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Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
Oddometer: 908
Day One
: San Ignacio to Mulege The Hard Way
Our gang rode out of Rice and Beans at the crack of 10 AM or thereabouts.
Nine of us snaked through the village and south-westerly out on to the road to the lagoon. We rode a spirited ride on the pavement for the first 10 miles and then the riders spaced out a bit once on the rough gravel road that took over on the way out to the lagoon. The dust welcomed us to the ride and somewhat determined different riding styles. I, for one, REFUSE to ride in somebody's dust ...I just don't see the point unless racing or something
Some guys like to ride side-by-side in these conditions, some guys like to wait until the dust has only begun to settle, while guys like me like to wait until the dust has dissipated and to stay out of it until the next corner route-change rendezvous. After about a half hour of riding, we came to the junction where a road turned south towards El Paraje where David caught me rinsing some dust off my bike:
David and I rode the sweep position for a while as the other guys were ripping it up ahead. Several of our group had done this day's route the year before and were on the pipe. At significant junctions, the "last rider" usually waited for the next one to appear and acknowledge him with a wave before continuing...the standard etiquette that is always promised at the beginning of most group rides
...and is sometimes even implemented
Sometimes just a roost track indicated which direction the previous rider had taken
Somewhere between El Paraje, David and I stopped for a momentary break when he noticed he had lost a lower mounting bolt on his Touratech luggage rack (smartly complimented by Wolfman dry bags). He found a replacement and we continued south to Tres Palmas before heading easterly towards El Patrocino. The terrain so far was mixed alto plano desert and the road was fast, with little soft sand, but rough with exposed rocks and occasional washout gullies. Nothing really of a technical challenge, but the kind of stuff you sometimes want to be on the pegs for if you want your eyes to focus on the road. One thing about Baja riding: if you take your eyes off the road for a second, THAT is when you are most likely to hit a rock or a rut that hits your front wheel with a KRANG that wakes you up with a pucker clinch
As we rode out of El Patrocino we could see the mountains far off to the east. The road was still fast and offered some enjoyable riding.
Every once and a while we would pass through an established rancho where often one or several people would be roadside pointing out the directions we wanted to take. We would usually stop and confirm our navigational wherewithall with the ranchers...they were friendly and helpful.
The ranchos in Baja are a world unto themselves. They come from and continue to sustain a rich culture. These days they use hand-held radio communication and keep in frequent contact with one another. I assumed that they knew a group of riders were headed their way far in advance of the sound of our motors...
A great insight to their life may be gained by finding and watching a great documentary called
Corazon Vaquero
The sparse desert flora began to become more dense as we approached the foothills ...
And, coming down a hill into a rancho before Los Pilares, we came onto a cement-paved downhill section (an occurance with increasing frequency these days in parts of Baja mountain terrain)...
David's hawk eye captured an old fixer-upper...
I think it was somewhere past Los Pilares and El Datil where the road got rougher and was much more rocky riverbed than sandy double-track.
We were headed up and over some challenging rough mountain roads towards Mission Guadalupe. Most of us managed to negotiate a hairpin in the route at the bottom of the mountain section by a rancho....Reid, Brian, and Lev missed that turn only to end up in a box canyon for a time-consuming detour back to that missed junction.
The ride into that junction was spectacular as the road was totally a riverbed with rocks as a roadbed and frequent water-crossings and slimey green sections sandwiched between towering canyon walls on both sides.
This is where the terrain started to tell us that the adventure had started. We followed the road peppered with switchbacks, loose rock, and some steep uphills...
Rounding one switchback, my rear tire slipped out and I did the splits as my bike went down. It was picked up quickly but wouldn't start.
Before I realized it wouldn't start, Wayne and Murray came up around the corner, saw me picking up the bike. Murray said, "No one saw it happen!" ....which I took as a joke meaning "No witness-no failure". He then asked if I was okay and I replied "Yes", as I had not been injured but had my first bike-drop of the trip
They motored on and I caught my breath while stabbing the e-button.
ALL my pre-trip fears of fuel pump/fuel line kinks claimed centre-stage in my mind...
(690 guys might know about this issue for some bikes....especially after removing the 690 fuel pump housing when installing filters or after-market auxiliary fuel tanks). After a dozen unsuccessful tries, I took my helmet off, turned off the helmet cam (unfortunately, I did not turn it on for the rest of the day....losing hours of killer riding footage
) and thought my trip was over for the day and I would have to do major fuel system surgery and sleep there overnight....(yeah, I know....my worrying can surface as worst-case scenario predictions...).
I gathered my wits and turned the ignition key off as it remained on after the fall and engine stalling. When I turned the key on I heard the fuel pump prime....GOOD NEWS
I thought !!! With a bit of a prayer, I hit the button and the bike started....Boy, was I glad for that
. After about 20-30 minutes bouncing up the road, I came upon my gang at a pass, patiently waiting for me and the others (Reid, Brian, and Lev)...
David caught Murray approaching the first pass ...
Then Wayne...
And finally me rocketing up the road...
I was pooped at that point
The riding was not really that challenging for the other guys, but I am overweight and under-fit. Some might say that I am not in shape, but I sometimes need to remind them that "round is a shape".
I got off my bike and waited with the rest for Reid, Brian, and Lev.
We waited for about 20-30 minutes and entertained a variety of options.
We eventually decided to continue forwards as we determined:
1) Reid had a good GPS topo map and had done the ride the year before;
2) Reid had a 5 gallon tank, so he could supply fuel to the smaller tanks if needed;
3) The GPS topo map indicated that they had likely continued past the hairpin junction at the bottom of the mountain and that road would eventually reconnect to where we were headed within 10 miles or less...
Views from the pass #1:
From whence we came...
Lounging around...
Examining a map...
Wayne and I were the last to head down from the pass once we decided we could trust the Tres Amigos Perdidos to find their way to Mulege
Ged Schwartz
Kamloops , BC
Baja '05
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Demographics, demand dictate how often and which shopping centers have Kriss Kringle on duty
Most full-time Santa setups are partnerships between photo companies and the shopping centers. The centers provide a setting that fits their decorative motif, and the photo company pays rent on the space. Malls without a full-time Santa during the holidays either didn't want one or were turned down by the photo companies.
Malls and shopping centers — and their tenants — take holidays very seriously. Many retail outlets make the bulk of their profits for the year during the holiday season. Santa Claus, particularly with his emphasis on presents, draws shoppers and helps them to make buying decisions. But not every mall is right for a Santa.
For "class A" shopping malls located in dense population centers or at highway junctions, a full-time Santa can be a necessity. The malls provide a setting that fits with their decorative theme, and then a photo company rents the space. The photo company provides the Santa Claus and charges for pictures.
Westfield is pushing the envelope on the Santa setting this year at its newly renovated University City and North County locations. Children and parents waiting for Santa get to play with a giant touch-screen that can snap low-resolution eCards or play games. The environment itself is a huge Christmas ornament, complete with the scent of pine trees.
"We want to enhance and build even more excitement by creating interactive touch points," said Betsy Burkett, vice president for digital marketing for Westfield USA.
Inside the setting, Santa awaits, but his boss is likely lurking nearby, holding an expensive camera and a stern look for parents trying to snap their own pictures. Most malls in the area allow families to visit Santa for free, but they can't take pictures. The photo companies that employ the Santas make their money on photo packages, typically from $10 to $60, depending on the package. Westfield has a contract with Cherry Hill Photo in New Jersey for all of its sites nationally.
Malls and shopping centers with Santas who are not on the property every day during the holiday season are usually paying for Santa themselves. Horton Plaza will have a Santa on premises on Saturday afternoons only, and they'll pay him between $350 and $400 for four hours of work, said Joseph McGrievy, Horton Plaza's Santa. Typically a mall Santa gets $25 to $35 an hour, but they get the security of plenty of hours, he said.
There is no photo company connected to the Santas at Horton Plaza. Parents and children who visit can sit on Santa's lap for free and take their own pictures.
"Every session I'm out there, they have Mrs. Claus with me, which happens to be my wife," said McGrievy.
Unlike Santas who work for places like Cherry Hill Photo, McGrievy is an independent Claus. In addition to the four hours a week he works at Horton Plaza, he makes house calls for $125 for 15 minutes or $175 for a half-hour, plus he does free work for charities. McGrievy will visit a house, lead children in songs, and let them sit on his lap and pose for pictures. With those visits, the Horton Plaza gig, and some other store openings, McGrievy earns about one-third of his annual income during the holiday season. (He's a magician the rest of the year).

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Fun---what was your October baby's nursery theme and what is it now?
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Phebe 5/93 Abner 9/99 Uriah 1/10 Asher 10/10 Selah 9/12
Bronze (.Y.)
My babies ::Gavin 10/28/2010:: ::Corbin 5/20/2014::
::Married to Nick since 7/18/2009::
::Mommy, loving wife and Pediatric RN!::
Was Pooh and now it is Merida (from Brave) and other Princesses
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ~*~*~Anna, mommy to Anya (4) & ^11/13^ & Kiki (2/15/15)~*~*~Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Was and still is forest animals. She now has some junior ranger stuff to go with it since she has already visited some national parks. Hopefully she will still like it for a few more years since I am sure she will have a bigger opinion about what she likes in a few years.
Savannah- born 10/1/10 w/cleft palate due to Pierre Robin Sequence. Palate repaired 5/24/11. Palate Z-plasty 4/22/14
Was and still is zoo animals (mommas and babies). She loves it. . .and it should last awhile yet :)
Amy�+ Kelly 10/17/98 = Tori Jane - 10/21/10
We had an Under the Sea theme and now it is more beachy but we've still used most of the same wall art.
36, Single PhD momma to Tessa born 10/07/2010 on her great-gramma's birthday.
He's still in his crib so not much has changed yet. When he gets his big boy bed his colors will be blues, teal and gray. I've already started a craft project that I really should finish! ;)
DS due Nov '10, born 10-27-10
Angel Baby @10 wks Aug '11; Blighted Ovum Mar '13
DD born on her due date 1-30-14!
both kids rooms (b/g twins) have light green walls, ikea crib/toddler beds with off-white sheets, a twin bed (our guest beds and a place to sit with them), an old dresser, a height chart, and whatever random toys they bring up from downstairs. Also green light blocking curtains. My boy has train hold backs and my daughter has owl hold backs from etsy. When they start expressing opinions we'll consider decorating.
Mom to twins DS and DD
(.Y.) diamond
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The strong bullish move off of March 2009 lows has lifted many stocks, thus creating large unrealized paper gains for many dividend investors. While prices have enjoyed a steep run-up, dividend yields, which move inversely to prices, have declined in the process. Many dividend investors are now wondering if they should simply lock in their gains in stocks which are not yielding that much relative to others.
As a dividend investor, one of the items in my entry criteria is to require at least a 3% initial yield when purchasing a stock. Back in the first half of 2009, there were plenty of good quality dividend stocks that fit these criteria. Nowadays even some of my favorites such as PepsiCo (PEP) and Aflac (AFL) are yielding a little less than 3%. Now that those holdings are yielding less than my entry yield criteria, the question is whether I should hold on to them, or switch to stocks with higher current yields. If I were to do this, I would instantly increase my dividend income. If I didn't however, that wouldn't really hurt my income either.
First, the reason why I won't do this is because I am a long term investor. I buy stocks and plan to hold on to them for the long run, or until a company cuts dividends. Over time I expect that a dividend grower would deliver a solid yield on cost. In other words if I purchased Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) at $50 in March, my yield on the original investment would have been 3.68%. After the company raised its annual dividend however to $1.96/year, my yield on cost increased to 3.92%. If JNJ raises distributions at 6% annually for the next 12 years, my yield on cost would double to 8%. More often than not however, the current yield on Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) would remain between 2% and 3% over the next decade. That is, if Johnson and Johnson pay a $4 dividend in one decade, and the stock yields 2%, the stock price would be $200. Most dividend yield chasers would be ignoring the stock simply because the yield is too low. At that moment however, my yield on cost would be 8%, and I wouldn't care as much about the current yield, except when reinvesting distributions.
Therefore it is important to distinguish between yield on cost, and current yield. If you purchase a stock whose dividend payment increases over time, chances are that your yield on cost would be increasing. Thus, even if the current yield drops to 2%, one should not consider selling. Another example in this situation is Aflac (AFL), which could have been purchased around $12 at its lows in March, yielding about 10%. Despite the fact that the stock is up over 300% since that point and yielding 2.4% currently, this investment would still be yielding 10% on cost to the investor who bought at the time.
Second, you have to take into account the dividend yield and dividend growth characteristics in addition to evaluating the sustainability of the dividend. If you purchased Procter & Gamble (PG), at prices between $45 and $50, your yield on cost is somewhere between 3.50% and 3.90%, despite the fact that the stock currently yields 3.10%. The ten year dividend growth rate for this Cincinnati based manufacturer of consumer goods is 10.60%. Using the rule of 72, the company would double your yield on cost in 7 years. In addition to that the dividend payment is adequately covered from current earnings and cash flows per share.
Let's assume that you decided to sell your Procter & Gamble (PG) stock today for a higher yielding company such as AT & T (T), which currently yields 6.30%. While you would essentially double your dividend income overnight, you would have to note that AT&T (T) has grown its distributions by 5.3% annually over the past decade. In addition to that, the payout ratio of the telecom company is approaching 80%, which puts the sustainability of the distribution in danger. Last but not least, by switching from Procter & Gamble (PG) into AT&T (T) would lead to your portfolio being overweight to the telecommunications sector and underweight the consumer staples sector.
At the end of the day it is important to understand that investing is more art than science. Thus, while a strategy might look good on paper, does not mean that it would stand the tests of the battle. It is also a balancing act between several known and unknown variables, such as dividend yield, dividend growth, dividend payout, diversification and dollar cost averaging. If your portfolio consists mainly of high yielding securities, there is a very high probability that the dividend payouts on your investments is high, which increases the likelihoods for a dividend cut, and the opportunities for income growth are limited. It is important to view stocks as ownership portions of businesses, and thus concentrate on selecting only those which the investor believes to have solid fundamentals over time.
Two such companies include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Procter & Gamble (PG). Both companies are leaders in their own markets, and possess strong economic moats.
The Procter & Gamble Company engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods worldwide. The company operates in three global business units (GBUs): Beauty, Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The company has raised distributions for 53 years in a row. (analysis)
Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide. The company has raised distributions for 47 consecutive years. (analysis)
Both companies offer not only great dividend growth potential, but also strong capital gains potential as well for the enterprising long term investor. While investing in the short run is mostly affected by strong emotions such as fear and greed, long term dividend investing is all about evaluating long term business trends and then positioning accordingly.
Full Disclosure: Long AFL, JNJ, PEP, PG and T
Relevant Articles:
- Emotionless Dividend Investing
- Procter & Gamble (PG) Dividend Stock Analysis
- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Dividend Stock Analysis
- Should you re-invest your dividends?
Friday, October 23, 2009
Is now the time to sell your dividend stocks?
The strong bullish move off of March 2009 lows has lifted many stocks, thus creating large unrealized paper gains for many dividend investors. While prices have enjoyed a steep run-up, dividend yields, which move inversely to prices, have declined in the process. Many dividend investors are now wondering if they should simply lock in their gains in stocks which are not yielding that much relative to others.
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Great examples of yield on cost, and excellent advice on why one shouldn't let short term dividend cuts and market increases affect your long term goals of dividend growth.ReplyDelete
Hi there, i couldn't see a contact me button, so heres hoping you'll respond to the comment...ReplyDelete
How do you create your charts for the stock analysis? such as the EPS chart found on http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/2008/03/analysis-of-general-electric.html .
I am doing my own research and would like to create charts like yours.
I read past annual reports, and add the data into excel, after which I create charts in excel.
Thanks for the comment. Good luck in your investing!
People seems to forget yield on cost..!ReplyDelete
Here's my analysis of the U.S. stock market. Not having to study anymore for CFA exam or dissertation does leave me with a lot more free time.ReplyDelete
First we have very high valuations by historical standards, which imply unrealistic expectations for a recovery in profit margins and...
This guy has got tremendous knowledge on this domain.ReplyDelete
I have bookmarked the blog to read it regularly.
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Survivors' Songs
From Maldon to the Somme
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From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the wider context of writing about warfare from prehistoric Troy to Anglo-Saxon England; from Agincourt to Flanders; from El Alamein to Vietnam; from the wars of yesterday to the wars of tomorrow.Read more
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@Anps You are spreading so much disinformation. Some of the things you wrote are not based on any concrete facts, and are purely fictional.
This market became multi theme (not multi purpose) market, everything else struggles and can only be as a side earning.
Not true. I for one am not even considering venturing into the multi-purpose market, and I am MORE than happy with my sales. ThemeForest is my only source of income, and I intent it to stay that way.
Furthermore, after inspecting many of these monster themes, I saw how bloated they are, and I do not want to sell something like that to my customers. I see that your portfolio is comprised mainly out of multi-purpose themes, which is perfectly fine, as it is your choice whether or not to produce those kind of themes, but please don't go around throwing fictional claims that this is the only way to earn good money out here.
again just ask yourself if you had iphone priced as some ordinary huawei would you ever buy the second one even if you do not need all those things on iphone?
Silly comparison. iPhones are actually quality goods, and most of the multi-purpose themes that I've inspected are actually bloated software, which should not even sell at the price that they are given at the moment.
This market is from developers mostly for developers, people that resell there products.
That age is far gone now. There is a huge influx of end-users to the theme market – people who are not developers, and who are looking to setup a website, with little to none experience with WordPress. This is one of the main reasons why those bloated themes sell well – because a large chunk of buyers are ignorant to what makes a good website, and are therefore easily swayed into buying a flashy theme, that offers a gazillion of features.
@Anps, I think those themes packed with features can't be valued high just due to number of inclusions. No buyers will use all the features for one end product – so buyers buy the "choice of features" rather than feature itself.
However, your claim is valid only when buyers doesn't buy more than one license and utlizes for multiple end products due to these packed choice of features.
That sounds Amazing!
So, let me get this right: if I buy 10 plugins, for example, that cost $10 a piece, and mash those together into bloated, unusable software, my product is now automatically worth $100, just because I paid that much for all of those plugins I bought, even though I'm a crappy developer? Where is the logic in that?
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Okay let me get this straight. You are saying the themes in question have over 25 times as much value and only differ in price by 4%.
Bingo! And its not a blown up statement! Go and check it yourself, for example simple themes have 1 -3 sliders, visual composer and maybe one more plugin all together valued at give or take 100$
Those themes have for example up to 10 sliders some more that alone is worth 170$ and 20+ (some even 40 and more) styles which do keep in mind is basically like having that many separate themes and god knows hoy many other addons/plugins. Just in sliders then reach almost 200$ ... so do the matOnce you realise this all further debate is redundant
Anps said
Creattive said
Okay let me get this straight. You are saying the themes in question have over 25 times as much value and only differ in price by 4%.
Bingo! And its not a blown up statement! Go and check it yourself, for example simple themes have 1 -3 sliders, visual composer and maybe one more plugin all together valued at give or take 100$
Those themes have for example up to 10 sliders some more that alone is worth 170$ and 20+ (some even 40 and more) styles which do keep in mind is basically like having that many separate themes and god knows hoy many other addons/plugins. Just in sliders then reach almost 200$ ... so do the matOnce you realise this all further debate is redundant
I checked it and I don't see anything that comes close to your audiojungle comparison.
Let's do the math together. Your second post: Normal themes: 1-3 sliders Bloatware: 10 sliders
Price difference: 10-20%
So around 3 times more value, at 10% price difference.
Your first post (audiojungle comparison):
Item A: 1 sound Item B: 25 sounds + piece fo software (let's value this at 5 sounds)
Price difference: 4%
So around 30 times more value at 4% price difference.
As soon as you realise that all your comparisons are useless a further debate will not be redundant anymore
Edit/ and the best part is, you can do the same and create a theme with that many plugins included. You just have to invest the money and take the risk that comes with it. Other authors did and you act like they did something unfair to you.
Not even the comparison to other countries with a better conversion rate to USD can be applied here, because they also have to invest much more in their currency for all the plugins.
There are authors who create themes like that. This seems to pay out, as your argument in this thread is "they get so many sales, it is unfair". I would not sit around and complain if I could do just the same as the guy who is making so much sales now
Brilliant News. I even had a review just now from a file just bought "....Good value for the money" so buyers are still happy with the prices.
Omg i can't believe it you guys do not see something what i am seeing… do you even know how much extended licence cost… our investment is extended licence that is our investment, and those prices is cost of the item for clients.
And by audiojungle i was putting an example on the price… and nobody is saying that those themes did something wrong they are just using a system that has been set up for us.
And yes we all can go and create those themes and risk it, but what will happen when the market gets fed up with them? You really don't get this whole picture don't you. We still get a decent living out of it, i am simply saying the price plans are not fair.
I didn't say that poorly written themes fit in this category, but all of this concerns are correct. And yes i do say that majority of those top themes are multi-purpose themes do get better the sales, and are you saying they do not pack all of those plugins?
But please define to me what low quality theme is in your book?
I am not allowed to post directly example of all of those add-ons themes. And about poor quality, those themes get what they deserve quickly.
And don't get me started on iphones quality…. i owned one, half of my friends own one, its more of a statement then quality more of a cult. don't get me wrong its a fine peace of machinery but overpriced big time. But we are not here to discus iphones quality.
When you say that that age is far now, I don't know from were to you get that, majority of our clients get themes for there clients. However we can discuss that for those over bloat themes for ever, majority of en customers don't know even how to install wordpress theme.
In my country slowly ever small self proclaimed developer is now conducting business of buying themes and reselling them forward.
This market became multi theme (not multi purpose) market, everything else struggles and can only be as a side earning.
As I recall I did state there are exceptions and you know earning is a relative thing. Really depends were are you from.
Bottom line is that those kind of over bloated themes sell best, don't need to believe my words do filter out wordpress category by sales and see it and do some calculating you will se how much % those themes represent on daily basis.
You all can keep pretending how this is fine its fair its ok… till it hits you in the head. Been watching this market for 6 years now and been part of it for 2.
We started producing themes when those kind of themes weren't around that much and saw the shifts my self.
If i am so wrong why o why are those themes selling so much and a lot of products that are simple, unique and well built stay in the dark?
One of the worst decisions ever made in Envato is to allow themes with bundled plugins. Whatever any one says, I just can't think of anything good that can come from such practice, and it can hurt end users because they are buying something they will not use or will have trouble using it in, since they will not have proper support for these bundled plugins. And not to mention that some themes have 3 or 4 slider plugins bundled! Please, explain why??? Considering that most top selling slider plugins on CodeCanyon are basically very similar, theme authors include all of them just to say they 'give' extra value to the end user. And end user will end up using only one of these sliders. Design the theme and make it use on slider plugin, do not bloat with 4 of them.
If the theme needs a slider, author should implement simple slider and include system where slider plugins can hook into, and end users can decide and buy slider plugin on their own. And other features in the theme should be done the same way. But, it is too late for all that now, since Envato is not going to stop this bad bundling practice because they earn a lot of it.
I love creativity behind many themes on ThemeForest, but I will never buy any of them because they are bloated and because they sacrificed great design into making theme monsters.


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'Indignez-Vous!' calls for Resistance-like action, has been accused of anti-Semitism
French Resistance hero Stéphane Hessel's pamphlet Indignez-Vous!, which despite its brevity and questionable literary merit has sold more than three million (!) copies in Europe since October, will be published in America in September as Time for Outrage. The book has been criticized for its treatment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with some accusing Hessel of anti-Semitism. The 93-year-old denies it; additionally, like practically every other French intellectual, he is of Jewish descent (albeit only on his father's side—in fact, his parents and a French man formed the love triangle that inspired the Truffaut film Jules and Jim).
The pamphlet argues that today's French should cast off their indifference and "get angry!" in the manner of résistants such as himself, a comrade of De Gaulle's in London who parachuted into France and was captured and sent to Buchenwald. "When something outrages you, as Nazism did me, that is when you become a militant, strong and engaged," the roughly 4,000-word pamphlet proclaims. "You join the movement of history, and the great current of history continues to flow only thanks to each and every one of us." And what is Hessel most angry about? "Today, my primary indignation concerns Palestine, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank."
In The New Republic, Tablet Magazine books critic Adam Kirsch questioned the utility of Resistance-era anger in a time of (mostly) functional politics. Unquestionably a hero and doubtfully intending any harm, Hessel strikes me as a French version of Howard Beale, the Network anchor who instructs us to shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" Of course, Beale is a crank, a madman suffering a nervous breakdown. The parody in Paddy Chayefsky's script isn't found in the fact that Beale is right, but rather in the fact that somebody so profoundly wrong, albeit in a harmless way, is received as being right because he satisfies certain emotional needs; the film's malicious villains have use for the anger he inspires because it distracts people from real problems. Beale, and Beale-like anger, is the tool of the true bad guys.
In the spring, in France, another Hessel pamphlet was released, this a collection of interviews titled Engagez-Vous!—"get involved!" That sounds more like it, anyway.
Book by French Resistance Here to Be Published in U.S. [Arts Beat]
A Resistance Hero Fires Up the French [NYT]
Related: The Trouble With Anger [TNR]
Earlier: So, You're a 'French Intellectual,' Eh?
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Calling Sequence
MapleToModelica(sys, opts)
(optional) list or set of equations, a DynamicSystems object, or a string
(optional) equation(s) of the form option = value; specify options for MapleToModelica
annotation = string
A Maple string containing the content of a Modelica annotation. It is used to create an annotation for the generated Modelica.
class = model or connector
Specifies whether the Modelica is a model or a connector. The default is model.
class_name = string
The name of the generated Modelica class (model). The default is "custom" with a positive integer appended.
comment = string
A string used to annotate the generated Modelica.
display = true or false
True means print a formatted version of the generated Modelica. The default is false.
equations_only = true or false
True means return only the Modelica initial equations, and equations, as a string. This is useful for displaying how sys is interpreted as Modelica.
flatten = true or false
True means flatten the Modelica. The default is false.
omit_annotations = true or false
True means omit annotations from the generated Modelica. This may be used with display to view the code without the distraction of the annotations. The default is false.
warning_only = true or false
True means generate a warning, but do not raise an error, if there is a problem with the generated Modelica code. Using this allows the code to be inspected. The default is false.
Interface Options
These options specify the interface between the component equations, sys, and the outside world.
append_custom_connectors = truefalse
True means append any custom connectors assigned by the custom_connectors option to the generated modelica. The default is true.
components = list or set
Specifies Modelica components used in the model. The general form of each element is .
constants = list or set
Specifies the constants, their types, and their values. The format is identical to parameters. Note that because constants is an assigned Maple global name, this keyword must be forward-quoted when used. The default is the empty set.
connections or connectors = list or set
Specifies the connections to the component. The order of the corresponding declarations in the output matches that of the input. A list should be used when using the default pin placement strategy, the order determines the order on an edge. This option is ignored if sys is a DynamicSystems object.
Each element of connections specifies the characteristics of one port.
The full specification has the form , where id is a string that becomes the port name, type specifies the type of connection, and signals specify the Maple expressions connected to the port.
The id field is required. It is a string or name that corresponds to a valid Modelica unquoted identifier.
A Modelica flow variable in a connector is designated by wrapping the id with , for example, .
The type field is a Maple name or string that specifies the type of the connection. The type may be omitted. The default is real.
The names real, boolean, and integer correspond to the causal Modelica types Real, Boolean, and Integer. The names electrical, fluidheatflow, magnetic, rotational, thermal, and translational correspond to standard Modelica acausal interface ports.
Type names may be indexed by a positive integer to indicate the dimension of the connector. For example, electrical[3] specifies an electrical port with dimension three.
The type field may be a full Modelica type, or can be an identifier for a custom connector defined via the custom_connectors option.
The signals field specifies the Maple expression that is connected to the port.
It is optional for causal types. If omitted, the id is used as the connection.
An acausal connector type requires a list of Maple expressions, the first being the across-variable (potential), the second the through-variable (flow). For example, for an electric port the signals may be .
A custom connector type also requires a list of Maple expressions, the list corresponds to the signals in the connector.
An array type must have a signal field that is a list of expressions, or listlist of expressions.
The neutral-operator &c may be used to a attach a comment string to a connection. For example, p :: electrical = [v(t),i(t)] &c "positive pin" adds the comment string "positive pin" to the Modelica declaration of the p connector.
custom_connectors = list or set of equations
Specifies custom connectors. The left side of the equation is a string or symbol that identifies the connector type. The right side of the equation is a string of Modelica code that defines the connector. For example, MyConn = "connector MyConn input Real u; output Real y; end MyConn;".
extends = name, string, or list of such
Generates Modelica extends clause(s). The value is the class name from which the component is extended. A list may be used to create multiple extends-clauses.
import = list
List of Modelica imports. Each element can be a name or string, or an equation of such.
initial = list or set of equations
Specifies initial equations. Values at the initial time are specified as .
parameters = list or set
Specifies the parameters, their types, and their default values. The order of the corresponding declarations in the output matches that of the input.
Each element specifies one parameter.
The full specification has the form
The id field is required. It is a string or symbol that corresponds to a valid Modelica unquoted identifier. It should match the Maple symbol used in the eqs.
A Modelica protected parameter is indicated by wrapping the id with ; for example, . A Modelica public parameter is indicated in a similar manner, using . By default, parameters are public.
The optional type field specifies the parameter type. The allowable types are real, boolean, and integer. The default is real. A type may be indexed with a positive integer to specify an array parameter.
The optional value field specifies the start value of the parameter. The value is an algebraic expression, or, if the parameter is an array type, a list of algebraic expressions.
The neutral operator &c may be used to attach a comment string to the parameter declaration. For example, Larm :: real = 3 &c "length of arm" adds the comment string "length of arm" to the Modelica declaration of the parameter Larm.
tvar = symbol
Specifies the independent time variable used in the equations. Used when sys is a set of equations. The default is t.
variables = list or set
Specifies variables, their types, and, optionally, their initial values. The specification and operation is essentially identical to that of the parameters option; see the parameters option in this section for details.
Icon Options
These options specify the component icon and the placement and type of pins on its edge. Component icons are always rectangular.
copy_icon = string or none
Specifies a Modelica component. The icon of the specified component is used for this component. If none is used, no icon is created. This is useful when extending a model that assigns the icon. The default icon is "Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent".
filled_pins = list or set of strings
Specifies which connection icons are filled (solid). The keyword input_pins is a synonym. By convention, the inputs of causal connections are filled, the outputs are unfilled. The strings correspond to the connection names (see the connections option in the Interface Options section). By default all connections are filled, though connections generated automatically from a DynamicSystems object get the proper convention. See also unfilled_pins.
icon_graphics = list of strings
The strings are Modelica graphical annotations; they are combined with the existing graphical annotations of the icon. This can be used to add some small detail to an existing icon, say a line for an added connection. The default is an empty list.
icon_size = list of two positive integers
Specifies the dimensions of the icon in pixels, as . The default is 200 x 200.
input_pins = list or set of strings
A synonym for filled_pins.
min_gap = positive integer
Specifies the minimum gap between pins, when placed automatically. If this cannot be met, the edge dimension is increased, unless icon_size is specified, in which case an error is raised. The default is 10.
output_pins = list or set of strings
A synonym for unfilled_pins.
pin_placement = list or set of equations
Specifies the placement of the connections.
The left side of each equation is a name corresponding to an edge, left, right, top, or bottom.
The right side of each equation specifies the connections made on the corresponding edge. It is a string, or list of strings. A string must match one of the strings used on the left side of the connection equations (see the connections option in the Interface Options section). If a string, the pin is placed in the center of the edge. If a list, the pins are arranged in that order, from top to bottom, or left to right, depending whether the edge is vertical or horizontal.
The default for a DynamicSystems object is to place the inputs on the left and the outputs on the right. Other systems must specify the locations.
An alternative syntax is for each equation to have the form , where the left side is the name of a pin and the right side specifies its location. The locations should lie on the edge of the icon.
unfilled_pins = list or set of strings
Specifies which connection icons are unfilled (open). The keyword output_pins is a synonym. By convention, the inputs of causal connections are filled and the outputs are unfilled. The strings correspond to the connection names (see the connections option in the Interface Options section). By default all connections are filled, however, connections generated automatically from a DynamicSystems object get the proper convention. See also filled_pins.
The MapleToModelica command creates a Modelica model from either Maple equations, a DynamicSystems object, or a Modelica class name. It also creates a Modelica connector from a connector specification.
The optional sys parameter specifies the system equations. It may be a list or set of differential-algebraic equations, a DynamicSystems object, or a string corresponding to a Modelica class. The default value of sys is an empty set. This is useful when creating a custom connector.
When sys is a list or set of equations, the following considerations apply:
Variables in the equations should be represented as functions of time, for example, . The tvar option specifies the time variable, by default t.
Time derivatives are expressed as diff(x(t),t).
Time derivatives of order greater than one are converted to first-order derivatives using auxiliary variables.
Initial conditions are expressed by substituting 0 for the time-variable; for example, . The D operator expresses initial derivatives; for example, .
Conditional expressions may be represented as piecewise expressions; for example, . A symbolic expression, say , in a condition may be expressed as ; piecewise requires a Maple boolean expression.
The and, or, and not boolean operators may be used in boolean expressions.
The Modelica function noEvent may be applied to an expression to prevent events from being generated by the inequalities of the expression; for example, .
The following standard Maple functions are handled: sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan, sinh, cosh, tanh, exp, ln, and log; arctan may be used in either the one or two argument form. The log function is identical to the ln function.
When sys is a DynamicSystems object, the inputs and output of the object become the inputs and outputs of the model, respectively. The inputs are placed on the left side of the icon, the outputs on the right. The systemname field of the DynamicSystems object is used as the class name of the model, unless it is the empty string or the class_name parameter is passed to MapleToModelica.
When sys is a string corresponding to a fully-qualified Modelica class, the modelica corresponding to the class definition is returned. This is primarily useful for inspecting the equations of a class to be extended. See the Modelon Hydraulics example.
The generated Modelica model is returned as a string.
Access MapleToModelica directly.
Create a DynamicSystems object and convert it to Modelica.
model second_order
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput u[1] annotation (Placement(transformation(
extent = {
{-110, -10},
{-90, 10}},
rotation = 0)));
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput y[1] annotation (Placement(transformation(
extent = {
{90, -10},
{110, 10}},
rotation = 0)));
parameter Real K = 0;
parameter Real Q = 0;
parameter Real omega0 = 0;
Real x[2];
der(x[1]) = -omega0 ^ (-1) * Q * x[2];
der(x[2]) = omega0 ^ 3 / Q * x[1] - omega0 / Q * x[2] - omega0 / Q * u[1];
y[1] = K * x[1];
end second_order;
Create a multi-input, multi-output DynamicSystems object.
Convert the system to Modelica. Override the default connector names, specify initial values for the state variables, and specify the default values for the parameters a, b, and c.
model MIMO
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput inp[2] annotation (Placement(transformation(
extent = {
{-110, -10},
{-90, 10}},
rotation = 0)));
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput out[2] annotation (Placement(transformation(
extent = {
{90, -10},
{110, 10}},
rotation = 0)));
parameter Real a = 0;
parameter Real b = 0;
parameter Real c = 0;
Real x[7];
Real u[2];
Real y[2];
initial equation
x = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
der(x[1]) = x[2];
der(x[2]) = u[1];
der(x[3]) = x[4];
der(x[4]) = x[5];
der(x[5]) = x[6];
der(x[6]) = (-5 - a) ^ (-1) * x[7];
der(x[7]) = -6 * b * (-5 - a) * x[3] + (-6 * a - 7 * b) * (-5 - a) * x[4] + (-6 - 7 * a - 5 * b) * (-5 - a) * x[5] + (-7 - 5 * a - b) * (-5 - a) * x[6] + (-5 - a) * x[7] + (-5 - a) * u[2];
y[1] = x[1] + b * x[5] + a * x[6] + (-5 - a) ^ (-1) * x[7];
y[2] = x[2] + 6 * c * x[3] + 7 * c * x[4] + 5 * c * x[5] + c * x[6];
inp[1] = u[1];
inp[2] = u[2];
out[1] = y[1];
out[2] = y[2];
end MIMO;
Simple Causal Model
Implement the equation , with and two components of a vector input.
model mymodel
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput u;
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput v[2];
Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput y;
parameter Real K = 1;
Real u1;
Real v1;
Real v2;
u = u1;
y = u1 + K * (v1 + v2);
v[1] = v1;
v[2] = v2;
end mymodel;
Simple Acausal Model
Implement a resistor model with a power variable.
model resistor_with_power
import Modelica.SIunits.*;
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Interfaces.PositivePin p "positive pin";
Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Interfaces.NegativePin n "negative pin";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Resistance R = 1 "resistance";
Modelica.SIunits.Power P;
Modelica.SIunits.Current i;
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage v;
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage vn;
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage vp;
P = v * i;
v = R * i;
v = vp - vn;
n.i = -i;
n.v = vn;
p.i = i;
p.v = vp;
end resistor_with_power;
Multiphase Resistor
Create a multiphase resistor with a common value. While one should normally declare all variables, here we use the defaults chosen by MapleToModelica, which is to declare undeclared variables as Real. The declared dimension is the largest index used.
The copy_icon option is used to copy the resistor symbol from an existing component.
model multiphase_common_resistor
Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Interfaces.PositivePin p[3];
Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Interfaces.NegativePin n[3];
parameter Real R = 1;
Real i[3];
Real v[3];
Real vn[3];
Real vp[3];
v[1] = R * i[1];
v[1] = vp[1] - vn[1];
v[2] = R * i[2];
v[2] = vp[2] - vn[2];
v[3] = R * i[3];
v[3] = vp[3] - vn[3];
n[1].i = -i[1];
n[1].v = vn[1];
n[2].i = -i[2];
n[2].v = vn[2];
n[3].i = -i[3];
n[3].v = vn[3];
p[1].i = i[1];
p[1].v = vp[1];
p[2].i = i[2];
p[2].v = vp[2];
p[3].i = i[3];
p[3].v = vp[3];
end multiphase_common_resistor;
Modelon Hydraulics
Model a thick-edged hydraulic orifice with the following cross-sectional dimensions.
Use the modelica two-port template to create the base equations:
Inspect the template equations.
port_A.m_flow + port_B.m_flow = 0;
T = oil.T0 + dT_system;
q = port_A.m_flow / rho;
dp = pA_limited - pB_limited;
nu = Modelica.Media.Air.MoistAir.Utilities.spliceFunction(x = dp, pos = oil.kinematicViscosity(p_abs = pA_abs, T = T, v_air = oil.v_gas, p_sat = p_sat), neg = oil.kinematicViscosity(p_abs = pB_abs, T = T, v_air = oil.v_gas, p_sat = p_sat), deltax = 100);
pA_abs = port_A.p + oil.p_atm;
pB_abs = port_B.p + oil.p_atm;
rho = Modelica.Media.Air.MoistAir.Utilities.spliceFunction(x = dp, pos = oil.density(p_abs = pA_abs, T = T, v_air = oil.v_gas, p_sat = p_sat), neg = oil.density(p_abs = pB_abs, T = T, v_air = oil.v_gas, p_sat = p_sat), deltax = 100);
pA_limited = max(port_A.p, oil.p_vapour - oil.p_atm);
pB_limited = max(port_B.p, oil.p_vapour - oil.p_atm);
The pressure drop across the orifice is given by , with
the density of the fluid;
the mean-velocity in the large cross-sectional areas; and
the pressure loss coefficient.
Generate the modelica.
model ThickEdgedOrifice "Thick-edged orifice, from Idelchik"
import Modelica.SIunits.*;
extends Hydraulics.Templates.TwoPortComponent;
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Area A_0 = 0 "small cross-section area";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Area A_1 = 0 "area cross-section area";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Length C_0 = 0 "large circumference";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Length L = 0 "length of vena contracta";
parameter Real lambda_fri = 0.02 "Darcy friction factor";
parameter Real l_bar = L / d_hyd_0 "relative length of orifice";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Length d_hyd_0 = 4 * A_0 / C_0 "hydraulic diameter";
Real zeta_tot "pressure loss coefficient";
Real tau "geometry factor";
Real phi "geometry factor";
phi = 0.25 + 0.535 * l_bar ^ 8 / (0.05 + l_bar ^ 8);
tau = (2.4 - l_bar) * 10 ^ (-phi);
zeta_tot = (0.5 * (1 - A_0 / A_1) ^ 0.75 + tau * (1 - A_0 / A_1) ^ 1.375 + (1 - A_0 / A_1) ^ 2 + lambda_fri * l_bar) * A_1 ^ 2 / A_0 ^ 2;
'port_A.m_flow' = 1.414213562 * rho * A_1 * sqrt(dp / rho / zeta_tot);
end ThickEdgedOrifice;
Custom Connector
If the option class=connector is passed to MapleToModelica, the output is a Modelica connector definition. This can then be used with the custom_connectors option in a subsequent call to MapleToModelica.
Assign a function that prepends Modelica.SIunits. to a string.
Create the modelica for a custom connector that models both electrical and thermal connections. It has variables for voltage, current, temperature, and heat-flow.
connector ETconn
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage v "Voltage at connection";
flow Modelica.SIunits.Current i "Current into connection";
Modelica.SIunits.Temperature T "Temperature at connection";
flow Modelica.SIunits.HeatFlowRate Q "Heat flow into connection";
end ETconn;
Assign the equations for a voltage source with a series resistor.
Generate the modelica, using the custom connector.
model supply
extends Maplesoft.Icons.CustomComponent;
ETconn ET;
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Resistance R = 1 "Supply series resistance";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.ThermalResistance Rth1 = 1 "Thermal resistance from port to resistor";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.ThermalResistance Rth2 = 1 "Thermal resistance from resistor to ambient";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Temperature Ta = 300 "Ambient temperature";
parameter Modelica.SIunits.Voltage V = 1 "Supply open-circuit voltage";
Modelica.SIunits.Power P "Power dissipation in resistor";
Modelica.SIunits.HeatFlowRate Q "Heat flow rate into thermal port";
Modelica.SIunits.Temperature T "Temperature at thermal port";
Modelica.SIunits.Temperature Tr "Temperature of resistor";
Modelica.SIunits.Current i "Current into electrical pin";
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage v "Voltage at electrical pin";
P = R * i ^ 2;
T = Tr + Rth1 * Q;
v = V + R * i;
Tr = Rth2 * (P + Q) + Ta;
ET.i = i;
ET.v = v;
end supply;
connector ETconn
Modelica.SIunits.Voltage v "Voltage at connection";
flow Modelica.SIunits.Current i "Current into connection";
Modelica.SIunits.Temperature T "Temperature at connection";
flow Modelica.SIunits.HeatFlowRate Q "Heat flow into connection";
end ETconn;
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DynamicSystems, MapleSim, MapleSim[LinkModel]
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May 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 & 31, 2015. All performances are at 8 pm except Sundays, which begin at 3 pm.
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Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of gothic romance gains a hauntingly beautiful score and tragically moving songs in it's musical adaptation. Nominated for five Tony Awards, JANE EYRE explores religion, sexuality and protofeminism, all while enchanting audiences with a timeless love story.
July 17 through August 2, 2015. All performances are at 8 pm except Sundays, which begin at 3 pm.
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The Gimp FX Foundry SourceForce project made it its assignment to provide scripts for porting into the current GIMP or allow creating them from scratch. The scripts allow GIMP graphics to be endowed with special effects, such as blurring or distorting them in certain ways. The Foundry now provides 117 new scripts for GIMP 2.6 that are not part of the graphic software's standard installation.
Among them are the Roy Lichtenstein effect script to render graphics in the pop artist's style, the Planet Render script to create a planet of your choosing and desired size and dimension. and the Old Photo script to give existing photos that antiquated touch. A complete list of scripts is on the project's documentation page, although details on what each script does are rather sparse. The best thing is to download the script and try it out.
Downloads can be tar or zip. Unpack and copy them into your home directory under the hidden ~/.gimp-2.6/scripts directory. After starting GIMP 2.6, actualize the scripts by using Filter, Script-Fu, then Refresh Scripts. A new Fx-Foundry menu will subsequently appear to access the scripts.
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Awsome... Thank you.I downloaded and tried experimented a little. There are some very useful effects here. I'll use some on http://bloggajim.com.
Screenshots?What would be great is screenshots showing before and after (using open license photos of course). That would also be multi-lingual information.
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Optimized for Linux. Optimized for the business. Free to use. Free to share.
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then Folders->Scripts
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Evaluation of combined high-efficiency DNA extraction and real-time PCR for detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in subclinically infected dairy cattle: comparison with faecal culture, milk real-time PCR and milk ELISA
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John Bradburne: He saw himself as a religious jester, a buffoon and a troubadour but he was murdered while caring for lepers in Zimbabwe
For many years I was aware of having been in close contact in my youth with a priest, later bishop, who was beatified in the Roman Catholic Church. I was also a close friend in the 1950s of a truly odd character whose process of beatification has been started. But recently I accidentally discovered on the internet that two further episcopal personalities whom I knew in Hungary in the 1940s have been elevated among the "blessed". All of them are venerated as martyrs. The three Hungarian bishops are William Apor, Szilárd Bogdánffy and John Scheffler; they were beatified in 1997, 2010 and 2011, and the candidate for beatification is an Englishman, John Bradburne.
To make their stories understandable, I will have to provide a brief autobiographical sketch. I was born in Makó, Hungary, in1924 into a non-religious, totally assimilated Jewish family. My father was a journalist and my mother a schoolteacher. In 1928 we moved to the not distant city of Gyula and in 1931, shortly before my seventh birthday, the whole family was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. I received a Catholic primary and grammar school (gymnasium) education from 1930 to 1942. By that time recently enacted anti-Jewish legislation prevented me from entering university. The only possible academic opening was theology, implying a clerical future. I first applied to the Jesuits, but was promptly turned down: unknown to me, in those days the Society of Jesus did not admit candidates of Jewish origin. I lowered my aim and was accepted in the theological college of my diocese of Nagyvárad in Transylvania, which between 1940 and 1945 belonged to Hungary. The first two years of a five-year course were taught in Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare), followed by three years in Nagyvárad. In May 1944, when the deportation of provincial Jewry began, I was ordered to leave Szatmár and go on the run with church help, a peregrination which took me across the whole of Hungary as far as the Austrian border. From there I traced back my steps to Budapest, and on Christmas Eve 1944 I was liberated from Nazi tyranny by the Red Army. I studied for two more years in Nagyvárad, but in 1946 I said goodbye to my theological college and left Hungary to join the French order of the Pères de Notre Dames de Sion, and started my serious theological and Semitic studies in Louvain, Belgium. I was ordained priest in 1950. By 1952 I obtained a doctorate in theology and a "licence" in oriental history and philology.
After a brief trip to Israel and Jordan I was sent to Paris in 1953 and continued there as a scholar until 1957. This was the year when I said goodbye to the priesthood, the Fathers of Zion and France, and started a new married life, becoming a university teacher in Britain, first in Newcastle (1957-1965) and then in Oxford. Having left Christianity, I decided to revert to my Jewish roots without embracing the practices of Judaism. My first wife Pamela died in 1993. In 1996 I married Margaret and adopted her son, Ian. We happily live in a charming house on the outskirts of Oxford, surrounded by a glorious garden, backing onto 700 acres of Bagley Wood.
John Scheffler was born into a family of agricultural labourers on October 29, 1887, in the village of Kálmánd, close to the city of Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare) in north-eastern Transylvania. Transylvania was part of Hungary until 1920 when the Trianon peace treaty transferred the whole region to Romania; in 1940, it was restored to Hungary, but in 1945 reverted to Romania.
Scheffler received his schooling and theological training at Szatmár, but in 1906 he entered the Divinity Faculty of the Péter Pázmány University of Budapest. He was ordained priest in 1910. Next followed two years in Rome, devoted to specialisation in canon law. By 1915 he was a doctor of theology and taught canon law, church history and theology in the seminaries of the dioceses of Szatmár and Nagyvárad (Oradea). He published a few conventional volumes of religious textbooks for schools, but was never engaged in advanced theology. If he had, he would never have tolerated the abysmal level of instruction to which the Szatmár students were subjected in the seminary under his ultimate control.
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The power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words have resonated through the last half-century and shaped CU's learning and living environment from civics classes and student groups, to internships with the "I Have A Dream" Foundation.
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Several hundred incoming CU-Boulder students tried their hand helping others during "Day of Service" on Saturday, Aug. 24. The day was an opportunity for first-year students to get out into their new community and experience the needs and culture beyond the borders of the CU campus, according to Jen Ross, director of the Volunteer Resource Center at CU-Boulder, which spearheads the service event.
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Conceding the rift, Jammu and Kashmir Congress today said even though party workers may not be happy with the pre-poll alliance with National Conference, their reservations will not have a "bad effect" and the coalition will win all the six Lok Sabha seats in the state.
JK Pradesh Congress chief Saifuddin Soz assured "full and firm support" to its coalition partner NC.
"Even though Congress workers may not be happy with the decision to have the pre-poll alliance, their reservations will not have a bad effect on NC," Soz said.
"Coalition is not easy, wherever it takes place in the country. There are some difficulties. There may be complaints, but they will have no bearing on the electoral process," he said.
NC and Congress are fighting for three seats each in the six Parliamentary constituencies of the state.
While Congress is fighting two seats in Jammu and one in Ladakh, NC has nominated its candidates for the three constituencies in Kashmir Valley.
"We are satisfied that NC is firmly supporting us in Jammu and Congress will also fully support them in the Valley.
I am sure that we will win all the six seats," Soz told reporters here.
He said though there may be "some differences" between the alliance partners, Congress workers in the Valley will make sure that NC wins all the three seats.
"As we have entered into an alliance for the Parliament elections, I wanted to take into confidence my partymen over the decision of the high command. My workers will have to make sure that the three NC candidates win," he said.
Asked if Congress will continue to have a pre-poll alliance with NC for the Assembly elections scheduled in the state later this year, Soz said the decision would be taken at an appropriate time.
"That cannot be said at this time. I do not have the mandate. I have mandate only for the Parliament elections and I cannot talk about Assembly elections. When that time comes, we will have consultations then and see what happens," he said.


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"Districts choose Apex Learning Virtual School because of the unique combination of comprehensive curriculum, expert teachers and an engaging learning experience that generates exceptional student outcomes," said Katherine Bach, chief academic officer for Apex Learning.
The Apex Learning Virtual School courses are accredited, NCAA approved and authorized by the College Board. Apex Learning highly-qualified, subject-certified teachers adhere to National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, and instruction includes comprehensive program monitoring and teacher evaluation.
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What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave? When Noah Cooper, 29, is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse. When he arrives home his already full house gets even crazier when Marilyn, Noah's overbearing mother arrives with her five dogs in tow needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering!