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4 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 295 000 - Web reference 105813517 - SAHometraders
8 bedroom Farm For Sale in Koringberg for R 21 000 000 - Web reference 105738623 - SAHometraders
Ladies and Gents, We have for sale the historic Koringsberg Primary. This large plot and large building are so iconic that it has been declared a heritage site. Thus the new owner can use it as he or she fits but the main building may not be broken down. Potential is massive as you have so much under roof space. As with any building this age there is some work needed regarding paint etc. Currently there are 5 apartments on the right hand side of the building, each with its own kitchen and bathroom. All the tenants are on a month to month. There are approved building plans for many more apartments in the building. The rest of the vast space is used for storage. Expenses and income I will have soon. Its a stunning building and piece of land and its priced to sell. Please contact me for a viewing. Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:42:10 +0200 105556457 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-105556457
3 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 180 000 - Web reference 105556457 - SAHometraders
Hierdie ou stoor is met styl omskep in 'n pragtige woonhuis. Rustige landelike omgewing en net 1 uur vanaf Kaapstad. 3 Slaapkamers met 2 badkamers. TV kamer, eetkamer, sitkamer en kombuis. Wasgeriewe in motorhuis. Dubbel motorhuis met elektriese deure. Lugversorgers, binnebraai en kaggel. Splashpool. Stoorkamer/Werkswinkel. Elektriese hekke. 1 Slaapkamer woonstel met badkamer, kombuis en kaggel. Woonstel het eie ingang en kan gebruik word vir gaste of verhuur word. Olyfbome en tuin. Erf is tenvolle omhein. Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:58:08 +0200 105238923 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-105238923
3 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 295 000 - Web reference 105238923 - SAHometraders
About 20 km from Moorreesburg on the N7 you will find the wheat and sheep farming town of Koringberg. This area has become very popular with paragliders, while horse-riding, hiking and mountain-biking trails snake through the ruggedly beautiful surrounds. A visit to the Doll Collection and the Old Blacksmiths Shop are a must. Also of interest is the Autshumao (Herrie-die-Strandloper) spring, used in Van Riebeecks time by the local Khoi San people to water their livestock and still visible today. Last stop is Misverstand Dam, not far away, off the N7. The dam is on the Berg River and offers canoeing, swimming, fishing and water-skiing. Take a sunset boat trip down the river with its abundance of birdlife before pitching your tent at the camp site or booking into one of the chalets for a peaceful sleep far from the hustle and bustle of city life. THE PROPERTY OFFERS: Beautifully restored barn with: 3 bedrooms 3 Bathrooms Dining room with built in braai. Stone wall lounge with exposed beams and chandelier and aircon TV room with wood fired oven and aircon. bay window breakfast nook or reading corner. Splash pool in private courtyard. Double garage - automated... with laundry facility Driveway gates - automated Olive trees House size 205sqm Erf size 1373sqm ADDED BONUS: one bedroom en suite stone built cottage. lounge with queen anne fireplace....with own driveway and single garage size workshop and chicken coop. All cottage furniture included. Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:30:51 +0200 103674395 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/farm-for-sale-in-koringberg-103674395
5 bedroom Farm For Sale in Koringberg for R 21 900 000 - Web reference 103674395 - SAHometraders
This 422 hectare farm finds itself on the banks of the Berg Rivier with outstanding 1.8 km River Front views in Koringberg, a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Village 146 km north-north-east of Cape Town and 17 km north of Moorreesburg The farm exudes a great sense of closeness to nature and offers an ideal setting for a country lifestyle with substantial income. 2.5 hectares provide water rights in the summer and +- 16.5 hectares during winter season. +- 330 hectares are dry land pastures and 2 x 13 hectares Agrico Centre Irrigation systems. 50 hectares land close to the river is of sandy/ clay soil type. The farm is divided into 17 Camps, (All equipped with water). Located on the farm is a 90 000L reservoir and municipal water. 2 Eskom electricity points are situated on the farm. All fences surrounding this 422 hectare farm are in a general well-kept condition. The 350 square meter main dwelling situated on the farm consists of 5 bedrooms. The 2nd 240 square meter dwelling consists of 3 bedrooms and outbuildings include 2 workers cottages. Farms as such come onto the market very seldom; a great opportunity such as this is perfect to expand your Agricultural enterprise. For sale at R 21 900 000.00 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:27:33 +0200 104718471 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-104718471
3 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 180 000 - Web reference 104718471 - SAHometraders
This is a really super cottage created from an old farm barn, full of interesting areas which have been lovingly restored and redefined into the ultimate country dream! It provides accommodation formally for six with 2 bedrooms and bathrooms in the main house whilst a separate self-catering cottage offers the third. In the main house there are lots of living areas plus an office which could be a third bedroom. The property is completely fenced and has a duck pond and a fish pond as well as a cooling splash pool. There are double garages with auto doors and street gates are also auto. For the hobbiest there is a separate workshop and cottage access is private from the house. Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:01:46 +0200 101781503 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-101781503
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 170 000 - Web reference 101781503 - SAHometraders
This is an opportunity of a lifetime!. Escape to this lovely Western Cape Country village and build your own unique cottage and experience crisp clean mountain air, bright blue skies, starlit nights, warm summer days, crispy winter nights and rolling corn fields. The land is well positioned near other existing beautifully renovated cottages. The climate is ideal to grow your own fresh vegetable and herbs or buy it from the local merchants when in season.Koringberg is only an easy hour's drive away from Cape Town and 20 minutes from neighbouring villages like Moorreesburg, Piketberg and Porterville. Make an offer today!! Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:19:30 +0200 105577605 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-105577605
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 250 000 - Web reference 105577605 - SAHometraders
Level large plot of over 1,500m² with excellent views across the valley. Slightly elevated enough to catch the afternoon summer breezes. A super opportunity for the new owner to build both a commercial outlet and a home. Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:34:46 +0200 105136037 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-105136037
3 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 160 000 - Web reference 105136037 - SAHometraders
Koringberg is a charming village for the discerning buyer who wants to live in this captivating part of the Swartland. An old barn was fixed up into a beautiful cottage offering country style living. At the front door, it welcomes you with a secluded entertaining area with a splash pool. The homestead comprises of a lounge and separate tv-room, a large dining room with built-in braai, two bedrooms adding two bathrooms and a large study. The kitchen leads to a sunny breakfast nook. The rooms are equipped with ceiling fans and the house is fitted with two air conditioners. It offers many extra fixtures included in the sale such as a coal stove and all the light fittings to name a few. Additionally a cozy one bedroom cottage is separate from the house with outbuildings and a private entrance. It comprises of a kitchen with small lounge, one bedroom and a bathroom, and is currently rented as a flatlet. The spacious plot has a hen-house with a pond, adding another fishpond at the front entrance. A paved driveway leads to an automated double garage. For sale at R 1 160 000,00 Mon, 15 May 2017 20:41:08 +0200 105598084 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-105598084
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 270 000 - Web reference 105598084 - SAHometraders
Situated on the edge of the village of Koringberg, this lovely plot measuring 1,388m² offers stunning views of the surrounding farmlands and mountains. A perfect place to build your country weekend getaway in a quiet and relaxing village life. Just an hour and a half drive from Cape Town. No commercial activity. Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:44:31 +0200 105482366 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-105482366
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 350 000 - Web reference 105482366 - SAHometraders
Offering good views and postition this long plot would be ideal to sub divide or garden olives. It has 2 road accesses. A worthwhile investment for a week end runaway or when you decide to abandon city life and enjoy the country. Cape Town is just over an hour away and Piketberg 10 mins. Koringberg is tiny no commercial activity so shopping in Piketberg or Moorreesberg. Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:14:09 +0200 104915817 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/2-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-104915817
2 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 650 000 - Web reference 104915817 - SAHometraders
Small 2 bedroomed house ideal for a week end runaway or to extend and change into a super family house. Huge plot to allow for more fruit trees and a pool and for children to play. Fenced and gated. This is a really excellent buy! The views are beautiful during the daytime and enjoy wonderful stargazing at night! Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:39:17 +0200 103788916 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-103788916
3 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 890 000 - Web reference 103788916 - SAHometraders
This house is located in the small town of Koringberg which is located between Moorreesburg and Piketberg on the west coast travelling on the N7. The house consist of 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, lounge/dining room. The kitchen has a built in stove and cupboards and the outside area is very large and has the potential to keep sheep. Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:22:19 +0200 105317503 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-105317503
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 220 000 - Web reference 105317503 - SAHometraders
This plot which is level and manageable measuring 992m² offers lovely views of the surrounding farmlands and mountains. Only 1½ hours drive from Cape Town, a perfect place to build your weekend retreat. Only 15 minutes drive either way to Piketberg or to Moorreesburg to do your shopping. Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:58:25 +0200 103674555 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/farm-for-sale-in-koringberg-103674555
Farm For Sale in Koringberg for R 19 500 000 - Web reference 103674555 - SAHometraders
This 487 hectare farm comprises of 0,5 ha of vineyards, mainly Shiraz, and 30 ha of olives that is about 7 years old. Accommodation is available in the 740 sq metre 4 bedroom main homestead. Furthermore the property also boasts with a second 3 bedroom home, a 2 bedroom cottage and a 1 bedroom cottage. Water can be obtained from various sources such as the Berg river, 6 boreholes, 3 earth dams and 3 wind mills. Currently the farm is being utilized for the production of about 64 tons of olives per annum, but has many possibilities for expansion. 430 hectares of quality arable land is available, with a further 30 hectares of land suitable for olive groves, ideal for the development of additional fields. The equipment for the processing of the olives is included in the sales price. This piece of land, with no land claims, is a real gem and can be yours for only R19 500 000.00 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:15:03 +0200 104719397 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/2-bedroom-house-for-sale-in-koringberg-104719397
2 bedroom House For Sale in Koringberg for R 1 295 000 - Web reference 104719397 - SAHometraders
Old farm barn lovingly restored(oregan beams) in the farming community of Koringberg.Ideal breakaway from the urban rush countryside living at its best and close enough to be only an hour away from Cape Town or Langebaan.Picturesque mountain views and close to the Bergriver. This property offers: 2 Bedrooms,2 bathrooms,breakfast lounge,kitchen,kaggel,buildt in braai,tv room,study (can be 3rd bedroom) and automated double garage. Private outside cottage with kitchen,batroom and bedroom. The big plot(... Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:05:17 +0200 104845293 http://www.sahometraders.co.za/vacant-land-plot-for-sale-in-koringberg-104845293
Vacant Land / Plot For Sale in Koringberg for R 450 000 - Web reference 104845293 - SAHometraders
What a beautiful part of our country! A small town with hills and wheat fields. This plot has a spectacular view from the foundations already built, is a corner plot and has a wheat field for its neighbor! The water point is connected already. Wildehurst restaurant is nearby and a little more. Tranquility, peace and quiet. Farms around you. Sound good? Then call me for a viewing! The seller will consider reasonable offers! Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:43:21 +0200
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Home News & Analysis Delancey Street Associates taps Deutsche Bank, Square Mile for $466m refinance
Joint venture secures trio of loans to refinance Essex Crossing live-work-play assets
Delancey Street Associates has closed on a $466 million refinance consisting of three separate loans from Deutsche Bank and Square Mile Capital.
The New York-based joiup secured the debt funding on June 10.
The refinancing package includes a $285 million loan from Deutsche Bank for the offices at Essex Crossing, a $144 million loan from Deutsche Bank for The Artisan apartment complex and a $37.1 million loan from Square Mile Capital for One Essex Crossing.
The refinancing will replace the site’s construction loans and tack on additional capital to resolve the leasing program for the balance of the office and market line spaces as well as other common area commitments. JLL and Walker & Dunlop represented the joint venture in securing the financing.
Speaking on behalf of Delancey Street Associates, Taconic Partners co-president and CIO Chris Balestra said the success of the development validates the market demand for live-work-play developments in a post-pandemic era where convenience and accessibility are very desirable.
The entire Essex Crossing development is spread across nine sites and 2 million square feet, costing an estimated $1.6 billion to date.
The JV refinancing package marks one of the more sizable debt deals in New York in recent months. At the end of 2021, a $1.25 billion debt package was lined up by L&L Holding Company and Columbia Property Trust to redevelop New York’s Terminal Warehouse with backing from Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Oaktree Capital Management.
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Guest accommodation comprises 09 Twin/Double Rooms and 02 Triple Rooms all en-suite, 02 Family Cottages each with two bedrooms (one King and one Twin), a common living room, one extra bed and a shared bathroom for all as well as 03 Dormitory rooms with 3, 5 and 10 double-decker beds all with shared/common bathroom facilities and a private camp site (guests please bring own camping equipment). Rooms also have wall fans for warmer days, lounge seat, a verandah with two 'directors' canvas chairs' and clothing rack, all beds fitted with a mosquito net as well as consistent hot and cold showers. Other amenities include, an extensive lounge, a well-sFi in the public areas.
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Wow! That's my description of this tape after seeing just the very first few feet of footage. Lots and lots of passenger train action, mostly in the West, with lots of variety in equipment as well.
As an example, we see the CB&Q's Empire Builder, the North Coast Limited, the California Zephyr, Nebraska Zephyr, Santa Fe warbonnets, the Super Chief, the Texas Chief, UP's Trains 104 and 108 combined coming into Union Station at Chicago, the Tulsan, PA's on the Santa Fe at Lamar, Kansas, and a Santa Fe #67 mixed train near Wichita.
Also included are D&RGW Ca lifornia Zephyr F units, and we're given a long cab ride into the mountains on this train; the Colorado Eagle on the Missouri Pacific, and lots and lots of UP passenger train action, including the City of St. Louis picking up mail on the fly.
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Deborah Persaud of the UShe case of the "Mississippi baby" that her team worked on presented a "ray of hope."
"The key thing for us that we should focus on is to do what we know how to do — and that is identify kids who are infected and treat them early."
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The figures in the foreground form a familiar pageant of forms and faces, the individuals who were my world for three years. Those I lived and worked with, laughed and cried and supported and grew with; some of my first true friends, with whom I shared my very self. Some have moved on to futures disconnected from my own, some maintain a courteous online connection, some even send me Christmas cards. Others still sit at the very centre of my life, amongst the select few I could call at 3am in a crisis.
Behind this immediate circle stands a great host of characters who were less intimate, but no less significant, set against the landscape of University Park campus. These are the academics who taught, corrected, advised, directed and coached me through the transformation from uncertain, homesick 18-year-old to confident 21-year-old, so that I graduated as a capable, sharp-minded young scientist who was ready to explore all that my new career in medical physics had to offer. Front and centre amongst them is my tutor, Professor Penny Gowland, a specialist in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Penny’s interest in physics was first piqued at the age of 15 by an episode of the BBC’s science series, Horizon, about Voyager and, in particular, navigation engineer Linda Morabito. Linda described how she had seen a blip on the surface of Io, one of Saturn’s moons and, rather than ignore it as a random glitch, she thought, “What was that?” She investigated and found the first exploding crater on that moon.
The process of scientific exploration and discovery, and the way Linda described it, appealed to Penny. Seeing a young woman speaking with enthusiastic eloquence about making a major contribution to such a significant space research programme probably also went a long way to demonstrating to Penny that a career in physics was not only desirable, but accessible.
Penny went on to study A-levels but wasn’t permitted to take the maths she needed to enter a physics degree, as her maths teacher mistook her untidy working for incompetence. During the following year, Penny worked as a nurse whilst taking A-level maths at college. The experience and responsibility of nursing meant she grew up quickly, but it also sparked her interest in the medical applications of physics. During her BSc in astronomy and physics at University College London, she was advised to take a final-year project in astronomical imaging, because developing her skill in analysing such data would equip her for a career in medical imaging — many of the same processes and techniques are used in both. She continued to refine and develop her image acquisition and processing skills with an MSc in radiation physics at the Middlesex Hospital, a PhD in in-vivo nuclear magnetic resonance measurements at the Institute of Cancer Research, and a post-doctoral research assistant position in the Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre at Nottingham University. She has worked at the centre ever since.
Taking the pragmatic, sensible approach
When I met Penny, she held the Sir Peter Mansfield lectureship within the School of Physics and Astronomy. I remember her lectures on nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI well. She was logical and authoritative in her presentation but rather softly spoken; these were the days before online lecture handouts, so I had to sit near the front and really pay attention to what she said to transcribe it quickly and accurately. She was also our only female lecturer, and in comparison to her male colleagues, Penny’s slight frame seemed somewhat lost at the front of the theatre, between the imposing dark wood of the laboratory bench and the huge green chalk board behind.
As my undergraduate tutor, she would meet me and five of my contemporaries every week to talk through our progress, identify areas for improvement, and issue tasks to help strengthen our weaknesses. We met in her office at the Sir Peter Mansfield Building, home to the magnetic resonance (MR) research group, up the hill from the physics department and tucked in next to the boys’ halls (Hugh Stewart and Cripps) and the University Medical Centre.
Penny was working 80 percent of full-time at that point, and occasionally her home and University commitments collided, so that two small blonde-haired girls would be colouring and drawing in the corner of the room as we talked through the finer points of our coursework. I really warmed to them; they reminded me of life beyond the 18-21 club of the student world, of home, of family. Their presence also impressed on me at the very beginning of my own career that it was possible to be a successful and respected scientist and hands-on mother to a young family. Penny was specialising in fetal MR at the time, which I presumed was a professional extension of her maternal role; it transpires that the MR research group was developing a number of projects in this area when she joined, and Penny simply picked up the work that needed doing.
This pragmatic, common-sense approach is typical of Penny. When I managed to have not one, but two, crises during the course of my first degree and turned to her for support, her calm problem-solving was nothing short of a rock in an emotional storm.
Crisis One arose because I had taken a rather unconventional A-level in physics, which contained rather more astronomy and quantum theory than most, and had also foregone further maths A-level in favour of Grade 8 cello, much to the annoyance of my maths teacher. As a result, my understanding of mechanics — the influence of forces on objects — was behind that of most students in my year. I really struggled with the mechanics module of my first semester and failed the exam. Penny urged me not to despair with the words “That’s what re-sits are for” and set me mountains of mechanics problems in preparation. Mechanics has never been, and will never be, my forte, but by the time I had been through remedial tuition with Penny I was good enough to pass both my first and second semester mechanics exams comfortably.
Crisis Two broke as I was putting the final touches to my revision for a medical physics exam one sunny morning in my second year. I glanced over at the timetable blu-tacked to the wall to remind myself of the start time that afternoon. Panic engulfed me in a cold sweat as I realised the exam was actually that morning and had already started on the other side of campus. I ran all the way there and slipped in as quietly as I could manage at the back, only for my fellow students to look up from their papers with varying degrees of annoyance and concern. I never missed a lecture, never mind an exam, but in the days before mobile phones were commonplace, no-one had been able to check up on me when I wasn’t queueing outside the room with everyone else.
The invigilators ushered me out and eventually convinced me it would be wiser to take the paper at a later date rather than trying to complete it in half the allotted time. All I needed was to confess to Penny what an idiot I’d been and ask her to complete the relevant paperwork. I headed to the Sir Peter Mansfield Building via Cripps Hall, interrupting a friend’s medicine revision with much weeping and wailing, quieted by a comforting hug. I was still quite tearful, sweaty and flustered when I arrived at Penny’s office. I could tell she wasn’t impressed with me, but she passed the tissues with tight-lipped serenity and set about sorting out the mess I’d made. I returned early the next year to take the exam and passed with flying colours.
I put myself under additional pressure by taking an additional computer programming module in my penultimate semester, spending a lot of time playing the cello, letting my heart be broken more often than could possibly be healthy, and agonising over future career opportunities. Despite two further re-sits, and having to sit a viva at the end of my degree as I was so close to the honours boundary, I finally graduated in July 1998 with a first class BSc degree in physics with medical physics. When people coax my degree classification out of me, they seem to get the impression I am a genius who sailed through university, acing coursework, exams and my dissertation en route. They don’t realise how hard I had to struggle for it and that I nearly sabotaged everything with my own absent-minded stupidity.
My degree result secured my place on the NHS Medical Physics training scheme in Manchester, during which time I completed an MSc in physics and computing in medicine and biology, and undertook placements in radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic radiology (X-ray, computed tomography or CT, and MRI). From there I side-stepped into academia, electing to do a PhD while I had the chance to refine my research skills and keep my future career options open. A medical physicist post in nuclear medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary became available as I was finishing my three years of research into quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) of lung cancer, and I was fortunate enough to secure it. Nearly ten years and two children later, I am still working in the same department, now at Senior Medical Physicist level. I love my job, which encompasses growing responsibility for our routine work with patients, an expanding research portfolio, overseeing trainee physicists, MSc and PhD students and a research associate, and an honorary lectureship at Manchester University.
I’m also Director of ScienceGrrl, a network celebrating and supporting women in science, and secretary to the Women in Physics Group at the Institute of Physics, Innovation and Research Advisory Group at the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, and UK PET Physics Group (who I also represent on committees at the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and British Nuclear Medicine Society). I’ve come a long way in the fifteen years since my graduation from Nottingham University.
A CV replete with accomplishments
In the meantime, Penny has been promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer in 2000, to Reader in 2002, and Professor in 2004. Her MRI research has changed direction several times during this period. The first change came in 2004, when the European Commission adopted directive 2004/40/CE, restricting occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields. This was intended to limit health effects linked to mobile phones, wi-fi, and other devices but inadvertently threatened MRI, as it uses radio frequency pulses and both static and fluctuating magnetic fields to manipulate the behaviour of hydrogen nuclei within the body and image their distribution. The threat was particularly acute for research scanners using higher field strengths, and Penny saw that this directive had the potential to close down the 7T MRI research facility at Nottingham University, which uses static magnetic fields more than twice as strong as those used routinely in hospital scanners.
Between 2004 and 2009, Penny became a leading expert on the safety of high-field MRI for the Health Protection Agency, British Institute of Radiology and International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation, not just in terms of understanding the legislation and how to correctly interpret and apply it, but also in conducting research that answered the questions that remained concerning the safety of high-field MRI for patients, volunteers and staff. Her work has helped policy makers to understand how the small risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields compare with the considerable benefits of allowing research using high-field MRI to progress. It is hoped that these novel high-field MRI imaging techniques will eventually become routine tools for the diagnosis of a wide range of diseases.
Penny has since applied herself to a diverse portfolio of grant-funded MR research, developing applications to study a wide variety of structures and processes in the body. These have included how the gut and brain respond to different meals, the relationship between changes in the brain and recovering muscle control and hearing after stroke, and variations in blood flow within the placenta in complicated pregnancies. She has published her work in over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and been invited to present to, speak at, and organise Magnetic Resonance Imaging conferences all over the world. She is deputy editor of one of the key journals in our field, Physics in Medicine and Biology, and her expertise is sought by funding bodies in assessing grant applications, by high-profile journals in reviewing research papers, and by professional bodies such as the British Institute of Radiology, Health Protection Agency and International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Her CV is long, and replete with impressive accomplishments.
Penny is currently working on chemical exchange imaging, which studies information about chemical composition that is hidden in the detail of signals detected during Magnetic Resonance Imaging. One of the molecules that has recently been studied using this technique is glucose, and the MR images which result are similar to those usually obtained with PET using 18FDG, a radioactive form of glucose. This apparent competition between MR and PET is something of a potential sore point with Penny’s husband, Professor Paul Marsden, an expert in PET Physics whom I met independently during my PhD.
Completing the work-family jigsaw
The girls who coloured and drew through my tutorials are now 15 and 18. Penny seems to have mastered the co-existence of a productive scientific career and family responsibilities by working hard at both. As Paul is based in London for some of the week, parenting has often fallen to Penny, assisted by flexible part-time hours and weekly visits from her mother. When the children were small, she would leave in time to pick them up from school, cook the evening meal and put them to bed, then pick up her University work again in the evenings. It’s a demanding schedule, but Penny noticed she was more productive for having the break from work in the late afternoon and early evening and insists that “a change is as good as a rest.” Her mother’s visits helped cover domestic duties and provide live-in childcare that enabled Penny to continue to present her work at international conferences. Watching her eldest prepare for university, Penny wryly observes that her own daughters may soon be expecting her to do the same.
The appointments in Penny’s CV specify what proportion of full-time she was working at each stage, which I found strange at first, and wondered if she felt pressure to justify her working hours. “No” she said, calm but firm as ever, “I just wanted to bear witness to it. It’s on the list of telephone numbers at work, too. If I say what hours I’m working people know what to expect and can work around that. I also wanted to show that you can be productive and work part-time.”
Given Penny’s support for flexible working and openness around issues affecting work-life balance, it is not surprising that she was the chair of the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Diversity Committee from 2007 to 2010, during which time she coordinated a successful Athena Swan Silver award submission. When I tweeted that I was writing about her, one of her current PhD students replied, singing Penny’s praises as a supervisor. I do not doubt the same could be said by all of the postgraduate students she has personally overseen, more than 40 in the last 20 years.
Penny and I both lead busy and full lives; we are in need of the transparent, flexible, and understanding culture we seek to encourage in our workplaces. Penny celebrates part-time working as enabling and fostering productivity across all areas of her life; in talking to her, I realised I experience part-time as less-than-full-time and have often felt it puts me in a position of weakness in the workplace as it is seen as indicating a lack of commitment to my career. Reflecting further, I see that this mindset has fed my natural tendency to over-commit myself. I have certainly taken on a little too much in recent years, fearful of saying ‘no’, ‘not now’, and ‘not me’ in case I miss out on opportunities or am thought lacking in commitment or enthusiasm.
I am conscious that I need to find a more sustainable pace, scheduling my workload more effectively, deferring what doesn’t have to be done now, and delegating what doesn’t have to be done by me and thus empowering others in encouraging them to participate. I also need to rediscover how to live in the moment, to appreciate what is happening in front of me right now, rather than constantly monitoring and planning and adjusting my next steps. I risk missing today because I’m too preoccupied with preparing for tomorrow.
When I interviewed Penny, I asked her if she had anything else to add, and she concluded our conversation with a very timely piece of advice: “Don’t worry about the future. When the children are at nursery, you worry how you’ll cope when they start school; when they’re at school, you worry about how you’ll cope when they’re a teenager. Maybe I’ve been lucky, but I’ve found that every time it sorts itself out. I’ve given up worrying about the future, I just think about how to get through tomorrow, which leads to a bit of chaos, but it all works out fine.”
Now I’m established in my chosen career, perhaps the key to a successful and happy future is not intensively planning and negotiating my next manoeuvre but working hard and living well, if slightly chaotically, in the present. Now I just need to work out how to put that into practice. It could take the next fifteen years.
Dr Heather Williams MBE is a Consultant Medical Physicist for Nuclear Medicine at The Christie NHS, honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester and University of Salford, and visiting Professor at the University of Cumbria. She is a Leading Light of the STEM Ambassador programme, and secretary to the Institute of Physics’ Women in Physics Group, UK PET Physics Group, and IPEM Innovation and Research Advisory Group. In June 2012, Heather helped establish ScienceGrrl (www.sciencegrrl.co.uk) to celebrate and promote the work of women in science, technology, engineering and maths; she now acts as ScienceGrrl’s Director. When she’s not busy working, she enjoys running and introducing her sons to the wonders of the universe, often at the same time.
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Pat Perryman Honiton Lacemaker Awarded BEM
It was our delight to have Pat Perryman as a guest speaker during our pre Ackworth2008 sojourn at Symondsbury Manor and I'm sure many of the attendees at that event will have fond memories of her. I am even more delighted to learn that Pat has now a champion and practitioner of the art of lace-making in her home town of Honiton for 40 years and is chairman of Allhallows Museum which displays the town’s most famous product. One of her specially commissioned pieces - a jabot - dignified the throat of one of the House of Parliament's best-loved speakers, Betty Bothroyd.
Congratulations to Pat Perryman Honiton on this honor wisely bestowed upon her. How truly wonderful that a country in this century would honor someone who has created such beautiful lace.
An incredibly talented woman !
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Bristol City Council is asking businesses and governments to invest £1billion to help it develop energy infrastructure.
Called 'City Leap', the packages range from the relatively small £10million monitoring schemes to the eye-watering £300million projects to increase domestic energy efficiency.
The opportunities are acouncil says its position as major landowner will help the speedy development of the schemes.
Labour cabinet lead for Energy and Waste, Kye Dudd, says the city is looking to "take things to the next level" with its investment plan.
"Bristol is already internationally recognised as a leading energy city, but nwe need partners to join us on this journey," he said.
"'t be open to us working alone.
"We want to use our role as local government to act as a catalyst for change.
City Leap is the latest prospectus produced by Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees' administration.
In the blurb of the City Leap prospectus, Mr Rees states the document is a "soft marketing test" aimed at gauging the appetite for energy investment in Bristol.
Already trialled in Avonmouth, heat networks retain heat created through industrial processes and send itIt also wants money to launch a smart energy system - which could include the development of a 'Bristol Battery' to link in with local and national energy transmission networks - as well as projects
The council is joining forces with a wide range of partners for a number of proposed City Leap schem
Mr Dudd has previously told Bristol.Live a number of Chinese firms are enquiring about investing in Bristol's energy projects.
Firms have until 11.50pm on Friday, August 31 to register interest with the authority.
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Biden inherits stalled Afghan peace process and looming troop withdrawal date
January 26, 2021 Current News Articles
By J.P. LAWRENCE
The U.S. officially had 8,400 troops in Afghanistan when former raised that number to 14,000 in its first year, before reducing it to 2,500 since the Doha agreement,” Antony Blinken, Senate confirmation hearing.
Lloyd Austin, Biden’s pick to head the Pentagon, echoed concerns by senior military leaders about a surge of violence across the country and whether the Taliban have kept their promises.
The Biden administration is expected to reemphasize the need for a “responsible” withdrawal, but it’s hard to imagine all American troops withdrawing by May, a report released last week by International Crisis Group said.
A full withdrawal in May could fracture an already splintered Afghan government and lead to renewed violence, sa think tank and an author of the report.
“” Wate only course of action — as well as the lives and limbs of our troops — is to end our part of this war no matter what by May 2021,”, in an email.
“As president, Biden can continue to pursueor he can opt for an enduring counterterrorism mission,” Watkins said. “But absent what would be a highly unlikely about-face by the Taliban, he cannot have both.”
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Title: VIS H1N1 Inactivated influenza vaccine - Burmese
Date of publication: 10 February 2009
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Title: VACCINATION PROPAGANDA: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATING COLONIAL MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BURMA
Description/subject: "...In examining the British government's frequently half-hearted and sometimes even contradictory attempts to convince the indigenous population to accept vaccination, Burma does begin to appear in some ways as a neglected corner of British India. However, Burma may not really have been an exception as other literature has found similar problems in British India in general..."
Author/creator: Atsuko Naono
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Date of entry/update: 09 November 2008
Title: BCG a
Description/subject: The value of BCG vaccination in preventing leprosy among children was studied in an area of high leprosy endemicity in Burma through a controlled trial; one group of 13 066 children received BCG and another group of 13 176 served as controls. The overall protective effect of BCG, which was only about 20% over the 14-year period, was found to vary with the batch of vaccine, as well as age, sex, and contact status of the children. BCG protection was found to be independent of the initial tuberculin status of the children. The protective effect of BCG against the lepromatous type of leprosy could not be measured because of the low incidence. Protection was observed throughout the fourteen years of the study except for the first year. The results are compared with those of three other major BCG trials in leprosy. The trial has shown that BCG provides only a very modest level of protection and that BCG vaccination is not likely to be an important solution for leprosy control.
Author/creator: Kyaw Lwin, T. Sundaresan, Mg Mg Gyi, L. M. Bechelli, C. Tamondong, P. Gallego Garbajosa, H. Sansarricq, and S. K. Noordeen
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In his ongoing effort to be as juvenile as possible before leaving office, the Obama administration abstained from a vote at the United Nations that essentially condemned Israel in a bunch of ways, allowing it to pass without the courage of an actual vote from the U.S. one way or the other. This has led to the expected angry backlash online from conservative media sources with articles like this from pro-Zionism Frontpage Mag: President Obama Throws Israel To The Wolves.
Of course a UN resolution is as impotent as everything else the UN does. It has no real impact other than serving as a diplomatic black eye and with what appears to be an overwhelmingly pro-Israel administration about to take over in a few weeks, there is little doubt that this resolution will be yet another empty gesture of the sort that has generally marked the utterly useless body of yammering, self-important bureaucrats that bears the risible and inaccurate name "United Nations". In fact it might backfire spectacularly as many Republicans are using this as an excuse to push for defunding the UN, a move I would be all in favor of. For example former Trump Presidential rival Senator Ted Cruz said that he will push to withhold U.S. funding of the UN until the resolution if reversed. As I posted on Facebook, the U.S. pays billions of dollars in UN funding and foots the bill for 22% of the entire budget, a percentage more than double that of Japan with the next highest percentage at 9.68%. The total sum of over $3,000,000,000 is more than 185 other countries pay combined. When you add in the huge amounts we spend on our military the bill gets a lot higher. So much for "United Nations". A more appropriate name would be more like "Bags of Cash From American Tax-Payers To Be Spent By Other Nations In Foolish Ways" but the acronym BOCFATTBSBONIFW doesn't have quiet the same ring to it.
The response is understandable in many ways. Coming as it does at the very end of the Obama reign it smacks of the same sort of petulance that has marked his entire administration and doubly so the month since it was apparent that the American electorate rejected his legacy and replaced him with someone who, at least on the surface, couldn't be more different. But it also raises the same concern that I usually have when the topic of the contemporary nation of Israel is at the forefront of the news, namely the response of American evangelicals.
I want to be crystal clear on this. Whether or not you support the secular nation-state of Israel as a matter of geopolitical preference, a democratic ally of sorts of the United States in an otherwise largely hostile region and whether or not you think the resolution that was passed and the U.S. decision to abstain (itself a cowardly act of inaction, if we supported the resolution we should have voted for it and if we didn't we should have voted against it. Abstention was the cowardly response.) was wise or foolish is a matter of geopolitics and U.S. national security. It is not a theological question, at least insofar as it is not a theological question about specific loyalty from one secular nation toward another.
There are not many issues in American evangelicalism which are more confused and more potentially costly to our witness than the mass misunderstanding of the theological nature of ancient and now extinct Israel as opposed to the contemporary secular nation-state of Israel. When you combine the "America as God's chosen nation" misplaced patriotic fervor with the dispensational confusion over the nature of Israel, you end up with a toxic mix that is dangerous and misguided. The ancient Old Covenant nation of Israel was a covenant-breaking unfaithful people (Jeremiah 31:32). God replaced that Old Covenant, making it obsolete (Hebrews 8:13), with a New Covenant that is in every way better (Hebrews 8:6). People of ethnic Jewish ancestry who are born-again are part of the New Covenant. Those that are not born-again are cut off (Romans 11:13-24 esp. verse 20) and their fate is no different from any other unbelieving people. As such there is no special place for the contemporary nation of Israel as it exists in redemptive history and there is no obligation for Christians to show deference to the secular covenant breaking leaders of Israel over any other nation. We are often reluctant to make that case, even from non-dispensational church leaders, for fears of raising the specter of "anti-semitism" but it is dishonest to pretend that there is a sharp distinction between the historic Old Covenant nation of Israel and the secular reconstituted contemporary nation that bears the same name.
When we associate the church and the Gospel with a secular nation and favor that nation and that ethnicity over others we make a mockery of the Great Commission and tell other people groups that they are second-class citizens of the world even though the overwhelmingly unbelieving citizens of Israel have no special standing with God compared to the people of any other contemporary nation and indeed believers in places like Syria and China have a relationship with God unlike that which any Israelite ever had under the Old Covenant. We do the people of Israel no favors when we extend to them the promise of covenant blessings that they do not possess instead of preaching the Gospel of the New Covenant in Christ to them no differently than we do any other nation or ethnicity.
I think that the behavior of the President via his surrogates was cowardly and petulant toward Israel and pandering toward other nations that are no friend of the United States. I also believe that there are many troubling questions in general about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel that need sober reflection. The entire relationship between the United States, Israel, the rest of the Middle East, the "Palestinian" people and so many other variables is excruciatingly complex. That complexity and the peril of missteps is far too great for Christians to interject a clumsy hermeneutic into it that further muddies water already roiled by decades of antagonism. We should encourage our leaders in America to be even-handed toward all other nations, showing deference where warranted by friendship and mutual benefit but not based on erroneous theological assumptions. It is fine, proper and necessary to have our theological convictions inform our understanding and involvement in contemporary secular issues but let's make sure we have the proper theological framework to make those decisions.
For more on this topic see a couple of prior posts, Israel, Gaza and the Gospel and One of the best summaries of the relationship between Christians and the modern state of Israel I have ever read.
Labels: Barack Obama, dispensationalism, israel, united nations, zionism
The Rotten Fruit Of Zionism
You can always count on the John Hagee's of the world to say cringe-worthy stuff on a regular basis. His latest pronouncement? God will destroy America because the President of the United States is not meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to the U.S. in March. Keep in mind that this is a completely secular political squabble. The invitation comes from the Congress as a poke in the eye of the President over the differences in opinion with how to deal with Iran. Still this is a prime opportunity for false prophecy. Behold...
So let me get this straight. A purely political situation where one unbeliever is not being invited to meet with another unbeliever on a specific date will cause God to intervene and re-institute a thousands of years old covenant promise that has been obsolete for almost two millennium. That seems reasonable.
The exegetical gymnastics required to take this passage...
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis 12:3)
I absolutely believe that the Old Covenant, God-directed nation of Israel held a special and unique place in the plan of redemption. I also believe that the Jews by and large violated their end of the covenant agreement and rejected the Messiah. They no longer have a special claim under the Old Covenant which is made obsolete in the cross and they have the same access as a gentile to the New Covenant. Nor should we want to revive the Old Covenant when we have a New Covenant, a covenant that is infinitely better, giving believers a true King and an eternal Kingdom rather than fallible kings and a dusty land.
I am quite confident that this land where God has placed me is under no special threat based on who does or doesn't have tea in the White House, just as I am sure that John Hagee is speaking presumptuously and treading on some very dangerous ground. We don't stone false prophets anymore but we do and should call them out for what they are, false teachers and wolves among the sheep. I have never found Dispensationalism or Zionism or any other iteration to be compelling. They all fail the sniff test and violate the clear teaching of the New Testament (and yes, there are some teachings that are plain and clear and they can be and should be universally recognized). When someone like John Hagee has a huge audience for his particular brand of error it is incumbent on the church to point it out.
Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't need the Church to defend him against the big, bad President. What Benjamin Netanyahu needs is the same thing Barack Obama needs which coincidentally is the same thing that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the leaders of ISIS, and every other person who is not born-again need: they need saving faith in Jesus Christ. They need to be born-again, regenerated, dying to self and rising again to newness of life. The Kingdom doesn't need its subjects to take sides in a geo-political squabble or a thumb in the eye of the President inflicted by the Congress. Don't get sidetracked by the world and its petty concerns. We have a much bigger mission that leaves us no time for silliness and no room for false prophets.
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Labels: Barack Obama, dispensationalism, israel, zionism
Repost: Israel, Gaza and the Gospel
What the IDF needed was a total victory. “Rocket factories can be destroyed,” said Anthony. “Weapon factories can be destroyed. Terrorists can be eliminated. Tunnels can be dug out.” But it could only happen if America resisted the temptation to criticize Israel or to stop the operation.
As I write below you can make a decent argument from a secular, geo-political position that Israel as a sovereign state has a right and a duty to defend her citizens from attack. I have no doubt that Hamas loves to see dead Palestinian children as a PR tool in their war against Israel. People with an agenda, whether the leaders of Hamas or Benjamin Netanyahu, are always looking for the crass PR opportunity to score political points on the talk shows and via their proxies.
Where I have an issue is when this conflict is turned from a secular squabble that never gets any better and into a theological one where Christians in America are assumed to have a Kingdom obligation to support a secular people group in a war that appears to kill far more civilians than combatants against another secular people group. Let me say this as plainly as I can: A nation created by international proxy that is overwhelmingly populated by people who deny Christ is by definition not "God's people". One cannot simultaneously be in favor with God and denying His Son. That was true in the 1st century A.D. and it is still true today. That basic fact of Christian theology didn't change when a guilt driven world carved a new secular homeland for Jews out of Palestine. I seriously do a literal :facepalm: on a daily basis when I see some things fellow believers say about this conflict. We should be weeping and praying for peace and for the innocents killed on both sides, not taking sides against others based on a faulty and dangerous theology that has its roots in Left Behind and other crappy apocalyptic fiction. There is no small amount of manipulation for political gain and for the selling of books that goes on at events like these and still Christians flock to them. People need to put their end-times flow charts away and try reading the Bible for a change.
Also of note, another post that mostly is a copy and paste from John Piper who pretty much nails in on this issue, One of the best summaries of the relationship between Christians and the modern state of Israel I have ever read.
The conflict in the Middle East is rife with danger for Christians because many of us have been inundated with years of bubblegum pop eschatology that inextricably links the Israel of God with the current nation-state of Israel (see, this chart here shows that Hillary Clinton/Ted Kennedy/Barack Obama/insert liberal here is the anti-Christ!). That linkage causes many Christians to reflexively support Israel, no matter what. I happen to support Israel the nation in the current conflict; the same was that I support Taiwan against mainland Red China. I think people should support Israel, but I think we should support Israel for the right reasons.
To begin with I don’t think that the nation-state of Israel is the Israel of God because it bears the same name and is made up mostly of people of Jewish descent.
Is there a Gospel future for the Jews? I certainly think so, one that involves a massive (future?) conversion of Jews to Christ. Romans 11 bears this out. I do not think that this means that God is intending to fulfill the land promises of the Old Covenant. Why would He? So they can have a physical homeland when Christ has provided a spiritual home? So they can rebuild the temple and make sacrifices, putting the cross of Christ to shame? God has a plan for His people, Jews and gentiles, that is so much greater and more magnificent than a piece of property in the Middle East.
I think it is vital that the Christian manage to look at Israel as two separate entities, the Israel of God on the one hand and the political entity of the nation-state of Israel on the other. Being Jewish does not save you. Romans 11:26 says that all Israel will be saved but it is clear through the Bible that faith in Christ is the only way of salvation and many, many Jews have rejected Christ. So if all Israel will be saved, but not all Jews are saved than it must mean that being the Israel of God is not of necessity a Jewish thing. In Acts 2: , Peter was speaking to a Jewish audience and when the asked “Brothers, what shall we do?”, Peter didn’t say “Nothing, you are Jews so you are all set!”, he told them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. There are Jews and gentiles who are God’s elect and they are born-again and come to saving faith in Christ and are saved. There are likewise Jews and gentiles alike who are not elect, who do not come to faith and are lost. Romans 9: 6-8 tells us that “not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel”, and Galatians 3:7 and 3: 29 tell us that those of faith are the heirs of Abraham’s promises. So I don’t buy into the corollary that tells us that Jewish automatically equates to Israel. Nor do I think it is logical to assume that a Christian is duty bound to support Israel in her attacks against Hamas simply because they are Christians and Israel is Israel.
From a geo-political standpoint, the nation-state of Israel absolutely has the right to defend herself. Try to imagine living in a nation that is surrounded on all sides by “neighbors” who to some extent are committed to your destruction or at least reject the idea that Israel has a right to exist at all as a legitimate and free nation. We have been at peace with Mexico and Canada for more than a century, Canada probably since the end of the War of 1812, so nearly 200 years. But imagine if you will terrorists in Windsor, Ontario launching rockets into Detroit (pretend for a second that Detroit is a city that would be noticeably damaged by rocket fire). I would hope that the U.S. would take drastic steps to stop the rockets. In fact I think the Israeli response has been pretty measured and restrained compared to what they could be doing. The Israelis have one of the most powerful militaries in the world, even given the fact that the nation itself is tiny. It is not unthinkable that they could simply level the Palestinian settlements in the Gaza strip with minimal effort. So while they have been responding with necessary military force, and that force has caused civilian casualties, the Israeli’s have taken great pains to try to avoid civilian casualties. A spokesman for the IDF stated that they have scrubbed 90% of their proposed targets to avoid civilian casualties.
Should Christians cautiously support Israel in her actions against terrorist in Gaza? I think they should. Should Christians support Israel because they are Christians and Israelis are Jews? No. There is not a theological basis to support the nation-state of Israel in this or any other endeavor.
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Labels: dispensationalism, eschatology, israel, zionism
Politics, Ron Paul, Israel and Division In the Church
Politics is said to make strange bedfellows. It also causes division like nothing else save perhaps religion (and sports depending on where you live). That is especially true in this day and age as we approach the Iowa caucuses and it is bleeding over into the church to a far greater extent that normal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in how Christians, especially Christians we would call conservative, evangelical Christians, react to one candidate in particular: Ron Paul.
It is no secret that I am supporting Dr. Paul but that is not why I am writing this. If you are interested in the reasons for my support for Ron Paul, check out The Arsenal of Liberty where I blog about politics and do so intentionally apart from my main blog. My concern here and why I am writing is my concern over how the candidacy of Dr. Paul is dividing the church, a division that is not caused by him but by the hyper-political nature of American evangelicalism coupled with the strong current of dispensationalism that exists in much of the church in America.
There is a segment of the church that sees support for Ron Paul, who is fairly unique among Republicans in his lukewarm support for the nation of Israel at least compared to any other nation, as somehow being anti-Semitic and therefore anti-God's covenant people. These brothers and sisters see a vote for Paul as an act of rebellion against God. There are also a lot of Christians who are, putting it mildly, rabid supporters of Ron Paul who get angry at any suggestion that someone else might be a better nominee. Over the last week or so I have seen an incredible amount of angry rhetoric on both sides, and I am afraid I have engaged in some of it, between people who are supposed to be on the same side (see for example this post from the Gospel Coalition Evangelicals, Race, and Politics that generated over 100 fairly strident comments on both sides of the RP Divide). Brothers this must not be so.
We cannot draw dividing lines in the church over secular American politics.
Who wins the U.S. Presidential election in 2012 is not going to make or break the Kingdom of God. If you are my brother or sister in Christ, that trumps your political allegiance and mine. A political liberal who votes for Barack Obama and is a Christian is my brother. A staunch conservative who supports Ron Paul or Sarah Palin or heaven forbid Newt Gingrich but is not a Christian is not my brother and is instead someone I need to tell about Jesus.When Paul warned us about not being unequally yoked he wasn't talking about staying clear of lib'rals! We must be more concerned with our witness to the unbelieving world than we are about electoral victory and right now we are not comporting ourselves very well.
That does not of course mean that we must avoid civic involvement entirely. Just that we need to keep in mind that who we support politically has absolutely zero impact on who we will spend eternity with.
Labels: dispensationalism, division, israel, politics, Ron Paul, the church
Kim Riddlebarger and Tim LaHaye
This is just an off the cuff post, so I haven't really taken the time to work through all of the arguments. These are just thoughts floating randomly in my head. But it seems a common thread between both Kim Riddlebarger, arch-Reformed guy, defender of amillenialism and paedobaptist and the far kookier Tim Lahaye, he of the Dispensational, free-will theology mindset, is the way they misrepresent the covenant promises to Israel.
Riddlebarger and other paedobaptists err by assuming that the mode and recipient of the sign of the Old Covenant model in ethnic Israel must continue on into the New Covenant administration. It seems to me that there is an odd discontinuity that is forced into relationship between the rejecting of the Dispensational hermeneutic but the continued embrace of the paedobaptist hermeneutic for church membership. Riddlebarger gets Israel right on eschatology, but misses badly on the Old vs. New Covenant administration.
LaHaye and other Dispensationalists err by assuming that all of the Old Covenant promises to ethnic, national Israel will be fulfilled without modification by the New Covenant. Clearly not all Jews are of Israel (Romans 9:4-8), and those who are of faith are the heirs of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). But when Dispensationalism morphs into a two track salvation, restoration of temple sacrifice in a rebuilt physical temples, inheritance of the land, etc. it loses it way. There is a dangerous overemphasis on ethnic Israel to the detriment of the Scriptural record and Jewish evangelism.
It is my contention that only an amillenial (or perhaps post or historical pre) Baptistic view is consistent in hermeneutic and jives with the Biblical record with a continued but different and improved covenant promise. I know this is an oversimplification, but hey it's my blog.
Just something I was musing about this evening.
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NBC Omits 'Under God' from Pledge of Allegiance - TWICE - The Right Scoop - It doesn’t get any more blatant than this, chopping up the sacred words of the Pledge of Allegiance to dispense with the words ‘under God’ TWICE: I’m sure Jon Stewart would just call this sensationalism or something stupid like that. It’s anti-American liberal bias from the propaganda network known as NBC. Let’s not forget their favorite president evah! doing the same thing, not once but twice to the Declaration of Independence. This video has been viewed 20,855 times.
We began our coverage of this final round AW: NBC didn't even have the decency to state what they omitted, they omitted the words 'Under God' TWICE!!!!!
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Median Subs: Another general substitution is called a "median substitution". For this, you replace a chord whose root note is X with a chord whose root note is a third above or a third below X. You want to stay within the diatonic harmony of the key you're playing in, so the new chord may not be the same type of chord as the original. For example, if you're playing in the key of C, you can replace the I chord (C Major) with a iii chord (Em7) or a vi chord (Am7), because iii is a third above I and vi is a third below I. In fact, the ii-for-IV substitution I mentioned first is just a median sub (ii being a third below IV).
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and we have a thriving Kids Class from which young people are moving into the Adults Class, but there are also people in the older age groups, and people who are not very flexible or acrobatic, and that’s seen as perfectly acceptable.
If Body Awareness Training were incorporated into Aikido training right from the start, it would prevent people from acquiring movement habits which lead to injuries. Paul Linden Sensei’s Being In Movement training is excellent.
Another thing which needs to be addressed is teacher training.
Historically, in Japanese martial arts, the responsibility was much more on the learners than on the teachers. The teacher was not under any obligation to actually TEACH. It was up to the student to LEARN.
By contrast, our traditional “western” method of acquiring/imparting knowledge puts almost all of the responsibility on the teacher.
I believe it would be helpful to give Aikido teachers some “teacher training” – but I think we should not assume that our own traditional educational methods are the best available.
Dr. Maria Montessori, a medical doctor who went back to College to get a degree in teaching, developed a system which she proved clearly to be far superior to the traditional (western) methods. She used her learning-focused method to work with children regarded as intellectually sub-normal, and those children did better in State Exams than children of normal ability, being taught in ordinary schools. (This was in Italy).
Dr. Montessori said that when you look into a classroom, you should not see TEACHING happening, you should see LEARNING happening. Her method was clearly proven to be so effective, that the established Educational System couldn’t justify rejecting it outright – but didn’t want the destruction of their power structure, which recognition of her method would necessitate. So instead they marginalised her method, pretending that it was only suitable for children at pre-school level, (despite the evidence to the contrary.)
Part of the solution to the waning interest in Aikido could be to improve the teaching skills of Aikido Instructors. But rather than bringing in the usual type of teacher training or coach training, I strongly advocate the adoption of the Montessori Method for Aikido training.
This teaching/learning method is a much better “fit” for Martial Arts training, as there is more emphasis oin learning and less emphasis on teaching, just as was the case in traditional Japanese Martial Arts. It would also counteract the tendency among people teaching Aikido to allow their egos to take over.
Part of the reason that we have too many people who want to be Instructors, and not enough people who want to be students, is because of the hierarchical system. Teachers get more respect than is good for them, and new or even intermediate students are (sometimes, in some dojo) treated like inferior beings. Nobody enjoys that.
I believe it could students of all ages and ability levels, if the Montessori method was used in Aikido training.
Comments by other people also make excellent suggestions for what we can do. Thank you, Josh, and all at Aikido Journal, for taking the lead in gathering everyone’s ideas and making a serious international attempt to reverse the decline in interest in Aikido, before it’s too late.
iona. (Dublin, Ireland).
Honestly, as a woman who doesn’t like violence and has already attained first dan in taekwondo, I like that aikido doesn’t have a huge emphasis on competition and sparring. I’ve done all of that already and it turns out I prefer a style that focuses on philosophy, effective and humane self defense, and community. If my first impression of aikido had been some kind of hot-and-heavy BJJ or judo wrestlefest, I think it would’ve been a turnoff. I’m 115 lbs. and people generally have to go really easy on me in sparring, which is not ideal for my sense of personal strength and accomplishment (“girls are more delicate and can’t take as much force as guys”).
I’d ask you to please consider the perspectives of young people besides the (mostly) young men who are really into the competitive element – see Elly’s post below. I want to learn how to disable a rapist in a dark alley, not how to score points with a high kick.
I agree 1000% with the comment I read about incorporating defense against realistic attacks. I’m a fire fighter 43 very physical and in excellent shape. I’ve practiced several different styles of traditional martial Arts karate 2 yrs, jujitsu 1 yr, kenpo karate 2 yrs, Aiki Jujitsu 1 yr. I personally fell in love with Aiki Jujitsu very effective and deals with real life situations. Second love was kenpo techniques just made since and stuck immediately. Both of the instructors i trained with taught part time and moved for work reasons. So I’ve been looking for a good style to learn for 4/5 yrs. Something i can dedicate myself to for the next 3/4 yrs and eventually teach. Like the guy said in the previous comment. Bjj is a very large commitment. And hard on your body. I’m 43 dont want to grapple and roll with 23 to 26 yr old wrestlers 3/4 days a week. I was getting injured more then i wanted to because it wasnt any structure. Everything was full 100% full speed for 2 hours. I’m in shape bench 225lbs 22 reps, i can do 27 chin ups straught. I do 150 push ups and sit ups 3/4 days a week. I can deadlift 405lbs and I can run a 7 min mile. At 43 215lbs I was still getting injured doing bjj and that frustrated me fully. So i recently started looking for a new place to train. I walked into an Aikido school and was turn off by what i watched. Wrist grab after, wrist grab. I even told the instructor this isn’t realistic. Nobody does that on the street. He insisted they do not knowing that i boxed 3 yrs and I’m currently head of security at a night club. I paid for a month and uniform and never went back after one class. Aikido has to evolve for the art to survive period. I live in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and have a school 15 min from my home. But I’m struggling with committing myself to a school and art that teaches unrealistic treats and attacks.
The insightful comments of both Mark and Clement are an excellent starting point to address aikido’s dramatic decline in popularity.
Aikido principles are brilliant and as valid today as they were in ancient times, but we must get much better at imparting aiki techniques which are less complex and more easily learned. Training exercises can be far more practical and relevant for today’s students.
Clement highlights another of our failings. As a non-competitive art disabilities present no barrier, but few dojo actively recruit and encourage disabled students to join. We need to put some of our collective KI into better outreach efforts.
Another area of great need is imparting the gift of ukemi – the skill of safe falling to our rapidly aging population, who site catastrophic injury from a fall as their greatest fear.
Samurai means “service.” Perhaps if dojos and aikido federations focused more on service to the community, we might become more relevant. We have so much to offer.
Tom Collings! Love this! Great attitude and one we can only gain from. It will make us a true ‘community’!
I agree 100%, Tom Collings! I’m seriously considering doing this, after I retire from work. Loved your book, by the way, which I read a couple of years ago. At the end, you made some very good suggestions about the way forward for Aikido..
I had been teaching for 20 years in a community of 60,000. During the last years before I stopped teaching the number of students keep diminishing. Sensing there was a lost of interest in Aikido, I encouraged my Aikido Association to set up a national committee to help grow Aikido in Canada.
I became the chair of the committee but ran into some resistance to change. Simple things like a new more proactive web site, YouTube videos, a curriculum designed specifically for children, more flexibility in testing my own students at least up to shodan, exercises classes based on Aikido, Qi Gong and Yoga to keep the old guys like
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Swing is in the Air | Columns & Letters | Spokane | The Pacific Northwest Inlander | News, Politics, Music, Calendar, Events in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and the Inland Northwest
by RACHEL SIEMENS & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & S & lt;/span & moky back rooms, jangly piano and finger curls... a little moonshine and a few rounds on the dance floor to ease your working blues... speakeasies, gangsters, and zoot suits -- the 1930s was a time of intense glamour, intrigue and romance. If only there was some way people nowadays could experience that same blend of decadence and despair...
Well, there is. Right in our own backyard, a storm has been a-brewin' in the form of a burgeoning swing-jazz scene. Spokane natives 6' Swing bridge the gap between 1930 and 2007 with surprisingly contemporary, vintage swing jazz. It's a seeming oxymoron the band pulls off and pulls off well. With the horn section blaring and the piano skipping and jumping over singer Heather O'Brien's smoky voice, the melodic hum of the upright bass and the metallic buzz of the washboard, 6' Swing's music is an intoxicating, driving assemblage.
They've been together only about four months, but the group's polish lends a flavor of nostalgia while adding an up-to-date flair. "We have a lot of people to pull influences from," says O'Brien (who also works for The Inlander). And pull they do, while still maintaining the jazz spirit of improvisation. 6' Swing's Garrin Hertel is cited as being the band's arranger revitalizing time-worn standards He "keeps the spirit of the melody" and lets the rest of the group pack on the meat, he says, letting their own individual styles and influences seep to the surface.
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ADORABLE.
How can anybody not like Kristen Bell?
How can anybody not have her in a top 10 list?
Go watch Veronica Mars and come back and tell me she’s not top 10 material. No tits? No matter. SHE’S CUTE. I love boobs as much as the next guy but i can forgive the lack of boobage on a chick if her face is appealing enough. And in my eyes, Kristen Bell is SUPER appealing.
Like how she is in this scene from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. TOO CUTE.
I was watching one of my Avril Lavigne concert DVDs a while back and my wife was like “I think i know why you like her so much – she looks like Kristen Bell”.
And she does, sorta.
Find a picture of Kristen and Avril smiling, cover the top half of their faces and they practically have the same smile. They also have pretty much same body too. True story.
Avril isn’t cross eyed though.
“Wonky”.
Chicks with wonky eyes, they really intrigue me for some reason. I’m always imagining what it’d be like to look a wonky eyed chick in the eyes while banging them and them being all wonky eyed and all. LOL.
I love you Kristen Bell.
Man, it is REALLY hard trying to find recent pics of Lacey Sha-Bear (or Chabert, if you will). She hasn’t exactly been in the limelight a lot these past coupla years, opting to do smaller roles in smaller movies and stuff.
She’s also probably the only chick from Mean Girls who HASN’T gotten her tits out in one way or another.
She’s come close though, showing a lot of side-boobage in that one flick, whatever it’s called.
But she’s never actually gotten the goods out fully. And i’m starting to think that she never will..!
Lacey Chabert lying in the passenger seat of a car as she silently rubs herself and masturbates while a guy talks and drives around without noticing her doing it.
Lacey Chabert dancing seductively for a guy and giving us a nice look at her sexy stomach before she removes her tanktop to reveal a black lingerie top and then crawling across the floor and getting on top of him where she grabs her breasts briefly and starts to undo his pants.
but then never actually getting naked! WTF!
She was also in some movie called Thirst, with scenes where she was in a yellow bikini a lot. Which somebody had the good sense to edit and mashup into a Lacey Sha-Bear/Phoebe Cates video.
Even her FHM spread from 2007 was relatively tame.
Ok so over the next coming 10 posts, i’ll be posting chicks that would probably be in my top 10 chicks i would wanna bang if given the chance in real life.
More likely in my dreams.
In fact i can’t even think of a time when i’ve actually dreamt of banging anybody in my top 10. Let me dream of banging my top 10 goddammit! So it’s not just in real life that i can’t bang these chicks, but i can’t even bang ’em in my goddamn dreams?
But given the chance, these 10 chicks would be the ones.
Good God, this chick is hot. So so beautiful.
She’s also a lesbian but who cares. Helps that she’s always naked in almost every movie she does. I remember seeing Amber for the first time in that All The Boys Love Mandy Lane movie. That was like in 2006.
Look at this woman. I say GAT DAAAMN. How can anybody not be into her? Or at least want to bang her. It’s impossible. Unless you have an aversion to incredibly hot women. You’d be crazy. I’m not crazy. I want to bang her.
I should finish it. Someday.
Forgive the shameless shilling but i think this is worth sharing. So Mr. Skin is doing this Whack-It Bracket thing which will determine who has the best boobs ever based on user voting.
You’ll UNFORTUNATELY have to sign up (for free) to vote but even if you don’t, it’s worth a look just to see who’s going up against who.
Here’s what the bracket looks like. WHO WILL WIN.
And right off the bat, they’re already pitting 2 out of my 10 ‘Bang List 10’* chicks against each other. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHICH ONE TO VOTE FOR.
I’m just interested in seeing how it all pans out. Champion will be decided on April 7-9.
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*I swear i’ll finish off that list. Someday.
And i guess i already gave away Jennifer Connelly and Carla Gugino but i’ll do proper posts for them someday. SOMEDAY.
Also, is it a coincidence that almost one year ago today, i posted and .gif of Katy Perry and wanting to motorboat her and my last post was also about Katy Perry and me wanting to motorboat her?
IT’S LIKE WHOAMG.
So i actually made a DLT facebook page like months ago in August but never actually published it.
Like, what would i even do with a DLT facebook page? I barely even do much with the actual site as it is LOL.
Well, i finally published it just for the hell of it. Curious to see how many likes it’ll get.
Probably just as much as the number of posts that actually appears on this site per month, AMIRITE?
I swear i’ll get back to my Bang List 10 soon.
If this was 2004, this would’ve probably been the most greatest thing ever.
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Abstract: In this paper we obtain closed expressions for the probability distribution function, when we consider aggregated risks with multivariate dependent Pareto distributions. We work with the dependent multivariate Pareto type II proposed by Arnold (1983, 2015), which is widely used in insurance and risk analysis. We begin with the individual risk model, where we obtain the probability density function (PDF), which corresponds to a second kind beta distribution. We obtain several risk measures including the VaR, TVaR and other tail measures. Then, we consider collective risk model based on dependence, where several general properties are studied. We study in detail some relevant collective models with Poisson, negative binomial and logarithmic distributions as primary distributions. In the collective Pareto-Poisson model, the PDF is a function of the Kummer confluent hypergeometric function, and in the Pareto-negative binomial is a function of the Gauss hypergeometric function. Using the data set based on one-year vehicle insurance policies taken out in 2004-2005 (Jong and Heller, 2008), we conclude that our collective dependent models outperform the classical collective models Poisson-exponential and geometric-exponential in terms of the AIC and CAIC statistics.
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Siege* was an installation exhibited at the Kunsthalle Linz, a transportable miniature kunsthalle originating from Linz, Austria, relocated for the exhibition at my apartment in Tampere, Finland. The installation was compiled out of deconstructed chair inside the Kunsthalle Linz, while the remaining legs served as a pedestal for the ensemble extending the installation outside the pseudo-public exhibition space of the Kunsthalle Linz into the private living room. By reframing the scale of the private and public, the installation was addressing issues of authority and accessibility related to the established art institutions, here proposed as under siege by artist-run projects such as Kunsthalle Linz.
2. Obsolete A seat, especially a throne.
Documentation of the event Liisa Ahlfors@Kunsthalle Linz@Liisa Ahlfors’ at the private apartment of the artist opened for the public.
Speech held by Marie Theresé Luger, one of the curators of Kunsthalle Linz.
Musical contribution by Tampere based three-person duo Sunny&Cloudy.
The event was live streamed via Skype from Tampere, Finland to Linz, Austria (and vice versa), where the vernissage of Siege was celebrated simultaneously.
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September 2016 - Toronto to Minneapolis
We are doing this trip because John is going to the Ryder Cup (golf) tournament in Chaska Minnesota and I am going along for the ride.
In case you are interested the Ryder Cup is...The 41st plan was to start September 27 and go from Toronto to Kalamazoo leaving around 9. We were in the car by 8:45 and had planned a stop to pick up a prescription. Onto the Gardiner highway and I realize I forgot my camera battery charger! I blame it on this cold I got on the weekend. John graciously turned around and we were back on the road around 9:30.
Heading to Sarnia to cross the border.
Stopped for gas just before noon and decided it was a good idea to grab lunch while we were there.
Turns out there's a toll booth just before the duty free in the Canadian side that took forever to get through. The cost was $4.00. The number of transports on the road were ridiculous.
Through customs.
I had booked us into the Kalamazoo House Bed and Breakfast based on their incredible Tripadvisor reviews. What a delight!! We were greeted by manager and chef and given the grand tour.
The Kalamazoo House was built in 1878 for the family of David Lilienfeld, a wealthy German immigrant who with his brother William owned the Lilienfeld Brothers Cigar Company, the largest company of a thriving industry of cigar makers in Kalamazoo prior to 1900. Mr. Lilienfeld also imported beer and whiskey, and operated an upscale downtown drinking establishment called The Brunswick. For the second 50 years of the home's life, beginning in 1932, visitors to the house were attending funerals of Kalamazoo residents as the house served the community under the caring oversight of the Donovan family, as the Donovan Funeral Home (later Donovan-Betzler).
When the building was slated for destruction in 1985, to make room for a proposed parking facility, it was saved by prominent local restorers and turned into a hotel named "The Kalamazoo House"—after the city's impressive first hotel from a century before. They don't serve alcohol but you are more than welcome to being your own and use the glasses etc from their bar area in the sitting room.
We headed out for a stroll and dinner. We are right next door to the Institute of Art but it was just closing.
P E O P L E By Kirk Newman
This guy is quite a character, with the paper bag on his head.
It's where the district's namesake and city founder, Titus Bronson, spent his first night, where Abraham Lincoln once spoke, and people of all persuasions have come to air out their viewpoints.
"Children at Play," by Kirk Newman. This group of bronze figures of children stands in the reflecting pool on the west end of the park. No water when we were there.
The Fountain of the PioneersBronson Park Historic District, but was approved for individual inclusion on the list of historic places deemed to worthy of preservation.
The fountain in Kalamazoo's Bronson Park, which has generated controversy over how it depicts a settler and a Native American.
Disabled Veterans monument outsideWe found Bell's Brewery and stopped in. No gluten free beer or cider.
The Union for dinner.
Bronson Park,
TomSeptember 28, 2016 at 8:08 PMWhat a great trip...I remember when the Ryder Cup in Rochester at Oak Hill.ReplyDeleteWilliam KendallOctober 4, 2016 at 4:50 PMQuite a trip to make. I've been in Michigan several times, but never that city. The veterans monument is quite vivid.ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...
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OK, OK, nobody wants to have a cap on the amount of money we would like to spend on our dream dress, but the REALITY is, unless you're part of a Disney princess movie (or you're just so damn rich) we all have to set budgets for huge events like this so what ever your budget is, STICK TO IT!!! To avoid any unexpected surprises or to put it simply- a broken heart, research bridal stores which you want to go to, call before hand to check their price range or with a huge thanks to a multi billion company- just GOOGLE it!!! We can get what ever answers we want on there so use it.
It is important to factor in details such as your wedding venue, the time of year, will your wedding be indoors or outdoors, your wedding theme, and once you have these decided and all are in place- it should be an easy process. Brides with clouded minds and undecided decisions can tend to feel very overwhelmed by the whole experience, and without the right support and help from friends, family and your bridal party- Buckle Up PEEPS, because you're ALL in for a bumpy ride!! Beware, Bridezilla!
When booking your appointment, try to bear in mind "the time of month" you chose to go. Let's not shy away from the fact that we are WOMEN. Like most, if not all of the female race, we don't particularly feel like Cinderella (more like her ugly stepsisters) at this time. Most of us are bloated (probably a dress size bigger), we're totes emosh as it is, easily stressed, etc....you all know what I'm talking about and nobody wants to feel these things trying on your dress for the first time. Let's face it, it will be emotional enough judging by "Say Yes to the Dress" featured on TLC, unless you have the Ice-queen with you or your Monster-in-Law, we will all be basket cases needing the Kleenex, so if possible, try to avoid "that" time of the month.
Have your hair and make up done, not too heavy make-up just natural enough that it makes you feel good about yourself, maybe even apply some false tan the night before or a graduating tan to give yourself a beautiful warm glow. We all have an extra spring in our step when we have these three things done so why not do them for your dress trial??? Be sure to wear a gradual tan or overnight tan that's been applied the day before, as we all know with instant tan it can destroy our most valuable goods and favourite fashionable pieces, and the bridal stores will not be happy. Try out Cocoa Brown's Gradual Tan its gives a fantastic, sun kissed glow, thats perfect for day wear and not over bearing or too dark for a dress trial. Have a look here for some reviews on the wide range of Cocoa Brown tans.
You think it would be only fair to bring along all the bridal party right? You dont want to leave anyone out right? WRONG!! The dress trial is not for everyone....Only bring those with you that you trust will be honest but most of all supportive. I suggest a max of 3 people, be it your mam, mother in law (hopefully not the Monster In Law!!!), sister, best friend, maid of honour- whomever you know you can trust and rely on, bring them along.
Bring along your cut-outs so the sales assistant will have some idea of what type of dress you're after. She may differ in opinion after a few dresses, you may even sway yourself when you see other dresses, but at least she will have some inclination of where to start. She is experienced in her work, so even if she suggests something completely different to your style, choice, designer, etc, just try it on! Feel the fear and do it anyway..you've nothing to lose. If you don't like it, take it off and try another.
Do not feel pressurised by the sales assistant to buy the dress. Even if you know it is the one you want, SLEEP on it. Never be afraid to leave the shop and have a think about it. The dress will have to be ordered in store anyway, so either way you will not lose out. You can always go back to finalise the sale the next day so don't sweat it.
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When to start looking at options for your bouquet and what to consider when choosing one.
The main things to take into consideration when deciding on your arrangements are:
your wedding theme: e.g gatsby style, vintage, french theme, pretty and plain, etc.
wedding colours: this includes wether your dress is white or ivory or something completely different like a bold red!!! also bridemaids dresses, the groomsmens suits, etc.
We hope this has given you some alternative ideas to your traditional bouquet and has given you some information on the world of bouquets! If you have any queries or questions, we are always happy to help you design your very own bespoke bouquet, so, as always, never hesitate to contact myself (Jen) or Jess on All Things Couture
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Many people associate Lamborghini with excess and pushing the envelope unapologetically. Reminiscing about the bull-horns shape in the Miura, the sheer over-the-top nature of the Countach, or the sinister Sesto Elemento will bring you to that same conclusion. However, the CEO of Lamborghini is adamant that the company needs to head in another direction. Lamborghini’s next generation of cars will be socially conscious and responsible.
The storied Italian company’s CEO Stephan Winkelmann says that Lamborghini will change its direction. Specifically, Winkelmann says Lamborghini will listen to the concerns of consumers and their environmental concerns. He states that Lamborghini will electrify sooner than expectations or laws dictate.
Lamborghini’s CEO says that the company has been testing EVs from across the market, and he is confident that consumers will continue to trust the company. Top Gear sees the move as a gamble, but Lamborghini has already announced that electrification will be present in every future car.
Winkelmann says that by 2025, the entire Lamborghini range will be two plug-in hybrid (PHEV) supercars, an EV Urus replacement, and a fourth, fully-electric car. The Aventador replacement is reportedly going to be a plug-in hybrid supercar. Additionally, the Urus, traditionally an SUV utilizing internal combustion, will have a completely electric replacement. The CEO says that consumers will respond well to that replacement. He added that drivers typically put more miles on the Urus than on the supercars.
So what about that fourth model? Lamborghini is calling the upcoming fourth EV model a heritage-focused vehicle. Winkelmann calls the car a luxury GT, perplexing Top Gear, seeing as GT cars have fallen in popularity. Lamborghini says that the segment is “small, but stable” and therefore worth exploring. The upcoming all-electric model’s design will incorporate an innovative body shape and ground clearance considerations, likely due to its GT purpose.
Why is Lamborghini electrifying before government regulations?
According to Top Gear, the swan song release of the last Aventador, the Ultimae, generated quite a spectacle. “They sold in the blink of an eye,” Winkelmann said. He went on to say that the Ultimae marked the “end of the pure, naturally-aspirated, non-electrified era.” Winkelmann accompanied that bittersweet remark with some insight into the next generation of Lamborghini.
Lamborghini will electrify because the customers and the public are calling for environmentally friendly, socially conscious cars. “The new generation is willing to talk to us only if we are sustainable,” Winkelmann said. He went on to say that Lamborghinis need to be held in reverence not just by drivers but also spectators. “The others are following us because they love the brand, and they trust we are doing the right thing,” Winkelmann stated.
Perhaps most exciting, Lamborghini asserts that performance is not only part of the formula but also a promise to the consumer. Lamborghini claims the next generation cars will have to outperform their predecessors.
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I don't know what we were thinking on this one. When re-doing the engine, we were trying to keep expenses down, because it wasn't a total rebuild. We needed to replace 2 pistons that had cracked ring lands. But everything else on the engine seemed like new. No wear on the cylinders. Valve assembly seemed fresh. No wear on the crank bearings, so we decided not to do a total rebuild, but rather an overhaul. So it was decided to replace ALL bearings, the two bad pistons, of course all gaskets. All things like boring of the cylinders(which we found were already .40 over) were left alone as were the valves, and camshaft. None of these showed any signs of wear. It seemed to us, that the problem was that a fresh motor had sat too long, and the pistons cracked from a lack of proper lubrication. The car had smoked badly since I got it, so I didn't realize it was just the pistons till we broke it down. One of the things we SHOULD have done was to replace the oil pump. Plain and simple, the oil pump is the HEART of the engine. It pumps the life's blood through it. Because of course when we got everything back together and fired it up, the pump seized. It destroyed the oil pump drive shaft, and could have easily destroyed the distributor. Look at the pictures to the right, of the twisted and sheared oil pump drive shaft. Imagine the amount of stress needed to twist and shear a steel rod like that. That stress was also applied to the bottom of the distributor. We were lucky the distributor shaft didn't break as well. We spent way more time and money having to undo the motor mounts, jack the motor up, pull the pan and REPLACE THE PUMP and the oil pump drive shaft, than if we had just changed it from the start!
Plain and simple.... if you pull the pan, replace the pump.
It is the best $45.00 investment you can make.
Here's a close up shot of the driveshaft...OUCH!
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"One of the things that we're interested in at the Department of Commerce is helping entrepreneurs take their ideas from concept to market," Pritzker said. "It requires a collaboration of a number of different types of expertise."
"GCMI is positioned to help innovators overcome the hurdles associated with bringing new medical technologies from the lab into the clinic," said Tiffany Karp, general manager and COO at GCMI. "The presence of GCMI in Atlanta is promoting the growth of the Southeast's medical device industry by keeping technology in the region and "
"I think Georgia Tech is developing a really interesting ecosystem of introducing young people in fourth, fifth and sixth grade to the excitement of innovation," Pritzker said. "We need ecosystems around the country that are helping folks, both people who are unemployed as well as our young people, to gain the skills that our businesses need."
"Being in school is great, but having the skills that it takes to get medical technologies to the market is a whole different ballgame," she told Pritzker. "It is a great program."
"You have a very vibrant business ecosystem going on here," Pritzker said. "I think there's an enormous optimism coming out of the entrepreneurial community."
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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors, acting on 3rd District Supervisor Jeff Stone’s recommendation, approved a $3,000 grant to the Idyllwild HELP Center. The funds will be used for center clients’ children who want to participate in Town Hall Recreation sports. The grant will fund sports shoes, registration fees for sports activities and any needed childcare, according to center Executive Director Karen Patterson.
“It is a one-time grant per child of $65, paid to Town Hall Recreation, to enable them to participate in sports activities,” said Patterson. Patterson stressed that the checks don’t go directly to center clients but to the county recreation program, to ensure they are used for clients’ children’s sports needs. Patterson suggested any interested center clients should come in and fill out the required forms.
Patterson touted the new center website as a way to promote the center’s activities and make online donation easier for on and off-Hill donors. See idyllwildhelpcenter.com for information on the center’s services, programs, events and monthly newsletter.
Patterson noted that, as the recession continues, center client load continues to grow and grant funding continues to decline. “We currently have a client list of 640 but each day we’re getting new ones,” she said. The center provides food, medical and utility vouchers.
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"One day when you are grown, you will look over your shoulder and thank me and your mother for all that we do for you. Today, I will ...
teach less complicated things…things you hear on TV and radio every day. Now let's start. Who is a wholesaler?" "Someone who sell whole things and not half items like a piece of cake, but the whole cake." "Anumanu!(Bush girl!). Your uncle Chude sells rice and garri in bags and not in cups. He is a wholesaler. What is a computer mouse?" "I have never seen a mouse in or on our computer daddy." "Come here!" He dragged her to the desktop sitting in a corner of their living room. He moved the mouse as he spoke. "This is a computer mouse for navigating the computer." "I did not know that. I browse on my phone, so I rarely use the desktop. I would have known the answer if I did." "You would have known nothing isi ede!(Cocoyam head!) What is a computer virus?" "An STD?A systematically transmitted disease?" "Now I know you have been playing around with boys. If you become pregnant, I will send you out of my house. Madeline, you should talk to your daughter. She is now an expert in STDs. You said systematically. I don't know which system you were referring to – computer system or the other system. If you were talking about the other system, that is how you get pregnant. Go and research what a computer virus is. What is a malware?
"I feel sorry for your teachers. I wonder what they go through every day. Research that later and get back to me. I will ask you about it, so don't even think I will forget. What is a CD-ROM?" "An album of romantic music." "All you know is boys. I have warned you. If you listen to what those boys are telling you in the name of romance and get pregnant, I will drive you out of my house. That is another assignment for you. What is a hard disk?" "It is hard disk…A tough disk. It does not break when it falls on the ground." "Madeline, this is it. I am done. If I don't stop, I will either kill Ifunanya or she will kill me. He whacked the back of her head as he complained to his wife. "You can't give up honey," Madeline replied. "Don't honey me. I am tired. This is a shock. I had no idea she was this bad." Okafor got up and walked into the bedroom and locked the door behind him. "Nne (my daughter), you have to try and learn, else you will end up with a wretched poor man if you have no education…no man will look at you. Okay, come here."
She began to flip through her note in an effort to take over the teaching. "What does the term, 'case study mean'?" "Mom, it is the process where you sit and stare at your suitcase before you go on a trip, not knowing what to pack." "Ewu!(My goodness!) Is this what your father has been going through?A case study is when you spend time studying a particular subject – like a research meant to answer a particular question." "I see," Ifunanya answered, nodding. "Yes, my daughter. So do you know what is called pastoral farming?" "It is a farm owned and run by reverends – pastors." "I will kill you idiot," Madeline shouted slapping her across the face. "Mommy, what is it?Is that not pastoral farming?The type that pastor Olumide has behind the church?" "If you say something that stupid again, I will slap you one more time." Ifunanya held her face, frowning. "In that case, what is commercial farming and what is subsistence farming?" "Commercial farming is when a farmer advertises his farm on TV to get more customers, while subsistence farming is when a farmer does not get any assistance." "Okafor, you had better come and help teach this child before I kill her!
She managed to control her 'raging anger' to explain both concepts to her. "Now listen carefully to this. 'A powerful aftershock rocked the city, fires raged across the city filling the streets with debris. About 40 people were killed.'at report?" "The end of American Idol." She slapped her again, this time with more force. "Okafor won't you come out here and help?" "It is your turn to enjoy the company of your daughter. I have been enjoying it for quite some time now," Okafor replied. "Go and research what is an aftershock, Ifunanya. Tomorrow, I will ask you about it again!" Madeline yelled at her. "The race of people called the Malays comes from which country?" "Malaria!" She beat her on the head again, yelling angrily as she smacked her. "You are finished oh!
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Iowa and ISU look ahead to bowl preparation
December 8, 2009 By Todd Kimm
With their destinations set the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa State Cyclones can now prepare for their bowl opponents. The Iowa Hawkeyes will play Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl on January fifth. Iowa closed out the regular season with a 10-2 record while Georgia Tech finished 11-2 and won the ACC championship.
Iowa State will playt is the first bowl game since 2005 for the Cyclone6-6.
Minnesota also is 6-6.
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This fundraiser is a much anticipated event during the Town Wide Yard Sale. Garden club members dig up plants from their own perennial gardens for community members to purchase. Baked goods are also for sale and basket of assorted items will be raffled off. The proceeds from this event go to a student graduating from the Prospect Mountain High School in Alton.
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A former history professor and now the historian for the N,H. Intertribal Native American Council, Stewart-Smith has studied the state's Indian history for over thirty years. His illustrated talk," to 1850", the third of a trilogy, will look at the period of the expansion of European settlers from their seacoast beachhead to their occupation of the entire state and the Native American response to that great change.
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The march was in unauthorized areas during heavy traffic hours, on freeway ramps, on freeways, halting and backing up traffic for miles. There could have been accidents with bodily injury or fatalities.
Among the peace marchers could be seen those long-haired, scraggly bearded baby-boomer, draft-dodging, flag burners of the Vietnam era and their baggy-pants kids carrying the American flag upside-down, trampling the flag and desecrating it.
Are these peaceful? When some come with crowbars, they intend to do bodily harm. But what did Portland do? Those that were detained were released because Portland's budget did not provide for detaining them.
Did the budget provide for the vast police and all their vehicles coverage through the night? I think not, but a few fire engines hosing down those marchers would have cleared those freeways in short order. And since many of the marchers intended to stay the night, a razor-wired stockade in a remote area would have served the budget.
My father, brother and I all served in the Navy and my sister was a riveter in an aircraft factory during World War II. I was in the Navy for 31 years. My oldest son was a Marine in Vietnam and Puerto Rico. There is no doubt where my sentiments lie and where they do not. Three cheers for our armed forces in Iraq and may they serve with honor to the American flag.
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(AP) --DMV has already announced expanded hours because of the new law.
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If you want your child to learn to swim in Toronto you can count on Buckler Aquatics, a pioneer in the field of teaching swimming to infants and toddlers. More than 2,000 clients go through our Mississauga, North York and Scarborough locations weekly, and over 100,000 swim lessons are taught in the course of a year. Over 90% of the aquatics staff members were Buckler swimmers themselves. In fact, many of thef parents that were Buckler ‘Tads’ once themselves.
Following the Buckler TAD initial instruction, we teach the Canadian Red Cross Swim Kids program (through level 10), with an emphasisWe believe that the combination of these two programs, and the unique Buckler Aquatics teaching techniques is what best prepares our swimmers for a lifetime of safe enjoyment in and around water.
We also offer specialized swimming programs for Toronto customers such as aqua-fit classes and swimming lessons tailored for people with special needs and adults who want to learn to swim in Toronto. Speak with one of our coordinators at any one of our pool locations to learn more today.
Swimmbe started in infancy. It gives children the added advantage of building muscle tone, coordination, discipline, comprehension and confidence in and around water. Swimming is a life skill that can be enjoyed by the whole family, while keeping you healthy and fit at the same time.
The majority of Canadians participate in some form of aquatics activity each year. Unfortunately, in pursuing water-based activities, drowning and aquatics accidents claim the lives of over 400 individuals every year. This makes drowning and water-related fatalitiecountry to those under the age of 60.
Want to learn to swim in Toronto or find out more about our swimming lessons and pool facilities in Toronto? We’y!
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Life is an easy dance when things are going great for us. We gracefully glide across the dancefloor with ease and poise and laughter; but to keep on dancing when our lives are turned upside-down takes some doing. When a storm is raging, and we are riddled by anxiety and fear, it can be hard to hear any music, and the last thing on our mind is to dance. Yet, the secret seems to be that it is exactly during a time like this, that we should try our best to find the beat, and then to start dancing fiercely, because hard times require fierce dancing. As Purvi Raniga wrote: "Some days we have to just learn to pick up the broken pieces and start dancing again. Difficulties are there but these difficulties do not define your art of being fully alive." Or as Vivian Green suggested: " how to dance in the rain."
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Know inventory levels of pipet tips, tubes, fittings, finger cots, and other bulk items at a glance. Includes non-skid rubber feet.
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SELLER IS NEGOTIABLE TO PAYING BUYER'S CLOSING COSTS. Oh my goodness! This 3-story home has it all! Five bedrooms, separate office, game room, loft, dining room, living room, AND great room! Luxury plank vinyl flooring downstairs. Kitchen features granite, large pantry, open shelving. Open floorplan family room with surround sound, stacked stone gas fireplace, and open shelving. Second floor primary bedroom with sitting area, 2 walk-in closets, double sinks. Dual zone HVAC. View of sprawling farmland. Community has walking trails, outdoor gym, and playground. Adjacent to Eagle Creek Golf Course and clubhouse, plus a neighborhood bakery/café which is a favorite gathering place.
Ron has degrees from both Old Dominion and Troy State Universities. He is a native of Key West Florida and is a veteran of the United States Navy after 21 years of both active and reserve Naval service.
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When it comes to being a writer, whether you’re a content writer or a novelist, improving your technique is a matter of using conventional and unconventional methods. There are some days where you have to go outside the box. While on other days you have to be very calculated. However, the most effective work usually comes when there is a mix of the two.
Now consider a more scientific approach, as detailed by Futurity in a recent article titled “6 SCIENTIFIC TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING.” The author’s tips include, “‘Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you’ve told them.’ Few of us realize this advice has its roots in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. In recent decades, researchers have discovered that priming is a form of implicit learning. By merely exposing experimental subjects to lists of random words, researchers discovered the earlier exposure triggered accurate recall a day later—even though the subjects were unaware they would be tested later on the list. When you tell readers your purpose in the first sentences of a memo, email, or proposal, you bolster their ease of comprehension and increase their recall of content later,” “The last item in the “Tell them” triad refers to what psychologists call recency effects, which influence our ability to remember the last items we read. Recency effects extend to both short-term and long-term memory. Readers remember final sentences in paragraphs, items in lists, and paragraphs in documents more clearly than anything else they read. Carefully compose that call-to-action paragraph in a proposal and concluding paragraph in your next report. And that final sentence in every opening paragraph in your emails? Dedicate that sentence to whatever action you need your readers to take—and when they should do it,” and “You can prime the reader with a neutral opening paragraph, one with content that’s neither misleadingly encouraging or straight-to-the-point bad news. Clinical studies attest to the impact of negative news in a first paragraph creating resistance and hostility to the rest of the message. Open your second paragraph with a rationale for the unwelcome part of your message—the cause for the effect you’re going to explore. Then embed the most lethal content in a minor clause in the dead center of the paragraph. Close that paragraph with a neutral sentence, mentioning whatever benefits you can conjure to offer your reader. Then craft a short, positive paragraph as your closing that’s forward-looking, maintaining your readers’ goodwill by using the document’s recency position. Your reader will get the message without getting hostile toward you.”
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There is no “Us or Them”
July 14, 2015 J. Matthan Brown Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Gungor, Hate, Michael Gungor, Racism, Segregation, True Love, Us for Them, Us or Them Leave a comment
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Loriani Speech Therapy provides in-home and in-clinic professional services, as well as teletherapy to the pediatric and adult popul and to empower clients to achieve their fullest potential.
We work with clients across the Autism spectrum in different waysWe set goals with our patients that may include learning nonverbal social cues and understanding and using appropriate spoken language in varied contexts.
We have articulation therapy for our patients with functional and motor-based issues. Our articulation therapy approaches each sound deviation and aims to correct production of sound.
We design a variety of language development practices that are specific to the child, that help break down barriers that arise from the child’s difficulty to communicate. We include parents in the therapy process and show parents how to help their children expand language in natural settings.
Our stuttering therapy identifies the root cause of the stutter and provides a form of therapy built around setting short term goals in hopes of eventually reaching the big goal – to be able to manage the stutter.
We provide comfort and assist every one of our clients in maintaining and regaining their communication skills after stroke or when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, traumatic brain injury, etc. We assist clients and their families with development of compensatory strategies to
Our social skills therapy teaches patientin order to prevent social isolation and future psychological issues.
Our Phonological treatments . Our approach helps the child internalize phonological rules.
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Global First: Star India and TED Announce Greenlight of “TED Talks India: Nayi Soch”
Television Series Hosted by Shah Rukh Khan
Groundbreaking Hindi series on Star Plus marks TED’s most ambitious TV production yet
Uday Shankar, Chairman & CEO, Star India, said, “At Star, we have always believed in pushing the boundaries with new ideas, creativity and fresh thinking. Nobody reflects this belief more than TED‘TED Talks India Nayi Soch.’”
Shah Rukh Khan added, “Star India’s legacy of using television as an instrument of social change, and TEe ‘TED Talks India- Nd.”
“It’s incredibly exciting to be bringing TED to India in this form,” said TED curator Chris Anderson. "The country is teeming with imagination and innovation, and we believe this series will tap into that spirit and bring insight and inspiration to many new minds. We’ve been so impressed by the passion of our partners at Star TV and our host Shah Rukh Khan. We cannot wait for the launch.”dded, “ED.”
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Sadly, this priest was given the name “G Dog” by former gang members and he seems to prefer it to the sacred title of “Father”. He is a perfect fit for the formerly Catholic University of Notre Dame.
Vice President Mike Pence, who will also speak the commencement ceremony, could learn a few things from Father Boyle.
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In the past, you probably had a negative experience at the dentist's office. The staff was cheerless, bordering on cruel, the chairs uncomfortable, the procedures painful, and the overall experience unpleasant; we are not that office.
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Oh yes, I got that part.
Oh goodie! Sometimes I fear that my allusions are too, well, elusive in nature =)
I never saw the connection before k~the “Tori-based” intro? I always struggle with being descriptive enough, but not so blatant as to be boring – you know? Please feel free to message me with your thoughts my dear – thank you =)
Thank you SAM, and I missed writing as well – it soothes my heart to know my absence was duly noted =)
I’m glad you enjoyed it – i figured Tori and you wouldn’t mind if I went a little “dark” on this one =)
Lotta, I love you!!! =)
Thank you so much Linda! I’m really glad that you liked it =)
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The details are under each image and if you would like to purchase one you can send your payment directly to me at: [email protected] via PayPal. (Shipping is free!
Come join us as we celebrate "A New Beautiful"!
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This summer I received a scholarship for the narrative portrait workshop taught by Amy ArbusThe staff and facility were amazing. It was the most fulfilling week and I loved the challenge of creating a portrait series in four days. Ironically, I found myself taking photographs in a local salon, but this time not for Beauty and Wisdom. Also, as part of my project, I attended several cabarets shows and was completely impressed by the caliber of entertainment and the hard work that goes into these productions. In addition, I had the chance to view Amy's incredible new work from "After Images" and attended her talk at The Schoolhouse Gallery. I enjoyed commingling with other photographers, painters, writers, print-makers and poets...
When a friend suggested that I read "Shaping Destiny" by artist and author, Destiny Allison I did...
Day 56 - Beach Day!
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This is a pic from our tent room where we meditate daily...
Day 50 - Beauty and Wisdom in NYC!
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This is Holly. She lives in Santa Paula on a ranch. She's beautiful, smart and friendly...We stopped on the road to admire her beautiful oak tree and chairs and she drove her tractor over to say hello. In a very short time we got to know each other...
It's so easy to take the palm trees for granted. I remember as a kid...Living in New York, I was so infatuated with them....Every now and then, I look up and think, "wow, I live in California."
Watching the trees and grass get watered gave me a feeling like a mom watching their child eat and infesting nutrition. Diana Clark, my first spiritual Guru in Portland, taught me that we are all connected...to everything. That was in 1996 or so....not even 20 years ago. It was a pretty big revelation being I was a city girl who had just moved there from Manhattan. And now, I am happiest in the presence of these precious plants and trees...Anywhere in nature and I feel like I am "home."
I flew with Dave today - which was getting over a hurdle for me. Smooth ride - gorgeous view...
I was lucky enough to sit next to these two amazing women!Gorgeous!
We are creating change together!
I'm excited to receive my wireless remote that I ordered yesterday. It's not that different looking at a self-portrait than it is a flower image taken with a macro lens....If done effectively, the viewer will feel up close and personal with the subject...Maybe even more so since there is expressive content through the body or face or environment. A self-portrait can tell an entire story if it's that good ...
Getting in touch with anger is fascinating to me. I never know I'm really angry until I feel it in an exaggerated way. I haven't been angry in a long time, but I'm angry now at the behavior of someone I know. I know this will pass and I will be able to let go of them with love if they are not willing to work things through, but sometimes, after all these years of living, it still astounds me how some people think their hurtful behavior is ok and how they are blind to their own unkindness. I am grateful for the reminder to stay focused on and in my own life...
So much is unfolding...Now is a good time for silence. As David Ji says, "Fill what is empty, empty what is full."
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Falling in Love with Charming Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic!
I had read that it's a popular day trip from Prague (and I can certainly see why) and therefore if you have the time then to stay overnight so that you get to see the town a little quieter in the evening and the next morning when the day trippers aren't there and as I was heading south anyway and didn't need to go back to Prague this is what I did!
The view just a few minutes from my hostel!
I woke up the next day to blue skies and if i thought the town was pretty the day before it was even better today!
If you are visiting Prague then you have to make time to visit this charming town and if you have the time I would recommend staying for a night (or even two nights as there's plenty of activities to do around the town) and you'll get longer to appreciate it but if a day trip is all you can do then the 3 hour journey there and back is really worth it!
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This town is so darn romantic!A great place to relax and enjoy 🙂 I love that vegetarian restaurant, it has a great atmosphere. Did the town get crowded during the day?
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Lawrence. Molte delle sue tele sono a Versailles, tra le quali lEntrata di Carlo VII a Rouen (1838) e lIstituzione dell'Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme (1842). Terminò la sua grande opera Les Belges Illustres nel 1839.
Morto il 17 ottobre 1852 a Parigi, la sua salma è inumata nel cimitero di Montmartre con il fratello Giuseppe e la loro madre Marie Maës.
La Princesse Clémentine d’Orléans, 1833.
Soggetti storici e altri
Milton dictant à ses filles le Paradis perdu, 1827.
Les Adieux de Charles Ier à sa famille, 1827.
Mater Dolorosa, 1835.
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Paolo et Francesca, 1841, museo delle belle arti di Orléans
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Bank to assess impacts of anti-poverty program
A TEAM from the World Bank (WB) is set to review the antipoverty program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Mindanao.
The WB will assess the impact of agricultural infrastructure, livelihoods, governance reform and environmental project implemented b.
JMRDP is a five-year program geared toward uplifting the lives of the poorest of the poor in Mindanao by increasing income of farmers, capacitating women and indigenous peoples, and enhancing local governance and environmental protection.
"MRDP is a package of investments which combines the infrastructure project and livelihoods, reforms on local governance and environmental conservation to create impressive impacts on poor rural communities," said program director Lealyn A. Ramos.
With the counterpart of beneficiaries, about P155 million worth of various agri-based livelihoods were created benefiting mostly women and Indigenous Peoples and P42 million had been investWB task team leader for MRDP Carolina Figueroa-Geron will head the evaluating team together with various consultants. Geron is also the WB’s lead rural development specialist for sector for East Asia and Pacific Region.
Ramos said the program has successfully overcome major bottlenecks in the past three years of implementation owing to stakeholders’ confidence in the program particularly the local government units (LGUs).
"With the strong dedication of the LGUs as lead implementers of the program, we have created jobs, we've opened opportunities and we have seen significant difference in the economic activities of rural Mindanao," Ramos added.
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Cigar has settled into a fairly standard marduo, not too strong but not strong enough. A solid three and a half. Joe Bob says check it out. </s> If you’ve ever wanted to change the phone number that appears on your listings in REsearch, this is the perfect tutorial for you. Learn how and how to update all of your numbers by using My Profile.
REsearch Tip of the Day: How to Change Your Preferred Phone from Hawaii Information Service on Vimeo. </s> A photo might be worth a thousand words, but using the wrong photo in your listing can cost you.
As the summer brings spectacular skies and natural light to the real estate market, we’d like to send a friendly reminder to agents and brokers tongs.
Copying photos from other listings, or taking them from the web, could lead to copyright claims and payment demands from the entities that own them. So far this year, we have seen a few disputes arise, and while they have been resolved amicably, you can avoid the hassle by taking extra care at the outset!
To ensure that you’re in the clear, you can hire a professional photographer. In fact, photographers that specialize in real estate will be more likely to understand your needs, as well as the practical and legal aspects of photo ownership, licensing, and use in the MLS and elsewhere. And if you engage a photographer that is new to the industry, NAR even provides sample agreements that you can use with them.
It’s important to note that these issues extend beyond listing photos in the MLS. They apply to photos used on agent and broker websites, in promotional materials, and elsewhere. A simple rule of thumb? “If you don’t know where the photo came from, don’t use it.”
Photo Services Monitor and Enforce Copyright:
Our rules document was last reviewed and updated by the HIS Board of Directors in June 2018, and is worth reviewing periodically:
- Who Owns Your Property Photos? (NAR)
- Focus on Listing Photo Copyright (REALTOR® AE Magazine)
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We hope this periodic reminder helps you steer clear of the potential pitfalls of listing photo ownership and licensingeader photo by LAGtheNoggin on Flickr (CC-BY). </s> Role highlights-
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This paper addresses the issues of unstructured terrain modeling for the purpose of navigation with legged robots. We present an improved elevation grid concept adopted to the specific requirements of a small legged robot with limited perceptual capabilities. We propose an extension of the elevation grid update mechanism by incorporating a formal treatment of the spatial uncertainty. Moreover, this paper presents uncertainty models for a structured light RGB-D sensor and a stereo vision camera used to produce a dense depth map. The model for the uncertainty of the stereo vision camera is based on uncertainty propagation from calibration, through undistortion and rectification algorithms, allowing calculation of the uncertainty of measured 3D point coordinates. The proposed uncertainty models were used for the construction of a terrain elevation map using the Videre Design STOC stereo vision camera and Kinect-like range sensors. Weapping method, and a comparison with another recently published terrain mapping method for walking robots.
Belter, D., Łabecki, P. and Skrzypczyński, P. (2012). Estimating terrain elevation maps from sparse and uncertain multi-sensor data, IEEE 2012715-722.
Belter, D., Łabecki, P. and Skrzypczyński, P. (n.d.). Adaptive motion planning for autonomous rough terrain traversal with a walking robot, Journal of Field Robotics, (in print).
Belter, D., Nowicki, M., Skrzypczyński, P., Walas, K. and Wietrzykowski, J. (2015). Lightweight RGB-D SLAM system for search and rescue robots, in M.K.R. Szewczyk and C. Zieliński (Eds.), 1, Springer, Cham, pp. 11-21.
Belter, D. and Skrzypczyński, P. (2011a). Integrated motion planning for a hexapod robot walking on rough terrain, 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 6918-6923.
Belter, D. and Skrzypczyński, P. (2011b).ournal of Field Robotics 28(4): 497-528.
Belter, D. and Skrzypczyński, P. (2013). Precise self-localization of a walking robot on rough terrain using parallel tracking and mapping, Industrial Robot: An International Journal 40(3): 229-237.
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Category: Africa Bridge
Lwitiko’s Story Told by Barry Childs
12 years ago, I and 10 Africa Bridge donors first met Lwitiko Kadenge in village of Igembe, Tanzania. We sat on makeshift benches together with the villagers under a beautiful shade tree. After the formal introductory protocol, the village Chairman introduced us to one of the many orphans. It was Lwitiko. The Chairman then did something most unusual. He asked Lwitiko to present the formal village profile. Typically, this would be done by a village leader or an elder, not a child.
Lwitico at the time was a small, very thin 15-year-old boy, with a Primary School education. Calmly he stood up and with great authority made the presentation. It was brilliant. It was so well, thought out, covering the essentials, yet short enough to maintain our attention.
Lwitiko, being an orphan was fortunate to have completed his Primary school education. However, his prospects of going to a good high school and perhaps gaining a college diploma were nonexistent. Despite the fact that Lwitiko excelled in school and the villagers considered him a genius, he could not conceive of ever leaving the village. Given the circumstances there was no way to further his educat8 villages of Masoko were transformed. Lwitiko began to dream of a brighter future.
In the spring of 2014, he graduated from a high school for gifted children with distinctions in every subject. In October 2014 he started Medical School. This July 2019 I received an e-mail from Lwitiko describing what he had learned during a 3 month placement at Durham University Medical School….. in Great Britain.
In November 2019 Lwitiko graduated as a doctor. His dream is to return to Igembe to practice. Then in time start a community health initiative using the principles he has learned from Africa Bridge.
Lwitiko’s journey started as a most vulnerable orphan with no hope of escaping his fate… to now he is living his dream.
At his inaugural address in 1992, Nelson Mandela said that we are all brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. We are all born towe shine our light on others, we liberate them to share their talents and gifts.
I feel very fortunate that Africa Bridgehine our light on children like Lwitiko and to liberate them to be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented and Fabulous.
Lwitiko will be joining us on Friday, October 23, 2020 for our annual Toast to Tanzania Event! Visit our Africa Bridge Website for event details.
In 2005 she joined one of the early Africa Bridge co-ops. She says that “The experience of being a co-op member enabled me to increase the output of my land and to build a small shop for my business on the highway”. My vision was to help all my siblings to be well educated and to achieve their dreams”.
Despite the challenges of fluctuating costs of farm inputs, inclement weather and a robbery, Zinduna persisted and all the children, including Zinduna completed their education. She is now married with her own family.
With a little well aimed support it is remarkable what Zinduna has achieved. I am continually humbled by the actions of the children and adults in the villages where we work.
I first met Jacob and Garanetti Mwakakipesile from Bujesi village, Tanzania in 2008. Their four adult children had died, leaving the elderly couple to care for eleven grandchildren. On an income of approximately $1 a day, they had no hope of giving the family a good life. In the fall of 2008, the newly formed Bujesi MVC Committee (MVCC) nominated the family to be founder members of the new Bujesi cow coop. After 4 months of training, building a cow shelter and planting a pasture they received a 9-month-old heifer, and they named her “Tumaini,” which means hope.
As our children grow up, we assume that they will go to school. In the villages we serve this is not so. School tuition is free; however, to attend school a child must have a school uniform, note books and a pair of shoes. Most of the families caring for vulnerable children cannot afford the $40 to $60 it takes to purchase uniforms, books, and necessary school supplies.
Orida and Gilbert are proud — not just of their new uniforms, but of the education they are receiving. To realize their dreams, they study hard at school. Twelve-year-old Orida is in Standard 7, her last year of primary school. Although she is an orphan, Orida has big plans for her future. After completing primary school, she wants to attend secondary school for six years. Her hope is to continue her education at a university and become both a doctor and a businesswoman. “My favorite subject is math because it will help me to make a lot of money as a businesswoman,” Orida explains. When not studying or helping with home and farm chores, Orida enjoys running.
Africa Bridge creates agricultural co-ops in villages to promote self-sufficient agriculture that enables the villagera future for their vulnerable children, including orphaned children like Orida. Gilbert and Orida are proud of Kalalo Village’s increased emphasis on agriculture. The village grows maize, bananas, avocados, coffee and tea, in addition to raising cows. Gilbert relates: “I want Kalalo to be known for its agriculture.”
However, students and families can see the positive changes already happening in their own village as the cow and avocado co-operatives started by Africa Bridge empower villagers to create economically sustainable businesses, grow more food and improve schools so that both the vulnerable children and families will all thrive.
We are excited to let you know that the Africa Bridge Board approved a Strategic Plan for 2020-2025!
My answer is that I have the intellectual knowledge and a visceral understanding of the context within which Africa Bridge works. I grew up in Tanzania. From the age of four I would go on safari with my father who was an Agricultural Officer. I watched how he worked with the villagers. It was a process of involving the whole community, providing training, and demonstrations, supporting early adopters, and following up. He loved the work and the people. Before going to university, I worked for a year on a dairy farm.
In 2000 I took early retirement from Abbott and founded Africa Bridge. I had few resources. However, Africa Bridge has gone from serving 1 village to 37, reaching approximately 10,000 MVC Most Vulnerable Children) and thousands more care givers. The critical factors are working from the bottom up, enrolling others, taking a holistic perspective, and having the courage to move toward challenges.
My father worked for the British government in Tanzania as an
heat was oppressive and the air smelt of rotten fruit. A small Egyptian
and in broken English he said, “No mother. No father. No curry. No
did not begin to fill until later in life.
Laboratories. In the spring of 1998, I was participating in a public
leadership conference downtown Chicago. Four young African
American men in my group approached me at the end of the first day
experiences, it’s boring, but when you talk to us about Africa, we are
inspired.” I was perplexed. I had no recollection of what I had said to
next day a young woman approached me and said. “Mr. Childs, I
started acquiring hospital laboratory equipment for the Selian
subsistence farming techniques. Poverty was prevalent and HIV/AIDS was rife. In particular I became aware of the impact this
journal, “I am going to do something”. When I returned to the States, I
children of Tanzania.
different cultures. My career enabled me to gain experiences in sales,
marketing, IT, HR, operations, leadership development and Total
Each of these work and cultural transitions taught me something. In
and experiences that helped me to found Africa Bridge. The listening
It is here, I give thanks. Establishing and running a project in a
In the early 2000’s in Southeast Tanzania, there was some internet,
mistakes and I experienced numerous hardships and
disappointments. When my wife Hazel, my soulmate and rock died of
ALS. I did not think I had the strength to endure. However, I learned
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March Nature Nugget - Red versus Gray Squirrels
Although both are native to North America, grays are considered an invasive species in the UK.
If you are a backyard bird watcher in the United States, have you noticed a decline in the red squirrel population? Many years ago, they used to raise their young in our woods and entertain us daily with their feisty personalities. The above photo is the first red squirrel we've seen in our neck of the woods (New Hampshire) for several years. We spotted one dead on the road last spring, but rarely catch a glimpse of them. Let's hope we aren't faced with the same fate as the UK, and are one day working toward conserving this species.
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NRL news 2022: ’They will not play’, Des Hasler press conference, confirms seven players out - planetcirculate
Manly coach Des Hasler has confirmed all seven players will miss this week’s NRL match against the Sydney Roosters over the club’s pride jersey furore.
Seven players sensationally stood down after the club announced the pride jersey – featuring rainbow stripes and trim – would be worn as a one-off this week.
Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolutau Koula and Toafofoa Sipley were reportedly opposed to wearing the jersey due to their religious beliefs.
Despite reports three players were wavering on their stance, Hasler confirmed in a press conference today the seven players would miss this week’s match.
“None of the coaching staff or the players had prior knowledge to the jersey,” Hasler said.
“They are not wearing the jersey as it conflicts with their cultural and religious beliefs. And I am concerned with their welfare.
“Their spirituality is a central part of their wellbeing. The club has made an error from which it and we will learn. The players will not play on Thursday and we accept their decision.
“These young men are strong in their beliefs and convictions and we will give then the space and the support they require.
“The playing group are solid and understanding of each other’s views. As a club, we will wear the jersey on Thursday night.”
It comes after Hasler admitted to a “significant mistake” on behalf of the club.
Manly held an emergency meeting with the players in question on Monday evening, and 7News reported three players had been considering wearing the pride jersey this week.
Sea Eagles coach Des Hasler reportedly told his players he would support their decision to stand down from the Round 20 contest over the pride jersey, while ARLC chairman Peter V’landys argued the footballers were completely within their rights not to play.
“Rugby league is the greatest game for all,” he told 2GB.
“It’s inclusive. But at the same time you have to respect people’s religious beliefs and cultural beliefs.
“Those players are taking a stand and they’ve got every right to — they’ve got freedoms to do so.”
Manly will become the first club in rugby league history to wear a jersey celebrating inclusivity, with rainbow colours replacing the traditional white piping.
Sea Eagles great Ian Roberts, the first rugby league player to come out as openly gay, was left heartbroken by the player revolt.
“I try to see it from all perspectives but this breaks my heart,” Roberts said to The Daily Telegraph.
“It’s sad and uncomfortable. As an older gay man, this isn’t unfamiliar. I did wonder whether there would be any religious pushback. That’s why I think the NRL have never had a Pride round.
“I can promise you every young kid on the northern beaches who is dealing with their sexuality would have heard about this.”
Rugby league journalist Paul Kent, however, offered a differing view and put the onus squarely back on the club for trying to inject its own political views on the playing group.
“The players, according to my understanding, not all of them but many of them only became aware they were wearing these jerseys when they read about it in the newspaper,” Kent told Fox League’s NRL 360 on Monday evening.
“Because of their own cultural and religious beliefs some of them have an issue with it.
“The Manly club did this without any consultation of the players, they did it without board approval. It’s basically a marketing decision and they’ve just assumed everything was ok.
“The club has imposed its own politics on these players and these players have inadvertently been embroiled in this scandal and they will be, hopefully, protected. But they will be under pressure now through no fault of their own.
“It’s an embarrassing look for the club and it’s a difficult one. This talk about inclusion, wearing the Manly jersey for me is inclusion.
“To inflict their own political views on the players who may not share that and are now being forced to deal with the consequences of that is a real oversight by the club and it’s something they should be embarrassed about.”
Manly’s historic jersey celebrating inclusivity sold out in the men’s section online within hours of the seven stars officially standing down.
On Tuesday morning, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was asked whether he had a message for the country’s religious communities in the aftermath of the Manly saga.
“That I respect people of faith,” he said.
“That all people, regardless of their faith, should be respected. That‘s something I have always done. And something that my Government will do as well.
“We will address the issues of religious discrimination and the need to legislate there. We’ll do that during the term of Parliament. We’ll do it in a way which is much more consultative and brings people together in a way that I hope characterises the way my Government functions.”
Manly will address the media later today before announcing their team at 4pm AEST.
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Ebola Among Us
If you’ve recently read newspaper headlines, flipped through the local channels of your TV, or checked the most recent Twitter hashtags, you have probably noticed the phrase “Ebola” popping up here and there. In the fast paced world of information we live in, it may have been easy for you to see the word “Ebola” followed by its terrifying partner “virus” and immediately start stocking up on survival supplies and boarding up your home against the sickness. Hopefully, many of you were sensible and researched the Ebola virus a bit before you went into “Apocalypse Now” mode, but if that’s not you, have no shame. Your eagerness to protect yourself and your family is impressive and important too. But since it is important to be educated in the problems facing our world and country today, I’m going to give you a breakdown of just what exactly the Ebola virus is and how it is affecting our nation.
Ebola is a fatal disease that was first discovered in Africa in the 1960’s. Scientists believe the virus is animal-borne as bats and primates are capable of contracting Ebola. Tor something that has been affected which is why eating infected animals can transmit the disease to humans. Ebola can be spread through humans by, as well as any object that has been contaminated with the disease such as clothes or medical instruments.
Now since everyone and their dog in America that has been feeling under the weather in the past week or two has immediately declared that they most likely have contracted Ebola, you might be a little confused on just what exactly Ebola looks like. You might have even thought at some point, “My nose has been running for the past few days, am I going to die?”. The answer, of course, is no. The symptoms of Ebola are a bit more specific than the common cold. Generally, if a person contracts Ebola, the first signs of the virus will begin to show between 2 and 21 days. A fever above 101.5°F, vomiting, unexplained bleeding or bruising, muscle pain, general weakness, diarrhea, and stomach pain are all symptoms of the Ebola virus. An infected individual could display any number of these symptoms between the time they first are infected, and the time where they are either healed or overtaken by the disease.
The Ebola outbreak currently taking place in multiple countries of West Africa is the largest in history with a current total of around 8,000 diagnosed cases and the virus still has the potential to become much worse. Scientists speculate that the virus has recently begun spreading so fast because it was allowed to get out of control in one African country before the world did anything about it, and then it began to jump borders. The poor medical infrastructure existing within most of these countries has made it difficult for them to treat the disease on their own, especially since those caring for the Ebola stricken, the doctors and nurses re the most likely to also contract the disease. Treatment for Ebola is also basically nonexistent, which makes the disease even more difficult to control. Experimental vaccines and treatments are currently in development, but will probably not have the possibility of being mass produced for a while yet.
However, since the disease has begun to spring up in citizens of more wealthy and economically powerful countries, other countries have begun to put forth a greater effort towards helping Africa battle Ebola. For example, President Obama announced that 3,000 U.S. troops will be sent into West Africa in order to combat the disease. The U.S. desire to control and stop the outbreak became even greater when the first imported case of Ebola appeared in Dallas, Texas on September 30th and Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man infected, has since passed away.
If you weren’t already freaking out about the whole mess, you’re probably thinking “OMG somebody in America had it?! Doesn’t that mean it’s going to start spreading here now?!”. Well, it is of course possible that Ebola could start spreading in America. But is it likely? The U.S. really needs to calm itself down, because the answer is no. Ebola is not an airborne virus, and the only way to contract it is contact the bodily fluids of an infected individual. Ebola also does not survive for long outside of a host, so the risk of unknowingly touching something an Ebola infected person has contaminated is extremely unlikely. The United States also has a much broader, much more knowledgeable, and much more sterile medical infrastructure capable of handling the disease. Most U.S. officials are confident that America is capable of containing and quickly stomping out any Ebola cases that might spring up. Does this mean there is no potential of a U.S. outbreak? Of course not, but you definitely don’t need to be blowing up every social media site you’re a member of with claims of how Ebola is going to end the world.
I hope by reading this article, you have gained insight into the Ebola infection currently frightening the world, as well helped convince you of the more paranoid sort that it’s safe to come outside.
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Is there a way to have the students enter their answers into a matrix full of answer boxes?
thanks, -Barbra
William Wheeler - Re: Answer Boxes in display_matrix
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Yes. Look at problem setLinearAlgebra2Matrices/ur_la_2_3.pg in the problem bank.
There is one restriction though, as noted in the text of that problem. One must use formatted-text mode.
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“Why’re we waiting in line?” I asked the man ahead of me.
“Welcome to Atlanta,” said another man.
Men in line were gyrating, pumping their legs, groping themselves, and wincing in pain. A four-year-old boy had to go so bad that his father marched him into the bathroom and held him up to the sink. The kid did his best to miss the mirror.
After the bathroom, I sprinted to catch the train to my connecting flight. I boarded a full train car. An elderly woman boarded after me. She was towing a suitcase that was the size of New London, Connecticut.
I offered her my seat because my mother would have insisted on this. But the woman looked at me funny.
She scoffed and said, “I’m listening to music, I don’t want your seat.” Then she put on earphones, closed her eyes, and tuned me out.
But this was a mistake on her part because when our train got going—and these trains go very fast—she was jolted off her feet and fell backward onto a man who was eating what appeared to be tortilla soup.
When I reached my gate, I was out of breath. I thought I was late, but I wasn’t. There was a crowd of sixteen hundred passengers—get this—waiting in another line.
We waited for two hours. Two.
It is hard not to feel like livestock in this kind of scenario. All you can do is stand, and occasionally “moo” to show disapproval.
When we boarded, people were storing bags in overhead compartments. The woman beside me tried to fit her bag in, but it wasn’t working. The flight attendant told her she would have to check her bag, and the woman started yelling.
This lady was losing her mind. So a few of us tried to calm her down. When she came to her senses she buckled herself in beside me and apologized.
I understood this of course. And I told her as much. Because there is nothing easy about flying. It takes a toll on the human mind. But for all its quirks, at least it’s a safe way to travel. I am grateful for that.
Before takeoff, I looked out the window and noticed fluid leaking from a jet engine on my side. It was a very crucial-looking, greenish fluid, making a puddle on the tarmac.
I felt better when a man wearing a uniform inspected the leak, which was really spewing. The man stared at the leak, then looked at the cockpit and gave the “thumbs up” sign to the pilot.
I don’t ever want to hear Hank Snow again.
I can relate to the details of your flight. I have avoided flying for several years for the same reasons you describe. I much prefer driving where I go, but sometimes the most practical choice is flying. I read your message every morning, and look forward to it every day.
I once read excellent advice for flying .
When you walk thru the door of any airport – you have lost any control you thought you had. You are at their mercy and really – that is a good thing.
Their mission is to get you to the next place SAFELY. That IS what is most important. Once you give up all control and let them do their job…you can settle down and just enjoy people watching, catching up on your email , reading a really good book….and listening to more than one song that you have put on your phone or I pod, Sean.?
I live in Atlanta and I could write a book about the Atlanta airport in general. I worked for the federal government in the 1970s and early 1980s and had to travel a lot for business. One month alone I was on a plane 16 times. That’s when planes were being hijacked to Cuba and we didn’t have any security. My husband also worked for the federal government and was in the AF, ANG and Air Reserve for 42 years. After he retired, we started traveling for pleasure. We have been to 32 countries and have been back to several of them more than once. We have also flown all over the United States. We went to NYC to visit my aunt right after 9-11 and there was no security; they didn’t even ask us if we packed our own bags. The last time we flew anywhere was in Feb., 2014, to take a cruise to the Panama Canal. Two days before we were scheduled to leave, there was a major snow storm in Atlanta and all flights were canceled. Because of a mix up in our tickets, we had to leave a day early and ended up spending 10 hours in the Miami Airport. Once we got to our ship, after being up for almost 30 hours, our ship was not ready to board. On the return trip, we flew out of LAX and again, we were up for over 30 hours and didn’t get home until 2 AM. The moving sidewalks and the train at the Atlanta Airport were not working and our plane stopped at the last gate at the last terminal in the airport. We decided then that we are too old to keep putting ourselves through this so we quit traveling. I have a suggestion for you, Sean. I had to get one many years ago because I have tinnitus and loud noises give me a vertigo attack. You can plug it in and listen to the movie or listen to music or listen to something on your computer or just not listen to anything at all and just take a nap.
Flying is not my favorite thing to do—I love getting to my destination quickly but the take offs and landings always make me sooo nervous!! The very worse thing that happens to me is the person beside me takes off their shoes and oh the smell is horrible ??. It makes breathing so difficult!!!
Sean, I always enjoy your writing…As an airline pilot, I just want you to know that I feel your pain. When I’m riding in the back, should I decide to take a nap, I always tell the person next to me that if I should start to snore, they should feel free to give me a sharp elbow in the ribs (and I won’t mind). No one has taken me up on this yet… Cheers.
I relate to every word you said, and I do everything in my power to avoid flying. It is a nightmare.
Soooo….put some more music on your phone. Lots more. The TSA is a plot by the CIA to spy on Americans. I mean, they see your behavior in the line. Then they can check out everything you carry for trip-revealing your lifestyle and economic status. It’s a conspiracy!
I’ve seen the all the sights and heard all the sounds.
A horrible memory I’d just assume curb.
For hating this wretched, time-saving tube.
But give me a ship and a star!
A soft bed to sleep in, ere long.
Of travel to destiny’s arc.
Not a terrible evil we all must endure.
With them, you can’t lose.
Oh, give me a ship and a star!
Than threatening a long haul from Perth to L.A.
You’re lucky if the loo ain’t wrecked.
Soon I’ll be pushing up flowers.
I need a few winks I can steal.
What one endures is quite insane.
Oh, find me a ship and a star!
The journey is over, ere long.
I don’t mind flying and I’ve never really had a bad issue at an airport other than having to sprint to catch a connecting flight. I would rather drive anywhere and everywhere, but time constraints keep us moving ever faster to keep up. Enjoy your trip. Be safe. Love and hugs.
I would never make it through the Atlanta airport without my girls We get off the flight from Huntsville and they start saying hurry up dad we will miss our flight to Ft Myers .
Flying isn’t my idea of fun either, but sometimes it is very necessary. Be thankful that you don’t have to rely on someone to push you in a wheelchair. You have a wonderful day, hugs, Edna B.
I can go to heaven satisfied if I never have to fly again!
You know the old joke that if you live in the South and die- whether you go to heaven or hell- you first have to go through the Atlanta airport. In ’92 I was part of a church group going to Israel and Egypt for 10 days. We flew non-stop from Atlanta to Tel-Aviv, Israel. The guy in the seat next to me was blind. Still haven’t figured out why a blind guy would want to go on a 10 day tour of Israel and Egypt but that was his life-long dream come true. Anyway I wish he would have just snored. Don’t think he had ever brushed his teeth or gargled with Listerine. Then to top off my bad luck he sat next to me on the flight back from Cairo, Egypt to Atlanta. Since then he has died but got to live out his dream. I’m pretty sure he will be one of the first to greet when I get to heaven- after passing through the Atlanta airport.
Air Travel: BAD. Road Trips: GOOD. Hank Snow: GOOD. I can appreciate your gratitude for air-flight safety. However, if there’s engine troubleor the nearest river….like the Hudson, for instance. Don’t give up on HANK SNOW, please!
I am laughing so much…just so you know! You are so real!
Flying is everything you said and then some. Was with girl cousins last week in Nola and we recalled the first time that we flew. I was accompanying my dad on a business trip and then on to visit my two cousins. I was dressed as if for church and I can still remember how excited I was . That probably tells you that I am a senior citizen. While I am in good shape and love to travel , that airport thing is just not worth feeling dirty at the end of the flight. I am not a spoiled woman, but if I can’t fly first class, I will be content to be in my comfortable, clean home. Americans have become sloppy. They travel in their PJs and less. Sorry you have to fly Sean. Love to you and Jamie. ?
Since I am retired military I am eligible, which I have done a quite a bit. I’ve gone back to Germany about 14 times in various aircraft in various configurations.There is no guarantee you will leave, get there or get back -its mission oriented. Most seats are fold down web type but some have regular airline type seats, but backwards. I’ve been stuck a couple of times on this side of the big pond and had to turn around and come home. Seasoned SpaceA’ers know to carry sleeping bags or air mattresses (I used disposable $2 pool floats) and sleep on the plane floor.
But best of all it was free and an adventure. Sadly age and infirmities has stopped my “adventures” but Space A beats going thru the indignities of an airline terminal any day.
I was stuck in the Newark airport two weeks ago for 22 HOURS !!! I swore I would NEVER fly again. I could have driven home to NC more than once in the time it took for the airline to get its act together. That was coming home, did I mention the 9 hour delay going, and missing my connecting international flight ? It resulted in a day’s delay in Atlanta where fortunately, I knew someone kind enough to come and get me so I could spend the night on a couch. NEVER AGAIN. If I could swim the Atlantic I might go again, but I doubt in my lifetime anything will be invented to replace an aluminum tube traveling at 600 MPH thru the air. I just won’t go anywhere else that I cannot drive to myself.
I’m Walking the Floor Over You, by Earnest Tubb, is a good snore cover song also!!
I was told “Noah’s flood” was because the angles that gave up their wings to live with mortals, the giants, and all the otherwise bad people needed to be removed so humanity could start over. Why would angles ever ‘give up their wings’?? Surely not to fly SouthWestern through Hotlanta or Albany and not to put up with the TSA security issues……. Love your stories…..
I used to love to fly however one bad experiences in Cincinnati changed all that! Still trying to get enough nerve to try agaiin! I want to see my family in Omaha!
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Spiritual property
Identity is a Spiritual attribute[1][2] within the cosmere that demarcates one being from another for the purposes of Investiture.[1] It acts as a sort of spiritual DNA, and it functions together with Connection in order to form a link to various forms of Investiture.
1.1 Feruchemy
1.2 Hemalurgy
1.5 Lightweaving
1.7 Bonds
Mechanics and interactions[edit]
Across the cosmere, use of magic is tied to the user's Identity, and power stored by one person is hard to access by a different person (though it is possible, albeit extremely unlikely, for two people to have matching Identity by chance[3]). This restriction is the reason, for example, that Breaths stored or metalminds charged by one person cannot be used by anyone else.[1] However, if someone "blanks" their Identity and stores power, it becomes easier for others to use that power (especially other blanked people, but potentially also non-blanked people, depending on the magic system).[4]
In Feruchemy, Identity is stored in aluminum. To effectively use aluminum, one must have Feruchemical access to at least one metal besides aluminum. By storing Identity in aluminum and then filling another metalmind, they create an "unkeyed" metalmind that can be used by any Feruchemist.[1] One example is in The Bands of Mourning: Wax finds a gold bracelet filled with healing power that Wayne, a gold Ferring, can access, Wax cannot.[5] Through a method that has not yet been fully revealed, but which builds on unkeyed metalminds[6], it is also possible to create an "unsealed" metalmind of investiture, which anyone can use to access Feruchemical power; the Southern Scadrial medallions are an example.[7][8]
As of Mistborn Era 2, the Kandra and the Terris community have begun experimenting with Identity and the other spiritual aspects of Feruchemy, but still understand very little, owing to the rarity of the appropriate Ferrings and metals.[1]
In Hemalurgy, Identity can be stolen by a duralumin spike.[9]
Someone who has been granted Feruchemical abilities via Hemalurgy can access the metalminds of the Feruchemist whose abilities were stolen, presumably because they obtain some portion of the original person's Identity in the spike. If two people are spiked with spikes made from the same person, they will both be able to access the original person's metalminds, but not each other's, as their own Identity will interfere.[10]
More generally, Hemalurgy can overwrite anything attached to the soul, including Identity.[11][2]
Like with Feruchemy, Breaths that have been put into an object are keyed to the original Awakener's Identity, and so can only be reclaimed by that Awakener.[12][4] However, when Breath magic system automatically rekeys the Identity of the Breaths to that of the recipient, making Awakening the easiest of the magic systems to gain access to.[13]
Storing Identity makes one more susceptible to being affected by many things in the cosmere, including Forgery.[14] When a human is soulstamped, the transformationbest crafted stamps last approximately a day. This is due to the fact that the Identity of a person, as opposed to an object, is constantly growing, changing and shifting.[15]
There is a "pretty tenuous" link between Identity and the different personae that Shallan creates with Lightweaving.[16]
Singer forms[edit]
Identity and Connection are involved with the singers ability to change forms.[17] If a singers Identity and Connection is stolen, they will change into slaveform.[18][17]
Forming a bond utilizes Identity and Connection in some manner. Lessening those attributes, such as by storing them in a metalmind, would affect the bond.[19]
Most healing in the cosmere works by using the three versions of the user's self; their Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual version.[20][21] Healing typically heals the Physical version by matching it to their ideal Spiritual version, which is filtered through the lens of their minds (Cognitive version). Almost all forms of healing in the cosmere are filtered through the perception of the user.[22][23] If a person hasn't accepted a wound as a part of themselves, they can still heal it regardless of how long they've had it.[24] However, even if a wound is recent, if the person has changed their mindset to see it as a part of themselves, they will not be able to heal from it.[25][26]
Blanking Identity and tapping Connection can cause someone to gain an accent for a particular area.[27]
↑ a b c d e The Bands of Mourning chapter 3 Summary: The Bands of Mourning/Chapter_3#
↑ Worldbuilders AMA
↑ The Bands of Mourning chapter 17 Summary: The Bands of Mourning/Chapter_17#
↑ Hemalurgy Table
↑ Firefight Seattle Public Library signing
↑ Warbreaker prologue Summary: Warbreaker/Prologue#
↑ Arcanum Unbounded signing Chicago
↑ Oathbringer Chicago signing
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↑ Skyward Houston signing
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Deep thoughts on cycling and some advice for 5 Boro Bike Tour riders
Along with 33,000 or so other people, I’m in the final stages of getting ready to ride the 40-mile 5 Boro Bike Tour in New York City this weekend. If you are unfamiliar with this event, check it out:Â.
As I doublechecked my saddle bag in preparation for the ride I’ve waited my whole life to do, I got to thinking about what cycling means to me, and likely, always will:
Cycling is all about the fun. I’ve been selling, building, maintaining, and marketing the cycling lifestyle now for close to 16 years and I couldn’t even at exact line before. Cycling is all about the fun. Remember that feeling of freedom, the sense of adventure, and the calling to explore what’s round that next bend you got when you were a kid and finally able to pedal past your current boundaries. I fully believe that this is why we return to cycling so passionately as adults, and why many of us this time of year get psyched to get out on the two wheels. Not only are we able to reduce carbon emissions,  lose weight, and shed some of the day-to-day burdens of the 9 to 5 working world; we are able to have fun doing it!
Here’s a photo of everything that’s coming to New York with me:
If you’re going to bring along all the stuff I’m bringing, it’s important to know how to use it. If you’re not sure, just stop by any of  the 65 Eastern Mountain Sports stores in the northeast, especially those with bike departments which offer clinics on basic bike maintenance and repair. I hope this little tidbit of information helps you get out there more and enjoy a great season of cycling. Whether you’re heading to the 5 Boro Bike Tour or a 15-minute cruise around your neighborhood, be sure to remember, it’s all about having fun!
Myself and friends from Cornwall Ontario did the 5 boro bike tour last yr. It was a lot of fun but soooo many people. We did a fair bit of walking off and on for the first 5-10 miles because the course was so packed with people. Have did the Tour in There is a similar ride in Montreal the first Sunday in June. It is lower key and less expensive and there is a night ride the Friday before. I’ve done the New York ride but Montreal is more funt fun!
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any of the above schemes or any other crime prevention queries that you may have and please remember that your local Neighbourhood Policing Teams are also here for you if you have any concerns. You will see our teams out and about, but you can also ask for them by ringing 101.
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ies, leading global employers to review and adjust their business continuity plans and, for some sectors, to take measures aimed at the slowdown in activity (or its total suspension if ordered to do so by health authorities).
- Review your existing home-working policies, and make sure employees are reminded of the cking outside of the company’s premises.
- Remote/home working triggers potential new challenges, such as looking after mental health if an employee begins to suffer from ‘cabin fever’, providing additional equipment, and mae.
- You may also need to provide support to all employees (not just those working remotely) as everyone is at risk of being overwhelmed by bad news and rumour.
- Ensure you clearly differentiate between extended paid leave and home working (paid as well, but with an obligation on the employees to perform work).
On-site adjustments
- Consider what to do with planned business trips/group activities (e.g. conferences, off site).
- Make sure your recommendations and instructions comply with any quarantine or other health-related measures, including remote working if an employee was stranded in a foreign country.
- Check if you are under any local legal obligation to provide protective clothing and face masks to employees.
Managing employment costs
Because of the many uncertainties, including around the depth and duration of the slowdown, and the need to protect the business and its talent in the long term, employers are likely to favour alternative measures to the classic redundancy.
- Reducing agency/temporary work
- Delaying or freezing salary increases
- Reducing non-cash benefits
- Suspending bonus plans
Implementing any of the above measures will trigger legal issues which should be carefully considered.
- Consider the need to inform and possibly consult with employee representative bodies (such as works councils, trade unions etc.) on some or all of the above measures – the law and best practice varies between jurisdictions.
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5, primarily targeting those working in the unorganised sector. Any citizen having a savings account with a bank or post office .
On the performance of National Pension System (NPS), Bandyopadhyay said retail sector participation in NPS has reached a subscriber base of over 3 million, as on August 14, and the corpus under this is about to reach a landmark ₹1 lakh crore mark. "Retail is a big landmark for us, because three years back our corpus was just about 13-13.5 lakh," he said.
"In three years, the numbers under non-government subscribers have actually more than doubled, the PFRDA Chairman Supratim Bandyopadhyay said.
The pension fund regulator stated that this decision was taken after it was seen that the subscriber's withdrawal amount could not be credited into their savings bank account due to various valid reasons such as invalid account number/account type, invalid/wrong IFSC, etc.
Thji Nagar as part of the government's redevelopment plan.With this, NBCC has sold 909,520 sq ft of commercial space worth Rs 3,691 crore at WTC Nauroji Nagar since 2018.
The developers have also demanded that the recovery proceedings on account of delay in compliance of orders, be kept suspended for further 12 months and during this 12 months period no further refund order be passed.
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the Town of Lancaster Youth Bureau! A big congratulations goes out to seniors Brendan Murty, Carolynn Steffens, and Kerry Sullivan and juniors Sean Brown, Katelyn Laistner, and Lillian Mikula on being named to the Youth Bureau Hall of Fame. These six Lancers join the… Read more »
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"It's hard to get into a rhythm when you're coming in ever two possessions," Breazeale added. "I felt like I played well tonight."
"I would have liked to have scored a touchdown, and we know we have to finish our drives, but that was a positive possession."
"I know we scored on that drive, but we needed to have six instead of three," Breazeale said. "It still felt good to go down the field like that in our two-minute offense, but a touchdown would have helped."
"I felt like I was more in a rhythm tonight than I have in any other game though. Hopefully, it can continue."
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Former US President Barack Obama is systematically attempting to erode the right to vote for minorities and youth to secure the re-election of Donald Trump.
Obama made that drop during the funeral of the essential black civil rights activist John Lewis.
A monument to the 1960s equal rights movement for blacks, John Lewis, was one of the last surviving supporters of the murdered Reverend Martin Luther King. It was also a Congressman for the Democratic party.
The funeral service at a church in Atlanta, Georgia, was attended by three ex-was the latter who, in his speech, not only looked at the past but slashed hard on the Republicans and – without mentioning him – current President Donald Trump.
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2 thoughts on "10 things you won't find me doing this Christmas"
I'm with you!I absolutely love Christmas and all that comes with it, but people putting trees up in November annoy me. IT'S NOT CHRISTMAS YET!🙂 As for Elf on a shelf I'm with you on that too. I blogged my thoughts on that blasted Elf a while back!
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:05:48AM -0500, Donald Becker's all... > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > As long as your network cards' support PXE (most do nowadays), then it is > > > > is that really true? great if so! I haven't looked, but tend to only > > expect builtin eth to support PXE... > > > > Almost all current, performance-oriented motherboards have built-in Fast > Ethernet with PXE support in the BIOS Flash. > > Most low-end Fast Ethernet cards have a socket but do not include a boot > ROM. It's difficult to find the correct Flash-ROM part, and you must > still program them one by one. It's easier and less expensive to just > buy the slightly more expensive 3Com or Intel NICs with built-in Flash-ROMs. > > No matter what installation you use, we recommend leaving the system set > to PXE boot. Many lower end boards include RPL now, which seems to be of the IBM variety (not Novell).). /kA
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Q: What is the largest possible remainder when a number is divided by 11?
23457 divided by 23456 leaves a remainder of 1, and it is divisible by 7. So that is one of infinitely many possible answers.
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How to check your PUK code
We have all made a mistake with the PIN code at some time or we know someone who has had to rummage through the drawer for the plastic card that comes with the SIM and where the PUK is written. But we do not always find it or the code is not always still recorded after years since you made your contract. That is why it is interesting to know how to ask for the code in all operators to unlock your phone.
If you enter your PIN code wrong three times, the mobile is blocked. This is the case in any operator in Spain and it will be blocked regardless of the contract you have. On the third failed attempt, it asks you for the PUK. An eight-digit code that we do not normally know by heart but which, luckily, we can consult.
The PUK code is an eight-digit code that allows us to unblock a SIM card when we do not know the PIN code or have entered it incorrectly several times. It is a code with greater security than the previous one that we do not have to use every time we turn on the phone but only when it is locked. Also, unlike the well-known PIN, you cannot change it. This code cannot be changed and it is the key that seeks to provide more security to your phoneen you enter the PIN code wrong three times, it can happen by mistake or simply because you do not remember, it asks you for the PUK code. Normally we do not know the PUK code by heart unless we make frequent mistakes and have ended up memorizing it, although it is more difficult to do so.
What happens if you enter the PUK code wrong many times? This is unlikely because we generally enter this code or combination of digits with them in front of us and after consultation. But be careful because if you enter it wrong many times, the SIM will be blocked permanently until the operator unlocks it. The operators confirm that the card is blocked if you enter the code wrong about ten times in a row. In that case, you need it to be unlocked by going to a specialized store or by requesting a duplicate of it.
Each operator can give you different steps when consulting it, although everyone will agree that the PUK code is an eight-digit security code that cannot be modified and that you will need if you block your card by entering the PIN incorrectly. It is always on the card when you buy it, make the contract or carry out a portability. It is in the piece of plastic or cardboard that your SIM is in. But over the years we do not know where that piece of cardboard or plastic is and this is when we have the problem. Or because we don’t always carry it with us.
That is why you can consult it from the applications, websites or contact phones of the different operators
Vodafone allows us to consult the PUK code from the customer area, whether you have made a new registration or if it is a portability. You can do it from the My Vodafone application or from the customer area on the website.
From the Vodafone website you must access the customer area with your personal data. Once here, go to the ” Menu ” button on the side of the home page and look for the “My devices” section. You will see if you have multiple SIMs. Look for the one with the number you want and you will be able to see the PUK code in addition to the PIN code you have.
Call the free phone number 1550, which is available 24 hours a day, from any national operator. Once you hang up, you will receive an SMS on the mobile phone from which you called (which does not have to be yours) with the code you need. In addition, you can also have it if you go to a nearby Vodafone store.
In the case of being a portability, you will have the code on the back of the plastic support but we can also follow the previous steps to consult it.
Movistar allows us to consult it from the private area , or by asking it to be sent to someone else’s phone, for example. In the private area we can see it in My Movistar in the application or from the client area of the web.
In the customer areaon the left side of the menu you can go to “Management” to “Lines” and choose the option “Query PUK / IMEI / SimLock”. Once here, you choose the mobile line if there are several and it will let you retrieve the code to unlock the phone. Also in the application you can do it as long as you install it on another smartphone that is not blocked. You simply have to go to “My products” and choose the mobile line for which you want the code. Here you will see the eight digit combination to unlock.
PUK query
Movistar also has a specific service to check the PUK code if you have forgotten it. You simply need to enter the telephone number and ID of the line holder. Keep in mind that you need the holder’s identification if it is an additional line and it is in the name of your partner, your father or your mother. This will allow us to access from any device if we cannot open the private area.
Orange also allows you to get the PUK both by phone and if you enter the customer area from your computer, tablet or from another mobile phone. The easiest option is to call from another Orange line or from another operator.
You can do it at 1470 if the mobile you are calling from is Orange or at 656001470 if it is from another operator. Once you call, an automatic voice-over will open where you will have to type the number of the phone for which you want the unlock code. Then, say “PUK query” and you will have to enter your NIF. Automatically, the voice-over will give you the eight digits you need to be able to unlock your smartphone.
If you want, you can also do it from the customer area on your computer or tablet or if you have another mobile phone that is not locked. We access the Orange Customer Area and enter with our username and password. Once inside the customer area, we must go to the “My line” section at the top of the screen. Once inside the section, you simply have to check the details of the line where you will see the PUK with all the details you need.
Also in the application you can do it by accessing ” My line “. In the menu you will only have to go to the bottom of the page or the application to see the eight digits.
As in the rest of the operators, you can find the PUK on the plastic holder in which you receive the SIM card, but you may not know where it is.
If you want to remember or look up Yoigo’s PUK code because you have forgotten the PIN, you can call the operator from another phone, whether or not it is Yoigo’s. If you call from a telephone with a contract with the operator, you can do it for free at 622 . If not, from any phone you can call 622 622 622 and they will give you the original PIN of the card (if you have not changed it) or the PUK if you have exhausted all possible attempts.
Like the rest, it also allows you to consult it from the client area or the application. All you have to do is access Mi Yoigo with your username and password and go to the settings section. From the settings we must go to ” Security ” and we will find it.
At Jazztel
If you have blocked the mobile phone with the wrong PIN code, Jazztel allows us to get the eight-digit code. In addition, as in the rest, you can consult it on the plastic or the original documentation of the card and it is invariable over time.
Client area and app
If you want you can access from the Jazztel customer area. Access the main page of the line you want to managelled “And also” and you will see “SIM Management”. In this section, as you see in the image below, you will see the details of the ICC, PIN code and PUK.
Also in the Jazztel application you can go to “My Products”. Access the specific line and go to ” SIM Management “. Here you can choose the “PIN / PUK” option.
Another option at Jazztel is to call by phone. They explain from the help website: “Call 1565 (Monday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to midnight) from another Jazztel mobile line other than the one you have blocked, or from a landline or mobile line of another operator by calling 640 001 565 “. Once you have called, a voiceover will ask you for the mobile number for which you want the code. You will have to give your NIF and you will receive in return the eight digits of the PUK code that you must use.
From the Lowi application you can access the same information that is on “the little plastic card that is missing,” they explain on their own operator’s website. As they collect in this section, you can check it on the card that comes. But if you have lost it, you can go to the website.
You can go to the Mi Lowi Configuration section of the line you must go to the “SIM” option and you will have access to the same information. You can get your PIN code and your PUK code.
You can also call Lowi in customer service. You can call 121 from an operator phone with customer service
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The first-ever digital art major auction lot highlights have gone public and they.
…and more. “Paddles On!” at Phillips is a bit of a game-changer.
Get over the “rabbit hole of digital art” thing. Even the term “net art” is almost twenty years old. The conversation around pricing and owning digital, reproducible and internet-public works is old too — just like the conversation about pricing and owning sound, performance and conceptual art. But the Wall Street Journal wouldn’t be covering it so enthusiastically, because those works are not accessible to the public. This has greater relevancy that conceptual commerce.
“I’m thrilled that I and others have this opportunity to show artwork to an audience that is perhaps less familiar with the way in which newer technologies and platforms are being used in contemporary art practices,” artist Alexandra Gorczynski tells ANIMAL. Alexandra, whose first New York solo show at TRANSFER gallery took place last March, is selling PLUR (2013), pictured above.
Phillips is not taking a cut.
It feels strange to be excited about something so renegade as digital art to be entering the very formal “big leagues.” Maybe that tension is actually synergy.
One to watch, definitely. I hope they all get filthy rich.
Redundant fact check: Net.art actually dates back to 1994 (). That's with a dot, obviously. But it sounded just like "net art" when you talked about it.
ps. The WSJ links broke.
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Healthy desert and good for summer.
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Melt 3 tablespoon sugar in a kadhai on low heat till golden. Pour in 6 Small bowls. let the sugar set for 5 mins.
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Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy Presents “Just Before Sleep”
Just Before Sleep by James Still is a play for young audiences, which was firstduring the 1990s. Theatrically structured in both the present and the past, this play. Just Before Sleep is a story of unexpected friendships, fierce love, and survival.
Tickets $5 Students & $7 Adults
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1080 1920 Brian McCoy Brian McCoy2019-09-15 17:00:002019-09-23 10:41:51Who Is Jesus?mon.
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The Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) Editor is a free and innovative Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for engineering computational construction grammars. The design philosophy and description of the FCG Editor has now appeared in a PlosOne Article, including an introduction to the field of (computational) construction grammar.
When people hear the word "grammar", most of them still think about a set of syntactic rules to combine words (and their concepts) in a compositional fashion. Most NLP (Natural Language Processing) systems therefore consider grammar to be equal to syntactic parsing, so syntax is simply one of the components of a traditional pipeline that can be useful for downstream tasks. In the MUHAI project, we take a different approach inspired by cognitive-functional linguistics, in which grammar itself is meaningful: it expresses how people conceptualise reality, and which perspective they take on the events that they perceive in their daily lives. The most suited linguistic theory for this approach is Construction Grammar, in which all of linguistic knowledge - including grammar - can be modeled as mappings between meaning and form, which are called constructions. One of the core components of MUHAI technologies is therefore Fluid Construction Grammar, the world's most advanced platform for implementing computational construction grammars, co-developed by the MUHAI partners Sony CSL Paris and the VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
While computational construction grammar has the potential to lead to fundamental breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding, it turns out that it is very difficult to develop models of constructional language processing, partly because user-friendly developer tools were missing. This is why our MUHAI partners from Paris and Brussels, along with the KU Leuven and the University of Namur have released the FCG Editor: a free and innovative Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for engineering computational construction grammars using the Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) formalism.
"With Fluid Construction Grammar, we have an amazing tool for implementing new kinds of language models, but you need to have significant software engineering skills to use it. So when we gave tutorials on FCG, we found that this technical threshold was a demotivating factor for many participants," says Dr Remi van Trijp, research leader of the Language Team at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris. "We therefore worked on a first prototype that would offer people a more user-friendly experience, and then proceeded to test and refine the FCG Editor by letting NLP and AI students use it for implementing constructional language models." The result of this hands-on approach is an innovative IDE for Fluid Construction Grammar that strikes a unique balance between user-friendliness and open-mindedness, drawing inspiration from the field of interactive programming.
The FCG editor provides all of the editing possibilities that you can expect from an IDE, and also allows interactive programming through a listener (similar to command-line interfaces), an interactive web interface that allows the user to inspect every detail of processing, configuration helpers, and a "construction wizard" that assists users in the definition of linguistic constructions. The main target audience for the FCG Editor is linguists, particularly construction grammarians, who wish to operationalize and test their theories; but also computational linguists and AI researchers can use the FCG Editor to develop models of constructional language processing to enhance their language technologies. "I believe the FCG Editor is an important milestone that can finally boost the development of computational construction grammars," concludes van Trijp.
The FCG Editor now features in a PlosOne Article that also includes an introduction to Construction Grammar and computational construction grammars. Besides funding from the Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris and MUHAI, additional funding came from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme AI4EEU under grant agreement No 825619, as well as the Flanders Research Foundation.
Original photo by Jan Baborák on Unsplash
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