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Featured image – A taoist priest as seen in a film.
I want to cover this topic now, as Tomb Sweeping Day seems the most appropriate time of year to push this blog post through, and there's definitely more than enough cultural background to keep readers interested and amused.
What I'm refering to is the tradition of entire public streets and walkways occupied by giant awning, where underneath lies the coffin of the deceased, waves of guests come and go to chat, eat out, drink alcohol, all over card games and mahjong at the numerous tables set out. At hourly intervals, even during the night, taoist priests perform a dance and song ritual around the coffin as they clang gongs at spirit wakening volumes, often right under the balconies and windows of neighbouring tower blocks. On occasions in the past in Hechuan, I have been woken up for the final time that morning by the grimly familiar recording of a funeral brass band blasting out of a set of speakers at 6am.
This practice was stamped out a long time ago in Chongqing, in fact, I don't ever recall witnessing one of these in the city itself, but up until just a year or two ago, these were a familiar sight in the less developed satellite cities and counties in the municipality.
Slowly, however, the authorities are no longer allowing this tradition, and stipulate that the rowdy participants move the show to the nearest funeral parlour殡仪馆 (Bin yi guan).
A personal account
Despite the slightly grim nature of the topic, my hope is that readers will understand and see that there are deep rooted traditions worth exploring, and that the matter overall is a much less solumn affair in China.
The personal account I wish to convey now is based on a close relative of my Chinese wife, and I attended every last stage of the three day public ceremony, precisely the style that I described above and is now slowly disappearing.
In his day, he was a high ranking public offical with the authority to appoint or promote anybody to virtually any government position. A power that the rural population coveted greatly was his approval to transfer a household from rural to urban, and in fact, the mother in law's side of the family was only able to make this transition in such a way.
During the 70s and 80s, car ownership was virtually unheard in Hechuan County of that time, yet he was taken everywhere in a personal chauffeur driven Volkswagen. Each and every day consisted of meetings and lavish banquets with plenty of rice wine.
Eventually, though, this lifestyle over which he really had little choice in the culture of those decades caught up with him. After he suffered a debilitating stroke, the last few years of his life were spent in an unchanging cycle of sleep, TV, meals, and occasionally a little Mahjong.
For a reason I'm not quite sure of, he had difficulty swallowing and often choked on his food. I was always quite astonished that doctors never suggested a liquid diet, but the day came where he was served something unadvisable, and I needn't describe the rest.
After receiving the phone call in Chongqing, we were in Hechuan within two hours. He was lying on a metal stretcher on the living room table, and a fairly large crowd of friends, relatives and neighbous had gathered around.
A group of taoist priests intermittently performed a ritual where they danced around the body singing hyms and clanging their gongs. At other times, they sat talking to the guests and wrote out Chinese prayers onto decorate strips of paper. As soon as I entered the apartment, a relative pinned such a strip onto my t-shirt sleeve (It was a very hot June evening!). When the song and dance commenced, I was instructed to hold a batch of incense sticks along with other immediate relatives and follow the priest in circles around the table.
In these parts of China where ancient tradition is most well preserved, there are companies and groups who offer an all inclusive package for such occasions. At a call and beckon, your local taoist priest will come with all the hardware and paraphernalia required, like strechers, refridgerated coffin, tents, awning, furniture, candles, incense, gongs, speaker systems and resident band.
A colourful Chinese expression to describe an all in one service is 一条龙服务(Yi tiao long fu wu), a whole dragon service, including head, tail and everything else.
Once the venue had been prepared, three male relatives and myself took a handle each of the strecher, and carried the body down two flights of indoor steps, across the communal gardens, out the back gate, down another large flight of steps leading to the pavement below, and finally taking firm hold of a limb and placing him inside the coffin. Empty space around the sides were filled with afterlife money, the lid was securely fastened, the generator turned on, and the refridgeration started.
Never in my life had I experienced anything like this in such a direct and hands on manner.
Despite the short notice, a huge crowd of family friends and acquaintances came to take the microphone and pay their respects, including many who owed their present fortunate circumstances to strokes of his pen back in the day.
Every family or individal that attends lays a giant wreath stood on legs around the coffin and inner tent. At the centre is a calligraphy style 奠(dian), signifying offerings to the deceased. Around the edges, personal messages and wishes are written on red ribbons hung from the wreath.
When the priests were taking a breather, the resident band took over while guests occupied the rows of chairs and tables, drinking, eating and chatting away. The atmosphere was not solumn in the least, but actually quite jolly.
Though it is technically the filial duty of male relatives to host the proceedings until dawn, I held out as long as I could possible stay conscious, until the others eventually told me to go inside and get some sleep at some point in the early hours. The next two nights thankfully went the same for me without any objection.
At 6am, I and the entire residential complex woke up to the grim sounding brass band funeral march blasting out of the sound system, that one tune that I have heard so so many times around Hechuan and sometimes on TV whenever a figurehead is being seen off.
I love how something that no neighbour in England could ever tolerate goes on so naturally with zero complaints about disruption to sleep and obstruction of entire public streets and pavements.
The daytimes went by. Guests came and went, offering gifts of money, tucking into the food and drink delivered to the tables, listening to a few tunes and rituals, before making their way.
Nothing really new happened for three days. In the very early hours of the fourth morning, the cremation was arranged at a site out of town. The whole family rendez-vous-ed in their cars, and we set off in a long convoy behind the head car.
When all the cars had left, the tents and paraphernalia were packed up and moved. By the time we returned, there was no sign anything had taken place except for a scorched patch of bricks blackened by the paper and candle burning.
Once at the crematorium, we sat in a waiting room while the logistics were been sorted for us. When our turn arrived, we were led into a room where we all walked around the body three times to that same brass band music. After that, we followed the staff as they lay the body on the automatic strecher to be cremated.
I'll finish this post a little more briefly. The bones came out for everyone to inspect. A staff member crushed them up and put them into an expensive urn for us to take away with a cremation certificate booklet.
All the wreaths from the past three days were burnt together in a fire outside.
As the convoy drove to the cemetery, a passenger in the front car dropped afterlife money out of the window, note by note, every few seconds for the entire journey.
The taoist priest used his geomancy skills to calculate the best direction for the urn to face. The grave was covered over, flowers, candles, incense placed, firecrackers set off, and that was it. Everyone went their own ways, and that was the end of the matter.
Final thoughts
This all happened about four years ago, so my memory is a little hazy on some of the fine details.
My main feelings after the event were mostly fatigue from the long days and nights, but in a way, the atmosphere had been surprisingly lively, and nobody went short of entertainment, alcohol or refreshments.
The wife and siblings took some considerable stick from the elders for not playing a lead role in organising the event, but the fact of the matter is that younger urban Chinese generations don't understand the traditions like their elders, and simply don't know what they're expected to do.
Whenever we go back to Hechuan, the exact spot on the pavement outside the residential complex that was scorched by all the paper and candle burning is still there as a reminder.
As I mentioned at the start, I hope my readers see through the grim topic and take in the cultural aspects involved. I've wanted to share my experiences from this time with you, and though the Tomb Sweeping Festival was the best opportunity.
I promise everything else that follows in my blog will be more cheerful.


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Christianity does not just provide an object of worship; it also provides a cosmology (a design of time and space), a moral code (including fundamental reasons or motives for human behavior), and — closely related to the moral code — an eschatological design, a picture of where humans are going, both as individuals and as a species. Christian doctrine, in fact, claims to have all the answers to all the big questions, while modern science can offer only tentative answers to some relatively small questions. It is the immense scope of Christian thought that is critical. Christian doctrine was solidified many centuries ago, and the various waves of reform and "heresy" have never really displaced the set of beliefs established by about the fifth century. Nevertheless, what is not often realized is that even if they are fence-straddlers or non-Christians, most Westerners are born into the Christian worldview to the same extent that a fish is born in water.
The Christian set of beliefs is about two thousand years old, but any attempt to delineate those beliefs is complicated by the problem that Christianity, over the centuries, has broken up into so many separate churches. There are significant differences between Roman Catholicism and some of the more extreme Protestant groups. What, if anything, is the core of Christian belief?
To answer that question, one might examine the Bible. But the Bible as a dogma presents difficulties. Much of it is more akin to folktale and myth than to philosophy or any other consciously intellectual pursuit. It is a dream world, and it is irrational in the manner of dreams. The Bible begins with the utterly dreamlike book of Genesis: dreams consist largely of visual images, and that is what one finds in the first book of the Bible. The intellectual content, on the other hand, is slight: the occasional dialogue is confined to the primitive questions of marriage, inheritance, and territoriality, and the greatest blessing is for God to say, ". . . I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven . . . and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies" (22.17). Genesis can almost be considered a set of nesting dreams, because the book itself is filled with references to sleep and dreams: Eve is created from a rib taken from Adam's side as he sleeps (2.21-23), God appears to Isaac in the night (26.24), Jacob dreams of a ladder to heaven (28.12), and the book ends with the many dreams of Joseph and the Egyptians. In the comical manner with which dreams transform social relationships, angels drop in (so to speak) to deliver useful messages, and God appears as a sort of domineering grandfather, always threatening to rewrite his will.
However, it is curious that a great deal of present-day Christian doctrine, formally and informally, was solidified so long ago. Augustine's City of God was finished in the year 426, and even in that work one can find so much that remains as universal Christian doctrine today. Most importantly, for Augustine as for the modern Christian, God is no longer Yahweh, a minor Semitic spirit of the desert and the mountaintops; he is now regarded as omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent.
The fundamentals of Christian theology have changed very little since Augustine's day. There are many other items in present-day Christianity, or at least in Roman Catholicism, that resemble the forms they had well over a thousand years ago. One example is the wording of the Mass, although it is no longer always in Latin. Another is the physical design of the church building, although that design has been disappearing over the last few decades.
The doctrines expressed by Augustine can be traced back even further than the fifth century: there is a great deal in Augustine that can also be found in the writings of Paul, his predecessor. But Paul's writings are not set out in a very orderly philosophical framework; there is a system to Paul's thinking, but it becomes far more apparent when one reads Augustine and then goes back to Paul. Paul, in turn, can be seen as one part of that great bubbling and boiling of Platonic and Neoplatonic thinking that was going on in late Roman times, mixed with far less abstract Jewish doctrine.
But it would be a mistake to casually ignore this corpus of belief, because the roots of Christian thinking go down miles into the human psyche. A westerner — Christian or otherwise — cannot spend a single day without performing actions, and making decisions, that take their particular directions from a consciously or unconsciously Christian way of thinking or mode of perception. Christianity is not just in Western architecture or its calendar or its music: it is in the language and the social structures and above all in what might be called moral decisions. Partly because of my Christian heritage, I am unlikely to murder my family or neighbors, yet I might be willing to put on a uniform, carry a rifle, and shoot an enemy soldier in time of war; the quandaries of "Thou shalt not kill" are immensely complicated, but most people spend their lives blissfully unaware of these complexities.
Christianity incorporates mystical experience, which is universal to human culture and not solely the property of that religion. There is in all of us a kind of infinite longing. But life, unfortunately, is not always kind. When we are children, we expect that we shall always live a wingèd life, a life akin to that of angels, but by the time we have become adults we begin to suspect that we have been born into slavery. When our lives are too busy, too crammed with detail, we forget that childhood longing for the infinite, but there will always be moments when we are more receptive, when we remember "something far more deeply interfused, / Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns," as Wordsworth says in Tintern Abbey.
That "something" has a different locus for each person. It may, for example, be found in great music, such as that of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, and Vivaldi, in such poetry as that of Wordsworth and the early Yeats, and perhaps above all in the natural world (as was true for Wordsworth himself) -- on a mountain top, by the side of the ocean, or in a golden meadow. This great longing is not entirely Christian, of course, or even entirely religious. Although one can be inspired by Mozart's Requiem (which almost convinces me that the world will end on a trumpet note), Rodrigo's lush and sensual Concierto de Aranjuez is equally transporting.
To a large extent, the core of Christianity is the belief in the "beyond," some sort of world other than that of the senses. The "beyond" provides a setting for what is sometimes called "the problem of meaning," the search for reasons. Why is there so much corruption and brutality? Why do some people have everything, while others have nothing? Why is life so full of uncertainty? Why are pain and death so prevalent? Religion answers those questions by setting the material world in a supernatural matrix that is more organized and more hopeful, and in that sense religion is akin to philosophy.

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20 Things That Happen When You Live With Your BFF
When you're a child, living with your best friend is something that you can only dream about. Spending every moment of free time you share together, you make plans for the future, secretly wishing that you could just grow up already. As an adult, living with your BFF is better than you had ever dreamed; every day is a sleepover and you can eat all the snacks you want without the prying eyes of your parents. Over time, though, you start to develop some freaky habits that, were anyone else to see, would be completely embarrassing. Living with your best friend will change you completely and pretty soon, you will forget what life was like before.
You Discuss "Would You Rather" For Hours
What started out as a silly time waster soon becomes something completely serious. You spend hours debating each 'Would You Rather' question and to this day, you can't decide between feet as hands or hands as feet.
You Know Everything About Their Bodily Functions
From digestive problems to skin irritations and allergies, if there's something wrong with your body, your BFF knows about it. Just think of it as a dry run for your pensioner years.
You Can Exist For Days In Silence
For all the hours you spend talking to one another, you can spend the same amount of time wrapped in easy, comfortable silence. You can practically read each other's minds, so who needs to talk?
You Text From Across The Room
If you're sitting on the sofa and need a snack, you text your BFF in their room. You text each other more than family members and significant others and everyone else is just going to have to deal with that.


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What is or is not Meditation?
Seems like meditation is the buzz word these days. Meditation is not limited to Gurus. From Obama to Oprah – even celebs claim to meditate daily. Being a Yoga teacher, I would strongly recommend that you meditate daily, and not because celebs or others are doing it. Meditation has little to do with the outside world. It is about going inside of yourself.
What Meditation is NOT
Please do not expect any miracles to happen the first time you sit down in lotus to meditate. A lot of my students confess that they stopped meditating because they couldn't get their mind to shut up. "I always had thoughts when I was meditating so I felt maybe I am not doing it correctly and I stopped doing it", said one of my students after his mere 10th attempt!
In the world of instant messaging, instant noodles, instant coffee where a fresh pizza delivery takes no more than 30 minutes, it is hard to understand the need of patience, but with meditation, there are no shortcuts. It can take decades of daily meditation practice to reach what is called as the 'thoughtlessness' state or sometimes you may never get there. But that should not discourage you from meditating.
Here are 4 Truths About Mediation that I wish Every Beginner Must Know:
Truth #1 You can't dictate your mind to stop thinking. Just like our body releases enzymes, the mind releases thoughts.
Truth #2 You can choose to not pay attention to thoughts. If you do so, you will notice that the thought will simply go without making you think too much. It is a like a plant. It will die if you stop watering it. So, you can stop watering your thoughts.
Truth #3 If you honestly meditate daily, you will get microseconds of pure silence or 'bliss' like feeling in your mind. In my case, it is the time between two thoughts. When the previous thought has died and the new thought hasn't arrived.
Truth #4 NEVER judge yourself while meditating. It defeats the whole purpose of meditation when in the middle of meditation you think that you suck at it. If your mind wanders away (and it always does) simply bring it back without beating yourself up.
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The Two Nations and the Educational Structure: 1780-1870
The Two Nations and the Educational Structure 1780-1870 is the first in Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education series. It traces the emergence of modern education from the efforts of the scientific societies in the 1780s up to the securing of universal education with the Education Act of 1870.
The ideas for modern schools, by such reformers as James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, are expounded in detail, together with the early attempts at working people's self-education; the struggle for leadership of the Mechanic's Institute and Robert Owen's movement for communal education. Reform of the universities and grammar schools is shown as part of the changeover of political power from the landed aristocracy to the industrial middle class. The book documents the struggle of the Chartists to ensure the working class was educated, and it examines the important role of the trade Unions is pushing through the Education Act of 1870.
Paperback, 374pp, All rights L&W
This is the first volume in Brian Simon's series Studies in the History of Education.
'This is a remarkable achievement, an outstanding study which is unlikely to be approached or equalled, let alone surpassed, in the foreseeable future'
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Is there a way to create a schedule form that shows multiple dates and times?
There is an in-depth guide regarding the Lotus Approach application. Since it appeared on a Google Search that I've used, I recommend using it to find out the information you need. Access the link below then click on each of the available link to learn how to work with Approach since it's a very old application.


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Today's Verse for 05/02/2018
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. — 1 John 5:14-15 (KJV)
Confidence before God. That's sort of an oxymoron if you meditate upon it. Yet through the presence of Jesus at the Father's right hand and the intercession of the Holy Spirit, we can have confidence and come boldly before the Creator of the universe and know that he not only hears us, but also cares for us. Wow, what an audience! Oh, and one final thing, he also ACTS on what we ask.
Abba Father, for the grace of your listening ear I thank you more than words can say. Through the authority of Jesus my brother and by the grace of your interceding Holy Spirit, I offer you my thanks and love this day. Amen.
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Location of a former school along the tracks.
I believe that this is the Riverside School (check out the map!). One of the structures on this property was built in 1900, and I believe this is the one.
I've recently acquired some new maps from the Seattle Municipal Archives (I'll MapCrunch them soon hopefully). Two of them cover this spot, one when it was built and one when it was dismantled. Both have a "School House Siding" for the tracks right next to a school. On the 1912 map it's called "Riverside School" on Stirrat and Goetz investment company land; the outline of the building matches the one I've pinned in the Local Live map. On the 1933 map the property is referred to as "School King Co Dist #70."
Unfortunately there isn't much information about the Riverside area online (for example, Historylink). It's almost entirely industrial or preserved land now, though there are a few houses left near Spokane Street.
I'm not sure what shape the building is. As a relic of a forgotten neighborhood, it might be worth holding onto.
Oh, the tracks were just to the west. They hugged the edge of the hill on "Detroit Ave" south from a junction with West Marginal/Iowa. Then a bit south of this point the tracks started working up the hill until merging with the later-built Burien Way.Posted by Rob Ketcherside at July 2, 2006 2:27 AM


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Science in the Age of Baroque
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Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées book series (ARCH, volume 208)
This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like 'Baroque' and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the 'Scientific Revolution' are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla.
The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.


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In a way, their assessment is not surprising. The current expansion, which started in June 2009, is now 99 months long, making it the third longest expansion in U.S. history. Only the expansions from March 1991 to March 2001 (120 months) and February 1961 to December 1969 (106 months) are longer. It is likely that this expansion will pass the 1960s expansion in length but fall short of the record.
Warning signs
The financial analysts cited by Bloomberg News did not base their warnings simply on longevity. Rather it was the behavior of corporate profits, more specifically their downward trend, that concerned them. Historically, expansions have come to an end because declining profits cause corporations to slash investment spending, which leads to a decline in employment and eventually consumption, and finally recession.
As the Bloomberg article explains, "The gross value-added of non-financial companies after inflation — a measure of the value of goods after adjusting for the costs of production — is now negative on a year-on-year basis." As an analyst for Oxford Economics Ltd. concludes, "The cycle of real corporate profits has turned enough to be a potential source of concern in the next four quarters."


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| 8.4°C Belfast
Police are losing control of north and west Belfast amid mounting security fears and growing paramilitary activity, a PSNI insider has claimed.
A concerned officer says a lack of resources, delayed response times and nervousness about future attacks on the force are driving communities to dissident gangs for protection.
In the last week, one republican group is said to have chased down a stolen car and returned stolen tools to their owner.
Meanwhile, a catalogue of issues relating to the PSNI in north and west Belfast has been reported to this newspaper.
Following a call to police on Sunday night about a shooting in Newtownabbey, officers - believed to have been from a unit outside the area - attended the scene more than 12 hours later.
Across the city on Norglen Drive in west Belfast, three cars were burnt out in the early hours of Monday morning.
In an even more alarming claim, a PSNI source alleged police left a "viable device" found last month in Poleglass for 15 hours before the correct response units made it to the scene.
The senior officer claimed police on the ground were told to stay out of the area, while the public - unaware of the potential danger to their lives - continued to pass the device on Brians Well Road until Army Technical Officers and Territorial Support Group units arrived.
The latest concerns come after an officer in his 20s was shot at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road last month and less than a week after Chief Constable George Hamilton answered complaints from a female officer that there weren't enough personnel to police the streets of Belfast, insisting there were enough people to do the job.
A worried officer said colleagues feared for their safety because of poor training and inadequate resources.
According to the source not all PSNI officers have received sufficient firearms training, with many ill-equipped to use their G36 assault rifles if they were to come under attack.
While some have had adequate training, the source said, not all have been taught how to respond tactically if under attack.
However, the PSNI said only specific and specialist officers are trained to use G36 weapons.
The source said officers are stretched too thinly across the north and west districts of the city, with concerns personnel could be left without adequate support if a large number were deployed to one place should a major incident take place.
Following alleged warnings about IEDs posing a potential threat, officers are worried police vehicles are not armoured strongly enough to withstand an attack, it is claimed.
According to the insider, some jeeps could not hold off an IED blast.
"All these things are feeding into each other," said the source. "The police are overstretched, they're afraid of more attacks and they are being kept out of certain areas by their superiors until it's felt they are safe to go in.
"That means waiting for back-up and telling undercover officers in those areas they're coming in. But that is leaving communities potentially in danger. People are being told to call the police in emergencies but in many cases when they do, they're not getting quick and efficient help.
"Almost every day officers are going in to their stations to a list of jobs held over from the day before. Officers have simply driven past when they've seen bins on fire by the Divis flats. They don't feel safe getting out so communities are turning to gangs for help.
"These dissidents are going out and dealing with things when the police aren't there in time. We've seen more punishment shootings, more hijackings and we all know we've had a young policeman shot in the last few weeks. The PSNI is losing control of north and west Belfast, and dissident groups are filling that space."
Last night Chief Inspector Keith Jackson explained the decision not to attend the Newtownabbey shooting until yesterday morning.
He said: "Police officers liaised with a community representative and were able to ascertain the identity of the home owner and the exact location of the incident.
"The home owner was spoken to and confirmed neither he nor anyone else had been injured and that he had left his home to stay at another location for the evening.
"A decision was made to increase patrolling in the general area overnight and to attend the scene of the incident during daylight hours on Monday morning.
"This decision was based on a variety of factors including the safety of the public and police officers."
A spokesperson said while they couldn't comment on whether the unit sent to deal with the shooting was local, districts can use officers from across departments and units.
Responding to Sunday's shooting, Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly said: "There can be no place for the use of guns on our streets. I would call on those responsible to stop these actions immediately."
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According to a recent report, Volkswagen will introduce a production version of the XL1 concept in 2013. It will be an advanced plug-in diesel-electric hybrid.
We've already heard rumors that Volkswagen was considering a production version of the XL1 concept for 2013, but new details are starting to emerge about the model.
According to Autoweek.nl, an engineer confirmed the production vehicle will keep the concept's advanced plug-in hybrid system which combined a 47 hp (35 kW / 48 PS) 800cc two-cylinder diesel engine with a 27 hp (20 kW / 27 PS) electric motor. This setup enabled the 795 kg (1,753 lb) concept to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 11.9 seconds, hit a top speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) and travel up to 35 km (21.7 miles) on electricity alone.
While these figures don't sound terribly impressive, by themselves, the concept had an average fuel consumption of 0.9 l/100 km (261.3 mpg US) and CO2 emissions of 24 g/km.
In related news, the engineer reportedly confirmed the two-cylinder diesel engine will be offered in the Up!.


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LinkedIn's Lease at Tishman's San Francisco Tower—Trend Among Tech Companies
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Technology companies continue to power the hot office market in San Francisco, with LinkedIn announcing it is leasing the entire 26-story office building Tishman Speyer is constructing at 222 Second St. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm is expanding its presence in San Francisco by taking about 450,000 square feet for approximately 2,500 employees.
The company, which operates a professional social network with 300 million members worldwide, already leases 135,000 square feet at One Montgomery Tower and will occupy 87,000 square feet at 505 Howard St. in the city. Tishman Speyer is also developing 505 Howard St., a 10-story building at First and Howard streets.
"With this new building, LinkedIn is committed to expanding in San Francisco, giving us even more access to some of the most talented professionals in the world across a variety of functions, including technology, sales and operations," Jim Morgensen, LinkedIn Head of Workplace, said in a news release.
The LinkedIn deal comes about a week after a blockbuster leasing transaction was finalized with Salesforce.com taking 714,000 square feet in the 61-story, 1.4 million-square-foot Transbay Tower at 415 Mission St., which will be renamed Salesforce Tower. It was the largest office lease in San Francisco's history. The company is already the city's largest tech employer and has space at 50 Fremont St., 350 Mission St. and its headquarters at The Landmark @ One Market along the Embarcadero.
"This latest monster lease is part of a clear trend towards large blocks of space being taken down by mostly technology-oriented companies, many of which are expanding and either desire to be headquartered in the city or maintain a presence here," Christopher Roeder, an International Director based in JLL's San Francisco office, told Commercial Property Executive. " Based on the roughly 2.25 million square feet of deals completed so far this year by firms seeking 100,000 square feet or more, San Francisco is on pace right now to see more large blocks of space change hands than at any year in its history and will likely soon surpass 2000's 2.5 million square feet in large lease volume."
Carl Shannon, Tishman Speyer senior managing director, noted in the release that the city's office market is thriving, adding that companies are "recognizing the many advantages of a state-of-the-art building in a downtown location."
"This building was planned and designed accordingly, and we think LinkedIn is a perfect fit," Shannon added.
The developer acquired the property at the southwest corner of Howard and Second streets in 2006. It was fully entitled in December 2010. Construction is under way and is expected to be ready for occupancy by early 2016. In addition to the office space, the building will have over 2,000 square feet of retail, two subterranean parking levels and 8,500 square feet of public space. It is located about one block from the Transbay Terminal and close to other mass transit.
The building is being constructed for LEED Gold certification. Thomas Phifer and Partners is the design architect and Gensler is the architect of record. Turner Construction Co. is the builder.
Meanwhile, LinkedIn is also still adding space in Silicon Valley. In December, 2012, Kilroy Realty Corp. acquired a 12-acre parcel at Maude and Matilda avenues in Sunnyvale, Calif., from JP DiNapoli Companies and said it had inked a 12-year leasing deal with LinkedIn for the $315 million, 587,000-square-foot office project.


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Merida is the strong and independent key character of the Disney Pixar animated feature film,Brave (2012). Freedom-loving Merida has no interest in behaving like a "prim and proper princess," or in choosing a suitor. She's just not ready yet! Angry at her mother, Queen Elinor, Merida wishes she would change. The wish backfires when Elinor transforms into a bear. Now Merida must use all her courage to restore her mother to human form and repair their bond of love. It takes a brave heart, and a bold spirit, but Merida is rich in both.
This eye-catching Disney silver coin features an image of Merida, from the animated film Brave(2012), in full colour surrounded by relief engraved flowers. This is the ninth release in the officially licensed Disney Princess Coin Collection by New Zealand Mint.
The Disney Princess - Merida 1 oz Silver Coin is presented in delightful fairy-tale-themed packaging. The featured castle and thistle images that appear on the packaging are unique to Merida. The themed packaging makes an ideal gift for any Disney fan or coin collector. The Certificate of Authenticity is printed onto the packaging.
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Basketball is a very popular team sport which is followed closely by sports news providers. The game consists of two teams that compete against one another to score the highest number of goals in a stipulated time frame. Both the teams include five players each who attempt to score these points by passing the ball through the 10 foot high hoop also called the goal. There certainly are a set of organized rules that these players must play by.
One of the most popular games across the world, points in basketball are scored by shooting the ball in the basket through the means of either throwing the ball from across a distance or by dunking or slamming the ball through the basket ring. The ball is advanced between players by passing it or by dribbling it. There are actually restrictions that foresee any disorderly physical contact or violating the means by which the ball is passed resulting in a foul. betting tips
At the end of the given time the team that makes the highest score is declared the winner, however, at times in case of a tie, an overtime or additional time may be provided to conclude the game.
There are numerous strategies that are carried out to advance the standing of the team and increase its chances of winning. Positioning of players, throwing and dribbling techniques, defense and offence strategies all play a very vital role in this. It has been seen that mostly the tallest player in the team is positioned at the center or even in the forward positions and the guard positions are provided to players who are adept at handling the ball well or are high on speed.
Basketball started in the early 1800s and has now significantly evolved since. Initially played with a soccer ball, the basketball design kept changing. Finally while in the 1950s the orange basketball was created and continues to be inplay.
Basketball too, much like American football, initially developed and rose to popularity as being a college game. The first inter-college basketball match is claimed to held in 1895 in Hamline University. As basketball increasingly began to remain in sports news the need for a basketball association arose. This resulted in the formation of the Basketball Association of America in 1946. The name of this association ended up being changed to the National Basketball Association following its merger with the National Basketball League in 1949.
The National Basketball Association or the NBA as it is more popularly known consists of 30 teams from North America and zone team from Canada. The NBA is definitely the recognized governing body for basketball in the USA as decided by the International Basketball Federation. The regular NBA basketball season sees a total of 82 games being played by each team. Of those 41 games are played in the teams home base along with the rest in other locations.
Some of the most comprehensive basketball sports news is provided in Sporting News, which is an American sports news magazine. It follows the NBA games closely and in addition gives an unofficial, yet very widely publicized, "Executive of the Year" award for the general manager of the best performing team.


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Hey there youse,
Can I let you in on somethin'? I've started to notice a pattern in how these columns operate – there's a common theme in how the business leaks. Let me tell ya about it…
So dere's four weeks in a month right? It's weird, but what I found since I started gracin' you with my weekly presence (and presents!) is that everything always seems to build up and hit a peak every month. It's like a military wave ya know? Like, the first couple o' weeks each month, all the foot soldiers get sent out; all the baby bands lose a couple of songs to the intawebs and I pick 'em up and show you what I got. Then it builds up in week three and it's bigger names. By week four it's the big names bitch – those muthafuckin' BIG fish kickin' around the business that lose a little ground t' yours truly.
Weird huh?
Well, anyways, this'ere being the fourth week o' the month y'know what'cher gettin' right? That's right babies, big fish – and I got the best bait; what I can't catch on a hook I shoot an' haul in anyway! 'At's what I done'is week and check this shit out – I gotcha some live Liars, some live Primus from just a couple o'days ago, some new Blonde Redhead, some new Pete Yorn, some new Revolver and a bunch o' other SWAG. True, it ain't th' biggest boost I ever did, but I think I made up for the lower quantity by gettin' some pretty good quality – this'll fix ya up just right. So check it out a'ready!
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Blonde Redhead – "Here Sometimes"
First Rate People – "Gentlemen's Club"
Gil Scott Heron – "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Liars – "Proud Evolution (Live At Daytrotter)"
Liars – "Scarecrows On A Killer Slant (Live At Daytrotter)"
Liars – "Scissor (Live At Daytrotter)"
Paul Dempsey – "Out The Airlock"
Primus – "Southbound Pachyderm (Live In Toronto, 27/07/10)"
Primus – "Tommy The Cat (Live In Toronto 27/07/10)"
Probcause – Spring Cleaning (full album download!)
Revolver – "Birds in DM (Joakim mix)"
Sebastian Blanck – "Empire Of The Free"
Shunda K – "Here I Am To Save The World"
The Mountains & The Trees – "Minimum Wage Lovers"
The Mountains & The Trees – "More & More & More"
The Murdocks – "Black Jesus Knocking"
The Setting Sun – "The Sympathetic CEO"
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Mehr News Agency - Group Culture: Less than another month (November 21, 1396) Ali Esfandiari, known as Nima Youshij, a poet and one who won the new Farsi poetry as a founder of the Persian poetry, And becomes twenty years old. He created a revolution in Iranian poetry with the influential influences of the mythology, which in fact was the manifold of the Persian poetry, a revolution that deliberately challenged all the foundations and structures of ancient Persian poetry before.
The journey to the paternal house of the poet on the verge of adoration is a pleasure to be found at the middle of the path leading to this house; seeing the dandelions that are scattered in the air and subconsciously cast you into his poetry, which is a verse from this Prophet's plant. Nima Museum (Nima House) is located at Baldeh axis, five kilometers west of Baladeh, on the path leading to the Kandovan road and in the village of Yush. This is a prototype of the remnants of the Qajar period, and it was built by 2017 AH Nima, Ali Khan Nazim al-Ayaleh
The building is designed with the characteristics of Islamic architecture and is compatible with the cold and mountainous climate of the north of the country in the form of four porches with rooms of three doors, five doors, the king's hall, vestibule and space service. The building was purchased by the National Heritage of Iran from the heir Nima in 1989, and the body of Nima was buried in the courtyard of this house, the Paternal Home, in 1372, according to his will
The Nima Museum, with the title of the museum of the father of the poetry of Nouri Parsi, was opened from the place of the approval of the second round of the delegation's visit and at the Cultural Heritage Week (May 2009). The content of the museum and its use, as it is called, is actually a description of the life story of Nima Youshig..
The museum has diverse galleries that represent the innumerable angles of Nima's life, as well as the space in which he has grown; houses whose dimensions and scale represent the social and economic level of his family. Pictures and images from the moment of his life and his connection to the nature of his surroundings, Nima's tools and personal belongings, such as glasses, pens, clothing, shoes, and even his rifles, as well as his books, his journals and his notes contribute to the retelling of social and He has even a political poet.
In the other eyelets of this museum, seeing Nima and his wife's birth certificate, as well as the marriage document of the two, we see a great deal of Nima's life. In addition to the collection, you step in a place that has been able to present a young and sometimes mischievous child, the father of the Persian poetry, the history of ancient Iranian literature.
In the central courtyard of the house, the tomb of Nima Youshij, Sirous Tahebaz - who spent his life in the way of editing Nima's works - as well as the sister of Nima, Behjat Ulzaman Esfandiari, who has been able to add to the spirit of contaminated poetry.
The three rooms from the Nima's paternal room have been converted to books in order to hold books that are not nicer, literary, historical books, even a book about microelectronics. But in other rooms, letters, part of the manuscripts, a simple painting from Qazvin's minaret with his signature, Nima, some photos of the father of the new poetry and, of course, a number of poems written by the poets of Mazandaran in the writings of Nima, Yoush, Nour, Mazandaran. Has been found.
Nevertheless, the status of keeping a part of this historic home is not at the present time appropriate and, of course, beautiful for both domestic and foreign visitors; the observations of the reporter indicate that in the number of rooms on the ground floor of this museum-house, Has been home
Of course, these chambers are closed, but it is clear from the back of their hinges, the condition inside them and the devices that are hung over each other; such lamps as vacuum cleaners, bikes, paint buckets and a lot of cartons, which are not known, are empty or equipped. And, of course, there are plenty of books lumped together, and it's still unclear whether these books belong to the Library of Nimes or any other person.
Mehr correspondent tried to pursue the issue from the museum's officer, but he said that his job was to sell tickets only and that they should be traced back to the Cultural Heritage Organization. While Nima's father-in-law's house has become a museum for many years, with the great effort of the organization and spending a great deal, it seems to require the attention of the organization to maintain and protect it..
Perhaps the distance to reach the "Yush" and some kind of impasse in this region has made it a bit out of the spotlight of the relevant authorities, although some time ago, the "Delaware Majnya", the Director General of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Mazandaran, himself admitted "We still have not been able to portray such figures as Nima Yushij as an attraction in the tourism sector of the province».
Nima, she once said: "I miss you so much. There are days when I do not see anyone ... In my privacy, my hatred comes to me more. It sounds like trees in my chest. In my skull I read swallows, sparrows and sparrows ... "; this may be a translation of the present situation of the fatherly father of the poetry father of Iran.


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Residents and staff from Rochford Housing's Frances Cottee Lodge have contributed towards a life-changing donation to fund intensive physiotherapy for a nine year old cerebral palsy sufferer.
Russel Duffield was 18 months old when he was diagnosed with the neurological condition that leads to spasms and stiffness of the limbs. National UK charity Precious Kids Children's Trust began supporting Russel in December 2012, whose aim is to walk like his sisters.
The charity, alongside family members and friends, helped raise £28,000 for Russel to undergo a pioneering cerebral palsy procedure allowing his nerves to function normally. To ensure the operation is successful the young boy's family from Dagenham, Essex now needs to raise £7,500 for intensive physiotherapy.
When staff from the housing provider's retirement scheme, Frances Cottee Lodge in Rayleigh, heard about Russel's appeal, they were keen to help. Residents and staff rallied together and organised a coffee and cake morning raising over £100 for the charity.
Josie Hart, Rochford Housing's scheme manager, said: "We were really pleased with the generosity of our residents and staff and they were happy to fund such a special appeal.
"We hope this donation will help the family reach their much needed funds and that Russel will be able to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle."
Precious Kids' grants officer, Kirsty Samuels, added: "We are absolutely astounded and overjoyed at the response and generosity shown by the people in Essex. We genuinely thought it would take several years to raise the required funds, yet in less than two, the operation has been paid for and we are also on target to raise the funding required for Russel's physiotherapy.
"His parents are overwhelmed by the incredible response to their initial appeal and wish to pass on their sincere gratitude and heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed their time, energies and monies to help their son's dream become a reality."
How can I make a donation?
To donate online and support Russel's appeal, or another appeal that the charity is promoting, visit the Precious Kids Children's Trust website.
Who are Rochford Housing Association?
Rochford Housing Association, part of Sanctuary Group, manages around 1,750 properties in the Rochford area, including general rented, social housing and retirement living. To find out more, call 0800 131 3348 or 0300 123 3511 (from a mobile), or follow on Twitter.


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We are getting ready for Thanksgiving. I will do some cooking tomorrow and the girls will be going to a mission to hand out Thanksgiving meals. Today we go meet Bob for lunch and will enjoy that.
I'm not sure what all I need to write. I seem to be on the upswing from the depression. I go to see my counselor tomorrow and will hopefully get a lot out of that. I did my homework so have to remember to take my computer. I wrote a letter from my fourteen-year-old self to my adult self. SO we will see how that turns out.
I'm still struggling with the issues me and Bob talked about. I'm praying for contentment with my life but it feels so elusive. I wouldn't have been given the ability to do what I do without God wanting to use it somehow. Maybe I just need to wait on it all until Rachel is older. I'm doing the best I can with that concept but I just can't resign myself to it.


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Each year when the tournament season ends I spend the first few months winding down from the hectic tournament fishing season and turn to my other passion, hunting. It is something I have always done, and it helps give me a little break from fishing and allows me to reconnect with the outdoors in the woods instead of on the water. This offseason has been different though, and I have spent much less time hunting and more time connecting in a different way, as it is my first offseason as a father.
You always hear about how having children will change your life and how your priorities shift, and it is very true. You never imagine it or really believe it until it happens. In April, Stella Kay Clausen came into our lives and changed them for the better. So this offseason, most of my spare time is spent with my wife Kailin and Stella. Your priorities change quickly when you have a child, and I can assure you it has all been worth it.
I am eagerly waiting for the 2018 Bassmaster Elite Series season to start as it has a great schedule with some interesting fisheries on it. Some of them I have been to many times and some are brand new to me. This is what keeps me excited each year, getting to experience new places and meet fans in different areas.
A Classic return
This will also be my first trip back to the Bassmaster Classic since 2006, the year I was able to win on Lake Toho in Florida. With so much excitement ahead, you would think that I would be restless and ready to get going. I am, but I am also content with spending time just being a father. It has already been nearly eight months, and the time has flown by. Now I will spend time prepping for next season, but I will not obsess over it as much as I have in years past.
No rest
Besides the fact that we have a baby at home, there are other reasons why the offseason keeps me busy. It is a time when all of us on the Elite Series have to get ready for the upcoming season. There is so much to do to get ready for the next year, including many things that some people may not realize.
It seems like each day I spend time booking hotels, mapping the best routes and booking flights. This is in addition to working with my sponsors and the new products they are working on. It is also a time when all of my orders have to be placed. Everything from my new Ranger, my jersey, my rods, reels, line and more have to be ordered and ready for in time for the season.
Not to mention, I have to start thinking about all of the different bodies of water we will be fishing, how I plan to fish them and what tackle I will need. There is also a challenge with living in the northwest as I have to plan ahead to make sure my truck and boat are stocked with tackle for all of the various places we visit. I leave my boat thousands of miles across the country before events and then fly home between events to spend our off-time in Spokane, Wash., so there is a little more planning involved. It is not as easy as going back home and removing items and restocking before the next event. While it can be a drawback at times, it also works out great for me as I can spend more time with my family, and it is even more important now with a daughter at home.
Instead of spending every spare moment in the woods or fun fishing, my offseason now includes valuable time spent taking care of our little one and enjoying the moment. Time becomes more valuable when you become a father. I still have the same passion for tournament fishing, but my outlook has definitely changed.


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Bipolar Disorder is a complicated mental health condition which occurs in differing manifestations and degrees of severity, all of which share similar symptoms. Although these symptoms are usually categorized under the headings of "Mania" and "Depression," affected individuals may experience more from one list than the other, or move back and forth between the two states, or even experience both manic and depressive symptoms simultaneously.
Let's try to simplify things a bit.
Mania is a state characterized by excessive behavior, heightened energy and accelerated thinking. A person may even fully enjoy being in a manic state, as it can resemble a drug-induced high. More specifically, manic symptoms may include:
- Unrealistic optimism
- Ecstatic bliss
- Egotism
- Increased competitiveness or ambition
- Grandiose plans
- Extremely active and energetic
- Hurried, intense, loud speech
- Inability to focus and concentrate
- Restlessness
- Irritability and anger, sometimes leading to aggression
- Impulsivity and unpredictability
- Recklessness
- Compulsions like overspending, gambling or hyper sexuality
- Alcoholism or other addictions
- Reduced need for sleep
- Difficulties at and/or absences from work or school
Extreme mania may cause delusions or psychosis (breaks from reality). These symptoms can appear in a somewhat subdued form as well.
Depression symptoms , which will be familiar to most readers here, include:
- Fatigue and sleepiness
- Insomnia or oversleeping
- Lack of motivation and energy
- Extreme and/or prolonged sadness
- Negativity
- Irritability
- Guilt
- Anxiety
- Hopelessness
- Lack of enjoyment
- Changes in eating habits and weight
- Increased isolation
- Reduced activity
- Inability to concentrate
- Unexplained aches and pains
- Self-hatred or feelings of worthlessness
- Self-harm
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Published: March 16, 2016. DOI: 10.21103/Article6(1)_OA16
The aim of the study was to assess the content of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in feces of patients with different clinical forms of oral lichen planus (OLP).
Materials and Methods: The study included 139 patients with different clinical forms of OLP in the acute stage. The diagnosis of OLP was performed according to both clinical and histopathological criteria. Patients were distributed in four groups according to the clinical form of OLP. Group 1 included 36 patients with the reticular form of OLP; Group 2 included 34 patients with the exudative-hyperemic form of OLP; Group 3 included 27 patients with the erosive-ulcerative form of OLP; Group 4 included 42 patients with the bullous form of OLP. The four groups to be compared were randomized by sex and age. The control group consisted of 40 healthy, age-matched, randomly selected persons without clinical and instrumental signs of OLP and other diseases of the oral cavity. The concentration of SCFAs in feces was evaluated by gas-liquid chromatography. The profiles (specific concentration) of C2, C3, and C4 acids, the ratio of iso-acids to straight-chain acids (iso-Cn/Cn) and iso-C5/C5 were also calculated.
Results: Three types of SCFA changes reflecting the activity of certain groups of microorganisms were found. For all types of the SCFA disorders, we found a marked increase in the iso-C5/C5 ratio. The severity of dysbiosis increased with the severity of clinical forms of OLP. Changes in the qualitative and quantitative contents of SCFAs reflect the disturbances in gut microbiocenosis in LPO patients, which may be one cause for aggravation of the pathological process.
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The biggest improvement in customer satisfaction was seen in Vantaa, where the share of satisfied passengers was 83 per cent. Last year the figure was 73 per cent. "On the basis of this we can assume that residents of Vantaa have found the bus services that changed in summer 2015 when the Ring Rail Line was opened," says the Director of HSL's Public Transport Planning Department Tero Anttila.
The Metro continues to be the most popular public transport mode, with 92 per cent of passengers being satisfied with the services. A 2.5-minute headway was introduced on the Metro at the beginning of the autumn timetable season. At the same time, the trains were shortened.
Tram passengers were the second most satisfied and bus passengers slightly more satisfied than train passengers. The share of satisfied passengers was 89.4 per cent on tram services, 86.5 per cent on bus services and 86.2 per cent on train services.
Passengers more satisfied with the Metro replacement services in Espoo than in Helsinki
A total of 47 per cent of passengers living in Helsinki and 69 per cent of passengers living in Espoo considered that the Metro replacement services put in place by HSL because of the delayed completion of the West Metro were successful. On the basis of the customer satisfaction survey it seems that passengers who use the replacement services are more satisfied than those who do not use them, with the exception of Lauttasaari where passenger satisfaction decreased.
Anttila estimates that in Helsinki, passengers are dissatisfied because of the temporary bus services in Lauttasaari that are not considered to be as good as the earlier bus network.
"Buses in Lauttasaari have been crowded and we have worked to fix the problem, for example, by reinstating route 20. We continue to monitor the passenger numbers in Lauttasaari closely," says Anttila.
In Helsinki, 37 per cent of passengers were satisfied with HSL's communications efforts related to the delayed completion of the West Metro. In Espoo, passengers were more satisfied with nearly half of the respondents (46 per cent) considering that HSL managed the communications well.
HSL measures passenger satisfaction with public transport services year-round on all modes of public transport using onboard questionnaires. In autumn 2016, over 26,000 passengers responded to the survey. All survey results are available at: https://hsl.louhin.com/asty/
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Does anyone have the names of all the Albums Joseph Reinhardt Recorded
TedGottsegen wrote:You have to be careful with Joe, his discography is very confusing. There were three different albums titled "Hommage a Django" - one acoustic, one electric but same tracks were recorded on each. To further confuse things, there was another electric album released with the "Hommage a Django" title featuring an entirely different playlist. The second electric "Hommage" album (with the duplicate playlist) has been reissued with at least three different covers.
Steve, I'll send you a more definitive discography tonight when I get home.
FYI: The EP that Nick mentions contain tracks off the third "Hommage a Django" album.
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The School of Education at Colorado State University is pleased to introduce its new Student Affairs in Higher Education professor, Dafina-Lazarus Stewart. One of two hires through the School's cluster hire initiative in late 2016, Stewart is the first full-time, tenured faculty member in the SAHE master's degree specialization.
Background and early career
Stewart earned an undergraduate degree in sociology, with a minor in economics and a secondary teaching certificate. While earning the certificate, Stewart student-taught at a local high school in zir hometown of New York City (Stewart's preferred pronouns are the gender neutral ze, zir, zim). Stewart said ze loved the experience of working with students but realized ze wanted to focus on what happens to people in the college environment.
"I recognized that the issues I saw in the high school were about educator preparation. I wondered, 'What does it mean to prepare people to work with young people and college students?" said Stewart.
After graduating, ze worked as the multicultural coordinator at a private liberal arts college in central Ohio, something ze enjoyed as it put zir in the field of student affairs.
"Everyone else in the division had a master's in the field," ze said. "I was told I wouldn't be able to advance in the field without a master's degree."
Moving to The Ohio State University, Stewart earned a master's degree in higher education and student affairs, followed by a Ph.D. in educational administration and higher education. Stewart was able to spend one year at OSU as a visiting faculty member, which offered zim the opportunity to test the full-time faculty work experience and decide if ze wanted to pursue teaching in higher education.
Stewart was hired as a tenure-track faculty member at Ohio University, where ze taught for three years in the counseling and higher education department. Teaching a variety of courses, including student development theory, multicultural student development and diversity in higher education, and advising 25 master's and doctoral students offered Stewart the opportunity to continue developing the skills needed in a higher education teaching environment.
Next, Stewart moved to Bowling Green State University, where ze spent the next 12 years moving through the tenure track and earning full professor status in 2016. During that time, ze held roles as program coordinator for the higher education administration doctoral program, and affiliate faculty member for American Cultural Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs.
Phase two
The move to CSU, said Stewart, is "Phase Two of life and career, and I'm really excited for that." During zir first semester, Stewart is teaching student development theory to first-year, residential SAHE master's degree students. Later, ze anticipates co-teaching an administration course with Blanche Hughes, vice president for student affairs at CSU and SAHE faculty member. With the School's recent announcement of new leadership to its Higher Education Leadership doctoral specialization and closer collaboration between the SAHE and HEL programs, Stewart will be advising HEL doctoral students and perhaps occasionally teaching in the program in the future.
For Stewart, this new phase also includes sending zir son to college in Ohio at zir graduate alma mater, The Ohio State University.
"It's definitely a new journey," ze admitted. "I have all of these corkboards and calendars to keep track of his activities that I don't need anymore."
Beyond the "empty nest" experience, however, Stewart is experiencing the parent-side of university life, seeing how higher education institutions handle certain issues from the student and parent perspectives.
"Being the parent of a minoritized student, I'm looking at the assumptions and the norms baked into applications, orientations, protocols and processes around gender, around sexuality, around race, around social class – it's been very interesting," ze said. "It's enhancing my research and my teaching."
Impacting present and future through research
Aside from teaching and advising, Stewart's impact as the first tenured faculty member in the SAHE specialization will be most felt through zir research, particularly related to student affairs topics.
Stewart's scholarly interests and research generally focus on issues of equity, inclusion, and justice at colleges and universities. Specifically, ze researches the student experiences of minoritized populations, especially race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and issues of ability and spirituality, faith and religion – and areas of intersection among these identities.
This work, said Stewart, centers the philosophy and history of higher education, institutional transformation toward realizing equity and justice, and how higher education environments function within society and as a vessel for learning and development for minoritized student populations.
"I'd like to try to answer the question, 'What is the role of higher education in society?'" said Stewart. "What do we provide, and why does it matter? How is education contributing to the health of the nation, of society? And for minoritized populations, is that value-add muted by issues of inequity and injustice happening on college campuses?"
Stewart feels equipped to tackle these tough issues, having spent nearly two decades studying the field of student affairs and how it affects minoritized populations.
"I have done my best to try to push the field to think with more complexity and with greater nuance about certain issues, particularly in the use of intersectionality," ze said. "For me, it's important to use my voice in as many ways as I can – not just through my scholarship and teaching, but also in my work with professional associations, to push the conversation and to push us to do better and be better, to live out our values."
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Fishing on the South Fork is really starting to pick up. Midges have started hatching on the river in the afternoon. Size 18 and smaller will get those fish to take on top. Nymphing still is the best technique to catch fish, the rubberleg has been the hot fly If you want to strip streamers we suggest smaller streamers like a clouser minnow or a CFO lite bright clouser. You will want to slow down the presentation of your streamers. The water is still cold and the fish are very larthagic so slow things down. Floating is still not a good option right now. We suggest that you leave the boat at home and wade fish. If you need an up to date report please feel free to call us here at the shop.