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Chaing Mai Living – Wat Jet Yod
Another historic temple to contemplate visiting is Wat Maha Bodharam or Wat Jet Yod that was established by King Tilokarat in 1455 A.D.
Its a temple on the outskirts of the city and perhaps less popular with foreign visitors. It has a long history and the grounds are large, with lovely tree covered canopy and you feel the historic ambience of the buildings. Jet Yod translates to “seven peaks” and refers to the seven chedis which top a structure in the temple complex (left). It’s a very unusual – for Thailand – temple building.
btyThere is information that explains the history and indicates the King ordered his artisans of the time to imitate the style of the Mahabodhi Hal of Bodh Gaya in India. It is assumed that the aim of this project was to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of Buddhism. For a tranquil retreat and to spend time observing history and perhaps time to rest and reflect – this seems a fitting place.
He also intended to make a reproduction of the place where the Lord Buddha attained enlightenment, and to establish a temple for Udompanya, a monk who traveled back from Lanka. He also had a Bodhi tree, which the monk brought back and was planted there, hence the temple name of “Wat Maha Bodharama”.
sdrThe eight Buddhist council was held in this temple in 1477 A.D, during the reign of King Tilokorat. This is considered to be the first Buddhist Council held in Thailand.
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Last night I mentioned becoming an unhealthy vegetarian…Its really amazing how easy that was to do.
Two and a half years ago Tina and I decided we would eat vegan, avoid processed foods and not eat sugar. We agreed to do it for 6 weeks. We ended up following this diet for 4 months. We both felt great, healthy, energetic and of course lost weight. At no point did we plan to remain vegan. we thought it would be a good kick start to healthy living.
During that 4 month period I was able to give up my multiple pots a day coffee habit and Tina quit drinking sodas. We convinced ourselves we had the bad habits of unhealthy eating conquered.
I did know I wanted to remain vegetarian and Tina (with the exception of Thanksgiving turkey) agreed she would remain vegetarian too. We slowly started adding foods back into our diet. We intended to keep it under control…we really did. We started justifying foods we had done so well without for 4 months.
Needless to say we did not keep it under control. Fried foods snuck back into our diet, sugars took control of our taste buds and the convenience of processed foods made it hard to say no.
We realized we had made a mistake and both agreed we wanted to return to the diet we were on for those 4 months.
It had been so easy to give all the unhealthy stuff up…doing it again should be a piece of cake (I really couldn’t resist throwing the cake reference in!)
But it wasn’t…no matter how much we talked about it. No matter how determined we were…we couldn’t seem to find our way back.
Finally…the stars aligned, and on May 25, 2017 (2 years and 4 months after we started adding foods back into our diet) we returned to a vega diet. Once again we stopped eating sugar and processed foods. We both realize the mistakes we made 2 years ago and we are policing ourselves to make sure we avoid the same mistakes this time.
No matter how good something is for us…we seem to migrate back to the unhealthy.
OK…I’m speaking for myself here. I know there are people in this world that manage to eat “right” and live healthy lifestyles without falling off the health train. I am not one of those people. Over the years I have allowed my own rationalization, other people and (to be honest) convenience to lead me astray.
However, there are some unhealthy habits I have never returned to in the last 10 years. For example, I’ve never picked up another cigarette. I haven’t drank a soda in 9 years and for the most part I’ve stayed away from red-meat.
The first couple years of changing my diet I remained faithful to not eating hamburgers, especially fast food. But, if I found myself at a luncheon and the only dish available had beef in it…well I would eat it. I created a theory, If I have good intentions yet the waiter makes a mistake and serves me the “negative” food item…well the calories don’t count! Right?
It is amazing how I can rationalize eating things that I know are not “good for me.” I can decide that one donut couldn’t possibly have that many calories. I mean look at it…it’s so little and innocent. If I eat veggie pizza it will certainly be better for me than meat pizza…I didn’t even get extra cheese.
There are times that knowing I’ve eaten better today than I did in the past will simply have to do. Sometimes that is the best I can do.
When I walk into work and someone dropped donuts off in the kitchen for all to enjoy…I consider it a huge win if I walk on by and don’t give it another thought. So many times I’ve given myself permission to just eat one. Do you know what happens when I “just eat one?” Its a lie…I go back and eat 2, 3, maybe even 4!
I have also faced my challenges with exercise. I love to exercise. I enjoy the energy and the overall positive self image that comes with exercise. But I’ve experienced times that negative self talk tries to convince me to stay on the couch. I’ve also experienced old age. After running for several years I started to develop arthritis in my knees. After a couple minor surgeries on my knees my Orthopedic doctor highly suggested I give up running and look into cycling. I really struggled with that idea. I didn’t think cycling would be challenging enough (by the way it is plenty challenging). I honestly believed the only way I could get a decent workout was through the cardio I experienced when running.
I tried bootcamps, you still have to run. Even though the instructor told me I could do other exercises while my classmates ran, my competitive nature would not agree. So I would run, then I’d be in pain, then I would get depressed and want to give up on all exercise.
This search for a healthy life has certainly been a roller coaster ride. Over the last two years I’ve learned it is possible to be an unhealthy vegetarian…Its true. There are still plenty of “comfort foods” a person can eat as a vegetarian. Trust me, I found them all. It is so much easier to tell myself that big ol’ bowl of broccoli and cheese soup is fine because I’m not eating meat. Well needless to say, with that line of thinking my roller coaster car flew off the tracks. | {
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The position of women on the labour market: Trends and developments in the twelve member states of the European Community 1983-1990. Women of Europe Supplement No. 36, March 1992
Maruani, Margaret (1992) The position of women on the labour market: Trends and developments in the twelve member states of the European Community 1983-1990. Women of Europe Supplement No. 36, March 1992. [EU Commission - Working Document] | {
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Statehood without State Functions: Nevada Continued Timothy Cooper,
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Importantly, according to Nevada state archivist Guy Roche, one of the economic factors that influenced the original grant of territorial status to Nevada in 1861 was the discovery of the Comstock Lode of 1859. Though it was not the determinative factor in the territory's successful drive for statehood three years later, it did have a material influence on it because Nevada's territorial status directly benefited the US government. Among other things, it ensured that "[Nevada's] riches would help the Union and not the Confederate cause. Furthermore, Roche claims that the "federal government bought much of Nevada's silver and gold bullion to support its currency" and, of course, whatever federal taxes were collected went straight "into Union coffers."
And interestingly, it was Nevada's mine operators themselves who led the drive for Nevada statehood in 1863, at a time when Nevada's economy was relatively robust. The miners' chief motive was primarily economic. Hoping to win Congressional representation in order to shoot down a proposed federal tax on mineral deposits extracted from the western territories, they clamored for states' rights. And the timing fit in nicely with President Lincoln's own fears about losing the forthcoming presidential election and his ardent hopes for passing the 13th Amendment, which, of course, outlawed slavery. (He believed that he required two additional Senatorial votes to secure passage; ironically, it turned out that he didn't.)
In 1864, Congress did in fact grant Nevada statehood. But in that same year a statewide recession set in. Ironically, it was the miners themselves who had voted down a proposed "gross proceeds" tax on territorial mines the year before that would have averted the financial crisis in the state. As a result of the economic downturn, the miners passed a "net proceeds" tax instead, which failed, unfortunately, to generate sufficient revenues to avert the crisis. Nevada then issued bonds to prop up the economy, which were snapped up by California bankers at exorbitant interest rates. But by the end of the 1860's, the "Big Bonanza" had struck -- fueled by gold and silver discoveries in Nevada's southwest desert and the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad. (Silver would soon supersede gold as Nevada's # 1 economic engine, and it became known as "The Silver State.") By 1869, cattle and sheep farming had also become a key state economy. During the course of the next seven years, the "money rolled in," says historian Drakes, and by 1875 Nevada was able to "pay off" its California bonds. | {
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Mani Ratnam has finally fixed the audio launch of his upcoming film Kadal and Kollywood is abuzz with reports that the audio is going to be launched on December 17. Recently, the first look of Gautham, the film’s lead actor was unveiled and it got a positive response. Radha’s younger daughter Thulasi is paired up with Gautham in this teenage love story set in the backdrop of a fishing village in coastal Tamil Nadu. Lakshmi Manchu and Arvind Swami have played important roles. Last month, A R Rahman had unveiled ‘Nejukulle’, one of the songs from the film, on MTV Unplugged and now, another song titled Elay Keechan is going to be aired on radio on December 10. Mani Ratnam has also produced the film and it’s being dubbed in Telugu as Kadali. Rajeev Menon is the cinematographer of the film. Kadal is likely to hit the screens in early 2013.
Telugu Ruchi is a one-stop cooking channel from Mallemaala where you get to learn some mouth-watering recipes within no time. Some renowned and experienced chefs will showcase the easiest and best delicacies from all over. | {
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Posts tagged ‘Green Mountain Coffee’
Green Mountain is probably one of my favorite K Cup brands. They offer a nice variety of roasts with something to please everyone. However their Breakfast Blend is probably one of my least favorite roasts of all time, but do keep in mind that that is mostly based off of personal preference.
Green Mountain’s Breakfast Blend is very light with a relatively high acidity level. It is fruity, sort of citrus-y, and crisp – a flavor profile to be paired with something along the lines of a blueberry muffin or a nice cranberry orange scone. This is a what I consider to be a good breakfast coffee.
Due to my natural distaste towards lighter roasts, I give Green Mountain’s Breakfast Blend a scouring of 2.5 stars out of 5. Its acidity level is too much for my liking. I do recommend this K Cup to coffee drinkers that do not care for a darker roast and still find a medium roast to be too strong. | {
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This Bookshelf Single includes the chapter "Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon" from A Reason for Faith.
A Reason for Faith:
A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies, provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals. This is no longer the case. These topics are now widely debated and discussed online and in other forums. And when members of the LDS Church come across information that is unfamiliar, they may feel surprise, fear, betrayal, or even anger. Laura Harris Hales has assembled a group of respected LDS scholars to offer help in A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History. Together these authors have spent an average of 25 years researching these topics. Their depth of knowledge and faith enables them to share reliable details, perspective, and context to both LDS doctrine and Church history. The information in these essays can begin an exciting process of discovery for readers as they learn from a source they can trust. Each chapter is engaging and thought-provoking, providing an invaluable resource for both the merely curious and the seriously concerned. | {
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Search Result: Summit County (Ohio) Sheriff
An Ohio sheriff's deputy has been fired for making inmates dance if they wanted to use the jail microwave. Summit County (Ohio) Sheriff's Deputy Dominic Martucci, 35, was fired for violating departmental policies.
Five Ohio law enforcement agencies responded and began processing four crime scenes tied to a rampage shooting that left eight people dead on Sunday. Copley Township Police Chief Michael Mier led the coordinated effort to set up a perimeter, secure crime scenes and collect evidence.
Law enforcement layoff stories are plentiful in fiscally hard-hit regions like the Rust Belt, but no area of the country is immune. Sworn officers from Sun Belt cities like Tulsa and Phoenix have also grappled with budget cuts. Some cities manage budgets by cutting overtime, contracting out internal affairs investigations, cutting civilian positions, and gutting special units. | {
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Wellness
Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation
Risks of smoking
Smoking is linked to more than two dozen diseases and conditions, including cancer and heart disease. Most of these start to reverse after you quit smoking. Sometimes the benefits of quitting begin in a matter of hours.
Health risks for people who smoke
All people who smoke are at increased risk for:
problems with their heart and blood vessels
certain types of cancers
lung and respiratory problems
other health issues
premature death
Female smokers are also at increased risk for:
cancer of the cervix
problems with periods (menstrual problems)
problems getting pregnant (fertility problems)
premature delivery
having a low birth weight baby
Male smokers are also at increased risk for:
problems with erections (impotence/erectile dysfunction)
Did you know? Each day, 100 Canadians die of a smoking-related illness. The good news? Life expectancy improves after you quit.
Risks from other types of tobacco
Cigar and pipe smokers experience the same types of health problems as cigarette smokers.
Smokeless tobacco (including chewing tobacco and snuff) also contains many of the same harmful and addictive substances as cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of cancer of the mouth and throat. It can also cause serious dental health problems, including receding gums, tooth loss, and discoloured teeth and gums.
Did you know? Of the more than 4,000 chemicals found in tobacco smoke, hundreds are toxic including hydrogen cyanide, lead, acetone, arsenic, and formaldehyde. At least 70 of these chemicals are carcinogens (known to cause cancer).
Health risks from second-hand smoke
Second-hand smoke is the combination of smoke coming directly from a burning tobacco product and the smoke exhaled by a person smoking.
People exposed to second-hand smoke are at increased risk for:
heart problems
lung cancer
breathing problems (like more severe asthma)
excessive coughing
throat irritation
premature death
Children exposed to second-hand smoke are at increased risk for:
respiratory illnesses
more frequent and more severe asthma attacks (among children with asthma)
ear infections
phlegm, wheezing, and breathlessness
decreased level of lung function
Children are especially at risk from second-hand smoke because their breathing (respiratory) and immune systems are still developing.
Pregnant women exposed to second-hand smoke during pregnancy are at increased risk of problems with their health and the health of their unborn baby. They are also at increased risk of having a low birth weight baby.
Infants exposed to second-hand smoke or whose mother smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Did you know? It’s not just people who smoke who are at risk. Breathing in second-hand smoke causes over 800 deaths in Canadian non-smokers from lung cancer and heart disease every year.
What you can do
Protect your health, and the health of everyone around you!
The best solution is to quit smoking.
Keep your home and car 100% smoke-free.
If you are pregnant, quit smoking and stay away from second-hand smoke.
Don’t smoke around children, pregnant women, and people with heart or breathing problems.
Benefits of quitting smoking
Quitting smoking may improve the length and quality of your life. When you give up cigarettes, your body starts to renew itself as early as the first day of quitting. You may live longer and reduce your chance of developing heart disease, cancer, breathing problems, and infections. And there are other rewards too.
Health benefits of quitting
You will start seeing health benefits soon after you smoke your last cigarette.
After quitting, within:
20 minutes – your blood pressure drops to a level similar to what it was before your last cigarette.
2 weeks to 3 months – the airways in your lungs relax and your can get more air into your lungs and breathe easier
1 to 9 months – you cough less and your lungs work even better.
1 year – your added risk of coronary heart disease is half than that of a smoker’s
5 years – you have the same chance of having a stroke as a non-smoker
10 Years – your chance of dying from lung cancer is much lower. So is your chance of getting cancer in your mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and/or pancreas
15 Years – your risk of coronary heart disease is similar to that of a non-smoker
The health benefits of quitting are the same for all types of smokers (men and women, young and old). And by quitting, you will lower the chance that people around you will have health problems from second-hand smoke.
Even those who have developed smoking-related problems like heart disease can benefit. Compared to continuing to smoke, people who quit smoking after having a heart attack may reduce their chances of having another heart attack by as much as 50%.
Are you pregnant? The sooner you quit, the better for you and your baby. Talk to your doctor or nurse about quitting. They can advise you about the types of quitting methods best for you.
5 Stages to Quitting
1. Pre-contemplation (not thinking about quitting)
People who are at this stage are not really thinking about quitting, and if challenged, will probably defend their smoking behaviour. They may be discouraged about previous attempts to quit or believe they’re too addicted to ever stop smoking. These smokers are not likely to be receptive to messages about the health benefits of quitting. But at some point, the great majority of “pre-contemplators” begin thinking about quitting.
2. Contemplation (thinking about quitting but not ready to quit)
During this stage, smokers are considering quitting sometime in the near future (probably six months or less). They are more aware of the personal consequences and consider smoking a problem that needs resolution. Consequently, they’re more open to receiving information about smoking and identifying the barriers that prevent them from quitting.
3. Preparation (getting ready to quit)
In the preparation stage, smokers have made the decision to quit and are getting ready to stop smoking. They see the “cons” of smoking as outweighing the “pros” and are taking small steps towards quitting. For example, in their initial planning phases, they may be smoking fewer cigarettes. They make statements such as “This is serious… something has to change” and may actually set a date to quit smoking.
4. Action (quitting)
In this stage, people are actively trying to stop smoking, perhaps using short-term rewards to keep themselves motivated and often turning to family, friends and others for support. They mentally review their commitment to themselves and firm-up action plans to deal with both personal and external pressures that could lead to slips. This stage, generally lasting up to six months, is the period during which smokers need the most help and support.
5. Maintenance (remaining a non-smoker)
Former smokers in the maintenance stage have learned to anticipate and handle temptations to smoke and are able to use new ways of coping with stress, boredom and social pressures that had been part of their “smoker’s identity.” Although they may slip and have a cigarette, they try to learn from the slip so it doesn’t happen again. This helps to give them a stronger sense of control and the ability to stay smoke-free.
Did you know? Former smokers may live longer than those who continue to smoke. People who quit around age 50 may reduce their risk of dying prematurely, gaining about six years of life expectancy over those who continue to smoke.
Note:The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this web site is for general information purposes only. Sources of information: Government of Canada. www.canada.ca | Health Canada. www.hc-sc.gc.ca
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Tuesday, 8 January 2008
I love garage covers of Dylan songs, I'm a sucker for them. The more ramshackled the better.
I don't know anything about this one. It's on a Pittsburgh label and I believe Bomar may be better known for soul/RnB 45's (?). Cool flip side as well. I assume Phillip & Lee were the singers, anyone know who the backup are?
Update:
Duron Davis played with the band in the 60s and has kindly shared a bit more information:
I don't remember Phillip's last name but I knew Lee Ayers very well. He lived in Harrison City, PA. He and I attended the ultra-religious Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. I had a clandestine folk group there that included film maker Philip Courter, Don Nixon and myself. Lee would always show up at our practices. Some months after I got kicked out of there (and maybe Lee did too) Lee invited me up to Pittsburg to play in their group. At the time they were a folk group but were morphing into a more Beatles style of music. The new group name was Phillip, Lee and the Parliaments.
The Bomar record was produced by Jimmy Interval, a well known Pittsburg night club singer. He had signed Phillip & Lee to a recording contract and this was their first release. When I arrived they were just getting their first copies. I played with them four to five months. We did a Jerry Lewis Telethon but else happened that moved us forward. | {
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ART ANTIQUES IRELAND
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE SIGNED BY ANDY WARHOL AT IRISH AUCTION
Interview magazine signed by Andy Warhol UPDATE: THIS MADE 420 AT HAMMER
An Interview magazine signed by Andy Warhol is among the lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale of affordable art which runs until August 13 between 6,30 pm and 11.30 pm. Interview was an American magazine founded by Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock in 1969. Nicknamed “The Crystal Ball of Pop” it featured intimate conversations between some of the world’s biggest celebrities artists, musicians and creative thinkers. It continued after Warhol’s death but the magazine is to fold at the end of this year.
Morgan O’Driscoll’s online auctions of affordable Irish art have proved popular. This one features a wide variety of 385 lots ranging from Sir Frederick William Burton, Markey Robinson, Martin Finnin, Norman Teeling and sculptors Patrick O’Reilly and Leo Higgins. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
Sir Frederick William Burton RHA (1816-1900)A Country Church UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
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July 2007
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Net_FTP::ls()
Synopsis
Description
this function gives you a listing of either the files / directories / both
or an unformated array (like the PHP function ftp_rawlist()).
Parameter
string $dir = null - The directory to list. You can
either use a relative or an absolute path. This optional parameter will be set to the
current path.
int $mode =
- A constant representing the nodes list
(directories, files, both or a ram directory listing).
This parameter is determined by the constants
(see: Constants).
This parameter is optional and will be set for
listing directories and files structured in an array.
Return value
mixed
- a directory listing in the form you determine on success,
otherwise PEAR::Error.
Throws
Several errors may be returned by ls.
The errornumber is unspecific (until now) and will not
tell you anything about the errormessage.
Possible errors are:
Possible PEAR_Error values
Error message
Description
Solution
Raw directory-list in wrong format.
The format given by the server on PHP function ftp_rawlist()was wrong. Check if the
directory you wanted to be listed is correct and you have access to listing it.
The last-modification date could not be determined by PHP. Reasons for this might be
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This is a replacement Muzzle brake for T68 series barrels, tactical barrels, and tactical rifled barrels.
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It took some prodding from an ice cream-making farmer I met for a story, but boy was I glad I decided to attend at least one day of the Virginia Farm-to-Table conference last week. Sure, it was a 3-hour drive to Wyers Cave, Va., but waiting there was a wealth of food story ideas and the people … Continue reading → | {
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TIGR8512
Intro to Trans into German
Introduces students to the basic theory and practice of translation, both written and sight. Students will learn to apply text analysis, text typology, and contrastive analysis of their working languages to identify, analyze, and resolve translation problems while independently developing an efficient and rational approach to the process of translation. The appropriate application of electronic translation tools will also be introduced. Fundamental translation theory will be emphasized at the beginning of the course and will be conveyed in the form of assigned readings, lectures, class discussions, and independent research. In addition, course assignments will include practice and graded exercises in sight and written translation, utilizing authentic texts drawn from an extensive variety of text categories that include, but are not limited to, current events, general political economy, general legal documents, and scientific and technical topics for general audiences. As the term progresses, student time and effort will increasingly be spent on the preparation and evaluation of written translation assignments. Students will be expected to take at least one midterm exam and one final exam, to be assigned at the discretion of the instructor(s) of record. | {
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, chef and partner at Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, poses for a photograph at Wursthall with a Saison Dupont beer in San Mateo, Calif., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, far right, chef and partner at Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, and Adam Simpson, owner-operator, welcome a line of customers at the entrance of their restaurant just after 5:00 p.m. in San Mateo, Calif., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
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A cookbook titled "The Food Lab; Better Home Cooking Through Science" by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, chef and partner at Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, on display at Wursthall in San Mateo, Calif., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, far right, chef and partner at Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, and Adam Simpson, left, owner-operator, welcome customers at the entrance of their restaurant just after 5:00 p.m. in San Mateo, Calif., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, chef and partner at Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, poses for a photograph in the open kitchen at Wursthall in San Mateo, Calif., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
He was a chef with an international reputation, but no restaurant to his credit.
Until now.
When Peninsula resident J. Kenji López-Alt opened his highly anticipated Wursthall restaurant and bierhaus in downtown San Mateo on March 12, it was the first such enterprise for the self-described “culinary nerd,” a SeriousEats.com consultant who has made a career of perfecting recipes for the home cook — from pressure-cooker chile verde to 30-minute risotto. His first book, “The Food Lab,” won the James Beard award for cookbook of the year in 2016.
Lopez-Alt and partners Adam Simpson and Tyson Mao, of San Mateo’s Grape & Grain bar, decided to diversify the city’s dining scene with German beer hall-inspired food and ambiance. They renovated the interior of one of downtown’s architectural gems, the historic building that for years was home to Ristorante Capellini.
The grand opening came after months of pop-ups and test dinners. We attended a media preview night to get a sneak peek — and we paid, of course, for our dinner, as we always do. Here’s what we saw:
THE VIBE: Imagine a German beer hall redone for Silicon Valley. Illuminated by strings of Edison-style lights, the huge space has a streamlined, minimalist look with long beer-hall tables and benches (designed by Oakland’s Arcsine and millworker Peter Doolittle). And the walls are free of adornment — not a decorative beer stein or Bavarian landscape in sight. With such high ceilings, the noise level on a busy night could rival an Oktoberfest. However, López-Alt has a quiet alternative planned: He’s building out a basement Wunderbar as a speakeasy-style space for craft cocktails and conversation.
THE FOOD: López-Alt has fine-tuned the recipes, from the currywurst with blackened ginger curry, sausage and crisp potatoes ($9) to the chicken schnitzel ($15) that’s brined first in sauerkraut, and the house potato salad (served with wursts) in a mustard-vinegar-red onion dressing.
All wursts and sandwiches ($13-$19) come with that irresistible potato salad, a refreshing side of lightly dressed greens with radishes and a wurst topping, such as sauerkraut, grilled onions or a relish of speck and cherry peppers.
One soup ($9) and one dessert ($7) are offered, and both involve pumpkin seeds. Turns out pumpkins and pumpkin seeds are hugely popular in Austria and southern Germany these days, López-Alt explained. He’s even importing roasted pumpkin-seed oil from there.
On tap: Two dozen NorCal and European beers, plus a few revolving taps. This week’s lineup includes a peanut butter stout, a tropical fruited sour and a horchata-inspired blonde ale.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT: Wursthall is an “open service” restaurant, which means any server in the place can take and deliver your order, and they’ll share the work busing tables, too. Tips will be pooled. There’s also a no-cash policy, so bring your credit or debit card.
PERFECT FOR … An after-work beer with snacks or a foodie meet-up. A children’s corner will make families feel welcome.
DETAILS: Open daily from 5 p.m. to midnight at 310 Baldwin Ave., at North B Street, San Mateo. Lunch hours will be added later. www.wursthall.com. | {
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
To all those who decided not to spend 3 hours and 15 minutes watching Carolina's 34-3 loss to New Orleans, I salute your independence.
For those who don't mind watching a horror show, however, I guess this was more entertaining than Saw 3-D. Maybe. Without further ado, my 5 things for Sunday that I didn't like the most:
1) Quarterback play. Carolina had 9 passing yards at halftime. Three QBs played; zero QBs played well. Same old story, but I now think John Fox has completely lost confidence in Jimmy Clausen (and still may have to start him next week, depending no Matt Moore's shoulder injury).
2) Injuries. What a boatload of them. Jonathan Stewart got an apparent concussion, Moore had a shoulder injury that could be serious, Tyrell Sutton messed up a pretty good day when he messed up his ankle, Dan Conner reinjured his hip -- and that wasn't even the whole list.
3) Three-man rushes. Carolina ran a good many of them when Drew Brees was facing third-and-long, figuring that dropping eight men deep would work out just fine. Nope. I can't stand the three-man rush -- so often it allows the QB to just sit there and wait... and wait... and wait... until someone comes open.
4) Carolina's personnel department. John Fox called them out after the game in his postgame news conference -- more on that in my column, which you can read now here and in Monday's newspaper -- but it is true that the Panthers had much, much less talent on the field Sunday compared to New Orleans.
5) Steve Smith. I know he's getting a lot of attention, but he only caught one pass for nine yards Sunday, and that just can't happen.
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I made two decisions this weekend. One was to buy a miter saw so I could do some home improvement projects. The second was to DVR the Panthers game so I didn't draw out the painful watching experience (being able to fast forward cuts the tube time a lot). A couple of good decisions on my part, if I may say so myself.
You know, I have a general recollection of the 1 - 15 season. Heck, I even went to game 16. But, I don't remember our offense that season being THIS bad. I mean I really do believe this is the absolute worst offense I can ever remember watching - not just for the Panthers, but in the NFL period. It's just bloody awful.
On the bright side, my kitchen got a serious trim upgrade this weekend...
Fox is beginning to show his disdain. It's starting to become clear that he had little to no say this offseason in terms of bringing in players, let alone keeping vets and he's starting to show his frustration. Its almost unfair that you have such a young team with a coach with his hands tied behind his back. Im by no means giving Fox a free pass but he's been thrown so much blame that the front office and management is letting him take the brunt of this debacle of a season. I look forward to our next coach but this is rough. Still sticking with my team.
Where has Marty Hurney and Don Gregory been hiding lately? They have a lot of say in the college draft and now they are suddenly both invisible. We should call them "The Casper Twins!" Typical Front Runners. When things are going good they're out in front of the organization. Now that crap has hit the fan they are no where to be found. Cowards.
Coaches have quit on the team, as evidenced by trying anything different;overall,players have quit on the coaches, as evidenced by poor blocking and tackling, etc; and the owner has quit on the team. as evidenced by his lack of transparency and for all otyher obvious reasons seen over and over again. Fans haven't even recived growl towels in a long time.
The coaches have quit on the team, as evidenced by the l;ack of trying anything different; overall, the players have quit on the coaches, simply look at the D-line engaged in blocks and their lack of really trying to get free on many occasions--Everette Brown is almost invisible without Peppers the role model, or the O-line crappy blocking and downfield blocking; and the owner has quit on the team. What a mess!!!
Since the good guys killed its opponents last week in America look for big changes in pro sports and everything else. Congress will back up owners.
Zillionaire Rush Limbaugh will own a couple NBA and NFL teams and the new Congress will outlaw unions so there will never be play stoppage for these spoiled adults playing kids games part time overpaid athletes. Salaries will be cut in half just for the hell of it, the draft system ditched.
Pro sports will be cleaned up and cleaned out so it realy dosent matter about the Panthers during the transition phase. Once the White House goes to the good guys in 2012 changes are permanent.
Nomore misbehaving for anybody. Ticket prices will fall and NO UNIONS. Pro aths will make half what they make now if they lucky.
America suffering its worst depression ever with no end in sight needs drastic changes and cutbacks for all and pro brats take no pay cuts but want more millions?
There will be NO union stoppage in 2011. Thats a guarantee. Owners back in the saddle for good.
Fox isn't the problem. The problem is a cheap owner who decimated his team and a generally inept front office. Why do you think Richardson's sons quit? They knew where this was headed and wanted no part of it. I think Richardson is trying to make a point to fellow owners and the NFLPA with all this cost-cutting prior to the lockout.
It didn't recieve any mention from from the announcers, or on any article I can find, but I couldn't believe a penalty wasn't called on the Saints for a late helmet-to-helmet hit after he had already been knocked down. This was in the 3rd period when he was throwing out of his own endzone.
After the poor call against Beason, and this no call, it leaves a bad taste, regardless of how inept our offense is.
This article could've been titled "15 things I didn't like". The scariest deal of all is how it's all really starting to unravel, with Fox obviously pointing fingers. Things could now get even uglier, if somebody doesn't wise up and let Fox go now. Maybe under a new coach (meeks?) the team could get refocused instead of letting it become "every man for himself".
You cant blame the QB's ! Yes they are young and inexperienced...but 1) the O-line has been below average all season...and 2) Who is open?? Its not like we se guys open down field and the QB is missing the throw ? There is nobody open, and no time to sit back and find a reciever as line is below average. Fox,Hurney,Davidson all need to be let go today ! What a joke ! And Jerry Richardson..you are the owner ! And should be a leader ! Leaders stand up and speak...not sit quietly as the ship is sinking ! Sad for such a highly respected owner !
Curtis - If that is an electric miter saw (with vacuum), a cheap white sock can be used to catch the sawdust, then later used as a firestarter. Just be sure that you don't burn chemically treated wood. The other white sock can be used at the game to indicate seeking a truce or surrender.
Sorry to be slightly off subject, because I didn't buy new socks this weekend. Where can I find some good, grey, over the calf dress socks for a wedding? Would appreciate the help from all of you new sock people.
This area used to lead the nation in producing socks and hosiery, but now it has all gone overseas. Clinton and the Bushes did us all in. Good luck finding some Made in America socks and hosiery. Remember that Look for the Union label ad? Let's see houw tHAT plays out this next year, too!
I think that Jerry Richardson and Martin Hurney are "hiding behind doors" because "Fox is beginning to show his disdain. It's starting to become clear that he had little...". Showing it might be OK in an all-male locker room setting, but exhibitionism laws are in force here. Now if he put a new sock over it, it might not be so little, and Jerry and Martin would not have to be offended by these displays.
Re: hosiery, if the offensive team wore it on their heads, a la bank thieves, then we could call them the "No Face Offense", kinda like the old No-Name Defense. Makes it easier for PSLs to say "We wuz robbed".
For new/FA socks -1) Did they come from the consignment shop, or from the G'will recycle bin? 2) What name, if any , do they carry?3) Any evidence of drug use - check for spray, powder, or cream residues ?
Scott -This could be really SUPER, with NEW new sock stories every day, with different colors, shapes (within decency), sizes and denominations. And, of course, you would still get to cover unexplained losses. Are you ready for a change of pace...then GO FOR IT !!!
Scott,I think that the idea of more "new socks" stories has much merit, given the barren fall and winter we currently face. Your experience in writing non-offensive stories should serve you well. You should be able to get much mileage out of New Socks. Mooreover, more people would be able to appreciate the story line than, say, one about new shoes. Thank you for your consideration | {
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Question Answered: How does the perception of the American Dream differ around Chicago?
A curious citizen wondered if the dream’s meaning shifts according to socioeconomic class
October 16, 2012
Logan Jaffe and Jennifer Brandel
Lisa Doi grew up on the North Shore and went to North Shore Country Day School, a long way from the University of Pennsylvania, where she now studies anthropology and urban studies. The distance didn’t stop her from thinking of home when she posed this question:
How do conceptions of the American Dream differ across socio-economic class in the Chicago area? Do residents of the North Shore (especially Winnetka & Kenilworth) have different conceptions of what the American Dream is or its achievability than residents of lower socioeconomic communities (Rogers Park, Woodlawn, etc)?
At Curious City we often track down the most learned experts we can find to answer questions, but at Lisa’s request we didn’t turn to academia, interest groups or City Hall. And in lieu of precise surveys conducted in and limited to our region, we’re betting that people across the region are themselves equipped to take on this question.
We used data from the 2010 American Community Survey to identify places that showed radical differences in income and education. Then we took a road trip — microphones in hand — to hear what the American Dream means to residents in each area. Unscientific? Obviously. But, again, we’re hoping these accounts can spark a conversation on this question … and maybe that will lead to a solid answer. Of course, it becomes more so as we hear more voices, so feel free to sound off in the comments section or on Facebook or Twitter.
Below, you hear accounts gathered from areas that match Lisa Doi’s criteria of parts of our region that “differ across socio-economic class.” We now turn to you: Do you hear a difference?
Driving through North Shore Winnetka feels a little more like driving through an outdoor museum than it does a neighborhood. The streets wind between trim and spacious front yards, dotted with maple and ash trees. Most of the houses are two or three stories high, filled with families and maybe a dog or two. We found landscaping crews mowing lawns and blowing leaves off of upscale cars — often, two or three are in each driveway. Downtown Winnetka features a cobbled street with intricate light fixtures and a handful of boutiques and cozy brunch spots.
The folks we spoke with weren’t all from Winnetka, but were from suburbs along the North Shore. They mentioned family, education and home ownership when talking about the American Dream. There is an expectation to own — not rent — your own house, though people may hide their mortgage situations from each other, as one resident explains.
“I know on our street there were husbands who hadn’t been able to find a job in five years,” she said. “There were wives that were making two and three jobs because the husband has been cut back on hours. They just don’t talk about it.”
On the surface of this South Side neighborhood that’s dotted with small bungalows and tiny, fenced-in yards, things look fine. On the Tuesday we visited, people were out and about, running errands or coming home from school. But a few folks said the neighborhood was dangerous and getting more so. In particular, they cited an increase in gang violence.
In Mckinley Park we met Martin Salgado and Raymundo Menendez, two undocumented immigrants who are attending high school and hope to become U.S. citizens. Both said their American Dream is to finish school, get jobs and help out their families. They both said that’s achievable: All they have to do is work hard.
We also meet Rochelle Santiago, who takes pride in having a stable place to call home. She said a lot of people don’t even have a roof over their heads.
“So, I’ve accomplished something,” she said.
Another man, John, told us the American Dream isn’t about having “a million dollars” — it’s about working hard.
People we met in McKinley Park seem to relish in modest victories, taking their American Dream step by step. We didn’t talk to anyone who equated the American Dream with luxury or money alone. We did hear a lot of people say their dream and goal is to just be comfortable.
On a single street on the North Side’s Albany Park neighborhood, we found an Israeli-owned body shop, a Cambodian museum, a Mexican grocery store and lots of Middle-Eastern restaurants. We found people working and heard many different languages being spoken. The area has lots of apartment buildings, a handful of which are landscaped, and city buses are packed with people commuting in either direction.
We found Brenda Gucman doing laundry at Rags to Riches Laundromat. She told us she’s starting her own business selling things online. She added that starting something new is always a little nerve-wracking, but she’s sure something good will come of it. Her goal is to make more money than she does now.
We met several people like Brenda when we visited Albany Park. Many expressed confidence in entrepreneurship and resourcefulness, in other words, people hopeful in refitting the American Dream.
Just over the Indiana state border lies East Chicago, where we found people talking about “making it” in the world. A lot of people told us about living on government benefits and “waiting for their checks to come,” as Salena Colon, who lives there, explained. She said she knows people in town who have jobs at K Mart or McDonalds, but that’s about it.
We found two crossing guards (both women) who were sitting on a lopsided bench in a razed residential field between a nearby elementary school and the city’s main street. That’s where we asked them about the American Dream.
“It’s hard when all you know is the area you grew up in,” one of the women, Tamika, said, while tucking her arms inside a gray hoodie. Tears filled her eyes when we asked if she could imagine something better. She shook her head no.
The other crossing guard, Iesha, jumped in to tell us the American Dream is “anywhere but here.”
This question was reported collaboration with WBEZ’s Front and Center series. This month they’re reporting on economic mobility in the region. For more stories, click here.
Correction: the first posting of this story misstated the North Shore school Lisa Doi attended. She went to North Shore Country Day School. | {
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Nutter apparently killed it at the summit and we hear he was given a standing ovation for his speech on this admittedly complicated issue- an issue that tends to irk the inner Libertarian lurking beneath my candied progressive shell.
Gorge on this: Recent figures estimate that there are about 900,000 overweight or obese people living in Philadelphia, and it’s common knowledge that the various health issues afflicting our larger citizens tend to weigh down the rest of us by way of increased health care bills.
At the root of this problem is our maniacal compulsion to consume an ogre’s supply of the sweet stuff. During his speech, Mayor Nutter pointed out that “Philadelphians consume about 60 million gallons of sugar sweetened beverages each year. That’s a half a liter per day per person.” That works out to an extra 1,700 calories per week (give or take a few Ring Dings).
Here’s Mayor Nutter describing his logic behind his deceased soda tax (you can read the entire speech over at Philebrity):
“During my 2010 budget address, I proposed a sugar-sweetened beverage tax of two-cents-per-ounce for the first time. My hope was to impose a tax on retailers based on annual sales volume. We anticipated the tax would generate $77 million annually which we could use to fund a concentrated health initiative geared toward combating obesity.
In 2011, with Philadelphia’s School District facing a significant budget shortfall, I reintroduced the sugar-sweetened beverage tax. At two-cents-per-ounce, this time on distributors, we believed it would close the budget gap… Each time we introduced the sugar-sweetened beverage tax, we faced determined opposition from the beverage industry.”
While you may not entirely agree with the soda tax or New York’s Big Gulp ban, Mayor Nutter’s logic here is sound and his goal of lifting our inflated health care costs and improving public health through targeting obesity is, at the very least, admirable.
Of course, CNN has to come along and shit on everything, pointing out that just one day before his totally awesome speech, Mayor Nutter cut the ribbon at Philly’s new Shake Shack, which offers a peanut butter shake that has around 870 calories, 60 grams of fat and 69 grams of sugar (a 12 oz. can of Coke has around 39 grams of sugar).
As the talking heads of CNN explain, Mayor Nutter is somewhat obligated to attend these public ceremonies, but, in a way, his semi-gaffe serves to illustrate the complicated issue that belies his argument: Fat is everywhere, and as long as that’s the case, fat people will be everywhere. | {
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Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary-scaled p+p collisions. These measurements indicate that charm and bottom quarks interact with the hot dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions much more than expected. Here we extend these studies to two-particle correlations where one particle is an electron from the decay of a heavy-flavor meson and the other is a charged hadron from either the decay of the heavy meson or from jet fragmentation. These measurements provide more detailed information about the interactions between heavy quarks and the matter, such as whether the modification of the away-side-jet shape seen in hadron-hadron correlations is present when the trigger particle is from heavy-meson decay and whether the overall level of away-side-jet suppression is consistent. We statistically subtract correlations of electrons arising from background sources from the inclusive electron-hadron correlations and obtain two-particle azimuthal correlations at root s(NN) = 200 GeV between electrons from heavy-flavor decay with charged hadrons in p+p and also first results in Au+Au collisions. We find the away-side-jet shape and yield to be modified in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p collisions.
We present measurements of J/psi yields in d + Au collisions at root S-NN = 200 GeV recorded by the PHENIX experiment and compare them with yields in p + p collisions at the same energy per nucleon-nucleon collision. The measurements cover a large kinematic range in J/psi rapidity (-2.2 < y < 2.4) with high statistical precision and are compared with two theoretical models: one with nuclear shadowing combined with final state breakup and one with coherent gluon saturation effects. In order to remove model dependent systematic uncertainties we also compare the data to a simple geometric model. The forward rapidity data are inconsistent with nuclear modifications that are linear or exponential in the density weighted longitudinal thickness, such as those from the final state breakup of the bound state.
Measurements of double-helicity asymmetries in inclusive hadron production in polarized p + p collisions are sensitive to helicity-dependent parton distribution functions, in particular, to the gluon helicity distribution, Delta g. This study focuses on the extraction of the double-helicity asymmetry in eta production ((p) over right arrow + (p) over right arrow -> eta + X), the eta cross section, and the eta/pi(0) cross section ratio. The cross section and ratio measurements provide essential input for the extraction of fragmentation functions that are needed to access the helicity-dependent parton distribution functions.
We report on the event structure and double helicity asymmetry (A(LL)) of jet production in longitudinally polarized p + p collisions at root s = 200 GeV. Photons and charged particles were measured by the PHENIX experiment at midrapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.35 with the requirement of a high-momentum (> 2 GeV/c) photon in the event. Event structure, such as multiplicity, p(T) density and thrust in the PHENIX acceptance, were measured and compared with the results from the PYTHIA event generator and the GEANT detector simulation. The shape of jets and the underlying event were well reproduced at this collision energy. For the measurement of jet A(LL), photons and charged particles were clustered with a seed-cone algorithm to obtain the cluster pT sum (p(T)(reco)). The effect of detector response and the underlying events on p(T)(reco) was evaluated with the simulation. The production rate of reconstructed jets is satisfactorily reproduced with the next-to-leading-order and perturbative quantum chromodynamics jet production cross section. For 4< p(T)(reco) < 12 GeV/c with an average beam polarization of < P > = 49% we measured Lambda(LL) = -0.0014 +/- 0.0037(stat) at the lowest p(T)(reco) bin (4-5 GeV= c) and -0.0181 +/- 0.0282(stat) at the highest p(T)(reco) bin (10-12 GeV= c) with a beam polarization scale error of 9.4% and a pT scale error of 10%. Jets in the measured p(T)(reco) range arise primarily from hard-scattered gluons with momentum fraction 0: 02 < x < 0: 3 according to PYTHIA. The measured A(LL) is compared with predictions that assume various Delta G(x) distributions based on the Gluck-Reya-Stratmann-Vogelsang parameterization. The present result imposes the limit -a.1 < integral(0.3)(0.02) dx Delta G(x, mu(2) = GeV2) < 0.4 at 95% confidence level or integral(0.3)(0.002) dx Delta G(x, mu(2) = 1 GeV2) < 0.5 at 99% confidence level.
Transverse momentum spectra of electrons (p(T)(e)) from semileptonic weak decays of heavy-flavor mesons in the range of 0.3 < p(T)(e) < 9.0 GeV/c have been measured at midrapidity (|y| < 0.35) by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in p + p and Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. In addition, the azimuthal anisotropy parameter v(2) has been measured for 0.3 < p(T)(e) < 5.0 GeV/c in Au + Au collisions. The substantial modification in the p(T)(e) spectra in Au + Au compared with p + p collisions as well as the nonzero v(2) indicate substantial interactions and flow of heavy quarks in traversing the produced medium. Comparisons of these observables with detailed theoretical calculations can be used to identify the nature of these interactions and to quantify their extent.
Transverse momentum distributions and yields for pi(+/-), K-+/-, p, and (p) over bar in p + p collisions at root s = 200 and 62.4 GeV at midrapidity are measured by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These data provide important baseline spectra for comparisons with identified particle spectra in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We present the inverse slope parameter T-inv, mean transverse momentum < p(T)>, and yield per unit rapidity dN/dy at each energy, and compare them to other measurements at different root s in p + p and p + (p) over bar collisions. We also present the scaling properties such as m(T) scaling and x(T) scaling on the p(T) spectra between different energies. To discuss the mechanism of the particle production in p + p collisions, the measured spectra are compared to next-to-leading-order or next-to-leading-logarithmic perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations.
Heavy quarkonia are observed to be suppressed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions relative to their production in p + p collisions scaled by the number of binary collisions. In order to determine if this suppression is related to color screening of these states in the produced medium, one needs to account for other nuclear modifications including those in cold nuclear matter. In this paper, we present new measurements from the PHENIX 2007 data set of J/psi yields at forward rapidity (1.2 < vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.2) in Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. The data confirm the earlier finding that the suppression of J/. at forward rapidity is stronger than at midrapidity, while also extending the measurement to finer bins in collision centrality and higher transverse momentum (p(T)). We compare the experimental data to the most recent theoretical calculations that incorporate a variety of physics mechanisms including gluon saturation, gluon shadowing, initial-state parton energy loss, cold nuclear matter breakup, color screening, and charm recombination. We find J/psi suppression beyond cold-nuclear-matter effects. However, the current level of disagreement between models and d + Au data precludes using these models to quantify the hot-nuclear-matter suppression.
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the invariant differential cross section for production of K-S(0), omega, eta', and phi mesons in p + p collisions at root s 200 GeV. Measurements of omega and phi production in different decay channels give consistent results. New results for the omega are in agreement with previously published data and extend the measured p(T) coverage. The spectral shapes of all hadron transverse momentum distributions measured by PHENIX are well described by a Tsallis distribution functional form with only two parameters, n and T, determining the high-p(T) and characterizing the low-p(T) regions of the spectra, respectively. The values of these parameters are very similar for all analyzed meson spectra, but with a lower parameter T extracted for protons. The integrated invariant cross sections calculated from the fitted distributions are found to be consistent with existing measurements and with statistical model predictions.
Flow coefficients nu(n) for n = 2, 3, 4, characterizing the anisotropic collective flow in Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV, are measured relative to event planes Psi(n), determined at large rapidity. We report nu(n) as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality, and study the correlations among the event planes of different order n. The nu(n) are well described by hydrodynamic models which employ a Glauber Monte Carlo initial state geometry with fluctuations, providing additional constraining power on the interplay between initial conditions and the effects of viscosity as the system evolves. This new constraint can serve to improve the precision of the extracted shear viscosity to entropy density ratio eta/s.
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has performed systematic measurements of phi meson production in the K+K- decay channel at midrapidity in p + p, d + Au, Cu + Cu, and Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. Results are presented on the phi invariant yield and the nuclear modification factor R-AA for Au + Au and Cu + Cu, and R-dA for d + Au collisions, studied as a function of transverse momentum (1 < p(T) < 7 GeV/c) and centrality. In central and midcentral Au + Au collisions, the R-AA of phi exhibits a suppression relative to expectations from binary scaled p + p results. The amount of suppression is smaller than that of the pi(0) and the. in the intermediate p(T) range (2-5 GeV/c), whereas, at higher p(T), the phi, pi(0), and. show similar suppression. The baryon (proton and antiproton) excess observed in central Au + Au collisions at intermediate p(T) is not observed for the phi meson despite the similar masses of the proton and the phi. This suggests that the excess is linked to the number of valence quarks in the hadron rather than its mass. The difference gradually disappears with decreasing centrality, and, for peripheral collisions, the R-AA values for both particle species are consistent with binary scaling. Cu + Cu collisions show the same yield and suppression as Au + Au collisions for the same number of N-part. The R-dA of phi shows no evidence for cold nuclear effects within uncertainties. | {
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(Deming) – Deming students in kindergarten through sixth grade were recognized for their outstanding writing efforts during the 2014 Literacy Showcase Thursday evening. The Literacy Showcase was sponsored by the Gila Council, International Reading Association and Deming Public Schools. The Special Events Center was packed with students and their family members who were treated to a bilingual presentation by guest speaker Joe Hayes prior to the awards ceremony. Hayes is an award-winning author and nationally recognized teller of tales from the Hispanic, Native American and Anglo cultures. Currently residing in Santa Fe, Hayes spent the week appearing at various schools in the district prior to Thursday’s event. The students, representing each school in the district and each grade at the school, were then called onto the stage by name and presented with a medal in recognition of their selected writing. The winning writings from each school will be bound into a book which students and their families can purchase.
(Deming) – Here’s the area crime report: Jose Chacon, age 22, was arrested for DUI, driving while license was suspended or revoked, on a failure-to-stop driving violation and on a Magistrate warrant for failure to pay fines… Anna Lopez, age 24, was arrested on an Adult Probation and Parole Office warrant for a probation violation… Jason Torrez, age 30, of Santa Clara, was arrested on a District Court warrant for a probation violation… Victoria Martinez, age 24, was arrested on a Magistrate warrant for failure to pay fines and on a Lincoln County warrant for failure to pay fines… Nestor Varela, age 57, of Columbus, was cited for having an open container, having an expired driver’s license, no registration and no insurance… and Marc Bankole, age 27, of Albuquerque, was cited for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Also, a check belonging to a resident living off West Spruce was forged for over $700… and a surveillance camera valued at $200 was taken from a residence off North Zinc.
(Deming) – A Luna County woman was transported to the hospital following a one-vehicle accident Thursday. 55-year-old C.A. Jones suffered back and neck injuries in the accident that occurred just after 1 p.m. in the 11000 block – or extension – of Hermanas Grade. Jones was travelling north on Hermanas Grade when she lost control of her Ford Escort and landed in a ditch. Jones told Luna County Sheriff’s deputies that she was plugging in her cellular phone charger and lost control of her car when she took her eyes off the road. She was cited for careless driving.
COLUMBUS, New Mexico – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers working at the Columbus port of entry seized 201 pounds of marijuana in a pair of drug busts Thursday. Two residents of Deming, New Mexico were taken into custody. The seized drugs have an estimated street value of $160,800. “Thursday was a good day for CBP and a bad day for drug smugglers,” said Robert Reza, CBP Columbus Port Director. “Two significant marijuana loads did not make it to their intended destinations because of the hard work of CBP.” The first seizure of the day was made at approximately 8 a.m. when a GMC pickup truck entered the port from Mexico. A CBP officer at the primary inspection used a “Buster” density meter to inspect the vehicle and received readings consistent with hidden contraband. CBP officers scanned the vehicle with the Z-Portal x-ray system and noted a number of anomalies in the appearance of the truck. CBP drug sniffing dog “Winnie” also searched the vehicle and alerted to the presence of drugs. CBP officers located metal compartments attached to the rims of all four tires of the truck. The compartments were opened revealing bundles of marijuana. The drugs weighed 121 pounds. CBP officers took custody of the driver, 53-year-old Gloria Covarrubia Mendiola of Deming, New Mexico. She was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations agents to face charges associated with the failed smuggling attempt. The second seizure of the day was made at approximately 5:30 p.m. when a Chevrolet Silverado entered the port from Mexico. A team of CBP officers were performing an enforcement sweep of vehicles waiting in line before the primary inspection booths when CBP drug sniffing dog “Supi” alerted to the vehicle. CBP officers scanned the vehicle with the Z-Portal x-ray system and noted a number of anomalies in the appearance of a propane tank in the truck. CBP officers examined the tank and located a trap door at the bottom of the canister. A total of 75 marijuana-filled bundles weighing 80 pounds were removed from the tank. CBP officers took custody of the driver, 22-year-old Adrian Lopez of Deming, New Mexico. He was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations agents to face charges associated with the failed smuggling attempt.
(Deming) – An area ranch for troubled youth has settled its lawsuit against the state, agreeing to some oversight. John Krehbiel spoke with owners Scott and Collette Chandler on the air Friday morning about agreement.
Under the agreement signed Friday, the Tierra Blanca Ranch High County Youth Program has agreed to give the Children, Youth and Families Department access to students and their files for the next 12 months.
Previously, the state didn’t oversee programs such as Tierra Blanca.
The ranch also agrees not to use mechanical restraints, to supervise teens placed in segregation and to file incident reports. The Chandlers said they will be meeting the public during the Community Yard Sale that will be held at the Courthouse park March 15th. Persons wanting more information on the Ranch, or to offer support may contact Tierra Blanca Ranch High County Youth Program Post Office Box 1266 Deming, NM 88031. http://www.tierrablancaranch.com
(Deming) — The Deming City Council will meet in special Session Friday morning.Included on the agenda is a public hearing to consider the transfer of a liquor license to Walgreens for use at its new location at 122 North Gold Street. The councilors also will consider a job description for an economic development coordinator – a city position last held by Linda Smrkovsky before the position was absorbed several years ago by Luna County. And there will be three resolutions considered: one for a preliminary engineering report on a sewer collection system and one for a cell expansion of the regional landfill – both of those for applications to the New Mexico Finance Authority for The Colonias Infrastructure Fund, and one for an application and agreement with the New Mexico Department of Transportation to provide Municipal Arterial Program funds for reconstruction and rehabilitation of Gold Street. The meeting is set to begin at 9 a.m. Friday in the council chambers of the John Strand Municipal Building off South Gold. The meeting is open to the public.
(Deming) — Two Deming Dust Devils gymnasts qualified for the state competition to be held this weekend in Albuquerque. The two girls – 9-year-old Maribel Granillo and 8-year-old Kendra Hensley – will compete in four events: vault, floor, beam and bars. The competition will take place at the Albuquerque Gymnastics School, and coach Irma Chacon said they will compete against approximately 40 girls from around the state in each division. To qualify, the gymnasts must have a cumulative score of 31 or better in the four events. Granillo qualified with a cumulative score of 33.1, with a personal-best score of 8.85 in vault. And Hensley qualified for state with a cumulative 31.6, with a personal-best score in vault of 8.8. Chacon said this was the first competitive season for both Granillo and Hensley, but both girls have been active in Dust Devils Gymnastics for several years. Also noteworthy are the personal-best scores of two other Deming Dust Devil Gymnastics Team members: Sarah Kreft had a vault score of 8.4, and Esmeralda Serrano had a floor score of 8.4. Chacon said the competition season began in October. Also coaching the team is Elsa Rodriguez.
** Story Update** Deming Radio News has been informed by Deming Police Chief Gigante that the truck and driver have been located. The Investigation is Continuing. (Deming) – An 11-year-old boy was transported to the hospital by ambulance Wednesday after being struck by a pickup. The boy was riding a bicycle near the northwest entrance to Peppers Supermarket off Florida at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when he was struck by a green-colored Dodge. The boy sustained injuries to his left arm, left leg, ribs and mouth. The driver of the pickup immediately left the scene of the accident and is being sought by police. A witness described the truck as a 1990s-model green Dodge with faded, chipped paint, factory tires and rims, and non-tinted windows. The driver was described as in his 50s or 60s and wearing a baseball cap. Anyone with information on the driver is encouraged to call the Deming Police Department at 546-3011 or Crime Stoppers at 546-7800, or use TipSoft by anonymously submitting information via text to LUNATIP at CRIMES – or 274637.
(Deming) – Here’s the area crime report: Eric Peeler, age 43, was arrested for shoplifting at Peppers… Ramiro Palomarez, age 32, was arrested on two Magistrate warrants for failure to pay fines… John Munn, age 44, was arrested on a Magistrate warrant for failure to appear… Guadalupe Romero, age 36, was arrested on a Magistrate warrant for failure to pay fines… and Sarah Cordova, age 30, was arrested on a Municipal warrant for failure to pay fines. Also… a tire valued at $150 was damaged on a pickup parked off South 12th Street… and two donation jars were taken from a business off East Cedar.
(Deming) – Early voting for the March 4th municipal election ends Friday. Voters may vote weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the John Strand Municipal Building through this Friday, February 28th. Five people are running for mayor. They are: Larry Caldwell, Frank Carter II, Benny Jasso, Barbara Reedy and Shannon Relyea. Council District One incumbent David Sanchez is being challenged by brothers – Arsen Khanbabian and Edward Khanbabian. And three people – Victor Cruz, Christopher Mosier and Michal Rudloff – filed to represent District Two on the city council. On Election Day, voters in district one will vote at Bell Elementary, and voters in district four vote at Chaparral Elementary. Voters in districts two and three will not have a council position on the ballot, but will vote for mayor. Voters in district two vote at Torres Elementary, and voters in district three vote at Memorial Elementary.
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Yes, your story really does matter! Jesus commanded us to, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” He also told us as believers to “Go”, but we would not have to do it alone. The promise was we would receive power to tell what we had experienced and witnessed to “our” Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth.
What I have experienced in the Church, is we were really good at the ends of the earth part of those words of Jesus, but the Jerusalem part was difficult for all of us. It does seem to matter our age, whether we are (older or younger) Boomers, Baby Boomer, Gen Xers, Millennial’s we have all been called to tell the story. Matter of fact sometimes I have seen the older we get the more callous we are to the story.
We see it all the time with people going on a missions trip to some other part of the world. They are so excited to go and work day and night doing everything thing we can to impact the lives of those we are trying to reach in foreign country. They raise money from family and friends to have the experience of a different world. The mission may be to may feed, cloth, pass out literature, have gatherings on the streets and/or in buildings (or a combination of some of all) to see lives changed.
But when we get home from the incredible experience, does it really impact us in reaching our Jerusalem or does it get us excited about taking another mission trip. You see people in our neighborhood, in the work place, friends, teammates on our ball team, fine arts, or in our classrooms need to hear the story. These are people dealing with all kinds of issues and challenges in their lives and they to hear the story.
So what is it that keeps us from “our” Jerusalem? Is it the fear? Is it rejection?
Paul said it this way, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to very one who believes. Is it the message? You see there is a place where we come into the story. Call that experience, moment, or season what every you want, but the journey of being a Christ follower starts somewhere.
It is I Cor. 5:17 that says, “If any man or woman, boy, or girl be in Christ he is a new creation the old life is gone and a new life comes.” There is a change in your life.
But that is just the beginning of this exciting journey. Because everyone needs to not only come to faith or start the journey, but they really need to own the experience. What do I mean? A person needs to own their experience?
If a person owns their relationship with Jesus it will impact how they live their life, for the rest of their life.
As a person lives there life, they will out of the natural interactions be able to share their story with others. In the church that has been called witnessing. I really believe it is the fear of witnessing that scares people from witnessing. You see your story and your journey from darkness to light is powerful. It is your story and it has the potential to resonate with the people God brings into your path. When you step out or look for opportunities to share your story those opportunities will come. It maybe with a family member, friend, colleague, or a stranger who needs to hear “your” story.
When you come to faith, when you understand the fact that you need to own your faith, it isn’t your dad or moms, or friends faith it is yours, you will live it. Think about it this way. You come faith, then you have to own the message, when you own it, you will live it, when you live it you will naturally share it. I really believe if you own, live, and share your story, you will keep your faith for a lifetime. Through all your life-turns, changes, and challenges your will have a solid foundation to build your life on.
There is an old hymn that I remember singing. I can see mom at the piano or on the organ and dad at the pulpit leading the congregation in singing these powerful words, “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.” It is the second verse says, “When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gal, my anchor holds within the veil.” Then third verse we would sing,
When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh, may I then in Him be found. Dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.” Then the chorus, “On Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand.”
There are going to be struggles and challenges in your life, but when you life is build on the foundation of the rock you are going to have opportunities for you to share your story. How God transformed your life. You will be able to tell about what your life was like before you became a follower of Christ and what has happened since that time in your story.
You see, if you own and live your faith, just be ready God opens the door for you to share your story. As you continue to share your story of transformation and struggle to be fully alive in Christ, the story you share will keep you alive in Christ for a life-time.
Your Story…it is yours. Own it! Live it! Share it! Keep it fresh and alive for a life-time!
Do really realize that “Your Story” really does matter?
It could just be that “someone” who your life intersects who just needs to hear “your” story. It just could be your story that will help them to write a “Better” story as together, we invite people to pursue the struggle of becoming fully alive in God.
I watched the Minnesota Timberwolves battle the Los Angeles Lakers in the first game of the 2015-16 season. It was a great game that really caught my attention. Even though it was on late, I decided to watch it to the end and boy am I glad I did. Early on the Lakers where very much in control of the game, but late in the contest the Timberwolves started to chip away at the lead.
In the fourth quarter it felt like the momentum had changed as they Timberwolves came back. The young players on the court, Ricky Rubio, Andrew Wiggins, Carl-Anthony Towns, Zach Levine and Shabazz Muhamand and Serbian Nemanja (Serbian star) came back from 14 points down to take a 9 point lead. But the Lakers fought back in the closing minute of the game to take the lead. But with just 5 seconds left in the game, Wolves #1 pick the 2015 NBA Draft, the rookie hit a shot that gave the lead and the win.
What I saw at the end of the game impressed me. It is a picture that will stick in my mind and one that I believe we all can learn from and apply in our lives.
The closing of the game was incredible. The Minnesota Timberwolves older experienced veterans up off the bench cheering on their teammates. They watched as the baton was being passed. They were in the game a lot differently than they were used of being in the game. They were all used of being on the floor, listen to the coach design the play or call the defense. In that huddled they were getting ready to have their number called t0 take the last shot. But not last night! No they were cheering the young inexperienced players with so much potential as they try to win the game against the Los Angeles Lakers. With veteran, Hall of Fame player Kobe Bryant on the floors with his team, now in a different role on the team, veterans Kevin Garnett, Andre Miller, Tayshaun Prince, and Kevin Martin not even in the game when the game was on the line.
But the picture of these veterans with their arms around each other and as the camera pans their way jumping up and down as 1st pick in the 2015 draft, Karl-Anthony Towns hits a turn-around jump shot to put the T-wolves up 112 -111. Then during the ensuing time-out with just 4.2 seconds left, the emotional encouragement of the veterans of the young players to finish and win the game.
I believe that in life you get an opportunity to lead. At sometime and someplace you are given the opportunity to step to the plate and take the lead. I also believe there is a time when the baton gets passed on, either in a positive or negative way. When the experienced star, they guy that is used to being in the limelight, gives way to the inexperienced up-coming star to see them thrive in and under the pressure of the moment.
Whether that is in sports, church world, a company or organization there comes a time. There is a time for the baton to be pass.
How will? How are? How did you handle that time in your life as a business owner, entrepreneur, team member, CEO, lead pastor, or any other position of change?
Wow, what a moment in Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball and an one I will never forget. What a moment of teaching for those of us who truly desire pass the baton to the next generation as they dream and lead, as the spotlight of life pans away to the next generation!
Just a couple of days ago a man who has had an impact on Minnesota basketball, passes away. This morning the head coach for the Minnesota Gopher Football team abruptly retires. And “Suddenly”.
In August he announced that he was stepping down as the coach the Minnesota Timberwolves, due to health issues. Then a couple of months later, Flip Saunders has died. Then, this morning Coach Jerry Kill abruptly and tearfully announced in a press conference that he would be retiring, saying his epilepsy has become too draining on him to continue his exhaustive effort to turn the program (University of Minnesota football) into a Big Ten power.
Kill stated he had two seizures this week and went to practice Tuesday anyway, hoping he could still make this (coaching) work. But the toll of his body, his mind, and his family has become too big. Kill said he has not slept more than three hours on any night in the last three-week.
“I went through a bad situation two years ago, and I’m headed right back there,” Kill said. His wife, Rebecca, has been staying up all night to monitor him in case of another seizure. He went on to say, “Hell, that ain’t anyway to live,”
Flip Saunders announced in August he was being treated for Hodgkin Lymphoma. His doctors considered it to be “very treatable and curable,” and he continued to remain the Timberwolves’ head coach and president of basketball operations. Then he was hospitalized with a “setback” in September, the team announced that He would miss the entire 2015-16 season.
Then, “suddenly” the announcement came, “The NBA family is mourning today of the loss of our friend and colleague, Flip Saunders,” said Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner.
“Flip untimely passing has left a gaping hole in the fabric of our league. Flip was a beloved figure around the NBA, nowhere more than in Minnesota, demonstrating a genuine and consistent passion for his players, his team, and the game.” And then suddenly this great man, coach,on Oct. 25, 2015. “The NBA family is mourning today of the loss of our friend and colleague, Flip Saunders.”
Reflecting on all these two stories I came to the realization that things and life can change “suddenly”. My then “suddenly” happened, February 17, 2009. I was in for a routine doctor visit, from which I was being rushed in an ambulance to Methodist Hospital, to learn that I had congestive heart failure. My ejection fraction (fluid being pumped through the heart) was just 10%. The cardiologist told us that my heart was enlarged and collecting fluid, and I had a leaky heart valve. Then “Suddenly!”
There are circumstances that cause direction of ones life to take a drastic turn. Sometimes after many years of being in a position you love, or a place that you have dreamed of being, or a phone call, appointment, or doctor visit.
Change is inedible. We don’t really know when it is coming. Sometimes that change happens over a period of time as we evaluate a situation or our circumstance that is happening in our life. Other times it is a “suddenly”. One that you never expected to happen, nor were you prepared to happen. One of those things that happen other’s health, families or careers.
None of us are immune to any of these scenario in life.
As the sport’s announcers and radio talk show hosts and commenters deal with these losses we realize it can happen to anyone at any time.
And suddenly!
Whether in seemly the battle with cancer and a setback, or who abruptly has to leave the profession of coaching of 32 years he loved. Just remember not one of us are immune to then “Suddenly”.
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
This is a very interesting quote. Throughout all of my life I have studied and learned about leadership. Taking the principles that have have learned and applying them as I have invested in others by adding value to to leaders who lead others.
“Leadership is influence: Nothing more and nothing less.” John C. Maxwell
Simply put, leaders influence others and great leaders do more than just inspire people to follow the leader them, but inspire others to have confidence in themselves to be the best they can be. When that happens everyone wins.
When I was a young leader myself, I came across this quote that really shaped how I would lead as a leader. In my desire becoming the best I could be and be a great leader, I put this on my refrigerator door and everyday I would read…
“A great leader will allow others to go further than they can go themselves”.
A great leader knows how to challenge, encourage, and instill confidence in people to dream bigger dreams and accomplish even greater things than they ever thought possible. In other words, a great leader will allow others to go further than they ever thought possible, even bigger than the person that who inspires them to dream and that is ok with the person who inspires their dream.
Do you have someone in your life that is challenging or coaching you to shoot for the moon? Over the course of my life, I have personally had people who invested in me and challenged me to think big. Is there someone in your life or on your team you are mentoring, leading, and challenging them to dream bigger and accomplish greater things? Who knows you just might be investing in a world changer!
So here is a question for you.
What is your dream, your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)? But too, who in your life is going to help you accomplish your dream to be a better you, so you can be a better we (part of a team).
When you become the best you can be (Be Great at You), you will have the confidence to be a better at we. Whether you are the boss, employer, employee or part of a team. Your investment in you will make you a much better teammate as you push toward the goals the team sets.
I believe there is one key to accomplishing great things. It is simply the confidence that you can and are becoming the best you possibly can be. You might want to check out Ephesians 3:20.
I was just sitting at Starbucks one afternoon doing some strategic planning. When a 23 year old young man leans over to ask me a question. Because I had kind of been overhearing his conversation with a couple of young ladies, I had a pretty good idea of what he might ask. And sure enough it was a question that I have been asked many in my 38 years working with young people. It was a simple and straight forward question, yet one of the very the most complex and puzzling questions anyone could ever ask.
He politely said, “Sir, can I ask you a question?” I responded, “Sure you can.” He asked the question, “What do you think is the meaning to life?” Wow, that is one of those loaded questions. So, not knowing where he was coming from I began by answering his question with a question. I began trying to find out where he was on the spectrum of that question, in his journey in life.
So I began to explore where he was coming from by restating the question from the word “meaning” of life to “purpose” of life. As he responded to my question, he told me where he was philosophically. So we proceeded to have a very interesting conversation around this very simple, complexed and puzzling question that many people are asking.
My question to you is simply this, “How would you have responsed to the question?”
What have you discovered in you journey in life to be the answer to that question?
Criticism is something as a leader that you have to learn to deal with and face head on. If you don’t it will kill you and your leadership. It is just a matter of fact, not everyone is going to just love your ideas or line up with you philosophy. Many times your motives will be questioned and so learning what to do with criticism as a leader becomes very important.
I learned these principles early on in my leadership development when my mentor of mine, Robert M. Graber that gave me some incredible advice. Those words that day have stuck with me all through and have been important in dealing with criticism both personally and professionally as continue in my development as a leader.
The first thing is to simply to consider the source. So in another words that person that is has said something, sent you a text or email are they someone you know? If so how close are they to you or are they a person who has a reputation of being a critical? Take a moment before you let it get to you and consider the where the negativity is coming from.
The second thing is to take an honest look at what is being said or the criticism that you are receiving. This might be the hardest part in the process. To be honest with your self about the particular thing that is being brought into question. It is really easy at this point to just be defensive in your mindset, but it is critical to learning how to handle criticism in your life. So being willing to face the truth with your self is very important.
The third thing, after you have made an honest assessment of information, is to do something with that criticism. So if what is being said, is true, accept what as being said as being constructive criticism. So you next step is to begin to apply the changes needed to the situation or take the comments and make the necessary modifications in your life or in the way you are leading.
The fourth thing is simple, yet very hardest part. But is can only happen after you have looked at the source, taken an honest look, and decided to take action. So what action do you take with criticism if the person making the critical remarks is not a good source or what they are saying just does not apply, then simply throw it in trash. You remove the negativity from your memory bank. You simple get rid of it and move to face the many more challenges and opportunities you will face in your life and development as a leader.
Thank you Robert M. Graber for sharing these words with me many years ago!
How do you deal with criticism? Because as a leader, you know it will come.
When I was in elementary school Friday’s where a special day. Yes, it was the last day of the week and I knew that the weekend was coming and not school. But that was not the significance of the day being special. The reason it was special was because Friday’s someone in the class would get picked to wash the blackboard.
You see, all week the teacher would write on the blackboard, not a a smart board like today, and then she would erase and write on it again and erase and write on it again and the process would go on all week. But when she erased you could still see the “smudges” of the chalk on the board. But Friday was different, because it was the day the blackboard got not only erased but washed. And the good part was, If you were chosen for the blackboard it was a special honor. Because when everyone else was doing their assignments, you did were excused from the assignment because you were washing the blackboard. When you finished the project the blackboard was not full of erased chalk markings, but it was totally clean and perfectly black, it was like it was brand new.
I have told many people the story using this backboard as our lives. Because when we sin (we all will and do) it is like the chalk marks on the blackboard. Even though we try to erase what we have done, you still seem to be able to see writing coming through. But did you know, “The blood that Jesus shed for you way back on calvary, The blood that gives you strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. It reaches to the highest mountain. It flow to the lowest valley. The blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power.” (Crystal Lewis – The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power)
It is simply the blood that washes away all your sin. I John 1:9 say, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Simple put…when we ask God to forgive us, he washes our blackboard and all the “smudges” are going forever.
But you don’t have to wait till Friday. Because every time you ask He (Jesus) who shed his blood for you and me, forgives your sin and washes your blackboard clean.
A friend calls and the guy who had just made you breakfast the morning before, has been electrocuted in a freak accident.
A doctor rushes into your room at a clinic telling you he is rushing you to the hospital with congestive heart failure.
A call from a relative telling you a teenage daughter died in her sleep.
A young adult you have tried to help commits suicide in a hotel room.
A UPS driver, who was in adult education class you taught is murdered.
A couple in your small group’s teenage nephew is murdered.
A friend of your wife calling telling you her mother has been murdered and turn on the news and sure enough it is the lead story.
It’s always somebody else’s story until it happens to you. It’s always just the lead story in the 10 o’clock news, or an article on the newspaper, or it is just another phone call, a doctor’s appointment, or a conversation…until.
You know the person in the lead story of the 10 o’clock news. Or you know the person who the newspaper article is about, or you get the phone call after something tragic has happened. It might be a , doctor’s appointment, or a conversation with a friend, co-worker, or family member that brings you into the story.
Isn’t it always somebody else’s story. Yes, just brush off the lead story or skim over the newspaper article until it’s yours. When you are brought into the story it changes everything and we never know when it all is going to change. Very seldom does a warning light flash and prepare us for what we are about to journey through.
It is real life. It is part of the journey. Those are our (the Buschow’s) calls, conversations, doctor appointment, so I guess it isn’t always someone else’s story when it is your story.
Romans 8:28 says, “All things work together for good to those who are called according to his purpose.” This too is real life. He (God) is there with us in the journey. So as we live life we are never alone. Phil 4:6-7 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Friends, I don’t have a clue how that happens, but I do know you can have peace in the midst of very difficult things you are facing or going through in life.
What is Collaboration? It is defined as, “The interaction among two or more individuals that can range from a variety of actions, like communication, sharing of information, coordination, cooperation, problem solving and negotiation. It really is a process of a group of people working together or the act of working jointly. It usually occurs when two or more people interact and exchange knowledge in the pursuit of a shared, collective goal.”
The question that I often get asked about the mission and vision of Allies is this, “Is the sometimes difficult process of collaboration a relevant and worthwhile effort?”
My passionate response to that question is, “YES it is!” I believe the best way, in this ever changing world, is to maximize our efforts, experience and expertise with a common vision. I realize everyone has a role and as we bring people to be part of the conversation we are able to have a greater impact, together. Everyone cannot do everything well, but as we do our part and work together as other like-minded people and organizations focused on the mission, our synergistic approach allows us to do more as resources (people and financial) are leveraged to reach and mentor the next generation.
What a week! After 67 games, the NCAA’s big dance and the Road to Atlanta is history. Last night, Louisville was crowned the 2013 NCAA Champions. Now, this week will end on Sunday with someone putting on a green jacket at the Master’s in Augusta, GA. Then, for the many golfers in MN, we wait in expectation of 6 inches of snow that will further cause the beginning of the 2013 golf season to be delayed another week. We will not be playing, but we will be watching.
It is Master’s week! Just like many of you, I love the Master’s Tournament. I am not sure if there is anything like “Amen Corner” in golf. And on Sunday, there always seems to be a lot of excitement, anticipation and drama as the leaders line up for that second shot into the par 5, and the possibility of an eagle putt. Yes…I cannot wait for this weekend in April. I may get a little more excited than most 😉
Who do you think is going to win the 2013 Masters and be putting on the green jacket on Sunday? My guess is Rory. | {
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Welcome Humphrey Fellow Lazare Sebitereko Rukundwa to the Schar School
The Schar School is Dr. Rukundwa’s last stop after spending time at Cornell University and Penn State University. His intention is to learn best-practices in higher education leadership and administration to replicate in his home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more
Ebola has killed 19 people and infected 39 more in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last month. Despite this being the ninth time the deadly virus has struck the region since it was identified in 1976, the fear is rising again that another devastating outbreak could kill thousands. Read More
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Is a higher learning institution (University) based in highlands of Minembwe, South Kivu Province. Created in 2000 and accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and Universities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), under ministerial decree as a college. It was a credited as a private university in 2011 under Ministerial decree. The university is an undergraduate program with 4 Faculties.
The word of the President and Rector
Welcome to Eben-Ezer University of Minembwe (UEMI).
When we started went around sharing the vision of having the university in rural Minembwe region, many people including close friends, they said “it is too remote, less accessible, there are no infrastructures….”. Others told me politely “it is a good vision….but, not viable at the moment”. Yet people were very direct and told me that it is impossible. With few friends and colleagues who believed in this dream, we almost said in our prayers, God “give us that task”! Years down on this difficult path, the vision is taking shape while the grassland is filled with life. Hundreds of young people, boy and girls, adults and old are making their daily journeys to share knowledge.
Commitment to transform rural communities through education is a high calling, a determination to change the status of poverty, ignorance and tribal conflict that have landlocked people form many years. University education in Minembwe involves unmeasurable sacrifices of dedicated people who dare to challenge harsh environment. Some have lost their lives in pursuit of peace, education and spiritual renewal for the region.
UEMI leadership believes that the university is the catalyst of sustainable rural development, and it is working with its faculty, staff, communities and local partners to ensure that its 2025 vision of high quality education in rural setting is achieved. It is a journey of discovery, sharing, growth and celebration.
The university's vision is to build local communities by providing required resources for knowledge production and sharing of cultural values; to produce graduates who are academically competent and whose skills are relevant to local context to instill transformative message. The knowledge production is participative and collective task, whereby local and external partners are equally invited to take part.
Challenges are enormous, not to discourage us, but to serve as opportunities to make this rural and remote village an integral part of the global knowledge development. There is no remote place for an impactful service with love. You are invited to join forces with us to make this dream a reality.
Dr. Rukundwa Sebitereko Lazare
President and Rector of Eben-Ezer University of Minembwe, DRCHumphrey Fellow, Penn State University, College of Education, USA | {
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You may remember a post from the time my friend Rae-Anne Montague—professor of library and information science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa—and I presented on developing queer/library alliances at the American Association of School Librarians National Conference in November. On June 6, Rae and I again spoke on some of the same topics at the Children’s Literature Hawai‘i Seventeenth Biennial Conference at Chaminade University in Honolulu during a session called “A Queer Library Alliance for Young People: Using Books with LGBTQ content.” We wanted to provide information about that state of queer issues and materials—especially in libraries and especially with regards to local concerns in Hawai‘i—and how libraries, community organizations, teachers, and parents can select materials and work with community partnerships to improve the lives of young people whose lives are impacted by discrimination of LGBTQ folks.
The conference was absolutely fantastic. We attended other sessions at the conference, including a paper presentation about the ways that picture book adaptations of mo‘olelo from the 1970s both subvert and reinforce settler colonial lenses, a talk introducing works that blend elements of Japanese manga and Native Hawaiian culture, and a workshop on teaching peace and social justice to kids using books. CLH does some pretty amazing work, and we were happy to join them.
Here’s the abstract from our talk:
This session includes three sections. Firstly, we review options for selecting materials with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (GLBTQ) content to support personal and community goals. Secondly, we look at challenges to providing access to queer materials. Finally, we consider possibilities to develop collections and programming with GLBTQ content aligned with emerging needs of children and young adults. Presenters will offer ideas and incorporate examples to encourage participants to share knowledge and engage in open discussion throughout the session.
Slides from our talk (PowerPoint and PDF), as well as a nonfiction bibliography handout generously provided by Christine Jenkins and Michael Cart, are available for sharing! I think our talk was useful for several people who attended the conference, and we hope that you find the slides useful, too. We’ve also got a photo of us from our session, sharing books that we’d particularly wanted to recommend.
Yang Luo is a PhD student at GSLIS UIUC who studies the history of children’s libraries in China. Ever since she successfully defended her dissertation proposal last spring, I’d been anxious to hear more about the work that she’s been doing. Plans for an interview (conducted under the auspices of the Center for Children’s Books) were put on hold when I found out that Yang would be conducting field research in China this past summer. I’m delighted to say that I’ve finally had a chance to speak more thoroughly with Yang about her research to feature it through the CCB. Though it’s slated to be released with the CCB newsletter on December 2, you can read the full interview with Yang on the CCB website. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Yang says of her research, “I’m specifically looking at the time period from 1912-1937. I begin with 1912 because that year marks the foundation of a new Republic of China after hundreds of years of imperial rule. I end with 1937, at the dawn of the Sino-Japanese War. I’m interested in the development and genesis of children’s libraries during this time, and my initial investigation has found several factors during this time period—modern education reform, the public library movement, the Republic’s investment in child welfare, influence of Western librarianship, the appearance of children’s rooms and children’s literature—that converge to form children’s libraries in the early twentieth century.”
She says, “As China pays more attention to youth services today—we’re seeing more programs and libraries for young people being opened—I hope my research will answer the first question we should ask: ‘Where did we come from? How did we get here?'”
Yang says she draws her inspiration from Hu Shi, an advocate for education reform and young people in China during the time period she’s interested in. He was greatly influenced by John Dewey, and I think he’s someone I’d like to draw inspiration from as well. Yang shared this quote during our interview:
“It is not a disgrace for a nation to lack a navy or an army. It is only a disgrace for a nation to lack public libraries, museums, and art galleries. Our people must get rid of this kind of disgrace.”
On November 15, I had the opportunity to present alongside Rae-Anne Montague, currently assistant dean for student affairs at GSLIS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/soon to be assistant professor at the LIS program at University of Hawaii Manoa, at the American Association of School Librarians 16th National Conference. Our session examined incorporating materials and programming with LGBTQ content into school libraries. Here’s the abstract from our presentation:
This session includes three sections. Firstly, we review options for selecting materials with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (GLBTQ) content to support curricular and personal goals. Secondly, we look at challenges to providing access to resources. Finally, we consider possibilities to develop collections and programming with GLBTQ content aligned with community needs. We will offer ideas and incorporate examples to encourage participants to share knowledge and engage in open discussion throughout the session.
The library where I work has recently been working on a large project converting from the Dewey Decimal system of classification to the Library of Congress. It’s been taking us a while, but we’ve finally moved on to the last phase: our large collection of media, including DVDs, video games, audiobooks, etc.
It’s understandable that with such a large undertaking, mistakes will be made. I would hardly expect every single item to be correctly catalogued during the conversion process. And I’ve been proven right, from minor technical errors (the misplacement of a decimal point) to major categorization flubs (‘Why is The Flintstones filed under “Celtic languages”?’), I’ve come across a number of labels that have had to be changed. It’s not a difficult process–if something doesn’t seem right, I just hand it off to our local staff person who works in cataloguing (we have a separate cataloguing branch as well; they assigned the call numbers in the first place), she looks it up and decides whether it needs to be changed. The other day, I was shelving a batch of DVDs, and came across a call number mistake that wasn’t just odd–it made me angry.
Disney’s Pocahontas was assigned a main entry of E99.P85. For those who don’t have LoC call numbers memorized (which I’m assuming is most people), E is the broad heading for American History. Numbers in the range around E90 are specifically American Indian History, and E99 is for History of Tribal Groups. The P85 specifies further the tribe the book is about.
Pocahontas was being classified as a historically accurate documentary.
I’d like to think this was some sort of mistake. But according to OCLC Classify, there are 1242 holdings of this film classified under this call number in libraries that submit data to OCLC. Pocahontas was deliberately assigned a call number such that it could pose as Native history.
I doubt I need to convince you that this film does not accurately represent the history of the woman who was Matoaka, but just in case, here’s a statement from the Powhatan Renape Nation, as well as information from multiple othersources. What I’m concerned about is the carelessness that librarians have taken in curating information about people.
I would argue that librarians have a social responsibility to the public they are trying to serve. Part of that responsibility is to make sure that information about people is not only available and readily accessible (via good classification schemes) but also that such information is curated in intellectually honest (and, I would suggest, socially just) ways.
Native peoples have had not only their lands and their lives, but also their histories taken away from them and misrepresented for hundreds of years. The colonialist imaginary has justified what is essentially genocide by taking indigenous stories and twisting them to fit a destructive mold that permits the violence of colonialism. Pocahontas is one of those stories. Kids who grow up knowing Pocahontas as their story about American Indians grow up knowing lies about who American Indians are and the history surrounding the colonization of America, and very specifically, grow up learning lies about the Powhatan tribe, John Smith, and the founding of Jamestown. I was trained in the academic study of children’s literature by Debbie Reese, who documents extensively the dangers of the misrepresentation of American Indian lives and cultures in her wonderful, wonderful blog, American Indians in Children’s Literature. (I specifically use the plural, because there is no one “Indian culture.” That is another colonial myth.) I will leave the more in-depth discussion about representation specifically to her and others like her, more qualified than I to discuss such matters.
What I am concerned about here is the fact that fiction posing as truth is allowed by the field of library science to continue to do so. Even if you are quick to dismiss my rant on Pocahontas as left-leaning polemics (an accusation I’d be proud to bear), you must admit that it is intellectually dishonest to call an animated film with talking trees “history.” Debbie has written elsewhere about The Education of Little Tree, which was passed off an an autobiography before being exposed as a fraud. Many libraries still have the book classified as a biography.
It is critical that if we wish, as information professionals, to right some of the wrongs that have been perpetrated in American history against marginalized groups, that we not allow such things to happen. Indeed, classification in this way only perpetuates this kind of misrepresentation and oppression.
I refused to put Pocahontas on the shelf as history, and I requested that we find another classification for it. It now resides alongside other feature-length, fictional films. But it is critical that we continue to ask ourselves the same kinds of questions. The ways libraries present information matters. I cannot help but think of a tribally enrolled member of the Powhatan nation coming into our library and seeing that film on the shelf, posing as their tribal history. How are cataloguers acting as the arbiters of saying what counts as authentic information? I think of the ways that books on Native religion are often classified as “folklore” instead of as genuine religion, or the ways in which films with a queer protagonist are automatically classified under “sexuality,” while heterosexual softcore porn with names like Pleasure Party masquerade as being about “relationships.”
When we recenter our analytics outside of the dominant (white, cis-masculinist, able-bodied, and heterosexual) viewpoint, what does our method of knowledge classification look like? This is a question I wish to continually ask myself as a librarian, and I want to make central to library science. Let’s not be dishonest about people’s lives.
I’m becoming more wired. I guess it was unavoidable. They don’t call my (hopefully) future field library and information science for no reason. So, I’m keeping this blog, I’ve joined the Twitter-verse, and finding lots of things online that I enjoy and are actually useful.
But I’m processing all of this, too. I just got back from a brownbag discussion of a TED video about how the Net can actually help support dictatorships. The link is here. And the resulting discussion with a psychology professor and a librarian I work with led me to start thinking about what it means to be a good user of information technology.
Until recently, I’ve resisted a lot of informatics advances. (I like books. They don’t crash.) But I don’t think that’s helpful. My goal in life is (I think) to help connect people to information in ways that are socially conscious. Librarian-as-social-justice type stuff. And it’s information technology for a reason. The information comes first. And then the technology.
One thing that really struck me in the video is the Hierarchy of Cyber-needs. Modelled on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, it purports that we can become self-actualized users of technology (as another TED talk-er has put it, “cyborgs”) by moving up categories of entertainment and sharing to actually becoming socially conscious users of info tech. My question is, now: How do we do it?
Don’t get me wrong. I like watching funny videos of cats sometimes. But making info tech into entertainment and cyber-sharing has done more harm than good. I like people too much to become walled-in by that. But how can I, as someone invested in the use of information technology, use it as a tool to connect people to information they need? It’s not an easy question. It’s probably the biggest question in all of LIS anymore. I don’t have the answers. But I’m glad to be joining the conversation. Even if it’s on Twitter. | {
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Team FEAR Photos ready!
It is my absolute pleasure to present you with our photos for 2019, a remarkable effort from a wonderful group of people who have literally crawled up waterfalls and through muddy creeks to get this amazing collection of photos of this event.
More than half of our photographers don’t have kids in the event, but instantly answered yes when I asked them to put in a huge effort for other people’s kids. I personally took more than 2000 photos on the day and I expect everyone was the same.
Then the real work begins. The editing job is a massive task, done by people with busy lives and jobs. But the end result? I think that speaks for itself. My sincere thanks to my team, a fabulous group of committed people:
Downloading the photos is free but if you are able to make a contribution for the photos you download (which will go towards Youth Outreach) we would be very grateful. The PayPal link is on the website photo page: http://teamfear.hk/1IUGfBz. | {
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I’m just about done with the notes for each book, but I wondered if any of you had anything in particular you wanted to know about any of those kids up there, that you’d like me to address in the notes. Hit me! | {
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CLEVELAND, OH–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio announced a lawsuit challenging three controversial abortion-related amendments passed in June as part of the massive state budget bill. The suit alleges all three amendments violate the Ohio Constitution’s “single subject” rule and are therefore unconstitutional.
“To put it simply, none of these amendments have any place in the state budget bill,” said Susan Scheutzow, ACLU cooperating attorney and partner at the law firm of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. “This massive bill is not intended to deal with new policy; the single subject of the budget should be the appropriation of funds for existing government programs or obligations.”
One of the amendments in question bans public hospitals from making transfer agreements with abortion clinics. Another requires clinics to follow a government script when dealing with patients and to present those patients with evidence of a fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion or face criminal charges. A third amendment creates a new state “parenting and pregnancy” program that siphons state money directly into private organizations that are forbidden from mentioning abortion services.
“The first two amendments have nothing at all to do with budget appropriations,” said Jessie Hill, ACLU cooperating attorney and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. “The third is also unconstitutional because it creates and funds an entirely new government program, something that requires stand-alone legislation.”
“This litigation is as much about good government as it is about reproductive justice,” added ACLU of Ohio Executive Director Christine Link. “You don’t have to be pro-choice to understand that there are rules, and those rules must be followed.”
The suit was filed on behalf of Preterm, a Cleveland women’s health clinic that provides contraception, birth control, pregnancy counseling, and abortion services.
“Everyday we see families facing deeply personal decisions, and I can tell you that they don’t need nor want politicians in the middle of those decisions,” said Preterm Executive Director Chrisse France. “I can also tell you that these amendments have nothing to do with helping those families.”
“In the end, laws aimed at shutting down clinics by any means necessary will neither prevent abortions, nor protect women’s health,” added France. “All they do is waste time and resources while making civil debate that much more difficult.” | {
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Bills win wild one over Oakland
Sep 19, 2011 - 1:20 AM
Orchard Park, NY (Sports Network) - David Nelson caught a six-yard touchdown
pass with 14 seconds remaining to give Buffalo the lead and Da'Norris Searcy
picked off Oakland's last-second heave in the end zone, as the Bills held on
for a 38-35 win over the Raiders in a wild shootout at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
In a game that saw four fourth-quarter lead changes, both teams erupted for
935 total yards.
Nelson's touchdown catch capped a 14-play, 80-yard drive and gave Buffalo a
three-point edge. Jason Campbell then gave the Raiders one last shot with a
24-yard pass to Denarius Moore, leaving just six seconds on the clock.
Following an incomplete pass, Campbell threw to the end zone from his own 44-
yard line and Searcy came down with the ball in traffic for the game-sealing
interception.
"Denarius did have his hand on the ball, but it looked like the defender had
control of it and obviously they came away with that one," Raiders head coach
Hue Jackson said.
The Bills (2-0) overcame a 21-3 halftime deficit by scoring touchdowns on each
of their five second-half possessions.
This is the first time Buffalo has started 2-0 since they began 4-0 in 2008.
They finished 7-9 that season. The Bills defeated Kansas City 41-7 in week
one.
Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 28-of-46 passes for 264 yards and three scores
while throwing one interception. Fred Jackson scored twice and totaled 117
yards on 15 carries. He added two catches for 23 yards.
"He made great decisions out there," Bills linebacker Nick Barnett said. "He's
a good locker room guy, he keeps his composure, if he keeps doing that we may
have a guy on our hands."
Nelson had 10 receptions -- including five on the final drive -- for 83 yards
and the winning score. Stevie Johnson added 96 yards and a touchdown on eight
catches.
Campbell threw from 323 yards and two touchdowns of 23-of-33 passing. His lone
interception came on a Hail Mary to end the game.
Darren McFadden ran for 72 yards and a score on 20 carries, while catching
seven balls for 71 yards and a touchdown for Oakland (1-1), which was coming
off a Monday night win in Denver to open the season.
With Raider playmakers Jacoby Ford, Louis Murphy and Darrius Heyward-Bey out
with injuries, Moore exploded for 146 yards on five catches, including an
amazing 50-yard touchdown grab in double coverage.
Michael Bush capped off an impressive 14-play, 71-yard drive with a one-yard
touchdown plunge to put the Raiders on the board early on in the second
quarter.
Fitzpatrick threw an interception to Stanford Routt on the Bills' ensuing
position to put the Raiders in prime field position at the Buffalo 34-yard
line.
Oakland took advantage and went ahead 14-0 with a five-yard touchdown run by
McFadden.
On 3rd-and-8 from the Oakland 14-yard line, Rolando McClain and Michael Huff
tackled David Nelson just shy of the first- down marker to force the Bills to
settle for a 25-yard Rian Lindell field goal to finally put the Bills on the
scoreboard.
Oakland worked the two-minute drill to perfection as they scored their third
touchdown in as many possessions when Campbell snuck in from a yard out to
increase the lead to 21-3. The drive was highlighted by a Moore 42-yard
reception down the right sideline, and a Michael Bush 22-yard run to put the
ball on the one.
The Bills opened the third quarter with a three-play, 80-yard drive, concluded
by a Jackson 43-yard touchdown run to cut the deficit to 21-10.
The Raiders followed with a nice drive of their own, converting three
consecutive third downs, but McFadden put the ball on the ground and Buffalo
recovered at their own 43-yard line.
Buffalo turned the turnover into six when Stevie Johnson finished off a seven-
play, 57-yard drive with a seven-yard touchdown reception.
After an Oakland three and out, Buffalo took their first lead of the game on a
Jackson one-yard touchdown run to make it 24-21 early in the fourth.
The see-saw went back in the Raiders favor on the ensuing possession with a
McFadden 12-yard touchdown reception to regain the advantage, 28-24.
A huge defensive holding penalty by Oakland's Chris Johnson on a 3rd-and-goal
gave the Bills a new set of downs. Two plays later, Fitzpatrick found Scott
Chandler in the back of the end zone for a six-yard score to put the Bills
back in front 31-28 with 4:48 to go. Johnson had two key catches on the drive
including 17 and 12-yard receptions. C.J. Spiller added a 26-yard run.
The pendulum swung back in Oakland's favor as the rookie Moore came up with
another big catch as he pulled down a 50-yard touchdown between two Bill
defenders. Oakland led 35-31 with 3:41 to go.
Pandemonium broke out when Nelson hauled in the game-winner. He accounted for
37 yards on five catches on the drive.
Jason Campbell's Hail Mary attempt was intercepted by Da'Norris Searcy in the
end zone to end the game.
Game Notes
Buffalo won 24-23 in their last meeting against Oakland on September 21, 2008.
Lindell kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired...Stevie Johnson has
12 touchdown catches for Buffalo in his last 16 games...Sebastian Janikowski
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When I entered IainPeregrine's Get Something Done challenge, I did in the full knowledge that I likely wouldn't have enough time to get something done. Turns out that the last year of an engineering degree has a lot of assignments - whoever would have thought it?
Anyway, due to university/work commitments, I was far, far too busy to actually get something done this May. When I hit uni holidays, I'll see about it then.
But for now, what my project was intended to be: A successor to Ruin.
Ruin is really the first thing I've released on BYOND that I could really consider a completed game, and it's got a number of serious flaws. For example:
Maps follow a tree structure, causing a lot of backtracking and metagaming of the map
Very simplistic magic
Does not use the isometric perspective for anything useful
Ugly programmer art
Missing a number of useful features - such as a town level, a dungeon map, etc.
Reasonably ugly code.
Terrible interface.
It also has a smidgeon of good:
I quite like the way magic item generation works, in terms of generating interesting magical items.
The way dungeons are saved and cached is reasonable
Definitely a number of design decisions I'd like to keep on hand. (Particularly spells/scrolls/potions, the way character statistics are calculated, and monster AI).
I'd like to see if I can do better. I haven't come up with a name for the project as of yet (Ruin 2 will suffice for now, I suppose, but I might come up with something a little catchier in the future). Planned features:
Much snazzier dungeon generation using my most recent dungeon generation library. This means maps will be graphs, and rooms will be furnished.
In addition to the better underlying generation algorithm, I intend to place 'features' throughout the dungeon. When you roll up your character, the game will decide, for instance, that there is an orc barracks on dungeon level 4, an underground lake on level 7, a temple dedicated to an evil god on level 13, and a dragon's lair on level 21, say. These would all influence the generation of that level, and would, of course, be randomly generated.
Magic item generation revolving around randomly selected properties, each with a point value. Think the way D&D magic items work - each property is worth some point value, and the item is, in total, worth the sum of the point values of all its properties.
Standard roguelike functionality that was missing from Ruin, including a town level with shops and the like (gasp), and dungeon maps (double gasp).
Icons from someone who can actually draw (Likely an artistically-inclined friend of mine I'm roping in)
Still the isometric perspective, but actually used for something. With the more advanced dungeon generation, and actually functional art, this should be less of an issue. This won't be actual Z-levels in a single dungeon level (So elevation won't be an issue), this will simply be 3D pretties. It will be optional, like Ruin, so you can run the game in 2D top-down mode if you'd like.
Interesting sense functionality to handle things such as blinded characters, magic items that enhance your sense of smell, hallucination, and sound in fun ways. This will also apply to monsters and monster AI.
More documented and ordered development process.
It's a lot planned, but I think I can pull some of it off on the first release and the rest of 'em over time.
A few more words on the last point: I intend to try developing this project more publicly than other stuff I've done. It's not that I try to be secretive when working on stuff, it's just I don't think anyone would be interested.
I still think you're not going to be interested, but regular status updates provide motivation for me to keep working. So the plan will be that once development kicks in in full swing, I'll be making semi-regular posts detailing progress to date and intended next items for completion. I also intend to produce design documentation, and a series of near term, medium term, and long term goals to keep me on track.
Finally, I intend to store the source code in a publically readable SVN repository. Development won't be open source, in the sense that I won't be soliciting patches from the public (Although if you have the urge, suggest away), it will be both readable and usable. Likely released under a BSD license or the like, once I've got a firmer idea of what my legal responsibilities under such an arrangement are. Might end up just being public domain.
tl;dr: Sorry, IainPeregrine, I didn't find the time to do anything for your brilliant challenge (And I really mean that, it was a damned fine idea), but I intend to develop a much-improved version of Ruin some point in the future (Likely beginning mid-July, after exams). | {
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In 100 words: Bernal’s masterpiece is a scathing criticism of Filipino social and religious mores, providing such a potent depiction of spiritual prostitution and the blind fanaticism that rises from poverty. Few films can match it for its cultural resonance in the Philippines, and fewer films around the world can match its depiction of religion as an opiate for the masses. Connects the dots between religion, the free market, the media, and the government, all within the confines of a story that shrouds itself in enigmas and ironies. On top of that, this is one expressively shot and sound designed film. Aunor’s legend.
Other Movies for Context: Within a country that is tied to Catholicism and has used faith as the subject of many films, Himala stands at the totem pole of iconoclasm. Bernal’s other major picture, Manila by Night has a similar sensuality that he imbues here, but more diffuse. Aunor’s other best movie is Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (1976) offers a similarly bleak view of faith in times of crisis, similar to this movie’s treatment of the subject, but that one is more black and white than the ambiguity here. | {
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CBGB FESTIVAL HQ KICKOFF EVENT
CBGB FESTIVAL HQ KICKOFF EVENT WITH BILLY IDOL
The CBGB Festival Headquarters, Center548, will host a keynote interview and short acoustic concert by the legendary Billy Idol. Billy will release his autobiography, Dancing With Myself, on October 7th and his first new album in nearly a decade, titled Kings & Queens of the Underground, on October 21st. This intimate and very special keynote event will feature musician, record producer, and former VH1 VJ Timothy Sommer interviewing Billy Idol live on stage, followed by a short acoustic performance by Billy and his longtime guitarist and collaborator Steve Stevens. Walking Papers featuring Duff McKagan, The Skins, and other special guests will also perform during this event.
DANCING WITH MYSELF
In his long-awaited bestselling autobiography, Billy Idol delivers an electric, searingly honest account of his journey to fame. Now available in audiobook read by Billy, paperback, hardcover and ebook!DETAILS - BUY NOW | {
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Emiliano Zapata Biography
Emiliano Zapata is the Mexican rebel leader who said "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." A former sharecropper, he organized and led peasants during the battles of the Mexican Revolution, joining forces with Pancho Villa and others to fight the government of Porfirio Diaz. Zapata supported agrarian reform and land redistribution; his rallying cry was "Land and freedom!" (His positions attracted the support of some urban intellectuals, who linked him to the theories of Karl Marx.) Though Diaz was defeated, Zapata continued to resist subsequent government leaders; he was ambushed and shot by Mexican troops in 1919. Zapata remains a folk hero in Mexico, where his name has often been invoked by more modern-day rebels like Subcommander Marcos.
Extra credit:
Emiliano Zapata was played by actor Marlon Brando in the 1952 movie Viva Zapata! (John Steinbeck won an Oscar nomination for the film's screenplay; Anthony Quinn won an Oscar as Zapata's brother Eufemio)... Zapata's cry of "Land and freedom" (Tierra Y Libertad) is sometimes translated as "Land and justice." | {
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Myself and I
Lately, Keysha feels like a magnet for trouble--especially boy trouble. Her last love interest turned out to be a major fraud, and her ex, Wesley, refuses to accept that they're finished.
Long Synopsis:
Lately, Keysha feels like a magnet for trouble--especially boy trouble. Her last love interest turned out to be a major fraud, and her ex, Wesley, refuses to accept that they're finished. Swearing off relationships and concentrating on herself seems like her smartest move. Then Keysha meets her new neighbor Jerry, who has every girl in town vying for a summer fling. Working as lifeguards together, Keysha realizes that Jerry has more to offer than a great car and a sexy smile, and the harder she tries to ignore him, the more interested he becomes. But is it Keysha that attracts him or the chase itself? And when the biggest party of the year gets dangerously out of line, and Wesley's jealous new girl pins the blame on Keysha, she'll learn exactly who she can trust. Only problem is, it might be too late to save herself.... | {
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Current or past employment with local schools and having proper certifications will be greatly valued. Skills required include polite telephone manners, multi-tasking abilities, admin experience, organizational skills, conferencing with parents, professionalism etc., and also be able to work independently with little or no supervision.
The Eye Level Instructor is responsible for the day-to-day operations including tutoring our students according to what is stated on each one's Student Lesson Plan.
1. Must be able to teach Math/English to students of Elementary/Middle/High school level. 2. Have a positive attitude.3. Demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to teaching and a strong belief in Eye Level program.4. Greet students and exhibit a personal interest in them as individuals, and be aware of students' special interests. 5. Interact with students as they work with instructional materials. 6. Praise and encourage students with sincere enthusiasm. 7. Keep management informed of student progress. 8. Attend initial and ongoing training.9. Willing to work at any of our current locations (as may be required from time to time),10.Multi-tasking skillsand a few more
We would love to hear from you and let you know more about this exciting position where you will have a direct and positive impact on our students!
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Death toll numbers are coming closer to the nearly 1400 dead Palestinians from Israel's last slaughter in Gaza in 2009. Bibi is telling Israelis to prepare for a "prolonged campaign" of killing in Gaza. That from our closest and bestest ally in the middle east.
This should work out well....
Israeli tank fire hit the fuel depot of the Gaza Strip's only power plant on Tuesday, ...."the power plant is finished", said it's director...
Israeli scoreboard: Killing slowed on Sunday for the first time since July 7th. 1035 Palestinians now dead, 218 of those 1035 are children. 6200 wounded Palestinians. 40 dead Israeli soldiers and 3 dead Israeli civilians.
President Obama is now "growing more concerned" over civilian killings. Growing....more....concerned.
You may have heard that the UN Human Rights Council voted last week to investigate potential human rights abuses in Gaza.
The U.N. top human rights official, Navi Pillay, suggested both Hamas and Israel had committed war crimes in their attacks that have killed civilians in Gaza.
Elsewhere in Judeo-Christian values, we find the U.S. House once again using it's legislative power as a political campaign tool. I didn't realize that the role of the House of Representatives was to vote on impassable legislation for the purpose of exciting the majority's base voters.....
The House of Representatives voted Friday to change a tax credit in a way that would add $115 billion to the deficit and hurt poorer parents while aiding the well-to-do.
Sounds about right. In fact, that AP sentence is a very accurate synopsis of Republican economic policy. Punish the poors and provide breaks for the non-poor....all while increasing the national deficit. The House passed their latest political campaign ad along partisan lines, naturally....and no doubt the conservative extremists for which the bill was passed will be energized to support Republican candidates this November.
The tea party conservative representing Longview in Austin was criticized from the right Wednesday as he advocated compassion for immigrants and outlined legal steps that can be taken at the state level.
In a, well, nutshell, that has been the rebuttal of those opposed to increasing the minimum wage. Whether found in lofty Serious supply side publications like Forbes and the Wall Street Journal or coming out of the mouths of fascist-wannabes on AM Hate Radio.....conservative servants of the 1% just know that raising the minimum wage will result in fewer people working.
State-by-state hiring data released Friday by the Labor Department reveal that in the 13 states that boosted minimum wages at the beginning of this year, the number of jobs grew an average of 0.85 percent from January to June. The average in the other 37 states was 0.61 percent, the Associated Press reports.
The GOP-controlled House passed a $20 billion measure Wednesday that would slash budgets for enforcing tax laws and new financial regulations, and a healthy food initiative that's a pet cause of first lady Michelle Obama.
The House passed the bill on a nearly party-line, 228-195, vote.
Many folks who still have the capacity to think for themselves have watched the House Maniacs in their bizarre attempt to muster up an IRS scandal where none exists. Now we can better understand why. House Republicans never really cared about Lois Lerner. She was simply a prop in the House GOP Maniacs plan to degrade the abilities of the IRS to 1) enforce duly enacted laws and 2) collect taxes.
Think of the IRS non-scandal theater as the Bundy Ranch standoff, without the military weaponry. If you need a political party to represent you in Washington, a political party that will help you in your plans to avoid paying taxes.....then, the GOP is your party.
Today I recommend a contrarian article pertaining to the Malaysian plane downing. It's worth a read.
None of the "players" can be trusted to tell the truth. And that includes U.S. players. Like President Obama.....
“For months we’ve supported a pathway to peace, and the Ukrainian government has reached out to all Ukrainians, put forward a peace plan and lived up to a cease-fire, despite repeated violations by the separatists, violations that took the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and personnel.”
By emphasizing the comparative body counts without providing the reasons for the disparity, the media plays into the hands of Hamas, and encourages that terrorist organization to continue to pursue its dead baby strategy.
If that is not offensive enough......then go here. Look at the pictures. It seems that the brutal slaughter of nowhere-to-go Gazans has now become an exciting spectator sport in Israel. Perhaps the U.S. military complex can learn something here.
I don't have enough information yet to make a determination on the Malaysian commercial airliner which was allegedly shot down over the Ukrainian-Russia border. Most of the Village is blaming Russia or "pro-Russian separatists." That, alone, should be reason to be skeptical.
What's clear is that the expertise, and the equipment, to shoot down an airliner flying at 33,000 feet, suggests state players....rogue, or not. Yes, east-Ukrainian players did take credit for downing one Ukrainian military fighter plane and one military transport plane....but those planes were reported to have been downed by shoulder launched missile hits. Shoulder held missile launchers do not have the capability to down a plane flying at 33,000 feet. At this point, my wildest guess would be that the downing of the airliner was a mistake....a miscalculation. I don't see how any of the players in the current and ongoing dispute in Ukraine benefit from killing 295 civilians.
According to PolitiFact (I know, not totally reliable), President Obama has deported undocumented immigrants at a rate of 32,886 per month during his tenure. President George W. Bush's monthly rate of deportation was 20,964.
This is important, why?
Because according to those being victimized by Obama's "immigration policies", that is, Republicans,.....it has been Obama's "failed immigration and border policies" which have created the recent influx of some 50,000 minor Latino children, mostly teenagers, into the United States. Like, for example, this Republican victim....
Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said to fix the crisis, “the administration must first recognize its failed immigration and border policies are the source of the problem.”
Ah, I remember it well. The great day the New Patriots would later point to as the day that launched a legion of assholians on a quest to retake THEIR country from the Usurper inaugurated only four weeks previous.
In some ways it was fitting for the CNBC bond trading analyst, Rick Santelli, to be the face of the then-new Tea Party. Santelli had heard about the new Obama administration's plan to create the HAMP program as kind of a make-up call after the Wall Street Criminals had all been infused with government-bailout cash. HAMP was to be a $50 billion program earmarked to help victims of the Bankster Greed Orgy. But victims, to rich assholes, are "losers."
Here are a few sweet spots from Rick Santelli's infamous rant on February 19, 2009....
"Why don't you put up a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages;..."
"We're under great threat, because we occupy so many countries," Paul said. "We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We're going broke. The purpose of al-Qaida was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it. They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11, but we're there occupying their land. And if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation, we're kidding ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say, China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?"
Inside the Empire, that is a gaffe. A gaffe today means "telling the truth in front of an American audience." The longest war of the United States of America isn't our war on terrorism.....it's our war on the truth.
My step-daughter and her husband visited Yellowstone National Park last week. The pictures they brought home were great, some quite spectacular. I asked my step daughter how she would like it if Yellowstone was privatized, sold off, or leased off to some for-profit enterprise. She responded that anyone who tried to do something like that should be put in prison.
On Tuesday, (Senator Ted) Cruz (R-TX) filed an amendment to the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014 (S. 2363) to force the federal government to sell off a significant portion of the country’s most prized lands in the West. The amendment would prohibit the federal government from owning more than 50 percent of any land within one state, and requires the government to transfer the excess land to the states or sell it to the highest bidder.
Yes, Cruz is a crazy dude. Worse, many of the Very Serious have been touting Cruz as the likely GOP presidential candidate in 2016. When Cruz playacted an ego-driven, "filibuster" in his attempt to rescind Obamacare.....the Villagers rallied in support of the crazy man. Conservative base voters instantly made Cruz there preferred favorite to go against Hillary in 2016.
Sad to see the 2016 Republican Convention coming to Cleveland. I realize that corporate/economic national practices have turned all big city leaders into beggars sitting on the corner waiting for Corporate Daddy Warbucks to adopt them and shower them with free national media public relations time and a few extra sales tax dollars.....but what ever happened to basic integrity?
Speaking of lack of integrity.....I also noticed yesterday that the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 2008, "you betcha", called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama.....
“It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment,” Palin wrote in a column published Tuesday on the conservative website Breitbart. “The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he’s not impeachable, then no one is.”
But my topic of focus today is not about the national fools and foolishness of the day......but rather the national professional media which chooses which daily fools and what daily foolishness is important for us non-professionals to know about.....undoubtedly so that we will all be better informed.
Ohio Governor Kasich says that he's all about helping business. Kasich is a supply sider who still believes, wrongly, that continually giving breaks to business and a rich few will eventually trickle down prosperity to the not-rich. So, why did 70 manufacturers and organizations in Ohio write a letter to the governor pleading with him to stop his plan to....hurt businesses in Ohio?
A group of more than 70 manufacturers and organizations, including Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. and Whirlpool Corp., are pleading with Ohio Gov. John Kasich to reduce the effects of freezing the state's 2008 renewables and energy efficiency initiative.
“Freezing the standards for two years creates a start-stop effect that will confuse the marketplace, disrupt investment and reduce energy savings for customers during this period,” the letter said. “And this negative effect of the freeze will persist beyond the two years. We expect the result will be higher electric bills and less investment.”
Remember when the daily buzz word in efforts to blame Obama for the sluggish economic recovery was..."uncertainty?" Businesses, we were told by deception artists, weren't hiring and expanding because of all the "uncertainties." It was all hogwash, of course. But it muddled the discussion over what was really ailing the national economy. Average consumers didn't have enough disposable income to drive the economy. There was no "uncertainty" about it.
House Speaker John Boehner announced Wednesday he plans to file suit against President Obama over his alleged abuse of executive power....
Boehner had been weighing such a lawsuit in recent days, over concerns that Obama exceeded his constitutional authority with executive actions. Republicans have voiced frustration with Obama's second-term "pen and phone" strategy of pursuing policy changes without Congress....
(Boehner) said he plans to bring legislation authorizing the suit to the floor in July, citing concerns that Obama's executive actions could shift the "balance of power decisively and dangerously" in favor of the White House -- giving the president "king-like authority."
Remember when President Obama asserted that income inequality in America was "“a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe.”? Obama made that very accurate statement a mere seven months ago.
After making fighting income inequality an early focus of his second term, President Obama has largely abandoned talk of the subject this election year in a move that highlights the emerging debate within the Democratic Party over economic populism and its limits.
Now, why would that be the case? How could a "fundamental threat to the American Dream" seven months ago simply be "abandoned" with 'never-mind' dismissiveness by a Democratic president?
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Ladies, men have been blaming you from, literally, day one. And those labor pains associated with childbirth......oh, and who your day to day boss is......well, you can thank the loving Yahweh for that.....
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday allowed, at least for now, an evangelical college in Illinois that objects to paying for contraceptives in its health plan to avoid filling out a government document that the college says would violate its religious beliefs.
The Christian sensibilities of Wheaton College officials are so very tender that the High Priests of the U.S. Supreme Court had to excuse them from having to "fill out a form that enables their insurers or third-party administrators to take on the responsibility of paying for the birth control."
The only respected religion in the U.S. is Christianity. All other religions are suspect, with the exception of Judaism.....I guess, because Christianity was birthed out of Judaism. So was Islam, but Muslims are genocidal, terrorist maniacs...so Islam isn't worthy of respect.
According to the Supreme Court of the United States of 2014....."sincerely held religious beliefs" (translation: sincerely held Christian/Jewish beliefs) of U.S. citizens can now be properly ascertained by 5 Holy Catholic Supreme Court Justices. It may have not registered with many folks yet, but that is one helluva new power the Supremes claim they have.
What is especially revealing in the Supremes tragic ruling making corporations entities capable of worship and possessing a conscience is the criteria used by the 5 Supremes in determining how "sincere" the Green family's "religious beliefs" really are. Yes, the Hobby Lobby owner-family claimed that they really, really.....honest to god....believe that specific contraceptive products destroy fertilized human eggs, and that that destruction oh-so-violates the Green family's very sensitive consciences that they couldn't be true to their god if they knew that their employees, perchance, might be ordering, and using, such ungodly products.
No, the Obamacare mandate didn't force the Green family, or any other family or individual, to use contraception.....but a provision which gave employees the option of choosing to use contraceptives made the Green's feel, you know, dirty.....complicit in "sin."
I live in the 16th U.S. District of Ohio. It is one of many redrawn Ohio districts purposely manipulated to dilute Democratic votes. The current U.S. Representative of the 16th District is GOP Rep. Jim Renacci. Earlier this year, Mr. Renacci came to Suffield Township (The Reverend lives in Brimfield Twp) for a quick chat-and-go session. I attended. You know me....I couldn't keep quiet during the Q&A.....so I challenged the Republican. His answers were misleading and disingenuous.....just like his answers have been over charges that he was paid-to-play in the Ben Suarez criminal case.
Last week, just as the Suarez case was reaching completion, I received an expensive looking foldout piece in the mail of Renacci propaganda argle-bargling some nonsense about how much Renacci cares about seniors in his district. It was an obvious ploy seeking to counter the bad publicity Renacci was getting over his connection to Suarez.
Interestingly, the mailer was a ploy the Wadsworth politician has used before....this is from 2011....
We just received a full-color piece of mail sent by Rep. Jim Renacci, “prepared, published, and mailed at taxpayer expense” (under the congressional franking privilege, of course). This was essentially a campaign piece, full of distortions and misrepresentations meant to scare senior citizens — and to get him re-elected next year.
By a 5-to-4 vote, the court’s conservative justices said an Illinois requirement that home health aides help cover a union’s cost of collective bargaining violates their First Amendment right to free speech.
The Conservative Freedom Forces on the Supreme Court again sided with business interests in their ruling yesterday against home health care workers. Allowing those poorly paid, salt-of-the-earth types to improve their standard of living by being a part of a public workers union was just too much freedom for the "free speech" protectors.
Attempting to better your standard of living....is now a violation of free speech rights. What will they think up next, huh? | {
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So I have been following Scotty's battery break in period with an evening drive each night through the neighborhood. Last night I got a little bored so I took it off road and started climbing the drainage pond's banks. The beast pulled the hills like a champ until I got to the low side of the pond and hit a sink hole . I got my truck and the wife (Not happy) and some straps. We live on sandy soil and I buried the truck.. I called AAA and when they arrived informed me they only covered 10' off the road. He asked me to bring him where it was and his comment was "Nice"... Anyway, he did a side pull with the winch so he didn't get stuck and I drove the truck. His helper drove the cart and came up the hill with the front tires 6" off the ground. He got to the top of hill and said, with a big smile, your sick! All in all a fun night, depending who you talk to.
Wasn't bad till I had to hose her down outside after we got home. (You know the black smelly mud that sticks to everything). She drove it home and I guess the flares aren't quite wide enough. Good thing I did the cart first, when that stuff dry's forget about getting off
"Well, against my better judgment, I finally gave in and allowed my husband to buy golf cart. I thought that would keep him happy and out of my hair. It was bad enough he spent a lot of money on tires and wheels, lift kits, and God knows what else for that silly cart.
At least this get him out of trouble until yesterday.
He drove it in a mud hole and came home to get me to help them get out. Then he got our pickup truck stuck in the mud.
He would still be out there if I hadn't told him to call AAA
Anyway the 2 tow truck drivers and my husband looked like they were having a great time little kids playing in the mud.
Once it was out I had to drive it home - stupid thing was throwing mud all over itself and me! I hope the neighbors didn't see me.... What a mess but, nothing compared to the mess in the drive when he washed off I swear.
Now he says we need to buy a winch... what on earth for I say - stay on the street... husbands are like children"
"Well, against my better judgment, I finally gave in and allowed my husband to buy golf cart. I thought that would keep him happy and out of my hair. It was bad enough he spent a lot of money on tires and wheels, lift kits, and God knows what else for that silly cart.
At least this get him out of trouble until yesterday.
He drove it in a mud hole and came home to get me to help them get out. Then he got our pickup truck stuck in the mud.
He would still be out there if I hadn't told him to call AAA
Anyway the 2 tow truck drivers and my husband looked like they were having a great time little kids playing in the mud.
Once it was out I had to drive it home - stupid thing was throwing mud all over itself and me! I hope the neighbors didn't see me.... What a mess but, nothing compared to the mess in the drive when he washed off I swear.
Now he says we need to buy a winch... what on earth for I say - stay on the street... husbands are like children"
"Well, against my better judgment, I finally gave in and allowed my husband to buy golf cart. I thought that would keep him happy and out of my hair. It was bad enough he spent a lot of money on tires and wheels, lift kits, and God knows what else for that silly cart.
At least this get him out of trouble until yesterday.
He drove it in a mud hole and came home to get me to help them get out. Then he got our pickup truck stuck in the mud.
He would still be out there if I hadn't told him to call AAA
Anyway the 2 tow truck drivers and my husband looked like they were having a great time little kids playing in the mud.
Once it was out I had to drive it home - stupid thing was throwing mud all over itself and me! I hope the neighbors didn't see me.... What a mess but, nothing compared to the mess in the drive when he washed off I swear.
Now he says we need to buy a winch... what on earth for I say - stay on the street... husbands are like children" | {
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4. Substance. The Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment, Training and Employer Outreach (ACVETEO) is responsible for assessing employment and training needs of veterans; determining the extent to which the programs and activities of the Department of Labor meet these needs; and assisting in carrying out outreach to employers seeking to hire veterans. The Advisory Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, from 8:00 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. at the:
5. Action. Program administrators are requested to share this Information Alert with appropriate staff.
6. Contact. Questions and comments about this meeting may be directed to the Office of Veterans' Employment
and Training Service on 202.693.4700. Questions or comments about the format of this Alert may be directed to Robert Rainault on 312.596.5416. | {
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Pfizer Facing Nearly 100 Federal Zoloft Birth Defect Lawsuits
According to recent court filings, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is currently facing at least 95 Zoloft lawsuits filed on behalf of families of babies born with severe birth defects after being exposed to the controversial antidepressant in the womb. Pfizer has indicated that the number of claims filed over Zoloft have increased by more than 60% since the beginning of 2012, when the company filed a motion to have the Zoloft lawsuits consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL). Over the past several years, Zoloft and other antidepressants from the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class have been linked to a large number of severe heart, lung and cranial birth defects.
What’s the problem?
March 28, 2012 – A panel of federal judges is scheduled to meet tomorrow in San Diego to hear oral arguments over whether to consolidate all federal Zoloft birth defects lawsuits into an MDL for pretrial proceedings.
In January, Pfizer requested to have 59 Zoloft claims pending in the federal system transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that an MDL would help reduce duplicate discovery, avoid conflicting results, and serve the convenience of all parties involved.
Several plaintiffs have argued that Pfizer improperly transferred dozens of claims from state courts to the federal system to create the false impression that there were more cases pending on the federal level, in order to get them transferred to a more favorable venue. The plaintiffs are arguing that 49 of the original 59 Zoloft birth defect lawsuits should be transferred back to the state courts where they were originally filed.
In response, Pfizer argued that while the original number of filings was more than sufficient to warrant the creation of an MDL, the skyrocketing rate of additional filings since January provides undeniable support for consolidation.
“The growing number of cases filed directly in federal court by plaintiffs also further dispels the notion, advanced by certain plaintiffs’ counsel, that Pfizer is seeking an MDL based on an artificially inflated federal docket,” wrote the company in a March 22 supplemental filing.
Zoloft Birth Defects
All of the lawsuits pending against Pfizer involve similar allegations that the company failed to adequately warn the public and medical communities that the use of Zoloft during pregnancy may increase the risk of birth defects (especially when taken during the first trimester, a time when many women may still be unaware they are pregnant). Congenital abnormalities currently linked to Zoloft include: | {
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I don't as of the moment particularly have a genre I don't seem to like actually but I am picker with the Historical and SCi-fi
Setting:
A dark castle deep within a forest known as the Dark Misty Hallows. Some say that an evil force lives on the estate and that a great evil lives within the castle. Many are afraid to approach but there are some who are brave. Those who have tried in the past have never come back alive. There is a girl who they say lives within the castle but the people of the nearby town know nothing more. They think that she is a demon or some creature of the underworld. She does travel into the town but it is only to get supplies that she needs. Many say that the reason you only see her in town once every six months is because she has to find new victims to sacrifice. Many wish to find some who would be brave enough to try and rid their town of this strange evil. What the villagers don’t know is that the strange girl who lives there was cursed and she may be supernatural but she doesn’t claim to be evil. She waits for someone or ones who are brave enough to try and remove her and the Dark Misty Hallows curse.
6) Romance is aloud. Keep it to a minimum though for example hugging, and holding hands is fine, and I'll allow kissing just no full fledged making out. No Swiving please!!! If you wish to take the romance farther go to a private RP with that person just please take it elsewhere.
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Appearance: (anime pictures may be used it doesn’t have to be though, descriptions are always nice they can better explain/describe the and image)
I don't as of the moment particularly have a genre I don't seem to like actually but I am picker with the Historical and SCi-fi
Name: Raven Bellatrix Zaebanohn
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Height: 5’ 6”
Appearance:
Species: Half Demon
Personality: After begin alone for some time Raven became very shy it didn’t help her much when she went into the nearby town and she could hear them make fun of her and spread rumors. She doesn’t really talk it’s mostly because of what people think of her she doesn’t feel that she could change their mind so she usually keeps to herself and stays quiet unless someone enters her home then she begins to every now and again ask the travelers questions on why they have come to her home, and if they ask her questions she sometimes would answer. If she sees something like and injured animal hurt she will try to help them get better. Some of those that she began to like had called her kind, gentle, and caring. Of course this usually was before the work of Roneisha.
Abilities/Powers: She can heal the wounded, but not completely if it is a broken bone or damaged organs she can only make the bone fractured, the organs she can stop bleeding but there extremely weak and vulnerable, and she can make the pain less when it comes to either. She can blend into the shadows as though she’s not there. She can walk very quietly almost as if she is levitating. She can also make the shadows bend to her will. (This is why she can sneak up on people easily within her own home. She seems to use the shadows to teleport but really it’s to make her move to her destination faster.) She can talk to animals and understand them.
Strength: Dexterous- A physical talent, the ability to precisely and skillfully move the small muscles of the hands and feet. Hearing she has excellent hearing because of being alone she has had plenty of time to pick up on every noise near her home or in the forest of the areas she likes to walk were there isn’t many people who might spot her out of her house. She can stay very calm in weird or usually stressful situations.
Weakness: Socially Awkward she doesn’t talk to people much. Paranoid she believes that almost everyone doesn’t like her and wants to kill her because they believe she’s evil when she’s not. Allergic to garlic it’s mild but she’ll break out.
Prime Fear: Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning (That’s right there’s a scientific name for it.)
Backstory: When Raven was very young her father left her with her mother. When Raven turned 10 her mother was killed by a mob in town they did not know much about Raven and they thought she had stayed home with her demonic father. When her father found out about how Raven’s mother died he was furious and made a deal with his one of his demon friends named Roneisha. Roneisha had promised to keep Raven safe in exchange for the her father Zaebanohn’s realm he had agreed. Raven was then told by Roneisha the circumstances and that she had to obey. She agreed and for years no harm has come to her. When she turned 14 she began to feel the loneliness and wish for change but knew better because of how people in the town have treated her and her mother for years. She had developed a retina for when there were curious groups or people who entered her home and it was pretty much watch and observe and when they seem to be of no threat start to get closer and make your presence known. Sometimes a few would pick up on where she was and she had to show herself and answer questions. Some discovered her sooner than others.
Raven’s thoughts on the curse: I’m not allowed to leave this castle. It is my prison. I can’t have any friends or Roneisha will kill them in front of me. But he does that any way… I can only leave the Dark Misty Hallows every six months for supplies to live… like food… I can’t let anyone stay here long or else… I can never see my father or freedom again… I must obey his every will… even if I find it stupid… I hate him!!! (Her thoughts are summed up for the most part.)
Supplies: Within her home six months’ worth of food, running water. Working electricity but she usually keeps the lights off and uses candle light unless she is reading multiple books or she just feels like having the lights on. Clothes shower supplies, six rooms that are bed rooms, and a library. (All in her house)She always keeps a knife on her, a flashlight, small book and a raven necklace locket that has a picture of her mother and father (In his human Form).
Theme Song: Haunted By: Evanescence
Extra Information: Her favorite colors are black, red, blue, and purple. She usually wears dark colors which helps her blend into the dark. Animals are pretty much the only time she’s like a social butterfly. She has a black cat as a pet named Blinx. She had brought him back to health after an injury to his left back leg. He comes and goes as he pleases but will talk to her and keep her some company but to her it’s not enough she truly wishes for an actual person as a friend. She does a lot of reading, drawing, painting and meditation, listening to music, and nature walks, but what better way to spend your time when you’re basically alone. Yes her father is a demon but he has a human for and that is all he showed Raven so she has no idea that she is a half demon. Her mother was human. Her father’s powers involve controlling the shadows and darkness. The power of healing, and the understanding of what animals say and being able to communicate back to them is all Raven’s it has nothing to do with inheriting it and he has no clue on how she got the ability.
Information on her father and there deal/ Her Curse:
Roneishia was the demon who cursed Raven Bellatrix Zaebanohn. His power is of darkness and fire. He has keep an eye on Raven because of her father’s Zaebanohn wish was that Roneishia protect her and keep her away from humans who do not understand. The reason her father wished this was because of what they had done to her mother. He had a condition thought that Roneishia had to give anyone brave enough because a chance to get to know Zaebanohn’s daughter and if Roneishia did not think they were worthy of being there then he could disposed of them how he pleased also Roneishia had to let Raven enter town for supplies at least once every six months. Because of her father’s wishes he had cursed her with this (which is not what Zaebanohn meant by protect) and then before Zeabanohn found out what Roneishia had done he took over her father’s domain and keeps what happened in Raven’s life a secret.
I think I am in the middle, I don't like to control everything but neither to just be pushed around .
Favorite Genres:
Horror, romance, mature, Modern and High Fantasy.
Genre You DON'T Like:
Yaoi, Yuri or the ones that involve very small children
Name: Miria Iceglaze
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Height: 5.3"
Appearance:
Species: Kvanthra
Personality: Rather nervous, unpredictable, anxious and restless to start out on her own path.
Also, is a good storyteller, mysterious and yet sometimes doesn't know how to act decent in a social situation.
Miria tends to lean towards a slightly obsessive behaviour when something catches her eye.Miria is the type to find small pleasures in what she does. She is most likely wary and skeptical meeting new people for the first time. Miria still gives everyone a chance and only through constant early harassment will she lose her temper.Miria is the type to try to see others in a positive light first before anything.Ability/powers: Eye colour change, summoning animals, able to Turn in a animal form. Also speaking to animals in Kani language.
Strength: Hunting, high sense of observation, the art of seduction, self control and archery.
Weakness: Snakes, the topic of death, skeptical, solitude, water.
Prime fear: Athazagoraphobia- the fear of being ignored or forgotten.
Back story: Regarding people closely, Miria is the type to confront others wholeheartedly without reservations. If she feels something is amiss she is the type to make sure that her concerns are voiced.
" Do what you want with your life. Do what you feel is necessary.
Nothing more, nothing less."
Her Homeland is Vanythal, in a northern region where most of time is snowing with icy winds.
Miria has killed a few men and beasts alike to serve her interests, but the former only when seemed necessary. Miria has always been ferociously committed to Vanythal and it's interest. " We all do what we must."
For a Kvanthra, simply looking up at the sky of the extreme north is proof enough that the stories are real, of Aurora Borealis.
It is believed that's is the same pathway that they come through when the World was still young. Also is believed that the Kvanthra are also the ones whom can predict the End of the world.
Unlike other species, the Kvanthra's eye colour changes as their mood change though always in vivid jewel tones and rich colours that reflect the Aurora Borealis.
Miria did not had a lovely family concept. Her father did not stay around long enough to even realise that his wife was pregnant and left long before Miria was born.At Miria's birth, she received a mark from Vinnis not knowing it will be her curse.
Weeks later from her birth, Miria shifted for the first time, changing into a snow leopard. Her mother was so startled that she ran outside the room to gather the Council of Elders. Needless to say, they were surprised by the child and decided to keep her.
However , Miria's mother could not comprehend the happening, as her own child was beyond the Kvanthra specie. And so she killed herself, leaving Miria at a elderly woman in Vanythal.
Therefore, Miria has the ability to shift effortlessly between a singular human and a singular animal form that is predetermined upon birth. While the shape shifting appears magical, when it happens, due the fact the form dissolve in a swirl of lights and reform all in the same instant, she cannot shift items with her. Also, she can speak Some animal language known as Kani, communicating in a way a human cannot.This is another gift she was born with, along with the power of shifting to an animal form.
Appearance: Once again, I thank my sexy assistant RevanAC for his gifted art!
Basically he looks as he is depicted. With Sharp, golden eyes, and nice, tan fur with patches of Grey around and about, He usually does not wear the finest dresses. He has a small scar underneath his right eye.
Species: Lorexian cat-people, full-blown Nekos, Khajiit, Leonin, Etc.
You get the gist of it!
Personality: Calm, Cool, Laidback, Friendly, an all-around conforming guy to most situations. For he simply doesn't care for a lot of things. A very shallow talker, and an on-the-surface kind of guy.
Abilities/Powers:
He is able to shoot a small ball of fire as he would a crossbow. he can also hold it in his hand for light or warmth.
Strengths:
+Good with automated projectile weapons, such as crossbows and guns (if they exist). But not Bows however.
+High dexterity, very agile, light on his feet.
+Good Puzzle solver, especially large, mechanical ones.
Weaknesses:
-Not very strong
-Cannot wield swords or anything of the sort.
-Excitable
Prime Fear: Big, Crawly things (Such as GIANT spiders, Rats, insects, and other stuff of that sort)
Backstory: Garrus was found in front of a run-down inn, The woman who ran the place was a nice guy, so he took him in, and raised him. As he grew up he learned to know that the woman's name was Gladys Armstrong, a sweet yet strong-willed old lady who sticks up against mean people, she may be old, but she kicks butcheeks with her broomstick. She had nice complexion with a wide, happy smile to go along with it. Life was alright, he had a decent room, an adequate amount of food, and all he had to do was help do chores, which he did of course...
Then one day, a group of 'bad people came and set fire to the inn, and killing anyone who escaped, Gladys was nowhere to be found, and Garrus was hit by a hot iron bar in the face, knocking him out, his last vision was of a mysterious girl tugging at him.
He then awoke in the forest, it was snowing, and getting dark, and the forest is quite scary at dark, so he ran back to find he has no home, but he has a few supplies to let him ls a bit. and thus he made his vow, from this day on, he swore vengeance upon those who destroyed his life, and find the girl who supposedly saved his life from the fire.
But first, he must get past the lonely life of homelessness.
Extra Information:
=Hmm...I wonder who that girl who saved him could be *cough cough*
=He has not been yet turned to he authorities, for very little people know he is homeless.
=People insult him for his species, and apparently his lack of intelligence, which is a lie.
=He has killed 2 of the believed 5 arsons.
=He has been homeless for 3 years.
=He knows very little about the dangers of the castle, much less about the girl Raven.
=He refines his projectile and firebolt abilities by hunting in the forest as a pastime.
=He IS an orphan, mainly 'cuz litters are huge, if you catch my meaning.
=Gladys is not known to be dead either, just missing.
=Garrus Usually makes living by breaking and entering, stealing few things and selling them for money.
Personality:
Peacefull, and quite shy in alot of cases, can be angered if irritated enough, he often looks for peacefull ways to resolve a situation rather than resorting to what he sees as rash decisions
Abilities/Powers:
The ability to make himself "phase" through things like a ghost would making him appear practically like one, can become invisible, is able to communicate with and detect other "paranormal" beings, not limited to ghosts
Strength: (3 minimum)
- Can stay calm even in the worst of situations
- Good with soothing the anger/sadness of others, especially ghosts
- Is often resourcefull, finding things/qualities in others and his surroundings to give him an advantage in bad situations
- Fairly quick on his feet, and is often-times fairly illusive
Weakness: (3 minimum)
- His abilities (other than the ability to communicate with and detect other "paranormal beings") wear him out slowly and eventually become unable to be used effectively until he's properly rested, this is due to him being part human
- If he is angered, his decisions are rather impulsive until that state goes away (clearly indicated by the reddish hue his "ghost form" emits)
- Is yet to completely master his powers, and is incapable of maintaining his ghost form/invisibility for extended periods of time (at the most it's been 5 minutes, but he's slowly working on extending that amount of time)
- Not the best when it comes to physical combat
- Just because he's a half-ghost does not make him immortal, he's still capable of recieving wounds, injuries, and dying if he is damaged in his physical form, he also requires most things a regular human would
- When he's in his ghost forms he drops any physical items he carries on him (yes including his clothes... But he doesn't remember this since it's been a while since he's used his powers o.o)
Prime Fear:
Abandonment
Backstory:
His creation resulted from some sort of crazy ritual an crazy looking old women performed on his mother, which his father had insisted on letting her do it since he "thought it was funny". The old lady had said that it would "make him a ghost" which it was discovered that it did, or at least it half-did when he was around 6. He had wished that he'd disappear when he had been scolded by his mother, which surprisingly he did, for about a second, it lead his parents to believe that something was "off" about him, eventually coming to the conclusion that they couldn't keep him around, and sent him off to a particularly shady orphanage... Inevitably, the treatment he recieved there resulted in him getty really mad at about the age of 10, leading him to discover the reddish form he took on whenever he shifted to a "ghost form", and he was able to and did so more often when he had been mad, causing trouble left and right until eventually he calmed down. With that incident happening, even the orphanage threw him out, leaving him to fend for himself, which he did for a while, working odd jobs and making just enough money to keep himself alive, and give himself a temporary home every now and then, he practiced utilizing his powers with the little free time he had to himself improving slowly but surely... Though this all changed when he had heard of a "demon girl" who lived in a particularly forboding mansion, it made him wonder if he could talk with her, and if she was the threatening person the townsfolk deemed her to be... Perhaps he could figure out a way to change her.
Supplies:
Rucksack, Water skin, some canned food (about 5 cans), a worn out dagger with a tattered sheath.
Personality: Selfish he likes to do anything that gets what he wants or works in his advantage. He is very intelligent he plans out may things before he follows through with them and he looks at any possibility to make it an advantage for him. Trickster he uses his knowledge to manipulate others and he loves to make them think and make them feel as if they might have lost it. (He doesn't always enjoy toying with people’s minds to make them crazy but he does sometimes just for the fun of it.)
Abilities/Powers: He controls Darkness and Fire for this is he's specialty of his realm.
Strength: Stealth, Close Range Combat, using fire to his will unless it is in the control of another. Prudence,Creativity, independent, and multiplicative.
Weakness: Light mostly sunlight he doesn't mind candle light but he also is not a fan of electric light (ex: flashlight) He will usually have something with a hood if he is out in the day, not being able to control fire under the control of another. Listening he doesn’t pay attention to what others have to say usually unless it will give him an advantage. Raven he’s not sure why but he’s afraid of her if she is able to escape his curse. And he is also worried of what she could be if she ever gains larger attributes of her demon half (who knows what is waiting inside her*this is his thought on the matter*)
Prime Fear: Losing his new realm to Raven, or anyone else. (He’s not sure why but he is, and he’s manly afraid that it would be Raven).
Backstory: Cedric always was obsessed with power. He made many deals that made him grow in power. He made a deal which promised his old man to a demon in exchange for strange powers of his own. No one knows what he is, for they never met his father or mother. (No one but Cedric knows what happened to his mother.) Many that have met him are eminently afraid but there are some who aren’t. Cedric always had a specialty of making friends with said to be evil creatures some were and others weren’t but those who weren’t would usually end up being fouled into losing something very valuable to them.
Cedric was great friends with Raven’s father and mother. Her mother didn’t fully trust him but because of Zaebanohn she never showed it. When Raven’s mother was killed Cedric knew who sent the mob and why they thought she was evil because of her husband because he had sent them. He knew his friend would be devastated and would wish to protect his precious beautiful daughter (yes she though Raven was beautiful but he didn’t love her or at least if he did he would never admits it not even to himself). He told Zaebanohn that he would willingly protect her while he was gone working on one condition he gave up his domain. Zaebanohn accepted gratefully. He knew this meant he would never see his daughter again because if he gave up his domain he would be trapped for eternity for that was the conditions that Cedric asked to go with the domain. And once he accepted and quickly realized what Cedric was asking after he had accepted. Cedric had already done everything as soon as their hands meet for the confirmation of the deal. This way there would be no possible way to stop him for he had planned all of this.
Supplies: When he is human he carries a sword with a black dragon handle. The blade is silver and is three feet six inches long. He also keeps a dark book of spells and curses with him at all times even if it seems he does not carry it. He also has a skull necklace.
Theme Song:
Extra Information: He is afraid of Raven for even though she has showed little signs of being part demon he feels one day she may grow a demon form. He is also afraid of her powers that she now possess and what she might possess because of her father he knows that most half demons has the same powers as the parent and sometimes more he also knows that they are usually stronger than the parents.
He has many other friends that he does trust and there deals are a little more even.
Many are afraid of him because of his attitude and if they learn his real name they are even more afraid, because they know they learned to much and he is probable about to kill him.
Cedric’s thoughts on Raven and his Curse: It will keep the girl quiet and out of my way. I may let her sometimes get to know the ones who are curious but that is because she makes killing them much more fun, for I have a greater challenge. I’m glad that she can go into town it tells the villagers that the strange girl who kills incent souls is still alive and living there. This way they don’t go wondering around pointlessly. It’s also fun to watch her during thunder storms. I can’t believe she’s afraid of them I love to see her fear in the dark of the castle. My curse I feel gives me many advantages that only I know about and I do not feel like sharing.
I don't as of the moment particularly have a genre I don't seem to like actually but I am picker with the Historical and SCi-fi
Probable next Friday because I'm not sure if I'll have acress to the internet before then on my trip. And it should give my friend time for my friend to finish his CS and if any one else wants to join then I'll read the CS when I get back or before drowning on my situations options. (Sorry for any misspellings, and typos using my phone. Which if I have internet asses this is how I be able to reply.
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A Berlin exhibition of works from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art has been postponed, after Iranian authorities have failed to allow the collected paintings to leave the country. “We had signed contracts with the TMoCA and relations are on a good footing, but we are told someone needs to give the green light for the artworks to leave Tehran, and that signature is still missing, though the current signals we’re getting indicate we’ll get them soon,” a spokesperson for exhibition organizers the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said. | {
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Like most origin stories, “Casino Royale” makes for great storytelling. Unlike most origin stories, however, it is executed with near perfection. Bond. Daniel Craig. Talk about an introduction. Steely eyed. Brawler. Cold-blooded killer. Rugged good looks. A man’s man in every sense of the word. And in
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Old Horrors Recast in Case of Slain Nun
A woman alleges that a jailed priest took part in 'satanic ceremonies.' Parishoners in Ohio rally around the accused clergyman.
TOLEDO, Ohio — The scene of the killing has been cordoned off, even though the grisly crime occurred 24 years ago.
Many of the witnesses -- the doctors, nurses, police officers and nuns who saw the mutilated body of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in the spring of 1980 -- are long dead. Others say they have tried to forget the events of that horrific day.
Early in the morning of April 5, Pahl was discovered inside the sacristy of Mercy Hospital's chapel.
The 71-year-old nun had been strangled, stabbed 27 to 32 times, and then covered with a white altar cloth. Though police said there was no evidence of rape, they acknowledged that the killer positioned Pahl's body to appear as if she had been.
Until recent months, the evidence in this unsolved killing had remained untouched, collecting dust in the Toledo Police Department's storage facilities.
But focus on the case was revived last week with a series of disturbing allegations surrounding the crime.
As a result, Father Gerald Robinson, a 66-year-old Roman Catholic priest who presided over Pahl's funeral Mass, has been arrested and arraigned on charges of murder.
Evidence in the 1980 case was presented to a Lucas County grand jury Friday. The panel's decision on whether to indict Robinson is expected on Monday.
Robinson has been detained in the Lucas County jail since his arrest on April 23. His bail has been set at $200,000.
Citing concerns over media leaks, police and prosecutors refused to discuss the investigation or detail the evidence shown to the grand jury Friday.
Robinson's supporters have come to his defense , particularly those at St. Anthony's Church in Toledo, where he was a priest for nine years. So many parishioners have come forward to offer their property for the bond that the defense legal team has started turning them away, said lawyer John Thebes.
As of Saturday afternoon, supporters also had donated $15,000 toward the priest's defense fund, said Jack Sparagowski, president of the St. Anthony's pastoral council.
"This is a crazy situation," Thebes said. "No one can believe this."
That's a common sentiment among many people in this Midwestern town. In the 19 counties encompassed by the Toledo diocese, there are nearly 323,000 Catholics among the region's 1.4 million residents.
"Toledo is an incredibly Catholic town, and it's always been that way," said Catherine G. Hoolahan, a lawyer representing 12 plaintiffs in sex-abuse complaints filed against local priests.
Hoolahan, who grew up in Toledo, remembers what it was like after Pahl was killed. At the time, she said, people panicked. Hospital staff members were terrified to be alone.
The Toledo Blade reported that police had dismissed robbery as the motive, as the chapel's gold chalices and crucifixes, as well as Pahl's purse, were not stolen from the sacristy.
"If someone would kill a nun, how bad would they have to be?" asked Hoolahan. "But then, it all seemed to disappear."
Over the years, locals had not only remembered the mystery of Pahl's death, but also said its fantastic nature had woven the tale into part of the town's lore.
For generations, locals had spoken of it in whispers, embellishing their limited knowledge with rumor. The line between fact and fantasy has long been blurred or erased.
Sitting in the grandstand of the local ballpark, sipping on sodas and cheering for the Toledo Mud Hens, residents still shiver when talking about the case.
"When I was a kid, I remember hearing that the nun's arms were crossed over her chest," said Thomas Kallen, 42, as he watched the Triple-A baseball game. "And there was something about a crucifix, right?"
His brother, Karl Kallen, nods: "Yeah. You told me that the stab wounds were in the shape of an upside-down cross."
Thomas disagrees. "I never told you that."
"I don't want to believe that this priest did anything wrong," said Karl, 38. "He's innocent until proven guilty. The police and the prosecutors are going to have to have a good excuse why they didn't arrest him years ago."
Last year, an unidentified woman approached a sex-abuse panel at the Toledo diocese. The woman, described by friends as in her 40s and well-regarded in the local Catholic community, alleged that local priests forced her into disturbing rituals.
The statement "described satanic ceremonies in which priests placed her in a coffin filled with cockroaches, forced her to ingest what she believed to be a human eyeball, and penetrated her with a snake 'to consecrate these orifices to Satan,' " according to reports in the Toldedo Blade.
The woman also alleged the priests killed two children and mutilated dogs, among other things, the newspaper reported.
Robinson was among the priests reportedly named in the statement.
Claudia Vercellotti, a leader of the local chapter of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said she had read the letter and confirmed its contents. | {
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Architects Shy From Truther 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
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What is more interesting than these bizarre and debunked conspiracy theories is the way that Gage places his AIA membership front and center in his presentations. He seems to be attempting to cloak his organization in the officialdom of the venerable 155-year-old professional institution, even as AIA wants nothing to do with his organization. At the start of his latest film, he explains that he is “a licensed architect of over 20 years and member of the American Institute of Architects.”
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During the screening, Gage was at the very least intimating that his organization had been invited to AIA officially.
“I can’t tell you how grateful we were to have been accepted to be here in the boardroom at the national headquarters,” Gage said. “We hope this is the beginning of a very productive relationship.”
Aside from Gage, though, there was not a single other architect in the room, much less an official from AIA, or even another member. The 80-strong crowd was made up largely of members of the local 9/11 Truth movement and other political activists. | {
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WASHINGTON — The White House and Pentagon have been engaged in a series of talks throughout the day about potential military options against the Syrian regime in response to its alleged chemical attack on civilians earlier this week.
It was a dramatic turn of events for much of the military, which had no idea that the White House was considering its options when President Donald Trump first publicly mentioned a possible US response a day earlier.
The Pentagon is “in the process of presenting options,” a US official told BuzzFeed News. “There is a ton of traffic.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaking to the press said "we are considering an appropriate response for this chemical weapons attack." Tillerson emphasized the new administration stance, saying there was "no role for Assad" in the future of Syria, declaring that there would be a "serious matter, that requires a serious response."
“I think what happened in Syria is a disgrace to humanity, and he’s there, and I guess he’s running things, so I guess something should happen,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, en route to Florida for a meeting with China's president. “What Assad did is terrible. What happened in Syria is truly one of the egregious crimes and it shouldn’t have happened. And it shouldn’t be allow to happen.”
“I don’t want to say what I’m going to be doing with respect to Syria,” he said, when asked about what the US response might look like.
At least 70 people were killed in the attack on Idlib, including at least 10 children, and hundreds injured. Many suffocated to death by the foam that formed around their noses and mouths.
The military options range from striking the Syrian air force to targeting specific Syrian military targets. The Pentagon on Thursday afternoon was presenting options through a series of exchanges with the White House, rather than through formal meetings.
US radar showed Syrian aircraft in the area at the time of the chemical attack. Tuesday's strike was believed to have been launched from Syria's Al-Shayrat air base in Homs, a senior regional security official told BuzzFeed News.
A network of local monitors who track airstrikes in Syria reached the same conclusion. According to an internal report by the group — which tracks fighter jets from takeoff to attack around the country in order to provide civilians with advance warning of airstrikes — the Syrian jets left Shayrat just before 6:30 a.m. and were then seen circling Khan Sheikhun before the attack. The name of the group is being withheld to protect the safety of its monitors.
Shayrat is a joint Russian-Syrian base that may include members of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Jennifer Cafarella, a Syria analyst for the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.
At present, the US military is debating whether to conduct such strikes with warships nearby or aircraft and drones in the air. BuzzFeed News witnessed several members of the Joint Chiefs — including Chief Naval Officer Adm. John Richardson and Chief of Staff of the Army Mark Milley — gathering in Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford's office on Thursday afternoon.
The US goal, it appears, is to signal to the regime that using sarin gas on civilians, as it is suspected of doing in Idlib on Tuesday, will not be tolerated, but stop short of military action that could lead to further escalation.
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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on Air Force One
But any kind of intervention presents significant challenges and the Pentagon struggled to explain how it will get around them. There is no clear legal authority for the US military to strike the Syrian’s government’s air force, short of declaring war, and only Congress can declare that. Russia is unlikely to allow the passage of any UN Security resolution that would allow strikes on its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
There are more than 1,000 US troops on the ground in Syria, working alongside local forces to train them for future operations against ISIS. A US strike on Syrian government forces could endanger those troops.
And Russian and Iranian forces are side-by-side with the Syrian military in parts the country, making a major campaign to take out the Syrian air force, without potentially striking Russia, all but impossible.
On Wednesday, Tillerson spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the chemical attack, a senior State Department official told reporters on Thursday. “He heard the Russian analysis,” of the attack, the official added without providing details. Russian officials have suggested that Syrian rebels are responsible for the attacks, something that Tillerson ruled out in his remarks on Thursday.
"There is no doubt that Syria, the Syria regime under the leadership of Bashar Al Assad are responsible for this attack and I think further it's very important that the Russian government consider carefully their continued support for the Assad regime,” he said.
Tillerson is headed to Moscow on Wednesday to discuss a range of issues with Lavrov such as Ukraine, North Korea and counterterrorism in the Middle East. But Syria is expected to loom large as the White House weighs a potential military strike on the Assad regime.
"If Russia chooses to continue to shield Assad on this issue I’m sure that will have a big impact on our thinking," the State Department official told reporters.
Though the US is leading a coalition against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria, a European official told BuzzFeed News that the US has provided “no indication yet on where or when” a strike against Assad may occur.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis traveled to Mar-a-Lago Thursday and will be there for the duration of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, traveled there with Trump as well.
In Washington, Sen. John McCain urged a military response to ground the Syrian air force: "It means that if the airplane flies, they get shot down. And if we need to, we could crater the runways, which would be easy enough to do. They're only flying out of six fields."
Should the US military decide to take out parts of the Syrian air capability — like the air strip or the planes that are believed to be part of Tuesday’s attack — that would only have a limited effect. The Syrian regime, for example, could simply repave the air strip.
McCain also said he believes Trump has the legal authority to strike Syria. "[Assad] dropped nerve gas on hundreds of innocent men, women, and children," McCain said, adding that Trump does "have a right to, he has an obligation to" intervene.
But there's little agreement on that point on Capitol Hill. Sen. Tim Kaine, a longtime advocate for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against ISIS, said Trump would have to go to Congress before any military strike. "There is no current legal authorization for military action against Syria," Kaine told BuzzFeed News. "If there's any contemplation about military action in Syria, the president would need to do what President Obama did and come to Congress with it."
Obama in 2013 ramped up for a military response to Syria's chemical weapons usage, only to back down at the last minute, when it became clear that Congress would not provide its support. Trump at the time tweeted repeatedly that Obama should not intervene, including in one tweet imploring the "very foolish leader" to not launch a military strike.
Sen. Ben Cardin, the ranking member on the Foreign Relations committee, said the administration could be in violation of the War Powers Act if it doesn't seek authority from Congress to intervene in Syria.
"He has no authority to go into Syria against the Assad regime," he said, saying that the president needs Congressional approval, preferably from a new AUMF tailored towards Syria’s chemical weapons. Congress, which is leaving for a two-week break after today, could stay in town to approve, Cardin said, if Trump were to submit such a proposal.
Sen. Bob Corker, the committee's chair, said he supports some sort of response to Syria. "I know they're developing those," he said. But on whether Trump has the authority legal authority for a military strike in Syria, he was more sanguine. "Typically presidents have the ability to make short-term steps," he said. "We're looking at that right now [...] I'm sure there's no way the president anticipates some longer effort, but let's wait and see what they propose."
Assad has repeatedly used chemical weapons against his own citizens since the civil war there erupted in 2011, most often deploying chlorine. But on Tuesday, he is believed to have used sarin nerve agent, based on photos and videos that emerged from Idlib that day.
In 2013, after the last time Assad was believed to have used sarin, Syria, in an agreement brokered by Russia following the US's unwillingness to strike the regime, agreed to destroy its chemical stockpiles under the watch of the international community. In November, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons expressed grave concern that all gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies” in the regime’s claims that it had fully destroyed it stockpiles.
Regardless, there is no clear stockpile site for the US to strike, leading to plans to strike the air force that carries out the attacks instead.
Nancy Youssef is a national security correspondent with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC. | {
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04 September, 2011
I can't tell you how long I was glued to my television, playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, because there's no timer or clock which records time and Raptr doesn't track PS3 playing time, automatically, for some retarded reason. If I had to estimate I'd say I've played it around 50ish hours at this point.
Well then... graphics! Wow. Seeing some initial screens, I was a little disappointed, but coming into the game (which I got on the PS3 by the way) I was amazed. From the opening FMV to the actual game play, the graphics were beautiful. A lot of people complained about that bronze overtone, but I really loved it. It set a very desolate feel to the game and it got me into the setting a lot easier. Adam (lol at slew of Frankenstein references through out the game by the way) was very nicely done and all his actions and movements were fantastic. Some commented how cardboard or messy the graphics were, especially for people, but I found them to be great. Sure some of the people were a bit rigid, but we can't do magic; there's only so much we can do with graphics right now and I think this game did them damn well. Those city scape scenes and flying over different lands... oh man. When you first come to Singapore.. my mouth was hanging open. Gorgeous.
The music was great as well. I sort of felt like it reminded me of the more ambient music to a Bioshock or Fallout in that it really sort of sat behind everything, worming its way into your thoughts. Sometimes it lulled me deep, taking me into the
Beautiful Cityscapes
story is a surreal way. In short; fantastic. I'll be getting the OST as soon as I can. I'd like to buy it, but if I can't find it, I'll download it from somewhere. It's so good and so well composed.
Game mechanics and control. This is a two sided issue for me. First of all, why, oh, why do companies change the layout of well know controller configurations? It's annoying and aggravating and I hate it. Moving things like iron sights, sprint, and reload (to name a few) to buttons different than a slew of our established games is not innovative or challenging; IT'S ANNOYING. That being said, after the initial aggravation of a new controller lay out, I got into it pretty well. The interface is great, the weapons switching is smooth, hacking is awesome. I didn't run into any troubles dishing out my Praxis points how I desired and still having to deal with boss fights and hacking. In fact I ended up just putting points wherever because I had already got what I wanted. I didn't even put points in Typhoon until near the end because it just wasn't useful to my play style.
I played it on normal difficulty by the way, but I want to play it on Tell Me A Story (Easy) because I have a feel I missed a lot of stuff because I was too involved in staying alive. I got 52% of the trophies on my first run, did a nice bunch of side quests (though I don't think I got them all and/or found their secret trophies). That being said, I still got a load of
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story from the game. I mean geez it's involved. Little things there and there which give you insight into the characters or just the life of people around you or in buildings. I read all the e-mails I could, all the e-books, all the newspapers. Talked to everyone I saw. I even found two quests by randomly talking to people. That's when it feels awesome... my manic OCD's granting me quests and game play. It is sweet caramel in my mind.
Even now I've this desire to play it again. I did start my next cycle and am going to try to not kill anyone this round. It's already been very tough, to be honest. Mission one is down though; everyone lives. Saved the hostages, saved dudes wife, knocked out Sanders for the police. I'm an hero. During my first cycle I was forced to make some choices which were gnawing at me through the rest of the play. This time we'll see how the other choices colour my play.
SPOILERS:
Here are some of the choices I made during my first cycle. I didn't get the new chip because I remembered Elizabeth from the first Deus Ex (a game I didn't like, to be honest, but recall the information from anyway) and anything she is promoting as a 'good thing' is obviously evil. Not only that, but it's so obvious that it's going to fuck up your Christmas if you do get it. I saved Malik, but this was more that I thought it was actually what you're supposed to do. I didn't
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realise, until after I had beat the game and was checking forums, that you can actually hurry into the building and Malik dies. Whereas I'm curious how this colours other parts of the game, I'm not too happy about leaving her to die, so I'll save her again. I do like her. Talked Taggart's aid out of killing himself for whatever bizarre reason I was thinking of at the time (was surprised by surprise trophy of surprise for saving him) though I did reload and see what happened if he died. Nothing interesting, so I re-reloaded back to saving him save and continued on. I didn't talk to Taggart in the base at the end as I decided I wanted him to die; unfortunately this meant I couldn't see his ending so I guess I will see it this time. I did reload my before ending save to see all the others, though I went with Sarif's ending first as I do believe in his cause (in RL too actually).
SPOILERS END.
Hmm, can't think of other critical plot points that I did, but I've been awake a while and my mind is a smoking ruin.
I recommend this game wholly. It is an FPS RPG in the truest sense of the term. It flawlessly combines the FPG mode of play with the RPG interaction and story. I wasn't going to get the game at first, because I didn't like 1 or 2, but after I read some other friends' comments on G+, I decided to give it a try. I'm so god-damn happy I did because it's incredible. Totally get this game. | {
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A large body of scientific evidence links exposure to particulate matter--a widespread form of air pollution--to serious health problems, including asthma and premature death. Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) periodically reviews the appropriate air quality level at which to set national standards to protect the public against the health effects of particulate matter. EPA proposed revisions to these standards in January 2006 and issued a draft regulatory impact analysis of the revisions' expected costs and benefits. The estimated benefits of air pollution regulations have been controversial in the past. A 2002 National Academies report generally supported EPA's approach but made 34 recommendations to improve how EPA implements its approach. GAO was asked to determine whether and how EPA applied the Academies' recommendations in its estimates of the health benefits expected from the January 2006 proposed revisions to the particulate matter standards. GAO examined the draft analysis, met with EPA officials, and interviewed members of the National Academies' committee. In providing technical comments on the report, EPA officials said it was fair and balanced and noted the agency's progress in addressing recommendations via research and development and other analyses.
EPA has begun to change the way it conducts and presents its analyses of health benefits in response to recommendations from the National Academies. Specifically, EPA applied, at least in part, 22--or about two-thirds--of the Academies' recommendations to its health benefit analysis of proposed revisions to particulate matter standards. For example, in response to some of the recommendations, EPA took steps toward conducting a more rigorous assessment of uncertainty by, for instance, evaluating how benefits could change under different assumptions and discussing sources of uncertainty not included in the benefit estimates. In one case, EPA applied an alternative technique, called expert elicitation, for evaluating uncertainty by systematically gathering expert opinion about the uncertainty underlying the causal link between exposure to particulate matter and premature death. Consistent with the National Academies' recommendation to assess uncertainty by developing ranges of estimates and specifying the likelihood of attaining them, EPA used expert elicitation to develop ranges of reductions in premature death expected from the proposed revisions. EPA officials said that ongoing research and development efforts will allow the agency to gradually achieve more progress in applying the recommendations. We note that robust uncertainty analysis is important because estimates of health benefits can be highly uncertain, as the draft regulatory impact analysis for particulate matter illustrates. EPA viewed the estimates in this analysis as so uncertain that it chose not to present them in the executive summary. For various reasons, EPA has not applied the remaining 12 recommendations to the analysis, such as the recommendation to evaluate the impact of using the simplifying assumption that each component of particulate matter is equally toxic. EPA officials viewed most of these recommendations as relevant to its health benefit analyses and, citing the need for additional research and development, emphasized the agency's commitment to continue to respond to the recommendations. For example, EPA did not believe that the state of scientific knowledge on the relative toxicity of particulate matter components was sufficiently developed to include in the January 2006 regulatory impact analysis, and the agency is currently sponsoring research on this issue. In addition, a senior EPA official said that insufficient resources impeded the agency's progress in applying the recommendations, citing, in particular, the limited availability of skilled staff, time, and other resources to conduct the required analyses and research and development. EPA officials also said that some of the recommendations the agency did not apply to the draft analysis, such as one calling for a summary table describing key analytical information to enhance transparency, will be applied to the analysis supporting the final rule. To the extent that EPA continues to make progress addressing the Academies' recommendations, decision makers and the public will be better able to evaluate the basis for EPA's air regulations. | {
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Warner Music Group Free Streaming Advocates Lose Another $100m in 2014… Can’t Make This Up…
We can’t help but think these two things are related. Read the full stories at DMN… Here and Here…
So how’s that $3.00 per “user” annual ARPU working out from free streaming?
It’s amazing to us that the current conversation and controversy is still focused on the free tier. We’re not entirely certain that Spotify can even work at $10 a month / $120 per yer, per subscriber. The number of subscribers needed to replace the revenue from transactional sales exceeds those of any current mature subscription business.
It will take 60 Million PAID subscribers at $10 a month to generate about $7.2b in gross revenues annually. It takes another 30 Million (or 90 Million PAID Total) to come up with $7.5b payable to rights holders. Ninety Million. Paid…
Here’s some context for the chart above. Netflix only has 36m subscribers in the US, no free tier, and massive limitations on available titles of both catalog and new releases. Sirius XM, 26.3m in the US as a non-interactive curated service installed in homes, cars and accessible online. Premium Cable has 56m subscribers in the US paying much more than $10 a month and also with many limitations. Spotify… 3m paid subscribers in the US after four years. Tell us again about this strategy of “waiting for scale.” Three Million Paid… Three… | {
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Wikipedia in English
In post–Civil War America, Victorian men and women turned to physicians for scientifically based impartial advice on personal and moral questions as well as for health matters. Doctors played willing advisors to trusting patients. Making their consultation rooms authoritarian settings, they presumptuously doled out personal advice on all topics—from intrafamily communication to proper clothing, exercise, contraception, infidelity, masturbation, and venereal disease.
More than any other professional group, doctors expressed the moral judgment of the middle class and articulated the forces that lay in wait for those of both sexes who squandered their birthrights through unrestrained indulgences. Insecure both socially and economically, the rising middle class gave physicians far more authority than their medical and scientific knowledge warranted.
Although the middle class operated on a double standard, Victorian men faced enormous expectations and restrictions similar to the proscriptive role assigned Victorian women. John S. Haller, Jr., and Robin M. Haller cover the resulting nervous ailments common to Victorians, in addition to marriage and sexual relationships, proper hygiene, prostitution, and drug addiction.
In one of the few sexual studies to deal with both genders, the authors reject the stereotypical view of Victorian sexuality. Discounting the popular dictum of the Victorian period as an aberration in the ascent of women to greater sexual freedom, they posit prudery as a mask behind which women sometimes gained greater freedom of person. | {
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Yea, sometimes the web seems infinite, other times I can't find what I want, but I sure don't want to "walk the Amazon" but am amazed and inspired that these guys are persisting. Plus they have some cool photos of their mud boat as a freighter.
My friend and I are planning a trip from the start of the Amazon to the end of it in October. Any advice/tips/info would be greatly apprecaited!! We have both traveled to the Amazon river once or twice and understand the environment and hazards but would love any information anyone can give!
We will be sure to update while and after we are finished. Can't wait to take the raft out of the country and on an epic adventure
Arturgreen wrote:Floating the Amazon from source to sea in a packraft sounds cool and an epic adventure.
*Walking* seems just unnecessarily painful.
No kidding! I watched this when it came out in the UK. At one point another guy joins him for a few weeks. As they are walking through a flooded part of the jungle and as the guy’s feet are festering and rotting away, I think to myself – this might be a time to inflate those rafts you’re carrying!
I guess he took his goal of walking the Amazon seriously.
I'm off to an extremely hard-to-access jungle river in central Guyana in a couple of months, and am quite excited. It's a tributary of the Essequibo river system, as opposed the Orinoco or Amazon. Interestingly, I've read that in high flood water times, all three of these river systems connect up (the Casiquare canal is the 'connector' between the Amazon and Orinoco), which allows fish species, giant otters, etc to move freely between them.
Having spent several months editing up my most recent solo expeditions into DVD form, I'm well and truly sick of sitting in front of the computer, and am ready to get out there to some obscure and little known jungle rivers again! The goal this time is to film jaguars, otters, tapirs and large snakes (the last anaconda they measured up this river was a little over 18 feet long). The other goal, of course, is to avoid having those botfly larvae squirming around under the surface of my skin...
Here in Australia, my remote river journeys have attracted enough attention to be premiering on television later this month (Foxtel). For you non-Aussies, the DVDs 'Packrafting the Kimberley' (42 minutes) and 'Jungles of Gabon' (20 minutes) are both on one DVD, and of course my 'Coast of Bears' adventure (62 minutes) is on its own DVD. Just go to the Products page of my website at www.remoteriverman.com if you are interested. | {
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The Tombstone Small Animal Shelter is a non-profit, no-kill facility dedicated to finding homes for lost and abandoned dogs and cats in the area of Tombstone, Arizona. All animals are spayed/neutered and vaccinated before going to their forever homes. We are not subsidized by the City of Tombstone and we do not have a corporate sponsor. We maintain our shelter through donations and fundraising events. Our shelter is run primarily by volunteers. | {
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Washington, D.C. (September 23, 2011)—The Independent Community Bankers of America sent a letter to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) today to express support for the Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 2011 (S. 1615), because the association believes it will help address the stifling regulatory burden facing the nation’s community banks.
“ICBA has always championed regulatory relief for community banks. Regulations must not be onerous or imposed on a one-size-fits-all basis,” ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine wrote in the letter. “Community banks contend with costly, unwieldy regulatory burdens that often jeopardize their capacity to raise capital, lend to small businesses and consumers, and support job creation.”
The bill would require the financial agencies to subject proposed new rules to a more rigorous, 12-point analysis to ensure that they are truly needed, are designed to pose as little burden and cost as possible, and pass a basic cost-benefit test. “Importantly, the legislation would also require a retrospective ‘look-back’ every five years so that regulators could evaluate rules after they’ve been put in place,” Fine wrote.
Fine closed the letter by saying that in this difficult economic environment, the Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act offers welcome relief by putting a reasonable check on new regulations, ensuring that they do not jeopardize community banks’ viability by imposing costs that outweigh any benefit. “The Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act will require financial agencies to more fully analyze alternative approaches to new regulations and to determine ways to streamline existing regulations,” he wrote. | {
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September Mineral of the Month – Garnet
Garnet
Chemical Formula: Garnet is a series of several different minerals with unique chemical formulas. The Garnet mineral group is compromised of isomorphous minerals identical in crystal structure and in many cases difficult to determine one from another. The members of this group intermingle with one another, within limits.
The simple chemical formula of the group is:
X2+3Y3+2Si3O12
Color: Red, Green, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Pink, Purple, Gray, Black
Hardness: 6.5 - 8.5
Crystal System: Isometric
Refractive Index: 1.780 - 1.889
SG: 3.5 - 4.3
Transparency: Transparent to translucent
Double Refraction: None
Luster: Vitreous; some forms adamantine or submetallic
Cleavage: None. May exhibit parting.
Mineral Class: Garnet | {
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When riders get off to a blinding start in the first couple of races, it is easy to get carried away and start penciling their name onto the championship trophy. Doing that after just two races is plainly ridiculous. Doing it after three races is hardly any better. Yet the temptation to do so remains strong: when a narrative presents itself, it is hard to resist following it.
That has been the case so far this year. In Moto3, Joan Mir has looked untouchable winning the first two races from tough fights. In Moto2, Franco Morbidelli had dominated, controlling races from start to finish. And coming into Austin, Maverick Viñales had won the first two races of the season quite comfortably, nobody anywhere close to being able to match him.
During practice, a new narrative presented itself in MotoGP. Marc Márquez has dominated the racing at the Circuit of The Americas since it first joined the calendar, winning all four races held there before this year. Maverick Viñales has dominated the opening two races of the year, and came to Austin looking capable of ending Márquez' winning streak.
Duel of the century?
Through free practice and qualifying, the two men traded blows, swapping times at the top of the timesheets. They had half a second or more over the field, and looked set for an epic showdown during the race. If Marc could beat Maverick, he could get his championship back on track, and take the wind out of Viñales' sails. If Maverick could beat Marc, he would claim his place as the new boss of MotoGP, by stealing Márquez' crown at the Repsol Honda's strongest track.
It was easy to get suckered into the narrative, and write the story beforehand of the epic battle which was sure to unfold. But reality intervened, as is its wont. Maverick Viñales' challenge to Marc Márquez lasted just under two laps, the Movistar Yamaha rider slipping off at Turn 18, only his third crash on a Yamaha, but a costly one. Viñales' crash proved that the season is long, and that there is always a lot of racing to be done before Valencia. Any conclusions drawn this early in the championship are inevitable premature, and subject to being contradicted and discarded by events on the ground.
In reality, the race in Austin devolved into a war of attrition, with the rider best able to manage tire degradation triumphing in the end. Maverick Viñales had known this from the beginning, repeating his mantra "we must work for the last ten laps" over and over. But a crash which was inexplicable to him meant he never made it past two laps, making the last ten laps irrelevant.
Mystery crashers
Why did Viñales crash? The Movistar Yamaha rider was at a loss to explain it. Speaking late on Sunday afternoon, he could only shake his head in disbelief. "I don’t know," he said. "I’m like you now. I don’t know. We check everything. It was all the same. The same speed. Even it was a little bit lower speed than in the morning. We had the same fuel in the tank, so it was a strange crash. I can’t tell you anything about it. It happened."
Viñales did his best not to blame Michelin for the crash, while simultaneously making it clear he believed the front tire was to blame. "I didn’t feel so good with the front tire already from the first lap," he said. "Something strange. I know the tire was not as good as this morning. For sure because on the left side I had some warning on the second lap, at the start of the second lap."
Known unknowns
What could have caused the crash? There are any number of explanations. The bumpy track has been difficult all weekend. Viñales may have been slightly off line compared to other laps, and hit a patch of track with fractionally less grip. He could have been pushing hard to try to stay with the Repsol Hondas. The tire could have been performing slightly worse than normal, either because of manufacturing tolerances or because of the way it had been handled. Most probably, it was a combination of several of those things.
In the end, though, the cause doesn't matter to Maverick Viñales. The Movistar Yamaha rider is convinced that neither he nor his team did anything wrong, and so there is nothing to be learned from the experience. He has to get up, dust himself off, and think about Jerez.
Viñales' crash may have changed the dynamics for Marc Márquez, but it didn't change his plan. "It didn’t change my plan on the race because my plan was one plan," he said. "Try to understand the situation, try to understand the race. The mistake of Argentina was a big mistake and I don’t want to repeat again."
Márquez sat behind Dani Pedrosa for a few laps, nursing the hard front tire he had decided to fit five minutes before the race. He hadn't tested it much in practice, and had to judge its performance carefully. "In the beginning of the race I was just trying to take care, trying to understand where was the limit of this tire because I didn’t try a lot on Friday. I was behind Dani trying to manage the race, and then when I saw that he was suffering a little bit, and also Valentino was struggling. I say okay time to attack."
Pedrosa put up a stout defense when Márquez first passed him, the two swapping places several times before Pedrosa was forced to let Márquez go. It took Márquez over half the race, but in the end, his pace was just too much for anyone else to follow. He cruised home to a comfortable victory, his advantage over three seconds.
Winning ways
Looking at the result, it was another typical Márquez win in Austin. Yet if anything, this was a far more conservative win on Márquez' part. "The race was slower but we need to understand also that the temperature increased a lot," Márquez said. "I was able to ride faster because I feel quite good, but in the end victory, 25 points is the same winning plus two seconds or plus ten. This is something that I understand already some races ago. "
This win makes it five wins out of five at Texas for Marc Márquez. It also means he has never lost a MotoGP race on American soil. ("We need to speak with Carmelo, to have more circuits in the USA for the future," Márquez quipped.) Marc Márquez remains unbeatable in America.
It also means he got back a huge chunk of points in the championship. Márquez went from 37 points down on Viñales to just 12 points down, and moved up from eight in the championship to third. If anyone had any thoughts of handing the trophy to Viñales after the first two rounds, they will have had to put them very firmly out of their heads in Austin.
Roadhouse
Viñales' crash meant that Valentino Rossi has ended up leading the championship, for the first time since Sepang in 2015. It is the story of Rossi's recent history in MotoGP, performing well through consistency, rather than winning every race. Rossi has been on the podium in all three races so far, and his race in Austin is arguably his best of the year. He was quick through practice, and carried that on into the race, biding his time, passing Pedrosa at the end of the race, and going on to finish a comfortable second.
Rossi's race was not without controversy, however. On lap seven, he nearly came together with Johann Zarco, and was forced to sit the bike up and run across the tarmac on the inside of Turn 3. In the process, he gained a third of a second on the man ahead of him, Marc Márquez. That gain was later nullified, but the whole situation caused a storm of debate among fans.
What actually happened? At the start of lap seven, Rossi was leading Johann Zarco, who had been snapping at his heels for a while. Rossi made a mess of Turn 1, missing the apex and running wide. That put him too far to the inside for Turn 2, which he knew meant his run through the Esses all the way down to Turn 11 was completely ruined. Zarco saw an opportunity which was too good to pass up. "It was necessary to do it like this," Zarco explained, "because there was an opportunity to pass him, and if I asked myself, 'can I do it?' maybe I crash. So, necessary just to do it. "
Zarco squeezed into the inside of Turn 3, just as Rossi turned in, trying to close the door. The two were almost level at that point in the corner, but being on the outside, Rossi was forced to sit up. He sat up, ran on, and rejoined the race a long way ahead, on the tail of Márquez rather than just in front of Zarco. What's more, he did not give up the ground gained either before or after the incident.
After careful review, Race Direction decided to hand Valentino Rossi a penalty of 0.3 seconds, which is how much advantage Rossi gained with that maneuver, according to timekeeping. Although "penalty" is perhaps the wrong word. "The thinking behind the penalty was that you can't gain an advantage by leaving the track," Race Director Mike Webb explained. "There was clearly an advantage because he got closer to Marquez. So we negated that advantage."
Alternatives
It was clearly not Rossi's fault he left the track, Webb acknowledged. But Rossi did not give up the gain he made by doing so. What Rossi could have done is shut off the gas once he rejoined the track, dropped off the back of Márquez and returned to being just ahead of Zarco. But Rossi held onto the gains made by cutting across the tarmac.
The penalty seems incredibly petty, and given the final gaps between Márquez, Rossi, and Pedrosa, also completely irrelevant. It is perhaps better to think of this not as a time penalty, but as a race time correction. It is a more accurate reflection of the time on the track, but applying the correction seems more like nitpicking than judiciously application of the rule of law.
Valentino Rossi was far from happy with the penalty. "For me it’s not right, because I have two choices: or I do like this or we touch and we crash," Rossi said. I read here that it’s gaining advantage and for sure I gain some advantage. 0.3 is okay, but for me the problem is not Race Direction, the problem is Zarco because he’s always very fast. He rides the bike very well. He has a great potential, but this is not Moto2 and if you want to overtake you have to overtake in another way. He always arrives too late. For me you have to stay more quiet."
Was it a harsh move by Zarco? That seems like an exaggeration. Rossi made a mistake at Turn 1, which meant he left the door open at Turns 2 and 3, and Zarco leaped at the chance. The Frenchman drew level with Rossi, but could not pass him. Meanwhile, Rossi was still trying to close the door despite the fact that Zarco was already on the inside of the corner. Who was to blame? They both were. And Race Direction took that and decided against apportioning blame when both parties were the offenders.
Et tu, quoque
Marc Márquez could not resist getting in a punch of his own. "Of course, it was aggressive but in the beginning everybody’s pushing 100%, I’m an aggressive rider," Márquez said of the incident. "Valentino is an aggressive rider. We also overtake in the past very strong. We overtake in the present and we will overtake in the future really strong. So if you are aggressive and you overtake strong, you need to understand that also the other riders are aggressive. It’s always like this. It’s racing." The subtext of Márquez' explanation is that Rossi himself is far too aggressive making passes, and that this time, his chickens have come home to roost.
Rossi blamed Zarco's aggression on having come through the rough and tumble of Moto2, where the closeness of the machines meant that riders had to be more aggressive when they wanted to pass. "For sure Moto2 is different than 250 because everybody has the same bike, more or less everybody, or especially the same engine, the same tires, the same brakes and everything. So that makes overtake more difficult. Always the races are very tight and is difficult to make the difference. Maybe is that, but I don’t know if is the case."
Dani Pedrosa added that one issue is that adapting to MotoGP is more difficult than many think. It is not just a matter of jumping on a bigger bike, it's also important to understand that everything happens at higher speed, Pedrosa explained. Corners approach faster, bikes brake harder, riders push for every inch on the track. The rhythm of riding is different, and adapting to the faster tempo at which everything happens can be a problem.
Surprising talent
Not for Zarco, however. The Frenchman was faster than anyone expected in MotoGP. It is easy to forget that Zarco is a rookie, when he looks like he's been riding for years. A quick poll of team managers gave the same results: Nobody expected Zarco to be this quick this fast, and all were surprised at his speed. Zarco is seventh in the championship, and closer than ever to being genuinely competitive.
If Zarco has been impressive in Austin, the Ducati riders have underperformed. Riders on Desmosedicis have been on the podium every year since 2014, and they had arrived in Texas expecting to match that, or perhaps even better. This was a Ducati track, they felt.
All of the Ducati staff were disappointed on Sunday. Andrea Dovizioso finished the race as fastest, but even he was only sixth, some 14 seconds off the pace. Senior Ducati officials complained of a very tough weekend, and that they had expected more of their riders. Jorge Lorenzo had made another step forward, but though he matched the pace of Dovizioso in the first part of the race, graining on the right side of the tire meant he couldn't use the tire properly, and lost a lot of ground in the last 10 laps or so. This is not what Ducati Corse expected, however, either from the experienced Andrea Dovizioso or new boy Jorge Lorenzo.
If the narrative in MotoGP was broken, it was broken in entirely different directions in Moto2 and Moto3. But that is a discussion for another day, and later in the week.
Comments
Firstly, super happy to have Rossi back atop the championship. Like many, VR is my hero. I would give my right arm to be in Jerez with Rossi leading the championship! Mega !
Cal Crutchlow should get some love. If this Honda is as hard to ride as they say it is, he’s doing a hell of a job finishing 2nd in Argentina (quoted as saying it was easy for him) and now getting a very solid 4th place. Chapeau to Cal !
But, Zarco. Seriously. How come no one saw this coming? I still can’t wrap my brain cells around this. He’s a double Moto2 champion?! Who was the last double Moto2 / 250 champion to come up ? Lorenzo, Pedrosa and Biaggi where the last ones to do it. Isn’t that super-duper top shelf talent? Why didn’t anyone see this? Why was everyone so fixated on Rins? Suzuki tossed Zarco aside in favour of Rins remember? I’m not saying Rins won’t be great, but this is a guy with Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Biaggi level of achievements here. I'd love to know "why" guys inside MotoGP didn't really believe in him. Bravo Zarco ! Keep proving everyone wrong. Love it!
Ps. Anyone notice is speed in sector 4 on lap 1 on a full tank? Sick, just sick speed.
He deserves a factory ride ! something is wrong if he doesn't..
One of the points I heard consistently in the run up to this year was that Zarco was "too old" for the factories, all of whom apparently want to get a 15+ years out of every rider. I always thought that sounded ridiculous.
Anyway, I'm excited about his performance so far, but let's not go nuts. In my mind, unlikely he'd be doing this well on a Honda.
4 spots back would still be REALLY fast for a brand new MotoGP rider. Even on a factory bike. Even on a Yamaha.
Not doubting his skills and pedigree, the pace here is just SO fast! Yes last year's Yamaha is a REALLY good package now. And Zarco has shown excellence in Moto2. He was beautiful on the bike yesterday, very dynamic. But what is necessary to get each spot forward from mid pack is monumental and Zarco immediately running a pace where astronauts only tread on a satellite bike is a surprise. No knock on him, it is further praise. I like this kid!
.3 penalty
Rossi has such presence to be able to be in such a situation, glance back w his left hand relaxed, then drive through the next apex without losing rhythm. He was pushed off track. But he did gain some. Not a spot, time. A bit of a bullshit penalty? Yes. But with echoes of late 2015, #46, off track excursions (I loved that move after Marquez punted him, and strongly disliked what was both the Italian and Spanish media did after), and ALL the shite that followed that we all had to trudge through...what would you do if YOU were Mike Webb? I wouldn't want the job. Messy stressful terrain there.
Another note. As upset as we all were to miss out on the fight of the era coming and head to head blows, we have an even more anticipated one coming on the horizon now in the form of a closer championship. (If one must pine for what could be that isn't...bit of a bad habit, but we all do it a tad eh? The Ducati has lost some momentum under Lorenzo. And Lorenzo in Red. Perhaps the Suzuki w #99 would be a fit. And who for the Ducati if not Marquez and his style that would befit it so well? A new kid? Digression over). The championship looks fan-tastic:
Maverick Vinales is not perfect. He lacks some experience relative to Marquez and Valentino and is still getting to know the bike. He is manifesting a rare excellence and is brilliant to watch. He has the Yamaha a bit loose and is a very balanced rider. But he also has far and away the best package on the grid for now, the M1 is now what the Honda V5 was. (And no incidentally, I am not done taking satisfaction in Honda struggling a bit). Vinales will have some inconsistencies.
Marquez is on a very unforgiving bike lacking drive grip. He is forced to override it and risks crashing, he is stealing his last tenths from gravel traps. It is fantastic to behold. In my view he remains the best rider in the world.
And the great Valentino Rossi remains. He can "Hayden '06" these two as they suffer the occasional crash as we have seen. And as the Honda and Vinales both iron out their creases Rossi also may be poised to grab points via race craft, tires not expended in a slugging match, and other unseen delights.
race craft in Moto3 or his taking out Kallio at Valencia in Moto2. He will have to show something when under pressure and at tracks where Yamaha has not done well for me to start buying into the hype (which seems to be much driven by anti-Márquez sentiment).
But you also forget that was a while back. I am finding out for a lot of riders who rise to the top it's all about how they used to make mistakes and how they learned from it. To me the Maverick of now is not the Maverick of old just as the Marquez of now is not the Marquez of old though sometimes the old Marquez's glimmer can still be seen :)
I agree with you 100%!!! Actually, I never expected Zarco to be this fast, but I DID think he was a remarkably smart racer. His racecraft in Moto2 is unmatched. Maybe his age was a red flag, but certainly that is not the issue now. He will only get better and eventually he'll have a full factory machine. His crews must be really excited about their prospects. Rins, on the other hand, is a bit of a mystery to me. He got his factory ride, but he is over rated.
Look at how many Spanish riders we currently have in MotoGP. Dorna are actively trying to get in riders from other countries to balance out the numbers and have done so for years now. It's well known and has been mentioned and examined on this very site multiple times. Being Spanish is NOT a bonus these days, unless you ride for a Spanish team. Please stop perpetuating false narratives.
If there is one thing that everyone appears to be fixated on, especially during last year's silly season, it's age. Zarco is 26, Rins is 21. Suzuki wanted another young rider to nurture and be competitive with for the future.
I am not saying that this is the only reason Suzuki didn't sign Zarco at the end, but his nationality was by all accounts the least of their worries. In any case, it couldn't have turned out much better for Johann and I am delighted to see him shake up the establishment from the beginning. It's a joy to see and I'm not sure it would have been possible on the Suzuki.
Based on his form over the last 12 races, Morbidelli would likely be a long-term upgrade over Barbera, Bautista or Rabat (unless they can bring a lot more sponsorship money to a team than he can, of course).
I think that this race might be the making of Vinales... now we see how he deals with adversity and being a little on the back foot.
The gale force that has powered his sails through pre season and the first 2 races seemed to take a break, and now we see how well he regroups..
....I doubt they'll be any long term harm... but how he goes at Jerez will be interesting, where conceivably Marc/Dani/Vale are likely to be able to push him closer, than they could at the Johnny-come-lately (sic) tracks that make up the opening rounds...
I think he'll be fine, but he'll need to finish at all costs. Let's see...
Rossi is starting to look like his 2015 self.... and like in 2015, I think he'll need to have more in the tank than just (again, sic) consistently being on the podium if he's in with a shot of the title. That said, Rossi's euro season last year was very strong (give or take the bad luck of Mugello and error of [iirc?] Assen, both races he should of won)
Lorenzo seems more or less to be getting the Duc up to its native speed, the problem seems to be that the bike simply doesn't work as well as last year... Many have accused of Jorge of copying Rossi, let's hope that doesn't prove to be very accurate in the case of the Ducati move...
for one thing (and slightly tongue in cheek, but only slightly) if Lorenzo fancies his old job back in 2019, he may find that Zarco has been offered it.
Trying to move beyond the right/wrong of this particular penalty, I find myself agreeing strongly with the argument advanced by Mat Oxley--that by going this direction we're opening a can of worms, heading into F1 territory, and basically screwing up the racing.
Okay, so we can somehow determine how much advantage was gained in a sector, or a corner, following a collision. Sounds fair. But let's dig deeper...how badly was the concentration and rhythm of the rider affected by the collision? That's gotta be worth something, right? So if his times increase for a few sectors, maybe we should take some time out? I'm sure we can add sensors that monitor rider stress, etc. They do it with the astronauts.
Or what if the bike suffered damage? For example, in Qatar, Rossi's rear camera was dangling off the whole race. Over race distance, the aerodynamic impact of that, on a 215 mph machine, might have added up to something. So maybe we should take a few tenths out? What if somebody ahead of me crashes, and I have to go off-line, or off-track, to avoid him. Do I get my sector/lap time adjusted for that?
And then you have to deal with the rider notification part. Pit boards clearly don't work, so we're either gonna need radios or data transmission. The latter seems more promising (radios are too NASCAR). Maybe there's a whole staff of time adjusters back in HQ, running a constant stream of adjusted positions back to a display on your dash. A whole new level of strategy and tactics. Yeah, you just passed Lorenzo, but you were actually a half-second ahead of him anyway dummy--why take the risk? If you're close to Cal or Jack, do your best to make a big show of losing time when you avoid the crash. Do NOT go off track or accelerate until you're sure it's copacetic with all involved.
And then, of course, you have to start thinking about manufacturer variances (why should Ducati blast down the straights like that?), individual rider handicaps...
In fact, ya know what makes the most sense? We're just gonna run this thing like the IOM TT. We'll start everybody at 10 second intervals, and just see how the times work out. No, wait...the faster guys catch up sometimes, which means they get held up, which isn't fair, and then you've gotta start adjusting again. So here: one bike on the track at a time. No traffic, no being held up, or being crashed into and gaining advantage.
But...no. That's not really fair either. I mean, what if it rains for Rins and lets up for Rossi? So really, I think we need to move this indoors too. Or maybe instead of trying to beat the other guys, we can make it like those "races" where you have to come closest to a set time?
For the penalty for a rider who gains advantage by leaving the track. Technically that's what Rossi did, though the gain was small. In other situations I've seen the rider forced to relinquish positions, and theoretically he could have been forced to allow Zarco past as Zarco was alongside VR before Rossi left the track. Race direction took into account the fact Rossi couldn't see Zarco and didn't really penalise him at all
It sounds to me like VR wants rookies to roll off the throttle when he shuts the door on them and was pissed that *he* had to roll off because he was on the outside. Nothing wrong with that notion on VR's part, but since he continues to be a serious challenger for the world championship, it's not like he's going to be given more leeway due to his seniority. I suspect by the end of the season, when Zarco stuffs a past champion, it will cease being news and just be part of the race.
... VR won't ever mind a hard battle be it Zarco or any other rider. He was taken aback only because he had to lose the track momentarily. I'm sure he doesn't hold any grudge against Zarco at all otherwise.
I think VR's reaction to Zarco's move shouldn't be taken as a typical cribbing. I'm certain anyone who has been watching MotoGP for years would agree that VR hasn't and doesn't shy away from hard racing. So Marquez's light dig at the situation could be misleading.
It was just an overambitious move on Zarco's part I'd say, nothing more, and I'm pretty sure VR doesn't hold anything against Zarco either other than the initial, instinctive reaction to it (just like how Vinales reacted to founding VR in his line during Qualifying).
I believe all is well about this whole situation now. But discussions may continue about its overall fairness.
Secondly, I do not understand why HRC alerted Pedrosa about VR's penalty in the penultimate lap through the pitboard. What were they trying to do given that Yamaha itself didn't alerted VR of the same? Was HRC trying to distract Rossi off his rhythm because VR would notice their pitboard as well or wouldn't he? Because I was certain that telling Pedrosa about it then was going to be of no use.
Maybe HRC crews want to give clue to pedrosa, stick to rossi no matter what, maybe blocking him, or slowing him down and try to stick under his slipstream, etc..
but it seems either pedrosa didn't really get it or his bike is not possible anymore to do that kind of manuver, or maybe the pit msg just little too late to make pedrosa adjusting for that new information or .... pedrosa is just want to do fair race, :) , well many possibility
So anyone who was within .3 seconds of Rossi at the finish needed to know about his penalty. Is it possible to infallibly communicate that information using a pitboard? I shudder to think of NASCAR or F1 style communications in MotoGP, but allowing even just 40 characters to scroll across their dashboard would make things better all around. Instead of pit-to-rider, what about race direction-to-rider communications?
Did anyone notice the state of Alex Lowes' front tyre as he was picking it up out of the gravel? The tearing on the edge of the right hand side was clearly evident. I've had this a few times with a slick tyres from different manufacturers. Usually it means the tyre is over heating and tearing itself up due to either over grip... or under grip and spining at the rear. Strangely enough I don't remember getting this when I started using slicks in the 1990's. I've only encountered in the last 5-6 years. Perhaps those only Dunlops and Michellins where not as gripping as the new slicks, but by the power of greyskull they did not shread themselves in the mater of a 15-20 laps.
When asked, at the post race interview, what the issues might be with crashes etc, Rossi suggested that bumps were one issue but that 'balance' was most likely the problem.
I would suggest that in the search for putting all that power to the ground to get maximum acceleration that the rear is overpowering the front. Maybe trying to match the power/speed of the Ducatis is the root cause behind maximising drive especially if track characteristics add to the issue.
So its a set up/electronics decision made by the team/rider rather than a race durability or getting the balance exactly right.
The result is that the back pushes the front and starts to tear or badly grain the front aspecially on the least loaded side.
The problem is that when it starts to push the front in this way it doesn't generate carcass temp which means that its possible to easily have a no temp low side lack of feel and a feeling of no grip.
You might eventually find, as time goes by, that this characteristic is either why Vinales is quick and why he is more susceptable to the balance/temperature issue.
Marquez was experiencing the same issue because his team could see the tearing on TV and were warning him on his pit board.
What I'm sure wasn't picked up on was that both aprilias had knackered the tyres at roughly the same point. I remember them saying that espargaro had come into the pits with a ruined tyre, and at the same time, Lowe's was crashing with a ruined tyre too. But the commentators must have missed that.
They miss quite alot.... in FP3 the camera was following Miller. He lost the front at turm one and managed to save a pretty decent slide on his knee and possibly elbow....... Not a peep was said about it.
of the 3 races so far this was my less favorite i must say. Though full of major surprises. I never thought for one second that MV was gonna crash (TBH i thought MM was gonna crash, not just because of the pressure, but also because of his career pattern and figures, I mean 2 crashes ONLY in one race week end? that's below average, what's wrong with him? ) More seriously though, I was very disappointed that MV did not get past lap 2 and very surprised. But it's just one race, I don't doubt for a second that he'll be there in Jerez, as fast as hell, battling for the lead.
The other unexpected surprise was to see Dani in such good form and his passes with MM were a real pleasure to watch.
What I certainly never ever expected, was to see VR leading the WC... Yes he is consistent, and yes we can never count him out, still i do not see him thriving and happily breaking like he used to: i hope they'll find a solution.
As for Ducati... well, who would have thought? they are going backwards! on "Ducati friendly" circuits! there is this old say "do not shoot at the Red Cross" so, I'll refrain from making any comment.
last but not least: the Zarco/Rossi incident : I would not dismiss this thing with a simple "this is racing baby". I think that VR was right in pointing out that Zarco should be a tiny bit more careful. First, given his choice of tires (soft/soft) I assume he knew he could not keep up the whole race. Second, if he was indeed faster (which it seems to me happened just in a couple of sectors for a couple of laps) he should have been coolheaded and make a pass where it's possible and where he can make it stick, not just trying to push with no strategy and above all being unable to pass Rossi! this could have ended like last year's Iannone/Lorenzo crash. Third, Zarco is very "physical" in his approach, we've seen that in the past and also in his starts this year. I have nothing against it, but I think it's important to understand the difference between being strong holding a position and just barging into other riders to make way. I find ironic that most people use Rossi as benchmark for bully passes, when in my opinion most of his, too many too count , overtakes are beautifully executed with clinical precision and very little barging. So bottom line, yes this is racing, but there is a major difference between smart riding (with the occasional strategic paint swap) and not so smart blind use of force.
Rossi has obviously made far harsher passes than what Zarco attempted on him, so it is a touch hypocritical of him to tell Zarco to wind his neck in. 'This is not Moto2' is a nonsense comment. People have died in both categories, and in fact Zarco was a very safe rider in Moto 2.
Firstly, a great summation David. Indeed, blindly following a Vinales vs Marquez narrative circa 2017 has been put to bed. There exist many permutations with 15 rounds left. As an earlier poster noted, the bloke who is currently points leader may well do a 2006 Hayden. At the other end of 2006 was Loris Capirossi. He was on cue for the title until the Catalunya mess. Dovizioso is getting short shrift within Audi/Ducati/Marlboro right now. Reason : They are more concentrated on justifying massive investment in the Lorenzo deal than winning the title, hence all effort is thrown at Lorenzo's needs, rather than focusing on the title race, both manufacturer and rider angles. Dovi got taken out in Argentina again whilst headed for some good points. Austin, well, his bike developed 2 glitches over the weekend. Transition from M1 to D16 has never been easy.
Dovizioso transitioned from 2 stroke Honda to RCV Honda to...yes...M1 Yamaha, to D16 and beat out the likes of Cruthlow whom I like a lot. The more Ducati/Audi cabal wrap Lorenzo in cotton wool, the further they will go down the dark passage of Rossi circa 2011/12. I said before this signing that they needed to get Marquez on board D16. Suppo, having worked with Marc and Casey probably figured this from the get go. I hope Lorenzo's huge paycheck has some equally huge performance stipulations. Early days to be talking silly season for sure. Do Ducati/Lorenzo have some escape clauses inked? Hardly likely. I guess Ducati will just have to suck it up like with Rossi back then at the expense of Dovi, Redding, Petrucci, Barbera, Bautista, Baz. Make no mistake, I have always been a huge backer of Lorenzo and still am, but on a Ducati? Like Rossi admitted, he can't ride it to its level like Stoner. Never will 3 races in.
I'm relieved to now know that Austin can be every bit as good of an experience as Indianapolis (albeit further to travel to and much more expensive!). Spent all three days there wandering the various viewing areas and finding myself at the right place at the right time - able to see the likes of 93, 35, 26, 99 and 04 out and about.
Also had the pleasure and fortunate good timing to be grabbing a beer in the Velocity Lounge right as Kevin Schwantz was speaking to the fans inside. I was able to get a question in to him about Zarco, which continued to come up over the loud speakers through the rest of the weekend! Pretty cool.
As for the MotoGP race - disappointing to see MV crash out. I believe a truly epic battle with MM would have surely ensued. Rossi was outstanding, again, and continuing to capitalize on the opportunity gaps that exist on the periphery of the top step of the podium. Lots of impressive performances from others out there, as well.
Lastly, I must say (as a fan of the sport and no particular rider), that I saw nothing wrong with Zarco's move on Rossi and agree wholeheartedly with MM's summation of the event, or rather, his calling out of the need to be able to take it if you're going to dish it.
...communications and Rossi's penalty incident, does anyone else think a Google Glass type heads-up device would be perfect for motorcycle racing? The pits could transmit bits of information in short sentences, say, along the back stretch, and the rider could read them with relatively little impact or distraction. The rider keeps his eyes focused down track without having to re-focus on something closer to the gauge cluster. No looking off to one side, no extended looks away from the track at the gauge area, no troubles with noise interfering with the understanding, etc. Personally, I think it'd be perfect. You'd certainly have to take some care with the final design as real glass inside the visor next to the rider's eye is a no-no in the event of a crash, but with all the talented minds in the paddock I'm guessing it could be made to work. I'd be interested to know if it's more distracting than talking on the radio. After all, fighter pilots can get along with similar systems so why not racers?
Rossi gained 0.3 so they took that away from him. After reading the justification for the penalty I think it was fair enough. No good argument against it.
Vinales falling unfortunately ruined the race somewhat. But it's good for the championship which is really starting now. Jerez will be interesting, we've seen quite a few Yamaha vs Honda battles there...
All in all it was a pretty good weekend. Except for the fact that Michelin brought an absolute crap front tire to the venue. I am getting tired of bad tires having such a major influence on the racing. Honestly, what is it going to take for Michelin to get their stuff together and bring a decent tire to the races? And it is not so much the rear - The rear tire seems very capable. But the front - they are not even close. FP3 was a joke. They have had a year of development and now they are 2 seasons in and the front tire is still inferior. If I were DORNA I would start getting concerned.
assertion that these new-fangled tarmac run off areas weren't keeping with the spirit of racing? I'm not able to (currently) dig the quote out but he felt that mistakes weren't punished enough when the rider could ride back onto the track via the tarmac 'ring road' as Rossi did on Sunday.
Maybe if the nerfed Rossi was to hit the 'traditional' gravel trap at around 100mph, breaking numerous bones as the kitty litter grabbed him and spun him around like a whirling dervish. Oh and don't forget the bike would have to do similar, smashing itself into hundreds of thousands of dollars of souvenir-ready skip filler, would that be a more acceptable and deserved consequence?
Crikey, I can't stand F1 and don't ever want soulless circuits or riders who speak like they are from Kraftwerk or Devo but sometimes, just sometimes I remember that I could watch CS riding bikes for hours but when he opened his mouth.....
Wow - all those words just to build a strawman attack on a guy who retired years ago. I love the assumptions you made there regarding the apparently inevitable outcome of this incident. Pure histrionics and yet you get upvoted... ridiculous.
That so-called evasive move by Rossi is getting pretty well rehearsed! It's always the same. He's on the outside of the entry to a flip-flop series of turns. The rider on the inside has the line but Rossi closes down on him and appears to be nurfed, thereby cutting the inside of the next turn and putting distance on his rival. That he was successful against Stoner at the Corkscrew is amazing since he had to cross the dirt. But there was a lesson for him there and he has polished it. Assen was a little less risky, but Cota was a free pass! No curbs or anything to impede the manuever. Just stand it up and get on the gas! .3 was fair in the end, but the move successfully shed Zarco from being a threat. That was probably the biggest impact. Very thrilling, though. I liked it.
You are saying : "If Zarco was really at fault he would have run wide and not made the next corner." Well.... it's not as simple and clear to me.
Look at his bike : he is almost straight up braking on collision route to VR who is leaning inside and turning. That's why I see a reminiscence of Iannone/Lorenzo crash : one is overconfident breaking too late and the other is slightly offline but already turning. Most of all, you can see that after the contact zarco goes straight out on the curb on the right : he did run wide! Nor his bike, rather not even an inch of his front tyre, was in front of Valentino
So the way I see it is zarco was way too confident in entering that corner without the necessary speed to make it happen
When VR said that Zarco should be more "quiet" he meant coolheaded.
And I must add that I heard zarco comment in French and to be honest I wasn't reassured: his statement was rather confused but he did say that he was not sure he was gonna make it in one piece but he tried it anyway....
This is what I call smart riding NOT.
IMO, Zarco seemed to be saying that the situation required an instantaneous decision. I believe he meant that if he had to consciously think about such split-second opportunities, he wouldn't attempt passes at all.
It IS possible that Zarco did nothing wrong
Rossi did nothing wrong
Mike Webb did nothing wrong
And neither did I in saying so.
-Let's me and you and everyone call our minor commentary transgressions a "racing incident"
And back in 2015...
Marquez did little wrong, bumping
Rossi did very little wrong taking a never chosen line
ON TRACK
(And then...lots was done wrong)
While his double Moto2 championships have been downright impressive. Rins took 3rd in the WC in 2016, and 2nd in the WC in 2015. Before that he was runner up/ should have been the Moto3 WC in 2014 as he showed better racecraft than the younger marquez.
The real rope here is that Suzuki downplayed Zarco's ability on the GSX-RR based on what Maverick was doing with the same bike. And all props go to Zarco for getting on Vale's 2016 M1. Who needs to develop a bike when you can hop right on the best one with all the data you need.
I don't even buy into your sentiment re Vinales "nobody anywhere close to being able to match him" in the first 2 races. Unless I'm watching the Trump version of MotoGP with "alternative races" I clearly saw 2 guys out front who easily had the legs on the rest of the field for the first handful of laps. Yes, they crashed but in comparison Vianles did not look like the fastest guy on track, just the fastest finisher...which admittedly is kinda important, lol. But bottom line (to my eyes) he looked a looooong way from unbeatable, especially in his battle with Dovi at Losail where he won by less than 0.5sec.
So I just don't see how you've managed to see him as unbeatable prior to COTA.
Neither do I see how you managed to get "The subtext of Márquez' explanation is that Rossi himself is far too aggressive making passes" from Marquez' comments. You assume a negative connotation that simply isn't there. Marquez said that he himself makes hard passes, Rossi makes hard passes, and they should expect hard passes in return. Nowhere does he say or infer that Rossi is "far too aggressive". You stir a pot that has nothing in it.
Well, there is not much to create in narrative other than bearing witness to the sheer speed of Vinales... in CoTA he was so fast! He could easily match MM! And in the previous races he was fast and confident and gave the impression he was never at the limit. And I'm saying this being a Rossi fan: MV got everybody scared, particularly MM and VR for different reasons though
As for the Marquez comments I think there was a negative connotation, especially given the fact the VR was talking about a not very smart attempt at passing and MM was talking about hard passes in general. How many times have you heard VR complain about hard passes in his 20 plus year career? VR just said that Zarco should be a bit more careful. Dani concurred. I do too.
At no place he said you cannot be aggressive. Also being ok with aggressive manouvers is not tountamont to saying it is fine, good or advisable to always be super aggressive. If you watch Rossi overtaking then you see that he usually is super clinical and is only rarily aggressive. There is a right time and place for being aggressive. Being of the opinion that that wasn't it should be accepted. And obviously IMO in this case he was right, else Zarco would have made the move without forcing Rossi off track. Also he didn't in particular only critizise Zarco for this move, but rather for being too late usually with his moves. Rossi is a keen observer of all other riders, especially new ones entering the scene, and also already in Moto3 and Moto2. Petrucci said in an interview last year that he was visiting Rossi at home, and what was he doing there currently. Rossi was watching an old Moto2 race from years ago! And not only Rossi but Cal Cratchlow more or less said the same thing. He said he really likes Zarco's aggressivness yet MotoGP is not Moto2... Go figure..
Iannone (who was alse already critizised by Rossi for his rather illtimed aggresive moves as well although being a friend of Rossi) is a case in point that Rossi doesn't mind being aggressive per se, but the place, time and how is important. So yes, it is a complicated discussion and not possible to settle with a simple throw away line, like but..but..he was aggressive too ones.. That would only work if he said, you cannot be aggressive ever, which he clearly doesn't.
Please note: I am not saying Rossi must be right with his criticism (because I have not watched Zarco closely enough to know if he generally is too late, have you??), only that him being aggressive on occassion doesn't mean there is nothing he can say about other riders moves.
Not that it's owed, but I'd love to hear an objective explanation of what was actually unacceptable about Zarco's attempted manuever? I'm only seeing it referred to as "aggressive", but nothing else.
My recollection of the incident is as exactly as David describes above, but futher, that Rossi seems to "play dumb" to the fact the Zarco wasn't just inside of him, he was dead even - Rossi still upright and not impeded upon mid-corner. Their tires were nearly perfectly parallel as Rossi tipped back in to, much to his apparent "surprise", find Zarco there...all aggressive-like...
In all seriousness, I do really wish to understand both sides of this, because if I'm in the wrong (which is certainly possible), that has bigger implications - that I don't understand the sport nor its rules!
In my view of the Vale/Johann contact. Your description and Webb's explanation is exactly what I saw go down. Regardless of the failed pass, he gained a noticable chunk of real estate on Marc in front and all he needed do was roll off the throttle a second to allow that gap to get back to where it was. Case closed.
The announcers were of course completely oblivious to this simple fact (as are most it seems) and can only look at the two Yamahas w/o noticing the Honda ahead and how it fits in to the situation and I'm left fruitlessly yelling at them from my couch yet again...
I think one of the reasons Zarco is doing so well is because of his age. I think he has worked out some of those issues that might plague younger riders, consistency to name one, and is using his experience to his advantage.
I always like to think of Mick Doohan. Doohan wasn't on track to win a championship until the age of 28 and a leg injury held him back until 30.
Why does every rider need to be 20 to be a rookie? Absurd. I almost think there should be an age minimum for the class.
The are lots of ironies in life, and in racing. Rossi's contention that Zarco should be "more quiet" stretches irony into the hilarious. Who didn't enjoy watching him smoking that hard rear Michelin at Termas de Rio Hondo? And making passes at the same time! I bet he is glad Suzuki got a big hard-on for Rins, who has scored just 4 Moto2 race wins, to Zarco's 15. Good as he is, even Zarco would have struggled on the inferior Suzuki. But on Lorenzo's 2016 bike, he is really able to express himself. Suits his very smooth riding style. He also his own man, making tyre choices others eschew, and making them work. It seems clear too that Franco Morbidelli learned a lot from Zarco last year and is now able to manage his tyres and win races. Zarco is still learning the characteristics of the Michelins and once he has that sorted, I don't think podiums are out of the question. I bet Herve Poncheral and Guy Coulon are delighted to have him and Folger aboard. Back to the Smith/Crutchlow days - with less crashes. Finally, Zarco and Folger are proving that the Yamaha is still the best all-round MotoGP bike, with Honda and Ducati the second best bikes. Suzuki is a distant fourth, with Aprilia fifth. And on that note, Sam Lowes shows he has no idea of chassis set-up - which is why he is always losing the front and ending up in the gravel trap. Just like in Moto2. Back then, he had a Kalex chassis but set it up far differently to Zarco, who got the bike dialled in then never touched the set-up, apart from spring and damping changes. Looks as if 2017 is going to be another absorbing sesason.
Going with Tanker Man and reynard11 and others on this... I think Mike Webb, in that new era without foolish penalty points, got it right...maybe just a bit over-right, if such a think exists. There was no sanction. no penalty, no offence committed between Rossi and Zarco. Zarco´s move was on the limit but Mike Webb, a racer himself and a keen observer for many years (and Crew Chief of Wayne Rainey´s team when Wayne was team owner) simply saw a racing incident but what he also noted was that when Rossi returned to the track he had closed on Márquez. He had two options: oblige Rossi to give a position to Zarco or to wait for timing and scoring to indicate about what Rossi had gained.
Since Zarco was still fourth when he "eased" Rossi off the track, it didn´t seem right to force him to give up a place (no question of "giving it back" because Zarco never had it. So, he saw that Vale had picked up .3 and mad that added to his race time as an adjustment.
Nothing wrong with the logic, but the precedent could prove to be a problem in the future. That is the trouble with precedents. This kind of problem and this kind of solution may become more frequent because of paved run-offs and because Race Direction now has the technical capacity to calculate extraordinary, involuntary advantage…EIA we can call it.
Calculating what would have happened if nothing had happened takes into about .3 into the Twilight Zone.
mmmmmm...Assen 2015(?)...Rossi gets "punted" by MM93 at the final chicane, runs thru the gravel, n is the 'winner'...how does he 'tries to close the door on Zarco' make it different @ COTA 2017?? 'gets run off track, gets a major advantage', RD give him a 0.3 second penalty, what a crock!
Firstly, I am big fan of Zarco. He is a talented guy. I had an eye for him since his 125cc days. One guy earlier posted that his results in the first 3 years of moto2 were not impressive. One should look at the chassis he was using, they were not competitive ones. Like many I was appalled to see factories preferring Rins over him (Age is just a number). Anyway deep down I wished he would move to Tehc 3.
Zarco's move a tough one. Why? let me explain. Rossi messed up the turn 1 and ran wide due to this he lost some time, this made Zarco belive that he can make a pass. But unfortunately,(1) the esses that follow are not overtake friendly, (2) Both of them are on Yamahas and medium tyres so there no great difference between the two.(3)Rossi himself was pushing to catch up with Marquez who was running away. So it would have been best had Zarco waited for more time waited for a better place to attack.
I think the penality was fair too. Rossi did infact gain 0.3 by running out. Also one has to understand the race directions intentions, If they punish Rossi, it sends a loud signal across all the classes. Such penalities are essential as they bring some order.
Now the best part is, Once we move to Europe, the 2016 M1 (which was very dominant in the hands of Rossi) is now in the hands of Zarco. 2017M1 gradually coming to shape, I have a feeling that we will see all Yamaha Podiums soon. (Zarco must learn to conserve his tyres till the end)
Comments further above re Rossi cutting across a line that isn't his, bumping etc seem unjustified to me. Vale had no idea Zarco was coming, and it is clear that the overtaking rider is responsible for reasonably safe passing. All riders have this guideline. Rossi's unflinching adherence to his pace and ad hoc line change is part of what makes him Great. It shouldn't be mistaken for planning or intention.
Fortunately for all of us we are no longer in the "polite" era on the track. Parade laps without much paint swapping action is a thing of the past. The next generation is here via loose bar banging Moto2. Zarco and Marquez were never a part of the polite era, and Zarco can instinctively grab at an opening for a pass if he does so reasonably clean. This can involve touching. And disrupted/alternate lines. The passee isn't owed the best line through, any more than the passer is owed the line that their opponent is on. Remember that Rossi hasn't been a part of the polite era either...and the pliable envelope of acceptable passing was primarily massaged by he and beloved Marco Simoncelli, notably with Giberneau, Lorenzo and Pedrosa on the receiving end.
Good comment re the bigger context. There is also a less clear area in which there are contingencies.
* Repeat offender/pattern of behavior? Less leeway.
* Is it late in the race? More leeway than earlier.
* Part of a contested championship? Does it get consideration?
* What about a contested seat, contract, or pecking order within a team? Should it?
Some riders push for a more hands-off application of safe passing rules while on the track, some the opposite. The manner of doing so is off-track efforts.
Some of the on track behavior is to be ignored. Even appreciated as brave and cunning. Same perhaps for off track?
Note that race direction has no problem with what any riders did on track Sunday. One was just given a reasonable (albeit unsavory) time correction for gaining in an off track excursion. That isn't to become a line. The inside of the lower third of the Corkscrew at Laguna is somewhat. One rider found a line in there that no one would practice taking. Except the then new Moto2 loose bruiser apparently.
2015 it was Marquez that blasted into the side of Rossi a few turns before the end of a race. Luckily for everyone Rossi maintained control and his position via an AMAZING Baja 1000 like recovery. It was a more egregious line grab than Rossi did to Giberneau in Spain last turn yrs back...if Sete had such a line out of the beach to pip Rossi to the line how would you call that as Race Direction?
Off track efforts right after the race there were a bit much (from the Marquez corner initially) but reasonably expected. Race Direction did well to do little.
But the counter response from the Italians off track was out of line, way over the reasonable limits. The Spanish too later, the press everywhere poured race gas on this small fire.
When Rossi pushed Jorge so hard in Japan while returning from injury we had a clean, gloves off battle. There was pride at stake. And this is also how dominance is established. Some off track comments were a bit much, and acceptable.
Here is the rub. We all stomached a dangerous excursion for a YEAR in which our top riders were involved in a drawn out situation that necessitated more response from Race Direction (yes, THAT one in which it came to a head on track). They did. It effected the championship for the year.
Importantly, what Race Direction did over the last year has re-established order as you say. They must, it is they that make the guidelines be followed. Just like Honda cannot and should not dictate a rule book, neither is it to be for any rider to do so. Nor is a rider bound to not push back at Race Direction.
The riders coming through must do so with reasonable care. The rider being overtaken is not owed their preferred line unmolested. The young displacing the old, just as in any transition or corner on the track.
We are in a good way.
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July 11, 2008
G95: Orioles 7, Red Sox 3
After two were out in the bottom of the ninth, Boston loaded the bases, bringing the tying run to the plate, but Youkilis fanned.
Buchholz (5-5-4-5-6, 107) had a rough first (single, double, three walks) and a rough fifth (single, triple, two walks), but looked great in the middle. He struck out the side in the third, then fanned two of the three batters he faced in a perfect fourth.
Pedroia went 0-for-3 with two walks, ending a 17-game hitting streak. Ramirez and Moss both had two hits. Lugo had two RBI, the third time this season he has driven in more than one run in as game.
717 comments:
Joba and Halladay...That shouldbe fun.....with the way the redsox have hadled the staff this year its like every starter besides wake has had like 2 or more starts off...with either minor injuries or made up ones. I am still not sure what happend to HH in the first place....They all should be well rested for the stretch run.....and Lester will get like 8-10 days off here with the break....
From PAGE SIX:YANKEE commentator Michael Kay alone on his day off, watching the Bronx Bombers at the bar at the new Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett while downing a few Michelob Ultra Lights and fiddling with his cellphone.
YANKEES radio announcer John Sterling is being called out for foul behavior in the stadium's press dining room. "Sterling has made a habit of walking over to the dessert table and dipping his finger into the ice cream barrel," one stadium worker told us, adding that the play-by-play vet has also used the same tablespoon to repeatedly take samples. During the Boston series, "He wandered over to the cake and pie section, broke off a piece of a cake slice, ate it and wiped his grimy hands on the linen tablecloth, leaving the remainder of the slice for someone else to eat - which indeed happened," our spy continued. A rep for WCBS Radio declined to comment, and a team spokesman said the Yankees "know nothing about it."
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TIMMY: What are you doing?
GEORGE: What?
TIMMY: Did ... did you just double-dip that chip?
GEORGE: Excuse me?
TIMMY: You double-dipped the chip!
GEORGE: "Double-dipped"? What are you talking about?
TIMMY: You dipped the chip. You took a bite. [points at the dip] And you dipped again.
GEORGE: So...?
TIMMY: That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip -- just take one dip and end it!
I for one could care less about 2 runs. We can score that without ever leaving the dugout (OK,maybe that's stretching it).I'm not crazy about the fact that we gave up 2 in the 1st inning though. We can't do that many more times, unless of course we decide to go on another 23 hit onslaught.
To parody myself, I suppose I could talk about what happened in the Bar.
Yesterday as I went in to make sure the Yankees lost, a hopelessly destructive meth-head right out of jail barged in. The Bar Dog backed away and barked at him -- she is an excellent judge of character. Minutes later, he had to be taken outside, and all the tough-guy regulars were bristling for violence. Fortunately, the owner has sense and was able to defuse it. For a long time afterwards, people barely half the ex-con's size were discussing how they were going to thrash him. I got tired of this (and just plain tired) and left.
I would like to say that I'm parodying myself, but it's the damn truth -- how sad is that?
Did you know there is a small part of New England that the NEW ENGLAND Sports Network does not broadcats to? Well, there is. And I lived there. So you remember that. Or wait 10 minutes until I tell you again! | {
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1/30/09
"This is G-mo reporting for Animal Planet News at 6:00. Something startling has developed in the Case of the Coco-Nawt!"
"When last seen, our two wayward heroes, Butt-head Bernardo and Gorgeous Guillermo, had apparently hit a wall. The wall, in this case: the toughest coco-nawt known to minkeekind. All of their attempts had failed, and it seemed all was lost, when Bernardo commented that he 'had an idea', and disappeared."
"Just a few minutes ago, a strange figure appeared at the scene. He was small, dark, and furry, and wore a green cape and mask, concealing his face (tho several bystanders remarked that he seemed to 'Really need to shave'). In fact, no one would know anything about this masked man, except for the fact that he spent 10 minutes flirting with girls and handing out 8 by 10 glossy prints signed, Captain CocoNaut. Odd."
"It was soon clear why he was here. With intelligence, cunning, superhuman strength and speed, he succeeded where our heroes failed. He used his intelligence, cunning, and superhuman strength and speed to push the coco-nawt down the basement steps."
"The only sad part of this tale is that Bernardo was not around to see it. He returned to the scene only moments after this masked hero disappeared. Fortunately, he took the news well, and enjoyed the fruits (ha!) of their hard work with his minkee buddy Guillermo."
"Truly a moving story, folks, you heard it here first."
"This is G-mo, reported from the Animal Network News at 6:00. And remember: Put some sauce on it."
(disclaimer)
"It should also be pointed out by this reporter that Captain Bananas would have undoubtedly taken on this task himself (and done a much better job), but unfortunately, he had partaken of too many 99 Bananas the evening before and was feeling a little under the weather today."
Hello all! In celebration of our "Lost" FINALLY returning to TV, we decided to get something special to celebrate. What? you may ask. Well, what makes you think of the jungle more than: coco-nawts! (and Kate.....hoot, hoot, if you know what I mean).
Now let's get this baby OPEN! Hmm.....never thought about that.
Being minkees, we are naturally peaceful, and didn't want to hurt the nut if possible. Guillermo suggested it looked like a big egg...maybe one of us should sit on it and try to hatch it. I think he might have been pulling my leg, but I decided to give it a shot. Pretty useless though, and it made my little minkee harbles itch somethin' FIERCE!
We hit the 'gadget' drawer in the kitchen, looking for possible implements of coco-nawt entry. Unfortunately, G-mo was easily distracted with all the shiny objects and got 'off-task' a few times. He insisted I publish this photo of one of his more impressive 'finds':
But back to our job at hand. I got some scissors...and with Brian closely supervising tried them out: no joy. I mean, they were big and shiny and EVERYTHING, but all I could do was clip a little of the stem off. Guillermo said that 'must be the dark meat'. Ha ha, Stinky. Laugh it up...let's try to see YOU get into this puppy!
Fortunately, he said he 'had JUST the thing!' Unfortunately, the 'thing' he had was a melon-baller. I told him to knock himself out, but to be prepared for disappointment! I have to admit, he gave it his all...I mean, he melon-balled the HELL outta that coco-nawt, but alas: not even a dent.
As I expected, the mocha-minkee did NOT take the news well. As he put it: "It's time to get MEDIEVAL on this mutha!". Once again, with Brian's close supervision (and a safety helmet), Guillermo took it to Stage 2, all the while muttering vague, disturbing threats under his breath: "Gonna put some SAUCE on it", and "I WILL taste your sweetness!". Yeah...I know.
Once again....nothing! We're out of ideas, I don't know if we're EVER going to get this thing open!
1/18/09
This is Guillermo and Bernardo Gray welcoming you to our first installment of Minkee Test Kitchen. We hope you enjoy the show!
What we are testing out today are recipes for those ever popular Jelly Belly jellybeans. As you can see we have our protective hair nets covering our heads so we don't get random hair in our experimental recipes.The first thing you need in order to create your own recipes is an assortment of Jelly Bellies. We sent Jen on out to Target and she picked up a 2 1/2 pound bag in the clearance isle. Always good to get things on sale. We had her put them all in a big bowl and the fun began!
First off I am going to attempt to make what is know in our household as a minkee fart. This is an advanced recipe, so try at your risk. It really isn't for everyone!
You mix 3 parts Top Banana, 2 parts Chocolate Pudding and for a bit of flare 1 part Toasted Marshmallow. It is delish!Bernardo here. I am going to attempt to make a delicious cocktail treat for Brian. Since he really likes mangos, I am making him a mangorita. I think he will like it. Guillermo is in the background, isn't he? Whatever...This recipe calls for 3 parts Margarita and 2 parts Mango. The flavor really pops in your mouth! Yummo!For Jen, I am making one of her all time favorite beverages.... Um Guillermo would you stop stealing my thunder! Anyway, back to me. I am making Jen a Cherry Limeade. I know she always stops off at the local Sonic to get one, so maybe she can just make one here instead. Maybe help save some money too!It is 3 parts Lemon Lime and 2 parts Very Cherry. Simple to make, hard to resist! You could also add 1 part Coconut or Tangerine if you want to mix it up.We will continue on our efforts to finding the best Jelly Belly recipes. We hope you enjoyed this segment of our show. Make sure to come back for our next episode where we try out some new crazy recipes. Until then, PUT SOME SAUCE ON IT!
1/17/09
Are you sure about this? I don't know if I am brave enough to leave the warm comfy goodness of the bed yet. You are sure it is above zero today.....
Wow, it actually is in the double digits above zero today. Kick booty! The last few days we have stayed in the executive suites because the temperatures were in the negative and windchill up to -40. No time for a minkee to be out, unless you are a snow minkee which we are not! OK, let's get out of bed!Maybe we can just wear Jen's sweater until we readjust to the apartment temperature.... Wait.....No....We're Cold.....Man she took her sweater back..... I hope she doesn't notice I farted in it.....
1/11/09
This weekend has been all about balancing acts, so we decided we needed to get in the mix. Bernardo is actually wearing a half full Miller High Life on his head. Pretty impressive if you ask me!
I found this is the bathroom garbage can and figured, hey why not put it on my head! I don't really know what it is, but Jen thought if most appropriate for it to be on my head.As for Jen and Brian, their balancing acts have included the new Shaun White wii snowboarding game, some wii fit for Jen and a hilarious round of hula hooping!
1/8/09
Wow, we have had a busy week! We found these fantabulous PJ's Jen's mom gave her and have had a hay day playing with them. If you look closely they picture many of our kin!
We found them on Tuesday after the ringworm incident. Guess what, she doesn't actually have it, just a really weird dry patch on her arm. So when she gets home its cuddle time.Anyway, back to Tuesday..... We found these in the laundry and decided game on. We played Army crawl in the legs and raced to see who could get out first. Guillermo got stuck at one point. He got scared (as usual) and I came to the rescue. However, he insisted on luring me with his stink.....Once out we decided to play around in her shirt.... of course, not while she was wearing it! Did you know it has built in minkee holders?We wish all shirts came with minkee holders! That would be awesome. We could be carted around all day barking orders. Kick Ass! Oops, sorry Jen..... Kick Butt!
Yesterday and today were filled with more of the same. Good times, good times! Unfortunately we are done playing for the week, she said she needed to wash them because they smell a little 'off'. I wonder what she means?
1/5/09
Jen came home from work today diseased! She has worms! Two of them on her right arm in the shape of a ring. No minkee cuddles from her till those are covered. We don't need to get them and spread worms in this household!
Hey Jen, the fish eat worms, why don't you stick your arm in there? No, well it was just a suggestion! She can get so cranky sometimes!
You would be too minkee if you had ringworms, especially with the treatment!
1/1/09
Wednesday night, Jen and Brian had a couple of friends over for New Years and they toasted with this fantastic tequila! We even got to share the little one in the middle!
When they went to Mexico on their honeymoon (pre monkey) they fell in love with this tasty stuff. B found a bottle and gave it to Jen for Christmas. It brought back all the memories of their vacation and they have vowed to go back someday. Hopefully with monkeys!
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Meg: 4:51 pm Got a med student. I think it was her first time. fml.**Meg: 4:53 pm When she was done, she struck up a conversation about the latest trends. Tattoos. Piercings. Shaving. Dying. Etc.Meg: 4:54 pm I have come to the conclusion that Mom's is essentially wearing mom jeans on her crotch.***
Hi. I'm A.
Born, raised, educated in the Midwest, I am such a Midwesterner. So Midwestern, if you will.
I am: a blogger of 8+ years, forever searching for my next athletic challenge, hopelessly overscheduled and always, always eating.
I started So Midwestern right after I graduated from college, hoping to chronicle my transition to adulthood. Graduate school, four half marathons, two new nephews, three apartments, a trip to Africa, a sprinkle of heartbreak, dozens of unfinished knitting projects, four turns as a bridesmaid, 8,913 job applications and two full-time positions later: I’m fairly convinced that the day when I feel like a legitimate, full-fledged grownup will never come. So I’ll just keep on blogging.
I write about a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing. Toss my ramblings with a few pictures, a touch of swearing and an endless appreciation for the beauty that is David Beckham and you have So Midwestern. Welcome. | {
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Brexit: Three Logistics Concerns for Businesses
After the vote on 23rd June 2016, for many businesses, it seemed there was ample time to prepare for Brexit. However, the UK is now one year away from leaving the EU and naturally, many business owners are becoming increasingly concerned about its impact.
A recent study showed that 94% of UK SMEs feel that the government is failing to listen to their Brexit concerns. There are also fears that HMRC’s new customs system will not be ready by the Brexit deadline.
For businesses, it is clear that there remains a lot of uncertainty about Brexit, including what trades deals may be formed and how they will affect British businesses. This is particularly true for logistics, where these three concerns are growing.
Cost Implications
For many companies, their number one concern is cost. In order to offset, businesses facing an increase in operating and logistics costs may have to pass this onto their customers, resulting in higher product prices – this is especially worrying for logistics companies like Tuffnells. This could result in a lower sales volume, making a dent in their bottom line.
This additional spend could come from several areas, including:
Taxes and tariffs: after leaving the single market, exporting or importing goods may be subject to new charges and restrictions, which could result in higher logistics costs
Fuel: The exchange rate of the pound dropped after the Brexit vote and it could fluctuate further after the deadline, resulting in increased fuel and transport prices
Business Systems
Coming out of the EU’s single market – where British businesses currently trade tax-free – presents more issues than cost alone. This includes implementing new business systems.
While HMRC are putting their own customs systems in place, businesses also face the same challenge. Staff will require training on new tariffs and customs, logistics procedures will have to be revised, and businesses will have to find systems and methods to deal with these new processes. All of this will eat into business hours and cost companies further money.
Border Controls
The introduction of new border controls will have several affects on British businesses, including cost, delays and further administrative processes. But leaving the EU will limit companies in another way: freedom of movement.
Pre-Brexit, EU workers had the freedom to move and work in any member state, but this will no longer apply to the UK. This means hiring workers from within the EU could be more difficult, time-consuming and expensive. With many British companies hiring migrant drivers to cover the UK shortage, this could severely impact transport.
The announcement of Brexit brought about uncertainty among UK businesses. Unfortunately, only speculation is possible until all trade deals have been announced and Brexit takes effect in 2019. However, if businesses prepare in these areas, it could help to minimise impact.
ETIAS, the new permit you will need to travel to Europe from the US starting 2021
Last April the European Parliament and the European Council confirmed at the final agreement for the creation of the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), a registration system for all visitors from third countries that are now exempt from visa. In order to strengthen border security, the European Commission proposed the creation of this system which will enter into full operation in 2021.
The ETIAS authorisation is not a visa. Once operational, it will carry out pre-travel screening for security and migration risks of travellers benefiting from visa-free access to the Schengen area. When arriving at the EU borders, travellers from the United States of America will need to have both a valid travel document and an ETIAS authorisation.
What countries will require it?
The ETIAS will facilitate access to countries within the Schengen Area to travelers from third countries that do not currently require a visa in order to improve security and to prevent irregular immigration. Therefore, to know if you need to use ETIAS or not, you will first have to find out if the country you want to visit falls within the Schengen Area, and you will also need to know if your country was visa-exempt until now.
Schengen Area Countries
It is important to remember that not all 28 countries of the European Union (EU) are part of the Schengen Area and that not all Schengen countries are part of the European Union. Great Britain and Ireland, for example, are part of the EU (Great Britain is scheduled to leave after Brexit), but not the Schengen Area; while Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein are part of the Schengen Area, but not members of the EU.
Countries’ citizens who will need to apply for ETIAS.
As stated above, ETIAS will be required to travelers from countries that do not require a visa. Currently, individuals from the following 57 countries do not require Schengen visas to visit countries in the European Union. However, with the arrival of ETIAS expected in 2021, passport holders of these countries will require an ETIAS waiver to travel to Europe for the purposes of tourism, business or transit for a short 90 days stay in any 180-day period.
How is it going to work?
Prior to traveling, those interested in acquiring an ETIAS waiver must fill out an online application providing with basic information (name, age, occupation, passport number, country of entry in Europe). In addition, they must answer a few questions on safety and health issues, among others. Approval often takes minutes once your ETIAS application is complete, and the maximum amount of time for approval is only four days.
What do I need to apply?
All you need to apply is a valid Passport, a credit or debit card to pay the fee and a completed ETIAS application. Since it’s a visa waiver, you won’t need any further paperwork. And, unlike visa applications, ETIAS doesn’t require an interview at any embassy or consulate.
How do I apply?
The ETIAS application form is already available online, although its use won’t enter into force until 2021. You can apply for your ETIAS until 5 days before your trip, but the sooner you start the process, the better. Once in the application form, you’ll be prompted to provide your passport details and asked to answer a list of security questions. It’s vital that your application be error-free and that the information is an exact match to your passport. Any discrepancies between your ETIAS application and your passport could cause a delay in processing and/or approval You’ll also need a credit or debit card to complete the process.
Once you’re finished, the form is submitted immediately and you will receive an email with the information of you of approval status. You should receive the email within minutes, although sometimes issues on approval status could take up to four days to be sorted out.
How much is it going to cost?
Each applicant over 18 years old will have to pay a 5€ travel authorization fee. The payment must be done online during the application process.
How long can I use it for and when does it expire?
The ETIAS can be used for stays up to 90 days in a period of 180 days. The travel purposes covered by ETIAS are tourism, short-term business such or conference and qualifying medical procedures. Your approved ETIAS will last for three years, but it might expire sooner if your passport does. You will have to re-apply for ETIAS when you get a new passport.
For more than half a century McDonald’s has been a recognisable brand in just about every country you can think of. According to its website, the chain has restaurants in 101 countries. Its 36,000+ restaurants serve around 69 million fast food fans every single day.
With stats like this, and McDonald’s easily recognised by just about anybody, the recent EU trade mark ruling has surprised many. McDonald’s has just lost its EU trade mark for the Big Mac in what is dubbed a ‘David and Goliath’ battle with a small Irish chain.
How did McDonald’s lose its Big Mac EU trade mark?
When Supermac’s took on the might of McDonald’s in a trade mark battle, it was assumed by many that the smaller chain would lose. While Supermac’s may not be a household name in the UK, however, it’s much loved in Ireland.
Now the largest fast food chain in Ireland, Supermac’s began in 1978 and today has more than 110 franchises and restaurants all over the country. Founded by Pat and Una McDonagh, it was named after his nickname, ‘Supermac’ when he played Gaelic football. They also own Claddagh Irish Pubs & Restaurants through Supermac’s Ireland Ltd.
The EU trade mark battle
Supermac’s has been locked into an ongoing fight with McDonald’s since 2015, when it announced plans to expand into the EU and UK. McDonald’s initially objected to Supermac’s registering a number of trade marks for products and its name. They argued that the names McDonald’s and Supermac’s are too similar and would cause customer confusion. McDonald’s further argued that the Supermac’s brand name is visually too similar to their trade mark.
Supermac’s responded by pointing out that they had happily traded at the same time as McDonald’s in Ireland for more than 30 years with no signs of confusion on the part of customers.
Initially, McDonald’s won a part-victory when the European Union’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) decided that Supermac can continue to trade in its own name within the EU. However, it rejected the Irish company’s trade mark applications for various products and menu items, saying that consumers might “be confused as to whether Supermac’s is a new version of McDonald’s”, given that there are near-identical products sold by both restaurant chains.
Revoking McDonald’s EU trade marks
In January 2019, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) made a decision that allows victory to Supermac’s after all. By ruling that EU trade marks owned by McDonald’s are to be revoked, Supermac’s is clear to expand into the rest of the EU.
The landmark decision went into effect immediately, on the basis that the EUIPO rules that McDonald’s had failed to prove “genuine use” of its Big Mac trade mark as a restaurant or menu item.
Unsurprisingly delighted, Pat McDonagh says: “Never mind David versus Goliath, this unique landmark decision is akin to the Connacht team winning against the All Blacks. This is the end of the McBully. Just because McDonald’s has deep pockets and we are relatively small in context, doesn’t mean we weren’t going to fight our corner.”
How the fight played out
In April 2017, Supermac’s requested that the EUIPO cancel McDonald’s trade mark for ‘Big Mac’ and ‘Mc’. The chain also accused the US giant of “trade mark bullying” by registering and gaining protection for names, but not actually using them to stamp down any potential competition.
On its part, McDonald’s legal representatives provided signed affidavits from high level executives and showed examples of packaging and adverts to demonstrate it serves Big Macs right across the EU, and therefore deserves to retain the EU trade mark for that specific product.
However, the EUIPO deemed this “insufficient” in its judgement. As trade marks are registered at national level and at the EU, McDonald’s does not lose all of its protection for the Big Mac. They also have the right to appeal, which we suspect they are likely to do.
Supermac’s forges ahead
For Supermac’s, all eyes are on the future. Mr McDonagh says: “This now opens the door for the decision to be made by the European trade mark office to allow us to use our SuperMac as a burger across Europe.”
A representative from EIP, an intellectual property law firm, Carissa-Kendall Windless, says: “This decision is a significant one, partly because it serves as a warning to multinational companies that they can no longer simply file trade mark applications without a genuine intention to use it”.
It’s inevitable that McDonald’s will exercise its right to appeal, and it will be interesting to see how this David and Goliath battle goes on this year.
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Fears of a 2019 European Economic Slowdown Loom
Although the spotlight is on the trade war between the United States and China, one aspect that is currently ignored by the media is represented by signs of weakness in the European continent.
Germany slows down
After posting a -0.3% GDP contraction in the third quarter of 2018, the economic indicators released from Germany in 2019 cannot support a positive economic picture. The manufacturing sectors continue to show signs of weakening, with the Markit PMI Composite now at 51.6, down from 52.3.
Industrial Production had been contraction by 1.9% in November, and both imports and exports had been down by 1.6% and 0.4%, respectively. DAX trading had also suggested there is growing concerns among investors and the main German stock index peaked out in July 2018, being now down by 15%.
Germany relies mostly on exports, being the third exporter in the world, only surpassed by the United States and China. That is why the weakness we see in Germany is actually a symptom of what’s happening in other European countries as well.
Italy and France not too encouraging
The new populist government in Italy, formed by La Lega and The Five Star Movement faced a serious challenge to get the EU’s approval for the 2019 budget, as the already high debt-to-GDP ratio (currently at 131.8%) raises concerns on whether the country will be able to meet its debt obligations in the future.
There are also serious concerns about the banking sector, which despite mergers and acquisitions, and huge capital available from the ECB, were unable to solve their problems which emerged after the 2008 financial crisis. The future of Italy is very uncertain, and analysts predict that the new government will not be able to meet their economic promises, given that we are at the end of a business cycle.
Speaking of France, the problems are social at the present time. President Macron was unable to stop the “Yellow Vests” protests, despite promises to increase the minimum wage and the overall standard of living for the very poor. France’s debt-to-GDP ratio currently stands at 97%, but given the latest promises, there are concerns whether the country will manage to keep the budget deficit below 3% in 2019, as the European treaties demand.
Although there’s a single currency in Europe, in terms of fiscal policy things were very fragmented, which is why the economic recovery had been very slow and the reason why investors predict Europe will face the greatest challenges to solve its economic, political, and social problems. | {
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Investigation of a Flame deserves credit for good intentions. The documentary by Lynne Sachs focuses on a story worth telling, that of the so-called Catonsville Nine, a band of anti-war protesters in Baltimore who went to prison in 1968 for burning military service draft cards. But the film, even at a lean 45 minutes, sort of meanders around its subject without coming close to relating the profundity of what occurred.
On May 17, 1968, nine devout Catholics seized hundreds of draft records at a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland, and proceeded to destroy the documents with homemade napalm. Dubbed the "Catonsville Nine," they contributed to a growing chorus of voices opposed to the Vietnam War.
The film is most effective in its exploration of how the Catonsville Nine's religious convictions fueled their need to express opposition to the war; three of the protesters were Catholic priests. It is an interesting perspective given today's political environment, where religion in politics is most commonly associated with right-wing social ideology.
Sachs, who grew up in Catonsville, makes good use of archival footage as well as interviews with members of the Catonsville Nine and others who were involved in the incident. And yet too much of Investigation of a Flame, from shaky handheld camerawork to close-ups of government documents, feels arbitrary and a transparent attempt to make up for a shortage of footage.
The DVD
The Video:
Shot on video, the picture quality is typically fine, although most of the old television news footage is grainy and damaged by small tears.
The Audio:
The Dolby Digital 2.0 is perfunctory, if unremarkable. The interviews are clearly audible, and that's all you really need.
Extras:
The sole extra is a five-minute film, AfterEffect, that provides a brief overview of the Catonsville Nine.
Final Thoughts:
The low-key, reflective approach taken by filmmaker Lynne Sachs is a mixed bag. On one level, it's always refreshing to find a documentary that respects its audience enough not to force-feed lessons to its audience. But the lack of drama here doesn't adequately convey what was a passionate -- and, yes, dramatic -- act of protest. Investigation of a Flame tells you about the Catonsville Nine, but it falls short of true insight. | {
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Optimized background antiretroviral therapy (OBT), if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 200 mg twice a day (b.i.d.). Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Placebo
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 matching placebo b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Participant Flow for 3 periods
Period 1: Double-Blind (DB)
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
Placebo
STARTED
44
45
45
45
Treated
43
45
45
45
COMPLETED
30
31
33
6
NOT COMPLETED
14
14
12
39
Never Treated
1
0
0
0
Adverse Event
2
0
1
1
Lack of Efficacy
11
14
11
38
Period 2: Open-Label Continuation of DB
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
Placebo
STARTED
30
31
33
6
COMPLETED
23
21
24
5
NOT COMPLETED
7
10
9
1
Adverse Event
3
1
0
0
Lack of Efficacy
1
4
3
1
Lost to Follow-up
1
1
1
0
Withdrawal by Subject
0
1
3
0
Patient did not continue in extension
1
0
0
0
Patient moved/site stopped trial
1
3
2
0
Period 3: Open-Label Post Virologic Failure(OLPVF)
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
Placebo
STARTED
11 [1]
13 [1]
11 [1]
37 [1]
COMPLETED
2
7
5
19
NOT COMPLETED
9
6
6
18
Adverse Event
0
0
0
1
Lack of Efficacy
7
6
5
10
Lost to Follow-up
1
0
0
1
Withdrawal by Subject
0
0
0
5
Patient moved/Site stopped trial
1
0
1
1
[1]
Number of Patients appropriate for and who consented to enter the OLPVF
Explanation of how the number of participants for analysis was determined.
Includes whether analysis was per protocol, intention to treat, or another method.
Also provides relevant details such as imputation technique, as appropriate.
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Reporting Groups
Description
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
Optimized background antiretroviral therapy (OBT), if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 200 mg twice a day (b.i.d.). Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Placebo
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 matching placebo b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Explanation of how the number of participants for analysis was determined.
Includes whether analysis was per protocol, intention to treat, or another method.
Also provides relevant details such as imputation technique, as appropriate.
All patients who took study medication were included in the analysis.
Reporting Groups
Description
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
Optimized background antiretroviral therapy (OBT), if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 200 mg twice a day (b.i.d.). Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Placebo
OBT, if possible, based on screening genotypic/phenotypic resistance and past treatment history and MK0518 matching placebo b.i.d.. Once the Phase III dose was determined, all patients were switched to the Phase III dose (400 mg b.i.d.) after completion of at least 24 weeks double-blind therapy.
Measured Values
MK0518 200 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 400 mg b.i.d.
MK0518 600 mg b.i.d.
Placebo
Participants Analyzed [Units: Participants]
43
45
45
45
Number of Patients That Discontinued With Serious CAEs at 48 Weeks [Units: Participants]
Discontinued With Serious CAEs
1
0
1
1
Did Not Discontinue With Serious CAEs
42
45
44
44
No statistical analysis provided for Number of Patients That Discontinued With Serious CAEs at 48 Weeks
12. Secondary:
Number of Patients That Discontinued With Serious Drug-related CAEs at 48 Weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Limitations of the study, such as early termination leading to small numbers of participants
analyzed and technical problems with measurement leading to unreliable or uninterpretable data
Due to a 3:1 randomization of MK-0518 to placebo and more discontinuations for placebo in the doubleblind phase, exposure for MK-0518 and placebo differs significantly with follow-up times of 336.3 and 39.7 patient-years, respectively. | {
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Sound System for DJ from Dynatech
DEL-215
Portable and installed PA loudspeakers used in applications including sound reinforcement in Houses of Worship, Events, Clubs, Rehearsal Halls and Ballrooms etc. The DEL Series of Sound system for DJ deliver extraordinary performance at unmatched value.Dynatech Systems has always been dedicated in meeting the needs of sound reinforcement professionals with some of the best products available. Dynatech’s sound systems for DJ are most renowned and are used by both beginners and veteran DJs across the world. Dynatech offers the industry’s most extensive and knowledgeable customer support along with high-level of technical education.Dynatech Systems are powered with AXI™ advanced asymmetric plan way high frequency horn design which delivers 90° of horizontal dispersion at the top and 100 of dispersion towards the bottom, ensuring that every listener hears the exact same sound throughout any venue. Using this advanced technology, these sound system for DJ’s reproduce music and audio signals as they were originally captured. The wide range of sound systems from Dynatech are used in applications including sound reinforcement for houses of Worship, Events, Indoor Stadiums, Theme Parks, Multi-Functional Auditoriums, Schools and Transit Terminals etc. They are the best choice for live, rental and portable sound reinforcement applications. Resulting in high demand for these sound systems for DJ by all the audio professionals across different fields and nations.
FEATURES
APPLICATIONS
Houses of Worship
Rehearsal Halls
Events
Clubs
Ballrooms
DEL-215
Portable and installed PA loudspeakers used in applications including sound reinforcement in Houses of Worship, Events, Clubs, Rehearsal Halls and Ballrooms etc. The DEL Series of Sound system for DJ deliver extraordinary performance at unmatched value.Dynatech Systems has always been dedicated in meeting the needs of sound reinforcement professionals with some of the best products available. Dynatech’s sound systems for DJ are most renowned and are used by both beginners and veteran DJs across the world. Dynatech offers the industry’s most extensive and knowledgeable customer support along with high-level of technical education.Dynatech Systems are powered with AXI™ advanced asymmetric plan way high frequency horn design which delivers 90° of horizontal dispersion at the top and 100 of dispersion towards the bottom, ensuring that every listener hears the exact same sound throughout any venue. Using this advanced technology, these sound system for DJ’s reproduce music and audio signals as they were originally captured. The wide range of sound systems from Dynatech are used in applications including sound reinforcement for houses of Worship, Events, Indoor Stadiums, Theme Parks, Multi-Functional Auditoriums, Schools and Transit Terminals etc. They are the best choice for live, rental and portable sound reinforcement applications. Resulting in high demand for these sound systems for DJ by all the audio professionals across different fields and nations. | {
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Glitter Poppers (each)
Turn it inside out and watch it pop up into the air! Sold individually, each glitter popper toy pops up into the air after you push it down. These popular party favors come in an assortment of sparkling colors. Add them to any favor bag and watch the fun begin! | {
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Jeremiah 27
WYC 1
In the beginning of the realm of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word was made of the Lord to Jeremy, and said, (At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word of the Lord was made to Jeremiah, and said,)
NIV 1
Early in the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
WYC 2
The Lord saith these things to me, Make thou to thee bonds and chains, and thou shalt put them in thy neck (and thou shalt put them on, or around, thy neck);
NIV 2
This is what the LORD said to me: "Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.
WYC 3
and thou shalt send those to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the sons of Ammon (and to the king of the Ammonites), and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of [the] messengers that came to Jerusalem, and to Zedekiah, king of Judah.
NIV 3
Then send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
WYC 4
And thou shalt command to them, that they speak to their lords, (and say,) The Lord of hosts, God of Israel saith these things, Ye shall say these things to your lords,
NIV 4
Give them a message for their masters and say, 'This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Tell this to your masters:
WYC 5
I made earth, and man, and beasts that be on the face of all earth, in my great strength, and in mine arm holden forth; and I gave it to him that pleased (me) before mine eyes. (I made the earth, and the people, and all the beasts that be upon the face of the earth, by my great strength, and by my arm stretched forth; and I gave it to those who pleased my eyes.)
NIV 5
With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please.
WYC 6
And now therefore I gave all these lands in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, my servant, the king of Babylon; furthermore and I gave to him the beasts of the field, that they serve him. (And so now I have given all of these lands into the hands, or into the power, of my servant Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon; and I have even given him the beasts of the field, so that they would serve him.)
NIV 6
Now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.
WYC 7
And all folks shall serve him, and his son, and the son of his son, till the time of his land and of him come; and many folks and great kings shall serve him. (And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and the son of his son, until the time of the end for his own land come; yea, many nations and great kings shall serve him.)
NIV 7
All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
WYC 8
Forsooth the folk and realm that serveth not Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and whoever boweth not his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I shall visit on that folk in sword, and hunger, and pestilence, saith the Lord, till I waste them in his hand. (But the nation, or the kingdom, that serveth not Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and whoever boweth not his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I shall punish that nation with the sword, and hunger, and pestilence, saith the Lord, until I destroy them by his hand, or by his power.)
NIV 8
" ' "If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.
WYC 9
Therefore do not ye hear your prophets, and false diviners, and dreamers, and diviners by (the) chittering and flying of birds, and witches, that say to you, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon;
NIV 9
So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'
WYC 10
for they prophesy a leasing to you, that they make you far from your land, and cast out you, and ye perish. (for they prophesy a lie to you, so that they make you far from your land, and cast you out, and ye perish.)
NIV 10
They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish.
WYC 11
Certainly the folk that maketh subject their noll under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serveth him, I shall leave, either deliver, it in his (own) land, saith the Lord; and it shall till that land, and shall dwell therein. (Truly the nation that maketh subject their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serveth him, I shall leave them in their own land, saith the Lord; and they shall till that land, and shall live there.)
NIV 11
But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the LORD." ' "
WYC 12
And I spake by all these words to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and I said, Make ye subject your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve ye him, and his people, and ye shall live.
NIV 12
I gave the same message to Zedekiah king of Judah. I said, "Bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.
WYC 13
Why shall ye die, thou and thy people, by sword, and hunger, and pestilence, as the Lord spake to the folk, that would not serve to the king of Babylon? (Why shall ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, and hunger, and pestilence, as the Lord said would happen to any nation, that would not serve the king of Babylon?)
NIV 13
Why will you and your people die by the sword, famine and plague with which the LORD has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
WYC 14
Do not ye hear the words of prophets saying to you, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they speak leasing to you (for they say lies to you),
NIV 14
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying lies to you.
WYC 15
for I sent not them, saith the Lord; and they prophesy falsely in my name, that they cast out you, and that ye perish, both ye and the prophets that prophesy to you. (for I did not send them, saith the Lord; and they prophesy falsely in my name, and so I shall cast you out, and ye shall perish, both ye and the prophets who prophesy to you.)
NIV 15
'I have not sent them,' declares the LORD. 'They are prophesying lies in my name. Therefore, I will banish you and you will perish, both you and the prophets who prophesy to you.' "
WYC 16
And I spake to the priests, and to this people, and I said, The Lord God saith these things, Do not ye hear the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, and say, Lo! the vessels of the (house of the) Lord shall turn again now soon from Babylon; for they prophesy a leasing to you. (And I spoke to the priests, and to this people, and I said, The Lord God saith these things, Do not ye listen to the words of your prophets, who prophesy to you, and say, Lo! the vessels of the House of the Lord shall soon be brought back from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.)
NIV 16
Then I said to the priests and all these people, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the prophets who say, 'Very soon now the articles from the LORD's house will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying lies to you.
WYC 17
Therefore do not ye hear them, but serve ye the king of Babylon, that ye live; why is this city given into wilderness? (And so do not ye listen to them, but serve ye the king of Babylon, so that ye can live; why should this city be turned into a wilderness?)
NIV 17
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this city become a ruin?
WYC 18
And if they be prophets, and if the word of God is in them, run they (now) to the Lord of hosts, (and plead) that the vessels, which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, come not into Babylon (be not taken away to Babylon).
NIV 18
If they are prophets and have the word of the LORD, let them plead with the LORD Almighty that the furnishings remaining in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to Babylon.
WYC 19
For the Lord of hosts saith these things to the pillars, and to the sea, that is, a great washing vessel, and to the foundaments, and to the remnants of [the] vessels, that were left in this city, (For the Lord of hosts saith these things about the pillars, and the sea, that is, a great washing vessel, and their bases, and the remnants of the vessels, that were left in this city,)
NIV 19
For this is what the LORD Almighty says about the pillars, the Sea, the movable stands and the other furnishings that are left in this city,
WYC 20
which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took not, when he translated Jeconiah (when he carried away captive Jeconiah), the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem into Babylon, and all the principal men of Judah and of Jerusalem.
NIV 20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away when he carried Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem--
WYC 21
For the Lord of hosts, God of Israel, saith these things to the vessels that be left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, (For the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith these things about the vessels that be left in the House of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem,)
NIV 21
yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about the things that are left in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem:
WYC 22
They shall be translated, either led over, into Babylon, and shall be (left) there unto the day of their visitation, saith the Lord; and (then) I shall make those to be brought (back), and to be restored in this place.
NIV 22
'They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I come for them,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.' "
New International Version
Jeremiah 27
NIV 1
Early in the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
NIV 2
This is what the LORD said to me: "Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.
NIV 3
Then send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
NIV 4
Give them a message for their masters and say, 'This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Tell this to your masters:
NIV 5
With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please.
NIV 6
Now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.
NIV 7
All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
NIV 8
" ' "If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.
NIV 9
So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'
NIV 10
They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish.
NIV 11
But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the LORD." ' "
NIV 12
I gave the same message to Zedekiah king of Judah. I said, "Bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.
NIV 13
Why will you and your people die by the sword, famine and plague with which the LORD has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
NIV 14
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying lies to you.
NIV 15
'I have not sent them,' declares the LORD. 'They are prophesying lies in my name. Therefore, I will banish you and you will perish, both you and the prophets who prophesy to you.' "
NIV 16
Then I said to the priests and all these people, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the prophets who say, 'Very soon now the articles from the LORD's house will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying lies to you.
NIV 17
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this city become a ruin?
NIV 18
If they are prophets and have the word of the LORD, let them plead with the LORD Almighty that the furnishings remaining in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to Babylon.
NIV 19
For this is what the LORD Almighty says about the pillars, the Sea, the movable stands and the other furnishings that are left in this city,
NIV 20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away when he carried Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem--
NIV 21
yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about the things that are left in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem:
NIV 22
'They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I come for them,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.' " | {
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JISC's Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas
Rounding up the JLeRN Experiment
We have reached the end of the JLeRN experiment, at least the end of the current JISC funding for Mimas to set up a node on the Learning Registry and examine its potential. One part of the process of rounding up ideas and outputs generated through the experiment was a meeting of those who had engaged with it, held on 22nd October. This post providers pointers to two sets of resources associated with that meeting: the blog posts etc. that people who attended it wrote after the event, in order to summarise what had been discussed, but first a quick round-up (mostly from Sarah Currier) of posts that describe what the people who attended had been doing with the Learning Registry.
The Story So Far? – by David Kay
A summary of some of the “headline ‘findings’” of a series of conversations that David has been having in an attempt to pin down the nature of the Learning Registry and its potential.
Understanding and using the Learning Registry: Pgogy Tools for searching and submitting – by Pat Lockley.
Pat has been very involved in the Learning Registry from the start. This blog post gives you access to all four of his open source tools that work with the Learning Registry, set up to work with our JLeRN node. They are very easy to install (two of them plug very easily into Chrome) and try out, plus Pat has made some brief videos demonstrating how they work. The tools use the Learning Registry to enhance Google (and other) searching, and support easy submission of metadata and paradata to a node. There is also a sample search you can use with the Chrome tools that should show you how it works pretty quickly.
Taster: A soon-to-be released ENGrich Learning Registry Case Study for JLeRN – by the ENGrich Project.
The ENGrich project are working on a case study on why and how they have implemented a Learning Registry node to enhance access to high-quality visual resources (images, videos, Flash animations, etc.) as OERs for engineering education at university level. Their work has involved gathering paradata from academics and students; this taster gives you an overview. A really interesting use case. Please pass this one on to anyone working with engineering resources too!
Taster: some ideas for a use case on paradata and accessibility opportunities –by Terry McAndrew
Terry is an accessibility expert from JISC TechDis, he came to our first Hackday and got us thinking about how the Learning Registry model for capturing and sharing paradata might be useful for people to share information about how accessible resources are. We commissioned him to write up a use case for this; look here to see his beginning thoughts, and add any of your own.
How widely useful is the Learning Registry?: A draft report on the broader context – by David Kay
The JLeRN team have been keeping half an eye from the start on the potential affordances the Learning Registry might offer the information landscape outwith educational technology: what about library circulation data, activity data and activity streams, linked data, the Semantic Web, research data management? And what if we are missing a trick; maybe there are already solutions in other communities? So we commissioned a Broader Context Report from David Kay at Sero Consulting. This is his first draft; we’re looking for feedback, questions and ideas.
Registrying – by Pat Lockley
Pat’s summary of his presentation on how the Learning Registry affects the interactions between developers, service managers and users.
Experimenting with the Learning Registry – by Amber Thomas
A round-up of the meeting as a whole, pulling out a couple of the significant issues raised: the extent to which the Learning Registry is a network, and the way some real tricky problems have been pushed out of scope…but are still there. Some really useful comments on this post as well, notably from Steve Midgley on increasing adoption of the Learning Registry in the US.
JLeRN Experiment Final Meeting – by Lorna M Campbell
Another summary of the meeting, summarising the uses made of the Learning Registry by projects represented at the meeting, mentioning some subject areas where the use of the Learning Registry to store information about curriculum mapping may prove useful and questions from Owen Stephens about alternative approaches to the Learning Registry.
At the end of the JLeRN experiment – by Phil Barker
My summary of the meeting, covering the issues of whether the Learning Registry is a network or just isolated nodes (-not much of a network, yet), whether it works as software (-seems to) and why use it and not some alternative (-it’s too early to tell).
Watch this space for more information and case studies from some of the people mentioned above, and for the official JLeRN final report. | {
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Treatment of Infertility in Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00068861
First Posted: September 11, 2003
Last Update Posted: October 1, 2007
The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government.
Read our disclaimer for details.
Information provided by:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder affecting up to 10% of women. The primary symptoms of PCOS are menstrual irregularities, increased body and facial hair, acne, and infertility. This study will test a combination of medications in women with PCOS to determine which works best to overcome infertility.
Further study details as provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
Primary Outcome Measures:
Live birth rate
Secondary Outcome Measures:
singleton live birth rate
ovulation rate
cycles to first ovulation
cycles to conception
abortion rate
cycles to pregnancy
weeks from pregnancy to live birth
Estimated Enrollment:
678
Study Start Date:
November 2002
Study Completion Date:
February 2006
Detailed Description:
PCOS is characterized by excess circulating androgen levels and chronic anovulation. The fundamental pathophysiologic defect is unknown, but PCOS is characterized by insulin resistance and compensatory hyperinsulinemia. Improvements in insulin sensitivity in PCOS women, either through lifestyle changes or through pharmaceutical intervention, have consistently resulted in a marked improvement in the reproductive and metabolic abnormalities in PCOS. Resumption of ovulation occurs in up to 70% of women treated for PCOS. This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of clomiphene citrate and metformin XR in achieving a successful pregnancy in infertile PCOS women.
Women with PCOS who are seeking pregnancy will be enrolled in this study. Women will be randomized to one of three different treatment arms: A) metformin XR 1000 mg twice/day; B) clomiphene citrate 50 mg every day for 5 days (day 3-7 of cycle); or C) metformin XR 1000 mg twice/day with clomiphene citrate 50 mg/day for 5 days (day 3-7 of cycle). Women will continue on study medications for 30 weeks, 6 treatment cycles, or until they become pregnant. Progesterone levels will be drawn weekly to monitor ovulation.
Eligibility
Information from the National Library of Medicine
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 39 Years (Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:
Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Eight or fewer menstrual cycles in the past year or intermenstrual periods of 45 days or longer
Elevated testosterone level
Good general health
Sperm concentration in partner of 20 million/ml or greater
Ability to have intercourse 2-3 times per week
One functional fallopian tube and normal uterine cavity
Contacts and Locations
Information from the National Library of Medicine
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00068861
Locations
United States, Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35249
United States, California
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States, 92037
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States, 94305
United States, Colorado
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
United States, Michigan
Wayne State
Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
United States, New Jersey
University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07103
United States, Pennsylvania
Penn State
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
United States, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
United States, Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298
Sponsors and Collaborators
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | {
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An in-depth look at the Clinton LumberKings from radio broadcaster Dave Lezotte. The LumberKings are the class A Midwest League Affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.
Special Guest: Bowen Hobbs
The seven-game winning streak saw its end last night as the LumberKings fell behind 7-3 and ultimately lost 9-6 to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. Mickey Wiswall, Blake Ochoa and Vinnie Catricala all homered in the losing cause for the Kings, who remain 1.5 games ahead of Beloit for the West Division Wild Card.
For tonight’s interview, I’ve decided to air and post a conversation I recorded recently withgraphic designer Bowen Hobbs. You’ve probably seen his work if you follow the Midwest League, as Bowen was the artist who created the 2009 Midwest League All-Star Game logo when we hosted the event last season. He also designed both logos for the LumberBlog.
In addition to those designs, Hobbs has also been working on creating new logos and uniform schemes for all kinds of professional teams. He’s redesigned many of the logos of teams in our league, including tonight’s series opponent, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (pictured).
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Brussels rebukes Spain for failing to take in refugees
Spain has only taken in 18 refugees since September 2015, when European countries pledged to help people fleeing conflict in Syria. In March, the Spanish government promised to speed up that rate by accepting 467 new refugees within that same month. (El Pais) | {
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Can’t live without cheese? Neither can we. That’s why we have created this easy-to-follow guide to all of your favorite cheese varieties.more
It’s true, at first blush, a low-sodium diet may seem like a foodie’s worst nightmare. On the contrary, developing a low- or no-salt menu for the refined palate can be be a wonderful and rewarding experience.... | {
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Lenton Trust Fund Launched
The Lenton Trust Fund, which calls on students to make a voluntary contribution to community causes, has been launched. In return for a small contribution of £3 those who pay in will recieve regular updates and will have the opportunity to have a say in how the money is spent.
The fund is a practicle and affordable way for students to support their local community, and I pleased to have been asked to help launch the scheme. You can read the Nottingham Post's report here or visit the Dunkirk and Lenton Partnership Forum's website here.
At the bottom of this page you can find more information about the Fund and instructions on how to set up a standing order. | {
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Black shadows and black horsesDark warriors out of hellMighty and evilReflection of an ancient taleA gang appears beside youThey're the men you have to scareYou see their axes shiningAnd their long, black hair
Soldiers of hell, soldiers of hellSoldiers of hell, soldiers of hell
Whiplashes, swordstrokesThe avaricious tyrant diesShining axes and shining spearsBlack faces with mean, red eyesA gang appears beside youThey're the men you have to scareYou see their axes shiningAnd their long black hair | {
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Strength Based on Internal Characteristics
His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in a titah reminds the RBAF personnel that success cannot be achieved simply with physical strength, but real strength is based on internal characteristics such as loyalty, honesty, trustworthiness and courage. With these attributes or values security violations will not occur, hence it is important to practise honest work ethics, loyalty and trustworthiness. His Majesty delivered the titah during the Royal Brunei Armed Forces' 58th Anniversary Celebration yesterday morning. In the titah, His Majesty also underscores the RBAF's excellent involvement in the international arena which not only gives a good image to the Royal Brunei Armed Forces but also to the country. | {
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Report: Meeting planners seeking shorter, smaller events
San Diego—U.S. businesses are planning shorter, smaller meetings than before the 2008 recession, according to a report from Active Network, an events technology provider.
The study, “Event Trends: 2008-2012,” was based on meeting planning patterns and electronic requests for proposals in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and Orlando, Fla. Average monthly unique eRFPs across the five cities were up 6% in the first 10 months of last year compared with the same period in 2008. Total eRFPs for the first 10 months of last year were up 46% over the recessionary low mark in 2009, the report said.
The study found increased interest in smaller meetings, with half of all 2012 eRFPs being for meetings with fewer than 50 people, a 5% increase compared with 2008. The number of events with 51 to 100 attendees fell by 2% compared with 2008; and the number of events with 101 to 250 attendees fell by 3%, the report said.
One-day events in 2012 represented 35% of eRFPs, up 14% from 2008, the report found. Two- and three-day events fell from 46% of eRFPs in 2008 to 40% in 2012. | {
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GREGG WILLIAMS TOLD NEW ORLEANS SAINTS HURT SAN FRANCISCO SPEECH
"On the day that members of the Saints' brass will have their appeals heard
for their roles in New Orleans' bounty system, damning audio has been released
of Gregg Williams, the man who orchestrated the program, instructing his players
to injure <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/sf/san-francisco-49ers">San Francisco
49ers</a> players in their wild-card playoff game last season.
Williams, the Saints' former defensive coordinator, did not appeal his
indefinite suspension by the NFL. As first reported by Yahoo! Sports, documentary filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, who directed
the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Run Ricky Run," has released an audio recording that he
says is a speech Williams gave to Saints defensive players the night before the
team lost to the 49ers in a playoff game in January.</p>
The sample audio recording in just under 4 minutes long. The full speech is
12 minutes long, according to Pamphilon.</p>
Pamphilon was following the Saints last season while working on a documentary
featuring former Saints special teams player Steve Gleason, who is currently battling Lou
Gehrig's disease.</p>
According to Pamphilon, Gregg Williams pointed to his chin while telling his
players to hit Niners quarterback Alex Smith "right there" and says "Remember
me. I got the first one. I got the first one. Go get it. Go lay that
m----------- out."</p>
Williams uses one of his favorite slogans in the speech: "Kill the head and
the body will die."</p>
On Gore: "We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank
Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways." </p>
On running back Kendall Hunter: "Little 32, we're going to
knock the f--- out of him."</p>
On Smith: "Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the
head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head."</p>
On Kyle Williams: "We need to find out in the first two series of the game,
that little wide receiver, No. 10, about his concussion. We need to f------ put
a lick on him right now. He needs to decide. He needs to f------ decide."</p>
On Crabtree: "We need to decide whether Crabtree wants to be a fake-*** prima
donna, or he wants to be a tough guy. We need to find out. He becomes human when
we f------ take out that outside ACL."</p>
On Davis: "We need to decide how many times we can bull rush and and we can
f------ put Vernon Davis' ankles over the pile."</p>
When asked by ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter for comment on Williams's speech
to the Saints the night before their January playoff game vs. the 49ers, NFL
spokesman Greg Aiello would not comment other than to reiterate that the Saints
had been warned, saying "note for background these graphs from our March 21
press release announcing the discipline for Saints management."</p>
The NFL had warned the Saints before the playoffs began that it had re-opened
its investigation into the team's bounty program and the incentive program
needed to be stopped but that warning apparently was ignored. </p>
Pamphilon told Yahoo! Sports that he decided to release the audio because
Williams' words, especially about Kyle Williams' concussion history, made him
uncomfortable. The film project he is currently working on, "The United States
of Football" he told Yahoo!, "looks at the media's effect upon the way the game
is played and celebrated, the proper coaching mentality and the effect of
concussions and repetitive head trauma."</p>
"The thing that really got me was when he said the thing about No. 10 and
concussions. I thought, 'Did he just say that?' That was the red flag for me.
And then the comments by the Giants made it hit home even harder."</p>
Giants players had said after their win over San Francisco in the NFC
Championship Game that they had targeted Kyle Williams as someone who might
fumble on big hits because of his history of concussions.</p>
Despite Gregg Williams' tough talk, the 49ers defeated the Saints in a 36-32
shootout in what turned out to be his last game as New Orleans' defensive
coordinator. He left the team to become the St. Louis Rams'
defensive coordinator before the NFL's penalties were announced.</p>
At the time of the league's ruling, Williams apologized and said he took full
responsibility for his actions.</p>
Loomis and Vitt were at the league offices in New York on Thursday morning,
with coach Payton to arrive later in the day.</p>
The Saints were also fined $500,000 and were forced to forfeit second-round
picks in the 2012 and '13 drafts. Discipline for some of the Saints players
involved is forthcoming. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and league security met
with NFL Players Association officials on Monday to discuss the investigation
and possible penalties."</p>
</p>
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.” MB Rule # 1 | {
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Tag: motivation
Last year I sent a short story to a publisher, applying for their short story collection for debut authors. It was a long wait of many months before the dreaded rejection letter (or rather rejection e-mail) arrived in my inbox a little over a week ago. They did get over 400 stories in and there's... Continue Reading →
Back in the day, when I was a kid, I had so many plans for my future. I had plans to be exactly where I wanted to be by the time I was 25, and I would not even think about starting a family before that had happened. Needless to say, things didn't really go... Continue Reading →
The past weekend I went back to my hometown to visit my family, and to celebrate my birthday. As soon as we got on the bus, I could feel myself relax a bit more and being able to let go of a lot of the tension I've been struggling with the last couple of weeks.... Continue Reading →
When I look back on my life I see it as many different chapters. Some I remember with a smile on my face and others not so much. There's been struggle, laughter, pain and smiles. This does not make me unique, it makes me human. But everyone has their own unique collection of chapters. The... Continue Reading →
There is something so utterly magical about how the minds of children work. And being one of them who's (hopefully) going to be a child at heart for the rest of my days I find it particularly sad whenever I meet someone who doesn't remember what it was like to be a child. To play... Continue Reading →
I consider myself quite the positive person, but as I have mentioned in other posts; It can be hard to be positive in a negative world. Some days I need a cup of extra motivation. I find this motivation in poetry, literature and art in general. I find it in smiles, friends and kind words.... Continue Reading →
There are so many things that we choose to worry about that are in so many ways meaningless. Yes! I wrote choose, not because I think that we want to worry about these things, but because our mindset isn’t right. We tend to focus on the problems that life can bring instead of all the... Continue Reading →
If you asked someone who knows me what kind of geek I am, I think that some of them would have no problem making a pretty long list. One of the things I geek over is great quotes! If you follow me on Instagram (featherpen) you'll see them popping up quite often. Here are a... Continue Reading → | {
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Bomb kills 20 in Nigeria market, girls' abduction suspect held
Rescue workers work to put out a fire following a bomb explosion that rocked the busiest roundabout near the crowded Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State, on July 1, 2014. (AFP)
A bomb in a van carrying charcoal exploded in a busy market in northeast Nigeria today, killing at least 20 people in the latest suspected attack by Islamist militants, witnesses said.
The blast from the vehicle bomb wrecked cars and taxis that were unloading passengers and wares on a road adjoining the market in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. But in recent months, the Islamist group Boko Haram has embarrassed President Goodluck Jonathan's government with a spate of bombings and spectacular raids, mostly in northeast Nigeria, including the mid-April abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls.
The military said earlier today that it had arrested a number of suspected Boko Haram collaborators including a Maiduguri businessman it said was involved in the abduction of the schoolgirls.
Boko Haram has also struck at Abuja, the capital of Africa's biggest economy, with three bombings in three months.
Nigeria's defence headquarters said in a statement on its Twitter account that "a van loaded with charcoal and IED exploded" in Maiduguri's Monday Market today. IED means an improvised explosive device.
Musa Sumail, a local human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence there, told Reuters he counted 20 bodies at the scene of the market explosion.
"Many people died, mostly drivers of taxis that were packed near the roundabout," a witness, trader Modu Ba'ana, said.
A separate explosion at a busy intersection in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna today evening around 8:30 pm (1930 GMT) wounded two people but caused no deaths, police said.
Nigeria's military said in a statement that the businessman it had arrested had helped the Islamist militant group plan several attacks, including the killing of a traditional ruler, the Emir of Gwoza.
Two women were also arrested, one of whom was accused of coordinating payments to other "operatives". | {
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Samsung SDI highlights Li-ion automotive batteries at Frankfurt
At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Samsung SDI is showcasing its EV battery business as well as its automobile material business and SDIBS (SDI Battery systems), and battery pack development business undertaken from Magna this past May. Samsung SDI is the only major global battery manufacturer participating in the | {
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Daily Archives: October 12, 2015
I get allot of tips from 123myIT subscribers on the 123myIT YouTube channel. The latest one was that Windows 10 has Spying and data capturing built in so, this user said he wouldn’t be upgrading to Windows 10. Since so many users of 123myIT have upgraded to Windows 10, I thought it wise to put some information up about this so called spying on Windows 10.
So whats it all about I hear you ask? Well, despite what you may have heard Windows 10 is not spying on you. So don’t worry to much about that.
What is does do though is collect allot of data about you and that’s due mostly to Cortana. Cortana is a personal assistant that is built into Windows 10.
Read the below official company statement of Windows 10 privacy.
“Windows does not collect personal information without your consent. To effectively provide Windows as a service, Microsoft gathers some performance, diagnostic and usage information that helps keep Windows and apps running properly. Microsoft uses this information to identify problems and develop fixes. More information on the Microsoft Services Agreement and Privacy Statement for consumers is available on our blogs.microsoft.com website.”
Cortana can help you manage your PC by helping you find files, manage your calendar and answer any questions you might have. While using this myself I didn’t find it that great, however this is where it gets interesting.
The more you use Cortana the better it gets because its stores your previous history of questions etc. And this is where Microsoft is collecting data about you. Ok so I am not going to get into Cortana right now I will leave that for another video. I will talk about how to turn spying off on windows 10 if you are concerned about this.
Go to Start > Settings > Privacy
Privacy > General
Pretty much all of the settings in this area have a toggle switch which allows you to turn the function on or off.
If you make your way down the list. Location, Camera, Microphone etc you will be able to toggle off any options that you are not comfortable with. | {
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The 10^(-120) challenge, or: The fairies at the bottom of the garden
In an earlier post, I wrote that my faith in Intelligent Design was falsifiable, and I listed two criteria by which it might be falsified:
1. An empirical or mathematical demonstration that the probability of the emergence of life on Earth during the past four billion years as a result of purely natural processes, without any intelligent guidance and starting from a random assortment of organic chemicals, is greater than 10^(-120). [Note: when I wrote “life,” I meant “cellular life.”]
2. An empirical or mathematical demonstration that the probability of the emergence of any of the irreducibly complex structures listed on this page, as a result of non-foresighted processes (“random mutations plus natural selection”) is greater than 10^(-120).
I could have added:
3. An empirical or mathematical demonstration that the probability of the emergence of eukaryotes from prokaryotes, or of the 30+ phyla of animals from a single-celled ancestor, or of the different classes of vertebrates from a common ancestor, as a result of non-foresighted processes (“random mutations plus natural selection”) is greater than 10^(-120). Indeed, I might have added “orders” and “families.”
In my post, I deliberately set the bar very, very low, in terms of probabilities – in fact, quite a bit lower than I need have done. I wanted to be as generous as possible to skeptics who might argue that a lot might happen in a large cosmos, over a long enough time.
Astonishingly, no-one in the “skeptic” camp took up the challenge. I was genuinely surprised, because I wasn’t asking for much.
I didn’t ask for a detailed step-by-step pathway. I didn’t ask for a calculation of the number of steps involved. I didn’t ask for a detailed description of the starting point or end point of these evolutionary transformations. I didn’t ask for a detailed description of the evolutionary mechanism. All I wanted was a feasibility demonstration – what we might call a “proof of concept.” And I wasn’t asking for proof that the proposed mechanism (commonly dubbed “random mutations plus natural selection”) would work. All I wanted was a rigorous mathematical or empirical argument that there was a probability greater than 1 in 10^120 that it could work, over a four-billion-year time period. A back-of-the-envelope calculation would have satisfied me, had it been to the point. A scientific model of the changes involved, which allowed a rough calculation of the probability of their occurrence as a result of “random mutations plus natural selection” over a specified time-period, would have been even nicer.
A scientific demonstration, based on probabilistic arguments (e.g. nested hierarchies), that we all sprang from a common ancestral stock, would have been missing the point. I already accept that. For me, the question is: did the variety of life-forms and complex biological structures in the cell that we see today develop from this common ancestor as a result of processes requiring intelligent foresight, or as a result of processes requiring none?
I am aware of the common evolutionary argument that the only known processes which automatically generate nested hierarchies are memoryless Markov processes, which certainly accords well with the neo-Darwinian claim that “random mutations plus natural selection” are responsible for the diversity of life on Earth today. But that’s a question-begging argument.If there was a natural, non-foresighted process which generated these nested hierarchies, then it must have been a Markov process. But that doesn’t help me, if I’m also aware of various features of living things – such as a very high degree of specified complexity – which on the face of it, could not have been generated by non-foresighted processes (i.e. “random mutations plus natural selection”).
A paleontological “argument from ridicule”, along the lines of “If you believe that whales are descended from land animals, and that the process was engineered by God, why didn’t God perform the transformation from a land animal to a whale instantaneously, instead of taking ten million years?” would not have convinced me either. For the question contains a number of unwarranted assumptions. It assumes that a modern whale would have been able to out-compete a transitional form such as Rodhocetus, if it were alive back then, which is doubtful, as Rodhocetus was amphibious: it lived on the land as well as in the sea. It assumes that there were no environmental conditions 47 million years ago, that would have been unfavorable to modern whales, despite the fact that there was actually a very marked climate change 35 million years ago, from a “greenhouse Earth” to an “icehouse Earth.” The question also assumes that there would have been suitable food for modern whales in the oceans, back in those times. Furthermore, it assumes that the sudden appearance of whales 47 million years ago would not have caused any major ecological disruptions – which is quite an assumption to make, when some scientists are now telling us that a tiny increase (in absolute terms) in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, from 0.04% to 0.08%, will eventually result in the extinction of a quarter of the world’s species (and perhaps more). And finally, the question assumes that an ancestral land animal could have given birth to a modern whale produced by Divine genetic engineering, without dying in the process
A hectoring philosophical argument, treating common ancestry as a solid fact and then eliminating evolution guided by an Intelligent Designer as an explanation, by an appeal to Occam’s razor, would also have been missing the point I wanted to make. My belief in common ancestry is not rock solid. It’s tentative. If you insist on ruling out an Intelligent Designer at the very outset, and if you refuse to provide me with a demonstration that the (seemingly) massively improbable life-forms and biological structures we see around us today are, in fact, within the bounds of what we might reasonably expect, in a large cosmos, over a four-billion-year time period (or 14 billion years, if you want to go back to the Big Bang) – i.e. that the likelihood of their emergence is greater than 10^(-120) – then I will give up my belief in common ancestry. Any rational person would do likewise.
Now imagine an IPCC scientist briefing a policymaker about the latest findings. In the middle of the briefing, a policymaker interrupts the presentation with a question: “Can you show us a scientific calculation to support your claim that the Earth is going to heat up by somewhere between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees in the 21st century?” The scientist, if he/she is well-informed, will respond, “Yes. We have dozens of computer models of the effects of doubling CO2 in the atmosphere. And while some of them show more warming than others, all of them show warming to some extent – with the vast majority showing a warming between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees. That’s why we’re more than 90% sure that Earth will heat up to that extent.” That is doubtless how a climatologist would have responded, three years ago. (It seems like an eternity ago now, doesn’t it?)
But suppose that the scientist had said, “Actually, we can’t demonstrate, in numerical terms, the likelihood of the Earth’s heating up by between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius next century, as you ask. We’re not in a position to do that. We don’t have the kind of models that you would need in order to perform such a calculation. Nevertheless, we are quite confident that the Earth is heating up – so much so that ‘if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in global warming, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).’ The range of 1.5 to 4.5 degrees represents our best estimate. If you don’t like it, you can lump it.” What do you think the policymaker’s reaction, as a layperson, would have been? Some rather unprintable remarks about the arrogance of scientists, I’d be willing to bet! (My apologies to Richard Dawkins for “adapting” his quote, but I just couldn’t resist.)
The authors of the IPCC report were nothing if not politically canny. They realized the psychological importance of the 90% figure. For most of us, that’s near enough to certain. But oddly enough, the purveyors of neo-Darwinian evolution are far less canny. The case for neo-Darwinian evolution has a mile-wide gaping logical hole in it, and its proponents are doing nothing to plug it. This hole even has a name: it’s called a causally adequate mechanism. But NDE proponents are simply hoping that the public won’t notice the hole. How dumb is that?
Let me put it another way. At the present time, it would be more rational to believe that the fairies at the bottom of the garden produced the diversity of life-forms we see on Earth today from a common ancestor, than that “random mutations plus natural selection” did the job. “Really?” I hear you ask. Yes, really. Lots of sincere people have claimed to have seen them throughout history (if you don’t believe me, see here and here), so I suppose one would have to rate the chances of their being real as somewhat greater than 10^(-120), despite their extremely bizarre behavior (according to folklore) and the total absence of credible photographic evidence for fairies. And if one is prepared to grant that fairies just might exist, then one should also grant that for all we know, they may have existed four billion years ago, at the dawn of life on Earth. Interestingly, Theosophists believe even now that fairies are real, and that they – or more accurately, their larger spiritual cousins, the devas – actually guided the process of evolution! Fairies are after all intelligent, and intelligent beings are the only beings known to be capable of generating large amounts of specified complexity. In other words, fairies are at least an adequate cause of the high degree of specified complexity we observe in living things. Random mutations, natural selection and other “non-foresighted” processes, are not. They lack causal adequacy.
So what was it that generated the Cambrian explosion? Well, as a Christian and a theist, I’d say “God,” but if you gave me only two choices – fairies, or random mutations plus natural selection – I’d go with the fairies, every time. Any rational person would, given the current state of the scientific evidence.
13 Responses to The 10^(-120) challenge, or: The fairies at the bottom of the garden
I prefer to go with historical evidence in lieu of scientific. If you gave me a choice between fairies, random mutation plus natural selection or the Genesis Flood, I’d go with the Genesis Flood every time.
Your logic on that is off imo.
Whatever the “path” it is necessarily extremely long. From some LUCA to over 10 million highly complex life forms on earth intrinsically implies billions of mutations and selection paths.
The sheer volume involved means that – no matter what the precise path – the probabilities are astronomically low enough to exclude all Darwinian pathways for any but the most minor variations.
I agree with Peepul. It’s meaningless to ask for a calculation of probabilities of complex biological structures; the question doesn’t even make sense. As an analogy, consider any beach in which sediments become organized according to their size. For example, you’ll often find the largest boulders at the highest tide mark, smaller pebbles further down the beach, followed by sand, and then finally sub-tidal mud flats. Now ask, what’s the probability that these sediments of various sizes become so sorted? What does that question even mean and how could you begin to address it?
What we’re looking for in the case of the beach sediment, as with the history of evolutionary change, is a valid mechanism by which we can explain our present day observations. With the beach sediment we propose that the hydrological forces of tides, currents, and wave action act together to selectively transport sediments of various sizes. There’s no possible way that you could somehow calculate the “probabilities” of this transport mechanism after the fact, there are simply too many forces at work that we can’t adequately measure. Similarly with biological evolution, there is no way that we can assess the probabilities after the fact, of all of the genetic changes and selective forces that resulted in a given structure.
Actually it is overwhelmingly probable that the mechanism of ‘evolution’ is “Genetic Entropy”, since we know for a fact that all ‘natural’ entropic forces at work tend to break things at the molecular level. As well we know that natural selection reduces genetic information. Appealing to ‘unknown forces’ so as to negate the ‘mechanism’ that we clearly see in play simply is not science. You might as well read tea leaves!
Thank you for your comments and criticisms. The point I’d like to make is that my probability challenges don’t relate to a particular configuration of matter at the starting point or end point. Hence the analogy with beach sand is a flawed one. I’m not interested in what happened to which particle. A better analogy would be to ask how likely it was that the action of the wind and the waves could create a castle, over a long enough time period. And when I say “a castle” I’m not referring to a particular configuration of matter. Anything with (roughly) the right shape would be fine.
Even this analogy, however, is limited. Sand castles can’t do a job. Living things contain little machines that can do various jobs. Thus an apt analogy would be to ask: how likely is it that the action of the wind and waves, over a long enough period of time, could produce a filter which could take in sea water at one end, remove all or most of the salt and sediment, and produce drinkable water at the other end – i.e. a desalination device?
I think you will agree that on the face of it, the probability of that happening would be astronomically low. And even if you were to suppose that the various shapes thrown up by the action of the wind and waves were periodically subjected to some sort of winnowing process (akin to natural selection), the chances of arriving at a desalination device would still be astronomically low, because the winnowing process is blind: it doesn’t have any long-term goals.
If someone therefore asks me to believe that living things, which are far more complex than any desalination device, were produced in such a fashion, I think you will pardon me if I voice my extreme skepticism.
If someone therefore asks me to believe that living things, which are far more complex than any desalination device, were produced in such a fashion, I think you will pardon me if I voice my extreme skepticism.
But, but, that’s just an argument from incredulity which, as any real skeptic could tell you, is ipso facto invalid. True skeptics, it seems, are only interested in arguments from credulity.
The difference between my argument and the argument from incredulity is that I’m prepared to change my mind if someone can show me that the emergence of a living thing from organic chemicals, or the emergence of any of the other complex biological structures or organisms that I described, has a probability of greater than 10^(-120). That’s all I ask.
I’m not asking for a detailed probability calculation, let alone a pathway or mechanism; just a rigorous demonstration that the emergence of said structures as a result of non-foresighted processes (“RM plus NS”) over a time period of several billion years has a probability of greater than 10^(-120). I think that’s a pretty reasonable request. If NDE proponents can’t even produce that, then I think they deserve all the ridicule they get.
I agree with you. No hypothetical pathway, no possible probability calculation. The latter requires the former.
Since Darwinists won’t and can’t provide the hypothetical pathways, they can’t provide the basis for either verification or falsification of their theory. Thus, the question arises whether Darwinism is a scientific theory at all, as opposed to an interesting armchair speculation.
What I had in mind was a kind of “summation” demonstration which performed a probabilistic calculation over the set of ALL possible pathways without tracking any of them individually. I’m not sure how this would work myself, on a mathematical level, but all it would need to do is make a rough estimate of the probability that ONE of the pathways would be capable of producing life (or complex structure X) – even if we don’t know WHICH one.
Is there anyone with a solid background in advanced mathematics who could flesh out this description a little? | {
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Whoopsie-Daisies! That Hot Tinder Hookup from Last Night was a High School Student
BLOOMINGTON — Last night, SPEA junior Chris Fukova had the time of his life. He partied with his friends, won at beer pong, and even met a girl from Tinder! The two were seen leaving the party together and she was then seen leaving his dorm room the next morning.
“It was awesome. She was fucking dynamite in the sack,” commented
Fukova. “I’ve never experienced anything like it… Oh yeah, we definitely
had sex. I had intercourse with that girl. She and I did the do. We
boinked. It rocked. I, Chris Fukova, had sexual relations with that
woman.”
Unfortunately, that woman Fukova hooked up with was actually a girl, a
freshman in high school who made a Tinder profile in which she
overstated her age by four years. To maintain the anonymity of the
minor, we will refer to her as Shmachel Shmith.
When asked for comment, Shmith stated: “I mean, I said I was a freshman, so I technically didn’t lie.”
When asked about his feelings on the situation, Fukova responded:
“She’s HOW old? Oh, oh god. You haven’t been recording have you? I
didn’t sleep with her! I never even met her! I don’t even know who that
is. Fuck this, I’m calling my lawyer.” The interview cut off when he
smacked my notepad out of my hand and ran away blinking back tears.
When asked to comment local policemen Officer Johns said “since he
said he didn’t do it, we’re going to go ahead and believe his story and
Fukova will receive absolutely no punishment whatsoever.
“On the other hand, Shmachel Shmith will have to register as a sex offender because she had nude photos on her phone.” | {
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Notwithstanding the great fatigue and excitement
which Her Majesty had undergone during the long journey of the
previous day, Wednesday morning, the 14th of September, saw the
Queen and Prince Albert at breakfast at their usual early hour.
Tempted by the beauty of the weather, the sun giving forth heat that
more resembled midsummer than autumn, the royal pair walked forth
into the grounds, between nine and ten o’clock, altogether
unattended, and visited the point where the two rivers Esk unite.
About half-past two o’clock, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Bailie
Richardson, and Sir William Drysdale, treasurer, whose recent death
is now deplored, arrived for the purpose of presenting to His Royal
Highness the freedom of the city. This document was beautifully
written on vellum, with the principal words in gold letters—the case
was made of crimson velvet, lined with orange silk, the city colours—
and the city arms were exquisitely chased in gold, on the top of the
case. It ran in the following terms:—“At Edinburgh, the 3d day of
September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, on
which day the Right Honourable Sir James Forrest of Comiston,
Baronet, Lord Provost, John Richardson, David Jugurtha Thomson,
William Johnston, and Andrew Wilkie, Esquires, Bailies, John Ramsay,
Esquire, Dean of Guild, Sir William Drysdale of Pittucliar, Knight,
Treasurer, and the other members of the Town Council, in council
assembled, admitted, and received, and do hereby admit and receive
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c., the consort of Her Most
Gracious Majesty, in testimony of the respect entertained by the
Magistrates and Council for the public and private virtues by which
His Royal Highness adorns his high and exalted station. The freedom
of the city was also presented at the same time to the Duke of
Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir Robert Peel.
After the deputation of the magistrates had withdrawn, the Very Rev.
Dr. Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, was introduced,
and presented to His Royal Highness Prince Albert the diploma of
Doctor of Laws, in an elegantly ornamented case. This had been
conferred on His Royal Highness at a full meeting of the Senatus
Academieus, held on the day that the Prince visited the University.
His Royal Highness received these honours most graciously, and made
condescending replies to the speeches that accompanied them.
Mr. Sanderson, the lapidary in St. Andrew-square, attended at
Dalkeith Palace this day, with Scottish stones of all kinds, set as
brooches, and in other forms, for the Queen’s inspection, from which
Her Majesty made a number of purchases.
At a little after three o’clock in the afternoon, the Queen and
Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Buccleuch, drove out in an open
carriage and four, with one outrider, and Colonel Bouverie following
on horseback. They took the private approach leading out by the
Sheriff-hall gate, and so to Melville east gate, whence they went by
the upper terrace drive through the Melville grounds, out at the
west gate, and so onward to the village of Loan-head. Turning off in
the centre of the village at Bilston toll-bar, they turned to the
left into the Roslin road, by which they drove on to visit that
exquisite gem of Gothic architecture, the Chapel of Roslin, standing
on the verge whence the banks slope rapidly down into the romantic
glen. It was founded by William St. Clair, Earl of Caithness and
Orkney, in 1446. Notwithstanding the damage it sustained from a mob
in 1688, it is still very entire, and its restoration is going on
slowly, but gradually, by direction of its noble proprietor the Earl
of Rosslyn. It is erroneously called a chapel, being, in fact, the
choir of the large collegiate church, dedicated to St. Matthew the
evangelist, that was begun here. Its endowment was for a provost,
six prebendaries, and two singing boys. It is 63 feet in length, 35
in breadth, and 40 in height, and its arched roof is supported by
two rows of pillars, the whole presenting a specimen of the richest
possible Gothic. The Royal party alighted, and the Queen examined
the beautiful interior with great and evident gratification.
The vault under the eastern part of the chapel, is said to have the
quality of preserving the bodies laid in it, for any length of time.
It is believed that it was the custom with the Saint Clairs, to
deposit their knights there in their armour, and without coffins.
Sir Walter Scott, in his ballad of Rosabelle, makes a most
picturesque use of the old superstition connected with this chapel,
that on the death of any of the family, its whole interior appeared
to be in flames.
“O’er Roslin all that dreary night,
A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam;
’Twas broader than the wateh-fire’s light,
And redder than the bright moon-beam.
It glared on Roslin’s castled rock,
It ruddied all the copsewood glen;
’Twas seen from Dryden’s groves of oak.
And seen from eavern’d Hawthornden.
Seem’d all on fire that chapel proud,
Where Roslin’s chiefs nneoffin’d lie.
Each Baron, for a sable shrond,
Sheathed in his iron pauoply.
Seem’d all on fire within, around,
Deep sacristy and altar’s pale;
Shone every pillar foliage-bonnd,
And glimmer’d all the dead men’s mail.
Blazed battlement and pinnet high,
Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair—
So still they blaze when fate is nigh
The lordly line of high St. Clair.”
The Queen seemed to take a peculiar pleasure in
loitering within the aisles of this most interesting ancient
edifice, remarkable for combining the solidity of the Norman, with
the elegance and minuteness of decoration of the-latest architecture
of the Tudor age; and Her Majesty seemed, moreover, to enjoy the
prosing of the cicerone, who tells of the ingenious prentice, who,
whilst his superior went to Rome to consult as to how the most
beautiful of its pillars should be executed, himself conceived its
design, and finished it, and was murdered by the jealousy of his
master, who killed him on his return with a blow of his hammer. The
head of the murdered youth, with the cut on his skull, and that of
his weeping mother, with the tears in her eyes, all curiously carved
in stone on the capitals of two of the pillars, attest the veracity
of the story. The prentice's pillar is an exquisite piece of
workmanship. It has a minute and elegantly carved tracery running
spirally around it, so that it will be easily recognised in the
engraving of the interior of the chapel, given in this work. The
legendary story of the wager between King Robert Bruce and William
de Saint Clair, loses much by the demise of the cicerone who died
some years ago, and even his narrative was but a feeble shadow of
that told by the ancient woman who was his predecessor. In the hands
of the present narrator it is deprived of all that euphonious
recitative, giving a tenfold interest to ballad story, and which
doubtless increased the relish even of the productions of Ariosto
himself. The tombstone of Sir William de Saint Clair, is pointed out
in the pavement of the chapel, with his foot upon a greyhound. There
are few recumbent sepulchral effigies of knights which have not some
animal in a similar position. But the legend accounts for the dog
being so placed in this case. Saint Clair was one day engaged in
hunting with the King in Roslin moor, when they started a white
deer. The Knight of Roslin immediately wagered his head that his
good greyhounds, Help and Hold, would catch the deer before it
should cross the march burn. The chase was long and doubtful, the
gallant dogs sticking hard at the heels of their prey, until the
deer darted down into the glen, and made directly for the burn. In
the anxiety of his mind lest he should forfeit his pledge, Saint
Clair called out to the leading dog,
“Help!—haud an ye may,
Or Roslin will tyne his head this day!”
At this moment Help, making an extraordinary effort,
dashed into the burn after the deer, and seized him and pulled him
down before he could reach the bank, and so saved his master. The
ancient chronicler who last told the story used to add, that “the
queen, who as present, said to Saint Clair, ‘Roslin, I would not
have given a haggis and a horn spoon for thy head,’ — “whilk shewed,”
said the old man, “that queens in those days suppit their haggises
wi’ horn spoons.” Stung with the queen’s remark, the knight, with
more prudence than justice or feeling, declared that he should never
be so tempted to peril his head in the same way again, and setting
his foot on the neck of poor Help, he put him instantly to death.
The Queen remained for some time in the chapel, admiring its
beauties, and listening to its legends, and especially to this last,
and so gaining the simple heart of their historian, whilst the
Prince and the Duchess were walking about outside. Her Majesty’s
desire to see every thing led her to descend two or three of the
broken steps leading down to the crypt below; but the custnde having
assured her that there was nothing particularly interesting there,
Her Majesty was induced to return.
It would have been a sight calculated to have conjured up much
curious reflection, to have beheld the Queen of Great Britain under
the vaulted roof of this ancient fane—the ruler over two united
countries for ages in deadly hostility against each other—and in the
close vicinity of that field of battle, where the Scottish army,
under Sir Symon Fraser and Sir John Cuming, with 10,000 men,
attacked and successively routed the three divisions of the army of
Edward I., under Ralf Confrey, mustering 30,000 in all. In the
person of Queen Victoria we have the gratifying pledge that there
shall be no more such bloody battles between brethren, but that Scot
and Southron and Irishmen will continue to fight together to the end
of time in defence of the united crown, and the kingdoms which it
rules.
The royal party had no time left to bestow on the Castle, which
stands on an isolated rock, richly wooded, and projecting like a
promontory towards the deep chasm of the river North Esk, and cut
off from the neighbouring high ground by a narrow ravine, over which
there is a romantic bridge. The river here makes a grand sweep
around the base of the promontory, and then throws itself into a
wild rocky gorge, through which it fights its way in a series of
rapids, alternating with deep pools. The Gaelic name of Ross a
promontory, and a profound abyss, accurately designates the
situation of the building. The whole surrounding scenery is
enchanting, and the more so that it is intimately associated with
Scottish song. The ruin, though only a portion of the original
building, contains a number of apartments, and some of these are
curiously cut out of the rock. The castle was probably founded in
the beginning of the 12th century, when William de Sancto Clerc, son
to Waldernus de St. Clerc, who came over with William the Conqueror,
obtained from Malcolm Canmore a grant of the barony of Roslin. In
1554 it was burned by the army of Henry VIII., along with Leith and
Craigmillar.
The royal party having again got into the carriage, it returned and
passed through the charming village of Lasswade, formerly described.
A richer spot for confined wood or river scenery cannot be found.
Crossing the bridge, they took the Polton road, and so drove towards
Hawthornden. An immense number of people had collected at various
places where a favourable view of the Queen might be expected, and
she was received everywhere with the most sincere demonstrations of
affection and respect; and these marks of loyalty were always
responded to with Her Majesty’s wonted condescension. The huge
omnibus which carries passengers between Lasswade and Edinburgh,
happened to arrive after the Queen had passed. Andrew Cuddie, its
proprietor and driver, immediately invited every one to mount with
him. No sooner said than done, and in defiance of all Acts of
Parliament, at least twenty people— old women and young, men and
boys—were perched outside; and away he went up the steep hill like
Jehu, galloping after the Royal carriage, and fast as it went, Mr.
Cuddie contrived to reach the gate of Hawthornden grounds as the
royal party was entering, and in time for his flying detachment to
give the Queen a hearty cheer.
It was about five o’clock when the royal party alighted at the outer
doorway of the old edifice of Hawthornden, where they were received
by Mr. Henderson, factor to the proprietor, Sir Francis Walker
Drummond, Bart., who, with his lady, was unfortunately from home. It
is difficult to say whether the most interesting parts of this
assemblage of old walls, built at various times, are those of the
ancient keep, and other fragments, which start up in picturesque
ruin, but of strength and thickness that would seem to defy farther
decay, except by progress so slow as to throw the mind back for
centuries ere it can account for that which time has wrought on
them— or whether the modern, more humble, but entire and habitable
portions, are not more full of associations coming closer home to
the human heart of civilized life. With the first of these, history
does not enable us with certainty to connect the name of any
founder; but with the second, the name of William Drummond, the
poet—the friend of Ben Jonson—is intimately linked. Drummond, the
poet, was the descendant of a family from which the Queen traces her
remote lineage, through Queen Annabella Drummond, formerly
mentioned, who was daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall,
ancestor of the noble family of Perth. The magnificent golden goblet
and ewer, presented to the family of Drummond by Queen Annabella,
have been already described in that part of this work having
reference to Drummond Castle. The poetical genius of her son, James
I., entitles him to a conspicuous place in the early history of
Scottish poetry. The elegant poet of Hawthornden was descended from
her brother William, who, by his marriage with one of the daughters
and co-heiresses of Airth of Airth, acquired the estate of Carnock
in Stirlingshire. The poet rebuilt the greater part of this more
modern edifice, and lived in it as his residence. The site is
peculiarly romantic. A bold crag juts prominently out from those in
its neighbourhood, and projects over the stream of the Esk. Its base
is clothed for a good way up, with rich foliage, and the walls
appear to identify themselves with the summit of the rock, the hare
front of which is perforated with mysterious looking cavernous
openings.
The gate of entrance into the court-yard, though more modern than
the tower, is older than the present dwelling-house. Besides the
Royal party, the Hon. Mrs. Leslie Gumming and her nieces the Misses
Miller, the Misses Hay, Captain and Mrs. Elliott, the Key. Mr.
Mackenzie, and the Rev. Mr. Brown, were admitted within the portal.
The Queen was ushered into the hall, and thence Her Majesty
proceeded to a door admitting her to the view from the back of the
house, commanding the deep glen of the Esk looking downwards. This
sudden and unexpected introduction to a burst of scenery so
exceedingly wild and beautiful, where rocks, wood, and water are so
happily brought into composition, struck the Royal pair so very
much, that they gave way to their delight in many strong and
animated expressions of admiration.
On their return to the hall, Mr. Henderson pointed out to the Queen
the old oaken table which belonged to Robert III., who espoused
Annabella Drummond. The Queen and the Prince minutely examined the
initials and dates upon this curious piece of antiquity. They were
then shewn the two-handed sword said to have belonged to Robert
Bruce. The Prince was much interested with it, and he particularly
remarked its immense hilt or handle, made of the horn of the sea
unicorn. The royal party then proceeded to look down into the well,
cut through the solid rock to an immense depth. The effect of this
is curious, owing to the light breaking laterally into it at a point
a good way down, from one of the subterranean galleries. From thence
they went to the seat at the brink of the rock, at the west end of
the house, which looks plumb into the glen and up the course of the
river, commanding all the grand scenery of wooded precipices,
between which the stream is seen making its way through the stony
masses encumbering its bed below. The Queen and the Prince were so
much charmed with this view that they remained for a considerable
time enjoying it, and expressing the delight which it gave them. The
Prince read to the Queen the inscription on the tablet inserted into
the wall, alluding to the poet; and Mr. Henderson mentioned to Her
Majesty that there was a large sycamore in front of the house, the
growth of many centuries, and under which it was that Drummond of
Hawthornden met his friend and brother poet, Ben Jonson, who had
walked all the way from London to visit him, on which occasion they
are said thus to have saluted each other,
“Welcome, welcome, Royal Ben!"—
“Thank ye, thank ye, Hawthornden!"
Her Majesty said that she had remarked its huge
branches as she approached. The Queen having expressed a wish to
visit the cave, to which access is gained by a path leading through
the little garden, that slopes downwards into a small hollow, under
the west side of the old walls, a movement was made to that effect,
but on looking around and seeing the immense number of people that
had assembled there from Roslin and other places in the vicinity,
Her Majesty hesitated a little as to the propriety of descending,
observing to Prince Albert, that “there was a great crowd below.”
Upon this Mr. Henderson went out and spoke to the people, the
greater part of whom at once retreated to the opposite bank of the
flower-garden, whilst the remainder formed themselves into two lines
along the path the Queen required to take. In the meanwhile Colonel
Bouverie, at the suggestion of Prince Albert, stepped forward to the
Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, who chanced to be there, and Captain Elliott of
the Royal Navy, and said, that “if the gentlemen present would form
a guard around Her Majesty’s person, for the purpose of keeping the
people at a proper distance, there would be no difficulty in her
effecting the descent.” Mr. Mackenzie then approached the Prince,
and introduced himself as the parish clergyman, assuring him that he
and Captain Elliott “would be answerable that the people should not
encroach on Her Majesty’s royal person.” Their services were
accepted, and the people having been cautioned by their pastor in a
friendly way to keep back, the Queen, leaning on the Prince’s arm,
and protected by Mr. Mackenzie and Captain Elliott to right and
left, was enabled to trip down the little path to the entrance of
the caverns, all present conducting themselves in the most orderly
and unobtrusive manner. Two persons were placed at the entrance with
lights, and the Royal party got in without any difficulty. The Queen
had another peep down into the well from this stage, and a still
lower entrance to it was pointed out to her, formed by a cavern
which has been explored for a considerable way in the direction of
the river, and which, according to popular tradition, had at one
time a communication with Roslin. The origin and purpose of these
most curious perforations cannot be exactly traced, but they were
certainly used in troublesome times as places of retreat and
concealment; for, as has been already hinted at, it is known
historically that Lord Dalhousie’s ancestor, the famous Sir
Alexander Ramsay concealed himself in these caves with a company of
bold young men in the year 1338, at the time when Scotland was
overrun by the forces of Edward III., and made several successful
sallies hence against the English, and signally defeated them under
Robert Manvers, near Wark Castle, on the Borders, cutting the whole
of their force to pieces. In those days, to be of Sir Alexander
Ramsay’s band, was considered as a necessary branch of military
education. This was the gallant but unfortunate knight whom the
Douglas of Liddesdale started to death in Hermitage Castle. The
caves, though all connected with each other, have the various names
of the King’s Gallery, the King’s Bedchamber, and the Guard-room.
The Duchess of Buccleuch walked up some steps leading to an opening
in the face of the precipitous rock, whence a singularly fine view
of the scenery is commanded, but which is somewhat dangerous, from
being quite unprotected. The Queen called to the Duchess to “ take
care and not go too near but percepting that she maintained her
position without apprehension, Her Majesty walked up to the same
place, and there remained for some time admiring the view. The Queen
asked many questions about the different subterraneous apartments,
and appeared much gratified with all she saw.
The Royal party now returned to the carriage, which was drawn up
under the shade of the great sycamore tree, and after they were
seated, the people, chiefly well-dressed matrons and lasses, crowded
thickly around the vehicle, so that it would have been impossible
for the horses to have moved without doing injury to some of them.
The Prince observing this, ordered the postilions not to stir till
every thing was clear. Some time elapsed before a passage could be
effected, during which the good people continued bowing and bobbing
with an endless motion, like that of the rise and fall of the small
waves on a piece of water. The Queen laughed at the absurdity of the
scene, but at the same time acknowledged the unsophisticated
compliments of these her worthy subjects, with the greatest good
humour, and Her Majesty’s condescension elicited joyful exclamations
of “Long live our bonny Queen!—God bless Her Majesty!” expressions
sufficiently touching in themselves, and which were not lost on her
kind heart. It was a fine thing to behold the Queen of Great
Britain, without guards of any kind, in the midst of the romantic
shades of classic Hawthornden, surrounded by some 500 or 600 of the
simple rural population of the district, thus so fervently bidding
“God bless her.” As the equipage drove off, their loyalty burst
forth in loud and prolonged cheers, that made the rocks and the
woods resound.
During the time that the Queen was occupied in seeing Hawthorndon,
the flying party attached to Mr. Andrew Cuddie’s omnibus, had
leisure to furnish themselves with sticks, to which they tied their
pocket-handkerchiefs. When the Royal carriage again appeared,
therefore, they met Her Majesty with a cheering and a waving that
did not fail to attract her attention. She smiled as she
acknowledged the compliment, and the Royal carriage had no sooner
passed, than Mr. Cuddie put his cattle to the top of their speed
after it. But the pace at which the Queen went was much too fast for
poor Andrew to vie with, carrying the terrific weight he did, and
consequently he was soon completely distanced. The Queen, and the
Prince, and the Duchess, were so much amused with Mr. Cuddie’s
fruitless efforts to make his clumsy vehicle come up with them, that
they were seen looking over the back of the carriage, and laughing
heartily. .
Turning to the right at Polton House, the Royal carriage passed
through the village of Bonnyrig, and so returned to Dalkeith Palace.
The Royal party at dinner consisted of—
The Queen and Prince Albert
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch
General Wemyss
The Duehess of Norfolk
Colonel Convene,
The Earl of Aberdeen
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor
The Earl of Hardwick
Mr. Balfour
The Earl of Liverpool,
Sir James Clark
Sir Robert Peel
Captain Barber,
Lord and Lady Einlyn
Lieutenant White.
Lord and Lady John Scott
Lieutenant Fleming.
The Hon. Miss Paget
Lieutenant Dodds
Lady Mary Campbell
Mr. G. Talbot
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Weaknesses: Mirror and horn are a joke. I would be embarrassed to even offer a mirror if that is all I could give the people, and the horn is not hearable unless you are in a quiet area and then you have to listen close to hear it. Headlight should be mounted below basket so the basket doesn't block the light. The controls should have a protective surrounding like the Celebrity x did, so if you lean forward you are not pushing the accelerator. Does not turn very sharp like the Celebrity x did. The lights, signal, 4-way etc. are to close to the steering to be able to see what switches turn on what.
User Details: I have very bad knees and when i was in Disney World I rented a Pride Maxima and was very impressed how it performed. I ran it all day and night.
Strengths: Well made, easy to use, very comfortable. Pride Maxima comes apart for hauling and very easy to do with no tools, 95% of the scooters do not do that. Big selling point for your heavier scooters.
Weaknesses: The small wheels in the front to keep it from tipping over side to side is over kill. it will sometime catch if not riding a a flat surface I do not feel theses wheels are needed, more of a hazard than a help. this is a easy fix they can be taken off | {
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The city's top bureaucrats won't be needing to buy the cheaper brand of Bordeaux for dinner, judging from salary figures released last week. CAO Mike Garrett clocked in at $237,801, while chief bean-counter Wanda Liczyk pocketed $190,341. Honchos in social services didn't do badly either. Mary Kudrac, manager for dental and oral health, got $182,221, which should make the disadvantaged folk whose dental services are about to be cut off feel better. And to think the brains behind the entire operation, the mayor's former chief of staff, Rod Phillips, was only worth $135,179. No wonder he left. | {
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Dark Islands: Tom Chivers, Test Centre
Monday 13th July 2015 11:24 pm (first posted 7th July 2015)
In this collection of poems Tom Chivers, the innovative publisher of Penned in the Margins, transmits with often dazzling language a vivid and troubling vision in which the old and modern Thames takes centre stage, against a backdrop of the banking crash and the digital world.
In ‘Poplar Gut’, for instance, he harks back to March 1660 when the river – magnificently described elsewhere as “swashing potage” - breached the flood walls of the Isle of Dogs, reverting to its ancient watercourse, “a spectral Thames, sans bend”. This looming sense of inundation is also reflected in ‘The Dream’: “My uncle was dispensing financial advice / when the floods came. / I was walking out on the jetty / and frantically closing windows.” ”
The madcap City world that has brought the waters crashing down upon us, yet which “cannot see beyond the next financial year” (‘Petrus’), is mocked in ‘The Bells’: “Boozy Boudicca has lost her brassiere / on bonus day in Cornhill.” The poem goes on:
the bells
sound out, quite pished, across the City
as boobless Boudicca calculates a hangover
to be a riskable asset in a recession.
With his insights and jokes Chivers is very much a poet of the topical, reflecting current concerns that much poetry doesn’t, albeit often just as asides – “The forecast is for snow and radical jihad” (‘Poem as Field Notes’). But these asides contribute towards the picture of a world of clogged sewers (‘Ecosystem’), Peeping Toms (‘Topless’), and Dickensian police (Jacob’s Island’) that is observant, rather than fantastic or prophetic; and where seemingly astute financial planning is seen as a risible irrelevance - “On the fourth day we opened high-yield savings accounts” (‘The Event’).
In a poem emphasising the collection’s sense of history and place Chivers references an urban fox (Ted Hughes?) and the psychogeographer Iain Sinclair “giving an impromptu lecture / on the history of Hackney Brook” in ‘Ecosystem’. The poet knows a street, despite its looks, is ancient, “a stubborn cleft / running east to west, parallel with the Road to Camulodunum”. ‘The Islanders’ – “their ankles garlanded / with flash drives fashioned from conch shells” - is packed with technological humour:
early settlers
taught them how to farm, to tend the land,
keep imported Tamagotchi as livestock
It concludes on a mock-poignant note of incompatibility:
Her Firewall was good, but I was unrelenting.
I thought it was a thing like LOVE,
But she insisted I just had the caps lock on.
Occasionally the unrelenting wit may irritate, and you feel that the poet is being just a little too smart, such as in this financial/ literary prayer: “Lead us out of this economic metaphor.” / “Do it in a way that’s fake.” But even when you are often unsure of the layers of meaning, you can invariably enjoy the poems’ music and language, and succession of irresistible, quotable lines.
For instance, I’m not at all certain whether ‘Island of Coral’ is referring to climate change and higher sea levels, or literature’s shipwreck/ castaway genre, or both, or neither. But lines like “between the land and the reef there is all that we need” and “O how small and happy are we in the rising tide” can be enjoyed in their own right, and as an indication of the world that we have been drawn into.
Londoners watched the sky with awe as the docks burned during the Blitz. There is much to admire in Dark Islands, as the poetic fireworks on the reverse-printed pages of this collection light up the horizon. | {
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60s music sang in Spanish. Come and meet new bands and songs even though you can't speak Spanish at all!!
Thursday, 24 March 2016
LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles (The Angels) was a band formed in Granada in 1963,first under the name Los Angeles Azules (The Blue Angels). Their first components were: Alfonso González Poncho (singer and drummer), Carlos Alvarez (guitar), Agustín Rodríguez (rhythm guitar), Javier Muñoz (bass player) and Miguel Mejías (pianist).They started to play and get experience but in 1965 Javier and Miguel left the band, so they took Paco Quero as a bass player and decided not to have a pianist anymore. They continued playing and got a lot of experience in places like Torremolinos, where they used to play every night. They got a big success in 1966 when they published the song "Canto a lo español".
They played in Madrid, where they were seen by a producer who liked them and asked them to join his record company. Then they changed their name to "Los Angeles" (The Angels).They started to record covers of famous hits of the time, such as "98.6" (by keith) or "Dime dime" (cover of American Breed's "Bend me shape me"). Here you have both songs and their lyrics in Spanish (original version) and English (translated by me):"98.6":
They not only made covers of hits, they also made their own songs, primarily in Spanish, though they have some song which is recorded in both Spanish and English.
They even appeared in two movies: "A 45 Revoluciones Por Minutos" ("45 rpm") and "1, 2, 3, al escondite inglés" ("1, 2, 3, hide and seek"). In the first one they appear together with other musicians and bands of the time such as Juan Pardo or Formula V. The second movie is a crazy story in which videoclips from some bands are included, being "Créeme" (English version "Please believe me") by Los Angeles one of them.
They had a big success in Spain as their songs had great lyrics and they had a great vocal harmony. They recorded romantic songs together with pop tunes, so they had a big variety of songs always inside their distinctive style.
Some of their songs are:
"Quiero que seas tú":
Quiero que seas tú
Sé
que alguien ha de haber
Que
me sepa comprender
Que
me ayude a resolver todos mis problemas.
Que
por sólo vocación
Me
dedique su atención
Ese
alguien uh uh uh
Quiero
que seas tú.
Cuando
algo no va bien
Cuando
todo va al revés
Necesito
del calor de una mano amiga
Que
me trate con amor
Que
me ayude a ser mejor.
Ese
alguien uh uh uh
Quiero
que seas tú.
Serás
mi unica verdad
Me
harás feliz
Por
eso uh uh uh por eso
Quiero
que seas tú.
Si
dices que tal vez
Yo
no me conformaré
Y
tendré que ir tras de tí
A
donde tú vayas
Y
volverte a repetir
Que
alguien me hace falta a mí
Ese
alguien uh uh uh
Quiero
que seas tú.
Serás
mi única verdad
Me
haras feliz
Por
eso uh uh uh por eso
Quiero
que seas tú.
Sé
que alguien ha de haber
Que
me sepa comprender
Que
me ayude a resolver todos mis problemas
Que
por sólo vocación
Me
dedique su atención
Ese
alguien uh uh uh
Quiero
que seas tú
Ese
alguien uh uh uh
Quiero
que seas tú
I want it to be you
I
know there will be somebody
That
will be able to understand me
That
will help me solve all my problems
That
just out of devotion
Pays
me attention
That
somebody uh uh uh
I
want it to be you.
When
something doesn't go well
When
everything goes wrong
I
need the warmth of a friendly hand
That
treats me with love
That
helps me to be better
That
somebody uh uh uh
I
want it to be you
You'll
be my only truth
You'll
make me happy
That's
why uh uh uh that's why
I
want it to be you.
If
you say maybe
I
won't resign myself
And
i will have to follow you
Wherever
you go
And
I'll have to tell you again
That
I need somebody
That
somebody uh uh uh
I
want it to be you.
You'll
be my only truth
You'll
make me happy
That's
why uh uh uh that's why
I
want it to be you.
I
know there will be somebody
That
will be able to understand me
That
will help me solve all my problems
That
just out of devotion
Pays
me attention
That
somebody uh uh uh
I
want it to be you.
That
somebody uh uh uh
I
want it to be you.
"Cada día" ("Every day"):
Cada día
Cada
día dices algo diferente
A
lo que dijiste ayer
Cada
día piensas algo muy distinto
A
lo que pensaste ayer.
Cambias
como el viento
Y
constantemente giras siempre sin parar
Oye
mi consejo si es que te interesa
Y
no te arrepentirás.
Si
sigues siendo así
Será
el final
Me
cansaré de tí
No
te aguantaré ya más.
Estar
a tu lado
Y
volverse loco
Es
lo mismo créeme
Dices
una cosa luego dices otra
Y
eso ya no puede ser.
Cambias
como el viento
Y constantemente giras siempre sin parar
Oye
mi consejo si es que te interesa
Y
no te arrepentirás.
Si
sigues siendo así
Será
el final
Me
cansaré de tí
No
te aguantaré ya más.
Estar
a tu lado
Y
volverse loco
Es
lo mismo créeme.
Dices
una cosa luego dices otra
Y
eso ya no puede ser.
Cada
día dices algo diferente
A
lo que dijiste ayer
Cada
día piensas algo muy distinto
A
lo que pensaste ayer.
Na
na na na na na naaaa
Every day
Every
day you say something different
From
what you said yesterday
Every
day you think something very different / From what you thought yesterday
You
change like the wind
And
spin around constantly without
Stopping.
Listen
to my advice if you want to
And
you won't regret it.
If
you keep on like that
It
will be the end
I
will get tired of you
I
won't stand you anymore.
Being
by your side
And
getting mad
It's
the same thing believe me
You
say one thing then you say another And that can't be so anymore.
You
change like the wind
And
spin around constantly without
Stopping.
Listen
to my advice if you want to
And
you won't regret it.
If
you keep on like that
It
will be the end
I
will get tired of you
I
won't stand you anymore.
Being
by your side
And
getting mad
It's
the same thing believe me
You
say one thing then you say another And that can't be so anymore.
Every
day you say something different
From
what you said yesterday
Every
day you think something very different / From what you thought yesterday
Na
na na na na na naaaa
"Abre tu ventana" ("Open your window"):
Abre tu ventana
Eh
na na na na na
Abre
tu ventana
Porque
la mañana de este nuevo día
Viene
a despertarte.
Eh
na na na na na
Ven
y date prisa
Que
la fresca brisa que baja del monte
Quiere
saludarte.
Eh
na na na na na
Mírame
y sonríe
Cógete
a mi mano
Deja
que te guíe.
Respira
el ansia de vivir
Y
mira al porvenir soñando
Así
cantando esta canción.
Eh
na na na na na
Si
ves que la gente pasa indiferente
Sin
hacerte caso
Cuando
pidas algo.
Eh
na na na na na
Tú
sé diferente
Vive
alegremente
Y
nunca te niegues
A
ofrecer tu mano.
Eh
na na na na na
Ten
fé y esperanza
Porque
siendo joven
Todo
al final se alcanza.
Respira
el ansia de vivir
Y
mira al porvenir soñando
Así
cantando esta canción.
Na
na na na na...
Eh
na na na na na
Abre
tu ventana
Porque
la mañana de este nuevo día
Viene
a despertarte.
Eh
na na na na na
Ven
y date prisa
Que
la fresca brisa
Que
baja del monte
Quiere
saludarte.
Eh
na na na na na
Mírame
y sonríe
Cógete
a mi mano
Deja
que te guíe.
Respira
el ansia de vivir
Y
mira al porvenir soñando
Así
cantando esta canción.
Na
na na na....
Open your window
Eh
na na na na
Open
your window
Because
the morning of this new day
Is
coming to greet you.
Eh
na na na na na
Come
and hurry up
Because
the fresh breeze that comes down the hill
Wants
to greet you
Eh
na na na na na
Look
at me and smile
Take
my hand
Let
me guide you
Breathe
the longing for living
And
look at the future dreaming
And
singing this song.
Eh
na na na na na
If
you see that people pass you by
And
ignores you
When
you ask for something.
Eh
na na na na na
Be
different
Live
happily
And
never refuse
To
offer your hand.
Eh
na na na na na
Have
faith and hope
Because
being young
You
can get everything at the end.
Breathe
the longing for living
And
look at the future dreaming
And
singing this song.
Na
na na na na...
Eh
na na na na na
Open
your window
Because
the morning of this new day
Is
coming to greet you.
Eh
na na na na na
Come
and hurry up
Because
the fresh breeze that comes down the hill
Wants
to greet you
Eh
na na na na na
Look
at me and smile
Take
my hand
Let
me guide you
Breathe
the longing for living
And
look at the future dreaming
And
singing this song.
Na
na na na na...
"Óyeme niña" ("Listen to me girl"):
Óyeme niña
Óyeme
niña
Para
un momento
Quiero
decirte algo que ha de gustarte
Óyeme
niña
Sabes
que es cierto
Son
muchos días
Que
trato de hablarte.
Óyeme
niña
Sabes
que sufro
Sabes
que espero sólo para decirte
Que
yo te quiero
Que
yo me muero
Que
yo estoy loco por tu amor
No
son palabras
Con
nada nuevo
No
son del corazón.
Óyeme
niña
Yo
no soy nadie
No
tengo nada que poder ofrecerte.
Óyeme
niña
Todas
las noches
Sueño
con el momento que decidas quererme.
Óyeme
niña
Sabes
que sufro
Sabes
que espero sólo para decirte
Que
yo te quiero
Que
yo me muero
Que
yo estoy loco por tu amor
No
son palabras
Con
nada nuevo
Njo
son del corazón.
Óyeme
niña
Sabes
que sufro
Sabes
que espero sölo para decirte
Que
yo te quiero
Que
yo me muero
Que
yo estoy loco por tu amor
No
son palabras
Con
nada nuevo
No
son del corazón
Listen to me girl
Listen
to me girl
Stop
for a minute
I
want to tell you something you may like
Listen
to me girl
You
know it's true
It's
been many days
Since
I've been trying to speak to you
Listen
to me girl
You
know I'm suffering
You
know I'm waiting just to tell you
That
I love you
That
I'm dying
That
I'm crazy for your love
They're
not words
Saying
anything new
They're
not from the heart.
Listen
to me girl
I'm
a nobody
I
have nothing to offer to you
Listen
to me girl
Every
night
I
dream about the moment you decide
To
love me.
Listen
to me girl
You
know I'm suffering
You
know I'm waiting just to tell you
That
I love you
That
I'm dying
That
I'm crazy for your love
They're
not words
Saying
anything new
They're
not from the heart.
Listen
to me girl
You
know I'm suffering
You
know I'm waiting just to tell you
That
I love you
That
I'm dying
That
I'm crazy for your love
They're
not words
Saying
anything new
They're
not from the heart.
"Momentos" ("Moments"):
Momentos
Todos
los momentos que pasé junto a tí
Han
pasado a ser recuerdos de cuando fui feliz
Sé
que tú quisieras empezar otra vez
Pero
ya no es el momento de volver.
Sería
inútil el negarlo
Pues
todavía estás en mí
Y
si volviéramos a vernos ah ah ah
Ya
no sería como ayer.
Miles
de momentos que pasé junto a tí
Miles
de alegrías que me hicieron tan feliz
Miles
de recuerdos que me hicieron soñar
Miles
de nostalgias que en mi mente están.
Sería
inútil el negarlo
Pues
todavía estás en mí
Y
si volviéramos a vernos ah ah ah
Ya
no sería como ayer.
Todos
los momentos que pasé junto a tí
Han
pasado a ser recuerdos de cuando fui feliz
Sé
que tú quisieras empezar otra vez
Pero
ya no es el momento de volver.
Moments
All
of the moments that I spent with you
Now
they are memories from when I was happy
I
know that you want to start all over again
But
it's not the time to come back.
It
would be useless to deny it
As
you still live in me
And
if we saw each other again ah ah
It
wouldn't be like yesterday.
Thousands
of moments I spent with you
Thousands
of happiness that made me so happy
Thousands
of memories that made me dream
Thousands
of nostalgias that are on my mind.
It
would be useless to deny it
As
you still live in me
And
if we saw each other again ah ah
It
wouldn't be like yesterday.
Every
moment that I spent with you
Now
they are memories from when I was happy
I
know that you want to start all over again
But
it's not the time to come back.
In 1972, Agustín left the band and was replaced by José Luis Avellaneda.
The band lasted til 1976, year in which Poncho and Avellaneda sadly died in a car crash.
Nowadays, the band is together again playing live with Popi, Poncho's son, replacing his father.
For me, Los Angeles is a very special band, one of my favourites, and all of their songs are brilliant pieces. I recommend all of you to listen not only to these songs listed here, but also all the other ones they recorded, cause it is really worth it! | {
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