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Africa’s greatest hidden terrors hide in the rainforest, and like a web they have woven unseen a trap around our collective subconscious. Humanity’s most enduring fear is given life. Arachnophobes beware – giant spiders are here to stay. | {
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Spiritual Emergence or Crisis
Spiritual or paranormal emergence or crisis, generally arising from an experience, contemplative or situation that does not fit into your present belief system and you are finding it difficult to assimilate or understand.
Sometimes brought about by extreme cases of trauma, major surgery, accidents including near death or out of body experiences, that you cannot explain. Can be mis-diagnosed as a mental health issue, associated with paranormal, mystical or psychological disturbances.
Had experiences you cannot understand or explain?… feel like your whole world has been turned upside down and you don’t know where to turn?…… come chat to us, we understand, appreciate, acknowledge and support this process.
We also assist with negative energy release, spirit release and soul fragmentation release and retrieval programs.
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Most medical professionals and therapists will deny the existence, validity, truth or reality of such things as energy medicine, consciousness of energy, psychic ability, precognition, past lives, telepathy, reincarnation, the existence of spirit or soul, mystical experiences, astral and etheric bodies, the chakras, highly intuitive children & adults, near death experiences, auras or the validity of meditation and other spiritual practices, to name a few.
We are a group of practitioners who will attest to all of the above and more. Through expansive research, laying witness to, personal experiences, and years of training and client counselling, our healing team are not your average western practitioners, we are a new breed of tharapists bridging the gap between objective science and inner wisdom…………we are The HELP Clinic!
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6 Types Of Social Media Scams And How to Avoid Them
With more than 60 million active social media users as of last year logging an average daily use of 4.17 hours, Filipinos spend more time on social media compared to anyone else in the world, according to We Are Social’s Digital in 2017 Southeast Asia report.
This fondness of Filipinos towards social media has resulted to cybercriminals exploiting social media platforms to prey on unsuspecting netizens. However, users of these sites remain careless, making them highly vulnerable.
This was proven by a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab last year which revealed majority of Filipino internet users are averagely at risk to attacks online. The research also showed only 1 out of 10 netizens (11%) can identify a safe Facebook web page. Facebook is the top used social media site in the country.
“While social networking sites appear like a safe online playground for millions of Filipinos, we would like to remind them that cybercriminals are lurking on the other side of the screen waiting for their next victim. The prevalence of scams in social media should serve as warning alarms for Filipinos to take their online security seriously,” says Sylvia Ng, General Manager at Kaspersky Lab Southeast Asia.
As security is a two-pronged process, it requires effective security solution and users’ cyber savviness, here are the known social media scams plus tips from Kaspersky Lab on how to avoid them:
Scam: Mutual connection
In this scam, a stranger contacts you through social channels and claims a common interest or a mutual connection, for example, from an introduction at a wedding or large gathering. If you post a lot of pictures and haven’t updated your privacy settings, it’s easy for cybercriminals to make some educated guesses about how to best approach you.
Tip: If you receive such a claim, dismiss the conversation. Don’t provide further personal details and don’t add that person as a friend. Also, update your privacy settings to share your photos and posts only with people you really know.
2. Scam: Message from a friend
This scam appears as a private message from your friend. Attackers might have already accessed your friend’s credentials and forwarded them to a third party which can then use it to send spams to you and others.
Sending spam from real accounts works better for cyber criminals than setting up false accounts because people are more likely to trust a message from one of their social media friends. They are more likely to click on suspicious links or to open questionable messages than they would if the message looked like it was coming directly from, say, a bank.
Tip: If you start to get suspicious of social media messages from your friends, notify them immediately (but not by responding to any of those suspicious messages) that their accounts have likely been hacked. If you are redirected to a new page when you open the message, check the URL of this page. If it isn’t in line with where you expected to be sent to, leave immediately.
3. Scam: Bogus password reset requests
A user might, for instance, get an email that has all of the themes and imagery of a typical message from a social media account, except this email will tell the user they need to reset their password and will offer that user a login prompt to do so. The user clicks on the prompt, is directed to a fake webpage that looks like the social media site, and then the user enters their login and password. Just like that, the phishing attack has succeeded.
Tip: Compare the address of the sender to the address that usually appears when you get an email from this person or organization — it’s probably a fake. Look for telltale signs of forgery in emails that request personal information – spelling errors are immediate red flags.
If the prompt to a webpage to enter your data has an URL that is different than the site you expected to be going to, that is a sure sign of a phishing attack.
4. Scam: 18+ Video and Malicious extension
The scammer starts by hijacking several social media accounts. On their behalf, the criminal shares a post with a link to something that is supposed to be a YouTube video suitable for adults only. The bad guys also tag about a dozen friends of each of those accounts. The video would not play, and the page would suggest that you install a browser extension in order to play it. When installed, that extension steals your data because it has access to all the data the user inputs in the browser, including your logins, passwords, and credit card information — as soon as they type it in on some site.
The other thing it does is posting the same link to the same video on the victim’s social media page such as Facebook and thus continuing to spread the malware.
Tip: If your friend wanted you to click on a link, he would surely give you a better description as to why you should click. Either do not click on the link, or click and be extremely cautious about what you do next. Do not install or get rid off extension with no description, no screenshots and no rating.
5. Scam: Trending topics
Twitter created the concept of “trending” topics, and hashtags are the medium for labeling content to increase its popularity. However, there are users who hijack trending topics to lead to content that masquerades as relevant to the topic, but instead includes a link that leads to offensive or harmful web pages.
Beware, because whether it’s the latest celebrity buzz or a major tragedy in the news, trolls are particularly effective at doing this because their posts during sensitive times inflame readers —tweets mocking victims of school shootings, for instance — and by outraging people can entice them to click through to bad content.
Tip: Don’t feed the trolls and just ignore or report them. Whether they are bullies or spammers, sooner or later you’re going to end up with unwanted and potentially malicious followers. Periodically scroll through your list of followers and block to prevent them from seeing your updates.
6. Scam: Calls for help
Scammers often trick victims with shocking stories about dying babies, drowning puppies, or struggling veterans. Such posts travel around social networks disguised as calls for help and generate a lot of reposts, but a large proportion of them are scams. In fact, they are used for financial theft, phishing, and spreading malware. Real calls for help are usually created by your family, friends, and friends of your friends.
Tip: Be vigilant and do a check on each post before clicking its “Like” or “Share” buttons. Don’t want to check each and every post of this kind? Then don’t click on it at all — don’t risk turning yourself and your friends into scam victims.
Most importantly, ensure that your web browser, antivirus, and all software programs on your computer are always updated to the latest versions that have the latest security patches. | {
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Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Cupertino US
Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Cupertino, CA US
Patent application number
Description
Published
20090006876
STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING FUNCTION FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION - For at least one of storage unit, processor and cache memory which are I/O process-participating devices related to I/O command process, when a load of one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is a low load equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, a processing related to a state of one or more of the I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is redirected to another one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof, and the state of the one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is shifted to a power-saving state.
01-01-2009
20090144496
FAST ACCESSIBLE COMPRESSED THIN PROVISIONING VOLUME - A computerized data storage system includes at least one storage device including a nonvolatile writable medium; a cache memory operatively coupled to the storage port and including a data storing area and a data management controller and a storage port. The storage port is operable to connect to a host computer, receive and send I/O information required by the host computer. The storage port is also operable to receive a request to read data, and, in response to the request to read data, the storage port is operable to send the data stored in the data storing area of the cache memory. The storage port is further operable to receive a request to write data, and, in response to the request to write data, the storage port is operable to send the write data to the data storing area of the cache memory. The storage system further includes a thin provisioning controller operable to provide a virtual volume having a virtual volume page, a capacity pool having a capacity pool page and manage a mapping between the virtual volume page and the capacity pool page. The storage system further includes a data compression controller operable to perform a compression operation, and a data decompression controller operable to perform a decompression operation.
06-04-2009
20090240880
HIGH AVAILABILITY AND LOW CAPACITY THIN PROVISIONING - A data storage system and method for simultaneously providing thin provisioning and high availability. The system includes external storage volume and two storage subsystems coupled together and to external storage volume. Each of storage subsystems includes disk drives and a cache area, each of the storage subsystems includes at least one virtual volume and at least one capacity pool. The virtual volume is allocated from storage elements of the at least one capacity pool. The capacity pool includes the disk drives and at least a portion of external storage volume. The storage elements of the capacity pool are allocated to the virtual volume in response to a data access request. The system further includes a host computer coupled to the storage subsystems and configured to switch input/output path between the storage subsystems. Each of the storage subsystems is adapted to copy received write I/O request to other storage subsystems. Upon receipt of request from another storage subsystem, storage element of the capacity pool of storage subsystem is prevented from being allocated to the virtual volume of that storage subsystem.
09-24-2009
20100049823
Initial copyless remote copy - Embodiments of the invention reduce the traffic between datacenters during initial remote copy. In one embodiment, a computer system comprises a first datacenter including a first source volume and a second datacenter including a second source volume. Prior to establishment of remote copy of deployed volumes between the first datacenter and the second datacenter, the first source volume of the first datacenter and the second source volume of the second datacenter have identical source objects. During establishment of remote copy, the first datacenter replicates the source object in the first source volume to a first target volume, the second datacenter replicates the source object in the second source volume to a second target volume, and a first replicated object in the first target volume and a second replicated object in the second target volume are related to each other by remote copy with no copying therebetween.
02-25-2010
20100057789
Low traffic failback remote copy - The local storage performs remote copy to the remote storage. For low traffic failback remote copy, the remote storage performs a delta copy to the local storage, the delta being the difference between the remote storage and local storage. The local storage backs up snapshot data. The remote storage resolves the difference of the snapshot of the local storage and the remote storage. The difference resolution method can take one of several approaches. First, the system informs the timing of snapshot of the local storage to the remote storage and records the accessed area of the data. Second, the system informs the timing of snapshot of the local storage to the remote storage, and the remote storage makes a snapshot and compares the snapshot and remote copied data. Third, the system compares the local data and remote copy data with hashed data.
03-04-2010
20100058319
AGILE DEPLOYMENT OF SERVER - System and method for agile deployment of servers. The system includes one or more storage subsystems, a host computer and a storage management server or general severs together with a system management server. A system administrator or a storage supplier preliminarily installs an application package on a server. The application package may include an operating system, programs, libraries, configuration data and initial data. When the system requires a new physical or virtual server, the system administrator replicates the installed application package and conducts the new server runs with the replicated application package. Operation sequences are provided for order of copying of the application package between the management servers and the storage subsystems. Change in the data from an initial state may be stored instead of the complete data.
03-04-2010
20100107003
Fast Data Recovery From HDD Failure - A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe.
04-29-2010
20100274966
HIGH AVAILABILTY LARGE SCALE IT SYSTEMS WITH SELF RECOVERY FUNCTIONS - Storage Systems in the IT system provide information of the status of its components to the System Monitoring Server. System Monitoring Server calculates storage availability of storage systems based on information using failure rates of the components, and determines whether the volumes of the storage system should be migrated based on a predetermined policy. If migration is required, System Monitoring Server selects the target storage system based on storage availability of storage systems, and requests migration to be performed.
10-28-2010
20110066802
DYNAMIC PAGE REALLOCATION STORAGE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - In one embodiment, a storage system for storage management in a tiered storage environment comprises a plurality of storage volumes in a pool which are divided into a plurality of tiers having different tier levels, the tiers being organized according to a tier configuration rule, the plurality of storage volumes provided by a plurality of physical storage devices in the storage system; and a controller controlling the plurality of physical storage devices, the controller including a processor and a memory. The controller changes tier configurations of the tiers of storage volumes when the tier configuration rule is changed, the tier configurations including the tier levels. The controller allocates the pool to a plurality of virtual volumes based on a change of tier levels against the physical storage devices which occurs when the pool does not meet the tier configuration rule that was in effect.
03-17-2011
20110072225
APPLICATION AND TIER CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN DYNAMIC PAGE REALLOCATION STORAGE SYSTEM - For storage management in a tiered storage environment in a system having one or more applications running on a host computer which is connected to a storage system, the storage system comprises storage volumes in a pool which are divided into a plurality of tiers having different tier levels, the tiers being organized according to a tier configuration rule; and a controller. The controller allocates the pool to a plurality of virtual volumes based on a change of the tier levels against the physical storage devices. The controller stores a relation between data in the storage system being accessed by each application running on the host computer and an application ID of the application accessing the data. The tier level of a portion of a storage volume of the plurality of storage volumes is changed based at least in part on the application accessing data in the storage volume.
03-24-2011
20110126083
FAST DATA RECOVERY FROM HDD FAILURE - A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe.
05-26-2011
20110153905
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR I/O PATH SWITCHING - A system for input/output path switching comprises a host; a network switch coupled to the host; and a plurality of storage systems which include a first storage system and a second storage system. For switching an I/O path, from a path between the host and the first storage system via the network switch to another path between the host and the second storage system via the network switch, one of the host or the network switch changes FCID (Fibre Channel Node port identifier) information therein, to migrate a WWPN (World Wide Port Name) from association with the first storage system network interface to association with the second storage system network interface. The FCID information includes address information of storage system network interfaces of the storage systems for connecting to the network switch.
06-23-2011
20110208909
REDUCTION OF I/O LATENCY FOR WRITABLE COPY-ON-WRITE SNAPSHOT FUNCTION - According to one aspect of the invention, a method of controlling a storage system comprises storing data in a first volume in the storage system which has volumes including the first volume and a plurality of second volumes; prohibiting write I/O (input/output) access against the first volume after storing the data in the first volume; performing subsequent write requests received by the storage system against the second volumes in the storage system after storing the data in the first volume, each write request having a target volume which is one of the second volumes; and in response to each one write request of the write requests, determining whether the target volume of the one write request is write prohibited or not, and performing the one write request only if the target volume is not write prohibited.
08-25-2011
20110252274
Methods and Apparatus for Managing Error Codes for Storage Systems Coupled with External Storage Systems - A system comprising a plurality of storage systems, which uses storage devices of multiple levels of reliability. The reliability as a whole system is increased by keeping the error code for the relatively low reliability storage disks in the relatively high reliability storage system. The error code is calculated using hash functions and the value is used to compare with the hash value of the data read from the relatively low reliability storage disks.
10-13-2011
20120005504
STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING FUNCTION FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION - For at least one of storage unit, processor and cache memory which are I/O process-participating devices related to I/O command process, when a load of one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is a low load equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, a processing related to a state of one or more of the I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is redirected to another one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof, and the state of the one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is shifted to a power-saving state.
01-05-2012
20120017061
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DATA BETWEEN STORAGE SYSTEMS PROVIDING DIFFERENT STORAGE FUNCTIONS - A system comprises a plurality of storage systems, which provides different storage functions, and is controlled by a management server. The management server determines whether to change the control of the storage controller between the storage systems, or to mount the target volume as an external volume and keep the storage controller under control so that the storage function provided to the source volume is maintained even after the configuration change between the storage systems. After the determination, the management server instructs the storage system to perform according to the determination.
01-19-2012
20120047346
TIERED STORAGE POOL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL FOR LOOSELY COUPLED MULTIPLE STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - A system comprises a first storage system including a first storage controller, which receives input/output commands from host computers and provides first storage volumes to the host computers; and a second storage system including a second storage controller which receives input/output commands from host computers and provides second storage volumes to the host computers. A first data storing region of one of the first storage volumes is allocated from a first pool by the first storage controller. A second data storing region of another one of the first storage volumes is allocated from a second pool by the first storage controller. A third data storing region of one of the second storage volumes is allocated from the first pool by the second storage controller. A fourth data storing region of another one of the second storage volumes is allocated from the second pool by the second storage controller.
02-23-2012
20120179864
METRICS AND MANAGEMENT FOR FLASH MEMORY STORAGE LIFE - According to one aspect of the invention, a method of evaluating reliability of flash memory media comprises managing a flash memory remaining life for each disk of a plurality of flash memory media disks provided in one or more flash memory media groups each of which has a configuration and a relationship between said each flash memory media group and the flash memory media disks in said each flash memory media group, wherein each flash memory media group is one of a RAID group or a thin provisioning pool; and calculating to obtain information of each flash memory media group based on the measured flash memory remaining life for each disk in said each flash memory media group, the configuration of said each flash memory media group, and the relationship between said each flash memory media group and the flash memory media disks in said each flash memory media group.
07-12-2012
20120226672
Method and Apparatus to Align and Deduplicate Objects - In deduplicating data including objects, the system obtains information of the location of the objects and uses the information in calculating the hash value. The hash value calculation program divides data from the boundary location to chunks to match the boundary location of the objects subject to deduplication and the hash value is calculated from each chunk.
09-06-2012
20120226876
NETWORK EFFICIENCY FOR CONTINUOUS REMOTE COPY - A method for controlling data for a storage system comprises: receiving a write input/output (I/O) command of a data from a host computer, the write I/O command including an application ID identifying an application operating on the host computer which sends the write I/O request; maintaining a record of a relation between the application ID in the write I/O command and a storage location of the data to be written in a first volume of the storage system; determining, based on the application ID, whether a data transfer function between the first volume and a second storage volume is to be performed on the data beyond writing the data to the storage location in the first volume; and if the data transfer function is to be performed on the data, then performing the data transfer function on the data to the second volume.
09-06-2012
20120290750
Systems and Methods For Eliminating Single Points of Failure For Storage Subsystems - Systems and methods directed to preventing a single point of failure by utilizing N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). During some procedures used by storage subsystems, such as migration, there is oftentimes only a single path from a host to a storage subsystem, which causes a potential single point of failure for the entire system. By utilizing NPIV, this problem may be mitigated.
11-15-2012
20120304006
LOW TRAFFIC FAILBACK REMOTE COPY - The local storage performs remote copy to the remote storage. For low traffic failback remote copy, the remote storage performs a delta copy to the local storage, the delta being the difference between the remote storage and local storage. The local storage backs up snapshot data. The remote storage resolves the difference of the snapshot of the local storage and the remote storage. The difference resolution method can take one of several approaches. First, the system informs the timing of snapshot of the local storage to the remote storage and records the accessed area of the data. Second, the system informs the timing of snapshot of the local storage to the remote storage, and the remote storage makes a snapshot and compares the snapshot and remote copied data. Third, the system compares the local data and remote copy data with hashed data.
11-29-2012
20120324162
STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING FUNCTION FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION - For at least one of storage unit, processor and cache memory which are I/O process-participating devices related to I/O command process, when a load of one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is a low load equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, a processing related to a state of one or more of the I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is redirected to another one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof, and the state of the one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is shifted to a power-saving state.
12-20-2012
20130054891
DISTRIBUTION DESIGN FOR FAST RAID REBUILD ARCHITECTURE - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a distribution design for fast RAID rebuild architecture that avoids the deterioration of the availability/reliability in the distribution architecture. According to one aspect of the invention, a storage system comprises: a data storage unit including a plurality of storage devices; a storage controller including a processor, a memory, and a controller for controlling data transfer between the memory and corresponding storage devices in the data storage unit; and an internal network coupled between the storage controller and the storage devices. Based on loads of the processor of the storage controller and the internal network, the storage controller controls to limit a number of redundant storage devices over which to distribute a write data.
02-28-2013
20130054894
INCREASE IN DEDUPLICATION EFFICIENCY FOR HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments provide improvement of deduplication efficiency for hierarchical storage systems. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises a storage controller; and a plurality of first volumes and a plurality of external volumes which are configured to be mounted to external devices. The storage controller controls to store related data which are derived from one of the plurality of first volumes in a first external volume of the plurality of external volumes. In another embodiment, the storage controller receives object data from a server and allocates the object data to the plurality of pool volumes. The plurality of pool volumes include a plurality of external volumes which are configured to be mounted to external devices. The storage controller controls to store the object data to the plurality of pool volumes based on object allocation information received from a backup server.
02-28-2013
20130103778
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CHANGE TIERS - Systems and methods directed to changing tiers for a storage area that utilizes thin provisioning. Systems and methods check the area subject to a tier change command and change the tier based on the tier specified in the tier change command, and the tier presently associated with the targeted storage area. The pages of the systems and methods may be further restricted to one file per page.
04-25-2013
20130132668
VOLUME COPY MANAGEMENT METHOD ON THIN PROVISIONING POOL OF STORAGE SUBSYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments provide integrated thin provisioning pool for primary logical volume and secondary logical volume in a storage subsystem. A storage system comprises a processor; a memory; and a storage controller. In one embodiment, the storage controller is configured to allocate storage area from a first pool in response to a write request, and to control allocation of storage areas for a plurality of related data, which are to be allocated from the first pool, from different specified RAID groups in the first pool. In another embodiment, the storage controller is configured to allocate storage area from a first pool in response to a write request, and to control allocation of storage areas for a plurality of related data, which are to be allocated from the first pool, from different RAID groups in the first pool.
05-23-2013
20130179737
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ERROR CODES FOR STORAGE SYSTEMS COUPLED WITH EXTERNAL STORAGE SYSTEMS - A system comprising a plurality of storage systems, which uses storage devices of multiple levels of reliability. The reliability as a whole system is increased by keeping the error code for the relatively low reliability storage disks in the relatively high reliability storage system. The error code is calculated using hash functions and the value is used to compare with the hash value of the data read from the relatively low reliability storage disks.
07-11-2013
20130238852
MANAGEMENT INTERFACE FOR MULTIPLE STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS VIRTUALIZATION - A storage system comprises: storage subsystems having storage controllers managing virtual volumes, each storage controller managing a plurality of logical volumes and controlling to store data for a virtual volume of the virtual volumes to a logical volume of the logical volumes; and a control module operable, in response to receiving a command commanding a registration of a storage function for a virtual volume, to translate the received command into a translated command commanding a registration of the storage function for a target logical volume of the logical volumes, based on a mapping between the virtual volumes, the logical volumes, and the storage controllers. The storage controller which manages the target logical volume processes the translated command commanding the registration of the storage function for the target logical volume. The control module is provided in at least one of the storage controllers or another computer in the storage system.
09-12-2013
20130297899
TRAFFIC REDUCING ON DATA MIGRATION - Exemplary embodiments provide a technique to reduce the traffic between storage devices during data migration. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of storage systems which are operable to migrate a set of primary and secondary volumes between the storage systems by managing and copying, between the storage systems, a plurality of same data and a plurality of difference data between the primary and secondary volumes and location information of each of the plurality of difference data, the location information identifying a location of the difference data in the primary or secondary volume associated with the difference data. Each secondary volume which corresponds to a primary volume, if said each source secondary volume contains data, has a same data as the primary volume and, if said each secondary volume is not synchronized with the primary volume, further has a difference data with respect to the primary volume.
11-07-2013
20140115384
FAST DATA RECOVERY FROM HDD FAILURE - A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe.
04-24-2014
20140173390
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ERROR CODES FOR STORAGE SYSTEMS COUPLED WITH EXTERNAL STORAGE SYSTEMS - A system comprising a plurality of storage systems, which uses storage devices of multiple levels of reliability. The reliability as a whole system is increased by keeping the error code for the relatively low reliability storage disks in the relatively high reliability storage system. The error code is calculated using hash functions and the value is used to compare with the hash value of the data read from the relatively low reliability storage disks.
06-19-2014
20150067257
FAST ACCESSIBLE COMPRESSED THIN PROVISIONING VOLUME - A computerized data storage system includes at least one storage device including a nonvolatile writable medium; a cache memory and a data management controller and a storage port. The storage port is operable to receive a request to read data, and, in response to the request to read data, to send the data stored in the data storing area of the cache memory. The storage port is further operable to receive a request to write data, and, in response to the request to write data, to send the write data to the data storing area of the cache memory. The storage system further includes a thin provisioning controller operable to provide a virtual volume, and a capacity pool. The storage system further includes a data compression controller and a data decompression controller. | {
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Creating a Hunting Club: Critical Relocation
Images and story by Thomas Allen
Endure tough conditions and work hard now. The effort will pay off later when it matters. — Anonymous entrepreneur
On our 600-acre property we have 11 shooting houses. Ten of those sit overlooking BioLogic food plots, and one is completely out of use. Of those 10 huntable locations, four were absolutely trashed and two of those needed relocated to better accommodate access and seasonal wind directions.
When we started the club in September of 2017, we knew adjustments to those houses and their locations would have to be made at some point. But during our first year we decided to hunt them as is due to budget and timing.
It was a decision that could have negatively impacted how productive our hunting was overall, but it was still educational seeing first-hand how the deer reacted to each spot. I believe it was essential to witness movement on the club is it was, now the changes we accomplish make more sense.
We decided to add two new shooting houses to existing food plots where the existing house was in very poor repair, and add one. Then two new shooting houses on new food plots.
We started 2018 with a pretty big list of tasks and expectations. We were able to get a head start on that list, and on a reasonable budget, which required sweat equity and creativity.
As we stand, we’ve got a good handle on Project Critical Relocation.
The Timber
If you followed last year’s series, you know that one of our members owns a small sawmill. His brother-in-law happens to own a tree-cutting business, and has seemingly unlimited access to pine logs.
All to our potential benefit.
To buy the 4x4s, 2x6s and 3/4-inch pressure treated plywood for decking it would cost us over $300 per platform. That’s not including building a solid shooting house on top of the platform. You may as well just figure another $300+ for that.
With Paul’s sawmill and access to uncut timber, factor in a few tanks of gas, a few saw blades and several hot Alabama days at the sawmill’s helm we accomplished the goal of generating materials at a fraction of the cost.
I’d like to show you a few of the finished products and why we did what we did.
Saving Money
Knowing how much it cost to build a complete shooting house from top to bottom we evaluated our options. Based on our available budget, we just couldn’t build multiple brand new shooting houses. But we could manage a few platforms built out of milled lumber.
Time was also a factor to consider. It took several days to mill the lumber for four new shooting house platforms. It would take at least that long to produce lumber for the top halves.
To save on both we came up with an alternative that I believe will prove just as effective, perhaps even long term. I designed the shooting house platforms with dimensions to comfortably accommodate two to three hunters inside a standard 5-hub ground blind.
That produces a savings of over $200 if we were to buy the materials to build hard-side permanent houses.
I can’t think of a good reason to do otherwise.
At first, I thought the ground blind option would be a temporary solution until we could afford to build a permanent house. But the wasps don’t seem to mess with the blind nearly as much as they do a solid, wooden structure And we can take the blinds down at the end of the season to help lengthen it’s lifespan.
The Remodel
We had two houses that were in the right location, but needed a new structure. I mean, they were in very. Sorry. Shape. Not to mention very uncomfortable.
This video shows a platform that we completely overhauled and put an Ameristep blind on top of in place of a “permanent” house.
There is one more remodel that we hope to have accomplished before the season arrives. But this one in particular is ready to go.
The Relocations
There were two shooting houses overlooking BioLogic food plots that were really in the exact wrong spot. Access — in and out — was the primary concern for each house. One in fact was in the middle of the food plot; you were literally bumping deer off it every time you left after dark.
Honestly, I'm not sure what the original builder was thinking. Perhaps they didn’t want to kill any deer. (I jest, but seriously)
On Field 10, we built a platform with an Ameristep blind on it that is now directly adjacent to the access road. Now you can slip out of the house and get down the road without deer seeing you, even if they are feeding in the field. This particular spot will now require a specific wind, but when conditions are right it could be one of the best sits on the club.
The second spot we relocated was in a bottom field covered in BioLogic Maximum. It was a beautiful food plot last year. We’ll be planting it the same way again this year.
The shooting house, however, was a mere 10 yards off the edge of the field and you had to walk across half of it to access the house. It was in the basin of the bowl-like formation of the surrounding land, meaning any forecasted wind would swirl bad, no matter what.
My daughter shot the first deer on the club last year over this food plot. It worked once, but many visits after that ended up in a goose egg. We decided to move the house back 70 yards and up the hill. The new position will allow for better scent control as the wind is much more consistent in that spot, and access is 100-precent better.
We’re very excited about both spots now. They are completely revamped with new platforms and blinds in locations that will reduce human presence and scent dispersion.
More to come…
About the author: Thomas Allen calls central Alabama home, where he lives with his beloved wife, Kathryn, and two growing children, Tommy and Taylor. Follow Thomas on Twitter: @ThomasAllenIV and Instagram: ThomasAllen4 | {
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Nahsville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne made one of the best saves of the NHL playoffs on Monday to prevent a wild goal against the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Incredible.
The replay and slo-mo from the announcers shows just how close the Predators came to giving up a wacky goal. | {
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FBI interviews accuser; Yale friend remembers heavy drinker
FBI agents on Sunday interviewed one of the three women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as Republicans and Democrats quarreled over whether the bureau would have enough time and freedom to conduct a thorough investigation before a high-stakes vote on his nomination to the nation’s highest court.
The White House insisted it was not “micromanaging” the new one-week review of Kavanaugh’s background but some Democratic lawmakers claimed the White House was keeping investigators from interviewing certain witnesses. President Donald Trump, for his part, tweeted that no matter how much time and discretion the FBI was given, “it will never be enough” for Democrats trying to keep Kavanaugh off the bench.
And even as the FBI explored the past allegations that have surfaced against Kavanaugh, another Yale classmate came forward to accuse the federal appellate judge of being untruthful in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the extent of his drinking in college.
In speaking to FBI agents, Deborah Ramirez detailed her allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the early 1980s when they were students at Yale University, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to publicly discuss details of a confidential investigation.
Kavanaugh has denied Ramirez’s allegation.
The person familiar with Ramirez’s questioning, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said she also provided investigators with the names of others who she said could corroborate her account.
But Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, has not been contacted by the FBI since Trump on Friday ordered the agency to take another look at the nominee’s background, according to a member of Ford’s team.
Kavanaugh has denied assaulting Ford.
In a statement released Sunday, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s said he is “deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale.” Charles “Chad” Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, said he was friend of Kavanaugh’s at Yale and that Kavanaugh was “a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker.”
“On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive,” Ludington said. While saying that youthful drinking should not condemn a person for life, Ludington said he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s statements under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Speaking to the issue of the scope of the FBI’s investigation, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said White House counsel Don McGahn, who is managing Kavanaugh’s nomination, “has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like, and what the scope of the investigation is.”
“The White House isn’t intervening. We’re not micromanaging this process. It’s a Senate process. It has been from the beginning, and we’re letting the Senate continue to dictate what the terms look like,” Sanders said.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the investigation will be “limited in scope” and “will not be a fishing expedition. The FBI is not tasked to do that.”
Senate Judiciary Committee member Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., requested an investigation last Friday — after he and other Republicans on the panel voted along strict party lines in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation — as a condition for his own subsequent vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
Another committee member, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday that testimony would be taken from Ramirez and Kavanaugh’s high school friend Mark Judge, who has been named by two of three women accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.
“I think that will be the scope of it. And that should be the scope of it,” Graham said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on the White House and the FBI to provide the written directive regarding the investigation’s scope. In a letter Sunday, she also asked for updates on any expansion of the original directive.
Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday she is confident in the investigation and “that the FBI will follow up on any leads that result from the interviews.” The Maine Republican supports the new FBI investigation and is among a few Republican and Democratic senators who have not announced a position on Kavanaugh.
Republicans control 51 seats in the closely divided 100-member Senate and cannot afford to lose more than one vote on confirmation.
Collins and Flake spoke throughout the weekend.
Senate Republicans discussed the contours of the investigation with the White House late Friday, according to a person familiar with the call who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had gathered Judiciary Committee Republicans in his office earlier. At that time, the scope of the investigation was requested by Flake, Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said McConnell’s spokesman Don Stewart.
Murkowski is not on the committee, but also has not announced how she will vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Republicans later called the White House to discuss the scope of the probe, the person said.
McConnell’s office declined to elaborate Sunday on which allegations would be investigated, reiterating only that it would focus on “current credible allegations.” Stewart said the investigation’s scope “was set” by the three GOP senators Friday and “has not changed.”
But Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, a Judiciary Committee member, doubted how credible the investigation will be given the time limit.
“That’s bad enough, but then to limit the FBI as to the scope and who they’re going to question, that – that really – I wanted to use the word farce, but that’s not the kind of investigation that all of us are expecting the FBI to conduct,” she said.
Trump initially opposed such an investigation as allegations began mounting but relented and ordered one on Friday. He later said the FBI has “free rein.”
“They’re going to do whatever they have to do, whatever it is they do. They’ll be doing things that we have never even thought of,” Trump said Saturday as he departed the White House for a trip to West Virginia. “And hopefully at the conclusion everything will be fine.”
He revisited the “scope” question later Saturday on Twitter, writing in part, “I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion.”
Sanders said Trump, who has vigorously defended Kavanaugh but also raised the slight possibility of withdrawing the nomination should damaging information be found, “will listen to the facts.”
At least three women have accused Kavanaugh of years-ago misconduct. He denies all the claims.
The third woman, Julie Swetnick, accused Kavanaugh and Judge of excessive drinking and inappropriate treatment of women in the early 1980s, among other accusations. Kavanaugh has called her accusations a “joke.” Judge has said he “categorically” denies the allegations.
Swetnick’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, said Saturday that his client had not been contacted by the FBI but was willing to cooperate with investigators.
Ford also has said Judge was in the room when a drunken Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Judge has said he will cooperate with any law enforcement agency that will “confidentially investigate” sexual misconduct allegations against him and Kavanaugh. Judge has also denied misconduct allegations.
Sanders spoke on “Fox News Sunday,” Conway appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and Graham and Hirono were interviewed on ABC’s “This Week.”
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Environmental Inspiration in Your Own Backyard
Plants In Your Backyard April 15, 2010
In our last plant post we talked about plants that you might find just outside of your backyard, in a nearby wooded area or marsh. Today, though, I want to talk about two of my favorite backyard plants. These plants are ubiquitous in yards and roadsides all over Pennsylvania. They are both considered weeds by most, but to me they will always be beautiful and fascinating plant neighbors.
The first is one everyone is familiar with. For the life of me I do not know why everyone hates this “weed” so much, as nothing makes an otherwise plain yard more beautiful than to be speckled with bright yellow flowers.
Yes, the dandelion! The dandelion’s name comes from the french, “dente de lion,” which translates to “lion’s tooth.” This name comes from the jagged edged leaves of the dandelion plant, whose little triangles you can see in the following picture:
Dandelions are my favorite flower. Besides the beautiful yellow color, they are also very tough, as anyone who has tried to rid their yard of them will know. They are hearty, and grow back against all odds, which I thought made them a great role model as a young girl growing up.
Dandelions are also useful for other reasons. Their leaves can be eaten, although they are best earlier in the spring before the flowers bloom. The flower petals can be used to make dandelion wine, and the root can be roasted and crushed to make a caffeine-free coffee. People often made this coffee in the American Civil War, actually, when real coffee was scarce.
The next plant that you can find all around you is another of my personal favorites–onion grass. Onion grass is actually from South Africa, but has been naturalized in the United States. It is not really a grass, as the name implies, but a small plant with leaves that are upright and long. You can see a picture of some from the yard near my apartment here:
Onion grass does in fact have small wild onion bulbs and can be eaten (as long as no chemicals were used on the lawn!) much like chives are. I am not completely sure why I loved onion grass so much as a kid, but I really did. It could be because I used to make “soups” from different plants and mud in old jars to pretend to eat, and the small onions were a perfect ingredient! Once in kindergarten or first grade we had to bring in a ‘sign of spring’ for show and tell, and I brought in a clump of onion grass. The teacher was confused and asked me if it was, in fact, an indicator of spring, because she had never heard of it before. I had never thought, until then, that maybe I was the only one excited to see it when warmer months finally arrived.
It is impressive to me, in retrospect, how much time my brother and I must have spent outside growing up. How was I familiar enough with our yard and the plants that grew there to associate onion grass with Spring at such a young age? It is the type of knowledge you can only get by spending hours and hours immersed in the small things, crawling around in the grass. Now that I am so much higher up off the ground as an adult, I’m not sure I would even notice onion grass if not for the memories I have from childhood. For this reason it is important we get kids out there when they are young and still have the size and imagination to experience the natural world up close and without separation.
I would like to add that while my brother and I did spend a lot of time outside by ourselves, we only did so because my parents first spent the time taking us out there and exploring with us. Without that influence I am not sure if we would have been so eager to get out there!
So head outside and see what there is to see! You don’t need to go far, especially if you have a young child with you! There is plenty to explore even within a five foot radius. What types of plants do you see? Do you know their names? Are they similar to each other or different? Can you find any insects or evidence that they have been eating there? What is the soil like? What kind of conditions make it a good place for those plants and insects to live in? What else would you expect to see living in this type of place?
There are so many things to learn. It can seem overwhelming, especially if you aren’t very familiar with the plants and animals that live in your neighborhood. It doesn’t have to be, though! Let’s each try to learn just one new thing today. I, for one, am going to try to figure out what that small purple-flowered plant is that I saw growing next to the onion grass. | {
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Jeb Bush said that Democrats win black voters with 'free stuff'
The comment echoed criticism from Mitt Romney in 2012, when he said Barack Obama won minorities with "gifts"
Washington (CNN)Jeb Bush told a South Carolina crowd Thursday that Democrats play to African-American voters by offering "free stuff," a similar comment to a contentious one that Mitt Romney made in the days after his 2012 loss to President Barack Obama.
Bush, analyzing Republicans' chances with black voters, said that his party needs to make a better case to the traditionally Democratic voting bloc.
"Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn't one of division and 'Get in line and we'll take care of you with free stuff,'" Bush said Thursday at an event in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said at the time, according to audio obtained by ABC News.
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Other Republicans quickly denounced Romney's comments and party leaders, as part of their assessment of how to win in 2016, determined that they needed to do a better job reaching out to minorities.
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•I became a believer in PEOs when after taking 4 PEO soft gels before beginning a 28 mile cross-country bike race, I finished the race with no joint pain and no muscle cramps. In fact, at the end of the 28 miles, I could have kept going while my companions were completely spent. This was the first time I had finished without being in pain in 4 years of bicycle racing.If that wasn’t enough, after just two months use of PEOs, after a routine medical checkup, my doctor asked me in a very serious way what I had been doing differently? Because I have been runningslightlyhighonmycholesterolfor several years, I expected to be told that my cholesterol had become worse and that I needed to go on drugs to reduce it. Instead, he told me that my cholesterol had come down 40 points, with my good cholesterol being higher and my bad cholesterol being much lower. I told him the only thing different that I had been doing was supplementing with PEOs.Patrick S•At 70 and after having a serious spinal injury one of my challenges is intensifying my physical workouts. I am intent on rebuilding lean muscle mass and endurance. Cramping and pain from lactic acid buildup during aggressive workouts plague everyone and especially people my age. Since consuming Parent Essential Oils before my workouts and again later in the day, I have seen dramatic results. My recovery is amazing even when I have gone way too far and past common sense. Hank H•Since using these parent oils for the first time now I can tell that my mind is sharper. It’s been about a week since I started taking them and have been able to notice the difference. Very encouraging. Sue C.
•I just wanted to provide some feedback on one patient that I implemented the use of PEOs for atopic dermatitis. He had been taking 6 grams of fish oil per day as he was on some bizarre, weight-lifting-crazy, low-fat diet where the only fat he took was fish oil. I stopped his fish oil (of course!) and started PEOs in combination with good skin care and some mild topical steroids…. After fifteen doctors, seven years of severe, almost debilitating, eczema was gone in two months. An absolutely fabulous case!! Made my day!!Dr. Jonathan Carp, M.D.•High blood pressure has been my problem for a long time. I have been on medication for this and my real desire is to not take this any longer. After just one week of using Parent Essential Oils my blood pressure is reading normal! This is the first time I have seen a ‘supplement’ have this kind of effect on me. I am very encouraged. Corene C.•I knew that if you guys recommended these PEOs I would probably be pleased with the outcome. I was still surprised that I could tell a definite increase of quality energy after taking them even the first time. As a retired electrical engineer I analyze things quite well and I am excited about using the parent essential fatty acids long term. Marcie R.•I did order two bottles of the Parent Essential Oils and started taking them on Tuesday. I immediately noticed that I experienced less effort to do physical exercise and had a quicker recovery afterwards on my very next morning workout. Since I am in my 70’s I usually do not notice benefits so quickly when beginning to use a new supplement.Mel W.
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•I became a believer in PEOs when after taking 4 PEO soft gels before beginning a 28 mile cross-country bike race, I finished the race with no joint pain and no muscle cramps. In fact, at the end of the 28 miles, I could have kept going while my companions were completely spent. This was the first time I had finished without being in pain in 4 years of bicycle racing.If that wasn’t enough, after just two months use of PEOs, after a routine medical checkup, my doctor asked me in a very serious way what I had been doing differently? Because I have been runningslightlyhighonmycholesterolfor several years, I expected to be told that my cholesterol had become worse and that I needed to go on drugs to reduce it. Instead, he told me that my cholesterol had come down 40 points, with my good cholesterol being higher and my bad cholesterol being much lower. I told him the only thing different that I had been doing was supplementing with PEOs.Patrick S•At 70 and after having a serious spinal injury one of my challenges is intensifying my physical workouts. I am intent on rebuilding lean muscle mass and endurance. Cramping and pain from lactic acid buildup during aggressive workouts plague everyone and especially people my age. Since consuming Parent Essential Oils before my workouts and again later in the day, I have seen dramatic results. My recovery is amazing even when I have gone way too far and past common sense. Hank H•Since using these parent oils for the first time now I can tell that my mind is sharper. It’s been about a week since I started taking them and have been able to notice the difference. Very encouraging. Sue C.
•I just wanted to provide some feedback on one patient that I implemented the use of PEOs for atopic dermatitis. He had been taking 6 grams of fish oil per day as he was on some bizarre, weight-lifting-crazy, low-fat diet where the only fat he took was fish oil. I stopped his fish oil (of course!) and started PEOs in combination with good skin care and some mild topical steroids…. After fifteen doctors, seven years of severe, almost debilitating, eczema was gone in two months. An absolutely fabulous case!! Made my day!!Dr. Jonathan Carp, M.D.•High blood pressure has been my problem for a long time. I have been on medication for this and my real desire is to not take this any longer. After just one week of using Parent Essential Oils my blood pressure is reading normal! This is the first time I have seen a ‘supplement’ have this kind of effect on me. I am very encouraged. Corene C.•I knew that if you guys recommended these PEOs I would probably be pleased with the outcome. I was still surprised that I could tell a definite increase of quality energy after taking them even the first time. As a retired electrical engineer I analyze things quite well and I am excited about using the parent essential fatty acids long term. Marcie R.•I did order two bottles of the Parent Essential Oils and started taking them on Tuesday. I immediately noticed that I experienced less effort to do physical exercise and had a quicker recovery afterwards on my very next morning workout. Since I am in my 70’s I usually do not notice benefits so quickly when beginning to use a new supplement.Mel W. | {
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Monday, April 1, 2013
So Much Going On, So Little to Report
It’s an interesting time of the year right now.So much is going on yet nothing is going
on.I want to write a blog post about
something but no single subject can adequately fill a post.So let me break up THIS post into four pieces
and maybe that will fill up the better part of a page.I can say that once things start breaking
loose, there will be no shortage of things to talk about!
TABBY LANE
Tabby was covered early last week by Eastwood Dacat (Storm
Cat – Western Eternity) and now we wait.She was exhibiting signs of heat even after her first cover so she went
back to the shed.After that she was
fine, so now we will wait for a pregnancy check in another week or so.She handled the experience like a champ for a
maiden mare and all the credit goes to Lisa Duoos at Dove Hill Farm and Reproductive Services
for her patience and expertise.
ELUSIVE EDITION
Our 2-year old Minnesota bred filly (Late Edition – Mystical
Elusion) is doing as well as can be expected in the snow covered Minnesota
tundra.Thankfully the snow is melting
away and she should be getting her work in on a larger oval shortly instead of
the makeshift oval she has been using – BUT that’s WAY better than nothing and
foundation miles are foundation miles.Also, she’s learning her trade: how to be handled like a racehorse, what’s
expected of her in the morning, how to interact with her humans – all important
as well.As a 2-year old, I wouldn’t
expect her over to the track for a few more months but we are really anxious to
see her stretch her legs and see what we have.
CLAIMING GROUP
I have to say that this is one of the most energetic and fun
groups I’ve ever put together.There is
a core of really strong handicappers and racing fans that love exchanging
opinions which has made our Yahoo Group a ton of fun.It doesn’t hurt that many of the horses that
we discuss dropping a slip for go on to win.It’s become a pretty profitable betting angle for the group.
We have dropped slips on three occasions and been outshook
each and every time.While that DOES
tell us we are on the right track, it’s still frustrating as all get out.We have reached out for a private purchase
that we hope to be able to consummate this week that will get us a really nice
horse that should fit well into the upper claiming/possibly allowance ranks at
Canterbury for the summer.But we will
wait and see – it’s way too early to count chickens!That said, the horse would be coming from a
great outfit and I’d be really excited to have him part of our stable.
CANTERBURY RACING
CLUB
The management of the Canterbury Racing Club really begins
in earnest now that signups are done and we’ll start looking for horses.It looks like we exceeded last year’s
membership by about 17%, so that’s nice and gives us the basis for a nice start
with a couple of horses with Clay Brinson out of Hawthorne.We also got a nice mention in the Paulick
Report’s Good News Friday column which was fun to see we well.
As I said, there is a lot going on but, for now, everything
is on edge.Once it all starts to break
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Off with his hair! Prince William finally caves and shaves head
Prince William has never been shy about his receding hairline, but now he has debuted a dramatic new look. The Duke of Cambridge appeared pleased with his new look as he smiled and waved at fans at the launch of the Step into Health programme at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital on Thursday. Wearing a smart suit, he didn’t look a bit nervous as he greeted staff and kids inside.
Stopping to chat to some of the young patients, William knelt down and allowed the camera a close up of his head, laughing the whole time. While he’s been sporting a receding look for a few years now, it’s easily his closest shave to date.
Prince William greeted patients at the hospital. Source: Getty.
The look was very appropriate for the visit, as he met armed forces veterans. The programme helps former members of the armed forces and their partners take up careers in the NHS.
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William’s growing bald patch is a long-running joke within the royal family, and back in 2014, his wife Catherine joked that alpaca wool could be a great solution for his head while she visited the Sydney Royal Easter Show. According to reports at the time, she saw the wool before pointing to her husband’s head and saying: “You need it more than me.”
Meanwhile his brother Prince Harry certainly hasn’t held himself back, and back in 2010, while speaking to a World War Two veteran in Barbados, he joked William “was already bald aged 12”.
Prince William once had much thicker hair a few years ago.
Fans shared their thoughts on social media, and one tweeted: “William gets the crown, Harry got the hair,” while another added: “Prince William has more strength and pride than @realDonaldTrump He finally just let that last bit of hair go. Good for him.”
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Others weren’t as impressed, with one user even writing: “Prince William is a fool. He has more than enough money so he should’ve got a hair transplant the minute he saw a speck of baldness. Now look at him.”
An expert has since weighed in, and claimed the new cut shows the Duke has courage. Celebrity hair stylist Joe Mills told the Independent: “I think him just literally going I’m going to crop my hair off is a really strong statement, a very confident statement. If you are photographed and in the public eye to that degree it’s very, very hard to look great all the time.”
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Philosophy of Religion
Monday, December 04, 2006
FINAL EXAM
PHL 320: FINAL PAPERS
Please select one of these questions and write a 5-6 page paper in response.This is not a research paper, but make sure you properly cite your sources.Here’s a website that offers some helpful direction in how to write a philosophy paper:http://www.uwm.edu/~cbagnoli/paperguidelines.htmlIf all else fails, imagine you are talking to me, and that you are able to answer my question using your texts and notes, open-book style.
1. How can a person believe in the traditional theistic God when there is so much suffering and evil in the world? Discuss various responses that have been given in detail. How do you personally answer this question?
2. Explain and evaluate the various positions people take on the relationship of faith and reason. Which one do you find most convincing? Why? How would it pertain to the relationship of science and religion?
3. I Peter 3:15 says: “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” How have Christians “answered” unbelievers? Be sure to explain and evaluate, in detail, at least three arguments for the existence of God. Do you find any of them convincing? If so, which one, and why? If not, why not?
4. Is it possible to talk meaningfully about God? Discuss some of the ways people have understood religious language. How would you respond?
5. W. Clifford said, “It is wrong, always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” Explain what he meant, and its implications for religious belief. Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
6. You may have a topic that you would rather write upon than the ones above. If so, you must clear it with me by e-mail before Thursday at noon.
Please place your completed papers in my mailbox by 1:00 pm on THursday, December 14 in the Faculty Building. Steve will be picking them up for me that afternoon. Thanks so much for your participation in this class.
It will be remembered that the world view that formed the backdrop to the Deist controversy was a model of the universe as a Newtonian world-machine that bound even the hands of God. So ironclad a view of natural law is, however, untenable. Natural law is today understood essentially as description, not prescription. This does not mean that it cannot serve as a basis for prediction, for it does; but our formulation of a natural law is never so certain as to be beyond reformulation under the force of observed facts. Thus an event cannot be ruled out simply because it does not accord with the regular pattern of events. The advance of modern physics over the Newtonian world-machine is not that natural law does not exist, but that our formulation of it is not absolutely final. After all, even quantum physics does not mean to assert that matter and energy do not possess certain properties, such that anything and everything can happen; even indeterminacy occurs within statistical limits and concerns only the microscopic level. On the macroscopic level, firm natural laws do obtain.{62} But the knowledge of these properties and laws is derived from and based on experience. The laws of nature are thus not 'laws' in the rigid, prescriptive sense, but inductive generalizations.
This would appear to bring some comfort to the modern believer in miracles, for now he may argue that one cannot rule out a priori the fact that a certain event has occurred which does not conform to known natural law, since our formulation of natural law is never final and so must take account of the fact in question. It seems to me, however, that while this more descriptive understanding of natural law re-opens the door of possibility to certain anomalous events in the world, it does not help much in settling the question of miracles. The advantage gained is that one cannot rule out the occurrence of a certain event a priori, but the evidence for it must be weighed. The defender of miracles has thus at least gained a hearing. But one is still operating under the assumption, it would appear, that if the event really did run contrary to natural law, then it would be impossible for it to have occurred. The defender of miracles appeals to the fact that our natural laws are only inductive generalizations and so never certain, in order to gain admittance for his anomalous event; but presumably if an omniscient mind knew with certainty the precise formulations of the natural laws describing our universe then he would know a priori whether the event was or was not actually possible, since a true law of nature could not be violated.
As Bilynskyj argues, whether one adopts a regularity theory of natural law (according to which laws are simply descriptive of events and have no special modal quality) or a necessitarian theory (according to which natural laws are not merely descriptive of events but possess a special sort of modality determining nomic necessity/possibility), still so long as natural laws are conceived of as universal inductive generalizations the notion of a 'violation of a law of nature' is incoherent.{63} For on the regularity theory, since a law is a generalized description of whatever occurs, it follows that an event which occurs cannot violate a law. And on the necessitarian theory, since laws are universal generalizations which state what is physically necessary, a violation of a law cannot occur if the generalization is to remain truly universal. So long as laws are conceived of as universal generalizations, it is logically impossible to have a violation of a true law of nature.
Suppose that one attempts to rescue the notion of a 'violation' by introducing into the law certain ceteris paribus conditions, for example, that the law holds only if either (1) there are no other causally relevant natural forces interfering, or (2) there are no other causally relevant natural or supernatural forces interfering. Now clearly, (1) will not do the trick, for even if there were no natural forces interfering, the events predicted by the law might not occur because God would interfere. Hence, the alleged law, as a purportedly universal generalization, would not be true, and so a law of nature would not be violated should God interfere. But if, as (2) suggests, we include supernatural forces among the ceteris paribus conditions, it is equally impossible to violate the law. For now the statement of the law itself includes the condition that what the law predicts will occur only if God does not intervene, so that if he does the law is not violated. Hence, so long as natural laws are construed as universal generalizations about events, it is incoherent to speak of miracles as 'violations' of such laws.
The upshot of Bilynskyj's discussion is that either natural laws ought not to be construed as universal generalizations about events or that miracles should not be characterized as violations of nature's laws. He opts for the first alternative, arguing that laws of nature are really about the dispositional properties of things based on the kinds of things they are.{64} He observes that most laws today, when taken as universal generalizations, are literally not true. They must include certain ceteris paribus clauses about conditions which seldom or perhaps never obtain, so that laws become subjunctive conditionals concerning what would occur under certain idealized conditions. But that means that laws are true counterfactuals with no application to the real world. Moreover, if laws are merely descriptive generalizations, then they do not really explain anything; rather than telling why some event occurs, they only serve to tell us how things are. Bilynskyj therefore proposes that natural laws ought to be formulated as singular statements about certain kinds of things and their dispositional properties: things of kind A have a disposition to manifest quality F in conditions C, in virtue of being of nature N.{65} Laws can be stated, however, as universal dispositions, for example, 'All potassium has a disposition to ignite when exposed to oxygen.' On this understanding, to assert that an event is physically impossible is not to say that it is a violation of a law of nature, since dispositional laws are not violated when the predisposed behavior does not occur; rather an event F is not produced at a time t by the powers (dispositions) of the natural agents which are causally relevant to F at t.{66} Accordingly, a miracle is an act of God which is physically impossible and religiously significant.{67} On Bilynskyj's version of the proper form of natural laws, then, miracles turn out to be physically impossible, but still not violations of those laws.
I have a great deal of sympathy for Bilynskyj's understanding of natural law and physical impossibility. So as not to create unnecessary stumbling blocks, however, the defender of miracles might ask whether one might not be able to retain the standard necessitarian theory of natural laws as universal generalizations, while jettisoning the old characterization of miracles as 'violations of the laws of nature' in favor of 'events which lie outside the productive capacity of nature.' That is to say, why may we not take a necessitarian theory of natural law according to which laws contain ceteris paribus conditions precluding the interference of both natural and supernatural forces and hold that a miracle is not, therefore, a violation of a law of nature, but an event which cannot be accounted for wholly by reference to relevant natural forces? Natural laws are not violated by such events because they state what will occur only if God does not intervene; nevertheless, the events are still naturally impossible because the relevant natural causal forces do not suffice to bring about the event. Bilynskyj's objections to this view do not seem insuperable.{68} He thinks that on such a view it becomes difficult to distinguish between miracles and God's general providence, since according to the latter doctrine every event has in a sense a supernatural cause. This misgiving does not seem insurmountable, however, for we might construe God's providence as Bilynskyj himself does, as God's conservation of (and, we might add, concurrence with) all secondary causes and effects in being, while reserving only his immediate and extra-concurrent causal activity in the world for inclusion in a law's ceteris paribus conditions. Bilynskyj also objects that the physical impossibility of a miracle is the reason we attribute it to supernatural causation, not vice versa. To define physical impossibility in terms of supernatural causation thwarts the motivation for having the concept of physical impossibility in the first place. But my suggestion is not to define physical impossibility in terms of supernatural causation, but, as Bilynskyj himself does, in terms of what cannot be brought about wholly by natural causes. One may argue that some event E is not a violation of a natural law, but that E is naturally impossible. Therefore, it requires a supernatural cause. It seems to me, therefore, that even on the necessitarian theory of natural law, we may rid ourselves of the incoherent notion of 'violation of the laws of nature' and retain the concept of the naturally impossible as the proper characterization of miracle.
So although an initial advantage has been won by the construal of natural laws as descriptive, not prescriptive, this advantage evaporates unless one abandons the incoherent characterization of a miracle as a 'violation of a law of nature' and adopts instead the notion of an event which is naturally impossible. Now the question which must be asked is how an event could occur which lies outside the productive capacity of natural causes. It would seem to be of no avail to answer with Clarke that matter has no properties and that the pattern of events is simply God's acting consistently, for, contrary to his assertion, physics does hold that matter possesses certain properties and that certain forces such as gravitation and electromagnetism are real operating forces in the world. Bilynskyj points out that Clarke's view entails a thorough-going occasionalism, according to which fire does not really burn nor water quench, which runs strongly counter to common sense.{69} Nor will it seem to help to answer with Sherlock and Houtteville that nature may contain within itself the power to produce events contrary to its normal operation, for this would not seem to be the case when the properties of matter and energy are sufficiently well-known so as to preclude to a reasonably high degree of certainty the occurrence of the event in question. Moreover, though this might secure the possibility of the event, so as to permit a historical investigation, it at the same time reduces the event to a freak of nature, the result of pure chance, not an act of God. It seems most reasonable to agree with modern science that events like the feeding of the 5000, the cleansing of the leper, and Jesus' resurrection really do lie outside the capability of natural causes.
But that being admitted, what has actually been proved? All that the scientist conceivably has the right to say is that such an event is naturally impossible. But with that conclusion the defender of miracles may readily agree. We must not confuse the realms of logical and natural possibility. Is the occurrence of a miracle logically impossible? No, for such an event involves no logical contradiction. Is the occurrence naturally impossible? Yes, for it cannot be produced by natural causes; indeed, this is a tautology, since to lie outside the productive capacity of natural causes is to be naturally impossible.
The question is: what could conceivably make miracles not just logically possible, but really, historically possible? Clearly the answer is the personal God of theism. For if a personal God exists, then he serves as the transcendent cause to produce events in the universe which are incapable of being produced bycauses within the universe (that is to say, events which are naturally impossible. But it is to such a personal, transcendent God that the orthodox defenders of miracles appealed. Given a God who conserves the world in being moment by moment (Vernet, Houtteville), who is omnipotent (Clarke), and free to act as He wills (Vernet, Less), the orthodox thinkers seem to be entirely justified in asserting that miracles are really possible. The question is whether given such a God miracles are possible, and the answer seems obviously, yes. It must be remembered that even their Deist opponents did not dispute God's existence, and Clarke and Paley offered elaborate defenses for their theism. But more than that: if the existence of such a God is even possible, then one must be open to the historical possibility of miracles. Only an atheist can deny the historical possibility of miracles, for even an agnostic must grant that if it is possible that a transcendent, personal God exists, then it is equally possible that He has acted in the universe. Hence, it seems that the orthodox protagonists in the classical debate argued in the main correctly against their Newtonian opponents and that their response has been only strengthened by the contemporary understanding of natural law.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Religious langugage: Noncognitivist, but meaningful
In this article, Borg approves of Strauss' move to reject both the rationalist and supernaturalist reading of scripture, in favor of a non-cognitivist, subjective reading. It would seem that his position is very much like Hare's: religious language is non-cognitive (not a matter of statements and truth or falsity) but it is meaningful (true for me). Note that this "metaphorical" theory of religious language differs from THomas Aquinas analogy theory of religious language. Strauss and Borg are non-cognitivists; Thomas is a cognitivist.
Unfortuantely, due to copyright restrictions, I cannot reproduce the article here, but it is an extremely well-written, clear exposition of a non-cognitivist view.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Modern Biblical Scholarship, Philosophy of Religion and Traditional Christianity
by Professor Eleonore Stump
Stump is currently the Robert J. Henle, S.J. Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College in 1969, her master’s degrees from Harvard University in 1971 and Cornell University in 1973, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1975. She is the 2005–06 president and 2003–04 vice president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Stump’s research interests include the philosophy of religion, metaphysics and medieval philosophy. She was also a recent Gifford Lecturer. ---------------------------------------------------In recent decades biblical scholarship as practiced in secular universities has been dominated by a certain historical approach to biblical studies. I have in mind the sort of biblical studies represented by the work of F. M. Cross, O. Cullmann, E. Haenchen, E. Kasemann, and G. E. Wright, for example. Operating in conjunction with the related disciplines of archaeology, classical languages, and near-Eastern studies, this approach has made significant contributions to our understanding of the historical context in which the biblical texts were composed. But to many outsiders what has been at least equally noteworthy about this approach is the havoc it has wreaked on traditional Christian and Jewish beliefs. In their effort to discover and present what is historically authentic in the Bible, the practitioners of this approach have in effect rewritten the Bible. They have cut the Old and New Testaments into a variety of snippets; some they have discarded entirely as not historically authentic, and others they have reassembled in new ways to form what these scholars consider the truly original historical documents or traditions. They have denied the traditional authorship of certain books of the Bible-for example, they tend to hold that the pastoral apostles (the one to Titus and the two to Timothy) were not really written by Paul-and they have claimed to find the sources for other biblical texts in such clearly human products as Hittite suzerainty treaties and Hellenistic philosophy. The general result of such scholarship is, for example, that a text which a church father such as Augustine may have used to support a particular theological doctrine on the grounds that the text was composed by a disciple of Jesus who was an eye-witness to the events recorded may now be classified as a much later document fabricated by certain anonymous Christians for theological motives and derived by them from identifiable pagan sources. But if the biblical passages on which traditional doctrines are based are truly of such a character, they provide no credible support for the doctrines. And so the general effect of this approach to biblical studies has been a powerful undermining of classical Christian doctrines and a powerful impetus to religious skepticism....
Saturday, September 23, 2006
An Interview With Al Plantinga
Q. If we accept belief in God as rational on the grounds which you have presented, how do we also know that this belief is true?
A. You have to think about that in the context of the same question with respect to perception or memory or other minds. Fundamentally, in these cases it is a matter of trusting one's cognitive faculties, I guess. It seems true. One's inclined to believe in other minds, one's inclined to believe in the past, one's inclined to believe in immaterial objects and many of us are also under certain circumstances inclined to believe in God. I don't know if there's any way of getting outside of our faculties in these cases and sort of checking the matter independently. I don't know how one would do this.
Q. Some English philosophers-Farrer, Mascall, Trethowan, Owen, Lewis-see belief in God as being a fundamental insight triggered by certain experiences or under certain circumstances instead of seeing it as the end-product of an inferential process.
A. I'd go along with that. But I would say that for many people it's not so much a matter of coming to an insight by virtue of long hard thinking. It's more a matter of just being inclined, as Calvin says, under various circumstances, to form this belief about God.
Q. I would think these philosophers would hold that an unlettered farmer in touch with nature would be better endowed in coming to such an insight than a sophisticated city-dweller.
A. I have no objection to that. In Reason and Belief in God I mention a bunch of circumstances that according to Calvin-and I think he's right-call forth belief in God: gratitude, a sense of contingency, just beholding the beauties of nature sometimes- mountains, flowers and the like of that-being in danger. All sorts of things.
Q. These philosophers, as I understand them, would compare this fundamental insight to something like visual perception: its truth cannot be checked with reference to external criteria: you see it to be true: it is self-guaranteeing or self- authenticating.
A. I don't think it's self-authenticating or self- guaranteeing in any of these cases. In the case of perception, for example, it could be we're all mistaken, it could be we're being deceived by a Cartesian demon or something like that.
Q. But at least we can be certain that we are having an apparent perception.
A. It's logically possible that these other things are so. I don't for a minute think that they are so, and I don't think that the fact that these are logically possible means that we don't know any of these. One question is whether you know these things. And another question is what's your evidence or how do you prove these things. I think you know something when that belief is true and when it's produced in you by your faculties working properly. God has created us with a lot of faculties and I know a perceptual belief is a true proposition when I believe it and it's true and it's produced in me by my faculties working the way they were designed to work. But that doesn't mean I can prove it to some sceptic. That's a whole different question. Knowledge is one thing, being able to prove it to a sceptic is a wholly different thing.
Q. The fact you can't prove the truth of it does not mean you haven't had an insight or that the insight isn't valid.
A. It doesn't mean you don't it know either. It's not as if in order to know it you have to be able to prove it to the sceptic.
Q. Doesn't an inferential argument for God's existence already presuppose this fundamental insight? The conclusion is implicit in the premises.
A. The argument might be a probabilistic one of some kind like Swinburne's. I guess it wouldn't have to be the case that the argument somehow presupposes the belief to start off with. But an argument always presupposes that you trust or that you're relying upon some other faculties or some other belief-producing processes or cognitive processes. You reason from them to the one in question.
Q. How do you relate this belief to common sense or common experience; God's existence has seemed obvious to the vast majority of mankind.
A. It has seemed true to the vast majority of mankind that some being worthy of worship, whom we all worship and who is responsible for our existence and the like, that some such being does exist. I think that has been obvious to the bulk of mankind. That's fundamentally what Calvin is saying when he speaks of the sensus divinitatis.
Q. So would you say you're remaining faithful to common sense and the common experience of mankind?
A. Yes. Right, I would. I don't have any objection to giving the arguments [for God's existence] and the arguments are no doubt useful in some contexts. All I say is they're not necessary either for rationality or for knowledge.
Q. Arguments may be useful in triggering off the insight into God's existence.
A. They may be useful for that. Well, they could be useful, I suppose, in a variety of ways. They reveal connections between other things one already believes like the ontological argument. And maybe they move certain people closer to belief in God.
Q. Some critics of this approach claim that the examples of properly basic beliefs you cite (e.g. seeing a tree) are not sufficiently similar to belief in God for the latter to qualify as properly basic. For one thing, they say, belief in God is not universal like some of the other beliefs.
A. People have said that, but I don't know why I should believe that. That is, I'm not arguing that belief in God is properly basic because it so greatly resembles such experience. I was just trying to point out various analogies, illustrating points about proper basicality of theistic belief by pointing to similar things in the case of sense-experience. It was an illustration or analogy rather than a matter of arguing from its similarity to a sense-experience to its being properly basic like sense-experience. Things that are properly basic come in a wide variety of forms. Memory, a priori reasoning, what you're taught or told by other people, and so on.
Q. How do you think the "theism as a properly basic belief" approach should be presented in the philosophical community?
A. It's not a presentation of theism as such. To present theism is to say what God is like-about His attributes, knowledge, foreknowledge, middle knowledge, power, whether He's simple. It's not that. It has to do, rather, with what might be called epistemology of religious belief.
Q. Do you think this is the most fruitful approach?
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Security is an essential component of any computer system, and it is especially relevant for P2P systems. In the following sections we will outline the main topics of P2P security, including:
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Current Security methods
Security in the Future
Need for Security
In these turbulent times you would think that P2P security would be the least of the world’s problems. However corporate fraud and loss of revenue due to attacks on their internal networks has brought P2P to the forefront in the IT world. Napster was the headliner but since its high profile court case more and more P2P applications have been causing the corporate world headaches, which it could do without. With better security protocols this headache could be turned into a valuable asset for the corporate world and for the world.
The diagram on the next page illustrates the gaps in security when using P2P applications. We can see that we are letting these applications get inside our networks. The security of our “secure” network is now in jeopardy.
Following on from this, is the question of what must we protect ourselves against. We must outline the elements that our important to use, before we address the issue of the security. The main points of this are connection control, access control, operation control, anti-virus, and of course the protection of the data stored on our machines.
The connection, access, and operation control are the priority issues here. If we can make these secure, the other two points should follow from these. The diagram illustrates all the main points that we must deal with.
Outlined in this section is a selection of threats that P2P applications are vulnerable to.
External Threats
P2P networking allows your network to be open to various forms of attack, break-in, espionage, and malicious mischief. P2P doesn’t bring any novel threats to the network, just familiar threats such as worms and virus attacks.
P2P networks can also allow an employee to download and use copyrighted material in a way that violates intellectual property laws, and to share files in a manner that violates an organisations security policies. Applications such as Napster, Kazaa, Grokster and others have been popular with music-loving Internet users for several years, and many users take advantage of their employers' high-speed connections to download files at work. This presents numerous problems for the corporate network such as using expensive bandwidth and being subject to a virus attack via an infected file download.
Unfortunately, P2P networking circumvents enterprise security by providing decentralized security administration, decentralized shared data storage, and a way to circumvent critical perimeter defences such as firewalls and NAT devices. If users can install and configure their own P2P clients, all the network managers server-based security schemes are out the window.
Theft:
Companies can lose millions of euros worth of property such as source code due to disguising files using P2P technologies. P2P wrapping tools, such as Wrapstar (a freeware utility (http://members.fortunecity.com/wrapster), can disguise a .zip file, containing company source code, as an MP3 of a music hit. As a result an accomplice outside the company can use Morpheus to download the disguised file. To the companies security this looks like a common transaction, even if the company has frowned upon employees using P2P in music sharing. Little do they know is that their company has just been robbed, and possibly millions of euros worth of software has been lost.
Bandwidth Clogging and File Sharing:
P2P applications such as Kazaa (www.kazaa.com), Gnutella (http://gnutella.wego.com) and FreeNet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net) make it possible for one computer to share files with another computer located somewhere else on the Internet. A major problem with P2P file-sharing programs is that they result in heavy traffic, which clogs the institution networks. The rich audio and video files that P2P users share are very big. This affects response times for internal users as well as e-business customers and that results in lost income.
Bugs:
In order for P2P file-sharing applications to work the appropriate software must be installed on the users system. If this software contains a bug it could expose the network to a number of risks e.g. conflict with business applications or even crash the system.
Encryption Cracking:
Distributed processing is another P2P application. Taking lots of desktop computers and adding them together, results in a large amount of computing power to apply to difficult problems. Distributed.Net is a prominent example of this. In 1999 Distributed.Net along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) launched a brute-force attack on the 56-bit DES encryption algorithm. They broke DES in less then 24 hours. Distributed.Net were able to test 245 billion keys per second. At the time DES was the strongest encryption algorithm that the US government allowed for export.
Trojans, Viruses, Sabotage:
A user could quite possibly download and install a booby-trapped P2P application that could inflict serious damage. For example a piece of code that looks like a popular IM or file-sharing program could also include a backdoor to allow access to the user’s computer. An attacker would then be able to do serious damage or to obtain more information then they should have.
P2P software users can easily configure their application to expose confidential information for personal gain. P2P file-sharing applications can result in a loss of control over what data is shared outside the organisation.
P2P applications get around most security architectures in the same way that a Trojan horse does. The P2P application is installed on a “trusted device” that is allowed to communicate through the corporate firewall with other P2P users. Once the connection is made from the trusted device to the external Internet attackers can gain remote access to the trusted device for the purpose of stealing confidential corporate data, launching a Denial of Service attack or simply gaining control of network resources.
Backdoor Access:
P2P applications such as KazaA, Morpheus (www.morpheus.com) or Gnutella enable people all over the world to share music, video and software applications. These applications expose data on a users computer to thousands of people on the Internet. These P2P applications were not designed for use on corporate networks and as a result introduce serious security vulnerabilities to corporate networked if installed on networked PCs. For example if a user starts Gnutella and then clicks into the corporate Intranet to check their email, an attacker could use this as a backdoor to gain access to the corporate LAN.
Non-encrypted IM:
Instant messaging applications like those provided by AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo, also pose an information threat to a company. If these applications are used to discuss sensitive information, an attacker can read all the messages that are sent back and forth across the network or Internet by using a network-monitoring program.
IM applications are been developed and enhanced with new capabilities such as voice messaging and file sharing. Adding file sharing to the IM application also adds all of the risks of the file-sharing applications as described previously.
Confidentiality:
Kazaa and Gnutella give all clients direct access to files that are stored on a user’s hard drive. As a result it is possible for a hacker to find out what operating system the peer computer has and connect to folders that are hidden shares, thus gaining access to folders and information that is confidential.
Authentication:
There is also the issue of authentication and authorization. When using P2P you have to be able to determine whether the peer accessing information is who they really say they are and that they access only authorized information.
Internal Threats
Along with the external threats previously described there are a few internal issues that have to be dealt with.
Interoperability:
Interoperability is a major security concern within P2P networks. The introduction of different platforms, different systems, and different applications working together in a given infrastructure opens a set of security issues we associate with interoperability. The more differences in a given infrastructure, the more compounded the security problems.
Private Business on a Public Network:
Many companies conduct private business on a public network. This leads to an exposure to various security risks. These risks must be addresses in order to avoid the liability this use entails.
Adding and Removing Users:
There must be a feasible method to add/delete users to/from the network without increasing vulnerability. The system is under the most threat from users and former users who know the ins and outs of the system e.g. the existence of trapdoors etc.
Distributed Dangers:
When using distributed processing applications the user is required to download, install and run an executable file on their workstation in order to participate. A denial of service could result if the software is incompatible or if it contains bugs.
The People Problem:
There will always be malicious users who are intent on gaining clandestine access to corporate networks. And no matter what security protocols are put in place a skilful attacker, given enough time, will find a way around them. So all that the security buffs need to do is to keep ahead of the hackers by creating bigger and better protocols. But that’s easier said then done!
Existing Security standards and techniques in P2P networks
At an alarming rate, people are adopting, in an ad hoc fashion, the tools of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) revolution. Company files are increasingly made available by being published to the world directly from a user's PC. Databases, spreadsheets, even entire applications, are becoming enabled with P2P features and critical information is flowing out from every PC. P2P systems typically provide mechanisms that include searching for specific content or documents, discovering other peers running the software, and implementing any number of other application level tools, such as collaborative editing, instant messaging, or remote wireless mobility support So it is easy to see why security is such a crucial factor in P2P networks.
Defending against the threats of ad hoc P2P deployment, and managing or reducing the risks of loss of information or availability of systems requires foresight, planning, and careful selection of the P2P infrastructure upon which your P2P enabled applications and services will be built.
Security Mechanisms
All security mechanisms deployed today are based on either symmetric/secret key or asymmetric/public key cryptography, or sometimes a combination of the two. Here we will introduce the basic aspects of the secret key and public key techniques and compare their main characteristics.
Secret Key Techniques:
Secret key techniques are based on the fact that the sender and recipient share a secret, which is used for various cryptographic operations, such as encryption and decryption of messages and the creation and verification of message authentication data. This secret key must be exchanged in a separate out of bound procedure prior to the intended communication (using a PKI for example).
Public Key Techniques:
Public Key Techniques are based on the use of asymmetric key pairs. Usually each user is in possession of just one key pair. One of the pair is made publicly available, while the other is kept private. Because one is available there is no need for an out of band key exchange, however there is a need for an infrastructure to distribute the public key authentically. Because there is no need for pre-shared secrets prior to a communication, public key techniques are ideal for supporting security between previously unknown parties.
Asymmetric Key Pairs:
Unlike a front door key, which allows its holder to lock or unlock the door with equal facility, the public key used in cryptography is asymmetric. This means just the public key can encrypt a message with relative ease but decrypt it, if at all, with considerable difficulty.
Besides being one-way functions, cryptographic public keys are also trapdoor functions- the inverse can be computed easily if the private key is known.
Protocols
Mechanisms for establishing strong, cryptographically verifiable identities are very important. These are industry standard authorization protocols that allow peers to ensure that they are speaking with the intended remote system.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol:
For protection of information transmitted over a P2P network, some P2P’s employ the industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. This guarantees that files and events sent will arrive unmodified, and unseen, by anyone other than the intended recipient. Moreover, because both peers use SSL both sides automatically prove who they are to each other before any information is transferred over the network. The protocol provides mechanisms to ensure tamperproof, confidential communications with the right counterpart, using the same, well-proven techniques used by all major website operators to protect consumer privacy and financial information transmitted on the Internet.
IPSec technologies:
Most VPNs (virtual private networks) use IPSec technologies, the evolving framework of protocols that has become the standard for most vendors. IPSec is useful because it is compatible with most different VPN hardware and software, and is the most popular for networks with remote access clients. IPSec requires very little knowledge for clients, because the authentication is not user-based, which means a token (such as Secure ID or Crypto Card) is not used. Instead, the security comes from the workstation's IP address or its certificate (e.g. X.509), establishing the user's identity and ensuring the integrity of the network. An IPSec tunnel basically acts as the network layer protecting all the data packets that pass through, regardless of the application.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) An industry standard:
A full-featured X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) network backbone - the combination of X.509 PKI authentication and SSL transport encryption is the established cryptographic standard for Internet e-commerce.
Use of X.509 PKI authentication allows security certificates from Endeavors, or from any other recognized X.509 certificate authority, to be used to establish the true identity of any peer device when it comes on-line. Use of SSL point-to-point security encryption enables each pair of peers that communicate with each other to have a unique key for that pairing. The advantage of SSL encryption is that when a peer goes off-line from a community, all its unique pairing keys become invalid, but no pairing keys between other members of the community are affected.
What about VPN Security?
The key word in "virtual private networks" is private. The last thing a business wants is to have sensitive corporate information end up in the hands of some hacker, or worse, the competition. Fortunately, VPNs are widely considered extremely secure, despite using public networks.
Why are they secure?
In order to authenticate the VPNs users, a firewall will be necessary. All VPNs require configuration of an access device, either software- or hardware-based, to set up a secure channel. A random user cannot simply log in to a VPN, as some information is needed to allow a remote user access to the network, or to even begin a VPN handshake. When used in conjunction with strong authentication, VPNs can prevent intruders from successfully authenticating to the network, even if they were able to somehow capture a VPN session.
The Future of P2P Security
The constant running theme in the security of P2P is that of trust. Trust in the other users who we interact with, and trust within the software vendors who supply us with the necessary applications. If we could have more faith in this trust, or feel a greater sense of security, maybe the development of P2P would grow even faster than it is already doing.
Many proposals are already being studied. People are acknowledging that security is an area P2P must address, if it is to be accepted by consumers.
Users Gaining Their Own Trust:
One very interesting idea recently proposed, is that of users gaining trust within the P2P community. All users would be assigned a unique digital signature, like IP, but per user and not per machine. Associated with this digital signature would be a level of trust. Trust levels would vary from say zero, to twenty. Depending on a users behaviour in the past, their trust level would either be promoted on the grounds of valid use of the network, of demoted with acts of malice and misuse.
The proposed plan states that all users trust level would begin at a rather low level. This is merely to combat unwanted users creating new accounts, and abusing the new high trust level immediately. Users would have to be active on the network for some time ( say one/two months), before their trust level would be pushed up a level. Users could also keep a local record of other known users, to which they may want to share a local trust level, and bypass the global trust policy.
This proposal has many hurdles to jump of course. It is merely an idea to be developed. The problem that it overcomes is that of the centralized managing authority. Instead, the users of the network are the authority. If the general public continuously try to demote a user, he/she will eventually lose all their privileges, and become silenced from other users. This idea also rewards genuine users, for their efforts in keeping the network policed, and for their good behaviour on the network.
The idea is possibly a bit too naive, as we all know that must humans(especially adolescent ones), will do the exact opposite of what they are meant to do, if given no choice. In other words, people do not like to be told what to do.
Biometrics:
Biometrics involves the use of a person’s unique characteristics to authenticate them. Traits that are commonly utilized include a person’s facial image, signature, fingerprint or retinal pattern. One key feature of biometrics is that the user is no longer required to remember any passwords or store any key data, a major weakness in conventional authentication systems.
Ultimately, the technology could find its strongest role as an integrated and complementary piece of a larger authentication system, perhaps in combination with the cryptographic certificates mentioned above, rather than a stand-alone single point of defense.
In the future, many experts foresee biometrics both playing a key role in enabling public key infrastructure deployment by protecting public and private keys and residing in smart card technology in an effort to support personalized e-commerce.
Quantum Key Cryptography:
For the short term, The US Government is adopting a new encryption standard called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which will eventually replace DES. "When approved, the AES will be a public algorithm designed to protect sensitive government information well into the 21st century." If that's true, what will be used after AES?
One idea currently being proposed is the notion of Quantum Cryptography. Many modern encryption systems depend on the difficulty in mounting brute force attacks on secret keys, due to processing and time constraints. Although still at the theoretical stage, the performance improvements given by a hypothetical quantum computer would render many algorithms useless.
Obviously new encryption algorithms would be needed. Quantum encryption uses photon state as the key for encoding information. According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, it's impossible to discover both the momentum and position of a particle at any given instant in time. Therefore, in theory, an intruder can't discover secret keys based on particle state information; the intruder would need the actual particle to decipher any data encrypted with a key.
Unfortunately this concept is, for the moment, incredibly complex to implement. IBM scientists constructed the first working prototype of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system in the late 80’s. Back then they could transmit quantum signals just under half a meter through open air. Today, fiber optic cables can transmit the signal up to 31 miles. This still isn't very far, but it is definitely good progress. And although we might not see QKD come to market for quite some time, the technology sounds incredibly promising.
Conclusion
It is obvious from the above that security is a crucial issue when it comes to designing and implementing P2P systems. At the moment it is probably the main inhibiting factor for the growth of P2P. It is vital that users become confident in the ability of the security measures being utilised to protect them, in order for P2P technology to reach its full potential. At the moment, security measures in general are failing to inspire consumer confidence, a problem that must be addressed immediately. | {
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Freemasonry and Social Media
On Friday 4th July 2014 I had the privilege of attending a meeting at the Masonic Hall in Poole, Dorset to discuss the use of social media in freemasonry. This is believed to be the largest gathering of freemasons brought together by social media. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss the use of social media as a tool to recruit, retain and inform members of our fraternity.
It is perhaps true to say that freemasonry as a whole has been slow and in some quarters somewhat reluctant to embrace new technology but there is little doubt that the benefits of electronic communication are now being realised. Such was the interest in last nights meeting that RWBro Richard Merritt, The Provincial Grand Master, welcomed representatives of nine different Masonic provinces who gathered to hear two very interesting presentations. The first was delivered by W.Bro Nigel Harris-Cooksley who explained how his Lodge (North Harrow Lodge No6557) had seen a decline in numbers and had turned to the internet and social media to attract new members. Over a period of 3 years this approach attracted a total of 50 New members to Lodges in Middlesex. 18 of these were initiated into North Harrow Lodge and 32 were passed to other lodges. Of the 50 initiates it is believed that 49 are still active and many of these new made brothers are already taking offices in a variety of Lodges.
It seems to me that the key to North Harrow’s success in this new venture is underpinned by a recognition that attracting enquiries is very much a starting point. Nigel and other brethren from his lodge worked incredibly hard to meet, interview and socialise with perspective candidates before they were initiated. Once initiated the new brothers were allocated personal mentors who were supported in turn by a lodge mentor. The length of time between enquiry and initiation has varied. In the early days some were initiated in as little as 3 months, at present 9 months is seen as ‘normal’. During the waiting period candidates are contacted regularly, kept up to date and invited to social functions where possible.
The time and care put into supporting, vetting and socialising with candidates is hugely important. It should engender a sense of belonging in the candidate and reassure members of lodges that candidates are not simply being ‘dragged off the streets’. I realise that some brethren, who joined freemasonry by the traditional recruitment process, may have reservations about this method of recruitment but I believe North Harrow Lodges experience shows that there are men in our communities who want to join freemasonry but don’t know how to go about it. Some may feel that the risks of initiating someone who is not personally known to a current member are too great. It is a fact that there is a risk that any initiate may prove unsuitable in the longer term, but again, North Harrows experience shows that the benefits have far outweighed the risks.
As I mentioned above making access to freemasonry easier through the use of websites and social media should be seen as a starting point. If we are to retain our members after they have joined it is important that new members, especially our younger men, are supported and made to feel welcome. Our second speaker Colin(Lex) Luther Davies explained one of the mechanisms whereby the Metropolitan Grand Lodge are supporting its younger members.
The Connaught Club is an organisation formed to support freemasons under 35 who are members of a Lodge in London or who live or work in London and are members go a lodge attached to the United Grand Lodge of England. The club currently has some 200 members and has been founded to give young Freemasons in London a means to meet and socialise, with like-minded people of similar ages, within Freemasonry; whilst bridging the large geographic area and diversity of London’s many Lodges.
Primarily the Club’s role is to provide events and other occasions, of either a social or (Masonically) educational nature, for young Freemasons to meet each other and encourage their involvement within the fraternity. Events range from informal pub socials to formal dinners and to visiting each others Lodges. This is a fantastic example of what can be done to support our members and there is undoubtably much that other provinces can learn form this.
The evening concluded in fine Masonic style with all present dining together. It must be said that the caterers laid on a fantastic meal and the ambience of the evening was helped enormously by the effort that W.Bro Brian Chidgey and his assistants put into the organisation of the event. No event runs well unless effort has been put into the planning and preparation.
The Provincial Grand Master, RWBro Richard Merritt, gave a short speech during which he explained his personal enthusiasm for making use of new and emerging technology and thanked the speakers and organisers for their efforts in putting together a most enjoyable and informative evening
The Province of Dorset was very well represented by brethren from across the County. The PGM was supported by VWBro Clive Deakin, the Deputy Provincial Grand Master, and VWBro Nigel Leonard, the Assistant Provincial Grand Master as well as several members of the Provincial team. Brethren from the Provinces of Dorset, Hampshire & IOW, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Middlesex, Metropolitan and even the Serbian Grand Lodge were welcomed. I am sure everyone went away with some food for thought and fresh ideas.
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Hi,
I am Alan. I live in Broadstone, Dorset with my wife, Shirley, my son, Ryan and two dogs called Bailey and Jasper. I have recently retired after working in the Armed Forces and in Public Service since 1977 so I now have a bit more time to do the things I love.
Music is a huge part of my life and always has been. I have a broad taste in music and can find something to enjoy in most styles of music. I have always been attracted to music which has something to say, is outside the mainstream and is perhaps a bit rebellious.
I guess my early influences were late 1970's Punk and new wave bands, especially those who came out of Northern Ireland where I grew up. I loved Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Rudi, Starjets etc but also bands like The Ramones, The Clash, The Jam and so on.
I like singer songwriters including Van Morrison, Springsteen, Neil Young & Bob Dylan and in recent years I have become more interested in folk and acoustic music but I also love the sort of high drive energetic Folk/Punk music delivered by bands like The Levellers, Leatherat, Ferocious Dog and many others who frequent the UK Festival scene.
I have long since lost the desire to spend my holidays laying around in the sun and these days am much more likely to be found in a muddy field somewhere in the UK during the festival season.
good idea in Bucks. we have a very active social media input, this has been worth while, my own lodge has seen two candidate in the last year, our programme for new masons uses the social media to great effect too! | {
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I was happy this morning when I was finally allowed out of my room after a bug meant I had to be barrier nursed (not allowed out of bedroom) for twenty four hours. It suddenly felt like my home leave was even nearer and then to improve my mood even more, one of the girls gave me an Easter egg and my money went into my bank early! Things started to go sour towards the evening, for a while the Doctor has been asking me to write about certain things and I haven't, and then after what happened yesterday I finally tried but it was unbelievably hard and then that was upsetting because I never struggle to write my feelings down; it's usually the other way around. So, I listened to my music last night and wrote down some lyrics that meant something and I gave the Doctor that. She then asked for 'the pink book' aka my diary! She put on this face and I ended up feeling mean for saying no so I went and checked there wasn't anything too incriminating in it then I gave her it. When I got back to my later a little later the diary was on my bedside table. I was upset because it felt like she'd just 'used' me. And it's like one of the girls said; it was really selfish of her; it was as though she were only interested in getting the notebooks. It would've been nice if she'd sat down with me to talk things through or even for her to have said thank you and that she'd speak to me another day. And then, three staff came into my room to do a random room search and they told me they had to remove all of my food and drink. A while ago, it became a ward rule that you could only have a certain amount of food and drink in your bedroom but my Named Nurse and I agreed on a care plan because I worried that having to ask for my food would mean I'd be more conscious of what I was eating and that it would further reduce. So I was so upset that I'd kept everything in my room all this time and now they were taking it out. I spoke with my new Named Nurse who told me they hadn't been able to find any care plans for me to keep it and that even if they had she wouldn't agree with it because she wants to be monitoring my diet as she thinks it's quite poor. I was so upset and so sick of crying that all of the old thoughts about all of the old usual responses came into my head. My brain was doing a million miles an hour trying to come up with plans to self-harm or run. The rational part in my head knew I couldn't do anything right there and then and I kept telling myself to remember this feeling but it didn't stay. I went and spoke to my Named Nurse about how I was glad the whole drama had actually happened because it's been the reminder I needed that these thoughts and feelings pass. And I know that I still have work to do because if I'd been in the community and had those thoughts, I think I might've carried them out purely because I would've had the opportunity. But at least I've come round to accept and understand the thinking behind the food thing and I'm not holding my frustration towards the Doctor because I have a lovely weekend ahead at home! I'm really just going to appreciate every single minute of it and make the most of my time with my Mum and cat and without the drama of the Hospital | {
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Most notably, we now know the play will be a sequel and should be considered the series’ “eighth story,” set to take place 19 years later, contradicting early reports predicting the play would be a prequel.
We’re also now seeing the first images of the play’s official artwork, which shows a child hunched inside a nest that appears to have black wings.
Below is a brief plot decription about what we can expect from the production:
“It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.”
Preview performances will officially begin on June 7 and July 30 will mark the world premiere opening night.
That would be “The People Smuggler,” by Robin de Crespigny. It tells the story of an Iraqi dissident called Ali Al Jenabi. As a teenager he joined the Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein after the first Iraq war in 1991. He was captured by Saddam’s secret police, sent to Abu Ghraib and tortured. He watched his father being tortured to the point of insanity and thrown into a pit below the madhouse. He saw his kid brother being dismembered.
When he got out of Abu Ghraib he tried to join anti-Saddam groups in Kurdistan, but they were too divided by infighting to be effective. So he turned his attentions to trying to get his remaining family out of Iraq. The numerous reverses and betrayals make the plot of “Les Misérables” look like plain sailing. In Indonesia, he found the operation for shipping refugees to Australia so useless and corrupt that he decided to run it himself. Having eventually got several boats safely to Australia, he found himself tried and imprisoned there for “people smuggling.” This is an astonishing story, at times barely credible, but very unsettling.
In the same week, I read Norman Lewis’s war diary, “Naples ’44,” an account of his time as an intelligence officer in a city where everyone was starving and two-thirds of the women of nubile age were selling their bodies. It is a wonderful book, droll, shocking and humane.
When and where do you like to read?
I read the above two books on a plane, but generally I read in my office, a two-room apartment overlooking a small park in West London, sitting in a hideous though comfortable leather recliner (think Joey in “Friends”). It is death to books to read them in 15-minute bursts in bed late at night when you are tired. I know that for people with real jobs there may be little choice, but the best way to read a 300-page novel is in three or four sittings. I do occasional crash courses to see what’s new in contemporary fiction and have just read Evie Wyld, Scarlett Thomas, Ross Raisin and Adam Foulds.
Having written one of the post-Ian Fleming Bond books, you must have opinions on 007. Which is your favorite Bond book?
I like the climactic scene in “Live and Let Die” when Bond and the girl are towed behind a speedboat as shark bait. I lost interest in the films after Sean Connery, but I did enjoy “Casino Royale” — though Daniel Craig looked as though he had been assembled in a factory. Eva Green was very good in it.
And now taking on the new Jeeves book, tell us about your favorite P.?G. Wodehouse.
I like all the Jeeves books, the early ones especially. My favorites are “The Code of the Woosters,” ?“The Mating Season” and “Right Ho, Jeeves.” But they all have their glories, whether entire plots, set pieces or just single phrases. They depict a world that never truly existed yet in some odd way feels familiar. Heaven may be the cocktail hour at Brinkley Court, with Nobby Hopwood just arriving and Anatole preparing dinner.
Of the books you’ve written, which is your favorite?
“Human Traces” is the one I would want to be buried with. It’s long and it has some sticky parts, including a couple of lectures. But I like it because it deals with what to me is the great theme: Why are human beings so odd — and so much odder than any evolutionary theory can explain.
It took me five years’ research in musty libraries and psychiatric back wards, including a day at Broadmoor high — security hospital, but I never lost my belief that these tangled lives were both worth fighting for and highly instructive. I visited three continents and met some inspiring people, both patients and doctors, in the course of it.
Sometimes writing fiction is very technical, to do with finding the voices, tones and registers that best articulate your themes; I love all that, but there is no doubt that if you have some crusading purpose as well, it does put extra fire in your belly. I suppose for that reason I would also want “Birdsong” to be there or thereabouts when they put me under the ground. My younger readers would all vote for “Engleby.” But it’s my funeral, so I’m going with “Human Traces.”
“The most important thing for us is making sure that people are safe, so people who live in the affected street are being advised to stay in their homes until the water is cleared.
“Then we will be helping to clear water out of basements, homes, and local businesses.”
“Two fire engines from Brixton and West Norwood fire stations are at the scene with two fire rescue units from Lewisham and Battersea fire stations. Fire crews are using special dinghy-style boats to get around the flooded area.”
Fans of the BBC’s runaway hit Sherlock (a modernization of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes franchise) have been eagerly anticipating a third season since the cliff-hanger ending to the season two finale, “The Reichenbach Fall”. Co-creator Steven Moffat dosed that fire with more fuel a few months ago, when he announced a three-word tease hinting at which stories from Doyle’s source material are going to serve as the basis for each of the season’s three 90-minute episodes.
Sherlock Season 3?s planned premiere date changed from ‘When We’re Ready’ to Fall 2013, after Moffat dropped that juicy tidbit. Unfortunately, the latest reports indicate that date has been moved back due to scheduling issues – namely, those resulting from the newfound popularity of the show’s stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
Now, any Sherlock fan worth their salt knows that the show/mini-series’ principal players (Moffat, Cumberbatch, Freeman) are very busy men. Moffat is currently serving as the showrunner for Doctor Who, which Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss writes for (in addition to making occasional onscreen appearance). Not to mention, it wasn’t that long ago that Cumberbatch wrapped his still-mysterious villain role in Star Trek: Into Darkness and shot a supporting role in Steven McQueen’s true-story slavery drama Twelve Years A Slave; similarly, Freeman finished the first chunk of principal photography on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy this summer.
EW says the production start date for Sherlock season 3 has been postponed until March 2013, meaning the show won’t be hitting the BBC until late 2013 (with PBS airing the series in early 2014). No specific schedule conflict is cited in that report, but – in appropriate Sherlock-ian stye – it’s easy to deduce what other projects could be responsible for the delay.
In a Yash Chopra world; everything is punctuated by love, reality is in a distortion field and everybody lives in grand castles; or something similar. We all know that truth can be rather different, but there is no harm in a dream. The movie name was ironic; as it turned out to be his last outing. Despite a few critics; ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ is a fitting end to the Yash Chopra saga.
Meet Samar Anand(Shah Rukh Khan); a character straight from Mr. Chopra’s storybook; a musician and waiter who is in love with a rich heiress, Meera Thapar(Katrina Kaif). Now, Samar possesses the capacity to charm anybody and everybody; and has a heart of gold. If we could more people like this in real life, I would indeed be very happy. Samar promises to teach Thapar a Punjabi song, and wants to learn the Queen’s English in return.
Hindi film stereotypes abound in the conversations with God; Jesus here to be precise. A freestyle dance sequence was one of the best parts of this movie, in my opinion. Made at a budget of a paltry fifty crores; a little less by contemporary Bollywood standards, the movie has blockbuster locations such as Canary Wharf, Ladakh and the great English outdoors. The pacing is a little stilted at times; and the music from Rehman is not as great as expected from him. Gulzar should learn a trick or two from Javed Akhtar to make the lyrics a little palatable for current audiences.
In the beginning, or the middle. Samar suffers a knock on his head and we learn that this is the reason why we met the intense brooding Major in Ladakh, who likes to sing Rabbi Shergill songs for stress relief. The Discovery channel photo-journalist Akira(Anoushka Sharma) has been treated to the inner life of Samar Anand courtesy his personal diaries. As her future hinges on the documentary being produced on him; she invites him to London again.
Twist here; Shah Rukh again suffers a bump on his head. Some of the screenplay elements defy commonsense, but movies are meant to be make-believe anyways. Before I give the whole story away, people who want to watch it can book a ticket. As a swansong for a great director, Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a mixed bag. | {
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"Since 2007, there have been nearly 2,000 calls reporting human trafficking in our state," said Priola. "Colorado is a hub for one of the most atrocious human rights violations of our time, and it's happening on our watch. We have to act now to give law enforcement every possible tool to put an end to this heart breaking tragedy." | {
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Scottie Pippen's claiming he attacked a fan in Malibu this weekend in self-defense ... after the man called him the n-word and then spit at him.
Sources close to Pippen tell us, the middle-aged man who got his ass kicked by Pippen outside Nobu Sunday night was a drunk, overly aggressive fan who had been badgering Pippen for attention all evening ... beginning inside Nobu, where Pippen was eating with friends.
At one point, we're told one of Pippen's dinner guests went to the bathroom ... and the man sat in the guest's place ... continuing to pester Pippen with questions. We're told Pippen bit his tongue and politely asked the man to leave.
After the meal, we're told Pippen agreed to take a photo with the man outside the restaurant ... but the man continued to be aggressive, demanding an autograph as well. Pippen refused and we're told that's when the man dropped the n-bomb, shoved the NBA legend, then spat at him.
Sources close to Pippen say he lost it when the spit landed on his young daughter -- and Pippen flew into attack mode.
As we reported, the alleged victim was subsequently transported to a nearby hospital with severe injuries to his head, face, and back. Pippen has since spoken with authorities and he was not arrested. | {
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The accident occurred at the International Commerce Center, which will be 118 stories high when completed next year, making it one of the world's tallest buildings and the highest in Hong Kong.
Speaking at the scene in the Kowloon district, Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang told reporters the men fell after the platform they were working on collapsed in the elevator shaft.
All six workers died, police spokesman Michael Kwan said. The workers were believed to have fallen from around the 30th floor to the 10th floor, he said.
The building's developer, major Hong Kong property company Sun Hung Kai, has agreed to pay each of the victims' families 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) on top of normal compensation payments, Hong Kong Labor Secretary Matthew Cheung told local media.
Sun Hung Kai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Construction accidents in Hong Kong declined by about 76 percent from 1998 to 2008, as the government worked to enhance safety amid a continuous push by developers to build the soaring office and residential towers that have become a hallmark of the city.
Even so, some workers are killed every year, with falls a major cause of death. Between 2000 and 2004, nearly 44 percent of fatal construction accidents involved falls.
There were 16 fatalities in 2006, according to the government.
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Young Americans Are Already Worried About Looking Old
As much as we are living in a world that is increasingly telling us that age is beauty, research shows that the fight against aging is starting younger and younger these days.
A new poll has revealed that a surprising 30 percent of women under 35 regularly use anti-wrinkle products - and this includes one in five women under the age of 24.
The poll of 2,000 women across the country, conducted by Dermstore, found that young women of today have started using products to fend off the signs of aging much sooner than their elders, with the average millennial user starting at 26 as opposed to the average over 55-year-old who started around age 47.
Over a quarter (28 percent) of women under 25 even admit that they 'regularly' worry about their signs of aging, and this number increases to 42 percent for those aged 25-34 and then 54 percent for those aged 35 to 44.
Mercifully, however, it looks like this regular worry begins to decrease after the age of 55.
Younger women are even more likely than older women (20 percent vs 11 percent) to say they would consider getting plastic surgery to fight off signs of aging.
Cathy Beaupain, President of Dermstore said: "The findings are on point with what Dermstore has been seeing in our current audience base, which shows a shift in our core shoppers' ages-now younger than previous years-and also a growth in newer skin care and beauty categories that are more favored by younger shoppers, such as Natural."
When it comes to skincare in general, it looks like women are making use of the products out there at younger and younger ages. For example, under-25s are over three times more likely than over-55s to regularly use facemasks and nearly twice as likely to regularly exfoliate their skin.
Most people over the age of 35 believe that anti-wrinkle creams work, with nearly 60 percent of those over 45 using them regularly. Yet when it comes to sunscreen, a necessity in the fight against signs of aging, younger women are more likely to make sure they are always covered and reapply as directed than their elders.
According to the data, women under the age of 35 are more than twice as likely as those over 55 to have picked up a beauty or skincare product simply because it was recommended by someone famous.
Over 60 percent of under-25s have picked up beauty tips from an online article or video tutorial, as opposed to just one in 10 of those over 55.
The age at which women start wearing make-up is only getting younger it seems, as over 55s said they didn't start until 15, while those between 35 and 44 started at 14 and women between 18 and 24 say they started at just 13 years old.
For foundation, over 55s say they didn't start till they were nearly 18, while 18-24 years olds claim they started just after age 14. Under 25s also started wearing eye shadow or eyeliner before 14 years old, which over 55s didn't dabble in until aged nearly 17.
With all this in mind, it's not surprising that attitudes of what the appropriate age to start wearing make-up differs as well, with over-55s saying it's 15, and under 25s saying it's just under 14.
For younger women, 15 is old enough for foundation, 14 for eye shadow and just 12 for lip gloss.
As for those over 55, it's 17 for foundation, 16 for eye shadow and 15 for lip gloss.
Younger women have established their regular beauty routine by the time they are 16, while older women report that it took them until their 20s before they had nailed down their usual look.
But whether they established it sooner or later, it appears that getting a beauty routine down has always been an expensive process, with the average American woman saying they have wasted $460 on beauty and skincare products that just didn't make the grade.
Cathy Beaupain added: "We understand that investing in skin care can be a huge expense, and can be frustrating if products do not meet a consumer's expectations."
"This is why we launched glow.com, a skin care recommendation system offering personalized solutions by diving deeper into a woman's individual skin care needs and giving her dermatologist-approved product suggestions."
"Beyond glow, we will continue to curate our product offerings to ensure that we represent the best assortment that is 'good for you.' We believe the latest innovations in anti-aging technology can be found in both breakthrough skin care ingredients and new devices." | {
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Hong Kong designer Steven Tai created a dress from 795 pen nibs, mounted on tiny motors. As you do. The rows of pen nibs are animated to created a hypnotic shimmer of movement which changes over time, varying the tempo, pattern and the overall mood of the piece. Needless to say, we want one. | {
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Halloween Hunt
"Look for candy in a mansion haunted by Death!"
There has always been a creepy mansion across the street from your house looming ominously over the street. Rumors began to circulate that Death himself lived inside, waiting for innocent victims to come stumbling through his front doors. One month later, nobody would set foot within 100 yards of the front door.
But for some reason your school friends think it's a joke. They think whoever lives inside has stashed mounds of candy somewhere and they want to go get it. Due to peer pressure or something like that, you decide to follow them all inside. Upon entering, the door slams shut, locking you inside.
Then Death himself came to greet the doubtful schoolkids, and they realized how very wrong they were to think it was all a myth. But Death is smart and patient. What fun would just killing them be? He decided that the person who could find the most "spooky candy" in the house would be allowed to live. Frightened and peeing themselves, your friends take off running! Death knew that their drive to be "the best" would keep bringing them back for more...
Will you be able to get the most candy? Will you SURVIVE? Find out!
To put things simply, you roam around a dark mansion looking for candy. Some candies give you 1 pt, while others give you 3 pts. If you can find the Golden Chocolate, you will get 25 pts. There is also a 20% chance that a chest is a trick chest...
However the Reaper is looking for you. If he manages to catch you, your score will be divided by 2 and you will be returned to the entrance! The winner is the player who manages to collect the most candy when the time is up!
Extra Info
The map is a Horror/Game map, meaning that it is a little of both. The map contains mild jumpscares, unnerving ambient music, sudden noises and effects, and more. The map is not that scary though as I wished to focus on the game part primarily (competing with friends for most candy points).
There is a resource pack that is included in the download link. ALL players must be using it! Send this link (http://bit.ly/2easnJj) to your friends for ease!
The game shows five options for "Box Frequency" in the lobby. The option "Common" spawns 50 boxes around the map. Each is essentially 10 less than the prior option with Rare only spawning 10. | {
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Method
For the salt-roasted beetroot, preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Pour the salt into a large mixing bowl and stir in the egg whites, a little at a time, until the mixture takes on a thick, cement-like consistency that is firm enough to roll into a ball that will hold its shape (you may not need to use all the egg whites). Set aside any remaining egg whites to use for the egg wash on the pastry.
Spread the egg white and salt mixture all over the beetroot until completely covered. Place the coated beetroot onto a baking tray and bake in the oven for one hour.
When the beetroot has cooked, bash the salt crust with the edge of a spoon until it falls away, then peel and slice the beetroot. Set aside.
Put the courgette, fennel and garlic cloves into a roasting tray and drizzle over the olive oil, then mix to coat all the vegetables in the oil. Add the sprigs of thyme and roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the vegetables are just starting to go tender. Set aside to cool slightly (discard the thyme stalks and pop the garlic out of its skin).
Increase the oven temperature to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Beat the egg yolk in a bowl with any remaining egg whites. Lay the ready-rolled sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured baking tray and brush the edge with a thick border of beaten egg.
Scatter the roasted vegetables, beetroot and cherry tomatoes inside the egg-wash border and crumble over the goats' cheese.
Drizzle the tart with a little more olive oil and season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Bake the tart in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden-brown. Serve immediately. | {
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描述
The Bet50 platform is an online betting site for e-sports, live sports of various kinds as well as dice games. Bet50 token is an international payment system built on the EOS blockchain. It is used for making and closing bets on BET50 Esports platform, dice gambling and in their online Casino and will be used to buy Gift Cards. | {
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Goal Diggers earn regional invite
The Goal Diggers U11 soccer team based out of Southwest Oklahoma qualified for a regional 3-on-3 soccer tournament after winning a tournament in Mustang this past weekend.
The regional tournaments are held in September, and are in various locations across the United States.
3v3 is a national soccer organization in which teams play 3-on-3 soccer over the course of two 10-minute halves. The field and goals are smaller than usual, and there is a restricted area in front of the goal where the defending team is not allowed to enter.
The Goal Diggers team roster is made up of female soccer players between ages 10 and 11. The team is comprised of six players, four from Cache, one from Lawton and one from Yukon. They played five games on Saturday, with all six of their players scoring at least one goal throughout the day. They won their first game, 5-1, over '06 United F.C., followed by a 2-2 draw with ECL United Blue. Their third game was another big victory, 10-0 over Hotshots 2. Their lone loss of the weekend came against the Assault, 6-1. The two teams faced off in the championship less than an hour later.
Team coach Danielle Parra, who coached the Lawton High girls soccer team from 2010-13, stressed defense to her team, telling them to "defend so close, you're swapping sweat with the other team". Though her team was not kean on the analogy, they understood the point she was trying to get across. | {
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Chen, Shun-Ling, accepted, “What’s in a Name? – Facebook’s Real Name Policy and User Privacy”, Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Shun-Ling Chen, 2015, “Exposing Professionalism in United States Copyright Law: The Disenfranchised Lay Public in a Semiotic Democracy”, University of San Francisco Law Review, 49(1), 57-121. Links(Open link in new tab)
Shun-Ling Chen, 2011, “Collaborative Authorship: From Folklore to the Wikiborg”, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology and Policy, 131-167. Links(Open link in new tab)
Shun-Ling Chen, 2010, “Wikipedia: A Republic of Science Democratized”, Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology,, 249-325. Links(Open link in new tab)
Shun-Ling Chen, 2009, “To Surpass or to Conform – What are Public Licenses For? ”, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, 107-139. Links(Open link in new tab)
Shun-Ling Chen, 2006, “Freedom as in a Self-sustainable Community: The Free Software Movement and its Challenge to Copyright Law”, Policy Futures in Education, 4(4), 337-347. Links(Open link in new tab) | {
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To further advance the adoption of high security smart card-based physical access control systems (PACS), the Smart Card Alliance released a guide specifications resource that helps architects, engineers, consultants, integrators, manufacturers and end users incorporate smart card-based PACS cards and readers into architectural and engineering specifications for facilities.
This guide makes it easier and more cost effective for organizations to implement stronger physical access control based on smart card technology by providing a template that can be used through every step of the specification, design and procurement process, said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. It also sets forward clearly defined and industry-validated recommendations surrounding smart cards and PACS, ensuring that the full security benefits are achieved with each implementation.
This guide provides:
A tool for architects, engineers, consultants, integrators, manufacturers and end users to incorporate smart card-based PACS cards and readers into the architectural and engineering specification
Recommendations for the use of secure smart card technology for non-government physical access control applications instead of legacy technology
Commentary to the example guide specification to assist in choosing the appropriate technology for the application.
We are pleased to provide this resource to help organizations more easily incorporate smart cards into their secure physical access systems. The members of the Access Control Council put a significant amount of effort and thought into creating this tooltheir contributions will make a notable difference in the way the industry implements smart card-based PACS, said Dave Helbock, chair of the Access Control Council. | {
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Property Details
Stone Creek Apartments
Stone Creek Apartments offer the ultimate life-style for convenient, peaceful living. In a perfect location, Stone Creek offers easy access to the interstate and local businesses. Schools. restaurants and shopping are just minutes away. Stone Creek Apartment - for living at its best. | {
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In this course, students explore different elements of English structure through readings, digital media, dialogs, songs, games, and student writing. By the end of the course, students should have a solid grasp of basic verb tenses, prepositional phrases, articles, and sentence varieties. Students need to be in levels 3 or 4 to take this course.
An ESL Placement Test score is required for all new students registering for this course. If you have not taken ESL classes or a Placement Test with CAPS in the past year, register for the test by calling 646-312-5000 or emailing caps@baruch.cuny.edu. | {
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Wu-Tang Clan 1997 'Tim Westwood' Freestyle
I got bored of Tim Westwood's vintage freestyles a long time ago but I occasionally post the eye catching ones - like this one right here, from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. This was recorded back in '97 during the crew's wavy era.Listen to RZA, ODB, U-God, Masta Killa and Method Man drop rhymes over various instrumentals. This goes on for almost an hour so you might wanna get comfortable. | {
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The GCC food industry is on a sustainable and balanced growth path says Alpen Capital's new report
Dubai, 22nd February, 2017: Alpen Capital, an investment banking advisory firm, announced the publication of its report on the GCC Food Industry. The report presents the state of the food industry while covering demand-supply dynamics across various food categories in the GCC nations. The report also covers the recent trends, growth drivers, and challenges in the industry, along with the sector outlook until 2021. The report profiles some of the prominent food companies in the region, while highlighting their financial and valuation metrics.
“We expect the GCC Food industry to grow at a sustainable pace. This growth is primarily attributable to factors such as growing population, higher per capita income, and a vibrant tourism market, changing dietary habits and preferences, and increasing penetration of organised retail. Government as well as private sector investments are being channelled towards augmenting the domestic food production capacity and supply, even as securing food sources in other resource-rich countries remains a key priority”, says Sameena Ahmad, Managing Director, Alpen Capital (ME) Limited
“Despite significant headwinds due to fall in oil prices, drop in infrastructure projects, job losses and attendant retail spend, the GCC Food Industry is forecasted to grow in the coming years. Food security remains a key priority for the GCC countries as the reliance on heavy imports continue owing to limited arable land, hot and arid climate, and fresh water shortage. We see several government initiatives aimed not only at enhancing domestic productivity, but also at investing in farmlands overseas to mitigate the risk. Despite this key challenge, the sector remains on the radar of investors who are looking at opportunities to enter the region or a specific country in the GCC to take advantage of what the sector has to offer. This has not only attracted new players to the market but also led to significant consolidation in the segment and we expect this trend to continue”, says Mahboob Murshed, Managing Director, Alpen Capital (ME) Limited
Industry Outlook
According to Alpen Capital, Food consumption in the GCC is expected to expand at a CAGR of 4.2% from an estimated 48.1 million MT in 2016 to 59.2 million MT in 2021. This growth is primarily attributable to increase in the consumer base coupled with a higher per capita income, as the GCC economies stage a sustained economic recovery from the recent downturn.
Respective share of most of the food categories in the overall consumption are anticipated to remain broadly unchanged through 2021 with cereals as the most consumed food category in the region.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are likely to remain the major food consumption centres during the forecast period. The country-wise share in total GCC food consumption is anticipated to remain largely unchanged until 2021.
During the forecast period, food consumption in Saudi Arabia is expected to grow at an annualised average rate of 4.2% to 37.7 million MT and that in the UAE is projected to grow by 4.4% to 10.1 million MT. The expected growth rates largely mirror the population and GDP projections for the countries.
Growth drivers
The GCC population is expected to witness an addition of 6.5 million individuals between 2016 and 2021. The growing consumer base will continue to act as the chief contributor to the growth in food consumption in the region. A growing proportion of working couples has led to an increase in demand for packaged foods and ready meals.
Economic growth in the GCC is expected to gradually gather momentum in line with stability in the oil prices and expansion of the non-oil sectors. Subsequently, GDP per capita in the region is projected to expand annually by 3.7% between 2016 and 2020, a strong indicator of increasing food consumption.
The increasing influx of tourists into the GCC, will also play a role in the growth of food consumption. Additionally, seasonal events such as Ramadan, shopping festivals, and food festivals will continue to boost food consumption in the region.
Increasing penetration of organised retail formats such as hypermarkets and supermarkets is likely to support the region’s demand for packaged, healthy, and processed foods.
To strengthen food security and build a sustainable supply, the GCC countries are looking at ways to boost the domestic produce. Such developments, if fruitful, are likely to augment the scale of the food sector and reduce import dependency.
Challenges
Hot and arid climatic conditions, limited arable land, and inadequate water resources in the GCC have resulted in a high dependency on food imports. This has exposed the regional economies to global food price fluctuations and geopolitical tensions. While efforts are being made to secure food supply by investing in farmlands abroad, establishing strong trade pacts, and boosting domestic produce, any disruptions pose a threat to the region’s food security.
Regional governments’ measures such as reduction in subsidy spend and public wages, tightening of liquidity and a subdued job market, are likely to affect consumer spending power and profitability of domestic food producers.
Inadequate number of warehouses and cold storages as well as shortage of transportation infrastructure in the GCC region has resulted in food wastage. With increasing quantity of food imports, the need for setting up a robust logistics infrastructure is being felt across the region.
Trends
Rising sales of packaged foods: Sale of packaged foods continues to rise amidst the busy working-class people in the GCC, who account for nearly half of the population.
Emerging Private labels: In light of the increasing demand for packaged foods, grocery retailers are expanding their product portfolio and distribution network by introducing more packaged products under private labels, as they are more profitable and attract customers due to low price points.
Growing demand for healthy and organic foods: As people in the region become health conscious due to rising incidence of lifestyle diseases, demand for healthy and organic foods is on a rise.
An advancing food processing segment: The number of food processing units in the GCC is increasing, with rising imports and re-export potential. While Saudi Arabia and the UAE have already established themselves as the food processing hubs, their regional counterparts are also gradually catching up.
Rise of digital technologies: From influencing consumer tastes to changing the way food products are sold, served or manufactured, digital technologies are reshaping the food value chain. Online shopping is gathering steam in the GCC, particularly in the UAE, as signalled by the proliferation of several online grocery and food delivery platforms. In addition to using technology to track customer preferences and monitor market trends, manufacturers are also resorting to modern technologies for optimising processes, reducing waste, managing costs, and improving logistics in order to enhance their overall production efficiency.
Food trucks – an emerging distribution channel: Operation of food trucks is also increasing in the GCC, with the opening of a new dedicated food truck park in the UAE and announcements by the regulators in Abu Dhabi and Qatar to grant licenses for operations. Increasing presence of food trucks in the region is likely to stimulate demand for speciality / gourmet food products.
Expanding halal food market: While global demand for halal food is growing, the sector faces structural and operational challenges due to lack of a unified global halal standard. Dubai has remained at the forefront of creating a global halal international accreditation network, which is likely to strengthen its position as a key global trading hub for halal food.
Popularity of International cuisines: Presence of people from various nationalities has carved a large market for international foods in the region. While multiple culinary options are available, the Japanese cuisine has been gaining popularity.
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Activities
M&A activity in the sector has remained fairly buoyant with multiple deals being concluded in the past two years with Saudi Arabia and UAE attracting most transactions. This is owing to a host of factors including growing food demand due to rising populations and increasing tourist inflows, and growing significance of food security etc. With key trends expected to sustain, the M&A space will remain vibrant in the future.
Financial Performance of food companies in the region
The GCC Food sector is primarily dominated by three companies - Savola Group, Almarai Co., and Kuwait Food Co. We have analysed the financial performance of a selected set of 22 listed food companies in the GCC for the report. The combined revenue of these 22 food companies in the GCC grew at an average of 3.1% in the last two years. The dairy and processed & frozen foods segments outperformed the overall industry, having registered an average revenue growth of ~5% during the period. The agri and agri-processing segment accounted for the largest share in the food industry by revenue.
Although economic activity dampened in the last couple of years, corrective measures being undertaken to mitigate the adverse impact, complemented with a gradual stability in oil prices, are charting a path for sustainable and balanced growth in the GCC. The expected improvement in the job market and consumer spending, coupled with an expanding consumer base, will support the growth of the region’s food sector.
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Website Glitches Extend Obamacare Enrollment
For the second year, Obamacare enrollment isn’t exactly over when it’s over. The regular open enrollment season ended at midnight Sunday but HHS on Monday announced a one-week “special enrollment” period ending Feb. 22 for people trying to enroll through HealthCare.gov who encountered technical glitches or faced long waits through the call center on the final weekend. Most states have outlined similar policies.
There’s also a growing chorus urging a separate special enrollment period around the April 15 tax filing deadline. That would be for people who do their 2014 taxes, discover they must pay a penalty for going without insurance without an exemption, – and face an even bigger fine for going uncovered in 2015. HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell told POLITICO the agency was considering giving them another chance to sign up, and several Democratic lawmakers have urged precisely that.
A wave of people getting fines without having a way of avoiding another year’s fines would generate another spurt of unfavorable publicity for the ACA.
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange announced Monday a special enrollment period for two months in that state. California and Minnesota are considering it.
HHS did not give an enrollment update Monday, but reported throughout the final weekend that website traffic and call center volume were heavy. Even before the final deadline neared, 10 million people had selected plans or been re-enrolled on the federal or state exchanges, although not all have paid yet. HHS hopes to have more than 9 million covered in the exchanges this year. That’s less than the Congressional Budget Office forecast. | {
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
A lot has happened since I last posted. Shoshana has been in the hospital for the last two weeks. Elizabeth has once again stayed with her almost 24/7. I have been coming up in the evenings, often bringing Abigail so she can see her mommy for a couple of hours before going home with her grandma. Elizabeth's mom has been taking care of Abigail most of the time, or leaving her with friends and coming to the hospital to help and relieve Elizabeth.
Shoshana has been in and out of the ICU a few times. The cause of the pain in her throat, which we initially thought was her NG tube, and then thrush, has apparently been a very uncommon side-effect of vincristine, one of the chemo drugs. Vincristine toxicity has caused her vocal cords to stop functioning properly, as well as be a constant source of pain. We have had to increase her pain medication dose several times, and added new drugs to help the pain medication to be more effective.
Her vocal cords aren't doing a very good job when she swallows, which means that any liquids she has need to be thickened.
The worst part is that her vocal cords aren't getting out of the way for her to breathe. They just sit there, closed; in the way. The night after she was admitted to the hospital, she had to be intubated, which means putting a tube down her throat for her to breathe through. Her diaphragm was not able to get enough air into her lungs to breathe, so her chest muscles had been helping out (in medical terms, this is known as stridor). After this had developed over two weeks at home, her body was tired, and she would stop breathing in her sleep.
Shoshana intubated
She was intubated for about 48 hours, after which she was put on CPAP, which is a mask worn over her nose that applies a constant pressure. The pressure pushes out on her throat, widening the passage between the vocal cords.
This has worked, more or less, ever since, though now she is on a BiPAP, which allows increased pressure while she is inhaling. She can be off of the BiPAP for an hour or so at mealtimes. She isn't able to eat much at once, because her swallow muscles wear out. She has been getting formula (and breastmilk from mommy, and vegetable juices from grandma) through her NG tube. She has still lost a lot of weight. The most activity she has been up for is sitting up in bed for a few minutes at a time. I miss our bike rides.
Meanwhile, she had been getting steroids. The original idea behind the steroids was that the laryngal dysfunction might be caused or exacerbated by swelling, and therefore anything that would reduce the swelling would help.
No swelling had ever been observed. In fact, when we first brought her in to the emergency room, they stuck a scope down her throat, and didn't see any swelling. Elizabeth had been skeptical of the large doses of the steroid ever since she had been intubated: prednisone wasn't helping (and that reduces swelling), so why would dexamethasone? Additionally, the dexamethasone was preventing Shoshana from getting a good night's sleep, which was the very thing her exhausted body needed desperately to recover. Additionally, with such high doses, coming off the drug would cause swelling, since her body would have compensated for its presence.
After discussing this with the doctors, Elizabeth was surprised to see that Shoshana was still getting the high doses of dexamethasone! She went mamma bear on them. I'll let her tell that story. After about a two day standoff, everyone was pretty much back on the same page, and she is being weaned off of the steroids.
I find I've been taking and posting a lot fewer pictures of Shoshana. I like to capture the happy and hopeful moments; the smiles and giggles. We didn't get any for a while. As she has become a bit more stable over the last few days--relatively so, she's still in the ICU--she has been able to play with Abigail when she visits (although Abigail is prone to pulling on lines and anything else she can get a hand on, so we need to keep her out of reach). She definitely misses Abigail when she hasn't seen her in a while, and asks for her. She has been able to talk to people about things other than her pain and needs, and play with toys and sticker books in the last few days, which is an improvement over the previous couple of weeks or so. There haven't been any bike rides, but I'll take what I can get.
My brother Josh's 3rd and 4th grade class wrote letters to Shoshana, and I was able to show them to her. I also received a video from a friend's three-year-old daughter describing a letter and drawing she was making for Shoshana. Shoshana really appreciated these things, and she seemed to especially enjoy them because they were from kids. They brought me to tears, especially the statements of trust in God expressed in the letters from the kids in Josh's class: the same kind of faith God expects from wise-to-the-world grownups.
Please keep asking the Lord to heal her vocal cords, restoring their
function from nerve damage and relieving her of constant pain. (Luke
18:7)
We definitely enjoy visitors. Both to see Shoshana, and visitors for Mommy and Daddy to have a taste of normal social interaction and distraction.
We have depended on the meal plan set up by our church, to supply us with two or three dinners a week. I have been going from work to the hospital, and then home to sleep, and Elizabeth is living in Shoshana's hospital room. The burden taken off of us by these provided meals has allowed us to focus on Shoshana's needs and care.
Please ask the Lord to supply us and the doctors with wisdom, especially Elizabeth, who is in the front-line position of coordinating all of Shoshana's care over the long haul. She and I need wisdom especially to know when to defer to the doctors' expertise, and when to put our foot down. Shoshana is very blessed to have such a capable and knowledgeable nurse at her side and on her side so faithfully.
Monday, September 10, 2012
I just spent about half an hour eating my dinner in the ICU Family Lounge with a pair of men from Djibouti, who poured me a glass of juice and practically dumped encouragement in Christ into my soul. One of the men I had seen before with his family in the ICU. His six-year-old son has had a tumor on his head for two years.
It was refreshing to see and hear the peace and joy that we share in Christ gush out in broken English, and it was encouraging to me in ways that I know my soul needed. Rough times may be ahead for our family, but I know that we belong to the Lord. We have a heavenly Daddy who cares for us, a Savior and Redeemer who has suffered through worse than this, and knows the full extent of temptation, having endured it all without giving in, and a Spirit who lives in us, and is one with the Father and the Son. He knows our circumstances and pain, and He will speak His word into our hearts, full of precious promises.
How good is the God we adore!
Our faithful, unchangeable Friend,
Whose love is as great as His power,
And knows neither measure nor end.
'Tis Jesus, the first and the last,
Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home.
We'll praise Him for all that is past,
And trust Him for all that's to come.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
The first month of Shoshana's chemotherapy treatment is called "induction". The goal is to 'induce' remission, such that the cancer cells are not detectible in her body. This is not to say that the cancer will be totally gone. A single cancer cell left in her body can and will cause a relapse. Once remission is achieved, she will still have 2 more years of lower-level "maintenance" chemotherapy, to make sure that any remaining leukemia cells don't stage a comeback.
Playing in the waiting area at a clinic visit
There have been good days at home and bad days. A good day is when Shoshana is comfortable enough to laugh, smile, be silly, and play with her sister; to be herself. A bad day is when she doesn't want to move or be touched: she simply wants to lay on the couch and watch movies. We had been having fewer of the good days lately.
Bubbles: a good day
A friend gave Shoshana a pixie cut, to lessen the impact of chemo-related hair loss.
Last night, Elizabeth sent the following to our church prayer chain:
Tuesday marked the start of week 3 of treatment. According to the doctor
the 3rd and 4th weeks are the most difficult both for the child and for
the family due to pain, hair loss, crankiness (due to the steroids),
and exhaustion. The most prominent issue right now is pain. She is
experiencing a combination of sore throat from the constant crying
combined with thrush, jaw pain from one of the chemo drugs, bone pain
from the leukemia itself, and generalized muscle achiness from the
combination of steroids and chemo. At this point Shoshana is taking the
maximum allowable pain medicine dosage at home and if her pain continues
to increase then we will have to hospitalize her for pain management.
In my first few years as a nurse working on a post-op unit I learned a
lot about pain: uncontrolled pain or frequent flare-ups cause a cascade
of stress hormones to release inhibiting healing, and even feeding
cancer. So even though I don't like how droopy her eyes are, I do not
support giving her the max home dosage and allowing her to cry for two
out of the four hours in between doses. Last night, for the first time
since her hospitalization, she woke in the middle of the night and asked
for her pain medicine. All that to say, please pray for her pain to be controlled, for us
to have patience and continued energy to serve Shoshana's needs (not
necessarily her demands ;)).
A smile.
Reading with Grandma
This morning we decided it was too much. Shoshana once again woke up crying in the middle of the night, and even after her morning dose should have been in full effect, she was obviously uncomfortable and in pain. We called ahead, and headed up to Seattle Children's Hospital. Since it's a weekend, we had to go to the emergency room. If we could not effectively manage her pain at home, she would need to be admitted to the hospital.
We were there all day (there was a lot of waiting), and the conclusion was this:
Despite Shoshana still constantly indicating that her throat is her most acute source of pain, it does not look infected. The thrush seems to have cleared up. They took some swabs, and will run some cultures to see if there is anything else. It may simply be irritated by her feeding tube, and aggravated by her crying.
She was still in pain, and the current dose was not cutting it. We are going to try introducing another medication specifically for nerve pain, but that will take a few days to build up and kick in. In the meantime, we will once again up her scheduled dose of oxycodone (pain meds).
It's a path forward. Again, we appreciate prayers to the effect that Shoshana's pain will be effectively managed.
Back at the hospital
"Daddy, I want soup with noodles!"
Please also pray for Elizabeth. This whole process has been rough on her.
Spiritually: She has always had a hard time understanding why God allows this kind of thing to happen. This incident has dredged up the old patterns of thinking and feeling. She finds it difficult to weigh in the providential mercies that God has given to us in the midst of this crisis. She knows they're there, but they somehow don't seem to register.
Emotionally and physically: I have returned to work, except for scheduled clinic days. Elizabeth is the one primarily taking care of Shoshana and Abigail most of the day, every day. She has always had a hard time being strictly a stay-at-home mom. The demands of the task have increased, and her opportunities for social, emotional, and physical outlets have decreased. She is a strong person, but she has a tendency to power through tough times, which does not work well for the long haul.
We are thankful to be blessed by:
Kristen, Elizabeth's mom, who has spent almost every day taking of Abigail while we're at the clinic, or helping out in general with the girls and around the house.
A woman from our church, who is spending some time showing Elizabeth some healthy (and delicious!) cooking ideas.
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The team after defeating the depot side in a five goal encounter went home with trophy, medals and cash prize. First and second runner-up also got cash and medals reward.
The competition which is in the second edition involved four teams which include Corporate Office, Depot, Tyre and Retail, was an idea to promote team bonding and fitness all staff.
The Depot team defeated the Retail to emerge finalist for the second year running having the won 2017 edition. In the second game of the day, the Corporate Office lost to the Tyre with a lone goal. The Tyre team emerged champions for 2018 edition after defeating the Depot by 4 goals to 1 in the final, while Corporate Office defeated Retail team also with a lone goal to emerge third place winners.
Other side attraction at the venue include opon ayo, dancing and bonding with friends and colleagues.
Speaking at the competition, Chairman Fatgbems Group, Kabir Gbemisola, disclosed that the aim of the tournament is to promote bonding and general fitness of the staff. It is also a time to appreciate and create relaxed atmosphere. He added that, football promote emotions and unity which has shown in the way the teams coordinated themselves and the cheering has been wonderful, hoping to make the next edition bigger and also extend beyond our walls.
Mr. Yomi Kuku, a football promoter who was a special guest applauded the management for creating such an atmosphere to unwind and compete in a relaxed mood. He charge other corporate organizations in Nigeria to emulate the Fatgbems group in such idea.
Olatunji Kazeem, FNL team captain, appreciated the efforts of the management for bringing everybody together to unwind and play football. He said, the success of his team is due to hardwork and that undying sprirt to achieve success.
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MBA Program - FAQ
Is UCM accredited by AACSB International?
Yes. Choosing an AACSB-accredited institution should be important to you. Here's why. Accreditation by AACSB International indicates the business school's programs, faculty and funding are regularly reviewed and that processes are in place to continually evaluate and make improvements to the academic programs. It represents a standard of quality.
There are but 13 institutions in Missouri that are AACSB-accredited in Business. UCM is also accredited in Accounting.
For domestic applicants it is $30. For international applicants it is $75.
Can I submit a GRE score in place of the GMAT?
Yes. Students can take the GRE instead of the GMAT. A predicted GMAT score, based upon GRE Verbal and Quantitative scores, can be used in place of a GMAT score in meeting requirements.
Do I need to take prerequisite courses?
You might. We want to make sure you have the background necessary to be successful in the MBA program. Students who obtained a non-business, undergraduate degree need to complete twelve hours of prerequisites. If your undergraduate degree is in business, you may have already taken the four, three-hour courses:
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No. Equivalent courses from other regionally-accredited colleges and universities are accepted. You can check course equivalencies for the prerequisites. Courses may also be accepted based upon a review by the MBA Program Director in consultation with faculty. After acceptance to the program, please contact the MBA Program Director and submit a syllabus of the course to be reviewed.
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Resolutions Show Strong Bipartisan, Bicameral Support for Parity Between Federal Employee, Military Pay Adjustments
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Paul Sarbanes (MD) and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) will lead a bipartisan group of House and Senate members in introducing resolutions in both chambers today that call for parity in pay adjustments for military and civilian employees in Fiscal Year 2006.
“The civilian federal employees who strive every day to keep our country safe, strong and prosperous deserve a fair pay adjustment that rewards their hard work. At a time when our country faces threats to our security at home and abroad, it is more important than ever that we provide adequate pay and pay adjustments to help recruit and retain quality civilian federal employees to serve the American people,” Hoyer said today.
“The bipartisan, bicameral support for this resolution sends a strong message to President Bush that Congress is united behind the principle of pay parity, which will help ensure fair pay for civilian federal employees. We hope that he will incorporate pay parity into his upcoming Fiscal Year 2006 budget proposal,” Hoyer added.
“The dedication of both the uniformed services and our civilian employees embody the greatness of our Nation, day in and day out, through their commitment to public services,” said Sarbanes. “Providing equitable pay raises for federal employees is not just an issue of fairness. It is also critical to recruiting and retaining talented individuals in public service, and to successfully administering our federal programs.”
“Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan and longstanding commitment to the principal of pay parity over the years and I hope the Congress and the Administration can once again support this bi-partisan, bicameral effort,” concluded Sarbanes.
There are 1.8 million civilian federal employees across the country - in the Department of Defense alone there are over 600,000 civilian federal employees. Over the past two decades, both the House and Senate have consistently recognized that Congress and the Executive Branch should not undermine the morale of dedicated Federal public servants by failing to bring their pay adjustments in line with military personnel.
The principle of parity stems from the recognition that the pay for civilian and military employees simply has not kept pace with increases in the private sector. According to the most recent studies, a 32 percent pay gap exists between the civilian employees and their private sector counterparts and an estimated 4.4 percent gap exists between the military service members and the private sector.
Expressing the sense of Congress that there should continue to be parity between the adjustments in the pay of members of the uniformed services and the adjustments in the pay of civilian employees of the United States.
Whereas members of the uniformed services of the United States and civilian employees of the United States contribute to the general welfare of the United States, maintain the Nation’s defenses, and ensure the security of the homeland;
Whereas civilian employees of the United States play a crucial role in the fight against terrorism, as exemplified by—(1) the civilian employees of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense who are working to ensure the security of the United States; (2) the employees of the Intelligence Community and federal law enforcement who have played a critical role in the investigation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and who are working to prevent further terrorist attacks; (3) the civilian employees of the Department of State who are working to maintain a broad and sustained international commitment to wipe out terrorism around the world; (4) the numerous skilled trade and craft civilian employees of the Federal Government who work side-by-side with the men and women of the armed forces to maintain and deploy our air and sea fleet safely and swiftly; and (5) the employees of the Centers For Disease Control within the Department of Health and Human Services who work every day protecting Americans from bioterrorism and those at the Department of Agriculture who strive to keep the Nation’s food supply safe;
Whereas Americans depend on civilian employees of the United States for a vast array of important services from high profile disaster relief in times of national or international emergencies to the reliable administration of the Social Security program;
Whereas civilian employees of the United States will continue to serve and defend the United States;
Whereas in fiscal year 2005 the Senate Budget Resolution supported an across-the-board pay raise for both members of the uniformed services and civilian employees of the United States; and
Whereas the House of Representatives adopted House Resolution 581 affirming the bipartisan commitment to pay parity for fiscal year 2005: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that rates of pay for all civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at the same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of pay for members of the uniformed services.
The text of the House resolution is as follows:
Expressing the sense of the Congress that, for fiscal year 2006, rates of compensation for civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at the same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of compensation for members of the uniformed services.
Whereas all members of the uniformed services and all civilian employees of the United States, often working side by side, make significant contributions to the general welfare, defense, and security of the Nation;
Whereas increases in the pay of members of the uniformed services and of civilian employees of the United States have not kept pace with increases in the overall pay levels of workers in the private sector, so that there now exists (1) a 32.13 percent gap between compensation levels of Federal civilian employees and compensation levels of private sector workers, and (2) an estimated 4.4 percent gap between compensation levels of members of the uniformed services and compensation levels of private sector workers; and
Whereas, in almost every year during the past two decades, there have been equal adjustments in the compensation of members of the uniformed services and the compensation of civilian employees of the United States:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that, for fiscal year 2006, rates of compensation for all civilian employees of the United States should be adjusted at the same time, and in the same proportion, as are rates of compensation for members of the uniformed services. | {
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A 42-year-old South Hadley man was arrested by police on March 26, 2017. He was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor. This was the man's 5th offense. 5th offenses hold a maximum penalty of a fine of no less than $2,000 to no more than $50,000. A jail sentence of 2 - 5 years in State Prison, and a lifetime license suspension with no possibility of a hardship license.
In an interview with Western Mass News Captain John Cartledge of the Northampton Police Department, states that "one of our sergeants was patrolling in the Pleasant Street area and observed a vehicle have a marked lanes violation." The Northampton Police Department alleged that the man was weaving back and forth through driving lanes. "The vehicle subsequently stopped in the Toasted Owl parking lot off of Main Street," Cartledge added.
The man in question Mr. Joel Vieu, received his first OUI in 1993 and his most recent in 1999, where he received a two years suspended sentence and 15 months committed.
According to Capt. Cartledge, "he didn't have his license in his possession, but he did have an active driver's license." The question remains, how was this 5th offender still allowed to operate a vehicle?
Attorney Joseph D. Bernard explained in his interview with Western Mass News on March 27, 2017 that, DUI laws have changed since 1999. Attorney Bernard explained that “license suspensions were different back then, so people could get their licenses back sometimes even after five offense.”
On October 28, 2005 Massachusetts legislatures passed, 'Melanie's Law.' The purpose of the law was to enhance the penalties and administrative sanctions for offenders convicted of an OUI. It added harsher penalties to drunk driving laws in the state. ‘Melanie's Law' came to fruition after the a 13-year-old Marshfield girl's death, who was struck by a repeat OUI offender.
‘Melanie's Law' allows certified court records to be introduced, to prove prior convictions and doubles minimum mandatory sentences for motor vehicle manslaughter to five years in drunk driving cases. Anyone convicted of driving drunk with a suspended license faces a mandatory minimum one year in jail. The law also requires repeat offenders to have interlocking devices installed in any vehicle they drive. The devices are intended to prevent ignition if the driver is drunk.
Attorney Bernard explained that "the law now has built into the statute many different penalties that permanently for the rest of your life take away your license, whereas before, that wasn't the case," For example, there is an increased license suspension for refusal of a breathalyzer, 10 years for refusal if an accident results in serious bodily injury, and a lifetime suspension for refusal when an accident results in death.
It was reported that Vieu refused a breathalyzer, but was given numerous sobriety tests that he allegedly failed. He was held on $5,000 cash bail.
However, since the driver in this particular case hadn't been charged since 1999, he was - in a sense - grandfathered in. Attorney Bernard explained that anyone who received an OUI prior to 2005 when ‘Melanie's Law' came into fruition they would still be allowed to drive. If the offender received or receives an OUI after 2005 they then become subject to ‘Melanie's Law.'
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Making the brick cooking floor smooth
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a perfect firebrick exits only in platonic literature... real bricks are mere shadows of these.
i too was not too happy with the "flatness" of the oven floor after i laid my bricks and i suspected that no amount of "re-laying" was going to get them even. there were quite a few sharp edges for the peel to catch. so... i mounted a masonry grinding wheel on my angle grinder and (with a light touch) ground down all of the sharp edges which i felt might inhibit sliding of the peel.*now i don't have rectangular bricks but instead have little flat "pillows". *we've made three batches of pizza so far and the peel slides in smoothly without a catch. i suspect the same technique could be accomplished with a drill with some sort of grinding attachment if you don't have an angle grinder. | {
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In @ericdubay's "200 proofs" list he claims that rivers such as the Nile, the Paraná, the Congo, the Paraguay, and the Mississippi "flow uphill". The rationale behind it seems to be that rivers which flow from north to south (in the northern hemisphere), or south to north (in the southern), and therefore towards the bulge at the equator, will flow into mouths which are further from the centre of the earth than their sources.
4) Rivers run down to sea-level finding the easiest course, North, South, East, West and all other intermediary directions over the Earth at the same time. If Earth were truly a spinning ball then many of these rivers would be impossibly flowing uphill, for example the Mississippi in its 3000 miles would have to ascend 11 miles before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.
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As with most (all?) of Dubay's 'proofs', no explanation or evidence is offered, and it appears he is merely quoting from one of the Victorian 'first-wave' flat earth texts. In this case, rather than Rowbotham, he uses 'Terra Firma: The Earth not a Planet', a scripture-inspired book written in 1901 by David Wardlaw Scott.
Whoever heard of a river in any part of its course flowing uphill? Yet this it would require to do were the Earth a Globe. Rivers, like the Mississippi, which flow from the North southwards towards the Equator, would need, according to Modern Astronomic theory, to run upwards, as the Earth at the Equator is said to bulge out considerably more, or, in other words, is higher than at any other part. Thus the Mississippi, in its immense course of over 3,000 miles, would have to ascend 11 miles before it reached the Gulf of Mexico!
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How he arrives at the figure of 11 miles he doesn't say, though he does reference an 'Imperial Gazetteer' article, so it's possible he took it from this. In any case, I think we can assume that he did a rough calculation that went something along the lines of:
1. Earth's radius is 13.5 miles larger at equator than at poles
2. Length of Mississippi @3000 miles is 48% of the distance from the north pole to the equator (6215 miles)
3. Radius to mouth - radius to source = approximately 48% of 13.5
4. Answer is that the mouth is 6.24 miles 'higher' than the source (after subtracting 1,475 feet for the elevation at source)
5. Write down 11 miles, 'cos reasons.
Now, in actual fact the Mississippi is 2,320 miles long, while its 'as the crow flies' distance between source and mouth is 1,288 miles, and the distance between the lines of latitude at its source and mouth 1,248 miles. Using the above technique, this would make the mouth 2.44 miles 'higher' (further from the centre of the earth) than its source.
That's just a rough figure, of course, but one I would have expected a Victorian flat earth 'scientist' to have arrived at.
So there you go! The mouth of the Mississippi is not 11 miles higher than its source, it's a little under 4. Which is not an explanation of how this is possible, but another example of how Dubay repeats incorrect information without ever checking it, and yet presents it as fact.
The explanation is a little more straightforward than the laboured 'background check' above:
The Mississippi River (or any river flowing toward the equator) actually flows uphill. The Earth is not a perfect sphere. There is an equatorial ring about 13.5 miles deep. In other words “sea level” is not constant. It is higher at the equator than it is at the poles.
In the case of the Mississippi the difference is 4.12 miles. The source of the Mississippi, Lake Itasca, is 1400 feet above sea level, and the mouth is, by definition, zero feet above sea level. So we think of all of that water flowing downhill 1400 feet. But it is actually flowing against the force of gravity, going four miles uphill. The force that keeps the water flowing is actually the centrifugal force of the earth’s rotation.
If we did measurements of the flow of the water, only the effect of gravity would be observable. But that’s only because we’re using “sea level” as our reference in the first place. And the difference in sea level is itself caused by that same centrifugal force. So its effect is cancelled out in the measurements that we make.
Counter-intuitively, the gravitational force is much smaller than the centrifugal force. This is demonstrated by the fact that the centrifugal force lifts not only the water, but also the entire crust of the Earth, more than 13 miles at the equator.
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Why my calculation was 0.4 miles different to theirs, I'm not sure. But similar enough to debunk the "11 mile" claim. And whatever the figure, the explanation is still the same.
Sorry it was so long: I just like 'taking it back to the source' and uncovering the shoddyness in these "proofs".
An equatorial bulge is a difference between the equatorial and polar diameters of a planet, due to the centripetal force of its rotation. A rotating body tends to form an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere. The Earth has an equatorial bulge of 42.77 km (26.58 mi): that is, its diameter measured across the equatorial plane (12,756.27 km (7,926.38 mi)) is 42.77 km more than that measured between the poles (12,713.56 km (7,899.84 mi)). An observer standing at sea level on either pole, therefore, is 21.36 km closer to Earth's centrepoint than if standing at sea level on the equator. The value of Earth's radius may be approximated by the average of these radii.
In @ericdubay's "200 proofs" list he claims that rivers such as the Nile, the Paraná, the Congo, the Paraguay, and the Mississippi "flow uphill". The rationale behind it seems to be that rivers which flow from north to south or south to north, and therefore towards the bulge at the equator, will potentially possess mouths which are further from the centre of the earth than their sources.
4) Rivers run down to sea-level finding the easiest course, North, South, East, West and all other intermediary directions over the Earth at the same time. If Earth were truly a spinning ball then many of these rivers would be impossibly flowing uphill, for example the Mississippi in its 3000 miles would have to ascend 11 miles before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.
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As with most (all?) of Dubay's 'proofs', no explanation or evidence is offered, and it appears he is merely quoting from one of the Victorian 'first-wave' flat earth texts. In this case, rather than Rowbotham, he uses 'Terra Firma: The Earth not a Planet', a scripture-inspired book written in 1901 by David Wardlaw Scott.
Thanks for sorting out the figures here. When I was first caught up in arguing with Dubay's supposed 200 proofs of flatness, this was one of a number that caused me to have to think carefully just to make any sense of what he was claiming. It's an interesting exercise reverse engineering his misconception, isn't it.
I tried to frame the replies with the minimum technicality, not only because of some uncertainty on my part in places, but because debating on YouTube under his video taught me that I was next thing to a Nobel laureate compared to the average level of background knowledge there. Hence I ended up talking about spinning pizza dough to explain the earth's oblateness.
I've included a link to this thread at roundearthsense.blogspot.co.uk. Every little helps, even if the likelihood of most FE believers taking note is small.
Yes, or rather, the reason the mouth is further from the earth's centre than the source is because the Earth is spinning.
All that matters is the potential energy. Rivers flow downhill relative to the geoid, ie the surface of the Earth that has an equal potential energy. That potential energy is the result of a combination of the downward force due to gravity and the upward force due to the Earth's rotation ("centrifugal force" in layman's terms).
The geoid is the shape that the surface of the oceans would take under the influence of Earth's gravitation and rotation alone, in the absence of other influences such as winds and tides. This surface is extended through the continents (such as with very narrow hypothetical canals). All points on the geoid have the same gravity potential energy (the sum of gravitational potential energy and centrifugal potential energy). The force of gravity acts everywhere perpendicular to the geoid, meaning that plumb lines point perpendicular and water levels parallel to the geoid.
The reason the mouth is further from the earth's centre than the source is because the Earth is spinning.
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Also, that the Mississippi flows towards the equator is arbitrary, really, purely because its source (highest point above mean sea level) is in the north and its mouth (lowest point amsl) is in the south. A river could just as easily flow from south to north, away from the equator, like the Mackenzie in Canada, or from south to north and south again, crossing the equator twice, such as the Congo in Africa.
Also, that the Mississippi flows towards the equator is arbitrary, really, purely because its source (highest point amsl) is in the north and its mouth (lowest point amsl) is in the south. A river could just as easily flow from south to north, away from the equator, like the Mackenzie in Canada, or from south to north and south again, crossing the equator twice, such as the Congo in Africa.
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what's amsl? let's remember people, a debunk is only as good as the number of people who can understand it.
I have made the account on metabunk in order to see how the "flowing uphill" problem is adressed and I found this thread.
If the Mississippi is flowing towards equator because the earth is spinning that would not be an uniform motion, but an uniform accelerate motion, resulting in a speed of water which is not matched by reality. As any other river the Mississippi speed is greater toward Itasca lake at a similar slope of the riverbed. Only the volume of the water is bigger toward the Gulf of Mexico, which means we need more energy to move the water uphill.
If we take into consideration a certain volume of water, can we calculate a point on the riverbed where the centrifugal force is not enough to move that volume uphill because it became equal with the gravitational force of the volume of water from that point to the Gulf of Mexico?
The Mississippi flows towards the equator because the Gulf of Mexico is at a lower altitude than Lake Itasca. At no point does the centripetal force of earths rotation overcome gravity, because if that were the case the planet would simply break apart.
If the Mississippi is flowing towards equator because the earth is spinning.
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As pointed out above, that's not why the Mississippi flows towards the equator, but rather because its mouth (at sea level) is located to the south of its source (1475 feet amsl). It's actually kind of arbitrary that it flows "towards the equator" - it's simple probability that, of all the rivers in the world, some will flow south (in the northern hemisphere), and some north (in the southern hemisphere), and therefore "towards the equator". But what they all have in common is that they flow from a higher elevation to a lower one (as measured in relation to sea level).
As any other river the Mississippi speed is greater toward Itasca lake at a similar slope of the riverbed.
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I'm not really sure what this means. Is the speed you refer to the velocity of the water flow? Why would this be the case? Wouldn't the speed of the water depend on other more localized factors, such as width, depth, tributaries, cascades, snowmelt, etc?
Only the volume of the water is bigger toward the Gulf of Mexico, which means we need more energy to move the water uphill.
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Though it's been described as doing so elsewhere, I don't think the river can be said to actually "flow uphill" - it is still flowing 'down', towards the sea - though in one sense I get your point, since it is moving further away from "the centre of gravity". In general, though, we define higher and lower by their relation to sea level, rather than the centre of the earth - which is why Mount Everest is viewed as the highest mountain, rather than Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo.
If we take into consideration a certain volume of water, can we calculate a point on the riverbed where the centrifugal force is not enough to move that volume uphill because it became equal with the gravitational force of the volume of water from that point to the Gulf of Mexico?
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As above. And, if you think about the oceans that straddle the equator, it becomes clear that the volume of water isn't really a factor in this.
Good questions, though: it definitely takes a little while to get one's head around it.
PS Your English is fantastic!
PPS An interesting question for flat earthers - why did scientists, whose job it is to hide the fact we "don't live on a spinning ball", suddenly decide to describe this "fictional globe" as being an "oblate spheroid", thereby creating a whole bunch of myriad problems which wouldn't be understood by the layman, thereby opening the door to more arguments from incredulity? One would think they'd have been better off just keeping it simple.
I have made the account on metabunk in order to see how the "flowing uphill" problem is adressed and I found this thread.
If the Mississippi is flowing towards equator because the earth is spinning that would not be an uniform motion, but an uniform accelerate motion, resulting in a speed of water which is not matched by reality. As any other river the Mississippi speed is greater toward Itasca lake at a similar slope of the riverbed. Only the volume of the water is bigger toward the Gulf of Mexico, which means we need more energy to move the water uphill.
If we take into consideration a certain volume of water, can we calculate a point on the riverbed where the centrifugal force is not enough to move that volume uphill because it became equal with the gravitational force of the volume of water from that point to the Gulf of Mexico?
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That is overcomplicating matters, really. On Earth, we measure altitudes relative to mean sea level. And the whole point of that is that the sea finds its own level: namely, it settles to the configuration where it has the lowest potential energy. (Minor fluctuations due to tides and atmospheric pressure patterns aside.)
So effectively you can treat sea level as being a "lowest energy surface" that water will flow down towards. That's what "down" means: travelling from higher potential energy to lower potential energy.
If the globe was a stationary ball of uniform density then sea level would form a perfect sphere, because the only force would be gravity. However, because it rotates, the centripetal centrifugal force (which is highest at the equator) offsets a small fraction of the gravitational force, resulting in sea level bulging outwards a little at the equator. But sea level still represents the lowest energy surface, so anything above sea level is still "uphill" from it.
The distance from the centre of the Earth is irrelevant: what matters is the distance above sea level - or, more precisely, above the "geoid", which is the surface of equal potential energy, taking into account gravity, centrifugal force and variations in density. The source of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca is about 1,500ft above sea level, so clearly the river will flow downwards to the sea.
Trying to separate out the gravitational and centripetal components is not really helpful. All that matters is where you are relative to sea level, because the sea does the work of finding the "lowest energy" shape for you.
If the Mississippi is flowing towards equator because the earth is spinning
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Rivers go downhill, taking the path of least resistance. The Mississippi just happens to go south. The Rhine in Europe and The Nile in Africa both spend most of their courses going in a Northerly direction towards the North Sea and the Mediterranean respectively. In South America the Amazon and The Orinoco both head East towards the Atlantic, while going back to Africa the Congo flows mainly in a westerly direction, again to Atlantic. Its all down to gravity and the path of least resistance, the spinning of the earth has nothing to do with it.
Am I missing something? I guess you could claim it would be more precise to use centripetal and gravitational acceleration?
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"The most basic rule of dimensional analysis is that of dimensional homogeneity.[6] Only commensurable quantities (physical quantities having the same dimension) may be compared, equated, added, or subtracted. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
I am not bothered by centripetal v centrifugal, or whether you compare forces or accelerations.
The St. Johns River, in Florida, flows from south to north. The elevation drop is about 30 ft from headwaters to mouth. If the spinning of the earth had anything to do with, you'd think that it would impact a "lazy" river like the St. Johns. But it doesn't.
"The most basic rule of dimensional analysis is that of dimensional homogeneity.[6] Only commensurable quantities (physical quantities having the same dimension) may be compared, equated, added, or subtracted. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
I am not bothered by centripetal v centrifugal, or whether you compare forces or accelerations.
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You are being a bit pedantic there. We know F = ma, and we know things don’t fly off into space. So for any given object the force due to gravity is more than the effective force due to the earth spinning. We don’t need more for the purposes of this thread.
The St. Johns River, in Florida, flows from south to north. The elevation drop is about 30 ft from headwaters to mouth. If the spinning of the earth had anything to do with, you'd think that it would impact a "lazy" river like the St. Johns. But it doesn't.
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The point isn't that the centrifugal forces cause all rivers to go southwards, but rather that the Earth's rotation helps set the line of sea level where total gravitational potential is zero.
The St. Johns River, in Florida, flows from south to north. The elevation drop is about 30 ft from headwaters to mouth. If the spinning of the earth had anything to do with it, you'd think that it would impact a "lazy" river like the St. Johns. But it doesn't.
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I'm not 100% sure what you mean with this. Can you explain a little further please?
The point isn't that the centrifugal forces cause all rivers to go southwards, but rather that the Earth's rotation helps set the line of sea level where total gravitational potential is zero.
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So the TGP=0 line is to the south if you're in the South Florida, but to the north if you're in Central or North Florida? How why isn't simple elevation/geography/gravity a better explanation? Why does the St. Johns flow north, but many of the other rivers in the Jacksonville area flow in other directions? Rivers flow towards it, because water flows downhill. Even as an ovoid, sea level is sea level. The direction that rivers flow is based upon height above sea level and hard rocks.
So the TGP=0 line is to the south if you're in the South Florida, but to the north if you're in Central or North Florida? How why isn't simple elevation/geography/gravity a better explanation? Why does the St. Johns flow north, but many of the other rivers in the Jacksonville area flow in other directions? Rivers flow towards it, because water flows downhill. Even as an ovoid, sea level is sea level. The direction that rivers flow is based upon height above sea level and hard rocks.
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "the TGP=0 line" but, basically, the rivers in Florida, like everywhere in the world, are following routes from higher elevations to lower elevations, eventually reaching sea level. The compass direction they flow in is arbitrary - it could be any direction, and it could change between all directions many times over its course (like the Congo). A river's direction is dictated by terrain.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean with this. Can you explain a little further please?
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Hey Rory! Sorry, will try to elaborate -- The St. Johns flows from topography (high to low). Given that the elevation change is very small given the length of the watershed/river, basic physics would indicate that any outside influence (other than simple gravity) would have a noticeable influence on the flow and direction of the river. Having lived here for more than 30 yrs, I can attest that the St. Johns flows south to north. The St. Johns river flows downhill, regardless of the compass direction.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "the TGP=0 line" but, basically, the rivers in Florida, like everywhere in the world, are following routes from higher elevations to lower elevations, eventually reaching sea level. The compass direction they flow in is arbitrary - it could be any direction, and it could change between all directions many times over its course (like the Congo). A river's direction is dictated by terrain.
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We're in adamant agreement! Apologize for any misunderstanding, was trying to support the debunk position.
The point isn't that the centrifugal forces cause all rivers to go southwards, but rather that the Earth's rotation helps set the line of sea level where total gravitational potential is zero.
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Or, to put it another way, the rotation of the earth generates centrifugal force, which causes the earth to be an oblate spheroid rather than a perfect sphere. This means sea level is not always the same distance from the centre of the earth, but neither the rotation nor the shape of the planet have any bearing on which directions rivers flow in: that is solely subject to changes in elevation (above sea level) and topography.
Rory, no sweat. I had to dredge up my high school physics after Irma, as had to drain down pool with no power (for four days). Set up a garden hose siphon, and viola! Overnight, drained 4 inches of water from pool to (lower elevation) backyard. No harm, no foul, just communicating!
If the earth stopped spinning, (but somehow maintained its oblate shape!), the Mississippi would not flow south, and the oceans would pile up in the northern and southern hemispheres.
If the earth did rotate, but somehow was a perfect sphere and did not have an equatorial bulge, the seas would pile up around the equator and leave the northern and southern poles dry. As Newton argued.
But neither situation is possible, because land and sea are both matter and are affected in identical ways by gravity and "centrifugal force."
The simplest, intuitive way to understand this is: "Centrifugal force" creates the earth's bulge -AND- this same exact "force" also helps water flow that same distance farther away from the center of the earth's mass. It's the same force and it has the same effect on land and sea. That's natural, isn't it?
Today, all three world oceans are connected. This creates a global ocean with basically one sea level. As a consequence of rotational slowdown, the outline of the global ocean would continuously undergo dramatic changes. Equatorial waters would move toward polar areas, initially causing a significant reduction in depth while filling the polar basins that have much less capacity. As regions at high latitude in the northern hemisphere become submerged, the areal extent of the northern circumpolar ocean would rapidly expand, covering the vast lowlands of Siberia and northern portions of North America. The global ocean would remain one unit until the rotation of the earth decreased to the speed at which ocean separation would occur. The interaction between the inertia of huge water bodies and decreasing centrifugal force would be very complicated. As the consequence of steady slowdown of earth's rotation, the global ocean would be gradually separated into two oceans. Obviously, the last connection will be broken at the lowest point of the global divide line, located southwest of the Kiribati Islands. Since the current western Pacific Ocean is a plane, land would emerge quickly because there would be no chance that water would be exchanged between the two circumpolar oceans after the initial split. The area of final separation between the two oceans would be the simultaneous emerging and drying of territory extending for hundreds of kilometers.
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...during the Devonian period (400 million years ago), the earth rotated about 40 more times during one revolution around the sun than it does now. Because the continents have drifted significantly since that time, it is difficult to make estimates of the land versus ocean outlines for that era. However, we can be certain that—with a faster spinning speed in the past—the equatorial bulge of oceanic water was much larger then than it is today. Similarly, the ellipsoidal flattening of the earth was also more significant.
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That last is important because one mustn't imagine that the earth's current equatorial bulge is a legacy of an earlier time when the earth rotated faster. It wasn't solidified or frozen into the earth. It's a dynamic system. The present equatorial bulge is a result of the current speed of the earth's rotation.
There are different flavors of the FE belief in rivers flowing the wrong way.
1. The most common: FE believers have a naive intuitive belief that south is "down" and north is "up" simply because maps and globes traditionally are made to be displayed that way. It goes back to the immutable direction of "down." In this case it's not the Mississippi that outrages them. It's the Nile. The Nile flows "up." To them the sphere earth is an impossible figure to live on, with most of it either a vertical surface or upside down.
2. Another common one: The earth curves such and such miles along the course of the river; therefore the river would have to climb (or fall) such and such miles. Confusing curve with gain or loss in elevation.
3. The more savvy argument is a legacy from Victorian Edwardian times when Rowbotham David Wardlaw Scott produced more skilled sophistries. And it's exactly that argument you presented in the OP. That water would have to "climb" the "slope" of the equatorial bulge, away from the center of the earth and fighting gravity.
Although this antique FE argument is presented, only a minority of current day FE believers actually understand it on any level. When these same are presented with the argument that water is helped up the bulge by centrifugal force they become outraged at the silly ad hoc nature of this. It would be a bizarrely unlikely coincidence that centrifugal force would give water just the exact amount of force to "climb" the "slope" of the bulge - no more, no less. This is because they don't link the bulge itself to that same centrifugal force. They seem to think it's just an arbitrary lump or what-not.
Rowbotham David Wardlaw Scott had no excuse to make this argument, as Isaac Newton had explained all this long before he was born.
If the globe was a stationary ball of uniform density then sea level would form a perfect sphere, because the only force would be gravity. However, because it rotates, the centripetal centrifugal force (which is highest at the equator) offsets a small fraction of the gravitational force, resulting in sea level bulging outwards a little at the equator. But sea level still represents the lowest energy surface, so anything above sea level is still "uphill" from it.
The distance from the centre of the Earth is irrelevant: what matters is the distance above sea level - or, more precisely, above the "geoid", which is the surface of equal potential energy, taking into account gravity, centrifugal force and variations in density.
The Mississippi flows towards the equator because the Gulf of Mexico is at a lower altitude than Lake Itasca. At no point does the centripetal force of earths rotation overcome gravity, because if that were the case the planet would simply break apart.
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Agreed with you, but the altitude from wikipedia.org is 450 meters and the difference r1-r2, where r1 is Earth radii at the Gulf of Mexico latitude and r2 is Earth radii at the Itasca lake latitude is more than six thousands meters if you use WGS84 and very similar if you use an other geodedic system. As nobody sees a river flowing uphill, looks like we have to replace our geodedic systems.
Agreed with you, but the altitude from wikipedia.org is 450 meters and the difference r1-r2, where r1 is Earth radii at the Gulf of Mexico latitude and r2 is Earth radii at the Itasca lake latitude is more than six thousands meters if you use WGS84 and very similar if you use an other geodedic system. As nobody sees a river flowing uphill, looks like we have to replace our geodedic systems.
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Sounds about right: in the OP it's stated that I calculated the difference at 3.72 miles, while the article I quoted had it at 4.12 miles.
Still nothing wrong with either the geodetic system or the idea that rivers can end further from the centre of the earth than they begin though.
PS I do hope we're not losing track of what this thread's actually about, what with all this interesting discussion of rotation, centrifugal force, and oblate spheroids - namely, that Eric Dubay can't be relied upon to perform even the most basic level of research on his "proofs".
For Rory: The spinning of Earth reason regarding the Mississippi was taken from this thread, maybe it was my poor understanding... anyway, you said that the Mississippi mouth beeing 1475 feet below its source is the reason and I cannot but agreed. Now we have two possibilities: in the first case the altitude is included in r2, where r2 is the Earth radii at the source of Mississippi latitude, in the second case the altitude of the Itasca lake is not included in r2.
If you calculate r1, the Earth radii at the Mississippi mouth latitude, you will have a diference r2-r1 in excess of six thousand meters in case you are going to use WGS84, which renders irrelevant which of the above cases you wish to consider. That was the reason for which I wrote in my answer to Spectrar Ghost that we have to change our geodedic systems.
For Rory: The spinning of Earth reason regarding the Mississippi was taken from this thread, maybe it was my poor understanding... anyway, you said that the Mississippi mouth beeing 1475 feet below its source is the reason and I cannot but agreed. Now we have two possibilities: in the first case the altitude is included in r2, where r2 is the Earth radii at the source of Mississippi latitude, in the second case the altitude of the Itasca lake is not included in r2.
If you calculate r1, the Earth radii at the Mississippi mouth latitude, you will have a diference r2-r1 in excess of six thousand meters in case you are going to use WGS84, which renders irrelevant which of the above cases you wish to consider. That was the reason for which I wrote in my answer to Spectrar Ghost that we have to change our geodedic systems.
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I understand the calculation - I did it myself in the OP - but what I'm curious about is what you think is wrong with the source of the Mississippi being around 6000 metres further from the centre of the earth than its mouth?
That is overcomplicating matters, really. On Earth, we measure altitudes relative to mean sea level. And the whole point of that is that the sea finds its own level: namely, it settles to the configuration where it has the lowest potential energy. (Minor fluctuations due to tides and atmospheric pressure patterns aside.)
So effectively you can treat sea level as being a "lowest energy surface" that water will flow down towards. That's what "down" means: travelling from higher potential energy to lower potential energy.
If the globe was a stationary ball of uniform density then sea level would form a perfect sphere, because the only force would be gravity. However, because it rotates, the centripetal centrifugal force (which is highest at the equator) offsets a small fraction of the gravitational force, resulting in sea level bulging outwards a little at the equator. But sea level still represents the lowest energy surface, so anything above sea level is still "uphill" from it.
The distance from the centre of the Earth is irrelevant: what matters is the distance above sea level - or, more precisely, above the "geoid", which is the surface of equal potential energy, taking into account gravity, centrifugal force and variations in density. The source of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca is about 1,500ft above sea level, so clearly the river will flow downwards to the sea.
Trying to separate out the gravitational and centripetal components is not really helpful. All that matters is where you are relative to sea level, because the sea does the work of finding the "lowest energy" shape for you.
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The distance from the center of the Earth cannot be irrelevant because the ocean cannot be below its own floor, which floor is included in r1, where r1 is the Earth radii at the mouth of Mississippi latitude. The "lowest energy surface" about which you wrote is above ocean floor and ocean floor is above Itasca lake in our geodedic systems, including WGS84. I do not have enough altitude at the r2, where r2 is the Earth radii at the Itasca lake latitude, in order to make r1-r2 difference a negative number.
The distance from the center of the Earth cannot be irrelevant because the ocean cannot be below its own floor, which floor is included in r1, where r1 is the Earth radii at the mouth of Mississippi latitude. The "lowest energy surface" about which you wrote is above ocean floor and ocean floor is above Itasca lake in our geodedic systems, including WGS84. I do not have enough altitude at the r2, where r2 is the Earth radii at the Itasca lake latitude, in order to make r1-r2 difference a negative number.
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I think you're overcomplicating matters. All relevant explanations are in the thread already, so maybe having another read through may clear things up. | {
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Whatever one thinks of the late Toronto mayor, the controversy over this video, including its very existence, until it was confirmed by former Toronto Police chief Bill Blair, is intrinsic to understanding Ford’s term as the mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.
Until now, the public has had to rely on descriptions of what the video contains from reporters and the former police chief, due to legal restrictions, which no longer apply.
Ford himself, shortly before he admitted smoking crack, called for Toronto Police to release this video in November 2013 saying: “Whatever this video shows folks,Toronto residents deserve to see it and people need to judge for themselves what they see on this video.”
We agree. That’s why we’re making it public today.
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Extortion charges against Sandro Lisi, Rob Ford’s former driver and friend, were withdrawn Thursday, permitting public access for the first time to the notorious “crack video” that dogged the city’s former mayor.
The video captures Ford at the lowest and most tragic point of his struggle with drugs and alcohol, and in it, a barely coherent Ford is seen smoking from a glass pipe and carrying on a disjointed conversation with a friend from high school.
Lisi was accused of threatening two Dixon City Bloods gang members — Mohamed Siad and Liban Siyad, who’d secretly recorded a clearly stoned Ford in 2013 and then tried to peddle the footage to media outlets — in order to retrieve the video.
“Tell your boys a message, the whole place is going to get heated up,” court heard that Lisi told Siyad to compel him to return the cellphone crack video.
Lisi signed a peace bond — which doesn’t admit any criminal conduct — and agreed to avoid contacting either Siad or Siyad, who are now serving prison sentences as gun and drug traffickers.
“Lisi never succeeded in retrieving the video,” Crown attorney John Patton said, adding Lisi had wanted to protect Ford’s reputation.
Patton said the prosecution agreed to withdrawing the charge and accepting the peace bond after its case weakened considerably during the preliminary hearing last year.
Ford initially denied smoking crack for several months but later admitted he smoked it while in a drunken stupor.
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Benefits of Being Environmentally Friendly in Business
October 30, 2018
As newer generations of consumers are becoming more concerned about the environmental impact of the products they purchase and the companies they purchase from, many businesses are taking the necessary steps toward transitioning into being more environmentally sustainable. Though transforming your business into an environmentally friendly one may not be an easy task, the benefits of doing so are long lasting for the environment, the consumer, and even businesses themselves.
What Does It Mean to be An Environmentally Friendly Business?
Being environmentally friendly in business means that your business makes a conscious effort to reduce its negative impact on the environment. This effort can take form in anything from implementing a green office program to working with your business’s manufacturers and suppliers to reduce the use of non-renewable resources.
Benefits of Going Green
There are many benefits to a business making the conscious effort to go green:
It Can Save You Money – reducing your energy, paper usage, and reusing office supplies where you can, will inevitably reduce overall costs which can then be put into other important facets of a business.
Builds Consumer Loyalty – Many studies have found that consumers believe green businesses to be more trustworthy than non-green ones. Moreover, by making a concentrated effort to reduce the negative environmental impact your business has can promote a sense of community between your business and the consumer.
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Reduce Electricity – encourage employees to turn off lights and electronics when not in use. This will not only save energy but can cut down on costs as well.
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Christian Heresies
Even before the original autographs of the New Testament writings were completed, we see a rise of Christian heresies that would repeatedly attempt to undermine the classical Christian doctrines as taught by Jesus and his apostles. Various church fathers and organized councels defended the orthodox positions on the most important doctrines critical for the true Christian faith.
Emergence of Christian Heresies - an Interactive Infographic
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Click on the heresy to see a brief snapshot about its positions. Or just read about them below in an alphabetized list.
Some heresies incorporate wider beliefs and borrow from others, and therefore, strictly speaking, they may also belong in other groups. Effort was taken to create logical groupings of heresies in accordance with their core doctrinal differences and typical divergence from classical Christianity.
Early Church
Gnostic
Christological/Trinitarian
Antinomianism
Audianism
Circumcellions
Donatism
Ebionites
Euchites/Messalians
Iconoclasm
Marcionism
Montanism
Pelagianism
Semipelagianism
Albigenses/Catharism
Athinganoi
Docetism
Gnosticism
Luciferianism
Manichaeism
Naassenes
Ophites
Paulicianism
Priscillianism
Sethianism
Valentianism
Adoptionism
Apollinarism/Apollinarianism
Arianism
Eutychianism
Macedonianism/Pneumatomachians
Melchisedechianism
Modalism
Monarchianism
Monophysitism
Monothelitism
Nestorianism
Patripassianism
Psilanthropism
Sabellianism
Socinianism
Tritheism
Subordinationism
Unitarianism
Kenosis
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mormonism
Snapshots of Christian Heresies
Adoptionism
c A.D. 190
The heresy that Jesus was only a non-divine man; that he was extremely virtuous; that he was, at some point, "adopted" as the Son of God by the Spirit descending on him. Adoptionism is also known as Psilanthropism and Dynamic Monarchianism.
Albigenses/Catharism
c A.D. 1050
A theologically dualistic heresy which taught that matter (the physical world), having been created by an evil god, is evil, while the spirit, having been created by a good god is good. In this view, the spirit must be freed from the chains of the material body.
Antinomianism
c A.D. 55
An early heresy which held that Christians are freed from all obligations of the moral law through grace. An early correction was made by the apostle Paul (Romans 3:8) in his letter to the Romans.
Apollinarism/Apollinarianism
c A.D. 350
The heresy that believed that Jesus had a human body, a divine mind, but only a "lower" soul; that humans propagate souls along with bodies. It was declared a heresy by the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381.
Arianism
c A.D. 318
The heresy that rejected the divinity of Jesus and taught that Jesus was created by the Father and that the title "Son of God" was merely given to Jesus as a courtesy. It was condemned at the First Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325.
Athinganoi
c A.D. 800
A 9th-century heretical sect of Monarchianism in Phrygia originated by Theodotus the banker.
Audianism
c A.D. 350
An anthropomorphic heresy the held, among other things, that God has human form and that the death of Jesus ought to be celebrated during the Jewish Passover(quartodecimanism).
Circumcellions
c A.D. 325
A militant heresy (subset of Donatism) relying heavily on violence whose main concerns were righting what they deemed as social wrongs. Those in this sect condemned property and fiscal servanthood, and advocated canceling all debts. Like the Donatists, they prized martyrdom.
Docetism
c A.D. 150
An heresy that claimed that Jesus' material body was an illusion; that his crucifixion was an illusion since Jesus did not have a physical body. The claim was that Jesus was a pure incorporeal spirit.
Donatism
c A.D. 325
A rigorist heresy that held martyrdom as the supreme Christian virtue regarding those who intentionally sought out martyrdom as saints. They held to very stringent views claiming that church clergy must be completely faultless for their services to be valid. A commission appointed by Pope Miltiades condemned Donatism in A.D. 313.
Ebionites
c A.D. 100
An early Jewish sect heretical for their claims that Jesus was the Messiah but was not divine. They interpreted the Jewish law and rites with Jesus' exposition of the law and insisted in the necessity of following those laws and rites.
Euchites/Messalians
c A.D. 370
An heretical Syrian ascetic sect that held to an overemphasis on prayer and spiritual experience at the expense of disregarding the church and its sacrements, especially baptism; and renouncing social and work relations. They also believed that the escence of the trinity could be percieved by the carnal senses; that God transformed himself into a single substance for merging with souls of the perfect, and the state of perfection could only be attained by unceasing prayer and prayer alone.
Eutychianism
c A.D. 400
An heretical movement started by a monk named Eutychus (A.D. 378-452) that held to the notion that Christ's humanity was absorbed by his divinity. Eutychus believed that Christ was of two natures but not in two natures so that Jesus was one with the divinity, but was not one with humanity.
Gnosticism
c A.D. 140
A large and very diverse dualistic heretical movement that included many variations of heretical systems on their own right. The central heresy common to all variations is the teachings that people are divine souls who are trapped in a material world created by an evil god, who is ironcially often identified as the God of Abraham. The Gnostics rejected and vilafied the human body and believed that the material body should be destroyed by the true God to free humanity from the evil god who has imprisoned souls inside human bodies.
Iconoclasm
c A.D. 726
A movement that held to the importance of destroying religious icons, images and monuments largely because of the overly literal interpretation of The second commandment - "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them" (Deut 5:8-9).
Kenosis
c A.D. 1870
A heresy first introduced by Gottfried Thomasius (1802-1875) which held that Jesus voluntarily gave up some of his divine attributes (omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence) while in his incarnate state such that he was not fully divine in order to fully accomplish the work of redemption.
Luciferianism
c A.D. 1200
An heresy influenced by Gnosticism that held to the veneration of the characteristics associated with Lucifer, revering Lucifer not as the devil with ill intent, but as a liberator, guardian, guiding spirit and even as the true God.
Macedonianism/Pneumatomachians
c A.D. 360
An heresy that, while accepting the divinity of Jesus, denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, relegating the Holy Spirit as a substance created by The Son.
Manichaeism
c A.D. 210
A Gnostic dualistic heresy birthed by Mani (c. 216 – c. 276) which held to the idea that the material world is evil and the spirit world is good; that these polar opposites are involved in a struggle this good, spiritual world of light and the bad, the material world of darkness.
Marcionism
c A.D. 144
An heresy which, while affirming Jesus as the savior, rejected the Hebrew Bible and the God of the Old Testament. It held that the God of the Old Testament was a distinct lower god than the all-forgiving God of the New Testament.
Melchisedechianism
c A.D. 400
An heresy which held to the notion that Melchisedech was the incarnation of the divine Word, or Logos and identified him with the Holy Spirit.
Modalism
c A.D. 190
An heresy which claimed that although God is a single person, He has revealed Himself in three modes throughout biblical history. In the Old Testament God is said to exist in "the mode" of The Father, at the incarnation, in "the mode" of The Son, and after Jesus' ascention, in "the mode" of the Holy Spirit. The modes were said to have never been simultaneous so The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are said to have never existed at the same time.
Monarchianism
c A.D. 190
A unitarian heresy that held to God being a single person as opposed to a Trinity of personages, which arose from attempts to preserve monotheism and reject the notion of tritheism.
Monophysitism
c A.D. 370
An heresy which held that after the incarnation of Christ, the divine Logos revealed as Christ, had one unified nature - either only divine or a synthesis of divine and human, but single nonetheless.
Monothelitism
c A.D. 629
An heresy which formally emerged in Armenia and Syria holding to the belief that Jesus Christ had two natures but only one will, contrary to the orthodox Christoloical view that Jesus Christ has both a divine and human will each corresponding to his two natures.
Montanism
c A.D. 170
An heresy which claimed that its prophesies superceded and fulfilled the doctrines proclaimed by the apostles, emphasizing ecstatic prophesying, avoidance of sin and church discipline, chastity and remarriage. The view also held to the notion that Christians who "fell" from grace could not possibly be redeemed.
Mormonism
c A.D. 1820
An polytheistic heresy holding to various unorthodox doctrines, such as the notions that human beings preexisted in a spirit realm and were produced through the procreation of a god and goddess wife; allegedly human beings simply entered human bodies in the form of babies and as a result, lose the memories of our preexistence. Other heretical beliefs include the possiblity for man to become god, baptism for the dead, the idea that God used to be a man on another planet, the notion that the Trinity is three separate gods and that grace alone is not enough for salvation.
Naassenes
c A.D. 100
Likely the earlies known Gnostic heresy which held to the typical Gnostic beliefs as well as the notion that there are three types of people - those who are bound under the material body (the Bound); ordinary Christians (the Psychic or the Called); and the top tier of their own sect (the Spiritual or the Elect).
Nestorianism
c A.D. 428
A heresy that held to the notion that Jesus Christ was not more than a natural union (Flesh + Word), and therefore, not identical to the divine Son of God.
Ophites
c A.D. 220
A Gnostic heresical sect which held that the God who forbade Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge is the enemy, while the serpent (Satan) who tempted them was a hero. This sort of reversal of good and evil is typical and common across Gnostic heresies.
Patripassianism
c A.D. 200
A heresy which held that the divine personages of Father and Son are one in the same person, and that the Father was the one who suffered on the cross as Jesus.
Paulicianism
c A.D. 650
A Gnostic heresy arising in Armenia, which combined dualistic and orthodox doctrines, staunchly opposing the formalism of the church. Constantine, the one known to have established the teachings, saw himself as one who was called to restore the pure Christianity of the Apostle Paul, unfortunately supplanting orthodox views with Gnostic ones.
Pelagianism
c A.D. 500
An heresy which taught that original sin did not tain human nature, and that man, apart from divine aid, is fully capable of choosing good over evil.
Priscillianism
c A.D. 350
An heresy combining the heretical teachings of the Gnostics and Manicheans, which believed in the existence of two kingdoms, one of Light (good) and one of Darkness (evil); that angels and human souls were severed from the substance of God; that souls were meant to conquer the kingdom of Darkness, but were imprisoned in material bodies instead. As usual with Gnostics, salvation can be acheived through the liberation from matter.
Psilanthropism
c A.D. 190
An heresy which claimed that Jesus Christ was merely human since he either never became divine or because he did not exist prior to his incarnation.
Sabellianism
c A.D. 190
A unitarian heresy which claimed that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are merely three distinct characterizatons of a unitarian God as opposed to the orthodox trinitarian view of God being three distinct personages.
Semipelagianism
c A.D. 500
A heresy, originally developed to reconcile Palagianism and the orthodox teachings of the church fathers (people cannot come to God without the grace of God), which made a distinction between coming to faith and the increase of faith; and that coming to faith is fully an act of the will while the increase of faith is the work of God through His grace.
Sethianism
c A.D. 220
A Gnostic heresy which believed that the serpent (Satan) in the Garden of Eden was an agent of God, who helped bring knowledge of truth to humanity through the fall.
Socinianism
c A.D. 1500
A unitarian heresy that denies the trinity, claiming that God's unity in His simplicity prevails; that the Holy Spirit is merely a force of God; and that Christ was not the incarnate God and did not pre-exist.
Subordinationism
c A.D. 318
An heresy which held that the Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to the Father both in nature and being. As part of the Arian controversy, the heresy was condemned along with Arianism by the First Council of Constantinople (A.D. 381).
Tritheism
c A.D. 320
An heresy which believed in God as three entities, three separate gods having seprate domains and spheres of influence that somehow come together into one whole.
Unitarianism
c A.D. 1550
An heresy positing that God is a single personage, as opposed to the orthodox position that God is a Trinity of personages in one being - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The heresy also held that Jesus was inspired by God and is a savior but merely a human being nonetheless.
Valentianism
c A.D. 150
A Gnostic dualistic heresy which believed that the God of the Old Testament was a demiurge who created the imprefect material world and man. Human beings have a material nature and a spiritual nature. The work of redemption is said to be accomplished by freeing the spiritual nature from the material nature. And the only way to achieve true gnosis (knowledge) is by recognizing the Father as the source of divine power. The heresy also held to an elaborate cosmology - that in the beginning there was a fullness called Pleroma at the center of which was the Father who, after long periods of silence and thought, created fifteen sexually complementary pairs of heavenly archetypes, among whom was Sophia, whose weakness, curiosity and passion caused her fall from Pleroma. | {
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The battle for supremacy in the ICT industry now goes beyond competition on products and services
While patent litigation among ICT companies is not new, nowadays this is one of the cards that companies with relatively deep pockets like to play to cripple competition by, for instance, requesting a court to ban sales of a product, which requires that patent. Recently, patent litigations among ICT companies have escalated as ICT giants engage in lawsuits and countersuits with mobile technologies, mobile devices, and mobile-related services and applications.
As a matter of fact, the battle for supremacy in the ICT industry now goes beyond competition on products and services. Patent disputes demonstrate how these intangible assets can be instrumental to disable the competition in this crowded industry. As a consequence, in 2011 and 2012, the industry saw some major ICT players ramping up their patent acquisition activities in order to use patents either as a defensive tool to strengthen their case in the litigations or as an expedient to attack their rivals.
Patent wars could become even more aggressive in the future as competition in the ICT industry, and particularly in the litigious wireless segment, becomes more cutthroat. But despite some prodigious patent acquisitions – for instance, the 17000 patents that Google acquired through Motorola’s acquisition - companies may not fully cover all areas. Therefore, patent pools may be a successful strategy to break the concentration of patent ownership in the hands of a single company and lessen the chances of an entity using patents as tools to distort competition. | {
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CALIA by Carrie Underwood Bottoms Size Chart
CALIA by Carrie Underwood Plus Size Chart
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Numbered Size18-2020-22
Bust45" - 47''49" - 51''
Waist41" - 43''45.5" - 47.5''
Hip47" - 49''51" - 53''
CALIA by Carrie Underwood Bra Size Chart
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How to Measure:Use these tips as a general guide when finding your measurements:Bust : A friend is helpful for this. Measure around the fullest part of your bust keeping tape level to the floor. For accurate measurement, keep arms relaxed by your sides, and breathe normally.Waist : Measure around your narrowest part of mid-torso, keeping tape level to floor. For accurate measurement, relax and breathe normally.Hips: While standing with your feet about shoulder-width apart, place the tape measure around the fullest part of your hips.Inseam: Stand up straight, and start the tape measure high in your crotch. Straighten the tape down the inside of your leg to the bottom of your ankle.
Add the CALIA™ by Carrie Underwood Women’s Essential Heather Bermuda Shorts to your wardrobe for standout comfort. Made with Califlex fabric, these bottoms stretch with you and are treated with BODYFREE antimicrobial and BODYBREEZE moisture-wicking properties. A wide waistband provides support and coverage, while a zip pocket lends storage. Complete with petal hem for a feminine look, the CALIA™ Essential Heather Bermuda Shorts are the perfect addition to your workout wear.
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Add the CALIA™ by Carrie Underwood Women’s Essential Heather Bermuda Shorts to your wardrobe for standout comfort. Made with Califlex fabric, these bottoms stretch with you and are treated with BODYFREE antimicrobial and BODYBREEZE moisture-wicking properties. A wide waistband provides support and coverage, while a zip pocket lends storage. Complete with petal hem for a feminine look, the CALIA™ Essential Heather Bermuda Shorts are the perfect addition to your workout wear.
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wicking technology pulls moisture away from the skin and boasts a rapid evaporation time so you stay dry, cool and comfortable
antimicrobial technology inhibits odor-causing bacteria and with an incredibly resilient application directly on the fabric, it lasts wear after wear so you stay fresh
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Love these workout shortsI love the Calia line. These Bermuda Shorts were my latest addition to my collection. I love the thicker material and how soft they are. They seem to hold everything in. The one downside for me is that some of my muffin top peeps out. For my body, I could stand to have a little higher waist in garments like this. But I still love them!
Date published: 2017-09-06
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Best indoor biking shorts everThese shorts are the perfect length for indoor spinning. They wash and wear well and for great. Would love to have them available in other color design. Not many other options of this quality available
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Saturday. 9:30pm. I’m sitting cross-legged on the grass of Chapelfield Gardens, and all around me the Garden Party is still going strong. The Adnams Spiegeltent is a roar of chatter and noise, and beside it a large mechanical dragon — rather charmingly named Elsie — turns the air orange with the glow from her flamethrower-covered body. I’m not here for either of those events, great though they were. I’m here for Pedal-Powered Car Chase, a fifteen-minute performance involving inventive live music, a handful of plucky volunteers, and some exercise in the name of making us think.Continue Reading | {
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Brandon Routh Teases Atom Costume on Arrow
by Russ Burlingame | November 4, 2014
In spite of producers saying recently that it's unlikely we'll see Ray Palmer -- known to DC Comics fans as The Atom -- use his trademark shrinking powers on Arrow, actor Brandon Routh has posted a photo to social media that suggests, if nothing else, he'll be wearing a mask.
The series started filming their eleventh episode of the season today, titled "Midnight City," and apparently part of what's "all in a day's work" for that episode is getting a plaster mold made of his face.
Which, as we noted back when Katie Cassidy did it recently, is generally associated with fitting the actor for a mask. In the background of the room where both of the actors in question were molded, you can see other face molds on the shelf -- and in Cassidy's, the shot was wide enough that you could see them marked with words like "Canary" and "Arsenal."
Back in September, Routh admitted that he'd seen concept art for the suit -- which was not long before executive producers cautioned fans not to expect him to do anything too...super...on Arrow.
"It's a totally different suit and I haven't been in it yet, I've only seen drawings," Routh said when asked to compare the role to his time as Superman. "It's a very different character and I really can't say too much about what the suit's going to look like -- just that it's very different and I don't believe it has a cape, which doesn't really surprise anybody if you've seen The Atom in the comics."
“I think anything is possible. My instinct is that if Ray Palmer’s going to shrink, he’ll probably shrink on another show,” Marc Guggenheim told reporters at a screening and Q&A when the season began last month. “With The Flash in existence, there’s no real compelling reason for us to do super powers on Arrow. We can bring characters to Flash to have super powers. We have plans for Ray that don’t involve shrinking, but our plans for Ray are actually really cool.”
Of course, with his recent discovery of the O.M.A.C. Project, that original casting call that had us all thinking it was Ted Kord, not Ray Palmer, and the admission by producers that they had hoped to use Blue Beetle rather than The Atom but were rebuffed by DC, it's hard not to imagine Routh's version of Palmer as a somewhat more street-level vigilante who might compete with, or team up with, Team Arrow in the second half of the season.
Certainly it seems as though they're building a very Ted Kord-like persona for him in spite of having switched characters along the way.
Arrow airs on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT. You can see the newest episode, "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak," tomorrow. | {
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Canna CBD Advert: Fitness Comes First
Canna CBD tackles the fitness industry. With bases in Thailand, Canna CBD have teamed up with an array of MMA Stars to spread the word on the benefits of CBD in your active lifestyle.
Nate Diaz ultimate fighter is not hiding his use of a CBD oil vape
Nate Diaz and his brother Nick have no qualms about using cannabis in a vape publicly.
Nick was suspended in 2015 after he tested positive for marijuana prior to the UFC 183. It is alleged he invited an agent to smoke some weed with him after they had an argument earlier that week.
In an interview with Nate after he lost a match against Connor McGregor, he explained to the media that, in his opinion, he won the fight even if McGregor’s score was higher, and got him the majority decision. He was not upset; it seemed as if his mind was not on the fight, but on the tokes he was taking from a vape of CBD oil. He says the non-psychoactive form of cannabis helps him heal after fighting. | {
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<b>Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23:</b> [SUPREME COURT JUSTICES]. A very extensive collection of 203 letters, documents and signatures. A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, JOHN JAY THROUGH WILLIAM REHNQUIST. $20,000 to $30,000.
<b>Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23:</b> [ABOLITIONISTS]. <i>William Lloyd Garrison. The Story of his Life.</i> New York, 1885. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS FROM SEVERAL NOTABLE ABOLITIONISTS neatly bound in throughout. $4,000 to $6,000.
<b>Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23:</b> ANSON, George. <i>A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744.</i> London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748. FIRST EDITION. $3,000 to $4,000.
<b>Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10:</b> EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Autograph Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), to "Die 'A.E. Group' in New York" humorously accepting his role as patron saint, and offering a motto for their members. $30,000 to $50,000.
<b>Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10:</b> LOBACHEVSKY, NIKOLAI. Document Signed ("Lobachevsky"), and accomplished in Manuscript, a letter of designation in his role as Curator of Regional Education in Kazan. $30,000 to $50,000.
Rare Book Monthly
A Handwritten Letter Sells for a Record $6 Million-Plus
- by Michael Stillman
Francis Crick's “Secret of Life” letter to his son.
On April 10, the highest price ever paid for a letter at auction was achieved at Christie's in New York. If there was any doubt about the growing interest in more ephemeral sorts of works on paper, this should help put it to rest. At over $6 million, or 3 to 6 times the estimate range, there was no shortage of serious interest.
The letter itself is something of a surprise. It was not from one of the great world leaders, a Lincoln, Churchill, or Napoleon. It was not from the most famous of scientists, a Galileo, Kepler, or Newton. It was not even very old, written just sixty years ago. The writer only died in the last decade, his partner and the recipient are still living (and attended the auction). While his name is well-recognized in the scientific community, if you interviewed people on the street and asked who Francis Crick is, most would probably respond with blank stares. What we now know about him is that, along with being a great scientist, he wrote a letter worth $6 million. Obviously, he is more important than the typical man on the street realizes.
For those who have forgotten, Francis Crick, along with his partner, James Watson, discovered the nature of the DNA molecule. To put it more bluntly, they discovered how physical characteristics, and life itself, is transmitted from one individual to another. They were first to understand how the DNA molecule could copy itself, and thereby transmit life to another. Crick and Watson had been working on models of the DNA molecule, trying to break the code. On the last day of February, 1953, they had their voilà moment. They suddenly realized how everything must fit together within the molecule for it all to work.
Crick was not shy in recognizing its importance. He announced to others, only “half-jokingly” as Watson would later write, that they had found “the secret of life.” The two spent March busily constructing models to get it down right, and began to prepare a paper they would submit to Nature magazine on April 2 announcing their discovery. It was during this period that Crick would write his $6 million letter. It was not directed to a fellow scientist or researcher. Instead, it was sent to a 12-year-old boy. That boy was Michael Crick, Francis's son, off at boarding school. Crick regularly explained such things to his son, who was interested in secret codes, so this clearly would have fascinated him. In his letter, Crick explains as clearly as possible what has been discovered. This is the first known written explanation of the discovery, and probably the only first account of such a major scientific discovery to conclude with the line, “Lots of love, Daddy.”
Francis Crick begins his letter modestly with, “Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery. We have built a model for the structure of des-oxy-ribose-nucleic-acid (read it carefully) called D.N.A. You may remember that the genes of the chromosomes - which carry the hereditary factors - are made up of protein and D.N.A. Our structure is very beautiful.” He goes on to say, “...we think we have found the basic copying mechanism by which life comes from life.” He also explains in more detail how its reproduction works, and even provides a crude drawing of their double helix model. Crick promises to show the model to his 12-year-old son when he comes home.
The importance of the discovery and the significance of this letter was well understood by Christie's. Its existence has long been known, it carrying the sobriquet of the “Secret of Life” letter. They slapped an estimate of $1 - $2 million on it. Not even they were prepared for what happened. By the time the bidding stopped, the price had crossed the $6 million mark (including commissions). The final price was $6,059,750. The letter was purchased by an unnamed buyer who placed a bid by telephone.
The auction included only two other items, both relating to Crick, and both easily surpassing estimates. An early 1950s four-page manuscript notebook, estimated at $4,000-$6,000, sold for $21,250. A pencil drawing of Crick by his wife, Odile, estimated at $8,000 - $12,000, went for $17,500. Odile Crick was an artist, though she is best known for her drawing of the double helix used by her husband and Watson.
<b>Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. June 9, 2020</b>
<b>Forum Auctions, Jun. 9:</b> Voyages.- Lowther (Rear Admiral Marcus, 1820-1908). An album of 166 original watercolours and drawings made on voyages between 1842 and 1853. £10,000 to £15,000.
<b>Forum Auctions, Jun. 9:</b> Darwin (Charles). <i>On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection,</i> third edition (seventh thousand), presentation copy to Robert Colgate, John Murray, 1861. £10,000 to £15,000. | {
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Nice & Smooth — Funky For You lyrics
[ VERSE 1: Greg Nice ]
Hey yo
Dizzy Gillespie plays a sax
Me, myself, I love to max
Redbone booties I'm out to wax
Stick up kids is out to tax
Spring again, and I'm feelin fine
Pass me an ice-cold glass of wine
So I can get mellow
Lay back, and let my girl play the cello
Hello
I hate Jell-O
Let me be me, relax in my tipi
Watch a hardy boy mystery
Greg N-i-c-e
I'm nitro
And I'm hype, so
Don't ever believe
That you can deceive me
See many visions of love and splendor
I'm the real thing, not like a pretender
I rock rhymes over beats on the real tip
Stay real strong and hang on like a vise grip
Use my mind to control all my body parts
Got an early start, plus I'm very smart
Type of man that the girls wanna read about
Indeed I proceed to rock the house without a doubt
Steppin up next, no further ado
Smooth B is gonna make it real funky for you
[ CHORUS: Pure Blend ]
I'm gonna make it real funky for you
[ VERSE 2: Smooth B ]
Smooth B, notorious, glorious
Knowledge is infinite, I live in a fortress
I'm so astronomical, yet on a physical plane
My body's just a shell, in control is my brain
I strain to gain spirituality
So I can finally be in unity
Harmony with the all eye-seeing
Supreme being
Knower of histories and mysteries
I'm mystic, also stylistic
Not materialistic, simplistic
Humble while others tumble, stumble
Smooth B, not Bumble
Rumble, no, that's not likely
That's in my old 'school daze' like Spike Lee
Smooth B, my rhymes get better with time
I should get an endorsement for creating fresh lines
And as I grow older, lyrics get hyper
Cause I'm a dominant black pied piper
Spreadin peace and love throughout my travels
And take time to read and unravel
Day to day problems, and then solve
Them, I can see clearly now as I revolve
Around suckers
Who perpetrate heroes
But I'm no sandwich
More like a manwich
Or maybe like a meal
Which is much more real
Than Clark Kent or the Man of Steel
Teddy Tedd, a hip-hop ambassador
Keepin you on the floor, givin you more and more
His cuts exquisite, what is it? A blizzard
The musical wizard you should come visit
The man in the back, without further ado
Teddy Tedd is gonna make it real funky for you | {
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
And I'm back!
I've had this nagging feeling for the longest time. It says: WRITE! JOURNAL! BLOG! EXPRESS! RECORD! And somehow whenever I get a free second I am just so exhausted that I end up watching Netflix or going to bed instead. (Does anyone else think watching "Netflix" sounds less embarrassing than watching "TV"? I feel like it's less lazy. Yeah, totally.)
The problem is that I have some serious topics to tackle. So here comes the disclaimer: I'm going to be writing about things that really matter to me. I don't claim to be able to back all of my opinions with procedural, analytical, or statistical data. I may do a couple educated google searches to try to back what I'm pretty sure is backable, but I also just feel some of this stuff.
It's okay with me if you disagree. But to be clear, I really don't mean to open up any heated arguments. I don't mean to convince. I am seeking to understand myself and to give others a glimpse into why I feel the way I do. Please read with some effort toward empathy and understanding. If you can't do that, maybe these entries aren't the ones for you. (Or at least not the ones to comment on).
So here I go trying to be true to myself just like Lilly is true enough to herself that if she wants to hide in the fridge, she just goes for it. I hope to someday be that cool. (Pun intended).
I have been asked some excellent questions and I've never answered
any of them to my satisfaction. I'm not always sure if people realize
how big their questions are. I try to be sensitive to not overwhelm or
bore them with my in-depth and often passionate answer. So I am re-purposing this blog to address some of those questions. Because maybe they really want to know.
So, if you really want to know...
Why I'm a feminist?
How I can stand working in such a "depressing field"? (I'm a mental health and drug and alcohol counselor)
How I'm doing following my miscarriage?
Why I haven't left my church despite my many grievances with it?
This is where I'm going to examine those difficult questions as honestly, openly, and vulnerably as I can.
Some
of my entries will be essay-like, responding to particular questions.
But, I also hope to use this blog to track my efforts to answer my own
big questions. These entries will be primarily for me and won't be
polished or essay-like at all. And, because un-polished-learning-as-I-go
is way less intimidating than trying to produce my most-up-to-date and
complete answer to a difficult question, I'll be starting there. | {
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Structural Biochemistry/Nucleic Acid/RNA/Interference RNA
Contents
First discovered in plants, RNA interference was first observed in experiments conducted by Richard Jorgensen and colleagues in which they were trying to change the aesthetic characteristics of petunias. Their goal was to deepen the purpled colored flowers by introducing a key enzyme for flower pigmentation into petunias of normal violet color. The over expressed gene was expected to result in darker flowers, but instead produced less pigmented white flowers, indicating the activity of chalcone synthase had be substantially decreased. The phenomenon was called co-suppression of gene expression but the overall understanding of interference was still very limited at the time. Later on, scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello conducted a study in which they injected double stranded (dsRNA) into mRNA and found that it mimicked a phenotype very effectively. From their studies it was concluded that RNAi was systemic, heritable and caused a reduction of the target transcript.
RNA interference is the degradation of mRNA to silence the expression of target genes. The process starts with long double stranded RNA (dsRNA) that are cleaved into small interfering RNA (siRNA). This is achieved by the cleavage of the target transcript complementary to the dsRNA at sizes similar to small interfering RNA. To do this, RNA duplexes can be synthesized to mimic dsRNA products and as a result these short, synthetic strands target corresponding sites of siRNA. Studies on both siRNA and micro-RNA (miRNA) have also observed a pattern of endonucleolytic cleavage which caused dsRNA to convert to siRNA. From these observations of this enzyme was named Dicer and is responsible for generating small RNA. With the use of ATP the double stranded siRNA is then unwound into two single stranded siRNAs: a passenger strand and a guide strand. The passenger strand is degraded and the guide strand is kept.[1] The siRNAs are then assembled in complexes called RNA-induced silencing complexes(RISCs). The RISCs become activated after the siRNAs inside the complexes unwind. The siRNAs then guide the activated RISCs to the target mRNAs for degradation. These cleaved mRNAs are then left dysfunctional and incompatible with the siRNA.
A very important factor in RNA interference is the activation of the RNA induced silencing complexes (RISCs). As such, several models are used to study the challenges of understanding its function. In experiments, conducted by Liu and colleagues, that a Dicer enzyme, Dicer-2, recruits duplex siRNA to enable RISC activation. The studies also found that the Dicer-2 enzyme is required for efficient RISC activity and RNA interference.
Another model, the Helicase model, has also been used to understand RISC activation. In this method, the dsRNA is run through a native gel electrophoresis to resolve double-strand and single-strand siRNA which showed that separation of strands required ATP (Nykanen et al.) . The unwinding of the double strand also concludes that the helicases are important factors in RISC activation. Through these studies, RNA helicases have also been found to have important roles in small RNA pathways such as dsRNA processing, mRNA recognition and the release of cleavage products. The Slicer model is another for RISC activation where the passenger strand is cleaved into fragments leaving the guide strand to create an activated RISC.[2]
Thought to first be around about a billion years ago. siRNA found to be in humans, plants and single cell organisms. It is believed that these RNAi evolved as a defensive mechanism from viral producing mRNA molecules.
RNAi is now believed to be able to help with the study of tissue regeneration. Tissue regeneration is not a very well understood topic at this point; however, the idea is to shut down individual genes using RNAi. By shutting down these genes, scientists expect to understand what genes in amphibians are involved in regenerating tissue when missing limbs are regrown. Scientists hope that understanding the regeneration processes of amphibians will help them learn how to regenerate human tissue.RNAi is of special interest to those studying tissue regeneration. If harnessed, the regenerative powers of RNAi could potentially be used to cure diseases such as Degenerative Disk Disease, heart valve diseases, and all sorts of autoimmune diseases. It goes without saying that if the secrets of RNAi were to be unlocked, it could be used to regenerate limbs, possibly saving lives and even extending human life.
Because this process reduces the production of a gene's encoded protein, many researchers believe this method can be beneficially taken advantage of for defense against disease by eliminating unwanted viral RNA, as alluded to above. Currently, medical researchers are putting RNAi-based drugs to the test against diseases such as HIV and Herpes.[3] | {
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I'd like to hear about how you did the SSO integration since I have no clue at all about this either Is it something like the Sign In redirects you to Zimbra login? If yes, then what next? And, if not, please correct my understanding... | {
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Babatunde Olatunji
Interview by Jason Gross (October 2000)
Thirty-two years ago, African music made a huge dent
into the Western market. Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji's ensemble
heard on Drums of Passion not only was released on a major label
but became a top 10 record in America. Though it was many decades this
occurred before the 'world music' explosion, it shouldn't have been that
much of a surprise that this comparatively minimal music would make such
an impact in the States. Even at that time, folklorists and historians
had recognized the enormous debt that homegrown styles like blues and jazz
owed to African music and its rhythms.
Olatunji was much more than a gifted, groundbreaking
artist. By the time that his music was making the charts, he was also making
the lecture circuit, going around colleges to talk about African culture.
He also decided to create his own arts center to promote the work of other
musicians and teach young people about music. His work schedule was punishing
but Olatunji was tireless: from 1968 to 1982, he taught at Roxbury (Massachusetts)
two days a week then teaching two days a week a class at Kent State and
then traveling back to New York for the weekends to teach at his own school.
His quest has spanned to today and found him many
musicians as supporters (and collaborators) of his work, including John
Coltrane, Carlos Santana, Taj Mahal and the Grateful Dead. His latest album,
Love
Drum Talk (on Chesky,
1997) earned him a Grammy nomination and a new generation of admirers.
I met Olatunji in April 1999 to talk about the span of his career.
Special thanks to Olatunji enthusiast Maureen 'Moe'
Tucker for her encouragement.
2003 update: Sad news as Baba passed away in California on April 6th at the age of 76 from diabetes. He will be missed and he will be remembered.
PSF: Before you came to America, when you were growing
up in Nigeria, how did your interests and studies with music begin?
I grew up in a village where music was a way of life.
Everyday you wake up and you may be celebrating the birth of a child, the
coming of age of a young man or woman, someone taking a giant step in life
(getting married) or someone passing into the spirit world. All of this
is celebrated with music and chants and dance. I would say that music covers
all the vicissitudes of life. So you grow up as a child seeing all of this
and being part of it. There's no way of escaping it. It's just like any
young man here in America will wake up at any time during the summer and
can grab a baseball bat or pick up a basketball and play around with it.
It's one thing to know something about it but becoming Michael Jordan is
another thing.
I grew up with that and my interests grew up with
that. In retrospect, I remember very well that I was always on the side
where the musicians were instead of where the audience was at all festivals.
Every weekend there was a festival in the villages. You are just there
and you are a part of it. But for me, I would always stand where the musicians,
the drummers were. I remember that very well.
PSF: Who were some of these musicians who influenced
you early on?
Master drummers, griots whose daily life involved
preserving the culture. These are really professional musicians whom you
would see at all the occasions that I mentioned.
PSF: What was it about their work that made you want
to do it yourself?
I noticed that people paid them respect and gave
them a tremendous amount of attention for what they did. They acknowledged
their presence and really had a place for them in society. Those who wake
up every day to play music, those who go to the marketplaces to perform
where the women sell their wares, those are the professional musicians.
Those are the historians. Those are the people who through their songs,
you can really write the history of a city, about the movers and the shakers
in the city or people who are legendary, people who are great, people who
did good work and those who did bad also. Through the songs that they write,
you can learn about people who make contributions to society. I was so
fascinated by them.
There was one particular griot called Denge. He was
like one who would sing about kings and chiefs, remind them of their upbringing,
remind them of the great contributions that their ancestors gave and make
sure that they follow tradition. He was very, very cool.
PSF: This was probably before radio or television
entered the picture so they were probably an equivalent form of entertainment
also, right?
No radio, no TV. (There were) social events that
followed each other in succession in our daily lives. There's always a
child being born in the village. There's always someone getting married
in the next town and you hear about it and people go to it. These are events
that are announced by word of mouth.
PSF: What led you to come to the United States in
the 1950's?
Luckily, by divine right, both of us (his brother
also) won the Rotary Educational Scholarship in 1950. That's how we came
to the United States, to go to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. We
were overwhelmed when we came here. (laughs) Really, it wasn't what we
thought it was or all of things that we read about it. We were very naïve
about the social situation, the race relation situation. We went to school
in the South. At our arrival at Morehouse Campus, which is a black college,
we saw some people who looked like people we knew at home. They would tell
us "No, we're not from Africa." I'd tell them "you look just like my cousin"
and they'd say "no way!"
We went through all that whole period of trying to
educate our brothers and sisters about their African heritage. That's how
the whole thing started with me as a lecturer.
I was studying political science to become a diplomat.
I changed though. When I came to New York, I went to the New York University
Graduate School of Public Administration and International Relations. But
that was a period when social change was going on in the process and I
was a part of that. I was the one who was called to present African programs
for Black awareness for NAACP and other groups. There was a good response
to this. I performed at these events throughout the sixties.
PSF: What led to you getting the chance to record
an album?
The way the whole situation started was that I had
been in a situation where before I left Morehouse college, I had established
myself in a way of letting it be known that this is a cultural basis for
our unity. I did this by presenting African music and dance while at Morehouse.
I wanted to create the true image of African- not Tarzan or the Hollywood
image. So upon graduation, I planned to continue the same thing. When I
came to New York, I started going about lecturing in schools.
In 1956, I contributed to the first UNICEF recording
for children. I had a sponsor who was teaching history in Boston and we
recorded it when he returned. The UN Choir was singing at a party for New
Year's Eve, which I went to. I was asked to do a chant and the choir director
said 'Ooh, that voice!'
I was introduced to a man at Radio City (Music Hall),
Raymond White, the arranger for their Symphony Orchestra. I went there
and met him and (we) collaborated- we did a 12-minute piece called "African
Drum Fantasy" in 1958. That was my biggest break. Before that, I had been
at schools lecturing and performing African music and dance, talking about
he rich cultural heritage of Africa as related to blues, jazz, gospel singing.
I was there (Radio City) for seven weeks, four shows a day with the Symphony
Orchestra. It was reviewed by all the daily newspapers there of the day.
It was then that Al Han, artists representative of
Columbia Records, came to me and said 'We'll put you in the studio.' That
was the recording of Drums of Passion. It was number 13 on the Billboard
charts. It was the first African recording that really demonstrated the
impact of percussion in music.
PSF: Do you feel that there are medicinal powers
in your music?
Possibly. We are now experiencing and trying to discover
how it works. We use our instruments to bring people together. We know
that it will always do that. The instruments that we use in Africa are
sources of communication. The other aspect of it is that we use it for
healing. That's an important aspect of drumming in African music, the polyrhythmic
nature. We know that rhythm is the soul of life. Every cell in your body
and mine is in constant frequency, in rhythm. Everything that we do is
in rhythm. So that music, it attracts, it energizes every cell in our body.
We're trying to find the answers of how music can be used to heal. We will
come to it somehow, but words are not adequate to describe how you feel,
if you are tired or if you feel competitive. But once you start, the adrenaline
flows, you become more energetic, you feel something flowing through your
whole body. You can't say what it is but it is something powerful. You
feel in excess of it.
That's what happens. That aspect of it is what I
know that has come to maintain the validity of that. But we know it heals.
It heals. So for me personally, it has helped me, healed me through many,
many conditions. I know that if it effect me, it effects others. Definitely.
PSF: You were talking about how African music informed
other styles. When you were playing with jazz musicians such as John Coltrane,
what kind of common thread did you find between your work and theirs?
In talking about jazz, you call it a phenomenon that
has been born from so many sources. Africa's contribution to jazz is rhythm.
The jazz musician (like Coltrane) with their hands, do improvisation. With
that going on, there is a steady beat, a heartbeat. The same thing in singing-
call and response as you have in gospel. "Oh happy day, happy day." You
have African rhythms, revisions of African traditions.
In the way of life of people in the area of arts,
it's the same thing when you think about it. People who are very, very
eloquent in the sense when you go through times like Ozzy Davis, people
who are natural at things. People who can recite verses. People who have
memory retention. The style of presentation. You have blues singers who
through their songs, tell stories about their lifestyle or the lifestyle
of the people they deal with and what is happening in their immediate environment,
how they feel about life in general. What is their emotional feelings about
subject matters like love, like pain, like wealth, like death and God?
Through their songs, through their renditions, they let this all out. And
how they feel about the one that gives them the most pleasure. That's an
African tradition that has survived the test of time. It's something that
will carry on.
As you move from North America to South America,
the retention of African tradition even becomes more powerful than it is
in North America. The continents were not really separated as they were
with North America. So if go to Surinam, you can see a whole village of
nothing but Guyanians who are carving the same way that they are doing
in Surinam. If you go to Trinidad, you can listen to people who are chanting
the same songs to the God of thunder as they do in Nigeria. If you go to
the oriental province in Cuba, where Mongo Santamaria came from, they have
the same way of live and the same way of talking is practically the same
thing as a Guinea tribe. The same thing in Guyana, the South Sea Islands.
It's all over. That's how the contribution of African culture, development
of world culture, has been very tremendous.
PSF: Talk about how you present your albums as part
of a cycle.
The first one was actually a signature to let people
know what African percussion is all about. We put it together to make music.
It really speaks for itself. What I am hoping to be do… You know, for twenty-eight
years, I didn't collect any royalties. I was so excited that when I signed
the contract, I didn't read it! (laughs) I didn't cross the T's and dot
the I's!
It's like seeing a vision of what's going to happen.
That's why I changed course, foreseeing the whole idea of diplomacy that
I was studying for. At that appearance at Radio City in 1958, I had been
here eight years and in 1957, Ghana became independent. I was getting 500
dollars a week so I was able to save money. I was invited to a very important
meeting in Ghana- the All African Peoples Conference held by President
Kwame Nkrumah in 1958. So I was able to go Ghana- that's when I was elected
President of the Student's Union (at Morehouse). I was very political in
those days. I had a degree in diplomacy so I had to organize African students
from all over.
I went to that meeting and read a paper at the conference.
I was a non-voting member because I was a student. In essence, I said that
there should be a cultural center in every major city in America so as
to disseminate information about the rich cultural heritage of Africa to
correct the ugly image of Africa in the mind of Americans. The President
applauded the speech and the next day, he called me and my wife to his
castle. He said 'that was a great thing- why don't you just pursue that
(drumming)? We will be able to help you.' So the first drum set I had for
Drums
Of Passion actually came from Ghana. I didn't have money to buy drums
in those days. I was just leeching around, using a few conga drums that
I rented. I didn't get that set until years after I graduated from college
in New York in 1954. This was four years later!
Drums Of Passion was the first album. I didn't
know that I would get a contract but we would rehearse every day, Monday
through Sunday. Those who say they were gonna charge us, they say 'when
you're finished charging, you come over here.' This group was mainly African-Americans,
some from the islands. We came together and we were a very unique group-
they were interested and eager. That was the beginning of it. From there,
it became a necessary way of life with me to pursue and looking for support
from abroad and from here. That led to the establishment of the Olatunji
Center of African Culture.
It was all the period when the late Alvin Alley would
watch us rehearse. That was before he started his company. We would present
modern jazz groups and they perform with us. We started the Olatunji Center
in Harlem then (1967). That was our first home- the center had been operating
but without a specific home, using different spaces. Before that, we formed
at the World's Fair, 1964, 1965. We were the first African group in this
country to perform at the World's Fair. The audience at the African pavilion
was the most popular one at the Fair. The money I made there, I used to
open the Center. I couldn't buy a building though so I had to pay $15,000
a year for to rent a loft space. Coltrane was one person who was sending
$250 every month to help. Then later on, he did not perform for two years
and the last performance he gave was where? At my center. He was very concerned
about the way that promoters were cheating the musicians. They go and borrow
money from their cousins. They would play at Carnegie Hall and make $50,000
for the show and then they pay them (musicians) scale wages. It was unequal
distribution of wealth.
So he (Coltrane) said, 'I want to deal with this
and do some research and see where I am, learn what I can learn about Western
music and jazz.' He was following me at that time. He came to me and said
'you and me and several other people like ourselves should come together.
We know how to promote shows. How about three groups? You want to have
a center in every center in America? We can do that? Your group, my group
and Yusef's (Lateef) group can start with Lincoln Center and we'll raise
enough money.' I was appointed Secretary-treasurer. I went and booked the
first concert for January 1968. Trane passed in 1967 though.
The center was also there for the purpose of bringing
back what I read about Harlem. Things were so different. You had black
and white (people) everywhere. So I was wondering why it wasn't happening
again? So I instituted a Sunday afternoon program called 'Roots of Africa'-
the program had a picture of Africa with Coltrane in the middle. So we
performed, Yusef performed, Pete Seeger performed, Bill Lee (Spike Lee's
father) performed with eight bass players. That hasn't been done again.
It was done right there at the center. It was really going well. I had
somebody different every Sunday afternoon, all for two dollars! That's
it! (laughs) I had been surviving without any foundation support. I would
write for grants, do proposals and hear back from the Ford Foundation 'we
do not fund your kind of program.' The first money I got was from the Rockefeller
brothers: 25,000.
Then from the National Endowment of the Arts, we
got a grant for our teacher training program. So most of the most of people
you see teaching African dance were trained there. We went to all over
the schools in the tri-state area, all the way to Long Island.
That's where I met Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead). He
was at one of the schools where they had the African program. I always
asked the students to come and beat on the drums. He came and did it and
I said "He's good!" That was 25 years ago. It wasn't until November 1985
in San Francisco that I met him again at one of the Bill Graham theatres.
Mickey was coming from a (basketball) game and he brought Larry Bird to
meet me after the show. He was helping with the sound and the whole place
was dancing with drums. He said "You don't remember me but I want to tell
you something... It's because of you that I'm doing what I'm doing today.
What are you doing tomorrow?" I didn't have any plans. So he says "OK,
you're going to open for the Grateful Dead." That was December 1985. It
was at that time that Columbia refused to renew my contract. That was George
Butler- he might have recognized that I'm a legend but he didn't go for
my kind of music. I said "You told me that my first record wouldn't sell
and you know it did!"
PSF: Could you talk about the other bands and performances
you were doing at clubs during the 1960's?
I started experimenting back then, when I started.
I had my jazz combo and we used to have 12-13 weeks at Birdland (New York).
We used to open for all the big bands. We would also close out the shows
at 4AM. In 1960, 1961, you had the bands like Count Basie, Duke Ellington,
Quincy Jones. I got to meet a lot of the Europeans too because when they
came to New York, they'd arrive late. And where would they go then? Birdland.
It was a fascinating period.
Then for a ten-year period, nothing was happening
for me. The Center closed because we kept missing the rent. I didn't get
any support from the city. They could have given me a building for one
dollar because we were non-profit. None of the middle-class blacks gave
any support for my effort. They did not send their kids to my school. I
picked up kids that used to sell drugs in Harlem just to (earn money to)
come upstairs and drum. I didn't get ANY support. It was humiliating. It
was so devastating that here was an opportunity to help these people to
have an image of themselves. They were talking about kids not doing the
right thing. But they didn't do the right thing by them. I used to walk
between 126th Street to 138th Street and I saw that those kids didn't go
school. They walked around, had nowhere to go. So I took them upstairs
and had them play drums. I was charging two dollars and I wasn't just teaching
them about drums. I was teaching them history, culture and I offered them
12 languages. The history about themselves. If they ever knew who their
ancestors where, they would want to do the right thing.
But they (the parents and adults) didn't do anything
about the situation. I think the same thing is still going on now. The
answer is not spending millions of dollars to go on television and tell
people "JUST SAY NO." That's not the answer. You got to do what Malcolm
(X) said. He put it in the street language- "Stop it downtown and it won't
come uptown." You know who the people are who are bringing these things
in- those are the people you need to stop. You need to fortify the borders
so that no one can bring any drugs in.
PSF: Did you find any support among the colleges?
Integration came on college campuses where I used
to go all over the world. I was being sponsored by the entire university.
Now, the black student unions would want to sponsor me but they don't have
no money. It's black backlash that I experienced. I used to go to Kent
State to perform three times a year. Now, I can only go once because the
student union can't afford it. The black student union gets very little
money and they want to do so much. They can only pay me a fraction of what
I was getting before to tie the drums to our car and drive all the way
out there. We used to do that- drive all around the country in those days.
It was devastating. It was so heart-breaking to see what was going on in
those days. But now, everyone is playing drums.
PSF: In your groups, how do the drums communicate
with each other and interweave with the singers?
The African theatre is a total theatre. You cannot
write a dramatic play without song and without movement. The trial is lost
if you have a presentation that does not address ALL aspects of the music.
The dancers must be able to dance with the beat of the drum. The drummers
who play for the dancers must have knowledge of the dance. That's the only
way that they're going to be able to play adequately and professionally.
That's how they will be able to communicate with them.
Not until recent times have I been noticing in Western
theatre, in Broadway shows, the people who audition must be able to sing,
dance and act. That was never a problem with an African performance. Automatically,
he or she is trained right from the start to be able to combine all of
those parts together. This is no sense in the whole presentation that the
drummer does not know the dance. He must know the dance- the required changes
necessary in the choreography of the dance. Not only in tempo, in intensity,
maybe to a completely new interpretation.
In the other words, the dancer and the drummer have
become one. The drummer as well as the dancer has the ability to sing along
as they perform. It is part of the whole presentation. That is normally
taught from the beginning of any particular presentation or production.
PSF: Do you also have a sense that the drums are
interacting with each other?
The drummers between themselves are interacting and
communicating. Irrespective of the number of drummers involved in a presentation,
each drummer is given a part to play for the whole. He must know where
the change is from one part to the next. That's (been) happening for thousands
of years.
A lot of people go about teaching African dance but
they don't teach the music. They just play for the dance. Every traditional
dance that's been passed on from time immortal is all music, unless it
is a new work. So (then) you got to write the music for it. New choreography,
new music, new costumes. But the interaction among the drummers is very
clear that you don't jump into playing rhythmic patterns unless there is
a reason or the group can help bring you back as a reminder to say 'this
is what you're supposed to be playing.' All the musicians know the parts,
including the part of the lead drummer.
PSF: I had heard that you performed at a celebration
here for Nelson Mandela. Could you talk about that?
There were 120 clergyman at Riverside Church of all
denominations in the community. They had a special service for Mandela
when he first came here (1990). It was my group that led him into the church,
with the drums and the chants. I led him to his seat and then performed.
From there, the group also performed at the reception given to him at Yankee
Stadium. I also followed him out to San Francisco, which was also organized
by Bill Graham. I am looking forward to going back to San Francisco to
discuss a project, the Voices of Africa.
PSF: How has it felt to be an expatriate here in
the States, playing the music from your homeland and occasionally going
back there to perform?
Well, I'm a citizen of the world now. I am very concerned
about what has been happening in Africa. What I've been doing here... I
wanted to repeat (my) performance in Africa. I want to be going around
now, reminding people that in our quest to become totally free as we pursue
our goals, we need to remember and put into place all of the traditional
wisdom that will help us survive in the new millennium. We need to re-institute
some of our traditional values that seem to be evaporating in our society
now. That is to restore our traditional ways of life in the areas of culture,
music, arts that has helped us define what we call the African personality.
In my estimation, we are in an educational pursuit.
In the Western world, we have neglected those traditional values. So it's
what I call 'misplacement of values.' Unless we go back to restoring them
into our lives, we're going to have trouble- a lot of misgivings among
our own people in the very near future. A lot of young people are clamoring
now to find out 'what is it that we can call our own? What is it about
our heritage?' They want to know. These times now make them very, very
aware of that.
PSF: Do you see your work as carrying on tradition
and bringing a message to people?
That's exactly what I'm so grateful about. I may
not have any money to show about it but what I have started here, from
five years ago, is like planting a new seed that is beginning to germinate.
It will come out very well. I'm quite sure that the leadership will become
very, very concerned about the need for looking into the past. The past
and the present are inevitably put together. What we had in the past is
what we have today- it will make a wonderful combination for tomorrow.
Then we cannot let time go by without taking care of that particular aspect
of our development now, especially if we try to patch up the rest of the
world.
If we're really going to catch up, as they say, he
who is behind must run faster than he who is in front. That's if you want
to catch up. And we need to catch up with the rest of the world. Africa
needs a very strong leadership, compassionate leadership. We need someone
who will really want to serve the people. You have to be tolerant and be
able to listen and do the right thing by the people.
You look at this country and how they spend all the
money buying arms. Who are we trying to fight? They spend 12 million dollars
to save 1 million people in Rwanda. Why didn't they raise that money years
ago to prevent what happened there? The military annulled the election
and go away with it and we were doing business with a tyrant.
PSF: How do you think your work has evolved?
The music has not changed, but it has evolved. I
had been able to incorporate my musical experiences in different CD's and
albums. I have always had a message. At the same time, (I) make sure that
the foundation of what I'm presenting is still tradition. My recent album,
the subject matter is love. I let traditional percussion music be very,
very strong there. It was overpowered by other instruments. I wanted people
to experience how it could be done without the use of synthesizers and
hard rock instrumentation. There's always a message about each CD that
I put out. So, I have been very careful about that. I think every student
of African music, even Africans themselves, needs to make sure that we
don't lose that touch. We should really maintain the roots, the strong
background that we have. That our performances really be a signature of
where the roots of the music come from.
There is no doubt in my mind (that) we all go through
a process of incorporation. No matter who you are or where you are, you
will be effect by an environment. But nevertheless, you cannot afford to
lose yourself. Being how you are. I will always make sure that you have
a taste of that particular instrument, the drum.
PSF: And the voice too.
Yes, of course.
PSF: You have a very impressive range.
Well, I am proud of that. I had attended a session
with a voice teacher from Boston who had trained many singers and politicians.
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conservatory did you study at?" I said "Conservatory? I studied in the
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19 Signs You’re Intelligent — Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Stupid people tend to overestimate their competence, while smart people tend to sell themselves short. As Shakespeare put it in “As You Like It”: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
That conventional wisdom is backed up by a Cornell University study conducted by David Dunning and Justin Kruger. The phenomenon is now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.
So, if you’re not too sure about your own intellect, it actually might be a indication that you’re pretty intelligent — thoughtful enough to realize your limitations, at least.
Here are some subtle signs that you are considerably smarter than you think.
1. You took music lessons
Research suggests that music helps kids’ minds develop in a few ways:
• A 2011 study found that scores on a test of verbal intelligence among 4- to 6-year-olds rose after only a month of music lessons.
• A 2004 study led by Glenn Schellenberg found that 6-year-olds who took nine months of keyboard or voice lessons had an IQ boost compared with kids who took drama lessons or no classes at all.
Meanwhile, a 2013 study, also led by Schellenberg, suggested that high-achieving kids were the ones most likely to take music lessons. In other words, in the real world, musical training may only enhance cognitive differences that already exist.
2. You’re the oldest
Oldest siblings are usually smarter, but it’s not because of genetics, one study found.
Norwegian epidemiologists used military records to examine the birth order, health status, and IQ scores of nearly 250,000 18- and 19-year-old men born between 1967 and 1976. Results showed that the average firstborn had an IQ of 103, compared to 100 for second children and 99 for third children.
The New York Times reports: “The new findings, from a landmark study published [in June 2007], showed that eldest children had a slight but significant edge in IQ — an average of three points over the closest sibling. And it found that the difference was not because of biological factors but the psychological interplay of parents and children.”
For this and other reasons, firstborns tend to be more successful (but not that much more successful) than their siblings.
3. You’re thin
For a 2006 study, scientists gave roughly 2,200 adults intelligence tests over a five-year period and results suggested that the bigger the waistline, the lower the cognitive ability.
Another study published that same year found that 11-year-olds who scored lower on verbal and nonverbal tests were more likely to be obese in their 40s. The study authors say that smarter kids might have pursued better educational opportunities, landed higher-status and higher-paying jobs, and therefore ended up in a better position to take care of their health than their less intelligent peers.
Meanwhile, a more recent study found that, among preschoolers, a lower IQ was linked to a higher BMI. Those researchers also say environmental factors are at play, since the relationship between BMI and smarts was mediated by socioeconomic status.
4. You have a cat
A 2014 study of 600 college students found that individuals who identified as “dog people” were more outgoing than those who identified as “cat people,” according to a test that measures personality and intelligence.
But guess what? Those same cat people scored higher on the part of the test that measures cognitive ability.
5. You were breastfed
2007 research suggests that babies who are breastfed might grow up to be smarter kids.
In two studies, the researchers looked at more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand. Those children who had been breastfed scored nearly seven points higher on an IQ test — but only if they had a particular version of the FADS2 gene. (That version of the gene was present in roughly equal numbers among kids who were and weren’t breastfed.)
Figuring out the exact mechanism of this relationship between FADS2, breastfeeding, and IQ will require further study, the scientists noted in their paper on the finding.
6. You’ve used recreational drugs
A 2012 study of more than 6,000 Brits born in 1958 found a link between high IQ in childhood and the use of illegal drugs in adulthood.
“In our large population-based cohort study, IQ at 11 years was associated with a greater likelihood of using selected illegal drugs 31 years later,” wrote researchers James W. White, Catharine R. Gale, and David Batty.
They conclude that “in contrast to most studies on the association between childhood IQ and later health,” their findings suggest “a high childhood IQ may prompt the adoption of behaviors that are potentially harmful to health (i.e., excess alcohol consumption and drug use) in adulthood.”
7. You’re lefthanded
Left-handedness used to be associated with criminality, and researchers are still unclear as to whether and why there are slightly more lefties among criminal populations.
More recent research associates left-handedness with “divergent thinking,” a form of creativity that allows you to come up with novel ideas from a prompt — at least among men.
In her review of a 1995 paper, New Yorker reporter Maria Konnikova writes:
The more marked the left-handed preference in a group of males, the better they were at tests of divergent thought.
Left-handers were more adept, for instance, at combining two common objects in novel ways to form a third — for example, using a pole and a tin can to make a birdhouse. They also excelled at grouping lists of words into as many alternate categories as possible.
8. You’re tall
A 2008 Princeton study of thousands of people found that taller individuals scored higher on IQ tests as kids and earned more money as adults.
The researchers write: “As early as age 3 — before schooling has had a chance to play a role — and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests.”
9. You drink alcohol regularly
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa and colleagues found that, among Brits as well as Americans, adults who had scored higher on IQ tests when they were kids or teens drank more alcohol, more often in adulthood than those who had scored lower.
10. You learned to read early
In 2012, researchers looked at nearly 2,000 pairs of identical twins in the UK and found that the sibling who had learned to read earlier tended to score higher on tests of cognitive ability.
The study authors suggest that reading from an early age increases both verbal and nonverbal (e.g. reasoning) ability, as opposed to the other way around.
11. You worry a lot
A growing body of research suggests that anxious individuals may be smarter than others in certain ways, according to Slate’s coverage of several different studies on anxiety.
In one study, for example, researchers asked 126 undergrads to fill out questionnaires in which they indicated how often they experienced worry. They also indicated how often they engaged in rumination, or thinking continuously about the aspects of situations that upset them, as psychologist Dr. Edward Selby reported in Psychology Today.
Results showed that people who tended to worry and ruminate a lot scored higher on measures of verbal intelligence, while people who didn’t do much worrying or ruminating scored higher on tests of nonverbal intelligence.
12. You’re funny
In one study, 400 psychology students took intelligence tests that measured abstract reasoning abilities and verbal intelligence.
Then they were asked to come up with captions for several New Yorker cartoons, and those captions were reviewed by independent raters.
As predicted, smarter students were rated as funnier.
13. You’re curious
In University of London business psychology professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzi’s post for Harvard Business Review, he discussed how the curiosity quotient and having a hungry mind makes one more inquisitive.
Regarding the importance of CQ, he wrote that, “It has not been as deeply studied as EQ and IQ, but there’s some evidence to suggest it is just as important when it comes to managing complexity in two major ways. First, individuals with higher CQ are generally more tolerant of ambiguity. This nuanced, sophisticated, subtle thinking style defines the very essence of complexity. Second, CQ leads to higher levels of intellectual investment and knowledge acquisition over time, especially in formal domains of education, such as science and art (note: this is of course different from IQ’s measurement of raw intellectual horsepower).”
A Goldsmiths University of London study found that intellectual investment, or “how people invest their time and effort in their intellect,” plays a major part in cognitive growth.
14. You’re messy
A study published in “Psychological Science” by the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management’s Dr. Kathleen Vohs revealed that working in an untidy room actually fuels creativity.
In the study, 48 participants were asked to come up with unusual uses for a pingpong ball. The 24 individuals working in neat rooms came up with substantially less creative responses than the individuals working in cluttered rooms.
So if you are a pack rat, tell everyone you’re just fueling your sense of creativity and innovation the next time someone tells you to clean up your act.
15. You didn’t have sex until after high school
High schoolers with higher IQs are more likely to be virgins than those with average or lower IQs, according to a study from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The core sample looked at 12,000 teens from the 7th to the 12th grade.
Not only were the teens with the higher IQs more likely to be virgins, they were also less likely to kiss or hold hands with a romantic partner. A number of explanations have been put forward by the science blog Gene Expression to explain this gap, including suggestions that smart people possess lower sex drives, are risk adverse, or simply less able to find sexual partners.
16. You’re a night owl
One study published in the “The Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences” found that, when all other variables are factored out, night owls tend to beat out early birds in terms of intellect. It concluded that ethnographic evidence indicates that “nocturnal activities” were rarer in the ancestral environment. That means that more intelligent individuals are more likely to stay up late because smarter people are more likely to “espouse evolutionarily novel values.”
17. You don’t always have to try hard
This isn’t to say that laziness is a sign of being smart. But it is fair to say that smart people simply don’t always have to try as hard as “strivers” who fight to build up their skills — at least in certain fields.In an opinions piece for The New York Times, psychologists David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz cited a Vanderbilt University study of highly intelligent young people.
The study tracked 2,000 people who scored in the top 1% of the SAT by the age of 13. Hambrick and Meinz wrote that, “The remarkable finding of their study is that, compared with the participants who were “only” in the 99.1 percentile for intellectual ability at age 12, those who were in the 99.9 percentile — the profoundly gifted — were between three and five times more likely to go on to earn a doctorate, secure a patent, publish an article in a scientific journal or publish a literary work. A high level of intellectual ability gives you an enormous real-world advantage.”
They concluded that while striving to be smarter is commendable, there are certain innate abilities that can’t always be learned.
18. You don’t constantly need to be around people
We tend to be happier when we spend more time with friends.
That is, except for the hyper-intelligent people among us. As Business Insider previously reported, a Singapore Management University and London School of Economics study found that smart people differ from the rest of us when it comes to happiness levels and socialization.
So if you adore your friends but require a solid chunk of “me time” too, that could be a sign that you’re super smart.
19. You live in a ‘walkable’ city
As it turns out, geography could be a pretty good indicator of how smart you are. As Chris Weller wrote for Tech Insider, Smart Growth America’s study found that cities built for pedestrians tend to attract more college grads than cities built for cars. Washington DC scored highest in education and second in walkability, while New York City was voted “the most walkable metro area” in the US.
Drake Baer and Chelsea Harvey contributed to a previous version of this article. | {
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After years of playing with the same guys, we are finally gonna start a keeper league next year. There are many ideas as to how exactly we will determine keepers. I was wondering what your experiences are with keeper leagues and what your preference is. Also any ideas as to certain rules about who you can and cannot keep. I have heard things like any 5 players and 2 players that have less than 3 full years in the league to keeping 4 hitter and 4 pitchers. Any and all ideas are welcome. My league is very undecided so far, so maybe if I have some input I can help sway some of the guys as to how the keeper issue can be handled. There is talk also of making it an auction league, and we're not sure how the keeper system would work with that. Using this years team as an example, I snatched up Aaron Hill off free agencies, so would I keep him for next year for only a dollar? And if so, how long is his value only a dollar? How do you guys handle things like that?
I'm the Cleave, so thats what you call me. That, or um, Cleaver, or his Cleaveness, or um, El Cleaverino, if your not into the whole brevity thing.
cleaver596 wrote:After years of playing with the same guys, we are finally gonna start a keeper league next year. There are many ideas as to how exactly we will determine keepers. I was wondering what your experiences are with keeper leagues and what your preference is. Also any ideas as to certain rules about who you can and cannot keep. I have heard things like any 5 players and 2 players that have less than 3 full years in the league to keeping 4 hitter and 4 pitchers. Any and all ideas are welcome. My league is very undecided so far, so maybe if I have some input I can help sway some of the guys as to how the keeper issue can be handled. There is talk also of making it an auction league, and we're not sure how the keeper system would work with that. Using this years team as an example, I snatched up Aaron Hill off free agencies, so would I keep him for next year for only a dollar? And if so, how long is his value only a dollar? How do you guys handle things like that?
El Cleaverino,
If you're going to make it a keeper league, you should begin with a clean slate. I.e., no guys from this past year. Draft entire new teams.
Go with the auction. It's much easier for keepers. Then you just put in an inflation clause. I use a $5 inflation clause in my longest running league. So if you draft Votto for $20 this year, then you can keep him for $25 in 2011, then $30 in 2012 and so on. This way people all have keepers and eventually all players end up back in the pool of players to get redrafted.
Only keep 5 players.
Use a $260 cap and a $100 FAAB. So you draft with the $260, then you have $100 in season to bid on players once a week.
Make it deep enough with corner and middle infielders or two utility players.
If you want me to look at your team, post the team. Don't post a link to another site where the team is.Have you given me all the info I need to judge your team? The number of teams in the league is a good start for the big overall questions.Is your league H2H? Roto?I don't know who's on your waivers. Don't just ask me who you should pick up. Give me names to choose from.If you only have one team, post your team in your signature with the league parameters.I don't know every single matchup for next week, so if you want me to choose a player for the following week and you think the matchups are important, tell me who they're facing.
yeah for sure we will redraft. I was just using Hill as an example. As far as CI and MI, this has been an idea that has never taken with this group of guys. We use only 3 OF and 2 UTIL. Last year I tried to push for expanded rosters, 5 OF and the MI and CI spots, but only a few guys were interested. They feel the talent level will decrease significantly to the point of having to use bums as starters. I told them to draft better and keep a better eye on the free agents out there, but this fell on deaf ears. The thing is, only half of the guys in the league are REAL fantasy ballers, with the rest playing for fun more than to win. We have one guy that has finished in the bottom third in both baseball and football for 4 years running. We can't kick him out because he actually plays the entire year and is an active manager, he just sucks. But its guys like him that arent interested in adding more starting positions because they lack the knowledge to fill that many spots.
One other question, how many bench spots do you prefer. I think this past year we used 5, which some argued was too few, other loved it because that meant there was actually usable players in free agency.
I'm the Cleave, so thats what you call me. That, or um, Cleaver, or his Cleaveness, or um, El Cleaverino, if your not into the whole brevity thing.
If you want me to look at your team, post the team. Don't post a link to another site where the team is.Have you given me all the info I need to judge your team? The number of teams in the league is a good start for the big overall questions.Is your league H2H? Roto?I don't know who's on your waivers. Don't just ask me who you should pick up. Give me names to choose from.If you only have one team, post your team in your signature with the league parameters.I don't know every single matchup for next week, so if you want me to choose a player for the following week and you think the matchups are important, tell me who they're facing.
A variation on Grey's $5 annual inflation rule for keeper salaries: in my auction keeper league, a player is assigned a three-year "contract" when he is drafted or picked up off waivers, and he can be kept for up to those three years. E.g., I drafted Jose Lopez for $10 at last year's auction, so Lopez was assigned a 2009 contract and I can keep him for 2010 and 2011 at $10 (unlikely, but I could if I wanted to). I also picked up Dice-K for $1 in the Free Agent Auction Bidding process when he was hurt last year, so Dice-K also has a 2009 contract and can be kept for 2010 and 2011 for $1 (more likely).
We also have a twist that allows an owner to purchase an option to keep a player for a fourth year; to purchase that option, the owner must decide to do so before the third year, and the player's salary then goes up by $5 for both the third and the fourth years. So for example, I bought Tim Lincecum at the 2008 draft for $20 (that has turned out nicely for me). Before this year's draft, I have to decide whether I want to purchase an option to keep Lincecum for 2011 (which would be my fourth year of keeping him); if I do so, Lincecum's salary will increase to $25 for both 2010 and 2011.
It's a little complicated (every year at least one owner gets confused by it), but overall I really like the system. I like the hard cap of 4 years on keeping a player--that means that a player like Hanley Ramirez, who I picked up on the waiver wire in Spring 2006 for $2, is back on the auction market this year, whereas under a $5 annual inflation system Hanley likely would be kept this year at $22. But there are reasons in favor and against either system; just thought I'd throw out an alternative to you.
I like the idea of only keeping players for a maximum of 4 years. Maybe we will try some combination of contracts with inflated prices each year. Thinking about starting a keeper league has me all giddy. I know football has just ended, and I should take a break, but I just jumped right back into baseball.
Also, who offers the best options in the way of keepers? I like ESPN because of free live scoring.
I'm the Cleave, so thats what you call me. That, or um, Cleaver, or his Cleaveness, or um, El Cleaverino, if your not into the whole brevity thing.
Another possibility if you decide not to go with an auction league is to inflate them by draft round. For instance, say I picked Tulo in the 2nd round and decided to keep him. I would give up my first round pick the following year. If I picked up, say, Justin Heyward in the 13th round, I would give up my 12th round the following year. This places a fair amount of emphasis on finding and keeping new talent and sleepers. And obviously, you cannot keep a 1st round pick. | {
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Customer reviews - Whole Earth Original Crunchy Peanut Butter 340g
Reviews
Peanut Butter - Sat 28th Nov 2015
This has a delicious earthy crunch that is made for celery sticks. However after hearing about the ecological damage done by growing palm fruit I am disappointed to see palm oil used in this product. I will look for another alternative in future.
Reviewer's Name: Miss Ty
Addictive! - Wed 29th Apr 2015
Very very moreish! And very crunchy too. It passed our spreadability test with ease and good to know it's a healthy option.
Reviewer's Name: Karen
- Mon 24th Mar 2014
Peanut buttery goodness, can't really go wrong.
Reviewer's Name: C O'connell
very filling - Tue 28th Jan 2014
I feel the crunchy texture adds a little something extra over the smooth version as it gives me something extra to munch on and enjoy more, but I suppose it depends on what it's used on or with.
Reviewer's Name: JM
- Wed 13th Nov 2013
My husband is a big fan of peanut butter, he likes this one a lot, good sized jar and value for money.
Reviewer's Name: lorna wallace
- Tue 15th Oct 2013
Try spreading on rice cakes or ryvitas, then spreading strawberry jam on top and topping with sliced bananas, delicious.
Reviewer's Name: L E Champion
Our favourite. - Tue 16th Jul 2013
This is delicious peanut butter. Whole Earth have it spot on. Not too grainy, it has a lovely nutty crunch, not too salty, spreads well, I can't fault it. I wonder if they could sell it in litre tubs as we go through so much of it. My son is a lover of the smooth peanut butter, and it is just as yummy. I wont consider buying other brands now, as none compare to this.
Reviewer's Name: Amye Armstrong
- Sun 7th Jul 2013
I've repurchased this item many times before, this peanut butter is great added to a peanut butter blondie mixture, mix with some agave syrup and put inside a split banana (skin still on) then placed under a grill or simply spread on ryvitas or rice cakes and topped with jam and sliced bananas. Delicious.
Reviewer's Name: L E Champion
The bestest peanut butter in the world - Wed 10th Oct 2012
The subject line says it all!
Reviewer's Name: Miss H C Schofield
- Wed 20th Oct 2010
Best peanut butter in the world!
Reviewer's Name: A L Williams
- Sun 4th Mar 2007
You really have to try this item - the flavour is incredible and you will find yourself eating the whole lot before you know it - just dip your finger in and lick it off - scrumptious | {
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Sheriff’s deputies rally around great-grandma after theft
Raise nearly $400 in three hours to replace money stolen from purse
NORTH FORSYTH — A 71-year-old northwest Forsyth woman had extra reason to celebrate this Easter after Forsyth County Sheriff’s deputies surprised her by raising $380 to replace church camp money stolen from her vehicle.
“I just broke down. That’s all I can tell you is I just broke down and cried. I couldn’t believe it,” Grace Samples said. “My granddaughter and my great-granddaughter was there and one of them was hollering, ‘Thank you, God.’ And she said, ‘Nanny, are those happy tears or sad tears?’
“It was just so overwhelming, I couldn’t believe it. I just didn’t think of anybody ever doing anything like that.”
Sheriff’s Deputy Rodney Pirkle, who handled the case Saturday and organized the fundraising effort, said Samples’ plight struck a chord.
“She’d done something I haven’t seen in seven years. She was crying,” he said. “When I got there, she was so upset about the loss of this money and there was no way that I could not put something together and try to collect as much as we could.”
After taking her statement, Pirkle sent a text message to other members of his shift and the county’s dispatch center, asking for donations.
“The entire shift came together,” he said. “Everybody donated and we were able to return $380 to her so she could have the money she needs.”
The incident began Saturday morning after Samples discovered her purse, which was in her car, had been cleaned out overnight.
“They got every penny, every penny out of my pocket book,” she said. “They even dug down at the bottom and got the change I had dropped down at the bottom.
“My husband, he usually goes and feeds the dogs and goes to the mailbox ... and he goes out every night and gets [the purse] and locks the door.”
But her husband forgot Friday night and she didn’t think to remind him.
Samples said she usually doesn’t carry that much money in her purse, but the family had recently returned from church camp.
“We didn’t spend much at church camp and some of it was going to go to the vacation Bible school,” she said. “Some of that I had saved up and it was for gas money.”
Pirkle said it was a routine entering auto report, but he felt for Samples, who is living on a fixed income.
“This is not something that is commonly done at all,” he said. “I can’t tell you over seven years how many entering auto reports I’ve taken and investigations I’ve done. They’re numerous.
“But definitely, this is the first time something like this was done ... it was Easter and honestly she reminded me of my grandmother.”
Pirkle was hoping for a quick turnaround. In about three hours, he and the other night shift workers had exceeded their goal of $350.
And after a morning of tears, Samples said the crying just started all over again when Pirkle presented the money to her Saturday afternoon.
“I’ve never heard tell of anyone doing anything like that before. It just shocked me,” she said. | {
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Citizen, where art thou?
Mon, 07 Aug 2017
It’s time to get the public directly engaged with saving threatened species
Citizen science has been steadily increasing in recent years, both in terms of number of projects and people involved. Environmental research has been
the focus of many citizen-science projects, and now the TSR Hub has launched a project to help improve outcomes for threatened species. What’s the
connection between citizen science and threatened species? Dr Rochelle Steven from the University of Queensland sets out the arguments.
Australia’s threatened species are facing numerous threats across the continent. The vast area this beautiful land occupies makes for a unique and
diverse fauna and flora, but its sheer vastness also creates a major challenge for our efforts to track and manage the decline of those species facing
imminent extinction. That vastness makes monitoring difficult and getting around very expensive. So how do we maximise efficiency while also learning
more about the species whose very existence is under threat?
Many have touted ‘citizen science’ as a strategy to alleviate the cost burden on conservation managers and researchers. At the same time, citizen science
is touted as increasing the engagement between the public and nature.
So, what is citizen science and what is its potential? There are a few definitions around but, generally speaking, citizen science involves getting
volunteers (citizens) to participate in the collection of data that can be used to answer scientific questions. At a minimum, citizen science involving
the environment and conservation gets people thinking about nature. But it can achieve much more as well; with citizens collecting valuable biological
data that will contribute to better conservation outcomes.
The lesser swamp-orchid (Phaius australis) was once found along the east coast from north Queensland to north-east New South Wales. Citizens can assist in the recovery of the lesser swamp-orchid by working with local NRM groups to monitor the remaining populations of the species and protect them from weed invasion and illegal collection by orchid enthusiasts. Plants can also be purchased from licensed and reputable nurseries which may assist in supplementing local populations.
Mixing threatened-species conservation and citizen science presents a few challenges. First, many threatened species do not occur in urban areas, where
the greatest pool of potential participants reside. How do we overcome this mismatch? Finding ways to connect urban citizen scientists to projects
in regional areas that need additional human resources is a start. This could assist regional projects and provide rich experiences to people from
cities.
One citizen-science platform that is already established and regularly contributing to the published scientific literature is Redmap. It’s a citizen-science
reporting tool for recording the sightings of uncommon marine species. With 55 species of fish currently listed on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) and numerous grey nomads and regionally based citizens enjoying fishing as their recreational pastime, this link presents an exciting opportunity
for threatened-species monitoring.
The second challenge is that threatened species may be ‘sensitive’ or ‘vulnerable’ to the potential disturbance of direct monitoring activities.
A strategy to deal with this is to recruit citizen scientists to monitor species remotely. That is, to review images and footage from camera
monitors to identify occurrences of threatened species (all done without setting foot in their habitat).
KEY MESSAGES
Citizen science has enormous potential to help gather information on threatened species and the threats they face.
The TSR Hub is building a framework of best practice for citizen science that maximises the impact of citizen science for threatened species recovery.
One network combining several of these types of projects into a central portal is called Wildlife Spotter. Wildlife Spotter is administered by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and provides citizens with the chance to contribute to science by identifying threatened species remotely. Species that have been worked with so far include malleefowl, bandicoots, bettongs and feral cats. Feral cats, of course, are not threatened species but they are a key threat to many native mammals.
Aside from preventing disturbance to threatened species, the additional benefit of remote monitoring is the reduced logistical cost for the participant (ie, no travel) and health and safety risks are also largely removed. It also enables urban citizen scientists to contribute to the conservation of regional and remote threatened species.
With increasing interest in the use of remote technology like cameras, drones and acoustic recorders, this approach is likely to really take off in the years to come.
Researchers in the Threatened Species Recovery Hub are currently reviewing the link between citizen science and threatened species in Australia. We are working on building a framework for best practice that maximises the positive impact that citizen science might have for our nationally-listed threatened species.
To develop this best-practice framework, we will be talking with practitioners and project officers associated with citizen science and threatened species in Australia. We will be asking them how they measure their successes, what impact their citizen-science projects are having and what challenges they have faced in the past and continue to deal with. Essentially, we are hoping to create a recipe for success for how citizen science is best done for threatened species.
By sharing experiences and developing a generic framework that can be applied to multiple situations, we hope to give practitioners peace of mind about their day-to-day operations. Often they are doing their work with little guidance on what is a good benchmark to work towards. Or it might be that we can provide guidance on how they can implement strategies for dealing with obstructions to them achieving their goals.
Our citizen-science project has only recently started. We are eager to hear from anyone with knowledge of citizen-science programs actively involved in threatened-species monitoring and recovery. If you can help us or would like more information about our project, please get in touch.
For further information:
Rochelle Steven r.steven@uq.edu.au
Top Image: ‘Citizens’ collecting data out in the field may be an effective way of obtaining information in a vast country.
The Citizen and the cassowary
The southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) is an enigmatic species found in the Wet Tropics Word Heritage Area (http://www.wettropics.gov.au/cassowaries) of North Queensland. It is hard to look at a cassowary and not think ‘dinosaur’, because they truly look like something that walked out of a Jurassic Park movie set.
Image: Rochelle Steven
This ‘keystone’ species plays a critical role in maintaining ecosystem processes in the rainforests as they are the key disperser of large-fruited rainforest plants throughout the region. Unfortunately, the species is facing multiple threats in the form of habitat loss, car strikes and attacks from dogs. They are currently classified as Endangered under the national EPBC Act.
The more we can learn about these extraordinary birds the better placed we will be to protect them, and this is where citizen science can play a role. Visitors and residents alike can assist local conservation work by reporting sightings of all cassowaries throughout the Mission Beach (http://www.missionbeachcassowaries.com/cassowary-id-and-tracking.html) and Daintree (http://www.daintreecassowary.org.au/) areas, two of the main hotspots for the species. Recording every sighting is important to understand how the birds move through the landscape through time, and can inform where corridor plantings and additional signage are needed to ensure the species safety and survival. | {
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“Royal River” Promotion for a riverside apartment building in Shanghai
A live action promotion we produced, typical for China. As with any promotional film the client wants the product to be bigger and better than reality. We were happy to comply and most of the footage represents reality, until the end scene where the couple are looking out over the river. This is an effect and in reality the river can’t even be seen from the apartment. We weren’t too bothered by this since the first time a potential buyer looks out the window they will realize it’s quite a different story. | {
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Ars Animalis | Goya's Dog
"There is not a single contemporary painter in the world that does not pray in front of The Dog." -- Manuela Mena, curator, Museo del Prado
[Animals were there at the beginning of art. But how did we get from Chauvet to "Dogs Playing Poker" and beyond? That's one of the questions 13.7 will be asking with this month's series, "Ars Animalis"—art of the animals.]
When he was 72 years old, the Spanish painter Francisco Goya moved into a house outside Madrid. Though the two-story building was named "Quinta del Sordo" ("Deaf Man's House") by the previous owner, it was an apt name for the new tenant: Goya was almost completely deaf at the time. These were dark years for the celebrated artist, who developed a bleak outlook and feared going insane.
On the walls of Quinta del Sordo, between 1819 and 1823, Goya painted 14 strange, dark, haunting works that depicted such themes as violence and witchcraft, the most famous being Saturn Devouring His Son. They were never intended to be seen by the outside world. In his 1983 book Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art, Fred Licht notes that these so-called Pinturas Negras ("Black Paintings") "are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art."
Among them is this enigmatic painting, known simply as The Dog, in which a small canine peeks out from behind an unidentified mass, gazing upward at some unknown thing. It is also known as A Dog, Head of a Dog, The Buried Dog, The Half-Drowned Dog, The Half-Submerged Dog or Goya's Dog. It is not known if Goya titled any of his Black Paintings, which are on permanent display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
In his 2004 book Francisco Goya: A Life, American novelist Evan Connell writes, "There's a lonesome dog—nobody ever saw a lonelier dog—who could be lost in a sandstorm, possibly sinking into quicksand, bewildered by a senseless universe. Nothing but the pooch's head. What does it think?"
The Spanish artist Antonio Saura called The Dog "the world's most beautiful picture." Rafael Canogar, also a Spanish artist, called it the first Symbolist painting of the Western world.
In his 2004 book Goya, Australian art critic Robert Hughes writes, "We do not know what it means, but its pathos moves us on a level below narrative." Manuela Mena, curator at the Prado, said, "There is not a single contemporary painter in the world that does not pray in front of The Dog."
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The Role of the Trustee or Trustees
When you create a trust, put serious thought into who you name as trustee. A qualified trustee will be good with numbers, and with people too.
When you create a trust, you'll need to decide who will be trustee when or if you cannot do the job yourself. Trustees have a great deal of authority over the money and property in a trust, so you should choose someone in whom you have great confidence. In the event the trustee proves unable to handle the responsibilities, you or the trust beneficiaries have will be able to remove the trustee and seek to recover any damages he or she caused.
Appointing Joint and Alternative Trustees
Appointing just one person as trustee can be risky. If the named trustee becomes unable to manage the trust because of a medical issue, lack of time, or any other reason, a new trustee will have to be appointed by a court.
One option is to name more than one trustee to serve at the same time. Appointing "cotrustees" or "joint trustees" can increase the likelihood that someone you've chosen will be available to do the job. However, you'll need to decide whether the trustees must act together or whether any trustee can act alone -- and both of these scenarios have complications. In fact, naming more than one trustee can sometimes create more problems than it solves.
A better option is to name successor or alternate trustees to serve if the original trusteed becomes unavailable.
Trustees Should Be Comfortable With Numbers
State laws require a trustee to administer a trust in the best interests of the beneficiaries.
Trustees have a large number of responsibilities, many of which require some general accounting skills. Depending on the amount and type of assets you put into the trust, your trustee may need to correspond with financial institutions, keep track of all income and losses from investments, prepare periodic financial reports for beneficiaries, file tax returns, and distribute money to beneficiaries.
Trustees Must Manage the Trust for the Benefit of Beneficiaries
State laws require a trustee to administer a trust in the best interests of the beneficiaries. Trustees who fail to exercise beneficiary loyalty in every decision they make can be subject to adverse legal consequences. For example, a trustee who stands to gain more from a trust transaction than the beneficiaries do is in breach of the duty of loyalty - and can be financially liable.
Beneficiaries Can Have a Trustee Removed
Trust beneficiaries can always ask a state court judge to remove a trustee if they feel that the trust isn't being handled properly. A trustee can be removed for many reasons, such as lacking the skill to handle trust transactions, failing to file tax returns or pay taxes that cost the trust money in penalties, or serving the interests of others who aren't trust beneficiaries.
A Trusts and Estate Lawyer Can Help
The law surrounding the responsibilities of trustees can be complicated, and the facts of each case are unique. This article provides a brief, general introduction to the topic. For more detailed information and a discussion about your individual circumstances, contact a trusts and estates lawyer. | {
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Mission Statement
Kathy Moore brings a unique skill set to the design table. With a background that includes textile and apparel design at companies such as Ralph Lauren, a long career in merchandising both retail and commercial spaces, and as a co-owner of a successful fashion accessories business, she has recently focused her talents on interiors. “Designing an inspired living space is like getting dressed – blending elements, textures, and styles to arrive at a look that is uniquely yours.” Kathy focuses on ensuring the functionality of the spaces she designs while shaping the overall experience into one that is pleasing to all the senses. Since 2012, Kathy has designed multiple projects on the Main Line and in Martha’s Vineyard. | {
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Manage Black Friday without a black eye
Black Friday, the most anticipated shopping day of the year, is fast approaching, and now is the time to get mentally prepared. This year, many stores like Target are opening their doors during the early evening of Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day. As a result, Thanksgiving dinner and family visits may get cut short this year. However, as a solution, take your family with you as you hunt for the best deals of the holiday season. Before you head out, take these five tips into consideration to make the most of your Black Thursday/Friday experience.
Get some sleep
Sleep should be your greatest priority before heading out for Black Friday shopping. The success of your trip is greatly based on when you get to your shopping destinations, which can be determined by whether or not you get an adequate amount of sleep. In more cases than not, waking up and heading out early (or logging onto Amazon) will allow you to gain access to the best deals and selections as well. So, plan your Thanksgiving dinner accordingly, so you can plot out late-night shopping destinations as well.
Dress in layers
You should obviously dress warm to offset the cold weather you’ll face waiting outdoors in long lines. However, bulky clothing isn’t the answer. Black Friday shopping can be more physically exerting than shoppers anticipate. Bulky clothing, like chunky sweaters or large coats, will keep you warm when necessary, but can become cumbersome and uncomfortable when you begin to shop. Try wearing a lightweight tank top, and put a t-shirt or sweater over it. Essentially, adding light layers is key. This will build a wall against the cold that will be easy to peel away as necessary. Also, leaving bulky clothing at home will make trying on clothes much easier.
Wear comfortable shoes
Black Friday shopping has the potential to be an all-night ordeal, with a lot of standing up and walking around. However, choosing your shoes wisely can turn the ordeal into a more pleasant experience. Lightweight shoes are best, as heavier shoes will require more work to walk in. Consider wearing lightweight shoes made of flexible material that allow your feet to breathe. Shoes with adequate heel support, like walking or exercise shoes, are good choices. They will perform well while supporting both your heels and arches. When looking for style and comfort, try flats or boots with half-inch or 1 inch heels, which will aid in preventing that burning feeling in your calves from fast-paced walking.
Make a list
Know what you will be shopping for by making a list of items you plan to buy. Consider the most important items you want to purchase when making your list. A list of priorities will also keep you from giving in to tempting sales and low prices. Don’t crowd your mind with every item you would like to buy this holiday season; allow yourself to spend money on what is important, instead of spending money for someone’s gift on a spontaneous purchase. Get in and get out.
Plan your trip
As mentioned before, planning your shopping trip before you head out will help alleviate stress and confusion, as well as overspending. Do research on your favorite stores to find the best sales. You can also use your list of important purchases to help plan your trip. Both methods of planning will allow you to determine if shopping online is a possible alternative to going to some stores. Based on what you plan to buy, and from where, look for the best deals to decide what you can buy online, and what you will go hunting for. Furthermore, planning will allow you to determine whether you should bring cash or your debit or credit card. Bringing more money than necessary can promote frivolous spending. Thus, knowing how you will spend can save you money. | {
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All though I got a lot done in the shop yesterday, it was not my day. They say bad luck comes in threes, but I wonder if that rule applies to bad judgment too.
After gluing each of the drawer fronts to the drawer boxes, I needed to clamp them together so the joint would dry properly. So I placed a couple of paper towels down on a flat surface, then stood the each drawer up on its drawer front and clamped it to the flat surface. I did all that after I meticulously sanded through all the dry grits and wet grits using paraffin oil. When an hour or so went by, I unclamped the drawers, and lo and behold, the paper towel texture was molded onto the drawer front! I had to go back to the 220 grit sandpaper and work my way through the sanding process again. My shoulder was not very happy about that!
When it came time to put the top on, I noticed that the top was not longer sitting perfectly flat when I set it down on the table saw top. I have no idea how this could have happened. So on the back left corner, I was forced to insert a small shim. There is not excuse for a piece of fine furniture to be shimmed, but I really did not know what else to do. The band saw box “Yud” will at least hide the shim.
Finally, the “Hinny Youngman Bone Head Award of the Year” award was presented to me yesterday. I don’t know where you live, but it is cold out there! Whilst applying the shellac to the top, I moved the Chai-boy in the area of the shop with the propane heater. Let me clarify, I moved the Chai-boy too close to the heater and the high heat did something to the surface of the wood that made rough. Only a small area was affected, but I will need to go back and sand out that area! I think my shoulder will most likely send me a nasty gram about that too.
Chai-boy with drawer fronts attached
At least the assembly of the “Ches” is pretty much done except for the drawer pulls. Now I need to start on the “Yud” bandsaw box part of the project. I’ve got a lot to think through on that part of the project. At least today is an odd numbered day, so perhaps my luck will change and I will get my list of objectives SUCCESSFULLY completed. One can only hope. | {
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 02:38:52PM -0600, hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu wrote:
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> I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the
> line
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> /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos user,rw 0 0
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> in /etc/fstab
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> I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no dice. Is there a change so that it
> can automount both msdos and ext2 disks?
What about having several mount points?
/dev/fd0 /floppy/fat msdos user,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy/ext2 ext2 user,rw 0 0
[etc...]
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Until then, Scotland had been, in the English imagination especially, a wild and lawless place that had to be subdued by force.
Scott made it safe, even romantic.
"Scott was very clear when he wrote his first novel, Waverley, that what he was doing was introducing Scottish readers to their own history, and English readers to Scotland's history," says Stuart Kelly, author of the critically acclaimed Scott-land: The man who invented a nation.
"But there is something fictitious about it all, not fake but fictitious."
Media captionWatch Allan Little's BBC Newsnight film in full
We are sitting in Scott's impressive drawing room at Abbotsford and Kelly gestures to what appears to be the finely carved, oak-wood ceiling above us.
"This wonderful roof is modelled on Rosslyn Chapel," he says, "but it isn't even wood. It's papier mache and sawdust.
"This whole place is a kind of theatrical set.
"But there's something good about that, the idea that our identity is not something fixed, that it's something changeable, that Scott could actively go out there and think 'I will change the way people think about Scotland'."
Dancing around swords
Victorian Britain loved this manufactured Scotland and bought it wholesale.
Queen Victoria mimicked it in the design of her Scottish retreat at Balmoral. This Scotland sat comfortably in the prospering British Union.
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Do you think of kilts when you think of Scotland?
But a generation emerged in the 1970s that wondered why it was still, so late in the 20th Century, watching men in kilts dancing around swords while demure ladies in white frocks and tartan sashes looked on.
Why, it wondered, was Scotland still presenting itself in this way when none of us knew anyone who actually did this kind of thing?
"Kilts, haggis, the White Heather Club… on television as a young person, certainly growing up in Scotland, I didn't feel like it related very much to me," Scots actress and comedian Elaine C Smith told me.
"I didn't look out there and see anyone that reflected me at all."
But that Scotland - that sense of what the country was - had been carried around the world by the British Empire.
The canny Scot and the dour Scot, and their cousin the chippie Scot, landed on every shore.
They dressed in tartan and toasted Robert Burns every January and sang sweet, sentimental songs about exile and distance and longing for a Scotland which didn't really exist; a Scotland which was an imagined romantic construct.
Rebellious past
That Scotland was tame, it was safe, it knew its place in the greater scheme of things.
It had a rebellious past that could be saluted and celebrated as long as that rebelliousness stayed safely in the past.
And that Scotland survived well into our own age. Think of Private Fraser in Dad's Army.
"One Saturday night, at the age of 15 or something, on to the television came a version of John McGrath's play The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil," says Smith.
"And it changed my life really. I had never seen my own culture and my own country reflected back to me in the way that it did.
"There was a sort of reclaiming of who we were."
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The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil drew a direct line between the Highland Clearances of the 18th Century and the sudden, catastrophic decline of heavy industry in the 20th.
This was a powerful new voice in Scottish culture. It was an angry play.
It was produced by a theatre company called 7:84, so named because 7% of the population of the country owned 84% of the wealth.
Scottish national identity began to wrap itself in the cause of social justice - in the idea of resistance to unaccountable wealth and power imposing its will from outside.
Voice of cities
"The reason Scottish identity so closely allied with left-of-centre politics, a sense of social justice and inclusion is because of the mauling Scotland perceived itself to get during the Thatcherite years," says the novelist James Robertson.
"Thatcherism was obviously disliked by lots of people in lots of other parts of the British Isles, but it seems to me that in Scotland, because we had a sense of national identity, we had something to coalesce around, to respond to.
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"Culture, it seems to me, is a way of asking questions about who we are, or who do we think we are.
"And those questions can be much more easily answered through culture than through politicians standing up and sort of wagging fingers at people and saying this is who you are."
This Scotland was also irreverent, self-mocking, and hilariously funny.
Billy Connolly, who'd been a Glasgow shipyard welder, spoke for a Scotland that now began to eclipse the old stereotype.
This wasn't just funny. It was genuinely liberating.
This was the Scotland that emerged to replace the heirs of Harry Lauder and Balmorality and the green hills of Tyrol.
This Scotland was urban with a collective folk memory of displacement from a rural past.
This Scotland felt increasingly dispossessed as the industries that had serviced the British Empire collapsed and spoke in the voice of the cities, especially of Glasgow.
This Scotland was dismayed by what was happening.
It was angrier, less tame, less docile, more political.
It didn't much care about the Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond and it didn't know the difference between the low road and the high road.
This Scotland was much less British.
Revival of identity
Scottish children had always been punished for using Scots idioms and locutions in school.
Standard English was thumped into you. But by the 1980s, publishers wanted literature to reflect the demotic speech of ordinary folk.
"They realised there was a market for work in which we talked about ourselves in our own terms," says Liz Lochhead, one of Scotland's most celebrated poets and playwrights.
"And then with the first failed referendum [on devolution in 1979] there really was, afterwards, a sort of sense of depression, which then expressed itself in a sense of let's get on with it, and... a revival of Scottish identity."
In the visual arts too you sense this gradual decoupling.
Ross Sinclair is one of a group of young artists who emerged from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s.
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Abbotsford was designed by Scott himself
He says for his generation of artists, Scotland's access to the wider world no longer lies through London alone.
"London still has its thrall, it's still fantastic.... but there are all these other kinds of relationships, in Europe and Berlin and Scandinavia and the States, China and Africa - just thinking of projects that are kind of going at the moment.
"These are relationships that aren't based on some kind of historical premise that has this sort of built-in power relationship.
"These are new, fresh relationships, horizontal, organic, there is a feeling that anything can happen."
Scotland's independence debate is shaped by this change in the way the country represents itself.
It is a sentiment that chimes with Walter Scott, for whom Scotland was, of necessity, outward looking, internationalist in character.
Pushing at boundaries
"Waverley's the great novel of border crossing," says Stuart Kelly.
"Scottish novels from the 18th Century to the early 20th Century often feature characters who will cross borders, who will experience more than one country.
"Now by contrast... the great English novels of the 19th Century are very settled affairs.
"The truly great novels, the kind of Bleak House novels, or Jude the Obscure, or Middlemarch, these are not novels about travel."
Walter Scott conjured a Scottish identity that could fit in a wider British context.
Scotland's artists have been pushing at the boundaries of that for 40 years. | {
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Hammer Nutrition Perpetuem | 16 Servings
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Hundreds of boxing enthusiasts gathered at Bacolod City Government Center to witness the victory of Genesis “Azukal’ Servania against his challenger Konosuke Tomiyami of Japan, Saturday night in Macau, a press release from city hall said.
Servania, the pride of Barangay Punta Taytay, defended his World Boxing Council international silver superbantamwieght title against Tomiyami with a split technical decision after the referee stopped the fight at the ninth round.
The boxing champ from Bacolod City is the son of Antonio and Saluna Servania of Barangay Punta Taytay. He remains undefeated with 22 wins with 8 knockouts.
Jast secures semifinals seat
in Fil-Sino Class B cagefest
Jast Enterprises earned the last ticket to the semifinals by dominating Basecom, 91-83, in the FIl-Sino All Asian Countertrade Inter-Color Basketball Tournament at the Bacolod Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gym.
JSY Countertrade also caught the last bus to semifinals in Class A semis by defeating AACI Transport, 92-85.
Jast started out the tournament with five straight losses but finished the tournament on a three-game winning streak.
Still, Basecom ended its elimination campaign atop the standings and tied with Royal Star at 5-3. Basecom has beaten Royal twice in the elimination to get the top spot and will have a twice-to-beat advantage against Jast enterprises today, at 7 p.m. | {
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One hundred years ago, on May 7, 1915, the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo off the Irish coast.
It was the fastest, most luxurious passenger ship ever to have sailed the seas and, like the Titanic, was believed to be invulnerable.
This illustration shows the May 7, 1915, sinking of the Lusitania after it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland.
At the time, the ship was believed fast enough to outrun any submarine.
Illustration by Popperfoto/Getty
But of the 1,959 passengers on board, 1,195 perished, among them 128 American citizens.
Like 9/11, the callous murder of civilians caused outrage on both sides of the Atlantic and led to calls for the United States to enter the war.
But to the dismay of the First Lord of the Admiralty, a certain Winston Churchill, it would take another two years and millions more deaths on the Western Front before President Woodrow Wilson ordered American boots on European ground.
In his new book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, best-selling author Erik Larson takes readers inside what he calls “a disaster of monumental proportions.” (see video interview)
From his home in New York, he explains how, as with the Titanic, a concatenation of events caused a catastrophic tragedy; how Britain’s top-secret anti-submarine intelligence unit, Room 40, may have organized a cover-up after the event; and what it felt like to come face-to-face with the morgue photographs of the dead.
An obvious question: Why is your book called Dead Wake?
Dead wake is an old maritime term for the disturbance that remains on the water long after a boat has passed.
There’s the live wake, I suppose you could call it, which comes off the engine.
But in the case of a liner, the wake can persist for many thousands of yards, if not miles, behind the ship. And that was called, at one time, the dead wake.
It’s an allusion to a number of things, but primarily to the track left by the torpedo that sank the Lusitania.
Put the Lusitania into the historical context of the war between Britain and Germany for control of the seas.
The war had broken out in August 1914.
We all know about the horrific land battles. What’s happening at sea is that Germany recognized England was an island nation, and that one way to bring England to her knees was to destroy as much seaborne commerce as possible.
The submarine proved to be a very effective weapon in that respect and one that Germany decided to use in a major break with naval warfare against merchant and civilian vessels.
The Lusitania was thought to be immune from such an attack because nobody could possibly imagine it.
It was hard enough to imagine the German Navy going after merchant vessels.
But the Germans had started sinking merchant vessels, often without warning.
Then, along comes the Lusitania in May 1915 in waters that Germany had determined to be a war zone.
They said: “If you enter these waters, you do so at your own risk.”
The rest, as they say, is history.
The wreck lies 93m down on its starboard side and measures 240m in length.
(Image
produced by INFOMAR/Geological Survey of Ireland/Marine Institute)
The German High Command actually warned of an attack.Some passengers canceled out of security concerns.But wasn’t the Lusitania cloaked in the same myth of invincibility as the Titanic? Should the ship ever have set sail?
It’s very important, doing the kind of history that I do, to always keep the reader in the era’s point of view—POV, as screenwriters call it.
Today, you think: “Oh, my gosh, what were they thinking?
Why did this ship even set sail from New York when there was a war zone declared and German submarines were everywhere, attacking without warning?”But people at the time didn’t see it that way.They saw this ship as so fast it could outrun any submarine.They saw it
as being so immense, so well built, so safe, and so well equipped with
lifeboats in the wake of the Titanic disaster that even if it
were hit by a torpedo, no one imagined this thing actually sinking.But
no one could imagine a submarine going after the Lusitania in the first place.That seemed such an absurd and immoral concept.So in the end only a couple of people actually canceled.
I’m not much of a believer in heroes, frankly.
And I have a feeling that Churchill, if he were with us on this conference call today, would have argued very much in the opposite direction, though he had his own motives.
Turner was a staunch Cunard captain of the old school who had come to Cunard after serving in the hard school of sailing vessels.
He believed in doing things the classic way, like making his crew tie absurdly complex knots that they would most likely never use.
But he was utterly unprepared for the new age of submarine warfare, as were all captains.
Nobody understood the submarine.
People didn’t understand torpedoes.
So, here was this captain of the old school forced suddenly to confront this horrendous situation of submarines hunting his ship.
The villain of the story is a German U-boat captain, Walter Schwieger.He was kind and jolly with his crew, but a cold-blooded psychopath toward the enemy; he even attacked a Red Cross ship.
Walter Schwieger was, by all counts, loved by his men.
A friend of his in the submarine service said of him: “He wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
Unless it were a British fly?
[Laughs] He loved animals.
He rescued a dachshund that was adrift after he had attacked the ship in which the dog was traveling, and brought it aboard.
So here was this young, humane, handsome guy, who was dispatched by the German Navy to do what submarines were supposed to do.
He is clearly in my view the villain.
Nobody made him press the button and launch the torpedo that sank that ship.
The British Admiralty later tried to lay the blame on Captain Turner.
But in the end it all comes down to Schwieger. He killed almost 1,200 people at the push of a button.
The British mounted an amazing anti-submarine espionage operation reminiscent of Bletchley Park, which featured in the recent movie The Imitation Game.Tell us about Room 40 and one of my favorite characters, “Blinker” Hall.
Room 40 was this super-secret organization founded by the Admiralty to take advantage of the miraculous recovery of three German codebooks.
Using those codebooks, they successfully intercepted and read German naval communications.
One of the best moments of my research came at the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
One of the boxes I’d ordered from the archive came up.
I put it on my desk in the reading room, opened it up, and there was this very large codebook which was said to have been in the arms of a German sailor washed ashore after his destroyer was sunk by the Russians.
It contained all the German code words for some 30,000 code crypts.
Seeing it there in the archives, touching this thing, was incredible!
Blinker Hall is often thought to have been the head of Room 40.
He was, in fact, the head of British Naval Intelligence.
But Blinker Hall was the guy who understood how this information could be used to best advantage.
He was nicknamed “Blinker” because of this odd, neurological quirk where his eyes blinked ceaselessly.
He had the features of a woodpecker and a keen imagination.
He was a very, very cunning guy.
The tragedy, in which 128 Americans died,
took over the front page of the New York Times the next day.
Photograph by MPI/Getty
The encounter of ship and submarine is like the Titanic and the iceberg: the fatal conjunction of improbable events.
It is incorrect to say that Schwieger was stalking the Lusitania.
That’s not what happened at all. It is this confluence of chance forces that converged in the Irish Sea.
The ship departed two hours late because it had to take on passengers from a ship that had been commandeered by the British Admiralty.
Those two hours put the ship right on the path of contact with the submarine.
Schwieger had actually decided to go home and end his patrol because of fog and bad weather.
But he came up for a look and found that the weather had suddenly cleared.
In the distance, he saw this large collection of masts and antennae.
At first he thought it might be a number of ships.
But as he watched, he saw that it was just one ship.
It was too far away to catch.
But he decided to follow and see what would happen.
And sure enough, the Lusitania made a starboard turn that put it directly in the path of the U-20, and Schwieger was able to set up his shot and attack.
That study contends that time was the crucial element in what kind of “disaster decorum” prevailed. In the case of the Titanic, it was women and children first on the available boats.
In the case of the Lusitania, the study argues that the very short time it took for the ship to sink caused mores to break down and it became every man for himself.
But you can’t really compare how the passengers behaved on the Titanic and the Lusitania.
The passengers on the Lusitania actually behaved with great courtesy and calm.
The problem was that, after the torpedo struck, the ship immediately took on this very severe list. Half the lifeboats were unusable.
The other half were slung out 60 feet above the sea and 8 to 10 feet out from the hull, so it was definitely not for the faint of heart to try and board them.
In fact, relatively few people went into the lifeboats at all.
Most people jumped or remained on the ship—for reasons that are very hard to fathom—and were ultimately swept away in the final cataclysm.
Winston Churchill was scathing about Woodrow Wilson’s delay in entering the war. “What he did in April 1917 could have been done in May 1915,” he wrote. And if done then … in how many millions of homes would an empty chair be occupied now?”
You can argue for both sides of this.
Churchill saw it from a British point of view.
And there is a lot to his argument.
In fact, what he wrote in his book enhanced my appreciation of him.
He was a unique, if at times erratic, genius.
But I think Wilson was doing the right thing for his country.
It wasn’t his job to keep the young men of Britain safe.
He didn’t feel America was ready for war.
It is a misconception that America was champing at the bit to get into the war after the Lusitania was sunk.
Teddy Roosevelt and his party were.
But the vast majority of Americans did not want to get into the war.
In fact, many charming petitions were filed with the President endorsing his calm reaction to the Lusitania [sinking], expressing confidence that he would do the judicious thing and not be affected by the passions of the moment. [Laughs] Can you imagine that today?
We have recently had notorious instances of captains abandoning their ships: the Italian liner Costa Concordia and the South Korean ferry Sewol.How did Captain Turner shape up?
In that respect, Captain Turner shapes up very well.
He stayed on the bridge to the last moment.
He did put on a life jacket, but I’m not going to fault him for that.
He stayed on the bridge until the ship was washed away below him.
I believe he was the last member of the crew off, but I can’t say for sure because by the time he was washed from the bridge a portion of the ship that was still above water was packed with passengers. Was he the last man off?
No. But he would have been if the ship had sunk differently.
One of the shabbiest aspects of the story is how the Admiralty tried to pin the blame on Captain Turner.What was their argument?
It’s not exactly clear why the Admiralty went after Turner.
But what is very clear from the record is that the Admiralty went after him immediately, within 24 hours.
Turner was going to be made the scapegoat, which is odd, because the publicity value of laying the blame on Germany would have been enormous.
I believe it’s because the Admiralty was trying to protect Room 40.
Hence, the whole idea of letting it stand in the historical record for decades that the Lusitania was sunk by two torpedoes, when Room 40 knew beyond a doubt that it was only one torpedo.
Cover-up is a very contemporary term.
But one of Churchill’s top priorities when he was in the Admiralty was to keep Room 40 secret.
Even to the point, as one of its members said, of not passing along actionable information that could have saved lives.
A prominent naval historian, who is now dead, wrote a book about Room 40.
In it, he said that he believed it wasn’t a plot by the Admiralty but, as the British say, an incredible “cock-up.”
In later life he was interviewed—there is a transcript in the Imperial War Museum in London—and had changed his mind.
He said: “I’ve thought and thought about this and there’s no other way to think about it except to imagine some sort of conspiracy.”
I’m not saying that there was or there wasn’t [a cover-up].
I’ll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
My goal was to capture the magnitude and drama of this episode and show it for what it was: a disaster of monumental proportions, filled with tragedy and horror. Your research took you all over Europe. What were some of the high points?
The single most interesting and moving moment was at the University of Liverpool, in England, which is the keeper of the Cunard archives.
I managed to get permission to look at the morgue photos of the people killed in the disaster.
It was not easy to get access, and I was not allowed to bring in a camera.
But, sitting there, looking at these photographs, really brought home to me that this was not some little node on a high school time line.
These were men, women, and children who were suddenly struck down in the midst of the most beautiful day, on the most beautiful ship.
In the photos, they look as if they had just stepped off the ship and fallen asleep in the morgue.
They were still fully dressed and, in some cases, impeccably dressed.
Some even still had a light sprinkling of sand from when they were pulled from the beach.
It was just very, very moving. | {
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The 3080IPG-NAT platform is a complete hardware based solution to remove the need for service providers to enforce address range restrictions and VLAN schemes for their customers in multi-tenant environments.
Controlled by the industry leading VistaLINK® PRO, the 3080IPG-NAT-2-10GE is a high density NAT (Network Address Translator) used specifically for video applications. It allows to bridge two IP networks by appropriately translating IP addresses of one network to another. When datagrams from one network enter into the inbound port of the NAT, its addresses in these datagrams get translated, and then delivered to a second network connected to the outbound port of the NAT.
The 3080IPG-NAT provides the following three modes of operation:
The One-to-one NAT which allows a static mapping between one unicast/multicast IP address from one network to another unicast/multicast IP address from another network.
The VLAN based NAT which allows a VLAN tagged datagram from one network to seamlessly enter into another network by encapsulating it as regular multicast.
The Port based NAT which allows to apply a multicast IP address to all incoming datagrams on a physical port, and makes the datagram appear as if it were a video stream when it enters into another network. | {
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Roland SH09
Roland SH09
was a smaller version of the SH2, only one VCO and small size. nice on stage. one VCO, ENV, subosc and PWM, one LFO, but still enough for basses and stuff, it's not really a monophonic juno 6 but sort of.. looks like the sh2 but one VCO lost
User Comments
I purchased a SH-09 at a used gear shop for $350. The only cool thing about it is that it's analog. The sound capability is very limited. It's sound is very distinct, but that is it's main downfall. It can't produce any wild ARP-2600 type sounds. Although, I have heard this synth on some recent recordings including Meat Beat Mainfesto.
I have a roland sh-09. I got it for 50 bux and it is in very nice shape. I run the sh-09 through a digitech rp-3 and it really gives the ol' synth a breth of new life but you still can't beet that old anolog sound the sh-09 give. and I will more then likely take mine to the grave with me
this is one of the most easy to use synths I have ever seen. and it puts out a really nice sound. The sh-09 is in my mind about as good if not better then a minimoog I'll catch a lot of flack for saying that but oh well. Roland really hit the nail in the head with this synth and I really wish every one coul have the chance to play one cause there wonderfull. I have my SH-09 playing in to a digitech RP-3 ( for a little FX) and I use a Marshel amp all in all I would say that once it warms up (it's analog) it's a really nice synth. and watch out for the plastic panle that the bender is on, it has a nasty habbit of braking (and or cracking). but I just love the little unit it's compact and easy to use and it gives the classic analog fuzz )
the sh09 is a pretty popular machine in analogue circles, not least because there are so many of them floating about, a sign that they were popular when thet came out originally.For a one oscillator synth the 09 is pretty cool especially as there are no specialist Ics inside for the vco and filter.(specialist chips such as the CEMand SSM chips all had a particular sound which meant that most synths sounded similar)The Vcf is especially cool,a very phat 24db self oscillating beast which can filter external audio.It is made up of four operational Transconductance amplifiers and a whole bunch of discreet components,which make it sound typically Roland but yet not quite as you expect. Sonically the 09 comes into its own when used with a sequencer,I use mine with a home made linear device which can scale up to 12vThat is to say thay it can switch between 0.5v or so right up to 12v ,covering the whole of the synths audio range .When this is used it gives some very wierd atmospheric and very wild analogue sounding sounds, that have to be heard to be believed!For this reason alone the 09 with all its short comings is well worth investigating. Mine cost me £40 five years ago and Ive been tempted to sell it once but I decided that It and I shouldnt really ever part!
I have an SH-2, which is similar to the SH-09 but with an extra oscillator, some extra keys, etc. But I think it´s important for any electronic musician to know that Vince Clarke had an SH-09 on the top of his rack, in the Cowboy tour, only for basses. That means something...
i am a bit confused, cause i know the sounds of my sh 09 are awesome BUT it gets totally out of tune : ( with this detune problem i cannot go out and play live with it ... Does someone over here had the same problem and what should or can i do about it ? ?
If you imagine a really pissed off robot of epic dimensions - one which has gone haywire and is crushing puny humans and stamping buildings underfoot. Now if you imagine that robot shouting at top volume, then that's the sound of the Roland SH09.
This is an ideal introduction to analogue synthesis. Within a fairly short period of time, it becomes very easy to dial in new patches and quickly get the sound you want. The synth is only monophonic and is of a relatively small size, but don't let that decieve you. The sound quality is awesome - I run this through my Marshall amp and have had it mic'd up and blasting out a big PA before: the tone and volume on this tiny beast was insane.
I love this synth to bits. It is capable of a lot more than most people would assume, and if you run it through an effects processor, you can get close to any sound you want. As someone already rightly commented, the only limitations are those of the musician.
I'm deeply and utterly in love with my sh-09, but years of touring and gigging have left it looking a bit battered and bruised. worse, though, it is currently around three semitones out of tune. anyone know any tips for keeping it in tune? also, anyone link there's to an organ strings 09? know how this is done? good sounds? any tips for getting the sounds of the sh09 with improved reliability massively appreciated....... | {
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SlackBuilds Repository
PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps.The goal is to eliminate duplication of effort and provide somestandardization (well, at least for GTK+ apps). It's open sourcesoftware, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2.0 or later. | {
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SMS jokes & text messages in english, hindi & urdu
Those who appear in your life
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