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Book III: Chapter VI
Having established these points, we proceed next to consider whether one form of government only should be established, or more than one; and if more, how many, and of what sort, and what are the differences between them. The form of government is the ordering and regulating of the city, and all the offices in it, particularly those wherein the supreme power is lodged; and this power is always possessed by the administration; but the administration itself is that particular form of government which is established in any state: thus in a democracy the supreme power is lodged in the whole people; on the contrary, in an oligarchy it is in the hands of a few. We say then, that the form of government in these states is different, and we shall find the same thing hold good in others. Let us first determine for whose sake a city is established; and point out the different species of rule which man may submit to in social life.
I have already mentioned in my treatise on the management of a family, and the power of the master, that man is an animal naturally formed for society, and that therefore, when he does not want any foreign assistance, he will of his own accord desire to live with others; not but that mutual advantage induces them to it, as far as it enables each person to live more agreeably; and this is indeed the great object not only to all in general, but also to each individual: but it is not merely matter of choice, but they join in society also, even that they may be able to live, which probably is not without some share of merit, and they also support civil society, even for the sake of preserving life, without they are grievously overwhelmed with the miseries of it: for it is very evident that men will endure many calamities for the sake of living, as being something naturally sweet and desirable. It is easy to point out the different modes of government, and we have already settled them in our exoteric discourses. The power of the master, though by nature equally serviceable, both to the master and to the slave, yet nevertheless has for its object the benefit of the master, while the benefit of the slave arises accidentally; for if the slave is destroyed, the power of the master is at an end: but the authority which a man has over his wife, and children, and his family, which we call domestic government, is either for the benefit of those who are under subjection, or else for the common benefit of the whole: but its particular object is the benefit of the governed, as we see in other arts; in physic, for instance, and the gymnastic exercises, wherein, if any benefit [1279a] arise to the master, it is accidental; for nothing forbids the master of the exercises from sometimes being himself one of those who exercises, as the steersman is always one of the sailors; but both the master of the exercises and the steersman consider the good of those who are under their government. Whatever good may happen to the steersman when he is a sailor, or to the master of the exercises when he himself makes one at the games, is not intentional, or the object of their power; thus in all political governments which are established to preserve and defend the equality of the citizens it is held right to rule by turns. Formerly, as was natural, every one expected that each of his fellow-citizens should in his turn serve the public, and thus administer to his private good, as he himself when in office had done for others; but now every one is desirous of being continually in power, that he may enjoy the advantage which he makes of public business and being in office; as if places were a never-failing remedy for every complaint, and were on that account so eagerly sought after.
It is evident, then, that all those governments which have a common good in view are rightly established and strictly just, but those who have in view only the good of the rulers are all founded on wrong principles, and are widely different from what a government ought to be, for they are tyranny over slaves, whereas a city is a community of freemen.Next


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A human surgeon called Rene Leriche once said that "every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray" and I believe this is the most accurate and profound statement ever made about my profession. I remember every single one of my failures and very few of my successes. I leave my ego at the door every time I go into theatre because I know from bitter experience that biology will always humble you and that you are only as good as your last operation.
There is no surgeon on planet earth that hasn't failed. You cannot be a surgeon without failure permeating your existence and haunting your nightmares. This is true whether you concentrate on well-established procedures or newly developed procedures. Sure, with experience, one would hope to get better, and certainly, you cannot learn success or failure from a book – but once you pick up a scalpel blade, failure is an integral part of your life.
I set out to make this TV program because I wanted to make a difference – I wanted to bring hope and love to the world by explaining that the journey of one animal and one person that loves that animal is the universal journey of all of us – and I believe that sharing that journey shows us the best of ourselves – the love of an animal makes us the very best we can be. The journey of the one is in fact the journey of everyone. We are all in it together.
It is easy to show success, and to some extent, it makes for easier compliance with broadcasting rules because there is no fall-out, but that is not real life – real life is a mixture of both success and failure. In this week's episode, my team and I did our best, but we still failed and we lost a dear friend. Our loss profoundly affected us – but it was a drop in the ocean of the pain of Bella's beautiful, compassionate and magnificent family. This family were brave enough to allow us to show their journey and I am deeply grateful that they have shared their emotions and their loss with us – because in knowing that we had all done our best, there is peace of mind. In knowing that peace, we might bring hope to millions of animals and human beings who recognise that without hope we are lost, unless we make tough decisions and unless we live with the consequences, we will never make progress and we will never make a real difference to medicine and to society. Unless we have felt pain and loss, we will never really know the true feeling of love and redemption.
Tonight was the most difficult episode I have ever made of The Supervet and I have been honoured to meet Bella and her wonderful family. I can do the same operation on two consecutive days and on one day I will succeed and on another I will fail, having done my very best on both days. This is true whether I'm doing a procedure for the hundredth time or the first time. I do think that people have to realise this and understand that we are a team of people who care desperately and selflessly about every patient entrusted to our care – but we can only do our best, and sometimes that isn't enough because biology does not smile that day. These are difficult ethical decisions, but in making them, we genuinely do seek to make the world a better place for the animals that give us so much.
I try really hard not to take either praise or criticism to heart because neither helps my next surgery, but it's really really hard for myself and for all of my team to fail, in spite of our best efforts and our best intentions. We do take it very personally and it weighs heavily upon us. I have no doubt that there will be people who criticise or who question what we do in the name of love for the animals, but I would ask each and everyone to put themselves in the position of the family and in the place of my team as we work through the difficult decisions and always try to do the right thing for our animal friends. You can't know until you are in that situation. All current technology was once-upon-a-time new. For every advance made there is failure, but the same is true if we just stay the way we are and choose never to strive to do better; we fail either way. In fact, I believe we have to ask if we do more harm by not taking action to improve if a procedure or treatment is suboptimal than we do by carefully planning a more optimal solution. Is it better to fail by not trying or to fail by reaching for the stars?
Change is inevitable – but progress is a conscious choice and a choice where moral integrity and faith in the future of medicine for the good of the patient is required. Bella had already had multiple failed surgeries before we saw her, and that team too had been working with the very best of intentions. Otherwise, we would all give up and say, "there is nothing we can do." We would just put every animal with serious disease or trauma to sleep because we wouldn't try. It is no longer true to say that nothing can be done in lots of cases and we are on the brink of a revolution in regenerative surgery to rebuild body parts, as we have tried to do for Bella.
Bella's legacy far transcends a stem-cell scaffold that can and will rebuild bones, heralding a new generation of hope for man and animal; her legacy is hope, redemption and peace. Every success, no matter how small, big, old or new, stands on the shoulders of previous failure and frustration. In the future, we shall look back on all of the advances of now and consider them the norm; in fact we shall wonder why we ever felt otherwise. If we do not have faith and hope and move onward for the good of the patient and the greater good of all living creatures, both human and animal, we may as well hang up our surgery gown and hang our heads down over the missed opportunity to make a real difference.
As this programme went out, I was in theatre performing another new operation, in which I have failed before. My team and I hope with all our hearts that biology will smile on this patient and that we will save a limb and a life. Whatever the outcome, we know that we will always do the right thing at any particular moment in time. Surgery is a choice, and often the alternatives are not good, but if we make that choice, we must pull together as honest human beings with integrity of purpose and support each other on good days and in bad. It is this community of compassion that you are part of as you watched the show this week.
Thank you so much for caring so much. We stand side by side with Bella's family, shoulder to shoulder, in solidarity of sympathy and in the peace of knowing we did our best and that it was the right thing to do. Our journey together raises up our hearts and makes us the very best humans we can be through our love of animals. This love puts the human in humanity. This faith, this hope, these arms around each other in our times of hardship, is a beacon of light in a world that right now badly needs it. We stand together with the animals in unconditional love and we hold every hand and every paw as we cry our eyes out together and in so doing we really do make the world a better place. Thank you for being on this journey with us. You and the animal you love are the reason I keep going.

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Maxwell and Mary J. Blige know how to entertain their respective audiences in very different ways. The soul and hip-hop singer-songwriters and seasoned performers that all but ruled the R&B and hip hop charts in the '90s have been out on their co-headlining King and Queen of Hearts Tour since mid-October.
The global jaunt is by no means a nostalgia run, as each artist is currently celebrating new music in 2016. The stop at the Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday was extra special for Maxwell, who had just received news that morning that the lead single, "Lake by the Ocean," off of his fifth album, "BlackSUMMERS'night," which dropped in April, had earned him his 13th Grammy Award nomination as it was included in the best R&B song category.
It's not an honor he mentioned during the set, even before digging into the soulful award-nominated cut during the latter part of his turn. Maxwell celebrated one of his idols, the late music icon Prince, as he came out to his hit, "Kiss," which had the packed house dancing. The production was grand, as large panels served as screens that moved in front of and behind the artists and would split apart for effect. There was also a stunning use of lighting and Blige made use of some pretty spectacular pyro during her set.
Maxwell looked slick in his fitted suit and mirrored sunglasses, as he cooed away to "Dancewithme" as a duo of mighty horn players really filled out the sound. However, the mix on the music within the venue was a bit off as the bass and keys would overpower anytime Maxwell went for the lower notes, making his lyrics at times muffled and unrecognizable. That issue cleared up a bit as he belted out "Lifetime" and the sultry "Whenever Wherever Whatever."
Throughout the night, as his backing band included elements of jazz, funk and gospel, Maxwell continued to showcase his vocal range and sincerely thanked the audience as this year he celebrates his 20th anniversary in music and the release of his 1996 debut, "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite." The crowd went wild as he offered a little "Sumthin' Sumthin'" and "…Til the Cops Come Knockin'," both clear fan-favorites off of that record. He also did his heartfelt cover of British singer-songwriter Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work," something that has become a staple in the live show since he covered the song on MTV's "Unplugged" in 1997.
Though Maxwell certainly delivered a strong performance, he wasn't a match for his touring partner in Inglewood. It was obvious by the number of seats that had emptied as Maxwell took the stage. Those chairs that were once occupied mostly by women who roared and danced along to each and every single one of Blige's songs. The 45-year-old, multi-platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning artist bared her soul and let everyone know where she currently stood with her latest single, "Thick of It."
She has had a messy year. Her marriage of 12 years crumbled, and the situation got ugly and played out embarrassingly in the public eye. During these shows, she's clearly sharing her heartache and it feels genuine. Instead of breaking into a million little pieces, she's picked herself up and is seemingly leaning heavily on her fans to keep it together. She certainly wasn't lacking support at the Forum. As the screens behind her displayed newspaper and blog headlines of her troubled times, the things that would have most public figures on the defensive or hiding in seclusion, Blige instead lets it all out on stage.
As she came out with the new track "Love Yourself," she set the tone for an uplifting evening of music. She blasted through the first half of the set, not taking breaks in between tracks as she sang hits like "Real Love," "Just Fine" and "Be Happy." With "I Can Love You" came a lot of reflecting as Blige broke it down and let the men in the house know that they needed to treat their women right. When she got into "Share My World," she let everyone know that despite all of her personal chaos she was doing all right, proclaiming, "I like Mary J. Blige."
It seemed like a cathartic moment for Blige as she sang her famous cover of Rose Royce's "I'm Going Down," however she threw the mic to the audience for far too long, subjecting fans to the amateur/terrible singing voices around them rather than Blige's well-known pleading vocal. Even "Not Gon' Cry" and "No More Drama" felt as if they were as much pep talks to herself as they were to the audience. By the end of that last song, Blige was on her knees, pounding the stage with her fist and driving home the message of "no more drama" in true gospel fashion. Her energetic run came to a close appropriately with "Family Affair" with extra emphasis on the lyric, "We don't need no haters."
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Before Louise Brooks became the movie sensation of the 1920s, she was a just another kid with a dream.
Given a chance to go to New York to study dance, she leaped at the chance – though curbed somewhat by the chaperone her mother insisted go with her.
Written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes, The Chaperone opens in New York on May 29th and Los Angeles on April 5th before going wide.


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And the trends for 2017…
At the beginning of every year, it's customary to pull out the crystal ball and project trends for the new year. Often, however, promising solutions fail to catch on because of reasons like their technologies are not yet mature or economics still favor other strategies. With that said, below are some trends that we're confident are good bets for 2017.
Flash Flash Flash…High capacity flash at 15TB per drive.
In our prior blog, we discussed the arrival of affordable flash storage. Samsung has released 2.5-inch SAS flash drives with 15TB of capacity and Seagate is preparing to introduce 60TB 3.5-inch SAS drives. Other advances are not far behind. As their capex and opex decrease, flash drives are taking on an ever-expanding role in tier 1 storage. Small and mid-size organizations are now adopting all-flash arrays, thereby gaining substantial performance boosts, slashing energy costs, and keeping pace with larger competitors.
Welcome to NVMe
This trend piggybacks on the proliferation of all-flash storage. Solid-state drives are constrained by a bottleneck—legacy storage buses. SAS and SATA were designed for spinning disks, not for the blistering speeds of SSDs. These widely-used protocols lack the bandwidth to fully support SSDs, thereby seriously compromising the performance of SSD storage. To the rescue is non-volatile memory express, or NVMe. The industry created the technology to provide both far more bandwidth than SAS and SATA and greatly enhanced queuing.
If you think SSDs are fast now, just wait until you unleash their full potential. Your wait won't be long.
Software-defined storage
The market can't seem to agree on a universal definition of software-defined storage (SDS), but a lot of people are talking about it anyway. SDS separates storage services and functionality from the actual storage hardware. Rather than rely on individual hardware solutions for services and functionality, administrators use software to centrally manage and control storage across the environment. They rely on hardware only to physically house the data and software for everything else. SDS reduces complexity, but its value proposition extends further. Organizations can use commodity hardware while obtaining much of the functionality and performance of costlier arrays. Bear in mind that SDS is not storage virtualization. SDS provides management and control services regardless if the storage is virtualized. With the declining cost of commodity hardware and the persistent need for additional capacity, more and more enterprises are turning to cost-saving SDS solutions to manage and protect their data.
Software-defined data centers
In a software-defined data centers (SDDC), the entire infrastructure is controlled by software and delivered as a service. Networking, storage, and servers are virtualized, thereby decoupling provisioning, configuration, security, administration, and other processes from the hardware. Transforming a conventional data center into an SDDC is a large undertaking and demands the transformation of IT roles as well, but 2017 will see it happen more often because of the benefits. SDDCs promise greater agility, cost savings due to a reliance on commodity hardware, less complexity, and better deployment of cloud services.
32G Fibre Channel
Pundits have prognosticated the eventual demise of Fibre Channel as a storage networking standard. File-based unstructured data is growing more rapidly than block-based data and the former relies on Ethernet, as do cloud and hyperconverged architectures. However, the introduction of 32G FC will keep the standard healthy in 2017. The increased use of flash drives, as well as the roll-out of NVMe and related technologies, puts the performance bottlenecks on the storage network, ensuring FC, especially at 32G speeds, will maintain a healthy presence in many data centers. 32G FC solutions were introduced last year—switches from Cisco and Brocade and adapters from Qlogic and Broadcom—and we'll be seeing vendors of storage arrays support 32G FC.


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The Final #UMC20 of 2018
Before we spring right ahead into 2019 and embrace the new, let's take one more moment to listen to some of the tracks that defined our 2018.
Before we spring right ahead into 2019 and embrace the new, let's take one more moment to listen to some of the tracks that defined our 2018.
Katie Cole has built an impressive career since coming to the United States from her native Australia; one which has taken her to iconic venues, legendary studios, and has connected her with her heroes. As a songwriter and touring musician, her success story is built on the tenets of hard work, a reverence for music, and a common reassurance whenever opportunities arise.
"You'll work it out," Cole recalls telling herself. "Say yes to the opportunity. Say yes to the right people, and you'll work it out."
Back home in Pennsylvania, the New Year brings some "new" faces to the Lehigh Valley Underground First Friday Concert Series, coming this Friday, January 4 and presented by Underground Music Collective and SouthSide Arts District.
After releasing their debut EP "Brain Potion" in March, Kutztown, PA's Scruft got right back to work and their latest effort drops today. "The Curse of the Scruft" is a unique blend of punk and psychedelic rock, and is a nice follow-up to their earlier release.
As we prepare to say goodbye to 2018, we're reflecting on a year that, without question, changed the game (and even our name) for us.
It's Christmas Eve, and all the good boys and girls are patiently waiting for Santa to arrive on his sleigh with everything their hearts desire.
Unless they're in Philadelphia. In that case, they may have a different type of visitor.
Beacon, NY future pop five-piece The Stash enjoyed a busy back half of 2018. The band re-defined its sound, releasing a series of singles to let new and old listeners alike into their slick-sounding world.
On Friday, they kicked off winter by leaving a lasting impression as 2018 came to a close.
The Basement Nashville was taken to church by Delta Rae, one last time in 2018.
Flagship Romance is an alternative folk duo currently based in Truth-or-Consequences, New Mexico. Originally from Jacksonville, FL, this husband and wife team has been making beautiful music together for quite some time, releasing their debut EP, "The Fudge Sessions," in 2013. Since, they have since released another EP and two full-length albums. Their latest, "Tales from the Self-Help Section," was released in August of 2017.
Alyssa Dodge is a teenage singer-songwriter from Gilbertsville, PA. Her brand new debut EP, "Temporary Nothing," is available now on all digital platforms. Let's give her a listen together.


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The perennial Mayo quest for Sam Maguire is off to a clinical start when they outclassed London in Ruislip yesterday.
Next up for the reigning Connacht champions is a Connacht SFC semi-final duel with an improving Galway in Castlebar in three weeks' time.
Five summers ago the men from the west struggled to jump the hurdle of London but there was to be no repeat yesterday and they strolled to victory despite losing Cillian O'Connor to a black card in the seventh minute.
The man who replaced him, Conor Loftus, a member of this year's All-Ireland U21 winning side, was one of the heroes of the day for Stephen Rochford's side as he hit Mayo's opening goal to give them a 1-4 to 0-1 advantage inside 19 minutes.
Up to that stage, London had been competing well but their short kick-out strategy was under pressure right from the off and, 11 minutes before the break, Jason Doherty found the net direct from Kevin McLoughlin claiming one of Gavin McEvoy's kickouts.
That propelled Mayo into a ten-point lead, 2-5 to 0-2, but while the hosts rallied with three points on the bounce, with Adrian Moyles scoring two, Mayo were still in total control when leading 2-8 to 0-5 at half-time.
Man of the Match, Evan Regan, who finished with a personal tally of 0-7 (five frees), got Mayo up and running on the restart with a brilliant free from near the sideline.
The Ballina man, who took over free-taking duties after O'Connor had been black-carded, was a constant threat throughout the game.
Manager Rochford gave game-time to veterans like Andy Moran and Alan Dillon, with Moran having an instant impact, kicking two fine points from play not long after his introduction.
Shane Nally got his first championship taste when he was introduced for Colm Boyle.
SCORERS - Mayo: E Regan 0-7 (0-5f), C Loftus 1-2, J Doherty 1-0, A Moran 0-2, A O'Shea, K McLoughlin, S Nally, A Dillon, R Hennelly (0-1 '45') 0-1 each. London: A Moyles 0-4 (0-2f), L Gavaghan 0-2, M Gottsche, S Conory, E Murray 0-1 each.
MAYO: R Henneddy; B Harrison, K Keane, K Higgins; L Keegan, C Boyle, P Durcan; S Coen, J Gibbons; K McLoughlin, A O'Shea, J Doherty; E Regan, C O'Connor, C O'Shea. Subs: C Loftus for O'Connor (bc), S Nally for Boyle, A Moran for C O'Shea, C Carolan for Doherty, A Dillon for Gibbons, D Drake for Keegan.
LONDON: G McEvoy; P Butler, C Carthy, Ciarán Dunne; Colin Dunne, D Ryan, D McGreevy; J Morgan, L Gavaghan; A Moyles, M Gottsche, C Coyne; E Murray, S Conroy, P O'Hara. Subs: L Mulvey for O'Hara (45), C Healy for Colin Dunne (45), C Og Greene for Conroy (62), M Walsh for Coyne (62), S Hickey for Ciarán Dunne (67), C O'Neill for Murray (67).
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Electronic music promoter Insomniac Events' Basscon and Bassrush have once again joined forces for the Project Z festival in San Bernardino.
The single-day event brings together the top bass and dance music artists in the world for a post-apocalyptic party. It's an evening-long battle of the music spread across five elaborately themed stages that have been curated by either Bassrush and Basscon.
Two new stages, Osiris and Lynx, will join the ranks of the Zerk, Laven and Zenith stages in 2022 leading to the biggest battle this festival has ever seen.
Here's what you need to know before you go.
The Lineup
The fest will feature sets by Adrenalize, Audiofreq, Code Black & Toneshifterz Presents: 3 Blokes, Bensley, Boogie T, Brennan Heart, Buku, Culture Shock, Darksiderz, Darren Styles, Delta Heavy, DJ Anime, Flux Pavilion, GEO, Getter, Grafix, Hol!, Hpnotic, Huxley Anne, Inzo, Jessica Audiffred, Kami, Kompany, Kreation, Link, LLLLNNNN, Lucky Rabbit, Machete, Maxxus, Mob Tactics, Mrotek, NTXC, Rated R, Rob Gee, Smoakland, Space Laces, Subdocta, Sumthin Sumthin, Svdden Death: Into the Inferno, TNT, Tyeguys, Water Spirit, Wraith and Zingara.
There will also be a special sunset performance by Champagne Drip and DJs teaming up for B2B (back-to-back) performances including Barely Alive with Midnight Tyrannosaurs, Downlink with Dieselboy, Aweminus with Neonix, Dirt Monkey with Jansten, Reaper with Kumarion and Fallen with Richter.
Hours, location and other information
The event is for those 18-and-older only and will take place from 4 p.m.-2 a.m. July 2 at NOS Events Center located at 689 South E Street, San Bernardino. Project Z is a cashless event. There will be numerous food and beverage vendors on site. Vegan and vegetarian food options will be available. Since it will be hot outside, there will be water refill stations. Guests are allowed to bring in small hydration packs and official Insomniac reusable water bottles will be available for purchase on site.
How to get tickets
General admission tickets are $75. VIP tickets are $135 and include designated viewing areas, private bathrooms, exclusive bars, expedited entry and a commemorative VIP lanyard. All passes can be purchased at projectzfest.com. General parking in an adjacent lot is free with ticket purchase.
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The Butler Express – Tis the Season
December 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm$5.00
The Butler Express is gearing up for another fun filled Christmas season!!! Who is ready?
The Butler Express will disembark, from the Lake Helen Equestrian Center and take you on a tour through The Gem of Florida to view all of the Christmas lights while playing singing Christmas music.
The ride typically lasts 20-25 min.
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Riise calls it quits
Former Norway international left-back John Arne Riise, who played for top European clubs including Liverpool, Monaco and AS Roma, announced Monday he is retiring from football.
The 35-year-old, who stepped down from national duty in 2013 with a record 110 caps for Norway, had been playing in recent months with Aalesund, the Norwegian club where he began his career in 1996.
"I feel that the joy, the flame and the desire are no longer strong enough for me to play at my top level," Riise said on his official website. "I want to play football but the motivation is no longer enough for me to play at the highest level."
Riise, who won the French Ligue 1 title with Monaco in 2000 and the Champions League crown with Liverpool in 2005, nevertheless left the door open for a possible return.
"If the desire, the joy or the urge returns in a month or two ... It's not something that I'm thinking about now."


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Saturday, 19 February 2011
Eager Restless Heroism
News from Nowhere contains what must surely be one of the most inspiring sentences in all English literature to that date, when Old Hammond remarks that between 1952 and 1954 'the sloth, the hopelessness, and, if I may say so, the cowardice of the last century, had given place to the eager, restless heroism of a declared revolutionary period' (ch. XVII). This stirring formulation surely gives us a fine epigraph for the current political struggles and sacrifices taking place in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and the Middle East generally. Not a socialist revolution in the making, admittedly, but a democratic one at least; and certainly involving an eager, restless heroism that can and should inspire us all.
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Don't Waste Your Youth
Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, "Life is not pleasant anymore." - (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
I made a commitment to Christ when I was 17 years old. By that time I felt as though I had already lived a very long life because of my mother's alcoholism and multiple divorces, as well as my own experimentation with drugs and drinking. I was ready for a radical change.
As a result, I gave up quite a few things and pretty much dumped all of my so-called friends. I didn't want to be in that environment anymore. I needed a new start in life. I committed myself to studying the Bible, being a part of the church, and growing spiritually. Did I give up a few so-called fun times? Yes. But I have had so much more fun as a follower of Jesus. I don't regret any of those things I gave up.
Every now and then, I will run into an old friend from high school. What is really sad is when someone still thinks they are in high school when they are 60, and they can't let it go. They're still living that life (or at least trying to live that life). Some of them are on their second, third, or even fourth marriages. Or maybe their substance abuse has taken a toll on them. I look at them and think, Why did you live that way?
Solomon, at the end of Ecclesiastes, came to a clear conclusion. Among other things, he deeply regretted wasting his youth and didn't want others to make the same mistake. He wrote, "Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, 'Life is not pleasant anymore' " (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
Youth is such an important time. It's there that you set the course of your life.
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The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) says it is finding it difficult getting spares to maintain the country's Total Radar Coverage (TRACON) equipment in the nation's airports, raising fears that the facility might have broken down.
The TRACON project was launched in 2003 following incidences of disappearances of aircraft to replace the old radar which had become obsolete and was no longer effectively capturing flying objects in Nigeria's airspace, but it was eventually completed in 2010 at a huge sum of 66,500,870 million euros paid by the Federal Government.
Speaking, on Tuesday, at the Stakeholders Interactive Forum organised by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Director of Safety Electronics and Engineering Services for the agency, Mr. Farouk Umar, said management could no longer access spare parts from the manufacturer, Thales of France (as stipulated in the contractual agreement) to maintain the TRACON facility.
"All efforts to source spare parts for the replacement of some of the bad equipment from the manufacturer has proved abortive," Umar said as he lamented that the situation had been like that since 2014, barely four years after the project came on stream.
Umar said aside NAMA operating the TRACON equipment without spares from the manufacturers, the facility was also due for upgrade to latest technology in use globally.
Umar, therefore, sought for the intervention of the Federal Government to prevail on Thales of France to adhere strictly to the terms of contract as entered into with the Nigeria government, saying the French firm's breach of the initial agreement to provide spares posed great danger to the nation's airspace.
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The TRACON facility enables the monitoring of aircraft movements by air traffic controllers in any part of the country from any of the control towers sited in any airport.
Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, who also spoke at the event, said that in a bid to enhance air safety and radio communications between pilots and control towers within the country's airspace, NAMA, has installed Very High Frequency (VHF) radios across 17 airports in Nigeria.
Akinkuotu said that the installation of VHF radios in 17 airports for approach and aerodrome control was part of the short term approach of the current management in the agency to boost air navigation safety in the country.
Some of the airports equipped with the facility included Owerri, Enugu, Kaduna, Ibadan, Katsina, Sokoto, Maiduguri and Akure. Others are Asaba, Dutse, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Gombe and Calabar airports.


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Open Health Care Centre for students
Ås Health Care Centre arranges Open Clinic for Youths and Students. - Information about the Health Care Centre for Students in Ås
This service is not for emergencies.
The Crisis Centre in Follo (KISIF)
The Crisis Centre in Follo is a low-threshold housing offer to women, men and children who are exposed to domestic violence or abuse. The Crisis Centre in Follo also offers phone counselling for women, men and children. - Information about the Crisis Centre in Follo Brochure in English.
Do you need professional guidance/student advising?
The Student Advisor at the various programs will help you with academic matters and refer you to staff with more specialised knowledge. The Student Advisor also has a good understanding and knowledge about NMBU, and can refer you on if you need help of non-academic art.


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Shopware: Das Handbuch für Entwickler
2016 habe ich das Handbuch Shopware: Das Handbuch für Entwickler geschrieben. Hier stelle ich das Buch und die Geschichte dahinter vor.
2016 habe ich das Handbuch Shopware: Das Handbuch für Entwickler geschrieben. Hier stelle ich das Buch und die Geschichte dahinter vor.
In 2016 I wrote the german book Shopware: Das Handbuch für Entwickler (Shopware: Developer's manual). Here you will learn the story of this book.
Some years ago I played around with Gstreamer quite a lot. Gstreamer is an open source multimedia framework which allows you to deal with video and audio sources of any kind and play, convert or mux them to your needs.
The nice thing with Gstreamer is the fact, that it is very powerful on the one hand, but very good to test and play around
with on the other hand. For example it provides tools to run and inspect the various filters, sources
and converters easily. Also it has bindings to e.g. Python, so you can use them in a native way, without the
need to run shell commands from within your script.
Yesterday I found, that Gstreamer also has
siddec decoder, which allows you to deal with SID files. So this blog
post is about playing retro C64 SID files with Gstreamer.
In "How we used computer vision for testing" I give a quick introduction in e.g. Sikuli or SimpleCV with some nice examples and describe, how we made use of techniques of these, to perform integration tests for our application. Even though we decided not to maintain that solution any more because of several problems - I think it was a pretty cool setup and might be worth a read :).
Some time ago I wrote a simple PDO query inspector, which will parse every SQL query of your application and search for constant query parts. Those constant query parts are not necessarily SQL injections - but it might be a good development tool, to collect potentially problematic query.
Read more in the "inspecting PDO queries" blog post in our Shopware blog or check out my PDO inspector repository.
In best practices of Shopware plugin development I tried to summarize some of my Shopware experiences of the last years into a "best practice" guide regarding plugin architecture, unit tests, clean code and e.g. using composer.
After a conference talk I decided to try out Neo4j - a pretty cool graph database. The result was a simple recommendation plugin, that can be used in Shopware. Find out more in the "graph based recommendation engine for Shopware" blog post or check out my simple recommendation engine on github.
In What is an item? I discuss terms like "item", "article" and "product" and show, how items are handled in Shopware
At the code.talks 2015 conference I had the pleasure to speak about "evolution of plugin systems". In that talk I had a quick look at the requirements developers usually have, when they decide to bring a plugin system into play. Furthermore I showed some examples of ways to extend software and discussed advantages and disadvantages.
If you missed the talk or want to have a look at the slides: Here you go
Most of the python projects, I build between 2007 and 2012, are currently located on launchpad and use bazaar as version control system. As most of my current stuff lives on github, I want to migrate some of my bazaar projects to git. This is actually quite easy:
sudo apt-get install bzr-fastimport
This will install the
fast import extension to bazaar, which will allow you
to import the bazaar commits to git using
git fast-import command.
Now navigate to your bazaar project and init the git repository, if
you haven't done so, yet:
git init.
In order to perform the migration run:
bzr fast-export . | git fast-import
Today I am starting to migrate my homepage from the existing Wordpress installation to Sculpin. There was not lot of traffic going on the last few years - but I hope, that I will be able to give a few of my last script and tools a quick update.
In Generating plugins with the CLI tools I show how to create shopware plugins with a simple code generator I wrote. This code generator is a command inside the SF2 based console application "sw-cli-tools".


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The human experience is characterized by three elements, Mind, Body and Spirit. They are the keys to life and vitality. These three elements share a symbiotic relationship and function together to form our experience. When these three aspects are aligned and in harmony, we are whole and complete. When there is imbalance, we need to take a holistic approach to healing by addressing all parts of an individual, not just by treating the physical symptoms that manifest.
Holistic healing can be considered an alternative/complimentary approach to medicine which takes into account all factors of a persons lifestyle including, their physical, mental, and emotional health, their spiritual beliefs, and other social and environmental factors. The aim is to bring balance to all areas of an individuals life in order to achieve wholeness, to live healthier and to achieve peace and happiness. Let's examine these components in greater detail so we can understand how they function together, and how we can maintain a healthy balance to make the most of our lives.
The Mind
Your thoughts create your reality. Remember the Law of Attraction: 'where focus goes, energy flows'. You are able to draw into your experience, anything you desire, simply by focusing your intention on it. Learning how to control and process your thoughts to prevent the ego from "coloring" your reality, is a vital skill we must learn on the the path toward self-mastery. If we allow our thoughts to run rampant we are handing over our creative potential to the subconscious mind and the ego which will continue to create an unbalanced polarized reality.
Your mental and emotional state has a direct physiological effect on the body. Emotions trigger biochemical responses from the brain which alter the chemistry of our bodies. When we experience negative or fearful thoughts and emotions our brain releases stress hormones into the body. Cortisol elevates the heart rate, increases sugar in the bloodstream, suppresses the digestive system, alters immune system responses, and affects reproduction and growth processes. Long term exposure to stress hormones puts people at risk for many health problems.
Fearful thoughts lower your frequency or vibration. The energy of love is the fabric of the Universe. Fear is simply an absence of love or movement away from this energy. Love and light are the active properties while fear and darkness are passive. What do we mean by this? If you were to strike a match in a dark room, no matter how much darkness was in the room, it could not prevent the light from shinning forth.
Fearful thoughts and emotions will also slow down and restrict the flow of energy throughout the body. Science has shown us that emotions are responsible for activating and deactivating the codon sites around the body. These are responsible for converting the amino-acid chains into protein molecules which are the building blocks of life. By deactivating codon sites we are cutting of vital life-supporting functions in the body, which results in increased health risks.
Now you can see some of the ways in which your thoughts and emotions directly affect your reality. Fear and ego based thoughts and emotions disconnect us from life while loving thoughts and emotions strengthen our connection to life. When you are able to catch and release fear based thoughts, you are beginning to take control of your reality. By choosing to remain centered and connected to the Universal life force, your own life is strengthened and rejuvenated, and you have found the balance between the mental and the emotional bodies.
So how do we cultivate a loving mindset? Understand that the reality of separation created by the brain is an illusion. The Universe is built from the energy of love, it is the foundation of existence. There is only one consciousness, one Spirit that moves through everything, all life is one. Life is perfect, whole, and complete.
Know that this experience we collectively dreamed up is coming to an end. We are moving back to the original template or state of Unity. We need to release old thought and energy patterns that keep us tied to this false reality by learning to forgive, learning to let go of judgment, learning to love and by becoming self-empowered. Understand that you are God and you create your reality. Now is the time for humanity to wake up and remember. It is time to move back into the heart, back into unity consciousness.
The Body
The physical body is the vessel that houses your consciousness for your experience in this dimension. The human body is an advanced system of interconnected parts with its own intelligence or biofeedback system. The body knows what it needs to maintain proper functioning and it will communicate this with you through your intuition, your inner thoughts and feelings.
As a general guide, the body requires three things for optimal health: Exercise, Sleep and Nutrition. Exercise is important for a number of reasons. Doing daily practices such as Yoga or Tai Chi help release any physical blocks that are preventing the proper circulation of energy through-out the body. Regular exercise also boosts vitality, helping to combat health problems and diseases, improving your mood and boosting your energy. It also promotes better sleep, fights obesity, boosts your sex drive and keeps you looking and feeling great!
Another essential component for optimum health is sleep. Periods of deep relaxation and restful sleep engage the body's restorative and repair functions. The amount of sleep we need varies across age groups and from person to person. Recent studies have shown that life expectancy is lower for those not getting enough sleep and those sleeping too much. Adults should be sleeping 7-9 hours a night and children anywhere from 10-13 hrs depending on their age. Cultivating good sleep habits is important for your physical well-being.
The last ingredient necessary for optimal health is good nutrition! After all you are what you eat. Eating a lot of dense heavy foods like meat lowers your vibration and effects your energy field. You may even absorb some of the negative energy from the animals experience during the slaughtering process as these stress hormones remain embedded in the meat. You will also feel sluggish after eating a heavy meal as the body diverts more of its energy towards digestion. Eating lighter, fresher foods will boost your energy levels and help you access even higher frequencies as you expand your consciousness. If you are thinking of changing to a vegetarian based diet you will need to know the right food combinations before substituting meat completely. It takes time for your body to reconfigure itself to handle a new diet. Moving to a vegetarian based diet from a heavy meat diet could take up to a year before your body re-calibrates completely.
When it comes to food, as a general rule of thumb: closer to nature is better! Use lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, legumes and spices when creating your food. Try to minimize the amount of meat consumed, the body doesn't require a lot for proper functioning. Lean meat 3 times a week should suffice and try eating more poultry and fish as opposed to red meat. Avoid glutenous foods (wheat products and related cereal grains like barley and rye), long-life and processed canned foods, artificial additives, lots of high-fat fast food, and anything high in sugar. The nutrient uptake and energy absorption from these foods is very low and will create more work for your body to eliminate the toxins. Over time, a build up of these foods will lead to health problems. Sugar also creates big problems for the body as it shuts down the immune system and leads to many health problems including: diabetes, obesity, depression, yeast infections, candida, cardiovascular disease, kidney damage, liver damage, mineral deficiencies, and mental side effects.
Good nutrition is a matter of common sense, everything in balanced moderation. Eat a good mix of foods and remember that closer to nature is better. Super foods and foods high in nutrients and antioxidants are always a good choice, for example: beans, avocados, goji berries, blueberries, seeds and nuts. Combining beans and rice is an important combination for vegetarians as the body needs both to create the protein complex usable by the body. Avoid drugs and consumption of alcohol as these will also impact you negatively, although there are many studies that indicate a glass of red wine or a beer and the occasional use of marijuana have many beneficial properties. As a general guide your diet should be 30% protein based and the remaining 70% should be plant based.
Pure water is the most important element required by your body, but try to avoid drinking chlorinated and fluoridated water. These unnecessary chemicals will also have adverse health effects over the long term. On a side note: Dr Masaru Emoto demonstrated that we could change the crystalline structure of water by programming it with our consciousness. Positive thoughts and emotions generated crystals of complex symmetry and structure while negative thoughts generated chaotic and distressed forms. Our bodies are 70% water so imagine what our thoughts are doing to us? Remember love is a high frequency wavelength where fear is a long slow wave length. This ties into the experiments of Dr Hans Jenny in the field of Cymatics, passing high frequency vibrations through a medium to generate increasingly complex patterns. You can program your food, like Dr Emoto showed with water, and maximize its life giving properties by praying or blessing your food before eating. Your intention is the important factor. Recognize and acknowledge where the food has come from, be thankful for its life giving energy and ask the body to absorbing only that which it needs and discard the rest.
Lastly, the body needs sunlight to create vitamin D, which is one of the most important vital nutrients for the body and the cure for most diseases. There are spiritually advanced people living on the planet today that don't eat food at all. They are called Breatharians and they believe they can absorb everything they need from the breath and the air. This belief aligns their DNA and the reality reflects this. They have created this through their understanding of the human energy system. By drawing in the universal life force also known as Prana, they are able to sustain themselves. It's not that big a stretch when you realize that we eat animals, animals eat plants, and plants eat sunlight. We are all eating a denser form of light energy.
The Human Energy System
Your physical body is just an image. All that exists is pure consciousness. Your heart, brain and body emit electromagnetic fields that directly interact with the energy reality around you. We are also open to energetic influences that we may not be consciously aware of. These energy exchanges can effect us in different ways and if you are in a negative environment you should practice a form of psychic shielding to neutralize this. See Psychic Shielding section under Meditation: Inner Tools For Spiritual Development.
Recall that everything in our reality can be broken down into light, sound and color. This also applies to different emotional states and thought patterns. This spectrum of energy is distributed and processed by different energy centers found in the human body called Chakras. Each Chakra has different properties and handles different aspects of the human experience. By learning how to balance these energy centers and release energy blocks, we are able to maintain proper functioning of our subtle energy body resulting in good health and an expanded awareness or consciousness.
Universal energy or Prana, enters the body through the crown and root Chakra. It moves along the central axis of the body, through the tube of light or Shushumna, that corresponds roughly with the spine. The width of this tube can be determined by touching the tip of your middle finger to the tip of your thumb. This energy passes through the seven major energy centers where it is processed and used by the energy body. There are other Chakras and new ones coming online as we move through the ascension process, but all are usually brought into alignment through the proper functioning of the major seven that run along the central axis of the body. We have also included the 13 Chakra system from the ancient Egyptian tradition, in the diagram for your reference. The Godhead is located one hand length above your head, while the remaining Chakras are separated by a set distance, the same distance between your chin and tip of your nose.
Chakras appear as vortexes of energy that spiral inward from the front and back of the body. Energy blockages generally correspond to fears and insecurities related to the Chakras core functions and can be healed through meditation. Simply focus on each Chakra and feel for any blockages. Examine the fears causing these blockages and release them without judgement. Cleanse the Chakra with a brilliant light that dissolves away all darkness and and see the Chakra shining and spinning brightly.
Root Chakra: Survival
Location: Base of the spine at the perineum
Color: Sapphire Red
Crystals: Red Jasper and Obsidian
Functions: Grounding/Earth connection, survival, physical and material needs, security
Sacral Chakra: Sexuality
Location: Between the root chakra and the navel (about 2 inches below the navel)
Color: Vibrant Orange
Crystals: Amber and Carnelian
Functions: Sexuality, emotions, relationships, self worth, creativity, empathy
Solar Plexus Chakra: Power
Location: Between the navel and the solar plexus, in your stomach area
Color: Sun Yellow
Crystals: Tiger's Eye and Citrine
Functions: Personal power, will, energy, metabolism, effectiveness, self esteem, identity, happiness
Heart Chakra: Love
Location: Center of the chest
Color: Emerald Green
Crystals: Malachite and Rose Quartz
Functions: Love, understanding, trust, forgiveness, compassion, hope
Throat Chakra: Communication
Location: Just above the base of the neck
Color: Deep Blue
Crystals: Turquoise and Aquamarine
Functions: Communication, sound, truth, self-expression
Third-Eye Chakra: Intuition
Location: Just above brow ridge, center of forehead
Color: Indigo/Purple
Crystals: Amethyst and Lapis
Functions: Intuition, clairvoyance (seeing), clairsentience (feeling/touching), clairaudience (hearing/listening), clairalience (smelling), claircognizance (knowing), clairgustance (tasting), communication with higher-self
Crown Chakra: Spirituality
Location: Top of the skull, center of the head
Color: Violet.
Crystals: Clear Quartz and Moonstone
Functions: Spirituality, universal consciousness, gateway to higher dimensions, connection to God
A spiritual man understands his relationship to God and through this realization has access to enormous creative potential. Add to that the support and counsel of the higher-self and the legions of light, the archangels, angels, spirit guides, ascended masters, star cultures and other forms of consciousness and the spiritual man wields tremendous power in the light of love. This power is directed for the sole benefit all life everywhere.
There is only one Spirit that moves through all things. You are part of this vast consciousness and you can connect with this part of yourself at any time through meditation. When you still your mind, you open yourself for communication with Spirit. Setting aside time to meditate and cultivate a strong connection with your spiritual aspect is essential if you wish to expand your consciousness. The guidance that comes from within will accelerate your evolution and take you exactly where you need to be.
A recent poll of 20,000 participants conducted by Coast to Coast AM, found that 81.7% of people believe in life after death. There is an inner knowing or awareness of Spirit that exists within most people. This knowing can be hard to define and is usually what drives people to search for the truth. What is truth? Every individual interprets the same world differently. This stems from a subconscious set of mental filters formed from a persons beliefs and experiences. Truth is therefore in the eye of the beholder. The truth is whatever you make it. You decide.


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by Keisha Ray, Ph.D.
Seantrel Henderson is a 24-year-old player on The National Football League's (NFL) Buffalo Bills. Henderson is currently suspended from playing in the NFL because for the second time he has violated the league's substance abuse policy. The NFL bans performance enhancing drugs such as steroids as well as illicit drugs like cocaine. Henderson is facing suspension for his use of marijuana. A third violation of the league's substance abuse policy would permanently ban Henderson from playing in the NFL. Henderson's case is slightly different than many of the sensationalized stories about players' use of drugs to have unfair access to victory or players' recreational drug use. Henderson uses marijuana to help with the sometimes debilitating effects of Crohn's disease.
Crohn's disease is an incurable inflammatory disorder that affects the gastrointestinal tract. It can cause chronic diarrhea, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, weight loss, sleeplessness, and fatigue. Henderson has had approximately 2.5 feet of his large intestine surgically removed and as a result he had to wear an ileostomy bag for four months. In another surgery Henderson had his remaining intestines reattached. After this surgery Henderson was able to begin the process of getting healthy, which included gaining back the 50 pounds he lost and getting back to playing condition, which he eventually did.
The NFL does understand that some players may need to take some drugs for medical purposes that are banned. Players can take the proper steps to apply for a Therapeutic Usage Exemption (TUE), which would make them exempt from some banned drugs.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by these authors and blogs are theirs and do not necessarily represent that of the Bioethics Research Library and Kennedy Institute of Ethics or Georgetown University.


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The proper type of grazing is also one of the best means of managing for wildlife
This post is a continuation of our long-running series on the Chilton Ranch in southeast Arizona, a place where so many touchstone issues of the American West come together.
Jim Chilton bought his Arivaca ranch in 1987, but he's owned another ranch, the Diamond Bell, with his dad and his brother since 1979. The Diamond Bell consists of 45 square miles with no natural water, and there is no natural water for another 20 miles in every direction of the compass. However, because the Chiltons have developed water sources, including wells and pipelines, none of their cattle need walk more than 1 1/2 miles to get to water. This ensures not only that cattle are well distributed across the land, but it also means wildlife have water to drink. The upshot is that the Diamond Bell supports a huge mule deer herd that otherwise could not exist there."Ranchers in general are passionately concerned about the health and welfare of our cattle and wildlife," Jim tells me. "We enjoy wildlife as much as or more, perhaps, than anyone else, and our stewardship helps wildlife of all kinds."
Mule deer bucks. Photo by USFWS.
The "oops" of Good Intentions
Amos Eno is the president of the Land Conservation Assistance Network. This blog will help you understand why we do what we do and inform you of the current happenings in our focus area.
Read more about Amos S. Eno.
Amos S. Eno has worked in conservation on international, national and state levels. He began his career early in the 70's working for Nat Reed in the Office of the Secretary of Interior. Subsequently he worked in the Office of Endangered Species, USFWS, and as head of National Audubon Society's wildlife office in Washington, DC. He developed the programs of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation from inception and served as Executive Director for 11 years. While with the New England Forestry Foundation he led the team completing the 2 largest forestry conservation easements in the U.S. totaling 1.1 million acres. He has travelled around the world, and spent three years in Africa which provided seminal instruction on the importance of private lands as the key to 21st century conservation strategies.
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Always had dreams of starting your own car wash business, but never had the right guidance to start one? These are the places people go to post their questions, socialize, find content, and explore. Starting a business is exciting. Following the same logic, if you're interrupted more than twice a day, you've lost over an hour of peak productive work; therefore, social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn should be avoided as much as possible during work hours.
As of late 2017, Instagram claimed 25 million active businesses , with 80 percent of the platform's users following at least one company page. For example, let us say you are super inspired by Pat Flynn and looking to run a successful online business. Many beginners believe that their customers will not take their business seriously if they don't have their website professionally designed.
Using social media marketing, this small yarn shop has grown into a multi-million-dollar business. It often happens that you have a brilliant ideas but someone else has already started a business with similar plan. If you look around you'll find that there are many small and big brands leveraging the power of Instagram to grow their audience.
Once you have that calendar in place, you can create your social posts in advance and use scheduling tools to post them automatically at the right time. Most successful small businesses will need to have a break-even analysis , a profit-loss forecast and a cash-flow analysis.
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Business Search
Customer relationship management (CRM) includes the proficiencies, technologies, and methodologies that sustain a business in managing fine rapport with its customers. Your customers will not only remember great service they will also be more likely to refer other people to you. Each season Shark Tank†gives aspiring entrepreneurs an opportunity to not only win money to fund their business dreams but to also glean pearls of wisdom from five wildly successful industry titans.
This is especially true if you're selling products online. The gains come later when the people you have helped need a service your business offers or a product that you sell. There are so many tips for starting a new business out there that choosing which ones to follow can get confusing.
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If your business isn't on Instagram these days, you'd better have a good reason. The New Money Masters: Meetings with the Masters of Marketing is an educational series of a DVD, CDs, articles from experts and a strategy book designed to provide business advice and a wealth of actionable strategies. The audience already familiar with you will be reminded of your brand and this will help to encourage referrals and repeat business.
Marketing on social media is also generally considered more cost-effective than traditional types of outbound marketing like TV and billboard ads. You can get basic versions starting at $10 to $20 per month, and if sending invoices are a thing you do, they'll look so much better and take so much less time to make than if you tried to fumble around Excel and do it yourself.
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Evidence that Fran has ventured outdoors
What, outdoors? I hear you say. Do you even venture onto the doormat outside your house without hyperventilating and needing to breathe into a paper bag? I hear you say. Don't you feel panicky merely standing near an open window? I hear you say.
Well, here's the proof that I braved the elements. I took this photo myself, honest.
|These are tractor prints, not my footprints.
I may be a size 7 but even my trainers don't make tracks like that.
|This looks as though I was leaning over when taking this. I may well have been,
through tiredness. We had walked for 30 whole minutes.
No, I was NOT lost.
It was because my friend, with whom I had gone away for a weekend of writing, eating scones, more writing, more scone-eating, and more writing, is the type who loves to be outdoors. For her, the wind through her hair is a joy. For me, it's a threat, messes with my mood, and makes me want to slap people. Still, I conquered my aversion to fresh air and followed her meekly out of the door of the house (checking for danger - one never knows) and into the field.
I think I managed quite well. I had my hands in my pockets the whole time which my friend perhaps thought was because of the cold, but in fact I was clutching a card bearing the phone number of a reputable therapist, just in case I needed to book an appointment in a hurry.
There's a lot of green and brown in the countryside; I think I've mentioned this before. I do worry about the lack of variety and am unreasonably cheered up by the odd daffodil or bit of purple heather. This is why I prefer Turner's paintings of fiery sunsets to Constable's paintings of the countryside.
Manager of art shop: 'Hey, Constable's been in again.'
Assistant: 'Let me guess. We're left with a glut of purples and yellows and need to order a shedload more of the green and brown.'
Manager: 'You guessed it. What's the betting we'll get that chap in who does the Shrek and Incredible Hulk paintings and we'll have to make him wait?'
Assistant: 'And that guy who does the adverts for Cadbury. He's going to be disappointed again.'
Manager: 'I'll have a word with Constable. He can't keep doing this. I mean, who's going to buy paintings as boring as that? He needs to chuck in the odd sheep at least, or perhaps a farmer wearing a red shirt.'
Assistant: 'I agree. He's never going to make a name for himself.'
Manager: 'There's no telling some people. Hey, here comes another customer.'
Assistant: 'Arrgh, no. It's that woman who does the cabbage paintings. What do we tell her?'
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And so about cascade baryons… June 15, 2007Posted by dorigo in news, physics, science.
So it is D0, not CDF, that is credited for discovering cascade b-baryons first in the end. A Fermilab press release explains that the result has been submitted to Physical Review Letters on June 12th.
Congratulations to D0 for pulling this off! After the discovery of Sigma_b baryons by CDF, it seems only fair to have D0 get their own share of credit for the fantastic amount of information on the Standard Model that the Tevatron is producing.
The Xi_b particle (not Chi_b, with which I sometimes confuse myself – see comment by Lubos Motl below) is a baryon composed of a (bds) quark triplet. Three down-type quarks, each of electrical charge -1/3, but of very different properties: the d-quark weighs only a few MeV, the s-quark weighs thirty times more, and the b-quark weighs still a factor of thirty more than the s-quark. An odd, massive object (almost 6 times heavier than the lightest baryons, proton and neutron), whose decay is driven by the characteristics of the b-quark, which has a long lifetime. It is through that peculiarity (among others) that Xi_b baryons, although quite rare, can be identified.
My hands are itching, but I will abstain from saying what CDF has to say about these particles… I decided to play by the rules of our experiment, one of which asks bloggers to refrain from posting new results until the authors have had a chance to announce it first.
UPDATE: today at 1PM CST, D0 and CDF will give two back-to-back seminars on the discovery of the Xi_b baryon. You can follow the presentation via live stream video from this site (click on Services Offered: Streaming Video)
UPDATE 2: seems like the correct link is this one .
UPDATE 3: now that the CDF result has been presented by its authors, I break no rules if I release information about it here – I had a post out last Sunday, but decided to take it offline once I realized that the B group conveners in CDF had asked the result to be kept confidential until a formal release. In the meantime, D0 sent their own result out directly to Physical Review Letters, beating CDF in the race in a rather odd way (important results should be coordinated between the two experiments). Anyway, it does not matter much who made the announcement first – the important thing is that these particles are seen. I will discuss the details of the two analyses soon in another post.
- 1. Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » The Triple-Scoop - June 15, 2007
[…] baryon, since it contains one quark from each of the three generations. Tommaso Dorigo has a new posting about […]
- 2. Lubos Motl - June 15, 2007
It's Xi, not Chi!
- 4. Kea - June 15, 2007
Thanks for the news! Though I do wish you people would slow down a bit…..
- 7. Gordon Watts - June 17, 2007
T — yeah, I knew she was working with the results. But I hope we'll never slow down. 😉
- 8. Louise - June 17, 2007
This is very exciting. Tevatron is becoming the little engine that could.
- 9. nc - June 21, 2007
Here's a copy of a relevant comment submitted to Not Even Wrong (in moderation), predicting this new hadron mass from a theory of integer numbers of massive Higgs field type mass-giving quanta published some time ago:
Baryon and meson masses are related closely by the empirical formula mass = 35n(N+1) MeV, where n is the number of confined quarks and N is an integer. This fits particle masses very accurately, far better than random numbers. (The multiplier of 35 comes is the electron mass i.e. 0.511 MeV divided by twice alpha.)
The existing (still slightly sketchy) theoretical derivation is here and a table comparing it to meson and baryon masses is here.
For a baryon (n=3) of mass 5.774 GeV, we get: 5774 = [105(N+1)], so N = 53.99. Close to an integer! So I'd like to thank the experimentalists for adding this new 'crackpot coincidence'…
This prediction doesn't strictly demand perfect integers to be observable, because it's possible that effects like isotopes to exist, where the different individuals of the same type of meson or baryon can be surrounded by different integer numbers of Higgs field quanta, giving non-integer average masses. (The number would be likely to actually change during a high-energy interaction, where particles are broken up.)
The early attempts of Dalton and others to work out an atomic theory were regularly criticised and even ridiculed by the fact that the measured mass of chlorine is 35.5 times the mass of hydrogen, i.e., nowhere near an integer!
- 13. nc - June 22, 2007
Hi Tomasso,
If the Omega_b is a baryon, it's mass should be close to an integer when expressed in units of 105 MeV (3/2 multiplied by the electron mass divided by alpha: 1.5*0.511*137 = 105 MeV).
If it is a meson, it's mass should be close to an integer when expressed in units of 70 MeV (2/2 multiplied by the electron mass divided by alpha: 1*0.511*137 = 70 MeV).
If it is a lepton apart from the electron (the electron is the most complex particle), it's mass should be close to an integer when expressed in units of 35 MeV (1/2 multiplied by the electron mass divided by alpha: 0.5*0.511*137 = 35 MeV).
This scheme has a simple causal mechanism in the quantization of the 'Higgs field' which supplies mass to fermions. By itself the mechanism just predicts that mass comes in discrete units, depending on how strong the polarized vacuum is in shielding the fermion core from the Higgs field quanta.
To predict specific masses (apart from the fact they are likely to be near integers if isotopes don't occur), regular QCD ideas can be used. This prediction doesn't replace lattice QCD predictions, it just suggests how masses are quantized by the 'Higgs field' rather than being a continuous variable.
Every mass apart form the electron is predictable by the simple expression: mass = 35n(N+1) MeV, where n is the number of real particles in the particle core (hence n = 1 for leptons, n = 2 for mesons, n = 3 for baryons), and N is is the integer number of 'Higgs field' quanta giving mass to that fermion core.
From analogy to the shell structure of nuclear physics where there are highly stable or 'magic number' configurations like 2, 8 and 50, we can use n = 1, 2, and 3, and N = 1, 2, 8 and 50 to predict the most stable masses of fermions besides the electron.
For leptons, n = 1 and N = 2 gives the muon: 35n(N+1) = 105 MeV.
For mesons, n = 2 and N = 1 gives the pion: 35n(N+1) = 140 MeV.
For baryons, n = 3 and N = 8 gives nucleons: 35n(N+1) = 945 MeV.
For leptons, n = 1 and N = 50 gives tauons: 35n(N+1) = 1785 MeV.
- 14. nc - June 22, 2007
Whoops, I wrote fermion to cover all the particles, but I include mesons which are of course bosons. Sorry.
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Amsterdam: Jacques & Gasper Anthoine, 1669.
Sea chart. Uncolored copperplate engraving. Image measures 17 1/4" x 21 1/4".
This rare sea chart by Pieter Goos shows a section of the eastern coast of the Netherlands, covering the regions of present-day North and South Holland. It is oriented with north to the lower right and extends from the island of Texel in the north to the Hook of Holland in the south. At the center of the map is the Breeveertien, a large shallow area just off the coast that, today, is used as an offshore wind farm. In addition to ports, the map includes soundings, sand bars, fishing banks and navigational hazards. It also features rhumb lines, scales, a ship, and two embellished compass roses. The title cartouche and scales are decorated with scrollwork. This map was published in Goos' "De Zee-Atlas, Ofte Water-Weereld" and remains in its original uncolored state, which allows Goos' intricate line work to shine. It is in good condition with slight foxing, soiling, and off-setting. No chips or tears, although bottom corners are worn and the center seam is slightly separated, not affecting the image. Pieter Goos (1616-1675) was a Dutch cartographer, engraver, publisher, printer, and print-seller based in Amsterdam. He belonged to a noted family of cartographers, headed by his father Abraham, who prepared plates for many maps published in the important atlases of the time. His pilot guide, the "Zee-Spiegel," provided some of the first charts of newly explored regions in the West Indies and Western Africa, and his "Zee-Atlas" is considered one of the best sea atlases of its time. This map is a fine example of Goos' high quality, visually appealing sea charts.
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(I live in a Swedish-speaking area and have a Russian surname. It's by no means as complicated as some Russian names can be, but some people still tend to skip saying it, referring to me by my first name, or by my first name and the first letter of my surname, especially in class or when I've booked something under my name. I've long since gotten used to that, even if it bothers me sometimes, but this girl takes the cake.)
Me: "Hi, I have a breakfast reservation under [My Name]."
Worker: *snarky* "Oh. Right. You're the one who booked under that name."
Me: "Er, yes?"
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Me: "Okay. Thanks?"
(I mean, come on. To all who struggle with foreign names, sometimes it actually feels better if you try and fail to pronounce our names, rather than just publicly declare you won't be bothered. We're part of our community, too.)
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Twinmotion is one of the easiest render engines.The most important features of Twinmotion is that it supports many files and works with much popular 3D software.
Twinmotion has added a lot of new features to the 2019 version.
The comparison with its closest rival, Lumion, still added a lot of innovations, but still could not stop Lumion.
Epic Games, the developer of the Unreal Engine game engine, bought Twinmotion as of yesterday.
Since the first release of Twinmotion, it is in the render engines which are simple to use and have a fast and easy interface. It works seamlessly with many file formats thanks to its compatibility with Sketchup and error-free file import.
It seamlessly integrates FBX, SKP, C4D, and OBJ formats, making it easy to work in architectural visualization.
He has provided full support to Revit and ARCHICAD programs which are BIM software in their latest versions.
It is easy for Twinmotion to learn and use. Drag and drop lights, materials, and accessories; You can change the season or weather by simply dragging a slider.
With its quality texturing (pbr) which is one of the main elements of quality visualization, it has more than 600 ready quality free textures within its structure.
In the Twinmotion scene, you can create immersive 360 ° videos and self-executable BIMmotion files in seconds.
Also, thanks to VR support glasses, you can easily navigate your 3D architectural structures and make presentations to your customers.
Unreal Engine, unreal engine studio to take the segment of the sector of the architectural visualization sector, only a version for architectural visualization had issued. This version was a problem for the most widely used Sketchup program in architectural space, especially in exported files. In many file extensions, there were problems with importing.
Epic Games has taken a very solid step for us by taking Twinmotion. In the field of architectural visualization, he wants to show his own weight in this sector by taking his share of this cake.
In the chart diagram below, you will see the most rising render engines in 2019.
Although the unreal engine in the list is well placed in the rankings, the problem of file transfer and the compatibility with the file formats will allow Epic games to make a more efficient visualization of the user by purchasing the TwinMotion.
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