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I am going to make this its own thread, split from the discussion of Jo's Panic Attack ...
Hi Stephanie,
This may be fine for you, and I wish you the best in walking your Path.
However, you may have noticed that Buddhism, from the outset, has been centered on Liberation, freedom from and amid the the existential suffering of Dukkha. Same in Zen Buddhism in all its flavors, finding one's Original Face, Mu, Koans, Shikantaza and all the rest. There are times when one is advised to go deeply deeply into the fear, the darkness, the doubt, anger, greed, confusion and ignorance, the war and child abuse and broken dreams and pain ... but the point is to emerge through it, and as it, transcendent of fear, darkness, doubt, confusion, jealousy, anger, greed, confusion and ignorance, war, childhoods and the whole dream. The point is not to befriend or urge on one's Mara or Dark Passenger, but rather, to not be enslaved by all that.
Now, you often come here and very rudely and one-sidedly insist that a Buddhist's doing so must be turning all of us into tranquilized, emotionless mannequins, quietly desperate ... "dead-in-life". Bull. You fail to see that this Practice is truly a kind of existentialist philosophy ... better said, existential LIVING ... allowing us to fully live and exert in every breath, step and gesture ... crying tears with all our hearts at the sad times, smiling with all openness at the happy times ... At Peace with all the peaceful AND the totally unpeaceful shattered pieces of life ... while a Buddha's Smile shines as and through all of it, happy, sad and in between.
We do not escape from fear, happiness, worry, love, glumness, depression, "what if's", the greatest joys, passion, warmth, panic attacks, addictions, grief at loss, the thrill of new love ... but run right in it, dance with it all, embody all, become FREE! This is LIFE! At the same time, we see through the passing puppet show of the theatre of mind and emotions, do not get trapped and caught by any one, find the Buddha's Wisdom in all of it ... are no longer enslaved by the theatre of mind. The Stillness we find is not standing still, is both rock solid and the swirl of the greatest storm.
We are not afraid of the fire dragon, nor kill it, nor chain it down, nor turn it into a pussycat ... but RIDE the son-of-a-bitch ... ARE the Real Dragon with not an ounce of separation.
You are always welcome here, but the above is the medicine we prescribe here. If you do not get this point, I wish you would peddle your drugs elsewhere. It may be right for you, and I wish you well by it. You will find more than a couple of Zen Teachers and folks out there who seem to lack complete center and clarity and peace themself, and thus try to sell that lack of center and clarity and peace as what Zen and all Buddhism is about. They look for fellow travelers.
Gassho, Jundo


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By Andrew Liszewski
Magnets! I don't know how they do it, but somehow they find a way to improve every aspect of our lives. From hanging crappy crayon art on a fridge, to keeping baby's clothes on. I'm sure there are thousands of uses for them, but those are easily at the top of the list. Or were at the top of the list before researchers at London based Nails Inc.—probably jonesing for a Nobel prize—created magnetic nail polish.
Iron powder is mixed into the polish, and before it dries after being applied, you hold the bottle's cap over your nails for about 15 seconds. An embedded magnet causes the iron bits to align, presumably along its field lines, and once the polish dries you're left with unique stripes and banding across your nails. And a shimmering metallic effect. The polish is available in 3 different colors all named after famous landmarks in London. Silver Trafalgar Square, purple Houses of Parliament and gold Big Ben. And sell for ~$20 a bottle. (£13)
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Earlier this year, [Anthony Clay] wanted to test the waters of Kickstarter with a low-risk project. The idea he came up with was a series of EE reference posters we featured in a Hackaday links post. Now that [Anthony]'s project is over, he decided to write about the whole ordeal of putting together a Kickstarter, giving all the gory details of putting on your own crowd-sourced project.
We've got to give [Anthony] credit for doing his homework. Even before he designed his first poster, he looked over unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns to see what they did wrong. Once he knew what he was going to offer, [Anthony] put on his project manager hat and made sure he knew exactly what everything was going to cost, had contingency plans in place, and knew what his Kickstarter was before he spread the word.
The best laid schemes of mice and men 'oft go awry, so of course [Anthony] hit a few snags in his Kickstarter. In his microcontroller quicknotes poster, a few weird underlines made it into the final draft of the voltage characteristics section. Everyone he showed this to thought it was no big deal, but this is something that should have been caught in proofing. Keeping in mind that [Anthony] was only doing a poster and not an electronics project, we think this is a valuable lesson for future Kickstartees.
If you're wondering what the one thing that [Anthony] credits for the success of his Kickstarter, it's actually the small blurb we featured in a links post. Once that happened, word started to spread and the funding picked up. To be honest, we're impressed by that fact, and we'll try to wield our powers carefully in the future.


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Whether you're a student in college (or earlier) or a lifelong learner, Google is an essential tool for learning. Here are a few tips for using Google search and other apps more effectively to further your education.
Many of these tips you've no doubt learned before from our previous Google coverage, but every worthwhile subject is worth reviewing now and again, and today we're looking specifically at the best Google tricks for students. So here we go!
Quickly Find Exactly the Information You Need
Everyone knows how to "Google," but not everyone Googles efficiently. This one-minute video from Hack College offers these three essential tips:
Be Specific. Find pages within sites using site:[website URL] and your search phrase, find authors using author:[name], and type intitle:[word] to find a page with that word in the title.
Format. Use filetype:[jpg or other extension] to find images and all sorts of files (such as docs and pdfs)
Broaden Your Search. Use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard search operator to fill in the blanks. For example, "Why money is *"
Taking this further, you can also:
Find exams to practice with and other reference materials. Taking the "site:" operator a little further, you can search only education sites by typing in site:edu. This comes in handy when search for exams you can use to practice with: "site:edu advanced chemistry exam." Combine this with the "filetype:pdf" or "filetype:doc" format for additional exams and documents. You can find a list of Google search operators on this Google help page and even more advanced operators here, but there are also non-official filetypes, such as "hlp for help files and js for Javascript files" you can search for (which we know thanks to the NSA, oddly enough).
History/politics students (or anyone interested in government) should also remember they can search site:gov.
Find more research. Use the "related:" operator to find similar sites to broaden your research. For example, "related:www.lifehacker.com" or "related:www.nsa.gov" to make sure you're covering all your bases in your research.
Limit search results. Let's say your professor doesn't want you to use certain sources. Use the minus sign (-) operator to exclude results from a certain site (e.g., "encryption –site:Wikipedia.org"). You can also do this to refine the results when a word can mean more than one thing (e.g., "jaguar –car").
Similarly, if there's only a range of dates, measurements, or other numbers you want to find, use two periods (..) to set that range, e.g., "manufacturing 1990..2001" or "laptops ..$1000" (leave out one of the numbers to set a minimum or maximum).
Combine modifiers together. There are all sorts of powerful things you can do when you combine these search tricks. For example: "site:nytimes.com high school "test scores" –SAT2010..2014"
Here are more research tricks in one handy infographic.
Use Google Search Shortcuts to Pull Up Quick Answers
You shouldn't have to dig around or visit web pages for easy answers.
Get definitions. Use "define [word]" to quickly bring up a word's definition.
Make your browser do math. Also, start typing in your browser to do instant calculations and conversions (you don't even have to hit enter!)
Have Google fill in the blanks. Just start typing something in, and Google's autocomplete will likely give you the answer. For example "Martin Luther King Jr. was born on " will show you "January 15 1929" and "Thomas Edison invented " will list a few notable inventions. Google's Knowledge Graph might even show you quickly the answers you're looking for beneath your search. If autocomplete doesn't help, add the "*" wildcard to get more answers (e.g., "Obama voted * on the * bill" to give you stories on a bunch of different bills).
Check out 20 Google Search shortcuts that can come in handy, and if you're using Google Now, you have over 60 commands you can use to get quick information just by saying "Okay Google."
Organize and Cite Research with Google Drive
Google Drive comes with a research tool that finds information for you while you work on your paper. It also conveniently grabs the citation and inserts it, already formatted, for you into your document. Handy!
To use it, go to Tools > Research in your document or presentation and enter your search term. You can also right-click on a word or phrase in your document to search it. Click on the Google icon to specifically search images, Google Scholar, quotes, and more.
In the research pane, hover over a link to preview the page, click on it to open in a new tab, or drag-and-drop selected text into your document. The "cite" button will grab the citation (in MLA, APA, or Chicago styles) and the "insert link" button will insert the source website into your document.
Search Google Books and Use Google Scholar
In the olden days, we had to go to the library and look up books that possibly had information in them as resources for papers. Now, you can just do a Google book search (which includes magazines) for anything that's relevant, copy quotes, and pull all the information needed for your bibliography.
Head to books.google.com to start researching your topic or use Google's advanced book search for options like book language, author, publication dates, and more. In the search results, you can also click on "Search tools" to filter books by ones that are available with a preview, select books or magazines, and filter or sort by date.
Public domain books can be downloaded as PDF, and out of copyright or books with author/publisher permission are fully viewable. You can search within books too, and have your search phrase highlighted, as well as add books to your library for future reference.
Additionally, when you search on a title, Google's book overview page will list popular passages, a word cloud, bibliographic information, and other reference information.
Finally, learn how to use Google Scholar to find research material (peer-reviewed journals, patents, and more), with this video from Googler Dan Russell (or a very quick list of tips from Google here):


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According to the Jewish Encyclopedia entry on Tobit:
The text exists in Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Judæo-Aramaic, besides two late Hebrew translations.
It concludes:
The excellent Greek style of the Sinaitic may suggest a Greek original. In view of the conflicting character of the data, it is best to reserve opinion as to the original language; the text appears to have suffered a number of revisions and misreadings.
But I note that this entry predates the Qumran discoveries. Wikipedia suggests:
The book was possibly originally written in one of the forms of the Aramaic language. Jerome described his version for the Vulgate as being made from an Aramaic text available to him. Four fragmentary texts in Aramaic and one in Hebrew were found at Qumran.
What is the current state of scholarship? Is a Greek original still a viable possibility?


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Chocolate-Covered Pumpkin Cheesecake Pops
Makes 24 pops
- Active time: 45 min
Total time: 5 hr (includes 4 hr of freezing and chilling)
Ice cream can take a break. These pumpkin cheesecake pops are the ideal finale to your Halloween celebration. If the combination of chocolate and pumpkin hits you as a bit unusual, trust us, it works really well. Consider the two an inspired duo, helped along by the sweet spices used in pumpkin pie. We love the finished pops either chilled or frozen. The funny thing about frozen pops? They could pass for ice cream!
This recipe is part of our Gourmet Modern Menu for Halloween: Spooky Snacks. Click here to view the full menu.
This recipe is part of our Gourmet Modern Menu for Halloween: Spooky Snacks. Click here to view the full menu.
Published in Gourmet Live
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup canned pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 pound bittersweet chocolate (60% cacao), chopped
- 2 tablespoons graham cracker crumbs
- 9-inch glass pie plate; 1 1/2-inch-diameter ice cream scoop, holding about 1 tablespoon; 24 (6- to 8-inch) lollipop sticks (see Cooks' Notes)
Heat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Oil pie plate.
Beat cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy and smooth, then beat in egg until combined. Add pumpkin, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice and mix on low speed until smooth.
Pour batter into pie plate and bake until edges are set and center is still a little wobbly, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer to a rack to let cool completely. (Cheesecake will set completely as it cools.)
Cover cheesecake with a round of wax paper or parchment then wrap in plastic and chill until cold, at least 3 hours.
Scoop out pumpkin cheesecake, packing cheesecake in ice cream scoop each time and leveling it off, then releasing it, flat side down, onto 2 small, wax paper–lined rimmed baking sheets. Freeze until frozen solid, at least 1 hour.
Melt half of chocolate in a small, deep bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water, then remove bowl from pan.
Working with one pan of cheesecake balls at a time (and keeping the other pan frozen), rest a cheesecake scoop on a fork and lower it into chocolate, then spoon chocolate over it to coat it completely. Let excess chocolate drip off, then scrape bottom of fork against edge of bowl and return coated ball, flat-side down, to wax paper–lined pan. Sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs and push a lollipop stick 3/4 inch through ball. Repeat with remaining balls on first baking sheet. (If cheesecake begins to soften, return to freezer to harden.) Refrigerate finished pops.
Melt remaining chocolate in another small deep bowl in same manner and coat remaining cheesecake balls.
Keep pops refrigerated or frozen until serving.
Cheesecake can be baked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
You will have chocolate left over. Turn it into chocolate sauce with the addition of heavy cream.
Pops keep chilled or frozen in a resealable container up to 3 days.
Lollipop sticks can be found in the baking sections of large craft stores or online from Amazon.com.
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Physcial Sciences Division
Staff Awards & Honors
February 2010
Team Solving Water's Mysteries Thanks to INCITE Award
Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and two Swiss institutes received 12 million hours of supercomputing time, thanks to the 2010 INCITE Leadership Computing award from the Department of Energy. Now, the team will be able to continue running calculations that explain the physics of reactions in bulk and at interfaces.
"Understanding the reactions that occur in the vicinity of interfaces have far-reaching implications in many disciplines," said Dr. Christopher Mundy, a physical chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Furthermore, the supercomputers will be put to use to elucidate how water behaves around ions at the air/water interface. The results of these studies will be used as leverage to help scientists control processes for hydrogen storage, biofuel production, and other reactions.
The members of this research team are Christopher Mundy, Roger Rousseau, Greg Schenter, and Shawn Kathmann of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Allesandro Durioni of IBM Research-Zurich, and Joost VandeVondele of the University of Zurich.
The INCITE award grants access to supercomputers to model complex processes and analyze large data sets. The team received a total of 12 million hours on two of DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research's supercomputers: the Cray XTs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory.
The 12 million hours is a three-fold increase from the 4 million hours the team received from the 2009 INCITE award. "This additional time is a great compliment to the team's research," said Dr. Bruce Garrett, the director of Chemical and Materials Sciences at PNNL. "I could not be happier for my scientists and their collaborators."


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The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six months amongst the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands By Isabella L. Bird, 1875 LETTER 12
"The High Priest of Pele"—Missionary Hardships—A Renowned Baptism—The "Revival"—A Tidal Wave—Kapiolani's Heroism—Lava Flows and Earthquakes
Hilo, February 22nd
My sojourn here is very pleasant, owing to the kindness and sociability of the people. 1 think that so much culture and such a variety of refined tastes can seldom be found in so small a community. There have been pleasant little gatherings for sewing, while some gentlemen read aloud, fern-printing in the verandah, microscopic and musical evenings, little social luncheons, and on Sunday evenings what is colloquially termed "a sing," at this most social house. One of the things I have specially enjoyed has been spending an afternoon at the Rev. Titus Coan's. He is not only one of the most venerable of the remaining missionaries, but such an authority on the Hawaiian volcanoes as to entitle him to be designated "the high-priest of Pele!" In his modest, quiet way he told thrilling stories of the old missionary days.
As you know, the islands cast off idolatry in 1819, but it was not till 1835 that Mr. and Mrs. Coan arrived in Hilo, where Mr. and Mrs. Lyman had been toiling for some time, and had produced a marked change on the social condition of the people. Mr. C. was a fervid speaker, and physically very robust, and when he had mastered the language, he undertook much of the travelling and touring, and Mr. Lyman took charge of the home mission station, and the boarding and industrial school which he still indefatigably superintends. There were 15,000 natives then in the district, and its extremes were 100 miles apart. Portions of it could only be reached with peril to limbs and even life. Horses were only regarded as wild animals in those days, and Mr. C. traversed on foot the district I have just returned from, not lazily riding down the gulch sides, but climbing, or being let down by ropes from tree to tree, and from crag to crag. In times of rain like last week, when it was impossible to ford the rivers, he sometimes swam across, with a rope to prevent him from being carried away, through others he rode on the broad shoulders of a willing native, while a company of strong men locked hands and stretched themselves across the torrent, between him and the cataract, to prevent him from being carried over in case his bearer should fall. This experience was often repeated three or four times a day. His smallest weekly number of sermons was six or seven, and die largest from twenty-five to thirty. He often travelled in drowning rain, crossed dangerous streams, climbed slippery precipices, and frequently preached in wind and rain with all his garments saturated. On every occasion he received aid from the natives, who were so kind and friendly, that when he used to sleep in the woods at night, he hung his watch on a tree, knowing that it was perfectly safe from pilfering or curious touch. Indeed the Christian teachers seem to have been regarded as tabu.
Before the end of that year, Mr. Coan had made the circuit of Hawaii, a foot and canoe trip of 300 miles, in which he nearly suffered canoe-wreck twice. In all, he has admitted into the Christian church by baptism, 12,000 persons, besides 4,000 infants. He gave a most interesting account of one great baptism. The greatest care was previously taken in selecting, teaching, watching, and examining the candidates. Those from the distant villages came and spent several months here for preliminary instruction. Many of these were converts of two years' standing, a larger class had been on the list for more than a year, and a smaller one for a lesser period. The accepted candidates were announced by name several weeks previously, and friends and enemies everywhere were called upon to testify all that they knew about them. On the first Sunday in July, 1838, 1705 persons, formerly heathens, were baptised. They were seated close together on the earth-floor in rows, with just space between for one to walk, and Mr. Lyman and Mr. Coan, passing through them, sprinkled every bowed head, after which Mr. C. admitted the weeping hundreds into the fellowship of the Universal Church by pronouncing the words, "I baptise you all in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." After this, 2400 converts received the Holy Communion. I give Mr. C.'s own words concerning those who partook of it, "who truly and earnestly repented of their sins, and steadfastly purposed to lead new lives. "The old and decrepit, the lame, the blind, the maimed, the withered, the paralytic, and those afflicted with divers diseases and torments; those with eyes, noses, lips, and limbs consumed; with features distorted, and figures depraved and loathsome: these came hobbling upon their staves, or led and borne by others to the table of the Lord. Among the throng you would have seen the hoary priest of idolatry, with hands but recently washed from the blood of human victims, together with thieves, adulterers, highway robbers, murderers, and mothers whose hands reeked with the blood of their own children. It seemed like one of the crowds the Saviour gathered, and over which he pronounced the words of healing."
Though the people cast off idolatry in 1819 before the arrival of the missionaries, they were very indifferent to Christian teaching until 1837, the year before the great baptism, when a great religious stir began, and for four years affected all the islands. I wish you could have heard Mr. C. and Mrs. Lyman tell of that stirring time, when nearly all the large population of the Hilo and Puna districts turned out to hear the Gospel, and how the young people went up into the mountains and carried the news of the love of God and the good life to come to the sick and old, who were afterwards baptized, when often the only water which could be obtained for the rite was that which dripped sparingly from the roofs of caves. The Hawaiian notions of a future state, where any existed, were peculiarly vague and dismal, and Mr. Ellis says that the greater part of the people seemed to regard the tidings of ora loa ia Jesu (endless life by Jesus) as the most joyful news they had ever heard, "breaking upon them," to use their own phrase, "like light in the morning." "Will my spirit never die, and can this poor weak body live again?" an old chieftess exclaimed, and this delighted surprise seemed the general feeling of the natives. From less difficult distances the sick and lame were brought on litters and on the backs of men, and the infirm often crawled to the trail by which the missionary was to pass, that they might hear of this good news which had come to Hawaii-nei.
There were but these two preachers for the 15,000 people scattered for 100 miles, who were all ravenous to hear, and impatient of the tardy modes of evangelization. "If we die," said they, "let us die in the light." So this strange thing fell out, that whole villages from miles away gathered to the mission station. Two-thirds of the population of the district came in, and within the radius of a mile the grass and banana houses clustered as thick as they could stand. Beautiful Hilo in a short time swelled from a population of 1000 to 10,000; and at any hour of the day or night the sound of the conch shell brought together from 3000 to 6000 worshippers. This vast camp-meeting continued for two years, but there was no disorder, and a decent quiet ruled throughout the strangely extemporized city. A new morality, a new social order, new notions on nearly all subjects, had to be inculcated as well as a new religion. Mrs. C. and Mrs. L. daily assembled the women and children, and taught them the habits and industries of civilization, to attend to their persons, to braid hats, and to wear and make clothes.
During this time, on November 7, 1837, one of the striking phenomena which make the islands remarkable occurred. The crescent sand-beach, said to be the most beautiful in the Pacific, the fringe of palms, the far-reaching groves behind, and the great ocean, slept in summer calm, as they sleep to-day. Four sermons, as usual, had been preached to audiences of 6000 people. There had been a funeral, the natives say, though Mr. C. does not remember it, and his text had been "Be ye also ready," and larger throngs than usual had followed the preachers to their homes. The fatiguing day was over, the natives were singing hymns in the still evening air, and Mr. C. "had gathered his family for prayers" in the very room in which he told me this story, when they were startled by "a sound as if a heavy mountain had fallen on the beach." There was at once a fearful cry, wailing, and indescribable confusion. The quiet ocean had risen in a moment in a gigantic wave, which, rushing in with the speed of a racehorse, and uplifting itself over the shore, swept everything into promiscuous ruin; men, women, children, dogs, houses, food, canoes, clothing, floated wildly on the flood, and hundreds of people were struggling among the billows in the midst of their earthly all. Some were dashed on the shore, some were saved by friends who hurried to their aid, some were carried out to sea by the retiring water, and some stout swimmers sank exhausted; yet the loss of life was not nearly so great as it would have been among a less amphibious people. Mr. C. described the roaring of the ocean, the cries of distress, the shrieks of the perishing, the frantic rush of hundreds to the shore, and the desolation of the whole neighbourhood of the beach, as forming a scene of the most thrilling and awful interest.
You will remember that I wrote from Kilauea regarding the terror which the Goddess of the Crater inspired, and her high priest was necessarily a very awful personage. The particular high-priest of whom Mr. Coan told me was 6 feet 5 inches in height, and his sister, who was co-ordinate with him in authority, had a scarcely inferior altitude. His chief business was to keep Pele appeased. He lived on the shore, but often went up to Kilauea with sacrifices. If a human victim were needed, he had only to point to a native, and the unfortunate wretch was at once strangled. He was not only the embodiment of heathen piety, but of heathen crime. Robbery was his pastime. His temper was so fierce and so uncurbed that no native dared even to tread on his shadow. More than once he had killed a man for the sake of food and clothes not worth fifty cents. He was a thoroughly wicked savage. Curiosity attracted him into one of the Hilo meetings, and the bad giant fell under the resistless, mysterious influence which was metamorphosing thousands of Hawaiians. "I have been deceived," he said, "I have deceived others, I have lived in darkness, and did not know the true God. I worshipped what was no God. I renounce it all. The true God has come. He speaks. 1 bow down to Him. I wish to be His son." The priestess, his sister, came soon afterwards, and they remained here several months for instruction. They were then about seventy years old, but they imbibed the New Testament spirit so thoroughly that they became as gentle, loving, and quiet as little children. After a long probationary period they were baptized, and after several years of pious and lowly living, they passed gently and trustfully away.
The old church which was the scene of these earlier assemblages came down with a crash after a night of heavy rain, the large timbers, which were planted in the moist earth after the fashion of the country to support the framework, having become too rotten to bear the weight of the saturated thatch. Without a day's loss of time the people began a new church. All were volunteers, some to remove from the wreck of the old building such timbers as might still be of service; some to quarry stone for a foundation, an extravagance never before dreamed of by an islander; some to bring sand in gourd-shells upon their heads, or laboriously gathered in the folds of bark-cloth aprons; some to bring lime from the coral reefs 20 feet underwater; whilst the majority hurried to the forest belt, miles away on the mountain side, to fell the straightest and tallest trees. Then 50 or 100 men (for in that day horses and oxen were known only as wild beasts of the wilderness) attached hawsers to the butt ends of logs, and dragged them away through bush and brake, through broken ground and river beds, till they deposited them on the site of the new church. The wild, monotonous chant, as the men hauled in the timber, lives in the memories of the missionaries' children, who say that it seemed to them as if the preparations for Solomon's temple could not have exceeded the accumulations of the islanders!
I think that the greater number of the converts of those four years must have died ere this. In 1867 the old church at Hilo was divided into seven congregations, six of them with native pastors. To meet the wants of the widely-scattered people fifteen churches have been built, holding from 500 up to 1000. The present Hilo church, a very pretty wooden one, cost about $14,000. All these have been erected mainly by native money and labour. Probably the native Christians on Hawaii are not much better or worse than Christian communities elsewhere, but they seem a singularly generous people. Besides liberally sustaining their own clergy, the Hilo Christians have contributed altogether $100,000 for religious purposes. Mr. Coan's native congregation, sorely dwindled as it is, raises over $1200 annually for foreign missions; and twelve of its members have gone as missionaries to the islands of Southern Polynesia.
Poor people! It would be unfair to judge of them as we may legitimately be judged of, who inherit the influences of ten centuries of Christianity. They have only just emerged from a bloody and sensual heathenism, and to the instincts and volatility of these dark Polynesian races, the restraining influences of the Gospel are far more severe than to our cold, unimpulsive northern natures. The greatest of their disadvantages has been that some of the vilest of the whites who roam the Pacific had settled on the islands before the arrival of the Christian teachers, dragging the people down to even lower depths of depravity than those of heathenism, and that there are still resident foreigners who corrupt and destroy them.
I must tell you a story which the venerable Mrs. Lyman told me yesterday. In 1825, five years after the first missionaries landed, Kapiolani, a female alii of high rank, while living at Kaiwaaloa (where Captain Cook was murdered), became a Christian. Grieving for her people, most of whom still feared to anger Pele", she announced that it was her intention to visit Kilauea, and dare the fearful goddess to do her worst. Her husband and many others tried to dissuade her, but she was resolute, and taking with her a large retinue, she took a journey of one hundred miles, mostly on foot, over the rugged lava, till she arrived near the crater. There a priestess of Pele met her, threatened her with the displeasure of the goddess if she persisted in her hostile errand, and prophesied that she and her followers would perish miserably. Then, as now, ohelo berries grew profusely round the terminal wall of Kilauea, and there, as elsewhere, were sacred to Pele, no one daring to eat of them till he had first offered some of them to the divinity. It was usual on arriving at the crater to break a branch covered with berries, and turning the face to the pit of fire, to throw half the branch over the precipice, saying, "Pele, here are your ohelos. I offer some to you, some I also eat," after which the natives partook of them freely. Kapiolani gathered and eat them without this formula, after which she and her company of eighty persons descended to the black edge of Hale-mau-mau. There, in full view of the fiery pit, she thus addressed her followers.—"Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save me from the wrath of Pele, when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the gods of Hawaii are vain! Great is Jehovah's goodness in sending teachers to turn us from these vanities to the living God and the way of righteousness!" Then they sang a hymn. I can fancy the strange procession winding its backward way over the cracked, hot, lava sea, the robust belief of the princess hardly sustaining the limping faith of her followers, whose fears would not be laid to rest until they reached the crater's rim without any signs of the pursuit of an avenging deity. It was more sublime than Elijah's appeal on the soft, green slopes of Carmel, but the popular belief in the Goddess of the Volcano survived this flagrant instance of her incapacity, and only died out many years afterwards.
Besides these interesting reminiscences, I have been hearing most thrilling stories from Mrs. Lyman and Mr. Coan of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tidal waves. Told by eye-witnesses, and on the very spot where the incidents occurred, they make a profound, and, I fear, an incommunicable impression. I look on these venerable people as I should on people who had seen the Deluge, or the burial of Pompeii, and wonder that they eat and dress and live like other mortals! For they have felt the perpetual shudder of earthquakes, and their eyes, which look so calm and kind, have seen the inflowing of huge tidal waves, the dull red glow of lava streams, arid the leaping of fire cataracts into deep-lying pools, burning them dry in a night time. There were years in which there was no day in which the smoke of underground furnaces was out of their sight, or night which was not lurid with flames. Once they traced a river of lava burrowing its way 1500 feet below the surface, and saw it emerge, break over a precipice, and fall hissing into the ocean. Once from their highest mountain a pillar of fire 200 feet in diameter lifted itself for three weeks 1000 feet into the air, making night day, for a hundred miles round, and leaving as its monument a cone a mile in circumference. We see a clothed and finished earth; they see the building of an island, layer on layer, hill on hill, the naked and deformed product of the melting, forging, and welding, which go on perpetually in the crater of Kilauea.
I could fill many sheets with what I have heard, but must content myself with telling you very little. . In 1855 the fourth recorded eruption of Mauna Loa occurred. The lava flowed directly Hilo-wards, and for several months, spreading through the dense forests which belt the mountain, crept slowly shorewards, threatening this beautiful portion of Hawaii with the fate of the Cities of the Plain. Mr. C. made several visits to the eruption, and on each return the simple people asked him how much longer it would last. For five months they watched the inundation, which came a little nearer every day. Should they fly or not? Would their beautiful homes become a waste of jagged lava and black sand, like the neighbouring district of Puna, once as fair as Hilo?" Such questions suggested themselves as they nightly watched the nearing glare, till the fiery waves met with obstacles which piled them up in hillocks, eight miles from Hilo, and the suspense was over. Only gigantic causes can account for the gigantic phenomena of this lava-flow. The eruption travelled forty miles in a straight line, or sixty, including sinuosities. It was from one to three miles broad, and from five to two hundred feet deep, according to the contours of the mountain slopes over which it flowed. It lasted for thirteen months, pouring out a. torrent of lava which covered nearly 300 square miles of land, and whose volume was estimated at thirty-eight thousand millions of cubic feet! In 1859 lava fountains 400 feet in height, and with a nearly equal diameter, played on the summit of Mauna Loa. This eruption ran fifty miles to the sea in eight days, but the flow lasted much longer, and added a new promontory to Hawaii.
These magnificent overflows, however threatening, had done little damage to cultivated regions, and none to human life; and people began to think that the volcano was reformed. But in 1868 terrors occurred which are without precedent in island history. While Mrs. L. was giving me the narrative in her graphic but simple way, and the sweet wind rustled through the palms, and brought the rich scent of the ginger plant into the shaded room, she seemed to be telling me a tale of another world. On March 27, five years ago, a series of earthquakes began, and became more startling from day to day; until their succession became so rapid that "the island quivered like the lid of a boiling pot nearly all the time between the heavier shocks. The trembling was like that of a ship struck by a heavy wave." Then the terminal crater of Mauna Loa (Mokuaweoweo) sent up columns of smoke, steam, and red light, and it was shortly seen that the southern slope of its dome had been rent, and that four separate rivers of molten stone were pouring out of as many rents, and were flowing down the mountain sides in diverging lines. Suddenly the rivers were arrested, and the blue mountain dome appeared against the still, blue sky without an indication of fire, steam, or smoke. Hilo was much agitated by the sudden lull. No one was deceived into security, for it was certain that the fires must make themselves felt.
The earthquakes became nearly continuous; scarcely an appreciable interval occurred between them; "the throbbing, jerking, and quivering motions grew more positive, intense, and sharp; the)' were vertical, rotary, lateral, and undulating," producing nausea, vertigo, and vomiting. Late in the afternoon of a lovely day, April 2, the climax came. "The crust of the earth rose and sank like the sea in a storm." Rocks were rent, mountains fell, buildings and their contents were shattered, trees swayed like reeds, animals were scared, and ran about demented; men thought the judgment had come. The earth opened in thousands of places, the roads in Hilo cracked open, horses and their riders, and people afoot were thrown violently to the ground; "it seemed as if the rocky ribs of the mountains, and the granite walls and pillars of the earth were breaking up." At Kilauea the shocks were as frequent as the ticking of a watch. In Kau, south of Hilo, they counted 300 shocks on that direful day; and Mrs. L.'s son, who was in that district at the time, says that the earth swayed to and fro, north and south, then east and west, then round and round, up and down, in every imaginable direction, everything crashing about them, "and the trees thrashing as if torn by a strong rushing wind." He and others sat on the ground bracing themselves with hands and feet to avoid being rolled over. They saw an avalanche of red earth, which the> supposed to be lava, burst from the mountain side, throwing rocks high into the air, swallowing up houses, trees, men, and animals; and travelling three miles in as many minutes, burying a hamlet, with thirty- one inhabitants and 500 head of cattle. The people of the valleys fled to the mountains, which themselves were splitting in all directions, and collecting on an elevated spot, with the earth reeling under them, they spent the night of April 2 in prayer and singing. Looking towards the shore, they saw it sink, and at the same moment, a wave, whose height was estimated at from forty to sixty feet, hurled itself upon the coast, and receded five times, destroying whole villages, and even strong stone houses, with a touch, and engulfing for ever forty-six people who had lingered too near the shore.
Still the earthquakes continued, and still the volcano gave no sign. The nerves of many people gave way in these fearful days. Some tried to get away to Honolulu, others kept horses saddled on which to fly, they knew not whither. The hourly question was, "What of the volcano?" People put their ears to the quivering ground, and heard, or thought they heard, the surgings of the imprisoned lava sea rending its way among the ribs of the earth.
Five days after the destructive earthquake of April 2, the ground south of Hilo burst open with a crash and roar .which at once answered all questions concerning the volcano. The molten river, after travelling underground for twenty miles, emerged through a fissure two miles in length with a tremendous force and volume. It was in a pleasant pastoral region, supposed to be at rest for ever, at the top of a grass-covered plateau sprinkled with native and foreign houses, and rich in herds of cattle. Four huge fountains boiled up with terrific fury, throwing crimson lava, and rocks weighing many tons, to a height of from 500 to 1000 feet. Mr. Whitney, of Honolulu, who was near the spot, says:—"From these great fountains to the sea flowed a rapid stream of red lava, rolling, rushing, and tumbling, like a swollen river, bearing along in its current large rocks that made the lava foam as it dashed down the precipice and through the valley into the sea, surging and roaring throughout its length like a cataract, with a power and fury perfectly indescribable. It was nothing else than a river of fire from 200 to 800 feet wide and twenty deep, with a speed varying from ten to twenty-five miles an hour.
This same intelligent observer noticed as a peculiarity of the spouting that the lava was ejected by a rotary motion, and in the air both lava and stones always rotated towards the south. At Kilauea I noticed that the lava was ejected in a southerly direction. From the scene of these fire fountains, whose united length was about a mile, the river in its rush to the sea divided itself into four streams, between which it shut up men and beasts. One stream hurried to the sea in four hours, but the others took two days to travel ten miles. The aggregate width was a mile and a half. Where it entered the sea it extended the coast-line half a mile, but this worthless accession to Hawaiian acreage was dearly purchased by the loss, for ages at least, of 4000 acres of valuable pasture land, and a much larger quantity of magnificent forest. The whole southeast shore of Hawaii sank from four to six feet, which involved the destruction of several hamlets and the beautiful fringe of cocoa-nut trees. Though the region was very thinly peopled, 200 houses and 100 lives were sacrificed in this week of horrors, and from the reeling mountains, the uplifted ocean, and the fiery inundation, the terrified survivors fled into Hilo, each with a tale of woe and loss. The number of shocks of earthquake counted was 2000 in two weeks, an average of 140 a day; but on the other side of the island the number was incalculable.
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Mars and the vestal virgin
circa 1637-circa 1638
- Other Title
- A soldier discovering a sleeping nymph
- Date
- circa 1637-circa 1638
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130.0 x 110.4 cm stretcher; 143.0 x 121.9 x 8.0 cm frame
- Credit
- Purchased with funds resulting from a gift by James Fairfax AC and with the support of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 2007
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 367.2007
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Jacques Blanchard
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Jacques Blanchard was one of the most important painters active in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century. His principal rivals were Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne. Born in Paris in 1600, Blanchard served an apprenticeship with his uncle, a little known painter called Nicolas Bollery. He made a trip to Italy, on his way stopping in Lyon, where he worked for a time as an assistant to the painter Horace Le Blanc (1620-24). In Rome (1624-26) he would have encountered the art of Caravaggio and his followers as well as that of the Carracci and their pupils, such as Guido Reni. On his way back he spent some time in Venice (c. 1626-28) where he was particularly affected by the sensuous art of such painters as Titian and Veronese. After a brief spell working in Turin at the court of the Duke of Savoy (c. 1628) he returned to France and set himself up in Paris in 1629.
Blanchard died young in 1638 and his Parisian career thus lasted less than a decade. He is mainly notable as a painter of mythological and allegorical subjects, many of these painted on commission as part of decorative schemes in the houses of a newly wealthy administrative class. For example he decorated a gallery in the Parisian hôtel of the powerful Superintendent of Finance, Claude de Bullion in which a series of mythological scenes representing the seasons, now destroyed, attracted fulsome praise from contemporaries. Although he received a few commissions for altarpieces and painted many small devotional paintings (of the 'Madonna and Child', for example), he is memorable not for the religious sentiment of his art, but for its frank sensuousness. It is this which earned him among his contemporaries the nickname of the 'French Titian' and which places him in a pivotal position in the development of French art between the eroticism of the court art of Fontainebleau in the 16th-century and that of Boucher in the 18th century.
The subject of our painting is a key episode in the story of the founding of Rome. The vestal virgin Rhea Silvia lay down to sleep next to a stream in a wood, loosened the front of her clothing and 'opened her bosom to catch the breeze'. The God Mars encountered her in this state and ravished her in her sleep. This encounter resulted in the birth of the twins Romulus and Remus who founded the city of Rome.
The unusual upright, squarish format of the canvas strongly suggests that the painting was originally part of a decorative scheme. It would have been set into the panelling of a room along with other paintings on related themes. It is probable that the scheme as a whole treated the history of Rome or, perhaps more likely given Blanchard's favoured subject matter, the Loves of the Gods.
There is no commission recorded in the documents or early printed sources which certainly relates to this painting. However, the style and quality of the canvas suggest it is a late work and it could conceivably have been painted as part of a major decorative commission on which Blanchard was working at his death for Claude de Bullion in the Château of La-Grange-le-Roi. Blanchard's inventory records that the contract for this commission was passed in March 1638, some eight months before the artist's death. Unfortunately it does not record the subject of the scheme and the identification with this canvas is therefore conjectural.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
Referenced in 3 publications
Richard Beresford, Look, 'Important European purchase', Sydney, Apr 2008, pp 12–17, col illus p 13.
Emma Glyde, Look, 'Members' gallery: the next decade', Sydney, Jul 2013, pp 22–30: p 24, col illus p 25 (detail).
Judith White, art lovers: the story of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1953-2013, Sydney, 2013, p 298, col illus pp 14, 298. 'Acquisitions funded by the Art Gallery Society 1953–2013', pp 192–314.
The provenance of this work is under review and records will be updated as new details become available. The Gallery welcomes any information. Contact email@example.com
Private Collection, France
The Matthiesen Gallery, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Matthiesen Gallery 2007


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Joan Walsh, editor-at-large for Salon.com, and an MSNBC political analyst, pens an enlightening personal journey through the prevailing "us" vs. "them" narrative of US politics. Who can not empathize with Walsh's predicament? "One party, my own, has lost its spine," she observes, "the other lost its mind." Click here to get your copy of "What's The Matter With White People" (Hardcover) and support Truthout's mission.
I have a problem with liberals who dismiss the white working class as hopelessly Republican and racist, because they ignore something interesting: in 2008, our first black president got a higher share of their votes than any recent white Democrat in this generation, including John Kerry, Al Gore, and even Bill Clinton. A New York Times analysis found that Obama won 46 percent of whites without a college degree who earned between $30,000 and $75,000 a year, to Bill Clinton's 44 percent. He kept John McCain's edge with that group to 6 points, when George W. Bush won them by 35 points against John Kerry four years earlier. And in some swing states, such as Ohio, the "Obama coalition" ultimately included the white working class.
Yes, many of those voters raced back into the Republican column in 2010, when the GOP ran up a 30-point edge in midterm congressional races, and for much of 2011, Democrats talked about a strategy to keep the White House without winning Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, key swing states he took in 2008. But I'm not sure why we'd conclude that those voters' problem was mainly racial, or that they had run back to the GOP for good. Had they shaken off their racism in 2008, only to have it return like a stubborn virus in 2010? Did the president become more black? What if their reaction derived from frustration with Democratic leaders who hadn't pursued an economic turnaround agenda aggressively enough, at a time when unemployment stood at more than 10 percent—and almost 15 percent for whites without a college degree?
The GOP's new dog-whistle politics, trashing white people in coded language once reserved for blacks, opens new opportunities for Democrats—if they can help those white people translate the new GOP rhetoric. In a 2012 debate, then-front-runner Rick Santorum approvingly quoted from Charles Murray's Coming Apart, hoping his listeners wouldn't know that this time Murray was scolding white people. After Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke supported President Obama's insurance regulations mandating cost-free contraception, conservatives began trashing the young white law student as a "welfare queen" wanting birth control on the taxpayers' dime.
But "dependent voters" aren't just a problem to the GOP because they eat up our tax dollars. "Republican supporters will continue to decrease every year as more Americans become dependent on the government," Tea Party Senator Jim DeMint wrote in his shrill 2012 book Now or Never. "Dependent voters will naturally elect even big-government progressives who will continue to smother economic growth and spend America deeper into debt. The 2012 election may be the last opportunity for Republicans." Wisconsin conservative representative Paul Ryan, he of the "Ryan Plan" to abolish Medicare, divides the electorate into "makers" and "takers."
This is coded language meant to whip the GOP base into a frenzy of fear and resentment. Because for the past forty years, we've all known who the "takers" were, or were supposed to be, anyway: the welfare queens, the urban rioters, the students, the slackers, the various people the Democrats sided with in the 1960s, most of them, in the partisan story-telling, African American.
Yet today, many white folks who are voting Republican don't seem to know one important detail: they are, in fact, the "takers." We saw white Tea Party supporters demanding the government stay out of their Medicare. We know that much of the GOP's aging white base relies on Social Security. But the contradiction runs even deeper than that: Dartmouth political scientist Dean Lacy found the more a county receives in federal government payments, the more likely it is to vote Republican. The New York Times referred to Lacy's research in its understated but still rather shocking feature "Even Critics of Safety Net Depend On It." As Lacy elaborated to a WNYC reporter: "The counties that are getting more in crop subsidies, housing assistance, and Medicaid payments are a lot more Republican. So it really is about that catch-all category that you might call welfare." Yet because their local congressmen and women tend to defend that type of "welfare," Lacy says, "they have the luxury of voting on social issues knowing that these federal spending programs will be kept in place."
Except those programs won't be kept in place by the new GOP, which is committed to trashing even the economic supports it used to (however hypocritically) defend.
The Democratic Party should even have a chance to make inroads with white seniors in 2012 if they're able to broadcast the extremist Republican crusade even against programs that protect them. As long as they give up on the delusion of a "grand bargain," trading Social Security and Medicare cuts for revenue increases, that the president and some of his party allies floated during the debt-ceiling debacle of 2011.
As long as they make it clear they're Democrats, that is.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., from What's The Matter with White People, by Joan Walsh. Copyright © 2012 by Joan Walsh.


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Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Space Show surveys & feedback, SatCon 2012, post election space policy & more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. Welcome to our nearly 2.5 hour Open Lines discussion on a wide range of topics. Most of our topics covered the entire show so this summary is in just one segment. In addition to a few talking points at the beginning of the show, I stressed the need for more Space Show listener feedback and the use of possible surveys. The survey issue came up with several callers and many ideas for surveys were put forth. If you have ideas or suggestions for better Space Show feedback including the use of surveys, please post your ideas on The Space Show blog. In addition, we had some strange phone line issues throughout this program. We are working to track down what happened but since there is no call waiting at our end, I'm not sure the problems were with our equipment. Regardless, The Space Show apologizes for the phone line distractions. Daniel, a first responder, called in with a brief summary of the recently completed SatCon 2012 Conference in NYC. He had some very interesting things to share with us, especially about national security satellite issues. Check out this conference at www.satconexpo.com. Tim called to talk about our recent program regarding JP Aerospace. Tim said he was working the numbers and does not feel that an airship can make it to orbit. Let us know if you agree with Tim. By the way, others on earlier programs have made it clear that they do not believe JP can get an airship to orbit. In the meantime, John continues to work the problem and best of luck to him and his crew in figuring out how to reach his goal. Doug called in and we talked post election space policy. A few other callers did the same thing including John from Atlanta. I really had no great insights to bring to the table but I suspect that more likely based on how things go with the economy and sequestration, the status quo will prevail on space policy. That said, the SLS program might actually be a target of NASA budget cuts over the next few years but it is way too early to tell. Some listeners seemed to want a partisan discussion on policy and I did my best to avoid it though I did disclose my dislike for our two main political parties. I was also clear that the private sector engaged in capital acquisition was at risk through increased regulation, taxes, inflation, etc. Like everyone, I am hopeful that risk capital will remain strong and space ventures will be able to grow in their share of this unique investor market, but it is a fragile market given our economic situation and the uncertainties ahead of us at this time. John from Winterhaven called about my comments regarding doing something with one's ideas and concepts over and above just speaking the words or writing a paper. I referred to this throughout our discussion as "breathing life" into one's concepts/ideas. I am also planning a full Space Show on this subject. Other topics included news stories on the Falcon engine problems and EML2 NASA missions. Please post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog above.


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Travel companies are yet to fully capitalize on the potential of social media
Digital Channels in Travel report press release
New York, 26 January 2015 - Travel companies are not fully capitalizing on the business opportunities presented by social media platforms, according to the Digital Channels in Travel report launched today by Facebook and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte Global). The report asserts that travel companies must fully integrate digital channels into their overall business strategies in order to better engage with consumers.
The report's findings are based on Deloitte Global's review of data from a Facebook-commissioned global survey of 10,500 people who use social media. The survey data found that social media platforms (33 percent) ranked second only to friends and family (50 percent) as sources for travel ideas; followed by TV shows (32 percent), travel brochures (31 percent), and search engines (31 percent). Yet, a recent study conducted by Deloitte LLP in the U.S. and MIT Sloan Management Review found that more than 50 percent of travel executives believe their companies are behind the competition with respect to digital media presence1. These findings suggest that there is still more work to be done before travel companies can reap the rewards of a fully integrated digital strategy.
Lee McCabe, Global Head of Travel, Education and Consumer Services at Facebook, said: "Successful companies are investing in digital and adopting new technology and innovation faster than their competitors. Internally, these companies are altering their organizational structures to eliminate siloed departments and are making digital essential to all departments and teams. The successful players in the travel industry aren't viewing 'social media' as a separate entity, but as a key asset to their business growth and success."
Adam Weissenberg, Deloitte Global Sector Leader for Travel, Hospitality & Leisure, said: "Travel companies that are not taking advantage of the business opportunities presented by digital platforms are potentially missing out on important sources of growth. With the right approach, digital can transform a travel company's marketing efforts and deliver real ROI. However, effective strategies must be tied to business goals in order to begin to see real, tangible results."
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Key recommendations
- Effective measurement – To fully maximize the opportunity presented by digital channels, companies must hold their digital activities to the same standards of measurable return that they apply to traditional marketing tools (i.e., television and print). Measuring the number of "likes" is not meaningful on its own unless it can be connected to a larger and measurable business goal. Digital media isn't new anymore, and its reach and potential continues to evolve rapidly. The sooner companies can adapt to these new techniques and integrate them with their core business strategies, the quicker they can transform their digital outreach from an expense to a profitable investment.
- Leverage digital channels to improve targeting abilities – Collecting information on consumers is only the first step. Brands need to effectively use data to target specific audiences; this is the catalyst that sets digital channels apart from traditional marketing methods. By targeting specific consumer cohorts, companies can be more efficient with their spending and dedicate more resources to consumers who are likely to generate revenue for the company.
- Integrate digital channels into the broader business – Digital operations need to happen right alongside operational activities to be effective. An effective digital strategy cannot happen if digital marketing lives siloed on the organizational chart – and the optimal location for digital operations is unique to each company. A successful organization is one that allows digital channels to cut across and support all the relevant parts of the business.
1MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte, Moving Beyond Marketing, 7/15/2014
About the Digital Channels in Travel report
Facebook engaged a third-party research company to write and distribute a survey about how consumers view social media as it relates to leisure travel. The survey had approximately 10,500 respondents from Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, UK and the USA. All references to the survey findings and respondents in this paper refer to this survey, unless otherwise referenced.
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Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte's more than 210,000 professionals are committed to becoming the standard of excellence.


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Gyro will make you a hero with your taste buds. Opa!
Ethnic foods add so much depth to meals, especially ones where meats and vegetables are a mainstay.
One example of a dish that is fun to make and delicious as well as beautiful are gyros. This recipe features lamb stew meat as opposed to the standard ground lamb for an easier preparation*, but still the same effect: Delicious, savory lamb that your kids will fall for.
The pita rolls I prefer? Gluten-free buns. It gets no easier than that. For folks who are not gluten-intolerant, wraps used in the first picture are an excellent choice. The Tzatziki is easy to prepare. For a less 'liquid' consistency, squeeze the cucumber prior to processing, or add xanthan gum (a little goes a long way) to thicken.
Lamb Gyro
1 pound lamb stew meat, sliced/chopped into smaller bites
1 tsp onion powder
3 cloves crushed garlic
1 tsp salt
1 tsp marjoram
1 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp black pepper
In a covered baking dish, mix meat with the ingredients. Let sit for a 2-3 hours in the refrigerator.
In a 325 degree oven, cook covered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally until meat is brown and cooked. (If you're not used to cooking lamb, pull a piece out at 30 minutes and cut in half to check for doneness).
Serve with Tzatziki sauce, lettuce, tomato and a gyro or low-carb wrap.
Tzatziki Sauce
1, 8 ounce cup of full-fat, plain yogurt
1 medium cucumber, peeled and seeded
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1/2 Tbsp dill
2 cloves garlic, peeled
salt and pepper, to taste
In a blender, mix all ingredients until liquid and blended. Store in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving. Keep refrigerated.
Can also be used as a salad dressing.


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Liberty - The Go Editor
Liberty is a Go editor for the Atari-ST. The program enables you to read, edit, annotate and write Go game records.
Go diagrams can be exported in a variety of formats, like
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The program contains a small but convenient database engine to enable you to keep track of your game records. The program has printer drivers for PostScript printers, Epson matrix printer and the Atari SLM laserprinter.
The program manual (a PostScript file) contains the full documentation of version 2.0 of the program.
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Judge Halts Belmar's Beach Pavilions
A judge has ordered Belmar to stop working on plans to replace two beach pavilions that were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
The judge's order stops the town from using a bond ordinance and other revenue to pay for the pavilions. It also sets a Dec. 11 court date to discuss whether the project should remain under the town's boardwalk redevelopment plan.
A citizen's group filed lawsuits because it feared the project would cost taxpayers money.
Mayor Matt Doherty tells the Asbury Park Press the town will rescind its $7.5 million bond ordinance and change the size of one of the pavilions from two stories to one, reducing the cost.
Doherty says he changed his mind after campaigning door-to-door last week.
- Judge orders Belmar to halt pavilion plan /Asbury Park Press
- Borough's Boardwalk Plans Stymied By Court Orders /Manasquan-Belmar Patch
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)


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Fun at the Playgrounds is a free recreation program for Bremerton youth. Held at 3 playground sites in Bremerton, it is a drop-by program that provides safe summer fun geared towards children ages 6 to 12.
Playground Program typically runs 5 weeks July - August from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. between Monday - Friday.
For park addresses and amenities, view the Playground Sites page.
We design our games and activities to be appropriate for children ages 6-12, but free lunch is provided for ALL children 18 and under.


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Achaea Help Files
Achaea has hundreds of help files to you learn about Achaea. This is a copy of the in-game help file structure. HELP in-game will show you this same menu.
(See also: HELP ISSUES) To obtain customer service in Achaea use the ISSUE command. SHOUTing for help is not the way! Use ISSUE when other avenues of resolution for your difficulties have failed or are impossible, or when you need the aid of one of our administrators for something like arranging a wedding. The administration will then work to solve your problem as promptly as possible. Please make sure you put in as much detail as possible, because oftentimes the administrator is unable to speak with you directly (perhaps because of being in a different time zone). If someone files an ISSUE regarding you then you will be given the chance to reply and give your explanation of the issue using REPLYISSUE. Note that when replying to an issue, you are talking to the administrators, not to the person who filed the issue originally. ATTITUDEs, ISSUEs, and REPLYISSUEs ---------------------------------- Think of an ISSUE as your plea for help from a magistrate or judge. Don't talk to the other party in your issue, or reply, talk to the administrator (that is, the judge). Do not use inappropriate language. Be respectful. Stick to the point. Anything else will harm your chances, and may result in dismissal of the ISSUE or even punishment for you. SERIOUS SITUATIONS ONLY PLEASE ------------------------------ Please file issues for serious situations, not frivolous, and make sure to include substantial details. Examples of bad issues: "I had to walk farther because of a wall of ice" is not serious. "I was killed by Bob" has no useful details. Someone (generally an Administrator) will deal with your issue as soon as time permits, allowing for resolution of issues filed before yours. HAVE YOU TRIED IC RESOLUTION? ----------------------------- In Character (IC) resolution is generally preferrable to ISSUES. If you can find a way to resolve your situations via IC steps, that would be the best for all concerned. If not, ISSUES are always there. Once you file an ISSUE, no other alternative remains, so we hope you'll always consider ISSUES a last resort. DETAILS DETAILS! ---------------- Please provide all the details you can remember. Times, dates, places, what went before, what happened after. Who was there, what was said, anything at all that might relate. An issue of five words is probably going to be rejected as hopelessly inadequate. Do your best to tell us EVERYTHING in advance, so we can be of the most possible help. (See also: HELP ISSUES)


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3 customers will no longer pay to receive calls, and will be able to use their bundled minutes, text, and data, when roaming onto a 3 network abroad.
The new deal applies to both pay as you go and contract customers, and means customers travelling to Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK can make make use of their bundled minutes and services, including free Skype calls and internet access for X-Series customers.
Once the bundled minutes have been used up, messaging services (SMS and MMS) are charged the same rate as in the UK, while voice calls will be 20 pence a minute. International calls are charged as though the customer is in the UK.
Roaming charges have long been an important revenue source for mobile networks on the understanding that most people who were roaming had companies to pay their bills anyway. But these days everyone expects to be able to use their phone on holiday, and the rise in customer complaints has led to the announcement of an investigation into roaming charges by the European Commission.
But coupled with reducing the cost of roaming is a demand to replicate the home experience when travelling - customers expect access to all the services they have at home at similar cost. This announcement supplies much of that, albeit limited to one company's network. ®


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Of course people made beautiful things before the Greeks, but it was the Greeks who dreamed there could be a perfect version of beauty out there waiting to be attained.
Aristotle made the first serious attempt at defining "perfection" but even before him Pythagoras and other pre-Socratics speculated about an ideal beauty. They pursued it with the language of mathematics, asserting that objects look better when proportioned in accordance with the "golden ratio." They believed objects would appear more "complete" and "perfect" if they were symmetrical, with clean shapes in harmony with classical archetypes.
They hoped these principles would lead them to perfect beauty. Unfortunately, they didn't get very far before the goat-god yanked them back.
The Greeks were so confident that their culture was superior, imagine their surprise when the good citizens of Athens began to lose interest in high culture and stray back to the more earthy, passionate cults of their barbaric neighbors. Historian Arthur Koestler claims that Athenian gods lost their attraction as they became more formal and detached from base human emotions:
At an unknown date, but probably not much before the sixth century, the cult of Dionysus‑Bacchus, the 'raging' goat‑god of fertility and wine, spread from barbaric Thracia into Greece. The initial success of Bacchism was probably due to that general sense of frustration ... [that] the Olympian Pantheon had come to resemble an assembly of wax‑works, whose formalized worship could [not] satisfy truly religious needs.... A spiritual void tends to create emotional outbreaks; the Bacchae of Euripides, frenzied worshippers of the horned god....The Greeks discovered that their lofty aspirations were chained to their earthy goat-god origins. High culture could only take them so close to "perfection" before they ran out of chain.
Greek poets bemoaned the effect of Bacchism on their womenfolk: "Theban women leaving/Their spinning and their weaving/Stung with the maddening trance/Of Dionysus!"
Today we still admire the Greeks' smooth, classical ideals of beauty but we too remain tethered to the goat-god part of our nature. Art becomes less satisfying as it becomes too orderly, smooth and formal. We cannot polish and refine our way to perfection; beyond a certain point, perfection begins to weaken art rather than strengthen it.
Koestler described how the savvy Greeks absorbed and blunted the threat of wild Bacchism:
The outbreak seems to have been sporadic and short‑lived. The Greeks, being Greeks, soon realized that these excesses led neither to mystic union with God, nor back to nature, but merely to mass-hysteria.... The authorities seemed to have acted with eminent reasonableness: they promoted Bacchus‑Dionysus to the official Pantheon with a rank equal to Apollo's. His frenzy was tamed, his wine watered down, his worship regulated, and used as a harmless safety‑valve.The Greeks' wise technique for co-opting wildness is still employed by artists today. A carefully controlled picture often includes an uncontrolled splatter or eruption or rough line-- not enough to lose control of the picture, but enough to show that wildness still has a seat in the artist's pantheon:
Jeffrey Jones carefully captured facial features, but then indulged in a frenzy for her hair
Note how the great Ronald Searle gains power with from uncontrolled spatters and ink drops.
This sensitive portrait by Jack Unruh would not be nearly as potent if he had not gone back and roughed it up with that dense black and spattering.
Even the erudite Steinberg bows to the virility of non-cognitivism: he draws the icons of civilization with a light and lacy line, but adds strength with a rough, black scrape of a brush.
Pictures still pay tribute to the goat-god, and are rewarded with his strength and vitality


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Pronunciation: ek-sæng-gwin • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Without or lacking blood, having lost considerable blood. 2. Anemic, appearing to lack blood.
Notes: Today's Good Word belongs to a large extended family, including three fraternal twins, exsanguineous, exsanguinous, and exsanguious, with the same meaning. To drain blood out of something is to exsanguinate it while the state of being without blood is exsanguinity. Without the prefix ex- we get sanguine, which means, in addition to "bloody" and "blood-red", "hopeful, confident", a meaning going back to the days when blood was considered the humor that controlled good spirits.
In Play: Today's word provides the reason for faces turning white: "Buster's face became exsanguine at the sound of his pants ripping." However, exsanguine is more often applied to a sense of exhaustion in the sense of the phrase 'I feel drained', as in: "After six straight hours of shopping, Louise was so exsanguine that, when she returned home, she plopped immediately in her easy chair and was asleep in less than a minute."
Word History: Today's Good Word was among the hordes of words shanghaied from Latin via Old French. Latin exsanguis "bloodless" was based on ex "out (of)" + sanguis "blood". No one knows where sanguis came from; of all the Indo-European languages, it appears only in Latin. It devolved into French sang "blood", which English uses in phrases it also borrowed from French, sang-froid "coolness, detachment", literally "cold blood", and the deep red color, sang-de-boeuf. literally "blood of beef". The root appears in other words, too, such as consanguine "related by blood" and sangria. (Yuck! It will never taste the same again.) (We thank the very sanguine Sara Goldman, a woman with words in her blood, for her suggestion of today's very Good Word.)
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James Harrison. Mike Wallace. Rashard Mendenhall. Keenan Lewis. Willie Colon.
Just some of the names out the door in Pittsburgh, leaving fans to wonder if the Steelers -- on the heels of a disappointing 8-8 season -- are in trouble.
Free agency brought no relief. Instead of restocking the shelf, general manager Kevin Colbert issued radio silence. This well-respected and typically Teflon organization is suddenly drawing heat from critics. As Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote Sunday, "It's hard to see the plan. Plenty of people who watch the Steelers are worried."
Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is not one of them -- at least, that's what he said Thursday in an interview with KDKA-FM in Pittsburgh.
"I'm fine with people saying that we're going to be terrible and, 'Let's overlook them,' because that means our opponents are doing the same thing. I like that. I like being the hunter."
It's April, people. Let's pump the brakes on burial rites for an organization that hasn't suffered a losing season since 2003.
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The Victoria, Old Town, Swindon
Wednesday, July 9
Punk has flirted on the edges of mainstream music since its crusty beginnings, but it's bands like Gnarwolves which are van-guarding the increased interest in sweaty, one-minute outbursts being played to huge audiences.
This particular show was stressed as an apology to the Swindon punk scene for misprinting that the band would be playing in Swindon earlier in the year, when actually the gig was in Salisbury. Multiple times through the set, Gnarwolves admitted they had made a mistake, but added that they were overwhelmed with the attendance and the energy that the tiny Swindon punk scene had to offer.
The supports, With Ghosts and The Rebecca Riots, were suitably angsty and vicious, but the show was nearly stolen from the headliners by local punks, 2 Sick Monkeys. The band's repertoire of politically-charged tunes concerning all matters Swindon, as well as lead singer Peter Towers' incredible frontmanship, got the crowd chanting, cheering, laughing and singing along (when they could make out the words!)
When Gnarwolves finally took the stage, the audience were fired up and ready for the barrage of punk rock the band had to offer. The Brighton three-piece have never looked so much at ease as when blasting through hits such as Melody Has Big Plans and History Is Bunk.
It was a treat to hear three new songs, including the upcoming single, Smoking Kills - all three sounding like they could be Gnarwolves' best material yet.
The band's fan base has grown exponentially in the past year - I remember watching them perform to 30 people at 2000 Trees last year, and now they're opening the Main Stage on the Saturday at Reading Festival. Yet, unlike many small bands thrust into the spotlight so quickly, Gnarwolves are as charming and energetic as when they started, as well as being keen to play down their fame.
If it's furious, intense, witty punk, with a touch of thoughtfulness and the occasional Aldous Huxley reference you're after, Gnarwolves are a band you need to check out. - GEORGE TOMPKINS
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I am an entrepreneur of a small software developer company. The flagship product is developed by myself and my company grew up to 14 people. One of pride is that we've never have to be invested or loaned.
The core development team is 5 people. 3 are seniors and 2 are juniors.
After the first release, we've received many issues from our customers. Most of them are bug issues, customization needs, usage questions and upgrade requests.
The issues from customers are incoming many times everyday, so it takes little time or much time of our developers. Because of our product is a software development kit(SDK) so most of questions can be answered only from our developers. And, for resolving bug issues, developers must be involved. Estimating time to resolve bug is hard. I fully understand it. However, our developers insist they cannot set the any due date of each project because they are busy doing technical supports and bug fixes by issues from customers everyday. Of course, they never do overwork.
I suggested them an idea to divide the team into two parts: one for focusing on development by milestones, other for doing technical supports and bug fixes without setting due days. Then we could announce release plan officially. After the finish of release, two parts exchange the role for next milestone.
However, they say they "NO, because it is impossible to share knowledge and design document fully." They still say they cannot set the release date and they request me to alter the due date flexibly. They does not fix the due date of each milestone. Fortunately, our company is not loaned and invested so we are not chocked. But I think it is bad idea to keep this situation. I know the story of ant and grasshopper.
Our customers are tired of waiting forever of our release date. Companies consume limited time and money. If flexible due date without limit could be acceptable, could they accept flexible salary day?
What is the root cause of our problem? All that I want is to fix and achieve precisely due date of each milestone without losing frequent technical supports.
I think there must be solution for this situation. Please answer me.
Thanks in advance.
PS. Our tools and ways of project management are Trello, Mantis-like issue tracker, shared calendar software and scrum(collected cards into series of 'small and high completeness' projects).


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For those of you who are not familiar with the Random Ten, it's simple: fire up your musical platform of choice, hit the shuffle, and note the first ten songs that come up. Give the list a title, and then let everyone know in the comments! Oh, and no cheating to make your list more awesome and/or less embarrassing — violators will be labeled Barner and shunned for a period of no less than 30 minutes.
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