text: Nir Etzion has long been a popular setting for celebratory gatherings – post-wedding parties, anniversaries, synagogue study weekends. The strict kosher observance with a relaxed, non-coercive atmosphere continues to make it a good choice for the increasing number of families with some members wearing black kippot, others knitted kippot, and still others with no kippot.But would Nir Etzion suit a couple taking a rare midweek night off in the winter? My husband and I would vote yes.The community (at first a kibbutz, but for the last 60 years a moshav shitufi) was established by survivors of the Etzion Bloc from the War of Independence and boosted by Holocaust survivors when it relocated in the Carmel Mountains in 1950.The writer was a guest of the hotel.The community was named in memory of the Etzion Bloc. The founders and today's members are Orthodox Jews.The hospitality business, along with fields and a dairy, were among the community's oldest industries. The farmers first opened the Nir Etzion Rest House, which became the Nir Etzion Guest House in 2002, and then the Nir Etzion Hotel. Today, it is being marketed as Nir Etzion Resort, a promising description for a couple's night away.Located 234 meters up in the verdant Carmel mountains, at the entrance to Ein Hod, getting there is an easy car ride from Israel's main cities: 15 minutes from Haifa, 55 from Tel Aviv, and an hour and a half from Jerusalem, from where we were coming on a Thursday.Without having to drive for hours, we felt the immediate rush of pleasure of getting out in the muted countryside after a hectic work week.Old-timers may be familiar with the family-friendly garden rooms of Nir Etzion, comfortable bungalows spread out on the lawns. But there is also a hotel, with a large glass-enclosed lobby. The reception clerk's convivial welcome typified the cordiality of the staff.I always have a moment of anticipation/anxiety when I open the door to an unfamiliar hotel room. Happily, I liked what I saw. I need a touch of luxury that makes me feel it was worthwhile leaving my own home. The room was large and pretty. Beige and aquamarine tiled floors, towels decoratively displayed on the bed, and even a recessed stone ritual hand washing station all gave a good feeling. There was a comfortable couch, which could be opened for additional sleepers. The bathroom was modern and attractive.The piece de resistance was the large balcony – with table and chairs and an electrical outlet if you wanted to plug in a computer – overlooking the forest. The other side looked out toward the Mediterranean.By the time we arrived on that winter afternoon, it was already dark, but we enjoyed the twinkling lights along the hillside. We'd stopped at one of the Carmel region's ubiquitous wineries and enjoyed a glass of wine before dinner.The Carmel area offers many non-typical touring options, such as prehistoric caves, a wet walk through a Roman water tunnel, goat adventures. You can hike and explore in one of many nature reserves, go horseback riding over the hills or rappell down them. All of these are within a short drive of Nir Etzion. The art colony of Ein Hod is minutes away. You can pick up discount tickets for the area attractions in the hotel lobby.The Nir Etzion swimming pool, which is bright and balmy even in the winter, offers a sauna and well-appointed changing rooms. There are separate hours for men's and women's swimming, as well as mixed swimming.One of the advantages of staying in a hotel as opposed to, say, a rustic bed-and-breakfast guest house, is not having to seek a restaurant for dinner. At Nir Etzion, buffet dinner is served from 6:30 p.m. The gray brick dining room – with old photos of kibbutz mothers preparing a giant pot of porridge – is divided in two, with the choice of meat or dairy dinner. Lively but not raucous family gatherings dominated the meat side of the room. Tourists from Europe were eating on the dairy side. We went for meat. The maitre d' seated us at a table near the windows. The buffet included kid-friendly dishes such as fried schnitzel and a basin of ketchup, and more sophisticated dishes like eggplant-beef moussaka. The salads and side dishes were well-seasoned Middle Eastern style. Comfort food more than gourmet. But breakfast was in a class of its own. In addition to a lavish display of cheeses, breads and salads, a grandma made pancakes at one station, while across the room mushroom, cheese and chive omelets were being turned out. If the cappuccino machine doesn't suit you, personalized coffee with, say, soy milk is available.Homemade butter (really!), homemade jam and homemade cheeses evoke some of the old kibbutz flavor, alongside the old-fashioned rolled spanakopita (burekas) that former kibbutzniks still make. Hot dishes included zucchini in cream sauce and broccoli quiches. Heimish deluxe.I'd ordered a massage. The massage room was spacious, unlike the assembly-line cubicles at some facilities. Massage therapist Hagar Greenberg arrived on a motorcycle and was something of a mind-body healer, as well as a professionally trained masseuse to get the kinks out of your torso. Superb.The grounds, with their copious bird of paradise flowers, were beautiful. Ideal for a walk without even having to get into a car to get there. You can also visit the petting zoo and watch the cows being milked.Midweek rack-rate prices are NIS 745 for bed and breakfast; NIS 947 for a half-board in forest-view rooms like the one we enjoyed, slightly more for a sea view, and slightly less for a garden apartment.


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The riders dipping their back tires into the Pacific Ocean.
August 4, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Kirsten Pufahl has brought new meaning to taking the road less traveled by. After graduation in May 2010, Pufahl packed her duffle bag and headed out west to the sunny shores of Palo Alto, Ca. There, on June 14, she began a 67-day, 4,000-mile biking journey across the United States as part of the FACE AIDS Ride Against AIDS 2010 campaign.
This is the third year of the FACE AIDS campaign, a not-for-profit student organization whose mission is to mobilize and inspire students to fight AIDS in Africa. The organization, which works in collaboration with Partner's in Health, has raised over $1,700,000 since it's inception to support the fight against AIDS in Zambia and Rwanda.
Pufahl, who graduated from IWU with a degree in anthropology, hit the trails with six other riders from Stanford University and the University of Wyoming. The team has made stops along the way for speaking engagements to spread awareness about the impacts of AIDS and the FACE AIDS mission. Each rider will attempt to raise $5,000 by the time they complete their journey on Aug. 19 in Boston, Ma.
"I have been involved with FACE AIDS for two years," said Pufahl, who joined the organization when it came to campus in 2008. "This is a cause I believe in. I joined the campaign because I was drawn to the demands of the ride, the potential to meet so many people, see the country along the way and do something meaningful for myself."
So far the riders have braved the badlands of South Dakota, battled head winds in Nebraska and endured the scorching heat in Nevada, traveling approximately 3,500 miles, with 500 remaining. While initially the riders endured cramped calves and sore hamstrings, they have now passed the point of fatigue and have adjusted to biking between 60 and 85 miles a day for five days, after which they have a day of rest.
"The trip has been demanding, especially through the mountain ranges and when we decide to do high mileage day," said Pufahl, a former member of the IWU cross country and track teams. "But I think it has been more important to stay mentally strong and focused with the purpose of the ride in the back of my mind."
Despite the physically tolling aspect of the ride, Pufahl says she has truly enjoyed being a part of this adventure and will never forget the memories she has made along the way.
"We will all walk away from this experience with a ton of life lessons and experiences that can be applied in any personal, work or group situations in the future," said Pufahl.
If you would like to learn more about Pufahl's story or donate money to the cause visit www.faceaids.org/raa.
Contact: Jessica Hinterlong '11, (309) 556-3181


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To distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace, schools must become parent-centred.
These days, being a child-centred school doesn't provide much competitive advantage. Child-centred approaches are clearly linked to educational success and have been woven into the practice of most schools. Frankly, being child-centred is a must-have that parents expect.
On the other hand, being parent-centred represents an opportunity to differentiate and create recruitment and retention success. The data from the business world on the benefits of improving customer experience is incontrovertibly positive. Focusing on the quality and the characteristics of the parent experience in your school has innumerable benefits including fostering more satisfied parents who are more enthusiastic ambassadors. So, how do you do that? Here are seven paths to being a parent-centred school.
Think like a customer. This is primarily about empathy. Put yourself in the shoes of a parent and use all your senses. For example, when you walk into the office, what do you see and how are you greeted? Are you talking to parents in language that they can understand? Often, there is a tendency to use internal technical terms like, "you need to complete an RTC form." Sometimes, it's easy to fall into "edu-speak," using terms like authentic learning and differentiation while a parent's eyes glaze over.
No matter how hard you try, it can be difficult to look at your school with fresh eyes. In that case, borrow an idea that retailers use all the time and enlist mystery shoppers – or in this case, mystery parents. Have two or three people contact the school (using various means) and express interest in enrolling their children. Be sure they record details of all their interactions. Review their reports to see if the experience that's being delivered is what you really want it to be.
Collaborate. Parents aren't really at the centre of your enrolment and marketing efforts unless you seek their opinions and participation in meaningful ways. Considering a change to the daily schedule? You'd be wise to consult your parents. Partnering with parents also means encouraging feedback and, of course, being willing to accept criticism.
Be Transparent. There is no point in trying to hide information from parents. If you've made an error, you have got to own it. Let parents know what happened and how you're going to fix it. Schools can be notoriously secretive about how decisions are made – often because they don't want them to be questioned. A great example of this is class placement. A common statement is something like, "we place students using our best judgment in optimizing their academic performance and social environment." This is vague enough that parents don't really have a basis for questioning a placement decision. Contrast that to listing the specific criteria on which placement decisions are made and being prepared to entertain discussions with parents based on those criteria. Being transparent doesn't mean having to accede to every parent's request. Many times, parents will tolerate a decision that doesn't go their way as long as they feel like they've been heard.
Solve Problems. Effective problem resolution requires many elements. First, you need to encourage openness. If staff members feel that every reported error is just another step toward discipline and dismissal, you won't know about most of what goes wrong with parents. Second, you need to know the root cause of problems and that, in turn, requires asking incessant whys. Why did the Smiths get the wrong letter? Why were they on the wrong list? Why were they tagged incorrectly in the database? Why did someone edit their profile? You get the picture. Resolving problems is only half the battle. The real prize is problem prevention and that will require lots of internal collaboration with staff members at all levels.
Consider First Impressions. This isn't just about the first-time visitor to your school, although focusing on that is a pretty good idea. But this could also be the first experience that parents have with your school every morning. You know, the dreaded drop-off line. (Here's a hilarious rant about drop-off). This is a great opportunity to greet parents and reduce their anxiety. What about the first impression of parents coming to the school for parent-teacher conferences? They are totally stressed at having to quickly navigate the school and find the appropriate rooms so that they can then spend six minutes and 28 seconds with a teacher before being rushed out. Some schools place student docents in front of each room who can tell parents whether the teacher is ahead of or behind schedule and can even disarm parents by having a conversation with them.
Prove You're Listening. It's not enough to tell parents that you care about their opinions. You have to put your money where your mouth is. Be prepared to make changes based on parent feedback. You can take that to another level by making proactive changes. For example, let's say a parent reports that her child was dropped off at the wrong spot when taking the bus home. In addition to finding out what happened to that child, you should likely be investigating whether the same thing has happened to other children – even if those parents haven't said anything. And, make sure you tell parents about the action you are taking in response to their concerns. As consumers, we all know how gratifying it is to be told that changes have been made because we spoke up. Be sure to give yourself credit for listening – and acting.
Break Down Silos. Making your school more parent-centred can't be done as a unilateral initiative of the admissions department. Or the marketing department. It's going to take a multi-disciplinary approach that has the parent experience on the agenda of every department in the school – including faculty and lay leadership. You may want to share articles about parent/customer service or better yet, be sure to communicate parent experience successes. In all likelihood, it will require the active involvement of the head of school to make it happen.
Technology and demography (think millennials) have created conditions where word of mouth is the most powerful channel in marketing success. While educational success is the most potent subject of word of mouth, being a parent-centred school will create the motivation and impetus for positive ambassadorship that will in turn lead to gains in recruitment and retention.
More information and ideas about the Parent Experience can be found in two e-books I have written: Tailoring the Parent Experience and The Parent Perspective.


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With your own product or service already in mind, starting your own business might seem like a piece of cake! However, in reality, it is not so easy considering how costly getting your own business up and running actually is. Becoming your own boss entails a significant investment. So before you dive into your future as an entrepreneur, make sure that you are aware of all of the expenses that are attached to this life-changing venture.
First, there are the license costs. Depending on what your business is going to be, there will be specific permits that you will have to apply for. For example, there are LLC licenses, fire department permits, county permits, health permits, and even alcohol permits. On top of all of the costs to purchase the permits, you might need to spend money to hire professionals like lawyers or accountants in order to obtain them. So be sure that you are thoroughly educated about what permits and licenses you will need for your particular industry, and factor in the total costs of them into your budget!
Just as a precaution for the unexpected, you will also need to insure your business as well. It is not a must-have, however, it is a good safety blanket just so you don't lose all of your hard work over a freak accident. And these insurances entail a large chunk of money! Talk to an insurance professional about the specific insurance type that is suitable for your industry and become knowledgeable of the policies of your insurance just so you are not paying for what you don't need.
Taxes already haunt you enough in your everyday life, however prepare for even more of a burden once you start your own company. As soon as you open your own company, you will be charged with a self-employment tax. And the downside of this tax is that it is required even if there is no revenue funneling into your pockets. Therefore, you need to be aware to deduct the amount of tax you need to pay for your business from your earnings when you are looking at how much money you have profited through your product or service, and allocate that amount to your business' budget.
Finally, the costliest aspect of starting your own business is: time. As cheesy as it sounds, time is, in reality, money! Being your own boss isn't all fun and games all the time, but it requires you sitting down and completing tedious tasks as well. In order to be well prepared as you start your venture, you need to develop the patience and willpower to pay your bills on time and keep track of payroll. There will be some give and take with your schedule and it might even interfere with your personal life, so set your priorities early on and allocate your time accordingly.
All of these are just some of the factors that paint a more realistic picture as to the costs of running your own business. Many people may dream of being their own boss. But before you accomplish this dream, be sure you consider all the costs that are needed make your entrepreneur wishes come true!
(Source: U.S.News & World Report, SBA, Entrepreneur)


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Who does not love to eat cake for breakfast? One of my favorites is the carrot cake, but to be able to have it for breakfast you have to prepare it the day before because it takes a long time, so why not make these carrot individual cakes for breakfast? They are super fast and easy, with ingredients that you surely have at home, super healthy, fluffy and it's like eating dessert for breakfast!
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Breakfast carrot cake
Simple, easy, super tasty, with ingredients that you sure have at home, and best of all, it feels like eating dessert at breakfast!
- 1 1/2 cups grated carrot about 3 medium size carrots
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 cup coconut or muscovado sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs or 3 egg replacement*
- 1/2 cup maple syrup, agave or honey
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Mix the carrot with the syrup, oil, eggs, and sugar, beat well. Add the oatmeal, baking soda, and baking powder together with the cinnamon and mix well again. Divide the mixture into 3 individual molds of 10cm in diameter or in a single large one. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until it starts to brown and dry on the top. Finish with ice cream and some nuts.
Recipe Notes
* You can use an Orgran egg type egg replacement, or prepare one with 1 teaspoon of flax flour and 3 tablespoons of water for each egg, mix and let stand 15 minutes.


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Have you been dealing with piping issues caused by a clog or blockage? Both residential and commercial properties can be impacted by the build-up of sludge, grease, and debris caught inside the pipes. While there are several different methods of clearing out pipes, hydro jetting is one of the most effective solutions. Hydro jetting is an extremely straightforward process performed by experienced plumbers with state-of-the-art equipment. At CMS Plumbing, we offer high-quality hydro jetting services in the Bay Area to help clear your pipes of blockages.
Call our skilled San Jose hydro jetting plumbers today at (408) 669-4222 to learn about our advanced techniques or to request a free estimate.
What Is Hydro Jetting?
Hydro jetting is a cleaning technique used to clear stubborn clogs or other debris from pipes and drain lines. Flexible hoses and pumps are used to send controlled streams of high pressured water through your sewer lines and storm drains. Water under pressure can be directed at these blockages to break them up, flushing them out entirely.
Typically, we perform an inspection of your lines before we perform hydro jetting so that we have an understanding of what blockages we are clearing out.
Benefits Of This Method For Cleaning A Drain
There are many different causes of blockages which can be difficult to get at without digging up your pipes, all of which is a strenuous and invasive process. Instead, hydro jetting allows us to go in with a less invasive approach and perform high-pressure flushing to remove blockages.
A Few Of The Benefits Of Hydro Flushing Include:
- Environmentally safe
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- No need for chemical cleaners
- Helps with pipe maintenance
- Destroys or removes tree roots
- Breaks up all debris, sludge, and grease
- Cuts through hard minerals
If you would like a solution that can flush out your plumbing system without causing damage to your home, contact us at (408) 669-4222 and inquire about hydro jetting in San Jose and Campbell.


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|Chow Yun fat (Master Li Mu Bai) in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Chinese Hong Kong Film
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) is a Chinese Hong Kong wuxia (martial art) film directed by Ang Lee in 2000. It is also a dramatic and fantasy film. The film is produced by Bill Kong, Hsu Li-kong, Ang Lee and starred by Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chow Yun-fat, Chang Chen, Cheng Pie-pie, Sihung Lung, De Ming Wang, Fazeng Li, Su Ying Huang and others.
The story of the film's set of 19th century under the Qing Dynasty China, a best sword man Li Mu Bai provides a very sharp sword to his lover Yu Shu Lien to keep it in safe. But the sword is stolen from the palace and a chase is started to find it. When they search it at Governor's house, a new story turns a different level with Governor's daughter Jen Yu.
The sword 'Green Destiny' is not suitable for any person. At first s/he should take training or teaching from a master. Master Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien are always engaged in front of Governor's house to protect the palace and them. But great sword man Master Li Mu Bai is died for governor's daughter's conspiracy, stupidity and ignorance. The sword 'Green Destiny' is suitable for only the trained persons. It is so sharp that it can cut off anything hard or soft. Anyone must be defeated by its keeper. But who will be defeated or who won't be defeated that is the matter of knowledge and learning or training. This sword indicates the value of humanity in the film only to the trained sword man.
|Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun-fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) film
It is one of the great films I think. Fantasy performance, good cinematography, perfect sound and overall natural and realistic editing are the main characteristics of the movie.Download the movie
Watch the official trailer of the movie 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000) here...


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Here is the text of the press release from the Archdiocese.
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2016
The Prelature of Opus Dei has accepted Cardinal Timothy Dolan's invitation to assume responsibility for the pastoral care and administration of Saint Agnes, the well-known parish serving the area around Grand Central Terminal.
Founded in 1873, and located at 143 East 43rd Street, Saint Agnes is perhaps best known as the Church where the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen would often celebrate Mass. The original church was destroyed in a devastating fire in 1992, and the current church building was constructed on the same site and opened in 1998.
Father Michael J. Barrett will serve as pastor of the parish, beginning on July 1. He will be joined by other Opus Dei priests who will offer Mass and the sacraments to the parishioners, who include, in addition to the residents of the area, those who work in the area as well as many commuters who use Grand Central as their transportation hub each day. As pastor, Father Barrett will also be responsible for the temporal administration of the parish.
Father Barrett, age 63, was born in New York and grew up in the Saint Barnabas parish area in the Bronx. He graduated from Columbia University in 1974, and worked on Wall Street as an account executive for Merrill Lynch, before moving to Rome in 1983 to pursue studies in moral theology. He was ordained as a priest for Opus Dei in 1985 at St. Peter's Basilica by St. John Paul II. Father Barrett received a doctorate in moral theology in 1987 from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Upon returning to the United States, he did pastoral work for Opus Dei in Texas, and then in 1999, at the request of the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, he became the director of Holy Cross Chapel and Catholic Resource Center in downtown Houston. Since 2013 he has served in Los Angeles as theological adviser to Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez.
Opus Dei is an international Catholic organization – technically, a "personal prelature" – that helps people come closer to God in their work and everyday activities. St. John Paul II canonized its founder, St. Josemaria Escriva in 2002, calling him "the saint of everyday life." Pope Francis described St. Josemaria as a "precursor of the Second Vatican Council" for placing emphasis on the universal call to holiness – the idea that holiness is not something just for priests and religious but for lay men and women as well. Opus Dei provides a variety of activities to help people in their efforts to live out their faith in their everyday lives. These activities include weekend retreats, classes in Catholic teaching and spirituality, and opportunity for spiritual direction and sacramental confession. Opus Dei is headed internationally by its prelate, Bishop Javier Echevarria, who resides in Rome. Opus Dei opened its first center in New York City in 1964, with the authorization of Cardinal Francis Spellman. Members of Opus Dei, along with others, run the Rosedale Achievement Center (for girls) and Crotona Achievement Center (for boys), two educational programs for youth in the Bronx. The national offices of Opus Dei are in Manhattan, on 34th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Monsignor Thomas G. Bohlin, the U.S. vicar of Opus Dei, said, "We are grateful that the Cardinal has asked us to carry out this pastoral work, and we look forward to serving the faithful of the parish of Saint Agnes and the archdiocese of New York."
Cardinal Dolan said, "I warmly welcome the Prelature of Opus Dei as a partner in serving the people of God of this archdiocese. The parishioners of Saint Agnes, I am sure, will quickly come to know and appreciate their apostolic zeal in preaching the Gospel, and serving the religious and sacramental needs of the people entrusted to their care."
Father Myles Murphy, who has been serving as pastor of Saint Agnes, will become pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish in lower Manhattan on July 1, succeeding Monsignor Marc Filacchione, who is completing his 12 year term as pastor of that parish.
Faith and the City: Opus Dei Assumes Responsibility for St. Agnes Church


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Eight years of 'space to destroy' have come to a CRASHING halt.
Under the 'leadership' of our Community-Organizer Activist-In-Chief, we developed a nasty habit of standing back and letting protests degenerate into dangerous riots (think: 'space to destroy') where bystanders or cops were beaten (sometimes EXPLICITLY For the color of their skin).
That was then.
On inauguration day, these punks were expecting more of the same. A little violence. Smash a few windows, set a few fires, hurt a few bystanders. Walk away laughing. (And in some cases… cash a check for your trouble.) They even SAID so in this article. They were SHOCKED to be facing REAL legal penalties.
They cried 'unfair'. They were worried it would scare off a lot of the supporters.
Oh, no? Scare off supporters of the riots?
So, what's on the menu for the punks that got rounded up after smashing Starbucks, and burning limos?
A press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. says the 146 people were facing charges relating to incidents that occurred in the four-block area from the intersection of 13th and O Street NW to the intersection of 12th and L Street NW on January 20.
Of the 230 people arrested and charged with felony rioting connected with Inauguration Day, 209 have now been indicted.
…The indictment, handed up D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday, charged 146 additional protesters with felony rioting — meaning they face a fine of up to $25,000 and a maximum of 10 years in prison. — American Lookout
Oh no! Ten years in prison and $25k for setting fires?
Maybe now they realize the whole REASON they're 'organized' to 'protest'. This way, the guys paying the bills — the Big players of the Soros archtype — won't be facing any PENALTY for the actions they've commissioned. Let the worthless Pawns get taken. Who really cares about them.
When will these black-clad pawns learn? Their leaders don't care about RIGHTS. They care about POWER. Their pawns are just a means to an end. And completely expendable.


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A Warning Against Jealousy
St. Nikolaj of Zicha
In today's hymns and messages the Orthodox Church highlights Joseph the all comely as a prefiguration of our Savior in His sufferings. Joseph suffered because of the jealousy of his brothers. The jealous brothers sold Joseph to merchants for 20 silver pieces. But, by God's providence Joseph, in slavery, became great and celebrated. As such he fed his brothers in the years of famine and saved them and their wives and their children from starvation. Thus he literally fulfilled the words of Christ: "Whoever gives you stones, you give him bread," even though those words hadn't yet been spoken in the world. Afterward he moved his brothers and his father to Misir and through that determined the entire later history of the Israelites. Not he, but God. For the Lord protects the righteous from all miseries and glorifies him at all times.
The descendents of the brothers who wanted to destroy Joseph prepared the destruction of the Son of God. The jealousy the forefathers had towards those who are better than them was inherited by their great-descendents. One of them sold his teacher for 30 pieces of silver. And they all delivered Him to the godless to be judged just as their ancestors delivered the young Joseph to the godless for judgment. The similarity is the great jealousy besides the differences in proportion. Because of those similarities the Church today mentions the judgment of Joseph. To show everyone how long lasting the poison of jealousy is. How that poison is passed on from father to over a hundred generations, from Joseph to the Lord Jesus. Not even all the graces of God which He shown towards those people throughout the thousands of years weren't able to help. Not even all the miraculous wonders of God throughout history did not create goodness in them. All the warnings of God remained in vain. All the crying of the Prophets were suppressed in blood, fathers killed some of the Prophets while their sons built them monuments: again, the sons killed other Prophets and left their grandson the work of the monuments which witnessed to their crimes....


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Harang helps Phillies eke out win over Braves
PHILADELPHIA – Opposing hitters have struggled to get good contact against Aaron Harang this season, and it was no different for his former team, the Atlanta Braves. Harang held the Braves to two hits in eight scoreless innings.
The Phillies' offense fail to give any run support, but they finally scratched a run across in the ninth to pull out a 1-0 win for their 500th victory at Citizens Bank Park.
Freddy Galvis opened the ninth with a single and advanced to second on Cesar Hernandez's sacrifice bunt. A passed ball moved Galvis to third, and with the Braves' infield playing in, Galvis scored when first baseman Freddie Freeman committed an error on Ben Revere's grounder.
"I was like, all right, if I could find a way just to hit a little dribbler somewhere and get something because, of course, you're going on contact," Revere said. "But luckily that was a little soft so Freddie Freeman had to try to come in and make a play and messed it up. So it worked for the best."
The key play was Galvis' decision to try to advance to third base as soon as he saw reliever Jim Johnson's pitch get away from catcher A.J. Pieryznski during Revere's at-bat. The throw from Pierzynski was close to getting Galvis at third, but he just got under the tag.
"I was just trying to be ready, to get to third on a base hit or something like that, and then I suddenly saw the ball on the ground, and with a big lead, I just went for it," Galvis said.
Galvis was expecting a play at the plate when Revere hit the ball to Freeman but was only focused on running as fast as he could. Galvis is hitting .388 in his last 14 games.
"I was just running," Galvis said. "I didn't see anybody. As soon as I see the ball on the ground, I started running."
Atlanta entered the game with the fewest errors in the majors (four) and matched that total against the Phillies, committing four errors Friday.
Harang became the first Phillies starter to pitch eight innings this season. It was also his eighth consecutive quality start, a career-best streak. Harang lowered his ERA to 1.37 with Friday's performance. He carried a perfect game into the fourth inning, which ended with Alberto Callaspo's one-out walk.
"Me and [catcher Carlos Ruiz] were on the same page from the get-go," Harang said. "Everything he threw down was exactly what I was thinking. It was one of those fun nights where everything falls into sync and we're both on the same page."
The Braves finally recorded a hit off Harang with one out in the fifth. Pierzynski doubled and Chris Johnson singled, but Harang forced Andrelton Simmons to ground into an inning-ending double play. Harang didn't allow another Atlanta hitter to reach base, retiring the last 10 batters he faced.
"I'm going out there trying to keep guys off balance and execute my pitches, make things happen and keep the defense on their toes, make their offense hit the ball early in the count," Harang said.
Braves left-hander Alex Wood didn't give the Phillies a ton of opportunities to strike offensively, and when Philadelphia did get on base, Wood and the Braves escaped. The Braves even gifted the Phillies extra chances because of poor defensive play. An early opportunity to take the lead was wasted when the Phillies failed to take advantage of putting runners on first and second with one out in the first inning.
The Phillies best chance came in the eighth against the Braves' bullpen. Again, the first two hitters of the innings reached as Chase Utley singled and Jeff Francoeur got on base thanks for a Braves fielding error.
Ryan Howard's sacrifice fly put Utley on third, but with only one out in the inning, Cody Asche tried to bunt. He popped out, though, and Ruiz followed with a strikeout. Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said Asche chose to bunt on his own and talked with him afterward about his decision. Sandberg would have rather seen Asche swing away in that situation, especially considering he has been one of the Phillies' most consistent hitters to start the season.
Ken Giles pitched a scoreless ninth in place of Jonathan Papelbon, who was at home all day because he was sick, Sandberg said.
Contact Meghan Montemurro at mmontemurro@delaware
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On November 1, 1979, IBM debuted a new system to increase office productivity by combining advanced text processing and electronic document distribution. The 5520 Administrative System supported the creation, storage, retrieval and editing of documents ranging from single-page memos to multi-page manuals. Business correspondence could be created efficiently on the 5520 and then delivered instantly to other users over communications lines.
The 5520 came in four models, with disk storage capacity up to 130 megabytes. Tailored to the administrative environment, the 5520 could accommodate from three to 12 printers — both daisy wheel (IBM 5257) and ink jet (IBM 5258) types — and from one to 18 display stations (IBM 5253 or IBM 5254).
Prices varied according to the specific machine types, models and features selected by customers. For example, a text system with 29 million characters of system/user disk storage capacity, five 5253 display stations and two 5257 printers, cost $64,351 or could be leased for $1,980 a month. A text and document distribution system with 130 million characters of system/user disk storage capacity, fifteen 5253 display stations, six 5257 printers and the necessary features to support communication lines, could be purchased for $175,753 or leased for $5,372 a month.
The 5520 Administrative System was compatible for electronic document distribution via communication lines with several IBM products including the 6670 Information Distributor, Office System/6, 6240 Mag Card Typewriter-Communicating and an appropriately programmed System/370 mainframe.
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She wiped a newly sweating brow, then rifled the handbag for her cell. Elyse hadn't spoken with Uncle Chuck in two weeks.
With his bullet-shaped, nearly hairless head he strongly resembled the hockey puck comic. Chuck came over a lot after that; on weekends her father's brother brought her to movies, kidded around with her and her mother while the three of them ate Sunday lunch. Elyse's father had died when she was six. A photo of Uncle Chuck on the fireplace mantel reflected late-day sunlight. At home she placed her handbag on the coffee table.
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Iris N. Schwartz's fiction has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Anti-Heroin Chic; Five-2-One; Gluttony: 7 Deadly Sins, Volume 2, Pure Slush; Jellyfish Review; and Spelk Fiction. Her short-short story collection, My Secret Life with Chris Noth, was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Shame is her latest collection.


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With the recent developments regarding the United States' military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which effectively bans openly gay and lesbian citizens from serving in the military, it is an appropriate time to examine where the policy came from, where it currently stands, and the possibilities for its future.
Leading up to his 1992 presidential election victory, Bill Clinton promised to end the ban on gays and lesbians in the US military. However, once in office President Clinton encountered fierce resistance from Congress. During the Congressional debates, Dr. Gregory Herek, a respected social psychologist with over 15 years of research in topics of sexual orientation, spoke on the potential consequences of lifting the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. His ultimate conclusion was that "the research data show that there is nothing about lesbians and gay men that makes them inherently unfit for military service, and there is nothing about heterosexuals that makes them inherently unable to work and live with gay people in close quarters." Despite these affirmations, President Clinton was unable to persuade congress, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell was formed as a compromise. This was, at any rate, progress, because it allowed gay and lesbian troops to serve in the military, as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret.
Every year, a bill is used to decide the budget of the US Department of Defense, and the 2010 version includes an amendment that would eliminate the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law. This was voted on by the House of Representatives on May 27, and it passed on a 234-194 vote. The Senate Armed Forces Committee also voted on the bill, and it passed there with a 16-12 vote.
The biggest argument against passing the bill is that its potential effects on the military are unknown. The Pentagon is currently undergoing a review that was commissioned after President Obama's State of the Union Address, where he discussed his desire to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The goal of the review is to determine whether or not the repeal would affect the "military's standards of readiness, effectiveness, unit cohesion and recruitment and retention," and to offer strategies on how to implement the law if it was passed. The results of this review are not due until December, so many Representatives who were not in favor of repeal said that they were reluctant to agree to the bill without first knowing the results of the Pentagon review.
What is known about Don't Ask, Don't Tell is there are many negative consequences. Apart from its obvious discriminatory nature, which can alienate troops and force them to lie, it is very expensive. A 2006 study showed that Don't Ask, Don't Tell has cost the US over $363 million dollars in investigations and training replacements. Over 13,000 people have been kicked out of the military since 1993 due to their sexual orientation, which includes troops with critical skills such as Arabic linguists, fighter pilots and doctors, whose skills are invaluable during a time in which the US is involved in two wars. There are over thirty countries that allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, including Israel, England, Canada, Australia, and Spain.
There are still many obstacles in the way before the repealing of Don't Ask, Don't Tell can be passed. The next step is that the Senate must vote on the bill, which could occur this summer. If it were to pass in the Senate, the president, the defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff all must sign off on it as well. This might be a very significant obstacle because President Obama has threatened to veto the bill because it contains money for defense projects he deems wasteful.
Despite these obstacles, there is more hope than ever that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law will finally be eliminated. As Dr. Herek mentioned, there is absolutely nothing that prevents gays and lesbians from serving as well as heterosexuals. And with numerous examples of countries successfully embracing gays and lesbians into their militaries, isn't it time that the United States, a self-professed powerful force for good in the world, did so as well? As someone close to me always says, there have always been gay and lesbian troops in the military, and I believe that it is long past due to finally allow them to serve their country openly and freely.


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Maree Jenkins is the owner of Tarkine Wilderness Lodge, a property located approximately 35km south west of Wynyard, Tasmania. The property is a dedicated wildlife sanctuary offering eco-friendly accommodation. It is Maree's intent for the sanctuary to continue to be used for the benefit of the local environment, with the Lodge investing in renewable energy and utilising solar power as its main source of electricity. The sanctuary is also used for wildlife rehabilitation and Maree plans to build pre-release enclosures in the future. The property is also a member of Land for Wildlife and Gardens for Wildlife.
Tarkine Wilderness Lodge covers approximately 80 hectares and is described as 'an island in the rainforest' due to its location on the edge of the Tarkine – one of the world's most significant remaining tracts of temperate rainforest. Vegetation types include buttongrass plains and temperate rainforest containing leatherwoods (Eucryphia lucida) and tarkine myrtles (Nothofagus cunninghamii).
Wildlife known to inhabit the area include Bennett's wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus), ringtail (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) and brushtail (Trichosurus vulpecula) possums, spotted-tailed quolls (Dasyurus maculatus), Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis), giant freshwater lobsters (Astacopsis gouldi), platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and a wide variety of microbats, birds and reptiles.
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Tarkine Wilderness Lodge is situated on the northwest coast of Tasmania, on the northern edge of the largest tract of temperate rainforest in Australia, the Tarkine. Our sanctuary is known to support at least 64 threatened species of flora and fauna.
My partner and I built the Lodge as tourism accommodation, offering guided rainforest walks to give people from around the globe the opportunity to visit the forest and to recognise how special it is and how it should be protected for the next generation. The Lodge is eco-accredited and built with sustainability in mind, and we invested in renewable energy to offset carbon emissions from the get-go. Rain water is collected from the roof and supplies all internal taps, showers and vanities while dam water is used for the surrounding garden and all toilets. Our sanctuary utilises solar power as its main source of electricity, significantly reducing our greenhouse emissions.
The Lodge is also a secondary release site for orphaned and injured wildlife, which I enjoy meeting and helping to adapt to their natural environment. Some of the wildlife released here in the past includes tawny frogmouths, pademelons, Bennett's wallabies, possums and wombats who still visit occasionally. I feel privileged to live in such a wonderful environment with so many amazing native animals including wedge-tailed eagles, giant freshwater lobsters, Tasmanian devils and spotted-tail quolls, to name just a few.
I am very excited to have become a member of Wildlife Land Trust because I think it is important to have as much protection for our native plants and animals as possible. I have lived on this 81 hectare property for 28 years now and have seen many changes to its surrounds over the years, watching farm land converted to plantation timber and clear felling of magnificent old growth forests. Such changes place a huge amount of pressure on our native wildlife, mainly through loss of habitat. It is such a wonderful concept to be able to have sanctuaries all around Australia that protect our wildlife and conserve the places they live. For more on Tarkine Wilderness Lodge, visit www.tarkinelodge.com
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
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It ambles amiably for just over 3 minutes, then picks up momentum from there, breaking into an effortless jog - kicking off its shoes, skittering along, Bobby Wratten doing his usual repeat/echo vocal trick, then Annemari's harmonies come in, and the typically bleak chorus lyric ("We don't call each other up any more")...but when the piano first appears at the 5:30 mark, it's like the sun bursting through after three days of rain, and it only gets more beautiful from that point on.
If there's a 12-minute version of this song knocking around in a studio in South London, I'd sell most of my records just to hear it once.
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Today's soaring mortgage default rate and the uncertainty and delay associated with mortgage foreclosure proceedings threaten to cause financial tragedies of the commons in condominiums and homeowner associations across the country. Assessment defaults in privately governed communities result in an inequitable allocation of upkeep costs-a phenomenon that current law has failed to prevent. But the collateral damage caused by delayed foreclosures and insufficient recoveries can be minimized by increasing the payment priority of the association lien.
In a majority of states, association liens are completely subordinate to the first mortgage lien. At foreclosure of the mortgage lien, the junior priority assessment lien will be extinguished whether or not there are sufficient proceeds to reimburse for community charges. Assessment delinquencies grow over time, so the longer it takes to complete foreclosure, the greater the costs to the neighborhood. Although several states have adopted a limited lien priority for up to six months' worth of unpaid assessments, foreclosures today take far longer than six months, and the amount ultimately owed to a community can be significant and far exceed that cap. Federal housing policy affects the resolution of the issue because the Federal Housing Administration ("FHA'), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac only permit qualifying mortgages to be subject to a six-month assessment lien priority. The decelerating pace of foreclosure further exacerbates the already unjustifiable financial impact borne by non-defaulting neighbors. The lien priority status quo fails to adequately protect communities in today 's context of widespread, delayed foreclosures andunder-collateralized mortgage loans. Decreasing the first mortgage lien's priority during a foreclosure delay would mitigate the harm.
Lien priority statutory changes could protect association finances in the future, and such provisions might be applied retroactively as well. In other contexts, states have held that changes to a lien priority regime could apply to existing associations and existing mortgages without unconstitutionally impairing contract or property rights. This has been particularly true where the association's lien was deemed to have been created on the date the community's organizational documents were recorded (prior to any unit's mortgage). Historically, bank lobbyists have opposed any enhanced assessment lien priority. However, supporting property upkeep and making assessments more predictable and collectible would actually benefit lenders by shoring up the value of their collateral. Moreover, increased certainty with respect to homeowner payment obligations would enable more responsible credit underwriting and contribute to economic recovery. Shoring up assessment lien priority would not only ensure a fair allocation of community costs, but also would help to contain the current housing market decline.
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Community Collateral Damage: A Question of Priorities,
Loy. U. Chi. L. J.
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1. To put a rug (a kind of special coat, also called a "horse blanket") over a horse. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rug" and "up." I rugged the poor old mare up and gave her a bucket of oats to eat. Make sure you rug up the horses before you put them in the stable for the night.
2. To wrap someone up in warm blankets or clothes. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rug" and "up." The kids came in out of the rain soaking wet and freezing cold, so I dried them off, rugged them up, and sat them in front of the fire with mugs of hot cocoa.
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Whether your event calls for portable singles or luxury toilet trailers, showers or generators, we are here to help. Our extensive knowledge and large range of equipment can cater for all your requirements from parties to weddings, sporting events to festivals and everything in-between.
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A diagnosis of cancer is something that everyone prays doesn't touch their lives or the lives of those around them; however, if the worst happens and cancer ends up impacting your life or the lives of those you love, we at Joliet Oncology-Hematology Associates, Ltd. (JOHA) fully believe that in order to properly fight this dreaded disease in its many forms, one must be as educated as possible about it. Being armed with information is the best way to literally and metaphorically go into the battle of beating cancer.
That being said, no soldier can go into a fight without having the proper equipment. From prostate cancer to lung cancer or breast cancer to complex blood disorders, there is no denying that the best chance of beating cancer at any stage is when the body is prepared to fight its strongest fight. This is where immunotherapy comes into the picture. According to the National Cancer Institute, the purpose of your immune system is to help you fight off infections and other diseases, and immunotherapy is defined as " a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer." Though it's not yet as common as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery treatments, immunotherapy is administered to patients mainly intravenously.
While not discounting the effectiveness of other methods of cancer treatment, many today are praising what immunotherapy can do for cancer patients. Take the Washington Post for example. This article tells the powerful story of a patient who had lost hope, was told that the implications of her disease were vast, and was advised that the outcome was bleak. But, with the help of clinical trials, experimentation, and the determination to survive, immunotherapy had impactful and lasting results for her. It's comforting to hear a real-life story of how immunotherapy has positively impacted the lives of patients or their loved ones. It has come a long way, and this technology can only advance in the years to come. If Stefanie Joho can beat her colon cancer when the odds were stacked against her, think of who else immunotherapy has yet to touch!
Now that we understand a little bit more about what immunotherapy is, let's explore some types of immunotherapy that can treat cancer today. The most common form of immunotherapy treatment that patients are utilizing today include checkpoint inhibitors. Checkpoint inhibitors expose cancer cells to the body's immune system. This is a method that is becoming increasingly more relevant and prevalent, and one that we at JOHA are currently using for our patients.
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Strathcloud is a cloud-like application for storing files and folders.
Update 2022 : All Strathclyde users now also have access to cloud storage services in Office 365. This includes staff, postgraduate researchers, postgraduate taught students, and undergraduates. The University now recommends Office 365 over Strathcloud. If you are a Strathcloud user, you should begin to transition to Office 365. Office 365 includes OneDrive for Business, Teams and Sharepoint. OneDrive for Business should be used for individual data and short-term sharing : Teams and Sharepoint should be used for important or long-term shared data.
Strathcloud user accounts
There are three different types of user account on Strathcloud:
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Find out more about the different types of Strathcloud user account.
Protecting shared files from deletion
Long-term sharing of files with Strathcloud requires planning.
If a colleague creates and shares a Strathcloud folder, but leaves the University, that folder and the data it contains will be deleted along with their University DS account.
If you plan to share data long-term you should ask your local IT support to create the shared folder for you, under a 'hosting account'.
Strathcloud is not for:
- Storing very large amounts of data. For this, consider using your H or I drive.
- Writing experimental data at high speed. For this, consider writing to your H or I drive. For greater speed, write data locally first (i.e. to the hard drive of the computer you are working on) and copy it to Strathcloud or a your H or I drive later.
- Storing files if you are an undergraduate or taught postgraduate student. For this, use OneDrive or your H drive. However, you can access files on Strathcloud if a member of University staff has shared them with you and provided you with a direct URL.
- Storing, archiving or publishing completed research data for the long-term, to comply with funder mandates. For this, consider PURE.
Downloadable help guides
Strathcloud - Getting Started Guide
Sending, organising and sharing your files and folders.
Strathcloud - Installing Windows Client
How to install the "Sync for Windows" app, so that you can then sync files between the Strathcloud storage and your Windows PC or laptop.
Strathcloud - Mobile Sync Advice
Tips on preventing Strathcloud sync/upload/download from using your mobile-data allowance.
Strathcloud - Set up Strathcloud on mobile device
Guide to setting up the Strathcloud app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device.
Strathcloud - Sync for Windows Preferences Guide
Guidance on configuring your "Sync for Windows" preferences, e.g. so that shared folders are sync'd to your Windows PC or laptop.
Strathcloud - Using Sync for Windows on a home PC or shared laptop
Guidance on keeping your data secure, on a machine you may share with other people.
Further Information
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A missing level in the analyses of British voting behaviour: the household as context as shown by analyses of a 1992-1997 longitudinal survey
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Carol Propper, et al.
Neighbourhood social capital and neighbourhood effects
Ron Johnston, Carol Propper, Rebecca Sarker, et al.
Egocentric economic voting and changes in party choice: Great Britain 1992-2001
Ron Johnston, Rebecca Sarker, Kelvyn Jones, et al.
Scale, factor analyses, and neighborhood effects
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Simon Burgess, et al.


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A glance at local people and events in the news recently
Vocational boost or bust? A generous $500,000 grant of federal money to fund vocational training in the Centinela Valley School District both pleases and worries us. We're glad to hear of the grant, considered the largest in district history, especially as experts – pointing to rising student debt, an overcrowded job market and a glut of overqualified, college-educated graduates – start to increase the value of technical training for job seekers. But we're concerned that while the grant underlines the importance of such training, it also could provide more cover for the district to sever its ties with SoCal ROC, the center in Torrance that helps provide district students with that training. That's because the district, which has accused SoCal ROC of withholding financial information, has said that it could provide better vocational opportunities on its own. This money could help pay for that.
We're not taking sides in the SoCal ROC debate. The district also says the center violated state law by adding two at-large members to the board, and if the allegations are true, Centinela would be remiss not to examine its relationship. Meanwhile, SoCal ROC officials have accused Centinela of initiating the pullout for financial gain – $1.2 million in state funding goes to the center for the hundreds of Centinela Valley students enrolled there.
On second thought, we will take a side – that of the students. Whatever happens between the district and SoCal ROC, we hope it's a decision made in their best interests and that nothing, whether state funding or a generous federal grant, taints that higher goal.
Kudos to crimestoppers: The District Attorney's Office recognized four people last week for their roles in stopping South Bay-area crimes. We add our thanks and gratitude to Mohsen "Mike" Haffar, who intervened when a man threatened two others with a knife and gun on the Redondo Beach pier, and Jose Villalobos, who followed a would-be robber from Gardena until police could apprehend him. But we want to give special attention to the other two honorees: 17-year-old Tevita Veikoso and 13-year-old Julio Grimaldi. That's because these two young men showed that courage and an awareness of right and wrong aren't connected to age.
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Siri is a fairly good AI, but the fact that it stumbled on some basics is a source of disappointment for me. In this test, Alexa stumbled as well.
Siri is very cool. Apple has put a lot of work into it. Siri is useful to me on an ongoing basis. But…
Physics 101
An AI is designed to parse speech and do its best to respond. But when it stumbles on very basic concepts of speech, rich in context, it can be frustrating. For example, I asked Siri this question on my Apple Watch S4.
Say what?
Just to be sure, I checked on my iPhone. Same answer. It's almost like what the physicist Dr. Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was fond of saying "That's not even wrong."
Of course, if one leaves off "in pounds," Siri (iPhone) presents a list of some website links. You'll have to select one and hope it provides the right answer in plain sight. As an aside, here's the correct answer, right out of Google search, very simply. I double checked myself, and 8.34 pounds is close to the correct. 8.3454. (It wasn't rounded up correctly.)
If one wants to drop back and let let Siri dictate the units of measure, then some progress is possible. I'm back to my AWS4/watchOS 5.0.1 here.
Why does Siri report "3.79" and Google/Quora "3.78"? It's because a more precise answer is 3.78541. Again, Google/Quora didn't round up correctly. Siri did.
Alexa Up to Bat
I asked Alexa the identical question. "How much does a gallon of water weigh in pounds?" Alexa was better at figuring out that I wanted an answer in pounds. The answer I got was:
"9.92 pounds or 4.5 kilograms."
I got that same answer three times. And that, as Dr. Pauli would have said, is indeed wrong.
What I Learned
- Siri couldn't pick up the context of a desired answer in pounds. Alexa could.
- When Siri was given a simpler verbal context, it picked its own units of measure. At least the answer was right.
- Little attention was paid to rounding rules here by some sources.
- Alexa picked up on the context of desired units but presented a very wrong answer. This is alarming. Amazon?
Of course, one could do a lot more testing, and I'm sure all kinds of interesting effects would be noticed. But my simple goal here was to report some very odd things that I noticed right away. And wonder why these AIs both stumbled on something so simple.


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Microcontrollers suit motion detection applications.
Press Release Summary:
Designed for development of products requiring control based on Passive Infrared motion detection, Zilog® ZMOTION(TM) Detection and Control Solutions combine programmability and peripheral set of Flash Z8 Encore XP(TM) F082A microcontrollers with software algorithms. Pyro-electric sensor is interfaced directly to Sigma/Delta ADC input on microcontroller without AC coupling, gain, filtering, or temperature compensation, allowing microcontrollers to work with true, unmodified signal.
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Zilog Develops New ZMOTION(TM) Sensing and Control Solutions Featuring Advanced Sensing Technology
Latest Series of High-Performance Microcontrollers Offer Advanced Motion Detection Capabilities for Faster Product Development Cycles
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BIEL, Switzerland, -- IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS) and Zilog Corporation, a wholly owned IXYS subsidiary and trusted supplier of application-specific, embedded system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the industrial and consumer markets, today introduced its latest sensing and control technology ideal for motion detection applications, including intrusion, customer sensing and lighting control, and other energy management applications.
The Zilog® ZMOTION(TM) Detection and Control Family featuring advance sensing and control technology consists of a series of high-performance microcontrollers specifically designed for the rapid development and deployment of products requiring control based on Passive Infrared (PIR) motion detection.
The solutions combine the programmability and rich peripheral set of Zilog's Flash Z8 Encore XP(TM) F082A series of microcontrollers with a revolutionary new software design that has expanded motion detection capabilities with powerful built-in software algorithms. The combination is then tuned with quality lens and pyros combinations for a complete solution package that is optimized for multiple motion sensing and control applications. The customer benefits with the new solutions include unparalleled performance and flexibility when designing their devices, faster product development cycles, more flexible manufacturing and firmware changes in the field.
"Zilog's ZMOTION Detection and Control solutions build on the success of our Zdots® Single Board Computers with PIR Motion Detection Technology and offer our customers a dramatic improvement in both sensitivity and stability over traditional designs," said Steve Darrough, Zilog Director of Worldwide Marketing.
Enhanced Support for Lens and Pyro-Electric Sensor Capabilities
Today's traditional sensor designs have significant limitations originating from the filter and gain stage. By filtering the signal, information that is critical to making a reliable decision is removed. Any signal discontinuity between the pyro-electric sensor and the filter stage will look no different from a low-level infrared energy signature at the output of the gain stage. This impacts the maximum range, sensitivity and stability of the detector.
The architecture of Zilog's new ZMOTION(TM) Detection and Control solutions provides a greatly simplified design compared to the traditional approach. The pyro-electric sensor is interfaced directly to the high-resolution Sigma/Delta Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) input on the microcontroller without any AC coupling, gain, filtering or temperature compensation. This allows the microcontroller to work with the true, unmodified signal and see the real-time effects caused by shifts in DC offset, transients and other non-motion-based signal changes.
For example, a transient or white light event can generate a fast rise in output voltage from the pyro-electric sensor. The ZMOTION architecture can sense this event and respond to it accordingly, significantly reducing false detections.
Additionally, the new statistical processing algorithms provided by the ePIR motion detection engine eliminates the need for a discrete temperature compensation circuit. White light immunity is also supported by the status LED, eliminating the need for a special lens or a dedicated ambient light sensor. This leads to a simpler and smaller circuit design with reduced component count, providing better reliability, sensitivity and stability than traditional designs.
The ePIR engine in the ZMOTION solutions can be configured to support various pyro-electric sensors and lens types required by different motion detection applications. Recommended software application programmer interface (API) settings are available for a range of commercially available lens and pyro-electric sensor types. The motion detection algorithms in the new technology comprise the ePIR engine and run in the background of the microcontroller, while control and status of the engine is accessed through an API. This allows the designer to create their own application specific software using the available 4 kilobytes of on-chip flash memory while taking advantage of Zilog's ZMOTION technology.
The Zilog ZMOTION(TM) Detection and Control Silicon Family featuring ePIR Technology is in production and now available to ship to customers that place orders through distributors. For more information, visit www.zilog.com.
About Zilog, Inc.
Zilog is a trusted supplier of application specific, embedded system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the industrial and consumer markets. From its roots as an award-winning architect in the microprocessor and microcontroller industry, Zilog has evolved its expertise beyond core silicon to include SoCs, single board computers, application-specific software stacks and development tools that allow embedded designers quick time to market in areas such as energy management, monitoring and metering, motor control and motion detection. Zilog is an IXYS company. For more information, visit www.ixys.com/, and www.zilog.com/.
Zilog, Z8 Encore! and ZMOTION(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Zilog, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the United States and other countries.


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Just as the tides ebb and flow, life is meant to move so that we can grow. When the sands beneath your feet begin to shift, what do you do?
Do you tighten your grip?
Do you let go and trust?
If you're like me, the first thing you want to do is to dig in, deep. However, with time, I'm learning to relax my grip sooner rather than later; allowing the tides to shift without getting all bent.
What I'm beginning to see, again and again, is that regardless of my fear and gripping that changes unfold accordingly. So what is the purpose of holding on to something I cannot truly influence, anyway?!
Being grounded and being present are helpful when sudden shifts hit. Feeling into the body, any physical sensations can help you to be more present.
Ongoing resilience can be built through meditation and allowing of emotions. While these strategies do not change the life circumstances per se, they can help us to be more flexible when the shifts occur. With greater resilience, we learn to gain trust and grip less.
Just as light, sound and water travel in waves, in life we have ups and downs as a natural ebb and flow of our energies. We will move or be moved. The sands beneath our feet will shift. How we choose to respond can affect how well we shift into the emerging energies. So will you fight it or allow it?


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'South Down needs agreed tourism strategy' – Hazzard
Posted by Newry Times NewsSinn Féin MLA Chris Hazzard has said that the potential of tourism to the economy of South Down can be maximised if there is an agreed strategy in place. Speaking after meeting with Stephen Bill, Regional Manager Tourism NI and Mark Mohan, Tourism Initiatives Manager with Newry Mourne and Down District Council Hazzard said, "I am satisfied that a strategy is being developed directed towards the unrealised potential of tourism in Co. Down. "Around 700 coaches per year visited the St. Patrick's Centre in Downpatrick yet few stayed overnight as it is estimated that 85% of visitors to Co. Down are day trippers. While there have been many improvements in the last decade we need to build upon our successes and encourage more long stay tourists," he insisted. "It is essential that we package the entire tourist product of South Down as one, which includes the natural beauty of the Mournes, our beaches, St Patrick and local history. I am also happy that there is to be a much greater focus on developing links with Fáilte Ireland and the east coast, which benefits from huge visitor numbers. "The ferry crossing and the proposed bridge at Narrow Water would also contribute to opening up the entire South Down area for tourism and business. The creation of these transport links would benefit the entire region, north and south, in terms of economic regeneration." Hazzard added, "I look forward to the Tourism NI consultation paper, which is soon to be circulated, proposing a strategy in line with the specific needs of South Down."
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In 2013-2014 the District of Sechelt participated in a pilot program to test newly developed cultural mapping software. The result was an online, searchable culture map of Sechelt that enabled us to document our community's cultural resources. The map contained information about a diverse range of creative and cultural assets in Sechelt, including community organizations, businesses, facilities, artists, historic sites, heritage plaques, public art, and murals.
Although the interactive culture map of Sechelt is no longer available for viewing online, the data it contained is available upon request.


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Is that live? Is what live? I am talking about preserved moss walls. These moss art pieces are becoming popular fast. In a world that is getting busier, taller, and more congested the need for natural elements inside of urban spaces is growing. A solution could be moss art. We use moss either sourced from… Read more »
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Indoor Plant Care 101
Caring for plants on the interior of a building can be a great experience or a nightmare depending on your watering habits. There are a lot of factors that go into the overall health of a tropical plant over time, but watering will most likely be a deciding factor in the future of your plant(s)…. Read more »
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
A lot of people are choosing to put plants in the home, office, or building lobbies. Some choose to leave the design process up to an interior designer, and some choose to take matters into their own hands. There is no wrong way to go about this decision process as many of us have a… Read more »
What is Biophilic Design?
The term Biophilia is being used more and more, but what does it mean. How does it affect our lives? And where do we see it in our world today? By definition Biophilic design "integrates nature and natural elements, materials and forms into architecture and interiors." Ok so that's not so bad, some people have… Read more »
Design Inspiration for your next living green wall!
It is no secret that green walls are becoming a trend in today's cityscapes. As buildings go up and our natural surroundings are diminished, the importance of designing buildings with natural elements increases. So much so, that things like the WELL Building Standard and LEED certification are becoming common references for developers as well as… Read more »
Why choose plants?
Most people know that plants do benefit mankind while on his/her adventure to pave the world. We all see more parking lots, more roads, and well more everything as we trudge into the future. And this is exactly why we probably want to, or should want to see more plants. Interior design trends have gone… Read more »


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Cameron Duodu
Born and educated in Ghana, Cameron Duodu started work on a general purpose magazine called New Nation in Ghana, then moved to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where he became editor of radio news. He returned to the magazine world as editor of the Ghana edition of the famous pan-African magazine, Drum. He later edited the biggest-selling newspaper in Ghana, the Daily Graphic.
Cameron has worked as freelance journalist for the Guardian, the Observer, the BBC, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Sunday Times and De Volkskrant, Amsterdam. He has also had stints with the magazines South and Index on Censorship. He currently writes a column for New African magazine (London), City Press (Johannesburg) and the Ghanaian Times (Accra). He appears frequently on BBC World and BBC World Service radio news programmes discussing African politics, economy and culture.
Cameron is the author of The Gab Boys (Andre Deutsch, London and Fontana, London), translated as Flucht nach Akkra (Horst Erdmann, Tübingen, Germany). He also writes plays and poetry.


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Motion control is at the core of automation technology. Whether it is 3D printing, robotics, semiconductor manufacturing or machine tools, HEIDENHAIN offers the precision feedback in both linear and angular, as well as positioning systems and controls. Booth #4466
Q&A with | HEIDENHAIN
Tell us about your Company.
HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION is the North American subsidiary of the German company DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH, a leading international manufacturer of precision measurement and control equipment. This superior technology is utilized within high precision motion control and machining systems worldwide. It is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL, and San Jose, CA, and has been serving the U.S. industry for over 50 years. Here nine company brands are represented.
What makes your booth a must visit for Expo Attendees?
Visitors must see the latest in advanced motion control technology from ETEL which is a HEIDENHAIN brand. This includes actuators to torque motors and complete motion systems.
When you get a chance to walk the exhibit hall floor yourself, what is it you will be most interested to see? Any educational sessions, pavilions etc. you plan on attending?
We as an exhibitor are, obviously, most interested in connecting with customers with which we can provide motion solutions. We are happy to be included in this great gathering in order to start to meet those needs.
Advanced Manufacturing is undertaking rapid advancements, be it 3D Printing and the materials used to automation and robotics. Automation Technology is a huge part for many manufacturers, give us an idea on how your company and product is being utilized now in the smart factory.
Motion control is at the core of automation technology. Whether it is 3D printing, robotics, semiconductor manufacturing or machine tools, HEIDENHAIN offers the precision feedback in both linear and angular, as well as positioning systems and controls.
Give us your thoughts on what the future holds for manufacturers and automation technology.
Better connection, speed and accuracy = throughput. No matter how one slices it, that's the future.
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[05/05/20 Update] Update on pending markets.
[05/05/20 Update]
Update on pending markets. Please check the list below
Wave 2 rollout for Nokia 4.2 Android 10 update has started! All Markets that have approved the Android 10 release that weren't in Wave 1 will now start to receive the update - 10% by today, 50% by April 24th and 100% by April 26th.
Please note that we can only release the update to markets that have approved the build.
Wave 2 markets pending approvals:
As soon as approvals are received, we'll release to you and update the above pending approvals list.
Also check our Q&A on approved Markets and Waves -here-.
Hi everyone
Nokia 4.2 owner check your phones because it has started to receive Android 10!
To ensure a smooth roll out the update is dispatched in Waves.
Our first wave includes the countries
10% of all these approved markets will receive the Update today. 50% by April 12th and on the April 14th 100% of these approved markets will have received Android 10.
Stay tuned!
Don't you care about Germany? Not included in 3.2 and 4.2! :-(
Thank you! Now we are talking some updates! Thanks to all the people who have worked from home or wherever to get the updates ready for us 😊
Waiting for Kenya East Africa
Waiting 🇱🇰
Android 10 for Nokia 4.2 is available now in India. Please check your phone.
In 3.2 and 4.2 Poland is not included 😭😭😭
Can't find Nigeria too in both 3.2 and 4.2. Though the 2.2 was delayed for more than a week. Let's see how it goes with the hope that the update is bugless.
I have already got Android 10 update for my Nokia 4.2.
As always South America must wait. On these sides we are bored of the little interest of Nokia.
Always south America and Africa have to wait.
I received updated, it's great update I'm happy thanks HMD
When will it be available for Bulgaria
The new Nokia 3.2 update will not be supported in Iran, and we have not received an update yet😑
No Android 10 for Nokia 4.2 in South Africa. Why not where is android 10?
Let's wait for the second wave
why widewine l1 support has been removed?
dual sim volte and vowifi is buggy.
When is wave 2. No nokia 4.2 android 10 in South Africa. Why?
Very soon, may be next week
Why you say next week. Do you know
C'mon man, if you waited so far, you can wait additional week or two, don't act like a spoiled child.
Because wave 1 has been released.
Truth be told, in as much as you'll never see Nigeria as one of the countries listed (Lord knows why they don't acknowledge Nigeria) fact is Nigeria is embedded in that wave 1 and Airtel is a verified operator in Nigeria to dish out updates once it's approved (can't speak of the rest).
What operator are you using man?
MTN Nigeria
This is poor from Nokia. Apple releases updates and people get it the same day. Why does it take 5 days for everyone to get it ?🤣🤣
The update of the Android 10 operating system is quite amazing, including Indonesia. An extraordinary one from Indonesia.