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Preached on the last Sunday of the year.
This vehement question is usually taken to be a reminder to the fickle Galatians that their Christian faith had brought upon them much suffering from the hands of their unbelieving brethren, and to imply an exhortation to faithfulness to the Gospel lest they should stultify their past brave endurance. Yielding to the Judaising teachers, and thereby escaping the 'offence of the Cross,' they would make their past sufferings vain. But it may be suggested that the word 'suffered' here is rather used in what is its known sense elsewhere, namely, with the general idea of feeling, the nature of the feeling being undefined. It is a touching proof of the preponderance of pain and sorrow that by degrees the significance of the word has become inextricably intertwined with the thought of sadness; still, it is possible to take it in the text as meaning experienced or felt, and to regard the Apostle as referring to the whole of the Galatians' past experience, and as founding his appeal for their steadfastness on all the joys as well as the sorrows, which their faith had brought them.
Taking the words in this more general sense they become a question which it is well for us to ask ourselves at such a time as this, when the calendar naturally invites us to look backwards and ask ourselves what we have made of all our experiences in the past, or rather what, by the help of them all, we have made of ourselves.
I. The duty of retrospect.
For almost any reason it is good for us to be delivered from our prevailing absorption in the present. Whatever counterpoises the overwhelming weight of the present is, so far, a blessing and a good, and whatever softens the heart and keeps up even the lingering remembrance of early, dewy freshness and of the high aspirations which, even for a brief space, elevated our past selves is gain amidst the dusty commonplaces of to-day. We see things better and more clearly when we get a little away from them, as a face is more distinctly visible at armslength than when held close.
But our retrospects are too often almost as trivial and degrading as is our absorption in the present, and to prevent memory from becoming a minister of frivolity if not of sin, it is needful that such a question as that of our text be urgently asked by each of us. Memory must be in closest union with conscience, as all our faculties must be, or she is of little use. There is a mere sentimental luxury of memory which finds a pensive pleasure in the mere passing out from the hard present into the soft light, not without illusion in its beams, of the 'days that are no more.' Merely to live over again our sorrows and joys without any clear discernment of what their effects on our moral character have been, is not the retrospect that becomes a man, however it might suit an animal. We have to look back as a man might do escaping from the ocean on to some frail sand-bank which ever breaks off and crumbles away at his very heels. To remember the past mainly as it affected our joy or our sorrow is as unworthy as to regard the present from the same point of view, and robs both of their highest worth. To remember is only then blessed and productive of its highest possible good in us, when the question of our text insists on being faced, and the object of retrospect is not to try to rekindle the cold coals of past emotions, but to ascertain what effect on our present characters our past experiences have had. We have not to turn back and try to gather some lingering flowers, but to look for the fruit which has followed the fallen blossoms.
II. The true test for the past.
The question of our text implies, as we have already suggested, that our whole lives, with all their various and often opposite experiences, are yet an ordered whole, having a definite end. There is some purpose beyond the moment to be served. Our joys and our sorrows, our gains and our losses, the bright hours and the dark hours, and the hours that are neither eminently bright nor supremely dark, our failures and our successes, our hopes disappointed or fulfilled, and all the infinite variety of condition and environment through which our varying days and years have led us, co-operate for one end. It is life that makes men; the infant is a bundle of possibilities, and as the years go on, one possible avenue of development after another is blocked. The child might have been almost anything; the man has become hardened and fixed into one shape.
But all this variety of impulses and complicated experiences need the co-operation of the man himself if they are to reach their highest results in him. If he is simply recipient of these external forces acting upon him, they will shape him indeed, but he will be a poor creature. Life does not make men unless men take the command of life, and he who lets circumstances and externals guide him, as the long water weeds in a river are directed by its current, will, from the highest point of view, have experienced the variations of a lifetime in vain.
No doubt each of our experiences has its own immediate and lower purpose to serve, and these purposes are generally accomplished, but beyond these each has a further aim which is not reached without diligent carefulness and persistent effort on our parts. If we would be sure of what it is to suffer life's experiences in vain, we have but to ask ourselves what life is given us for, and we all know that well enough to be able to judge how far we have used life to attain the highest ends of living. We may put these ends in various ways in our investigation of the results of our manifold experiences. Let us begin with the lowest -- we received life that we might learn truth, then if our experience has not taught us wisdom it has been in vain. It is deplorable to have to look round and see how little the multitude of men are capable of forming anything like an independent and intelligent opinion, and how they are swayed by gusts of passion, by blind prejudice, by pretenders and quacks of all sorts. It is no less sad for us to turn our eyes within and discover, perhaps not without surprise and shame, how few of what we are self-complacent enough to call our opinions are due to our own convictions.
If we ever are honest enough with ourselves to catch a glimpse of our own unwisdom, the question of our text will press heavily upon us, and may help to make us wiser by teaching us how foolish we are. An infinite source of wisdom is open to us, and all the rich variety of our lives' experiences has been lavished on us to help us, and what have we made of it all?
But we may rise a step higher and remember that we are made moral creatures. Therefore, whatever has not developed infant potentialities in us, and made them moral qualities, has been experienced in vain. 'Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined end and way.' Life is meant to make us love and do the good, and unless it has produced that effect on us, it has failed. If this be true, the world is full of failures, like the marred statues in a bad sculptor's studio, and we ourselves have earnestly to confess that the discipline of life has too often been wasted upon us, and that of us the divine complaint from of old has been true: 'In vain have I smitten thy children, they have received no correction.'
There is no sadder waste than the waste of sorrow, and alas! we all know how impotent our afflictions have been to make us better. But not afflictions only have failed in their appeal to us, our joys have as often been in vain as our sorrows, and memory, when it turns its lamp on the long past, sees so few points at which life has taught us to love goodness, and be good, that she may well quench her light and let the dead past bury its dead.
But we must rise still higher, and think of men as being made for God, and as being the only creatures known to us who are capable of religion. 'Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.' And this chief end is in fullest harmony with the lower ends to which we have just referred, and they will never be realised in their fullest completeness unless that completeness is sought in this the chief end. From of old meditative souls have known that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and that that fear is as certainly the beginning of goodness. It was not an irrelevant rebuke to the question, 'What good thing shall I do?' when Jesus set the eager young soul who asked it, to justify to himself his courteous and superficial application to Him of the abused and vulgarised title of 'Good,' and pointed him to God as the only Being to whom that title, in its perfectness, could be given. If 'there is none good but one, that is God,' man's goodness must be drawn from Him, and morality without religion will in theory be incomplete, and in practice a delusion. If, then, men are made to need God, and capable of possessing Him, and of being possessed by Him, then the great question for all of us is, has life, with all its rapid whirl of changing circumstance and varying fortunes, drawn us closer to God, and made us more fit to receive more of Him? So supreme is this chief end that a life which has not attained it can only be regarded as 'in vain' whatever other successes it may have attained. So unspeakably more important and necessary is it, that compared with it all else sinks into nothingness; hence many lives which are dazzling successes in the eyes of men are ghastly failures in reality.
Now, if we take these plain principles with us in our retrospect of the past year we shall be launched on a very serious inquiry, and brought face to face with a very penitent answer. Some of us may have had great sorrows, and the tears may be scarcely dry upon our cheeks: some of us may have had great gladnesses, and our hearts may still be throbbing with the thrill: some of us may have had great successes, and some of us heavy losses, but the question for us to ask is not of the quality of our past experiences, but as to their effects upon us. Has life been so used by us as to help us to become wiser, better, more devout? And the answer to that question, if we are honest in our scrutiny of ourselves, and if memory has not been a mere sentimental luxury, must be that we have too often been but unfaithful recipients alike of God's mercies and God's chastisements, and have received much of the discipline of life, and remained undisciplined. The question of our text, if asked by me, would be impertinent, but it is asked of each of us by the stern voice of conscience, and for some of us by the lips of dear ones whose loss has been among our chiefest sufferings. God asks us this question, and it is hard to make-believe to Him.
III. The best issue of the retrospect.
The world says, 'What I have written I have written,' and there is a very solemn and terrible reality in the thought of the irrevocable past. Whether life has achieved the ends for which it was given or no, it has achieved some ends. It may have made us into characters the very opposite of God's intention for us, but it has made us into certain characters which, so far as the world sees, can never be unmade or re-made. The world harshly preaches the indelibility of character, and proclaims that the Ethiopian may as soon be expected to change his skin or the leopard his spots as the man accustomed to do evil may learn to do well. That dreary fatalism which binds the effects of a dead past on a man's shoulders, and forbids him to hope that anything will obliterate the marks of 'what once hath been,' is in violent contradiction to the large hope brought into the world by Jesus Christ. What we have written we have written, and we have no power to erase the lines and make the sheet clean again, but Jesus Christ has taken away the handwriting 'that was against us,' nailing it to His cross. Instead of our old sin-worn and sin-marked selves, He proffers to each of us a new self, not the outcome of what we have been, but the image of what He is and the prophecy of what we shall be. By the great gift of holiness for the future by the impartation of His own life and spirit, Jesus makes all things new. The Gospel recognises to the full how bad some who have received it were, but it can willingly admit their past foulness, because it contrasts with all that former filth their present cleanness, and to the most inveterately depraved who have trusted in Christ rejoices to say, 'Ye were washed, ye were sanctified, ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.'


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February 9, 2011 at 11:33 am #301122
so got a friend in poland…and he'll be sending me some snails, so I thought…do they have any fish he can send? does anyone know what can be found in the wild?
or can point me to some website?February 9, 2011 at 12:46 pm #340875
i fish in poland at least once a year,the father in law is crazy about fishing,theres plenty of carp,eels,crayfish but my favorite has to be the northern pike.
lots of little stickle backs aswell.
robFebruary 9, 2011 at 12:56 pm #340876
any small fish apart from the sticklebacks?February 9, 2011 at 3:36 pm #340880
Here's a starting point mate…
Isn't Malta particularly tough to import non native species into? I know they have ridiculously stupid laws on reptiles, fish and mammals etc.February 9, 2011 at 4:59 pm #340885
might have found a wayFebruary 9, 2011 at 5:09 pm #340886
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The concept of Fintech got a breakthrough in Denmark in 2015, reaching both the press and the political environment. However, the scene is not mainstream yet, and it can be difficult for outsiders to maintain an overview of the scene. In this short piece of writing, I have tried to map out the most relevant players within the Danish fintech industry. I am aware that some companies might be missing, but I have had to prioritize. Ping me if I have missed your company.
Peer to business platforms
With the origin of interconnected web platforms it is possible for companies to communicate directly with potential investors or supporters. Some platforms have seen an opportunity in facilitating partnerships between privates and companies. These new partnerships made possible by platforms, are disrupting the established financing scene.
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Lending-based crowdfunding is investing in loans to businesses or people in exchange for an interest. Measured in dollars (or kroner) it is the most popular type of crowdfunding globally. It is also very popular in Denmark, where two of the biggest players are:
Lendino www.lendino.dk
Flexfunding www.flexfunding.dk
2. Reward-based crowdfunding
Reward-based crowdfunding is probably the most well-known type of crowdfunding. Here, backers of a project invest in products that have not been made. In exchange for the entrepreneur developing the product and delivering in the future. Popular platforms include Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Combined, the platforms have funded billions of dollars worth of projects since 2008. The local Danish platform is www.boomerang.dk, specializing in projects for creatives.
3. Equity-based crowdfunding
Equity crowdfunding also known as crowdinvesting, is the sale of shares in a company to a crowd of investors. Investors buy the right of becoming shareholder in the company, which means the right to vote on decisions, participate in the general assembly and to earn from potential buyout. While equity crowdfunding is immensely popular in neighbouring countries, it is due to legislative red tape not widespread in Denmark. However, Danish investors can invest freely in UK and Sweden based platforms. Some of them have a Danish office:
FundedByMe www.FundedByMe.com
Crowdcube www.CrowdCube.com
Invoice trading
Invoice trading enable companies to enhance liquidity and overcome long payment terms from customers. It translates invoices into an available asset class for investors who earn on the invoice discount from the selling company. In Denmark, you can start invoice trading using
Dansk Faktura Børs https://www.danskfakturabors.dk/
Portfolio Management
Tracking performance of unlisted portfolio company can be challenging for both professional and non-professional investors. Large portfolios increase the challenge. Portfolio management platforms enable owners of unlisted shares to compile their investments and connect with companies all in one place. Copenhagen based CapDesk is a platform offering those services to investors. See www.capdesk.com.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I am the founder of Capdesk)
Alternative Banking Platforms
With current interest levels, traditional banks are threatened on their core business. Bank customers are experiencing this with the increase of various service fees. The low interest level is pushing banks to find new business models. This has created market opportunities for fintech startups around the World. Here follows an overview of Danish companies pursuing services related to banking.
Personal Mobile Banking
Lunarway www.lunarway.com is a danish startup, operating as a mobile bank for private consumers. It is an alternative to your traditional bank, making banking more personal and enable users more involvement in their private financing.
Company Banking
Many self employed, startups and small companies have a hard time understanding and managing their business-related expenses. Holvi www.holvi.com is a bank made for them. It is backed by the Danish investor Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and is operating from Finland. However, it is not regulated to operate on the danish market.
Housing Loans
Have you ever thought about taking a mortgage loan without a bank or a mortgage credit institution? Udenombanken www.Udenombanken.dk is a platform for mortage lending, providing consumers with access to professional investors bidding to provide the mortgage. Financing your next house have never been more transparent.
Developing Countries
Coderstrust www.coderstrust.com is a danish startup that allows privates to lend and sponsor a coding education for unemployed in India and Bangladesh. In return, the lender gets an interest once the student starts earning money thanks to his/her skills developed.
Stock Exchange
The stock exchange has not seen much innovation the last 30 years. However, some companies are trying to innovate with new technologies .
Social trading
If you are dedicated trader, you probably enjoy to discuss trades in spare time with friends. So why not to follow each others trades? The phenomenon of combining a social platform with trading was made popular by the Israel based eToro. However, Danish Saxo Bank has developed a solution on its own called TradingFloor. www.tradingfloor.com
Automated trading
If you can put a technological overlay on top of the regular stock exchange, that places your trades for you. Then, it is possible to automate your trades as well as to build and test strategies. Danish Tradeworks www.tradeworks.io has made such a platform for FOREX trading.
There is a lot to be improved in the way we handle our currency. The most disrupting phenomenons within currency is blockchain technology, the emergence of crypto and bitcoins. Danish Coinify is amongst the leading companies globally in the field of bitcoins. Using their platform, everyone can trade bitcoins. See www.coinify.com.
Customer payment solutions
The boom in internet business have created an immense need for innovations within payment solutions. The early creators, Paypal, are being challenged by new companies such as Swedish Unicorn Klarna and a few very interesting Danish startups. Here are a couple:
Payment services
The established danish company www.Clearhaus.com has made a platform that lets all companies easiliy setup and handle a payment system that can be used with Visa and Mastercard.
Loyalty Card Links
Remembering discount codes or making sure to redeem the right discount is close to impossible. Danish Birdback www.birdback.com have developed a solution that link credit cards directly discount codes, avoiding to redeem the wrong discount.
Bitcoin Payments
As a company, it can be resourceful to setup a system that allows customers to pay using bitcoins. Coinify coinify.com has created a platform that allows companies to easily get started.
Managing and invoicing suppliers can be a tedious task for companies. Danish Tradeshift, backed by Morten Lund, launched a platform that allows companies to manage all their suppliers. It is considered today as one of the most successful danish Fintech companies. See tradeshift.com.
Company Administration
Need help with corporate housekeeping, accounting and shareholder management? You are not alone. Many companies, are burdened by administration and wish to minimize resource spending. Several platforms have appeared to help them.
Accounting Software
Keeping track of bookkeeping, invoices and expenses is a pain for most companies. Accounting platforms such as danish Dinero www.dinero.dkbacked by Martin Thorborg as well as Billys Billing https://www.billy.dk/help reducing many of these administration problems to companies.
Shareholder management
Keeping track of ownership, dilution, different types of shares, shares value, documents and investor communication is a big pain and many companies struggle with their corporate housekeeping. Capdesk www.capdesk.com is a platform that enable companies to manage their shares and shareholders. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I am the founder of Capdesk)
Wrap up
I started this overview with the belief that I could create it in couple of hours. But due to all the great things happening and all the promising things happening in the Danish Fintech sector, it took way longer than that. It is truly amazing to follow and take part in this sector. To all working in the sector -Keep up the good work!


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The Webster University baseball and softball teams have been through a lot in their respective seasons. Columnist John Pohl chronicles their experiences in this week's Pohl's Perspective.
Sports writer John Pohl says to ignore all the negativity in the sports world and focus on the outstanding athletes Webster has to offer, like Gretchen Rieger, Jenny Howard and Trisha Thompson.
Because of a difficult nonconference schedule, the Webster University softball team has started the season 4-12. Journal sports writer John Pohl explains why that may not be a bad thing, though.
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Gwen Williams, the women's basketball team's leading scorer, has been suspended indefinitely from the team for academic reasons. See how that has affected the Gorloks in their two games without their star guard.
The Gorloks split their two SLIAC contests this week without leading scorer Gwen Williams, who is appealing an indefinite suspension.
The Gorloks continue to struggle in the early goings of the season, despite the great play of newcomers Gwen Williams and Cassie Endicott.
Read sports writer John Pohl's preview of the Gorloks' SLIAC opener against the Blue Jays.


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14th July 2011: Bastille Day Fireworks in Paris.
After the Military Parade I went back to La Defense at night to watch fireworks organized on the Eiffel Tower. Don't miss the video down there.
I was located at about 4 km from the Eiffel Tower and I had to use the max range of my zoom (270 mm). I fixed the camera to a fence with my Joby tripod and the wind was making it shake a bit. Fireworks lasted for about 20 minutes, I started by taking only pictures and after a while, I switched to video. Next time, I'll probably try to get closer and make better shots.
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In a sign of how our desparate age of austerity is pitching ordinary working people against each other, we spoke with a man, currently of no fixed abode. We'll call him David.
David, 46, comes originally from Oxfordshire. In a sign of tragic difficulties he would face later in life, though, he had to move about the Home Counties throughout his formative years. Indeed, his final years of secondary school were spent in Berkshire.
David's working life has been no less difficult. Counting himself lucky to be in a job still, he is required to work demanding hours and travel constantly around the country, staying for a few nights at a time in accommodation provided by his employer in central London and Buckinghamshire, only occasionally managing to make it back to either of his family homes in Oxfordshire and West London.
David despairs at other people who, though perhaps less fortunate than himself and not in employment, claim their entitlement of state benefits to put a roof over their heads and over their family's heads.
When we spoke with David, he put his position starkly. 'Look,' he told us, 'I know what it's like to struggle. I know what's it's like to find yourself on the wrong side of the rules when you're desperate. I know how disempowering it can be to live of state hand-ours. When I claimed £82,450 over five years from the taxpayer to help me keep a house in London and a second home in Oxfordshire, I felt wretched. By the end, my life felt empty, wasted. I couldn't live with myself. It got so bad, I even returned £680 of it that I'd spent on DIY.'
When we asked how he'd managed to turn his life around after that difficult period came to an end in 2010, David's broke down in tears. 'It's been tough - a real personal hell. They've been times I've slipped back into the old ways. I mean, the £30,000 kitchen in the new works place above the shop - sometimes I don't know how I can sleep at night. But deep down, I know I'm a better person when I'm not living off the taxpayer.'
Keeping David strong is his personal belief in family. 'At the end of the day, we can't go on living off the taxpayer. Families need to look out for each other. Without a strong family backing you every step of the way, life's so much tougher. That's a lesson my multi-millionnaire father taught me, and I hold on to that thought every day.'


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Vijender's sparring partner Ram Singh arrested in drug haul case
Ram Singh, the sparring partner of Vijender Singh, was today arrested by the Fatehgarh Sahib police for custodial interrogation. He is the 16th accused who has been arrested in this case.delhi Updated: Apr 03, 2013, 21:12 IST
Ram Singh, the sparring partner of Vijender Singh, was arrested by the Fatehgarh Sahib police for custodial interrogation. He is the 16th accused who has been arrested in this case.
Police seized five kgs of a party drug from the house of Ram Singh's relative in Sangrur. Five kgs of methamphetamine was seized from the house of Ravicharan Singh, Ram Singh's brother-in-law, on Sunday, police said.
Pseudoephedrine, a banned performance enhancing substance, was also seized from the house, they said, adding that Ravicharan was not present when the recovery was made.
Ravicharan, himself a one-time state level boxer, has featured in some Punjabi music albums. Police suspect that he has gone into hiding.
After the seizure, police said they were probing all angles in the backdrop of the recent drug haul, in which the key accused is alleged drug smuggler Anoop Singh Kahlon.
Kahlon alias Ruby, the alleged Canada-based drug dealer, was arrested about a month back and 26 kg of heroin worth Rs 130 crore seized from his residence in Zirakpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh.
Earlier, Vijender has denied any involvement in the drug racket. The name of Vijender, a DSP with Haryana Police, had cropped up in the drug haul case after his wife's SUV was found outside Kahlon's residence in Zirakpur when the contraband was seized.
The case took a new twist when one of Vijender's fellow pugilists Dinesh Kumar disputed the claims of Punjab Police.
Dinesh, an Asian Games silver medallist, alleged that the Punjab Police had planted Vijender's car outside the flat from where heroin was recovered.
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The One and Only Thanksgivukkah
It's being called a once-in-an-eternity event: the convergence this week of the American holiday of Thanksgiving with the first day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It's the first time it's happened since 1888, and it won't occur again until the year 79,811, according to one scientist's calculation. And Thanksgiving plus Hanukkah equals opportunity for marketers and wordsmiths alike, for whom the brand-new holiday dubbed "Thanksgivukkah" is a bonanza of merchandising... and wordplay.
Perplexed? Here's a little background: Judaism follows a lunar calendar, so holidays' dates move around on the Gregorian, or solar, calendar. Hanukkah, an eight-day festival of lights that commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE, begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, which can fall anywhere from late November to mid-December. (Jewish holidays begin at sundown, so the first Hanukkah candle will be lit on November 27 and the second on November 28, Thanksgiving Day.)
American Thanksgiving, which loosely commemorates a 1621 harvest celebration in Plymouth, Massachusetts, wasn't standardized on the calendar until 1863, when President Lincoln proclaimed the date as the final Thursday in November. In 1939, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved it to the fourth Thursday in November to bolster retail sales; after an initial uproar, with some states sticking to the "Republican" Thanksgiving over the Democratic "Franksgiving," Congress in 1941 made FDR's change official.
Thanksgivukkah has a more straightforward origin story that, like the original Thanksgiving, starts in Massachusetts. In 2011, Dana Gitell, a marketing specialist in the Boston area, noticed the holidays' overlap on a five-year Jewish calendar. On November 15, 2012, she created the Thanksgivukkah Facebook page; a couple of weeks later she filed for trademark protection of "Thanksgivukkah." (According to a story in the Boston Globe, Gitell briefly considered "Hanukkahgiving" until "the more melodious Thanksgivukkah came to her." A story in Time credits Gitell with "Hanugiving" as well.) With an artist friend, Gitell created a line of T-shirts and gifts that are sold through the Judaica website Modern Tribe, with a portion of the proceeds donated to a charity.
"American Gothikkah" poster, a parody of Grant Wood's 1930 painting.
A Thanksgivukkah T-shirt — "8 Days of Light, Liberty & Latkes" — spoofs the 1969
Woodstock poster. Latkes are potato pancakes traditionally eaten during Hanukkah.
A few independent souls have promoted alternate renditions of the holiday, including Turkukkah (a spelling that looks vaguely Finnish) and Chanukksgiving. The 125-year-old Manishewitz Company, the largest manufacturer of kosher foods in the United States, spells it Thanksgivukah and is spending at least $2.5 million on a marketing campaign that includes "fusion" recipes (and a recipe contest), e-greetings, and an e-mail push. The single-K spelling reflects "an alternative English-language spelling, Chanukah," according to a New York Times article.
A very young entrepreneur, 9-year-old Asher Weintraub of New York City, saw "Thanksgivukkah" and created another blended word and the product to go with it: the Menurkey™, a menorah (Hanukkah candelabrum) shaped like a turkey. (Yes, Asher, or more likely his parents, filed for trademark protection.) Someone else decided that the candle-holder should be called a Turkorah. The blended holiday has also inspired gastronomic blends like the "Thanksgivukutlets" on Manishewitz's website and the Challurkey (pronounced with a guttural ch), a turkey-shped pull-apart challah (Jewish egg bread) introduced by Bibi's Bakery & Café in Los Angeles. The Challurkey proved so popular that the bakery stopped taking orders a week after it announced the product. (Shades of the cronut!)
The Thanksgivukkah food blends follow a by-now-venerable Thanksgiving tradition of invention: We've had turducken, turbaconducken, veggieducken, and cherpumple around for several Thanksgivings now. But the Jewish angle may revive interest in a portmanteau food introduced in the TV comedy "The Big Bang Theory." In the episode, which aired in 2009, the Jewish character Howard tells the gang he can't join them for Thanksgiving because his mother always invites the relatives and cooks "tur-briska-fil" – turkey stuffed with brisket stuffed with gefilte fish. "It's not as good as it sounds," Howard cautions.
While Thanksgivukkah is a recent neologism, the combined-observance concept is familiar by now. Other Thanksgiving variations have included Friendsgiving (a Thanksgiving celebration sans family, documented as early as 2004) and Planksgiving, which is either a month-long fitness challenge (perform as many "plank" positions as you can) or a holiday invented by the writers of the TV show "Hart of Dixie" in which residents of the fictional town of Bluebell, Alabama, dress up as pirates.
A few years ago I wrote about Chrisumukkah, Chrismahanukwanzakah, and other invented winter holidays; last month I caught a reference to Diwaloween, a blend of the Hindu holiday of Diwali and Halloween, which occurred close together this year. There's also "Falloween," which, Word Spy tells us, "unites the words fall and Halloween to recognize the lengths to which many people now go to celebrate the latter." The online coupon site RetailMeNot coined OctoNovemCember for approximately the same reason. November is also "Movember," when men grow facial hair to raise awareness of prostate cancer. In a column published earlier this year, Ben Zimmer observed that "September through December seem to lend themselves to creative blending, perhaps because the names form a prosodic pattern."
The -ukkah suffix isn't quite as cooperative, but that hasn't discouraged at least one intrepid neologizer. Writing for Slate, Ben Blatt offered "a handy guide to future Hanukkah overlaps," from the obvious Chrismukkah (occurring in 2016) to the more arcane Mardi Granukkah (Mardi Gras plus Hanukkah; February 7, 10632), Valentinukkah's Day (in the year 11506), and April Foolsukkah (in 22203).
Here in 2013, Thanksgivukkah's uniqueness seems to have inspired a heaping helping of creativity, much of it bilingual as well as bicultural. Don't be surprised to hear the occasional "Gobble tov!" — a pun on the Jewish greeting mazel tov — or even some painful puns on the order of "a day we'll never relivukkah." It's all in good fun — and, for Americans, a chance to enjoy two celebrations of gratitude in a single week. Pass the latkes and cranberry sauce ... and start stuffing that tur-briska-fil.


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We will have 60 outside vendor booths & food trucks at this event!
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Akram Vignan is a practically applied spiritual science and is a 'shortcut' path to liberation.READ more
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Located 20 kms from Ahmedabad, Simandhar City is a place for spiritual progress. It is known as "A Clean City, Green City & Pure City!!!"Read More
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Dadashri: Man has to marry for his food! He may think to himself, 'I am the bread winner,' but who will do the cooking? The woman knows that although she knows how to cook, she wonders who is going bring home the money. This is how the two get married and organize a company. After that, there will even be children. Once the seed of a squash is planted, will it not naturally give rise to many squashes? A squash will grow at every leaf of the vine. This is the same with humans except that the squash does not say, "These are all my offspring." Only humans claim, "These are my children."
The humans are considered to be unprotected and destitute, because of their dependency on the intellect. No other living entity is dependent upon the intellect and therefore they are all protected and sheltered. Those who have protection can never be unhappy. Only the human species experiences unhappiness. This constitutes misuse of the intellect.
Man runs around in vain chasing illusionary happiness and when his wife turns against him, he realizes that this worldly life is not meant for enjoyment or indulging in. Yet, he forgets this fact again the very next moment! Because of this illusion he takes such a beating, it renders him completely oblivious to the reality.
Man remembers God when his wife is sulking and will not speak with him, but once she starts talking to him, he is ready to put God and everything else aside. What suffocation! Do you think your suffering is going to end this way? Do you think your unhappiness will cease by you spending a few moments with God? Your internal torment is abated for the duration you are with God but otherwise the furnace within continues to burn! The fire is constantly burning, without a moment's relief. Unless and until you acquire the knowledge of your Self, until you have realization of, 'My real nature is pure Soul,' this fire will burn relentlessly. Even when your daughter is getting married, there is suffering within. It is constantly there. What is the meaning of this worldly life? It is nothing but entanglements of suffering. This body also that has taken hold of you is also an entanglement. Can anyone ever have fondness for entanglements? It is a wonder indeed that people have fascination and fondness for the worldly life! There is a difference between the fishing net and the worldly net. An escape from the fishing net is possible if one can cut the net, but there is no escape whatsoever from this worldly net, except upon death.
1) This worldly life is nothing but entrapment. Once one is trapped, he cannot escape. One cannot even get out of this mud if he gets deep into it. The more he tries to get out, the deeper he sinks.
2) The whole worldly life is in the form of net (which catches us). One frees himself from nylon net and becomes entangled in a silk one. Only a free man can free us from these nets.
3) The path to Ultimate Liberation (moksha) is not difficult. The worldly life is difficult. The path to Ultimate Liberation is the easiest; compared to it even making rice is more difficult to make.
You can attain Self-Realization by the process of Gnan Vidhi.


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Labour MEPs: EU must stick to its principles on rights and freedoms in deciding which countries to admit
Labour MEPs have said the European Union must stick to its principles on the justice, rights, freedom and security when it comes to assessing which countries are fit for admission.
The Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiation, Johannes Hahn, presented the 2015 EU Enlargement Package to MEPs this week, saying the Commission "will continue to focus our efforts on the rule of law", including judicial reforms, and tackling organised crime and corruption.
He also says there will be a "strong focus on fundamental rights", including freedom of expression and fighting discrimination, notably against the LGBTI community and Roma, and on the functioning of democratic institutions and public administration reform.
Richard Howitt MEP, Labour's European Parliament spokesperson on foreign affairs, and Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group co-ordinator, said:
"The Commission has our support in emphasizing the rule of law and fundamental rights in its commitment to open negotiating chapters 23 and 24 – those on justice, freedom and security – with Turkey and fYR Macedonia in particular.
"If the EU wants new cooperation that should involve new money, not reassigning monies already earmarked for the Instrument for Pre-Accession.
"To do this denies the long-term investment in the interests of the countries of the Western Balkans and of Turkey, and risks undermining cohesion between refugees and host communities in situations which are already volatile in the short-term.
"If we say we are concerned about a return to tensions and nationalism in the Western Balkan region, Europe must be careful not to risk provoking it ourselves.
"On Turkey, we welcome the idea of opening new, relevant negotiation chapters. We also consider Turkey as a central partner in facing the migration crisis, as well as a major player in solving the conflict in Syria.
"However, we express our grave concern about violations of rights of assembly, of press freedom and of minority rights, particularly during the electoral period.
"It is also important that the Enlargement Commissioner does all he can to encourage Turkey to restore the peace process with the Kurds, and for him and the whole European Union to make all efforts to support reconciliation on the island of Cyprus.
"Both of these objectives are first and foremost in the interests of all the peoples directly affected themselves, but also in the interests of advancing accession negotiations with Turkey too.
"The refugee crisis must not distort EU enlargement policy. The refugee crisis must be dealt with its own right but so must enlargement countries."
Afzal Khan MEP, member of the European Parliament foreign affairs committee, and S&D Group spokesperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina, added:
"EU enlargement policy is an important tool and we need to accelerate its process to strengthen social, political and economic stability and democracy in the Western Balkans region.
"The refugee crisis and the challenges it brings must not be allowed to threaten the Western Balkans reform progress and to trigger old conflicts. As the main transit area, the Western Balkans cannot be forgotten nor left alone.
"We must use this challenge to work even more closely together, demonstrating solidarity and putting our values into practice.
"I am pleased, that after years of the stalemate in Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession process, some progress has been achieved and the country is slowly moving forward again.
"This momentum needs to be intensified and the EU must assist in this."


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Currently we have 22 categories of Hudson Valley Heroes and we hope that expands so we can recognize more people doing all types of amazing things.


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So, we are half way through the New England summer, it's been slow for us at the museum. We are still transitioning from a travelling institution to one of brick & mortar. I wonder how we found ourselves setting up shop in Mansfield. I walk in faith and that is the short explanation. Now , work it out. This month Boston will welcome the National Association of Black Journalist to the Hynes as well as the New England Conference of Delta's. This is an opportunity for us to network and spread the word as bout our existence. We will be on Boylston street passing out our flyers and rack cards as well as making sure that they are in the preferred hotels. We're offering discount to attendees and their families. We have an exhibit in our entrance featuring Blacks in Journalism and our gift shop and fashion room will be dressed in the Red & white for the sorrors.
We have been diligently working on our fall schedule so make sure to check that out. We will add in advance ticket purchases some of the guest speakers are AMAZING sure to be a big draw!!! We are still trying to get the online store operating. We're getting there. so this is our new blog
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Can we see any baby animals at LCTW?
Although we do not breed animals at LCTW as we need the space for our rescued wildlife, we do take in orphaned infant animals through our rescue programme occasionally. This excludes the breeding of species which are part of breed and release programmes, in collaboration with global conservation projects.


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Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin – 15/5/17
On May 10, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; sent a congratulatory message to Mr. Emanuel Macron, newly elected President of the Republic of France.
"France has been and continues to be, one of the powerful and foremost countries of the European family, that today makes important contributions in spreading universal values and establishment of peace in the world. For the coming years, the French people believing in your abilities, avowed values and experience, have entrusted you with the responsible mission of leading the nation.
We are confident that during your term, the relations between Armenia and France will continue to develop. The solid basis of which is the centuries-old friendship of our peoples, and the active involvement of the Armenian community living and engaging in the social, political and cultural life of France.", stated His Holiness in part.
The Catholicos of All Armenians wished for Almighty God to support the newly elected President and grant him successful endeavors for the welfare of the friendly country of France.


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Back to Dyeing
I teach first grade, and it's summer break. Time to rest up and do the things I never have time for during the school year.
The other day I just kinda felt like doing something for my soul. Something that would bring me back to my roots in fiber art.
I used to dye everything I could get my hands on, and the results were surprising. The stuff you dye with doesn't always make the color you expect.
But not with coffee! You can count on coffee to give you a rich brown, and it doesn't fade.
I had a bunch of old coffee I was saving - because I can't throw anything away - so now was the perfect time to use it up!
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I'm creating some weaving kits that feature vintage yarns from my stash, and this fluffy pink mohair looked beautiful in my meadows kit.
But I needed something rich and earthy for my woodlands kit. So I decided to overdye the pink yarn with coffee.
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The yarn was on a cone, so the first step was to reel it into a hank.
My father made me this yarn reeler - I think he loved weaving equipment as much as I did.
Before dyeing, it's a good idea to wash out any finishes the yarn manufacturer used to make the yarn soft. You don't have to do this, but it makes the dye spread evenly throughout the yarn. And it also makes sure that the yarn doesn't have any chemicals on it that might change the color of your dye bath.
I love Fels Naptha, it's an old-fashioned soap that's gentle on yarn, and it smells so nice!
You can get it at any grocery store, and of course Amazon too!
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Make some soap flakes by rubbing the bar on a grater.
...and add the soap flakes
The pot needs to be enamel because if you dye the yarn in a metal pot, it can change the color of the dye.
Be sure to keep all dyeing pots and utensils separate from the ones you use to cook with - even if it's all natural, you still should make a habit of keeping all the dyeing equipment separate.
Treat wool like you treat yourself, you wouldn't get in a bathtub filled with boiling hot water! A nice warm bath is just right.
And no roughhousing! Wool will felt up if you agitate it, so just move it around gently to help the soap sink in.
At the last minute, I decided to add some loopy mohair yarn. So move over fluffy pink!
While all of this yarn prep was happening, I got the coffee going.
I made one strong pot of coffee after another and saved it in plastic bowls.
Like I said before, all the coffee I was using was old. I'd been saving my stale ground coffee and instant coffees for a while, waiting for a good time to dye with them!
I poured all the instant coffee into the plastic bowls too.
While the coffee was brewing, I went through my favorite old dyeing book.
I wore it out back in my dyeing days of youth.
It's out of print now, but I've found some beautiful new books for you! You'll find them at the end of this post.
But if you ever come across this one, grab it!
If you want the color to stay in your wool, you need what's called a mordant. A mordant makes the dye adhere to the yarn, and the color won't wash out.
Some plants come with a mordant right inside them.
Tannin is a natural mordant found in tea.
But coffee needs some help. If I didn't use a mordant, the color could wash out.
Since this whole dyeing project was spur of the moment, I had to find something in my kitchen that would work.
Yay! I found some Alum way back in the spice cabinet.
My other spices are good for dyeing too, but that's another blog post!
The wool was all done soaking in the pot of soapy water.
I dumped it all into the sink,
filled the pot with warm water, and gently put the wool back into the pot.
I swished it in the clear water a bit then dumped it in the sink again.
Then I refilled the pot with warm water,
and this time I sprinkled in some Alum.
My apologies to anyone who wants exact measurements. My goal was to nurture my soul and have some fun, so I dumped the whole canister in!
But here's what Gentle Dyes tells us:
For 4 ounces of dry wool, use:
1 1/2 tablespoons Alum and 1 gallon of water
Four ounces of wool is not very much! That's why I just used it all up.
and simmered it on the stove for one hour.
After an hour on the stove, I dumped the hot wool into the sink to drain.
And the wool jumps in after!
It's important to gently stir the yarn so the coffee color gets distributed evenly.
But it's also important to experiment a little, too! I threw in a ball of the loopy yarn.
Nope. It wasn't washed or mordanted, but I wanted to see what would happen. Would the yarn come out kind of ombre, going from the light inside the core of the ball to darker on the outside?
I figured there was enough Alum in there from the other wool to get the ball mordanted.
I simmered the pot for an hour or so, then because I wanted to get the richest brown possible, I let it soak overnight.
And hung it up to dry.
Did it get that ombre effect, going from light to darker?
I wound it into a skein so I could see if the inside of the ball came out lighter than the outside.
It didn't make any difference, probably because the ball was not would very tightly. Maybe I could try winding tighter next time.
But the color is beautifully mottled, don't you think?
Alum contains aluminum, and that's harmful to plants and animals. I didn't realize this until I poured my coffee dyebath into my potted plant on the patio.
The entire plant wilted away.
Then I read a section from Harvesting Color, where she explains how some chemicals can be toxic, and how to properly dispose of the dyebath.
I figured that if you cooked with Alum, it must be okay for plants, well I was wrong!
Here's what I should have done:
* diluted the dyebath with lots of water before poured it on anything.
* used the dyebath over again to make the concentration of alum less harmful to the plants
* read the book first - hmmmmm...
The plant has grown back nicely, so all is not lost. But my lesson is that I need to be more careful when I'm making dye choices.
And maybe not dump the whole canister in next time.
...and I hope you will too.
I've used these books on many dyeing adventures. They are still excellent sources, but since they were written so long ago, most of the illustrations are line drawings. Printing color cost too much back then.
If you'd like to grow your own plants to dye with, this book will guide you through the best plants to add to your garden, and how to dye with them.
North American Dye Plants
The beautiful line drawings help you identify each plant.
Navajo and Hopi Dyes
Since I live in Arizona, I found this book to be the most relevant for the plants I could find around me.
New Books
I bought these two books recently. They're both excellent!
Harvesting Color features beautiful photography, and focuses on earth-friendly dyeing.
It nurtures the granola eater in me.
Wild Color is a bit more scientific, and gives examples of how each dye is affected by different additives, creating an array of colors from each plant.
When you go to these books on Amazon, you know what Amazon will do... show you a whole bunch more books to choose from. All I can say is that I too, want them all!
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Nicholas Humphrey's Soul Searching: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief claims to be a "devastating critique" of the paranormal. The author's reputation as a psychologist, his racy style, and the superficially attractive nature of some of his arguments may lead those who do not examine the book too carefully to believe that the awkward subject of the paranormal has been disposed of. However, critical examination of the arguments reveals this not to be the case.
An apparently strong argument is one that asserts that paranormal powers are being tested all the time in experiments on normal abilities: "In literally thousands of experiments (psychologists) have established that there really are sensory stimuli that people cannot see, cannot hear . . .", and which therefore have "incidentally, but nonetheless conclusively, shown that ESP (extrasensory perception) does not occur". The argument is a spurious one. Supposing I do have ESP abilities and someone shows me smaller and smaller letters and keeps asking if I can still recognise them. Will my ESP abilities result in my going on indefinitely reporting that I can see the letters? Clearly not, any more than if a person were helping me by shouting out to me what the letters were.
The argument would be more valid if applied to experiments such as those where a person is asked to guess what pattern is being displayed when that pattern is made fainter and fainter, since ESP abilities might be expected to increase the probability that a person makes a correct guess. But here the problem is that as this is a statistical effect it will not show up in a definitive way unless large amounts of data are taken. Unless the situation is analysed properly we just cannot say from the absence of a determinable statistical effect that no influence from ESP is there.
Humphrey unwittingly makes this very point when he alludes to a survey of 300 students designed to discover if they were aware of the current phase of the moon that yielded only chance results: "Such ignorance . . . would seem remarkable by any standards. But if ESP is a reality it ought surely to be considered doubly remarkable." If in such an experiment a sample size of 300 is insufficient to demonstrate the fact that there are some people who know reliably the phase of the moon, why should anything at all be inferred from the fact that it did not reveal clairvoyant knowledge of the phase of the moon by some people either?
Another section of the book deals with arguments dignified by the name The Argument of Unwarranted Design: "If a phenomenon shows signs of being unduly restricted in its form and manner of occurrence, so that our theory of its underlying cause provides us with no principled reason why it should take just the peculiar form it does, then we should suspect that the true cause of the phenomenon lies elsewhere." The argument might equally be called The Argument of Unreasonable Constraints, which Humphrey applies by deeming it unreasonable, and hence suspicious, that a person could perform one kind of psychical skill effectively but not another. But why should it be unreasonable? Humphrey writes books on psychology but not on physics; should we then think that suspicious, or ascribe it merely to his having practised activities relevant to the one skill but not to another: a kind of explanation surely equally applicable to the area of psychical skills?
Further along in the book we come to arguments against psi (paranormal faculties) which claim to be of a purely logical character, though in fact - the original fallacious argument published in Darwin College Magazine having been laid to rest and superseded here by a different one - they are in essence assertions of the unimaginability of mechanisms for particular manifestations of psi. It is suggested for example that since two different people's thoughts are encoded by neuronal firing patterns in such individual ways there is no imaginable mechanism by which two such people could communicate their thoughts to each other by ESP. The invalidity of this argument is demonstrated by the fact that people can to some extent communicate with each other by gestures even if they have never met before and do not know each other's languages. It simply is not the case that the complex patterns of neural activity are not translatable into a common code.
The awkward matter of the experimental evidence in favour of psi is dealt with by means of what appears to be sleight of hand, suggesting that the author has profited well from his association with members of the Magic Circle. Experiments are divided into two kinds, those with "no independent confirmation", and those where the results "might possibly have been due to something other than ESP". The former category Humphrey "leave(s) on one side for the moment" (exactly where it is dealt with is not made clear), and the latter is disposed of by reference to a single case, relating to an experiment by Daryl Bem and Charles Honorton designed to test for ESP abilities using the ganzfeld technique. Analyses by Richard Wiseman and colleagues showed that, in principle, if the ESP sender shouted his approval every time he heard through his headphones that the receiver had said something related to the target, the experimenter could have faintly heard the sound and unconsciously cued the receiver. Humphrey focuses on this possibility, but does not mention the fact that Wiseman et al did a statistical analysis and concluded that the idea that the possible sound leakage helped the receiver get the correct answer was not supported by the data. He equally fails to mention that statistical analysis of experiments on psychic phenomena designed to test the hypothesis that design faults have been the cause of successful results have not supported that idea.
In a recent article, statistician Jessica Utts commented that there seems at this time little point in doing experiments designed solely to prove the existence of psi, since if the critics do not accept the present evidence it is hard to imagine what one can realistically do further that would lead to them becoming convinced in the future. Soul Searching seems to illustrate the point very well.
Where not engaged in trying to show that belief in paranormal events is mistaken, Humphrey has some interesting ideas, and the book can be recommended as a comprehensive analysis of the factors that lead people to believe in things for which there is no real evidence. It is tempting, of course, to point out that these analyses might very well be applied to the sceptics instead.
More deserving the appellation "devastating critique" is Michel Schiff's The Memory of Water: Homoeopathy and the Battle of Ideas in the New Science. Technical in places but in general explained in such a way as to be accessible to the general reader, it details the struggles that new ideas in science have had and are still having to get a hearing, faced as they are with the variety of means, normally used in an unexceptionable manner, that editors, referees and review panels, and so on have at their disposal to prevent work that they consider unsatisfactory from being published or funded. The general directions of the author's critique may be indicated by a selection of his headings: "It is impossible a priori, hence it never happened", "Debunking as a substitute for scientific arguments", "Censorship as part of the normal scientific process", "Mock attempts to duplicate an experiment", and "A scientific exploration gets paralysed by the burden of proof".
As a historical example, Schiff cites the case of the Hungarian obstetrician Ignazius Semmelweis, who 20 years before the discovery of bacteria by Pasteur showed that deaths from puerperal fever could be reduced if the doctors were to wash their hands with antiseptic before attending their patients and was ridiculed for his proposals, and as a current parallel the suppression of evidence gained by Schiff's colleague Jacques Benveniste that particular kinds of saline solution might have had adverse effects on patients in whom they were injected.
Much of the discussion relates to Benveniste's work on homeopathy and the "memory of water", which expressions, the author observes in his introduction, are "capable of turning a peaceful and intelligent person into a violently irrational one". Benveniste's in vitro experiments on homeopathically prepared samples met with a hostile response from Nature and its referees when he submitted the work for publication there, but since they could not point to any errors in it the editor eventually agreed to publication under the curious condition that after publication Benveniste would allow a team of investigators to carry out investigations at his laboratory.
Schiff lists a number of errors that he claims are present in the published investigators' report, as also in published reports of failure to confirm the Benveniste results by other scientists. Publication of a successful replication by Benveniste was refused on the basis of a referee's report which, according to Schiff, contained elementary mistakes such as confusing error and variance (i.e. error squared).
Psychologist Lawrence LeShan's The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist has been republished by Penguin Arkana after being out of print for a number of years. In it, LeShan describes his attempts to answer the question "what is the nature of the paranormal?". Like Schiff, LeShan observes how he repeatedly encountered an attitude describable as "I have made up my mind; don't bother me with the facts". He decided to concentrate on the question "How does the world look to the psychic?", and found there were universal regularities in psychics' experience. For example, while in ordinary reality distance between two entities separates them so they can communicate only through an intervening medium, for the psychic two objects are part of a unity and distance cannot separate them, especially when there is love between the two entities.
The author then decided to test the concepts he had arrived at by trying to teach himself the ability to heal psychically. Using symbols appropriate to the situation and other means he attempted to put himself into a state where he would understand the clairvoyant reality and "know" that the individual he was attempting to heal was not just an embodied being but also one that like himself existed in all of space and time. He felt that his successes at healing in this way were frequent and impressive enough to justify this as a method of exploring this alternative state. The theory could also be used to teach others both healing and clairvoyance skills. Later on in the book LeShan discusses matters such as the by now familiar parallels between mystical accounts of reality and those of 20th-century physics.
The clairvoyant reality as disclosed by this book is, from conventional points of view, strongly counterintuitive. We may need to appreciate this reality properly in order to make progress in understanding it. The original publication of this book made less of an impression than it might have done, possibly because it offered no very clear avenues for research. The situation has perhaps by now changed, making the republication of the book a potential catalyst for new scientific progress.
Brian D. Josephson, Nobel laureate, is professor of physics, University of Cambridge; he heads the Mind-Matter Unification Project at the Cavendish Laboratory.
The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
Author - Lawrence Leshan
Publisher - Penguin
Price - £8.99
Pages - 299
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A Train Runs through It
April 11 - 18, 2002
Spinning My Web
I have spent many hours at Star Hobby in Arnold waiting for Bill as he drooled over model trains, track and scale buildings to suit anyones fancy. I have done my share of ogling, too, as I marveled at the exacting precision of scale modeling. As I browse alone this day, I price the track, an engine and a few buildings. I buy the February issue of Garden Railways magazine.
On the cover is a European passenger train traveling through candytuft, sedums, baby tears, dwarf conifers and beautiful flowering creeping thymes. It approaches a trestle bridge over a pond bordered by rock ledges and flowing plants.
I take it home as my enticement, wrap it with care and a prayer. The candles are lit and dinner is calling in the air when I present Bill both a frosty pilsner glass and my gift. Its time! The card reads.
Time for what? Bill wonders.
Open the box, I say.
How much can I spend? he asks moments later.
Dollar for Dollar
With the Pardee Curtin logging camp in mind, we decide on the Climax locomotive. Back in 1893, the Climax Manufacturing Company of Corry, Pennsylvania, began full-scale production of their Class-B locomotive for the logging and mining industry. Today, Bachmann Industries of Philadelphia produces a G-scale or #1-gauge Climax Class B as part of its Spectrum Line for the garden railroad industry.
The suggested retail price is $799.95. We wonder what the price of the real thing was in 1893.
For our pricey little locomotive, we shopped first on the Internet, where many resources can be found by entering garden railroad. We searched magazines such as Garden Railways and Finescale Railroader, which also offer articles on how to build a garden railroad without going broke.
Our quest now is to find the Climax at the lowest price. Weve learned that model trains prices vary to extremes. Bill has seen ads for this locomotive as low as $400. Our magazines and the Internet tell us we should be able to purchase the locomotive between $250 and $300, slashing the $799.95.
Please take this as a caveat. Research before buying, and avoid impulse purchases.
Preferring to deal locally, we return to Star Hobby, a mom-and-pop operation run by Dan and Flora Veita with their son Don. They know their business, share their knowledge and keep a good inventory. We buy the Climax off the shelf for $299 along with the #1-gauge track we need and go away happy.
The largest cost in our project is the track at $600 for 200 feet. Thats because high-quality track and track bed is like the foundation of a house: It is essential to keep the train running smoothly. We chose Aristo-Craft track, preferring brass rails to aluminum both for maintenance and conductivity of rail to locomotive.
To lay our track, well have to divide and replant old plants and buy new plants to bring to life the camp we want to create. Landscaping will take a load of topsoil, which will also provide a base for the track. Well also be paying for a load of stone-dust for ballast between the track and rails. An added bonus with the stone dust is the look of the stone between the rails and ties of real train tracks. We estimate the cost of both around $250.
So far weve spent $1,149.
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MNCOGI opposes health care industry exemption in "Helmberger" data practices bill
In 2013, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its opinion in the Helmberger v. Johnson Controls case, which limited the application of the Data Practices Act (DPA) to private entities performing outsourced government work under contract. In its decision, the court held that private vendors whose contracts did not contain express "notice" language were exempt from the provisions the DPA. The decision reversed the previous, long-lived understanding that all Minnesota government contractors were, in fact, covered by that law.
"Helmberger" bill introduced
At the start of the current legislative session, the Minnesota Newspaper Association brought forward a bill that would remedy the Helmberger decision by specifying that all contractors performing government functions would be covered by the DPA – whether or not their contracts contained a specific notice requirement.
The bill clarifies section 13.05, Subd. 11 of the DPA, which provides the public with a valuable tool to oversee the outsourcing of government work to private entities. By providing public access to contractor data, this section of the DPA ensures that there is transparency in how tax dollars are spent, and how government functions are performed.
The "Helmberger" bill is important to government transparency, and MNCOGI board members have testified in favor of it at several legislative committee hearings. Most recently, at a joint Civil Law- HHS hearing, MNCOGI testified that the important oversight purpose of the bill should not be obscured by the addition of amendments, so that legislators could vote solely on the bill's underlying premise.
Senate adds amendment to exempt health care industry
While in the Senate, the "Helmberger" bill had several sections added, including a section that granted a one-year exemption from the full reach of the DPA to health plans who contract for government work, as well as related providers and vendors.
MNCOGI opposes industry-wide exemptions from DPA
While this section "sunsets" after one year, MNCOGI believes that specific industries should not be granted preferential treatment in how the DPA applies to them – even for a short period of time. Additionally, MNCOGI is concerned that once an exemption has been established in law, there may be a tendency to convert what was once a temporary statutory provision into a permanent feature of the DPA.
The House of Representatives is now set to vote on the House version of the bill on May 15. As of this writing, several amendments have been offered to the initial bill, including amendments that mirror the final Senate version (complete with its amended language).
MNCOGI is continuing to urge legislators to oppose the addition of broad, industry-wide exemptions to the bill, so that its oversight purpose does not become diluted.


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Search all Jurisdictions and Find More Records – Part 3
While searching all the jurisdictions in the life of an ancestor with missing or incomplete information, you are going to need a strategy for keeping track of where you've looked and where you next need to look as you do your research. Laurie Werner Castillo has some guidance to make that task easier.
Castillo's roadmap for following life events, locating where the records are, and who kept them, coupled with recording what you find in an intentional way as described in "Search all Jurisdictions and Find More Records," will definitively tell you if you have searched everywhere and found everything there is to find.
Master list of jurisdictions
Castillo first advises you to generate a master list of jurisdictions. That list might be more extensive than you at first begin with based on what you learn about jurisdictions impacting your ancestor. Starting with a list also breaks your research tasks down into manageable bites and becomes a tool to organize your findings.
Castillo says, for instance, "When a county was formed, the record keepers didn't carve up the county record books," so "You need to look for records under the county jurisdiction that was in effect at the time of the event being researched" and that might be in a neighboring jurisdiction. She also adds, "Don't be misled if an ancestor lists places according to later years."
As you develop your roadmap, investigate the history of the areas where your ancestor lived and follow the boundary and name changes for the whole of your ancestor's life. He may appear to have moved without really changing locations. If records appear to be missing for a town where an ancestor lived that no longer exists, you'll need to check the district court records, state archives, or other jurisdictions to learn when records may have been transferred.
Organize your findings
Castillo suggests using a spreadsheet format to keep track of your research. She likes spreadsheets because "rows can expand to hold as much information you need," and you can also have as many columns as you'd like to keep track of information. As an example, she uses "name, date, life event, location, and possible jurisdictions" as a header row. She also has a column to check when a search task is complete.
Under the events column, she enters, "birth, christening, 1850 Census, 1860 Census, Civil War, Marriage, 1870 Census, City Directory, Land records…" following a chronological order for what applies—acknowledging that for any life event, there may be multiple jurisdictions to look in based on the historical narrative.
Internet searches
Castillo also says that the Internet can be very helpful for specific places to search, and sometimes direct searches will deepen understanding of what happened to the records. You'll want to add those to your plan. Castillo suggests you "Google_____ county courthouse," or "Google _____ county boundary changes," and see what results are returned. Castillo also suggests you "Google_______ state or county historical society," or "Google____ regional, county, and local libraries" one by one. You'll know who kept the records as you learn jurisdictional changes.
Mapping jurisdictional changes
For the United States, Castillo suggests using a "pedigree chart of a county" that maps "when it was formed and from what counties and territories, including when it lost land, when it acquired land, and what significant events caused locations to re-district or move governmental functions."
For mapping jurisdictional changes and learning about places, Castillo looks in historical gazetteers. They serve as a collection of place names and descriptions, with details not found on any map. Many are digitized and online ready to be searched. When you find one, put the county chronology alongside the timeline for your ancestor's life and compare.
Helpful references
Castillo suggests two reference books for genealogists:
Everton's Handybook for Genealogists contains well-researched histories of each state, state capital, and the territories, with descriptions and addresses for each state's major record collections and protocols for requesting records; this reference is very important for family history research.
Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources will give you a list of all counties, when they were formed, and how they came about. You will find rich resources of local information including vital records, census, probate, church, military records, and much more.
Searching all jurisdictions in a planned and deliberate way will make a huge difference when looking for ancestors. According to Castillo, you'll find many records waiting to be discovered that are "indexed, scanned, digitized, filmed, or published." If you discard your assumptions and figure out "when" and "where," and start looking in more jurisdictions, in all likelihood missing information will be found.


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The steel molds used for panel production are adjustable and can cover all radius ranges required by a project. Design of each panel takes into consideration the needs for possible reductions of the panel length, openings in the panel, coverings, dowels etc. so that the mold is set up in a way that ensures design of the panel is executed with millimeter accuracy.
Each of the track base plate types is unmistakably marked with a corresponding bar code and can therefore be easily identified at any time
Laying of the Track
Laying of the track base plates is normally done with portal cranes. This enables the plates to be lifted forwards in the smallest possible space. In addition, no reloading or intermediate storage is necessary, because the plates can be taken directly from the transport wagon. In the case of islands or missing track connection, the taking over and the laying of the track base plates by a truck with a loader arm is common practice.
Calibration of the track
After installation of the laterally stored rails, the work of final track calibration begins by using spindles. This method guarantees precise track set accuracy in setting the track with no further corrections required. Adjustment work is further reduced by adequate track geometry of the track base plates. Therefore, calibration requires up to 50 % less time compared to other slab track systems.
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