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Anna Speight's story is complicated from the start; that's what makes it interesting to the narrator of Margaret Drabble's 17th novel, a deliberately obscured figure about whom we know little for much of the time. Eleanor is not concerned with telling her own tale; the snippets of information she lets fall push us gently towards the assumption of a fairly settled and uneventful life in which even major developments, such as widowhood, unfold relatively naturally and calmly. We know that it can't be quite like this; but we have no option other than to focus our gaze according to the direction of Eleanor's story.
This is significant in a narrative that consistently prods at the idea of how we know what it is that we are seeing; how we determine the combined effects of historical context and personal circumstance, and how we can weigh out the minute adjustments we need to make as time flows on, subtly altering both us and the objects of our scrutiny.
Eleanor's account of several decades in the life of her neighbour, Jess, and Jess's daughter Anna are inevitably inflected with her own subjectivity; and yet, borrowing from Jess's anthropological background, Eleanor presents her findings with a measured and studied neutrality. But the urge to fix a life in time and place, to map its contours and diagnose its deficiencies, is not that simple to resist.
Perhaps that's why, as the book opens, its prose has an almost folkloric quality, as Eleanor describes Jess's early adulthood and the intensity and rapture of her time as a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, whether reading late into the night in a Bloomsbury bedsitter or in central Africa, when she sees children with ectrodactyly, which causes a fusing of fingers and toes and has also been called lobster-claw syndrome. She feels for them a "proleptic tenderness", an "inexplicable joy" that it later seems to her might in some way have prefigured the birth of her daughter.
Anna is the result of a secret liaison between Jess and a married Scandinavian professor who quits the scene in haste, but with the decency to leave a little cash behind; enough for Jess to set up home in a slightly shabby part of north London and to be able to muddle along with scraps of freelance work. (In a sub-theme, Drabble demonstrates her abiding interest in the wider external realities that govern and shape people's daily lives; in the decades that Jess, Eleanor and their friends live in the small area between Highbury Barn and Finsbury Park, it undergoes a transformation; by sitting quietly, Eleanor notes, they have all become millionaires.)
Jess's situation has similarities to that of Rosamund Stacey, the protagonist of Drabble's celebrated 1965 novel, The Millstone; they are both studious, seriously scholarly types who find themselves briefly enthralled by a man and then left holding the baby. In spite of the threat to their academic lives, neither minds; both are also fiercely committed to their daughters. But where Rosamund's Octavia in The Millstone had a congenital heart defect that was addressed by surgery, Anna's condition has far more wide-ranging and long-lasting implications. We discover that she has a developmental problem of no obvious genesis or cause; it fits nothing previously described. It is only sketched in fairly general terms; we gather merely that Anna will always be dependent on her mother or another adult and that there are limitations on what she is able to understand of the world around her and what she can achieve independently. We are told that she has a happy temperament and a great capacity for enjoyment and pleasure, but little about her life or character is likely to change a great deal. This is particularly challenging to the construction and reception of a fictional character; we take for granted our expectations of fiction to present people in flux, and character as unstable and therefore malleable. Because of her timelessness and her lack of agency, Anna exists in the novel as an absent figure, or one largely resistant to our interpretation; somehow permanently beyond us.
Around her, other characters, plotlines and themes swirl and proliferate. We hear capsule tales of explorers and anthropologists, the most famous of whom is Livingstone. Back in London, Jess befriends an unhappy poet, who eventually attempts suicide and finds himself, all too briefly, in a residential treatment centre. Visiting him there, Jess meets other broken-down people, including a former nun who suffers terrifying hallucinations and, many years later, haunts the centre's decommissioned and decaying premises. Vogues for the treatment of the mentally ill come under the spotlight; so too do the radical changes in our understanding of genetic inheritance.
The narrative is unobtrusively anchored in time by mentions of cultural and historical events; we know that Eleanor's circle of mothers (fathers are little mentioned) is most heavily engaged in child-rearing in the 1960s because she notes that none of them had taken thalidomide, though they knew mothers who had. By the time she closes her narrative – Jess and Anna's story told, with all the digression, happenstance and indeterminacy that characterises real lives – their children have grown, and either begun to make their way or gone spectacularly off the rails. Except for the pure gold baby herself – whose life has remained, in its most fundamental aspects, much the same as it began. But what propulsive instinct, what drive towards the endless reshaping of our lives and our stories, what Livingstone-like, possibly doomed obsession with new horizons, convinces us that this is a bad thing?


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Tarte Tatin
- Yield: 8 servings
- Prep: 30 mins
- Cook: 25 mins
Instead of a pastry crust, we've used a thin, crisp biscuit topping (in the manner of the old New England dessert known as "Plate Cakes"). This biscuit is made with shredded sharp cheese and a touch of cornmeal. The play of this against the sweet apples is quite spectacular, as anyone who's ever enjoyed a wedge of sharp Cheddar with a piece of apple pie, can surely imagine.
- Cooking spray
- Fruit:
- 3tablespoons butter
- 1/2cup light brown sugar
- 5 to 6 apples (such as Golden Delicious), pared, cored, and cut into 8 wedges each
- 2tablespoons maple syrup
- Cheese Biscuit Crust:
- 3/4cup all-purpose flour, plus additional for rolling
- 1/3cup stone ground yellow cornmeal
- 1 1/2teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- 3tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces
- 1/2cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 3/4cup shredded extra-sharp Cheddar cheese
- 1/2cup buttermilk or plain yogurt
- Ice water
- Preheat oven to 425F. Coat a 9- or 10-inch cast-iron skillet with cooking spray, and place over medium heat. Add butter; swirl pan to coat bottom evenly. Add sugar, and cook over medium heat, shaking occasionally, until sugar starts to melt.
- Add apples, placing prettiest wedges in first, curved side down, in concentric circles. Then top with several more layers of apple wedges (they don't have to be orderly). Cover, lower heat slightly, and steam about 6 to 8 minutes, occasionally shaking pan gently, lifting lid, and spooning cooking liquid over apples, then recovering. Remove lid, turn off heat, and drizzle maple syrup over apples. Set aside.
- Combine flour, cornmeal, baking power, baking soda and salt in a food processor. Pulse a few times to combine. Add butter and cheeses, and pulse several times until mealy, with distinct but small pieces of butter and cheese. Add buttermilk; pulse. Add 2 or 3 tablespoons ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, and pulse until dough begins to come together.
- Turn out onto a floured board; press or roll into a circle the size of the skillet. It will be thicker than a pastry crust but much thinner than a conventional biscuit. Don't worry about tears.
- Place dough on top of apples, tucking any extra in at the sides. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until top crust is very golden and a bit crisp.
- Let stand about 5 minutes; then turn out onto a large platter, replacing any apples that may have stuck to the bottom of the skillet. Serve warm.
Recipe by Crescent Dragonwagon.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Glycemic Load 4.93
- Calories 320
- Fat 14g
- Saturated Fat 9g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g
- Monounsaturated Fat 3.5g
- Cholesterol 40mg
- Sodium 550mg
- Potassium 210mg
- Carbohydrate 43g
- Fiber 3g
- Sugars 25g
- Protein 7g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Vitamin A 10%
- Vitamin C 8%
- Calcium 20%
- Iron 6%


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- Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 06:24 PM
Illinois' resistance must start with Gov. Rauner
CHICAGO – State Senator Martin A. Sandoval (D-Chicago) has urged all elected officials from the local dog catcher to the U.S. Senate to condemn President Donald Trump's calamitous and farcical meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.
"I speak specifically to my Republican friends when I say our country needs you right now. No matter who you are or at what level you serve, our nation needs you to denounce this president and his actions in the strongest terms," Sandoval said. "What we witnessed not just in Helsinki but during the president's appearance before NATO was not just horrifying, but dire.
"In the coming days we need to speak in solidarity against what transpired, and I call on Gov. Bruce Rauner to lead the way in Illinois. His voice could prove an important and powerful one as a rebuke of the leader of his own party. Sadly, he chose just last week to give his formal endorsement to the Trump administration."
The Putin summit in Helsinki came just days after Trump insulted the U.K. Prime Minister and endorsed a potential challenger because of her handling of the country's exit from the European Union. He also insulted London's mayor and disparaged NATO allies while on a "diplomatic" visit.
Putin, Russia's long-serving tyrannical president and former KGB operative, received much warmer treatment from Trump, who told the world he valued Putin's advice more than that of U.S. intelligence agencies.
It was also recently proven that Illinois voter databases were hacked in 2016 in Russia's attack on U.S. election systems.
"Any claims that Trump was acting diplomatically are outrageous when you look at the tone of the rest of the trip," Sandoval said. "He tore down our allies and fawned over Putin, who we know has aimed direct, ongoing attacks at our democracy. Any efforts he makes in the coming days to retract or explain his miserable performance must be cast aside for what they are: lies."
Sandoval said it is more important than ever that Trump release his tax returns and divulge any business dealings or other connections with Putin and Russia.
"The pathetic, groveling way the president carried himself in this meeting cannot be explained without the assumption that Putin has some type of dirt on Trump or Trump has some sort of investment in Russia," Sandoval said. "I don't know what it is, but these ties must be sinister and they must be strong, because our President debased himself and our nation in front of the world, and that was during his public press conference. I can't imagine what they talked about when the doors were closed. "


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The G7 group of leading developed countries have sought to allay fears of a currency war when they agreed to avoid targeting lower exchange rates to secure a competitive advantage.
Amid concerns that recent measures by Japan to reduce the value of the yen could escalate into tit-for-tat measures, the G7 said exchange rates should be set by market forces, not deliberately manipulated.
The joint statement from G7 finance ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed the "longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates" and pledged to "consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets".
It added: "We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not target exchange rates. We are agreed that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability. We will continue to consult closely on exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate."
G7 sources said the statement had been aimed squarely at Japan, although Tokyo insisted it had backing from the US, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy to continue taking measures to reflate its economy. These have included the announcement of additional quantitative easing (QE) and fresh fiscal stimulus, which have led to a sharp fall in the yen.
Japan's finance minister, Taro Aso, told reporters that the G7 had recognised its steps to beat deflation were not aimed at affecting foreign exchange markets.
Weak growth across the developed world since the deep global downturn of 2008-09 has prompted central banks to use so-called "unconventional measures" to boost growth. These have included creating electronic money through QE, which effectively drives down the value of currencies. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newgovernment in Japan aims to ease pressure on Japan's exporters by reducing the value of the yen.
Chris Turner, head of foreign exchange strategy at ING Bank said: "We doubt this statement will be enough to alter the core trend of yen weakness seen since November.
"The G7 has not expressed displeasure with the move, that is, … it could have described recent FX foreign exchange moves as 'disorderly', which would have threatened FX intervention.
"As far as we can make out, we believe today's statement is primarily aimed at Japan and discourages Tokyo from talking the yen lower.
"Abe was voted into power on a ticket of beating deflation and weakening the yen. With Washington having set the bar low for massive monetary expansion and currency weakness, clearly it is difficult for it to preach to Tokyo. And we very much doubt this G7 agreement has any bearing on Tokyo's domestic policy of aggressive Bank of Japan balance sheet growth and inflation targeting. In effect, the message of this brief statement is that 'it's fine to devalue, but just don't talk about it'."
Trevor Greetham, Director of Asset Allocation at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, said: "The G7 ministers put out a statement today arguing against unilateral FX intervention and explicit exchange rate targets. On one level, this is a slap on the wrist to Japanese ministers talking about specific levels but it allows them to carry on with policies aimed at creating domestic inflation. You could argue the clear foreign exchange manipulators out there are the Swiss, with the Swiss National Bank's Thomas Jordan saying today that the swiss franc's 1.20 cap against the euro is still in place, the franc will weaken further and they stand ready to take further measures."


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Trade and Industry written question – answered on 9th January 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the recent reduction in gas production from mixed oil and gas fields.
Production of associated gas" from the mixed oil and gas fields located principally in the northern and central North Sea has varied over time for a number of reasons. The rate of production is affected by contractual nominations, by planned and unplanned maintenance, by the effect of investment in new production or injection wells or well workovers in existing fields, by the effect of past production reducing reservoir pressure in existing fields and by the effect of new fields coming into production. Total associated gas production from the UK continental shelf peaked in 2002 and has since declined. Production from new fields coming on-stream has not matched the decline in production from existing fields, though there have been significant changes from month to month. Production in August 2005 was particularly low, with reduced deliveries at all four of the main coastal landing terminals (CATS, FLAGS, SAGE and SEAL), but by October production was back close to the level of a year earlier.
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Money hungry televangelist Dr. Creflo Dollar is claiming that the classic cartoon Pokemon made the children who watched it in the late 1980s and early '90s gay.
According to a bogus non scientific non researched "study" released by the Creflo Dollar Ministry in Atlanta, the youth of the world had "their sexuality warped by Ash and his fruity friends."
The "study" claims that many of the Pokemon from the video games and cartoon are phallic in nature, causing Poke-Masters to crave the peen.
Christ News further explains that the show is "directly oriented to pervert adolescents "showcasing "platonic love relationship" between main character Ash and Brock.
The pastor Creflo Dollar broadcasts for many years the Bible through its well-attended speech worldwide. In his speech on April 8, he urged his followers not to leave their children in contact with this series.
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Our client's brief was to create a studio residence and flexible work space in an existing 1930's building in Melbourne.
The aesthetic of this project was the antithesis of the brief. The client desired a look of solidity, permanence and substance in a reconfigurable space that did not look flexible, lightweight or temporary.
It was important to establish the space in context of its CBD laneway location. The long narrow building had existing windows to an adjacent derelict building and laneway on the east side. To establish a sense of place, we created four full height 3.6 metre wide openings offering a classic rooftop cityscape view and flooding the space with natural light. Light wells were transformed into terraces creating connection to laneway activity below.
A series of robust yet finely detailed interior fixtures were created, dividing the space into a sequence of reconfigurable 'rooms'. The fixtures take the form of fireplaces, display cases, bookshelves, pivoting walls, demountable blocks and even a secret bookcase door.
The interior conceives the structural space as a neutral shell upon which the manipulation of space is highlighted and accentuated by fixtures and fittings. The structural form is expressed as a 'white' skeleton, whilst brightly coloured accents are provided by the furniture and flexible elements.
Fixtures such as the light fittings with small details of colour, reflect the surrounding palette and imbue the interior with a sense of their industrial origins.
The textural qualities of the chosen materials, including recycled solid timber, copper, stone and leather, provide a sense of warmth and possess a permanence, solidity and integrity by improving with age.
Detailing is honest, robust and tactile, the materiality of finishes being expressed in edges, junctions and fixings. Furniture was selected with a sense of fun, some pieces in acidic colours as a counterpoint to the subdued base palette.
Materials were selected for their low environmental and emission impact, longevity and renewability. Recycled or FSC certified timber was used throughout, leather is processed without chroming and demountable wall elements are constructed in a material made of recycled PET bottles.
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Above the Yarra River, the views look west to the city. From here you get a profile of Melbourne's CBD, the amalgam of nineteenth-century church spires and major office towers, the sports complexes around the MCG, the botanical gardens and Government House's tower.
From the front door you can get a feel for what lies beyond. There is a series of spaces through which you must pass: an atrium indoor garden flooded with light and sun, a double height living/dining area overlooking the immediate garden of mature trees, through which the city appears.
There are bedrooms above this level, while a billiards room and recreation area are situated under. The final journey towards the river is a bridge link to an eyrie. From here the gardens and the riverbank are below, the house is to the rear and the city beyond is another front.
Reside Carlton presents two apartment buildings, and five unique residences set in richly diverse surrounds. Sharing a commitment to design excellence and indulgent urban amenity, the buildings enjoy interconnected walkways, green spaces and a rooftop terrace, set against a backdrop of modern façades that interpret the location's historically renowned architecture and global village style.
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Emma has also acted as an instructor for the CLIP component of the Practical Legal Training course, and as an auditor for the Accounts subject.
Before Leo Cussen
Emma holds a current Victorian Practising Certificate. She is an experienced legal practitioner. Emma undertook articles at the Melbourne office of a large international law firm, and subsequently worked for nearly a decade in the Corporate/Commercial group of that firm, including a stint in its London office and in-house secondments. She also has experience as a Precedents Lawyers in a mid-tier city law firm.
Before becoming a lawyer, Emma worked as a dentist in Melbourne and the United Kingdom.
Emma is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria. She is also a member of the Victorian Music Teachers' Association and Writers Victoria.
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Emma has a particular interest in clear writing, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Arts (majoring in writing). She is the author of an article in the Company and Securities Law Journal.
Since her time in legal practice, Emma has enjoyed mentoring junior lawyers. She has a keen interest in legal education, supported by a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
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Case Name: United States v. American Library Association, Inc.
Citation: 539 U.S. 194 (2003)
Topics: Obscenity; Indecency;
In order to address the problems associated with the availability of internet pornography in public libraries, Congress enacted the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), under which a public library would not receive federal assistance with which to provide internet access if it did not install software to block images that constitute obscenity or child pornography. This law was prompted by the libraries' findings that patrons of all ages regularly search for online pornography and sometimes expose others to pornographic images by leaving them displayed on the computer. CIPA allows the library to disable the filter to enable access to bona fide research or "other lawful purposes." A group of libraries, library patrons, and web site publishers sued the United States, challenging the constitutionality of CIPA's filtering provisions.
The Court found that Congress has wide latitude to attach conditions to the receipt of federal assistance in order to further its policy objectives. However, Congress may not induce the recipient to engage in activities that would be unconstitutional. The Court looked at whether CIPA requires libraries to engage in unconstitutional activities by looking at the role of libraries in our society: to facilitate learning and cultural enrichment and to provide resources for the interest and information of the communities served. To fulfill these missions, libraries must have broad discretion to decide what materials to provide patrons, that is, to choose those materials that would be of greatest benefit to them. They are under no obligation to provide universal access. In this context, the Court found that forum analysis and heightened judicial scrutiny were incompatible with the role of libraries and the discretion needed to fulfill their missions. Moreover, the Court found that internet access in public libraries is not a public forum because it has not historically been used for the purposes of assembly and communication among citizens. Nor is internet access in public libraries a designated public forum, as the government had not made an affirmative choice to open up its property for use as a public forum. Rather, internet access was provided to facilitate research, learning, and recreational pursuits, not to create a forum in which a diversity of views can be expressed by private speakers.
The Court further found that there is no constitutionally significant difference between the need to exercise judgment in making book collection decisions and the need to exercise some control when collecting material from the internet. Next, the Court found that the tendency of the filtering software to block access to constitutionally protected speech (which obscenity is not) is not problematic because of the ease with which patrons can ask that the software be disabled, with no explanation required of adults.
CIPA was found to reflect Congress' decision not to subsidize any library's decision not to install the software. The Court noted that a library is permitted to forego installation of the software, so long as it does not use federal funds to pay for internet access. Based on these findings, the Court concluded that Congress may insist that the public funds it appropriates to public libraries be used to fulfill their traditional role of obtaining material of requisite and appropriate quality for educational and informational purposes, which has never included pornographic materials. Accordingly, the Court found that the use of filtering software does not violate patrons' First Amendment rights or induce libraries to violate the Constitution.


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Issues and Challenges
Once the broker files the shipment with Customs, the broker becomes the intermediary between the importer and Customs. All information from Customs must flow back through the broker into the importer's GTM system to finalize the entry and eventually liquidate the shipment.
Information received from Customs helps validate that what the broker submitted correctly reflected the contents of the shipment and the purchase order. If there were filing errors, they must be detected quickly, since there is only a short window in which to correct them.
Customs also provides messages indicating the status of the entry and whether additional actions must be taken to clear the entry.
Challenges include:
- Detecting discrepancies between what was sent to the broker and what the broker filed with Customs
- Managing the volume of messages received from Customs related to the shipment
- Determining whether other transactions may be affected by the status of an entry
- Appealing valuation or duty payment errors prior to the liquidation date
- Measuring the performance of brokers and entry cycle time
How Amber Road Can Help
Amber Road's Import Management solution tracks the entire life cycle of a purchase order and shipment until the liquidation notice is received by Customs.
Once the broker files the entry, the messages received from Customs are incorporated back into the system for post-entry actions, tracking and auditing purposes. This serves as an important checks and balances system to ensure that the broker filed correctly. It also ensures that all messages from Customs can be viewed in a central location that is tied back to the shipment, and ultimately back to the line items of the purchase order.
Customs messages and disposition codes provide important information regarding the status of the entry and whether the shipment is cleared or delayed. Configurable business rules help separate critical messages from those that don't require action.
The system also manages the periodic daily and monthly statements of duty payments issued by Customs. High volume importers may choose to have their duty invoices aggregated into larger payments. Our solution receives these statements and track their payment against the specific shipments.
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In December I set out on a life changing trip with three friends to Bishop, California; A place I had never been to do something I had never really tried. Bishop is one of the premiere destinations for Bouldering in the world and one of the most beautiful places I have ever been in the U.S.
Sentinmental moment spoiler alert: What was more beautiful was the community and culture I experienced there. Making more new friends than I could have expected and really finding out what living your dream and adventuring with your friends looks like in the best kind of ways.
My next few blog posts will be dedicated to showing some of the images and video episodes of our trip.
Thanks to Rachel Bellamy for being our killer guide and pro adventurer, to Zach Schaarschmidt for jumping in a complete strangers car (mine) at a park n' ride in Burlington and being one of the coolest people I know on a 20 hour car ride with Adam Basse and thanks Adam for keeping us ever entertained in life in general
And to everyone we met in Bishop, for opening up dinners, campfires, climbing tips, your passion for climbing and memories that I will hold onto for the rest of my life!
I love you all!
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If you really want to get to know somebody, spend 19 hours in a car with them.
Better yet, spend 19 hours in a car with them, then 6 days in the desert, 5 frigid nights in the dirt, roughly 4 hours naked in a hot spring, 2 meals at In-n-Out Burger, taking in more blood caked finger tips, crash pad impacts and rocks, caves, walls and routes than you can begin to count, and after all that you will realize you've experienced one crazy road trip to one of the premiere bouldering destinations in the world;
Or so it seems that these are the immediate highlights at the forefront of my thoughts from such a journey this past December with a gang of three now good friends.
What I believed to be an ideal mix or goof, experience, rookie and stoke, our crew was assembled on the whims of a lifestyle based around the idea of 'why not?'
Out of this question of 'why not' I truly believe some of the greatest feats of adventuresome destiny have been born. Ok I'm not directly comparing myself to our trip to being one of the world's greatest feats, but for MY world, it was a great feat. Within MY world, it was a pretty grand adventure.
And thus the Sharkfin gang was born. Almost immediately upon seeing that our sole crash-pad, a well loved folded Metolius with a beveled end that perfectly resembled the dorsal of said predator, strapped upright instead of flat on the top of my sleek deep blue 2005 Hyundai Tucson looked like the perfect hunter of shenanigans, we came up with Sharkfin gang as a joke, but obviously after the storm of instagrams and social media posts, images and hashtags ensued, we were happily stuck with the name.
We were also stuck right off the bat however, in traffic. After a brief, albeit beautiful, rendezvous in Tacoma with Moose, Sharkfin gang member Rachel Bellamy's fuzzy pet bunny, we were met outside Olympia with a complete standstill of traffic. After a bad a I-5 wreck, we were seeking an alternate route in what apparently is the most non-navigable space on the planet. Somewhere between Fort Lewis and a suburban nightmare maze that makes the Labyrinth look like a zen rock garden we eventually found a single lane road that was actually a golf cart path for a course that crossed the freeway but it was behind a locked D.O.T. gate.
Just as we were cursing our iPhones and lack of navigational skills, a D.O.T. guy rolls up in his truck. Spying a single earring and a mustache, I really thought we had hope.
Withholding names at his request, we were snuck through the gate with many thanks and high fives after some candid conversation about how four of us were driving 20-ish hours to central California to climb some rocks. He approved of our 'sick trip' and assured us that, 'man back in the 70s you wouldn't believe some of the stuff I'd do.'
With 4 lanes of I-5 shut down it was actually erie to be the only vehicle on the freeway 2 exits past the worst traffic ever, and in the middle of the rush hour morning.
All that stood in our way now was Eugene, Cafe-Yum, Klamath Falls, a mountain pass or two, In-n-Out Burger, Reno, some fog so thick I expected a dementor to splatter on my windshield at any moment and finally one right turn in the middle of nowhere to find a camp spot.
We were searching for a veritable army of already camped. Friends and cohorts of Rachel's, many of whom were also from Bellingham. Such was the size of our group that it would be an assumed fact throughout the trip that, had you just arrived, it was most likely that you were coming from Bellingham, or were part of the Bellingham crew. I thought it awesome and sort of comical that so many people from the same place ought to meet each other in such a far off land. It is a situation I have often come across while traveling and has made me firmly believe that people in the Northwest just get out and do so much cool stuff that they are bound to run into each other eventually, just based on the odds.
But find them we did, and no time was taken before I realized the type of community that was formed in that place, and it made sense quickly that the group was ever increasing.
...Story continued next post!
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Minor violations expected in report on investigation
Results of a 7-month investigation of the David Brame scandal by state and federal law enforcement officials might yield minor violations that do not rise to the level of criminal conduct.
Attorney General Christine Gregoire, Washington State Patrol Chief Ronal Serpas and U.S. Attorney John McKay will discuss "conclusions and recommendations" from the investigation during a news conference scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday in Tacoma.
Officials from those offices would not disclose their findings. But a source familiar with the investigation told The News Tribune, "It has to do with whether it's a corrupt culture."
Monday's announcement will not end the investigation. A broader federal investigation into possible corruption in Tacoma, first acknowledged in August by the FBI, is not finished, sources say.
In that investigation, the FBI has pursued rumors of public corruption, a term broadly defined as any time public officials - elected or not - abuse their position for personal gain.
In May, two weeks after Tacoma's police chief shot his wife and himself, Gregoire promised "a rigorous, independent and thorough criminal investigation into all aspects of this troubling case," and "a full, fair investigation of the city and city officials."
Sources now say the inquiry into possible criminal activity covered a wide range of topics, including numerous rumors of misconduct by officials in the Police Department and the city. Investigators discredited many of the wildest rumors, sources say.
Investigators focused on several specific allegations:
•Possible overtime fraud in the Police Department.
•Sexual misconduct in the Police Department, and its possible connection to promotions; after the April 26 shootings, a female patrol officer claimed David Brame sexually harassed her and threatened her promotion.
•The actions of assistant chief Catherine Woodard, who was accused of intimidating behavior by Crystal Brame and her family, and knew Brame threatened Crystal Brame's life.
Woodard also knew of Brame's unsuccessful efforts to lure the female patrol officer and Crystal Brame into a sexual threesome.
City leaders have said they want to renew an administrative inquiry into the Brame scandal when state and federal investigators complete their work.
The administrative investigation, conducted by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, began in May, but halted when the FBI and the State Patrol took charge.
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New Orleans, LA – Dr. August Ochoa, Professor and Director of the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been named to the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology. He will serve a four-year term. Dr. Ochoa is the only Louisianian currently serving on the Board, and the third one from the state to serve. The other two Louisianians who served previously were also appointed as LSUHSC faculty – Drs. Pelayo Correa and Elizabeth Fontham.
Appointed by the Director of the NCI, the purpose of the Board is to provide scientific advice and review of the progress of the intramural clinical and epidemiological research programs of the NCI Center for Cancer Research (CCR) and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG). The Board advises the Directors of CCR and DCEG, and the Director and Deputy Director of the NCI, on a wide variety of matters concerning scientific program policy and progress and future direction of research programs.
Dr. Ochoa earned his MD from the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia in 1982. That year, he started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Immunobiology Research Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he became an Assistant Professor in 1986. He served as Head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1989 to 1996, and Head of the NCI Signal Transduction Laboratory from 1996 to 1997. At the LSU Health Sciences Center, he is Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry, and Director of the Cancer Center. At Children's Hospital in New Orleans, he is a practicing physician specializing in the field of Allergy/Immunology. His research interests include T-cell function, cytokine production, macrophage T-cell interaction, immune regulation, immune dysfunction and disease, as well as tumor immunology.
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As many as one million illegal alien Muslim colonizers in Turkey will receive debit cards and monthly cash transfers to help pay for food and housing under a new €348 million ($393 million) humanitarian program from the European Union.
ZeroHedge The EU's largest-ever humanitarian program is part of a €3 billion package of assistance the bloc promised Turkey to support some three million refugees the country hosts, mainly from Syria.
The new EU program will be overseen by the World Food Program, in cooperation with the Turkish Red Crescent. Each family's need will be assessed individually and there are additional funds available for education or supporting elderly family members.
Step-by-Step Progression into a sinkhole for the EU
- More refugees will seek free handouts.
- Turkey will complain €3 billion is not enough.
- The refugees will complain €1,000 is not enough.
- EU citizens will wonder why refugees are getting €1,000 and they are not.
- Demands for an EU-wide helicopter drop of free debit cards will soar.
- The amounts demanded will soar.
- Some economist will propose the debit cards will expire if not used quickly.
- And then, and then ….Under Eurozone rules the ECB cannot simply print money and give it away. Countries have budget constraints. So, either taxes go up to pay for the scheme, or the EMU rules have to change.
Western media are reporting on the Muslim refugee crisis as a humanitarian problem for the West only. But where are the media questions about the huge financial and land resources available in the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE? So far, the richest Arab Muslim countries in the Middle East have taken in virtually no Muslim refugees.
Liveleak The world is often lectured to about the urgency of respecting Arab and Islamic brotherly love, but where is the Arab action to rescue fellow Muslims and Arabs from the claws of ISIS?
Where are the mighty Arab armies who waged dozens of wars against Israel? Why aren't they fighting ISIS and building tent cities in the vast deserts of Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the wealthy Gulf States? Where is the wealthy Arab League to coordinate safe cities on Arab land that extends from Morocco to Iraq and from Northern Syria to Sudan?
Kuwaiti official explains why Kuwait will NOT take in any Syrian refugees "Kuwait and other oil-rich Muslim countries are too valuable to accept low-class Muslim refugees who we will have to support because they don't want to work. We don't want people who are different from us."


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Today marks the 49th consecutive day without rain in Elgin, TX, and that is a problem for the 120 pine saplings we planted in January. Some have died from the heat and drought; others are struggling. Most remain green and supple, but they need a little help, and it is not coming from the sky. So for the past two weeks, my boys and I have been filling gallon buckets from our hose and lugging them across the pasture to our trees. It is hot work and time consuming, bringing life to those trees.
The labor reminds me of a lesson in prayer which I read roughly two decades ago. The teaching itself, from the writing of Teresa of Avila, is more than four centuries old. Teresa likens the soul to a garden which God plants and then beckons us to tend. Sometimes rain falls from heaven, a gift of consolation directly from God. However, God also sends dry spells which require some sweat and ingenuity on our part. Irrigation channels can be built to transport water. But when irrigation proves impossible, we must dip our buckets into the well and carry the water. It can be hard work tending the gardens of our souls, and we may become discouraged. When I am tempted to sloth, I remember my dead trees.


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PASCUAL LOPEZ, Silvia. Renowned Cases of Official Entry and Search of Private Domiciles in the Spain of the XVIII Century. Rev. estud. hist.-juríd. [online]. 2010, n.32, pp.309-322. ISSN 0716-5455. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-54552010000100011.
During the 18th Century, the king 'protects' people and domiciles, as representative of all the social forces. Judges and agents simply need to invoke the King to enter into private domiciles in order to arrest or detain any felon that might be inside. At that time, not even the right of property stands as sufficient protection against the King´s will who, at any given time, can expropriate possessions from noblemen and bourgeoisies and, of course, arrest them in their homes without great difficulty. Spain, culturally isolated from the liberal ideological movement that impregnates Europe and, by extension, to the American colonies that are to become independent from the metropolis, will not ascribe to the fundamental constitutional rights until the beginning of the 19th Century, leaving behind in the path of History spectacular domicile official entries and searches, accounted for by the marginal phenomena of banditry, the expulsion of the Jesuits, and the personal and political vicissitudes of the Jovellanos.
Palavras-chave : Inviolability of the domicile; Official entry and search of private domicile.


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Cruising: Keeping a lid on bar tabs
It's easy to work up a thirst on a cruise. Some guests quench that feeling with soda, fruit juice, a latte or tea. Others may order a glass of wine or a beer with lunch, a cocktail or two before dinner and share a bottle of wine with their companion during the evening meal.
All this can add up to a substantial sum on your cruise tab. More cruise lines, however, are putting in place package plans for both soft and alcoholic drinks that provide convenience as well as shave guests' total costs.
Just this year, four cruise lines have started offering drinks packages or are testing them on a limited scale. Most of the plans include beer, certain wines and cocktails in the range of $40 to $50 per day. Carnival began testing an all-inclusive drinks program on certain ships in August. Norwegian is testing one on three of its ships. Royal Caribbean last year placed a drinks program on three of its ships that sail in Europe and this year is testing a similar program on its Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, which sail out of Fort Lauderdale.
Oceania, which already includes sodas, bottled water and specialty coffee, launched an alcoholic drinks program this year, and Celebrity, which launched its first drinks package in 2009, bumped it up in 2010 to include all alcoholic beverages.
Why the rush this year to add drinks packages to the cruise menu? "The cruise lines wouldn't do this if it weren't profitable," said Colleen McDaniel of the CruiseCritic.com website. 'They're all falling in line."
So far, passenger reaction to the new packages has been favorable.
"The packages have been very popular and well received," said Scott Steenrod, Celebrity's vice president of food and beverage operations.
Norwegian's AnneMarie Matthews also said that that line's program has been well received and said Norwegian should decide soon whether to make it permanent.
Of course, the value of such plans depends on how much the guest consumes. A package would not be economical for someone who has perhaps a single cocktail before dinner. In such cases, guests are better off paying for each drink as they go.
As one passenger, Frederik Dolk of Ljusdal, Sweden, commented on a CruiseCritic.com message board: "If a drink costs $8, I have to drink at least six drinks each day just to break even. On an average sea day I might have two or three. On a port day, even fewer. On top of that my wife has to buy a package and she drinks even less than me. These packages are a no go for me."
On the other hand, another Cruise Critic posting, from "misha1," praised the packages. "We tried the premium alcohol package on our last cruise for the first time. The convenience was great! Many times we were not charged the overage [over the package allowance]. Overall, we were very pleased.''
The amount that guests consume is not the only reason they may choose an all-inclusive plan, as "misha1," who cited its convenience, indicated. Many guests simply don't like having to sign a chit every time they order a soft drink or cocktail.
"It speaks to the general lifestyle people want," said Celebrity's Steenrod. "They like paying one price."
That kind of convenience applies not only to alcoholic drinks but also to sodas. Parents may find it easier to purchase a soft drinks package plan for kids who drink a lot of sodas or juices each day. Or for themselves, for that matter.
One consideration in offering all-inclusive programs is the possibility of abuse, so the cruise lines have several controls in place.
First, drinks are provided only for guests who bought the package. Some lines, Carnival among them, require that if a passenger purchases a drinks package, all adults in that stateroom also must do so. That prevents unpaid sharing.
Certain restrictions also apply to soda packages. To forestall a kid with a soft-drink package doling out "free" drinks to his buddies, for instance, Royal Caribbean's new Coca Cola machines (which offer more than 100 flavors of soft drinks) require a special mug with an embedded chip to operate. Each mug, for which the guest pays $4.50 per day, has a "time out" period so they can't be refilled repeatedly in a short period.
More importantly, alcoholic drink packages are not all-you-can-drink, as some people perceive.
Vance Gulliksen, a Carnival spokesman, said that the line "has a number of procedures in place to monitor guests' alcohol consumption, and bartenders … will discontinue serving guests who appear to be intoxicated."
Steenrod said the same is true on Celebrity. The crew is trained to cut people off when they've had too much, whether they're paying by the drink or have bought a package.
Before purchasing any kind of all-inclusive plan, guests should determine if their consumption will justify its cost or whether it simply would be better to pay as they go. Costs of individual drinks are posted on bar menus and sometimes on cruise line web sites.
Drink costs vary with each line. Carnival, for example, charges $3.75-$6.75 for beer, $5.50-$8.75 for mixed drinks and $5.75-$11.25 for a glass of wine. A soda purchased individually costs $1.95. A 15 percent gratuity is added to these costs.


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"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."
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Says Houston National Cemetery is preventing Christian prayers from being said at military funerals.
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How To Login To Multiple Skype Accounts At A Time From A PC
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We all love to use Skype for video chatting and low cost international phone calls. It's a great tool for business who try to provide online support through chat and voice calls. If you have two Skype, lets say one for your personal use and one for your official use, how to connect to both the accounts simultaneously on your computer?
Multi Skype Launcher is a free application that lets you connect to multiple Skype accounts simultaneously on your PC. Developers of the application claim that they tested with up to 5 simultaneous Skype accounts and it worked fine. We tried with two accounts and it worked well. Check out the application and let us know your thoughts.
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Excess water increases the water-to-cement ratio of concrete and maximizes workability; which is good news for concrete finishers. However, this benefit doesn't come without cost. The additional water eventually evaporates in the curing process, leaving a porous network of capillary voids and lower overall strength.
Excess water can also cause large aggregates to settle to the bottom of the matrix, resulting in reduced structural capacity and increased likelihood of cracking - resulting in the crumbling infrastructure that has become a major problem in our world today.
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One way that excess water becomes a problem is while the materials are in transit to a jobsite. Generally, truck drivers climb on top of the their trucks and eyeball how much water they believe should be added to the mix. If the materials become ruined by excessive water and aren't immediately turned away at the jobsite, it can still cost your business money down the road if the structure fails.
There is a way for you to stay in control, even after materials leave the plant. Command Alkon has a product that incorporates a rheological probe designed to provide benefits to the ready mix producer and their customers - visibility in to the properties of fresh concrete throughout the delivery cycle.
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Say "goodbye" to guesswork. The probe's features include:
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49ers have salary cap space, draft picks to fill needs
No NFL team has as much shopping power as the 49ers. They are projected to be more than $50 million under the salary cap when free agency begins next month and expect to have 12 picks in the draft.
They'll hone their plan of attack this week at the scouting combine. Indianapolis will host not only the top prospects but agents, general managers and coaches who will hatch trades and free-agent deals.
Here's a look at every position on the 49ers, ranked by need.
Defensive line – This unit went from team strength to bare bones in one season. Ray McDonald was kicked off the team, Justin Smith retired and Glenn Dorsey tore his ACL in November, while nose tackle Ian Williams remains unsigned for 2016. That means the 49ers could begin the season with only one starter from last year, Quinton Dial. Luckily, the draft is teeming with good defensive linemen, beginning with Oregon's DeForest Buckner.
Offensive line – With Alex Boone heading for free agency, the team may head into the offseason with just two players, left tackle Joe Staley and center Daniel Kilgore, locked into starting spots. Look for the 49ers to check out guards in free agency and to at least consider an offensive lineman, Notre Dame tackle Ronnie Stanley, with the No. 7 pick.
Quarterback – The need here depends on whether Colin Kaepernick stays. Two college quarterbacks currently are deemed worthy of a top-10 pick: Cal's Jared Goff and North Dakota State's Carson Wentz. Goff is a precision passer, while Wentz has size, athleticism and a rough-and-tumble style. Memphis' Paxton Lynch could enter the conversation with a solid showing at the combine.
Outside linebacker – The team's pass-rush leaders from 2015, Ahmad Brooks and Aaron Lynch, finished with just 6 1/2 sacks apiece, and the 49ers ranked 29th in sacks. The 49ers could make a big splash in free agency by signing Bruce Irvin from the Seattle Seahawks or Olivier Vernon from the Miami Dolphins. If not, there are a number of draft prospects beginning with Ohio State's Joey Bosa.
Wide receiver – Anquan Boldin led the 49ers in receiving the last three seasons. But he's 36 and unsigned for 2016. That leaves Torrey Smith and a lot of unproven players for an offense that leans heavily on its receivers. As was the case last season, the 49ers could look at free agency – Cincinnati Bengals receivers Mohamed Sanu and Marvin Jones may be good fits – before the draft, which is considered weak at the position. The best of the bunch is Mississippi's Laquon Treadwell.
Inside linebacker – The 49ers' defense was at its best when Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman were patrolling the middle of the field. Bowman promises to be better in 2016 than he was last season, when he led the NFL in tackles with 154. The 49ers could try to re-create their dominance at inside linebacker by drafting someone such as UCLA's Myles Jack in the first round.
Cornerback – The 49ers entered 2015 hoping one of their young cornerbacks would seize a starting spot, but that didn't happen. Kenneth Acker, Marcus Cromartie and Dontae Johnson made starts, but are any of them a full-time starter? General manager Trent Baalke usually waits until the late rounds to select a cornerback. If he pounces early, Florida State's Jalen Ramsey is the best of the bunch.
Tight end – The 49ers were pleasantly surprised by Garrett Celek in 2015, and he signed a four-year contract extension Tuesday. But even with him, Vance McDonald and two 2015 rookies, Blake Bell and Rory Anderson, this position pales when compared to Vernon Davis and Delanie Walker's days with the team. Unlike those power-blocking 49ers teams, new coach Chip Kelly's squads don't depend on two tight-end formations, preferring multiple receiver sets instead.
Running back – Three Philadelphia Eagles running backs received plenty of carries last season in Kelly's offense. Carlos Hyde likely will get the most in 2016. But the other spots are undetermined. Shaun Draughn, DuJuan Harris, Mike Davis and Jarryd Hayne are in the running. Or perhaps the 49ers will fall in love with a running back early in the draft, someone such as Utah's Devontae Booker (Grant High School).
Specialists – The 49ers drafted a punter last year, but their kicker, Phil Dawson, turned 41 last month and is a free agent.
Safety – The 49ers have used a first- or second-round pick at this position in each of the last three drafts and also have a good developmental player in L.J. McCray.
Matt Barrows: @mattbarrows, read more about the team at sacbee.com/sf49ers.
NFL scouting combine
- When: Through Monday
- Where: Indianapolis
- Who: NFL executives/coaches, top college players eligible for draft


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What is it like going to a Guitar Show?
February 2, 2012 by Mike McQuain · Leave a Comment
Just over a week ago I had the chance to visit the Orlando International Guitar & Music Expo 2012. That's fancy-talk for 'guitar show'. If you're not familiar with what a guitar show is then try thinking of it this way – we all get the concept of a convention or conference for business professionals – a big room with various vendor booths showing off the latest products (expo hall) and there are usually some speakers/presenters teaching or otherwise discussing the latest industry news, etc. Well, other than NAMM, guitar shows are the closest thing to a business convention that we players, collectors and all-around guitar lovers have for our favorite subject!
While some of the largest guitar shows may offer special 'clinics' (training sessions are often sponsored by a manufacturer hoping to show you why you need to buy their latest products) not all guitar shows will offer much in the way of training. However, what they ALL do have in common is their version of the 'vendor expo hall' where guitar dealers bring lots of cool (and often vintage) guitars, amps, effects and more hoping to sell/trade them to/with show attendees. In other words, it's a lot like a big flea market for guitar and music gear! And for the guitar lover it sure beats just about any other kind of shopping experience since you have so many cool old guitars under one roof. I'll take a guitar show over going to the mall with my wife any day! Read more


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Predicting wear and pre-empting knee prosthesis failure: a multidisciplinary study
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Total Knee Replacements are increasingly being performed on younger, and more active, people for whom the rate of revision due to wear is more than double that of traditional populations. The proposed study will utilize a state-of-the-art mechanical knee simulator to examine the effects of prosthesis malalignment and high demand activity on wear. Wear dynamics will be assessed using a novel system of highly sensitive radioisotope labelling. Bioactivity of the wear debris will be evaluated via a novel assay system. The resultant knowledge will potentially increase the longevity of total knee prostheses and reverse the trend of increasing revision rates.


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NEW DELHI — The Golden Temple, a sprawling and serene complex of gleaming gold and polished marble that is the spiritual center of the Sikh religion, is one of India's most popular tourist attractions. Revered by Indians of all faiths, it is a cherished emblem of India's religious diversity. So it was no surprise when the gold-plated marvel was promoted as the likely third stop on President Obama's visit to India, scheduled for early November.
But the United States has ruled out a Golden Temple visit, according to an American official involved in planning. Temple officials said that American advance teams had gone to Amritsar, the holy city that is the site of the temple, to discuss a possible visit. But the plan appears to have foundered on the thorny question of how Mr. Obama would cover his head, as Sikh tradition requires, while visiting the temple.
"To come to golden temple he needs to cover his head," said Dalmegh Singh, secretary of the committee that runs the temple. "That is our tradition."
Mr. Obama, a Christian, has struggled to fend off persistent rumors that he is a Muslim, and Sikhs in the United States have often been mistaken for Muslims. Sikhism, which arose in the Punjab region in the 15th century, includes elements of Hinduism and Islam but forms a wholly distinct faith. Since Sept. 11, 2001, Sikhs in the United States have been occasional targets of anti-Muslim discrimination and violence — a Sikh was killed in Arizona a few days after the attack on the World Trade Center by a man who mistook him for a Muslim.
Observant Sikhs do not cut their hair, and Sikh men wear turbans that cover their heads in public. Visitors to Sikh temples, known as gurudwaras, are required to cover their heads and remove their shoes. Baseball caps are not considered appropriate. Sikh scriptures require that men tie a piece of cloth on their heads, not simply put on a hat that can be easily taken off, because the act of tying has spiritual significance. Most non-Sikh visitors tie on kerchiefs sold by vendors outside the temple.
The Golden Temple is a popular stop for famous visitors. In 1997 the Queen of England padded around the glittering temple in her stocking feet. Another kind of royalty, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that controls India's Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi has also been to the temple. He sipped tea from a metal bowl there, sitting on the ground like every other visitor, head draped as temple tradition demands. Last year Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, also covered his head when he visited the temple.Continue reading the main story
For Mr. Obama, who will be seeking to cement the crucial but sometimes testy relationship between two of the world's biggest democracies, the temple was one of several possible backdrops intended to convey America's kinship with India. Mr. Obama will visit Mumbai and New Delhi.
H. S. Phoolka, a prominent Sikh lawyer in New Delhi, said he was disappointed that Mr. Obama would not visit the temple.
"We have worked so hard to establish in America that Sikhs have a very different identity than Muslims," Mr. Phoolka said. "It is very unfortunate that even the White House is conveying the message that there is no difference between Muslims and Sikhs."Continue reading the main story


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Mister Splashy Pants just heard that two of his Greenpeace pals have been arrested. He, too, is amazed that they've been locked up for exposing the truth -- and he's going to do something about it. Are you?
The Greenpeace Google Search will also return results form http://archive.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace's archive of web content dating back to 1994, along with content from those few Greenpeace websites not shared on this.


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Friday Fragments are bits and pieces of your week that are usually brief; too short for a stand-alone post, but too good to discard. Collect humorous observations, "Heard" items, and other small gems and put them together in a Friday Fragments post.
Friday Fragments are the brainchild of Mrs.4444 and you can find more at Half Past Kissin' Time.
I tried out NaBloPoMo in December and missed it by about 2 days of not posting. I've decided I'm going to try again for April. The "official" theme for April is 'sprout.' I guess in a way, my idea fits - I feel inspired by little things right now - everyday things that happen that spur me to write. So, that's going to be my sort-of theme for April, ideas that sprout from moments, but really anything goes.
So in the last month, we have pretty much all had strep throat except Danny. My throat got all sore again on Monday, but it is much better now. Justin, on the other hand? The penicillin they gave him did not eradicate the strep throat he had and it came back with a vengeance on Tuesday. I am not even kidding, his left tonsil was the size of a walnut. Horrible. So, he got some better antibiotics, and he's on the mend. He did miss work yesterday and today, and it seems like he was even worse the second time around. Hopefully this time the medicine will really get this bacteria OUT of our house!
Sam's Kindergarten registration paperwork came in the mail this week. HOW DO I HAVE A FIVE YEAR OLD?! I don't even know. It's insane. I look at him and I just can't believe I'm a parent to a kid that age. He'll be five in a month, and Danny will be one. Crazy.
One of my friends has recently become a consultant for Arbonne. She is a really cool woman who is trying to remain a stay at home mom while still providing for her family. Normally I don't host parties for friends who do this kind of thing, but after hearing about Arbonne and their products, I hosted a party last weekend. It was SO much fun! Here is the beauty of Facebook. The people who attended were: a friend I've known online for 2 years but never met, a woman I went to high school with who I haven't actually seen SINCE HIGH SCHOOl, my Mom, and a friend from a local Moms group. Talk about a mixed bag. It was awesome though. And they have amazing incentives for first time buyers. I am going to get a HUGE box this week with all the stuff my Mom and I ordered. I am probably most excited about the FC5 Mattifying Powder (I gets shiny, yo), the Self Tanning Spray (my legs are an unholy shade of white, and it's getting warmer), and the Hydrating Eye Cream (EYE BAGS BEGONE). I'm going to be hosting a 'virtual party' soon, so if you might be interested, let me know. They really are a cool company, all pure and natural and green. Check 'em out!
I walked around downtown this week and took a bunch of photos. I'll post more on Sunday for Weekly Winners, but here are a couple.
This next one I just happened to catch, I saw the bike cop, then the soldiers, then they met up and started talking and joking around. It was just a cool sight to see.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I am excited because my sister's coming up Saturday and her boyfriend (who is awesome) on Sunday, so it's going to be awesome! Now I better be off to visit the other Friday Fragmenters!
April 1, 2011
Friday Fragments
3 comments:
- lisleman said...
Kids growing up fast - it's been happening forever. There are so many ways of recording much of it today. I really like the picture of soldiers and police - and the street mural - what a combo. all the best.
aaah, love seeing men in uniform, great photo!
i hate strep throat, i always get it. i hope you all are well on the mend and never get that yucky again!! i really like the column you captured, that is just beautiful!
- Jene said...
Strep has been going around daycare for the past few weeks and we've been spared thus far (knock on wood!).
My kid isn't even three yet, and I'm already lamenting the fact that he's growing up so fast. I don't even want to think about kindergarten :(
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Nature of meaning has historically been planted in the field of philosophy, with good reason: up until couple decades ago, science limped behind philosophy in understanding matters of the mind. It wasn't until advances in neuroimaging technology reached the functional stage, allowing for visually arresting images of our brains while we think and do and idle, that we started harvesting scientific evidence for some of the most complex theories about the way our brain works, about the how we come to perceive the world, acquire knowledge, and communicate with one another. Hayden Kee, a PhD candidate at Fordham University, wonders: can we turn to the science of language to help us get to a theory of meaning?
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"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"—Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his philosophical work, Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche gave an aphorism, but not the method by which you and I might be bestowed such blessings. How exactly, then, do we forget blunders, trauma, and stress? How do we forget the memories that wrest from us our sense of well-being and happiness; the memories which pool as an unfortunate wellspring of such mental conditions like Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Large enough to host a crowd up to 120 people, but intimate enough to feel like you should bring your grandfather for a scotch to discuss the state of the world, Caveat forms the perfect stage for a YHouse event. With its wood-panelled walls, easy leather armchairs in the corner, a Persian carpet on the stage, and a drink in your hand, you're going on a comfortable night out whilst feeding yourself on new knowledge and insights.
Last Monday, I visited one of the recurring events on artificial life for the first time, called "Cylons and T2s and the Borg—Oh My!: The Dangers and Potential of Artificial Life." Physicist Dr. Charles Adler and historian Dr. A Bowdoin van Riper were invited to tackle ideas from science fiction, world culture, science, and philosophy, as well as to pose answers to a variety of questions from the audience. The event was moderated by YHouse's deputy creative director Sean Sakamoto.
In the history of science, philosophy has always seemed to be detached from the rest of natural science. Yet phenomenology offers a unique perspective of understanding our experience and life, and this workshop aimed to find ways to bridge the gap between the scientific attitude and the phenomenological attitude.
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Sociologist Eiko Ikegami Researches Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Virtual World of Second Life
Eiko Ikegami (YHouse Co-founder and the Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology and History at the New School for Social Research in New York City) interacted with adults with ASD in Second Life—a virtual space where they can express themselves without the real-world threat of sensory overload, a common affliction for people with the disorder. Ikegami will discuss her work at the SXSW Interactive XPrize Futurecasting Workshop in Austin, Texas on Sunday, March 11th from 11:00am–12:30pm.
Read more here: "Sociologist Eiko Ikegami Researches Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Virtual World of Second Life"
A video of our most recent Chasing Consciousness event is now available on our YouTube channel: Imagination in Science and Art
The event featured the following speakers, each of whom spoke of their experience with the topic at hand before engaging in a brief on-stage dialog, which was followed by an extensive conversation with the audience.
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study since 2012, is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. He is President of the InterAcademy Partnership, a past President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished public policy adviser and advocate for science and the arts. For his contributions to science, he has received the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, and has been named a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is also a trained artist, writer, and popular lecturer.
Pia de Jong is an award-winning Dutch writer who moved with her family to Princeton in 2012. Her most recent book is Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition. "Simply a beautiful book, impossible to put down, clear as a jewel and flawless in its depths"—Richard Preston. Pia writes a weekly column in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad about her life in the USA. She is a regular contributor to The Washington Post.
Dr. Eiko Ikegami, YHouse Co-founder and the Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology and History at the New School for Social Research in New York City, appeared in an English-language interview with Japan's NHK WORLD TV on January 17, 2018 to discuss her research on virtual worlds and autism.
Workshop name: "Naturalizing Phenomenology": Is this the way to proceed?
Date: November 10-11, 2017
Place: Hunter College (first day) and WeWork Park South (second day)
Organizer: Yuko Ishihara (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Institute for Advanced Study / YHouse)
How can phenomenology contribute to the study of consciousness today? This is the underlying question of the YHouse Phenomenology Group, a group of philosophers and scientists interested in exploring the potentials of phenomenology. Here "phenomenology" designates the philosophical enterprise initiated by Edmund Husserl in the beginning of the twentieth century. According to Husserl and many other phenomenologists, phenomenology is a scientific discipline which studies the nature of consciousness. If this is true, then how does it differ from other scientific studies of consciousness such as psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience? Furthermore, if phenomenology is to collaborate with the other sciences, how should we understand the nature of this collaboration?
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Rather little is known about the lives of adult autistic people, and even less about the way they interact with one another. For this reason, I chose to study communities of people on the spectrum inside the virtual world of Second Life.
By Eiko Ikegami
On Thursdays at noon Yhouse holds a lunch meeting at the Institute of Advanced Study, in Princeton. The format is a 15 minute informal talk by a speaker followed by a longer open-ended discussion among the participants, triggered by, but not necessarily confined to, the topic of the talk. Michael Solomon posts a synopsis of the weekly meeting.
YHouse Lunch Talk IAS Speaker: John Horgan, Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
Title: The Mind-Body Problem and Scientific Regress
On Thursdays at noon Yhouse holds a lunch meeting at the Institute of Advanced Study, in Princeton. The format is a 15 minute informal talk by a speaker followed by a longer open-ended discussion among the participants, triggered by, but not necessarily confined to, the topic of the talk.
Here is a summary by Michael Solomon about his talk last week at the YHouse-IAS Cognition Lunch Salon.
Caleb Scharf of YHouse has some fascinating ideas about how AI can show humans new ways to think about the natural world. Read "Why I Love AI" on Scientific American.
Eiko Ikegami presented "Avatars on the Spectrum: Rashomon and Mysteries of Autistic Experiences"
Video: Yuko Ishihara, "Awakened Realism: Insights from Japanese Philosophy"(Chasing Consciousness #9, at the Rubin Museum of Art)
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Governor of Florida introduces plain language initiative
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The Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, has introduced a 'plain language' initiative within the state, to ensure that documents and other communications issued by his office are as clear and concise as possible. The initiative, contained in an Executive Order issued in January, extends to any other agencies under the Governor's control.
Documents must include
- Clear language that is commonly used by the intended audience;
- Only the information needed by the recipient, presented in a logical sequence;
- Short sentences written in the active voice that make it clear who is responsible for what; and
- Layout and design that help the reader understand the meaning on the first try (including adequate white space, bulleted lists, and helpful headings).
Governor Crist writes on his website that
'It needs to be clear that the people are the boss of state government, not the other way around. In the business world, a business would not be successful if those responsible for making important decisions could not understand what the employees were saying. It is not too much to ask us to speak clearly to our employers.'
We were delighted to hear about this move. Is it too much to hope that other states and departments will follow Governor Crist's example?