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I was just remembering the Iron Maiden show which I saw in India last year.. so thought of looking it up that tour on this site.
@ The complaining genius minds here
You people have no idea of what you are talking about.
We NEVER saw Maiden in Dubai and India. NEVER.
How can you not expect Maiden to play classics for us??
We haven't been as fuckin lucky as the North American, who are the biggest whiners I have ever seen btw, and Europeans, who get to see Iron Maiden twice a year and in 500 cities.
We get Iron Maiden ONCE a year. in ONE city.
We don't bother crying and whining and complain about set lists. For us its just about enjoying the show put on by our Gods.
I don't think you realize two things.
1.Maiden are THE band for people on this message board, as we are primarily descendants of the old Iron Maiden board. They are our favorite band, and talking about their ups and downs is basically a way of life for us. We are not fanboys, but huge fans who can look at both sides of the coin and weigh the pros and cons of situations. We don't just love everything Maiden do because it's Maiden, and likewise don't bitch about everything (well at least I don't). I hate people who think when you point out dislikes or faults you're being a complaining little bitch. You're not. You're excercising your right to have an opinion.
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2.We are voicing our opinions about the set list based on our personal experiences with Maiden. For those who have not seen them, they want to hear the classics, but for the people who do see them regularly, there should be something besides the same repetative set list to keep people coming back. If Maiden knew how to change set lists show-to-show or even country-to-country these arguements wouldn't even exist. We see a set list, we comment on our thoughts about it, from the perspective of if we were to see it, which in the case of people here means that even if they want to play a lot of classics, there should be some form of older rarities as well to compensate.
Furthermore, don't get that attitude with people from Europe or the USA just because of your unfortunate experience with Maiden. I realize it's not your fault, and it sucks, but taking it out on us won't change anything, we don't write Maiden's tour schedules ourselves. And frankly, you can't expect a band of Maiden's size to tour those types of countries on a regular basis or play a lot of shows when they do. Hell since 2003 Maiden have drastically scaled back the number of shows they play everywhere in the world, as is to be expected of a band of their age who is expected to put on a show of their magnitude.
Oh, and because I happen to live in an area where I can see Maiden every once in a while, don't try to martyr yourself by making yourself out to be a bigger fan or "appreciating it more".
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No. 12 seed Freeport (10-4) vs. No. 5 Waynesburg Central (12-8)
2 p.m. Tuesday at Hempfield
Winner plays: No. 4 Keystone Oaks (11-4)/No. 13 Laurel (8-6) winner.
Extra bases: Freeport, a sneaky-good third-place team from Section 3, has reached the quarterfinals in three of the past four seasons but fell 9-1 to Greensburg Central Catholic in the first round last season. The Yellowjackets started 0-3 but proceeded to win 10 of 11. Junior Jess Kelley (.481), freshman Morgan McCarthy (.521) and junior Karlie Hill (.440) all have driven in 21 runs. Of McCarthy's 25 hits, 15 have gone for extra bases. ... Section 2 champion Waynesburg won six of its final seven to get into the playoffs. Junior shortstop Hannah Gibbons leads the Raiders with a .660 batting average (33 for 50) and has three homers and 25 RBIs. Sophomore second baseman Tiffany Ross also has driven in 25.
No. 8 Burrell (12-3) vs. No. 9 Steel Valley (10-4)
3 p.m. Tuesday at Plum
Winner plays: No. 1 Beaver (13-0)
Extra bases: Burrell has made the playoffs nine straight seasons, and that run includes a WPIAL championship in 2011. The quietly effective Bucs will get a first-round rematch with Steel Valley, which edged them 2-1 last season at Gateway. Burrell gambled with one out in the seventh when it attempted a squeeze play. Pinch runner Brittney Wolford was sent home after a pitch trickled away from Steel Valley catcher Chelsea Rohan. But Rohan recovered within the small backstop area and flipped to pitcher Maddie Cotter to tag out Wolford, and Burrell couldn't recover. ... Steel Valley's win over Burrell was its first in the playoffs since 2006. Cotter and Rohan make a durable battery. Just a sophomore, Cotter has more than 60 strikeouts.
No. 2 Deer Lakes (15-0) vs. No. 15 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (9-5)
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Winner plays: No. 7 Charleroi (11-3)/No. 10 McGuffey (13-3) winner.
Extra bases: Deer Lakes has developed into a perennial power, winning the WPIAL title in 2012 and finishing as runner-up last season. It was the No. 3 seed when it won the championship. The Lancers, who scored 10 or more runs 11 times, have done a commendable job replacing several key starters, with a number of underclassmen contributing. There is only one senior on the team, but a valuable one: first baseman Sierra Sarver. Deer Lakes, which has won 29 straight section games, has hit 17 home runs. ... OLSH, the third-place team from Section 1, has lost in the first round the past two seasons. Senior pitcher Emily Duerr is a four-year starter and one of the top players in Class AA.
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No. 6 seed Plum (15-3) vs. No. 11 Baldwin (11-6)
5 p.m. Tuesday at North Allegheny
Winner plays: No. 3 Penn-Trafford (14-3)
Extra bases: Section 2 co-champion Plum has never won a playoff game. The Mustangs have appeared in the WPIAL postseason the past five years but have struggled offensively and lost four straight games by seven or more runs. Senior Jordan Seneca is the leading hitter in the Alle-Kiski Valley with an eye-popping .714 average, nine homers, 37 RBIs and 37 runs. She has more than 100 career RBIs. Sophomore Hannah Adamski has 12 home runs and 29 RBIs. Pitcher Rachael Adamski is 11-2. ... Baldwin enters the postseason having lost four of its final five regular-season games. The Highlanders are one of the youngest teams in the Class AAA bracket, with nine sophomores on the roster.
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No. 4 Knoch (10-3) vs. No. 13 Thomas Jefferson (11-5)
7 p.m. Tuesday at North Allegheny
Winner plays: No. 5 Trinity (15-2)/No. 12 Uniontown (10-6) winner.
Extra bases: Knoch captured the Section 5 title, its first since 2008. A tiebreaker knocked the Knights from the playoffs last season after they finished in a four-way tie in the section. A four-senior group is the team's foundation: catcher Abbi Smithmyer, shortstop Bethany Hay, pitcher Courtney Reed and utility player Schaely Renfrew. Knoch coach Tim Knappenberger and Thomas Jefferson coach Heidi Karcher are friends. Their daughters have played travel softball together. Knoch won its only night game this season. ... Thomas Jefferson has used a three-pitcher rotation, with sophomore Lacie Lautner and freshman Alysa Fairman seeing most of the time and senior Janelle Allison working in relief. Karcher is in her first season after replacing longtime coach Hoppy Mitruski, who retired after 35 years.
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The primary associated events sponsored by California Lutheran University, The Star and others were most illuminating. So, I need to express my deep disappointment that the candidates only agreed to one event leading up to the November election with a rather closely held attendance, saturated servers making webcasts unavailable and a fairly noisy FM radio link allowing (barely) a listen to the lively and worthwhile discussion.
To my mind this shows a disdain for the very constituents the candidates so loudly claimed were their greatest concern. Why will there be no more such events, where give and take and further engagement with the voters are encouraged?
Surely, the candidates don't believe the mailbox stuffers and distorted TV ads provide any value for thoughtful voting decisions. Whoever emerges from this as our representative should bear in mind that 25 months from now they will be asking for our vote again with the high likelihood that the 113th Congress will do an even worse job than the disaster of the 112th Congress.
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Wonk Wars: Do Public Employees Get Too Much?
September 21, 2010
Steven Malanga
It is truly remarkable that some commentators can so readily look past the continued polarization in how we compensate labor in this country to argue that public sector workers might be doing "too well" relative to their private sector counterparts. Most workers generally, as opposed to CEOS and the highest-paid executives, have not fared well over the past two decades in terms of sharing in the prosperity their efforts create. If they had, wages and benefits would be much higher for the typical worker and our middle class would still be broad rather than shrinking.
Private sector workers have really taken it on the chin. Inflation-adjusted real hourly wages for men are less today than 30 years ago, despite substantial productivity growth that should have made possible commensurate gains in wages and living standards. Many fewer private workers have employer-provided health insurance or pensions than in decades past. And now, those with a "winner-take-all" mentality want public sector workers to give up their hard-earned health and pension benefits.
We need to take a step back from this debate and ask where have all the gains in the economy gone since the 1980s? And how do we restore an economy that shares prosperity among all workers? We shouldnt be making scapegoats out of our public employees. They certainly didnt cause the economic collapse, nor are they responsible for the erosion in the wages and benefits of private sector workers.
Opening statement from Steve Malanga, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and author of the forthcoming book Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer
In New York State and in other states with similar problems, notably New Jersey, Illinois and California, the issue is not what public employees earn in salary and benefits versus the private sector now. In truth, we have never seen a period in America where the bulk of private workers, including most workers in private unions, earned the kind of costly benefits, including pension benefits, we now see in the public sector in New York. The tab for those benefits is squeezing government budgets, forcing taxes higher and trimming spending on other programs. As Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo notes in his agenda for New York, many of the promises made to public employees are "out of line with economic reality."
New York has a complex public retirement system with many tiers and enhancements created over the years, but the upshot is that a civilian employee in New York State can earn a pension equivalent to 60 percent of final salary after only 30 years on the job, or by 55 years of age, in addition to full health benefits in retirement. Added to this are a host of gimmicks never common in the private sector and well-chronicled last spring in a New York Times investigation, and later in a study produced by the states Attorney Generals office, by which employees load onto their final pensions by padding their later year salaries through a technique known as spiking.
There are stark consequences to such benefits for taxpayers. State government costs for pensions and health care for retirees, which the state provides because so many public workers retire before they are eligible for Medicare, have soared from about $1 billion in 1999 to about $6 billion. In part these costs are a result of promises made by state officials to unions when the stock market was doing well and were based on unrealistic projections of future stock market gains.
Once upon a time rich benefits were justified for public workers on the grounds that they earned less in salary than private counterparts, but that difference has long ago eroded, as numerous studies and New York and nationwide have demonstrated. Again, as the New York Times noted in its investigation: "By tradition, public employees have said they accepted lower salaries in exchange for better benefits, but the Census data show this has not been true for a number of years."
The enormous cost of public sector compensation is turning even old friends of public unions into opponents. As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (who was once a teachers union official) has said, his city can no longer afford its rich public sector pay and benefits. Neither can New Yorkers.
James Parrott: The average retiree covered by New York States employee retirement system receives an annual pension of $17,615, while the average retiree under the police and fire retirement system receives $38,367 in annual pension benefits. These benefits—which are certainly not luxurious—represent the deferred wages of public employees. It is simply not the case that, when you adjust for occupation, education and age, public employees are paid more than their private sector counterparts. Studies that claim to show higher public sector wages fail to account for the fact that public employees tend to be older and better educated than private sector workers in the same occupations.
During the late 1990s financial market boom, for reasons that did not make long-term good fiscal sense, the employer contributions to public pension plans in New York were dramatically reduced, in some instances, to zero. That fact, together with volatile markets, go a long way toward explaining why pension contributions that have to be made by the state and local governments are what they are today.
The fact remains, in this horrendous economic and budget climate, many observers are pointing the finger at public employees, and acting as if their benefit costs are the main driving force behind our budget deficits. The dynamic bears too much resemblance to the national level where budget deficits largely caused by the Great Recession and tax cuts for those in high income brackets leads to renewed calls for cutting back Social Security.
Steve Malanga: Public employees have been resistant in New York and other states to changes in their benefits packages, and especially to pensions, that would bring them into line with economic reality and relieve long-term burdens on taxpayers. Unions argue instead that any significant changes are part of a 'race to the bottom in which retirement benefits in general in the U.S. are declining. They point to the small savings rates of some private workers who have 401(k)-style pensions and argue that public workers deserve a better retirement.
But these criticisms ignore the fact that there are retirement systems in place which have been shown to provide workers with a decent retirement at an affordable cost to the employer, systems that cap the employers long-term liability and are more resistant to political pressure than the current system.
Federal employees, for instance, are covered by a system instituted in 1986 which includes a basic guaranteed pension, a thrift savings plan which is similar to a 401(k) in which both the government and the employee make tax free contributions that build up over time, and participation in Social Security. The thrift savings plan has the added benefit of being portable, meaning that if an employee leaves government service the accrued benefits go with him or her. Thats significant when you consider that nearly half of all public school teachers leave the profession within 10 years.
In addition to the federal plan, some 15,000 universities and colleges participate in retirement programs managed by TIAA-CREF in which the institutions and their employees contribute to defined-contribution retirement savings programs that allow employees to enjoy a satisfying standard of living in retirement, but which cap the long-term liability of the employer. Few people would contend that both federal employees and those enrolled in TIAA-CREF plans are somehow being exploited or shortchanged, yet public worker unions in places like New York have tenaciously resisted similar plans by claiming they would somehow undermine the retirements of their workers.
State and local governments now face somewhere between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in future liabilities for pension and health benefits that are out of line with economic reality. It is entirely possible to provide government workers with a competitive level of benefits without overburdening taxpayers or squeezing money out of other programs. Its time for sensible reform.
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I say to these young students that they have to show me that they're prepared, doing the work, and taking the topics of the day seriously. I remember the students who sit in the front of class, raise their hands, pay attention and stay behind to ask questions. I'm impressed when they're curious about the lessons and what's happening in the world. These are the students for whom I will write glowing recommendations when they begin interviewing for internships, jobs, and graduate school.
• Take advantage of student life. While academics are very important, so are extracurricular activities such as clubs, athletics, immersion trips, and the social scene. Joining organizations and taking part in events help students identify their interests, strengths and weaknesses, and become better leaders, negotiators, teammates, and well-rounded individuals. But they have to balance the social scene with their coursework.
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Monday, March 01, 2010The Lipscomb Bisons are in 10th place after the first round of the Grover Page Classic hosted by Tennessee-Martin at Jackson Country Club in Jackson, Tenn.
Ben McMahon leads the Bisons. He is tied for 27th with a 77.
Also shooting in the 70s was Blanton Farmer. He is tied for 40th with a 79.
Samuel Marcrom is tied for 47th with an 80.
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She was born Oct. 3, 1928, in Rabun County to the late Fred Sr. and Annie Mae Speed Galloway. She was a retired recreation aide and was of the Unitarian Universalist faith.
She was preceded in death by: four brothers, Fred Jr., Floyd, Carl and Maynard Galloway; and a sister, Lucy G. Cannon.
Survivors include: her husband, Dean J. Ezell of Clayton; two brothers, Lawton Galloway and Burnell Galloway, both of Clayton; and a sister, Verena Burnette of Rabun Gap.
Memorial services will held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at Hunter Funeral Home with Jeffrey Brookshire officiating. A second memorial service will be held by Compassionate Hospice in May in Gainesville.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Ave., seventh floor, New York, NY 10001.
The family is at their respective residences.
Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook is available at www.hunterfuneralhomega.com.
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A Meeting In Central Park With The Oldest Living Yoga Teacher In The World. ~ Photographed by Robert Sturman
She's a very cool lady.
Something so poignant occurred—she thanked me. This light filled 93-year-old, beautiful, intelligent, sharp, woman, thanked me (three times) for being patient with her while she got into her poses and we made art together.
Where do I have to be? What do I have to do? Who am I not to be patient?
Master Tao Porchon Lynch, a 93-year-old yoga master, ballroom dancer, oenophile (lover of wine) and former actress and model will be inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest living yoga teacher—this Sunday, May 13, Mother's Day. Inspiration beyond comprehension.
Patience—the gift that gives so much back.
"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
'You owe me.'
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky."
~ Hafiz
Have a sweet Mother's Day.
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136 Responses to "A Meeting In Central Park With The Oldest Living Yoga Teacher In The World. ~ Photographed by Robert Sturman"
An inspiration to us all! And especially grateful to Tao for the wonderful teachers that she has helped inspired!
Thank you.
My initial reaction to these gorgeous photos was wowowowow!!! Then came my deeper response: Look! This is the result of a lifetime of practicing and living your yoga. Master Lynch is the goddess of peacock and side plank much the way that Vanda Scaravelli was the goddess of backbends almost until her passing in her late eighties. My own teacher, Betty Larsen, continues to be an inspiration at 70. Pranams. My prayer is that if I can do a fraction of what these yoginis do, when I hit 93 in thirty years, I will be deeply grateful. As the homily goes, it's not the years in your life but the life in your years.
Val. What a beautiful paragraph. I'm scheduling a shoot with you when you're 93. I'll be knocking on your door 30 years from today! Thank you for taking the time, for looking at the work and connecting to the deeper soulfulness of it.
please look at B.K.S. IYENGAR for age, pose and all the rest… and you'll find the difference between guiness book + central park and Yoga
She doesn't think of herself as being 93, she thinks of herself as being her. So when her age slows her down, she apologizes, because she isn't really that old :-).
Gorgeous, gorgeous gorgeous.
I just got my 80 year old grandma her first yoga mat for her birthday, will have to show her these pictures for inspiration!!
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BKS Iyengar is 93 too and is still teaching. Though not as nice looking in a red dress like this lady. 😉
Great, how she the environment go together. opposing, yet synthesizing. like the threes, connecting earth with the heavens.
Beautiful, this rich, paasionate red!
These are SO beautiful and radiant. I love Robert Sturman's comment, "Who am I not to be patient?" This woman is awe-inspiring!
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How wonderfully inspiring,i am 62 and love my Yoga practice,this inspires me to keep going. Thanks for the article.
Your article is inaccurate as this man is the oldest at 108 years old http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105711
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Master Tao is an amazing inspiration and attestation to what yoga can do for your mind and body. I think its amazing she is getting into the Guinness book of records and we should all be motivated by her. Yet, she is not the oldest yoga teacher in the world – perhaps only in the Western world. I have met and heard of several in India that are over 100s. I had a class with a 103 year old yogi myself in Rishikesh, India in November, 2011.
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I have been a student of Tao's for over a decade and she never ceases to amaze me. I am also proud to be one of her 400 "children."
Tao's accomplishments are many: practicing yoga for 84 years, teaching for 40 years, marching with Ghandi, hanging out with the Dalai Lama, becoming an accomplished model and actress, a champion ballroom dancer and a wine expert. When asked if she has any children, she always answers: "yes, 400 of them", referring to the many yoga teachers (including me!) she has trained.
When I first met Tao, I was, as we all are, taken with her accomplishments. I wanted to figure out her secrets so I could apply the same principles to my life. Once I got to know Tao better, the person behind the accomplishments came into focus. She is a solidly rooted tree, a symbol of everything that is good in this world, teaches us to act with our whole hearts, and to never forget out inner child. She enchants everyone she meets, helps us to forget our pain and age, and to work beyond our perceived abilities. All of her teachers training graduates are proud to be branches on her tree.
If there one was award for making the world a better place on a mental, physical and spiritual level, helping people shed all negative thoughts about aging and ability, it would be Tao's. But until then, she will keep adding to her collection. The Guinness award honors Tao for her gift of keeping us all young and vibrant regardless of how many years pass. Thank you for sharing yourself with the world Tao! -karenyoungyoga.com
Her energy is so so beautiful.
Tao Porchon Lynch – What poise and grace shinning with such beauty.
oh, how very beautiful. thank you.
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What an inspiration she is – blessings her way.
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thank you for sharing these wonderful photographs,these are so inspiring..yoga at this age with so grace in never seen before,thanks .God bless you
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Sweet Mother's Day concept, Robert, and more "outside the box," aesthetically, which I also really like. You're decoupling "youth" from "beauty" and restoring grace, elegance, wisdom and longevity to their proper place in our understanding. I would go so far as to say that it's possible to be too young to be "beautiful." Sexy, comely, even hot, yes, but beautiful, you got to have mileage – and life experience. The "Lady in Red" – what a riff!
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I will be 93 in July and and still do simple yoga asanas. I stopped teaching yoga at 90 as I was swamped with my committments. My daughter has been a yoga teacher and dance teacher (still teaches dance and yoga at 2 different colleges) for many years. I used to teach ballet and tap. " The oldest teacher" is a winner. May you both enjoy the peace and love you emit.
So gorgeous!
HOw magnificent…this lights up the world…thank you Robert, for this gift!
Lovely photos and great inspiration. However, in sheer numbers of years practicing & teaching yoga, BKS Iyengar and Sri Patabi Jois outnumber the years as yogi teachers and practitioners.
It is wonderful to see how a lifelong practice of yoga can make for longevity. As a geriatric physician I am impressed.
I've been to an older yoga teacher in India. The title is inaccurate and needs to be changed.
This is so inspirational! Thank you for this article. It has re-energised my day and gives us all something wonderful to aspire to.
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There is no doubt she is an inspiration. However, as a few have already mentioned, BKS Iyengar is first in line of going into Guinness Book. Not only he's still teaching, he continues to evolve modern yoga. Namaste.
That dress!!!
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Wouldn't it be sweet to see the two of them meet?! Beautiful ladies! Thank you.
Nice images… but I would be careful when you use marketing to misrepresent your pictures. There are certainly OLDER YOGIS in India and probably other places. If you want to say a 93 year old yogi that is fine but there are Yogis that are over a hundred and some even older than that in seclusion.
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She is magnificent. Thank you for sharing her beauty with us.


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(This is a part from the new draft of the 'guide for the young patriarch.' I deleted the older version of the guide and will publish here parts of the new version of the guide as I progress. The new version of the guide is written in a form based on informal logic.)
Premise 1: Our genes seek to reproduce themselves.
Premise 2: Our emotions and desires are part of our biology, which is a manifestation of our genes.
Contention 1, based on premise 1 and premise 2: Our emotions and desires are a tool of our genes to facilitate reproduction of genetic data.
Corollary 1 to Contention 1: People who feel happiness and pleasure follow the instructions of their genes.
Corollary 2 to Contention 1: There is no great goal or meaning to our emotions. There is just emptiness.
Corollary 3 to Contention 1: Everything humans do and feel begin and end in reproduction.
Corollary 4 to contention 1: Love is just a tool of reproduction.
Corollary 5 to contention 1: There is no higher meaning (or any meaning for life).
Corollary 6 to contention 1: We exist due to reproduction and reproduction makes us exist.
Corollary 7 to contention 1: We and our 'souls' are just biological machines.
Corollary 8 to contention 1: The question, 'how can I get laid?' is the essential question of an organism.
Corollary 9 to contention 1: There is nothing true to be comforted by, only lies can comfort.
Corollary 10 to contention 1: Things like viewing death of an innocent person cause us much distress since they represent loss of genes.
Corollary 11 to contention 1: Not only there is no god, there is also no proof of innate value to human life.
Discussion: There is no higher goal to life and even the modern hedonism (i.e. do what makes you happy) is servitude, since our emotions are just a tool used by our genes to manipulate our behavior. Not only god is dead; love is dead too. Understanding of our world and ourselves comes at a great price which only lies can truly comfort.


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Relates to standardized testing for grades kindergarten through grade two; prohibits the use of assessments for anything other than diagnostic purposes.
PURPOSE: This bill prohibits school districts from using state developed or comparable assessments for any purpose other than diagnosis.
Section 1 amends section 305 of the education law to require the commissioner to prohibit the administration of state developed or other assessments to students in kindergarten, grade one or made two for any purpose other than diagnosis.
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JUSTIFICATION: Although the State does not require it, many school districts are beginning to administer commercially developed standardized tests to students in the early grades. These tests are not being used for diagnostic purposes or to identify academic needs. Assessing students in the early years should be used to help students develop the skills they will need in the future. These high stakes tests do not meet this objective.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4764--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 23, 2013 ___________Introduced by Sens. GIPSON, ADDABBO, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, TKACZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to standardized testing for kindergarten, grade one or grade two THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 43 to read as follows: 43. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROHIBIT THE ADMINISTRATION OF STATE DEVELOPED ASSESSMENT OR OTHER COMPARABLE ASSESSMENTS TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN KINDERGARTEN, GRADE ONE OR GRADE TWO THAT ARE BEING USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES. PROVIDED FURTHER, SCHOOL DISTRICTS ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW PLANS SHALL USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS TO COMPLY WITH PARAGRAPH F OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS CHAPTER FOR TEACHERS OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN KINDERGARTEN, GRADE ONE OR GRADE TWO: DISTRICT, REGIONAL, OR BOCES DEVELOPED ASSESSMENTS; SCHOOL WIDE MEASURE OF EITHER STUDENT GROWTH OR ACHIEVEMENT; OR A STRUCTURED DISTRICT WIDE STUDENT GROWTH GOAL SETTING PROCESS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION. S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10239-03-3
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Energy exists in various forms such as mechanical energy, heat energy, chemical energy, electrical energy, light energy and nuclear energy. According to the law of conservation of energy, energy can be transformed from one form to another. In our daily life we use many devices where the electrical energy is converted into heat energy, light energy, chemical energy or mechanical energy. When an electric current is passed through a metallic wire like filament of an electric heater, oven or geyser, the filament gets heated up and here electrical energy is converted into heat energy. This is known as 'heating effect of current'. It is a matter of common experience that a wire gets heated up when electric current flows through it. Why does this happen? A metallic conductor has a large number of free electrons in it. When a potential difference is applied across the ends of a metallic wire, the free electrons begin to drift from the low potential to the high potential region. These electrons collide with the positive ions (the atoms which have lost their electrons). In these collisions, energy of the electrons is transferred to the positive ions and they begin to vibrate more violently. As a result, heat is produced. Greater the number of electrons flowing per second, greater will be the rate of collisions and hence more heat is produced. 1. Mathematical Expression for Heat Produced
2. Application of the Heating Effect of Current
Mathematical Expression for Heat Produced
Potential difference is a measure of work done in moving a unit charge across a circuit. Current in a circuit is equal to the amount of charge flowing in one second. Therefore, the work done in moving 'Q' charges through a potential difference 'V' in a time 't' is given by Work done = potential difference x current x time
W = VIt
The same can be expressed differently using ohm's law.
According to ohm's law V = IR
Therefore work can be expressed as