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"After [Gov. Bob McDonnell] leaves Richmond, the unofficial mantle of ambassador for Virginia wine may fall to Jean Case." In the Washington Post, Dave McIntyre writes about the lofty aspirations of Steve and Jean Case, who recently opened Early Mountain Vineyards near Charlottesville.
Jancis Robinson recently traveled to "a remote province of China to participate in the inaugural Ningxia Wine Festival," and overall, she was impressed. She profiles one of the wines on her blog.
W. Blake Gray thinks we've been "scaring newcomers to wine" with the word "acidity," and should instead talk about "freshness."
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"Champagne has always been pitched and priced as an elitist drink, which is why sales slipped during the recession and sparklers like prosecco and Spanish cava are booming.Yet this summer, Liv-Ex reported global demand for Champagne is thriving." In Bloomberg, Elin McCoy takes this news as an excuse to sample some pricey wines!
Elsewhere in Bloomberg, John Mariani looks at the increasing popularity of wine in high-end Indian restaurants. He's assisted by Simon Stilwell, sommelier at one of my favorite spots in DC, Rasika West End.
In the Contra Costa Times, Jessica Yadegaran profiles Roland Micu, America's youngest master sommelier.
While Andrew Jefford doesn't think that the recent reclassification of St. Emilion will cause "as many sweet legal briefs" as the last reclassification, "rumblings of discontent are surfacing."
In the Mercury News, Laurie Daniel contends that "Oregon's best-kept wine secret may be Riesling."
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Sneaking A Look At God's Cards: Unraveling The Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics
by Giancarlo Ghirardi
Princeton University Press, 2005, Princeton
Reviewed in American Journal of Physics by Mark P. Silverman, Trinity College
Can you imagine groups of physicists holding regular conferences on the interpretation of Newtonian mechanics with lively debates over whether the three laws of motion are complete, whether the objects to which they apply actually have such properties as velocity and acceleration, or whether such objects even exist if "Newton's friends" are not thinking about them? No? Well, neither can I. However, had my question referred to quantum mechanics, rather than Newtonian mechanics, the reality, whether one can imagine it or not, is that the interpretation of the theory has been discussed and debated for nearly 80 years in conferences, articles, books, radio broadcasts, and, more recently, even in theatrical performances. If you are interested in knowing in precise, but readable, detail what the ruckus is all about, Ghirardi's book will guide you through a labyrinthine maze of conflicting viewpoints regarding the peculiarities of quantum phenomena.
To the detriment of communicating a meaningful understanding of epistemological issues raised by quantum mechanics, the history of the subject is replete with eminently memorable, but generally nonsensical, aphorisms and images that are all too frequently quoted out of context or without regard for subsequent progress. We have Bohr's comment that anyone who can think about quantum physics without getting giddy doesn't understand the first thing about it. We have the image of Einstein standing by his office window, explaining to a visitor that the insane asylum across the way houses those madmen who have not thought about quantum mechanics. We have Feynman telling his students that no one understands quantum mechanics. We have John Bell's remark that nobody knows what quantum mechanics says about any particular situation. And in one of the most egregiously inappropriate images of all, which pervasively decorates book covers and conference posters, we have Schroedinger's cat in a linear superposition of dead and alive macroscopic states. (Schroedinger, at least, had the sense to refer to his example as "ridiculous". ) With leading physicists communicating sentiments like these to one another, or with other physicists persistently quoting them (a sin of which I am also guilty), it is no wonder that popular exegeses of quantum mechanics contain much of what Gell-mann called "quantum flapdoodle."
God's Cards is not flapdoodle. The author has written a meticulous and objective account of the principal theoretical features of quantum mechanics that clash with what we ordinarily take for granted as "reasonable" in trying to make sense of the physical world. He explains, in depth that I have not encountered in quantum physics textbooks (if the subject is encountered there at all) or in other books for popular reading, specifically how each quantum "mystery" challenges our classically-schooled common sense to provide an explanation. And he carefully examines the principal explanations that have been proposed, pointing out how they meet the challenge and what additional difficulties they engender.
Among the epistemological issues the author deals with, the most provocative in my opinion are (a) the completeness of quantum mechanics (as expressed in the subtleties of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument), (b) the nonlocality of quantum physics (as represented by entangled wave functions or state vectors of spatially-separated, coherently-produced particles), (c) the linear superposition of macroscopically distinguishable quantum states (as characteristic of the Schroedinger cat paradox), and (d) the so-called "collapse" or "reduction" of the wave function, whereby the measurement of a quantum system by a classically-described apparatus terminates the continuous evolution of the wave function and projects the system into one of its allowable states.
Among the various ways philosophically-oriented physicists have tried to make sense of the phenomena underlying these conceptual issues, which constitute what is generically referred to as "the quantum measurement problem", the author examines schemes that (a) posit the existence of precise, but unknowable, variables ("hidden variables") accounting for the uncertainties in quantum systems, (b) propose the existence of an infinity of universes evolving each instant, corresponding to the infinity of potential quantum outcomes ("many-worlds" theory), (c) attribute to environmental or intrinsically nonlinear interactions the "decoherence" which prevents observation of paradoxical macroscopic superpositions of quantum states ("dynamical reduction" theories), and (d) rely upon human consciousness (e.g. "Wigner's friend") for the completion of a quantum measurement and reduction of the state description into a single observable outcome.
The author writes in a conversational style, patiently delineating these various schemes in a kind of gentle and nonjudgmental manner of a teacher who does not want to offend a student, no matter how outlandish the student's answer. Only at the end of the book does the author venture his own opinions as to the likely validity of the various unorthodox interpretations of quantum mechanics. (I use the word "unorthodox" guardedly, for there are various opinions as to what the "orthodox" interpretation is, and I do not believe the author's version would correspond entirely to my own.) In brief, he does not like the "many-worlds" interpretations because they appear redundant and sterile. He regards the emergence of consciousness in the physical world as deserving the utmost attention, but unlikely to be the essential reason for the reduction of the wave function. He places great importance on schemes in which the motion of quantum particles are guided by an underlying wave (pilot-wave theory), but notes that such approaches have so far failed to be generalized relativistically. For the same reason, he is skeptical of dynamical reduction theories. He mentions, but seems reluctant to judge, more recent schemes that look towards gravity or constellations of microscopic black holes as essential elements in the ultimate solution to the quantum measurement problem.
So what are we left with? "Hope", as far as I can tell. Basically, the author's gentle conclusion is to "watch with lively interest" the next generations of scientists who will undoubtedly find more "amazing mysteries" waiting for them. Of the latter possibility, I have no doubt, but, as to the general direction of quantum exegesis, I believe the author's competent exposition leads to a different conclusion.
Perhaps the quantum formalism and its valid (as opposed to fanciful) applications tell us simply and directly that the theory is to be interpreted as a calculus of probabilities describing the outcomes of observations on ensembles of similarly prepared quantum systems; that we do not see linear superpositions of cats because that is a misuse of the formalism, or superpositions of actually appropriate incoherent macroscopic physical systems because the quantum interference of their "HERE" and "THERE" states becomes negligibly small as some property (e.g. the mass) becomes macroscopically large. Perhaps, as the architects of quantum theory have remarked, the theory itself defines the kinds of meaningful questions we can ask of it, and - providing quantum theory gives a valid description of nature, as seems to be the case so far - when we ask the "wrong" questions, we end up with paradoxical answers. Thus, we may avoid paradoxes, not by invoking farfetched interpretations, but by asking physically appropriate questions. If quantum theory gives a valid description of the physical world, then it is describing a world that has been operating without human consciousness for more than 10 billion years, and clearly such considerations as consciousness are entirely irrelevant to the outcome of physical processes.
Quantum phenomena can indeed seem strange, but quantum theory accounts for these phenomena adequately by predicting all that can be observed of them, not predicting what cannot be observed of them, and doing all this in conformity with the other main pillar of physics, special relativity1. Is it possible, then, that the problem with the "quantum measurement problem" is that there is no problem?
These contrarian thoughts notwithstanding, I urge anyone with a passion for delving deeply into epistemological questions of quantum theory, which some physicists still debate hotly, to read this thorough and competent account by an author who has puzzled over these questions himself for many years.
1. Some physicists would take issue with this last assertion. See, for example, John Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics 2nd Ed, (Cambridge U.P., 2004).
About the author
Mark P. Silverman is Jarvis Professor of Physics at Trinity College. He wrote of his investigations of light, electrons, nuclei, and atoms in his books Waves and Grains: Reflections on Light and Learning (Princeton, 1998), Probing the Atom (Princeton, 2000), and A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe (Springer, 2002). His latest book Quantum Superposition (Springer, 2008) elucidates principles underlying the strange, counterintuitive behaviour of quantum systems.


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Ten years ago, I found myself caught between two worlds. I had spent several years in practice in various industries, as an internal consultant in an air traffic service provider and as an external consultant in an international consultancy. Then … Continue reading
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A nice bit of modern-day pop art by Swifty, this particular print going by the name of My Favourite Things.
It doesn't say specifically, but we can second guess that these are indeed a selection of the artist's favourite things from his childhood, brought together in a collage-style print on 190gsm archival paper, sized at 300 x 420mm (perfect for an Ikea Ribba frame apparently).
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What's Nikki Tinker going to do now that she's a two-time loser with a national reputation for low-road politics? Even the functionaries at Emily's List, the pro-choice feminist PAC that heavily funded both of the corporate attorney's congressional runs, publicly rebuked their candidate for running commercials odious enough to attract international attention.
"I've just got to put my faith in God," Tinker told a restless gaggle of reporters who crowded around her when she finally arrived, late, to her own unhappy "victory" party at Ground Zero last Thursday night. She reminded the media that she was only 37, and that, if the Lord saw fit, "Tinker time" could come again.
"I'm just a child of God," she said, echoing verbatim the things she said after her last, less devastating defeat in 2006 to Steve Cohen, who ran as the incumbent congressman this year. "You all know how strong my faith is."
But God was nowhere to be found at that party. Even Morgan Freeman, the club's Tinker-supporting superstar owner, who did play God in the film Bruce Almighty, was absent, having sustained injuries in a recent automobile accident.
It's tempting to describe the mood at Ground Zero as grim from the outset, but it was even worse. The mood was nonexistent. For most of the evening, there was no candidate in the house and not many supporters waiting on her arrival. The blues band on stage played "Come On In My Kitchen" to a mix of bored reporters with nothing to talk about and tourists who'd stopped in for ribs.
Even the sparse snack table went untouched until 9:40 p.m., when hungry speculators began to wonder if Tinker was going to be a no-show — because the candidate hadn't merely lost an election, she'd run a campaign based almost solely on race and religion, and she had been definitively crushed by an opponent she'd attempted — bizarrely — to tar as both a Jewish anti-Christian and KKK-friendly.
Throughout the evening, a small cluster of well-wishers — Judge D'Army Bailey (sipping chocolate martinis and talking about his book deal) and Tinker's boss, Pinnacle Airlines CEO Phil Trenary (describing himself as a "big Democrat") — would cluster around a television on the club's northeast wall to tut-tut over the returns.
"It's a rout," one man of Armenian descent grumbled into his cell phone. "The race isn't even competitive."
He was flanked by two other men of Armenian heritage who had thrown their support behind Tinker, because Cohen, who has long criticized America's invasion of Iraq, refused to support a measure asking Turkey to acknowledge the post-World War I era Armenian genocide. Peter Musurlian, the West Coast filmmaker whom Cohen physically removed from his home during a press conference the day before was among them.
"I filed charges against Cohen today," said Musurlian, who also has been identified as a "Republican operative" by the website MyDD.
"He's not going to like my documentary very much," the filmmaker said, scratching his head and voicing his astonishment that Tinker could have been beaten so badly.
Tinker could have been a contender, some thought. But the Alabama native, who'd barely closed her suitcase before running for Congress in Tennessee two years ago, made a mistake this time in trying to paint Cohen, a lifelong Memphian, as some kind of outsider.
Her chances evaporated completely 48 hours before the election, after her campaign released a commercial promoting the false perception that prayer isn't allowed in Tennessee schools and implying that former state senator Cohen, a Jew, was to blame.
The ad's content jibed too well with some harsh anti-Semitic leaflets distributed by the Rev. George Brooks, a pro-Tinker propagandist from Murfreesboro, and prompted Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's acerbic host of Countdown, to name Tinker "The Worst Person in the World."
Shortly thereafter, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expressed his disapproval, and Tinker's friend and onetime employer, former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., followed suit.
It was nearly 10 p.m. when Tinker finally arrived at her party. She hugged a few people, supplied the media with a variety of faith-centric non-answers to questions, and claimed no knowledge of Obama's comments. She never officially addressed the crowd, and, as soon as she left, an event that had never begun was over.
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Since their early days in the 1990s, BNL has been pretty much known for their hilarious humor and fun songs. Even though their founding member Steven Page is no longer with them, you would never know the difference. Co-Founder and singer Ed Robertson is one heck of a front man. BNL really knows how to have fun on stage as the Mountain Winery audience was amazed.
Even before BNL took the stage at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga this warm summer evening, the audience was rocking out to a couple of opening bands that could have filled the venue on their own. Opening was 1980's legends Howard Jones followed by the Orchestral Manoeuvers or as we've come to know them OMD.
Two words could only describe Howard Jones "high energy" … for 30 minutes, the very talented singer and songwriter was on stage singing while playing keyboard and had the crowd on their feet for most of the time. Jones sang with such enthusiasm as he went down his list of hit songs like "What is Love" "Things Can Only Get Better.", All I Want and Life In One Day.
The crowd seemed to be a bit disappointed when he didn't come out for an encore to perform one of his biggest hits – but not to worry, Jones came back out later and performed "No One Is To Blame" later in the evening with BNL. If you know the song, then you know it's one of those songs that stay with you for a long time as it speaks the truth of life.
Next up was group who took a few decades off … OMD as they performed all of their greatest hits during their set which included; Locomotion, So In Love, Secret, If You Leave and Dreaming.
The headliner for this evening, BNL came out for a good 90 minutes with over 20 songs plus their encore.
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One of the most common issues of Windows operating system is the Unidentified Network problem. When these words appear on your network status, you will never get an internet connection no matter how you refresh your web browser. But since this is a common issue, you can expect that there are already a couple of sure ball solutions that you can use to fix this.
The Unidentified Network problem is usually a cause of typical errors. These errors could be due to recent software update, loose connections, and a bug from the router itself. So we will try to tackle all of those within this article. Hopefully, one of them is your solution. So before we go straight to the fix that you need, please be reminded to follow the instruction exactly as it is stated. And do not try bypass or do any shortcuts to prevent creating more issues. Let's start.
How to Fix Unidentified Network Issue on Windows 10
Things to do first:
We have prepared a couple of methods to make sure that you will be able to fix the Unidentified Network issue when you leave this article. But before we continue, let's make sure that the problem is not from the simplest problems first.
- Check the LAN cable if it is properly connected to the LAN port of both the computer and the router or modem.
- Restart your PC because it might be the cause of a bad boot.
- Restart your modem and router to make sure that it is not just due to overheating or power interruption.
- Speaking of power, check the power cords of the router or modem and see if there is some damage or something.
- Turn off your Antivirus. There is a possibility that it is just a cause of an oversensitive detection mechanism of the software.
- Call your ISP customer service hotline for some unannounced maintenance within your area.
- Make sure that your internet bill is paid and updated.
Method 1: Reinstall Network Adapter Driver
- Sometimes, driver software is the culprit for this type of error. To check for this problem, hover your mouse to the bottom leftmost corner of your screen right exactly where the Windows Start icon is located.
- Right-click on it to display a list of services.
- Find the Device Manager and left-click on it to launch its own window.
- On the Device Manager window, click on the Network Adapters line.
- If it shows your network adapter but with a yellow icon on the side, that means the driver is not compatible, damaged, or suffered an error.
- If that is the case, right-click on that network adapter and hit Uninstall.
- Make sure to check the delete the software driver for this device.
- Do a system restart.
- See if you are now able to connect to the internet
- If not, install a new updated driver for your network adapter.
- In case you do not have a saved copy of the driver software of your network adapter on your local drive, you may download one from the manufacturer's website.
- After the download, install the driver and then restart.
Method 2: Adding IP Address Manually
If you have not touched your IP address settings, it is likely that your computer is using a DHCP IP address or an automatic assigning of IP address for a period of time. So here is what you should do if the Unidentified Network issue pops up.
- From your main desktop, press the Windows key + R on your keyboard.
- The Run window will appear. Type in NCPA.CPL and press Enter key.
- You should see your network adapter. Double-click on it to launch the Ethernet Status window.
- Click on the Properties to open a new window and scroll down to see the TCP/IPv4.
- Double-click on it to launch the IPv4 Properties.
- On the General tab, choose the Use The Following IP Address.
- Type in a new IP address such as 192.168.1.21 or 192.168.1.22 or higher. (Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and default gateway 192.168.1.1 should be kept unchanged.)
- On the Use The Following Server Addresses, type 188.8.131.52 for the Preferred DNS Server and 18.104.22.168 for the Alternate DNS Server.
- Click OK to close all the windows you have opened.
- Now the DNS servers and the IP address will take effect. Your internet should be working by now.
Method 3: Reset Winsock
If the above methods still do not work, this last one should make you smile as this is the best method to fix this type of issue.
- On your main desktop, put your mouse on the Start icon on your leftmost corner of the screen and right-click.
- You should see the Command Prompt (Admin) or the Windows PowerShell (Admin). Click on it to launch the Command Prompt service.
- Type netsh winsock reset and press Enter key.
- Then type netsh int ip reset and press Enter key again.
- Now type ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter for the last time.
- Close the Command Prompt window and restart your PC.
- After the reboot, your internet should now be working properly.
In Conclusion
Always remember to reboot your Windows PC each time you make changes to make sure that it will take effect. Also, there are instances that a recent Windows 10 update is the problem. If that is the case, the third method should work as your solution.
If not any of these methods ever worked for you then the problem is much bigger than you think. We will advise that you see or bring your Windows PC to an expert to diagnose and fix the real issue. It could be that the LAN port is physically damaged or there is more there than meets the eye.
If you have queries regarding this article, please do leave a message in the comment section for your questions and concerns. We will be more than happy to answer all of them. And if you know someone that experiences the same issue, do share them this article to help them out.


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By Scott Goodson - (chairman and founder of StrawberryFrog, and author of bestseller Uprising: How to Build a Brand and Change the World by Sparking Cultural Movements. McGraw Hill, April 2012) - in close collaboration with Kutay Ates.
I am writing a new book about how our world is being reshaped by technology. How the energy and perpetual desire of youth to connect is re-engineering this brave new world into a mosh pit of "globalistas".
Amazingly, the ancient trade routes - created centuries ago by people on foot or on ships that circled the Atlantic and Pacific rims - are being smashed and reinvented by a whole new generation of connected people, creating the most exciting, and hopeful open space of people and ideas ever.
Look at it from a macro perspective, and you can follow the jet plumes of a new generation criss-crossing the earth, curious about new cultures near and far. These are the new business heroes reshaping things...the interesting and relevant people we want to see more of doing new and dynamic things.
From a micro perspective, just look at how connected Turks are with the explosion of digital. Turkey is going gangbusters. The market is growing at an annual rate that smokes pretty much every other country in Europe.
In Turkey the advertising and digital market is booming. And there are no signs its slowing down anytime soon. Sure it's fair to say that the region between Turkey and India is booming too, with 1.5 billion consumers and loads of young people who want to make their mark. My agency StrawberryFrog just did the new global Emirates "HELLO TOMORROW" campaign because Dubai is once again hot and on the rise.
Yet Turkey has an angle that puts it in a category all its own. And if you're in advertising it's worth taking a closer look at this unique ecosystem of creativity, vitality and technology.
If you've ever been to Istanbul you know why it's happening. Just watch the kids. The kinda in, kinda now, kinda cool youth that are stylin along the city streets are modern, relevant and connected. They're armed with latest smart phones, stylish clothes and an attitude that says watch this space.
This country cruises the digital super highway moshing culture from around the planet. This is the former city of Constantinople after all. The city where the Gladiators of Rome and the legendary visionaries of Asia met, hung out, made peace and, in the process created modern civilization.
That was then. Today, Turkey has more internet users than every other country on earth, just behind 13 countries with significantly more citizens. And get this, 30 million of them use Facebook. According to BTK data, they've got 40 million 3G users and Turkey leads the list with the highest social media usage through mobile internet – that's if you believe the KPCB 2012 Internet Trend Report. Turkey marketing leaders and executives think that conventional marketing approaches need to change dramatically. Search engine advertising and social media are the two major phenomena in Turkey today. Right now digital marketing talent is scarce I'm told, which seems crazy since all this energy, technology would make this one of the best places in the world to be creative.
Being the young truth and culture junkies that they are, they adopt and morph ideas. They seek out and reinvent ideas. They develop fragrant ideas and fresh perspective because they scour the plains of the internet constantly seeking new trends. They travel millions of miles over the web into local culture, breaking down walls, breaking down borders, smashing open doors.
The advantage of countries like Turkey is they haven't had 80 years of advertising or traditional television history holding them back. Technology has enabled them to leapfrog many other countries and become a digital trend setter because internet usage in Turkey has gone beyond a means of entertainment. Companies consider the digital platform as the most vital asset at reaching users. Additionally, this platform enables the creation of a brand, its respective ecosystem and assists start up business at finding a footing.
According to the BKM (Interbank Card Center) data, the Turkish e-commerce market reached a whopping 25 billion in 2012. In this period many different ventures with a variety of different models were set-up. With these ventures many foreign investors entered the Turkish market. In 2012, starting with Galata Business Angels, Angel Investors Networks were set up. Other VC companies such as 212 Ventures followed soon enough.
So what's the most exciting work in Turkey and who's doing it?
Founded by Alemşah Öztürk in 2007, 41? 29! , is a prominent name in this field. As an agency they have done many nationally and internationally awarded campaigns and continues to do so for its large roster of clients which include brands such as Unilever, Garanti Bankası, TTNET, Microsoft.
Another important name in this field is Rabarba, founded by Oğuz Savaşan in 2007. Rabarba has been serving major brands such as Unilever, Turkcell, Peps, and Turkish Airlines. Having won many awards since its establishment, Rabarba recently got a major nod from Capital Mag as it was chosen the "favorite ad agency" of 2012.
C-Section established by Enis Orhun and Tuna Tiryakioğlu in 2008 make waves. Since its establishment, C-Section has served many major brands such has Efes Pilsen, Vodafone, and Coca-Cola.
In terms of the brand aspect of the industry, digital investors in Turkey, and the degrees of their investment vary from industry to industry. In the Interactive Marketing Summit of 2012, Turkcell was awarded as the most innovative brand in digital, while Efes Pilsen was recognized as most effective Social Media using brand. The best mobile using brand award was given to Garanti Bank and Elit was chosen the most creative brand in digital.
Who are the MVPs of this market?
Whomever is behind the new Turkish Airlines ad featuring Messi and Bryant, that's crashing YouTube globally deserves a pat on the back.
There are many others but a handful have risen to the top. Yüce Zerey (Interactive Marketing Manager @ The Coca-Cola Company) , Alemşah Öztürk (Founding & Managing Partner @ 41? 29!), Uğur Şeker (Founder & Managing Partner @ DBI), Oğuz Savaşan (Creative Partner @ Rabarba), Seren Köroğlu (Creative Director @ 41? 29!) Taylan Yapıcı (Creative Director @ BLAB Istanbul), Musa Paça (Creative Director @ Rabarba), Tuna Tiryakioğlu (Partner @ C-Section), Levent Erden (President @ IAB Turkey)
What's cool? Turkish Airlnes stands out. What else?
Lipton – The Woman Who Knows It All (Rabarba)
Efes Pilsen – This is That Year (C-Section
Greenpeace – Seyfi Solukal The Fake Candidate (Wanda)
Cocostar – Missing: Yaman Gezgin (41? 29!)
Watch this space.
Situated squarely in the cross hairs of North and South, East and West, Turkey has always been a hot spot for a pluralistic society and inspiration from all over. There are many different cultures living together geographically and socially. As a country and culture it has been loyal to its traditions, but it has also been able to keep up with the times thanks mainly to its young population.


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01 If there is passive awareness in which the dullness is perceived, and immediately after the perception there is a period of silence without condemnation, then in that period of observation without condemnation, the cause of insensitivity, of dullness, is revealed.
02 Sirs, how very respectful you are to me, and how very cruel you are to your servant, to your wife, to your neighbours?
03 There is a tendency, I think, especially among those who have read a great deal and have experienced according to their reading, to translate what I say in terms of their old knowledge.
04 It will be beneficial and worthwhile to listen and comprehend directly, without translating what is said into your particular terminology of usage of words.
05 Very few of us have self-knowledge, the knowledge of what one actually is.
06 Question: What is it that comes when nationalism goes?
07 Question: What is the difference between awareness and introspection? And who is aware in awareness?
08 Awareness is not self-improvement.
09 At the moment of experience, there is neither the observer nor the observed: there is only the experiencing.
10 Sir, what I am saying is not very difficult, though you may find it verbally difficult.
11 Question: Is marriage a need or a luxury?
12 We give so much importance to outward exploitation; the communist, the socialist, everybody is trying to stop outward exploitation. It does not mean that that is wrong; but we should attack the inward causes of exploitation, which are much more complex, much more subtle, and that cannot be done through mere legislation.
13 Stillness comes to the mind only through self-knowledge - not through denial of the self or acceptance of the self, but through understanding every movement, every thought, every feeling of the self, both the high and the low.
14 Interest comes into being, obviously, when you are suffering, when you want to know what are the causes of suffering because you are caught in it, or because you see another caught in it.
15 The problem itself contains the answer; the answer is not away from the problem.
16 As long as the mind is not understood, obviously there is conflict, there is misery.
17 Happiness comes not in evaluating, but when the mind is not occupied with itself, when the mind is silent, then happiness comes into being;
18 Question: Why don't you do miracles? All teachers did.
19 There can be transformation, resolution of the problem, only when the mind, the thinker who is the creator of that problem, understands himself - which means, when the thought process about a problem comes to an end.
20 As long as we think in terms of transformation, there cannot be transformation, either now or hereafter.
21 In a basically wrong society, there cannot be right livelihood.
22 You must understand where you are limited, the extent of your limitation; you must be passively aware of it, and in that passivity truth comes into being.
23 Surely, attachment is not the problem, is it?
24 if you say, 'I must be aware in order to get a result', then it becomes tedious.
25 To be full of emotion is obviously not love, because a sentimental person can be cruel when his sentiments are not responded to, when his feelings have no outlet.
26 Question: May we request you to state clearly whether there is God or not?
27 Every social change which we all want, is only a modified continuity of 'what is' and not a revolution.
28 Question: Will you please explain modified continuity?
29 Any change which we desire is a modified continuity of the same thing as now exists.
30 Society is static. The individual only is creative and not society.
31 Transformation must be always immediate and not left to time, i.e., to tomorrow.
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Continuous Shape and Symmetry Measures. Applications in Structural Chemistry
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Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-TM Systems
Stereodynamics of Molecular Rotors and Gears
Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of Complex solids
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Dr. Jesús Jover
I was born in Barcelona in 1978 and got the degree in chemistry at the University of Barcelona in 2002. Then I joined the group of Prof. Joaquim Sales and started working on the development of QSAR/QSPR methodologies for predicting the properties of inorganic and organic molecules
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qualification (2008). After that I spent five years working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol (2008/2010) and the Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ, 2010/2013). I moved back to the University of Barcelona in late 2013 and joined the Electronic Structure group as a Juan de la Cierva researcher. My research interests focus on the computational study of catalyzed homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, reactivity inside in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and molecular magnetism of transition metal and lanthanide compounds.
Dr. Jorge Echeverría
After getting my degree in chemistry from the University of Zaragoza I moved to the University of Barcelona, where I obtained my PhD in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Santiago Alvarez and thanks to a FPU scholarship. Then, I spent four years as a postdoc in the CEMES-CNRS (Toulouse, France) working with Prof. Christian Joachim in the design and theoretical development of molecular machinery. During my stay in Toulouse I was awarded a
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Dr. Javier Tercero
Javier Tercero was born in Yverdon, Switzerland in 1972 and studied chemistry (1990) in the University of Barcelona where he obtained the PhD (2002) in the field of synthesis, characterization and study of magnetic properties in coordination compounds. Since 2003 he has occupied a position of assistant professor of inorganic chemistry in the University of Barcelona and parallel he is a high school teacher of physics and chemistry (1996). He is interested in the theoretical methods to study the properties of inorganic systems, mainly DFT calculations of magnetic properties in molecular systems.
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I was born in 1992 in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). I received my Chemistry degree in 2014 from the University of Santiago de Compostela and then moved to Barcelona to undertake a Master in Applied Materials Chemistry. At this point, I became a member of the Electronic Structure group and started to study highly anisotropic low-spin single-molecule magnets under the supervision of Prof. Eliseo Ruiz for my master's thesis. Currently, I'm pursuing my PhD following the same line of research
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--Stereodynamics of Molecular Rotors and Gears
--Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of Complex solids
--Organic Sye Sensithized Solar Cells
--New Methods and Algorithms for the Electronic Structure of Molecules
--Chronological list of publications
--Research Topics
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- Collapse objects before you pitch these away, and make certain that they lie flush atop one another.
Sweep your home as the flood water drains away. Doing this means the dirt is being swept out with water as it recedes instead of leaving a layer of silt all through your property. That presumes that you have the ability to get access to your property as the water level drops.
Work closely with your insurance representative: Guarantee you are onsite when the adjustor visits your property. If you have a contractor that you're dealing with, make certain that someone is at your home too.
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WESTFIELD - Westfield State University's Lifetime Owls program donated $4,500 to the Student Government Association as part of the new lifetime membership program, in which alumni, students, or parents pay a one-time fee of either $75 or $100.
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"The Lifetime Owls program is the first of its type in our state system," Director of Alumni Relations Kathi Bradford said in a press release. "It synthesizes a similar concept from the University of Colorado with the student-focused values on our campus and creates a revenue-generating program for current students, parents and alumni."
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India demolishes PM Abbasi's 'human rights' argument at UN, says Pakistan is now 'terroristan'
In a strong reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's emphasis that Islamabad was not prepared to be anyone's scapegoat, India's First Secretary to the United Nations Eenam Gambhir said that Pakistan has now become 'terroristan'. Gambhir said that the quest for a 'land of pure' has actually produced the land of pure terror. Further slamming Pakistan PM's statement, Eenam echoed that the world doesn't need lessons on democracy and human rights from a failed state. She also said that Pakistan must understand that the state of Jammu and Kashmir is and will always remain an integral part of India. However much it scales up the cross border terrorism, it will never succeed in undermining India's territorial integrity


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Temptalia is pleased to annouce that our first place winner is Allison K., who submitted a grand total of 590 product photos. Because of the obvious effort all of our contestants put into their work, we have also decided to have a second place winner, and the recipient of this award is Virginia R. with 149 product/swatch photos.
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Technoserve extends its initiatives in Africa by leveraging Bovo-Tighe expertise.
Bovo-Tighe and Technoserve continue their work together in Africa to extend Technoserve's ability to deliver on its mission of expanding resources and capabilities among local entrepreneurs. We have worked to create dynamic communicators within Technoserve's organization who may then more quickly establish and model good business practices to local partners. It is exciting work. See our presentation for more details!
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Clogged ears can cause great discomfort and pain, and ultimately have a negative effect on your hearing.
The clogged ear feeling can be a distraction to day-to-day life, and in this blog post, we explain:
At Hearing Direct, you will also find a number of solutions to manage and treat clogged ear wax.
Clogged ear makes your ears 'feel full', cause sounds to appear muffled, and affect your quality of hearing. The experience of clogged ear is very similar to the feeling of muffled hearing and shares a number of similar characteristics and causes, which can be treated in similar ways.
The condition often results in an issue of directing sound waves through the passage from the outer ear, to the middle ear (ear drum), all the way to the inner ear.
Clogged ear is a condition that can be managed and dealt with, but if left untreated it has the potential to have a negative impact and result in permanent sensorineural hearing loss. When ears feel clogged, it can be caused by a number of things from infection to blockages and if not dealt with effectively, it may have a detrimental impact on your hearing and the health of your ears.
If you believe your ear feels clogged, it is best to visit a medical professional or ENT or practitioner for the most appropriate methods on unclogging your ears.
There are a number of reasons why your ears feel clogged. This includes many treatable causes which can be effectively dealt with to avoid further damage to your hearing. If you experience any of the following symptoms, it is recommended that you visit a medical professional or licensed audiologist.
One of the most frequent causes of clogged ears is the common cold. This can affect your respiratory system which can lead to an imbalance of pressure in the Eustachian tubes which connects your ears and nose. The Eustachian tubes maintain the air pressure in your ears helping to keep it at the right levels. These tubes assist the drainage of fluid from the ears and help prevent infections. An ear infection may also cause this.
A build-up of wax in the ear is another common cause of clogged ear. Accumulation of wax can lead to the sensation of your ears feeling full. Subsequently, the removal of wax can help see your hearing revert back to normal.
We have a number of useful items to help with earwax removal including:
You can treat the affected ear with home remedies.
Just like an accumulation of wax in the ear, a foreign object or liquids such as water can also cause the same ear feels clogged sensation.
Trapped water can naturally go away by its own devices but a more complex blockage may require other methods to extract what is blocking the canal. This could include an appointment with a medical professional.
We recommended that you do not insert objects into your ear.
A change in ear pressure can result in the sensation of ears feel clogged. This can occur when going through a tunnel or when a plane lands and takes off. The popping of ears and the feeling of ear fullness usually only lasts a few minutes in these scenarios.
An acoustic neuroma is a type of non-cancerous (benign) brain tumour. A benign brain tumour is a growth in the brain that usually grows slowly over time and doesn't spread to other body parts.
Acoustic neuromas grow on the nerve used for hearing and balance, which can cause hearing loss. The following symptoms could indicate an acoustic neuroma:
If you have any of the above symptoms we recommend that you consult a medical professional.
Different approaches to managing clogged ear are required depending on the root cause.
If you leave clogged ear untreated, there is a possibility you may suffer from permanent hearing loss. In this scenario, other measures are required to manage the hearing impairment. This would include digital hearing aids.
We supply a number of valuable products to assist other causes of clogged ear such a wax build-up and to help maintain healthy hearing. This includes the items highlighted above. For more products, visit our ear hygiene page.
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May 2000
Volume 18, Number 5
When one thinks of "death by government," either those killed by armed members of the state or the millions who have perished in the vast gulags and prisons run by governmental agents usually come to mind. However, government has demonstrated far more creativity in eliminating people than just by shooting or starving them to death. It also has successfully drowned them while destroying property to the tune of billions of dollars. Here are a couple of horror stories.
Coal mining has been a staple of the West Virginia economy for more than a century, and the industry has been both a blessing and a curse for the people of that state. The mineral provides fuel for electric power plants and allows for people who wish to live in the mountains to have both employment and, for the most part, a middle-class income.
On the other hand, coal mining is both dangerous and dirty. Thousands of coal miners in this country (not to mention worldwide) have died horrible deaths deep in the earth in coal mine explosions and have slowly asphyxiated from black lung disease. Deep mines produce both waste dirt (called tailings or slag) and acidic runoff which pollutes nearby streams and kills aquatic life. Surface or strip mining scars the landscape, destroys streams, and makes the mountains much less usable for other purposes.
In 1958, in answer to cries that coal mining wastes were polluting streams, the government of West Virginia ordered coal companies to build ponds to keep the acidic water from seeping into creeks and rivers. Mine tailings were an obvious choice to serve as fill for the dams which would hold back the bad water. The fish would be saved, and the bureaucrats were satisfied.
The story did not end happily ever after, however. At the Pittston Coal Company mines above Buffalo Creek, the company stacked three large ponds one after another, the water was held back by earthen dams made mostly from slag, which can be very unstable when wet. Residents of the communities built along Buffalo Creek had often expressed concerns to state officials and Pittston managers that the dams would be likely to collapse during a heavy rainfall.
Pittston officials and West Virginia bureaucrats refused to listen. After all, the well-being of the fish in Buffalo Creek was of paramount importance. On February 26, 1972, the dams gave way, and tons of water cascaded down 16 miles of narrow mountain valleys, killing 125 people and destroying more than 1,000 homes as the wall of black water devastated everything in its path.
The survivors blamed Pittston, while Pittston's attorneys said the tragedy was "an act of God." However, the real blame should be placed upon the State of West Virginia, which had ordered the unstable ponds to be constructed in the first place.
Another earthen dam break that occurred four years later did not even have the smokescreen of a private firm to be saddled with blame. The collapse of Idaho's newly-constructed Teton Dam in June, 1976, killed 11 people and more than 16,000 cattle, and left 25,000 people homeless. Government had more than its fingerprints on this disaster, as the fiasco belonged wholly to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Congress that ordered it.
This catastrophe began with lobbying by Idaho's potato farmers who demanded more water to allow them to expand growing operations in the arid lands. Congress authorized the dam to be constructed on the Snake River in 1974, and the Bureau began construction soon afterward. However, the site for the dam was characterized by unstable rock that was honeycombed by caves and fissures, making the area totally unsuitable for a dam.
The bureaucrats and politicians who were determined to see the project through, however, refused to consider another location (or not build the dam at all), even when confronted by overwhelming evidence that the dam should not be constructed at the original site. In October, 1975, the 300-foot-high dam was completed and engineers began to fill the reservoir.
For the most part, engineers add about a foot a day to a new reservoir in order to give the dam time to settle. In the case of the Teton Dam, however, the Bureau decided to fill the reservoir almost twice as quickly, making an unstable situation even worse. Less than six months after the new lake was filled, the inevitable disaster occurred.
When the dam burst on June 5, 1976, 80 billion gallons of water carrying the energy of a 30 kiloton atomic bomb inundated Sugar City and Rexburg, Idaho, completely wiping Sugar City off the earth and nearly destroying Rexburg. The only reason that there was not more loss of human life was that the dam's collapse occurred during the day. Had it happened at night, it would have been one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States. It is ironic, however, that while many farmers and ranchers had their businesses and livelihoods ruined by the failure of the Teton Dam, the rushing waters failed to touch the potato farms the dam was supposed to help.
In both cases, the calamities had their roots in government. At Buffalo Creek, government agents were rightly concerned with water pollution. Their "pollution solution," however, was a far greater disaster than the loss of 100 streams.
At Teton, the disaster began when Congress listened to a special interest group instead of to common sense. Those in charge of construction of the dam were not stupid, although they might have been a bit overly optimistic. They pushed forward with the dam because the political classes wanted to garner more votes. In the end, innocent people lost their lives.
The tales of government ineptitude could go on endlessly. While the accounts of the Buffalo Creek disaster and the collapse of the Teton Dam are but two such tales of woe, these examples demonstrate what happens when politicians act to please narrow constituencies without taking into account the greater impact of their actions. The real problem is not one of the poor engineering of dams. Rather, it is one of the interminable arrogance of those who hold political power.
WILLIAM L. ANDERSON, an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute, teaches economics at North Greenville College.