wolverhampton — Shrewsbury, Stockport — Stalybridge (for Huddersfield), Manchester — Rochdale, etc.
With all-electric operation would come the possibility of direct ‘half-train’ services to Blackpool, Rochdale, Bolton, and Wrexham (two half-trains sharing one path). Other cost-effective methods of capacity augmentation, such as moving West Midlands intercity trains to the Chiltern route, and Haven Ports railfreight to F2N, have been described in earlier Beleben blogposts.
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I have a really hard time knitting the same thing twice. Don’t know why. I’ll use a basic knitting formula more than once but I have to switch out at least the stitch pattern. But these are great ideas for future projects. The paintbox blanket is especially interesting with the way it shows off the Noro so beautifully!
With such a big family, I get a lot of requests for the same thing I knit for the last baby or toddler, and some patterns create such beautiful objects I can’t resist. That paintbox blanket is probably my favourite ever pattern. It’s a perfect Noro pattern.
such a beautiful pic of your niece with her blanket!
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Toyota Motor Corporation's A family is a family of automatic FWD/RWD/4WD/AWD transmissions built by Aisin-Warner. They share much in common with Volvo's AW7* and Aisin-Warner's 03-71* transmissions, which are found in Suzukis, Mitsubishis, and other Asian vehicles.
The letter A = Aisin-Warner Automatic.
Older transmissions have two digits.
The first digit represents the generation (not the number of gears, see A10 vs A20 and A30 vs A40 vs A40D).
The last digit represents the particular application.
Newer transmission have three digits.
The first digit represents the generation. Note: the sequence is 1,2,...,9,A,B with A and B being treated as digits.
The second digit represents the number of gears.
"Axx" redirects here. For other uses, see AXX.
1959 Toyoglide two speed semi-automatic, largely based on GM's cast iron Powerglide.
1963 two speed Toyoglide fully automatic.
Four speed automatic without lockup torque converter.
This transmission model is not electronically controlled. It is instead controlled by throttle position and also by a governor.
Four speed automatic with lockup torque converter. Based on A43D.
Four speed automatic with lockup torque converter and electronic controls. Based on A43D.
This transmission is electronically controlled by an electronic shift control module. Mechanically similar to the A43D.
A55 transmission from below with sump taken off.
Three speed automatic front wheel drive, longitudinally mounted. Even with FWD, the engine is also mounted longitudinally.
These transmissions have a governor gear. Unlike the A140E counterpart which is electronically controlled, the A140L uses a plastic governor gear to select which gear to go into. Over time and wear, this plastic gear's teeth shred and eventually cease to be able to control gears. This results in a transmission that can only shift to first and reverse, but not to any further forward gears. Replacement of this governor gear is relatively inexpensive compared to a replacement transmission as it can be serviced without taking the transmission out of the car.
Gear ratios for this transmission.
The detachable bell housing, which attaches the main transmission case to the engine, has an engine-specific bolt pattern, which appears on its upper surface as cast-in letters. "J" indicates the straight-6 1/2-JZ engine, "U" the V8 UZ engine.
OEM with 2JZ-GTE twin turbocharged engines only. This is the twin turbo only heavy duty version with some internal mods. The main case is similar to the common A340E but not interchangeable, the bell housing has "J3" cast into the upper surface, and is larger diameter to accept the larger torque converter and special flex plate. Maximum power using the stock internals should be limited to 500 (significantly higher than the standard A340E used with the 2JZ-GE normally aspirated engine).
1992-1999 Lexus SC 400 GT-L V8 cdn spec.
The A341F is an A340F with locking/unlocking transfer case differential to allow an AWD mode on the Sequoia.
NOTE: Replaced by A650E for 1998 model year.
I6 and V8 versions similar. However V8 versions have slight internal upgrades to handle the increased torque (35-50LS?).
The AA80E (Aisin TL-80SN) becomes the world's first eight-speed automatic transmission. Smaller parts, a hydraulic circuit with fewer components allow the transmission to maintain the same size as the previous LS 430's unit. The aluminum die-cast case is 10% lighter, yet 30% more rigid, even with two additional gears and a 22% greater torque capacity the new transmission weighs 95 kg or 10% more than the previous unit. With new micro-laser technology gear tooth production tolerances have been reduced 50%. Aluminum has also replaced steel on gear tooth surfaces. Shift times are as low as 350 milliseconds or 41% faster than the previous LS 430's six-speed auto.
The IS F and LS 460 (with sport package) use Sport Direct Shift (SPDS) which allows for faster shift times. The torque converter can lockup from 2nd to 6th gears. Final drive ratio is 2.937.
8-speed automatic 4WD transmission. Same gear ratios as the AA80E but a shorter 3.133 final drive ratio is used.
Pairs with Toyota 2GR-FSE V6 engine.
Torque converter lockup in 4th, 5th and 6th gears. Electronic control. Two overdrives.
Torque converter lockup in 5th and 6th gears.
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HMIS Bengal (J243) was a Bathurst class corvette of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) where she served during World War II.
HMIS Bengal was ordered from Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company, Australia for the Royal Indian Navy in 1940. She was commissioned into the RIN in 1942.
HMIS Bengal was a part of the Eastern Fleet during World War II, and escorted numerous convoys between 1942-45.
On 11 November 1942, Bengal was escorting the Dutch tanker Ondina to the southwest of Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Two Japanese commerce raiders armed with six-inch guns attacked the Ondina. Bengal fired her single four-inch gun, Ondina fired her 102 mm and both scored hits on the Hōkoku Maru which shortly blew up and sank. The other raider, the Aikoku Maru escaped. Although both Bengal and the Ondina were damaged in the action, they reached port safely.
^ Kindell, Don. "EASTERN FLEET - January to June 1943". ADMIRALTY WAR DIARIES of WORLD WAR 2.
^ a b c Visser, Jan (1999–2000). "The Ondina Story". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942.
^ Kindell, Don. "INDIAN OCEAN & SOUTH EAST ASIA, including Burma". CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2.
^ Renamed as INS Bombay post republic.
^ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
^ Renamed as INS Madras post republic.
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vasm, you might want to do some divination on it first, to see if the doll is still "alive" (in the same way a mojo bag, another kind of container spell, is "alive"). If your divination shows that the doll still has some power, feed and care for it as you usually would and resume your work.
Otherwise, bury it with thanks for its service and make a new one.
I am going to be away from my love interest for one week. What can I do to the doll baby so he misses me terribly? In afraid if I keep him in the box with my photo and love herds, he'll feel like I'm still around. I also have a skull candle that seems to be slowly working, however, I don't know if I'll get the chance to light it in the next week.
You would hold the doll love it kiss it and tell him how much he misses you and loves you. Tell him he is being put away to think about you and how much he misses you, wrap him in an item you worn telling him as you do so that you are on his mind.
Okay, thank you. I wasn't sure if that would make him feel like I was always around our not. I'm not having much luck with the doll baby, but the skull candle seems to be making a difference. I burn it for 15 minutes everyday at 3am, but I won't be able to do that for a week. I'll do what you suggested. Thank you!
Try sleeping with the doll, and talking to it frequently. You can work the doll at night just like a skull candle since he is asleep it is easier to influence their mind and thoughts. You can use a photo with it as well. It seems maybe you will be out of town, possible the holiday and not able to work the candles, and I assume then incense or other items. If you can use tobacco puffing a cigar in the dolls face helps transmit the message to them. Working a doll filled with love and thoughts will influence his mind. Working the physical parts of the doll will effect his physical parts. Wrapping it up in your clothing to smell you forces that, binding it binds him etc. He knows you are away but telling him I miss my girl, She is on my mind, she is so beautiful, I cant wait to see her, I need to talk to her etc.
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Hats on heads – I wish it were compulsory! I would have relished living in the days of the well dressed, when a hat was part of daily life and dressing from top to toe was just exactly that.
If you know me, you know of my collection of hats and it has been one of my long time ambitions to learn how make one. Well, I finally got the chance when I met the lovely Dominique Hanke, milliner of Hive Mind Millinery. We hit it off instantly – I think it was the combination of her fascinating fascinator and the fact that she is a fellow Brit. All she had to mention was a few bits about tea, how Canadians don’t understand our accents and that she’d show me how to make a hat – I was sold!
I paid a visit to her home studio to interview her whilst making my very own little (and very charming) chapeux!
When did you start making hats and what made you realize that it was something you were interested in?
Millinery has been a life long fascination, but for a long time it was the wearing that held more interest. Then about 4 or 5 years ago I got bitten by the bug, and it became my mission to find out how to make them for myself.
What’s behind the name “Hive Mind Millnery” and how did it come about?
Ha, it is from my unconscious connection to the “hive” as my husband puts it. I have for as long as I can remember had a fascination with fashion, but I like to think of myself as someone who wears their own style, not so much a fashion follower. However, no mater how much I try to be unique, when I put together an outfit so often I will find with in weeks the same look will be in the high street stores. I obviously absorb the fashion queues with out even realizing.
How would you describe the style of your hats?
I like to think they are a contemporary take on the traditional. They are fun with an edge, but still wearable.
What is the process for making a hat?
The majority of my hats are made using traditional millinery techniques, of hand blocking materials over wooden blocks (many of the blocks are in fact antiques!) using steam, stiffener and my body weight I wrestle the material over and into the desired form. After the material has been tied down it then dries, once dried it is carefully removed from it’s block, the brim or rim is then wired and a head sizing ribbon put in, after that the ribbon and trims are added. Almost all of my sewing is done by hand, creating a truly handmade one-of-a-kind piece.
What are your favorite fabrics to work with and which is your favorite hat that you have made so far?
I love velor felt, the texture and hues of the fabric are so luxurious. As for my favorite hat, that is so hard. I would have to say it is generally the piece I am working on at the time, recently I’ve worked a lot with Crinoline making some stylized fascinators, in perfect time for the races!
Do you think hats should only be worn practically?
No, I think hats should be apart of all outfits, at the very least a head dressing of some kind should be worn. so often these days people dress from the neck down, when our heads are the most prominent part of our bodies. Hats can help you give your outfit that final flair, or give you something to hide behind if you want to be unseen. They are practical but also expressive. So often people use the reasoning “I don’t suit hats”, which is simply untrue, people just don’t know what hat’s to wear. No one says I can’t wear pants they don’t suit me, because we all know we have to find the right style for us. It is the same with hats, you need to try a few styles to find the right one and as with any clothing, sometimes one needs a little help from an expert eye and that is where a good milliner comes in.
If you could choose one celebrity head to place one of your lovely hats on, who would it be?
One… Hmm that’s tough! I would have to go with Daphne Guinness for her willingness to go out of the box with her fashion, yet still remain timelessly graceful.
Do you think a hat says something about the person wearing it?
As much as any item of clothing does we make the choice to wear it so somewhere it defines an element of the wearer. I think people think to much when it comes to wearing hats, I say if you feel it wear it!
He is is the bell of the ball and a shameless camera hog. He is my hat. he is made from a coyote skull and is adorned with feathers, veil and roses. He is what my art is to me – he is evolution, collaboration and drama.
There is much going on at the hive over the coming months, we have some fantastic events coming up with local retailers, as well as several fashion shows and the release of our 2013 spring/summer line. Be sure to keep checking our website and Facebook page for details.
This was a 2 part process, the first was steaming, molding, cutting and pinning the fabric to my chosen hat block. It’s then left to dry for a day or two before the finishing is done!
Dominique shows me how it’s done on a hat she started working on.
Another highlight of this whole experience was this delightful apron I got to wear – it took me back to the yellow apron I used to wear when I made my mom breakfast in bed in my younger days.
Pinning the fabric to the block. Not an easy thing to do – phew!
After my hat had dried I returned to stitch in the piping and sew in the finishing, elastic band and label.
Photographer Ishi (artware_industry) lenses model Masha Novoselova in high impact style for PULP’s current issue.
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My efforts to incorporate the latest technology into my daily life are often met with derision, mostly from my daughter Casey. I’ll do things like use my iPhone to take a video of our puppy, only to be unable to locate the video afterward. “I know I took it,” I’ll tell Casey, and then proudly add, “I even remembered to hold the phone horizontally.” To which Casey will reply, with her customary dad-is-such-an-idiot eye roll, “Oh, give me the friggin’ phone,” and find the video in a nanosecond.
Anyway, this post isn’t about any of that.
You see, I’ve decided that, if I can’t keep up with technology, I’m going to stay up-to-date on something I can keep up with. Like stuff that happened 3,300 years ago. I’m speaking specifically now about the very latest happenings in the life of Queen Nefertiti, who died around 1300 BC, possibly from neck injuries caused by the wearing of enormous headpieces.
Well, big news: she’s still dead!
However, Fox News reports that her burial site may have been found. Fox News is excited about this, because they want to exhume her and prop her up during the next Republican debate, possibly replacing Lindsey Graham, who is somewhat less animated.
The weird thing about Nefertiti’s final resting place is its location. Evidently, it’s behind the final resting place of Tutankhamen, most famous for a hit song by Steve Martin.
Now, when I say “behind,” I don’t mean in a separate building in the parking lot in back of King Tut’s tomb. I mean behind a secret door in King Tut’s tomb.
Of course, the Tut tomb was discovered in 1922 (there I am, staying up-to-date again) by Howard Carter. And it’s difficult to imagine how he, and all the other archaeologists who have been to the site since (not to mention about a thousand tourists a day) managed to miss this door.
Hah. Just a little archaeology humor there. Reeves said he discovered not one but two bricked-up “ghosts” of doorways after examining digital scans of the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb. He believes one of the doorways leads to a little-used storeroom, but the other leads to “the undisturbed burial of the tomb’s rightful owner.” That would be Nefertiti.
Or, as many archaeologists believe, Nefertiti was buried about 250 miles away in Armana, the city established by her husband, who went on to be a luxury clothing designer.
*This was the currency of the time, which I actually endeavored to look up. A deben was a unit of weight, roughly 3.17 ounces and, when used as currency, it was the value of that weight in copper, silver or gold. So, if they used two copper deben to buy the scarab, it cost about $1.12 at today’s exchange rate. If they used silver or gold deben, they should have haggled a lot more.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Armana, deben, Egyptian currency, Howard Carter, King Tut, King Tut song, King Tut’s tomb, Lindsey Graham, Nefertiti, Nicholas Reeves, scarab, Steve Martin, Tutankhamen. Bookmark the permalink.
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For information on program requirements, click on Fields of Study and find your program in the list. You can also search for your program using the search feature on the website.
To contact an advisor, see the departmental list here.
Access Student Services Online (SSOL) here.
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United States Congress. "オリバー・エルスワース (id: E000147)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Using Gmail + Dreamhost as registrar only?
I’m a bit confused, and would love some advice. I have previously transferred my email over to gmail/Google Apps for my Domain (using the Dreamhost Control Panel), and it’s worked splendidly.
Now, I’m not using the web hosting component of my Dreamhost account at all, and would like to just use dreamhost to register my domain. So, today I set it to DNS only. Though Dreamhost no longer seems to be aware of my Google account, my email still works fine.
So, now, the problem: I want to close my hosting account. The panel informs me that if I do this, all my hosting services will go away into the ether forever. But I will still be able to control my DNS registration through Dreamhost. This appears to be exactly what I want. But will it mess up my Google Apps for My Domain stuff? I would be very upset if my email stopped working.
Couldn’t you just re add the proper records for google to your DNS record manually, if needed?
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80%83°75°Thunderstorms with a high of 83 °F (28.3 °C) and a 45% chance of precipitation. Winds variable.Night - Cloudy with a 50% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 76 °F (24.4 °C).
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What a fabulous year it has been… We traveled more in 2015 than ever before and have rocked the faces of many a city AND continent. We also recorded what we think is our best album yet — Are You Listening? will be released in February of 2016.
We are so excited to be finishing up 2015 at Legoland ringing in the New Year with their Kid’s New Year’s Eve party!
Hope to see you in 2016!!
Tagged Kid's New Year's Eve, Kindie Rock, Legoland, The Not-Its!
Today we kicked off the kindiependent Kids Rock Series at the Mount Baker Community Club.
Come see a show and rock out to get your body moving!
To purchase tickets go to http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com.
Tagged Brian Vogan & His Good Buddies, Caspar Babypants, Harmonica Pocket, Johnny Bregar, Kids Rock Series, kindiependent, Mount Baker Community Club, recess monkey, The Not-Its!
Keeping Up With The Not-Its!
After our show in Vegas we went to San Francisco for their annual Tricycle Music Festival. Three of us took the easy route and flew down, but two of us were in charge of driving our equipment down. Trust us, this takes serious packing skills. Two days down and two days back, talk about a serious road trip! We had a great time playing this festival, for the second time, touring the libraries and rocking out with the folks in the Bay Area.
We also had the amazing opportunity to perform from bed (in flannel jammies even!) for #Bedstock to raise awareness for MyMusicRx whose in-hospital and online programs deliver the healing power of music to kids and teens facing cancer and other serious illnesses. Show your support too by sharing this video and donating whatever you can at http://www.mymusicrx.org. Shortly after we got back from SF, we played a show in our neighborhood for the Phinney Ridge Romp — it’s always fun to see familiar faces and hang with the folks from our hood.
Then, it was onto the biggest travel experience of our lives… Our trip to India to play the Buddy Daddy Family Bash near Delhi. A couple of our friends shared the story of our trip on their blogs: The National At-Home Dad Network & City Dads Group — check them out!
Today’s show was at the Seattle Aquarium. We performed alongside a Diving Santa!
We started our day playing at Klahanie Park in Sammamish. This event had a great lineup of bands: our friends Recess Monkey played first, and a super fun oldies band called Wally and the Beavs played after us.
The Getty’s Garden Concerts for Kids!
We spent this weekend playing the Getty Center’s Garden Concerts for Kids. This was easily one of the most breathtakingly beautiful locations we have ever played. The weather was gorgeous and the crowd came ready to rock out with us! We even spied a few pink tutus in the audience!!
This concert series and the extraordinary museum that hosts it is free to the public. These concerts are brilliant because it gives families a reason to bring their little ones out for an afternoon of music and art.
We love that the Getty has made it possible for everyone to enjoy what it has to offer!
Tagged Garden Concert's for Kids, The Getty, The Not-Its!
A little thunder/lightning/hail won’t stop us from rocking out with the good people of Tukwila.
Luckily there was a space for all of us to move inside because… The show must go on!
We’d like to thank the fantastic folks who put on the Tukwila Peanut Butter and Jam Concert Series for keeping us (and those who came out to rock out with us) safe from the weather and for helping bring awesome fun to the kids and families of Tukwila!
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My girl Liz is a consultant, new media entreprenuer, and blogger. She is the former Interactive Project Manager for New Media at KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate. Recently Liz left her position at KCET, to focus on her growing her consulting business, which hopefully will be assisting me soon in redeveloping a web application I built.
Liz earned her Bachelor of Science in Comparative Media Studies from the ‘mecca’ of Science, Technology and Engineering, MIT! In May of this year she received her Graduate Degree in Communication Management with an emphasis in Online Communities from USC’s Annenberg Program for Online Communities.
(9:54:37 PM) Liz Burr: hola!
(9:55:43 PM) Black Web 2.0: Lets start by telling our audience a little about who you are.
(9:56:14 PM) Liz Burr: lol I am bad at this!
(10:00:34 PM) Liz Burr: I am Liz Burr and I am a new media entrepreneur. I recently finished working with KCET, the Los Angeles PBS Affiliate, as an Interactive Project Manager. There I was in charge of all social media initiatives performed by the department. I am also a blogger, though I don’t do as much blogging as I did years ago. Finally, I am the Chief Technology Officer of an emerging hip hop startup.
(10:01:36 PM) Black Web 2.0: What exactly did you do at KCET, what was typical day like?
(10:02:10 PM) Black Web 2.0: What does an Interactive Project Manager do?
(10:04:25 PM) Liz Burr: Truthfully that title was something we (my boss and I) made up because the position was created specifically for me. But, being in charge of social media, I essentially would be either maintaining any current projects, or initiating or consulting others in the department on their projects.
(10:05:56 PM) Liz Burr: This could be anything from writing Product Requirement Documents for a Facebook app, hiring developers and designers for the product, testing the app, or helping my boss write in social media line items for a grant proposal.
(10:07:01 PM) Black Web 2.0: Out of all the projects you did for KCET what was your favorite?
(10:09:49 PM) Liz Burr: I would have to say the Facebook Application I created for our national series, WIRED SCIENCE. It’s my fave because I essentially had my own budget to work with, I was able to hire one of my favorite and most respected designers to design the interface, and alll my years of Facebooking paid off because I was able to use my understanding of the social graph to make a decent product.
(10:10:33 PM) Black Web 2.0: Lets take a step back. When were you first get bitten by the tech bug?
(10:13:11 PM) Liz Burr: I’d say back in 2002. I had recently been initiated into my sorority at MIT (shout out to my sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.), and my chapter needed a new website. Our current one was roughly 4 or 5 years old. I’m not sure exactly why I volunteered to make the site, but I was down to do the research on it. I had never created a website before, and HTML scared me.
(10:13:20 PM) Liz Burr: Actually I know what it was. Blackplanet.
(10:13:59 PM) Liz Burr: I became obsessed with customizing Blackplanet profiles back then. I think that’s what eased my transition into not being so afraid of HTML LOL.
(10:14:01 PM) Liz Burr: Sad but true.
(10:14:56 PM) Liz Burr: Anyway from there I began blogging in early 2003, which also gave me a lot of practice with design and HTML. I was a personal blogger back then, mostly ranting about my life as a college student.
(10:15:34 PM) Black Web 2.0: So what was your orignal career goal when you first entered MIT?
(10:16:06 PM) Liz Burr: Ooh. I originally entered as a Biology major. Tragic. I was in denial about that for a good three years. I know my academic advisor must have hated me.
(10:17:10 PM) Liz Burr: Anyway, I had intended on making Comparative Media Studies my concentration, but I ended up liking the department more than Biology so I eventually switched programs. It was a rough transition, as the department wasn’t a full academic major at the time, but I made it work.
(10:19:11 PM) Black Web 2.0: So after you graduated from MIT, what was your next move?
(10:19:30 PM) Liz Burr: Well, I wanted to get back to California ASAP. I couldn’t deal with the weather.
(10:20:38 PM) Liz Burr: I actually came to LA in hopes of working in television, but at the time I wasn’t ready to pursue it fully. So I got an office job at USC to pay the bills until I figured out what to do next.
(10:21:16 PM) Liz Burr: The IT Director at my job noted my tech skills and one day, I was reassigned to his department. There I did some web and print design work, front end development, and a little bit of product development. I also decided to start a grad program at USC, since tuition was free lol.
(10:24:10 PM) Black Web 2.0: So how close are you to completing your graduate work?
(10:24:31 PM) Liz Burr: I’m done! I finished this past May.
(10:24:36 PM) Black Web 2.0: Nice!
(10:24:49 PM) Black Web 2.0: PHD?
(10:25:55 PM) Black Web 2.0: I feel ya!!
(10:26:25 PM) Black Web 2.0: So now you’re doing consulting work right?
(10:28:11 PM) Liz Burr: I am. I have started my own company where I consult on new media, web development, social media, etc. etc.
(10:28:34 PM) Black Web 2.0: can you talk about some of your past and present clients?
(10:34:04 PM) Black Web 2.0: You also mentioned your positon as CTO of a hip hop startup. Can you talk a little about that?
(10:35:01 PM) Liz Burr: Sure. MyCypher.com is the name of the startup. Essentially it’s a social media platform for the global hip hop community.
(10:35:47 PM) Liz Burr: They were actually one of my earlier clients, and they offered me the CTO position.
(10:36:25 PM) Black Web 2.0: Any idea of a launch date?
(10:37:26 PM) Liz Burr: The entire site should be available this Fall. Some features and content will be available earlier than others.
(10:38:04 PM) Black Web 2.0: Can you talk about the types of businesses you consult for?
(10:39:57 PM) Liz Burr: Oh ok, usually I consult for companies or individuals that own web properties and are looking to expand their presence online. Generally I like to work on application consulting and not necessarily work on blog consulting, but I do both.
(10:40:21 PM) Black Web 2.0: Now it’s time to wrap up with the fun questions!
(10:41:03 PM) Black Web 2.0: Who’s your favorite music artist or band?
(10:41:16 PM) Black Web 2.0: I didn’t see that coming.
(10:41:29 PM) Liz Burr: Hahaha. Most people don’t unless they know me reeeally well.
(10:41:51 PM) Liz Burr: You can check my Last.FM profile for proof tho lol. I am die hard MC all day, everyday.
(10:42:06 PM) Black Web 2.0: Mac or PC?
(10:42:11 PM) Liz Burr: MAC!
(10:42:20 PM) Liz Burr: Though I am quite salty about this iPhone 3G business.
(10:42:30 PM) Black Web 2.0: Why?
(10:43:18 PM) Liz Burr: I had to wait forever in a line because their point of sale process takes forever, only to discover the phone works properly only half the time. It’s just been a lot of headache and drama dealing with this thing.
(10:43:33 PM) Liz Burr: I had more faith in Apple, but they let me down.
(10:44:35 PM) Black Web 2.0: Maybe Steve Jobs will read this, because I know you’re not the only one.
(10:44:45 PM) Liz Burr: hahaha I hope so!
(10:46:03 PM) Liz Burr: Ooh. I am hardly ever not on my computer. I am probably watching a LOT of TV, or reading one of the many books I buy at the bookstore but never read.
(10:47:33 PM) Black Web 2.0: what’s your favorite Mac application?
(10:49:23 PM) Liz Burr: Umm my fave mac app is probably Twhirl. It’s no secret I am a Twitter addict. That’s the app I am constantly using to stay on top of the Twitter happenings.
(10:49:55 PM) Black Web 2.0: is there any other web applications, project, or people you would like to shout out?
(10:53:11 PM) Liz Burr: Applications: Spanning Sync and the Grand Dialer iPhone App (Grand Central users only). Project: VerySmartBrothas.com. People: my mama.
(10:57:20 PM) Black Web 2.0: Well thanks for the interview. We really appreciate you taking out time!
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The North and the circumpolar regions, above 60º latitude, are considered to be one of the less populated areas of the world. This map shows the last numbers on that, distributed by country and organized by percentatge. This is published in Arctic Pollution Issues. A State of the Arctic Environment Report. Stefansson Arctic Institute, 2004. Arctic Human Development Report, and the map was created by Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
Like the Chavchu group of the Chukchi and the Koryak, the Aliutor people were mostly nomadic reindeer-breeders which is exactly what their self-designation, ramkyken, means. The earliest reports of settled off-shore Aliutors date from the end of the 17th century. They called themselves elutel’u. S. Krasheninnikov, who explored Kamchatka in 1755, considered the Aliutors to be a separate ethnic group. Various documents from the 18th century also give separate mention to the Koryaks, Aliutors and Chukchis. In the 1930s the Aliutors were confused with the Koryaks, and both were called nymylan. The name Aliutors, reinstated later, obviously comes from the previous designation of the settled tribes. Hence also, the name of the Oliutor district.
The Aliutors live on the Kamchatka Isthmus in northeast Siberia. Their territory encompasses nearly 15,000 sq. km. stretching from the Karaga Bay of the Bering Sea to Oliutorka (formerly Alutorskoye), and from Rekinniki to Podkagernaya on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea. Administratively, they belong to the Koryak Autonomous District, Kamchatka Region, Russian Federation. From 1930 to 1977 the territory had the status of a National District. Beside the Oliutor District, Aliutors live in the southern part of the Karaga district and the northern part of the Tigil district. The administrative centre is Tilichik (Tyliran) in the Oliutor district. Most of the territory belongs to the zone of woodland tundra. The climate is influenced by both the Bering and the Okhotsk Seas.
No official data on the Aliutor population is available. A report of 1934 mentions them as a sizable ethnic group after the Chavchus. Nowadays, the Oliutor district, like the Koryak Autonomous District displays enormous ethnic variety. In all probability official statistics still do not distinguish the Aliutors from the Koryaks. Their actual number is possibly 2,000 to 3,000.
Anthropologically the Aliutor people, like the Chukchi and the Koryak belong to the mongoloid Northern-Asiatic race. They are characterized by a swarthy complexion, dark eyes and straight hair, a short and stocky figure, a very broad flat face and a conspicuous Mongolian fold. There is little facial hair.
The Aliutor language is a member of the Chukchi-Kamchatka group of the Paleo-Asiatic or Paleo-Siberian languages. Genetically, it is connected to the Chukchi, Koryak, Kerek and Itelmen languages. In the 1930s Aliutor was still unanimously considered one of the four southern dialects of the Koryak language, but since the 1950s, it has been regarded as a separate language. Morphologically, the language most resembles Chukchi. In terms of structure Aliutor is an incorporating or polysynthetic language.
There are three dialects: Ukin, Karaga and Palana, but neither the dialectal division nor the individual dialects have been sufficiently studied. According to P. Skorik, the Karaga and Palana dialects could be classified as cognate languages of Aliutor.
As with the Chukchi language, there are regular pronunciation differences in men’s and women’s usages. Women say ts where men have l or s (e.g. plaku versus ptsaku ‘footwear’). Men’s usage is considered improper for women and vice versa.
Through close contacts with their kindred peoples the Aliutors are able to use their mother tongue to communicate with the Koryak and the Chukchi. The role of Russian has grown since the 1930s and since the 1960s the Aliutors have voluntarily started to change over to the Russian language as this schooling helps them gain work in a Russian environment.
There is no written language. Instead, the Aliutors, who were then considered just a dialect group of the Koryak, used the Koryak written language introduced in 1923. A few articles in the so-called Aliutor dialect were published in a local newspaper. Since 1958, Aliutor has been considered a separate language (P. Skorik), but this has not meant a higher prestige, more attention or more active research. Communication with neighbouring peoples is still in either Koryak or Russian. Russian is also the sole language of education and cultural activities.
All research on the Aliutor people dates from recent times. The first notes on their language were made by S. Stebnitski in 1927. He was also the author of the first survey of the phonetics, morphology and syntax of the language (1934, 1938), but, as everybody else he considered it a Koryak dialect. Any attention hitherto paid to the Aliutor language and its dialectal divisions can hardly be considered sufficient. A survey by I. Vdovin (1956) and a study of the Karaga dialect from the point of view of experimental phonetics made by G. Melnikov (1940) are unpublished. The longest publication available is a chapter dedicated to the Aliutor language by A. Zhukova, published in Vol. 5 of The Languages of the Peoples of the USSR (1968).
The Aliutors have long been considered as part of the Koryak people. Yet the Aliutor reindeer-breeders ramkyken could be distinguished from Chavchus as the Chavchus’ main activities were fishing, and seal hunting, and their herds were not large. So the language and life-style of the ramkyken were more resemblant of those of the settled Aliutors for whom fishing and the hunting of sea animals was the main livelihood.
By the end of the 18th century the resistance of the Kamchatka peoples was broken by Russians. The territories of the Aliutors were also conquered. In the 19th century Russian Orthodox missionaries were followed by Russian merchants. As well as being swindle by the merchants — often pulled off with the help of vodka and promissory lists — the Aliutor people were subjected to the whims and compulsions of Russian bureaucracy.
Major changes were brought about by the establishment of Soviet power in 1923. In 1930, the Koryak National District was formed. Along with the introduction of collectivization the reindeer-breeders were forced to settle down. This had a far-reaching effect on a large part of the Aliutors as well. Their whole life-style changed. New economic relations were woven accompanied by ideological reorientation and the abolishing of illiteracy. Initially, the Aliutors learned the Koryak script, but the use of written Russian gradually came to dominate. A ‘militant atheism’ was propagated to counter shamanism and religion. Russian homes and machines, their education system and traditions in clothing and diet were held up as examples of progress. Nowadays all of these things are constituents of the normal way of life. The use of the Aliutor language and the observance of local customs are derided by Russians who consider such conduct primitive.
The fate of the Aliutors is a sad example of the accumulation of negative phenomena in accompaniment with the advance of civilization. The political and industrial innovations have become a danger not only to the survival of the Aliutors’ own culture but also to their whole physical existence.
The present self-designation aleut was first suggested by the Russians who reached the Aleutian Islands in 1741 during an expedition led by V. Bering. Written sources have used the name since 1747 and gradually it has been adopted by the Aleuts. Final consolidation of the name took place in the first decades of this century. According to G. Menovshchikov the name is derived from an Aleut word allíthuh meaning ‘community; host’. The old self-designation unangan evidently applied to the eastern Aleuts only, meaning probably ‘coastal people’ (K. Bergsland). Local groupings and inhabitants of different islands are known to have also used other names for themselves.
The Aleut people are the native inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, the southwestern part of the Alaskan peninsula and the off-shore islands of Shumagin. Since the beginning of the 19th century there have been resettled Aleuts living on Commander Islands (Bering and Mednyi) which are under Soviet jurisdiction. The Aleut District in the Kamchatka Region was established in 1932. In 1969 the Aleuts of those two islands were gathered to live in Nikolskoye, Bering Island.
In the middle of the 18th century, when Russians first explored the place, the islands were nearly all inhabited. The number of the Aleuts was estimated at approximately 25,000. Mass murder and enslavement of the natives reduced their numbers drastically. According to the data supplied by the missionary I. Veniaminov in 1834 there were less than 2,500 Aleuts left. The 1918 epidemics of smallpox and grippe took a further toll. In 1945 the anthropologist A. Hrolicka estimated the number of Aleuts at about 1,400. Nowadays the world number of the Aleuts is believed to be about 6,000. Part of the Eskimos of southeastern and southern Alaska also consider themselves Aleut. In the 1970s there were about 500 Aleuts living on the Commander Islands, but by 1984 their number had dropped to 300. On the US part of the Aleutian Islands a census was carried out in 1960 according to whose data there were 2,100 Aleut (mostly half-bred) who made up 35 % of the local population.
Anthropologically Aleuts are close to the Eskimo people belonging to the mongoloid Arctic race. Their mingling with other types often emphasized in academic literature is evidently not well grounded. Newer results prove that despite the historical heterogeneity of the Commander Aleuts their genetic structure is Aleut.
The Aleut people were believed to have first arrived on the Aleutian Islands from the coast of northeastern Asia or from Alaska, not earlier than 3,000 years ago. Latest research suggests that the aleuts arrival must have happened considerably earlier. Now the settlement of the Aleutians is associated with the time when there was still a land connection between America and Asia, that is, no later than 10–12 thousand years ago.
The Aleut language, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut languages, is considered as a member of the Paleo-Asiatic group. According to incomplete data the Aleut language can be divided into three dialects: Attu (Western), Atka and Unalaska (Eastern). The differences are small and do not impede mutual intelligibility. The present-day Aleuts are bilingual. The American Aleuts speak English, while the Asiatic Aleuts had already been russified by the beginning of the 19th century.
According to G. Menovshchikov the Aleuts of Bering Island speak the Atka dialect with a well-preserved basic vocabulary and grammatical structure. The version previously used on the Mednyi (Copper) Island was of the Attu dialect. In addition the strong Russian influence has produced a strange pidgin where verbs are conjugated by means of Russian suffixes, etc. Menovshchikov has suggested that the pidgin which is still spoken to a certain extent on Mednyi Island was at one time a lingua franca for Russians and the Aleut people.
Although the Aleut language has relatively much in common with Eskimo languages, the grammatical and lexical differences are considerable. The glotto-chronological method dates the linguistic divergence of the Aleut and the Eskimo peoples as at least 1000–2000 years back. Common developments can be traced in the phonology and word structure, but there are very few common roots in the lexis of the two languages. It is believed that the phonology of Aleut is more ancient than the Eskimo language.
The linguistic and cultural influence of Russian started to make itself felt by the 18th century. By the beginning of the 19th century practically all Aleuts living on Russian territories had been converted to Russian Orthodoxy. This was an efficient means of checking the local culture and language. On Bering Island the Russian influence has not penetrated to grammar yet, but some of it has been noticed in the vocabulary. The inhabitants of Mednyi Island are very much isolated from the remaining Aleut area. Nowadays their ordinary means of communication is Russian. Aleut has been preserved fragmentarily by the older members of but a few families but in general Aleut has receded before Russian.
Another strong wave of Russian swept over the islands during the Soviet period. Many Aleuts have left their native islands in search of better education. Ethnically pure marriages are rare, in most cases the spouse is found among another nation. According to R. Lyapunova the number of Aleuts living at Nikolskoye, Bering Island is about 300. About 200 live elsewhere, mostly on the Kamchatka peninsula. The same author points out that outside their own native islands the half-bred Aleuts refrain from calling themselves Aleut, but returning home they resume their ethnic identity.
The Aleut people have always derived their livelihood from the hunting of sea mammals (seals, fur-seals, etc.) and fishing. In the severe polar conditions the gathering of everything edible was also of great importance. Hunting and fishing gear was made of stone, bone and wood. Family relations were characterized by polygamy (both ways), giving away children to uncles to foster, and the mutual exchange of children.
According to traditional practice the catch and game belonged to the whole community, not to the hunter and his family only. The dwellings were half-earthen and large. Male as well as female clothing was made of animal and bird skins. Mats and baskets woven of grass were popular in every household. Traditional food consisted of the meat of sea mammals and seabirds, fish (eaten raw) and molluscs.
The sources of Russian cultural influence were the Russian administration, the Russian Orthodox Church and the parochial school. Folk art (pantomime dances, for example) still survived, but were practised in jealously guarded secrecy for fear of Russian disparagement.
Nowadays mink-farming and cattle-breeding as well as horticulture have developed in addition to the traditional branches of economy.
Those Aleuts who were forcefully resettled to the Commander Islands had to accommodate their life-style to the local natural conditions. There the winters are colder and there is more snow than on the Aleutian Islands. The inhabited northern part of Bering is just flat tundra, and Mednyi is rocky. New means of transport — the dog harness (also in summer) were introduced.
Nowadays folk culture survives to a certain extent thanks to the Museum of Local Lore, Children’s Art School and a folklore ensemble.
The Aleut people became an object of research following the Russian occupation. The initiative belonged to the missionary I. Veniaminov. Nowadays extensive research projects are under way in the USA. An Aleut writing system with its base the Cyrillic alphabet, was devised in the 19th century by I. Veniaminov and V. Metsvetov. As on Bering Island there was a parochial school (belonging to the Russian-American company), and nearly all adult men could read and write in Russian. In addition there was always a native Aleut around teaching children the same skills in the Aleut language. In 1867 when the Aleutian Islands were ceded to the USA the writing system fell into disuse. The teaching of the Aleut language to the US Aleuts was resumed in the middle of the 1970s only.
It seems that the situation it is very bad for them after the Russian occupation. It may be difficult to reach them during the travel, as they are perhaps hard to locate and contact. By the way, I should start thinking on updating my route map!
In the cliché-ridden propaganda of the Soviet era tsarist Russia was frequently dubbed the “prison of nations”. When the Soviets came into power this “prison”, by virtue of new national policies, transformed into a family of friendly and brotherly nations in whose bosom all the national cultures flourished. To boast of the achievements under the Communist Party leadership, grandiose cultural festivals were arranged in the Soviet republics, folkloristic dance, song and instrumental groups were established and the revival of old peasant culture was encouraged. The slogan “socialist in content, nationalist in form” came to be applied to the new Soviet culture. Behind this deceptive facade of ethnographic originality, the tsarist prison of nations never ceased to exist: russification was carried out on a large scale, nationalist intellectuals were persecuted, a policy of extensive exploitation of land was pursued and nations were continuously resettled and mingled. The desired result was the birth of a new, Russian-speaking “Soviet nation”, and to lay the theoretical foundation for this a whole army of scholars was employed. The evolution of the Soviet nation was seen as the process of history within the cognizance of Marxist-Leninist principles which was as inevitable as the process of life itself.
The recent rapid collapse of the Soviet economic and political system has revealed the consequences of these brutal colonization policies: hundreds of culturally and economically crippled nations, with the smallest of them nearing the crucial point of extinction.
The authors of the present book, who come from a country (Estonia) which has shared the fate of nations in the Russian and Soviet empires, endeavour to publicize the plight of the small nations whose very existence is threatened as a result of recent history. Perhaps it is not too late to give a supporting hand to them without an attempt at either ideological brainwashing or economic exploitation.
PALEO-ASIATIC PEOPLES: Aleuts, Aliutors, Asiatic Eskimos, Chukchis, Itelmens, Kereks, Kets, Koryaks, Nivkhs, Yukaghirs.
MANCHU-TUNGUS PEOPLES: Evens, Evenks, Nanais, Negidals, Orochis, Oroks, Udeghes, Ulchis.
URALIC PEOPLES: Enets, Ingrians, Izhorians, Karelians, Khants, Kola Lapps, Livonians, Mansis, Nenets, Nganasans, Selkups, Veps, Votes.
It seems that my work it has been multiplied now! But I see they use the language as a criteria to stablish the boundaries of a tribe, so I have not been wrong until the date. They offer also a selected bibliography of the different tribes for further research.
I found this article in The Independent newspaper. I do like travel writing, and I recently read some books about Siberia. This one, by Shaun Walker, it is quite interesting too. What a wonderful job, to be a travel writer!
Think our winter’s been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk – the Russian city where ‘a bit nippy’ means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun Walker enjoys amini-break in deepest Siberia.
At minus 5C, the cold is quite refreshing and a light hat and scarf are all that’s required to keep warm. At minus 20C, the moisture in your nostrils freezes, and the cold air starts making it difficult not to cough. At minus 35C, the air will cold enough to numb exposed skin quickly, making frostbite a constant hazard. And at minus 45C, even wearing glasses gets tricky: the metal sticks to your cheeks and will tear off chunks of flesh when you decide to remove them.
I know this because I’ve just arrived in Yakutsk, a place where friendly locals warn you against wearing spectacles outdoors. Yakutsk is a remote city in Eastern Siberia (population 200,000) famous for two things: appearing in the classic board game Risk, and the fact that it can, convincingly, claim to be the coldest city on earth. In January, the most freezing month, average “highs” are around minus 40C; today the temperature is hovering around minus 43C, leaving the city engulfed in an oppressive blanket of freezing fog that restricts visibility to 10 metres. Fur-clad locals scurry through a central square adorned with an icy Christmas tree (left over from the New Year holidays) and a statue of a strident Lenin, with one arm aloft and pointing forward, thoroughly unfazed by the cold.
A couple of weeks ago, Yakutsk hit the headlines after a series of burst pipes caused Artyk and Markha, two nearby villages, to lose their heating for several days. The temperatures then were minus 50C. Television footage of the ensuing “big freeze” showed groups of people huddled in swathes of blankets gathering round makeshift wood-fired stoves to keep warm. It looked like fun – of a sort. So I decided to come to Yakutsk for myself to find out how people manage to survive, and go about something resembling daily life, in the world’s coldest place.
Ainu: [ain] South Sakhalin Island and southern Kuril Islands. Dialects: Sakhalin (Saghilin), Taraika, Hokkaido (Ezo, Yezo), Kuril (Shikotan). Classification: Language Isolate Nearly extinct.
Aleut, Mednyj: [mud] 10 (1995 M. Krauss). Copper Island, Komandor Islands. Alternate names: Medny, Copper, Copper Island Aleut, Attuan, Copper Island Attuan, Creolized Attuan. Classification: Mixed Language, Russian-Aleut Nearly extinct.
Enets, Forest: [enf] 40 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 209 with Tundra Enets (1989 census). Taimyr National Okrug. Along the Yenisei River’s lower course, upstream from Dudinka. The Forest variety is in the Potapovo settlement of the Dudinka Region. Alternate names: Yenisei Samoyedic, Bay Enets, Pe-Bae. Dialects: Forest and Tundra Enets are barely intelligible to each other’s speakers. It is transitional between Yura and Nganasan. For a time it was officially considered part of Nenets. Classification: Uralic, Samoyed Nearly extinct.
Enets, Tundra: [enh] 30 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 209 together with Forest Enets (1990 census). Taimyr National Okrug. Along the Yenisei River’s lower course, upstream from Dudinka. ‘Tundra’ in the Vorontzovo settlement of the Ust-Yenisei Region. Alternate names: Yenisei Samoyedic, Madu, Somatu. Dialects: Tundra and Forest Enets barely intelligible to each other’s speakers. It is transitional between Yura and Nganasan. For a time it was officially considered part of Nenets. Classification: Uralic, Samoyed Nearly extinct.
Karagas: [kim] 25 to 30 (2001). Ethnic population: 730 (1989 census). Siberia, Irkutsk Region. Alternate names: Tofa, Tofalar, Sayan Samoyed, Kamas, Karagass. Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Northern Nearly extinct.
Kerek: [krk] 2 (1997 M. Krauss). There were 200 to 400 speakers in 1900. Ethnic population: 400. Cape Navarin, in Chukot villages. Dialects: Mainypilgino (Majna-Pil’ginskij), Khatyrka (Xatyrskij). Previously considered a dialect of Chukot. Classification: Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Northern, Koryak-Alyutor Nearly extinct.
Orok: [oaa] 30 to 82 in Russia (1995 M. Krauss). Population total all countries: 33 to 85. Ethnic population: 250 to 300 (1995 M. Krauss). Sakhalin Island, Poronajsk District, Poronajsk town, Gastello and Vakhrushev settlements; Nogliki District, Val village, Nogliki settlement. Also spoken in Japan. Alternate names: Oroc, Ulta, Ujlta, Uilta. Dialects: Poronaisk (Southern Orok), Val-Nogliki (Nogliki-Val, Northern Orok). Significant differences between dialects. For a while Orok was officially considered part of Nanai. Classification: Altaic, Tungus, Southern, Southeast, Nanaj Nearly extinct.
Yugh: [yuu] 2 or 3 (1991 G. K. Verner in Kibrik). Nonfluent speakers. Ethnic population: 10 to 15 (1991 G. K. Verner in Kibrik). Turukhan Region of the Krasnoyarsk Krai at the Vorogovo settlement. Previously they lived along the Yenisei River from Yeniseisk to the mouth of the Dupches. Alternate names: Yug. Classification: Yeniseian Nearly extinct.
Yukaghir, Northern: [ykg] 30 to 150 (1995 M. Krauss, 1989 census). Ethnic population: 230 to 1,100 (1995 M. Krauss, 1989 census). Yakutia and the Kamchatka Peninsula. Alternate names: Yukagir, Jukagir, Odul, Tundra, Tundre, Northern Yukagir. Dialects: Distinct from Southern Yukaghir (Kolyma). It may be distantly related to Altaic or Uralic. Classification: Yukaghir Nearly extinct.
Yukaghir, Southern: [yux] 10 to 50 (1995 M. Krauss, 1989 census). Ethnic population: 130 (1995 M. Krauss, 1989 census). Yakutia and the Kamchatka Peninsula. Alternate names: Yukagir, Jukagir, Odul, Kolyma, Kolym, Southern Yukagir. Dialects: Not inherently intelligible with Northern Yukaghir. Classification: Yukaghir Nearly extinct.
Yupik, Naukan: [ynk] 75 (1990 L.D. Kaplan). Ethnic population: 350. Chukota Region, Laurence, Lorino, and Whalen villages, scattered. Formerly spoken in Naukan village and the region surrounding East Cape, Chukot Peninsula, but they have been relocated. Alternate names: Naukan, Naukanski. Dialects: 60% to 70% intelligibility of Chaplino. Classification: Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian.
The Koryaks are the main population of the northern Kamchatka part. They have their own autonomy – the Koryaksky Region. The name of this people as Krasheninnikov and Steller thought originated from “khora” – “deer”. But Kryaks don’t call themselves with this word. The coastal residents call themselves as “nimilany” – “residents of a settled village”. Nomads herding deer called themselves “chavchuvens“, it means “reindeer people”.
For the Chavchuvens reindeer breading was the main, even the only way of living. Deer gave them everything necessary: meat, skin for clothes (reindeer skin for coveralls, footwear) and for building of thansportable dwellings (yarangas), bones were used for making tools and household articles, fat – for dwelling lightening. Deer were a means of conveyance either.
For the Nimilans the main way to survive was fishing. Fish was generally caught in rivers with the help of stinging-nettle (it took about two years to make one net and it was used only for one year). In settled villages marine hunting was the second way of surviving after fishing. Going out to sea on skin covered baydarkas was common. Harbor seal and whales became the target of harpoons, which were tied to the bow, and were killed with stone tip spears. Marine animals, skin was used for boat, ski covering, footwear, bags, sacks and belts. Domestic activities were highly developed – wood and bone carving, metal works, national clothes and carpets making, embroiling with beads, braiding. A lot of such works are displayed at the Museum of Local Lore. Tourists can admire the skillfulness of the masters. The Nimilans lived in groups: in winter – in half-dug-houses, in summer – in booths with their families, they used to catch fish, to hunt, and to pick berries. The Chavchuvens lived in temporary settlements consisting of some skin-covered yarangs. They used to herd reindeer and to dress skin. Hunting and fishing were of the secondary value for them. They migrated on dog- and reindeer-sledges.
The name of the nationality means “living here”. The south bound of settling is the Lopatka Cape. Northern one – the Tigil River on the west coast, the Uka River is on the east coast. Ancient Itlmen settlements were located on the banks of the Kamchatka (Uykoal), Yelovka (Kooch), Bolshaya, Bistraya, Avacha rivers and on the Avacha Harbor coast.
At the end of the 17 – beginning of the 18 centuries, when Russian explorers crossed the central part of Kamchatka, the Itelmens were at the level of disintegration primitive communal system development.
At the settlement consisting of a few half-dug-houses the folk Toyony lived. Some names of Toytony are written on the of Kamchatka. Itelmens life in summer was spent near some water resources and on them. They moved along the rivers in whole-carved boats made mainly of poplar. They caught fish with threshed nettle nets, built trapping dams. Some fish was cooked as yukola, some was burried for some time under the ground. But lack of salt didn’t allow to store much fish.
Hunting was of the same value for this folk – fox, sable, bear, snow sheep; at the coast area – marine animals: sea lion, seal, sea otter. Also gathering was very popular (edible roots, edible and officinal plants, berries). Means of conveyance were made of birch (sledge and cargo sledge with soft belts). The ancient sledges were richly decorated.
The Itelmens ate a lot of fish, preferred baked one (chuprikh) and fish cakes “telno”, they ate young sprouts and runners of Filepinolium Maxim, Heracleum Dulse Fish (processed and ate them only after they acquired stinging power); as a medicine against scurvy they used cedar cones with dry salmon caviar chasing this mixture with tea. Food was seasoned with fat – favorite spice of all northern peoples. Women-Itelmens had a custom to wear wigs. Those who had the most luxurious and the thickest one was highly honored. Those fashionable women never wore hats. Young women did up their heavy black raven-wing-like hair in lot of thin plaits decorating them with small hair wigs in the shape of hats. Perhaps, that’s why the Chukchis and Koryaks might have called the Itelmens kamchadals, because in both languages the word “kamcha” means “curly”, “disheveled”, and “levit” or “lyavit” means “head”.
Itelmens clothes were extraordinary, they were made of sable, fox, snow sheep, dog’s skin with numerous ermine tassels and fluffy edged sleeves, hood, collar and hem. Steller wrote: “:the most beautiful reindeer skin coveralls (kukhlyankas) were decorated on the collars, sleeves and hems with dog’s fur, and on the kaftan (short reindeer skin coverall) was hanged with hundreds of seal’s tassels coloured red, they dangled to and fro at every movement”. Such Itelmens’ clothing made an impression of hairiness.
The Evens and Evenky (tunguses) are similar by culture. The Evens ancestors having come to Kamchatka changed their traditional occupation hunting for reindeer breeding. Russians arriving to Kamchatka called the Evens roaming from place to place along the Okhotsk seaside “lamuts”, it means “living by the sea”. Herdsmen they called “orochi”, it means “reindeer men”. Beside reindeer breeding and hunting the coastal Evens caught fish and hunted marine animals. For fishing they made different kinds of dams and traps. Blacksmith’s work was very popular with the Evens.
The Evens did not wear blind clothes like the Koryaks, Itelmens and Chukcis did, but unlacing ones. Complete set of a man’s wear consisted of a short knee-reaching reindeer parka with running down lapels, trousers, a chest apron put on the parka, knee protectors, furstockings and boots made of reindeer led skin with soles of bearded seal skin. Wearing especially women’s one was decorated with beads. In contrast to other natives of Kamchatka the Evens didn’t use dogsleds and didn’t wear blind clothes.
The Northern Koryaks’ neighbours were the Chukchis, “reindeer men” (chauchu), some of them moved to Kamchatka. As for the household the Chukchi were like the Koryaks – reindeer breeders. A holder of less than 100 reindeer was considered poor and couldn’t keep a herd. Unfortunately, history of these two peoples’ neighbourhood knows a lot of examples of wars for herds. The Chukchis are native Kamchatka people, now a lot of them live here. Like the Koryaks there were the Chukchis who lived in settled villages and provided their living by fishing and hunting for marine animals. The Chukchis are perfect seamen skillfully operating boats on a cold sea. It is well known that their “fleet” used to trade with the Eskimoes launching towards the American shore. Main hunting implements were a bow and arrows, a spear and a harpoon. A bow and a spear were used in hunting for wild reindeer and snow sheep, a harpoon and a lance – in marine hunting. Arrow-, spear- and harpoon-heads were made of bone and stone. In catching all water-fowl and game the Chukchis used bola (an instrument for catching birds on the wing) and pratsha (a military weapon either). The protection armour was made of antlers, walrus’ skin and tusks. Main Chukchis‘ means of conveyance was reindeer, but like the Koryaks and Itelmens they also used dogsledges. On the sea the Chukchis moved in kayaks accommodating 20-30 men. With favorable wind they used square sails made of reindeer suede (rovdugas) like the Koryaks–Nimilans, and for a better balance they tied to board sides stocking-like sealskin, which was filled with air.
The Aleuts – ancient Aleutian Islands natives. They called themselves “unangan”, it means “seaside residents”. Main traditional Aleuts‘ occupations were hunting for marine animals and fishing. For winter the Aleuts stored eggs from birds colonies on the seashore.
The dwellings of the Aleuts were similar to the traditional half-dughouses but slightly different. Among the household articles there were baskets, bags plaited from grass; for storing of fat, yukola, crowberries with fat and so on dry seal stomach was used. On the Bering Island dogsleds became a very popular means of conveyance. For wandering in the mountains the Aleuts of the Medny Island used broad skis covered with seal skin for the nap would help while climbing not to slide down from the mountain.
Illustration from Stepan Krasheninnikov’s Account of the Land of Kamchatka (1755).
The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка) is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km². It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Immediately offshore along the Pacific coast of the peninsula runs the 10,500 meter deep Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.
[…] Muscovite Russia claimed the Kamchatka Peninsula in the 17th century. Ivan Kamchaty, Simon Dezhnev, the Cossack Ivan Rubets and other Russian explorers made exploratory trips to the area during the reign of Tsar Alexis, and returned with tales of a land of fire, rich with fish and fur.
In 1697, Vladimir Atlasov, founder of the Anadyr settlement, led a group of 65 Cossacks and 60 Yukaghir natives to investigate the peninsula. He built two forts along the Kamchatka River which became trading posts for Russian fur trappers. From 1704 to 1706, they settled the Cossack colonies of Verkhne- (upper) and Nizhne- (lower) Kamchatsky. Far away from the eye of their masters, the Cossacks mercilessly ruled the indigenous Kamchadal.
Excesses were such that the North West Administration in Yakutsk sent Atlasov with the authority (and the cannons) to restore government order, but it was too late. The local Cossacks had too much power in their own hands and in 1711 Atlasov was killed. From this time on, Kamchatka became a self-regulating region, with minimal interference from Yakutsk.
By 1713, there were approximately five hundred Cossacks living in the area. Uprisings were common, the largest being in 1731 when the settlement of Nizhnekamchatsky was razed and its inhabitants massacred. The remaining Cossacks regrouped and, reinforced with firearms and cannons, were able to put down the rebellion.
The Second Kamchatka Expedition by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering, in the employ of the Russian Navy, began the “opening” of Kamchatka in earnest, helped by the fact that the government began to use the area as a place of exile. In 1755, Stepan Krasheninnikov published the first detailed description of the peninsula, An Account of the Land of Kamchatka. The Russian government encouraged the commercial activities of the Russian-American Company by granting land to newcomers on the peninsula. By 1812, the indigenous population had fallen to fewer than 3,200, while the Russian population had risen to 2,500.
In 1854, the French and British, who were battling Russian forces on the Crimean Peninsula, attacked Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. During the Siege of Petropavlovsk, 988 men with a mere 68 guns managed successfully to defend the outpost against 6 ships with 206 guns and 2,540 French and British soldiers. Despite the heroic defense, Petropavlovsk was abandoned as a strategic liability after the Anglo-French forces withdrew. The next year when a second enemy force came to attack the port, they found it deserted. Frustrated, the ships bombarded the city and withdrew.
The next fifty years were lean ones for Kamchatka. The military naval port was moved to Ust-Amur and in 1867 Alaska was sold to the United States, making Petropavlovsk obsolete as a transit point for traders and explorers on their way to the American territories. In 1860, Primorsky (Maritime) Region was established and Kamchatka was placed under its jurisdiction. In 1875, the Kuril Islands were ceded to Japan in return for Russian sovereignty over Sakhalin. The Russian population of Kamchatka stayed around 2,500 until the turn of the century, while the native population increased to 5,000.
World War II hardly affected Kamchatka except for its service as a launch site for the invasion of the Kurils in late 1945. After the war, Kamchatka was declared a military zone. Kamchatka remained closed to Russians until 1989 and to foreigners until 1990.
I continue with the posts that place the Arctic circle cultures in the map thanks to Ethnologue website. The two previous ones were about Alaska and Canada on the one hand and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) on the other. will include the Kola peninsula and the territories that border it to have all the Saami languages toghether. I think this will help understanding the family languages.
Republic of Finland, Suomen Tasavalta. 5,214,512. National or official languages: Finnish, Swedish. Literacy rate: 100%. Also includes English (4,500), Northern Kurdish (1,293), Polish, Romanian (1,000), Russian (10,000), Somali (3,103), Spanish, Standard German, Tatar (1,000), Turkish (1,000), Vietnamese, Arabic, Chinese. Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976; B. Comrie 1987; T. Salminen 1987–1998. Blind population: 3,345. Deaf population: 8,000 to 307,333 (1986 Gallaudet University). Deaf institutions: 44. The number of languages listed for Finland is 13. Of those, 12 are living languages and 1 is extinct.
Kingdom of Norway, Kongeriket Norge. 4,574,560. National or official language: Norwegian. Literacy rate: 96% to 100%. Also includes Danish (12,000), English, Finnish (5,358), Northern Kurdish (3,000), Russian (3,000), Spanish (6,500), Swedish (21,000), Tibetan, Urdu, Vietnamese (99,000), Chinese (3,000), from Africa (7,000), from Pakistan (17,000). Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976; B. Comrie 1987; I. Hancock 1991; J. Hupli 1998; B. Winsa 1998. Blind population: 4,000 (1982 WCE). Deaf population: 4,000 to 261,618 (1998). Deaf institutions: 12. The number of languages listed for Norway is 11. Of those, all are living languages.
[sje] Between Saltenfjord and Ranenfjord in Norway. Alternate names: “Lapp”, Pite. Classification: Uralic, Sami, Western, Northern Nearly extinct.
[sia] 8 (2000 T. Salminen). Ethnic population: 100 (1995 M. Krauss). Southwest Kola Peninsula. Alternate names: Ahkkil, Babinsk, Babino. Dialects: Closest to Skolt. Classification: Uralic, Sami, Eastern Nearly extinct.
[sjt] 6 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 400 population (2000 Salminen). Alternate names: “Ter Lappish”, “Lapp”, Saam. Classification: Uralic, Sami, Eastern Nearly extinct.
Kingdom of Sweden, Konungariket Sverige. 8,986,400. National or official language: Swedish. Literacy rate: 99%. Also includes Amharic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Danish (35,000), Estonian (1,560), Greek (50,000), Kirmanjki, Latvian (450), Lithuanian (310), Northern Kurdish (10,000), Serbian (120,000), Somali, Spanish (35,000), Tosk Albanian (4,000), Turkish (20,000), Turoyo (20,000), Western Farsi (35,000), Chinese, people from Iraq (6,000), Eritrea, North Africa. Information mainly from B. Comrie 1987; I. Hancock 1991; E. Haugen 1992; O. Dahl 1996; B. Winsa 1998. Blind population: 15,716. Deaf population: 8,000 to 532,210 (1998). Deaf institutions: 72. The number of languages listed for Sweden is 15. Of those, all are living languages.
[sje] 20 in Sweden (2000 T. Salminen). Ethnic population: 2,000 in Sweden (1995 M. Krauss). Lapland along Pite River in Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur. Also spoken in Norway. Alternate names: Saami, “Lapp”, Pite. Classification: Uralic, Sami, Western, Northern Nearly extinct.
[sju] 20 (2000 T. Salminen). Ethnic population: 1,000 (1995 M. Krauss). Lycksele, Mala, Tärna, and Sorsele, along the Ume River. Probably no speakers in Norway. Alternate names: “Lapp”, Saami, Ume. Classification: Uralic, Sami, Southern Nearly extinct.
As you see, this classification is quite confusing, as the Saami languages are repeated in many countries. This is because the political borders, that cut the Saami lands. I will redo the classification in the future having as a starting point Sápmi and not those countries.
The NWO project “Voices from Tundra and Taiga” started in May 2002 and lasted until June 2005. In a number of subprojects, carried out by different teams throughout the Russian Federation, this project contributed to the strengthening and revitalization of various minor indigenous languages of the Russian North, including Nenets, Nivkh, Yukagir, Khanty, Mansi and others. The project was part of a general research program with the same name.
The topic of the research program “Voices from Tundra and Taiga” is the study of endangered languages and cultures of the Russian Federation, which must be described rapidly before they become extinct. This research is in the fortunate position that our earlier work on the reconstruction technology for old sound recordings found in archives in St. Petersburg has made it possible to compare languages still spoken in the proposed research area to the same languages as they were spoken more than half a century ago. These sound recordings consist of spoken language, folksongs, fairy tales etc., among others in Siberian languages.
In the NWO project we applied the developed techniques to some of the disappearing minority languages and cultures of Russia: Nivkh and Orok on Sakhalin and Yukagir and Tungus languages in Yakutia. Our aim is to set up a phono- and video-library of recorded stories, and of the folklore, singing and oral traditions of the peoples of Sakhalin and Yakutia. For this purpose the existing sound recordings in the archives of Sakhalin and Yakutia are used together with the results of new fieldwork expeditions. The data are added to the existing archive material in St. Petersburg and part of is made available on the Internet and/or CD-ROM.
Spontaneous speech and prepared texts are collected that are valuable for (ethno)linguistic as well as for anthropological, folkloric and ethno-musicological analysis. For that purpose, the data are (video)recorded and analysed as to the art of story telling and language use. Described texts are published in scientific journals and books with audiovisual illustrations on CD-ROM and on the Internet. The materials thus become available for further analysis to researchers working in the field of phonetics, linguistics, anthropology, history, ethno-musicology and folklore. This information is also important for the development of teaching methods for representatives of the related ethnic groups and for the conservation of their language and culture. For this purpose the new centres are equiped with computers, software, sound recorders, literature, etc.
The research and documentation is carried out in close co-operation with local scholars. In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Yakutsk local scholars and their assistants participate in the archiving of the sound recordings and in fieldwork expeditions. They are trained at St. Petersburg State University and specialists from St. Petersburg State University also visit them in order to set up new centres for the study and teaching of local languages and related subjects.
In July 2005, Tjeerd de Graaf presented the final report of the NWO project carried out together with Russian colleagues in the framework of theVoices from Tundra and Taiga research program.The research group received positive reactions, both from scientists as well as from teachers, students, native speakers and local authorities. This applied in particular to Buryatia, one of Russia’s federal republics in Siberia, where Tjeerd de Graaf and his Buryat colleague Ljubov Radnajeva visited several centres in June and July 2005. During special teacher seminars, they reported on the results of their projects and on the use of information technology in language teaching. Scientists and teachers from Buryatia are ready and eager to take an active part in the realization of similar new projects. A proposal for such a project has been prepared and submitted to the INTAS Organisation of the European Union.
According to the latest UNESCO data, the Buryat language is considered an endangered language and is registered in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages. Meanwhile, many Buryat people demonstrate their wish that their children use the native language. Modern educational resources (such as computer-assisted language learning, multimedia teaching material) are almost non-existent in teaching the Buryat language. It should be mentioned that good and promising conditions exist to develop such teaching resources based on information technology. The proposed joint research project will make this possible.
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I started a series of posts linking the information offered by Survival International. This week, I am continuing with Siberia tribes. When I was a child, I heard of Siberia because it was an inhospitable place where people was deported. Even that, its name attracted me. Last year I found an illustrated journal about it, and it surprised me. I think that despite its harshness it is a place worthy of discovering.
Siberia’s 30 different tribal peoples range in number from under 200 (the Oroks) to 34,000 (the Nenet). They live in an area that covers 58% of Russia.
How do they live? Some of these peoples are nomadic reindeer herders, living in the tundra (arctic plain); others, who live in the forest tundra or taiga (coniferous forest), rely on a mixture of reindeer herding and hunting and gathering, and often live in settlements. Today 10% of Siberia’s tribal peoples live a nomadic or semi nomadic life, compared to 70% just 30 years ago. The languages the different tribes speak are from a range of linguistic families: some bear no similarity to any other language, and none bear any relation to Russian. Some larger indigenous peoples, the Sakha (formerly called Yakuts) and Komi, have their own republics within the Russian state.
What problems do they face? Under the Soviet administration, the tribal peoples lost their land to state-run industries. With industrialisation, their region was taken over by outsiders, and the authorities made strong efforts to suppress indigenous languages, culture and ways of life. Today their biggest problems are the environmental degradation caused by the oil, gas and logging industries in the area, and the lack of clarity about land rights.
How does Survival help? Survival supports Russian indigenous organisations such as the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), backing their demands that indigenous peoples are consulted about industrial projects and given the right of veto, and given compensation where their land has already been destroyed. We also support the call for Russia to ratify International Labour Organisation Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples, and specifically for tribal land ownership rights to be recognised.
It is been quite surprising for me to find out how minority tribal rights and environment is binded. How in Siberia, Scandinavia or Labrador they are thrown out of its own lands because they are considered mere power sources.
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Hormones such as the indole hormone, melatonin, are widely distributed in both plant and animal sources. Melatonin can be found in human milk, bananas, beets, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Chemically, melatonin is N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine, a derivative of serotonin, which in turn is derived from tryptophan. Melatonin is a ubiquitous natural neurotransmitter-like compound produced primarily by the pineal gland, and is involved in numerous aspects of the biological and physiologic regulation of body functions. The role of endogenous melatonin in circadian rhythm disturbances and sleep disorders is well established.
Some studies have shown that melatonin may also be involved in breast cancer, fibrocystic breast diseases, and colon cancer. Melatonin has been shown to modify immunity, the stress response, and certain aspects of the aging process. Some studies have demonstrated improvements in sleep disturbances and "sundowning" in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The antioxidant role of melatonin may be of potential benefit for conditions in which oxidative stress is involved in the pathophysiologic processes. The multiplicity of actions and variety of biological effects of melatonin suggest the potential for a range of clinical and wellnessenhancing uses, especially considering that as one ages, the production of this key hormone goes into steady decline. Indeed, for an octogenarian, the amount produced is quite nominal.
Through melatonin release, the pineal gland maintains the internal clock governing the natural rhythms of body function. This apparent clock-setting property of melatonin has led to the suggestiorTthafit is a "chronObiotic"'substance~that‘alters- and potentially normalizes biological rhythms and adjusts the timing of other critical processes and biomolecules (hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.) that, in turn, exert numerous peripheral actions. The sleep-inducing effects of melatonin have advantages over conventional hypnotics, since melatonin, itself, is not a hypnotic drug. Melatonin only induces a natural state of sleepiness, and does not have the adverse side-effects of conventional hypnotics and prescription sleeping aids.
Melatonin has previously been used pharmaceutically, and has been prepared for oral administration (see, e.g., WO 1995/003043). These preparations include melatonin formulated with a cyclodextrin (WO 1999/047175), and as a microemulsion (US Patent No. 5,362,745).
However, the manufacturing of an oral formulation conforming to ICH pharmaceutical guidelines comprising melatonin has been proven difficult (e.g. tablet), which could be due to the intrinsic properties of melatonin. Melatonin exhibits a high degree of agglutination and adhesiveness, which hampers the manufacturing of a homogenous batch of tablets. Moreover, melatonin is poorly soluble in water, which may affect its bioavailability and the release of melatonin in the body.
Many of the conventional manufacturing methods for solid formulations known in the art fail to deliver formulations with a good uniformity of dosage units results. As such, the formulations are not in conformity with the regulatory requirements.
Accordingly, there is a need in the medical and pharmaceutical arts to provide an oral dosage form, preferably as an immediate release formulation, compliant with uniformity of dosage units requirements. This need is met by the method of preparation according to the current invention.
The present invention provides for a method for the manufacturing of a solid formulation according to claim 1. The methodology ensures good uniformity of dosage units results, which is a key requirement according to the pharmaceutical guidelines. In a second aspect, the current invention provides a tablet according to claim 11.
In particular, the current invention is characterized by the following embodiments, which should not be construed as limiting. I. A method for the manufacturing of a solid formulation comprising melatonin as active pharmaceutical ingredient, said method comprises a melatonin dispersion step in one or more intragranular excipients to form a melatonin blend, followed by a wet granulation step. 2: Method according to embodiment 1, whereby said intragranular excipients in the dispersion step are chosen from fillers, binders, disintégrants, and/or glidants. 3. Method according to any one of the embodiments 1 or 2, characterized in that a binder solution is granulated with said melatonin blend. 4. Method according to embodiment 3, characterized in that said wet granulation occurs by means of a high shear granulator, fluidized bed granulator, twin screw granulator. 5. Method according to any one of the previous embodiments, characterized in that said dispersion step comprises the formation of a premix, said premix comprises melatonin and one or more intragranular excipients, followed by a sieving step of said premix and further blending with one or more intragranular excipients to form said melatonin blend. 6. Method according to embodiment 5, characterized in that said sieving is performed by use of a mesh with mesh size between 800 and 1200 micron. 7. Method according to embodiment 6, comprising the following sequence of steps: - dispersion of melatonin with one or more fillers and a glidant; - providing a binder solution; - wet granulation of said melatonin blend with said binder solution; - drying the granulate; - addition of a lubricant to said granulate; and mixing of the final blend. 8. Method according to embodiment 7, whereby said final blend is tableted. 9. Method according to embodiment 7 or 8, characterized in that said ratio between melatonin, glidant and filler is between 1:0.1:4 and 1:0.3:6. 10. Method according to any one of the previous embodiments, characterized in that said melatonin has a particle size distribution determined by laser-diffraction or comparable method as follows: - d(07l ) = L0 prh - d(0.5) = 50 pm - d(0.9) = 210 pm. II. Tablet comprising melatonin, whereby said tablet is an immediate release formulation and whereby said tablet comprises: - between 0.5 and 10% w/w of melatonin; - between 75 and 99% w/w of one or more fillers; - between 0.5 and 5% w/w of one or more binders; - between 0.05 and 0.5% of one or more glidants; and - between 0.25 and 1% w/w of one or more lubricants. 12. Tablet according to embodiment 11, characterized in that the formulation for the tablet is obtained via the method according to any of the embodiments 1 to 10. 13. Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments, characterized in that said filler is selected from cellulose microcrystalline, lactose monohydrate, sucrose, glucose, polyols, calcium carbonate, and/or magnesium stearate, mixtures or derivatives thereof. 14. Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments, whereby said binder is selected from cellulose or modified cellulose such as hydroxycellulose, microcrystalline cellulose; polyethylene glycol; polyvinylpyrrolidone; starch and/or mixtures thereof. 15. Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments, whereby said glidant is selected from (colloidal) silicon dioxide, starch, talc, magnesium stearate and/or a mixture thereof. 15.Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments, comprising particulate melatonin, characterized in that said melatonin has a particle size distribution profile as follows: - d(0.1) = 10 pm - d(0.5) = 50 pm - d(0.9) = 210 pm. 17. Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments, for use in the treatment of sleep problems chosen from delayed sleep phase disorders, primary insomnia for adults aged 55+ and general sleep disorders and treatment of difficulties in sleep initiation and maintenance that are not associated with a medical condition, substance use or concurrent psychological disorder. 18. Tablet according to any one of the previous embodiments 11 to 16, for use irTtlïë_trëatTnenröf7\DHD7“concentration_and/or-attention problems-and/or- hyperactivity.
Figure 1 shows a flowchart of a methodology according to the current invention.
The present invention concerns a solid formulation comprising physically and chemically defined melatonin and a method for production of a solid pharmaceutical formulation. This combination ensures a homogeneous distribution of the melatonin throughout the formulation, a fast disintegration of the tablet and optimal bioavailability of the melatonin.
Melatonin was found to exhibit a high degree of adhesiveness or stickiness when being used in formulations. Moreover, melatonin has a low solubility in aqueous media, therefore solubility/dissolution can potentially be a source of variable absorption with an impact on its pharmacokinetic profile. When administered orally, melatonin shows low and variable bioavailability. With a reported weak basic pKa function of approximately 4.4 to 4.7, melatonin will have different degrees of dissociation and different solubility as it travels through the gastrointestinal tract. Solubility being higher in the stomach and decreasing throughout the intestinal tract as pH increases. Although permeability on the other hand is generally good, it also appears site dependent being very low in the stomach and in increasing order in ileum < jejunum < colon (Tran et al., 2009). Therefore, the amount of melatonin available for absorption into the bloodstream primarily depends on its solubility and the compound has been classified in both class I and class II category according to the Biopharmaceutics Classification System without a common consensus.
The inventors of the current invention have now found that by using a specific production process, a solid formulation which may be used for tablets with a good uniformity of dosage units and pharmacokinetic profile can be obtained.
In the context of the current invention, the term "pharmaceutical" is to be understood as a formulation or composition which is in conformity with the ICH and applicable EU requirements for qualification as a medicament to be authorized by a competent and legally qualified organisation.
In the context of the current invention, the term "dosage units" is to be understood as dosage forms containing a single dose or a part of a dose of drug substance in each unit.
In the context of the current invention, the term "Uniformity of dosage units" is to be understood as the degree of uniformity in the amount of the drug substance among dosage units.
In the context of the current invention, the term "particle size distribution" (PSD) is to be understood as an index (means of expression) indicating what sizes (particle size) of particles are present in what proportions (relative particle amount as a percentage where the total amount of particles is 100 %) in the sample particle group to be measured. Said PSD is defined on the basis of individual points on the cumulative distribution curve, represented as d(O.X) = Y (where X and Y are Arabic numerals), each "d" describing an individual point on the cumulative PSD curve. The number "X" represents the percentage (number, volume, or weight) of particles in the population having a nominal size up to and including "Y". That is, d(0.9) = 41pm is the distribution such that 90% of the particles have a width of this value or less. When 41pm < d(0.9) <81 pm, it means that 90% of the particles conform to a value for width within this range.
The expression "% by weight" or "w/w" (weight percent), here and throughout the description unless otherwise defined, refers to the relative weight of the respective component based on the overall weight of the formulation.
The term "excipient" is to be understood as a natural or synthetic substance formulatedTalongside^he active ingredient of formulation^includecfTor the purpose- of bulking-up formulations that contain active ingredients or to confer a therapeutic enhancement on the active ingredient in the final dosage form, such as facilitating drug absorption or solubility, or to aid in the manufacturing of the formulation.
The term "glidant" is to be understood as a substance which is added to a solid formulation to improve its flowability.
The term "binder" is to be understood as a substance which holds ingredients together, ensuring that tablets and granules can be formed.
The term "filler" or "diluent" is to be understood as a substance which is a diluting agent or for providing substance to a formulation. A filler is generally inactive.
The term "lubricant" is to be understood as a substance which prevents the finished product from adhering to the surface of the tableting equipment.
The term "disintegrant" is to be understood as a substance which facilitates the disintegration of the pharmaceutical product into smaller particles upon exposure to changed environment, e.g. solvent.
The term "intragranular" is used to indicate the constituents of granules formed during a granulation process.
In a first aspect, the current invention provides a method for the manufacturing of a solid formulation comprising melatonin as an active pharmaceutical ingredient.
In particular, said method comprises a melatonin dispersion step in one or more intragranular excipients to form a melatonin blend, followed by a wet granulation step. It was found by the inventors of the current invention that this two-step sequence allows the production of a melatonin formulation with excellent uniformity of dosage units and good disintegration characteristics. Other commonly known methodologies such as direct compression based methodologies or direct wet granulation were found to be inadequate for reaching these goals.
Said intragranular excipients in the dispersion step are preferably chosen from fillers, binders, disintegrants, and/or glidants. In an embodiment, said melatonin blend is comprised of one or more intragranular excipients as listed above. In an other em bod i ment7~sa id~melatori m~b1end~“ is-com p ri sed~of a 11—intra g ran u la r-- excipients as listed afore.
In a preferred embodiment, a binder solution will be granulated with said melatonin blend in a wet granulation step. To that purpose, a suitable binder will be mixed with a solvent, such as (purified) water or acetone. The binder solution is subsequently added to a1 melatonin blend (preferably not comprising any additional binder). The wet granulation preferably occurs by means known in the art such as a fluidized bed granulator, a twin screw granulator or a high shear granulator. In a preferred embodiment, said wet granulation occurs in a high shear granulator. As mentioned, the solvent used during wet granulation is preferably water or an organic solvent such as aceton. By preference, water is used as solvent, as organic solvents may be hazardous during production.
In a preferred embodiment, the melatonin blend is achieved via a two-step dispersion. First, a premix is formed. Such premix comprises melatonin and one or more intragranuiar excipients. Suitable excipients are e.g. one or more fillers and/or a glidant. The premix is formed by blending of a suitable amount of ingredients. Subsequently, said premix is sieved to attribute to favorable compression characteristics. Finally, said premix is further blended with one or more intragranuiar excipients. It will be understood for a skilled person that such premix may comprise of various suitable intragranuiar excipients. For instance, a possible premix may comprise of melatonin and a filler. In another embodiment, said premix may comprise of melatonin, one or more fillers and a glidant or a disintegrant. It will also be understood for a skilled person that the premix may comprise only a subamount of the total amount of a certain intragranuiar excipient to be used in the formulation. Any remaining parts may be added after sieving to form the melatonin blend.
In one aspect of the invention, the ratio between melatonin and intragranuiar excipients in the premix will be between 1:2 and 1:8, more preferably between 1:4 and 1:6. In a further, more preferred embodiment, the extragranular excipients comprise a filler and a glidant/disintegrant, whereby the ratio between melatonin, glidant or disintegrant and filler is between 1:0.1:4 and 1:0.3:6, more preferably 1:0.2:5.
After granulation, the obtained granules are dried, e.g. by means of a fluid bed granulator and optionally sieved again to remove unwanted big particulates. Subsequently, further extragranular excipients may be added to the granules. In a preferred embodiment, a lubricant is added. In another or further embodiment, artificial sweeteners or flavors can be added. The extragranular excipients are blended with the granules, e.g. in a Y-cone mixer. A preferred embodiment of the current invention comprises the following steps: - dispersion of melatonin with one or more fillers and a glidant; - providing a granulation or binder solution, said solution comprising a binder; - wet granulation of said melatonin blend with said solution; - drying the granulate; - addition of a lubricant to said granulate; and - mixing of the final blend.
The dosage form of the invention may be a capsule containing the formulation, preferably a powdered or granulated solid composition of the invention. The shell may be made from gelatin or hydroxypropylmethylcellulose and optionally contain a plasticizer such as glycerin and sorbitol, and an opacifying agent and/or colorant.
In a preferred embodiment, the active ingredient according to the current invention is formulated in a tablet, e.g. a tablet of between 50 and 200 mg, preferably 100 to 110 mg.
Finally, the formulation is tableted. Tableting occurs preferably by use of a compression force which is between 10 kN and 15 kN. It was found that the latter range does not influence the dissolution profile.
The melatonin used in the current invention preferably has a well-defined particle size distribution determined by laser-diffraction or comparable method. In an embodiment of the current invention, said melatonin has a particle size distribution (PSD) of d(0.9)> 210 pm as determined by laser-diffraction method.
In another or further embodiment, said melatonin has a particle size distribution of d(0.5)> 50 pm. In a more preferred embodiment, said PSD of melatonin is within the following range: d(0.5) = about 5 pm to 50 pm.
Preferably, the melatonin in the formulation according to the current invention has a particle size distribution profile as follows: - d(0.1) = about 0.5 pm to 10 pm - d(0.5) = about 5 pm to 50 pm - d(0.9) = about 60 pm to 210 pm.
The PSD of the solid particulate melatonin of the invention is preferably determined using the well-known laser diffraction method. The laser-diffraction method (low angle laser light scattering) is sensitive to the volume of a particle and provides a volume-average particle size, which is equivalent to the weight-average particle size if the density is constant. In some instances, particle size determination by laser diffraction employs the so-called Fraunhofer approximation - based on projected area - which includes the assumptions that particles size is not smaller than the wavelength of light constant scattering efficiency, and particle opacity. The "Mastersizer S" from Malvern Instruments equipped with a small cell dispersion unit is an example of a laser-diffraction particle size analyzer useful in determining the PSD of solid particulate melatonin of the present invention. However, any laser diffraction method that will give an accurate result can be used.
The small and large particle size solid particulate, melatonin can be prepared by conventional techniques. For example, after being characterized for size in its raw state, the melatonin may be milled, for example using a pin mill under suitable conditions of mill rotation rate and feed rate, to bring the particle size value within a desirable range. The efficiency of the milling may be monitored by sampling. If a first pass through the mill fails to produce the required size distribution, then one or more further passes are effected. Other milling methods are also suitable, including, a variety of milling techniques, such as hammer or fluid energy mills.
It is postulated that a more homogenous distribution of melatonin in the solid formulation is achieved, which positively affects the uniformity of dosage units and possibly also the bioavailability of the melatonin.
In a second aspect, the current invention is directed to a tablet comprising melatonin. The tablet may be a slow- or prolonged release or immediate release formulation. For the purpose of the current invention, said prolonged release is to be understood as a formulation which only gradually releases its active ingredient in the bloodstream of a patient, e.g. over a period of 4 to 12 hours.
Preferably, said tablet is an immediate release formulation. Said immediate release is to be understood as a formulation which releases the active ingredient in a time period of no more than 0.5 hour, occurring in the blood stream of the patient, in typically less than 60 minutes. It. was found by the inventors of the current invention that an immediate release formulation more closely mimics the naturally occurring kinetics of endogenous melatonin, e.g. when used for sleep problems.
The tablet according to the current invention has preferably the following composition: - between 0.5 and 10% w/w of melatonin; - between 75 and 99% w/w of one or more fillers; - between 0.5 and 5% w/w of one or more binders; - between 0.05 and 0.5% of one or more glidants; and - between 0.25 and 1% w/w of one or more lubricants.
The inventors of the current invention found that the latter composition is therapeutically effective, provides a good bio-availability and provides a good uniformity of dosage units results, necessary for pharmaceutical compositions. Hence, the composition is in conformity with the relevant regulatory requirements. By preference, the tablet is obtained via the method as described above. A unit dose may comprise between 0.1 and 10 mg, more preferably between 0.5 and 7.5 mg melatonin, more preferably between 1 and 5 mg, such as 1, 3 or 5 mg of melatonin. —As-mentioned-aboverthe-particulate-melatonin preferably-has~a specific'particle size distribution. It is postulated by the inventors that such particle size distribution has a positive influence on the uniformity of dosage units results, and the bio-availability of melatonin.
By preference, said melatonin has a particle size distribution (PSD) in said tablet of d(0.9)> 210 pm as determined by laser-diffraction method. In a further preferred embodiment, said PSD of melatonin is within the following range: d(0.9)= about 60 pm to 210 pm.
In yet another or further embodiment, said melatonin has a particle size distribution of d(0.1)> 10 pm. In a further preferred embodiment, said PSD of melatonin is within the following range: d(0.1) = about 0.5 pm to 10 pm.
Preferably, the melatonin in the tablet according to the current invention has a particle size distribution profile as follows: - d(0.1) = about 0.5 pm to 10 pm - d(0.5) = about 5 pm to 50 pm - d(0.9) = about 60 pm to 210 pm.
In addition to the active ingredient(s), in the current case melatonin, the formulation of the invention contains one or more excipients. Excipients are added to the formulation for a variety of purposes. By preference, said excipients - are chosen from fillers, binders, disintegrants, sweeteners, coatings, lubricants and/or glidants.
Diluents or fillers increase the bulk of a solid pharmaceutical composition, and may make a pharmaceutical dosage form containing the composition easier for the patient and care giver to handle. Diluents suitable for tablets according to the current invention include, for example, microcrystalline cellulose (e.g. Avicel®), microfine cellulose, lactose, starch, pregelatinized starch, calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, sugar, dextrates, dextrin, dextrose, dibasic calcium phosphate dihydrate, tribasic calcium phosphate, kaolin, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide/ maltodextrin, mannitöir^polymëthacrylates-(e.g^Eudragit®), potassium- chloride, powdered cellulose, sodium chloride, sorbitol and talc.
In a preferred embodiment, said filler is selected from cellulose microcrystalline, lactose monohydrate, sucrose, glucose, polyols, calcium carbonate, and/or magnesium stearate, mixtures or derivatives thereof.
Solid formulations that are compacted into a dosage form, such as a tablet, may include excipients whose functions include helping to contain the active ingredient-and other excipients together after compression. Suitable binders include acacia, alginic acid, carbomer (e.g. carbopol), carboxymethylcellulose sodium, dextrin, ethyl cellulose, gelatin, guar gum, hydrogenated vegetable oil, hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropy! cellulose (e.g. Klucel®), hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (e.g. Methocel®), liquid glucose, magnesium aluminum silicate, maltodextrin, methylcellulose, polymethacrylates, povidone (e.g. Kollidon®, Plasdone®, pregelatinized starch, sodium alginate and starch.
In a preferred embodiment, said binder is selected from cellulose or modified cellulose such as hydroxycellulose, microcrystalline cellulose; polyethylene glycol; polyvinylpyrrolidone; starch and/or mixtures thereof.
The dissolution rate of a compacted solid pharmaceutical composition in the patient's stomach may be increased by the addition of a disintegrant to the composition. Suitable disintegrants include alginic acid, carboxymethylcellulose calcium, carboxymethylcellulose sodium (e.g. Ac-Di-Sol®, Primellose®), colloidal silicon dioxide, croscarmellose sodium, crospovidone (e.g. Kollidon®, Polyplasdone®), guar gum, magnesium aluminum silicate, methyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, polacrilin potassium, powdered cellulose, pregelatinized starch, sodium alginate, sodium starch glycolate (e.g. Explotab®) and starch.
In a preferred embodiment, said glidant is selected from (colloidal) silicon dioxide, starch or talc.
When a dosage form such as a tablet is made by the compaction of a powdered composition, the composition is subjected to pressure from a punch and dye. Some excipients and active ingredients have a tendency to adhere to the surfaces of the punch and dye, which can cause the product to have pitting and other surface irregularities. A lubricant can be added to the composition to reduce adhesion and ease the release of the product from the dye. Lubricants include magnesium stearate, calcium stearate, glyceryl monostearate, glyceryl palrnitostearate, hydrogenated castor oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, mineral oil, polyethylene glycol, sodium benzoate, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium stearyl furmarate, stearic acid, talc and zinc stearate. Preferably, said lubricant is present in between 0.25 and 1% w/w by weight.
Flavoring agents and flavor enhancers make the dosage form more palatable to the patient. Common flavoring agents and flavor enhancers for pharmaceutical products that may be included in the composition of the present invention include maltol, vanillin, ethyl vanillin, menthol, citric acid, fumaric acid, ethyl maltol and tartaric acid.
Solid compositions may. also be dyed using any pharmaceutically acceptable colorant to improve their appearance and/or facilitate, patient identification of the product and unit dosage level.
The tablet according to the current invention is particularly suitable for use in the following medical indications and uses: - for use in the treatment of sleep problems chosen from delayed sleep phase disorders (DSPS), primary insomnia for adults aged 55+ and general sleep disorders; - for use in the treatment of difficulties in sleep initiation and maintenance that are not associated with a medical condition, substance use or concurrent psychological disorder; - for use in the treatment of ADHD, insomnia due to ADHD, concentration and/or attention problems and/or hyperactivity; ~for use in tile-treatment of insomnia dne to certain~high—blood pressure medications called beta-blockers; - for use against sleep problems in children with developmental disorders including autism, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disabilities; - for use as a sleep aid after discontinuing the use of benzodiazepine drugs; - for reducing the side effects of stopping smoking; - for use in the treatment of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease; - for use in the treatment of depression, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, migraine and other headaches, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), bone loss (osteoporosis), a movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia (TD), epilepsy, as an anti-aging agent; - for use in the treatment of the symptoms of menopause; - for lowering the side effects of cancer treatment (chemotherapy) including weight loss, nerve pain, weakness, and a lowered number of dot-forming cells (thrombocytopenia); - for use in the calming of people before they are given anesthesia for surgery; - other uses included macular degeneration, glaucoma, protection of the gastric mucosa, irritable bowel syndrome, arterial hypertension, diabetes, side effects of chemotherapy and radiation in cancer patients or hemodialysis in patients with renal insufficiency.
By preference, the daily dose for the uses as given above will be between 1 to 10 mg, more preferably between 1 and 5 mg, more preferably between 1 and 3 mg, by preference once daily, for instance shortly before bedtime.
The invention is further described by the following non-limiting examples which further illustrate the invention, and are not intended to, nor should they be interpreted to, limit the scope of the invention.
An experiment was set up to identify the most optimal manufacturing process for melatonin formulations, offering good uniformity of dosage units results.
The following protocols were used: PI: direct compression of the ingredients P'2: additiorTof a disintegrant to the~composition~used in Plrdirect~compression- P3: wet granulation including binder and a disintegrant P4: wet granulation P5: wet granulation using ethanol as solvent P6: wet granulation using acetone as solvent. Melatonin and binder are dissolved in acetone. P7: wet granulation using water as solvent; the binder being dissolved in water. P8: wet granulation using a mixture of ethanol and water. P9: dispersion of melatonin with part of the excipients by using a knife mill. One part of the mixture was used in a direct compression process (P9a), a second part was used in a wet granulation process using water as solvent (P9b). P10: similar set up as P9, but with higher melatonin content.
The compositions used are shown in Table 1.
The different manufacturing protocols as described above were performed and the resulting formulation or tablet was tested for its drug liberation properties and uniformity of dosage units.
The following results were achieved (Table 2 and 3). Uniformity of Dosage Units test is executed according to the European Pharmacopoeia monograph 2.9.40. Compliance is demonstrated by measuring the Content Uniformity. To that end a state of the art High Pressure Liquid Chromatography method was developed. The requirements of this method comprise of a C18 column (150/4.6mm- 5 pm), flow lml/min, isocratic mobile phase composed of acetonitrile phosphate buffer (25/75), whereby the run is at a constant ambient temperature. The injection volume is 10 μΙ. Compound detection is carried out at 222nm. Validation of analytical method for the identification and the assay of melatonin in Melatonin tablets was carried out according to a written protocol following the ICH Q2 (Rl) guideline (Validation and analytical procedures: text and methodology). Validation was carried out in a high resolution liquid chromatograph, according to Good Laboratory Practices. The method was verified to be selective for the active substance melatonin, as well as linear in the range established, precise and accurate.
(*) Active ingredient as a % of the label daim=100% (**) Acceptance Value, as in accordance with Ph.Eur. 2.9.40 > To summarize, none of the batches of PI to P4 and P7 to P8 showed satisfying results with regard to the uniformity of dosage units (having AV values above 15). P5 and P6 pass the test. The results from our formulation experiments show that there is a relationship between the dissolution of melatonin and the uniformity of dosage units.
An optimal formulation is obtained by dissolving melatonin in acetone, which ) completely dissolves and optimally disperses the melatonin. However, use of acetone or ethanol is strongly discouraged in the framework of industrial production of pharmaceutical formulations, due to safety risks. P9a, P9b and PlOa and 10b comply with the uniformity of dosage units test. The AV i value is less than 15. Good dissolution profiles were observed (data not shown).
Within 15 minutes, more than 85% of the drug substance was dissolved.
The results show that dispersing melatonin gives the best results and is the most desired process to implement in a large manufacturing plant. However, direct ) compression (P9a, PlOa) presents a lower assay value than wet granulation process.
The difference could not be justified with API weighing mistakes or API loss during the dispersion process because both were based on the same premix. Additional experiments have demonstrated that the-latterwasnnherent-ttrthe-process of direct- compression and was not due to e.g. unwanted drug adsorption to plastic surfaces i (data not shown).
Therefore, in the exclusion of the use of organic solvents, only melatonin dispersion, combined with a wet granulation step is shown to give the desired results.
An analysis was conducted in order to analyze the effects of a formulation according to the current invention on sleep and insomnia (1 mg melatonin, taken 1 hour before i bedtime). 284 subjects were included, the study was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Objective measures of sleep evaluation were used. The analysis showed that the formulation was effective considering the three objective criteria proposed by the EMA for the evaluation hypnotic drugs. Consequently, the formulation is useful in treating insomnia, particularly in aged individuals with I nocturnal melatonin deficiency or with an abnormal pattern of melatonin secretion.
Example 3: Use of the formulation against ADHD A total of 100 medication-free children, ages 6 to 12 years, with rigorously diagnosed i ADHD and chronic sleep onset insomnia participated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial using 3 or 6 mg melatonin (depending on body weight) with a tablet according to the current invention, or placebo for 4 weeks. Primary outcome parameters were actigraphy-derived sleep onset, total time asleep, and salivary dim light melatonin onset.
Melatonin was shown to advance circadian rhythms of sleep-wake and endogenous melatonin and enhanced total time asleep in children with ADHD and chronic sleep onset insomnia. Sleep onset generally advanced by 30 minutes to 1 hour in the melatonin treated population, compared to a delay of 10 to 40 minutes with placebo. ! Further, an effect on problem behavior, cognitive performance, or quality of life was observed.
(*) Not present in finished product.
1. Een werkwijze voor het vervaardigen van een vaste formulering omvattende melatonine als actief farmaceutisch ingrediënt, deze werkwijze omvat een melatonine dispersiestap omvattende vorming van een voormengsel van melatonine en één of meer intragranulaire hulpstoffen, en het toevoegen van intragranulaire hulpstoffen aan het voormengsel om een melatoninemengsel te vormen, gevolgd door een natte granulatiestap. 1. A method for the manufacture of a solid formulation comprising melatonin as the active pharmaceutical ingredient, this method involves a melatonin dispersion step comprising forming a premix of melatonin and one or more intragranular excipients, and the addition of intragranular excipients, to the premix to a melatonin mixture to be formed, followed by a wet granulation step.
2. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 1, waarbij de intragranulaire hulpstoffen in de dispersiestap worden gekozen uit vulstoffen, bindmiddelen, desintegratiemiddelen, en/of glijmiddelen. 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the intra-granular excipients are chosen in the dispersion of fillers, binders, disintegrating agents, and / or glidants.
3. Werkwijze volgens één der conclusies 1 of 2, met het kenmerk, dat een bindmiddeloplossing wordt gegranuleerd met het melatoninemengsel. 3. A method according to any one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that a binder solution is granulated with the melatonin mixture.
4. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 3, met het kenmerk, dat de natte granulatie gebeurt door middel van een high shear granulator, werveldbed granulator of dubbelschroef-granulator. 4. A method according to claim 3, characterized in that the wet granulation is carried out by means of a high shear granulator, werveldbed granulator or twin-screw granulator.
5. Werkwijze volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, met het kenmerk, dat de dispersiestap gevolgd wordt door een zeefstap van het voormengsel. 5. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the dispersion step is followed by a step of sieving the premix.
6. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 5, met het kenmerk, dat het zeven wordt uitgevoerd met behulp van een maas met een maaswijdte tussen 800 en 1200 micron. 6. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that the sifting is carried out with the aid of a mesh with a mesh size of between 800 and 1200 microns.
7. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 6, omvattende de volgende volgorde van stappen: - het dispergeren van melatonine met één of meer vulstoffen en een glijmiddel; 7. A method according to claim 6, comprising the following sequence of steps: - dispersing of melatonin with one or more fillers, and a lubricant; - het voorzien van een bindmiddeloplossing; - it is provided with a binder solution; het nat granuleren van het melatoninemengsel met de bindmiddeloplossing; wet granulating melatonin the mixture with the binder solution; - het drogen van het granulaat; - drying the granulate; - het toevoegen van een smeermiddel aan het granulaat; - adding a lubricant to the granulate; en het mengen van het resulterende mengsel. and mixing the resulting mixture.
8. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 7, waarbij het uiteindelijke mengsel wordt getabletteerd. 8. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the final mixture is tabletted.
9. Werkwijze volgens conclusie 7 of 8, met het kenmerk, dat de verhouding tussen melatonine, glijmiddel en vulstof tussen 1: 0,1:4 en 1:0,3:6 is tijdens de dispersiestap. 9. A method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the ratio between melatonin, lubricant and filler is between 1: 0.1: 4 and 1: 0,3: 6, during the dispersion step.
10. Werkwijze volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, met het kenmerk, dat de melatonine een deeltjesgrootteverdeling heeft bepaald door laserdiffractie of vergelijkbare methode als volgt: - d(0,l) = 10 pm - d(0,5) = 50 pm - d(0,9) = 210 pm. 10. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the melatonin has determined a particle size distribution by laser diffraction or equivalent method as follows: - d (0, l) = 10 pm - d (0.5) = 50 pm - d (0.9) = 210 microns.
11. Tablet omvattende melatonine, waarbij de tablet een formulering met onmiddellijke afgifte is en waarbij de tablet omvat: - tussen 0,5 en 10% gew/gew van melatonine; 11. A tablet comprising melatonin, wherein the tablet is an immediate release formulation, and wherein the tablet comprises: - between 0.5 and 10% w / w of melatonin; - tussen 75 en 99% gew/gew van één of meer vulstoffen; - between 75 and 99% w / w of one or more fillers; - tussen 0,5 en 5% gew/gew van één of meer bindmiddelen; - between 0.5 and 5% w / w of one or more binders; - tussen 0,05 en 0,5% van één of meer glijmiddelen; - between 0.05 and 0.5% of one or more lubricants; en - tussen 0,25 en 1% gew/gew van één of meer smeermiddelen. and - between 0.25 and 1% w / w of one or more lubricants.
12. Tablet volgens conclusie 11, met het kenmerk, dat de formulering voor de tablet wordt verkregen via de werkwijze volgens één der conclusies 1 tot 10. 12. A tablet according to claim 11, characterized in that the formulation for the tablet is obtained by the method according to any one of claims 1 to 10.
13. Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, met het kenmerk, dat de vulstof wordt gekozen uit microkristallijne cellulose, lactosemonohydraat, sucrose, glucose, polyolen, calciumcarbonaat en/of magnesiumstearaat, mengsels of derivaten daarvan. 13. A tablet according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the filler is selected from microcrystalline cellulose, lactose monohydrate, sucrose, glucose, polyols, calcium carbonate and / or magnesium stearate, mixtures or derivatives thereof.
14. Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, waarbij het bindmiddel wordt gekozen uit cellulose of gemodificeerde cellulose zoals hydroxycellulose, microkristallijne cellulose; 14. A tablet according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the binder is selected from cellulose or modified cellulose, such as hydroxy cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose; polyethyleenglycol; polyethylene glycol; polyvinylpyrrolidon; polyvinyl pyrrolidone; zetmeel en/of mengsels daarvan. starch and / or mixtures thereof.
15. Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, waarbij het glijmiddel gekozen wordt uit (colloïdaal) siliciumdioxide, zetmeel, talk, magnesiumstearaat en/of een mengsel daarvan. 15. A tablet according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the lubricant is selected from (colloidal) silicon dioxide, starch, talc, magnesium stearate and / or a mixture thereof.
16. Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, omvattende melatonine, met het kenmerk, dat de melatonine een deeltjesgrootteverdelingsprofiel heeft als volgt: - d(0,l) = 10 pm - d(0,5) = 50 pm - d(0,9) = 210 pm. 16. A tablet according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising melatonin, characterized in that the melatonin has a particle size distribution profile as follows: - d (0, l) = 10 pm - d (0.5) = 50 pm - d (0, 9) = 210 pm.
17. Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies, voor gebruik bij de behandeling van slaapproblemen gekozen uit slaapritmestoornissen, primaire insomnia voor volwassenen van 55+ en algemene slaapstoornissen en behandeling van problemen met slaap initiatie en onderhoud die niet worden geassocieerd met een medische aandoening, middelengebruik of psychische stoornis. 17. A tablet according to any one of the preceding claims, for use in the treatment of sleeping disorders selected from circadian rhythm sleep disorder, primary insomnia for adults of 55 + and general sleep disorders, and treatment of problems with sleep initiation and maintenance that is not associated with a medical condition, substance use, or Mental disorder.
18.Tablet volgens één der voorgaande conclusies 11 tot 16, voor gebruik bij de behandeling van ADHD, concentratie- en/of aandachtsproblemen en/of hyperactiviteit. 18.Tablet according to any one of the preceding claims 11 to 16, for use in the treatment of ADHD, concentration and / or inattention and / or hyperactivity.
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Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled, ground, or other) to specific sizes or shapes. Color, texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are also normal requirements. Another important selection criterion is durability: the time measure of the ability of dimension stone to endure and to maintain its essential and distinctive characteristics of strength, resistance to decay, and appearance.
Quarries that produce dimension stone or crushed stone (used as construction aggregate) are interconvertible. Since most quarries can produce either one, a crushed stone quarry can be converted to dimension stone production. However, first the stone shattered by heavy and indiscriminate blasting must be removed. Dimension stone is separated by more precise and delicate techniques, such as diamond wire saws, diamond belt saws, burners (jet-piercers), or light and selective blasting with Primacord, a weak explosive.
A variety of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are used as structural and decorative dimension stone. These rock types are more commonly known as granite, limestone, marble, travertine, quartz-based stone (sandstone, quartzite) and slate. Other varieties of dimension stone that are normally considered to be special minor types include alabaster (massive gypsum), soapstone (massive talc), serpentine and various products fashioned from natural stone.
A variety of finishes can be applied to dimension stone to achieve diverse architectural and aesthetic effects. These finishes include, but are not limited to, the following. A polished finish gives the surface a high luster and strong reflection of incident light (almost mirror-like). A honed finish provides a smooth, satin-like ("eggshell"), nonreflective surface. More textured finishes include brush-hammered, sandblasted, and thermal. A brush-hammered finish, similar to a houndstooth pattern, creates a rough, but uniformly patterned surface with impact tools varying in coarseness. A sandblasted surface provides an irregular pitted surface by impacting sand or metal particles at high velocity against a stone surface. A thermal (or flamed) finish produces a textured, nonreflective surface with only a few reflections from cleavage faces, by applying a high-temperature flame. This finish may change the natural color of the stone depending on mineralogical composition, particularly with stones containing higher levels of iron.
The most easily accessible general (non-graphic) references are the latest Minerals Yearbook Chapter (production and foreign trade, with statistics), and the latest (Issue 31) Dimension Stone Advocate News (new "building green" developments and demand statistics); see below. The most comprehensive, graphic references are Natural Stone Database by Abraxas Verlag (www.natural-stone-database.com), "Dimension Stones of the World, Volumes I & II" (Marble Institute of America) and "Natural Stones Worldwide CD" .
Rough cut slabs of granite dimension stone.
While common colors used in some of the major applications are listed below, there is an extraordinarily wide range of colours, available in thousands of patterns. These patterns are created by geological phenomena such as mineral grains, inclusions, veins, cavity fillings, blebs, and streaks. In addition, rocks and stones not normally classed as dimension stone are sometimes selected for these applications. These can include jade, agate, and jasper.
Stone (usually granite) countertops and bathroom vanities both involve a finished slab of stone, usually polished but sometimes with another finish (such as honed or sandblasted). Industry standard thicknesses in the United States are 3/4" (2 cm) and 1.25" (3 cm). Often 2 cm slabs will be laminated at the edge to create the appearance of a thicker edge profile. The slabs are cut to fit the top of the kitchen or bathroom cabinet, by measuring, templating or digital templating. Countertop slabs are commonly sawn from rough blocks of stone by reciprocating gangsaws using steel shot as abrasive. More modern technology utilizes diamond wire saws which use less water and energy. Multi-wire saws with as many as 60 wires can slab a block in less than two hours. The slabs are finished (i.e., polished, honed), then sealed with resin to fill micro-fissures and surface imperfections typically due to the loss of poorly bonded elements such as biotite. The fabricators shop cuts these slabs down to final size and finishes the edges with equipment such as hand-held routers, grinders, CNC equipment, or polishers. In 2008, concerns were raised regarding radon emissions from granite countertops; the National Safety Council states that the contributions of radon to inside air come from the soil and rock around the residence (69%), the outdoor air and the water supply (28%), and only 2.5% from all building materials-including granite countertops. A concerned homeowner can employ ASTM radon mitigation and removal techniques. The stone for countertops or vanities is usually granite, but often is marble (especially for vanity tops), and is sometimes limestone or slate. The majority of the stone for this application is produced in Brazil, Italy, and China.
Tile is a thin modular stone unit, commonly 12 in. square (30.5 cm) and 3/8 in. (10 mm) deep. Other popular sizes are 15 in. square (38 cm), 18 in. square (46 cm), and 24 in. square (61 cm); these will usually be deeper than the 12 in. square. The majority of tile has a polished finish, but other finishes such as honed are becoming more common. Almost all stone tile is mass-produced by automated tile lines to identical size, finish, and close tolerances. Exceptions include slate flooring tile and special orders: tile with odd sizes or shapes, unusual finishes, or inlay work. In summary, the automated tile line is a complicated complex of cutting and calibrating machines, honing-polishing machines, edging machines that put on flat or rounded edges, and interconnecting conveyors to move the stone from the slab input to the final tile product. The stone for tiles is most commonly marble, but often is granite, and sometimes limestone, slate, or quartz-based stone. Common colors are white and light earth colors. Much of the stone for this application is produced in Italy and China.
Stone monuments include tombstones, grave markers or as mausoleums. After being gangsawed into big deep (up to 10 ft (3.0 m) wide and over 6 inches deep) slabs, smaller saws or guillotines (they break the granite and make the rough edges commonly seen on monuments) shape the monuments. The fronts and backs are usually polished. The individual monuments are then carved, shaped, and further defined by hand tools and sandblasting equipment. At this time, the stone for monuments is most commonly granite, sometimes marble (as in military cemeteries), and rarely others. Granite and quartz both demonstrate good durability, especially because rain is naturally acidic. (This is a natural consequence of the carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere, which generates a weak solution of carbonic acid in rainfall; further acidification of rainfall arises from oxides of sulphur and nitrogen due to anthropogenic emissions). Long-term durability of quartz monuments can be observed at the Harpers Ferry cemetery, where an old rose quartz tombstone stands. (Limestone and sandstone were commonly chosen for monuments in the nineteenth century, but they are no widely longer used because of the rapid erosion rates due to dissolution of acid-vulnerable carbonates by acidic rainfall.) The most common monument colors for granite are gray, black, and mahogany; for marble, white is most popular. Today, the majority of the stone used in North America in this application is imported from countries such as India and China. This has depressed traditional North American monument centers such as Georgia and Quebec.
Dimension stone has been used in the construction of buildings for centuries. Due to costs, today stone veneers are usually used in place of solid stone blocks. This courthouse was built of dimension stone quarried in Berea, Ohio.
There are a number of smaller applications for buildings and traffic-related uses. Building components include stone used as veneer (exterior), ashlar, or other shapes. Veneer is a non load-bearing facing of stone attached to a backing of an ornamental nature, although it also protects and insulates. Ashlar is a squared block of stone, often brick-sized, for facing of walls (primarily exterior). The other shapes are rectangular blocks used for stair treads, sills, and coping (coping is sometimes nonrectangular). The shapes subject to foot traffic will usually have an abrasive finish such as honed or sandblasted. The stone is mostly limestone, but often is quartz-based stone (sandstone), or even marble or granite. Roofing slate is a thin-split shingle-sized piece of slate, and when in place forms the most permanent kind of roof; slate is also used as countertops and flooring tile. Traffic-related stone is that which is used for curbing (vehicular) and flagstone (pedestrian). Curbing is thin stone slabs used along streets or highways to maintain the integrity of sidewalks and borders. Flagstone is a shallow naturally irregular-edged slab of stone, sometimes sawed into a rectangular shape, used as paving (almost always pedestrian). For curbing, the stone is almost always granite, and for flagstone the stone is almost always quartz-based stone (sandstone or quartzite).
There are several other applications resembling flagstone in using rough dimension (or crushed) stone, usually as quarried, sometimes made smaller (i.e. by a jackhammer), often simply put in place: dry stone and riprap.
The stone used in these applications usually has to have certain properties, or meet a standard specification. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) has such specifications for granite, marble, limestone, quartz-based dimension stone (C616), slate (C629), travertine (C1527), and serpentine (C1526).
The major producers of dimension stone include Brazil, China, India, Italy, and Spain, and each have annual production levels of nine to over twenty-two million tons. Portugal produces 3 million tons of dimension stone each year.
According to the USGS, 2007 U.S. dimension stone production was 1.39 million tons valued at $275 million, compared to 1.33 million tons (revised) valued at $265 million in 2006. Of these, granite production was 453,000 tons valued at $106 million in 2007 and 428,000 tons valued at $105 million in 2006, and limestone was 493,000 tons valued at $93.3 million in 2007 and 559,000 tons valued at $96.1 million in 2006. The United States is at best a mid-level dimension stone producer on the world scene; Portugal produces twice as much dimension stone annually.
World comparison for dimension stone demand: The DSAN World Demand Index for (finished) Granite was 227 in 2006, 247 in 2007, and 249 in 2008, and the World Demand Index for (finished) Marble was 200 in 2006, 248 in 2007, and 272 in 2008. The DSAN World Demand for (finished) Granite Index showed a growth of 12% annually for the 2000-2008 period, compared to 14% annually for the 2000-2007 period, and compared to 15% annually for the 2000-2006 period. The DSAN World Demand for (finished) Marble Index showed a growth of 13.5% annually for the 2000-2008 period, compared to 14.0% annually for the 2000-2007 period, and compared to 12.5% annually for the 2000-2006 period. The indexes show world demand for granite has clearly been weakening since 2006, while the world demand for marble only weakened from 2007 to 2008. Other DSAN indexes for 2008 indicate that the 2000-2008 growth was down from the 2000-2007 growth.
The DSAN U.S. Ceramic Tile Demand Index shows a drop of 4.8% annually for the 2000-2007 period, compared to growth of 5.0% annually for the 2000-2006 period. The "traditional" major ceramic tile suppliers, Italy and Spain, have been losing markets to new entrants Brazil and China. The same thing has been happening with dimension stone with increasing supplies from Brazil, China and India.
In 2008, Chinese exports of granite countertops and marble tile increased from 2007, while those of Italy and Spain did not (see above, world demand) In early 2009, the Chinese Government has a hands-off policy towards its dimension stone industry.
Green building or environmentally friendly construction with natural materials, is an idea that has been around for several decades. Energy price increases and the need for energy conservation when heating or cooling buildings have recently brought it to the fore. This resulted in the formation in 1993 of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which has developed a building rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Educational institutions (colleges, universities, grade, and high schools) are often requiring new buildings to be green, and a few jurisdictions (i.e., some cities) have some rules promoting green building. When "building green", dimension stone has a big advantage over steel, concrete, glazed glass and laminated plastics, whose productions are all energy intensive and create significant air and water pollution. As an entirely natural product, dimension stone also has an advantage over synthetic/artificial stone products, as well as composite and space-age materials. One LEED requirement provides that the dimension stone used in a green building be quarried within a 500-mile (800 km) radius of the building being constructed. This gives a clear advantage to domestic dimension stone, plus some quarried near the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. A current problem is how to consider stone quarried domestically, sent to China or Italy for finishing, and shipped back to be used in a project.
When demolishing a structure, dimension stone is 100% reusable and can be salvaged for new construction, used as paving or crushed for use as aggregates. There are also "green" methods of stone cleaning either in development or already in use, such as removing the black gypsum crusts that form on marble and limestone by applying sulfate-reducing bacteria to the crust to gasify it, breaking up the crust for easy removal. See DSAN for updates on "building green" and dimension stone recycling.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in America is re-examining and will most likely update its "Green Guides" used to regulate green advertising claims. The updating will emphasize green building, including the products it involves, such as dimension stone. When the new requirements are finalized, the FTC will go after firms that violate the new requirements, in order to establish legal precedents.
The Natural Stone Council has a library of information on building green with dimension stone, including life-cycle inventory data for each major dimension stone, giving the amount of energy, water, other inputs, and processing emissions, plus some best practice studies (see below). In addition, it has shown ways that dimension stone can contribute LEED points, such as using a light-colored dimension stone to reduce heat-island effects, using dimension stone's thermal mass to impact indoor ambient air temperature thereby increasing energy efficiency, and especially by reusing dimension stone rather sending it to the landfill.
Dimension stone is one of the most sustainable of the industrial minerals since it is created by separating it from the natural bedrock underlying all land on every continent. Dimension stone rates very well in terms of the criteria on the ASTM checklist for sustainability of building products: there are no toxic materials used in its processing, there are no direct greenhouse gas emissions during processing, the dust created is controlled, the water used is almost completely recycled (per OSHA/MSHA regulation), and it is a perpetual resource (virtually inexhaustible in a human time scale). Dimension stone in use can last many generations, even centuries, so the dimension stone manufacturers have not needed a product recycling program. However, there are practical qualifications to and constraints on that sustainability. The dimension stone color and pattern can be changed by weathering when it is very near the surface. The color and pattern can also be changed by proximity to an igneous rock body or by the presence of circulating groundwater charged with carbon dioxide (i.e., limestone, travertine, marble). On the other hand, changes in color and/or pattern can be positive. For example, there are at least 14 separately trade-named varieties of Carrara Marble with many patterns (or no patterns) ranging in shade from white to gray. The presence of faults or closely spaced joints can render the stone unusable. These faults and joints do not have to be at odd angles in the stone mass. Closely spaced, wrongly spaced, or nonparallel bedding planes can make the stone unusable, particularly if the bedding planes are planes of weakness. If part of the stone in one area is unusable, there will be another usable part of the stone elsewhere in the formation. A quarry is not a short-term project unless it encounters one of these constraints. Examples of big, old quarries operating for more than a century include the Barre (VT) granite quarry, the Georgia Marble quarry at Tate, several of the Carrara (Italy) marble quarries, and the Penrhyn (Wales) slate quarry. A quarry will produce dust, noise, and some water pollution, but these can be remedied without too much trouble. The landscape may also have to be restored if quarry waste is temporarily or permanently placed on adjacent land.
Reconstruction of the Charles Bridge in Prague showing numbered dimension blocks.
Recycling dimension stone can occur when structures are demolished, along with recycling timber and recycling construction aggregate in the form of concrete. The material most likely to be recycled is concrete, and this represents the largest volume of recycled construction material. Not too many structures incorporate dimension stone, and even fewer of them have dimension stone worth saving. Stone recycling is usually done by specialists that monitor local demolition activity, looking for stone-containing houses, buildings, bridge abutments, and other dimension stone structures scheduled for demolition. Particularly treasured are old hand-carved stone pieces with the chisel marks still on them, local stones no longer quarried or that are quarried in a different shade of color or appearance. There is no national or regional trade in reclaimed stone, so a large storage yard is required, since the recovered stone may not be quickly sold and reused. The recycled dimension stone is used in old stone buildings being renovated (to replace deteriorated stone pieces), in fireplace mantels, benches, veneer, or for landscaping (like for retaining walls).
Related to stone recycling and stone reuse is the deconstruction and reconstruction of a stone building. The building is taken apart stone block by stone block and the location and orientation of each block is carefully noted. Any roofing slate and interior stone in place is catalogued and moved in the same fashion. After the blocks, slate, and other stone used have been transported to the new location, they are put back in place where and how they were originally, thus reassembling the building. This is typically very expensive and rare but valuable in terms of historic preservation.
Dimension stone is also reused. Buildings immediately spring to mind, but such things as the ornate stone walls, arches, stairways and balustrades alongside a boulevard can also be renovated and reused. Sometimes the old interior of the building is kept as is, after repair. Sometimes the old building is gutted, leaving only a shell or facade and the space inside reconfigured and modernized. The stone work will usually need attention too.
The old stone work may only need cleaning or sandblasting, but it may need more. Firstly, the building exterior (facade) needs to be inspected for unsafe conditions. Next, the building walls need to be inspected for water leakages. The most likely needs are mortar restoration (repointing), applying consolidants to the old stone, or replacing pieces of stone that are deteriorated (damaged) beyond the point of any repair. The repointing is the removal of existing damaged mortar from the outer portion of the joint between stone units and its replacement by new mortar matching the appearance of the old. The consolidants re-establish the original natural bonding between the stone particles that weathering has removed. Deteriorated pieces of stone work are replaced with pieces of stone that match the original as much as possible. Exterior dimension stone will often change color after exposure to weather over time. For example, Indiana Limestone will weather from a tan to an attractive light yellow. Interior dimension stone can sometimes change its shade a little over time too. For both, it may not be possible to find an exact match, even from the original quarry. Stone will often change its appearance from location to location in the same quarry. If the dimension stone renovationist is truly fortunate, the original builder put aside some spare pieces of the stone for future need.
As in every economic sector, the construction industry's purchases of materials and services creates a whole chain of processes from raw material selecting in situ, removal from the earth, usually proceeding to cutting, finishing, or processing/manufacturing, then transport, and retailing. All of these activities have significant upstream (off-site) environmental impacts, whether in terms of energy and raw resource use or emissions to air, land, or water impacting living organisms or the Earth's surface (non-organic). Life cycle assessment is a method for estimating and comparing a range of environmental performance measures (e.g. global warming, acidification potential, toxicity, ozone depletion potentials) over the full life cycle of a product, a building assembly, or a whole building. As such, it provides a comprehensive means for evaluating and comparing products rather than prescriptive measures of individual product characteristics.
The ASTM has some relevant standards, particularly a guide on environmental life cycle assessment of building materials/products (E1991) that shows how to minimize the subjectivity that commonly mars and confuses environmental decision making. In particular, this guide describes the inventory analysis phase that requires data that is suitable for its intended purpose, thus covering data quality (such as completeness, reliability, accuracy, and credibility) as well as the allocation of the data (for multiple inputs and outputs), among other things. Results have to be on a common basis to allow a statistically significant comparison of alternative building product differences in the interpretation.
The Natural Stone Council (NSC) has commissioned some life-cycle inventory data for use in life cycle assessments. Almost 90% of the effort in doing a life cycle assessment involves getting reliable data. For example, the NSC has data that the Global warming potential for granite quarrying is 100 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents and for granite processing is 500 (same units); and the Global Warming Potential for limestone quarrying is 20 kg carbon dioxide equivalents while for limestone processing it is 80 (same units). The data on energy and water use include everything back to removal of overburden in the dimension stone quarry and upstream production of energy and fuels, and forward to packaging of finished dimension stone product or slabs for shipment and transport, or to moving scrap stone to storage or reclamation and to capturing and treatment of dust and waste water. The data is then placed in an impact category (i.e. changes to air, changes to water), characterized as to the contribution of the item to the impact compared to other items, and then the impact categories are assigned weights among themselves to show their relative importance.
The Natural Stone Council has also commissioned four Best Practices. One is on water consumption, treatment, and reuse while extracting and processing dimension stone, including dust mitigation, sludge management, and maximizing water recycling. Another is on site maintenance and quarry closure, including minimizing dust, noise, vibration and keeping the operation clean and tidy, both of which help in restoring the surface upon quarry closure. A third one is on solid waste management, including overburden, damaged stone unsaleable as product, sludge deposited from waste water, spent or spilled petroleum products, or metal scrap. The fourth one is on efficiently transporting stone to be finished as products, then transporting the products to consumers by centralizing freight management, consolidating small loads, choosing appropriate trucks, balancing and securing the load, and packaging with sustainable materials.
The selector of dimension stone begins by considering stone color and appearance, and how the stone will match its surroundings. The selector has literally thousands of options to choose from, and should examine many options. In addition to many hundreds of different stones with different colors and patterns, each stone can change radically in color and appearance when a different finish is put on it. A polished finish accentuates the color and makes any pattern more vivid, and the rougher finishes (i.e. honed, thermal) lighten the color and make the patterns more subdued. With thousands of possibilities, the selector must start by looking at many stones in many different finishes, or photos of them. Such photos can be found on some dimension stone websites, and on DSAN's Architects Stone Selection Helper.
In addition to selecting a stone color and pattern, the suitability of its properties for the intended use must be considered. Stone being chosen for countertops or vanities should be nonabsorptive, resist stains, and be heat and impact resistant. Stone being used in tiles should be sealed in order to resist staining by spilled liquids. Stone being used for flooring, paving, or surfaces subject to foot or vehicular traffic ought to have a semiabrasive finish for slip resistance, such as bush-hammered or thermal. A glossy polished finish will be slick. Most flagstone surfaces are rough enough to be naturally slip-resistant.
Dimension stone requires some specialized methods for cleaning and maintenance. Abrasive cleaners should not be used on a polished stone finish because it will wear the polish off. Acidic cleaners can not be used on marble or limestone because it will remove (i.e. dissolve) the finish. Textured finishes (thermal, bush-hammered) can be treated with some mildly abrasive cleaners but not bleach or an acidic cleaner (if marble or limestone). Stains are another consideration; stains can be organic (food, grease, or oil) or metallic (iron, copper). Stains require some special removal techniques, such as the poultice method. A new method of cleaning stone on ancient buildings (medieval and renaissance) has been developed in Europe: sulfur-reducing bacteria are used on the black gypsum-containing crusts that form on such buildings to convert the sulfur to a gas that dissipates, thus destroying the crust while leaving the patina produced by aging on the underlying stone. This method is still in development and not yet commercially available.
Polished finish - a glossy surface which brings out the full color and character of the stone.
Hone finish - a satin smooth surface finish with little or no gloss. This is recommended for commercial floors.
Thermal finish - a surface treatment applied by intense heat flaming.
Diamond sawed - finish produced by sawing with a diamond toothed saw.
Rough sawn - a surface finish resulting from the gang sawing (or frame saw) process.
Brush-hammered - a mechanical process which produces textured surfaces. Texture varies from subtle to rough.
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Happy Friday afternoon!! Courtney also shared this (unrelated) resource that has been useful for her and she thought might be for others, as well!
I love this!! So helpful for our Somali population! Keep me updated with similar items. I am struggling with meeting the complex needs of our ESL population.
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2019-04-18T10:34:00Z
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https://jcpspeech.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/esl-resource-for-somali-speaking-students/
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Lorelle writes extensively about blogging and web publishing. Her articles cover how to write for the web on blogs, websites, micro-blogs, and social media publishing platforms. Subcategories under Blogging include Writing, Blogging Tips, Blog Babble about bloggers and fellow web publishers, Blog Challenge blog writing tasks and self-assignments, Blog Struggles on the complexities of blogging for a living, and Blogging News. For more information on writing specifically in WordPress, see Lorelle’s articles on WordPress Tips.
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2019-04-22T16:58:15Z
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The present invention is a computerized vehicle lease exchange system and method, whereby prospective leased vehicle transferors and prospective leased vehicle transferees can complete leased vehicle transfer transactions electronically and whereby the prospective leased vehicle transferor can apply for and obtain insurance to protect against liability arising from a default by the leased vehicle transferee under the transferred vehicle lease.
The system provides a web-based service for individuals and companies wishing to terminate a lease, such as a vehicle lease, before its contractual due date, and for customers looking for a short-term lease with few out-of-pocket expenses. The system utilizes known methods of Internet communication and system hardware. Users can search a database of available vehicles, make selections, arrange for vehicle inspection and complete lease transactions online using the system.
FIG. 39 depicts a sample transferee user “ad a wish” screen of the system of the present invention in a preferred embodiment.
As depicted in FIG. 1, the system of the present invention in a preferred embodiment comprises an Internet Web communications server 100 communicating with consumers as well as optionally with dealers, financing/leasing insurance and vehicle inspection companies through the Internet and also with the other system-side components, said system-side components further comprising a mass storage device 120 having, in a preferred embodiment, a vehicle database 121, transaction database 122 and user database 123, and a main processing unit 110 with a transaction server 115. The system may also include the use of one or more routers 12 and firewalls 13 for creation of secure private communications networks between the system and users and between the system and financing/leasing, insurance and/or inspection companies.
The vehicle database 121 is a relational database containing various categories of motor vehicle data, such as make, model, year, body style, exterior color, interior type and color, and most common vehicle options (e.g., air conditioning, automatic transmission, radio, among other known options) for the various makes and models of motor vehicles offered vehicle database as well as lease term data, and is preferably resident in a structured query language (“SQL”) server. The SQL is programmed to allow searching of the vehicle database 21 based on consumer specified vehicle criteria.
The transaction server 115 in the preferred embodiment of the present system described in FIG. 1 comprises a central processing unit and associated read-only memory connected along data and address bus lines to a random access memory and to the central motor vehicle database. The transaction server 115 may also have internal transaction data storage capability or alternately transaction data may be stored in a separate storage device. These components are operatively connected to commonly used input/output (“I/O”) interface devices that control various corresponding I/O devices. These I/O devices may include such conventional elements as one or more video display devices 17 and 18, keyboards, printers, mouses and digitizers or scanners.
As with other computer systems, the read-only memory of the transaction server provides software instructions to enable said transaction server 115 to execute necessary software applications programs performing the system functions, including control/interfacing with the system Internet Web communications server 100, communications with leased vehicle transferor and transferee remote terminals, dealers, leasing companies, insurance company and inspection company remote terminals, links to third party websites where system advertisements are placed, and if necessary, lender or leasing company remote terminals; vehicle database management, searching and updating; controlling event-driven algorithms through which the system processes transactions appropriately based on the directions indicated by consumer action (“events”) such as pressing keys or clicking a mouse; motor vehicle graphical presentation applications to produce online depictions of actual motor vehicles identified from the vehicle database 121 as fitting a customer's specified criteria; purchase or lease order, purchase or lease agreement and other documentation generators. Other optional applications include data encryption/decryption and electronic signature generation and authentication applications, as well as electronic payment applications. The messaging means can be any of the various generally known forms, including, without limitation, e-mail as well as peer-to-peer and instant messaging protocols.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the website of the present system served by the Internet Web communications server 100 in a preferred embodiment is operatively connected to the Internet and has at least a first home page remotely accessible by consumers. Under the present system, first time consumers will preferably access the system in response to a generic advertisement placed on another website, and then enter a query screen rather than a home page screen. Alternately, consumers may access the website of the present system directly and view the website homepage for options that can be selected to proceed into the system. Under either alternative, dealers are not identified until the consumer has committed to purchase or lease a vehicle selected from the vehicle database 121. The system, in a preferred embodiment, has a plurality of screens whereby leased vehicle transferors, transferees, dealers and other users enter and retrieve information pertaining to leased vehicle transfers. Certain screens are provided for use by prospective transferors, while others are provided for dealers, prospective transferors and other users. As used herein, a “transferor user” or “prospective leased vehicle transferor” is a user of the system seeking to transfer his/her/its leased vehicle, and a “transferee user” or “prospective leased vehicle transferee” is a user of the system seeking to acquire a leased vehicle assuming the related vehicle lease.
Referring now to FIG. 3, prospective transferor users seeking to transfer a leased vehicle prior to the Lease end date select the “Post Your Lease” option on the system, which system is referred to in the figures as “LeaseTrader.com.” The system verifies if the user is logged in. If not, referring to FIG. 4, the system prompts the user to enter login information and the new user is added to the user database. After a new user has registered with the system, a welcome screen such as the one depicted on FIG. 5 appears. Referring to FIGS. 6-9, transferor users seeking to assign a lease contract with a financial institution to another party can post their vehicles and lease terms on the system website by entering the data in response to prompts. The information is stored in a searchable database included in the system. The system provides leased vehicle information such as: make and model of vehicle, color, miles, year, options on vehicle, time left in lease contract, miles left on the lease contract, location (city and state or zip) of vehicle, monthly payments, picture and any incentives offered by potential transferors to potential transferees, name and address of leasing company, transferor's account number, vehicle VIN number, and transferor's contact information (address, phone, fax and e-mail). Persons seeking to assign their leases can obtain an insurance policy protecting them from a possible default by the transferee in the lease payments. This is usually the main disincentive for assigning vehicle leases—the original lessor remains personally obligated under the lease but no longer has control of the vehicle. The information is stored in the appropriate database of the System's mass storage device 120 and a vehicle listing preview screen such as the one depicted in FIG. 10 is displayed. The transferor user is then prompted to enter listing payment information through a screen such as depicted in FIG. 11. A listing fee is charged, such as, for example but not by way of limitation, a basic listing fee, as well as additional fees to include actual photograph of vehicle, for color listings, or for bold listings. A listing confirmation screen such as that depicted in FIG. 12. The vehicle is added to the vehicle database 121 and is made accessible for online searches.
Referring to FIGS. 31-35, transferee users can query the vehicle database based on criteria including but not limited to make, model, lease payment range, time remaining on the lease or lease period, and zip code location.
Referring to FIGS. 33, by clicking on the view details link on the search results page, users can see the following information: year, make, mode, style, monthly lease payment, lease term, time remaining on the lease, lease end date, mileage allowance on the vehicle, excess mileage charge, miles remaining at no charge, FAQ's, the lease end buyout, vehicle identification number, city, state and zip code where the vehicle is located, other vehicle features such as ABS, leather seats and airbags, and any incentives or comments included by the lessee to take-over the lease.
Referring to FIGS. 36-38, upon completing the credit application, user will pay a credit application fee. At this point inside the MyTransaction Central area of both the transferor user and transferee user will see “Application Pending.” The credit application will be reviewed by a system credit specialist who will make a determination if the user or candidate is deemed qualified to take-over the lease requested. If approved, the system will send a message via e-mail directing both the transferor user and the transferee user to the message center inside the MyLeaseTrader area where they will be able to exchange contact information and talk about the lease. If denied, the system will notify the applicant that the credit application was denied and the application will no longer appear as pending in the MyTransaction Central area of both the transferor user and transferee user.
means for arranging for vehicle and lease transfer and insurance document delivery, payment and vehicle delivery.
2. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein said means for receiving vehicle and lease information comprises a series of customized leased vehicle data entry screens made accessible to prospective leased vehicle transferors via a global computer network, whereby prospective leased vehicle transferors can create customized listings for their vehicles.
3. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein said means for notifying electronically prospective leased vehicle transferors whose vehicles are selected by prospective leased vehicle transferees of said selection further comprises messaging means for prospective leased vehicle transferors and prospective leased vehicle transferees to negotiate and complete a leased vehicle transfer transaction.
4. The computerized system of claim 3, wherein said messaging means comprises Internet e-mail communications protocols.
5. The computerized system of claim 3, wherein said messaging means comprises instant peer-to-peer communications protocols.
6. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising means for prospective leased vehicle transferees to submit their vehicle preferences for matching with leased vehicle data stored in said system's searchable database.
7. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising means for prospective leased vehicle transferees to submit their lease term preferences for matching with leased term data stored in said system's searchable database.
8. The computerized system of claim 6, further comprising means for notifying prospective leased vehicle transferees of leased vehicle data stored on said system's searchable database that matches said prospective leased vehicle transferees' leased preferences.
9. The computerized system of claim 7, further comprising means for notifying prospective leased vehicle transferees of leased term data stored on said system's searchable database that matches said prospective leased vehicle transferees' lease term preferences.
10. The computerized system of claim 1, further comprising means for receiving financing application information submitted electronically by or on behalf of prospective leased vehicle transferees with respect to vehicles selected by said prospective leased vehicle transferees for financing to pay for transfer of said leased vehicle.
arranging for vehicle and lease transfer and insurance document delivery, payment and vehicle delivery.
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2019-04-23T12:12:34Z
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Tomorrow Major League Baseball teams can expand their rosters from 25 to 40. The Cincinnati Reds appear to be showing their hand today in regards to calling up top-prospect Devin Mesoraco. Entering the 2011 season Mesoraco was not on the 40-man roster for the Reds.
By sending Hermida to Sand Diego they have made room on the 40-man roster to bring up Mesoraco tomorrow.
Winning 17 of their last 20 games the Milwaukee Brewers are racing out to a huge lead in the National League Central with a lead of 8.5 games.The last time the Brewers won their division title was in 1982, when they were a part of the American League East and they had the likes of Rollie Fingers, Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Cecil Cooper on their team.
The only time they have been to the playoffs since 1982 is in 2008 when they won the National League Wild Card; the year they made the deal for CC Sabathia. It was a quick exit for them however after they lost in 4 games to the eventual World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies.
They remained competitive in 2009 and 2010 finishing third in the National League Central both years.
But in 2011 they are already one win shy of matching their 2010 win total, of 77 games, with 34 games remaining in the regular season. With a 8.5 game lead and a magic number of 25 on August, 22 the Brewers faithful are already making plans for the postseason.
Regardless of how this year finishes the Brewers organization is not in the best of shape. They have spent many resources in their farm system on bringing in talent to compete now the last few seasons.
Considering Prince Fielder is going to be a free agent at the end of the 2011 season, it appears the Brewers are trying to go all in this season because they are not sure if their big bat will be back in 2012.
Fielder’s ideal position is a Designated-Hitter in the American League as well because his lack of range playing first base. Therefore it is even more likely that he will move to a new team. With Rickie Weeks and Ryan Braun needing larger long contracts it is going to be nearly impossible to keep those two and Fielder.
Rebuilding might take some time considering Baseball America’s Midseason Top 50 Prospects list has zero Milwaukee Brewers. These trades and poor Player Development looks to me personally like the Brewers could possibly struggle in the coming years.
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Alexander I served as the fifth Pope of the Catholic Church; the official title is the Bishop of Rome. His years of service can only be approximated to be ca. 109-116 C.E.
Early sixth-century writings attribute Alexander with inserting the words now used in the Holy Eurachist or Holy Communion of the Catholic Mass. These words are taken from the New Testament and are said to be the words of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. He is also said to have started the practice of the blessing of homes with holy water, water blessed by the Pope or any priest.
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POMEGRANATE MARTINI (smiling pomegranates) Panel 1: Picture of pomegranate martini in martini glass, plus ingredients YOU WILL NEED One Pomegranate Dry Gin 12 Oz Pomegranate Molasses 1 oz Pomegranate Simple Syrup 1oz Rose's Lime Juice 1 oz Panel 2: (Tea removes seeds from pomegranate) Remove seeds from pomegranate Tea: This is messy! Panel 3: (Tea pours red stuff into shaker) Pour molasses, syrup, and lime juice into shaker. Panel 4: (Tea adds seeds to shaker and stirs) Add 2/3 of seeds and mash with wooden spoon Panel 5: (Tea shakes) Add Gin and Shake! Panel 6: (Tea pours drink into glass) Strain into chilled martini glasses (makes 4) Panel7: (Tea tops with pomegranate seeds) Garnish with 8-12 pomegranate seeds per drinks. Panel 8: (Tea raises glass in toast) CHEERS!
It's really funny that you posted this today, because a friend just linked me to a really interesting article about grenadine/pomegranate syrup and how to make it.
Thought it might be relevant. You know, to your interests?
It is! I actually make my own pomegranate syrup, slightly differently-- I boil the sugar syrup separately from the pomegranate juice and then add the juice. If you really want to be fancy, you can do this with the actual pomegranate seeds and then strain them out with a wire strainer.
I would actually be very interested in this process. Or oooh, if you wanted to make a batch of flavored syrups and recipes to use them in, you could totally run a second auction over at save_dave? Or like, if you got me the recipes, I could maybe make them up?
I don't want to do syrups because I don't think they would be safe to mail-- fragile AND perishable. I would be afraid of them exploding all over the package!
But I will totally do a syrup comic!
I will do comics about any aspect of fooding or bartending anyone would like to see!
I was just contemplating what I was going to do with the pomegranates I bought and I actually thought to myself, "I wonder if teaberryblue has done any pomegranate drinks." You're a mind reader!
Win! Pretend I did it just for you! This would also be fine with vodka if you don't like gin.
I am all about the gin. But my boyfriend does prefer vodka, so I'm sure we'll do some experimenting with it. Any excuse to mix drinks!
And where can I get some, because this drink sounds AMAZING.
I can buy it in some regular food markets or in Middle Eastern specialty shops!
I'm sorry! I got behind on comments! Pomegranate molasses is just that-- a molasses made out of pomegranate juice. It's very thick and sweet and has a nice pomegranatey tartness. If you can't find it at a regular market, try a Middle Eastern specialty shop.
DROWNED IN GIN. THAT IS HOW I WANT TO GO.
Eee thank you! If I can get my act together, I will try to put something together for MoCCA next year.
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In Old and New Astronomy Arthur Ranyard states that in “Kepler’s day” the gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was thought to represent the “vacant track” of a destroyed planet.
It was noticed by Copernicus, and later still more particularly by Kepler, that there is a sort of gap in the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
It is true that the distance separating these orbits (3.679, Earth’s as 1) is less than the distance separating the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn (4.336); but there is evidence of a law of increase in the distances separating each orbit from its next outer neighbour, and this law is obviously interrupted if Jupiter is regarded as coming next to Mars.
In Kepler’s day it was thought by many a sufficient solution of the difficulty to conclude that a planet formerly travelling along this seemingly vacant track had been destroyed on account of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
And we are told that there were not wanting preachers who used the destruction of this hypothetical planet as a warning to evil-doers, who were told that if they continued in their sins they might not only bring destruction on themselves but on the world, which might burst, as had that other world, and reduce the sun’s family by yet another planet.
Interest in the destroyed planet theory revived when Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781.
It was not until the discovery of Uranus by Sir W. Herschel in 1781 that the speculations of Kepler attracted scientific attention.
The three laws of Kepler had been interpreted physically by Newton ; and when the empirical law of distances, for which, as it appeared, no reason in nature could be assigned, was found to be fulfilled by the new planet, astronomers could not but regard the circumstance as somewhat more than a mere coincidence.
Herschel became interested in astronomy in 1773, and after constructing his first large telescope in 1774, he spent nine years carrying out thorough sky surveys, where his purpose was the investigation of double stars.
The resolving power of the Herschel telescopes revealed that the nebulae in the Messier catalogue were clusters of stars: catalogues of nebulae were published in 1802 (2,500 objects) and 1820 (5,000 objects).
In the course of an observation on 13 March 1781 he realized that one celestial body he had observed was not a star, but a planet, Uranus.
This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity and Herschel became famous overnight.
This renewed interest led Baron Franz Xaver von Zach to form, in 1800, the Society for the Detection of a Missing World which was more commonly know as the Celestial Police because they were charged to “arrest” the missing planet.
A society was therefore formed chiefly through the active exertions of De Zach of Gotha to search for the missing planet.
It consisted of twenty-four astronomers under the presidency of Schroeter.
The zodiac was divided into twenty-four zones, one of which was assigned to each member of this Society for the Detection of a Missing World.
The twenty-four commenced their labours with great zeal.
In 1800, a Hungarian baron named Franz Xavier von Zach, astronomer to the duke of Gotha and director of the Seeberg Observatory, sponsored a special search for the suspected missing planet.
The initial group of six astronomers met for a conference in Lilienthal, Germany.
They divided the sky into 24 zones along the zodiac (recall that the constellations of the zodiac lie on the arc across the sky that the planets appear to travel, when seen from Earth, so any new, unidentified planet would be expected to travel the same path) and assigned each of the zones to an astronomer.
They named themselves the Vereinigte Astronomische Gesellschaft, commonly called the Lilienthal Society.
They came to be known more widely by the charming name Celestial Police (Himmel Polizei) because they were charged to “arrest” the missing planet.
The initial searches made by the members of the Society were fruitless.
When we consider that over the region of the heavens which they were to examine at least a hundred planets, well within the range of their telescopes, and probably many hundreds of smaller bodies were travelling, we may fairly wonder that they discovered nothing.
Such, however, was the result of their labours.
Then, in 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi informed the group of a travelling “star” he had discovered.
After they had been at work a considerable time, accident revealed to an astronomer outside their society a body which was regarded for a long time as the missing planet.
Professor Piazzi, while observing stars for his catalogue, was led to examine very carefully a part of the constellation Taurus, where Wollaston had marked in a star which Piazzi could not find.
On January 1, 1801, the first day of the present century, he observed in this part of the heavens a small star, which he suspected of variability, seeing that it appeared where before no star of equal brightness had been mapped.
On January 3 he found that the star had disappeared from that place, but another, much like it, lay at a short distance to the west of the place which it had occupied.
The actual distance between the two positions was nearly a third of the moon’s apparent diameter.
On January 24 (our observer was not too impatient) he transmitted to Oriani and Bode, members of the Missing World Detection Society, an account of the movements of this star, which had travelled towards the west till January 11 or 12, and had then begun to advance.
He continued his labours till February 11, when he was seized with serious illness.
This “small star” was subsequently confirmed to be a planet by the Society for the Detection of a Missing World in 1802 and Giuseppe Piazzi named the new planet Ceres.
Unfortunately, his letters to Oriani and Bode did not reach those astronomers until nearly the end of March, by which time the planet (for such it was) had become invisible, owing to the approach of the sun to the part of the heavens along which the planet was travelling.
But the planet was not lost.
In September the region occupied by the planet was again visible at night.
In the meantime Gauss had calculated from Piazzi’s observations the real path of the planet.
Throughout September, October, November, and December search was made for the missing star.
At length, on the last day of the year 1801, De Zach detected the planet, Olbers independently effecting the rediscovery on January 1, 1802.
Thus the first night of the present century was distinguished by the discovery of a new planet, and before the first year of the century had passed the planet was fairly secured.
Piazzi assigned to the newly discovered planet the name of the titular goddess of Sicily, where the discovery was made Ceres.
Ceres was found to be travelling in an orbit corresponding in the most satisfactory manner with Bode’s law.
According to that law the missing planet’s distance from the orbit of Mercury should have been 24; calling Mercury’s distance from the Sun 4, the actual distance of Ceres is 23.33.
Ceres is a very strong candidate for a remnant Missing World.
1. Its orbit is within 1.08% of the orbital distance predicted by the Titius-Bode law.
2. It is the largest object in the asteroid belt [950 km in diameter].
3. It is composed of rock and ice.
4. It is unambiguously rounded by “gravity”.
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
It is composed of rock and ice, is 950 kilometers (590 miles) in diameter, and comprises approximately one third of the mass of the asteroid belt.
It is the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System and the only object in the asteroid belt known to be unambiguously rounded by its own gravity.
It was the first asteroid to be discovered, on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo, though at first it was considered to be a planet.
From Earth, the apparent magnitude of Ceres ranges from 6.7 to 9.3, and hence even at its brightest it is too dim to be seen with the naked eye except under extremely dark skies.
Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may harbor a remnant internal ocean of liquid water under the layer of ice.
The surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clay.
In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected from several regions of Ceres.
Ceres as seen by the Dawn spacecraft, 19 February 2015.
The bright spot seen unresolved in Hubble images is here revealed as two distinct features inside a crater. Several linear, groove-like features run towards the terminator at lower right.
The hypothesis correctly predicted the orbits of Ceres and Uranus, but failed as a predictor of Neptune’s orbit.
However, Ceres didn’t convince everyone because its small and has a large orbital inclination.
Yet astronomers were not satisfied with the new planet.
It travelled at the right mean distance from the sun; but passing over its inferiority to its neighbours, Mars and Jupiter, in size and splendour, its path was inclined to the ecliptic at an angle of more than ten degrees a thing as yet unheard of among planets.
As to its size, Sir W. Herschel, from measurements made with his powerful telescopes, estimated the new planet’s diameter at about 160 miles, so that, supposing it of the same density as our Earth, its mass is less than one 125,000th part of hers.
Thus it would take more than 1,560 such planets to make a globe as massive as our moon.
And even this probably falls far short of the truth, for our Earth owes no small part of her density to the compression produced by the attractive energy of her own substance.
Small Ceres would be very much less compressed, and, if made of the same substances, as we may well believe, would probably have a density not very much exceeding the average density of the bodies of which the Earth’s crust is composed, that is, about two and a half times the density of water.
Thus, it would probably take some quarter-million worlds like Ceres to make such a globe as our Earth, while from our moon three thousand such worlds as Ceres might be made.
It was natural that astronomers should regard with some suspicion a planet falling so far short of every known planet, and even of a mere moon, in size and mass.
a) Herschel underestimated the diameter of Ceres by a factor of 3.68.
b) Ranyard underestimated the volume of Ceres by a factor of 50.22.
c) The volume of the Moon is 49 times larger than Ceres.
d) The orbital inclination of Ceres is not high in relation to the Sun’s equator.
The finding of Ceres was quickly followed by the discovery of Pallas by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers in 1802.
But presently a discovery was made which still more markedly separated Ceres from the rest of the planetary family.
Olbers, during his search for Ceres, had had occasion to study very closely the arrangement of the groups of small stars scattered along the track which Ceres might be expected to follow.
What reason he had for continuing his examination of these groups after Ceres was found does not appear.
Possibly he may have had some hope of what actually occurred.
Certain it is that in March 1802, or nearly three months after Ceres had been rediscovered, he was examining a part of the constellation Virgo, close by the spot where he had found Ceres on January 1 in the same year.
While thus at work he noticed a small star forming with two others known by him an equilateral triangle.
He felt sure this star had not been there three months before, and his first idea was that it was a variable star.
At the end of two hours, however, he perceived that it had moved slightly towards the northwest.
On the next evening it had moved still farther towards the north-west.
It was, in fact, a planet, and the study of this planet’s motion showed that its mean distance from the sun differed very little from that of Ceres.
This discovery, rightly understood, was the most surprising of any which had been made since the nature of Saturn’s ring was discovered by Huyghens in 1656.
The discovery of this second planet (to which the name Pallas was given) showed that Ceres was not travelling alone in the region which had so long been supposed untenanted.
Olbers himself was fully satisfied that other planets travel in the region between Mars and Jupiter.
He was struck by the remarkable features of the orbit of the planet he had discovered.
It was inclined more than three times as much as that of Ceres to the median plane near which lie the tracks of all the single planets.
So greatly is the path of Pallas inclined to this tract that even as seen from the sun its range on either side gave to the planetary highway a width of sixty-nine degrees, or nearly four times the width of the zodiac (as determined by the range of Venus, viewed from the Earth, on either side of the medial track).
The range of Pallas as seen from the Earth is still greater; so great, indeed, that this planet may actually be seen at times among the Polar constellations.
Moreover, the path of Pallas is remarkably eccentric, insomuch that “her greatest distance from the sun exceeds her least in the proportion of about 5 to 8.
Jupiter, but had been shattered to pieces by a tremendous explosion.
This success was followed in 1804 by the discovery of Juno by Karl Ludwig Harding.
Olbers then set himself the task of carefully observing two parts of the heavens, one being the place where the tracks of Ceres and Pallas cross as seen from the sun, the other being the place directly opposite to this.
He also persuaded Harding, of Lilienthal, to pay special attention to these two regions; one near the northern wing of the Virgin, the other in the constellation of the Whale.
At length, on September 4, 1804, the search was rewarded with success; the planet called Juno being discovered by Harding in that part of the Whale which Olbers had indicated.
And in 1807 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta.
Olbers did not cease from the search, however, but continued it for thirteen months after Harding’ s success, and five years after his own discovery of Pallas.
At length, on March 28, 1807, the fifth anniversary of this discovery, Olbers detected Vesta, the only member of the family of asteroids which has ever (we believe) been seen with the naked eye.
Vesta was the final discovery of the Society for the Detection of a Missing World.
Astronomers seem to have been satisfied with this fourth fragment of Olbers’s hypothetical planet.
Olbers’s theory that the four small planets, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, were the fragments of a single planet which had burst was not hopelessly untenable, so far as those four planets were concerned, for their mean distances are nearly equal, being 2.769, 2.771, 2.668, and 2.361 respectively, the Earth’s being taken as unity.
Indeed, when Gibers first suggested the theory only two of the small planets had been discovered, Ceres and Pallas, and these travel at almost the same mean distance from the sun.
In the ‘Connaissance des Temps’ for 1814 Laplace showed that with a velocity of explosion not exceeding twenty times that of a cannon-ball say twelve times that of a ball fired from one of our best modern cannon the observed range in the mean distances of these bodies might have been obtained.
It is, however, to be noticed that even for this the Pallas fragment was assumed to have been expelled directly forwards and the Vesta fragment directly backwards (with reference to the course of the planet at the moment of the catastrophe), in order that the whole effect of the change of velocity might fall on the period, lengthening to the utmost that of Pallas and shortening to the utmost that of Vesta.
However, some thought these fragments were a new class of small “starlike” objects: asteroids.
Bode was troubled by these findings, as were other members of the scientific community, because the tiny size and number of these bodies seemed to disrupt the natural harmonious order of the planets.
Would the maker of the universe have left a gap in the order of the planets, the community wondered?
Briefly the idea arose that a planet had existed and was shattered, but a universe subject to such immense and capricious forces of nature was horrifying to those men of the enlightenment.
Within a month of the discovery of Pallas, scientists began to realize that a new class of solar system objects had been discovered.
Herschel suggested naming these small bodies asteroids, which means “starlike,” because the movement of a bright orbiting asteroid seen through a telescope was reminiscent of the tracks of stars across the night sky as the Earth turns.
In 1815, the Celestial Police finally stopped hunting for the missing planet, having concluded that only a collection of small bodies took up those orbits between Mars and Jupiter.
Furthermore, the tide of mainstream opinion began to turn [especially after 1830] as they abandoned catastrophic concepts and embraced Uniformitarianism.
Uniformitarianism is the scientific observation that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.
Uniformitarianism has been a key principle of geology and virtually all fields of science, but naturalism’s modern geologists, while accepting that geology has occurred across deep time, no longer hold to a strict gradualism.
From 1830 to 1833 Charles Lyell’s multi-volume Principles of Geology was published.
The work’s subtitle was “An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth’s surface by reference to causes now in operation”.
He drew his explanations from field studies conducted directly before he went to work on the founding geology text, and developed Hutton’s idea that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.
The terms uniformitarianism for this idea, and catastrophism for the opposing viewpoint, were coined by William Whewell in a review of Lyell’s book.
Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century.
In 1830 the search for orbiting bodies [between Mars and Jupiter] restarted and a flood of discoveries flowed from 1845 – but they were discovering asteroids – not Missing Worlds.
As ancient theologians, in the fulness of their wisdom, decided that there could not be more than four corners to the earth (whatever they understood by corners), so even in the present century the idea prevailed that an exploding world could not break up into more than four pieces.
But, twenty-three years later (or in 1830), Hencke, an amateur astronomer of Driessen, in Germany, commenced a search destined to meet with no success until more than fifteen years had elapsed.
On the evening of December 8, 1845, he observed a star of the ninth magnitude in the constellation Taurus, in a place where he felt sure, from his recollection of the region, that there had previously been no star of that degree of brightness.
He communicated the observation to Encke, of Berlin; and on December 14 they rediscovered it in the place to which by that time it had removed.
It was found to be an asteroid travelling at a distance almost midway between that of Vesta and that of Ceres.
Hencke requested Encke to name the new planet, and that astronomer selected for it the name of Astrtea.
Thus any idea of a Missing World was lost [possibly drowned] in a sea of asteroids.
Fig. 373 shows that the range in the known mean distances of the asteroids has enormously increased since then, and that even in this aspect alone the explosion theory is no longer so hopeful as when Laplace held it to be barely tenable.
Additionally, in those pre-nuclear days, the mainstream could not imagine any process that was powerful enough “to shatter a planet”.
There is further an equally strong physical objection against Olbers’s theory in the circumstance that, though in a great volcanic outburst the Earth’s internal forces suffice to eject matter with velocities comparable with those required by the hypothesis, we have in these cases the energies of enormous subterranean regions exerted on relatively minute bodies.
To conceive that the energies even of the whole Earth, if all brought into action at once, could suffice to propel the whole mass of the Earth in fragments from around the centre of explosion, with velocities enormously exceeding those ever observed in any fragment ever shot out from a volcanic crater, is a very different matter indeed.
A certain charge of gunpowder will drive a cannon-ball to a distance of two or three miles, but a thousand times that charge would not scatter the fragments of the cannon (if the ball had been tightly fixed in) over a similar distance all around the place of explosion.
Nothing known about our Earth’s interior, nothing which we can infer about the interior of any other planet formed by processes such as we recognise in the development of the solar system as at present understood, suggests the possibility that a millionth part of the force necessary to shatter a planet, as Olbers’s theory requires, can ever be generated and accumulated within the planet’s interior.
Furthermore, the “overwhelming” objection raised by the mainstream was that no common point had been identified through which “the scattered fragments must pass”.
But another objection, first dealt with by Encke, has always been held more serious, and has now become to all intents overwhelming.
Olbers and his contemporaries, as we have seen, held that whenever such an explosion occurred the new orbits of the scattered fragments must pass through the point where the explosion took place.
They found no such point common to the orbits of the four first-discovered asteroids.
This is still the mainstream position today even though the Comet Family of Jupiter has a distinct common point through which many of them pass as they orbit the Sun.
Perhaps, one day, the mainstream will take “one giant leap” away from Uniformitarianism.
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Tim, In order to jump from Uniformitarianism, one has to undo Charles Lyell’s contribution documented in his Principles of Geology. And one needs to understand the political philosophy that drove him and his Whig cohort. A starting point would be George Grinnell’s paper on the setting up of the London Geological Society in 1807. http://www.sedin.org/propeng/grinneng.htm is one location of his paper. It means going back to James Hutton to understand what motivated his work – political or scientific?
This is an important area of study because the foundation of Marxism was constructed on the Huttonian-Lyellian paradigms, on which Darwin proposed his evolutionary hypothesis and from which the Marxists and progressives based their progressive philosophy. It is not a trivial activity.
Thanks… A very interesting read.
The liberal takeover of the geological society and the suppression of evidence favoring the catastrophist position did not come about overnight.
Rather there was a slow assimilation of catastrophist data until there was virtually nothing left to the theory as a whole.
When, in 1839, Louis Agassiz attempted to argue in favor of catastrophism with his theory of ice ages, the uniformitarians simply adopted all his evidence, but reinterpreted it in uniformitarian terms.
Thus the data did not change, but the Gestalt by which that data was organized and given coherence was transformed from catastrophism to uniformitarianism, just as the social structure of England was changed from Tory Paternalism in which sovereignty descended from God down to the King, to the new liberalism in which sovereignty ascended up from the people through Parliament to its ministers.
And then [nearly a 100 years later] a “descended from God” counter offensive promotes the Big Bang and we see the “slow assimilation” of any remaining Rational Thought until there was “virtually nothing left” but a belief system called Settled Science.
Independently deriving Friedmann’s equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, proposed that the inferred recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the universe.
As a description of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang has significant bearing on religion and philosophy.
As a result, it has become one of the liveliest areas in the discourse between science and religion.
Some believe the Big Bang implies a creator, and some see its mention in their holy books, while others argue that Big Bang cosmology makes the notion of a creator superfluous.
Do we need a new name to describe this Clusterf***?
No. I think Clusterf*** does just fine. Definitely to the point.
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I can’t hold onto to it.
and fall back in bed.
but too cozy to jump out, feels my body.
Wrapped up like a cocoon it is.
and go to the mirror.
yet how my day starts with that is.
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The weekend wound up packed. We trapsed down into Georgetown for Christmas Pageant rehearsal on Saturday afternoon, followed by a carol sing potluck on Saturday night.
On Sunday, it was church, followed by playdate for Hers Truly, followed by the Hobbit for us, followed by collecting hers truly, follwed by another pot luck. Phew!
The Hobbit got our geek on. I had some trouble with it. My main problem were the parts that just felt recited just to keep the plot going, and I'm not talking about the backstories. Really, I think the whole thing could have been tightened up. There's projectiing what will come up in the future, then there's blaring it out with bullhorns. Really, we didn't need to know about so many things. Some level of surprise and discovery is perfectly fine.
That is to say, I think that this filmed held our hands too much.
I was ho-hummed by most previews. A few looked interesting. Most interesting was After Earth, which has a black cast. Whoah. Cool. Both Superman and Star Trek look engaging. I'll skip everything else. And the Lone Ranger? Tonto has lead billing.Weird. I think it'll fall flat, but I'll man up if I'm wrong.
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WE ARE NOT A GLUM LOT !!!
I was concerned about all the injuries to the University of Nebraska Football team so I asked a buddy of mine, "Do you think we ought to replace the artificial turf with natural grass?"
His reply, "I don't think smoking pot is going to help them."
12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
It is times like this I ask myself am I Howard Stern's daughter?
Bambi on a "good" day.
Yesterday I met a guy that is addicted to brake fluid. He claimed he could stop at any time.
Today I met a guy addicted to sniffing glue. I asked him if he wanted to quit...he said he would if he could, but he's stuck.
GOD LOVES DRUNK PEOPLE TOO!!
A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door..
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Opre Khetanes V Festival and Conference on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures represents a major gathering on the East Coast of scholars of Romani culture and Roma who work as academics, activists, and/or performers. Presentations will be made by established scholars and by graduate students with expertise in Romani studies.
In the conference portion of Opre Khetanes V, Sare Patria: Romani Action, artists, activists, and scholars in the fields of musicology, anthropology, Romani studies and related disciplines will deliver presentations on subjects related to the representation of Romani people by themselves and/or others.
The conference is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required. Please see the "Program" tab for more information.
On Saturday afternoon, Opre Khetanes will continue at Hungarian House (213 East 82nd Street) with workshops, a panel, and a dance party. Please see the "Festival" tab for more information.
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Even though TLA conference week is crazy busy, I still find time to follow some of the links in my Twitter feed. This one (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2016/04/common_core_curricula_teacher_materials.html?cmp=soc-edit-tw) from Education Week was a blog posting about where teachers fun the materials they were using for CCSS. Curious minds want to know. I want to know.
So, here is the information about ELA resources for CCSS.
It is heartening to see 90%+ of teachers surveyed using materials they developed themselves. What was disheartening, though, was how many programs were sources for CCSS including Accelerated Reader (how does a quiz program meets any of the standards, I wonder, unless it is a standard about reading for trivialized details?). The other disheartening fact: while 90%+ of elementary teachers use trade books only about 50% of secondary teachers use trade books. Honestly, I want to weep when I see that kind od drop off in using real books. How can kids become LIFE ready if they do not read REAL books?
Here is another chart from the article showing online resources consulted for materials for CCSS.
IMHO, the sites that should be ranked near the top are NCTE (our professional organization) and Read.Write.Think. Instead Pinterest is near the top as is Teachers Paying Teachers. Pinterest? Really? I suggest reading Donalyn Miller's piece from the Texas Library Journal called INTEREST ISN'T PEDAGOGY: http://www.txla.org/pinterest-isnt-pedagogy.
For the life of me, I fail to understand teachers who are not active professionally, who do to read professional journals, who do not take advantage of the information offered by professional organizations. Yes, yes, I know that the cost of being professional is considered by some to be a good reason NOT to be active professionally. But many organizations offer discounts for students. Many organizations are making parts of their publications available online. Check out the ALAN materials: http://www.alan-ya.org/publications/the-alan-review/the-alan-review-columns/.
After a day of conference during which I filled a bag with ARCS, met new authors, hugged former and current students, and walked 3 miles looking at all that was available to read, I know that the cost of membership and registration is totally worth it. I cannot imagine what I would miss were it not for my professional ties. There are many who look at what I do and think, that looks easy. I know my own former residents of the back room thought my job was easy at the university. People who attend my sessions always tell me they want my job. If I make it look easy, I have accomplished much. But I can tell you that making something look easy requires a LOT of preparation.
When I watch the cooking shows, I am always a bit amazed at the 15 minute meals. And then I look critically and think--hey, who shredded the cheese, who cut the veggies you threw into the pan, who remembered to defrost the meat, what happened when you THOUGHT you had a jar of sauce and discovered someone had used it already? Those questions reflect the reality and are not included in the 15 minutes the meal took to prepare.
And so it is with my job. Students are already clamoring for information about summer classes. I have posted reading lists. I have the other materials all ready to launch soon online. My panel moderator duties for tomorrow and Saturday have been completed and stored to my Google drive. Prepare for my presentations and, like my pals Karin Perry and Donalyn Miller, now tweak slides incessantly and obsessively. When it is all prepared, it should look easy; it should be fun. But behind the scenes, the work is a bit tougher. And much more rewarding because of that.
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This entry was posted on 2 febrero 2012 at 18:54 and is filed under Casas Rurales, Nota de Prensa, Turismo Rural, TurismoRural.com. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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A Song about a Boys Unique Love for his Girl!
One of my most favorite fanfictions ever needed to be animated somehow, so I had to do it.
Defeat the 6 MVP masters and stop Dr. Baphomet once and for all!
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Living in a ‘big city’ with it (comparitively) sanitized supermarkets, perfumed tissue-paper, orderly beige and black queues and disinfected floors tends to push the memory of real homegrown bazaars a little further into the recesses of your memory.
I went to a proper bazaar, a few days back. A real bazaar that mushroomed out all over an old colonial mall, and took over its host like an overzealous parasite. So there are brilliant colours hanging and swirling around, crowds so thick you can’t take a step without elbowing someone out of your way, vendors selling bright red and yellow channa with onions seated all along the road, others walking along sticking beaded purses and imitation sunglasses before your face. You emerge panting from this throbbing sea of personlaties that inundate you with their colours and voices, and dive into a little gilded shop that sells sandalwood perfume. You reappear at the doorway, and dive down a tiny pathway that winds between the bangle-sellers and sticker-vendors and look up suddenly to find an old British arch hanging sheepishly out of a green and yellow hoarding.
You look at the wall, the floor and the high ceiling of the corner you have just turned and realise that you have seen this place before. Many times, in many cities. And that this burst of colour and noise obscuring an old sad grey, firm and elusive wall is so typical of your roots.
is such a beautiful song….
1. A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are 5 people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you can flip a switch which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch?
2. As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you – your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?
The sibling and I lingered too long picking mushrooms (at the supermarket), and ended up missing our weekend’s dose of comedy. There was compensation though. And if you enjoyed that video, it doesn’t come close to the Chidambaram interview.
Somebody tell me – Does Thapar behave like that deliberately or is he just like that?
is skipping down the stairs, grinning in anticipation. Hurrying through chilly-air, and getting sprinkled with a little drizzle. Bursting into an old bookstore a little late, to find your friends leaning over a pile of books in a corner. Turning slowly to find that you’ve reached Wonderland again. And thinking that perhaps you’d like to stay there for the weekend.
A article by Siddharth Varadarajan. It’s available here.
So homosexuality finally breaks its way into Non-hushdom. There’s Brokeback mountain and Will and Grace and so on. And then we have the liberated penguins, Roy and Silo, a gay couple that resided at the New York Aquarium. Roy and Silo adopted an egg – Tango hatched out of that egg. The children’s book And Tango makes Three was based on this story. Some parents, apparently, aren’t too thrilled with the idea of allowing their kids access to the book. It stands to reason of course, that a bigot would wish to bring up mini-bigots. So I really hope that schools and libraries hold out against these guys and give the kids a chance.
Mumbai girl’s post on Manu Sharma’s right to defence got me thinking about some legal-ethics related skirmishes that we had at law school.
I agree with her. An adverserial system works only if both sides are presented before the judge – the lawyer’s is to defend, and the judge’s…well, to judge. This does not mean that I would lie for a client, or do anything else that I considered unethical. It just means that my client, be he the most despicable of the diabolic scum that crawls the earth, has certain rights. And that it would be my duty as a lawyer to ensure that those rights are respected – to ensure that he is not convicted if there is no evidence, that he is not arrested without observance of procedure, that he does not receive a dispropotionate punishment and so on. And a lawyer who does this zealously makes sure that the system works a little better – she’s working towards a world where no one is convicted on flimsy evidence, where no one is tortured and so on. So I wouldn’t insist that lawyers defend only the ‘good guy’* – defending the ‘bad guy’ is really important.
I miss being a lawyer so very much.
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Now that summer is here, my skin is going through its attitude changes! I find that breakouts are more likely (un-fair, I thought I left those behind as a teenager!). But the fact is adult acne is more common than adolescent acne. Especially in women! Oddly, we are fighting aging, sun exposure, and zits?!? Well the solution is clearer than your best skin…a MyChelle facial!
I have been using the MyChelle skin care line for some time now. You may even remember me sharing some picks I have fallen for in blogs past. The line is extremely effective for such natural ingredients. You can find a product for any skin type and concern. From the most sensitive and reactive skin to those who want to age gracefully, MyChelle has you covered.
Because I believe so much in this line, I wanted to create a way for you as a consumer to fully enjoy its benefits.
Thus, the MySpa program was born! When you make a MyChelle retail purchase of $50 or more, you receive a FREE 30 minute facial! When you purchase $75 or more, you get a FREE 60 minute facial! If you have never had a service like this before, there is no better time. By investing in the products you already use, need, and love, you get a boost with the professional service that preps the skin for all those great MyChelle benefits!
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to sell you skin care. I am, however, trying to sell the idea that taking care of your skin is not a treat, but a necessity. So often we look at spa services as “pampering” or “extras.” What these small snippets of time do for your physical being can greatly benefit your well being. There’s never a better time to start addressing your skin and the environmental exposures we face than with our MySpa program. The MySpa program runs through August 31st. We have four unique facials to choose from designed with you in mind.
So come to Natur-Tyme today and talk with our knowledgeable staff about the wonders of MyChelle, and take time to take care of the person who takes care of the ones you love!
Creamy Pumpkin Cleanser, I’m not a huge fan of creamy cleansers but this product has changed my mind! Gentle yet effective, it is perfect for my skin! Fruit Enzyme Mist: perfect for feeling refreshed, keep it in the fridge for a cool feeling on a hot summer day! Fabulous Eye Cream: Look out lines and wrinkles! Argan Oil: Great for everything, this lightweight oil will improve your skin, hair, and nails! Serums! (Too many to list!). Supreme Polypeptide Cream: Ideal moisturizer and foundation for applying your favorite Jane Iredale BB cream!
Old-man winter is hopefully behind us here in Central NY. Soon, the grass will be greener; the birds will sing; and it’s time to show off that springtime glow in your skin again.
Throughout the winter, our skin undergoes a myriad of changes. Due to barometric pressure repeatedly expanding and contracting the skin and cold air sapping the skin of vital water moisture, our skin can become dry and tight and even flaky. Even for the oiliest of skin, loss of water in the skin (transepidermal water loss) can wreak havoc on skin.
A professional facial service is a good jumpstart to healthy skin this time of year, as we transition from winter to spring. A professional consultation from an experienced esthetician can help you pinpoint key areas that may have been disrupted with the changing weather. Under bright light and 15x magnification, the estheticians at Natur-tyme’s Enhanced Beauty Salon can see further than the naked eye: dryness, extensive sun damage, broken capillaries, and so on. These types of issues can be treated in the facial room with key products.
Rosehip seed oil—This oil gradually releases nutrients and moisture into the skin and quickly repairs dry, damaged skin.
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Face the coming season with youthful, glowing skin by following the advice of your esthetician and applying these tips for homecare.
Here’s a great skin mask that is effective for all skin types including sensitive. This soothing and detoxifying mask will leave your skin refreshed and hydrated all summer long. The ingredients are all available at Natur-Tyme!
– 1 Tablespoon of Moroccan red clay powder…place it in a small bowl. This powder is designed for sensitive skin. It also detoxifies and removes impurities, helping to minimize and tighten pores.
– 1/2 teaspoon of Green tea Heat 1/4 cup of water and steep the tea bag for five minutes. Than, add a 1/2 of teaspoon of this green tea into the small bowl.
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I spent most of Sunday, June 12 in blissful ignorance. I usually spend my sundays listening to CBC radio (The Sunday Edition, Spark, The Vinyl Cafe, Writers and Company…it’s the best lineup of the week) while getting things done around the house. But for whatever reason, I spent that day in contemplative silence. I didn’t turn the radio on, I didn’t check Facebook or Instagram, I didn’t read the headlines. Instead I read a book, and did some sewing, and spent a few hours outside with Stella.
It wasn’t until after dinner that I went online, and a cryptic post by a friend sent me to Google. As I read about the scale of the violence, about its motivation, I felt such despair. The hate expressed by the murderer in Orlando was for how people loved one another. How they LOVED.
The idea for this quilt was almost immediate. A simple repeating phrase to emphasize the simplicity of the statement: LOVE IS LOVE. I’ve asked my fellow Toronto Modern Quilt Guild members to contribute blocks as well, because if ever a quilt needed to be a community effort, this is it. I hope this quilt, this small gesture in a very large world, will join with a million other small gestures to tip the balance on the side of love.
The goal is to make these blocks in bold, bright colours. No black, white, grey, etc. It is also important that the letters be legible, so contrast between the letters and the background is important. You can achieve this in different ways, such as using a cool background and warm letters (or vice versa), or using a light background and dark letters (or vice versa). Generally, prints that are on the smaller side, and that don’t themselves have a lot of contrast within them, will work best. Make them as scrappy or as solid as you’d like, just keep them bright and cheerful!
Each of the letters “finish” at 3″ x 6″, so they should be 3 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ before you join them all together. This is a good place to check your dimensions, since you can cut the joining pieces a bit thicker if you tend to find your seam allowances are a bit bigger than a scant quarter inch.
This is the only block that is a bit tricky. Draw chalk lines on the diagonal on the 4 squares of background fabric. Then put them on opposite corners of the main fabric pieces that are 2″ x 2 1/2″ (right sides together!), with the diagonal lines parallel to each other. You can see this in the second step of the diagram below. Then stitch along those lines, but ever-so-slightly shy of them, so that you end up with a scant seam. You can them trim the excess triangles before you move on to the next step.
The LOVE block finishes at 8″ x 17″, so yours will be 8 1/2″ x 17 1/2″. I would suggest joining the letters together first, without the last 4 border pieces, and then checking your size. At this point you should have a unit that is 6 1/2″ x 15 1/2″. If you’re a little shy, you can always cut those last four strips a bit wider to make up the difference.
The IS block finishes at 8″ x 9″, so yours will be 8 1/2″ x 9 1/2″. Just as with the LOVE block, you can check your size at this point: you should have a unit that is 6 1/2″ x 7 1/2″. Again, if you’re a little shy, you can cut the last four strips a bit wider to make up the difference.
And that’s it! I look forward to seeing how people reinterpret the blocks for their own tributes to the victims and survivors in Orlando. Once I gather blocks from my fellow guild members I’ll be sure to post some ideas for how to put all the blocks together, so stay tuned.
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Robert Divine wrote an analysis about USCIS-published 485 inventory. It points out that the inventory data is not comprehensive because it doesn't include pending 485 cases from consulate and cases whose cut-off dates are not current thus can't file 485. Please refer to the report for details.
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Lawrence “Egar” Mayers was born in Petit Valley district in the suburbs of Port of Spain on the 10 th August 1943 and attended Newtown Boys' R.C. School . From a very early age, Lawrence was interested in playing the Tenor Pan and began doing so by going to the Invaders Steel Pan Yard, home of the oldest reigning steelbands in the country today. It was while at Invaders in the year 1960 that Egar decided to join with a few men in the Pan yard and began to sink drums under the watchful eyes of the Legendary Ellie Mannette who continued, as time went along, to explain the art to these young men, He continued to play and experiment with the tuning and his ability and talent soon paid off as he was accepted as a Resident Tuner in All Stars Steel Orchestra. Lawrence began touring with the steel orchestra visiting amongst others Guyana , France, Europe, USA , Nigeria where they attended the Black Art Festival.
On his return to Trinidad, news of his unique sound began to spread and he was again contracted to tour Europe with the Band “Merry Makers” as their Resident Tuner. The most significant trip of his career however was his visit to Stockholm , Sweden , to work with Ulf Kronman, making, tuning and conducting scientific research in the production of the instrument. This exercise was a laboratory investigation on the theoretical implication of sound generated by the steelpan. All these tests were carried out at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Lawrence “Egar” Mayers is a much sought after Tuner, both locally and abroad and maybe considered the most widely traveled of all Tuners having gone to service instruments in different part of the world including Denmark , Poland , England , Canada and St. Thomas.
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This concept has resurfaced in my little Internet neck-of-the woods recently, and it makes me wonder: how often do we do too much in the classroom just because we can, or because we think we should? Wouldn’t it be better sometimes to stop and wait to see what really needs to be done? I found this series of posts on an extinct blog and was really inspired by how the writer applies this idea to everything from his own teaching to teacher training and mentoring. Once, when he was giving a talk at a conference, he asked the audience to do absolutely nothing for 2 minutes! Do read on for stories like that one, and for very interesting reflections.
For my own part, I’m planning to sit down and do absolutely nothing for as long as 5 minutes when I come home tonight – and you?
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The Rock electrifies the sidewalk with his “Walk of Fame” star!
Dwayne Johnson received the 2,624th star on the Los Angeles pavement, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is the only person to receive this honor from the WWE after Vince McMahon and the first full-time professional wrestler ever.
He was a WWE Intercontinental Champion, a Tag Team Champion and a World Heavyweight Champion. However, it is his status as the ‘People’s Champion’ in theWWE that still remains synonymous to his name. He has a charismatic smile and a personality that transcends all borders. People call him Dwayne, others call him Johnson. But his fans, his aficionados simply call him, The Rock.
What began as an ordinary WWE journey with Dwayne Johnson entering the WWE ring in 1996 with his ring name of Rocky Maivia, soon had his persona transformed to The Rock, who would lay the Smack Down or ‘Layeth the Smacketh Down’ on anyone in the ring or outside of it. Honoring his father and grandfather’s name, the third generation Superstar, The Rock, soon emerged as the top Superstars during the iconic Attitude Era in the WWE. He was born to be a WWE Superstar and was destined to touch greatness. The Rock is a 2 time WCW/World Champion, an 8 time WWF/WWE Champion, 2 time WWF/E Intercontinental Champion, 5 time WWF/E Tag Team Champion and winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble.
He have had a number of historic rivalries against Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Big Show, Chris Jericho, Booker T, Vince McMahon, D-Generation X and upon his return in 2015 entered into a rivalry against CM Punk and John Cena. After giving his all inside the squared circle in the WWE, The Rock became a superstar in Hollywood when he debuted as The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns (2001). Some of his other movies include G. I Joe: Retaliation (2013), Hercules (2014), San Andreas (2015) and he has been a major character in the Fast and the Furious franchise. With every other movie of The Rock a box office success, The Rock, on December 13, 2017, earned another milestone in his life when he was featured at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one of the most prestigious honors in the world of showbiz.
Twitter has been abuzz since The Rock achieved his star.
We wish The Rock all the best in all of his future endeavors.
If you smell what The Rock is cooking!
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