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"You don't get a referendum for free, you have to earn it. So if the Greens and the SNP – and the SSP or any other parties who've declared an interest in independence – get over the line and make a coalition, make a majority, get the votes in the parliament, then they'll vote through a referendum, and that's what democracy's all about … it is perfectly simple."
Ruth Davidson, May 2011
Ruth Davidson has changed her tune. If you're surprised by that you're probably also surprised that British TV sports commentators keep hyping up the England team and patronising the Scotland team when they notice it at all. After saying that "of course" Westminster shouldn't block another independence referendum, Ruth is now basing her choice of Tory leadership candidate on the basis of which of them most vehemently refuse to allow Scotland to ask itself about its own future within the UK. She's changed her tune on an independence referendum just like she's changed her tune on Brexit.
Yesterday, the leaderene of the Ruth Davidson Vote Ruth Davidson for More Ruth Davidson party insisted that there could only be another independence referendum if Nicola Sturgeon got a majority in Holyrood in the next Scottish elections. Other pro-independence parties don't count any more. Green MSPs don't exist. Ruth thinks that Scottish democracy is an arm wrestling contest between her and Nicola Sturgeon.
The perfect simplicity of democracy is that it doesn't matter whether Nicola Sturgeon has a personal mandate for another independence referendum. What matters is that there's a majority for one in the Scottish Parliament, which there is. However democracy has ceased to be simple for Ruth Davidson. Despite the fact that her party came a distant fourth in the most recent elections held in Scotland, she still thinks that she has the right to dictate to the Scottish Government and the people of Scotland. Despite the fact that the SNP and the Greens have indeed made a majority, have got the votes in the parliament, have voted through a referendum, that's not good enough for Ruth despite what she said in May 2011.
Quite simply Ruth Davidson needs show us the electoral majority that she has won that gives her the right to be the arbiter of whether or not there should be a Scottish independence referendum. Oh yeah, it doesn't exist. Her party came fourth in the EU elections. All the opinion polls point to it being wiped out in Scotland should there be a General Election. She's hardly in any position to lecture anyone from a position of strength. There are sand castles on a beach in a hurricane which have greater structural integrity. Frankly, the only people who care about her setting the conditions necessary for another independence referendum are her pals in the press. And even most of them are only reporting her for the click bait.
The truth is that Ruth Davidson has changed her position on the referendum so often, that even if the SNP did indeed achieve an absolute majority in the next Holyrood election, she would only find some other reason for saying no. Because Ruth's word is worth as much as Ross Thomson's career prospects. It's not so much that she has a history of shifting the goalposts, but that she keeps the goalposts on the back of a flatbed lorry which is currently bombing down the A1 in the direction of Conservative Central Office.
This latest hurdle is just another convenient excuse, and once it's superceded like previous hurdles have been superceded, she'll just find another. It will be that even though the SNP has a majority of seats, it doesn't have a majority of votes cast. It will be that there can't be another independence referendum because Mars hasn't aligned with Uranus. She'll say there can't be another independence referendum because David Mundell is having his beard de-morselled. She'll tell us that another independence referendum is out of the question because, just because. Foot stamp. Sulk. Pout. Don't wannaaaaa!
Ruth Davidson preaches about democracy while espousing deeply undemocratic positions. She preaches about the dangers of division while her own party has proven to be the most dangerously divisive force in the UK. She rails against the replacement of patriotism by nationalism while representing the most narrowly and viciously nationalist party that has ever been in government in Britain.
Her own party is a minority government, and is hell bent on forcing the most extreme form of Brexit imaginable on the UK. Yet have you heard her say that the British government can't foist its Brexit upon us all until it achieves an electoral majority to do so? No. Neither have I. Theresa May went to the polls in 2017 in order to seek a larger majority in the Commons so that she could determine all by herself what sort of hard Brexit she wanted. She lost her majority, but no one heard supposedly pro-remain Ruth Davidson speak up to say that the UK government had lost its right to pursue a hard Brexit. The support of Green MSPs in Holyrood for another independence referendum doesn't count as far as Ruth is concerned, but the DUP's support for a hard Brexit in Westminster is just fine with her. Funny that.
The lack of respect for Scottish democracy displayed by Ruth Davidson is merely a reflection of the lack of respect for democracy that is displayed by her party in Westminster. This is a party which has leading contenders for leadership who are perfectly happy to close down parliament in order to ram through a disastrous no deal Brexit that there is no majority for either in the Commons or in the UK as a whole. They're happy to do so in order to further the narrow and short term political prospects of the Conservative party, irrespective of the consequences on the economy, on the UK's international standing, on lives, jobs, and prospects.
Ruth Davidson doesn't have the strength, the courage, the conviction, the arguments, to persuade a majority of Scotland by herself, so she prefers to go running to Tory leadership candidates for hauners, candidates who will tell Scotland what they will or will not "allow". You can bet that as soon as her current favoured candidate drops out of the race, she'll find another who is equally intransigent and claim she supported him all along. Ruth is a blustering bully who is desperately flailing about because she knows that she's on the wrong side of history, the losing side of the argument. She can see her precious union evaporate away before her eyes, because of the boiling heat that her own party has created due to Brexit.
So how about this Ruth, if you want to block another independence referendum, if you want to ensure that it doesn't take place, then how about you win a majority in Holyrood. Make a majority. Get the votes in parliament. Vote against a referendum. That's what democracy is all about. It's perfectly simple.
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What are those songs fans are singing at the World Cup?
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia — If musical humor was rewarded with goals or bonus points, England would have won the World Cup far more often than its solitary triumph in 1966.
Unless your tournament viewing has been of the "volume-down" variety, sneaking in action while your boss or professor isn't looking, you'll surely have heard a booming, surprisingly melodic chorus punctuating England matches at frequent intervals.
While every team's fan base has chants and common utterances of support, it is typically British and Irish teams that have taken soccer singalongs to their highest level.
England is the only one of the United Kingdom's four soccer countries to have made the tournament and despite a lower number of fans having traveled to Russia than normal, they have been making sure they are heard.
Yet it's impossible to make out what is being said on television, and hard enough for the untrained ear even within the stadium.
"I've been getting texts from back home because everyone wants to know what the lyrics of the songs are," Jack Swanton, an England supporter from Coventry, told USA TODAY Sports. "That's even from some quite serious England fans."
By far the most iconic England national team song is "Three Lions", written ahead of the 1996 European Championships by British pop band The Lightning Seeds and comedy duo Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.
With Gareth Southgate's squad having reached the semifinals, where it will face Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday, the tune has enjoyed a huge resurgence, being streamed on Spotify more than one million times in a single day last week.
It features the famous chorus line of "Football's Coming Home," and such is the confidence in Southgate's group that "it's coming home" might be the most commonly uttered trio of words in England right now.
But while "Three Lions" is blasted out of the stadium sound system in Russia whenever England wins a game, it is reserved for special occasions by the traveling supporters.
Newest, and most specific for this tournament is a chant-turned-song to the beat of Earth, Wind and Fire's "September", which manages to pay tribute to the fact that the tournament is being staged in Russia for the first time, gives a nod to this country's alcoholic drink of choice and confidently predicts English success, a boast that no longer seems quite as overly optimistic as it once did.
It goes like this:
"1, 2, 3, 4,
Whoa, England are in Russia,
Whoa, drinking all the vodka,
Whoa, England's going all the way."
And over, and over, and over again.
"Sometimes, the more ironic the humor, the more we like it," Swanton's friend Christian Hall added.
"It is easy to make up a tune to a current song, but we love mixing it to something old school and totally out-of-date. It makes it feel more real."
And thus spawned an unnamed ode to inspirational head coach Southgate that plays along to "Whole Again", by cheesy and long-forgotten girl band Atomic Kitten in 2001. The only changes are in the third line – where "Southgate" replaces "baby", and the final line, which originally read "You can make me whole again."
It goes:
"Looking back on when we first met,
I cannot escape and I cannot forget,
Southgate you're the one,
You still turn me on,
Football's coming home again."
The other teams to have made the last four prefer chants to songs, with France's uplifting and patriotic "Allez les Blues" ringing across Russia this month.
But sometimes a song can come from nothing, and pay tribute to an unheralded player, yet enjoy spectacular success. At the European Championships two years ago, Northern Ireland's Will Grigg did not play a single minute of action, yet the song "Will Grigg's on Fire", belted out to Gala's epic 1996 dance anthem "Freed From Desire", was adopted by fans of several teams, just because they liked how it sounded.
At the last World Cup, Argentina fans arguably devised the catchiest song of the tournament, while taking the opportunity to poke fun at their fierce continental rival, Brazil. Taking Creedence Clearwater Revival's much-loved "Bad Moon Rising", the Argentines yelled out the line: "Brasil, decime que se siente, tener en casa tu papa" – which loosely translates as "Brazil, tell me how it feels to be bossed around in your own home."
However, the funniest and most feelgood tune of this World Cup belongs to England, albeit borrowed from the Wales contingent that cheered its team to the Euro 2016 semifinals. It is the perfect mix of slightly irreverent humor, with a catchy melody. If you haven't heard it, look it up on YouTube, and you'll be humming it for days.
"Don't Take Me Home,
Please don't take me home,
I just don't wanna go to work,
I want to stay here,
Drink all the beer,
Please don't, please don't take me home."
Soccer's fans are going home soon enough, and taking their songs with them. But the musical accompaniment has given the tournament an extra edge, and the roaring tones will be missed almost as much as the soccer itself.

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Putin's New Chief of Staff Claims He Invented the 'Nooscope' to Study the Collective Consciousness
An "A. Vaino" is listed as the co-author of an article entitled, "Capitalization of the Future," published in 2012 by a Russian academic journal, Questions of Economics & Law. The vague title sets up the strange pseudo-scientific text that follows in an almost impenetrable blend of quasi-mystical language and academic jargon, mish-mashing contemporary economic concerns with transcendental philosophy and promises to be able to read the "code of the market" and describe a new way of being, made possible by the authors' creation — the Nooscope.
Phi Beta Iota: The concept of the noosphere is more closely associated with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who wrote about the concept in 1922. We are far removed from being able to "see" all information in all languages all the time, not least because our intelligence communities and the information technology industries of the world have been very corrupt in their thinking. Should the US Government or the Nordic Governments ever decide to create an Open Source (Technologies) Agency, this will radically enhance prospects of our creating a harvestable noosphere in our lifetime.
See Especially:
Robert Steele: Open Source (Technologies) Agency
See Also:
The Future: Recent "Core" Work by Robert Steele


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Northern Railway Recruitment 2019-20: Railway recruiting cell (rrc) will release soon RRC NR Group D, ALP, NTPC, Technician, Ticket Collector, Station Master, Clerk and multiple post job notification on its official website. The Indian Railways being one of the largest railway transportation hub has been further divided into a total of 17 different railway zones according to the region ,hence for the northern region of the country the Northern Railways has been formed that connects the north with other regions of the country through the railway.
On 14th April 1952 the Northern Railway was officially announced as a new railway zone of the Indian Railways , however the the railway zone was actually established in 3rd March 1895 and on 3rd March 1859 the first passenger railway line in North India was operational which is the Allahabad – Kanpur under the Northern Railway.
Merging the Jodpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway and three railway divisions of the East Indian Railway and north-west of Mughalaarai (Uttar Pradesh) led to the foundation of the Northern Railway of the Indian Railway.
The Northern Railway zone is one of the oldest among the nine zones and is in case of the network it is also regarded to be the largest with a route total of 6807 kilometers which covers the states of Jammu an Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand , Uttar Pradesh and including the union territories of Delhi and Chandigarh.
The Headquarter of the Northern Railway zone is located at Baroda House New Delhi, however there are various railways divisional headquarters that maintains the railway zone.
- 1 RRC NR Job 2019 :
- 2 Northern Railway Notification 2019 :
- 3 Northern Railway Vacancy 2019 :
- 4 Northern Railways Recruitment Division Wise :
- 5 RRC Northern Railways Eligibility Criteria :
- 6 RRC Northern Railway Selection Procedure :
- 7 Northern Railway Online Application Form 2019 :
- 8 RRC Northern Railway Exam Pattern 2019 :
- 9 Northern Railway Admit Card 2019 :
- 10 Northern Railway Result 2019 :
- 11 Northern Railways Recruitment Cut Off :
RRC NR Job 2019 :
Every year as per the requirement of service personnel there are recruitment held by the concerned RRB for the vacant positions within the Northern Railway zone over various railway division within the jurisdiction of the zone. Board will release soon vacancy for rrc nr.
The recruitment will be held for various post according to the vacancies that are available and which is to be filled up by the appointment of new personnel. Fill online application form for RRC Northern railway group d, alp, ntpc and other job post.
Therefore candidates who are eager to acquire information in details regarding the Northern Railways zone recruitment that will be held soon are advised to go through the article where the entire attributes of the recruitment including the requisite aspects in order to apply for the recruitment has been mentioned.
Hence based on the information we might be able to solve queries of individuals regarding northern railway recruitment notifications, eligibility, northern railway apply online, northern railway login,etc.
Thus the candidates must read the complete information provided with the various sections of the article based on the official recruitment information.
Northern Railway Notification 2019 :
Railway recruiting cell northern railway will release job notification on official website http://www.rrcnr.org/. Those candidates who are waiting for the northern railway zone recruitment will be notified by the concerned RRB and for that individuals should be aware of the official website of the recruiting RRB.
These notification that are released by the RRB on prior to the recruitment will be a vital attribute which will be able to provide the aspirants with necessary information in terms of schedule that has been set for the recruitment.
Therefore candidates cannot afford to miss these notification which will also open up the enrollment for the recruitment through the application form.
Northern Railway Vacancy 2019 :
It is certain that during the recruitment there will be vacancies for which the selected candidates will be appointed after the recruitment has been completed. These such vacancies will be available for different cadre of the railways. Once RRB release northern railway vacancy 2019 notification then we update the details here.
These vacancies will be available in numbers which will be further allotted to various categories according to the caste of the candidates as per the rule.
So the recruitment of the candidates will be done in accordance of the total number of individuals to be inducted as per the number of vacancy allotted.
Northern Railways Recruitment Division Wise :
There are various railway division within the Northern railway zones and among these division there are 5 major divisional headquarters which operates certain number of railway division within their jurisdiction.
Here are the list of these divisional headquarters of the Northern railway zones that are in charge of the recruitment for their respective railway division vacancies:-
- Ambala railway division at Ambala (Haryana),
- Delhi railway division at Delhi,
- Firozpur railway division at Firozpur (Punjab),
- Lucknow railway division at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and
- Moradabad railway division at Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh)
Although the divisional RRB are in charge of recruiting candidates generally for the Group C cadre including the medical cadre however depending upon the vacancies and approval or RRCB the recruitment can be held for various cadre as per the requirement.
These divisional headquarters are also responsible for recruiting candidates for the vacant position under the flowing cadre of :-
- Group A
- Group B
- Group C
- Group D.
RRC Northern Railways Eligibility Criteria :
In case the candidates lack information regarding the official eligibility criteria or qualification requirements that will be necessary to apply for the recruitment for any cadre, here the individuals will find it all in details.
In brief the eligibility criteria is the requisite qualities which must be met by the candidate in order to be accepted for the recruitment and if any candidate who fails to do so will not be liable to participate in the recruitment.
Thus before the aspirants apply for the recruitment they must read the complete eligibility that is required for the cadre desired by the applicant. Therefore based on the official eligibility criteria here are the complete information provided for the candidates.
Age Limit:- As part of the eligibility the age of the candidates must be between the lower class limit (minimum) and upper class limit (maximum) age bar set up for the particular post by the RRB.
Although the aspirants will be provided with the age relaxation scheme which will be implied on the basis of the category or caste of the individual as per the rule. Here below is the relaxation chart according to the category or caste that will be offered.
Educational Qualification:- The educational background of the candidates is one factor which will be evaluated as per the eligibility is concerned. Therefore the candidates must have a proper educational achievements that is required for the post or cadre applied by the aspirant.
The educational qualification will vary among the cadres, so it is advised that candidates should have the proper information as per the official requirement.
RRC Northern Railway Selection Procedure :
Now as the candidates are called for the selection procedure there will be various stages within this phase of the recruitment which the aspirants must clear through to ensure their selection.
Each of these stage will be based on different aspects or attributes in order to complete the assessment of candidates over various fields which is considered for the shortlisting of candidates.
Each stage will be of distinct nature but to ensure their selection candidates must pass each and stage after stage which will be conducted according to the following sequence:-
- Written Exam
- Physical Efficiency Test
- Skill Test
- Document Varification
- Interview
Northern Railway Online Application Form 2019 :
All candidates need to fill their Northern railway application form 2019 from the official website. According to the official rule the candidates who wish to apply for the recruitment for any cadre must follow the protocol or the official instructions which has been set for the application enrollment of candidates.
So for those candidates who have trouble finding such instruction here below are the complete steps based on the official instruction which they need to follow to complete the application form fill up to ensure their enrollment.
Therefore the candidates must remember these steps if they do not wish their application form to be rejected by the RRB.
- Visit the official portal of the RRB.
- On the homepage look for the Employment Notification link.
- Now click on that link.
- Search for the link for the desire post or cadre for which the candidate is eligible.
- Then click on the Click here option.
- Read the notification and instructions carefully.
- New users must create an registration id to proceed / registered candidates need to login with their registration id.
- Now click on the Apply Online/ Apply Now option.
- Start filling up the application form with correct and complete details in proper manner.
- Attach required documents, photo and signature of the candidates.
- Now click on the Save and Submit option.
- Print out copy of the application form.
- Make sure to make the payment for the application form.
Application Fee:-
The application fee for the form must be paid by the candidates and which will vary for each post or cadre, however the application fees must be paid according to the caste or category of the candidates as mentioned below:-
- For ST/SC/PWD Candidates:Rs.
- For General/Other Candidates:Rs.
RRC Northern Railway Exam Pattern 2019 :
Written Exam:- Every individuals who have applied for various cadre will have to appear the written exam which will evaluate their intelligence abilities. The written exam are according to the exam pattern that has been set up for each cadre and will be based on the entire syllabus prescribed by the RRB for each cadre.
Hence candidates will appear the written exam which will be based on the exam pattern and syllabus selected for the particular cadre applied by the candidate. Here are some of the attributes of the written exam relevant to the official exam pattern:-
- The written exam will be conducted as Computer Based Test (CBT).
- There will be objective type or Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) paper set.
- Total number of questions will vary for each cadre.
- The total marks will depend upon the cadre.
- There will be time duration allotted for the written exam of each cadre.
- Exam will be based upon the sections and syllabus prescribed for the cadre.
- Negative marking will be decided by the RRB.
- Candidates must score the cut off or higher marks to clear the written exam.
Physical Efficiency Test (PET):- Only those candidates who have applied for the Group D cadre recruitment are bound to face the physical test which is conducted to review the physical fitness and endurance of the candidates through the physical task that has to be completed by the aspirants. The candidates must pass the test.
Skill Test:- This stage of the selection procedure is conducted only during the recruitment of individuals for the Assistant Loco Pilot (ALP) cadre of the railways. So individuals who have applied for the ALP must go through this stage which is based on the trade knowledge , computer knowledge of the candidates. Passing the test is mandatory for the selection.
Documents Verification:- The documents verification of individuals will be conducted for every candidates regardless of the cadre or post. Hence during this round the individuals should be present and must bring along the original sets of their documents which will be verified by the concerned authority.
Personal Interview:- The candidates who make it through the previous stages are then called for the final personal interview round which is conducted by the concerned official of the RRB.
During the interview session the personality and psychological assessment of the candidates will be carried along based on the random questions that is to be answered by the aspirants.
Northern Railway Admit Card 2019 :
During the written exam and other selection procedure stages the candidates will need to produce their respective admit card which will be issued only by the concerned RRB. Download Northern railway admit card 2019-20 for the written exam.
The admit card cum call letter or hall ticket will be released 10 to 25 days prior to the selection procedure and will be issued only for those candidates who are found to be eligible for the cadre for which the individual has applied.
Aspirants will need to visit the official website of the RRB to acquire their admit card after all it will be released on their official website.
Northern Railway Result 2019 :
The results of the recruitment is the actual phase of the recruitment where the fate of the candidates will be decided which in some way is determined by candidates themselves.
These results are prepared for each selection stage and is based on the score and performance of the individuals during the stage and the shortlisting of candidates are done on the basis of the results.
However the appointment will be done after the release of the final merit list which is prepared after the selection procedure is complete. These results will be released on the official website of the concerned RRB after being prepared.
Northern Railways Recruitment Cut Off :
The cut off marks will be relevant only to the written exam stage of the selection procedure during which the candidates will need to pass the exam with certain passing marks.
These cut off will be the key figure which the candidates must secure or cross if they are to crack the written exam to ensure their selection.
However the cut off will be announced only after the written exam has been conducted and which will be different for each category or caste of candidates.
RRB Jobs Region Wise :
For more details about the northern railway recruitment 2019 please visit the official website of the board. Visit this site for rrb 2019 notification and railway job 2019 related all details.


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Recently I preached a sermon about the burning bush in Exodus, and during that message I made a reference to Job and his conversation with God. Job was in a situation where he had lost everything and was beginning to question God for why so much pain, suffering, and trial had been allowed. Reading the story of Job I thought "it's so very easy to accuse God when things get hard". It's so easy for us in our broken humanity to raise our eyes and shake our fist at the Lord when we don't understand our trials and sufferings. Job's questions, however, do not go unanswered. The Lord speaks to Job and through chapters 38-40 the Lord gives Job a proper perspective of his place in the world.
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined his measurements- surely you know!" Job 38:4-5 ESV
Then the Lord, after two entire chapters of explaining the greatness of His majesty and power, gives Job the question that I believe we who question God today need to hear.
"Shall a fault finder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Job 40:2 ESV
The microphone has been dropped and Job now finds himself to be very small in the grand scheme of things. Do we see the Lord's greatness in the world? Do we see His sovereign power over EVERYTHING? Job did and he was speechless. It is not bad to come before the Lord with questions, but when we ask we must brace ourselves for Him to answer. The beauty of this whole story is how Job responds to the Lord. He says in chapter 40, "Behold I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."(Job 40:3-5 ESV)
Today can we humbly fall at the feet of the Lord when our world is falling apart, trust in HIS plan not our own, and respond in the way Job does? Job is humble. Job relinquishes control over his life that he never really had. Job is silent. And Job has an attitude of worship and repentance. May we, in times of struggle and pain, remember the Lord's perfect plan; maybe even at the expense of our own understanding. May we fall on our face and, amidst the dust and ashes, worship our great creator and risen Lord and repent (turn to God). May we see the cross and the spilled blood of Jesus as proof that God is good, that He cares for us, and has made a way to rescue us from fear and dread, and give us a future and a hope in Him. May Job's final comments in chapter 42 be our prayer.
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.' I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in ashes and dust." Job 42:1-6


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This is book number 2 in the Zodiac Mystery series.
The stars predict a wedding-day disaster, but San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti never expected murder.
Julia Bonatti is alarmed by the astrological signs looming over Geneva Leary's wedding day, but nobody asked Julia's opinion and being a bridesmaid means supporting the bride no matter what. Even with the foreboding Moon-Mars-Pluto lineup in the heavens, no one's prepared for the catastrophes that strike: a no-show sister, a passed-out wedding planner, and a lethal shooting in the dead of night.
With anger and grief threatening to tear the Leary family apart, Julia is determined to understand how such a terrible tragedy could have occurred. As she digs deeper into the family's secrets, her astrological insights lead her to some rather unexpected conclusions.
"Di Marco crafts an intricate, twisting plot and layers on the astrological details that fans of psychic mysteries so enjoy."--Booklist


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Design and simulation of a novel hybrid leg mechanism for walking machines
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This paper introduces a novel hybrid structure design that is composed of rigid links and cables for a robotic leg with static walking. The proposed mechanism is characterized by actuated hip joints, passive knee joints and an actuated prismatic foot joint. The foot is the moving platform of the proposed mechanism which possesses pure translational motion due to the passive parallelograms with cables. Kinematic analysis has been worked out for evaluating a typical human-like gait trajectory. A 3-D model has been developed and simulation are made in SolidWorks® environment. Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism is able to perform an ovoid walking cycle of a foot point and the computed actuator torques and forces are in a feasible range for a low-cost and easy-operation design. The simulation results will be used for a prototype construction in a future work.


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Global biodiversity loss is disproportionately rapid on islands, where invasive species are a major driver of extinctions. To inform conservation planning aimed at preventing extinctions, we identify the distribution and biogeographic patterns of highly threatened terrestrial vertebrates (classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature) and invasive vertebrates on ~465,000 islands worldwide by conducting a comprehensive literature review and interviews with more than 500 experts. We found that 1189 highly threatened vertebrate species (319 amphibians, 282 reptiles, 296 birds, and 292 mammals) breed on 1288 islands. These taxa represent only 5% of Earth's terrestrial vertebrates and 41% of all highly threatened terrestrial vertebrates, which occur in <1% of islands worldwide. Information about invasive vertebrates was available for 1030 islands (80% of islands with highly threatened vertebrates). Invasive vertebrates were absent from 24% of these islands, where biosecurity to prevent invasions is a critical management tool. On the 76% of islands where invasive vertebrates were present, management could benefit 39% of Earth's highly threatened vertebrates. Invasive mammals occurred in 97% of these islands, with Rattus sp. as the most common invasive vertebrate (78%; 609 islands). Our results provide an important baseline for identifying islands for invasive species eradication and other island conservation actions that reduce biodiversity loss.
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It is always heartwarming to hear how relationships between nannies and the families they work with so often become much more than a paycheck.
This incredible nanny had her life mission to care for her charges and the children grew to love their nanny as though she was another parent.
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The Excel file below allows users to play with the 2000, 2010, and their own population estimates to see how it affects the apportionment of seats for the US House of Representatives. Apportionment also influences the presidential Electoral College vote count for each state. To get the number of Electoral College votes for a state take the number of U.S. House seats and add two (recall that DC, which is not in the file as... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Online Conference "Looking back, moving forward: Applying the lessons learnt from the Haiti Earthquake response" 26 October 2010 13:00-14:30 (GMT+01)
An Online Event sponsored by Overseas Development Institute and Humanitarian Practice Network. 26 October 2010 13:00-14:30 (GMT+01 (British Standard Time)) - Public event, Overseas Development Institute and screened live online Looking back, moving forward: Applying the lessons learnt from the Haiti Earthquake response - Events - Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2010 at Research for Haiti
An interesting brief article on the text-giving: Five-Digit Giving (June 14, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review. At least one survey found that one-in-eight households said it used text-giving to donate to some cause. The cons of raising donations through text messaging: "Nonprofit leaders also worry that mobile giving will result in less money raised. "There is a fear that people who give smaller amounts through texting will not give otherwise," says Katrin Verclas, a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 19, 2010 at Research for Haiti
The US Peace Institute is sponsoring a conference "Haiti: A Forward Look": Haiti's reconstruction presents challenges and opportunities. How are international efforts contributing to lasting stability and growth? Experts will address these questions and identify key issues on the horizon for Haiti. Please note: This event will be webcast live beginning at 9:30am EDT on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at http://www.usip.org/webcast. To RSVP, or for more information about this event, please visit http://www.usip.org/events/haiti-forward-look Speakers: Lieutenant... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Well, it's about time. Both the broad strokes and the details of US development assistance, down to the specifics of what (or who) gets funded, is often a political football. Aid work, as with domestic policy work, will always be influenced by changes in the executive and legislative branches, but it should also be subject to scientific review and professional standards. But as long as development work is housed at State, I worry that that... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2010 at Research for Haiti
You can read the transcript or listen to the pod cast of Development Drums' Episode 20: Corruption which features an interesting conversation with Daniel Kaufman and Mushtaq Khan (see also) about corruption in development. This has been a frequent topic in discussions about Haiti recently. Sadly, discussions of corruption in Haiti often focus—to the neglect of the seriousness and nuance of the topic—just on Haitian officials. This is a real deficiency in the conversation. Any... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Oxfam has uploaded some photos on Flickr of development taking place at Corail Cesseleese, the large track of land the government has set aside for new housing and urban planning. Read more about Corail Cesseleese and see maps of this large area in this previous post. If you search flickr for the phrase Corail Cesseleese Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2010 at Research for Haiti
South-South investments are an interesting phenomenon. Here's an article that claims that the "largest foreign direct investment after the earthquake" in Haiti is coming from Vietnam. Vietnam's largest mobile network operator, Viettel has signed a deal to upgrade Haiti's fixed line network in the country's largest foreign direct investment after the earthquake. Under a public-private partnership structured by World Bank's IFC, Viettel will initially invest US$59 million, and an additional US$40 million over four years,... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2010 at Research for Haiti
New from the National Academies Press: "Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development: Summary of a Workshop"
The National Academies Press is a great place to look for discussions and summaries about research on the cutting edge of the sciences. Their reports are often free to read online (sometimes free to download in their entirety as PDFs). Importantly, even when the topic is rather technical, the authors strive to keep the reports succinct and approachable by people outside the field (as best they can). Given the current situation in Haiti, many engineers... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Cloud forests along the southern peninsula of Haiti in the Pic Macaya National Forest are home to a variety of endangered frogs and birds found only in Haiti (see also this report). The Vermont Institute for Natural Science (VINS) has made several trips to the Pic Macaya in recent years to capture, tag, and document birds there. This 2006 brief, but very informative, report (with a couple of nice photos) is worth a look (a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2010 at Research for Haiti
More than two dozen organizations have signed a letter to Congress asking the US to purchase food aid in Haiti in order to play "a more constructive role" in food security policy. This echoes comments President Preval made earlier about food aid. They also mention the importance of identifying and tackling barriers to increased agricultural productivity, including: the absence of credit, antiquated tools, damaged irrigation systems, prohibitively high fertilizer prices, subsidized rice, and food aid... Continue reading
In response to this earlier post about Gabions, Lori Moise sent in some photos she took just the other day of gabions being used in Haiti (the earlier post describes what gabions are). I believe these are along the Riviere Torcelle. Lori's blog is here. Here are Lori's photos (cropped by me to save space) of the gabions: NOTE: Lori also has some incredible photos of the fort and old coffee plantation houses that were... Continue reading
The Haiti News Project—citing Claude Gilles of the Media Operations Centre that Reporters Without Borders and the Canadian media group Quebecor established in Haiti (story on that effort here)—reports that Le Nouvelliste is preparing to begin print operations and has rehired 24 reporters; Le Matin is running biweekly from printing presses in the Dominican Republic. They also report that about half of the 50 (!) radio stations that were operating in Port-au-Prince before the earthquake... Continue reading
The company Wolfram is building an amazing reference resource that pulls together all sorts of data. You ask it questions much like you would a reference librarian. To get oriented: a page of topics they cover and an amazing video explaining what it can do. Some examples related to Haiti: Basic page on Haiti (note the many options to get more info in the orange-colored links to the right of each subheading). What is the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2010 at Research for Haiti
I could not find any footage of flamingos in Haiti. Do they still come to Haiti? Perhaps their return would be a measure of the restoration of healthy mangroves in various bays and at Etang Saumatre. This article from 1990 estimated that only about 900 flamingos (give or take several hundred) were still feeding or roosting in Haiti during non-breeding seasons. It also states that nesting in Haiti had not occurred since the 1920s due... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Here's a graphic from the Washington Post showing where some land is located that the Haitian government is either taking or renting (not clear which) through procedures similar to eminent domain to use for resettlements (i.e., deconcentrate "tent cities"). Melissa and Orlando over on the Haiti Rewired forum identified where four of these five plots are on Google Maps. You can zoom in and see from the satellite photo option on Google Maps how they... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2010 at Research for Haiti
The Social Science Research Council has an ongoing series of brief articles about Haiti on its web site. They keep adding to it bit by bit and are now up to 18 articles. Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Notable Letter from Progressive Civil Sector to Sec. Clinton on Private Security Firms; Corruption in Reconstruction in US Efforts Overseas
More than a dozen progressive organizations in the US and Haiti have sent a letter to Sec. Clinton expressing concern that the US government may hired private security firms to work in Haiti. The letter details (citing news and analytical reports) a list of human rights scandals that these firms have been engaged in, including child trafficking and murder. It also notes that private security firms …have routinely been implicated in accusations of financial mismanagement.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2010 at Research for Haiti
An Introduction to Haiti's Problems and the Search for Solutions from the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Arikia Millikan over at Haiti Rewired found this excellent video from the Earth Institute at Columbia University on the problems facing Haiti: A Future for Haiti: Science and Solutions for a Beleaguered Nation. The voice of the speakers are a little soft and sleepy at times, but for people wanting an introduction to Haiti's problems and some discussion of basic guidelines for finding solutions, this is a great place to start. Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Over at Haiti Rewired people have put together the start of a great list of links about current and past housing construction and architecture in Haiti. The list is a mish mash of things some of which are works in progress (hey, it is the internet!) but it is a great start and includes many photos of vernacular housing styles. Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2010 at Research for Haiti
A lot can be learned by skimming postings over at Haiti Rewired. Some engineers were talking over there about putting all of the rubble produced by the earthquake in Haiti to use, and they mentioned a few terms I had never heard. Looking up these terms turned up some interesting uses for rubble: 1. Riprap: Riprap is the use of stones or rubble to prevent erosion against shorelines, roads, bridge abutments, or buildings. It can... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti: Groups Caution Secretary Clinton on Private Military Contractors in Haiti Relief Efforts
A well argued, preemptive call against hiring shady mercenary firms to work in Haiti: Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti: Groups Caution Secretary Clinton on Private Military Contractors in Haiti Relief Efforts Continue reading
Posted Mar 30, 2010 at Research for Haiti
A far-ranging October 2009 paper from Abt Associates argues that: … there is a tendency to generalize that economic growth reduces poverty, when in fact it is the direct and indirect effects of the agricultural growth that accounts for virtually all of the poverty decline. This confusion is harmful to the objective of poverty reduction for three reasons: (1) rapid agricultural growth requires substantial public investment specific to the agricultural sector; (2) foreign aid has... Continue reading
Posted Mar 30, 2010 at Research for Haiti
This is a pretty nice bit of freeware: Korektè Òtograf Kreyòl. Is is a Haitian Creole spellchecker for OpenOffice Writer, which is a freeware program that is very similar to Microsoft Word. You need to be able to read Creole to understand the simple instructions…or just open the program after you download it and OpenOffice Writer, then follow the instructions, then close and re-open OpenOffice Writer. Not bad at all! Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2010 at Research for Haiti
Claimed by both Haiti and the United States, you can see this tiny (2 sq mile) tear-drop shaped island here. The old light house and rail lines can be seen if you look closely. It is only infrequently inhabited by Haitian fisherman (it is about 6 hours from Haiti by boat, so the fishermen stay a few days and then return home). It also gets a rare visit by wildlife survey teams from the US.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2010 at Research for Haiti


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Though most of the downtown denizens depicted in Broadway's Rent barely have two nickels to rub together, theatregoers hoping to see the Jonathan Larson musical on a Saturday night better have 1,600 nickels -- or the equivalent -- at the ready. The New York Post reported (Mar. 12) that top tickets for weekend performances of Rent at the Nederlander Theatre will rise from $75 to $80, beginning June 30.
Ticketmaster told Playbill On-Line that tickets for that period have not yet gone on sale.
A story in Associated Press later in the day confirmed the hike but also quoted a producer saying that since Mar. 1, more $35 "cheap seats" have been made available at other performances. Producer Jeffrey Seller told AP, "Those who can pay will make it easier for those who cannot. Grosses will pretty much stay the same, and they might even go down a bit." AP also pointed out that several musicals raised their tops to $80 during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Reached Mar. 12 by Playbill On-Line, Rent spokesperson Don Summa echoed producer Seller's words, saying, "They're lowering ticket prices in many of the mezzanine locations, because people were feeling some of those upstairs seats should be lower-priced. So the higher orchestra prices off-set the lower mezz prices. The grosses should come out about the same."
An $80 top for tickets would put Rent $4 ahead of Ragtime and The Sound of Music, currently the most expensive Broadways shows because of their $75 tops plus $1 theatre restoration charges. (Ragtime also instituted special VIP seating packages that sell for $125.) According to TicketMaster, tickets to Rent are currently on sale only through June 28. The NY Post notes that members of the Musician's Union, currently in contract negotiations with the League of American Theatres and Producers, are incensed about the timing of the alleged price hike. (That is, the timing of the increase makes it look like the producers are asking more money from consumers to pay for the musicians' demands.)
In other Rent news, here's the latest ticket and casting information (as of Mar. 10) on the various Rents across the globe:
Broadway: At the Nederlander Theatre, (212) 307-4100. The current Broadway cast features Norbert Leo Butz (Roger), Jim Poulos (Mark), Gwen Stewart (Joanne), Wilson Cruz (Angel), Michael McElroy (Collins), Jacques Smith (Benny), Kristen Lee Kelly (Maureen) and Marcy Harriell (Mimi). Opened April 29, 1996.
There are currently two American touring companies of Rent, the "Angel" and "Benny" companies, and a Canadian company which opened Dec. 7, 1997. Here, as of Mar. 30, are the tentative dates for the three tours:
Angel Company
This company began in Boston and just finished in Washington DC. The current cast includes Simone [sic] (Mimi), Shaun Earl (Angel), Christian Anderson (Mark), Manley Pope (Roger) and Amy Spanger (Maureen).
Chicago's Shubert Theatre: Nov. 5-April 5
Detroit's Fisher Theatre: April 8-June 14
Cleveland's Palace Theatre: June 16-28
Philadelphia's Merriam Theatre: June 30-TBA
Other cities on the horizon include Baltimore, St. Paul, Salt Lake City and Denver. F ` those dates, the show will either return to these cities or head to San Francisco, CA.
Benny Company
This company features Kirk McDonald (Mark), Andy Senor (Angel), Julia Santana (Mimi), Christan Mena (Roger), Leigh Hetherington (Maureen).
Houston: March 3-March 15
St. Louis, MO: March 17-March 22
Cincinnati: March 24-April 5
Tampa: April 7-April 19
Miami: April 21-May 3
Atlanta: May 5-May Hartford, CT: May 12-May 24
Pittsburgh: May 26-June 7
Providence, RI: June 9-14
Buffalo, NY: June 16-21
Rochester, NY: June 23-28
Columbus, OH: June 30-July 12. For information call (614) 224 7654.
Louisville, KY: July 14-July 26
Kansas City, MO: July 28-Aug. 2
Costa Mesa, CA: Aug. 4-Aug. 16
Portland, OR: Aug. 18-Aug. 30
Seattle: Sept. 1-TBA
Other cities may include Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Nashville, Dayton, Milwaukee, East Lansing, San Antonio, Austin, New Orleans and Indianapolis.
Canadian Company
Luther Creek (Roger), Jenifer [sic] Aubry (Maureen), Chad Richardson (Mark), Damian Perkins (Benny) and Jai Rodrigez (Angel). Canadian pop star Saskia Garel joins the cast as Mimi (replacing Krysten Cummings) March 11. Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto: Nov. 25-July 26 (extended from May 10). For tickets (416) 872-1212.
Ottawa, National Arts Center: Aug. (national tour begins)
Vancouver, Vogue Theatre: Sept.
Anthony Rapp (Mark), Adam Pascal (Roger), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Angel), Jesse Martin (Collins). Previews begin April 21 for an opening May 12 at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
Rehearsals begin Sept. 14 for previews starting Oct. 20. The show opens at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, November 4.


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Is it TRUE that chickens can only lay so many eggs than They Are done?If you can let me know i would appriciate it.Thank you Angie.
Farm Facts: Chickens and Poultry
What's the difference between a broiler and a fryer? Actually, none, says the Chicken Council of America. Both are "meat chickens," as compared to layers (the ones that produce eggs).
Today's broilers are bred for their meat, according to Dan Nuckolls, president of the Tennessee Egg and Poultry Association. They may look like fluffy white chickens, but they're actually engineered for specific food industry needs. Some are bred for fast-food requirements; the winter trend demands birds with more breast meat.
And Tennessee is a big state for broilers, ranking 13th in the nation in broiler production for 2003. Other fowl facts:
• 182.3 million broilers produced in 2003 (2004 Tennessee Department of Agriculture figures not yet available).
• Cash receipts totaling $322 million in Tennessee, up 20% from 2002.
• Broiler production is subsidized by large poultry companies like Koch Foods, Tyson and Pilgrim's Pride. Day-old chicks, feed and technical advice are all supplied to private farmers; chickens are picked up at 38-55 days for processing.
• Chicken has become America's favorite meat, with top 90 pounds consumed per person per year.
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Do you know who to contact about raising pheasants for our own consumption? And do I need a permit to do so? I moved to Tenn. 2 years ago from Florida and raised orphaned squirrels and other small animals for over 30 years but just want to raise pheasants.


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Dan McCarthy of the Great Leadership Blog is hosting the second monthly Leadership Development Carnival, and I want you check it out! It features 41 posts on leadership and leadership development, including one from me and one from All Things Workplace, this year's Best of Leadership Blogs winner.
Considering today is also the first day of the Great Indiana State Fair, I'm hungry for some fair food. I'll get that soon enough – but you can satisfy your appetite for great leadership ideas at the Carnival right now.


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Knocknagun: Heathery Lump on Ridge.
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This is a heathery bump on the boggy track from Killakee towards Enniskerry. For a direct approach from the W park at the forest entrance O 1413318504. Follow track down and around forest edge pas...
Kit Hill: Neither Kit nor Kin...
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Drive to summit at the Kit Hill Country Park and Short Walk to high point. Very Impressive tower which can be seen for many Kms dominates this hill. Extensive views of area down to Plymouth
Carnmenellis: List Tickers only
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a day ago
Climbed at end of long day. Parked to West and short walk enlivened by wind, rain, gorse and brambles later reached the trig pillar near Communication equipment. One for list ticker only as flatti...
Bin Down: Fore-titude needed
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A golf course summit. Waited till late and parked to west and entered gate. Trig is near the 7th Tee but the summit is 150 metres away. The golf was finishwd for the day so quick up and down whils...
Mountain of Iron 3 peaks A fine wilderness walk on a fine October day.
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walk, Len: 14.9km, Climb: 705m, Area: Knockacullion, Breifne (Ireland) Knockacu...
Tregonning Hill: Plenty of History on the summit
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Short Walk from townland of Balwest to the west along well worn track Great views from here, the Celtic Cross which can be viewed from afar is close to the summit trig and there are the remains of...
Watch Croft [White Downs]: Flat and Heathery
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Largely Flat no navigation issues due to tracks
Watch Croft [White Downs]: Watch the views
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Parked to North East at National Trust Car Park and followed the tracks all the way to summit. Most South Westerly Peak in England on Mountainviews. Busy even in April when I climbed as Cornwall a...
Union Rock
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A family friendly ramble along forest tracks and boardwalk to a diminutive summit area with 360-degree views.More detail walk, Len: 5.6km, Climb: 186m, Area: Ox Mountains (Ireland) ||
Hensbarrow Beacon: No hens in sight
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Parked near quarry to west and followed good track to summit. The summit has changed recently and the trig pillar is no longer the accepted high point
Brown Willy: Fog Warning
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Fog is Notoriously quick on Bodmin Moor be prepared !
Brown Willy: Cornwall's Highest Point
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Park to the North West at a car park a short drive from Camelford. Done as a double with Rough Tor and Brown Willy (Cornwall's Highest point) There is a grassy track to Rough Tor followed by a rou...
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Loch Rannoch to Glen Lyon
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Place count in area: 115,
Highest place:
Schiehallion, 1083m
Maximum height for area: 1083 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 716 metres,
Places in area Loch Rannoch to Glen Lyon:
An Grianan 864m
An Guirean 483m
An Sgorr 924m
An Suidhe 407m
Aodann Mhor 736m
Beinn a'Chreachain 1081m
Beinn a'Chuirn 923m
Beinn Achaladair 1038.5m
Beinn Achaladair South Top 1002m
Beinn an Dothaidh 1004m
Beinn an Dothaidh West Top 1000m
Beinn Dearg 830m
Beinn Dorain 1076m
Beinn Eagagach 691m
Beinn Mhanach 953m
Buachaille Bolla 616.8m
Cam Chreag 862m
Carabad 657m
Carn Gorm 1029m
Carn Mairg 1042m
Carn Sasunnaich [Beinn Dorain North Top] 1066m
Ciochan a'Chop 731.3m
Cluny Hill 433m
Cnoc Eaghainn 403m
Cnoc nan Aighean 624m
Cnoc Rawer 494m
Creag a'Chullaich 562m
Creag a'Mhadaidh 679m
Creag an Chanaich 755.8m
Creag an Fheadain 888m
Creag an Fhithich 616.1m
Creag an Fhithich 414m
Creag an Loch 736m
Creag an Lochain 656m
Creag an Lochain North Top 617m
Creag Ard 741m
Creag Chean 654.3m
Creag Ghobhlach 549m
Creag Kynachan 416m
Creag Loisgte 546m
Creag Mhor 822m
Creag Moine Toll nam Broc 521m
Creag nan Cop 556m
Creag Odhar 523m
Creag Riabhach 780m
Creagan Geur 503m
Creagan na Corr 600m
Creagan nan Gabhar 629m
Cross Craigs 747m
Dull Hill 485m
Dull Hill SE Top 475m
Dun Coillich 572m
Dunfallandy Hill 409m
Farragon Hill 783m
Farragon Hill North Top 651m
Garbh Mheall 912m
Geal Charn 792m
Guala Mhor 800m
Leagag 601m
Logierait Wood 420m
Meall a'Bharr 1004m
Meall a'Bhealach 680m
Meall a'Bhobuir 655m
Meall a'Charra 617.4m
Meall a'Charra East Top 590m
Meall a'Choire 617.9m
Meall a'Mhuic 745m
Meall a'Phuill 880m
Meall an Fhearna 684m
Meall an Odhar 815m
Meall an Stalcair 512m
Meall Breac 802m
Meall Buidhe 978m
Meall Buidhe 910m
Meall Buidhe 932m
Meall Buidhe SE Top 917m
Meall Buidhe West Top 824m
Meall Chomraidh 466.2m
Meall Cruinn 830m
Meall Crumach 681m
Meall Daill 874m
Meall Dubh 770m
Meall Dubh Beag 570m
Meall Dubh Mor 598.4m
Meall Garbh 968m
Meall Garbh (old GR) 963m
Meall Liath 1012m
Meall Luaidhe 919m
Meall na Aighean 981m
Meall na Aighean East Top 904m
Meall na Aighean West Top 974m
Meall na Feith Faide 830m
Meall na Moine 491m
Meall nam Maigheach 741m
Meall nan Aighean 790m
Meall nan Eun 874m
Meall nan Sac 653m
Meall nan Sac South Top 650m
Meall Odhar Mor 677.5m
Meall Phubuill 798m
Meall Tairbh 504m
Meall Tairneachan 787m
Meall Tairneachan West Top 712m
Meall Tionail 728m
Meallanan Odhar 756m
Na Craigean 488m
Schiehallion 1083m
Speirean Ruadh 492m
Sron a'Choire Chnapanich [Sron a'Choire Chnapanaich] 837m
Sron Chona Choirein 927m
Sron Mhor 505m
Stuchd an Lochain [Stuc an Lochain] 960m
Tom an Fhuarain 630m
top of Coire Dubh [Beinn a'Chreachain North Top] 961m
Weem Hill 500m
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, Easting: 276100, Northing: 757800
Prominence: 57m
, Isolation: 2.8km
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Basalt is actually the most common rock on Earth's surface and is typically the first to be issued from any volcano.
It is a fine-grained, black rock, extremely versatile for both inside and outside usage – we have provided this stone for innumerable kitchens, bathrooms, split-face finishes for water-falls, even basalt basins and entire bath-tubs.
INTERESTING FACT: Some of the most well-known head-and-torso figures – the Moia – on Easter Island, off the coast of Chile, are made of basalt, averaging a height of 4 meters and weighing 14 tons.


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Had they met I have no doubt Arthur would have read Bobo like the telephone directory. Just like he did these creeps here–
re his egregious "moral" posturing
"During the summer of 2008, the eminent Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith led a research team that conducted in-depth interviews with 230 young adults from across America. The interviews were part of a larger study that Smith, Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, Patricia Snell Herzog and others have been conducting on the state of America's youth.
Smith and company asked about the young people's moral lives, and the results are depressing.
It's not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you'd expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What's disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues."
Surely this wasn't always the case with college kids. Right Joan?
"The interviewers asked open-ended questions about right and wrong, moral dilemmas and the meaning of life. In the rambling answers, which Smith and company recount in a new book, "Lost in Transition," you see the young people groping to say anything sensible on these matters. But they just don't have the categories or vocabulary to do so."
"When asked to describe a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the young people either couldn't answer the question or described problems that are not moral at all, like whether they could afford to rent a certain apartment or whether they had enough quarters to feed the meter at a parking spot.
"Not many of them have previously given much or any thought to many of the kinds of questions about morality that we asked," Smith and his co-authors write. When asked about wrong or evil, they could generally agree that rape and murder are wrong. But, aside from these extreme cases, moral thinking didn't enter the picture, even when considering things like drunken driving, cheating in school or cheating on a partner. "I don't really deal with right and wrong that often," is how one interviewee put it.
The default position, which most of them came back to again and again, is that moral choices are just a matter of individual taste. "It's personal," the respondents typically said. "It's up to the individual. Who am I to say?" "
Say what? You could say what Paul Krugman said in the NYT on September 11, 2011, 8:41 am
"The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don't think it's me, and it's not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I'm not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons."
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After reading Krugman's repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM."
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"Rejecting blind deference to authority, many of the young people have gone off to the other extreme: "I would do what I thought made me happy or how I felt. I have no other way of knowing what to do but how I internally feel."
"Many were quick to talk about their moral feelings but hesitant to link these feelings to any broader thinking about a shared moral framework or obligation. As one put it, "I mean, I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it. But different people feel different ways, so I couldn't speak on behalf of anyone else as to what's right and wrong."
"Smith and company found an atmosphere of extreme moral individualism — of relativism and nonjudgmentalism. Again, this doesn't mean that America's young people are immoral. Far from it. But, Smith and company emphasize, they have not been given the resources — by schools, institutions and families — to cultivate their moral intuitions, to think more broadly about moral obligations, to check behaviors that may be degrading. In this way, the study says more about adult America than youthful America.
Smith and company are stunned, for example, that the interviewees were so completely untroubled by rabid consumerism. (This was the summer of 2008, just before the crash).
Many of these shortcomings will sort themselves out as these youngsters get married, have kids, enter a profession or fit into more clearly defined social roles. Institutions will inculcate certain habits. Broader moral horizons will be forced upon them. But their attitudes at the start of their adult lives do reveal something about American culture. For decades, writers from different perspectives have been warning about the erosion of shared moral frameworks and the rise of an easygoing moral individualism.
Allan Bloom and Gertrude Himmelfarb warned that sturdy virtues are being diluted into shallow values. Alasdair MacIntyre has written about emotivism, the idea that it's impossible to secure moral agreement in our culture because all judgments are based on how we feel at the moment."
Allan Bloom, author of the specious The Closing of the American Mind was a closet queen who died of AIDS. Saul Bellow, who for reasons that escape me, admired his worthless ass, wrote an ass-kiss a clef about him called Ravelstein
Gertrude Himmelfarb is is a racist.
Alasdair MacIntyre is a pedant.
"Charles Taylor has argued that morals have become separated from moral sources. People are less likely to feel embedded on a moral landscape that transcends self. James Davison Hunter wrote a book called "The Death of Character."
"Smith's interviewees are living, breathing examples of the trends these writers have described.
In most times and in most places, the group was seen to be the essential moral unit. A shared religion defined rules and practices. Cultures structured people's imaginations and imposed moral disciplines. But now more people are led to assume that the free-floating individual is the essential moral unit. Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now it's thought of as something that emerges in the privacy of your own heart."
Meanwhile in other Moral News — THIS JUST IN!
"Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint on Tuesday urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.
The formal filing of nearly 80 pages by two American advocacy groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, marks the most substantive effort yet to hold the pope and the Vatican accountable in an international court for sexual abuse by priests.
A spokesperson at the court said that the prosecutor's office will examine the papers, "as we do with all such communications." The first step will be "to analyse whether the alleged crimes fall under the court's jurisdiction," Florence Olara, the prosecutor's spokeswoman said.
Complaints about the Vatican and child abuse by Catholic priests have been received at the court before, court records showed. But Ms. Olara said that details are not normally disclosed by the court unless a case goes forward.
Lawyers familiar with the I.C.C. said that it was unlikely that complaint against the Vatican would fit the court's mandate to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. But even an examination of the issue by the prosecution office would appear to serve the plaintiffs' goal of getting international attention for the case.
A Vatican spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Vatican officials have often said that the decisions about priests accused of abuse are made by bishops — not by the Vatican hierarchy — and that the church is far more decentralized than is widely believed.
But the lawyers and abuse victims who are taking the case to the international court say their action is necessary because all the cases brought against priests and bishops in various countries have not been sufficient to prevent the crimes from continuing.
"National jurisdictions can't really get their arms around this," said Pamela Spees, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who helped prepare the filing. "Prosecuting individual instances of child molestation or sexual assault has not gotten at the larger systemic problem here. Accountability is the goal, and the I.C.C. makes the most sense, given that it's a global problem."
In addition to Pope Benedict XVI, the filing asks the court to prosecute Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state; Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the previous secretary of state and the current dean of the College of Cardinals; and Cardinal William Levada, who is head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office designated to receive cases of clergy sexual abuse that are forwarded by bishops.
A central question is whether the accusations will fit the court's criteria. The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed after July 1, 2002, when the court opened. It is independent of the United Nations and has jurisdiction in the 117 countries that so far have ratified the Rome Statute that created the court. Italy, Germany and the Netherlands are signatories, while the Vatican and the United States are not."
IOW, like such high-ranking moral monsters as Dubbya and Dick Cheney, Pope Ratzi had better not put a Prada-slippered toe outside of the Vatican.
"The filing against the Vatican cites five cases in which priests have been accused of abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States; the priests in these cases are from Belgium, India and the United States.
Ms. Spees said she hoped to convince the court that the cases were within its jurisdiction, because they involve abuses that she said were "systematic and widespread," and because the pope and two of the three cardinals named in the filing are from nations that are signatories to the Rome Statute.
Experts in international law said they thought the court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, would be reluctant to accept the cases because of thorny jurisdictional questions, as well as political and religious sensitivities.
They said that the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests was sufficiently heinous and numerous to meet the court's standards. The question is whether the facts show that the Vatican officials actually perpetuated the abuse.
Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association, which is based in London, said he thought that the Court would open a preliminary investigation to determine whether it has jurisdiction — and that it would probably conclude that it did not.
"Crimes against humanity means acts that are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population," Mr. Ellis said. "What you're looking at is really a policy, in which the government or the authorities are planning the attack."
"When you look at the concept of why and how the I.C.C. was created, I just don't think this fits," he said. "But the filing does something that's important. It raises awareness. Ultimately the plaintiffs will elevate this in the public eye and it will force the court to respond."
But has the Catholic Church ever responded to reality? A criminal pedophile gang it remains adamantly opposed to the facts of life, as lovingly detailed by the Greeks. Right Arthur?
That's all a bit much for Ratzi. Not to mention Bobo.
But never mind. Both of you are virtually dead — while Arthur's more alive than ever.
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Sweet Vanilla Bean Valentine's Day Cookies with Dove Chocolate hearts. So much flavor in one cookie!
I love sprinkles. Who's with me on this? Last year I made icebox cookies and rolled the entire log of cookie dough in sprinkles before slicing. They turned out so pretty, only the edges of the cookies had sprinkles on them.
This time, I rolled the dough into 1 inch balls and rolled THAT into sprinkles. So pretty!
Does anyone do anything fun for Valentine's Day?
It totally changes once you have kids. What used to be a romantic holiday has now turned into this cutesy, love day filled with sprinkles and conversation hearts (instead of roses, champagne and chocolate).
But I'm taking the holiday back. All in one cookie I give everyone a little piece of what they love. Sprinkles for the kids. Dove chocolates for ME. And the heart shape for my sweet husband.
This recipe makes about 28 cookies, which leaves a few extra of those delicious Dove chocolates. I immediately hid them to snack on during the day. Totally deserved. Right?
Here are some of my other favorite desserts that would be perfect for Valentine's Day:
Chocolate Hazelnut Tart: this tart is not only impressive to look at, but it tastes amazing!
Cherry Fudge with Dark Chocolate: soft, smooth fudge with dried cherries topped with a dark chocolate! Why not show your love with fudge?
Vanilla Bean and Cherry Swirled Icebox Cookies: make these ahead of time and keep them in your freezer. When ready, bake and enjoy!
Thumbprint Cookies with Cherry Buttercream: cute bite sized cookies with a delcious, sweet frosting!


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In some reference programs, when you are within a given paper, you have a the option to scan for keywords . The program then looks at the abstract and title and if some of the words there, appear in the keywords list, the program automatically adds these found keywords to the list of that paper. This can even be done automatically when you introduce a new reference, in that the program automatically adds keywords from the abstract and title.
I have been unable to find this option in Citavi. If not available, it would be a good addition.
A related topic is about synonyms. When importing keywords from an automatic downloading, some keywords are imported which are in meaning very similar to others. However, the option of merging keywords may not be always a good idea, because we lose some of these useful words which can be especially useful when we have the option to scan for keywords or we automatically download keywords. If we had the possibility of creating synonyms, it is easier to get what we are searching because the exact use of a given keyword is not so important.


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The Surge in Afghanistan: Command Voices
Read Transcript Part I: Command Voices with MG (P) Huggins (PDF)
Read Transcript Part II: Command Voices with LTC (P) Vowell (PDF)
The Institute for the Study of War hears from two commanders about their experiences in Afghanistan over the past year.
First, Major General Jim Huggins, former Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division and Regional Command (South), discusses the evolving security situation in Southern Afghanistan, the effects of the surge, and the challenges that remain.
Huggins returned from a yearlong combat tour in Afghanistan in September 2012 and has also served in Iraq.
Next we heard from LTC J.B. Vowell, former Commander of TF No Slack in Kunar, Afghanistan. He discussed the operating environment in that province, where al Qaeda and its affiliates continue to operate.
He has been selected to command 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division after completing his fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has also served in Iraq.


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Punished Student Retweets Snoop Dogg; Claims Retaliation in Suit Against District
A California high school student is suing her district, claiming that she was harassed by a school employee and cut from the basketball team over her personal social-media activity—including a retweet of celebrity musician Snoop Dogg.
The vice principal and girls' basketball coach at Sierra High School in Fresno, Calif., allegedly targeted senior Racquel Alec in order to "intentionally humiliate her, discriminate against her, or keep her from playing on the girls' basketball team for the 2016-2017 season," according to the suit.
At issue: Alec's "likes" and retweets of "photographs of musical artists or celebrities on her private social-media page, such as Snoop Dog [sic] holding, what appeared to be, a marijuana joint in his hand."
An investigation conducted by the 1,300-student Sierra Unified district last spring cleared the vice principal/coach of wrongdoing.
Snoop Dogg weighed in on Instagram last week: "Have her lawyers hit my team this is nonsense."
Vol. 37, Issue 20, Page 5Published in Print: February 14, 2018, as Punished Student Retweets Snoop Dogg; Claims Retaliation in Suit Against District
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Each year, we rearrange all of our living room furniture, borrow chairs and tables from neighbors (ahem, and workplaces), and host a Passover seder for the masses. But a few months ago, I accepted that with our now-limited time, we would have to axe a bunch of people off of our guest list and host a more appropriately sized event. One that doesn't involve sending someone to the store 20 minutes before guests arrive for an array of forgotten items, including beets, flowers, and compostable forks.
Of course, this did not happen.
I love both a challenge and a packed house, so once again, our couches were shoved into corners and we were busting at the seams with 13 adults and 6 kids for a sit-down dinner. A delightful Barry Louis Polisar Haggadah in hand, we told the story of the Jews' exodus from Egypt through our unintelligible Hebrew with a healthy dose of shrieking children in the next room.
As we prepared to do a blessing for the bitter herbs, symbolized by haroset, a mixture of fruits, nuts, and spices, we read aloud:
"We acknowledge that life is bittersweet."
I nodded my head at the trueness of the statement, realizing that bittersweet was the word I've been missing for the last 9.5 months. It's a succinct description of some wonderfully sweet moments with Luella that have been tinged with darker undertones.
And bittersweet is the word that describes my present feelings as we prepare for one of Luella's more momentous experiences. On Monday, May 12, Luella will have two surgeries at Seattle Children's Hospital.
About the Surgeries/Jenn's Mostly Inaccurate Medical Explanations:
1. Gastric Tube/G-Tube Surgery. As Luella gets older and more mobile, it's (duh) becoming an issue to have a feeding tube always hanging out of her nose. She rolls on top of it, gets it stuck in her hands, and has clumsy parents who have accidentally pulled it out on a number of occasions. The tape that keeps it stuck to her face causes rashes and putting new feeding tubes in is unpleasant for all involved. While her feeding therapy is going well, it will likely be a long time before she is able to consume her food solely by mouth. The g-tube will be a port directly into her stomach that will be attached to a cord only when she eats.
2. Lazy Eye Surgery. Both of Luella's eyes wander in and up, which is a vision problem as well as a cosmetic issue. This surgery will address "amblyopia", the delightful technical term for the more judgey "lazy eye". This surgery will help to realign the eyes, although it's not guaranteed to be successful.
In terms of surgeries, we're told these are relatively minor, although it is slightly more dangerous to undergo anesthesia if you've had seizures, as Luella has. I'm really looking forward to having her nasal feeding tube out and some of her vision issues fixed, but I'm also a little like, "HELLO THIS IS THE WORST."
The next few weeks, like many weeks prior, will probably be a lot like my Passover chocolate cake: bittersweet. That being said, my guests didn't have any complaints about it. In fact, I watched a friend polish off the leftovers, running her finger along the bottom of the pan to savor every last, deliciously bittersweet morsel.


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Patricia Ewuzie, 24, CEO of Patricia's Marque speaks to FEYISAYO POPOOLA on her experience in business
What's your business about?
Patricia's Marque is an outfit that makes beaded jewelleries, sells all kinds of jewels, trains in bead making and does consultations.
What is your educational background?
I have a bachelor's degree in financial management technology from the University of Technology, Owerri
Do you have any work experience?
Yes, I have done internship in a couple of companies but I'm currently doing my youth service in Calabar.
How did you raise the initial capital for the business?
My initial capital was a N10, 000 loan from my mum which I paid back.
What are the major challenges you have faced?
I started my business while I was still in the university; so one of my major challenges back then was stability. I would get a job but it would get delayed because I had course work or one activity or the other. Other challenges I have faced are getting my products to the desired platform, having access to some types of raw materials, and funding.
How has been the support of your family and friends?
The support I have got so far from family and friends has been amazing. I have got the best squad, I must tell you.
Is your business registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission?
No, it's not. The process of registration is too tedious.
Who is your role model?
My mum is definitely my role model. She inspires me every day to keep pushing boundaries. Linda Ikeji is also my role model. What she has done for herself and her brand are simply amazing.
Has any celebrity patronised you?
None at the moment
What other skills do you possess?
I am an excellent event planner. Just give me your event to plan and you'll be rest assured it's going to be a blast.
Where do you see yourself and your business in the next five years?
My brand, Patricia's Marque, will be a one stop shop for everything jewellery and accessory from the beaded jewellery to the everyday jewellery to engagement rings ranging from steel to sterling silver. We will have our own flagship shops with partner sales outlets outside Nigeria.
As for me, I should have been well equipped financially and in skill/knowledge to be able to take my business to its greatest heights and be an employer of labour.
What sacrifices have you made to become independent?
I had to be up and doing, no room for laziness. I also had to sacrifice study time when I had jobs. I put away shyness and procrastination too
Do you have any employees?
No; I don't.
How were you able to manage your business effectively during the recession?
I've been able to manage by creating the best I can be and getting better and trying to have satisfied customers.
What is your advice to other aspiring young entrepreneurs?
My advice is: once you feel that urge to start your business, just do it. Do not procrastinate. Start small and grow big. Rome wasn't built in a day, it's a process. There will be room for improvement; never stop believing in yourself.
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A drug that cuts off the blood supply feeding tumours may boost the survival of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a deadly form of brain cancer.
Researchers at Duke University found that Bevacizumab (Avastin), a drug that stunts the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumour's growth and spread, may increase the amount of time that patients can survive without tumour growth if given in conjunction with a standard chemotherapy drug.
Publishing their findings in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, they reveal that out of 35 patients given the drug combination, almost half saw no tumour progression after six months, and nearly 80 per cent were still alive six months after being diagnosed.
This represents a significant improvement on existing therapies, as 75 per cent of patients treated with chemotherapy alone have tumour progression after six months, and fewer than half are alive six months after diagnosis.
Lead investigator Dr James Vredenburgh, a neurooncologist at Duke University, said: 'We found that this drug combination could significantly improve outcomes for these people, who are typically given about three to six months to live.
'These results represent tremendous hope for these patients and their families.'
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