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UIC Barcelona signs an agreement with Episcopus to add content to tours of the Vic Cathedral
This afternoon, Episcopus, an initiative of the Diocese of Vic, signed a cooperation agreement with the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) in the sacristy of the Vic Cathedral, whereby the University will draft an interactive tour for the Vic Cathedral. This agreement will be valid for the 2nd semester of the 2017-2018 academic year and the 1st semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. On the part of UIC Barcelona, the commission will be handled by Dr Judith Urbano and Dr Marta Crispí, members of the History, Architecture and Design Research Group.
Under the agreement, the research group will provide the Diocese of Vic the following:
- Definition of the information points for the tour of the Vic Cathedral and the content of each one. These points will include: the cathedral's nave and chapels, crypt, Romanesque and Gothic cloister, bell tower, the Gothic altarpiece of St Peter, the chapels of Santa Maria La Rodona and the Holy Spirit, the permanent exhibition of works by Josep Maria Sert and the cathedral's paintings, as well as any other areas of the cathedral deemed appropriate.
- Definition of the exhibition spaces and a detailed description of the content and museum resources.
- Drafting of supplementary tour materials: pamphlets, guides, monographs, etc.
- Organisation of promotional activities that will accompany the project: tours, conference series, workshops...
- Proposal and drafting of content for digital resources.
The agreement will consist of two phases: the first in the second semester of the 2017-2018 academic year, and second in the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. The cost of phase one will be €10,000. This project is financed by the Barcelona Regional Council as part of the Episcopus Project. To monitor the implementation of this agreement, a joint monitoring committee has been set up and features representatives from each of the signing parties.


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issue 11 :: July 2005
|"Yomillak" CD (Edition RZ)
|reviewed by Jacob Green
|Speaking of the world, another really great record label is Edition RZ from Germany that, like Alga Marghen, focuses mainly on avant garde composers from around the world each with a unique musical language. Recently they put out two CDs of Korean classical music called "Yomillak." I am somewhat familiar with classical music from China and Japan and I listen to a lot of large ensemble music from Indonesia but until I bought this I had only heard folk songs from Korea. Ever since watching Akira Kurosawa's Dreams gagaku (royal court music from Japan) has been my favorite style of composed world music, so I was very happy to hear this recording of Korean court music, which is surprisingly similar in many ways.
|Actually it's not that surprising since the music on these discs dates back to the 15th century and when Korea and Japan originally broke away from China both countries were of common ancestry. Gagaku is known for being the oldest music in the world because it has survived without change for over 3000 years now so Korean court music is most likely gagaku (with a different name) updated later by Korean cultural differences. The liner notes here say, "Yomillak is the most extended piece of orchestral court music surviving in Korea, and it has for many centuries been used for royal processions and at banquets. The musicians are virtually motionless, and respond to signals given by a senior official who strikes the pak wooden clappers at the beginnings and ends of sections. Barely discernible slow and regularly repeating rhythmic cycles form a structural baseline, marked out by formulaic strikes on two drums (the hourglass-shaped changgo and the barrel-shaped chwago), but the effect is of timelessness, the movements flowing seamlessly into each other. The music is totally controlled, the epitome of Confucian order and decorum." It also says that it was composed to celebrate the establishment of a new alphabet.
|"The six dragons from east of the sea fly There is not one of them who is not assisted by Heaven They are the equals of the sages of old!"
|Yomillak is in 7 movements and lasts for 84 minutes extending into the first third of the second disc, which includes shorter variants of the piece changed in the 19th century for time and instrumentation. There is a type of double reed similar to an oboe (p'iri), flutes (sogum, taegum), 2-stringed fiddle (haegum), plucked and bowed long zithers (kayagum, kumun'go, ajaeng) and dulcimer (yanggum). Each movement is a variation of the main theme slowly developed and embellished by the individual musicians. These recordings were performed by The Orchestra of The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in 1979 and 1988 but they really do evoke an older mood of stately cultural celebration that is unique in Asian classical music. One of the important differences is the intonation of the instruments and the vibrato that gives it its particular dramatic quality. Even though I have hardly any idea what life was like in 15th century Korea this music really transports me to a different landscape, which is the highest compliment I know.
|>>Jacob Green is a multi-instrumentalist living in Austin, Texas. He performs with the Austin New Music Co-Op, Brekekekekexkoaxkoax, Frontal Spanking and the Gates Ensemble.>>

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Verso Paper Corp. Partnership for More Certified Acres in Maine
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Brussels - US sprinter Noah Lyles will target world gold next month after "clenching" his way to a "chaotic" 200m victory in 19.74 seconds in the Brussels Diamond League final on Friday.
The performance capped a remarkable end of the elite 14-meet track and field circuit for the 22-year-old, who last week pipped American teammate and current world champion Justin Gatlin to win the 100m trophy.
The American went into the 200m in the Belgian capital as hot favourite, but revealed he had to race despite a last-minute need for the toilet.
The track at Brussels' King Baudouin stadium is a rapid one, but Lyles said the renowned fast bend all went over his head and he concentrated on getting through the finish line and a toilet.
"A lot happened in that race! I get on the line and as soon as the starter says get to the blocks, it started raining. Then my bib comes off and then I had to use the bathroom and that's when the race became a lot more complicated," he said.
"I didn't get to experience the Brussels bend as I wanted to. It was more me clenching, trying to run and then using the bathroom."
Lyles acknowledged that it was a "cool achievement to have two trophies".
"But it's a little achievement, my main goal is to run faster than my last time each time.
"I've got the 100, now the 200m, so now it's the world championships."
Michael Norman claimed a degree of revenge over compatriot Fred Kerley, who beat him to the US title in Des Moines, winning the 400m in 44.26sec. Kerley came in second at 0.20sec.
Norman's 43.45sec in April made him the joint fourth fastest over the one-lap race: only South Africa's injured reigning Olympic and double world champion Wayde van Niekerk and the retired American duo of Michael Johnson and Butch Reynolds have gone faster, with Jeremy Wariner having matched his time.
Like Lyles, Norman plumped for a wider lane, in his case five, to make the most of the racer-friendly bend, and in fresh conditions held his nerve with Kerley hitting the final 80 metres in front.
With the world champs having been pushed back because of fears over the oppressive weather in the Qatari capital, this year is the first in which the Diamond League has concluded ahead of a major global championships.
Winners claimed $50,000, a Diamond trophy and a wild card entry for the Doha worlds. Importantly, the finals were loaded as athletes saw them as an ideal opportunity to fire out a warning shot or two ahead of Doha.
Britain's European champion Dina Asher-Smith did just that in the women's 100m, clocking a season's best of 10.88sec to edge out former world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica.
"Don't call me favourite for the worlds," said Asher-Smith.
"Tonight was like British weather and I just took my chance."
Elsewhere, Ethiopian Getnet Wale upset Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali to win the 3000m steeplechase, while Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan snatched the women's 5000m trophy, Kenya's world champion Hellen Obiri in fourth.
Obiri's teammate Timothy Cheruiyot produced another dominant display to win the men's 1500m in 3:30.22 for a third consecutive Diamond trophy, and one week after compatriot Donavan Brazier won the men's event in Zurich, American Ajee Wilson racked up a gun-to-tape victory in the women's 800m in 2:00.24.
Christian Taylor matched French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie's record tally of seven Diamond trophies when he went out to 17.85m to beat long-time rival Will Claye in the triple jump.
Croatia's Sandra Perkovic and Colombia's Caterine Ibarguen both missed their chance to match Taylor, the former finishing second to Cuban Yaime Perez in the shot put while the latter finished eighth in a long jump competition won comfortably by Germany's Malaika Mihambo.


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- Up to 512 ONTs (64-way optical split) and up to 4,096 Ethernet port
- 4-ports gigabit Ethernet and 2-ports 10 gigabit Ethernet network uplink interfaces
- 1 rack unit, 19" form factor. AC powered with redundant power supplies.
- 8-port PON service module with XFP selectable 10G XGS-PON or G-PON connectivity
- Highly secure with bi-directional AES128 encryption with churning keys
- Leverages centralized intelligence with software defined networking management
- Environmentally hardened for support of a wide variety of mounting options
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VASERlipo is a revolutionary technique for removing excessive and unwanted fat from the abdomen, hips, thighs, arms, back, knees, neck and chin. This form of liposuction can also reduce the appearance of cellulite. Unlike traditional techniques, VASER liposuction targets fat cells without destroying surrounding tissues. This less aggressive approach is more accurate, has exceptional results and a much faster recovery period.
Are you a good candidate for VASERlipo?
An ideal candidate for VASERlipo, sometimes called liposelection, has at most 10-15% excess body weight, sports regularly, follows a healthy diet and has localized fat deposits, resistant to diet and exercise. At the initial consultation, Dr. Sinescu will assess the individual risks and recommend the appropriate procedure for obtaining the desired results.
Some body areas are more suitable for liposuction than others. Regions where you generally get the best results are hips, abdomen, outer thighs and neck. However, VASERlipo allows surgeons such precision that delicate areas such as the face can be remodeled successfully.
First consultation
Dr. Sinescu and our medical staff are dedicated to helping get the body you want in a safe and proper way. Therefore, during your first appointment with our staff, before planning your surgery, we will evaluate the areas you want to improve and we shall discuss your goals and expectations. We'll review the various options suitable for you. You will be given a detailed explanation of the procedure, steps to be followed before and after surgery, potential risks and complications, costs and payment methods. We will answer all your questions. We'll ask for your medical history, information on cigarette and alcohol consumption, and a list of all the medicines you use, including the over the counter ones.
Surgical procedure
The procedure will take place in one of the clinics where our doctors work. They have both the cutting edge technology and the special training needed to perform this simple and relatively painless procedure that can give you the look you want.
The intervention is either in local anesthesia with deep sedation or under general anesthesia and it lasts 1-5 hours, depending on the extent of the treated areas. The anticipated duration of the procedure will be discussed with you at your first consultation.
Initially, the doctor makes a very small incision in the area to be treated. The incisions required for VASERlipo are extremely small and heal very quickly. A special saline solution that helps numb the site and reduce vascularization is injected locally. Dr. Sinescu then introduces a very thin device that emits ultrasonic waves in the incision area, thus transforming the adipose cells into fluid. Since ultrasound does not affect vital tissues such as nerves, blood vessels and connective tissue, they remain virtually untouched. Once all the fat cells have been liquefied, Dr. Sinescu uses, using the same incisions, a fine cannula to remove the fluid created by the sound waves. Because VASERlipo uses refined ultrasonic technology, the immediate swelling that occurs in classical liposuction does not exist, allowing the doctor to sculpt the treated surfaces much better. VASER liposuction does not cause immediate ecchymoses – and very few in the long run – so the physician assesses the exact effects in real time. This less aggressive approach produces excellent surgical results. Incisions can be sutured or not. We apply gauze dressings and a compression suit on the treated areas.
Recovery after liposuction
Shower or bath – the first day after surgery
Return to work – 2-3 days after surgery
Driving – as soon as you feel comfortable
Normal activity – as soon as you feel comfortable
Fading of scars – a few months to a year
Final contour – from 3 to 6 months
What are the possible side effects or risks?
Any surgery has a degree of risk, and body surgery is no exception. During the first consultation, Dr. Sinescu will evaluate your individual risk level, all potential problems will be discussed and we will establish together if you have a strong indication for liposuction. Strict adherence to all pre- and postoperative medical recommendations is crucial to reducing any danger. We will always be at your side to achieve a satisfactory and safe end result.
The most common complications include:
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– symmetry changes in the treated areas
– irregular body contour
How long do the results last?
With VASERlipo, you finally have a simple and relatively painless way to remodel the areas in your body where excess fat deposits are present. Although there are limits to the amount of tissue that can be eliminated, in most cases you can get the results you want. These results last a few years. Fat cells in treated areas are permanently removed. A healthy lifestyle, a regular exercise program and maintaining a proper weight will keep your body in the best possible shape.
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What other procedures can be associated with liposuction to improve the overall body appearance?
Liposuction is often used together with abdominoplasty to remodel both your trunk and abdomen. All options will be reviewed preoperatively.
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Flexible automation for Strippit-PX punch presses
LVD announces the FA-P; Flexible Automation for Punching, as its most advanced automation yet. It offers dynamic load/unload capacity, smart part picking and a large area for stacking punched parts directly onto designated pallets. FA-P is now available on the Strippit-PX punch press.
FA-P loads sheets up to 3050 x 1525 mm and material thicknesses up to 4 mm from two shuttle tables with a maximum capacity of 3000 kg.
The automation system can handle punched parts from 200 x 100 mm up to large sheet sizes. Two independent gripper arms are automatically positioned to pick the part. The suction cups are activated following the nesting configuration calculated by LVD's offline software module CADMAN®-P. Small, closely spaced suction cups are used to pick small parts while larger suction cups are activated for picking larger parts and loading full size sheets.
A large stacking area of 8 m² provides space for 8 europallets. A unique laser distance-sensor measures the height of the pallet and the stacked parts. Following this measurement, the suction cups smoothly position the parts on top of one another, forming perfect stacks. No second hand operation is required to change between pallets within the stacking zone. The skeletons are quickly evacuated from the machine onto a pallet, significantly reducing the offloading time.
Based on the job-list and the measured stack height, TOUCH-A control software picks and sorts each part onto its assigned pallet. A new job can be started with partial pallets from previous operations. Additionally, TOUCH-A allows the operator to modify the sorting based on the pallet configuration. The control counts and validates each stack of parts upon job completion.


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10 X 10 Team Building Fun at Celtic Careers – Puzzle Time
When you think of the word game, the traditional kind that comes to mind is the humble puzzle. The origins of jigsaw puzzles go back to the 1760s when European mapmakers pasted maps onto wood and cut them into small pieces. John Spilsbury was an engraver and mapmaker and is credited with inventing the first jigsaw puzzle in 1767. This week we decided to go back to basics and play a traditional puzzle building game.
Puzzles are renowned for sharpening the brain. Scientists have, in recent years, argued that brain-training exercises, such as completing puzzles or learning another language, can reduce the risk of developing dementia. Puzzles have also shown to increase IQ levels, increase productivity, improve cognitive ability and improve concentration.
This was a simple game to set up and the competitive edge came out in everyone. We found that very organised and focussed individuals came out on top for this. Those who shall not be named! (Catherine Hurley)
You will need:
1. Any kind of blocks, we used Jenga blocks
How to play:
1. Assemble a puzzle, start with something simple
2. Provide each player with the exact same amount of blocks it took to assemble the puzzle
3. The first player to build the puzzle correctly wins
For a rundown on various puzzle types, check out this article: https://clontz.org/puzzles/types/


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How Much Youre Really Spending on Christmas
Factor in decorations and gifts, and the cost of Christmas really adds up.
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When Christmas rolls around, it's easy to get lost in trying to find the best gift and forget about the cost of everything. It's important to also remember that Christmas expenses extend beyond just gift buying. There's the tree, decorations and plenty of other expenses if you're hosting a get-together.
How Much Does the Average Person Spend for Christmas?
A Gallup study found that consumers anticipate spending $920 on holiday stuff this year. That's an increase from $885 the previous year, and total holiday spending is expected to top $1 trillion.
The study broke down a range of spending.
- 37 percent are expected to spend at least $1,000 on gifts
- 21 percent expect to spend between $500 to $999
- 27 percent expect to spend around $100 to $499
- 3 percent anticipate spending less than $100.
What can you do to free up some more cash to spend on gifts? Here's what to do to avoid an eye-popping electric bill during the holidays.
What is a Reasonable Amount of Money to Spend on Christmas?
Dave Ramsey did the math on what's a reasonable amount of money to spend on Christmas, but didn't come away with a clear conclusion. He did say that the average amount spent on gifts the previous year was $800, and the average household income is around $50,000. So you can use that as a baseline and increase it or decrease it proportionally based on how much you make. Not surprisingly, he suggests just buying gifts for children in the case of a budget crisis. Plus: Try these 17 easy ways to save money at Christmas.
Take a peek at these great frugal gifts everyone will love.
How Much to Spend on Christmas Gifts
Determining how much to spend on a Christmas gift can be tricky, especially if you do a gift exchange. Spend too much and you look like a showoff, spend too little and you look cheap.
Jodi RR Smith told the Los Angeles Timesthat you should spend $20 and up for gifts for cousins and siblings. She said spend $25 and up for nieces and nephews, $20 and up for parents and in-laws, $15 and up for friends and $10 to $15 for coworkers.
Save a buck or two with these incredible, yet cheap gifts.
How Much Does the Average American Spend on Christmas Decorations?
Based on a survey conducted by Statista, the average American will spend $61 on Christmas decorations. Meanwhile, an average live evergreen tree will cost $78 and artificial Christmas trees will range from $30 to $100.
Check out our cheap Christmas decoration guide for tips on how to save money on decorating. And save some money on Christmas lights by learning how to replace and repair Christmas lights.
Keep your Christmas decorations safe with these Christmas decoration storage tips.
Always wanted to learn the correct way to wrap gifts? Watch the following video for a quick tutorial.


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Anti-Semitism Research
Wolfgang Benz
Anti-Semitism refers to all anti-Jewish statements, tendencies, resentments, attitudes, and actions, regardless of whether they are religiously, racially, socially, or otherwise motivated. Ever since the experience of National Socialist ideology and dictatorship, anti-Semitism has been understood as a social phenomena which serves as a paradigm for the formation of prejudices and the political exploitation of the hostilities that ensue from them. As prejudice research, it is primarily interested in the behaviour and attitudes of different majority societies, and strictly speaking, it does not even require knowledge of the discriminated minority. This article claims that anti-Semitism research and Jewish studies are not interconnected, nor dependent on one another. However, the history of Jews, their interaction with non-Jewish majority societies, their persecution and extermination, serves anti-Semitism research as a paradigm.
Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
Lee I. Levine
This article addresses three related, though not identical, academic fields of study that crystallized only in the twentieth century. Beforehand, it had generally been assumed, whether for political, social, or religious reasons, that Jews eschewed art and architecture, either because they were visually uncreative, preferring the audile to the visual, or owing to the restrictions imposed on them by the Second Commandment. However, there emerged in the Post-Emancipation era an awareness that, in the course of their history, particularly in the later Middle Ages and modern times, Jews had produced an impressive array of artistic, mostly ceremonial, objects worthy of appreciation and display. This realization that a uniquely Jewish art and architecture existed in the past crystallized in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding expression, inter alia, in the establishment of Jewish museums throughout Europe, America, and Israel.
Sergio Della Pergola
The scientific study of the Jewish population, also known as demography of the Jews or Jewish demography, does not actually claim the status of a distinct discipline. It is an area of specialization focusing on the changing size and composition of Jewish populations and on the determinants and consequences of such changes. This article outlines some of the main concepts, interpretative frameworks, and methodological issues in the field, followed by a short outline of substantive patterns and applied uses of available knowledge. The main scientific rationale for the study of Jewish populations rests with the growing interest in understanding the demography of religious, ethnic, and cultural groups and minorities. Demographic changes provide an important and occasionally indispensable background for an appraisal of Jewish history and cultural experience. Hence, the study of Jewish demography is organically tied to the development of Jewish studies.
Jewish Bioethics: The Distribution of Health Care
Aaron L. Mackler
This chapter discusses the distribution of health care, an issue that has become particularly urgent and controversial in recent years because the median age of populations in most English-speaking countries age has risen, so more people need more extensive medical care. This is happening, though, just, as medical science produces new but often expensive interventions that people come to expect, and, as a result of these factors and others, health care costs have risen dramatically. The chapter considers the Jewish principles that might guide the discussion of who gets what in medical care, and who pays for it.
Jewish Environmental Ethics: Intertwining with
Arthur Waskow
This chapter discusses Jewish environmental ethics. It focuses on what two central biblical stories—the Garden of Eden and the Flood—tell us about Jewish ecological ethics as the Torah itself tells those stories, and as the later rabbis interpreted and expanded them, with special concern for the emerging ethics of Eco-Judaism. In so doing, the chapter illustrates how the Jewish tradition uses midrash, the interpretation of texts and their literary nuances, to discover meanings in sacred texts that make them ever relevant to us in changing times and circumstances. It briefly develops one of the Torah's laws on ecology, and an emerging interest on the part of some Jews to understand God differently to reflect our current ecological understanding of life as one integrated whole, in order to demonstrate how Jewish law and theology are relevant to ecology.
Jewish Folklore and Ethnography
Galit Hasan-Rokem
This article describes folklore as a unique form of cultural creativity and expression and discusses Jewish folklore through the ages and the scholarship of Jewish folklore. Folklore is a form of creativity and expression that exists in all the cultures we know. It is characterized by its qualities of collectivity and tradition, by its oral mode of expression, and usually by anonymity. Folklore is created and transmitted among individuals and groups through all the audio-visual interpersonal channels of communication. The discussion offers remarks on the field of folkloristics, to facilitate the application of accepted general terminology to the survey of Jewish folklore. The collective aspect of folklore is expressed both in the immediate interaction established between performer and audience, and in the concept of authority and ownership of the work, that is considered as belonging to the group and not an individual.
Joel Gereboff
The emotions are an important feature of Jewish life and thought throughout the ages. From biblical descriptions of a God of pathos to early rabbinic and medieval works detailing the virtues, to mystical tracts focused on the inner life, and occasionally portraying emotion filled religious experiences of the adept, there have always been Jewish representations of the affective dimensions of life. In addition, the many ways Jews have actually participated in prayer and in the celebration of holidays, and in the construction of material objects and spaces in which such activities took place, also give evidence of emotional texture of the lives of Jews. John Corrigan's concluding observations in his introduction to Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations, in which he sets forth a model for future scholarship in this field, provide a standard against which to assess present investigations into Judaism and the emotions. Others who have produced methodologically astute scholarship adding significantly to the understanding of aspects of Jewish thought on the emotions are Michael Fishbane, Daniel Boyarin, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
Modern Jewish Society and Sociology
Harvey E. Goldberg
The social-scientific study of Judaism is a modern phenomenon just as are the social sciences themselves. Several themes run through various efforts to study Jews and Judaism in social-scientific terms. First is the need to understand the socio-political and ideological backgrounds to making Jews the object of scientific study. Another question is whether the impetus to a study of the Jews comes from a particular interest in their situation and development. Related to both of these issues is the question whether those undertaking the research are Jews or Gentiles. Another significant dividing line is the sociology of modern communities in the diaspora in contrast to the sociology of Israeli society that took shape at the time the state was established. A related topic that is worth tracing is the degree to which historians or other scholars of Jews and Judaism have adopted social-scientific modes of thought into their writings.
Settlement and State in Eretz Israel
S. Ilan Troen
While Zionist ideology has long been part of the rubric of Jewish history, the study of its realization through the social, cultural, and political history of the Yishuv and Israel has been relatively neglected. The Jews of Eretz Israel ('the Land of Israel') numbered less than half of 1% of world Jewry at the beginning of the twentieth century. Israel now accounts for about 40% and is approaching parity with the United States. Israeli history and society has only recently become a discrete topic or field of study within the humanities and social sciences, and included in university curricula, even in Israel. Change began in Israel in the early 1990s, when various collections of courses under the title of 'Israel Studies' were organized as a modest subset within the BA degree.
The Social Sciences
James E. Waller
This article explores the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent social scientific research and the contribution of social scientific research to understanding the Holocaust and its aftereffects. The principal disciplines involved in this analysis are psychology, sociology, anthropology (particularly social and cultural anthropology), political science, and economics. Although some subfields of history deploy quantitative and qualitative methodologies similar to those of the social sciences, the emphasis here is on disciplinary and interdisciplinary work that seeks to go beyond the minutiae of thick description ('who', 'what', 'when', and 'where') to arrive at formulations of explanation and understanding ('why' and 'how') that reach beyond individual cases, i.e., that claim to know a little less and understand a little more.
Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism
Jutta Jokiranta
Scholarly reflection on the people behind the Qumran documents has been coloured by the use of the term 'sect' from very early on, ever since the first announcement of the discovery of the scrolls was made in 1948. However, more and more scholars have also made an effort to be sociologically informed when hypothesizing about the Qumran movement and its nature. This article discusses the prospects of using the sociology of sectarianism in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The emphasis is on sociological approaches, even though some social-psychological perspectives are also referred to. The aim of sociological approaches in biblical studies is, in the end, to 'challenge, to broaden and to reformulate the methods of historical criticism', as well as to understand those processes of social life that cannot be unravelled or reconstructed without the aid of sociological concepts and imagination.


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Journaling can be very helpful for sorting out your feelings. A lot of people are overwhelmed by the idea of starting or keeping a journal. But the fact is, to be its most helpful, journaling is used in its simplest form.
Here are the basics of journaling:
(1) Define the reason you want to keep a journal. Maybe you don't want to actually "keep" a journal at all. Rather, you may likely want to simply get the thoughts that are bothering you out of your head. And putting them on paper is an excellent way to get them outside of yourself. In a case such as this, it's not necessary to buy a special notebook or keep it in a sacred spot. You can grab any scratch pad that's handy and use any writing utensil to record your thoughts at any time. And you can even throw those thoughts away once you've gotten them out of your system. (You may use a recording device to achieve the same results.)
(2) Use the journal as consistently as is comfortable for you and your needs. For some purposes, such as enhancing creativity, daily journaling is important. But when it comes to maintenance of feelings, daily journaling is often unnecessary. Again, simply record your thoughts when you cannot get rid of them—and can't think clearly enough to work your way through them without this extra aid. The more you engage in this exercise, the easier it will become for you to work through your bogged-down feelings without a journal.
(3) Be specific in your journal entries. While it may be helpful to write a general sketch of what's going on or what's bothering you in the moment (and it often is), this doesn't exactly help you to solve the problem. To do that, you'll want to be as specific as possible—not only about what's happening, but also about how you feel about it. Saying (or writing), "I feel bad," is too vague. Give those bad feelings precise names that accurately convey your emotion: angry, hostile, over-excited, guilty, hurt, confused, disappointed, etc. If you find that you can't put a name to it—or that you are too commonly using generic words like bad or upset to describe how you feel—it's okay to write that you're unsure what to call the way you're feeling. But do take the time to think about it and practice naming what you feel very specifically. This also gets easier with practice.
(4) Don't forget to focus on the positive. After you've vented, it's important to give yourself closure on the situation at hand. One very easy way to do that is to think of what you're grateful for, because even in negative situations, we can always find something positive. (For example, if "I'm mad at my husband for not helping with the dishes," I can later recognize that "I'm grateful he's been working so hard to bring in money this week and also that he appreciates my cooking for him.")
I've been journaling for a variety of reasons since before I could even write in cursive. Although I've gotten a lot of different benefits from journal-writing, the longest staple has been an objective observation of my feelings in situations that might otherwise overwhelm me. I have employed all of the above techniques as needed with quite positive results.
For more helpful hints on this subject, check out the blog of my colleague, Barbara J. Henry, a.k.a. "The Journal Lady" at http://barbarajhenry.com/blog/
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The 85th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine is marked not only in this country, but also far beyond its borders. Commemorative events have been taking place throughout the year in dozens of countries which host Ukrainian communities. The diaspora continues to play an important role as it is revealing to the world the real scale of the 1932-33 tragedy.
Chairman of the International Holodomor Coordinating Committee, general secretary of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), and chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations Stefan Romaniw offers a notable example of an individual who has devoted his entire life to the popularization of the Ukrainian idea in the world. He talked to Leopolitans at the Lviv Polytechnic on April 17, having been invited there by that school's International Institute for Education, Culture, and Relations with the Diaspora (IIECRD).
Romaniw was born in the Australian city of Melbourne. His father, a native of Ternopil, emigrated there in 1949. When asked "Why did you decide to concentrate all your efforts on the Holodomor?" the activist responded by recalling his youth. He said that this topic had been repeatedly discussed among his people, including in Saturday school classes and at home... However, it was the book The Harvest of Sorrow, written by British historian Robert Conquest, that made the greatest impression. "I read it when I was 15. And from that time on, I have constantly thought about what I can do for this cause, so that the whole world learns about the Holodomor in Ukraine," Romaniw admitted.
The contribution of the diaspora to uncovering the issue of the 1932-33 Holodomor is usually dealt with in general terms only. Meanwhile, Romaniw covered it in detail in his presentation, arranged in chronological order and featuring examples. Among other matters, it praised the achievements of the US Commission on the Ukraine Famine, which was led by American historian James Mace who was in fact a great Ukrainian. He was called "a man of truth" by employees of Den/The Day, for which he worked for the final seven years of his life. Romaniw, too, repeatedly noted in his speech the colossal significance of Mace's work.
In Ukraine and abroad, victims of the Soviet regime-organized genocide are honored on the last Saturday of November. It falls on November 24 this year. Many Ukrainian homes will definitely lit a traditional candle of memory on that day. Romaniw noted he and his associates had implemented this idea for the first time in Australia back in 2008.
"We then found a common ground with Ukrainian officials, recognizing that we could do a lot together," Romaniw recalled. "And if we would work together, we would be able to convey to the world information about the Holodomor faster. Thus, the campaign 'Ukraine Remembers, The World Acknowledges' started, which was essentially about working in two directions at once. On the one hand, it was necessary to speak more about the Holodomor in Ukraine itself, because people knew little about it there, and even if they knew, it was only in the version promoted by the Soviet regime. At the same time, to achieve 'The World Acknowledges' objective, we began working with the international community, parliaments of different countries, and the UN, to achieve recognition of the Holodomor as genocide."
THE UWC'S PLANS FOR THE 85th ANNIVERSARY
At present, only 17 nations have recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people. Additionally, a number of countries have condemned the Holodomor at an official level as an act of human extermination. So, Ukraine still has a lot of work to do. Romaniw remarked that representatives of the UWC were working together with Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Volodymyr Yelchenko to make the Holodomor recognized as genocide of the Ukrainian people by more nations. He also added: "Together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, we are creating a database, and we will coordinate work in each country in order to raise this issue again and again in parliaments across the world."
With the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor approaching, a series of events are being prepared at the UWC. "We are planning to compile a list of the descendants of witnesses to this tragedy who live around the world. We need to keep up this work so that the memory of the Holodomor does not fade. This is an important effort that will help us with disseminating information about the Holodomor and assuring the continuity in educational activities. We will need to find a person in each country who will be able to work exclusively on compiling such a list in their country. Also, we should prevent young people from forgetting about the tragedy of their people. What we need today is precisely for our descendants to take over this torch and continue our work," Romaniw stressed.
In addition, a number of public events have been planned, including forums and scholarly conferences. A united international campaign will be held as well. "Starting on September 1 this year, and lasting for 85 days before the International Holodomor Commemoration Day, a ceremony will be held involving the Candle of Memory being lit in another country every day. The campaign will end in Kyiv with the Candle being lit near the memorial in the presence of representatives from all over the world," Romaniw shared his plans with us.
To mark the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, the UWC also plans to initiate a continuation of the campaign to restore historical truth in the case of Walter Duranty, a former Moscow correspondent for The New York Times, who helped to conceal Joseph Stalin's terror in Ukraine with his reports and won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for it. Let us recall that Den/The Day was among the first to raise the issue of revoking Duranty's prize. In parallel, Professor Lubomyr Luciuk from Canada spoke in favor of this idea in 2003. "The UWC plans to initiate a new wave of letters to the Pulitzer Committee and The New York Times," Romaniw promised, calling for all concerned citizens to join this effort.
An exhibition called "The UWC: The Truth about the Holodomor" was also launched within the framework of the meeting, and it is now available at the Lviv Polytechnic. The exposition consists of a series of posters which quote famous Ukrainians speaking on the Holodomor, including those living abroad. For example, they feature the words of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia Freeland, president of the UWC Eugene Czolij and others.
The IIECRD joined the good work too, by preparing, together with students of the Lviv Polytechnic, Ukrainian translations of testimonies by witnesses of the 1932-33 Holodomor for the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center.
"This idea was born when we were in Toronto for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the UWC, and we got invited to the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center, which deals with various aspects of the study of our history," we heard from Iryna Kliuchkovska, the IIECRD's director. "We attempt to involve students in our work in every possible way time and again. Students of the Department of Applied Linguistics were interning at our institute at the time. We invited them to join our project by providing them with texts in English. They translated them into Ukrainian, and we edited them. We will send them to the Center to Canada. In the future, these materials will be published on its website. This will be useful for those who cannot read them in English.
"There are a lot of things there that are not to be found in history textbooks. These are witnesses who emigrated from Ukraine. Interestingly, they kept silent for a long time and did not want to talk. Just like in Ukraine, they preferred to forget about it. They still experienced that fear at the genetic level, which Mace spoke about, even there, in the free world where, apparently, there were no restrictions on them. Features of a post-genocidal society emigrated with people themselves. However, the time has gone by. Both in Ukraine and abroad, people have started talking about the Holodomor. Therefore, it occurred to Iroida Wynnyckyj, an employee of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center, to record testimonies of those eyewitnesses who had left for Canada. People have been working on the project ever since."


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This year it will be taking place on Sunday, Feb. 16 from 1-4 p.m. at the Shelton Courtyard by Marriott, 780 Bridgeport Ave.
The Mary A. Schmecker Turtle Shell Fund, a nonprofit in the Valley, has a mission is to further music and art education for the area's youth.
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[ roil ]
/ rɔɪl /
verb (used with object)
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay.
verb (used without object)
to move or proceed turbulently.
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Origin of roil
First recorded in 1580–90; origin uncertain
SYNONYMS FOR roil
OTHER WORDS FROM roilun·roiled, adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH roilroil , royal
Words nearby roil
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for roil
Like it or not, ethnicity, assimilation and wages are the same the currents that roil immigration.Supreme Court on Gay Marriage, Voting Rights, and More|Lloyd Green|June 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A year after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, violence continues to roil Libya, heightening fears that the revolution could fail.One Year Later, Libya's Long Road Continues|Jamie Dettmer|October 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil.David McCullough at Wellesley Commencement: 'You Are Not Special' (Video)|The Daily Beast|June 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
And markets in the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Japan, and China continue to roil.Mark McKinnon: Why the Euro Crisis Matters to Americans|Mark McKinnon|June 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I know you told me not to roil round and so forth, but I knew you didn't mean it.The Little Warrior|P. G. Wodehouse
He said boast an roil, an he meant roast an boil em, didnt he?The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp|Laura Lee Hope
The house being near the head, there will not water enough get into the spring, in any storm, to roil the water.Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
British Dictionary definitions for roil
/ (rɔɪl) /
(tr) to make (a liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up dregs or sediment
(intr) (esp of a liquid) to be agitated or disturbed
(intr) dialect to be noisy or boisterous
(tr) another word (now rare) for rile (def. 1)
Word Origin for roil
C16: of unknown origin; compare rile
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We overcome constantly changing market conditions and increasing customer demands in term of products and services with fulfilment of highest quality standards, all in the sense of our Quality Management System EN ISO 13485:2016.
With our extended product range and our own AERO-brand items, we meanwhile became one of the main players and leading providers in the segments Homecare, Emergency Medical Service and Hospital products, in national as well as international market environments.
Following our slogan "Systems for Life", we steadily develop our portfolio with innovative products and solutions where as in the end the most profiting part of the chain is the patient. We are very well aware of our great responsibility!
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Last but not least we look forward to a further mutual success with you, our friends, partners and customers!
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So you want a web page…
So you want a web page, don't you? But do you want to make it yourself or have it made for you? Let's say that you are self-taught with no experience in web page creation, but you have some time and some more interest in designing it yourself. Then, what I will tell you (with no digression at all) is what I would have found useful for me when I decided to start this very web four weeks ago.
If what you want is a free blog, go to WordPress.com (the site) and sign up there. If you want a web more functional than a blog, your needs will be different and you will have to pay to satisfy them. But it will be worth the effort.
You will need a domain, a hosting plan, and WordPress (the language to create webs, not only blogs, located at WordPress.org). Yes, those make the Holly Trinity of web making.
- A domain. A domain is a name (or an internet address) for your web, such as cocacola.com. Choose a name that represents well your web. Go to a domain registrar. For instance dondominio.com, hostsuar.com, cdmon.com, sites that I know, directly or indirectly, to be really serious. If you know others, go for them. There you can learn whether the domain name that you have chosen is already in use; if not, you can buy it for some 10 euro a year. As long as you pay that yearly fee, the domain will be yours.
- A hosting plan. All of the three domain registrars that I've suggested offer also hosting plans; your web will be well tended in any of them. There are a lot of options and prices, but a shared hosting plan will suffice for a good start. It will cost you 50 to 80 euro a year. It is important that the host offers php (programming language) and MySql (database), so that WordPress can be used. It is also interesting that it offers CPanel to manage the services and space in the server. WordPress installation should be automatic or nearly automatic. Regarding the hosting plans that I have recommended, only hostsuar.com offers a multidomain option (you can host there more than one domain if you own them). Domain and hosting can be from the same or different companies; all the rest being equal, I prefer different companies so as not to put all the eggs in the same basket.
- WordPress. If I tell you that 80% of the webs are created with WordPress, I'm giving you a figure that I have read repeatedly on the net. I have not checked that percentage, but it seems true. WordPress lets you to create a simple functional web in a few hours, and investing more time (a few weeks), a complex and professionally looking web. This program is intensive in the use of themes (the look of the web) and plugins (its functionalities), and quite a lot of them, themes and plugins, are free and downloadable from WordPress.org. I would suggest to start with the Twenty Fourteen theme and try and learn what you can do with it. You could also search for themes or actual webs devoted to the type of activity or business of your future web. Suppose you are a photographer, then you could restrict the search initially to the themes for photographers' webs. Eventually, with what you learn about the Twenty Fourteen and what you find in your search, you will decide if you need something more than free themes. If you do, it is time to think about DIVI.
- The DIVI theme, from Elegantthemes.com, and the rest of the themes and plugins offered by that company for 80 euro a year in their developer's subscription (or 280 euro for a lifetime subscription), is the most comprehensive set of look and feel for webs on the market. More than 300.000 designers, including me, use DIVI.
With what I have told you, in four weeks and without previous knowledge, you can design a web as professionally looking and usable as you can imagine it. If your are reading this post, you know my web, and that is the time I have spent as to the 11th October, 2015, including three posts and selection and edition of all its contents.
And I am sure you are smarter than me. In the end, I'm only four weeks ahead of you!
Greetings and good luck!
PS: Two details. First I have not mentioned the big monsters of hosting, such as bluehost.com, hostgator.com or navegalia.com (in Spain) and others, because I have read quite a lot of awful opinions on their services. The most common complaint being that they offer quite a lot, give quite less, and don't help you when in need. Second, I have not commented on the use of php, SQL, html and CSS to be a proficient web designer, but you don't need them to make your web.


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We wrote in a post on our social media channels that we were thinking of traveling to Lisbon next, and asked our followers for any advice on what to do and see, small or large. The response was amazing, and as the result of Traveling Thursdays we are now writing down a few travel tips when visiting Lisbon!
First off, Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. Not only is it the capital, but it is the largest city in Portugal as well as, one of the oldest cities in the world. So there is a lot of history here and a big transformation of the city is going on.
We stayed at The Baixa district, the heart of Lisbon and comprises of magnificent plazas, grand avenues and boutique shopping boulevards. The district is popular with tourists, as contained within Baixa are many of Lisbon's major tourist attractions, along with a huge variety of restaurants, market, shopping, and many excellent hotels.
Thank you Anne Havsgaard for your tip for this lovely hotel downtown Lisbon The Almalusa Hotel A charming and stylish boutique hotel with a perfect location in one of the most emblematic squares of Lisbon – Praça do Município. You can easily walk to the nearest and most beautiful views that Lisbon has to offer. A lovely hotel, great service and highly recommended.
With the Atlantic on its doorstep, there are many exciting fish dishes to taste. We walked from the hotel, 10 minutes and arrived to the Time Out Market.
Inside the FABULOUS foodhall, you will find a variety of choices of food styles. We went to the waterfront side of the market, where you will find pop-ups of various famous chefs. We fell for this guy, Chef Kiko Martins. A blend of Portuguese inspiration with a traditional Peruvian dish – OMG – it was good.
When travelling we love to spend some time just walking around in the city, exploring, taking photos – visiting a small bar and just get the feeling. Lisbon has so much to offer, Lisbon has it all! Even the beach is just a short 30 minute drive – just across the old red bridge Ponte 25 Abril. It is beautiful, click the link to get a sense of the mood video…
Bar Praia Da Princesa, Costa da Caparica, Portugal
Visit the art museum and see the railway station. This time we chose to go for the modern part of Lisbon…. The city's historic places is a separate blog in itself.
And last but not least, a must when in Lisbon is to take a ride with the incredibly charming old trams that run in the city center.
Safe travels everyone! You know we love to see your adventures, so use #HippiGraceTravels when you're out and about to share your experiences with us and our community!
PS – This time we brought the lovely Hippi Grace Kyoto crossbody bag with us for travelling. A perfect size and we are currently making her in lovely new leather/color combinations, together with Hippi Grace Little Sydney for all the business stuff. Stay Tuned….
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Canoe Display Unit
Country of Origin: Kenya
Material: Reclaimed hardwood (mangrove)
Description: Striking and beautiful display unit created from an old ngalawa (canoe) that was once used for fishing in the mangroves and sea on the Kenyan coast. The wax finish complements the wood and some of the old paintwork, with the structure itself both useful and unique.
Age & Overall Condition: Hardwoods reclaimed from old hardwood canoe, each piece individually treated by Tribal Gallery carpenters in Kenya. Each piece of wood carries traces of its past life as a working canoe – holes in the wood where there were once nails for example. The wood has been lovingly transformed by hand and will be enjoyed for decades.


text: SAVE By Deina Ida Blancaflor Eariler this year, actress and fashion stylist Alyanna Martinez and her husband, celebrity photographer Roy Macam, gave birth to their very first baby girl. Like most celebrity babies, Adalynn also has her own Instagram account (@adalynnrileymacam and @royal_diary). Scrolling through her feed would give you instant good vibes, with baby Adalynn charming our pants off one headpiece at a time. Her lolo, veteran actor Albert Martinez, is also ecstatic with his first apo. During his 57th birthday, he took the liberty of traveling to the US to spend some time with family and to finally meet baby Adalynn. To Albert, his apo has "given him a new sense of purpose.. In fact, he wouldn't mind being this baby girl's nanny 24/7! Baby Adalynn is barely six months old, but to the people around her, she's given them happiness to last a lifetime. With her parents' charm, looks, and big heart, this "RoyAl" baby's the literal definition of a bundle of joy! ALSO READ: Beauty Inspo: We're Slightly Jealous Of These Male Celebrities Who Have Nearly Perfect Skin! Photographs from Instagram.com/adalynnrileymacam, Instagram.com/royal_diary, and Instagram.com/alyannamartinez. Banner image by Angela Sy


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PALM DESERT, Calif. — Her advice won't blow your mind, but you can boost your career satisfaction if you take home a few nuggets, said Emily Fragoso at the West Coast Produce Expo.
Fragoso, vice president of produce executive search firm Mixtec Group, La Crescenta, Calif., led the "Preparing for What's Next: Personal Goal Setting Strategies," session at the May 9-10 expo hosted by The Packer.
"Why wait for your company to tap you on your shoulder and say 'Hey, you're special and need to move up?'" Fragoso said.
First, you have figure out what you want, no matter how large or small the desire.
"Is it a promotion? It could be project management. It could be public speaking. It could be showing up to work on time. Work less on weekends. Be more present in meetings," Fragoso said.
However, the cliché is true: a goal without a plan is just a wish, she said.
You have to make your goals known to leadership. It'll help keep you accountable and push your professional brand.
Ask probing questions when you discuss your goals to find out how others achieved similar goals, gather advice and learn what resources are available. These talks can illuminate what gaps there are in your work.
"I think vulnerability will play a good role too," Fragoso said. These talks are better than annual performance evaluations. "I don't need someone to tell me I suck in this area … I know. What can be more helpful is ongoing dialogue."
Evaluate your resources, such as industry trade associations, school, training and in-company offerings.
"Where are the people you want to see, and what aligns with your goals?" Fragoso asked.
Once you have an action plan, do targeted networking, volunteer to do public speaking whenever possible and serve on boards of associations. It can benefit you more than those you're helping, she said.
Yaoyao Xu, marketing advisor at Westlake Produce, Downey, Calif., said the session was inspiring.
"She mentioned marketing associations, and I think I need these resources because I'm fresh out of school and new to this industry," Xu said. "I'm glad I ran into this presentation."
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Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) is still a major challenge for the process industries. Despite the publication of guidance and standards and often substantial control spend, there continue to be CUI failures, often in late life, many of which are significant in terms of safety, cost and reputation. Your CUI Masterclass trainers and course content providers have direct experience of such failures, how they were managed, why to focus on corrosion under insulation and key lessons learned.
The Masterclass provides a good background on CUI prevention, detection, prediction and monitoring and capability today. Advancement in CUI control will rely on a combination of new technologies, collecting and sharing plant data and updating risk assessment methods accordingly.
CUI control measures currently rely on a combination of permanent removal of unnecessary insulation, and, for the remaining insulated equipment, sound insulation and coatings practices with periodic inspection. Inspection is often the only way to prevent failures of carbon steel.
CUI affects both carbon and stainless steels but these different materials need very different control strategies
Industry published guidance indicates that it is possible to prevent most carbon steel CUI failures using a tactical inspection approach
We have direct experience of effective CUI inspection programs but over the past decade an emerging pattern of industry experience demonstrates that this is not easy to achieve:
- Ineffective CUI inspection programs persisting for many years
- Resulting in isolated, unexpected critical failures or near-miss failures often in late life
- Triggering large "catch-up" inspection and maintenance projects (£10-240M/facility depending on size and age
- Introducing safety concerns for live equipment inspection and maintenance
- Causing loss of confidence with partners / regulators / insurers and indirect costs which exceed the inspection & maintenance spend
- Negatively impacting on other critical reliability and maintenance work
Inspection and maintenance planning and prioritisation of CUI commonly involves risk-based assessment methods which can be prone to errors
Different plant processes in different locations will require different CUI solutions from coating and insulation systems to risk based assessment and inspection
Inventories of insulated equipment can exceed 100km piping and hundreds of vessels per asset and even focusing on the highly critical equipment in some climates can still cost £0.3-3M/yr/asset or ~10% of the maintenance budget. We currently spend an estimated 2billion globally on inspection and coating repairs.
- Factors that influence CUI severity are well known but we are not yet capable of confident CUI prediction and this is not always obvious in all published guidance.
- There is no published performance data for coating and insulation innovations. It can take 10-20+ years for CUI failure patterns to emerge on plants and hence generate confidence to significantly reduce inspection costs.
- Reliable inspection of critical equipment is expensive because it requires high coverage, conservative intervals and high reliability of detection. Removing insulation is still the most reliable method.
- Non-intrusive inspection techniques are constantly improving but as an industry, we have only recently started to evaluate their reliability and cost effectiveness.


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The more things change the more they stay the same.
A blast from the past thirteen months down the pike.
Regular readers of These Electronic Back Pages here at Sparta Report know that Your Uncle Bruno is not usually the sharpest knife in the drawer on the elevator that doesn't quite go to the top floor and that his scribblings are best washed down with large quantities of sodium.
Still, like a sight-impaired feral razorback Your Uncle Bruno does occasionally stumble upon a rare fungi of wisdom.
This post is probably not it.
However if you take to heart the old saying that "If your enemy says they want to kill you then you own them the courtesy of taking them seriously" then we are presently in a position requiring us to Hear Them Out.
The Political Opposition is saying "Donald Trump is a Russian Agent" (as they have for two years now) so it might be A Good Thing to take that claim at face value and explore what it would mean if Said Supposition is indeed correct.
If The Mueller Investigation is ready to declare that Trump is sly ol' Vlad Putin's very own 007 in employ of the Kremlin it follows that the political earth is about to shake more than it did when The Meteor slammed into Gaia at the end of the Cretaceous.
We are at the precipice of The Mother of All National Crisis.
As Joe Biden once so sagely said: "That's a Big Effin' Deal."
This is probably not an exhaustive list of What It All Means but may be a good starting point.
First and foremost, it means that the Soviet Union/Russia won the Cold War.
There is no other way to look at it. Russia was able to recruit, infiltrate, compromise and install A Stooge of Their Choosing in the White House.
What a coup!
And the choice of said Stooge was beyond brilliant: a hyper-capitalist with personal tentacles reaching into politics but also the financial world and Hollywood. A Stooge who established a world-wide brand and media presence long before being activated to Make His Move in politics.
Talk about Deep Cover.
Secondly, this Putinist spy network manged to avoid ALL DETECTION of The Plot for years if not decades. In fact US intelligence operatives (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc) only discovered the nature of The Operation after it was Mission Accomplished.
A miss that enormous makes the Iraq/WMD debacle look like Tiny Taters – talk about non-essential government workers…
America's John & Jane Q Public should be rightfully alarmed as to what else has been missed by those tasked with securing the national interest given this massive failure.
Third, in an amazing feat of jujitsu, The Russian Stooge has convinced a large portion of the American public that it is in the country's best interest to have a stable, secure and well-defined border to stem the tide of illegal immigration from Central America.
What better way to cripple the Accepted Progressive Wisdom of the proposition that Diversity is Our Strength than to promote nationalism and secure borders?
Obviously Comrade Putin fears an America strengthened by the importation of criminal gangs, low skill workers and drugs was so severe that he was willing to Roll the Dice by running a Manchurian presidential candidate proposing to secure borders thereby irreparably harming the United States.
Number four: Pooty Poot has effectively brought about the end of the two party franchise in American politics.
If the Republican party is so inept that they nominated a Russian Agent over the sixteen other choices they presented to the Party Faithful in 2016 then does that party really deserve to exist?
If the GOP cannot keep it's own house in order it has no business ever being in a position to govern ever again.
It should be disbanded and all Party Officials and Politicians should be investigated for their possible complicitness in Trump's Collusion/Treason.
Also, what of the 63 million fools, dupes and chumps who voted a Russkie Benedict Arnold into the White House?
Isn't a weak "I didn't know" just a pale echo of what Your Average German said after Hitler version 1.0 was disposed of in 1945?
Is a mea culpa from these mentally deficient Deplorables enough or should there be be an additional price paid in public humiliation or worse.
Perhaps some type of remedial training faculty could be established. Or better yet, make them all apply for and pass A New Citizenship test similar to the one required of legal immigrants.
Another great concern: how many votes were really changed in several key battleground states?.What was the method? How was this feat pulled off?
A national commission to review the 2016 election needs to be impaneled poco pronto because The American Public deserves answers.
Fifth: what about all policy and law enacted while The Collusionist Traitor was behind the Resolute Desk?
Given that the purpose of the Trump Administration was to line the pockets of La Familia Trump, weaken the United States and advance the cause of Putin and Russia would it not be prudent to negate all policy and action going back to January 20, 2017?
All legislation and appoints need to thoroughly examined if if necessary reversed/negated.
It goes without saying that both VP Pense and SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh need to step down pending public review of their tenures.
And finally, in the number six spot, what of the role of The Fifth Estate?
Where was the Investigative Journalism that is supposed to ferret out this kind of Grand Conspiracy?
Donald Trump has been a public figure for what, fifty years or thereabouts?
Nobody at NBC thought to vet his background while he was raking in Big Bucks for the network while running his TV show.
Were the Suits and Big Cigars at The Network silent partners in Putin's Circle of Evil?
Follow the damn money – every last dime in every venue and on every platform.
Something as monstrous as the elevation of a Russian Stooge to the office of the Presidency doesn't just happen between sunset and sunrise.
If Donald John Trump, 45th President of the United States is indeed an agent of a foreign government then a whole lotta other people in Washington, New York and Hollywood have a whole lotta 'splainin' to do about their roles in enabling this American Tragedy to come to pass.
Anyway that's the best Your Uncle Bruno can do right now.
Listen, if Trump is, as The Conventional Wisdom of The Left stands, a Rooskie Stooge I wanna know every damn last iota of who, what, when, where, how and why and I don't care what it costs and how long it takes.
If it's serious, then IT'S SERIOUS.
Every Card, every Shred of Evidence, laid out on The Table, no redactions, no "it's classified" – total public transparency.
Because if The Allegations are true I want to know everything, in granular detail.
If Trump is really A Russian Stooge then that shouldn't be too much to ask….
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World Ch. Schedule : TUE 13:00 KST
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Chapter 1.
1. SUYEON is very 'Picky' when it comes to coffee!
(*SUYEON is weak with caffeine so she prefers decaf)
1-1. SEI is very 'Picky' when it comes to spending!
(*She collects info before buying things, reviews the quality, and makes use of discount coupons!)
2. The music video character that RINA desired was the 'school queen'.
(*She said it'd be cool to be the queen of the school at least once in her life...^^)
2-1. The music video character that ELLY desired was the 'social media star'.
(*She said taking pictures in any situation possible seemed fun)
2-2. The music video character that SEI desired was the 'school queen'.
(*She said LUCY looked really cool, posing on top of the school bus…!)
2-3. The music video character that SUYEON desired was the 'student who is always tardy'.
★The members' characters in the music video (chosen by the company)★
①SUYEON : rock and roll mania ②YOOJUNG : school president ③RINA : star athlete ④LUCY : school queen ⑤DOYEON : social media star ⑥ELLY : #1 student ⑦SEI : mirror princess ⑧LUA : student who is always tardy
3. LUA's favorite choreo of 'Picky Picky' is the outro!
(*The part where the members dance freely and energetically! LUA's neck goes really far back!!)
3-1. SUYEON's favorite choreo of 'Picky Picky' is the 'wow' part which she unfortunately doesn't dance.
3-2. YOOJUNG really pays attention to the dance part where she kicks her leg really fast.
(Her leg was in good condition today so she showed it during the live show >.<)
4. ELLY told herself, do 'Whatever U Want!', so she went to exercise and regretted it!
(*She went to work out after her schedules…and regretted it after 10 minutes T T)
4-1. RINA ordered a variety of foods and regretted it after getting an upset stomach.
4-2. On the other hand, YOOJUNG ordered a variety of foods and regretted it after not being able to eat it all.
5. When YOOJUNG earnestly wishes for something, she buys a notebook.
(*She writes down the things she wishes in the notebook! So, she has notebooks of different topics at home. One for her emotions, one for recipes she wants to cook in the future, ETC)
5-1. When SUYEON earnestly wishes for something, she doesn't get excited for it.
(*She says it doesn't come true if she gets excited for it…! When she was young, she got really excited for her mother to buy her a cellphone for her birthday, but she didn't get one T T)
Chapter 2.
1. For the Song & Performance Quiz, the teams were : Team 'Euk' with ELLY, DOYEON, LUA, SEI / Team 'Ak' with RINA, YOOJUNG, LUCY, SUYEON
2. When ELLY saw random lyrics on the LED, she sang the lyrics but didn't know the title so asked DOYEON, "What song is that?"
3. RINA didn't recognize the screen cap of her own hand on the LED, so when she found out, she fell to the floor and said, "Those are my nails!!"
4. The members tried to get the answers out of the ASC MCs. "S..S..S..Stay with Me...?"
5. The song that was mentioned the most during the quiz was, 'I don't like your Girlfriend'. The members shouted out this song even when it wasn't the answer…!
6. Team 'Ak' won the Song & Performance Quiz! As the prize, they got an ice cream cake which was as sweet as Weki Meki.
1. YOOJUNG diligently practiced and memorized her English greeting which she said in the opening.
2. When LUA said her English greeting during the rehearsal, the members admired her and said 'ooh~'
3. The Weki Meki members are tall (the tallest fairies), so they had to bend slightly to speak into the microphone which was set up to YOOJUNG's height.
4. The first thing LUA wanted to do after graduating high school and turning 20, was to make a comeback.
5. ELLY, who introduced the album with her extravagant hand gestures, is known to make a variety of gestures in her daily life.
6. Do 'Whatever U Want'! The member who tends to say what's on their mind without hesitating is DOYEON / The member who holds it in is LUA (keeps it in forever), SEI, ELLY, RINA, YOOJUNG (but the members disagreed)
7. YOOJUNG said SEI is really precise in looking at ingredients (of products, cosmetics, ETC).
8. The members' experiences in petal fortune telling.
1) YOOJUNG : When she was in elementary school, she would pick off petals of an acacia to see if she could go home in 5 minutes. If the petal said she could, she would run home!
2) LUA : She would pick off petals of a flower to decide if she should eat the cake which came out during the lunch meal. She ended up eating it!
3) LUCY : When she was in 4th grade, she would pick off petals of a flower to see if her crush liked her back. If the flower said no…T T she would choose another flower to try again!
9. The members' reactions when they heard 'Picky Picky' for the first time
1) DOYEON : The person who sang the guide was a guy, so she couldn't imagine the members singing the song. But she liked it because just listening to the beat could make her picture how Weki Meki would perform on stage.
2) SEI : She thought the hook was addictive, and she kept playing it in her head even after she went home and was eating.
10. The day after LUCY learned the 'Picky Picky' choreography for the first time, she felt her neck muscles were sore (because she has to lie down in the beginning and the ending).
11. If SUYEON could go back to her school days, she would like to be friends with SEI. Because SEI knows many great places to eat!
12. To make the members concentrate, leader SUYEON plays music very loudly. When she does this, the members gather and find their spots like magic-★
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S2E71: Diving To The Olympics
Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian National Diver
13-Aug-19 21:00
Overcoming all odds, Pandelela Rinong, along with veteran diver Leong Mun Yee, produced a silver medal and two Tokyo 2020 Olympic tickets at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. What seemed completely impossible months ago due to a change in coaching staff, multiple injuries, and a very short time frame has been proven to be only a minor speed-bump in Pandelela's illustrious career. Leaving everything on the platform, Pandelela Rinong sheds light on her training, Malaysia's elusive Olympic gold, and the diving world as it prepares for the 2020 Olympics.
Produced by: Daryl Ong
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text: In developing countries today, children face the challenge of climate change, despite being least responsible for its causes. More severe and more frequent natural disasters, food crises and changing rainfall patterns are all threatening children's lives and their basic rights to education, health, clean water and the right food. The impact of climate change is projected to be more intense in the immediate and long-term future, suggesting that children of today and subsequent generations will bear the brunt of climate change.


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Went to the gym (actaully met Mike there), did 10 minutes of cardio then almost 35 minutes of strength training. I really feel the workout, and Mike is there to spot and comment on my form while I work out, and visa versa.
:) I just weanted to sasy that I am proud!
Tomorrow - Legs and shoulder, with some cardio at the start. ;) I am going to sneak in some bonus cardio during the day by walking around the office or even going for a walk outide if it is nice enough.
Good times!
Keep on running,


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All Singing, All Dancing, All Snacking, All Reading at the Nurses' Ball
Opera Weekly
actors read to pass the time between takes. Kin Shriner (Scott) opted for
People magazine, while Julian Stone (Jerry) perused Christopher Vogler's
'The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers', and Wally Kurth (Ned)
tried to get through 'The Pilot's Wife'. "My wife (Rena Sofer; ex-Lois
gave it to me. It's from Oprah's book club," Kurth noted. "But
it's hard to concentrate because Nancy (Grahn; Alexis)
is singing 'Annie Get Your Gun' songs in my ear. She just saw it in New
When she wasn't crooning, Grahn was engaged in an L.A. Times crossword puzzle contest with Leslie Charleson and Stephen T. Kay (Monica and Reginald). "We're crossword maniacs. We're very competitive. We always get down to the last two words, then we start scurrying around for help. I recall 'Lester' winning last time, and I actually threw my paper down: 'Damn!'" Grahn confessed, referring to Charleson.


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Meliá Hotels International, the leading hotel company in Spain, has just received its individual and voluntary assessment results after having sought to be assessed according to the same procedure applied for listed companies by the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). Meliá Hotels International achieved the highest score in the global travel & tourism industry.
For Gabriel Escarrer, Vice President and CEO of Meliá, "without a shadow of a doubt, this news is the greatest possible acknowledgement for our management model, in which making sustainability an intrinsic part of the business is one of our most important goals given the need for companies to generate a positive impact on society and the planet."
The results of the individual assessment confirm the company's excellent performance, commitment to social and economic development and its key role in combating climate change in the hotel industry. As Escarrer says, "we are a family company with strong values and very focused on building a relationship of trust with our stakeholders and society in general. I'm so proud of the entire Meliá team for having been able to come together and create a company-wide culture of commitment to major global challenges, respond with a long-term vision, responsibility and respect for the environment, driven by an awareness that travel and tourism are powerful drivers of global social and economic development".
The SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment, is an annual evaluation of the sustainability performance of more than 4,700 companies in all industries based on general economic, social and environmental criteria and specific criteria for each industry. In 2018, Meliá voluntarily took part in the evaluation and achieved the third highest score in the industry as well as Silver Class recognition in the Sustainability Yearbook published by SAM. This year, the Spanish hotel company has set a new record in achieving its highest ever score to date - 83 points (10 more than the previous year).
The evaluation confirms Meliá Hotels International's leadership in economic and social dimensions, having achieved the maximum score of 100 points for criteria such as Climate Strategy, Social Reporting, CRM, Tax Strategy or Materiality. In addition, it also achieved the top score in the industry for criteria as diverse as Human Rights, Human Capital Development, Supply Chain Management, Codes of Business Conduct, Risk & Crisis Management and Occupational Health and Safety.


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When energy (Qi) or blood does not flow smoothly, the body becomes prone to pain and all kind of illnesses. To help the blood and energy circulate more effectively, an acupuncturist may insert needles at certain points and then attach them with the small clips to an electrical device which generates electrical current similar to human bio-electricity. Electrical impulses provide increased stimulation to the several needles simultaneously. The acupuncturist can regulate frequency and intensity of the impulse to meet the patient's health needs.
The treatment usually lasts for 20-30 minutes and is not considered painful. The patient just feels a little vibration at the point. Electroacupuncture relaxes the muscles and is very effective for chronic pain cases. It also assists in healing from injuries and may be helpful for some skin conditions.
Electrostimulation is not for everyone. For instance, it cannot be used on people with seizures, heart disease or strokes and on patients with pacemakers or metal implants.
Electrical stimulation with a special device can be used as a non-needle alternative treatment.


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Uber pays $20M to settle claims of driver deception
San Francisco — Uber Technologies is paying $20 million to settle allegations that it duped people into driving for its ride-hailing service with false promises about how much they would earn and how much they would have to pay to finance a car.
The agreement announced Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission covers statements Uber made from late 2013 until 2015 while trying to recruit more drivers to expand its service and remain ahead of its main rival, Lyft.
The FTC alleged that most Uber drivers were earning far less than Uber claimed in 18 major U.S. cities. Regulators also asserted that drivers wound up paying substantially more to lease cars than the company had proclaimed.
San Francisco-based Uber says it is pleased to have resolved the matter.


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Social Responsibility
Helen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind
The Helen Keller Institute for Deaf & Deafblind (HKIDB) is a premier institute working for the education, training and rehabilitation of the Deaf and Deafblind in India and the rest of Southeast Asia. It is recognised by the state and central government and many international organisations as a pioneering institute for the development of children with disabilities, especially Deafblindness.
Late Mrs Beroz Vacha founded the institute with two other teachers in 1977 with the strong belief that no one is incapable of being taught. From a room with just two children to a school of 200 students, the journey has been long but the work undertaken has been extremely satisfying. Amongst the numerous awards to the institute, the one that stands out is the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment in public recognition of the institute's outstanding performance.
Areas of work:
- Early intervention and outreach program (0–10 years)
- School for Deaf (from kindergarten until Std X)
- School for Deafblind (4–17 years)
- Vocational Training and Rehabilitation
- Diploma in Special Education (Deafblindness) – a two-year course recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India
Nexdigm (SKP) has been involved with HKIDB since its inception. The management has been instrumental in mentoring the institute to its present level of activities. Nexdigm (SKP) assists HKIDB by way of donations and creating awareness about the cause of HKIDB through employee involvement like participating in the Mumbai marathon, printing of stationery at the HKIDB printing press, etc.
HKIDB is a registered NGO under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. All donations to it are exempt under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
To know more about HKIDB, please visit their website or Facebook page.
Click here to watch a heartwarming video about the students at HKIDB.


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Inspired by organic forms, the SABINAS CHAIR, designed by Javier Mariscal for Vondom, turns away from the rectilinear. Its sensual curves hint at the undulating curves of a woman or desert landscape, provoking deep and diverse emotions. Seen as a novelty at the Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milan.
Like all of the author's collections, it emits a formal code that is very "mariscaliano," creating its own personal vernacular taste and artistry.
Made from polypropylene and with a highly-adaptable design, this multiuse piece adapts perfectly to residential or commercial spaces.
It is available in 5 colors (red, ecru, black, white and bronze) and can adapt to a myriad of interior and exterior settings.
Matter and light blend in a single piece to create objects that offer illumination while acting as furniture. Round forms which consist of robust ovals create these versatile pieces designed by Javier Mariscal.
Their illumination and intensity of color can be controlled via a remote control that create inspirational spaces.
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