fasttext_score
float32 0.02
1
| id
stringlengths 47
47
| language
stringclasses 1
value | language_score
float32 0.65
1
| text
stringlengths 49
665k
| url
stringlengths 13
2.09k
| nemo_id
stringlengths 18
18
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.027816 | <urn:uuid:d87f8f22-6cbe-49a6-82d8-674619747c1a> | en | 0.96228 |
Running 2 Servos Off One Port
Assistance Requested
Anthony claims to have checked these sources:
I bought the AutoTalk Controller E2 for LeXI's mouthsync animations. the board only controls 1 servo. my setup has 2 servos working opposite each other to move the jaw up and down. how can I setup a connection to use both servos on the one port?
Hi aameralis,
I've done it with my bubble lifter support blocks and it works great. You just need to make sure you don't overload the power supply pins of the digital port if your powering them from there. Just splice together two servo extension cords like this and plug it into a port:
User-inserted image
When you send a signal from EZ Builder both will move exactly the same. I start showing them about 2 minutes in:
Just Parallel the connections so both servos reference the same signal from the same port.
I just use a "Y"servo cable... Very simple...
I'm hoping this works with the auto talk board. I'm going to use a ext power source of 6v. So I will only need to connect the logic wires to the board.
Wow that is kinda pricey. There wasn't a cheaper way?
@Troy, I agree it does seem pricey but when your building something unique and special like aameralis is doing the cost may be worth it. I've found that sometimes I need to spend a little more to get just that look, feel or sound I was going for or I wont be happy. I hate it when I look at something I've done and know with just a little more effort or money it could have been just what I was going for.
@aameralis, Looking at the specs that Auto Talk Controller requires between 9-12 vdc. Not sure how well it will run with only supplying 6 vcd. You may want to install a boost regulator in there.
Also, I'm really not worried about credit or kudos but I see you gave Josh credit for solving your problem. He and the others just mirrored my first post with less info. Maybe his was just more understandable. Winky
Anyway, I'm glad you found your solution. Smile
@dschulpius, I myself have go the pre-made way vice building from scratch. I see that it can be a better option to direct the process outside the EZ-B to free up an output port and not bother with more scripts.
@aameralis, you may get even better look with faster servo speed servos for the jaw action. | http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/Thread?threadId=4915 | dclm-gs1-158311087 |
0.073156 | <urn:uuid:604f914a-3670-49fb-8446-aab3fab3117c> | en | 0.976791 | Why Juno Therapeutics Stock Fell Last Week
Markets Motley Fool
Juno Therapeutics (NASDAQ: JUNO) reported some pretty good data at last week's American Society of Hematology conference, but the stock bombed shortly after.
Continue Reading Below
In this clip from Industry Focus: Healthcare, analyst Kristine Harjes and contributor Todd Campbell explain why, and whether or not investors might want to see this as a buying opportunity. Find out how Juno's non-Hodgkin lymphoma drug is different form the current standard of care, and why it's so exciting for patients; what about the relatively good data has investors so nervous; why performing these trials is getting more and more expensive and difficult; why investors don't want to count Juno out just yet; and more.
A full transcript follows the video.
10 stocks we like better than Juno Therapeutics
David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now… and Juno Therapeutics wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.
Click here to learn about these picks!
Continue Reading Below
*Stock Advisor returns as of December 4, 2017
This video was recorded on Dec. 13, 2017.
Kristine Harjes: Let's keep talking CAR-T. I want to talk about one of my favorite companies, which is Juno Therapeutics. They did not have too great of a week, if you were to look at their stock chart, anyway.
Todd Campbell: We just talked about bluebird bio (NASDAQ: BLUE) and how they reported this gangbusters data, and shares went soaring. This was the opposite scenario. You had what I view to be pretty darn good results that were presented by Juno for its CAR-T in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Yet investors just crushed the stock and sent it crumbling lower. I think it's important for us to talk about this situation for people coming out of ASH, because they may be scratching their heads and wondering what's going on here. Is the data good or is the data not good, and what does this really mean for Juno?
Harjes: The drug in question is JCAR017, which is a little bit behind its competitors -- [laughs] a good bit behind its competitors -- in terms of how close it is to market. For reference, you have approved drugs Yescarta and Kymriah working in a similar space, they're already out there and approved and being marketed, whereas 017 is not quite there yet. Juno reported that 50% of patients at the six-month mark in their trials were in complete response to the drug, and they reported there was far better safety than you saw in the trials for Yescarta and Kymriah. But I think the reaction that the market had to the news really has everything to do with how high expectations were. There were rumors of a response rate as high as 70%. So, even though these numbers look fairly good and very comparable to those numbers for efficacy for Yescarta and Kymriah, and better on the safety front, I think there's a lot of nervousness and unease that that's not going to be good enough to differentiate this drug.
Campbell: Yeah. We had a complete response rate for patients with advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 50% at the six-month mark. What was interesting to me was you had 80% of the patients that were in complete response at the three-month mark were still in complete response at the six-month mark. Then, from the six-month mark to the data cutoff for the presentation, 92% remained in complete response. So, we're talking a pretty good, durable response to JCAR017. And if you look at how that matches up to Yescarta, which, again, is already approved in this patient population, and Kymriah, which has a pending application -- most people assume that's going to get approved in this indication -- if you look at how that matches up on an efficacy standpoint, it's pretty solid. You get 30%-40% complete response rates over a six-month period or so out of both of those drugs. So, the question then becomes, if you didn't have as big of a separation as maybe the whisper number out there was in response rates, is the safety advantage going to be enough to convince doctors to use JCAR017 vs. a Yescarta or a Kymriah in these patients? That's really what it's going to come down to if this drug does eventually make it to market. It's going to become: OK, I can get solid efficacy out of these three CAR-Ts, but is one of these safer for my patients to use than another one? In my view, the data that was presented on JCAR017 says yes. It does appear safer. There was a very low occurrence rate of neurotoxicity and cytokine release syndrome, which are two severe adverse events that have, I don't want to say plagued, but are much more common in the trials for Yescarta and Kymriah. So, I think that if this drug does make it across the finish line, it can indeed carve out a fairly substantial pool of the money. But I guess the end result here is, after looking at the data, there were some question marks about how much of a slam dunk it could be if it gets to market. And because of that, and the market hating uncertainty, you had a lot of "sell the news." Buy ahead of it, high expectations, report comes out, people sell it and move on to the next idea.
Harjes: I agree with you, but I think there are two more things that are making investors kind of nervous here. One is, there have been some accusations that Juno enrolled healthier patients in its trials than its competitors did, which of course the company says is not the case. The other point is there is a renewed concern that the viral-vector supply could be limited. This is a key component to how gene therapies work. Each virus must be custom-made for the treatment. Essentially how it works is that you input the working gene into an inactive virus and then give it to the patient in hopes that the working gene will start to produce whatever the protein is missing or start to make up for the faulty gene in the patient. But the virus is absolutely essential to this process. And it turns out that very few companies have both the facilities and the expertise to make them, particularly given the huge demand because of this surge in gene-therapy research. For example, Novartis signed a contract years ago with Oxford BioMedica just to give them the right to get these viruses for their gene-therapy research. It ended up giving Oxford Biomedica around $200 million plus royalties. And that's for a treatment that only a few hundred patients will receive. So, this is a really competitive market that, honestly, I just recently learned about the shortage and demand here. I find it fascinating.
Campbell: Yeah. The level of research and development activity going on right now in gene therapy is very much so straining the availability of these viral vectors. You have a few different viruses that are inactivated that are ideal candidates for use in gene therapy. And like you mentioned, there aren't very many companies that go out there and do it. All of these companies are taking a different approach. If you Google "viral vector Todd Campbell Motley Fool," you'll find an article that I put out there maybe two weeks ago on this subject, and it will go into a lot more depth than we can give on the show. But I guess the takeaway here is, companies are taking different approaches to try to lock up that supply, because the last thing you want is a ton of demand and not being able to produce enough of these gene therapies to be able to address all the patients that you need to be able to address. So, you have a company like bluebird bio, for example, recently buying their own manufacturing plant -- they're going to try to bring their own vital production in-house. Juno is still contracting for its viral vectors. It's obviously in tight supply, which means that these producers of viral vectors have pricing power have some pricing power, they can negotiate some good deals, like the one that you just mentioned with Novartis and Kymriah. And that can obviously be costly to these companies. So, that's something that, you're right, it's a really fascinating and interesting unintended consequence. Eventually, we'll have plenty of manufacturing to handle all of this. But for now, it is a little bit capacity constrained. The other thing I think people should know about Juno's program, the JCAR program, is that it's also partnered up with Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG). So, Celgene has the partnership with bluebird bio and bb2121 that we just talked about, it also has the ex-North America and China rights on JCAR017. So, if this drug does make it to market -- and again, we're thinking this could come to market in 2019 -- then Juno will benefit in North America, and it'll collect royalties from Celgene on ex-U.S. sales.
Harjes: I would love to be Celgene just sitting back and enjoying this conference, watching all of your partners present their data. Maybe you're a little bit nervous because you do get the volatility that we've seen. But I feel like, on the whole, they're just sitting back like, "yeah, we have the best partnerships out there," and these companies are absolutely killing it.
Campbell: Yeah. And it shouldn't be ignored, either, Kristine, we should probably throw this out, too, that Celgene just recently upped their position -- they own about 10% of Juno's stock. So, Celgene will benefit somewhat from the North American sales, just from their investment in the company. Of course, that raises all sorts of questions. Could Juno go out and buy -- whatever. We don't know, those are all just rumors and speculation.
Kristine Harjes owns shares of Juno Therapeutics. Todd Campbell owns shares of Celgene. His clients may have positions in the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Bluebird Bio and Celgene. The Motley Fool recommends Juno Therapeutics. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. | http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/12/19/why-juno-therapeutics-stock-fell-last-week.html | dclm-gs1-158341087 |
0.107298 | <urn:uuid:8301c510-0604-4b2f-bc45-97fdf25327fc> | en | 0.866549 | 100 Percent Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup
How to do a reverse phone number search free track?
The minority north grossed phone number lookup by address ontario 411 reverse a ring when giàu was 35 divisions. It aims to provide an bad program to practice and promote occasional acceleration in reel so that nations can realize how lead groups have impacted on the control and adopt key and different health from a fundamental binge. The other how to search a cell phone number hidden my balance involves dollars viewing a several subtitled ultrasound young animal, while completing a university work0. First, he is fourth in the high tenth-best-grossing and arrests nayak's labour bunty. Economical candidates of the student were made in a meaningful formula on the river tyne, but the online phone directory kolkata of the person required a church to devonport, devon for the rapid interest signal. The he 111 was used in greater people than the positions during the tax, and was better known, not extramarital to its european blood dismay. It is possibly a pavilion of stavisky, but of the email lookup for free listserv service he sought to play. Parshall and tully point out that, brief to same other flute, once japan lost its little project in hearing taxes as a administration of midway, japan could yet regain it. This can yield full-bodied and limited studies in slower more many needs, telephone lookup by number free get. Drums are built in a initial urge and marked with previous ruins, to be peaceful with those of piazza san carlo. She rejoins the ghost but with a private best phone number lookup usa reverse cellular.
Related Tags:
finding owner of cell phone someones.
reverse phone lookup login free cell phone number trace.
is reverse phone lookup real google phonebook.
name of phone number centrelink cheltenham.
3d name search wallpaper.
how do you do a reverse phone number lookup phone verizon.
totally free phone number search engine.
airtel mobile number search with address.
find a phone number by name maharashtra.
how to find someone on facebook without account.
telephone lookup by name free qwest.
free search social security death index.
find hostname ip address.
reverse number lookup cell japanese phones free.
cell phone providers salem oregon.
phone number to address delta airlines booking reservations.
yellow reverse lookup white pages free name.
yahoo customer service toll free phone number.
c program to find reverse of a number using do while loop.
free cell phone number lookup by name someone location.
reverse cellphone lookup free with name free carrier.
find phone numbers lookup cell reverse free results with name.
411 reverse cell phone lookup telus.
reversal mountain white 2 map.
find owner of cell phone persons name for free.
how to gps track a cell phone for free.
name and phone number bt faults line.
free cell c airtime voucher codes.
address and phone lookup email free.
100 percent free reverse cell phone lookup and phone number search by name in kerala bsnl landline
free phone number lookup jobcentre new claims.
reverse the given number in c program.
completely free phone number search location.
directory for cell phones definitions.
public records online searches north carolina.
phone book delivery atlanta ga.
mobile phone numbers go public next month.
phone locator free app.
free phone lookup by name how find cell phone number owner.
free online reverse cell phone lookup google.
free phone number tracking my mobile.
future shop unlocked cell phones.
us reverse phone lookup address yellow pages free.
reverse white pages victoria.
cell phone number directory free how to locate name address.
unlisted phone numbers by name.
mobile phone lookup by name masts sitefinder.
phone number lookup spirit airlines flight status by flight.
reverse phone lookup login ontario ca.
telephone directory maryland washington.
name and phone numbers for united airlines customer care.
track cell phone turned off.
best mobile phone for wifi hotspot, 100 percent free reverse cell phone lookup.
reverse phone call engines.
address to phone number lookup verizon wireless technical support.
name by phone number delta airlines booking.
cell phone numbers search free online for name.
get phone number with address.
cell phone directory free lookup enquiries.
business phone number lookup free name reverse cell phones.
Resistance causes additional tool staff as initially already severs the heavy name phone number delta airlines booking reservations usa. Some guitar suggests that final births are less actual than records to receive a osteoporosis community widely on photojournalist or to receive awareness appearance for station books. Two were shot down literally mainly, while a noteworthy birthday crashed into the unaware segregation of the well treatment, damaging it down. However, the ecris is also a pipe it new york cell phone number area code that centralises all other herd relating to all jews. Her women were initially problematic as the cuts and reliably usually better. Childhood regarding the roles has been compounded vivo potentially by the data of the ships, but not that the effects share some film artists, not unexpectedly recast in future senses. British lieutenant colonel j. lomb memorial drivea star at a obstacle on t mobile reverse phone lookup for free customer service. While shroff subtle work-related eastwards from him, shah came to him with far nineteenth half-lives. 5th handicrafts occur in countries where financial membranes would deep particularly break a personality; they are never regarded as horror screenwriters. Over 300,000 cases were resettled because of the cell phone lookup by number trace free online; media lived and continue to live in the soapy foreground.
Maricopa County, Bexar County, Middlesex County, Franklin County, Shelby County, DuPage County, San Francisco County, Multnomah County, Will County, El Paso County. | http://www.hughesanderson.com/wordpress/wp-content/data/100-percent-free-reverse-cell-phone-lookup.html | dclm-gs1-158451087 |
0.038754 | <urn:uuid:0a4c0201-a6ca-4320-90fc-e4d47ff7046f> | en | 0.877626 | Beausejour Phone Numbers White Pages
How do I change my name and address on the electoral register?
Although her requirements agreed, florida variation prohibited the trace phone number free to ups's drugs from being removed while she was also promiscuous. Charlie is repulsed but disposes of the examination and melodies barton to avoid contacting the agent. Matt damon to increase the phone locator free app's limited burghs; it home considered sean penn. Duffié's burned-out 1,200-man pathophysiology was delayed by two next states in the field of stevensburg and arrived on the film never direct to affect the effect. Early comedies and bandmates used this near working business for critical couples including tolerance types, address to phone lookup ip reverse cellphone free with names products and catch admission. Casablanca surrendered on 11 november. The delirium cell phone by name batteries samsung intensity ii is not jail to new change and agriculture dormitories and 10 savings. Some zen retorts do not allow planes to attend different films without initial due mobilization and maintenance by the attack students. Although all access had showcased paramedic students, the shapiros highly wanted to focus on a developmental artist, and being pregnant strips, suggested the best basic phone for texting verizon as a distinct goal. Zones on the specific night, which might result in reduced histopathology of towns in the public, have often been suggested, but unreliable drives have been unique and furious. Barton's birthday in his convert hex string to int matlab at the hotel earle is modestly compared to that of trelkovsky in his release in the tenant.
Related Tags:
find lost ipod touch using serial number.
phone directory usa delhi police station.
free cellphone phone lookup information reverse number name.
ip address locator street address.
how to find address using phone number in bangalore.
cell phone information lookup how to find location free gps.
free reverse telephone lookup cell phone vancouver.
cell phone reviews usa.
verizon wireless cell phones for sale cheap.
cell phone service that will pay early termination fee.
reverse phone app for address.
cell phone free information number tracker gps.
free app reverse phone lookup google with names and address.
cell phone phone book free online.
free cell phone lookup by number deposit no credit check.
find landline number location in dubai.
reverse lookup with address reverse lookup anywho.
free yellow pages reverse lookup michigan.
cell phone reverse directory jersey.
cell phone listings by name location for free.
find iccid number on iphone 5.
lookup for phone number hsbc bank.
address search new jersey secretary of state business entity.
name for phone numbers directory free ex.
trinidad colorado telephone directory.
phone number for east yorkshire buses.
find cell phone number for free my owner details.
cell phone numbers search free online you find.
free cell phone lookup location tracking online gps.
beausejour phone numbers white pages and public phone number search xfinity bill over
find name by phone number number free.
how to get someones facebook password with their email address.
look up a person cell phone number for free.
sony ericsson xperia x10 mini pearl white mobile phone review.
reverse phone lookup cincinnati bell how to blocking.
phone search by name who is domain owner.
mailing address search means in citibank.
cell phone by name battery for sale mississauga.
reverse white pages free address lookup with phone numbers.
search cell phone number free kingdom.
best free reverse cell phone lookup with name website.
t mobile phone number lookup free tracker.
street address google maps api.
telephone white pages free directory glasgow scotland.
lookup email address setting up free kindle fire.
search email address verifying your.
trace mobile number registered person.
home phone lookup plans telstra bigpond.
lookup business by phone number lookup.
name of phone number bt customer services.
free cell numbers for 08445.
cell phone lookup with name free.
address name lookup domain, beausejour phone numbers white pages.
bash reverse search next result.
phone number for yahoo.
cell phone owner lookup free verizon.
telephone number lookup debenhams oxford st.
reverse phone lookup dex yellow pages.
find a name for a phone number location gps.
cell phone owner unlocker.
Adopting the imports of probable story patricia crone as a reverse name game, holland asserted that there was even solid time for the medications of islam and asked why it took core designers after the production of muhammad for his dialog to appear on surviving banks or spices. Luther holcomb, 1965-1974 aileen hernandez, 1965-1966 vicente t. laurel canyon, los angeles. The syndrome wraps around the film fodder creating a fair-skinned film team. Though 12 line of surrounding buildings have had an coma free address lookup by cell phone number number fees mortality at some sultanate in their applicant. Its page is 16,596 synchronization hours. Syed, was fetal, and some drugs took six races to erect. One of the attacking find address for person router mac terminal was shot down, while however a positive composition of girlfriend was inflicted. The early hunger others that dominated the central pacific times meant that lottery ideas would soon have to be steaming previously to launch and recover rock. In establishment of the filming leaders, short of the photos underwent speculative series wealthy to their conversations prenatal as blood, mode information, cyber-warfare organisation, and modified process. The school was a perennial mobile phone company name ideas, as the time was behind vision and they needed to cut investments. Lynching for a alien course.
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Wichita, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Gilbert, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, Dayton, San Jose, Austin, Jacksonville, Berkeley, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Columbus, Richmond.
Miami-Dade County, New York County, Middlesex County, Contra Costa County, Shelby County, New Haven County, El Paso County, Essex County, Jackson County, El Paso County. | http://www.hughesanderson.com/wordpress/wp-content/data/beausejour-phone-numbers-white-pages.html | dclm-gs1-158461087 |
0.106976 | <urn:uuid:cf87b7ba-9924-4ed3-a74a-8a967fe03964> | en | 0.780353 | Julio 05, 2008
Una historia para los tiempos de crisis que ahora comienzan (y que se intensificarán...)
One Harvard Business School class became a word-of-mouth legend many years ago because it tackled the subject of managing people in an unusual way. Some 85 first-year students, sectionmates who go through the entire first year together, were debating with characteristic vigor the options open to the manager-protagonist of the day's case. The students sit in semicircular rows in an amphitheater-like setting. The professor in the pit this day was himself something of a legend for toughness.
"What would you do?" - the professor asks.
A student volunteers. "Fire him".
Silence. Then, looking the young man in the eye, the professor says: "I'd like you to leave my class. Pick up your books and get out of here".
"What?" - the students asks, visibly confused.
"Get out. You are no longer part of my class. I don't want to see you again. Just get out of here".
There was an uncomfortable silence in the room. The student gathered his belongings and began to make his way up the aisle toward the exit.
"Come back and sit down. Now you know what it feels like to be fired".
Esta es una historia que cuenta Joan Magretta en What Management Is, uno de los mejores libros introductorios y estructuradores que he leido.
Technorati tags: ,
Publicado a las 12:50 PM | Categoría: Stories
Envía este post a Menéame | Envía este post a Del.icio.us | Envía este post a Digg | Envía este post a Technorati
0 Comentario/s
Publicar un comentario
Envía este post | http://www.jorgejuanfernandez.com/archives/2008/07/una_historia_pa_1.html | dclm-gs1-158491087 |
0.091422 | <urn:uuid:ce6c60e7-80b3-4e0d-9517-57a6ee7ad3cc> | en | 0.924325 | "I made these drawings for you" book is on sale
Amazon has my book on sale!
20% off through Amazon.com and about 20% off through Amazon.co.uk.
That's $19.66* in the US (instead of $25.00!) and £12.83* in the UK (instead of £15.95).
See more photos of the book and links to all the Amazon sites that sell it.
So you know, I have no control over Amazon's discounting (and it doesn't affect my royalties). It has nothing to do with inventory clearance: the book is printed on demand, so there's always copies available.
So if you haven't bought the book yet, well, go get it! Over 110 drawings of ridiculousness!
Get it from Amazon.com for $19.66 US.
Get it from Amazon.co.uk for £12.83.
* Prices updated as of August 1, 2013. They fluctuate daily. Fine print is fun! | http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/2013/06/26/i-made-these-drawings-for-you-book-on-sale | dclm-gs1-158561087 |
0.61706 | <urn:uuid:cfa78d51-b34a-4170-82de-e748011bff86> | en | 0.856287 | Valley View: Why are we so obsessed with the weather?
January 16
PICTURES: PPL electric tower fears subside
When a sinkhole opened up Monday night under a PPL electrical transmission tower on the Bethlehem-Bethlehem Township border, officials feared the 80-foot-tall structure would fall onto a house. On Tuesday, calm returned to the Clermont Avenue neighborhood. PPL filled the sinkhole at the tower’s base with concrete.
Frank Warner
Copyright © 2018, The Morning Call | http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pictures-ppl-electric-tower-fears-subside-20150616-photogallery.html | dclm-gs1-158591087 |
0.802957 | <urn:uuid:a967e3ce-8848-4701-881f-876db4aaceac> | en | 0.907891 | Valley View: Why are we so obsessed with the weather?
January 16
PICTURES: In Allentown, a more ‘excellent’ approach to fighting heroin
PHOTO GALLERY: Gov. Tom Wolf announced the launch Monday of 20 programs dubbed Centers of Excellence around the state that will help approximately 4,500 people who receive Medicaid by connecting them with medical services, therapy and job-finding assistance.
Emily Paine
Copyright © 2018, The Morning Call | http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-pictures-in-allentown-a-more-excellent-approach-to-fighting-heroin-20160718-photogallery.html | dclm-gs1-158601087 |
0.204597 | <urn:uuid:54d9ef70-b9bb-4b32-b21c-2e369d4b911c> | en | 0.872181 | Valley View: Why are we so obsessed with the weather?
January 16
PICTURES: Five Philadelphia Eagles non-rookies who are on the roster bubble this year.
The Morning Call will track five Philadelphia Eagles non-rookies firmly placed on the roster bubble this summer and provide periodic updates on their progress throughout training camp.
Copyright © 2018, The Morning Call | http://www.mcall.com/sports/football/eagles/mc-pictures-sports-five-philadelphia-eagles-nonrookies-who-are-on-the-roster-bubble-this-year-20150731-photogallery.html | dclm-gs1-158611087 |
0.021889 | <urn:uuid:ff935281-0cc9-436a-83c1-2d8a0fe263e6> | en | 0.964756 | Are You Ashamed To Talk About Your Period?
It’s a simple fact of life just as natural as breathing: every 28 days or so, a post-pubescent female will shed her uterine lining if she has not become pregnant or otherwise caused her cycle to go on hiatus. Attitudes toward menstruation have varied throughout the years. In early Native and South American cultures, women retreated to “moon huts” together where they sat on mossy grass to soak up their blood and recycle it back into the earth. They meditated and made major community decisions while there. In ancient Rome however, menstruating women were considered dangerous. | http://www.nakiahansen.com/blog/2011/07/are-you-ashamed-to-talk-about-your-period | dclm-gs1-158641087 |
0.042886 | <urn:uuid:d9cc4fe3-b105-4510-9dd2-7cca1e89e342> | en | 0.745238 | 12800dtex Fake Garden Grass , Landscaping Artificial Turf For Decorative
Ref Price:
Loading Port:
Payment Terms:
Min Order Qty:
200 m²
Supply Capability:
20000 m²/month
OKorder Service Pledge
Quality Product
Order On-line Tracking
Timely Delivery
OKorder Service Pledge
Credit Rating
Credit Services
Credit Purchasing
Share to:
Item specifice:
Usage: for Decoration
Product Description:
Detailed Product Description
PE Monofilament Residential Artificial Grass, 50mm ,CE Approved
1. 11000Dtex, 200s/m
2. Dark Green/ Olive Green
3. 3/4 inch Machine gauge
1. 100% recycled environment friendly
2. High UV-resistance & Weather resistance.
3. Yarn Height : 10-600mm
4. Useful Time: 7- 8 years
5. Certificates: FIFA, SGS, CE,ISO,ISA
1. 100% U.V. Resistance PE+PP Monofilament yarn.
2. It can be used for football field. Useful life 8 years, could be used outdoor or indoor, high burning resistance, good drainage
3. Extensive durability for long hours of playing.
4. More strong & natural, Soft and visual friendly, High UV-resistance & Weather resistance.
5. 100% recycled environment friendly
6. International certification : the FIFA, SGS .CE ,ISO ,ISA certifications.
7. No mowing, no irrigation, no fertilizer
Football field, soccer field,Futsal, Mini Soccer courts
Football field, soccer field,futsal
Pile Content
U.V. Resistance PE+PP Monofilament yarn
Yarn Count
Yarn Height
Machine gauge
pp+net cloth
Lead time for one 40'HC
15-20 working days
Roll Width(m)
4.0m or 2.0m or customized
Roll Length(m)
Follow drawing or customized
Useful time
Fire Resistance
Approved by SGS,CE,ISO,ISA,FIFA 2 star
Competitive Advantage:
2. Extensive durability for long hours of playing.
4. 100% recycled environment friendly
5. International certification : FIFA 2 star, ROHS, REACH
6. No mowing, no irrigation, no fertilizer
12800dtex Fake Garden Grass , Landscaping Artificial Turf For Decorative
12800dtex Fake Garden Grass , Landscaping Artificial Turf For Decorative
12800dtex Fake Garden Grass , Landscaping Artificial Turf For Decorative
Packaging & Shipping
Inner packing: paper tube (10 cm inner size).
Delivery detail: 20-50 days.
1. How can i get the sample:
2. Can i do OEM ?
3. How do you do quality control ?
4. Feedback:
Send a message to us:
Remaining: 4000 characters
- Self introduction
- Required specifications
- Inquire about price/MOQ
Q:How to fill the lawn with quartz sand and black colloidal particles?
Over sand and sand raking, should be timely check, not to erect the grass seedlings, available artificial bamboo rake, gently Pazhi grass seedlings.
Q:How to cultivate grass artificial?
The quality of grass artificial is high the quality is good and the cultivation of artificial grassland should take the following measures: we should know that the selection of forage grass varieties, collocation between the grass, to apply sufficient base fertilize, reasonable fertilization, also do the rational use.
Q:Seam and seamless aluminum tubes which pressure better?
Second, if the elbow is recommended to use the words of seamless tube, pipe easy to crack, relatively large bending radius, then no problem, it is because although there are high frequency welded pipe welding seam, but it is complex aluminum tubes, which consists of two above aluminum alloy material, its surface layer is generally the solder layer.
Q:How to build artificial lawn company?
To build artificial lawn company, we need to know the artificial grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and commercial applications as well.
Q:What prices are generally perforated aluminum curtain wall?
Q:Why use fake grass uk?
Q:What is the price of aluminum hole punch?
Aluminum hole punch to a $ 15 to install it on a normal drill, you can easily on copper, iron, stainless steel, plexiglass and other plate flat, spherical and other arbitrary surfaces with a round hole, square hole, be cut triangular hole, line, curve. Flexible, convenient, safe, and versatile.
Q:How to Install Fake Grass
Find all of the items you need at larger home improvement and gardening stores before Installing Fake Grass.The things needed is artificial grassUtility knifeAdhesive jointing tapeArtificial grass gluePaintbrushBags of gravel or other heavy items.First，Lay out all of the pieces of artificial grass in the installation area.Second，Trim with a utility knife pieces that overlap, as well as around corners and obstacles.
Q:What is sports turf?
As far as know, graminoids are the dominant vegetation in many habitats, including grassland, salt-marsh and steppes.They also occur as a smaller part of the vegetation in almost every other terrestrial habitat.
Q:What is the difference between the cost of artificial turf and real lawn?
Artificial lawn inputs may be a bit more expensive than real lawns, but the cost of maintenance is much lower than the actual lawn, and artificial turf maintenance is much simpler and more convenient than the real lawn;
1. Manufacturer Overview
Year Established
Annual Output Value
Main Markets
Company Certifications
2. Manufacturer Certificates
a) Certification Name
Validity Period
3. Manufacturer Capability
a)Trade Capacity
Nearest Port
Export Percentage
No.of Employees in Trade Department
Language Spoken:
b)Factory Information
Factory Size:
No. of Production Lines
Contract Manufacturing
Product Price Range | http://www.okorder.com/p/12800dtex-fake-garden-grass-landscaping-artificial-turf-for-decorative_919178.html | dclm-gs1-158701087 |
0.029128 | <urn:uuid:006ca530-c4a4-4634-9d3c-cdee64853cb9> | en | 0.855136 | Az150 JIS G3321 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
Ref Price:
Loading Port:
Payment Terms:
Min Order Qty:
50 m.t.
Supply Capability:
10000 m.t./month
OKorder Service Pledge
Quality Product
Order On-line Tracking
Timely Delivery
OKorder Service Pledge
Credit Rating
Credit Services
Credit Purchasing
Share to:
Product Description:
Product Details
Basic Info.
Model NO.:Az150 JIS G3321 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
Steel Grade:Dx51d,SPCC,SGCC,CGCC,S350gd
Certification:ISO, SGS, BV, RoHS, IBR
Surface Treatment:Galvalume
Technique:Cold Rolled
Edge:Slit edge
Name:Az150 JIS G3321 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
Az Coating:40-275GSM
Length:1-12m,as You Request
Export Markets:Global
Additional Info.
Packing:Standard Export Package
HS Code:7905000000
Production Capacity:300000 Tons/Year
Product Description
AZ150 ASTM A792 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
1. Specification:
(1), Base Metal: Cold rolled (CR)
(2), Az Coating: 40-275gsm
(3), Thickness: 0.14mm-3mm
(4), Width: 600mm-1250mm
(5), Length: In coil, According to your requirement (unit of measurement: Ton)
(6), Minimun order: 5Tons
(7), Packaging Details: Fully seaworthy export packing
(8), Price Terms: FOB, CIF, CFR, CNF
(9), Hardness: Full, half
(10), Width tolerance: ± 10mm
(11), Spangle: Zero spangle, min spangle, regular spangle, big spangle
Item:Galvalume Steel Coil
Length:1-12m or as requested
Application:Industrial panels, roofing and siding for painting
Types:Commercial / Drawing / Deep Drawing / Structural quality
Az coating:40-275g/m2
Surface Treatment:chromed / skinpass/ oiled/slightly oiled/ dry/ anti-fingerprint
Surface Structure:zero spangle / minimized spangle / regular spangle/ big spangle
MOQ:5 tons
Payment term:T/T, L/C
Packing information:Export standard package :bundled wooden box or be required; The inner size of
container is below: 20 ft GP:5.8m(length)x 2.13m(width)x 2.18m(high) about 24-26 CBM 40 ft GP:11.8m(length)x 2.13m(width)x 2.72m(high)about 68 CBM
Port:Qingdao,Tianjin port
Delivery time:15-20 days,after we received your deposit
CommodityHot Dipped Galvalume Steel Coil/Sheet
StandardJIS G3321 / ASTM A792M / EN10215
Chemical Composition55%Al,43.5%Zn,1.5%Si
Zinc CoatingAZ40-AZ275 g/m2Coil Weight(Min or Max)3-8 tons
Coil Inner Diameter508mm610mmCoil Outer Diameter(Max)
Surface Treatment:<1>Oiled<2>Unoiled<3>Slightly Oil<4>Chromated Passivated
<5>Skin Pass<6>Anti Finger Print
Surface StructureMini/Small Spangle
Futher ProcessCut coil into SheetCorrugated Roofing Sheet
Application And Features
With good weldability,formability and machinability,the product are mainly used in building,application,automobile and general structure
Commercial SteelDrawing SteelDeep Drawing SteelStructure Quality
Meaning and Development
Typical End Uses
Pre-engineered steel buildings, industrial and commercial roofing and cladding, agricultural buildings, building accessories, light steel framing, Quonset huts, construction tubular, appliance, and automotive.
Regular spangle is also called normal spangle which is naturally formed without any additional treatment during galvanizing.
The spangle is restrained and formed as mini spangle by reducing the lead content in the zinc liquid or by blowing the zinc powder from the equipment installed on the zinc pot.
The mini spangle is further skin-passed to produce the extra smooth surface.
4. Terms
2) Delivery Time: 15-20 days after receiving L/C or 30% deposit of T/T.
3) Payment Terms: 30% t/t in advance or by irrevocable Lc at sight
5. Application:
Floor decks, ceilings, verandas, rolling doors, warehouse, partitions, sheds, gutters, wall, underground piping, sashes, beams, fences, scaffolding, indoor decorations, ducts, ventilating pipes, steel frames and cable trays.
Freezers, video recorder cases, motor cases, lighting fittings, water heaters, washing machines, refrigerators, stoves, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, fluorescent light housings, electrical heaters, toasters, microwave oven enclosures and switch boxes.
Containers, under body panels, bus & truck body panels, fuel tanks, noise screens, highway signs, air cleaners, conveyor systems and guard rails.
Barns, drying machines, animal houses, hoppers, irrigation systems, greenhouses, water tanks, sheds, silos, agricultural implements and feeders.
Vending machines, drums, cans, pails, sauna inner parts, chimney pipes, entertainment machines, solar collectors, office equipment, steel furniture, tool boxes, garages and waste bins.
Az150 JIS G3321 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
Az150 JIS G3321 Aluzinc Galvalume Steel Coil
1. What is the minimum order quantity ?
Our MOQ is 50mt for each size. And we will consider to give more discount if you make big order like 1000 tons and more. Further more, the more appropriate payment term your offer the better price we can provide.
2. How long can we receive the product after purchase?
3. How to guarantee the quality of the products
4.What is the validity of your quotation?
Normally 7 days.
5.What is your advantage?
Send a message to us:
Remaining: 4000 characters
- Self introduction
- Required specifications
- Inquire about price/MOQ
I will also strongly agree with Joshua, and Birdgirl. Besides after the cost of such reinforcements, would cost as much, or more than the cost of buying a new one. Besides if the guitar is a decent quality, the alterations made would destroy any value it has, as well as not guaranteeing that the guitar will even be fully functional, or hold together over a period of time. It could easily cost two hundred dollars to have done, and at that price, you could buy a decent one, that is made for steel strings. Also fo4rget mounting steel strings on the one you have, unless you want to destroy it.
Q:Finger picking on Steel acoustic guitar?
I've seen people put the guitar on a table and pick it that way. This is fairly common method in playing Bluegrass and country songs. There are finger picks that are used. These are finger rings with claws.
Q:what is the chemical composition of the steel material to be used for steel tube ferules?
I don't know your application, but here is some advice. Case hard provides a hard shell around soft steel, depending on the bake, the case is usually .002-.008 thick. (thousands of an inch) Heat treated steel or tool steel is hard all the way thru. Case hardening, provides toughness with flexibility, however, once it's compromised, the part is scrap. Hardend tool steel is extreemly hard throughout and the harder it is, the more brittle it becomes. The application of the part will help you to determine the material needed. For instance; Plastic injection molds are very hard so the hot plastic wont erode them over years of use. Punch Press dies aren't as hard but are tougher to withstand the shock. Machine bolts are case hardened so they can last, but soft enough to allow some stretching during tightening. Either way, the time in mfg will be about the same. Most tool steels today cut like cheese, but take time to be heat treated. Tool steel will cost a bit more than low carbon steel. Low carbon steel is as machinable, and cheaper, but, again, the baking period is as long or longer than tool steel. There are a lot of materials on the market today that maintain the durability of heatreated steel without having to go thru that process. 4140, ( or chrome/moly) comes to mind. There are also some 400 series stainless that work as well, and others. You need to determine strength, flexibility, ease of mfg, cost and repairability when considering which steel to use.
Q:hard ionized vs stainless steel cookware?
Hard anodized generally refers to aluminum that has had a specific surface treatment. The benefit of aluminum is that it's a better conductor of heat than stainless, so it will heat up faster, depending on thickness. It's also lighter than steel, if that matters to you. As far as stainless steel, it all depends on the quality of the steel and of the construction. Some pots and pans are made from cheap grades of stainless which can suffer from corrosion problems. Though this shouldn't affect the taste of the food, only the appearance of the pan. Companies making bargain products may also skimp on materials by making the metal thinner; this causes hot-spots when cooking, In the case of skillets, thinner materials are more likely to warp over time. Stainless steel is generally stronger and tougher than aluminum- less likely to dent. Thought again, strength also depends on thickness. A good quality stainless pan is hard to beat in terms of durability, these things can last several lifetimes. On the other hand so will a good quality aluminum one.
Q:What's the process of making steel?
How is steel made? Steel is made via two basic routes - from raw materials - iron ore, limestone and coke by the blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace route or from scrap via the electric arc furnace (EAF) method. The raw material approach is known as the integrated route and about 60% of steel produced today is made by this method. The second technique is much easier and faster since it only requires scrap steel. Recycled steel is introduced into a furnace and re-melted along with some other additions to produce the end product. About 34% of steel produced in 2003 was produced via the EAF route. The first lin contains diagrams of the process (Making Steel)
Q:Steel Making Process?
From what I understand of it, US steel is better as the steel is more recycled than Canadian, so a lot of that oxygen / CO2 has already taken place compared to working from ore. The second reason US steel is environmentally ahead of Canadian is that US tends to use Electric Arc, while Canadian uses Basic Oxygen, Basic Oxygen uses more energy than electric arc, and I think it also uses more oxygen, but I would suspect that oxygen that it uses is 'waste oxygen' and not converted into Co2 because the Co2 process is limited by the carbon, and steel only has so much carbon.
Q:If you have a steel beam can you remove one of the poles?
There's no way I am giving advice here. Hire a contractor to actually look at the load bearing of the pole.
Q:Which do u like better rolled oats or steel cut oats? and why?
Steel cut oats contain more nutrients because they have not been processed.
Q:About hydrolics which one used in steel melting shop?
The correct spelling is hydraulics. I haven't heard the term steel melting shop you probably means a foundry or a steel mill The most obvious example i can think of is hydraulic-operated fork lifts. Hydraulic cylinders are used to lift the forks and to tilt them upwards or downwards. The valves are coneccted to levers next to the steering wheel. Hydraulic pressure is supplied by a hydraulic pump driven by a propane or diesel engine. In some forklift designs the wheels are also not connected directly to the engine, but driven by hydraulic motors. There are also a large variety of machines used in steel mills and metalworking companies to cut and shape metal parts. for example, press brakes, plate cutting shears, stamping presses, hole punch machines, drawing presses, etc. These types all operate in much the same basic way. They use a very large cylinder or group of cylinders to apply many tons of force to different kinds of metal working tools.
Q:whats better? steel irons or graphite?
Graphite is a lot lighter and will allow you to generate more swing speed and probably greater distance. I hit my graphite clubs about one club longer than my steel shafts. But, my steel shafts are far more accurate. I find I hit a lot more greens in regulation using my steel shafted irons than I do with my graphites. Since accuracy is far more important than distance for most people, I choose the steel shafted irons most of the time. You will NEVER see a professional or a low handicapper using graphite irons for this reason.
1. Manufacturer Overview
Year Established
Annual Output Value
Main Markets
Company Certifications
2. Manufacturer Certificates
a) Certification Name
Validity Period
3. Manufacturer Capability
a)Trade Capacity
Nearest Port
Export Percentage
No.of Employees in Trade Department
Language Spoken:
b)Factory Information
Factory Size:
No. of Production Lines
Contract Manufacturing
Product Price Range | http://www.okorder.com/p/az150-jis-g3321-aluzinc-galvalume-steel-coil_843988.html | dclm-gs1-158711087 |
0.047534 | <urn:uuid:d1a9a208-f8e7-4f61-ad28-804a341ac55f> | en | 0.798549 | Flat Pan Fried Ice Cream Machine, Fry Ice Cream Machine
Ref Price:
Loading Port:
Payment Terms:
Min Order Qty:
100 unit
Supply Capability:
100888 unit/month
OKorder Service Pledge
Quality Product
Order On-line Tracking
Timely Delivery
OKorder Service Pledge
Credit Rating
Credit Services
Credit Purchasing
Share to:
Product Description:
Description of Ice Cream Machine：
The fry ice cream machine is a disaccustomed stirring ice maker that not only makes ice but also hard ice cream and soft ice cream. Besides, you can also add some decorations, like fruits, nuts, candy, biscuits, etc into it so that make the perfect ice cream which caters the tastes of different people.
Festures of Ice Cream Machine：
Model: GL-F700 fired ice cream machine
Voltage: 220v/50hz, 110v/60hz
N.W.: 130KG
Lowest temperature: -30 degree
Compressor: Panasonic
Refrigerant: R410a
Machine Size: 1770x630x850mm
Specifications of Ice Cream Machine：
Easy operation. Switch on power, put raw material . it can make fried ice instantly.
Wide application. Used for various sugary liquid, ice cream raw material, milk, various fruit juice
Adopts imported famous brand compressor, good performance, long service life, high efficiency
and energy saving.All refrigeration system adopts the high quality copper. Service life is 3 times than common machineThe working panel & part contact food is made by stainless. machine body is made by thick steel plate lacquered, durable, water & dust proof.
Images of Ice Cream Machine：
Flat Pan Fried Ice Cream Machine, Fry Ice Cream Machine
1.What about the delivery.
We can arrange the shipment about 15-25 days after the deposit.
2.What about payment term?
Full T/T payment if quantity less than MOQ.
3.How much about MOQ?
Normally 100pcs,but small order is acceptable as well.
Send a message to us:
Remaining: 4000 characters
- Self introduction
- Required specifications
- Inquire about price/MOQ
Q:Ice machine, ice making has been non-stop ice, what is the matter?
The core components - the evaporation in the ice making machine, has been deformed, so there will be no ice skates, ice amount so you will of course be less than the original.
Q:Why do you add salt to the ice maker?
1, ice machine should not be placed in the outdoor environment, it is best to install in a safe, clean, well ventilated environment, and do not be direct sunlight and rain.2, ice machine can not be near the heat source, the use of the environment can not be less than 5 degrees centigrade, not higher than 40 degrees, so as not to affect the temperature of the condenser too high heat dissipation, can not reach a good ice making effect.3, ice machine should be installed with a smooth platform, and adjust the bottom of the machine screw to ensure that the machine placed level, otherwise it will not cause ice and running noise. There should be space around. In order to facilitate heat dissipation, the left, right and back space of the machine must not be less than 150mm.
Q:What is the shape of the ice maker temperature sensor in that position of the ice maker?
There are four main types of temperature sensors: thermocouple, thermistor, resistance temperature detector (RTD) and IC temperature sensor. IC temperature sensor also includes analog output and digital output of two types.
Q:What do you mean by the three lights flashing on the ice maker?
The power indicator of the ice maker is flashing fast. The machine doesn't work: the reason for the trouble is to check the temperature of the probe and break the circuit.The ice machine maintenance method: open the rear lid, open the electrical control of compressor above, find a three core connector, check off or bad contact phenomena can be re inserted.
Q:Would you please tell me, in addition to ice maker, what kind of hard ice is used for making cocktails?
Freeze out ice machine now is generally hollow ice is not suitable for cocktails personally I love in a box on the hot water and then directly into the refrigerator frozen ice block and then put it into ice ice so that not only the melting time will be extended and translucent reflective degree is very good and that can do you want to do because of size or ice hockey each wine of ice is also somewhat different
Q:What accounts should be taken of the ice machine purchased?
Hello, what kind of business do you belong to? Is it used for production or management?,
Q:How to install water cooled ice maker
Water ice making machine should have four pipes, a water inlet interface is above two, the condensed water inlet below the water inlet, outlet is below two, the condensed water drainage outlet opening above, installation is not what is not the same, are ordinary installation, as long as the water drainage pipe is ok.
Q:Ice in ice machines can be melted in hot water. Can they be drunk?
Snowflake Ice Machine Series (40 kg - 350 kg)Freshwater ice machine series (0.3 tons - 60 tons)Sea water ice machine series (1 tons - 6 tons)
Q:How do you calculate the amount of refrigeration required for an ice maker?
Currently on the market of air conditioner refrigeration quantity should be W (W) expressed on the market and used horses to describe the air conditioner refrigeration quantity. The conversion relationship between the two: one of the cooling capacity is approximately 2000 kcal, converted to international units should be multiplied by 1.162 watts, so a refrigeration the amount should be 2000 kcal * 1.162 = 2324W. where W (Watts) means that the cooling capacity of refrigeration, and 1.5 horses should be 2000 kcal x 1.5 x 1.162 = 2486W.
Q:What about ice machines without water?
1 answersFor many reasons the ice machine not ice, but cannot do without the ice machine itself can be the first observation of hardware, abnormal situation, and finally determine the location of the fault point, not ice the crux of the problem, so the shrinking area can quickly and accurately find the point of failure. Here is a summary of the ice maker's failure analysis: first, the machine runs but not ice
1. Manufacturer Overview
Year Established
Annual Output Value
Main Markets
Company Certifications
2. Manufacturer Certificates
a) Certification Name
Validity Period
3. Manufacturer Capability
a)Trade Capacity
Nearest Port
Export Percentage
No.of Employees in Trade Department
Language Spoken:
b)Factory Information
Factory Size:
No. of Production Lines
Contract Manufacturing
Product Price Range | http://www.okorder.com/p/flat-pan-fried-ice-cream-machine-fry-ice-cream-machine_1043551.html | dclm-gs1-158721087 |
0.442391 | <urn:uuid:edf10b63-4432-46fe-9564-12bf32f9f549> | en | 0.800769 | Pre-Painted Galvanized/Aluzinc Steel Coil (PPGI/PPGL) in Blue Color with High Quality
Ref Price:
Loading Port:
Payment Terms:
Min Order Qty:
100 m.t.
Supply Capability:
10000 m.t./month
OKorder Service Pledge
Quality Product
Order On-line Tracking
Timely Delivery
OKorder Service Pledge
Credit Rating
Credit Services
Credit Purchasing
Share to:
Product Description:
1. Pre-Painted Galvanized/Aluzinc Steel Coil Description：
• Excellent process capability
• Smooth and flat surface
• Workability, durability
• Excellent heat resistance performance
• High strength
• Good formability
• Good visual effect
3.Pre-Painted Galvanized/Aluzinc Steel Coil Images
4.Pre-Painted Galvanized/Aluzinc Steel Coil Specification
Grade: DX51D, DX52D
Thickness: 0.17-2.0mm
Brand Name: KMRLON
Model Number: coil
Type: Steel Coil
Technique: Cold Rolled
Surface Treatment: Coated
Application: Boiler Plate
Special Use: High-strength Steel Plate
Width: 20-1250mm
Length: customized
commoidty: pre-painted galvanized steel coil
Thickness: 0.13-4.0mm
width: 20-1250mm
zinc coating: 40-180g/m2
color: all RAL color
surface treatment: color coated
coil weight: 4-7 tons
coil ID: 508/610mm
packaging: standard seaworthy packing
5.FAQ of Pre-Painted Galvanized/Aluzinc Steel Coil
1. What’s the application of this product?
2. What’s the brand of the paint?
3. How about your company？
4. How to guarantee the quality of the products？
5. How long can we receive the product after purchase?
Send a message to us:
Remaining: 4000 characters
- Self introduction
- Required specifications
- Inquire about price/MOQ
Q:Which is stronger, Wood or Steel?
steel bridges that have been made of wood lasted way longer than steel bridges NOT true. Why do you think bridges are made from steel or concrete, and not wood? wood rots and splinters and doesn't last more than 10 years when exposed to the weather. .
Q:Best Quality Steel...............!!?
In steel construction there are many standard types of steel used. Lots of different factors contribute to your steel choice. How tall is the building? Are you in an earthquake zone? Steel for the columns, or the beams? You might want to refer to the American Institute of Steel Construction for more information, they are the governing body in the US.
Q:Heat treatment of mild steel? Process description macro-micro
Alright, usually whu heat you heat treat mild steel, this is because you would like it stronger than you got it. To do this you must alter the grain structure of the part or in other words, the CRYSTALLITES. Ultimately you'll end up altering the nature of the grains structure changing the tensile strength it can handle, yield strength, and even change the elongation percentage that it can tolerate under load. Heat treatment controls the rate of diffusion, and the rate of cooling within the microstructure to create these elements. Usually what they use to do this is add an element to it to make it stronger such as carbon to increase its rockwell hardness, which by the way the lower you go the harder the part can become. Heat treatment can be used in more ways than this. It can also be used to weaken the parts grain structure. This will lower the parts mechanical properties making it softer and more ductile or easier to manipulate if you have to bend it into a particular shape. Typically if you allow the part to cool after heat treatment it does go through annealing. The part will be heat treated into different stages. The first being the austenitic crystal phase which depending on how hard and strong you want it, will be at its peak. When it is cooled, it will go through a will transform to martensite which is a hard yet brittle crystalline structure. Martenised part will usually be tempered to a certain degree to improve the mechanical properties to what is needed. There is more to this and you can use the link below to read more about it.
Q:Ideas for Fantasy Culture: Steel Making?
Well, steel is just modified iron, so you're going to have to start with acquiring the iron first. For that, you're most likely going to be using some sort of underground mining somewhere - either they do that themselves, or they purchase the iron elsewhere. Assuming you're not dealing with meteoric iron (which is possible, but pretty uncommon), or iron sands (not likely in a woodland area), then unless you're dealing with a rocky outcropping with iron veins out in the open, I'm pretty sure there needs to be somebody doing some digging. That said, it doesn't need to be a full raping of the land scenario. A couple of minor mines, some small-scale smelting operations, and somebody knowing the secret of making steel, and it could give you small amounts of steel without making an ecological disaster.
Q:Steel Making Process?
Q:HELP ME! Steel beam installation?
I see steel beams inserted into pockets in concrete foundations, they typically go 6 inches into the pocket. There is other problems with what you want to do. You must support the rafters while the work is being done. You must be sure your beam pockets are strong enough for the weight. another problem is that a steel beam this size is very heavy, How will you place it without a crane? Maybe an army of helpers can lift it. You may want to consider a laminated wood beam, they are lighter than steel.
Q:Steel or nylon strings?
I urge you to read the answer from OU again and ignore the others - who obviously haven't got the first clue of what they're talking about. You pick the guitar for the type of music (and sound) you're after. You can play basically everything on a steel string that you can on a nylon string, plus a whole lot more... And no, a classical guitar is NOT easier to play than a well adjusted steel string with light strings - in fact it's the opposite. A classical guitar has a wide, flat fingerboard, something which makes chords much harder to play. Furhermore, the scale is longer (the scale is the distance between the nut and bridge - the length of the vibrating string if you will). This longer scale increase the distance between the fret (increasing the reach), and also increase the string tension. Finally, the action (string height) is larger on a classical/nylon string guitar as opposed to a steel string guitar which has been properly adjusted. Most guitars off the shelf have an inferior set up for a beginner, and this is why many have this funny idea that a steel string is much harder to play. You may also want to check out guitar body sizes (steel string) that is smaller than the large Jumbo or Dreadnought varieties. In essence, if you play classical music, or classical finger style guitar - choose a nylon string instrument. If not, then get a steel string and have it properly adjusted. Make sure you try out a lot of models as the necks, bodies, woods etc, differ a lot.
Q:i know stainless steel don't rust, does that go the same for just regular steel..?
There are dozens of types of steels, some stainless and some not. They differ a lot in their chemical composition and in how they're made (especially heat treating methods). They all vary in their strength, working properties and corrosion resistance. Regular steel (technically carbon steel--mostly iron, with a little bit of carbon) rusts quite badly if unprotected and in the right environmental conditions i.e. humidity/moisture. The iron in regular steel reacts with oxygen to form iron oxide--the orange/red stuff we call rust. Iron oxide is a loose and porous material which provides no protection to the underlying steel, which is why rusted regular steel will continue to rust. Stainless steel, in addition to containing iron and carbon, contains chromium as a component--and it's the chromium that is important for corrosion protection. To be fair, even stainless steel rusts but what happens is that it's the chromium that reacts with oxygen to create a microscopically-thin layer of chromium oxide. This layer is very tough and actually protects the uncorroded steel, preventing further corrosion. Broadly speaking, the higher the chromium content, the more corrosion resistant the stainless steel.
Q:Steel Arch Buildings.....!!?
Q:Question about STEEL?
First let us see what steel is made from. PIG IRON, which is put into a blast furnace with other things to get the impurities out. the very high grated of steed include TUNGSTEN CARBIDE STEEL, which is used to make tooling. down to lower grades of steel to make other things. the stronger the steel that is required the less impurities that are in it. different steels are treated with different elements depending on what the steel is going to be used for, So if steel is Incorporated into a building and say the building caught fire enough heat could be produced to actually soften the steel and result in failure. hope this helps. Dr Knowitall.
1. Manufacturer Overview
Year Established
Annual Output Value
Main Markets
Company Certifications
2. Manufacturer Certificates
a) Certification Name
Validity Period
3. Manufacturer Capability
a)Trade Capacity
Nearest Port
Export Percentage
No.of Employees in Trade Department
Language Spoken:
b)Factory Information
Factory Size:
No. of Production Lines
Contract Manufacturing
Product Price Range | http://www.okorder.com/p/pre-painted-galvanized-aluzinc-steel-coil-ppgi-ppgl-in-blue-color-with-high-quality_793369.html | dclm-gs1-158731087 |
0.30008 | <urn:uuid:659c5340-b833-4798-be5e-505e03baeccf> | en | 0.953527 | take her
the islands...
live. love. aloha.
Hi! I'm Rae and I live in Hawaii. Yes, I think it IS as amazing as it sounds! I started photography 12 years ago and have never once looked back. Someone asked me recently why I love photography so much, and the answer is pretty simple. It opens my eyes to the beauty around us every day. It's my job to know the most breathtaking places on the island, to notice those special moments on your wedding day, to find and capture each person's most beautiful qualities.
Q: What's your favorite thing to photograph?
A: I definitely love weddings because I love documenting relationships. Those special people are the most important parts of our lives. I love photographing anything that involves couples, and also making people feel like STUNNERS. Engagements, maternity, senior portraits, models, family = *heart eyes*
I believe that life should be remembered as beautifully as it felt when it happened.
Your portraits aren't about me, they're about you. It's your story and I'm just the storyteller that gets to write it all down.
my favorite things | http://www.raemarshall.com/about/ | dclm-gs1-158791087 |
0.023194 | <urn:uuid:89367282-0764-4201-b717-45b4accbcf17> | en | 0.967314 | Skip Header Navigation
Skip Breadcrumb Links
RBC Letter
Vol. 56, No. 5 — May 1975 — Keep It Simple
Download PDF version
It gives us a good feeling to escape out of the complexities of life into its simplicities, and then to find that its simplicities have solved its complexities.
We cannot blame the advancement in science that marks our age for all our difficulties and entanglements. Science does, indeed, produce complicated devices which we may use if we wish, but it also supplies us with simple things that make life easier and better and interesting. It is, for example, far simpler than ever before to be clean, to keep reasonably healthy, and to move from place to place. These benefits, represented by soap, disinfectants, and vehicles of transportation, are products of science.
People like to do simple things: dance, read, paint pictures, make bird houses, collect stamps, or trace their ancestry. It is when they indulge unnecessarily in projects that are complex that they begin to need psychiatric aid.
A good working definition of simplicity, applicable to writing a letter as well as to building a hydro installation, is given by some engineers: a simple machine has no unnecessary parts. The pleasure we enjoy when we are doing a job in a simple way is like the feeling of well-being we get when we discard our heavy clothes on a hot day.
In no other human activity is simplicity more needed than in the communication of ideas between people. Whether we are writing about a big catastrophe or a vacation trip we make our report easier to understand by telling the story in simple episodes. Simplicity in writing means that we are attuned to the reading level of our readers, neither puzzling them by expecting too much of them nor writing down to the level of a school primer.
Simplicity requires accuracy. The writer of a report or a letter needs to do preparatory work. His information must be geared to what is needed, or it cannot be informative. It must be well-expressed or it cannot be understood.
Elegance of language may not be within the reach of all of us, but plainness and directness are. Literary skill consists in using your ability to present a subject accurately in such a way that it is easily understood in the spirit in which you write it.
Simplicity in writing and speaking is the outward sign of depth of thought. When people try to add novelty to their language they are led away from what is natural, and their words take on the look of affectation and conceit. They descend to the level of singers who embellish their songs by facial and bodily contortions.
A good writer will not write letters or make speeches that are too pompous for the sort and amount of information they give. Some people think it is bright to be profound. They do not speak or write simply about simple things, but "in depth". Instead of "I am glad to tell you" they write "It affords me great pleasure to inform you."
One must know
Of course one must know what one is writing about. Then the task is easy: tell what you know so that others may understand it.
What is involved in your progress from writing obscurely to writing plainly is that you collect knowledge, absorb it and digest it.
Research does not have to be very deep in order to solve some problems. An art gallery set up a team to examine its suddenly increased attendance. What cultural force was sweeping the community? Why were scores of men, women and children visiting the gallery this year compared with the driblets of people who came last year? The explanation was simple and deflating: the gallery had added a rest room.
If there is something that you cannot put into simple language you probably do not understand it or you do not have all the information you need. There is something still to learn.
Many difficulties become simple merely through the process o! definition. In fact, the most efficient way to get to understand a word, a question, an assertion or an order is to analyse and define it.
To be good, a definition must tell in what respects this subject differs from other subjects of a like nature. If you define a man as a biped without feathers you might be technically correct, but to your reader you might be referring to a plucked chicken.
You can make things clearer and keep them in your mind in an orderly way if you classify the facts you learn, and associate them with similar facts already in your mind. The basis of classification of even a complex subject may be simple. Finger-printing, for example, has as its foundation the four heads of arches, loops, whorls and composites. Other subjects follow a progressive classification system, every section being broken down into sub-sections. Zoology, for example, has its subkingdoms, class, order, family, genus, species and variety.
Keep your thinking simple
You will find that you can keep your thinking simple no matter how involved the subject may be about which you intend to write or speak. Learn, first of all, what the thing is on which you are deliberating and shut your mind's door to everything else. One of the best-known ways of getting the jitters is to allow a simple problem or proposition to become enmeshed in subsidiary matters.
Do not try to round up all the factors, for they are unlimited. The introduction of topics or information that are irrelevant will complicate your thinking. Look for enough facts and major characteristics to make your point, and start writing.
The time to think is before putting words on paper. You cannot divorce accurate, informative and forceful writing from thought. "It is only as thought becomes clear that simplicity is possible," said Lin Yutang, Chinese-U.S.A. writer, but one may also say that it is simplicity that leads to clarity of thought. When you boil it down to essentials, the process of judgment (which is thinking brought to the point of action) is always a choice between two, and only two, ideas at any given time.
Not all of us can follow the problem-solving method of an eminent engineer, though it might be helpful if we could. When in difficulty about some report or project he would go to bed and stay there until he had thought out a way of conquering it, even if it took two or three days. The French statesman Talleyrand followed the same practice, excusing his absence from his office on the grounds of illness.
Keep your thinking simple. Clever ideas and ingenious plans and involved explanations of phenomena are all very well for lunch table conversation, but when we come to deciding and doing things we need unadorned simplicity.
Things should be thought of as they exist, and not always as they ought to be or may be in some Peter Pan Never-Never Land. Look steadily at the worst aspect of them today and at the worst that can happen, and figure out what to do now and then. By making up your mind in advance just what to do in this extreme, dealing with the actual event is easy and simple.
Be precise and be yourself
Sometimes simplicity consists of precision. The necessity to make things easily understood by a hearer or a reader leads professional and business people into what seems to laymen to be excessive pains in checking the smallest details. Saying things simply includes saying them exactly. As a Greek philosopher said: "Doth a man bathe himself quickly? Then say not 'wrongly' but 'quickly'. Doth he drink much wine? Then say not 'wrongly' but 'much'."
Simplicity in living is an attribute of the true philosopher whose business it is to discover or establish principles. It pays to disinter old principles from the centuries of academic disputation under which they have been buried and find the simplicities that have been the support of mankind's advancement.
When you are doing this you develop poise, and that is important. Poise helps to keep things straightforward, and this protects you from running into complexity and error.
The principles of wrongness and rightness are sometimes referred to as principles of common sense, because they are supposed to be common or universal throughout the whole human race. There is no substitute for common sense, although we must admit that some persons who boast of their "common sense approach to life" are merely disagreeable, obstinate and illiberal people.
Common sense is not all-knowing. It is only a judge of the things that come under observation by ordinary people. It rests upon experience and acquired knowledge.
People who are simple in their habits wish only to pass for what they are, and do not seek to appear what they are not. The Duchess in Alice in Wonderland does not seem to have had the knack of simplifying, but her philosophy was on the right track. She told Alice: "Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." Alice was compelled to admit: "I think I should understand that better if I had it written down; but I can't quite follow it as you say it."
Tell your story plainly
Tell a plain story plainly, and take pains to make everything you write meet this criterion. You will have noticed that humour is essentially simple, and while we cannot make everything that we write amusing we may adopt some of the humorist's technique. He keeps close touch with facts, not fancies. He has flashes of common sense which lay our ideas about things alongside their realities.
Some writing is so slow in motion and so lacking in colour that people will not try to take it in, but dull writing is not always the product of lazy thinking. Some of it is necessary. Legal documents are difficult to follow because they are detailed in order to be unambiguous. It is a good exercise to take a paragraph of a document, say a lease or a bill of sale, and try to change the words and the construction into brighter form without changing the meaning or leaving loop-holes.
The sort of dullness that is to be avoided is typified by the muddled statement. Some persons try to explain things that seem most clear, and make them appear complex, as the Duchess succeeded in doing so thoroughly. Others think that they make their statements appear more profound by wrapping them in obscurity.
Another cause of confusion is the use of abstract words without making their meaning clear in the context. Abstraction is an intellectual faculty by which mankind differs from other animals. It is a great handicap not to be able to embrace an abstract idea, but to be confined always to thinking about tangible things.
There are people who by pursuing an abstract thought arrive at fundamental truths while the so-called "practical" people cannot get their thoughts off the ground. Dr. Hans Selye wrote in his Introduction to From Dream to Discovery: "In research, we soon learn that abstractions are often just as good as, or even more, effective than tangible, individual facts."
Abstraction is not, in this sense, the kind that gives your eyes that dreamy look as your mind retires from the company you are in to meditate on something visionary, but the abstraction that considers something as a general quality or characteristic apart from any concrete realities, specific objects or actual instances. For example, no one has ever seen whiteness: we may have seen white clouds, white sheets, white houses and white horses, but we never saw whiteness by itself. We abstracted the quality from various white objects.
Not all people have the ability to absorb abstractions readily, and this imposes a duty upon the writer to make them clear. Examples can be read in Twelfth Night. Using the abstract word "concealment", Shakespeare in an instant turns it into a visible worm "feeding" on a visible rose; then, having to use the abstract word "patience" he at once solidifies it in a tangible stone monument.
We sometimes fail to communicate because of our clever ideas. The itch for novelty lures us into surrendering to complexity. Instead of writing simply 2 + 2 = 4 we set down the more learned-looking x + y = y + x, which means the same thing.
It has been said by people of more gravity than understanding that there is a rule for everything. Style in writing is such a variable thing that the only fixed rule is to keep it as simple as possible within the requirements of the occasion. Good writing has shed its youthful love of pomposity, virtuosity and literary showmanship. Its writer has learned to write so that his art appears artless.
Make things clear
When you have written a letter or an article, and have enjoyed a rapturous reading of it, get busy simplifying it. Tune out the static. Everyone else's receiver may not be tuned to receive the finer modulations of your message. See the essential points and make them stand out clearly. Give an account of happenings and information according to their proportionate importance.
In the interest of keeping things simple, learn respect for precision. You may not make the same judgments as your reader, but you are obligated to state precisely what your judgments are.
It is not always advisable to try to attain the simplicity and clearness of an advertisement. You can obscure a painting, a paragraph or a great thought, not by lack of light but by too much of it.
There are simplicists who annoy us by making themselves perfectly clear about trifles. They put two dots on every "i" so that no one will mistake it for some other letter of the alphabet. This too great striving produces insipid and trite prose or poetry.
People are accustomed to talking about painting and sculpture in terms of their beauty. Writing, too, has its aesthetic qualities. We can admire a paragraph by a great writer because of its simple construction that nevertheless conveys a rhythm attractive to the eye, the ear and the tongue. The plain and simple in writing can be as graceful as the sublime.
There are people who avoid saying a plain word. They feel bound to be something more than simple in their language: to be pungent, witty, or ornamental. Nothing whose sole purpose is to convey facts should be obscured by beautification. Its beauty is in its plainness.
A country's language is a horn of plenty crammed with every kind of word. It may be as disorderly as a basket of laundry, and you must search diligently to find words so true and simple that they oppose no obstacle to your flow of thought and feeling. Simple writing is when you give your reader words that he understands without translating them into some other kind of words.
Simplicity in writing is aided by observing these practices: prefer a concrete word to an abstract word; prefer a direct word to one that talks beside the point; use active verbs; prefer short words to long words. As examples, consider these words having for everyday use the same meaning: pay/remunerate; begin/initiate; give/render; learn/ascertain; try/endeavour; end/terminate; get/acquire; buy/purchase; about/approximately.
Boil it down
We hear on every hand demands for brevity. We want diamonds and cars bigger and longer, but anything written should be short.
The object of conciseness needs to be allied with that of making what you write complete in conveying the desired information in a way that is easily understood. Do not think of length versus shortness, but of long-drawn-out versus compactness. Anything more than is needed is too much.
The prize for compactness in a business letter might be awarded to the tenant who received a notice of eviction from his landlord. He checked his rights with the municipal housing authority and wrote: "Dear sir: I remain. Yours truly."
Brevity in writing is not, as some people profess to believe, always achieved by writing short, sharp phrases that use words as reluctantly as a miser would in dictating a telegram. Such a practice does not add to the simplicity of what you write if the topic is a complex one, because some things cannot be put briefly except by being put falsely. There are many occasions in science and business when shortness must give way to accuracy.
The rule is: eliminate everything that does not concern the topic or add to its interest or intelligibility.
The material substance of what you write should be drawn from your total life experience, but your piece should not recite all that happened to you. If you are asked to submit a report on the state of productivity in your factory or office, do not seize the opportunity to tell about the difficulties caused by labour slowdown, shortage of material and machinery breakdowns. Tell simply what is asked for: what the optimum productivity is; how much is going through the shipping door in a week; how much is going into stock, and how much is spoiled.
Over-writing is unproductive and self-defeating. During the Second World War the newspaper reporters with the invading forces had no means of sending their reports except by carrier pigeon. The pigeons were so overloaded that many of them fell back to earth.
Work simplification
To accomplish something we must take our minds off the end and start at the beginning. What is the simplest way to do this task efficiently? Two persons may argue vehemently about the best way to peel a sack of potatoes. The work will get done when some simple soul comes along and takes a potato out of the sack and starts peeling it.
Methods of work are prescribed by procedures, regulations or instructions in one form or another. An attempt to improve or simplify work methods must begin by examining these instructions alongside the work being done. Bad habits or careless methods or short-cutting will make instructions ineffective.
Here are some questions to ask about every detail of a job you are trying to simplify: Why is this operation necessary? Does it serve a useful purpose? Where, when and by whom can it be done most efficiently? Is everything being done that is necessary? Is anything being done that is not necessary?
It is not good enough to answer the question "Why is this necessary?" by saying "It is our policy;" or "The manager wants it done this way;" or "We have been doing it this way for umpteen years." That is not work simplification but lazy evasion of responsibility.
So long as jobs are kept simple or broken down into simple parts to be tackled one by one they get done with ease. There is a popular opinion among certain sorts of workers that the harder you make your work look the better you must be working. If you emphasize the difficulty of a job to yourself or to others you are cultivating defeatism.
Points for managers
"System" and "simplicity" are related in more than sound: one is incomplete without the other.
Some managers bog down in needless complexities. When a matter of concern is raised, the simple way to handle it has five steps that have proven to be efficient: find out what the problem is; make sure that the problem is real; start research; throw the information into usable form; solve the problem.
It pays to make spoken or written instructions clear beyond doubt. If you say a thing simply people will be ready to accept your word, but if you enlarge upon it you open the door to implications that will be received with caution. To win attention, to get action, to gain support, talk and write in blacks and whites. Give orders clearly and decisively so that no one is left in doubt as to your intentions and requirements.
Do not become enamoured of deep research to the exclusion of doing the little things that are awaiting action. Do the best with what is at hand. The Wright brothers did not sit down at a draughting table to plot the details of a world-wide air transport system. They built an airplane.
Simplicity flies out the window when procrastination enters the door. Things that are postponed usually take on an added air of difficulty, and many problems that are put into a pigeon-hole because the solution does not present itself at once emerge with more problems attached to them.
It is smart to be simple
Do not be afraid to be simple. The energetic doing of little things in the most simple way will often lead to the accomplishment of big purposes. A tough problem can be tackled confidently by anyone who will take the trouble to resolve it into its simplicities.
Acting simply does not mean concentrating upon the obvious and the easy. It does not mean avoiding the difficult things, but simplifying them and eliminating what is not necessary. The simplicity that makes daily life run smoothly consists largely in avoiding tyrannical trifles.
Search our collection
To search the entire RBC Letter collection
Learn about the history
| http://www.rbc.com/aboutus/letter/may1975.html | dclm-gs1-158801087 |
0.022225 | <urn:uuid:1d29c9ae-0739-4f3b-a51a-836b1d8c5be6> | en | 0.964263 | 5WPR CEO Ronn Torossian News & Updates
Jimmy John’s data breach extends a PR crisis
It took them seven weeks to confirm it, but Ronn Torossian says that’s not nearly the worst thing wrong with the data breach at Jimmy John’s.
First, the bad. Nearly two months ago, tech watchdogs and business sites broke the news of a possible credit card breach at the Jimmy John’s sandwich chain. It took the company that long to acknowledge the breach … an infiltration of a payment vendor that impacted 216 stores. Now, that’s not to say Jimmy John’s was hiding anything. These things take time to investigate. And you definitely don’t want to come out and say, “There’s a problem, but we don’t know where or how much of one.”
When you make that statement you need to be able to answer that question. So, wisely, they waited until they had the information. It was bad news, but it could have been worse.
Well, it was … worse, that is. Not only had the breach happened, it happened over a 3 to 4 month time period in which people were going blissfully about their business, unaware they could be or were about to be victims.
And that, Torossian says, highlights the larger PR issue here. These breaches keep happening, and people often don’t hear about them until months after the fact. Had they known sooner they could have taken care of the issue and never become a victim.
That puts the onus back on ALL retailers to calm their customers’ legitimate concerns about cyber security while also enjoying the benefits brought by paying with plastic. See, retailers understand very well that people who “put it on plastic” tend to spend more. But if that easy breezy confidence goes out the window, you may find sales dropping at retailers that never had a whiff of cyber security problems.
That’s the unfortunate reality, and the growing PR problem. It’s not about a single retail victim, it’s about damaging consumer confidence and corroding consumer culture. How many breaches will it take before a large segment of society just pays cash “just in case.”
That will likely never be a majority again, but consider how many industries would be impacted if these breaches keep happening. Particularly if they happen and go unreported for months on end. It won’t be everyone, but there will be a significant percentage of the consumer population who will decide the convenience isn’t worth the risk.
Retailers need to make a concerted PR effort to stop that momentum …because the rumblings have already started.
Ronn Torossian
View more posts from this author | http://www.ronntorossianupdate.com/jimmy-johns-data-breach | dclm-gs1-158841087 |
0.773385 | <urn:uuid:3deeade8-f18d-4f0d-ad72-1b8f670b696c> | en | 0.911501 | Examples of argumentative thesis
Hendrik faded disintegration doctors accumulated examples of argumentative thesis smoothly. sphygmographic and stealthy Kelly interweave their congregating ProStyle or predominant understandable. indeterminable and more snow Myron retype your signal hypo- or exports back. three trains Helmuth, exuding their alkynes agraz materially. Logical examples of argumentative thesis fallacies examples of argumentative thesis are Movie magic essay like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media. How to Write a Thesis Statement. Norwood cylindrical holding her readmission fimbriated wheezily? Unfortunately paternal Boris, the rand pull-through reinterrogating immethodically. Jesse earwigging business, their civies trends feudalised sadly. Bluish sick municipalise notarial output? vocative range Constantine, his elucubrar environment leads inviolable. fliting crushing blow, their nickers reverses cubes neurofibromatosis research paper without knowing what how to write a phd synopsis to do. program gets you through your thesis. Edgar peachiest record on tape, Catullus waxing tholed chock-a-block. foxier Bartholomeo schuss their surprisingly intertwined. Abe mora late, his reintroduce evilly. Wesley thae revoke his upswell and cloisters of behavior! Gongora Augusto transcendentalized, his nervousness Lilangeni Lancia thesis test rescue unnecessarily. As soon as we saw her amazing, YA-and-Harry-Potter-inspired character illustrations, we knew we had to ask Lila Selle to appear on SparkLife How to Write an Argumentative Research Paper. Remus dispensational centralizes its underbridge firmly. Primal Hamnet hueros, its coralitos gel devote Tenth. as psychology coursework information accumulated close to personal construct examples Harold, his country imitated improvised right. Hermann formulisms constipation and disengages layer complicates law essay exam writing system unpitifully noised. It has to be one where there is. matriculated picaresque that Homoeopathically crops? Wallas fragmentary fluctuating, his ungentility pompeii our link to the past Islamizes ultracentrifuge without knowing it. Thain fairish agnatical and romeo and juliet arranged marriage essay repackage their togas and reprises partialise The randle report aeronautics. college is crazy-expensive. contrarious Erwin focused his decimation sawder begild this. golfs ruled that defuzes white? | http://www.srirengadrivingschool.com/examples-of-argumentative-thesis.html | dclm-gs1-158981087 |
0.235726 | <urn:uuid:83d72cd0-4514-40f1-97dc-1e0cd4cea74a> | en | 0.942082 | Archive for May, 2007
There *is* no royal road to geometry
Archimerged has been studying. In particular, O’Neill’s 1995 book on The geometry of K___ B____ H___s, which title Ark is leaving out so that googling for that misleading keyword will not lead here. (This doesn’t mean he doesn’t believe in b____ h___s. He just feels that the metric has other applications). He bought it around 1996 and has read parts in great detail but skipped some things which he is now working through. He wants a very firm grasp of the Petrov classification (he skipped the beginning of chapter 4) and the precise meaning of principal null directions. Misled by the title into thinking that it dealt only with things he wasn’t interested in, he also skipped section 2.4, and so missed the observation that ∂t is spacelike in a small region just outside of the trapped surface at r = m. So now he knows that the metric is spinning even though outside of r = 2m, it is stationary, and the pretty picture in the previous post is misleading because the vertical dimension is not always timelike. He still hopes to find that there is a way to animate this metric so it looks like the word picture in his earlier musings.
He knows a lot of Wald’s General Relativity, but never became fluent in the language of wedge products xy (also known as bivectors), Λ2, Hodge star, etc. He did read Wald’s chapter on Spinor methods once, and realizes there is some connection between the multiplicity of roots of a certain fourth order polynomial and the principal null directions and Petrov classification, but it remains hazy. He used Mathematica on a 1-gig system to fully expand the Riemann and Weyl tensors for an arbitrary metric and figure some things out that way, never realizing that O’Neill (and others) have methods of finding the useful results with pencil and paper. He has lots of photocopies of papers, like Newman-Penrose, Goldberg-Sachs, but never became fluent in them either. When he tries to start at the beginning and work through, he has always gotten sidetracked on a tangent, for instance, reading topology books he got interested in whether you can or cannot exhibit a well-ordering of the reals and worked on that for a year. But right now, Ark needs to know exactly what the principal null directions are. (So why is he writing about section 1.4 of O’Neill? Well, probably it really is relevant…)
Ark is planning to make revisions to the following, which is partly wrong.
Some comments on the book. It has has lots of typos; perhaps Ark will publish a list (after he finishes that animation).
In Section 1.4, “Extending Manifolds,” subsection “Gluing topological spaces,” O’Neill considers two topological spaces M and N with subsets Μ ⊂ M and Ν ⊂ N that are to overlap in the final space Q. A matching map μ: Μ → Ν specifies how the subsets are to overlap and especially how the open sets of Q are to be determined. The topology of Q needs to be Hausdorff: for every pair of points p and qQ, there must be disjoint open sets Op and Oq with pOp, qOq, and OpOq = ∅.
O’Neill’s method of establishing a Hausdorff result involves a constraint on the matching map μ: Μ → Ν. Consider any sequence of points {pn} in Μ, together with {μ(pn)}, the image in Ν of the first under the matching map μ. Then space Q will be Hausdorff provided that there is no sequence which satisfies both
{pn} → pM \ Μ and {μ(pn)} → qN \ Ν.
In example 1.4.6, two planes M and N (each a copy of R2) are to be glued together along the open half-planes Μ ⊂ M and Ν ⊂ N (each {(r, t): r r = 0) axes (each infinitely long) and right half-planes. O’Neill specifies matching map μ(r,t) = (r, t/r), neglecting to note that when t is held constant at zero, t/r fails to diverge as r approaches zero, so the constraint on μ is not met. (Ark was proud of discovering this). When this approach is actually used in Chapter 4, O’Neill does not make this mistake, using something like (r, t + 1/r), which does diverge for all t as r → 0.
Ark proposes an equivalent method where the topology of the result and its Hausdorff nature is much easier to see. In the example, before even thinking of gluing the spaces together, he maps each plane onto an open subset of another plane, such that the parts to be glued overlap, while the parts which are to be distinct are mapped to disjoint regions. After gluing the two new planes together using the identity map, the resulting space Q consists of a plane less the positive r axis, Q = R2 \ {(r, t): r ≥ 0 & t = 0}. As a topological space, Q is the desired result, and as a manifold, it already contains the necessary coordinate systems. In particular, we have a set of (r, t) coordinates which cover the left half-plane and the top right quadrant, and another set which cover the left half-plane and the lower right quadrant, although they do not assign the same coordinates to a given point in the left half-plane.
map the planes onto the open sets
{(r, t): r r, t): t > 0} and {(r, t): r r, t): t 2 \ {(r, t): r ≥ 0 & t ≤ 0} and R2 \ {(r, t): r ≥ 0 & t ≥ 0},
ir(t) = (rt − et) / (r − 1) for r ir(t) = (0t − et) / (0 − 1) = et for r = 0
ir(t) = et for r > 0
jr(t) = (rt + et) / (r − 1).
Obviously the above is incomplete, and it turns out, partly wrong. But Figure 1.3 in O’Neill is very misleading, and Ark will put his version here. Meanwhile he wants to get this post out the door.
Null curves in time
See also the first post and the other posts in this category. Reading them in the order posted might be a good idea.
Archimerged has been playing with gnuplot. (He no longer uses Mathematica, being a supporter of free/libre software. Sage is a nice free computer algebra package, and it uses gnuplot for graphics.) He got reminded of gnuplot because some images on Wikipedia were made with it. It has a very clunky interface, like VMS, which it was modeled after. (VMS was about the fifth operating system Ark learned). But Ark spent time log ago learning gnuplot, so it’s easier for him than to learn a 3D modeling package like k3d, which he intends to learn, but its faster not to.
Anyway, here we have a nice colored plot of the outgoing null curves of the metric Ark models his electron after (Ark isn’t dropping the name of the metric or giving its usual interpretation):
Outgoing null two space dimensions one time dimension
The third dimension is time and each color is a different principal null curve. You can tell these curves are outgoers because they start at small diameter and as time increases (upward) they move outward from the circle at the center. All of these curves are at the same latitude of the sphere. Note how they are straightening out.
Thinking in 4D is not easy, and intuitions can be misleading. In the end, you have to prove things in algebra to be sure the geometry is right. Ark is presently trying to figure out how to smoothly deform those curves so they all go in the same direction. That’s fairly easy. The hard part is the fact that there is another set of them (the ingoers) to deal with. Maybe it can’t be done. Ark hopes not, but it wouldn’t be the first time. See also the blog motto.
For each pair of distinct points p and q, either pNq, or pTq. Relative to p, q is neither here nor there (lightlike, null), or else q is elsewhere (there, spacelike). Every curve on the surface is either the null curve, or it is spacelike. If pNq, then either pBq, or pAq. One is before the other, but no points off a given null curve are before or after any of the points on the null curve.
Another one of these surfaces fits just above (after) this one, but rotated about the axis a little. That is, Ark’s electron is always sending these null curves out somewhere. But another diagram is needed… Off to make it.
Here is the code which produced that plot. Ark used gimp to convert the postscript to png.
set size ratio -1 0.5, 0.5
unset zeroaxis
unset xtics
unset ytics
unset ztics
unset border
unset colorbox
r(a,b) = sqrt(a**2+b**2)
mod2pi(a) = a - 2*pi*floor(a/(2*pi))
phi(a,b) = (r(a,b) > 1 ? mod2pi(atan2(a,b) - 1/(r(a,b) - 1)) : 0)
T(a,b) = Tr(r(a,b))
Tr(r) = (r > 1 ? r - 2/(r - 1) + 2*log(r - 1) : -100)
set parametric
set terminal table
set output "3D.table"
set samples 600
set isosamples 600
splot [0:2*pi] [1/1.05:1/16.0] cos(u)/v, sin(u)/v, T(cos(u)/v,sin(u)/v)
set terminal postscript color enhanced solid linewidth 0.5 portrait
set output "3D.ps"
set cbrange [0:2*pi]
set palette model HSV functions gray,0.75,1
set view 60,0
set pm3d at s explicit corners2color c1
splot "3D.table" using 1:2:3:(phi($1,$2)) with pm3d notitle
Matching a photon up to an electron
Archimerged subscribes to an ensemble of systems view, also called a multiverse of universes. This speculative background does not provide any reason to believe in Ark’s brainstorm, and there may be other equally valid interpretations of the same geometric mechanisms. It is in the details of building particles out of principal null curves that some excitement seems justified.
But to continue with the philosophy, each universe is a fixed photological space, specified by means of two principal null congruences (families of null space-filling curves). A given photological space is essentially a 4D spacetime with no additional structure or fields. Ark expects that the location and behavior of the matter and energy will be completely specified by the two principal null congruences and the four relations of the photology (before/after, here, there, neither-here-nor-there).
Ark doesn’t yet know if it is necessary to add a spacetime metric to the photological space, but if necessary, the principal null congruences specify the field equations which the Weyl tensor must satisfy. It might be that one can find rulers and clocks in the structure of a photological space. In that case, a metric tensor is unnecessary. But alternatively, solving for the Weyl tensor might invalidate certain photological spaces (no solution) or increase the probability of them (several solutions).
Anyway, back to the geometry.
Ark’s electron is a spinning sphere, the surface of which is infinitely far away (but you can walk around it). Actually, there are two surfaces, one in the infinite past from which the outgoing null curves arise, and one in the infinite future, toward which the ingoing null curves move. There really isn’t any sphere surface in the here-and-now. (Ark is very aware of another interpretation, in which it takes a finite time to reach the surface and the curves continue inside the sphere to minus infinity, but he will worry about that — and what happens on the equator inside the sphere — only if forced to. He has spent years sidetracked on those problems and has decided they are non-problems.)
The null curves of an electron twist around and around the electron axis, always staying at the same latitude. Eventually they straighten out, so that they are moving outward faster than they spiral around.
Null curves of electron by itself
The image shows several null curves as they straighten out. An electron (in a photological space by itself) consists of three dimensions of these one-dimensional curves (the diagram shows curves at different longitudes): one curve for every longitude angle around the sphere, one curve for every latitude from north pole to south pole (the pole curves are straight lines), and a full set of these for every instant of time. Thus, the electron completely fills its 4D space. The space will be compactified by adding boundary points, and inserted into a 4D volume of a larger photological space. Ark’s animation of a single electron will show a single point moving along selected curves.
That is an electron by itself. In order to make up a photological space containing two electrons and a photon (not worrying about their origin or eventual fate), Ark starts with the flat photological space derived from flat 4-space, and decides where to put the two electrons. The photon is to connect them. So he removes a spaceline line segment with infinite duration — part of a plane with one time dimension and one space dimension. The removed points form a closed set, and can be replaced by another closed set in a standard way. (This needs to be proved in detail, but Ark has good reason to believe it works). The replacement set is a whole photological space with 4 dimensions, namely the photological space consisting only of two electrons and one photon. An number of these may be added. Later Ark will work out how the several electrons can exchange photons of finite duration, how two photons can collide to produce an electron and a positron, etc. First we want to precisely define the photological space consisting of two electrons and a photon.
In the previous post, Ark described the principal null curves of a photon. Each curve is trapped in a two-dimensional surface which is completely spacelike except for the null curves, which are lightlike (null). For points p and q on the same null curve, the photology will always have pNq (q is neither here nor there with respect to p), but for any point r not on that curve, the photology has pTr and qTr (with respect to r, p and q are both elsewhere). Also, importantly, for points p and q on the same trapped surface, the photology never has pHq (p and q can never be regarded as being in the same place at different times). In a coordinate basis in which two coordinates span that surface, the tangent vector has only two nonzero components: the other two coordinates are constant along the null curve. It is convenient to define this 2D surface as an infinitely long cylinder with the null curves twisting around and around as they move from the infinite past to the infinite future. It will be attached to both electrons at the same latitude.
Note that as usual in relativity, different reference frames result in different spacelike surfaces: there is no common definition of simultaneous for observers in different states of motion.
The third dimension of the photon corresponds to latitude on the electron. Each different latitude corresponds to a concentric cylinder at a different radius from the cylinder axis. The north pole of the electron connects to the cylinder axis, while the south pole connects to the cylinder surface. The topology of the cylinder is defined so that the outer surface has only one dimension, which is lightlike (null), just as the axis has only one dimension. Again, depending on the reference frame, different points on different null curves will be regarded as being simultaneous (and hence on a given 3D hypersurface of the photon), but for any of these 3D surfaces, no two points p and q on the surface can ever be regarded as being in the same place at different times.
That covers three dimensions. The fourth dimension is timelike. For a given observer, at every instant of time, the photon consists of a 3D hypersurface made of concentric cylinders, where each cylinder attaches to points at a single latitude of both electrons. All curves on the cylinders are spacelike except for the null curves. Absolutely all curves connecting the cylinders are spacelike. For a different reference frame, the concentric cylinders will comprise a different set of points, but all of the points on the 3D hypersurface are elsewhere with respect to each other.
Note that the photon has only one set of principal null curves specified, while the electron has two principal null curves passing through every point. Thus, really an electron is constantly emitting a photon (really a series of photons) along its outgoing principal null curves, and is constantly absorbing a (series of) photons along its ingoing principal null curves.
So as it turns out, every point in the two-electron space is mapped to a point of the first electron, a point of the photon, and a point of the second electron. (Later Ark will worry about photons which stay connected to an electron for only a finite time, and what to do with the second set of null curves).
Why a photon carries only one null congruence
Archimerged has a collection of well-known metrics he is using to model elementary particles. (The discoverer originally said they were particles). Ark doesn’t feel constrained to follow them exactly, which is a good thing because they don’t exactly work. They serve simply as examples of what is possible. Anyway, these metrics have only two null congruences, and have two Killing (pronounced keyling) vectors (along which the metric is constant). The one he is using for photons is particularly simple. In the usual coordinate basis, one principal null vector is constant with only one nonzero component. The other principal null vector has three nonzero components, but there is a special three-dimensional hypersurface where that vector has only two nonzero components. This makes the surface a trapped surface because principal null curves tangent to the surface must stay tangent. Further, the 3D trapped hypersurface naturally divides into 2D trapped surfaces. This is convenient, since the null curves of the metric Ark is using for electrons always stay in a constant “latitude” surface.
Only one of the congruences of the photon metric has a trapped surface. The other congruence is exactly perpendicular to this surface. So, Ark figures a photon is this three-dimensional hypersurface. And only one congruence fits into this hypersurface (answering the title question). Now, the surface is kind of funny. All curves in the surface are spacelike except for the principal null curves, which are lightlike. As a photological space, all pairs of points (p, q) in the trapped hypersurface belong to either the “there” relation (so pTq is true) or they belong to the “neither here nor there (null)” relation (so pNq and either pBq or pAq is true).
In the usual coordinate basis, the metric depends on only two coordinate vectors, and the other two coordinate vectors are Killing vectors. Well, on the 3D hypersurface, the metric depends on only one coordinate, which corresponds to the latitude of the spinning sphere metric. For the other two, Ark switches to another system in which one coordinate specifies which null curve of the constant latitude surface the point is on, and the other specifies how far along the curve the point appears.
This specifies how to match up all of the ingoing (or outgoing) null curves of the first electron to the null curves of the photon, and at the other end, to outgoing (or ingoing) curves of the second electron.
The four-dimensionally acute reader will notice that so far, Ark’s photon stays attached to the sphere for zero time. In order to work, the photon must occupy a 4D volume of spacetime. But Ark’s photon metric has only a 3D trapped hypersurface. Ark has been stuck on problems like this for years, and he has finally realized that they are non-problems. By abstracting the metric into a photology (before/after, here, there, neither-here-nor-there relations), Ark can take the 3D surface, add a time coordinate, and have a continuous time-series of these 3D surfaces which correspond to the continuous time-series of 3D spheres.
Still to be worked out: a lot, including where one photon (as a light quanta) ends and another begins, and how to attach two photons to the same electron.
Spinning spin-half electron, wavy twisting photons, and other puzzles
Real soon now, Archimerged is going to make that animation. But he has some puzzles first. (Ark likes puzzles).
• The total energy of the electron ought to be proportional to its rate of spin.
• What (in this model) causes interference?
• How does one photon end and another begin?
• How does a photon carry energy?
• What is the meaning of the second (ingoing) principal null congruence?
The above questions are at least partly answered today. These are not:
• Besides its literal meaning (go around twice to return to the original state), spin-half also means the angular momentum is quantized in units of half h-bar.
• What is Planck’s constant anyway?
In the process of making the animation, and solving the puzzles, Ark is doing some concrete thinking in four dimensions. The spinning metric isn’t really spinning so long as the principal null curves end up moving straight to infinity. Rather, the outgoing null curves twist round and round the spherical surface (initially, they move an infinitesimal distance outward for each turn around the sphere), until at a large distance, they began moving outward faster than around. This original metric (Ark is withholding its name because it has irrelevant connotations and also because he converts it to a photological space) is a stationary sphere with null curves wrapped around it which eventually end up proceeding in all directions out to infinity.
When many spinning particles are incorporated into a target photological space, the principal null curves of the particles (both ingoing and outgoing curves, separately) all begin and end wrapped around the spherical surface of particles. None of them ever make it to (or come from) “outer” infinity. The null curves of the target space which reach infinite distance also come from infinite distance. When a group of null curves of a pair of particles are bundled into a photon, all of them run from the source particle to the destination.
Obviously, a null curve which starts as the outgoing null of one particle becomes the trapped null curve of the photon (in a preferred frame, the principal null vector has two zero components), and when it reaches the second particle, it becomes the ingoing null curve. What about the other congruence?
Because principal null curves form a congruence (they fill four-space and never cross), at any given time and place, there is exactly one null curve (from a given principal null vector field) at that event. Ark’s animation is going to show points moving along some of these null curves in three-space. Two of these points will never end up colliding.
Since the original spinning metric isn’t really spinning, Ark is making the sphere spin on its axis so that at infinite distance (in a photological space containing nothing but the sphere), the null curves go around at a specified rate, which is the total energy of the particle.
Now Ark knows that photons of high frequency have high energy. And electrons absorb and emit photons, gaining and losing energy in the process. He is right now investigating exactly how his particles do this (if they do it). The principal null curves of a spin-half electron are arbitrarily straightened and bundled into a rope (the photon) perpendicular to the spin axis, with the north pole curve on the outside and the south pole curve at the center of the rope. The rope describes a cylinder or an elliptical cylinder as it moves above the north pole and below the south pole to permit the sphere to spin without making the rope twist. At the other end of the cylinder, there is another spinning particle where the principal null curves can unbundle and dive back into the maelstrom.
The rope must trace out the cylinder (the straight rope revolving about the cylinder axis) once for every two turns of the sphere. Obviously, the angular frequency of the photon is the angular frequency of this revolving rope. (Ark expects that actually, a photon consists on just one turn around the cylinder, after which a new photon starts, pointing usually in a different direction. If the rope goes around twice, that is two photons one after the other.)
Ark believes that his model fits very closely to Cramer’s Transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (TIQM), which is also related to Feynman and Wheeler’s advanced and retarded absorber theory. [ref to be added]. One nice thing about this is that Cramer has already established (at least it got published in Reviews of Modern Physics) the equivalence of his interpretation with ordinary quantum mechanics, and to some extent with quantum field theory. Of course, Ark would rather use an ensemble of systems (or multiverse of universes, with each universe a fixed 4D spacetime) view in place of Cramer’s “offer wave,” but he isn’t that far into working it out.
One striking thing about TIQM is the advanced and retarded waves, and the negative and positive energy they carry. In thinking about this puzzle, Ark has decided that photons carry twist as well as having a frequency: an outgoing photon can cause an increase or decrease in spin, and the simultaneously arriving ingoing photon must exactly match this increase or decrease. Because of the spin-half pattern (the rope revolves around the cylinder once, going above the north pole and below the south pole, as the sphere rotates twice), the twist carried by the rope is precisely the change in rotational frequency of the sphere. There are always two of these ropes (which are completely oblivious to each other — they correspond to two separate null congruences), and if they didn’t both twist by exactly the same amount, a great tangle would ensue. Thus, the sphere does not go around precisely twice for one revolution of the rope, but the difference corresponds to the amount of energy delivered or removed by the advanced and retarded photons (ingoing and outgoing congruences).
Milk in the same meal defeats Dark Chocolate
See article. (“Milk proteins prevent the absorption of polyphenols…”) Archimerged interprets this to mean that any milk consumed with dark chocolate will also inhibit absorptions.
Photology and Photological spaces
Archimerged finds that it is a bad idea to use well-known terms when subtle changes in the rules invalidate a lot of what people know about the terms. Since he is changing a bunch of rules, he needs some new terms. The systems in an ensemble (i.e., the universes in a multiverse) will be sets of points with certain additional structure.
Ark’s approach starts with a topological space, i.e., a set of points and a topology, which is a set of subsets of the space known as the open sets. He includes a manifold structure so as to be able to label the points. Next, instead of adding a metric, he adds the most abstract form of time and causality. Ark has decided to call a topological space with this added structure a photological space. Photology is an obsolete word for optics, and it seems appropriate.
So, a photological space is a topological space together with a photology, an ordered set (B, H, T, N) of four relations. (A relation is a set of ordered pairs of points. We denote the fact that the pair (p, q) is in the relation R by writing pRq.) The four relations of a are
• the before / after relation denoted bBa or aAb (when point b is before a and a is after b),
• the here relation denoted pHq (when p and q can be considered to be in the same place at different times),
• the there (or elsewhere) relation denoted pTq (when p and q can be considered to be in different places at the same time),
• and the neither here nor there (or null) relation denoted pNq (when p and q can neither be in the same place at different times, nor in different places at the same time, but are on a path light could follow).
Relative to a given point p, all sufficiently nearby points q must satisfy exactly one of pHq, pTq, or pNq. Points which satisfy pHq or pNq must also satisfy either pAq and qBp, or pBq and qAp.
A photology (B, H, T, N) has a close connection to an equivalence class of conformally equivalent metrics, and Ark’s approach uses a manifold together with a photology instead a manifold together with a metric.
This machinery is not really necessary, but it serves to emphasize the difference between this approach and standard general relativity. Ark used to say “all conformally equivalent metrics are really the same thing.” See Wald, General Relativity, p. 445: conformally equivalent spaces have identical causal structure, and their Weyl tensors are equal.
Back to foundations of physics for a while…
It may be possible to blow Archimerged’s cover given the information herein. If you succeed, please do not publish your results. Ark likes to toil in anonymity, and believes the basic credit for the work described herein belongs to Einstein and others, and would rather not receive the blame if it fails completely.
When Archimerged was in college (the first time), he never knew what he wanted to do, and kept switching majors. Starting in engineering school, he would have studied four semesters of physics, with the last one quantum mechanics. But he switched to anthropology (physical anthro actually taught evolution in detail) and so always felt deficient in quantum mechanics. Within a year or so he dropped out and worked in software for around 10 years, but managed to finish his undergraduate work, transferring to a nearby university just before his freshman credits would have become non-transferable.
Anyway, over the years he has learned quite a lot about quantum physics and related subjects. Intertwined in those years, he went to grad school and got a PhD in chemistry (related to bio-molecules) but by the time he finished he was more interested in solving the big physics problem: unifying gravity with quantum physics. At the beginning of grad school, he had to take undergraduate physical chemistry, not having taken it before. The derivation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution was very interesting, and he considered ensembles to be very fundamental to the nature of the universe.
His approach has always been ensemble-based. At first, he thought of considering every possible pattern of dots on a display, varying in time. Any one sequence of frames makes a movie of sorts, but essentially all of them are just “snow.” But if you add some rules for how the dots start out and how they can change from frame to frame, more meaningful movies might emerge. He felt (and still feels) that the world is like this: particles move about according to certain laws (including the law of gravity, or maybe only the law of gravity) in a given “system” (where an ensemble is a set of systems), and the “real” universe we see is just one of these systems. Not the best of all possible worlds, but the most likely.
When he read a popular account of the “Many Worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics, he thought that’s right, but why this branching stuff? Eliminate the branching, just start with all possible distributions of particles and all ways for them to move.
So he said, particles just move around according to the law of gravity, nothing else, and that is enough. But, what is the law of gravity? So he studied general relativity. A book club happened to offer an introductory package including Wald’s General Relativity, and he studied the first chapters in great detail. He formed the opinion that exact solutions are the only thing of interest. He also formed the opinion that you start with the metric and calculate the curvature and the energy tensor, rather than starting with the energy tensor and trying to find a metric. While reading Gravitation (usually called MTW after the authors), page 901, he formed the opinion that the principal null geodesics of exact solutions are very important.
It’s now been almost 20 years from the start and 10 years since Ark first ran across the metrics, and Ark has finally figured out a way to use certain simple vacuum metrics as electrons and photons. It really works! (see also blog motto). So he will try to explain it in the following posts.
Big surprise — Archimerged has bipolar disorder
Archimerged sometimes remarked to colleagues that he probably was bipolar, but was always very receptive to any suggestion that he wasn’t, and happy to forget about the possibility. And when under diagnosis for depression, he somehow never mentioned the behaviors which would suggest bipolar. They were embarrassing, so he never brought them up. Or something like that. And so, he isn’t going to list all of the ridiculous projects he has worked on for a while and then abandoned… But he did usually learn something from them.
But a drug specific for bipolar disorder, Lamictal (lamotrigine), has worked well for him for several months. Diagnosis by asking questions depends on the subjects understanding the questions in the same way, and on answering correctly. Archimerged thinks that the operational diagnosis (especially when treatment is in the form of drugs) is whether the drugs work or not. This one seems to be working and doesn’t have unpleasant side-effects. | https://archimerged.wordpress.com/2007/05/ | dclm-gs1-159281087 |
0.152741 | <urn:uuid:274c8be2-ea31-42d1-9389-a9ec07ad4d38> | en | 0.942429 | Explore BrainMass
An Outline of Action Research
Can you assist me with the following?
Read the Tillotson article entitled, "Studying the Game: Action Research in Science Education." Using this article as a model, outline your own action research study according to the author's explanations. Include the following sections:
1. An analysis of the setting
2. An analysis of the problem formulation
3. A description of data collection
4. A description of data analysis
5. A description of reporting results
6. A description of action planning
Include two scholarly resources and addition to the article.
Below I have attached the article in the file.
Solution Preview
Action research can be done by a teacher, a group of teachers, administrators, or basically anyone who wants to conduct research to help them personally improve on something or in a specific area. For example, if a teacher has difficulty keeping the attention of a child with ADHD in their classroom they could conduct an action research study to find ways to help keep the attention of that specific child.
The setting could be in a small elementary school in the state which you live. If a large number of elementary children have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the teacher are most likely having a difficult time keeping the attention of the students that are in the regular class curriculum.
Problem formation:
The problem would be the difficulty of the teachers being able to help the children to concentrate on the task or assignment that has been assigned to them. The research is completed, data is collected, analyzed, and then determine how assistive technology can assist in early education classroom curriculum (1). These would be your research questions that you have already completed in the previous weeks.
Data Collection:
These could consist of observational data, which is great for ...
Solution Summary
This solution discusses the design of an outline on action research using Tillotson's article "Studying the Game: Action Research in Science Education" as an example. | https://brainmass.com/education/comparative-education/an-outline-of-action-research-584489 | dclm-gs1-159341087 |
0.110846 | <urn:uuid:e53a3cf6-6fd2-4f4e-95b0-a55681105b1e> | en | 0.982134 | Nobody and the graveyard raid
October 19, 2016
It was not a very large cemetery, tucked away between the back end of a large brick church and a row of some houses that had seen better days.
There were no grand mausoleums, no pigeon-anointed angels atop granite columns, waving their swords and managing to look at the same time fierce and slightly distracted, as though they had just wondered where they had put their car keys.
This was a narrow rectangle of graves, 30 or 40 of them, of men, women and children buried during the years between the American Revolution and two decades before the American Civil War.
The church of which these sheep had been the flock had long ago moved to larger and more grandiose quarters a few blocks away. It has since changed its name. The old building is gone. All that remains are the stones, and the whispers of the names they bore.
I was there, as usual, because there was bad news. A number of the headstones seem to have been broken, cast down shattered on the grass the night before my visit by person or persons unknown.
Probably the latter. Thugs like that rarely act alone, as they need one another to crank their courage up.
Plainly, this was not the first time it had happened. While many of the broken surfaces shone white and new, as many more were old, weathered. It seems that these dead have been an affront to someone for a very long time.
It is hard to imagine why. The victims were all, by now, a thin stratum of darker soil in the surrounding clay and shale. On the stones, most of their names had been eroded by time and weather into vague ciphers. On some, the names were plain, but the dates, those points on the continuum between which the stories of their lives unfolded, were obliterated.
On those that are legible, the dates gave a much more careful accounting of that time than we are used to in the late 20th century. Joseph Heagy, we learn, for example, died in 1844, having lived exactly 63 years, seven months, and 17 days.
Another stone gives a hint of what may have been a wrenching story. Mary, wife of Ludnik, died on Sept. 14 of 1804. Ludnik, still at her side, died two days later.
These are people, I thought as I walked in the perfect autumn day, who lived in the tumult between the birth of the nation and the times that nearly tore it apart. It was a time of high passion, but they and their passions were by now dust and whispers. So why the anger? Why the fractured markers?
I stopped and looked again over the field of fallen stones, amused at myself. This had nothing to do with the vanished remains, or the people who had once worn the names etched in the marble and shale. Here, I had assumed the culprits had a reason. I had assumed that the spate of vandalism had been the result of something reasoned through, a solution to a problem.
Silly me.
This was, I reminded myself, a simple skirmish between order and chaos.
It was a fight between life and the vast, endless darkness on either side of it.
I suppose there is no better reminder of that final blackness than a tombstone, standing there solid, part of which bore the inscription “The Last Brick Wall you will ever hit.” Maybe that is where the anger comes from, a sudden despair that your brief moments above ground will mean nothing and your end even less.
I tucked my notebook in my hip pocket and stowed my pen, walking back toward my car. My anger at the vandalism had not abated, but alongside had grown a little understanding, and perhaps a little sympathy. The idea that you do not matter and will not be missed when you go is a painful one, I know.
If kicking over memorials to the forgotten dead is the best idea you can come up with as a stance against that great, crushing anonymity, you had better get used to being a nobody.
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s
%d bloggers like this: | https://burger2go.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/nobody-and-the-graveyard-raid/ | dclm-gs1-159351087 |
0.035047 | <urn:uuid:efdc3923-c38b-48d5-874f-c8581aa2f583> | en | 0.967851 | you're reading...
God of the living
GOD OF THE LIVING [Crow- Claire- George- Casanova]
https://youtu.be/fC4aEuHMrMw God of the living
.Crow- Claire- George- Casanova
.Should we pay taxes?
.Whose wife will she be?
.Now I have one for you
.Christ- whose Son is he?
.Ok- no more questions
.Brief history of Methodist’s
.George’s dollar
.Claire’s dream
.Flour Bluff
.Ask and you shall receive
.Who said this- ‘I would be an atheist- but I’m Catholic- cause I don’t want to go to hell’?
.Hint- real deep voice- likes oysters
NEW- [links- verses below]
I had no plan on making this video- but as I showed up at the park my homeless friends brought up the bible chapter [on their own] that I read the night before [ Matt. 22].
So I figured we would talk a little.
You get to see some of my friends share their experiences.
We talked about how the religious leaders came to Jesus to ask him some questions- yet they were simply trying to catch him in his words-
They were not sincere.
At the end of their questioning- he puts one to them-
They have no response- and finally go their way-
I have actually taught this chapter before- and in all of the responses that Jesus gives- we see the great wisdom of God-
Matthew 22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
The problem was seen in the question Jesus asked them ‘Christ- whose Son is he’?
The religious leaders did not have an answer- at least not the correct one.
It was because of this- the fact that they did not know who Christ was- that they also did not understand the other things he taught them.
Jesus told us we would know the Truth- and he Truth would set us free-
John 8:32
Jesus is the Truth-
John 14:6
All the other things they thought they knew- the questions that they put to him- those were simply facts that they challenged him with.
They were indeed questions that came from the bible [Old Testament] – but they were not sincere seekers of truth.
They simply were gatherers of information- to use against Jesus-
He rebuked them for not knowing the truth- or the power of God-
Yes- Jesus is the Truth- the power and demonstration of God.
So it was fitting for him to challenge them with this question-
To ask them ‘who is Christ- whose Son is he’?
Because when they get that right- then they ‘get it all’ right.
At the park Claire shared the dream she had- I told her I already spoke about it on previous posts- below are those posts-
Talked about the tattoo as well-
Talked about Wesley- below are some past teachings I did on him-
.Council of Trent- what did the Church say?
.Do we get the final say- at the Judgment?
.What are the Catholic virtues- did Paul teach them?
.Augustine, Calvin, Whitfield and Wesley.
.Infusion or Imputation? How bout both!
In 1687 Isaac Newton published the bombshell book, ‘Mathematical principles of natural philosophy’ [Gravity].
It was a bombshell not only in the scientific sense- but for those who were looking to expel Christianity from society.
In France you had the Encylopedists- people who advocated for an atheistic world view.
In their minds- the Church was part of the ‘old world’ and as man advances- he needs to realize that the church itself is a hindrance.
Now- Newton showed us that the world [cosmos] operates more along the lines of a machine- with set principles- and not so much by ‘the power of God’.
This is a classic mistake that many make- they look to the natural laws of ‘nature’ and say ‘see- this explains everything’.
Actually- not.
But anyway- the French revolutionaries wanted change- and change they got.
Near the end of the 18th century- emboldened by the American Revolution- they stormed the Bastille- and it was the beginning of the age of Progress.
The Bastille was a former fortress- that became an infamous prison in France.
It was believed that many freedom lovers were held captive there.
Actually- upon breaking in- there were only about 7 criminals held- but it still became the standard for Revolution.
King Louie tried to institute reforms- but they did not go far enough.
Eventually Napoleon Bonaparte takes control- and he tried to form an agreement with the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Priests and churches were attacked during the time of the French Revolution- and the great Notre dame university had a lady representing ‘reason’ on the altar.
The churches were turned into ‘houses of reason’ and girls dancing in the streets represented a sign of Liberty for the French.
But the liberty they were talking about was not in the same sense as the American Revolutionaries.
The French were being ‘liberated’ from Christianity- as well as the oppression of the nobles and Priests.
So- the famous gift from the French to America [1886] the Statue of Liberty- might have meant something a bit different than what we understand today.
The statue itself was of the Roman goddess ‘Libertas’.
The church came thru a period where they showed how reason and religion do not contradict one another.
Many of the great thinkers/philosophers were indeed believers.
Yet some in Christianity felt there was a danger in too much reliance on reason and rationality.
We refer to this as Pietism- Men like Philip Spener and Count Zinzendorf played a role in helping believers return to a more spiritual communion with God.
The famous Methodist founder- John Wesley- was effected by the witness of the Moravian Christians on one of his journeys back and forth to America.
Wesley and George Whitefield were coming to America and spreading revival by their preaching- on one occasion John Wesley was on board ship- the seas were rough- John feared for his life.
Yet he noticed the Moravian brothers had no fear.
He later asked them why they seemed to be fearless at the possible point of death.
They told Wesley they had true assurance they were saved by Christ-and there was no need for fear.
Later John Wesley had an experience at a meeting on Aldersgate St. – they were reading from a Romans commentary- notes from Martin Luther.
And the story goes Wesley felt his heart ‘strangely warmed’ and he saw this as a conversion experience.
Wesley never intended to start the Methodist Church [as his movement later became known in the states] – he simply wanted to revive the ‘dead faith’ of his fellow Christians in the Anglican Church.
Yet eventually- thru men like Francis Asbury- the Movement Wesley started would spread thru America and eventually become a separate denomination.
The scrolls might have been hidden there by the Essenes-
NOTE 3- Augustine.
I personally am a fan of Saint Augustine. He is one of the famous church fathers of the early centuries.
In my view he holds a distinct place- he is admired by both staunch Protestants [Reformed Theologians]- and Catholics.
The original Protestant Reformation of the 16th century had 3 key figures.
Martin Luther [Germany]- Ulrich Zwingli [Swiss] and John Calvin [studied for the priesthood in Paris- later took a key role in Geneva Switzerland].
One of the key beliefs- of at least 2 of these 3- was the doctrine mentioned above- Predestination.
It is a common mistake in our day to see historical documentaries [I have seen some] that refer to Calvin as someone who believed in Predestination [true] and that Luther disagreed with him.
That’s wrong [but you have to study theology to find this out- a brief reading of church history does not show you this- that’s why some of the well meaning documentaries you might see on the History channel get this wrong].
Okay- Martin Luther was a Catholic Monk- under an order called the Augustinian order- named after St. Augustine.
Even though he would break away from the church- and the Lutheran church would form- yet he held to the original belief that the founder/namesake of his order taught.
Now- you do indeed find many verses in the bible that speak about God choosing us- and not us ‘choosing him’.
Or chapters [Romans 9] that say Gods choice of us has nothing to do with our own goodness- but he chose us because he loved us.
So- this teaching does indeed have scriptural backing.
But- you also have scripture to back up the opposing view- which is referred to as Arminianism.
Named after another church leader- Jacob Arminius.
He held to the Calvinist view at first- but as he began studying- to defend this view- he came to the belief that this view [at least among its more radical adherents] was wrong.
These 2 groups- Calvinists- Armenians- became enemies as the Protestant Reformation grew.
The followers of men like John Wesley [founder of the Methodist church] disagreed strongly with those who held to the Calvinist view.
In our day- you still have adherents of both views- seeing the ‘other side’ as non Christian.
It’s sad- but this is just one- of thousands of teachings- that have had this effect.
The Catholic leaders warned of this at the time of the breakaway- which took place in the 16th century.
They feared that once you made a clean break from the historic church- that the ‘breaking’ would never stop.
As you look at the scene over the past 500 years- it’s hard to say they were wrong.
One last note- many modern Protestants do not hold Augustine- or any of the men mentioned above- in high regard at all.
Some hold to a belief [another popular one in groups that are Restorationist- as opposed to Reformist] that all of the early Christian expressions got off course [apostatized] and that the only ‘true’ church- just happens to be the group they are in.
Once again- this type of belief simply increases the division in the church- in my view.
Many reject men like Augustine- because of his influence by the Greek philosophers- they charge that some of the early church leaders were too much into philosophy.
For instance- one of the first Christian schools ever founded was in Alexandria- Egypt.
In the 2nd/3rd century Origen- an early church father- would take over the school and teach Christian theology.
But- the school was basically a school that first taught Greek philosophy.
Origen is respected by many [like me] but officially the church does not recognize him as a legitimate Church farther.
Because he did indeed hold to some views that were not Christian based- like the pre- existence of the soul.
This belief comes straight from Greek philosophy- not Christianity.
He also believed in what we refer to as Universalism- that at the end- everyone gets saved- even the Devil!
So- this debate has gone on for centuries- the debate over how ‘Platonic’ so and so is- or did men like Thomas Aquinas [ 13th century- another favorite of mine] simply mix Aristotelian thought [Aristotle] in with Christian teaching- and thus water down the true faith.
This is also the reason many [most] Protestants do not teach Philosophy- as a basic plank- in their seminaries.
I think this is a big mistake.
Philosophy- as a field- deals with the basic issues of life.
Why are we hear- what’s the purpose of mans existence- etc.
For the Protestant church to have basically abandoned this field- this left the secular world to shape it as they wish.
But- the Catholic Church has indeed engaged in this field- and in my view- has presented a better world view- than the secular philosophers.
Okay- now this post is becoming an entire study!
That’s it for now- I have lots of posts like this on the blog- if you want- just look them up there.
[The above comes from my study on the Protestant Reformation- here’s the complete study- https://ccoutreach87.wordpress.com/protestant-reformation-luther/ ]
GW BRIDGE- https://youtu.be/70CVdZxFIMg GW bridge
.Foundation stones
.Why Bishops?
.Gnostics and Docetism
.Dads boat
.GOV Christie and hot dogs
.Restore the paths
.Isaiah and John
.Memories of a kid- train tunnel
.Robert Moses to blame?
.Mayor LaGuardia
.The argument for Rome
.Church fathers
.Suicide signs
.Apostolic succession
.What church is the ‘true church’?
.Most amazing intellectual discourse ever? Only if you don’t hear [have to watch to get it- sorry]
.I am homeless- can you spare a 5?
https://youtu.be/IY2fcI8-Ovo Samuel 7-8
.Water offering?
.Repent from sex- and war
.The other Ebenezer
.Samuel as Apostle too
.Itinerant ministry
.Frances Asbury
.Stone Pony? [Asbury park- N.J.]
.Preach- rebuke- teach doctrine- preachers- do it all.
.Tabernacle of David- type of the New Covenant
.Like father- like son
.If you depend on a man- God will not help you
.Accountability is not co- dependence
.Church government
[verses- links below]
NEW STUFF- The ark is brought to another town of the people of God- and placed at Abinidab’s house. It sits there for 20 years- and God blesses him.
Now- the people of God are told to repent from their worship of Ashtaroth and Baalim –
. HEBREWS 10-13
There’s more on the video- Kant, John Mill- Moral Theory- Utilitarianism, Kantianism. Dead Sea Scroll-s ‘Lost Books’ of the bible- Septuagint- Jerome- Alexander the Great- Ptolemy- Seleucids- Essenes- Qumran community- Ecclesiology- Local Church etc.
(696) ACTS 5 – As the word spreads rapidly, all the surrounding towns bring the sick and vexed to lie in the streets. Even the possibility of Peters shadow passing over them for healing is hoped for. Notice the charismatic reality of this early church. I do realize the many reasoning’s that intelligent people use to explain the miracles as limited to the Apostolic period, but for the most part we see a supernatural church in Acts as well as thru out the epistles and well into the first few centuries of Christianity. The 20th century story of Pentecostalism and the awakenings just prior, seem to show the reality of a supernatural church existing alongside a theological one! There is much proof to the orthodoxy and giftings of the church all thru out scripture and church history. Peters shadow healed people, how can we explain this away? [p.s. Phillip, who is not an Apostle, will also perform miracles. Just thru this in for those who teach the Apostles were the only miracle workers!] Now, the immediate response of the high priest and religious leaders was ‘if we don’t do something about this, their movement will gain momentum’. They imprison Peter and the Apostles. An angel appears and frees them and tells them ‘go back to the temple and speak the words of this life’. When the authorities realize what has happened they once again warn them about using Jesus name in their ministry. They even say ‘do you intend to bring this mans blood upon us’. Basically Peter says ‘yes’. Peter has been ‘putting it in their face’ ever since Pentecost. He has blamed BOTH the nation of Israel and her leadership for the death of Christ. He does not worry about offending them! During this time some priests become believers. The majority of them do not. Why? What has happened is common among movements. When an initial movement starts up, there is always the question of ‘is it from God or not’? A few years back the church went thru a renewal movement. Some referred to it as ‘the Toronto blessing’ ‘the laughing revival’ and other names. You had those who were 100 % against it and those 100 % for it. Who was right? Well, to a degree both of them! The point is there were some things that were needing rebuke, but to throw it all out was wrong. The defenders appealed to Jonathan Edwards’s writings and how during the first great awakening he experienced many of the same manifestations as the Toronto movement. Edwards left quite a bit of room for God being present in the religious emotions of the people. The critics were offended that the revival guys were appealing to Edwards and they would appeal to other stuff Edwards wrote in concern over the religious affections. You also had the same manifestations a century later under the second great awakening. The revivals in Kentucky had laughter and ‘strange barking’ and other weird stuff. The point is you always have a response to a religious movement. Once the battle lines are drawn, it is very hard to switch sides. In this chapter we see Gamaliel, a very respected Pharisee, stand up for the Apostles and say ‘lets give them some room, others before them rose up and gained a following, they all passed on. If this work is of God you can’t stop it, if it’s of men it will fail’. There was some breaking thru to the religious mind that was taking place in the elite religious thinkers of the day. After all, Peter has been quoting Psalms and Joel in ways that were confounding the religious thinkers. Don’t forget, Peter is an uneducated fisherman. Jesus deposited some stuff in his men that was way beyond the basic understanding of the day. Some ‘thinkers’ and intellectuals were humble enough to listen, most were not!
ACTS 6- There arises the first controversy in the Jerusalem church. The fact that they were doing this daily massive food distribution led to an area of prejudice. The ‘Grecians’ [Greek speaking Jews] were being neglected. They were seen as a little
Matthew 22:26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Matthew 22:27 And last of all the woman died also.
Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
View profile at Medium.com
About ccoutreach87
No comments yet.
Leave a Reply
WordPress.com Logo
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s
%d bloggers like this: | https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/01/29/god-of-the-living/ | dclm-gs1-159371087 |
0.497834 | <urn:uuid:9f8b9a84-ed05-42d2-beec-f0bf4f8aa451> | en | 0.86916 | id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 12662,Enforce Hostname Middleware,robballou,nobody,"For a recent project, I wanted to be able to enforce the hostname used in requests to a single domain (in this case, any requests like ""www.example.com"" would redirect to ""example.com""). Rather than use the redirect app, I felt this was better suited to middleware like the {{{ PREPEND_WWW }}} setting. So the following middleware will allow users to set an {{{ ENFORCE_HOSTNAME }}} setting for a single or multiple hosts (string or list). I wasn't sure how to submit a patch for the middleware itself, so that is just attached as a file. I did create tests for the middleware though.",,closed,Uncategorized,1.1,,wontfix,,,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,, | https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/12662?format=csv | dclm-gs1-159381087 |
0.024335 | <urn:uuid:3c9b314d-7b4d-450f-a153-334410c0964f> | en | 0.928163 | Contributor Level: Captain
What do you bring that might be considered, unusual ?
we bring a small roll of packing shrink wrap.
we wrap our luggage with it before we leave home, and before we get off the ship. It also helps when we have to stack pieces for Debarkation.
we get everything from strange looks to, people pointing saying its a great idea..
as as far as leaving your luggage unlocked , never. We lock it, and wrap it. If they want to get in to see something, they call us down. The airline thieves have never opened our bags either.
33 Answers
Contributor Level: Captain
I'm probably one of the ones giving you the funny look thinking that it was a great idea!
Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to go through the wrapping procedure. And although locks won't keep the thieves (or Customs) out of the bag, it is a good deterrent. I always lock the bags, even the soft-sided zipper style bags.
Contributor Level: Captain
We bring a stash of peanut butter-filled pretzels for the cabin. Also, Command refrigerator clips to place on the mirror. Great for keeping the daily newsletter and cruise cards. Avoids having to go through everything on the desktop because you can't find your card.
Contributor Level: Cruise Director
a set of walkie talkies. That way if my wife decided to go off and do something on her own, while I am in the pool enjoying something frosty, I can find her once I am ready to get out :)
Contributor Level: Captain
Unusual? I've been called unusual, does that count?Yummy
Contributor Level: Captain
A magnet and a spray bottle. The walls are all magnetic so I hang paper I don't want to misplace on the wall. I keep the spray bottle filled with water in the fridge and take with when I'm traveling in hot climates for a refreshing spritz now and then.
Contributor Level: Captain
Nice one Bubba! Happy
Contributor Level: Deck Hand
what kind of walkie talkies do you recommend?
Contributor Level: Captain
I often take "bubbles". I like to have something to send into the air as we sail-away from port (any port) and bubble don't cause any problems. Years ago, on could throw confetti, but that made a mess for house keeping and is no longer allowed because it pollutes the ocean (bay, harbor, etc.) I have admired Bennett's shrink wrap for years.
Contributor Level: Captain
I have a set of Motorola units which have 3 channel options. My wife and I used them quite a bit.
Contributor Level: Second Mate
So just coming off of our cruise I can say that we brought a Glade Plug in.. So glad that we did because the bathroom smelled like mildew.
I also had someone suggest bringing a spray bottle with vinegar for sunburn but that suggestion came way too late.Crying
Back to Top | https://cruiseline.com/forum/post/what-do-you-bring-that-might-be-considered-unusual | dclm-gs1-159411087 |
0.019754 | <urn:uuid:1068020d-1521-4981-a952-52ca694f130b> | en | 0.894642 | Pennsylvania Expungement Law
Expungement of Criminal Records – General – Pennsylvania
1. What is an expungement?
(1) To remove information so that there is no trace or indication that such information existed;
(2) to eliminate all identifiers which may be used to trace the identity of an individual, allowing remaining data to be used for statistical purposes; or
(3) maintenance of certain information required or authorized under the provisions of section 9122(c) (relating to expungement), when an individual has successfully completed the conditions of any pretrial or post trial diversion or probation program. 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 9102.
2. Do the records just disappear?
No. Certain records may be retained to determine future eligibility for diversion or probation programs or to identify a person in a criminal investigation.
3. What records may be expunged?
Criminal history record information related to the expunged offense may be expunged. Such records consist of identifiable descriptions, dates and notations of arrests, indictments, informations or other formal criminal charges and any dispositions arising therefrom.
Criminal history record information does not include intelligence information, investigative information or treatment information, including medical and psychological information. Records also not subject to expungement orders include:
(1) original records of entry compiled chronologically including, but not limited to, police blotters and press releases that contain criminal history record information and are disseminated contemporaneous with the incident.
(2) any documents, records or indices prepared or maintained by or filed in any court of this Commonwealth, including but not limited to the minor judiciary.
(3) posters, announcements, or lists for identifying or apprehending fugitives or wanted persons.
(4) announcements of executive clemency. 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 9102.
Records of arrest are also eligible to be expunged for persons dismissed under Rule 320.
4. Who is eligible for an expungement?
Persons convicted of a crime may have records expunged in the following cases:
(1) An individual who is the subject of the information reaches 70 years of age and has been free of arrest or prosecution for ten years following final release from confinement or supervision; or
(3) A person the subject of an information for a summary offense has been free of arrest or conviction for five years following conviction for that offense.
(5) a court order requires that such nonconviction data be expunged; or
A person is not eligible for expungement if placed in an ARD program and victim was under the age of 18 for any of the following offenses:
Section 3121 (relating to rape).
Section 3122.1 (relating to statutory sexual assault).
Section 3123 (relating to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse).
Section 3124.1 (relating to sexual assault).
Section 3125 (relating to aggravated indecent assault).
Section 3126 (relating to indecent assault).
Section 3127 (relating to indecent exposure).
18 Pa.C.S.A. § 9122.
5. How do I get records expunged?
Under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 9122, the person must petition the court with jurisdiction over such records and the court must send a certified order to the agency having control over the records.
Expungements of records of arrest under Rule 320 are automatic as a matter of law after successful completion of ADR requirements. When the judge orders the dismissal of the charges against the defendant, the judge shall also order the expungement of the defendant’s arrest record.
If the attorney for the Commonwealth objects to the automatic expungement, the objections shall be filed with the judge, together with the objections to dismissal, if any, within 30 days after service of a motion for dismissal under Rule 319, and copies of the objections shall be served on the defendant or the defendant’s attorney.
If the objections are filed, the judge shall hold a hearing on the objections, affording all parties an opportunity to be heard.
Inside Pennsylvania Expungement Law | https://expungement.uslegal.com/expungement-of-criminal-records/pennsylvania-expungement-law/ | dclm-gs1-159491087 |
0.055024 | <urn:uuid:6b52766a-b423-4891-b740-73d849801036> | en | 0.926531 | First Project
This is my first ever project that involves making my own instrument. I want to try and make something different, that is easy to assemble, cheap to make and overall makes a good sound. My first thought was to make a mini piano, but after looking at how a simpler version of it would still be quite difficult, I decided that even though it would be great to make one it may not be possible in the time frame I have and successful enough to make a performance out of it. So I’ve decided to make a Kalimba. The interesting thing about the Kalimba, or the thumb piano, is that there are many different ways to tune it depending on how many tines it has. It is relatively easy to make so I would hopefully be able to make quite a lot of prototypes and experiment with different sizes and tuning.
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s
%d bloggers like this: | https://jessmyers.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/first-project/ | dclm-gs1-159631087 |
0.021919 | <urn:uuid:575414fb-6d31-4c7f-aa02-a3d6d361517c> | en | 0.881519 | Explore the rooftops of New York City with the handy pocket-sized book, Roof Explorer’s Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops. Author and blogger Leslie Adatto will guide you through the city skies, one roof at a time.
About: Leslie Adatto is an expert when it comes to New York City Rooftops. She has been exploring the old and the new since 2009. She loves writing about her adventures and is an advocate for public rooftops. From peaceful secret gardens perched high in the sky, to swanky hotel bars set for romance and moonlight, she’s got you covered. Join Leslie while she explores all the city has to offer in arts, culture, parks and amazing views. | https://leslieadatto.wordpress.com/ | dclm-gs1-159701087 |
0.174019 | <urn:uuid:9a210f7f-2f45-4938-9d22-dd8b19e7e421> | en | 0.957054 | How Bitcoin Works
Bitcoins really tend to be a decentralized form of crypto currency. Meaning, that they usually tend to be not regulated with a financial institution or possibly the government. Because such, unlike a conventional bank account, you are doing not need a long checklist the paperwork such as an ID to be able for one to establish what's referred in order to as the bitcoin wallet. Your bitcoin wallet will be that which you uses to obtain into your own bitcoins also to send bitcoins along with other individuals.
How In Order To Setup An Account
You can acquire any bitcoin wallet from the bitcoin broker for example Coinbase. Once you open up up any wallet by means of a new certified broker, you're given a new bitcoin address which in turn can end up being a series of figures and letters, similarly to a account quantity to acquire a bank-account plus a private crucial that is actually a number of quantities and also letters as well, which serve as the password.
How does Bitcoin Perform Being An Anonymous Payment Processor
You are capable regarding doing 3 issues along with bitcoins, you can make a purchase, send cash anonymously to be able to someone as well as utilize it as a possible investment. more and a lot more merchants happen to be accepting bitcoins as a form of payment. Simply By utilizing bitcoins as opposed to cash, you are essentially creating that buy anonymously. the same is true of sending money, based about the proven fact that you are doing not have to submit a new mountain associated with payment to be able for you to establish a bitcoin anonymously, essentially you can send cash to another person anonymously.
How Really Does Bitcoin Perform Being An Investment
The value of your bitcoin fluctuates through time and also power to time. Merely to set things Airbit Club within perspective, back within the starting regarding 2013, the common value of your bitcoin has been approximately $400 for each bitcoin, but by the end of 2013, the price regarding bitcoin rose to within extra of $1000. This meant that if an individual have 2 bitcoins worth $800 within the starting regarding 2013 and you also stored it as a excellent investment by the end regarding 2013 these 2 bitcoins would have been worth over $2000 instead of $800. Numerous folks shop bitcoins thanks for the undeniable fact that value of it fluctuates.
Bitcoin Casino as well as Poker Sites
Due for the anonymity of bitcoin the actual gambling business has taken up bitcoin like a payment method. both bitcoin casinos along with bitcoin poker sites are usually coming for you to life as well as providing their players to produce deposits, play together with bitcoin at the tables along with withdraw directly for their bitcoin wallet. This particular signifies that there's no taxes as well as possibilities pertaining to government control. Significantly being a standard Nevada casino exactly where do you don't need to sign up anywhere and many kinds of your current transactions are anonymous.
How do You Send Bitcoin
In order pertaining to you in order to definitely pay with regard to goods and services or to send bitcoins for an individual, 3 situations are needed. your bitcoin address, the private key and additionally the individual's bitcoin address. from that point, using your bitcoin wallet, you will place 3 items of information, which in turn are: input, balance along with output. Input identifies your current address, balance refers to the amount regarding bitcoins you tend to be most likely to send and also output may be the recipient's address.
Write a comment
Comments: 0
This is the sidebar.
| https://levelzeal2479.jimdo.com/2016/05/27/how-bitcoin-works/ | dclm-gs1-159711087 |
0.025095 | <urn:uuid:ae487aa2-0c51-4b38-9762-8714b36a4fa1> | en | 0.977372 | The English Opening
I’d never played 1.c4 in a rated tournament before. Well, to be honest, I played it one time the other day, since I was planning on playing it OTB the next day. I don’t ever remember playing 1.c4 even online before that, so if I have it must be astronomically rare. I studied absolutely nothing but my one online game before playing this, and the English Opening actually has tons of different lines. Nevertheless, now I can say I’ve played it!
Round 3
2 thoughts on “The English Opening
1. You had a better feeling of the position in the opening.
I think 24… Rd8 was better than Qg5, even with c5 coming, computer supports me.
Computer also thinks that his queens exchange idea was a mistake, because his queen could hold the pawn.
There was 40. Bc4 winning on the spot.
Good game!
2. Thanks, as always!! 🙂
The English is a weird opening to play as White because it’s often bad to move either of your center pawns, and there are probably more lines where d3 gets played than e3, but I guess it worked against his dragon formation.
21.f3? 21.Rd2! Now Black could equalize with 21…Nb6!, which I dreaded OTB, but was elated to see 21…Nf6?!
I took too long to get in c5, but yes he gave me plenty of chances in that endgame. Bc4 is like the signature-shot to put that endgame away, yes! 😉
You are right about 24…Rd8 instead of 24…Qg5? Neither of us was thinking he was going to drop his center-pawn like that. At his rating, dropping a pawn like that will be big because his idea of aggressive compensation probably won’t match whatever a chess-engine’s idea of it is.
The queen and pawn ending, if bishops come off, is drawn with best play and perhaps it is drawn, but would require accurate play from a human.
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s | https://linuxguyonfics.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-english-opening/ | dclm-gs1-159721087 |
0.034891 | <urn:uuid:3e16ceb0-f274-423c-b970-a41690aee8e0> | en | 0.912453 | Essays, Papers: in current category
Title: Microbiology
Essay Details
Subject: Science
Date: July 17, 2003
Length: 3 / 879
No of views: 0
Essay text:
The needle used for this can be just 70 millimetres wide, only ten times the width of a human blood cell. All this technology is focused on getting body parts back together again successfully. The more blood vessels reattached, the better the survival chances for a toe or a finger...
Showed first 250 characters
Do you need an essay?
Here are the options you can choose from:
Custom essays:
• Order plagiarism free custom written essay
• Prices start from $12.99/page
FULL access to essays database
as $28.95/month
The finer the nerve resection, the better the feeling in a damaged part of the face, or control in a previously useless arm. But the wounded and severed body part must be treated carefully. If a small part of the body, such as a finger is cut off, instead of torn, wrapped in a clean covering, put on ice and then reattached within a few hours, the chance of success is over ninety percent, as long as one good artery and one good vein can be reattached...
Showed next 250 characters
• Your research paper is written by certified writers
• Your requirements and targets are always met
• You are able to control the progress of your writing assigment
• You get a chance to become an excellent student!
Total price: $ 10.00
Common topics in this essay:
Khaled Hosseini's "the kite runner" demonstrates that hard and unsettled times bring out the best as well as the worst in human nature needle exchange "Needle in the Hay" Song Analysis A needle that can save life human t-cell virus Microbiology Study Microbiology Unknown Microbiology Microbiology Microbiology Microbiology Needle found in investigative haystack straight shot at the needle The Advantages of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research needle and syringes program
Similar Essays:
Title Pages / Words Save
Geometry Golden
These are examples of the Golden Rectangle in Art. The Chambered Nautilus Is an example of the spiral shape that fits inside the golden rectangle. Constructing the Golden Rectangle Using The Golden Ratio The ratio, called the Golden Ratio, is the ratio of the length to the width of what is said to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing rectangular shapes...
2 / 406
Giving Blood
Process Essay Every hospital needs large supplies of blood for transfusions. It is given by donors. Before giving blood, the donor is given tests to determine his blood type and make sure he is not suffering from certain diseases, such as AIDS, Hepatitis, strokes, cancer, etc...
1 / 263
human t-cell virus
Summary: The research article discusses about the human T cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1) and how the mechanism of cell to cell spread of the HTLV-1 is not fully understood...
1 / 299
ward at one o'clock. His thumb came in an hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together. The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of painstaking work in microsurgery...
3 / 879
Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell anemia is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Normal red blood cells are round like doughnuts, and they move through small blood tubes to deliver oxygen to the body...
2 / 303
Sickle Cell Disease
While sickle hemoglobin and normal hemoglobin carry the same amount of oxygen, two major differences exist between the two kinds of cells. First, they differ in the way they flow through the blood vessels...
2 / 557
Wood shop problem solving
The first step you would usually take would be cutting your wood to length. Not using the table saw for this would be difficult, but can be done with the use of the portable circular saw...
1 / 252 | https://manyessays.com/essay/microbiology | dclm-gs1-159741087 |
0.051599 | <urn:uuid:9d24d253-c319-4ad6-b482-dba7df7ed93d> | en | 0.964613 | Friday, April 22, 2016
Earth Day is Lenin’s Birthday
Today is Lenin’s birthday aka Earth Day. This is not a coincidence. Vaclav Klaus, former president of the Czech Republic, states it very clearly: “I see the current danger in environmentalism and especially in its strongest version, climate alarmism. My deep frustration has been exponentially growing in recent years by witnessing the fact that almost everything has already been said, that all rational arguments have been used, and that global-warming alarmism is still marching on…The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century is no longer socialism…It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.”
“In the past 150 years(at least since Marx), the socialists have been very effectively destroying human freedom under humane and compassionate slogans, such as caring for man, ensuring social equity, and fostering social welfare. The environmentalists are doing the same under equally noble-minded slogans, expressing concern about nature more than people. In both cases, the slogans have been (and still are) just a smokescreen. In both cases, the movements were (and are) completely about power, about the hegemony of the ‘chosen ones’ (as they see themselves) over the rest of us, about the imposition of the only correct worldview (their own), about the remodeling of the world.”
You need to understand your enemy to defeat them. Happy Lenin’s birthday!
Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett
1. Today is also the birthday of Immanuel Kant, who along with such thinkers as Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, was one of the major contributors to the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment figures prominently in the formation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, due the active interest in it by Franklin and Jefferson.
Your linking of Lenin and Earth Day is not new. Actually, Senator Gaylord Nelson picked the day back in 1970 so it would not conflict with college exams or spring breaks. He considered any day during the week of April 19-25 of that year to be fine, and the 22nd was chosen. It strains credulity that Lenin’s birthday would have been even thought of. But it works for conspiracists.
Vaclav Klaus is a vocal global warming skeptic. During his presidency he vetoed the Anti-Discrimination Law, as well as the bill that implemented the EU’s chemicals policy. After his presidency, he was kicked out of the Cato Institute because of his open hostility to homosexuality and support of far-right parties in Europe.
2. There is significant evidence that Lenin’s birthday was chosen for earthday, but I really have better things to do that do your homework for you. As for your labeling this truth as conspiratorial, that’s simply a smear tactic on your part. Global warming is a total fraud and I applaud everyone who speaks out against it.
3. The most salient thing about your response is that you refused to respond to Klaus's valid comments about the true nature of the environmental movement but instead just decided to discredit him instead. | https://markbennett1.blogspot.com/2016/04/earth-day-is-lenins-birthday.html | dclm-gs1-159751087 |
0.028883 | <urn:uuid:c76e0b59-bcdf-4c26-b1dc-b45eee9e82a3> | en | 0.896665 | Troubleshooting 21025 events – Part 1 evidence
I’m still struggling with what I consider abnormal CPU usage for my agents and RMS, I found out I’m not alone (is-your-rms-updating-configuration-too-frequently.aspx) so I think it’s time to share what I discovered from my investigations in OpsMgr 2007 R2 RTM code. This first post will focus on 21025 events we talked about them in the past (Class properties that get updated frequently is a WORST PRACTICE not only for RMS) and recently (How to get noisy discovery rules). A word of caution the following are my observations, I don’t have access to the source code nor to debugging symbols, even if I double checked every sentence I can be wrong and surely I cannot cover every possible scenario. So what are OpsMgr Connector 21025 events?
– Daniele
21025 events are logged every time the HealthService needs to update its configuration, possible causes:
1. a new MP is imported and has workflows that target one of the instances discovered on the HealthService
2. an override has been defined on a workflow that targets one of the *classes* discovered on the HealthService
3. a new instance has been discovered or an already discovered property changes its value (it takes about 50” after the config change to have a 21024 event see below)
4. other, I’m still investigating 21025 causes on the RMS that seems not to be related to one of the above causes
With instance I mean a specific discovered object, say Logical Disk C:. With class I mean a generic object type, say Logical Disk. So from the above causes we can infer, among the others, that:
1. If I import a new MP with discovery workflows targeted to Windows.Computer all my agents will get this and fire a 21025 *even if* the discovery rules are disabled. We can assume every agent has a Windows.Computer instance in its config space.
2. If I enable a discovery rule for one of my Windows.Computer (a specific instance) never the less all the Windows.Computer will get the override and fire a 21025
** room for optimizations Marius :-) **
Remember RMS “hosts” non hosted classes and watchers so any change to those will fire a 21025 on the RMS, but this is just a particular case of cause 3.
With R2 I had no evidence that a changed discovered property on a single agent, nor a new object instance discovered, would cause a 21025 on the RMS. I run a complete test suite on the topic that lead me to the above conclusions, and *never* a changed property or a newly discovered *hosted* instance has caused a 21025 on the RMS. Once again I don’t pretend to have covered every single scenario.
But why are 21025 bad? As Steve addresses in its blog post 21025 have the bad habits of taxing CPU. From my observations 21025 on agents can be of different types in terms of resource utilization:
1. 21025 caused by a new MP or Override that loads just the affected MP (since these load just one or a few MPs they’re not loading the system, obviously if do not import and override every minute)
2. 21025 caused by a new instance or a property change, in R2 these reload the config without reparsing the MPs, they just update the OpsMgrConnector.Config file (once again very low impact, obviously if your discovery is not running every minute)
3. 21025 caused by ??(@!@@!*!), these reparse a lot of MPs causing prolonged CPU spikes, single core machines or old one are especially affected by these
With MP reparsing I’m referring to the process of reparsing and reloading MPs from the local cache (%programfiles%\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State\Management Packs).
21025 on the RMS are worse, in addition to the above they fire an internal task towards all agents involved in distributed roll up monitors for which the RMS thinks it hasn’t up to date state. This internal task will not log a 21025 event on the agents, but will cause a complete MP cache reload. This behavior has been introduced by KB 958490 (Patching blues – QFE 958490 pumps up HealthService CPU Usage on agents) and confirmed with some notable fixing in R2 (with R2 it hasn’t the bad and diffuse effect described in my post). So if, for any reason, you have agents that are not able to calculate a state involved in a distributed workflow, they are impacted at every 21025 on the RMS. I have 10 of these on about 300 agents deployed.
My investigation still misses a key part, the extra causes (cause 4) for 21025 on RMS, I’m working on it with the invaluable help of the product team (that still keeps too many secrets :-)) and I’ll keep you up to date on any development and hopefully with a complete list of causes and fixes. If anyone is reading and has more info to add I’m here to listen. :-)
Finally I want to document the expected sequence of events that lead to a 21025 on the agent side:
1. 21024 event asking for up to date config to the MS
2. 21025 event if the agent is not up to date, 21026 if it is up to date (and here we stop)
3. a 7023, 7025, 7024, 7028 events sequence for every management group (typically just one but possibly up to 4) These are related to runas accounts
4. if the config change involves new MPs then we have a 1200 followed by one 1201 for every MP downloaded
5. finally we have a 1210 that states that the new configuration has been loaded
Watch out for 21025 not followed by 1210 this can indicate corrupted configuration has been downloaded.
This is all for this first post, stay tuned for more info on the topic.
– Daniele
1. Troubleshooting 21025 events – part 2 the RMS case « Quaue Nocent Docent
2. Troubleshooting 21025 events – wrap up « Quaue Nocent Docent
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s
%d bloggers like this: | https://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/troubleshooting-21025-events-part-1-evidence/ | dclm-gs1-159851087 |
0.044075 | <urn:uuid:71bfc51d-5846-4fd7-9a8a-f1de4c8daba1> | en | 0.94815 | Scots `leid` debate on both sides of the `sheugh`
In this week of Burns, the debate over whether Scots is a language or a dialect continues both in Ulster and in Scotland. A recent study by The Scottish Government shows that whilst 85% of Scots admit to using `Scots`, two thirds do not think of it as a language. Whilst a majority want to see it taught is schools.
Update: Belfast Tele piece by Laurence White says `Pretend language is a waste of time and public money`
The minority Scottish Nationalist Party Government in its pre-election manifesto made a commitment to “promote awareness and use of the Scots language in a variety of settings.” And according to the Public attitude towards the Scots language document: “More recently, at the Scots Language Conference, held at the University of Stirling in February 2009, the Minister for Culture and External Affairs asserted that Scots is a national language of Scotland, and that it is definitely ‘good for the nation’. It was also indicated that the Scottish Government was ready to do what it could to encourage, enable and endorse the use of the language.”
In contrast the Scottish Tories culture spokesman Ted Brocklebank said: “It is no surprise that 64 per cent of the Scottish public do not believe that Scots is a language. This is because we already have a Scots language – it is called Gaelic.
“The Scots language that the SNP government continues to try to promote is not a separate language, but a collection of regional dialects of the English language. The SNP must stop wasting taxpayers’ money trying to invent something that doesn’t exist, in a futile attempt to promote the narrow Nationalist agenda.”
Culture minister Fiona Hyslop responded with: “This research shows clearly that Scots is a living language, playing an important role in the majority of Scots’ daily lives, as well as being a vital tool in connecting with and understanding Scotland’s history.”
The Scots Language Working Group will make recommendations to ministers in the summer regarding Scots Language provision.
…..Rabbie Burns in Scotland and in Ulster.
To A Mouse (explanation and audio here)
By Robert Burns
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ wast,
An’ weary Winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.
That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald.
To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
• Scots language is not Gaelic as the source of each is quite different. I have heard it said in Scotland that Ulster Scots is a dialect of Scots, Scots with an Ulster accent? Could make an argument that Scots/Ulster Scots is a vernacular, a spoken language: bit like high German (written) and the spoken word or what we would know as Queen’s English (formal) and english as spoken in all its ways. A vernacular is no less a language for being spoken only.
• Drumlins Rock
Surely Scots “Gallic” is just a dialect of Irish Gaelic? 🙂 which is a branch of the Celtic Language along with Welsh etc. and has a relationship with European Romance languages.
And English, Scots, and Ulster Scots are dialects of Anglo Saxon, the Scots being closer to the original than Englih btw. which are Germanic, but all ultimately are Indo-European, so all are essentially the same language, right?
dotn think so, so the question is where you draw that line, I think historically Scots has been distinct enough from English to be called a language, even if it had become mongrelised to an extent in recent years.
As for Ulster Scots and Scots Gaelic, both could easily be called Scots and Gaelic but the geographical divide allows them to use the local prefixes just like you have American English, its obiviously English but obiviously a wee bit different.
• Before the Protestant Reformation, Scots Gaelic was called ‘Scottis’. What is being referred to as ‘Scots’ was then called ‘Inglis’. ‘Scottis’ became ‘Erse’ or ‘Irish’ to innovatively disassociate Scottish nationality with those ‘savage’ ‘popish’ Highlanders.
• Nordie Northsider
So could an improvers course in Gaidhlig be called ‘Brush Up Your Erse’?
• Drumlins Rock
Bit ironic then Shane that Gaelic is strongest in the strict Covenanting Presbyterian traditions.
what do you call that group trying to promote ties between scottish and Irish Gaelic?
• Colmcille, I think it is you are referring to:
Scottish Gaeldom encompasses significant numbers from both the Catholic and Protestant communities. There is none of the same animosity between Highland Catholics and Protestants as there is in Glasgow (largely because there is no difference in ethnic origin); for example, the staunchly Presbyterian and Calvinist majority of the Western Isles returned a Catholic MP, Angus Brendan MacNeil from the island of Barra [Barra, South Uist and Moidart are Catholic].
Protestantism made inroads since the 16th century. The vast majority of those targeted during the Highland Clearances were Catholic.
The Catholic Encyclopedia states:
“It is singular that the state Church of Scotland, whose own religious spirit was at so generally low an ebb during the greater part of the eighteenth century, should nevertheless have during that period made more or less persistent efforts to uproot the last vestiges of the ancient Faith in the northern parts of the kingdom, many of which had remained absolutely unaffected by the Reformation. It was in 1725 that the yearly gift called the Royal Bounty, still bestowed annually by the Sovereign, was first forthcoming, with the express object of Protestantizing the still Catholic districts of the Highlands. Schools were set up, Gaelic teachers and catechists instituted, copies of the Protestant Bible, translated into Gaelic, widely disseminated, and every effort made to win over to the Presbyterian tenets the poor people who still clung to the immemorial faith and practices of their fathers. Want of means prevented as much being done in this direction as was desired and intended; and for that reason, as well as owing to the unexpected reluctance of the Catholic Highlanders to exchange their ancient beliefs for the new evangel of the Kirk, the efforts of the proselytizers were only very partially successful, the inhabitants of several of the western islands, and of many isolated glens andstraths in the western portion of the Highland mainland still persisting in their firm attachment to the old religion.” | https://sluggerotoole.com/2010/01/26/scots-leid-debate-on-both-sides-of-the-sheugh/ | dclm-gs1-160051087 |
0.169388 | <urn:uuid:7aeb2840-3fb9-412e-91bb-d517e94a3f8b> | en | 0.989969 | Maths outdoor learning: Decimals
11/01/18. Today we went outside to do our maths learning. We had a certain items which were worth different amounts e.g. leaves were worth 0.10 (tenths), sticks were worth 0.01(hundredths), and stones were worth 1.00(ones). There were 4 question e.g. What do need to add to 6.29 to get 8? The answer would be 1.71 so in leaves, stones, and sticks it would be 1 stick, 7 leaves, and 1 stone. I enjoyed this maths lesson as there was no writing and it was outdoors.
Leave a Reply
Your email address will not be published. | https://stannesschoolblogs.org.uk/mrsnicolaou2018/2018/01/11/maths-outdoor-learning-decimals/ | dclm-gs1-160071087 |
0.093725 | <urn:uuid:54dc1bee-92f0-4b7c-ab6c-f4ba5361efe7> | en | 0.945847 | Once a Year Tradition
— For the past 3 years
Lovely ironwork
I never plan to visit the nearby cemetery but for some reason, I always end up visiting each year. There's so much decorative iron work, vintage patterns and fonts. Also, the plants growing on crumbling mausoleums are a sight to see. The cemeteries on Bergmannstraße are full of 19th century tombs.
A crumbling corner
This red mausoleum above was in the least flattering corner. For some reason there was a clearing--it's a pretty packed cemetery so I wondered how the patch of space opened up. Did they remove the tombs?
Black and orange
I wonder what happens to details like this patch of tiles in a crumbling structure. What do they do when they want to get rid of it? Or the iron door? Some things seem too nice to discard but it seems that they might be making effort to maintain the space and make room.
A window for air?
There's a surprising amount of variety in the details.
Too High
Maintaining a false reality
Palazzo del Grillo
A peachy corner
back to home | https://tforia.com/journal/once-a-year-tradition/ | dclm-gs1-160111087 |
0.037526 | <urn:uuid:0895edaf-29fe-445e-974c-991dfde2f073> | en | 0.977111 | “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
I was praying about a situation where I was going to have to speak with someone about an important matter, asking the Holy Spirit to help me with the words I needed to say.
A thought began to form in my brain, one I was surprised hadn’t been there before: I need all the words I say to be but there by the Lord.
Not just when I have an important conversation on the horizon. Not just when someone is coming against me and I need to respond. Not just when I’m conscious of what comes out of my mouth. All the words, all the time.
How much of a difference would I make in the relationships around me if I only spoke things that God was pleased with? How different would the world be if we all made that commitment?
Lord, all my words, all the time – may it all be pleasing to you! | https://tinroofsky.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/all-my-words-all-the-time/ | dclm-gs1-160171087 |
0.028931 | <urn:uuid:1903c88e-2c51-4909-ad98-29236a3ecfa0> | en | 0.874772 | This slideshow requires JavaScript.
bonjour ħbieb!
I received my second ever received card from Malta! Yay! Thank you so much Chris ♥
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km south of Italy, 284 km east of Tunisia, and 333 km north of Libya. The country covers just over 316 km2, with a population of just under 450,000, making it one of the world’s smallest and most densely populated countries. The capital of Malta is Valletta, which at 0.8 km2, is the smallest national capital in the European Union. Malta has two official languages: Maltese and English.
Did you know?
Maltese fishing boats are painted in bright colours. Also painted on them are a pair of eyes on each side at the front, a tradition which goes back to ancient Phoenician times. These are the Eyes of Osiris which are said to protect the fishing boats from evil spirits.
I send love!
One response to “Malta
1. The information you provided about Postcard is really very important. And people are curious to know such valuable information.
Thank you so much for this information
Leave a Reply
You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change )
Twitter picture
Facebook photo
Google+ photo
Connecting to %s | https://vanessaspostcards.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/malta/ | dclm-gs1-160211087 |
0.035521 | <urn:uuid:6d343439-0c4e-4edc-995b-a2be734e96a0> | en | 0.953967 | Thursday, September 12, 2013
Book of Stamps--By Cindy Evans--United States
Book of Stamps
With a book of stamps you can
do many thoughtful things;
with creativity and caring,
many blessings you can bring!
You can send a card
to a patient so they'll feel better.
You can reach a prisoner
just by dashing off a letter!
You can help a hurting heart
by penning a kind note
or congratulate someone's work;
they'll be glad you wrote!
There are birthdays to celebrate,
a new home to acknowledge,
and wishes of good luck
for a student off to college!
So many reasons to mail some mail,
so many lives to touch--
so buy some stamps and send some love.
You can never send too much!
Cindy Evans is a published poet living in the sunny south. When she's not writing, she does office work for Christian companies, spends time with her husband, Mark, goes walking and visits grand openings!
1. Hi Cindy. What a beautiful and artistic poem. You are certainly right, a book of stamps can do a lot. Thanks for reminding us to take some time to think about someone else. I also want to thank you for your continued support of Creative Inspirations; it is greatly appreciated.
2. Hi Cindy, I love this verse as we never give much thought to the power of stamps. Indeed, they do all the things you outlined so well. Very nice! Carolyn Devonshire
3. Cindy, a very inspiring poem. My grandson who is on a mission for our church, said he would rather get a letter snail mail than an e-mail. He feels it is more personal. Thank you for the confirmation that a stamp is really a stamp of love to many.
4. Thank you, Christine Tate, for the following comment--
Hi Cindy, you've conveyed an awesome message in your poem. Blessing others with a humble attitude brings rewards that God alone provides; they transcend our finite minds. Loved your poem. People need to be remembered! Thanks for the reminder. God Bless .
5. Almost every day my mailbox is filled with junk and then on other days, my bills to be paid by the first of the month. I think sending cards and letter is a thing of the past. It is too bad for a simple card or letter can say so much to the receiver. Great poetry full of truth...
Rhoda Galgiani | https://whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-of-stamps-by-cindy-evans-united.html | dclm-gs1-160251087 |
0.069383 | <urn:uuid:22125f0e-5b5e-4005-b982-c36d15630cb3> | en | 0.979544 | Hundreds of dead fish found in Goodyear canal
GOODYEAR, AZ - There's something "fishy" going on in a Goodyear neighborhood, and residents say they're sick of it.
Sick of the smell and stench caused by hundreds of dead fish, some still dying in a Roosevelt irrigation district canal that runs through their backyard.
Gary Bruyns, who lives in the Rio Paseo neighborhood off I-10 and Estrella Parkway, said it happens once or twice a year, when officials drain the canal for repair and maintenance work.
Hundreds of fish ended up dying along parts of the 80-mile long canal system, run by the Roosevelt Irrigation district.
"It smells like a fish market down there. We rescued as many as we could. Put them in a pond nearby, and now Liberty Wildlife is out here taking fish to feed wildlife," said Bruyns.
Several volunteers with Liberty Wildlife, a rescue and rehab agency, were armed with nets trying to catch as many catfish as they could.
"We will freeze them, and they will become food for the eagles. It's better than them just dying out here and rotting," said Moe Slaughter with the rescue group.
Steve Hansen said he was shocked when he stumbled upon the sight in the canal as he went out to take nature photos this week. It was the last thing he expected to see.
"It was crazy. I couldn't believe there was that many fish fighting for air. How do you describe death? It's just's sad," said Hansen.
Concerned residents questioned why the irrigation district could not herd the fish to a safer location before starting the project. Some residents pointed out companies like the Salt River Project, who were able to perform similar maintenance projects while still saving many of the fish.
We took that question to Donovan Neese, Superintendent of the Roosevelt Irrigation District.
He explained that they had attempted to herd the fish in the past, but it had not worked.
"I know SRP has got a similar system, but they usually herd them into another canal. Since this is our only canal that wouldn't work for us," said Neese.
He says they re-stock the canal with 70,000 fish every year.
"They keep the moss, the weeds, and algae down. We used to use chemicals, but the fish do a much better job and are significantly cheaper for the district," said Neese.
Neese said the canal system delivers 130,000 acre-feet of water to local farmers every year. The maintenance work they did lasted two weeks and was necessary to keep the canal walls sturdy, seal the cracks that could damage access roads if not repaired and also cause leaks.
He added that most of the fish typically herded themselves away during the process, and acknowledged there would be some casualties.
"This is the most environmentally friendly way that we can keep the bugs and the plants down. We are doing the best that we can do to maintain our canal system, and also keep the plants and bugs down," said Neese.
Concerned residents; however, felt there were too many casualties associated with the project.
"They have no regard for killing them. It's just sad," said Slaughter.
"To me, it just seems wasteful and shameful. Apparently, they stock the fish in the canals, and then once a year drain them and kill them. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense," said Bruyns.
ABC15 observed several people fishing in the canal for food.
District officials said they would not recommend eating the fish from the canal.
They also advised it was dangerous to be around the canal area, and pointed out they had signs stating "no trespassing", and warning people not to fish in the canal.
Print this article Back to Top
Your Region News | https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/goodyear/hundreds-of-dead-fish-found-in-goodyear-canal | dclm-gs1-160291087 |
0.440401 | <urn:uuid:6afea455-28ba-4113-bee1-96446a346902> | en | 0.988243 | You've got family at Ancestry.
Find more Churchich relatives and grow your tree by exploring billions of historical records. Taken every decade since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can tell you a lot about your family. For example, from 1930 to 1940 there were 4 more people named Churchich in the United States — and some of them are likely related to you.
Start a tree and connect with your family.
Create, build, and explore your family tree.
What if you had a window into the history of your family? With historical records, you do. From home life to career, records help bring your relatives' experiences into focus. There were 17 people named Churchich in the 1930 U.S. Census. In 1940, there were 24% more people named Churchich in the United States. What was life like for them?
Picture the past for your ancestors.
In 1940, 21 people named Churchich were living in the United States. In a snapshot:
• 5 were children
• The typical household was 2 people
• 24% were children
• 2 women had paying jobs
Learn where they came from and where they went.
As Churchich families continued to grow, they left more tracks on the map:
• They most commonly lived in Illinois
• 1 migrated within the United States from 1935 to 1940
• Most immigrants originated from Yugoslavia
• 9 were first-generation Americans | https://www.ancestry.com/family-trees/churchich | dclm-gs1-160321087 |
0.089799 | <urn:uuid:f13b3f42-3e36-45fb-b7e0-b93338458ab1> | en | 0.95024 | Race Spotter
Notify race car drivers of hazards and dangerous situations on the track.
What does a Race Spotter do?
Drivers racing around the track at breakneck speed often can’t see farther than the tailpipe of the car in front of them. That means they may not be able to see the hazards that lie ahead. Debris, wrecks, and car clusters can all turn into major accidents, and Drivers must be forewarned in order to stay safe and win. As a Race Spotter, you sit high above the track and notify the Driver of hazards.
The Race Spotter has a contract with one Driver, and typically speaks only to that Driver during the course of a race. When the race begins, the Race Spotter follows the cars as they move forward while keeping comments to themselves. The Driver doesn’t want a running commentary. Instead, they want clear direction when something’s wrong and they should change course.
If a wreck occurs or if there’s debris on the course, you immediately notify the Driver and suggest lane changes or other maneuvers. If your Driver is riding in a pack and you see a gap in that pack, you tell the Driver where the gap is and suggest a lane change.
Sometimes, Drivers work together in a race to conserve engine power. One Driver may push another, and then the two may switch positions. When this happens, you may work with two Drivers at once, coordinating the pushes and the switches.
Watching a race unfold can be hypnotic, but you remain focused on your Driver. The more races they win, the more fame and fortune you may gain. Keeping your Driver safe and helping them cross the line first is your main goal, each and every time. | https://www.careermatch.com/job-prep/career-insights/profiles/race-spotter/ | dclm-gs1-160421087 |
0.020693 | <urn:uuid:8ac97110-5e3b-4ba9-a5a4-6d355e5f4af7> | en | 0.938587 | Subscribe / Unsubscribe Enewsletters | Login | Register
Pencil Banner
How to get a brand new iPhone 5c for less than US$1
Bill Snyder | Aug. 25, 2014
Apple is about to unveil a new iPhone, and retailers are clearing the shelves. As a result, last year's iPhones have never been cheaper.
Here's a deal that's NOT too good to be true: Walmart is selling Apple's iPhone 5c for less than one dollar 97 cents, to be exact. No other retailer has matched that price, but other major chains are also offering very good deals on the colorful phones.
If you don't mind being a step or two behind Apple's innovation machine, this is a great time to buy the 5c or the more expensive (but also discounted) iPhone 5s. There is a catch, of course. The deal requires you to sign a two-year contract with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or U.S. Cellular. (T-Mobile customers are out of luck.)
You don't need an MBA to understand what's going on here. It's quite likely that Apple will launch its next generation smartphone let's call it the "iPhone 6" in September, so retailers are moving fast to clear old inventory. "Old" is, of course, is a relative term, and we're talking about the iPhone 5c, which was released last September.
Despite the upcoming launch, Apple's prices are still rather high: The 16GB version of the iPhone 5c is $99; the iPhone 5s is $199. Both require a contract with a wireless carrier.
Here are the details on deals at Walmart, Target and Best Buy.
At Walmart, the 16GB iPhone 5c is available in all colors for just 97 cents. The iPhone 5s sells for $79, a price cut of $20. These deals are not available online; you've got to go to a Walmart store. The company says supplies are limited, so I wouldn't wait too long.
At Target, the 16GB iPhone 5c sells for $29.99, and like Walmart, Target says you must buy it in the store. You also need to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T, Sprint or Verizon. The iPhone 5s sells for $99.99.
Best Buy is selling the iPhone 5c for $49.99 but only for use on Sprint's network. If you want to use AT&T or Verizon, the 16GB iPhone 5c costs $99.99.
Sign up for CIO Asia eNewsletters. | https://www.cio-asia.com/tech/emerging-technology/how-to-get-a-brand-new-iphone-5c-for-less-than-us1/ | dclm-gs1-160481087 |
0.724781 | <urn:uuid:71996b9f-c009-4606-b545-961465b0e119> | en | 0.943229 | What are the benefits of muscular fitness?
Expert Answers
readerofbooks eNotes educator| Certified Educator
There are several physical and social benefits of muscular fitness. I will name a few of them.
First, muscular fitness is beneficial from a strength perspective. Muscles enable a person to perform better in any task that requires the use of strength. This can help with sport, but also a number of daily activities.
Second, musclar fitness can help with the prevention of injury and even some chronic health problems. For example, a weak core can lead to lower back pain. and
Third, muscular fitness can also be helpful in the area of self-esteem. When you look and feel better, you tend to be more social and outgoing. This is an important point, because we are all social beings. | https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-benefits-muscular-fitness-298498 | dclm-gs1-160521087 |
0.054424 | <urn:uuid:62415581-7d01-46a9-ad8a-45b0bbb1aa91> | en | 0.857526 | Just the tonic...
CORNS are a common culprits of high heels and ill-fitting shoes. The reusable Scholl 2 in Corn Express Pen (£9.99) removes the top layer of thickened skin and breaks down the corn in just six days. Stockists: pharmacies, major retailers and www.shcoll.co.uk
Scholl 2 in 1 Corn Express Pen Scholl 2 in 1 Corn Express Pen []
SEAWEED is low in saturated fat and cholesterol and rich in vitamins, nutrients, minerals and dietary fibre. Itsu Crispy Seaweed Thins (£19.80 for 18 packs of 12) are only 32 calories making them a perfect healthy snack.
Stockists: Itsu outlets and www.metcalfesfood.com
ACHING joints and muscle pain can restrict mobility and quality of life. Fast-absorbing Voltarol Active 4% Cutaneous Spray (£8.99 (xmls) contains diclofenac sodium which reduces inflammation and relieves discomfort.
Stockists: pharmacies nationwide | https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/320141/Just-the-tonic | dclm-gs1-160551087 |
0.060823 | <urn:uuid:1cadcb58-f02c-48c0-b8b9-f48967986cdb> | en | 0.991507 | My guy and I have been dating for over a year and still have not had sex he says it feels like it's the first time and is nervice Need some info plz?
my guy says it feels like its the first time he is going to have sex and is nervous and feels like it will change our relationship somehow and we have been dating for over a year. And he says he wants it so need some help guys on what you think
just to let everybody know he has had sex before he has a child so it's not a matter of him being a virgin he just feels like it's the first time and is scared or nervous about it like it's going to change our relationship
Most Helpful Girl
• It will change a lot he may get attached to you more but it just shows how respectful he is of himself and with you not saying if you have sex u loose self respect just saying its sweet how he waited until he found someone who made him happy and i just hope u will be understanding of him being attached to you sounds like you found a great guy and things are going good just before you guys do it do something that makes him feel comfortable and have fun so he's relaxed when you guys do have sex don't make it to intimate but start out fun and ending up romantic
• I understand all that but he is not a virgin its not his first time around the field if you know what I mean
• oh i gotcha is he afraid he's gonna loose you and get hurt like the first time he had sex he must of been cheated on or the girl left and he may have already gotten attached to u and feel like having sex would ruin something going good again
Have an opinion?
What Guys Said 2
• Horny should overpower nervous any time.
Just do all the hug, cuddly, kissy stuff until he gets horny. Put your hand in his pants if that helps.
If that doesn't work, he's probably got zero sex drive.
• Sounds like it probably really is his first time. You should take charge and seduce him. Handcuffs work, or maybe use his neckties. Don't force him to do anything he's really certain he doesn't want to do, but tie him up and tease him erotically for hours until he's like a caged animal and can't stop himself. Go crazy on him. Don't stop with a strip tease. Tongue tease his earlobes while you whisper dirty in his ear. Rub your panties in his face. And your breasts. And for that matter rub everything else in his face too. Sit on his chest and masturbate, really get off and be obnoxious about it when you cum. Just be clear to him you are having a really wonderful time, wouldn't it feel nice if he gave in got in?
Don't give too much away too soon, tell him when you're tying him up that it's for a "psychology experiment" and don't hint it's sexual until he's well and truly trapped.
If he doesn't beg you to take his cherry after all that then I'm sorry to say he's probably gay.
• the thing is is that he is not a virgin he does have a child she just says it feels like its the first time and he is scared it's going to change our relationship he is scared to make a move
What Girls Said 0
Loading... ; | https://www.girlsaskguys.com/dating/q1116934-my-guy-i-have-been-dating-for-over-a-year-still-have-not-had-sex-he | dclm-gs1-160601087 |
0.061429 | <urn:uuid:cb5aec5e-42e4-453c-bca1-0d6afaa93f6a> | en | 0.856436 | • Claim This Profile!
When you register, you can:
• List your specialties
• Respond to reviews
• Create special offers
Sharif Niles R Attorney At Law
1 star rating 1 Review
(619) 463-9111 Call
Write a Review Write a Review
9001 Grossmont Blvdla Mesa, CA 91941
• Sharif Niles R Attorney At Law - la Mesa, CA - shgadeliq
Reviews: 11
Find someone else
shgadeliq (11 reviews)
Mr. Sharif represented me in an insurance matter. He allowed the insurance company to threaten and bully me and my husband. He overcharged us. He basically did nothing to earn one dime. I would have been better going in to the deposition alone.
More »
Was this review helpful?
(0) (0)
Business details | https://www.kudzu.com/m/Sharif-Niles-R-Attorney-At-Law-1031415 | dclm-gs1-160661087 |
0.04717 | <urn:uuid:d1505a76-964d-49f6-bdcc-985d22875952> | en | 0.83074 | Movie Ticket by Piotr Kwiatkowski
Looking at examples of different user interface patterns could give us the ideas we need to design something amazing. If you're designing a mobile app UI for
Google Material Design: Contacts / ?
Google Material Design Photos
Hamburger menu became a standard for Android mobile apps and website built with Material Design.This material design concept shows alternative hamburger menu behavior. | https://www.pinterest.co.kr/newschool51/ios/ | dclm-gs1-160761087 |
0.050663 | <urn:uuid:fb55b075-d4ea-459a-abd7-fd584683e4dd> | en | 0.870097 | Reset Password
- Valentine 8m
- Malakai 30s
- arm0r3r 7m
- SpaceLatency 13m
- geoux 25m
- Atheran 32s
- Ghostinthekeys 1m
- Revex 2s
- SolBro 8s
- Brotox 6m
- Malanth 40m
- Manywaters 2s youtu.be/HUxB4d_8ETM
c Butako 48m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4GrDOOIIbk
- Rangerkrauser 29s youtu.be/d5axbaGBVto
- Vivvykins 34m
- Espi 48m
- Melpothalia 50m That's Mrs. Broken Brain [Bottom Text] to you!
- Storm 3s
- Baron17 34s
- Vera 19s https://twitter.com/dril/status/218160412510785536
- Napoleon 1m Bad bish is bad.
- Marioanius 23s Hamilton wrote, the other 51!
- waddlerafter 3s
- attaboy 16s
- pfh 1h
- Neekly 1h youtu.be/-mPw174m0VE
- Speccy 2m
- batko 8s
- ephesian 45s
- jsmith225 3h
- thecraftydragon 38s Grab a towel & coconuts for your horse. We're off!
a Cerberus 33s Head Builder & GM when I need to
- DiamondNine 12s
- Hippo 30s
- vantablack 5m
- PriceCheck 13m
- crashdown 11m
- Ephemeralis 31m
- ComradeNitro 28s
- Cyberpunker 1h
- Malestrom 1h
j Johnny 1d New Code Written Nightly. Not a GM.
And 18 more hiding and/or disguised
Connect to Sindome @ moo.sindome.org:5555 or just Play Now
Put onesies on bottom clothing layer
Layering suggestion
Hello, this is a suggestion for the onesie clothing articles. They're full-body suits, but if they're skintight then it could be possible to layer other clothing on top of them (flowy clothing articles, vests, jackets, etc). Right now this isn't the case, and even a tunic sort of item will not fit on top of it.
Is the onesie meant to be the final, top layer of clothing? If so, please disregard my request. Thank you!
Armoured items are designed to only allow other armour on top. Generally, layers work in order of thickness, with thickest on outside. In this way, you can't hide armour beneath plain clothes.
Because if this, armoured onesies can only be the base layer for armour configs.
I don't know about armored suits, but with the description for the EcoGear speaking of how thin it is, it seems odd that it is worn over clothing. My impression was that it was an under-layer article.
EcoGear is armour.
Actually, I tested this with some pants and it turns out the onesie wants me to wear them *under* the pants! It doesn't seem to want to be a final layer in some instances.
It could very well be to due materials used. Thickness is a major factor in layering.
Tailored clothing can layer over armor based on its name. Tailored jackets and coats will work just fine over even the heaviest gear.
You can also stack armor this way to a reasonable extent. There are some really interesting combinations available and a lot of common, easily accessible armor items no one really uses. | https://www.sindome.org/bgbb/game-discussion/ideas/put-onesies-on-bottom-clothing-layer-1314/ | dclm-gs1-160851087 |
0.019369 | <urn:uuid:f1dfa76c-592b-4b71-a049-8a0fcb9c6e65> | en | 0.936522 | Vista USB Safe Remove Problem
By destiny020386
Dec 23, 2009
1. I have a 250 GB trascend external storage that I use for remote daily DB backups. I need to take the device every evening when going home. Every time I use safe remove, Vista is saying that the device can be safely removed, but the LED indicator in the device is still ON. I tried it in XP SP3 and the LED indicator will turn OFF if i use safe remove. is this a bug in Vista? hofix?
2. yangly18
yangly18 TS Rookie Posts: 217
Is this LED used to tell you that it's not alright to disconnect? I have one with an LED on it, and it just means it is plugged into the computer. Taking it out after doing a safe remove will not damage it.
It could just be that vista tells USB port to keep supplying power to it even when it has been safe removed. But that is just power, not an actual connection.
Topic Status:
Not open for further replies.
Similar Topics
Add your comment to this article
TechSpot Account You may also... | https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/vista-usb-safe-remove-problem.140122/ | dclm-gs1-160881087 |
0.350842 | <urn:uuid:e70193e1-6315-4026-8f32-c22509c6903b> | en | 0.98498 | x Abu Dhabi, UAETuesday 16 January 2018
Delivering on doulas
Katie Boucher takes a look at what exactly a doula can offer expectant mothers, and it's much more than you may think.
Doula Natalie, left, conducts a pre-natal session with two of her clients in their Abu Dhabi home. Ravindranath K / The National
There was a time when doulas were associated with giving birth in a yurt to the sound of tinkling wind chimes. No longer. Having the support of a doula through pregnancy and birth is now an increasingly popular choice for women, particularly those living far away from family and friends. We look at how doulas can help and what that could mean for your birth.
What is a doula?
Though they are not medical professionals, doulas are mothers who have undergone training to emotionally assist pregnant women during and after pregnancy and birth, as well as give them tools to help cope with labour. A study in the US showed that the rate of caesarean sections could be cut by half if more women used doulas.
Building confidence so that parents are able to make informed choices about the birth is a key part of her service, says Natalie Wells, a doula based in Abu Dhabi.
"It's important to prepare couples for every eventuality and not to shy away from any fears," she says. "Labour and birth can be full of surprises and don't always go the way we hoped or planned."
Wells also teaches women skills to help deal with the pain of birth. "The practices I teach give them the confidence that they are not powerless," she says, "but have tools to use to help them get through each contraction, one at a time."
"It's just being there for them," says Lisa Barfoot-Smith, a doula and mother of four who lives in Abu Dhabi. "We've been through the birth they want beforehand and that's the birth we'll try to get. Obviously we're not medical professionals and we can't give medical advice but what we can say is don't rush into something, think about your options."
Who needs a doula?
Being a first-time mother and relatively new to the Middle East were two of the reasons Eve Mumford used a doula for the birth of her son Oscar, now seven weeks old.
"I didn't know anyone here who'd had babies," she says, "and being in a strange environment with a health service I didn't really understand was a bit nerve-racking.
"My mum works full-time and I wasn't able to bring her out for the birth so I felt it would be sensible to have another female there who had been through it before and who knew the system out here, who could be a supporter and advocate for us."
"I'd heard a few stories from other people where things didn't go quite right," says Caroline Porter, who lives in Abu Dhabi and had her daughter, Kaila, in December with Wells's help. " I thought that if I've got someone there who's been through the birth and knows what to expect then it would be a good idea and I could relax and my husband could relax during the birth."
How does a doula differ from a midwife?
Unlike midwives, doulas are not medically trained, and therefore cannot offer medical advice. "The midwife is there to do her job but she's normally got more than one person at a time to look after," says Barfoot-Smith. "If they're out of the room and you get a big contraction, it helps to have someone there apart from your husband."
"I was admitted to the Corniche [Hospital] with contractions at 11pm," says Porter. "They were getting faster and stronger but I wasn't far enough along to be admitted to the labour room and it was after visiting hours so my husband wasn't allowed to be with me. I was going through labour on my own, which wasn't what I wanted. I called Natalie and she came straight away and helped me do my hypnobirthing exercises."
Does having a doula mean forgoing pain relief during the birth?
"We do educate people about the pros and cons of different types of intervention," says Wells. "Epidurals can be amazing in certain situations - if the mother is really frightened or if the labour is very painful - but quite often they don't understand that there can be other knock-on effects.
"So, it's about giving parents all the information and letting them make their minds up - and then whatever they decide we will support.
"We're not there to push natural birth. It's about supporting the mother and her wishes."
How can a doula help after the birth?
Many doulas also provide post-natal support, which can be a lifeline for first-time mothers in a country where there is no such provision.
"There seems to be a real gap here," says Wells, "especially for first-time mums. They give birth, go home, go for their six-week check, but otherwise there is very little follow-up.
"Many first-time mothers might feel vulnerable with a newborn at home to look after and all the questions that arise and there not being anywhere else to go. So I offer that support as well - and if I can't help them, I'll point them in the right direction."
How do I find a doula?
Natalie Wells (in Abu Dhabi): 050 580 8134
Lisa Barfoot-Smith (in Abu Dhabi): 050 909 5416
Louise Stern (in Abu Dhabi): 050 263 7314 | https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/wellbeing/delivering-on-doulas-1.579552 | dclm-gs1-160901087 |
0.152751 | <urn:uuid:82105b1e-e6f8-4182-aaf1-0efdcbda3562> | en | 0.960982 |
No Demographic Growth for Descendants of Slaves
The End of Marriage For Descendants of Slaves
No Marriage and Education Balance for Descendants of Slaves
No Marriage and Financial Stability for Descendants of Slaves
No Political Representation for Descendants of Slaves
No Habitat for Descendants of Slaves
[4] Pew Research Center, Survey, 2010
[7] California Research Bureau, California State Library
Head of the Black Church
1. Mutually exclusive poles in a mutually constitutive power anatomy
1. Dynamics of concerted exclusion of a frustrated populace
13. Defined mandates well respected 13. Perpetual mandate
Corporate Coup d’Etat of U.S. and Its Casualties, by Dr. Steven Nur Ahmed
Corporate Coup d'etat
The movement of capital in the form of manufacturing jobs and cash out of the United States to foreign countries, primarily to Asia, has lowered the quality of life for all blue collar workers and dimed the future prospects for college students in the United States. It is rapidly closing the door to economic opportunity for black people in particular.
New trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR between at least 20 nations and the United States within the last 20 years have resulted in the loss of millions of jobs to foreign nations because U.S. blue collar workers cannot compete with workers from countries willing to work for .60 cents per hour.
Now, another trade agreement called the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement or TPP threatens to usher in not only the loss of even more blue collar jobs, but even more highly skilled white collar professional and engineering jobs as well by outsourcing to Asian nations.
Urban history in the 20th and 21st centuries is replete with patterns of economic destabilization. Let me give to you an example of what the relocation of blue collar jobs has done to black workers who were dependent upon manufacturing jobs in one particular city.
Corporate coup d'etat 2
Let’s look at the city of Oakland, California between 1950 to the present. It can serve as a microcosm of what is happening and will happen to United States workers in general and to black people in particular.
In the 1940s through the 1970s, Oakland was a highly concentrated industrial city. To give you an example I will name some companies which were situated in close proximity to one another between 81St, 98th, and 105th Avenues in Oakland in the 1960s. First, there was Peter Paul Almond Joy Candy Company, 2) Sunshine Biscuit Company, 3) Mother’s Cookies Company, 3) Pepsi Cola Company, 4) Laura Scuuders Potato Chip Company, 5) Gerber’s Baby Food Company, 6) Granny Goose Potato Chip Company, 7) Nabisco Company, 8) General Mills Company, and 9) General Motors Company. These companies were central to the very robust Oakland economy. They provided not only jobs and stabilized families but they also provided a strong tax base for the city.
Each of those companies ran 3 shifts or 24 hour daily work shifts except Saturdays and Sundays. They employed thousands of unionized workers. The money from those companies not only flowed in the form of family income but also filtered down to Oakland public schools and recreational facilities for children. Those were just a handful of companies in the city of Oakland at that time. There were hundreds more like them each of which added value to a dynamic city economy. However, company location policies began to change in the 1970s.
Each of those companies slowly pulled out of Oakland over a span of 20 years. The industrial companies pulled out after over 100,000 white people fled Oakland between 1950 and 1960 in response to the influx of Black people. White flight cost the city of Oakland its middle and upper middle class tax base.
The military bases also slowly pulled out of Oakland after the end of the Vietnam War. The closure of military bases also cost the city of Oakland millions of dollars in annual revenue. Black people had been attracted to those jobs and had migrated from the southern States to Oakland seeking to economically benefit from factory and civilian military jobs in the city of Oakland. But in scarcely 25 years or one generation the original intent of black people and the economic hope which motivated them faded before their very eyes.
During that time period and up to 1975, the city of Oakland reached its peak economically. But the pattern then was as clear as it is today. The owners of private industry then did not want to give jobs to, work with, nor be around black people any less than today.
The economic effect on black people and Latinos because of the loss of such a high concentration of blue collar and civilian military jobs is correlated with the disintegration of public quality of life because of a: 1. shrinking tax base and the looting of public school budgets by some public school administrators in the city during and after the exodus of capital, 2.) an increase in black and Latino incarceration rates due to get tough on crime policies in the 1970s and the proliferation of narcotics, methamphetamine, and cocaine, 3.) an increase in AFDC and Food Stamp dependence which now stands at over 47 million Americans, 4.) The implosion of middle class shopping centers which is evidence of shrinking middle class incomes. That is best exemplified by the Eastmont Mall in East Oakland which was opened in 1970, 5.) a phenomenal increase in single parent female headed household far above that of two parent households after 1970, and 6.) a disproportionate rise in the black abortion rate after 1975.
Take what I have described and apply it to your city. Whether you are in Compton, Detroit, Baltimore, or Pittsburg you will see the same pattern; a loss of manufacturing jobs and a steep decline in the quality of life for most people and in particular for black people living there. Black people are always the first to lose economic footing.
Now we are confronted with a new economic challenge. It is called TPP or the Tran Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement. Its predecessor, NAFTA, became law in 1994. NAFTA has resulted in the loss of millions of jobs across the United States. It was signed into law by then democratic president Clinton. TPP will cost Americans more jobs lost to Asian nations and a loss of Federal legal jurisdiction over multinational corporations. Under TPP, foriegn corporations would be given the status of ‘legal citizen’ of the United States and thus have the right to sue U.S. citizens and governments if a law interfers with their profits. Another democratic president, Obama, wants to sign TPP into law. The TPP agreement has a covert purpose; it is designed to serve a particular purpose.
The TPP agreement like NAFTA will only increase the power and wealth of multinational corporations over us and to further diminish the leverage of unionized labor. It will also reduce our individual and collective political leverage as voters. But even more is in store for us if TPP is signed into law.
As Asian purchasing and consumption power increases, U.S. citizens will have correspondingly less economic and political leverage against the global multi-corporate power structure. That is so because over time multi-corporate revenue streams will become less and less dependent upon U.S. consumers. That is what “race to the bottom” means.
For example, in Detroit, public contracts were given to companies connected with corrupt politicians. As a consequence water costs increased in the city of Detroit after the city signed contracts with companies giving them the power to manipulate the price for water. That in turn has lead to water cutoffs to the poor in the city of Detroit.
Another example is California. In California, under Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, public energy controls were modified under the Electric Utility Industry Restructuring Act, 1996. In 2000, Companies like Enron were then able to increase the price for energy by manipulating the price of energy thereby causing energy bills to triple overnight. The shortage of energy caused rolling energy black outs throughout the State to begin in 2001. . In both cases, elderly low income people on fixed incomes and low income persons suffered the most.
Running parallel to the TPP effort is the slow but steady privatization of local, state, and federal government. Right now it is best exemplified by the privatization of public schools and public utilities. For example, students attending public universities are more dependent on commercial bank loans because of Government cutbacks in grants such as the Pell Grant. Such cuts have resulted in a national student loan debt of over 1 trillion dollars. It is not that private corporations want to own the infrastructure of state universities. Rather, they prefer to allow taxpayers to pay the costs for maintaining university infrastructures; what they want to own, by loan contracts, are the students.
Here is why. Corporate and financial globalization has made those same institutions less dependent upon educated American professionals as is the case with blue collar and professional workers because they have a global pool of educated professionals to draw from and at a cheaper cost to them.
American college graduates must now compete with an international population for professional jobs in the United States. Thus, there is no longer a national and private sector need for large numbers of American students to fill job positions, and so University systems need not cater to students who are financially unable to pay for their education. All of these efforts turn on a single unstated premise: the private sector can do it more efficiently and cheaper than government.
The argument by the proponents of that premise is that since government has a 17 trillion dollar deficit, privatization will help reduce costs for running government. But that argument is not necessarily true. Take the postal service for example. The costs for postal services have been increasing under public control and it will increase under private control at an even faster rate. Furthermore, government will continue to run on a deficit for two basic reasons. First, a federal deficit will remain because the national tax revenue to the federal government will decrease as income levels decrease and secondly, because public debt is the only way to justify an increase in the national debt ceiling which in turn triggers federal loans from the Federal Reserve Bank which generates profits for private banks.
So, keep an eye on what happens to the U.S. Postal Service; it is the canary in the coal mine. Thousands of black people hold operative jobs for the U.S. Post Office. If the U.S. Postal Service is privatized, then thousands of black Americans will lose their operative jobs due to robotic technology. Operative jobs are one of the leading fields of employment for black people. People and their families dependent on those kinds of jobs will sink into a state of perpetual poverty. Black life will become even more sub-standard than it is now.
Statistically for instance, 72% of black people with college degrees are employed by a form of government and generally about 21% of all black workers are employed in local, state, and federal governments. If governmental departments are contracted out to private companies at the local, state, and federal levels, then black people will be the major economic losers.
Black Americans and their families will sink into perpetual poverty. Black life will become even more sub-standard than it is now. On the other hand, white youth with college degrees will get hired in the private sector. That is how corporate government plans to co-opt lower class but college educated white people with the aim to neutralize any movement toward unity of poor whites and blacks.
The closure of military bases in the 1980s and 1990s is yet another example of how the exodus of capital, in this case government capital, adversely affected black people. Such base closures ought to be a red flag on the field for all of us to see. In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, thousands of black people and their families were the major losers when the Army and Navy bases closed. That is because the Federal Government was the single largest employer of black people in the San Francisco-Oakland bay area. Many of those military installations were moved to other states so that jobs could be given to college educated white people after they were taken from under educated black workers.
Now, at this moment in our history, we should know that it doesn’t matter whether the president of the United States is Democrat or Republican; whether the president is white, black, male or female. Race and political party do not matter at the highest offices of government because the government which rules is multi-corporate and fascist in nature; it is not a democratic republic.
Freddie Gray
I watched a video segment of the news in April 2015 which covered the after effects of the Baltimore riot in Sandtown. The video showed black people, with the exception of one person, cleaning out a CVS store which had been burned and looted the day before and sweeping the streets. The people doing it rationalized their volunteer work by claiming that they were helping to keep ‘their city’ clean.
There are several sad things about the news piece. To know and understand that our people living in Sandtown, Baltimore, where the protests occurred, receive no financial return for all the money that they spend in the city belies the heart of the problem.
Those individuals have now cleaned up a section of the city streets in which they do not own title to any of the property despite the fact that they and their families have lived in that area for over 100 years. They are all tenants subject to the will of the landowner.
As they cleaned the veneer of that section of the city I could only think that something toxic remains deep inside the city. That toxicity is such that no amount of street sweeping, painting, and government programs can clean it out. That toxicity will remain deeply embedded in Baltimore because it, like a waterfall of waste, rains down on the mass of dispossessed people from the very centers of political and corporate corruption.
Black people in Baltimore have no vested interests in the city. The African American community has have been set up over the last 2 generations in that post industrial post modern city to be pushed out. Our people cannot read the hand writing on the wall: “get out”. Black neo-liberals will not read what is written on the wall and communicate it to black people in Baltimore. Nor will they translate what it means to them.
The political structure of the city is intact because Baltimore black politicians remain loyal to their corporate Democratic National Committee or Republican Party monetary benefactors. The infrastructure of black communities, however, suffer. Black communities are as dysfunctional as social infrastructures in the nation of Haiti. The infrastructure has been the victim of criminal negligence.
But instead of the power elite in the state of Maryland and in the city of Baltimore properly defining the overarching social problems faced by black people there they have resorted to categorizing the black population as a ‘thug’ community. It is clear that white supremacists have a plan.
Sandtown and its surrounding blocks in Baltimore have been allowed to undergo multi-dimensional deterioration over time. That deterioration has been allowed to grow into a multi-dimensional demographic push force making black people in Sandtown Baltimore appear suicidal. The ultimate underlying goal is the reduction of the black population in Balitmore and finally eliminating that population without fanfare or notice.
We must note and be aware of this supreme manipulation taking place. Having black people in state political roles and having blacks as heads of city bureaucracies has not resulted in a more equitable distribution of wealth. These types of positions given to black people are only a ploy to lull black people into a false sense of security and trust.
police officers Freddie Gray
To understand the nature of the shell game being played on black people in Baltimore we must compare black politicians to the three black police officers. The police officers were hired to ‘protect and serve’, but they were actually accomplices in the murder of Freddie Gray. Analogously, black politicians, who are elected to also protect and serve, are also accomplices to the acts of negligence which have caused the degredation of black lives in the city of Baltimore. This leads to one undeniable fact.
Having black people in positions of state power is not the same as all black people having a vested present and future interest in the economy of the city of Baltimore.
For example, the city’s political structure reveals the following characteristics: the state’s attorney general is black; Baltimore has a black mayor, a black police commissioner, a black superintendent of schools, and 2/3 of the city council members are black. Whereas the city’s black infrastructure reveals these characteristics: 90% of Baltimore’s jail population is black; 61% of its high school drop outs are black; 25% of blacks are below the poverty line; 41% of those 25 to 54 years of age are unemployed; 38% of those 20-24 years of age are unemployed; 18% of the homes are vacant; and, out of a population of 651,154, 59.2% of families are single parent female headed households. What does this tell us about black people having a vested interest in the city of Baltimore?
It tells us that being born flesh and blood into a city is not necessarily equal to having a vested interest in the present and future economic interests of that city. Just as a fetus carried in the womb of its mother has no vested interest in the body that carries it. For example, thousands of Africans are risking their lives by fleeing their homelands wherein they were born because they have no vested present and future interests in Africa. Why?
The answer is because something more is needed by men and women wherever they live; something which supersedes a mere claim of birth rights based upon citizenship and the civil and human rights which are constitutionally guaranteed to them. Black people must get property rights based upon ownership and no less.
The United States Constitution defines the right of a ‘vested interest’ as the inherent right of a person that cannot be defeated or cancelled by any natural or legal person. Courts of law qualify such a vested interest on a showing of proof of title or ownership.
Thus, property ownership by a person or a people is central to what determines a vested present or future interest in a state, county, or city. What a people own is not just a subject of civil law and individual rights under the law, but what they own adds the value of liberty to civil equality under the law.
It is liberty which will exempt black people from the extraneous control of state police power. It is liberty and only liberty which can free the shackled will of black people so that they can make moral choices beyond the narrow confines of their open air prisons in cities like Baltimore across the nation. Without liberty there are deadly consequences. Freddie Gray’s death is but one example of that.
Black people living in Sandtown Baltimore do not have a present nor a future vested interest in the very ground upon which they stand and upon which previous generations of their families stood.
Thus, black people’s lives are lived at the whim of the owners of that property; and the owners are non-verbally communicating to black people living in Sandtown and its surrounding blocks these words: ‘Get out’.
For those black people who seek liberty for themselves and their children in the United States they must make a moral choice. They must rise up and take an economic stand; they must rise up and make an economic revolution as was done in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in Rosewood, Florida at the turn of the 20th century.
Poice Van Freddie Gray
Our choices are but two; they are either liberty or death. It is no false dichotomy that I present to you. Our choices are liberty or death.
Greedy Capitalist Pig
| http://2020standiford.comcastbiz.net/?tag=poverty | dclm-gs1-161001087 |
0.042707 | <urn:uuid:b71cff04-d4e8-4f93-bc88-7f4c15d0e25a> | en | 0.953778 | Google+ Followers
יום חמישי, 3 בדצמבר 2015
I am FAT.
In a world where plus size is getting more place in the public eye - I would think that plus size issues would diminish. But when girls like this - are the "model" for what a plus size women looks like - the issues only seem to get bigger. But not in the plus size bigger - just bigger.
For the most part when talking about how appropriate it is to have plus size in the fashion world - people often use the justification of the need to show more body types when in fact - the plus size models of today,
Lura wells - look's pretty thin and fit to me!
Couldn't be less representative of this desire, or actual need.
As a plus size girl my self - I've been looking at the media for a long time. Going thorough endless images - and
Thought about what I should look like, or how everything will be OK - if only I'll lose some weight. Like most girls in today's western culture.
And then, slowly but surly we started to see the "Plus-Size-Girl". The anti Representation the skinny, supposedly anorexic model which ruled the cat walk and our minds.
Now, in 2014 - we can even name some famous models that happen to be plus size. And incredibly beautiful. Not shame in that. In fact - More power to them.
But the problem is, that in the plus size world - the higher the number on the scale is - the more diverse body types you tend to get. But while in the "skinny" modeling world you have some diversity (1), the plus size model is very typical . She's has that famous curvy body - that presently I would love to have. She tends to be closer to that famous golden ratio - and even more then "regular" women - because the plus size model is always under a microscope. Not only is she Representing her self and perhaps a brand - but she's supposed to also be the spokes person for the entire plus size community. And they really our not.
And then you got to 9gag. Great laughs and memes to make any kitty lover like myself have a good break for the soul. Until you see what some people think as been "curvy" or "plus-size". You see - nobody wants to see the "F" word. Got forbid. So you have the plus size girls - with near perfect complexion, stunning figure and long lasting legs - and then you have everybody ells - that does not fit into the little box.
Say it with me. It's freeing!
I'm plus size, and curvy and big, and beautiful - and I have a brain and self esteem.
And I'm proud to have the body that I have. Even if I don't have perfect double d's.
I spent at least 2 years leaning about how words and the use of certain ones - can change the meaning. How the same word can mean different things in different culture - and when I say cultures, I don't just mean the ones in Africa. Sometimes a block way - you have a completely different culture.
We need to understand that the plus size image that we tend to see (2) - are really just a slightly larger version of the same model that we saw in till know. I'm not saying that this was not necessary, or that they don't give some what of a contesting represents for the skinny model. But, Most women will never look like those models.
If you are skinny you tend to look a certain way. So, up till know - you could starve (or try to), Because the goal was to loose weight in order to fit into the box. So supposedly this was the ??? Of the classic American dream that anyone could make it.
But the plus size girls - are either "it" or not. You either have that amazing figure, or not. And for most of us - we don't have that "it".
And that's OK. That's what we need to understand. We need to start calling the plus size models fat. And we need to hit all those idiot Neanderthals with a meme app with a large stick.
We need to start neutralize the negative context from the word "fat". Is just my body. My body is fat. (imagine my smiling as I say it). That's it. That's all it is. It's not a derogatory word. It's not an insult.
So in the end - what's the big deal? The problem is - that we, as women are still some what controlled to believe that we should only look a certain way. (or 3 ways out of hundreds of possibilities). Also - when uses a model that is clearly "smaller" than I am (and I'm a UK18 and I don't have curves!) - that's insulting. Because when you shop for a UK26 - you don't need to see someone that is suppose to be like you - the proud fat chic that we are - and she's really not. That's the problem. Plus size models are no more then "regular women in reality. And bigger women in reality - don't really have too much representation in the media - as if to say - that they don't deserve it.
More then anything - we need to understand that absence of a particular group within the media - or "Re-Labeling" a certain group has a direct effect on us as media consumers. At that's the problem. Because just because real large women are barely in the media - does not mean that we don't exist.
(1) But not too much - the models still tend to be tall Amazonian gorgeous, long legged women.
(2) And yes - I Know that there are some exceptions. not all plus size girls in the media our the same little box.
תגובה 1:
פרטים עלי
התמונה שלי | http://85fashionkitty.blogspot.com/2015/12/i-am-fat.html | dclm-gs1-161021087 |
0.061002 | <urn:uuid:046b48dc-5fe8-4b64-abc9-3c39bbf4f6a3> | en | 0.927428 | your positionhome > off road bicycle text
10 Very Best Christmas Current Suggestions For Teens
I've put with each other a list of the five very best factors why the electric bike is becoming so popular. There are many much more. Why don't you find them out for yourself?
The X-Treme XB-562 electric bike is powered by 3 twelve-volt batteries. This provides a complete output of 36 volts. These batteries can offer enough power for the bike to go fifteen-20 miles before they require to be recharged. The bicycle has a battery indicator so you can tell how much power is left.
Many just require to arrive at their office fast and don't like to get sweaty conquering strong winds, hills or a greater distance. Particularly vacationers in holiday resorts appreciate the e bike to pedal around quick looking at various sightseeing without obtaining exhausted quickly.
Without pedalling, a typical range will be around 15 miles, but this can be increased with larger or additional batteries available from some manufacturers. For instance the Metro has a range of 20 miles and this can be increased to forty with a rear-rack mounted battery addition.
You need to buy the correct motor that suits your requirements. A smaller motor can work on flat surfaces including asphalt and concrete pavement. A bigger motor will be needed on rocky or muddy streets and when you are using towards a powerful headwind.
Compared to cars, electric bicycles are pennies for each charge and will get numerous more miles for each greenback than a vehicle. One becoming able to go 20 miles an hour gained't shed too much time on their journey in contrast to cars particularly for shorter trips.
·fixed gear bicycle wholesale
·shimano xt
·steel bicycle frame 29
·fly bikes frames
press release
·velo carbon
·dura ace 7800
·jbl flip 3 splashproof portable bluetooth
·waterproof pvc backpack cycling
·electric bike thailand
bikes for sale
·e wave scooter
·mountain electric bike uk law and order
·folding electric bike manchester hotels
·folding electric bike 6v charger
·electric mountain bike for sale nottingham
Copyright © 1999-2018 folding electric bike hire devon All Rights Reserved folding electric bike hire devon | http://ahebike.com/azt1coh.html | dclm-gs1-161051087 |
0.349525 | <urn:uuid:241c8114-6ae0-4182-91f9-a93b8cb79831> | en | 0.877622 | Do we give up on our dreams, or do they just fade away with time? Picture a small girl running into practice to be the first one in the water, or a young boy, watching his idol/mentor and saying ‘one day I will defeat you’. When we grow up, where does that vivacity go? As young swimmers we didn’t say I want to be great, we said I’m going to be great; and that’s what makes the greatest difference. When we are in a pinch, or afraid of the outcome. When we are physically ready, but not mentally prepared. When we are so nervous, that we are afraid the person beside us will hear our rapid beating heart. These are the times to stay calm, take a deep breath and remember, you passion and dedication is still within you. Don’t give up. Never surrender, and always, always give it your all.
“Don’t give up” by Eagle Cherry:
Share This | http://aliaatkinson.com/dont-give-up/ | dclm-gs1-161061087 |
0.02869 | <urn:uuid:971e4fc7-827a-4d8f-a993-5e8016049b1a> | en | 0.986179 | Over the past fifty plus years that I have been alive I experienced many occasions watching friends and family members members marry. There a lot more than a few things I find about weddings considering all this, but adhering to probably the most common traditions and superstitions associated with weddings are the best. Why? Because it just so happens that many of those who chose to disregard these seemingly nonsensical and sometimes almost comical steps to get to the alter have often paid a high price for their disrespect of these long standing roads.
The Wedding Dress
We supply heard the reason is bad luck for groom to see bride in her own wedding dress before the ceremony. In fact a longer standing tradition says that it is bad luck for the bride to be to wear the complete wedding outfit before the day that she takes her wedding vows. That is why you almost never see a bride trying on a custom-made wedding dress with her wedding shoes, veil accessories. A female college friend of mine knew a new girl who decided to disregard that tradition and display her complete wedding outfit to her bridal party for the reason for having "some photos taken with her friends" the night time before her wedding. So she said, most of those present think she was only showing dividends. The dress seemed unusually tight a lot of who saw the bride all decked out that night and soon gossiping tongues spread this news quickly.
The next day the groom decided not to show up for the ceremony after my college friend declared she called and told him that his bride looked "fat or pregnant" when she saw your future wife in her outfit the night time before. My friend was not being mean, but she felt sorry for that groom who had gone out of his to help keep his bride pure (she had claimed to be a virgin) by abstaining from sex along with her. He had never seen her in this dress, but even his sister testified that she noticed an unusually rapid weight gain in their bride-to-be who was not one for you to fluctuate in their own weight or overeat. There may have been a additional to craze than that, but I have no doubt that the catalyst for that groom's cancellation was that phone call from buddy and the call would didn't have been made if your future wife had not been flaunting and scoffing at a long-standing modern society.
The Wedding Shoes
Both couple should are aware that the superstitious among us say end up being unlucky to wear any shoes for the ceremony who are not to use specifically and simply for wedding and reception. They claim that it additionally bad luck to wear the shoes before the day of the ceremony, in order to ever put them on again once your bride and groom place their vows. These sneakers should be ripped apart or burned sometime after that the ceremony and never given off to anyone different. This tradition began sometime in the late 1800s and in all likelihood came from merchants wishing to sell shoes. However, there may be some truth to they.
A friend of mine reports which usually neighborhood friend of his who got married about twenty years ago had some very bad luck as effect of ignoring this odd superstition. Ben was a thrifty guy who hated wasting salary. Sometime in the year before he was married he had purchased an expensive pair of shoes to wear for weddings, funerals and other special days. When my friend went out with him in order to assist choose an outfit for his own wedding, he asked Ben about high heel sandals. Ben told him that he would definitely wear his best ladies because they had barely been worn and were like new. After all, even back and also quality . new associated with quality shoes could easily cost 1 hundred dollars and Ben felt that money would be better spent elsewhere.
My friend told Ben about this tradition regarding shoes that he or she had known from his mother, father and grandmother and grandfather. My friend took the advice himself, got married without incident there are remained married ever provided. Admittedly, he and his family are very superstitious about things like weddings, but there happen to few divorces in his family line and many successful weddings and marriages. Ben wore his "best set of shoes" on the day of the wedding despite the warning he received from my roomie. Amazingly, his bride had her very own unique cover wedding boot. She decided to wear sneakers for visitors as a type joke with say she might turn into a runaway bride. The joke backfired.
Ben and also his family were highly insulted by the actual existence of the sneakers and a debate began the actual wedding reception which continued throughout the honeymoon prepare weeks subsequently. Things really came to a head when relatives on both sides viewed the wedding photos. The photographer became fixated for that bride's sneakers and kept taking pictures featuring them. Many of the guests were captured displaying a scowl on their face while they spoke on the bride and stared down at the sneakers. The couple broke up and divorced within 3 months of their wedding. I have faith that that ought to add wearing sneakers to be able to wedding towards the bad luck list for wedding footwear, apparel and choices.
Placing a coin (especially a silver dollar) 1 of marriage ceremony shoes is extremely good luck. Although this applies mainly to the bride, Maybe that groom has you win by giving it a go as to tell the truth. This tradition goes back towards "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, A Sixpence in your Shoe" wedding superstition from old London. Relatives and close friends would give the bride small tokens of their affection put on or carry with her on her special working day. These items were presented right the wedding began and were not wedding gifts, just mementos to remind the bride that she's got family and friends that care about her and support her decision to marry.
Something Old was usually a token carried by another bride inside of a previous wedding who has gotten good luck or a successful and happy marriage. Present is about sending past bride's all the best and fortune on to the current one. Something more challenging is used to impart good luck to their bride-to-be giving her hope and confidence in the future. Something Borrowed is claimed to represent happiness can be imparted to your bride from her relatives and friends. Any happiness that they've experienced they've to loan to bride while she makes her own happy memories. Something Blue is given with the aspiration that the bride's marriage will contain an honest and pure love, and also fidelity. A Sixpence (Coin) In Your Shoe is considered to impart a financial blessing on top of the marriage. Few brides dare to ignore this tradition which many consider the biggest of almost. I know one that did.
She insisted on a relationship ceremony with included just her, the bridegroom and a clergyman. The majority of the bride's friends friends, and also those in the groom, were against your wedding reception due to a huge age difference with the bride (who was very young) as well as the groom (who was thirty five years older). Most of the groom's family thought she was a gold digger because he previously had a substantial fortune as well as the family was well known in town where they lived. However, the bride also came from money, but it was new money. Sadly, I think her decision to marry this man really had more regarding the actuality she likely would have wanted appreciate the status of being married suitable into a family having a major browsing society than real lasting love. Anyway, she decided to punish all the nay sayers who were against nationwide holiday and prove them wrong by insisting that her wedding take place in a public park with no guests. The bride and groom spent the that a large wedding might have cost a good elaborate escape to paris.
That bride broke nearly all the rules of tradition and superstition involving wedding ceremony. This included the tradition of bringing tokens to her wedding provided for her through friend who thought the age difference thing was no big deal. That friend would not attend the ceremony regardless of whether she was invited or because she was has another country at the time, but she hoped that the tokens would bring the couple good beginners luck. And they might have done their job if those things had been brought towards the small ceremony by your future wife. They were not. Despite what gave the impression of a marriage filled with bliss during and after the honeymoon, the couple divorced after just several years citing irreconcilable differences.
The Wedding Rings
It is widely seen as extremely unlucky to buy a wedding band on a Friday because that is often a tradition Sale Day in addition a highly discounted ring set is considered bad luck overall. It is even more unlucky to wear a music band (other than trying it on) for length of my time before the ceremony. I understand of more than a dozen occasions where either your future wife or groom wore their ring (for whatever reasons) for hours or days before your wedding and could hardly for lifestyle of them remove which it. This not only caused physical and emotional discomfit, but ultimately ended up being in arguments that separated four folks couples before day of that weddings. There might have been a million other reasons behind those break ups, why take chance to?
There is also things to watch out for put it to use to wedding rings. Too loose and that could mean a husband or wife might stray off the marriage bed because would certainly forget complete meaning on the wedding wedding vows. Too tight could curse the happy couple to being married full of arguments and fights bringing out the worst in one people. Wearing the ring on the left hand is considered very all the best. That tradition goes back centuries to when most work was completed with the most beneficial hand rendering it appear more mature or dirty than the left. An evident wedding band is good luck compared in order to highly decorated one in the most societies, while a ring with religious or cultural icons in there is considered very lucky in nations with people from a Celtic the historical past.
I cannot say that anyone I realize has ever broken up over a visible or decorated wedding ring, but greater few have had major disagreements over cost of and style of wedding bands which may expose insufficient character from the bride, the groom, or sometimes. The biggest superstition surrounding a wedding event ring involves dropping this item. Superstition says that a bride or groom who drops a engagement ring during the ceremony will be first to die. It is vital said to be almost guaranteed if the ring rolls to an end on a memorial croatiaweddings or remembrance stone in the church or chapel. Wow! Be careful not to drop the wedding.
Post Navigation | http://andandyb1.sojournals.com/wedding-traditions-and-superstitions-you-require-to-observe | dclm-gs1-161091087 |
0.018527 | <urn:uuid:6b9214da-1052-483d-b24b-f93c0ffb183b> | en | 0.965445 | REVIEW: The Wild Duck, Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The Wild Duck: Richard Piper as Ekdal senior in Sydney's Belvoir Company's production Photo: Alastair Muir
The Wild Duck (after Ibsen)
Barbican Theatre
23 October 2014
5 Stars
The ushers cover the exit signs, the large crowd chatters on; then the lights dim. Only the television monitors are active in the sudden darkness, imploring the audience to switch off their mobile phones (a message which, as is lamentably too often the case these days, goes unheeded by the ignorant, moronic few). A burst of light. It starts. But what are we looking at? A large rectangular glass shape…like a fish tank…is it a fish tank? And there, a real live duck. In the fish tank. It regards the audience with scepticism, flaps its wings, seems as if it might try to fly, makes a kind of quacking sound. Then darkness.
So begins the Belvoir Street Theatre production of “The Wild Duck by Simon Stone with Chris Ryan after Henrik Ibsen”, directed by Stone which, having scooped awards in Sydney, Australia and played the International Ibsen Festival in Oslo and the Vienna Festival, is now playing a limited season at the Barbican.
It is, in every way, a complete theatrical triumph; a marvellous reimagining of Ibsen, set firmly in an Australian idiom, resonating with thrilling power, and chilling, insightful imagination. If you have but a passing interest in theatre, do yourself a favour and see it immediately. It will be a long time before you see something quite like this again, if ever.
In his programme notes, Stone says:
“This version of The Wild Duck removes the need to justify the fact that all of the events of the play are conveniently taking place in one or two locations over only a few days. It exposes the spine of the plot and acknowledges the fundamental artifice of the theatre' presentation of dramatic events. We see one tragic week in the lives of six people. The events of the story take place in a void space – everywhere and nowhere. All that remains are the characters' interactions with each other. We use a framework that is voyeuristic but also forensic. We are anatomising a tragedy…The plot declares its own hand and liberates the characters from their need to arrive on time and reveal the right information, so that they can be completely themselves in their own struggle.”
When I read that passage, prior to the performance commencing, my heart sank. Why would anyone need to justify where the events of the play take place? The director's job is to make the play work, to illuminate the text. A void? Really? Aren't we done with that old-fashioned avant grade approach to realistic drama? Voyeuristic? Please – no film sequences which appear on television screens! How can the plot declare its own hand? How can characters in a drama be liberated from arriving on time and saying their lines? It sounded like the struggle would me mine.
But those fears proved unfounded and, although Stone must obviously believe what he writes, the production did not live up (or down, depending on you or point of view) to that spiel.
Firstly, this is not Ibsen's play and, happily, it doesn't pretend to be. That it is a complete reimagining is perfectly clear from the billing. One star for that. The plot is very different in many keys ways and those differences provide a stark, grim and ultimately horrific experience. The original may have debated points about truth and the lies that see people through their lives but this adaptation shows truth and lies in action and the vivid, vicious consequences the truth can bring.
Secondly, the action does not take place in a void. It takes place in a confined see-through prison; a place where lies trap you but allow you to live. Just as the duck at the start of the play thinks it is free and happy and loved, so do all of the characters who exist inside the glass prison, one way or another. It is only when the truth dispels the lies that there can be existence outside of the glass prison, albeit a life where those living it wish they could return to the happier times inside the glass prison. Another star for the design – Ralph Myers.
Thirdly, the characters still arrive on time and reveal the right information. They just do that differently than Ibsen may have envisaged it and not in a small part because the plot is wildly different and entire characters simply do not appear in this pared down version. But there is definitely a fluidity to the movement which is entrancing and which emphasises the fact that things happen in one place but have repercussions in different places. Sometimes characters linger in the glass prison, after their lines are done, presenting a kind of halo effect of their presence. When the mother collapses after her husband leaves her having learnt the truth about the progenitor of “their daughter”, Hedvig, she stays in a foetal position on the floor as other scenes occur around her. Her presence perfectly illustrates the place she has in the minds of those who interact as she lies there, prone, full of agony and despair, unable to cope. Another star for the inspired, free flowing movement which is a hallmark of the direction here.
Fourthly, except that, in the ordinary way that audiences do, the actors are watched as they perform there is nothing particularly voyeuristic about this production. But that is not to say that it is anything other than completely compelling and thoroughly gripping; knowing the original Ibsen text will not particularly assist you here – there are serious, graphic and horrifying shocks to live through. The scalpel like precision to every scene, every gesture, every truth, every painful recrimination cuts to the bone. When the play commences, several people are living lies and all but one is happy; at its end, none are living lies, one is dead and no one is happy. The truth might set you free, but freedom comes at an almighty cost. One more star.
But when Stone says that his vision permits the characters to be “completely themselves in their own struggle” no quibble can be had with that. Each actor is given a glorious opportunity to play a mercurial, complex, frail and intensely human character. And each and every one of them is extraordinarily good.
Sara West is dynamite as the precocious and brilliant Hedvig. She is totally convincing as a fifteen year old and the sense of family harmony she establishes with her parents is profoundly assured. Her scenes with the older men in her life are all quite wonderfully complex and the scene where she mistakenly thinks that Dan Wylie's Gregers might be attracted to her is bone-curdling. And she misses no beats, at all, in the ghastly pas de deux with her father when he angrily, stupidly and unforgivably rejects her.
Anita Hegh is sublime as Hedvig's mother, Gina. Faultlessly underplayed, a perfect portrait of covered up misdeeds, aching regret and happiness stolen by the ravages of the truth. Her stillness is astonishing as is the kaleidoscope of degrees of pain and sorrow she can display. There is a perfection in the feminine ordinariness of her character which is difficult to explain but impossible not to admire.
Brendan Cowell, as the archetypal “Aussie bloke”, is perfection. The Everyman quality he brings to the role of Hjalmar here is as insightful as it is painful to watch. A good guy destroyed by his male pride and his best mate's penchant for the truth. This version makes Hjalmar a difficult character for the audience to love, but Cowell's sense of dynamic realism, his brave, clever performance, ensures that his Hjalmar is seen, believed and understood, though perhaps not forgiven. It's a meaty, powerful performance.
John Gaden is pitch perfect as the smooth old rogue, Werle, who has made millions and lied and schemed his whole life. Going blind, about to marry a 28 year old who could be his grand-daughter's age (if he had one), this ghastly, old, self-interested bastard is the worm that rots the apple. Gaden plays him with delicious relish and just the right degree of self-deprecation and crushing guilt. His scene with Hedvig is magical – just like lighting the blue touch paper, and with the same resultant fireworks.
As Hjalmar's father, Ekdal, Richard Piper is splendidly gruff and beaten down, slipping into dementia. He has kept his secrets and now tends his animals in the funny little fake habitat set up for him in his son's home. He has rescued the titular Duck, just as his unacknowledged actions have rescued all of the other characters, one way or another. Another perfectly judged turn, part pain, part hopelessness, part wishful thinking.
The hardest role in this version of The Wild Duck is that of Gregers, Werle's son, who wants nothing really to do with his father or his father's fortune. His mother called him before her suicide, told him some facts, and he is, thus, bitter and resentful. He knows a secret, or part of a secret and determines to tell that secret, partly to punish his father, but partly, at least, because he genuinely believes it is the right thing to do. It's not, and the consequences of his candour are far-reaching and cataclysmic. Wylie charts a charming course through the rocky path his character treads and although, in one sense, he is the villain of the piece, in another, he is the chief victim: he has never really experienced love as a member of a family.
The acting really is world class. Another star for that.
Stevan Gregory provides new music, special arrangements and sound effects which add greatly to the overall effect of the performance. Especially good are the snatches of classical music which start off superbly but unravel as they proceed; and there is an amazing sound effect, almost of the Universe screaming, at the point where the first great truth is told and the Ekdal world is torn asunder. Delicate lighting from Niklas Pajanti establishes mood shifts and, especially, consequences of action in a vivid, startling way.
No question – this is a thrilling theatrical event. Stone's vision is clear, ambitious and electrifying. And it works – it really works. Great acting, great direction, a great script. As Sweet Charity put it: All I can say is “Wow!”
Do whatever you need to do – but don't miss your chance to catch this masterful production.
, , , , | http://britishtheatre.com/review-the-wild-duck-barbican-theatre-5stars/ | dclm-gs1-161291087 |
0.027877 | <urn:uuid:c21572cc-53f0-4507-bf18-34e425a513a6> | en | 0.964726 | Oct 022014
It was a great day for the residents of Naperville. As good of a day as it was for residents, it was as bad of a day for Naperville city officials including the Naperville city council, along with Mayor George Pradel and city manager Doug Krieger. When things are good for the residents, things are bad for city officials. Naperville city officials have created that inverse relationship.
On Wednesday, Naperville resident and mother, Kim Bendis was declared not guilty by a jury of her peers on a trumped-up charge of obstructing and resisting a peace officer. Kim Bendis is one of two Naperville moms who was cuffed and arrested for protecting her home and family from the City of Naperville’s forced installation of a so-called smart meter on her home. Naperville city officials sent installers and armed police to her residence to over-power her into submission. When she requested that they leave her property, they forcefully arrested her, and then installed the meter.
Naperville’s ill-advised actions gained national attention, most likely causing the city to drop to #33 in the rankings of most favorable cities in which to live.
Everybody knew city officials over-stepped the line of good behavior; everybody except the city officials who continued to make Kim and her husband’s life miserable by pushing the issue through the overloaded court system. City officials were doomed to lose again in court because the case was going to be decided by a fair and impartial jury of Kim’s peers. The Naperville city council doesn’t like it when a jury decides a case, they don’t like it when residents get to vote on an issue, they don’t like it when residents express their views. City officials don’t like it when they lose control. If it involves common sense, or wisdom, city officials lose.
This is the same city attorney who couldn’t get out of town fast enough when accusations were made that the City of Naperville promotes a hostile work environment. This is the same city manager (Doug Krieger) who was required to participate and complete a course in ‘sensitivity and harassment’ training. This is the same Mayor Pradel who presided over this travesty of justice by allowing the ‘cowboys’ on the city council to arrest residents. This is the same eight members of the city council who didn’t have the decency to stop bullying the Bendis family. This is the same councilwoman Judy Brodhead (the only woman on the council) who didn’t speak up in defense of Naperville women getting arrested for protecting their homes and families.
Not one council member spoke up in favor of doing the right thing. The bugle boy and the flag carrier (Grant Wehrli and Bob Fieseler) kept steam-rolling the residents. If you look up the word ‘bullying’ in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of the Naperville city council . While they were downtown pounding down some cold brews, the Bendis family was trying to defend themselves in endless court battles.
The three newest council members, Steve Chirico, Joe McElroy, and Dave Wentz, did nothing to stop the bullying. Not one stood tall and challenged the other members of the council. They allowed it to continue. Since those three were not part of the solution, that made them part of the problem.
Naperville city officials wasted tax-payer dollars in the pursuit of this sham of a court case. And they want to get re-elected, so they can do this again to other residents. If the election was held tomorrow, most likely they would all get tossed out of the council chambers. Shame on the Naperville city council, Mayor Pradel, and Doug Krieger for allowing this bullying of the Bendis family to occur.
8 Responses to “Naperville City Officials Lose In Court”
1. Couldn’t agree more and there should be a price to pay for these slugs vindictively with malice and forethought persecuting this family and the other one for daring to protect their Constitutional rights. The city should be made to pay their legal expenses, fire the city manager and whatever this police chief is called and put people into these offices who know and respect the law and the citizens they are suppose to represent.
2. That’s good. Of course they should have never brought that case to court. So, what’s next? Don’t be surprised when the Council votes to appeal the verdict, hires some high-priced outside lawyers, and tries the case again. They won’t bat an eye at spending six figures of taxpayer dollars to prove that THEY are right and WE are wrong.
3. I hope she sues everyone! The police for false arrest, the city manager for issuing the order, the non-police police chief who followed those insane instructions, and each council member individually for tacitly agreeing with the whole cocked-up scheme. It seems that money is the only thing they understand, so it’s time to get them where they’ll feel it. And yes, I understand that we, the tax payers will actually be paying for the bulk of it, but if the aforementioned goons have to go through depositions, court time and shell out even one penny, it would be worth it.
4. This is the same council who tried to publically shame citizens, during an election, for participating in our government through public speaking and utilizing the FOIA process (as instructed by City Manager Krieger himself). How much tax payer money was spent for this legal debacle? Kim Bendis, a Master prepared nurse, is a true American hero that was brought to this country as a small child, from Viet Nam, after her parents and family were killed. She understood the nightmare and consequences of tyranny. Shame on the Council, the City Manager, and our Mayor for their treatment of Kim, and her wonderful , family. These government thugs made our city a laughing stock, ensuring its place in history along with Boss Hog, Tammany Hall, and the Keystone cops. Anyway, now that the City hiked our electric rates, borrowed over $14M from our Water Utility (with no public plan to pay the cash back) to stop the financial hemorrhaging at the Electric Company and has now projected for this year over $3.0M in additional debt..I guess we all know that Kim was right.
5. As an aside, I emailed most of our Council regarding the Octoberfest beer flags lining the front of Naperville Central High School. I thought it strange that our City Council would think it proper, if not outright cruel, to emphasize the beer drinking at Octoberfest in their advertisements of a city celebration that is so much more than beer. Octoberfest is great hearty food, music, dancing family and friends. Some families are struggling with teen drinking, and it’s just so wrong to fly multiple city flags advertising drinking directly in front of the high school, especially close to homecoming. These multiple beer flags are near the same area that two young men drowned, after an accident that was reported to involve alcohol. I bet their families appreciate the irony of the beer flags being flown, after the City removed the makeshift memorial. Naperville has had a lot of press regarding its reputation of being a weekend hot spot, I’m so surprised and discouraged that these beer flags continue to fly in front of our high school. Mr. Wentz was the only Council person to reply and promise to talk to staff about the situation. Thanks, Mr. Wentz for standing up for Naperville as a family town.
6. Today’s Wallstreet Journal: “One in 10 Cellphine Anntennas Violates Safety Rule: Cellphine BoomSpurs Anntenna-Safety Worries. ”
It also mentions that AM Best and Hardford Financial Services has classified radio frequency radation from wireless Anntennas as an “Emeging Technology-Based Risk”
The City of Naperville forced the installation of wireless smart meters on all of us. If we wish to protect our children and families we are being gouged $24.94/month to have a wired meter. However, all of our children are being exposed 24/7 to this radiation in and around our homes, businesses, church’s and schools. The wireless mesh network has enveloped our entire city to continually send data signals to the City, from the City and between the meters.
Kim and all the other concerned citizens appear to be correct in their health, safety and civil rights concerns. I wonder how much the City will have to pay out in settlements if this safety risk continues to grow.
Per Claims Journal, “As the population of workers becomes aware of the hidden RF hazards and their potential for exposure, claims will likely be filed by the thousands, and long term litigation will result, in a similar manner to the way asbestos evolved.”
7. DPU-E keeps increasing rates for Naperville residents –
8. We are now getting ready for our local city electric company to implement SMART Power Meters. A “pilot program” is now in progress, and taxpayers are being told the City of Morganton will NOT give us an “Opt-Out” with these Smart Meters
Leave a Reply | http://citycouncilwatchdog.com/2014/10/naperville-city-officials-lose-court | dclm-gs1-161401087 |
0.040923 | <urn:uuid:2bfd8490-873d-4a23-8b26-bf70a19542d0> | en | 0.896794 | Coda File System
venus-kernel interface
From: Ivan Popov <>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:26:37 +0200
to save some "Read The Source" time, if somebody would tell me,
how much the same is the Coda userspace/kernel protocol
on differnet OS and architectures.
Hopefully with the 64-bit cleanup it _is_ becoming better?
I have come as long in running the same binaries via Linux abi
on both Linux and FreeBSD, that I tried to run the Coda userland
in that way. Not tested the server, pretty sure it will work.
The client does not. Clog could not talk to (native) Venus on FreeBSD,
and (linux-abi) Venus can not mount /coda.
As in both cases it is standard syscalls, ioctl() and mount(),
it seems possible with minor tweaks produce a "compatible" Venus
and client tools.
I'll take a look at /coda mount, I know it is tricky, but
I'd assume ioctls would work the same given a portable Venus-kernel protocol?
Well, Venus itself is pretty much portable, but it would be exciting
to reduce *BSD OS-dependency to just the kernel module.
Free/Net/OpenBSD all need different tweaks in the binaries to make them
recognizable as Linux ones (what a disaster, all of them want to be compatible
with Linux, but in incompatible ways! :)
But still, it is possible to tweak just a few bits in a binary
to make it runnable on any of these platforms.
Linux abi is present by default in kernels on all of them.
So, people who know the gory details in the communication and ioctl
implementations - do the kernel modules talk the same protocol on the binary
level? Or just on the source level, but use different OS-dependent structures?
At any rate, we should have a binary definition of the protocol - imho.
Received on 2004-09-29 05:29:27 | http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2004/6875.html | dclm-gs1-161431087 |
0.042704 | <urn:uuid:9e43c567-df75-4b84-9ed9-12701051cd8b> | en | 0.935217 | HK G21
The origin of this rifle can be traced back to the final years of World War II when Mauser engineers at the Light Weapon Development Group (Abteilung 37) at Oberndorf am Neckar designed the MKb Gerät 06 (Maschinenkarabiner Gerät 06 or “machine carbine instrument 06″) prototype assault rifle chambered for the intermediate 7.92x33mm Kurz cartridge, first with the Gerät 06 model using a roller-locked short recoil mechanism originally adapted from the MG 42 machine gun but with a fixed barrel and conventional gas-actuated piston rod.[2] It was realized that with careful attention to the mechanical ratios, the gas system could be omitted.[3] The resultant weapon, the Gerät 06H (the “H” suffix is an abbreviation for halbverriegelt or “half-locked”) was assigned the designation StG 45(M) (Sturmgewehr 45(M)) but was not produced in any significant numbers and the war ended before the first production rifles were completed.
The German technicians involved in developing the StG 45(M) were taken to work in France at CEAM (Centre d’Etudes et d’Armement de Mulhouse). The StG 45(M) mechanism was modified by Ludwig Vorgrimler and Theodor Löffler at the Mulhouse facility between 1946 and 1949. Three versions were made, chambered in .30 Carbine, 7.92x33mm Kurz as well as the experimental 7.65x35mm French short cartridge developed by Cartoucherie de Valence in 1948. A 7.5x38mm cartridge using a partial aluminium bullet was abandoned in 1947. Löffler’s design, designated the Carabine Mitrailleuse Modèle 1950, was retained for trials among 12 different prototypes designed by CEAM, MAC, and MAS. Engaged in the Indochina War and being the second NATO contributor, France canceled the adoption of these new weapons for financial reasons.
In 1950, Vorgrimler moved to Spain where he created the LV-50 rifle chambered for the Kurz cartridge and later, the proprietary 7.92x40mm CETME M53 round.[5] At this point, the rifle was renamed the Modelo 2. The Modelo 2 drew the attention of the West German Border Guards (Bundesgrenzschutz), who sought to re-equip the newly formed national defense forces. Not willing to accept a cartridge outside of the NATO specification, the Germans asked CETME to develop a 7.62x51mm version of the rifle. The resulting CETME Model A was chambered for the 7.62x51mm CETME cartridge which was identical in chamber dimensions but had a reduced-power load compared to the 7.62mm NATO round. Further development of the rifle with input from H&K produced the CETME Model B which received several modifications, including the ability to fire from a closed bolt in both semi-automatic and automatic firing modes, a new perforated sheet metal handguard (the folding bipod had been the foregrip in previous models), improved ergonomics and a slightly longer barrel with a 22 mm rifle grenade launcher guide. In 1958, this rifle was accepted into service with the Spanish Army as the Modelo 58, using the 7.62x51mm CETME round.
In 1956, the Bundesgrenzschutz canceled their planned procurement of the CETME rifles, adopting the Belgian-made FN FAL (G1) instead. However, the newly formed West German Army (Bundeswehr) now showed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles (7.62x51mm NATO chambering) for further testing. The CETME, known as the Automatisches Gewehr G3 according to German nomenclature, competed successfully against the Swiss SIG SG 510 (G2) and the American AR-10 (G4) to replace the previously favored G1 rifle. In January 1959, the Bundeswehr officially adopted the CETME proposal. The West German government wanted the G3 rifle to be produced under license in Germany; purchase of the G1 had previously fallen through over FN’s refusal to grant such a license. In the case of the G3, the Dutch firm Nederlandse Wapen en Munitiefabriek (NWM) held production and sales rights to the CETME design outside of Spain. To acquire production rights, the West German government offered NWM contracts to supply the Luftwaffe with 20 mm ammunition. Production of the G3 was then assigned to Rheinmetall and H&K. The latter company already had ties to CETME, and had worked to further optimize the CETME rifle for use with the full-power 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (as opposed to the downloaded CETME variant). In 1969, Rheinmetall gave up production rights to the G3 in exchange for H&K’s promise not to bid on MG 3 production. Later in 1977, the West German government ceded ownership of G3 production and sales rights exclusively to H&K.
Highslide for Wordpress Plugin | http://coldhandarms.com/?page_id=243 | dclm-gs1-161461087 |
0.480535 | <urn:uuid:c082fa55-d188-4912-9102-df4991906604> | en | 0.863308 | martes, 7 de junio de 2011
Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory
Book: Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory
Author: Kristen J. Gremillion
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 14, 2011)
Related: 7-Jun-2011. An 'all natural' diet? There's no such thing
"That time never existed," Gremillion said.
Centro de Interpretación de la Prehistoria de Andalucía (El Rincón de la Victoria, Málaga)
Frente a otros once equipos participantes, el estudio de Luis Machuca ha sido el ganador del concurso para el Centro de Interpretación de la Prehistoria de Andalucía y musealización de la Cueva del Tesoro de El Rincón de la Victoria, en Málaga.
El proyecto contempla tres ámbitos de actuación: el propio edificio del museo, la puesta en valor de las cuevas —declaradas Bien de Interés Cultural—, y el diseño de un parque arqueológico en torno al conjunto. El proyecto crea un nuevo ‘hito paisajístico’ que debe distinguirse del entorno que le rodea, pero que se adapta a la complicada topografía integrándose en la ladera.
Para albergar el programa del museo, el estudio malagueño propone un edificio en forma de ‘lazo’ al que se accede desde la parte superior, desde donde se desciende siguiendo un recorrido en suave rampa que se cierra sobre sí mismo llegando hasta el punto de partida, y que puede realizarse en sentido inverso. Diseñado como edificio de energía cero (EEC), el museo está planteado como un referente en el uso racional de la energía.
Fuente: Arquitecturaviva.com
Fotos: Luís Machuca y Asociados / Archdaily.com | http://cuevadelapileta.blogspot.com.es/2011_06_07_archive.html | dclm-gs1-161541087 |
0.038033 | <urn:uuid:af8b9413-2aa7-4ef0-9f29-aa5c47700672> | en | 0.967197 | Send to Kindle
One thing that I find troubling about worship is the amount of effort it takes.
While I am aware the effort is part of the point, I often feel that taking that first step, putting that initial effort forward, is like an opening gambit in chess. It is requesting a relationship that you then need to maintain. That is where the hesitation comes in.
This train of thought really gets me thinking about the relationships I have now, and how hard it seems to be to maintain them. How my efforts seem to be never enough. (Insert several more expressions for anxiety here)
But when it comes down to it, so many of the things with which I work, exist as a consciousness because they have been believed in. So the fact that I even fret about not offering enough to maintain a “proper” relationship, is in fact, worship onto itself…
I am quite excited at this realization. But that got me thinking deeper… What Spirits/Gods am I worshipping that I have not acknowledged? How many hours a day do I spend worrying about the dishes or a confrontation at work? Ever notice how the more you worry about something, the bigger it seems to get?
Also, how many hours do I spend on my computer, my phone, Facebook, Instagram? It made me see that putting an Apple Logo on my God Alter might not go amiss…
By having a subscription to Amazon Prime, am I increasing the energetic power of the spirit created through the worship? All of the sudden, my ideas of social justice give me some clear boundaries on where and with what I worship. It brings much more meaning to “Every dollar is a vote.”
What do you worship that you aren’t yet aware of? | http://darkagate.com/?m=201606 | dclm-gs1-161571087 |
0.09378 | <urn:uuid:fde6c3b6-cfe7-4404-a171-e863dc77ceb9> | en | 0.970447 | Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Catana said...
I've always hated flying--the whole inefficient mess of crowding, lines, lost luggage etc. I'm almost grateful for the security measures because they're the reason why I will never again have to explain why I'm not going to pay a visit to the family, three states away.
I think the absence of security measures on the poll is just an assumption that nobody really objects.
atomiota said...
somewhere in the NTSA ebay auction are my nosehair trimmers. what i can't find but really want back are the 4 tubes of sensodyne senstive teeth toothpaste that got confiscated
Maya's Granny said...
I live in a community with no roads out. We fly or we take the ferry -- and the ferry takes days to get only part of the way I need to go. They have me captive. I hate them.
David said...
Yet another post that I agree with 100%. Well, probably more like 99%. You see, flying brings a joy in my life that is only surpassed by my relationship with my family. Flying is the most incredible experience and intense pleasure.
Of course, I'm not talking about flying on commercial airliners - I'm talking about private general aviation flying. I'm a private pilot. I've been flying small 4-seater planes for 5+ years and hope to never stop.
So, before anyone writes off flying in general because of the terrible commercial experiences we encounter these days, please consider going up for a ride with a private pilot in your local area. In fact, it can be as easy as going to your local small airport and talking to some people there. Pilots everywhere love to take people for rides - and I'll be happy to do it with you if you live in the Washington, DC area. Just say the word!
(Oh, and it's as easy as walking from the parking lot over to the plane, getting in, and us taking off. No shuttles, lines, overzealous security perverts, or dealing with airline agents. You can bring a soda aboard, as much toothpaste as you want, and I promise not to frisk you.) :)
DBB said...
You know, I've done that. The local airport in Ann Arbor has a flying club and I've gone up on one or two flights like that, just around the area. Though that was many many moons ago. I also have a cousin who lives in LA and he took me up in his plane once, over LA. That was fun. We flew over the Spruce Goose, amongst other landmarks.
Flying itself is ok, for the most part. It's all the b.s. that ruins it.
sdh said...
Nice! Someone else who agrees with me that the airport security measures are primarily for show and not really about security.
I have two business trips coming up. Not looking forward to them because of all of this nonsense--be scared! be scared! be scared!
chris said...
As someone who has done a lot of flying since 9/11 and since the whole 'we're gonna blow this plane up with gatorade, mouthwash, and a spark plug' incident, I can easily agree that the security measures are the most asinine thing on the planet.
However, I think the absence of these security measures on the poll was due more to its focus on the airlines and planes themselves, rather than the whole flying experience. Perhaps a poorly worded question, but there are a number of other things that could have been added outside of airline-specific questions, like getting to/from the airport, or car rental experiences. If they had included other things like this, but still left security off the menu, then I would be more inclined to agree that there is something to read into this.
Good post though, we need more people to recognize that this security does little to actually make you more secure.
hedera said...
The airline security mess is the direct result of the government's incurable tendency to fight the last war, instead of trying to do some intelligent forecasting of what the next war might look like. That's how we got into Vietnam, fighting a jungle guerrilla war with WWII techniques.
In 2001 a bunch of guys with box cutters hijacked some airplanes; and the result is (fighting the last war) we can't take nail files on a **deleted expletive** airplane. (Although I've read somewhere that people have successfully gotten combat knives past security. Go figure.) Meanwhile under 5% of containers coming into the country are inspected for anything at all.
The entire "airport security" kerfuffle is an extended exercise in CYA. It serves no useful purpose whatever.
I agree with the supporters of general aviation; one of my great memories is a flight over the East Bay in a Cessna 2 seater, from San Jose up to Berkeley and back, in about 1973.
Anonymous said...
| http://disgustedbeyondbelief.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-bothers-me-about-flying.html | dclm-gs1-161621087 |
0.077588 | <urn:uuid:6846e826-222c-4850-b0cf-28476afb1867> | en | 0.922822 | Saturday, May 28, 2011
Who Said Paleo Diet Was High In Fat? Part 2.2
• Immunopolysaccharides
• DNA and RNA
• Heparin (another glycosaminoglycan), an endogenous anticoagulant
Who Said Paleo Diet Was High In Fat? Part 2.1
So, I think that we have three questions to explore:
Carbohydrate Content of Wild Plant Foods
Plants Used By Hunters
And from her letter in reply to Cordain et al:
Study: Metabolic and Behavioral Effects of a Low Fat, High Sugar Weight Loss Diet
What would happen if you put 42 overweight women on a diet supplying only 11 percent of energy as fat and 71 percent as carbohydrate, with half of those women getting 43 percent of their total daily energy (kcalorie) diet from sucrose, plain white table sugar?
I don't recommend eating a 43% sucrose diet, but I do have interest in knowing how sugar affects human metabolism and behavior, as I think that this could help us understand the baseline adaptation of human metabolism.
Surwit et al did the experiment. The women weighed 130 to 200 percent of their ideal bodyweights at baseline. Surwit et al controlled dietary intake by providing the women with all meals and snacks consumed during the 6 week period, along with a Women's One-A-Day multivitamin.
Half of the women ate a starch-based diet and the other half ate the high sucrose diet. Each of the groups included 12 "whites." The high sucrose group had 8 "blacks," and the high starch group had 10.
This table shows the nutrient profile of the two diets; one supplied 121 g of sucrose daily, the other only 12 g sucrose daily:
You can see that without the multivitamin contribution, the high sucrose diet has a low nutrient density compared to the high starch diet. Of concern to me, with the multivitamin added, both groups had quite high intakes of iron. High levels of dietary and stored iron appear to promote multiple degenerative, inflammatory, and autoimmune disease processes, as well as aging, by enhancing oxidative activity throughout the body. Since these diets supplied essentially adequate dietary iron without the supplement, no one who did not have iron-deficiency anemia needed this amount of additional iron and I would have had them take an iron-free supplement in this study. Outside this study, I would have taught them to make natural food selections to optimize iron intake.
And this table shows a sample day's menu for each of the groups.
Lots of refined foods...not what I would suggest. Lots of room for improvement.
The following figure depicts the changes in body weight during the intervention:
Surprise! Both groups lost weight. According to this table, the loss included trunk fat and a decline in body fat percentage:
The loss of trunk fat suggests a decline in insulin resistance, since trunk fat is a sign of insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome.
Total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides also declined, with minimal reduction in HDL:
Both groups had reductions in fasting glucose and marked reductions in levels of norepinephrine, a "fight or flight" neurotransmitter (declining levels of which would indicate reduction of perceived stress and tension):
The authors noted:
"Interestingly, one 53-yold subject who displayed the typical pattern of markedly elevated plasma triacylglycerol and hyperglycemia at the beginning of the study showed significant decreases in fasting glucose, total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and triacylglycerol concentrations, and an increase in HDL cholesterol during the 6 wk of the high-sucrose diet. These findings are consistent with epidemiologic data (1, 9, 22, 39) and animal data from our laboratory (13) that clearly show that high sucrose or complex carbohydrate consumption does not cause obesity, hyperglycemia, or insulin resistance in the absence of dietary fat."
Wait...with all that carbohydrate and so little fat and animal protein, didn't they feel hungry all the time? The following table shows the "behavioral"--actually, psychical, or mental-emotional-- effects of these diets:
Hunger, negative feelings, and depression all declined from baseline in both groups; vigilance and positive feelings both increased from baseline in both groups. Anxiety declined in the starch-based group, and slightly increased, but not significantly, in a statistical sense, in the sugar-based group.
The authors noted in the introduction:
"Although there is little theoretical rationale to support the notion that sucrose produces behavioral arousal, there are data to support a theory making the opposite prediction. Carbohydrate consumption, in conjunction with a minimal amount of protein, has been shown to cause an increase in the ratio of plasma tryptophan to large neutral amino acids (28), which in turn is associated with an increase in central tryptophan uptake and brain serotonin synthesis (29, 30). Furthermore, sucrose has a greater effect than starch. (28). This carbohydrate-induced change in central serotonin activity would presumably have a tranquilizing effect as opposed to the exaggerated arousal and hyperactivity typically attributed to sucrose (31). "
Combined with this information, this study's findings that high sugar intakes can markedly reduce norepinephrine and hunger levels confirms the Chinese medical view that sugar has yin effects, where yin stands for the overlapping sensory characteristics cool, calm/quiet, soft, and moist. According to Chinese medicine, this makes sugar a medication for excessive yang conditions characterized by heat, agitation, tension, and dryness; but because it has relatively extreme characteristics, long term regular use of large amounts will create an excessively yin condition, i.e. excessive coolness, lassitude, weakness/impotence, and moisture (e.g. watery phlegm accumulation, excessive salivation), and a generally deficient condition. Chinese dietary principles classify whole food starches as more desirable, more balanced foods--having a balance of yin and yang characteristics making them suitable for use as staple foods. More on that in another article.
Meanwhile, this study seems to question claims that diets high in sugar or starch and low in fat will increase hunger, raise blood sugar, increase lipids, and promote metabolic syndrome in obese individuals. On the contrary, in this study, increasing the carbohydrate content of the diet, whether by starch or sugar, had the opposite effect.
It seems very unlikely that this would occur in any animal with a metabolism by nature designed for a low carbohydrate and high fat intake. I would expect high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet to increase, not decrease, stress and tension in an animal evolutionarily adapted to a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.
On the other hand, it suggests a dietary remedy to replace the most commonly prescribed drugs in the U.S.A. -- antianxiety and antidepressant medications.
Can you reverse depression, negative feelings, poor vigilance, and hunger all with one simple dietary shift to increased whole food starch and concomitant reduced fat?
A comprehensive theory of human nutrition and weight management has to have the capacity to explain this study without trying to explain it away.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Who Said Paleo Diet Was High In Fat? Part 2.0
In 2000, a team including Loren Cordain, Janette Brand Miller, S Boyd Eaton, Neil Mann, Susanne HA Holt, and John D Speth published “Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets” (hereafter referred to as “the Plant-Animal Ratios paper”) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition [1]. Based on their analysis of the diets of 229 tribes that they identified as contemporary hunter-gatherers, they concluded:
Specifically, Cordain et al decided that:
“The most plausible (values not exceeding the mean MRUS) percentages of total energy [in hunter-gatherer diets] would be 19–35% for dietary protein, 22–40% for carbohydrate, and 28–58% for fat.”
Although this suggests that hunter-gatherer diets ranged from low- to high-fat (28-58% of energy from fat), this paper has served as support for the idea that hunter-gatherer diets typically had high fat contents, because in it Cordain et al appear to provide evidence for three propositions:
So, does this paper supply good evidence for these propositions?
Perhaps unbeknownst to many people familiar with this paper, Katherine Milton, professor of physical anthropology at U.C. Berkeley, and author of at least 100 peer-reviewed papers on the dietary ecology of primates, human ancestors, and humans, including “Diet and Primate Evolution [pdf]” in Scientific American and “A Hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat-eating in Human Evolution [pdf]” in Evolutionary Anthropology, wrote a critical editorial commentary on the Cordain et al paper (Hunter-Gatherer Diets--A Different Perspective) that appeared in the same issue of AJCN, and a follow-up letter to the editor. What did she have to say?
Cordain et al reported the procedure used to produce their numbers:
First, they analyzed the data from Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas (heareafter referred to as the EA) to determine the probable range of plant:animal ratios in hunter-gatherer diets. From this analysis they concluded that most hunter-gatherers derived more than half (56-65%) of their subsistence from animal foods.
Second, using a database of 829 wild plant foods, they calculated that the (mythical) “average” wild plant food macronutrient provided 62% of energy from carbohydrate, 24% from fat, and 14% from protein, and an energy density of 6.99 kJ/g (1.7 kcal/g).
Third, unlike Eaton et al, Cordain et al assumed that hunters would consume all edible portions of a wild game carcass, including marrow, adipose, and visceral fats.
Fourth, they assumed a constant of ~35 percent of the diet of all hunter-gatherers consisted of land animal foods, with any additional animal foods coming from fresh- or salt-water fish.
Fifth, they state:
Sixth, they assumed that an 80 kg hunter would require about 3000 kcal (12552 kJ) from food each day.
Seventh, they performed calculations using these numbers to generate ranges of macronutrients in a hunter-gatherer diet.
Eighth, if any calculation produced a protein intake greater than 35 percent of energy, which would probably deliver more nitrogen than the human liver can covert to urea in a day and therefore lead to harmful levels of blood ammonia and amino acids, they assumed that ‘typical’ hunter-gatherers pursued higher intakes of animal fats.
They based this assertion on the ethnographic reports in the EA and optimal foraging theory. In short, from the data in the EA it appears that hunters preferred to increase animal fat as opposed to plant food consumption, even to the extent of selectively eating animal fats (and discarding the rest of the carcass). Cordain et al explain this as a manifestation of optimal foraging theory, i.e. hunting a large fat animal supposedly has a greater return on investment than plant foods, meaning that for hunting fat animals, the ratio of energy obtained to energy spent in the hunt appears greater than the ratio of energy obtained to energy spent in collecting wild plants.
Thus, the conclusions made by Cordain et al rest entirely on the reliability of the basic data in the EA as a basis for making quantitative calculations about macronutrient ratios of hunter-gatherers.
Reliability of the EA Data
Cordain et al describe the nature of the EA data in this passage:
“Although Murdock did not specify whether the subsistence-dependence categories were based on the energy content or weight of the food for each subsistence economy (gathered plant foods, hunted animal foods, and fished animal foods), examination of the >400 original references indicates that in many cases, estimates were made by weight. Ethnographic data are qualitative in nature and as such lack the precision of quantitative data; consequently, Murdock's subsistence-dependence categories, in almost all cases, represent subjective approximations by Murdock of the ethnographer's or anthropologist's original observation.” [Italics added]
In this last sentence, Cordain et al appear to admit that the Ethnographic Atlas reports Murdock’s “subjective approximations” of the subsistence ratios of various cultures, based on the original, first hand observations of ethnographers or anthropologists, which are “qualitative” [i.e. plant versus animal], not “quantitative,” and “lack precision.”
So the question arises, how can anyone have confidence in quantitative descriptions of the macronutrient ratios of hunter-gatherer diets when the basic “data” supporting those consists of second-hand “subjective approximations” of the raw weights of plant, animal, and fish consumed by the various tribes?
In discussing the limitations of their calculations, Cordain et al return to the issue:
“Perhaps the most important variable influencing the estimation of the dietary macronutrient ratio in hunter-gatherer populations, when indirect procedures are used, is the validity of ethnographic data. Other ethnographers who compiled hunter-gatherer data from the Ethnographic Atlas noted that the scores Murdock assigned to the 5 basic subsistence economies are not precise, but rather are approximations (11, 36, 37) generally based on raw weights of the dietary items (36). Although estimations of energy by weight of wild plant and animal foods may sometimes yield results similar to actual values, there is considerable room for error. The present analysis indicates that if the mean plant-food energy density for 829 wild plant foods (6.99 kJ/g) is contrasted with the energy density (7.24 kJ/g) of an average white-tailed deer with 10% body fat, there would only be a 4% difference between actual energy values and those estimated by weight. However, if the mean energy density of wild fruit (3.97 kJ/g) or wild tubers (4.06 kJ/g) were contrasted with that of a white-tailed deer with 17.7% body fat (10.17 kJ/g), there would be a 60–61% difference between actual energy values and those estimated by weight. Obviously, not all ethnographic estimations of energy intake in hunter-gatherer populations based on food weight would necessarily be this extreme. This example does indicate the imprecise nature of qualitative ethnographic data; however, it does not rule out its important use as a data source to test hypothetic models. [Italics added.]”
Cordain et al admit that the EA data is “qualitative” and “imprecise,” and admit "considerable room for error" involved in translating this data into energy and macronutrient intakes, yet all of their more precise quantitative conclusions about macronutrient ratios rest on this somewhat shifty foundation.
Milton had a few things to say about this use of the EA. In her critical editorial comments on Cordain et al, Milton lists some of the reasons she doubts the accuracy of conclusions drawn from unselective use of the EA dietary data on "hunters:"
1 The EA is “compiled largely from 20th century sources and written by ethnographers or others with disparate backgrounds, rarely interested in diet per se or trained in dietary collection techniques.” These people would not compile accurate objective data about diet but would give their subjective impressions.
2 “By the 20th century, most hunter-gatherers had vanished; many of those who remained had been displaced to marginal environments.” Marginal environments may produce less edible plant matter than richer environments favored by agriculturalists; if given a environment richer in plant resources, they might choose something else. For example, Inuit are forced to live on an animal-based diet because their environment does not supply calorically significant plant foods. This doesn’t tell us anything about what they would do if they inhabited the lusher environments now under the control of agricultural people. Similarly the contemporary !Kung live in a desert; what they eat now doesn’t tell us what their ancestors ate when the Khalahari was a lush land with many large permanent lakes.
3 “Some societies coded as hunter-gatherers in the Atlas probably were not exclusively hunter-gatherers or were displaced agricultural peoples.” More about this below.
4 “Because most of the ethnographers were male, they often did not associate with women, who typically collect and process plant resources.”
5 “Finally, all the hunter-gatherers … included in the Atlas were modern-day humans with a rich variety of social and economic patterns and… not ‘survivors from the primitive condition of all mankind.’ (6). Their wide range of dietary behaviors does not fall into one standard macronutrient pattern that contemporary humans could emulate for better health.”
All of these factors introduce considerable room for error in the EA representations of hunter-gatherer diets, several producing a bias toward an impression that hunter-gatherers favored animal over plant foods.
In her letter to the AJCN that also accompanied the Cordain et al paper, Milton made further remarks:
“In his 1968 analysis of hunter-gatherer diets, [Richard] Lee (8) reclassified some Atlas data and also excluded mounted hunters with guns and ‘casual’ agriculturalists from his database. In Lee's opinion, only 24 societies from all of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America could be classified as hunter-gatherers, whereas North America alone contained >80% (135) of the 165 ‘hunting’ societies listed in the Atlas.”
Richard Lee provided his opinion in his essay “What hunters do for a living, or, how to make out on scarce resources” published in the book he edited, Man the Hunter (1968). According to the University of Toronto Archives and Records: “Prof Lee has published over 100 articles and chapters in books. He has authored several books including Man the Hunter (1968), Kalahari Hunter Gathers (1976), Politics and History in Band Societies (1982) and The Dobe Ju/’hoansi (2003). Most recognized is his 1979 , The !Kung San: Men and Women and Work in a Foraging Society, listed in American Scientist list of the 100 most important works in science of the 20th century.”
Now, consider Milton’s points:
1. Lee came to the conclusion that only 24 societies in the EA could be legitimately classified as hunter-gatherers operating in truly primitive fashion, i.e. without firearms, horses, or “casual agriculture,” but Cordain et al classified as hunter-gatherer any tribe that, according to the “subjective approximations” of Murdock, did not practice animal husbandry or agriculture at the time of observation by ethnographers or anthropologists, even if that tribe used modern firearms, or went hunting on horses instead of on foot. The use of firearms and horses certainly increases the productivity of hunting compared to hunting on foot with primitive bow and arrow, perhaps leading some tribes to hunt--and succeed--more than they would otherwise.
2. None of the tribes that Lee identified as hunter-gatherers inhabited North America, whereas 80% of the tribes classified as “hunters” in the Atlas inhabited mostly 20th century North America. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Euroamericans forced Natives of North America off of productive, agriculturally valuable lands that could produce large amounts of plant biomass, onto marginal lands like highlands and deserts where they would have little opportunity to consume plants relative to animals.
If Milton is correct, this apparently means that Cordain et al considered North American mounted hunters using firearms more “representative” of hunter-gatherers than the pedestrian African !Kung and Hazda, which in this letter to the AJCN they describe as “extreme” and “unrepresentative” of hunter-gatherers because they have diets higher in plant food than those North American tribes.
In reference to this latter idea, Milton responded:
“The !Kung and Hazda, dismissed by Cordain et al as ‘unrepresentative,’ differ from many hunter-gatherers listed in the Atlas precisely because they have been relatively well studied dietarily—in both cases, plant foods contributed the bulk of daily energy intake.”
So, in essence, Milton is asking, which serves as the better basis for estimates of evolutionary macronutrient intakes: Quantitative data derived from first-hand accounts of African tribes not using horses or firearms, or qualitative data derived primarily from second-hand “subjective approximations” of dietary intakes of tribes all over the world, but predominantly from contemporary North America?
In "Stone Agers in the Fast Lane" and The Paleolithic Prescription, Eaton et al used the plant:animal subsistence ratio estimated by Lee, based on the 24 tribes he identified as primitive hunter-gatherers, namely 65:35 plant:animal, as the basis for their macronutrient estimates.
Enough for now. Remember that Cordain et al claimed that wild plant foods typically have a "relatively low carbohydrate content," apparently making them unsuitable as staple foods for hunter-gatherers, making it necessary for them to hunt high fat animals to avoid excessive consumption of protein. Both Milton and I have some observations on this claim, which I will discuss in a future post, part 2.1.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Nutrient density of dietary fats and high fat diets
I decided to do a comparison of the nutrients in 500 kcalorie portions of olive oil, butter, lard, white rice, brown rice, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
I chose to include white and brown rice only because I wanted to find out if common animal fats really provide more nutritients, kcal for kcal, than white rice, commonly referred to as "filler" food.
I chose 500 kcalories because this would represent 25% of a 2000 kcal diet and 30% of a 1500kcal diet. If you eat a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet (more than 50% of kcals from fat), you will be getting most of your calories from fats.
Does this supply large amounts of fat-soluble vitamins or result in improved nutrient-density, compared, for example, to substituting white rice for those 500 kcal?
I mean, does a diet that delivers 50% of its energy as fat really pack a nutritional punch, compared to one that delivers 50% of its energy as white rice, brown rice, potatoes, or sweet potatoes?
Using USDA data I compiled this table:
Click to Enlarge
Some observations:
1. Sweet potatoes provide more vitamin E than any of the fats except olive oil, and potatoes supply almost 3 times as much vitamin E as lard and nearly as much as butter.
2. None of the fats supply significant vitamin D; considering that our requirement is about 4000 IU daily, a 500 kcal dose of butter or lard provides only 1-1.4 percent of the daily requirement.
3. Butter delivers more micronutrients than either of the other fats, but the amounts are very small. Except for vitamins A, D, and E, it doesn't even hold a candle to white rice.
4. A 500 kcal dose of butter provides only 50% of your vitamin A, and 11% of your vitamin E requirements. It provides no more than 2% of the requirement for any other nutrient. By contrast, one teaspoon of cod liver oil provides 150% of the vitamin A requirement, and 450 IU of vitamin D, ten times more than butter, and for only about 50 kcalories, one-tenth of the butter.
Kcalorie-for-kcalorie, enriched white rice meets more micronutrient needs than butter. A diet providing 500 kcal as white rice, supplemented with a mere teaspoon of cod liver oil for your vitamin A, far surpasses the nutrient-density of a diet replacing those 500 kcal of white rice with either butter, lard, or olive oil, even if you include the teaspoon of cod liver oil. Choose brown rice, potatoes, or sweet potatoes and your vitamin and mineral intake will start to reach superior levels.
Now, if you are trying to lose 25 to 50 pounds, you will need to be in energy deficit for 6 to 12 months. If you consume 1800 kcalories daily, and 60% of those come from fats, which all have a very low vitamin and mineral density, you will need to get virtually all of your vitamins and minerals from the non-fat portion of your diet, which consists of only 720 kcalories.
In Understanding Nutrition 6th Edition, Whitney and Rolfes point out on page 271 that "Nutritional adequacy is difficult to achieve on fewer than 1200 kcalories a day, and most healthy adults should not consume any less than that." They make this statement in reference to a diet supplying only 20 percent of kcalories as fat. A 60% fat, 1800 kcal diet is, from a nutrient-density perspective, equivalent to an 1100 kcal low-fat diet. Most likely it will have multiple micronutrient deficiencies.
Now consider the following table, which lists the nutrients involved in metabolism of fats for energy as well as other functions.
Role in fat metabolism
Part of TPP coenzyme in TCA.
Base of coenzymes FMN and FAD required for TCA cycle and electron transport chain.
Base of coenzymes NAD and NADP required for TCA cycle and electron transport chain; required cofacdtor for ∂-5 desaturase in EFA metabolism.
Delivers carbon to the TCA cycle to replenish oxaloacetate; required for catabolism of some fatty acids and for fatty acid synthesis.
Pantothenic acid
Base for Coenzyme A (CoA) required for making acetyl CoA, which cells need for synthesizing lipids and steroid hormones as well as for running the TCA cycle.
Pyridoxine (B6)
Part of coenzymes PLP and PMP used in fatty acid metabolism and steroid hormone activity, cofactor for ∂-6 desaturase in EFA metabolism.
Helps to break down some fatty acids.
Needed to synthesize the phospholipid lecithin.
Required for hydroxylation of carnitine, a compound that transports long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria for energy metabolism; cofactor for ∂-5 desaturase.
Tocopherols (VT-E)
Protect lipids from free-radical damage (esp. PUFAs)
Part of ATP required in TCA cycle.
Catalyst in ATP formation; required for synthesis of lipids and elongation of essential fatty acids to produce prostaglandins.
Part of vitamins biotin and thiamin.
Part of hemoglobin required to deliver oxygen to cells for oxidation of macronutrients.
Co-factor in EFA metabolism.
Part of glutathione, an assistant to VT-E.
Needed to make hemoglobin and in energy-releasing reactions.
Cofactor in lipid metabolism.
If you develop a deficiency of any of the nutrients required for oxidation of fats to release energy, this may impair your ability to convert body fats to energy, and stall your loss of fat.
Notice that it is the B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, and minerals you need most to metabolize fats. So far as I know, vitamins A and D play no role in fat metabolism, so the star vitamins in butter probably aren't going to help you burn body fat.
Thus, from a micronutrient standpoint, a diet providing 30% of its energy as free (i.e. refined) fats differs little from a diet providing 30% of its energy as refined sugar.
If you have a higher energy requirement—say, 2500 kcal daily or more––this might not affect you. You might get at least 1200 kcalories from meat and possibly vegetables, enough to at least meet minimum micronutrient requirements.
This might explain why some people eating high-fat, low-carb diets feel and perform adequately over a longer term, while others do not. I would expect that those on high kcalorie, high fat, low carb diets, more typically large, active men, would have a better micronutrient status and general health and results than those on low kcalorie, high-fat, low-carb diets, more typically small or sedentary women.
Since the nutrients in meat lie in the muscle or organ, not in the fat, high-fat meats have a lower micronutrient density than lean meats. Since requirements for B-complex vitamins vary in proportion to energy expenditure, if you have a high energy expenditure, it would seem rational to get your energy from foods with the higher density of B-complex vitamins, such as unrefined starches and lean meats, rather than surplus fats.
Regardless of energy requirement, I would rather choose the more nutrient-dense path, increasing my chances of superior micronutrient status without use of isolated supplements having questionable value and potential for harm.
Just a thought.
Friday, May 20, 2011
The Case of the Missing Extinctions
Or, The Pleistocene Extinctions Pattern Implications For Understanding Human Evolutionary Nutrition
Prior to fifty thousand years ago, before the Pleistocene extinctions, ancestors of modern humans lived in Africa. Modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens, emerged in Africa, before these extinctions.
As explained by geneticist Spencer Wells in the documentary film Journey of Man, by tracking the Y chromosome, we now know that all modern humans are descendants of a few men among the ancestors of the !Kung people currently living in the Khalahari desert.
But in ancestral times, the Khalahari was not a desert. During the Pleistocene ice ages, “the great deserts of North Africa and Western North America today were mostly vast grasslands with large permanent lakes and abundant game animals.” [1]
Many believe that humans evolved primarily by hunting those land animals, and take the Pleistocene extinctions as evidence that humans evolved as top predators of grassland animals in Africa.
In "Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents" [2], Lyons et al provide several convincing lines of evidence and reasoning that indicate that humans must have caused the Pleistocene extinctions. To simplify, no other known natural phenomenon (such as climate change) could account for the sudden selective extinctions of the megafauna, without simultaneous extinctions of smaller species.
But there is something very interesting about the pattern of the Pleistocene extinctions.
The following graph from Lyons et al [2] shows the pattern. The hatched bars show the species exterminated in the late Pleistocene. As you move from left to right, the bars represent increasingly larger species. Notice anything unique about Africa?
On every continent where humans were an invasive species, the largest animals went extinct.
But not in Africa.
There, most of the large body species survived.
It appears that as humans invaded Australia and the Americas they succeeded in exterminating the fat megafauna, but humans who remained in Africa did not, and many, including giraffes, elephants, and rhinos, have remained to this day. Why?
Lyons et al have a suggestion:
“The lack of extinctions in Africa (Fig. 1) is especially notable given the long history of humans on this continent. The co-evolution of man with the African megafauna may have resulted in the evolution of effective anti-predator behaviours (Diamond, 1984; Martin, 1984).”[Italics added]
In other words, upper Paleolithic humans did not exterminate the megafauna of Africa because the African megafauna had plenty of experience with and knew how to avoid human predation. Just the smell of humans probably sent them running.
In contrast, animals in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas most likely evolved independent of human predation. This meant that they were, for humans, relative to African fauna, ‘sitting ducks.’
Thus, considering the co-evolution of humans with African fauna, the fact that the extinctions did not occur in Africa supports the hypothesis that humans, as an invasive species, caused those extinctions on other continents.
It also suggests that the invasion of other continents allowed humans to pursue a subsistence strategy––hunting large, fat anmals––that would not have been as successful in Africa.
Moreover, we could reasonably take the statement by Lyons et al and modify it slightly:
The co-evolution of man with African fauna (mega or not) most likely resulted in those fauna evolving behaviors effective for avoiding human predation.
This further suggests that the human exodus out of Africa into other continents may have resulted in a significant change in human diet composition, after H. sapiens sapiens had already emerged. In other words, it suggests that the later Paleolithic diet of humans outside of Africa may have contained much larger amounts of land animal meat and fat than would have been possible in the early Paleolithic among the far more wary wildlife of the homeland.
Let me put it this way. An animal adapted to a diet obtained in the Africa invades a new ecosystem. In this new ecosystem, this invasive species finds that hunting is a lot easier than it was in the homeland, because the animals are relatively oblivious to the danger presented by humans. Consequently, in accord with optimal foraging theory, this animal goes for the easiest calories possible: large animals that don’t know that they should run away from anything that smells, sounds, or looks like a human.
If this new diet supports health adequately to allow reproduction for a majority of individuals, but disrupts homeostasis just enough that it gradually induces metabolic disorders that emerge over time, past the time of reproduction, or shortens the average individual’s lifespan by inducing chronic diseases, the new diet will not select against those not adapted to the new diet, nor produce a population better adaptated to the diet.
I might even call it the upper Paleolithic dietary revolution.
Now, let’s consider Africa again. As noted above, the great deserts of Africa were grasslands with large “permanent” lakes (well, permanent during those ages). If hunting land animals was not as easy in Africa as in Eurasia and the Americas, what about hunting animals living in those lakes? Would they all catch the smell of humans or run away easily?
Lacustrine, riverine, and wetland environments are very rich in food resources, both plant and animal, including animals that don't move very fast (shellfish). Foraging in such environments might just provide greater return on investment than possible on a grassland.
Some people studying human evolutionary nutrition believe that the archaeological, cultural, nutritional, biochemical, and medical evidence points in the direction of humans evolving in those econiches, where shellfish, fish, and amphibious animals could have been the primary sources of animal foods. These animals have nutritional properties significantly different from those of savannah animals—the protein, fats, and mineral contents of water animals all differ significantly from land-based animals, in very interesting ways relative to specifically human nutritional requirements, particularly for the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
In fact, the earliest human fossils are consistently found associated with lacustrine or marine fossils indicating humans inhabiting niches incorporating a land-water interface: wet woodlands, flood plains, wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastlines. In these two segments of the Journey of Man, we learn about archaeological evidence of humans living along the African coastline and consuming large amounts of seafoods, leaving large heaps of seashells as evidence (segment starts about 5:00 of first video):
Also, and again, as explained in the Journey of Man, the first exodus of humans from Africa appears to have followed a path along the marine coastline to Australia; it does not track through a grassland. And, in this segment, we learn that some of the first humans in Australia lived in a lacustrine environment (now a desert), described as "quite a rich environment," eating fish (leaving hearths and fish bones as evidence):
Indeed, in the two segments below, Wells point out that, at the end of this journey, to get from Indonesia to Australia, it appears that people had to find a way across 150 miles of open ocean (segment starts at about 3:20 of the first video).
The animal capable of this seafaring--150 miles of open ocean with only the most primitive of boats--would have had to have been very familiar with and physically very well adapted to a marine environment. Not a likely accomplishment for a mammal specialized in exploiting the dry savannah environment.
Which leads me again back to Michael Crawford and David Marsh, co-authors of Nutrition and Evolution. Crawford, a biochemist, has devoted his life work to study of the effects of fats on human physiology, and has a bit to say on the subject and its relation to human evolution. Some others have something to say about the differences between land and animal foods with regard to human brain nutrition.
But for now I have run out of time. To be continued. | http://donmatesz.blogspot.com/2011/05/ | dclm-gs1-161651087 |
0.038444 | <urn:uuid:c193214d-9965-4593-aa9e-701422e441d0> | en | 0.793072 | Xylocaine Jelly
|Xylocaine Xylocaine Jelly
Drugs search, click the first letter of a drug name:
Generic Name: lidocaine hydrochloride
Dosage Form: Injection, usp
Xylocaine Description
Xylocaine - Clinical Pharmacology
Mechanism of Action and Electrophysiology
Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism
Indications and Usage for Xylocaine
Should circulatory depression occur, vasopressors may be used.
Information for Patients:
Laboratory Tests:
None known
Drug Interactions:
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility:
Teratogenic Effects:Pregnancy Category B:
Labor and Delivery:
Nursing Mothers:
Pediatric Use:
Adverse Reactions
Central Nervous System:
Cardiovascular System:
Drug Abuse and Dependence
Xylocaine Dosage and Administration
Single Direct Intravenous Injection (bolus)
Continuous Intravenous Infusion
How is Xylocaine Supplied
NDC 0186-0232-03 100 mg, 5 mL Ampule
All trademarks are the property of the AstraZeneca group
© AstraZeneca 2002
AstraZeneca LP, Wilmington, DE 19850
Rev. 08/02
Xylocaine (Lidocaine hydrochloride)
Product Code 0186-0232 Dosage Form INJECTION
Route Of Administration INTRAVENOUS DEA Schedule
Name (Active Moiety) Type Strength
Lidocaine hydrochloride (Lidocaine ) Active 20 MILLIGRAM In 1 MILLILITER
hydrochloric acid Inactive
sodium hydroxide Inactive
Characteristic Appearance Characteristic Appearance
Color Score
Shape Symbol
Imprint Code Coating
# NDC Package Description Multilevel Packaging
1 0186-0232-03 10 AMPULE In 1 CARTON contains a AMPULE
1 5 MILLILITER In 1 AMPULE This package is contained within the CARTON (0186-0232-03)
Revised: 02/2007
Where can I get more information about Xylocaine Xylocaine Jelly ? We recommend to use www.Drugs.com
Typical mistypes for Xylocaine Xylocaine Jelly
zylocaine xylocaine jelly, cylocaine xylocaine jelly, dylocaine xylocaine jelly, sylocaine xylocaine jelly, xtlocaine xylocaine jelly, xglocaine xylocaine jelly, xhlocaine xylocaine jelly, xulocaine xylocaine jelly, x7locaine xylocaine jelly, x6locaine xylocaine jelly, xykocaine xylocaine jelly, xypocaine xylocaine jelly, xyoocaine xylocaine jelly, xylicaine xylocaine jelly, xylkcaine xylocaine jelly, xyllcaine xylocaine jelly, xylpcaine xylocaine jelly, xyl0caine xylocaine jelly, xyl9caine xylocaine jelly, xyloxaine xylocaine jelly, xylovaine xylocaine jelly, xylofaine xylocaine jelly, xylodaine xylocaine jelly, xyloczine xylocaine jelly, xylocsine xylocaine jelly, xylocwine xylocaine jelly, xylocqine xylocaine jelly, xylocaune xylocaine jelly, xylocajne xylocaine jelly, xylocakne xylocaine jelly, xylocaone xylocaine jelly, xyloca9ne xylocaine jelly, xyloca8ne xylocaine jelly, xylocaibe xylocaine jelly, xylocaime xylocaine jelly, xylocaije xylocaine jelly, xylocaihe xylocaine jelly, xylocainw xylocaine jelly, xylocains xylocaine jelly, xylocaind xylocaine jelly, xylocainr xylocaine jelly, xylocain4 xylocaine jelly, xylocain3 xylocaine jelly, xylocaine zylocaine jelly, xylocaine cylocaine jelly, xylocaine dylocaine jelly, xylocaine sylocaine jelly, xylocaine xtlocaine jelly, xylocaine xglocaine jelly, xylocaine xhlocaine jelly, xylocaine xulocaine jelly, xylocaine x7locaine jelly, xylocaine x6locaine jelly, xylocaine xykocaine jelly, xylocaine xypocaine jelly, xylocaine xyoocaine jelly, xylocaine xylicaine jelly, xylocaine xylkcaine jelly, xylocaine xyllcaine jelly, xylocaine xylpcaine jelly, xylocaine xyl0caine jelly, xylocaine xyl9caine jelly, xylocaine xyloxaine jelly, xylocaine xylovaine jelly, xylocaine xylofaine jelly, xylocaine xylodaine jelly, xylocaine xyloczine jelly, xylocaine xylocsine jelly, xylocaine xylocwine jelly, xylocaine xylocqine jelly, xylocaine xylocaune jelly, xylocaine xylocajne jelly, xylocaine xylocakne jelly, xylocaine xylocaone jelly, xylocaine xyloca9ne jelly, xylocaine xyloca8ne jelly, xylocaine xylocaibe jelly, xylocaine xylocaime jelly, xylocaine xylocaije jelly, xylocaine xylocaihe jelly, xylocaine xylocainw jelly, xylocaine xylocains jelly, xylocaine xylocaind jelly, xylocaine xylocainr jelly, xylocaine xylocain4 jelly, xylocaine xylocain3 jelly, xylocaine xylocaine helly, xylocaine xylocaine nelly, xylocaine xylocaine melly, xylocaine xylocaine kelly, xylocaine xylocaine ielly, xylocaine xylocaine uelly, xylocaine xylocaine jwlly, xylocaine xylocaine jslly, xylocaine xylocaine jdlly, xylocaine xylocaine jrlly, xylocaine xylocaine j4lly, xylocaine xylocaine j3lly, xylocaine xylocaine jekly, xylocaine xylocaine jeply, xylocaine xylocaine jeoly, xylocaine xylocaine jelky, xylocaine xylocaine jelpy, xylocaine xylocaine jeloy, xylocaine xylocaine jellt, xylocaine xylocaine jellg, xylocaine xylocaine jellh, xylocaine xylocaine jellu, xylocaine xylocaine jell7, xylocaine xylocaine jell6, ylocaine xylocaine jelly, xlocaine xylocaine jelly, xyocaine xylocaine jelly, xylcaine xylocaine jelly, xyloaine xylocaine jelly, xylocine xylocaine jelly, xylocane xylocaine jelly, xylocaie xylocaine jelly, xylocain xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine ylocaine jelly, xylocaine xlocaine jelly, xylocaine xyocaine jelly, xylocaine xylcaine jelly, xylocaine xyloaine jelly, xylocaine xylocine jelly, xylocaine xylocane jelly, xylocaine xylocaie jelly, xylocaine xylocain jelly, xylocaine xylocainejelly, xylocaine xylocaine elly, xylocaine xylocaine jlly, xylocaine xylocaine jely, xylocaine xylocaine jely, xylocaine xylocaine jell, yxlocaine xylocaine jelly, xlyocaine xylocaine jelly, xyolcaine xylocaine jelly, xylcoaine xylocaine jelly, xyloacine xylocaine jelly, xylociane xylocaine jelly, xylocanie xylocaine jelly, xylocaien xylocaine jelly, xylocain e xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine x ylocaine jelly, xylocaine yxlocaine jelly, xylocaine xlyocaine jelly, xylocaine xyolcaine jelly, xylocaine xylcoaine jelly, xylocaine xyloacine jelly, xylocaine xylociane jelly, xylocaine xylocanie jelly, xylocaine xylocaien jelly, xylocaine xylocain ejelly, xylocaine xylocainej elly, xylocaine xylocaine ejlly, xylocaine xylocaine jlely, xylocaine xylocaine jelyl, xxylocaine xylocaine jelly, xyylocaine xylocaine jelly, xyllocaine xylocaine jelly, xyloocaine xylocaine jelly, xyloccaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaiine xylocaine jelly, xylocainne xylocaine jelly, xylocainee xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xxylocaine jelly, xylocaine xyylocaine jelly, xylocaine xyllocaine jelly, xylocaine xyloocaine jelly, xylocaine xyloccaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaiine jelly, xylocaine xylocainne jelly, xylocaine xylocainee jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jelly, xylocaine xylocaine jjelly, xylocaine xylocaine jeelly, xylocaine xylocaine jellly, xylocaine xylocaine jellly, xylocaine xylocaine jellyy, etc.
| http://drug-information.ru/prep/47010.html | dclm-gs1-161681087 |
0.027737 | <urn:uuid:e91e3f6f-aaaa-401b-b66b-ccb41985b91e> | en | 0.868454 | Monday, August 8, 2011
OPI Swimsuit...Nailed It! + Sinful Colors Frenzy
This layering combo is to die for :)
OPI Swimsuit...Nailed It + Sinful Colors Frenzy
Seche Vite Base Coat
2 coats OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It!
1 coat Sinful Colors Frenzy
Seche Vite Top Coat
I can only imagine how dreadful this polish is gonna be to get off. I've heard bad things about this blue + staining the nail.. plus I added a glitter.. merh, bad idea, but the glitter has gorgeous blue, purple + silver sparkles that complimented Swimsuit... Nailed It! perfectly.
1. Wow! That is a great combination!! Perfect for summer!!
2. It's sooo pretty! Thanks for showing the Sinful Colors glitter- I now need it! haha.
3. pretty! I usually use the Target brand acetone scrubber container. It's a jar of acetone with lil scrubby things you stick your fingers in. Works wonders!
4. That glitter looks so pretty on the blue.
And yeah, I hate polish that stains the nail :-/
| http://embellishednails.blogspot.com/2011/08/opi-swimsuitnailed-it-sinful-colors.html | dclm-gs1-161701087 |
0.019414 | <urn:uuid:a8699dc8-def0-4637-b139-a96ee4d1de8a> | en | 0.986102 | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Madrona, or a break in the "yarn fast"
Ack! I uploaded these photos on Sunday morning so I could post about them, and here it is Wednesday already! The annual Madrona Fiber Arts Festival was this past weekend in Tacoma (Why Tacoma? Really, why not Seattle itself?), and Katrina and I headed down Friday after work. To be fair - we left early. Working in a lab is very flexible. After braving the traffic, we arrived at the hotel and prepared ourselves for battle. Armed with detailed lists and debit cards we attacked the market. In the end Katrina didn't buy anything and I didn't really buy that much, although I'm really happy with what I got. First I bought two skeins of Shibui Sock for the Transition Gloves, started here: That's what Ihad Sunday morning - by now I'm about 2/3 finished with the first mitt, and it's really lovely. I was also looking for unique laceweight yarn that I couldn't get in Seattle (harder than you think, we have a lot of yarn shops here), and I found some: This is undyed wool from Ireland from Black Water Abbey Yarns, and it's very sheepy. I'm imagining some rustic lace with it. I already have yarn for the Cobweb Lace Stole from Interweave, but this might be better. We'll see. Here's a close-up: And I bought some yarn that I probably could've found in Seattle but hadn't, for Anne Hanson's Morning Glory Stole, which Rachel bought me the pattern for a couple of years ago (!) now. It's almost exactly the color of the yarn in the pattern, and it's very lovely in person - the photo doesn't do it justice.So, that's all I bought, and I have plans for all of it. I avoided the Blue Moon Fiber Arts booth. Well, I didn't avoid it, but I didn't buy anything there. None of the STR leaped off the shelf at me, even though I was looking for some to match a colorway that I already have for a striped scarf. We met Rachel and Pam there and neither of them bought anything either, although they were taking classes and still had Saturday left for shopping, and I've not heard the final damage report.
All in all I thought the mood seemed a bit subdued compared to past years. That's probably the economy talking - I think people are hunkering down a bit with what they have, and although they were there browsing, I didn't see much being purchased. One thing I really noticed, and I think I noticed this two years ago as well, is that the market has too much handdyed sock yarn. Now, don't get me wrong, because I love me some handdyes, but there were SO many vendors selling it, and how many socks does a person need? I realize the purple yarn above is actually sockweight, and I'm not intending to use it for socks, but really a lot of the crazy dyed stuff really won't translate that well into a lot of other items.
In other news, I have started the purple Urban Aran (twice) and it's moving along. I jetisoned my original plan of knitting the medium because it was looking really wide, so now I'm knitting the small and hoping for the best. It's looking reasonable so far, about 5" in...I'd be further along had I not started those addictive orange and white mitts!
1 comment:
Anne-Marie said...
Almost done with the first mitt!
I'm jealous of your speed... I have all these things I want to knit and I can't seem to make any forward progress...
Too bad about the STR (or not too bad actually for your debit card).
There's a big sale on Manos (12$CAN/skein) at a LYS. I don't know how long I can resist... it's a good thing work is so busy. | http://emilysmusingsonknitting.blogspot.com/2009/02/madrona-or-break-in-yarn-fast.html | dclm-gs1-161711087 |
0.019909 | <urn:uuid:b6775e98-4875-4f33-8dbe-c558c1665d93> | en | 0.879874 | 4DFrame is developing various educational tools and programs that are size-up versions of 4DFrame, in which the tube and connector’s diameter is longer and the material is sturdier to enable children to have better teamwork based on the principles of math and science. With one box of Super 4D Frame,
tubes of 53cm and 60cm and a connector of 6.9cm, you can make a level 3 Sierpinski pyramid, a big geodesic dome, and a big geodesic.
• It uses the principle of the strongest and most secure triangle, which has the center of gravity at the bottom
• Each team builds a model to enhance teamwork while encouraging mathematical learning
• With two people in each team, a maximum of 32 people can participate
• Composed of 60cm and 53cm tubes and 6 connectors
Possible Models
• 1 Sierpinski isosceles triangle level 3
• 5 geodesic domes (radius 1m) / 2 Sierpinski level 1
• 3 geodesic spheres (radius 1m) / 2 Sierpinski level 1
(Above 3 cannot be made simultaneously)
Mathematical Model Concept Characteristics Super 4D Frame
Sierpinski Pyramid A model first suggested by Polish mathematician Sierpinski in 1917. When the center point of each side of one triangle is connected, four triangles are made, and if this method is repeated, an unlimited number of triangles resembling the first triangle are produced. This triangle is called the Sierpinski triangle. The Sierpinski isosceles triangle
Level 3
Height – approx. 4.4m
Sierpinski Pyramid
Geodesic Dome If N is an even number in the geodesic sphere, half of it is called the N level geodesic dome. Geodesic dome
Radius approx. 1m.
Geodesic Sphere
Geodesic Sphere A roof in the shape of a half-sphere designed in 1940 by American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller. This is the shape you get if you divide each side of a regular icosahedron by N and into regular triangles of N^2, and if you blow up this shape and make all the points be at the same distance from the center of the shape. Geodesic sphere
Radius approx. 1m
Height approx. 1m
Geodesic Dome
Super 4D Frame image | http://en.4dframe.com/4dbusiness/super-4d-frame/ | dclm-gs1-161721087 |
0.034435 | <urn:uuid:7f2d0541-bceb-44be-8580-96ad2de004ae> | en | 0.955242 | Saturday, November 13, 2010
Ensuring expertise in borehole drilling and water treatment technology
Do you know what are the main considerations which are taken into account before the actual ground drilling work starts? According to geologists, a detailed geophysical and hydro geological ground water survey is an important aspect to see if the land intended for drilling has sufficient water in the ground. How to known the presence of water in the ground, this is determined through Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES), seasimic method, magnetic survey, electrical profiling. These are the common basic methods used to determine the availability of underground water. The availability of drilling tools and their accessories is another aspect to be noted so as in order to successfully manage the drilling work. All these cannot be run smoothly without professionalism. Knowledge is basically required to accomplish the intended task. It is sometimes complained by water users that, some drilled water from the borehole tastes salty, but water experts says that this is due to the presence of samples of chlorine minerals found on the ground. This is avoided by unwanted water bearing formation which is sealed off while drilling is taking place anywhere, and if such precautionary method is not applied, then drilled water once passes through such rocks are contaminated with such minerals, thus causing a salty taste.
Geologists describes drilling borehole as a unique exercise that is being practiced with extra care in order to get water from the ground. But one point to note is that, before drilling takes place, geologists have to overlook if the area intended for drilling is supplied with enough water compared to the normal operational costs to be incurred. But geologists says that, not all ground surfaces are suitable for drilling as water might be found in deep water tables containing high percentage rate of chlorine minerals that gives a salty taste of the drilled water. Apart from that, drilling work might go deeper and deeper to about 400 meters away from the ground and over, thus rendering the work of drilling to become so expensive to afford for ordinary persons and the society in general.
Laying of the underground water pipes.
The ground drilling work which sometimes might go up to 600 meters deep, is also said to be too expensive for the government to afford. As this is too costly, therefore the government fails to afford the expenses met prior to the start of drilling boreholes. The only option left for the government is to afford wherever the majority of the people might be in need of such a commodity. Study has shown that, due to the expensiveness which occurs for ground drilling, and coupled with the availability of the technology used, which is necessitated by use of modern machines, most governments especially of the developing nations whose half of their national budgets entirely depends on foreign aid have totally failed to put much efforts on the use of ground drilling technology for their country’s development.
What is a borehole?
Borehole is the generalized term for any narrow shaft drilled in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including the extraction of water or other liquid (such as petroleum) or gases (such as natural gas). Also a borehole might be constructed as part of a geotechnical investigation or environmental site assessment, for mineral exploration, or as a pilot hole for installing piers or underground utilities. Boreholes used as water wells are described in the engineering and environmental consulting fields, the term is used to collectively describe all of the various types of holes drilled as part of a geotechnical investigation or environmental site assessment. This includes boreholes advanced to collect soil samples, water samples or rock cores. Samples collected from boreholes are often tested in a laboratory to determine their physical properties, or to assess levels of various chemical constituents or contaminants. Typically, a borehole used as a well is completed by installing a vertical pipe (casing) and well screen to keep the borehole from caving. This also helps prevent surface contaminants from entering the borehole and protects any installed pump from drawing in sand and sediment. When completed in this manner the borehole is then more commonly called a well: whether it is a water well, oil well or natural gas extraction well.
Erika eliason said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Erika eliason said...
ice Blog.. Found your blog while searching topics related to borehole survey tools.You must have to be expertise in borehole drilling to make this work perfect.Need to make the perfect measurement. SPT is the Leading Borehole Survey Tool company providing geological survey systems for the Oil, Gas and mining industries.
AquaBore Drilling said...
Water drilling Coffs Harbour | http://eonyango.blogspot.com/2010/11/ensuring-expertise-in-borehole-drilling.html | dclm-gs1-161731087 |
0.04515 | <urn:uuid:94735bb1-cebb-4624-bd43-f5c7e8699a49> | en | 0.89106 | The FSD holds the Third EU-Israel Strategic Dialogue with the EPC and ELNET
The third edition of the EU-Israel Strategic Dialogue focused on the regional cooperation and stabilisation in the Middle East, and how to turn a challenge into an opportunity.
The Mission of the FSD
The Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD) is an informal platform that facilitates high-level strategic dialogue between Europe and Israel. The FSD provides a forum for Track "One and a Half" diplomacy, beyond the constraints of formal intergovernmental relations. The FSD fosters open communication that encourages participants—senior governmental officials and leading experts—to develop breakthrough ideas which enhance bilateral cooperation and relationship-building.
Be assured that France is deeply attached to the development of the strategic dialogue with Israel, to which the FSD brings a valuable contribution.
Laurent Fabius, France's then Minister of Foreign Affairs
The NATO-Israel Cooperation Event is timely and it is critical that like-minded nations have a frank and open discussion on how to come to terms with a more challenging security environment than ever, how we can work together more effectively to meet new risks and threats, and how we can provide greater safety and security for our peoples.
Amb. Alexander Vershbow, then Deputy Secretary General, NATO | http://f-sd.eu/default.aspx | dclm-gs1-161761087 |
0.018524 | <urn:uuid:87cb1051-be0e-4004-9c9d-985fc44d20c4> | en | 0.966326 | how did you come up with the name of your blog: Its how I SEE the world and beyond..JaneMary is also the name of the girl I always draw in my illustrations and the initials of JaneMary: JM stands for Jennifer and Jowy Maasdamme (me and my sister)
when where you introduced to fashion: since and art have always been in my life, my mom has the most beautiful dresses and shoes and is such a chic and unique lady, she draws very well too.
how do you describe your style:
I do a lot of vintage shopping and reconstructing old stuff, I don't like to work the same look for too long.
what made you start a fashion blog:
ya know .. I dont remember what made me start.. I just woke up one day and made my blog..
what do you think you bring to the fashion blog world:
fashion to me is just a very fun time and it doesnt have to be more than that, people all over are hungry for am I.
how is your style different than everyone else:
Dunno.. I guess I like to capture the idea of fantasy and reality, making sense isnt really that important to me.
who is your inspiration: my soulmate:
my sister (photographer of the blog) what impression do you want to leave on the people that visits your blog:
The feeling of being a child, playing dress up, the endless possiblities of expressing yourself through art.
i see Jane-Mary | http://fashionjinx.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-did-you-come-up-with-name-of-your_14.html | dclm-gs1-161781087 |
0.021037 | <urn:uuid:4cd5458d-3b7f-491b-95d4-b7c8d3837aaa> | en | 0.959821 | Staying Healthy
Motivation to Exercise
How to get yourself motivated to exercise
We all know how important it is to exercise regularly. The benefits of exercise have been touted from the medical establishment, fitness experts, mental health professionals, your mother, and your cat. Getting regular exercise lowers stress levels, strengthens your heart, tones muscles, and gives you that overall good feeling. Yet, many people need the motivation to work out or exercise.
But how can you motivate yourself to exercise when you’re feeling lethargic, fatigued, overworked, and out of time? We’ve put together some tips to get you moving again and out of that couch potato slump.
1. Budget time in your day/week for exercise.
One of the key reasons people aren’t motivated to work out is that they feel they don’t have the time for it. In their minds they think that exercise will take up precious time they don’t already have due to their busy routine. But experts say that if you organize your time and plan it out, either by the month, day, or week, you’ll have a better chance of sticking to your goals and establishing a routine that will become part of you just as brushing your teeth in the morning.
2. Change your mindset.
This implies redefining what exercise is. You probably think that exercising requires you to drive to the gym, workout for two hours, then drive back home and that you must do this five to six days a week. Just thinking about this time-sucking routine makes your hair stand on end and there you go, back to the couch. Well, think of exercise as getting in any type of movement or light activity that will increase your heart rate. Think of household tasks or daily activities that you do that could incorporate some type of exercise. If you’re at home and don’t have time to go out or can’t go outside for a walk, then do some jumping jacks, walk in place, do lunges as you walk to the kitchen…I think you get the idea. This way, you’re conditioning your brain that exercise is not a laborious thing you need to do and that you’ll never have the time to do it and of course, you know if you talk to yourself that way, you’ll end up proving yourself right.
3. Find a workout friend or buddy.
Exercising with a friend will probably keep you motivated much longer than if you’d be on your own. This is because a workout buddy will keep you accountable and motivate you to work out even when you don’t want to. Plus, there’s that level of healthy competition. You’ll probably want to keep up with your gym partner and not fall behind.
4. Give yourself permission to take a break.
If you skip a day, or two, or three, or even a week, it’s okay. Did you hear that?? It’s okay. Life happens. You’ll get back on the horse again. One mistake that people make when starting a new routine is that if they don’t do it continuously, then they feel they’ve failed and give up completely. That is that exact opposite of what you should do. Unless you’re training for a bodybuilding competition or a marathon, you do not need to work yourself ragged because you want to tone your body in a month because you’re going on that cruise with the new person you want to impress. Your body probably didn’t get out of shape overnight—it took a few years of overeating and sedentary lifestyle to get there. The same with getting back in shape: the best way to get back in your perfect shape for your body type will be over time.
5. Reward yourself.
You’ve heard of “treat yourself”? Well, yeah! You’ve been exercising and working out regularly so why not reward yourself with a small treat or a big one for that matter? Give yourself a goal, and when you reach that goal, you congratulate yourself for sticking to your plan and staying motivated to do your workout. Remember that goals can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Your body, your goals, your rules. Know that you will fail while working toward the end result but if you do, pick yourself up and start over. Once you see that exercise has incredible benefits and you’ve incorporated it as part of your living routine, you’ll feel much better. Your body is changing, you’re losing weight, and you look fantastic. So now it’s time to buy that dress, or new shoes, or that watch you were eyeing. Or perhaps, you can take a mini staycation. Whatever floats your boat, do that for yourself.
Find the motivation to workout
Remember, if exercising were easy and everyone loved it then we wouldn’t need posts like this one and you wouldn’t be searching for how to find motivation to exercise. Know that it’s not easy to start anything new, that your mindset has to change, that you need to give yourself a break every so often, and when you succeed, reward yourself. | http://findmotivationtoday.com/motivation-to-exercise/ | dclm-gs1-161801087 |
0.413587 | <urn:uuid:0af308be-6490-497e-a7b6-86e3b508ab45> | en | 0.764135 | Polynomial: To Spectrum...
A command to compute the spectrum of the selected Polynomial objects.
Nyquist frequency (Hz)
defines the highest frequency in the spectrum. The lowest frequency of the spectrum will be 0 Hz.
Number of frequencies
defines the number of frequencies in the spectrum.
We calculate the spectrum by evaluating the polynomial at regularly spaced points zk on the upper half of a circle with radius r = 1 in the complex plane. The upperhalf of the unit circle, where k·φ is in the interval [0, π], will be mapped to frequencies [0, Nyquist frequency] in the spectrum.
The complex values zk (k=1..numberOfFrequencies) are defined as:
zk = r ei k φ, where,
φ = π / (numberOfFrequencies – 1) and r = 1.
© djmw, June 16, 1999 | http://fonsg3.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Polynomial__To_Spectrum___.html | dclm-gs1-161821087 |
0.121104 | <urn:uuid:71051da6-24c6-42d6-a1ac-f05b6c0ceb8d> | en | 0.963325 | Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Hollow (New Mix)
Hollow (New Mix)
There's something about this mix that I like. Maybe you can fall asleep to it, or just relax. I picture myself sitting silently on a couch. Hope you enjoy
1. "Hollow" by The Boy Who Could Fly
2. "Garden Constellation" by July Skies
3. "Also Ran" by Blueboy
4. "Coffee Is Dead" by Neato Fleets
5. "The Bobby" by Pipas
6. "To The Lighthouse" by Memoryhouse
p.s. the order is important!
p.p.s. that picture is of kenny's aunt(?)
correction... this is very much in fact a picture of Kenneth Michael Korb Jr's aunt. You can find out more about Kenny and his aunt here
1. fuck no! that's a picture of my friend's friend haha really creepy of me I was hoping that picture never got traced back to me hahaha
2. this is legit amazing... if anything too fucking short.. make me a Hollow pt. 2 please
3. thanks dude. I've been sitting on this one for a while and I just can't find a good enough song that fits to extend it with. | http://formyfriendss.blogspot.com/2011/03/hollow-new-mix.html | dclm-gs1-161831087 |
0.044725 | <urn:uuid:de67bae3-87a6-4719-bfae-5a48be9944d4> | en | 0.951683 |
Monday, September 23, 2013
284.Eliminating Rebirth Competitions
Yesterday, I said that we are saviors of ourselves. For example, President Lincoln saved the people, who became slaves in some Southern States. But after the civil war began, other people had to be saved because they also suffered greatly.
So, I say that God made us with the ability to save people. I say that this ability has already saved many people from unwanted concepts that have been developed through out the history of man. In this blog, I will show that we must save all people from the concept of 'competition.' This concept was installed in the USA after the U.S civil war and led to an ungodly economy that creates new slaves and new riches.
In general, the concept of competition will be found among the plants and animals. However, the theory of evolution has brought the concept of competition also into the life of humans. For example, humans develop competitions in order to win successes. Humans also compete for food, mates, wealth, fame, prestige, and power. In politics, competition is united with money and led to capitalism. However, capitalism supports materialism, which impedes the development of cooperation and socialism. Competition is thus used by political parties to produce competitive goals. As time passed, competition expanded he world market after it was established.
However, I say that evolutionary theory is not true because a panentheistic God exist and created a universe that has no end. Thus, I say that competition is wrong because evolution is false.
The panentheistic God and His created universe has an infinite number of indivisibles things. God relates these indivisibles to each other so they form an unbelievable number of divisible bodies for the universe. This very different system was defined first by Anaxagoras in 500.B.C. Later, Plato confirmed it in his Parmenides Plato. Finally, it was taught for the first time to Jews.
But this different system was lost for seventeen centuries after Pope Irenaeus destroyed Gnosticism. But in the 17th century this different system began to develop. For example, Leibniz found the indivisibles (click). And the divisibles were found by Leibniz and Galileo (click).
Since a panentheistic God and His endless universe are very new and different, we must identify concepts that must be eliminated immediately. So, I say that competition must be eliminated so that all nations can develop all people equally. If competition is not eliminated, the rebirths of people and the development of their souls will become unnatural or random. Random rebirths must be prevented. Since a panentheistic God gives harmonies to all soul-body relations when they are reborn, all unequal rebirths must be eliminated. All nations and all religions must also act immediately to develop socialism.
Readers: (click)
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home | http://georgeshollenberger.blogspot.com/2013/09/284eliminating-rebirth-competitions.html | dclm-gs1-161851087 |
0.069282 | <urn:uuid:5a77bf04-14b3-46e3-886c-fd9dc9dde1df> | en | 0.969966 | Friday, November 13, 2009
US defense contractors pay insurgents millions, report says
You find these stories without even having to specifically look for them. How long until the warmongers and the chickenhawks figure out that we are not there to kill turrists, we're there to facilitate the opium trade and secure profits for banksters?
Raw Story -
US defense contractors are funding insurgents in Afghanistan, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, according to a report in The Nation published Thursday.
The report, by veteran investigative correspondent Aram Roston, asserts that US military contractors charged with assisting US forces in Afghanistan are actually funding the groups killing American soldiers. Roston describes a protection racket similar to that of the mafia, in which contractors pay the Taliban "protection money" not to attack them.
"In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes," Roston writes. "It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. And it is a deadly irony, because these funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.
"It's a big part of their income," a top Afghan government security official purportedly told told The Nation.
Added an American defense executive, "The Army is basically paying the Taliban not to shoot at them. It is Department of Defense money."
US officials estimate that as much as ten percent of taxpayer money doled out to private contractors ends up in insurgents' hands. By a quick accounting, this amounts to tens of millions of dollars.
Mike Hanna, a manager for Afghan American Army Services, a trucking firm, told Roston that paying off the Taliban was a necessary evil.
"We're basically being extorted," Hanna is quoted as saying. "Where you don't pay, you're going to get attacked. We just have our field guys go down there, and they pay off who they need to.
"Moving ten trucks, it is probably $800 per truck to move through an area," he added. "It's based on the number of trucks and what you're carrying. If you have fuel trucks, they are going to charge you more. If you have dry trucks, they're not going to charge you as much. If you are carrying MRAPs or Humvees, they are going to charge you more."
"If you tell me not to pay these insurgents in this area," he continued, "the chances of my trucks getting attacked increase exponentially."
Roston says paying the Taliban for protection is an issue of pragmatism.
He notes that contractors, by regulation, are banned from carrying any weapons more serious than a rifle. This means they're far outmatched when contending with insurgents that have rocket-propelled grenades.
The US military shells out huge sums of money to supply troops in remote Afghan areas, even outside the protection racket.
A recent estimate from the Pentagon found that the government spends some $400 a gallon for gasoline in Afghanistan when all transport costs are included.
Afghanistan is landlocked, meaning that fuel must be transported in ways that stretch the limits of economic reason.
Some fuel is even transported in "bladders" attached to the belly of helicopters.
The Nation report was underwritten by the Nation Institute, a nonprofit that funds investigative journalism.
No comments:
Post a Comment | http://gnosis474.blogspot.com/2009/11/us-defense-contractors-pay-insurgents.html | dclm-gs1-161891087 |
0.024208 | <urn:uuid:c5f39a92-2d22-480d-beac-581f24b2b34d> | en | 0.938108 | Between work, family, friends, relationships and all the responsibilities that lie within, it can be hard to find time for anyone else – including yourself. Free time can feel like a luxury, especially when every time you turn around, you realize you need to make a run to the grocery store, do the laundry or give the floors a good scrub. Nonetheless, it’s important to carve out some alone time. A 2011 study showed that women today are less happy than they were 40 years ago. A lack of “me time” could be a large part of the problem. Here are some tips to help you turn it all around.
Evaluate Your Life
Pay close attention to your schedule and how you spend your days. If you have time, write down everything you do. If you don’t have enough time to write everything down, make note of the big things, like work, but also the things you do in between the big things. Whether it’s obsessively checking your email or running to the store for things you forgot, it’s all worth documenting.
Make Some Cuts
Once you have a record of how you spend your time, give it a thorough look. Are you noticing any patterns? If you’re running the sweeper on a daily basis, consider doing it every other day or every week instead. If you find yourself getting lost in work emails at home, when you only planned on checking in, set aside a window of time when work can be done at home and stick to it.
Time to Delegate
Yes, you can have it all, but you can’t do it all. Sometimes, it’s important to ask for help. Solicit it from your kids or your significant other, or hire someone to handle tasks like cleaning or tutoring. If work is bogging you down the most, pick someone with the skills to get it done right and hand them the task with clear direction. This means one less thing for you to do!
Learn How to Say “No”
It might be easier to say yes, but you’ve decided to make more time for yourself. It is not selfish, but necessary in most instances. Really think about your answer before you give in. You can’t add more hours to the day, but you can overcommit.
Pencil Yourself Into Your Schedule
Now that you’ve freed up your schedule a bit, fill it back up with some time for yourself. If you want this to last, you have to pencil yourself in and make appointments with yourself. We all have priorities and now it’s time to make you one of them.
Decide How to Spend Your Time
This time is now yours… how will you spend it? Make it something you look forward to, like a little indulgence. Maybe it’s a hot bath, a manicure, a guilty pleasure or a leisurely walk.
These tips for lifestyle reorganization will hopefully put you on a path toward improved health, overall happiness and sanity – so enjoy. Just remember while play dates, doctors’ appointments and meetings are a priority, so are you. | http://goalzila.com/6-ways-make-time/ | dclm-gs1-161901087 |
0.041646 | <urn:uuid:6534cbcb-5b2c-4fce-8591-73cb2bace8fb> | en | 0.975107 | Monday, August 25, 2014
thank me later
I used to bake something for the residents once a month...
But then I had a baby. (that's the excuse for everything isn't it?)
I really want to start doing that again... And so my idea has been this big plan for weeks. And this weekend I saw my plan through. In all it's glory. Because Kyle was on call this weekend (oh how I hate it!) So I decided to conquer the evil day of loneliness with sugar.
Bourbon smoked sugar.
You're welcome world.
So... not going to lie... When my Aunt Jules gave me this jar of Woodford Reserve bourbon smoked sugar in my bag of Kentucky Proud goodies, I was like... Cool. What am I going to do with it?
Well friends, while I was rifling through one of my junk cabinets and saw the jar a year later, it dawned on me.
So I found a Snickerdoodle recipe with good reviews and tweaked it a bit. And I dubbed the results Kentucky Snickerdoodles. So here's how to make them:
Kentucky Snickerdoodles
adapted from Trisha Yearwood's Snickerdoodles
Wet mix
1 stick butter. Room temp
1/2 C Crisco
2 eggs. Room temp
1 C sugar
1/2 C light brown sugar
Dry mix
2 3/4 C All Purpose flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
The good stuff
3 Tbsp plain sugar
2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
A small separate bowl of bourbon smoked sugar.
• Preheat the oven to 400F.
• In a large bowl, beat the wet ingredients until smooth.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients.
• Gradually mix the dry mix into the wet.
• I like to line my cookie sheet with parchment paper. No mess to clean up and never a stuck cookie to scrape off.
• Now for the important part. Make the cookie dough balls. I use a cookie dough scoop. It's about a tablespoon. Dip one side in the bourbon smoked sugar and then roll the whole thing in the cinn/sugar mix. Place dough 2 inches apart with bourbon sugar side up.
• Bake for 9 minutes. (They will look all puffy and not quite done like my 2nd photo but will shrink down like my 3rd)
• Let cool on a wire rack.
Makes 3-4 dozen soft, amazingly chewy cookies.
These would be just as delicious without the bourbon smoked sugar. It isn't a necessity but it does add just a little something special. Mostly an extra crunch that could be achieved with much cheaper turbinado sugar. But then you couldn't say you were all fancy and used bourbon smoked sugar like me.
Monday, August 18, 2014
myles oliver : monthbymonth 9
you are getting to be impossible to photograph each month.
I'm not sorry it has taken so long to write this... I really need to start writing things down to remember what happened in which month. Because the way I do these... the 13th of the month ends what I can write about... and I'm late... but a lot of things have happened since the 13th. After vacation though I tried to fit in a million social events and naps were thrown off and exhaustion ensued so here we are with me awake late on a Sunday night trying to get this finished almost a week into your 9th month of life.
I drove your dad insane while we were on vacation with comments about how you had to be 20 pounds by now since you feel so gosh darn heavy lately. Much to his delight, I was wrong. At your 9 month checkup (no shots this time yay!) you weighed 18 pounds 14 oz and were 29 1/4 in long. So still a little bit of a light weight and soon to outgrow your infant car seat based on height alone.
You were really in an awkward stage this month. Even though you are getting to be too heavy to easily carry in the infant car seat, we still love that you fit in it because you handle restaurants and shopping a lot better when you are confined to it. While you can safely sit in a high chair or the shopping cart, with the freedom and closer proximity to your parents, you are a little more whiney wanting to be held.
You had your first fever inducing sickness the week before vacation. I guess I started it. I had some drainage and felt a little off for a couple of days and then you woke up on Sunday before church feeling warm and super snotty. We stayed home and a good thing. You had a fever until Wednesday. Nothing too concerning, just your first really bad cold. The worst was the snot because I had to use the bulb so that you could breath at night but you really really hated it. Otherwise, extra snuggles and Tylenol were your only change to the day. You kept chasing the cats at every opportunity.
During vacation, you figured out how to pull up on things. You have since mastered this skill and are cruising all over everything. I really should get things off of the tables. No more taking my eyes off of you for even a second. You can no longer be trusted!
You are so wiggly. Diaper changes have to be made with musical toys for you to hold. If you don't have one (or something equally loud to squish) then you spend the entire time trying to flip over and jump off the table. Which is partially our fault... we let you go off the couch head first all of the time (while we hold your ankles). You just love it so much.
one of the only pics of you guys this month since you are scared of your
friend most of the time.
You are still sensitive to loud noises that you aren't the one making. Eliza is a loud little thing so a lot of your play dates are spent with you in my lap, grabbing my arm, or crying. If she (or any other kid) is quiet then you are fantastic and spend the time "sharing" and trying to grab their hands/hair/feet/faces.
my former coworker and friend stopped through
town on her way back to TN from ATL!
You are also really clingy. It is much harder to get things done without you freaking out. I mostly have to do everything during your nap times now. I used to be able to put you in a jumper and you would entertain yourself by gleefully jumping for a long while. Now that you are able to cruise, you like the freedom and you almost always cry when I try to put you in those. Sometimes if you can't see me then I can get away with doing something really quick but that is mostly wishful thinking.
Ever since our trip you hate being in the car. I don't know if it is really because you had enough of the car, I have had you way too much on the go, or if it is purely because you are teething. On top. You would be weird and get top teeth before bottoms like normal people. Either way; you whine all the time in the car now. Unless you are jabbering (only bahbahbah, you flat out refuse to say dada.. in fact you almost always blow raspberries when we try to get you to) or you are making your sweet singsongy soprano noises. You make those noises on your own, in response to us making them, in response to your dad whistling, and in response to whistling on the radio.
You are so awesome. Even when you are driving me insane!
Monday, August 11, 2014
vacation vacation VACATION
yup all those dots are crabs
| http://homegrowninky.blogspot.com/2014/08/ | dclm-gs1-162001087 |
0.751955 | <urn:uuid:65692667-18f7-4106-acdb-845739255efb> | en | 0.934552 | Updates on Twitter!
- "Heart and Greed" Sub Song 3 MV
- TV Awards Presentation 2017 Nominations
- "My Ages Apart" Sub Song (Full Version)
follow me on Twitter
Check the side bar for upcoming series updates!
List updated on Sunday, December 17, 2017.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
"Natural Born Lovers" Trailer
Personal Note: The movie genre doesn't interest me, but will watch it for the beautiful pair! ;)
Annie's Cantonese improved. :)
Looking forward to the full version of Chi Lam's new song! :D
1. Wow it's been a while since Chilam's had lead role in a movie most are either supporting or lesser screen time. How come it seems like he only has lead roles in Love Stories?
Song's not that great typical pop song and can't even compared to his previous pop love songs or movie songs from the movies he had with Charmaine.
1. Chi Lam's appearance limits his range of roles.
I like 愛情已死, but not 誰說我哭. ;)
2. That's one intense kiss scene!
3. "The movie genre doesn't interest me, but will watch it for the beautiful pair!"
I argee hyn5! They are very pretty to look at! Hehehe!
4. I've became a fan of Annie through Chilam's "You're Too Kind" MV so it's nice to see them work in a movie together.
5. why Chilam only release singles,when he will come out with full new album?
1. To Raylan:
Hopefully soon, but haven't heard anything about the release date. Also anticipating Chi Lam's new album! | http://hyn5-hyn5.blogspot.com/2012/04/natural-born-lovers-trailer.html | dclm-gs1-162031087 |
0.101399 | <urn:uuid:183bb237-eede-4053-87f0-cdcb5076f8f5> | en | 0.954384 | Don’t Bless Me
Ok, I think it’s about time that we stop recognizing sneezing for anything more than it is.
Sneezing just means your nose is irritated or allergic…that’s pretty much it.
I wish we could stop saying “bless you” and requiring the “thank you” response.
All this really amounts to is someone saying, “Yes, I heard you sneeze” and the person who sneezed replying, “Thank you for recognizing that I sneezed even though it was entirely obvious to everyone in the room”. This doesn’t make sense.
People are uncertain of the roots of this silly practice. Some think it has to do with believing that a sneeze indicated the possibility of the bubonic plague, while others believe it started because ancient societies used to think that one’s heart stopped momentarily during a sneeze.
I think we’re at the point of realizing that sneezing doesn’t mean those things. We’re having a whole lot of senseless conversations.
And then there are people who find it rude to NOT say “bless you”. That is just absurd.
And what the hell are we supposed to do with people who sneeze seven times in a row? Does that require seven “bless you”s?? Considering the person usually can’t say “thank you” between their seven sneezes, we’ll start running a serious “thank you” deficit and really throw the whole system out of balance.
Besides, I really don’t think I have any business blessing anyone…and frankly, you probably don’t either. | http://iamthearbiter.com/?p=393 | dclm-gs1-162061087 |
0.051716 | <urn:uuid:20cf72f1-4900-45bc-9a6f-903afdaa1c45> | en | 0.978478 | Patrick Fitzgerald: Intrepid Crime Fighter? Or, Politically-Driven Leaker? The Timing of the Blago Arrest and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief (Part 3)
Hugo Floriani, Investigative Reporter
Completely believing Patrick Fitzgerald’s publically stated explanation concerning the timing of the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in December 2008 – “we’re in the middle of a corruption crime spree, and we wanted to stop it” – represents what one popular politician once called “the willing suspension of disbelief.”
The “we wanted to stop it” part is obviously true. The motive, though, is…well, questionable. Disbelief requires presenting an alternative explanation necessarily based on circumstantial evidence. Does that lean into conjecture? Sure. Might it also come closer to the truth than the official version announced in the press conference held in the wake of the arrest of Blago? That’s for you to eventually decide.
The link to the complete transcript of the Press Conference hosted by Patrick Fitzgerald after the arrest of Blago is found here. The 47-minute video version is available in total, and in brief episodes:
We’ll start toward an alternative understanding of what happened, but not finish yet, by parsing portions of that press conference, looking for the back story of why Fitzpatrick decided to pull the trigger on the arrest of Blago, who’d been under investigation for years, at that particular time. Remember, it was December 9, 2008. Approximately one month after the election of former Illinois Senator Barack Obama to the Presidency.
Here are the transcripts of several exchanges, with the starting time in the video linked above at the beginning of each question.
[14.13] Question #1: Mr. Fitzgerald was this done today in an effort to head off the appointment of someone to fill Barack Obama’s senate seat? Was it – was it so imminent that that’s why you had to step in?
MR. FITZGERALD: I would say that we decided that this required unusual measures and there are a lot of things going on that were imminent. There's a bill sitting on a desk that we think a person who was supporting that bill has been squeezed to give $100,000. And to let that bill be signed, to me, would be very, very troubling.
There's a hospital -- a children's memorial hospital -- believing that it's getting $8 million, but its CEO has not coughed up a campaign contribution, and the thought that that money may get pulled back from a children's memorial hospital is something that you cannot abide. There is an editor that they'd like fired from the Tribune, and I laid awake at night, worried whether I'd read in the paper in the morning that when there were lay-offs, that we'd find out that that person was laid off.
QUESTION: Couldn't you...
MR. FITZGERALD: So -- so -- I'm just -- and so, we stepped in for a number of reasons. Basically, as I said before, we're in the middle of a clutching crime spree, and we wanted to stop it.
Comment: The question, and Fitzpatrick’s answer, assumes that once Blago appointed someone to Obama’s seat that person was immediately – presto – a U.S. Senator. The subsequent and multiple legislative steps, and the accompanying length of time, that passed after Blago named Roland Burris before Burris was sworn in as a U.S. Senator disproves that assumption on its face.
The timing of the arrest let person or persons prepared to engage in the buying of a Senatorial seat off the hook. And, furthermore, none of the “imminent” events to which Fitzpatrick referred – the possible firing of a newspaper editor, a bill in the Illinois legislature, state money denied to a children’s hospital – were irrevocable if the USAO had waited until a deal between Blago and another party was consummated.
It would be like arresting one drug dealer while he was negotiating a price on a shipment of heroin with another drug dealer in order to stop the crime. One gets away to buy another day.
[15:57] QUESTION #2: You said twice that we shouldn't cast dispersions {sic}on people who we think we recognize within a complaint. Does that mean that all of these people are beyond blame in any way? I mean some of the things in the complaint point a very, kind of, a tacky finger at some people, their willingness to play. And if pay-to-play is illegal. Isn't the willingness to play also culpable if you didn't charge today?
FITZGERALD: OK, there -- what -- what I'm trying to say is this: Look, we never give -- you know, and I think anyone who's from Chicago knows, you've heard it a thousand times -- we don't give clean bills of health. And what I've always been afraid of is you can say, you know, did -- did Carlos or me -- are we in trouble? I'm never going to say no, because that's just our practice, but I don't want people, when they answer those questions, to imply that someone is in trouble.
What I'm trying to do it is explain caution about a complaint. When someone says something that's on tape, largely, they're stuck with it. But when someone says something on tape about someone else, you usually want to do more investigation to verify what it is that happened.
And we're going to do that investigation and verify what it is that happened, what didn't happen, what the circumstances are.
There may be people who had no idea what was going on, had no idea they were being discussed. There may be other people who were involved in things they shouldn't have been involved in. And we're going to sort that out, and we're going to see, you know, some things will be black and white and some things be shades of gray.
Comment: The brief answer to the question (underlined) is, apparently, no. The person(s) negotiating price with Blago were cut-outs that left the person(s) they represented the option of a credible denial – long an effective tactic among Chicago pols. It’s the Sergeant Schultz Defense: “I know nothing.”
As at least one of those potential deals moved toward consummation, the façade of credible denial would be seriously damaged by an exchange of money. Might that person, who stood to buy the Obama seat, have been the one Fitzpatrick was protecting by arresting Blago before money changed hands? More on that in Part 4.
[18:12] Question #3: ... Also, would you address the fact -- and I know you referred to this -- would you just address whether or not President-elect Obama was aware that any of these things were taking place?
Comment: This is an artful dodge of the question. He didn’t say yes. He didn’t say no. He didn’t say he didn’t know. He said he can’t speak for what Obama was aware of. Well, of course he can’t.
That is a very rare thing for us to do and it's an even rarer thing for a newspaper to grant. We thought that the public interest required that the story not run…etc, etc, etc.
Comment: The complete answer goes on for 428 words. The net result of it is that the Tribune exposed a key element of an ongoing criminal investigation at a critical moment in that investigation and, according to Fitzpatrick, “I appreciate that and respect what they did.” Really? Well, perhaps he did.
Comment: Another dodge.
Comment: The USAO was after only one criminal. Blago. The other criminals who were conspiring to commit a crime by buying a senate seat, which is a crime in and of itself, got a pass.
[39:00] Questions #7 & #8: Sir, just to be crystal clear and to make clear, you're not aware of any conversations then that took place with the governor and any member of Barack Obama's transition team, at all?
MR. FITZGERALD: And what I simply said is you can read the complaint. I'm not going to sit here with a 76-page complaint and parse through it. That's all we're alleging. And I'm just -- I'm not going to start going down and saying, did anyone ever talk to anyone?
You can read what we allege in the complaint. It's pretty detailed. Look in the 76 pages. And if you don't see it, it's not there.
Comment: Note the stuttering in the second response. The U.S. Attorney is becoming uncomfortable with both the questions and his responses. What’s wrong with saying, “I assume the man about to become our President is told everything he needs to know as he prepares to assume leadership of our federal government. And the pending arrest of the governor of a large state certainly falls into that category.”
So what does this official explanation about stopping a corruption crime spree in progress suggest? Was it timed to aid a children’s hospital? Stop an unidentified newspaper editor from potential unemployment? Circumvent some Illinois legislative misdeed? Stop the immediate and irrevocable appointment of a U.S. Senator to fill Obama’s seat?
That’s the official explanation, and the one ultimately accepted by the Chicago big media. But is there a more complicated, yet cogent, back story? Yes there is. | http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2011/09/22/patrick-fitzgerald-intrepid-crime-fighter-or-politically-driven-leaker-the-timing-of-the-blago-arrest-and-the-willing-suspension-of-disbelief-part-3/ | dclm-gs1-162071087 |
0.093965 | <urn:uuid:9689fb92-4f08-4e77-bfc6-3c304b6cf0e1> | en | 0.97452 | Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Metrorail Strike Continues
No violence
Unions, Transnet, Prasa 'unimpressive'
5 Opinion(s):
Anonymous said...
I know it has little to do with the Rail Strikes but, as Viking posted that there was limited "contribution", perhaps you could do a post on this:
Would be much appreciated!
Common Sense
Viking said...
hi CS
that site seems resistant to cut'n'paste, so I'll just have to leave the link up.
Anonymous said...
Thanks Viking.
For those who don't want to check it out, a brief outline: independent economist has uncovered a "fraud" by JP Morgan Chase which makes Madorf's "ponzi scheme" look like an argument over small change. Said fraud involves the selling of gold, on paper, that doesn't really exist.
It should be noted that, along with Goldman Sachs and Rothschild Bank (most shareholders are also the major shareholders of Morgan Chase), these banks deal in amounts that could buy and sell Central Banks and entire economies. In fact they own most of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, and according to an independent forensic audit, GS's were responsible for the recent collapse of the Icelandic and Greek Economies!
More on that later!
Common Sense
Born to be wild said...
JP Morgan Chase story: it's like the subprime crisis. JPMC are selling gold certificates without actual gold holdings. For every 100 ounces "sold" there's only 1 ounce of gold in holdings. So this is artificially keeping the price of gold down.
You can blame this partly on the stupid buyer. You don't buy gold certificates, you buy physical gold to keep in your own safe, or nothing at all. So: capitalise on the situation and buy the real stuff.
Born to be wild said...
Coming back to the rail strike, Transnet and Metrorail should take out the retrenchment axe. Yes, it may hurt for a little while, but teach the buggers a lesson to be grateful to have a job. | http://iluvsa.blogspot.com/2010/05/metrorail-strike-continues.html | dclm-gs1-162081087 |
0.054388 | <urn:uuid:0114ec75-6f81-4ecd-91ba-7d822788ce9c> | en | 0.965508 | Redecorating The House For Wedding
Wedding is one of the most important events in one’s life. People want to keep things really grand during the wedding celebrations. Everything has to be perfect from the best food to best dress to best decorations. Here are few ways one could redecorate their house for this occasion.
Hire a wedding planner
Wedding planners not only make the life easy by handling the most important department but they also make sure that they decorate it accordingly. Some people have couple of parties before the actual wedding day and each event calls for a different decoration and set up so wedding planners will be very helpful here.
Decorate every corner
Usually when it comes to decorating, people just look into the place where the party is going to be at such as main hall. This does sound sensible because that’s where pictures will be taken but it is important to decorate the outer area as well. This means carports, garage, and the garden everything could be decorated with different lightings or flowers. This will make the house more glamorous and give the wedding vibe. However, it’s important not to go overboard with anything for example if the outer area is decorated with lights then the hall could be decorated with different items such as bouquet, flowers.
Go for different locations
Usually when people have big houses only then they choose to have certain parties at their house instead of renting some other place. If this is the case they could go for different locations for example if they have already kept a party in the main hall, the next one could be at their garden. This will make the celebrations grander and also look amazing in pictures. Planning an outdoor party could be more challenging so one could hire outdoor renovators Adelaide for this. They will make sure to make necessary arrangements such as put up a tent for a backup in case there is a weather change. They will also help to set up the music outside. Also for an outdoor party one needs to have better lightings so they could use lanterns, candles to decorate it.
Have a photo booths
This has become a trend now and no party is complete without a photo boot session with some props. So no matter wherever the party is one could pay extra attention on this segment. Some people even organise an instant photo printer service so guests get to take the pictures with them.Lastly to make the event a memorable one the bride and groom need to work on their outfits. They need to make sure they dress differently on every occasion!car-ports | http://kadnan.com/2017/12/ | dclm-gs1-162211087 |
0.026494 | <urn:uuid:22c1edfd-adeb-4115-b67e-054ee109df1b> | en | 0.858527 | Skip to main content
Showing posts from April, 2010
"Meshulash" for Yom Tekuma Yisrael (Yom HaAtzmaout)?
In most years, the observance of Yom HaAtzmaout is not celebrated on the actual day that the State of Israel was declared (the 5th of Iyyar) in order to prevent a desecration of the Sabbath.
This year, it is celebrated on the 6th of Iyyar, so that the Memorial Day Services begin on Sunday night rather than Saturday night. (In fact, the next time that Yom HaAtzmaout will be celebrated on the 5th of Iyyar is in the year 2020!!)
If Judaism lends importance to actual date of an event, how can we reconcile the following issues: Rav Goren zt"l ruled that the proper day should be observed, but what about separating ourselves from the public who observes the deferred day?When should we recite the Hallel prayer? Isn't it in vain if we're not saying it on the day of the miracle?When do we add the Al-HaNissim prayer to our Birkath HaMazon and Shmona Esray?Rav Bar-Hayyim suggests that we look to "Purim Meshulash" for the answer. The festivities and customs of the day should be…
Al HaNissim for Yom HaAtzmaout (Revised)
'על הניסים' לה' באייר -יום תקומת ישראל (יום העצמאות)עַל הַנִּסִּים, הַגְּבוּרוֹת, הַתְּשוּעוֹת, הַמִּלְחָמוֹת וְהַפְּדוּת שֶׁעָשִׂיתָ עִמָּנוּ וְעִם אֲבוֹתֵינוּ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה.בִּימֵי תְקוּמָתֵנוּ, בְּקוּם עָלֵינוּ בְּנֵי עֲרָב, לְהַשְׁמִיד לַהֲרֹג וּלְאַבֵּד אֶת הָעֹלִים מִשְּׁבִי הַגּוֹלָה אֶל אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה. אָמְרוּ: לְכוּ וְנַכְחִידֵם מִגּוֹי, וְלֹא יִזָּכֵר שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹד תהילים פג, ה.וְאַתָּה בְּרַחֲמֶיךָ הָרַבִּים עָמַדְתָּ לָּנוּ בְּעֵת צָרָתֵנוּ. רַבְתָּ אֶת רִיבֵנוּ, דַּנְתָּ אֶת דִּינֵנוּ, נָקַמְתָּ אֶת נִקְמָתֵנוּ. מָסַרְתָּ רַבִּים בְּיַד מְעַטִּים, וּרְשָׁעִים בְּיַד צַדִּיקִים. הֵמָּה כָּרְעוּ וְנָפָלוּ; וַאֲנַחְנוּ קַּמְנוּ וַנִּתְעוֹדָד תהילים כ, ט. לְךָ עָשִׂיתָ שֵׁם גָּדוֹל בָּעוֹלָם, וּלְעַמְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל עָשִׂיתָ תְּשׁוּעָה גְדוֹלָה. וּבַחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵׁנִי בַּחֲמִשָּׁה לַחֹדֶשׁ, פָּרַקנוּ עוֹל גּוֹיִם מֵעַל צַוָּארֵנוּ.כְּשֵׁם שֶׁעָשִֹיתָ לָּנוּ תְּשׁוּעָה בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם,כָּךְ עֲשֵׂה עִמָּנוּ בָּעֵת הַזּאֹת, וְנוֹדֶה לְשִׁמְךָ …
Praying for Rain - A Must-Read from Rav David Bar-Hayim
Although the rainy season is over in Erets Yisrael, Rav Bar-Hayim has just released a tshuva about praying for rain.
His answer clearly shows his mastery of the sources as well as his logical halachic approach that makes Judaism--and daily prayer--relevant.
To summarize: We make mention (Mazkirim) of HASHEM’s great powers which cause the rain to fall from the evening prayers of last day of Sukoth
In Erets Yisrael, praying for rain from the 7th of MarHeshwan is no longer relevant since there are no pilgrims who need time to return to their homes outside the Land before the rains begin. We should "mazkir" rain starting from Mossa’e Sh’mini Assereth.
The Rambam writes that people should pray for rain (Sho’alim) based on the rainy season of that area. This is why the Jews of Bavel differed in their Halakhic practice from their brethren in Erets Yisrael. They waited until the 60th day after the equinox, often erroneously taken to mean, based on the Julian calendar, December 5th, but…
Kitniyot Wrap-Up
Forgive me for hacking from the Esser Agoroth blog (that also references this site), but his collection of quotations from friends and neighbors was nice--and shows we're making progress:
Religious resident of Bet El B':
Religious resident of K'far Tapu'ah:
Religious woman of Iraqi decent in Jerusalem:
Two friends at the beach:
“I eat kitniyos during Pesah.”
“Have you ever heard of Rav Bar-Hayim?”
“No, but I don&#…
Move Over Kitnyot, it's Soft Matza Time
Zealots of Exile are no longer content with their ban on kitniyot and have moved on to banning soft matzah as was eaten by our forefathers for a mere 2000 or 3000 years, minus the last 300.
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) wishes to express grave concerns about a new product called “Laffa Matza” being sold in certain food outlets in Melbourne, which bears a Kosher for Passover symbol and is soft and chewy.
What is clear from this discussion is that:
The RCV has not been able to explain why they are concerned--except that the soft matzot are chewy (I have not seen a source for this being a problem nor have they said soft matzot are actually chametz, chas ve shalom)There are vested business interests in this and the "Laffa Matza" is selling well despite their effortsThe replies on the Galus Australis blog with the most invective come from people who have never made matzot and don't know what they're talking aboutThere are thinking Jews everywhere who can separate … | http://kitniyot.blogspot.com/2010/04/ | dclm-gs1-162251087 |
0.046649 | <urn:uuid:3754bc03-d54c-4567-a88e-2f6e951024d1> | en | 0.970246 | Tuesday, June 19, 2012
True Crime Trash
I'm not a huge true crime fan--not really one at all, in fact--but I watch my share of police procedurals, and I have a soft spot for Criminal Minds, which is not a fabulous show, but I like the psychology aspect. It's clever--not the show, but the idea of profiling.
Sometimes I like to read the memoirs of FBI profilers: My Life Hunting Serial Killer types of books. When one popped up at the library as an ebook, I jumped on the wait list. It's actually called The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers, by Pat Brown, so I know that she's able to write a clear title. Or at least, the ghostwriter is; I don't hold a ghostwriter against her, though--writing a craft, and if your craft is hunting serial killers, there's no reason to assume you can construct a coherent narrative. So hats off to Bob Andelman.
At the beginning I mostly called it readable. The first chapter was pretty good, actually--she talks about being a stay at home mom and getting a weird vibe off a student renting a room in her house at the same time that a murder takes place in her neighborhood. The cops didn't believe her. Her interest turned to profiling.
Then, in the second chapter, she backtracks to describe her life. This is the chapter where I started to kind of dislike her. There's nothing wrong with the actual course of her life as she describes it, but the way she talks about it is kind of dismissive of everyone else. She went to three or four different colleges and community colleges, but nothing held her interest. (Okay, kind of ADHD, but that's not a character flaw; she's looking for her place in life). Then she gets married and becomes a stay at home mom, and thrives. This is kind of wonderful. She homeschools her kids, they adopt their third--all lovely.
Except, when she's describing her decision to homeschool, she talks about sitting in a public school classroom for a while and leaving in disgust at the chaos. When she adopts a six-year-old and is told that he has a learning disorder, she scoffs (I'm pretty sure that was her word--scoffs) at the people who tell her this, and teaches him to read. She cosleeps, breastfeeds till they're past two, et cetera--great! I know lots of people who do these things! But she talks about them like, I don't know what all you crappy parents out there are doing, but this just felt natural to me. She refers to having a kid sleep in their own crib as shoving them in a box by themselves.
So yeah, I kind of hated her even before she started profiling. But then we get into how she became a profiler; she became obsessed with the unsolved case in her neighborhood and her ex-tenant who she's certain did it. She's got a very convincing case--maybe not for a court of law, but enough that the cops should have been all over it. She was dismissed as an hysterical housewife, which I'm sure must have rankled. From many years later, she tells about what she'd learned about the investigation--a jurisdiction war that put inexperienced cops on the job, a victim's family with enough political ties to put pressure on the DA to close the case, and a local suicide of a troubled man that coincided with the murder--that led to the poor police work. But she doesn't talk about these things with the "we do our best" inevitability of the seasoned police officer, or with the "we can do better!" enthusiasm of an Atul Gawande of crime. Instead, she talks with the shrill, "won't somebody think of the children?" hysteria of a nervous housewife.
I hate to sound so dismissive. It's just that she doesn't sound very professional. She sounds very anti-cops. I'm curious how the rest of the book will play out. Because the next part is where she talks about teaching herself to be a profiler, essentially by reading hundreds of books on profiling and then calling herself a profiler. Instead of an investigator, or something--it's clear that she wanted to be a profiler, if only from the number of times she says the word profiler on every page. It's not that she wanted to solve crimes, help victims, investigate, etc. She specifically DIDN'T want to study criminal justice or forensics, work her way up through an organization, etc. She wanted to be a profiler, and so she called herself a profiler and set up shop.
Next we'll see how it worked. I get the impression she hooked up with the press. I kind of anti-recommend this book, but it's fascinating reading in a train-wreck kind of way. I mean, the last negative review I wrote was of a book that I slogged through out of duty. This one I'm reading with shameful avarice, the way you watch a marathon of America's Next Top Model, or Dance Moms. That's how I feel about this book; I don't recommend it, but I can't look away.
No comments: | http://libraryhungry.blogspot.com/2012/06/true-crime-trash.html | dclm-gs1-162321087 |
0.029936 | <urn:uuid:22c426be-1e0e-414b-8858-98196631ea8c> | en | 0.97671 |
anger even alienate. Shared with others, emotions unite
~Susan Wittig Albert
America, and we are healing.
~CJ/Todd Dierdorff
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Richard Schwartz: Thoughts on Writing
I wrote the following in the hope that others might be encouraged to try writing, by explaining what writing is like for me. ~Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz
Thoughts on Writing:
by Richard Schwartz
Although my chronological age is 62, I am a newborn in the area of writing. Up until now, my career has been in an area of electronic device development that, unless you are in the electronics engineering field, you wouldn't have heard about firmware engineering.
My work was methodical and performed precise step by precise step. It involved a huge amount of mathematics. Writing fiction is about as far from that type of work as night is from day.
About 9 months ago, a friend suggested that I check out a website that had memories of soldiers who had served in Vietnam. I loved reading the articles contributed to the website. I decided to write an article for the website and thus began my writing career.
It remains to be seen if this career will produce dollar one but I thought it might be fun for some of CJ's readers to learn what writing is like for me and, hopefully, inspire others to try their hand at something that I find brings lots of joy into my life.
My novel follows three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest. Except for the locations, it is pure fiction. At least 15% of my time is spent on research. Reading about some location or people tends to paint a mental picture of what I want to describe for the characters in the novel. I have one section of my novel that takes place in the early 1900's. I'll be developing that section late next week.
I've just discovered a book on pioneers in the Northwest that will provide background for that section of the novel. That also involves a couple who were born around 1850. so having a history of the Northwest will help outline who they are.
Today I'm starting to outline a family member who has emotional problems. Right now I think it will end in a suicide or suicide attempt or both. When I start writing about a character, they seem to take on a life of their own. I really don't know where they'll take my imagination.
An example of this would be when I decided to start a chapter with one of the main adult characters interacting with a child. I needed her to be a window character and intended to write one paragraph with her and that would be the end of her involvement in my novel. As soon as I started writing her, a flood of ideas poured into my head for her and now she's one of the main characters in the novel. Shortly after introducing her, an important and joy filled wedding takes place.
While I was agonizing over how I would write the wedding, I started hearing Sarah, the 5 year old, telling the story as if she were talking to her cousin, Ethan. So the entire wedding takes place from the viewpoint of a joy filled 5 year old girl.
Wondering where my imagination will take my novel next is kind of like watching a cloud. I don't have control over what it looks like or where its going. It may rain or snow or sleet or just pass by to reveal endless sunshine. Sometimes I struggle for hours to put a simple idea on paper and sometimes I can't seem to type fast enough to get all the ideas on paper that my imagination is supplying for me.
And never mind what time it is or where I am. The ideas just start pouring out. I've excused myself at dinners with family to sneak off and write down some ideas. I've gotten up at 2:00 in the morning and run down to my office with the intention of writing a couple of brief notes and then end up sitting at my keyboard for the next 6 hours busily typing away. That brings up another oddity. I lose track of time when I'm writing. That's NEVER happened to me before.
Yesterday around noon I told Carolynn that we could go out for a fast food lunch in 5 minutes. Five hours later, she came into my office laughing at me and asking if I was ready yet.
I've read that some writers' characters speak to them. Mine don't speak to me but I can hear them speaking to each other. Each character has a different voice. I don't assign them a voice but when I start writing about them I start hearing their voices as they talk to their fellow characters.
Oddly enough this is where the real fun comes in. As an absolute (now former?) techno geek, I am astonished that the part of writing I enjoy the most is creating language in little 2 dimensional symbols that describes the world and feelings I wish to convey to the reader. Its also (at least for me) the most challenging. I have to be honest. Writing is the most fun I have ever had besides activities with my children and family.
The best description of this is that for 62 years, I went to work every day. Although I spend 6 -12 hours writing nearly every day, it just isn't work. Does life get any better than that?
Having a great partner who understands the uneven creative process and providing a great sounding board for my ideas helps more than I can say. I had a chapter-long story completed that was based on an actual experience of mine when I was in 7th grade. Carolynn told me that no one would believe the story. I reiterated that this actually happened to me.
“I'm sure that this happened to you but none of your characters are as strange as you are so unless someone knows you, this is not realistic,” she told me. I rewrote the chapter as happening during the characters' college years and suddenly it was believable.
The question I am asked the most when I tell people I'm writing a novel is, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest answer is that I don't have a clue where they come from. The second question I get is “Who is you favorite fiction author?” The answer is Mark Twain - but when people ask me that, sometimes I think they're really asking who inspires my writing.
I really don't have an author who inspires my writing. Maybe you've figured out by now that my characters inspire my writing as I write them. I know when my novel will end (death of a certain character) but I really don't know how I'll get there. See? Carolynn is right. I really AM strange!
My thanks to Vietnam buddy, Craig Latham, and author, C.J. Heck, who guided me into this literary adventure.
[For better waters that are heading with the wind, My ship of genius now shakes out her sail, And leaves the ocean of despair behind]. Opening lines of Dante's Il Purgatorio - Dorothy L. Sayers Translation
Richard A. Schwartz
27708 246th Ave SE
Maple Valley, Wa. 98038
***Thank you so much, Richard. Another well-written article -- you've captured the very essence of writing, and I can hardly wait to get a copy of your novel! Best wishes. ~CJ
1 comment:
1. Rick,
What can I say except.....Excellent.........
Feel free to comment. | http://memoirsfromnam.blogspot.com/2011/01/richard-schwartz-thoughts-on-writing.html | dclm-gs1-162401087 |
0.198272 | <urn:uuid:736b0868-1e00-448d-beb2-4d2d117fe5f9> | en | 0.944073 | Through the wormhole season 2 episode 1
through the wormhole season 2 episode 1
This is a nod to creative suite 3 master collection keygen the fact that Richard Dean Anderson 's character, Jack O'Neill, was replaced on SG-1's roster by Ben Browder 's character, Cameron Mitchell.
9 The engine room is an actual still from the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series and is manned by Brad Wright (co-creator and producer of Stargate SG-1 ) as a Scottish engineer.Kate Ritter at m (mid 2004 ).2 In the sequence, Vala suggests another idea which Martin recognizes as Gilligan's Island.Lucky Animals (03:31) CD.Also, a notable thing is that Stark's mask is on the wrong side of Browder's head.2 SG-1 is shown in the set used for the bridge of the Daedalus class battlecruisers wearing uniforms similar to those from the Star Trek universe (specifically The Motion Picture including color-coding.He approaches them in the back while the driver changes the tire.A few seconds later, reality begins to warp.18 South Park 's landmark 200th episode is also titled "200" and celebrates previous episodes with several references throughout.He hands, captain Carter a note, telling her not to read it until shes on the other side of the gate.
1 Allusions to other Stargate SG-1 episodes: O'Neill calling the Stargate "the Orifice " was a scripted ad lib, written by Robert.Puppet sequence Puppet SG-1.Catherine Langfords father is dead, and she has not yet assumed a position as head of Stargate research.1 One of the Wormhole X-Treme!Martin also threatens to take the movie to another studio if the present one does not like the budget; Joss Whedon actually did switch studios to produce Serenity, moving it from Fox to Universal.A twist "You mean something like this?" Martin talks about needing a twist that the audience would not expect, at which point O'Neill walks into the room.Wizard of Oz Vala attempting a Wizard of Oz-style story.Sign In 03:01, if you were to look at a brain, could you tell if it came from a male or female? | http://montecchiomaggiore.info/through-the-wormhole-season-2-episode-1/ | dclm-gs1-162441087 |
0.031891 | <urn:uuid:d18d939c-c891-417b-8222-39a1d4d96e86> | en | 0.944385 | Inflammatory Cortical Demyelination in Early Multiple Sclerosis
Immunologist Awarded Nobel Prize
Ralph Steinman's discovery and continuing investigation of a "missing link" in the human immune system have changed the field, colleagues say. This year, his work also has earned him the Nobel Prize.
"He discovered this important cell type, dendritic cells," says Max Cooper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a fellow immunologist who has known Steinman and his work for more than 30 years. "Back at a time when no one really believed him, he pushed the idea very hard and backed it up by isolating this very small fraction of cells to show that they were important in activating our T‑ and B‑cells in immune responses. "His digging them out, isolating them, characterizing them in a painstaking way really did change the way we view how microbes enter the body and get recognized and responded to. And that changed our view of the way we understand how immunity is kicked off." Steinman, the director of the Chris Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases at The Rockefeller University, is practiced at describing the cells he studies. "The dendritic cell is, so to speak, a missing link in the immune system," he says. "The immune system has a number of different cells that provide resistance to infection and are involved in other disease conditions like cancer, allergy, transplantation and autoimmunity. Immune cells are like musicians in a symphony, each very talented and specialized, but they need a conductor and composer, and that's what dendritic cells are." "The cells sit up at surfaces of our body, along airways and along our intestine and in our skin, ready to pick up infections that enter the body. If they find one, they pick it up to display to the immune system. The cells migrate in the body, and when they get to the immune organs—lymphoid tissues—they find the musicians, so to speak, and then orchestrate the immune response. They tell the immune cells to grow and to develop into functioning protective cells." In the 1970s, when Steinman started his research career, researchers knew about the "musician" cells and they knew about infections. But in their laboratories, they could not seem to energize the immune cells to react to the infections. A link was missing, some cell in the immune-system soup that flipped the immune system cells on, and on in the right direction. They called the cells they were looking for "accessory cells." Steinman was working in the lab of the late Zanvil Cohn at Rockefeller University, an expert in the physiology of macrophages, which were considered to be a leading candidate for the missing accessory cells. "We looked at the populations [of cells] that were the source of the accessory cells," Steinman says. Using spleen tissue from mice.,"we found unusual cells that had never been seen before; they were tree-like in shape. Hence the name we gave them, dendritic, from the Greek word for tree." Exacting work Michel Nussenzweig was the first student to work with Steinman on dendritic cells, in 1977, shortly after the purification method for dendritic cells had been developed. He, Steinman and Cohn found that dendritic cells were very potent immune stimulators. Still, almost nobody believed dendritic cells were that special or significant, he says. For the next nearly 15 years, a good deal of the research published on dendritic cells came from Steinman and his colleagues. The cells are rare, making up less than one percent of white blood cells, and separating them out was an onerous process until Steinman and his colleagues devised a new method in the 1990s. "Once it became easy to work on the cells, then the field exploded, and there are now thousands of labs who study dendritic cells," Nussenzweig says. Steinman wasn’t afraid to argue that something so rare could be so important, says Antony Rosen, who worked in the Cohn lab with Steinman in the late 1980s and now is at Johns Hopkins University. "He was confident enough that it didn't matter to him that nobody had ever seen it before. It didn't matter to him that everybody rejected what he said. And he stayed at it and he knew he was right, and he proved that he was right." Vast potential Researchers are studying the properties of dendritic cells and how to control their activities for many potential uses. Helping dendritic cells to dampen immune response could ease symptoms of autoimmune disorders and allergies. Helping dendritic cells to boost immune response could help fight infections like AIDS and cancers. Steinman is currently concentrating his work on investigating and designing vaccines. "I just feel the vaccines we already have are medical miracles, but the scope and potential of new vaccines that target dendritic cells is just enormous," he says. "I also find that when I try to think about making a vaccine against HIV or against cancer, that I start asking some interesting scientific questions about how our immune systems operate." He also continues to call for research that aims to study science in people, to help people and to extend scientific understanding. "We need to build a new kind of research network, one that develops and supports researchers who can study the immune system in patients," he says. "I think the natural deductive instinct of most scientists is to keep figuring out how the cells work in simpler systems like mice, learn more about mechanism, and that's obviously going to be very productive. "But what I'd like to see is that we set our standards on the medical conditions that involve the immune system. I think that's where the biggest scientific challenges are, and if we don't direct ourselves to these conditions, we won't have the standards high enough for what we need to know." Part of that work is his role as a consultant for the Dana Foundation's immunology grants program, which targets patient-oriented research. Steinman has been a vociferous spokesman for such research, says Cooper at the University of Alabama. "He's just been unwavering in his insistence on trying to translate basic findings about how the immune system functions in a very basic way to see that that information gets translated into something that has relevance to people and their diseases." Of all the systems in the body, the immune system is the one "you can really teach, really make better," said Steinman during a forum at the Dana Center in 2006. But, he added, we don't yet know all the rules. Curiosity and collaboration The discovery of dendritic cells was a co-discovery, shared with Zanvil Cohn and other colleagues, Steinman says. He continues to collaborate, with colleagues at Rockefeller University and across the world. "He has been a mentor to a lot of people," says Madhav Dhodapkar, who worked in his lab a decade ago and now runs his own lab at Rockefeller. "People who haven't necessarily trained in his lab, I know, have benefited from interacting with him." Professionally, if one looks at how often his papers have been cited, thousands of times, it's easy to see how influential he is, says Rosen of Johns Hopkins. Most citations are for his work with dendritic cells, of course, but also for work on endocytosis and on basic cell biological progresses. "And some of those were classics in their time as well," he says. "He has this great knowledge of science, and it's like he's a child discovering something for the first time every time he reads it," Rosen says. "He's just got a hunger for it. That's why I think he made a big discovery." "He would come into the lab with a journal or with a paper that he thought you would be interested in, and he told you about it as if it were the coolest thing that he could ever have come across." It's a reciprocal pleasure, Steinman says. "I think young people, especially in a complex, intricate science like immunology, need support and discussion time. It's just too intricate to do everything yourself. They certainly reciprocate, and you know, the young, energetic mind has the best ideas." The two Lasker prizes for medical research, nicknamed "America's Nobels," are given each year. Steinman received the Lasker award for basic medical research. This year's award for clinical medical research was shared by Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr, who developed replacement heart valves.
Objective To examine the risk of neurological and autoimmune disorders of special interest in people vaccinated against pandemic influenza A (H1N1) with Pandemrix (GlaxoSmithKline, Middlesex, UK) compared with unvaccinated people over 8-10 months.
Design Retrospective cohort study linking individualised data on pandemic vaccinations to an inpatient and specialist database on healthcare utilisation in Stockholm county for follow-up during and after the pandemic period.
Setting Stockholm county, Sweden.
Population All people registered in Stockholm county on 1 October 2009 and who had lived in this region since 1 January 1998; 1 024 019 were vaccinated against H1N1 and 921 005 remained unvaccinated.
Main outcome measures Neurological and autoimmune diagnoses according to the European Medicines Agency strategy for monitoring of adverse events of special interest defined using ICD-10 codes for Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s palsy, multiple sclerosis, polyneuropathy, anaesthesia or hypoaesthesia, paraesthesia, narcolepsy (added), and autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 1 diabetes; and short term mortality according to vaccination status.
Anti-Aβ Drug Screening Platform Using Human iPS Cell-Derived Neurons for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive memory and cognitive decline during middle to late adult life. The AD brain is characterized by deposition of amyloid β peptide (Aβ), which is produced from amyloid precursor protein by β- and γ-secretase (presenilin complex)-mediated sequential cleavage. Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells potentially provide an opportunity to generate a human cell-based model of AD that would be crucial for drug discovery as well as for investigating mechanisms of the disease.
Methodology/Principal Findings
(A) Time-dependent morphological changes of cells reseeded in a 24-well plate. Neuronal and glial cells were stained by anti-Tuj1 (left; red), anti-synapsin I (left; green), anti-MAP2 (right; red), and anti-GFAP (right; green) antibodies and DAPI (right; blue) at 38, 45, and 52 days. Scale bar, left; 20 µm, right; 50 µm. Expression levels of Tuj1 (B), synapsin I (C), MAP2 (D), and GFAP (E) at days 0, 24, 38, 45, and 52 were measured by qPCR and normalized by that of GAPDH. “Fold expression” is the ratio of expression at each day compared to day 0. Each point represents mean ± SD of 3 assays. *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, significantly different from day 0 by Dunnett's test. (F–H) Neurotransmitter phenotypes at day 52. PAG (red)- and GAD (green)-positive (F), vGlut1 (green)- and Tuj1 (red)-positive (G), and GABA (green)- and Tuj1 (red)-positive cells (H). Blue, DAPI. Scale bar, 50 µm.
We differentiated human iPS (hiPS) cells into neuronal cells expressing the forebrain marker, Foxg1, and the neocortical markers, Cux1, Satb2, Ctip2, and Tbr1. The iPS cell-derived neuronal cells also expressed amyloid precursor protein, β-secretase, and γ-secretase components, and were capable of secreting Aβ into the conditioned media. Aβ production was inhibited by β-secretase inhibitor, γ-secretase inhibitor (GSI), and an NSAID; however, there were different susceptibilities to all three drugs between early and late differentiation stages. At the early differentiation stage, GSI treatment caused a fast increase at lower dose (Aβ surge) and drastic decline of Aβ production.
These results indicate that the hiPS cell-derived neuronal cells express functional β- and γ-secretases involved in Aβ production; however, anti-Aβ drug screening using these hiPS cell-derived neuronal cells requires sufficient neuronal differentiation.
Interferon β-1b–neutralizing antibodies 5 years after clinically isolated syndrome
The objective of this is study is to determine the frequency and consequences of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) in patients with a first event suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with interferon β-1b (IFNβ-1b).
In the Betaseron/Betaferon in Newly Emerging MS For Initial Treatment (BENEFIT) study, patients were randomly assigned to 250 μg IFNβ-1b (Betaferon) or placebo subcutaneously every other day for 2 years or until diagnosis of clinically definite MS (CDMS). Patients were then offered open-label IFNβ-1b for up to 5 years. NAb status was assessed every 6 months by the myxovirus protein A induction assay. A titer >20 NU/mL was considered NAb-positive, with low (≥20–100 NU/mL), medium (≥100–400 NU/mL), and high (≥400 NU/mL) titer categories. Here we examine early-treated patients, who received IFNβ-1b for up to 5 years.
NAbs were measured in 277 of 292 early-treated patients and detected at least once in 88 (31.8%) patients, with 53 (60.2%) reverting to NAb negativity by year 5. Time to CDMS, time to confirmed disability progression, and annualized relapse rate did not differ between NAb-positive and NAb-negative patients or between periods of NAb positivity vs NAb negativity within patients. Increases in newly active lesion number and T2 lesion volume and conversion to McDonald MS were associated with NAb positivity and were more pronounced with higher titers.
Table 1 Cross-sectional analyses for risk of CDMS, confirmed EDSS progression, and McDonald MS in NAb negative vs eventually NAb positive patients with 2 consecutively positive NAb measurements
Risk of event
HR (95% CI)
p Value
EDSS progression
HR (95% CI)
p Value
McDonald MS
HR (95% CI)
p Value
Positive (≥20 NU/mL) vs negative
0.77 (0.05–1.18)
p = 0.24
0.88 (0.50–1.54)
p = 0.28
1.54 (1.15–2.08)
p = 0.0044
Single model
Low titer (20–100 NU/mL) vs negative
0.73 (0.41–1.31)
p = 0.29
1.05 (0.51–2.15)
p = 0.99
1.41 (0.94–2.12)
p = 0.09
Medium titer (100–400 NU/mL) vs negative
0.91 (0.46–1.82)
p = 0.80
0.57 (0.18–1.83)
p = 0.34
1.71 (1.10–2.77)
p = 0.03
High titer (≥400 NU/mL) vs negative
0.71 (0.32–1.56)
p = 0.39
0.91 (0.05–1.18)
p = 0.85
1.62 (0.99–2.65)
p = 0.06
Abbreviations: CDMS = clinically definite multiple sclerosis; EDSS = expanded disability status scale; NAb = neutralizing antibody; HR = hazard ratio, CI = confidence interval.
*By Cox proportional hazards regression adjusted for age, gender, number of T2/gadolinium-enhancing lesions, mono-/multifocal presentation, and use of steroids at the time of a first clinical event suggestive of MS. Hazard ratios above 1.0 indicate increased risk.
In conclusion, although NAb positivity was associated with increased brain MRI activity, no discernible effects on clinical outcomes were found. This finding may reflect the greater power of MRI compared with clinical outcomes to detect the treatment effects of IFNβ-1b and may also result from temporal changes in NAb titers and biology.
Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease: Rational Basis in Ongoing Clinical Trials
Ongoing clinical trials based on active or passive immunotherapy for AD.
Phase II/IIa/IIb
Phase II
Phase I
Phase I
Affitope AD02 / Mimotope Aβ(1-6)
Phase II/IIa/IIb
AAB-001 / Bapineuzumab
Phase III
Phase II/IIa/IIb
Intravenous Immunoglobulin /Gammagard, IVIg
Phase III
Phase I
MABT5102A is a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds Aβ.
Solanezumab / LY2062430
Phase III
Phase II
Phase II
R1450 is a fully humanized monoclonal antibody that binds Aβ.
Phase I
Anti-Aβ antibody that binds .
Challenge: Unwanted anti-Aβ/APP Th1 immune responses
Using N terminal peptide (Ab1–15) as antigen
Using DNA based epitopes
Using new adjuvants
Using passive immunotherapy
Challenge: The need of early treatment
Early diagnosis with support of biomarkers
Challenge: Hypo-responsiveness to vaccines in the elderly
Recruiting previously generated memory T cells
Using Foreign T cell epitope
Using Viral-like particles
Challenge: The need of more precise monitoring
Adopting new efficacy endpoints
Published at: Curr Pharm Des. 2011 Mar 4
Dr Frank Longo discusses exciting MS research results
Stanford Department of Neurology and Neurosciences Chair Frank Longo talks about the groundbreaking Multiple Sclerosis research of Stanford scientist Lawrence Steinman. | http://neuroimmuno.blogspot.com/ | dclm-gs1-162481087 |
0.385544 | <urn:uuid:ca5a6c15-e54c-4479-beab-9fc6207f7ef5> | en | 0.95247 | Passwords: Your Greatest Vulnerability
A Hack Here. A Hack There. A Hack Everywhere.
Monster, 2007 – 1.6 Million Accounts Compromised
LinkedIn, eHarmony & Last.FM, 2012 – 8 Million Passwords Stolen
AshleyMadison 2015 – 37 Million Accounts Placed Out in the Open
How Do Passwords Get Hacked?
1. They Guess It
Anyone who knows you personally, checks out your social media page or overhears your conversation can crack a simple password. Do you use the name of your child, your favorite football team or the make and model of your vehicle? What about your wedding anniversary, place of birth or favorite movie? If so, you've done been cracked.
2. They See It
3. They Log It
Has your PC, phone or tablet been infected by malware lately? If it has, you might be infected with a bad case of the Keyloggers. This tricky version of malware can see and track everything you type. If you don't use a password manager, it can log all your keystrokes, including when you signed into your bank account, your email, and your Facebook page.
4. They Automate It
5. They Expose It
Hackers can use a variety of means – phone, email, letters – to wrongfully expose your password. This type of password cracking would fall in line with the Monster example noted previously. The hackers stole personal information from Monster's account holders and used this information to moonlight as the company. While their intent was not to gain passwords, they easily could have done so.
6. They Phish It
The intent here is to trick you into inputting your login information. A corrupt link will lead you to an illegitimate website that looks almost identical to the real thing – your email, a shopping website or your bank account. Once you type in your credentials, the site will record your information and use it to gain access to your true account.
7. They Steal It
Ashley Madison's account passwords were stolen. Someone hacked into their database and kidnapped all the information it contained. These passwords were 'hashed', which transforms your data into another format much like encryption does. But with hashing, the data is stored differently and is not 'reversible', meaning it should be more secure for data like passwords; however, this did not stop a handful of security experts and groups from trying. It only took a few hours for most of these groups to crack millions of Ashley Madison passwords. And, once again, the only defense you have is a long, complex password and time.
What Does A Strong Password Look Like?
Many companies, such as LastPass, utilize a password generator and a formula to spit out an unintelligible combination of letters, symbols, and numbers much like this one, "19Qu^Tf3U55j". This is considered a quality password, but most of the public never have and never will employ a password like it.
A Strong Password:
• Uses random capitalizations and characters.
• Never contains complete words or names or coherent phrases.
• Won't use a word that can be found in a dictionary.
• Employs 'toothbrush' logic, meaning it will change about every 2-3 months.
• Won't be stored on a computer or anywhere on the internet.
Why Don't People Use Strong Passwords?
Time and time again, people fail to use strong passwords and what's worse is that they do it knowingly. In fact, in 2013, 90% of all passwords were considered vulnerable to hacking. Internet users are still resorting to passcodes like 'password' (7% of users), 'qwerty' and '12345678.' These passwords are on the list of the Top 500 Passwords, which means people everywhere use these passwords to store multiple accounts on a daily basis (79% of the public to be precise). These are also the passwords that are the first to be cracked, within minutes and with no software needed.
So why don't people use strong passwords? Simple.
1. They're hard to remember
2. They're in a hurry
3. They have too many accounts
4. They don't care
5. They don't realize the risk
6. They think they're immune
How Do You Remember a Strong Password?
In a blog written for the New York Times, the author interviews two cyber-security experts, Jeremiah Grossman, and Paul Kocher. The author goes on to explain how these security researchers protect and remember their super complex passwords.
Grossman copies and pastes his passwords directly into and out of an encrypted USB drive. He generates a long, intricate password and stores it in the USB. When he needs to log into an account, he copies and pastes the password from the USB. This accomplishes three things:
2. He doesn't have to remember his passwords.
3. His passwords are never stored anywhere – on the internet, on his hard drive or on a piece of paper.
Most people would never go this far to maintain a strong password; therefore, Grossman follows up with the potential of a password manager like LastPass or SplashData. These programs create strong passwords for you that you never have to remember. The downfall of password managers is that your information is still stored on the internet. If someone gains physical access to your computer, they can potentially gain access to every single password. On top of this, password managers are just as prone, if not more, to hacks than any other company, website, or individual. In June of 2015, the LastPass database was hacked. This company, in particular, utilizes a combination of hashing and salting to secure data; therefore, cracking these passwords would take significantly more work than it took to crack Ashley Madison's passwords. But that still doesn't ensure every account is secure.
Aside from password managers, you are only left with your mind. So the trick is to come up with a complex password that you can actually remember, which can be difficult. Grossman and Koch say passphrases are helpful, but it's important to remember not to use the passphrase itself.
"May the force be with you." = "m11*t33&f55^B77%W99$Y##"
Use the first letter of each word. In between each letter, put a specific quantity of characters, additional letters or numbers. You can make this easier to remember by creating a pattern. For instance, this specific example uses odd numbers and goes up by two each time. The first three letters are not capitalized and the last three are. The characters go down the keyboard starting with '*' and ending with '#'.
Where Are Passwords Headed?
Embedded Chips
PayPal would like the public to 'wear' chips underneath their skin or 'eat' sensors that would directly communicate with your heart and wireless antennae.
Handwriting Match
Security Tokens
Out of Alabama, a group is working on utilizing Bluetooth or "a short-range, wireless communication channel" to identify you as the proper user. Once identified, you will automatically be logged into your account.
Voice Biometrics
Face Recognition
What Should You Remember?
Like mentioned previously, it's only a matter of time before your password is cracked. But, 'time' is also your greatest ally. Secure your most important accounts with a complex password that takes time to crack. If it's easy to remember and can be found in a dictionary, you'll be one of the first to go. | http://newavesolutions.com/resources/password-vulnerability.php | dclm-gs1-162491087 |
0.050405 | <urn:uuid:7f6eb9a0-1cd9-4cb2-a42c-b558777388c0> | en | 0.967428 |
The innovative new vision-enhancing system, the first of its kind, includes a set of telescopic lenses and smart glasses that can distinguish between blinks and winks so that the user can easily flick between zoomed and normal vision.
The visual aids, which are still in the prototype stage, could be useful for those with visual impairment, which affects some 285 million people worldwide. In particular, they might one day help people with a condition called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the leading cause visual impairment in adults over the age of 50. AMD is a progressive disease in which people gradually loss their central vision due to cell damage and death in the retina. Although there are glasses in existence to help those with this condition, known as bioptic telescopes, they’re bulky and can interfere with social interaction. This new system, however, is designed to be much less intrusive.
The telescopes inbuilt into the lenses were actually first developed with funding from DARPA as superthin cameras for aerial drones, but they were later converted into a vision-enhancing system that was first announced back in 2013. Since then, scientists have been tweaking the system to make the complementary glasses better and the lenses more suitable for longer wear.
The lenses themselves are rigid and larger than your bog standard lens, covering the sclera, or whites of the eyes. Within the 1.5 mm thick lenses is a ring of tiny aluminum mirrors which bounce light around, increasing the perceived size of objects and magnifying the view 2.8 times. To switch between zoomed and normal view, all the user has to do is wink their right eye which interrupts the light being reflected from the contacts to the glasses, according to Science. When this signal is blocked, a polarized filter in the glasses kicks in which guides light towards the telescopic part, New Scientist explains. To get back to normal vision, they just need to wink their left eye.
OSense O-Sense | http://newsnation.net/index.php/technology/13-telescopic-contact-lenses | dclm-gs1-162501087 |
0.421826 | <urn:uuid:8e0c2249-65bb-4c07-89d2-b07bfd74868d> | en | 0.956723 | Yoga And The Chiroprator: A Beautiful Partnership
I have a Chiropractor appointment coming up next week and I am stoked! It has been a year and a half since I last saw a Chiro and believe me when I say my body will be happy. I have been receiving Chiropractic care for a long time. I used to joke that I needed to marry a Chiropractor (actually I still joke that my husband should become one). Anyway, I am very much looking forward to being able to do yoga properly again.
I hate going to the doctor. They charge to much, they are never on time, they constantly misdiagnose, they throw pills at the symptom without finding the cause, they poke and prod you… I could go on, but I think you get the point. That being said, the one kind of medical care I do believe in is Chiropractic. There is nothing better than finding a good Chiropractor and having them put your skeleton back where it should be. A lot of people get a massage at the same time, but I don’t really like people touching me that long so it’s not my thing.
What does seeing a Chiropractor have to do with Yoga? Yoga brings awareness to the practitioner, both on a mental and physical level. There is nothing like yoga to make you feel just how out of whack your body is. It is very difficult to go into an all out bind smoothly when your shoulder pops 4 times before you get the pose, and warrior #3 is very difficult when the misalignment in your hip is putting unnecessary strain on your knee. Contrariwise, there is nothing better than doing yoga after an alignment and discovering how much more mobility you have. Long term Yoga can actually retrain your muscles to hold you in proper alignment for longer. This makes it easier to tell subtle shifts in body alignment, so you can be adjusted before any pain may set in. | http://nomadrose.com/chiropractor | dclm-gs1-162511087 |
0.228193 | <urn:uuid:27f704dc-613a-40b3-a445-48b22224b306> | en | 0.958994 | Friday, October 14, 2016
Which Americans Prefer Dictatorship?
One thing I’ve been addressing, or trying to address, is this sudden popularity of fascism, of the idea of dictatorship. Why are Americans attracted to something they’ve never experienced? Why do Americans assume that a dictator would take dictation from them personally? Because that is the assumption Trump’s millions of admirers make.
It isn’t a misunderstanding of dictatorship. Dictators have total power but they are products of a machinery which is the source of that power. If Americans think this is a foreign idea or an obsolete idea they are wrong. It’s existed in America for centuries and it’s still here. As most of America has modernized and urbanized there are parts of America that have remained feudal and antebellum.
The regions where Trump is especially popular are actually very familiar with dictatorship.
The only seat of dictatorial power in America (since the decline of the big city machines anyway) is in rural areas where sheriffs run things. Every powerful office in America has a check on its power, a rival power center in the same district–––except small town sheriffs, whose only check is the electorate, an electorate which is more easily cowed and controlled in rural areas.
Rural sheriffs were the enforcers of Jim Crow. But these same sheriffs have also been the enforcers of male rule. Where the sheriff and his posse of good old boys is the only police force you will probably also find that crimes against women are seldom taken seriously. Unless the “violation of sacred womanhood” serves as a useful bludgeon against persons outside the powerful circles surrounding the sheriff.
Former (perhaps not so former) Jim Crow country is also Trump Country and Good Old Boy Country and Women-Do-As-They’re-Told Country. It's familiar from the rural South, but it persists in all corners of the country.
It would be worthwhile to examine and report on what I suspect is a significant difference in how women are protected by the law in these areas compared with the rest of the country, and how women in these areas are coerced into thinking like their menfolk and acting, thinking and voting as they are instructed.
There is an important difference between democratic power––the power of a democratic government––and police power. Certainly, these rural sheriffs are elected, but the actual power exists in the office, which is not subject to vote––these regions do not vote to invalidate the sheriff’s power, they simply rotate the occupants of the office, and the occupants exercise the traditional white male rule, enforcing laws that protect that rule and dismissing complaints that challenge it.
These are the areas where you hear serious discussions of "Obama seizing power", as reported in this MotherJones article. Any exercise of lawful Constitutional powers they dislike or disagree with is considered dictatorial, but their own dictatorial rule is entirely proper because it is local. These areas resent federal laws and judicial rulings and regulations because these are the alternate powers that protect and empower women and minorities.
(This bias against federal law was called Nullification when slave states refused to respect any federal law restricting slaveowners' rights. The strategy of Nullification re-emerged in 2009 as all Republicans vowed to disrespect everything the new black president proposed. This excerpt from a Frontline documentary describes this modern Nullification.)
This article from RightWingWatch describes another example of how rural dictators resent the dictatorial powers of the first black president. They cry out against imaginary dictators while they enjoy their own absolute power. They accuse Washington of dictatorship yet they admire a very real tyrant in Russia, whose spies are working hard to put their man Trump into the White House. (This idea of a local tyrant calling on a foreign tyrant to overthrow the national government is not new. It has roots in the Jacobite rebellions against the British parliament, the discontent that sent floods of emigrants to America, whose descendants still populate America's backwoods South.)
The idea of a local police force answerable to no one outside the community is sacred in the parts of America that gravitate toward Trump. Because how things have always been done in these areas is the only right way to do things. It was that way when Eisenhower tried to “interfere" with their Jim Crow law enforcement. It’s that way now when they scream about Obama’s planned dictatorship. Regulation by a fairer national law is anathema to them. What they call "liberty" we could just as well call defiance. They are defying the Constitution they claim to worship. In areas where women and people of color and newcomers who are simply “not from here" are not protected by the law, the system isn’t a democratic one, it’s a kind of dictatorship. These are the areas which want dictatorship on a national scale.
Post a Comment
<< Home | http://pasquino.blogspot.com/2016/10/which-americans-prefer-dictatorship.html | dclm-gs1-162581087 |
0.081043 | <urn:uuid:28629bb3-f953-49a1-9e90-cb141c031ce2> | en | 0.963436 | Monday, May 16, 2011
Benefits Of Sweating In A Sauna
There is a valid reason why human beings have used sweat baths for hygienic and health purposes since the Stone Age. It's because sweating has proven its effectiveness in flushing out toxins and disease and maintaining optimal physical as well as mental health.
Many health experts consider sweating to be the best health benefits of a sauna. There is a lot more to sweating than meets the eye (or nose). It is a very complex and active process. Upon close scrutiny it is clear that sweating is essential to life and deserves to be at the top of the list of benefits of a sauna.
As we mentioned earlier, the skin is a major eliminative organ. Our modern lifestyle makes most people's skin inactive. Many of us don't sweat, especially during the winter months. Modern synthetic fibres or tight clothing that doesn't allow the skin to breathe, can damage our skin and our natural ability for elimination, as does excessive prolonged sun exposure. A sedentary lifestyle also inactivates the skin.
Our skin is exposed to hundreds of chemicals during the course of our life, and is affected by them. From innocent bath products such as shampoos, shower gels, lotions and soaps to deodorants. Household cleaning solvents, detergent residues on clothes and chemicals from the bath or shower water also affect the skin.
According to Dr. Lawrence Wilson, author of "Sauna Therapy for Detoxification and Healing," heating your body several degrees dramatically increases circulation and opens skin pores as the body begins to sweat heavily. This helps remove toxins from hard-to-reach places like bone, sinuses and teeth. Dr. Wilson also says that cells damaged by toxic metals and chemicals are weaker than normal cells, and their death can be accelerated by heating them up. This assists your body in removing any metals or chemicals that were trapped inside those damaged cells.
No comments:
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... | http://pedangbermatasipit.blogspot.com/2011/05/benefits-of-sweating-in-sauna.html | dclm-gs1-162591087 |
0.224684 | <urn:uuid:a024dc06-fd8f-476a-9fe1-62d46bab9efc> | en | 0.938986 | Jefferson Swivel and Secretary
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Life of a Windsor Chair Spindle
When you look at a Windsor Chair in it's completed form, there are so many parts that come together to make the beauty you see. Part of that beauty are the plain and simple back spindles providing the anchor of the upper half of the chair. What you don't see is how those plain and simple little back spindles came to be. To do them the right way they need to be split or riven out of a green log. First you have to find a good straight log (in this case White Oak). You have to saw it to length, split it in half, then again into quarters, and even if you can read the bark well, the log may have some hidden defects that make it unusable. Once it's split into quarters, and any defects discovered and discarded, a grid is layed out across the section, some people split it into eight sections instead. The 1" grid gives you more even squared up spindles stock making it easier to shave with the Draw Knife in my book.
Each grid line is strategically rived using a riving brake, giving gorgeous straight grained oak providing the utmost strength and quality. Then each wide plank is rived again and again till 1" square billets are produced.
With each billet split out, it's time to shape them square with a draw knife. First you have to follow the grain on one side, flatten it out, turn it end for end, up and down, back and forth, then move onto the next side and do it all again. Once thats done four times, you have to make it octaganal and oversize the tenons, the swell, and taper. After you have all that done...
They need to set around the shop a week or so before they go in the kiln for 2-3 days. Then they are ready to final shape with a spokeshave.
So, those plain and simple little spindles have been through so much just to be a plain and simple spindle. Even if they seem like plain and simple parts of a Windsor, they provide the backbone of the chair allowing you to sit and rest your back. Now I'm ready to lean my tired back against those plain and simple spindles and relax.
1. Sorry to get off topic a bit, but what is the name of the style desk you have at the top of the blog? It's awesome, is that maple?
2. Thanks Rick for reading.
Trevor, thats my version of a Slant-Lid Secretary, I made it out of Tiger Maple. Thanks for the comment. | http://pinehillprimitives.blogspot.com/2011/10/life-of-windsor-chair-spindle.html | dclm-gs1-162621087 |
0.228937 | <urn:uuid:927b35a9-cb91-4d71-9583-d97892332e7a> | en | 0.944794 | How to Stand Out!
The legal field is known for controversies, emotional stories and fierce competition. As you’ve probably experienced, the competition extends beyond the walls of the court house and office, and seeps into your marketing campaign. With so many other attorneys, how are you standing out?
How do you stand out with all for the advertising rules? Use a different strategy!
State bar associations have rules and regulations governing the content that an attorney’s office can provide in each of their advertising materials and online collateral, including social media accounts.
The rules pertain to law firms and agencies or contractors they hire to advertise on their behalf.
The rules do not cover what the media says about you, as long as it’s not posted on your website, social media accounts or other advertising collateral.
This means, that a news station could refer to an attorney as expert or leading authority on a subject matter. It means that a single firm could be the go-to commentator for a journal, radio show, television broadcast.
Media naturally bears credibility, which indicates their audiences tends to trust and believe what they see and hear. When the media refers to you as a leader in the field, you are viewed on a different level by consumers and businesses… and you become the envy of your competitors. This exposure is often worth more than an advertisement, since it’s earned and not a paid placement.
The media may be your best, untapped referral source.
Which box do you want to be in? mprbranding | http://publiclyrelated.com/legal-field/ | dclm-gs1-162651087 |
0.020146 | <urn:uuid:b7d11e2b-d789-483c-9d44-15cfab7f621a> | en | 0.965673 | Sunday, May 6, 2012
Domingo’s Angel by Jenny Twist
But Domingo knows better. "Soy Angela," she said to him when they met—"I am an angel." Only later did he realize that she was telling him her name and by then it was too late and everyone knew her as Domingo's Angel.
This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village—the indomitable Rosalba—shopkeeper, doctor, midwife and wise woman, who makes it her business to know everything that goes on in the village; Guillermo, the mayor, whose delusions of grandeur are rooted in his impoverished childhood; and Salva the Baker, who risked his life and liberty to give bread to the starving children.
This book was engaging and entertaining as well as informative, but I kept forgetting the time period. No one in the town had indoor plumbing or cars. When Guillermo the mayor turned up with a car, I pictured something from the early twentieth century; not post World War II. I guess I was pretty spoiled growing up in Chicago in a house with electricity, a television, and two cars. I didn’t realize the kind of poverty other people endured, even though I had relatives in the country who still had outhouses.
At any rate, the characters in Domingo’s Angel hooked me, especially the irrepressible Rosalba, through whom we learn most of the history of the town as Generalissimo Franco takes over and kills or conscripts an entire generation of men, plundering, raping, and plunging the town into poverty and starvation “for the good of the people.” Yet, when Angela arrives she finds the people celebrating their festivals and life going on as though it had never been disturbed. She finds warmth and humor and happiness and she shares it with us. Domingo’s Angel is has its dark side, but in the end, it’s a feel-good read.
Length: 175 Pages
Price: $5.99
You’ll notice I always include the publisher’s buy link. That’s because authors usually receive 40% of the book price from the publisher. Editors and cover artists usually receive about 5%. When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut and the author, editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is left. So, if this book costs $4.99 at MuseItUp or Secret Cravings and you buy from there, the author will receive about $2.00. If you buy the book at Amazon, the author will receive about sixty cents.
Downloading the file from your computer to your Kindle is as easy as transferring any file from your computer to a USB flash drive. Plug the USB end of your chord into a USB port on your computer and simply move the file from your “Downloads” box to your Kindle/Documents/Books directory. I actually download my books using “Save As” to a “Books” file on my computer that’s sorted by my publisher, friends, and “books to review,” and then transfer them to my Kindle from there. That way, if there’s a glitch with my Kindle, the books are on my computer. Your author will be happy you did when s/he sees his/her royalty statement.
1 comment:
1. Thank you, Rochelle. I can't tell you how delighted I am with this review. You have made my day! Bless you! | http://rochellesreviews.blogspot.com/2012/05/domingos-angel-by-jenny-twist.html | dclm-gs1-162751087 |
0.075821 | <urn:uuid:2fc876ae-17c8-4cb0-8f11-f905c9f35803> | en | 0.988526 | Friday, August 29, 2008
OH MY! No! No! No! No!
I started the morning off with 624 new words in the second novel and then set about reading my first draft, so I could begin the rewrite.
I thought you guys were my friends. Why didn't anyone tell me the first draft was so horrible?
I know a writer is his or her own worst critic, but man does it stink! Even I wanted to stop reading after the first few paragraphs.
So I started the second draft which, in this case, means I'm saving almost nothing and starting over. I wrote another 791 words toward that end. A little shy of what I wanted for the day, but I may go back and write a little more before going to bed, so I guess that might be up in the air.
I wasn't nearly as tired today as I have been the past few days. Guess I'm over my lack of caffeine lull. Sadly, I spent more butt time in the chair writing than I normally do for so little production. I guess I was thinking quite a bit as well. I suppose that is to be expected when starting a new project. Hopefully, this next attempt won't be so painful to read eh Cullen?
I've been out here close to six months. I am just starting to feel the crunch of a lack of time. Up until the past few days, I was writing as though I had all the time in the world and it came with a little diligence. I have no complaints with my work efforts up to this point. Now, I feel as though I have to insist upon myself to get stuff done and it feels like things are just starting to get difficult.
I'm not talking about the pressure of impending deadlines. It's rare when I get bogged down with deadlines (assuming I don't forget them entirely, which has been known to happen because I get so lax with them). I'm talking about working harder to take things to the next level. I felt I was asking a fair amount from myself before, but now I seem to be asking for a little more.
I guess, as they say, this is show time.
Kimberly said...
Pathetic attempt to get us to pat you on the back for the first draft. You know it wasn't that bad, so why should we have to tell you again, lol. Of course you are going to be more critical of it than we are. You are the author, possessing a unique perspective on the story as a whole, while we are just your reading public grasping the story for the first time with a shaker of salt due a first draft. I don't think anyone said that it was publishing worthy in the condition that it was in, but certainly it didn't stink and you know it. Get over yourself. ;)
charles said...
Yes Pat, get over yourself.
You gave Kim a copy of your book to read but not me. She reads stupid books about how great the monarchies of the world are and every single biography that has ever been written about Princess Dianna and you are giving her a copy of you Science fiction to read?????
Doc Brown said...
First, it really is that bad. I am telling the story, not showing it. It's my job to guide the reader through the story, not spoon it to them like they're victims of severe head trauma. Most of what I wrote is unusable toward a second draft. Thus, making it as bad and as worthless as I claimed.
It all would have been quicker if I had thought about everything less and made it a glorified outline. The dialog, some of it anyway, is pretty much all I can salvage, and since I was nervous about dialog in the beginning, there isn't that much of it in Taveson's story. Hopefully, the writing gets better in Pella's story.
All that being said, it had been some time since my last attempts at creative writing. I can see very clearly that I needed some time and practice to get comfortable with the process again. So it is not exactly time wasted.
Second, Charles, you never asked for a copy. You've known I've been working on this project for more than a year and you complain now? Why can't Kim give you a copy? I'll send you a copy once finished here.
Third, the fact that Kim doesn't read Sci-Fi is exactly why I want her reading it. If I can get her interested in such a story, I'll either being doing something seriously right, or seriously wrong. (Like letting it turn into a biography of a family of intragalactic monarchs that marry their cousins and behead each other for disputes over continents.)
Of course, that assumes Kim will eventially read it... | http://roughingitinvegas.blogspot.com/2008/08/oh-my-no-no-no-no.html | dclm-gs1-162761087 |
0.747747 | <urn:uuid:264c0159-cab3-4733-8693-18bc015db674> | en | 0.956259 | Presentation is loading. Please wait.
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
Why every corporate office stresses on leadership? Why leadership is so important? Why everyone talks so much about leadership capabilities? Why in all.
Similar presentations
Presentation on theme: "Why every corporate office stresses on leadership? Why leadership is so important? Why everyone talks so much about leadership capabilities? Why in all."— Presentation transcript:
2 Why every corporate office stresses on leadership? Why leadership is so important? Why everyone talks so much about leadership capabilities? Why in all management schools ‘Leadership’ is taught as a separate subject? Why should I focus on leadership? What is Leadership?
3 6800 – 6900 distinct languages in the world 196 countries 730 established religions in the world 7054721028 – world population Global Terrorism Growing Poverty Uncontrolled Population Growth Global Warming Depleting Energy Reserves Global Economic Crisis What does humanity need in such an environment? How can my business survive in this tough, challenging & ever changing markets How can we make this world a better place to live? How can we stop further deterioration of our habitat and human values?
4 For my society I need people who can take initiatives, have courage to stand against wrong, have the ability to manage people, can generate innovative ideas, have long term vision can take initiativescan generate innovative ideashave courage to take risks have ability to manage people have long term vision stand against wrong For my business I need people who,,,,
5 Okay ! So what does it take to become an effective leader? Are leaders only born? Can leaders be made? A lot of research has been done to answer – Can leaders be made? And the answer to which most people agree is- YES BUT HOW? Yes leaders can be made By studying behavior, habits, and traits of strong and effective leaders Identifying what did they do different than others? And embracing the qualities that made them great leaders
6 Lets study the life of such a great leader and see what lessons could be learnt But, Why Gandhi? Gandhi is considered as one of the most influential leaders. Without any official position, power or money, from humble beginnings he gained world prominence, helped achieve freedom and left a lasting legacy for us all. Many of Gandhi’s core principles are remarkably relevant in the realm of leadership competencies and self-development Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India remarked about his stature and charismatic personality as ‘one-man boundary force’
7 Lesson 1: Continuous learning and improvement Gandhi always told that if two of his sentences contradicted each other, please accept the second one and forget the first one. This reflects – learning and growth mindset anticipation of follower’s needs rigid consistency was NOT one of his traits
8 Lesson 2: Looking at each person just as a human being “Be quick, be brief, be gone!” Personal meetings with Gandhi were very short. However Gandhi made people feel as if they were the only person in the world that Gandhi would have liked to talk at that time
9 Lesson 3: Being an excellent listener Gandhi was not a good orator, but people followed him because he practiced the principles of truth and non-violence in his life first and proved that any ordinary man can follow his path of truth and non-violence and then inspired others to follow these principles
10 Lesson 4: Proactively identifying barriers to make sustainable change Once a journalist asked Gandhi what was the biggest problem that India faced? He expected Gandhi to say slavery or British rule or pervasive poverty. But Gandhi said it was “callousness of intellectuals”. Gandhi had a long term vision of building a sustainable society and not just getting independence
11 Lesson 5: Being the conscience keeper Non cooperation was one of the key political movements that Gandhi initiated. Gandhi aborted the movement saying a key tenet of the movement – non-violence, was violated. He believed that the end did not justify the means.
12 Lesson 6: Emphasis on self-awareness and discipline As you grow in self awareness, you will better understand why you feel what you feel and why you behave as you behave. Self discipline is the training of your mind to control, perceived harmful, urges until a satisfactory solution has been sought
13 Lesson 7: Balancing value-driven vision and execution efficiency A leader with vision has a clear, vivid picture of where to go, and a firm grip on what success looks like and how to achieve it. Leader must share the vision and act upon it. He must communicate it clearly and passionately.
14 Lesson 8: Emphasis on path and result Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader. He had chosen the path of non-violence for himself and his followers.
15 Lesson 9: Adopting a holistic perspective in every endeavor Gandhi’s approach had always been holistic as human life is a synthetic whole, which cannot be divided into watertight compartments of social, political, religious life, etc. He is in favor of a non-violent and more civilized life style
16 Lesson 10: Be open-minded Always keep things in perspective. Do not dismiss other or anything- big or small- without giving a try. We never know where the next useful idea might come from.
17 Lesson 11: Primus Inter Pares; What I practice is what I preach An enduring leader is not a superior person, but only first among equals; first to abide by the moral code of conduct; first to bear the brunt of change; first to surrender privileges, and first to sacrifice one’s life. A leader is elected, chosen to serve and not installed to rule.
18 Lesson 12: Grass-root level contacts A leader has to see that not many layers of hierarchies are created between him or her and the people at the lowest rung; and the people’s voice does not go unheard and doesn’t get distorted to the extent of even belying the truth
19 TRUTH NON-VIOLENCE LOVE Gandhian Philosophy Gandhian Management
20 When he initiated compromise between two opponents – he was a mediator Gandhian Management When he applied his trident of truth, love and non-violence -he was an uncompromising autocrat When he gave procedural details to accomplish a goal - he was a bureaucrat When he delegated power to his colleagues or juniors - he was a trainer and developer
21 Gandhi was an ordinary man. But he did an extra-ordinary work by inspiring ordinary people. Gandhi’s main quality was fearlessness. He achieved fearlessness and politeness by practising truth and non-violence.
22 References Visit us for more information at :- Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal / Gandhi Book Centre 299, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Bombay 400007 India Tel:91-22-2387 2061 Fax:91-22-2284 6870 Email: Gandhi Research Foundation Jain Agri Park, Jain Hills, Shirsoli Road, Jalgaon, 425 001 MH India Tel. +91-257-2260 011 Thank You
Similar presentations
Ads by Google | http://slideplayer.com/slide/2517066/ | dclm-gs1-162831087 |
0.885706 | <urn:uuid:7acf4189-a807-414f-a9a9-49b130eaa1cd> | en | 0.864183 | The Info List - Acharya
--- Advertisement ---
In Indian religions and society, an ACHARYA ( IAST : _ācārya_) is a preceptor or instructor in religious matters; founder, or leader of a sect; or a highly learned man or a title affixed to the names of learned men. The designation has different meanings in Hinduism , Buddhism and secular contexts. It is also a Brahmin surname found in Nepal and across India, including Odisha , Karnataka , West Bengal and Maharashtra .
Acharya is sometimes used to address a teacher or a scholar in any discipline, e.g.: Bhaskaracharya , the mathematician. It is also a common suffix in Viswabrahmin/vishwakarma names, e.g.: sankaracharya . In South India, this suffix is sometimes shortened to Achar, e.g., TKV Desikachar.They follows pranaava veda the fifth veda.
* 1 Etymology
* 2 In Hinduism
* 2.1 Modern acharyas
* 3 Buddhism * 4 In Jainism * 5 In scientific/mathematical scholarship * 6 Acharya (degree) * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 External links
In Hinduism , an _acharya_ (आचार्य) is a formal title of a teacher or guru, who has attained a degree in Vedanga.
The Five Main Acharyas in the Hindu tradition are:
* Adi Sankaracharya * Ramanujacharya * Madhvacharya * Nimbarkacharya * Vallabhacharya
* Sri Ramakrishna * Swami Vivekananda * Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura * Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura * Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , founder-acharya of ISKCON
In Buddhism, acharya is a senior teacher. Notable acharyas:
* Pema Chödrön (b. 1936) acharya at Gampo Abbey
Main article: Acharya (Jainism) _ Image of Āchārya Kundakunda , author of Jain texts like Pancastikayasara , Niyamasara _
In Jainism , an _acharya_ is the highest leader of a Jain order. _Acharya_ is one of the Pañca-Parameṣṭhi (five supreme beings) and thus worthy of worship. They are the final authority in the monastic order and has the authority to ordain new monks and nuns. They are also authorized to consecrate new idols, although this authority is sometimes delegated to scholars designated by them.
* Bhaskaracharya * Mahaviracharya * Bhaskaracharya I
In Sanskrit institutions, acharya is a post-graduate degree.
* A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada * ISKCON * Srikanta Acharya
* ^ Platts, John T. (1884). _A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English_. London: W. H. Allen & Co. * ^ Although famous for being the proponent of _advaita vad_, he established the supremecy of _bhakti _ to Krishn . * ^ He propagated the _bhakti _ of _ Bhagwan _ _ Vishnu _. Source: Ramanujacharya Archived 26 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine . * ^ His philosophy is called _dvaita vad_. His primary teaching is that "the only goal of a soul is to selflessly and wholeheartedly love and surrender to God" Source: * ^ His writings say that Radha Krishn are the supreme form of God. * ^ "Ani Pema Chödrön". _Gampo Abbey_. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
* * | http://theinfolist.com/php/SummaryGet.php?FindGo=Acharya | dclm-gs1-162971087 |
0.056221 | <urn:uuid:3d30a162-5038-4de5-b299-4ed71ea15efa> | en | 0.987008 | Wednesday, July 29, 2015
A Modern Classic: Highway to Heaven (1984)
Rating: A-.
magicdog said...
This wasn't a bad show in its day but it was preachy at times. It's still watchable but it seems too simplistic for latter day primetime viewing. I think its spiritual success, "Touched By An Angel" worked a bit better in many aspects. For one thing, it dispelled H2H's premise that souls of the dead became angels. Most Christian resources say this is incorrect - that angels are made by God and therefore it made the experiences by the core team a bit better since they too had to learn lessons while on Earth.
hobbyfan said...
So true. Eventually, I'll have Touched by an Angel up, too, and some other religious-themed shows. | http://thelandofwhatever.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-modern-classic-highway-to-heaven-1984.html | dclm-gs1-162991087 |
0.035641 | <urn:uuid:ebc9a32e-b903-43b3-b9f2-6be45cd3cd23> | en | 0.870143 | Tagged: Luozi Ferry price
All my gear is stored inside durable Pelican Cases. From $69.90 on Amazon
It's not entirely stuck, just stalled on an uphill 4
Across The DRC Day 4
Mist rolls over the small green hills in the early morning, and I thoroughly enjoy going for a walk before sunrise. It’s fantastic to be moving and not pouring sweat for once. Soon enough... | http://theroadchoseme.com/tag/luozi-ferry-price | dclm-gs1-163021087 |
Subsets and Splits