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…what limits? Exuding the brave confidence it takes to defy all impossibility, Christian-Rock Artist Jodi Essex’s upcoming six-track EP, “Fearless,” is a call to build the Kingdom with the strength of a warrior. Having survived cancer at 25, Essex’s courageous perspective on life is powered by an innate sense of mission and belief all people have immeasurable worth. In the face of turbulence and adversity, especially when it comes to sharing the Gospel, “Fearless” is about learning to fear less, conquering fear with unshakable faith; “Fearless” lyrics implore listeners to be “steadfast in [their] fight” in the title track and music video out June 24, 2022, and the “Fearless” EP out July 8, 2022.
“We are encouragers called to serve,” Essex declares, “regardless of what that looks like in our respective lives. We must be bold and fearless in our leadership, proclaiming the unrelenting and powerful sway of our Almighty.” She goes on to ask, “When did Jesus shy away from doing what must be done?!?!”
Through an inspired collaboration with Artist/Producer Josiah Prince of Disciple, Jodi Essex’s EP was co-written at Prince’s renowned studio, “The Ranch,” in Nashville, TN. With a process Essex describes as having “an easy ebb and flow,” Prince has raised the bar with respect to her rock-infused sound; the EP also features creative collaborations with Mix Engineer Matthew Arcaini, Sam Moses of Moses Mastering, PR with The Marketing Mixtape and Endeavor for Content Creation. As Essex went into the studio for this music project, there was a desire for transparency to answer age-old questions about how to stave off fear. Woven throughout all six songs are themes of fearlessness from previously-released singles “Offend,” about speaking one’s beliefs boldly, to “Unravel,” peeling back layers of vulnerability in God’s presence. In addition to the title track, “Fearless” includes “Lean,” encouraging listeners to boundlessly lean into God during struggles while also resisting the chaotic flow of culture, “Bandaid” about embracing instantaneous tenacity and “Shine,” a reggae-rock track about exuding the inextinguishable light from within.
Jodi Essex’s music has caught the attention of industry gatekeepers and listening audiences alike. In “Fearless,” the relentless six-track series continues Essex’s unapologetic proclamation of the Gospel. Her debut album released Summer 2020, “Irreverent,” instantly resonated with listeners as featured tracks rose into top-20 ranking. Essex’s music has been celebrated by outlets including NewReleaseToday, CCM Magazine, JesusFreakHideout and Worship Leader Magazine who gave it rave reviews. In addition, Essex’s debut album quickly racked up over 70k streams on Spotify, where its songs landed on several prominent playlists, including “New Music Friday Christian.” With the album release for “Irreverent,” Essex took to the [cyber] stage with a livestream performance, proving her ability to bring ground-breaking messages to life in person.
No matter what walls may exist in her listeners’ lives, “Fearless” was created to help them tear it down with the profound might of a living, breathing relationship with Jesus Christ. “In turn,” Essex offers, “the same can afford us the opportunity to build ourselves back up stronger and more fearless than we could ever imagine.”
Don’t miss the single and video release for “Fearless” on June 24th, 2022 and full EP July 8th, 2022 as you await what’s up next for Jodi Essex, including a CCM Magazine Cafe performance early July. From there, the future is both fearless and bright as she is building her repertoire with another EP, hoping to produce a multi-artist concert to benefit Ukraine Refugees and moving forward with plans for an exclusive tour experience led by female artists.
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Towards a Green Steel Ecosystem in the East African Community
Steel remains globally foundational for economic and human development. It underpins all sectors of any growing economy, including infrastructure, energy, construction and both capital and consumer goods manufacturing. Steel is also a critical component in green technology, with recycled scrap steel already an integral component of modern steel, which helps close the loop for proactive circular economy transitioning towards decarbonisation. There is no substitute for steel in the foreseeable future.
A major finding of this study is that the volatile strategic environment for global iron ore and steel production creates both paradoxical trends and opportunities for the East African Community.
Given some existing comparative advantages and some potential policy adjustments, the East African Community could find that apparent the ‘missed opportunity’ creates improved prospects for regional economic development while meeting global and regional decarbonisation goals. | <urn:uuid:6a278b81-9e8c-4416-8f28-ab74e151bde0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thecommonwealth-ilibrary.org/index.php/comsec/catalog/book/1100 | 2024-04-22T21:58:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.904228 | 174 |
How Thick is the Ice Under Your Feet?
In the late 1800’s a Montana fur trapper is running out of supplies during a particularly brutal Rocky Mountain winter. Growing desperate, he realizes he must make his way down to the nearest town to buy food or he will not survive. He sets out through an early morning blizzard and trudges all day through waist-deep snow. At dusk, he can just make out the lights of the town in the distance, but as nightfall approaches he finds himself at the bank of a wide river that separates him from the safety and salvation of the village.
The river appears to be iced over, but it is so wide that he fears it will not hold his weight all the way across. Nevertheless, knowing he will not survive the night, he starts out across the ice. Step-by-step he slowly works his way toward the center, expecting at every footfall that the ice will give way and the frigid, swift waters of the river will pull him under. As he nears the center of the river, he hears the ice begin cracking beneath his feet. Panicking, he falls to his knees and begins to crawl through the blowing snow, hoping by distributing his weight the ice may hold. Again the ice creaks and groans and now, his heart racing and his hands and feet growing numb with cold, he lays our prostrate on the ice and inches his way, praying to God that the ice will hold, while in the distance the sounds of music from the town’s saloon begs him on.
Suddenly, he hears a great noise coming from behind him. The ice beneath him begins to shudder from a loud, pounding cadence. Shocked, he sits up to see two great quarter horses pulling a wagon heaped with coal, charging across the ice under the whip of a stoutly driver. They barely miss running over him in the darkness, and he watches in stunned silence as they finish the crossing and disappear into the glow of the town on the other side.
What the trapper did not know was that the winter had been so severe that the river had frozen six feet thick.
God’s word is surer than thick ice under our feet. God’s word tells us that if we will trust him, if we will believe his promises and walk life’s journey by faith and not by sight, he will always take care of us, always defend us, always provide for us, always work all things for our good.
Are you living your life so unsure of God’s promises that you end up crawling through life in fear? How different would your life be if you believed, really believed that because of his great love for you, the ice under your feet was six feet thick?
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. I all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:6-9 | <urn:uuid:48d62347-3d0c-492c-9eb6-0da133ecc546> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thecsls.org/how-thick-is-the-ice-under-your-feet/ | 2024-04-22T22:58:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.977194 | 617 |
Iranian and Arab pundits, both radical and moderate (on state-run TV), seem to have reached a consensus that Israel is not winning in Gaza. Arab loyalists to Tehran go as far as to argue they see signs of mass Jewish emigration out of Israel. In their telling, all the land—from the river to the sea—will then become Palestine.
But while Israel cannot claim a conclusive victory yet, trends suggest the Jewish state is beating its enemies.
Every Israeli “has a second nationality and has his bag ready,” said Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, in Lebanon, on Wednesday—invoking the popular canard that there is no real Jewish people, only a collection of European settlers on Arab land. “Reverse [Jewish] migration has begun, hundreds of thousands” have already left, he said. “If you are an Israeli with an American passport, go to America, with a British passport, go to England, with a French passport go to France,” Nasrallah said. He added: “You Israelis have only this future, the land of Palestine from the sea to the river will be for Palestinians only.”
Not so fast. Israel has been killing top Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hamas, and Hezbollah officers at such a rate that funerals and eulogies have sucked the oxygen out of its enemies’ public life.
Nasrallah delivered his remarks in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of America taking out top IRGC leader Qassem Soleimani. Nasrallah’s speech came two weeks after Israel assassinated IRGC’s Syria viceroy, Razi Mousavi, and six days after an Israeli airstrike allegedly killed 11 top IRGC officers. In Gaza, Israel has eliminated at least a dozen senior Hamas leaders.
The day before Nasrallah’s speech, Israel had surgically taken out Hamas’ number two, Saleh Al-Arouri, and six other Hamas leaders who were meeting in Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold.
To top it all, since Hezbollah joined the war on Israel on Oct. 8, per Nasrallah, the Jewish state has killed at least 150 fighters of the Radwan Forces, Hezbollah’s “special forces.” In the ensuing battles, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health has reported fewer than 20 Lebanese non-combatants killed, attesting not only to Israel’s surgical strike capabilities, but also to its intelligence prowess.
Iran’s Islamist regime and its allied militias seem to understand that their conventional military power is no match for Israel’s. Nasrallah justified the relative weakness of his side by arguing that had it not been for America, its military aid, and the deployment of its fearful aircraft carriers, Israel would have been toast.
With few tools left to respond to Israel’s power, Iran and its allies started threatening an “all-out war.” Nasrallah threatened to wipe out—with his missiles—Gush Dan, the highly populated coastal strip centered on Tel Aviv.
Nasrallah’s threats, however, sounded hollow when he blamed Israel for escalation, signaling that he was not interested in doing so. Meanwhile, the leader of the Iran-led “resistance axis,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly counseled “strategic patience” to avoid direct war with America. America’s deterrence seems to be working.
Has Israel reaped the fruits of its military superiority in Gaza? Skeptics note that—three months into the war—top Hamas leaders in Gaza, namely its chief Yahya Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, in addition to Muhammad Deif, remain at large. Hamas has also continued to launch rockets into Israel, suggesting that the organization’s command-and-control is still working.
But if Hamas’ rocket frequency is any measure, one can deduce that Hamas has been weakened. Add the number of Hamas tunnels in Gaza that Israel has found and destroyed, and the territory that it has wrestled from the Palestinian militia, and it becomes clear that the Israeli military is succeeding, so far at the cost of 170 soldiers who have fallen since the beginning of the invasion on Oct. 30. Hamas does not disclose its losses, but the IDF estimates it has killed upwards of 8,000 fighters.
The Gaza war is not over yet, but trends are unmistakable: Israel continues to erode Hamas’ capabilities, so much so that the Jewish state has felt ready for another front—on the north with Hezbollah—if need be. If current trends continue, Hamas will be too weak to mount attacks, as its leaders lose hiding space, making them more vulnerable to being caught, or likely to seek refuge abroad, perhaps with their colleagues in Qatar.
“The Israeli entity [suffers] the loss of confidence in its political leadership, its military leadership… all of this leads to weakness, slackness, discord, and internal discord,” Nasrallah said in July. “All the Israeli arrogance and tyranny [and yet] you can see today where this entity is: Where is its army? Where is the future of this entity going?” the Hezbollah chief asked. “Fading into oblivion,” he concluded.
Nasrallah, and with him Iran’s Khamenei and Hamas, have mistaken Israel’s peacetime demobilization with weakness. Nasrallah and Khamenei have not learnt the lesson from one of the most famous Arab poetry verses: “If you see the lion’s canines, don’t assume that the lion is smiling.”
Israel looks to be on its way to beating its enemies in yet another round of fighting. But for its victory to be fruitful, the government will have to hand the reins from its generals to its diplomats, with an eye toward finding Arab and Palestinian partners ready to forge peace and build prosperity in Gaza, rather than turning it into a terrorist stronghold once again. | <urn:uuid:9bb0f1dc-4b59-4b06-b123-3e6e8591371e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-israel-winning-the-war-in-gaza?fbclid=IwAR3-jnZMbU8UGb3YReZ9EhHUqpowtiGnSPmrkWdE16e6ipJt0jDBOcE1Kow | 2024-04-22T22:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.965945 | 1,261 |
It’s awards season, so how about awarding your self a mind gong?
When was the last time you gave yourself a mental Oscar? If the whole world is a stage that means we’re performing all the time, whether you’re asking for a pay rise, on a date or throwing stones at a swan just to feel alive.
In my mind cabinet I have four Golden Globes and eight Oscars and they’re all for best actor in the film Morris. It is a story of romance, adventure and business success played by me as the world’s leading personality technician who has no visible sweat patches under my arms or around my lower back because I choose Freshmax business shirts, incorporating Smartweaveâ„¢ technology.
I’m the lead actor in my own life, but I’m also the director, I choose the cast, the story and most importantly I call the shots. I’m like Woody Allen, but in the form of a likeable international businessman with a single figure handicap. Instead of making funny, I make money – and it’s as easy as changing the ‘f’ in funny to an ‘m’.
We’re not too different, Woody and I, although I probably wouldn’t date a family member or anyone under the age of 17. In fact anyone who wants to date me must have a complete LinkedIn profile page, with a minimum of 14 connections and be serious about entrepreneurialism and the physical side of relationships.
So how do you start manifesting a blockbuster out of your own life?
1. Choose Your Cast: Say ‘next’ to any friends and family who can’t offer you business advice or lucrative introductions, or indeed any females who may know your emotional weaknesses or have information about your body that could lead to an unwanted nickname like ‘Stumpy McSausage’ or ‘Mr Is-It-In-Yet’.
2. Write Your Story: If your life is like a corporate version of Platoon write another ending where you don’t get machine-gunned to death in the boardroom while your co-workers fly off in the helicopter of promotion.
And 3, Call the Shots: If your manager gives you something to do and it’s annoying just shout ‘cut’ and then go and sit in a camper van until someone brings you some mineral water and a basket of mangoes.
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowRepublican senators pressed for more information Wednesday about an FBI investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive information that passed through former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server, and their party sued for copies of the messages.
The Republican National Committee filed two lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington over access to electronic messages sent or received by the Democratic presidential candidate and her top aides during her time as the nation's top diplomat.
Both spring from Freedom of Information Act requests filed last year seeking copies of emails and text messages. In court filings, the GOP says it has not received any documents in response to the requests.
The GOP litigation brings the total to at least 34 civil suits so far involving requests for federal records related to Clinton's service as secretary of state between 2009 and 2013. The Associated Press is among those with a pending case at the Washington courthouse.
"For too long the State Department has undermined the public and the media's legitimate right to records under the Freedom of Information Act, and it's time it complies with the law," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
The State Department has released more than 52,000 pages of Clinton's work-related emails, but her private lawyers have withheld thousands more that they deemed to be personal communications unrelated to her job. Also left unresolved are questions about how Clinton and her closest aides handled classified information.
The AP last year discovered Clinton's use of the private email server, which had been set up in the basement of Clinton's New York home by former State Department staffer Bryan Pagliano, for her to use exclusively for her work-related emails while she was secretary.
The FBI for months has investigated whether sensitive information that flowed through Clinton's email server was mishandled. The State Department has acknowledged that some emails included classified information, including at the top-secret level. Clinton has said she never sent or received anything that was marked classified at the time.
The inspectors general at the State Department and for U.S. intelligence agencies are separately investigating whether rules or laws were broken.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Attorney General Lynch on Wednesday about media reports that the Justice Department had offered Pagliano immunity from criminal prosecution in exchange for his cooperation. Pagliano previously declined to testify before Congress, citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee chairman, asked Lynch whether Pagliano's immunity offer carried over to congressional committees. Grassley, R-Iowa, wants to recall Pagliano to testify if he has received immunity.
Lynch declined to answer the question.
"We don't go into details with the agreements that we have with any witness on any matter in ongoing investigations," the attorney general said.
"The consistency with which the department handles ongoing matters, whether they involve a famous last name (or not), is something that we take very seriously," Lynch said. "We treat them the same, and that is how the public takes confidence in the investigations we conduct."
Lynch also said she had not discussed the email investigation with anyone at the White House and did not plan to do so. | <urn:uuid:54b4c0e4-2bf6-4129-9675-93f8befdda9e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/39716-clinton-emails-gop-sues-senators-press-attorney-general | 2024-04-22T22:03:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.974271 | 658 |
Some days we feel shame. Shame takes. It takes our heart and makes it beat with regret. Our mind spins out of control and we are unable to harness it. Our body feels the repercussions as we ache and pain from the inside out. Shame takes.
As I was going through some soul-searching this morning, I came across this prayer from Breathing Eden: Conversations with God on Light, Fresh Air, and New Things. Jesus gives. It's plain to see. Shame disintegrates and we no longer need to hide.
"Father, you are unashamed of me; your love is wild and perfect. I love how you have made me. I love how I don’t have to hide from you, no matter what I am feeling. You give me a voice to call out to you, and you answer. You reveal yourself to me, showing how you are present with me, how you care for me, how you hold me and never let me go. I have what it takes to love those you’ve given me to love. I have what it takes to give through this day, holding your hand. Help me do all these things, knowing I stay with you. In your name, Jesus, Amen."
You are the Daughter of the King Continue to remind yourself of this. Shame is not a robe we want to wear. Our pastor says the world makes your feel shame on you, the Gospel is 'shame off you'.
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South Pacific Tourism Exchange CEO, Mr Ilisoni Vuidreketi has officially declared the appointment schedule for South Pacific Tourism Exchange open and that buyers and sellers should have received their login details.
He said that participating exhibitors at the inaugural South Pacific Tourism Exchange can now log in to the SPTE website and access information that will enable them to liaise directly with their preferred buyers at SPTE 2014.
According to Mr Vuidreketi, the South Pacific Tourism Exchange will see the converging of international wholesalers (BUYERS) and South Pacific product suppliers (SELLERS) including hotels, resorts, tour operators, rental car companies and airline partners in one location to connect over targeted 15-minute business-focused appointments and renew and build business relationships.
He said, “This event format based on pre-scheduled appointments between buyers and sellers is designed in such a way that both buyers and sellers are able to redeem the maximum return from their participation at SPTE 2014.”
He urged exhibitors that have not received notification on their log in details to please contact SPTO immediately to obtain their username and password by email at [email protected] or telephone +679 3304 177.
This appointment scheduling programme will close on the 18th of May, 2014.
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As the world counts down to the UN conference on climate change next month, here in the Pacific region a regional gathering is taking place to discuss air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping.
Participants at the special workshop are discussing Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, known as MARPOL. This Annex deals specifically with regulations for the prevention of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from ships.
The workshop is being hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in partnership with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and is being supported using funds kindly donated to the IMO by the Government of Canada through Transport Canada.
At the opening of the workshop Dr David Haynes, SPREP’s Director of Waste Management and Pollution Control explained that international shipping is the most energy efficient mode of mass cargo transport.
“Seeing as the demand for sea transportation will continue to grow with increased world trade, it’s important that a global approach is taken to further improve its energy efficiency and limit emissions to minimise the impacts on human health and the environment.”
There are currently eight Pacific island countries that are Party to MARPOL Annex VI, however, after this workshop there is hope that more will ratify this special instrument to address the control of emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollution from international shipping.
“Some of the regulations you will hear about under this instrument are already leading to significant improvements in the energy efficiency of international shipping. This is resulting in less fuel oil being consumed by ships and so a reduction in emissions of harmful pollutants and greenhouse gases,” explained Dr Zabari Bazari on behalf of Dr Edmund Hughes of the International Maritime Organization.
“Regulation is often considered to have a detrimental impact on costs. As fuel oil makes up a significant proportion of the operational cost of ships these energy efficiency regulations could potentially significantly reduce the cost of maritime transport for Pacific states.”
Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community are represented at the workshop. They will participate in sessions that cover topics such as energy efficient ship design and technical energy efficiency measures, further measures to enhance the energy efficiency of ships, on shore power supply and green port initiatives and guidelines of MARPOL Annex VI.
The three day workshop is being hosted at the SPREP Campus in Apia, Samoa held from 19 – 21 November, 2014.
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The proprietor of the Miranda bakery blamed for more than 150 cases of food poisoning has apologised to customers and asked the business not be judged by the strength of “this one incident”.
By the end of last week, a total of 151 people had sought hospital treatment after eating pork and chicken rolls from Box Village Bakery.
A total of 144 people sought treatment at Sutherland Hospital, 23 were admitted and 15 remained in hospital.
Another seven people sought treatment at St George Hospital, and four were admitted.
Among those affected by Salmonella poisoning was a pregnant woman, who was forced to undergo an emergency caesarean section after she became violently ill.
Ashley Bucahanan, a first-time mother, gave birth to a daughter, Ava, in Wollongong Hospital five weeks before her due date.
Ms Buchanan’s husband Kane also became ill and was admitted to the same hospital.
"It was all quite frightening, because my blood pressure went right down; they had to rush me to ICU straight after the delivery," Ms Buchanan told radio 2UE.
The proprietor of Box Village Bakery, who asked his name not be published, said he didn’t know what caused the food poisoning, but suggested a blackout might have affected the cool room after they had left for the night.
He said it could be “a month or a month and a half” before the NSW Food Authority allowed the bakery to re-open.
The proprietor said it was the third shop he had operated in Sutherland Shire since 1991.
He posted a hand-written note of apology on the shop window, and later asked the Leader to print a letter:
While we understand the animosity experienced by some customers, we hope that we are not judged by the strength of this one incident.
- Bakery owners
“Dear Valued Customers,
“We sincerely and humbly apologise for the events that have taken place over the last few days, in particular, we express our deepest sympathies to those who became ill.
“We stress that this is an isolated incident, and one, which has not occurred during the past 12 years in which this bakery has been in operation.
“We are currently cooperating with the NSW Food Authority to rectify the issue and ensure that this problem does not arise again in the future.
“In the meantime, while we understand the animosity experienced by some customers, we hope that we are not judged by the strength of this one incident and assure you that we can be trusted as your bakery in the future.”
The hand-written note, posted on the shop window earlier in the week, read: “Dear Customer. We are realy (sic) sorry about what happen. We hope everyone get well soon. We are sorry again.” | <urn:uuid:42b4f81c-73f1-425f-8098-c1add437d4e0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.theleader.com.au/story/3696385/bakery-owner-says-sorry/ | 2024-04-22T23:32:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.986983 | 589 |
North Shore Leader Exclusive Interview with Mazi Pilip, Republican for US Congress
Interview Conducted by Benjamin Frankel and Jacqueline Sweet
The North Shore Leader sat down for an exclusive interview with Mazi Pilip, the Republican candidate for US Congress in NY3 – a district that includes the Towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead; Glen Cove; and a portion of northeast Queens.
Mazi Pilip is a Nassau County Legislator serving her second term in the Legislature. She currently represents Great Neck and Manhasset.
We wanted to hear Mazi’s take on the pressing national and local issues that voters in NY3 are moct concerned about.
Q: What do you think the central issue is of this campaign, and how are you different on that from Tom Suozzi?
A: The main one, migrants, the border crisis, it has been a major issue for 3rd Congressional district residents. Suozzi, when he was in Congress, was responsible for opening the southern border.
Although we all want immigrants to have the same opportunity to come to this country, like myself, and my husband who came from Ukraine, it has to be done correctly.
Q: If you were in Congress now, would you be supportive of the current proposed border agreement?
A: There is a bill in the House, H.R. 2. I went over the details, and it is a good one, a strong one, and it is going to secure our ability to protect our border. It’s been sitting in the Senate for 200 days, and if they are really serious about this, fixing the problem, they just should adopt [it.]
Q: Elise Stefanik, with whom you have created a joint fundraising committee, recently called January 6 convicts “hostages.” Do you agree with her statement?
A: When you talk about January 6…I support the idea of protesting…but I don’t support violence. Nobody is above the law, so if you broke the law, you’re going to be charged.
I don’t have all the details of every second of that day but in general I don’t support violence.
Q: There is an effort pending now before the House of Representatives, to impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security, claiming that he committed a dereliction of duty on the border. What’s your opinion on that, and would you vote to impeach him?
A: When you are thinking about border security, we are dealing with a serious crisis and there is a reason for that.
The people who were in charge absolutely failed in protecting the American people. So in that case, he failed to do his job and I will support the New York delegation to impeach him.
The fact that millions are making their way here and we don’t know if they are criminals, terrorists, this is out of control. Our job as Americans, as leaders, as elected officials is to protect the American people.
Q: You recently got into politics, you ran for Nassau Legislature in 2021. What made you decide this is the time to get involved, and what’s your driving force for wanting to represent the 3rd District?
A: My husband and I came to this country as immigrants, for the American Dream. I am a girl who was born in a village in Ethiopia, and I made my way here to become a Nassau County Legislator.
Unfortunately, this country is going in the wrong direction. There are a lot of extreme policies out there with Biden, the Squad members, that are antisemitic, that are really impacting our quality of life every single day, whether it’s defund the police movements, or the amount of drugs coming from the border.
Q: Aid to Ukraine has now run out. Should we be providing military and economic assistance to Ukraine? There’s a faction in the House that wants to stop aid to Ukraine and there’s also a faction who wants to delay aid until a border deal is done. Where do you stand?
A: We definitely should give the military aid to Ukraine. When it comes to the money, it has been almost two years since Russia invaded Ukraine and the U.S. has been supporting Ukraine, which is good, but now I agree with those saying, what’s the plan?
How are they using the money? Based on that we are going to make a decision.
Q: Do you support the current proposal for an additional $60 billion in aid to Ukraine? If that came before you, how would you vote?
A: Again, I would like to see how the money is being used, and then yes, I’d support Ukraine. The questions they are asking are very legitimate.
Q: Do you think Ukraine funding should be tied to the border?
A: I think we should have a deal, to understand how we can protect our borders and how we can be able to support Ukraine. When it comes to Israel, I think that should be separate.
Q: SALT, the state and local tax deduction: Your opponent has said he tried to work to try to lift those caps but he was not successful. Do you support trying to lift the limits on property tax deductions, and how would you be able to do what he was unable to do?
A: I’m going to join the Long Island delegation to bring SALT deductions back to New Yorkers. When you have a strong delegation from here you will have a strong voice.
Q: You said you would not support a national abortion ban. Do you support the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
A: I made it clear I do not support a nationwide abortion ban. I have faith in our Supreme Court that each state will make a decision based on [their] people.
Q: What is your stance on guns and gun control?
A: The American people have the right to own guns, however I think the federal government and local governments should collaborate to make sure we are following the regulations that are out there.
I am an expert on guns, that’s what I did in Israel, and I know how important they are to protect yourself, but also how dangerous they are. I do not support citizens owning automatic assault weapons.
Q: Because of what happened with George Santos, there has been a lot of discussion around access and transparency. Do you feel you are doing enough to talk to people?
A: Absolutely. My record can show that I am not here to hide. The GOP took their time, and really vetted every one of us. I have been available to the press, and I have been available to voters.
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169 reveals to us his Plaque Collection and breaks down the beat he made for Headie One's track 'Light' as we continue episode 2 of 'Recordnise.'
The Streatham based highly skilled Producer goes into depth about his fantastic Plaque Collection. He went into how he started producing, then talks about his relationship is with Dave. He describes the feeling when he found out Drake jumped on the remix of the track he produced, ' I wanna know.' We find out his involvement with Dave's debut album, Psychodrama.
He talks about how he met Stormzy as he discusses the part he played on Stormzy's album 'Heavy is The Head.' He goes into the track, which introduced him into the trap universe as he goes into the story behind Headie One's 18Hunna featured Dave.
He digests his involvement for Mabel, Craig David and Ramz's songs, which he got plaques for. We learn how 169 made Headie One's track 'Light' as he breaks down how he produced the song.
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GKN Aerospace has completed research that aims to transform the manufacture of large composite aero-structures and produce the performance gains the industry seeks in the next generation of airframes.
The research used out-of-autoclave (OOA) materials to design, develop and manufacture an affordable, lightweight, blended aircraft wing box featuring integrally stiffened skins, complex contours and four different stringer shapes.
The manufacture of the parts used vacuum bag technology and the low cost tooling that becomes practicable when curing outside the extreme autoclave environment. The wing box was then assembled using fastener free, impregnated PI joints.
Stephen Grojean, Materials and Process Engineer, GKN Aerospace explains: “As an industry we are striving to improve airframe manufacture by reducing airframe cost and weight. To achieve these goals we are designing larger, lighter, more integrated aircraft structures.
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Vote of the week: Favorite Disney character for a photo?
Yes, I snuck in
another vote earlier this week. But here's this weekend's "official" vote.
For which Disney character will you spend the most time in line to get a photo? Which is the one that will end up on your computer desktop, framed on your desk, blown-up on the wall?
Proclaim your love in the comments.... If you voted "other," tell us whom you would have picked. Next week, we'll do a "run-off" vote with the top vote-getters from the poll and the comments.
I love Mickey Mouse!!!
What about Sulley and Mike?
I can never find Chip & Dale to get a photo taken with both of them. I have found one or the other, but not both. Just unlucky. I'll see them, but then when I get over to where they were, they're gone.
Sulley's on there. Don't see Mike much, but we can consider a vote for Sulley a vote for Mike, too.
I voted Jack Sparrow, he always seems drunk when I talk to him, lol.
Stitch OWNS Typhoon Lagoon. And the Stitch as Elvis costume is one of the company's BEST ever characters.
Definetely STITCH here.....I am probably the only person in the world that has a big stitch tattoo right above the ankle.I was also like 2 seconds away from naming my second daughter Lilo. In second place would've been Princess Aurora(aka Sleeping beauty)...I named my first daughter after her.
I picked Mr Incredible, but then again, he looks like my dad!
I love Goofy! I got both my kids with him, and then me. I have always loved Goofy.
I can never find Genie - although he seems to be out and about at Flying Carpets at the MK and at Morocco in Epcot I never time it quite right...
None........Much prefer the characters wlaking around the park...and snapping pics ...Now its kinda like seeing a mall Santa and paying for the pic
I was the oldest person in line and will be for a long time to get my picture made with Stitch! He actually doesnt just stand there and makes it well worth the wait!
Spider-Man isn't a Disney character, but I have to say Mickey Mouse.
I Love Mickey Mouse!
It's gotta be Mickey...after all, "it all started with a mouse."
Ludwig Von Drake
I tried to go back & resubmit my vote, I didn't see my fave on there so I clicked other. I meant to choose Donald Duck so since I can't seem to redo my vote, apparantly, that's who I voted for. :)
I voted "other," only because some of the best Disney characters to get pictures with are villains!! I LOVE meeting with Cruella de Vil. She's always trying to get my puppy from me, and when that doesn't succeed, she resorts to making me kneel next to her for the picture. :) The Tremaine Family, when they're all together, is a great photo-op, too. Sadly I've never been able to get a picture with them, but I would the moment I saw them!
Its hard not to vote for the big three (Mickey, Donald, and Goofy), but my request would be Eyore...my 24 year old's favorite for 23 years...and mine too.
Err...David, you do know I was kidding right?
Donald Duck all the way baby!!!
I have to go with Jasmine, just becasue she was uber hot the one time I saw her!
I said Mickey but we've only waited ( albeit briefly) to be photo'd with Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
I waited over an hour to get a picture with Mickey at Disneyland, but since I now have pictures with Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Chip & Dale I would love to get one with Donald and Daisy.
I'm starting a write-in campaign for Grumpy. He's just so misunderstood.
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An overdue public debate has erupted about how to address the widespread problem of sexual misconduct on college campuses. It’s clear from the many complaints filed, the number of schools under federal investigations and the media coverage that universities have too often been slow or ineffective in responding to sexual assault and harassment.
As calls for reform grow louder and schools rethink their policies, lawyers close to the criminal justice system have raised questions about the fairness of university-based systems issuing judgments on allegations of misconduct. As a result, the press is now full of discussions about the fairness of colleges’ procedures and standards of proof.
We also need a robust debate on punishment. Given many schools’ continuing reluctance to investigate—let alone penalize—sexual misconduct, concern for proportionality in sanctions may seem premature. But retribution, deterrence and incapacitation need to be balanced—both on campus and off—by compassion and generative ways to repair lives.
That’s why drawing lessons from the criminal-justice system is useful. The criminal-justice system does more than decide guilt; it also imposes punishments. While universities don’t put people in jail, they can expel, suspend or fire them. To improve both systems, we need to know who is being punished, for what and how.
One of the reason we can learn so much from the criminal justice is because courts are required to operate in public. Public accountings have documented wrongful convictions, suicides in jails and the horrors of years spent warehoused in isolation. That information—along with keen awareness of the costs to both people and the government—has galvanized bipartisan reforms aiming to fix a system now widely regarded as broken.
Publicity, as Jeremy Bentham famously stated two centuries ago, is the “soul of justice.” In contrast, most universities have closed decision-making processes that cut off our capacity to understand and to evaluate the judgments made. We can’t create systemic change in campus cultures without a full account of the many problems. And we can’t decide on how to tailor remedies for those injured and what sanctions to impose for those found culpable without knowing more about the current responses. Just as we debate what behavior should be criminal, whether to put people in prison, and what factors are “mitigating” or “aggravating,” debate is needed about whether a six-month, a one-year or a total ban from a campus are appropriate for which kinds of sexualized misconduct.
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Some information is already available, but not much. Under various federal and state mandates, colleges issue periodic reports, listing the number of claims brought and their outcomes. A few universities offer more information. Yet even the most complete reports give only a few details about the type of offense, the kind of punishment imposed, and whether the parties were students or faculty, male or female.
What those reports don’t tell us is why, in one case, an individual is expelled, another given probation and a third counseled. We don’t know what measures universities are taking to protect individuals against retaliation or the effect. We also can’t tell how the decision-makers reached their conclusions—how they parsed the evidence. And we can’t appreciate the challenges of making all of these decisions.
We need to know more, starting with how universities help those who make a complaint. When do schools provide academic support and flexibility on exams or papers for students? How are faculty members protected from colleagues trying to undercut their careers? We also need to know how schools treat respondents. We need to know what factors are seen as mitigating—such as mental health problems or the potential loss of a student visa. We don’t know when and if a person’s status as an athlete or recipient of major research grants affects the punishments levied. And we don’t know how often complainants ask for public disclosures as part of the remedy, when rumors have already swirled around campuses.
Without details on facts, reasoning and outcomes, we can’t parse whether fairness, compassion or prejudice comes into play. We can’t know when differential treatment has been accorded, let alone debate whether it may be appropriate.
By keeping so much confidential, colleges cut off hard discussions about what kinds of remedies and punishments should be developed. The few high-profile instances that do make their way into the public become the dominant—and sometimes distorting—frames. That’s unfair to the individuals, the institutions, and to decision-makers obliged to develop even-handed responses across a range of cases.
Would more openness violate the privacy of individuals? Students and faculty are in communities in which it is easy to be identified, putting claimants and accused at risk of being vilified and harassed. The federal government’s Title IX guidelines require protection of the identities of complainants and respondents to ensure their safety. But protection and privacy do not have to result in the degree of confidentiality that many universities have adopted. We could know more without knowing too much.
Many universities give some explanations to the parties about the decisions made. For the wider community, universities could detail the kinds of injuries and the remedies—masking names and facts when appropriate. For example, knowing that a fraternity is suspended for misconduct is not enough; more is needed about the underlying behavior, both to vindicate the victims and to clarify for others what is wrong and what is right. Sometimes, removing details—the name of a place where an assault occurred or the relationship of the two parties—can promote transparency without putting the complainant or respondent at risk of retaliation or harassment. Another alternative is to provide a series of real examples over a period of one or two years and mixing information together from more than one case.
Further, under many campus rules, the decision-makers must write reports and explain their reasoning for internal purposes—to account for what they did. Administrators can use these materials as the basis for providing yearly accounts to their campuses about the reasoning in cases—establishing what lawyers call precedents. By publishing decisions as they accumulate, that body of materials promotes consistency, so that like cases can be treated alike. The goal is to build a repository of facts and penalties from which to develop norms.
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We all love a Paris apartment right? And today I will share a Parisian apartment that’s truly special. This apartment is a lesson in mixing and matching combined with bright color pops.
Lifestyle store Merci is well known in Paris for its eclectic and unique interior style. And they have designed this Paris apartment. The family apartment is located in an 18th century building in the 5th arrondissement.
The apartment rocks beautiful wooden floors and deep window sils. For Merci Paris, this Second Residence is a celebration: “pairing antiques with contemporary designs, mixing two antagonistic aesthetics, combining mass-produced objects with artisanal pieces.” Let’s take a look!
The historic bones of the apartment have been preserved. While at the same time combining it with contemporary and colorful furnishings and decor.
The Shaker Room is painted in a custom made yellow shade. Bringing joy to this creative space.
This tile carpet in the kitchen is designed by ceramicist Marion Graux.
A classic French bedroom with original wood paneling.
A sink from 1900 is combined with a beaded stool from Cameroon.
The antique bath used to be a cattle trough.
The zink panels in the bathroom are roof panels from the Alsace.
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As a councillor, I have come across some of the strangest interpretations of the law. This can be by council officers who are tasked with implementing the law, or by laypeople at the receiving end of the law. Along with their peculiar interpretations are mixed messages about whether the law works or not, or if it actually makes things worse.
There are no morals to the stories told here, except those that readers conclude for themselves.
“Your new fine encourages corruption!” cried a trader while brandishing a fine issued by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) at me.
The fine was for a trader-related offence. Previously, the fine was capped at RM250, but now it was RM1,000. The new fine structure was gazetted in a by-law before Pakatan Rakyat took over the Selangor state government, but was never implemented.
The present MBPJ government adopted the fine structure, seeing how it was already a gazetted law that needed to be complied with. It was a move that certainly raised the ire of many traders who were slapped unawares with hefty dues.
I asked the trader to explain why the increased fine would breed corruption.
“Since the fine is so expensive, the officer could just tell traders that they won’t be fined if they pay the officer RM300,” was the reply.
“Ok, what’s the fine for?” I asked.
“This fine was for not having a license,” said the trader.
“Did you apply for the license?”
“No, but that’s not the point! MBPJ’s fines are too high!”
“The law states that you should be fined for not having a license, no?”
“Laws are created by humans,” retorted the trader. “We changed the BN government because they weren’t good, but we can change the PR government too. You need to reduce the fine amount because right now, when we appeal, we get half off the fine, which is still RM500. Previously, when we appealed, we only need to pay RM100. We are happy to pay RM100, not RM500. Your law encourages your officers to accept bribes.”
Thirty percent bigger
A trader had been waiting several months to get her trader’s license and could not understand why her application for a license took so long. She requested my help to speed up the process. As the trader was rather lost because of the conflicting instructions she received, I brought her to the council’s licensing department to sort things out.
“We can’t approve the license for this because the stall’s name is in English,” said the council officer after looking through the application.
“What? Where did this rule come from?” I asked.
The officer explained that the rule was adopted by the MBPJ a few months back. Not convinced, I asked to see the ruling.
The officer left and returned moments later with a senior officer who carried a huge book. The senior officer greeted me and explained that the licensing department wasn’t trying to be difficult but was only following the requirements of the Advertisement (Petaling Jaya City Council) By-Laws 2007.
“The by-law states all signage must carry Malay words and if there is any other language used, the Malay language must be 30% bigger,” the officer explained while showing me the relevant section.
While I went through this section of the law, the officer tried to help by suggesting a Malay name for the stall.
“So, what happens when KFC or McDonalds apply for a license?” I asked.
“They have to comply with the ruling too. We received many complaints from them about this, but what can we do? We are just following the law,” the officer replied.
After scrutinising the by-law carefully, MBPJ councillor KW Mak found an additional clause that exempts registered company names from the Malay wording requirement. Had the signage ruling been true to the officer’s interpretation, he would have insisted that The Nut Graph logo carry Malay words too and be translated as Graf Kacang. | <urn:uuid:76a4344d-08b1-472a-8d89-0fa91b952dd9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thenutgraph.com/a-matter-of-interpretation/ | 2024-04-22T22:43:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.981687 | 918 |
We'd love to meet you down at The Old School Nursery
(formerly Quids In Plant Nursery)
The best way to contact us to discuss any stock, order or delivery enquiries is always by phone. Our staff are on hand to answer your questions seven days a week.
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Quids In Home & Garden store, Ystradgynlais
The Old School Nursery actually started as the Quids In Plant Nursery, created to supply our shop in Ystradgynlais with top quality plants, planters and baskets. Since then it has grown and become a much bigger entity and is now a successful bsuiness in its own right. However, our shop is still there in Ystradgynlais, offering great deals not just on plants, but also on home wares, gifts, greeting cards, jewellery, pet food, hardware supplies and much more. | <urn:uuid:a887ca3a-7fff-4a77-b539-f50d96ec49f5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.theosn.co.uk/contact-us | 2024-04-22T23:49:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.969102 | 213 |
Grand Seiko 6146-8050 from 1972 (NOS Crystal)
For sale is a rarely seen Grand Seiko 6146-8050.
The watch features a characteristic double facet case side positioned right above the lugs, a design collectors recognize from the 6185 VFA case.
Sheltered by the case is a silver sunburst dial decorated with tall raised multifaceted indices that plays well with the minute markers printed towards the centre of the dial.
Powering this handsome piece is the calibre 6146 from the 61GS family. The 61 GS family is known as the first group of GS automatic movement beating at 36000bph.
Stringent regulations were imposed on the 61GS family which were regulated to the Grand Seiko standard of -3/+5 sec/day at the time of production.
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Some poets pick some song lyrics worth reading.
Farrah Karapetian, Soundscape 36, 2015, unique chromogenic photogram, metallic, 40″ x 45″. Courtesy the artist and Danziger Gallery.
Most of us don’t need a small group of learned Swedes to tell us that Bob Dylan is a poet. We likely forged our opinion on the matter long ago, somewhere between “Talkin’ New York” (1962) and “Thunder on the Mountain” (2006). But let’s not stop at Dylan. Why not call all Bobs poets? Bob Marley, Bob Seger, Bob Weir. Add in the Bobbys and Bobbies, too, for that matter: “Blue” Bland, Brown, Gentry. It’s an eclectic group. But if we relinquish the idea that the term “poet” is a kind of coronation, we’re free to understand it as a descriptive term for someone who works with words in concentrate, which all of these Bobs and Bobbies do.
Perhaps Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature can be a beginning—of closer attention to lyric craft; of richer conversations among songwriters, poets, and the rest of us. The poetry in pop songs can be masterful or careless, disposable or timeless. It can be in the service of well-crafted narratives (like Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe”) or more abstract tone pieces (like Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead’s “Jack Straw”). It can result in works that endure (like Bobby “Blue” Bland’s signature song “Turn On Your Love Light,” covered dozens of times including, famously, by Bob Weir’s Grateful Dead) or works that capture a moment and then recede into nostalgia (like Bobby Brown’s chart-topping 1989 hit “My Prerogative”).
In my new book, The Poetry of Pop, I make the case for taking pop songs seriously—without being too serious about it. Few of us first encounter song lyrics on the page as poetry or as sheet music. Instead, we experience lyrics as sound, usually recorded and sometimes live. Page-born poems and song lyrics are not the same things, but they are drawn together by affinities of sound and silence, patterns of language, and shared games with words.
What follows is a selection from the book’s appendix, which is made up of lists like “Fifteen Lyrics that Effectively Rhyme ‘Moon’ with ‘June,’ ” “Some Whispers, Some Screams,” and “Twenty Epistolary Recordings.” My favorite list is the one included here, in which I asked nine poets to suggest a song lyric that they believe rewards close attention. Their selections span nearly half a century of sound, crossing multiple genres and inviting the kind of interest that will make you pull up a second tab on your web browser and listen to the song for yourself.
How do poets listen to pop songs? Do they hear things the rest of us don’t? Do they count the rhythms of the lines? Do they separate the half from the full rhymes? Do they feel the song more fully because of their knowledge of the inner workings of syllables and sounds, or does that knowledge get in the way of listening? These nine poets answer affirmatively that poets do, in fact, notice things in song lyrics that might otherwise escape our attention. Their sensitivity and vision can guide us.
So read pop songs like poems. Sing poems like pop songs. Both acts may seem unnatural, perhaps even perverse at first. Some parts won’t fit. Some sounds will clash. But the practice brings new clarity and insight. Poetic tools of sound, meaning, and feeling are at work in even the most banal pop song, just as they are at work in even the most trite ode or sonnet. The dance of word and music makes songs act on our imagination and emotions just as the best poems do. Attentive readers, like the nine poets below, unlock mysteries of lyric expression through the poetics of form, as well as through ineffable qualities of voice and music. This is the poetry of pop.
H. L. Hix picks Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967). It will surely be the most uncool choice in this playlist, and it was long “before my time” (I didn’t encounter it until many years after it had disappeared off the charts), but Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” brilliantly achieves (in a song that is all lyrics—the guitar just keeps the rhythm) a poetic value I find powerful: subordination of event to situation. “Ode to Billie Joe” seems ostensibly about events: the narrator and Billie Joe throwing something off the bridge, Billie Joe jumping off the bridge, and so on. But although those events get named, they are mostly withheld: we don’t know what the pair were throwing off the bridge, we don’t know why Billie Joe killed himself. What is revealed with utter clarity is the narrator’s situation: she is spoken to and spoken about within the poem, but she herself is never allowed to speak; she is closely monitored (told to wipe her feet, interrogated for not eating, observed and reported on) but not recognized at all; she is kept in place by her society, but is afforded no place in her society; kinship relations are enforced on her from without, but the kinship she feels is denied her. In Gottlob Frege’s terms, “Ode to Billie Joe” obscures reference in order to disclose sense. In Aristotle’s terms, “Ode to Billie Joe” inverts the tragic focus on mythos for a lyric focus on ethos. The narrator makes no explicit criticism of her society, but her implicit critique is devastating. She does not declare her social alienation and erasure, but I feel it all the more strongly for its not being declared. Her protest takes the form of lamentation. I experience “Ode to Billie Joe” as a most robust fulfillment of Emily Dickinson’s advice to “tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Kyle Dargan picks Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)” (1971). Anyone who has taken a workshop with me has heard my idea about writing poetry being like building the lightest possible plane that will fly. Sometimes, that is. There is a place for excess, for everything in poetic intent, but, staying with this idea of efficiency and vicious concision, Marvin Gaye and James Nyx’s “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)” has impressed me for a long time by capturing so much depth and nuance with so little. The sense of being caught in an inescapable, economic spiral builds over the verses, but let’s start with the second: “Inflation, no chance/ to increase finance. / Bills pile up sky high./ Send that boy off to die.” “Inflation, no chance” is an economics white paper in itself, but the juxtaposition of all four lines makes it possible to see a connection among poverty, loss of economic ground, and the pressures to enlist (and die) in the army. A sparse, quiet but wrenching verse that creates space for the “holler” to emerge as the chorus.
Evie Shockley picks Joni Mitchell’s “Hejira” (1976). Set with an impossible task (pick one??), I default to the songwriter who, for me, set the standard of song lyrics as poetry. “Hejira” is not my top Joni Mitchell song for listening, but these are definitely the lyrics I’d most want to read. From the gorgeous one-word title (an Arabic word signifying a flight from danger or journey to a more congenial place), we move into the “melancholy” meditation of a woman who travels to escape from “the petty wars / that shell shock love away.” She’s recovering from a relationship that seems to have been overpowering— relieved to be released back to herself, but at the same time in withdrawal. The quatrain that moves me perhaps most of all carries forward both her theme of duality and her breathtaking talent for making abstractions tangible through metaphorical images: “In the church they light the candles / And the wax rolls down like tears / There’s the hope and the hopelessness / I’ve witnessed thirty years.” There. One image does double duty, daring us to pretend that the fire burning within us is not also burning us, or that we can avoid for long being “suck[ ed] … back” into connection with others by our need to and for love.
Raza Ali Hasan picks Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” (1980). W. H. Auden reputedly mined the Beatles songbook in his search for new influences for his own work. I am no Auden, but in the poem “British Steel,” which is the last poem in my newest poetry collection, Sorrows of the Warrior Class (2015), I riff on lines not from the Beatles but from an American band: “Once in a Lifetime, / you may find yourself, / pondering how the English,” is the first stanza. The line “you may find yourself ” appears another three times, and “you may tell yourself,” twice. The final stanza goes like this: “You may say to yourself / Same as it ever was. / Same as it ever was.” Yes, you guessed it, I am talking of Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime.” The British, as the title of the poem implies, steal in three different ways. In the poem, the British are stealing steel-making technology from India. The poet (that’s me) is stealing lines from the pop song in order to call the British imperialists. But the truth is, I wasn’t stealing in order to call the British first-class thieves but to do something about the long-standing hold this song and its lines have on me. Call it jealousy, not sought-out influence. I stole those Talking Heads lines and used them verbatim in my poetic world—at last making them mine.
Douglas Kearney picks De La Soul’s “I Am I Be” (1993). It all comes together on this one—the opening chorus collage of “I am ——; I be ——” statements is the sonic predecessor of A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders cover, but lyrically it sets up a cascading and layered anaphora (which Pos reprises at the head of his first verse and that envoi of a third; and which Dove revises in a kind of phrasal chiasmus as his last line of the second verse). Within the verses themselves, Pos remixes clichés from common English (including “I am an early bird but the feathers are black / so the apples that I catch are usually all worms”); alludes to past examples of people misunderstanding who he is and what he does (“ … to bring the peace, / not in the flower / but the As-salaam Alaik’ and the third I am.”); and, in one of the song’s loveliest moments, says simply: “I cherish the twilight”—a thorn rhyme line (though it’s assonant with “maximized” and “right size”) that, when voiced, sounds almost like a sigh relieving the density of his flow. Dove, ever underrated, abstracts his imagery to the point that I feel I can turn his words like three-dimensional objects shaped in letterforms and what he’s describing. My favorite bars—and I quote this every chance I get to show how dope he is: “I bring the element H-to-the-2 / so you owe me what’s coming / when I’m raining on your new parade”—of course, H2O, thus water. But also, H(ip) H(op) and rap’s association with water (flow, spit); “raining on your new parade” suggests battling but also De La’s place as sly critics of peers from within hip-hop culture. Please. Listen to it right now.
Noah Eli Gordon picks Jawbreaker’s “Lurker II: Dark Son of Night” (1995). Although the band’s single major-label release ultimately failed to garner them the success of their peers like Green Day and other post-punk acts of the early nineties, there’s a near cultlike following for Jawbreaker, due in no small part to Blake Schwarzenbach’s emotionally tinged, sonically attuned lyrics. Rather than the story behind domestic failure and dejection, Schwarzenbach condenses into a series of objective correlatives the emotional tenor of events—the core feelings associated with a postmodern Prufrock: “Two room condo, treeless cul-de-sac. / A nun’s dark habit. All arm, no follow through.” Here, that “All arm” also carries with it the homophonic echo of alarm, doubling the sense of a fraught relationship that is already over just a few lines later: “Hook up the Sega. Have sex alone.” True to his dexterous balance between the sonic and referential potential of words, Schwarzenbach, later in the song, offers another gem of an image in this line about a tree’s fallen fruit: “Dead in sunshine, decomposing there.” That “Dead in” is also a dead end, as well as something deadened. There is between the page and the performance, between the words as written out and the echo each carries when heard aloud, a transformative polysemy, one that, thankfully, keeps Jawbreaker very much alive.
Major Jackson picks the Fugees’ “How Many Mics” (1996). “Problem with no man / Before black, I’m first human / Appetite to write like Frederick Douglass with a slave hand.” The above excerpt from “How Many Mics,” one of the tightest cuts on the Fugees’ classic and impactful album The Score, has graced and blessed my writing space for nearly twenty years now and served as an example of how allusion and metaphor can harness and expose deeper levels of meaning. Of the talented and distinctive trio members whose cypher-like, improvisatory rhyming skills turned them into household names overnight, Wyclef, Lauryn Hill, and Pras, it is Wyclef who slips this bit of subtle black history onto the album and in one of their most successful tracks. Emcees and poets either live or die by metaphor or allusion. In the best-case scenario, metaphors and allusions create bridges, reaffirming shared knowledge, and tap into a reader or listener’s awareness and consciousness, or at worst, they can leave them hanging by their sheer unfamiliarity and novelty. No matter the genre of music, rock, hip-hop, or R& B, I have always gravitated towards those lyricist who reference history, literature, or current events: as a teenager, I thrilled in recognizing that U2’ s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was a direct address of the Troubles in Ireland or that the Cure’s “Killing an Arab” was a lyric in the persona of Meursault, Albert Camus’s protagonist in the novel The Stranger. I guess listening to one of my mother’s favorite Marvin Gaye albums, What’s Going On, encouraged me to demand more from song lyrics. It could be said Wyclef built his reputation as a rapper by name-dropping, showcasing his wide range of allusions, and in “How Many Mics,” they are plentiful: by the time he has finished his portion of the song, he plays golf with David Sonenberg; runs through Crown Heights screaming mazel tov; makes deals with Tommy Mottola; wishes to survive like Seal in the song “Crazy”; notices drug fiends dance like John Travolta in the movie Grease; and narrates once getting hit by Guinness stout. But it is his reference to the famous slave narrative The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass that resonates most with me. I have always felt that hip-hop, like poetry, is a question of liberty attained through literacy, one of creation and maintenance of style that sings an individual’s life. To express oneself in words on a page or in a song is one of the highest acts of freedom. As an enslaved descendant of Africans in America, Douglass yearned for freedom, and like many black folk, found learning how to read and write the ticket toward a greater self-awareness and independence. Douglass not only writes himself into freedom but writes himself into existence, inscribes his humanity. That ongoing hunger among black folk, and indeed, in all of us, is reflected in Wyclef ’s words of immense power, yet said so succinctly and wittily, I might add.
Adrian Matejka picks Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” (1997). “When I am king, you will be first against the wall / With your opinion, which is of no consequence at all.” Sometimes, Thom Yorke’s lyrics are deeply encoded and need musical gestures to open up for the listener. But other times, as with “Paranoid Android” and many of the songs on OK Computer, the lyrics are so tight and generous to their disconnected, pre-Millennium listeners that no musical exposition is necessary. Yorke’s false bravado in these lyrics captured my frustrations and insecurities (back then and now) with being housed in our amorphous, digital neighborhoods.
Julie Carr picks Cake’s “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” (2001). John McCrea sings through my car and through my son who is singing along. He’s seventeen. This song, he says, is a lesson in negative space. There’s that break, that longgggg silence just after the first “longgggg jacket”—it’s the Citibank lit up late, the empty moment between swiping your card to unlock the door and the door unlocking. There’s the little exhale after the next “long jacket,” like the breath between high school and college when you’re riding shotgun with your mom but almost done. There’s that gap between McCrea’s “I want a girl” and the backup’s “hey, ho,” “na-na na na na,” which is the space between being the boy dreaming a girl and being the woman who once was one. Then there’s the empty space at the back of the throat, what we named “flat affect” just when he was born, those Citibank years, those temp years, those liquid years strolling on even flatter Brooklyn streets. And then finally there’s that nothing, that rest or that dead space, when the song just cuts right off and the boy is gone.
Adam Bradley is professor of English and founding director of the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and The Poetry of Pop.
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Conte Hits Back At Mourinho’s ‘Crying’ Comment
Antonio Conte hit back at Jose Mourinho for the first time after Chelsea’s injury crisis worsened with fresh problems for David Luiz and Tiemoue Bakayoko in Wednesday’s 3-3 draw with Roma in the Champions League.
He said Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho needs to “look at himself” and stop talking about his former side.
Mourinho, who had two spells as Chelsea boss, said there are other managers who “cry and cry and cry” about injuries.
“A lot of time Mourinho has to see what happens at Chelsea,” Conte said.
Asked about Mourinho’s comments, which were not specifically directed at Conte, the Italian added: “A lot of time, also last season, I think he has to think about his team and stop, to look at himself, not the others.”
Both David Luiz, who started in midfield, and Tiemoue Bakayoko picked up injuries as the Blues drew at home to Roma in the Champions League, while Manchester United won 1-0 at Benfica.
With N’Golo Kante and Danny Drinkwater already out, Cesc Fabregas is now Chelsea’s only recognised senior central midfielder.
“The same players have been going all the time since preseason,” Conte said.
“It’s not about injuries, but trying to get the best out of the team.
“We’ve got three injuries, not seven or eight, but it’s still an emergency situation for us.”
Chelsea spent nearly £180m in the summer, adding to their midfield options with the signing of Drinkwater from Leicester and Bakayoko from Monaco.
But Conte also saw two central midfielders leave the club as Nemanja Matic joined Manchester United and Nathaniel Chalobah signed for Watford.
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Premiere: Tom Terrien – Mai En Août
The time spent between May and August was his favourite. The summer warmth was what his bones longed for, to feel the heat radiating down upon is bare back and against his skin. The grass blew gently in the breeze and there was not a cloud to be seen amongst the heavens above. A moody blue hung dreamily in the air. Peace was here.
Tom Terrien has an upcoming LP on Youngbloods records titled 'Be Glad'. Experimental and wonderful it captures an emphatic approach to modern day electronic music. Listen to "Mai en Août" below:
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War Games: The Psychology of Combat; Leo Murray
The main body tells the second story. This describes the hard science of tactical psychology, from its basic components to its most compelling effects. Each chapter comes with a key fact:
* The strength of aversion to killing.
* How many artillery shells or rifle bullets are needed to pin down a unit
* The extent to which combat degrades rational thought.
These facts are linked to build through the book. Together, they provide a complete picture of how soldiers react to combat and how wars can be won by understanding the way enemy soldiers think.
The third story is woven through the scientific themes and tied to the eyewitness accounts. It tells how the author was sucked into a secretive world of fighters and thinkers.
War Games is a fascinating insight into how the human mind operates in combat situations.
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DAN CEARNS, The Standard
SCUGOG: The Port Perry Lumberjacks are one loss away from being eliminated by the Uxbridge Bruins in their first-round playoff series.
The Lumberjacks opened the series with a strong first-period performance in Game 1 in Uxbridge on Friday, March 10th.
Three and a half minutes into the first period, Brayden Roberts deked around the Uxbridge defencemen and scored a goal on his backhand. Then, nearly 13 minutes into the period, and with the Lumberjacks on the penalty kill, Mark Stoop raced in on a breakaway and scored. With under four minutes remaining in the period, Jeremy Poulin extended the lead to 3-0 with a goal.
Things went downhill quickly for the Lumberjacks in the second period. The Bruins struck three goals to tie the game in the first half of the period. Then, with just four minutes remaining in the period, the Bruins put the puck in the net again, putting Port Perry behind for the first time in the game 4-3. The Bruins would add a power-play goal later in the period and led 5-3 after 40 minutes of play.
The Bruins were the only team to score in the third period, giving them a 6-3 win and the series lead.
The series moved to Scugog Arena for Game 2 on Sunday, March 12th. For the second time in a row, the Lumberjacks would score the game's first goal.
Nine and a half minutes into the first period, Stoop drove the puck to the net and scored, giving Port Perry a 1-0 lead. But, a little over two minutes later, the Bruins would put the puck past goaltender Gavin Bradt, knotting the game up at 1-1.
The game would remain at that score until late in the second period. Over 12 and a half minutes in, the Bruins struck again. Then, with just 19 seconds remaining on the clock, Uxbridge added another goal, giving them a 3-1 lead.
There were no goals scored in the third period, and Uxbridge defeated Port Perry 3-1.
The series resumed back in Uxbridge on Monday, March 13th.
The Bruins would score the only goals of that game. They had a 1-0 lead after the first 20 minutes of play, a 2-0 lead after 40 minutes of play and then added two more goals in the third period to defeat Port Perry 4-0.
With it being a best-of-seven series, the Uxbridge Bruins need just a single win to end the Lumberjacks season.
- The series will continue at Scugog Arena for Game 4 on Wednesday, March 15th. The game will begin at 7 p.m.
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Kali Linux is one of the best hacking operating systems in the world. When you download it from the official source as an ISO or a VM and run it it will ask for a default password.
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Up until a few years ago the default username password configuration was root then toor. If you have an older system try this combo. If this dosent work the try kali kali. This is typically the password on newer systems.
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Game of the week
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Berlin (dpa/tmn). Whether in platformers or kart racing: Mario is undoubtedly one of the most famous video game characters of all time. In his first appearance, he was still in the shadow of Donkey Kong, who threw barrels at the plumber from above in the game of the same name. The debate between the two continues in the puzzle adventure “Mario vs. Donkey Kong.”
Once again, players take on the role of Mario, who enters the gaming arena with inflatable Mario minifigures. His opponent Donkey Kong is fascinated by the numbers, but unfortunately all copies have already been sold out. When the gorilla breaks into the factory full of envy and takes all the minifigures he can find, Mario follows in his wake.
Tactics with keys and keys
Unlike Mario or Donkey Kong platformers, in 2D levels you don't just run from left to right, you take a more tactical approach. The path to the exit is blocked by obstacles that you must remove first: if you press the switches, some walls and platforms disappear into thin air and, in the right combination, clear the way for the switches you need.
Once you save your first Mini Marios, they will follow you wherever you go. However, this is not necessarily an advantage in difficult levels, as they must first be directed to the exit. In boss battles, you'll also duel with Donkey Kong himself, who – unsurprisingly – once again uses wooden barrels as projectiles.
Very modern for a remake
For a remake of a game released 20 years ago for the Game Boy Advance, “Mario vs. Donkey Kong” feels very modern on Switch. Because the game principle works at that time as it does today and has more to offer with new worlds and a cooperative mode.
If you enjoy both classic Mario jumping and puzzles, you should take a closer look at this puzzle game. “Mario vs. Donkey Kong” is available for Nintendo Switch and is priced at 50 euros.
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The Ireland in John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme” is like something out of a fairy tale, and Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan are like the Irish Cinderella and Prince Charming.
The first trailer for “Wild Mountain Thyme” shows a romantic and quaint love story between Blunt and Dornan as they grapple with Dornan’s father played by Christopher Walken and a new American suitor for Blunt played by Jon Hamm. But the two have been smitten with each other since childhood, so much so that Dornan is finally working up the courage to marry her, even practicing his proposal on his family’s donkey.
“You ever had a dream since you were a child and you couldn’t let it go,” Blunt asks in the trailer. “How many days do we have while the sun shines?”
Shanley, known for writing the classic romance “Moonstruck,” wrote and directed “Wild Mountain Thyme” based on his own play “Outside Mullingar.” Here’s the full synopsis:
John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic ‘Moonstruck’, brings his sweeping romantic vision to Ireland with “Wild Mountain Thyme.” The headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father Tony’s (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.
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Starz and Lionsgate have suspended producer Ian Woolf from the drama series “BMF” following an alleged altercation with two striking Writers Guild of America writers in Atlanta on Thursday.
According to a series of tweets posted by WGA member Brian Egeston and strike captain Gabriel Alejandro Garza, the pair were on a public sidewalk, not impeding traffic, when Woolf pointed an SUV he was driving toward Egeston “as though it were a weapon and slammed the breaks within six feet of writers.”
Garza said that Woolf looked directly at him as he “hit the accelerator one more time, followed by the brakes, and skid even closer to us.” According to the pair, Woolf said that he was trying to scare them. Garza noted that they have a recording of Woolf’s explanation.
“I would implore you, in hindsight, to consider the ramifications of killing an African-American man in the streets of the city too busy to hate, while being the producer of an African-American TV show, created by an African American man, run by an African-American Man,” Egeston wrote in an open letter to Woolf posted on Twitter on Thursday. “Mr. Woolf, your actions purveyed a deep generational hate for us. And that, sir, is a travesty for which you must be held accountable. If not by your superiors and peers, then by the people of Atlanta because the South will have something to say about what you did today. Should you choose to remain in our city, where I will remind you that you are a guest, I beg of you to lead with love and refrain from being a drum major for hate and potential manslaughter.”
TV writer Tom Smuts, who is married to WGA president Meredith Stiehm, said he was there when the incident occurred.
“In the past five weeks coordinating production pickets in Los Angeles and Georgia, no one else has treated us like that,” he tweeted. “And we in the WGA and Teamsters will stay here in solidarity – in Los Angeles, New York, New Mexico, Georgia and wherever else we need to be – until our labor and dignity are respected again.”
A Lionsgate spokesperson told TheWrap that the company takes “acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously” and that they are investigating the incident “thoroughly.”
“As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” the studio added.
A WGA spokesperson told TheWrap it is “working closely with members who were endangered during this incident to hold this individual accountable.”
“Workers should not be threatened with physical harm when exercising their right to publicly protest and picket against unfair wages and working conditions,” the guild said. “Anyone who harms or threatens to harm a member or supporter of the Writers Guild on a picket line should be held responsible for their actions.”
“BMF” is executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (co-creator of the Power Universe, For Life), alongside showrunner, executive producer and writer Randy Huggins (Star, Rebel, Power). The show is produced through Jackson’s G-Unit Film and Television in association with Lionsgate Television for Starz.
In addition to “BMF,” Woolf’s other producing credits include “Queens,” “Mr. Mercedes,” “SEAL Team,” and “Criminal Minds.” Woolf did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment.
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Nicaragua Surf and Yoga Retreat
What can I expect on a YOGA OF YOU retreat?
You can expect to explore the most incredible parts of the world, savor delicious flavors daily, and dive into incredible yoga with the best yoga teachers in the world.
Do I need yoga experience?
We welcome yogis of all levels, from absolute beginners to advanced practioners. Yoga retreats are not just for the yogi who practices every day and can touch the floor with their elbows. Our retreats offer opportunities for growth and new experience, no matter how much time you have spent on your mat. Regardless, we suggest keeping an open mind and trying out practices that might be new to you.
Do I need to book my own flight to Nicaragua? What flights do I purchase?
You are responsible for booking your own plane flight. Here is the arrival and departure information:
Airport: Managua International Airport
Arrival Date: November 1, 2017
Arrival Time Range: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm
Departure Date: November 8, 2017
Departure Time Range: After 12:00 pmWhere is the retreat center located and how do I get there from the airport?
Maderas Village is located just north of San Juan del Sur, overlooking Playa Maderas. Airport transfer is not included because everyone tends to arrive at different times, but usually there are two or three others that will want to share one and we always help arrange it! Just let us know your flight details and we can take it from there. One way transportation is $140 for 4 people, $120 for 3 people, and $100 for 1-2 people.
What is the currency in Nicaragua? Will I need cash?
Current currency in Nicaragua is the Nicaraguan Córdoba. All of the activities highlighted on the trip page are included in the price. However, if you have some free time to explore on your own or choose to go on any optional excursions, you will be responsible for the costs but we can definitely help you arrange anything. USD can be used for most activities and at most restaurants in town.
Can I arrive early to the retreat and stay late?
You will need to purchase your flights in order to arrive/depart by given dates and time ranges for your specific trip. If you choose to arrive earlier or later than given day/time you will be responsible for the cost of transportation needed to join up with the group. If you choose to stay longer you will be responsible for all costs after the day of the group departure.
Depending on your arrival time you may arrive the night before the start date of the trip. If this is the case we are not able to cover the costs of accommodation, but we are happy to help you with your planning. If you would like to stay at our last resort longer please contact us so that we can help you arrange this. Because we know these areas so well, we are also happy to help you plan your trip if you decide to stay longer or come early.
Is travel insurance mandatory for this yoga retreat? How do I purchase it?
Travel insurance for all of our international yoga retreats is mandatory. Unfortunately we cannot allow participation unless proof of travel insurance is sent to us before. Purchase your travel insurance within a week of purchasing your plane flight.
We highly recommend that you add “cancel for any reason” to your policy. Although normal trip cancellation will cover you for illness or injury, or for a travel companions illness, injury or death, it is limited to these. With “cancel for any reason” you will receive a percentage (usually 75%-100%) of all pre-paid costs. With this coverage if something comes up, a wedding, a new job opportunity, etc. or if YOGASCAPES has to cancel due to weather, staff injury or illness or other unforeseen reasons, you will be covered. *This option needs to be purchased within 15 days of your trip deposit.
We suggest this policy from Travel Guard or similar:
Travel Guard – Gold(Protect Assist) w/ Cancel for any reason http://www.travelguard.com/
For more information please contact the Insurance provider you are looking to purchase with or contact us
What food can I expect?
We will provide all meals during your trip (3 daily) except for the night that we all go into town. Please let us know as soon as you sign up for the trip or before you sign up if you have any special needs; food allergies or other allergies, or any other special needs or conditions, dietary or medical. Food is healthy and delicious and we can accommodate vegetarian, vegan and gluten free.
Where does the yoga take place and how often?
We will be practicing yoga in the yoga palapa located in the center of the hotel. We will have 1-2 practices daily. The classes will be for all levels and experience.
Do I need a passport and Visa to visit Nicaragua?
You will need a valid passport to enter Nicaragua and US citizens do not need a visitor’s visa. For any more specific questions please contact your local travel agency, embassy or consulate.
If I sign up alone, how do you organize roommates?
We’ll arrange roommates based on gender, age and interests.
How many people will be on this yoga retreat?
There are usually around 15-25 people on the trip.
How much free time do we have?
We have a balance of group time, yoga, optional activities, and down time. You can find more details under the trip itinerary. We encourage each participant to help create their own beautiful experience by taking the time they need to rest and relax during our trip.
What are the different rooming options?
Dorm – There are 5 beds in each dorm and we will most likely have 1 all female dorm and 1 coed dorm. There is a shared bathroom and the dorm is located closer to the common area so it can be a bit noisier.
Shared Room – In a shared room, if you come with a friend or a partner you will have a private room for 2. If you are coming solo you will be in a room of 2 or 3 people. The shared rooms are a bit nicer and quieter than the dorm rooms.
Premium Rooms – Most premium rooms are in the Casitas which are stand alone units in the quietest part of the village. They are the newest units and can be described as comfortable, cozy, airy and well designed. There is also a premium room with a King bed that is in the back of one of the big Casas with a private bath.
Private Rooms are for 1 persona and you can choose between a standard private or a premium private.
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Our house, right now
April 17, 2017
I had to laugh as I walked through our house yesterday afternoon...it seems that literally no matter what room I'm working on, the rest of the house goes to crap.
I am simply unable to keep up with room makeover and keep the house somewhat picked up. Lately this is because of the upstairs bathroom redo.
I've known this for years now. I thought it would be different when the room I'm working on is one of the smallest in our house and I can even close the door and totally ignore it all, but no. It hasn't made a difference at all. It's a phenomenon I can't explain. :)
Because I know it can get discouraging at times to see all the totally put together spaces on blogs and social media, I decided to show you our house as it is right now. I only cleaned up trash, because gross. Otherwise this is how these spaces look right this second. I spared you the worst messes (the basement is a total disaster right now) but this gives you a taste of our house at the moment.
I have to laugh when I see perfectly lovely nightstands because that's just not the norm in our master bedroom. I at least clear them off when I take photos:
But this is the norm. Stacks of books and magazines and random stuff. Usually there's a few water bottles on there but I did clear those off:
We bought that back massager (on the floor) at our local home show and it is AMAZING. It is perfect for my lower back. I'll have to find it online and share with you sometime.
And of course...the bed isn't made. ;) But my excuse today is that I'm washing the sheets. (I have no excuse for all the other days.)
I've made it a goal for our home that every room is used. Our living room isn't a "fancy" room -- it actually has the comfiest couch in the house:
Easter hit this weekend and it has stayed. And those eucalyptus leaves are at least three weeks old and quite crunchy:
Our stairs pretty much always have stuff on them so they rarely look like this:
I bought this storage basket for the stairs last year and it really does help. Until you ignore it for the last 50 or so trips up the stairs:
You can see the pile on the basement stairs too. This is a constant, but usually it's at least contained to the basket. 😆 And you can fit a TON of stuff in there too, so this part is going to take longer to clean up.
Our office/craft room actually stays pretty organized most days:
That is till a renovation happens in a nearby room and taxes hit at the same time:
See those little pink paper flowers on the corner of the chalkboard? And how most of them are gone now? One of our cats picks a couple off a week, bats them around, I put them back up, she does it again and then they disappear. I'm sure I'll find 20 of them under a bed one day.
The window seat in this room has become the drop zone for everything that was in our son's bathroom. This is how it usually looks:
But this is it now. For only having one cabinet in that bathroom, we sure did have a lot of stuff in there:
The giant Pikachu? He's just a bonus. My son moves him from room to room. :)
And finally, we have the only space in our house I'd consider a hallway -- and it's tiny. Because you can't see what's on the floor when you come up the stairs it's become another dropping point for the bathroom stuff. Here is the book nook hallway on a good day:
And here is is right now. You can see another pile of bathroom stuff in the guest room too:
Seriously, where did all of it go in that room before? It's funny to see how much we actually had in such a small space.
I know some of you will look at these and say these messes are nothing. But I didn't show you the basement. ;) And no, I don't think they're anything awful, but they are real life.
I don't freak out about messes. The house has been like this for a few weeks now because we've been off living life and having fun. I do get to a point when I get annoyed with it though...and that point is now.
I need to find a spot for the bathroom stuff (that little hallway will be where I put everything till the room is done), but otherwise the rest are fast clean ups. Although the stairs are intimidating me. I can tackle most of these messes quickly today. But we've let our garage get piled up lately so I've been working on that first.
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(1) Cellulose thickeners: Cellulose thickeners are of the “old” level in the thickening industry. Because of their good hydrophobicity, they can be used freely in both high shear and low shear conditions. Compared with other additives, its thickened system has improved in molding, brushable edge coverage and apparent performance, and is widely used in water-based systems, coatings, metalworking fluids, cutting fluids, grinding oils, cement, Concrete, ink, textile printing, paint. It can be used in the coating industry such as waterproof coatings, water-based coatings, printing coatings, architectural coatings, interior and exterior wall coatings, latex paints, leather edge oils, inks, etc.
(2) Inorganic thickeners: Compared with organic thickeners, inorganic thickeners use inorganic materials, such as natural clay, bentonite, attapulgite, etc., to thicken the product. For example, the bentonite inorganic thickening rheological agent series is a natural montmorillonite inorganic gel product made of high-quality bentonite as raw material and modified and refined. It has good dispersion, suspension and thickening properties. After dispersing in water, the particle size is fine and the distribution is uniform. It has good colloidal properties and strong thixotropic properties. It is a natural aluminosilicate thickening rheological agent.
(3) Polyurethane thickener: Polyurethane thickener is a commonly used thickening system on the market. It is an alkali-swellable associative thickener modified by hydrophobic groups. The viscosity shows corresponding viscosity with the size of the shear force, and can be used as a thickener or synergistic thickener for water-based coatings. When diluted with water and neutralized with alkali, the latex particles swell quickly. Under this condition, the emulsion will Becomes clear and very viscous. Due to the fast thickening speed of paint, it is often used in the thickening of water-based coatings, interior and exterior wall latex paints, water-based inks, adhesives, elastic glue, polyurethane and other systems.
(4) Polyacrylic acid thickener
Acrylic thickener is an anionic thickener, which can mainly increase the viscosity at high shear rate. It has better compactness to the coating film and can prevent the coating film from sagging and sedimentation. It is especially suitable for coatings, Thickening of emulsions, water-based adhesives, water-based paints, interior and exterior latex paints, water-based inks, adhesives, and elastic mucilage systems, with good thickening effect and good flow and leveling properties.
(5) Hydrophobically modified alkali-swellable thickener
This type of thickener has good biological stability and is resistant to biodegradation. Compared with acrylic thickener and cellulose thickener, it has better film fullness and leveling. It needs to adjust PH when using it. Disadvantages The water resistance and alkali resistance are poor. There are many varieties of thickeners, and the characteristics of different varieties of thickeners are different.
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The application of OPE wax in PVC heat shrinkable film. In the production of PVC heat shrinkable film, adding an appropriate amount of oxidized polyolefin wax to the formula can improve the processing performance and make the PVC particles easier to break and melt. The gelation speed and melting quality of the material are improved, and the melt strength is high.
Oxidized polyethylene wax(OPE Wax) is a low molecular weight polyethylene, which is characterized by a high softening point (above 100°C), which is close to high molecular weight polyethylene. The melt viscosity and hardness are close to those of stone wax. As a lubricant, its chemical properties are stable and its electrical properties are good. Polyethylene wax has good compatibility with polyolefin, polypropylene, polyvinyl cerate, propylene rubber and butyl rubber, and can improve the fluidity of polyolefin, polypropylene, ABS and polymethyl methacrylate, Release properties of polycarbonate.
Compared with PVC and other external lubricants, oxidized polyolefin wax has a stronger internal lubrication; in addition, it can also be used for ink, paper, concentrates, biological dual-decomposition materials, mulch and candles, etc. , can also be used in paints and hot melt adhesives, adhesives and so on.
PVC has good properties, but it also has disadvantages, one of which is poor thermal stability. The role of oxidized polyolefin wax is to restrain or prevent PVC from being degraded by heat during processing and prolong its service life.
Oxidized polyolefin wax should not affect the color and transparency of the product, have good compatibility with resins, plasticizers, etc., be cheap, and use a small amount.
The position of lubricant in polymer processing is also very important. In the production of pvc heat shrinkable film, an appropriate amount of lubricant should also be added to reduce harmful friction and interface adhesion. use
The matching amount of internal and external lubricants can reduce the matching cost.
The molecular chains of stearic acid and oxidized polyolefin wax have carboxyl and hydroxyl polar groups, which can significantly improve the compatibility of PVC and have a unique internal and external lubrication effect.
Plasticizer is one of the important additives in the processing of PVC heat-shrinkable materials. It can reduce the force between polymer molecules, increase the plasticity of polymers, and improve the molding performance of PVC.
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BTS fans had the opportunity to see the global phenomenon boyband while on their fifth global fan meeting tour “BTS 5TH MUSTER [MAGIC SHOP]” in Busan and Seoul, Korea. However, the organization of the event left fans frustrated.
The band’s agency, Big Hit, organized the fan meeting. Ahead of the event, the agency banned mass ticket resales and instead, implemented a lottery system. Through this new system, one ticket was allotted per person, and fans received their seats randomly after entering the lottery. During each meeting, 88,000 fans were chosen.
Big Hit explained on their website that the system was put in place to reduce ticket scalpers’ tactics, but fans ended up being hurt more.
“A considerable number of fans have recently occurred to have been affected by illegal trades like purchasing tickets in bulk by using macros and reselling them in high price,” a statement from the agency read in a FAQ on the USBTSARMY website. “To establish fair ticketing and viewing experience, Big Hit Entertainment and INTERPARK have set forth the Fanclub Raffle System for BTS Global Official Fanclub ARMY 5th Term members as a means to provide fairer participation and allow ticket purchase through random drawings.”
There were multiple problems with the agency’s strict identification control. Workers demanded certification for each guest, and those underage needed to bring documents in order to avoid possible forgery. However, this did not work well for underage fans who had received tickets from their parents. Although underage fans brought copies of their student IDs, copies were not allowed. Many missed out on the show simply because their parents bought tickets.
“I could not make it to the concert,” one fan told the Korea Times. “I was rejected because a double-coated student ID card is likely to be a forgery.”
This isn’t the first time fans have faced a problem with Big Hit; late last year during a BTS show in Ontario on the Love Yourself World Tour, many fans claimed they were harassed and discriminated against by security guards and blamed Big Hit. People shared stories of being inappropriately patted down and checked by security, while others claimed the memory cards of their cameras were confiscated. | <urn:uuid:b639a554-290c-4dcb-9bdd-637a782876aa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.ticketnews.com/2019/06/bts-fans-speak-out-against-agencys-ticket-distribution-process/ | 2024-04-22T22:58:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.97825 | 474 |
Today, James Evans, a consultant in the Tilleke & Gibbins Intellectual Property Department, spoke at the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo, a business-to-business 3D printing tradeshow in Singapore. The first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region, the event provided attendees with tutorials, conference sessions, and networking to explore business opportunities, policy considerations, and the latest 3D printers and services.
James spoke on the topic “Legal Protection of 3D Work and Its Various Stages of Production in Asia.” In addition to comparing the types of IP available to inventors of 3D works, he discussed how each type of IP affects inventors’ choices as to how they innovate. James also provided insight into the potential issues in Asia regarding registration and enforcement of 3D works, and he highlighted current and future developments in Asian IP law related to 3D printing.
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Creating a new product means focus, but also adapting heavily to the market and what your users are demanding.
A concept in the software industry which is often heavily debated is that there are, in fact, no new ideas — rather just products created off existing ideas, which are done — to put it simply — much better. A perfect example would be the social networking phenomenon. There are now so many different social networking sites that they are almost impossible to track. Thus, it begs a very valid question — what is truly different about each of these sites ? The obvious truth is — there isn’t really anything different. Most of these sites are ultimately exactly the same — they are just presented in a different format and appeal to different niche audiences. For example, Myspace is still extremely well known for its Music and Bands — an area Facebook is trying to get into — but just can’t crack. Conversely, Facebook is getting huge adoption rates simply because it has marketed itself as a “safer” site than Myspace, and tends to be predominately used by late teenagers through to late twenty-somethings.
So then you may be asking — why bother creating any new products at all if they are all just going to repeat themselves ? Well, the reasoning behind that is clear — the innovative process always comes from building a product and then changing, altering or narrowing your focus on that product to area’s which appear to be working. Thus, in my opinion, the best way to create a product is to look at what an existing product has — and what it doesn’t have. For example, there are hundreds of companies now producing many very successful applications off social networking sites because they are trying to fill the voids that the site itself has — a very clever strategy. The key is to get a core idea, and build on this idea with a bunch of features that a user will want to use — as opposed to being forced into using. Forcing a user into a product isn’t going to get you anywhere — additionally — attempting to force a user to change from one product to another by producing a bunch of similar features isn’t going to help either. If you were going to do that — just build a clone of Facebook and you should be worth a few billion in a couple of years ? Unlikely.
The key to any application is to centralize your idea around a core concept — then flesh out features from this core concept. You can’t do everything — so focus instead, on things that work and that you truly believe are going to be value adding to your core idea and to your users. Therefore, the most important aspect in any new product chain, in my opinion, is to focus on the core idea — but also accept that you may need to change it in response to what your market — and more importantly — what your users are demanding. It’s important to recognize that if things aren’t working out the way you originally intended them to work, then you need to change your strategy to maximize the value of your brand as well as change what your doing in response to market demands, user requests and what people expect to see from what you are doing.
So if you are going into the start-up world — start with a pen and a piece of paper and write down a whole bunch of features that existing sites/products have, and then correlate these features to a whole bunch of features which are missing. Somewhere during this process — you will hit on a core idea and you may even be ultimately successful with this idea without having to change. However, before you jump out of your chair and start writing — the best piece of advice I can give is that you must recognize and be willing to completely change where you have started, or where you thought you were going if an opportunity presents itself. It’s important to be flexible and dynamic with your code to ensure you can make these changes, otherwise you may trap yourself into one direction and then you may not be able to get out of it. Keep the cash burn rate low, so you have the single most important factor on your side — time.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Three members of Iran’s intelligence agency were killed during an operation targeting an organized crime group in southeastern Iran, the country’s state TV reported Wednesday.
The report did not provide further details. This is a high casualty toll for the agency, for a single operation that Iran reported.
The southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province has been the scene of occasional clashes between Iranian government forces and militants as well as armed drug smugglers. The province, near the border with Pakistan, is also where a Sunni separatist group affiliated with al-Qaeda and known as Jeish al-Adl, or Army of Justice, operates.
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is the combination of cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networks to bring rich computational resources to mobile users, network operators, as well as cloud computing providers. The @Tutorial discovers how the Cloud can be used to create X-as-a-Service.
The ultimate goal of MCC is to enable execution of rich mobile applications on a plethora of mobile devices, with a rich user experience. MCC provides business opportunities for mobile network operators as well as cloud providers.
The @Tutorial develops the Framework for a “Knowledge Cloud” for improving the existing Business or create a new Business Model.
More comprehensively, MCC can be defined as "a rich mobile computing technology that leverages unified elastic resources of varied clouds and network technologies toward unrestricted functionality, storage, and mobility to serve a multitude of mobile devices anywhere, anytime through the channel of Ethernet or Internet regardless of heterogeneous environments and platforms based on the pay-as-you-use principle.
The @Tutorial develops a concept of smart connected Products in order to differentiate in the marketplace.
This @Tutorial will provide you with the insight into the following Module:
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Evolution of mobile computing
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MADISON — A collaboration between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and vaccine companies could yield a potential COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
FluGen, Bharat Biotech, along with UW-Madison virologists, has begun the development and testing of a vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu.
Developing and testing will take at least three to six months.
CoroFlu could be in human clinical trials by the fall of 2020.
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Bharat Biotech has commercialized 16 vaccines, including a vaccine developed against the H1N1 flu that caused the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
“The partners in this endeavor, University of Wisconsin researchers, a biotech startup, and an international vaccine developer, are moving forward with a sense of urgency and integrity incumbent upon us as scientists and world citizens.” says Erik Iverson, CEO of WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) in a press release.
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The Accidental Adventurer: Memoirs of the First Woman to Climb Mount McKinley
Copyright: 2001, US
Specifications: 1st prtg, 8vo, pp.192, photo frontis, 31 bw photos, 3 maps, black cloth
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After all requests you have sent to us, you probably won’t be surprised to see this UsEssayWriters review! This company has been working since 2013, though it doesn’t have many old reviews about it. Most of them are new, so it seems like UsEssayWriters started applying more efforts to advertise itself only recently. Our first impression was positive. The website is modern-looking; it has good design and offers statistics on its performance. Specifically, during all this time, the company has served more than 20K customers; it maintains 315 field writers and writes about 250 essays every day. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have enough info about what services it provides, but this is a minor issue. Content itself looks adequate. It’s not ideal and we have a feeling it wasn’t written by a native speaker, but we didn’t find any explicit mistakes either. Follow us as we inspect and review every aspect of UsEssayWriters’ work.
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- Studying the background and making our way through online reviews is the first step. Experience and reputation are relevant.
- So is the website. We study it to make certain it looks great and has relevant information.
- Placing our order and analyzing how fast it arrives & what quality it has is the heart of our review.
- Studying prices also plays a vital role.
We make our final decision about how highly we should evaluate a writing agency only after summing up all these factors.
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People who wrote Us Essay Writers reviews rarely mentioned what kind of services they ordered. Needless to say, we were curious what this site has to offer, so we started looking for info on it. To our surprise, we learned that no such info is provided. You won’t know what’s on offer unless you start filling in an order form. This approach didn’t impress us. Still, we are ready to share what we found: UsEssayWriters covers all common academic services, which include argumentative and descriptive essays, term papers, dissertations, reviews & analysis, coursework, editing, proofreading, and other similar options. We had nothing to complain about in this regard. The company also supports popular academic styles that range from MLA, APA, to Chicago and Harvard.
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The second factor UsEssayWriters.com review focuses on is what policies this company has. Studying them is essential for learning what clients can expect and what rights they are going to have after placing an order. Policies made us pause. They are pretty standard for every essay service, but what is troubling is that there are many small nuances that you need to follow to ensure your interests are protected. For example, if your paper is late but you didn’t cancel the order, then you can forget about a normal refund. It won’t be more than 20%. This isn’t a normal practice — if a writer failed their deadline and client ended up with no paper to submit, they deserve to have all of their money back. So our impression was mixed at this stage of review. At the same time, your confidentiality is a guarantee, which is a plus, and papers won’t have any plagiarism.
But what do other UsEssayWriters.com reviews say? They are mixed, too. On SiteJabber, most of them are positive, with clients leaving raving comments with praise, but other websites show another picture. Some people are severely disappointed with services they got and report having issues with getting their money back. Because of this, we weren’t certain what to think. UsEssayWriters also hosts reviews that were allegedly written by customers, but we aren’t sure how genuine they are. Some sound more or less real, but the problem is, all are posted by people with regular first names. We know from experience that very few clients opt to introduce themselves like this: most have nicknames that cannot be traced back to them directly. It is suspicious that all reviewers who left their opinion on a platform are the exception to this rule. So what we found wasn’t very trustworthy and made us doubt what people really think about UsEssayWriters.
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When we search for the best online resume service or top essay writing, quality is what matters most to our review team and customers. When clients pay, they expect a perfect work, meaning that it’s our job to check if this or that company is capable of meeting this goal. Some reviews of UsEssayWriters praised Business assignments from this company, so that was what we ordered: a 5-page-long Business essay. We chose 10-day deadline and began to wait for results. Meanwhile, we checked samples UsEssayWriters offers — or rather, we tried to do that. It didn’t work well because as it turned out, “essay samples” section is misleading and the opposite of what a person clicking on this link will expect to see. There are no samples at all there. Instead, there are lengthy ads of custom papers and lots of urging to rely on paid kind of help. In fact, the address of the page itself has “Do Not Use Them!” words in it. We were unpleasantly surprised by this. Who does something like this? If there are no samples, then there is no need to include this page at all.
Our order was two hours late. This put our reviewers in a bad mood already because what if we were actual students who had to submit their essay ASAP or risk failure? UsEssayWriters would have let us down. When it finally arrived, we were shocked by its quality. It was virtually non-existent since the writer didn’t follow our requirements at all. We asked for 1500 words and only 1378 were written. Academic papers have to have strong thesis and this essay has none. Paragraphs were endless, rambling, and jumped between different points. We ordered university level, but considering the number of language mistakes and the shallowness of analysis, this paper wasn’t suitable even for high school. We asked for revision, but at the end of it, the paper remained terrible. Our review team was extremely disappointed.
Factor 4: Writers & Operators
Like we already mentioned in our review of Us Essay Writers, some policies of this company are weird, and the one about writers falls into this category. If your writer wrote a terrible paper, you cannot ask someone else to revise it without paying extra unless this writer refuses to do a revision. Our so-called expert was friendly and nice, but they just weren’t professional. Their work didn’t meet any quality criteria. Operators were nice, too, but they weren’t helpful. We tried three of them and none resolved our situation, so our opinion was more negative than positive.
Factor 5: Prices for Essays at UsEssayWriters.com
Minimum price for one page at UsEssayWriters is $17.55. This is a lot and much higher than what average market numbers dictate. Students could find much cheaper papers elsewhere. There is also term paper editing service present, although we cannot confirm its quality. Price is $11.70, and once again, it is too much. We weren’t happy.
Factor 6: More Things to Consider
There isn’t much to mention here. UsEssayWriters has no tools, samples, or other features we haven’t discussed.
Summarizing Our Findings
Let’s sum up what we’ve found. Like any other services, UsEssayWriters has its pros and cons. Here they are:
- Nice design. The company has good visual design and intuitive interface.
- Friendly employees. Writers and operators are friendly.
- Confidentiality & originality guaranteed. Customer data is protected, and papers have no plagiarism.
- Bad quality. Essay quality is very low and late arrival is possible, so we side with negative reviews of Us Essay Writers here.
- High prices. They are much higher than normal.
- Ineffective revisions. No guarantee revision will be good since the same writer is going to work on it.
- Odd policies. Some of them aren’t logical or customer-friendly.
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Our team was disappointed with UsEssayWriters’ services. Our paper was late; it had many mistakes and didn’t meet our demands. We paid a lot of money for it and got ineffective revision. This and other factors make us give UsEssayWriters 2 points out of 10. We’ll keep updating our reviews, so watch out for it, but for now, we cannot recommend this writing agency. | <urn:uuid:aa43c2ac-7700-4d4a-8c8f-4d0a8fc18939> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/usessaywriters/ | 2024-04-22T23:17:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.970352 | 2,029 |
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If you have been interested in playing the Hong Kong lottery, you may be interested in a few things to consider before you sign up. The first thing you should know is that this game offers low-stakes prizes, but it can also be a big moneymaker if you win. This is one of the most popular games in the world, and it is available for free, too. The best part is that you don’t need a bank account to play the Hong Kong lottery.
The lottery was introduced in Hong Kong in 1993, and since then, its proceeds have gone toward improving the education system. As part of the lottery’s mission, 50% of the money raised goes to reducing class sizes, especially for young children. A further 40% goes towards making public schools safer and repairing them to improve the quality of education for children. If you’d like to become one of Hong Kong’s lucky winners, it’s worth taking a chance and checking out the official website of Lottery Hongkong.
One of the most popular Hong Kong lotteries is the Mark Six. This lottery utilizes a 6/49 matrix. Players choose six numbers out of 49, with the first six winning the 1st division prize. If all six numbers are correctly selected, the winner will win the jackpot. The Mark Six lottery also features a seventh number, called an Extra Number, that is randomly selected. Players can play the Mark 6 lottery online, and one entry costs HK$10. | <urn:uuid:f2ec1d17-68f3-401b-a6ce-ea1af483fb66> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.trackatiger.com/lottery-hongkong-what-you-need-to-know/ | 2024-04-22T22:23:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.957539 | 308 |
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Many Traders don’t make it!
Figures show that 90% of traders who ever trade lose their account and that 10% actually go bankrupt. Those are scary numbers, I'm sure you'd agree.
Traders are not stupid people; most traders have an above average IQ and are above average in most categories such as education and income. I think they don't make a success out of trading because they lack proper education and mentoring.
By education I mean that they have to learn a lot more than "The trend is your friend;" how to trade with Stochastics; or how to draw trend lines. They need a complete education in every aspect of the trading business. This includes education as to the right mindset for trading. Let's face it! Trading is mostly psychological, not technical. A trader needs to know how to correctly approach the markets, which includes business, money, risk, trade, and personal management.
Most traders have no idea of what reality is when it comes to trading. They think they can pick a single market and a single time frame and find good trades there every day. They think they can regularly trade with a high degree of accuracy. They think they can turn a small account into a large one in a very short time. They want to "make a living" trading, and have never figured out how much that is.
They think it's possible to predict turning points. They believe in the validity of support and resistance. They think they can buy a system that will magically make them money. They think they can quit their job and make a living after only a few months of trading. They believe the hype and propaganda put forth by the industry. They never stop to think that if making money was easy, everyone would be doing it.
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Chief Butte Road is a hard-packed dirt trail that is accessible from AZ State Route 79. On a map, it appears the trail continues to Park Link Drive on the north end. However, the trail stops short due to posted private property making this an out-and-back. There is the option of connecting to Park Link Camping Row, which takes you further west.
There are a few secluded camping spots on this trail with a nice area for a campfire. The area in the camping photo can accommodate multiple vehicles and has soft level ground perfect for tent camping.
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- Famous for: Culture, Art, Activities
- Entrance Fee: Subject to reason of visit
- Visiting Time: 10 AM to 8 PM (Daily)
- Visit Duration: 2 hours to 3 hours
The India Habitat Center was developed by the authorities as a convention center where different kinds of ideas and activities merge. Initiated in 1993, this center changed the outlook of a traditional office into a modernistic environment, which has got various departments and certain spaces which are open to the public. Widely utilized by the general public for gatherings, luncheons, presentations, art exhibitions and music festivals, the center is synonymous with a vibrant culture of interconnected framework. The unconventional center has become the hub for people to gather and work out solutions to design a better functioning economy. With a wide range of cultural activities being carried out side by side, this location is the spot where our country is taking a step ahead.
- Book in advance if you need to conduct seminars, meetings or parties in the premises.
- If booked in groups, the cost will come down and is more economical.
Things to Do
- Enjoy an evening out at the cultural hub which has a lot of activities like talk shows, music and theatre.
- Marvel at the architecture of the building design which is quite functional and an eye pleaser.
- Plan some parties and dinners at the venue where good ambience and food is available.
- Stay over at the rooms provided in the hotels and check out the facilities in the complex.
- The amphitheater is another must visit where various genres of music and theatre are performed by artists from all over the world.
- The art gallery is world renowned for the widely different collection of paintings that it houses.
- The Habitat Library is a storehouse of knowledge and can be used as reference for a wide genre of books and information.
- The Lotus Pond is a tiny area which has got fishes in it and spreads an aura of serenity.
Availability of Guides
Since this is a multi-purpose environment where a lot of events are conducted, there is no need of guidance around the area. The staff are quite friendly and will help you when needed.
Best Time to Visit
The center has got activities throughout the year. Visiting it during any time of the year is possible as each month has got a separate list of cultural activities planned in advance. Visit the website to get to know the events in each month so as to attend events of your domain of interest.
How to Reach
Since it a cultural hub, it is present right in the heart of the city at Lodhi road. It is easily accessible by the metro with the nearest stopping being the Jor Bagh via the Yellow Line and the Khan Market through the Violet Line. Buses through this route always stop at this spot. In addition, cabs and auto rickshaws are available in plenty to ply you from anywhere in the city to this location.
Interesting Facts and Trivia about the India Habitat Center
- The idea behind this center was initiated by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation of the country.
- Once in two years from 2011, the Delhi Photo Festival was conducted in the center, after which the program shifted its venue in 2015.
- The premises and the designing of the structure was done by the famed American architect, Joseph Allen Stein.
- The architect has got a road named Joseph Stein Lane and a location nicknamed Steinabad for his contribution to the architectural sphere in the city.
- The core concern is over the habitat of the region with the first Habitat Summit being organized in 2009.
- The Visual Arts Gallery was opened to the public in 2000 to showcase artwork of both famed and amateur artists, along with seminars and workshops being conducted on related topics.
- Indian Accent
- Lawn Bistro
- Hauz Khas Social
- India Gate
- Qutub Minar
- Dillli Haat
- Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
- Hauz Khas Village
Developed while keeping the needs of the vibrant and dynamic society of the present in mind, this center has proved to be the point for ideas to emerge and contribute to the working of the challenging lifestyle. Visiting India Habitat Centre is perfect to unwind and relax while at the same time, it also provides us a larger perspective into a creative working environment. | <urn:uuid:e64bdfda-0653-4c1d-a7e2-9cfcabf5020d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.transindiatravels.com/delhi/india-habitat-centre/ | 2024-04-22T23:21:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.959769 | 903 |
Kiphire is a small, yet a very beautiful hill town of Nagaland. Located amidst the Saramati Mountains, the town has some breath taking scenes of nature to offer. It is also a perfect location for the adventure enthusiasts as the place has provisions for rafting, trekking and canoeing. The highest peak of Nagaland, the Saramathi Mountains, lies in this town, offering a perfect place for the trekkers. A number of small villages are a part of this picturesque town. These villages make the town even more popular as they have quite a few waterfalls and caves that attract a large number of tourists. Given below are some of the best places of Kiphire.
1. Fakhim Wildlife Sanctuary
This huge wildlife sanctuary covers an area of around 642 hectares. Fakhim Wildlife Sanctuary is home to many animals such as lions, wild buffaloes, leopards, mithun, tigers and hoolock gibbons. The geographical location of this sanctuary allows it to receive heavy rainfalls, as a result of which you can witness great vegetation. Sasi, Khasi Pine, Bogipoma, Gamari, Hollock, Bonsum, Amari, Uriam, Oaks, Alder, Nahor, and Kachna are some of the trees that can be found here. This sanctuary is an ideal place for the wildlife lovers as well as the nature lovers.
2. Saramati Peak
As mentioned earlier, the Saramati Peak is the highest peak of Nagaland going up to the height of 3826 m above sea level. This peak is covered with snow during the winters and offers amazing views throughout the year. Dense forests cover the mountain range. It has a diverse range of flora and fauna which includes a few rare species as well. Beautiful scenes can be seen from any given height of the peak. Apart from the dense forests, the mountain also has a number of orchids. People interested in trekking can undertake this three-day long trek during which they would pass a number of scenic villages as well.
3. Caves of Salomi
Located in the Salomi village, this cave is a nature’s wonder. It is said that these caves are not man-made and have come to existence with the blessings of mother nature. This cave is an excellent example of the architectural excellence of nature. It has a number of entry and exit points. The River Likimro also connects with the cave at one end. The surprises do not end here. A perfectly designed drainage system seems to be a part of the cave. A four feet hole is there in the cave’s floor where the villagers dump their waste. This waste comes out in the river after five to six days.
4. Caves of Mimi
The caves of Mimi lie in the Mimi village. One can reach there by walking for about an hour. These caves lie at an altitude of 300 – 400 feet. There are four caves here and they are shelters to the wild animals and bats. These caves have too many bats and people often get terrified seeing such a large number of bats at once. The caves look beautiful in spite of everything. They are a must visit in Kiphire.
Located at a distance of 5 km from Mimi, Sukhayap is also known as the Lover’s Paradise. It is a steep cliff that can be climbed with the help of a ladder. One can see the beauty of the lowlands from up there. The view is nothing less than a treat to one’s eyes.
The best time to visit Kiphire is between the months of October and March. If you love adventure or nature, you might not want to miss out on this stunning place. Kiphire might leave an imprint on your mind that would last a lifetime.
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If the hacks squatting out these turds aren't going to put any effort into making them, I'm sure as hell not going to put any effort into criticizing them.
I think he didn't actually see it. He didn't post anything we didn't already know if we clicked on the Spoiler Tags. So something's going on. Luckily, I think it'll work itself out.
Seems to be a common thread with a lot of these sudden new accounts that have joined the fray as of late. I'm all set for the show to the inevitable flame-out - and I won't need to get to my nearest IMAX.
I believe you since it matches up with all the imax spoilers (from multiple other posters) that I've been reading on reddit. Oh well. I'll watch it in a bit any way but at least I'm warned going in and I'm not surprised since these are the same screenwriters that rehashed the Borg, of course they'll rehash everything else.
If I were a betting man(which I am) I would lump any money I had on this final episode being a disaster. Nostalgia only goes so far. It's been really poor. The writing has been horrendous.
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Stabilizing years (1970-79)
Mar 21, 2019 | General
Finances were always paramount as the school was primarily tuition-driven. Expenses were rising as more lay teachers were hired to meet the growing enrollment and no priests were being assigned by the Archdiocese to teach. It was obvious something needed to be done.
Two other issues in the early to mid-1970s also impacted Trinity financially – the closing of Flaget High School and court-ordered busing for the Jefferson Country Public School System.
Flaget High School, located near Shawnee Park in West Louisville, was faced with a declining student body in the 1960s due to many leaving that area of the city for new homes in the East End, particularly the Hikes Point area. During the 1973-74 school year, the Archdiocese decided that Flaget would not reopen the following year. Each Catholic high school sent representatives to Flaget in the spring of 1974 to talk with students and their parents about continuing their Catholic education in their school. Trinity turned out to be a big winner as 44 former Flaget students enrolled in 1974, mainly due to the fact that there was a direct bus line that dropped students from the West End to Trinity’s front door on Shelbyville Road. Also, Trinity hired four Flaget teachers for the 1974-75 school year. Two of those were Xavieran Brothers – Brother Robert Arrowsmith and Brother Charles Cully – and two were lay teachers Mike Hamilton H’96 and Jim Frame, each of whom would have an impact on Trinity. Many of the incoming Flaget students were African-Americans, which added much needed diversity to the student body.
Hamilton noted that “it was an exciting time because the young students in the East End didn’t realize how people lived elsewhere. I look back and think, well, maybe we helped break down some stereotypes.”
Court-ordered busing began in 1975 after the old City and County School Systems merged. Students whose last names began with the letters A, B, F and Q were to be bused to Central High School. Many public school parents began calling Trinity asking for a place since their son was on the list to be bused. Fr. Duerr sent out notices that Trinity would not accept students who were to be bused, but public outcry from parents who wanted out of the system forced the Archdiocese to set guidelines for admission. As a result, many Catholic elementary and high schools were finding applications coming from public school families, and thus strict enforcement of Archdiocesan guidelines was established. Within a few years, Trinity and other Catholic schools had a waiting list for admission.
Even though the school population became very stable in the 1970s, the faculty started to change in a very dramatic way.
A difficult reality that Fr. Duerr faced was the increasingly high number of religious faculty leaving the priesthood. Two who really affected him personally were Tom Allen and Paul Davin. Allen had been his protégée in biology and Davin had been a long-time leader of The Echo and The Shamrock, the student yearbook. Both were very popular with students. Others who left during those last days of the Vietnam War era were Bill Gorman, Richard and John Grenough, and Tony Heitzman. To replace them, Trinity had to hire additional lay teachers. | <urn:uuid:a6f8d072-431d-4b82-afbc-1567a6898aa2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.trinityrocks.com/o/ths/page/stabilizing-years-1970-79 | 2024-04-22T21:41:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.991086 | 687 |
Anna wanted to do something fun for herself so she organised a Blue Mountain Harley ride. It is a great place to explore. Our Harley rider Syl picked Anna up from a prearranged spot in Katoomba.
Firstly, they rode to Lincoln Rock, it is an incredible lookout. As well as the all-encompassing views of Jamison Valley, which change colour throughout the day as the sun and clouds move overhead, the drawcard of Lincoln’s Rock is the impressive optical-illusion photo you can get as a memento, which makes it appear as though you’re sitting literally on the edge of a cliff. In truth you are, except that there’s a fairly safe ledge just below that would stop you from falling very far.
Next it was through Leura. Leura is arguably the prettiest village in the Blue Mountains. The gardens of Leura are famous for their magnificent displays of flowers.
The Three Sisters
Following the road from Leura, you end up at the Three Sisters, Katoomba. The Three Sisters is essentially an unusual rock formation representing three sisters who according to Aboriginal legend, were turned to stone. Each of the Three Sisters stand at 922, 918 & 906 metres tall, respectively. That’s over 3000 feet above sea level! So far, the Blue Mountain Harley ride is very interesting and a lot of fun.
Visit Govetts Leap you’ll know why it’s one of the most famous lookouts in Australia. The magnificent waterfall drops a whopping 180m to the base of the cliff, and if you’re not mesmerised by the dancing waves of water spray you’ll be transfixed by the sweeping views down the valley to the Grose Wilderness.
The westernmost village in the Blue Mountains, Mount Victoria is brimming with historic charm and natural attractions. Originally a stockade for convict chain-gangs, and later an important staging post for Cobb & Co coaches, the town became known as Mount Victoria in the 1860s when the railway came to town.
However, the 2 hour tour was almost over. So, Syl rode Anna back to her car. In conclusion, the Blue Mountain Harley ride was a lot of fun, a success, something Anna is so glad she did.
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San Diego, California – Today, American Trucking Associations’ Board of Directors elected Dan Van Alstine, president and COO of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, Des Moines, Iowa, as the Federation’s 78th chairman.
“I am humbled and truly honored to be here and to serve as your chairman of this great organization,” Van Alstine said. “It is an absolute privilege to represent the millions of Americans who move our country as part of the transportation and logistics industry.”
Van Alstine succeeds Harold Sumerford Jr., CEO of J&M Tank Lines, Birmingham, Alabama, as ATA chairman.
“Dan is perfectly suited to be ATA’s next chairman. He listens, asks questions and then takes action – that’s leadership,” said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. “His ability to get the best out of people by challenging and inspiring them is why he makes a difference and we are fortunate to have him as our chairman.”
“I want to wish my friend and colleague Dan good luck as he starts this journey, which promises to be a truly special one,” said Sumerford. “I also want to thank my fellow ATA members and the ATA staff for their support this past year, I could not have asked for a better year as chairman.”
The Board also elected Andrew Boyle, co-president of Boyle Transportation, Billerica, Massachusetts, as ATA first vice chairman and, Darren Hawkins, CEO of Yellow, Overland Park, Kansas, as ATA second vice chairman. In addition, the Board named Dennis Dellinger, president and CEO of Cargo Transporters, Hickory, North Carolina, and Wes Davis, CFO of Big M Transportation, Blue Mountain, Mississippi, as ATA vice chairmen. In addition, the Board re-elected John M. Smith, chairman of CRST International Holdings LLC, as secretary and John A. Smith, president and CEO of FedEx Ground, as treasurer. | <urn:uuid:34c4f7c5-b570-466e-a71a-e67245492673> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/ruans-van-alstine-elected-78th-chairman-american-trucking-associations | 2024-04-22T21:21:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.966469 | 428 |
There was good news in Canada this week. A court ruled that a woman with dementia’s acceptance of spoon feeding in a nursing home indicates a current desire for nourishment that overrides her advance directive’s statement that such feeding not be provided. This is a victory for the right to change one’s mind, even if disabled.
Compassion and Choices, the leading national advocacy group promoting assisted suicide in the US, instructs the readers of its “Good to Go” rather obsessive death planning guide, “Also keep in mind that you will be fed as long you have the ability to chew and swallow, even if you have lost all cognitive abilities. If such a situation is a concern, you might want to refuse spoon feeding in your advance directive.” The Canadian assisted suicide promotion group “Dying with Dignity” is crying bloody murder about this decision. And now an American Civil Liberties twitter post credits Compassion and Choices in Connecticut for a YouTube Video entitled, “Forced Feeding,?“ that asks, “Must we all be forced to die with forced hand feeding in advanced dementia?” (https://twitter.com/acluct/status/573118932376281089). So spoon feeding an apparently hungry woman is now called force feeding. True Dignity is thankful the Canadian court did not agree.
To Second Thoughts CT, a group of people with disabilities fighting assisted suicide in that state, this is further proof that assisted suicide for competent people thought to be terminally ill is only the tip of the death for anyone who needs care iceberg. Margot Bentley may have had such an abhorrence for the condition of the people with dementia for whom she cared as a nurse that she thought she would not want to live that way; just as the adherents of the Compassion and Choices agenda have such an abhorrence about living with disability, including dementia, that they believe it would be better to be dead . Now that disability has overcome Bentley, she is simply hungry and wants to eat. The court ruled that her eating now, not refusing to open her mouth, not refusing to swallow, not spitting out the food, constitutes consent to being fed. This dismays Compassion and Choices. It wants her current choice disregarded. We’re sure it believes it is being compassionate, but we respectfully suggest that it would be more honest for it to take “Choices” out of its name and propaganda.
Here is the statement Second Thoughts CT issued today. True Dignity thanks it for telling the truth so clearly and forcefully. | <urn:uuid:fd7c443f-69fc-499e-93a1-9d776da96648> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.truedignity.org/to-be-honest-compassion-and-choices-should-remove-choices-from-its-name/ | 2024-04-22T23:11:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.965804 | 537 |
My Consensus, Right or Wrong
With the revival of The Baffler, former WSJ columnist and current Harper’s Magazine contributor Thomas Frank reveals that success in Washington and big business has everything to do with belonging to the right pack, especially if that pack was dead wrong about the economy. –ARK
Your support matters…Thomas Frank in The Baffler:
A résumé filled with grievous errors in the period 1996–2006 is not only a non-problem for further advances in the world of consensus; it is something of a prerequisite. Our intellectual powers that be not only forgive the mistakes; they require them. You must have been wrong back then in order to have a chance to be taken seriously today; only by having gotten things wrong can you demonstrate that you are trustworthy, a member of the team. (Those who got things right all along, on the other hand, might be dubbed “premature market skeptics”—people who doubted the consensus before the consensus acknowledged it was all right to doubt.)
Christopher Hitchens became the toast of Washington only after he had gone safely wrong on the Iraq War. Or consider the curious saga of New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera, who was elevated to the most exalted post in American journalism in 2011, and who has, since then, done outstanding work exposing financial frauds and assessing the value of the old Glass-Steagall rules regulating banks. But there’s a peculiar twist to this story. Before Nocera became an admirer of bank regulation, he played the opposite role: he was the journalist who told, in the 1994 book A Piece of the Action, the awesome and heroic tale of how the bankers blew Glass-Steagall apart.
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- The world-renowned Safari Rally will kick off today in Naivasha after President William Ruto flagged it off
- An alleged WhatsApp chat between a woman and her boyfriend leaked, showing their disagreement over the rally
- The woman wanted to go with her friend Caro and her husband, but her boyfriend told her off angrily
Many Kenyans are flocking to Naivasha for the 70th edition of Safari Rally Kenya, which officially kicks off today in Naivasha.
Man unimpressed by girlfriend asking to go for Safari Rally
The circuit of the World Rally Championship (WRC) will run from Thursday, June 22, to Sunday, June 25.
President William Ruto officially waved off the rally during the shakedown on Wednesday, June 21. He then hopped into the co-driver's seat of Pierre-Louis Loubet’s Ford Puma Hybrid for a high-speed run.
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WRC reports that an exhilarated Ruto recounted the experience, terming it life-changing.
“That thing is crazy. Absolute madness - but it is an experience you cannot forget.
With the sheer speed, you can hardly see the road and bends. These guys are professional.”
Amid all the Safari Rally excitement, an alleged WhatsApp chat between a woman and her boyfriend has surfaced online.
The woman asked her man for permission to attend the rally, but he was unimpressed.
"Hi, I am asking permission to go to the rally because you seemingly cannot. Can I go? Please. I will go Saturday and return Sunday with Caro and her husband," she wrote.
The boyfriend responded by saying he knew she would ask.
“Bye-bye,” he retorted.
The woman then said she was asking in good faith, but her boyfriend responded by saying:
"Why can’t you get married to Caro's husband? You seem to love their company a lot."
The woman then told him not to address her rudely, but the angry man persisted.
"You go with them everywhere. Just get married already," he added.
"You didn’t have to talk to me like that," she responded.
Kenyans divided over Safari Rally chat
Kenyans reacted by saying:
“If my girlfriend went, she would find I married.”
“I would have gone and forgotten about that guy.”
“Go have fun, sis. Life is short.”
Lynuz Chevo De Comedian:
“I can’t allow my woman to go.”
Photos of Ruto flagging off Safari Rally
In other news, TUKO.co.ke compiled images of the president flagging off the rally.
The iconic Rift Valley landscape served as a breathtaking backdrop, adding to the sense of anticipation and adventure.
Ruto, known for his enthusiasm for sports and his support for motorsport development in Kenya, was visibly thrilled to be a part of this historic occasion.
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Every year, DEI hosts a series of annual events that we like to call our Signature Programs. Read below about the events, and mark your calendars for this year. We invite you to join us!
A cultural extravaganza with the purpose of celebrating the beauty in diverse cultures, CultureFest is a fun, engaging atmosphere of music, dance, food and entertainment. Hosted in the Spring, at the center of our beautiful campus, students, faculty and the community are invited to step out of their comfort zones to experience a small taste of the world around them. Through a variety of guest performances, such as Step Afrika, flamenco dancers, a Chinese dance group and the African Drum Ensemble, you will learn more about the stories and experiences of other cultural groups. Earn prizes and freebies by participating in fun activities sponsored by local businesses or student organizations. This an exciting event you will not want to miss!
The University of North Alabama supports many community organizations. We celebrate MLK Jr. Day by supporting events, programs, etc. held by others in our comunity, including the MLK Jr. Scholarship Committee (and many others).
Including events like: The Black History Month Speaker Series. The Black History Speaker Series host a guest speaker to help others understand the black experience through various lenses. Sponsored by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI), Division of Enrollment Management and the English Department, the series is held annually since Spring of 2019. The first of the series featured Nabila Lovelace, a first-generation Queens native and poet. Lovelace is the author of Sons of Achilles, her debut collection of poems. The second of the series featured Kiese Laymon, renown writer, author and speaker from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon shared raw insight behind his personal narrative, Heavy. After each series, our guest and audience engage in an open panel or discussion. Through the power of storytelling the Black History Speaker series has created platform to bridge the gap between different experiences and build understanding. Free of charge and open to the public, DDEI hopes that the lecture series will continue to amplify the voices and experiences of Black individuals.
Diversity Education Week (D.E.W) is a collaborative educational week across campus. Held annually in April, D.E.W. promotes awareness of our world’s diverse cultures and fosters intercultural understanding. D.E.W. features diversity and inclusion trainings, workshops, “lunch and learns”, discussion panel, and more. Students enjoy free food, win prizes, and engage in fun activities. D.E.W is an initiative of the DDEI, with various UNA departments who co-sponsor the events.
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Venezuelan-born pianist and School of Music alumnus Carlos César Rodríguez returned to his alma mater in September 2019 as an alumni guest artist, performing Isaac Albéniz's sweeping "Iberia" in its entirety.
After the performance, Rodríguez connected with his friend, musician and educator Andrew Smith. Together, they brought about the idea for a lecture-demonstration series focused on the great materworks for piano. Their conversation, recorded at Ovation Sound in Winston-Salem, explores the masterpiece that is "Iberia."
Acclaimed by the Washington Post as a "virtuoso ... as compelling to watch as he is to hear," Carlos César Rodríguez is a musician of great brilliance and versatility. He has gained recognition as a virtuoso pianist who not only generates excitement in the Hispanic and Spanish repertoire but also displays an extraordinary flair for Mozart, the Romantics and the Avant-garde scores. He has recorded for Omicron and Brioso labels and has won the highest critical acclaim for his CD of Spanish music, "Espana en el coraz6n," distributed by Brioso Recordings. At home on early instruments as well, he has enjoyed entree to the Smithsonian Institution's rare collection and was chosen by the Smithsonian to perform during the 300th year celebration of the piano by the museum. He was also invited to participate in the 150th anniversary celebration of the Smithsonian Institution.Rodríguez has won acclaim as music director of Mozart operas and Zarzuelas (Spanish operettas), and as a composer, arranger and improviser of ballets, Spanish dance scores and Latin-Jazz/Pop compositions.
As concert-pianist, Rodríguez made his recital debut in his native Venezuela at age five and made his orchestral debut as soloist at age 11. Soon after he arrived in the United States to continue his music studies, Rodríguez was a finalist in the New York Philharmonic Young People's Competition. At age 21 he made his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut. As concert-artist he has toured Europe and performed concerti and solo recitals throughout the Americas. Venues in which he has performed include the John F. Kennedy Center; the White House, the Corcoran Gallery and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Americas Society and the 92nd Street Y in New York; and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
As chamber music artist, Rodríguez has been guest artist with the Garth Newell Chamber Music Festival and is a frequent guest artist of the National Chamber Ensemble. As collaborative artist, he has worked with Denyce Graves, Jessye Norman and Placido Domingo.
As conductor, Rodríguez has performed throughout the Americas. In 2005 he was chosen as award recipient of the prestigious Georg Solti Foundation U.S. fellowship for outstanding young conductors. With the encouragement and collaboration of Maestro Placido Domingo, Rodríguez became founder and coordinator of the Zarzuela Program (Spanish operetta) for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program with Washington National Opera in 2002. In addition, he continues to be sought after as music director/conductor of Zarzuela productions and of Spanish operas in the United States and the Americas.
Rodríguez earned his Bachelor of Music with Clifton Matthews (Rodríguez' mentor) from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, his Master of Music from The Juilliard School with Joseph Kalichstein and his Doctor of Musical Arts , conferred summa cum laude, with Thomas Schumacher at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Recently Rodríguez became the founding artistic director of ROMEZ3arts, an organization that builds community and intercultural awareness through music. Its goal is to engage, enrich and empower others through intercultural exchanges, most recently, in Cuba and Costa Rica. He continues to be music director for WORD Dance Theatre and will appear with them at the Kennedy Center's REACH in March for the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. Recently he toured as pianist in Poland and Italy, performing the music of Chopin, with The Isadora Duncan International Institute. He continues to teach at the Selma M. Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.
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Cúchulainn (whose name is also sometimes spelled Cú Chulainn, Cú Chulaind, Cúchulain, or Cuchullain) lived some time in the centuries either side of 200BC, if he lived at all. He was a legendary Irish hero whose name lives on in that of the Cuillin mountain range on the Isle of Skye. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Cúchulainn appears in the medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulster Cycle. He also appears in Scottish and Manx folklore. His father was a god, Lugh, and his mother was Deichtine, the sister (or in some versions the daughter) of Conchobar mac Nessa, the King of Ulster. The child that appears from their union is called Setanta, and is fostered by several Irish nobles. As a boy, Setanta showed considerable early prowess at sports. One day, Sétanta visited the house of Culann the smith. Although he was expected, Culann's huge guard dog was loose and attacked Setanta, who killed it with a hurling stick. Setanta promised to rear a replacement and, in the meantime, guard Culann's house himself. As a result he was given the name Cú Chulainn or "Culann's Hound".
At the age of seven, Cúchulainn began to train as a warrior. Later he fell in love with Emer, daughter of Forgall Monach. Her father secretly opposed the marriage, but said that it could take place once Cúchulainn had completed his training as a warrior at Dún Scáith on the Isle of Skye, where the mythical warrior queen Scáthach ran her "school for heroes". Cúchulainn and his friend Ferdiad duly travelled to Skye and gained access to Dún Scáith, where Scáthach turned them into fully fledged warriors. She also gave Cúchulainn his deadly barbed spear, the Gáe Bulg.
This was an age in which different moral values apparently applied. As part of his training Cúchulainn helped Scáthach overcome a neighbouring female chieftain, Aífe or Aoife (who, by some accounts was also Scáthach's sister), and forced her to make peace. It is said that in the process he fathered a son by Aífe. Cúchulainn also ended up sleeping with Scáthach's daughter Uathach, whose husband Cochar Croibhe he then killed in a duel. On completion of his training, Cúchulainn is said to have also slept with Scáthach.
After completing his training, Cúchulainn returned to Ireland, only to find that Forgall was still refusing to let him marry Emer. Cúchulainn responded by capturing Forgall's fortress and his treasure, killing twenty-four of the defenders including Forgall himself, and abducting Emer, who he subsequently married. Some years later, Connla, Cúchulainn's son by Aífe, came to Ireland to find his father. Cúchulainn mistook him for an intruder and killed him. When he found out the truth Cúchulainn was grief-stricken.
Cúchulainn most heroic exploit came with the Táin Bó Cúailnge, or the "The Cattle Raid of Cooley". This is the slightly odd name for an episode in the myths in which Cúchulainn single handedly defended Ulster from the army of the Queen Méabh, the Queen of Connacht by taking on the attackers, one by one, in single combat, until the army of Ulster recovered from a curse that had been placed on them and came to his assistance.
After many more exploits recounted by the Ulster Cycles, most involving Cúchulainn's prowess as a warrior in the face of overwhelming odds and, often, the supernatural powers of his enemies, he was eventually killed by trickery. He is later said to have reappeared as a ghost when Saint Patrick was trying to convert King Lóegaire mac Néill, the High King of Ireland, to Christianity, and warned the King of the perils of Hell. From a Scottish perspective, his name lives on in that of the Cuillin mountain range on the Isle of Skye. | <urn:uuid:9f4017dc-cd9b-436a-aa83-952919ac8856> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/cuchulainn.html | 2024-04-22T23:47:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.981471 | 949 |
Inverse spectral geometry is the study of the relationship between the geometry of a Riemannian manifold and the spectrum of its associated Laplace operator. Motivated in part by considerations from quantum mechanics, it is a long-standing folk-conjecture that the spectrum of a manifold determines its length spectrum (i.e., the set consisting of the lengths of the closed geodesics). Using the trace formula of Duistermaat and Guillemin one can see that this conjecture is true for sufficiently ``bumpy'' Riemannian manifolds. However, our understanding of the conjecture in the homogeneous setting---where closed geodesics occur in large families---is rather incomplete. In this talk, we will demonstrate that the conjecture is true for compact simple Lie groups equipped with a bi-invariant metric and, more generally, compact irreducible symmetric spaces of splitting rank by showing that the so-called Poisson relation is an equality in this setting.
When? | 03.12.2013 17:15 |
Where? | PER 08 Phys 2.52 Chemin du Musée 3 1700 Fribourg |
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Accept the difficulty of building yourself and the value of start correcting you. The triumph of the true man emerges from the ashes of his mistake. Pablo Neruda the regrettable event that the miners in Chile, have faced has been world news, where those who have followed this fact, even beyond the Chilean border, worried about his life, his situation which has given way to many notes written thereon, reporting their status, achievements, knowing that you are alive, waiting for their rescue, thanks to their union, decisions, integration of teamwork and leadership that have helped him handle the situation on their difficult, transcendental moments. In an interesting writing about this experience and what you can learn from this, gives us the Universia-Knowledge newsletter in wharton.universia.net, that the legacy in relation to notes of interesting leadership and integration can be perceived. IWP contributes greatly to this topic. Thus remembers when reported to the external from the interior of the Earth: we were fine, in the shelter, the 33?. These words written on a small piece of paper sparked euphoria in Chile and returned hope to the families of the 33 miners trapped for 17 days in the copper mine San Jose, in the heart of the Atacama desert. Through the images that have been sent to foreign rescue team, miners, trapped 700 meters of depth in a small emergency shelter, have been shown to have some skills of exceptional organization and leadership that have ensured their survival and will be crucial to coordinate its own rescue is added, which on the outside of the mineto know the good news that the miners were alive, a team led by engineer Andres Sougarret – with the help of experts in psychology, sociology, engineering, nutrition and the same NASA, since isolation situation resembles the of the astronauts–labored to find the best alternative to get to the gallery just 30 square meters. . | <urn:uuid:bfe1704c-c10b-408c-b184-d4f3e5c6bd3a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.universalartgallery.com/andres-sougarret/ | 2024-04-22T22:51:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.968914 | 381 |
In the 1970s, astronomers discovered that the persistent radio source at the center of our galaxy was a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Today, this gravitational behemoth is known as Sagittarius A* and has a mass roughly 4 million times that of the Sun. Since then, surveys have shown that SMBHs reside at the center of most massive galaxies and play a vital role in star formation and galactic evolution. In addition, the way these black holes consume gas and dust causes their respective galaxies to emit a tremendous amount of radiation from their Galactic Centers.
These are what astronomers refer to as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), or quasars, which can become so bright that they temporarily outshine all the stars in their disks. In fact, AGNs are the most powerful compact steady sources of energy in the Universe, which is why astronomers are always trying to get a closer look at them. For instance, a new study led by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) indicates that scientists have substantially underestimated the amount of energy emitted by AGN by not recognizing the extent to which their light is dimmed by dust.
Sometimes it takes a second look — or even more — at an astronomical object to understand what’s going on. This is what happened after astronomers obtained this image of NGC 5548 using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. While crunching the data, they saw some gas moving around the galaxy in a way that they did not understand.
From the supermassive black hole embedded in the galaxy’s heart, the researchers detected gas moving outward quite quickly — blocking about 90% of the X-rays being emitted from the black hole, a common feature of objects of this type. So, astronomers marshalled a bunch of telescopes to figure out the answer.
Here’s what they knew before: black holes force matter into a spiral that surround the object, creating a flat plane of material known as an accretion disc. Heating in this disc sends out the aforementioned X-rays as well as some ultraviolet radiation. But NGC 5548 is doing something different.
The gas stream, researchers stated, “absorbs most of the X-ray radiation before it reaches the original cloud, shielding it from X-rays and leaving only the ultraviolet radiation. The same stream shields gas closer to the accretion disc. This makes the strong winds possible, and it appears that the shielding has been going on for at least three years.”
Quite the suite of telescopes did follow-up observations: NASA’s Swift spacecraft, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Chandra X-ray Observatory, and ESA’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) and Integral gamma-ray observatory (INTEGRAL).
“This is a milestone in understanding how supermassive black holes interact with their host galaxies,” stated lead researcher Jelle Kaastra of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research.
“We were very lucky. You don’t normally see this kind of event with objects like this. It tells us more about the powerful ionised winds that allow supermassive black holes in the nuclei of active galaxies to expel large amounts of matter. In larger quasars than NGC 5548, these winds can regulate the growth of both the black hole and its host galaxy.” | <urn:uuid:b0fd94c4-5ae3-4219-8147-9fae4f5c0558> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.universetoday.com/tag/ngc-5548/ | 2024-04-22T22:47:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.945692 | 703 |
‘The sound of the city became the score for a musical instrument’
Do the sounds that surround you as you cycle through the city sometimes annoy you? Don’t worry, because we can actively change the situation, says sound expert Edwin van der Heide. Students in his Honours Class are actively shaping the sound of the city.
It was uncertain whether this Bachelor’s Honours Class – The Sounding City is its full title – would actually go ahead this year. The course started in April, just after the lockdown began, so it suddenly had to be delivered online. ‘Will I be able to do that? And if so, how?’ wondered the lecturer, Edwin van der Heide. He quickly designed an online programme, which turned out to be successful: ‘Some really interesting things have come out of it,’ he says via video link, looking back at the end of the academic year.
Academic and artist
Honours Class teacher Edwin van der Heide studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He works for computer science institute LIACS and the Royal Academy of Arts of Leiden University, and runs his own art business. Sound in public spaces is a reoccuring theme in his works. For Leiden University, he produced the work Whispering Wind.
Van der Heide designed the class together with Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy at Leiden University.
The influence of acoustics
The Sounding City gives students the opportunity to engage with sound in a different way. ‘What sound does the city make, to what extent can it be “engineered”, what interventions are possible?’ Van der Heide thinks we don’t ask these questions often enough. ‘A lot of thought is given to urban planning and architecture, but sound is regarded as a by-product, something we don’t need to actively think about.’
This is, in fact, what the Honours students have been doing in their weekly webinars: actively thinking about sound, from the perspective of both the arts and the sciences. For instance, they ask themselves how acoustics influence people’s behaviour, or whether appropriating public space should be permittable. ‘This interdisciplinary approach is an excellent aspect of the Honours Academy's education,’ Van der Heide explains. ‘It allows students from different backgrounds to meet one another.’
As well as thinking about sound, the course particularly emphasises active doing. Van der Heide: ‘The focus at the University is often on studying art – but here, we also create it. This is what makes the course so special.’ He sets his students several creative assignments, in which they record the city’s sounds and edit them by adding or subtracting elements.
This culminates in the final assignment: transforming a specific sound situation in the city. It can involve the transformation of a specific place, but also a journey from A to B. ‘Many of the students this year chose places with a lot of activity – busy traffic, Metro stations – but not all of them.’
One participant tried to make street noise less annoying by adding background sounds, while others chose a more musical angle: ‘A student in Toronto recorded resonances of a viaduct and combined them with playing his viola, so that the sound of the city became the score for a musical instrument.’
No single answer
Van der Heide feels that the Honours Class was a great success this year, despite coronavirus. ‘I’m very pleased that doing it online worked out so well: at first, it seemed like a big challenge.’ But it wouldn’t have been possible without the dedication of his students, he says: ‘I’m so proud of their tremendous commitment to the course. It gave me a lot of energy too.’
What key takeaway does the sound specialist hope to have imparted? ‘That there’s more than one answer to the question of how we should design sound in the city. For me, just thinking about the role you play is very important. Sometimes you can achieve a lot with very few resources.’ That’s a message we can all take to heart, when we start moving around the city again.
Text: Michiel Knoester
Translation: Academic Language Centre
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Curious about the students' compositions? Listen to a number of them below. Please beware: click on the 'go back' arrow at the top left corner of your browser to get back to the article. Enjoy listening!
Demonstration on the Dam
“I recorded De Dam on two afternoons: firstly, during a protest about Black Lives Matter and racism. Secondly, two days after. In this composition, I try to captivate the difference between listening to 'unheard' and everyday sounds, endemic to De Dam. By captivating these differences, I engage people in anti-racist protests and demonstrate their sonic powerfulness.” – Luca Bruls
ListenHomecoming in Hong Kong
“I returned to Hong Kong two-and-a-half months ago. At first, the acoustic quality of Hong Kong evoked sensation and emotion in me. But as time passed by, with all the political and social events going on, the sounds of the metro station made me feel anxious. I recorded a bagpipe sound that breaks the dull, repetitive sound from the metro station. It is an active engagement to change a restricted, cruel reality into an ideal one.” – So Ho-Chi
ListenAn imaginary journey
“My final composition takes you on a journey through an imagined space, where one is enveloped and released from overbearing sounds. The sounds that are experienced are both familiar and alienating in their quality, making the piece dynamic and engaging.” – Klimova Elizaveta
ListenWar against the car
“For this final assignment, I wanted to mask the traffic noise coming from my street. Continuous traffic noise and rain turned out to do a sufficient job. I also tried to match the pitch produced by motorcycles by playing piano tones, but that did not work out so well. I do believe, however, that the tones ‘mask’ the sound by other means: they stand out and captivate listeners, distracting them from noise.” – Jetse van Os
ListenViola and viaduct
“I recorded my audio underneath the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, where it passes the Humber River. I wanted to find the ‘true’ sound of this crossing. The final product is ten recordings played simultaneously, consisting of an interplay between my viola and the sounds of the crossing. Each recording emphasizes a different aspect of the underpass’s resonance.” – Arie Verheul van de Ven | <urn:uuid:b0764a8c-f964-4e6d-8463-f3abfb2e331c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2020/09/the-sound-of-the-city-became-the-score-for-a-musical-instrument | 2024-04-22T23:32:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.953956 | 1,457 |
Students and faculty in the structural biology and molecular biophysics focus group apply 3D structural techniques and other biophysical methods to the analysis of important biological macromolecules, to drive research and direct the synthesis of novel therapeutics. Structural biology and molecular biophysics applies the principles and techniques of biology, chemistry, computer science, physics and mathematics, to elucidate the governing forces and structures of biological macromolecules, supra-molecular structures, organelles and cells. State-of-the-art facilities at UNMC have been established for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), X-ray crystallography, atomic force microscopy, and molecular biophysics. Creighton University has also established a Structural Proteomics-Bioinfomatics Core to help investigators to understand structural aspects of biological activities of proteins using chiroptic spectroscopy (ECD and VCD) and various theoretical/structural bioinformatics tools. These are the tools necessary to achieve cutting-edge advances in discovery. Atomic images of the arrangement of amino acid side chains in 3D give the atomic details needed to visualize the active sites of enzymes, see the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and view the protein-protein interactions of signaling molecules. Function can be understood through determination of atomic structures followed by sensible application of biophysical methods to measure and interpret the molecular forces involved. These tools uncover the architecture of the macromolecules of life and reveals what causes their action and, in the case of disease, misfunction. Understanding the structure, function and energetics of medically relevant macromolecules can help researchers better understand the causes of cancer and aid in the development of drugs based on the structure of targeted proteins. | <urn:uuid:c0884094-055c-4fe0-9a6a-4f97b197a92d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.unmc.edu/inbre/scientific-themes/structural-biology/index.html | 2024-04-22T23:11:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.887741 | 350 |
University of Wollongong students and representatives have expressed support for diverse pathways to university.
The support follows a report by the Mitchell Institute that considered the ATAR as a mechanism for university admission.
The report found one in four, 25 per cent, of students in 2016 were accepted into university based on their ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank), compared to one in three (33 per cent) in 2014.
The decrease in ATAR-based admissions has coincided with a rise of students starting higher education, an increase of 46 per cent since 2007.
University of Wollongong Director of Student Services Division Theresa Hoynes was pleased with the outcomes and success of the universities alternative pathways.
“University of Wollongong has been running a successful admissions program for over two decades… in 2017 we had close to two-thirds of our students come to the university of Wollongong through non-ATAR based pathways,” she said
“University of Wollongong will always maintain a diversity of pathways into the university because we want to ensure the success of our students and we want to consider all the factors that impact students in their lives.”
Ms Hoynes did not dismiss the ATAR as an university entry mechanism.
“I think the ATAR will always remain for this University a critical indicator of potential for student success,” she said.
The Mitchell Institute report fell short of calling for the ATAR system to be replaced.
“It is time to look across our education system, decide what we want it to deliver for young people, for communities and for our future economy, then consider what role, if any, the ATAR should play,” Mitchell Institute Director Megan O’Connor said.
The National Union of Students supports alternative pathways, and said there are significant limitations in basing access to higher education on Year 12 marks alone.
“Alternative methods will certainly make it easier for students with marginalised or disadvantaged backgrounds to access higher education,” National Union of Students President Mark Pace said.
“We’ve seen that students who enter through enabling courses… are four times more likely to complete their bachelor’s degree than those who can through ATAR requirements.”
In response to the report’s claim 25 per cent of students gaining admission to university via their ATAR score, Mr Pace said: “I don’t really think it matters as to what the proportion is.”
“I think that if students are able to directly enter university from their ATAR then that’s fantastic, however, it’s good to hear that three-quarters of students are able to access high education through other means,” Mr Pace said.
Tom Carroll, a student at the UOW who gained entry through an alternative pathway, was never confident with the ATAR system and said it had not defined his success.
“I got a tragic ATAR, which I will not reveal here, however, I have a distinction average in my major and I’ve never failed a subject once at uni in my four years,” Mr Carroll said. | <urn:uuid:4344fd5f-a013-481a-81f4-93941a546d8f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.uowtv.com/consensus-between-students-and-university-in-supporting-alternative-entrance-pathways/ | 2024-04-22T21:43:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.970919 | 658 |
Hyatt speaks out on alleged Nazi symbol on stage at CPAC conservative conference last weekend
When your party and its leader are plagued by accusations that they support white supremacists, it's probably best to avoid staging large events with symbols reminiscent of those used by the Third Reich.
The Republican Party failed to do that at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend. Instead, the main stage at the event was in the shape of the othala rune, a symbol used interchangeably with the swastika in Nazi Germany.
The conference was held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida.
Dear @Hyatt Are you okay with Nazi symbols being used on your properties? Because if you fail to speak out & do… https://t.co/TqDlx3bVgc— Sari Beth Rosenberg (@Sari Beth Rosenberg) 1614446560.0
"In the 20th century, Nazis in Germany adopted the othala rune, among many other similar symbols, as part of their attempt to reconstruct a mythic 'Aryan' past," the Anti-Defamation League says on its website.
"Following World War II, white supremacists in Europe, North America, and elsewhere began using the othala rune," the site continues.
The symbol was present during the infamous 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where white supremacists clashed with counter-protesters, resulting in one death.
Neo-Nazis have been using the Odal Rune sign in place of the swastika for several years. CPAC's stage is the same… https://t.co/Xxg3IQbAuZ— Kimberley Johnson (@Kimberley Johnson) 1614446687.0
The symbol was used on the stage and it also appeared on the ceiling of the conference room as a lighting display.
With just about any other event it'd be fair to chalk up the stage's resemblance to a Nazi symbol as mere coincidence. However, the specter of the January 6 capital uprising — perpetrated by a slew of white supremacists — hung over the event like a gray cloud.
Senator Josh Hawley, who spoke at the event, wore his involvement in the insurrection as a badge of honor. "I was called a traitor, I was called a seditionist, the radical left said I should [resign], and if I wouldn't resign, I should be expelled from the United States Senate," Hawley, said. "I'm not going anywhere."
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and organizer of the conference, rejected the comparison.
"Stage design conspiracies are outrageous and slanderous," he tweeted on Saturday. "We have a long-standing commitment to the Jewish community. Cancel culture extremists must address antisemitism within their own ranks. CPAC proudly stands with our Jewish allies, including those speaking from this stage."
Stage design conspiracies are outrageous and slanderous. We have a long standing commitment to the Jewish community… https://t.co/cupHpMKVje— Matt Schlapp (@Matt Schlapp) 1614458864.0
The Hyatt Regency in Orlando has "deep concerns" about the shape of the stage.
We take the concern raised about the prospect of symbols of hate being included in the stage design at CPAC 2021 very seriously as all such symbols are abhorrent and unequivocally counter to our values as a company. The CPAC 2021 event is hosted and managed by the American Conservative Union that manages all aspects of event logistics, including the stage design and aesthetics. We discussed directly with ACU leadership who told us that any resemblance to a symbol of hate is unintentional. We will continue to stay in dialogue with event organizers regarding our deep concerns. Any further questions can be directed to CPAC.
"With CPAC's denial of any intentional connection to hate symbols and our concerns over the safety of guests and colleagues in what could have been a disruptive situation, we allowed the event to continue," a Hyatt spokesperson told Reuters.
So, what could Hyatt and other places like it to avoid situations like this in the future? We think addressing the controversy and making their views on hate is a great start. Next, when choosing to book political conventions or events from anywhere on the ideological spectrum, it might make sense to have a consultant on hand. Someone who can be trusted to evaluate, analyze and raise flags of concern. People of differing views deserve the same freedoms and opportunities to gather and discuss their views. It's a quintessential American idea. But hate has no place in America. And until that ideal is shared by everyone, it's something we all have to work extra hard to address.
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Knowing the differences between 'delayed drowning' and 'dry drowning' could save a life
It can be easy to miss the signs.
In 2008, a young boy named Johnny Jackson went swimming and accidentally swallowed some water.
He had a short coughing fit, toweled off, and then went home. No big deal.
Or so his parents thought.
A few hours later, after going down for a nap, Johnny passed away.
In 2014, a toddler named Ronin came frighteningly close to the same fate. He slipped briefly into a pool before being pulled to safety by his mother. Ronin was shaken up but seemed fine.
Later that night, he lay stretched out in an ambulance as it screamed toward the hospital, where he arrived just in time.
Stories like these have resulted in an outburst of news coverage around what's being referred to as "dry drowning." But that's a bit of a misnomer.
Since we're entering the season of pool parties and beach trips, here are a few things you really need to know about what actually happened to Ronin and Johnny.
First, there is a difference between dry drowning and delayed drowning.
With dry drowning, water never enters the victim's lungs. Rather, it causes the vocal chords to spasm and shuts off airways without actually filling the lungs with water. Otherwise, it looks a lot like normal drowning because it occurs in real time and causes asphyxiation.
Delayed drowning, sometimes called secondary drowning, is a bit different. In cases like Ronin and Johnny's, water gets into the lungs in small amounts — not enough to disable breathing right away. Instead, it sits there and inhibits the lungs' ability to oxygenate blood. From there, the victim starts to have more and more trouble breathing over the course of several hours.
Second, drowning doesn't look the way it does in the movies.
Whether you're dealing with normal, dry, or delayed drowning, don't expect a dramatic scene full of thrashing, coughing, and yelling.
According to Dr. Anna Mendenhall of the Children's Physicians Medical Group, 9 out of 10 children who drown do so even though they were being supervised by a parent because it's so easy to miss the signs.
Here's what you need to look for, even hours after you've left the pool or beach:
- Difficulty breathing, coughing, chest pain, or throwing up. Look for rapid and shallow breaths, nostril flaring, or a pronounced gap in the ribs when breathing. These are all signs a child is working too hard to get oxygen.
- Extreme tiredness. Big-time fatigue can be a sign that the brain isn't getting enough oxygen.
- Any odd change in behavior. Kids in the beginning stages of delayed drowning may be really cranky, argumentative, or combative.
- Odd physical changes. Look out for blue lips or pale skin.
Most likely these symptoms will go away over time. But if they don't or they get worse, you might want to call your pediatrician on the way to the emergency room.
And the best way to watch for drowning in the moment? Get in the pool with your kids and stay within an arm's reach. It's the only way to make sure you don't miss anything.
Third, don't panic. Delayed and dry drownings combined make up only 1% to 2% of all drowning incidents.
There's no getting around it. This is really scary stuff, especially to a parent.
I have a 2-month-old daughter, and my first reaction to all of this is to literally never let her near a swimming pool. Ever.
But as scary as they are, these unusual cases are just that — unusual.
It's a really good idea teach your kids about basic water safety and get them comfortable in the pool with swim lessons at an early age (experts say 4 or 5 is a good age to start). But I'll say it again:
The single best thing you can do to protect a child from drowning — wet, dry, or otherwise — is to get in the pool with them.
As long as you're prepared, pools can be great for fun things like throwing your children! Photo from Thinkstock.
At least until they're old enough to be embarrassed by your presence.
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Carlos Díaz-Balzac, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
How Did You Choose Your Subspecialty Area?
My research experiences shaped my interest in Endocrinology. The endocrine system is the real regulator or ‘brain’ of the body. I’m fascinated by its versatility in regulating both specific and general body functions and acting at distantly located organs, while at the same time creating feedback loops to regulate itself. Clinically, I’m interested in neuroendocrine pathologies.
What is Unique about the PSTP Program at the University of Rochester?
The people is what makes the PSTP program at the University of Rochester unique. The camaraderie in the program sets it apart. You get to be a great clinician and scientist, but also have a life outside work.
How Would You Recommend the Program?
I would highly recommend the PSTP program. The clinical and research training is top-notch, and its flexible enough to accommodate your interests.
Something Cool About Yourself that has Nothing to do with Medicine or Science
My favorite place in Rochester is the Strong Museum of Play.
Grants, Publications, and Honors Awarded During the Program
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists (2021).
- "Transcriptional regulation of neural circuit formation in Intellectual Disabilities." University of Rochester CTSA award (UL1 TR002001) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (2020).
- Starting Endocrinology Fellowship in July 2019!
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Neural net detection of seismic features related to gas hydrates and free gas accumulations on the northern U.S. Atlantic margin
Bottom-simulating reflections (BSRs) that sometimes mark the base of the gas hydrate stability zone in marine sediments are often identified based on the reverse polarity reflections that cut across stratigraphic layering in seismic amplitude data. On the northern U.S. Atlantic margin (USAM) between Cape Hatteras and Hudson Canyon, legacy seismic data have revealed pronounced BSRs south of the deepwater extension of Hudson Canyon and more subtle ones from offshore Delaware south to Cape Hatteras, where the reflections sometimes follow stratigraphic layering. Using high-resolution seismic data acquired during the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Resource Imaging Experiment and a supervised neural net, we identify seismic features associated with gas hydrates and/or the top of gas between Hudson Canyon and Cape Hatteras. Using seismic attributes especially sensitive to the presence of gas, we train a neural network algorithm on seismic data from an area with strong BSRs and then apply the model to the rest of the data set. The results indicate that gas hydrate and/or shallow free gas are significantly more widespread on the northern part of the USAM than previously known. Seismic indicators of gas extend landward from the 2000 m isobath to the upper continental slope in sectors with (offshore Virginia) and, to a lesser extent, without (offshore New Jersey) pervasive upper slope methane seeps. Higher sand content and intermediate sediment thickness, factors related to the container size and gas charge in a petroleum systems framework, are associated with more robust gas indicators.
Publication Year | 2022 |
Title | Neural net detection of seismic features related to gas hydrates and free gas accumulations on the northern U.S. Atlantic margin |
DOI | 10.1190/INT-2021-0248.1 |
Authors | Urmi Majumdar, Nathaniel C. Miller, Carolyn D. Ruppel |
Publication Type | Article |
Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Series Title | Interpretation |
Index ID | 70237299 |
Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
USGS Organization | Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
The USGS Gas Hydrates Project has been making contributions to advance understanding of US and international gas hydrates science for at least three decades. The research group working on gas hydrates at the USGS is among the largest in the US and has expertise in all the major geoscience disciplines, as well as in the physics and chemistry of gas hydrates, the geotechnical properties of hydrate... | <urn:uuid:7829dd9f-554a-433e-a8f5-ac66004ae168> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.usgs.gov/publications/neural-net-detection-seismic-features-related-gas-hydrates-and-free-gas-accumulations | 2024-04-22T23:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.870705 | 557 |
Robert “Scott” Taylor, age 61 of Phenix City, AL passed away peacefully early Sunday morning on January 29, 2023 in the comfort of his home while surrounded by his loving family.
Scott was born September 14, 1961 in Phenix City, AL and is the son of Ralphton “Ralph” C. Taylor, III and Brenda Cleo Barbaree Taylor. He was a native of the Phenix City-Russell County community. He was the owner and operator of Taylor’s Rivertown Gallery for 20 years. He had a big heart for nature and was blessed to be gifted to transpose such beauty by his abilities of creating art and paintings. Scott enjoyed camping, fishing, and outdoor activities. He served our country faithfully and was a Veteran of the United States Navy. He loved his family dearly and enjoyed spending precious times with all who surrounded him. He was a Baptist by faith.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Lance Taylor, a niece, Madeline Taylor, and his grandparents, Ralphton C. Taylor, II and Mary Estelle Edwards Taylor, and Robert M. Barbaree and Mamie Cleo Barbaree.
He is survived by his parents, Ralph and Brenda Taylor of Phenix City, AL; sons, Jacob Taylor and wife Alexa, and Joshua Spencer, both of Columbus, GA; one sister, Kim Taylor Hicks and husband Dean of Upatoi, GA; one precious grandson, Aiden Taylor; nephews, Chance Hicks, Carson Hicks, and Dakota Hiers; and numerous extended loving family members and many friends.
A celebration of life memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm EST on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at Crawford Cemetery in Phenix City, AL with Pastor Don Abrams officiating. The family will receive friends at the graveside service on Saturday at Crawford Cemetery.
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Insurance Auto Auctions has opened its third location in the Houston metro area.
The new location, IAA Houston South, sits approximately 35 miles from Houston and will strategically enhance the company's ability to serve the growing metropolitan area and the coastal Texas areas, the company announced.
"Texas is one of our largest markets," said John Kett, CEO and president of IAA. "This branch offers more than 125 acres of capacity and will help us serve the growing volume from our customers, as well as provide support for potential catastrophic weather events."
IAA Houston South will feature vehicle auction technology such as a vehicle check-in area designed for IAA 360 View imaging and IAA inspection services. The new branch will also include a vehicle inspection center space for insurance clients.
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Scott administration shuts down its four temporary homeless shelters
This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.
State officials have closed down four mass temporary homeless shelters as of 7 a.m. this morning, according to Nya Pike, a spokesperson for the Department for Children and Families.
Gov. Phil Scott’s administration scrambled to assemble the four shelters as hundreds of people lost their eligibility for state-subsidized rooms through Vermont’s motel housing program last week. On March 15, people who received a voucher through the program’s winter-weather eligibility needed to prove they had a qualifying vulnerability in order to hang onto their rooms for a few more months.
Few people ousted from the motels made their way to the state’s temporary shelters, particularly during their first few days of operation last weekend.
Throughout the past week, however, turnout at the National-Guard-staffed shelters ticked up – most notably in Burlington. The number of people staying at the temporary shelter downtown increased considerably after the city’s winter warming shelter closed for the season on Monday. During its last night of operation on Thursday, nearly 40 people stayed at the shelter on Cherry Street, according to Pike.
On Wednesday, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinbeger called for the state to continue operating the temporary shelter beyond March 22. Weinberger emphasized that the temporary accommodations at the site failed to provide basic resources. But he said that given the lack of other shelter options available in town – and increases in unsheltered homelessness after previous rounds of motel program evictions – “it would be a policy failure, it would be a moral failure, it would be an economic failure for the state to go forward with their plan to close the Cherry Street shelter on Friday.”
A winter storm approaching Vermont has triggered the state’s night-by-night Adverse Weather Conditions policy for Friday and Saturday statewide. Yet the availability of motel and hotel rooms varies considerably across the state. According to a state memo, in Chittenden County, fewer than five rooms are estimated to be available today.
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Ronaldhino, the world’s most popular and most marketable soccer player, has just agreed to be on the cover of FIFA 07 cover. Ronaldhino plays for FC Barcelona and for the Brazilian team during the World Cup. He is considered by many to be the best active soccer player in the world. Ronaldhino was also on the cover of the game last year and is a two time FIFA player of the year.
The cover will feature two players this year, depending on where the game is shipped. Ronaldhino will be on the cover of all FIFA 07 games, but the other player will change depending on where the game is being sold. There are seven different covers in total. Landon Donovan will be on the cover in North America, while Francisco Fonseca will grace the cover in Mexico and Manchester United star Wayne Rooney will be on the cover of the game in the United Kingdom. Bayern Munich’s Lukas Podolski will be on the cover in Germany, Valencia’s David Villa in Spain, and Olympique Lyonnais’s Juninho Pernambucano in France.
(In the picture above, Wayne Rooney is alongside Ronaldhino.)
EA has also signed a deal with the Primer team and Mexican First Division League to continue to use their licensed teams and players in the game.
The game will be on sale for the PSP, PS2, XBOX, PC, Nintendo DS, GameCube, and Nintendo GameBoy Advance.
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I’ve been using the internet for more than 2 decades. Websites have evolved from static HTML and CSS to rich, interactive experiences. But the core navigation and usage of the web has stayed the same - we all mostly use Google to discover and browse information.
I think that the next version of the web will be based around large language models (LLMs). I browse the internet to perform tasks - examples are learning a new concept, or researching the best daycare for my kids. With the current web, a single task may require me to spend hours visiting hundreds of webpages.
LLMs improve this experience. With ChatGPT, you type in a question and get an instant answer, no navigation needed. But I find myself using LLMs as a supplement to browsing the web, not a replacement. Chat isn’t as efficient as a dedicated interface, and there isn’t an open way to integrate information sources and APIs into LLMs.
The solution is something I call the AI web. The goal of the AI web is to give you a local LLM agent that can help you complete tasks. This agent will be analogous to a browser today. It will automatically create interfaces for your tasks, and pull in information as needed.
In this post, I’ll outline how the AI web could work, and how it will be more efficient than the current web. I’ll also outline risks, limitations, and potential future directions.
Let’s break down a single task you might use the internet for - learning how to make homemade pizza:
This task, even though it’s simple information retrieval, takes several steps with scrolling and information overload. If you want details, you have to search multiple times in different browser tabs. It’s no wonder ChatGPT has become popular quickly.
We can use ChatGPT to perform the same task:
With ChatGPT, we can do this in 2 steps, with some caveats:
- I have limited ability to dig deeper. For example, I can’t click on each recipe step to get more information.
- Everything is in a long chat message. I can’t check off recipe steps as I go, or view only the ingredients I need for each step.
It’s more efficient than using a search engine, and less efficient than a dedicated interface, like a recipe app. But the dedicated interface is single-purpose, not customizable, and requires installation and registration.
With the AI web, we can get the benefits of a dedicated interface with the flexibility of an LLM. An LLM agent running on your computer, as part of your browser, will create a custom interface, and pull in the right data from APIs.
Let’s take a look at what a task will look like using the AI web. Here’s a rough mockup I made by prompting ChatGPT then adapting the code:
- Bread flour (3 cups)
- Dry yeast (1 package)
- White sugar (1 teaspoon)
- Salt (2 teaspoons)
- Olive oil (2 tablespoons)
- Warm water (1 cup
- Cornmeal (3 tablespoons)
- Tomato sauce (1/2 cup)
- Mozzarella cheese (1 cup)
- Toppings (as desired)
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
The preview above isn’t polished, but shows the potential for AI to create custom interfaces. I created 4 Svelte components, then used the prompts below to lay those components out into an interface:
You're a UX designer figuring out how to design an interface for a task. The interface will be designed using Svelte.
The components you have available are:
[list of components]
Each component has a key that helps the system parse the interface.
Here is an example interface layout:
Design an interface that will help someone cook a homemade pizza. It should enable further investigation by the user if they have questions about a step in the recipe. It should clearly show the ingredients and each step, and enable moving between steps.
These prompts could be customized to give you more control over the layout. The components and styles could also be themed for more personalization.
In a live interface, you’ll be able to click on the buttons. Each button click will be handled by an LLM. We pass in data about the task, and the information on the screen. The LLM then re-renders the information.
Here’s a prompt showing how that could be done:
You're an assistant helping a someone complete a task on their computer. They're currently making a homemade pizza.
Here are the elements on their screen:
- Ingredients: [list ingredients here]
- Current step: Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
They have just clicked the next button, which will advance the recipe to the next step. Generate the data that should be stored in the ingredients and current step sections.
Instead of hard-coding button actions, we use an LLM to respond in real-time based on the current user session. In this case, the LLM can create the next step without calling an external API.
I hard coded a list of fake daycares, but in a live scenario, you’d want to be able to look them up. This is where the browser would need to connect to external APIs. I’d see this happening through manifest servers, which will index APIs on the internet. They’ll be analogous to search engines - they’ll help you find the right APIs to complete a task.
You will be able to specify which manifest servers you want your browser to query. The LLM then queries your specified manifest servers for APIs that answer a specific question:
For this query, we might get the APIs for Yelp and Google Local Search. This same process can be applied to access APIs that take actions, like bank APIs.
Users will also be able to directly specify certain APIs in cases where authentication is needed, or specific services need to be accessed.
In the current web, most state is stored remotely, and then either synced to a browser cache, or rendered into HTML. With the AI web, most state can be stored locally. For example, if we want to make a list of our favorite daycares, we can store that state locally.
Since the LLM agent is in control of the interface, it will understand what each piece of state means. We can then use the same state in other tasks down the road.
This will prevent user data from being locked in to single services. Some centralized data storage will still be needed, such as to store social media likes (although moving to a peer to peer model could remove this need, see below).
Let’s talk about how this model changes how we build websites. In the current internet, websites have 3 layers:
- Presentation - the interface that the user sees
- Information - information that is stored and/or pulled from a database to render the interface
- Action - actions that impact the outside world, like transferring money from your bank account
An LLM agent can replace most of the presentation layer and some of the information layer:
- Presentation - most interfaces can be generated by an LLM, although some complex interfaces (like JupyterLab) will still need to be server-rendered
- Information - LLMs can directly generate information, removing the need for some of this layer. LLMs can store some information locally (like storing our daycare favorites), and then retrieve it later.
Most websites will become APIs that interface with LLMs to drive real-world actions (like a banking API).
Having a local LLM allows for everything to be user-driven:
- A user specifies a task
- An agent identifies the correct information sources, and the right interface for the task
- The interface is rendered locally
- The agent connects to any APIs that are needed for information and actions
It could be interesting to add peer to peer connections, to enable information exchange directly between LLM agents. For example:
- Contact an LLM agent directly to book a meeting on someone’s calendar
- Look up information about a person by querying their agent
- Look up how someone else has interacted with certain data (for example, if they bookmarked a web page)
This could lead to a web where most information is queried peer to peer instead of from centralized servers.
The AI web breaks some of the nice parts of the web, like discoverability and hyperlinks. Since backend services are APIs, there’s nothing connecting one API to another. This could be resolved by:
- Using some kind of deep linking schema - this would enable linking to API content directly
- Having the agent be both a traditional web browser, and an LLM agent. That would enable it to open regular links as well as have a task-centric AI web view. I think this will be necessary as the AI web and the current web coexist.
This proposal will make the risks associated with superintelligent AI higher - the information you access will be directly filtered by an AI, and the AI will be able to easily communicate with APIs and other AIs.
Given how much of the backend of websites is already or soon will be LLM-driven, I’m not sure how much of a risk this is. The information will be touched by LLMs at some point either way. I think having local agents versus one centralized AI actually lessens the risk. Each individual AI will interact with fewer people and have fewer parameters than a large centralized AI.
An LLM agent also means less transparency around where information is coming from, and how different APIs are being used. Implementing an audit trail could help with this, so it’s easy to inspect what the AI has done, and where each piece of information in the interface came from.
There are ambitious ideas here that will take a long time to fully realize. But many of the ideas can work with the current web as is. If we built a task-centric LLM agent browser, it could use existing catalogs of APIs (like RapidAPI) to identify the right information sources. Gorilla is an early example along these lines.
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Arts and disadvantaged groups : In an Elementary School catering to mixed social groups in Washington, employing the arts in academic classrooms was associated with improvement in test scores in Mathematics and English (Donna St. George, 2015). In particular, students living in poverty benefitted from the integrated approach. The researcher further emphasized that interest in the integration of arts is growing globally, driven by increasing research that points to the academic, social and personal benefits to students.
Arts create innovative processes : Nobori (2012) was amazed at how the arts unlock pathways to learning. The process of integrating arts may seem like conducting art projects in classroom settings, but becomes a teaching strategy that seamlessly merges art experiences with core curricula to build connections in engaging learning contexts. For instance students choreographed a dance using locomotor and non- Art Integrated Learning — Guidelines 5 locomotor movements to demonstrate their understanding of the solar system.
Arts and Socio-emotional development : Based on his research, Harvey (1989) found out that art process relates to cognition, achievement, motivation, and self-concept in elementary school students. In essence, arts when integrated with learning process work splendidly as affective education. “The use of art, movement, and music can result in metaphormaking and problem- solving of social/emotional conflicts. In this way the creative arts practices unite the cognitive aspect of creativity and the therapeutic aspect of behavioural and personality change. Because of this integration of thinking and feeling, the creative arts therapies offer an opportunity to positively affect social/emotional and academic behaviour”.
Arts as Pedagogy : Puri and Arora, (2013) reviewed the use of Art Integrated Learning in 107 classrooms of 17 Municipal Corporation in New Delhi and found
Learning through the arts can take place at all levels of schooling. Art integrated learning is experiential in nature and makes all children respond with their imagination and emotional strengths. The needs of children will vary with age, social contexts and ability. Stage-wise objectives for engaging children in art integrated learning are as follows:
At this stage children are both highly inquisitive and energetic. Creative activities such as drawing, painting, clay work, music are both appealing and engaging for young children. At this stage ‘all education should be through the arts’. The objective of children’s participation in visual and performing arts is to:
Art education at this stage needs to link with all subjects such that it becomes a tool of teaching-learning concepts. Art can play an effective role in strengthening the child’s curiosity, imagination, and sense of wonder. They should have a positive impact on the skills related to intellectual, socio-emotional, motor, language and overall literacy. The objectives of AIL at primary level are to help children:
During this stage children are ready to comprehend more complex interconnections between concepts and the environment. AIL can allow children build on simple concepts as well as relate them with academic content meaningfully. Children also enhance the skill to work in groups and explore ideas together. The objectives of AIL at the upper primary level are to help children:
Art Integrated Learning provides a unique opportunity to the children to explore various themes and concepts through visual and performing arts. It means art becomes an integral part of the classroom teaching-learning process. For example, on the theme of Water we have the question: ‘Where does water come from?’ The children may use ‘black colour’ for dirty/sewage water and ‘blue’ to say it’s a river. At this point, the teacher needs to have the skill to understand and comprehend children’s art experience and lead the process to connect it to the subject learning. The teacher may intervene and say “let’s follow the river to find its source!” and suggest movements, music and colour to locate the source of the river, unfolding the constructivist teaching learning approach. Though the art experience is flexible, and children do learn in the process of experimentation and exploration, a broad frame of teacher preparation will be crucial for the effective implementation of AIL. The potential of AIL is best realized by capacity building and readiness of all stakeholders. Hence, the following steps are recommended for effective implementation of AIL:
Capacity Building : Introducing art as a resource will require re-orienting the school system in the use of it as pedagogical tool. All stakeholders of school education, including the school management need to be oriented to understand the importance and the relevance of this pedagogy. Capacity building here refers to any effort being made to improve the understanding, skills of educators and others to implement AIL in their school. It reduces a school’s reliance on outside support or services, by building their internal capacity. Teacher-training workshops and teacher observation programmes should be undertaken to bring about a paradigm shift in the ways students learn and the ways teachers approach teaching and learning. This means that teachers will themselves have a deeper conceptual understanding of the content they are expected to teach and the pedagogical know how with suitable skills to create appropriate learning environment.
Planning of Activities : Once the teacher begins to utilise AIL methodology, she would need to work on the dynamics of planning. AIL would require linking art experience to the subject matter seamlessly and to identify methods and techniques to engage children in group activities. Teacher’s preplanning; familiarity with the subject combined with attention to guiding and reviewing children’s responses will keep the journey on track.
As recommended by NCF 2005, all the education at this stage should be through arts: drawing, painting, clay modelling, singing, actions or movements. It further emphasizes that 90% of the curriculum must be art oriented. Therefore, while planning activities for this stage, the teacher must keep the above criteria in mind. Another important point for this stage is to focus on the process and not on the product. Suggested activities are :
While planning activities for this stage, focus should be on using locally available, age appropriate materials such as pebbles, seeds and beads, leaves, flowers, sand, clay, sea shells, feathers, wood sticks, tree barks, natural colours, etc.
At the primary stage, arts should be integrated with all subjects and used as an approach for teaching and learning of different concepts. This will help children freely express their ideas and emotions. They will also develop all the senses through keen observation, curious exploration and spontaneous expression. As is the system in most of our primary schools, one teacher teaches all subjects to her class which gives her the freedom and scope to plan art experiences in a way that cater to learning of multiple disciplines. While planning activities for this stage, the teacher should keep in mind that:
At the upper primary stage, emphasis should be laid on the use of learner’s own imagination and development of their creative expressions. It is suggested that children of this stage work together in teams for their socio-emotional development and enhancement of life skills (inter-personal communication, collaboration and cooperation, respect for diversity and appreciation for each other’s perspective, developing leadership skills, problem solving abilities etc.). As this age group is the beginning of adolescence, their growing up concerns are also addressed naturally and effectively through integration of arts.
The existence of a strong collaboration between teachers of different subjects, including those of art education is important while planning Art Integrated Learning activities. This will help teachers to manage teaching-learning time efficiently and promote interdisciplinary approach which leads to holistic learning.
While planning activities for this stage, the teacher needs to see that:
Art education with its inherent quality of involving the learner has possibilities for being a satisfying medium of creative expression. The learner is both the performer and the observer of the performance where the process stimulates his/her mind.
AIl activity plan is a suggestive format, which is flexible in nature. Teachers may think and prepare their own plans while keeping in mind the need of the learning situation. The suggested format is based on the commonly used format for AIL activities in the field:
Proper planning of resources adds a novelty to the art integrated experience. Regular research and extensive groundwork by the teacher helps them to create a rich repository of resources which include regional/local resources. The resources should be easy to use and convenient to procure as their easy availability will ensure increased frequency of usage. The teachers should be aware of the content available online and its appropriate application. While selecting the resources, especially the physical ones, one should be confident of the fact that there is flexibility in the choice of resources.
Material Resources : While planning and selecting material and equipment for AIL activities one can practice thumb rule of following five points – resources should be
Few examples of material as resource are:
Community Resources : Ways and forums to involve the local community meaningfully must be devised to develop a healthy and proactive community-school partnership. When provided with opportunities to interact with local/regional artisans, students enhance their sensitivity and awareness towards the indigenous cultural heritage. For example, school authorities may invite local weavers, potters and different service providers so that students may have an intimate engagement with them. Families of the children may also be involved in a positive manner with the school to support learning of children. For effective and meaningful community participation it is recommended that periodic field trips/excursions are included to visit places like hospitals, post office, bus depots, railway stations, etc.
Space : It has been seen that in the traditional set up learning is very often confined to specific areas: whereas in AIL, it is recommended that the teacher needs to become more flexible while selecting and using learning spaces. Spaces/places should be such which provide children with an opportunity to explore, experiment, create and express themselves freely. For example, walls of buildings, staircases, school stage, school rooftops, field and garden areas etc. can be utilized for the same.
Class room is the space that becomes a fertile ground for learning if utilized and managed appropriately. Given below are some suggestions for effective classroom management:
If practiced in true spirit, the above will not only help children to develop a sense of ownership of their classroom and school but can also transform them into learners for life.
Every classroom should have a dedicated space for display of the children’s art works as it plays an important role in igniting the interest and eagerness to learn more. It also helps children to analyse and appreciate their own works and also of others. Some suggestions for a meaningful display are as follows:
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[July 3, 2023 is Guru Pūrṇimā in Vṛndāvana, India. The following is an excerpt of a bhāva anuvāda of discourses by Śrīla Bhakti Vijñāna Bhāratī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, given on the same tithi on July 22, 2013 and July 19, 2016. Editors’ input: Additional text has been included in square brackets to facilitate the flow of content.]
ŚRĪLA VYĀSADEVA IS EVERYONE’S GURU
Today is Guru Pūrṇimā; It is a special day. Guru Pūrṇimā means the appearance day (tithi) of guru. Who is guru? Mahaṛṣi Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Veda Vyāsa is ādi-guru (the foremost guru). He is guru for all – karmīs (fruitive workers), jñānīs (impersonalists), yogīs (mystics) and bhaktas (devotees). Any karmī, who wants to spread the glories [about the process of reward seeking activities], cannot do so without the mercy of Śrīla Vyāsadeva. Whatever evidence [pramāṇa] he desires to present, he will have to take shelter of the scriptures composed by Śrīla Vyāsadeva. Similarly for jñānīs who think that the Vedānta is topmost, even that has been composed by Śrīla Vyāsadeva. Yogīs who talk about yoga sādhana, Patañjali and so on, those texts have also been composed by Śrīla Vyāsadeva. The most important scripture for the bhaktas– the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has also been authored by Śrīla Vyāsadeva.
ŚRĪLA VYĀSADEVA’S QUANDARY
Despite writing so many scriptures [prior to his composition of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam], Śrīla Vyāsadeva himself did not experience peace of mind. When he enquired about this with his guru, Nārada Ṛṣi, he chastised him, “It is because you have yet to address the glories of Bhagavān”. But Śrīla Vyāsadeva remarked, “I did so, in the Mahābhārata as well as the Vedānta.” In Vedānta, he only revealed that by doing a specific process you get a specific result and so on, but mentioned nothing about brahma-jijñāsā [enquiry about the Supreme].
The Vedānta first instructs – athāto brahma jijñāsā, try to cultivate knowledge about Brahman. Then at the end it says, “anāvṛttiḥ śabdāt”, meaning repeat the word again and again. But Vyāsadeva did not directly say which word. Thus, confusion remained for the jīvas. For this reason, he did not experience peace of mind. His guru Nārada Ṛṣi said, “You have not done anything for the benefit of the jīva. What you have given in the Mahābhārata is for mukti – [the impression] that liberation is ultimate. You did not explain anything about the process of hari-bhakti.” Śrīla Vyāsadeva replied, “For Hari, I used the word ‘śabda’.” Nārada Ṛṣi retorted, “But you did not clarify which ‘śabda’; Brahma is also śabda, Paramātmā is also śabda, [that way] everything is śabda” [This discussion between Nārada Ṛṣi and Śrīla Vyāsadeva is elaborately mentioned in chapter five of canto one of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam]. In this way, Vyāsadeva made a point to clearly describe Bhagavān’s qualities and pastimes in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He began the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with dhyāna (meditation) – satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi. [I meditate upon Him (Kṛṣṇa), for He is the Absolute Truth.] in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.1 and he ended with Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.13.23 –
nāma-saṅkīrtanaṁ yasya sarva-pāpa praṇāśanam praṇāmo duḥkha-śamanas taṁ namāmi hariṁ param
[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Hari, the congregational chanting of whose holy names destroys all sinful reactions, and the offering of obeisances unto whom relieves all material suffering.]
By whose nāma-saṅkīrtana, all sins are completely destroyed from the root — never to return again; I pray to that Lord. This time, he clarified by using the word Hari, yet this is not completely clear; something is still missing. The word ‘Hari’ in Sanskrit can also mean—snake, frog, lotus or water. So which Hari is he referring to in this context?
KṚṢṆA SAṄKĪRTANA BENEFITS EVERYBODY
Śrī Caitanya-deva clarified this in His Śrī Śikṣāṣṭaka – paraṁ vijayate śrī kṛṣṇa saṅkīrtanam, there is a special victory for śrī kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana. He emphasized śrī kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam, opposed to kṛṣṇa-kīrtana. Kīrtana implies the benefit goes only to oneself, whereas, the benefit of saṅkīrtanam is for many. How is this possible? Through saṅkīrtana, even those who are inimical to the saṅkīrtana performance will get benefit – their sins will be destroyed; those who are indifferent will acquire sukṛti [pious merits]; those who are desirous of puṇya [piety], they will get pious credits; and those who desire hari-bhakti will get hari-bhakti. Is anybody deprived here?
WE NEED EXPERTS TO UNLOCK THE WEALTH
During the Ratha-yātrā, Lord Jagannātha gives darśana to everyone. But does everyone receive the same benefit? Does everybody see Lord Jagannātha in the same way? No. Why? The Lord has everything [but it depends upon the goal of the individual]. Just like within the Earth, there is everything, but we cannot see it [ordinarily]. Only those who are expert in knowledge of the Earth can understand. Take for instance, Mohenjo Daro [the ruins of the 26th century BCE city belonging to the Indus valley civilization discovered in 1919, situated in the Sindh province of Pakistan] - who discovered it? Was it not there before? In Orissa also there are iron ores. Why had people not seen them earlier? The same individual [R.D. Banerji, officer of the Archeological Survey of India] who discovered Mohenjo Daro also discovered the iron ores. So the earth possesses everything; that is why she is called Vasundhara – one who holds precious jewels. However, it takes a person to discover it. Similarly, everything is mentioned in the scriptures, but not everybody can understand. If everybody could understand, why would anyone become atheist? That is why knowledgeable persons (tattva-vit) come to us and explain these things for our benefit.
ONLY NIRMATSARA CAN UNDERSTAND
Why do different individuals get different interpretations despite reading the same Vedānta? Just as different seeds sown in the same soil on the banks of Gaṅgā, exposed to the same parameters such as wind, water, sunlight, they still produce different fruits. It is because they retain their earlier nature. Unless this is also given up, they cannot become superior. Just as the neem seed will give bitter fruits even after taking Gaṅgā water and wind, tamarind will give sour fruits and mango will give sweet fruits.
Unless you are surrendered, you will not understand the deep truths. Only those who are nirmatsarāṇāṁ satām vedyam can completely understand. But no sampradāya will consider themselves asat (not bona fide); everyone will claim they are satām. That is why the adjective nirmatsarāṇāṁ was added. Only a nirmatsara sādhu can understand. Who is a nirmatsara sādhu? Only that person who does not have any envy in him. What is meant by this? When a person is incapable of tolerating the happiness of others, he is envious; and one who is capable of tolerating is non-envious. We will become free from envy when our attention turns towards the Lord. Because, when everybody just tries to attain the Lord, then there will be no insufficiency for anybody. Only the attempt to attain everything else in this universe (made up of the fourteen planetary system) is limited.
THE ASPIRATION FOR THE ETERNAL WEALTH COMES ONLY BY GURU-SEVĀ
Śrīla Vyāsadeva has described how to obtain both – temporary as well as eternal things [wealth]. But only someone who is surrendered and listens to hari-kathā from the mouth of a sādhu, does not have the desire for anything which is temporary. That is why, at the end Śrīla Vyāsadeva said nāma-saṅkīrtanaṁ yasya; He showed the ideal. Cognition about this tattva will manifest to one who is guru-śuśrūṣayā bhaktyā – [One who renders service unto the bona fide spiritual master with great devotion and faith. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.7.30] only by guru-sevā. To the extent that one will serve śrī guru, to that extent this bhāva [to aspire for the eternal] will manifest in his citta [heart].
ŚRĪLA VYĀSADEVA IS NOT BIASED
Śrīla Vyāsadeva has given everything. In the same way as when you celebrate a festival, you will only give those items each individual specifically likes, not that you will give the same thing to everyone. Can you offer sweet, sour, salty to everybody alike? An individual only becomes satisfied by accepting those things he has a preference for. So although Vyāsadeva could give everything, he gave according to one’s capacity to absorb. Hence he is not guilty of being biased; just as the one who serves is not at fault as he is serving more or less of any item only according to the taste of the individual. That is why all the sampradāyas accept him and celebrate Guru Pūrṇimā.
I pray at the lotus feet of Śrīla Vyāsadeva for his mercy, to whom the Lord showed His mercy and revealed all the truths. Today is his appearance day. These personalities bestow mercy [especially] on their āvirbhāva tithis, hence we will beg for their mercy. | <urn:uuid:f8192997-fed1-4c8b-b802-ce0151698e34> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.visuddhacaitanyavani.com/single-post/2018/07/26/guru-purnima | 2024-04-22T22:49:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.94319 | 2,728 |
Some years ago, my sons, Anthony and Marc, bought me a fantastic torch on the occasion of my 60th birthday.
This torch has 3 levels of intensity and has been a great help in spotting nocturnal animals. The most useful feature of the torch is that it can be changed to diffuse mode. This is especially handy when encountering diurnal animals on a night drive. The belief is that most normal spotlights, that cannot be adjusted to different intensities, do these animals a lot of ocular damage. Our guides have not been shining their spotlights on these animals, often upsetting guests who would like to take nocturnal photos of all the animals they encounter. We have now bought these special hand-held torches for all our guides and this will allow all our guests to take photos of diurnal animals at night.
One of the most common nocturnal animals seen on night drives is the Scrub Hare. Of course, the average guest shouts out “Bunny” when they see them. I suppose this will be even more likely to happen as we approach Easter.
The Scrub Hare, Lepus Saxatilis, has large ears and relatively long legs, attributes that allow them to detect and flee from predators such as Leopards, Jackals, Caracals, Pythons and Eagle-Owls. Our guides often find them on the roads and they run ahead of the vehicle in a zig-zag fashion until they find a break in the bush. In summer, after the rains, they may not easily find this break as the grass is thick and high and our guides need a lot of patience while following the Scrub Hares.
By day the Scrub Hare hides in a thicket and is often flat on the ground. The young, called leverets, are precocial, meaning that they are born in an advanced state and are capable of feeding and moving independently almost immediately. They eat grass, roots, tubers and forbs and practise refection of their food – re-consuming vitamin-rich green partially-digested faeces.
GAME VIEWING REPORTS FROM OUR GUIDES
PATRICK advises that, although he cannot go off-road in Kruger, he does get very close up to the animals.
He sent the following photos :
ROCKY had a brilliant month tracking on Balule.
VICTOR sent the following :
GEORGE sent the following:
ANDY sent the following:
Andy quotes a thrilled guest : “To see lions and loveable cubs walk past us on both sides of our open vehicle will remain one of my very best life experiences “.
RAYMOND sent these :
ELIAS sent the following :
NHLANHLA sent the following:
QUINTON took these photos while on bush walks at Marc’s Camp:
NEWS FROM OUR LODGES
Nyarai sent the following report :
March has already come to an end and out here there is always something exciting to look forward to. The beauty of it all is not being able to determine exactly what the bush has in store for one. It’s always been the bush over the city for me. After being away for a short break it feels really good to be back. I must say i really missed ‘my second home’.
This month has been really busy and we have seen a significant growth in the number of guests compared to February. With Easter being around the corner I am certain we will be very busy.
The days are still hot so a splash in the pool with lots of sunscreen is a necessity. Most nights have been cooler. I know we all define cold differently. As we move towards winter now a light jacket always comes in handy during the evening drive. Especially on the way back to the lodge after the boma braai. The gardens at Tremisana are looking great thanks to our gardener Elvis. We have also been busy with thatching the roofs after the heavy rains that we were blessed with in February.
Animal sightings for the month of March around the lodge included the hyena in front of the lapa during breakfast. He comes out on most days and the guests love taking pictures of him.
There is also a family of warthogs that sometimes come into the lodge. The hippo at Tremisana dam. We have also had elephants around the lodge.
Overall it has been a good month. I am really looking forward to April. The optimist in me feels it is going to be a great Easter month.
Stay safe and take care.
KATEKANI, MARCS TREEHOUSES, MASANGO and DUMELA
Charl sent the following report:
Unfortunately it has been a quiet month for us again. But the bush never fails. We are very fortunate to have a regular sighting of a big male leopard walking through our staff quarters at night and are often soothed to sleep with the calls of hyenas and lions on a nightly occurrence.
The camp has been quite busy the last month the bush is still quiet green and lush after all the rains we have been having. I don’t think this winter will be too tough on the animals as there is still quite a lot of food in the bush for them due to the good rains.
Dumela Luxury Tented Camp: we are busy with its final touches before we get ready to open our doors. We have painted out the pool area and gate for the camp. As the pool is quite a large attraction to the lodge due to its large size. I know summer time people will be spending all day chilling by the pool. We look forward to be able to cater to the self catering and self drive market.
Ezulwini, the elephant, made a turn at Ezulwini Billy’s Lodge to the great appreciation of our guests booked on the luxury lodge package.
NEWS FOR OUR TRAVEL PARTNERS
March 2023 has been a fair month with a steady stream of tourists.
Unemployment in the Tourism Sector is still quite acute. We are regularly inundated with applications for jobs. Unfortunately, these are all declined as we are obliged to re-engage all former Viva Safaris staff first. We advertised the position of Camp Manager at our associated Pumusa Bush Camp in Hluhluwe ( where we accommodate guests doing the 7 day Kruger, St Lucia and Hluhluwe safari package ) and had no fewer than 40 applications !
We are coming up to our quiet season so it is unlikely that we can offer any further employment until August, when numbers hopefully will increase.
One of the challenges that we have is the issue of keeping all tourists happy in terms of time deadlines. There is a delicate balance between keeping guests busy and allowing them time to relax. All our packages are designed for maximum game viewing so it becomes a challenge when some tourists simply refuse to adhere to our well-documented times of departure for various activities. It does sometimes create animosity between guests. For example, on the days we do a full safari in Kruger, we try to leave the camps so that we arrive at Orpen at around 09h00. It is a long day as we leave at the end of the day around 17h30, depending on the time of year. Some guests have a remarkably wayward sense of punctuality and may hold up the others by as much as 15 minutes. Similarly, when we stop at the Three Rondawels of the Blyde River Canyon, the guests are told that we shall be leaving after 30 minutes. There will always be a guest or two that cannot understand that we need to leave punctually for very good reasons including timeous drop offs at O R Tambo airport. With the large numbers of tourists Viva moves, it is our hope that we are pleasing at least 75% of our guests at least 75% of the time.
Further to my comments in last month’s newsletter, I received the following thought-provoking email from Laetitia Cronje of Campfire Academy. Laetitia has successfully run ranger training programs for many years. Viva Safaris has employed quite a few of her graduates. I personally have the highest regard for her and believe she is a doyen of conservation.
Thank you for raising the issue of off-road driving in your last newsletter.
Off-roading is part of the safari experience when the ranger deliberately drives off the road to follow wildlife into unspoilt nature.
In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in off-road driving and the pressure on ecosystems is likely to escalate, according to soil scientist Dr Gerhard Nortjé.
The research done in the Kruger National Park by Dr. Nortjé suggests that uncontrolled off-road driving causes long term irreversible damage, that may last for 1000 years. His research concludes that 90% of the damage is done by the first vehicle off-roading.
Few tourists to South Africa’s protected areas know that soil is a non-renewable resource. They visit these areas hoping to see and interact with wildlife, unaware of the expense to Nature associated with off roading. Soil and climate are basic to any ecosystem, allowing plant life to thrive. If we do not protect our soils, then our wildlife suffers. Soil at a constant temperature promotes root development of all plants. Water retention is essential for plant growth and soil is the habitat for numerous invertebrates and fungi.
Most tourists hope to see lions during their safari. If the lions are deep in the bush, the tourist guide may carefully navigate through the bush to get closer to the lions.
What tourists don’t do is look back behind them where a double trail of destruction has been created. Inter alia, small insects may die and birds’ eggs may be crushed.
This is only the immediately discernible damage. Long-term damage includes massive reduction in both plant growth and water retention of the ecosystem, These have a direct impact on the wellbeing of the wildlife in the area. Was being that close to the lion really worth the damage done?
I suggest that conservation-conscious safari guests do the following :
• Prior to your game drive, ask your guide not to off-road and explain to other guests why you believe this is detrimental to fauna and flora.
• Book with safari lodges, agents and operators that “DO” conservation not just “TALK” conservation.
• Ask ahead of time if they allow off-roading. If they do, let them know why you will not book with them.
• Create awareness of the dangers of off-roading with your friends and family.
Please take the time to read the introduction and conclusion of the research done by Dr. G Nortjé. (Nortjé, Gerhard & van Hoven, Wouter & Laker, Michiel & Jordaan, J.C. & Louw, Michelle. (2016). Quantifying the Impact of Off-Road Driving on Root-Area Distribution in Soils. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 46. 33-48. 10.3957/056.046.0033.) If you have any further questions please contact Laetitia at [email protected]
“Mother Nature might seem to lose the battle, but she will win the war”
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Don’t hesitate…just book!
Geoffrey L, UK
One of the most unforgettable experiences of my lifetime, courtesy of Viva Safaris.
Whether you’re traveling solo or as a couple / group, you’re bound to meet some great people and make memories of a lifetime.
ANIMALS: We saw all of the big five and a lucky group of us had a sublime encounter with about eight lions, five of which were cubs. Some of what we saw I will never forget. Be prepared to be disappointed on some trips, however – there’s no guarantee of a sighting.
STAFF: What’s remarkable is that some of the staff are working in 25-day blocks, with only five days off. New faces are cycling in and out every day, so you can imagine it’s not the easiest job. And yet all of them made us feel like we were the only people on earth. You can also tell they love what they do, and they’re very VERY good at it – these men have a sixth sense for tracking animals.
SCHEDULE: Another reviewer complained about a “tight schedule”… i.e., not having much downtime. I disagree. My experience was that the schedule was perfectly balanced. Yes, you’re shuttled from here to there and sometimes it can feel rushed, but the guides are trying to see as much as possible in a fairly short window. You also DO get quite a bit of downtime in-between some of the activities.
DISCOMFORT: This was my first safari, and if it’s yours too my advice would be to expect to be a little uncomfortable now and then. Much of the time you’ll be hot or cold or tired or hungry. You’ll have to pee or the mosquitos will be eating you alive. In those moments I tried to embrace the discomfort – it’s all part of the adventure!
COST: I genuinely felt like I had a priceless experience, so I think the cost is more than fair.
I am going to try to answer all the questions I had before booking my first Safari of my life. I randomly found this company online along with many others. This company is literally one of the best experiences I’ve had with any company in any field ever. The people are fantastic. The prices are great. They pick you up and drop you off. Absolutely anywhere to get you to and from the Safari. They are on time. The food is great. These are the most happy and kind people I’ve ever met at a place of business. They go the extra mile over and over again to make sure you are happy and comfortable and get the best viewings of wildlife. I have absolutely zero complaints. Trust me, if you’re interested in seeing lions and the big five, etc., you should take my advice and just book with this company.
GM Response: Hi Jason Immediately after I read your PERFECT review, I took a screen shot and forwarded it to all Viva staff as well as my 4 children. The latter group have been hinting, albeit indirectly, that I should be retiring soon, as I am well past retirement age. Reviews like yours motivate me to continue in what I do. The staff and I experience a sense of fulfilment when we read such kind words. Thanks for keeping us all very happy. Be well.
Safari under time pressure, but very friendly, supportive staff
We did the 6 day safari, and it was a bit of a mixed experience. The schedule was very tight, and it felt like we did not have time to actually fully enjoy the safari experience or breathe for a second. We were transported from one thing to the next one and if we wanted to take a picture, get water or go to the bathroom the staff became quite stressed, so a suggestion to Viva would be to maybe loosen the schedule a bit, so the staff/guests are not getting stressed out and the guests have a little more time to relax and enjoy the safari.
What concerned me the most was our transfer from the lodge to Kruger Park Orpen gate. The transfer was about one hour and happened with an open safari vehicle with no seatbelts whatsoever. The driver was going about 100+ km/h and it felt really unsafe being like this on a regular street. Also the wind/dust that came with the speed and an open vehicle was really unpleasant in the eyes/face.
We spent 2 days at Kruger and both days we did the exact same route (Orpen gate, same route, same lunch place). It would have been nice to switch it up a little bit, to make the Kruger experience even better.
Also on the last day it was quite a long drive to three rondavels and we only had 30 minutes there to walk to the view point, go to the bathroom and get souveniers. It would have been nice to spend some more time at this beautiful place (again: very tight schedule and everyone got stressed)
What was really positive were our drivers from and to Joburg, especially George, who made the long drive really pleasant.
And our stay at the Katekani Lodge was really great too, what made the overall safari tour a lot better.
The rooms were amazing and the staff (especially our kitchen chef Margaret was doing a really great job).
So all in all it was a good experience, but there is for sure some room for improvements, since being stressed is the last thing you want on a vacation.
GM Response: Hi Kathi Thank you for taking time to write a review that certainly is thought-provoking. We are pleased that you found our staff “very friendly and supportive.” The issue of time regulation has been a problem since day 1 . Viva Safaris tries to offer an action-packed experience that maximizes game viewing time. While we appreciate that some guests regard their safari as a laid-back holiday, the experience I have gained in running safari packages for well over 35 years is that the VAST MAJORITY of safari-goers want to do just that – go on safari and see as many animals as possible. On our Welcome Letter handed to you on your pickup and at the various lodges we own, all departure times for all activities are provided. iI is made abundantly clear that wayward concepts of punctuality are most likely to offend all other tourists. It is simply bad manners to hold up other tourists raring to go on game drives. Like you, they may be stressed by other inconsiderate tourists. Our Kruger Park guides are tip-top. All are ex-Kruger Park staff and their huge networking allows Viva to show guests brilliant sightings, time after time. They choose the roads they drive each day based on intelligence of game whereabouts. Our vehicles all have safety belts – otherwise they would fail the annual COF ( Certificate of Fitness ).test. I understand your frustration at not having more than 30 minutes at the spectacular Three Rondawels. The scenery of the Blyde Canyon is indeed absolutely awesome ! However we need to remember that we promise to do our very best to be back at O R Tambo airport at around 17h00 and are not prepared to stress other tourists who have on-going flights by leaving things to the last minute. Also, by law, our drivers need a 1 h rest period during lunch. Again, by law, our vehicles cannot transfer any guests at speeds over 100kmh and the vehicles have been modified to do just that – an important safety aspect for Viva Safaris. Thanks for bringing up this matter – I have circulated both your review and my response to all affected staff. Be well.
I had the pleasure of staying at this Lodge the past couple of days and i must say…TOP CLASS!The hospitality of the lodges’ staff is on another level.Their ability to make you feel relaxed and welcome is second to none.
I had the pleasure of going on game drives,which in itself is on another level.The knowledge that the guides have are equaled to their passion for wildlife and their commitment to providing an excellent service to their guests
As for the food – top notch
As for the venue – top notch
As for the beds and amenities – top notch
I without any doubt,recommend this lodge(Tremisana Game Lodge)to anyone and everyone.
I am going to book my next trip right now.
A HUGE Thank You!
3 Night Stay on our 5 Day Safari
I just want to say that the staff members working here are phenomenal.
Connie and the kitchen staff were so friendly and helpful and the breakfasts and dinners were so delicious and freshly made – I enjoyed everything that was prepared!
Mr Patrick was our game driver for our day out in Greater Kruger and what a day we had with such a knowledgeable man!
Quinten is probably the most interesting person we have ever met – could have sat and listened to him talk about wildlife and his experiences in the bush for hours, so so interesting! Had an awesome early bush walk with him!
We were in a cabin and the accommodation was great and the rooms were brilliant and very clean.
We were so sad to leave this place, the people made it a truly unforgettable experience – we hope to come back and catch up with you guys soon!
Until next month,
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to attend a series of high-profile regional meetings in the Philippines next month, including the U.S.-ASEAN Summit with President Donald Trump, marking the first time the two leaders will meet.
The expected encounter comes amid rising tensions between the two nations and an ongoing political crisis in Cambodia that has seen the main opposition party threatened with dissolution, prompting the U.S. State Department to voice concerns. However, a Cambodian government spokesman and an analyst both said that discussions at the forum would likely focus on business and trade, not democracy and human rights.
Mr. Trump will leave Washington, D.C., on November 3 for his first trip to Asia as president, including stops in Japan, China and South Korea, and appearances at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Leaders’ Summit in Vietnam and the U.S.-ASEAN Summit in the Philippines.
Phay Siphan, spokesman for Cambodia’s Council of Ministers confirmed that Mr. Hun Sen would lead a delegation to attend the summit and would meet Mr. Trump alongside the leaders of the other nine ASEAN nations. Mr. Siphan said he was unsure if the premier would also meet one-on-one with the U.S. president.
Either way, he said the political situation in Cambodia was unlikely to be on the agenda at the summit in Manila on November 13.
"What Cambodia and Trump have in common is the fact of not invading to interfere and overstep the sovereign boundary of each state,” Mr. Siphan told VOA Khmer on Monday.
Citing a meeting between Mr. Trump and Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha last month in Washington, in which only discussions on business and trade relations were publicized, Mr. Siphan said the same pattern would likely apply in Manila.
“Trump made an example with Thailand by merely talking about the economy. Thus, Cambodia’s top-priority objective [for the U.S.-ASEAN Summit] is to discuss the economy, stability, and peace,” he said.
Mr. Hun Sen made news last year by endorsing Mr. Trump for president, saying the Republican candidate’s inward-looking, America First agenda would contribute to world peace.
However, since the beginning of this year, U.S.-Cambodia relations have deteriorated to one of their lowest points in recent history, driven by fiery rhetoric from the premier, who has insisted that the U.S. is seeking to interfere in Cambodia’s internal politics by encouraging a “color revolution.”
In September, the government arrested and charged Kem Sokha, the country’s main opposition leader, for supposedly conspiring with the U.S. to plot regime change in Cambodia. Just last week, a government-produced video was circulated claiming that the U.S. was helping Cambodia’s opposition politicians, non-governmental organization and commercial financiers plot the overthrow of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government.
The accusations have been denied by the United States, which, along with other Western donors, has called for the release of the opposition leader, Kem Sokha, to ensure a free and fair parliamentary election next year.
Spokespeople at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh and the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta declined to comment on what issues Mr. Trump might raise with Southeast Asian leaders.
Miguel Chanco, the lead ASEAN analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, said he expected the upcoming summit to be a “very business-like” occasion at which authoritarian leaders in the region and Mr. Trump would try to maximize mutual benefits.
He agreed with Mr. Siphan that human rights would not be a major topic of discussion.
“For one, the current administration in Washington isn't very interested in promoting human rights and democracy in general,” Mr. Chanco wrote in an email from London, where he is based. “Secondly, he will try to maximise his (brief) time in Asia by promoting the interests of US businesses in the region, the optics of which will cater to Mr. Trump's voter base at home -- indeed, expect to see a lot of deals being announced and/or signed involving US companies during this visit.”
The analyst said that despite the potential to strengthen business ties, he doubted if having the two leaders in the same meeting room would be enough to repair the strained relations between the U.S. and Cambodia.
"Having said that, Mr Trump has proven to be very amenable in 1-to-1 meetings with world leaders and I expect Hun Sen to be alert to any signs that the US president is open to establishing a mutually beneficial and more transactional relationship with Cambodia, one that is largely free from discussions about human rights and democracy,” he added.
However, So Channtha, a Cambodian political analyst, said the U.S. would be unlikely to stop emphasizing human rights and democracy in its foreign policy anytime soon.
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As we cruised the East China Sea toward Kagoshima today, a high speed hydrofoil powered by while being overshadowed by a huge, symmetrical, dormant volcano in the distance.
Kagoshima is a beautiful seaport city, off the beaten path, nestled beneath Mount Kagoshima, the most active of the 100 Japanese volcanoes, Agriculture, fish farming, tourism and shochu production are the economic mainstays. Shochu is a whiskey-like beverage produced from sweet potatoes as no rice is grown in this area.
Due to the similarity of their settings and climate, Kagoshima and Naples are sister cities.
Volcano shelters are as common there as storm shelters in the USA and rain shelters in Canada. To further enhance safety, many lava spillways or channels have been built to direct magma away from inhabited areas.
Something about the area causes exceptional development, as radishes weigh up to 100 pounds and spider crabs have 5' legs.
Students living on the slopes of Mount Sakurajima wear helmets while walking to and from school for protection from falling debris.
Christianity was first introduced to Japan here, by Francis Xavier, about 400 years ago.
This town was a Samurai center during Japan's feudal period and home to the feared kamikaze pilots. The last samurai was killed here. (Not Tom Cruise)
East China Sea
Port of Kagoshima
Arimura Lava Observatory - below Mount Sakurajima
Volcano in background
Debris from eruptions
Unexpected small eruption, real treat!
Orange buds covered with cloth to protect from volcanic dust
Following photos taken from lecture material
Example of huge radishes
Boys being boys
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The Art of Possibility (Paperback)
Benjamin Zander (author)Published: 27/07/2006
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 197 g
Dimensions: 201 x 134 x 16 mm
"As applicable in the workplace as in an intimate relationship." —The Boston Globe "In the presence of either Zander, one's spirit soars. Now they reveal their secrets in a deeply satisfying book. I guarantee you'll be inspired." —Gail Sheehy"The passionate energy permeating The Art of Possibility is a true force for every reader for self-development and life fulfillment." —Klaus Schwab, founder and president, World Economic Forum
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