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1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh?s Royal Regiment - A colour photograph of the members of the Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess at Mercer Barracks, Osnabruck, West Germany. This photograph includes the Colonel-in-Chief, His Royal Highness Prince Phillip who was visiting the Battalion at this time. This image is named.
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1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - A colour photo of the Warrant Officers and Sergeants on the occasion of the presentation of new Colours by Duke of Edinburgh in 1984
Person(s): Collier, V W, Sergeant; Fisher, R, Sergeant; Henwood, A P, Sergeant; Traveller, S P, Sergeant; Hedges, F T, Sergeant; Newby, G A, Sergeant; Burlow, P M, Sergeant; Watts, D, Sergeant; Chitty, F, Sergeant; Gibbs, D, Sergeant; McIntyre, B, Sergeant; Povey, R H, Sergeant; Gibbs, P W, Sergeant; Williams, G, Sergeant; Truman, M J, Sergeant; Cridland, R A, Sergeant; O'Neill, B, Sergeant; Bordessa, D, Sergeant; Wareing, R, Sergeant; Bartlett, G, Sergeant; White, D, Sergeant; Griffin, E P, Sergeant; Ward, C N, Sergeant; Decarteret, G A, Sergeant; Nimmo, S, Sergeant; Clifton, H, Sergeant; Fennell, P S, Sergeant; Batty, K J, Sergeant; Giddy, G, Sergeant; Christian, A, Sergeant; Cox, M R, Sergeant; McSeveny, W M, Sergeant; Stanley, G, Sergeant; Dean, S, Sergeant; Gill, A S, Sergeant; Scully, A P, Sergeant; Maynard, P A G, Sergeant; Baines, V J, Sergeant; Wilmot, J L, Sergeant; Tait, R I, Sergeant; Grant, A G, Sergeant; McLeod, Colour P W, Sergeant; Coleman, Colour J B, Sergeant; Baker, Colour G, Sergeant; Navarro, Colour M, Sergeant; Curtain, Colour J, Sergeant; Lawrence, Colour C, Sergeant; Choules, Colour C, Sergeant; Carpenter, Colour M, Sergeant; Duran, Colour C, Sergeant; Hiscock, Colour N, Sergeant; Dobie, Colour J, Sergeant; Tadhunter, Drum R C, Major; Watts, Colour C L, Sergeant; Lines, Staff R A, Sergeant; Moloney, Colour D A, Sergeant; Luker, Colour D, Sergeant; Chapman, Colour C, Sergeant; Hole, Colour J, Sergeant; Le Strange, Colour J Sergeant; Fielding, Colour C, Sergeant; Walters, Colour P, Sergeant; Gardiner, Colour T J, Sergeant; Coupland, Colour J, Sergeant; North, Colour S P, Sergeant; Bryant, M J, WO2; Merritt, R W, WO2; Fielding, D, WO2; Hoare, J, WO2; Mehrlich, P R, WO2; Woodward, Staff Quarter Master G, Sergeant; Turner, Regimental Quarter Master A, Sergeant; King, CWO W E; Mullings, WO 1 P J; Bailey, WO 1 D A; Hicks, WO 1 Regimental R G, Major; Crabtree, Generaleral D T, Major; Prince Philip, Field-Marshall HRH; Mackereth, W A, Colonel; Nother, WO 1 R C; Hobbs, WO 1 A; Luckwell, WO 1 R J; Fielding, Regimental Quarter Master D M, Sergeant; Cole, S, TQMS; Minty, WO II N W; Godwin, M K, WO2; Hollister, R F, WO2; Smith, B R, WO2; Gardner, D R, WO2; Beet, D J A, WO2;


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The City Council this week approved Burbank's $636-million budget after closing a $1.3-million gap — a relatively small wound compared to other cities that have been hit especially hard by the loss of local redevelopment.
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Carey, Benedict, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
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That may change soon, however. Four rigorous studies of the treatment are nearing completion and due to be reported in coming months. In the past year, the American Psychological Association recognized sleep psychology as a specialty, and the Department of Veterans Affairs began a program to train about 600 sleep specialists. So-called insomnia disorder is defined as at least three months of poor sleep that causes problems at work, at home or in relationships.
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Lindsay Miller, a lesbian who calls herself a queer woman, logged 'Queer by Choice, Not by Chance' over at the Atlantic. The general thrust of her argument is that she is erotically attracted to both men and women, but she chooses women. She likes the equality of a same sex relationship and the fact that there is no male privilege to dismantle when both partners are women. She likes basing her relationship on the abilities and attributes of the two partners, instead of falling into social expectations regarding what's appropriate for men and women.
She rejects the notion that gays are 'born this way' as condescending, the poor dears just can't help themselves, so we should tolerate them because they are incapable of being anything other than what they are. I agree with her. The 'born this way' argument makes not a jot of political sense. People are born with Down's Syndrome, but that doesn't mean they're allowed to join the military. Being born that way is an argument for eugenics: test them in utero and abort the undesirables. That is indeed what is happening to children with Down's Syndrome. If LGBT people are indeed 'born this way', then clearly, we ought to figure out how to test for it so that they too can be aborted. Society will be better off without the burden of their abnormality.
There are activists on behalf of people with Down's Syndrome who are deeply dismayed by the large numbers of parents who are choosing to abort Down's Syndrome babies. This is a complicated moral dilemma that depends on what we define as a 'life worth living' and who gets to decide. I have a son with autism, and although I don't know if he will ever be able to live independently, he's a wonderful young man and his life is definitely worth living, even if it may not be the life I would have chosen for him, had I the power to choose.
Actually, I did have the power to choose. My partner and I (I was married at the time), knew there was a possibility of him being born different, both because of the genetic heritage and because before his mother even knew she was pregnant, she was negligently X-rayed, and we had to go for genetic counseling in order to find out exactly how many rads the less than three week old fetus had received, and what sort of risk that posed to the infant. We discussed the risk, discussed what a 'meaningful life', and chose to carry the pregnancy to term. Our doctor told us most people do not make the choice we made. Faced with the risk of possibility bringing a less than perfect child into the world, they abort.
The risk in our son's case was not great; the amount of rads he had received showed no greater risk than the naturally occurring background risk. Therefore, we believed our baby would be all right, but we knew he might not be. We underwent further testing. We decided that if our child had no capability for independent adulthood, we would abort, but testing was normal. Medicine gave us as much reassurance as it could, and yet, our son was born autistic.
Now that he is a young adult, I know that he might not ever achieve a fully independent adulthood, but I also know now that the ability to become a corporate drone is not the measure of a fulfilling life, a meaningful life, a life worth living. My son loves dogs and cats, and the mutual joy of him and a new dog is definitely worth seeing. He is good and kind to others, funny, and works well within his knowledge. Recently he completed a job training program where he was working in housekeeping. He didn't like it, but he won praise from his supervisor for working well and cheerfully. His supervisor didn't even know he didn't like the work he was doing.
How many wonderful LGBT people might be aborted if indeed we are 'born this way?' I'm guessing most of them. If parents aren't willing to have a child with Down's Syndrome or autism or any of a myriad of other 'defects', if they can't see value to a life that is different from the norm, if they think abortion is the appropriate response to difference, why on earth would they carry a child to term who is at risk of growing up Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender? Whatever other argument you might make, it must be easier to parent a straight child than a gay child.
When my son was young and it was very difficult to be a single parent (we had divorced), an Amish man who was the father of a child with a severe congenital illness said something I have never forgotten, "These are the children that teach us the meaning of love."
A bigoted parent who cannot love a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender child, a parent who perceives their child as defective, damaged, damaging, and unworthy of equality, affection, and dignity, does not know the meaning of love. As parents it is our duty to love unconditionally, and although we have a responsibility to teach our children how to live, we also have a duty to learn the lessons that our children teach us: the lessons of love, laughter, and faith that we are the people God wants us to be.
These are lessons that can be learned by anyone. You don't have to be born with a special gift to have compassion, you don't have to be born with a special intelligence or ability to care about the welfare of a child to want that child to grow up happy and healthy as the person that they are. You don't need to be born a certain way to respect your child's right to become the person they think they ought to be, to choose their own religion, creed, politics, and yes, love.
The First Amendment protects our right to live according to our conscience. Christian demagogues, you were not born that way. You can change your religion if you choose. Although your religion is a choice, the Constitution protects it. You weren't born Republican or Democrat, but the Constitution protects your right to political expression. You weren't born with a creed, but that, too, is protected.
I do think I was born this way, but because I don't believe biology is destiny, I fully believe that I have the right to choose the life my conscience requires me to live. Our Founding Fathers understood the right to conscience as the fundamental motivator to secure the right to freedom of religion, freedom of creed, freedom of politics, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly.
Every single one of these freedoms is the right of LGBT people, not because we were born queer, but because we were born human. I choose to believe that God created me and that to hate myself is to hate God's handiwork. I do not belong to an organized religion, but I have a deep and persevering faith in the rightness of God's creation, and that includes me. I choose to assemble with other queer people and I choose to publish articles like this one because I have freedom of the press to promulgate my views, no matter who disagrees with them or dislikes me. I choose to vote Democrat because I believe, that for all their faults, they are the party most likely to do the most good for the most people. I have the right to vote Democrat because even though I was raised Republican (I worked the 1972 and 1976 campaigns as a Republican youth volunteer), the Constitution protects my right to change my mind in matters of conscience; I am not compelled to vote as my parents voted.
So I say to the demagogues: you too have the right to choose. You can choose love, freedom, and dignity for all people, or you can put up with me exercising my Constitutional right to be publicly queer, and to insist upon the goodness and equality of all God's children, whether they were born this way or not.
These are the children that teach us the meaning of love.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Born That Way
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Part 9–We (and by we I mean I and my 3 blog readers!) have just spent 8 days of reading through the 23rd Psalm–a few verses at a time–and asking the LORD to show us what living the truth of His Word via the 23rd Psalm means each day. Whether it is a day of sadness, surprises or celebration.
Read this 23rd Psalm yet again. Read it now in its entirety–listening for God's living and active truth in His holy and eternal Word.
The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Take some time to listen to God, to breathe and be quiet. And ask yourself honestly as you reflect on the words of this 23rd Psalm:
- Do you believe it?
- What are you going to do about it?
God's Word is living and active. It is not meant to be merely read or heard. God's Word is meant to be actively, intentionally lived out in our lives.
I encourage you (and me!) to Choose to Live it!–with all that you are and all that you do. Choose to Live it!–within all of your life and through all of your actions.
God is our LORD. God is our Shepherd. Choose to Live God's Truth–Daily…All the Days of our Life!
In love, peace and purposeful passion, Sylane


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This is a blog shared by two friends who have never met in person, Annie Pang and Terry Thormin. We both live on Vancouver Island, Annie in Victoria and Terry in Comox. All communication to date has been either by email or telephone. We are both passionate about nature and conservation and we are both nature photographers. Annie is also a very fine poet and was a concert violinist, while Terry worked as an entomologist for the Royal Alberta Museum until he retired in 2005. We hope you enjoy this joint effort to share our nature musings with anyone who is interested.
A delightful and informative post….thankyou
Do you mind if I use one of your dragonfly photos in an oral presentation for my undergraduate thesis? You have some wonderful shots.
Love this!I love the outdoors,animals,birds,dragon flies,etc.!!
I found a dragon fly on my raspberry leaves today,orange!I have never seen this type here in Victoria,B.C.!Do you want a pic. of it?Maybe we can identify it!?!!
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Chris Coles is an artist and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles and Bangkok, Thailand. His paintings, in the Expressionist style, are jagged emotional portraits, revealing a raw and primitive layer of the human experience. They are part of the Expressionist movement which has its roots in the Germany of the early 1900's.
Many of the European Expressionists experienced the slaughter of the First World War at close hand and they often viewed the world as an edgy, dangerous place filled with ill-intention and alienation, mankind directly linked to a primordial past of predatory ancestors roaming primal swamps, forests and plains where bugs, reptiles and animals, the plants and the earth itself were caught up in a constant and endless struggle to devour, reproduce, evolve and survive.
The Expressionists often painted their vision with dark lines and clashing colors rather than the soft images and harmonious tones of the Impressionists who preceded them. Their paintings were disconcerting and sometimes offensive, more harsh than pretty. The goal was to prod and wake up rather than induce a state of aesthetique relaxation.
The paintings of George Grosz, Emil Nolde, James Ensor, Max Pechstein, Oscar Kokoschka, Alexei von Jawlensky, Egon Schiele, Ernst Kirchner, Max Beckman and Otto Dix often shocked and were sometimes banned. In the 1930's, Hitler ordered many of them destroyed as degrading and degenerate. Along with Stalin, he wanted only positive realist paintings of the ideal and shining man, a sunlit world filled with uplifting thoughts. In their way of thinking, the actual brutality of their lives, actions and times was not a proper subject for art.
But almost a hundred years later, the insight and brilliance of the Expressionist vision lives on, true to the ongoing struggle and clash of human existence on a planet in constant and violent transformation, expressed in strong colors and distorted lines, swirling patterns, allowing us a glimpse into the true nature of our lives and our world as they actually are, not as we would wish them to be.
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Outstanding Seniors honored at Homecoming 2015
The University of Tulsa and the TU Alumni Association are recognizing 10 students with the 2015 Jess Chouteau Outstanding Senior award this fall. The honor is granted to TU seniors who demonstrate exceptional achievement in academic and service endeavors.
The Outstanding Seniors will be honored at TU's "Oklahomecoming" celebration, Oct. 21-25, along with the Top 10 students who were freshmen last year.
This year's Outstanding Seniors are: Hannah Emnett of St. Louis, Mo.; Jordan Hoyt of Tulsa, Okla.; Sarah Pook, Parker, Colo.; Katy Riojas of Parkville, Mo.; Noah Roberts of St. Louis, Mo.; Jillian Schlecht of Oklahoma City; Marissa Schmauch of Ponca City, Okla.; Thomas Schorr of Midland, Texas; Anshuman Singh of New Delhi, India; and Kathryn Thompson of Sherman, Texas.
Emnett is a mechanical engineering major with a business administration minor. Emnett competes on the Golden Hurricane women's rowing team and in 2015 was named to the American Athletic Conference Second Team and as a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Scholar Athlete. Currently she serves as president of the Make A Difference Engineering initiative (MADE at TU) and holds leadership roles in Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and University Ambassadors. Emnett has conducted research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2014. She is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and the Society of Women Engineers and consistently makes the Dean's List and Dean's Honor Roll. Two summers ago, Emnett participated in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) program. This past summer she worked as a combustion engineer at Zeeco, Inc. and as part of the research and development team for Magpie Assistive Products, LLC.
Hoyt is a mechanical engineering major who has participated in engineering service projects through the group Sustainable Engineering for Needy and Emerging Areas (SENEA). Hoyt is an Orientation Leader and member of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, University Ambassadors, Tennis Club, The Collegian student newspaper, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Association of Black Collegians. He has received many research presentation awards for research done in Japan, Rutgers University, the National Wind Technology Center and TU's Energy and Nanoscale Transport Laboratory and is a coauthor on three different scientific research publications. Hoyt also has served as a volunteer science teacher at Phoenix Rising Alternative High School. He plans to attend graduate school and conduct wind turbine technology research.
Pook is a biochemistry major and a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She is drum major for the Sound of the Golden Hurricane marching band, a University Ambassador and an Orientation Leader. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, Iota Sigma Pi Honor Society, the Common Sense Action group, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and TU's Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Pook has been named to the Dean's List and serves as a volunteer and undergraduate researcher for the Tulsa Area Community Schools Initiative. She hopes to combine her technical knowledge as a biochemist with her passion for global politics. Pook has accepted a position with the federal government following her TU graduation.
Riojas is a mechanical engineering major and team captain of the Golden Hurricane women's soccer team. She is a founding member and vice president of the MADE at TU initiative and president of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Riojas is active in Mortar Board Society; the Society of Women Engineers; Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics for Under-Represented Populations; the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers; and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a TU Dean's Scholarship, and TU academic and athletic scholarships. Riojas has been named to the President's Honor Roll and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. Among her many academic and research-related accolades, she is a weekly volunteer at Tulsa's Little Light House and also has participated in TU Service Day. Riojas has interned at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Zeeco, Inc. Her work experience also includes research and development roles at Magpie Assistive Products LLC. Riojas aspires to research, design and create medical devices to improve the quality of life for those with illnesses or disabilities.
Roberts is a double major in energy management and finance in the Collins College of Business and a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He has served as an Orientation Leader and participated in the Tulsa Energy Management Student Association, the Student Investment Fund and Reformed University Fellowship student ministry team. Roberts is a TU Presbyterian Leadership Scholar, TU Dean's Scholar, ConocoPhillips Scholar and Noble Energy Scholar. He is a recipient of the American Association of Professional Landmen Scholarship and a student member of the association. Roberts is an active TU Service Day volunteer and has participated in many university mission trips. He is a former ConocoPhillips land intern and ONEOK commercial business analyst intern. He has accepted a commercial business analyst position with ONEOK following his TU graduation.
Schlecht is a biology major pursuing the pre-med track at TU. She also is minoring in dance through the Department of Theatre. She is founder of the Alpha Nu chapter of Sigma Phi Lambda and an athletics tutor and mentor. Schlecht also is a member of Mortar Board, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and TU Chorale. She is a Phi Beta Kappa scholarship recipient and has received University Academic, Music and Dean Scholarships. Schlecht also has been named to the President's Honor Roll and Dean's Honor Roll. She served as an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar this past summer and has volunteered with Remote Area Medical, Habitat for Humanity and the Oklahoma Regional Food Bank. She hopes to attend medical school and establish her career as an obstetrician and gynecologist.
Schmauch is a double major in chemistry and biochemistry and an avid undergraduate researcher in the department. She is a member of the Iota Sigma Pi Honor Society for Women in Chemistry, the American Chemical Society student affiliate and Mortar Board. She participates in the Sound of the Golden Hurricane marching band and is involved in the Society for Gender Equality. Schmauch is a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and a recipient of TU's Presidential Scholarship. She has participated in TURC and has received a Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She was named to the President's Honor Roll and Dean's Honor Roll and earned a ConocoPhillips Dependent Scholarship. She is a reading partner at Kendall-Whittier Elementary, tutors high school math and science students and volunteers for science activities at other local organizations such as Girl Scouts. She plans to pursue a doctorate in polymer science and engineering materials science and begin her career at a national laboratory or corporation.
Schorr is an energy management major and Orientation Leader who is active in the Student Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He is a member of the Tulsa Association of Professional Landmen, the Tulsa Energy Management Student Association, Reformed University Fellowship and Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. Schorr is a TU Academic Scholar and a Presbyterian Leadership Scholar. He has earned scholarships from many energy-related organizations and corporations including ConocoPhillips, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, American Association of Professional Landmen, the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board and the Permian Basin Landmen's Association. Schorr has served as a landman intern at Newfield Exploration Co. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. He is a past peer adviser at the TU Center for Global Education and has volunteered for TU Service Day, Habitat for Humanity and the Tulsa Dream Project at Will Rogers High School. He has accepted a full-time position with Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
Singh is a double major in accounting and finance and a member of the Beta Alpha Psi accounting fraternity. He has served as an Orientation Leader, has been on the Collins College of Business Excellence in Teaching Committee and is currently on the Dean's Advisory Board. Singh is also the Business Lead on a water conservation project called HydroSense in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He is involved in the TU Lawn Tennis Club, Habitat For Humanity and is a member of the Indian Student Association. Singh is a member of the President's Honor Roll and has received scholarships from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and Tulsa OSCPA. He is active in Mortar Board, Scroll Society, Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma. Singh has participated in Student Association Service Day activities and has done several service projects at Kendall-Whittier Elementary. He has interned in finance and accounting roles with Schlumberger and Halliburton internationally as well as with Ernst & Young in Tulsa. After graduation, he plans to begin his auditing career at Ernst & Young and obtain his CPA license.
Thompson is a psychology major and member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She is president of the Future Alumni Council, active in University Ambassadors, the Student Health Advocates Association, Psi Chi, Psychology Club, Lantern Honors Society, Mortar Board and the Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience. Thompson is a TU Academic Scholarship recipient and has been named to the Dean's Honor Roll and the President's Honor Roll. She has received the American Pain Society Young Investigator Award and the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Thompson is a reading partner at Sequoyah Elementary School and serves Tulsa through many other community initiatives including the David L. Moss Jail in partnership with Domestic Violence Intervention Services, the Grand Central Station Soup Kitchen and the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. She plans to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology and work in a hospital setting to treat patients with chronic pain.
Also, Omicron Delta Kappa recently announced the Top 10 students who were freshmen last year. The national leadership honor society pays tribute to exceptional leadership and versatility in college. The following students were honored: Jack Ellis of Atascadero, Calif., petroleum engineering; Shelby Hackney of Ponca City, Okla., accounting; Jennifer Kealey of Olathe, Kan., biology and psychology (pre-med); Teja Makkapati of Bentonville, Ark., chemistry and biochemistry (pre-med); Abbey Marino of St. Louis, Mo., sociology (pre-law); Hayley Miller of Springfield, Mo., economics and business management; Karoline Newell of Muskogee, Okla., organizational studies (advertising); Ryan Ogilvie of Houston, Texas, electrical engineering; Kelly Scrivner of Jenks, Okla., finance and management; Brett Stewart of Owasso, Okla., chemical engineering.


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Wash the mushrooms and dry them. On a piece of foil or plate, pour or brush the olive oil over the mushrooms (I usualy use baby portobellos for this but you can use any shape or size) until they are coated. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and fold them up in the foil or place them in the grill basket. Put them on the BBQ or in the oven for 10-20 minutes or until done (they will be smaller and darker in colour). When they're done sprinkle the blue cheese on them and wait 5-10 minutes until it gets melty, and enjoy!


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Psychology graduate sets sights on law school and social changeParvinder Nijjar | 2012 Alumna, B.S. Psychology Pre-Law, J.D. Student, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law | Department of Psychology College has always been as much about personal growth for students as it has been about education, with many able to easily recall that one unexpected experience that shaped the path for their future.
For Parvinder Nijjar, 22, that time came when she was enrolled in an IUPUI course dealing with women and the law. The recent B.S. graduate from the School of Science learned the realities of domestic abuse and human trafficking and knew she could best use her psychology degree by pairing it with a law degree.
"These experiences can affect people for the rest of their lives," she said. "I want to use my psychology degree to help people move past tragedy and learn skills they need to help themselves."
Her goals have changed considerably since she and her family migrated from India to the United States in 1997. Nijjar once saw her herself attending medical school to become a psychiatrist, but now she's excited to be entering the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in the fall of 2012.Nijjar talks of one day supporting legislation, starting her own non-profit organization and dedicating herself to "helping people restart their lives for the better."
"People have always been really interesting to me," she said. "I want to know why people do what they do. I want to understand human behavior and use that to help people when they most need it."
Beginning with the Summer Bridge program as a freshman, Nijjar said the professors at the School of Science have always been helpful and approachable as she worked toward earning her degree and planning her future. She felt part of the school community through her courses, while serving as a student worker in the Dean's Office and participating in organizations such as Phi Alpha Delta.
"IUPUI is a really diverse campus and there are all kinds of cultures and ethnicities represented," she said.
"I've gained a lot, whether it was from my professors or my peers," she added. "I think much more differently than I did before I started school here. I'm passionate and focused on my goals, and I can identify the path I need to take to reach them."


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In the promo for Friday night's episode of "Meerkat Manor," a goshawk left its perch to the lonely ping of a single piano note. "What if you lost forever the one you loved most?" asked a soft, sympathetic voice worthy of an advertisement for Forest Lawn. "Soon a tragedy will touch us all as never before. And nothing will ever be the same."
The executives at Animal Planet didn't have to spell it out for fans of the show. The promo -- not to mention hints in magazine ads and even a network-placed Internet spoiler last March -- left little doubt that the queen of the Kalahari, the leader of the brave little band of scrappy scorpion eaters, the tiny, beady-eyed grandmother with a radio collar, would probably get whacked in some horrible way.
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KATY, Texas — Pepperl+Fuchs, a world leader in process automation and applications, broke ground on June 2nd on a 110,000-square-foot facility in Katy's West Ten Business Park near Houston.
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A quickly expanding service from Pepperl+Fuchs, the Solutions Engineering Center is staffed with a team of engineers, who design, build and certify customized solutions on site for process automation in hazardous locations, such as oil refineries, pharmaceutical facilities and other manufacturing facilities. The Solutions Engineering Center will assemble customized equipment locally and deliver it immediately for just-in-time installation.
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Home prices held steady in Burbank in January, with median prices rising slightly as buyers continued to jump on the few homes on the market, according to the latest real estate report.
The median price for a single-family home rose around 1.3%, from $514,900 in January 2012 to $521,750 this past January, according to statistics compiled by Realtor Eric Benz with Dilbeck Real Estate in Burbank.
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Orange is expanding its popular Orange Wednesdays service to their broadband customers, who will be able to access the same 2-for-1-cinema-ticket offer through the Orange web site.
The service has provide very popular with Orange mobile users, who can send a text to an SMS shortcode to receive a number which can be presented at 94% of UK cinemas to get the 2-for-1 offer.
Extending the offer to broadband customers makes sense in a converged world, though it does reveal that Orange still has 2 million broadband customers they've not managed to migrate Orange mobile.
The mobile service has certainly been popular: Orange are claiming 2 million additional cinema seats filled as well as enhanced customer loyalty.
Of course, the films you watch also reveal a great deal about your character and the kinds of products you're likely to buy. Right now Orange collects that information, but hasn't decided what to do with it so it's just sitting around in their customer database looking for an application.


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South Africa has just had a local election and the US is already starting to gear up for the 2012 Presidential election. Almost everyone who has something to say about it will tell it's very important to vote. About 80% of the US population considers it a very important obligation for a citizen to vote but here's the thing – of those who consider it so import only 57% think it's also very important to be informed about matters relevant to your vote. It's no surprise then that voters are quite astonishingly ignorant.
Some examples of the degree of ignorance – in 2000 26% thought Al Gore was a Conservative and 23% thought George Bush was a Liberal; 40% and 60% respectively don't know that defense spending and social security are the top two budget items; only 50% knew which Party controlled the Senate before the election; barely 35% could identify British Prime Minister as the post held by Tony Blair, and 58% knew little or nothing of the Patriot Act. Some 25-29% of US voters are literally 'know nothings' in that they did no better than pure guessing on a 31 item political questionnaire featuring items like those above. If some easy questions, mainly personal information on candidates, are dropped the proportion of 'know nothings climbs to 35%. Even this overestimates their knowledge because the remaining questions were still fairly basic. For example social security is virtually never mentioned as a racial issue. Yet because blacks have a lower life expectancy, and they pay the same social security rates, there is a substantial regressive redistribution of income from black workers to white retirees. If this sort of knowledge and insight were included in political knowledge assessments the level of ignorance would be shown to be far worse.
How can one judge whether the candidate you vote for is good for you, or any one else, if you don't even know who the conservative and liberals are in the election, or anything about their programs? For all you know the other guy's program might be much better for what you value. How would you know which candidates, if any, aim to deal with anything really important if you don't actually know enough to say what is or isn't import? Mostly people use shortcuts, like relying on Party affiliation or opinion leaders and activists. Unfortunately it's difficult to gain much information about Party policy effectiveness from experience with a few governments, and opinion leaders tend to have more extreme opinions than the general voter and have an incentive to exaggerate the importance of their pet issues. Sometimes people vote on the basis of the state of the economy but many are even ignorant about that. For example about 60% couldn't tell you whether unemployment is improving or worsening. Even if they knew the state of the economy they wouldn't be able to say whether the state had anything to do with the previous government's policies, and even if they knew that they would still need to know if the other Party wouldn't do better.
Some commentators have claimed this widespread ignorance isn't a problem because the ignorant voters constitute random noise and the votes of the informed few therefore make the overall vote correct. This assumes that the votes of the ignorant are truly random i.e. make errors equally in all directions and that the informed voters represent the interests of the general electorate. The evidence is strongly against either assumption being true. The very shortcuts voters use creates systematic biases e.g. favoring known politicians over new ones or loud special interest activists over good sense. Informed voters are decidedly not representative - they are very slanted in terms of gender, race, income, education, ideology and age, and of course lobbyists with special interests tend to be very knowledgeable politically.
There are also many issues about the rationality of voter ignorance or of voting itself and various paradoxes produced by voting systems, but I won't discuss these now. Suffice it to say that a lot of ignorant voters aren't just random noise which ballot distills the good sense of informed voters. Ignorant voters tend to be systematically biased away from their own optimum positions i.e. support bad policies and programs. To the extent that politicians give them what they want they therefore cause real harm. Voting is far from being an important obligation if you are ignorant. If you don't know the facts or understand the issues and how government works, voting is downright irresponsible.
OK so how much irresponsibility is there going around? Look at the graph below.
The pink line shows how well informed voters think they are by IQ (the self judgments are weighted by some knowledge testing). Like knowledge and understanding in every field political knowledge increases with IQ so we should be grateful that the probability of voting (the dark blue line) also increases with IQ. Indeed the yellow line shows that the probability of being politically savvy if you vote rises with IQ. The purple line curving downwards shows the probability of thoroughly ignorant people taking the trouble to vote. The peak probability of this curve is in the same IQ range where crime is most probable - apt for choosing to be irresponsible. Finally the light blue line is the probability of voting if you are well informed plus of not voting if you are ignorant – hence the label, 'responsible'. Note that as many as 1 in 5 of even the very brightest among us is politically ignorant, and is prepared to vote irresponsibly. Happily responsible voting never drops below 50% at any IQ. The overall figure for responsible voting behavior is about 57%. So just more than 2 in 5 people know a lot and fail to make that knowledge count, or they know little to nothing and inflict their ignorance on us politically.
Responsible voting increases with intelligence so it would be informative to take the policy preferences and votes of the most intelligent within every demographic group of interest and then weight those votes to reflect the relative size of each group. That way we could estimate the intelligent, informed and least biased vote in a way that represents everyone's interests.
Let me show you another exercise where the intelligent vote tells us something interesting. Look at the next graph. Each dot is the ratio of the proportion of voters with IQs above 120 voting for a Democrat or Republican presidential candidate, over the proportion of the total vote that went to the same candidate. This is for whites only because blacks tend to vote exclusively Democrat.
Don't make too much of the fact that the Democrat line is mostly above the Republican line. The truth is that if we looked at a stupidity ratio instead we would see the same thing because Republican voters tend to cluster around moderate IQs and Democrat voters are disproportionally either very bright or very dull.
What I want to show is that the ratio at any point predicts the Party of the next president quite accurately. The rule "if the Republican line gets very close to or rises above the Democrat line for any election it will win the next presidential election – other wise the Democrats will win" gets 5 out of 7 correct. If I add a rule saying that "if the previous election had the Republican line at least close to the Democrat line then the Republicans would win the next presidential election regardless of how much the Democrat line exceeds the Republican line in this election" then the hit rate is 7/7. Victor Serebiakov (former Mensa International Chairman) said something similar in a report on the voting of Mensa members in both the UK and the US (going back further than I did). He showed that the Mensa vote tended to anticipate changes in the general population vote very well. Based on my two rules it looks like the Democrats will win the next US presidential election. Currently election futures markets are saying the same thing.
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Google Earth is freely available for download in it's basic form.
For $20 (annual subscription), you can upgrade to the 'Plus' version. This version has faster performance, can interact with GPS units, and can import address points from a .CSV file. Unfortunately, it currently only works with Windows.
$400 (annual subscription) will get you the Google Earth Pro version. You'll be able to import site plans, property lists, and client sites. You can also export high quality images to documents or the Web. This version features improved performance and upgraded tools over the basic package. Additional premium options like a movie maker module are available, at additional charges. The premium add-ons can be ordered via phone.
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Novell has acquired Senforce Technologies, a market leader in providing removable device security, personal firewalls, wireless security and application control to secure the network and give organizations mobile computing flexibility without fear of data loss or attack. With Senforce Technologies, Novell is extending its policy-based management offerings to include a full suite of endpoint security solutions.
The award-winning security management solutions acquired with Senforce Technologies are now available as Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management. This exciting new product delivers enhanced encryption capabilities and stringent wireless and port access control features. Now you can simultaneously protect your users and their endpoints from data theft, malware and virus threats.
BTW: a bit of a definition might be useful here. An endpoint in this context means any device used by an end user to access network resources. Specifically, laptops and desktops. So when we talk about securing the endpoint, we are talking about making sure that the information your employees are packing around on their laptops STAYS on their laptops.
What does this product do? Here are some highlights:
Personal Firewall
In securing mobile devices, ZENworks Endpoint Security Management is superior to typical personal firewall technologies which operate only in the application layer or as a firewall-hook driver. ZENworks Security Client includes a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver for each network interface card (NIC), providing protection against malicious traffic from the moment traffic enters the PC.
Wireless Network Security
Unprotected wireless networks pose multiple threats to businesses. Users can inadvertently compromise both local and corporate data, from a wireless hotspot or even from the office. Hackers can easily find an openings in an unprotected system on an access point or hotspot and run scripted, peer-to-peer attacks. They can gain access to confidential data such as customer lists, project plans and even username and password combinations. Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management and wireless Security Solution provide the industry's first centrally managed endpoint security software solutions to control and manage wireless connectivity.
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Prevents intentional or inadvertent transmission of data to removable storage devices. Storage devices including thumb drives, iPods, cameras, printers, CD and DVD drives can be placed in read-only mode or fully disabled, while the endpoint hard drive and all network drives remain accessible and operational. White lists of specifically approved USB thumb drives can be employed, and in combination with data encryption ... you just couldn't be more secure from both internal and external data loss; both deliberate or inadvertent.
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ZENworks Endpoint Security Management verifies that designated endpoint PC antivirus and/or anti-spyware software is running and is up-to-date, whether the endpoint connects to the corporate network or the Internet. ZENworks Endpoint Security Management takes immediate action if endpoints fall out of compliance by placing them into safe, customizable quarantine states, preventing the spread of viruses or other contamination to the network.
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You probably know that corn (or maize) is Mexico's main crop. But did you know that it has been part of our culture for thousands of years? Read on to learn 10 interesting corn facts you probably didn't know.
1 – Corn was domesticated in Mesoamerica 7,000 years ago
The first of our interesting corn facts is that it comes from a grass called teosinte (teocintle). This was not a particularly high-producing edible plant and did not possess the recognizable kernels of modern-day varieties. Teosinte had a stalk made up of interconnecting seed pods with a very hard outer shell rather than edible kernels. The domestication of maize transformed early societies of Mesoamerica. Originally nomadic and largely hunter-gatherers, they were able to establish sedentary agricultural villages. This allowed them to develop into entities of great political, social and cultural complexity.
2 – Corn became central part of the religion, culture and society for pre-Colombian civilizations
Maize was important in the religion of all Mesoamerican cultures, from the Olmec, the oldest known complex civilization in Mexico (around 1200 B.C.), to the Mexica (Aztec), Mesoamerica's largest empire until the arrival of the Spanish. Life was closely tied to the life cycle of corn. In the cosmovision of the peoples of pre-Hispanic Mexico the different stages of the development of the grain (from sowing to harvest) was similar, in the mythic sense, to the development of their societies.
Native Americans used corn in nearly every aspect of their culture. Besides a source of nutrition, they used corn husks to make sleeping mats, moccasins, baskets and dolls for children. The cobs could be burned in fires for heating, turned into darts for games, and were used in many ceremonial events as well.
3 – There are over 60 varieties of corn in Mexico
The domestication of corn yielded many varieties that are still produced in Mexico. The most recognized are yellow, white, blue, red, and cacahuazintle, the maize used to make pozole. This is one of the most interesting corn facts not many people are familiar with.
4 – The Nixtamal process was developed thousands of years ago
Nixtamal comes from the Nahuatl word nixtamalli or nextamalli that roughly translates as "unformed corn dough". It refers to the process of preparing maize in an alkaline solution. Maize is cooked and soaked in the solution, usually limewater in Mexico, and then rinsed to be hulled and ground. There's not an exact date on when this technology was developed, but the earliest evidence of nixtamalization was found in southern Guatemala and dates back to around 1200-1500 BC.
5 – Nixtamalized corn dough has a lot of health benefits
The main nutritional benefit of Nixtamal comes from the alkalization. It converts the maize bound niacin into free niacin, making it available to be absorbed by the body. High alkalinity also reduces the amount of protein zein, which improves the balance among essential amino acids.
Other benefits come from the maize absorption of minerals from the limewater solution. This increases calcium by up to 750%, with 85% available for absorption, iron, copper and zinc preventing pellagra. Also, nixtamalization significantly reduces (by 90-94%) mycotoxins produced by Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum, molds that commonly infect maize and the toxins of which are putative carcinogens.
6 – Nixtamalized corn dough is the base for many Mexican dishes
Including tortillas, tamales, tlacoyos, sopes, quesadillas, tostadas, etc. Without corn, Mexican cuisine wouldn't be the same. This one is my favorite of the interesting corn facts.
7 – Tortillas are Mexico's bread
Tortilla is the name the Spanish gave to the maize flat bread that the Mexicas consumed in their daily diet. This flat bread was invented, according to Mayan legend, by a peasant who wanted to feed his hungry king.
Tortillas were made by patting down a small ball of nixtamalized maize dough by hand, in a clapping-like motion, until it became a round, thin pancake-like bread. Then it was cooked on a hot comal (griddle) on both sides. From pre-Hispanic times to this day in many indigenous communities in Mexico, women were in charge of the Nixtamal and the making of tortillas by hand. When the nixtamal was ready they would kneel in front of a metate to grind it and make the dough for that day.
Although the process has been modernized, Mexicans still consume large amounts of tortillas. In urban areas a person consumes around 250 grams a day and up to a 1 kilogram in rural areas.
8 – Corn is still a fundamental part of Mexico
Such was the importance of maize for pre-Hispanic civilizations that many of the rituals, beliefs and, most importantly, gastronomy related to it survived the Spanish conquista. Modern Mexican cuisine is the perfect representation of the amalgam created when the Old and New worlds collided. Our most important crop is still maize. We eat pre-Hispanic maize dishes every day with ingredients that were brought to the Americas with the Spanish.
Tamales now have lard that makes them fluffy and of lighter consistency. Tlacoyos are filled with cheese and topped with onion and cilantro and tortillas are used for tacos filled with chicken, pork and beef. In the same way, rituals where maize was very important were "Christianized", dia de la candelaria and día de muertos for example, but the essence of the original rituals remain untouched.
9 – Corn smut is a delicacy in Mexico
Huitlacoche (or corn smut) is the corn kernels of a diseased corn ear infected by a fungus. The word huitlacoche (also spelled as cuitlacoche sometimes) comes from Nahuatl, the language spoke by the Aztecs and other civilizations of central Mexico. There's some debate about what the correct meaning of the word is, but some experts say it means excrement of the gods. Appetizing, isn't it?
It is considered a delicacy in Mexico and sells for considerably higher prices than regular corn. However, in the US and Europe markets it hasn't been as accepted even though high-profile chefs and restaurants have tried to create a buzz around this ingredient. It has even been called the Mexican truffle. This is one of my favorite interesting corn facts of the list.
10 – Mexican corn is at risk
Mexican campesinos, small farmers, have seen their livelihood under attack for decades. NAFTA was the biggest blow to small farmers in Mexico. The treaty benefits international agricultural monopolies, like Monsanto, more than local and indigenous farmers. Today is cheaper to import transgenic corn from the U.S. than to produce heirloom varieties inside Mexico.
For indigenous people and small farmers maize has never been a big business and with the policies of the last 25 years the scenario has become even worse. Most families and communities that still produce maize do it for their own consumption, not for sale. That is one of the reasons newer generations don't want to work the fields anymore.
Related: Sin País no hay maíz. An article about how Mexican corn is under attack and what some organizations are doing to protect it.


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More than 3,250 companies have signed up to a new system which has made it easier to do business with Wolverhampton City Council.
The authority's new e-tendering portal allows any business that wants to supply the council with goods or services to register for free.
They are then alerted when any suitable business opportunities arise with all adverts for goods, works and services published on the site. It also has created a single point of contact for all council suppliers - making it easier to communicate with the local authority.
On 1 November, the council contacted all of its existing and potential suppliers inviting them to register with the new system. In just over a month around 3,250 organisations have signed up.
Councillor Andrew Johnson, Cabinet Member for Resources, said: "People have asked us to make doing business with the council easier and more efficient. The aim of the new e-tendering portal is to do just that. As a council we want businesses to thrive so we are doing all we can to make sure they don't miss out on opportunities."
Suppliers can register at the e-tendering portal free of charge through a simple and secure registration process which should take no more than 10 minutes.
As part of the new portal, when a tender or competition advert is published all registered suppliers working in that area of expertise will automatically be sent a message giving them access to the opportunity.
The new portal is part of the council's FutureWorks Programme, which sees the council working to transform its business support processes in Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Procurement, as well as replace the council's outdated mainframe system with Agresso, in April 2014.
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Prayer Times Dubai
Prayer (Salaat) is one of the most important pillars of Islam. Muslims perform prayers (salat) Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha Five times in a day. You can view the Islamic prayer times Dubai of any day, month and fasting. Please set your city latitude and longitude in setting and get prayer times.
Prayer times depend upon the location where you are currently staying or living at. For instance prayer times Dubai is different as compared to the prayer times in Saudi Arab. If we talk about Dubai, then one should know that it is the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates, also known as the UAE.
The Prayer Times in Dubai
Dubai prayer times are properly and accurately set according to the specific time zone. Muslims in this city follow the practices of Islam as in any other Islamic city. Dubai is pretty famous for its sky-high buildings and skyscrapers. The tallest building on earth, the Burj Khalifa, is also located in this city. In addition to that, it is known as the best destination for Muslim travelers. Dubai is one of the most expensive cities in the world and is the best place to live, as stated.
Islam and Dubai
Now we know from facts and figures, that Islam is rapidly and wildly spreading throughout the world at an immense speed. It is safe to say that Islam is the official religion of UAE. Virtually speaking, it can be assumed that 85% are Sunni and the rest 15% are Shia Muslims although most of the people living are non-citizens.
Ramadan in Dubai
Dubai is a very fast moving city, so because of this, the old traditions of Islam are intermixed with the modern way of life. This does not mean that Muslims have completely changed their lifestyle, but rather fasting and prayers have become more practically intense. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and is a sacred time for Muslims all over the world. Muslim Prayer times Dubai, and also in other areas are very much taken seriously, especially in the month of Ramadan.
Prayers that We Offer
The fard prayers that are the ritual Islamic prayers are required to be offered five times a day. They include Fajr, the dawn or morning prayers, Duhr, the noon prayers, Asr, the afternoon or evening prayers, Maghreb, the sunset prayer, and Isha, the night prayer.
Other than these five, there are some prayers too, that are not to be offered daily, but on some special occasions. For instance, the Jummah prayers, offered at the time of Dhuhr on every Friday, the Eid prayers, supposed to be offered on Eids, the tarawih, which are the night prayers, offered in Ramadan.
Other non-obligatory Prayer Times
Other than these five obligatory prayers, there are others too. And these prayer times are also followed in Dubai. First, we have the Tahajjud prayers, which are offered after Isha, before Fajr and after having slept for a while. After that comes the Asharq prayers which are the early forenoon prayers. Then we have the Chaasht prayers, also known as the later forenoon. Then Salat-Al-Awwabin, the one offered after Isha and consists of six rakath. There is also the Namaz-e-Istekhara, the prayer of seeking council, and the Salat-Al-Tasbih, the prayer to be offered for the forgiveness of all sins.
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MWL: Muslim World League
ISNA: Islamic Society of North America
Egypt: Egyptian General Authority of Survey
Makkah: Umm al-Qura University, Makkah
Karachi: University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
Tehran: Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran
Jafari: Shia Ithna Ashari (Ja`fari)
Muslim Prayer Times Dubai
There are some conventions for calculating prayer (Namaz) times. The default convention used in Pray Times is Umm al-Qura University, Makkah. You can change the calculation abusing method dropdown section. Some convention names are given below. So for your convenience, here is a table for the prayer times in Dubai.
Dubai other Details : Latitude = 25.2048° N, Longitude = 55.2708° E Zone Time = GMT + 4h, Qiblah = 101 56' W (From N)
Asr Methods
Standard: Shafii, Maliki, Jafari and Hanbali (shadow factor = 1)
Hanafi: Hanafi school of tought (shadow factor = 2)