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Egypt set to have presidential elections first
SARAH EL DEEBAssociated Press Published: January 26, 2014 5:16 PM
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's interim leader on Sunday said the country will pick a president before parliament, a widely expected change in a political transition plan as public support for army chief and July coup leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi grows stronger. But Egypt remains dangerously divided, as seen in clashes that killed at least 49 people a day earlier and militant attacks in the country's restive Sinai Peninsula that left several soldiers dead.
The decision follows weeks of deliberations with different political groups who had pushed for holding presidential, not parliamentary elections first, as had been originally planned. Many argued that electing a president would be a panacea for the country's dangerously divided politics.
The transition plan, adopted after the ouster of Egypt's first freely elected president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, calls for both elections within six months of the adoption of a new constitution. The charter was passed on Jan. 18. The presidential election is now expected before the end of April, while a parliamentary vote should come before the end of July.
The announcement came amid rising expectations that el-Sissi will run for president after leading the coup that toppled Morsi following massive protests against him.
"Having presidential elections first will lead to stability faster," said Ahmed Gamaleddin, the leader of an alliance of political parties comprised mostly of former security and military officials, some of whom had worked under autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who led Egypt for nearly 30 years.
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Gamaleddin told The Associated Press that his group, "Egypt my Country", will encourage el-Sissi to run for office because he has enough popular backing. The alliance was a main sponsor of the calls to rally in support of the general on Saturday, the third anniversary of the uprising against Mubarak, who preceded Morsi.
The rallies saw ecstatic crowds gather across the country, carrying posters of the general and already calling him "my president."
But divisions still run deep. The celebrations competed with widespread clashes between security forces and Morsi supporters, who have vowed to keep up their protests against the interim authorities. The fighting killed at least 49 people.
Islamist politician Mohammed Mahsoob, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition that is rallying for Morsi's return to office, said the decision only exposes the difficulty the current authorities are facing.
"Changing the roadmap is to set up the leader of the coup as president and (this) only shows their predicament after the people ... only chipped away at their legitimacy, foiling their referendum, and exposing their hostility to the revolution," he wrote on his Twitter account.
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Egypt's ultraconservative Salafi party, the only Islamist group to back Morsi's ouster in the popularly backed coup, said despite having supported the idea of holding a parliamentary vote first, it will now go along with the majority consensus.
Younes Makhyoun, the head of the party, told The AP that his party "must now think of the future."
"We would have preferred a parliament first so that the coming president doesn't combine legislative and executive powers at the same time," Makhyoun said. "The declared goal is that the people now need a president more than a parliament to have the leadership necessary to achieve stability."
Turmoil has only been deepened since Morsi's ouster, with a rise in militant attacks which have spread from the restive northern Sinai into the capital. Authorities blame Morsi's Brotherhood of orchestrating the violence to destabilize the current government. It has already declared the group a terrorist organization, a charge it denies, saying it is only protesting peacefully.
Terror groups have become more brazen in recent weeks. On Friday, attacks in the capital, including a spectacular bombing of the city's main security headquarters, killed six. Another attack on an army bus in northern Sinai killed three soldiers on Sunday.
An al-Qaida inspired group that previously operated mostly in Sinai, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Champions of Jerusalem, claimed responsibility for most of the attacks.
In a qualitative change of operations if it is verified, the group claimed responsibility for downing a military helicopter in Sinai Saturday that killed five crewmen. El-Sissi attended their funeral Sunday. Authorities say they are still investigating the causes of the crash.
Even secular groups who are against the general's bid for office consider it essential to have presidential elections before a parliamentary vote. Hossam Mounes, a member of the Popular Current, which backs a civilian candidate for president, said the presidential vote will give the current authorities "clear legitimacy."
"Parliamentary elections at this stage will only add to the divisions and fragmentation of the political groups," Mounes said, adding that securing that vote will also be less of a security challenge.
He argued however against an el-Sissi bid for office, criticizing his management of the transition so far.
"He is an unknown person. We don't know his positions regarding political issues because of his military post. We have not heard his views on economic issues or foreign affairs."
But with growing anxiety over the continued turmoil, calls for el-Sissi to run have only grown. The thousands who hit the streets to support him adhere to a widespread media narrative that portrays him as a strongman who can deal with the country's myriads of problems -- restoring stability and legitimizing the interim government installed after Morsi's ouster.
"I describe him as the man for this anxious moment," said Abdullah el-Sinawi, a commentator on military affairs.
The general has not yet made a formal announcement. He would have to quit his post as defense minister before launching a campaign for the presidency. Under the new constitution, a president can serve a maximum of two four-year terms. | {
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New Jersey coach Peter DeBoer is holding out hope that his team's worst stretch of the season is nearing an end.
The Devils look to avoid losing seven straight for the first time in 27 years Thursday night when they host the Buffalo Sabres, the only team DeBoer's squad has earned a point against in the last six games.
New Jersey (10-8-5) might have bottomed out by falling behind 4-0 in Tuesday's 5-2 home loss to a Tampa Bay team that was in the midst of its own five-game skid. The Devils, who have allowed the first goal in seven straight games, are 1-6-2 since starting 9-2-3.
They have not lost seven in a row since Jan. 24-Feb. 8, 1986.
"This is our adversity," DeBoer said. "Every team faces them at different points in the year and this is ours.
"You hope that you get to the bottom here so you start climbing up. I'm hoping this is rock bottom and we can start getting off the mat and getting on to bigger and better things."
New Jersey's current 0-5-1 stretch has coincided with future Hall-of-Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur sidelined with a sore back. With backup Johan Hedberg starting in the last six games, the Devils have been outscored 25-11.
Despite being pulled after allowing three goals on 11 shots Tuesday, Hedberg is expected to be in goal Thursday looking to end a personal 0-6-1 stretch with a 3.98 goals-against average.
Searching for anything positive to take from Tuesday's defeat, the Devils hope to build on a third period where they scored twice and showed some life.
"We've just got to keep moving forward, keep playing, keep battling," said forward Adam Henrique, who scored for the second time in three games. "It'll come."
Henrique's other goal during that span came in a 4-3 shootout loss at Buffalo on Saturday. New Jersey's Andrei Loktionov tied the game in the third but the Devils failed on both attempts in the shootout. Hedberg stopped 20 shots and allowed Jason Pominville and Tyler Ennis to score in the shootout.
Pominville had two regulation goals in that contest for the Sabres (9-13-2), who are 0-1-1 since that victory and in the midst of a 3-1-1 stretch where each game has been decided by one goal.
Buffalo was unable to overcome three different two-goal deficits during Tuesday's 4-3 loss at Carolina. Cody Hodgson scored twice and Pominville added two assists for the Sabres, who recorded 34 of their 40 shots on goal after the first period.
"We were trying to fight back in it, and they would get one right after that," said interim Sabres coach Ron Rolston, who is 3-3-1 since replacing the fired Lindy Ruff. "We've got to do a better job of taking care of those next couple shifts after we score."
Buffalo went 1 for 3 on the power play at Carolina, but is converting a league-low 11.5 percent (10 of 87) of those chances and is 3 of 43 on the road.
New Jersey recorded its first power-play goal in 19 opportunities Tuesday. It's 3 for 34 in the last 10 games. | {
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Does anyone have an excellent recipe for stuffed calamari, or know of a restaurant where they had stuffed calamari that they loved? Help!
CB: I can't vouch for these recipes, because I only like fried calamari, but my friend, Claire, loves stuffed calamari. I gave you two recipes; and I agree, squid stuffed with squid is just wrong!!! That's like pepper-stuffed peppers!
These babies are so easy. and they make you look awfully clever. you buy the baby calamari, mix the stuffing. use the leftover stuffing as a salad, grill the calamari for 3-4 minutes and you're done. grill the scallops at the same time and you're a hero!
3 calamari tubes per person
1 fennel/ anise bulb
1 can cannellini beans
1/4 preserved lemon
fresh parsley
lemon juice
olive oil
harissa (see below)
here's what you do:
the calamari: buy around 3 tubes per person, run your finger around the inside to make sure that all of the cartilage has been removed...rinse them out and pat them dry
the stuffing: mix 1 tin of cannellini beans (rinsed and drained) with 1/2 cup parsley (chopped) and the rind from a 1/4 preserved lemon (finely diced)...12 grinds of the pepper mill, a splash of olive oil and you're done. now, use a teaspoon and fill each calamari tube (you'll only get a couple of spoons in each tube). douse the stuffed calamari in a little more oil and keep in the fridge until you're ready to cook them (this can be done hours ahead)
the salad: mix the leftover stuffing mix with some finely sliced fennel (anise)...about 1/2 a bulb...or the lot if you don't want leftovers...a dash more olive oil before you serve it all (maybe some fresh oregano leaves and lemon juice)...and that's it!
grilling: make sure that the calamari are lightly coated in olive oil so they don't stick to the grill. get the bbq good and hot, place the tubes on the grill. cook 2 minutes, turn, cook another 2 minutes. done!
before you taste this, beware: it's bloody hot! harissa is an african chili sauce. the faint of heart can calm it down by adding a 1/3 cup tomato paste...or serve it alongside some tzatziki.
The Scallop recipe:
pancetta wrapped scallops
skewered on rosemary twigs
these are the perfect partner for the stuffed calamari as they cook as quickly and they both look so cosy on a platter together
here's the skinny:
try and get yourself some pepper crusted pancetta...just for the spice factor. no sweat if you can't; prosciutto or bacon will do
I buy frozen scallops (the biggest that I can find)
couple of reasons
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second: they are easier to handle if they are still a little frozen
so: uncoil your pancetta, cut a strip about 10 inches / 25 cm...wrap it around a scallop (double over any excess pancetta) and then grab a twig of rosemary which has had the leaves stripped off it (or use a skewer if you've no imagination)...pierce the twig through the pancetta and semi-frozen scallop. repeat until you have 3-4 scallops on a twig
place the scallops kebabs on some paper towel and set them in the fridge to finish thawing until you are ready to grill them
douse them in a little olive oil, toss them on a hot grill. 2 minutes a side...a little more if you want the pancetta super crispy...and serve them with some paprika sprinkled over (thank you, bobi) or some maresh pepper flakes or (let's make it easy) more harissa!
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DQ, both recipes look fantastic, and I'm going to try them next time I'm allowed in the kitchen. I also searched on the net, and Bobby Flay has one recipe that looked promising._________________The goal is to fit it all in.
Nah-h-h, that would require "effort". I just come here for fun!But, thanks for the comment, JustMe._________________Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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originally posted by: Deaf Alien
That video looks old. Like it was taken by a VHS camcorder.
My question is why did they attack the car? What did the driver do to provoke the attack?
Looks like he was trying to pass through the mayhem. He wanted to get by but they yelled "stop, stop". That's not normal and threatening to anyone
trying to get through.
Is that your justification for running people down? "I saw up ahead the road was blocked by people so I drove into the middle of that anyway... and
had to accelerate thru them to get by..."
You make it sound like he floored the gas pedal and protestors went flying. The driver inched forward trying to go down a public road. In fact, the
mob went running toward the car. Who does that? Did someone tell these people to go play in traffic as a joke and they actually did it?
Stupid people protesting in the roads, pfffft, i dont care if your white black straight or gay. Streets are made to drive on not block. How do they
know that person didnt have somewhere they really needed to be or they had a bad day? Anyway, i dont feel sorry for retards that block streets for
protesting.
This random abuse of people who had nothing to do with whatever set the protesters off is getting old. Passing your hurt feeling or emotion forward
randomly isn't the proper thing. But then ya can't fix screwed up very often.
When I fear for my life, I have the right to protect my self. I will do the same maybe. Every since I watched Rodney King beating I had this stance.
I am not stopping for a violent mob trying to kill me.
When I fear for my life, I have the right to protect my self. I will do the same maybe. Every since I watched Rodney King beating I had this stance.
I am not stopping for a violent mob trying to kill me.
I am with you on this, I have distinct memories of Reginald Denny and the beating he suffered for purely being white and in the wrong place at the
wrong time.
For those saying just drive around, I do not know the information surrounding this but I never listen to the radio I always listen to my own music, I
also rarely watch TV.
So how would I know there is a protest, plus maybe the guy did not know an alternate route so he hoped as an innocent bystander to be allowed
through.
Also if you find yourself in this position and feel you have to drive off and the police come to arrest you, I was afraid for my life, and I would
like to speak to my lawyer should be all that you say to the police.
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Bryant Huggins aka SmugDaBeast Funniest Man in Fighting Games
The funniest man in fighting games joins us on the podcast. You can’t escape the laughter when this guy is around. We hit some major big topics and drilled down into some specifics on how to handle losing and what’s missing from the FGC that’s necessary for it to continue to grow and be successful. We began this episode with hilarity and we end it with laughter. Thank you for listening. Please pass this one on! Smug is a Pro SFV player for @therisenation, he is an @NZXT Ambassador. You can find Smug on Twitter @SmugDaBeast, Twitch, Instagram and Youtube SmugDa Beast94.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins an Oscar
After five unsuccessful nominations, DiCaprio has finally taken home the academy award for best actor.
Film buffs will know that Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar nominations have become somewhat of a running joke. The poor guy has been nominated five times, for his roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The Wolf of Wall Street, but never took home the little golden guy. Until now, that is, with the accomplished actor winning 2016's academy award for best actor.
DiCaprio won the award for his role in The Revenant - a survival drama in which his character, frontiersman Hugh Glass, is stranded in the American wilderness.
In his acceptance speech (which the poor guy has been perfecting for over twenty years) DiCaprio thanked his director and co-star Tom Hardy for his "fierce talent on screen" and "friendship off screen" before campaigning for action to combat climate change, saying making The Revenant was "about man's relationship to the natural world". | {
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http://www.neptunemountaineering.com/events.aspxThursday, November 8 - 8 pmChris Davenport - From the Ring of Fire and the Lhotse Face to the Neptune FloorChris Davenport is arguably the most accomplished backcountry skier in the country. In the last half-decade he has skied all the 14ers in the U.S., the Matterhorn, Eiger and Monte Rosa in the Alps, the Lhotse Face on Mount Everest and countless other peaks in Antarctica, Norway and Alaska. He'll be at Neptune presenting his spring 2012 whirlwind ski of volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest. And as a special treat we're hiring Chris for the day to sell Kastle skis on the Neptune floor. It's pretty cool and we're stoked Chris agreed to do it. Imagine buying a basketball from Michael Jordan, or a football from Joe Montana? That's basically what you have the opportunity to do here at Neptune on November 8 (more details soon). Kastle skis will also be in the house offering prizes and hosting a party. Neptune Mountaineering is the only distributor of Kastle in the Front Range and we're stoked to have them and Mr. Davenport in the house.
http://www.neptunemountaineering.com/events.aspx wrote:In the last half-decade he has skied all the 14ers in the U.S...
When did this happen?
Errr...In the last half decade....It says it right there.
• It's by getting away from life that we can see it most clearly... It's by depriving ourselves of the myriad of everyday experiences that we renew our appreciation for them...I've learned from my experiences in the mountains that I love life. — Dave Johnston• Mountains are not climbed merely to reach a geographical location — but as personal and spiritual challenges to the participants. — David Stein • The best climber in the world is the one who’s having the most fun.— Alex Lowe• Why do I climb the mountain? Because I'm in love! — The Captain
http://www.neptunemountaineering.com/events.aspx wrote:In the last half-decade he has skied all the 14ers in the U.S...
When did this happen?
Pretty sure he hasn't.
Yeah, I assume you two are right about the typo. Maybe that's his next project. He says it's something big and in North America. Although I don't know if the Alaska 14ers make good ski descents. Do they even call them 14ers up there?
Carl wrote:Yeah, I assume you two are right about the typo. Maybe that's his next project. He says it's something big and in North America. Although I don't know if the Alaska 14ers make good ski descents. Do they even call them 14ers up there?
Hi guys,Yeh, that's a typo. Sorry about that. I am indeed trying to finish all the 14ers in the lower 48 and have just two left... both in Cali. Tried to get them last season but Cali had a terrible snowpack. Maybe this season.Chris | {
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Ontology Recapitulates Philology
Much of the debate about evolution turns on language, and there is much misrepresentation, mostly on one side of the debate. Darwinists assert that "evolution is a fact," when what they really mean is that "Darwinism is a fact," but they don't want to assert that explicitly. They misrepresent their narrow theory of evolutionary change as synonymous with evolutionary change understood more broadly. They do so for several reasons, including the unfavorable connotations of Darwinism and the paucity of evidence and logic to support Darwin's radical assertion.
The truth is that Darwinism is not the same thing as evolution. Evolution is the theory that living things change over time. So understood, evolution is obviously true. There are several theories as to how evolution happens.
Darwinism is the theory that evolution lacks teleology -- changes in organisms over time have no goal or purpose. Biological structure and function is the product of differential survival of chance variations. Chance and necessity. "Chance" in the Darwinian lexicon means "without teleology."
There are several camps on the Darwinist side: there are adaptationists, who believe that most or all evolutionary changes are the result of natural selection, and the drifters, who believe that much evolutionary change is neutral with respect to selection. Both agree that the variation on which selection acts or doesn't act is non-teleological. The debate between adaptationists and drifters is acrimonious, and, in my view, witless. Natural selection applies to all evolutionary change -- adaptive, drifting, and designed. Survivors always survive.
There is a school of "theistic evolution," which asserts that God played a (subtle) role in guiding evolutionary change. Theistic evolution is a cornucopia of viewpoints, usually vague. Theories of theistic evolution are generally stated with such imprecision as to render them sentiment rather than science. They are generally poor theology as well.
Teleological theories of evolution come in two strains. Intelligent design theory asserts that the most reasonable explanation for some aspects of evolution is a process of design analogous to human design. There are some theorists who agree that evolution is teleological but take exception to the "extrinsic" design implication of design theory. These theorists are Thomists who represent the Catholic view of evolution. They see evolutionary change as a manifestation of Final Cause, as understood by Aristotle and Aquinas. They view teleology to be intrinsic to biological change and in fact intrinsic to all changes in nature. Both intelligent design and Thomist approaches to evolution are teleological; they differ in the metaphysical understanding of teleology.
In battles of ideas, ontology recapitulates philology. Truth recapitulates language. The philological issues -- the language of the debate and the meanings assigned to words -- determine in large part the truth we see. In the debate over evolution, the meanings are subtle, and they have been misrepresented (by Darwinists). The reason for the misrepresentations by Darwinists is ideological. Darwinism is indispensable to "intellectual fulfillment" in atheism, and it is defended, without regard for truth.
The truth in the debate about evolution turns largely on the meaning assigned to the terms of the debate. But it's a mistake to conclude that the truth about evolution is impenetrable. In evolutionary biology, the facts are fairly obvious. Evolution means changes in living things over time. There have been substantial changes in living things over time, and biological structures and functions have obvious purposes. Biology is saturated with purpose, as is all of nature. Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of teleology.
In my view, it's fair to say that there are two true things about evolution:
Evolution occurs, and it is teleological. The evidence for each of these assertions is overwhelming, and each is a fact. | {
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Ami Bera, Co-chair of Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, has introduced a resolution to recognize India's Independence Day and the significance of the US-India partnership.The resolution introduced by the lone Indian-American lawmaker ...
Timing is everything. The 60-day congressional review of the Iran nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, ends September 17. If Congress rejects the deal, meaning that it does not allow the lifting of US ...
It might be easy to scoff at Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania for talking about his re-election bid on the same day he faced a 29-count indictment on corruption charges , but the most recent members of the House to be indicted held their ...
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Contrary to US Secretary of State John Kerry's warnings on the grim consequences that would result if Congress rejects the nuclear deal reached with Iran earlier this month, one senior French security official reportedly thinks that such a move by ...
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Persistent congressional efforts to cut back workplace protections for federal employees advanced when the House voted to dilute due process rights for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees. Wednesday's debate was similar to one last year ...
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Southeast Asian countries in the report include Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Laos and Cambodia. By the end of 2016, the population in Southeast Asia had exceeded 600 million. The overall economic growth rate is higher than global average level and it becomes a major driving force of world economic development.
According to CRI’s research, significant gaps in economic development remain among the 10 countries in Southeast Asia. Singapore is the only developed country, which had the GDP per capita of over USD 50,000 in 2016, while the GDP per capita was less than USD 2,000 in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. The population and minimum wage vary greatly among Southeast Asian countries. Brunei is the least populated country with less than 500,000 people, while Indonesia is the most-populous country with a population of over 200 million in 2016. The most developed country in Southeast Asian region does not set the legal minimum wage. The actual minimum wage is over 400 USD per month (foreign maidservant). In comparison, the minimum wage in Myanmar is only 93 USD per month.
The development of the automobile industry differs greatly among the Southeast Asian countries. According to the analysis of CRI, Thailand is the most developed country in terms of automobile manufacturing. Some world’s leading automobile manufacturers, such as Ford, Honda, Toyota and BMW have built factories in Thailand. In 2016, the production volume of automobiles was 2 million. The export volume of automobiles in Thailand was over 1 million. There are a lot of whole vehicle manufacturers in the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Myanmar has a small-scale automobile assembly industry. Singapore, Brunei, Laos and Cambodia do not have the automobile manufacturing industry. Generally speaking, automobile markets in most Southeast Asian countries are highly dependent on import. The imported products include whole vehicles and auto parts.
In general, the sales volume of automobiles in Southeast Asia presents an upward trend in recent years. Especially, the constant economic development in the Philippines and Vietnam stimulates the sales growth of automobiles.
CRI predicts that the automobile industry in Southeast Asia will maintain the fast growth from 2017 to 2021. For one thing, the relatively low labor cost in Southeast Asia will encourage whole vehicle and accessory manufacturers to shift the production capacity to this region. For another, the increasing demand for automobiles in Southeast Asian market will promote the export from the worldwide vehicle and accessory manufacturers to these countries. | {
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The Coal Fueled Capital Power Plant
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The U.S. Capitol Building stands past the natural gas and coal fueled Capitol Power Plant, which provides heating and cooling throughout the 23 facilities on Capitol Hill including House and Senate Office Buildings, in Washington. Under the new rules, the U.S. will still burn between 616 million and 636 million tons of coal for power in 2020, compared with 844 million if the curbs don’t go through, according to an analysis accompanying the EPA proposal. | {
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President George W. Bush today announced his designation of a
Presidential Delegation to a special session of the United Nations
General Assembly to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation
of the Nazi concentration camps on January 24, 2005.
The Honorable Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, will
lead the delegation.
Members of the Presidential Delegation are:
The Honorable Anne Patterson, Acting Permanent Representative of
the United States of America to the United Nations Henry R. Kravis,
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On June 7, 2013, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) position against the state of Michigan (and other petitioners) in a disagreement over FERC’s proposal to distribute costs for new power lines to supply millions of megawatts of wind power in the Great Lakes area. Michigan believes that this plan would, in essence, require them to pay for expensive new power lines intended for transmitting renewable energy out of the state. Based on the law establishing Michigan’s 2008 Renewable Energy Standard, only renewable energy generated inside its state borders is qualified to fulfill Michigan’s obligation to utilize 10% of eligible renewable energy sources by 2015.
As China remains blanketed by an ever-thickening haze, we in the United States can be grateful of one thing: The air is getting cleaner in most parts. The American Lung Association reported in its State of the Air 2013 that 18 cities have lower dust pollution compared to previous years, while 16 had their lowest figures ever. | {
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Ivor Dewdney® Pasties
One of Plymouth’s best-loved brands has been given a digital makeover, courtesy of the team at Matrix. Famous pasty company Ivor Dewdney approached us to develop and launch a new website to bring the historic firm bang up-to-date.
The new site celebrates the history of the business at the same time as bringing it up to modern-day, responsive, mobile-friendly standards. The design treatment takes a fresh approach to the traditional brand, while staying true to the firm’s heritage through the use of Ivor’s signature.
All Ivor Dewdney® pasties are said to be ‘lovingly-made’ – and a quality seal has been introduced to reflect this.
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Arvind Ltd to buy denim khadi from KVIC
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Saturday said textiles firm Arvind Ltd plans to buy around one million metres of khadi denim every year from it. An agreement between Arvind Mills Limited and KVIC was signed in Ahmedabad on Friday, KVIC said in a statement.
After signing the agreement, company's Executive Director Puneet Lalbhai said that they plan to purchase approximately one million metres of khadi denim every year. Under the MoU, khadi denims and other khadi products made by Arvind Ltd will bear KVIC's
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Russian feast is not just eating alone. What a swine one would be just pigging without a proper, highly spiritual entertainment that involves historical memory about past glory?
Like evens of Red Terror, celebrated in Moscow this weekend. Muscovites were especially amused by reconstruction of stalinist arrests, where any patriotic ruskie could try himself in a role of a public enemy in hands of NKVD under cheering and booing of patriotic crowd – all eager to rush towards a new GULAG.
Note a jolly look on faces of “arrested” ruskies. Looks like real-life NKVD thugs (now named as “FSB”) are about to have much trouble with their prisoners choosing a proper torture. No matter how deep a cannon ramrod will be in russian ass or how hard a hand will be nailed to the table, a true patriot of Russia will always meet hardships of Putin’s GULAG as profoundly and thoroughly enjoyable. With “davai-davai” cheering.
Showoff mock-crane flight of KGB thug putin has caused a lot of praise amongst brainless libtard junkies. I wonder how their farter will explode when the real russian wildlife treatment comes to light.
Here, ruskie polar station staff planted an improvised explosive devise to bear’s food and filmed the result with traditional joyful “russian mat” imbecile comments. Not something new for a nation of sadistic subhumans with long-term traditions of animal abuse (example #1, example #2) and perverted terrorism.
It’s hard to find an expert that wasn’t delighted with sanctions as ingenious attempt to stop Kremlin’s world domination campaign. According to mainstream opinion, people of Russia should become enraged by shortage of quality foods enough to end thug Putin’s regime with some kind of Salami Revolution.
It’s indeed fancy to build castles in the air, running utopia errands without a personal responsibility for consequences. Like in 1990s, when jolly pioneers of Western democracy rushed towards ruins of evil empire to teach ruskies how to choose own rulers. To say it ended up in a disaster would be an underestimating.
In either case, trouble is caused by excluding basic facts from consideration – mostly because of mainstream stereotypes that forbid speaking the truth about “people that helped to defeat Nazism”. But why really? By all definitions, the fact of “victory” does not and CAN NOT guarantee moral superiority per se. (And BTW Nazism is very popular in modern Russia where it has mutated into truly russian form.)
Returning to the topic, not every nation has the same consumerist (social) priorities. Some don’t have those at all, except for cheap booze (or GULAG pigsty). That’s why Western fancy theories fail so often in russian reality.
Recent regulations that ruskies enforced in response to Western sanctions not only ban import of certain groceries. Now, it is also forbidden to consume blacklisted foods even if they were smuggled to Russia somehow. If discovered, they are subject to disposal. Like that.
Thanks to Internet, now anyone can see how even the last shithole tries to stage traditional potyemkin village showoff.
It Tatarstan, glorious and vigilant russian police managed to stop evil Hungarian geese from bringing pleasure to some unpatriotic customers who still dare to disobey bans imposed by Great Wise Leader.
Meanwhile in russian supermarkets:
It’s not the first time when ruskies practice war on food.
A page from the memoir that you should already know about by now shows huge piles of corn confiscated from farmers, rotting under open sky in Bessarabia (East Romania). This happened shortly after its annexation by russian thugs in 1940.
The following pages show us what happened in famine-ridden Siberia in 1942 – far away from the frontline.
Commie scumbag is beating peasants who are trying to collect a few seeds left after harvesting the field.
Another commie scumbag (“teacher” by the way) teaches little ruskies how to be a true patriot. Burning down unharvested fields was a common wartime practice, while red bullshitters were going full-auto about “hunger” and “wartime shortage” both for domestic and international auditoriums to have a bunch of useful anti-Nazi idiots singing to their tune. And of course, always having luxury groceries for commie top dogs during starvation in Leningrad. I don’t think Nazis could even hold a candle to such an “art” of transgression against own people. Who, BTW, in case of Russia always faced it with dumb conformism, if not fanatical support. Speaking of which…
A flashback from History. Proud commie serfs are protesting against humanitarian aid from West Germany. Their slogan says “It’s better to have russian crust of bread than a chunk of fatty meat from FRG!”
Modern days again. A good friend of mine sent me this photo made in Moscow. Those dumpster divers are NOT bums; actually, they are happy supporters of neo-soviet thuggery. Such patriotic dumpster diving can be observed near almost every waste food site in Moscow (near supermarkets etc). They prefer to eat waste rather than live in dignity, respecting neighbors. Like they preferred to leave orphans for certain death rather than letting “decadent West” to adopt them.
Since long ago, I’ve been telling the truth about this nation of commie thugs despite all asslicking trend. Now it is coming out the hard way. Having an option to start evil empire restoration which ruskies consider an only way to be “great”, they would gladly exchange everything they have for a bleak chance to shit all over the world. But most likely, death somewhere in fields of a free Ukraine and dog’s burial. Or fatal poisoning with garbage “food”, often dangerous for consumption even in its shelf phase. Or existence worse than death – for a human being, of course. A true russian never complains if everyone has to starve or eat shit! (And never asks why government has luxury imported groceries despite all anti-Western hysteria and let’s-eat-shit-for-russia campaign, or why spawn of thug Putin and his lackeys is living in “enemy” countries.)
“We are ready to even die miserably, to help putin!”
Well, if ruskies want to die for their kingpin (who deserves gallows by any civilized laws) together with insane world domination plans embedded in their essence, we the reasonable people can only greet such a will and should help them in any way possible.
My apologies to regular readers for the delay in this promised publication. Recent events were serious enough to distract me (and everyone else), but not to make me forget. The need to return to this matter arises again – even stronger than before.
This article is an attempt to share must-have dissident experience accumulated during the rise of neo-soviet regime in the Internet. As it’s very hard for the reader unfamiliar with daily life in Russia to understand everything at once, the information will come in logcally ordered parts.
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You may be not old enough to remember how the World Wide Web came around, but thanks to technological slowdown traditional for Russia, I’ve managed to see the world of computers literally growing from imported seeds before my own eyes, without being as old as WWW.
The school where I had my studies possessed only one computer with Internet access. Its single dial-up modem had been regularly taken by teacher “for preservation” to her home. There was no LAN at all. The best of classroom computers were battered Pentium II-based machines with pirated software, which looked like wonders of technology compared to common 486s abused to near-wreck condition. Without “special” connections, no one could hope for more than 2 hours of laboratory access per week and even this quota was questionable as some of machines wouldn’t start at all, forcing almost everyone to share workplace with mate(s). Most of teen ruskies had a little interest in computer though, preferring vodka/drugs “social networking” in dirty alleys. Internet was a businessman’s tool and a geek’s shelter. That was Moscow, the beginning of 21st century! (And a typical russian school, they have no educational segregation like in U.S.)
Nevertheless, comparing those times with modern reality one can see it wasn’t that bad. At least roadside drunk that Russia was 15 years ago isn’t a thug that modern Russia is.
In wrong hands, things originally supposed to enhance life can’t bring any good. Made into caste privileges and/or tools of repressions, technology ends up finally turned against its own creators. This happened in each and every repressive society, and Russia has become a champion of such abuse. Technology plus thugs equals disaster.
The most ironic thing here is a calamitous result of Western 1990s campaign to turn criminal subhuman society into “democratic” country. Obviously, they forgot that giving human items to apes does NOT turn them into humans.
When ruskie gets a car (and driving license for traditional bribe), his usual “fun” is get boozed and drive like blindfolded madman with predictable results. Getting a gun (in Russia, handguns are available only to “police” thugs, licensed security, military officers and government as a caste privilege), he exercises target practice on someone whom he just doesn’t like. Or if it’s a yokel who can afford only a shotgun (rifles are allowed only after 5 years of shotgun possession), he blasts his own family members after vodka warm-up. In a typical russian village where I spent several summers, such things happened in every next generation of natives. Internet, which has become a natural part of daily life for the civilized world, is not an exception. Continue in your imagination what happens if ruskie gets his ape paws on a device with modern, fast Internet connection.
Many ruskies even admit all that – non-directly, of course. They praise Soviet era as time of “order and stability”. It really was a bit cleaner and safer in USSR, but only because all things were damn hard to get or repair. One who wrecked his car couldn’t hope for same-week replacement even being a communist party member. In general, untermenschen just had much less opportunities for abuse.
Nearly three hundred people are butchered by russian terrorists. (Let alone Ukrainians killed in so-called “DNR/LNR” and Crimea, but who in this “civilized” world cared about them before?) The whole Europe is about to be devoured by mad russian brute. Ukraine is desperately defending itself and BTW asses of hippie Europeans (who continue screaming about “peace”) with no nukes, mostly still Soviet army stock and catastrophic infiltration. (To be perfectly clear, they got a little help from the U.S. but this isn’t something to change the entire situation. Nevertheless, Ukrainian guys do pretty good for this one.) But some chav means to UN much more than even a solid chance for the entire world to go up in radioactive flames just because crazy ruskies with their thug dictator have another megalomaniac hysteria.
Back in Europe, when I was young and stupid, I tried to complain to UNHCR about mistreatment and multiple violations during asylum proceedings (for example, decisions on my case were made by scumbags who were either ethnic ruskies or kept their families there). And you guess what? My letter to Swedish UNHCR office was answered by another high-rank ruskie asshole (already from Sweden) who said that UNHCR has nothing to do with it and I should complain to local court. Which was in fact under command of aforementioned russian-loving scum, even “judges” there preserved their jobs since times of USSR.
Just another proof of negative need for Unbounded Nonsense the UN is. Since the very moment of its creation, usefulness was quite debatable. Back then, its founders were dumb enough to consider Stalin better than Hitler and recognize murderous commie thugs as civilized nation. Now, with libtards taking over the West, it’s getting even worse.
An ideal world according to UN looks like a Frankenstein made from Detroit gang-ridden slums, putin’s neo-Soviet Russia, African “independent” black racist states and, last but not least, Euro-castrate socialism to power the entire system. Elitist bullshitters definitely gonna have one Hell of a work here: blabbering mawkish statements, condemning resistance against brutality as “brutality”, feeding everyone with taxes pumped out of common sheeple who must sing “everything is fine” UN-approved mantra 24/7.
Many details are still unclear in this last of loud interracial encounters, now pushed into a civil war by both black and white racists, but one thing here is already known for sure. Or has been even before all that.
Those who are the loudest on gun bans/restrictive laws/rights of thugs/etc. either came right directly from street gang, or they can’t imagine a single damn thing about real life, never experiencing what means to encounter ape-like creatures who consider murder, harassment and rape “fun”.
Libtards never learn. Not so long ago, they were mourning death of “poor little 17-years-old kid” Trayvon Martin with a mile-long criminal history, who had nothing against getting on high with cheap street-made drugs, stealing and then assaulting some unfortunate man, slamming his head into sidewalk. Age means very little when crime matters. In this oh-so-civilized 21st century “innocent kids” do things that could disgust even some Wild West desperadoes.
I’ve already said what I think about self-defense, the same comes for preserving Law and Order. You mess with law-abiding people, you get expected response regardless of your ethnicity. Ideally, this rule should be enforced everywhere but in the real world, caste societies stomping on people’s Dignity are majority. Gun-grabbing UN libtards could have been satisfied with things they already have in EU but just as commies, they won’t cool it until they see the last remaining man give up his guns and bow down to them. I’m no American, but I know the difference between being armed and not. Between living in pro-gun, neutral and anti-gun countries. From my own life experience.
So here’s my personal advice to all lovers of ape rules (where big fists decide everything and criminals are “equal” to law-abiding people). Pack your stuff and go to anti-gun commie-loving politically correct Europe. And please, take your beloved chavs with you. You both are welcome here. One can run amok, break into houses, mash people, torture them, kick them to death for “fun” and get away with nothing. Especially being a… well, having a certain skin color. In the worst case (if someone messes up his victim especially nasty or decides to go Breivik), upset officials will provide a taxpayer-funded elite sanatorium (called “prison” in Europe) for continuous rest. But, there is still a little catch: nothing will be guaranteed when ruskies come. Living in hippie libtard society has its own consequences.
Another addition to the gallery of shame. A new personal putin’s lackey is named Steven Seagall.
Looks like pedophile terrorist Putin went completely desperate for keeping his fake machismo. Queer Wolff, old fat drunk Depardieu and libtard imbecile Duchovny obviously failed to do the trick, so now russian top dog is gathering “tough guys” around himself in last attempts of BS upkeep.
A word for those who still consider themselvers “conservatives” and worship thug Putin like “comrade Seagall”, being in fact nothing but commies.
No way, ruskie lackeys. Now even the commoners know who your idol is. The only serious problem remained for the people is to remember what must be done with traitors, but it’s just a matter of time already. Nobody wants to be mashed by putinist thugs or live in russian pigstall (except for you who plan to get caste privileges by kissing KGB arse). And only a complete imbecile or mercenary bullshitter can blabber about “manliness” (let alone “brotherly” feelings) of those who hide behind human shields and boast with it.
In fact, even young girls from the Maidan have much more manliness than you terrorist-loving commie scum. They weren’t afraid to fight against the regime of pro-russian thugs when nothing has been guaranteed, while you were praising KGB terrorist dictator like his personal castrate fag slaves.
BTW, Russia is one of the most anti-gun countries. So shove Kalashnikovup your commie ass together with russian citizenship you are so eager to get, KGB terrorist worshiper, Night Whelps buddy, “brother” of murderers and thieves Steve Scumbag!
Russian lackey Wolff will definitely punch himself in envy, watching new “Potyemkin village”-styled russian beer commercial with a top celebrity asslicker David Duchovny who outperformed Wolff with BS so old and trashed that even ruskies must get drunk to believe it.
Scumbag is quick to change sides between Ukraine and Russia. Even quicker than EU politicians, trained to bend over.
Hey you commie-loving elitist libtard! How about you buy one-way ticket to your beloved cattleland, kiss Putin’s KGB terrorist ass together with your drunk commie swine colleague Depardieu and BE PROUD OF the most recent russian showoff in Ukraine?
Though the peace was established at our land, there are still some scumbags left, who are longing for chaos, disorder, war…
And they live amongst us, make shopping in same places, use the same public transport…
You may know individuals, who were against returning Crimea to Russian Federation or participated in regional “Maidan”.
Such individuals must be immediately reported to FSB, located at the address: Simferopol, Franco blvd, 13
or by phone, call 37-42-76 (anonymity is possible).
We must stop the fascism!”
Russian bolshevism with complete set of its subhuman features is not an ideology – it is a congenital nature. If even just one ruskie stukach survives deserved nuking of their commieland, he will most likely rat on himself as “evil Nazi warmonger, capitalist spy, public enemy and American mercenary”. | {
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Ignoring Dental Health
Can you tell this dog has stage 1 dental disease? The red line between the gum and the base of the tooth represents gingivitis. Regular brushing and a professional teeth cleaning under anesthesia (before above, after below) will reverse the problem at this stage, but advanced stages are irreversible.
This may be the single most important but overlooked health routine for your dog—caring for his teeth!
Roughly 85% of dogs will develop dental disease in their lifetime, most before they are three years old. Dental disease can be debilitating, even deadly as bacteria in the gums gets into the bloodstream.
Founder of the Pet Wellness Academy, Dr. Katie Kangas, practices both traditional and holistic veterinary medicine. She explains, “oral health is more than just gum disease. Regular dental exams will reveal other significant oral health problems such as fractured teeth, oral cancer, and tooth decay. These are best treated when addressed as early as possible.”
Here are the top tips to keep your dog’s teeth squeaky clean and his gums healthy:
Start young. Don’t wait until your pet is older and their mouth is diseased and painful to start with helpful home care routines.
Go slow. When starting to brush the teeth, initially include the front teeth only, then over time work to including the rest of the mouth. Make sure you are getting to the gum line with a soft-bristled brush on both the top and bottom.
Be consistent. Ideally, you should be brushing your dog’s teeth once daily!
Make it positive and fun. Follow brushing with praise, treats, or meal time to give a reward for behaving during brushing.
Not Controlling Fleas
When our dog Sundown accidentally ripped his toenail completely off in a door jam, we rushed him to the emergency room for treatment. The doctor told us he was the first dog without fleas she had seen that day!
Many pet parents mistakingly think there is a “flea season,” but that depends on where you live—your dog needs flea preventatives year-round if you live in warm, humid climates. Image via Flickr.
It’s surprising, considering how easily preventable fleas are—as easy as giving your dog a chewy tablet or squirting liquid on his scruff—yet many pet parents opt to skip this important treatment.
“Many pets have flea allergies, so oftentimes even just a few fleas can present huge problems,” Dr. Kangas explains.
Some pet parents don’t realize how prevalent fleas are where they live. Rover has already detailed that fleas thrive in warm, humid conditions but will die in the cold, dry winters of the Northeast and Midwest.
“We may only need to manage pets with conventional flea medicines for part of the year, like summer and fall,” Dr. Kangas says. “We may be able to use more natural means of flea control in the remaining months of the year.”
“If people are trying to avoid putting chemicals on their pet, I recommend essential-oil based products are the first line of defense,” Dr. Kangas says. “If we need to balance that with some level of flea control, I recommend the Comfortis product.”
Not Properly Grooming Your Pet
If you’re not big into giving baths, you’re not alone. The pet grooming industry is exploding, accounting for more than $5 billion of the estimated $60 billion we spend on our pets every year. But proper grooming is essential to keeping your dog healthy.
Grooming needs can vary greatly depending on the breed of dog and even individual pets.
“Depending on the dog’s specific type of hair coat and environment, dogs may require bathing and clipping more frequently than others,” Dr. Kangas explains. “Many long-haired dogs are much more comfortable in the summer months with a grooming clip.” (Not a full shave, though!)
Don’t be afraid to wash your dog often! Dogs need a bath at least once a month. Image via Flickr.
Dr. Kangas recommends bathing your dog once or twice month, depending on how dirty your dog gets and if they have skin issues. Don’t worry about over-bathing your pet.
“That is a well-believed myth,” Dr. Kangas says. “A bath is a very underutilized tool for managing skin health. With the quality of the shampoos available now, the vast majority of dogs will do better when bathed frequently, especially if they have allergies and skin problems.”
If you have an itchy or allergic dog, it’s best to bathe them weekly with a medicated shampoo. Nail trimming is another very important grooming procedure that’s often overlooked.
“The nails can curl around and embed back into the foot pad, which can cause foot trauma,” Dr. Kangas explains. “Longer nails are also more likely to get ripped, which is painful and can lead to nail-bed infection.”
With older dogs, it’s also more difficult to walk if the nails are too long.
“Especially on slippy surfaces,” Dr. Kangas explains. “Keeping them at an optimal length would be very helpful for mobility in general but especially for dogs with orthopedic problems.”
If grooming needs are neglected, this can lead to many problems, such as:
Matted hair, which is painful to the skin
Eye infections from overgrown facial hair traumatizing the eyes
Ear infections
Skin infections
Foxtails or other foreign bodies becoming trapped and penetrating the skin
Skimping on Quality of Food
A high-quality food can extend your dog’s life or help save him from debilitating diseases.
In this tough economy, spending a few extra dollars on dog food may seem silly. What’s the difference anyway? It turns out quality of food is so important, it could save your dog’s life.
“Some people may think that’s a far-fetched claim, but with my experience seeing what just changing a diet can do for a patient, I say absolutely it can save lives,” Dr. Kangas says. “Nutrition does make a huge difference for health.”
The problem with many household-name kibbles is two-fold: the quality of the ingredients and the manufacturing process. Low-quality meat like so-called 4D meat (dead, dying, diseased, disabled) is legally allowed to be used in kibble and high-heat processing strips the food of most nutrients and bioavailability of the nutrients.
“Your pet can live on that just like we can live on heavily-processed fast foods,” Dr. Kangas says. “But are you going to thrive on it, be at your optimal wellness and succumb to less disease and health problems?” | {
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Broome County
Applicant:
Facility:
Application ID:
7-0342-00040/00003
Permit(s) Applied for:
Article 17 Titles 7 & 8 Industrial SPDES - Groundwater Discharge
Project is Located:
Sanford, Broome County
Project Description:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is proposing a renewal and Department Initiated Modification (DIM) to the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Permit (NY0244384), pursuant to 6 NYCRR Part 750-1.18, and 750-1.19, the Priority Ranking System known as New York State's Environmental Benefit Permit Strategy (EBPS). The Superior Plus Energy Services-Deposit facility is a petroleum bulk storage facility. It discharges stormwater via Outfall 001 to a retention pond. The facility also discharges tank test water to the same retention pond via Outfall 01A. Stormwater and tank test water from the retention pond seeps to groundwater. The facility does not provide any treatment to stormwater. The facility is required to provide treatment to tank test water before wastewater is discharged to the retention pond when the pollutants' concentrations of the tank test water exceed their respective effluent limits stated in the SPDES permit. The facility does not directly discharge any wastewater to surface waters of the state.
The following changes to the permit are proposed: The permit type has been changed from surface to groundwater. Action levels for benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, and total residual chlorine have been removed and replaced with new monitoring requirements and effluent limits for those parameters at Outfalls 001 and 01A. The permit includes updated forms and the latest general conditions. Details of changes are specified in the draft permit and fact sheet which may be viewed and printed from the Department web site at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6054.html.
Availability of Application Documents:
Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection during normal business hours at the address of the contact person. To ensure timely service at the time of inspection, it is recommended that an appointment be made with the contact person.
State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Determination:
Project is an Unlisted Action and will not have a significant impact on the environment. A Negative Declaration is on file. A coordinated review was not performed.
SEQR Lead Agency: None Designated
State Historic Preservation Act (SHPA) Determination:
The proposed activity is not subject to review in accordance with SHPA. The application type is exempt and/or the project involves the continuation of an existing operational activity.
Coastal Management:
This project is not located in a Coastal Management area and is not subject to the Waterfront Revitalization and Coastal Resources Act. | {
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Author: cueplotdevice
In our Episode ‘Into The Spider-Verse’ we gushed over the animation style, storytelling, non-stop action and hi-jinks-filled brilliance of the film. We also had to draw attention to the music during the end credits, specifically ‘Spidey-Bells’, which seemed to be a one-off comedy single for the credits.
Turns out its not! There’s an entire album recorded by the cast of ‘Into the Spider-Verse’! Click ol’ Spidey below to check it out on Apple Music! When you’re done with that, if you haven’t already, go listen to ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ by Cue Plot Device where you get your podcasts!
It’s not that we don’t like tech, but 6 cameras?! Samsung and Huawei battle it out for the top seat on the ‘foldable phone market’ which, let’s face it, isn’t exactly consumer friendly at the moment. Check out the specs below and you can click the photos to jump to their promotional web pages for more information and photos.
Scroll to the bottom to vote on your favorite of the two on our twitter feed!
Finding the time for hobbies can be pretty difficult. Lining up all four of our schedules to record a podcast as life unfolds gets increasingly challenging. For the third time now we are giving it another shot with Cue Plot Device Season 3!
Some changes we’ve made include only putting out a full-length episode once a month. This will be our standard format with some Nerd News, a shorter topic segment, then the meat of the episode: Deep in Plot. Then, different hosts will be putting out Minisodes throughout the month. These are shorter, more consumable and topic-driven episodes. We found they were the most loved and listened to so we are going to give you more of them! Finally, from time to time, we will drop some Verbal Adventures, where we break the rules of table-top RPG’s and have a blast.
We’ve widened our listener net with adding our podcast to Spotify and GooglePlay. You’ll find this website and our Twitter feed will be more active as we start to dig into the social media scene where we hope to make some great connections with the communities surrounding the topics we enjoy.
From here on out we hope to dump some seriously fun content into your ears so just bite the bullet and subscribe where you get your podcasts. Just one post or one recommendation keeps us hopping on to the next listener so rate us and then spread the word to your fellow nerd!
We’re back! Cue Plot Device has returned for season 2! It’s the same cast with a few minor changes. Unfortunately Chief was unable to join us for the recording of this episode but this episode is surely not Chief-less. You’ll see what we mean.
NEWS: Star Wars Celebration 2017
Big things are coming this weekend and everyone at Star Wars Celebration 2017 are going to be in the know. Its very possible that we will get our first ever sneak peak at Star Wars: The Last Jedi! At the end of the weekend a big announcement will be made and the rest of us will have to just sit and wait! … or not! Watch the live stream here: http://www.starwars.com/star-wars-celebration
Microsoft Project ScorpioIs it time for a new Xbox console? Microsoft think so. Yosh and Dr. G go in-depth on everything we know about “Project Scorpio”. Check out the official specks here: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/project-scorpio
PLOT DEVICE:Movie Trailer Roundup
Start saving that money because the rest of 2017 holds the promise of some really great cinematic entertainment! Here’s the list of the movies we are most looking forward to:
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2May 5
Wonder WomanJune 2
Spider Man HomecomingJuly 7
Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetsJuly 21
Thor RagnarokNovember 3
Justice LeagueNovember 17
Star Wars: The Last JediDecember 15
Which movie are you looking forward to the most? Comment below, tweet us @cueplotdevice or email us at [email protected] and we’ll read your comments in the show! Thank for listening!
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Doctor G, Yosh the Scientist, The Captain and Chief bring you into the world of nerdy and geeky things. Those things include cartoons, comics, video games, movies, tv-shows, card games, board games and much, much more. Go ahead, give us a listen and spread the word to your fellow nerd!
I am happy to announce our recording date has been set and the Cue Plot Device team plans on debuting the latest installment of the Cue Plot Device Podcast within the next week. Even though we haven’t been recording we have still been keeping up on all things nerdy and geeky. We didn’t put down our comic books, our controllers aren’t rusted and we didn’t boycott the movie theater. We are ready to hit it hard with some great content and a new segment or two!
We are all excited to give you a steady stream of content once again and I asked the rest of the crew to comment on the return of the Podcast:
“Mmm, no thanks. I don’t want to and you can’t make me.”– Keith Hansen (Chief)
“Yay, I get to leave the kitchen again.” – Denée Rogers (The She)
It’s going to be great powering the mics up once again, and to do so on the eve of our 2-year ‘podcastaversary’ is just fitting! We look forward to connecting with our listeners once again!
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If we don’t read the original languages in which the books of the Bible were written – Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek – we need a translation, and not all scholars who can read those languages read all of them, or read all of them well, so ultimately everyone needs or can profit from a good translation.
But there are literally dozens of Bible translations or “versions” available in English – how can you choose the “best” one for your purposes? This article briefly considers some of the most widely used and recommended English translations and gives a number of pointers to help you select a good one for your own needs.
1. No Perfect Translation. First, we need to realize that there is no such thing as a “perfect” translation, although some are certainly much less imperfect than others. We often need to choose a translation based on our specific needs – perhaps an easy reading version for daily study or perhaps a more precise, though not as easy to read version to check scriptures regarding doctrine or important details. Ideally, we might find a single translation that works well for both needs, but often it is a good idea to have two translations (see point 2) if possible, and we should check several translations to decide important questions.
2. Words vs. Thoughts. Next, it’s important to understand that translation can be done in two ways – what we might call a “word-for-word” (technically called the “formal equivalence“) approach, versus a “meaning for meaning” or “phrase for phrase” (“dynamic equivalence”) approach. While an exact word for word translation might seem desirable, we can’t always do that without actually clouding the meaning. For example, the Hebrew Bible uses the expression “God’s nostrils enlarged” and even the King James Version, a “word-for-word” translation, had to use a meaning for meaning approach for this expression which means “God became angry.” On the other hand, while this approach works for translating idioms, if we just translate for “meaning” all the time, we run the risk of the translator’s understanding of the meaning entering into the picture, so that what is translated is not really in the text at all. The New International Version, for example, translates Ephesians 6:6 to say that slaves should “Obey [their masters] not only to win their favor...” But the word “only” is not in the original Greek, and this addition changes the meaning considerably. More extreme “meaning” based versions such as the Living Bible or The Message Bible are really paraphrases – often using different words entirely to try to convey the meaning. While they are easy reading, these are not usually recommended for serious study.
3. Balancing Act. Some English versions try to balance between formal and dynamic equivalence in their translation. The results are not always perfect, but some of these versions do a very creditable job. The Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004) is one such version, liked by many. But another way to look at this “balancing” aspect is the need to balance readability with literalness. A version that balances well in this regard is the English Standard Version (2001/2007). Although it is a quite literal version, the ESB does a very good job of carefully translating the meaning of a verse in a readable manner.
4.Safety in Numbers. It’s always best to not choose a translation done by a single person or by a religious denomination as a primary study Bible, as the results are almost always going to be affected by the beliefs of the individual or group. Many translations by single individuals, while they may be very readable, are paraphrases which convey only the general meaning of a verse and simply cannot be trusted for accurate understanding. While it is often said that committees can never agree on anything important, the most trustworthy translations are nevertheless produced by large committees of biblical scholars who balance each other and try to arrive at the best understanding of the original meaning of the text. Most of the major translations mentioned in this article were produced by a large team of scholars – several of the teams being in excess of 100 members. Committee translations include the English Standard Version, Holman Christian Standard Bible, New International Version and others.
5. Newer May be Better. The venerable King James Version, although much loved and still a wonderful version to read, is often hampered as a study Bible by its age. Sometimes it is because the English language has changed a lot since 1611 when the KJV was made. The word translated “conversation” in the KJV, for example, means “conduct” and unless we realize that we can misunderstand what is being said. Also, many ancient manuscripts of the Bible, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, have been found since 1611 which help clarify some difficult verses. As a result, the New King James Version, which maintains much of the beautiful language of the old KJV, updates the English where needed and includes manuscript evidence now available. On the other hand, some newer versions use gender inclusive language substitution (e.g., “person” for “man” or “they” for “he”). Sometimes this is helpful, but sometimes it changes the intended meaning and is misleading.
6. Older May be Good. The King James Version with its “thee” and “thou” forms is often very precise. “Thee,” “thou,” ”thy,” and “thine” refer to one person. “Ye” and “you” mean more than one person, so when a modern translation dispenses with the older forms of address we can lose meaning. For example, in the NKJV, Exodus 16:28 states: “And the LORD said to Moses, ‘How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?’ “ which sounds like God is talking to Moses, whereas the old KJV “… How long refuse ye to keep my commandments…?' ” shows God was actually talking about the Israelites in general. Modern translations must be careful with the lack of precision which is part of modern English.
7. Notes May or May Not Help. Many people like study bibles with lots of articles, notes, etc.; but there is little point in taking great care to choose an accurate translation then bringing in notes with information that may be dated, confusing or inaccurate. It’s certainly not a good idea to choose a Bible on the basis of its notes alone, and sometimes safer to just get a good version without a lot of additional material, especially if the notes are of a doctrinal nature. Important questions can be researched far more thoroughly in multiple commentaries and other more extensive works. Notes which show other translation possibilities are certainly useful, as are cross references to related scriptures, maps, and some other helps, but the quality of the translation itself should always be the main concern.
Putting It All Together. To reiterate what was said at the outset, no translation is perfect. Individual needs and circumstances must guide the selection of the “best” translation for each person and for particular uses, but the points given above should help in making choices. An excellent option, if possible, is to have a good word for word translation such as the English Standard Version or New King James Version and a version such as the New International Version or Holman Christian Standard Bible closer to the thought for thought side of the spectrum. When the wording of a section of scripture needs to be studied in detail, it is still a good idea to consult many translations using resources such as the BibleGateway website (see the Links page on this site). You can also use the BibleGateway site to compare versions to find the right one for you.
If financial, travel. or other considerations mean that only one translation can be used, several of the versions discussed should work fine. The English Standard Version is often a good choice. It isn’t perfect, but it usually maintains a good balance between readability and careful scholarship. The ESV is available in a number of print formats and is free for Kindle and for the Kindle for PC application.
This chart shows the relative positions of some of the English versions discussed in this article across the spectrum of translation - from very literal to not literal at all. Generally speaking, while extreme thought for thought versions may be easy reading, a Bible in the ESV - NIV range is recommended for serious study. | {
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Foley Says That As Governor He Would Veto New Gun Laws
MIDDLETOWN — Tom Foley told a gun rights group Tuesday night that he would veto any further attempts to restrict gun rights in Connecticut if he becomes governor.
Foley's comments, delivered to hundreds of members of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League who packed a function room at the Middletown Elks Lodge, were his most extensive on the state's new gun control law passed by the legislature in 2013.
He spoke largely in broad terms, and did not discuss the specifics of the law, which requires universal background checks, expands the ban on assault weapons and prohibits the sale of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The measure was enacted after the Newtown school shootings.
Gun control is expected to be a dominant issue in the governor's race this year. Sen. John McKinney, who represents Newtown and was one of the architects of the gun bill, is seeking the Republican nomination, as is Sen. Toni Boucher, who also voted for the bill. Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is a member of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun-control group. Another Republican candidate, former West Hartford council member Joe Visconti, has made gun rights a cornerstone of his campaign.
On the Democratic side, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, an outspoken advocate of gun control, is widely expected to seek re-election.
The CCDL is an increasingly potent political force. The group, which has more than 10,000 members, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the new law.
Addressing the gun owners, Foley alluded to mental health issues in his family and said "I know from personal experience how little support there is here and elsewhere for families with mental health challenges ... I would have focused on that."
"If I'm governor, any further attempts and restrictions on law-abiding gun owners by our legislature will stop at the governor's office,'' he said. The crowd clapped.
"And if I am governor, you will hear the refreshing language and policies of someone who listens, who represents ordinary citizens and respects their rights and beliefs, who believes that government doesn't know what's best for people and who doesn't harass law-abiding citizens with the threat of jail terms and rudely telling them they better get in line,'' Foley said.
Foley began his 12-minute speech with a few autobiographical comments. "I'm a sportsman and I'm a gun-owner,'' he said.
The Greenwich resident said later that he rarely hunts anymore; when he did he mostly shot birds and rodents. He doesn't rely on weapons for protection, although he said that when he served in Iraq as director of private sector development "I had to carry a sidearm for personal protection."
He also touched on the deaths of 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, which set of the drive for tighter gun laws in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States.
"All of us share the pain and sadness felt by that community and understand the impulse to take action to make sure it cannot happen again," Foley said.
But, he said, the gun law enacted would not have prevented the tragedy. "Had I been governor, the outcome in Connecticut would have been different,'' Foley said.
During a brief question and answer session after his remarks, Foley demurred when asked if he would sign a repeal of the law.
"If the legislature was so inclined — the chances of that happening this year is probably the definition of zero — if I were governor and the legislature put in front of me legislation that would reduce the burden on law-abiding gun owners, I would sign it," he said.
Again, the comment was met with applause. But the man who asked it, Pablo Soto, said later he wasn't totally satisfied with the answer.
"It wasn't a satisfactory answer,'' Soto, a small business owner from Meriden, said after Foley left.
"I won't rule him out yet,'' Soto said. "To me personally he didn't come out as strongly as I would have liked."
Scott Wilson, the CCDL president, said he was happy to hear Foley's message.
"There have been questions from gun owners as far as how staunch his support of the Second Amendment is," Wilson said after the speech. "I hope some of that was clarified tonight."
But, Wilson added: "I know he's a candidate and he's a smart candidate, so maybe he's playing things a little close to the vest ... he said the bill would have been a whole lot different ... does that mean he would have voted for some form of it? I don't know. I like to think we would have had a better chance with him.''
Wilson said he would consider inviting the other candidates. "I don't know if some of them necessarily want to, if they voted for the gun bill, they may not want to come speak to us." | {
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Battlefield 3 Studio DICE Developing New IP
Battlefield studio DICE is working on a new IP according to the LinkedIn page of writer Adrian Vershinin.
Vershinin worked on the project as recently as February 2012, and also lists an unannounced project at Superbot Entertainment – likely the soon-to-be-announced PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – on his CV.
Swedish studio DICE is currently working on new DLC for Battlefield 3, and is also thought to be working on Mirror’s Edge 2 – as well as maintaining and evolving new engine Frostbite 2.0 across EA’s studios. | {
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Can Content Strategy Exist Without Social?
Why doing without social might be the way forward.
In any modern marketing strategy, there tends to be three strands: social, SEO, and content.
So-called ‘content marketing’ is the latest craze, whereby marketing companies are falling over themselves to create as much relevant content as possible to engage the consumer… and the search engine robots.
Integral to this strategy is social media, which had a part to play in guiding consumers towards the content.
But let’s be a little bit radical here, and suggest that you cut out social altogether. Is that even advisable in the current climate, let alone a possibility?
Content minus social
It could be argued that the impact of social media has been greatly exaggerated. In a recent report, ‘active’ Twitter users in the UK reached a staggering 10 million. That’s a phenomenal leap from just a few years ago. Yet 10 million is less than five per cent of the US population.
Facebook is a little more ubiquitous, with 24 million active users and 33 million engaging with it at least once a month. Again, very impressive. But with only a third of the UK population actively logging into Facebook with enough regularity to make marketers interested, are we in danger of focusing on too small a demographic?
There is a tremendous amount of noise on the Internet these days and some reports suggest that the big social media platforms are in danger of losing traction. That’s not to say that social media itself will be a fad. It’s likely that Facebook and Twitter will be around for a good while yet, and continue to be viable platforms through which to do business.
But what about alternatives? Perhaps some businesses are so busy complying with the mantra that ‘you must be on social media’ that they are forgetting about other ways of connecting with customers. Word-of-mouth is still a potent force in marketing, as is advertising and events designed to get potential customers in the room and learning about what you have to offer.
And the fact is that many companies continue to thrive, without ever having joined the social media bandwagon at all.
There’s no doubt that social media, when employed creatively, can be a real boost to business. But not all businesses fit too well within the sometimes trivial environment that social media propagates. In such cases, you get businesses that use social media badly – so badly, in fact, that they might actually be losing business as a result.
All businesses need to plan their social media strategy effectively. In some cases, it may be that staying off all together is the best policy. And, you know what? That’s quite okay! | {
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Referring to the baptized who are divorced and civilly remarried, Francis states:
What is possible is simply a renewed encouragement to undertake a responsible personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases, one which would recognize that, since “the degree of responsibility is not equal in all cases”, the consequences or effects of a rule need not necessarily always be the same. (300)
Then, in a footnote, yes a footnote, the Vicar of Christ on Earth states that those who are living in a state of adultery may receive Holy Communion:
This is also the case with regard to sacramental discipline, since discernment can recognize that in a particular situation no grave fault exists. In such cases, what is found in another document applies: cf. Evangelii Gaudium (24 November 2013), 44 and 47: AAS 105 (2013), 1038-1040. (Footnote 336)
What is worse, it turns out that Francis had already decided this issue back in 2013 in Evangelii Gaudium which this footnote cites to. The citation from Evangelii Gaudium (pargraphs 44 and 47) state:
44. …the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches quite clearly: “Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors”.[49] Consequently, without detracting from the evangelical ideal, they need to accompany with mercy and patience the eventual stages of personal growth as these progressively occur…[50] 47. …The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.[51] These convictions have pastoral consequences that we are called to consider with prudence and boldness. Frequently, we act as arbiters of grace rather than its facilitators. But the Church is not a tollhouse; it is the house of the Father, where there is a place for everyone, with all their problems.
Paragraph 47 of Evangelii Gaudium cites to yet another footnote 51 which reads:
Cf. Saint Ambrose, De Sacramentis, IV, 6, 28: PL 16, 464: “I must receive it always, so that it may always forgive my sins. If I sin continually, I must always have a remedy”; ID., op. cit., IV, 5, 24: PL 16, 463: “Those who ate manna died; those who eat this body will obtain the forgiveness of their sins”; Saint Cyril of Alexandria, In Joh. Evang., IV, 2: PG 73, 584-585: “I examined myself and I found myself unworthy. To those who speak thus I say: when will you be worthy? When at last you present yourself before Christ? And if your sins prevent you from drawing nigh, and you never cease to fall – for, as the Psalm says, ‘what man knows his faults?’ – will you remain without partaking of the sanctification that gives life for eternity?”
This clear quote by quote exposition above is necessary to ground oneself before reading the following reactions of various bishops. For, as you read these bishops’ reactions you may have to convince yourself that you are sane and that it is the sanity of the bishops that is in question. The Register states:
First, the media coverage surrounding the exhortation was not heralding seismic changes in Church “discipline.” Instead it was heralding seismic changes in Church doctrine. Thus, Archbishop Kurtz doesn’t even acknowledge the true claim he should have been “saddened” by. Why would Archbishop Kurtz be saddened by media reports of a potential change to Church discipline? Especially since every day he celebrates the Novus Ordo Missae which in itself is a “seismic change in Church discipline.”
Kurtz is apparently of the position that Amoris Laetitia offers no change in even Church discipline, much less doctrine. He then astonishingly implies that American Catholics are to blame for this interpretation because they have not read the document “slowly” and “carefully.” Archbishop Kurtz is actually correct on this point. If American Catholics read the document “slowly” and “carefully” they will soon see that it allows not just a change in Church discipline, but a change in the Church’s perennial teachings on mortal sin, sacrilegious Communion, marriage and penance!
Archbishop Cordileone apparently needs to take Archbishop Kurtz’ advice and read the document. How any sane person can read Amoris Laetitia and state that it “reinforced the teaching of the Church and the insights of his predecessors” is beyond logic. In the exhortation Francis completely contradicts his predecessor John Paul II, who clearly forbade reception of Holy Communion to those living in a state of adultery. But worse than that, he contradicts every pope who came before him on this issue. Thus, the exhortation does the exact opposite of what Cordileone says it does. The document allows reception of Holy Communion to those living in adultery and supports them in “regularizing” their adultery by telling them they are not fully culpable for it and are thus, not in a state of mortal sin. If you are living in adultery and are told by your priest that you are not in mortal sin and can receive Communion, what possible motivation is there to separate from your phony “spouse” and return to your spouse before God? Thus Francis would have the Church accompany such persons to Hell.
Cardinal DiNardo, per usual, opted to give a vague statement filled with generalities that are absolutely void of any substance. He speaks about “weaving” to the point you’d think he is giving a sewing lesson rather than offering insight to a papal document. He probably figures it is better to do this than to admit the pope just flipped Catholic morality on its head and gave a back door justification for divorce in an official document. Instead, DiNardo chooses to live in a dream world where the pope just gave a great exhortation on marriage and the largest abortuary in the Northern Hemisphere does not exist in his diocese, since he refuses to join in protests against it.
A politician like DiNardo, Cardinal Wuerl has nothing substantive to add either. Their modus operandi is to avoid any public conflict and protect their careers at all costs. Thus Wuerl refuses to deny Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion and expelled Fr. Marcel Guarnizo from his Archdiocese for daring to refuse Holy Communion to a Buddhist lesbian. Perhaps Wuerl believes that one can also live a beautiful and happy life in a Buddhist lesbian relationship, “in which people are faithful, loving, caring and fruitful and, at the same time, totally human.” One thing is for certain, when it comes to giving sacrilegious Communion, Francis has much to learn from Cardinal Wuerl.
So is Archbishop Gomez saying the Pope had no intention of changing Church doctrine or teaching, but did anyway? Because anyone who can read and comprehend English can see that Francis clearly allows reception of Holy Communion as an option to those living in adultery. Thus, I assume Gomez believes that to Francis, “the primordial divine plan” for our lives and society is to dump our spouses, shack up with other people, and still receive the sacraments because our parish priest “discerned” that we are not mortally culpable for our continuing state of adultery.
Also, speaking of confusing frenzies, has anyone heard of the yearly sacrilegious Religious Education Congress (REC) that “conservative” Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez hosts in his diocese? What about the constant stream of heretical REC speakers, including one who attacked Catholic teaching on homosexuality last year? Not to mention a REC talk this year entitled, "Transgender in the Church: One Bread, One Body." But the coup de grace is always the final Mass that Archbishop Gomez himself presides over. Every year it is filled with the worst of what we've come to expect from the Novus Ordo. This year, however, the Archbishop decided to add a little extra. Archbishop Gomez picked ten couples representing Los Angeles Catholics to present the Offeratory gifts at his Mass. One couple was a homosexual couple who brought their adopted son with them to the altar. It seems Archbishop Gomez is already far beyond his confreres in recognizing that Francis' "integration" of those in "irregular situations" in Amoris Laetitia includes everyone living in mortal sin, even in the sin of active homosexuality.
Thus, Slippery Cupich refuses to deny that he would allow a divorced and “remarried” person to receive Communion, while throwing out politispeak to camouflage his answer. Note that Archbishop Cupich echoes Francis in turning the indissolubility of marriage into some sort of pie in the sky “ideal” which cannot be lived out in the real world. To Catholics it is not an ideal, but an unchangeable sacrament that Christ Himself instituted. Also, Cupich never explains how confirming people in their sin and then compounding it by telling them they can receive sacrilegious Communion can be a “path forward for people who find themselves stuck.” The only path forward for these people is to get “unstuck” by repenting and removing themselves from the state of adultery at which point Holy Communion will assist them in continuing to live according to their marriage vows. But the one path of redemption for these people is cruelly blocked off by Cupich who insists, instead, on accompanying these people into further sin.
Of course, in Cupich’s defense, he doesn’t have much time to fight for the indissolubility of marriage. In the devastated Archdiocese of Chicago, there are more important things to attend to such as increasing the number of girl altar boys.
Whereas Cupich at least recognized that the exhortation allows for unrepentant adulterers to receive Holy Communion, our “conservative” bishops still seem to be in abject denial. Archbishop Chaput apparently lives in alternate reality, along with our friends Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider. In this new conservative escapist reality, Francis didn’t just allow for sacrilegious Communion, upend Catholic teaching on mortal sin, introduce situational ethics into an official Church document, and destroy the underpinnings of three sacraments (marriage, penance, Eucharist). No. To them, Francis’ explicit contradiction of Church doctrine and the moral law is simply imagined to be “ambiguous” or a “misread.”
To the contrary, any reading of Amoris Laetitia that does not clearly recognize that Francis attempts to change Catholic doctrine is the misread. There is no ambiguity. It seems these conservative bishops have been so conditioned to use the “ambiguity” and “interpretation” defenses for so long in the post-concilliar Church that these responses are now automatic regardless of whether they apply to patently heretical documents from the pope. For “interpretation” is only necessary when the text says is not clear. In Amoris Laetitia, the text is clear.
Thus, the only men who seem to pass for defenders of Tradition in the hierarchy these days are touting a non-credible line of defense. In fact, it is not a defense at all. It is instead a denial of reality. In their attempt to side-step disciplinary action or condemnation from Francis they must believe that they can “play dumb” by acting as if it is not clear what the document authorizes, and then stating that surely it cannot mean that doctrine has changed, so it must not have. This act is fooling nobody (except the wilfully blind Neo-Caths). Every true Catholic with sense knows that Francis fully intended to change the doctrine on Communion for those living in adultery. He only told us how many times that he was sympathetic to this idea? He evenphoned a woman living in adultery and told her himself that she could receive Communion, for goodness sake!
If there is to be any Catholic resistance or defence against this monstrous exhortation, it needs to begin with ceasing the ridiculous denial that it does not do what it clearly says it does. Instead, our supposed “defenders of Tradition” embarrassingly act as if it is not happening. Their positon is like Thomas More feigning that Henry VIII’s position was ambiguous, assuming that surely it could not be against the Pope’s position, and therefore assuming it could be read in an orthodox manner. What is worse is that our modern day bishops are not being threatened with their very life and held in the Tower of London. No. The worst that could happen to them if they spoke out for Jesus Christ would be ecclesiastical punishment. This is all that God is asking of our bishops, yet it is sadly a bridge too far for them. Instead of prevaricating, they could be a bold example to the faithful of Catholic resistance to an evil exhortation. Instead they play dumb. But not for long. Since they did not resist when they should have, the price from here on out will get steeper. Not satisfied with gutting Catholic teaching on divorce and remarriage Francis will move on. Cardinal Turkson has already stated thatFrancis may come out with an encyclical “changing” just war theory. In addition, Hans Kung has just stated that Francis is willing to engage him in anopen discussion on papal infallibility! Every moment these bishops do not mount an effective resistance makes the eventual resistance they will have to mount that much more difficult and costly.
To end the article, the editors of the National Catholic Register pen the following delusional statement:
The prayer should rather read, “Thus we pray that the anti-Christian vision of marriage that infects this document will spark a revolution against it that begins with the conversion to the Catholic Faith of all time.” I pray this prayer for Bishop Schneider, Cardinal Burke, and all of our bishops. For the time is growing near where there will no longer be any choice but resistance or apostasy.
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136,000 Jews Have Palestinian Citizenship
March 3, 1937
JERUSALEM (Mar. 2)
At the beginning of January 136,000 of the 400,000 Jews in Palestine had acquired Palestine nationality, it was announced today, according to the Havas News Agency.
Despite Arab-Jewish difficulties, a vigorous campaign has been pushed to get Jews to take out naturalization papers and it was hoped to list another 50,000 as citizens of the country before the end of this year. | {
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EAT THE VIEW blog
Most obsessions are formed early in life, but 40 years into a passion for gardening which has led me down a fragrant, if financially imprudent path, I’m still wondering how I got here. Until the age of ten my floral universe was pretty much a blank, relegated to what I saw at weddings or funerals. Except for my friend Dave's crazy uncle who grew orchids in a greenhouse he rarely left, no one I knew had a house full of roses, much less a garden to cut them from.
As it happens, I had been born somewhere with exotic, sensual flora and sometimes, exploring the canyons above the Pacific, I’d come across a bloom growing wild that stirred a memory. Then one afternoon on a school trip to the newly opened LA County Museum I wandered away from the group and found myself in a room filled with Dutch still life paintings. A canvas on the far wall depicted flowers in a vase, but oh, what extraordinary things they were - tight buds, opulent blooms, and one wilting rose whose molding petals were so luminous they seemed rendered in pearl. There were a few pieces of fruit on the table beneath the vase, grapes and a half eaten pear which had begun to rot, drawing a single black fly with filigree wings as intricate as old lace, transparent as glass. There was nothing still about the painting. It pulsated with dangerous, beautiful life.
From that moment on I began to really look at flowers - how their symmetry and myriad of textures delighted the eye and eased my brain, slaking a deep thirst for natural color that living life in the fast lane of big gray cities had engendered. It would be years before I wandered into the gardens at Sissinghurst wanting to know more about the kinship between Virginia Woolf and the great diarist and gardener Vita Sackville West and discovered in myself not just the need to look at beautiful gardens, but the desire to get my hands dirty. To echo, if only in the smallest way, some of the intrinsic beauty I began to see in great gardens all over the world.
I've always felt a connection with the untamable parts of the natural world. Jungles, forests, and bodies of water you cannot see across test one's bravery, feed a boy's own (and girl's!) desire for adventure - they astound with a fearsome, beautiful inevitability. The untamed world is a Russian novel. A tended, truly loved garden, no matter how large or small, is a middling poem striving to be a great haiku.
And while the pride I've felt harvesting crops and orchards is inestimable, it's prosaic. Grow food and the result, a full stomach, is its own reward. A flower garden feeds something else. You must suffer through many cuts and something that looks an awful lot like death to get there, but as counter intuitive as it seems the end result - a garden in bloom - does not just fill you with it's beauty, it's also incredibly optimistic. For a soul like mine that leaned toward the melancholic, flowering gardens held a sort of salvation. They were the opposite of Virginia's pocketful of stones.
In a wonderful short piece which appeared in the NY Times Magazine last June the horticulturist Umberto Pasti writes “To become a gardener means to try, to fail, to stubbornly plug away at something, to endure serious disappointments and small triumphs that encourage you to try and fail again.” It also sounds like the quintessential definition of a romantic. Or an artist. Or a mother.
What the garden doesn’t do in so many words, that partners and children can and do, is talk back. It speaks of itself or for itself, but in its total obliviousness to your imprudence in trying to control it, frees you in a way that loved ones and work - which depend on approbation - cannot. It encourages you to risk, to take chances. Even when some grand plan fails, you know winter is coming and with it rain and spring and something remarkable rising from the soil. It’s hard to remember that happiness follows sorrow in life, but it can and more often than not does. The garden is a reminder of this, and the great truth that sometimes what doesn’t grow in one place often thrives in another.
For me, time spent in the gardens is a guiltless way to recharge an appetite for joy and in a roundabout way, to dig away at sorrow. It's a place where you learn not to take yourself too seriously. It may be a garden you've created and encouraged to thrive, but Nature rules and you inevitably contend with the truth that you are not much more than a part of the equation. I see this as a good thing. Being constantly self-referential is a boomerang, not a kite.
Of course once you succumb to a garden’s magic, it will take all you have to give it, in both time and money. I could have circled the globe a dozen times for the amount I’ve spend in four decades fighting, then learning to work in tandem with the wild forests that surround our gardens on Greenwood Ridge. It has never felt, not for an instant, like time or money ill spent. The flower gardens have been my emotional tuning fork in life. Just below the sound of the wind and in among the bees, whose buzzing happily attests my irrelevance, is a place where I can really hear myself think.
There is a prescient line in Sherry Turkle’s Ted Talk about how technology has made being alone feel like a problem that needs to be solved. It isn’t, it’s a solution, for to be comfortable in your own skin and to do so (sometimes at least) without other people is to be receptive to a state of being honestly alive, free from false exigencies.
The art of being yourself and losing yourself, this is what I find when I wander my gardens now, especially in the early morning or just before dark. Whether I am filling buckets for the restaurant arrangements, raising the camera, or just wandering, I do not really have a predetermined agenda. For while gardening reawakens the recognition that all we have is time, it reaffirms there is no time to waste. The preciousness of the present is so easily lost in the rushed way we are incessantly encouraged to live our lives, it's a message you need to hear whatever your age. I think this was the whisper I heard from that painted vase of flowers I came upon so many years ago. In any case, it is a meditation that lingers.
Moving forward...
2016 is going to be an even more exciting year for florals in Barndiva.
For the past two years Daniel Carlson has been Head Mover of Soil at the farm and Instigator in Chief behind apple cider production, while overseeing the edible floral beds in the Studio Garden. In the same time frame he has also been designing extraordinary floral displays for weddings and private parties across the country on his own and under the auspices of our great friend Danielle Rowe at Brown Paper Design. This year Dan will launch an in-house floral program at Barndiva and offer his exquisitely designed natural arrangements to all of Barndiva's dinner parties and weddings, large and small. He can be reached directly through his new website: www.dcwestgarden.com
A short list of "local" FLORAL RESOURCES
NOW is the time to start thinking about expanding or even starting a flower garden. Some of our favorite flower farms and nurseries offer retail accounts and fantastic educational opportunities. When it comes to buying seeds and flats remember: Like most everything else in life, you get what you pay for.
Dragonfly Floralis both a resource and an inspiration, it always tops our local list. They are not a nursery but do everything else: you can order an arrangement to be delivered, buy loose blooms directly from the farm, take a class or a degree oriented series, or ask advice from Bonnie Z, Dragonfly's beloved owner and a muse for three generations of Healdsburg gardeners. You're even welcome to stop and smell the roses in their magnificent gardens on Westside Road. www.dragonflyhealdsburg.com
Emerisa is a greatnursery that works both wholesale and retail lanes Don't expect a lot of help- do your homework first. www.emerisa.com
Goodness Grows in Boonville is Dan and Lukka's favorite "local" nursery in Anderson Valley, always helpful and they will order for you. 11201 Anderson Valley Way, Boonville.
Digging Dog Nursery all the way out in Albion is an acquired taste, but one you should acquire if you have any esoteric aspirations for your garden at all. Check they're open, and don't expect a lot of help, but it's always worth a visit for their unique plants. www.diggingdog.com
Occidental Arts and Ecology - Become a member. Their plant sales in spring - though they have others- is a rite of passage. But get there early and leave time for a walk. (Just don't trust they can look after your stash, even once you pay. Stuff your treasures in a back seat, with the window cracked.) www.oaec.org
CalFlora is worth a trip because it's one of the Bay Area's oldest California native plant nurseries. www.calfloranursery.com
Even farther down the road in Richmond but also worth the trip is Annie's Annuals for it's impressive table displays. They always have plants in all stages of bloom, so you can see what you're committing to. www.anniesannuals.com
Finally, a second organic local farm where you can source superb cut flowers. Front Porch is a relative newcomer to the scene, but driven by the flower mad Mimi Buckley it has become one of our favorite suppliers. Front Porch grows over 60 varieties throughout the year for events, but they are equally happy to fill small custom orders that can be picked up at their beautiful farm. Contact [email protected] | {
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Super-Scale ForSec Linkpost
I think this post is going to have the same number of URLs as Christmas tree ornaments and mantle decorations that I hung and set out this afternoon. That’s to say there are a lot, and I am quite behind when considering the calendar.
I’ve been collecting these for at least two months and there are too many now to continue to put off posting them for reference. I’ve tried to group them somewhat for consistency in theme.
Credits
Why this? It is the simple blog of a Last Exile fan and is intended to express the enjoyment we derive from studio Gonzo's production. Although we closely relate with those characters, we aren't them in real life. We just want to keep the memory of these incredible young kids alive. So go buy Gonzo's Last Exile DVD's! | {
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The Wisdom of Average People
Waking up on Wednesday morning, I quietly waited for some huge voter fraud to be discovered (most likely linked to bad electronic voting machines) because I could not possibly believe that there were actually so many people in this country that would want to reelect the President. I just could not believe that after everything with Iraq, after a new video from Osama Bin Laden serving as a reminder that the man behind 9/11 was still out there while we waste American money and lives in Iraq, after horrible performances at the debates, after a complete lack of fiscal responsibility on the part of this administration, Americans would still reelect the President. I just could not believe that, with record turnout at the polls, the majority of Americans would choose President Bush over Senator Kerry or frankly, anybody else. So many people came out of the woodwork to vote this past Tuesday– who knew that they would be Bush supporters?
Many are saying that supporters voted along moral lines in support of President Bush. Well, I wonder about our own moral compasses if the majority of Americans saw President Bush as moral and sharing the same values, values that we wanted to see in our leader. So many questioned President Clinton’s character because of his extramarital affairs and impeached him because he lied about them. But why are we not holding President Bush to the same standard when it comes to going to war on false premises and continuing to risk American lives on a fool’s errand? Why are we willing to ignore that, to let President Bush get away with that, but we find it so hard to forgive President Clinton? In the case of President Clinton, I would say his wife and his daughter paid the greatest price for his indiscretions, they are the real victims. But President Bush’s crusade? The real victims of his mistakes are those we lost on 9/11 as well as their families and loved ones. America’s presence in Iraq is disrespectful to their memories– the tragedy of their deaths are used to wage an unjust war and their murderers walk free. And ultimately, the victims of President Bush’s mistakes are all Americans as our tax dollars are spent and our brothers and sisters are sent overseas while real social, political, and economic problems continue at home.
The problem with democracy is that the majority wins. Unfortunately, the majority isn’t always right and it’s strange to think that when it comes to choosing our political leaders, a candidate winning the popular vote means he has a mandate (although, interestingly enough, this was not President Bush’s story four years ago– his mandate was from the Supreme Court). In so many other areas, the common wisdom is that “average people” aren’t that bright and that more often than not, popular opinion isn’t always the right answer. The times when the minority opinion has been able to push through and win have often been the most important turning points in our time– American independence, abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, the civil rights movement. They were not popular efforts, but in the end, they were the right ones.
So, how do we balance out this struggle between a committment to majority rule and the realization that popular opinion isn’t always the right choice? I’m not quite sure of the answer to that one, but I think part of the responsibility is in our political leaders. We have a representative democracy in this country and most political leaders are elected through a popular vote. Unfortunately, with the way elections and campaigns are run, political leaders are often more worried about keeping their jobs than doing their jobs and while they are representing the interests of their constituents, sometimes political leaders need to step out and go against the majority and fight for the minority opinion. And what if their constituents don’t like it? Well, then convince them of why the less popular choice is the better choice and in the end, maybe it won’t be less popular after all.
Of course, I’m not saying the minority opinion is always the right one, but just because a lot of people want something doesn’t mean it’s right. A lot of people want tax cuts, but a tax cut today doesn’t mean you’ll never have to pay. It just means you’ll pay later. We’re slowly marching toward a society where we’ve bankrupted important social programs– social security being the biggest one– and while we may not pay now, our children and grandchildren will certainly pay the price in the future. Is that the kind of legacy we want to leave our children?
The truth is that as we move further into the new millenium, the world will only grow more complicated and the problems of tomorrow are far beyond the comprehension of “average people.” The problems of tomorrow will not be easily solved by sticking to “family and faith” because with the growing diversity of this country, the question always comes: who’s family? Who’s faith? Yours, mine, his, hers? With new technology and a whole new field of complicated social, political, and economic issues, the problems of tomorrow will not be easily solved by smart people or moral leaders. Intelligence, talent, character, integrity and courage must come together to solve the problems of tomorrow. The real question is– how long will we have to wait for that? Right now, it looks like at least four years. | {
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If you're running on fumes, financially speaking, but you have some money coming your way soon, consider pawning something of value to borrow fast cash. Of course, to get those items back you'll need to pay back the loan with interest. If you don't pay it back in time, that you'll lose the item. If it's really something that has a lot of intrinsic value to you, don't do it. But if it's something that doesn't, you can certainly consider it depending on your situation.
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Some of the companies on this list are those you’ll recognize. Dell, still one of the largest PC vendors in the world, regularly hires project managers, business analysts and systems engineers for remote work. Salesforce, which came in at #3 on Forbes’ list of the world’s most innovative companies this year, hires telecommuting account executives, product designers and even upper management positions like regional vice presidents. Xerox, Adobe, SAP and American Express also make the list with their own distinct sets of work from home and remote work agreements. | {
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Stephen Hamilton, BS, CPO
Stephen Hamilton, BS, CPO has worked as an Orthotist/Prosthetist for 15 years. He began working as a technician at a well known Orthotics and Prosthetics facility located in Portland, Maine in the late 90’s. This came as the result of 8 years volunteering at Maine Adaptive (fka: Maine Handicapped Skiing), teaching adaptive skiing at Sunday River and Sugarloaf. Stephen found working with individuals with physical disabilities very rewarding, and as a place where the adaptation of the equipment used by the participants was a daily practice. His background in Mechanical Engineering and experience building devices out of advanced composite materials proved to be an advantage here. Eventually, an associate at Maine Adaptive suggested pursuing Orthotics and Prosthetics, which began the process involving three trips to Chicago, IL to attend Northwestern University’s’ Prosthetic Orthotics Center. Programs in Pedorthics, Orthotics, and Prosthetics were completed along with the residency requirements and multiple certification exams for each discipline, to become an American Board for Certification (ABC) certified Prosthetist/Orthotist (CPO).
More recently, Stephen has completed the Athletic Training program at the University of Southern Maine in 2014, and will be sitting for his board exams in the Fall of 2016. The pursuit of this degree was done to expand his orthopedic evaluation skills and understand the rehabilitation and conditioning a patient requires when recovering from an acute injury, chronic condition, or post surgically. This knowledge and experience benefits all future patients, as he able to communicate more effectively with their physicians, therapists, athletic trainers, as an integrated member of the rehabilitation team, instead of someone just supplying a device from outside this process.
Stephen is now seeing patients in need of custom and non-custom foot orthoses. He has treated more than a thousand patients, with diagnoses ranging from flat feet (Pes Planus), high arches (Pes Cavus), leg length discrepancies, foot, ankle, knee, hip, and back pain, headaches, post-surgical/injury care, toe amputation, ect.
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Stephen believes that every patient should be seen by the same practitioner at each stage of the process: Evaluation, Fitting, and Follow-up. He understands that each person is different and time must be allowed at each stage of the process to accommodate the individual. This will guarantee that his patient’s obtain the time and quality support they need, when they need it.
Consultations (phone, office, with your physician or therapist) can be arranged with no obligation. Call Stephen Hamilton at (207) 749-3789, or Email: ([email protected]) | {
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Why do you care about the Marshmallow Challenge?
At some point in your life, you probably have played this game called “the Marshmallow Challenge” where you work in a small group, normally from 4-5 people. You are given 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. Your goal is to build the highest free-standing tower possible with the marshmallow on top.
It sounds easy. But as a two-time player, I won neither times and stressed the hell out of it. My professor, Liraz Sharabani, in ISBA today, after winner of the challenge was announced, showed us this Youtube video and revealed how the Marshmallow Challenge is relevant to venture creation. Click here to watch the TED Talk
For venture creation, execution is just as important as having a viable idea. Keep testing the idea and making sure it’s working for the market. For the Marshmallow Challenge, it is making sure that your structure is able to withstand the weight of the marshmallow and keep building it on top of that.
Some of things we have done well within the group even when we didn’t win the challenge includes that we were very efficient at dividing up tasks and building up our tower toward a common structure.
I can’t remember what happened during the first time I played that game, but from this time, I learned that discussing our ideas and getting inputs are important for making a good structure. Two of us decided building cubes would be great for building a steady structure and we didn’t really consult the other team members.
I probably will never win a single game of Marshmallow Challenge and that’s ok. At least every time I practice on how to communicating with new members, on how to dividing up tasks among us, and remembering the importance of testing and experimenting.
There is no single right way to build a highest tower of marshmallow challenge, as there is no single best idea to change the world or to build a business. It all comes down to hard work. Keeping on testing the idea and making appropriate adaptation according to the market is just as important on coming up with a single idea that could turn in to a business. | {
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Tag: Planetary Formation
What if our Solar System had another generation of planets that formed before, or alongside, the planets we have today? A new study published in Nature Communications on April 17th 2018 presents evidence that says that’s what happened. The first-generation planets, or planet, would have been destroyed during collisions in the earlier days of the Solar System and much of the debris swept up in the formation of new bodies.
This is not a new theory, but a new study brings new evidence to support it.
The evidence is in the form of a meteorite that crashed into Sudan’s Nubian Desert in 2008. The meteorite is known as 2008 TC3, or the Almahata Sitta meteorite. Inside the meteorite are tiny crystals called nanodiamonds that, according to this study, could only have formed in the high-pressure conditions within the growth of a planet. This contrasts previous thinking around these meteorites which suggests they formed as a result of powerful shockwaves created in collisions between parent bodies.
“We demonstrate that these large diamonds cannot be the result of a shock but rather of growth that has taken place within a planet.” – study co-author Philippe Gillet
Models of planetary formation show that terrestrial planets are formed by the accretion of smaller bodies into larger and larger bodies. Follow the process long enough, and you end up with planets like Earth. The smaller bodies that join together are typically between the size of the Moon and Mars. But evidence of these smaller bodies is hard to find.
One type of unique and rare meteorite, called a ureilite, could provide the evidence to back up the models, and that’s what fell to Earth in the Nubian Desert in 2008. Ureilites are thought to be the remnants of a lost planet that was formed in the first 10 million years of the Solar System, and then was destroyed in a collision.
Ureilites are different than other stony meteorites. They have a higher component of carbon than other meteorites, mostly in the form of the aforementioned nanodiamonds. Researchers from Switzerland, France and Germany examined the diamonds inside 2008 TC3 and determined that they probably formed in a small proto-planet about 4.55 billion years ago.
Philippe Gillet, one of the study’s co-authors, had this to say in an interview with Associated Press: “We demonstrate that these large diamonds cannot be the result of a shock but rather of growth that has taken place within a planet.”
According to the research presented in this paper, these nanodiamonds were formed under pressures of 200,000 bar (2.9 million psi). This means the mystery parent-planet would have to have been as big as Mercury, or even Mars.
The key to the study is the size of the nanodiamonds. The team’s results show the presence of diamond crystals as large as 100 micrometers. Though the nanodiamonds have since been segmented by a process called graphitization, the team is confident that these larger crystals are there. And they could only have been formed by static high-pressure growth in the interior of a planet. A collision shock wave couldn’t have done it.
This is what’s called a High-Angle Annular Dark-Field (HAADF) Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) image. The image on the left shows diamond segments with similar crystal orientations. The image on the right is a magnification of the green square area. The orange lines highlight the inclusion trails, which match between the diamond segments. But those same trails are absent from the intersecting graphite. Image: Farhang Nabiei, Philippe Gillet, et. al.
But the parent body of the ureilite meteorite in the study would have to have been subject to collisions, otherwise where is it? In the case of this meteorite, a collision and resulting shock wave still played a role.
The study goes on to say that a collision took place some time after the parent body’s formation. And this collision would have produced the shock wave that caused the graphitization of the nanodiamonds.
The key evidence is in what are called High-Angle Annular Dark-Field (HAADF) Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) images, as seen above. The image is two images in one, with the one on the right being a magnification of a part of the image on the left. On the left, dotted yellow lines indicate areas of diamond crystals separate from areas of graphite. On the right is a magnification of the green square.
The inclusion trails are what’s important here. On the right, the inclusion trails are highlighted with the orange lines. They clearly indicate inclusion lines that match between adjacent diamond segments. But the inclusion lines aren’t present in the intervening graphite. In the study, the researchers say this is “undeniable morphological evidence that the inclusions existed in diamond before these were broken into smaller pieces by graphitization.”
To summarize, this supports the idea that a small planet between the size of Mercury and Mars was formed in the first 10 million years of the Solar System. Inside that body, large nanodiamonds were formed by high-pressure growth. Eventually, that parent body was involved in a collision, which produced a shock wave. The shock wave then caused the graphitization of the nanodiamonds.
It’s an intriguing piece of evidence, and fits with what we know about the formation and evolution of our Solar System.
When it comes to how and where planetary systems form, astronomers thought they had a pretty good handle on things. The predominant theory, known as the Nebular Hypothesis, states that stars and planets form from massive clouds of dust and gas (i.e. nebulae). Once this cloud experiences gravitational collapse at the center, its remaining dust and gas forms a protoplanetary disk that eventually accretes to form planets.
However, when studying the distant star NGTS-1 – an M-type (red dwarf) located about 600 light-years away – an international team led by astronomers from the University of Warwick discovered a massive “hot Jupiter” that appeared far too large to be orbiting such a small star. The discovery of this “monster planet” has naturally challenged some previously-held notions about planetary formation.
The discovery was made using data obtained by the ESO’s Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) facility, which is located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This facility is run by an international consortium of astronomers who come from the Universities of Warwick, Leicester, Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast, the Geneva Observatory, the German Aerospace Center, and the University of Chile.
Using a full array of fully-robotic compact telescopes, this photometric survey is one of several projects meant to compliment the Kepler Space Telescope. Like Kepler, it monitors distant stars for signs of sudden dips in brightness, which are an indication of a planet passing in front of (aka. “transiting”) the star, relative to the observer. When examining data obtained from NGTS-1, the first star to be found by the survey, they made a surprising discovery.
Based on the signal produced by its exoplanet (NGTS-1b), they determined that it was a gas giant roughly the same size as Jupiter and almost as massive (0.812 Jupiter masses). Its orbital period of 2.6 days also indicated that it orbits very close to its star – about 0.0326 AU – which makes it a “hot Jupiter”. Based on these parameters, the team also estimated that NGTS-1b experiences temperatures of approximately 800 K (530°C; 986 °F).
The discovery threw the team for a loop, as it was believed to be impossible for planets of this size to form around small, M-type stars. In accordance with current theories about planet formation, red dwarf stars are believed to be able to form rocky planets – as evidenced by the many that have been discovered around red dwarfs of late – but are unable to gather enough material to create Jupiter-sized planets.
Artist’s concept of Jupiter-sized exoplanet that orbits relatively close to its star (aka. a “hot Jupiter”). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
As Dr. Daniel Bayliss, an astronomer with the University of Geneva and the lead-author on the paper, commented in University of Warwick press release:
“The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us – such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. This is the first exoplanet we have found with our new NGTS facility and we are already challenging the received wisdom of how planets form. Our challenge is to now find out how common these types of planets are in the Galaxy, and with the new NGTS facility we are well-placed to do just that.”
What is also impressive is the fact that the astronomers noticed the transit at all. Compared to other classes of stars, M-type stars are the smallest, coolest and dimmest. In the past, rocky bodies have been detected around them by measuring shifts in their position relative to Earth (aka. the Radial Velocity Method). These shifts are caused by the gravitational tug of one or more planets that cause the planet to “wobble” back and forth.
In short, the low light of an M-type star has made monitoring them for dips in brightness (aka. the Transit Method) highly impractical. However, using the NGTS’s red-sensitive cameras, the team was able to monitored patches of the night sky for many months. Over time, they noticed dips coming from NGTS-1 every 2.6 days, which indicated that a planet with a short orbital period was periodically passing in front of it.
They then tracked the planet’s orbit around the star and combined the transit data with Radial Velocity measurements to determine its size, position and mass. As Professor Peter Wheatley (who leads NGTS) indicated, finding the planet was painstaking work. But in the end, its discovery could lead to the detection of many more gas giants around low-mass stars:
“NGTS-1b was difficult to find, despite being a monster of a planet, because its parent star is small and faint. Small stars are actually the most common in the universe, so it is possible that there are many of these giant planets waiting to found. Having worked for almost a decade to develop the NGTS telescope array, it is thrilling to see it picking out new and unexpected types of planets. I’m looking forward to seeing what other kinds of exciting new planets we can turn up.”
Within the known Universe, M-type stars are by far the most common, accounting for 75% of all stars in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. In the past, the discovery of rocky bodies around stars like Proxima Centauri, LHS 1140, GJ 625, and the seven rocky planets around TRAPPIST-1, led many in the astronomical community to conclude that red dwarf stars were the best place to look for Earth-like planets.
The discovery of a Hot Jupiter orbiting NGTS-1 is therefore seen as an indication that other red dwarf stars could have orbiting gas giants as well. Above all, this latest find once again demonstrates the importance of exoplanet research. With every find we make beyond our Solar System, the more we learn about the ways in which planets form and evolve.
Every discovery we make also advances our understanding of how likely we may be to discover life out there somewhere. For in the end, what greater scientific goal is there than determining whether or not we are alone in the Universe?
In accordance with the Nebular Hypothesis, the Solar System is believed to have formed through the process of accretion. Essentially, this began when a massive cloud of dust and gas (aka. the Solar Nebula) experienced a gravitational collapse at its center, giving birth to the Sun. The remaining dust and gas then formed into a protoplanetary disc around the Sun, which gradually coalesced to form the planets.
However, much about the process of how planets evolved to become distinct in their compositions has remained a mystery. Luckily, a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Bristol has approached the subject with a fresh perspective. By examining a combination of Earth samples and meteorites, they have shed new light on how planets like Earth and Mars formed and evolved.
Artist’s impression of the early Solar System, where collision between particles in an accretion disc led to the formation of planetesimals and eventually planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Their study attempted answering what has been a lingering question in the scientific community – i.e. did the planets form the way they are today, or did they acquire their distinctive compositions over time? As Dr. Remco Hin explained in a University of Bristol press release:
“We have provided evidence that such a sequence of events occurred in the formation of the Earth and Mars, using high precision measurements of their magnesium isotope compositions. Magnesium isotope ratios change as a result of silicate vapour loss, which preferentially contains the lighter isotopes. In this way, we estimated that more than 40 per cent of the Earth’s mass was lost during its construction. This cowboy building job, as one of my co-authors described it, was also responsible for creating the Earth’s unique composition.”
To break it down, accretion consists of clumps of material colliding with neighboring clumps to form larger objects. This process is very chaotic, and material is often lost as well as accumulated due to the extreme heat generated by these high-speed collisions. This heat is also believed to have created oceans of magma on the planets as they formed, not to mention temporary atmospheres of vaporized rock.
Until planets become about the same size as Mars, their force of gravitational attraction was too weak to hold onto these atmospheres. And as more collisions took place, the composition of these atmosphere and of the planets themselves would have changes substantially. How exactly the terrestrial planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – obtained their current, volatile-poor compositions over time is what scientists have hoped to address.
Artist impression of the Late Heavy Bombardment period. Credit: NASA
For example, some believe that the planets current compositions are the result of particular combinations of gas and dust during the earliest periods of planet formation – where terrestrial planets are silicate/metal rich, but volatile poor, because of which elements were most abundant closest to the Sun. Others have suggested that their current composition is a consequence of their violent growth and collisions with other bodies.
To shed light on this, Dr. Hin and his associates analyzed samples of Earth, along with meteorites from Mars and the asteroid Vesta using a new analytical approach. This technique is capable of obtaining more accurate measurements of magnesium isotope rations than any previous method. This method also showed that all differentiated bodies – like Earth, Mars and Vesta – have isotopically heavier magnesium compositions than chondritic meteorites.
From this, they were able to draw three conclusions. For one, they found that Earth, Mars and Vesta have distinct magnesium isotope rations that could not be explained by condensation from the Solar Nebula. Second, they noted that the study of heavy magnesium isotopes revealed that in all cases, the planets lost about 40% percent of their mass during their formation period, following repeated episodes of vaporization.
Last, they determined that the accretion process results in other chemical changes that generate the unique chemical characteristics of Earth. In short, their study showed that Earth, Mars and Vesta all experiences significant losses of material after formation, which means that their peculiar compositions were likely the result of collisions over time. As Dr Hin added:
“Our work changes our views on how planets attain their physical and chemical characteristics. While it was previously known that building planets is a violent process and that the compositions of planets such as Earth are distinct, it was not clear that these features were linked. We now show that vapour loss during the high energy collisions of planetary accretion has a profound effect on a planet’s composition.”
Their study also indicated that this violent formation process could be characteristic of planets in general. These findings are not only significant when it comes to the formation of the Solar System, but of extra-solar planets as well. When it comes time to explore distant star systems, the distinctive compositions of their planets will tell us much about the conditions from which they formed, and how they came to be.
There’s a new type of planet in town, though you won’t find it in well-aged solar systems like our own. It’s more of a stage of formation that planets like Earth can go through. And its existence helps explain the relationship between Earth and our Moon.
The new type of planet is a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other. The pair of scientists behind the study explaining this new planet type have named it a ‘synestia.’ Simon Lock, a graduate student at Harvard University, and Sarah Stewart, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis, say that Earth was at one time a synestia.
Rocky planets like Earth are accreted from smaller bodies over time. Objects with high energy and high angular momentum could form a synestia, a transient stage in planetary formation where vaporized rock orbits the rest of the body. In this image, each of the three stages has the same mass. Image: Simon Lock, Harvard University
The current theory of planetary formation goes like this: When a star forms, the left-over material is in motion around the star. This left-over material is called a protoplanetary disk. The material coagulates into larger bodies as the smaller ones collide and join together.
As the bodies get larger and larger, the force of their collisions becomes greater and greater, and when two large bodies collided, their rocky material melts. Then, the newly created body cools, and becomes spherical. It’s understood that this is how Earth and the other rocky planets in our Solar System formed.
Lock and Stewart looked at this process and asked what would happen if the resulting body was spinning quickly.
When a body is spinning, the law of conservation of angular momentum comes into play. That law says that a spinning body will spin until an external torque slows it down. The often-used example from figure skating helps explain this.
If you’ve ever watched figure skaters, and who hasn’t, their actions are very instructive. When a single skater is spinning rapidly, she stretches out her arms to slow the rate of spin. When she folds her arms back into her body, she speeds up again. Her angular momentum is conserved.
This short video shows figure skaters and physics in action.
If you don’t like figure skating, this one uses the Earth to explain angular momentum.
Now take the example from a pair of figure skaters. When they’re both turning, and the two of them join together by holding each other’s hands and arms, their angular momentum is added together and conserved.
Replace two figure skaters with two planets, and this is what the two scientists behind the study wanted to model. What would happen if two large bodies with high energy and high angular momentum collided with each other?
If the two bodies had high enough temperatures and high enough angular momentum, a new type of planetary structure would form: the synestia. “We looked at the statistics of giant impacts, and we found that they can form a completely new structure,” Stewart said.
“We looked at the statistics of giant impacts, and we found that they can form a completely new structure.” – Professor Sarah Stewart, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
As explained in a press release from the UC Davis, for a synestia to form, some of the vaporized material from the collision must go into orbit. When a sphere is solid, every point on it is rotating at the same rate, if not the same speed. But when some of the material is vaporized, its volume expands. If it expands enough, and if its moving fast enough, it leaves orbit and forms a huge disc-shaped synestia.
Other theories have proposed that two large enough bodies could form an orbiting molten mass after colliding. But if the two bodies had high enough energy and temperature to vaporize some of the rock, the resulting synestia would occupy a much larger space.
“The main issue with looking for synestias around other stars is that they don’t last a long time. These are transient, evolving objects that are made during planet formation.” – Professor Sarah Stewart, UC Davis.
These synestias likely wouldn’t last very long. They would cool quickly and condense back into rocky bodies. For a body the size of Earth, the synestia might only last one hundred years.
The synestia structure sheds some light on how moons are formed. The Earth and the Moon are very similar in terms of composition, so it’s likely they formed as a result of a collision. It’s possible that the Earth and Moon formed from the same synestia.
These synestias have been modelled, but they haven’t been observed. However, the James Webb Space Telescope will have the power to peer into protoplanetary disks and watch planets forming. Will it observe a synestia?
In an email exchange with Universe Today, Dr. Sarah Stewart of UC Davis, one of the scientists behind the study, told us that “The main issue with looking for synestias around other stars is that they don’t last a long time. These are transient, evolving objects that are made during planet formation.”
“So the best bet for finding a rocky synestia is young systems where the body is close to the star. For gas giant planets, they may form a synestia for a period of their formation. We are getting close to being able to image circumplanetary disks in other star systems.”
Once we have the ability to observe planets forming in their circumstellar disks, we may find that synestias are more common than rare. In fact, planets may go through the synestia stage multiple times. Dr. Stewart told us that “Based on the statistics presented in our paper, we expect that most (more than half) of rocky planets that form in a manner similar to Earth became synestias one or more times during the giant impact stage of accretion.”
The theory of how planets form has been something of an enduring mystery for scientists. While astronomers have a pretty good understanding of where planetary systems comes from – i.e. protoplanetary disks of dust and gas around new stars (aka. “Nebular Theory“) – a complete understanding of how these discs eventually become objects large enough to collapse under their own gravity has remained elusive.
But thanks to a new study by a team of researchers from France, Australia and the UK, it seems that the missing piece of the puzzle may finally have been found. Using a series of simulations, these researchers have shown how “dust traps” – i.e. regions where pebble-sized fragments could collect and stick together – are common enough to allow for the formation of planetesimals.
An image of a protoplanetary disk, made using results from the new model, after the formation of a spontaneous dust trap, visible as a bright dust ring. Gas is depicted in blue and dust in red. Credit: Jean-Francois Gonzalez.
Until recently, the process by which protoplanetary disks of dust and gas aggregate to form peddle-sized objects, and the process by which planetesimals (objects that are one hundred meters or more in diameter) form planetary cores, have been well understood. But the process that bridges these two – where pebbles come together to form planetesimals – has remained unknown.
Part of the problem has been the fact that the Solar System, which has been our only frame of reference for centuries, formed billions of years ago. But thanks to recent discoveries (3453 confirmed exoplanets and counting), astronomers have had lots of opportunities to study other systems that are in various stages of formation. As Dr. Gonzalez explained in a Royal Astronomical Society press release:
“Until now we have struggled to explain how pebbles can come together to form planets, and yet we’ve now discovered huge numbers of planets in orbit around other stars. That set us thinking about how to solve this mystery.”
In the past, astronomers believed that “dust traps” – which are integral to planet formation – could only exist within certain environments. In these high-pressure regions, large grains of dust are slowed down to the point where they are able to come together. These regions are extremely important since they counteract the two main obstacles to planetary formation, which are drag and high-speed collisions.
Artist’s impression of the planets in our solar system, along with the Sun (at bottom). Credit: NASA
Drag is caused by the effect gas has on dust grains, which causes them to slow down and eventually drift into the central star (where they are consumed). As for high-speed collisions, this is what causes large pebbles to smash into each other and break apart, thus reversing the aggregation process. Dust traps are therefore needed to ensure that dust grains are slowed down just enough so that they won’t annihilate each other when they collide.
To see just how common these dust traps were, Dr. Gonzalez and his colleagues conducted a series of computer simulations that took into account how dust in a protoplanetary disk could exert drag on the gas component – a process known as “aerodynamic drag back-reaction”. Whereas gas typically has an arresting influence on dust particles, in particularly dusty rings, the opposite can be true.
This effect has been largely ignored by astronomers up until recently, since its generally quite negligible. But as the team noted, it is an important factor in protoplanetary disks, which are known for being incredibly dusty environments. In this scenario, the effect of back-reaction is to slow inward-moving dust grains and push gas outwards where it forms high-pressure regions – i.e. “dust traps”.
Once they accounted for these effects, their simulations showed how planets form in three basic stages. In the first stage, dust grains grow in size and move inwards towards the central star. In the second, the now pebble-sized larger grains accumulate and slow down. In the third and final stage, the gas is pushed outwards by the back-reaction, creating the dust trap regions where it accumulates.
These traps then allow the pebbles to aggregate to form planetesimals, and eventually planet-sized worlds. With this model, astronomers now have a solid idea of how planetary formation goes from dusty disks to planetesimals coming together. In addition to resolving a key question as to how the Solar System came to be, this sort of research could prove vital in the study of exoplanets.
Ground-based and space-based observatories have already noted the presence of dark and bright rings that are forming in protoplanetary disks around distant stars – which are believed to be dust traps. These systems could provide astronomers with a chance to test this new model, as they watch planets slowly come together. As Dr. Gonzalez indicated:
“We were thrilled to discover that, with the right ingredients in place, dust traps can form spontaneously, in a wide range of environments. This is a simple and robust solution to a long standing problem in planet formation.”
The bright star Fomalhaut hosts a spectacular debris disk: a dusty circling plane of small objects where planets form. At a mere 25 light-years away, we’ve been able to pinpoint detailed features: from the warm disk close by to the further disk that is comparable to the Solar System’s Kuiper belt.
But Fomalhaut never ceases to surprise us. At first we discovered a planet, Fomalhaut b, which orbits in the clearing between the two disks. Then we discovered that Fomalhaut was not a single star or a double star, but a triplet. The breaking news today, however, is that we have discovered a mini debris disk around the third star.
Fomalhaut is massive, weighing in at 1.9 times the mass of the Sun. And at such a close distance it’s one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. But its two companions are much smaller. The second star, Fomalhaut B, is 0.7 times the mass of the Sun and the third star, Fomalhaut C, a small red dwarf, is 0.2 times the mass of the Sun.
Fomalhaut C orbits Fomalhaut A at a distance of 2.5 light-years, or roughly half the distance from the Sun to the closest neighboring star. It was only confirmed to be gravitationally bound to Fomalhaut A and Fomalhaut B in October of last year.
“The disk around Fomalhaut C was a complete surprise,” lead researcher Grant Kennedy of the University of Cambridge told Universe Today. “This is only the second system in which disks around two separate stars have been discovered.”
Relatively cool dust and ice particles are much brighter at long wavelengths, allowing telescopes like the Herschel Space Telescope, to pick up the excess infrared light. However, Herschel has a much poorer resolution than an optical telescope so the image of Fomalhaut C’s disk is not spatially resolved — meaning the brightness of the disk could be measured but not its structure.
Kennedy’s team’s best guess is that the disk is quite cold, around 24 degrees Kelvin and pretty small, orbiting to and extent of 10 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. But it’s likely that it’s similar to Fomalhaut A’s disk in that it’s bright, elliptical, and slightly offset from its host star. All three characteristics suggest that gravitational perturbations may be destabilizing the cometary orbits within the disks.
“As a stellar system Fomalhaut’s gotten very interesting in the last year,” Kennedy said. With two wide companions “it’s not obvious how the configuration came about. Forming one wide companion is not so hard, but getting a second is very unlikely. So we need to come up with a new mechanism.”
Kennedy is currently working on figuring out what exactly this “new mechanism” is and he thinks the debris disk around Fomalhaut C will provide a few helpful hints. His best guess is still under construction but it’s likely that a small star is disturbing the system.
The next step will be to watch the stellar system over the next few years in order to measure their orbits exactly. With precise motions we just might be able to see what is interrupting the system.
“We think these observations will provide a good test of the theory,” Kennedy told Universe Today. They just might “solve the mystery of why the Fomalhaut system looks like it does.”
The paper has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available for download here.
As crazy as it sounds, free-floating rogue planets have been predicted to exist for quite some time and just last year, in May 2011, several orphan worlds were finally detected. Then, earlier this year, astronomers estimated that there could be 100,000 times more rogue planets in the Milky Way than stars. Now, the latest research suggests that sometimes, these rogue, nomadic worlds can find a new home by being captured into orbit around other stars. Scientists say this finding could explain the existence of some planets that orbit surprisingly far from their stars, and even the existence of a double-planet system.
“Stars trade planets just like baseball teams trade players,” said Hagai Perets of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Astronomers now understand that rogue planets are a natural consequence of both star and planetary formation. Newborn star systems often contain multiple planets, and if two planets interact, one can be ejected in a form of planetary billiards, kicked out of the star system to become an interstellar traveler.
But later, if a rogue planet encounters a different star moving in the same direction at the same speed, be captured into orbit around that star, say Perets and Thijs Kouwenhoven of Peking University, China, the authors of a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
A captured planet tends to end up hundreds or thousands of times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun. It’s also likely to have a, orbit that’s tilted relative to any native planets, and may even revolve around its star backward.
Perets and Kouwenhoven simulated young star clusters containing free-floating planets. They found that if the number of rogue planets equaled the number of stars, then 3 to 6 percent of the stars would grab a planet over time. The more massive a star, the more likely it is to snag a planet drifting by.
While there haven’t actually been planets found yet that are definitely a ‘captured’ world, the best bet would perhaps be a planet in a distant orbit around a low-mass star. The star’s disk wouldn’t contain enough material to form a planet that distant, Perets and Kouwenhoven said.
The best evidence of a captured planet comes from the European Southern Observatory, which announced in 2006 the discovery of two planets (weighing 14 and 7 times Jupiter) orbiting each other without a star.
“The rogue double-planet system is the closest thing we have to a ‘smoking gun’ right now,” said Perets. “To get more proof, we’ll have to build up statistics by studying a lot of planetary systems.”
As for our own solar system, there’s no evidence at this time that our Sun could have captured an alien world, which would lie far beyond Pluto.
“There’s no evidence that the Sun captured a planet,” said Perets. “We can rule out large planets. But there’s a non-zero chance that a small world might lurk on the fringes of our solar system.”
Could the number of wandering planets in our galaxy – planets not orbiting a sun — be more than the amount of stars in the Milky Way? Free-floating planets have been predicted to exist for quite some time and just last year, in May 2011, several orphan worlds were finally detected. But now, the latest research concludes there could be 100,000 times more free-floating planets in the Milky Way than stars. Even though the author of the study, Louis Strigari from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), called the amount “an astronomical number,” he said the math is sound.
“Even though this is a large number, it is actually consistent with the amount of mass and heavy elements in our galaxy,” Strigari told Universe Today. “So even though it sounds like a big number, it puts into perspective that there could be a lot more planets and other ‘junk’ out in our galaxy than we know of at this stage.”
And by the way, these latest findings certainly do not lend any credence to the theory of a wandering planet named Nibiru.
Several studies have suggested that our galaxy could perhaps be swarming with billions of these wandering “nomad” planets, and the research that actually found a dozen or so of these objects in 2011 used microlensing to identify Jupiter-sized orphan worlds between 10,000 and 20,000 light-years away. That research concluded that based on the number of planets identified and the area studied, they estimated that there could literally be hundreds of billions of these lone planets roaming our galaxy….literally twice as many planets as there are stars.
But the new study from Kavli estimates that lost, homeless worlds may be up to 50,000 times more common than that.
Using mathematical extrapolations and relying on theoretical variables, Strigari and his team took into account the known gravitational pull of the Milky Way galaxy, the amount of matter available to make such objects and how that matter might be distributed into objects ranging from the size of Pluto to larger than Jupiter.
“What we did was we put together the observations of what the galaxy is made of, what kind of elements it has, as well as how much mass there could possibly be that has been deduced from the gravitational pull from the stars we observed,” Stigari said via phone. “There are a couple of general bounds we used: you can’t have more nomads in the galaxy than the matter we observe, as well as you probably can’t have more than the amount of so called heavy elements than we observe in the galaxy (anything greater that helium on the periodic table).”
But any study of this type is limited by the lack of understanding of planetary formation.
“We don’t at this stage have a good theory that tells us how planets form,” Strigari said, “so it is difficult to predict from a straight theoretical model how many of these objects might be wandering around the galaxy.”
Strigari said their approach was largely empirical. “We asked how many could there possibly be, consistent with the broad constraints, that gives us a limit to how many these objects could possibly exist.”
So, in absence of any theory that really predicts how many of these things should exist, the estimate of 100,000 times the amount of stars in the Milky Way is an upper limit.
“A lot of times in science and astronomy, in order to learn what the galaxy and universe is made of, we first have to ask questions, what is it not made of, and so you start from an upper bound of how many of these planets there could be,”Strigari said. “Maybe when our data gets better we will start reducing this limit and then we can start learning from empirical observations and start having more constrained observations that go into your theoretical models.”
In other words, Strigari said, it doesn’t mean this is the final answer, but this is the state of our knowledge right now. “It kind of quantifies our ignorance, you could say,” he said.
A good count, especially of the smaller objects, will have to wait for the next generation of big survey telescopes, especially the space-based Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope and the ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, both set to begin operation in the early 2020s.
So, where did all these potential free range planets come from? One option is that they formed like stars, directly from the collapse of interstellar gas clouds. According to Strigari some were probably ejected from solar systems. Some research has indicated that ejected planets could be rather common, as planets tend to migrate over time towards the star, and as they plow through the material left over from the solar system’s formation, any other planet between them and their star will be affected. Phil Plait explained it as, “some will shift orbit, dropping toward the star themselves, others will get flung into wide orbits, and others still will be tossed out of the system entirely.”
Don’t worry – our own solar system is stable now, but it could have happened in the past, and some research has suggested we originally started out with more planets in our solar system, but some may have been ejected.
Of course, when discussing planets, the first thing to pop into many people’s minds is if a wandering planet could be habitable.
“If any of these nomad planets are big enough to have a thick atmosphere, they could have trapped enough heat for bacterial life to exist,” Strigari said. Although nomad planets don’t bask in the warmth of a star, they may generate heat through internal radioactive decay and tectonic activity.
As far as a Nibiru-type wandering world in our solar system right now the answer is no. There is no evidence or scientific basis whatsoever for such a planet. If it was out there and heading towards Earth for a December 21, 2012 meetup, we would have seen it or its effects by now.
As we learned in science class in school, the Earth has a molten interior (the outer core) deep beneath its mantle and crust. The temperatures and pressures are increasingly extreme, the farther down you go. The liquid magmas can “melt” into different types, a process referred to as pressure-induced liquid-liquid phase separation. Graphite can turn into diamond under similar extreme pressures. Now, new research is showing that a similar process could take place inside “Super-Earth” exoplanets, rocky worlds larger than Earth, where a molten magnesium silicate interior would likely be transformed into a denser state as well.
Simply put, the magnesium silicate undergoes what’s called a phase change while in the liquid state. The scientists were able to replicate the extreme temperatures and pressures that would be found inside those exoplanets by using the Janus laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and OMEGA at the University of Rochester. A powerful laser pulse generated a shock wave as it passed through the samples. Changes in the velocity of the shock and the temperature of the sample indicated when a phase change was detected.
Interestingly, the different liquid states of the silicate magma in the experiments showed different physical properties under high pressures and temperatures, even though they were still of the same composition. Due to varying densities, the different liquid states tended to want to separate, much like oil and water.
The findings should help to better understand the interiors of terrestrial-type exoplanets, whether they are “Super-Earths” or smaller, like Earth or Mars.
Lead scientist Dylan Spaulding, at the University of California, Berkeley, states: “Phase changes between different types of melts have not been taken into account in planetary evolution models. But they could have played an important role during Earth’s formation and may indicate that extra-solar ‘Super-Earth’ planets are structured differently from Earth.”
The paper was published in the February 10, 2012 edition of the journal Physical Review Letters.
[/caption]During a laboratory experiment at Ohio State University, researchers were simulating the pressures and conditions necessary to form diamonds in the Earth’s mantle when they came across a surprise… A carbon “Super Earth” could exist. While endeavoring to understand how carbon might behave in other solar systems, they wondered if planets high in this element could be pressurized to the point of producing this valuable gemstone. Their findings point to the possibility that the Milky Way could indeed be home to stars where planets might consist of up to 50% diamond.
The research team is headed by Wendy Panero, associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State, and doctoral student Cayman Unterborn. As part of their investigation they incorporated their findings from earlier experiments into a computer modeling simulation. This was then used to create scenarios where planets existed with a higher carbon content than Earth..
The result: “It’s possible for planets that are as big as fifteen times the mass of the Earth to be half made of diamond,” Unterborn said. He presented the study Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
“Our results are striking, in that they suggest carbon-rich planets can form with a core and a mantle, just as Earth did,” Panero added. “However, the cores would likely be very carbon-rich – much like steel – and the mantle would also be dominated by carbon, much in the form of diamond.”
At the center of our planet is an assumed molten iron core, overlaid with a mantle of silica-based minerals. This basic building block of Earth is what condensed from the materials in our solar cloud. In an alternate situation, a planet could form in a carbon-rich environment, thereby having a different planet structure – and a different potential for life. (Fortunately for us, our molten interior provides geothermal energy!) On a diamond planet, the heat would dissipate quickly – leading to a frozen core. On this basis, a diamond planet would have no geothermal resources, lack plate tectonics and wouldn’t be able to support either an atmosphere or a magnetic field.
“We think a diamond planet must be a very cold, dark place,” Panero said.
How did they come up with their findings? Panero and former graduate student Jason Kabbes took a miniature sample of iron, carbon, and oxygen and subjected it to pressures of 65 gigapascals and temperatures of 2,400 Kelvin (close to 9.5 million pounds per square inch and 3,800 degrees Fahrenheit – conditions similar to the Earth’s deep interior). As they observed the experiment microscopically, they saw oxygen bonding with iron to create rust… but what was left turned to pure carbon and eventually formed diamond. This led them to wonder about planetary formation implications.
“To date, more than five hundred planets have been discovered outside of our solar system, yet we know very little about their internal compositions,” said Unterborn, who is an astronomer by training.
“We’re looking at how volatile elements like hydrogen and carbon interact inside the Earth, because when they bond with oxygen, you get atmospheres, you get oceans – you get life,” Panero said. “The ultimate goal is to compile a suite of conditions that are necessary for an ocean to form on a planet.”
But don’t confuse their findings with recent, unrelated studies which involves the remnants of an expired star from a binary system. The OSU team’s finding simply suggest this type of planet could form in our galaxy, but how many or where they might be is still very open to interpretation. It’s a question that’s being investigated by Unterborn and Ohio State astronomer Jennifer Johnson. | {
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I lost my heart to infatuation You can't cure that with a vaccination A bad blood is pumping through my veins I can't slow down, livin' life in the fast lane
Your body language, it's telepathic I'm caught up in the middle of a two-way traffic Wondering if this is the impossible dream Or whether we could make such a beautiful team
I don't know what to do when I get this feeling I don't know what it is but it stops me breathin' A little white lie that you got to believe in Don't know what it is but it's ten times bigger than love
Intoxicated 'till I can't feel a thing I feed my thirst on your unchained adrenaline My body's shakin' like a man on the run You blow my mind like sex and machine guns
I got scars and bloody knuckles Diggin' for a diamond in a whole lotta trouble You detonate me like a nuclear bomb Wiped out and sleepin' with the TV on
I don't know what to do when I get this feeling I don't know what it is but it stops me breathin' A little white lie that you got to believe in Don't know what it is but it's ten times bigger than
Love is love, it ain't always right Make you sweat, keep you up all night Walkin' in with your eyes wide open You're looking out on a lost horizon Always something to knock you over And make you feel like you're getting nowhere If you can't stand up when you're on your knees Then close your eyes and float up to the breeze
I've lost my heart but, hey, you can keep it 'Cause it ain't no good at keeping a secret It's got me doing things that I'd never do Another fine mess that it's gotten me into
I don't know what to do when I get this feeling I don't know what it is but it stops me breathin' A little white lie that you got to believe in Don't know what it is, I don't know what it is
I don't know what to do when I get this feeling I don't know what it is but it stops me breathin' A little white lie that you got to believe in Don't know what it is but it's ten times bigger than love | {
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Parking permit fee hike seen as unfair by residents
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A proposal to raise the cost of residential parking permits from $76 to $96 has drawn the ire of neighborhood groups who say the price hike is too much for the program.
The Municipal Transportation Agency, the city department in charge of transit and parking policies, has proposed the 26 percent increase as a way to help make up a $16.9 million midyear deficit.
It would be the third price increase on residential parking permits in two years.
The agency, which will introduce the proposal at its board of directors meeting today, hopes to have the price increase in place by March, a schedule that would allow it to take in $800,000 through the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends June 30. The increase would generate an extra $2.4 million annually.
Ray Holland, president of local neighborhood group Planning Association for the Richmond, said residents in the area feel cheated by the proposal, particularly since the MTA is moving forward with the price increase despite cutting services.
“It just seems like we’re helping the MTA get out of debt,” Holland said. “Instead of making some necessary long-term changes, they’re just counting on us to foot the bill. It’s pretty hard to be supportive of a measure like this.”
The City’s residential parking program was created in 1976 as a way to deter out-of-town commuters from taking up neighborhood parking spots. More than 97,000 permits were issued this fiscal year.
In August 2008, the price of residential parking permits increased from $60 to $74, and the price went up again in July, to $76. The latest increase — to $96 — would mark a 60 percent hike in prices since 2008.
“Raising the permit price by $20 is pretty steep,” Susan Suval of the Sunset District Neighborhood Coalition said. “I think that’s too high, and I think the MTA is moving forward with this proposal too quickly.”
Judson True, spokesman for the transit agency, said the price increases are necessary to cover the administrative costs of the program. The MTA spends $8.4 million annually to administer and enforce the program, but it only generates $7.3 million.
“Especially in these dire economic times, we must take every effort possible to recover our administrative costs on a valuable program like this one,” True said.
Mark Scheuer, a member of the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, called the proposed price increases reasonable, especially since San Francisco bills itself as a “transit-first city.”
“Even with the increase, it would only cost $8 a month to park your car on the street,” said Scheuer. “The City is trying to get more people to use the transit system, and this could be something that eventually gets people to be less reliant on their cars.”
Muni fares may go up again
Less than a month after implementing the latest in a series of fare increases, the cash-strapped Municipal Transportation Agency is looking to move forward with a new set of proposed price hikes for riders.
The transit agency, which oversees Muni operations, is facing a $16.9 million projected midyear deficit that must be reconciled by June 30.
To help make up the shortfall, the department wants to increase cash fares on its F-line from $2 to $5, making it mandatory for passengers using their monthly Fast Passes on cable car and express routes to purchase the more expensive of two transit options and raising the cost of discounted youth and senior Fast Passes to $30.
The fare increases, which must be reviewed by the Board of Supervisors, would generate $2.1 million this fiscal year, provided they are put in place by April 1.
On Jan. 1, the price of an adult Fast Pass increased from $55 to $60, and to $70 if the buyer opted for the previously free BART-rides option.
In July, cash fares increased from $1.50 to $2, and Fast Pass prices went up from $45 to $55. | {
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WOLCOTT -- Officials in a Connecticut school district have backed down in a fight over free speech rights, allowing a student to wear a T-shirt bearing an anti-gay message.
The lawyer for the school district this month wrote to the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, saying Wolcott High School student Seth Groody may wear the T-shirt, which bears a slash mark through a rainbow. The other side showed a male and female stick figure holding hands above the message "Excessive Speech Day," the ACLU of Connecticut said.
The ACLU said Groody wore the shirt April 20, which was designated as a day of awareness of harassment toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Groody complied with an order from a school administrator that he remove his shirt and replace it with one depicting a Wolcott High School symbol, the ACLU said.
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Sandra Staub, legal director of the ACLU of Connecticut, said the district's reversal teaches students that the First Amendment "is not merely a theoretical discussion topic but a real and vital guarantee" of free speech rights.
The ACLU prepared a lawsuit to be filed in federal court demanding that the school district be stopped from enforcing its T-shirt ban and that no disciplinary measures be taken against Groody.
Without elaborating, school lawyer Christine Chinni wrote to the ACLU on Feb. 14, saying Groody may wear the T-shirt. She did not return a call seeking comment.
Edward Groody, Seth's father, referred questions to the ACLU.
The ACLU disagrees "very strongly" with Seth's views on gay rights, but its opinion has no bearing on his right to express those views, Staub said. | {
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The NBA’s new basketball apparel line offers high-quality shorts, warmups and shooter tops in colors that synch up with your favorite hoops teams. Which is plenty cool, all on its own. But what earns this collection the GearHead Stamp of Approval is the price. Every item from this line is super-affordable.
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Kirin is a well-known Chinese restaurant group that operates four locations in Metro Vancouver. Kirin Richmond is located on the second floor of a building adjacent to Richmond Centre mall. We had a lacklustre dim sum experience at Shun Feng the day before, so we decided to go to Kirin to try to make up for it.
Kirin is known for being a higher end, fine-dining establishment, and they're extremely popular for dim sum. We arrived early-ish (around 10:30), but apparently not early enough. The place was packed and bustling, and the hostess was even hesitant with giving us an open table since there was a reservation placed on it for noon. Apparently people like to linger, but an hour and a half was plenty of enough time for us to eat and get out.
At Kirin, you place your order with the server, so no push-carts or check-sheets here. We ordered quite a bit for two people, so we definitely had leftovers which we kept for breakfast the next day.
Overall, I thought the dim sum offerings were decent, but not as good as what you'd expect from a successful place like Kirin. I thought the service and food was actually much better at Empire (the restaurant we went to on the second day of our trip). They're also competitively priced with each other, so moral of the story is to go to Empire and you can skip Kirin.
Royce' Chocolate hails from Japan and is a world-renowned brand known for their delicious chocolate. Similar to unique Kit Kats and Tokyo Banana, they're a popular duty free buy and people would usually stuff their suitcases with boxes of this stuff when flying back from Japan.
However, with two new outlets open in Metro Vancouver (one in Richmond Centre and one in Oakridge Centre), you won't have to buy an airline ticket just to have a taste.
Royce' operates as a kiosk in the middle of their respective malls. Clean and white, with glass cases displaying their wares. The chocolate is all pre-packaged, so it's nice that the display offers a look at what's inside the actual boxes.
Some of their products include their famous nama chocolates, chocolate-covered potato chips, chocolate bars, chocolate-covered cookies, and more. Most of their products are on the pricier end (~$20 and more) but hey, it's cheaper than flying to Japan.
Their signature nama chocolates are ganache-like in texture and come in a variety of different flavours. They pretty much encompass the whole chocolate spectrum, from bitter dark, to au lait (milk), and white. They even have a blend of other flavours including matcha and champagne.
When I made my purchase, the clerk packaged it into a small packet with its own ice pack. You're meant to store the chocolates in your fridge when you get home. We had a mini fridge back at the hotel which was fortunate, and I'm happy to say that they also survived the flight back home.
I bought the nama chocolate maccha ($23.00), which had 20 small rectangular pieces enclosed in the box. It also comes with a small shovel/stick for you to consume the chocolates cleanly. (The Japanese really do think of everything.)
Nama chocolates are made using chocolate and fresh cream, and a hint
of liqueur. I'm usually pretty sensitive and hate the taste of
alcohols, but the liqueurs really do enhance the flavour of the
chocolates. The matcha was bitter but sweet, and the texture was velvety smooth and melt in your mouth. They actually reminded me the chocolates I had during my last trip from La Chocolaterie, a local Vancouver chocolate shop that I adore. They're also owned and operated by a super nice Japanese couple (coincidence? Probably not).
When my sister went to Vancouver this past month, I made sure to put in a request for another box (this time, I tried the white) as well as some of their other products. Even when you try to ration it, it's a shame the chocolate never lasts too long.
At this point, we didn't really know what to do since we checked off most of the
obligatory Vancouver tourist attractions. I figured that since we had
DayPasses anyways, we could ride the SeaBus over to North Van -- a first for both of us.
The SeaBus is a passenger-only ferry that connects the Waterfront
Station terminal in Vancouver to Lonsdale Quay in North
Vancouver. Above is a picture of one of the SeaBus' with a view of downtown. The ride went without a hitch, and it wasn't as rocky as I thought it would be. In total, it takes 12 minutes to cross.
At Lonsdale Quay, they also have a public market reminiscent of Granville's, but on a much smaller scale. Below are some snapshots of the market:
Bakeries in a city like Richmond are synonymous with items like char siu bao, dan tat, and lou po beng. While those are all fine and dandy, if you're looking for pastries that are more French-inspired, look no further than L'Opera Patisserie.
Sandwiched between the Marriott and Hilton Hotel on Minoru Blvd, L'Opera is a tiny operation churning out croissants, pastries, cakes, macarons, and more. They even offer sittings for afternoon high tea, which is available by reservation only.
At L'Opera, all pastries are made on site from scratch using the best natural ingredients. When you walk in, you'll be surprised at how small the shop actually is. They space out their tables as best they could, but it's still extremely awkward to navigate towards the pastry counter. Just have to get cozy with strangers I guess.
Besides that, the interior is done up in an ornate fashion. Chandeliers and baroque wallpaper in shades of red and gold cover all of the walls. Classy and elegant, it's the perfect backdrop for afternoon high tea.
Operating hours are from 10:00am to 7:00pm most days, and we arrived around 4:00 in the afternoon. As you can tell, there wasn't much left in both display cases. Go early if you want their full selection!
Out of the limited pastry case, the La Cabana ($7.50) caught my eye because of its vibrant colour. It was described as a salted caramel mango mousse with lightened coconut manna (coconut butter) in a tart shell. The mango and salted caramel flavours were quite delicate, with the coconut really coming through. I could tell L'Opera has an Asian touch (from the owners) since the tart wasn't too sweet at all.
Onto the macarons ($2.00 each)! Their stock was severely depleted, but luckily there were still some left of the flavours that I would've picked anyways. Sadly, no matcha or salted caramel (╥_╥).
According to a little card they included in the box, their macarons are made fresh daily with all natural and often organic ingredients. Most of their macarons contain fresh fruits so they have a shelf life of three days. They also included a disclaimer that macaron textures would vary due
to humidity and other external factors. This might explain why the
macaron shells were a bit inconsistent in that way. Some were crisp and chewy
while others were too soft, almost like a cake/cookie texture.
In terms of the flavours, we had (from top to bottom):
red velvet: just tasted sweet to me
black sesame: toasty and nutty
blueberry fantasy: had an actual blueberry in the middle which was a nice surprise
lemon: typical lemon flavour
creamy peach mango: a bit sour tasting
L'Opera special: the girl behind the counter described it as a mocha flavour, and it was actually quite bitter
L'Opera doesn't have much competition in terms of patisseries in Richmond, but they're a strong contender anyhow. When I'm back in the city, I'll remember to come early... and come often.
When I was planning our trip, I knew our last meal in Vancouver had to be Japanese. Fresh seafood and low(er) prices aren't as common in Edmonton (unfortunately), so I knew we had to maximize our opportunities as best we could.
Gyo-O, whose name translates to "Fish King," seemed to be the perfect choice. A unique and casual place, Gyo-O goes against the norm of what you would expect from a traditional Japanese restaurant. In fact, they don't even serve sushi. Rather, the menu focus is on donburi (rice bowls) and noodles (ramen and udon).
Part of the Gyoza King restaurant group, Gyo-O is located right in the middle of Continental Shopping Centre, a plaza which is just minutes away from Aberdeen Centre.
It's a popular restaurant with limited tables, so we did our best to beat the dinner rush by arriving fairly early. It's a good thing too, as we were seated immediately. To ensure fairness among waiting parties, a clipboard is also set up front where you can leave your name and party size in the order of your arrival.
The entire restaurant is decked out with murals and wooden Kanji blocks. Super cool and such a vibrant atmosphere. The decor is definitely worth the trip alone.
The first item we ordered was the seafood yukke don ($11.43), one of Gyo-O's signature and most popular dishes. In fact, almost every table orders this.
Chopped tuna, salmon, squid, prawn, fishcake, and takowasabi are marinated in a housemade soy sauce and served over hot rice. The don is finished with onsen tamago (Japanese speak for poached egg), green onion, and nori. To eat this dish, you're meant to mix everything together so that the runny egg yolk also becomes part of the sauce. Unfortunately, our egg was slightly overdone and the yolk didn't ooze as much as we hoped.
I liked the dish enough but I felt it didn't live up to the (over)hype. The texture was a bit slimy (which I didn't mind), and the housemade soy sauce was thick and slightly sweet, almost like a teriyaki sauce. I only wished that there was a greater ratio between seafood and rice because once everything was mixed together, you could tell it was mostly filler.
Whenever takoyaki ($6.50) is on the menu, I have to order it. It came with six pieces to an order, and there's actually a couple of different topping styles to choose from on the menu. We went the classic route, with takoyaki sauce, Japanese mayo, and bonito flakes. Toppings were a bit stingy but the takoyaki itself was good -- served piping hot and crispy.
My mom also wanted to give the deep fried soft shell crab ($8.33) a try. The crab was cut into pieces and surrounded by a light tempura batter. It didn't come with any dipping sauce, so I wasn't sure if they wanted you to enjoy the natural flavours of the crab or use their housemade soy sauce which was also supplied at the table. All in all, it was a good dish for snacking, but I wouldn't say it's a must-order.
The last dish we ordered was the ebi tempura bukkake udon with egg ($11.90). And no, I didn't make a typo. Bukkake udon is a Japanese noodle dish where the udon is served sans soup. Instead, you're given a thickened broth/sauce on the side which you pour over before eating. Think of it like the tsukemen of udon. Since it's not served in soup, the original texture and flavour of the udon is preserved. In Japan, it's a dish eaten cold in the summer and hot during the winter.
You can order different proteins for your udon, but since we ordered the ebi tempura version, ours came topped with a half boiled egg, green onion, nori, and five pieces of prawn tempura. The broth, which was reminiscent of a light soy sauce, was served in a little tea cup with a spout on the side.
Udon holds the title as my favourite noodle type so I really enjoyed this dish. The noodles were fresh, therefore, they were springy and chewy. The egg was also cooked much better this time around with a nice runny yolk. It's a filling dish, but you're also not left with a heavy feeling at the end.
I'm glad I was able to try Gyo-O since it's been on my bucket list for quite a while. If you find yourself craving Japanese food but don't necessarily feel like sushi, it's certainly worth a visit.
I don't have any photos or anything interesting to report for day 6 since our flight home was in the morning. Since we didn't have much time, we had the continental breakfast along with leftover dim sum at our hotel before boarding the shuttle to the airport. We ended up at our gate an hour and a half early (my mom likes to be prepared).. only to find out our flight would be delayed another hour. So much fun.
But that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end to YVR 2016 posts! I'm actually kind of glad that it's over since these took forever to write up. They were pretty much five to six blog posts in one (and you know how I like to procastinate...). If you read through them all, I thank you for your loyalty and your patience. | {
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QUANTICO, VA (CBS) -- Three Marines are dead in an apparent murder suicide at the Marine Base Quantico about 40 miles south of Washington, DC. Investigators are trying to piece together a motive, to why a Marine would turn on his own.
For Alan Melton the owner of the Stars and Stripes Cafe near the Marine Base Quantico, hearing about the death of a Marine is never easy, but death of three Marines in an apparent murder suicide is tragic. He says, "It's hard to believe something so close to home could really happen, especially on a Marine Corp base, where you think it's nice and safe."
At around 10:30 Thursday day night, authorities responded to a 9-1-1 call and found one Marine, a male- dead from a gunshot wound in a barracks on the Marine Base at Quantico.
The base went on lockdown, and the apparent shooter, then went to another part of the barracks, where he apparently shot female Marine, before turning the gun on himself. Col. David Maxwell, Commander, Marine Corp Base Quantico says, "The shooter, an active duty Marine, was pronounced dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, by law enforcement at the scene."
It's been a rough few days for the Marines. This shooting marks the second tragedy to hit the Corp in less than a week. On Monday, seven Marines were killed in an explosion during a training exercise in Nevada.
At the Marine Corp League Bar, Bartender Melody Myers says this tight knit military town will be looking for answers. She says, "I think people are very concerned about it. There are three people, three Marines that are dead right now."
Marine officials are still searching for a motive, but did say the shooting is believed to be of a personal matter.
The names of the victims are being withheld until their families have been notified. | {
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Episode 20 of the Escape From Illustration Island Podcast features an audio interview with Drew Struzan, world-famous Illustrator of movie posters for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others. Together we discuss his methods and techniques, the deeper explorations of his personal work, and his new tutorial DVD, Conceiving and Creating the Hellboy Movie Poster Art. | {
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'Too posh to push' births under fire
Women should be barred from agreeing to elective caesareans for lifestyle rather than medical reasons, according to a survey of mothers' opinions for a leading pregnancy charity.
In a study of nearly 2,000 mothers, carried out by the baby charity Tommy's to launch National Pregnancy Week, seven out of 10 said that those women often described as being 'too posh to push' should not have the right to the procedure. Last night the charity agreed with the results of the survey, saying that the 'major abdominal surgery' should never be offered as a lifestyle choice.
Claire Friars, who runs Tommy's pregnancy information line, said: 'We believe that unless there are medical risk factors or complications involved, a caesarean section should not be performed for lifestyle reasons alone.'
The debate has flared up as thousands of women are emulating celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and Liz Hurley, who both paid to give birth privately by caesarean. While the vast majority of women who have the operation need it for medical reasons, more than 10,000 caesareans a year are carried out purely out of maternal choice.
Obstetricians admit that 'articulate women' from higher social classes tend to have more clout when it comes to deciding on the operation. It also depends on the hospitals, because NHS guidelines on caesarians are not clear-cut.
However, Ms Friars added that women who thought it was an easy option were misguided. 'Having a caesarean is not, as many women believe, a "simpler, easier option",' she said.
'It involves major abdominal surgery and the increased risks include an increased chance of rupture of the uterus in future pregnancies. During the operation itself, there is an increased risk of severe bleeding.'
But experts pointed out that a planned caesarean is much safer than an emergency one. Pat O'Brien, a consultant obstetrician at the University College London Hospitals, said: 'The guidelines lump together emergency and elective caesarean section when comparing pros and cons and it is a completely invalid thing to do.
'On purely medical arguments there is no doubt that from the mother's point of view, a vaginal delivery is the least risky. But what is clear is that the risk to the mother of an elective ceasarian and a vaginal delivery is not much and it is getting less,'O'Brien added. | {
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Gray wolf takes to California but is unlikely to find a mate in the state
By Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times
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01/03/2013 06:52:49 AM PST
Updated:
01/03/2013 06:53:25 AM PST
LOS ANGELES -- Like many out-of-state visitors, the lone gray wolf that trotted across the border from Oregon has taken a liking to California.
He went back and forth between the two states a handful of times after his initial crossing into Siskiyou County on Dec. 28, 2011. But since spring, the young male has remained in the Golden State, loping across forests and scrublands, up and down mountains and across rural highways in California's sparsely populated northeast.
The first wild wolf documented in California in nearly 90 years, he has roamed as far south as Tehama County -- about halfway between the border and Sacramento -- searching for other wolves, and a mate.
"I guess he's being the Lewis and Clark of wolves in California," said wolf advocate Amaroq Weiss.
State and federal biologists are using a tracking collar to follow OR7 -- his official designation -- and they're impressed. Not only has he traveled more than 3,000 miles since leaving his pack in northeastern Oregon, he's demonstrated exceptional homing abilities.
"He can find the same locations (after) weeks, sometimes a couple of months, coming back from a completely different direction," said Karen Kovacs, wildlife program manager for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Since summer, OR7 has spent most of his time in western Plumas and eastern Tehama counties on a mix of public and private lands, with some jaunts into neighboring Butte County. He seems to dine mostly on mule deer, following their seasonal migrations from mountains to lower elevations.
Fortunately for him, he has avoided people and livestock. The wolf was accused of killing a cow and her calf and some other livestock, but Kovacs said investigations found no evidence that OR7 was the culprit.
There have been a number of reported sightings of the 31/2-year-old wolf, but only a few have been confirmed. One was in a state wildlife area in November, when a man hunting with his daughter saw a group of deer emerge from a wood land. Behind it was a single deer running from what appeared to be a wolf. The animal broke off the chase, looked in the direction of the hunters and trotted away.
The excited pair reported the sighting, and radio signals placed OR7 in the area. "The timing, the behavior, the location; we're pretty sure it was OR7," Kovacs said.
Although he has journeyed much farther from his home pack than is typical, the wolf is doing what young males do, searching for a mate and other wolves with which to form a pack. He returns to areas where he has left his scent, hoping to find signs of other wolves.
It is possible that other gray wolves without radio collars have crossed into the Northern California wilds from Oregon, where there are a number of packs. | {
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A training question: we all know that free weights and barbells should be the priority for resistance training. But if one is in a hypothetical situation where someone is going to start training on resistance, what rep scheme would you start them on? I was thinking 3x8 and eventually 3x5--are lower rep schemes even going to work on machines? | {
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The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts have been the target of Islamic rebels, with attempts to burn and destroy these priceless collections, as well as the libraries that held them.Through more than 1,200 trips, Dr. Haidara personally evacuated more than 20,000 of the manuscripts to safety, at great personal peril. Dr. Gates will discuss with Dr. Haidara why the manuscripts have such lasting importance; and New Yorker international war correspondent Jon Lee Anderson will talk about the current state of affairs in Mali, and what it will take, on an international level, to help reunite the country and return peace.
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This happens to me occasionally when I have “All Locations” selected, but it usually sorts itself through selecting a different location in the dropdown then going back to the specific station that I’m in.
There are also random hangs for me sometimes when selecting a BP, but we all know that the window can be a little wonky in that regard…
Please send a bug report, if you see the industry window act up again like this. Best to send the bug report directly after it happened from the client using F12 - Report Bug, then I can take a look at the included client logs to see if I can track down something. | {
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All God’s Children
The idea that God loves EVERY ONE of his kids equally, no matter our history, nationality, beliefs, sins, strengths, etc, moves me so deeply.
“For nothing can separate us from the love of God…”
And not only do I want to learn how to see myself as one of those deeply loved kids, I want to see every single other person I meet as my brother or sister, engulfed in God’s bottomless paternal and maternalLOVE. About a year ago, pondering this idea while driving my car, I began to hum (and then sing) a little chorus:
Oh, You love Your children, love Your childrenEvery daughter, every sonOh, You love Your children, all Your childrenHelp us see You in each oneArriving home, I threw the car in park and sprinted to the piano, determined to flesh this idea into a song. After finishing the chorus, I began the verse with these four lines:
Father of each immigrant,Mother of each businessman,God of everyone who has ever been an alien,You are Maker of us all.Immigration has not been an issue I’ve been deeply involved with and it surprised me that “father of each immigrant” was the first lyric I put to paper.
But it shouldn’t have surprised me.
The more I read the scriptures and watch God’s movement in history, the more I’m learning that immigrants and aliens are absolutely central to God’s heart. Central!Not only is this good news for our brothers and sisters without proper documentation, this is good news for any of us who has ever been excluded or uninvited or pushed to the margins.
Even more, this is phenomenal news for everyone on earth because:
We were all once aliens,And we’re all so full of sin. But in Jesus’ name we’ve been welcomed inAs citizens.A brand new family, old and young,From every nation, faith, and tongue.A new creation has begunFrom every nation, faith, and tongue.May we all see ourselves and every single person on earth as we actually are: profoundly loved Children of God.
You can experience the full 25-minute New Liturgy called “God is Love” created around this song and theme at http://www.anewliturgy.com.
You can also watch one of the first times we sang this song together at Willow Creek Community Church here:
Aaron Niequist is a worship leader, songwriter, and the curator of “A New Liturgy” After leading worship for five years at Mars Hill in Michigan, he now serves at Willow Creek Church. He and his wife Shauna, who is an author, have two sons. For more information, check out http://www.aaronniequist.comPlease note that the views expressed do not necessarily represent those of everyone associated with G92 or any institutions with which the blogger may be affiliated. If you’re interested in writing a guest blog, [email protected] | {
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Counting the Votes
Monday, August 24, 2009
Guest host Jonathan Capehart speaks with journalist Sarah Chayes and Bobby Ghosh about the Afghan election. Anne Kornblut and Craig Gordon look at why we're getting so many different messages about health care reform. Then, our latest Underappreciated summer reading series looks at Robert Musil's three-volume novel The Man Without Qualities. A new documentary follows three unaccompanied children who travel from Latin America to the U.S. border to reunite with their parents. Plus, a representative from the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why he thinks this is such a critical year to address climate change.
Last Thursday, Afghanistan's voters headed to the polls amid increasing levels of violence. President Hamid Karzai and one of his challengers, Abdullah Abdullah, have both claimed victory. Sarah Chayes, former NPR correspondent who lives and works in Kandahar, and Bobby Ghosh, senior editor for Time magazine, give us an update ...
Every policy maker seems to have something different to say about health care reform. We talk to Anne Kornblut, White House correspondent for the Washington Post, and Craig Gordon, White House editor for Politico, about why we're getting so many different messages and what they'll mean when Congress returns in ...
Director Rebecca Cammisa discusses her feature-length documentary "Which Way Home," which follows three unaccompanied children as they leave their homes in Latin America and travel through Mexico to the U.S. border in order to reunite with their parents who’ve made the trip before them. "Which Way Home" premieres ...
Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains why this is a critical year, both domestically and internationally, for addressing climate change. Find out more about the Tck Tck Tck campaign at http://tcktcktck.org.
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fashion inspires my life but so does the world around me. shopping with the earth and economy in mind inspires me to make responsible choices while building a fashion forward style. this blog focuses on shopping for a better world and a better you. it highlights companies and stores that source responsibly and take care of the environment.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Bicycle Post #1
Bikes! What is not to love? A fashionable form of transportation that is good for the environment and gives your legs a great workout (so they look fab in mini skirts)! My best friend Nick built me a beautiful 1972 Centurion a couple of years ago and it immediately became one of my favorite possessions. I often come across pictures of fashionable folks on their bikes and I have decided to start posting them here. Hope you enjoy the ride and much as I do.
This man is so adorable. The epitome of a stylish bike rider! I want a red satchel just like his for my bike. It is the perfect accessory and I love that he highlighted it with a matching red scarf. | {
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Track 12 "Children Of The Grave" is a cover of the Black Sabbath song, and is unlisted and un-credited anywhere within the liner notes. Also, this release comes as a "digihub", an eco-friendly 3-fold printed cardboard piece with a clear rubberized "hub" that the CD twists on and off. | {
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A Look At Natsume’s Collection Of Failed Plushies
Natsume, who publish the Harvest Moon games in North America, are often in the habit of giving away plushies, whether it’s along with Harvest Moon or Rune Factory pre-orders, or whether it’s through contests and other giveaways.
What we usually get to see are the plushies in their final form, but this week, Natsume uploaded a photograph of “failed” models:
They explain on their Facebook page: “Our plushies are wildly popular, but crafting the perfect cuddly creature can have some ups and downs. Here’s a partial shot of our…"creative initiatives" pile, where we keep some of the more entertaining failed models. Whether it’s too big or small, lacking feet or horns, or just plain wacky, our plushies usually go through 3-4 ‘practice’ models before we finalize our design ideas!” | {
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'Goh Siew Thiam and his friends visit a house in a jungle, next to a haunted rubber plantation. Are there really ghosts among the dense dark trees? When the friends go exploring, they start screaming - RUN! IT'S THE RUBBER MAN!' (Publication summary) | {
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Movistar increases its capital
interview10.07.2013Stage 11- Avranches / Mont-Saint-Michel
The combined performance of Tony Martin, the world champion and winner of the specialty between Avranches and Mont-Saint-Michel, Michael Kwiatkowski, who gets the white jersey back from Nairo Quintana thanks to his fifth place in the stage, and TT champion of France, Sylvain Chavanel, in seventh, provide Omega Pharma-Quick Step collective gain of the stage. Third behind Sky Procycling, Movistar is the highest ranked players in the overall rankings. The Spanish champion, Jonathan Castroviejo (10th), Alejandro Valverde (13th), and Ruben Plaza (23rd), allow the Spanish Armada to increase his lead over Team Saxo-Tinkoff by 23 seconds and 44 seconds over Belkin Pro Cycling. | {
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Research focuses on genetics and how evolution works at the population, subspecies and species levels with a particular interest in butterflies. Research combines a breadth of approaches that include field ecology, laboratory experiments, molecular population genetics, statistical theory, computer simulation and mathematical modeling.
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Research interests include understanding the influence of environmental variables on growth and survival of individuals and populations; elucidating the temporal and spatial structure and function of ecosystems; and determining the best management policies given the environmental constraints on growth, survival and geographic distributions of fish.
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Research focuses on high-resolution numerical ocean circulation models to understand the importance of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions on the strength and the stability of the climate system. Research focuses on how freshwater interacts with the deep water convection regions to cause abrupt climate change; understanding the role of changes in the Arctic freshwater budget on the sub-polar North Atlantic; parameterizing unresolved mesoscale weather activity in numerical climate models to improve the accuracy of heat and momentum fluxes at the air-sea boundary; and understanding how changes in ocean circulation and annular modes impact marine fish populations.
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Research broadly revolves around characterizing anthropogenic impacts on aquatic ecosystems and identifying conservation strategies for effectively protecting and restoring watersheds including understanding the mechanisms by which urbanization and its associated stressors result in degraded fisheries and other ecosystems.
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Research seeks to understand the genetic basis of adaptation, as well as the population and genomic context in which adaptive evolution occurs. To this effect, research interests in the lab span a range of disciplines, including population genetics, molecular evolution, evolutionary ecology, phylogeography, and evolutionary genomics, focusing on the study of loci contributing to traits of evolutionary or ecological importance and the processes governing diversification within and between closely related plant species.
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A magnitude-4.0 earthquake struck the Italian holiday island of Ischia, causing destruction that left two people dead at peak tourist season, authorities said, as rescue workers struggled early Tuesday to free two children from the rubble.
A woman was killed in Casamicciola, in the north of the small tourist island, hit by debris that fell from a church, with the body of another spotted in the rubble of a collapsed house, local media reported.
Around 4am (0200 GMT) emergency workers rescued a seven-month-old baby, crying but alive, after hours of effort. They were still struggling to free the baby's two brothers, who were alive but trapped and communicating with emergency services through the rubble, according to Naples prefecture.
According to local media, the two children, aged 4 and 7, are trapped under a bed but are in touch with rescue workers by phone. It was their pregnant mother, healthy and safe, who raised the alarm. The father was rescued at 2:30am (0130 GMT).
"In Casamicciola, a building collapsed and three people were pulled alive from the rubble -- two women and a man," the head of the local department of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli, said at a press conference early Tuesday.
Two small communes, Casamicciola and neighbouring Lacco Ameno, had borne the brunt of the quake, he added.
The tremor hit the northwest of the island at 8:57 pm (1957 GMT), with a depth of some 10 kilometres.
Italian authorities first put Monday's quake at 3.6, but subsequently revised it upward to 4.0 magnitude. The main earthquake was followed by 14 smaller aftershocks, Borrelli said. Several buildings in the area collapsed and others had large, ominous cracks.
'A horrible experience'
The Rai News 24 television channel broadcast images of holidaymakers by their cars with their bags packed, with other people sitting in their gardens or outside their houses.
According to local media, many cars were waiting at Ischia port eager to head back to Naples as soon as possible. One ferry left at 2:30 am and another was scheduled for two hours later.
The quake struck just days ahead of the first anniversary of the 6.0 magnitude quake that killed nearly 300 people in and around Amatrice in central Italy. In October 2016 and January 2017 three other earthquakes hit
the same region.
"I was on the couch watching TV. Blackout, shaking, something fell on my head. I scream, my mother grabs me and we ran outside," one witness wrote on Twitter.
The quake response has benefited from the presence of emergency responders who happened to already be on the island to fight the forest fires that have plagued Italy this summer, local media said.
Teams of firefighters, including two units specialised in extracting people from the rubble, were quickly mobilised, said Bruno Frattasi, who oversees the fire department.
Ischia's only hospital was also hit and had to be partially evacuated. Five patients were evacuated to another medical facility by helicopter.
Restaurants were packed and many stores were still open when the shaking began, witnesses said on Twitter.
"A horrible experience, everything was shaking, plunged into darkness, houses were collapsing... a nightmare," a witness wrote on Twitter.
Electricity was restored after just a few minutes, but many people stayed outdoors after the quake, reluctant to go inside.
Ischia has been a frequent victim of earthquakes, with its worst dating back over a century. Estimated at a magnitude of 5.8, it killed over 2,000 people in July 1883.
Much of Italy's land mass and some of its surrounding waters are prone to seismic activity with the highest risk concentrated along its mountainous central spine.
Italy straddles the Eurasian and African tectonic plates, making it vulnerable to seismic activity when they move. | {
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If anyone wants to discuss the game a bit, I run the official Subreddit at /r/Mother4. It's kind of a shame to see all of these negative comments - they have been working on this game for over 5 years.
I'm fairly excited for this, honestly. I've been wanting to play it for a while - if the extra development time was actually noticeable, count me in! Now Activision, can you take a page from good old Ubi and port Destiny?
@kensredemption No, he didn't. 90% of the praise is because the game "stepped outside of the box" in regards to the character. Yeah, she's a lesbian, whatever. The story itself is... mediocre at best. It feels like a bad short story.
Yep, this is definitely something I am going to install at the end of the generation on a 2DS. Considering the homebrew scene for Nintendo handhelds last for a while after release, this is exciting stuff.
I have extremely mixed feelings on this one. Considering Advanced Warfare will be the first truly new-generation Call of Duty, it is looking to take advantage of the hardware at every step along the way. I imagine that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will be similar to the DS versions of CoD - handicapped, not altogether terrible, but far worse than the main releases. Depending on which iteration we get, we can safely know how much power a company like Activision could get of our little engine that could. And, honestly, I'd rather have no AW than a gimped one - this game is looking to finally bring me back into the CoD fold.
@XCWarrior Yeah, Microsoft and Sony lifted some of the restrictions. However, they would also be obliged to take advantage of the far more powerful hardware, which would put a huge dent in their budget.
Just as a note to @XCWarrior, they have confirmed that the game is releasing on the Wii U. However, they don't know if they have the budget for a release across the PS4, Xbox One, AND Wii U. Those consoles cost a ton more to develop for.Also, in a general regard to the story: a twin-stick 2D shooter from Two Tribes that focuses on in-level exploration? Count me in!
@jpelgrom Everything that they have promised that will be in the game is still in the production pipeline. After hearing a lot of people asking if they could still back the project in one way or another, they decided to open up that option. So far, they don't have plans for anything that will change gameplay on a fundamental level or add a ton of content.
You know, I am feeling extremely conflicted about the fact that Thomas didn't bring up the Advance Wars series. On one hand, they haven't made a game in the series for a while, so it makes sense to not really mention it. On the other hand, this also means that the Wars series is fading into obscurity; at least the Fire Emblem series is close enough to it for comfort. Honestly, I would be perfectly happy if Intelligent Systems became a third party developer and started making games for a variety of systems. Preferably sticking to Nintendo hardware as their system of choice (a la Naughty Dog), but occasionally making games for the PC and whatnot. Wouldn't a Wars game on the PC be completely fantastic? Let me answer that for you: yes.
So far, this really seems like simply a, well, less enticing A Hat in Time. I can see why they haven't gotten the necessary amount of money. I can imagine this game succeeding 15 years ago, but not now.
@cornishlee1) If you thought Skyward Sword was child-like compared to Ocarina of Time, you have some really odd opinions. I mean, I can't even tell what you would think about this game. I assume you would just call it far too childish as well.2) The bane of the universe.
The actual scenario was described in one of the Pokemon films: they are essentially digitized and put into a giant world with all the other Pokemon. So, yes, somewhere out there there is a lava pool where a couple hundred Groudons are kind of just chilling out, maybe playing chess.
To those people who are asking why this is 34.99 physical instead of 39.99: Nintendo wants people to not have to pull out change to pay that tax. Just slap two 20 dollar bills down and BAM, Animal Crossing. (Or something.) | {
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Fedex Organizational Structure
INTRODUCTIONOrganizational behavior is vital to the success of any organization. When the organization’s behavior is not effective, there is a chance the company will suffer. This paper will evaluate the organizational structure of Federal Express, in particular FedEx Express (FedEx, 2011). ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE (FORMATION AND EFFECTS)
FedEx has acquired a reputation for possessing a strong customer-service organizational culture. The textbook states, “Organizational culture is what the employees perceive and how this perception creates a pattern of beliefs, values, and expectations” (Ivancevich, Konopaske, & Matteson, 2011, p. 40). Since its inception in the 1970s, FedEx’s culture has centered on the customer. “If employees are to transform to be customer-focused, the idea must first begin with the leadership team and filter through the organization. As the idea trickles downward, employees make a conscious decision to modify self to align with the established culture” (Morrow, 2003, p. 1). This, along with other concepts has helped form FedEx’s culture and continues to do so today. Another concept that has shape FedEx’s culture is “specifying and reinforcing the behavior employees are expected to deliver, both with external customers and coworkers” (Morrow, 2003, p. 1). Employees receive daily reminders of expectations via video messages from executive management on televisions scattered throughout the corridors of FedEx. The messages cover a wide range of information that illustrates how an employee remains in compliance with “The FedEx Way.” Reinforcements play a great role in the effects of FedEx’s culture, outcome, and effectiveness. The textbook states, “If quality customer service is important in the culture, then individuals are expected to adopt this behavior, and if adhering to a specific set of procedures in dealing with customers is the norm, then this type of behavior would be expected, recognized, and rewarded” (Ivancevich, Konopaske, & Matteson, 2011, p. 42). This statement is exemplified in FedEx’s culture. “The rewards and recognition system is used to encourage employees who exhibit a “FedEx Attitude” and sends a message to non-performers” (Morrow, 2003, p. 1). Examples of reinforcements at FedEx include Bravo Zulu awards, Purple Promise awards, and Five-Star awards just to name a few. Each award is accompanied with an innovative styled trophy, the employee getting his or her name mentioned in the company newsletter, and money. FedEx’s reward and recognition system successfully motivates employees to exhibit the desired behaviors to improve the business.
The aforementioned items, formation of FedEx’s culture, rewards and recognition, along with diversity and promotion from within has guided the FedEx into awesome outcomes. Fortune 500 reports, “FedEx has a seven percent voluntary turnover rate” (CNN, 2011). In addition, FedEx was named the Best Cargo Hub for 2010. Employees receive reminders of these things daily as they enter the facilities and see banners hung wall to wall of numerous FedEx awards. PROCESSES (Communication, Decision-Making, and Leadership)
The communication process at FedEx is a fundamental process. The organization relies heavily on the communication process to organize employees into a unified team focused on achieving company goals. The company’s communication philosophy integrates electronic media with the person-to-person communication process inside each organization code and work group. This creates synonymous dialogue globally. FedEx depicts communication as a two-way process. The two-way describes the transporting of information. In the process, an individual sends information and feedback while another individual receives the information and dialogues concerning feedback. This process results in shared information and understanding. FedEx...
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You know altho I had the cancer and the surgery, I feel so lucky because I had no chemo or radiation. Although people tell me I am a survivor, I think that the survivors are the people who had things much worse than I did.
I feel more like I was lucky that I got a routine colonoscopy and it was picked up so early and the surgery results were so good.
I am excited, while at the library today I found a pattern for a cap that I think would be a great chemo cap. I really like it, it looked more advanced than I thought I could do but I just knitted the pattern for practice and I did pretty good.
Thanks for the yarn suggestions. So, now, I have questions. The pattern calls for "Rowan DK Tweed". Are the "cascade fixation" or the "elan sock it to me" going to be ok? If you knit with 2 strands of sock yarn does it equal a DK? I know that I will have to do a swatch and adjust accordingly.
And what about knitting distorts the time-space continuim? I swear that I am stopping knitting to go to bed at 10pm and yet it always is at least 1 to 2 hours later than that.
And I had never really thought about pink being the color of nipples(!!!) but the cancer color picker was defiantely whacked and it wouldn't surprise me. Hey, KellyK, you sound pretty whacked coming up with that nipple thing. Are you secretly the cancer color picker?
Sorry, KellyK, it was late at night- I am sorry if I caused your nipple free lips any concern.
So, Amy, are you the whacked secret cancer color picker?
I found the pattern for the chemo cap in Viking Patterns for Knitting, by Elsebeth Lavold. The cap is on the book jacket and again on page 39. The set is called "Hervor" it is a pullover and cap. The cap is knit in a band with a pattern, then stitches are picked up from the sides of the band and knit in the round.
The band has an interesting pattern with some small cables that I tried last night and feel that I can do.
I scanned the pic onto my computer but just realized I didn't know how to get it into my message. After school starts again I'll have one of my kids from "The Harry Potter Knitting Group" help me figure out a way.
I planned on knitting something for cancer patients as well. Six years ago my mom was diagnosed and beat breast cancer. She had to have chemo, but I didn't even think about knitting then. I really wish I had now, but the least I can do is provide the comfort for someone else.
OK ... well, it looks like I need to get on the plans I have for a Cancer Kid KAL ... I need to contact my Child Life specialist friend and see if I can get a list of the kids who still come in-house for treatment.
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Saturday, December 5, 2015
The Adventure Begins!!!!
Well, I got my Christmas present!! I am overjoyed, nervous and all things inbetween now! I got a random call from the real estate agent and I assumed it was the month check up call. As I had planned to buy the property as long as it was still avaible but I have been battling disability for three years now. He always made it a point to check in with me from time to time. He asked what I could pay and I said, I don't have much at all right now. He made me a deal that was impossble to pass up and lucky he called right before my partner got paid. It was meant to be! My partner had a large check from holiday pay and a bouns. Our plans were to go to Flagstaff to shop, food and have a good time. If he had called a week later, it may not have even been able to happen!!
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Rene Descartes (d.1650) is often credited with starting the discussion about a distinction between mind and body. In his book Meditations, Descartes began a mental exercise that involved systematic doubt. He doubted everything he could doubt……doubting whether his senses were deceived, doubting whether he had a body, doubting everything that appeared to him. This exercise ended with the famous “I think, therefore I am” phrase, with the point being that one cannot doubt one’s own existence, for if I know that I’m doubting, then I know that I exist. From there, Descartes attempts to prove the existence of God.
Descartes didn’t really doubt his senses, for in the end of his book he states that no one in their right mind would do such a thing, but that he only expressed these doubts as an exercise to show that the existence of God is more sure than our senses or anything else that we know. Descartes position has been much critiqued. But we must give him some credit, for how many of our ideas will still be taught in classrooms 400 years from now?
Regardless of the questions about Descartes’ conclusions, what he achieved was to begin a long discussion on the separation of mind and body. If we start with thinking in the mind, how can we get to the physical world? Descartes emphasized this separation, and many today still feel that there is no way to bridge the chasm between a person’s mind and the outside world.
In Christian theology, a similar concept exists with the soul and the body. As far back as Augustine (d.430), the a teaching has been widely held that the “real you” is your soul, and the soul inhabits a body. When the body dies, it becomes useless, and the real you, the soul, goes to heaven. Augustine was influenced by the common teachings of Plato, who separated forms from objects. So following this system that started with Plato, went through Augustine, and influences us today, many theologians teach that the body is useless and is not the “real you.” Many Christians have a soul-body dualism and believe this is taught in the Bible.
The problem is that in the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 15 teaches us that the physical resurrection is essential for our faith. 11 times directly, and three more times indirectly, Paul tells us that the body is buried, but “it is raised.” The chapter says that if the physical resurrection does not happen, our faith is in vain and we are still in our sins.
So how do we respond? We reject the tradition that started with Plato and went through Augustine, and instead embrace the tradition that started with Aristotle and went through Aquinas (d.1274). Aristotle taught that the form was in the object, not separate. Aquinas, following the scriptures, tell us that our soul and body are unified. We are a soul-body unity. My body is as much a part of me as my soul, and I am incomplete without it. While the soul can exist without the body, it is a form without a substance, like a chair without any substance…….to be a real chair, it needs a body. If we are a soul-body unity, then the resurrection is essential to our salvation, for unless our physical body has eternal life, I don’t have eternal life, because my body is me. If I have eternal life, so does my physical body. This is what scripture teaches.
For those of you that are fearful of sneaking in “Greek philosophy” into Christian theology, we only have three responses to the question of how things are composed: 1) we can say like Plato that the form of the object is separate and the form exists somewhere in space, or 2) we can say like Aristotle that the form in in the object, or 3) don’t answer the question. If we are going to wrestle with the question of how things are composed, we only have 1 or 2, there are no other views; Plato and Aristotle have exhausted the possibilities.
And for those of you who are skeptics about the resurrection, see the work of Gary Habermas, who is likely the greatest living scholar on the topic. He has written several excellent books, such as The Case For The Resurrection of Jesus. Most modern skeptics are following David Hume, whose work was self-refuting.
8 Responses to Soul-Body Dualism? Or Soul-Body Unity?
So how does the physical resurrection work? If we are returned to a bodily state in heaven, do we get all of parts back? Including foreskin? Original nose if one had a nosejob? What age would the body be? When we were young? When we died at 90? What about a miscarried fetus who never fully formed a body? What body do they get?
Whether you believe in NDE’s or not, I thought I’d mention that the Aristotle/Aquinas tradition is also compatible with hundres of consistent NDE’s of people who have said they’ve seen heaven, and these NDE’s likewise contradict and disprove the Plato/Augustine view.
I am a little confused though- if we receive our physical bodies along with our souls when we die and go to heaven, then what’s the point of the resurrection at Jesus’ second coming? Is that also an incorrect orthodox view, or am I misunderstanding something?
When we die, the soul is separated from the body. This is a temporary, incomplete state. When Jesus returns, He brings our souls which are reunited with our bodies. This is the resurrection. Our final, eternal state is in a resurrected, glorified, physical body. The bodies are not resurrected until the soul returns to them. | {
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In February/March 2013 a conference entitled Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation was organised by ESO in Garching, Germany. The E-ELT is a revolutionary ground-based telescope — it will have a 39-metre main mirror, and will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world upon its completion in the next decade. This picture is the poster used to advertise the conference. | {
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(Source: “Tesla Model 3 Exclusive Leaked Specs: 0-60 Under 4 Sec Fast and 300+ Mile Range Options,” Electrek, March 30, 2016.)\n\nTesla Model 3 Performance\n\nOne of Tesla’s biggest achievements is making electric vehicles fun to drive. Tesla fans don’t just buy Teslas because they want to save the environment; they also buy Teslas for the driving experience. With such impressive performance figures on the current Tesla models, the Model 3 has a lot to deliver. The higher-end version of the Model 3—with all-wheel drive and a larger battery pack—is expected to accelerate from zero to 60 mph in less than four seconds.\n\nHow to Reserve a Tesla Model 3\n\nIf you want to get a Model 3, you better act quickly. While you can place an order online, Tesla says that visiting a Tesla store “will allow you to get a better spot in the queue.” (Source: “Reserving Your Model 3,” Tesla Motors Inc, March 24, 2016.) According to a picture posted by Elon Musk, people are lining up for the Tesla Model 3:\n\nThe Bottom Line on TSLA Stock\n\nNote that despite the unveiling, production of the Tesla Model 3 won’t begin for at least another year. Delivery is expected to start in late 2017.\nStill, the Tesla Model 3 could be a huge catalyst for TSLA stock.\n\nTSLA Stock: What You Need to Know About Tesla Motors Inc’s Model 3\n\nWith the unveiling of the highly anticipated Tesla “Model 3,” all eyes will be on Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock. Here’s what you need to know about Tesla’s mass-market electric vehicle (EV).\n\nIf you think Elon Musk will reveal everything about Tesla Model 3 today, you’d be wrong. In a Twitter post yesterday, Musk said that today’s event would be just part one of the Model 3 unveil and that “Part two, which takes things to another level, will be closer to production.”\n\nTomorrow is Part 1 of the Model 3 unveil. Part 2, which takes things to another level, will be closer to production.\n\nStill, there is already quite a bit of information available on the Model 3. Let’s take a look.\n\nTesla Model 3 Price\n\nAs the company’s foray into the mass market, Model 3’s biggest difference from Tesla’s other offerings is its price. There’s no denying that Tesla has a huge fan base worldwide. But up to this point, not many people could afford a Tesla. Its first model, the Tesla “Roadster,” starts at over $100,000. The later “Model S” sedan and the recent “Model X” SUV have lower starting prices. But when you add a few options, their prices could still easily go over the six-figure mark. The “Signature Series” of the Model X starts at a whopping $132,000. The good news is that Tesla’s Model 3 won’t be nearly as expensive as the company’s other offerings. The Model 3 will start at $35,000 before government incentives. If you get the $7,500 federal tax credit in the U.S., the base model could start as low as $27,500.\n\nTesla Model 3 Range\n\nRange has always been a concern for potential buyers of electric cars. While everyone loves the instant torque offered by electric motors, they also want the ability to go places without having to stop for a few hours to charge the battery. As with all electric cars, the Model 3’s range will depend on a number of things: battery capacity, weight of the car, efficiency of the drivetrain, and, of course, how you drive it. If you put the pedal to the metal all the time, don’t expect to go very far in an EV. For the Tesla Model 3, the company will likely offer different battery packs. With an 80 kwh battery pack, the Model 3 might be able to travel more than 300 miles on a single charge. (Source: “Tesla Model 3 Exclusive Leaked Specs: 0-60 Under 4 Sec Fast and 300+ Mile Range Options,” Electrek, March 30, 2016.)\n\nTesla Model 3 Performance\n\nOne of Tesla’s biggest achievements is making electric vehicles fun to drive. Tesla fans don’t just buy Teslas because they want to save the environment; they also buy Teslas for the driving experience. With such impressive performance figures on the current Tesla models, the Model 3 has a lot to deliver. The higher-end version of the Model 3—with all-wheel drive and a larger battery pack—is expected to accelerate from zero to 60 mph in less than four seconds.\n\nHow to Reserve a Tesla Model 3\n\nIf you want to get a Model 3, you better act quickly. While you can place an order online, Tesla says that visiting a Tesla store “will allow you to get a better spot in the queue.” (Source: “Reserving Your Model 3,” Tesla Motors Inc, March 24, 2016.) 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Fruit of Many Colors: Sumac Berries
staghorn sumac
Sumac berries are pretty all year long. I love them. You can eat them,* birds eat them... they are pretty. Did I mention how pretty they are? They are also a horrible weed. But like most weeds they are quite useful if you know how to use them.*if you aren't allergic.
Last year I collected quite a few sumac berry torches (that's how I think of them, as these big, bright red torches shining on the trees). I dried them; planned on using them over the winter... never got to it. "Now" was a good time, so I soaked them in water overnight & let them sit out in the sun in a big old pot. About 1/2 a peck.
On Day 2 I steeped the pot in warm(ing) water for 30 minutes, boiled for 30 minutes, mashing the lovely things the whole time.... OK, once in a while... at least every 10 minutes or so... until they turned kinda brownish.
Boiling sumac berries smelled soooooo goood!
Because of the size of the pot, rather than pouring out the mash, I dipped out the liquid & strained the berries out of that.
The first batches were alum mordant on finished yarn, with various soak times & after-mordants like vinegar & ammonia. I think you can read what the tags say (sorry it's tipped - I have no idea how to fix that on this format). They ranged from a very nice flax color to golden yellow.
Since I got so much of it, I figured I'd do a few different things. I liked the idea of a heathered gray, and the best way to get that is to
dye the fleece and spin after.
To get gray from sumac berries, you need to soak the wool in an iron after-bath. To get that, you can either add ferric to the water or keep a plastic canister of rusting nails & just pour out the water once in a while... since I had neither, but plenty of Stuff That's Rusty, I went out & found a bit of junk that would fit in the pot. Joys of farm-life.
adding rusty iron to water
Once I got the liquid free of pretty berries, I wetted some clean fleece in a mesh bag and dunked it in the pot. (Now a much smaller pot).
Boiled for 30 40 minutes and then transferred to the Iron pot.
sumac berry & iron dyed fleece
I've carded up a bit of it, but haven't started spinning it yet. I'd like to get the whole chunk in rolags before I spin it. I am losing most of the light undercoat & very dark tips, which is fine. | {
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I am fascinated by song stories...the glimpses of composers' lives that their creations permit us to see, although oftentimes not so readily. Here are my my "scoops", posted here for your enjoyment, and for what I hope will feed our mutual curiosity about His musical purposes for us. Join me in this history adventure, as we find what circumstances coalesced to create the songs we all love! Play detective with me, and tell me what song "scoops" you may know that I don't...yet.
About Me
Monday, May 27, 2013
She had
someone or a group of people in mind as she penned words for a song to
accompany her husband’s upcoming sermon one Autumn day in 1852. Thirty-four
year old Cecil Alexander evidently wanted to draw some parallels between her
neighbors or fellow churchgoers and a well-known apostle (see his picture here,
along with his brother Peter and the Christ, by Caravaggio). It may even be
assumed that her preacher-husband gave her some thoughts to get her prose
rolling that day when “Jesus Calls Us” was written. That she had been most accustomed to writing
children’s songs may have also been why she needed the advice and encouragement
of another adult when she went about composing this hymn for grown-ups. Do the
words resonate with you, as an adult?
Cecil
Alexander’s composition “Jesus Calls Us” indeed was something of an unusual
exercise for this composer, considering the audience for the song and what was
her routine for her poetry. She’d written many of her poem-songs for children
by the age of 20, really not that long after she had left her own childhood
behind. These had been published by 1848, and then she married two years later,
an occasion that most people regard as entry into the adult world. Her husband,
William, a minister in a poor local church in Ireland, was preparing one
November to deliver a message based on the example of the apostle Andrew – a called
individual. William asked his wife to think of a hymn for adults as the
Anglican holiday, St. Andrew’s Day, approached on the last Sunday of the month.
He evidently wanted a memorable song to accompany his sermon, and knowing his
wife’s pedigree, he must have felt pretty confident, though most of her experience
had been writing for children. But, her experience also included ministering to
the people of the area herself, with lots of sick, cold, and hungry people that
she saw daily. So, she no doubt had a personal and practical familiarity with a
calling to help others. The ‘tumult’ and ‘sorrows’ she wrote about must have
been not just in her imagination, but in fact real hurts that she witnessed every
day, just as were the ‘vain world’ and ‘idol(s)’, interspersed with a few ‘joys’
and ‘pleasures’ that she observed also.
Her
husband’s influence also showed in the words she wrote, although the verse she
composed that he read in the church service has not normally survived in our
modern hymnal texts. That’s unfortunate, because it helps communicate the hymn’s
background, its genesis (see the link below). She calls out Andrew’s example of
dropping his profession, literally, and following the Master upon encountering
Him. That episode must have been electric, wouldn’t you imagine? It makes one
ponder … to what does He call me today? Should I stop working? Is there a
greater task He has for me to do? Cecil must have seen and heard a lot from her
neighbors that had her thinking they needed to reach beyond their own world,
perhaps because there was just too much privation, too much disappointment
where they were. Would it be an ironic twist, if I have so much, and were less
inclined to turn my head when he calls out to me? He offers more, incredibly more, even if I am very
physically blessed here. Read Cecil’s words, and see if they make you re-think things.
See more
information on the composer and the song in Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring
Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions by Kenneth W. Osbeck, Kregel Publications,
1990; The Complete Book of Hymns – Inspiring Stories About 600 Hymns and
Praise Songs by William J. Petersen and Ardythe Petersen, Tyndale House
Publishers, 2006; and 101 More Hymn Stories, by Kenneth W. Osbeck,
Kregel Publications, 1985
See the
link here for a 2nd verse rarely seen in print, which really lends some
context to the circumstances of the poetry that Cecil Alexander wrote – a reference
to the subject of her husband’s sermon that day in November 1852. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/j/e/s/jesuscus.htm
Saturday, May 18, 2013
It might alternately
be called ‘Floyd’s Song’ because of the circumstances surrounding its genesis.
That’s the subtitle that Lanny Wolfe gave to the words and the music for
something he wrote back in the 1970’s (about 1977) for an event where he and
his group were waiting to join in a celebration. Sure, Lanny and his friends
had been asked, so their attendance at the church building dedication was not a
surprise, but when Lanny heard a small but distinct voice tell him some words
for a new song, that was unexpected (or, was it really?). “Surely the Presence
of the Lord” was born on the spot as the Lanny Wolfe Trio prepared to sing, and
the way it’s been used since then makes one think God must have had more than
one episode in mind when he whispered the words to the composer that day.
Lanny Wolfe was
certainly struck by how “Surely the Presence of the Lord” worked its way into
his being the very first time, perhaps because of the multiple incidents over
the following decades in which it played such a memorable role in his and
others’ lives. The minister’s name at the church in Columbia, Mississippi was Floyd
Odom, and he’d invited Lanny and his group to sing as the members of the church
there marked the completion of the church building. So, Lanny must have thought
that Floyd was the reason for the song’s origin - -without that moment and the
gathering of joyful people eager to thank the Holy One for His work, maybe the
song would not have come about. Indeed, Lanny tends to remember lots of the
Trio’s songs with subtitles that say they are some person’s song…perhaps his way
of saying that songs inhabit us personally, not just events or places in time. Lanny
says the song’s words came quickly, such that he didn’t have the chance to run
through any chords or even tell his fellow musicians, Marietta Wolfe (his wife
at the time) and Dave Petersen, what had just popped into his head. So, he
taught it to them the same moment the assembled church members heard it, with
just the notes and flow of the song in his head. Lanny says it worked because
there were people there, not just pews
and stain-glassed windows. He wanted to be in them, not the building. And, that’s
been the song’s recurring theme in at least four other episodes in many different
circumstances, which Lanny relates in the book More Than Wonderful that he’s
put together to tell his song stories.
The other episodes range
from a personal one-on-one Midwestern U.S. incident in which someone’s life was
in danger, to a megachurch in China where the song was a celebration sung in
many languages. It’s been transmitted to countless people on a television
broadcast, but also used in private family gatherings to shepherd a dear family
member into eternity. How varied are our
people-centered experiences, but how common is the foundation that we believers
have? That’s what Lanny Wolfe is communicating in the words he composed that day
in Columbia, Mississippi. He’s present where His people are, be they just one
or two, or perhaps many thousands. And, he comes during our many emotions. Just
like Job, I can worship even though beaten down (Job 1:20), or I may instead be
in a festive spirit like David (2 Sam. 6:16-21), though it offends others. I
just know He’s inside. Who could contain what is surely there, Lanny says?
Saturday, May 11, 2013
He was a
believer in insurance …that’s what many who crossed this fellow’s path might
have remembered about him, if they never saw his poetry. But, it’s a good bet
that Johnson Oatman Jr.’s insurance advice wasn’t exclusively the conventional
kind that would protect yours and your loved ones’ financial state. He’d
probably pondered another state for a while by the time he turned 39 and wrote
the words “No, Not One” as the turn of the century approached in 1895. His
vocation, though secular, did not prevent him from pursuing other, deeper
expressions of his beliefs, a ministry that flourished and was prodigious by
any standard. What motivated him, at a relatively late point in life, to burst
forth with his song-writing? Was he
thinking negatively (No, Not One), as someone might who’s considering negative space (as in
this classic Rubin’s vase optical illusion, shown here, wherein nothingness actually
does depict something after all)?
Johnson
Oatman, Jr. evidently took after his father, Johnson Sr., in many ways, but
also sowed new ground following his father’s departure from life. His father’s reputation
as a singer—called by some the best in the eastern U.S.--no doubt overshadowed
the younger Johnson to some degree. He nevertheless must have admired his dad,
so much so that he joined in the family’s business to work alongside Johnson
Sr. Moreover, at 19 years old, he became an ordained Methodist minister, yet
remained in the family’s commercial enterprise, manifest evidence that he’d matured
in the faith instilled by his father while remaining close to his parental and
vocational influence. With his father’s death (exact year unknown), two
important changes would commence in Johnson Jr.’s life. The younger Oatman is credited
with some 3,000 to 5,000 hymn texts, an incredible number, especially
considering he did not begin this avocation until in his mid-30’s, apparently
after his father was gone. In addition to this new venture, he changed professional
careers, entering the insurance field (the reason for the switch in vocation is
not known). Thus, a casual, distant observer might presume that the son was finally
breaking free of shackles, becoming his own man both vocationally and
creatively. Perhaps some of that is true. But, one thing that linked the two
Oatmans remained – the father’s love for God expressed through music did not
die with him. Indeed, watching and listening to his dad for years, someone
might say, welled up into a colossus that would articulate itself throughout
the last three decades of the son’s life. “No Not One”, written about three
years into this new part of Oatman’s life as a songwriter, offers a window into
his emotions and his spirit. Was he breaking
free, or was he magnifying what had been planted inside? You and I can look at his
words and decide.
Johnson
Oatman evidently had issues like any of us, someone who needed ‘cheer’ while
confined in a dark place managing ‘struggles’ and ‘soul’s diseases’. He also evidently
had pangs of loneliness. He’d lost his father, so we might surmise he was missing
him and clinging to the divine Father. That Father promises not to leave. As he looked around in
1895, perhaps that’s what he’d discovered, that nothing down here compares to
what He has for me. People die. Jobs change. Can I find anything here that’s
good that doesn’t eventually bust, or any hurt that completely goes away though
salved with the best solution? No, not one, Oatman’s words repeat. Was it a
mid-life crisis, triggered by personal and vocational challenges that made Johnson
Oatman write the words? Maybe. They won’t matter, ultimately. No, not one. These
negative words are worth a hoorah in this case!
See more
information on the composer and the song in Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring
Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions by Kenneth W. Osbeck, Kregel Publications,
1990; and The Complete Book of Hymns – Inspiring Stories About 600 Hymns and
Praise Songs by William J. Petersen and Ardythe Petersen, Tyndale House
Publishers, 2006.For more background on
the composer, see Then Sings My Soul – 150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn
Stories, Robert J. Morgan, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2003; and 101 More
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For persons in housing units at the time of the 1960 Census, the sampling unit was the housing unit and all its occupants; for persons in group quarters, it was the person. On the first visit to an address, the enumerator assigned a sample key letter (A, B, C, or D) to each housing unit sequentially in the order in which he first visited the units, whether or not he completed an interview. Each enumerator was given a random key letter to start his assignment, and the order of canvassing was indicated in advance, although these instructions allowed some latitude in the order of visiting addresses. Each housing unit to which the key letter "A" was assigned was designated as a sample unit, and all persons enumerated in the unit were included in the sample. In every group quarters, the sample consisted of every fourth person in the order listed. The 1960 statistics in this report are based on a subsample of one-fifth of the original 25-percent sample schedules. The subsample was selected on the computer, using a stratified systematic Sample Design. The strata were made up as follows: For persons in regular housing units there were 36 strata, i.e., 9 household size groups by 2 tenure groups by 2 color groups; for persons in group quarters, there were 2 strata, i.e., the 2 color groups.
Although the sampling procedure did not automatically insure an exact 5-percent sample of persons, the Sample Design was unbiased If carried through according to instructions. Generally, for large areas, the deviation from the estimated sample size was found to be quite small. Biases may have arisen, however, when the enumerator failed to follow his listing and sampling instructions exactly.
Table A compares the number and percent enrolled in school by age, for persons 5 to years old as presented in this report, based on the 5-percent sample with corresponding statistics based on the 25-percent sample presented in Volume I of the 1960 Census of Population. Differences in this table reflect primarily sampling error. This is relatively small and should have little influence on the interpretation of the data.
Table A. Comparison of 25-Percent and 5-Percent Sample Data on School Enrolment, For the United States: 1960
The statistics based on the 5-percent sample of the 1960 Census returns are estimates that have been developed through the use of a Ratio Estimation procedure. This procedure was carried out for each of the following groups of persons in each of the sample weighting areas: 1
Group
Sex, color, and age
Relationship and tenure
Male white:
1
Under 5
2
5 to 13
3
14 to 24
Head of owner household
4
14 to 24
Head of renter household
5
14 to 24
Not head of household
6-8
25 to 44
Same groups as age group 14 to 24
9-11
45 and over
Same groups as age group 14 to 24
Male nonwhite:
12-22
Same groups as male white
Female white:
23-33
Same groups as male white
Female nonwhite:
34-44
Same groups as male white
The sample weighting areas were defined as those areas within a state consisting of central cities of urbanized areas, the remaining portion of urbanized areas not in central cities, urban places not in urbanized areas, or rural areas. 2
For each of the groups, the ratio of the complete count to the sample count of the population in the group was determined. Each specific sample person in the group was assigned an integral weight so that the sum of the weights would equal the complete count for the group. For example, if the ratio for a group was 20.1, one-tenth of the persons (selected at random) within the group were assigned a weight of 21, and the remaining nine-tenths a weight of 20. The use of such a combination of integral weights rather than a single fractional weight was adopted to avoid the complications involved in rounding in the final tables. In order to increase the reliability, where there were fewer than 275 persons in the complete count in a group, or where the resulting weight was over 80, groups were combined in a specific order to satisfy both of these two conditions.
These ratio estimates reduce the component of sampling error arising from the variation in the size of household and achieve some of the gains of stratification in the selection of the sample, with the strata being the groups for which separate ratio estimates are computed. The net effect is a reduction in the sampling error and bias of most statistics below what would be obtained by weighting the results of the 5-percent sample by a uniform factor of 20. The reduction in sampling error will be trivial for some items and substantial for others. A by-product of this estimation procedure, In General, is that estimates for this sample are generally consistent with the complete count with respect to the total population and for the subdivisions used as groups in the estimation procedure. A more complete discussion of the technical aspects of these ratio estimates will be presented in another report.
The figures from the 5-percent sample tabulations are subject to Sampling Variability, which can be estimated roughly from the standard errors shown in "tables B and C below. These tables 3 do not reflect the effect of response variance, processing variance, or bias arising in the collection, processing, and estimation steps. Estimates of the magnitude of some of these factors in the total error are being evaluated and will be published at a later date. The chances are about 2 out of 3 that the difference due to Sampling Variability between an estimate and the figure that would have been obtained from a complete count of the population is less than the standard error. The chances are about 19 out of 20 that the difference is less than twice the standard error and about 99 out of 100 that it is less than 2 ½ times the standard error. The amount by which the estimated standard error must "be multiplied to obtain other odds deemed more appropriate can be found in most statistical textbooks.
Table B shows rough standard errors of estimated numbers up to 50,000. The relative sampling errors of larger estimated numbers are somewhat smaller than for 50,000. For estimated numbers above 50,000, however, the nonsampling errors, e.g., response errors and processing errors, may have an increasingly important effect on the total error. Table C shows rough standard errors of data in the form of percentages. Linear interpolation in tables B and C will provide approximate results that are satisfactory for most purposes.
For a discussion of the Sampling Variability of medians and means and of the method for obtaining standard errors of differences between two estimates, see 1960 Census of Population, Volume I, Characteristics of the Population, Part 1, United States Summary.
Illustration: Table 1 shows that of the 7-year-old persons enrolled in the second year of elementary school in the United States 29,540 are native white of Northern or Western European stock. Table B shows that for an estimate of 29,540 the approximate standard error is 667, which means that the chances are approximately 2 out of 3 that the results of a complete census would not differ by more than 667 from this estimated 29,540. It also follows that there is only about 1 chance in 100 that a complete census result would differ by as much as 1,668, that is, by about 2 ½ times the number estimated from table B.
Table B. Rough Approximation to Standard Error of Estimated Number
(Range of 2 chances out of 3)
1Estimates of characteristics from the sample for a given area are produced using the formula
Where x is the estimate of the characteristic for the area obtained through the use of the ratio estimation procedure,
xi is the count of sample persons with the characteristic for the area in one (i) of the 44 groups,
yi is the count of all sample persons for the area in the same one of the 44 groups, and
Yi is the count of persons in the complete count for the area in the same one of the 44 groups.2For the definitions of urbanized area and urban place, see 1960 Census of Population, Volume I, Characteristics of Population, Part 1, United States Summary.3 These estimates of sampling variability are based on partial information on variances calculated from a sample of the 1960 Census results. Further estimates are being calculated and will be made available at a later date. | {
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Many many times I have heard this from people of all levels. The cause of this I hinted at during my last article. Many articles on these pages are based from a man’s stand point. In this one I have tried to give the ladies view point as well. Normally this is on the inside of an open reverse turn i.e. an open telemark. I hinted at it in my last little bit of writing that caused a “war and peace” type debate with Benoit Papineau.
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Checking accounts are tools that many people use to make payments. A checking account provides a way for consumers to manage their spending, make payments easily, and keep track of their funds. When they have a checking account, customers can access information online through the bank’s Web site.
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E-banking, or online banking, is becoming more popular worldwide, but the United States still relies heavily on paper checks. A recent survey revealed that of all the households that are on the Internet, only one in five also do their banking online.
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