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Sheriff's Deputy & Suspect Wanted for "Possession of a Syringe" Dead after Gun Fight
Tim Brown March 21, 2016
I honestly believe this "war on drugs" thing is nothing more than a ploy, much like the "war on terrorism" is, to undermine the Bill of Rights and institute man's law above God's. Now and Indiana Sheriff's deputy is dead along with a suspect over a possible possession of… a syringe.
ABC News reports:
A sheriff's deputy and a suspect have died following a gunfight early Sunday inside a mobile home that also left a second deputy injured, authorities said.
Howard County Deputy Carl Koontz died at an Indianapolis hospital after being shot about 12:30 a.m. Sunday at a mobile home in Russiaville, Sheriff Steven Rogers said during a news conference Sunday afternoon outside of an Indianapolis hospital.
A second deputy, Sgt. Jordan Buckley, also was shot and was in stable condition, alert and conscious, Indiana State Police said. Both officers had been wearing body armor, and fellow officers took them out of the mobile home to provide first aid.
"Investigators had learned a suspect wanted for possession of a syringe in neighboring Clinton County was hiding at the mobile home and obtained the warrants," Rogers said.
Koontz was just 27 years old. His body was returned to Howard County and a long police procession began on Monday around 3pm in Indianapolis to transport his body. Hundreds of people along the procession route showed up on the sides of the road to pay their respects.
According to an autopsy, the suspect, Evan Dorsey, 25, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Now, there is no question, as far as I know, that Dorsey shot Deputy Koontz. There is also no question that the deputies were serving an arrest warrant. However, the bigger question is what they were arresting Dorsey for and on what basis.
Even Biblical law does not have a penalty for those engaging in alleged "drug use." It does, however, deal with those who engage in witchcraft and use drugs or other substances in the midst of that, which is a violation of the First Commandment. It's a pretty severe penalty (Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27).
However, as I've explained previously, there is really a need to speak about the lawfulness, or rather the unlawfulness, of the "war on drugs." We need to rid ourselves of the propaganda that the media and law enforcement have placed on us and start to consider the consequences and the violation of the Bill of Rights through no-knock raids and other unconstitutional searches and seizures due to the ridiculous and failing "war on drugs."
My heart goes out to the family of Deputy Koontz. It also goes out to the family of Mr. Dorsey, who was apparently harming no one in the mobile home until cornered based on the fact that he was armed earlier with a syringe.
Is this really how we want to handle these things America?
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Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan are the popular siblings of B-town. Sara has never shied away to talk about her adorable brother. There are times when we get to see her hanging out with her little brother on the streets of Mumbai and having fun. And fans of this young actress often love to see this sibling chilling out. On the occasion of National Siblings Day 2019 (which was yesterday), Sara has shared the cutest photograph on Instagram of her with her brother Ibrahim and we think it is the perfect one. Siblings Day 2019: From Ananya Panday - Rysa Panday to Navya Naveli Nanda - Agastya Nanda, Here are Some Lesser Know Brother-Sister Jodis of Bollywood.
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Voice-coil wire differences -- voice-coil winding differences -- gap clearances -- magnet strength differences -- mechanical resonance -- efficiency -- and so on. In series connection I expect that one impacts the other as in any signal-path configuration. I presume that parallel connection avoids that issue as the drivers can work on their own independent of the other without the influence of the other driver other than possibly back EMF and the the enclosure damping.
As usual the devil is in the details. If one has deep pockets, multiples of the same driver can be purchased and put together in matched pairs -- matched impedance -- matched D.C. resistance -- matched resonance -- and matched efficiency. That may help series-connected drivers perform better.
The better method for anything is the K.I.S.S. method.
With a voltage source amp (which the vast majority at least approximate) that's absolutely correct. In the very rare case where using a current source amp make more sense, it's exactly the opposite, the parallel connection creates problems, and a series connection is actually preferred.
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It can't be November yet!
How can it be November already? Wasn't it just yesterday when humidity was 1000% and temperature in the shade was 50 degrees? Not that I'm complaining about the nicer weather we are having lately but it can't be November yet, damn it! I am not ready to turn another year older.
Speaking of presents, I think it's safe here to show you a little something that will be going to a certain someone soon. Porcelain stitchmarkers in the shape of two ginger cats. Any ideas who the lucky recipient could be?
As far as I know she doesn't read my blog, but if she does (thank you!) then I'm busted. The stitchmarkers were bought from the Skein Queen's shop.
Since we're on the subject of presents, here is one of my birthday presents for myself: a subscription to The Magnolia Society Sweater Club. The first shipment has arrived and it is an absolutely gorgeous shade of red called Tart. The yarn base is merino, silk and alpaca. It's soft and cool to the touch and will probably become my Central Park Hoodie. I have just been emailing with Preeti and we might do a KAL on this sometime after the holidays. Right, Preeti?
From yet another club, this is the first mailing I received. This is colourway Honey Bunny in the Skein Queen's sock yarn base Exquisite. The colour is inspired by the film Pulp Fiction, something I have never had the chance to watch. I'm thinking about knitting this up as a shawl, Damson by Ysolda Teague perhaps.
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Top 10 Things to do in Strasburg, United States
Location: Strasburg
Pennsylvania (PA), United States
County: Lancaster
• Total: 0.96 sq mi (2.49 km)
• Land: 0.96 sq mi (2.48 km)
• Water: 0.00 sq mi (0.01 km)
Elevation: 463 ft (141 m)
• Total: 2,809
• Estimate (2016): 2,939
• Density: 3,071.06/sq mi (1,185.20/km)
Time zone: EST (UTC-5)
Area code(s): 717 Exchange: 687
Website: strasburgboro.org
Location: E. and W. Main, W. Miller, S. Decatur Sts., Strasburg, Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 39°58′51″N 76°11′15″W / 39.98083°N 76.18750°W / 39.98083; -76.18750
Area: 68 acres (28 ha)
Architect: Multiple
Architectural style: Georgian, Federal, German vernacular
NRHP reference #: 83002258
Added to NRHP: March 03, 1983
Top Attractions in Strasburg
1. Sight & Sound Theatres
2. Strasburg Scooters
3. Bird in Hand Bake Shop
4. The Old Country Store
5. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
6. Choo Choo Barn
7. American Music Theatre
8. Bird in Hand Farmers Market
9. Cherry Crest Adventure Farm
10. Village Greens Miniature Golf
Top Restaurants in Strasburg
1. Java Junction
2. Strasburg Creamery
3. Dienner's Country Restaurant
4. Sugar on Top
5. Historic Revere Tavern
6. Good 'N Plenty Restaurant
7. Bird-in-Hand Bake Shop
8. Dutch Haven Shoo-Fly Pies
9. Fireside Tavern
10. Katie's Kitchen
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Known as "Train Town USA," historic Strasburg is the home of numerous rail-based attractions. Take a 45-minute ride on the nation's oldest short-line railroad or wander through the halls of The National Toy Train Museum or The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Strasburg and the surrounding Lancaster County are also home to the Amish, making it possible to visit a traditional Amish Village, ride in horse drawn buggies, shop for handmade goods, and try the cooking of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Restaurants in Strasburg
300 Hartman Bridge Rd, Ronks, PA 17572-9513 +1 800-377-1277
Reviewed By Suu_Yapa - New York
Amazing! I've been here 3 times for 3 different bible stories and have enjoyed/love all of them. Can't wait to see go this year. Recommend for anyone. Church groups, friends, couples, family, is for everyone.
242 Gap Road, Strasburg, PA 17579
Get up close and personal with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enjoy a guided covered bridge tour through the back roads of Amish Country. Ride alongside horse and buggies as well as past Amish schoolhouses with an experienced guide. Strasburg Scooters offers a variety of tours including Bridges and Beer, Amish Country Mystery Tour and more. All tours are led by an experienced guide.
Reviewed By Carol B - Bensalem, Pennsylvania
What a great way to spend some family time! No better way to pass the day than getting some fresh air while touring the quiet, back roads of the Amish countryside & taking tons of pictures! The Fall foliage was absolutely beautiful! We couldn't have asked for a better day OR GUIDE. Cookie, our guide was a hoot! Very knowledgeable, funny & PATIENT. Highly recommended. You won't be disappointed!
542 Gibbons Rd, Bird in Hand, PA 17505-9783 +1 717-656-7947
Reviewed By Christine C - USA
I have been stopping at the Bird in Hand Bake Shop for decades and each visit is better than the previous! When you walk inside, you are greeted warmly by the Amish and Mennonite workers and can smell the delicious aromas of their baked goods. No matter what type of baked goods you like, they have it! From all types of cookies (including sugar free and gluten free options) to breads to pies and sticky buns, there is something that you will love! During the summer, their ice cream also appears to be a popular option too!
In addition to their baked goods, they also sell souvenirs and locally made crafts. While some of their souvenirs are generic (i.e. stuffed animals and Christmas decor), most of it is locally made (quillos, cookbooks, Amish made keychains, coin purses, table runners etc.).
Outside, there are areas to sit and relax and watch buggies passing by. For the little ones and animal lovers, there is also a small petting zoo which you can visit. During the warmer months, an Amish run pretzel stand (based in a food truck) is on the property and sells pretzel dogs, pretzel sandwiches and other goodies.
3510 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse, PA 17534-7008 +1 717-768-7101
Plan to stop by The Old Country Store, the oldest store in the heart of the village of Intercourse, when you visit Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Our local Amish and Mennonite craftspersons create thousands of handcrafted items that marry beauty and function. They, too, shop in the same store as you who come to discover their creations. From their homes to your home!
Reviewed By Dianna W - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
It was Quilt Week in Lancaster, and we went to this well-known store that features quilt fabric, products, kits, books, and even more. Beautiful stuff and friendly staff. The reason for four stars instead of five was because it was so crowded, you almost couldn't move. I feared that would happen since MANY quilters would be in the area.
300 Gap Rd, PA Route 741, Ronks, PA 17572-9567 +1 717-687-8628
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is home to a world-class collection of more than 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars, an immersive education center, a vast library and archives and a working restoration shop. Special events, museum store, free on-site parking, free WiFi.
Reviewed By Grayhare - Macungie, Pennsylvania
Huge collection of rolling stock all indoors. So you can visit anytime of year. Detailed descriptions of everything
Even have a small station set up inside. Strasburg railroad is across the street and the Choo choo barn right up the street.. From models to full size if you like trains, this is the place
226 Gap Rd, Route 741 East, Strasburg, PA 17579-1478 +1 717-687-7911
Over 70 years in the making, this gigantic model train layout is still owned and operated by the Groff family. Master modeler, Tom Groff, designs and adds new animations, scale buildings and local scenes each year. See a fire engine race to the rescue to put out the fire at a burning house – with real water! Watch in awe as night falls over Traintown, USA. You'll recognize local landmarks like Dutch Wonderland and the Strasburg Railroad – in detailed miniature! This is much more than a train display – it is an amazing, hand-built work of art.
Reviewed By USFFrank - Orlando, FL
Back at the Choo Choo Barn again. This time to see it decked out for Christmas. As usual, we weren't disappointed. All of the Holiday decorations and little additions were perfect. And during when it's "nighttime" there, some of the decorations and Christmas trees even light up. Plan on going around the display at least twice in order to see some of things you might have missed the first time.
2425 Lincoln Hwy E, Lancaster, PA 17602-1423 +1 717-397-7700
American Music Theatre is the only theatre of its kind in the country that features both touring concerts and Original Shows. This 1,600-seat theatre hosts more than 300 live performances a year – from Broadway tours to rock legends to famous comedians to today's hottest acts. Since its debut in 1997, they've welcomed Grammy winners, CMA winners, Tony winners, and even Oscar winners to their stage. They've also featured some of the most talented musicians, vocalists, and dancers in the nation in their own Original Shows. No other theatre in the region offers a wider variety of performances, year in and year out. Take the opportunity to catch a show in the comfort of one of the most premier venues on the East Coast for live entertainment.
Reviewed By creativetraveler - New York
We always love the shows at the American music theater. The Christmas show was spectacular. The voices, the dancing, the music, the costumes all made to show a wonderful experience. I do wish the staff would be a little bit friendlier. Many seem to lose their patients very quickly when asked questions. Maybe it was just the hecticness of the season.
2710 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird in Hand, PA 17505-9706 +1 717-393-9674
Reviewed By Willof72
Bird in Hand Farmers Market is a must stop when we are in the area. The place is ram jam packed with so many varieties of goods, foods and deliciousness. Breads, jellies, meats, veggies, fudge and my two weaknesses…cheese & beef jerky. It's a great stop to make before heading home from your visit to the area. All in all…definitely give them a try!
150 Cherry Hill Rd, Ronks, PA 17572-9520 +1 717-687-6843
This farm offers the Maize Maze attraction in 10-foot-high corn stalks.
Reviewed By Alzor S
$20 per person including kid over 2. Basically a tourist trap that is about as authentic as Iranian tequila
1444 Village Rd, Strasburg, PA 17579-9625 +1 717-687-6933
Village Greens Golf combines the challenge of golf with the natural beauty of lush gardens to create a unique recreation experience for all generations to enjoy together! Two courses cover over 13 acres of beautiful Lancaster County, PA countryside enhanced with gorgeous gardens and meandering streams. The shorter 18 hole Orange course offers quaint obstacles in a spacious garden alive with color. The expansive Gold Course occupies a secluded, wooded hillside. The natural terrain supplies all the challenges amid the beauty of a manicured garden paradise. Both courses offer a true putting surface on grass carpet, as well as being lighted for night play. Village Greens' courses have been nationally recognized as one of Sports Illustrated's "25 Summer Essentials". The courses are consistently voted #1 by readers of local and regional publications. The Snack Shoppe features grilled sandwiches and yummy fries. Old fashioned hand dipped milkshakes or whipped cream topped sundaes are a favorite, but a huge Village Greens banana split is the ultimate ending to a wonderful visit! Dining is available inside or out on the umbrella shaded patio. Located in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country and just outside the historic borough of Strasburg, Village Greens invites visitors to the area to "Play a Round With Us!".
Reviewed By MEEEK - Suffern, New York
Although we paid for both courses, we only did the longer course. Because of the lines at each hole (and we chose the course with the shortest line), it took us a few hours just to get through these 22 holes. Although the shorter course...MoreCan't wait to see you back again! So glad we could be a part of your great day!
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UK spending grew strongly post-Brexit vote, ONS data shows
The UK services sector grew 0.4% in July, much more strongly than expected in the wake of June's vote to leave the European Union.
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The figures will help the Bank of England assess policy when it next meets in November.
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Pacific Coast Grill, located in Cardiff, is a seafood restaurant along the Pacific Coast Highway (101). With the rooftop seating and incredible views of the ocean, you are sure to have a wonderful experience while enjoying delicious sushi rolls, oysters, mussels, and more. Come dine at the beach!
Pacific Coast Grill's oceanfront venue features unique "Pacific Coast" cuisine, an oyster bar as well as select sushi rolls, black mussels, baked oysters and a plethora of seafood choices & more! Since 1995, PCG has used fresh, local, free range ingredients to produce delicious food at friendly prices.
The kitchen grinds Certified Sterling beef for burgers, makes fresh-cut Kennebec fries with house-made ketchup. PCG menu favorites include its best-selling lobster tacos, pan seared sea bass, and delectable white chocolate bread pudding with caramel bourbon sauce. New comers on the menu include Lobster-Bacon Carbonara & Sous Vide Alaskan Halibut. Patrons will find a variety of seafood items plus options from the land! | {
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I'm building a "configurator" tool for a sales rep. He just have to select some informations in the sheet1 "Configurateur" and he will have the part number, price and item description displayed in another cells. I want another worksheet (Soumission) with the output values of the first sheet displayed on the first available row.
So basically the user only need to click on a button "Créer la soumission" (Create quote) to have all needed informations from worksheet "Soumission". However, cells from "Configurateur" may not have Value in it (but they have a formula in it) so, when I try to remove blank value row, it doesn't work.
This seems complicated and I may not be very clear about this. So I've attached the document.
So try this and you'll see what I mean.
- Sheet1 "Configurateur" ---- Enter "1" in the grey cell next to "Sans fil - WIFI". You should see a Qte, part number, description and price next to it.
- Sheet2 "Soumission" ---- Click on the button "Créer la soumission". You should have the information from the previous sheet. However, it's not displayed in the first available row. | {
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WHUFC vs Norwich City EPL 26/09/2015
September 27, 2015 mrben09 Leave a comment Go to comments
It's all kicking off at Upton Park
Yesterday we welcomed one of the new teams to the Premiership. I for one, was not sure of victory as we had had a tough game at Leicester during the week, which was lost in extra time. This was born out by the WHU start which was leggy to say the best. Noble and Kouyate especially were out of sorts and just looked knackered. Just as well we are not still in Europe !
Noble summed this up just before the 10 minute mark, by directing a lazy pass across our goal looking for Tomkins. This was intercepted by Brady who coolly opened the scoring for the canaries.
West Ham huffed and puffed throughout the half. Just after the half hour mark we managed an equalizer when Payet and Sakho combined well to finish with a tap in to make it 1 – 1 at half time.
No subs at half time for WHU , which surprised me, as I wouldn't have been amazed to see neither Noble, Koutaye, or Jenkinson come out for the second half.
The second half was very much more of the same in what was becoming a easy to forget game. Nathan Redmond came on near the end and I imagine thought he had scored the winner when once again Noble fell short to allow Redmond's shot to find Adrian's bottom corner.
Then WHU woke up, and we threw everything at them including Andy Carroll who got himself into a couple of good positions, which were well covered by Ruddy, who also made a great save from Payet. Ruddy's luck ran out when he tried to punch out a Free kick with Carroll bearing down on him and got it as far as Kouyate, who finished well to secure a draw with seconds to go
So, a point at home keeps us in 3rd and 1 point closer to Man City, but Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham, are 2 points closer to us. Fairplay to Slaven, who had no problem taking off our Captain, as he was having a shocker, maybe a little earlier next time. He also finished with 2 up top, which is encouraging, but with Moses and Payet, you will always have some sort of forward presence.
The Norwich fans seem to be turning into some sort of Palace style "Ultra" support model, which is funny if nothing else.
MOTM was both goalkeepers who kept the goals with some great saves, especially Adrian with his face, which must of stung a bit. With all these saves you would think the game was a classic, it really wasn't. It was a bit of an attritional game and the score was about right, although Norwich may feel they shaded it, but they did sacrifice the lead twice.
Upton Park, London E13, UK
Categories: Football, West Ham United FC Tags: adrian, Andy Carroll, Cheikhou Kouyate, Diafra Sakho, Dimitri Payet, EPL 2015 -2016, John Ruddy, norwich city, west ham, west ham united, WHU, WHUFC
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For making phone threats to blow up the Northpark Mall in Davenport, Iowa, a man was detained on Friday in Streamwood, Illinois. The dangers made from a blocked amount were tracked by authorities to the suspect through Tmobile phone records.
China is the fastest growing market in the world. A small town in China 400,000 people. Forty thousand infants are born in China every day. Cola firms, American Auto makers, and eight hundred out of 30,000 McDonald's restaurants are in china. They know that early to bed and "early to rise work like hell and advertise." Ted Turner.
I joined ADAPT in 1986. At the time, I was living my home town, in Chicago, IL. A friend of my godmother called her to see if there was anyone that she knew who would be interested in working as an attendant and interpreter for a guy with handicaps. The guy, Dennis Schreiber, was take a look member of ADAPT. He traveled often, and desired someone as backup staff.
But translation inquires more than construction and grammar. Should you need to translate, you should have great abundance of knowledge about considerable amounts of things in the world and must read mountains of books. It needs you to interpret the accurate significance of the sentence together with the right structure. That means you need to be very familiar with the two languages, even adept. Sometimes sentences are simple and straight, whlie other times they are challenging and equivocal. For you need to tell people what the speakers are saying you have to understand them as clearly as you can. For the easy sentences you simply translate while for those challenging and ambiguous, you should translate the significance indirectly.
Peters proves a bit too stand offish as Anita. Her performance lacks excitement and life. I found her a bit monotonous and dreary for this specific picture.
It is as if Depoe Bay were a vast stage without actors – or really bashful performers, should you count the gray whales off in the distance – and the churning of the water is part of an amazingly on-schedule performance (considering this is the vacation Whale Watch Week rush).
This was not another evaluation created in my head by the sorcerer. The nature to lust, man's vicious nature, then understanding and then kill, all because of an astounding misunderstandings of life, was revealing itself right before me. This ruthlessness was legitimate; the killing wasn't fictional, and any hope the blacksmith once had for his son to discover the key in this life was dashed. | {
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This month we've got a tech focus and our Geek Video this time takes a peak into the world of 3D displays.
It seems that 2011 is turning into the year of 3D; we've had 3D televisions, an influx of 3D films and even 3D hand held consoles, and that's just the start of it all. Before feeling the need to splash out on any new 3D devices that are inevitably going to crop up in time, why not take a look at Global Wave's fantastically simple solution.
Their 'Pic3D Sheet' demoed at the 3D and Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo last month, uses a lenticular lens system (which also means you don't need 3D glasses), then using the company's app to output a video in a side-by-side format, it simulates a 3D image. The sheet is simply placed over your device's screen, with sizes ranging from an iPhone or iPod touch sheet, up to a 23" desktop monitor.
Of course, it's hard to see how successful it is without seeing it with your own eyes, but with prices ranging from about £17.00 for a small 3DPic sheet, it's still a lot cheaper then splashing out on a new phone or tablet. See what you think about by watching the above video. | {
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After two years of a good relationship, I've decided to part with my Cetus MV. It belonged formerly to my friend, Christopher, with whom I've done some great trips with the boat. Most notably, this boat has been to the North Peninsula of Newfoundland and visited the relocated community of Harbour Deep.
One unique attribute of this boat is the omission of a skeg in its original construction. As a result, the back hatch is much easier to pack than a boat with a skeg box. I've generally found that the long waterline helps it track reasonably well even in wind. | {
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ATKINS, CASTILLO LEAD BIG WIN
(September 14, 2019 – Lancaster, Pa.): Henry Castillo's two-run home run was all of the offense that Mitch Atkins and the York Revolution needed in a 2-1 win over the Lancaster Barnstormers on Saturday night in front of 7,918 fans at Clipper Magazine Stadium. The Revs lead the Freedom Division's second half standings by four games with eight to play in the regular season, and will enter Sunday afternoon's series finale with a magic number of four to clinch the division title.
Jonathan Albaladejo got the start for the Barnstormers and held the Revs scoreless in the top of the first inning. Atkins matched Albaladejo with a scoreless inning of his own in the bottom of the frame while picking up two strikeouts.
After Albaladejo allowed just one runner to reach base via an error in the top of the second inning, Atkins allowed just one hit during his turn to keep the game scoreless after two innings of play.
The pitchers' duel continued into the middle innings as both starters traded scoreless third and fourth innings of work.
After the offense was stymied through the early innings, the Revs broke the scoreless tie in the top of the fifth inning. Emmanuel Marrero drew a walk to give York its first base runner since the second inning. Castillo followed the base on balls by blasting a two-run home run to right field, giving the Revs a 2-0 lead.
Atkins shut Lancaster down in the bottom of the fifth as he allowed just a single in his fifth consecutive scoreless inning of work.
After Albaladejo battled back to pitch a scoreless top of the sixth inning, the Barnstormers scored their only run of the game on an RBI bloop single courtesy of Josh Bell, cutting the lead to 2-1.
Atkins wasted no time bouncing back in the bottom of the seventh as he worked a 1-2-3 frame in his final inning of work.
Victor Capellan tossed a perfect eighth inning to continue his dominant start to his Atlantic League career with his sixth consecutive scoreless outing.
Jameson McGrane was called upon to record his 22nd save in as many opportunities in the ninth inning. The All-Star closer notched a perfect inning, ending the game with a strike out of Greg Golson.
Notes: The Revs improve to 37-32 on the road, tying a club record for road wins in a season (37-33 in 2012). York improves to 9-6 vs. Lancaster, needing one more win to take the season series and the Community Cup. Atkins' 11 wins are tied for seventh-most in a season in club history, one shy of his total from 2018 which ranks tied for fifth; he joins Corey Thurman as the only two pitchers in Revs history with multiple seasons of 11 wins or more. His 11 wins are the league's second-most this season. Atkins worked at least seven innings for the 10th time this season and broke the club record for quality starts in a season with his 17th, surpassing Chris Cody's record 16 set in 2013. McGrane's 22nd save is tied for third-most in a season in club history (Junior Rincon, 2013) and tied for sixth-most in a career with York. Castillo's home run was the Revs' club record 157th of the season, the most by any team in the Atlantic League since 2010. York plays its final road game of the regular season on Sunday at 1 p.m. as righty Dan Minor (7-9, 5.07) faces Lancaster lefty Nate Reed (4-4, 5.44). Revs fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 98.9 FM & 1350 WOYK, 989woyk.com, The New WOYK app, and WOYK on YouTube beginning at 12:40 p.m. with Darrell Henry on the call.
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CDI Electrics is situated around Palm Beach, Western Australia and offers a complete range of electrical services to commercial, industrial and residential clients.
We serve clients north and south of the river, as well some rural areas (on request). Our highly trained and specialised electricians are all trained to perform any kind of electrical works that might be demanded of them.
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With a group of 10 fully qualified electricians and a team of vehicles on the road, we are able to offer a prompt service at any time of the day.
Electrical failures may bring your life to a halt. Unfortunately, this may happen at any point of time, even during the night. At CDI Electrics, you are always in touch with experienced Palm Beach electricians who'd reach you within a short period of time and resolve electrical issues quicker. We're a proud leading industrial electrical contracting group in Palm Beach with almost a decade of expertise to provide solutions to our local customers.
We also have a 24 hour electrician solution, so we always have 10 top experienced and trained technicians on-road to quickly reply to the repair requests from our customers. Our emergency electrician in Perth solutions are available for any type of domestic, industrial or commercial electrical needs arising in any part of Palm Beach. | {
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The oft-delayed Gearbox title is heading to retail next year.
After years in development, Sega has announced that Aliens: Colonial Marines will be stepping out of the shadows and onto retail shelves worldwide on February 12, 2013.
Colonial Marines is a first-person shooter casting players as - you guessed it - a Colonial Marine in the fight against the Alien scourge. Following the events of Alien 3, Colonial Marines will see players traipsing through familiar Alien locations as they search for series heroine and all-around badass Ellen Ripley. The game is extremely anticipated amongst fans of the Alien franchise due to the fact that 20th Century Fox has made the game's plot, penned by some former Battlestar Galactica writers, a part of the official Alien canon.
Regarding the first Alien film, Ridley Scott said, "The most important thing in a film of this type is not what you see, but the effect of what you think you saw." In regards to Colonial Marines, I've seen only missed launches leading to nothing but the community's repeated disappointment. Here's hoping they don't miss this one. Though the February 12, 2013 date for Colonial Marines is official, that date only applies to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game. A final date for the Wii U version of the game has yet to be announced. | {
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El Real Club Náutico de San Sebastián (RCNSS) és un club nàutic situat en Sant Sebastià, Guipúscoa (País Basc). És un dels clubs més importants d'Espanya, juntament amb la resta de membres de l'Associació Espanyola de Clubs Nàutics (AECN), a la qual pertany.
Història
Va ser fundat en 1896, i les seves primeres instal·lacions consistien en una gabarra ancorada en aigües de la badia de la Concha. En 1905 el club compra una antiga piscifactoria situada en el Passeig de la Concha i construeix allí la nova seu del club, projecte d'Aizpurúa i Labayen, considerat com a joia del racionalisme arquitectònic, que es converteix en la seu actual.
Entre els anys 1951 i 1955 el Real Club Nàutic de Sant Sebastià va organitzar la regata transoceànica l'Havana-Sant Sebastià i des de 1986 l'Armada Cup Race, que va organitzar bianualment juntament amb el Royal Western Yacht Club entre Plymouth i Sant Sebastià.
Activitat Esportiva
El club té seccions i escoles de vela, piragüisme i busseig.
Ha guanyat en dues ocasions el Trofeu de l'Associació Espanyola de Clubs Nàutics (2001 i 2008).
Referències
Enllaços externs
Web oficial
Asociación Española de Clubes Náuticos
Esport a Sant Sebastià
Clubs nàutics | {
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Q: Having trouble toggling class So my goal is to have the ability to be able to toggle the input with the custom checkbox I created. Right now I have it working, however, it only adds the class to the first child (option 1)
See image below
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When I click the option 2 and three the default checkbox still shows up
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I've tried using document.querySelectorAll and that does not work.
Here is a link to the Codepen codepen.io/Brushel/pen/QqLgyZ
Here is the code:
checkbox = document.getElementById('checkbox')
checkbox.addEventListener 'click', (event) ->
event.preventDefault()
document.querySelector('input').classList.toggle 'checkmark'
:root {
--main-color: seagreen;
--secondary-color: white;
}
body {
background: var(--secondary-color);
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
ul {
list-style: none;
font-size: 1em;
}
.checkmark {
display: inline-block;
&:after {
content: '';
display: block;
width: 6px;
height: 12px;
border: solid seagreen;
border-width: 0 4px 4px 0;
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
}
%body
%ul
%li
%input#checkbox(type="checkbox")/
%label(for="checkbox") Option 1
%li
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%label(for="checkbox") Option 2
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%label(for="checkbox") Option 3
A: First thing, an Id is a unique Identifier, you want to apply a class to your checkboxes or select them by their type or some other similar method useful for selecting multiple (querySelectorAll)
const checkboxHandler = checkbox => {
checkbox.addEventListener('click', event => {
event.preventDefault();
checkbox.classList.toggle('checkmark');
})
};
let checkboxes = document.querySelectorAll('.checkbox')
checkboxes.forEach(checkboxHandler);
*
*Select all checkboxes by your delimiter
*Iterate over checkboxes
*In each iteration you will apply a click handler
*Inside the click handler is where you set your required actions.
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Frank Sinatra(December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a legendary American singer and actor. He has won Golden Globes, Grammy's, an Oscar, the Congressional Gold Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are.
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it.. it possesses you.
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating thing in the world – to an individual or to a nation.
When he was born he was 13.5 lbs.
He paid a $240,000 ransom for the kidnapping of his son.
Although popularized as a member of the Rat Pack, the group was also known as the Summit.
He didn't have to join the military during WW2 due to his perforated ear drum.
He was buried with a bottle of whiskey and cigarettes.
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(KTVI) - This weekend St. Louis may be known as the "Cakeway to the West" instead of the Gateway to the West.
Helping to celebrate STL 250 is Rich Brook, Cakeway to the West Artist.
Two hundred and fifty cakes in all are strategically placed throughout the St. Louis metro area and 15 counties.
The four-foot-tall cake sculptures decorated by local artists will serve as interactive beacons of our region's diverse places, stories and experiences.
but that cake will not identify what it portrays. What is the point of that?
ingly stupid way to do this project. | {
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Dental Therapy News
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7/17/21- Dentistry Today: Dental Therapy Moves Forward in Michigan
An overview of dental therapy in Michigan and its potential impacts on access to care and the oral health workforce.
5/17/21- Pew: Michigan Finalizes Rules Expanding Access to Dental Care
"Michigan state regulators recently finalized rules that will help expand dental care to the state's most underserved people, including low-income children and communities of color as well as those who are pregnant, over 65, or in rural areas."
3/11/21- 100+ Organizations Endorse Dental Therapists
The National Partnership for Dental Therapy announces more than 100 organizations have joined their coalition to support dental therapy as an equity-focused, cost-effective means of addressing a lack of dental care in the United States.
6/23/21- The Bulletin, Oregon: Lawmakers OK New Class of Dental Therapists
"This bill reflects the evidence that unequivocally shows that where dental therapists are providing care, access is increased and oral health outcomes are improved."
July 17, 32021: Dental Therapy Moves Forward in Michigan
June 23, 2021: Lawmakers OK New Class of Dental Therapists
May 17, 2021: Michigan Finalizes Rules Expanding Access to Dental Care
Pew reports on Michigan's final step forward in dental therapy.
March 16, 2021: 7 years after lawmakers allowed dental therapists, Maine's 1st is practicing in Bangor
The Bangor Daily News profiles Maine's first practicing dental therapist.
March 11, 2021: 100+ Organizations Endorse Dental Therapists
August 18, 2020: Alaska Dental Therapy Program Gains CODA Accreditation
This report from Dentistry Today details the exciting news of the ADA's Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) accreditation of the dental therapy program at Ilisaġvik College in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. According to the National Partnership for Dental Therapy, this is the first time that CODA has granted accreditation to a dental therapy education program.
September 15, 2019: Fixing the gap: State authorization of dental therapist occupation will help fix dental care shortage, but it's not without opposition
The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph published this report on the progress of dental therapy in Michigan and interviewed MI Dental Access coalition members. All of Southwest Michigan - Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties - is a HRSA dental health shortage area.
August 18, 2019: Backers of rural dental care find something to smile about
This Associated Press piece discusses the particular challenges in rural areas as the number of dentists dwindles.
October 11, 2018: Dental Therapists Can Heal Michigan's Dental Shortage
This commentary piece from the Heartland Institute notes that SB 541 would help address Michigan's access to care problem: "Dental therapists have proven to be safe, effective, and affordable providers of dental care in America and abroad. Lawmakers should free these qualified professionals to treat all Michiganders, especially those who are most vulnerable."
July 24, 2018: Open door for dental therapists in Michigan
This editorial from The Detroit News supports SB 541. As the editorial notes, "the creation of a mid-level provider would offer a less-costly professional who could make lower Medicaid payments work for dental practices -- consequently expanding access to dental care."
The News editorial board interviewed both MCMCH Executive Director Amy Zaagman and Ryan Grinnell-Ackerman, Michigan Primary Care Association Policy and Government Affairs Manager, for the piece, and the result is a well-informed, comprehensive look at why SB 541 should move forward.
May 17, 2018: Ducey signs bill allowing 'dental therapists' to practice in Arizona
Before Michigan, Arizona was the latest state to license dental therapists when Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation that was passed by the Arizona House of Representatives 47-13 and passed unanimously in the Senate. Dental therapists can practice in urban Indian clinics or tribal health centers, community health centers, non-profit dental practices, federally qualified health centers and other locations under the new law.
January 10, 2018: Dental therapists are helping the less fortunate in Minnesota. Michigan should follow their lead
Michigan Radio's Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry interviewed MCMCH Executive Director Amy Zaagman about SB 541 and the difference dental therapy has already made in improving access to care in Minnesota.
October 10, 2017: Lawmakers Should Smile Upon Dental Therapist Bill
Michael Van Beek, director of research for the Mackinac Center, authored this op-ed discussing the economic impact of Michigan's exisiting access to oral health care burden. A 2014 study by Anderson Economic Group identified about 7,000 Michigan patients using the emergency room in 2011 to deal with symptoms from preventable dental issues. Hospitals charged over $15 million for the services provided to these patients. About 1,000 of these patients were even hospitalized, but about half of these hospital stays were for complications relating to cavities — a problem that can be handled routinely in a dentist's chair.
September 14, 2017: Dental Therapists Enhance Care
Sen. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) discusses the reasons he introduced Senate Bill 541 in this op-ed for the Detroit News.
August 6, 2017: America's Dental Crisis-Thousands Cross Into One Mexican City for Treatment
NBC Nightly News profiles Los Algodones, Mexico--home to roughly 300 dental clinics, and the Americans who travel there for affordable dental care.
July 28, 2017: This Dental Therapist is Filling a Gap in U.S. Healthcare
This piece in Trust magazine, published by the Pew Trusts, explores the many roles Jodi Becker plays as part of her job as an advanced dental therapist. Most weeks, she can be found packing her portable equipment and hitting the road to treat the many people in rural and suburban Minnesota who either can't find a dentist to treat them or can't travel to an office to receive care.
July 1, 2017: The Unexpected Political Power of Dentists
This Washington Post article discusses the efforts of the American Dental Association to fight mid-level provider legislation in any state considering it. "Among the general public, dentists tend to have a Norman Rockwell appeal — solo practitioners who clean your teeth, tell your kids to cut down on the candy, and put their seal of approval on a range of minty toothpastes and mouthwashes. But lawmakers from Maine to Alaska see a different side of dentists and their lobby, the American Dental Association, describing a political force so unified, so relentless and so thoroughly woven into American communities that its clout rivals that of the gun lobby."
June 23, 2017: How America's Dental Health Crisis Created Mexico's "Molar City"
This HuffPost article discusses a report written by researchers at the conservative Arizona-based Goldwater Institute. The Goldwater Institute is one of a growing number of groups on both sides of the political aisle advocating for the licensure of midlevel providers in dentistry as a means to improve access to affordable dental care in the U.S. It also examines the small border town, Los Algodones, which is better known by its nickname, Molar City, because of the number of Americans traveling there for care.
May 23, 2017: Our Teeth Are Making Us Sick
This New York Times column highlights difficulty with finding oral health care and explores the long-term health problems that result from neglect: "Gum disease can increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes, and among pregnant women it is correlated with lower birth weights for their babies." Additionally, tooth decay causes pain, an inability to eat solid foods, and even more serious problems if left untreated.
May 15, 2017: The Painful Truth About Teeth
This Washington Post report takes an in-depth look at the growing crisis surrounding access to dental care. "Millions of others rely on charity clinics and hospital emergency rooms to treat painful and neglected teeth. Unable to afford expensive root canals and crowns, many simply have them pulled. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans older than 65 do not have a single real tooth left."
May 1, 2017: Dental therapy nation is just a matter of time
This Watchdog.org report discusses how dental therapy advocates may finally get a leg up on the powerful dental lobby around the country.
April 19, 2017: Dentists Know Best, So Let Them Choose
This piece ran in the trade publication Dentistry Today and was authored by Michael Hamilton of the Illinois-based Heartland Institute. Hamilton discusses how states are preventing dentists from expanding their practices. "One kind of dental teammate inaccessible to dentists in most states is the dental therapist. Obstruction of dentists' freedom to hire dental therapists ensues not from political bias but from special interests. Opponents include dentists who are concerned that patient care and the traditional dentistry model will be turned upside down if an enterprising dentist strays from the pack by hiring and supervising a dental therapist."
April 9, 2017: 6 years in, dental therapist experiment is working, experts say
This SC Times piece reviews how dental therapy in Minnesota is working. Since the first dental therapists began practicing there in 2011, a 2016 study by the University of Minnesota found dental therapists saw up to 90 percent of uninsured patients or patients on public assistance. Wait times were also being reduced for patients.
September 21, 2016: WILS Interview on Dental Therapy
MCMCH Executive Director Amy Zaagman was interviewed for this radio program, discussing the benefits of adding dental therapists to Michigan's workforce.
September 1, 2016: Michigan's Looming Dentist Shortage?
This blog post from The Mackinac Center discusses how mid-level providers could fill the shortage gap in Michigan.
August 30, 2016: Could dental therapy improve access to care in Michigan?
The Michigan Radio current events program Stateside did an interview with Dr. David Gesko, senior vice president of HealthPartners in Minnesota and the Michigan Dental Association, discussing SB 1013 and the work of dental therapists in Minnesota.
August 29, 2016: You Don't Need to Be a Dentist to Fill a Cavity (download below)
The Wall Street Journal explored the issue in Michigan and other states in this piece.
August 29, 2016: Crying need for tooth care warrants targeted use of dental therapists
Dr. Marilyn Stolberg, a dentist who has practiced throughout northern lower Michigan and served as director of clinical education for the Allied Dental programs at Ferris State University as well as chief dental officer at a federally qualified health center, spoke to the need for dental therapists to join Michigan's workforce in this op-ed, published Mlive.com.
August 7, 2016: Give dentists the option to hire therapists
In response to an opinion piece authored by Dr. Larry DeGroat, president of the Michigan Dental Association, Dr. David Gesko, senior vice president of HealthPartners in Minnesota, submitted this letter published in the Detroit News, explaining that dental therapists are contributing to increased access in Minnesota.
July 7, 2016: Down in the mouth: Michigan's dentist shortage prompts reform effort
The nonprofit news group Watchdog.org featured an article on Senate Bill 1013, discussing dental therapists and the role they could play in addressing Michigan's access to oral health care issue.
June 30, 2016: Allowing 'dental therapists' in Michigan will expand access to oral care
MCMCH Executive Director Amy Zaagman wrote this op-ed for Bridge Magazine, detailing Michigan's oral health care access problems, and why introducing dental therapists to the state's workforce can help.
June 20, 2016: Big Smiles in Vermont Over Dental Therapy
On June 20, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed Senate Bill 20 into law, authorizing the practice of dental therapy. After a five-year campaign by the Vermont Oral Health Care for All Coalition, Vermont became the third state, joining Maine and Minnesota, to allow dentists to hire these midlevel providers. Dental therapists also work with dentists caring for Native American tribes in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington.
May 26, 2016: Vermont Tech Lays Groundwork for Dental Therapy Program
This news report looks at Vermont Technical College's draft curriculum for its dental therapy program. The Vermont legislature passed a bill this session to license dental therapists.
May 24, 2016: Proper Dental Care Should Be a Human Right
This Boston Globe op-ed urges Massachusetts lawmakers to pass the Dental Health Practitioner legislation.
May 22, 2016: Where Dentists Are Scarce, American Indians Forge a Path to Better Care
The New York Times reports on a dental therapist practicing at the Swinomish Dental Clinic in Washington.
May 3, 2016: Confronting Dental Decay in Indian Country
KPLU public radio produced this three-part series examining dental care among Native Americans.
April 19, 2016: Tribal Pilot Program May Point to Dental-care Future For All Oregonians
A guest column by Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson discussing a pilot project for clinics in two southwest Oregon tribes to hire dental therapists.
April 13, 2016: Former health secretary advocates for dental therapists
Dr. Louis Sullivan, former secretary of health and human services who served under President George H.W. Bush, spoke to the North Dakota Legislature's interim Health Services Committee April 13 about the growing lack of access to dentistry, particularly in more rural areas.
February 27, 2016: Shortage of dentists makes case for change
James Haveman, former director of what was then the Michigan Department of Community Health, discusses in this Detroit News op-ed how states are creating new midlevel dental care providers with good results.
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New cervid species found in middle miocene of Nei Mongol, China
by Institute of Vertebrae Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Fig.1: Antlers of Euprox altus sp. nov. from the Middle Miocene fossil locality of Damiao, Siziwangqi, Nei Mongol. Credit: WANG Li-Hua
Wang Li-Hua, a graduate student paleontologist from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified a new species of cervid, Euprox altus, from the Middle Miocene fossil locality of Damiao (N42°00'31.4'', E111°34'50''), Siziwangqi, Nei Mongol, as reported in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatic 2011 (4). Its tooth morphology and comparison with other species suggest that during the latest Middle Miocene the Damiao area was a warm and humid environment.
Euprox was named by Stehlin in 1928 when he studied fossil cervids from Steinheim in Germany. This new speccies is a small Euprox species, having two-tined antlers with prominent burrs. The fork of the antler starts high above the true burr. The antler surface is ornamented unevenly with longitudinal grooves. The cheek teeth are brachyodont. The fold on the postprotocrista of P4 is developed. The precingulum, entocingulum and postcingulum are present and linked together on the upper molars. The palaeomeryx fold is present but weak on the lower molars.
Tooth morphology and comparison with other species suggest that during the latest Middle Miocene the Damiao area was a warm and humid environment. The finding of Euprox altus indicats that during the latest Middle Miocene the monsoon, which produced a dry and strongly seasonal climate, had not yet formed or had not influenced the Damiao area at least.
"The American Museum of Natural History's Central Asiatic Expeditions of the early 20th century, led by R. C. Andrews, discovered rich fossil mammals in Nei Mongol, including the Tunggur fauna, representative fauna of the Chinese Middle Miocene Tunggurian age. They found some Euprox antler material. During the field seasons from 2006 to 2009, we found a total of 34 mammalian fossil localities near Damiao village", said Dr. ZHANG Zhao-Qun, co-author and the research designer, "Richest among these was a Middle Miocene locality, DM01, produced many antlers and teeth. These antlers differ from those of other known Euprox species, representing a new form of Euprox."
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National Aviation Services (NAS) operations in Kuwait are generally stable. NAS operations in Cote d'Ivoire and Afghanistan continue to be positive contributors to the group. In addition, NAS's new operation in Uganda has contributed significantly in 2018. Operations in Tanzania and Morocco continue to bear down on our group, but Tanzania is poised for a turnaround in 2018 and has numerous opportunities in the pipeline.
GCS, a company specialized in digitizing customs, showed improved performance in the second quarter. GCS manages all customs' activities at ports of Kuwait and aims to enhance customs modernization through its services.
UPAC revenue and profits increased during the second quarter. Operations at Kuwait Airport and other prominent locations in Kuwait continue to drive growth. In addition, construction of Reem Mall in Abu Dhabi is moving forward according to plan.
Agility's net profit increased 18.7% to KD 20 million in Q2 2018. EPS was 13.8 fils vs.11.6 fils a year earlier.
Agility's Q2 EBITDA increased 13.6% to KD 37.1 million.
Agility's Q2 revenue rose 12.3%, to KD 384.2 million and net revenue increased by 5.5%.
GIL Q2 revenue grew by 13.4% to KD 289.3 million.
Infrastructure's Q2 revenue grew 9.5% to KD 97.5 million.
Agility enjoys a healthy balance sheet with KD 1.7 billion in assets. Net debt position was KD 130.7 million as of June 30, 2018. Operating cash flow was KD 29.2 million for the first half of 2018. | {
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Clause 11
Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:45 pm on 10th May 2007.
Rates of vehicle excise duty
Hansard source (Citation: Finance Bill Deb, 10 May 2007, c94)
Paul Goodman Shadow Minister (Childcare), Treasury
I beg to move amendment No. 25, in clause 11, page 8, line 12, at end add—
'(11) This section shall come into force on a day which the Treasury may by Order appoint.
(12) No order shall be made under subsection (11) unless the Treasury has compiled and laid before the House of Commons a report containing an assessment of the impact of vehicle excise duty on farming, agriculture and on rural areas.'.
I would like to make it clear at the start that this is a probing amendment. I have absolutely no intention of putting it to the vote. We have no wish to deprive the Treasury of the £625 million that this increase will raise over three years, and we could have raised the concerns that we are about to air in the clause stand part debate. I am also mindful that we will return to some of the concerns when we consider clause 105.
However, tabling and speaking to this amendment send a signal—which we believe is important, as I indicated in the last debate on amendment No. 1 on fuel duties—that we are concerned about some of the long and medium-term effects of the Government's strategy on VED on farming and agriculture more widely, and on people living in rural areas. I want to explore some of those concerns in this debate. To do so, it is necessary for me to describe what appears to bethe Government's strategy in relation to important elements of VED.
This year's changes represent a cautious widening of the differences between the top and bottom bands in order to widen the differential between the most and least polluting vehicles. I note in passing that, as so often in this Budget, the Chancellor has tied the hands of his successor, as appeared to be the case with the last clause, and has spelled out three years of changes. Widening the differential between the most and least polluting vehicles is clearly sensible, and we will not oppose the clause in the stand part debate. We want emission levels from new cars in the UK to fall from around 170 g per kilometre to 100 g per kilometre by 2020, and by 2030 we want that figure to be an average for all cars on Britain's roads. Our quality of life policy group, chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), is examining the means of achieving that aim, including VED, of course.
My right hon. Friend is also examining the effect of vehicle taxation on farming, agriculture and rural areas. A written answer from the Financial Secretary to my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice), the shadow Minister for Agriculture, points towards some of the effects. My hon. Friend asked what estimate the Treasury had made of how many band G vehicles, which are the most polluting, are expected to be affected by VED up to the year 2011. The Financial Secretary replied—I paraphrase—that approximately 227,000 vehicles are currently affected, representing the current stock in band G. Over the whole of 2007-08 that figure will rise to 310,000. In 2008-09 it will rise to 416,000, in 2009-10 to 605,000 and the following year to 740,000.
Will the Financial Secretary give us the figures for band A cars, so that we can see how successful that band is becoming? Perhaps that information can be passed to him. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Fareham says that it is a very important consideration, so his answer will be very important.
Some of the band G vehicles will be Land Rover Discoveries and Toyota Land Cruisers that are registered and driven in urban areas and we are not—I repeat, not—making representations on their behalf. As time goes by, others will be sold on to farmers and agricultural workers and others who live in rural areas who consequently find themselves paying band G rates of VED. Some pick-ups used by farmers are also categorised as band G vehicles, although others are classified as light goods vehicles and thus qualify for lower VED.
When he replies to the debate, perhaps the Financial Secretary will tell us if he has an estimate of the proportion of those band G vehicles that will be used by farmers and agricultural workers in each year up to 2010-11, as the number is growing every year.
Rob Marris Labour, Wolverhampton South West
I see the direction the hon. Gentleman is going in, but, of the two sorts of vehicles that he referred to, are not those that are being used on farms getting red diesel, which is taxed at a much lower rate anyway? Will not the Toyota Land Cruisers, for example, be sold on by the Chelsea-tractor driver in the middle of Cambridge at a lower rate to the farmer precisely because it carries a higher vehicle excise duty? In that sense, the purchaser will not lose out.
Yes, I acknowledge what the hon. Gentleman said, but it is important to consider the combined effect.
The work and non-work problems are obvious. Farmers living in the countryside who need band G vehicles for work—for cattle trailers, for example—are not people living in urban areas who do not need band G vehicles for whatever work they do. The National Farmers Union claims that British agriculture and horticulture underpin £90 billion of our economy, help to provide 5 million jobs and involve approximately £400 million of unpaid conservation work. I will not list in detail the contribution that both make to the small business sector, to animal welfare standards and to reducing carbon emission by providing local food. Those working needs are clearly serious.
It is worth noting—inevitably we have received representations to this effect, as the Financial Secretary will also have done—that an off-road band G vehicle used infrequently for work purposes will produce fewer emissions than an on-road band C vehicle used frequently for work purposes. As for non-work purposes, such as leisure and caring responsibilities, the considerations that have already been discussed in relation to remote areas apply, to some degree, so I will not go over all of those again.
I do not want to anticipate the debate on clause 105, but I want to ask the Financial Secretary one question: will he investigate, or is he already investigating, the practicality of allowing an exemption for one band G vehicle? Since all farm holdings must be registered, the argument is that such a system would be relatively straightforward to administer and it would tend to favour smaller holdings, because on the whole they have fewer vehicles. Also, does the Treasury plan to produce, in relation to this year's rise, any estimate of how many farmers will switch from band G vehicles to light goods vehicles that are more lightly taxed even though they may be more polluting? I look forward to hearing the Financial Secretary's reply.
Julia Goldsworthy Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury 3:00 pm, 10th May 2007
The amendment has many echoes of the principle that was referred to in our debate on an earlier clause and amendment. Again, there is a concern about the differential impact that these kinds of measures will have in rural areas where it is more difficult for people to change behaviour.
However, I listened very carefully to the comments by the hon. Member for Wycombe. I note that the amendment says:
'No order shall be made under subsection (11) unless the Treasury has compiled and laid before the House of Commons a report containing assessment of the impact of vehicle excise duty on farming, agriculture and on rural areas.'.
I might not have been listening carefully enough, but I do not think that I heard any definition of what the hon. Gentleman might consider to be a rural area. Equally, I am not quite sure why other rural industries, for example horticulture, were not included in the report that the Treasury would have to make.
I take on board the comments by the hon. Member for Wycombe that he has no intention whatsoever of pressing this matter to a vote, but there is another inconsistency that I do not understand. I noted that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues felt unable to support a similar amendment to the changes to air passenger duty, on the grounds that it delayed the introduction of environmental measures that should be welcomed.
The point is that, on that occasion, the hon. Member for Twickenham did not say in advance that he would not be pressing that amendment to a vote.
Julia Goldsworthy Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury
The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point that, as these changes ramp up—as they should be ramped up—there will be some rural areas that will be particularly disadvantaged.
However, I would like to put on record the fact that a large part of the demand for new 4x4s—I think that the figure is about a third of new 4x4s—is located in a handful of London boroughs. Therefore, not all the most polluting vehicles are 4x4s; not all 4x4s are agricultural vehicles, and it is possible to purchasenew working vehicles that would do the job perfectly well and also fall into the lower bands. If the impactof the changes that the Government have proposedin clause 11 encourages the industry to producemore fuel-efficient vehicles, of course that must be welcomed.
I sympathise with the points made by the hon. Member for Wycombe, but I am pleased that he will not be pressing the amendment to a vote, because I think that there are clear limitations in the amendment.
Philip Dunne Conservative, Ludlow
I rise to support the amendment and also to remind the Committee—I think for the first time—of my entry in the Register of Members' Interests in connection with my partnership in a farming business. I do so first because farming is referred to in the amendment, but also because I am a proud owner of a 4x4 vehicle, which I require to visit the parts of my farm that I could not visit either in ordinary vehicles or on foot. It is an upland area with some steep banks.
On Second Reading, I raised my concerns about the impact of the significant increases in the rates of duty on working 4x4 vehicles that are proposed in this Bill and in the Budget for the subsequent Finance Bill. I berated the Government for not being imaginative enough to think about a descriptor which would allow working vehicles to be excluded from the increase. I hope that when we reach clause 105, which my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe identified, the Government will seek to create an exemption for vehicles engaged in farming, horticulture and forestry. I hope that they have listened to the arguments that I and others made on Second Reading and that they will respond positively and constructively. I think it unlikely that the force of my argument has persuaded the Government that that is the right thing to do, but I would be absolutely delighted if the Financial Secretary would confirm that it has.
It is an important matter. My research shows that there are some 1.6 million sports utility vehicles, although not all are in the top band of emissions. About 250,000 are used for off-road purposes. According to the Countryside Alliance, about 60,000 are used on working farms, 18,000 in the equine industry, 5,000 by gamekeepers and about 2,500 by rural veterinary surgeons. An unknown number is used in the horticultural and forestry sectors. A company in my constituency called Ludlow Drains requires such a vehicle to transport its drain-cleaning equipment. There are many other small businesses that require such a vehicle for multifarious working purposes and would not necessarily benefit from the red diesel rates available to farming businesses.
The figures that the hon. Gentleman has given us are useful. Will he clarify whether he is referring to the total number of sports utility vehicles or the number of new sports utility vehicles that will be caught by the changes to vehicle excise duty that have been made last year and this year?
The figures are for all vehicles. I accept that the changes bite particularly on new vehicles, but the precedent having been set, they will affect all vehicles henceforward, as new vehicles become second-hand vehicles. The relevance to the farming industry of this issue is significant. According to the Countryside Alliance, the average net income of farmers last year was £21,300, so a £400 vehicle excise duty is effectively a week's income to the average farmer. I must say that that average income figure is rather higher than I was expecting, and higher than the figure that I saw at the end of last year on the Public Accounts Committee, when we reviewed the single farm payment scheme. It is not appropriate to suggest that the measure will not have a significant impact on those who are engaged in such business and who generate low incomes. It is significant and that should be taken into account. I hope that the Financial Secretary will reassure us that the Government intend to take it into account at a later stage of the Bill.
John Healey The Financial Secretary to the Treasury
This has been a usefully concise debate. VED rates are set at those levels for good reasons. They perform two functions: they raise revenue that we require for the public purse to fund public services, and they help us to achieve some of our environmental obligations and aims, which apply to rural areas as much as the rest of the UK. The VED is designed to signal at the point of purchase that the more polluting the vehicle, the more VED the purchaser will pay. Indeed, it is a signal. It is backed by a very good labelling scheme which is now in place. There is some evidence that there is a high level of awareness and that it is beginning to play a part in the purchasing decisions of car buyers. It is an important signal also, in the long term, to motor manufacturers and designers.
Hon. Members have been concerned about certain groups of vehicle users. I recognise that for some, especially those in rural areas, the car is a necessity, not a luxury. However, I do not accept that motorists have to drive vehicles that fall within the higher bands just because they live in rural areas. For example, various types of 4x4 vehicles fall in bands F and E, not necessarily in band G, of the VED system. In addition, the measure has been designed to affect not four-wheel drive vehicles but those with high CO2 emissions.
The hon. Member for Wycombe asked me how many band a cars we anticipate there being by 2010-11. It is difficult to tell for certain, but our forecast suggests that the number will increase by about two thirds between now and then. The number of cars on the road in the second-highest band, band B, which is also a low-emission category, is likely to almost triple to some 670,000 to 680,000 by then.
Turning to the principal concern of the Committee, it is important to bear in mind what the tax treatment of farmers and their vehicles is. The tax system is designed so that, where a vehicle is an essential component of the business activity, businesses can deduct from their turnover all the costs incurred for the sole purpose of generating business profits. Such motoring expenses are therefore allowable for deduction against turnover in such circumstances. Furthermore, agricultural vehicles are currently exempt from vehicle excise duty.
Hon. Members have mentioned clause 105. That will give the Secretary of State for Transport the power to amend the definition of agricultural vehicles to keep it in line with future technological and design developments. Beyond that, I can see no case for special treatment of farming, agriculture or rural areas within the VED system. Indeed, it would complicate it, and it is likely to be costly and open to fraud. Motorists would be able to register vehicles in rural areas and then use them mostly, if not entirely, in areas other than rural areas. It has been made clear that this was a probing amendment. I hope that I have been able to respond to some of the points that have been raised, and that the amendment will be withdrawn.
I am grateful to the Financial Secretary for having clarified the exemption in relation to agricultural vehicles, to which we shall come at a later stage. My understanding is that previously it applied to tractors and other very heavy equipment, and the proposal exemption would extend it to 4x4-type vehicles. Is it his understanding that the extension would recognise some of the difficulties?
Clause 105 provides an enabling power for the Secretary of State for Transport to amend the definitions in future. The sort of detailed discussion that the hon. Gentleman is tempting me to have on this clause is better stayed until we reach clause 105.
I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Question proposed,That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Paul Goodman Shadow Minister (Childcare), Treasury 3:15 pm, 10th May 2007
Following the debate on agriculture and farming, I have a few brief questions about the generality of the proposals. First, the Environmental Audit Committee has said that the Treasury should at least publish its rationale for the VED differentials that it adopts. That suggests to me that the Committee finds the explanations of the rises year on year to be obscure. If the Treasury has not already published its rationale, will it do so, as the Committee wishes?
Secondly, Friends of the Earth has argued that this year's rise in band G rate will not make much difference to emissions. It said:
"These changes are not enough to give people a strong incentive to purchase a greener car... the Government's own research suggests a £150 differential would persuade 55 per cent of people to change."
Does the Financial Secretary disagree with that claim, and if so, why?
Thirdly, it can be argued that large families need larger cars, and that a large family in any setting may need, say, a people carrier, whereas no single person in an urban setting can convincingly be argued to need a band G car. The Automobile Association has called for the creation of a new band H with an emissions threshold of 200 g/km, a rise on the current threshold of 226 g/km, which would place most models of people carrier into a lower tax band. [Interruption.] I thought that I heard the Financial Secretary snort. It appeared to be a dismissive noise in relation to the proposal. If he could kindly confirm the Government's view on it, we would be grateful.
Finally, have the Government ruled out adapting the weights of VED—the idea is rather complex, and I would be interested to hear the Financial Secretary's view on it—to reflect whether vehicles are fuelled by carbon-neutral materials.
Hansard source (Citation: Finance Bill Deb, 10 May 2007, c100)
My hon. Friend the Minister knowsmy views on the matter. The Government have gone some way with the proposed increase in clause 11 and band G. However, I urge him again, as I did last year when I tabled an amendment, to be a lot bolder. I would urge him even to be a lot bolder on Report, in terms of having a swingeing vehicle excise duty for vehicles above 250 g/km, which are bought new. It would not be retrospective. Part of the problem with band G, although I support it, is that it is retrospective. That is behind some of the concerns that have been expressed. We need to set a date two or three year's hence and say to somebody, "If you buy a very polluting vehicle—say, above 250 g/km—you will pay through the nose for it, and we are warning you now, not retrospectively." That would give the motor industry, including the west midlands, where I am an MP and where, for example, Land Rover is based, time to adjust.
Sadly, too much of the debate is about 4x4s as polluting vehicles. In the borough in Richmond, in the constituency of the hon. Member for Twickenham, it was widely reported that parking charges for 4x4s were being whacked up. I said to him, "Is this true, or is it for polluting vehicles?", and he said it was for polluting vehicles, but that it had been widely reported as being for 4x4s as a kind of journalistic shorthand. In fact, as many hon. Members will know, nine out of the 10 most polluting new vehicles on sale in the United Kingdom today are not 4x4s. The only one is a top-of-the-range Range Rover. Most of the other nine are sports cars, such as Lamborghinis.
The hon. Member for Wycombe talked about people carriers, but some of those cars do not carry more than two people. They are ridiculous, and those vehicles are bought by very rich people who might not be put off if there were a swingeing new vehicle excise rate duty, such as band H, on a new vehicle. Sadly, that is not in force, but it would do two things. First, it would allow the Government to send a message. Secondly, if we had a swingeing rate of, say, £2,000 a year on those new vehicles, it would arguably affect the resale price of them, which would in turn affect the purchasing prices that some people make when considering whether to buy a polluting vehicle, or a less polluting vehicle, in two or three years. It saddens me that we are talking about greener vehicles. All vehicles are polluting. It is just a question of the extent to which they do it.
Adam Afriyie Conservative, Windsor
The hon. Gentleman's ideas are very good for averting future behaviour without penalising people in the way I described. Why does he think that his Front-Bench team does not take up the radical proposals that are targeted at reducing the number of gas-guzzling cars?
I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to give reasons for that. I find it hard to conceive why, as a Government and a society, we cannot tell people that they will be taxed on future behaviour, so they should make their choices in advance. Such a framework would command some, although not universal, cross-party support and would also garner quite a lot of support within the country. Try as we may, in spite of what is talked about in the pubs and clubs and in the media, we must get away from this obsession with 4x4s. There are 4x4s that put out something like 172 g/km and are quite satisfactory for most agricultural, business and rural purposes, such as towing a horse box, or perhaps even for a drain company or whatever. Correspondingly, the most polluting vehicles are often things like sports cars.
It is possible to get people carriers that emit lower than 200 g/km, such as the turbo diesel models. In terms of sending a message about future behaviour by motorists, I should like clause 11 to introduce different tax proposals and to change the behaviour of vehicle manufacturers. There is not an instant technological fix for all of this but if one looks, as I do periodically, at what has been happening to vehicle emissions for new vehicles on sale in the UK, it is clear that more and more options are available. Sadly, these are often not the options chosen by the purchasers. For example, the Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion, which is being introduced in July this year for sale in the UK, will have emissions of 102 g/km. It does not break the magic 100 threshold. I believe that the new Smart car turbo diesel, which will be on sale on the continent but is not currently announced for sale in the UK, has emissions of 83 g/km. The petrol version, which will be on sale in Britain, is above the 100 threshold.
In terms of pressing the manufacturers and influencing the behaviour of buyers, we need to say now what the situation will be in two or three years' time. That has happened a lot in the Budget already, and some hon. Members have suggested that the Chancellor is tying the hands of his successor. I do not buy into that. However, in terms of certainty for the future, I will support the clause, but I do not think that it is bold enough. Even now I hope that my hon. Friend can come back with a bolder clause 11 on Report.
The clause is a welcome step forward from where we were last year when the differential between the top two bands was less than the cost of half a tank of petrol for the most polluting cars. That will begin to make a difference. However, have the Government undertaken an assessment of the number of people whose buying decisions will be affected by this differential band of vehicle excise duty? Research undertaken by MORI in 2003 indicated that the differential of the kind in the clause will probably affect 33 per cent. of buyers, whereas the level recommended by the Energy Savings Trust of £2,000 would have a much bigger impact and would influence the majority of people's decisions when buying a new car. I would appreciate the Minister's thoughts on why the Government chose the figure that they did. Perhaps he could give an indication of longer-term plans that they have to ramp it up to that higher level.
I do not want to add to what has been said about the retrospection element. There is a problem that people's buying decisions and the resale value of the car that they buy is affected by retrospection. There is a certain unfairness. What work is the Minister doing with other Departments to try to encourage changes in behaviour? The measure will influence behaviour at the consumer end, but I note that there are no compulsory energy efficiency targets for manufacturers. Unless such targets are made compulsory, there will not be as quick a shift in behaviour at the production end. Such measures, rather than simply revenue-raising ones, would make a difference.
Finally, I wish to raise a point that was drawn to my attention by a constituent. He has a car with a larger engine which he has had retrofitted to run on liquefied petroleum gas, which means that its emissions are significantly lower. My understanding is that he cannot benefit from being taken down a band or two. Will people who are not buying a car but making the car that they have more energy efficient benefit from a lower VED rate?
If the hon. Lady writes to me with details about her constituent, I will have a look at the circumstances. On the question of dealing and liaising with other Departments, specifically on emissions targets for manufacturers and the progressive reduction that we want, that is very much a Department for Transport lead. The Treasury and I are, of course, very supportive of its efforts in that respect.
On the matter that the hon. Member for Wycombe raised, we set out in either the pre-Budget report or the Red Book an explanation or rationale for the decisions that we take on the differentials in vehicle excise duty. We have done that consistently. It does not greatly surprise me that the Environmental Audit Committee takes a different view. I appear before it regularly, and always look forward to doing so. It generally finds itself at odds with some of the tax decisions taken in the Treasury.
On vehicle excise duty, it is designed, as I said, to provide signals to those at the point of purchase about the impact of the emissions of the cars that they are considering buying. To that extent, it can have an impact not just on awareness but on the motivations at the point of purchase. Mrs. Brennan has not been introduced into the Committee's proceedings before, but she is a significant illustrative case in point. My hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, West tells me that his wife, Amy, recently bought a small Toyota. Its VED rate of £35 a year was described as a significant factor in her decision to buy that model. I welcome the contribution that Mrs. Brennan has been able to make to our proceedings, and I hope that it has been helpful.
On the AA's view that we ought to be considering a further band in the VED system, and the view of my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West that we need swinging rises at the top end of the VED system, I shall take both as early representations for Budget 2008.
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Sir Ronald Harwood: Obit by Abel Levitt
Plunge, Lithuania
Sept 2020: planted by Eugenijus Bunka at Litvakland, Plateliai
Sir Ronald Harwood
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Harwood
The Ronald Harwood International Art Competition
More artwork to follow….
Abel Levitt on the passing of Sir Ronald Harwood from natural causes at his home in Sussex on 8 September 2020, at age 85.
Abel:
I would like to write specifically about Ronald's connection to Plungyan in Lithuania and his visit there with his wife Natasha in 2005.
I grew up with Ronnie Horwitz. We started school at the Kings Road Primary School in 1941, in the same class of sub A. We completed our schooling at Sea Point Boys' High in 1951. Throughout our school lives we were in the same class, at Kings Road, at Sea Point Junior and at Sea Point Boys' High. We lived close to one another, Ronnie in Victoria Road Bantry Bay, and, I, 150 yards away in Brompton Avenue. We were in the Cubs and Scouts together at the 10th Green and Sea Point, We played tennis together, watched cricket at Newlands together, competed with one another at the Eisteddfods.
At school, Ronnie took the lead in the school plays. He was outstanding. After we had finished writing our matric exams, Ronnie left for London, to study Dramatic Art, dropped out of the Royal Academy due to financial difficulties, and the rest, as they say, is history. A career of writing and leadership. We maintained a loose relationship, the occasional phone call when I was in London, but we did spend a day together after watching his acclaimed play "Taking Sides".
It was whilst reading his novel "HOME" that I learned for the first time that Ronald's father Isaac Horwitz had emigrated from Lithuania. In half a lifetime, our fathers' ancestry was not a subject of discussion. Glenda and my journey to Lithuania had already began, when I read Ronnie's book "Home" and discovered that both of our fathers were from Plungyan. I called Ronnie. "What about you and Natasha joining us in a trip to our shtetl Plungyan" I asked. The reply was immediate. And the date 25th May agreed upon, with our guide Regina to be our leader.
The meeting at the airport was emotional. Ronnie had recently been awarded the Oscar for writing the screenplay of what was to become a Holocaust Classic "The Pianist". And here he was, with his dear wife Natasha, in Lithuania.
Our journey to Plungyan was via Kovno where we visited Eugenijus Bunka, the son of the "Last Jew in Plungyan", and our friend and partner in our Plungyan ventures. Eugenijus was in hospital, recovering from an operation. He would not be with us on the upcoming welcome to the Oscar winner.
Upon our arrival in the town our first stop was at the apartment of Yacovas Bunka. During the few years of Lithuanian independence from the Soviet occupation, Yacovas Bunka had welcomed some hundreds of Plungyaner Jews. Few would have been of the international stature of the writer, playwright, literary giant and Oscar winner as Ronald Harwood. There was an immediate warm relationship although Bunka spoke no English and Ronald did not understand Yiddish.
The following morning we proceeded to the mass graves, where 1800 Plungyan Jews had been murdered by the Germans and their Lithuanian Collaborators in July 1941. The mass graves in Plungyan are special .The acclaimed sculptor Bunka, together with his Lithuanian sculptor friends had carved the sculptures which stand as sentinels overlooking the mass graves. These mass graves in the Kausenai Forest have been described by some as the most impressive in the whole of Eastern Europe. Ronald did not have family who had remained in Lithuania, but he walked around, silent, as he absorbed the sanctity of the moment. He was profoundly moved. The photo of Ronald sitting quietly on a bench describes the emotion of the visit.
Our next visit was to the Saules Gymnasium. The headmaster Jouzas Milacius welcomed his important guests, the Harwood's, in one of the multiple European languages that he spoke, but not a word of English. Jouzas is a true friend of ours, a man who was directly helpful when we proposed the establishment of a Tolerance Education Centre in his school. The pupils were assembled in the hall, waiting for the guests to arrive. They were well prepared. Every class had seen the film, "The Pianist", and had lessons about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. And here they were, seated and waiting to hear from Ronald. The students were riveted by Ronald's charm and dynamic personality.
The questions were intelligent. These children had as a teacher Danute Serapiniene, a committed and sincere lady who since 1995 had been teaching children about the Holocaust and about the Jews who lived in their town Plunge.
In the evening there was an event at the local Ogynski Palace where Ronald addressed the intellectuals of the town, relating his experiences of working in Poland with the director of the film Roman Polansky. Again the audience interacted with his engaging and charismatic personality and interacted with many questions about the film.
The following morning was a scheduled meeting with the mayor of Plunge, all arranged by the school? We sat in the mayor's office, listening to the usual welcome and niceties.
And then Ronald Harwood spoke. I remember his words very clearly. "Mr. Mayor, I know that you have difficulties with budgets. I appeal to you, whatever you do don't reduce the budgets for culture. To do so will be to the detriment of your society."
As we walked down the stairs at the conclusion of the meeting, Glenda looked at me, and I looked back at her. We were both thinking of the very same thing. That was to create an art competition, called "The Ronald Harwood Holocaust Art competition". Ronald's words to the mayor of Plunge had inspired us and since that time the Ronald Harwood Art Competition has grown from a local event, to a regional event and to a national event. The word "Art" has become "Arts" as all forms of art are part of the competition today. Painting, drawing, sculpture, drama, music and writing.
We were present at the 10th anniversary of the Ronald Harwood Arts Competition, held in the Plunge Town Hall. There was an exhibition of prize-winning art works from previous years and entries from throughout Lithuania. The International School in Vilnius arrived with two full busloads of children of all ages who took part in a musical play, in Lithuanian, English and Yiddish with
Vilna and the Holocaust as the theme.
On Friday night at our hotel in the nearby resort of Plateliai we had a traditional Friday night dinner with candle lighting and Kiddush. Our guests included teachers from the district.
Before leaving Plungyan we had a special visit to make. Living in the centre of the town was Kazys Vitkevicius and his wife. As a 14year old in 1941 Kazys had helped his mother to save Jewish girls. He did this by digging pits in which he hid the girls covered by branches, and bringing them food. Both his mother and Kazys were honoured by Yad Vashem and became Righteous among the Nations. Ronald and Natasha were visibly moved at the experience of meeting this special man.
And so back to Vilnius where Ronald addressed the students at the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Day School. Again, the subject was the movie The Pianist and once more the children at the school were enthralled by the charm and competence of the writer of the script of the film
The Harwoods returned to their home in London after an experience which Ronald told me was something beyond his expectations.
For us, that experience of being with my lifelong friend in the land of the birth of our fathers, to witness the appreciation of the young people of the artistry of Ronald Harwood inspired us to talk about Tolerance Education and to display the winning art works from the Ronald Harwood competition in countries around the world, including South Africa and Lithuania.
Abel Levitt
Eli with Glenda & Abel Levitt in Ra'anana, Israel – July 2017
Sea Point High School
Sea Point High School – Wikipedia
Sea Point High School, formerly Sea Point Boys High School, is a co-educational public high school in Main Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa. The school was established on 21 April 1884. In 1925, the senior grades were separated from the junior grades. In 1989, the school merged with Ellerslie Girls' High School after becoming co-educational.
Sea Point Boys connected to Plunyan
Sir Ronald Harwood (Horwitz)
Sir Antony Sher
Eli Rabinowitz (KehilaLink manager)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Point_High_School
The Last Jew in Plunge
Last Jew
Source: kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/plunge/Last_Jew.html
Source: kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/plunge/Home.html
Gintautas Rimeikis and Yolanta Mazhukne
Yolanta Mazhukne, Gintautas Rimeikis and Danutė Serapinienė
With Gintautas Rimeikis, Yolanta Mazhukne and Danutė Serapinienė
Sea Point (Boys') High 50 years on
50 years since we matriculated in 1969, classmates Dimitri Coutras, Ian Stein and I met last Thursday, 7 March 2019, at Sea Point High School (Sea Point Boys' High in our time).
We started our tour at 11:30am and met the principal, Ms L Lebreton, librarian, Sharnette Gordon and Marlene Botha
Basie still dominates!
Straight to the principal, L Le Breton's office.
A walk around the quad and corridors, and outdoors
The school hall
Six years ago I met with Phillip Levy and Rodney Goldberg in Sydney. Here is that post:
Sea Point Boys' Reunion – another place, another time!
The School Website:
Source: seapointhighschool.co.za
Plunge Saule Gymnazyum Tolerance Centre
Plungyan KehilaLInk
Plunge Saule Gymnazyum
Tolerance Centre
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Suzanne McLoughlin (VHA), Kerry DeGaris (TWE) and Chris Brodie (Wingara).
A field walk of the Coonawarra Rootstock Trial was held on 21 March, with 35 grapegrowers and winemakers attending, including many new faces since the inaugural field walk in March 2017.
Biosecurity was a strong focus of the field walk, with participants asked to sign in and then put on two layers of disposable shoe covers while being transferred to the trial site in a bus. We discovered that putting on shoe covers in confined spaces is no mean feat.
With biosecurity taken care of, participants received a map of the trial site indicating the locations of the various rootstocks and an observation sheet to complete during their walk. Vinehealth Australia Technical Manager Suzanne McLoughlin welcomed the participants and gave a brief overview of the trial.
The trial, established in 2009, is a long-term joint venture between Treasury Wine Estates (TWE), Vinehealth Australia and Coonawarra Vignerons, with significant funding this year from the Limestone Coast Grape and Wine Council through Wine Australia to contribute to the winemaking costs.
"It's the only curated rootstock trial of this type in South Australia that Vinehealth Australia is involved in and it's a significant project for the region to foster," Suzanne said.
The trial studies a range of rootstocks, some not yet commonly planted, and allows hands-on learning about the attributes these rootstocks can convey to scions, to see if they adequately reflect the desired wine quality and style of the region, compared to own roots.
"The trial will help the industry make informed choices about using rootstocks for future plantings, to combat the risks of phylloxera and climate change," Suzanne said.
"With a randomised, replicated section and commercially managed rows we have the opportunity to learn a lot from the trial. With the vines at 9-10 years of age they should be hitting their straps quality-wise.
Vinehealth Australia, in partnership with Coonawarra Vignerons and TWE, is planning tastings of the small lot wines later this year.
"The field walk proved a positive experience, with clear rootstock differences evident to all," Suzanne said.
"Irrigating the trial rows 'to the average' rootstock this season, we noted distinct rootstock differences in terms of canopy stress. It was very clear to see that the lowest vigour rootstocks of M6262 and Börner, as well as the Own Rooted control, were suffering significant water stress this season with yellowing canopies across all replicates.
Since March 21 we have had further interest in the trial and have taken another three locals on the field walk.
We also thank the South East Natural Resources Management Board for their contribution to helping to make the field walk a success.
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Mercury Marine will release a range of outboard motors from 75 to 150hp aimed specifically at commercial users.
The new Mercury SeaPro commercial outboard motors will have a two-year / 1000-hour warranty.
Mercury SeaPro FourStroke outboard motors are made, according to Mercury, to "provide increased durability and longer engine life in commercial applications".
The Mercury 150hp SeaPro is currently being shipped around the world while 75hp, 90hp and 115hp outboard motors will be available in April.
All Mercury SeaPro engines feature higher-durometer upper mounts that help decrease lifecycle costs. The engines are also built with a high displacement and low-weight.
"With SeaPro we have taken our newest mid-range FourStroke outboard motors to the next level of engine durability and fuel efficiency, without sacrificing power, as well as included specific features for commercial users," said Nicholas Webb, Mercury's Director of Engine Products and Marketing.
"For example, the new gearcases which let you drain the oil without having to remove the boat from the water so servicing costs are lower, and the upper mounts which are twice as stiff as those on recreational models and deliver greater durability."
The Mercury Command Thrust gearcase, which creates a bigger footprint in the water and provides more leverage to control the boat, is standard on the 75hp, 90hp and 115hp SeaPro models.
Mercury SeaPro engines come with a water-separating fuel filter and SmartCraft SC1000 SystemTach gauge. In addition, the gearcase oil drain and fill is in the torpedo, allowing the engine to be tilted for easy drainage and refilling without the need to move the boat from the water. This setup also means there is no need to remove the propeller to change the gearcase oil.
All Mercury SeaPro outboard motors feature a two-year / 1000-hour Commercial Warranty. | {
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Lightning measurements have been extensively utilised by power companies, metereological offices as well as by the scientific community in general. As opposed to the Intra-Cloud (IC) discharge, the Cloud – to – Ground (CG) lightning stroke $ a major safety hazard. In CG lightning stoke, the stepped leader decending from the base of a thundercloud triggers the first return stroke. This stroke is responsible for most of the charge transfer within few tens of microseconds causing a current of tens of kA. In this report, we present a novel CG stroke location accuracy of ≈2km. | {
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Alaska Women Also Allege Abuse
By William Lobdell
Nov. 19, 2005 12 AM PT
Times Staff Writer
STEBBINS, Alaska —
Joseph Lundowski is not the only Catholic missionary accused of molesting Eskimo children on St. Michael Island during the 1960s and '70s.
Four Alaska native women alleged in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that Anton Smario sexually abused them as young girls in Stebbins and St. Michael parishes.
Now 84, Smario denies any sexual misconduct, although he said he had been naked in front of the girls who came to his catechism classes.
Smario and Lundowski, who is accused of molesting 40 Eskimo boys, lived in the villages for seven years, beginning in 1968. Though not ordained clerics, they stayed in the rectories and performed nearly the same duties as priests, according to villagers.
Smario said that at the time he served in Alaska, he was a lay member of the Franciscan order. Working in Anchorage, he said he met Father George Endal, who offered him volunteer work at the two St. Michael Island parishes.
Marian Mike, a 43-year-old health clinic worker, alleged in a lawsuit that Smario began molesting her when she was 5 or 6.
Now a mother of seven and grandmother of three, Mike said that Smario would often masturbate in front of the girls in class and get some of them to touch his penis.
After each act, the cleric would give the girls cake, a can of peanuts or candy, Mike said. Twice, Mike said, she told Endal about Smario's actions but the alleged misconduct continued. Endal died in 1996 and this year was accused of molesting a minor.
In high school, Mike wrote an essay titled, "The Immaculate Deception," expressing her bitterness toward church leaders.
Smario, in a recent interview at his Concord, Calif., home, said he didn't "have a hang-up being without clothes" in front of the students, but that he never touched the girls inappropriately.
"There's a difference between being without clothing and acting in a salacious manner," said the married, retired photographer.
In hindsight, Smario said that his nudity in front of the girls wasn't good judgment. "Obviously, I should have been more careful and aware of what I was doing," he said.
In a May 22 letter to Judge Dale O. Curda in Bethel, Alaska, Smario elaborated on his innocence, pointing out that the bishop visited the villages, nuns taught summer school there, and dentists and doctors with no connection to the Catholic Church made regular trips.
"The impression the plaintiffs' lawyers have given that the children were totally isolated and had nowhere to turn is certainly false," he wrote.
In an interview, Smario also dismissed the notion, put forward in legal arguments by the church, that he and Lundowski were unauthorized volunteers unknown to Catholic officials.
"Oh, absolutely the bishop knew about us," Smario said. "He authorized us being there."
He added that when he left Alaska in 1975 to take care of his ill father, the bishop gave him a $1,000 bonus.
He said that he never heard allegations at the time that Lundowski was molesting boys.
Smario said that Lundowski "was very good in his job," adding, "He got along very well with the villagers. The children seemed to like him." | {
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History of the Choir
Friends of the Choir
Conductors Bruno Peyer
Gerben Grooten
Neels Boonzaaier
Kenneth Halland
Aart Bosua
Bruno Peyer
Accompanists
Susan Steenkamp-Swanepoel
Bruno Alois Peyer
13 April 1926 - 14 January 1994
The first conductor of the Pretoria Bach Choir
Bruno Peyer, born and bred in Zürich, Switzerland, emigrated to South Africa in 1957. For the next forty years he was to contribute meaningfully to the music scene in Pretoria - mainly in the area of choral singing, but also through his work and other musical activities.
The music scene in Pretoria in the late fifties was very much alive, with the Pretoriase Operagroep producing operas featuring both overseas singers and upcoming local talent. Bruno Peyer immediately became involved, serving on the committee of the Group (which was later to become the PACT Opera Department) and being appointed Musical Director of the Pretoriase Werksopera, thereafter of the Collegium Musicum Orchestra, and from 1963 to 1968 of the Music Theatre. After a few years in the music trade, he became Music Librarian at PACT, the post from where he retired in 1991.
Yet, it was Bruno Peyer who soon detected a void in this scene, and, who diligently set to work towards filling it, viz that of establishing a classical choral culture in Pretoria. This was to become a life task, to which he was completely committed, with endless dedication and enthusiasm, up to the last day of his active life.
A major step towards achieving this aim would be the establishment of a choir. In 1957, already, soon after his arrival in Pretoria, he was requested to become the leader of the choir of the church - in which he had such success that in 1959 the choir gave a public performance at the Baker Memorial Hall. The programme included works by Palestrina, Pitoni, Casali, Handel, Mozart, Schubert and featured singers such as Dennis Reynecke (later PACT Chief Director), Joseph Sprenkels and Deanne Lewaid.
This, then, was the path Bruno Peyer had set foot on, and which he was to follow tirelessly: introducing a repertoire of choral works ranging from the 7th to the 20th Centuries, selected discerningly by the music expert which he was, and always keeping his primary aim in mind: choral singing of high standard, but always working for an even higher; introducing new talent to the music scene, and accompaniment by gifted musicians - a foursome blended together by the profound musical profound musical sense and enthusiasm of a fine conductor.
After a third consecutive successful concert with his church choir, Peyer realised that Pretoria was ready to accept a permanent choir particularly to fill that, by now, acknowledged void. The Pretoria Bach Choir was founded and gave its first concert on 7 December 1962, featuring singers Rene Webb, Anne de Vries, Joseph Sprenkels, Franz Jacobs, and Marita Napier, at the very commencement of her career. Organist Willem Mathlener accompanied the works by JS Bach, Schnabel, Werner and Mozart.
The name chosen for the Bach Choir did not imply that only works by JS Bach were to be featured, but rather that the choir would strive towards the same level of excellence as is typified by Bach's compositions.
Bruno Peyer, with his Bach Choir, was responsible for a considerable number of "firsts" during their 34 years together. Some milestones along this road read like a South African 'Who's Who' in choir singing, with exciting first performances of both known and lesser known composers. In 1964 JS Bach's Magnificat was performed, featuring, inter alia, Joyce Barker; in 1965 the Beethoven Mass in C major, with Nellie du Toit, Sarie Lamprecht, Ge Korsten, Graham Burns... 1967 saw Judas Maccabeus with Nellie du Toit again, together with Peter Haffter and Gert Potgieter. For the first time in South Africa, Telemann's 1728 St Luke's Passion was performed in 1976, with Reinhard Keiser's St Mark's Passion to follow in 1977, the choir's silver jubilee year, featuring singers June Kraus, Sjoerd Beute and Gwilym Evans. Other 'firsts' for South Africa were Salieri's Te Deum de Incoronazione, the Laudes Organumof Zoltan Kodaly, Liszt's Via Crucis, and from the September 1996 concert both the Bruckner and Liszt pieces, as well as the Gounod Requiem, which was sadly to be the last work which Peyer performed with the Bach Choir. Works that appeared regularly on the Bach Choir repertoire were the St John's and other Passions, Handel and Bach Oratorios, and Handel's Messiah, to all of which Peyer rendered his unique interpretation, actually, as has been acclaimed 'much nearer the original intention of the composer'.
Peyer's value as musicologist lay not only in the compilation of his repertoire, but also in compiling the accompanying programme notes, which, if put together, would yield a vast treasure of knowledge. This, too, was a feature of his choir practices: his imparting of this knowledge to his choir members all along, so that they would always leave a choir practice enriched in this respect. This added to gaining from his craftmanship as conductor, which might be tested to the extreme, with fifty-odd more or less "analphabetics", musically spoken. (Choir members at one stage represented ten different nationalities, with Bruno addressing them in at least six languages!).
The number of soloists 'discovered' by Bruno Peyer, and set upon their careers, as well as established ones, included next to those already mentioned, Mimi Coertse, Rudi Neitz, James Bowman, Bronwen Basson, Rina Hugo, Richard Cock, Rikie Venter, Ruth Karius, Erie Visser, and many others. Many have remarked on Peyer's creative and revelating work, and have remained loyal supporters of Peyer, just as the Collegium Musicum ad hoc orchestra, as well as other instrumentalists.
Apart from the Pretoria Bach Choir, Peyer conducted various choirs for shorter or longer periods, amongst whom the Pretoria German Male Choir, the Hollandia Singers, the Johannesburg Singers, the erstwhile Army Gymnasium Choir, the Sursum Corda and the Bel Canto Choirs.
Not only was the Pretoria and South African music scene enriched by the life and work of Bruno Peyer, but, particularly so, the lives and musical experience of his choir members, his 'family', as he lovingly referred to them. His personality, his faith, as expressed through his music, his unequalled sense of humour - and his appreciation shown towards his choir members, will live on in the hearts and memories of all - as is aptly expressed in the homage compiled by Sjoerd Beute at the event of Bruno's funeral mass.
Copyright 2022 by Pretoria Bach Choir
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We're now well into the ARE 5.0 transition and it's time to look at what we've learned. If you're new to the 5.0 exams the below tips will help you know what to expect when you sit down at the testing center for your first exam. We use our ARE 5.0 study materials to teach these methods, so check those out if you haven't already.
If you spend any amount of time looking around the web, you'll see one of the biggest complaints about ARE 5.0 is that candidates are running out of time. In 4.0 it was common to get through all of the multiple choice questions and be able to go back and review marked questions. That isn't the case any more. In 5.0, candidates must be very conscious about how they're spending their time, and which questions they're marking for review.
Case study questions where the location of the information isn't obvious. Don't spend too much time looking for a single answer. If you're not sure where something is, mark it and come back to it.
Some candidates have suggested skipping the entire case study section, this is NOT a viable strategy and it will cause you to fail.
The ARE 5.0 transition introduces three new components to the exams: hot spot (point and click), drag-and-place, and case studies. Make sure to click on the links and watch the videos to familiarize yourself with them.
When you get to the case studies at the end of your exam, you're going to get frustrated so be prepared for it. We agree that 5.0 tests candidates in a manner that is more similar to how Architects practice. The case studies are a huge step in that direction, but the case studies have a similar problem to the 4.0 vignettes – both attempt to replicate how Architects practice with limiting software and hardware.
Let us explain. 4.0 attempted to replicate CAD with NCARB software that's really nothing like what anyone uses in practice. 5.0 plops an Architect's set of drawings, Zoning Code, Building Code, and References in a little tiny window on the test centers tiny monitor. To see information you need to toggle between all of the documents, zoom in, zoom out, scroll up, scroll down, scroll left, and scroll right. In practice you'd probably have the drawings printed out or on a separate monitor. Furthermore, the testing center computers have reportedly been slow to switch between documents. Don't sweat it, just be prepared and don't let it affect your test taking.
For anyone who hasn't been a part of the ARE 5.0 transition, they're bound to think that ARE 5.0 is easier than ARE 4.0 based simply on the fact that ARE 5.0 requires one less exam for candidates to get their license. Well, I'm here to tell you that's a myth (at least the easier part).
What removing one exam from the journey to licensure does is make it so that the exams are more broad. That means candidates need to understand a little more for each exam. But that doesn't necessarily mean that 5.0 is harder, it's just different.
You needed to know your tools in 4.0 too, but with the ARE 5.0 transition, the tools are a little different.
Case study resources: When you're searching through the huge text docs on the case studies use the search tool located in the bottom left to search for key terms.
Drag-and-place: A few candidates have wasted a lot of time because they didn't realize you can rotate items in the drag and place questions by right clicking and typing in the angle of rotation.
The calculator: Know what every button on the below calculator does and when to use it. Don't mistakenly have radians checked when you need degrees. Do you know what asin is and when to use it? Do you know exactly where to go to find the square root of something? Knowing the calculator can help you save precious time. Break time: Now you get to choose your own break in the top right of your exam so use it strategically. Notice when you're getting mentally fatigued and use it.
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Q: if $\bar{\mathbb {Q}}=\mathbb R$ then is : $\bar{\mathbb {Q}}\times\bar{\mathbb {Q}}$ = $\mathbb R^2$? I have read about density of $\mathbb Q$ in real number set which can be written as :$\bar{\mathbb {Q}}=\mathbb R$ , I have two question :
What does it meant :$\bar{\mathbb {Q}}$ in mathematics ?
and for my second question is :
if $\bar{\mathbb {Q}}=\mathbb R$ then is : $\bar{\mathbb {Q}}\times\bar{\mathbb {Q}}$ = $\mathbb R^2$ ?
A: In your context, the notation $\overline A$ means closure of the set $A$ in some implied ambient topological space. Note that this notation is actually ambiguous because it does not say what the ambient space is.
If $A\subset X$ is a subset of a topological space $X$ the closure of $A$ in $X$ is the intersection of all subsets $B\subset X$ which are (1) closed in $X$ and (2) contain $A$, i.e. $A\subset B$.
So for instance, the closure of $\mathbb Q$ in $\mathbb R$ is in fact $\mathbb R$, so one could write $\overline{\mathbb Q}=\mathbb R$. However, the closure of $\mathbb Q$ in the topological space $\mathbb Q$ is just $\mathbb Q$ itself, so in this case $\overline{\mathbb Q}=\mathbb Q$. All this to say, context is important.
Now, for the question of whether $\overline{\mathbb Q}\times \overline{\mathbb Q} = \mathbb R^2$ one has to be a little careful. We have to make sure we know what that statement even means.
One way in which this statement could be true is if we consider $\mathbb Q$ as a subsed of $\mathbb R^2$ in two different ways: once as $\mathbb Q\times \{0\}$ and once as $\{0\}\times \mathbb Q$. It is the true that if we take the closure of each of those subsets (yielding the two lines $\mathbb R\times \{0\}$ and $\{0\}\times\mathbb R$ inside $\mathbb R^2$) we can think of $\mathbb R^2$ as the cartesian product of those two lines. This however requires a lot of unmentioned identifications and so should only be done if all the identifications are clear from the context or made explicit.
Another thing one could do is to consider the subset $\mathbb Q^2$ of $\mathbb R^2$ which is dense, so we could write $\overline{\mathbb Q\times \mathbb Q}=\mathbb R^2$ which is similar but different from what you wrote.
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Philosophical Shock Tactics
Published June 5, 2012 | By Clive Hamilton
Not long ago Peter Singer sent a shock wave around his home country when on national television he provided an ethical justification for bestiality. This year three analytical philosophers were taken aback at the ridicule they attracted for proposing that humans be biologically engineered to reduce their carbon footprints as a response to global warming.
And in April two philosophers were surprised by the abuse and threats they received after writing a journal article arguing that infanticide, or 'after-birth abortion', is permissible.
What is mystifying about all this is not the public reaction to these arguments, which was predictable, but the philosophers' dismay that they should attract hostility. Why, it is worth asking, are many academic philosophers so insensitive to the offense certain kinds of positions cause? Why do so many philosophers today seem to have tin ears?
I think the answer lies in the predisposition of large parts of the profession towards a certain kind of hyper-rationality that devalues and suppresses emotional intuitions that would both flag problems in their arguments and warn them of the likely reactions.
In lectures and seminars, philosophy students learn that while emotional intuitions and non-rational sensibilities may be a useful starting point, moral reactions must be rationally justifiable to have validity; otherwise they are merely 'emotional' (with all of the connotations that go with that accusation).
Ethical arguments that incorporate anything other than logical propositions based on accepted facts are much harder to make and defend, so students learn quickly in essays and tutorials to steer clear of them and stick to 'analytics'.
The process reaches an intense level among graduate students who have proven themselves in the established mode of argument, so that other kinds of philosophical thinking have been winnowed out. (A similar process occurs in economics departments).
At least, this tends to be the case in universities dominated by the analytical tradition (most universities in Anglophone countries), where philosophy has attempted to gain greater respectability by moving away from the humanities and towards the more positivist fields of study (much like economics).
In this way the exercise of rationality tends to detach reason-giving from some things that matter, but are hard to articulate. The result is what might be called a kind of learned autism.
The types of interventions I mentioned at the start (in favour of bestiality, bioengineering and infanticide) are sometimes defended as the free expression of views in a liberal society. Well, yes; although one has to ask what the point is when the arguments are inflammatory and likely to alienate the public.
This is not to say arguments that attract hostility should not be made. I receive plenty of angry abuse from climate deniers for my writings on climate change; but if a coherent case could be made that social utility could be maximized by 'deniercide' it would be foolish to put it forward, and not just because of the reaction it would spark. A coherent argument would be a wrong argument.
The tin ear to public reaction is the same one that is deaf to the deeper aspects of being human that are at the centre of other philosophical traditions. I recently attended a seminar on Wittgenstein and Heidegger at which it was asked whether Wittgenstein (a hero of the analytical tradition) was right in thinking that Heidegger's arguments were 'nonsense'.
In posing this question, the enormous richness and depth of Heidegger's thought would be judged according to the stringent precepts of logic, to see whether his arguments could be declared non-sense.
Simply by posing the question the work of the twentieth century's most influential philosopher is eviscerated. If you go to Heidegger's work with a view to running the analytical ruler over it, then don't bother. It is all nonsense. But those who approach it in that way risk marginalizing themselves from the broad sweep of human concerns.
13 Responses to Philosophical Shock Tactics
Ben Plommer says:
So, there are various moral claims such that (a) a coherent argument can be made in their favour but (b) they spark strongly hostile emotional reactions from some members of the public. As I understand it, your claim is that, among these claims, some but not all are such that (c) they ought not to be publicly defended, and this fact is partly explained by their satisfying (b). But you don't seem to have given any hint about how to decide, if an moral claim satisfies (a) and (b), whether it also satisfies (c).
Arguing that infanticide is permissible and arguing that people ought to change their behaviour to prevent climate change, for example, both satisfy (a) and (b). There are plenty of people, apparently, who also think that they both satisfy (c). Why is it, then, that you get to tell Giubilini and Minerva that infanticide satisfies (c), but but nobody gets to tell you that your views on climate change don't?
Is it just because society is overwhelmingly against bestiality? But if so, wouldn't that also mean that a philosopher who lives in, say, an overwhelmingly homophobic society ought not to publicly defend homosexuality? By doing so, would they be exhibiting a kind of "learned autism"? (a usage, incidentally, that seems to me to be demeaning both to philosophers and to autistic people)
Hello Clive, and thank you for your post.
I agree with your observation that it seems surprising that philosophers who propose controversial ideas seem taken aback by the reactions that they receive. But I am not sure that the reasons are those that you give, viz that it's the fault of analytical philosophy.
(It seems to me, by the way, that a real analytic philosopher should be able to distinguish an insult from a "death threat".)
I'm sure that Heidegger is worth reading (and he won't be eviscerated simply because Wittgenstein is reported to have called his work "nonsense").
But at least Wittgenstein's philosophy didn't lead him to support fascism…
The over-theatrical reactions by the philosophers you mention could more simply be explained by their desire for philosophy to be in the news and not merely an ivory-tower activity – "high-impact philosophy", as a previous post called it.
Clive Hamilton says:
Thanks for this response. The essence of my post was that in their pursuit of coherent positions from 'first principles' some philosophers are insensitive to strong messages that somthing is ethically repugnant. I then speculate on why this may be the case; why they don't stop and reflect on this signal.
I think your comment reveals the same tendency. Instead of stopping to ask why pretty much everyone reacts with repugnance to the idea of having sex with animals, you revert to the kind argumentation that demands consistency, as if the difficulty of explaining something automatially rules it invalid. This demand for consistency srikes me as a kind of fetish.
The argument that if homophobia turned out to be wrong therefore every kind of sexual taboo must be wrong seems to me to be a bit lazy. Isn't it more interesting to try to understand why they are different (something I attempted in my book "The Freedom Paradox"). After all, the fact that every society at every time has had a taboo on bestiality must tell us something.
There is an essential difference between the reactions to arguments on infanticide and climate change. While the extremely hostile reactions in each case come from small and possibly fanatial minorities, the hostility to infanticide is a general one throughout the community, which ought to signal something. In the case of climte change the arguments are based on science and rejecting them means rejecting the whole body of modern science and scientific practice.
Thanks for your reply. It's not my intention to suggest that "the difficulty of explaining something automatially rules it invalid", or that nobody has the right to be against bestiality unless they can explain why. I roughly agree with Owen Schaefer's comments below about how public reaction should be taken into account; specific moral intuitions (e.g. "bestiality is wrong) have the status of data that need to be taken into account, but the same is true of general ones (e.g. "if something causes no harm, it isn't wrong").
My claim, rather, is the very weak one that widespread repugnance towards a particular view shouldn't (as I took you to be suggesting) have a lexical priority over other considerations, such that philosophers shouldn't even give serious consideration to such a view. It's one thing to object to the substance of Singer's philosophical defence of bestiality, or to disagree with him without being able to explain why; it's something altogether different to suggest that defending bestiality simply isn't a philosophically respectable thing to be doing.
I also don't mean to suggest that "if homophobia turned out to be wrong therefore every kind of sexual taboo must be wrong". It's entirely plausible to think that, when the issues are fully understood, it will turn out that homosexuality is okay but bestiality isn't. What I do claim is that if widespread repugnance towards homosexuality isn't a sufficient reason against even trying to defend it, the same applies to bestiality. To put it another way: if you think people's emotional reactions towards bestiality are decisive reason for thinking bestiality is wrong, you'd better be prepared to explain to the people of (say) Uganda why their reactions towards homosexuality don't have the same status, and hence why they should even bother listening to your arguments for accepting homosexuality.
You may be right (I don't know) that repugnance towards bestiality has always been much more widespread than repugnance towards homosexuality, and if so then I suppose you could argue that this difference is sufficient to make it respectable to defend homosexuality but not to defend bestiality. But even if you can formulate a principle that would provide this result, I doubt it will draw the line you want to draw. It clearly wouldn't rule out defending slavery, for example, as slavery has historically been practiced by many or most cultures. And as Owen points out, such a principle might even mean that people in pre-industrial times ought not to have advocated the abolition of slavery. But I don't suppose you want to claim that defending slavery is more respectable than defending bestiality, or that pre-industrial abolitionists had a "tin ear".
("bestiality" should read "infanticide")
De Pietro says:
I often think about the more immediate role we philosophers have in the society, and on which way is the best to transmit our ideas the lay public. Is it by self-help books? Is it by specialized journals? Is it by something in between, such as blogs like this one?
I have never found a definitive answer, because there are way too many factors to consider. There is, for example, the matter of the expected public. I see no problem with Minerva's and Giubilini's paper, aside from their stylistic choice (they should have used lower-impact words, but that is all). A free and open discussion of polemic topics is expected of a journal of medical ethics, and the publication of that article is an indication of the journal's academic health. They did it in the right place, to a public that supposedly would respond with similar degree of objectivity. Now, if they had published a self-help book named "Is infanticide good?", then I concede it would be their mistake, because that would just be plain stupid.
This is why you can't really compare Singer in the TV with JME's paper: their contexts are completely different.
There is also plenty of flammable content published in the hard sciences, but those never become public knowledge, simply because the means for bridging the technical gap does not exist – they do not care for letting people know what they are doing. To my knowledge there is no "Oxford University Microbiology Blog". For instance: some time ago some people from Stanford managed to successfully write and rewrite information on DNA, something similar to a very rudimentary computer program. Well, building computers with DNA seems like the sort of thing that religious groups would stridently complain against, but I have not heard a word about it.
On a second thought, the scientists did an interview to their Campus network, though. So I suppose they were not completely locked in their ivory towers. Although, naturally, it does not have ABC's reach or public.
Dave Frame says:
Hmmm… I agree that by trying to be as parsimonious as possible with regard to assumptions and parameters economics and analytic philosophy often become disengaged with important intuitions, but the benefit of parsimony is generality; by being free to reason without worrying too much about how the punters might feel about things, new frontiers of behaviour (eg geoengineering, genetic modification, animal rights, etc) can be explored intellectually. And while I agree that this lack of groundedness in human experience can lead to some daft arguments, I worry about attempts to ground reasoning in "some things that matter, but are hard to articulate" given the lack of political diversity among academics in the social sciences and humanities. I worry a bit that calls like yours are attempts to elevate "some things that matter, but are hard to articulate" for some groups (left-leaning academics) while downplaying or even deriding "some things that matter, but are hard to articulate" for other groups (political conservatives, libertarians, traditionally religious folks). I agree there's something a bit "autistic" about some analytic philosophy and modern economics, but I don't find it any more troubling that the prospects of a kind of kulturkampf in which social scientists attempt to define – and hence narrow – the set of "preferences" against which reasoning is allowed to take place.
And in defence of Matthew, Anders and Rebecca – I don't find their proposal (biologically engineering smaller people for carbon footprint reasons) remotely compelling, but I don't think it's any more bonkers than the per capita emissions allocations approaches which get a lot of support among academics (but not among real policy people, who are attempting to deliver welfare (etc) across multiple policy objectives). Both involve heroic, deeply counterfactual assumptions about people's appetite for bearing climate-related burdens. [Both are, in the words of James Ellroy "long on theory and short on precedent".]
Owen Schaefer says:
The main thrust of this post is quite compelling. Philosophers (whether of the analytic persuasion or not) should take seriously popular concerns and occasionally-vehement reactions to their positions. These popular reactions constitute objections to the given position that must be met.
The first thing that must be done in meeting an objection is understanding it, interpreting it in a way that is fair to the objector. This will involve clarifying ideas that are otherwise hard to articulate – something that philosophers should aspire to in general. Such clarification is important for both comprehension and communication.
Once the objection is understood, it can then be evaluated on its merits. We might disagree about whether these responses are adequate, or work properly; but I think if the effort is seriously made (and popular concerns are not just waved away) then the philosopher need not worry about further vehement reactions (putting aside odd/unlikely cases where philosophers will incite violent mobs). That is, as long as the philosopher has seriously engaged with the public's concerns, the public's continued vehement reactions should not be a reason against publishing the argument. Have defenders of infanticide or bestiality seriously engaged with such opposition in their work? I'm not certain, to be honest.
To hold that public reaction is a strong reason against publishing even when the public's concerns are addressed would have problematic implications. As Ben Plommer points out, this would imply strong reasons against publishing an anti-homophibic text in a very (or vehemently) homophobic society. Or if you think homophobia is not currently widespread enough to have such an implication, consider abolitionist arguments in pre-industrial times; those would have met with widespread public disapproval (except for the slaves…), but it would be wrong to think that such public disapproval would have been reason against publishing abolitionist texts. Also, such a policy would lead to philosophical conservatism – ideas are ruled out of public discourse if they are too far from the public mainstream. Part of the public benefit of philosophical discourse should be to help nudge public discourse towards more reasonable and (one hopes) accurate views. That will involve some terrible ideas being put forward, but also some good ones – hopefully, enough to make some progress.
Don Mathews says:
I don't believe proposing genetic engineering or advocating infanticide is analytic philosophy. What would be analytic philosophy is to analyze cultures in history that performed infanticide. I believe they have existed. The mother named the child after three days and once named it had rights but not until then. If the child was defective and the mother left it out to be eaten by wolves within those three days it was not deemed immoral. The analytic philosopher would examine and clarify those moral arguments but not make any of his or her own. When Hercules was ordered to clean the stables nothing was said about putting anything back. I though the job of the analytic philosopher is to simply clean the stables.
Anders Sandberg says:
I'm one of the climate human engineering authors, and I don't think I was taken aback by the strong reactions as much as by the surprise that there were reactions in the first place. As my response in the Guardian admits, I knew I was trolling to some extent. We wanted to explore a particular question, but it was also interesting to explore because it lies in the intersection between different moral views on the environment and human enhancement. I mostly expected some upset environmentalist ethicists. Actually finding that we had pressed the hot buttons of bioconservative climate denialists hard was a bit of a surprise, as was the traction the story got on the internet.
In our case I think the uproar was not too bad. I am more worried about the quiet people, the people who might actually take our ideas at face value and *miss the point* of the paper. We wanted to investigate a possible approach, not to argue in favour of it. But that easily gets lost in the reporting.
So if I have any advice on this to give, it is that when people get aroused they tend to react to surface characteristics of the message or imagined contents and not its real contents. Making people too upset means they will not think very much about the topic, and the discourse will suffer. However, sometimes it is useful to make a punchy claim or get a debate going. To fine-tune this is hard, and I doubt academics or anybody else will be reliably good at it.
Anders wrote: "So if I have any advice on this to give, it is that when people get aroused they tend to react to surface characteristics of the message or imagined contents and not its real contents. Making people too upset means they will not think very much about the topic, and the discourse will suffer. However, sometimes it is useful to make a punchy claim or get a debate going. To fine-tune this is hard, and I doubt academics or anybody else will be reliably good at it."
Maybe… or maybe it's because they think it's a really bad idea. My issue is that climate change discourse is full of bad ideas, including "ignore it", variants of "panic!" and "use it as an excuse to declare emergency powers and stage the revolution". Those ideas irritate me because I think they're terrible ideas – unconstructive, ill-thought out and neither well-aligned with long-term human welfare nor justified by the evidence regarding the nature and scale of the problem. And because I hear them time and time again. Your idea was at least bonkers in a new way, which is refreshing. And I thought it had a nice touch of self-interest, along at least one axis: (1) relatively tall people tend to win at basketball; (2) Matthew is not tall; (3) Matthew likes basketball, and likes to win at basketball; (4) policies that decrease the mean height of people also increase Matthew's odds of winning at basketball. So your idea would both reduce carbon emissions and help Matthew win at basketball, which sounds like just the kind of co-benefits we climate people like. If Jordan's nationally appropriate mitigation actions can include buying new military vehicles (more fuel efficient, you see)*, I don't see why helping Matthew win basketball games shouldn't count, too.
*eg P6 of http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_15/copenhagen_accord/application/pdf/jordancphaccord_app2.pdf
Zack Martin says:
I think it is not enough to say that "Bestiality is wrong!" and leave it at that. If we are to be reflective ethical agents (and I think it is an ethical good that we be such agents), we are going to have to ask ourselves "Why is it wrong?" And here work like Singer's becomes very useful. If we accept his logic, then what he has demonstrated, is not that bestiality is right or wrong, but that given a restriction to certain ethical first principles, we cannot reach the conclusion that bestiality is wrong. That then leaves us with two choices – either we look for other ethical first principles, beyond those which Singer presumes; or we give up our idea that bestiality is immoral. For myself, I go for the first option rather than the second. But even while I don't agree with Singer's conclusion, I can appreciate the value in his work in this way. Whereas, the people who react to his work with alarmism, and hence fail to engage with it, are in a sense ethically deficient – they are both failing to be reflective ethical agents, and are even acting to discourage others from so being.
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Rep. Brad Sherman (left) and USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Brock Bierman
Rep. Sherman Questions USAID Assistant Administrator on Continued Artsakh Aid; U.S.-Armenia Double Tax Treaty
WASHINGTON—Responding to a question raised by U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Brock Bierman pledged, before a Congressional panel, to continue funding for the HALO Trust's de-mining of Artsakh, a long-standing Armenian National Committee of America policy priority.
"We want to thank Congressman Sherman for his strong legislative leadership on aid to Artsakh and also Assistant Administrator Bierman – a longtime friend of the Armenian American community – for sharing the Trump Administration's continued commitment to de-mining Artsakh," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We are seeing such strong bipartisan support for the U.S. aid to Artaskh because it represents an American success story – an effective investment in peace that saves lives and promotes stability."
During his testimony, Bierman reported, "we are at about 97.6% completed the mission of de-mining in that particular area, and more than 125,000 people have benefited from the demining. This has saved lives and prevents injuries and generates local jobs. We will continue to look at humanitarian assistance in that particular region as it arises."
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe Chairman Dana Rohrabacher noted that de-mining is among the best projects that the U.S. can fund. "To me [demining] is the most justified of all expenditures of foreign aid."
USAID Assistant Administrator Brock Bierman with (from l to r) ANCA Western Region advocate Leonard Manoukian, ANCA Eastern Region Chairman Steve Mesrobian, Dr. Alina Dorian, and ANCA Chairman Raffi Hamparian following an April, 2018, meeting regarding opportunities for cooperation on US assistance to Artsakh and Armenia.
In his remarks, Bierman pointed out, "I have met with the Armenian Diaspora and we have made a point of reaching out to them and talking about partnerships benefiting not only Armenia but the region." During recent discussions with Bierman, ANCA National Board Members urged U.S. assistance for Artsakh de-mining and support for the Lady Cox Rehabilitation Center in Stepanakert, which provides care for children, adults, and the elderly with cognitive and physical disabilities. Both are part of the organization's 360-degree advocacy for Artsakh freedom.
The ANCA first worked with Rep. Sherman in support of Artsakh assistance in 1997, as an enduring American investment in peace. Though the initial amendment offered by the Congressman failed in Committee, it sparked a discussion that led to the inclusion of Artsakh assistance in Fiscal Year 1998 foreign aid bill. The US has sent over $43 million to Artsakh over the last 20 years according to Bierman.
In June, 2018, USAID Administrator Mark Green, responding to written inquiries again by Rep. committed to "completing de-mining [Artsakh] as quickly, and as thoroughly, as possible." Administrator Green noted, "In October 2017, USAID reprogrammed approximately $2.8 million for Nagorno-Karabagh de-mining, which will extend de-mining activities until September 2019, when USAID assistance for de-mining under the current award and partnership with HALO Trust will be complete."
During Thursday's hearing, Rep. Sherman also noted that he will be submitting a "question for the record" asking the USAID to contact the Department of Treasury in support of a new U.S.-Armenia tax treaty "which will actually make money for the IRS instead of cost money, like everything else does." | {
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Comparison of Mr and Mrs Andrews Paintings
I chose to make the comparison between Gainsborough's "Mr & Mrs Andrews" and Shonebare's "Mr & Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads" because although the titles are similar and the concept is similar, there are distinct differences. The fundamental differences stem from the fact that Shonebare used mannequins, whereas Gainsborough painted in oil on canvas. Shonebare has excluded the landscape whereas Gainsborough has included his beloved landscape which is an important part of his paintings. These two artists are from two different backgrounds, different races and 235 years apart. The two pieces are an ocean apart: Gainsborough's painting is hung in The National Gallery, London while Shonebare's work is installed in The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The important differences in the two pieces are Gainsborough has a landscape in the background, whereas Shonebare has excluded this which alters the subject completely. For Gainsborough, the landscape was extremely important and by combining portraiture with landscape, this helped him to cover his love of landscape and at the same time earned a living, but it also gave us an historical insight into the landscapes in that period. Gainsborough's sitters almost appear secondary, with the Andrews sitting under the oak tree and just about appearing in the portrait. The fact that Shonebare excludes the landscape is significant as the landscape depicts the wealth and status of Mr Andrews and by excluding this, Shonebare has appropriated a degree of this power and wealth. Gainsborough cursed the face business but Shonebare's pieces without heads would not have worked in Gainsborough's time for the simple fact that portraiture was popular in the mid 18th century. Portraitures were a way of indicating to the world that a person had arrived. The face/eyes are the one thing that helps to give a human being identity – it is like the window of a person's character and soul and by excluding this, there is an emptiness in Shonebare's story, although one could argue that by being faceless the viewers can decide on the characters for themselves. Another significant factor in Shonebare's Mr & Mrs Andrew is by not having any heads, the eyes are drawn immediately to the beautiful vibrant fabrics. The Dutch Wax fabrics are important signifiers of Africa in Shonebare's installation and although this is associated with Africa, it is in fact printed fabric based on Indonesians batik, manufactured in the Netherlands, Britain and other countries and exported to West Africa. This cloth has proved to be a rich and adaptable material, both literally and metaphorically, and it is vibrant and theatrical, although this particular installation is incongruous as the material does not marry up with the period designs of the mid 18th century as it would have been highly unlikely gentlemen and ladies would have dressed in clothing from the sub-Continent, even though some of these materials are extremely expensive. Include in here Shonebare's technique(why did he use material?)/Gainsborough's brushstrokes (how has he managed to achieve such reality in his fabric? There is also something quite unsavoury about decapitated heads with the bodies still looking alive and I find the Shonebare's mannequins quite surreal and disturbing having looked at this several times. Why however did Shonebare use headless characters? One of the reasons I expect could well be he wanted the characters to be mysterious but it is more likely that because Gainsborough's painting is a celebration of deference and by being headless, Shonebare has somehow deflated their status. The eyes of Gainsborough's "Mr & Mrs Andrews" are staring straight at viewers, inviting them into their world. Expand here. In comparison to her neck, however, Gainsborough's Mrs Andrews has extremely narrow shoulders which seems out of proportion to the rest of her body, and I wonder if this was naturally so or if it was to underscore that she was the subordinate of the two. Mrs Andrews' faint smile indicates decorum although her narrow shoulders and posture reveals a degree of subjugation and possibly domination by her confident, no-nonsense husband. Shonebare's Mrs Andrews' posture has revealed a more confident looking woman with the shoulders being broader and the fact that the couple looks more equal has automatically transformed Shonebare's mannequins into the 21st century. Gainsborough's painting on the other hand is an anachronism of the past with the man standing next to his belongings: his wife, dog and gun and his land ownership in the background. Expand on Gainsborough here. Although Shonebare's installation is inside a building and there is just a plain background, he has managed to conjure up a feeling of a couple being outside of a building and the Rococo style bench could well have assisted in making this possible. When I look at Shonebare's piece, I am thinking landed gentry but on looking again, my eyes tells me that there is incongruity as these bright colours would be classified as far too garish for these upwardly mobile folks in the middle of the English countryside. It shows Mrs Andrews in fine silk clothing, sitting on a Rococo style bench, sitting primly, while Mr Andrews is portrayed as a casually dressed gentleman with a dog and a gun, standing proudly before his sprawling land. Expand on both Mr Andrews – clothes, figure and posture.
I saw "Mr & Mrs Andrews" at the National Gallery in late November 2009 and it is a relatively small oil on canvas, measuring 69.8 x 119.4 cms. It lacked that stiffness and grandeur associated with huge canvasses of that period. The young couple are shown in their Suffolk surroundings and it shows a distinctive style of portraiture, which does convey a degree of spontaneity and casualness, although that is not strictly true as the painting is highly organised. Robert Andrews would have been eager to display his latest agricultural advancement with the mechanical seed drill which was unusual in the mid-18 th century. Expand on Gainsborough's landscape.
Why did Shonebare not have a landscape/background? Why did he chose to have a 3-d installation? Could he have achieved a realistic landscape of that size in post-Modern Britain?
Both artists are from completely different backgrounds and eras and to understand these pieces a little better, it is important to look in further details at their lives.
Yinka Shonebare MBE was born 234 years later, in London in 1962 to Nigerian parents and lived in Battersea until his parents relocated to Lagos when he was 3. His father, a lawyer, wanted him to also study law but at 17 Shonebare returned to London and at 19 he chose to study art. He received his BA from Byam Shaw (now part of Central St Martins College of Art & Design) and his MA from Goldsmith College, London University. A month into his art course he became seriously ill with a rare viral infection which attacked his spine and left him temporarily paralysed. He is now partially paralysed and walks using a stick. While at art school Shonebare was questioned by a lecturer about his choice of subject matter and why was it not more African?
This started his journey of using Dutch Wax fabric as an apt metaphor for the entangled relationship between Africa and Europe in his installations. It has proved to be a rich and adaptable material, with the flexibility to be used in his installations, his paintings and in other projects he has undertaken. Shonebare works across the media of painting, sculpture, photography and filmmaking and has won several prizes, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2004 and has been awarded the commission to make a work for the Trafalgar Square Fourth plinth in 2010. In 2005 he was awarded the MBE – an award he has chosen to use as part of his artistic identity and uses this wherever his name is written.
Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1727, fifth son of a cloth merchant. Having a keen interest in drawing as a child, at the tender age of 13, he was sent to London to study art in 1740. He was a founding member of the Royal Academy, but unlike his contemporary, Joshua Reynolds, he was never knighted. Gainsborough's natural preference was always for landscape painting, but it was impossible for an English artist to make a living painting landscapes and so in 1748 he moved back to Suffolk where be became known as a portrait painter. He hated portrait painting and, like Reynolds, this was his main form of income but he felt "it bounded him to the wishes of his sitters." "….Nothing is worse than gentlemen – I do portraits to live and landscapes because I love them", Gainsborough once said to a friend. In another letter to a friend he complained about the pressure of society portraiture, which he described as "the curs'd Face Business".
Gainsborough was one of the most important English artists of his time. He was impressed by the natural rhythm of Dutch landscape paintings and became a dedicated admirer of Van Dyck. The focus of country life as a centre of power and privilege was faithfully reflected in Gainsborough's art, and in Mr & Mrs Andrews the landscape reflected this power and self-esteem.
In this painting, his most famous, it shows Robert Andrews, Gainsborough's childhood friend, with his wife Frances on their estate. They had been married on 10th November 1748 when he was 23 and she was 16 and it is believed that this was painted soon after their marriage. Robert Andrews inherited half of his father's estate and the other half of the neighbouring pieces of land from his wife's father, William Carter. In "Mr & Mrs Andrews" Gainsborough succeeded in painting both a portrait of the client and of the landscape which is natural and in fact it is possible to relocate the very tree under which the Andrews sat. Unlike the French artificial geometric gardens, he was concerned with freeing painting from any kind of stylisation although Gainsborough sometimes included his own landscape from his imagination.
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Home>Music> Lil Wayne Announces "I Ain't Sh*t Without You" Tour
Lil Wayne Announces "I Ain't Sh*t Without You" Tour
By Alex Zidel
Weezy is partnering up with TIDAL to give back to his fans.
This year has been major for fans of Lil Wayne. It felt as though Tha Carter V would never be released but finally, it saw the light of day a few months ago. We had all been hoping to hear the full work for years and Tunechi answered our prayers, delivering one of the greatest projects of the entire year. He's been popping up at a few festival appearances, giving back to the fans that have supported him for years, but if you've been meaning to witness his live show in a more intimate setting, the freshly-announced I Ain't Shit Without You Tour is for you.
Weezy came through on his official YouTube page, announcing that he would be taking the road for four dates. The most unique part about the announcement is that the cities have not yet been announced. In fact, they haven't even been chosen yet. Fans are encouraged to vote for the cities he should travel to, performing in each one. The IASWY tour was announced as a partnership with TIDAL as the winning cities will be announced on December 10. One of the shows will be live-streamed for users of the streaming platform.
The legendary rapper told fans, "It's gon' be intimate but I'm still gonna go crazy and you might get to hear some shit you never heard, some shit some people may never hear, things like that." Better get to voting!
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The example can be found in the `example` folder and is quite simple in nature. It just shows common use cases for interacting with components validation state and displaying errors from the validation system in the view layer.
You can access the example as a demo **[HERE](https://rawgit.com/grofit/treacherous-vue/master/example/app.html)**
## Browsing the source
The source has tried to be as simple to follow as possible with the `app.html` and `app.js` being the entry point for the example, and ther being some components which each show some use cases.
There is a `compiled.js` which is the overall webpack output for everything and this can be ignored, but ultimately you can browse all the rest of the source and see how everything interacts and how rulesets are created and validation groups are hooked into.
### Basic component
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### Complex component
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Adolf Hitler: How Did He Come To Power?
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Adolf Hitler is a name that immediately summons the image of pernicious and radical evil. However, just as it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a country to raise a dictator. Hitler's rise to power is a saga that includes the complicity of many, the help of some, and an infamous political purge. Hitler's evil has become so ubiquitous and self-evident that our friends over at Parthenon podcasts recently held a roundtable discussing who would one kill and why they held the proviso that no one on the roundtable could say Hitler because that is the boilerplate name that everyone would say. You can find that podcast here!
In fact, famed Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw correctly refers to Adolf Hitler as "the embodiment of modern political evil".
The story really begins back in 1919, when a young Adolf Hitler, fresh out of the German army at the end of World War 1, joins the German Workers' Party. Having previously been an intelligence officer who was monitoring the German Worker's party, Hitler found a growing admiration for the party's nationalistic and anti-Semitic ideas. He became especially fetch by the party's founder, Anton Drexler, who invited the 30-year-old Hitler to join the party after having been impressed by his oratory abilities. Thus, Hitler became a member of the German Worker's Party.
It was two years later in 1921, Hitler became the Chairman of the party. Further than that, the German Worker's Party, called Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or DAP, was renamed the National Socialist German Worker's Party (or NSDAP).
Beer Hall Putsch
(See Main Article: Beer Hall Putsch)
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and defeat in World War One, the government of the new German Weimar Republic was forced to accept the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which included the payment of reparations to the allies of 6,600 million.
The repayments led to a devaluation of the German mark against foreign currencies and to hyperinflation in Germany. In 1923, when Germany defaulted on its repayments France occupied the Ruhr industrial region of Germany.
With popular feelings against the government, Hitler believed that the time was right for his National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) to overthrow the government.
On 8th November with the support of other Socialist groups, and former World War One General Ludendorff, Hitler ordered 600 of his Stormtroopers under the command of Herman Goering to surround a Beer Hall in Munich where Conservative politician Gustav von Kahr was making a speech to 3,000 people. Also present were the local army commander, Lossow, and the Bavarian police chief, Seisser. At about 8.30 pm Hitler entered the hall, stood on a chair, and fired a pistol shot into the ceiling. He announced to the crowd that the revolution had begun then ordered von Kahr, Lossow and Seisser into an adjoining room. After about ten minutes the group returned to the hall and Hitler announced that he had the support of all three men. When the meeting ended, Hitler immediately began planning his takeover of Munich. Von Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser went straight to the authorities.
The next morning Hitler and 3,000 Nazi supporters began a march on Munich. However, it soon became apparent that the authorities had been alerted when they encountered a roadblock manned by 100 armed police. Shots were fired killing sixteen Nazis and four police officers. Both Hitler and Goering were injured and ran to take cover. Other Nazis also ran. Ludendorff however continued to march on, he later branded Hitler a coward and refused to have anything more to do with him.
Hitler was arrested on 12th November and charged with treason. He was found guilty at his trial in February 1924 and given a five-year prison sentence. While in prison Hitler wrote his famous book Mein Kampf.
What Was The Night Of The Long Knives?
According to Britannica.com, By the end of May 1934, Hitler had been chancellor for 16 months and dictator for 14 (under the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933), but two obstacles to his absolute power remained. First was his old comrade Ernst Röhm, chief of staff of the SA (Sturmabteilung; German: "Assault Division"), or Brownshirts. Röhm wanted to have his troops incorporated into the new Wehrmacht that was being prepared to take the place of the Reichswehr, despite the fact that the conservative-minded generals were resolutely opposed to any such contamination of the army by the SA. Second, German Pres. Paul von Hindenburg was still alive and in office and, if he wished, could have stopped all of Hitler's plans by handing power over to the Reichswehr. Hitler, knowing that military strength was necessary for his foreign policy and that antagonizing the generals could be fatal to himself, decided to sacrifice Röhm.
(See Main Article: What Was The Night Of The Long Knives?)
Also called "Operation Hummingbird" or the "Rohm-Putch," the Night of the Long Knives was an event during which Hitler's SS troops committed a series of political murders to rid Hitler of possible political threats. These murders of the leaders of the SA faction of the Nazi Party as well as prominent anti-Nazis took place between 30 June and 2 July 1934.
Why Murder Fellow Nazis?
During the Night of the Long Knives, many of the people who were killed were the very people who have been loyal to people and helped put him in power. Why murder them then?
The answer is mostly fear and jealousy. Other Nazi leaders such as Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering were jealous of Ernst Rohm and the power he had. Rohm was in control of the SA, an army larger than that of the German government and there were fears that Rohm and other leaders took the "National Socialism" propaganda from the early Nazi times too seriously. This would foil Hitler's plans to suppress worker's rights in order to get in control of the German Industry and prepare Germany for war. To further convince Hitler of the necessity of the purge, Rohm's opponents manufactured evidence that he was planning to overthrow Hitler.
Hitler's Announcement
Hitler only announced what had happened on July 13 and called it the "Night of the Long Knives" after a phrase from a Nazi song. He claimed that 13 people were shot while resisting arrest and 61 executed for treason, but some have said that it may have been up to 400 people who were killed. Hitler justified himself for not relying on the court system by saying that he, himself had become the supreme judge for Germany.
"Adolf Hitler: How Did He Come To Power?" History on the Net
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Additional Resources About Adolf Hitler
Why Did Hitler Hate Jews?
Adolph Hitler: His Life, Ideology, Rise, and Downfall
The Enabling Act: Hitler Seizes Absolute Power
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Jennifer Elisabeth ("Jenny") Thompson (Dover (New Hampshire), 26 februari 1973) is een voormalig internationaal zwemster uit de Verenigde Staten, die zich dankzij twaalf olympische medailles tot 2008 de meest gelauwerde atlete uit de Amerikaanse sportgeschiedenis mocht noemen. Op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2008 verbeterde zwemmer Michael Phelps haar record door dat toernooi acht gouden medailles te winnen. Daarmee kwam zijn totaal aan Olympische plakken op zestien (veertien gouden en twee bronzen medailles).
Olympische toernooien
De sprintster uit Massachusetts, gespecialiseerd op de vlinder- en vrije slag, vertegenwoordigde haar vaderland op vier Olympische Spelen: Barcelona (1992), Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000) en Athene (2004). Thompson won bij die gelegenheden in totaal acht gouden medailles, alle in estafetteverband.
Sportcarrière
Haar internationale debuut maakte de latere studente medicijnen in 1987, als veertienjarige deelneemster aan de Pan-Amerikaanse Spelen, alwaar ze de 50 meter vrije slag won en als derde eindigde op de 100 vrij. Haar eerste wereldtitel volgde in 1991, bij de wereldkampioenschappen langebaan (50 meter) in Perth, waar ze triomfeerde met de aflossingsploeg van Team USA op de 4x100 meter vrij. Thompson was in het bezit van het wereldrecord op de 50 en 100 vrij, toen ze in 1992 haar olympisch debuut maakte in Spanje. Afscheid nam ze, na een lange en indrukwekkende carrière, in het najaar van 2004 bij de WK kortebaan (25 meter) in Indianapolis.
Thompson werd in 1993 en 1998 uitgeroepen tot USA Swimming Swimmer of the Year. In 1999 bezette ze de 62ste plaats op de ranglijst van grootste atletes aller tijden van het invloedrijke Amerikaanse tijdschrift Sports Illustrated.
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Q: Control shadows in Unity I find a way to control shadows: colors, shapes, intensity. I googled it before and had found that I can use custom pass or must write shader. But it seems difficult for me. Is there way to do it in shader graph? Or I must start to study HLSL?
Could you give me a right direction how I can study it?
A: In the basic sense of configuring shadows, you will need to combine light casting into the scene and the Mesh Renderer. There is also a whole section in Unity in the Mesh Renderer where you can configure the lighting scale, parameters and baking vs real-time rendering. Just like real life, focus on the lighting for the shadows to be the way you want them.
Unless you mean shaders of materials, since you mentioned passing. For that, you can look on the official Unity manual.
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Il Grupos de Autodefensa Comunitaria de Michoacán è un gruppo di civili armati fondato per difendersi dalla violenza dei cartelli della droga. In particolare, loro combattono contro il cartello dei Caballeros Templarios. Oltre che a Michoacán, ci sono alcuni gruppi di paramilitari anche a Guerrero e a Jalisco.
Sfondo
Dopo che la campagna militare contro i cartelli della droga, avviata durante la presidenza di Felipe Calderón, iniziò, oltretutto proprio nello stato di Michoacán, la violenza in Messico è aumentata vertiginosamente. La violenza si è concentrata principalmente negli stati di Tamaulipas e Veracruz, ma poi è arrivata anche in altri stati.
Storia del gruppo
La prima apparizione di un gruppo di civili armati è avvenuta il 15 aprile 2011, quando un gruppo di indigeni attaccò alcune postazioni dei cartelli della droga locali usando pistole, fucili e petardi. Gli indigeni hanno assunto il controllo della città, hanno espulso le forze di polizia e bloccato le strade che portavano al legname di quercia su una montagna vicina. L'attività dei vigilanti si estese alla vicina comunità di Santa Clara del Cobre. Hanno istituito gruppi di autodifesa. Il Messico ha riconosciuto Cherán come una comunità indigena autonoma, ma i criminali hanno continuato a ucciderne i residenti.
Ma i veri gruppi di civili armati nacquero quando il cartello de La Familia Michoacana scomparve per una serie di conflitti interni, nacque il cartello dei Caballeros Templarios il quale affermava di proteggere e di non attaccare o derubare i civili, così da avere l'appoggio della popolazione locale, ma col passar del tempo, anche questo cartello iniziò ad uccidere, derubare, rapire, torturare e minacciare i civili come aveva fatto in passato La Familia Michoacana.
Così, il 24 febbraio 2013, Juan José Farias Álvarez, José Manuel Mireles Valverde, Hipólito Mora, Estanislao Beltran e José Francisco fondarono il Grupos de Autodefensa Comunitaria de Michoacán per contrastare il cartello dei Caballeros Templarios.
Oltre che nel Michoacán, fazioni di autodifesa sono presenti anche a Jalisco e, soprattutto, a Guerrero. A Guerrero opera un gruppo di autodifesa che dal 2019 combatte Los Ardillos, una delle poche fazioni rimanenti del Cartello di Beltrán Leyva, utilizzando però circa una ventina di bambini volontari per la guerra, il gruppo si fa chiamare Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias-Pueblos Fundadores ( CRAC-PF ). Il conflitto tra questo gruppo di autodifesa e Los Ardillos ha provocato 38 vittime.
Equippaggiamento, veicoli e armi
Le armi utilizzate dal gruppo paramilitare sono per lo più armi di basso calibro, fucili da caccia e moschetti, ma usano anche armi confiscate ai cartelli durante gli scontri, come:
Fucili M4 con lanciagranate incorporato; AK47; MP5; M60.
Le armi vengono approvate dal Governo messicano.
Oltre alle armi, confiscano ai cartelli della droga anche veicoli blindati e APC, a volte, però, li creano loro stessi i blindati.
Scontri con la polizia e i militari
I gruppi di paramilitari hanno iziato ad attaccare i militari e i poliziotti quando il Governo messicano decise di confiscargli alcune armi di grosso calibro. In risposta, i paramilitari hanno iniziato scontri contro i militari e i poliziotti. Il Governo ha affermato che esistono falsi gruppi di paramilitari.
Los Viagras
Dal 2014, un gruppo paramilitare di stampo mafioso e terroristico opera nel Michoacán, il gruppo si fa chiamare Los Viagras ed è il risultato di una divisione interna dall'organizzazione di autodifesa. Il capo storico di questo gruppo era Nicolás El Gordo Sierra Santana, ex membro dei gruppi di autodifesa, fino al suo arresto avvenuto nel 2016.
Dopo l'arresto di El Gordo, il gruppo ha dichiarato guerra al Cartello di Jalisco Nuova Generazione, il conflitto tra i due gruppi ha provocato 3,230 morti.
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Voci correlate
Milizia brasiliana
Organizzazioni paramilitari
Unità militari messicane
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187 Ride or Die é um jogo eletrônico desenvolvido e publicado pela Ubisoft. É um jogo de corrida de combate de veículos. Foi lançado para PlayStation 2 e Xbox antes de ser portado para o PSP sob o título de Street Riders.
Modos do Jogo
Whip Race
É uma corrida normal com uso de todas as armas disponíveis pela pista.
Death Race
Neste modo sobreviver é tudo, pois a cada volta o último colocado nesta volta terá o veículo destruído, todas as armas disponíveis.
Minifield
Consiste num modo de corrida de estilo de sobrevivência e ao contrário dos outros modos, neste somente é permitido o uso minas terrestres como armas.
Po-Po Chase
Este modo pode ser jogado somente no Story Mode, pode se encontra-lo duas vezes na missão Strickly Business e Going All Out. Neste modo o jogador atravessa uma auto-estrada em alta velocidade com o uníco objetivo de não ser capturado pela policia local, um fator a mais são os outros veículos que fazem parte do trafego da auto-estrada.
Survivor/Suvivor Bulletprof
É combate que também pode ser jogado Story Mode. Neste modo o jogador ocorre numa área demarcada que equivale aproximadamente e um quarteirão, e deve manter veículo em ótimo estado para sobreviver aos demais oponetes que estarão unidos contra você. Em uma fase de Rip Ville o númrero oponentes chega a dez.
Pistas
Boondocks
Boondocks Payback
Po-Po Chase
Grand City
Grave Digga Payback
Grave Digga
The jungle
The lot
The lot Payback
The Coast
The Sticks
The Sticks Payback
Rip Ville
Rip Ville Payback
Western
Western Payback
Ver também
Twisted Metal
Ligações externas
Jogos para PlayStation 2
Jogos eletrônicos da Ubisoft
Jogos eletrônicos desenvolvidos na França
Jogos eletrônicos de 2005
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Transitions: People on the Move
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Christopher Barrett has returned to the travel and tourism industry as the new president of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau. He comes to the position from his job as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Target Media and Digital in Harrisburg, Penn. Previously, he has been president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Dutch CVB. Barrett gained nationwide attention in the midst of the 2008-09 Great Recession when, referring to year-on-year tourism business trends, he said that "Flat is the new up."
Barrett succeeds Carl Wilgus, who retired after nearly nine years in the post; previously, Wilgus had served as state tourism director in Idaho for more than 20 years. Wilgus saw the bureau making a greater efforts in technology to market the region, generating an average of 12.5 posts per day across all social media channels last fiscal year, Wilgus said.
Randy Fiveash, director of the Connecticut Office of Tourism, has been named chairman of the Discover New England board of directors for 2017-18. Fiveash has been Connecticut's tourism director since late 2008.
Wendy Knight has been named commissioner of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing. Through her own marketing and communications firm, Knight and Day Communications, she developed strategic communications and marketing campaigns the Vermont Grape and Wine Council, the Vermont Department of Health, and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. Knight is a former New York Times freelance writer who has written two travel books and produced online travel videos for ABC News Now.Knight succeeds Megan Smith, who had served for six years under the state's previous governor.
Jeffrey Morris, a 25-year creative advertising and marketing strategist, has been named Chief Marketing Officer for Visit West Hollywood. Morris joins from Strategy + Craft, a creative digital and traditional marketing solutions agency which he founded. In 2015, Mr. Morris managed the strategic and creative implementation of Los Angeles' popular "What's your LA Story" campaign developed for the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board cited by Expedia as a "Top Digital Campaign."
In Northern California, Alan Humason has been appointed executive director of the Mendocino County Tourism Commission. A veteran of more than 15 years in the marketing/communications industry, Humason most recently served as executive director of Yolo County Visitors Bureau.
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description: "Inspect and edit local storage APIs including local and session storage, IndexedDB and Web SQL databases, and the Application Cache in the Chrome DevTools Resources panel."
introduction: "Inspect and manage local storage APIs including local and session storage, IndexedDB and Web SQL databases, and the Application Cache in the Chrome DevTools Resources panel."
article:
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updated_on: 2015-05-18
order: 1
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- megginkearney
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collection: manage-data
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## Local and session storage
You can view and edit local and session storage key/value pairs you've created using the [Web Storage APIs](http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/). You can edit, delete, and create both local and session storage data.
**To delete a key/value pair**, do one of the following:
* Select the item in the data table and do one of the following:
2. Click the Delete button.
3. Press the Delete key on your keyboard.
* Right-click or Control-click on the data item and choose Delete from the context menu.
**To add a new key/value pair:**
1. Double-click inside an empty Key table cell and enter the key name.
2. Double-click inside the corresponding Value table cell and enter the key's value.
**To edit an existing key/value pair**, do one of the following:
* Double-click in the cell you want to edit.
* Right-click or Control-click the cell you want to edit and choose Edit from the context menu.
**To refresh the table with new storage data**, click the Refresh button at the bottom of the panel.
## IndexedDB
You can inspect IndexedDB databases and object stores, page through an object store's records, and clear an object store of its records.
* **To view a list of available database**, expand the IndexedDB category.
* **To view a database's object stores**, select it from the list of available databases.
**To page through records in the object store**, click the Previous and Next page buttons. You can also specify the record where paging starts by specifying the record's key.
**To clear the object store**, do one of the following:
* Click the **Clear object store** button <img src="../images/clear.png" /> at the bottom of the panel.
* Right-click or Control-click the object store and select **Clear** from the context menu.
**To view properties of a database**, select it from the list of databases.
## Web SQL
You can inspect the content of Web SQL databases, and run SQL commands against
their contents.
* **To view the available Web SQL databases**, expand the Web SQL item in the tree control.
* **To view available tables in a database**, expand the database tree item.
* **To view a table's records**, select the table. It's properties appear in the right-hand pane.
* **To refresh the view of the database**, click the Refresh button  at the bottom of the panel.
You can query a Web SQL database's tables with SQL commands and view
query results in a tabular format. As you type out a command or table name, code hints are provided for the names of supported SQL commands and clauses, and the names of tables that the database contains.
**To run a SQL command against a database**:
1. Select the database containing the table you want to query.
2. At the prompt that appears in the right-hand panel, enter the SQL statement you want to execute.
## Application Cache
You can examine resources that Chrome has cached according to the Application Cache manifest file specified by the current document. You can view the current status of the Application Cache (idle or downloading, for
example), and the browser's connection status (online or offline).<br/>
The table of cached resources includes the following properties for each resource:
* **Resource** — The URL of the resource.
* **Type** — The type of cached resource, which can have one of the following
values:
* **Master** — The resource was added to the cache because it's
[manifest](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#attr-html-manifest)
attribute indicated that this was its cache.
* **Explicit** — The resource was explicitly listed in the application's
cache manifest file.
* **Network** — The resources was listed in the application's cache manifest
file as a network entry.
* **Fallback** — The resource was specified as a fallback if a resource is inaccessible.
* **Size** — Size of the cached resource.
The Resources panel displays the current [status](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-appcache-status)
of the application cache along with a colored status icon (green, yellow, or red). The following are the possible status values and their descriptions:
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<table>
<tr>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="imgs/green.png"/> IDLE </td>
<td>The application cache is idle.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="imgs/yellow.png"/>CHECKING </td>
<td>The manifest is being fetched and checked for updates.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="imgs/yellow.png"/>DOWNLOADING </td>
<td>Resources are being downloaded to be added to the cache, due to a changed resource manifest.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="imgs/green.png"/>UPDATEREADY </td>
<td>There is a new version of the application cache available. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="imgs/red.png"/>OBSOLETE </td>
<td>The application cache group is obsolete.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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Elven Nations: Shosara – FASA Games, Inc.
Hi, everyone. I'm Karol, fellow Earthdawn devotee and proud member of the Legends of Barsaive team. Aside from the fun of writing and running modules for my fellow Earthdawn fans (feel free to say hi at a convention!), I've had the privilege of helping flesh out the rich world of Earthdawn by being a part of Elven Nations. We've gotten a great overview of the book, as well as details on the central conflict of the great elven kingdoms over the future of Oak Heart itself. Little has been known of two of the players in this conflict (Sereatha and Shosara) until recently, and there's quite a bit to explore. We hope the book provides plenty of rich material to incorporate into your games and flesh out the setting.
The most remote of the elven nations, Shosara is full of secrets and mysteries to unravel. An ever-present enigma is the land itself. The wilds of Shosara always seem to be pushing back the civilized areas, and maintaining a settlement requires a great deal of effort, skilled Elementalists, or both. The forest is quick to reclaim cleared areas, and the seas batter coastal settlements with storms and crashing waves. Many newcomers wonder why such a fertile, abundant land isn't full of permanent settlements, and the rampant and dangerous growth of plant life is a major reason.
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Alstonville High School year nine student Lachlan McLennan (pictured) and three other Northern Rivers high school students are Beijing-bound this year as members of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Orchestra.
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Q: A numerical evaluation of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\frac1{n!}\int_0^1x^{(n)} dx$ I would like to obtain a numerical evaluation of the series
$$S=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\frac1{n!}\int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx$$ to five significant digits.
I've used Mathematica, but some results puzzle me:
$$\text{NSum}\left[(-1)^{\frac{n*(n+1)}{2}}*\frac{\int_0^1 \text{Pochhammer}[x,n] \, dx}{n!},\{n,1,23\}\right]=-0.530724...$$
$$\text{NSum}\left[(-1)^{\frac{n*(n+1)}{2}}*\frac{\int_0^1 \text{Pochhammer}[x,n] \, dx}{n!},\{n,1,24\}\right]=-0.298186...$$
Any help is welcome.
A: Sum the Integrands
We can use the identity
$$
\frac{(1+i)i^n+(1-i)(-i)^n}2=(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}2}\tag{1}
$$
to get
$$
\begin{align}
&\sum_{n=0}^\infty(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}2}\frac{x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)}{n!}\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(1+i)i^n+(1-i)(-i)^n}2\binom{n+x-1}{n}\tag{2a}\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(1+i)(-i)^n+(1-i)i^n}2\binom{-x}{n}\tag{2b}\\
&=\frac{1+i}2(1-i)^{-x}+\frac{1-i}2(1+i)^{-x}\tag{2c}\\
&=\frac{1+i}22^{-x/2}e^{i\pi x/4}+\frac{1-i}22^{-x/2}e^{-i\pi x/4}\tag{2d}\\[4pt]
&=2^{-(x+1)/2}e^{i\pi(x+1)/4}+2^{-(x+1)/2}e^{-i\pi(x+1)/4}\tag{2e}\\[8pt]
&=2^{-(x-1)/2}\cos(\pi(x+1)/4)\tag{2f}\\[8pt]
&=2^{(1-x)/2}\sin(\pi(1-x)/4)\tag{2g}
\end{align}
$$
Explanation:
$\text{(2a)}$: apply $(1)$
$\text{(2b)}$: $\binom{-x}{n}=(-1)^n\binom{n+x-1}{n}$
$\text{(2c)}$: apply Binomial Theorem
$\text{(2d)}$: convert to polar form
$\text{(2e)}$: algebra
$\text{(2f)}$: convert to trig form
$\text{(2g)}$: $\cos(\pi(x+1)/4)=-\sin(\pi(x-1)/4)$
Integrate the Sum
Note that we included the $n=0$ term, which is $1$, in $(2)$. We simply need to integrate $(2)$ over $[0,1]$ and subtract the contribution from the $n=0$ term, which is $1$.
$$
\begin{align}
&\int_0^12^{(1-x)/2}\sin(\pi(1-x)/4)\,\mathrm{d}x-1\\
&=\int_0^12^{x/2}\sin(\pi x/4)\,\mathrm{d}x-1\\
&=\mathrm{Im}\!\left(\int_0^1e^{(\log(2)/2+i\pi/4)x}\,\mathrm{d}x\right)-1\\
&=\mathrm{Im}\!\left(\frac{i}{\log(2)/2+i\pi/4}\right)-1\\
&=\bbox[5px,border:2px solid #C00000]{\frac{8\log(2)}{4\log(2)^2+\pi^2}-1}\\[3pt]
&\doteq-0.52972762307114482514\tag{3}
\end{align}
$$
This agrees with Olivier Oloa's result.
Changing the Order
Using the log-convexity of $\Gamma(x)$ and the first few terms of the power series for $\Gamma(x)$ near $x=1$, it is shown in this answer that
$$
\frac1{n!}\int_0^1\frac{\Gamma(x+n)}{\Gamma(x)}\,\mathrm{d}x
\sim\frac1{\log(n)}-\frac\gamma{\log(n)^2}-\frac{\frac{\pi^2}6-\gamma^2}{\log(n)^3}+O\left(\frac1{\log(n)^4}\right)\tag{4}
$$
This means that the terms in
$$
\sum_{n=1}^\infty(-1)^{n(n+1)/2}\frac1{n!}\int_0^1\frac{\Gamma(x+n)}{\Gamma(x)}\mathrm{d}x\tag{5}
$$
converge very slowly. Given this, it is reasonable to question the change of order between integration and summation.
However, we are allowed to change the order of a finite sum and integration, and therefore, we can consider the sum grouped into fours.
Since $(-1)^{n(n+1)/2}$, starting at $n=1$, follows the pattern $-1,-1,+1,+1,\dots$, and the absolute values of the terms are monotonically decreasing, the sum of each group of four terms is negative. Since the sum converges, it converges absolutely. Now we can apply Fubini's Theorem to allow us to switch the order of summation (integration on a discrete space) and integration.
A: You can expect the error in $S_n$ to be of the order of $a_{n+1}$. The problem is that the sequence
$$
\frac1{n!}\int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\,dx
$$
decreases very slowly. In fact
$$
a_{2^{20}}=0.06865413726465990.
$$
I have done calculations that suggest that $a_n$ decreases like $C/\log n$ for some constant $C$. This implies that to get an error of order $10^{-5}$ you need to sum $e^{10^5}$ terms.
A: Since:
$$x(x+1)\cdot\ldots\cdot(x+n-1) = \frac{\Gamma(x+n)}{\Gamma(x)}=\frac{1}{\Gamma(x)}\int_{0}^{+\infty}t^{x+n-1}e^{-t}\,dt$$
we have:
$$ \sum_{\substack{n\geq 1\\n\equiv 1\!\!\pmod{\!\!4}}}\!\!\!\!\!\!\frac{x(x+1)\cdot\ldots\cdot(x+n-1)}{n!}=\frac{1}{\Gamma(x)}\int_{0}^{+\infty}t^x e^{-t}\sum_{k=0}^{+\infty}t^{4k}\,dt$$
so:
$$ \sum_{n\geq 1}(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\frac{x(x+1)\cdot\ldots\cdot(x+n-1)}{n!}=\frac{1}{\Gamma(x)}\int_{0}^{+\infty}t^x e^{-t}\frac{-1-t+t^2+t^3}{1-t^4}\,dt$$
and the original sum equals:
$$ S=-\int_{0}^{1}\int_{0}^{+\infty}\frac{t^x}{\Gamma(x)}\frac{1+t}{1+t^2}e^{-t}\,dt\,dx\tag{1}$$
that can be approximated quite well by using the Weierstrass product for the $\Gamma$ function.
Using Mathematica, with the previous formula I got:
$$ S \approx \color{red}{-0.4018838\ldots}.\tag{2}$$
A: In fact this series admits a very nice closed form.
We have
$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}}{n!}\int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx=\color{blue}{\frac{8 \ln 2 }{\pi ^2+4 \ln^2 2}-1} \tag1$$
with the numerical evaluation
$$\begin{align}
\color{blue}{-0.529727623071144825135721...} .\tag2
\end{align}
$$
I've found the following result.
Theorem. Let $u$ be a complex number such that |u|<1. Then
$$\begin{align}
&\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}}{n!}\left(\int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx\right)u^n\\\\
&=-1+\frac{(1+i)u}{2 (1+iu)\log(1+iu)}+\frac{(1-i)u}{2 (1-iu)\log(1-iu)},
\end{align} \tag3
$$
where $i^2=-1$.
Proof. Recall that $$
x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)=\sum_{k=0}^n {n\brack k}x^k \tag4
$$ where $\displaystyle {n\brack k}$ are the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind counting the numbers of permutations of
$n$ letters that have exactly $k$ cycles, giving
$$
\int_0^1 x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx =\sum_{k = 1 }^{n } \frac{\large {n \brack k}}{k+1}. \tag5
$$
Using $(5)$, we have proved that (see here, identity $(3)$) for $|u|<1$,
$$
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^n}{n!}\left(\int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx\right)u^n=-1+ \frac{u}{(1+u) \log(1+u)} \tag6
$$ and that (see here)
$$
\frac{1}{n!} \int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx = \mathcal{O} \left(\frac{1}{\ln n}\right), \quad \text{as} \quad n \rightarrow \infty.
$$ Consequently, setting $\displaystyle a_n:= \int_0^1x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)\: dx$ for notational convenience, with $|u|<1$, we are allowed to write
$$
\begin{align}
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\frac{a_n}{n!} u^n&=\sum_{p=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{p}\frac{a_{2p}}{(2p)!} u^{2p}+\sum_{p=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{p}\frac{a_{2p-1}}{(2p-1)!} u^{2p-1}\tag7\\\\
&=\frac12 \left(g(iu)+g(-iu)\right)-\frac i2 \left(g(iu)-g(-iu)\right) \tag8
\end{align}
$$ where $g(\cdot)$ is the right hand side member of $(6)$. This gives $(3)$.
The series $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\frac{a_n}{n!} \tag9 $$ is convergent by the Dirichlet test, then we deduce $(1)$ from $(3)$ by Abel's theorem, using
$$
-1+\frac{1}{2 \log(1-i)}+\frac{1}{2 \log(1+i)}=-1+\frac{8 \ln 2 }{\pi ^2+4 \ln^2 2}.
$$
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I agree...very concerning. You definitely don't want COVID-induced heart problems as heart disease is the #1 killer in this country.
Does anyone know if the first SARS virus back in 2002 (SARS-CoV-1) showed any similar pathologies to the cardiovascular system of recovered patients or is this unique only to COVID-19? (there's limited data with SARS-CoV-1; 8098 cases, 774 deaths with only 29 cases and no deaths in the U.S.).
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Australian COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows positive results in phase one human trials
Victorian aged care residents could be included in the next stage of testing for a potential COVID-19 vaccine that has shown positive results during phase one human trials in Adelaide.
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Donald Trump claims Anthony Fauci 'wrong' about cause of Covid-19 surge
President again contradicts his own health expert after doctor highlights troubled US response to virus
The stark reality for poorer countries
Bolivians driven from pillar to post as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals
Grover Ponce, 42, died after being shuttled between six different health facilities as his family watched in rising desperation
Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds
The research does not prove that infected children are contagious, but it should influence the debate about reopening schools, some experts said.
Just spent 5 days in Bahia de Los Angeles..tourism off by 90%. I stay in a small camp @10K from La Gringa..@70-80% mask wearing..I went for beer,ice and cilantro once..market has disinfectant shoe mats,temp at the door and limit on persons entering..you get an involuntary squirt of hand sanitizer as an entry gift like it or not.
No temps in California and no shoe sanitizing..
sand bass and yellow tail daily..not for skill they were jumping on the hook..4 on the boat plus Captain..face masks..@50%..numbers are way down since Easter..Whale Sharks there until @ November
Mexico is playing fast and loose..Amlo the Mexican President doesn't normally wear a mask. The overall strategy is to follow whatever the US does. Hospitals are full and the economy was already in recession before Covid, and they just work hard to treat who they can and stack the bodies.
The new Canada -U.S.- Mexico border open date is @22August..we will see..
The fantastic whale sharks look unaffected by the Corona virus or by my girth swimming in the water trying to take their picture..also seals and dolphins I asked had not read the paper or saw any news coverage on Covid-19..they thanked me and said that it would be taken under advisement as they swam on ..
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This is another lab created antibody treatment entering phase 1 trials:
Duke to start trial of promising COVID treatment :: WRAL.com
If effective, the antibody trial could advance COVID care until a vaccine is developed by providing an antibody treatment.
www.wral.com
And of course the east coast of the US now has a tropical storm to deal with. It appears very likely to make landfall in South Carolina near Charleston.
Cookster15
What proportion of those who recover from coronavirus infection have long term damage to their organs - such as heart damage? We all read these case studies but I have no idea of proportion. Proportion is too often lost in this discussion.
jmdirt said:
The neurological and organ damage that survivors are suffering are are really concerning!
What proportion of survivors suffer neurological or organ damage? What proportion of total cases suffer neurological or organ damage?
Merckx index
Cookster15 said:
It appears to be very low. Most of the cases are from people who are hospitalized, which are about 1% of those infected. Then there are the long-termers, who tend to be young and initially have mild cases, but these appear to be less than 1% of those infected.
But it's still early, a lot of data aren't in, and these numbers could turn out to be higher.
One of the first schools to open is in Georgia, where masks are recommended, but not required. A couple of students began a campaign to make masks mandatory, but were countered by other students who didn't want to wear them. When the students pushing for the mandate were asked about the opposition students, they pointed out, "We have a dress code. They're fine with that."
Indeed. Schools frequently require students to dress in a certain way, cut their hair, whatever, none of which is necessary at all for health, and students and their parents rarely complain. But masks are an imposition on their freedom?
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Merckx index said:
Yep, and kids are sent home for wearing things that don't meet the dress code.
Re heart damage - has this been posted yet, if not, it's worth a read, though not sure of percentages...
Covid-19 leaves its impact on the heart, raising fears of lasting damage
Two new studies suggest the possibility of long-term damage after people recover from Covid-19, even if it was not severe enough to require hospitalization.
www.statnews.com
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optimistic cruising.............
Two cruise ships hit by coronavirus weeks after industry restarts
Outbreaks of Covid-19 recorded on MS Roald Amundsen in Norway and the Paul Gauguin in Tahiti
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I can't believe cruise ships are even operating!
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Meanwhile Japan rates keep rising, though compared to other countries still low.... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/japan-acted-like-the-virus-had-gone-now-it-s-spread-everywhere
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dusty red roads said:
How often do they have to touch the hot stove before the cruise industry learns? From what I heard about Tahiti travel, a negative test within 72 hours of arrival is required to enter the country and you must take a test 4 days after entering. Presumably, the latter test aboard the boat picked it up. Since the majority of American flights are routed through LAX, it is not hard to imagine that this scenario (i.e a person infected in transit or traveling while it incubates) was bound to happen. The fact that it is the second cruise to depart after the restart AFAIK is just the cherry on top of an overly optimistic idea.
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This is the first study I've seen which reports long-term health problems in a substantial proportion of people who were not initially hospitalized. IOW, the vast majority of people with the virus. As such, it's the first evidence I know of that the virus really is harmful or potentially harmful to more than 1-2% of the people who are infected. Definitely something to be concerned about.
on3m@n@rmy
Thanks for that link. Good read. I passed this on to a nurse friend for feedback / snicker test. She works at a local hospital, does covid testing, and has done some patient treatments. I'm hoping she shares the article with colleagues for feedback.
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Trump criticizes Covid lockdowns and falsely claims US 'doing very well'
President says US has done 'as well as any nation' as country passes 4.7m cases, more than a quarter of global total
At the gates of the 'ksar'
At the eastern edge of the Atlas Mountains in Moro
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mHTGaO7zYOo
Covid conditions are improving in the US..
jmdirt
movingtarget said:
Hey look floating schools...
Unchained said:
Articles like that make it tough on those who argue that kids don't get it or spread it. I hope that if schools open over the next month we don't find out the hard way how wrong that thinking is.
Brain fog, phantom smells and tinnitus: my 4 months (and counting) of Covid-19 | Hannah Davis
I fell sick on 25 March. Four months later, I'm still dealing with fever, cognitive dysfunction, memory issues and much more
A link in target's Guardian article is very interesting:
Characterizing return to baseline health among outpatients with milder COVID-19 illness is important for understanding the full spectrum of COVID-19–associated illness and tailoring public health messaging, interventions, and policy. During April 15–June 25, 2020, telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of adults aged ≥18 years who had a first positive reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at an outpatient visit at one of 14 U.S. academic health care systems in 13 states. Interviews were conducted 14–21 days after the test date. Respondents were asked about demographic characteristics, baseline chronic medical conditions, symptoms present at the time of testing, whether those symptoms had resolved by the interview date, and whether they had returned to their usual state of health at the time of interview. Among 292 respondents, 94% (274) reported experiencing one or more symptoms at the time of testing; 35% of these symptomatic respondents reported not having returned to their usual state of health by the date of the interview (median = 16 days from testing date), including 26% among those aged 18–34 years, 32% among those aged 35–49 years, and 47% among those aged ≥50 years. Among respondents reporting cough, fatigue, or shortness of breath at the time of testing, 43%, 35%, and 29%, respectively, continued to experience these symptoms at the time of the interview. These findings indicate that COVID-19 can result in prolonged illness even among persons with milder outpatient illness, including young adults.
Not returning to usual health within 2–3 weeks of testing was reported by approximately one third of respondents. Even among young adults aged 18–34 years with no chronic medical conditions, nearly one in five reported that they had not returned to their usual state of health 14–21 days after testing. In contrast, over 90% of outpatients with influenza recover within approximately 2 weeks of having a positive test result (7).
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm
It's not all that easy for lots of Americans and others outside the country to follow minor stories,if anyone even wants to(? )
Dr.Anthony Fauci has been in the forefront as one of the United States spokespeople about all things Covid-19.
He recently commented that he has had to retain security forces to protect his daughters from death threats. In doing his job it is often he says things that make people want to murder his children..completely crazy.
Many public officials that are working on Covid issues have received credible death threats, 2 very senior health officials in California resigned after threats against their lives.
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Congratulations to my son, Ryan, who graduates with honors today from Indiana Wesleyan University! I am truly proud of you!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great Supreme Court Justice, lost his train ticket one day. As he was frantically searching his pockets, the conductor recognized him and said, "Your Honor, if you do not find your ticket, you can simply mail it to the railroad. We know and trust you."
To this, Holmes replied, "I am not so concerned about getting my ticket; I just want to know where I am going!"
Sadly, many individuals have lost their ticket to life and happiness. They also do not know where they are going. Like nervous jack rabbits, they hop here and there, from one activity to another, without a deeper sense of purpose or direction.
They remind me of the hitchhiker I once saw who held a big sign stating his destination: "Anywhere!" People who are willing to go "anywhere" life takes them will end up going nowhere. You can count on it!
What do you want to accomplish with the rest of your life? What are you doing now to make this a reality?
What are your priorities? What is the most important thing in the world to you? Could somebody tell what you value by watching the way you spend your time?
Do you believe in God? Is your faith reflected in your daily choices, actions, and words?
Who are the most important people in your life? How do you treat them? Are you working at building loving relationships with your family? Do they receive your best energy, or do they only get your "leftovers"?
Put first things first! Chart your course! Set your direction! Don't forget where you are going!
Develop a dream - a long range plan for the future. Set some short range goals as well. These are the stairs that will get you to the second floor. You can wish for something until you are blue in the face, but it will never become a reality until you act - until you do something!
Little termites can destroy a house - and little "time gobblers" can eat up your time and energy - squeezing out the most important things. It takes vision, purpose, hard work, and determination to do what is important rather than what is urgent.
Do the important things! Spend time with your important people! Work on your important plans! Remember - first things first!
"I would as soon expect a frog to sit down and play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as expect to see some of the slick preachers of this hour preach with an anointing that would cause godly fear among the people."
Your problems can help you grow!
Life's difficulties can seem overwhelming. Disappointments, rejection, and painful experiences tempt us to cave into discouragement.
When faced with a Goliath sized obstacle, what do you do? Cower in fear? Ignore it? Throw a tantrum?
Genuine problems must not be ignored. If you sweep a dead skunk under the rug, it won't get any better.
So how do we deal with difficulty?
Put the problem in the right perspective!
1. Realize that life is made up of problems. Troubles are everywhere and everybody has them. Don't be surprised when they come your way.
3. Problems are only temporary. Better days are ahead.
4. Focus on what you have, rather than what you're lacking.
5. Be patient and learn something from this situation. Every pearl is the result of an oyster's victory over an irritation.
6. If you don't get bitter, you surely will get better!
7. Turn the problem over to your God. He can rectify what you have wrecked.
8. Don't run from your problems. Instead, let them stretch, challenge, and develop you.
An insightful post by Kristen Neff: Self Compassion: Treating Yourself As You'd Treat a Good Friend.
"The golden rule tells us that we should treat others as we would want them to treat us. Maybe so, but hopefully we won't treat them even half as badly as we treat ourselves."
I stumbled across a wonderful blog by rural pastor, Steven Housewright: Serving in Obscurity.
It is always infelicitous when men fall into the habit of speaking of religion as the mother of trials, and oftheir Christian experience from the side of its restrictions and limitations ... When people want to make things attractive in farming, they give exhibitions of their products. The women bring their very best butter, molded into tempting golden lumps; and the men bring the noblest beets and vegetables of every kind; and from the orchards they bring the rarest fruits, and when you go into the room where all these things are displayed, they seem to you attractive and beautiful.
positive fruit of religion. But many people in Christian life do as farmers would do who should go to a show, and carry -- one, pigweed; another, thistles; another, dock; and another, old hard lumps of clay; and should arrange these worthless things along the sides of the room, and mourn over them. What sort of husbandry would that be? Christians are too apt to represent the dark side of religion in their conversation and meetings.
My friend, Dan Reiland, Executive Pastor at 12Stone Church, recently shared an inightful post regarding a conversation he recently had with an aspiring worship leader. Great wisdom here, methinks.
"You are not the oil, you are not the air -- merely the point of combustion, the flashpoint where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as a lens does."
"Unleasing the People of God for the Purpose of God." That's the sub-title for David Platt's powerful little book, Radical Together.
This is the follow up volume to his best-seller, Radical, and I believe it's even better -- though that seems impossible.
Reading Platt reminds me of paying Battleship with my kids, when they're on a winning streak. Every salvo is a direct hit.
For instance, consider this powerful point: "One of the worst enemies of Christians can be good things in the church."
Operating from the call to radical discipleship issued in his first book, Platt describes what this commitment looks like in a congregation that has bought into the compelling vision.
I highly recommend it to church leadership teams and boards who want to get serious about the Great Commission.
I can't recal another time when Good Friday and Earth Day occurred on the same day -- but somehow, that's fitting.
Good Friday was the original "Earth Day" -- when Jesus planted grace on Calvary's Tree, and "earthed" the Gospel in our hearts.
What is your church worth to your community?
While reading The Hobbit to my kids, I happened upon an interesting phrase: "something Tookish woke up inside him."
It refers to a mild mannered hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who had an aversion to adventure of any kind. In the safety of his hobbit hole, mundane predictability seemed preferable to the risk of exploring new horizons.
But a visit from the magician, Gandolf, shook him out of his comfort zone.
"There's more to you than you know." Gandolf observed.
. Although his father was a Baggins, (and the Baggins' were always ones to play it safe), his mother was a Took! The Tooks were known for their sense of adventure and exploration. After marrying Mr. Baggins, Bilbo's mother had settled into a life of Baggins respectability. And for that, the entire Baggins family was thankful.
But something "Tookish" woke up inside Bilbo, and he would never settle for the hum drum again. "Something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wanted to explore the great mountains, and hear the pine trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking stick."
And as you read this, perhaps something "Tookish" is waking up inside you! There is more to you than you know!
What uncharted horizons does your heart long to explore?
What untapped potential lies dormant within your soul?
You will never know the possibilities of adventure unless you move beyond the shell of your security.
"Fan into flame the gift that lies within you."
"Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am."
"I don't like your methods of evangelism," someone said to D. L. Moody.
Moody replied, "then, I like my mine better than yours."
I think spring sprung a leak!
rather than a spiritual restaurant?
How Close to the Cliff?
A wealthy lady interviewed three men for a chauffer position.
"How close can you get to the edge of a cliff without falling off?" she asked.
The third guy said, "I'll stay as far from the cliff as I can!" He got the job.
We "manage" sin when staying close to the cliff appeals more to us than staying close to Christ. Spiritual victory is never found along the fuzzy edges of compromise. God calls us to steer clear from the cliff altogether.
Here's a little challenge for you today.
Start with a prayer like this, "God, I know your love is amazing and beyond compare. I also know that you treasure the people you have created -- but many do not realize how deeply they're loved. Lead me to someone today who needs your encouragement and blessing. Use me as channel of your grace to show them how much you treasure them."
Then -- clear you mind of clutter and wait for clues and/or nudges.
The Lord might give you a clue up front for your treasure hunt -- a specific place, a unique hint, something special to look for - follow the clue!
During the day, He may nudge your -- "Stop in at this store" -- or "Take this route home instead of your normal routine." If you receive a nudge like that, then follow it! God has something special in store.
"Lord, make me a blessing" is a prayer He almost always answers with "Yes!"
A prayer of faith is not telling God what to do -- it is asking Him what to do.
When we are asked to do something on such and such date, our normal response is to ask ourselves. "Can I? Am I available?" A better response, however, is "Should I?"
Craig Groeschel in an interview with Ed Stetzer.
A great article from Leadership Journal by Jack Connell: Ministry Mulligans.
I concur with what he's saying -- and could add a few more to the list.
Lately, my family has been making fun of my hearing loss. I make them repeat everything, then accuse them of mumbling. It's my price for Bob Dylan through headphones as a teenager.
Since I can't hear as well these days, I'm trying to listen better.
Being hard of hearing, however, is not nearly as bad as hard of listening.
Can you imagine how rich our relationships would be if we approached them all as Listening Points?
You and I have been given two ears and one mouth. That's because we're supposed to listen twice as much as we speak, but talking and explaining come easier than hearing and understanding.
Consider this. We speak at 100-150 words per minute. We are able to comprehend at 250-300 words per minute. We think at 600 words per minute.
So, if you are a fast thinker (600 wpm) and the other person is a slow talker (100 wpm), you still have 500 words per minute left over for thinking about other stuff. For efficient folks, that's a lot of wasted communication space. Therefore, the fast listener tends to zone out and think about a myriad of other things.
Zoning out is evidenced by such responses: "umm-hmm", "Yes, dear", "I don't know", and "whatever." Listening is hard work!
"Momma, are you listening to me?" little Heidi wondered. "Umm-Hmmm" the distracted mother replied.
This beautiful song, written by Brian Cheney and Reilley Reilley Gibby, was brought to my attention by my friend, Amanda Mavis -- I would like to teach this one to our congregation.
I've just finished reading Radical by David Platt -- and the best word I can use to describe is -- radical!
In this powerful bestseller, Platt argues for a new approach to living our faith, which flies in the face of American consumerism. This is truly a wake up call for the church.
Warning: I suggest putting on your steel toed shoes before reading this. You're bound to be convicted.
The author challenges us to think deeply about why we're doing what we're doing in the church, and to rely on God's power rather than slick programs and productions. e also urges us to give sacrifically as we think about others before ourselves.
Radical is an easy read -- but not so easy to live. However, I'm sure those who take Platt up on his radical experiment will find their lives transformed.
1) Pray for the entire world.
2) Read through the entire Bible.
3) Sacrifice your money for a specific purpose.
4) Spend time in another context.
5) Commit your life to a multiplying community.
Ministry is multi-tasking. You can't be a pastor without doing a lot of different, random things most days.
However,in the larger scope, it is solo-purposing. All of the tasks should be towards one central theme.
When tasks get in the way of the purpose, we get frazzled.
It's important to keep the main purpose in focus, as we go about the various tasks of the day.
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Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015 Dec;62:292-300. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.08.024. Epub 2015 Sep 5.
Development of the cortisol circadian rhythm in the light of stress early in life.
Simons SS1, Beijers R2, Cillessen AH3, de Weerth C4.
Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
The secretion of the stress hormone cortisol follows a diurnal circadian rhythm. There are indications that this rhythm is affected by stress early in life. This paper addresses the development of the cortisol circadian rhythm between 1 and 6 years of age, and the role of maternal stress and anxiety early in the child's life on this (developing) rhythm. Participants were 193 healthy mother-child dyads from a community sample. Self-reported maternal stress and anxiety and physiological stress (saliva cortisol), were assessed prenatally (gestational week 37). Postnatally, self-reported maternal stress and anxiety were measured at 3, 6, 12, 30, and 72 months. Saliva cortisol samples from the children were collected on two days (four times each day) at 12, 30, and 72 months of age. The total amount of cortisol during the day and the cortisol decline over the day were determined to indicate children's cortisol circadian rhythm. Multilevel analyses showed that the total amount of cortisol decreased between 1 and 6 years. Furthermore, more maternal pregnancy-specific stress was related to higher total amounts of cortisol in the child. Higher levels of early postnatal maternal anxiety were associated with flatter cortisol declines in children. Higher levels of early postnatal maternal daily hassles were associated with steeper child cortisol declines over the day. These results indicated developmental change in children's cortisol secretion from 1 to 6 years and associations between maternal stress and anxiety early in children's lives and children's cortisol circadian rhythm in early childhood. | {
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An informative symposium was held at the University College of Dentistry on "Pain Control in Dentistry" in collaboration with ICI, Pakistan.
Dean University College of Dentistry and Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr Moghees Ahmed Baig was invited as the keynote speaker; he highlighted the "current trends and comprehensive protocol of managing pain in dental patients", starting from pre-operative to intra- operative and post-operative stages of treatment.
Various aspects of pain, starting from somatic to physiological and emotional domains were discussed and adjunct therapeutic measures, in addition to analgesics were discussed.
This comprehensive seminar was attended by house surgeons, faculty members and general dental practitioners from Lahore.
Commenting on the occasion Dr. Khalid Manzoor, a renowned endodontist, emphasized that a dentist must have the skills and knowledge to relieve the patient from pain and consider it as their primary goal.
Participants appreciated this clinical activity and urged the need for more sessions like this in future. | {
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Today the Offshore is one of the most sought after sport designs in the haute gamme watch market, and Audemars most popular model. The Safari is a particularly distinctive variation on the theme, with its impressive hornback strap and cream coloured dial, part of the reason why it is one of the most popular Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore models. | {
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Skeletal System: The skeletal system includes all of the bones of the body as well as the joints and other connective tissues that separate and move the bones. There are a total of 206 individual bones in the body, and each bone is made up of a solid material that is designed to make the structure strong and resistant to fracture. The blood in our body originates in the bone marrow that is located in the largest, weight bearing bones of our body, such as the femurs and humerus. The Bones of our body are composed of cartilage, bone marrow, a periosteum, endosteum, and cartilage. The shape and width of the bones depend on the section of the body they are and their particular function. There are long bones, short bones, flat bones, Sesamoid bones, and irregular bones. The vertebral bones, which make up the backbone of our spine, are Irregular bones. Irregular bones have an irregular shape. The ribs, which attach to the vertebra, are long bones, as are the humerus of the arm and the femur of the leg.
Though we think of the bones of our body as permanent and solid, in fact they are living organs in our body that are always changing in composition and density. The bones are involved in the production of our body's blood, as well as maintaining a balanced composition of chemicals in the bloodstream. Each bone is made up of minerals, protein fibers, and many cells. The skeletal system also provides for the points of attachments for the bones. These points of attachment, known as the joints and connective tissues such as the tendons and ligaments, serve two primary purposes: the movement of the body, and the separation of the bones so that they don't grind together and become worn out. The bones of our skeleton are arranged into two main divisions: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton is made up of the bones that compose spine as well as the bones that directly connect to the spine. These bones include the vertebrae (spinal bones), those of the skull, the ribs, sternum, and pelvis. The appendicular skeleton includes the bones of the arms and legs, shoulder girdle, and pelvic girdle.
Cardiovascular System: the cardiovascular system consists of the heart and two networks of blood vessels. The blood vessels transport blood from the heart and two the tissues of the body, and back again. The blood vessels transport oxygenated blood as they leave the heart, and deoxygenated blood from the body tissues and back to the heart again. The blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are the arteries and arterioles (smaller branches of the arteries). The blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood away from the body's tissues are the veins and venules (smaller branches of veins). The exceptions to these rules are the pulmonary artery, which carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, and pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. In the event of spinal cord injuries, the central respiratory drive to breath may be disrupted, so that the body is unable to breathe on its own without a ventilator. When the central drive to breath has been disrupted, this event is usually due to spinal cord injuries at the level of C1 (Atlas) or C2 (Axis). These are the top two vertebral bones of the cervical spine (neck).
Digestive system: the digestive system includes the long continuous organ known as the digestive (Gastrointestinal or GI) tract, as well as other supportive structures that aid in our bodies' digestion of foods and liquids. The supportive structures of the GI track include the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. In the event of spinal cord injuries, digestion continues though a person may lose control of where and when a person is able to evacuate their bowels.
Urinary Systems: the urinary systems include the KUB (kidneys, ureters, bladder) in both males and females. In both males and females, there is a urethra that carries urine from the apex of the bladder to the outside of the both. In able-bodied humans, we have control over our external urethral orifice, which we relax to release urine to the outside of our bodies. In the event of a spinal cord injury, we may lose control of this function and not be able to control when we evacuate out bladders. | {
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Fiio X3 (Second Generation) Review: Mid Range, High Resolution
Fiio X3 (Second Generation) Review: Mid-Range, High-Resolution
By Ali Pardiwala | Updated: 9 June 2015 12:35 IST
Fiio's first-ever portable high resolution audio player, the Fiio X3, has enjoyed considerable success since its launch in 2013. It is held in high regard by both users and reviewers, and it sold in huge numbers. It also set the stage for the excellent X1 and X5 high-res players, which have won the industry over with stunning performance.
The X1 and X5 are at two ends of the cost spectrum. The Fiio X1 is promoted as a wallet-friendly high-resolution audio player, and represents tremendous value, while the Fiio X5 sits at the top of the range, offering expensive, reference-grade performance and a sense of drive like no other. The new Rs. 14,999 Fiio X3 (Second Generation) sits in between those two extremes. It seeks to offer a bit more than the budget X1, while keeping costs below X5 levels. Finally, key improvements over the old X3 include a complete redesign to bring it in line with the X1 and X5, and new and improved internal components. We take a look at the new X3 in our review.
Specifications and Design
You could easily mistake the Fiio X3 (Second Generation) for the X1, since the dimensions and looks are nearly the same. The X3 is marginally thicker and weighs a little bit more. The casing is still metal, and looks and feels excellent. Also, the inclusion of a separate line/coaxial out port on the top of the device distinguishes it from the budget model. Other differences are on the inside of the device: while the X1 and X5 use Texas Instruments digital-to-analogue converter chips, Fiio has opted for a Cirrus Logic DAC here. Amplification is through a Texas Instruments chip similar to the one used on the Fiio X5. Other differences over the X1 are external DAC support, DSD file format support, a larger 2,600mAh battery, and a greater drive ability; the X3 (Second Generation) can drive headphones rated at 16-150 Ohms of resistance.
As is the case with the entire Fiio 'X' range, the X3 (Second Generation) has no internal storage. A single, exposed microSD card slot provides the storage capability, and supports cards of up to 128GB. The USB port is at the bottom, while the headphones socket remains at the top. Power and volume keys are still on the side, while navigation is still carried out using a jog dial. Five hard keys on the front control the play/pause, next, previous, return and menu functions. The 2-inch display is the same as the one on the X1, and only serves to give you visual cues for navigation. The design works for the most part, so we're pleased on the whole.
Unfortunately, Fiio is still using the same terrible user interface on the X3 (Second Generation) that we saw on both the X1 and X5. Scrolling through hundreds of tracks to find the one you want is still a cumbersome and frustrating affair. We usually used the device in shuffle mode simply because it felt as though playing a lottery with our music was less tedious than picking tracks every fewminutes.
The customisable equaliser is an improvement over that of the X1, with more frequency bands. It's an excellent equaliser, and works wonders in tweaking the sound to how you like it. However on the whole, the interface needs improvement. Fiio users have been waiting on a much-needed firmware update for a while now, but it's still nowhere in sight.
As we did with the X1 and X5, we loaded an assortment of audio files onto a 16GB microSD card, including tracks in MP3, WAV, FLAC and M4A file formats. Focus tracks for the review were Deee-Lite's Groove Is In The Heart and Michael Jackson's Scream in 16/44.1 FLAC; and an orchestral version of Sting's Walking On The Moon in M4A. We used the Rock Jaw Alfa Genus, V-Moda XS and Sennheiser Urbanite to listen to the Fiio X3 (Second Generation). We also had our reference Fiio X1 on hand through the test, and compared the X3 (Second Generation) to our test notes on the X5 as well. We also plugged the device into a Windows laptop to test the standalone DAC functionality.
We started with what we feel is quite possibly the grooviest track of the 90s, Groove Is In The Heart, along with the V-Moda XS. We could barely tell the difference in the sound between the X1 and X3. Even though the two devices use different DAC and amplification chips, the sound is identical at low volumes. The X3 does tend to perform better at higher volumes than the X1, though. Where the X1 starts to get heavy and a bit too warm for our tastes, the X3 holds its own, quite like the X5. This was particularly noticeable during Deee-Lite's chirpy vocals and the catchy beat in the track.
Next up was Michael Jackson's Scream with the Sennheiser Urbanites. The beginning of this track has a deep, resonating bass note which often reveals flaws in headphones and players. There was no such weakness in the Fiio's handling of the note, as well as the rest of the track. Tonal neutrality was maintained impressively through the song, with just a little bit of a decibel drop at the two ends of the frequency range. The quality of the sub-mids particularly stood out, as did the imaging in general. The X3 (Second Generation) remains loyal to the recording and brings out the best in the headphones it's used with, just the X5.
Last up, we played the cover of Walking On The Moon, with the superb Rock Jaw Alfa Genus plugged in. These earphones have a knack for enhancing detail, and the Fiio X3 (Second Generation) did a fantastic job of helping the track along, especially its busier percussion-driven sections. We could tell that there was a faint improvement in both detail and imaging over the X1. However, the X3 doesn't quite achieve the same levels of sound performance as the X5, and the latter remains Fiio's reference-grade player.
Fiio claims that the device will run for over 11 hours on a full charge when driving output at 32Ohms at moderate volumes and with the display off. We got an average of about 10 hours of run time on a full charge, but this involved constant use of the display and lower impedance earphones that are easier to drive. What is disappointing about this is that despite the larger battery, the X3 (Second Generation) provides the same amount of battery life as the X1.
An excellent feature that Fiio has added to the X3 (Second Generation) is a Deep Sleep Mode. When the device is switched on but not in use, it goes into a battery-preserving sleep mode where most functions are shut off to conserve power. However, a single touch of a button will wake it up instantly. This is rather convenient, and fixes one of the minor gripes we had with the other two devices in the X range.
The Fiio X3 (Second Generation) is another victory from the Chinese company that never fails to impress us. It isn't quite the budget champion that the X1 is, nor does it have the reference grade performance that the X5 provides. But it takes enough from both extremes and provides a solid mid-range product that keeps Fiio's flag flying high. It improves on some aspects of the sound of the X1 and even adds standalone DAC functionality.
However, this increase in price is significant, and the new X3 costs nearly twice as much as the entry-level X1. If you need standalone DAC functionality or are just keen to tweak your sound that little bit without spending too much, then the X3 (Second Generation) is for you. However, if you're trying to keep costs down, the X1 offers practically the same level of performance at a much lower price. The Fiio X3 (Second Generation) is available now through Headphonezone.in.
Price (MRP): Rs. 14,999
Looks good and feels well built
Tonally balanced, neutral sound
Drives headphones well, bringing out the best in them
Lots of file formats supported
Excellent DAC which can be used in standalone mode
Doesn't improve the sound enough over the X1 to justify the price
Battery life should have been better
User interface desperately needs an overhaul
Ratings (Out of 5)
Performance: 4.5
Value for money: 3.5
product The original audio player from Fiio makes way for a second generation, as the new mid-range X3 completes the X-range.
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Ali has over eight years of experience in the technology space, specialising in writing about all kinds of audio gear and TVs. He's reviewed all kinds of headphones, speakers, audio gear, and televisions over the years, and is the in-house expert on all gadgets with screens and audio drivers. He is of the firm belief that truly wireless earphones are the future, and will always recommend a 4K TV, but not necessarily a smart TV. In his spare time, Ali likes to watch TV shows and movies ...More
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Business transformation in seven steps
My business future
According to research bureaus like IDC, a large number of companies rate mobility as a top priority. At the same time, it's an umbrella term that covers a lot of different factors: from mobile devices and apps to connecting machines. Mobility changes your company in a good way. And when all you need are seven steps, it's definitely time for a business transformation.
Choose the right communication formula
The first step is to choose communication formulas that also support mobile data communication. And this is one area that a reliable network is a priority. In recent years, mobile data communication has made an enormous splash in companies, as confirmed by Melissa Fremeijer, Senior Research Analyst in the field of Telecommunications & Networking at IDC. Furthermore, operators offer flexible data formulas with which you can meet the needs of different user profiles.
Choose an approach based on devices
Today, there are three types of devices that are appearing in companies: computers (with portable computers or laptops becoming more and more common), smartphones and tablets. "I think that we will be working with these three types of devices for a lot longer," says Pieterjan Bouten, co-founder of Showpad. "Not everything is suitable for every device." The eponymous applications that his company developed, and that makes better communication between Sales and Marketing possible, is first and foremost intended for use on tablets.
"Nowadays, for salespersons and marketers, the tablet is the preferred device. Ideal for consuming content," states Bouten. "But I don't see the traditional computer disappearing straight away. You and your colleagues will often, and for a long time yet, be using three devices: computer, tablet and a smartphone."
Choose a management approach
Some companies choose the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach where employers use their own devices at work. Other companies have implemented Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) where they can choose from pre-defined types. In both cases, tablets and smartphones need to be managed. "You notice that applications for the management and security of mobile devices have silently infiltrated the business world. It's a new reality for an IT department," explains Bouten. This refers to the mobile device management systems which companies are now evaluating and installing or using as a service in the cloud. "The advance of these applications is no surprise. From our own research with West-European companies, it appears that security is a priority in the mobile initiatives that businesses are taking today," says Melissa Fremeijer from IDC.
Choose an approach based on applications
The actual benefits of mobile devices are to be found in the applications or apps. There is a trend towards software applications that are destined solely for mobile use. They allow employees to perform tasks while on the road. For example, a maker and installer of kitchen range hoods can make the necessary measurements and registrations while in the client's kitchen. "A lot of companies are investing in this sort of application. It often involves bringing new software applications in-house, specifically for mobile use," says Pieterjan Bouten. According to him, it is difficult to translate existing business software, such as so-called ERP packets, into a mobile format. "The software is best being developed for the mobile format of the tablet or smartphone from the very start," believes Bouten. With Showpad, Bouten strives for the mobile-first approach.
Choose an approach based on the connecting of machines
It's not just people being connected–machines are too. From vehicles and machinery to vending machines. They supply companies with context related information; e.g. where a machine or vehicle is. Or they immediately provide up-to-the-minute remote data on the use of a drink machine for example. In the case of mobility, the big growth area relates to machines. There will soon be more machines connected than people.
"In 2020, there will be about 30 billion machines or objects connected via a network," says Melissa Fremeijer. According to her, it will be vital for companies to look at what the Internet of Things trend could mean for them. For example, a company that leases vehicles will have a full overview of their fleet and also receive information about the status of the vehicle, allowing faster and more targeted preventative maintenance.
"The rise of the connected machines is becoming highly significant," states Fremeijer. "Where all collected data was just a passive source of information, the challenge for ICT now consists of creating an innovation-driver for the company. This leads to growth and turnover. From the source of the information, ICT have now become a driving force for innovation."
Choose a mobile strategy
All previous measures are best bundled into a mobile strategy. From research by the industry magazine 'Data News' and Orange, it became apparent last year that one company in three was employing a mobile strategy. This appears to be gathering momentum. More recent research by Smart Business, another industry magazine, points out that today, mobility is in the top three IT priorities for Belgian companies. "A lot of companies are choosing a mobile strategy today. It wasn't the case three to four years ago, but nowadays, every middle-to large-sized company has considered what they want to initiate with mobility. I notice this in the Request For Proposals (RFPs) that I receive as a supplier," confirms Pieterjan Bouten. "Companies have learnt from the past. Back then, tablets were being purchased without any thought about what they would actually have to do. Today, there is considerably more consideration of the business processes and their efficiency, as well as security and management."
Choose business transformation
Mobility does more than just this: it transforms your company. A number of mobile applications shook entire sectors to their roots. There are also Belgian examples of mobile apps or concepts that (could) have a major impact on a sector. Pieterjan Bouten uses the example of Posios, a mobile application that is used in restaurants or cafés as a cash-register app on an iPad. Waiters can also record their orders on iPhones or iPads at the same time. "Posios could bring about a revolution in the (Belgian) market for cash-register systems, that had previously been firmly closed," says Bouten. In every industry, more and more applications of the sort are appearing, with not just the ability to improve the working of a sector, but of companies themselves. "Mobility is a catalyst. It forces you to get to the essence of your business model," says Bouten reflectively. "Companies and consumers can only benefit from it."
A few figures
Mobility everywhere (In a nutshell: the must-read figures on mobility)
57% of the employees
in Belgium can call themselves mobile employees. Mobile means: on the job, at home and in the office, because even there they're known to move around the workplace.
13% more income from the sale
of smartphones and tablets, which is responsible for 60% of growth in the IT industry.
30 billion connected machines
will be found around the world in 2020, including cars, medical apparatus and consumer electronics. Good for a turnover of 9 trillion dollars. | {
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Robin Wright Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband
By celebritysphere
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Robin Wright is an American actress and director, best known for her role in the NBC Daytime soap opera Santa Barbara, as Kelly Capwell. She is the winner of Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award.
Robin Wright was born on April 8, 1966, in Dallas, Texas, U.S.. As of 2021, she is 55 years old and married to Clement Giraudet.
Wright started her acting career in 1983 and has starred in more than 50 movies and tv shows. Some of her popular movies are Land, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Everest, Blade Runner 2049, Perfect Mothers and Rampart.
Birth Date April 8, 1966
Place Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Nickname Robin
Age 55 years old (as of 2021)
Occupation Actress and Director
Zodiac Aries
Ethnicity Mixed (English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French, and Irish)
Education Taft Charter High School
Active Years 1983-present
Partner Clement Giraudet
Hair Color Light Brown
Father Fred Wright
Mother Gayle Gaston
Brother(s) Richard Wright
Children Hopper Jack Penn, Dylan Frances Penn
Robin Wright Movies and TV Shows
Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) The Princess Bride (1987) Denial (1990)
State of Grace (1990) The Playboys (1992) Toys (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994) The Crossing Guard (1995) Moll Flanders (1996)
Loved (1997) She's So Lovely (1997) Hurlyburly (1998)
Message in a Bottle (1999) How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) Unbreakable (2000)
The Pledge (2001) The Last Castle (2001) Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
White Oleander (2002) The Singing Detective (2003) Virgin (2003)
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Triple Cherry was born in 2018, it is made up of a group of professionals with extensive and proven experience in the market. Triple Cherry offers slots with an imaginative design and attractive math, most of them created in 3D technology. The creation of a game involves the entire company, the team imagines how the music is, the characters that appear and how they want the player to feel. Triple Cherry video slots also provide a variety of mini-games which makes a touch of distinction and fun that will keep players engaged.
Triple Cherry is a Spanish company with the headquarters in Valencia, with a professional and amazing team of people with a high experience in gaming. The company has a clear view about the needs of the gaming industry, and they work together to create an exciting player experience for the industry.
2018 — The company was founded;
2018 — The company starts releasing new slots with 3D technology;
2019 — Triple Cherry goes to iGB LiVE Amsterdam and SIGMA 2019;
2020 — The company attends ICE London 2020;
2020 — The company strikes a deal with SoftGamings;
2021 — Triple Cherry partners with i-Create to launch an exclusive video slot Rebel World;
2022 — Triple Cherry attends ICE London 2022.
The company is founded by four people — Juan Antonio Galindo, Carles Pons, Daniel G. Blázquez, and Jose Vicente, with Galindo being the current CEO. Being a privately-held company, Triple Cherry doesn't disclose information about its revenue. There are currently 10+ employees working in the company.
Juan Antonio Galindo — CEO & Co-founder of Triple Cherry
Daniel G. Blázquez — Advisor & Co-founder of Triple Cherry
Veronica Ruiz Villafuertes — Chief Operating Officer at Triple Cherry
Nestor Ferrando — Chief Technical Officer at Triple Cherry
While Triple Cherry can deliver excellent games, their current gaming portfolio includes only several titles. However, keep in mind this is because the company is still young — they are creating a monthly new innovative game.
Now, operators that decide to add Triple Cherry to their casino platforms will gain access to more than 12 titles in total. Triple Cherry doesn't offer table and live casino games since they are entirely focused on developing video slots. Despite their relatively small game library, an important thing to note is that Triple Cherry continuously develops new titles, which means operators will have access to new games as soon as they get released.
They are best known for trying to take an innovative approach and add a unique twist to their titles. What is more, all their games are cross-platform and designed in HTML5, allowing them to adapt to any device.
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The easiest and fastest way to add Triple Cherry´s games to your casino library is through SoftGamings' unified API. Our platform is designed to provide operators with seamless integration. Through just one integration process, casino operators can gain access to Triple Cherry´s titles.
In addition, our unified API gives you access to more than 200 other software providers and over 10,000+ games available on our platform.
Being a relatively new member of the online gambling industry, Triple Cherry has already managed to develop 14+ slots. All of the titles were built using HTML5 technology combined with Akamon, a special technology developed by Triple Cherry founders.
The majority of the games are available in several languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, and Russian. Some of the popular titles are Nile Treasures, 7's Club, Gods Odyssey, Mystic Buffalo, Elsa's Bierhaus, Saint Fermin, Mega Chef, Red Queen in Wonderland, Carnaval do Rio, Monsters Fear Bullers, Starfall Mission, and more.
Mega Chef Christmas Edition
Relive that special Christmas spirit in Mega Chef Christmas Edition slot game with a unique 3x4x4x4x3 reel structure and 40 paylines. Your job is to complete the recipes to trigger extra cash prizes and free spins and win up to 345x your bet. The game's RTP is 95.52%, which gives you enough win potential paired with a 46.81% hit rate.
Fish & Hooks
All fans of deep-sea exploration will love Fish & Hooks, a 5×3 slot with 25 paylines and a max win of 651x the bet. The game is packed with exciting features, such as the free spins bonus with locked wilds, random wilds, and a Buy Bonus option for those not eager to wait for the bonus to hit on its own. It is a highly volatile game with a 36.73% hit frequency and
95.62% RTP that players can enjoy on all platforms.
Dwarf Treasures
Explore deep caverns searching for ancient wealth in Dwarf Treasures, a 5×3 slot with 25 paylines. In a land surrounded by lava, earthquakes are very common, and when they happen, lower-paying symbols will transform into higher-paying ones. There is also a free spins bonus round played on an even bigger 5×5 grid with larger symbols and more chances of scoring hefty wins. Be careful when delving deeper into the mountain as you may encounter mini games, Buy Bonus options, and many other perks that only Dwarf Treasures can offer.
Out of numerous technologies Triple Cherry uses when developing their titles, perhaps the most notable one is HTML5 — the basis for all of their games. In addition, they use state-of-the-art software to design, animate, and combine different features into a masterpiece.
Since Triple Cherry's titles are developed in HTML5, this allows them to scale and adapt to screens of different sizes. In other words, their games are playable across multiple devices and designed in such a way to ensure that iOS and Android smartphone users who enjoy playing on the go have a premium gaming experience, regardless of whether they're using tablets or smartphone devices.
If an operator wishes to launch a promotion or a bonus program, he can use the Triple Cherry´s Backoffice. If the operator needs something more creative and personal, Triple Cherry is ready to provide a customized solution. This may also concern banners or other promotional materials.
When it comes to software and technologies, Triple Cherry uses up-to-the-minute solutions. Nothing should hamper convenient game development and later supplying. Their professional approach includes using a versatile API and unimpeded integration.
A software developer's licenses are an excellent testament to how secure their games are. In order to obtain a license, a software provider must pass rigorous checks.,
Triple Cherry is certified for Spain, UK, and Italy.
When it comes to Triple Cherry, they are working to obtain a license by the most reputable regulatory bodies around such as the Malta Gaming Authority and UK Gambling Commission.
All online video slots by Triple Cherry are audited for fairness and certified as trustworthy. In other words, they cannot be rigged or tampered with in any way.
We couldn't find any awards right now, as the company is new in the industry. However, the sheer quality of their games will earn Triple Cherry plenty of accolades in the future, if they continue doing a great job.
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1. Who is Triple Cherry?
Triple Cherry is an online casino content developer from Spain.
2. Is Triple Cherry licensed?
The company is now in the process of being licensed by the UGC and the MGA.
3. What type of products does Triple Cherry offer?
All games that have been developed by Triple Cherry so far are online video slots.
4. Are Triple Cherry´s titles fair?
Yes, all of the games by Triple Cherry are fair and trustworthy.
5. Why integrate Triple Cherry through SoftGamings?
Triple Cherry is a new company with huge potential, as their slots are ranked very high when it comes to quality. Moreover, SoftGamings' unified API integration is well-thought-out in order to seamlessly integrate innovative video slots from Triple Cherry into any casino. The expert team at SoftGamings is responsible for overseeing operators' daily requests, while skilled customer support specialists are always on the alert to solve potential issues and respond to routine queries. The customer support team is available and accessible round the clock.
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TVBET is one of the leading live casino games providers in the world. It is now available for integration via our unified API platform.
Twain Sport is a provider of live sports betting content that brings unique hybrid sports tournaments with a variety of betting options.
Vivo Gaming is a cross-platform software supplier that delivers live casino games, as well as video slots, RNG games, and sports betting software.
Wazdan's passion for games can be seen in its titles. They produce cutting-edge solutions such as video slots, video poker, and casino games.
WeAreCasino is one of the most interesting companies in the online gambling industry. With games such as Waikiki Heroes, they are not far from becoming the best.
WorldMatch has a wide portfolio of games, which have unique themes, sound effects, high quality and mobile compatibility. In addition, dashboard is located in one place in every game, for the convenience of your players.
With multiple studios across Europe, XPro Gaming is one of the leading live dealer casino solution providers. They are characterised by innovation, flexibility, transparency, and professionalism.
Yggdrasil Gaming is among the best gaming providers, having already won several most prestigious awards in the gambling industry.
Zonelock Games is a small casino software development company that created the world-popular Mahjong Exchange game available through SoftGamings' platform.
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