text:
Where do historians come down on the Armenian Genocide?
Irving Horowitz, an expert in the study of genocide at Rutgers University, says scholars agree on this much: In 1915 the government of the Ottoman Empire, caught up in the Great War against Czarist Russia and the Allied powers, saw the Armenians as an untrustworthy minority that might align with their cousins across the Russian border. (Armenia was divided in 1827 between the Ottoman Empire in the west and Russia in the east.) The predominately Christian Armenians tended to be wary of their Moslem rulers, who had encouraged a wave of religious pogroms in 1894-96 that left an estimated 200,000 Armenians dead.
Accordingly, the Ottoman government issued an edict in 1915 that all Armenians, of whatever age or condition of health, in the eastern provinces (Armenia) were to be deported into the empire's southern deserts. Between 600,000 and 2 million Armenians lost their lives, many from starvation and exposure.
Says Horowitz: "It is widely accepted by historians that hundreds of thousands of Armenians were massacred, arbitrarily removed from their historic homeland, and that all traces of their presence were eliminated. We have eyewitness accounts, diplomatic accounts, that huge numbers of people were liquidated, wiped out. De facto, you had a genocide. The bottom line is the Armenians got what they got because they were not a loyal minority."
That widely held view is not universally shared. A dissenting group of 69 American academics with backgrounds in Turkish history signed a letter to Congress stating that "current scholarship does not support a charge of genocide" — that is, a premeditated attempt to annihilate an entire group of people.
The Turkish view
Bonnie Joy Kaslan, honorary consul general for the Republic of Turkey, leans back on a Middle East-motif sofa in her house in an upscale neighborhood of Oakland. A bronze samovar, prayer rug and other family heirlooms grace the living room.
"People of conscience worldwide are very saddened by the loss of innocent lives that occurred," Kaslan begins cautiously.
"The Turkish government doesn't deny the tragedies happened. But if the Armenians want us to say there was a genocide, they won't get that. For the simple reason that the evidence does not substantiate the claim that the massacres were genocide.
"The events of that era can best be described as a civil war within a global war. Because the empire faced a threat to its very survival, there was a deportation order given. Armenians in the eastern provinces were moved out. There was a rebellion. Armenians in the area launched an effort to ally with Russia, the historic enemy of the Turks, to launch an independent state.
"It's a terrible thing to say, but they bet on the wrong horse. They separated themselves from their own country in which they were citizens. Wars have been won and lost on alliances and misalliances."
Large numbers of Moslems died as well, Kaslan points out, many at the hands of Armenians. She also suggests that many Armenian victims died through tragic neglect rather than by design. "Even with good intentions, if the right infrastructure (provisions and shelter) is not in place, then there's a problem."
Kaslan and the Turkish-American community are incensed that the state's high school students will be taught a genocide-studies curriculum this fall which ignores the Turkish perspective. She accuses the Legislature and state Board of Education of legislating history.
"This is a farce, and absolute political agenda," she says, plunging a finger into the sofa. "The perspective students will be given is that Armenian history is right, Turkish history is wrong, and dissenting scholarship will be ignored."
Kaslan suggests that church and community leaders have a stake in keeping the genocide issue burning. "The one thing that ties the Armenian community together is this absolute hatred, for some, of anything Turkish. I have sensed the red-hot hatred of some of these young people and I find that very disheartening."
IT IS THE YOUNG, she points out, who have joined the terrorist groups seeking an independent Armenian homeland. Since 1974, Armenian terrorists have killed more than 40 Turkish diplomats and family members around the world, including an honorary consul general like Kaslan.
Security, then, is a constant concern: The Kaslans own four prize Dobermans, which respond to commands only in Turkish.
Kaslan says of the Armenian community, "What is it they really want? At one level they just want an apology. But then there's another level of people who say, once that acknowledgement is made, then what's the next step? Reparations, repatriation, remuneration, everything."
And, indeed, there appears to be little consensus within the Armenian community. Some demand a simple apology, while others want permission to return to their ancestral homeland, and others demand an independent Armenian nation, perhaps unified with Soviet Armenia.
Kaslan doubts the blood feud will soon end. "How do we stem this tide of generational hatred? I have no glib answers. We have to get along with the business of living.
"I'm not sure what it'll take to heal the wounds."
A living history to heal the wounds
Across the continent in Cambridge Mass., at the headquarters of the Zoryan Institute, an Armenian research institution, director Jihrair Libaridian sees the issue in a different light.
"Something has to be done to heal this wound," he says. "But first, there has to be recognition. By its denial of the act, the Turkish government has morally assumed responsibility for the crime as well. So denial becomes the last act of genocide."
Libaridian, a scholarly looking man who speaks in professorial tones, maintains, "It's not a historical issue. It's a political issue, a psychological issue, a cultural issue."
The Zoryan Institute, founded in 1982 to chronicle the modern Armenian experience, has collected more than 100,000 documents relating to the genocide. Libaridian says the evidence clearly points to the Ottoman government's orchestration of the massacres.
Independent sources seem to buttress that conclusion. Records at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., contain the dispatches of U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau Sr., who described what he termed "race extermination" in his chilling cables to the State Department. (The term genocide became part of language at the end of World War II, after the Jewish Holocaust.)
The Permanent People's Tribunal in Paris in 1984 found the Ottoman Turks had committed genocide against the Armenians. And a special United Nations subcommittee in 1985 concluded that the Armenians were victims of one of nine genocides occuring in the 20th century.
But the Zoryan researchers are doing more than collecting documents. They have begun a living history, of sorts. The institute is halfway toward its goal of videotaping 1,000 survivors of the genocide, including those from the Sacramento area.
Called the Oral History Project, it's the last chance to preserve the memory of what life was like in Armenia before, and during, the genocide. That is what brought Salpi Ghazarian, a Zoryan representative, to St. James Church for her meeting with Sacramento area survivors and their families.
THE VIDEOTAPES on file at the Zoryan are a crucible of emotion. On one tape, a Turkish woman tells an Armenian woman: "I don't know how you can even talk to me. I feel as though we don't have a soul left, because we keep denying this happened."
On another tape, one man, the son of an ashogh (troubadour), relates that his father's repertoire of Turkish songs had made him a popular entertainer among the local Turks. One of the songs his father passed on to him was sung by the Turks during times of massacre. It was a killing song, glorifying the extermination of Armenians. He bursts into tears after trying to sing the first line.
Libaridian, whose father survived a machine-gunning during the massacres by feigning death under a pile of corpses for two days, says Armenians sometimes wrongly blame the Turkish people instead of the Ottoman government for the genocide.
"I do not like those who say the Turks did this or that," he says. "It was not the Turkish people, it was the government that did it. There were very many Turks and Kurds who helped Armenians survive. Many endangered their own lives, and not an insignificant number of officials resisted, and were demoted."
Says Libaridian: "What scares me mostly is not people, it's governments. It scares me because the Armenian genocide tends to be a very rational genocide, a way for a government to solve some of its political problems. Genocide has become a form of conflict resolution."
Series on the Armenian Genocide
• Martyrs Day: Witnesses to genocide
• Gov. George Deukmejian on the Armenian genocide
• What historians say about the Armenian Genocide


text:
On Saturday, March 30, the warmest day of the year so far, I checked the drainage flow rate from the drainage system CLA installed on L. Prescott's farm fields west of the Wolf Creek Inlet in 2008. I checked it where it flows into the culvert under Cyrus Trail. The flow was heavy, but not dangerously so. But it was slightly turbid, not its usual near spring quality. See the following movie file: Drainage System Outflow.
So I decided to investigate. I moved upstream to the Basin 4 standpipe. For a map of the basins, look at Figure 4 in the Lake Improvement Projects Post called Cyrus Trail Ravine Project. The Basin 4 standpipe looked like it was functioning normally, with its flow running at about 20% capacity. See the movie file: Basin 4 Standpipe. There was no water standing in Basin 4.
I moved further upstream, to the Basin 3 tile outlet. It was running at full capacity. See movie file Basin 3 Outlet. This outlet, along with the outlet from Basin 4, empty into the top of the ravine.
I continued up to the head of the ravine, to Basin 3. This basin was full, with the water level within 2 feet from the top of the berm! See the file Basin 3. Only the top 2 inches of the standpipe were visible and the pool extended north into the next field. I noticed an ephemeral gully forming uphill from the Basin 3 pool and followed it to its source. There was water springing from the ground in the middle of the field in two spots that appeared to be immediately above the buried drain tile line from Basin 1. Here are movies of Blowout 1 and Blowout 2. Then I checked the Basin 1 Outlet, which delivers its water to the head of a wooded gully to the north. It's flow was minimal; much less than the flow rates from the other basin outlets.
I walked up hill to the west to check the condition of Basin 1. This basin was also full; almost overflowing. Its standpipe was completely under water. The water level was within 2 feet of the road which forms its berm.
I believe there is a blockage in the Basin 1 drain tile line between the blowouts and the outlet. This partial blockage raises the pressure in the line upstream from the block, causing the water to leak from the line at joints or holes in the tile. Because of this partial obstruction, Basin 1 cannot drain fast enough to keep up with the snow melt runoff. Also, because of the leakage from the Basin 1 drain, water from that basin is adding to the Basin 3 pool, so it cannot drain fast enough to keep up with the amount of water flowing into it.
If this problem is not fixed, Basins 1 and 3 could overflow their banks, washing away their containment berms and thus washing large amounts of silt down the ravine and into Circle Lake. The large rush of water will also tear out the vegetation in the bottom of the ravine, thus adding to the ravine's erosion and adding to the silt flowing into the lake.
I will contact NRCS, SWCD and the land leaseholder to determine the best course of action.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Who in the Hell Drinks Zinfandel?
The Association of Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (ZAP) was founded almost twenty years ago—back in the day—when Zinfandel was the underdog with a cause. A small group of passionate wine pioneers and Zinfandel-loving enthusiasts came together because they believed that Zinfandel deserved recognition as a highly respected varietal that could compete with the finest wines around the world. Today, ZAP comprises hundreds of producer members and thousands of advocates. Zinfandel has now come to be recognized and respected internationally as a world-class red wine that tells a wonderful American story. [Read the rest of this article...]


text:
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2019
Hey guys, I'm sure many of you remember the original Virtual Magic Kingdom! Well it's coming back and better than ever! The project is still in very early production but will include the original VMK and then be vastly expanded on. If you're interested in learning more about this project, visit and sign up for the forums site and get game development updates and talk with all your VMK friends! It won't let me post the link but to get to the forums just go to tapatalk and then search for "VMK Reimagined" and you will find it!


text:
Animals big and small are explored in a variety of stimulating ways in this LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM theme. An OFSTED inspector in the UK who examined the theme commented that I should write as many of this type of theme as possible as she saw the intense interest of the pupils who used them. Language learning takes places through: • Spelling and dictation activities • Comprehension exercises • Vocabulary building • antonyms • sentence building • opportunities for creative writing The most effective use of this theme is to copy the entire theme (leaving out the instruction to teachers pages) and staple it into a booklet that a pupil can work through. Some teachers have used the theme for whole class teaching by handing out a page or two a day which are glued into the pupil's book.
Here will be a listing of the validation error
Please fix the errors and try again


text:
WBUR News
Support the news
Bill Russell: Champion Of Basketball And Civil Rights02:51Play
The statistics are ridiculous.
Bill Russell's Celtics won 11 NBA championships. He was named the league's MVP five times. He warmed up for that run by leading his college team to two NCAA championships after his high school team won three consecutive state championships. Between winning in college and winning in the NBA, he won an Olympic gold medal.
The winning was the result of fierce dedication to his work, but Bill Russell was not inclined to let his work define him. He spoke of himself, not as a basketball player, but as a man who played basketball. It was a significant distinction. For many years he declined to give autographs, perhaps because he didn't want people to relate to him as a celebrity, much less a commodity. The impression he gave was that he preferred to be regarded as a fellow man.
Whereas many of his contemporaries preferred to remain safe and silent with regard to social issues, Bill Russell was outspoken. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights and defended Muhammad Ali when he refused to serve in the military on the basis of his religious beliefs. He was the first black head coach in any of the major sports, and he did the job while he was still active as a player. And he won. Twice.
Like lots of retired athletes, Bill Russell has co-written autobiographies. Unlike those of most of the other ex-athletes, his are very much worth reading and re-reading.
Bill Russell has always been skeptical of honors awarded by committees. When he was told he had been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, he declined to serve. He was, of course, inducted anyway.
Others have wondered for years how Boston — home to statues of various worthies associated with basketball, baseball, hockey and football — could have neglected to likewise celebrate Russell's character and achievements. Among those wondering was the current president of the United States, who awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom.
Public preservation hasn't seemed to matter much to Russell himself, but it's likely that he's reasonably pleased with the portion of his monument represented by a granite block upon which two messages are carved. One side of the block features the word "TEAMWORK," and the message on the other side reads: "The most important measure of how good a game I'd played was how much better I'd made my teammates play."
This program aired on November 1, 2013.
Bill Littlefield Host, Only A Game
Bill Littlefield was the host of Only A Game from 1993 until 2018.
Support the news


text:
Residents Scramble For Oil - As Tanker Somersaults
Hundreds of residents of some communities along the Mallam-Kasoa Highway in Accra, Monday morning abandoned every engagement to fetch spilled palm kernel oil from a tanker which had been involved in an accident on the highway.
The residents mobilised big and small drums, gallons, bowls, buckets and any available receptacle to fetch the oil from the tanker, while others stormed the gutters and drains around to scoop the spilled oil.
Many of them had abandoned their jobs for the day to make time for what they considered to be a God-send economic fortune and did not care about the economic misfortune that had hit the owner of the spilled oil.
A large number of hawkers who ply their trade at the toll booth also abandoned their wares to join the oil scoopers.
Even as they scrambled for the palm kernel oil, many of them were confused about the kind of oil it was and whether the product is edible or meant for the manufacture of soap.
That confusion notwithstanding, their intention was clear — to consume or sell the product..
While the oil scoopers were busy at work, the owners of the product also made frantic efforts to salvage something by hiring a few big drums to secure some of the spilling oil.
The quantity of the product was not immediately known, but some observers believe the value runs into thousands of Ghana cedis.
The accident was reported to have occurred around 3:30 a.m. Monday when the 16-wheeler tanker, with registration number AS 6861 T, skidded off the road around the Tuba Junction and crashed into a gutter in the median of the highway, falling on its left side and spilling its content.
The tanker was said to be travelling from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, to Tema to discharge the product to a manufacturing company for the production of edible oil.
The driver, known simply as John, who the police suspected to be dosing at the time of the accident, sustained minor injuries and had been sent to hospital at the time the Graphic team got to the accident scene.
His mate, however, escaped unhurt.
The spilling of the oil on the road caused it to be very slippery and even after personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) had gone to wash the oil off, the road still remained slippery enough to warrant safety concerns on such a high-speed highway.
The accident caused long vehicular traffic at both ends of the Mallam-Kasoa Highway, particularly as efforts were made to pull the disabled tanker from the gutter.
Police personnel from the Toll Booth Police Station had to work around the clock to direct and manage the traffic situation.
Briefing the Graphic later, the New Weija District Police Commander, ASP Kwame Gyasi Afari, advised long-distance drivers to break their journey and rest after every eight hours.
He also advised drivers to be cautious and respect speed limits when driving through residential communities.
ASP Afari urged pedestrians to always use the appropriate points, such as Zebra crossings, to cross roads in order to avoid knock-downs by vehicles.


text:
Genuine Buffalo Nickel Coin Porcelain Stein
Limited edition! Porcelain stein with James Earle Fraser's Indian Head design and actual Buffalo Nickel. 22K gold accents and "buffalo horn" handle.
Measures 26 cm H; holds 887 ml
- Price:
- s&s◇
Few coins have captured the free spirit of this nation, or represented her so well, as the Buffalo Nickel. Coming into circulation just as the American West was passing into legend, it has become a coveted memento of national pride and heritage. Now it's the star of the Buffalo Nickel Stein, only from The Bradford Exchange. Showcasing the beloved Indian Head design by James Earle Fraser, this western-inspired coin stein features a genuine Buffalo Nickel, lending a historical touch of authenticity to this impressive collectible drinking vessel.
Expertly handcrafted of heirloom-quality porcelain, the Buffalo Nickel Stein gleams with 22K gold accents against a rich ivory background, inspired by the intricate leather tooling on a fine saddle. Fraser's grand portrait, from the noble faces of three Native American chiefs, is handsomely framed by a turquoise and rope border, complemented on the back of the stein with information about the famous coin and its Native American portrait. Then, for a true western-style finishing touch, the stein showcases a "buffalo horn" handle and a sculpted buffalo topper, lavishly plated in 22K gold. Strong demand is expected for this completely drink-safe 887 millilitre collectible stein, so don't wait to raise a toast to history and the American West. Hurry and order now!
- Raise a toast to the American West with the Buffalo Nickel Stein, only from The Bradford Exchange
- The famed portrait created by James Earl Fraser, from the faces of three Native American chiefs, is showcased across the front in a grand presentation and dramatically reinforced with a genuine Buffalo Nickel coin near the base of the stein
- Superbly handcrafted of heirloom-quality, drink-safe porcelain and lavished with 22K gold accents against a rich ivory background
- Inspired by the intricate leather tooling on a fine saddle, the distinctive western-style design of this stein also features rope-like embellishments
- A "buffalo horn" handle and a sculpted buffalo topper completely plated in 22K gold, amplify the stein's dramatic presentation
- The bottom part of the Buffalo Nickel stein lid is emblazoned with "HONORING THE AMERICAN WEST," while the back of the stein features information about the famed coin and its Native American portrait, creating an impressive look from any angle
- Premiere issue in the Buffalo Nickel Stein Collection
- Edition limited to 95 firing days, so order now!
- Hand-numbered with matching Certificate of Authenticity
- Measures 10-1/4" H; 26 cm H; holds 30 oz; 887 ml
- Buy This Item Now:
- Genuine Buffalo Nickel Coin Porcelain Stein
Buffalo Nickel Stein Toasts the American West! Genuine Buffalo Nickel Coin Stein Is Crafted of Porcelain with Western Motif!
- Price:
- s&s◇
- Item no:
- 122175001


text:
Preventative Maintenance Agreements
Preventative Maintenance Agreements
In addition to affordable air conditioning, heating and electrical services, we offer an Energy Savings Preventative Maintenance Plan for your home or business and can help you find ways to reduce your energy bills. No matter what type of problems you might be having with your AC or heating systems, make sure that you give the professionals at Premier Air & Electric a call. With a Preventative Maintenance Plan you can enjoy the confidence that our expert HVAC technicians will provide great maintenance of your home cooling and heating system. The service plan agreement provides regular maintenance of your cooling and heating system to prevent worrisome and expensive electrical and mechanical problems of your HVAC system.
Energy Savings Preventative Maintenance Agreements provide:
- Lower utility bills Extended equipment life
- Fewer repairs
- Improved capacity
- 10% discount on repairs
- Priority customer
- Inflation protection
- 24-Hour emergency service
- Never an over-time charge
Comprehensive precision tune-up procedures included in the Energy Savings Preventative Maintenance Agreement:
- Clean and adjust burner assembly
- Clean ignition assembly
- Monitor flue draft
- Adjust operating pressures
- Monitor starting capabilities
- Test safety controls
- Clean or replace air filter
- Clean and adjust blower components
- Measure for correct air flow
- Tighten electrical connections
- Measure volts/amps on motors
- Adjust thermostat calibration
- Clean evaporator coil if accessible
- Clean condenser coil
- Clean condensate drains
- Measure temperature difference
Providing Complete Service to the McKinney, Texas, Area
Give us a call to discover the advantages in registering in our Energy Savings Preventative Maintenance Agreement. Premier Air Electric services McKinney, Texas, Collin County, Dallas County, and surrounding cities and towns, including:


text:
Access my TWC Email Road Runner Email
Access my TWC Email
Access TWC Email Call Web site provide a quick accessibility to e-mails, Street Sprinter online mail is available in the world. To acquire the World Wide Web mail support of Street Sprinter online mail, you need to surf www.RR.com, which is operate website of RR. Street Sprinter is in collaboration with Time Warner wire, and their cooperation has further enhanced the support. Street Sprinter is the ISP (Internet Service Provider) of the Time Warner Cable, and it won't be incorrect to state that Street Sprinter is a very effective and effective ISP, which always keeps the function sleek and instant. Access TWC Email.
There are various services offered by Time Warner Cable in the whole of the U. S. Declares such as e-Shopping, e-Mailing and e-Gaming, etc. Street Sprinter online mail has been a part of Time Warner Cable support, so when you kind www.RR.com in the deal with bar of your web online browser, you are going to be taken to the TWC web-link, which is like this: http://www.twc.com/select-provider/. Use your individual consideration right at that moment of linking to the ISP. Access TWC Email Call with Roadrunner support.
Access TWC Email
You need to adhere to the below-mentioned actions to be able to execute www.RR.com e-mail indication in. These are;
- Type www.TWCC.com in the deal with a bar of your web online browser. When the web page opens up, simply just click 'My Account' to be able to achieve your 'Sign-in' web page.
- Enter your details that you've used right at that moment of developing a consideration on TWC e-mail indication in. Click 'remember my username' to save the qualifications.
- You can simply just click 'Sign-in' key to be able to gain access to your own consideration at Roadrunner online mail indication in. This can only be done if you have TWC consideration.
- If you are not able to log into your money, then it could be a different security password, which you are using, so you need to choose the choice branded as 'Reset your password'. You will be rerouted to this page: https://registration.timewarnercable.com/password/reset?execution=ea48235a3226344e789e37144decf7580s1. You can totally reset the protection password here.
- Follow these actions in the right purchase and the procedure will complete much earlier.
Steps to make Time Warner Cable (TWC) account:
- You need to complete up a signing up form to be able to sign-up yourself onto TWC online mail consideration and to log into the consideration as well.
- Just look below "remember my username', as there you will find the choice of 'Register here', which you were looking for in the first place.
- You will be rerouted to a new web page after clicking 'Register here'. Here is the link to the age: https://registration.timewarnercable.com/registration/register?execution=efedeac1f337440918d952715c57194a6s1&Target=https%3A%2F%2Fmyservices.timewarnercable.com%2F.
There are various other things that you need to execute while making a new TWC account:
- Just in case you get into any problems, then here are the actions that you can use to get out of it.Fill in your variety and zip rule.
- Enter all your own details effectively.
- Now, you have to make your information in which you have to add your name, hair straightness themselves.
- You can add certain security measures if you want to prevent any problems right at that moment of security password loss.
- This completes off the consideration finalisation procedure, and now, you can indication into your Time Warner consideration with your Roadrunner online mail indication in.


text:
Tonight's Riverdale was predictably bonkers. Allegiances were formed. Threats were made. Archie looked hotter and doofier than ever. Here's what went down (spoilers ahead, natch).
We start with Jughead bemoaning about how "everything" and "nothing" is the same at Riverdale High School since it absorbed South Side High. He's being melodramatic, as always, and notes that Archie is particularly feeling the heat. You see, Archie's playing detective with the F.B.I. to uncover Hiram Lodge's scams, and Jughead seems to think he's in "turmoil" because of it. I disagree, though, because Archie clearly has enough cognitive function to try out for the basketball team. If he has time to shoot hoops, he's clearly not stressed. So can everyone in this town just calm TF down?
The town's about to throw a celebration in honor of its founder, General Augustus Pickens, and Hiram and Hermione Lodge and Fred Andrews ask Mayor McCoy if they can sponsor the event to bring the North and South Siders together. Veronica's in on this meeting, too, which seems innocuous but is probably capital-E Evil. Detective Archie interrupts the meeting, sweaty from basketball practice, and has an awkward moment with Hiram. Archie's onto your games, dude (and also looks very hot covered in sweat).
Now we're at the Cooper residence, where Chic is staying after 20+ years of being off the radar. Hal's not having it, though, and wants to know when Chic is leaving. Chic then starts telling the family about the night Betty rescued him from his hostel owner (who was beating him up) because he wasn't in the mood to "work." What the hell…does Chic do? (Apparently, he and Betty both dig their nails into their palms, so that's probably going to come up again at some point.)
Later, "Special Agent Adams" has a meeting with Archie and tells him he has to get close to Hiram in order to get the information the FBI needs. Archie agrees, and I can already predict this will end badly because he isn't slick enough to lie.
At school, Betty tells the crew about Chic; they all agree he's hot but sketch, and Veronica suggests Betty bring Chic to the Lodge-sponsored Augustus Pickens celebration "Pickens Day." Jughead leaves to go hang with Toni Topaz, and Betty pouts. Archie asks Veronica how he can win points with her dad, and she tells him to go out for the wrestling team because Hiram did that in high school. Sports! Men love sports!
Toni and Jughead's hang-out isn't casual: He's actually interviewing Toni's Serpent grandfather for an oral history report—and learns that Augustus Pickens, the "founder" of Riverdale, ordered the slaughter of the Uctana tribe, who first owned the land. The survivors went on to form the Serpents. Naturally, this enrages Jughead. He scowls a lot.
Also scowling is Mayor McCoy, who's not pleased with Veronica's friendship with Josie. Hermione thinks it's because Mayor McCoy isn't cool with how involved Veronica's become with Lodge Industries. She says she'll have a "chat" with McCoy if her "coldness persists." Is Hermione going to…kill the mayor?
Chic Cooper update: Kevin realizes he recognizes Chic from webcam videos on the Internet, which is very scandalous for this small town. Betty goes down a rabbit hole watching his videos and is clearly shook. But her shock is interrupted by Jughead, who tells her all about Augustus murdering the Uctana tribe. It turns out that Barnabus B. Blossom, Cheryl's ancestor, hired Augustus to do the job. Jughead wants to turn this into a story for the school paper, and Betty tells him to get a quote from Hiram Lodge first. Hiram hangs up on him, and now suddenly he's my favorite character.
Also scandalous: These wrestling tryouts, which are so homoerotic that Call Me By Your Name is trembling. Archie's royally flopping in front of Veronica's dad, which is hilarious. Finally! A thing he's not good at! Veronica says he can also win her father's favor by singing with her at Pickens Day if he's not a natural-born wrestler. That's a more boring, less sexy course of action, but whatever.
What's not boring, though, is this Chic Cooper cam-boy revelation. He goes back to the hostel to pick up his laptop and camera but the landlord threw it all out. Betty tells him to calm down and that he can stay with the Coopers as long as he wants. He scoffs at this, because he clearly has more videos to make and can't do them there. He has to make his coins, Betty! In the greatest act of sisterhood ever, Betty gives Chic a camera and laptop…but he doesn't even say thank you. WTF?! Listen, you can't be rude and creepy.
Speaking of rude, Hiram is next-level terrible to Archie about his wrestling flop, saying it takes a "certain kind of a man" to wrestle. This enrages Archie, so he ditches the Pickens Day singing gig, makes out with Veronica in front of Hiram, and decides to give wrestling another shot. This is…not the way to win over Veronica's father, bro. But that's Archie for you: making doofy, chest-puffing decisions as per usual.
And it totally backfires: At tryouts the next day, Hiram teaches the guys his "signature move" (LOL, bye) which involves him putting Archie in a fucking chokehold. While Archie is gasping for air, Hiram whispers to him, "I always win" like a full-blown sociopath.
Archie later confronts Hiram at the Lodge house about why he doesn't like him. Hiram's basically like, "You're weak and not good enough for Veronica," and Archie's like, "You were in prison, freak." Archie and Hiram then go running (???) and Hiram gives some speech about how Archie will "never" win their feud and that he'll tolerate him until Veronica dumps him. They resolve nothing, because toxic masculinity.
Meanwhile, Jughead publishes a hit piece about Augustus Pickens, which pisses off Toni because Jughead name-drops her grandfather in it. But her grandpa is happy about it and says something must be done now that Jughead's "re-opened the wound". Oof.
The piece pisses off Mayor McCoy, as well, who tells Josie she can't sing with Veronica anymore on Pickens Day. McCoy spills everything to Josie about the Lodges and their plans for the South Side, which causes Josie to flip out and bail on singing with Veronica.
Back in Chic land, Betty tells her long-lost brother she thinks she and him have the same "darkness." Teens! She says she's cool with his cam "career" and wants to "compare scars" from their joint nail-digging. His response is essentially, "Um, no. Bye" because how else do you respond to "Let's compare scars?"
Alright, all this wrestling's getting annoying now: Archie wins a dumb match against Chuck Clayton and grins exactly how a high school jock would. This causes Hiram and Archie to have a semi-nice moment together at the Pickens Day celebration. Mr. Lodge then tells Archie they should meet later that night to "discuss some things," whatever that means. He's probably going to murder Archie. It's fine; I'm fine.
OK, it's not that: Hiram tells Archie he has to be the "best" if he wants to date Veronica and offers him an internship to learn business ropes. This, conveniently, is exactly how Archie can learn more about Hiram and do what Agent Adams asked. Blah, blah, blah, where's Cheryl, blah blah blah.
Also at Pickens Day: The Coopers, who get in a huge fight about Chic—in front of Chic. Hal tells Alice about Chic's cam-boy videos and says "she knows why" they have to kick him out. To this, Alice says she'll kick Hal out again if she has to. LOL, what other crazy shit is this blond family hiding? P.S.: Penelope Blossom starts hitting on Hal, like, an hour later, so there's some adultery afoot.
Clearly, the Lodges are hiding something at Pickens Day, too: The Serpents crash it, and Toni tells everyone about the Uctana tribe and how Augustus Pickens slaughtered them. Instead of getting enraged, though, Hiram plays nice and applauds Toni for using her voice to "fight for justice." He says the South Side can be a place where they celebrate the "rich tapestry" of the Uctana and basically gets everyone to applaud him. Lies! Lies, everywhere!
This isn't good enough for the Serpents, though, because it's implied at the end they behead the Augustus Pickens statue in the middle of town. Hiram says he wants the people responsible dealt with "swiftly." So, is he going to kill them? Why is there so much bloodshed on this teen show?!
Oh, remember that whole "darkness" talk Betty and Chic had? Turns out Chic has this "darkness" too and cams on the Internet to escape it. Betty says she wants to learn how to "escape" as well, and then Chic opens up his laptop suspiciously. So…is Betty about to start cam-ing? Are they about to watch Ozark on Netflix? WTF?
Related Stories:
This Riverdale Theory About the Black Hood's Identity Seems Right After Last Night's Episode


text:
No products
Prices are tax included
A cozy and soft place to sit! Specifically designed in black and white as the high contrast is most engaging for babies. Even when baby has outgrown the activity mat stage, it makes a cozy place to sit, read, and play.
Product Details:
Materials: cotton/wool blend with cotton backing
Made in: Denmark and UK
Dimensions: 106cm (41.7") diameter


text:
Your Life Purpose
by Rick Boxx
July 21, 2010
Clayton Christensen shared in a "Harvard Business Review" article the importance of knowing your purpose in life. During a busy time this Harvard Business School professor invested an hour every night "reading, thinking, and praying about why God put him on this earth."
He later concluded, "I apply my knowledge of the purpose of my life every day. It's the single most useful thing I've ever learned.
During Israel's exile, God gave Israel a purpose and comforted them in Jeremiah 2:11, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Do you know God's plan for your life? If not, heed Professor Christensen's advice and seek God until you discover it.
To receive our popular "10 Biblical Business Principles" bookmark FREE, email firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact Rick Boxx at www.integritymoments.org.
Integrity Moments Devotional
Start your day with Rick Boxx' devotional thoughts for the workplace, complete with biblical insights and thought provoking questions. 90 days of inspiration will lead you on a journey of encouragement as you walk out your work in a manner pleasing to God.
For more biblical teaching and resources from Rick Boxx and the Integrity Resource Center please visit integrityresource.org.


text:
Telangana bytes: 'A decision too late'
Even as the Congress claimed credit for the decision to form Telangana state, other parties on Tuesday gave mixed reactions with Bharatiya Janata Party claiming it would have formed the state during NDA rule but for opposition from a key ally while the Left cautioned that this may spur more such demands.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao, spearheading the agitation for the separate state since long, welcomed the Congress Working Committee decision to form a separate Telangana state.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani said "as far as we are concerned, our party is concerned, if Telangana was not formed when we had formed three new states it was only because of our respecting one of our coalition partners. Otherwise we would have done it even then".
He was referring to the objection from Telugu Desam Party, which was supporting the NDA government, to the formation of Telangana.
Please click NEXT to read further...
Image: Senior BJP leader L K Advani
'Centre must see there's no further division of states'
Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat said statehood for Telangana will spur such demands in other parts of the country.
"The central government will have to take the responsibility to see that there is no further division of states whether it is West Bengal or anywhere else," he said.
"It should be made clear that you cannot go on having an endless division of a state or creation of new states," Karat added.
D Raja (CPI), termed the decision as "too late" and said his party had agreed to a separate Telangana "after indepth discussion and considering and exhausting all options".
"All regions of Andhra Pradesh should take this decision in a brotherly manner without any hostility or bitterness," he said.
Raja hastened to add that as a matter of principle, the Left is not in favour of creating smaller states but Telangana is a big region and the agitation for a separate state had been going on there for long.
Please click NEXT to read further...
Image: CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat
'We regret the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh'
Shiv Sena reacted sharply to the decision. "We regret the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh. We are for a united Maharashtra (an apparent reference to demand for Vidarbha state) and there is no question of any decision," Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said.
Though Shiv Sena is the oldest ideological ally of BJP, the two differ on Telangana and Vidarbha. While BJP supports both, Shiv Sena is opposed to them.
Welcoming the decision on Telangana, Lok Janskati Party leader Ramvilas Paswan expressed the hope that the government will also create states like Bundelkhand, Vidarbha and Purvanchal. "LJP is in favour of smaller states," he said.
Please click NEXT to read further...
Image: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray
'Congress' conduct on Telangana has not been transparent'
Attributing Congress' nod for creation of separate Telangana state to the "sustained struggle by people", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged Congress had dithered on the issue for long and conceded it only ahead of elections.
While welcoming any forward movement on Telangana, Modi also raised doubts over the "intent" of Congress-led UPA government over sticking to its stand on the issue this time around, citing repeated "dilly-dallying" in the past.
"Due to the power of people, Congress is forced to do in the last few days what it had shied away from doing in the last 9 years on Telangana," Modi said in an open letter to the people of Andhra Pradesh.
"Instead of facing the people of Andhra Pradesh all these years, Congress hid behind committees and reports. Will they apologise to the people of AP on this"? Modi said addressing the people as "dear brothers and sisters from all regions of Andhra Pradesh".
"Congress' conduct on Telangana has neither been transparent nor consistent. The decision, which comes a few months before elections, has political colours," said the BJP's election campaign committee chief who is viewed as the saffron party's most likely candidate for the prime ministership.
"Friends, Congress party that won in 2004 on the promise of Telangana, has played cynical games with the aspirations and sentiments of the people for nine long years".
"Now, at a time when there are only a few months left before the people of this country vote again, Congress party is rushing to announce Telangana. This raises serious concerns about the seriousness and intentions of Congress," Modi said in the letter.
Please click NEXT to read further...
Image: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
'Telangana decision undemocratic and anti-people'
Meanwhile, the YSR Congress Party has termed the decision on separate statehood for Telangana by both Congress as "undemocratic and anti-people" and threatened to launch a mass movement against it.
Two former MLAs, Jaleel Khan and Adusumilli Jaya Prakashc of the YSR Congress Party alleged the decision is "the conspiracy of a foreigner to divide and rule the people of this nation".
The people of coastal Andhra Pradesh have not accepted the "unilateral decion" by Congress, they claimed.
Alleging that Union ministers, MPs and ministers from Andhra Pradesh "sold out" and lost their individuality, adding Congress leaders were responsible for what they termed a "tragic" decision.
They demanded people's representatives of Congress should resign or else the people would teach them a lesson.
They announced the YSR Congress Party would begin a mass movement against the decision on Telangana.
Image: Jailed YSR Congress Party leader Jaganmohan Reddy


text:
One of my best friends asked if I could make a cake for his birthday but the design was to be determined by his girlfriend so he could be a little surprised by it. And since he's just back from
Archive: september 2014
The day before I left on a two week trip, my friend asked me if I could make a cake for the week when I returned. It was for a surprise party she was throwing for a friend. Since the
Tractor Tom birthday cake with gumpaste tractor (to make it lighter), cover and other decorations in marzipan. It was a little bit tricky working with gumpaste since it dries pretty quickly, but just glue everything together and roll paper to


text:
Please note there may be slight delays in either dispatching or receiving your order due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
UK Standard Shipping - once your order is ready to be dispatched it should take approximately 1-3 working days to arrive (Monday – Friday)
UK Express Shipping - once your order is ready to be dispatched it will be sent on a signed for service which should take approximately 1 working day to arrive (Monday – Friday)
International Standard Shipping - once your order is ready to be dispatched it will take approximately 7-14 working days on average. However depending on your countries postal service this may take up-to 28 working days. If you require a faster shipping service please contact us ASAP - firstname.lastname@example.com
Please note that orders under the value of £50.00 are not sent with a tracking number.
Our carriers will do their very best to fulfil deliveries on time. However, transit times cannot be guaranteed and we cannot be held responsible for any delays beyond our control.
If the postal carriers deem your area to be a remote location they may charge an additional fee which is beyond our control.
Postage prices in the UK start at 95p. Postage to Europe starts at £3.95, Postage to the Rest of the World starts at £4.95.
Exact postage costs are determined by the weight of your order and will be calculated after you have added an item to the basket.
Information about the size and styles of our t-shirts and hooded tops can be found on our sizing and style guide
If you are creating a custom design with the Keep Calm Creator and wish to purchase a product that we do not stock or need a product sooner than we are able to deliver, you may find it useful to purchase and download high resolution artwork that can then be used with a local photo gift supplier of your choosing.
If you have any questions regarding orders, press enquires, wholesale or anything else the easiest way is to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com you can also call 01932 850 140 +44 (0)1932 850 140 (overseas)
Prices are based in GBP £ (British Pounds) and depending on your location the website will convert the cost and charge it in your local currency. We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Paypal.
We accept returns of standard classic Keep Calm and Carry On products as long as they are unworn / unwashed / unused within 14 days of purchase. We can exchange the item for another item or give you a refund if you'd prefer.
Please note that this does not apply to customised Keep Calm Creator items or Keep Calm variations, which can only be refunded if they are found to be faulty.
Shipping costs are non-refundable.
The address for exchanges and returns is:
Keep Calm and Carry On Ltd,
The Annexe, Investment House,
28 Queens Road,
To use the Keep Calm and Carry On Creator to make your own products you expressly acknowledge, agree and hereby that:
1. Please check the image, text and sizing carefully before completing your purchase as products made to order cannot be returned, refunded or exchanged. Keep Calm Creator products are made and produced individually to order. Orders not refundable under any circumstances unless deemed to be faulty. If you cancel your order prior to dispatch you will incur a few to cover the cost of the production of the products.
2. The design submitted must not be deemed offensive or inappropriate or in anyway.
3. Keep Calm and Carry On Ltd reserve the right to cancel any design we deem offensive or inappropriate.
4. The design or content must not infringe the copyright, trademark, patent, right of privacy, right of publicity or other legal right of anyone or third party.
5. You will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
6. Keep Calm and Carry On Ltd will not be held liable for any claims, demands or any form of litigation with respect to any of your design or content.
To Read our full terms and conditions please click here: Terms and Conditions


text:
Content Obesity – Part1:Diagnosis
Obesity: a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems
Content Obesity: An organisational condition in which excess redundant information has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on business efficiency, leading to depleted budgets, reduced business agility and/or increased legal and compliance risks.
First of all, let me apologise to all the people who are currently suffering from obesity, or who are supporting friends and family that do. I have no intention of making fun of obese people and I have great sympathy and respect for the pain they are going through. I lost my best friend to a heart attack. He was obese.
In a recent conversation with a colleague, about Information Lifecycle Governance and Defensible Disposal, I made a casual remark about an organisation suffering from Content Obesity. I have to admit that it was an off-the-cuff remark, but it conveyed very succinctly the picture I was trying to paint. Since then, the more I think about this analogy the more sense it makes.
People are not born obese, they become obese. And they don't become obese overnight, it's a slow, steady process. Unless it's addressed early, the problem grows in very predictable stages: gaining weight, being overweight, being obese, being morbidly obese, dying. Most people, however, do not want to acknowledge the problem until it is too late. They live in denial, they make excuses, they make jokes. Until it's often too late to reverse the process.
Organisations consume and generate content at an incredible rate: IDC's Digital Universe study (2011), predicts an information growth factor of 50x between 2010 and 2020. Just to give that figure some context: If an average grown up person would grow at the same rate, they would weigh 3.5 tons by 2020!. Studies we conducted with our own customers, puts the annual growth rate at a slightly more conservative figure of 35-40% per year, which is still significant.
We love our digital content these days, we can't get enough!
We all create office files and our presentations are growing larger, our email rate is not slowing down (we have several accounts each), we communicate with our customers electronically more than ever before, we collaborate inside and outside the firewall, we engage in social media, we text, we document life with our mobile phones' cameras and we use YouTube videos extensively for marketing and education. We collect and analyse blogs and conferences and twitter streams. We analyse historical transactional data and we create new predictive ones. And if collecting our own streams is not enough, we also collect those of our competitors so that we can analyse them too. Our electricity meter collects data, our car collects data, our traffic sensors collect data, our mobile phones collect data, our supermarkets collect data. We have an average of two game consoles per family (all of which connect to the internet), we watch high-definition TV, from every fixed or portable device that has a screen, our kids have mobile phones, and PSPs and DSs and laptops. We have our home computer, our work laptop, our BYOD tablet and our smart phones. Our average holiday yields over 500 pictures, all of which are 12 Megapixel. And the kids take another 500 with their camera… In fact we generate so much digital data, that we now have special ways of handling it with Big Machines that manage Big Data to give Big Insights. And that is all wonderful, and it all exploded in the last five years.
I'll say it again: We love digital content.
Going back to my health analogy, you could say that we gorge on content. The problem is, we are now overweight with content, since most of that content has been accumulated without any particular thought of organisation or governance. So today, we can't lose weight, we can't clean it up because IT doesn't know what it is, where it is, who owns it or if it's of any use to anyone. And, frankly, because it's far too much hassle and we have better things to do. It's all digital so… "storage is cheap, we'll just buy some more storage": A staggering 78% of respondents to another recent study, stated that their strategy for dealing with data growth was to "buy more storage"!
Newsflash: Storage is not cheap! By the time you create your high-availability, tier-1 storage with 3 generations of backup tapes and put it in a data centre, pay for electricity and air-conditioning, and pay people to manage it, it's no longer cheap. Even if storage prices go down by 20% per year, if your data grows at 40%, you are still 20% worse off… Simple maths!
Most organisations are still in denial about the problem. The usual answer to the question "How much storage do you currently have and how much does it grow each year?" is "We don't really know, we never measured it that way". Well, I would argue that whoever is writing the cheque to the storage vendors every year, ought to know.
Fortunately, for large multinational organisations (banks, pharmaceuticals, energy, etc), the penny has finally dropped. Growth rates of 40%, on a storage estate of 20 Petabytes, translates to an increase of dozens of millions of storage costs per year. In an economy where IT budgets are shrinking, this is not a pleasant conversation to have with your CFO. These organisations are now self-diagnosed as Content Obese, and are desperately looking for ways to curb the growth, before they become Morbidly Obese.
And, similarly to the human disease, Content Obesity has side effects. Even if you could somehow overcome (or overlook, or sweep under the carpet…) the cost implications, it creates huge health risks for the organisation.
Firstly, it creates risks for the Business. Unruly, high volumes of content clog up processes, the arteries of the business. Content that is lost in the bulk, uncategorised and not readily available to support decision making, is slowing down the flow of information across the organisation. Content that is obsolete or outdated can create confusion and lead to incorrect decisions. Unmanaged content volumes do not lend themselves to fast changing business models, marketing innovation, shared services or better customer support. And by consuming huge amount of IT capital, they also stifle investment and innovation into new business services.
Secondly, it creates a huge Legal risk. All electronic content in the organisation, is potentially discoverable. The legal group has a duty to preserve information that is relevant to litigation. When information is abundant and not governed, the only method that the legal group has to identify and preserve it, is by notifying all people that may have access to it – custodians – asking them to protect it. This approach is inaccurate, expensive and time consuming. And when it comes to delivering that information to opposing parties or the courts, the organisation has to sift through these huge volumes of content to identify what is actually relevant, often incurring huge legal fees in the process. (Unashamed plug: If you are interested to find out more about the role of Information governance in UK civil litigation, I recommend this excellent IBM paper authored by Chris Dale, respected author of the eDisclosure Information Project)
Finally, Content Obesity creates a huge Compliance risk. Different regulations dictate that records are kept for defined periods of time. Privacy and data protection regulations, dictate that certain types of content are disposed of, after defined periods of time. Record Managers often have to comply with multiple (and often conflicting) regulations, from multiple jurisdictions, affecting hundreds of systems and millions of records. An ever-growing volume of unclassified content, means that records cannot be correctly identified, disposition schedules cannot be executed consistently and policies remain on a binder on the shelf (or in a PDF file somewhere on the intranet). Regulatory audits become impossible, wasting valuable resources and often leading to significant fines (As the regulator put it in one of many examples: "These failings were made worse by their inability to determine the areas in which the breakdown in its record keeping systems had occurred")
So, how much of that content do organisations actually need to keep? And who has the responsibility and the right to get rid of it?
June 29, 2012 at 11:40 am
October 11, 2012 at 11:38 am
January 31, 2013 at 9:09 am
March 2, 2016 at 1:45 pm


text:
About Me
While I initially used Vita-Lea dietary supplements because I wanted more energy, I learned later that Shaklee products were not just better for my health but also better for our planet. I became motivated to share environmentally safe Shaklee products with everyone because of a personal tragedy. My father unexpectedly died in 1978. My family later discovered his organs failed because of chemicals he handled every day at work and dietary choices my father had chosen.
Those same chemicals are found in our homes in products we use every day.
Shaklee's commitment to scientific integrity in their products and their philosophy of doing business by the Golden Rule is what attracted me to the company.
The resulting improvements in my health from using the products made me committed to not only becoming a lifelong Shaklee customer, but to share Shaklee with others through my own Shaklee business.
I also decided to start a Shaklee business because of the lifestyle Shaklee could provide. I've worked 60-80 hour weeks doing engineering, carpentry, and sales but I wanted more from life. I wanted time to spend with my family. My father was a devoted and engaged parent and I have many great memories thanks to him. Today I live a block from the ocean where my dad brought us as children to go shell fishing. I'm able to decide the hours I want to work, and when to have fun, when to relax, or when to pursue my other interests.
Everyone with a Shaklee business has a story to tell. Some come hoping to improve their health and stay to improve their lives. Some start a business to have more time with their families and end up with six-figure incomes. Some are disenchanted professionals who discover new meaning in their work. Some want to earn travel benefits or a new car, and learn to dream bigger dreams. Whatever you dream about for yourself can become a reality with a Shaklee business. Whether you want a part-time income, a full-time career, the means to finance your children's college education or to realize a special dream, Shaklee offers you a uniquely rewarding way to achieve your goals.
If you are considering a home business, or know someone who is, and would like to learn more about the Shaklee opportunity that for over 50 years has provided thousands upon thousands of people with an excellent income working part-time out of the home (and now on the internet), click on Contact Me (or E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com) and tell me your situation, goals and dreams. I'll provide you with more information on the Shaklee Opportunity, to help you decide if a Shaklee home business might be right for you.
If you decide to join my team, I'll provide you with excellent training and support including regular business builder trainings, e-mail and personal support, dynamic PowerPoint Presentations, phone support, access to the Shaklee online library, and much, much more.
I would love to have you as part of my team and promise to support you as you build your own successful Shaklee business and make your life's dreams come true by making other lives better by sharing Shaklee. My life has been forever enriched by my decision to start a Shaklee home business and I'm confident your life would be too.


text:
Renovo Neural Inc: repeated demyelination
New mouse model of repeated demyelination that results in a progressive neurological decline
Principal Investigator: Robin Avila, Ph.D
Institution: Renovo Neural, Inc.
Country: USA
Amount Awarded: €75,000
Multiple sclerosis involves repeated immune system attacks on the brain and spinal cord. Most people begin with a relapsing-remitting disease course of MS, which eventually develops into a progressive neurological disease course called secondary-progressive MS. Most treatments are approved for the people who are still experiencing relapses. One of the obstacles to developing treatments is the lack of animal models that mimic non-relapsing secondary-progressive MS. The purpose of this proposal is to develop a mouse model that will serve as a platform for testing new experimental strategies for stopping MS progression. The investigators propose to replicate some of the repeated injury that occurs over time and determine and document the longer-term consequences of that injury.
What does this mean for people living with progressive MS?
Developing a model for testing whether therapies can stop MS progression is a critical step in bringing these strategies from the laboratory to the clinic where they can end progression in people with MS.
Project Update
Status: Complete
Because no animal models currently exist to study the irreversible neurological decline seen in progressive MS, this project aimed to develop a model of progressive MS by inducing multiple cycles of demyelination in mice. It focused on three aspects of progressive MS; motor deficits, fatigue, and brain atrophy. The researchers used cuprizone (a chemical that induces myelin damage) to mimic several features of relapsing-remitting MS.
They theorized that repeated episodes of demyelination will create an environment in the brains of the mice that causes a late onset of axonal degeneration (nerve cell damage) and continuous neurological decline.
Eight- week-old mice were placed on a diet of cuprizone and received daily injections of rapamycin (a drug which suppresses the immune system) to induce demyelination. They received one, two, or three cycles of six weeks on this diet and six weeks on a normal diet. The control mice (that received no cuprizone) and those that received three cycles of cuprizone were monitored for changes in body weight, and evaluated for motor, sensory and cognitive deficits.
There was a significant decrease in the body weight of those that received three cycles. These mice also showed significant decrease in their front limb grip strength 77 weeks after the start of cuprizone but not at 62 weeks, demonstrating a progressive decline. There was a significant decrease in motor function in mice that received three cycles of cuprizone at 62 and 77 weeks.
To try to find a correlation between changes in the brain and progressive neurological decline, the researchers looked at demyelination and loss of axons (the long thread-like part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells) in different cell types and brain regions.
When compared to the mice that had not received treatment, researchers found that the corpus callosum (the band of nerve fibres joining the two halves of the brain) in the mice that received three cycles of cuprizone had 70% reduction in corpus callosum thickness (significant white matter atrophy), 20% decrease in density of myelinated axons and 20% decrease in the density of oligodendrocytes.
This should provide a robust platform for investigating treatments that delay irreversible neurological decline in progressive MS.
Principal Investigator: Robin Avila
Robin Avila, PhD, earned her BS from the University of Vermont and her PhD in Biology/Structural Biochemistry from Boston College, where she studied myelin structural defects in rodent models of MS using X-ray diffraction. She completed her postdoctoral training focusing on gene regulation of the growth and specialization of myelin-making cells (oligodendrocytes) and myelination at University of Chicago. Dr. Avila now conducts research at Renovo Neural Inc. focusing on the development of pre-clinical models of multiple sclerosis.
Sign up to our e-newsletterfor updates from our growing global initiative to end progressive MS
Clicking submit confirms that you consent to MSIF sending you the Progressive MS Alliance newsletter
Please note, you must be aged 18 or older to subscribe to our newsletters.
Click here to read our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy


text:
Bauer Media suspends publication of lad mags FHM and Zoo
LONDON — Bauer Media said Tuesday that publication of controversial British men's interest magazines FHM and Zoo is to be suspended after 20 and 11 years in circulation, respectively.
In a statement on its website, Bauer Media explains that "young men's media habits have continually moved towards mobile and social."
Sales for both Zoo and FHM have experienced a rapid decline, the Guardian reported, with the first six months of 2015 seeing a respective 12% and 20% decrease on the previous year.
Zoo's Australian counterpart, Zoo Weekly, published its final issue in October of this year following its removal from supermarket chain Coles' shelves, whilst IPC Media (now Time Inc. UK) ceased publication of Zoo rival Nuts in March 2014.
The objectification of women in media has come under increased fire in recent years, with organisations like UK Feminista campaigning to #losetheladsmags.
Bauer Media's decision also follows the steady decline in print media that saw British music publication NME make the move to distributing free, weekly copies in a bid to increase readership earlier this year.


text:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) direction meets this week in camera to set the broad political and economic guidelines for the next five years, while the country is engaged in a laborious rebalance of its growth model.
These are the main questions at the heart of discussions on the five-year plan covering the period 2016-2020.
What growth target?
The second world economy is experiencing a significant slowdown in growth, which is expected to fall this year to the lowest in a quarter century. The regime had set a goal for 2015 of about 7%.
"Beijing should significantly degrade its ambitions for 2020 – the leaders could agree on a flexible annual target by 6.5%, with the possibility of revising down this figure, as long as the job market stays around current levels", according to Nomura bank's analysts.
President Xi Jinping recently assured that "a growth rate of around 7% would be sufficient to achieve the goal of doubling by 2020 China's GDP compared to 2010".
The new goal could however only be unveiled in March, after validation by the Chinese parliament.
The credibility of official statistics remains debated, and many experts predict a more pronounced economic slowdown.
What could be the "new normality"?
Beijing assumes "the new normality" of slower growth, which is the result of its efforts to rebalance its economic model in favour of domestic consumption and the service sector, while reorganizing the huge state sector.
These guidelines, endorsed the end of 2013, should be confirmed at the meeting.
The five-year plan should further increase the share of services in GDP, which already grew from 44% to over 51% between 2010 and 2015 and confirmed the goal of doubling household incomes between 2010 and 2020.
Towards made "by" China?
Chinese manufactured exports are struggling, because of a mixed international situation but also by increased competition. There is also high inflation on the cost of Chinese hand force.
In this context, Beijing openly calls for an upgrade of the Chinese industry to the electronic and new technologies.
What about financial reforms?
Liberalizing furthermore the financial sector reform is also highly expected, especially on the convertibility of the yuan, with the possibility of cancelling controls on capital movements in 2020. Finally, further opening of financial activities with foreign institutions and the private sector could be considered.
Cleaning up without coal?
Pollution of air is a sensitive subject for China's opinion, and important decisions should be taken.
Another problem is about coal, highly polluting, which still represents about 70% of China's energy mix, in the absence of other sources of energy in sufficient quantities, and despite a nuclear fleet in full extension.
China has also committed to a peak in emissions in 2030.
End of one-child policy?
Already eased two years ago, official experts have recently called to urgently allow all couples to have two children in order to slow down the aging population and the alarming gender imbalance.
Since late 2013, the Chinese can have two children if one parent is an only child.
UK and China recently engaged
President Xi visited the UK a few weeks ago and agreed up to £40 billion deals. These deals will create around 30.000 jobs in the country. UK and China commit to building a global comprehensive strategic partnership for the 21st Century. The two sides recognise the global significance and strategic importance of stronger UK-China relations in promoting global peace, stability and prosperity. Both sides reiterate that they are determined to support each other's prosperity and development and to work together for the benefit of global peace, security and development.


text:
ARL Technical Reports
From BRL-CAD
These ARL documents are for historical perspective. A more complete bibliography is available at:
- BRL-CAD Bibliography as of 2018
The HTML reports below were prepared in 1993 for distribution on ARL's web server. The original ARL web service was one of the first 500 web servers on the internet.
- Animation Techniques in BRL-CAD December, 1993
- Lee A. Butler, Christine Murdza
- Paul H. Deitz, Keith Applin
- IGES 4.0 to BRL-CAD Translator for CSG Models December, 1993
- John R. Anderson, Earl P. Weaver, Susanne L. Muuss


text:
Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/21/2008 -- The expanding financial crisis hitting global markets as a result of domestic housing continues to torpedo the income-property mortgage market. Lenders and borrowers alike are frantically seeking answers to questions about where markets are heading including pricing, values and acceptable leverage levels.
People have more questions than answers including the following:
• How long will the housing crisis last?
• How much leverage is acceptable?
• Will securitized mortgage markets return?
Regardless of these questions and many other concerns facing the industry, bricks-and-mortar are physically and economically here to stay. Food and shelter are basic necessities with the real estate industry providing shelter for businesses, manufacturing and housing for the general population. Fundamentally real estate is a sound investment and will rebound in tandem with many other sectors of the economy.
The cause for panic is not necessary as repricing to more historically "reasonable" levels sets the stage for tremendous investment opportunities for investors knowing how to use limited leverage and assuming acceptable risks with the following trends emerging relating to yields and pricing:
• Capitalization rates rising by 100 to 150 basis points over from a year ago, translating to a pricing corrections of 10% to nearly 25% or more, depending upon specific submarkets and property types.
• Leverage levels will remain at 65% for permanent debt until lenders see more stability in the equity markets.
• Return-on-cost metrics demonstrate that investors need to see premiums of 150 basis points or more for new developments over and above existing capitalization rates because of attractive alternative investments. Return-on-cost will creep into double digits figures on a more regular basis, as a result.
• Overall "baseline yields" using relative value mortgage bonds are hovering above 7%, indicating a new floor for profitable lending.
• Equity yields for opportunistic properties will need to reflect 20% or more for short-term investments as substantially more attractive investment opportunities abound in the stock market.
• New-construction opportunities limited to all but the most carefully chosen and risk-free projects such as GSA built office buildings, for instance.
• Project downsizing and repositioning continues as condominium projects are reconverted to rentals. Vacant office buildings as well as retail facilities are in some cases changing to alternative uses such as industrial and multifamily projects.
• "Hesitation investing" prevails as buyers use time as an effective negotiating weapon for catching better terms and conditions.
In conclusion, whether or not the markets have been repriced to reflect current realities, opportunities should continue emerging as many investors look to liquefy their portfolios to maintain defensive ownership strategies in light of a cash-strapped economy.


text:
A few readers spotted a new YouTube player with a redesigned control bar that uses a black background. The current control bar doesn't stand out so that you can focus on the video you are watching.
A YouTube user says that he "would really appreciate a way to go back to the normal player, with its more obvious progress bar and less ugly/hyperactive popup controls". I really like the bigger pause button, but YouTube should also change the action buttons below the player to better integrate in the new design.
{ Thanks, Josh and Jon. }


text:
contact us
recent interviews
FastScripts archive
about ASAP Sports
Our Clients:
Browse by Sport
Find us on
Subscribe to RSS
Click to go to
View our
November 28, 2017
Archie Miller
Bloomington, Indiana
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, it's an exciting week and clearly a lot of excitement around the Big Ten Challenge with Duke coming to Bloomington, and then right after that, a quick turnaround to an automatic two Big Ten games in three days. There's going to be a lot of excitement, I think, around the opportunities that we have. I think the games will really bring a heightened sense of awareness to our players. The environments that we're going to be in are what you want to be in when you're at this level. I think this time is a lot of excitement.
When it comes to Duke, I think it's well-versed right now of how talented they are. They're off to a great start at 8-0, and they're battle tested with a Michigan State win neutral, which was a hard-fought game, and then going out to the PK 80 and having some real adversity that you watched them deal with and being able to find a way to win that.
They're really young, as well. I mean, at times you can see four and five freshmen on the floor, but I think there's a reality of how good and how talented those freshmen are. But with Grayson Allen being sort of their leader, they're always going to have a guy there that you're going to be able to count on in big moments in the road venues that they're going into, so we're expecting him to be really on his game, as well.
We have our work cut out for us. We know that. We're trying to get ourselves mentally and physically prepared to play, and there's a lot that goes into this type of game, and we're going to have a good practice coming off of yesterday and then coming into today, and being that it's as late as tomorrow night, have another good shoot-around. But we're excited for the game.
Obviously there's a lot to talk about with Duke and their personnel, but let's start with the front court with Wendell and Marvin. The things they can do on both ends of the court, especially how they can pass, how many problems are there that those two guys present as opposed to maybe a guy who's just a back-to-the-basket guy or something like that?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, it's a daunting task right now just in general when you look at how to keep them off the glass. They're the No. 1 offensive rebounding team in the country, and they're also scoring as many point paints if not the most point paints of any team in the country. Both of them are very, very good players in and around the basket. The score, they command a lot of attention. They're also just unbelievable rebounders. If you just watch the Michigan State game alone, I think they got 25 offensive rebounds, and Marvin Bagley didn't play but about 10 minutes in that game. Wendell Carter and the other guys, whether it be Bolden or whoever is in there, they present a serious challenge. But they command a lot of attention. They're good passers. Their reputations speak for themselves.
But it is a daunting task, and I think it starts with, one, the glass and how we keep them off it, and two, clearly trying our best to keep the paint crowded and make them make those guys uncomfortable as possible.
With Duke coming off of three games in four days and you guys not having played since Friday, do you think there's any advantage in you having more rest?
ARCHIE MILLER: I'm not sure. I can't speak to how Duke feels. They play a pretty short rotation. They always have. But they've played eight games already, and I think their ability to get back and get rested up, playing at 9:30 on Wednesday, won't be a real issue for them; especially I think the energy level in the building is going to have everybody ready to go.
For us, we needed some recovery time. We had played two games in three days already twice this season, so be able to get a couple days under our belt and look forward to not only Wednesday but then a quick Saturday-Monday turnaround, I think all of college basketball right now just in general mentally and physically have their challenges. This is just one probably that Duke people can say they may be a little bit fatigued after their trip, but potentially not affect them at all.
Duke has shown some zone throughout the first month so far. How does the last week or two weeks helped you guys prepare for what you might see from them defensively?
ARCHIE MILLER: Yeah, I think Duke has played a lot of zone here early in the season and has been effective for them at times. If you look at the size they put on the floor in the zone, you're probably not going to be able to see a bigger team in college basketball when it comes to the back line that they've been able to put out there. The Michigan State game they were very active in that zone and caused some turnovers and whatnot. We've seen a lot of zone here early, so as much as any season I've been a part of. We've been having to handle 40 minutes over the last 70 minutes, including Seton Hall half the game in some zone, so we've seen a lot of zone, and we had our best performance against it clearly against Eastern Michigan's zone; we were very effective. If we're playing them, it'll have to be the same way; you have to limit turnovers and you have to attack the paint, but a lot of different size in the back line for them than probably we're accustomed to.
You talked about they've played eight games already, but also they've played in a very tournament-type tested environment. The Texas game alone was a great battle for them, and you guys haven't quite had that kind of experience yet. How does that help them and not help you guys as much?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, I think that they've probably played, whether it be the Michigan State game or whether the Texas and the Florida game, I think both of those games were NCAA Tournament-esque crowds, environments, and the fact that two of the games that they played in they were down by double figures in the second half and came back and won, you know, speaks volumes about how they're able to handle those types of situations, especially when you consider they do have a lot of freshmen on the floor.
For us we've had one real adverse situation for us, which was on the road against Seton Hall, but we haven't been in this type of environment yet this season, and I think the veteran players need to show, so to speak, their experience level and don't make it bigger than it is.
A guy that could get help against the zone, Collin Hartman, had limited minutes when he came back the other day. Where is he now in terms of how much time he can spend on the floor?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, he was a little bit limited on Saturday in minutes and then just kind of wanted to see how he responded, had a full workout yesterday and was great. He's prepared to go full workout today. I'm going to knock on wood because every time we talk about him here in the press conference it seems like he's getting bit by the injury bug. But we'll be mindful of him, and I think as we get through this Wednesday, every game will be a game-time decision on how we handle him post the workouts or whatever. But it was good to have him back. He's an important piece to what we're doing. If he's around, we're a lot different.
You talked some about their young guys, but Al is a guy you've mentioned just has helped you a lot through the first -- I think he's third on the team now in minutes per game. Talk about the turnovers and the fact that he's just not committing them right now. I don't think he's committed one in more than two weeks. What makes him so good, and maybe as the competition level adjusts up, what do you think are going to be the biggest challenges?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, Al has done a nice job. He's played the game within himself. He's taken what the defense has given him. He has a high IQ just in terms of what we're trying to look for, and he's efficient with his dribble. He's not a guy that has to have the ball in his hands for long periods of time to make plays. He uses his shot, he plays in straight lines, makes the simple play, and I think if he's not No. 1 in the country in assist-to-turnover ratio, he's up there pretty high, I believe. He's done it over the course of six games, and I trust him. Our players trust him. I think as the season get ratcheted up, as we'll see here over these next couple, he's going to be a guy that plays a big role for us. He was good at Seton Hall, and I think coming into this game he'll be ready to play. I don't think he's afraid of anything, which is a good thing. But he's smart and he stays with it; he's very efficient. The one thing about Al is he's playing the game within himself, and I think as experience gets under his belt, you'll start to see a guy who shoots the ball a lot better than he has here early in the season.
You say he's not really afraid of anything. Where do you think that comes from for him specifically?
ARCHIE MILLER: I think all kids grow up in certain environments. I think, one, Al is from a basketball family. I think his father is a tough-minded guy who was on him. He's played at a high talent level growing up just in terms of being in the Atlanta area in high school, and then if you mix in his AAU experiences, he's played against pretty much every guy in the country, and in particular there's a couple guys that he's played against from Duke that he grew up playing against them. I think he's got an experience level. I think he's been taught the game, and he's had a lot of good coaches like his father. He's got a great family, but I think his father knows the game very well and has been hard on him growing up. He's a guy that's kind of a throwback. You love having a guy in practice like him; he doesn't say a whole lot, he's playing to win and he's trying like crazy to do everything he can to help the team.
Obviously given that front court that Duke has, how confident do you feel in your own front court that guys like Freddie and Justin to be ready for that?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, it's going to be a challenge. I mean, you're dealing with elite size, not just from him but even their subs when they come in. We'll be undersized at times. I think De'Ron is probably the only guy that's going to look the part in terms of standing next to him. But we have to be smart. You have to be tenacious. You have to use your quickness, and you have to have a team approach. It can't just be one-on-one. But all hands are on deck, and there's no real reason to look at it and say that this guy can't do this or that. I mean, you can watch a lot of teams play in college basketball with different sizes and they get the job done. We just have to be pretty good at what we're doing and keep working at it.
You talk about all hands on deck; Clifton Moore, where is he at in his development and how close is he to maybe getting some minutes?
ARCHIE MILLER: Well, Clifton is working towards exactly that, which is trying to find his niche and fine his role. I think Clifton knows as we've started the season and how we're going, he's got to continue to learn the game, the game of basketball from an IQ standpoint and learning the physicality of it and how important it is to be just on top of things defensively and angles and being able to rebound the ball, and then when you go to the offensive side of the ball, just being comfortable in certain areas and catching. He's learning all that, and he's got a great attitude. He comes to work every day. He's got a bright, bright future, and our hope is, like I told him, if he stays with things, you'll never know when your number is going to get called. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not Wednesday night. So he's got to keep with that attitude, he's got to keep working, and then when he gets his chance, capitalize on it and find more ways to impact our team.
FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports
About ASAP Sports
FastScripts Archive
Recent Interviews
Upcoming Events
Contact Us
Events Covered
Our Clients
Other Services
ASAP in the News
Site Map
Job Opportunities
ASAP Sports, Inc.


text:
The Queensland Government is now in caretaker mode until after the state election. Minimal updates will be made to this site until after the election results are declared.
Digital Business workshops
Digital Business workshops are designed for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and not-for-profits (NFPs) to identify ways of improving their digital capability and become more competitive in today's digital marketplace.
Digital Business workshops cover:
- Digital trends impacting businesses today
- How to identify digital priorities that support your business goals
- Ways to improve your productivity with digital technology
- Using data in decision making for your business
- Tips for using Google Analytics to track your online performance
- An analysis of your current website
- How to manage your online reputation
- Ways to use digital technology in your business to improve your customer's experience
- A digital skills analysis of your business
- A step by step guide to developing a Digital action plan to guide activity and investment for your business.
Head to the Business Queensland events calendar for workshop locations and times.
More information
To learn more about Digital Business workshops and the Digital Scorecard, email email@example.com.
- Last reviewed: 17 Jul 2019
- Last updated: 1 Aug 2019
I want to...
- Payroll tax: Introduction to payroll tax in Queensland 28/10/2020
- Mentoring for Growth day - Logan 29/10/2020


text:
LanoSoft's customer service goal is simple: We are committed to providing our customers total satisfaction. Every time. Guaranteed.
Returns will be accepted within 90 days of purchase. The cost of the product will be fully refunded upon receipt of item to our warehouse.
Please use the Contact Us form to notify us of a return request to initial the process. Also, feel free to use our Contact Us form if you have any questions or comments you'd like to share. Or you may contact us by phone, fax, mail or email
Mailing AddressLanoSoft
7201 Engle Road
Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Phone: 1-800-285-9176
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
IELTS Results competition winners in April 2018
What a great feeling it is to finally reveal the 8 winners who received the best IELTS results in April. Their hard work resulted in excellent scores ranging from Band 6.5 to 9. Yes, there actually was one winner who got the perfect Band 9!
And the winners are:
- Mehdi Matinmonfared from Iran, Band 8.5
Academic Module – 2nd place
- Tanishq Kikani from India, Band 8
Academic Module – 3rd place
- Rinchen Dorji from Bhutan, Band 7.5
General Training Module – 1st place
- Sana Nazir from Pakistan, Band 9
General Training Module – 2nd place
- Neha Verma from India, Band 8
- Gagandeep Kaur from India, Band 8
- Saema Shaikh from India, Band 8
General Training Module – 3rd place
- Buddhi Hitihamillage from Sri Lanka, Band 6.5
Congratulations, everyone! To show our appreciation to the winners we are sending their certificates of achievement to their emails. Winning IELTS results will be displayed in the IELTS-Blog hall of fame – so if you won, please feel free to show them off to your family and friends!
We should really find out how these lovely people were able to score so well. All we know at the moment is that Buddhi Hitihamillage used our book Ace the IELTS to prepare for the exam. But we definitely need to know more!
Hope to hear from the winners the stories of how they prepared and studied, and what helped them achieve success in IELTS. Anything they wish to share will be posted on IELTS-Blog without delay, so everyone can use the same technique and get a better score in their own exam this month.
P.S. IELTS results competition runs every month, and everyone is welcome to participate. Learn how to enroll here.
Get a self study book, for Academic click here, for General here.
No comments yet.


text: Page Content Mission Statement Council is responsible for the delivery of municipal services to residents, businesses and tourists in a customer focused, cost effective, creative and environmentally sensitive manner that provides opportunities for all to enjoy family life, earn a living and pursue leisure activities. Council is committed to supporting the development of a sustainable and inclusive community in a managed fashion that understands the link between health, safety well-being and the environment while enabling everyone to enjoy our unique geography and quality of life. Vision Statement Wasaga Beach is a thriving fully serviced community, respectful of its history and culture, offering a variety of residential, educational and commercial choices in neighbourhoods developed in harmony with the environment that provides its residents, businesses and visitors with a full range of entertainment, cultural and public services while promoting a safe healthy lifestyle, high community standards, business success and harmonious relationships.


text:
I'd love to train, but...
Working technique at Revolution BJJ
The image is of the technique portion of class, a slow, measured way to get better at the BJJ techniques taught.
Reason #1: Jiu Jitsu is a complete fitness program in and of itself
Reason #2: We're not going to throw you to the wolves on your first day
The aforementioned skill levels most gyms offer are designed precisely because of something we (the owners) saw when we first started training jiu jitsu nearly 20 years ago. We saw beginners, ourselves included, joining a gym and being essentially roughed up and attacked during their first class, and this extended on into the first few months of our BJJ journeys. The end result was that we were really, really tough, and we could take a lot of pressure -- those of us who stuck around, anyway.
As a result, this mentality pervaded for some time, and we became the wolves, eager for new sheep to be thrown in so that we could weed out the weak and make the survivors that much stronger. I was fortunate to be in good enough shape and mentally tough enough to make it through this initiation, but over the years, I've adopted a much more modern perspective -- and I say "modern" here because I believe most gyms have also adopted this perspective, but it sure wasn't around when I was coming up.
Essentially, the new rule of the day is: no throwing beginners to the wolves. The idea is that toughness blossoms over time, and just because someone isn't super tough on their first day does not mean that they won't be a tough SOB two or three years down the line. Many of our best students now have gone through this coddling process and have become not only extremely technical practitioners, but also extremely mat-tough. The system works.
Jiu jitsu is more fun than every other workout
Reason #3: Running doesn't get you into shape for jiu jitsu. Jiu jitsu gets you into shape for jiu jitsu.
Insert other fitness-related activity here: (Weight lifting) does not get you into shape for jiu jitsu. (Swimming) does not get you into shape for jiu jitsu. (Playing in a band) does not get you into shape for jiu jitsu. Only BJJ is BJJ, and only BJJ can adequately get you into shape to train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Well, yes. You do need to get into shape but that is, of course, going to happen over the course of time. But learning to pace yourself is a huge part of the art, and that is one of the amazing things that separates jiu jitsu from all other martial arts: you're going to be resting for a large percentage of the time. Sure, you can kick back and wait for your moments in boxing, but you're also going to constantly be running around the ring, trying not to get hit, keeping you hands up, and so on.
All white belts are terrible
Everybody sucks at first. You may as well go ahead and get that out of the way. No amount of preparation, or putting it off, is going to make you better at BJJ, at least not to the same degree and with the same rapidity as stepping on the mat, sucking it up, and training! Get started training right now, and don't put it off any longer. It's going to be a lifelong journey, and the one regret I hear most from my friends who have been training for years and years is that they wish they had started sooner. Start your own journey today!
Open mat at Revolution BJJ
A cool time-lapse video
Amazon Price: $99.00 $93.99 Buy Now
(price as of Sep 7, 2014)


text:
Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about.
February 22, 2020, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM @ Downtown Fernandina Beach (Centre Street from Front to 3rd Streets + North and South 2nd Streets)
Long running community event that focuses around chili tasting from local competitors. Event will have live music, kids' zone, vendors and chili booths, Organized by and benefiting the Amelia Island Montessori School.


text:
Friday 30 November, 2018 - 8:34
Jungle Theatre Company
Thanks to the kind support of the National Lotteries Commission Jungle Theatre Company will be running a performing arts training programme throughout 2019.
Candidates must be between 18 – 35 years of age, speak English as well as Afrikaans or isiXhosa and have some training or experience in performing arts.
Also essential is a keen interest in children's theatre. The training involves theatre making for children of various ages: improvisation, puppets, masks, music, dance and developing original work based on African folktales. It includes monitoring & evaluation, arts administration and how to become a professional.
The training will take place in Muizenberg on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 4pm from the start of February until June.
Trainees will also shadow our artistic team on other days of the week. From July to December trainees will perform shows and facilitate workshops at schools; festivals and public venues.
Transport stipends will be paid.
An audition will take place on Tuesday 22 January between 9am to 12pm at the Methodist Church Hall in Muizenberg.
At the audition candidates will be asked to showcase one of their talents and a short interview will also be conducted. To register for the audition please email your biography and/or CV as well as a headshot and letter of motivation to – firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Accessing Your 5D Abilities Online Workshop ∞Audio Recording
We've all heard about the amazing abilities we will access when we fully engage with the fifth dimension, but how do we access them now? That was the topic for this online workshop I did with Ina Lukas. She channeled The Alchemists, and I channeled The Creators, and the recording is just over 2 hours and 45 minutes. You'll receive processes and exercises to access your 5D abilities, and you'll also hear the answers The Alchemists and The Creators gave to the questions posed by those who participated live. Enjoy! <3