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fiu | by Christopher Werner P.E., Project Manager, HDR Engineering, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
In cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Minnesota County Engineers Association, the Minnesota Local Road Research Board, and the FHWA Minnesota Division Office, a number of counties in the state have built accelerated and innovative bridge construction projects on their local roads in the past few years. These projects have included side-by-side precast box beams on sheet pile abutments, mechanically-stabilized earth (MSE) walls with single-line pile abutments, precast inverted tee slab span bridges, large precast box culverts, and three-sided structures. The first two county precast inverted tee beam bridges have been recently constructed based on the groundbreaking work of the Minnesota DOT for this bridge type, and the first Minnesota county bridge with geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) abutments is scheduled to be built this construction season. Through many domestic local bridge scanning tours with federal, state, and local partners, the featured presentation describes the reasons that Minnesota counties have implemented ABC and innovative bridge construction techniques. The bridge elements, details, and costs related to these exciting local bridge projects also was highlighted. | 2019-04-23T01:03:59Z | https://abc-utc.fiu.edu/mc-events/abc-and-innovative-bridge-construction-for-minnesota-local-roads/?mc_id=45 | Sports | Business | 0.931236 |
mercurynews | Chris Dorst didnโt send an invitation to President Jimmy Carter at the occasion of his wedding two decades ago. Maybe he should have.
Dorst is the first to admit that Carter helped initiate his marriage to Marybeth Linzmeier. If it wasnโt for Carterโs 1980 U.S.-led boycott of the Olympics in Moscow, Dorst says his life likely would have taken an entirely different turn.
It was in 1983 when Dorst started dating Stanford distance swimmer Linzmeier. She, too, had been denied a chance to compete in 1980 as a world-class high school star at Mission Viejo High in Southern California. He made it to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. She missed a Team USA berth by .03 seconds and never got a second chance.
Next month, Russia hosts the winter Olympics in Sochi. Team USA, which boycotted over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 34 years ago, will not boycott.
The thought of the Games of 2014 being held in Russia with the United States in the middle of its own war in Afghanistan isnโt lost on Bay Area athletes who found themselves derailed in 1980.
Linzmeier-Dorst, who qualified in 1980 in the 200 and 1,500 freestyle, declined to be interviewed for this story. Also declining through a spokesperson was Carter, although it has become clear over the years even to those most directly impacted that he regrets the boycott.
San Francisco fencer Greg Massialas, an alternate in the 1976 Games in Montreal, was at his physical peak in 1980 but never got a chance at a medal. He made it back to the Olympics in 1984 and 1988, both times without medaling. He has spent his adult life as a fencing coach, referee and official. He got a chance at closure, although he had to wait until the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for it to happen.
โI was sitting at one of the big (fencing) matches when there was this commotion behind me. I turned around and there was Jimmy Carter and Roslyn and his niece and her boyfriend, who were about 18 or 19. They didnโt know much about the sport, so I started to explain what was happening.
Massialas said he learned about the boycott from a customs agent at New Yorkโs JFK Airport as he returned to the United States from Europe, where he had been doing Olympic training.
โIโd won the Olympic trials in Houston, so the decision was very devastating in a lot of ways,โ Massialas said, โespecially for those of us who were mature athletes. At that time there was no money at all to do these sports. The commitment on our side was extremely strong, and then we had the rug pulled out from under us because it was politically convenient.
A continent away from Massialasโ chat with the customs agent, Kimberly Carlisle was swimming the backstroke for Stanford with dreams of breaking into the medal count for her country against a bevy of world-class East German swimmers, athletes later to have mostly been found to have been operating on performance-enhancing drugs.
โIt was a deeply disappointing time, and it took me a long time before I could come to terms with it,โ Carlisle said of the boycott.
And not just for herself, even though she would never get another chance on an Olympic stage.
Carlisle ultimately did make it to Moscow, a decade too late.
โI was there in June of 1990, and I tried to go for a swim in the pool,โ she said. โI thought it would give me some closure. It was unbelievably difficult to try to get permission, which I never got. I eventually just hired a cab and went to the pool with my swim bag. The pool was empty, crumbling, locked, with no water in it and weeds coming out through the cracks. All that investment in the sport was dead.
The Dorst family includes five athletes โ daughters Lindsay, Becca and Emily all played or are playing Pac-12 water polo. Chris Dorst, who said wanting to make sure boycotts never happened again led to his spending a decade on the board of directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Marybeth is the best athlete of the bunch.
Carlisle, who works with the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee in an effort to bring the Olympics to Northern California, said being excluded from the 1980 Games was in at least one way positive.
Follow John Hickey on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3. | 2019-04-23T14:26:13Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/21/athletes-recall-1980-olympic-boycott/ | Sports | Sports | 0.951612 |
danshanoff | Today's Names to Know: Devin Hester, Roy Halladay, Carlos Zambrano, John Updike, Ted Williams, George Blanda, Bill Polian, Gilbert Arenas and More.
40 years ago today: Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Today's the day to read it if you never have.
MNF: The Bears are 3-0, and they just dispatched the team most experts picked to win the NFC. The Packers played a sloppy game -- penalties, turnovers, letting 2010 Devin Hester look like 2007 Devin Hester.
MLB: Roy Halladay has been everything that Phillies fans had hoped he would be when they got him in the offseason. Last night's 21st win -- clinching the NL East title for Philly -- was an exclamation point on what will be a NL Cy-winning season for him.
NL West/Wild Card Thrill-Ride: The Padres lost their WC lead to the Braves when they lost a 1-0 result to rejuvenated Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs. They also fell a full game behind the Giants in the NL West -- less of an issue than the WC, because they play the Giants head-to-head to finish the season this weekend, a virtual "play-in."
Interesting story percolating about the Rays players being a bit nasty, publicly, about their low attendance. Rays fans may not be showing up for bad reasons (don't appreciate what an awesome team they have) or good ones (who has the discretionary cash to spend on going?), but the players are never -- EVER -- going to win by griping about it.
RIP George Blanda, who played in the NFL in four different decades (1949-1975), a Methuselaian achievement that included both passing and kicking.
NFL going to 18 regular-season games a "fait accompli?" Colts honcho Bill Polian says so, and I think he's tapped in enough not to float bad info so publicly.
NBA Media Days: Forget Carmelo. How about the transformation of Gilbert Arenas -- still one of my favorite NBA players -- from personality to all-business. I could see Arenas being the NBA's version of Michael Vick: Redemption story through on-field (-court) awesomeness.
Heat Mania (or Fatigue): LeBron couldn't be more wrong that this season isn't "Championship or Bust." Let's be clear: Anything less than a title this year is failure for Miami.
Bills cut Trent Edwards: Wonder if they wish they had drafted Tim Tebow? He would be struggling, but at least the team would be relevant.
Wanna check your math, Shanoff? 1960 was 50 years ago.
As a Columbus, OH native, college football will always trump the NFL for me. But, living in Buffalo as I do (and likely will for the foreseeable future), I'll admit to being an honest-to-goodness Bills fan. Granted, it's nice to have a good team to root for in OSU, as the Bills are perennially awful, but DANG. I'm glad Edwards is gone, but I'd like them to have an actual NFL-caliber quarterback at some point. Fitz will do for now, but he's really a backup, simple as that.
pretty sure thats fifty years there smart guy. | 2019-04-20T01:00:16Z | http://www.danshanoff.com/2010/09/0928-quickie-bears-doc-blanda-kid.html | Sports | Sports | 0.900103 |
wordpress | Visiting any retail store reveals the multiple choices available. Very little is as simple as only one choice.
Consider something as simple as soap. There are hundreds of soaps available: laundry, bath, dish, liquid, antibiotic, foam, etc.
Along with these choices, there are innumerable name and generic brands on the market. Plus, the purpose of the cleansing agent needed influences the type of soap to look for and the amount.
The issue of choice is not only found in the area of soap. Walk down the isle of any store and consider the choices available on any product. At times, it becomes overwhelming to determine exactly what is needed.
A study of leadership also reveals the challenge of making choices. The choice made by leaders can make the difference in success or failure, so what choice(s) should be made?
Sadly, many choices must be made by trial and error. Only after the results of the choice are seen can another decision be made concerning the appropriate direction to take.
Nothing is more significant than leading others to make the choice about their eternal destiny. Think Souls!
The idea of a vow indicates one who enters an agreement to which they must be committed to fulfill. Solomon emphasized the seriousness of vows when he wrote, โIt is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not payโ (Ecclesiastes 5:5).
A leaders first responsibility is to God and then to those who follow. They must be committed to fulfill the responsibility of the relationship to which they have entered as leaders.
When they do, both parties are in a state of peace.
*Carr, G. Lloyd. โ2401 ืฉืึธืึตืโ. In Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, edited by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr. and Bruce K. Waltke. electronic ed. Chicago: Moody Press, 1999.
The synonyms for the word this week make for some interesting application. Honest, sincere, genuine, and trustworthy are a few that seem natural and positive. However, candid, frank, forthright, and straight are words with a little more bite to them.
Considering the opposite of truthfulness leads in one direction, deception.
Leaders need to not only be truthful in relationship to followers, they need to be truthful with themselves.
One of the greatest challenges for leaders is to be honest enough with themselves to make the kind of decisions that demonstrate their integrity.
Being truthful with the direction we should take may not always align with our initial plans.
Being truthful with those who are invested in following will not allow us to be self-centered.
Being truthful with God will always lead in paths of righteousness.
The application of truthfulness often falls short because leaders can fall prey to justifying their actions and convincing themselves something is true, when in reality it is false.
Leaders must be careful not to allow good intentions to vindicate pretentious actions.
Be truthful with self, others and God in all areas.
No matter what sporting event on television, there is 100% certainty that at some point there will be an instant replay.
Action is slowed down to carefully examine every angle of a tackle or pass, the pitch or batterโs swing, three point shot or a gliding slam dunk, and the same is true with all other sports.
Several interesting questions are raised when considering instant replay in leadership.
Has there been a time when we said or did something we wish we could rewind and do over?
How would it affect our leadership if we reviewed our words and actions through instant replay?
What would the future look like if we were able to slow down and carefully examine events of the past?
We know it is impossible to rewind time and change the words or actions of the past. What can be done to help implement the appropriate changes?
1) Learn from mistakes of the past.
2) Recognize the warning signs.
3) Think before speaking and acting, especially if anger is present.
More could be said, but this is a starting point for leaders considering an instant replay.
The โgrasshopper syndromeโ of the spies in Numbers 13-14 orchestrates our own defeat. The problem was not how the Israelites appeared in the eyes of the giants in Canaan. The problem was in how they saw themselves, grasshoppers in their own sight.
Leaders must not fall prey to this mindset. There must be a passion that is driven by and for greatness, a greatness that is only measured by the power of God to work in amazing and powerful ways.
It is a matter of faith. If we cannot see the possibilities, we will never take advantage of the opportunities.
We cannot fall into the trap of thinking we can sit back and wait for opportunities. If we do, chances are we will accomplish little, if anything.
Leaders have the greatest opportunity to influence the lives of others by example and instructional guidance by leading them to heaven. This is obviously a twofold application, as it includes leading the lost to Jesus and helping grow the faith of those who belong to Him.
2) We must also be ready to get involved, meaning there is a need to get our hands dirty.
3) We must rely completely on the power of God to open the doors and use us to His glory.
Seize the opportunities by seeing the incredible possibilities God provides.
The power behind this thought is a key to spiritual leadership. Realizing that God is our strength gives us confidence, but knowing that He is our reward gives us hope.
Spiritual leaders must always portray the kind of confidence found in God given strength. However, one of the most powerful components to great leadership is the ability to instill hope in others.
The world is filled with so many challenges, discouragements and disappointments. Among all the needs, or perceived needs, hope tops the list. | 2019-04-22T00:58:43Z | https://leadershipfund.wordpress.com/2016/06/ | Sports | Shopping | 0.199552 |
nytimes | Somwan Somboonsub, the daughter of Wanpen and Satit Somboonsub of Amphur Muang, Thailand, was married yesterday to Philipp Christopher Molzer. Suzanne Castleman, the Mayor of Little Silver, N.J., officiated at the home of the bridegroom's parents, Jeannette and Felix Molzer of Little Silver.
Ms. Somboonsub, who is 30 and is keeping her name, is known as Jaeng. She graduated from Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok, Thailand. Her father owns Satit Diesel, which operates a truck repair shop and several other small businesses in Amphur Muang.
Mr. Molzer, 31, is a geophysicist for the United States Geographical Survey at the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute. He was until last year the project manager in Dutsetil, Tibet, for the Surmang Foundation, which constructs medical clinics. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master's degree in geology from Colorado State University.
The bridegroom's father is the music director at the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity in Fair Haven, N.J., and the founder of the Monmouth Conservatory of Music in Red Bank, N.J., where he teaches voice and piano. The bridegroom's mother retired as the conservatory's administrative director.
The couple met while vacationing on Ko Chang Island in the Gulf of Thailand in 1996. | 2019-04-20T06:22:39Z | https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/02/style/weddings-jaeng-somboonsub-philipp-molzer.html | Sports | Arts | 0.758967 |
wikipedia | Songs About Jane โ แแแแ แแแฃแแ แแแ-แ แแ แฏแแฃแค Maroon 5-แแก แกแแแแแแฃแขแ แกแขแฃแแแฃแ แ แแแแแแ. แแแแแแแแ 2002 แฌแแแก 25 แแแแแกแก แแแแแแแแแ Octone แแ J Records. แแแแแแแแแ แแแแแแชแ แฎแฃแแ แฌแแ แแแขแแแฃแแ แกแแแแแ. 2003 แฌแแแก 14 แแฅแขแแแแแ แก แแ 2004 แฌแแแก แแแแแก แแแแแแแแ แแแกแ แแแแแฎแแแแฃแแ แแแ แกแแ.
แฉแแแแฌแแ แ แแแแแแ แ 200-แแก 10-แแฃแแจแ แแแฎแแแ แแ แแจแจ-แจแ 2004 แฌแแแก แแแแแกแแแแก 2.7 แแแแแแแ, แฎแแแ 2014 แฌแแแก แแแ แแแแกแแแแก - 5 แแแแแแแ แแกแแแก แแแแแแแแ แแฅแแ แแแงแแแฃแแ.
แงแแแแ แกแแแฆแแ แแก แแแขแแ แ โ แฏแแกแ แแแ แแแแแแ แแ แแแแ แแแแแแ, แแแ แแ แแแแแแแแฃแแแกแ.
* แกแแแฆแแ แแก She Will Be Loved แแแ แกแแ CD 1-แแ แแ แแก แ แแแแแก แแแฅแกแ, แ แแแแแแช แแแแแแงแแแแแ แแฃแกแแแแแฃแ แแแแแแจแ.
** แแแแแขแแแแแ แกแแแฆแแ แแแ Songs About Jane-แแก แแแแแ แขแแ แแแฃแ แแแแแชแแแแจแ, แฌแแ แแแแแฃแแ แแ แแแแ แชแแแแแฃแแ BMG New Zealand Limited-แแก แแแแ 2004 แฌแแแก.
*** 2012 แฌแแแก, แแแแแฎแ แแแแแแแก Overexposed แแแแแชแแแแก แแแ แแแแแฃแ แแ แฏแแฃแคแแ แแแแแฃแจแแ Songs About Jane-แแก 10 แฌแแแแแ แแฃแแแแแก แแฆแกแแแแจแแแแ แแแ แกแแ (แแแแแแ Universal Music).
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โ "2004-08-28 แกแแฃแแแแแกแ แแ แแขแแแฃแแ แแแแแแแแแก แแคแแชแแแแฃแ แ แแ แฅแแแ | แแคแแชแแแแฃแ แ แฉแแ แขแแแ". แแ แแขแแแแแแก แแแแแแแแแก แฉแแ แขแ. แแคแแชแแแแฃแ แ แฉแแ แขแแแแก แแแแแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ 2013-04-12.
โ "Maroon 5 แแแแแแแแแก แแ แกแแแฆแแ แแแแก แแกแขแแ แแ แฉแแ แขแแแจแ" แแแแแแ แแแก 200 - Maroon 5. Prometheus Global Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ 2013-04-12.
โ "แแแแแแแแแก แแ แกแแแฆแแ แแแแก แแกแขแแ แแ แฉแแ แขแแแจแ" แแแแแแ แแแก แชแแคแ แฃแแ แแแแแแแแ - Maroon 5. Prometheus Global Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ 2013-04-12.
โ "Maroon 5 แแแแแแแแแก แแ แกแแแฆแแ แแแแก แแกแขแแ แแ แฉแแ แขแแแจแ" แแแแแแ แแแก แแแขแแแแแแก แกแแฃแแแแแกแ แแแแแแแแ - Maroon 5. Prometheus Global Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ 2013-04-12.
โ "Maroon 5 แแแแแแแแแก แแ แกแแแฆแแ แแแแก แแกแขแแ แแ แฉแแ แขแแแจแ" แแแแแแ แแแก Top Heatseekers Albums - Maroon 5. Prometheus Global Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ 2013-04-12.
โ End of Year Album Chart Top 100 โ 2004. แแคแแชแแแแฃแ แ แฉแแ แขแแแแก แแแแแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแฅแขแแแแแ แ 16, 2015.
โ Billboard 200 Year-end Albums: 2004. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแฅแขแแแแแ แ 16, 2015.
โ 39.0 39.1 Discos de oro y platino Spanish. Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers. แแแแ แฅแแแแแฃแแแ แแ แแแแแแแแแแ - แแแแแกแ 6, 2011. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ ARIA-แก แฉแแ แขแแแ โ แแแ แแแแขแแชแแแแ โ 2005 Albums. แแแกแขแ แแแแแก แฎแแแกแฉแแแฌแแ แ แแแแฃแกแขแ แแแก แแกแแชแแแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Ultratop โ แแฅแ แ แแ แแแแขแแแ โ 2005. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Brazilian album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แแแ แขแฃแแแแแฃแ แแ. แแ แแแแแแแก แแฃแกแแแแแฃแ แ แแ แแแแฃแกแแ แแแแก แแกแแชแแแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Canadian album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane. Music Canada. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Danish album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane. IFPI แแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ 46.0 46.1 Finnish album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แคแแแฃแ แแ. Musiikkituottajat โ IFPI Finland. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ French album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แคแ แแแแฃแแแ. แแ แแแแฃแแ แฎแแแกแฉแแแฌแแ แ แกแแแแแแแขแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ แแฅแ แแก/แแแแขแแแแก แแแแแชแแแแ แแแแ (Maroon 5; 'Songs About Jane') แแแ แแแแฃแแแ. แคแแแแ แแแฃแ แ แแฃแกแแแแแฃแ แ แแแแฃแกแขแ แแแก แแกแแชแแแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Greek album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แแแ แซแแฃแแแ. IFPI แกแแแแ แซแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Musica: Songs About Jane dei Maroon 5 disco d'oro Italian. Adnkronos (แแแแแกแ 28, 2004). แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Japanese album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แแแแแแฃแ แแ. แแแแแแแแก แฎแแแกแฉแแแฌแแ แ แแแแฃแกแขแ แแแก แแกแแชแแแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: 31 แแแแแกแขแ 2012.
โ Goud & Platina โ Maroon 5 โ Songs about Jane Dutch. NVPI. แแแแ แฅแแแแแฃแแแ แแ แแแแแแแแแแ - แแแแแแแแ แ 29, 2008. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ New Zealand album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane. แแฎแแแ แแแแแแแแแก แฎแแแกแฉแแแฌแแ แ แแแแแแแแแแแก แแกแแชแแแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: 16 แแแแแกแขแ 2012.
โ Norwegian album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แแแ แแแแแฃแแแ. IFPI แแแ แแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Top Oficial AFP โ Semana 17 de 2005 Portuguese. Artistas-espectaculos.com. แแแแ แฅแแแแแฃแแแ แแ แแแแแแแแแแ - แแแแแแแ แ 20, 2010.
โ ะะปะฐะฒะฝะฐั / "ะะะะะขะ" ะ "ะะะะขะะะ" / International 2004 Russian. 2m-online.ru. แแแแ แฅแแแแแฃแแแ แแ แแแแแแแแแแ - แแแแแแ แ 24, 2009. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ Spanish album certifications โ Maroon 5 โ Songs About Jane แแกแแแแฃแ แแ (PDF). แแกแแแแแแแก แแฃแกแแแแแฃแ แ แแ แแแแฃแกแแ แแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ แแฅแ แแก แแ แแแแขแแแแก แกแแ แขแแคแแชแแ แแแ - 2004 แจแแแแฃแ แแ (PDF). IFPI แจแแแแแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ แแคแแชแแแแฃแ แ แจแแแแชแแ แแฃแแ แฉแแ แขแแแแก แแ แแฃแกแแแแก แกแแแแแแแแแแ: แฏแแแแแแแ (Maroon 5; 'Songs About Jane'). Hung Medien. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
โ แฏแแฃแแกแ, Alan. (แกแแฅแขแแแแแ แ 8, 2014) Official Charts Analysis: Sam Smith sales can't hide dismal week for albums. Music Week. Intent Media. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแกแ 20, 2015.
โ Keith Caulfield. (August 7, 2015) Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Maroon 5's 'V' Becomes Band's Fifth Million-Selling Album. Billboard. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: August 7, 2015.
โ IFPI - แแแ แแแแก แแแแขแแแแก แฏแแแแแแแ โ 2004. แคแแแแแ แแแแแแก แแแแฃแกแขแ แแแก แกแแแ แแแจแแ แแกแ แคแแแแ แแชแแ. แฌแแแแแฎแแแก แแแ แแฆแ: แแแแแกแขแ 16, 2012.
แแก แแแแ แแ แแแแแก แแแ แแแแฅแขแแ แแ: 22:06, 11 แแแแแกแ 2017. | 2019-04-20T06:23:14Z | https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_About_Jane | Sports | News | 0.115961 |
csmonitor | For miles around, the devastation from flooding that destroyed the homes and livelihoods of thousands of Peruvians earlier this year is still starkly visible. Dozens of villages remain submerged in water. Adobe buildings stand crumbling in shallow water and roads lead into the water or are washed away entirely. Meanwhile, the victims of the region's worst flood in this century wage a daily battle to survive and rebuild their communities. Most live in tents or corrugated metal modules built by Peruvian and international relief organizations.
Relief workers say the worst is yet to come as the below-freezing winter season is now reaching the desolate, windswept Alti Plano region which straddles Peru's border with Bolivia.
An estimated 350,000 people were left homeless in Peru when Lake Titicaca flooded its shores in January and February, extending the lake as much as 10 miles inland in some places. Geologists predict the water will stay at its new levels for at least five years.
Accustomed to an independent existence, the region's farmers and their families now find themselves unable to support themselves.
Conditions in the roadside settlement of Santiago Muchochambilla near the edge of the lake are typical. ``We don't know what will become of us,'' says Simon Camaticuna Cani.
Cows, pigs, sheep, llamas, and dogs live outside the temporary modules on ground made muddy by the daily flow of people and animals. Fed with llacho, an algae collected during day-long treks on totora-reed rafts on Lake Titicaca, the animals are increasingly being sold to provide the families with money to buy food.
Relief workers and refugees say food rations given out by the government are insufficient and distributed irregularly.
``We are trying to make miracles with what we have,'' says Fernando Babilonia, a government relief coordinator. Each family receives a few kilos of flour, oil, soya-soup concentrate, and sometimes canned fish, rice, and noodles.
``The biggest problem we have to fight right now is infant mortality,'' says Edmundo Valencia, director of the Peruvian Red Cross in the city of Puno.
The Red Cross operates eight emergency tents in refugee communities. Observers say there are not enough antibiotics on hand or doctors to administer them. More than $5 million has been donated for the relief effort in the form of medicine, food, clothing, and housing materials by countries including the United States.
But Jos'e Ahumada Vasquez, one of those in charge of a government commission established to find a long-term solution, says the difficulties for refugees are reaching a critical point now. Some 25,000 tons of food will be needed to maintain the flow of rations through December, he says. Foreign countries have pledged to contribute 7,500 tons of that.
On a windy and dusty plain in the barren hills above Puno, four communities of refugees live in tents that house up to three and four families each.
The 11-month-old government of President Alan Garc'ia P'erez has promised to implement a new land reform program in the Puno department, the Peruvian state directly affected by the flooding, with the aim of increasing agricultural production. It is not clear whether flood refugees will be given land.
While the need for land reform has taken on new urgency -- because of the thousands of landless and jobless flood victims -- the government will not actually decide on the reorganization until at least August, Mr. Ahumada says. | 2019-04-23T00:57:06Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0701/oflood-f.html | Sports | Health | 0.151477 |
wordpress | Is Clay Aiken right? Are the Idol judges putting you to sleep?
Clay Aiken got a lot of attention for his tweets this season about the Idol judges. Basically he was saying that their comments are boring and that Simon Cowellโs mean remarks made the show entertaining. Is he right? Well, yes and no. Yes, itโs true that the judges no longer have the bite of a Simon Cowell. Simon had the advantage of being unknown. He didnโt start out with any fans so he had none to lose. He made his name as the mean judge. Itโs what you expected of him and why you liked him. Subsequent judges had nothing to gain and lots to lose by making harsh comments. Ellen DeGeneres realized this immediately and got the heck out of there. The risk of hurting her image was too great. Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj turned on each other. That wasnโt great for their brands either, but it was better than attacking the contestants. Any judge with an existing career in the public eye (sorry Simon) canโt afford to be perceived as really mean. Even Harry seemed to have been asked to dial it back last season when there was buzzing that he was being too harsh. Itโs a problem for a show that liked to play it both ways: building up some contestants as the next big thing while tearing down other contestants and mocking them. Given that the show seems to only want successful performers to serve as the judges now, they no longer have anyone who can do their dirty work. So they simply broadcast the auditions they want as comic relief, allowing the judges to make mild comments like โhe has a good sense of humorโ. I guess now itโs up to the viewer to make any cutting comments.
in comparison, the format of The Voice is pretty harsh. Youโre up there singing and no one even turns around. The ultimate cold shoulder. Youโre the kid no one wants to pick to be on their team. Ouch. But since itโs just a matter of passive inaction (not turning your chair around) and not a result of aggressive criticism, the judges on The Voice are insulated from appearing mean.
So yes, the Idol judges have no real bite and Simon was entertaining, but no, I donโt think itโs fair to say theyโre putting everyone to sleep. Keith is amusing with his puns and singing of tv theme songs. Harry comes up with silly antics, sometimes teasing the contestants but in a gentle way. J Lo isnโt really there to be funny but weโre still interested in what sheโs going to say. Theyโre doing the best they can in a situation where no famous performer is going to take the risk of calling people out in the manner of Simon Cowell. Well, no one other than Clay Aiken anyway. Maybe those tweets were Clay Aikenโs way of advertising himself as a potential reality show judge whoโd be unafraid to say what he really thinks!
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American Idol Is Scott Borchetta Picking the Winner? | 2019-04-25T21:46:32Z | https://judgingidol.wordpress.com/tag/ellen-degeneres/ | Sports | Reference | 0.151192 |
indiatimes | The key members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) met in Kolkata yesterday and one of the main points emerging from there was the absurdity of the new two-tier Ranji schedule. Although none of the members, including president CK Khanna, was willing to discuss the nature of the deliberations, it was felt that the new Ranji structure borders on the ridiculous.
After two meetings โ one on the BCCI tournaments and another on Wada and Nada โ it has been revealed to this paper that the outrage among the BCCI old guard with regard to the domestic scheduling decided by the Committee of Administrators (CoA), was extreme.
โHaving included the North-East states in the Ranji Trophy, the CoA has exposed the domestic competition to afarce. This season, an average cricketer will break the first records of the greats like Don Bradman. Our first class cricket will be a topic of ridicule in the world stage,โ said a member of the old guard.
The key points of their objection was the two-tier structure of the Ranji Trophy with first timers Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim and Uttarakhand in the nineteam Plate Division.
The Elite Division will have existing 28 sides. This arrangement is in contrast to the decision of the Sourav Ganguly-led technical committee of the BCCI, which wanted only 28 teams in the Ranji Trophy.
โWithout consulting the members and the general body, they have gone ahead and formed a two-tier competition. Now the last placed team in the C division of the Elite League will get relegated to the Plate every year and top side of the Plate qualifies for the quarter-finals. In such a case, the new comers will be a cannon fodder for the established teams in the knock-outs where records could be broken and world records created easily. Think of Mumbai or Tamil Nadu versus Meghalaya or Mizoram in the quarter-finals, for instance.
โSecondly, the if a C division team of the Elite League finds itself with no chance of making the knock-outs, it may prefer to finish last in the group, so that it gets relegated and plays with the new-comers in the Plate division where it stands the best chance to qualify for the quarter-finals next year. These rules are making a mockery of our age-old domestic tournament,โ the member said.
Besides, the members have also found the difficulty of conducting over 2000 games with just 90 umpires. โYou canโt have more than 50 games a day. If we enroll the umpires in a hurry, there will be no quality,โ the member further emphaised.
However, the members have decided to hold their horses till the final verdict from the Supreme Court is pronounced. It is likely that the verdict will come on August 3 and the members hope for the best from there.
Meanwhile, there were discussions on the CoA decision to disallow the outstation players in the statesrun Twenty20 leagues. Now that the leagues like Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) have already started, it was decided not to press for the outstation players for this season.
The meeting was held at Sonar Bangla Hotel in Kolkata. When asked for a comment, CK Khanna said, โWeโve had meetings on various issues but no decision was taken. We have decided to meet again,โ the acting BCCI president said. Although he did not say this in as many words, it is likely that the next meeting will be held after the Supreme Court decision. | 2019-04-22T02:09:46Z | https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/sport/cricket/borders-on-ridiculous/articleshow/65096101.cms | Sports | Sports | 0.928942 |
wikipedia | Carl von Ossietzky (3 October 1889 โ 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and peacemaker. He was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize because he exposed the secret German re-armament. He was convicted of treason and spying afterwards.
โ Moore, Malcolm (10 December 2010). "Nobel Peace Prize: echoes of 1936 when Hitler barred von Ossietzky". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
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wordpress | All was well in the long run; Cambridge is not short of taxis, and we had our study unloaded and set up long before the first Fresher came through the doors of Kelsey Kerridge. Over the next two days a team of 15 librarians from across University and college libraries smiled at students, handed out flyers, and told everyone who would listen about the new Library Gateway. They cheerfully made time during the busiest week of the entire academic year, shouted themselves hoarse over the din, and scarcely got to sit on the โsofaโ (two stacking chairs cunningly decked out with the aforementioned cushions and throw) because they were so busy enticing prospective library users (โAccess the library from your bed!โ was one of my favourite lines).
Being at Freshersโ Fair was a first for Cambridge Libraries, not merely in that it was the first time libraries had had a presence there: it was also our first outing as a joined-up library service, under the banner of libraries@cambridge. Along with the Library Gateway and the promotional film The Perfect Desk, the Freshersโ Fair stall was the outcome of a grass-roots movement towards greater communication and collaboration amongst all the individual โ and autonomous โ libraries across the University. Our stall, the banner, and, er, the taxi fare were paid for by the University Library, but the idea, the planning and all the work was done freely and joyously by Cambridge librarians who contributed their time, creativity and expertise. And this time we didnโt even need the stimulus of caffeine.
By the next day we were down to 600 flyers, my colleague had recovered from his norovirus, and Sarah had created a Flickr stream of all the other stallholders whom sheโd inveigled into showing off our postcards! | 2019-04-18T15:24:24Z | https://librariangoddess.wordpress.com/tag/bootstrapping/ | Sports | Business | 0.283553 |
nd | The University of Notre Dameโs Center for Philosophy of Religion (CPR) has received a $1.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to promote research at the intersection of philosophy and theology.
The award is part of a four-year, $5.7 million initiative called Analytic Theology: The Convergence of Philosophy and Theology. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and the Shalem Center in Jerusalem are also involved in the research project.
โMy goal is to help change how philosophy of religion and systematic theology are doneโto help them become more interdisciplinary and to help theologians and analytic philosophers of religion find productive ways to engage and benefit from each otherโs work,โ says Michael Rea, a professor of philosophy and CPR director.
As part of the project, CPR will offer course development grants, residential research and dissertation fellowships, and summer research funding for faculty and graduate students. The center is also sponsoring an annual lecture series at the American Academy of Religion, organizing a series of workshops, and creating discussion groups that will bring philosophers and theologians together to hear speakers and converse about topics related to analytical theology.
The theme for the 2011 workshop is Divine Revelation: Meaning, Authority, and Canon. Topics will include canon formation and questions about the nature and mode of divine revelation, the nature of scriptural authority, textual meaning, and biblical interpretation.
The Templeton Foundation strives to be a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging lifeโs biggest questions, ranging from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness and creativity. | 2019-04-26T03:55:10Z | https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/center-for-philosophy-of-religion-receives-1-3-million-grant/ | Sports | Arts | 0.661917 |
flickr | "Mary Paley was a pioneer in the field of economics.โฏShe wasโฏthe first woman to pass finals in political economyโฏat Cambridgeโฏ(although barred from graduating due to her gender)โฏand in 1875โฏshe was invited to return to her former college, Newnham,โฏas the first woman economics lecturer at Cambridge.
"Mary arrived at Bristol in 1876 with her husband, the economist Alfred Marshall, after being forced to leave Cambridge because of regulations preventing college fellows from marrying. Marshall became the first Principal of University College Bristol and Professor of Political Economy, while Mary became one of the first female lecturers. Although Bristol was the first higher education to admitโฏwomen students on an equal basis to men,โฏMaryโsโฏsalary was paid out of that of her husband.
"While at Bristol, Mary co-wroteโฏTheโฏEconomics of Industryโฏwith Marshall afterโฏbeingโฏasked to turn her Cambridge lectures into a book.โฏ Her influence was evident from the bookโs discussion about gender pay inequality, putting forward the argument thatโฏmen and women may be equally productive but receive unequal pay becauseโฏof 'custom and general opinion'.
"Mary remained an active champion of womenโs education and of the increase of their employment, particularly in the domains of teaching and business management.โฏShe herself continued to lecture and was an inspiration to many generations of her students. Given that Mary wasnโt permitted to graduate from Cambridge, it was very fitting that Bristol presented her with an Honorary degree in 1926 for her lifelong work as a teacher of economics."
Portrait by Jessica Augarde Photography.
Photo of Mary Paley Marshall reproduced with the kind permission of the Marshall Librarian. | 2019-04-22T22:18:40Z | https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristoluniversity/45949483202/in/album-72157702391602721/ | Sports | Business | 0.472238 |
wordpress | So Spring is sprunging in my little London garden and it looks fantastic. The daffs and crocuses I planted a couple of years ago are, as ever, popping out all over the place, and the bulbs I bought last year from Portobello Market with mi madre have appeared, to my complete surprise as I forgot Iโd even planted them. Thatโs the fun of gardening โ some of your hard work doesnโt show until much later on and when you least expect it. Its also such a peaceful way to spend an afternoon.
So Titchmarsh style, what should one be doing in the garden now? God knows โ the planting of Spring bulbs should all have been done around September so all we need to do now is enjoy it really*. And we just need a little more sun and a few more degrees and its almost BBQ and Pimms time all over again.
*this is based on no knoweldge whatsover. We should probably be pruning and like weeding and stuff as well.
Canโt believe how red the leaves are โ ridiculously pretty. And can someone tell me why Iโve got mushrooms growing?! Only experience of field mushrooms is, ahem, picking season of the magic variety at Uni. Any info gratefully received.
As you may know, one of the HPL Rules is to plant something and nurture it โ which has been proved by happiness experts to increase happiness. Inspired by Penny Golightlyโs windowsill gardening, I decided to do some gardening this weekend. Iโm in my early thirties thank you very much, but I really enjoy gardening โ it takes your mind off absolutely everything else and is very rewarding โ whatever you put in you get back out. I know very little so what I do is based entirely on trial and error and tips from my mother.
I wouldnโt call these an unmitigated success, but I have managed to keep these two plants living (a peace lily and bamboo). Ideally I want the peace lily to flower, but it hasnโt done so for 2 years now. Anyway, I put in some plant food and water, talked nicely to them, and cut off any brown leaves. Grow my pretties!
Yes these are almost dead. The first was a gorgeous pinkie green fern which didnโt survive winter, and the second was a peace lily. Both I cut all the dead bits stuff off and added some Miracle Gro (โmiracleโ being what is needed) and have hoped for the best. By the end of the week if not growing, Iโll have to say goodbye.
Good news is that the daffodils and crocuses that I planted rather haphazardly 2 years ago are popping up yet again (plant bulbs in September and wait for spring, no other maintenance needed really) . Canโt wait til they all come out.
Also good news is that you pretty much cannot kill rosemary. It is the only herb apart from chives that I planted that survived winter (bye bye mint, basil and lemon thyme โ sorry my flat isnโt big enough to take you indoors over winter).
I then totally cut back my clematis which I failed to maintain much last year but which grows green and healthy over my side wall, and produces these these pretty little white flowers in summer.
I found this very therapeutic to do, and Iโm proud of the results. Iโm hoping it will grow back strong and healthy and Iโll then intertwine it more in the lattice.
Photos to come throughout the year on how it develops! | 2019-04-19T14:35:26Z | https://thehappinessprojectlondon.wordpress.com/tag/gardening/ | Sports | Health | 0.55075 |
telegraph | Comes out swinging: Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in Creed Credit: 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Creed is a surname: that of Rocky Balboaโs most famous opponent from Rockys I through IV, when Carl Weathersโs character Apollo was killed off, and now that of his son Adonis (Michael B. Jordan). Adonis Creed is a new challenger, a new hero โ a new Rocky, essentially โ with his fatherโs legacy fixed heavy on his shoulders.
Creedโs also a noun, of course, meaning a system of beliefs, a set of rules to abide by. This seventh film in the Rocky series sticks to the creed they all do: it knows how well the formula works, whatโs needed to reinvigorate it, and gets the whole apparatus pumping as well here as it has in a generation.
It helps to have a reliable trainer putting both Adonis and his movie through their paces โ none other than that old prize pony Sylvester Stallone himself. Itโs the first film in the series which Slyโs neither written nor directed. But his actor-for-hire status translates into a compelling lack of vanity on screen.
Itโs one of his best performances โ worlds away from the grimacing heroics of the Expendables franchise. Life for Rocky, a widower in declining health, has come full circle, and he finds himself essentially occupying the function of Burgess Meredith from the first three films: ringside vaseline application, with some salty wisdom and pathos thrown in.
Credit: 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
The opening stretches of the film bide their time, and then some. You could be forgiven for wanting to hustle it into the ring and stop gabbing so much. Thereโs a Los Angeles prologue with young Adonis (Alex Henderson), scenes with his stepmother (Phylicia Rashad), and then grown Adonis โ Donnie to his friends โ ups sticks to Philadelphia, once he's decided to bin an office job and get serious about prize-fighting.
Rocky, his fatherโs old nemesis, takes some talking round before agreeing to help Donnie train. New neighbour Bianca (Tessa Thompson), a fiery R&B artist pumping out sounds downstairs, also needs significant persuasion before agreeing to date him. This adds up to a lot of talking, around or otherwise, and almost a full hour of glum preamble. It makes you nervous.
Writer-director Ryan Coogler made a belter โ if a necessary downer โ of a debut with 2013โs Fruitvale Station, about the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Californian transport police. By porting his leading man over directly, he gives this filmโs far superior second half a cathartic oomph, or redemptive life drive.
Things wake up from the first training montage, thanks to Cooglerโs punchy editing and hip-hop showmanship: itโs one of three such sequences, all flatly impossible to resist. Though the script is structured around just two set-piece fights, they burst into your consciousness with such vigour, colour and clout those first-half nerves are dispelled, and in the nick of time.
The first match, between Donnie and a strutting blowhard called Stuntman (super-middleweight champ Andre Ward) is the filmโs galvanising knockout. The opening round is all done in one take, circling around the also-circling fighters. This currently-in-vogue trick, seized upon most famously by Birdman, will soon start feeling too gimmicky by half, but it has very specific value and impact in the context of sport: you feel the winding effect of every lunge and swing on the stamina of the players.
A palpable endurance test, itโs as close to real as staged boxing in cinema can get, and certainly a massive upgrade on the negligible Southpaw.
The climax, a much-hyped showdown with โPrettyโ Ricky Conlan โ great, unforced work from Liverpudlian pugilist Tony Bellew โ is a more protracted, round-by-round affair, owing a lot (including the way the decision falls) to Rocky endings past. Coogler serves it up with muscle and commitment: you suspect he spent as long cutting this one sequence together as the entire first hour.
Jordan really comes into his own, too, supplying a grit and intuition in the ring that pulls us into Donnie as a character better โ despite Thompsonโs helpfully snappy support โ than anything heโs doing outside it. For the real emotional pay-off, though, thereโs a gem of a coda, involving Phillyโs famous Rocky steps, and a guy climbing them whose legs arenโt as nimble as they used to be.
Like the 69-year-old Stallone hoisting his frame gingerly into play, Creed takes a while to move. But by the end, itโs genuinely moving.
Did Sylvester Stallone forget crying on Jack Whitehall's shoulder at the Oscars? | 2019-04-22T14:39:32Z | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/creed/review/ | Sports | Arts | 0.099119 |
fresnobee | โข The actions by Raider quarterback and Fresno State proto-legend Derek Carr during the anthem last night in Washington, D.C. were quintessentially Carr.
โข Back in 2010, when the Obama administration began to pony up the first billions for Californiaโs high-speed rail project, it was expected the Valley segments would be done by the end of September 2017. Welp.
โข Is city design of an intersection next to Fresno State to blame for a collision in which a motorcyclist lost his leg? Thatโs for a jury to decide.
โข A bill introduced by two Fresno legislators would require California to document suicides by military veterans.
โข A dinosaur with Fresno County (area) roots is officially Californiaโs representative from the Cretaceous era. Meet Augustynolophus (thatโs โAW-gus-TEEN-oh-low-fussโ).
โข A water line burst Sunday at Fresno Stateโs Bulldog Stadium, sending a river of mud through the south endzone.
โข Hereโs an up-close look at what people in the know describe as a โgoodโ forest fire โ one that is as much about renewal as it is destruction.
โข Fresno native and NBA star Quincy Pondexter recently revealed the upshot of an infection discovered after knee surgeries. โI was close to dying,โ he said.
โข So she was inside a restaurant when she was bitten several times by a copperhead snake? Not. Reassuring. | 2019-04-26T14:22:10Z | https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/morning-scoop/article175223026.html | Sports | Sports | 0.682465 |
baseballthinkfactory | Man, I was so ready to make "operation shutdown" jokes, then I re-read the name.
David Bell was kind of the poster boy of the early aught Phillies. He had one decent year (4.4 WAR) sandwiched between three awful years but the Phils kept trotting him out there. It didn't help that he was filling the shoes of Scott Rolen and most fans had a bad taste after that awful trade. But still, I liked the guy, he was obviously a deep thinker and his interviews were always insightful. Glad to see he landed somewhere meaningful. Guys like him are hard not to root for.
For a while there it looked like Bell would be the Reds' next manager. He managed their AA and AAA teams for four years. Plus, he was from the area, which always seems to count more with the Reds than it should. But he left for a coaching position with the Cubs after the 2012 season, when the Reds won the division and I believe extended Dusty.
David Bell was kind of the poster boy of the early aught Phillies. He had one decent year (4.4 WAR) sandwiched between three awful years but the Phils kept trotting him out there. It didn't help that he was filling the shoes of Scott Rolen and most fans had a bad taste after that awful trade.
They signed him the same off-season as Jim Thome, right? So he was the other part of the story that the Phillies were adding veterans and trying to win again.
No fans liked him that much, but after he left we had the three-headed monster of Dobbs, Helms and Abraham Nuรฑez stinking up the 3B spot. No wonder replacing those guys with Pedro Feliz instantly brought a World Series victory.
It must have been hard for the Pirates of that era not to offer him a seven-year contract at some point. He WAS an underwhelming second baseman.
David Bell and his family were staying at the same Costa Rica resort as my wife and I did on our honeymoon. We took the same coffee tasting class. I wasn't sure if it was actually David Bell until he said that the coffee tasted like chewing tobacco. Figured that was the tipoff for a former player. | 2019-04-22T09:00:46Z | http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/how_ex_player_david_bell_plans_to_modernize_the_giants_farm_system | Sports | Sports | 0.859778 |
eurosport | Optibet Virsliga โ Follow the Football match between BFC Daugavpils and FK RFS live with Eurosport. The match starts at 17:00 on 15 April 2019. Our live coverage lets you follow all the key moments as they happen. | 2019-04-21T17:05:16Z | https://www.eurosport.com/football/optibet-virsliga/2019/live-bfc-daugavpils-fk-rfs_mtc1100170/live.shtml | Sports | Sports | 0.681782 |
uiowa | > > different barrel for each hymn.
than their use in dance halls, on the street, etc.
the now archaic hymn tunes used by the Children of Peace in their heyday.
references? Is it Temperley who makes this claim? | 2019-04-19T06:45:54Z | https://list.uiowa.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9410C&L=PIPORG-L&F=&S=&P=17390 | Sports | Reference | 0.547624 |
post-gazette | Q: I have an Onkyo surround sound system. I would like to have all my speakers playing when I am not playing DVDs. How do I accomplish this?
A: For playing music from CDs, cassette tapes and radio stations, check the surround modes on your receiver. If you have one that says hall, club or simulated surround, it will play all of the speakers. In these modes, the speakers in the rear will play modified information from the front speakers to provide an artificially created surround sound. Remember that almost all music is designed to play in two-speaker stereo, not surround sound. The "simulated surround" will not represent the program material as the artists and producers originally intended. Some people like the artificial effect; most audiophiles and purists abhor it. You will have to try it yourself and decide if it is for you.
If you are watching television channels or VHS tapes, Dolby Pro-Logic or Dolby Pro-Logic II is the proper setting for surround sound. When your surround system is set to a Pro-Logic mode, the rear speakers will play only if the program is recorded in surround sound. If the rear speakers are silent when watching your television, you will have to change to a simulated surround mode if you want the rear speakers to play.
Be sure to check my Web site under recommended products for more information on surround sound.
Recently, I received a letter from Comcast raising my high-speed Internet access rates $15 per month, a whopping 35 percent increase. The letter offered to keep my Internet access rates the same if I subscribed to any cable television package.
Those who read my column or correspond with me know I much prefer satellite to cable for subscription television. I have used Dish Network for almost seven years and have been 100 percent satisfied, and would be very reluctant to change. Moreover, according to market research firm J.D. Power, Comcast ranks at or near the bottom in performance, reliability, costs and several other service categories in comparison with the two major satellite providers, Dish and DirecTV.
Visit Don's Web site, www.multi mediaanswers.com, to submit your questions, view past columns, and learn more about audio, video and digital photography. | 2019-04-24T11:08:58Z | http://old.post-gazette.com/interact/20030313lindich0313p1.asp | Sports | Business | 0.314343 |
wordpress | Oh Julie, I never really knew what that term meant and your explanation was enlightening! Thanks for sharing your wisdom my friend, miss you.
So glad it was helpful to you Michelle, miss you too! | 2019-04-22T09:25:06Z | https://backfromtheborderlands.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/paying-attention-to-emotions/ | Sports | Reference | 0.414016 |
wordpress | A quiet Sunday again: weโve been off grocery shopping with a neighbour, and are now recovering next to the fan, drinking cold water. After a big thunderstorm last night, Accra is back to 32C and it is a sticky day. The harmattan is due soon, the dry northeasterly trade wind which blows from the Sahara Desert, bringing dust and hazy days. Itโs already noticeable in the north, we hear, not so much here yet though humidity is dropping. I am soaking klippfisk for dinner, dried and salted cod from Norway, to try making bacalao later. And our banana glut continues, so this time it was sesame banana pancakes.
Add dry ingredients to a bowl: flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and oatmeal. Add the eggs and milk, and whisk it all together. Add the mashed bananas. Leave it to rest 15 minutes or so, then dollop a generous spoonful onto a hot oiled frying pan and fry until golden each side. Makes 10-12 depending on size.
We had these for breakfast with tinned pineapple jam from South Africa, listening to a reggae version of Celine Dionโs โThatโs the way it isโ on the radio. Reggae is popular here, so is Celine Dion. The French cultural centre Alliance Franรงaise in Accra hosted a Celine Dion evening here in October, Ghana celebrates Celine Dion, with Dutch and local singers performing. Quite an experience, and it was nice to hear live music โ we do enjoy that here. We were at Alliance Franรงaise for pizza last week, and it was hip hop night โ hmmmm, we enjoyed the pizza and then escaped. I must be getting old.
With two weeks to go until Christmas departure, a neighbour and I did the rounds yesterday: over to Osu for coffee, and gift shopping at Global Mamas. Fair trade (also online), and lovely jewellery, batik clothes and bags.
They also have some items from Trashy Bags, a social enterprise based in Accra that makes recycled eco-friendly bags and gifts from plastic trash. Like here, a toiletries bag from recycled drinking water sachets. They also have an online store.
Then we popped by the Chinese supermarket for fresh tofu, before we finished up at the French Christmas market. Now I just need to sort out who gets what, and supplement this with a book order. Not very commercial or holiday-ish here, which is fine. For some seasonal ambience Iโve tried to watch the start of this yearโs Norwegian TV advent calendar Snรธfall (yes, for kids) online, which actually works from Ghana! But our Internet is too slow to watch it, despite our buying more bandwidth on Airtel scratch cards today. Our other Internet provider is down. Oh well. I really cannot complain, we are comfortable enough here and Iโll be able to Skype with friends during the holidays. It is soon time to pull out shoes, socks and the few winter clothes we have here, as weโll be celebrating Christmas in Norway this year. Brrrr!
Reading the news, I have learned a new term this week: voting skirt and blouse. โSkirt and Blouse is a term in Ghanaian politics where party supporters vote for the flagbearer of the party but not the parliamentary candidate of the same party or vice versa.โ The elections here are on Wednesday, when Ghana goes to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections on 7 December for its seventh multi-party ballot since the end of military rule in 1992. Best wishes for that.
This entry was posted in food, fruit, Ghana and tagged banana, living in Accra, pancakes on December 4, 2016 by krumkaker. | 2019-04-19T02:17:39Z | https://krumkaker.wordpress.com/2016/12/ | Sports | Shopping | 0.982163 |
webnode | would never have been acheived .
I would like to thank my wife Alana and Jake and Mitchell for their support over the years .
Paul Smith ,Craig Ford and Doug Ware their help has been invaluable .
so they will never be forgotten . | 2019-04-24T18:09:40Z | https://bainesmotorsport.webnode.com/driver-profile-wayne-/ | Sports | Reference | 0.187616 |
cbssports | (4/12/19) Moore skated just 6:24 in Game 1's 4-1 win over the Bruins on Thursday.
Moore made the most of the ice time -- he laid four hits and played gritty hockey along the wall. He's an energy guy, not a fantasy factor.
(3/5/19) Moore registered two assists in Monday's 6-2 win over the Flames.
Since his recall on Feb. 25, Moore has four assists in five games despite being limited to fourth-line minutes. He has seven points in 12 games this season, but he only averaged 8:56 per game entering Monday's contest. The scoring pace he's on can't be considered sustainable for the rest of the season.
(2/25/19) Moore was recalled from the AHL's Marlies on Monday, Elliott Friedman of CBC reports.
Moore got his first action with the Leafs earlier this season, notching a goal and two assists in seven games. The fact the 23-year-old got called up on trade deadline day does certainly raise eyebrows, as it could mean more moves on the way for Toronto. For fantasy owners curious about Moore, though, he's likely to only get fourth-line minutes, if he plays at all.
(1/24/19) Moore was reassigned to AHL Toronto on Thursday, TSN reports.
The Maple Leafs will hope to get Andreas Johnsson (concussion) back in the fold after the All-Star break, so it's safe for Moore to head back to the minor league in the meantime. The rookie has produced a goal and two helpers over his first seven games at the top level.
(1/23/19) Moore, as expected, was promoted from AHL Toronto on Wednesday.
Moore is expected to slot into the Leafs' fourth line against Washington on Wednesday with Andreas Johnsson (concussion) sidelined. With the 23-year-old Moore brought up under emergency conditions, fantasy owners should anticipate him being sent back down during the All-Star break. | 2019-04-26T11:45:45Z | https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/players/playerpage/2269463/trevor-moore | Sports | Sports | 0.739541 |
webz | The likes of Lionel Messi, Roger Federer, Sachin Tendulkar and many others are blessed with exceptional talents. But, they would not have been able to achieve half of what they have, had they not been good team players or possessed the intelligence to succeed. Almost all human beings are gifted with some talent but very few peopleโs talent prove to be sufficient for them to succeed.
Given the world as it is, an inter-dependent web of countries, the emphasis seems to be on teamwork. While talent might go unnoticed and not yield success, the ability of a person to adjust to the dynamism of a team will hold him/ her in good stead since organisations today depend more on the collective power of groups to tackle complex problems rather than one talented person. This is because a group enables the coming together of a diverse talent pool which can be tapped to improve the results. Individual talent can create moments of brilliance but the collective strength of a team can consistently perform the things that matter and overcome individual limitations.
Talent is undeniably an important factor in success. Without any talent, an individual might start at a disadvantage. However, for talent to translate into results, a suitable environment along with intelligence is necessary. A talented individual has his/her own limitations which might not let him reach his/her own full potential but a team, by pooling in multiple intelligences and resources, can overcome individual constraints easily. Also, talent amounts to nothing if the person does not use it judiciously. This is where an intelligent, talented person scores over a person with talent but no intelligence.
The conflict between individual pursuits and team goals is difficult to settle. The team is always bigger than the individual. If the talented individual is unwilling to sacrifice for the good of the team, not just the team but the individual himself/herself suffers. In sports, in particular, a talented sportsman might win a few games but to win championships, the entire team needs to contribute. A united team working in one direction will become an indomitable force stronger than an individual.
Thus, talent is nothing without the right opportunities, right environment, right team and intelligence, all of which together convert talent into achievement.
Vision, by the way, is something I happen to have dealt with in my lifetime. My identical twin sister, Aly, and I were born two-and-a-half months prematurely. Barely tipping the scales at two pounds each, we were placed into incubators, where an over-exposure to oxygen left me visually impaired. (Aly was in a different incubator, so her vision has been unaffected.) Considered legally blind, I have no vision with my right eye, and very limited vision (20/600) with my left eye. I have no perception of depth, and rapidly decreasing vision beyond a few feet. In fact, as I write this, my face is about one inch from the text.
Growing up, Aly and I shared a special bond. Because her vision is normal, she took on the role of one who kept a watchful eye on me as she inspired my independence. She strengthened my will to overcome my disability, too, as we shared common competitive interests. Our relationship was strengthened even more, when at the age of 12, we embarked upon what was to become one of the most rewarding endeavours of our lives to date. . . cheerleading.
It may sound quite improbable that I would have become a cheerleader, especially since I cannot even see the athletes I cheer for, but I never approached it that way. I simply saw cheerleading as an opportunity to see my dreams become reality.
Dreams, as I learned rather quickly, do not just happen by themselves. So, I stayed late at practice quite often where I learned the true meaning of commitment. Strength training taught me self-discipline. My first back flip taught me perseverance. My first stunt taught me balance, in the most literal sense of the word, and my first injury taught me to deal with physical and emotional pain, but it also taught me how to heal.
My fellow cheerleaders taught me the meaning of human compassion beyond the typical definition.
I began to see that these were lessons of life that would stay with me far beyond my days as a cheerleader. It taught me that overcoming a disability is a lot like overcoming any obstacle in life: It is not about how many times you have a bad day and fall down; it is about how many times you make the choice to get up and move on. And so it went-- I was moving through a career in cheerleading that gave much more to me than I could ever return.
As Aly and I cheered through high school, we were flattered to receive some public recognition for our accomplishments in cheerleading. We were named All-American cheerleaders during our last year of high school, and cheered for over 80 million people in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. By the time we were 18, cheerleading had become an integral part of who I was, and who Aly was. It was hard to imagine our lives without it.
Fortunately, we didn't have to do that yet. Upon graduating from high school, Aly and I taught cheerleaders of all ages at summer camps held by the National Cheerleaders Association, which is the original organisation under which American cheerleading has grown. We also intend to continue our cheerleading at Harvard while attending undergrad, and, perhaps, while we attend Harvard Law .
We would consider it a privilege to cheer at Harvard. I truly believe, without a doubt, that we could transform the Harvard cheerleading squad into one of the most prestigious cheerleading squads in the world. We love the sport of cheerleading and are committed to its excellence. | 2019-04-23T00:57:49Z | http://egjgbd.webz.cz/68-winning-a-championship-essay-examples.php | Sports | Sports | 0.615145 |
mlb | a-Struck out for Stairs in the 6th.
a-Walked for Coats in the 8th.
1-Ran for Campbell in the 5th. 2-Ran for Ruiz in the 6th. 3-Ran for McDonald in the 6th.
2B: Orr (1, Maroth), Martin (1, Castro, F), Carlin (1, Murphy), Koskie (1, Bauer).
TB: Barnwell; Martin 2; Carlin 2; Morneau 2; Koskie 2; Orr 2; Bowman.
RBI: Orr 2 (2), Morneau (1), Carlin 2 (2), Bowman (1).
2-out RBI: Orr 2; Carlin 2.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Morneau; Barnwell; Stairs 2; Votto.
2B: Adams (1, Richmond), Ruiz (1, Begg, C), Loewen (1, Begg, C).
HR: Mathews (1, 8th inning off Green, S, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Inglett; Adams 2; Campbell 2; Lane; Lydon 3; Ruiz 2; Loewen 2; Mathews 4; McDonald; Sanchez.
RBI: Campbell (1), Lane (1), Loewen (1), Mathews (1).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Barrett 3; Inglett; Patterson; Jeroloman.
WP: Richmond, Begg, C, Green, S, Castro, F.
Groundouts-flyouts: Richmond 4-2, Begg, C 2-1, Aumont 1-1, Crain 0-1, Green, S 2-1, Davidson 2-0, Maroth 2-1, Castro, F 3-2, Beam 2-0, Murphy 2-1, Bauer 1-1, Ray 2-0.
Batters faced: Richmond 13, Begg, C 10, Aumont 5, Crain 4, Green, S 5, Davidson 3, Maroth 10, Castro, F 10, Beam 4, Murphy 9, Bauer 4, Ray 4.
Inherited runners-scored: Begg, C 2-0.
Umpires: HP: D.J. Reyburn. 1B: Kevin Causey. 2B: Arthur Thigpen. 3B: . | 2019-04-26T14:45:12Z | http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_03_03_canint_tormlb_1 | Sports | Sports | 0.804217 |
bangor | Cardio just got more interesting! Sports & Leisure have recently invested in 8 new treadmills which have now been installed. 16 new spinning bikes from Star Trac are also part of the new investment and will make future "spin" classes a smoother ride! For those of you more interested in toning that body there's a new barbell rack and barbells for the weights room.
If your thing is an exercise class, you'll be pleased to know that we have invested in more equipment for boxercise classes which include a "BOB", (body opponent bag), and some strike shields. There is also some new aerobic equipment in use, including bodybars which will add variety to classes.
If you're more of an outdoors person, then you'll be pleased to know that the synthetic pitch has also been resurfaced and will be ready for action by the end of August.
Don't forget lunchtime sessions, with basketball on Tuesdays 12.10 - 12.50 and netball on Fridays 12.10 - 12.50.
All the more reason to get motivated! | 2019-04-21T10:36:27Z | https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/university/investing-in-fitness-2108 | Sports | Sports | 0.424352 |
sheknows | Karen makes a decision, Maya records a conversation, and Katie and Justin face off.
At the outdoor cafe, Brooke works on Karen to try to get her to let Bill return as CEO and run Spencer Publications. Karen remarks on Brooke being willing to fight for Bill despite what it would do to her sister. Brooke soothes that Karen had the right intentions with Katie, but it's simply not fair to Bill. Karen thinks personal issues shouldn't affect business. Bill questions why he's not in his office then. He wants Karen's support like he gave her his. Karen says Brooke is good for Bill, and she appreciates Bill's support, but she's going to stay with Katie. After, Brooke flashes to the papers Katie signed before. She pulls them from her purse while Bill is paying.
At Spencer Publications Justin complains to Katie about not being allowed into her inner circle. She points out he's loyal to Bill. Justin says being ousted from the company is killing Bill. "Have a heart. I know yours is borrowed, but you can still use it." Katie is outraged at his words. Justin wishes they could all get over this animosity. Katie agrees, but says she'd have to be insane to give him more responsibility. She informs him she will never trust him again after he drew up those papers for Bill. She's just thankful Brooke destroyed them.
In the Forrester studio, Carter kisses Maya, but she's distracted. She admits she can't stop worrying about Oliver and Ally. He tells her not to fret too much. Oliver appears. He wonders if Maya dislikes his latest shoot. She gasps, "What? No." Carter leaves. Oliver is in knots about the need to impress Ridge. He says anything can happen if your name isn't Forrester or Logan. Maya records him saying he thinks she's set for life because she's engaged to Marcus' brother and he wishes he could say the same. Maya accuses him of using Ally because of her family connections. Oliver shrugs. He needs to hold onto this job and if that means dating the Forrester redhead for a while, that's fine. They discuss the business. Oliver says he'll put up with Ally to be part of it. Maya confirms he's just using Ally and warns it could end badly. Oliver isn't concerned. Maya has recorded the whole conversation. Later, Carter returns and Maya tells him to close the door. She plays him the recording.
In Ally's room, she sighs, hugs her diary, and flashes to Oliver kissing her. The floating head of Darla appears and together they enthuse over Oliver. "He really likes you." Darla assures Ally she'll be there every step of the way, but she doesn't think she'll need her help. Later, Ally is by the pool when Oliver arrives. She's mortified to be caught in her swimsuit, but he tells her she's beautiful. He takes off his shirt and kisses her.
Quinn continues her meddling on Wyatt's behalf.
Romance begins between Oliver and Ally in the Forrester pool. | 2019-04-24T14:37:34Z | https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-bold-and-the-beautiful/recaps/20217/bb-recap-have-a-heart/ | Sports | Business | 0.414349 |
weebly | Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. Here is a brief biography. | 2019-04-23T12:48:36Z | http://nmtcs.weebly.com/board-of-trustees.html | Sports | Reference | 0.33367 |
hydeunited | Darren has added Astley Mulholland to the squad ahead to tomorrows game against Scarborough.
Astley is currently contracted to Barrow but has joined the Tigers on a one months loan deal.
Equally comfortable playing as a forward or a winger, this gives excellent cover for those positions.
Astley has had spells at neighbours Ashton United and Glossop NE as well as at FC United, Altrincham, Chorley and Colwyn Bay.
We welcome Astley to Ewen Fields. | 2019-04-18T14:50:15Z | https://hydeunited.co.uk/news/squad-strengthened-further/ | Sports | Sports | 0.579049 |
wordpress | I had a meeting with my boss today, and she asked me what my career goals were, as reviews are coming up.
Well, I took the job to become a home owner because my acting degree didnโt come with a sugar daddy and I hear hookingโs illegal here in Canada soโฆ yeah, career goals.
Honestly though, Iโm a go-getter. I excel at things. Iโm one of those annoying people who can do just about anything, and do it pretty well, too. Even more irritating (to me) is that I can see myself doing just about anything. It makes choosing stressful (I know luxury problem, but still).
So in a company with fairly limitless options, and me with almost limitless potential, what the heck do I want to do?
And do I really want to do anything?
Because if I stop thinking of this job as a job, as a means to an end, as that place where they keep my paycheque, as that thing I must endure (almost) painlessly to be able to achieve my dream of homeownership, and uh, foodโฆ Then I am committing to a community and claiming it for my own.
Then those people I work with become those colleagues with whom I create products.
Those โwork friendsโ might actually become work friends, and I might know these people for years โ have barbecues with them, invite them to housewarmings, and baby showers, and โ oh my god, Iโve married my work.
I really donโt think Iโm a huge commitment-phobe, but my paid ambitions lie buried with my acting career. I want the house and the family โ not the boardroom and the politics โ right? I said, right?
Alright, I know I can have both. OK? Especially since Iโm not engaged, not likely to get pregnant anytime soon, and have masses of brains wasting away in data entry โ well, not so much wasting, as attempting to find ways to improve the systems and think my way out of a jobโฆ Details.
And having the higher paying job that committing to career-like ambition offers would make home-owning and family-having easier in the long run.
And I could still think of it as a job, right, just that thing I go and do for a third of each weekday? And I donโt have to make bffs 4ever with everyone there, I can simply be polite and encouraging and helpful and me โ and leave them all at 5:00, right?
Or I could grow a little. Grow up a little, and embrace the adult-y-ness of the whole situation, and realize that I am not a student, not a starving artist, not actively living those lifestyles anymore, but that doesnโt mean I canโt be part of those communities, while taking on new ones.
Or does it? Do I have to be a starving artist forever in order to relate to other starving artists who are both actively starving and actively artistic? If I keep the money, but fingerpaint on weekends, does that count? What if I keep the money, but fingerpaint, and generate an eating disorder? OK, whatever, I really like food, so thatโs not gonna happen.
But, honestly, as your identity grows and changes, sometimes passions and communities leave you โ does that mean you have to leave them?
When do you have to no longer self-identify as something? Is there a time when you ever must?
I am an actor. It is not what I do, it is what I am.
What do you think? Can you help? What advice would you give, or have you gotten in this type of circumstance? Let me know!
Tomorrow Night (yes, capitals) I am going out with not only one girl friend, but two!
I know, everyone is very proud.
Iโm having supper with one, and then meeting the other at a bar where more of our friends are playing (they have a band).
I mean, itโll be fine, totally. Except that the last time I saw the one friend, I ended up crying about the state of Dashing and I in the middle of a restaurant, and the last time I saw the other, I offended her by being, well, me, and not thinking about the words I use while speaking (another plus of blogging!).
Mostly Iโm nervous because when I get around people, I get excited. And when I get excited, I tend to get a little, um, EXCITED. I chit-chat-chitter away, speaking without filter, and then I end up spilling all my secrets (I can keep other peopleโs secrets, just not my own), which leads to crying. I cry. Iโm a cry-er.
I didnโt cry for something like ten years, and now, I cry. Most often when angry or frustrated.
But anyway, Iโm nervous about getting EXCITED and crying. Again. And talking too quickly and offending people. AGAIN.
But these are my friends, right? These are my people, the community Iโm trying to preserve, right? We are there to support each other, and they know me. They usually find my quirks endearing, refreshing, evenโฆ right?
Thereโs a lot at stake, and I have to trust that it will get easier. The first step is always the hardest โ itโs why I talk myself out of it so often.
Deep breath. Wish me luck!
How do you get over the hurdle to take a first step? Is it easy to trust your friends? To trust yourself? What do you think?
OK, Iโve talked about how little I know about this here, and here.
But here comes the social experiment part. Iโm going to list five methods Iโm going to try to reconnect with my existing community, and Iโll let you know how they go.
Iโve talked about how exhausting it is to come home after staring at a computer screen for eight hours and feel like you have to look at another one just to contact, oh, anyoneโฆ but since Iโve actually managed to blog fairly regularly lately (yay, me!), I think I can manage a couple of hours per week of skulking into my friends personal lives to figure out what theyโre up to. So my goal is to go onto Facebook at least once a week, and to not only creep their lives but to change a picture, update a status, poke someone to let them know that I am alive and reaching out.
Iโve talked about how I hate the phone, and I do. Itโs very useful as a tool, but for contact, well, itโs a cold, plastic box.
So, my goal is to move beyond my hatred, and when people call me to engage them in interesting conversation, instead of my usual โOK, got the info, gotta goโ routine.
This is actually really huge because it will force me to think about my day and come up with interesting things to say, instead of feeling like nobodyโs interested because if they were, theyโd already know what my day was. Which, bullsh*t. Really.
My hope is that eventually these will become more routine so that they take less organizing and so that others maybe think to invite me out once in awhile.
To start, at least once every two weeks I will go out, for supper or drinks, or to watch the band, with at least one of my friends, and in this instance, Dashing does not count (because I would go to the moon every day for that man, itโs embarrassing, really).
Nothing says reconnection like the annual catch-up of holiday cards. Iโve never done them on a large scale. This year, I will, to all and sundry. Iโm talking researching mailing addresses, old-school letters enclosed, stamps and envelopes Holiday Cards. I should probably start in the next couple of weeks.
For a lasting change, I canโt just do a complete 180 and hope it sticks, like Iโve done before. So if I need a night or two (or five) to myself, that is OK. If I miss calling someone back, that is OK. If three weeks go by and I havenโt gone out at all, that is OK, but I should start thinking about it soon at that point.
This part is the trickiest, because while it is important to take time to oneself, for a hermit like me, it can be oh so tempting to live there. But friendship is a two-way street and I have to have faith that once my friends know I want more time with them, that theyโll be happy to oblige. I have to give them the chance, and trust that theyโll come through for me.
Those are my five, for now. By no means is this a comprehensive list, but I think itโs a pretty good starter list.
What do you think? What would you add/take away? If I manage to achieve these goals, what should be on my next list? | 2019-04-26T10:47:53Z | https://misshappnstance.wordpress.com/tag/goal/ | Sports | Business | 0.560888 |
wordpress | Good morning, my name is Jasmine Magallon. I am a student at Cleveland High School, Iโm a part of the Academy of Art and Technology. Like many of the students here today, AOAT and I were granted an amazing opportunity to be able to flourish artistically. The best thing about this experience was not only that we were working alongside a famous artist known all over the world and that our work is actually installed in a museum, but we helped create a work of art that helped show our struggles as people of this society. This project opened our eyes, and worked our minds to help create an image that depicts our society today. This art is a mixture of opinions, styles, and voices. Although it may not look uniform, but each letter connects to the main idea of the piece. That was one of the difficulties of this project because we had no idea how the other students were going to make their own letters and how everything was going to sync together, but to be frank I think that was the beauty of it, because our thoughts and voices were the only thing that mattered. It was important for us to create a letter that showed what we really thought about each phrase given to us. Now as you see this artwork think about what are your hopes, your fears, your values and what is your justice, then voice your opinions. Thank you.
10th Anniversary BBQ โ Fun for All, and All for Fun!
We are Family โ and over 100 of us celebrated our 10th year with food, fun, and silly games! Thanks to teachers who worked so hard to put it on! Thanks to students, families, and our amazing alumni who came together at Lake Balboa for a great afternoon โ letโs do this again next year!! | 2019-04-22T06:35:42Z | https://theaoat.wordpress.com/2015/05/ | Sports | Arts | 0.309025 |
pnefc | Preston North End were controversially denied a deserved point by a bizarre penalty decision in the final minute of stoppage time.
Jordan Hugill, who looked to have been the PNE hero with a headed equaliser 11 minutes from time, was penalised by referee Lee Probert for supposedly pushing Elias Kachunga in the box long after the ball had been cleared up field.
And whilst Chris Maxwell saved Aaron Mooyโs resulting penalty, substitute Colin Quaner fired home the rebound to give the home side a 3-2 victory.
The Lilywhites had taken a first half lead from another stunning Aiden McGeady strike from 25 yards, but goals from Kachunga and substitute Jack Payne had put the Terrier in front, until Hugill converted Tom Barkhuizenโs cross.
But what had come before was all overshadowed by the dramatic ending, when the winning goal scored six minutes into the four signalled to be added on.
North End were indebted to goalkeeper Maxwell early on, making a fine save to keep out a shot from Kachunga that had taken a wicked deflection off Paul Huntington, but the Welsh stopper โ who was pretty much untroubled for the majority of the game despite the home side having more of the ball โ managed to change direction and got don low to his right to keep out the goalbound effort.
The visitors suffered an early blow when they lost skipper and former Huddersfield man Tom Clarke with what appeared to be a serious injury to his Achilles, Tomm Spurr coming on at left back and Greg Cunningham moving to centre half.
But the away following were brought off their feet by the opener, however, as Paul Gallagher found McGeady in a right hand channel who collected the ball, burst forward with pace and arrowed a superb and unstoppable effort from 25 yards into the top right hand corner of Danny Wardโs goal.
David Wagnerโs side had plenty of possession, but did little to harm the yellows, Simon Grayson getting men behind the ball and allowing their hosts to have the ball in their own half, however, they went into the break level thanks to a set piece.
Aaron Mooy delivered an inswinger from the left hand side and Kachunga got free of his marker and was able to head home unchallenged from close range to give the score an unfair reflection at the interval.
And the home side turned the game on its head with 20 minutes to go through a first half substitute of their own. A cross field ball from left to right had found Kachunge, who somewhat sliced his cross, but it landed perfectly onto the head of Jack Payne โ who had replaced Philip Billing just after the half hour mark โ who converted from a yard out.
A change in formation to a 3-5-2 saw North End back on top, however, and they deservedly drew level in the 79th minute. The move started in their own half, again with McGeady, who drove 50 yards โ at one point playing a deliberate one-two off an opposition player โ before feeding Johnson in the box. The midfielder got to the byline before pulling the ball back to Barkhuizen, who crossed from the right for Hugill to powerfully head home his 12th goal of the season from eight yards out.
And the No.25 almost put the Lilywhites back in front just three minutes later as another sub, Daryl Horgan collected the ball on the right that had been flicked on from a long Spurr throw in on the opposite side and delivered a cross back to the back post to where the big striker was again positioned, but this time he could not keep him header down, flashing past Ward, but also just over the cross bar.
But the game came to a dramatic conclusion in injury time.
The fourth official had signalled four minutes added time, in which both sides went for the win, but in the final minute, with time virtually over North End cleared the ball upfield, but with Barkhuizen chasing it down Probert called the play back and eventually, after two minutes of debate, awarded a penalty, for what afterwards he told manager Grayson had been a push by Hugill on Kachunga after the ball had gone, despite video evidence incontrovertibly proving otherwise.
Maxwellโs mind games with Mooy worked as he chose the right way to make a brilliant sprawling stop, his fifth of the season, but Quaner, who had come on with four minutes to go, reacted quickest and somehow threaded a shot past a sliding tackle from Greg Cunningham to give the third-placed side the points.
Huddersfield Town line-up: Ward, Smith (c), Hogg, Billing (Payne, 36 (Hudson, 90)), Kachunga, Mooy, Lowe, Van La Parra, Wells (Quaner, 86), Schindler, Hefele. Subs not used: Coleman, Whitehead, Scannell, Cranie.
PNE line-up: Maxwell, Vermijl (Browne, 89), Cunningham, Pearson, Clarke (c) (Spurr, 17), Huntington, McGeady, Gallagher (Horgan, 74), Barkhuizen, Hugill, Johnson. Subs not used: Lindegaard, Makienok, Beckford, Robinson.
Tickets for Preston North End's trip to Huddersfield Town next month are now on sale.
North End travel to the John Smith's Stadium on Good Friday, 14th April, the first of two games in four games over the Easter period.
Tickets can be purchased online at MyPNE.Com, by calling 0344 856 1966 or in person from the ticket office.
PNE have been given a maximum allocation of 1,923 tickets in the Chadwick Lawrence Stand for the 3pm kick-off.
Tickets are on sale now to season ticket holders, with a limit of one ticket per season ticket holder.
Any remaining tickets will go on sale to supporters with 100 loyalty points or more from 9am on Friday 24th March, again limited to one per supporter with the required number of loyalty points.
As of Monday 27th March, any remaining tickets will then be on general sale to all supporters.
There are eight pairs of wheelchair/carer tickets, these are priced at ยฃ15 with the carer ticket free of charge.
If supporters require disabled parking, they must contact Huddersfield Town on 01484 48123.
Ambulant disabled tickets are taken from the standard allocation and are priced at the relevant age band with the carer ticket free of charge.
Coach travel is available at just ยฃ12 for all, with coaches leaving Deepdale and Leyland at 12.30pm. | 2019-04-24T12:50:10Z | https://www.pnefc.net/matches/fixtures/first-team/2016/april/huddersfield-town-vs-preston-north-end-on-14-apr-17/ | Sports | Sports | 0.676965 |
wordpress | Staying anchored in a world that is out of sync.
In 1999 I gave a talk on how our lives revolve around boxes of one kind or another and how the creative process in its many forms can help to re-connect and anchor us to who we really are.
Since 1999, when I first gave this talk, many more boxes have been added to the listโฆ.including of course mobile phones, tablets, games โ and the list goes on.
Flying freely above the madness like a magical hummingbird โ watercolour.
On Monday evening, I attended an art opening where I observed the creative spirit of many others, and enjoyed interesting and meaningful conversations.
What a different atmosphere to the trains I used to travel back and forth to the exhibition, where people looked so stressed and almost to a one were plugged into some device or another.
Living under the unnatural time pressures that life in the 21st century imposes upon us, we are clearly out of time and sync with Mother Natureโs pace.
Until quite recently we marked time by the passing of seasons, the life cycles of humans, animals and plants, the moon and other celestial bodies โ we now seem to be disconnected. Disconnected from the spirit, and that deep instinctive โknowingโ which lies buried within the human species.
Contrary to early predictions, computers are not necessarily time savers. Rather evidence shows that we accomplish much more when we are not hooked up to technology all the time.
This is not to say that computers and technology donโt play an important part in our lives. However, discernment about how we use the technology is, I believe vital to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to know a world before the advent of technology are better equipped to use discernment, but for younger generations who have not known another way, it is difficult.
What is clear is that when we adhere to the natural rhythms of lifeโฆ.we immediately feel better on a physical, emotional and spiritual level.
The Magical Hummingbirds remind me of the beauty and mystery that Mother Nature offers us.
โAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is, patience.โ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Adopt the pace of nature, blue boat under bridge at Hampton Court, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, living in boxes, out of time and synch with mother nature, physical, ralph waldo emerson, the creative process in all its forms, the sweet nectar of life, watercolour/gouache sketches on November 19, 2015 by janetweightreed10.
I love all those water colours of hummingbirds.
Thank you for this excellent comment. Have a lovely weekend. Janet.
Janet, visiting your siteโโenjoying your art, reading your wordsโโis like a mini-holiday, offering restorative peace.
Dear Janet, thank you for this mindful post. I very much enjoyed the Lorna Marsen quote; Iโm not familiar with her. As always thank you for sharing your magical humming birds. The first hummer you showed today surprised me with itโs subtle greens. Itโs a rainy day here and the colors perfectly suited my day โ a contrast to my gray, but soft and lovely. Wishing you a thriving Thursday. Mega hugs!
Thank you for this inspiring post, and your beautiful hummingbirds!
A timely post Janet, and a warning many of us need to heed! Yes, we are all trapped in boxes some of the time, but as you say we have to make an effort to connect to our world, that is the reality, not the images flying off all these screens!
I like this Janet. The post has opened my mind to this reality of living in little boxes; thinking in boxes too. How interesting! I like the hummingbirds. Your profile picture is so nice. I love it. You look as nice as you sound. Many blessings to you.
Same to you lovely Janet.
To feel anchored is exactly what is needed right now Janet. Thank you.
Nice! Your use of water colors as art media is incredible! The result is fairy-tale-like.
Your magical hummingbirds made my day once again! Thank you! Have a merry day!
Gorgeous paintings! Love hummingbirds! Thank you for following my blog! Nice to meet you! Blessings of the season! | 2019-04-25T02:03:37Z | https://jcrhumming.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/staying-anchored-in-a-world-that-out-of-sync/ | Sports | Computers | 0.563562 |
greenville | Greenville: 2B - Jordyn Wieland; Becca Oldham; Kate Jolliff Rosado 2; Kendall Farr. RBI - Becca Oldham 2; Kate Jolliff Rosado 3; Kendall Farr; Amanda Atteberry; Cayla Speaks. SB - Jordyn Wieland; Mackenzie Jackson; Amanda Atteberry.
MacMurray: E - Kiersten Han; Kerrigan Hor; Lauren Wenge. GIDP - Brooke Allen. SB - Kiersten Han.
Greenville: Batters Faced - Kendall Farr 4; Cayla Speaks 16.
MacMurray: Batters Faced - Haley Stewar 31; Raven Talash 4. HBP - Raven Talash. | 2019-04-19T22:22:43Z | http://athletics.greenville.edu/sports/sball/2017-18/boxscores/20180423_yt5y.xml?tmpl=bsxml-monospace-template | Sports | Sports | 0.868291 |
wordpress | Never have I ever been so excited about this yearโs Ravellenics. What better way to mix and match the Olympics with knitting. I have fond memories of my first Olympics in 1996. It was in Atlanta and I managed to get a job as a parking lot attendent. It was a great start of my work journey. Alas, I picked up knitting several years later. Iโm excited to be on a team related to my LYS. Ironically Iโm using Brooklyn Tweed that I bought 3 years ago. I like the way it holds texture, but not the way it feels. Itโs good that there are plenty of yarn choices for crafters. Perhaps Iโll change my mind if I find a knit worthy object. | 2019-04-23T12:01:55Z | https://knittingcheese.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/ravellenics2016-never-have-it-ever/ | Sports | Sports | 0.909471 |
baylor | Home The Browning Letters 9 June 1884. Browning, Robert to Crommelin, May.
9 June 1884. Browning, Robert to Crommelin, May.
Pray forgive some delay in replying to your pleasant note with its kind request,โa delay caused by various circumstances which engaged my attention at the time of the noteโs arrival. You are quite at liberty to make that use which you mention of those passages in my poems, or the poems of my wife, which you think appropriate.
Title 9 June 1884. Browning, Robert to Crommelin, May.
Envelope Address Miss M. Crommelin, / 11. West Mall, / Clifton.
Letter Text 19, Warwick Crescent, W. June 9. โ84. Dear Miss Crommelin, Pray forgive some delay in replying to your pleasant note with its kind request,โa delay caused by various circumstances which engaged my attention at the time of the noteโs arrival. You are quite at liberty to make that use which you mention of those passages in my poems, or the poems of my wife, which you think appropriate. Believe me, Dear Miss Crommelin, Yours very sincerely Robert Browning. | 2019-04-22T02:34:58Z | http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ab-letters/id/9705/ | Sports | Home | 0.572018 |
livejournal | It's down to finding the last photo. A pile of lingnocellulosic fibers. Anyone got a photo of this just lying around? After two years it comes down to this.
I found out yesterday, my brother is out of work. They called him Monday morning and told him not to bother coming in. They laid off his whole division apparently. So I'm trying to help him find something. i've got a few contacts on the west coast but not many. He's in Seattle. He's been a web professional for several years now. Writes codes and all that. Helped to build the sites for US West and General Electic and maintain and write code and that sort of thing. So if anyone out west has any leads, let me know. He's willing to move for the right job.
I let him know he always has a place at the farm if he needs it. I'm hoping he'll find something quick and not be out of work long. Tough times to be out of a job.
Deb and I whipped up an incredible casserole for dinner last night trying not to heat up the house too much. White hominy, red potatoes, tomatoes, ham, onions, tart apples, shredded cheese, real butter, and bread crumbs with some herb seasoning and baked for a few minutes until the ham was done and cheese was melted. Yummy. I'm sure we'll have it for lunch again too.
We rented Shallow Hal thinking it would be a no-brainer. But then we got into it. I'd have to say this movie was way under rated. It actually had a positive message aside from the Farrely Brothers usual wierd gags. I actually stayed awake and watched it.
Well time to search for the last photo. i'm on a QUEST!
I can't even read that! What in the name of stripey tomatoes is it?
The wood fibers they combine with resin to make fiberboard. I need a macro shot of a pile of them. I may end up grinding up a piece of fiberboard to get the shot myself.
Cool. In the movie they said it was in Montana but then you never see any mountains so you sort of wonder. Aparently they didn't use any locals for extras because I didn't notice any bad southern accents. Thanks for the congrats.
Yes it was, just ate the last of it for lunch. I'll be making a squash, bacon and egg casserole this weekend as I'm awash in squash from my garden now.
I always had to keep calling back and bugging people to show them I was serious. Either they give you a job or they tell you to stop calling but you get results.Then after you have a decent job ten other offers that are way better come in. That's how it was when I got this job. Of course i had been fielding offers for lots of other jobs but they didn't pay enough. | 2019-04-24T21:01:23Z | https://wander.livejournal.com/113470.html | Sports | Health | 0.106168 |
azcentral | Over 5 Acres of Horse Property, 4 Cul-de-sac lots included, hidden in a Private Cove close to US 60 Grand Ave and State Route 74 Carefree Highway. Bordered by State Land. Electric power to property line. Survey, Grading and Drainage Plans available. Seller has Engineering Plans and Report with two 24'' culverts on road leading to culdesac lots. Minutes from Wickenburg, Peoria, Surprise and Lake Pleasant. All 4 Lots have separate parcel numbers - 503-23-003-G,H,J and K. Own a Private Paradise! | 2019-04-25T00:22:06Z | https://homes.azcentral.com/property/az/morristown/85342/-/42940-n-private-drive/572dd4652fe3541cd6005221/ | Sports | Recreation | 0.980092 |
nepatriotsdraft | CFL to the NFL โ can it work for the Patriots?
The Patriots have made an interesting signing today, inking former USC Trojan and Toronto Argonaut defensive lineman Armond Armstead to a future contract according to Mike Reiss of ESPN Boston and Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald.
Can Armstead make the team in 2013?
Will the Patriots offense get more vertical with Julian Edelman out?
Wide receiver Donte Stallworth has signed with the Patriots, his third trip with the team. Stallworth was a training camp casualty at the start of this year.
Stallworth will likely be used to fill the hole left by Julian Edelman, who provided a short pass option in addition to a good punt-return option.
Defensive linemen Jonathan Fanene and Trevor Scott are two New England Patriots early free agent signings that have been overshadowed somewhat by the rookie draft picks and addition of Brandon Lloyd.
How are Scott and Fanene fitting in so far?
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots offense have lacked a true threat on the outside since they shipped Randy Moss to the Vikings in 2010 and arguably before that.
Has Brandon Lloyd proven already during training camp that he will be the player to change that?
The Patriots bought DE's in bulk this year.
In the continuing saga of the transformation of the Patriots defensive line, former 49er and Redskin defender Andre Carter has signed with the New England Patriots. | 2019-04-20T02:27:41Z | http://www.nepatriotsdraft.com/tag/free-agents | Sports | Sports | 0.901474 |
wordpress | Hair pads for keeping hair in place and away from face.
Lightweight accessory with Velcro-like hooks that keep hair gently in place. Use to hold bangs or wisps away from your face during washing, skin care or makeup routines.
Abbamart is excited to offer professional-grade cosmetic tools at a price that wonโt limit your possibilities. Because Abbamart is owned by its supplier, you get true factory-direct pricing, just like the high-end brand names that buy and resell brushes under their own label.
I stupidly decided to have bangs a few months ago, and Iโm really paying for my vanity now. My bangs are at that annoying length whereby theyโre poking into my eyes while obscuring my vision completely, all at the same time! I thought this was a weird gimmick but when I saw how cheap the hair pads were, I thought, โWell, why the hell not?โ. Guess what, THEY WORK!
All I had to do was sweep my bangs to the side and slap the hair pad on. It held my hair up nicely and I tried to test it by jumping around my room, shaking my head like a lunatic at a heavy metal concert. The hair pad didnโt fall off like Iโd expected it to. When I removed it, it didnโt leave my bangs all bent and floppy like it would have, had I used a hairclip or hairband.
The Japanese are utter geniuses, I tell you! They always find the simplest ways to solve problems that people face in their everyday lives, which seem small and mundane when compared to say, global warming. In case you were a science geek like I am and wanted to know the secret of the hair pads, here it is: TA-DAAA!
We all know what a velcro strip is made up of โ hooks and loops. The hooks hook onto theโฆ yup youโve guessed itโฆ loops. The Japanese hair pads are made up of countless tiny hooks, exactly the same as on the velcro strip. These hooks catch onto your hair and hold them securely enough to keep your hair up when youโre putting on make up, for example, or bent over the sink washing your face. The hooks are flexible and gentle, and do not cause pain at all. Removing the hair pad from your hair is so easy, a baby could do it.
Anyway, the hair pads are of extremely good quality. I donโt know what synthetic fabric theyโre made from, but the material is soft yet durable. Iโve used them while Iโm in the shower and they donโt mind getting wet.
I wanted black, as I have black hair and didnโt want to walk around the house with 2 pink patches on my head. Iโve seen the black ones sold elsewhere (for a higher price) but unfortunately, Abbamart only had pink ones. I also found it highly amusing that the sticker on top said Made in China, while at the bottom, the words Made in Japan were printed on the packet. So which is it?
USD $1.10 per pack, contains 2 pieces.
I love shopping at Abbamart. The prices are affordable, the products are really good quality (I have several of their makeup brushes, and they are AMAZING! AND SOFT! AND CHEAP! Reviews to come another time.), and their customer service is excellent. They are generous with freebies and sometimes I receive little surprises in my packages. This is one of my favourite companies to shop from. Awesome stuff!
Joking aside, I really recommend Abbamart. I find their Toray brushes amazing!
Yay! Let me know if you like it ๐ I hope you do though, Iโd feel bad recommending something and then having it disappoint you. | 2019-04-20T00:18:21Z | https://kookith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/abbamart-japanese-hair-pads/ | Sports | Science | 0.798902 |
wordpress | This entry was posted in Art, Indian Politics, Indian Society, Mohandas Gandhi, The Politics of Indian Culture and tagged assassination of Gandhi, Biographical prints, Biographies of Gandhi, Chitrakars, D G Tendulkar, Father of the Nation, Garam Hawa, grandnieces of Gandhi, Hemchander Bhargava & Co., Indian nationalist prints, Indian tricolor, Kasturba, Lakshminarayan Sharma, Mahadev Desai, Manubehn, Mohandas Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, Navajivan Trust, Picture Publishing Corporation, Poojya Gandhiji ki Jivan Caritra, Printmakers in India, Pyarelal, Ramachandra Guha, sartorial Gandhi by Vinay Lal. Bookmark the permalink.
Interesting and informative article, Prof. Vinay Lal. I had the good fortune of meeting you at the South India Collective meeting to honor Rev. Lawson, and enjoy your talk and historic pictures there.
I wish there were prints also showing people of different communities who helped Gandhiji in South Africa and India, like Muslims, Parsis (Zarathushtis/ Zoroastrians), etc. Several Parsi luminaries like Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (first head of Bombay Municipal Corporation and lawyer), Sir Ratan Jamshedji Tata, who gave Gandhiji moral and financial support โ sum of Rs. 1,25,000 during his noncooperation campaign in South Africa in 1902, Parsi Rustomji, a founder member of the Natal Indian Congress and a supporter of Satyagraha, who once saved Gandhijiโs life and sheltered his family, when a mob of whites attacked him on his second arrival in South Africa, Mithuben Dinshaw Petit who helped Gandhiji on the Salt March, the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, set up an Ashram called Kasturba Vanant Shala for teaching underpriviledged children and making women self-sufficient, Ardeshir Godrej who in 1928 donated Rs.300,000 for the uplift of Harijans which Gandhiji acknowledged as the largest donation, Dadabhai Naoroji who was president of the Indian National Congress several times, and who Gandhiji acknoweledged as โthe first patriot who inspired me. He was my guide and helper when I did not know any other leaderโ. who as a Member of the British Parliament in England guided Gandhiji on his first visit to England, Freedom Fighter Feroze Gandhi (husband of prime minister Indira Gandhi and Member of Parliament of independent India) etc.
There are several hundred different prints of Gandhi and an equal number of others involved in the freedom struggle, including Dadabhai Naoroji and Pherozeshah Mehta. My short piece is on a particular question, namely how Gandhiโs life was represented through the biographical print and how one might โreadโ such prints. It was not meant to be a comprehensive study of nationalist prints, nor even an exhaustive scholarly study as such. | 2019-04-24T14:14:25Z | https://vinaylal.wordpress.com/2018/10/07/the-imprint-of-a-mans-life-visualizing-gandhis-biography/ | Sports | Arts | 0.724918 |
utwente | Molecular Separation by using membranes has proven to be one of the most energy efficient routes to separate gases and liquids on nano scale. The complexities arising in membrane fabrication on nano-scale offers new challenges for researchers.
This master assignment deals with the development of special membrane microstructures and their application on industrial scale. The assignment will be carried out at the Inorganic Membrane group at the University of Twente.
The focus of this research will be on the fabrication of ceramic hybrid membranes. The separation layer of these membranes will be fabricated by sol-gel chemistry starting from e.g. bis(trialkoxysilyl)alkanes. Several reaction parameters influence the characteristics and consequently the membrane properties. Other precursors and dopants will be investigated as well.
Hydrothermally stable hybrid membranes have been successfully fabricated starting from 1,2-bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane (BTESE) using โsol-gel chemistryโ (process scheme of a sol-gel process is given in the figure). The influence of several sol characteristics on membrane microstructure and properties is still unknown. The aim of assignment is to investigate the influence of process conditions (hydrolysis, condensation, reaction time, aging, calcination etc) on the properties and performance of membranes with tailor-made porosity.
The master assignment consists of preparing membranes of selected precursors via sol-gel chemistry. The membranes will be tested for their gas permeation and separation capacities. Relations between process parameters, sol characteristics, membrane structure, and membrane performance will be studied. | 2019-04-24T12:48:34Z | https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/im/bamaassignments/Old%20assignments/Hybrid_silica/ | Sports | Science | 0.984367 |
chron | My Pay Stub Reads "Company Paid STD": What Is That?
Your short-term disability coverage replaces salary missed during an illness or injury.
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Your pay stub likely contains a number of abbreviations denoting various taxes and benefits payments that are withdrawn from each paycheck. The "Company Paid STD," for example, signifies the amount of money your company contributes to your short-term disability (STD) coverage. This particular payment may be calculated in terms of a single pay period, a monthly sum or in a year-to-date total. It may or may not be accompanied by a payment amount for the portion of your STD coverage for which you are responsible.
Short-term disability insurance pays a portion of your salary in the event you become temporarily disabled, such as in an extended illness or after a surgical procedure. The premise is simple: instead of receiving a paycheck from your employer, the payout is provided by the insurance company. According to the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE), the typical STD policy covers anywhere from 40 to 65 percent of your base salary and lasts for three to six months. In the event of an extended disability, a long-term disability policy will pick up when the STD ends.
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Fernandez, Danielle. "My Pay Stub Reads "Company Paid STD": What Is That?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/pay-stub-reads-company-paid-std-that-25028.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
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usatoday | One of the most popular vacation destinations in Orlando, Florida, is the Walt Disney World. Millions of people visit it each year to enjoy the theme parks, golf courses, shopping, dining and live entertainment. If you want to avoid the crowds at local hotels, consider renting a private vacation home in the surrounding area for increased privacy and extra space to relax.
This villa is situated within the Bridgewater Crossing community in Davenport, about 15 minutes away from Walt Disney World. The home features four bedrooms with sleeping arrangements for up to eight people, and two bathrooms. The villa features vaulted ceilings, recessed lighting, modern decor with many wood furnishings and offers an attached two-car garage, screened-in swimming pool with sundeck, a fully equipped designer kitchen with granite counter tops, washer and dryer, air conditioning and wireless Internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the community facilities which include a communal swimming pool, lighted tennis courts, volleyball and basketball courts, a playground, picnic area and several fishing lakes.The villa is nonsmoking but pets are allowed.
This vacation home is located in a quiet community of Orlando, less than 20 minutes away from Walt Disney World. The home features three bedrooms with sleeping arrangements for up to six people, and three bathrooms. The home has a traditional design with floral touches and offers an attached two-car garage, screened-in swimming pool with attached hot tub and sundeck, a master bedroom with private bathroom and walk-in closet, fully equipped kitchen, washer and dryer, air conditioning and wireless Internet access. The home is nonsmoking and pets are prohibited.
This home is located within the exclusive Calabay Parc community in Davenport, about 10 minutes away from Walt Disney World. It offers four bedrooms with sleeping arrangements for up to eight people, and three bathrooms. The home features a modern design with tropical themes and it offers a screened-in swimming pool with attached wheelchair lift assist, a hot tub, a sundeck, a fully equipped designer kitchen with breakfast nook and formal dining area, a washer and dryer, air conditioning, game room and wireless Internet access. The home is nonsmoking and pets are prohibited.
Stoddart, S.L.. "Vacation Homes Near Walt Disney World in Orlando." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/vacation-homes-near-walt-disney-world-orlando-37485.html. Accessed 18 April 2019. | 2019-04-18T19:18:17Z | https://traveltips.usatoday.com/vacation-homes-near-walt-disney-world-orlando-37485.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.903266 |
unesco | Today it is called โThe Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasseโ in Hamburg. The site covers an area of almost 1.9 hectares and is the amalgamation of two adjacent but separate cemeteries, namely the southwestern part laid out by Sephardic Jews in 1611, which extends over one fourth of the cemetery, and the other section to the north and east, a cemetery laid out by the Ashkenazi Jews in 1616. This makes it not only the oldest Jewish cemetery, but the oldest of all cemeteries in Hamburg. In fact, its Sephardic part is the oldest preserved cemetery of the Sephardim who emigrated from Portugal to northern Europe.
Sephardim is the name which those Iberian Jews gave themselves who lived in Spain until 1492 and then emigrated in large numbers to North Africa, the Ottoman Empire or Italy where they founded their own Jewish congregations or joined existing ones. Then there are the descendants of Jews who were baptized against their will in Portugal in 1497. They call themselves โPortugueseโ, or, more rarely, Sephardim. At the time they were mostly known as crypto-Jews, New Christians or Marranos. They started to leave Portugal in 1531 and settled in northern Europe at the end of the 16th century. Their preferred destinations were the seaport cities of the Netherlands (Antwerp and Amsterdam), of northern Germany (Hamburg, Glรผckstadt, Emden, Stade), and, from the middle of the 17th century, also the New World (Curaรงao, Barbados, Jamaica, Surinam, Nevis, St. Eustatius, St. Thomas, New York etc.).
During the last third of the 16th century, Hamburg was not only much in demand as a trading location among English and Dutch merchants, but also as a place of refuge for the Jews who fled Portugal for reasons of faith. These crypto-Jews were the first Jews to be given permission to permanently settle in the Protestant port city of Hamburg. The records indicate that in 1595 there were seven Portuguese families in Hamburg. There is evidence to show that there were as many as 98 persons of Portuguese Jewish descent in Hamburg as early as 1609. When the armistice between Spain and the Netherlands expired in 1621, even more Portuguese Jews left Amsterdam for Hamburg and Glรผckstadt. As a result, there were some 1,200 โPortugueseโ in Hamburg around 1650. Many of them were civil servants, rabbis, cantors, teachers, sextons or ritual slaughterers (shohetim), but there were also medical doctors, pharmacists, stone masons, meat merchants, stock brokers, tobacco traders and strippers, sugar cane processors, successful Portuguese bankers, wealthy wholesale merchants and transatlantic dealers, sea freight insurers, trade brokers and jewellers. It was the latter who laid the economic foundations for the Jewish-Portuguese congregations of Hamburg and Altona. These amalgamated on September 3, 1652 to form the unified Sephardic congregation of Kahal Kadosh Bet Israel. They also made Hamburg a showpiece of Sephardic Judaism in the West in the 17th century.
The congregation continued to grow and needed a burial ground. Non-Lutherans were not allowed to own cemeteries in the city, which is why on May 31st, 1611, three Portuguese Jews bought a piece of land on behalf of the three synagogue congregations of Talmud Tora, Keter Tora und Neve Salom. They bought the land, which was situated on Heuberg along what is today Kรถnigstrasse, from Count Ernest III of Holstein-Schauenburg und Sterneberg. On it they laid out a cemetery; it was later enlarged several times, namely in 1641, 1642, 1672, 1674, 1711, 1733. The first burial on this Sephardic cemetery took place in 1611. That is also the year engraved on the oldest tombstone which has been preserved.
Right next to it, the Altona Israelites (Hochdeutsche Israeliten-Gemeinde Judengemeinde = HIG) bought another burial ground between 1612 and 1616 which was then enlarged in 1668, 1710, 1745, 1806 and 1817. On this Ashkenazi cemetery, the first burial took place in 1616, its oldest preserved tombstone dates back to 1621.
In 1869, the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior ordered both parts of the cemetery to be closed as active burying grounds. Special permission was given for a single burial on the Ashkenazi part of the cemetery in 1871 and for three more on the Sephardic part in 1871, 1872 and 1877. In the following years, members of the Jewish community repeatedly complained that the old burial grounds were in a state of neglect. As suggested by the Altona Beautification Association (Altonaer Verschรถnerungsverein), they were planted with low undergrowth and somewhat higher shrubs and trees; however, at the behest of the Chief Rabbi, these were not allowed to develop deep roots touching the graves. A โtasteful fenceโ was erected on Kรถnigstrasse. In 1864 and again in 1902, the Jewish community had to cede a narrow strip of their land situated at the southern edge of the two cemeteries to the city authorities so that Kรถnigstrasse could be widened.
As was the case with all Jewish cemeteries in Germany, the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse was expropriated at the end of 1942. While attempts to clear it were foiled, the cemetery suffered considerable damage during the Third Reich, as a result of WW II and the air raids by the Allied Forces, through racially motivated vandalism, the building of sports grounds, the clearance of parts of it. Despite all the destruction caused, of the more than 9000 tombstones, some 8100 remain a number only as fragments.
It is particularly the Sephardic part of the cemetery which constitutes a historical, art and cultural monument. On it there are some 1,600 tombstones dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, many of them featuring artistic and playful decorative motifs. In accordance with Sephardic tradition, the tombstones on this part of the cemetery are designed to be laid out horizontally and are often tent-shaped. They were manufactured from Obernkirchen or Cotta sandstone, from limestone, gabbro, basalt or, in some cases, from marble from Carrara. The poems and other inscriptions engraved on these tombstones are in Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, and, in some cases, in French and English. As of 1810, engravings were also made in German. The inscriptions are framed by ornamental or architectural reliefs, featuring curtains or Salomonic columns, for example. The top edge of the memorial slabs is either horizontal or rounded and some have columns. Floral vines, bouquets of flowers, cartouches and pilasters serve to artistically subdivide the surface of the slabs and create separate boxes for images. Much like on Jewish sarcophagi from antiquity, the outer edges of the tombstones feature protruding rosettes, often in the geometrical ornamental shape of the โEternal Wheelโ and rounded, rosette-like embellishments at the corners. This type of dรฉcor can be traced to contemporary Catholic models on the Iberian Peninsula, but it is also reminiscent of Protestant models from northern Europe.
Apart from rosettes, the most common decorative elements are broad grapevines, bead and reel motifs, palm branches, volutes and draperies. The preferred motifs are allegorical memento-mori-symbols such as skulls, angelsโ or bat wings and the hour glass which adorn many tombstones either on their own or in combination with a series of images. Frequently, tombstones abound with richly worked relief ornamentation such as plant life dรฉcor, putti, erotes, coats of arms, trees of life, a hand protruding from a cloud which cuts a tree or a rose, as well as representations of animals (butterflies, pelicans, phoenixes, lambs) and biblical scenes which illustrate the Christian names of the deceased .
The majority of Jews who emigrated from Portugal during the 16th century had for generations been prevented from practicing their religion and the cultural activities connected with it. They were therefore no longer familiar with Jewish habits and Jewish sepulchral art and culture. They did not have their own stone masons either, who could have based their craft on personal experience with Jewish culture and Jewish motifs. It is thus safe to assume that, at least initially, Christian stone masons were likely commissioned to chisel Jewish tombstones on the basis of detailed Christian text and image examples, e.g. from the Lutheran Bible. But in addition to the tombstones on Christian churchyards which were used as input, there were other original sources such as Christian prints and books. The one-page prints so popular in the 17th century and littรฉrature ร la mode were also used as archetypes. Jewish printed products from Amsterdam and richly ornamented Italian marriage contracts (ketubbot) were further sources.
It is not only the ornamental dรฉcor, but also the inscriptions that are of great interest. It was up to rabbis with a poetic gift to formulate tombstone inscriptions. Their epitaphs in Hebrew drew on the Torah and the Talmud and were designed to hold the deceased in high esteem by preserving their lasting and beautiful memory. The main intention was to depict the deceased as a God-fearing person, but the decorative and image-laden tombstones also bore witness to the desire to express the pride of the deceased and his family in bereavement. They were always a display of pride of the fact that if they had not been born as Jews they had at least died as Jews. The tombstone inscriptions were conceived as creative literary texts. This means we can today legitimately consider them part of the Hebrew, Portuguese and Spanish literature of the period. The significant Sephardic libraries accumulated by the rabbis of the 17th century contained โ in addition to Talmudica and Hebraica โ numerous poems, novels and plays in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, suggesting that some the poetic and artistic sources can be found in the countries mentioned. There are also numerous collections of poems assembled by rabbis in Hamburg stored in the Ets Haim and Rosenthaliana libraries in Amsterdam. There are many tombstone inscriptions which indicate that the Portuguese were not only familiar with the Baroque literature of the Iberian Peninsula and the intellectual and political ideas and societal values contained therein, but also with Judeo-Spanish and Jewish-Arab literature.
Originally, the stelae in the neighbouring Ashkenazi part of the cemetery were all in an upright position. Some 6,500 of them have been preserved, but today many of them are in a horizontal position. Until approximately 1810, they were made from Oberkirchen sandstone, later mostly from Elbe sandstone. In addition to the Hebrew inscription on the front, from 1835 onwards there sometimes were inscriptions in German on the back. From the second half of the 17th century onward, the text blocks of these tombstones were often framed by three-centered or round arches and featured relief ornaments, the dรฉcor displaying in the main plant motifs, and sometimes animals such as doves, geese, lambs, stags or lions; these illustrated the Christian name of the deceased.
The tombstones of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews have numerous symbols and emblems in common, such as the jar with or without the bowl in the case of the Levites, the blessing hands for the Kohanim, occasionally in an escutcheon held by lions or under a crown, as well as many crowns with inscriptions which refer to the merits of the deceased.
The Ashkenazi part of the cemetery harbors a particularly important treasure, namely many tombs of rabbis with highly ambitious and long texts. Their literary quality and ornamental exterior are remarkable (in 69 cases, it has been proven that the inscriptions were written by/dedicated to rabbis. There is no other Jewish cemetery in the whole of Germany that offers a similar number of tomb inscriptions of equal importance. These inscriptions remind us of the fact that in its heyday during the 18th century, the Chief Rabbinate of Altona was among the most renowned rabbinates in the whole of Europe. Even today, for many Jewish visitors, the outstanding importance of this House of Life (โHaus des Lebensโ) is closely associated with its succession of rabbis.
Criterion (ii): The tombstones on the Sephardic part of the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse belong to the most important cultural heritage left behind by the descendants of the Jews who had been baptized against their will and fled Portugal and the Inquisition. As a result of their exodus, they developed a sepulchral culture of their own. In terms of its sepulchral language and art, it differs from the Judeo-Spanish sepulchral culture and the one that was practiced by the Jews who emigrated from Spain to North Africa, to the Ottoman Empire or Italy. It was also different from the Ashkenazi sepulchral culture which developed at the same time and often in its immediate vicinity.
This sepulchral culture, which at first glance does not appear to be very Jewish, points to an intensive cultural exchange between assimilated Jews and Catholic Christians on the Iberian Peninsula and between Jews who had only just reverted to normative Judaism and Protestant Christians in northern Europe. Thus, the Sephardic sepulchral culture of the 17th century is above all the expression of Jewish art which reflects the Jewish Diaspora and the experience of alternating between religions.
There is evidence of the very specific sepulchral culture described above in Amsterdam (Ouderkerk), London, on Curaรงao, Barbados, Jamaica, in Surinam and on some other Caribbean Islands.
Criterion (iii): The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse is an outstanding example of Sephardic sepulchral culture as practiced by the Jews who were baptized against their will and forced to emigrate from Portugal in the 16th century. Particularly the richly ornamented and playfully inscribed tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries, with their texts in Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and German, are to this day what render the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse an exemplary historical monument of art and culture: It bears witness to the Jews and their history of migration, to the history of their religion and mentality, to the history of their literature (epigraphs), their art history (tombstone/sepulchral art) and to the regional history of northern Germany. It is therefore justified to consider the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse the most important single memorial complex of the history of the Jews in the Hamburg region. In fact, it is one of the outstanding examples of Jewish cultural heritage in the whole of Europe. Its richly ornamented tombstones are a reflection of the life stories of the dead buried there and of the historical development โ often fraught with tensions โ of the Jewish congregations in Hamburg, Altona, in Europe as a whole and in the New World. Thus, the cemetery sheds light on the lives and deaths of Jews between the early 17th and the 20th centuries. Conversely, the way the Christian majority related to and dealt with this burial ground used by the Sephardic and Ashkenazi minorities who lived in their midst can be seen as a yardstick of their tolerance and respect for those minorities.
Criterion (iv): Jewish cemeteries are designed for eternity. They are often the only physical evidence of the history of Judaism through the ages. The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstraรe, laid out between 1611 and 1616 on the northern edge of what was then the old city of Altona, is an excellent case in point. This large Jewish cemetery extends over an area of almost two hectares. Some 8,100 of its tombstones or fragments thereof have been preserved and make it an outstanding European monument of art and culture going back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Sephardic part of the cemetery in particular is unique as a historical monument of art and culture. It is home to some 1,600 artistically ornamented and creatively inscribed tombstones, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, the likes of which can now only be found in Amsterdam (Ouderkerk), London, on Curaรงao, Barbados, Jamaica, Surinam and on some other Caribbean islands.
The Ashkenazi part of the cemetery features some 6,500 tombstones of exceptional value: Particularly the tombs of rabbis excel in the sheer text volume of their inscriptions, their literary quality and external ornaments (in 69 cases, it has been proven that the inscriptions were dedicated to rabbis). There is no other Jewish cemetery in the whole of Germany that has a similar number of rabbisโ tombstones of equal importance. These inscriptions remind us of the fact that in its heyday during the 18th century, the Chief Rabbinate of Altona was among the most renowned rabbinates in the whole of Europe. Down to the present, for many Jewish visitors, the outstanding importance of this House of Life (โHaus des Lebensโ) is closely associated with its succession of rabbis.
Criterion (vi): It is the Portuguese Cemetery in Hamburg where many well-known Jews were laid to rest: these included important rabbis and cantors, outstanding medical doctors and scholars, writers as well as influential traders and patrons. Major historical events that over the centuries have stirred the Judeo-European congregations also outside Germany are associated with these well-known Jews: (a) the Messiah movement of the โfalseโ Messiah Shabtai Zvi who came from Smyrna. One of his followers was the Hamburg rabbi Moses Abudiente who, in 1666, wrote the only remaining collection of Messianic sermons; (b) the struggle by rabbis and traditionalists against the โhereticโ Uriel da Costa, who lived in Hamburg for some years. He published his book about the immortality of the soul in Hamburg, an act for which he was severely criticized by his opponent, the Hamburg-based medical doctor Semuel da Silva. Da Costa was eventually expelled from the Jewish congregation and committed suicide.
Rabbis such as Jonathan Eibeschรผtz, Jacob Emden, Raphael Cohen, Jacob Ettlinger and Jecheskel Katzenellenbogen lie buried on the Ashkenazi part of the cemetery. They were known also outside Germany and were very important for the development of Jewish theology in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The aforesaid makes the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstraรe a unique cemetery in regard to the exceptional number of important Jewish personalities buried there. They illustrate the significance that Hamburg and Altona had for the Judeo-European and the New World.
A great number of the tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries in the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstraรe have been preserved. The cemetery extends over almost two hectares and was laid out on the northern edge of what was then the old city between 1611 and 1616. It was actively used for burials up to 1869. In 1864, and again in 1902, the southern part of the cemetery was reduced to allow for the widening of Kรถnigstrasse. It suffered damage during the Third Reich, as a result of WW II, through racially motivated vandalism, the building of sports grounds, the clearance to make room for a barracks for the Housing Association of the Hamburg-Altona Fish Processing Industry (Heimstรคttengesellschaft der Fischindustrie Hamburg-Altona) and a soap factory. Despite all the destruction caused, of the more than 9,000 tombstones some 8100 remain, a number of them only as fragments. Of these, 6,500 are located in the Ashkenazi part and 1,600 in the Sephardic part.
Since the cemetery was placed under protection and inscribed in the monument list in 1960, there have been continuous efforts to preserve the whole complex. The tombstones in their entirety have been recorded and documented. The tombstones are constantly being maintained and restored. In 2008, the Eduard Duckesz House was built. The house expresses the joint wish of the Jewish congregation and others to make the cemetery accessible for a larger public again.
Iconographic, epigraphic and biographical studies of Sephardic tombstones in the Old and the New World have demonstrated that it is not justified to speak of a regionally specific variety of Sephardic sepulchral culture, at least not for the 17th and 18th centuries. For example, the Portuguese in Hamburg maintained close contacts with other Sephardic congregations from the middle of the 17th century on into the early 20th century, particularly those in the Caribbean. Tombstones for the Jewish cemeteries in Surinam were chiseled in Hamburg and Amsterdam, and it was customary for inscriptions and designs of tombstones to โtravelโ together with the Jewish settlers, e.g. from Hamburg to Curaรงao, from Amsterdam to Surinam or from Amsterdam to Jamaica. As a result, a uniform Sephardic sepulchral iconography and epigraphy developed during the 17th and 18th centuries. This has been confirmed by iconographic, epigraphic and biographical studies and scientific research available today on Sephardic cemeteries.
Of the documented Sephardic cemeteries in northern Europe and the Caribbean, the one laid out in Ouderkerk near Amsterdam in 1614 is by far the largest. It has more than 30,000 tombstones and is still in use. However, it is one of the least researched cemeteries. There used to be two Sephardic cemeteries in London, namely the โVelho (Old) Cemeteryโ laid out in 1657 and closed in 1742, and the โNovo Beth Chain Cemeteryโ, laid out in 1733 and closed in 1899. With its originally more than 9,500 tombstones, the latter was the largest. However, many of the tombs were removed during the 1970s so that only 2,000 tombstones from the 19th and 20th centuries have been preserved. They are concealed and spread over the premises of โQueen Maryโs Collegeโ. Many of the tombstones on the older cemetery are still there, but their design is very different from those in the Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse: the latter feature much richer and more plastic/three-dimensional decorative elements.
Of the Sephardic cemeteries laid out in the Caribbean during the 17th century, the Sephardic Cemetery of Curaรงao can be compared to the one in Hamburg in respect to the number of tombs, the iconography and epigraphy. The cemeteries in Surinam, on Barbados, Jamaica etc. are smaller: Most of them have fewer than 1,000 tombstones. The same applies to Glรผckstadt, where only some 90 tombstones have been preserved.
Some Sephardic cemeteries have not yet been fully documented and researched, but we can conclude nonetheless that the cemeteries used by the Jews who emigrated from Portugal and their descendants during the 17th and 18th centuries form a specific Jewish cultural space, and are different in terms of their culture, religion, genealogy, language, artistic history and literature from other Jewish cemeteries around the world.
The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Kรถnigstrasse laid out in 1611 is testimony to this cultural space. The cemetery in Altona is the second largest Sephardic cemetery in the whole of northern Europe and contains some 1,600 preserved tombstones, which feature artistic and creative inscriptions and decorative motifs mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. All of this makes it a cemetery of outstanding universal value. | 2019-04-24T12:53:58Z | http://whc.unesco.org/fr/listesindicatives/5973/ | Sports | Society | 0.159273 |
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and the animals are crying out for our help.
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Mungai and the Goa Constrictor is a childrenโs book best suited to ages 9 to 90. Told through the eyes of animals, it tells of conspiracies hatched to aid the wilful destruction of the rainforests, and the resulting unlikely friendships forged between the various species of the widespread animal kingdom. Itโs a story filled with action, adventure, humour, deceit, friendship, tolerance and environmental awareness.
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Two excerpts from Chapters Twenty-Eight and Six.
The first is where the good animals are in pursuit of one of the escaped villains.
The second is the first meeting between the animal villains and the โtwo-legsโ.
โHe looks like a monkey-meat lover,โ thought Gerald, but he was frozen to the spot and could only think of his imminent death, followed by a prestigious military funeral, he hoped, for his few remains.The unidentifiable creature grabbed Gerald by the feet, and swung him round and round above his head, and then hurled him skywards towards the canopy roof, where he became stuck between two branches. He was so far up, the others lost sight of him.
On his own, with no-one to help him, he thought immediately of his โmilitary trainingโ and decided to bring in the โvacate the high locationโ manoeuvre. This manoeuvre was something only to be used in emergency situations, which he quite rightly deemed this was. He did not have much time, so he started straight away tearing off branches and bits of other vegetation, and weaving them together securely. He kept doing this until he had a large piece, three times his own size. He took one corner in each claw, and let himself fall backwards, down from the top. It was a very crowded tree. The growth from top to bottom was extremely dense. It cannot be said he sailed down from above, more bounced than anything. He bounced and he bounced and he bounced. From one branch to the otherโฆsideways, backwards and forwards. Hanging upside down, he could not see where he was going. Much to his surprise, he found the jungle floor. It was not a soft landing.
The next day Mungai took Goa on a journey. They left the jungle and moved into the forest, and kept going until they arrived at a huge over-ground burrow hidden amongst some trees.
โWhat ith thith?โ asked Goa.
โWhat doeth it do?โ She asked again.
โIt takes the logs, grinds them up, mixes them with water and turns them into pulp. It presses the pulp into sheets and they become paper for the two-legs to use.โ Mungai seemed very well-informed. Goa couldnโt grasp it at all.
โMungai turned round to greet the voice. Realising it was a two-leg, Goa shot underneath the building in fear.
He noticed the pleasant smell of honey and exotic fruits as Mungai got closer to him. Joe liked honey. He was a small scruffy two-leg of indeterminate age. He spoke badly and slouched a lot. His clothes did not fit him properly, nor did he look very clean. Goa was not impressed, and wondered if Joe had inspired Mungaiโs description of the two-leg he had pretended to see in the forest. She hissed again, but was ignored by both of them.
โCome inside out of the sun,โ invited Joe.
He knew whatever Mungai had planned would probably be against the laws made by the two-legs, and most certainly dangerous to any other creatures involved. He also knew, whatever it was, he would profit well out of it as he had done so many times in the past.
With their soft eyes, astonishingly beautiful coats and those magnificent horns, these highly sociable forest antelopes are a stunning vision. Bongos, in general, are fairly plentiful across west Africa. But, the critically endangered sub-species, isaaci, is only found in the mountains of central Kenya. As you would expect, deforestation and hunting (including so-called โtrophy huntingโ) have played a major part in its decline. The numbers kept in captivity, now outweigh the numbers left in the wild by almost seven to one.
The mountain bongo may look a lot like its cousin, the western bongo, but, in fact, it is heavier, taller and more richly coloured. Adult mountain bongos stand at over four feet at the shoulder, and can be as much as an astonishing ten and a half feet in length. Males can weigh up to almost nine hundred pounds, and females, just over five hundred pounds.
Mountain bongos, or eastern bongos as they are sometimes called, have beautiful coats of deep-chestnut with vertical white stripes. Their muzzles are black with a white band across the nose and under the eyes, and their legs are dark in colour with patches of white. Further white markings occur on the chest. Like the okapi, the disruptive colouration of their coats helps to camouflage them in the forest.
Another notable feature of the bongo are the heavy, but elegant, spiral horns. Both male and female sport these, with the femaleโs being slightly smaller and paler. These horns can be used to break branches allowing their long prehensile tongues to strip the same with ease.
Unfortunately, these spectacular horns have been a contributing factor in their downfall. It is always wonderful how nature equips different species with these various adaptations for their survival. But, wonderful turns to tragic when man comes along and ends that chance of survival because he sees that which belongs to another as his, and his right to possess; to satisfy his unquenchable greed and lust for death.
Bongos are outgoing and non-territorial, but they are also shy and wary. They live in mixed herds of up to fifty individuals, though smaller herds are more likely. They forage mostly under cover of the dense forest, but can be tempted out into clearings and swamps if the pickings look good enough. Although mostly nocturnal, they are occasionally active during the day.
Distressed bongos bleat and mothers have a special low mooing call for their calves. Otherwise their vocalisations are fairly limited.
The peak breeding season for bongo antelope occurs between October and January. Following a gestation period of nine and a half months, a single calf will be born. Females give birth in dense undergrowth where they can hide their babies from predators. The mother will leave the calf alone for the first week, returning only to let the calf suckle. By the time it is two weeks old, it will be racing round and ready to join the nursery herd. Bongo calves are fast developers and will have the first signs of horns at three to four months of age. They are weaned at six months and fully mature at two years.
Dense montane forests and bamboo thickets.
The central Kenyan highlands โ restricted to Aberdareโs Conservation Area, the Mau Forest and Mount Kenya National Park.
Leaves, shrubs, pith and bark of fallen dead trees, grasses and fruits.
Habitat loss due to illegal logging and charcoal production, poaching with snares and dogs, and diseases such as rinderpest. The mountain bongo are poached for their pelts and horns, and bushmeat to feed the ever-growing population. Natural predators include leopard and spotted hyena. Pythons have been known to eat calves. Bongo, in general, are considered a prize target for big-game trophy hunters, which in the past has devastated local populations of mountain bongo.
The mountain bongo, or eastern bongo, (Tragelaphus eurycerus ssp. isaaci), is listed on the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group as Critically Endangered. It is thought there are now no more than one hundred of the species left in the wild, possibly as few as seventy-five. In 2012, six hundred and seventy-seven were recorded as kept in captivity around the globe. All captive bongo stem from the wild population captured from the Aberdere Mountains area in the 1970s.
โIn 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in the USA (AZA) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year. However, in 2013, it seems, these successes have been negated with reports of possibly only 100 mountain bongos left in the wild due to logging and poaching.โ (Wikipedia) Although zoos are not the best option for wildlife, it seems, in this case, they may well be the saving of the mountain bongo. With so few left in the wild, the species might otherwise be lost to us.
Bongo Surveillance Project A village is rewarded with solar power to say โthank youโ for hosting the mountain bongo.
Native to the Himalayan foothills, and arguably one of the most heart-melting little bears on the planet, the red panda has seen a big rise in popularity lately, and โawwwsโ and โahhhsโ galore follow wherever it is seen. But, just like its namesake, the giant panda, man is robbing the red panda of its basic needs in the wild โ food and shelter. Throughout most of the red pandas range, the trees it nests in and the bamboo it eats have disappeared. With over ninety per cent of its diet made up of something which is now in very short supply, hunger now looms.
The red pandaโs striking red fur has made it a much sought after clothing item in some parts of China and Myanmar. And, red panda fur hats are still very popular in Bhutan. The killing of red pandas is highly illegal across its range, but the poaching continues, often unchecked.
Butโฆ at least what is left of the population can sleep easy in their nests tonight โ the International Fur Trade Federation doesnโt do red panda any more!! Lucky red pandas!!
To veer slightly off topic for a moment โ anything else, of course, is fair game to these self-serving, greedy and ruthless fur traders, who somehow seem to be missing the point.
These are not principles. These are hoodwinking statements attempting to justify their egregious activities. Surprisingly, they have the full approval of the IUCN.
Advocating, and profiting from, the breeding of animals solely for the purpose of killing them for their coats, or snatching animals from the wild simply because there are more than enough to go round, and then wallowing in the ill-claimed glory of avoiding using endangered species, does not make this barbaric trade any more acceptable. It simply serves to illustrate how wide a range of species are targeted, and how there is such a total lack of any form of moral compass involved.
But, back to the red panda itself. Also known as the lesser panda or red cat-bear, these little bears are not much bigger than the average domestic cat. They have rust-coloured fur on top with black legs and undersides, long bushy ringed-tails and cream-coloured markings on the face, and cream to white ears. Their fur is thick and covers their entire bodies including the soles of their feet. In winter they wrap their long, fluffy tails around themselves maintain heat. They have a low metabolic rate to further ensure their survival in extreme temperatures. A red panda can lose up to fifteen per cent of its body weight during the winter months.
Red pandas have semi-retractable claws and a thumb-like wrist projection for gripping bamboo. Their wrap-round tails also act as a balancing tool when moving through the trees. And, sweetly, red pandas dip their paws into water to drink.
Red pandas spend most of their waking time looking for and eating bamboo. They nibble away at it one leaf at a time. They have flattened teeth and well-developed chewing muscles. They are excellent tree climbers, and are most active during the day. If called upon to defend itself, the red panda will stand upright on its hind legs and show its sharp, ready to strike claws.
Red pandas are shy and solitary except when mating. Females (sows or she-bears) birth once a year. They build nests in hollow tree trunks or small caves. There is a gestation period of about one hundred and thirty-five days followed by the birth of one to four cubs. Baby red pandas weigh an average of one hundred and ten grams when born. They have fluffy cream and grey fur and their eyes and ears tightly closed. They remain in their protective nests for roughly ninety days. Only their mothers care for them. Male red pandas (boars or he-bears) take little or no interest in the babies. At six months old, the babies are weaned from their mother. Young red pandas grow relatively slowly, reaching adult size after one year. They reach full maturity at eighteen months. This pattern of growth results in an inability to recover efficiently from the devastating declines in population. There is also a fairly high infant mortality rate.
The red panda is the state animal of the Indian state of Sikkim.
Subtropical and temperate bamboo forests at sites above four thousand feet.
Bhutan, China, Myanmar, India and Nepal.
Almost all of their diet consists of bamboo shoots and leaves, but, they will also eat fruit, grasses, acorns, roots, bird eggs and some insects.
Habitat destruction is the greatest threat across the red pandaโs range. In India, this threat is particularly significant. Loss of habitat has been caused by the medicinal plant trade, grazing, logging, livestock competition and agricultural cropping. In Nepal ,in the Dhorpatan Hunting reserve (the only area in Nepal where licensed hunting is allowed) deforestation has occurred, red pandas are caught using snares, overgrazing of domestic cattle has impacted ringal bamboo growth, and herders and their dogs are damaging the population further. In China and Myanmar, the threat of poaching looms large. Pelts are commonly found in local markets. In Bhutan, the pelts of the red panda are made into caps and hats.
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Vulnerable (high risk of endangerment in the wild). The red panda is also listed under CITES Appendix 1 and Schedule I of the Indian Wild Life Protection Act 1972. The exact numbers of red pandas left in the wild are not known, but, are said to be declining rapidly. Red pandas have been kept and bred successfully in captivity across the world. Management programs have been created in North America, Japan, Europe, Australia, and China. | 2019-04-25T07:52:54Z | https://mungaiandthegoaconstrictor.wordpress.com/tag/deforestation/ | Sports | Kids | 0.655149 |
nytimes | Archives|HOLD BOY HUSBAND ON BIGAMY CHARGE; Second Wife Causes Arrest After She Finds a Letter From Wife No. 1.
HOLD BOY HUSBAND ON BIGAMY CHARGE; Second Wife Causes Arrest After She Finds a Letter From Wife No. 1. | 2019-04-25T06:02:19Z | https://www.nytimes.com/1925/02/19/archives/hold-boy-husband-on-bigamy-charge-second-wife-causes-arrest-after.html | Sports | Reference | 0.246359 |
baltimoresun | Jacob Corbin-Beal bought a Hampden rowhouse that happened to have a billboard on one side, and he wasn't sure what to do with the thing. The seller had led him to believe it wasn't quite kosher under city regs, unless he rented it back to the guy, who owns a repair shop and was offering a measly 40 bucks a month.
Then Corbin-Beal had an idea. An epiphany, really, inspired by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
He bought yards and yards of sump pump hose, a couple of saucer sleds and some spray paint, then created what looks like a giant plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Two Wiffle ball eyes poke out from the pile. Below, in black and white, it says, "Believe Your Noodly Master, Hon."
The obvious message: Keep creationism out of public schools.
Corbin-Beal read about the church -- its Web site (www.venganza.org) shows Michelangelo's Adam extending his finger toward the monster's "noodly appendage" -- and became a believer. He created the billboard, on Falls Road just north of The Avenue, and braced for a backlash. It never came.
No wonder we're still wrestling with mysteries of the universe; Hampden alone defies explanation. For whatever reason, it's a place where you can post a wacky billboard and make barely a ripple. The Baltimore Messenger did a piece on it recently. City Paper ran a photo once. A Unitarian minister asked Corbin-Beal, 35, to speak to her congregation. That's about it.
"I was really a little bit worried that I'd get a lot of negative reaction," Corbin-Beal said. "I received practically none. That's kind of half the beauty of it."
Another bad sign for President Bush: Yikes McGee figures it's safe to play Saturday's Ellicott City Fall Festival.
For a while, the singer-songwriter took his anti-war act only to politically friendly gatherings with Dems and demonstrators. His songs are meant to be funny, but not everyone saw the humor.
"In 2003 when I would play somewhere, somebody would threaten to kill me," he said. "People would get up in the audience and leave angry and yell at the proprietor."
Yikes McGee is the stage name for Tony McGuffin of Ellicott City, who's run unsuccessfully for Congress and House of Delegates. He was Howard County's Democratic Party chairman during last year's elections. McGuffin also performs traditional folk songs under his real name, but his bookers got more careful about where he appeared as Yikes McGee.
Sounds paranoid, but a bullet was fired into McGuffin's Main Street home around the 2004 elections, when he had lots of political signs out front.
As the war has grown more unpopular, McGuffin has started testing general audiences, throwing a few Yikes McGee songs into his folk act, albeit with a warning: "If there are any Republicans, you might want to go out for a smoke right now."
"The reactions have changed," he said. "Nobody's threatening to beat me up anymore lately. That's a positive."
Which is why he's willing to appear as Yikes McGee tomorrow, about 3:30 p.m., at the street festival. You also can check him out on Youtube. One of his songs, "Bad President," has been played there more than 40,000 times.
Baltimore yoga instructor Ann Hyland was thinking way beyond the downward dog posture.
"Let's connect our positive energies and unite the world in peace through a global yoga collective consciousness event called Global Mala," she wrote last week in an e-mail to "yogis" at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
But sadly, prospects for world peace are dimmer than ever.
"I am canceling Global Mala at MICA outside Brown center due to minimal response," she wrote in a follow-up e-mail. "If you choose to participate on your own ... 108 sun salutations, 108 minutes of meditation, 108 positive mantras."
Gubernatorial spokesman Rick Abbruzzese responds to Del. Pat McDonough's unusual tax protest, which involves mailing peanuts to Martin O'Malley: "The squirrels are fatter than ever." ... Lou Davis, a TV reporter who spent 22 years with Channel 2 and now works part time at Maryland Public Television, alerted me that his eldest son has followed in his footsteps. Josh Davis is working part time for WBAL TV. "He just started there a few weeks ago, sort of carrying on the tradition," writes Davis, describing himself as "a proud father." ... From a news release on a rash of auto break-ins: "The Frederick Police Department wishes to remind all citizens, whether they reside in the City of Frederick or not to store valuables in their vehicles during times the vehicles are unattended." What? The correction came moments later. "The Frederick Police Department wishes to remind all citizens, whether they reside in the City of Frederick or not to not store valuables in their vehicles during times the vehicles are unattended." | 2019-04-20T18:54:49Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-09-28-0709280124-story.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.254327 |
wordpress | Creamy Potato Soup with Rivelsโฆโฆ just like Granny used to make! Warm up with a nice hot bowl of soup on a cold, blustery, winter day!
This is pretty easy to make and you can make it โyoursโ by changing the meat you put in. I normally use diced ham. I have used little smokies, (those little cocktail sausages). I have also used crumbled, cooked baconโฆ. also good is a nice polish sausage or kielbasa, sliced.
Start with a pot that will be large enough to hold the amount of soup you want to make. I normally make it for a group of at least 6-10 so, scale up or down your ingredients accordingly.
Wash and peel about 8-10 large Idaho potatoes. cut into bite sized pieces. place into pot and cover with water. once boiling, add to water 1 pkg dry onion soup mix. continue to boil until potatoes are tender. not mushy, try not to overcook.
While cooking potatoes, make rivels. Mix about 1 tsp salt with 2 cups of flour, put this flour into a bowl. Make a well in center and add 2 whole eggs. Now with a fork mix together eggs and flour by starting at the outer edge of the bowl and โturnโ the flour into the eggs. The fork will proceed down through the eggs and by repeating this motion you will eventually mix all the flour with the eggs. You are not making a sticky dough. your mixture should look more like a dry crumbly mix, almost like pie crust, but much larger pieces. Make sure the eggs are thoroughly mixed.
Once the potatoes are cooked, continue boiling, do not drain potatoes. Drop the rivels into the boiling water by gently adding the entire bowl and stirring the potatoes while you add rivels. Cook allowing to boil for about 5 min. remove from heat. Add 1/2 stick real butter, allow to melt and then stir. Add meat, what ever you want to use. Like I said I normally use diced ham. I like a generous amount of meat so I will use about 2 cups of diced ham. Add about a quart of whole or 2% milk, stirring to blend. Now either return to heat, on low or do as I do. Put it in a crock pot on warm or low. After about an hour, this soup will be blended and thicken up to a wonderful consistancy. If it gets too thick add more milk or water. Do not cook this on high heat or allow to boil after adding the milk. Milk will scortch and burn very easily. Thats why I use the crock pot once its cooked.
I have also added some cubes of velveeta about 1/2 an hour before serving. Makes an awesome cheesy potato soup too.
This entry was posted in soups and tagged busy mom, butter, comfort food, creamy, crock pot, easy meals, favorites, food, from scratch, granny recipes, homemade, meals, old fashioned, potato, rivels, soups, warm. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T02:29:00Z | https://pureheartskitchen.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/creamy-potato-soup/ | Sports | Reference | 0.443437 |
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weebly | The appropriate duration of silver necklaces for girls depends about the dress they're putting on over a distinct situation, their face form and all round build.
For all those with broader shoulders choose the more time silver necklaces. The shorter necklaces provide you with a bunched up glance highlighting your broad shoulders whilst a longer necklace offers you a taller search.
For those people by using a slender make, heavier sterling silver necklaces having a broader or heavier and good pendant model are excellent. Often don't forget which the more time or V-shaped necklaces cause you to glimpse taller.
For a round face you may need to get a long silver necklace if you are quick at the same time. Having an oval or sq. encounter you might have to put on something nearer to the throat. Limited sterling silver in the choker style are perfect for all those with heart-shaped faces or sharp chins.
Choker duration for your 16" neck, necklace around the collarbone for 18", silver necklaces some inches beneath the collarbone for more than 18", necklaces within the neckline for 22" and underneath the neckline for additional than 24".
You have to operate the measuring tape about your neck for checking the neck size.
The correct size from the silver necklaces for ladies also relies upon on the pendant they can be combining it with. Heavier pendants in solid shapes appear inappropriate with limited necklaces as they don't get highlighted. If you need to use a choker-length or small-length necklace then combine it having a pearl fall or similarly dainty pendant.
If you might be not over weight and so are of regular peak you could get away by carrying two necklaces of varying lengths. You'll be able to also incorporate two extended single-link simple sterling silver necklaces with choker necklaces but this style is proper usually for any cocktail social gathering or a evening out on the theater and cinema. | 2019-04-25T03:49:32Z | http://sampost.weebly.com/necklace-for-women.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.213212 |
chicagotribune | Teal Wicks, Stephanie J. Block, Micaela Diamond and cast in "The Cher Show" on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre.
If youโre doing an authorized and approved biography of the living Cher, a stricture which inevitably leads you toward a hagiography, shyness morphing into the eternal human quest for immortality is not a bad organizing principle, and it will probably be enough for her fans to have a good time. For all the obvious flaws of โThe Cher Show,โ itโs an honest, self-deprecating effort, given the givens. Vastly different and greatly improved from its Chicago tryout, which was framed around a phony TV show about Cher, the final Broadway version of the show has Blockโs Cher striding to center stage and proceeding to tell Cherโs story strictly on Cherโs terms.
Most jukebox shows look for ways to introduce musical variety. Not โThe Cher Show,โ which features a trifecta of Chers. The hugely talented Micaela Diamond plays the young Cher (or Babe) and Teal Wicks (Lady) essays the early-career diva. Both give the spotlight to Block (her third is called Star, lest you were wondering), but the women donโt follow chronological rules. Often, they all show up at once, Star offering a mature womanโs advice to Babe, say, or Babe telling Star to find her youthful vitality.
Vocally, all three are very much within the Cher palette, which means you have to like the Cher sound to be happy in this show, but, then again, you knew that when you read the title. While Wicks struggles not to be stuck being the bologna in the Cher sandwich, Diamond (a real find) has the advantage of youthful talent and Block commands the stage in a way that is so close to her subject as to be almost creepy.
Cher is no Carole King, of course. Her persona is cool to the touch and that is what the show captures. The warmer colors of the evening come from Jarrod Spector, who is both funny and charming as Sonny, even though the script treats the late congressman harshly, and from the terrific Emily Skinner, who plays Cherโs highly sympathetic mother, Georgia Holt, a kind of proto-Cher in this telling. Cherโs other main loves, Gregg Allman (Matthew Hydzik) and Rob Camilletti (Michael Campayno) are there too, but kissed off. In the showโs telling, theyโre nice guys who cannot go the Cher distance.
Cher never married Bob Mackie, who is both the costume designer of โThe Cher Showโ and a character therein, but heโs the spouse of her skin here. Mackieโs custom creations are paraded throughout the evening in the most entertaining fashion, giving the show an atypical glamour and level of spectacle that exceeds most of its competition.
Aside from the clothes, though, โThe Cher Showโ mostly stays within the lanes of the jukebox musical and cannot avoid many of its tropes. Since Cher mostly narrates โThe Cher Showโ and thereโs a lot of life to depict, that leads you to some forced scenes where characters introduce themselves as part of their dialog (โIโm not wrong, Iโm Robert Altmanโ). And the show still runs into systemic problems in the crucial heart of Act 2 when Cher inconveniently turns to acting in straight plays and movies, neither of which lend themselves easily to this kind of musical: Elice tries to get around the problem by having Cher sing at an audition for a play with no music whatsoever.
Having three Chers takes the pressure off Block, whose performance then can reach surprisingly intense heights. You really have to admire what she is doing here. Block canโt be warm and cuddly, of course, but she is vulnerable very much in the same way as the subject of her formidable performance and it reads on stage.
Sheโs scary, just like Cher. | 2019-04-23T08:16:42Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/sc-ent-cher-show-broadway-review-1204-story.html | Sports | Reference | 0.271189 |
wordpress | There is a growing danger of yet another U.S. war; this time on Iran. There is already a covert war on Iran underway, including assassinations of Iranian scientists and escalating economic sanctions. This is all accompanied by growing talk of Iranian โnuclear weapons,โ and concern for โhuman rightsโ in Iran.
Twin Cities event initiated by: Minnesota Peace Action Coalition. Initial endorsements: Anti-War Committee, Military Families Speak Out, Twin Cities Peace Campaign, Students for a Democratic Society (U of M), Women Against Military Madness and others.
please add a photo, maybe of a march or protest, to your website. it is very easy. in wordpress photos just cut and paste. you could even do a different one for each protest. But even one would bee helpful, so that when I repost it to facebook I donโt get the WordPress W. Instead I get a relevant photo. | 2019-04-24T02:52:07Z | https://peace1.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/minnesotapeaceaction-feb-4-iran-protest/ | Sports | Reference | 0.33991 |
indiatimes | PUNE: Post demonetisation, customers at the city's Canteen Stores Department (CSD) outlets , run by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), mostly for defence personnnel, are increasingly opting for cashless transactions.
Larger CSD outlets have been accepting cards as a mode of payment for some time now. and ex-servicemen have not been facing any problems in paying for supplies. Indeed, they are being encouraged to adopt cashless means of payment, given the current scenario.
โMost ex-servicemen go to the larger CSD outlets in the area for their supplies, like the Sub Area outlet and the Southern Command outlet, which have been accepting cards for a while. Signage has been put up at these counters, encouraging people to switch to cashless, and in fact, more people have been using cards to pay for their supplies,โ said Maj Gen S C N Jatar (retired).
However, sales at some of the smaller CSD counters have been affected marginally, but officials say they are working towards acquiring point of sale (PoS) terminals soon.
โWe have seen a slight drop in sales at the CSD counter attached to our installation after the demonetisation move, but we have already de cided to apply for a PoS terminal, even though ours is a small outlet,โ said a senior official in charge of a military facility in the city.
โIn fact, we had decided to acquire a terminal only two days before the Prime Minister's announcement, as we decided it was best to move with the times,โ the official added.
The CSD was recently reported to be the most profitable retail chain in the country.A reply to a Right to Information query showed a profit of Rs236 crore for the 2014-15 financial year.
This puts CSD ahead of the Future Group, which runs Big Bazaar, and Avenue Supermart, which runs D'Mart stores. This, despite the fact that the chain is ostensibly a non-profit entity .Its operating margin is not higher than 1%, which the defence ministry claims is the lowest of any retail chain in the world.
The 3,000-plus CSD outlets serve not only active personnel in the defence services, but also ex-servicemen and their families, as part of their welfare programme. The service has also been extended to other Central entities, including paramilitary units.
These outlets sell everything from household essentials to liquor, electronics, and even automobiles, at rates much lower than existing market prices. | 2019-04-19T12:50:52Z | https://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/food-entertainment/food-services/point-of-sale-terminals-catch-on-at-defence-run-canteens/55952810 | Sports | Shopping | 0.60938 |
legendsofhockey | Rod Zaine was born May 18, 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario of Lebanese ancestory. A free agent signing of the Baltimore Clippers of the AHL in 1969, Zaine began his career in 1962-63 with the Smiths Falls Bears of the Ontario Junior Hockey League.
Following one season with the Bears, the rugged and versatile Zaine joined the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey Association-Junior in 1963-64, before returning to the Ontario Junior Hockey League with the Ottawa Montagnards the following season.
Zaine returned to Smiths Falls for the 1965-66 season where, in his final season of junior hockey, he registered 35 goals and 56 assists for 91 points in 34 games. For two seasons, Zaine was a member of the Clinton Comets (1966-68) of the Eastern Hockey League, before joining the Ottawa Nationals of the Ontario Hockey Association-Senior for only a handful of games.
After signing as a free agent with the Baltimore Clippers in 1969 and spending the entire 1969-70 season, Zaine was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for cash in the summer of 1970. That season, he played in 37 games with the Penguins while sharing his time with the AHL's Clippers and the Amarillo Wranglers of the CHL.
The Buffalo Sabres acquired Zaine from the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1971 Intra-League draft. During the 1971-72 season, he shared his time with the Sabres and Cincinnati Swords of the AHL. Playing in only 24 games with the Sabres, Zaine was claimed by the Atlanta Flames in the 1972 Expansion Draft.
Following a brief one-year stay with Atlanta, he found himself once again on the move. In 1972, the Chicago Cougars selected Zaine in the World Hockey Association General Player Draft. He spent three full seasons with the Cougars (1972-75) before being selected by the Toronto Toros in the 1975 WHA Dispersal Draft.
Rod Zaine's NHL career lasted 61 games.
Signed as a free agent by Baltimore (AHL), October, 1969. Traded to Pittsburgh by Baltimore <(AHL) for cash, July, 1970. Claimed by Buffalo from Pittsburgh in Intra-League Draft, June 8, 1971. Claimed by Atlanta from Buffalo in Expansion Draft, June 6, 1972. Selected by Chicago (WHA) in 1972 WHA General Player Draft, February 12, 1972. Selected by Toronto (WHA) from Chicago (WHA) in WHA Dispersal Draft, June 19, 1975. | 2019-04-24T18:34:23Z | http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=14744 | Sports | Sports | 0.814143 |
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wordpress | Posted by flashlightblog in Book News, Winter.
Simon Van Booy โ a contemporary, award-winning author of adult literature (The Secret Lives of People in Love, Everything Beautiful Began After) โ is also the author of the childrenโs picture book, Pobbleโs Way.
Here are some other little-known childrenโs books by beloved authors of adult literature.
Posted by flashlightblog in Grandparents.
Silly Frilly Grandma Tillie is written by Laurie Jacobs and illustrated by Anne Jewett.
We are thrilled to announce that our five current titles about grandmas, grandpas, and grandkids, are on page three of www.grandparentsdaymagazine.com, an Australian publication. The Autumn 2012 Issue is now viewable in pdf.
Posted by flashlightblog in Cats, Contests.
That Cat Canโt Stay (Thad Krasnesky & David Parkins) was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the Books for Children category by the Cat Writersโ Association, Inc (CWA). All Certificate of Excellence winners are also finalists for the CWA Muse Medallion, to be announced at the Awards Banquet on November 20th, part of the CWA Annual Conference. Author Thad Krasnesky will be attending the Awards Banquet. Weโre thrilled to share this award with Jane Yolenโs book How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Cats. | 2019-04-22T13:04:29Z | https://flashlightpress.wordpress.com/tag/childrens-books/ | Sports | Kids | 0.47461 |
nbcsports | OAKLAND -- The Warriors thought they were all set last October. Theyโd added a combo guard through the draft, a floor-stretching veteran power forward through free agency and a hungry young wing who impressed in training camp.
This trio, along with a couple of respected old pros and three playoff-tested youngsters, would give the Warriors everything theyโd need to support the star-laden starting lineup.
The front office was confident enough to leave one roster spot vacant.
Five months later, the Warriors are forced to accept that their plan hasnโt worked quite as well as they imagined.
Coach Steve Kerr was consistent in stating the Warriors expected their first-round draft pick would be able to play immediately. Rookie Jacob Evans III, however, has spent only 116 minutes on an NBA floor.
Power forward Jonas Jerebko initially appeared ready to finally end the teamโs drought of 3-point shooting from the bench, draining multiple triples in five of the first nine games. He has done it only once over the last 28 games.
After earning a job in camp, forward Alfonzo McKinnie scored in double figures three times in the first three weeks of the season. He has since, over a period of four months, scored in double figures only once.
Point guard Quinn Cook shot his way onto the roster last season but canโt seem to shake his slump this season. He was 7-of-41 from deep over a two-month stretch that ended last week when he drilled 3-of-4 in garbage time against the Celtics.
Forward/center Jordan Bell, after spending most of the first four months buried on the bench, is now starting to produce.
Point guard Shaun Livingston, the other respected old pro, has struggled to find a rhythm, perhaps because he has had a series of nagging injuries; he has missed 14 games but never more than seven in a row.
Iguodala has missed eight games with a variety of aches and pains but continues to be crucial to the teamโs defense and ability to push the pace. His shot has been the least consistent part of his game.
The bench is in 29th in scoring (29 points per game) and 3-point makes (2.8), 20th in offensive rating and eighth in defensive rating. Offensive efficiency has been fine, as Warriors reserves lead the NBA in field-goal percentage and fourth in 3-point shooting percentage.
There still is no go-to scorer coming off the bench, which is why at least one of the top four scorers -- Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, and DeMarcus Cousins -- usually is on the floor.
Minutes have been sporadic for most every reserve other than Iguodala and Livingston, and some of that falls on Kerr, who has acknowledged tinkering with rotations more often this season than in the past.
The biggest problem, however, may be the steep dropoff between starters and reserves. So often it happens that the offense bogs down and leads shrink when the Warriors send out a bench-heavy group to open the second and fourth quarters.
The bench can be better. It can be more productive. Jerebko and Cook are capable scorers. McKinnie can get a bucket when needed. But the ability to score rarely has translated into actual points.
Unless it does, the onus falls on the stars. Curry, Durant, Thompson, and Cousins have to goods to handle it, but this is not what the Warriors had in mind when they opened the season with this roster. | 2019-04-19T10:03:39Z | https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-stars-need-be-great-bench-could-be-better | Sports | Sports | 0.28578 |
wordpress | I tried making it through the movie Napoleon Dynamite a couple of times. I just never quite got it, the humor and the appeal of this indie flick. But in missing the point of ND, I clearly also missed something of a culinary resurgence that the movie seems to have helped launch: โtots.โ The little nuggets of potato goodness were, apparently, a favorite food group in the movie.
Once again, NPR set me up with the information I needed. I not only learned, driving around a few weeks ago, of the totsโ role in the movie. I learned a little food history (the nuggets of compressed potato bits was devised at Ore-Ida using trim from their French fry production) and that tater tots were making their way into the fine dining circuit. You can catch a clip from the film here, linked with a piece a couple years ago also on NPR about the Napoleon Dynamite Festival in Preston, Idaho (which includes a tater tot eating contest, natch).
This recent story particularly caught my attention because not a week earlier Iโd been nibbling on a tater tot for the first time in many years. Not a Tater Totยฎ out of an Ore-Ida bag, instead a housemade version at Ten 01 in Portland. It was happy hour and Iโd ordered their tots, embellished with bacon and shallot, to accompany my Alaska cocktail (gin with yellow chartreuse and a couple dashes of Reganโs Orange Bitters ; wonderful). Unapologetically served with classic Heinz ketchup, those tots were outstanding.
I broke down and bought a bag of Ore-Ida tots last night and served them, a bit sheepishly, alongside the lamb stew and asparagus. Itโs usually all-from-scratch around here. My husband didnโt miss a beat, โIโve always liked tater tots,โ he tells me. Guess Iโll have to pick up a bag now and then. They honestly are pretty tasty, especially with a few extra minutes in the oven to get perfectly brown-crisp on the outside, still tender on the inside. I suppose I could try to come up with my own homemade version. But sometimes, itโs good to stick with a classic. | 2019-04-21T05:26:35Z | https://cynthianims.wordpress.com/tag/retro-foods/ | Sports | News | 0.357633 |
weebly | The Ice - Mr Manager (073) Posted in Uncategorized by theicepodcast on June 20th, 2010 Tonight Marie gives some more wise words as the lads are joined once again by Matthew Sewell. The guys discuss James Corden and Patrick Stewartโs awkward spat at the Glamour awards, as well as discussing all thing newsworthy such as Twitter madness, monsters and more.
Plus Luke gives an โapprenticeโ style appraisal to his new employee Chris. | 2019-04-18T20:59:18Z | http://theicepodcast.weebly.com/episodes/category/episode%2073 | Sports | News | 0.628704 |
wordpress | Experienced my first Monday Blues today; woke up later than usual and panicked. Just because I was engrossed in YouTube late in Sunday night.
Only to see that Iโm one of the earliest.
So can being late be a relative thing as well?
There hasnโt been much time recently to settle down and pen down thoughts and what-nots, because recently I have been working. The ironic thing was that I decided to work so as to stop wasting my time rolling around in bed and making myself look like a sushi, but little did I expect myself to miss that kind of life a few days into the job. Lol seems like a perfect example of โthe grass is always greener on the other sideโ.
Hopefully I will have to chance to update this blog as and when. | 2019-04-26T10:37:48Z | https://ernesterrr.wordpress.com/2015/04/ | Sports | Reference | 0.267829 |
imdb | | Decades after "Winterset," Arrives "Somerset"
This stylish 30-minute television daytime serial has been promoted as a spin-off from its parent series "Another World," which is set in the fictional community of Bay City, not to be confused with the Michigan city, and yet "Somerset" is sometimes said to be set in Michigan.
Well, "Somerset" takes on various tones as its central themes alter under the direction of a changing slate of head writers throughout its six-year tenure, which begins with the characters of Missy, Lahoma and Sam, who leave Bay City with the aspirations of new ventures and challenges, and segues into story-lines of Romance, Mystery and Crime, involving families and individuals along the way.
Now, this series continues to coexist with "Another World," occasionally welcoming an exchange of characters or references upon one series of another.
Scheduled in the final afternoon time-slot, "Somerset" lives up to its evening foreshadowing in elegant fashion with class and style, with Drama and Romance intertwining this fictional suburban community.
Many familiar lovely actresses have graced this series with their fine talents, including Bibi Besch, Veleka Gray, Alice Hirson, Georgeann Johnson, Fawne Harriman, Lois Kibbee, Audrey Landers, Susan MacDonald, Beverly Penberthy, Mae Questel, Jane Rose, Tina Sloan, Lois Smith, Marie Wallace, Sigourney Weaver, Ann Wedgeworth and JoBeth Williams.
And also many familiar distinguished actors have performed during the years of "Somerset," including Richard Bright, Gene Bua, Jordan Charney, George Coe, Nicolas Coaster, Joel Crothers, Ted Danson, Val Dufour, Bernard Grant, Bruce Gray, Lou Jacobi, Barry Jenner, Ed Kemmer, Ted Le Plat, Ron Martin, James O'Sullivan, Michael Nouri, Jameson Parker, Dennis Patrick, Christopher Pennock, Roger Rathburn, Gary Sandy, Frank Schofield, Richard Shoberg, Gary Swanson, Edward Winter.
So, following "Somerset" generates many memories of character interaction in grand style, often complex, and invariably providing entertaining escapism and dreams which coincide with it. | 2019-04-25T05:10:26Z | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0065346/?ref_=m_nm_knf_act_i130 | Sports | Arts | 0.343138 |
eq | William Ross State High School operates under the implementation of a national framework for schooling, aligning with the aim of raising education standards and achieving nationally consistent curriculum, assessment and reporting.
Junior Secondary students study the Australian Curriculum for their core subjects. Students also participate in academic lessons in Health and Physical Education and the Languages (Japanese or Chinese) as well as completing subjects from Technology and The Arts areas. Year 7 provides the platform for building the knowledge, skills, experience and understanding required for the junior secondary phase of learning. At the completion of Year 9, successful students will be awarded the JCE (Junior Certificate of Education). This is a school-based certificate, pioneered by William Ross State High School that recognises the completion of the studentโs junior phase of learning.
In 2019 a new senior assessment and tertiary entrance arrangement will be introduced for students across Queensland.
the introduction of a new senior assessment model that combines school-based assessment (set and marked by teachers), with external assessment (developed and marked by the QCAA).
the development of new moderation processes.
the removal of the Overall Position (OP) rank and the introduction of the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).
In 2019โ, year 12 students completing their senior studies will continue under the current schooling system which awards students who are eligible for university entrance an OP (Overall Position) and Field Position. Students entering Year 11 in 2019 will commence their studies under the new schooling system which is the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). | 2019-04-26T14:34:57Z | https://williamrossshs.eq.edu.au/Curriculum/Pages/Curriculum.aspx | Sports | Arts | 0.493534 |
wordpress | A few weeks ago, I read the book The Case for Books by Book Historian, and head of the Harvard University Library, Robert Darnton. It was a rather heavy collection of essays, but they made a very good case for both the printed book and e-book to coexist. Darntonโs book had a lot to do with Googleโs Book Project, and why Google โ though their motto says, โDonโt be evilโ โ may actually be doing evil. As a librarian, he had no objections to sharing and openly lending resources. What he objected to was the potential for a company with a monopoly to profit off these resources to satisfy their shareholders.
The internet has certainly disrupted many industries such as the newspapers (we lost one of our major ones here in Seattle last year), the music industry, and the traditional encyclopedia. Still, the book, according to Darnton, has staying power.
My personal experience is that beautifully illustrated childrenโs books cannot be replaced by a glossy iPad or Kindle. Maybe Iโm projecting, but I think kids need the tactile feel of the page in their hands. They physical motion of turning the pages, scanning the illustrations before reading the text donโt seem to work with e-readers. At least I donโt see the appeal.
For adult books, however, I have found that my reading habits have increased with an e-reader. The ease of downloading a book without leaving your home is easy. I worried, at first about the inability to write in the margins or leave sticky notes on pages, but the annotation tools are quite easy to use. What about borrowing e-books?
Iโm a heavy public library user both personally and for books to complement my classroom library. I tried borrowing ebooks before I had an e-reader and reading for long periods of time on a computer screen is definitely not ideal. Now, however, thereโs an app/service called overdrive that works with the Seattle Public Library which I tried. The list is rather limited, but there are some good ones available: Daniel Pinkโs Drive, the Heath Brotherโs Switch, and Gladwellโs Blink. I searched for books on education and only a handful of decent titles came up. Unlike the libraryโs traditional books, when an e-book is unavailable, they donโt tell you how many holds there are ahead of you. There are also several audiobooks available through this service that you can directly download to your mobile device. After 21 days, it will magically expire. Some titles, like David Brooksโ new book were not available, so I just went to the Kindle store and bought it. As much as I want to support my local bookstore, it was too easy to purchase from the comfort of home.
The public libraryโs juvenile fiction section is ok. I assume theyโre building their collection. There were a few popular titles of childrenโs book series like Percy Jackson, Artemis Fowl, or Katie Kazoo. But very few classics were available. Here were some I found: The Phantom Tollbooth, Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, and a few Magic Treehouse books. This year and last yearโs Newberry winners were available, but Neil Gaimanโs The Graveyard Book or Louis Sacharโs Holes, werenโt, nor were any Lowis Lowry books available to be borrowed in this format.
As for picture books, Iโm guessing the public library has the same feeling I do about the tactile nature and visual quality of a great picture book. Either theyโre not spending any money on them, or they donโt exist as e-books. I would say thereโs definitely a case for picture books.
On a somewhat related note, the WSJ reported that Random House was changing itโs pricing format for ebooks purchased from libraries to lend out. Iโm not sure how I feel about this.
I hope both formats continue to exist, but itโs an interesting time in the book publishing industry. Nonetheless, despite budget cuts, public libraries continue to innovate and aim to be centers of learning for all. Our schools need to be too.
Collections of written knowledge have been around for centuries. From ancient scrolls to the Great Library of Alexandria (a somewhat public library, if you were considered a scholar). I feel really lucky to live in Seattle as it has an amazing public library system. It has suffered from budget cuts (down significantly from its $50M operating budget in 2008) as many have recently, but it still remains an incredible resource that serves a huge and diverse population. As print media starts to level off and digital media continues to accelerate, public libraries continue to adapt and promote learning. They also provide access to information not everyone might be able to afford.
Yesterday, I took a little trip to Seattle Public Libraryโs main downtown branch. Besides being an incredible example of mind boggling engineering and architecture (by Rem Koolhaus), there is an incredible wealth of archival material, art, periodicals, and of course, books. The library seems to have responded to its diverse needs. It has an incredible childrenโs area, its electronic materials like cds and dvds (yes, you can cue up movies like netflix) continue to grow, their graphic novel section has never been larger, and they have a great English as a second language department. While private and college libraries in this country pre-date the first public libraries in the late 1800s, public access has always been a fundamental part of their missions. With todayโs high tech necessities, the library also provides access to resources like computers, the internet, printing, and so on. For those of us fortunate enough to have our own connections, we donโt have to leave our homes to get access to a wealth of databases of periodicals and journals, reference materials (like the OED), childrenโs databases, etc. For materials I use for my classroom yearly, but donโt have room to store, the SPL is truly a remarkable jewel (the main branch is kind of shaped like one too).
I am grateful that my school has an incredible collection, and that the heart of our new campus building will be the library. I still think every child should also have a public library card, and we should be smart and efficient about how we use and share our resources. Over the years, I have also built up a nice-sized classroom library, and hope that people other than just my second graders feel welcome to borrow materials.
If you havenโt taken a tour of the main branch of the Seattle Public Library, I highly recommend it. I could go on an on about the library, but you can learn a lot just by visiting their website. | 2019-04-25T10:51:26Z | https://seattleseconds.wordpress.com/category/libraries/ | Sports | Health | 0.410471 |
lehigh | Lehigh has installed the system on an in-house server, and provides workspaces to any relatively permanent university team or group. Most features are fairly well documented inside confluence itself on its internal help pages, but LTS staff are also available to assist if needed.
To get started with your personal Confluence space, open a web browser and type 'confluence.cc.lehigh.edu' into the address bar. The system provides a great deal of it's own documentation (look for the question mark icon in the upper right), and allows you to add your own comments or ask questions in many pages, and those comments are emailed to the authors of those pages.
To create a new workspace for a department or research group, fill out the help request form, and select 'Instructional Technology' or 'Web and Mobile Apps Development'. | 2019-04-23T16:32:05Z | https://lts.lehigh.edu/services/collaboration-confluence | Sports | Business | 0.351871 |
weebly | Binah is the palace Hokmah builds as He spreads out from the primordial point. If Hokmah is the source, Binah is the river that flows from it, separating into its various branches until they all empty into the great sea of the last Sefirah. But in Binah all forms are already formed. ...Hesed is not only the Sefirah of grace and love...it is also the moment of expansion of the divine substance, which spreads out to the edge of infinity. It is the care of the living for the dead, but someone also must have observed that it is the care of the dead for the living.
symbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga, and compared it to stages of psychological/spiritual development. I think the parallels are very compelling, and consistent with advaita at a higher level.
Here are some excerpts from a book, "The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga", edited by Sonu Shamdasani, that documents these lectures.
``You know, it is sometimes an ideal not to have any kind of convictions or feelings that are not based upon reality. One must even educate people, when they have to cross from manipura to anahata, that their emotions ought to have a real basis, that they cannot swear hell and damnation at somebody on a mere assumption, and that there are absolute reasons why they are not justified in doing such a thing. They really have to learn that their feelings should be based on facts.
If you have reached that level, you begin to leave anahata, because you have succeeded in dissolving the absolute union of material external facts with internal or psychical facts. You begin to consider the game of the world as your game, the people that appear outside as exponents of your psychical condition. Whatever befalls you, whatever experience or adventure you have in the external world, is your own experience.
For example, an analysis does not depend on who the analyst is. It is your own experience[...]When he really begins to see it as his own experience, then he realizes that Dr. Jung, the partner in the game, is only relative. He is what the patient thinks of him. He is simply a hook on which you are hanging your garment; he is not so substantial as he seems to be. He is also your subjective experience.
visuddha the whole game of the world becomes your subjective experience.
The world itself becomes a reflection of the psyche. For instance, when I say that the world consists of psychical images only--that whatever you touch, whatever you experience, is imagined because you cannot perceive anything else; that if you touch this table, you might think it substantial, but what you really experience is a peculiar message from the tactile nerves to your brain[...] and your brain even is also only an image up here--when I say such a heretical thing I am on the way to visuddha. If I should succeed--and I hope I shall not--in taking all of you up to visuddha, you would certainly complain; you would stifle, you would not be able to breathe any longer, because there is nothing you could possibly breathe. It is ether.
That is only the fifth cakra, and we are already out of breath--literally so--we are beyond the air we breathe; we are reaching, say, into the remote future of mankind, or of ourselves. [...] Therefore it is rather bold to speak of the sixth cakra, which is naturally completely beyond our reach, because we have not even arrived at visuddha. But since we have that symbolism we can at least construct something theoretical about it.
condition, it is now in the full blazing white light, fully conscious.
In other words, the God that has been dormant in muladhara is here fully awake, the only reality; and therefore this center has been called the condition in which one unites with Siva. One could say it was the center of the unio mystica with the power of God, meaning that absolute reality where one is nothing but psychic reality, yet confronted with the psychic reality that one is not. And that is God. God is the eternal psychical object. God is simply a word for the non-ego. In visuddha psychical reality was still opposed to physical reality. Therefore one still used the support of the white elephant to sustain the reality of the psyche. Psychical facts still took place within us, although they had a life of their own.
But in the ajna center the psyche gets wings--here you know you are nothing but psyche. And yet there is another psyche, a counterpart to your psychical reality, the non-ego reality, the thing that is not even to be called self, and you know that you are going to disappear into it.
the force is not demanding it since you are already doing it--since you are the force. And the force returns to the origin, God.
To speak about the lotus of the thousand petals above, the sahasrara center, is quite superfluous because that is merely a philosophical concept with no substance to us whatsoever; it is beyond any possible experience. In ajna there is still the experience of the self that is apparently different from the object, God. But in sahasrara one understands that it is not different, and so the next conclusion would be that there is no object, no God, nothing but brahman. There is no experience because it is one, it is without a second. It is dormant, it is not, and therefore it is nirvana. This is an entirely philosophical concept, a mere logical conclusion from the premises above. It is without practical value for us.
Question: Do you think the idea is to experience those cakras, which one has gone through, simultaneously?
Dr. Jung: Certainly. As I told you, in our actual historical psychological development we have reached anahata and from there we can experience muladhara, and all the subsequent centers of the past, by knowledge of records, and tradition, and also through our unconscious. Suppose somebody reached the ajna center, the state of complete consciousness, not only self-consciousness. That would be an exceedingly extended consciousness which includes everything--energy itself--a consciousness which knows not only "That is Thou" but more than that--every tree, every stone, every breath of air, every rat's tail--all that is yourself; there is nothing that is not yourself.
We need magic to be able to receive or invoke the messenger and the communication of the incomprehensible.
We recognized that the world comprises reason and unreason; and we also understood that our way needs not only reason but also unreason.
This distinction is arbitrary and depends upon the level of comprehension. But one can be certain that the greater part of the world eludes our understanding.
We must value the incomprehensible and unreasonable equally, although they are not necessarily equal in themselves; a part of the incomprehensible, however, is only presently incomprehensible and might already concur with reason tomorrow.
But as long as one does not understand it, it remains unreasonable.
Insofar as the incomprehensible accords with reason, one may try to think it with success; but insofar as it is unreasonable, one needs magical practices to open it up.
The practice of magic consists in malting what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner.
The magical way is not arbitrary, since that would be understandable, but it arises from incomprehensible grounds.
Besides, to speak of grounds is incorrect, since grounds concur with reason.
Nor can one speak of the groundless, since hardly anything further can be said about this.
The magical way arises by itself If one opens up chaos, magic also arises. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314.
It is an error to believe that there are magical practices that one can learn. One cannot understand magic. One can only understand what accords with reason. Magic accords with unreason, which one cannot understand. The world accords not only with reason but also with unreason. But just as one employs reason to make sense of the world, in that what is reasonable about it approaches reason, a lack of understanding also accords with unreason.
This meeting is magical and eludes comprehension. Magical understanding is what one calls noncomprehension. Everything that works magically is incomprehensible, and the incomprehensible often works magically. One calls incomprehensible workings magical. The magical always surrounds me, always involves me.
lt opens spaces that have no doors and leads out into the open where there is no exit. The magical is good and evil and neither good nor evil. Magic is dangerous since what accords with unreason confuses, allures and provokes; and I am always its first victim. Where reason abides, one needs no magic. Hence our time no longer needs magic. Only those without reason needed it to replace their lack of reason. But it is thoroughly unreasonable to bring together what suits reason with magic since they have nothing to do with one another. Both become spoiled through being brought together. Therefore all those lacking reason quite rightly fall into superfluity and disregard. A rational man of this time will therefore never use magic.
value the incomprehensible and unreasonable equally, although they are not necessarily equal in themselves; a part of the incomprehensible, however, is only presently incomprehensible and might already concur with reason tomorrow. But as long as one does not understand it, it remains unreasonable. Insofar as the incomprehensible accords with reason, one may try to think it with success; but insofar as it is unreasonable, one needs magical practices to open it up.
grounds is incorrect, since grounds concur with reason. Nor can one speak of the groundless, since hardly anything further can be said about this. The magical way arises by itself If one opens up chaos, magic also arises.
One can teach the way that leads to chaos, but one cannot teach magic. One can only remain silent about this, which seems to be the best apprenticeship. This view is confusing, but this is what magic is like. Where reason establishes order and clarity, magic causes disarray and a lack of clarity.
the understandable, since only by means of reason can the understandable be created. No one can say how to use reason, but it does arise if one tries to express only what an opening of chaos means.
Anne Baring writes about the Tree of Life: I discovered that one of the oldest and most important images of Kabbalah is the Tree of Life. I felt that through my visionary dream I had been led to this tradition to which the early messages seemed to refer: โFind the Stone at the foot of the Tree,โ they had said. As I uncovered more about this tradition, it seemed to me that the Tree of Life was a clear and wonderful diagram describing the web of relationships which connect invisible spirit with the fabric of life in this world. At the innermost level or dimension of reality is the unmanifest and knowable divine ground; at the outermost the physical forms we call nature, body and matter. Linking the two is the archetypal template of the Tree of Life โ an inverted tree โ whose branches grow from its root in the divine ground and extend through invisible worlds or dimensions of being. In this template the nature and properties of the different dimensions or levels of reality and their relationships with each other are described and defined. Every aspect of creation, both visible and invisible, is interwoven with every other aspect. All is one life, one cosmic symphony, one integrated whole. We participate in the divine life which informs all these mysterious levels of reality. Our lives are inseparable from the inner life of the cosmos.
The Shekinah is the image of the Divine Feminine or the Feminine Face of God as it was conceived in this mystical tradition of Judaism, originating perhaps in the Rabbinic Schools of Babylon, and transmitted orally for a thousand years and more until it flowered in the writings of the Jewish kabbalists of medieval Spain and south-western France and later, in those of sixteenth century Palestine. In the imagery and mythology of the Shekinah, we encounter the most complete description of cosmic soul and the indissoluble relationship between the two primary aspects of the god-head that has been lost or hidden for centuries.
Throughout the ages, there has been a branch of knowledge, which focuses on the domain of the spirit. Spiritual existence is that which is never lost. The common core of most religions is devotional mysticism, based on the Sound Current, Word, or Holy Name. It is rooted in meditation (inner journeys) whether it appears in Judaism, Sufism, Tantra, Taoism, etc. While science explores outer phenomena, the field of mysticism explores the inner realms, which can be perceived only by our soul. A study of the different major religions reveals that each has an esoteric core. The essence of each religion is the union of the soul with God.
Mysticism is the study of how we can achieve this divine communion with the Lord. Martin Buber explained that the ecstasy is not a sudden absorption into the Universal Soul, but a steady progress forward, progress which is constant and well-controlled. God pervades the entire creation.
The soul of man is a spark of Divinity and our principle duty is to take the soul back to its source. This can be done by the power of Shekhina, the equivalent of the Name or Word, which is described as the Emanation and Glory of God whose presence and power sustain every creature. The Masters or Zaddiks preached the banishing of all worldly desires and merging them in a single desire to meet God.
The purpose of this introductory essay is to familiarize us with some important aspects of the mystical tradition of Judaism. The Jews over the ages have tended to discourage the practice of magic or practical qabalah, choosing instead to keep their emphasis on love. Both Talmudic and Kabbalistic schools emphasize the need of mentors or Masters, well-familiar with the experiential territory. Nevertheless, an extremely useful generic map of the in-scape of mysticism was developed in Jewish Kabbalah, called the Tree of Life.
Mysticism considers the human life as the fruit of the Tree of Life, and encourages meditation to unite with God on the path of Return while still living. It describes each of the domains of the inner planes on the soul's journey back to reunion with God in its true Home, Kether. Kabbalah is the study of the system of our spiritual roots which emanate from Above. There is none else but the Creator.
According to contemporary Kabbalists of B'nai Baruch, "The Kabbalah teaches the cause effect connection of our spiritual sources. Both mankind as a whole and each and every individual has to attain his highest point of understand the goal and the program of the creation in all of its fullness. In each generation there were people who by constant self work reached a certain spiritual level. In other words, while walking up the ladder, they managed to reach the top. In the spiritual world the main factor of discovery and comprehension is not time but rather purity of spirit, thought and desire." The part of Kabbalah that deals with the study of form without matter is totally based on experimental control and therefore can be verified and tested!"
The kabbalistic imperative is to transcend the bounds of the ego. "How can a beginner master this science when he cannot even properly understand his teacher? The answer is very simple It is only possible when we spiritually lift ourselves up above this world. This is possible only if we rid ourselves of all of the traces of material egoism and accept the spiritual values as the only ones.
Only the longing and the passion for the spiritual in our world, is the key for the higher world. A person's main objective is to elevate the importance of the Creator in his own eyes, i.e. to acquire faith in His greatness and might, since this is his only possibility to escape from the prison of personal egoism, and into the higher worlds. The method of breaking free from the slavery of egoism is found in the Kabbalah. The worst egotism is arrogance and conceit. Only those who engage in the study of Kabbalah for self-improvement will benefit."
These kabbalists say we must reach spiritual levels in order not to be reincarnated. We must perfect the parts of the soul, Nefesh-Ruach-Neshama-Chaya-Yechida, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Historical researches conducted in ancient Egypt have revealed that "what was known as the worship of the Word" was quite extensively prevalent during the times of the Pharaohs some 3,000 years ago. Moses, who organized a successful revolt of Jewish slave sin that country and led them on to the establishment of an independent state of their own, was brought up in the court of a Pharaoh, and seems to have been quite conversant with the worship of the Word.
According to the Bible, the prophet Moses communed with God "mouth to mouth." This implies a personal experience of the Divine -- a mystic experience. At God's behest, Moses brought the Torah -- the divine "teaching" or "revelation" -- to the children of Israel. Thus the early Israelites also had a direct mystical experience of God. Many of the patriarchs and prophets whose lives and teachings are given in the Bible are described as mystics who heard God's "voice" and "Word," who relied on His "Name," and otherwise had direct communion with Him. According to J. Abelson, an early twentieth-century scholar of Jewish mysticism, "Jewish mysticism is as old as the Old Testament...The Old Testament scintillates with sublime examples of men whose communion with God was a thing of intense reality to them."
It is important to remember that the Hebrew Bible as we know it today is not an exact and accurate rendering of the words of the mystics and prophets. Contemporary scholars, tracing the styles of several scribes in its narratives, have concluded that the Hebrew Bible is probably the work of several authors of different periods, with differing purposes and levels of spiritual attainment.
Throughout history, scribes and scholars of all religions have subtly altered the teachings of the mystics, albeit unintentionally. Because they were not of the same spiritual level as the mystics whose works they were attempting to record, and because they were often writing from memory, these scribes may have unwittingly misinterpreted or obscured the mystics' teachings. In many places in the Bible, therefore, the mystical aspects or implications of the prophets' message may actually have been lost.
Mystics often couched their teachings in parables and symbols, so that the deeper meaning of their words would be hidden to all but their closest disciplines. In some instances, for example, where the prophets appear to be speaking about political or social issues, they may have also been speaking on a mystical or esoteric level, with the political or social situation used as an allegory or symbol.
During the period of the prophets, the priestly classes were the primary authority in Judaism. The priests performed specific religious functions in the temple in Jerusalem, and in daily Jewish life as well. With the destruction by the Romans of the second temple in the year 70 C.E., the role of the priestly classes began to change and their power started started diminishing. The institution of the "rabbi" (literally, "teacher," or "master"), as the primary authority in Judaism, arose during the first and second centuries C.E., becoming greatly strengthened during the period of Islamic rule, and continuing until today.
The discovery of the scrolls at Qumran and other long-hidden early texts reveals that, from the second century B.C.E. and possibly even earlier, there were several ascetic and possibly mystical sects coexisting with the mainstream of organized priestly Judaism. It is believed that John the Baptist, and probably even Jesus of Nazareth, came from one of these sects, the Essenes.
The teachings of Philo Judaeus, the first-century Jewish mystic of Alexandria, Egypt, are of great interest from the mystical point of view. Philo wrote about God as the Word or Logos. For many centuries, Philo had more influence on Christianity than on Judaism, because until the 1700s his writings were hardly known to Jewish scholars and theologians. In the same spirit as Philo, the commentators Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel, in their Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible, rendered the name of God Jehovah (wherever it appears) as the memra, or "utterance," clearly a reference to the creative Word, or Sound, of God.
After the Bible, the second great written work in Jewish history is the Talmud, which represents almost one thousand years of rabbinic thought. Its foundation were laid during the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in the community of the returned exiles from Bab ylonia. The Talmud exists in two versions -- one Palestinian and the other Babylonian (both edited during the fifth century C.E.) -- reflecting the thinking of the two academies of rabbis. Most of the Talmud is concerned with law, but it also contains a good deal of moralistic, legendary, and mystical material.
Some teachers of the Talmud cultivated the mystical life...[but] while recording the views of those teachers who sought to cultivate mystical interest, the Talmud indicates that the religious authorities of the time tried to discourage this tendency. . .In some instances mystical pursuits became intertwined with magic, which was, no doubt, an additional factor that inspired the effort to discourage it.
Contemporary rabbi David Blumenthal explains that during the talmudic period, some of the rabbinic tradition rubbed off on Jewish mysticism, hence the intellectualism or "bookishness" of Jewish mystic literature. He says that the general concept of Judaism that we have today stems from rabbinic Judaism. From then on, those rabbis who were devoted to the mystic life tend to be secretive about their teachings and practice, using esoteric symbols and stories that could be understood only by the "initiated."
But still, Blumenthal explains, during the course of Jewish history there was often a give-and-take between the rationalistic rabbis and the mystics; and just as mysticism tended to be expressed in intellectual terms, often the scholarship of the rationalists became infused with a suppressed mystic yearning. "There is hardly a symbol, act, or belief in the rabbinic tradition which was not touched, and transformed by the mystical tradition."
The mystical side of Judaism during the talmudic period and continuing into the Middle Ages is represented for the most part in the heckalot literature. Heckalot literally means "palaces," or "halls." These works describe the meditation practices of Jewish mystic who were attempting to take the mystic journey through the iner regions or palaces on the merkavah, "chariot," of light and sound. The chariot metaphor is taken from the mystic experiences of Elijah and Ezekiel in the bible. Most of the works describing the merkavah journey were written between the first century B.C.E. and the tenth century C.E. and are called the greater and lesser heckalot.
Sometime between the third and sixth centuries C.E. appeared one of the most powerful works of Jewish mysticism to survive till this day. Only two thousand words long, the Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Formation") is an attempt to describe the mystery and structure of creation by means of numbers, and as such it is similar to the teachings of Pythagoras. With a minimum of words, it describes the creation as series of emanations from the one divine Name, Word, or utterance.
The concept of creation by emanation is also found in the literature of the medieval Jewish mystics, many of whom were part of the Sufi mystic tradition in Egypt and Spain. Sufism was a mystic teaching which appeared in the Islamic world from approximately the tenth century. The focus of Sufi philosophy was God-realization through mystic practice and devotion rather than through intellectual pursuit or performance of ritual. The Sufis emphasized the need to control the mind and senses and eliminate the ego in order to travel on the spiritual path.
Jewish Sufi manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth century in the Cairo Genizah (a hidden attic in an ancient synagogue) have shed great light on the close relationship between Jewish and Muslim mystics of medieval times. From the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, Jewish mystics translated and freely quoted from Sufi mystical writings, and some pursued the spiritual path under the guidance of Sufi masters. Similarly, during almost the same period, Jewish mystics in Persia and Turkey shared a devotional spirit with the Muslim mystics of their time. Many read Hebrew translations of the works of Rumi and Sa'adi.
The Jewish mystics in the Sufi tradition were sometimes called hasidim ("devotees," "pious ones"). Althought this movement, and the Hasidei Ashkenaz movement which arose in Germany during the thirteenth century, were not connected historically with what later became known as Hasidism -- the ecstatic religious movement which began in eighteenth century Poland -- they foreshadowed many of its elements, particularly the emphasis on devotion, spiritual inwardness, and personal experience of God.
Bahya ibn Paquda of eleventh-century Spain was a mystic in the Sufi tradition. His book Hovot ha-Levavot, "Duties of the Hearts," deals with the life of the true "servant," the devotee yearning for the mystical life. Solmon ibn Gebirol, also known as Avicebron, was Bahya's older contemporary; in his mystical work Mekor Haym, "Fountain of Life," he described the creation as a series of emanation from the primal source of light. This teaching was echoed by many later Jewish mystics, especially the Kabbalists, and parallels the descriptions of the creation given by mystics from many traditions.
Moses Maimonides, author of the philosophic masterpiece The Guide for the Perplexed, lived in Cairo during the twelfth century. Noted as a philosopher, physician, and rationalist, Maimonides was also a mystic who stressed the possibility of direct spiritual experience through mystic practice. His son Abraham and grandson Obadyah were mystics in the Sufi tradition, whose works have recently been rediscovered and published.
The most renowned aspect of Jewish mysticism, which has almost taken on life as a religious movement and influence in itself, is the Kabbalah, which literally means "receiving" or "tradition." The development of Jewish Sufism may have prepared the way for acceptance and growth of the Kabbalah. The term Kabbalah is normally used to refer to a large number of complex, esoteric works dating from the thirteenth century which draw on the Bible, the Talmud, and other texts. Its precursors were the Sefer Yetzirah, the works of Ibn Gebirol, and the twelfth-century work, the Sefer ha-Bahir ("Book of Brilliance").
But when most contemporary Jews think of the Kabbalah, they generally have in mind the Zohar ("Radiance" or "Shining"), the longest and most influential work of the Kabbalah. Although it had been widely believed that the Zohar was written during the more ancient talmudic period by Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, recent scholarship has shown that, at the earliest, it was written in the late thirteenth century by Moses de Leon of Spain.
At that time, it was not uncommon for authors of religious texts to claim that they had discovered manuscripts written in earlier periods. Such works are called pseudo-epigraphic. They seek the authenticity and credibility that come from authorship by an ancient, respected master.
However, although De Leon may have been the actual writer of the Zohar, many scholars and students of mysticism feel that he was indeed compiling, recording, and synthesizing mystical traditions dating from earlier times. Clearly, many of the Zohar's underlying principles coincide with universal mystic teachings -- for instance, the theory of creation as an emanation from the original divine light; the concept of spiritual, astral, and physical levels of creation; reincarnation, etc.
But the Jewish mystics of the Zohar gave expression to their mystic experiences by linking them to biblical references and couching them in terms acceptable to Jewish tradition. Also enmeshed in the Zohar are accretions of legend, ritual, and superstition that reflect the influences of the many cultures in which Jewish mystics and seekers lived after their exile from Judea.
The Kabbalists maintained that God's real Torah, or teaching, is the Zohar, and that what we commonly know as the Torah is a hint to the Zohar's esoteric teachings. They felt that God gave the Zohar and other kabbalistic works for those initiated into "the inner mysteries," and that the Bible exists as a hint to those esoteric teachings. They often referred to the Kabbalah as "the hidden science."
Most of the works grouped in the Kabbalah teach a theosophy or cosmogony concerning the nature of God and structure of the universe. In contrast to the Sufi teaching, they do not generally urge a devotional approach in pursuing direct experience of and attachment to the Divine. In this sense, Kabbalah becomes what the Indians call gyana yoga, "the yoga of knowledge," where the Sufi or hasidic tradition is more like bhakti yoga, "the yoga of devotion." As Bokser explained, the Kabbalah "proceeds through an intricate web of esoteric symbols, and its offering is primarily a gnosis, an esoteric knowledge which in itself is said to yield man the highest rewards of divine commendation."
The Kabblah was an influence not only on the Jew; Christian scholars looked into its symbols and allegories and found symbols of Jesus and his teachings. The Kabbalah is also the focus of Freemasonry and other secret societies, which have as their goal the discovery of mystical knowledge they believe to have been handed down through the generation since the time of Adam [the 'Lost Word" in Masonry]. According to the Freemasons, the Zohar itself is the vehicle of the most profound religious mysteries, reveal only orally in previous ages, to which hints exist in secret manuscripts.
Abraham Abulafia, a mystic and student of Kabbalah of thirteenth-century Spain and Italy, taught his followers an actual system of meditation and concentration based on combinations and permutations of letters and words, with the goal of entering the inner spiritual realms. Abulafia was excommunicated as a heretic by the orthodox Jewish authorities of his time, and many of his manuscripts were lost for several centuries. Today modern researchers have been successfully unearthing and studying them, bring to light a lost chapter in Jewish mystical history.
Although some Jewish mystics claim success in following the complicated practices of letter and word combinations and permutations, as taught by Abulafia and other Kabbalists, there are many more stories relating the dangers and pitfalls experienced within by practitioners. Despite the dangers, however, some Jewish mystics continued to teach these practices openly until the sixteenth century, when it became more expedient to hide their use; and by the eighteenth century they had almost died out. Since the 1970s in the United States, however, with the resurgence of interest in Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah, a number of seekers have begun attempting these techniques once again, using old manuscripts as models and guides.
By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many Kabbalists had gathered in Safed, Palestine. Rabbi Isaac Luria, who was known as ha-Ari ("the Lion"), was the center of this circle of Safed mystics. Also known as "the divine Rabbi Isaac," he was said to possess "the holy spirit" and to have been given "the revelation of Elijah," Luria appears to have transformed the doctrine of emanation described in the Zohar into amore complex system and also taught name and letter combination techniques for concentration.
During the seventeenth century, a Jewish mystic by the name or Sarmad settled in India. Born into a rabbinical family of Kashan, Persia, he came to India as a trader and experienced a spiritual transformation. Sarmad is still revered throughout India, yet little is known about the details of his life, and western Judaism is largely unaware of him. From his teachings, however, we can see that Sarmad was a true mystic of the highest order, a sauna who transcended the outer formalities of religion and found the Lord within himself.
He sang of union with the Name, the inner divine music. Some sources say he converted to Islam and then to Hinduism, but if one reads his rubaiyats carefully, it is clear that although he examined all religions, he rejected their external limitations, embracing the inner teaching which he recognized as only One. He boldly sang of his unconventional love for the Lord and taught others to do the same. Ultimately, in 1959/60 he was beheaded as a heretic by Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India.
The most recent flourishing of mysticism in Judaism is Hasidism, which appeared in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century, a time when Jews were being persecuted at the hands of the authorities. There was deep yearning for God to reveal himself, for a religious renewal which would lift the soul out of the sufferings of the world. Hasidism fulfilled this need and was the movement which quickly transformed Judaism. During this time, many spiritual teachers appeared, who were call rebbes or zaddiks ("masters") by their disciples.
The first Hassidic master, the Ba'al Shem Tov (literally, "Master of the Good Name") was a simple, uneducated man -- the antithesis of the traditional rabbi, who was generally a scholar and an intellectual. The Ba'al Shem Tov communed with God internally and preferred the stillness of nature to the synagogue. It is said that he was able to speak to and understand the birds and animals. He spoke of seeing the divine Light and taught his followers the importance of devekut, "attachment" or cleaving to God at every moment of their lives. There were many other hasidic masters, like Rabbi Nahman of Batslav and Dov Baer, the Maggid ("spiritual channel") of Mezherich -- spiritual teachers whose legends and parables are quoted even in present times.
At first the Hasidim were considered as heretics by mainstream Jewish rabbis and the community at large; some were even excommunicated and their writings put in herem, "quarantine," and reading them was forbidden. Later, however, as the hasidic rebbes gathered more and more adherents, their teachings spread and gained strength amongst the people. Nowadays, the descendants of the Hasidim still follow the rebbes of their respective lines, but the teachings have for the most part become another form of orthodox ritual and study of scripture, though sometimes infused with an intensity, joy, and fervor that reflect their true hasidic origin.
At the end of the nineteenth century there was a decline in mystical seeking in Judaism, as the Haskalah, the 'enlightenment" movement, took over. All over the world, science became the new god, and people rejected religion -- especially mysticism -- as superstition. However, in certain parts of Europe there were small groups of mystics who continued to study the Kabbalah, while some hasidic lines maintained their integrity, if not always the purity of their original purpose.
The mystical spirit that craves for a direct encounter with God, for a fresh illumination of soul, is not content with pondering a tradition, even a mystical tradition. To gain this boon the mystic must travel the lone road of meditation, of struggling with his own opaque material self, to break the barrier that separates him from God and to enter directly into contact with the divine mystery.
Over the ages, mystics have used many metaphors to convey the state of the soul's longing to return to its. source. Rabbi Isaac Luria wrote of the soul as a spark of the divine light, from which it had separated at the time of creation and with which it longs to be reunited. He spoke of the lower self as a kelipah, a "shell" or "husk," that encases our souls, our holy spark. Although we are truly spiritual, our imprisonment in these shells prevents us from knowing and experiencing our spiritual essence. The purpose of human life is to break the shells and liberate the sparks, freeing them to reunite with the original, eternal light. This state of restoration was called tikkun -- "redemption" or "perfection."
The spiritual Master, the mystic, comes to this world to teach a method of freeing the soul -- the spark -- from the shell of mind and illusion, so it can merge back into God. This is the real unification, or yoga.
Some Kabbalists taught that each of the realms of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiah was made of respectively higher and lower intensities of all ten sefirot. They envisioned the ten sefira of the world of Assiah as existing in the human body itself, with each sefirah corresponding to a particular function or energy center of the body. The Kabbalists used the image of the Tree of Life to describe the relationship between the sefirot when manifested in the human body.
In various Jewish meditational practices, the tree serves as a diagram of the various steps or stations a practitioner needs to traverse in the course of his or her inner mystic journey to spiritual union. Similarly, Indian yogis and mystics describe a series of chakras or energy center in the body, upon which they meditate during certain practices of yoga. These chakras have a direct correspondence to the sefirot of the Tree of Life in the realm of Assiah (the Physical Plane).
All saints teach that the creation came from the Word, the holy Name of God, the Shabd -- the divine energy of life, the divine music, the audible life stream -- which activates the creation and manifests as sound and light, emanating from En-Sof -- the realm of pure Spirit.
The goal of spiritual practice is to reverse this process of creation on an individual level -- of the soul's separation from the divine source and imprisonment in matter. Jewish mystics call it tikkun, "fixing," but Indian mystics simply describe it as the merging of the soul into its divine source, so that it never again has to experience separation and imprisonment in the material creation.
The purpose of the creation cannot be understood at the level of intellect. The causal, astral and physical planes are composed of spirit mixed with varying degrees of matter, and thus are subject to change and disintegration. They are not eternal or true; love exists in limited quantities there, but negativity is also present. In Judaism, man is said to have two inclination or impulses: the good inclination (soul) and the evil inclination (mind and body/desire nature). What is good or evil can be distinguished easily, for one either moves closer to or further sway from the Lord.
Since the Lord, the pure spiritual being, is light, to obscure that light results in what we call evil. Though in many respects evil is only a lesser good an there is no such things as evil per se...it is but a show, a lesser light. Whatever pulls us away from the Lord and realizing Him within us is evil; whatever leads us toward Him is good. Just as there is one Lord for everyone, so the soul which is His essence, is one and the same in everyone. Though our bodies may differ, the spiritual essence that activates it and gives us life is the same. We must get in touch with the divine Name He has placed within us. | 2019-04-23T18:29:29Z | https://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com/kabbalah-connection.html | Sports | Reference | 0.102485 |
wordpress | This is the column I wrote for the March 2017 of the First Church Simsbury newsletter, The Cornerstone.
Lent is the season in the church year that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends forty days later (not counting Sundays) on the Saturday before Easter. The forty days represents the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. We can think of Lent as a time for us to cultivate an awareness of and be present with the desert experiences of our lives, those places that are, metaphorically speaking, dry, harsh, rocky and inhospitable. During Lent we are invited to attend to our soul through spiritual practices such as fasting (giving something up), praying, or meditating. Meditation, sometimes called mindfulness, is a method to quiet our heartโs yearning and mindโs churning. By meditating, we learn that we can simply โbeโ in lifeโs desert places without restlessness, anxiety or fear.
Meditation might bring to mind a Buddhist monk, sitting perfectly still on a cushion, a picture of peace and enlightenment. I have meditated in this way periodically over the years, sitting quietly, watching my breath, inโฆ and outโฆ inโฆ and out. And though this practice has been, at times, richly rewarding, I have found it difficult to maintain for more than a few months. But sitting quietly isnโt the only way to cultivate mindfulness; there are everyday practices that can function in the same way.
I share one such everyday practice that centers me, with the hope that you might also find a day-to-day activity that can help ground you in the dry, rocky, desert times of your life.
One day last fall I was complaining to Rev. Kev about the exorbitant price of cartridge razors. In response he revealed that he shaves with an old-fashioned, double-edged safety razor. I was intrigued, so around Thanksgiving off I went to Target where such a razor can be had for less than $20. Upon using it the next morning, I was hooked! Not only am I saving a boatload of money (each blade costs ten cents!), I love the ritual of using a shaving brush and soap, and the old-timey feel of the razor in my hand.
At first I didnโt recognize shaving as a mindfulness practice. But over the past few months I have realized that shaving with a double-edged razor requires the same gentle attention as watching my breath. Like meditating, it requires one to slow down and gently let go of thoughts as they arise. Hurrying, using too heavy a hand, or letting my mind wander while shaving will result in nicks and cuts, not to mention a poor shave.
And shaving, like meditating, is a sensory rich experience. When I quiet my mind in meditation I notice the chill in the air and hear the birds singing. Similarly, when I shave there is the smell of the shaving soap, the feel of the warm lather and soft brush, even the sound the razor makes when I pull it across my face. Giving attention to these helps quiet my mind; and should my thoughts again begin to wander, I gently return my attention to the movement of the razor across my face. I experience that same calm, centered, contented feeling after my morning shave that I would feel after meditating.
Though there are still things that make me feel anxious, my morning shave grounds me in a way that makes me better able to respond to the dayโs challenges.
So, this is my invitation to you. During this season of Lent, identify an everyday activity that may function as a spiritual practice for you. It could be walking, taking a bath or shower, doing the laundry, or cooking. Slow down, cultivate an awareness of the sights, sounds, and feel in each moment. Any of these, and many other activities, when done with intention and attention, can quiet heart and mind and allow us to simply be present with God, even in those barren, rocky, wilderness places in our lives. | 2019-04-19T06:42:51Z | https://pastorgharris.wordpress.com/category/spiritual-practice/ | Sports | Shopping | 0.446256 |
ucalgary | This study reports novel roles of the calcium-activated potassium channel of intermediate conductance, called IKCa, in pyramidal neurons of the CA1 region of the rat and mouse hippocampus. In addition to pharmacological profiling of the IKCa channel in these neurons, conducted using potent blockers of IKCa such as TRAM-34 and ChTx, single channels were found that fit the profile of IKCa including a potassium-selective single channel of ~30 pS conductance activated by calcium influx. In addition, the role of IKCa in generating the calcium-activated slow afterhyperpolarization (sAHP) was investigated. The molecular identity of the sAHP has eluded discovery for over 30 years despite it representing one of the strongest inhibitory responses in the brain. Here it is reported that IKCa channels generate a long-lasting, calcium-activated sAHP in response to bursts of synaptic activity and neuron firing, which is inhibited by TRAM-34. This work is important in identifying a novel ion channel in the brain and one of the primary contributors to the sAHP. These data will help to further our understanding of hippocampus-related phenomena, including behaviours such as spatial memory, with potential implications in other brain regions expressing IKCa channels. | 2019-04-25T03:58:15Z | https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/11023/2005 | Sports | Science | 0.982181 |
nytimes | FOR a first-rate demonstration of the artfulness of a cameraman and the skill at putting together handsome pictures and a strongly sentimental musical score, there is nothing around any better than Claude Lelouch's "A Man and a Woman" ("Un Homme et Une Femme"), which had its American premiere at the Paris last night.This frankly romantic French drama, which shared the best-picture award at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Pietro Germi's "Signore e Signori," is a beautiful and sometimes breath-taking exposition of visual imagery intended to excite the emotions. The only trouble is that the drama is banal.It's a commonplace, superficial showing of the spontaneous combustion of love between a movie script-girl who is a widow (and the mother of a cute little girl) and an auto-racing driver who is a widower (and the father of a darling little boy). The children, who go to the same school, bring them together as some people are brought together by dogs, and the rest is on the sentimental level of a movie romance ignited in a park.But that doesn't say the film is lacking in a free, vigorous cinematic style or that it fails to catch the viewer in little incidents that have poignancy and charm. Mr. Lelouch, who was his own script writer as well as director and cameraman, has a rare skill at photographing clichรฉs so that they sparkle and glow with poetry and at generating a sense of inspiration in behavior that is wholly trivial.He has one sequence, for instance, photographed in a candid-camera style, in which the two parents and the two children converse at a dinner table, that fairly bubbles with spontaneous humor, disarming humanity and truth. He has another in which his racing driver, flushed with victory and a telegram from the girl telling him that she loves him, drives to Paris from Monte Carlo through the night and arrives in the glow of a wintry sunrise that suddenly warms the marrow of one's bones.The accompanying music for this last sequence, interjecting its melody and beat, is significant of the importance this element has in the film. For Mr. Lelouch, who got much of his schooling doing short films for Scopitones โ jukeboxes equipped with small motion-picture screensโis as diligent in blending the emotion of Frais Lai's music into his film as he is in composing impressions that have their own emotional qualities.Mr. Lelouch inclines, as do several young filmmakers, to use the telescopic lens to compress and distort perspectivesโto show figures in motion against distant backgrounds that are brought much closer than they actually are within the frame. He delights in rapid montages of auto racing and filmmaking. He dotes upon flash close-ups of details โ there are more than 4,000 shots in this film. And he has a bewildering disposition to do certain segments in sepia tones, rather than in realistic color, for no evident reason than because it pleases him.His is an obviously subjective, impressionistic style that reflects his creative feelings more than those of his characters. And this is evident in the disconcerting flatness of the performances of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee as they pursue their erratic courtship.They seem two dimly sentient beings moved by memories of conventional affections and the compulsions of ordinary love. They are the only characters of any consequence, and the fact that they become only puppets for the creator's concept of the visual beauty and torment of romance is but another indication of the distinctive stylization and the dramatic weakness of this film.There are English subtitles for the French dialogue. | 2019-04-21T22:01:45Z | https://www.nytimes.com/1966/07/13/archives/screen-french-and-frankly-romantica-man-and-a-woman-opens-at-the.html | Sports | Arts | 0.257731 |
nypost | SAN JUAN โ The United States has played three times against Puerto Rico. And about a zillion times against themselves.
The U.S. Olympic qualifying team is ready to get this process started. Now they need only to wait until 10 oโclock tonight when they play Brazil here.
โTheir name is Brazil, thatโs all I can tell you,โ Tracy McGrady said.
Well, as ready as theyโre going to be.
* Nick Collison, who has played on USA Basketball teams for six straight summers, aggravated his sprained right shoulder but said he will be available. | 2019-04-25T21:00:29Z | https://nypost.com/2003/08/20/u-s-team-eager-to-face-brazil/ | Sports | Sports | 0.667371 |
indystar | The Class 2A state finals will feature two of the top sophomores in the state. But Kyle Ross and Lincoln Hale are far from the only weapons on their respective teams.
The 6-7 Ross averages 17.0 points and 9.2 rebounds for Andrean (20-8), which will play in the state finals for the first time since 2000. Lincoln Hale, a 6-4 guard, averages 18.4 points and 4.8 rebounds for eighth-ranked Linton-Stockton (27-3).
Ross is part of a strong sophomore class for Andrean that also includes 6-foot guard Nicholas Flesher (8.6 ppg, 41 percent 3-pointers), 6-1 forward Benjamin Jones (7.3 ppg) and 6-3 guard Deshon Burnett (5.1 ppg, 3.2 rebounds). Senior point guard John Carrothers (13.6 ppg, 4.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists) led the 59ers to a 73-64 double-overtime win in the semistate with 20 points, six rebounds and four assists.
Hale set up Linton-Stocktonโs dramatic 72-71 win over Paoli in the regional semifinal, driving the length of the court before dishing to Sammy Robbins for the buzzer-beating shot. Hale took a nasty fall in the regional championship game against Tell City and injured his back, but did play in the Minersโ 73-56 win over Shenandoah.
TV/Radio: Fox Sports Indiana/WFNI-1070 AM, 107.5-FM.
Andrean scouting report: As noted above, Ross and Carrothers are Andreanโs top two players. The 59ers have played a difficult tournament slate, knocking off No. 5 Westview in the regional 60-49 and No. 4 Frankton 73-64 in double overtime in the semistate. Coach Brad Stangel, is a Wisconsin native. He won two national championships at Division II Wisconsin-Platteville under Bo Ryan, who went on to a successful run at Wisconsin.
Linton-Stockton scouting report: In addition to Hale, the Miners are led by 6-1 senior Tucker Hayes (12.0 ppg, 2.6 assists), 6-3 junior Kip Fougerousse (11.4 ppg, 3.7 assists), 6-5 senior Sammy Robbins (7.9 ppg, 5.3 rebounds), 5-11 senior Evan Slover (5.5 ppg, 4.4 assists), 6-4 senior Silas Robbins (5.1 ppg) and 6-2 junior Devyn Robertson (4.9 ppg). Linton-Stockton is an excellent shooting team, hitting 60 percent from the field and 37 percent from 3-point line for ninth-year coach Joey Hart. The Miners defeated No. 9 Paoli in the regional and No. 2 Shenandoah 73-56 in the semistate. Linton-Stockton ranks No. 20 in the state in scoring (68.4 ppg).
Prediction: Linton-Stockton in a tight one. Two great matchups in the early session. | 2019-04-25T21:57:20Z | https://ux.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/03/22/indiana-hs-basketball-andrean-vs-linton-stockton-2-a-state-title/3249229002/ | Sports | Sports | 0.731078 |
boisestate | "ZnO Nanoparticles Modulate the Ionic Transport and Voltage Regulation " by Sheenah L. Bryant, Josh E. Eixenberger et al.
Background: The insufficient understanding of unintended biological impacts from nanomaterials (NMs) represents a serious impediment to their use for scientific, technological, and medical applications. While previous studies have focused on understanding nanotoxicity effects mostly resulting from cellular internalization, recent work indicates that NMs may interfere with transmembrane transport mechanisms, hence enabling contributions to nanotoxicity by affecting key biological activities dependent on transmembrane transport. In this line of inquiry, we investigated the effects of charged nanoparticles (NPs) on the transport properties of lysenin, a pore-forming toxin that shares fundamental features with ion channels such as regulation and high transport rate.
Results: The macroscopic conductance of lysenin channels greatly diminished in the presence of cationic ZnO NPs. The inhibitory effects were asymmetrical relative to the direction of the electric field and addition site, suggesting electrostatic interactions between ZnO NPs and a binding site. Similar changes in the macroscopic conductance were observed when lysenin channels were reconstituted in neutral lipid membranes, implicating protein-NP interactions as the major contributor to the reduced transport capabilities. In contrast, no inhibitory effects were observed in the presence of anionic SnO2 NPs. Additionally, we demonstrate that inhibition of ion transport is not due to the dissolution of ZnO NPs and subsequent interactions of zinc ions with lysenin channels.
Conclusion: We conclude that electrostatic interactions between positively charged ZnO NPs and negative charges within the lysenin channels are responsible for the inhibitory effects on the transport of ions. These interactions point to a potential mechanism of cytotoxicity, which may not require NP internalization.
Bryant, Sheenah L.; Eixenberger, Josh E.; Rossland, Steven; Apsley, Holly; Hoffman, Connor; Shrestha, Nisha; McHugh, Michael; Punnoose, Alex; and Fologea, Daniel. (2017). "ZnO Nanoparticles Modulate the Ionic Transport and Voltage Regulation of Lysenin Nanochannels". Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 15(1), 90-1 - 90-11. | 2019-04-25T15:58:09Z | https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/physics_facpubs/205/ | Sports | Science | 0.548798 |
crash | Fernando Alonso celebrates his final Formula 1 race this weekend at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix so take a look over the highs and lows of the two-time world champion's career.
Starting in 2001 with back-markers Minardi, Alonso climbed his way up the grid to become the youngest-ever F1 world champion with Renault, beating Michael Schumacher and Ferrari in the process, before a career with multiple highlights from his infamous 2007 McLaren campaign to his title near-misses with Ferrari.
But with 32 race wins, 97 podiums, 22 pole positions and his two F1 world championship crowns, hereโs how Alonso paved his F1 career. | 2019-04-20T04:22:41Z | https://www.crash.net/f1/video/910971/1/video-fernando-alonso-f1-career-timeline | Sports | Sports | 0.974978 |
brunel | I manage the progress of blockwork, dry lining, insulation and painting. I also work with the concrete package, managing the slab preparation and checking rebar pre concrete pour. I prepare and offer these up for inspection with the architect/client to get them signed off as completed works.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here at Multiplex. Upon first starting I was taught everything I needed to know and then given my own areas to manage. The team I have worked with are great and work is a lot of fun both in and out of the office. On-site deadlines can be stressful at times, but meeting them is very rewarding as you prove you can meet personal and team achievements. We had plenty of staff socials, and this was an excellent opportunity to network and meet new people across the company of a variety of levels.
Developing a strong relationship with the Architect/client. I have site inspections with these guys three times a week to inspect all completed works that are available. Since taking on this role I have handed over/had inspections on a very large proportion of works on this job โ Given that itโs a 250 million pound job that has 1.6 million sq.ft. gross internal floor area, itโs a lot of work to cover.
I have developed in many ways in my year with Multiplex. I have earned new qualifications through attending training sessions, including: SMSTS, CSCS, Working at Height training, Environmental training and Blue Vest training. I used my time to develop my professional network with a range of companies, including Multiplex, our client, the Architect, and several Sub-contractors. I have experienced life on a construction site and how things really work behind the scenes in the office. All of this will be essential and very useful for me going forward.
Confidence is key โ you have to work with Sub-contractors everyday and issue them instructions/request favors. This is much easier to do if you have confidence in your own authority.
Network as much as possible. Building connections is vital for moving forward with your career.
Try getting involved with as many areas in the industry as you can, e.g. working with different packages (Steel, concrete, fit out etc.) The more experience you have, the easier you will adapt challenges in the future. | 2019-04-23T12:43:35Z | http://iworkat.brunel.ac.uk/matthew-roger-burman/ | Sports | Business | 0.919291 |
sfgate | A wicker basket holding towels brings a spa-like vibe to a bathroom.
Put a wicker basket collection to use in a bathroom to create a visually appealing, cohesive and functional space. In addition to looking good, baskets create the storage space that's often lacking in a bathroom. Towels, toiletries and tissue all need to go somewhere -- preferably neatly, especially in a guest bathroom. Storing this miscellany of items in baskets gives the room a tidy feel while providing easy access when they're needed.
A narrow storage bench or bookcase can serve as a holding area for wicker baskets. Some storage benches and bookcase-style furniture even come with baskets already included. Use these pieces to store towels, washcloths, soaps and bathroom appliances, such as hair dryers and styling irons -- but make sure the appliances are completely cool before placing them in wicker. Accent spaces that do not contain a basket, like atop a bookcase, with small decorative pieces such as a vase or framed picture.
A spa-like environment in a bathroom adds to the air of relaxation, comfort and pampering. Place wicker baskets lined in white fabric and holding towels on a ledge near the tub. Place another white-lined wicker basket containing scented bath salts, oils and a relaxation pillow within reach of the tub. Add a large, square, lidded wicker basket filled with bathrobes and slippers or extra washcloths and towels to the space. A small wicker basket brimming with travel- or gift-sized luxury bath soaps, shampoos and toiletries complete the pampering ambiance.
Wicker baskets fit naturally in a shabby chic or cottage-style bathroom decked out in light blues and whites or with antiqued furnishings and decor. Whitewashed wicker baskets can work particularly well with this style. For a seaside cottage look and feel, place seashells or antique glass net floats in a wicker basket or two. Fill a basket with frosted beach or sea glass. For a shabby chic vibe, line whitewashed baskets with a white or white-and-blue checked fabric, and fill them with towels, toiletries and extra tissue rolls. Mix the wicker baskets with accessories like vintage apothecary jars holding cotton swabs and travel-sized toiletries. For a bathroom classic, work a basket filled with magazines into the space.
Add several towel racks to one wall, placed above one another like rungs on a ladder. Hang wicker baskets from the racks using shower curtain hangers. Affix a long, narrow wicker basket beneath a window sill to create an interior window box. Place live or silk plants in it or use it to store hand towels and washcloths. Attach baskets to the inside of a bathroom closet door for extra hidden storage.
Adams, Kathy. "Decorating a Bathroom With Wicker Baskets." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/decorating-bathroom-wicker-baskets-52293.html. Accessed 22 April 2019. | 2019-04-22T10:30:30Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/decorating-bathroom-wicker-baskets-52293.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.096642 |
wordpress | Itโs been 10 years since I heard Sue Miller, the author of the novel The Senatorโs Wife interviewed on NPR. As Miller and program host Linda Wertheimer discussed the novel, much to my surprise I found myself intrigued. So intrigued was I that I vowed to read The Senatorโs Wife someday. Well, after all those years Iโm happy to say a few weeks ago I borrowed a copy from my public library. After waiting so long to read, naturally I was afraid Iโd experience a let-down. But alas, there was none since The Senatorโs Wife did not disappoint me.
After a newly married couple purchase one half of a double town house in New England the two of them discover their neighbor, a retired age woman with a stately demeanor is the wife of a former US Senator. While the two households share identical floor plans, their respective inhabitants live in completely different worlds. Nathan, a young political science professor is married to Meri, a reporter for a local NPR station. While not exactly honeymooners, their marriage is fresh and on an uncertain yet hopeful trajectory. Next door is Delia, aloof at first but soon becomes a mother figure to Meri. Beneath Deliaโs calm facade however lie a lifetime of painful wounds thanks to her senator husbandโs years of infidelities.
I credit Sue Miller for taking what could have been an average novel at best with a ho-hum storyline and turning it into something greater. I consider The Senatorโs Wife one of this yearโs pleasant surprises and could very well make my year-end Best Fiction List. | 2019-04-21T14:11:58Z | https://maphead.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/about-time-i-read-it-the-senators-wife-by-sue-miller/ | Sports | Arts | 0.844079 |
nd | We get our fixed - or malleable - notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hyper sexualizing media gaze, and through the dictates of those great monoliths, Faith and Obedience within a/the Church. However, gender is also being formed in the well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways where gender gets most articulated - bartered for and with - during adolescence.
This book documents a year-long auto ethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It elucidates how schooling helps form both assumptions and practices about what it means to become a man, and examines how these discourses are reshaped by young men in their daily lives. In the process the book explicates how students come to make sense of and exercise their own identities amidst the discourses of the school around, through, and by religion and gender and, necessarily, sexuality.
Much contemporary scholarship has explored the complex processes by which 'masculinity' is constructed and enacted by young men coming to adulthood in this society where what it means to be male and female is contested in new and sometimes confusing ways. Kevin J. Burke has entered that conversation armed both with post-modern 'tools to think with' and with a gift for sharp, empathic, and meticulous observation of this process at a site hitherto under-explored: an all-male Catholic high school in Chicago, where for an entire semester he immersed himself.
His observations and insights are by turns revealing, disturbing, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving.
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 184 pp., num. ill. | 2019-04-26T08:03:10Z | https://genderstudies.nd.edu/news/new-book-released-by-kevin-j-burke/ | Sports | Society | 0.853148 |
npr | U.N. Team Looking At Attacks Assad Blamed On Rebels : The Two-Way As they resume their investigation into allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, U.N. experts are looking into at least three incidents for which President Bashar Assad's aides have said the rebels were responsible. The inspectors are not expected to assign blame.
A convoy of U.N. vehicles with chemical weapons experts on board head out on Friday to do more work as the investigate allegations of chemical weapons use in near Damascus.
After the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus that reportedly killed more than 1,000 people and has been blamed on Bashar Assad's regime, the Syrian president's ambassador to the U.N. claimed that opposition forces had used such weapons at least three times in the days immediately after.
"Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said he had requested of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the team of experts currently in Damascus investigating an alleged use of chemical weapons last week also investigate ... other attacks.
The attacks took place on August 22, 24 and 25 in Jobar, Sahnaya, and al-Bahariya, Jaafari told journalists Wednesday. The 'militants' used toxic chemical gas against the Syrian army, the diplomat said."
"The United Nations mission investigating alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria on Friday continued working on a comprehensive report that it hopes will be ready by late October. The report is based on a number of allegations presented to the United Nations Secretary-General, of which seven have been found to warrant investigation according to the UN Secretary-General's Mechanism for investigation of alleged use of chemical and biological weapons.
"Ashrafiah Sahnaya, 25 August 2013."
As you see, the three incidents that Ambassador Jaafari spoke about are among those being looked at.
The investigators, as they did when reporting about the Aug. 21 attack, are expected to focus on whether chemical weapons were used, not on which side was responsible.
The regime and spokesman for the rebels have consistently blamed each other when there are allegations of chemical weapons use. Regarding the Aug. 21 incident in particular, the U.S. and its allies have said the intelligence pointing at Assad's regime is overwhelming.
Meanwhile, as we reported Thursday, Russia, the U.S. and the other members of the U.N. Security Council have drafted a resolution that calls for oversight of Syria's surrender of chemical weapons and calls for "consequences" if Assad fails to comply. The Security Council could vote later today on that resolution. | 2019-04-22T13:35:45Z | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/27/226789743/u-n-team-looking-at-attacks-assad-blamed-on-rebels | Sports | News | 0.146044 |
udel | Hydrofluoric acid has a number of chemical, physical and toxicological properties, which make handling this material especially hazardous. All forms, including the solution or the vapor, can cause severe burns to tissue and cause serious toxic systemic effects. Fluoride ions are both acutely and chronically toxic. Fluorides are easily absorbed through the skin, cause death of soft tissue and erode bone as well as cause cardiac arrhythmias or cardiac arrest. Acute effects of hydrofluoric acid exposure include extreme respiratory irritation, immediate and severe eye damage and pulmonary edema. Skin, eye, or lung exposure to concentrated (>50%) hydrofluoric acid solutions will cause immediate, severe, penetrating burns. Exposure to less concentrated solutions may have equally serious effects, but the appearance of symptoms can be delayed for up to 24 hours.
Principal Investigators requesting authorization to purchase and use hydrofluoric acid in their research must complete a Standard Operating Procedure/Authorization Form and submit to the Chemical Hygiene Committee for approval.
Any questions or concerns related to safe use of hydrofluoric acid should be addressed to the Chemical Hygiene Officer at [email protected] or call 302-831-8475. | 2019-04-18T19:21:13Z | http://www1.udel.edu/ehs/research/chemical/hydrofluoric-acid-safety.html | Sports | Health | 0.908109 |
letsrun | Nothing will surprise me at this point except the length of time it has taken. If it is Bobby Lockhart it is because Harlis and Langley are buds. I assume that is what you were getting at.
Patti Sue is making a comeback.....How about Joan Nesbit Mabe, Andrew Allden, or Todd Morgan.
Well UNC Will offer and name all in one day and it is not that big of a shock. The name keeps coming up.
If itโs such a shocker how about you tell us who it is?
Patti will stay at Texas , Harlis is going to get rid of Logan and offer two positions one men and one woman.
Here we go again. Get off Herbsterโs nuts. He Vanhoy and whoever else pops up on this board every 5 hours will not get the job.
Actually, Iโve been seeing all this crap and decided to play along once. But I do have a question. Would one of these guys like herbster or the lil dude from Samford, take a job that would be a entry level or step back position for them. Letโs say like the Furman position, one that theyโre not the primary distance coach?
Two coaches - thatโs why it took so long - and Roberts stays on to help both. This is going to be a game changer!
Whereโs ken harnden and Sheldon blockburger going?
Makes sense. If your job is on the line, you take your time and swing for the fences. Vanhoy and Herbster will do well together at UNC. Which one takes the women? This is going to be interesting!
What will Bell do with openings at Cuse? Itโs getting late and XC is right around the corner.
RE: 2018 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion 7/22/2018 8:49PM - in reply to Anything orange?
That would be a fantasy team and would be a shocker. Bell will need to put together something. | 2019-04-24T06:30:10Z | https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8571361&page=164 | Sports | Sports | 0.969784 |
tripod | Be Courteous to all singers and show them your support.
Take care of the songbooks, they are expensive.
Sing into the top of themicrophone in a strong, clear voice.
Pick one song at a time.
Remember, your host can help your singing performance.
Be a lively audience member.
Sing to your audience and they will listen.
Loosen up, and let the music move you.
Be Patient while waiting your turn to sing.
Make sure to check the numbers you submit so that your songs are correct.
Don't worry if you're not a great singer. The idea is to have fun.
Don't sing unless invited by the singer or the karaoke host.
Don't swing the microphones by their cords or juggle wireless mics.
Don't tap on or scream into the microphone.
Don't smoke or bring drinks on stage.
Don't walk in front of the monitor when someone is singing.
Don't sign-up unwilling singers without their knowledge.
Don't continuously ask the host when it will be your turn to sing.
Don't place your drink on our sound equipment.
Imagine you're in front of an audience every time you sing by yourself, like in the shower. This may help you become more comfortable.
Don't be the first one up on stage.
Pick a song you know most, if not all the lyrics.
Know your vocal range. If you are a tenor or soprano, a baritone song is not a good idea. | 2019-04-25T07:44:07Z | http://deelovelyentertainment.tripod.com/karaoketips/index.blog | Sports | Reference | 0.159178 |
yahoo | It was rumoured that popular television actress Erica Fernandez who plays the new Prerna in Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2 fainted on the sets.
I was nine when Kasautii Zindagii Kay premiered on national television. Despite being one among the countless Ekta Kapoor shows that had titles starting with K, it nevertheless stood out for me. In my juvenile head, its story of star-crossed lovers gave it the feel of a home-grown Shakespearean romance, different from everything else that aired on TV then. I remember watching it night after night until I could watch it no more.
Today, 17 years later, I have long moved on but Indian TV is stuck in time, more garish and painfully uninspiring than ever.
When Ekta Kapoor first announced Kasautiiโs reboot earlier this year, the showโs loyalists (yes, they exist) rejoiced but a lot of us shuddered inwardly. In 2001, a show like Kasautii worked, not because of its great content, but essentially because Indian audiences did not have many options.
However, the world is starkly different today, so is the audience and their sensibilities. 10-minute long slo-mo character introductions and CGI flown โdupattasโ may have worked then but today they will be seen for what they areโutterly ridiculousโand will be called out too by the viewers who are largely a generation hard-pressed on time, that speaks its mind, is known for dwindling attention and cannot imagine a day-in without Netflix.
But Ekta Kapoor knows it already. Why do you think she launched her own streaming platform ALT Balaji otherwise? Trying to monetise the untapped potential in the Indian web space, she has been consistently populating it with original shows such as Bose and Home. If she can put out such content on the web, why discriminate against TV then?
It isnโt just Ekta though. Colors TV also has its own web-streaming platform called Voot, which features interesting originals such as Feet Up With The Stars and Stupid Man Smart Phone. Its television shows meanwhile are still lamentably limited to Naagin, which is now in its third season (the horror!) and Bigg Boss, now in its 12th season (says it all).
Interestingly, despite global web-streaming platforms wolfing a large share of the domestic entertainment space, TV still is the most popular source of entertainment in India for it reaches even areas where the internet hasnโt yet. It offers content in regional languages, a versatility which international media service providers are working towards.
But just because a clear divide is now emerging in who watches what, is it fair to feed off it? Make viewers in Jabalpur suffer through the โsaas bahu aur saazishโ type content on TV while simultaneously aspiring to grab the attention of the metro junta with content-driven web shows? | 2019-04-25T09:19:14Z | https://in.news.yahoo.com/kasautii-zindagii-kay-cgi-flown-023804461.html | Sports | Home | 0.67164 |
house | Washington, DC โ Congressman Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, opposed the Palestinian bid to obtain World Heritage Status for the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem โ a blatantly political and highly contentious move that will undermine the legitimacy of the World Heritage process.
Rep. Berman was joined by Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York) and Congresswoman Shelley Berkeley (D-Nevada) in sending a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Chair of the current meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in St. Petersburg, urging the Committee to reject Palestinian attempts to have the Church of the Nativity given an emergency inscription.
We are writing to express our strong objection to Palestinian attempts to approve an emergency inscription for the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem at thecurrent meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The passage of such a highly politicized resolutionwould be in contravention of recommendations made by the independent International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which found that thechurch is under adequate care.
We are concerned that this blatant politicization of the Church of the Nativity by the Palestinians will undermine the legitimacy of the World Heritage process. The leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Catholic and Armenian churches have opposed the Palestinian proposal, saying it is not โopportuneโ to include the Church in the list of World Heritage sites at this time. Some worry that a World Heritage designation could upset the delicate arrangement of custodianship that has existed for many years. The Palestinians clearly are not motivated by technical concerns related to historical preservation, but rather are attempting to hijack the World Heritage process to further their own political objectives. We do not believe UNESCO in general or the World Heritage Committee in particular is the appropriate forum for debating such contentious issues that have little to do with historic preservation.
The Congress feels strongly that UN bodies such as UNESCO should not take positions on issues which must be resolved in bilateral final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, which is why we have passed legislation prohibiting funding to organizations such as UNESCO that have admitted the Palestinians as full member states. We believe that these political issues should be negotiated directly and without preconditions by Israelis and Palestinians themselves, rather than through politicized resolutions at international organizations.
Given the unambiguous recommendation of ICOMOS and our shared interest in upholding the integrity of the World Heritage process, we would hope that you are able to put politics aside and reject this spurious resolution. | 2019-04-25T05:46:31Z | https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-releases?ID=C93423D0-E4C2-4C27-825E-C4AE96E58D1C | Sports | News | 0.914581 |
wordpress | There have been a lot of things lately that I am not thankful for. Last year just about destroyed meโฆ This year started off with my son accidentally breaking my noseโฆ Then my husband and I got this horrible chest cold that lasted about 3 weeksโฆ then as I finally started to get over that, I got another virus affecting my throat, head and chest againโฆ and as I sit here typing, I am trying to keep my nose from bleeding (sorry for the visual)โฆ and the rantingโฆ but now on to the good stuff!
What am I thankful for? My family, my friends, my life. If you donโt actually know me in person and know the amazing people surrounding me in my life, let me shareโฆ If I called out each person individually, this post would be way too long to readโฆ suffice it to say that my extended family is awesomeโฆ I am an only child, so I grew up surrounded by my cousins and my motherโs cousins โ we were together at least once a week at Sunday dinners. I miss that. Itโs really amazing to look back and see how those dinners, even when we fought having to go to them, formed our relationships and made us closer. I regret that since I donโt live near everyone anymore โ my son will really miss out on something special!
If you read my random list of thoughts (at the top of my blog) โ those got written because of a Facebook list going around โ25 random thoughtsโ or something like that โฆ anyway, a few of them refer to my husband. Can I just say (again) that I am SO glad that I waited until I found the right man before I got married?! That doesnโt mean that every single minute of our marriage has been perfectionโฆ there are ups and downs like everything in life. But when I need or want him, I have him. We definitely have a lot of opposite characteristics which I think balances out rather nicelyโฆ and I wouldnโt have it any other way.
My son makes me smile every day. Every. Single. Day. Multiple times a day at that. Of course he has his moments that make me not smile. What kid doesnโt! But sometimes I just sit and stare at him and I smile. The other day we were driving in the car and taking a friend of his back home and the friend said, โyou made the right turn, you know where youโre goingโ and my son said, โmy Mommy and Daddy know everything. They are adults. I know a lot of things, but not everything because I am a kidโ How precious is that!! ๐ Of course wait until he figures out that just because someone is an โadultโ doesnโt mean they know everything! But it was so nice to know that he thinks that of us now! I did ask him if I could put that in writing โ but since he is only 4 โ I donโt think he got what I meant.
What are you thankful for? If you are grateful for someone in your life โ you should tell them! Every single time you think it, SAY IT. I think sometimes, people get so wrapped in up in the day-to-day crap, that they take the good stuff for grantedโฆ and sometimes, the good stuff will go away if it is not nurtured! You know?I donโt know a person out there who hasnโt at some point in their life felt like those around them take them for granted. In most cases, it is not that they arenโt appreciated, but that the other person is getting their stuff done and probably feels the same way!
I started putting little notes in my husbandโs and sonโs lunch boxesโฆ Itโs not much and takes so little time โ but I hope it conveys that I love and appreciate them.
On twitter today I sent out an โethereal shout outโ to the men and women who died giving us our freedom. Thank you! There arenโt words enough to express.
He said that today was not Veterans Day โ it was Memorial Day and since he was alive, today wasnโt for him.
In my home, we have dedicated a whole room to โpatriotismโโฆ I call it the red, white and blue room โ cheesy I know, but we have the colors in there and they look nice, deep colors. The room is filled with the flag from my husbandโs uncleโs funeral, his pictures and medals, pictures of his grandfathers in their uniforms, and my grandfather in hisโฆ also a few other meaningful memorabilia. I love this room and what it means to both my husband and me!
I hope that everyone today at least once thought about the men and women who died to give them the freedoms that they enjoy and just didnโt write today off as a free day off from work! | 2019-04-25T14:37:01Z | https://randomshelly.wordpress.com/tag/thankful/ | Sports | Kids | 0.877046 |
news-leader | For Christians, Wednesday marked the beginning of the season of Lent, a six-week journey preparing Christians for Easter and the hope of the resurrection โ a hope which stands as an age-old symbol that love is stronger than all the powers that try to contain it, including the powers of death and violence.
There's no doubt that far too much death and violence takes its toll in our world, so much so that sometimes it feels like all hope is lost. For those who have suffered the sheer brutality and horror of ISIS, for victims of violence in our own community, including Officer Aaron Pearson as well as all of the others in our community whose lives have been affected or even taken far too soon, and for those who feel like their lives are empty and meaningless and don't know if the world needs them anymore, or if it ever did, our hearts break, and we weep.
Sometimes we don't have words for the sadness that overcomes us, and all we can do is hope that, indeed, love is stronger than all the powers that try to contain it.
At the Center for Diversity and Reconciliation, we don't sentimentalize the realities of our world or try to escape into some ideological vault that serves as a buffer for what negatively haunts it. Instead, we try to dig deeply into the root causes of violence and victimization in order to try to help give birth to a better, more humane world.
While we are a faith-based organization, we recognize that this requires a partnership that crosses many historic divides and barriers in order to do the shared work of peacemaking. We know that there isn't any perfect tradition โ whether faith-based or not. We are all flawed in one way or another, which is part of what makes us human. At the same time, one of the gifts of being human is that we recognize that another way of being is possible, and it is our responsibility, and desire, to live into it. Together.
If you would like to join us on this journey, whether you consider yourself religious or not, we hope you will do so. There are too many victims of violence in our community and our world. What we need are those with the courage and conviction to be peacemakers in the spirit of Jesus, Gandhi, and King. It isn't easy work, but in the long run it's perhaps the most important of all.
The mission of the Commission for Diversity and Reconciliation is "to transform, educate and connect diverse communities in Springfield to inspire deep understanding and profound appreciation of our differences, which calls each of us to our fullest relationship with one another." | 2019-04-21T19:03:51Z | https://www.news-leader.com/story/opinion/2015/02/18/love-stands-stronger-powers-death-violence/23646941/ | Sports | Reference | 0.226939 |
wikipedia | The Tuckasegee River (variant spellings include Tuckaseegee and Tuckaseigee) flows entirely within western North Carolina. It begins its course in Jackson County above Cullowhee at the confluence of Panthertown and Greenland creeks. It flows in a northwesterly direction into Swain County and through the center of Bryson City, North Carolina. The river passes around the Bryson City Island Park, where it then enters Fontana Lake and then the Little Tennessee River.
The name Tuckasegee may be an anglicisation of the Cherokee language word daksiyiโ[takhลกiyi] in the local Cherokee varietyโ'Turtle Place.' The river is dotted with stone fishing weirs built by Native Americans; this practice may have preceded the Cherokee in the area. The weirs are most easily viewed when water levels are low.
Fishing, hiking and paddling are among the recreational opportunities along the river.
It was the location used for the trainwreck / river escape scene in the movie "The Fugitive", starring Harrison Ford.
^ "Tuckasegee River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
^ See Anne Frazier Rogers, "Fish weirs as part of the cultural landscape," Appalachian Cultural Resources Workshop Papers, National Park Service. Photo of the Allman fish weir discussed in the paper.
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This article about a location in Swain County, North Carolina is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | 2019-04-22T02:26:49Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckasegee_River | Sports | Recreation | 0.966645 |
wordpress | Quick Tip: โPasteโ shortcut key + why is copy/paste so hard in the PowerShell command line?
Technorati Tags: PowerShell If you wanted to paste text into the PowerShell command line console, you can right-click. That is great but command line people usually try to avoid the mouse and stay with keyboard shortcuts whenever they can. Having said that, to paste with keyboard short-cut, you need to do this ALT+SPACE ALT+SPACE+E (follow-up โฆ Continue reading Quick Tip: โPasteโ shortcut key + why is copy/paste so hard in the PowerShell command line? | 2019-04-21T14:21:59Z | https://sqljana.wordpress.com/2014/03/ | Sports | Computers | 0.96208 |
nysportsday | In what was described by Mets GM Sandy Alderson as the โend of an era,โ he announced prior to the Friday night series opener against the Rockies that Matt Harvey had refused an assignment to the minor leagues and would be declared โdesignated for assignmentโ on Saturday morning.
It was not a totally shocking move, as Harvey has been suffering through a miserable beginning to his 2018 season, and even after being banished to the bullpen, his appearances in relief have been even more dreadful.
At the pre-game presser, Aldersonโs announcement came across with a sense of awkwardness, a sadness almost as if he were discussing a death in the family. His responses were filled with hesitations, a lot of ums, and more than a few moments to clear his throat.
โPreviously, in the abstract,โ Alderson ever so slowly explained, โMickey (Callaway) went to great lengths to explain why we felt that the bullpen route wasnโt going to work and why we thought that he would really benefit from time at our minor league complex.
Mets broadcaster Howie Rose asked Alderson if this was perhaps one of the most emotional decisions he has had to make in his tenure with the club.
โIโve tried not to let emotions (enter) decision making,โ Alderson admitted, โbut empathy is part of making decisions.
Doesnโt that sound like he died? No, Matt Harvey is very much alive and ready for the next chapter in his career. He just didnโt want to hang out with the showgirls of Las Vegas (are you sure about that, Matt?), or endure the quiet solitude of sleepy Port St. Lucie while trying to get his mojo back.
Alderson qualified Harveyโs lack of success to his various injuries that curtailed his progress.
In October of 2013, the big righthander (a first round draft choice by the Mets in 2010, the seventh pick overall) endured Tommy John surgery and the subsequent rehab. In July of โ16, the now 29-year-old hurler was diagnosed with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, and unfortunately, other pitchers who have had similar surgeries never quite respond with much success afterward either. And then last June, Harvey was placed on the DL with a stress injury to the scapula bone in his right shoulder.
Itโs been quite a descent for the Connecticut native who was so dominant in 2013 that he was named the starter in the All-Star game at Citi Field. Tossed two scoreless innings and struck out three, by the way, in that celebrated extravaganza.
He wasnโt, really, just being told you canโt keep giving up runs on the major league levels every time you face an opponent. Callaway and pitching coach Dave Eiland tried to use examples of pitchers who have gone to the minors to get themselves straight, including Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, but Harvey had a bug in his ear telling him heโs still a great starter, and donโt let them tell you otherwise.
That bugโs name is Scott Boras.
Boras already has other plans for his client.
Yes, the accumulation of injuries and rehab time must have had some affect on his performances in recent years. Itโs only natural. So to say Harvey has been his own worst enemy comes with a caveat. Perhaps one of those surgeries should have been on his ego, and his psyche, as some of his off-field exploits have been fodder for headlines and questionable optics.
But more importantly, when on the mound of late, heโs been bad news.
In four starts this year, Harvey pitched to an 0-2 record, 6.00 ERA, yielding 26 hits in 21 innings, 14 earned runs, four home runs, four bases on balls, 17 strikeouts, and a 1.429 WHIP.
You sure that wasnโt Bob Hendley out there pitching, who also once wore number 33 on the mound for the Mets?
And after being dispatched to the bullpen, Harvey failed there as well. In four mop-up appearances, he wears a bloated 10.50 ERA, with seven hits ans seven earned runs in six innings pitched, two home runs, five bases on balls, three strikeouts, and a fat 2.00 WHIP. Yeesh!
You sure that wasnโt Doug Sisk out there in relief? His last two appearances resulted in a 15.00 ERA and 2.33 WHIP.
Itโs a sad ending to what could have been a great Mets career. He had the panache, the chutzpa, and the charisma to ride this city that never sleeps into super stardom. And for a while, he was as important to this organization as any player who has ever worn the uniform.
The entire Mets career now reads, in parts of six seasons: 34-37, 109 games, 104 starts, 639.1 innings pitched, 612 Ks, 1.19 WHIP (shows you how good that was before his recent downfall), and a 3.66 ERA.
Interestingly, heโs had just two seasons with a winning record โ 2013 (9-5, 2.27 ERA), and โ15 (13-8, 2.71).
So whatโs next? By being DFAโd, the Mets have seven days to try and trade him or he will be released. So the Dark Knight Era will be gone from Gotham by next Saturday.
Will any other team make a deal for him?
โMy guess is there are people out there willing to take a shot,โ said Alderson.
As of Friday, the Mets had played about 17% of their season. With Harvey on the books for about $5,625,000 this year, that leaves still about $4,668,750 to be issued, so depending upon which day or to to which team chooses to make a trade, theyโd be on the hook for about that. Unless of course, the Mets kick in a portion, a large portion of that sum.
If they wait for Harvey to be released, they would be liable for about 80% of the major league minimum, again depending upon the day he is signed by someone. This year, the minimum is $545,000, so they would only have to pay out about $436,00.
Not bad for a pitcher who, if he ever regains that 2013 form, could one day again become an ace.
Or if he doesnโt, all of baseball may have seen the last of the dominant matt Harvey.
Interestingly, for just about any team that trades for him or signs him as a free agent, they will likely ask him to go to the minors for a start or two, maybe longer to assess his progress. Wonโt that be ironic.
Hereโs one possible landing spot, the Texas Rangers. Dan Warthen is down there now, and maybe he convinces his new bosses he can fix him, or get him back to somewhere close to 2013. Maybe.
And then thereโs the matter that he becomes a free agent at the end of the season. There was a time everyone speculated how many millions he would be making. Now thereโs a question heโll even be offered a contract, any contract.
Good luck and good night, Dark Knight. | 2019-04-18T12:19:10Z | https://www.nysportsday.com/2018/05/04/esposito-good-night-to-the-dark-knight/ | Sports | Sports | 0.678312 |
tripod | If anyone has any copies that I don't have - please email me and we'll talk!!
Hare was from University College, Oxford. In his preface he relates that- "In a recent tour on the Wye and among the villages of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, I have often stopped to examine the Epitaphs in the churchyards. It is sad to see how unsuitable, how almost ludicrous, many of them are. It is not only that they are devoid of beauty, but that they are calculated to drag down the minds of the survivors; chaining them to the recollection of the sufferings which their departed friends endured in their lifetime, harrowing them by the repetition, and in the end holding no lesson to be learnt, no comfort to look to, no hope of rest in another world. The chief variety upon these inscriptions is usually a catalogue of the virtues of the deceased, which would belong rather to heathen morality than to Christian humility". This is an instructive book to enable the reader to write their own epitaph, free of the pitfalls Hare denounces.
This is the only Hare title that I am still searching for!
THE non-existence of any Guide-book to Mentone, or of any history of Monaco and its neighbourhood, except the small summary of Monsieur Rendu, has induced the author to publish the following notes, descriptive of five months spent at Mentone, from November, 1860, to May, 1861.
The accounts of the excursions are derived from personal experience. The many local traditions and histories which have been added, are due to the assistance of the Mentonese residents, whose ready kindness and sympathy in any undertaking, cannot fail to impress every stranger who visits them.
with more than 100 Illustrations by the Author, 2 vols.
With additional Illustrations. 2 vols.
with Plan and 27 Illustrations.
"A delightful and instructive guide to the places visited. It is, in fact, a sort of glorified guide-book, with all the charm of a pleasant and cultivated literary companion." - Scotsman.
with Plan and 23 Illustraions.
"The plan of these little volumes is excellent. . . . Anything more perfectly fulfilling the idea of a guide-book we have never seen." - Scottish Review.
New Edition. With 50 Illustrations. 2 vols., sold separately.
With Illustrations. Single vol., or in 2 vols.
With map and 86 Woodcuts.
Picardy - Abbeville and Amiens - Paris and its Environs - Arras and the Manufacturing Towns of the North - Champagne - Nancy and the Vosges, &c.
The different lines to the South - Burgundy - Auvergne - The Cantal - Provence - The Alpes Dauphinaises and Alpes Maritimes, &c.
The loire - The Gironde and Landes - Creuse - Corr๏ฟฝze - The Limousin - Gascony and Languedoc - The Cevennes and the Pyrenees, &c.
Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford.
In 3 vols., of about 450 pages each. Illustrated with 11 engraved Portraits and 21 Plates in Photogravure from Lady Waterford's Drawings, 8 full-page and 24 smaller Woodcuts from sketches by the Author.
Also a Special Large Paper Edition, with India Proofs of the Plates.
With Map and 45 Woodcuts.
This Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, by her step-mother, Mrs.Edgeworth, was privately printed in 1867, but is now published, by the kind permission of the Edgeworth family, for the first time. The letters of Maria Edgeworth, which form the greater part of this work, are full of literary and human interest, and many of them are of great historical value. . . . These volumes are edited by Mr. Augustus Hare, who also contributes a Preface to the work. While omitting any letters and other material of a personal nature which have ceased to be of interest, Mr. Hare has carefully preserved in these volumes all that is of value in the original Memoir.
With map and 73 Woodcuts.
Normandy and Brittany - Rouen - Dieppe - Cherbourg - Bayeux - Caen - Coutances - Chartres - Mont St. Michel - Dinan - Brest - Alen๏ฟฝon, &c.
"The appreciative traveller in France will find no more pleasant, inexhaustible, and discriminating guide that Mr. Hare. . . . All the volumes are most liberally supplied with drawings, all of them beautifully executed, and some of them genuine masterpieces." - Echo.
"Every one who has used one of Mr. Hare's books will welcome the appearance of his new work upon France. . . . The books are the most satisfactory guide-books for a traveller of culture who wishes improvement as well as ebtertainment from a tour. . . . It is not necessary to go to the places described before the volumes become useful. While part of the work describes the district round Paris, the rest practically opens up a new country for English visitors to provincial France." - Scotsman.
Memoirs and Letters of the Eleven Childrem of John and Catherine Gurney of Earlham, 1775-1875, and the Story of their Religious Life under many Different Forms.
Illustrated with 33 Photogravure Plates and 19 Woodcuts.
Memorial Sketches of Arthur Panrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury; Mrs. Duncan Stewart; and Paray Le Monial.
Illustrated with 7 Portraits and 17 Woodcuts.
Vols. I to III. Recollections of Places, People, and Conversations, extracted chiefly from Letters and Journals. Illustrated with 18 Photogravure Portraits and 144 Woodcuts from Drawings by the Author.
With Map and 48 Woodcuts.
Vols. IV. to VI. With 12 Photogravure Plates and 247 Woodcuts.
by Priscilla Maurice, sister of 'Aunt Esther'.
by Margaret Ross โ this book has absolutely nothing whatever to do with โourโ Augustus Hare but is rather an interesting illustrated childrens book!!!
Edited by Barbara Willard with a chapter on Hare.
by Joanna Lumley โ recollections of Holmhurst. | 2019-04-25T02:41:05Z | http://augustus-hare.tripod.com/biblio.html | Sports | Reference | 0.106705 |
wordpress | โฆ what will we talk about? Thatโs up to you, but Iโll be interested in hearing peopleโs views on new Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google products and how they may be used in research, and learning and teaching. Then thereโs digidol โ the JISC digital literacy project the University is running and of course itโs Social Media Strategy โ where does that stand at the moment?
Iโd also be interested in views on where twitter is heading; has it now become just a marketing and PR tool and lost its value. Or, is it re-inventing itself with new uses and users. Then again, should we be defining an essential toolset for academic use, or do VLE / VRE still have a place.
Then we all follow certain colleagues who we feel we can learn something from โ it might be worthwhile exchanging that information. For me, Iโve been struck recently by Martin Hamiltonโs blogpost Suddenly, Everything has changed โ it brings many themes together in one place rather well and is worth a read; and then again Steve Wheelerโs excellent summary of where we are with Theories for the digital age: the Digital Natives discourse is also certainly worth a read. Have you got a similar hot blogpost?
Finally, to avoid getting caught out as I did recently when I didnโt know the difference bewteen Green and Gold Open Access and found my knowledge of OA rather lacking โ take a peak at the PhD TV video on Open Access; what was happening in Cardiff last week for Open Access Week?
This entry was posted in Cardiff, Events and tagged Bloggers, digidol, Strategy, technology by David Harrison. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-22T02:31:03Z | https://thoughtgrazing.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/just-a-dash-of-coffee/ | Sports | Computers | 0.730228 |
squarespace | In Hindu, Deepa translates to mean โLightโ, but if we had our way, weโd want to change that to โStarโ. Deepa is our front of house receptionist and she lights up our offices like the true star weโve all come to think that she is. Not only can she speak three languages, she is also perfection, poise and professionalism โ all rolled in to one. Arenโt we lucky!
An expat of Mumbai, India โ Deepa has spent a lot of her weekends over the past six-years exploring New Zealandโs hidden landscapes with her beloved boys. She also tells us that sheโs pretty handy at crocheting baby booties and beanies, so if youโre in need of a bespoke newborn gift, you might like to have a chat to her the next time youโre in our offices. | 2019-04-22T16:34:42Z | https://sarah-wilkinsonhart-u34b.squarespace.com/deepa-sharma/ | Sports | Business | 0.506085 |
afn | You'd have to be a fairly persistent news hound to know it, but U.S. warplanes have been sporadically bombing Iraq for months. The latest U.S. airstrikes we know about occurred on Friday, November 15.
And in a further Orwellian twist, the AP reported, the U.S. has not yet decided whether to raise the fact that Iraq fired on the U.S. planes in the UN as a 'material breach' of the recent UN resolution on weapons inspections in Iraq. If it were found to be a material breach, according to the U.S. view, it could be used as "justification for U.S.-led military action to topple Saddam's government."
When weapons inspectors were withdrawn in 1998, it was for their own safety as the U.S. was about to launch airstrikes against Iraq.
Once weapons inspectors enter Iraq, will they risk being bombed by U.S. and British forces? They could conceivably be inspecting facilities against which the U.S. has been directing air strikes for the past several months.
Under what UN resolution is the U.S. currently attacking Iraq? The main compromise on the UN resolution made by the U.S. was that the U.S. couldn't attack unless the UN debated it separately and passed another resolution.
If you bomb my country from the air, how is it aggression if I shoot at your plane? Isn't that the definition of self-defense?
Why haven't US airstrikes against Iraq been front-page news? | 2019-04-21T06:17:12Z | http://www.afn.org/~iguana/archives/2002_11/20021102.html | Sports | News | 0.94949 |
livejournal | My body gallery lets you input your height and weight and it shows you the real shape of other women who share your statistics. Here's a similar idea, in a lookup table (that one has men and women).
Shivering Trunks (Youtube) a Polish animation of poignancy and stupidity.
How interesting. I got precisely one match, and yes, same figure as mine.
"the utility of sites like this is for people (especially young girls who beat themselves up and young guys who live in a fantasy world) who get hung up on "stats" and what a for-profit company decrees as their ideal weight. It's rare to get an honest, factual information about what real people look like at different combinations of height and weight."
I'm afraid my reaction was "Oh dear, do I really look like that?"
I couldn't find an exact match, but going up a couple of inches and 5 pounds gave a very good match.
I will match myself to this lady, she's a bit shorter than me, and a lot prettier, but smiley and I like her.
Shivering Trunks made me aww. Awww. And the people playing bluegrass seemed to be having such fun with it and in their playing together that it made it a pleasure to watch. Thanks for the links.
I was rather surprised by the matches for my weight and height as they mostly linked to people that I would perceive as being a lot slimmer than I think of myself. Some of it was due to the pictures on the second site being of people who have more hourglassy figures than mine, although I recognised aspects of bodies matching mine, e.g. inner thighs. I did find one match that I thought wasn't too bad on the first site, but when I put in other combinations, since I'm in between the options given for both weight and height, the site didn't return any results for the combination. But it's very interesting.
It's interesting anyway. I was pleasantly surprised by mine, and it also gave me a realistic weight loss goal. ie even losing a fraction of what 'they' recommend would make me feel better about myself.
I was rather surprised by the matches for my weight and height as they mostly linked to people that I would perceive as being a lot slimmer than I think of myself. | 2019-04-19T18:25:40Z | https://communicator.livejournal.com/827774.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.241142 |
sportsdirectinc | 17 HOU W 22-13 2 0 0 0.0 0 No injury listed.
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2 ARI L 13-16 - - - - - No injury listed.
1 @ LAR L 9-46 3 0 1 0.0 0 No injury listed. | 2019-04-22T22:59:04Z | http://indystar.sportsdirectinc.com/football/nfl-players.aspx?page=/data/nfl/players/player12402.html | Sports | Sports | 0.719927 |
uncg | Item description Caption on back of photograph:"McLarry, Dykstra, dismounted, June '43"
Veteran's biography Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) of Easton, Pennsylvania, served as a recruiter and as a public relations officer in the Womenโs Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Womenโs Army Corps (WAC) from 1942-1945 .
Adeline Sears LaPlante (1919-2006) was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, on 19 November 1919. She attended the University of Rochester and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree .
LaPlante joined the Womenโs Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in September, 1942. She attended Officer Candidate School at the WAAC Training Center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned in October, 1942. In January, 1943, LaPlante attended recruiter training in Atlanta, Georgia, before being assigned as a WAAC recruiter in Charlotte, North Carolina. While stationed in Charlotte, LaPlante preformed her recruiting duties by traveling to various cities and towns throughout North Carolina. In September, 1943, LaPlante attended Intermediate Officer Training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and Daytona Beach, Florida. She was transferred to Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, in November, 1943, and worked in public relations. LaPlante met her future husband, Roy LaPlante, there and they married in March, 1944.
She was discharged from the WAC in August, 1945, as a 1st Lieutenant. LaPlante died on 21 November, 2006.
Collection summary This collection includes letters, postcards and Christmas cards from LaPlante to her parents about her career in the WAAC and the WAC from 1943-1944. The collection also contains a photograph album, and news clippings from LaPlante's time in the service. | 2019-04-25T06:30:00Z | http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/WVHP/id/3185/ | Sports | News | 0.519025 |
wordpress | In a bizarre coincidence recently, DC Comics launched Ivan Cohen and Luciano Vecchioโs Beware the Batman #1 just at the same time as Cartoon Network took the show Beware the Batman off-air, with no apparent hope for a return. The show had apparently had low ratings and a cancellation was undoubtedly due, but the suddenness of the fact has left a lot of people dissatisfied. Particularly since Cartoon Network did the same thing last year with Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. And this eventually led to a cancellation of the respective comics as well.
DC seems to be in some kind of an abusive relationship with Cartoon Network that it canโt get out of, given the latterโs behaviour and attitude with respect to the formerโs television line-up. It sends the wrong message to fans that the shows have a very limited window in which to get on board or forget about the whole thing. I can only hope that these recent events donโt lead to a cancellation of the Beware the Batman comic, since it just launched, for one and two, it wasnโt all that bad really.
If, like me, you grew up in the heyday of Cartoon Network programming of the late 90s and early 2000s, then you are well familiar with the Samurai Jack animated series, created by Genndy Tartakovsky. The series ran from 2001-2004 to great acclaim and it is one of the very few CN series that I remember very fondly. It was, perhaps, one of the darkest cartoons Iโd ever watched, but it was told in a way that the grim and gritty really balanced out with all the excellent humour.
Recently, IDW announced an ongoing comic series for Samurai Jack, bringing the character back after nearly a decade since the original days. I could not have been more excited. The first issue launches tomorrow, and to celebrate, IDW has commissioned no less than 10 covers for it! Its amazing to see the kind of passion that the publisher is putting into this project, and having just read the first issue, I will say that they are off to a fantastic start. | 2019-04-23T12:06:22Z | https://sonsofcorax.wordpress.com/tag/cartoon-network/page/2/ | Sports | News | 0.232027 |
google | The Men of Hampton Park dedicate themselves to the betterment of their personal and family lives through fellowship, friendship, neighborhood involvement, and community services.
From cleanup events to the occasional construction project, the Men's Club ensures that Hampton Park looks great at all times.
We understand that Chesterfield County's community needs help. We raise funds and participate in local charity needs as often as possible.
We hang out, get into trouble, and do some really stupid things every once in a while, all in the name of really getting to know our neighbors.
The Hampton Park Menโs Club takes pride in its ability to raise money for charitable organizations. Since its first partnership with the Special Olympics back in 2006, the HPMC has raised $146,600 for worthy causes! | 2019-04-21T12:07:03Z | https://sites.google.com/happycamperproductions.com/hpmensclub/ | Sports | Society | 0.46343 |
wordpress | Welcome to Post-weekend Poetry and the twelfth poem in this series. This weekโs piece is by Grace E Reed and taken from her collection โNeedsโ (ISBN 978-1-4276-4477-0).
I was inspired by my study of non-violent communication techniques and my 30 plus years working with marginalized addicts. I realized people are โin tragic expression unmet needsโ when basic needs are not met. I thought back of when I was struggling with unmet needs and wondering where I was going to find peace. I thought of all the disappointment when things were not perfect like I wanted them to be. I thought of all the energy it takes to be a human in tragic need.
Grace E. Reed has a MA in Conflict Resolution and BA in Drama Therapy. She broadcast for Prison Pipeline at KBOO.fm community radio advocating prison reform. Her work with addicted at-risk youth experiencing homelessness and jail led her to write and publish โNeedsโ and Negotiating Shadows: Journey to the Sun. She is on the gang violence task force and police review board in Portland, Oregon and mediates for Occupy WS Portland chapter. She writes for several online sites including examiner.com, globalpoetry.net and mediate.com. Her books and work can be found at http://www.negotiatingshadows.com. Her new book โNegotiating Shadowsโ (ISBN 978-0-85398-560-0) has just been published by George Ronald Publications, Oxford, England. The book addresses poverty in US and its ripple effect as it follows an addict from her childhood into present day.
The blog interviews will return as normal tomorrow with poet Violet Ruth Schulert Endres โ the three hundred and seventh of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, bloggers, biographers, agents, publishers and more. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate further. And I enjoy hearing from readers of my blog; do either leave a comment on the relevant interview (the interviewees love to hear from you too!) and / or email me. You can also read / download my eBooks and free eShorts at Smashwords, Sony Reader Store, Barnes & Noble, iTunes Bookstore and Kobo. And I have a new forum at http://morgenbailey.freeforums.org.
Morgen, I love your blog and since I am reissuing my book published in 2008 as a second edition, Iโd love an interview with you if you have time. The book will be available March 17th. I like the interview and the prose written by Grace Reedโvery thought-provoking and well said. Drop by my blog when ever you can.
Thank you very much, Micki.
The interviews are currently running into end May / early June but better to have your book out so people can investigate than them wanting to but canโt. ๐ I have your email so will send you the pack now. | 2019-04-18T14:32:55Z | https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/post-weekend-poetry-012-tragic-needs-by-grace-e-reed/ | Sports | Arts | 0.288635 |