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Top 10 Favorite Responses for the Reason Passengers Decline to Wear a Helmet
Top 10 Favorite Responses for the Reason Passengers Decline to Wear a Helmet
It has been a while since I’ve posted. So, I figured I’d have a little fun with this one.
We take safety very seriously at High Five. We like to be sure our passengers are given the opportunity and choice to be safe by offering a helmet to each person who takes a tour with us. On our waiver, we ask if everyone would like a helmet. If someone declines the use of a helmet, we require each to give a reason why they’re declining the offer. We get a number of responses such as, “Don’t want to mess up my hair,” and “I feel safe,” or “I trust the driver.” However, as serious as we take safety, there is always room to have a little fun. So, with every serious response we get, there are a number of creative responses as well. In this list, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite creative responses.
Again, I want to reiterate that safety for passengers, motorists, bikers, and pedestrians is a top priority.
So, without further ado, here are my favorite responses…
The List
10. I’m athletic.
9. Rebel for lyfe (actual spelling).
8. My hat is broken in – Size matters.
7. Vanity.
6. I am a coordinated adult. I put on my big girl pants.
5. Surgery on head.
4. I live dangerously.
3. Calculated risk.
2. I let Jesus take the wheel (for the record we don’t have a driver named Jesus).
1. If I got brain damage it would be an improvement.
So, there you have it! Thank you to all who have taken a tour, have a tour scheduled, those who have been thinking about taking a tour and have yet to book one, and those who have no idea who we are or what we do, but smile, wave and take pictures and videos as we roll through Ann Arbor!
feel free to check out our list of tours so you can some day, possibly make the next list! Or even check out our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages to see what fun people have on High Five Pedal Tours, Ann Arbor, Michigan!
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SHOWING OFF ANN ARBOR SINCE 2015
Come experience Ann Arbor with us! There are many places to visit that highlight the culture and history and we would like to introduce you to a few of them, while having a great time on our pedal trolley.
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I have an iPad and Blackberry. Most of my contacts are on my BB, which is synced with Outlook. Those contacts are then synced with my iPad through outlook.
My PC is dying. I bought a Mac. I want to start syncing my BB and iPad with the cloud and then sync them to my new Mac.
Here is the issue. Since I last synced, I have added new and different contacts to both my BB and iPad. I don't want to lose these contacts or create too many duplicates with the first time sync of both devices.
So, is there anything I need to be careful of here? Will I create a ton of duplicates? Will syncing some contacts override others?
Here is what I did when I recently moved from PC to Mac:
Before you get rid of your PC make a copy of your .PST file and put it in a safe place. If anything goes wrong you can get them back.
I pushed all of my contacts to Google as a back up.
I got MobileMe which will work with Outlook and synced contacts & notes.
Installed MobileMe on my new Mac and was in business.
Meant to add that I have over 2000 contacts...so the Google thing took a while to sync up. with iPhone > Outlook > google contacts I did have duplicates on occasion. Now that I am on MobileMe and all Apple things seem to work beautifully.
I am guessing you are a lawyer - you might check into a service called Backupify that will back up your various Cloud accounts as extra protection.
I plan to just use the native contacts app on my Mac. The iCal app seems to work well with Google. I have two google accounts, one for pleasure, and one for business. My business account does not have any contacts yet. So, I am going to sync my ipad with that account. Then, I may attempt to sync my BB with that account and see what happens. I am not really concerned with duplicates as much as I am with one account overriding the other.
I have not looked into MobileMe yet. That last I considered it was when it was new and I seem to remember them charging for it. Google is free.
HHMM, for some reason, my business gmail does not have the option on my iPad to sync Contacts with Google. I go to Settings, Mail/Contacts/Calendars, click on my Business Gmail, and I only have the options for Mail, Calendars, and Notes.
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I have no idea what this blog is for. Seriously. Back in the day I had a newsletter and lots of projects and missives and writing prompts and I monetized it and got some cash and so forth. I had a "theme" and a whole deal. But honestly, who is reading blogs these days and what are they for? I find myself going back to analog (well duh, I never left it). But you know what I did this week? I bought beautiful paper covered in pineapples to cover my analog organizer. Do you Gen Xers remember, back in the day, covering your books with grocery paper or those free white shiny book covers and then spending an entire year doodling and writing junk all over the book cover? Man, I miss that. My niece (is she a millenial? My high schoolers this summer argued that they're not "millenials" they're "generation Z" or "the iGen" and I'm like UGGGGH--but I digress) -- My niece, who is 18 and headed off to college, mostly spent her high school years texting to her friends in class, so there's less time for doodling eyes and faces and spirals and rainbows on your book covers. I miss that though. Time to breathe and zone out. Yes, I'm a teacher, and I know I'm basically saying "school was zone out time" but really, we have totally overprogrammed ourselves and our kids and they're weird. THEY ARE WEIRD. They can't hold a conversation. They don't know how to apologize if they've been shitty. They think thank you notes are dumb but they don't mind taking the presents! And they are addicted to their phones!
Ooops.
Cranky ole lady just showed up. HAHAHAHAH. Back to my post about breathing and zone out time.
My niece is off to college. She's been living with me for 7 years and I'm going to miss her. And she's off to live in the dorms at a big 4-year urban school. I'm the first person in my entire family to go to college, and I did it with 2 community colleges and transfer credits from 4 undergraduate institutions while working full time and wracking up student loans. Then I got an MFA and a PhD too. Yes, I'm a working-class bad ass -- BUT my niece: She's going to get to go and have that college experience I always dreamed about. She's so lucky. So -- since my delicious writing retreat this past summer, I have devoted every day to getting her ready and I've neglected myself AGAIN. I went back on my healthy eating plan, lost 7 pounds, and then put back on 2 pounds and have woken up stressed out with a headache for days. And my own teaching and classes begin next week and the week after. It feels like there's been no free break at all. I long for the days when I was sitting on the porch staring out at the expanse of Virginia trees.
How can I get back to more bounce?! Yeah. There it is. A blog post. Enjoy.
#SI have a Facebook page called the Super Secret Writing Squad and often post Missives and Missions there. This month I thought I'd gear that up again after reading BrainPickings great post full of Love, as well as another book I've been spending time with, Loveability by Robert Holden. The August #SSWS mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get the #SSWSLoveRevolution started!
August 2018 Mission for Super Secret Writing Squad Members - Spread the Love!
AUGUST MISSIVE! Your mission, should you choose to accept it:Spread Love Quotes, Love Messages, Love RemindersGuerilla Publishing challenge! Make a series of business cards, flyers, postcards, handwritten notes, etc. and tuck them into bus stops, leave them on trains and subways and busses, post them to coffee shop boards, etc. Pictures welcome!Lets get #LoveRevolution started!
In his wonderful book, Holden says "The decision to be the presence of love is the most powerful influence you can have in any situation in your life and in this world."
These days, with all of the craziness going on in the world, we sometimes forget the incredible influence we can have on other people, simply by being a presence of love in the world.
In the film "Dead Man Walking," Susan Sarandon, playing Sister Helen Prejean, says "I'll be the face of love for you" as she agrees to bear witness to the death of Matthew Poncelet, a prisoner on Death Row in Louisiana.
I was also inspired by 18 Year Old Paige Hunter who places inspirational messages at Wearmouth Bridge in England where a large number of people often take their own lives.
Reminding people that they are loved is a powerful act of social justice, and a reminder to ourselves that we have more power to change the world than we know -- it must begin with us.
I've just spent the most delicious two weeks at a writer's retreat in Virginia, and during the retreat, a Thai Yoga Therapist came and did some "body work" with me. Less massage and more stretching, hands on body touch healing, and energy restoring. During our session she asked a lot of questions and I responded, and parts of my body "spoke" for me. One of the things she said was "you can't pour from an empty cup." I told her about my desire for connection. I told her about my desire to step into a new phase in my life. She helped realign my energy and I felt different afterwards. More powerful. Having let go of some things. This is good. I was reminded that this is what we have to do sometimes beause we give so much and then we're left with nothing for ourselves. I am a giver. An empath. A healer. I rarely say no. I champion others. This makes me feel good and I like to see other people happy and achieving. There is enough abundance in the world for everyone to have all of their dreams come true if only we would operate in the world with love. This is why I teach. I love to see students step into their best biggest dream selves. We each have to remember that everyone is on his or her own journey, and it does no good to compare and despair or to lament what has come before or to criticize or judge. One of the things I'm always working on is not "shoulding" on people. It's tough. You see people in pain and you want to help, but you can only save yourself, and in saving yourself, it is possible -- I believe this -- to save the world. Standing in love and forgiveness is the only way to a creative life. I know this. I write because I have to. I write because I believe that writing can change us from the inside, and when we do that, we can change the world we live in. So for the past two weeks I've filled my cup -- after dumping out the grounds. I did a lot of journaling -- letting go, self-forgiveness, forgiving others, and recognizing that we're all on the same journey back towards our 'god' selves. Everything is ok. Everything will always be ok.
One of my favorite videos to show my students is "The Most Astounding Fact." I love it because it reminds me of how big life is and how big I am. Our atoms come from those stars. We each have stars and the stuff of the cosmos inside of our bodies. When I show them this video, sometimes students cry and wipe away tears just in time before the lights of our classroom come back on. Then I release them out into the world -- the stuff of the universe, each of them a little seed. Just a missive from over here where the full moon shines down on me as I sit on this porch and write to you, from where the cicadas clamor in the trees and the fireflies circle their way up to the highest treetops, and the bull frogs belch and the birds call to one another checking the mail. It's a beautiful night and I'm grateful for it. Write that. Write your beautiful night and your gratitude, or your beautiful morning and your joy. If you do that, the world will be better for it.
Today I woke up feeling gross. I had gone to bed at 3am after a rousing debate discussion with a friend. This week has been a sort of timelessness. Days of feeling peaceful and relaxed with a few pockets of excursions, adventures, lots of naps, contemplation, and yes, a little bit of stress too.
Mostly, this time is an opportunity to reflect and make a decision. I say "decision" instead of plan today because that's what it is. I was talking to a family member this morning who is overweight, depressed, and stuck in a routine of ignoring self+love. Recently she bought a skin care regimen advertised on television, and for three days, morning and night, she's been using this skin care regiment and taking daily pictures. On this third day she'd taken her glasses off and was smiling in the picture, and I thought, not A LOT has changed in three days but she FEELS better about herself.
This reminded me that routines for self+care can have such a strong and amazing impact on us. My own self+care routines have been pretty non-existent the last year or so. With work, getting a senior ready for high school graduation and entering college (oh the college applications!) I have been putting my self last on the list. And waking up without a solid self+care routine is waking up without a foundation.
Today, Josh LaJaunie posted a little video showing his pre-weight-loss jersey when he was at 400 pounds, on his svelte, muscular, athlete's body today and he said "Don't be afraid to Make Big Changes." A lot of this has to do with being VULNERABLE.
It's a tough thing to do.
Josh says, "vulnerability is really a very strong thing to sign up for, to volunteer for."
Yeah. And being positive all the time can be really tough and really hard too.
This cat is so inspiring! I have been following his journey a few years now and have been up and down and off and on my own health journey and I find his words so inspiring. FEAR is the #1 killer -- it's not heart disease, it's not cancer, it's not diabetes, it's not smoking, it's FEAR. What would happen if you CHANGED EVERYTHING? It's like jumping out of an airplane with a parachute for the first time. IT IS SCARY! It's scary to make big changes and be public about these changes. And it's so so so so hard to keep focused on yourself in a world that pulls at every limb of you and wants nothing more than for you to take care of everyone else and everything else but you.
I'm talking about me. LOL.
DON'T BE AFRAID TO MAKE BIG CHANGES!!!!!!!!Or, if you ARE afraid, BE AFRAID AND DO IT ANYWAY!!!!!!!
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A Simple Plan For Investigating Businesses
Design Construction: A Guide Tips To Consider In Building a Design Construction Company
The diversification of the real estate business has been made successful by the many trends that keeps changing with the advancements that have made the business a success. Many factors have attributed to the growth of the real estate business with one of them being the large population that exists in the world today seeking for houses to live in and call home. Due to the availability of the many professions in the real estate the field has been noted to been one of the widest field with very many departments where innovations and creativity is enhanced.It has surpassed from the major construction only to other fields that are related such as the design construction, interior design, master planning, landscaping, hardscaping to mention but a few. The difference in building designs and ideas to implement on the house will solely depend on the owner of a business or the company to which one has hired keeping in mind of the modern housing ideas. Due to the rising population all over the world, many companies have emerged from the same to cater for the needs of the population with different ideas and innovations. Laying of ideas on pen and paper to the last progress which entails the development of the land into structural buildings is known as the master planning . There will be a difference in the way master planners create the plans in the rural areas and the way they engage the activities in the urban areas which need very careful measures.In design construction, the purchasers to a company indulging in the activities expect unique features in the building rather than the normal buildings.
Several factors are outlined in giving the best points that show the success of a company in design construction. The very first factor to consider before having the best company is to employ people who have just completed their learning then embark on teaching them where upon gaining the learning one can pay them fully as per their contracts which ensures that you have a reliable team. This is considered as the best way to hire since one will build the company with the best brains who you will be able to teach and within time the employees will have your dream and will be experienced. Clients need a person that will take them through the activities that they are to engage in and keep telling them on their progress.Clients may not fully understand the terminologies used in the construction activities thus they one should be able to give information in a way that they will both understand each other.One should move with the technology as this is a commodity that has helped widely the many companies all over ensuing that one is not outdated and has the latest machinery and technology. you should make sure that any services provided are of quality to keep maintain a good reputation.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
From the first batter of the game last night, it was apparent that the Yanks had put the struggles of the previous game behind them. Derek Jeter worked a 2-2 count and proceeded to slice a ball down the right field line that travelled all the way into the corner. In his attempt to wrangle the ball, LF Gabe Gross inadvertently did his best Nick Swisher impression, buying Jeter enough time to get to 3rd base standing up. Two batters later, Mark Teixeira knocked Jete home with a single and the Yanks were off to the races.
After being staked to the early lead, Joba Chamberlain looked confident and dominant. He worked relatively quickly, retiring the first 8 batters of the game in a row before giving up a bloop single to Jason Bartlett who was immediately caught stealing on the next pitch.
The Yanks put runners on second and third with no one out in the 4th via a single by A-Rod and a double by Hideki Matsui. Robinson Cano drove in Alex with a ground out, but one run was all they could manage. Cano struck again in the 6th, but this time more decisively. After taking a ball way up and in, he absolutely rocked a pitch deep into the seats in right field. He paused a for a second to watch it sail and Garza literally gave it a little wave on it's way out.
Joba blazed through the Rays with a perfect fourth, worked around two walks in the fifth, a single in the sixth and sat down the side in order in the seventh. In all, Joba had four 1-2-3 innings last night, a season high.
He received another run in support in the top of the inning after Hideki Matsui singled and was pinch run for by Cody Ransom. Ransom came around to score all the way from first on a single by Jorge Posada. Swisher ended the inning with a double play, the Yanks third of the night in addition to two by A-Rod, but it didn't matter.
Joba entered the 8th inning with only 88 pitches, a number he's surpassed in 5 innings multiple times this year. He allowed another single to Barlett in the frame, but that was all. It was only the second time in his career he's gone 8 innings and the only time he's done so without allowing a run. Furthermore, he finished with 101 pitches and had as many baserunners as strikeouts, five. Garza didn't pitch terribly, allowing 3 runs through 7 innings, but was clearly out-classed.
Melky Cabrera and Mark Teixeira added homers off of Dan Wheeler in the 9th to give the Yanks even more breathing room, bringing the score to 6-0. Brian Bruney, continuing with his "turd in the punchbowl" role of late, was called on to pitch the 9th and could not complete the shutout, or even the inning. He allowed a triple to Carl Crawford and a homer to Evan Longoria before recording an out. He got Ben Zobrist to pop out but after Carlos Pena doubled, Joe Girardi was forced to go to the bullpen. Mariano Rivera came out even though it wasn't a save situation and locked down the victory. Mo did allow his 5th walk of the season, reducing his K/BB ratio to a merely superhuman 9.4, from a Godly 11.75.
It was obviously tremendously encouraging to see Joba deliver such a dominant performance, but the double-edged sword is that the deeper he goes into games, the sooner he will be bumping up against his innings limit. But that's a different issue for another day. The Yanks took the first series of the road trip and extended their lead to 3.5 games as the Sox lost 8-6 to the A's.
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TED-ed TALK: Universal Emotions
It is interesting to note that four out of the six are negative emotions. We create all expressions via applying a sequential combination of linear or sphincter muscles over the appropriate bounding boxes [see CHART below]. We drop the jaw open by applying the linear muscle over a bounding box around the lower jaw. The bounding boxes for disgust (left) and anger (right) are shown above in red for linear muscles, and blue for the sphincter muscles.
Unit 8/Vocabulary/37 TERMS.
On p.456 there are 31 TERMS & 6 CONTRIBUTORS TO REMEMBER
Crash Course Video: Motivation(Optional)
Let's be real, okay? CRASH COURSE videos are both interesting in presentation, but "chock full of knowledge" you should have learned on the topic in psychology. These are under 15-minutes, but offer a great "review" & "reinforcement" of the material. Review Episode "Power of Motivation"
Crash Course Video: Emotion, Stress & Health(Optional)
and "HoLet's be doubly real, okay? CRASH COURSE videos are both interesting in presentation, but "chock full of knowledge" you should have learned on the topic in psychology. These are under 15-minutes, but offer a great "review" & "reinforcement" of the material. Review Episode "Emotions, Stress & Health," and "Feeling All the Feels"
Khan Academy Video: Theories of Emotions(Optional)
KHAN ACADEMY videos are both interesting in presentation, but like CRAS COURSE VIDEOS, they are "chock full of knowledge" you should have learned on the topic in psychology. These are under 15-minutes, but offer a great "review" & "reinforcement" of the material. Review Episode "Theories of Emotions"
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CultureCathttp://culturecat.net
A weblog about my life as an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition.enCFP: 2014 CCCC-IP Annualhttp://culturecat.net/node/1569
<p>This year is the tenth anniversary of the CCCC-IP Annual, a publication created to fulfill the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee’s charge to keep the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s membership informed on key events and developments in intellectual property that took place over the previous year. Archives can be found at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip.</p>
<p>As 2014 nears its end, we are looking back on what happened over the course of the year in copyright legislation, fair use cases, open access publishing, and notable high-profile plagiarism cases. Developments take place regularly that challenge our notions of what these terms mean, and we engage these developments in a timely manner each year in the CCCC-IP Annual . Typically, each article is an explanation of a particular development in intellectual property and analysis of what its implications are for teachers and scholars of rhetoric and composition. For example, the 2012 Annual contains an analysis of the rise of MOOCs written by James Porter. Starting this year, we encourage multiple genres, such as short (1000-1500 words) scholarly articles, listicles (“7 Things Rhetoricians Need to Know about the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act”), and infographics.</p>
<p>Some articles for the 2014 Annual have already been planned and are in progress; a working table of contents appears below this CFP. In addition to these, we invite submissions on interesting developments in intellectual property. Some ideas include:</p>
<p>* review of Electronic Frontier Foundation white paper published October 27, 2014: "Who Has Your Back: When Copyright and Trademark Bullies Threaten Free Speech" https://www.eff.org/press/releases/which-service-providers-side-users-ip-disputes</p>
<p>* Internet Slowdown campaign: https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/ and https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43692</p>
<p>* FIRST Act (open access): https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42765</p>
<p>* Open Source Seed Initiative: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42771</p>
<p>Please write to Clancy Ratliff (clancy at louisiana dot edu) if you are interested in contributing to this year’s Annual by writing about one of the above topics or other current events in copyright, authorship, and intellectual property. Manuscripts will be due February 28, 2015 for publication about one week before the CCCC convention.</p>
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<p>Working Table of Contents, 2014 CCCC-IP Annual</p>
<p>Kim Gainer, Sherlock Holmes case</p>
<p>Jeff Galin, Georgia State University fair use case update</p>
<p>Wendy Warren Austin, Slavoj Žižek book review plagiarism case and Nic Pizzolatto "True Detective" plagiarism accusation</p>
<p>Laurie Cubbison, Taylor Swift removes her music from Spotify</p>
<p>Karen Lunsford, California open access law on publicly funded research</p>
<p>Carol Mohrbacher, review of EFF white paper "Unintended Consequences - 16 Years Under the DMCA"</p>
<p>Christopher Gerben, review of EFF white paper "Open Wi-Fi and Copyright: A Primer for Network Operators"</p>
<p>Steven Engel, Montana senator John Walsh plagiarism case</p>
<p>Mike Edwards, review of EFF white paper "Collateral Damages: Why Congress Needs To Fix Copyright Law’s Civil Penalties"</p>
<p>Traci Zimmerman, review of documentary film "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz": </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1569#commentsIntellectual PropertyTue, 04 Nov 2014 23:24:24 +0000Clancy1569 at http://culturecat.netWonder Womenhttp://culturecat.net/node/1568
<p>I'm interested to read this book by the president of Barnard College: <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/wonder-women-power-quest-perfection/dp/0374298750">Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection</a></em>. I don't know that it's gotten much play with the news media or the academic media (<em>Inside Higher Ed</em>, etc.), so I want to do what I can to fix that. Debora Spar is a mom of three just like me. Maybe I'll be a college president one day too, heh. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1568#commentsBooksFri, 17 Jan 2014 22:11:08 +0000Clancy1568 at http://culturecat.netTop 30 Most Cited in Composition Studieshttp://culturecat.net/node/1567
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan</a>'s coding skills, we have a list of the most cited works in composition studies. These are from the journals <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication,</em> and <em>College English</em>.</p>
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<td> Shaughnessy Mina 1977 </td>
<td>87</td>
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<td> Berlin James A 1987 </td>
<td>61</td>
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<td> Burke Kenneth 1969 </td>
<td>57</td>
</tr>
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<td> Elbow Peter 1973 </td>
<td>55</td>
</tr>
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<td> Miller Susan 1991 </td>
<td>52</td>
</tr>
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<td> Bartholomae D 1985 </td>
<td>52</td>
</tr>
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<td> Bakhtin Mikhail M 1981 </td>
<td>49</td>
</tr>
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<td> North Stephen 1987 </td>
<td>47</td>
</tr>
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<td> Pratt Mary Louise 1991 </td>
<td>46</td>
</tr>
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<td> Heath Shirley Brice 1983 </td>
<td>45</td>
</tr>
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<td> Burke Kenneth 1969 </td>
<td>43</td>
</tr>
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<td> Berlin James A 1984 </td>
<td>42</td>
</tr>
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<td> Connors Robert 1997 </td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
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<td> Burgess Tony 1975 </td>
<td>39</td>
</tr>
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<td> Berlin James 1988 </td>
<td>38</td>
</tr>
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<td> Fish Stanley 1980 </td>
<td>38</td>
</tr>
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<td> Faigley Lester 1992 </td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
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<td> Crowley Sharon 1998 </td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
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<td> Bizzell Patricia 1982 </td>
<td>34</td>
</tr>
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<td> Sommers Nancy 1980 </td>
<td>33</td>
</tr>
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<td> Harris Joseph 1989 </td>
<td>32</td>
</tr>
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<td> Brandt Deborah 2001 </td>
<td>31</td>
</tr>
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<td> Graff Gerald 1987 </td>
<td>31</td>
</tr>
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<td> Ohmann Richard M 1976 </td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
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<td> Moffett James 1968 </td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
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<td> Burke Kenneth 1966 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
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<td> Belenky Mary Field 1986 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
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<td> Freire Paulo 1970 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
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<td> Kuhn Thomas S 1970 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
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<td> Bruffee Kenneth A 1984 </td>
<td>28</td>
</tr>
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<td> Eagleton Terry 1983 </td>
<td>28</td>
</tr>
</table>http://culturecat.net/node/1567#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 25 Jun 2013 14:18:01 +0000Clancy1567 at http://culturecat.netCitational Network Graph: Rhetoric and Compositionhttp://culturecat.net/node/1566
<p>Jonathan has done some more technosorcery, producing this time a <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites.html">citational network graph</a> of rhetoric and composition: specifically, the journals <em>College Composition and Communication</em>, <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>, and <em>Rhetoric Review</em>. <em>JAC</em> wasn't included because it wasn't in the Web of Science database, and <em>College English</em> might go in later; it has so much work in literary studies that we decided to omit it for now. </p>
<p>Much of this is as one would expect. For example, clusters show us that Kenneth Bruffee, John Trimbur, Greg Myers, and Joseph Harris are cited together. They all wrote about collaborative learning at a particular time. </p>
<p>What I find most interesting about this graph, though, is its more-or-less objective illustration of margins and center. I can't even drag Mina Shaughnessy's <em>Errors and Expectations</em> out of the center. Same with Susan Miller's <em>Textual Carnivals</em>, just about everything by James Berlin but especially <em>Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985</em>. Patricia Bizzell “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing.” Maxine Hairston "The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing." Peter Elbow <em>Writing Without Teachers</em>. These seem to be cited more than, and linked to more varied types of conversations than, any other works of scholarship in rhetoric and composition. </p>
<p>The margins are very interesting too. I find it kind of sad that Paul Kei Matsuda, Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner, and Suresh Canagarajah are in their own diamond shape, so far outside the network that I didn't even have to drag. An island, Jonathan called it. Shows how little engagement our field has with multilingual writers. </p>
<p>Right next to that island is another little one about authorship and intellectual property. Not too far from that, another one in lavender about community engagement and public writing: Ellen Cushman, Christian Weisser, Bruce Herzberg, <a href="http://www.inventio.us/ccc/1996/10/susan-wells-rogue-cops-and-hea.html">Susan Wells</a>. Above that, an island that's almost all Kenneth Burke. Above that, in orange, an island about genre with Carolyn Miller, Carol Berkenkotter, John Swales, Charles Bazerman. </p>
<p>I'll certainly be sending this to our graduate students who are preparing for comprehensive exams; I imagine it will be immensely helpful to them. I wish I'd had this back then! Anything you notice that interests you or that is remarkable that I didn't pick up on? (I'm sure that one's a yes.)</p>
<p><strong>Edited! <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites-ce.html">This version</a> has <em>College English</em> as well.</strong></p>
<p><strong>And <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites-slider.html">THIS version</a> has a slider that lets you limit the number of points that show up on the graph.</strong> </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1566#commentsComposition PedagogyRhetoricFri, 21 Jun 2013 19:02:30 +0000Clancy1566 at http://culturecat.netBrowser for Rhetoric Topicshttp://culturecat.net/node/1565
<p><a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan</a> has now made a <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/">browser</a> for rhetoric and composition topics. Click on a truncated topic on the list, and you see the full topic, a graph showing its career in the journals, and a list of the articles most closely associated with it. Each title on the list is a link directly to the article in JSTOR. Preliminary findings:</p>
<p>1. I wouldn't have guessed that the articles most closely associated with <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/topic22.html"> television film radio tv popular media movie movies news magazine films newspaper magazines sports newspapers entertainment advertising examples pictures</a> would be published between the years of 1950 and 1979, but there you go.</p>
<p>Also, I'm finding so many articles I wouldn't have found otherwise, including Macrorie's "A Literature Without Criticism" from the above list.</p>
<p>2. Another interesting-to-me topic was <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/topic33.html">attack defense attacks liberal favor conservative defend political responsibility failed attacked standards accused faith claim typical education attacking dismissed</a>, where I found two articles by Donald Lazere that I'd never read. These articles will help me with some work I'm doing right now with agonistic argumentation.</p>
<p>I encourage all of you to poke around in the browser; that's the best way to understand what all the topic modeling fuss is about.</p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1565#commentsComposition PedagogyWed, 13 Feb 2013 16:01:46 +0000Clancy1565 at http://culturecat.netInitial Foray into Topic Modeling for Rhetoric and Compositionhttp://culturecat.net/node/1564
<p>I’m just getting into topic modeling as a research method, thanks to my husband, <a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan Goodwin</a>. This post represents my first attempt to make sense of it, because its value hasn’t been immediately comprehensible to me. You take a huge corpus of thousands of academic articles (or whatever), and then run a program, which extracts and presents you with groups of words that tend to occur together in the articles (topics). </p>
<p>Jonathan took all of JSTOR’s archives of <em>College English</em>, <em>CCC</em>, <em>Rhetoric Review</em>, <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>, and <em>JAC</em> and generated 100 topics. Some were coherent, while others seemed more random – though also somewhat interesting; see postscript. Here’s an example of a coherent one: </p>
<p><img alt="lectures belles century lettres historians rise influential reform hugh british campbell scottish southern rhetorical blair late alexander england founded" src="http://culturecat.net/files/BlairTopic.jpg" /> </p>
<p>The program will show you a long list of articles that are associated with the topic. So if you were determined to find absolutely everything having to do with Hugh Blair, this method might give you some articles you wouldn’t have found via a regular JSTOR search. </p>
<p>OK, but besides that, what do you DO with the topics? That has always been the confusing question for me, though I have read some work about topic modeling. I want to write a series of posts explaining what I’ve been doing with the topics, to sort it out for myself. </p>
<p>When Jonathan sent me the list of 100 topics, I went through all of them and selected 53 that I thought were interesting. Mostly these were the ones that were most coherent, like the Blair example. I then pasted them into a document, labeled each one, and grouped them together, like so: </p>
<p>History of Rhetoric</p>
<p>classical cicero ancient rhetoric greek roman oratory orator eloquence quintilian invention renaissance speaking aristotle orators rhetoricians vols modem history </p>
<p>plato sophists gorgias socrates sophistic greek phaedrus ancient platonic greece athenian greeks athens sophist protagoras logos dialogues carolina isocrates </p>
<p>lectures belles century lettres historians rise influential reform hugh british campbell scottish southern rhetorical blair late alexander england founded </p>
<p>philosophical philosophy truth logic philosopher rational doctrine philosophers theory aristotle essays thing writings mere science thinking human mind truths </p>
<p>rhetoric rhetorical persuasion rhetoricians kenneth communication speech burke aristotle classical audience argumentation philosophy discourse persuasive arguments quarterly speaker invention </p>
<p>Now, I haven’t yet looked at the lists of articles associated with these topics, but here’s a list of questions that might be answered by giving these lists a close review:</p>
<p><strong>How has the interest in these topics changed over time?</strong> This seems to be a favored approach among nerds like my husband – visualizations: graphs that plot the trajectory of when people started becoming interested in the topic, when interest peaked, and when it waned. Below is an obligatory graph for the Hugh Blair topic:</p>
<p><img alt="graph showing interest in Hugh Blair and George Campbell in rhetoric and composition journals, late 1930s-late 2000s" src="http://culturecat.net/files/lectures_belles_century_.png" /></p>
<p>Another question I’ve never heard anyone ask, though, is this: <strong>which journals are publishing the most on these topics?</strong> Most of us in rhetoric and composition assume that if you have a manuscript about Cicero, you send it to <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em> or <em>Rhetoric Review</em>, not to <em>College English</em>, because they don’t publish that kind of thing, generally speaking. But are we sure about that? To what extent? I can now do a frequency count of the journals that are represented in the “classical cicero ancient” topic and make a pie chart showing the breakdown. More on that later. </p>
<h4>And Now for Expressivism</h4>
<p>For six of the topics, I wasn’t sure what they meant, but I went ahead and labeled them “Expressivism.” Because expressivism doesn’t have an attendant set of terms, and is misunderstood so often and so profoundly as a theory of writing and teaching philosophy, I was interested in seeing what kinds of articles were listed. As it turns out, most of them were actually about literature, or were works of creative writing. But one of them yielded a few interesting bits: </p>
<p><img alt="obvious hard easily worth expect surely aware mere doubt simple easy leave idea supposed vague avoid bad respect clear" src="http://culturecat.net/files/ExpressivismTopic.jpg" /> </p>
<p>Most of those, of course, are commonly used words, and I’m not really convinced that this is an “expressivist” topic. Still, I did find these articles, among many others:</p>
<p>Richard K. Redfern, "A Brief Lexicon of Jargon: For Those Who Want to Speak and Write Verbosely and Vaguely", <em>College English</em>, 1967<br />
Donald Murray, “Henry James in the Advanced Composition Course,” 1963 <em>College English</em><br />
Peter Elbow, "Exploring My Teaching", <em>College English</em>, 1971<br />
Joseph J. Firebaugh, "On being Unacademic", <em>College English</em>, 1946<br />
Geraldine Hammond, "How Gladly Do We Teach?", <em>College English</em>, 1951<br />
Winfield H. Rogers, "Responsibilities of the English Teacher in the Urban University" 1940 <em>College English</em><br />
J. Mitchell Morse, "Why Write like a College Graduate?" <em>College English</em>, 1970<br />
J. Mitchell Morse, "The Case for Irrelevance", <em>College English</em>, 1968</p>
<p>In reviewing the list of articles associated with this topic, I think I now have a better handle on the sources of the theory some of us call expressivism: certainly it arises from attitudes of respect, concern, and care for students (see Rogers, 1940; Hammond, 1951). But I now see the overlap between expressivist values and the study of literature, as well as the study and practice of creative writing, and descriptive approaches to linguistics*. Those connections should have been obvious, but they weren’t. I can see that as early as 1940, some of the ideas associated with expressivism were in circulation – though certainly some would say that the seeds were planted even earlier, with Fred Newton Scott’s work (see Linda Adler-Kassner’s excellent article “Ownership Revisited” in <em>CCC</em>, 1998). I also think there are many more expressivists than we'd realized, and that a lot of people are/were expressivists but don't/didn't know it. No one is old enough to have witnessed all of this, comprehensively, in real time, and topic modeling is almost like having such a person.</p>
<p>More to come. For now, I’ll say that the best way to grasp the value of topic modeling as a method is to focus on one topic and mine the articles. </p>
<p>* I’m prepared to argue that James Sledd was an expressivist; I think I have a good bit of evidence. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1564#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 12 Feb 2013 20:54:08 +0000Clancy1564 at http://culturecat.netCommon Core State Standards (Grades 11-12) Aligned with the WPA Outcomeshttp://culturecat.net/node/1562
<p>In preparation for my <a href="http://ncte.org/cccc">CCCC</a> presentation, I did the following alignment of the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html">WPA Outcomes</a> with the <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/WHST/11-12">Common Core State Standards</a>:</p>
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http://culturecat.net/node/1562#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 12 Feb 2013 20:02:22 +0000Clancy1562 at http://culturecat.netGraduate Seminar on Authorship and Intellectual Property in Rhetoric and Composition Studieshttp://culturecat.net/node/1561
<p>I'm excited to teach this class this semester! I had to leave a lot out (there's so much to read in this area of scholarship), but these are what I selected in the end. </p>
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http://culturecat.net/node/1561#commentsComposition PedagogyIntellectual PropertyThu, 30 Aug 2012 20:38:07 +0000Clancy1561 at http://culturecat.netFramework and WPA Outcomes Alignedhttp://culturecat.net/node/1559
<p><a href="http://english.louisiana.edu/about-us/firstyearwriting/index.shtml">ULL's writing program</a> takes its outcomes from the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html">WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition</a>. Disclosure: the program adopted these outcomes in academic year 2005-2006, before I came here, but I have affirmed them. Anyway, I've been thinking for some time about the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/framework">Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing</a> and how to integrate its eight habits of mind into our writing program's outcomes. The habits of mind are pretty difficult to measure, and in trying to evaluate how well students demonstrate them seems highly problematic; I imagine a lot of personal bias coming into play on teachers' part and a TON of student resistance to having, say, their curiosity or responsibility evaluated. Still, I agree that students with these habits of mind will be much more successful than those without them.</p>
<p>So here's my first shot at integrating the outcomes and the habits. I took our outcomes, matched each one up with one or two habits I thought worked best with it, and then, in the far right column of the table below, I have an explanation of how that habit of mind (or those habits) could be demonstrated in the context of a writing course. </p>
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<p>Obviously, this is only one of many ways these can be matched, and really, each of these outcomes requires all the habits of mind. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1559#commentsComposition PedagogyWed, 04 Jul 2012 15:22:17 +0000Clancy1559 at http://culturecat.netTenure and Promotion Portfoliohttp://culturecat.net/node/1558
<p>I've created an <a href="http://culturecat.net/portfolio/">online portfolio</a> of most of the work I've done the last several years for my tenure/promotion case. I have several revisions and additions already planned, but let me know if you have ideas for how to make it better. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1558#commentsComposition PedagogyThu, 21 Jun 2012 21:19:34 +0000Clancy1558 at http://culturecat.net
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Weapons and Armor Alternatives
By default, Fate abstracts weapons and armor—along with all gear—into flavor. Having a gun allows you to attack someone with Shoot, but doesn’t do anything more. If you want weapons and armor to matter more, Extras in Fate Core presents rules for Weapon and Armor ratings. If those aren’t to your liking either, here are a few more alternatives.
Damage Floors and Ceilings
In Fate Core, weapons are dangerous if you use the rules in the Extras chapter. A relatively unskilled swordswoman who gets a lucky hit with a two-hander can cleave a man in twain without trying too hard, and that can be scary. It lends itself to a gritty, lethal game, and if that’s not your cup of tea, you might want weapon and armor ratings that provide less lethality but still matter.
When you use these rules, Weapon ratings still start at 1 and go up, but they can go up a bit further (say to 5 or 6, for the most lethal of weapons). Instead of simply adding a weapon’s rating to the shifts you generate on a hit, though, a Weapon rating provides a minimum number of shifts of stress you can score with that weapon. For example, a longsword with Weapon: 3 does 3 shifts of stress if you tie, or if you roll 1, 2, or 3 shifts on your attack. Even for a grazing hit, you’ll still always deal at least 3 shifts of stress. If you roll shifts beyond that, you simply deal that much stress and ignore the Weapon rating.
Armor ratings do the opposite; they tell you what the maximum number of shifts of stress you’ll take from an attack is. Armor ratings start at 4 (for light armor) and go down to 1 (for the heaviest plate or most advanced powered tactical armor). The exception to this is when the attacker succeeds with style—if this happens, ignore the Armor rating. The attacker does full damage when she succeeds with style.
Armor ratings trump Weapon ratings. This means that someone with Weapon 5 attacking someone with Armor 3 will still only deal 3 stress at most, unless they succeed with style.
Armor and Weapon Aspects
In Gear Aspects we told you that you could model important gear as aspects. This works for most gear, but some people may still want a little more when it comes to weapons and armor. This rules mod is meant to be layered on top of that system, though there’s no reason you couldn’t use it on its own—it would just mean that only weapons and armor are aspects, and other gear isn’t.
Weapons are divided into light, standard, and heavy. A light weapon could be a small knife or truncheon, a standard weapon is something like a sword or pistol, and a heavy weapon might be a shotgun, sniper rifle, or massive two-handed sword.
When you successfully attack with a weapon, you may make a special invocation with it. It costs a fate point as usual, but provides neither a +2 nor a reroll. Instead, you can force your opponent to take a consequence instead of stress. With a light weapon, you may force someone to take a mild consequence. A standard weapon forces a moderate consequence, and a heavy weapon forces a severe consequence. If you succeed with style, move the consequence up by one level of severity—minor to moderate, moderate to severe, severe to either taken out or an extreme consequence (victim’s defender’s choice). If the appropriate consequence slot is already in use, move the new consequence up by one level of severity.
This special invocation also acts a little bit like a compel. When you invoke a weapon aspect in this way, you offer the fate point to your target. If he takes the fate point, you deal the consequence. He can refuse the fate point and pay you one of his own to not take the consequence, but then he takes the stress he would have taken normally anyway.
Armor aspects are similarly divided into light, medium, and heavy, and also allow for special invocations. You can invoke light armor to absorb a single mild consequence; you don’t take the stress it would have absorbed, and you don’t fill the consequence slot. Medium armor can absorb a moderate consequence. Heavy armor can absorb a severe consequence, or two mild or moderate consequences in any combination. You can use your armor to absorb consequences beyond these limits, but if you do so, the armor aspect immediately changes to represent the fact that it’s broken and no longer able to absorb attacks. You’ll have to get it repaired, which might cost you and might take anywhere from a few hours to a few days depending on the armor and the place you take it.
Red and Blue Dice
If you have at least three colors of Fate dice and want something that isn’t quite so predictable for your weapons and armor, you can use Red and Blue dice in place of Weapon and Armor ratings. We’re using “Red” and “Blue” here for convenience—you can use any two colors of dice you want, as long as they don’t get used for anything else.
Red is for weapons: The more Red your weapon has, the bigger and/or deadlier it is. A Red:1 weapon could be a dagger, a goblin’s claws, or a very low-caliber pistol, while a Red:4 weapon could be a greatsword, a dragon’s bite, or a close-range blast from a combat shotgun.
When you attack, for every point of Red your weapon has, replace one of your usual Fate dice with a Red Fate die. If your attack outcome is a tie or better, each of your Red dice that comes up + increases the hit by +1 shift of harm.
Blue is for armor: The more Blue armor your armor has, the more protective it is. Light armor, like cured leather or tough hide, is Blue:1. Heavy armor, like a mail hauberk or plate armor, is Blue:2 or 3.
When you defend, for every point of Blue your armor has, replace one of your usual Fate dice with a Blue Fate die. If your defend outcome is a failure or a tie, each of your Blue dice that comes up a + absorbs 1 shift of harm.
Because you’re always rolling four Fate dice, the maximum number of Red or Blue dice you can have on a roll is four.
To mix things up even more, you can give defensive weapons Blue, like a quarterstaff or main gauche, and “offensive” armor Red, like plate armor with big nasty spikes or an electrostatic force field. You could also have stunts that let you swap Blue dice for Red when you defend—for example, a fencing master with a killer riposte, or a magical flaming shield.
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Coronavirus was possibly created by the US Army, Iranian military official says
What if Coronavirus was not just a new disease, but an artificially-created virus used as a biological weapon? Well, Hossein Salami, a top Iranian military official, has recently suggested that nCoVid-19 was created by the US army to attack China and other enemies.
In an article published on online news site Radio Free Europe, “Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), suggested on 05 March that the coronavirus might be an American biological weapon -- contradicting experts who say there's no evidence it could be man-made”.
“Today, the country is engaged in a biological battle", Mr Salami said to Iranian news site ISNA. "We will prevail in the fight against this virus, which might be the product of an American biological [attack], which first spread in China and then to the rest of the world," he added.
Iran has been one of the most affected countries by the virus. There are more than 14,000 confirmed cases and 850 people dead so far. Along these lines, the government has activated some plans to stop spreading fake news about the outbreak. “The head of Iran's cyberpolice, Commander Vahid Majid, said on 05 March that 121 people had been summoned for spreading rumors about the coronavirus. He said 190 others had been warned over the phone and told to remove content from social-media pages”, Radio Free Europe reports. "Dealing with those spreading rumors and those publishing fake news is currently one of the most important missions of the cyberpolice”, Mr Majid asserted.
“The coronavirus currently has a fatality rate of about 3.4 percent, with the elderly and those with underlying health problems dying far more frequently after contracting the virus”, the European press agency explains. “Massud Pezeshkian, a lawmaker and former Iranian health minister, suggested earlier this week that the outbreak in Iran was far more widespread than the government acknowledges, saying many infected citizens had not been identified”, it suggests.
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Best Psychiatrist in Delhi to Provide Urgent Care to Your Mental Illness
Psychiatrist are the doctors that are expert in advising you on mental troubles. They are specialized enough in treatment and diagnoses of patients having mental issues. Some conditions like bipolar disorder, eating disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and addiction should be consulted by a best psychiatrist. Firstly, he/she analyzes your mental and physical symptoms. They work with you to make a management plan for making your recovery fast. They provide you the right kind of medication, psychological therapy, and electroconvulsive therapy. You must go to the best psychiatrist in Delhi for overcoming your mental issues.
He can help you in case your mental condition:
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Psychiatrist prescribes you wide range of treatments such as:
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Psychological treatments like psychotherapy or talk therapy
He may also tell you why you need this kind of therapy. What are the risk included in it, what are the side effects seen with this? How does it work and what are its cost? You will find many Psychiatrist in Delhi but you need to choose best among them for yourself.
Psychiatrist is the doctor who is highly qualified in treating mental health. They can treat condition such as hallucinations, hopelessness, sadness, anxiousness, panic attacks, hearing voices, and if their life is completely distorted due to stress. They perform a wide range of psychological tests and discussions with patients to understand patient's physical and mental state. For getting right psychiatrist in Delhi, you need to find out.
They work with their patients and help in making right treatment plans. Some therapies that they do are as Psychotherapy that is known as talk therapy helps in keeping the relationship between the therapist and doctor. The main purpose and goal of this therapy is to remove the disabling signs so that patient would be able to function normally. Depending on the severity of the problem, the treatment can take few sessions or some treatment can take more sessions in a year. This therapy can be done with family of the patient, or individually also. They help patients to change thought patterns, behaviors, and solves other problem in a specific way.
When full evaluation is done by a psychiatrist then he/she starts to prescribe medication for a particular mental disorder. Those medicine helps in balancing the brain chemistry. Some other therapies include Psychotherapy that means applying electrical currents to your brain. Some of the therapies are as vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Some types of psychiatric disorders are as dissociative disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, neurodevelopment disorder, anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, sleep-wake disorder, personality disorder, addictive disorder, and other mental disorder. Psychiatric disorder can interrupt your day to day life and it hampers your daily tasks. This disorders ruins your daily life. It is important to consult a best psychiatrist for correcting your problem. You will get an appropriate diagnoses and procedures so that your condition will get better and your mental ill health will get eliminated. One should not neglect their mental issues and seek the consultation of psychiatrist at earliest. When mental health is in better condition than you will be physically also healthy. Remember a healthy brain is a healthy you.
Mental troubles are rising these days speedily and those should be treated as they affect your daily life. You need to put an end to your mental issues by taking appropriate consultation from Dr. Vimal Kumar. He is the best psychiatrist in Delhi from whom you should take consultation about your any mental issue.
We can treat little injuries like a skinned knee at our home. Few life-threatening conditions like a chest pain need a visit to emergency room. But there are few things in between that need a visit to urgent care.
Children psychiatrist is a doctor who treats the children suffering from behavior and thought disorder. This kind of issues makes the kid away from friends and cannot interact socially. The treatment helps to behave normally in the society.
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Netflix blows past 100 million subscribers
A year after subscriber growth slowed due to price hikes, Netflix says (PDF) it added more US customers in the last quarter than it has since 2011. The company is now up to 103.95 million subscribers worldwide, up 5.2 million from last count. The company also unveiled a new strategy (PDF) for explaining its spending on content, that's presumably more appropriate for its abundance of award-nominated shows. In the letter to investors, execs also discussed recent series cancellations, saying "As much as we dislike ending a series early, it consoles us that it frees up investment for another new show, or two."
A friendly letter from Senator Al Franken to Apple requests that the latter provide a few more details on the tech behind its Face ID system, which allows users to unlock their iPhone X using facial recognition.
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By Nagaland Post | Publish Date: 8/26/2018 12:34:22 PM IST
India is afflicted with some serious issues. The Kerala floods, overflowing of 32 of 35 and flooding of all districts, need to ponder whether the planners or organisations like National Green Tribunal (NGT) have failed.
There is also the statistics. It is not what it tells but how these are built up. The base figures that were changed in 2011 do they inflate performance or lowers it? Either way, if it is not reflecting the reality, it is not a healthy sign.
The Aadhar and its changing security paradigms too are important. Again it is linked to data security. There are also some aspects that speak of falling household savings and bank deposits.
It is customary to blame the government for any malaise. In these cases we find that there are many regulators or parallel organisations that have not served well.
The Kerala floods stand differently despite widespread rainfall across the country. It also calls for serious introspection and questions the functioning of many organsiations, state governments and the most importantly the NGT.
It appears that organisations like these are more concerned about trivial automobile emissions, said to be responsible for mere 2 percent of pollution in urban areas, than the serious malaise and negligence of core ecological issues. Is not NGT expected to take moves to find out what the actual threats to the ecologies are?
It can shrug off the charges by saying that they are a regulator and not executors. It could have stopped Mumbai and Kochi airports being built on flood plains. Why did the NGT not do it?
The nation would like to know if it had acted on the Madhav Gadgil report or technically known as Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP). The committee had classified 140,000 square km divided into three zones as ecologically sensitive. How could the Kerala government reject the report and today demand relief packages from the centre for a calamity that is stated to be man-made.
The report was submitted in 2011, two years before the Kedarnath tragedy. In Uttarakhand too, the greed of man and the overflowing waters of Tehri Dam devastated the ecologically fragile Himalayan state. It seems nobody learns. Kerala’s ghats are also fragile and the way some of the hills collapsed with buildings and habitation testify greed takes the upper hand of the serious safety and conservation concerns.
It is people’s suffering and the nation has to stand by them. But is not the devastation today is because of ignoring the basics. It also raises the question of building dams in sensitive zones while now worldwide it is recognized that dams create more problems.
That was the area of planning commission now NITI Ayog. It has sent billions of rupees literally down the waters. It is the devastation of the people’s hard earned money. They paid for these unsound projects. A nation on a course to growth must wonder why the experts could not succeed or the executives, as it was also in the case of Tehri Dam, ignored the warnings. Its for whose profit?
The total expenditure for Tehri was $ 1 billion. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) cost benefit analysis concluded that the construction cost of the dam was twice the projected benefits. It may be so for many projects. These are simply ignored. It is everywhere like the Rs 72 crore going down the drains for turning a journalism institute into university in 2010, which never happened. Is a nation supposed to repeat mistakes?
Today the nation is struck with data jugglery of 2011. In retrospect it appears that the previous methodology was better and did not inflate gains as the new one has done for 2007-08. Was it changed for political concerns and are the revised data being dished out to put some political inheritors in dim light? Either way playing with data is dangerous.
That as a nation we are playing too much with the data is also evident the way everyday new methodologies are announced for Aadhar. Expert panel headed by Justice BN Srikrishna proposed amendments to bolster data protection. Then comes face recognition and several other changes. Meanwhile, there are reports that in UP hackers diverted foodgrains worth millions by compromising Aadhar. Some foreign agencies are allegedly misusing these too. It all suggests relook at the entire UIDAI process and bares fact that Aadhar security is not that easy and it has to be done on war-footing.
The falling household savings rate reaching a critical low of 18.7 percent in 2014-15, declining since 2011-12, when the ratio stood at 23 percent, is a grave sign. India has progressed even during the Hindu rate of growth on this count alone. Whenever the savings equilibrium changed, the economy faced problems.
Today it has hit bank deposits. The reasons are the disincentives created by Manmohanomics through reduction of savings interest rates, taxing the savings and making it non-productive even for the geriatric people. The purpose was to boost speculative stock markets, which is today on a cosmetic rise and actually on a crashing course.
If India has to succeed household savings have to be encouraged. The taxes on savings have to go. The government must rethink how it can earn revenue if the people themselves are pauperized.
Whenever the savings equilibrium changes, the economy faces problems.
Indian economy suffers due to cosmetic data, declining savings & neglect of ecology.
Besides, banks could also get back to health if people save. Their savings alone can boost development and growth. The banks cannot look for continuous recapitalisation through taxpayers’ money. It is a devious method. Incentivising savings and freeing it from taxes would help the government. Let us look at the method of 1960s, when massive National Savings Scheme mobilizations saved the government through decades.
Let the country go back to its traditional basics to save the nation and not just the saving deposits. The traditional frugal living concept has aided the progress of this nation. Traditional knowledge used to take care of ecology, forest conservation, respecting the riverine plains and the nature.
Correcting neglect and decades of problems is not easy. Though all of it is not the creation of the government, but ultimately as nation’s driver it has to take severe measures. National debate on ecology, not just to reduce auto emission, boosting savings and protecting data is must. The path has to be established despite all problems.
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Appreciate The Good Things In Your Life!
To get your attitude going the right way, you need to appreciate your blessings.
In our down times, we forget how blessed we are. All of us have many gifts. Just pick one and focus on that. You may think of the loving family you have or the food in your fridge, or just the warmth of a hot shower. Remembering how fortunate we are reduces any sadness we may be experiencing.
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Nokia phones return with Android, Atmos and the classic 3310
Now, HMD Global, a Finnish company holds the rights to the Nokia brand and is trying aggressively to enter the mobile phone market by bringing smartphones as well as feature phones.
Finally Nokia revealed a third smartphone, the Nokia 3. Since then, various versions of the arcade game have been released on Nokia-created phones, including a 3D version that was first launched for the ill-fated N-Gage gaming phone.
And let's not forget its legendary customisable, swappable front and rear panels.
Talking about the phones, Nokia 6 was launched earlier this year in China but today's MWC keynote has made the phone global along with two of its new brothers. Not only has the company announced that it will be launching phones running Android, it's gone and announced three brand new phones with the most insane prices you will ever see.
The MWC 2017 starts in Barcelona from February 27 to March 2.
A year ago, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri promised a new generation of Nokia phones.
To add in, Snake first featured on Nokia handsets in the late 90s and since then has appeared on over 400 million phones.
So, we can say that, this time Nokia is planning to launch budget friendly smartphones to attract more users. The nostalgic return of Nokia 3310 comes with Nokia's Series 30+ software, with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera, and even a microSD slot. The all-new Nokia 3310 is smaller than its predecessor, and it looks quite a bit different as well, a bit more modern.
The new Nokia 3310, much like its original model, offers an astounding battery life.
While the pictures were taken with the device's camera will certainly not be exceptional. According to a source, Interim President of Nokia Technologies noted that the "return of the Nokia 3310 has us smiling too".
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About Me
I draw for several Rubber Stamping companies and I also design jewelry. I have had my own business for about eight years now and I really enjoy it! I have two cats, Romeo and Juliet. Both are rescue animals. I also have a daughter, Sarah. I enjoy drawing and creating new pieces of jewelry and can be found in my studio most days!
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February 16, 2009
Hi Everyone...I am new to this blogging thing, so bear with me.... Yes... I'm a rookie blogger...(looking sweet and innocent and batting my eyelashes..) But I will attempt to write my very first blog! Here goes:I am a member of the Esmarts Etsy Team! Go team! There are a lot of helpful and truly magnificent people there. Every one is a master at their craft! I have learned a lot from each of them, and as a team they rock! As soon as I learn to add some links here, I'll add the links to the members of the team and you can see for yourselves how talented they all are! In the meantime, you can find me at imagesbyjer.etsy.com and also at imagesbyjer.net. Have a look around and let me know what you think!Till then, thanks for reading MY VERY FIRST BLOG...lol JeriEllynPs... It's hard to believe that in two measly days, I will be fifty. ...FIFTY...that is a half a century old!! (Personally, I think they lied to me about the date of my birth. I think it was a couple of years later... I mean, I was there and everything, but I don't remember much...grin)BTW.....Did I mention that this is my very FIRST blog??!?
Atta way Jer. It gets a little easier as you go along. Oh, and don't worry, you are just joining the "over" 50 club. We're a great bunch and it really doesn't hurt a bit. Not to mention it sure beats the alternative. Lois
If you are like me, you will be very happy you started this blog. At first it feels weird, I'm writing but who will be reading? I will for sure!! The odd thing about these blogs is sometimes the follow button is there and sometimes it seems to disappear. Well it's not showing up for me right now so I'll come back and follow when it pops up.
Congratulations! I've got mine up pretty much. But there's still no jewelry positing yet! Maybe after I go to the NY Bead Society's "garage sale" this week. I love garage sales. Especially when they involve beads!
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There is a bit of relief for Ewabound drivers in the Pearl City area next week.
The state won’t be shutting down as many lanes as it has been during the evenings.
This week the Department of Transportation is taking a break from construction.
It postponed work on the PM Contraflow project to mull over ways to alleviate the traffic the construction has been creating.
Every weeknight, Ewabound drivers are faced with this.
“It’s, you know, very difficult,” said Fred Mangca, driver.
“It’s pretty bad,” said another driver.
After last week’s mess on the roads because of two different projects, a bit of good news for drivers. Instead of closing down four lanes on the freeway when work resumes next week, the state will only shut down two lanes during the weeknights.
Officials say they had to close all four lanes for the type of work they were doing. They’re hoping next week’s change will help to ease the traffic, as they work to add another lane between Aiea and Waikele.
Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz shares his thoughts on whether the widening the H-1 by the Pearl City area will help alleviate traffic.
“Well, the Department has already widened sections of H-2 and H-1 already and we haven’t seen much relief,” said Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz, (D) Wahiawa, Whitmore Village.
Sen. Dela Cruz says his office receives complaints about the traffic and believes the DOT isn’t looking at the big picture.
“The real solution is to create jobs in the areas where people live. So that way they don’t have to make the commute. They don’t have to drive into town everyday,” he said.
The PM Contraflow project also includes building an evening zipperlane in the Ewabound direction. It’s a portion of the project the state has been talking about and planning, for years. But now the zipperlane is up in the air.
The DOT says the installation of the PM Contraflow zipperlane will be re-evaluated after the new lanes are complete. That’s expected by the end of this year.
Officials say if the traffic flow improves from all the work they’re doing now, then they’ll hold off on building that evening zipperlane. That will save them $1 million a year in maintenance costs.
One solution could be an evening zipperlane.
“I think it would. It works in the morning, so it should work in the evenings,” Mangca said.
“Nah, you’re just taking up land,” another driver said.
Building a zipperlane is included in the project and the signed agreement with the contractor. The state does not know how much it will cost if plans are changed, but we’ll keep following up with them to see if taxpayers money, will be lost.
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Firearms Information
Colt Match Target/Springfield M1A
Attorney General's Directive, March 31, 1997
Both the Division of Criminal Justice and the State Police Firearms Unit have received a number of inquiries whether
the Colt Match Target Rifle and the Springfield M1A are considered assault firearms under New Jersey law.
Based on our review of the law and the Attorney General guidelines, we conclude that neither of the two firearms are prohibited
under State law.
The Colt Match Target Rifle, based on the manufacturer's specifications, is a new line of rifles and is not part of the
AR-15 series, and thus, is not prohibited under N.J.S.A.2 C: 39-1w(1).
Although this new rifle, may resemble the Colt AR-15, there have been substantial changes to the firearm, including the receiver
which is not identical to an AR-15 receiver.
In addition, because of changes in the configuration of the firearm, the Colt Match Target Rifle is not substantially identical
to a prohibited firearm and prohibited under this classification.
The Springfield M1A is not one of the enumerated firearms which are specifically prohibited under the State's assault firearms
laws. It has been prohibited in this State as being substantially identical to a named firearm.
However, according to the manufacturers specifications, the M1A has been modified. The modified M1A, which became available
in 1994, would not be considered to be substantially identical to a prohibited firearm in accordance with the statutory provision
and the Attorney General's guidelines cited above.
However, earlier versions of the M1A which contains at least two of the criteria identified in Paragraph B of the Attorney
General's Guidelines, supra, would still be considered to be substantially identical to a prohibited firearm and continue to be
banned under our State law.
As a result, it will be necessary to clearly distinguish the physical characteristics or lack of physical characteristics
when making a determination regarding the M1A rifle.
Neither this clarification regarding the classification of the Colt Match Target Rifle and the M1A Rifle, nor the guidelines
issued August 19, 1996, regarding the "substantially identical" provision of the assault weapons law applies to firearms
that are specifically listed in N.J.S.A.2C:39-1w(2) as prohibited firearms or to firearms which are banned at "types" of named prohibited firearms.
If you have any questions regarding the classification of these two firearms, please contact the:
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George Walford: Editorial Notes
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A new treatment for pain in the lower back entails an injection of meat tenderiser into the affected area. If we had been treated like that we’d keep a wary eye out for anyone coming near with a carving knife – or a knife and fork, for that matter.
SUPPORT FOR JARGON
A correspondent enquires why IC has not been using the names for the major ideologies which appeared in Ideologies and their Functions and elsewhere, the series running: protostatic, epistatic, parastatic, protodynamic, epidynamic, paradynamic, metadynamic.
Our answer lies in a remark of Hegel’s; he pointed out that we often fail to understand the familiar just because it is familiar. There are few things better calculated to produce a feeling of familiarity than an accustomed name; when the names are not used, the effort to find descriptive phrases forces an effort of comprehension.
Against that is the argument that for people encountering systematic ideology for the first time these names, just because they are, to them, unfamiliar jargon, emphasise its novelty (several readers of the publications using them have complained about them for this reason); without them it is easier for the concepts to be distorted to comply with familiar ways of thinking.
It can be argued either way, for using this series of names or against doing so. Probably the important thing is not to take up rigid positions on a minor matter; it is unlikely that the future of systematic ideology will depend upon the use or non-use of these few words. Our own feeling is that these specialised terms are best used as a sort of shorthand to facilitate discussion among people familiar with the ideas as they have so far been developed. IC will in future use them at least occasionally, to ensure that they remain available to those who find them useful.
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Still Going Strong
I just thought thought that you might like to know that, even after three years, the Honeymoon with my Braten 1000 is still going strong. I have included a photo of last weekends feast.
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I seasoned the grill after we installed it and then the next day we smoked a shoulder for our annual halloween party. We had a great time camped out in the yard all day and everybody was oohhhing and ahhing over your creation. Thanks. Now I see why there aren't too many folks out there fabricating grills that can burn wood. What a work of craftsmanship!
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I recently bought the original 1000 series grill and accessories for my husband for Father's Day. My husband was able to find a local dealer of different wood chunks so he's been having fun learning his new grill; the difference cooking with wood chunks in addition to hardwood charcoal as well as how the different woods flavor the meat.
Meanwhile, the first bite of chicken I had (done with applewood) was UNBELIEVABLE. When we first spoke, you described meat cooked over wood as addictive as 'crack' and now I understand. While we have never had a gas grill and my husband, Bob has always used hardwood charcoal (and sometimes wood chips in addition), the use of big chunks of wood is transformational to everything he's cooked so far this summer.
Our grill has also become somewhat of a conversation starter among our friends and it's been fun to open up others to the difference cooking over real fire. Bottom line, my husband is happy and, despite the expense, the grill was worth every penny. I wish you much success with this excellent product.
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I've had my Campfire grill for several weeks now, and I couldn't be happier. It's exactly what I needed to replicate the real Uruguayan/Argentine experience of wood barbecuing. I've installed it in a permanent corner of the backyard so that I can build a fire next to the grill and move hot coals around as necessary. The quality of the grill and hardware is exceptional. I know I'll be enjoying years of service and delicious asides as a result.
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As soon as we unpacked the Bratten 1000 Grill with the Argentine Grill Insert, I realized that, at least to me, an important piece of information was missing from the website. The website shows terrific design and functionality and it talks about the quality of the materials used. But it doesn't say anything about the extraordinary quality of the workmanship!
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Apparently my father-in-law wouldn't stop talking about it down at the local watering hole. ...My wife already has the menu planned for this weekend.
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Campfire Grill—Small Package, Big Success
A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of a 28 foot travel trailer in anticipation of traveling the country when I retire. I recently received a gift of an Engelbrecht Campfire Grill which I tried out for the first time last week. Wow, was I surprised at how good a job it does! For years, I have used a propane grill at home, but my wife has always preferred cooking over charcoal. The ample size of the Engelbrecht Campfire Grill charcoal tray easily accommodates a small bag of Kingsford Charcoal. The wooden handles that screw into the grilling surface make it easy to move to any of the three different adjustable heights… and the heat is easily controlled.
Also, with the heavy-duty "welder" gloves that were included in the packaging, emptying the hot charcoals into the fire pit was a breeze, as well as the quick cleanup of the grill. You'll be interested to know that I constructed a wood frame "box", with latches, so I can store this grill and transport it easily. You can be sure that I'll enjoy many years of using this unique, compact grill.
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All Braten's Features Adds Up to Grilling Excellence
I recently purchased the Braten Campfire and augmented it with the Argentinian insert. I installed the Braten over a stone fire pit, started the fire, and was soon able to grill some excellent rib eye over oak and cherry embers. Turning the wheel allowed me to accurately choose the correct distance for a perfect steak, much easier than trying to control the height/temperature of the fire. The V-shaped channels on the insert capture all the juices into a pan so they can be used for basting.
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Building to my Exact Tastes
I have thoroughly enjoyed my Engelbrecht Grill and especially working with Chris starting with a concept and budget and letting him produce a masterpiece grill. The grill is a work of art but most importantly an incredibly versatile working grill and smoker.
Chris made me a two-tank (one charcoal, one propane) model with smoke boxes attached to each grill. With this setup I can quickly cook burgers and chops over propane or slow smoke some salmon filets or brisket or make moist pork loins or ribs. With the smoke box on the both units I can cool smoke using smoke alone while I produce a higher heat environment in the second unit. Working alone at a function I produced prime rib, pork loins, salmon, chicken breasts, and bratwurst over a 2 hour period.
An additional propane burner at the front of the grill allows me to make stew, deep fry turkeys or boil some corn. Having upgraded from an old homemade fuel tank grill I appreciated the effortless towing of the well balanced trailer and the easy setup.
The draft control at both intake and exit makes it possible for me to control smoke and air flow and cook at the appropriate temperature and I can economize the use of wood or charcoal. The grill surfaces slide out easily for briquette recharge and are just the right size for one person to maneuver.
The grill draws a crowd of well-wishers everywhere I go. Toss some apple wood or hickory in the smoke box and let the sweet smoke roll through the unit and you will make new friends.
No doubt I would work with Chris again; friendly service, individualized customizing options, expert craftsmanship, and a high quality product that he stands behind. Chris is both a barbecue and manufacturing expert and knows how to produce a top-end grill.
Bill Simmons | Urbana, IL
Celebrating My 50th Birthday with a Smoker and Grill
I have dreamed of having a smoker and grill on a trailer for over 20 years. I turned 50 years old this year and I thought it's now or never. So I was a smart guy and I told my wife Jamee that I wanted a Harley for my birthday. Jamee came back and told me she wanted hardwood floors. We settled on a cooker! My brother-in-law told me about Engelbrecht Grills and Cookers. I gave their website a look, liked what I saw and gave Chris a call. Right from the start I enjoyed working with Chris for my dream cooker. He listened to all the details I wanted for my cooker, answered every question, returned every call and responded to each email. And the finished cooker turned out exactly as I hoped.
I've had the 3000 model about three weeks and have cooked on it every weekend. For my Mom's 80th Birthday we grilled chicken for 25 people. On Labor Day I smoked the best ribs I've ever made, and last Sunday I grilled chicken and baked potatoes for the staff I work with and their families. The cool part is the versatility of the smoker and grill. I can cook with charcoal, wood or propane. The results have been fantastic all three times. Everyone loves the food and the grill itself is always a big topic of conversation.
Two things were very important for my cooker. I wanted it to create excellent food and to look excellent too. I did not want to be embarrassed by the food that came off of it or by the looks of the cooker. When I invite friends and family over or when I pull the cooker to a party, my goal is to serve the very best food from a well-made and attractive cooker. The 3000 has hit a home-run in both categories. Thanks Chris for helping make my big 5-Oh a blast...but I think Jamee is still going to end up with those hardwood floors.
Mike Potts | Champaign, Illinois
Two Cookout Review—Firing Up the Braten
I did fire it up once first to see how to control the dampers....got it up to about 500 degrees in about a half hour and thought I'd ruined it! But it has good paint and cleans up nice.
We cooked a small butt (less than 3 pounds) 4 1/2 to 5 hours at 200-225°. I took it off when internal temp got to 150 ...wrapped it in foil and set it on top of the grill. Threw in three pieces of firewood and cranked up the temp to 450° and did a "beer butt" chicken in about 50 minutes, added the veggies and put the pork back on the grill to finish it off and all was done at the same time.
Needless to say we got rave reviews and it was easy. Everything was juicy and tender and I can get used to the slow cooking....throw in a handful of hickory chucks..have a beer...throw in more chunks...have a beer, etc, etc! It stayed right on temp and was easy to move and read the dial when I had to sit in my favorite chair about 10 feet away (to monitor the temp!)
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We have had our grill for about a year (Chris has recently upgraded us to stainless) and wouldn't trade it for anything else!
We recently entertained a couple of media executives from the west coast and we didn't start to cook until after 8PM so it was getting dark. We had the grill sitting at 550 degrees (for at least a half hour) waiting for their arrival. The way our patio is set up you have to walk directly in front of the grill to get to the patio (could feel the heat and see the temp. on the dial) and of course we had to show it off!
Using Chris' tip—Cooking steaks with hickory—we opened the lid to...(Flames): "Wow, you're cooking with wood!" Cooked steaks (almost instantly) over flames with the rack about half way up. It takes some practice, but it's fairly easy to regulate and hold any temperature.
You can cook steaks on any commercial grill, but I don't think you could get the "presentation" value and I don't think I would hold a commercial grill at 550 degrees for any length of time.
We had a party last week for about 50 and we cooked a bunch of ribs,etc.. Needless to say the ashes were well above the grate. Finally cleaned it last night....in about a minute.
Larry Hustedt | Gibson City, IL
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The grill arrived last Friday and with a lot of extra muscle, was transported up to my deck. I fired it up and grilled a leg of lamb on the rotisserie. The Grill is amazing! The best Lamb I have ever made and I have been grilling/smoking on the Green eggs for 15 yrs. What workmanship and precision.
Thank you for making me such a great grill/rotisserie and smoker. It was well worth the wait.
Bob Gottlieb | Weston, MA
Thank you so much for quick delivery, I can't tell how impressed we were when we opened the box the grill is heavy duty and made so well! We can't wait for spring to build the base. Our outdoor kitchen will be the talk of the neighborhood, I will pass on your website so the husbands can have a bbq showdown and the wives won't have to cook all summer!!!!
Mary Allen | Bear Creek Township, PA
I love this grill. My neighbors came over to admire it, and one said, "My GOD, this thing is well made!" Every time I uncover my grill, I see some new detail that goes above and beyond, making this a truly remarkable feat of engineering and manufacture. As you know, I smoked pork shoulders the first time I used it, and the 'cue turned out great. Today I made one of those beer can chickens over indirect hardwoods and later today I did T-bone steaks, also over hardwoods, of course. Enjoyed being outside all day, playing with smoke. Love this Engelbrecht grill.
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Gary Brown: Addicted to home improvement
Friday
Jan 25, 2008 at 12:01 AMJan 25, 2008 at 2:32 PM
About this time each year I suffer hardware store withdrawal pains.
Gary Brown
About this time each year I suffer hardware store withdrawal pains.
I want to hold a power tool. I need to sort through packages of nuts and bolts. I long to lift some lawn-care device. Oh, Lord, can’t I please, just for a moment, gaze with envy upon one of those pond systems with the plastic liner and flowers and fish and greenery and pumps and hoses carrying water that runs over rocks.
Slap me, I got carried away.
You have to understand that it’s been a little while since I spent any significant time walking in the world of home improvement.
Oh, I’ve done plenty of shopping in recent weeks. But trying to purchase Christmas gifts for friends and family doesn’t get you into the plumbing or electrical aisles of home improvement stores with any satisfying frequency.
Owning my addiction
Of course, I’ve got to take responsibility for not going to a hardware store. But, I was busy. First I had to watch the last few college football bowl games. Then pro football playoff games took up my time. But now, the NFL conference championship contests are out of the way and we have to wait a few days for the Super Bowl. I’ve run out of excuses not to putter around the house.
Suddenly, it dawned on me that I’m feeling a little tense because I haven’t fondled any wrenches or screwdrivers for weeks. I can’t remember the last time I rubbed my hands over the counters or opened the cabinet doors or turned the handles of the faucets in one of those kitchen displays they put in home improvement stores to tempt you.
I started to get out of control again. I’m just a little edgy lately. I miss the lingering smell of plywood on my shirt.
Blaming dad
The foundation for my addiction was built by my dad.
Dad was a carpenter with four children and we all wore his blue collar proudly. We grew up going to hardware stores every weekend. They were family outings. Hardware stores were like child-care centers to us. I can’t necessarily complete home repair projects. But it feels natural to me to walk in a world where people know how.
I was born to wander through stores where they sell hammers and saws and other implements of construction. I think I’ll go this weekend.
I’m going to buy some fasteners, regardless of whether I have anything to fasten. I’m going to sort through the screw sizes, pick one to have on hand, and then finally try to answer the question has plagued generations of males — stainless steel or brass?
How can I impress upon you how much I need to just shake a box of nails? They ought to have a patch to help you through moments like this.
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Just Lay Down And Die
Ever had sex with a guy who just lies there? Well, it’s booooorrrrrrring! Who wants a lazy lover? Well, actually, female spiders do. According to researchers at the University of Aaarhus in Denmark, arachnid females are sorta natural necrophiliacs. Technically, if their male suitor just plays dead, they are twice as likely to get laid as the males who use food as bait. The study, published in the journal New Scientist, showed that among pisaura mirabilis, a spider species native to Europe, lying motionless even made the sex better! Those male spiders not only increased their chances at copulating, they were then able to get it on for longer! Perhaps this is justification enough for why spiders will survive the apocalypse. [Nerve]
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Welcome to the Forum Archive!
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Table Manners with Kog'Maw
To start things, Kog'Maw is one of the most item dependent champions in the game. Early game, expect not to get many kills, you should focus on farming money, harassing the opponent and staying alive. (As always)
--- Abilities ---
Passive - Icathian Surprise
Upon dying, Kog'Maw starts a chain reaction in his body which causes him to move faster and detonate after 4 seconds; dealing 100 + (25 x lvl) true damage to surrounding enemies.
--> This is a nice ability, but don't plan to use it. After all it does require you to die... And well, that's never good.
--> The passive is amazing, especially since it stacks with Last Whisper for some amazing armor penetration. The activation is ok if you have time to use it, or the distance. But with Kog'Maw range is your friend, if you're doing it properly, you most often won't be close enough to activate.
W - Bio-Arcane Barrage
Kog'Maw's attacks gain range and deal a percent of the target's maximum health as magic damage.
These runes give you increased attack speed further increasing your damage from auto-attacks (granting more devouring capabilities) as well as the health and mana to sustain a little more duration during team fights.
I could list every summoner spell in the game, but for simplicity:Exhaust - Very nice spell, slow runners, chasers, disable Yi and reduce Magic Resist.Ghost - Chase, Run beastly ability paired with Kog's massive range.
Others I could see as viable:Clarity - If you have no mana regen runes and few mana regen items, don't need it with this build.Teleport - If you're new to Kog'Maw and are nervous if you'll be out harassed get this so you can recall, buy items and port back very quickly. (Required for 1v2 lanes imo)
Anything else is beyond my recommendation, based on preference though.
--- Items ---
Start off with Doran's Shield and some Health Pots. This will allow you to stay in a lane for a very good duration, allowing you to farm more money.
Once you have to recall (don't recall until you have to) pick up some Berserker's Greaves. This grants the movement speed Kog'Maw loves, and the Attack Speed the other team hates.
The next couple items can go in any order. You want to pick up Fiendish Codex or Madred's Razor. This will grant you the mana regen to stay in a lane, and the auto-attack farm capabilities.
After your first 3 items are completed you can build a Guinsoo's Rageblade. Be sure to try and maintain max stacks before a team fight begins, even if you just take pot shot's with your ult. (Don't waste too much mana)
Sell Doran's Shield and pick up Void Staff. This ability is a nice final item. At this point, if the other team is smart at all, they will stack magic resist to fight off your Bloodrazor and Bio-Arcane Barrage damage. This magic pen. will increase the damage of said item/ability.
--- Tips ---
If you've read this far, you know how to build Kog'Maw but not how to play him. These are from my games with the deadly Mouth of the Abyss.
1) Never over-extend. You are very fragile with no escape ability, only chase when you are certain you can get a kill, without a death.
2) When your Icathian Surprise activates, tap the space bar quickly so your camera focuses on your champ. Most players will try to juke you, and this gives you room to click all around your screen to maximize the damage.
3) Bio-Arcane Barrage gives you massive range, if the target is close enough to a wall, you may be able to shoot over it. With practice you can tell when you have room to do this for an easy kill or harass.
4) Living Artillery is deadly, practice hitting with it so that you can maximize on damage, and minimize your wasted mana.
5) People move without thinking. Help your team by dropping an Artillery into bushes quite often before you lose people to a trap, never venture into a bush without dropping an artillery.
6) Do not KS. I know, it is tempting with a super far Ultimate, but if another team mate will get the kill that they deserve, let them. You need your team to be a meat shield for you, and upsetting them will result in you dying too much.
7) Range, Range, Range. Kog'Maw is a professional marksman. Be at max range, at all times.
8) Finally, I cannot stress this enough. Kog'Maw is VERY item dependent. Farm, Farm, Farm. Once you get your first 3 completed items (Berserker's Greaves, Madred's Bloodrazors, and Nashor's Tooth) you can go slower on the farming, and emphasize on the champ feasting.
I hope this helps, and I hope you enjoy the terror that is Kog'Maw: Mouth of the Abyss.
Instead of berzerker's greaves shouldn't you pick up something more useful like boots of swiftness or mercury treads? The other items are already providing you with all the attack speed you will ever need. You also don't suggest any defensive items at all which also makes me concerned about the actual effectiveness of this playstyle.
@Sniperness - I Have the Attack Speed quints and marks because the early game attack speed is what you need. As Kog'Maw is so item dependant this allows you to get your Bio-Arcane Barrage to hit an extra 1-2 times (each harassment activation) allowing for increased odds of killing, or early team fights since the build doesn't have Attack Speed early.
@TheOneTrueAustin - I go with Berserker Greaves for a cheap early game item, of course as with all builds you can substitute them out mid-late game for Mercury if needed. And if you have decent map awareness Void Ooze + Ghost is all you need to escape a gank, no need for Boots of Swiftness. In an end game senario if you have someone on you, odds are you aren't getting away due to a slow or stun of some sort. With your massive range 3+ people should be dead before you even get close enough to be in real danger.
@Nyyyyyy - Flash is a possibility, with all the recent nerfs to it (cooldown increased, range decreased) I don't find it to be as effective as an Exhaust + Ghost combo. But hey, it's all user preference.
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Diwali rekindles hopes for a better morrow
Markets crumpled, unemployment rose to unheard of heights, there was little money left with the common people and sovereign and individual debts rose to unmanageable levels.
We in New Zealand have had our share of troubles, with recurring earthquakes and aftershocks in Christchurch, the Pike River Mine tragedy, collapse of a number of finance companies, closure of several manufacturing units and many small and medium firms going bust resulting in job losses.
Compounding the problem is the brain drain – a record number of New Zealanders packing their bags and moving to Australia – according to some sources, more than 166,000 in the past four years.
With such gloom and doom, many of us did not have the mood or the inclination to celebrate individual events such as birthdays and anniversaries, leave alone participate ‘fully’ in social and cultural festivities.
However, if the Diwali festivals that have been held so far around the country this year are any indication, the mood to celebrate appears to have returned. There is greater enthusiasm among officials in social and cultural associations to organise festivities, bringing together people of varied ethnicity.
A major event
The Diwali Festival held at the Aotea Square on October 13 and 14, 2012 (reported in our October 15, 2012 issue) was reflective of the ‘return of passion’ for such events.
Organised by the Asia NZ Foundation in association with the Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) and the Indian High Commission, under the major sponsorship of Auckland Council, ANZ Bank, Barfoot & Thompson, AUT University of Technology and Radio Tarana, it was arguably the largest event of its kind held in Auckland.
As Asia NZ Foundation Chairman Philip Burdon said, the Indian community has grown to represent almost all the States of India and hence Diwali has become one of the most important and significant events in New Zealand’s social calendar over the past 11 years.
“Diwali is a festival that teaches us tolerance, harmony, understanding and goodwill. It is today celebrated as a public event throughout the country,” he said.
Homes to halls
While Diwali has transcended from its private celebration at home to be observed as a major festival in India and other parts of the world, the question of its ‘over commercialism’ has been a subject of debate in New Zealand, as probably it is in Australia, UK, US, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries that account for a sizeable population of people of Indian origin (PIO).
Such debates notwithstanding, the fact that Diwali brings together hundreds of thousands of people to enjoy the rich culture of India, its exquisite cuisine and time-tested heritage is a good enough reason that calls for celebrations.
It is gratifying that an increasing number of New Zealanders today participate and rejoice in such observances as Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha of Muslims, Vaisakhi and Guru Nanak Jayanti of Sikhs, Easter and Christmas of Christians and observances of various other groups.
On such a happy note, we also notice that there is a certain charm to Diwali that attracts people to its festivals.
Indian heritage
Over the past 11 years, the Diwali Festival organised by Asia NZ Foundation in Auckland and Wellington have enabled New Zealanders to see and enjoy some of the well-known arts and dances of India.
For instance, this year saw the performances of ‘Rangashree School of Fine Arts,’ based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the artistic creations of Rangoli expert Mugdha Brid, brought to New Zealand by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) of the Indian Government and the Indian High Commission.
The performers of Rangashree School and the Rangoli artiste inspired New Zealanders with their colourful display of talent, bringing to light the fact that India is a culturally diverse and multitalented country. We cannot think of any other festival that brings together such talent anywhere in the world.
It is gratifying that Diwali has long crossed the ‘Hindu threshold’ to become an occasion of national importance, although its religious overtones are still the preserve of devout Hindus.
Although unannounced and perhaps unrecognised, the festival heralds a new era of hope, peace, progress and prosperity to all. The mere gathering of people, irrespective of their faiths and beliefs purports universal brotherhood.
Secular values
In a larger sense, Diwali also brings to the fore the values of Secularism, which is the legal state of India and New Zealand. To be secular is not to be atheistic or agnostic but to live as a tolerant society, imbibing the best of what people of varied vicissitudes can offer.
Speaking at the Diwali Festival held at Aotea Square on October 13, 2012 Primew Minister John Key said that Indians bring skills, experience and expertise to New Zealand, contributing to its growth and development.
“Indians play an important role with their vibrant culture. They have brought great skills that have changed New Zealand to make it richer and better. I hope we could have more people from India to contribute to our progress,” he said.
Growing ties
We have also heard and read in recent months that a number of Indian companies have either acquired large enterprises in New Zealand (Infosys for instance has purchased shares in Gen-i and is looking for further expansion) or establishing their presence in the local market. Likewise, several New Zealand organisations have been signing distribution and other arrangements with enterprises in India.
These developments will help to enhance trade and commerce and people-to-people contacts, bringing together the two countries towards closer economic and social cooperation.
We are confident that Diwali 2012 will open a new chapter in bilateral relations and move New Zealand and India towards a viable Free Trade Agreement.
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JEMEZ FALLS (NM) PICNIC AREA, NM
Overview
Jemez Falls Picnic Area is great place to spend the day, especially when planning a day hike to nearby Jemez Falls on the Jemez District of the Santa Fe National Forest. The lands are known for immense cultural heritage of the Jemez people, as well as a therapeutic natural warm springs.
Natural Features:
The picnic area is situated in a forested area at an elevation of 7,880 feet. Nearby Jemez Falls cascades 70 feet over a rocky cliff surrounded by boulders and pines.
Recreation:
A trailhead to Jemez Falls is located within the day-use area. It leads to both Jemez Falls and McCauley Warm Springs. Visitors also enjoy fishing the Jemez River, a small trout stream stocked with catchable rainbow trout.
Facilities:
The accessible picnic area is equipped with a shelter, tables and large grills. Accessible vault toilets and trash collection are provided. The site can accommodate up to 100 people. A large parking area is on-site.
Drinking water is not provided in the day-use area, but is available at nearby campgrounds and facilities, including Battleship Rock, Vista Linda and the Jemez Ranger Station.
Nearby Attractions:
The picnic area is located 15 miles northeast of Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
Activities and Amenities
Within Facility
Accessible Vault Toilets
Day Use Area
Fishing
Grills
Hiking
Parking Area
Paved Roads
Picnic Area
Picnic Shelters
Tables
Trailheads
Trash Collection
Know Before You Go
A code is required to access the day-use area at Jemez Falls, and will be supplied with reservation confirmation
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The social and economic uncertainty surrounding the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has Americans understandably concerned about their personal safety. In March 2020, the FBI reported the highest monthly number of firearms background checks ever recorded: 3,740,688. Compared to March of the previous year, Americans bought 1.1 million more guns in a single month. Ammunition is also flying off the shelves, with sales in some states increasing more than 4,000 percent.
Many recent first gun-buyers are people who were previously either ambivalent or even opposed to gun ownership. Several such people have reached out to me with questions about which gun they should buy. Many fellow firearms instructors report the same experience.
It’s easy to see why Americans are worried. While we live in a generally high-trust society, catastrophes can easily disrupt the delicate social order on which that trust depends. As it is sometimes said, we are all only nine meals away from anarchy.
Desperate people do desperate things. Economic goods are human goods, and while the current lockdowns are necessary to contain the pandemic, they carry real human costs. Many of these costs — joblessness, homelessness, mental health issues, and drug abuse — lend themselves easily to criminal behavior.
Always Be Prepared
Am I saying society is on the brink of collapse? No, we are far from an apocalypse. The point is simply that the world is and has always been a risky place, so it makes perfect sense to be proactive and prepared. When things are peaceful and prosperous, we often don’t pay attention to danger because things are going so well. But in times of great social and economic stress, we are more attuned to things that might go wrong.
Having a disaster plan isn’t as foreign as some might think. We routinely make decisions aimed at mitigating risks. We purchase insurance, maintain emergency savings, and get flu shots. We keep spare tires, jumper cables, flashlights, and fire extinguishers handy, and buy extra supplies just in case we might need them.
Unless you happen to be naively optimistic, you’re already a “prepper.” Even if you’re relatively “lucky,” you can bet something catastrophic will eventually befall you sometime in your life. Better to be prepared than to be caught off guard.
Prepping for improbable events isn’t necessarily irrational; it is often wise. Consider this: In 2017, more than 2.7 million people were injured in 6.4 million car crashes. With 327 million people in the United States, this means the baseline probability of you getting injured in a car accident each year is slightly over 0.8 percent.
Now, a 0.8 percent chance might be perceived as pretty good odds. After all, that’s a 99.2 percent chance you won’t be injured. But .8 percent of 327 million still comes out to 2.7 million people each year, which is no small number. Are you willing to bet you’ll never be one of those unlucky few? Probably not.
Although your chances of getting into an accident are small, consider what you stand to lose if you do get injured. Making preparations, such as buying insurance or carrying road flares, isn’t irrational, despite statistical improbability.
The Odds of Violent Crime Are Higher than You Think
With that point in mind, let’s look at the odds of violent criminal victimization. In 2018, 3.3 million people ages 12 and older were victimized in 6 million violent crimes. There were 23.2 violent victimizations per 1,000 U.S. residents ages 12 and older, meaning 2.3 percent of Americans 12 and older were victims of violent crime in 2018. This is much greater than the baseline odds of injury from motor vehicle accidents, for which preparation is rational.
If you have a 1-in-50 baseline chance of being violently victimized each year, wouldn’t it be rational to take prudent measures to protect yourself? I think so.
That is exactly why millions of ordinary Americans own guns. Firearms are extremely effective in preventing injury and do not require a great deal of effort to use and keep around. Guns are a perfectly reasonable, cost-effective, safe, and convenient form of risk mitigation.
Owning a gun is like keeping a spare tire in your trunk, a first aid kit at home, or an emergency savings account. We hope never to use them, but we’re glad we have them. None of this indicates paranoia. Carrying a gun is similar to carrying insurance, except it’s better: You actually get to collect the benefits without having to incur serious harm.
Insurance against national catastrophe makes pretty good sense when you consider the past few hundred years of failed states, civil wars, and less-than-ideal regimes. Among other things, the track record of state-sanctioned citizen slaughter, vigilante violence, and racial conflict shows that when societies do go bad, they tend to go extremely bad. Think of the hundreds of sovereign nations that no longer exist due to war and internal strife.
Police, of course, serve a valuable public function. But most police responses come after crimes have already been committed. Less than half of all personal crimes are even reported to police. Moreover, in times of crisis, police are stretched thin. At the time of writing this, 17 percent of the New York Police Department is out sick, and many police departments are not performing arrests or even responding to “minor” crimes.
All this highlights the need to be self-reliant. Ultimately, we are our own last line of defense. We may delegate some of our protection to civil authorities, but the natural right to protect ourselves is inseparable from our humanity.
Gun Owners Aren’t Paranoid, They’re Smart
Some people believe you’re more likely to harm yourself or someone else with a gun than to use it in self-defense, but that isn’t the case. The findings of more than 19 surveys specifically designed to measure the number of defensive gun uses all confirm that defensive uses are vastly more common than criminal uses. A small sampling of these can be viewed on the Active Self-Protection YouTube channel, which has collected several hundred video clips of successful civilian self-defense encounters.
The often-heard charge that gun owners are paranoid and fearful is just naive psychoanalysis unsupported by credible research. Indeed, a recent study has found that gun owners report lower levels of fear and victimization than those who don’t own guns. If anything, there is a lot of irrational fear directed toward firearms as inanimate objects, something famed firearms instructor Jeff Cooper calls “hoplophobia.”
To all the new gun owners out there: Welcome to the Second Amendment community. We’re glad you’ve decided to take the protection of yourself and your loved ones seriously. Get training, be responsible, and be prepared.
Timothy Hsiao teaches philosophy at Johnson County Community College. He is also a certified firearms instructor. His website is http://timhsiao.org.
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Combined Transport of Goods: Amendment
Updated: 05 Feb 2018
Status: Current Proposals
Dossier: 15724
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 92/106/EEC on the establishment of common rules for certain types of combined transport of goods between Member States COM(2017)648
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We are located in beautiful, Southern Alberta, Canada. All of our dogs are well socialized; obedience trained, and compete in conformation events, but, are first and foremost, family pets.
We strongly believe in genetically screening all of our breeding dogs, in attempts to lessen the possibility of passing on inherited health problems. No dog at Fortress will be bred unless they are proven to be of a sound mind/temperament, are a wonderful representation of the breed standard, and have passed all appropriate health testing.
Each one of our dogs have brought us many learning experiences, heart aches, joy and everything in between. Not a second would be traded, of either the good, or the bad. They have brought us to where we are, and pointed us towards where we want to be.
Inquiries and visitors are always welcome.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.~Milan Kundera
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Question of the Day
Have you been impacted by the government shutdown?
Police are investigating an attack on a Dallas Fox News affiliate Wednesday after a man repeatedly rammed his truck into the side of the building.
According to the local news station, the man jumped out of his car and “started ranting.”
Police arrived on the scene and arrested the individual, but a bomb squad was called on the scene to sweep for any dangerous items left behind by the man.
No injuries or deaths were reported. Journalists at the studio say are working to stay on air.
A man crashed a truck into the side of our building this morning. He jumped out and started ranting. He’s in custody now but the bomb squad is on its way. He left behind a suspicious bag. Most have been evacuated & a few are working to keep the news on air from a secure location. pic.twitter.com/X3UpLbYk85
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This contemporary floor lamp’s good looks are matched by its practical design. The China red textured dupioni silk shade is hand-assembled by artisans in our California workshops, and features a plastic diffuser at the bottom to prevent glare. The base comes in a sleek, brushed nickel finish.
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The Hanen I’m Ready!™ Advanced Workshop for ABC and Beyond™ Certified Members
Our popular ABC and Beyond™ Advanced Workshop has helped Hanen members teach countless educators how to build the early literacy skills of their students. But while the strategies taught in the ABC and Beyond workshop have been useful in the classroom, participants have always wanted to take them even further – into the home.
That’s why we created the Hanen I’m Ready!™ Advanced Workshop for ABC and Beyond Certified members. I’m Ready! takes the ABC and Beyond strategies that have proven so effective in the classroom and explains how they can be used at home, by parents of children aged 3-5 years old. For the first time, The Hanen Centre has created a program that takes the approach our ABC and Beyond members already know and love and applies it to a different audience, ensuring that children can receive the same support no matter where they are and truly giving them the chance to learn throughout the entire day.
Why Take the I’m Ready!™ Workshop?
Certification to lead a research-based, early literacy intervention program to groups of parents
The I’m Ready! Advanced Workshop certifies participants to lead The Hanen I’m Ready!™ Program for Building Early Literacy in the Home. The I’m Ready!™ Program offers parents the chance to help their child (aged 3-5 years old) develop the early literacy skills they need before starting school. Like the strategies in all our other programs, the strategies in I’m Ready! were designed to be truly flexible: parents will learn how they can promote early literacy while reading, but also throughout the entire day.
I’m Ready! strategies come from the evidence-based ABC and Beyond Program. Multiple studies have demonstrated the power of shared reading and other literacy focused activities in promoting language and literacy development in young children. While ABC and Beyond empowers educators to help children develop emergent literacy skills, I’m Ready! gives that same power to parents, giving children complete literacy support both in the classroom and at home.
I’m Ready! is also the first Hanen Program to include sessions for parents and their children. While parents work with the program leader, their children are in another room with trained support staff – having fun while also taking part in activities that promote their early literacy skills and language development. The parents and children then come together to practice what they’ve learned while the program leader and trained support staff offer coaching and feedback, to help parents put the strategies they’ve just learned into practice.
Training for support staff
After completing this workshop, participants receive all the training materials needed to prepare support staff for running the children’s sessions and assisting with parent coaching – at no extra charge. I’m Ready! is the only Hanen workshop to include training for multiple people, giving participants the support they need to run the program, and giving other staff additional training they can use both in the program and in other contexts.
Online training
The I’m Ready! workshop is completely online. Three self-study components, alternate with three online live sessions with Janice Greenberg, the I’m Ready! Program Creator and Director that can be accessed from anywhere.
There’s no need to travel – the workshop can all be done from home, on a wide selection of devices. And because it’s online, we’re able to offer this workshop at a lower price.
A flexible workshop for a flexible program
The online training makes I’m Ready! our most flexible workshop yet. But that flexibility continues as participants begin to offer the I’m Ready! Program, too. We’ve listened to feedback on offering programs, and we’ve found several ways to make the program even easier to offer.
While offering weekly sessions is suggested, it’s also possible to adjust the duration of the program if it’s more convenient to have longer intervals between each session. The program can also be offered in a variety of settings: it’s appropriate for a speech and language clinic, an early years centre or a school. In addition, while offering the full program of six sessions and an orientation session is encouraged, we also have several pre-approved shorter versions that participants can offer instead, depending on parent need and availability.
Downloadable materials
After completing the workshop, participants receive all the materials needed to offer the I’m Ready! program. These materials (including the Making Hanen Happen Leaders Guide and Program Slides with Embedded Videos) are all downloadable.
Please note that while the workshop does not include the I’m Ready! guidebook (an essential part of the program), participants receive a one-use discount code to help them order the book and become familiar with the content they’ll share with parents in the program.
Ongoing support
As Hanen members certified in I’m Ready!, participants will receive frequent updates on further developments in the I’m Ready! Program, as well as the latest news and research in emergent literacy development. The I’m Ready! Program Director and the Hanen Team are also always happy to offer support in any way we can.
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The ponies have faced all these threats, and triumphed, but things could have been handled better. Princess Celestia knows this better than most. She knows that to face threats even greater than Tirek, greater than Discord, the ponies need allies. They need friends to turn to when the chips are down and the mad gods and cruel tyrants are on the horizon
She and Princess Twilight Sparkle travel to the Griffon Kingdom to meet the Griffon King. They seek to negotiate a formal treaty, something more than a rudimentary "You stay in your yard, we'll stay in ours." If the Changelings invade, or Tirek is once more a threat, it will not only be the ponies standing against them, but the griffons as well. It's only logical, after all. The griffons and the ponies share a border. They share ideas. They share refugees and concepts and cultures. And there haven’t been any major hostilities since the Pony-Griffon War. That was almost a thousand years ago.
It is logical to enter an alliance, but politics aren’t always about logic. Sometimes they are about past crimes, mistakes, and tragedies. Sometimes, past grudges simply can't be let go.
(Rated Dark and Teen for some disturbing content, though nothing too heavy or overt)
Ditzy Doo has a date with Time Turner tomorrow, and wow is she nervous. She goes to talk to Mrs. Cake, hoping the maternal mare might give her some motherly advice. Sure its awkward, but Mrs. Cake is more than happy to help.
Short, fluffy, cute fic, with some slightly dark undertones, but mostly fluffy and cute. Rated Teen just to be safe.
Those words are found scrawled on a stretch of royal parchment. The hoof writing and the magical seal are both Celestia’s. Luna rises to the occasion and handles all royal duties, and Princess Sparkle is there to aid her, but it’s not enough. Panic and disarray sweep through not only Canterlot, but all of Equestria.
Why should Prince Blueblood care about that, though? He doesn’t care… He doesn’t care about the fate of a bunch of peasants… They riot about anything, after all. And Luna and Sparkle can both handle the ins and outs of an empire. The fate of his Aunt Tia is what keeps him up at night. It’s a comment against her that sets him off. And it’s a desperate hope to save her that will cost him…
On the night of the Grand Galloping Gala, Thunderlane couldn't be more annoyed. Dragged to the gala by his CO, he's content to be bitter and moody the whole time. But when he hears a soft melody played by a certain mare, he's intrigued enough to introduce himself to this "Octavia."
She's a nice mare. Sweet and polite, but with what she calls "a roommate complex." Now what could she mean by that?
The weight of immortality has proven too great for Princess Sparkles’ weary back. Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Shining Armor struggle to help her through the depression that racks her heart, but when she is provided a way out of the life of pain and misery, what will Twilight Sparkle chose?
A young stallion’s desperate plea to his princess. As the conflict with the “hoomanies” crawls into its third year, and Princess Celestia contemplates taking the attacks to the next level, the stallion’s concern is not just for himself, or the princess he adores with all of his being, but for all of Equestria and the fate of two worlds.
Following her humiliation at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle, Trixie is left broken and alone. All alone in the world without a friend to care for her, she descends into a state of depression and remorse.
Discord has returned, stronger and madder than ever before. Imprisonment has made him savvy, and he shall set in motion a plan not to kill Celestia, but to ruin her in the eyes of those she loves most. He shall tear out the very soul of Equestria and leave it a hollowed shell, unless Celestia can rise to stop him.
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Blue Jays outfielder Dalton Pompey had his bell rung at the 2017 World Baseball Classic playing for the national team, but when the phone rings from Baseball Canada, he still answers the call.
The Mississauga native will lead the Canadian team at the Pan American Games qualification tournament Jan. 29-Feb. 3 in Ibiuna and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to Canada, the eight-team field includes host Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela, with the top four teams gaining entry into the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
Pompey suffered a concussion at the 2017 World Baseball Classic and was subsequently placed on the 60-day disabled list by the Blue Jays and did not make an appearance with the club in the 2017 season. Last year, he appeared in only five games for Toronto and 52 in the minors, where he hit a combined .272. Despite the concussion, he still insists on playing for his country. If only all of Canada’s basketball players were that patriotic.
“Dalton expressed an interest in competing for this great country and we fully support him,” Blue Jays manager Ross Atkins said on Thursday. “It’s a good opportunity for him to get some (at-bats) in a competitive environment leading into spring training.”
Even though he is still only 26, Pompey seems to have become the forgotten man in the Jays’ outfield. He has speed, range and some pop, and is a Canadian — which former manager John Gibbons used to say “doesn’t hurt” — but seems to have fallen on the club’s depth chart with the likes of Randal Grichuk, Teoscar Hernandez, Anthony Alford and Billy McKinney in the mix to join Kevin Pillar in the outfield this season for the Jays. Dwight Smith Jr. and Jonathan Davis also seemed to have passed Pompey in the team’s outfield depth chart, despite the fact Pompey is physically gifted and has been a fan favourite in Toronto.
Still, Pompey remains on the Jays’ 40-man roster. He’s had to deal with a number of injuries the past couple of seasons and was also suspended without pay by the Jays in August after an altercation with triple-A Buffalo Bisons manager Bobby Meacham during a game.
There will be a large contingent of Jays alumni at the Pan Am qualifiers. Team Canada will be managed by former Jays catcher Ernie Whitt (the 15th time Whitt manages Team Canada) with a coaching staff that includes former Jays Paul Quantrill, Tim Leiper and Denis Boucher. Former National League MVP Larry Walker and Greg Hamilton round out the coaching staff. Former Jays outfielder Michael Saunders and right-hander Scott Richmond are included on a roster that will feature seven players who have played in the big leagues, including RHP Phillippe Aumont, RHP Chris Leroux, LHP Adam Loewen and RHP Dustin Molleken. Pompey will be joined by his brother Tristan on the squad.
The Blue Jays shuffled the deck on the minor-league manager front on Thursday in the hopes of coming up with a winning hand.
Bobby Meacham remains the man in charge at triple-A Buffalo, but Mike Mordecai, who was the quality-control coach under manager John Gibbons in Toronto last year, will manage the double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats in 2019, taking over from John Schneider, who joins new Jays manager Charlie Montoyo’s coaching staff this season.
The organization also made a number of internal coordinator promotions. Candaele, the former Dunedin manager, has been named Practice Design/Skill Development Coordinator, and Hunter Mense named minor-league hitting coordinator after spending the 2018 season as New Hampshire hitting coach.
Additionally, former Dominican Summer League Manager John Tamargo Jr. has been named Latin American Field Coordinator, and making his coaching debut is former player Antoan Richardson named outfield coordinator, after serving as the baseball operations fellow in 2018 with the organization. The Player Development department has a number of additions for the upcoming season. Joining the organization will be Doug Mathis from the Seattle Mariners, who will serve as pitching coach in Buffalo.
JAYS SIGN PITCHER PHELPS: REPORT
There are reports that the Jays have signed RHP David Phelps to a one-year deal with a club option for 2020. Phelps suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on March 21, 2018 and missed the entire season. He pitched to a 3.40 ERA in 2017 in 55.2 innings pitched.
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New era for Narragansett Town Council
December 5, 2012
By
CATHERINE M. HEWITT
Glenna Hagopian, Douglas McLaughlin, James M. Callaghan, Susan Cicilline-Buonanno and Matthew Mannix meet the public during Monday's Narragansett Town Council meeting.
NARRAGANSETT- With three new members and two incumbents, the Narragansett Town Council kicked off its first meeting on Monday evening. James M. Callaghan, president, Matthew M. Mannix and Douglas E. McLaughlin were the new faces on the dais while Susan Cicilline-Buonanno, president pro tem, and Glenna M. Hagopian continued in their elected roles. Also present were Anne M. Irons, town clerk, Police Chief F. Dean Hoxsie, acting town manager, and Mark A. McSally, town solicitor.
In the open forum, Patrick Brady expressed his frustration with the 3.5 year delay in completing the Canonchet Farm Bike Path plans and stated that he believed Mike Deluca, Community Development Director, had held up the process. 

“We will lose 1.2 million dollars set aside if we don't move promptly,” Brady said.
In response, Cicilline-Buonanno asked that a workshop be set up with the Department of Transportation (DOT). Hoxsie said he had sent a letter to the DOT office and would check back.
Also during the public forum, a citizen expressed that he thought Narragansett's system did not show the true cost of Hurricane Sandy's damages that were submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which meant that the town would not be adequately reimbursed. Another citizen thanked the town employees for their service during Hurricane Sandy.
There were 14 motions on the meeting's agenda, including an amendment of Chapter 731 of the Code of Ordinances regarding a specific height limit for inns located in the BA – Limited Business Zones.
One citizen was against the amendment because he thought there should be consistency in the code and the law.
Patrick Doherty called himself “a proponent of the ordinance” and pointed out that there had been an open process in changing the law.
“There has been unanimous support leading up to the vote,” Doherty said.
The motion was approved.
The council voted to approve the installation of fiber optic cable at the Community Center and Parks Garage to be completed by SerTex, LLC, in the amount of $13,412.44.
A citizen questioned the cost of the fiber optic cable, believing that it should be free.
Hoxsie explained that Narragansett owns its own fiber cable network and that this expense covered extending the network through the Galilee area.
“We own the fiber cable network. This allows us to avoid paying fees. It's not cheap, but we own it, it's one time, that's it,” Hoxsie said.
The motion to purchase two new truck bodies for $20,604.00 prompted McLaughlin to express his desire for workshop sessions with the town manager before votes of this kind so that he could obtain a full understanding of the issues surrounding expenses and make informed decisions.
“Then the audience could ask questions and I could answer in an intelligent manner because I'd have the information. That's the problem with these motions coming up very quickly – a lack of definition and understanding,” McLaughlin said.
“We can get information prior to the a meeting and ask relevant questions rather than have workshops,” Hagopian said.
“We do need to look into these in detail. Also it's important to point out that these things have been budgeted,” Mannix said.
“Just because something has been budgeted, it doesn't mean we have to spend the money,” McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin also said he wanted people to understand where their tax dollars were going and how the council does business.
“There is an 'I want' list and an 'I need' list. I'm going to pay a lot more attention to the 'I need' list,” McLaughlin added.
“This will extend the life of a 1999 vehicle, which is a savings to the taxpayer,” Hoxsie said.
The motion to approve the purchase of the two truck bodies was passed.
The council also approved their meeting schedule for 2013, which will be on the first and third Monday of each month.
Since there are three new members, the council voted to set up an executive session with McSally and Hoxsie to bring them up to speed on town issues.
McSally then stated that collective bargaining and litigation can't be discussed publicly.
Several appointments were also made Monday night:
Nancy Devaney was appointed to the Juvenile Hearing Board.
Benedict Ingegneri, Bruce Goodness, Michael Deluca, Michael Stone, Robert Barber, Daniel Holland, and Dennis Lamonte were all appointed to the Pension Board; the council voted against reappointing David Krugman.
Lastly, a work session meeting with the Land Conservancy Trust was approved.
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Review: Revelations unfold amid grief in gripping drama
How well do we ever really know the people we love? That’s the core question in Adrienne Earle Pender’s affecting new drama, “Somewhere in Between.” Theatre in the Park’s fine production also strongly registers Pender’s additional explorations of what we do in the name of love and how we grieve over its loss.
The play focuses on McKenna, whose husband, Marcus, has died suddenly. Now she’s just learned she’s pregnant. McKenna’s older brother, Jackson, and her best friend, Stacey, urge her not to contest ownership of the house because Marcus never signed it over to her. Denise, Marcus’ sister, arrives to claim her brother’s things and coldly tells McKenna to leave. In the meantime, Andrew, identifying himself as Marcus’ longtime friend, asks to meet with McKenna.
From this setup, Pender cleverly portions out revelation after revelation, causing the audience continually to adjust its perception of the situation. To comment on the performances and themes further, some of these surprises must be disclosed.
McKenna is white and Marcus was black. Denise has never accepted McKenna and now wants her completely erased from the family. During one of their icy confrontations, McKenna mentions Andrew’s impending visit, visibly shaking Denise. After Andrew arrives, he initially avoids McKenna’s questions about how he knew Marcus. When the true nature of their relationship comes out, McKenna must deal with a completely different view of her husband.
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Despite repetitive dialog that deflates some of the tension, Pender’s grasp of character and emotion in these circumstances is assured and intelligent. Director Maggie Rasnick elicts engaging performances and moves her cast naturally over Carol Winstead Wood’s lovely, inviting set.
Brenda Lo beams warm humor and caring as Stacey, while Chris Milner makes us understand Jackson’s urges to protect his sister. As Denise, Hazel S. Edmond sears the stage with contempt, making a moving transition in the second act.
As Andrew, Bryon Jennings II expertly exhibits his conflicted feelings toward McKenna and his ultimate acceptance of their shared grief. Page Purgar sympathetically portrays McKenna’s ongoing bewilderment at her constantly changing world and gives the character believable humor.
At Saturday’s performance, the atmosphere seemed too relaxed for maximum impact of the script’s gripping drama, but the production left the audience much to ponder.
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a system for classifying books and other materials, using for its notation both letters and numerals to allow for expansion: originally developed at the Library of Congress for classifying its books and subsequently adopted by other libraries.
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What if Minelab would have released a 3 pound update able Etrac 2.
Then what?
You see this Equinox thingy is not just about newer tech, the reason for the seeming excitement by folks.
Or a 3 pound CTX.
I have said this before.
Many manufacturers wished they had Minelab's problem.
The problem being bad ergo/weight.
Imagine a Etrac that looked and felt like Fisher F75!!
Minelab has already said the FBS will be better on higher conductors like silver. Which tells me the Nox won't be an E Trac that feels like the F75. The F75 had the ergonomics down long before Minelab. Deus brought ergonomics to a whole new level.
Many manufacturers wished they had Minelab's problem. Looks to me like Minelab wished they had Garrett's problem with the ATP being a best seller for so many years.
Originally Posted by kajunmanView post
Minelab has already said the FBS will be better on higher conductors like silver. Which tells me the Nox won't be an E Trac that feels like the F75. The F75 had the ergonomics down long before Minelab. Deus brought ergonomics to a whole new level.
Many manufacturers wished they had Minelab's problem. Looks to me like Minelab wished they had Garrett's problem with the ATP being a best seller for so many years.
The term " better " is highly subjective though. Exactly what better means , to what extent , and just who would even notice a difference are not covered by that description. In a choice between the two , if you sacrificed a small amount of one feature or ability but gained in some other aspect , would you even consider that a loss of anything ? .....if if FBS is as great as everybody says it is , would a " slight " reduction " in performance on like .0000003% of possible targets you might encounter actually translate to any real world usefulness out in the field ? .... Of course we will have to wait and see , but its possible that experienced FBS users may not even notice a difference once they do some head to head tests in the field to decide for themselves. Even then you will probably have one group that feels one way about it and another group that feels the other way.
Which is better , a ford or a chevy ?.....each probably have their advantages over the other but if they both meet your expectations then they may as well be the same.
Originally Posted by kajunmanView post
Minelab has already said the FBS will be better on higher conductors like silver. Which tells me the Nox won't be an E Trac that feels like the F75. The F75 had the ergonomics down long before Minelab. Deus brought ergonomics to a whole new level.
Many manufacturers wished they had Minelab's problem. Looks to me like Minelab wished they had Garrett's problem with the ATP being a best seller for so many years.
I Never said Equinox would be an Etrac.
Where did you get that?
All I was doing was supposing.
Lightweight Etrac would sell well.
We might just see one.
Originally Posted by ohiochrisView post
The term " better " is highly subjective though. Exactly what better means , to what extent , and just who would even notice a difference are not covered by that description. In a choice between the two , if you sacrificed a small amount of one feature or ability but gained in some other aspect , would you even consider that a loss of anything ? .....if if FBS is as great as everybody says it is , would a " slight " reduction " in performance on like .0000003% of possible targets you might encounter actually translate to any real world usefulness out in the field ? .... Of course we will have to wait and see , but its possible that experienced FBS users may not even notice a difference once they do some head to head tests in the field to decide for themselves. Even then you will probably have one group that feels one way about it and another group that feels the other way.
Which is better , a ford or a chevy ?.....each probably have their advantages over the other but if they both meet your expectations then they may as well be the same.
FBS vs IQ tech , one is extremely fast, one isn't. Who has the advantage ? And there is the elephant in the room. What kind of hunting do you do ? Which tech will best serve you ? There won't ever be, a be all detector until we get a picture of what's in the ground like I mentioned above. Whoever does that first will win the detector war. Maybe Walabot should make a detector.
"The term " better " is highly subjective though. Exactly what better means , to what extent , and just who would even notice a difference are not covered by that description. In a choice between the two , if you sacrificed a small amount of one feature or ability but gained in some other aspect , would you even consider that a loss of anything ? .....if if FBS is as great as everybody says it is , would a " slight " reduction " in performance on like .0000003% of possible targets you might encounter actually translate to any real world usefulness out in the field ?"
True. But since they didn't say, what if better means 2 times better. Just as likely as 0.0000003%.
I sure hope this equinox lives up to the hype, or this was all for not if that detector had FBS technology I would have pre ordered one, im gunna let you guys be the guinea pigs, while I sit back and take all the good info in
Originally Posted by tnsharpshooterView post
But what Minelab didn't know when the CTX was rolled out, was just how successful Deus would be in a worldly fashion, nor was Makro/Nokta marketing where they are now, back then.
Actually one could argue, why did it take Minelab so long to challenge At series line detectors?
Or any other major manufacturer for that matter.
And it seems Garrett felt pretty comfortable with the At line, didn't feel too threatened with the MX sport.
Only to do what?
Repackage the At pro or Gold depending on how one looks at it.
Really IMO just added wireless.
Equinox will destroy!!
Let's face it.
Garrett went the cheap route.
They will pay dearly.
I have to disagree with you on the AT max anology as it was more than just adding wireless, you have a true all metal mode as well as broader range of ground balance, those are both a really big deal in the performance factor. And then you also have to add the backlight which MANY AT Pro users begged for.
I am anxious to see how the Equinox stacks up but not enough to wait for one. I will most likely pick up one in the fall. That is, IF they are available yet
I put on the brakes to purchase any other detector when i learned of the equinox because i am a Minelab guy. I believe in their products because they have worked for me. I am still waiting though on reviews to make my final decision on a water detector though. I am purchasing a water capable machine next, and if it happens to be a killer on land as well, that's just icing on the cake for me. I don't mind the wait, I would rather it be right when its released than rush it out and have problems. No company needs negative publicity no matter how successful.
Has there been any reported depth differences in the Nox 600 compared to the 800? I hope to get one for my birthday in February but like the lower price point much better and can't see me needing the wireless headphones or extra frequencies for my type of hunting
Originally Posted by pescadoreView post
Has there been any reported depth differences in the Nox 600 compared to the 800? I hope to get one for my birthday in February but like the lower price point much better and can't see me needing the wireless headphones or extra frequencies for my type of hunting
So far seems the difference is feature set(settings options/capavilites) and the higher freqs.
Gold mode on 800 not the 600.
And the headphone options for 800 are greater as far as the package sold.
I haven't read too much as far as what can a person who purchase the 600 model, and later would like to try to upgrade say their headphones.
Originally Posted by pescadoreView post
Has there been any reported depth differences in the Nox 600 compared to the 800? I hope to get one for my birthday in February but like the lower price point much better and can't see me needing the wireless headphones or extra frequencies for my type of hunting
I don't think there is a difference in performance for the same features between the 2. Meaning that the park program and the field program, etc would be exactly the same for both. Only difference would be the gold program and frequencies that aren't "turned on" in the 600.
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Originally Posted by RattleheadView post
Along with what was mentioned above by Jason and tnsharpshooter, I read somewhere that the tones and pitch will be more user configurable on the 800 vs the 600.
Yes but if you like to run 50 tones(full tones) no disc than the tones should be identical on the two machines
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The public health experience at the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) is designed to provide meaningful, real world public health experiences for both undergraduate and graduate level students. We seek to provide opportunities for students in a variety of health related disciplines including Public Health, Environmental Health, Nursing, Medicine and Business. We also offer volunteer experiences for people wishing to assist with special projects within our health department. Interns are students from accredited educational institutions who need public health experiences to fulfill specific curriculum requirements for graduation.
Our ultimate goals for all internship experiences are for student interns to have an opportunity to expand on their interests and academic training and receive additional hands-on preparation from MPHD professionals. Student interns have the opportunity to work side-by-side with public health personnel and have the opportunity to provide meaningful input into new and ongoing MPHD projects. This hands-on approach allows interns to become more experienced with methods, processes and practices used by public health organizations.
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TeamViewer 7 ID in Custom Inventory Field?
Does anyone know how to get the TeamViewer 7 ID into a Custom Inventory Field so that you can find it and search for it in the Kace system inventory? I thought I had the solution by creating a custom inventory field by using the following syntax, but nothing seems to work and I get garbage or nothing in the custom inventory field on machines that match the label I'm testing on. I also tried the "NUMBER" type instead of "TEXT" with no luck.
for 64-bitRegistryValueReturn(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TeamViewer\Version7,ClientID,TEXT)for 32-bitRegistryValueReturn(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TeamViewer\Version7,ClientID,TEXT)
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What agent version are you running?
I had several custom inventory rules for TeamViewer IDs that stopped working when we updated the KACE Agent to 5.3.47173 All of the returned data turned garbled. I went back and forth with KACE trying to find a solution for about two weeks before they said it was a bug. I was told it was submitted to engineering.
It would be interesting to try your custom rule on an older version of the agent. Mine were working great using 5.1.33668
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However, we do have several clients that still have TeamViewer 5 installed. I'm having trouble determining the best way to modify the above script to also check the 'version5' registry key if 'version7' doesn't exist. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your suggestion! I did exactly this, and it works great.
Now I'm trying to incorporate the TeamViewer ID returned by the custom inventory rule into a machine action. I know I can launch a TeamViewer session with the machine action "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\TeamViewer\\Version7\\teamviewer.exe" -i --Password . Does anyone know if I can replace the field with the string from the custom inventory rule (similar to how I can do mstsc.exe /v:KACE_HOST_IP)?
Kyle, You will be able to do that with the 5.4 release coming soon. You will be able to use any custom inventory field as a variable in machine actions. Machine actions will also be unlimited instead of just 2.
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Gioconda Belli: El país de las mujeres (2010)
I started reading El país de las mujeres (I don’t think it’s been translated) because I was intrigued by its premise and because I remembered having read and enjoyed La mujer habitada (The Inhabited Woman). Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan feminist writer, and this novel is no exception from her feminist literature. In a fictional Central American country called Faguas, Viviana Sansón and her friends decide to launch a radical feminist party, the Partido de la Izquierda Erótica (which abbreviates to PIE, meaning “foot” in Spanish, and so the party’s symbol is a woman’s foot), “Party of the Erotic Left”.
Viviana is a highly successful TV presenter who is on a mission to change the highly corrupt politics of her country. Initially a group of outsiders that relies on political actions mostly designed to attract a lot of attention, they suddenly get help from mother nature: a volcano erupts and its gasses leave the men of Faguas without testosterone. As a result, they become weak, malleable, and lose their will to keep power. Suddenly, the PIE finds itself in power and Viviana is President. She instals a series of measures to change her country, the most radical of which is the removal of all men from government positions.
Men are relegated to the household, while women staff all the ministries, police, the army, and all public services. Of course, some are not happy. As their testosterone levels return to normal, those who have been ousted from power start plotting. The novel opens with their plot coming to fruition: Viviana is shot in the chest at a public rally and falls into a coma. El país de las mujeres runs in two parallel strands of narration, a first in which we witness Viviana’s colleagues and allies dealing with the extraordinary situation, and a second that consists of Viviana’s memories of how she came to power and the developments that led there. She’s stuck in a kind of limbo between life and death in which she remembers all the significant moments in her and her party comrades up until the shooting.
Intriguing, right? And I did enjoy parts of El país de las mujeres quite a lot. But on the whole, I have to confess that this book left me a bit cold. I wasn’t in the right mindset when I started: I expected a novel, but this is a thought experiment. A lot of the political ideas expressed seemed not just far-fetched, as they would have to with this kind of premise, but more than naive and completely unrealistic. Don’t get me wrong, there are many important ideas in this book I wholeheartedly agree with, starting with the premise that the value society attaches to “typically female” tasks such as housekeeping and care-giving needs to be placed on a par with the value of “typically male” tasks. But as a thought experiment I found El país de las mujeres to be a bit simplistic.
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The doctors and staff at Extremity Health Centers offer a combined 40+ years of experience in podiatric medicine to residents who live in and around the Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona area. Under the medical direction of Richard P. Jacoby, DPM, the practice provides diagnosis and treatment for stubborn, chronic foot and ankle pain.
Dr. Jacoby and his staff provide cutting-edge treatments such as laser therapy and stem cell-rich injections to help with a variety of foot issues, such as foot ulcers, tendonitis, tendon ruptures and tears, and plantar fasciitis. The staff can also fit you for custom orthotics to address pain due to plantar fasciitis or other connective tissue strain. Dr. Jacoby uses Calmare®, a state-of-the-art FDA-approved device that effectively reduces pain associated with peripheral neuropathy.
The professionals at Extremity Health Centers truly care about helping you resolve your foot pain, whatever the cause. They’ll do everything possible so that you benefit from the multiple non-invasive treatments available.
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1870 : Rebound without Covers
This 1870 Wisden is bound in brown boards, it has one oddity to page 15 where a line is missing (please see the images), there are a few spots to the title page and a little bit of trimming to the top of the book but not close to the text.
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Back I went up toward town, passing an array of storefronts that are just what you'd expect: vintage clothes, outdoor gear, more vintage clothes, more outdoor gear, the crystals-and-incense store, two record stores (that actually sell vinyl), a head shop and, proving that the city has long been the way it is, Old Gold, a costume and vintage-clothes shop celebrating its 40th year.
The city's annual Mardi Gras celebration — held a few weeks after the proper date, when the Vermont weather is kinder — was approaching, so the mannequins were outfitted in extra sparkles and feathers.
On Church Street, the brick pedestrian walkway cutting through downtown, the offerings are more evenly split between local funkiness and the more vanilla — and not just the inevitable Ben and Jerry's. (The original Ben and Jerry's, at the corner of St. Paul and College streets, is now a parking lot.)
There, amid the pedestrians, sit several national chains the town doesn't always embrace. With one obvious exception.
Speaking of which, should you really need that McDonald's fix while visiting Burlington, you can find it on your way back to the airport — in the town of South Burlington.
Stay: The hotel landscape is as underdeveloped as the food scene is strong. Many of the major chains exist in downtown Burlington, but cozier and more locally accented stays can be had at Hotel Vermont, a boutique hotel set to open in June (41 Cherry St., 802-864-4700, hotelvt.com) and Willard Street Inn (349 S. Willard St., 800-577-8712, willardstreetinn.com), a Victorian-style bed and breakfast. For those on a budget, Burlington Hostel (53 Main St., 802-540-3043, theburlingtonhostel.com) is immaculate, peaceful, and its 48 beds top out at $40 per night.
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Practical Cycle Awareness Training
A one-day course, devised and delivered by Cycling Scotland, which aims to raise awareness among fleet drivers of people cycling by asking them to get on their bikes to gain a greater understanding of how those on bikes, and other vulnerable road users, behave on the road.
Cycling Scotland and 11 local authorities, funded by Transport Scotland, are working together to educate drivers on vulnerable road users. Practical Cycle Awareness Training (PCAT) will allow drivers of large vehicles to step into the shoes of more vulnerable road users, including those on bikes, on foot and those with disabilities and provide them with a greater understanding of their needs.
Cycling Scotland developed the theory and practical element of the training and has secured £60,000 from Transport Scotland Road Safety Funding to deliver the PCAT initiative.
Council employees will spent time in the classroom followed by a practical cycle training session to familiarise themselves with those travelling by bicycle, foot, motorcycle and scooter. By learning basic on-road cycling skills, carrying out bicycle safety checks and negotiating road junctions and traffic, fleet drivers gained a better appreciation of the safety considerations from various road users’ perspectives.
William Wright, Development Officer at Cycling Scotland said: “Over a thousand fleet drivers will undertake practical training, swapping the driver seat for a saddle. This enables people who drive the largest vehicles on our roads to see things from a very different point of view.
“We are working with Local Authorities, Regional Transport Partnerships and representatives of road haulage and bus industries to expand this training and are keen to work with fleet operators across Scotland to provide training and increase safety and mutual understanding amongst all road users. This project, delivered through local authorities and coordinated by Cycling Scotland, highlights efforts being made in partnership to make cycling easy and safe for anyone anywhere in Scotland.”
Councillor Eddie Devine, Convener of Renfrewshire Council’s Environment Policy Board, said: “All road users should be safe on the road and cyclists are no exception. By getting into the saddle our drivers have experienced first hand what it is like to be a cyclist on the roads today.
“Large vehicles can be especially intimidating for cyclists and other vulnerable road users. It is important that all drivers give cyclists that bit more space, especially at junctions, so that everyone is safe on the roads.”
Cycling Scotland is keen to hear from anyone who drives or manages large vehicles.
Cycling Scotland is proud to present the practical element of Practical Cycle Awareness Training – Essential Cycling Skills- a suite of training videos, short practical courses and an app to help boost the confidence of those new to or returning to cycling and give them the necessary skills to negotiate on-road journeys.
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Download it now from iTunes or Google Play (for free, of course) and you’ll wonder why you ever got that bus to work…
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Cycling Scotland has produced these short, accessible Essential Cycling Skills videos to help boost the confidence of those new and returning to cycling and give them the necessary skills to negotiate on-road journeys.
Lothian Buses have produced this helpful video which looks at Buses and Cyclists in Edinburgh.
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THE FIZZ meets weXelerate
THE FIZZ meets weXelerate
THE FIZZ meets weXelerate
Attention: THE FIZZ Xelerates!
Did you know? Have you already heard? weXelerate andTHE FIZZ? THE FIZZ meets weXelerate? One of Austria’s biggest startup hubs? No?
Well, then let’s make it official:
THE FIZZ MEETS WEXELERATE
THE FIZZ Vienna is proud to be the official housing partner of weXelerate, an Austrian innovation and startup hub. Every year weX connects 100 promising, upstriving startups with experienced companies and business angles. They also support them in terms of infrastructure, industry 4.0, banking and so much more.
Get thisparty started: 1st Startup Batch
Starting from 25 September 2017 the startups from „round 1“ have travelled to Vienna to present and pitch there innovations. They met their corporate partners and started working with them. Of course, this was an occasion to celebrate – to be specific, yesterday (27 September 2017) at Boulangerie. Of course, we could not skip this party!!
And we do not want you to miss out on the highlights of this evening:p>
The location itself was a true inspiration. We definitely need a picture wall like this at THE FIZZ Vienna!
Little hint: The location actually is a club :P But this didn't stop Katharina and Enis from networking!
... and we didn't miss out on telling all the startups about our Special Offer. Living one month for free definitely is something to treat yourself to :-)
Show must go on!
On Friday, we are on for the next event: weXelerate invites all startups and partners to their homebase: the weXelerate SPACES. Among unders, we will have the chance to get a frist glimpse oft he new home of weXelerate. We are thrilled!
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Founder Of Volition Mike Kulas Leaves Studio
Volition Inc. are now searching for a new leader, after the founder and president of the company, Mike Kulas, has decided to step down from his role after 15 years.
After being the co-founder of Parallax Software in 1993, Kulas went on to found Volition in 1997 after a company-wide split. The studio was then bought out by THQ and has created some of the industry's most known franchises, such as Red Faction and Saints Row.
Kulas stated that since Red Faction: Armageddon is now complete, and with Saints Row: The Third nearing the end of its development cycle, now was a good time for him to leave.
He didn't say what his next move would be, but he plans to look into making a new company after he's had some time away from the industry.
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Carter Dotson — Jun 16, 2014
While Kiwanuka can be frustrating, and perhaps not a game that’ll be played again and again, it’s charming because it’s not built to be artificially-replayed. Beat it and the game is beaten. As well, the game looks and sounds great. This is meant to be an experience, and while it’s not the greatest one, it won’t disappoint those who follow it.
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Lucy Ingram — May 09, 2014
What struck me first and foremost about this game however, is just how beautifully polished it looks, and just how much thought has gone into the design of every separate screen, from the menu to the artistic effects and glorious animation. It’s especially relieving to know that there are still developers coming up with original and intriguing concepts amongst all the shovelware.
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Alex Beech — Jun 03, 2014
For the most part, however, Kiwanuka is a novel and inventive puzzler which drenched in charm. Its audio and visual design will suck you in, while its people-powered puzzles should keep you enthralled for a good few hours.
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Jon Mundy — May 13, 2014
Kiwanuka's great success is in making its unusual systems feel completely natural. While its beautiful world is abstract and alien, the game itself is one of the most focused and inviting puzzlers on iOS. It's some kind of magic alright. Enigmatic and inviting, challenging and intuitive, Kiwanuka truly is a game of alchemy.
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The Reds boss oversaw a huge overhaul of his squad following the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona.
He signed the likes Dejan Lovren, Lazar Markovic and Mario Balotelli who have failed to shine for the Anfield club.
And Scholes believes Rodgers' failure to build on their second-place finish has cost them a chance of winning the title.
"I rate Rodgers as a manager," Scholes wrote in his Independent column.
"The expectation at Liverpool got out of control last season and now, when the belief from the fans has been that they should take the next step, the team have been unable to do it.
"I go back to the signings once again. They weren’t good enough. A manager lives and dies by the players he brings in, especially when someone as big as Luis Suarez leaves.
SLAMMED: Scholes give Rodgers both barrels [GETTY]
“For instance, the £20m price for Dejan Lovren means that instead of looking like a smart call on a player with potential, he becomes a £20m defender with all the pressure that brings”
Paul Scholes
"For instance, the £20m price for Dejan Lovren means that instead of looking like a smart call on a player with potential, he becomes a £20m defender with all the pressure that brings.
"To go to the next level, Liverpool needed two top-quality signings but they have not been able to get those players and so the momentum that they built over the course of last season has been lost.
"Instead of challenging at the top of the table, they find themselves losing to Crystal Palace and taking Champions League second round qualification down to the wire. They are going backwards rather than forwards.
"Coping without Suarez and the injured Daniel Sturridge would have been difficult for any manager.
"The only small consolation is that it was the second half of last season that Liverpool’s form really hit the heights."
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Alan Carr: Chatty Man NZB
Alan Carr hosts a brand new entertainment chat show, packed with sketches, topical chat, news and audience participation. Alan is joined on the sofa each week by three celebrity guests from the world of showbiz, with a top musical act playing out at the end of the show.
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How a switch handles a broadcast.
"Recall that SC0 is the management interface used in Catalyst switches such as the 4000s, 5000s and 6000s.
This is where the management IP address is assigned to a Catalyst Supervisor.
Because the CPU processes all broadcast packets (and some multicast packets) received on this interface, it is important to not overwhelm the CPU."
"Never mix end-user traffic with control and management traffic.
When implementing this principle, you must generally choose one of two designs:
- Use VLAN 1 for all control and management traffic while placing end-user traffic in other VLANs (VLANs 2–1000).
- Use VLAN 1 for control traffic, another VLAN (such as VLAN 2) for management traffic, and the remaining VLAN for end-user traffic (such as VLAN 3–1000)."
It seems that a broadcast is handled in different ways if it belongs to different VLANs. This principle is reasonable. But I have seen different resources where an output line of the command show mac-address-table is:
All ffff.ffff.ffff STATIC CPU
It seems that a broadcast is handled by the CPU for all VLANs and this is not reasonable.
I do not know exactly which models those output lines belong to, but I think that principles are not changed since 4000s, 5000s and 6000s. May be the output line remember the switch that broadcasts are not handled as unicasts, and after that only broadcasts
in particular VLANs are sent to the CPU. May be that only because broadcasts must be flooded, this process requests a CPU intervention but it is not reasonable. It should be reasonable that after the decision of VLAN management traffic, only broadcasts in VLAN 1 and in VLAN management if different are sent to the CPU, broadcasts in VLANs user traffic should be switched by the switch fabric. What do you think about?
Re: How a switch handles a broadcast.
When one transmitter needs to reach all of the receivers in the network, it sends a broadcast. Broadcast frames are received by every host on the segment. The broadcast domain at Layer 2 is referred to as the MAC broadcast domain. The MAC broadcast domain consists of all devices on the LAN that receive broadcast frames from a host to all other machines on the LAN.
A switch is a Layer 2 device. When a switch receives a broadcast, it forwards it to each port on the switch except the incoming port. Each attached device must process the broadcast frame.
When two switches are connected, the size of the broadcast domain is increased.
The overall result is a reduction in available bandwidth as all devices in the broadcast domain must receive and process the broadcast frame.
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my fisher and paykel dishwasher stops at the same time on wash cycles. We just replaced the control panel. Is there a reset that we need to do?JA: Just to clarify, what's the make and model of your dishwasher? And have you run a diagnostic test cycle?Customer: ds605 fisher paykel 1 drawer dishwasherJA: Do you plan on doing the work yourself?Customer: yes. the dishwasher is in an rv and we can not find a service center that will work on itJA: Anything else we should know to help you best?Customer: we have replaced the pump several weeks ago and just but the new control panel in day
If the temperature sensor does not recognize the water is heating as it should, it will continue to run the cycle until it gets satisfied. It will not allow the wash cycle to complete if it thinks it is washing in cold water, it will continue to wash and heat.
The sensor is part of the heater plate assembly. It will need to be replaced as an assembly. In the diagram at the link below, number 16 is the heater plate assembly. Does this look like something you are wanting to undertake?
The sensor is part of the heater plate assembly. It will need to be replaced as an assembly. In the diagram at the link below, number 16 is the heater plate assembly. Does this look like something you are wanting to undertake?
So that is probably why you are not seeing an error. All the control knows is that the water is not hot enough. So, it will keep the cycle going with the heater energized until it gets hot enough. It will run and attempt to heat for 3 hours before it will display the F4 heater error.
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GOSFORD’S $348M HOSPITAL ON TOP OF THE WORLD
A topping out ceremony for the $348 million Gosford Hospital redevelopment today marked the fast-tracked, 11-storey clinical services building reaching its highest point. Minister for Health Brad Hazzard joined Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter and Central Coast Scot MacDonald, Member for Terrigal Adam Crouch and Taylor Martin, MLC, as a Norfolk Pine was raised to the new rooftop helipad of the 11-storey hospital.
“We have delivered on our promise to fast-track the revamp of Gosford Hospital. This is a top-notch facility that will serve the people of the Central Coast well into the future,” Mr Hazzard said. “The NSW Government is investing more than $7.7 billion into health infrastructure across the state in a record building boom, and the Central Coast is no exception.”
As well as a new car park with about 800 spaces, the redevelopment includes:
Mr MacDonald said the NSW Government has partnered with Lendlease and the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council to provide local jobs, including 30 apprenticeships, 11 of which are local Indigenous apprentices. “This project is a boost for locals with up to 20 per cent of the contractors and subcontractors of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent,” Mr MacDonald said.
Local MP Adam Crouch said with strong population growth forecast, he was very pleased that Gosford Hospital will well and truly meet future patient demand. “The record investment in this vital health infrastructure will also open up additional employment opportunities on the Central Coast, especially for doctors and nurses.”
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From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A child sits on the front porch of a shack in a snowy scene during winter. To the left of the shack is an inoperable vehicle half-buried in the snow. A second child and a cat (artist...
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For college students, the four years you spend on campus are about getting an education that will set your future path. But there is also so much more to the college experience, including many things to do during that time that will enable you to make the most of the time you spend on campus.
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It is almost that time—when the ball will drop, the horns will blow and we will all welcome in a new year. Not sure how to make the most of the ultimate party night? If you are looking for what to do New Year’s Eve, from things to do or fun places to go, read on so you can make the most of the countdown.
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The Wisconsin Assembly planned to approve a $3 billion tax break Thursday for Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group to build a massive display panel factory in the state, a project President Donald Trump touted as a transformational win for the U.S. economy.
If built, the plant would be the first outside of Asia for liquid crystal display panels used in television, computers, medicine and other fields.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who led negotiations on the deal won by Wisconsin over competition from several other nearby states, has called it a once-a-generation opportunity.
The deal signed by Walker and Foxconn officials calls for the electronics giant to invest $10 billion in the state and hire up to 13,000 people at the massive plant that would be spread over a 20 million-square-foot campus. Construction would begin in 2020.
It will take at least 25 years for Wisconsin taxpayers to break even under the deal, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Democrats complain the bill is moving too quickly through the Republican-controlled Legislature. Walker and Trump announced that Foxconn was coming to Wisconsin on July 26, and the $3 billion incentive package was introduced on July 28. The Assembly is voting on it less than three weeks later.
The measure must also clear the Senate, but Republicans there have indicated they may want to make changes. If that happens, the Assembly would have to vote on it again.
The agreement with Foxconn calls for the state to approve the incentive package and secure the roughly 1.56 square miles of land for the deal by the end of September.
The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) has released its annual Equalized Value Report. The report shows that Wisconsin’s total statewide equalized property value as of January 1, 2017, was $526 billion, a 4 percent increase over the prior year. Equalized Values are based on data from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017.
Wisconsin residential property was valued at $369 billion as of January 1, 2017, an increase of 4.3 percent, or $15.1 billion. The 4.3 percent increase marks the fourth consecutive year of positive gains in residential home values.
The DOR report also shows construction activity continues an upward trend. Wisconsin added $8.1 billion in new construction during 2016, including $3.6 billion in residential property, $3.8 billion in commercial property, and $389 million in manufacturing property. In total, new construction value increased by 13.6 percent from the prior year.
The DOR report indicates that commercial property values were $102 billion, an increase of 5.1 percent or $5 billion. Manufacturing property was valued at $14 billion, an increase of 2.4 percent or $338 million from the prior year. Agricultural land was valued at $2 billion, an increase of 1.3 percent from a year earlier (agricultural land value changes do not represent changes in market value; agricultural land values are based on the income that could be generated from its rental for agricultural use). Undeveloped land saw a slight increase in total value of 0.2 percent, or $4 million, with a total value of $1.9 billion. The Agricultural Forest and Forest property classes had overall changes of +1.9 percent and -1.2 percent, respectively. To round out real estate value changes, the value of Farm sites and Farm buildings (Other) increased by 0.5 percent. Lastly, the value of personal property increased by 2.4%, to $12.9 billion.
Equalized Values are calculated annually and used to ensure statewide fairness and equity in property tax distribution. The Equalized Value represents an estimate of a taxation district’s total taxable value, and provides for the fair apportionment of school district and county levies to each municipality. Changes in Equalized Value do not necessarily translate into a change in property taxes.
An Assembly committee Monday gave the green light to a package of incentives designed to convince Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn to build its first U.S. plant in Wisconsin.
The Republican-controlled Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy voted 8-5 along party lines to advance Gov. Scott Walker’s bill that provides Foxconn with nearly $3 billion in tax credits, exempts the company from a number of environmental regulations and spends $20 million in state funds on job training to ensure the state’s workforce is prepared to fill the 13,000 jobs the company has promised to create.
The full Assembly is scheduled to vote on the package Thursday.
Republicans said amendments to Walker’s bill that the committee adopted Monday have added some of the protections Democrats want. They included asking state officials negotiating the final contract with Foxconn to add a goal of hiring Wisconsin-based workers and making sure enough workers in the state are available to be hired and at a livable wage.
The amendments also call for providing $20 million to the Department of Workforce Development after 2019 for job training, requiring the state’s jobs agency to provide tax credits only for jobs that have a salary of at least $30,000 per year and allowing tax incremental financing funds to be used for fire, police and other government services.
The lawmakers also want state officials negotiating a final contract with Foxconn to emphasize that workers living in Wisconsin should be given preference for hiring. But Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has acknowledged that requiring that preference could be illegal.
If Foxconn fills a wetland during its construction process, Assembly lawmakers also want to require the creation of two wetlands in its place in the same watershed, if possible.
A spokesman for Walker did not say whether Walker supported the changes.“Governor Walker is working closely with the Legislature to advance this bill and he looks forward to signing it into law in the coming weeks,” spokesman Tom Evenson said.
As lawmakers continue to struggle over how to fund the state’s transportation budget, drivers are contending with bridges that have deteriorated to their worst condition since 2003, according to Federal Highway Administration data.
While the number of structurally deficient bridges has held relatively steady over the past decade, the average structural fitness of the state’s bridges has been declining since 2008. The National Bridge Inventory rates the structural fitness of a bridge from 0 to 9, with 0 indicating the bridge is closed and 9 indicating its status is superior to desirable criteria. Since 1992, about a quarter of Wisconsin bridges were rated an 8 or 9, the best two designations on the evaluation scale, peaking at around 27 percent from 2006 to 2008. By 2016, that number had fallen to 19 percent, the lowest in the span of the data.
The percentage of bridges that are “basically intolerable” meanwhile increased slightly from 2.5 percent in 2008 to 3 percent in 2015 and 2016. That slight increase on the low end only accounts for about 100 of the state’s 14,230 bridges. But combined with a general slide in ratings, the average bridge rating has decreased from a high of 6.5 in 2008 to 6.3 in 2016, the lowest since 2003.
For the most part, Wisconsin’s bridges are converging in the middle range, creating the potential to significantly swell the number of bridges in poor condition in coming years, requiring more of them to close or impose weight limits.
The main concern with the deteriorating condition of bridges isn’t safety — it’s commerce. Bridges are inspected regularly, and those in very poor condition are posted with weight limits or closed as needed. Those closures and weight limits can have a significant impact on agriculture, timber and other commerce that involves transporting heavy loads.
The number of bridges posted with weight limits has already more than doubled since the mid-2000s, hitting a high of 875, or 6 percent of bridges, in 2015 and 2016. County Highway Administration Executive Director Dan Fedderly said that’s both due to declining bridge conditions and recent increases in the amount of weight trucks are allowed to carry. Some bridges end up posted simply because they weren’t designed to carry that much weight.
It would take an ordinary person more than three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which currently contains more than 112 million words. The sheer size of the CFR poses a problem not just for the individuals and businesses that want to stay in compliance with the law, but also for anyone interested in understanding the consequences of this massive system of rules.
States also have sizable regulatory codes, which add an additional layer to the enormous body of federal regulation. A prime example is the online version of the 2017 Wisconsin Administrative Code (WAC).
A tool known as State RegData—a platform for analyzing and quantifying state regulatory text—was developed by researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. State RegData captures information in minutes that would take an ordinary person hours, weeks, or even years to obtain.
For example, the tool allows researchers to identify the industries that state regulation targets most by connecting text relevant to those industries with restrictive word counts. Known as regulatory restrictions, the words and phrases shall, must, may not, prohibited, and required can signify legal constraints and obligations. The three industries with the highest estimates of industry-relevant restrictions in the 2017 WAC are utilities, food manufacturing, and chemical manufacturing.
State RegData also reveals that the WAC contains 159,253 regulatory restrictions and roughly 12.0 million words. It would take an individual about 667 hours—or almost 17 weeks—to read the entire WAC. That’s assuming the reader spends 40 hours per week reading and reads at a rate of 300 words per minute.
State agencies will have to take added steps and meet higher standards to approve new rules, under legislation signed by Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday.
The measure allows a co-chairman of the Legislature’s rules committee to request that agencies hold public hearings before submitting scope statements on new regulations. In addition, under the bill, the state Department of Administration would also need to review an agency’s scope statement for proposed rules.
Since 2011, Walker and GOP lawmakers have given the governor more power over new environmental and other regulations, including a requirement that the governor sign off on a scope statement before new rules are written. The vetting by the administration department will now come before Walker’s review.
The proposal also requires the full Legislature to sign off any administrative rule that would make the public pay more than $10 million to comply with it.
In addition, the legislation allows the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules to object indefinitely to proposed rules and not just temporarily. A committee co-chairman can also contract with an outside group to analyze the compliance cost to the public of a new rule.
A new analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau shows taxpayers would pay to Foxconn Technology Group about $1 billion more than the state received in tax revenues during the first 15 years of the project, and that the state would start to recoup those payments starting in 2043 — or a quarter of a century after the project starts.
A Foxconn-commissioned analysis shows that once the plant is up and running, for every 10 jobs created there, 17 jobs would be created elsewhere in the state and that the facility’s operations would support more than 35,000 jobs statewide — a figure that includes the 13,000 planned to be at the campus itself.
Fiscal bureau director Bob Lang, who authored the analysis, noted the review focuses only on the impacts of the Foxconn project on the state’s finances, and does not account for other benefits to the state’s economy and residents. Foxconn would spend $6.70 for each public dollar, for example.
But Lang also warned that any cash-flow analysis that covers a nearly 30-year time frame must be considered “highly speculative, especially for a manufacturing facility and equipment that may have a limited useful life.”
Under fiscal estimates from state agencies released Tuesday, the state’s payments to fulfill the incentive package would reach their peak by fiscal 2023, when the state would annually be sending $119.5 million in income tax credits and $192.9 million in capital expenditure credits to the Apple iPhone manufacturer that wants to build LCD panels in Wisconsin.
The estimate from the Department of Revenue also shows annual payroll for the proposed campus would reach $703.4 million annually.
Fiscal estimates from state agencies released on Tuesday also show provisions exempting Foxconn from sales taxes on construction materials and equipment would result in $139 million the company would not need to pay. Local governments would have gotten about $10.7 million in revenue if the exemptions were not in place and Foxconn created the same campus at the same size investment, the estimates show.
Governor Scott Walker joined the Public Service Commission (PSC) in announcing $1,500,000 in Broadband Expansion Grants, awarded to 13 projects in underserved areas throughout the state. Matching funds for these projects amounted to $2,310,475.60 for a total of $3,810,475.60 in broadband infrastructure investment.
The Broadband Expansion Grants provide reimbursement for equipment and construction expenses incurred by efforts to extend or improve broadband telecommunications services in underserved regions of Wisconsin.
“As broadband continues to become an increasingly integral part of our lives, I know that Wisconsin businesses and families will be well-served by these continued investments,” said Governor Walker. “Internet access is a critical component of education, telemedicine, e-commerce, agribusiness, and tourism, just to name a few. No corner of our state can be left behind.”
Governor Walker created the Broadband Expansion Grant Program in the 2013-15 biennial budget and increased funding for the grants in the 2015-17 biennial budget from $500,000 to $1.5 million annually. The Governor’s proposed 2017-19 biennial budget provides $11 million more for the program over the next several years. Recipients include:
24-7 Telcom ($153,500) – This project proposes to build a fiber-to-the-home service past 120 homes and businesses located southwest of the City of Menomonie in Dunn County.
Amherst Telephone Company ($170,000) – This project proposes to build a fiber to the home service in rural Portage County, northeast of Stevens Point. The 18 mile fiber route will build past 207 residential and business locations in the Towns of Hull and Dewey.
CenturyTel of the Midwest – Kendall, LLC d/b/a CenturyLink ($167,300) – This project proposes to build a 9-mile fiber route in the central and northeast portion of the City of Baraboo. The route will pass 478 locations (13 businesses and 465 residences) in the underserved portion of the project area.
ChoiceTel LLC ($72,846.40) – This project proposes to complete the construction of a fiber to the home service in the Town of Land O’Lakes in Vilas County, authorized in 3 grants in FY 2016, 2017 and 2018. When construction finishes in 2019, ChoiceTel will have buried over 60 miles of fiber optic cable along the main roads and side roads in the township, and will have connected over 1,000 customers to fiber to the home service.
Florence County ($66,712) – This project proposes to deploy a fixed wireless service from 3 towers in Florence County.
Oneida County Economic Development Corporation ($45,000) – This project proposes to build two additional towers in rural portions of Oneida County.
Somerset Telephone Company ($90,000) – This project proposes to build a fiber to the home service to 129 locations in St. Croix County.
SonicNet Inc. ($6,746.47) – This project proposes to install a fixed wireless service on a county-owned tower in the Town of Conover in Vilas County. The project will also build microwave links to other SonicNet tower locations.
Black Earth Telephone Company d/b/a TDS Telecom ($285,917.20) – This project proposes to build a DSL service to 307 locations in the Town of Vermont south of the Village of Black Earth in Dane County. Town of Dunn ($106,395.18) – This project proposes to build a Charter Communications cable facility to 103 homes in the vicinity of Hawkinson Road in the Town of Dunn in Dane County.
Vernon Communications Cooperative ($176,587) – This project proposes to build a combination of fiber to the home and fixed wireless services to 530 locations in Vernon County.
Waupaca Online ($32,815.75) – This project proposes to build a fixed wireless service to the home service to 324 locations in northern Waupaca County.
Wisconsin won a one-notch credit ratings upgrade to ‘Aa1’ from Moody’s Investors Service on Friday despite the state’s fiscal 2018-19 biennial budget being overdue.
The action affects about $8 billion of outstanding general obligation bonds, according to the credit ratings agency.
“The upgrade to ‘Aa1’ reflects the proven fiscal benefits of the state’s approach to granting and funding pension obligations when many other states are experiencing stress from rising costs and heavy liabilities; an economy that delivers steady but moderate growth; conservatively managed budgets, and adequate liquidity,” Moody’s said in a statement.
While Wisconsin began its new fiscal biennium on July 1, its Republican-controlled legislature has yet to pass a spending plan as lawmakers debate how to fund transportation projects and consider a $3 billion package of incentives for a new LCD screen plant by Taiwan’s Foxconn.
“We don’t consider occasional late budgets as having a credit impact,” said David Jacobson, a Moody’s spokesman.
Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker hailed the upgrade, the first for the state from Moody’s since 1973, as an affirmation of its “fiscal stability driven by bold reforms and accountable stewardship of the taxpayer’s dollar.”
Wisconsin’s credit ratings with S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings are a notch lower at ‘AA’.
The U.S. economy added a solid 209,000 jobs in July, more than expected as the labor market shows few signs of slowing down. The labor market has churned out nearly 1.3 million jobs in the first seven months of the year.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent from 4.4, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.
In the past three months, the labor market has averaged growth of 195,000 jobs a month. Reports for May and June were revised upward by 2,000 jobs.
Hourly earnings ticked up slightly, 0.3 percent last month and have risen 2.5 percent over the year.
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new project showcase + giveaway update
new project showcase + giveaway update
It was a happy day when I finally received all the brand new pieces to this new collection! My work was cut out for me as I started creating all the samples to take to the show! It was so fun to see these different products come to life on my scrapbook pages, mini books and memory files! I have prepared this little slide show so you can take a look at all the projects in one place!
it is also now time to announce our sugar chic giveaway winner from last hour. i know some of you had problems with our contest form over on facebook. i am so sorry!! we are scrapping (haha – a pun!) the contest form for the remaining giveaways today and are working on a different entry method for our next giveaway, next hour. so be sure to come back next hour and for the next giveaway.
meanwhile, we did have just over 500 (five HUNDRED!) entries for the Sugar Chic package! congratulations JENNIFER CAIN. we’ll email you for your shipping address to send your sugar chic prize package.
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What else do you need to know before NFL playoff weekend?
Here’s more:
== Which high school all-star football game promises the best viewing pleasure this weekend? Hard to say, but there is plenty of local interest in both the U.S. Army High School All-American Bowl (Channel 4, Saturday at 10 a.m., from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Tex.) and the
Under Armour All-America High School Football Game (ESPN, Sunday at 5 p.m., from the Florida Citrus Bowl).
The Under Armor contest (official game site linked here), with Dave Ryan on play-by-play, Tom Luginbill as the analyst and Quint Kessenich on the sidelines, is owned by ESPN and probably ended up with the most talent. Of local interest is Matt Barkley, the Mater Dei QB (pictured right) who’s headed to USC, and Kevin Graf, the offensive lineman from Agoura High also committed to USC. Another Trojan recruit is Alshon Jeffrey, a 6-3, 214-pound receiver from South Carolina. UCLA has verbal commitments from Richard Brehaut, the Los Osos QB; Stan Hasiak, a 6-6, 340-pound offensive guard from Kapolei High in Hawaii; Morrell Presley, the 6-foot-4 tight end from Carson High and Robbie Toma, a 5-10, 170-pound receiver from Punahou High in Honolulu.
==As those players contemplate where they’ll play college next year, the Kevin Hart story resurfaces again.
On Sunday’s ESPN “Outside the Lines” (6 a.m. on ESPN, 9 a.m. on ESPNEWS), the former Fernley High of Nevada offensive lineman who made news by lying about his recruitment by Cal — including a huge press conference at his school gym complete with TV crews to make his “announcement” — updates his story for reporter Tom Friend.
Back on Feb. 1, ’08, five days before National Signing Day, Hart was Nevada’s top-rated high school offensive lineman and decided to call a press conference. He then admitted a couple days later that it was a hoax, forced when Cal’s athletic department had no information on recruiting him. Hart took unofficial visits to the Universities of Nevada, Oregon and Washington but was never offered a scholarship.
He now plays at Feather River Junior College in Northeastern California where he has a chance to be starting right guard next season.
Hart says in the piece: “I still don’t know why. Maybe ’cause I knew I wasn’t going to be what I wanted to be. I didn’t know how to accept that. I didn’t know how other people would accept it. … I’m still not OK. It hasn’t been a year yet. It might not be 10 years until I’m finally OK. But maybe knowing what I did was totally wrong and a horrible thing is a good thing to be reminded of every day. I thought I’d never play again. I thought, you know, I’d be in the gutter somewhere.”
==Dick Vitale will call his first NBA game for ESPN since 1984 when the network puts him and usual college basketball partner Dan Shulman on the Denver-Miami game (Wednesday, 6 p.m.). It follows the Duke-Davidson game (Wednesday, 4 p.m.) that ESPN has allowed its NBA team of Mike Tirico, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy to call. Neither Jackson, a former star at St. John’s in the 1980s, nor Van Gundy, a former assistant at Providence and Rutgers in the late ’80s, have ever seen a game at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium.
== Maybe it’s not ESPN’s answer to the MLB Network, but ESPN Classic will highlight an MLB game every Monday night (usually at 5 p.m., starting next week) up untl the 2009 season opener to celebrate the league’s 20th season with ESPN. The first rebroadcast on Monday is the first one ESPN ever did — Baltimore at Kansas City on April 9, 1990. Others include the perfect game that Texas’ Kenny Rogers threw against the Angels in 1994 (on Monday, Feb. 2). ESPN Classic then plans to do an MLB game each week during the season, from April to October.
== The website RealClearSports.com (linked here) has its list of Top 10 Erroneous Columns of 2008.
As Rick Chandler of Deadspin.com writes (linked here) when linking to this site: “Writers go out on limb like this, of course, because it makes them sound smart and decisive, and they figure no one is going to keep the paper around long enough to check on their accuracy. But then along came the Internets, and hilarity ensued.”
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A while ago, I was disappointed from our Lebanese universities. I wanted to pursue a Master’s degree but did not find the course, I was looking for. So I asked Google for help, and it gave me plenty of choices, so I applied but received no answer back except for …
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Oversleeping: Campus Band Spotlight
Oversleeping. We’ve all done it, but until now Greenville University has yet to see a band that goes by such a unique and straight-forward name. With an Instagram profile that reads, “We would say ‘see you in class’… But we probs won’t,” it makes the band all the more relatable. I had the privilege to hang out in the studio with the members of Oversleeping and get to know them a little bit better as well as learn a some more about the band’s history. In its short existence, the band has managed to make a name for themselves among the many other bands and groups on and off campus in the Greenville area.
Oversleeping came into the GU music scene at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. The band has three members: Jesse Taylor, Ricky Lewis, and Dolan Heard. Jesse, the founder and first member of the band, plays electric guitar and sings lead vocals. He started by spending time making some demos to show potential band members the sound they were going for as a band. Soon after, Ricky joined in on bass, as well as singing some background vocals. Dolan Heard then found out about the band and wanted to join in too. Heard plays drums and does background vocals.
While the band considers themselves some form of an alt pop-punk, the musical tastes, and influences of each of the band member vary greatly. Some of those influences include but are not limited to Pop-punk, jazz, gospel, metal, psych-rock, hardcore music, etc. Because of these wide musical tastes, individual versatilities, and their differing skill sets, the band is definitely a force to be reckoned with. Heard stated, “It’s nice because we’re all sound engineers, we’re all drummers, and we all play a different instrument on top of that.”
Being able to use their talents aside from just the instrument they play live makes songwriting much more efficient and effective. It also allows the band to be able to collaborate to write songs rather than just one person writing for the band like what oftentimes happens within the music scene.
Double-double EP announcement Source: Jesse Taylor
With newfound prominence in the Greenville music scene, the band announced via Instagram that they are releasing an EP on March 3rd, 2018. The EP is called Double-double EP which the band lovingly referred to as a “concept album.” Their Instagram post contained the definition for the term double-double, which is used in statistical descriptions regarding the sport of basketball. The caption read,
“double-double1. This occurs in basketball when a player has double-digit figures in at least two statistical categories, such as points and rebounds.”
When I asked if the title was referencing the fact that all three members of the band play at least two instruments, they all agreed. However, that was not their main reason for naming the EP what they did. The band went on to explain that the reason they named the EP Double-double is that there are only two songs on the EP, but each song has a “regular” version and an acoustic version. It was a very creative way to explain what was on the EP, while at the same time being vague enough to provoke outside interest.
Oversleeping can be found on Facebook and Instagram under the handle, @oversleepingband. They also have a YouTube account called Oversleeping Band. Follow their social media to keep updated with new music being released as well as shows and more! Oversleeping has a house show at the Little Bass House by gullies this Saturday, March 3rd, the day their new EP releases.
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EPA/AFLONursery staff members in hard hats taking youngsters, all wearing yellow hoods, to an evacuation site in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area, following Japan's severe earthquake and tsunami in March. Japanese child psychologists recently met with specialists at UMDNJ in Stratford to work on exercises for children experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of the natural disaster.
The gush of a showerhead.
The trickle of a single raindrop on a little girl's face.
For a young child from the devastated eastern coastline of Japan, either may be enough to trigger a cry of "Tsunami! Tsunami!"
And the unseen wounds of the youngest survivors of the inundated island nation are only going to get worse, say child psychologists Miyako Shirakawa and Satomi Kameoka, who expect that even the children who emerged physically unscathed will be dealing for years with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
"We expect longtime support will be needed," said Kameoka, clinical director of the Osaka Prefectural Mental Health Center.
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Esther Deblinger, the co-director of the institute, said the children of Japan, much like the survivors of the storms that overwhelmed the Gulf Coast in 2005, are experiencing situations — including the loss of homes, the death of loved ones and relocation to unfamiliar surroundings — that are unimaginable to most.
"Without help, even small children may experience post-traumatic stress symptoms that can remain with them throughout their lives," the psychologist said.
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Deblinger said they have been able to use the technique to help children who have suffered a variety of traumatic experiences.
Although originally developed for sexually abused children, Deblinger said the technique has applications for natural disaster victims like those of Japan’s children. In 2006, she made multiple trips to the Gulf Coast region in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to provide training to mental health agencies.
The trauma therapy method has garnered recognition as a standard in the last decade. In 2001 it was given an "exemplary program award" by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Shirakawa, who specializes in sexual abuse, said the trauma she has been seeing as a mental health supervisor of the Japan East Earthquake Support Center in Iwate Prefecture — a hard-hit area — called for something more than the techniques she has used in the past.
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
The article below belies the claim that British de-colonisation was a peaceful process by a civilised British empire, in contrast to other empires, especially the French.
The article by Harvard historian Caroline Elkins shows that British-imperial myth-construction was integral not only to empire's functioning but its formal end as well.
The reasons for censorship are clear enough at the very end of empire. Imperial servants would not want, in the wake of victory over racist Nazi torturers and muderers, any of their own brutalities to 'muddy' the waters.
What's more interesting is the continuing reticence to release all the official papers from the colonial period. This is more puzzling, at first sight. However, a clue may lie in the resurgence of imperial thinking over the past twenty years or so. It's summed up in the phrase Tony Blair wanted to use but was advised against at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, in 1997, just a few miles up the road: "I'm proud of the British Empire".
The Empire was, as he and many other British and American leaders noted around that time, and especially after 9-11, an 'empire of liberty' so not really an empire at all, more like one big happy family of nations enjoying the protections and privileges of imperial rule. As a key foreign policy advisor of Blair's, Robert Cooper, noted around 1998, within the empire, peace and civilisation and order; beyond it, savagery and the laws of the jungle. At least that was the mythology being re-constructed to rationalise and justify a doctrine of post-Cold War global interventionism. Cooper urged the Anglo-Americans to lie and deceive in dealings with what he arrogantly called "pre-modern" states - i.e., those which defied the West - because they lived by the laws of the jungle. The corrollary of lying abroad, however, was deception on a mass scale at home, as Bush and Blair mis-sold the war on Iraq on the basis of an imminent military threat.
All those anti-colonial revolts, all those brutalities and counter-insurgency wars, therefore, needed to "go away", disappear. The new "empire of liberty" being constructed by the lone superpower and its chief help-mate could do without untimely and inconvenient reminders of the true character of imperial rule: in the end, empires are based less on consent than co-optation of collaborationist minorities, and principally on force for anyone who dared seriously challenge the empire.
Professor
of history Caroline Elkins, who has worked on historic Kenya files released by
the British government, analyses its record of scrubbing and concealing
embarrassing information.
For
decades, the British government has crafted and affirmed its own fictions of
colonial benevolence. Its officials — both at home and in far-flung colonies —
intensely managed a system of document culling, destruction, and removal in the
waning days of imperial rule. Anything that might “embarrass” HMG was largely
scrubbed, or sequestered, from the record. A colonial archive eventually made
its way to Kew in south-west London. Devoid of countless incriminating
documents, it offers a particular reality about Britain's past, a past that was
carefully tended long before the sun set on Britain's empire.
Today
there is hope for some degree of transparency. The Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (FCO) has just released more than 1,200 records from 12 former colonial
territories. These documents are but a portion of the some 10,000 files that
Britain removed from 37 of its colonies on the eve of decolonisation and
recently “discovered” in Hanslope Park, the government communications centre.
The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has declared that the government will
speedily make all of the files accessible to the public.
Some
members of the media have heralded this as a watershed moment.
The Mau
Mau veterans
For
certain we will learn much from these new documents. However, to celebrate
their release as a historic moment is to miss the underside of the story.
Recent events, placed in their historical context, suggest the FCO is hardly
forthcoming.
These
documents came to light in the context of an ongoing legal case. In the High
Court in London, five elderly claimants are suing the British government. The
FCO is the state's defendant. These Mau Mau veterans seek to prove that state
violence in the detention camps of late colonial Kenya was systematic,
calculated and approved at the highest levels of government. This case is the
first of its kind. If successful, it could open the door to multiple other
claims from colonised populations.
In the
Mau Mau case, two years of countless document requests were met with FCO
stonewalling. It was only through legal means that the FCO finally yielded in
early 2011. The result was more than 1,500 files — all removed from Kenya at
the time of decolonisation, and some of which the FCO has incrementally
released to the Mau Mau claimants and their experts. A few months later, the
FCO confessed that it had likewise found more than 8,800 files removed from
another 36 former territories on the eve of colonial retreat. Thirteen boxes of
“top secret” Kenya files are still missing.
Nine
month review
As expert
witness, I have had privileged access to the Kenya files. Together with a
research team at Harvard, I have spent nine months reviewing the contents. This
process has been anything but straightforward. Despite the legal context, the
FCO has culled files, requiring multiple requests for full disclosure, and
still files have not been forthcoming. At least two of our findings have
particular importance for today's “migrated archive” release. First, there is
extensive evidence chronicling the process of document destruction and removal
in Kenya. The Colonial Office orchestrated a highly bureaucratised effort that
required massive administrative manpower on the ground. In total, officials in
Kenya estimated that some 3/ tons of documents were marked for destruction.
Incineration times were calculated in case “emergency destruction” was needed.
Thousands more documents were to be transferred to Britain. Second, the files
released in the Mau Mau case tell us a great deal more about previously
documented events and individuals in Kenya.
The
current release excludes territories such as Palestine and Rhodesia. The Cyprus
files exclude the period of the emergency. The Malaya files cover very little
of the contested emergency years. The Kenya documents are a meagre subset of
the files released (though culled) in the context of the Mau Mau case. Warning
bells should be going off. The government went to extraordinary lengths to
fashion its colonial archive. The first release of the “migrated archives” is,
at first glance, lacking in substantive files, particularly for former colonies
like Cyprus and Malaya where future lawsuits potentially loom.
Until the
FCO offers a full and unredacted release of all files found at Hanslope Park, a
healthy dose of scepticism is crucial. If not, we run the risk of overly
applauding today's document release and reinforcing the FCO's myth of new-found
transparency. (Caroline Elkins is professor of history at Harvard University
and Pulitzer-prizewinning author of Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of
Empire in Kenya.)
Sunday, 8 April 2012
President Barack Obama is making American national security an election issue with his most likley Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, because he has out-Bushed Bush and the GOP in general on the matter. Despite loud claims to be the "change" candidate in November 2008, and being swept to victory, President Obama has in all essentials continued the policies of his predecessor, the reviled George W. Bush.
More pananche than the Texan, perhaps, but essentially the same policies and concepts. He can now do what no other Democratic incumbent or candidate has been able to do for some time - go on the offensive against Republicans who normally claim Democrats are 'weak' on national security (despite the fact that Democrats 'did' all the big wars in the 20th century, and overwhelmingly backed the war on Iraq in 2003).
The US foreign policy establishment, which backed the war on Iraq, merely found what old time hardliner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, called the "new face of American power". Obama has successfuly ridden the waves of global revulsion - and the growth of considerable domestic 'isolationism' (which in truth was closer to a rejection at home of American global 'hegemony' - see the University of Maryand opinion surveys of 2006, featured on USBlog sometime ago).
Why does Obama feel he can go on the offensive against Romney? Because he has followed a hardline miliarist programme that any Republican chief executive would be proud of.
'He' killed Osama bin Laden; he launched more drone attacks, i.e. targetted assasinations, than Bush; he's retained rendition, i.e, kidnapping, as a practice; prevented the US Supreme Court from extending constitutional protections to Bagram inmates; retained the Guantanamo Bay torture facility; extended anti-terror surveillance on a massive scale to the 'homeland'; ordered and maintained the military surge in Afghanistan; continued to defend and finance and arm Israel's aggressions against Palestinians; ramped up the rhetoric of inevitable military strikes against Iran; ordered coercive regime change in Libya; maintained US support for corrupt and bankrupt regimes in the Arab world; and so on.
A criticism of President George W. Bush was that he ignored China and the rise of Asia. Obama has not. He's stationing thousands of US troops in Australia, making military treaties with China's border states, securing cooperation - cultural, military and other between India, Japan and Australia: from Beijing, this could look a bit like encirclement.
I am hesitant to say that Obama has not followed a 'proper' or 'authentic' Democratic foreign and national security policy - because he has: who launched the military offensive in Korea in 1950? Who escalated warfare in Vietnam in 1965? Never mind who was in office in 1917 and 1941. Democrats 'do' wars, just as Tony Blair 'did' wars and paid the 'blood price'. Democrats do wars; Obama is in a long line of Democratic war-makers.
Who said this? "Our country today faces a bewildering array of threats and opportunities. As president, ...I will safeguard America and secure our country’s interests and most cherished ideals. The unifying thread of his nationalsecurity strategy is American strength. When America is strong, the world is safer. It is only American power—conceived in the broadest terms—that can provide the foundation for an international system that ensures the security and prosperity of the United States and our friends and allies.
"A XXXX foreign policy will proceed with clarity and resolve. Our friends and allies will not have doubts about where we stand and what we will do to safeguard our interests and theirs. Neither will our rivals, competitors, and adversaries. The best ally world peace has ever known is a strong America. The “last best hope of earth” was what Abraham Lincoln called our country. XXXX believes in fulfilling the promise of Lincoln’s words and will defend America abroad in word and in deed."
Tweak it just a bit by adding something about the universalism of American ideals and you could hear Obama's dulcet tones uttering those very words. But the quote is from Mitt Romney's website.
In the end, the differences between Democrats and Republicans are minimal in practice: they are parties of the Establishment that are completely united in their fundamental faith in American power.
When asked what changes he would introduce should he gain the White House, Obama responded in 2007-8: "I am the change". And he was absolutely true to his word: the face, the veneer, of US power is all that really changed.
There are those, disappointed supporters and 'neutrals', who say that Obama inherited a veritable mess that no one could have done much about. And they have a point.
But I would ask is this: if Obama could do little about his inheritance, what did he do about those things that were in his control, issues that arose within his own tenure - like the uprisings in Egypt, the intervention in Libya, Bagram, and the Wikileaks revelations - remember them, and Bradley Manning's incarceration in military prison? Amnesty and the UN investigated Manning's treatment as examples of the use of torture, lest we forget.
President Barack Obama has presided over a national security strategy that differs so little from that pursued by his predecessor that he feels he has stolen his opponent's garb.
That's why he can make national security an election issue. This may play well at the hustings; it augurs ill for the rest of the world.
Friday, 6 April 2012
Why should Israel's overseas policies be immune from criticism? What's so special about Israel that any critique is immediately condemned? Is Israel always right in what it does? Does it not behave like other states today and historically - and carry out aggressions against threats, real or imagined?
The German Nobel laureate, Gunter Grass, is the latest to be condemned as an anti-semite for daring to suggest that Israel is an aggressive state that has frequently violated international law, defied the United Nations, presided over or committed war crimes and is currently threatening military aggression against Iran's nuclear programmes.
A few years back, two leading American scholars, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt, of Chicago and Harvard universities, respectively, faced the most vituperative treatment from Israel and her friends, for writing a book that, problematically in my view, suggested that an Israel lobby that extended from US Jewish organisations to Christian Zionists - dominated American foreign policy. For that, they were condemned as anti-semites. It was only their relative seniority that kept them in their posts - they were candid enough to admit that themselves. And they predicted in very precise terms the treatment they would receive once their ideas were published.
Another state that brooks no criticism of its foreign policy from non-nationals is the United States; its home-grown critics are condemned as un-Americans, foreign critics as anti-Americans. By launching so much flak at critics, however, both Israel and its chief military and financial sponsor, the US, seek to deflect attention from their actual deeds, dismissing critics as racists (which is not to deny that there are also racists who operate under the cover of honest critique). But by tarring all critics with the same brush, both America and Israel seek to continue with their policies of aggression against other states or peoples.
Some facts:According to Amnesty International: "Israel's military blockade of Gaza... left more than 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children trapped in the Gaza Strip, an area of land just 40 kilometres long and 9.5 kilometres wide.
"Mass unemployment, extreme poverty and food price rises caused by shortages have left four in five Gazans dependent on humanitarian aid. As a form of collective punishment, Israel’s... blockade of Gaza is a flagrant violation of international law."
During its 2008/9 war on Gaza, "The Israeli army used white phosphorus, a weapon with a highly incendiary effect, in densely populated civilian residential areas of Gaza City, according to indisputable evidence found by an Amnesty International fact-finding team...
"When white phosphorus lands on skin it burns deeply through muscle and into the bone, continuing to burn until deprived of oxygen." The white phosphorous was supplied by US arms firms.
White phosphorous is not illegal under international law but was condemned when deployed by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in 1991; but was then used in 2004, bu US troops in Fallujah, Iraq.
Illegal Settlements: No foreign government, including the US, recognises Israel's settlements in Sinai, the West Bank or the Golan Heights, nor in East Jerusalem. Yet, Israel continues to defy the International Court of Justice, the UN and the Oslo Accords.Iran is accused of a determination to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth", an intention normally attributed to President Ahmadinejad, who is rightly condemend by all right-minded observers, including large sections of Iranian society. Yet, in practice, it is Israel which is busy denying life and human rights to Palestinians.
Nuclear weapons:Despite the attention to Iran's nuclear programmes, Israel has long possessed nuclear weapons and long range intercontinental ballistic missiles. It also has refused to sign the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty, citing "national security".
Why would Iranian nuclear weapons be qualitatively different from those possessed by Israel, Pakistan and India and, indeed, by North Korea, Britain, and the United States?
Has North Korea, the only other official US/Israel 'enemy' state, used its nuclear weapons? Behaved in a manner unlike any other state might? The lesson of North Korea, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and of Colonel Gaddafi's Libya, is that nuclear weapons provide the ultimate security against American or Israeli attacks and aggressions.
And that's why Iran's attempts - however undeveloped they might be - to build a nuclear arms capacity are so threatening - they would provide an ultimate line in the sand against external aggression. They cannot cite 'national security', however, to legitimise their policies, even though they have witnessed forcible regime change in their next door neighbour, Iraq, and in Libya, neither of which possessed the ultimate security guarantee.
Iran's nuclear programmes are part of the blowback that the USA and Israel reap for past aggressions in the Middle East.
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(CNN) -- Hamas wants an end to Israel's long blockade of Gaza and raids on the territory in any cease-fire that might put a stop to five days of weaponry plummeting from the sky, a top Palestinian official said Sunday.
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has ruled Gaza since 2007, said an Israeli airstrike killed a family of 10 on Sunday. Israel, meanwhile, said Hamas had fired nearly 150 rockets into Israel in a single day, and that the strike was aimed at killing one of the leaders of the militant group's rocket corps -- but Israel was unsure whether he was among the dead.
It was the latest violence in what has become a daily nightmare for millions in the region, one that puts Gaza's 1.7 million residents and millions of Israelis in harm's way. But an Israeli special envoy was in Egypt for cease-fire talks late Sunday, the Egyptian government said, and a stream of Arab League, U.N. and European diplomats were darting in and out of the region on similar errands.
Nabil Sha'ath, a senior Palestinian negotiator, said Hamas is demanding an end to "the harassment and draconian siege of Gaza that prevents anything from coming in or going out, so that there will be a normal life for the people of Gaza." The territory has been under a crippling economic embargo since Hamas won control of the territory from the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank.
Well, let’s see about that. These phuquing Islamofascist murders snuck in a tremendous arsenal of thousands and thousands of aggressive weapons into the land Israel gave them (when it didn’t have to) in order that they might “live in peace side by side with Isr...” as the old “peace talks” slogan had it....... and then what did these basturds do? They fired thousands of these missiles from that place into Israeli towns, villages, schools, and pizza parlors.
And now they want Israel to actually let them import tens of thousands more deadly missiles, openly at that, plus what else, tanks and>>>??
(The obvious answer is: “Not a chance in a million years...never! If you must screw around and kill innocent people, go move to an Arab country and screw around there, but the Jews are clearly not “taking it” anymore. Get used to life in the grown-up world or get lost or get dispatched nice and early to your Alluh! Grow up and behave like civilized human beings on this earth, or go to hell. You takes your choice, and frankly my dears, nobody out here gives a damn anymore. Period, end of file, and end of Answer.)
BUT.... ha ha! ,.... ha!....
Hey, Israelis! You’ve been outclassed (by far!) in the Raw, Naked, Bald Chutzpah Department!! What happened, and what you gonna do about THIS!?
philistine phil·is·tine [fil-uh-steen, -stahyn, fi-lis-tin, -teen] Show IPA noun 1. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes. 2. ( initial capital letter ) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia. Relevant Questions Who Are the Philistines ... Who Is A Philistine? Who Were The Philistines... Who Were The Philistines... adjective 3. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) lacking in or hostile to culture. 4. smugly commonplace or conventional. 5. ( initial capital letter ) of or belonging to the ancient Philistines. 00:05 Philistine is always a great word to know. So is gobo. Does it mean: a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO... Origin: 13501400; Middle English < Late Latin Philistīnī (plural) < Late Greek Philistînoi < Hebrew pəlishtīm Related forms phil·is·tin·ism [fil-uh-stee-niz-uhm, -stahy-, fi-lis-tuh-niz-uhm, -tee-] Show IPA, noun Synonyms 1. Babbitt, vulgarian. 3. lowbrow. Collins World English Dictionary Philistine (ˈfɪlɪˌstaɪn) n 1. a person who is unreceptive to or hostile towards culture, the arts, etc; a smug boorish person 2. a member of the non-Semitic people who inhabited ancient Philistia adj 3. ( sometimes not capital ) boorishly uncultured 4. of or relating to the ancient Philistines Philistinism n __________________________________________________________ I heard the term "philistine" quite a bit when i lived in the UK. They mean it as crude and 'low brow'....i.e. ignorant.
The Palis want to have two Palestinian states - one on either side of Israel : Hamasastan and the West Bank, which they would use to attack Israel with missiles as they've been doing for years upon Sderot.
The minute the brave jihadis crap their pajamas, they go running to the international antisemites for a reprieve.
The Palis have demonstrated a lack of ability to maintain peaceful relations with their neighbors, they are not capable of wielding power.
I hope Israel confiscates all the land swapped for this mockery of "peace" and restores it to the Sons of Jacob.
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posted on 11/18/2012 8:27:34 PM PST
by jonatron
(This is the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.)
I went to a RJC event where a prominent Jewish Republican said in order for the Israelis to win the information war, they need to retrofit drones with cameras so peop,e could see video of exactly why they were shooting at some targets.
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has ruled Gaza since 2007, said an Israeli airstrike killed a family of 10 on Sunday. ,AWWWWW They forgot all the fuzzy little puppies and kitties that the evil JOOOOOOOOOOS killed when the bombs fell.
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posted on 11/19/2012 5:04:10 AM PST
by contrarian
(AmeriKa this is just SO WRONG)
If they demand a resumption of imports, let them import electrical switch gear and distribution systems. Let them import sewer and water plants. Let them import road and bridge building equipment. Let them import hospital supplies and equipment.
Let them replace all that has been destroyed except the lives of the leaders taking them down the path of destruction.
I was just saying that if the palees does want to have terrorist families (ie, families living next to rocket launch sites) whacked of a certain size, they’ll need to outlaw that size family. Of course, other family sizes are still at risk...
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posted on 11/19/2012 5:29:21 AM PST
by C210N
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Sunday, 24 May 2009
Tweet Tweeeeeeet!
Yes Gus is now Tweeting you updates from twitter onto his blog here.
He is very aware that he does not have time to update his blog here as often as he would like so he has created a Twtter account and is trying to update more often, see the feed on the right for more info.
Have you added him as a friend on facebook yet? search for Gus Brown, he is the only one that is a dog!
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Good thing he has a Facebook account! There are a lot of nice Facebook applications out there but this one struck me the most. It's an application that lets you foster a dog either virtually or in real life. Try it now. Save A Dog: http://apps.facebook.com/save-a-dog
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I have seen that say a CPU when overclocked and it exceeds its stability point at stock voltage(e.g. A 3.0 GHz CPU max stable at 3.7 GHz at stock volts) malfunctions the way an aged(dying) CPU does. Does this mean that a CPU having more overclocking headroom(space between the failure start frequency and stock frequency) has a greater lifespan(MTBF) than the same CPU having a less overclocking headroom at stock voltage considering both operate at stock freq and voltages?
I have seen that say a CPU when overclocked and it exceeds its stability point at stock voltage(e.g. A 3.0 GHz CPU max stable at 3.7 GHz at stock volts) malfunctions the way an aged(dying) CPU does. Does this mean that a CPU having more overclocking headroom(space between the failure start frequency and stock frequency) has a greater lifespan(MTBF) than the same CPU having a less overclocking headroom at stock voltage considering both operate at stock freq and voltages?
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Technically, yes, a better chip will last longer.
At stock, current chips should last 3x the warranty period, or about 10 years or more. I think a board would fail first, might take the CPU with it. MOSFETs/Capacitors are the most likely thing to fail, IMHO.
Exactly. These IVB chips are pretty tough, I must say, 1.15V stock, and I push 1.4 V on air no problem. That's like a what...25% voltage boost? Power draw goes from ~~70 W to 120W...near double...and only a 25% boost in clocks.
LOL yes. Actually the thing is the maximum overclocking efficiency is there when you are at stock volts only but push clocks at the max. That way you are actually getting more speed without using more power.
For me, it was even better. I clocked my Phenom II X4 955 at 3.7 GHz using 1.375V(undervolted 1.4V stock) and never had a problem. However just for a mere 200 MHz more that is 3.9 GHz I had to set the voltage to 1.45V or 1.378 V LLC on as in my specs. For another 100 MHz, I need greater than 1.5 V even(less when LLC on).
CPU lifetime is calculated at continuous full load, at a stock voltage range and at a certain temperature (varies by CPU type). Lower any of the three, and you get quite an extension of that predicted life. CPU warranty period is the absolute worst-case scenario of all parameters. As it has been said, in a typical usage scenario, a CPU will be long obsolete before it dies.
On the other hand, LN2 and > 50% overvolting + ~100% overclocking will usually bring the lifetime down quite considerably. I've seen actual examples of this, though it was just certain parts of the CPU failing (just one of the cores, or the L3 cache), never seen an entire CPU outright stop working. It is worth noting that going sub-zero is as bad as going over 50°C, because you increase the electrical conductivity of the P-N junctions, which makes electromigration danage spike to problematic levels.
I thought the lifespan had to do with electromagnetic mitigation that increased with temps, so that if you had lower temps it would increase the lifespan. I do not have a source for this, I just remember from something I read quite some time ago.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Well, it's been a while! The contractors working on the shop are about 3 weeks behind, but still are loads of details that need addressing. Into a normal pattern soon, I hope. In the meanwhile, let's look at furniture styles for that Bohemian vibe.
Great mix of decades
When we are looking to furnish a room for a particular feel, it's best to understand the era or decade that you want to emulate. In the case of Bohemian, the era started in the late 1840's with the Pre-Raphaelite painters who were influenced by romanticism, medieval culture and the natural world. They used bright color and sharp focus techniques to counteract muddy darkness, which they despised. This era ran right into the Art Nouveau movement starting in the 1890's in which inspiration was gathered from natural forms, structures, flowers, plants and curved lines. You can easily see that in the examples below:
Curvy lines of Art Nouveau
Sexy brass ware on the doors
Lovely color and swags under the apron
Flowers and curvy lines
The ultimate in Art Nouveau design
Loads of reproductions were manufactured over the years, look in thrift and consignment stores for pieces that mimic the design.
Just to add confusion to the mix, the Arts and Craft movement was spreading across England at the same time, you know, William Morris and his contemporaries. Even though it's a more severe look, it still has a place in a Bohemian inspired room.
Arts and Craft inspired room
Are you getting the point that you could use just about any vintage or older style furnishings in Boho/Bohemian decorating? You're catching on......The Art Nouveau and Arts and Craft movements roughly left at the same time Art Deco was ushered in after WWI and into the 1930's, think Chrysler and Empire State Buildings and industrial manufacturing:
My own French Deco china hutch
Skyscraper inspired chair
Hercule Poirot would be comfy here
Gorgeous color, almost SW in design
Clean lines in this tall foyer piece
Stacked building inspired desk or dressing table
See the difference? Clean lines, industrial feeling, think Nora and Nick Charles of the Thin Man series. Martinis and chi-chi parties, socialites, movie stars and a new monied era, until it came crashing down in the 20's! Again, loads of reproductions if not under-valued pieces out there, keep your eyes open. Any of these pieces would be a wonderful focal point to a Boho inspired decor.
Well, that's just a quick overview of styles from the Bohemian decades and we're not even addressing Middle Eastern influences, Scandinavian pieces, Latin American possibilities and the thrift movement of the 1960's hippie culture, that's another article!As always, any picture not attributed is from the beloved Pinterest. Drop me a note and let me know what furniture you have in your Boho inspired room, I'd love to hear from you.
Friday, February 21, 2014
I haven't posted in about a month, time flies when your having fun! I am in the process of opening a retail furniture consignment store, loads of work to do, but I can hardly wait. The contractors are about 2 weeks behind schedule, but I still am working on an April 1st door opening! We shall see!
Here is the new store the first day at lease signing!
While I'm waiting until the next onslaught happens, I have to comment on this winter weather we've been having in the northeast. It is raining this morning, on top of 3 feet of snow on the roof and 6 feet on the ground. Luckily, no flooding for us, but loads of water in the streets. Should freeze solid tonight and make for an interesting day tomorrow!
But in the winter, our thoughts always wander to warmer weather. I thought of how clever some people are with their outside spaces in the summer months. Let's get some inspiration, shall we?
Truly an oasis
A summer house like this could make me stay home
Love the Turkish lanterns
Al fresco dining at it's best
Not really outdoor, but would work just the same
Can you say Provence?
Lovely reading spot on the balcony
Conservatory or under the eaves, it still works for me
Beach side bliss
Wow, lighting is stupendous!
Love the fabric on the pillows and the bamboo shade cloth
How about a space just between buildings?
On the deck
Garden retreat complete with Indian umbrella
Summer house perfection
I'm at a loss for words…..
Picnic under an olive tree…..
Riverside in the summer
Glamping
Under a porch roof like this, I could sip tea and dream
Outdoor showers count, right?
Fairy lights in the meadow
Fairy lights in the drive
Fairy lights in the pavers
Capiz shells on the ceiling for summer breezes
Add a false wall with a window to your deck….
Wow, inspiration aplenty! All these pix were found after hours of pouring through Pinterest. Share some with us in the comments, let us know how you will fix a space for yourself this summer!
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
I have seen some amazing design oriented projects over the years. I've seen cherubs painted on ceilings, huge taxidermy animals in foyers, a red velvet round bed in a master bedroom and once I saw live models as wallpaper. Lately I seen all kinds of vehicle photos where someone had a lot of time and/or money on their hands. I'm not talking about those Indian Taxis we all know about. If you don't know them here is a couple of pictures:
Bride-to-be in all her finery.
Boho taxi
Love them in the movie "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". No, I'm talking about regular rides. I included some trailers, those count as rides, don't they? Check these out:
Airstream luxury on the road
French-style Bohemian
Anyone for Glamping?
No more boring ride!
Love the traditional Gypsy wagon
Rolls Royce Phantom 1 1926
My kind of Chevy!
So you see, fellow Bohemian design lovers, the ideas do not stop at the doorstep. True lovers of the gendre find any way possible to add a little Boho into their lives!
Have any pix of a Boho ride? Tell me about it in the comments below and I'll share your pic!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
I just finished a re-do in a rental apartment, bland white everything. Everything was clean and tidy, just white, bland and no personality! The renter (my client) is camera shy, so I found a picture on my go-to Pinterest to give you an idea.
Lovely vintage but boring white bathroom
The obvious choice for this color-restricted renter was the shower curtain and mat. As I was shopping around for gorgeous choices, there weren't any. That I liked anyway. The retail stores were full of the usual choices. So what's a savvy decorator to do but go online! I found this marvelous site that I had used for labels and wall art in the past, Cafe Press. Check out some of their offerings:
Jewel tone heaven
Love the Celtic influences
Mod city wall art
Ribbons and spots
Fantasyland
Hungarian flowers
These are the regular type of nylon shower curtain that is easily hung up with rings on a shower bar. But the patterns are fabulous! I typed in "Bohemian" in the select category bar and it said over 160 choices! Don't forget the memory foam bath mats to mix and match. Thousands to pick from in all different gendre. I'm thinking I may put up one over my glass shower doors, just 'cause!Note: I am not getting any compensation from Cafe Press, I just wanted to share a wonderful resource for those that need color in a basic bathroom without permanently changing the blah.Have fun shopping the site and let me know which ones are favorites by leaving a comment!
About Me
My name is Michelle Raymond and I've been in the design field for over 25 years. I love design and incorporating beautiful things into everyday life. Design work is my passion.
I specialize in the selection of the perfect color, artwork and accessories for a space. One of my services I enjoy most is helping people downsize their homes; incorporating old cherished pieces into their new space while adding in new, modern twists.
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About the Show:
The “Forever and a Day Away” series started as a simple illustration in an adventure story. The title spoke to the long journey through the mountains, but has come to represent much more as the fine art series took form. Forever and a day away is how long it feels to complete each intricate piece. On a much deeper level, forever and a day is how long it takes for the artist to feel she has found artistic success through endless discovery and experimentation while constantly battling the inner critic.
About the Artist:
Avery works with a variety of clients to develop spaces into creative areas that reflect their lifestyle, work style, environment and personal taste. She paints with a modern simplicity, bold but not overwhelming, perfectly suitable for any home or business environment. Wall murals are her specialty. Avery also paints unique furnishings and other pieces to accent her painted spaces.
Avery studied Fine Arts and English at Clemson University. She started Avery O Design to share her love of art and design with other Austin area residents while still dedicating time to life’s many great adventures. In a few short years Avery O Design has transformed from a weekend side project to a full time creative enterprise serving Austin businesses and families alike.
Avery lives with her husband and two sons south of the river in Austin, Texas, where she spends her days playing, painting and doing more laundry than she’d like to talk about.
Artist Interview:
SprATX: Tell us a little about you and your path as a visual artist.
Avery O: Throughout my life I’ve enjoyed making art, but never thought of it as a possible career path. I didn’t trust in my own abilities and also fully bought in to the concept of the starving artist. I didn’t want to starve, so I pursued other things. My current career path has been mostly accidental, as I’ve since learned to trust what the world is telling me. I started painting nurseries and kids rooms for friends and acquaintances during a short and unsatisfying trial as a stay-at-home mom after my second was born. It was an excuse to get out of the house for long stretches of time and make a little extra money. I realized how much I liked it and soon afterwards opened my business, Avery O Design. I worked as a painter for a number of years before I was actually able to call myself an artist and trust that what I was making was good. I’ve learned to listen to my audience when developing my artistic style and new bodies of work and walk through the doors that open for me.
I have a fairly clean, modern illustrative style based on line work and patterns. All of the places I’ve lived have subconsciously influenced this style. I grew up overseas, in Singapore and Dubai, then moved to Louisiana and Texas for my middle and high school years. I claim New Orleans as home, as that’s where my family roots are. The patterns of Arabic art, line work of batik fabrics, and vibrancy and joy of New Orleans as a whole have inspired the style and feeling of my work. I’ve been in Austin for thirteen years and have a pretty fantastic South Austin life with my darling husband and our two somewhat feral and hilarious sons.
SprATX: Talk about the new body of work you’re currently working on. What’s the meaning behind it?
Avery O: I utilize a lot of line work and repetitive patterns in my art. My lines weave through the various mediums and are fully represented in my murals, illustration and now, fine art pieces. My current and first fine art series, Forever and a Day Away, uses repeating lines and patterns with color blocking to create simple landscapes. I fell upon this series accidentally, and am now in love with the zen-like monotony of creating these pieces. There is something really calming about the slow layering and building of each piece. It’s basically art therapy for all my Trump-induced anxiety.
SprATX: You have both a creative career and a family at home, what are the challenges you’ve faced finding a happy balance?
Avery O: My creative career is both because of and for my family. I never would have allowed myself the opportunity to quit a steady job and attempt a freelancer life without the excuse of babies to care for. I continued to pursue this career because of the flexibility it afforded me and my family. I plan work projects around school hours and holidays and am able to spend a lot of time with my boys. It’s such a blessing, but also a challenge as my work time is limited. I schedule mural work between 8 am and 3 pm, then sneak in a few hours of illustration or home studio time in the afternoons and evenings between homework, after school activities, play dates, dinner and bed time. I love what I do, and wish I could have a 50 or 60 hour work week. I always seem to have enough on my plate with commissions and personal projects to fill that amount of time. I’ve had to learn to say no to projects, which is hard because I always want to be creating and doing more.
SprATX: Share why you love Austin, TX.
Avery O: Austin has such a chill, anything goes vibe. There’s not a whole lot of pretension which is really refreshing. We have million dollar homes, a family of goats and a home-made sweat lodge all on our neighborhood block, happily co-existing. It’s a city where I never feel underdressed and can wear the same pair of overalls everyday for two weeks without shame. Austin is a place where everyone seems cool because there is no set definition of what cool is. And you can get good tacos for every meal, which I often do.
Avery O: When I first decided to start a painting business I reached out to an artist I found online to get advice. She shot me down pretty quickly and told me that since I was competition she wouldn’t share advice with me. I assumed that I was now in a competitive solo industry and kept to myself after that. Thank goodness other artists reached out to bring me into their fold over the years. I have now seen what an incredibly supportive and collaborative artist community Austin really has. SprATX is the epitome of that supportive artist community. It is a group that knows that our city needs a vibrant and successful artist community for any individual artist to find success. The access to the SprATX knowledge and space to create has been invaluable for me. This is the first time that I have ever created a full body of work to show, and I am so grateful for the opportunity.
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We’re telling our story and people are listening
Jun 26, 2017, 08:00 AM
by
Randy Kron, INFB President
As a group, we probably haven’t done a great job of telling the story of agriculture in our local communities and to a greater extent, to our fellow Hoosiers. We’re farmers after all, not storytellers. Our time is better spent in the field.
But telling our story is important, so important in fact that we have included it as one of the key priorities of our strategic plan. And I’m proud to say we have done a much better job in recent weeks of sharing who we are and what we do.
Recently the marketing team has added Molly Zentz as a PR manager for our brand. Molly’s primary responsibility is to share our news with the community. And since Molly has been on board, we’ve shared a lot.
First, for example was the hay donation program last March that was organized by John Canary, Phil Ramsey and other INFB members to provide much-needed hay to farmers and ranchers affected by the devastating wildfires in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It was a great volunteer effort, typical of the spirit in all farmers. And it was worth sharing. We told the story of compassion and goodwill to the state’s media, and we received quite a bit of coverage – 10 stories in all in Marion, Pulaski, Johnson, Lawrence, Henry, Jasper, Huntington and Spencer counties. John Canary and Phil and Cindy Ramsey soon became familiar faces to the Indiana media.
With April came the end of the legislative session and our chance to talk about the role Farm Bureau played in the passage of the road funding bill and a state budget that recognizes the importance of agriculture. Our public policy team conducted 10 separate interviews with ag media and political reporters across the state, more media interest than we’ve seen after a legislative session in a long, long time.
And there couldn’t have been a bigger story for the month of May than the weather and the havoc it wreaked. Heavy rains and cold temperatures throughout the month spelled disaster for our planting season. Many of us couldn’t get out into the fields for weeks. Just as we thought things started to look better, the rains came again to wash away our efforts.
The weather was a huge story and we wanted to make sure other Hoosiers knew the seriousness of the issue – from the cold temperatures in the northern part of the state to the flooding in the south. We reached out to several reporters throughout Indiana and their interest was great. We had a total of 23 stories – including, print, radio and television where reporters interviewed INFB members from all parts of the state who grew corn and soybeans and gave them a chance to tell the story of agriculture and its vulnerability to Mother Nature.
The folks in our marketing department give what they call an “ad value” to all the media coverage we receive. What that means is that if we would have purchased advertising for all of those media placements I just mentioned, it would have cost Farm Bureau nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Instead, all it cost us was some effort from Molly.
I expect we will have many more stories to tell as the year progresses and many opportunities to increase the awareness of agriculture throughout the state. So stay tuned.
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Israel Faces Deepening Isolation, Kerry Warns
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace mission to the Middle East is semi-quixotic, if not wholly quixotic. I doubt he’ll reach his goal of negotiating a final-status agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The two sides haven’t even agreed yet to the topics they’ll discuss in negotiations.
But we should give Kerry this: He has managed to at least partially capture the attention of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. I say partially because the Netanyahu government’s self-destructive West Bank settlement program continues apace (though the latest round of construction is scheduled to take place on territory that would almost certainly be granted to Israel in final-status talks).
There are some early signs that Netanyahu is realizing the price his country may one day pay for its settlements, in particular those near Palestinian population centers. He met recently with some of Israel’s leading manufacturers, who expressed their worry that their products may one day be boycotted in Europe, a worry he shares. Kerry, capitalizing on this anxiety, has warned Netanyahu in recent weeks that if the current peace talks bear no fruit, Israel may soon be facing an international delegitimization campaign — in his words — “on steroids.”
According to officials I have spoken to, who requested anonymity so they could speak freely, Kerry thinks the one thing Netanyahu fears as much as Iran’s nuclear program is the growing power of the international movement that seeks to isolate, scapegoat and demonize his country. (One caveat: Kerry, like most Americans who know Netanyahu, understands that the prime minister’s narrowest but most potent fear is of being unseated.)
Although Netanyahu is worried that the campaign to make Israel appear to be an illegitimate state could hurt the country’s robust economy, he is said to be even more worried that this campaign will erode Israel’s ability to defend itself. The theory is simple: A country seen as illegitimate, not only by the powerful Arab lobby at the United Nations but also by Western powers, will have little standing if it is forced to retaliate against sustained attacks from groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which remain committed to Israel’s extermination. Netanyahu thinks that the campaign to delegitimize Israel could force Western powers to rein in Israel, or at the very least, rush to condemn it before it has the chance to defend itself.
Netanyahu’s two fears are related. Israel will find it increasingly difficult to one day act against the Iranian nuclear program if it is hobbled by the hostility of the international community. For years, I’ve been arguing that Israel would find more sympathy in its campaign against Iranian nukes if it was more willing to compromise with the Palestinians. Netanyahu, unlike other prominent figures on the Israeli right, has agreed in principle to a two-state solution, but he hasn’t done very much to bring it about — he has only grudgingly and temporarily suspended expansions of the settlements located on land that would almost surely be part of the future state of Palestine.
But Netanyahu has lately been leaning in the direction of the Israeli political center. And by doing this he is making the truculent base of his party, the Likud, quite nervous. Netanyahu, I’m told, has taken to disparaging some of the politicians to his right as “insane.” These are the politicians who delude themselves into thinking that their country is a superpower, and can behave as one.
So, when the European Union recently issued guidelines that will restrict its members from (among other things) funding research conducted on the far side of Israel’s 1967 borders, these politicians decided, in their wisdom, that Israel should engage in a partial boycott of the EU. They’re demanding that Israel withdraw from a lucrative EU-sponsored research-funding program to protest the settlement exclusion guidelines. Netanyahu also finds the new EU guidelines reprehensible (and they are, in fact, highly problematic, potentially placing settlers in the far-flung Jewish colonies of the West Bank in the same category as Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City). But he understands that he can’t win a fight with the entire EU if it decides to enact a partial boycott of his country. On the one hand, EU hostility toward Israel isn’t particularly helpful to Kerry or his chief negotiator, Martin Indyk. Threats directed at Israel from Europe, the continent whose cruelty and hatred helped create a need for a Jewish national refuge in the first place, may, in the short term, bolster Israel’s far-right, which could handcuff Netanyahu in negotiations.
On the other hand, the majority of Israelis are sensible, and they know, as Netanyahu knows, that Israel can’t exist in an entirely friendless world. Partly because of the actions of the EU, Netanyahu is listening to Kerry’s warnings with newly open ears.
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The Hayloft has one bedroom (twin beds), large living area, open plan kitchen and en-suite bathroom. WiFi is available for our guests. We are happy to accept well-behaved dogs. We supply all linen and we also have a washing machine.
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Vrijeme dolaska je od 10:00 do 02:00 (sljedeći dan).
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Janae
prosinac 2013.
We had a wonderful stay with Basma! Our only regret was that we could not stay longer! Basma is a wonderful, giving host with a beautiful, hospitable spirit. She offers her guests so much warmth and care! We had a wonderful time visiting with Basma over snacks and meals, and gett…
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listopad 2013.
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Cool Grease Concrete Pomade Review
Because you guys wanted this review the most, I decided to hold it off for last. It’s interesting to see how my reviews of heavier products get a lot more hits than the lighter pomades…no matter how well or bad the heavyweights perform. There are many people who (falsely) believe they need a heavy pomade…but of course, heavy in what sense? There’s are of different ways a pomade can be heavy…sadly, it’s been all grouped into one category. Simplifying what is actually complicated.
This is Cool Grease Concrete…what they consider to be their ‘hardest’ pomade.
Almost every aspect of this jar caters to its name, Concrete. The grayscale color scheme and bold serif font choice. Yes, it’s all nifty and shit…but I don’t like any of it. It’s like whatever.
Scent
You can say it smells like literal concrete. In actuality, it smells like an unscented wax-heavy product…but that actually smells a lot like concrete. It has a dusty-hint to it…and shit…the name will sway your opinion.
Texture
The pomade, unlike many other heavy pomades, is soft and pasty in texture. It scoops out easily and has a feel similar to that of Cool Grease Flat (Green).
Application
It departs from most of the other Cool Grease products in this aspect. Unlike the other pomades that are relatively slick, Concrete has some serious grip to it. This makes it difficult to apply — not impossible, but difficult.
Slickness
This pomade is a matte pomade and pretty dry in feel…that causes the pomade to not grip very well with itself. You’ll get a strays with Concrete — no doubt about that.
Shine
Nonexistent. It’s a matte product after all.
Strength
The pomade is strong…in some ways. It still has a bounce to it but that is well-subdued by the dryness of the pomade. It’s not very strong in terms of its strength-to-weight ratio. It has a brute force strength to it.
Endurance
The pomade is nothing special when it comes to enduring the whole day. Though you can probably get away with it, I’d still recommend you be ready to restyle.
Restyleability
Unlike the first time I used this pomade, it didn’t dry up. This made it easy to restyle.
Hardness
Nope. Didn’t dry. Well…at least, this time.
Rinseability
Washes out one hunnid if you got a good amount of shampoo to use.
Conclusion
It’s a good product but not for me. As you guys already know, I’m looking for a well-balanced pomade. I’m also unsure of whether this pomade can tame unruly hair. It’s heaviness/hardness is different from other pomades and doesn’t seem strong in terms of its control. I’d highly recommend the Cool Grease XX over Concrete.
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Kabam has acquired Wild Shadow Studios, the maker of popular online combat game Realm of the Mad God. The deal shows that Kabam, a maker of hardcore social online games, continues its quest to pick up titles that are played by hardcore gamers regardless of platform.
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Socrates is widely regarded as one of the individuals that shaped the world. It is believed by some that its history would be profoundly different had he not existed. In some ways, the person you choose to be your instructorfor advanced level training may have a profound effect on your diving in the history of your...
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An Introduction to the Science of Tafsir
By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
The literal meaning of tafsir in the Arabic language is to open or to explain, interpret or comment. Technically, the science of tafsir is a branch of knowledge in which the meanings of the Quran are explained and its injunctions and wisdoms are described openly and clearly (al-Burhan). Addressing the Holy Prophet, the Glorious Quran says:
We revealed the Quran to you so that you explain to the people what has been sent down to them. (16:44)
The Holy Quran also says:
Surely, Allah did a great favor to Muslims when He sent a Messenger to them from among them who would recite His verses before them and purify them and teach them the Book and the Wisdom. (3:164)
Keeping this in view, it should be noted that the Holy Prophet not only taught the words of the Quran to the people but he also explained them in detail. This is why, on some occasions, the revered Companions had to devote years at a time to learning a single surah.
Until such time that the Holy Prophet graced the mortal world with his presence, seeking the explanation of a Quranic verse did not pose much of a problem. When the Companions faced any difficulty in understanding a verse, they would simply turn to the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace). Later, however, it became necessary that the tafsir of the Quran be preserved as a permanent branch of knowledge so that, along with the words of the Noble Quran, its correct meaning remain protected and conserved for the Muslim Ummah as well, and so heretics and deviants could find no room for distortion of its meanings. So, with the grace and tawfiq of Allah Almighty, the Ummah accomplished this wonderful mission with such efficiency that today we can say without any doubt or fear of rebuttal that not only have the words of this Last Book of Allah been protected but also its correct explanation transmitted to us through the Holy Prophet and his Companions.
In what ways did the Muslim Ummah protect and preserve the science? What extreme hardships did they face in its pursuit? How many stages did this struggle encompass? All this has a long and fascinating history which cannot be taken up in the present context. The intention here is to mention briefly the sources of Quranic exegesis and how these sources have been utilized in explaining the Noble Quran by the countless books on tafsir available in countless languages.
The sources of Quranic exegesis are six:
1. Quran:
The first source of the knowledge of tafsir is the Quran itself. Accordingly, it happens very often that a certain point which is brief and requires explanation is invariably clarified by some other verse of the Quran. For instance, in the following verse of Surat al-Fatihah, “Guide us on the straight path, the path of those on whom You have blessed…”, it is not clear here as to who are those whom Allah Almighty has blessed. But, in another verse, they have been identified very clearly where it is said:
So, these are the people whom Allah Almighty has blessed, being the prophets, their true followers, the martyrs (in the way of Allah) and the righteous. (4:69)
Therefore, when commentators explain a Quranic verse, they first check to see if a tafsir of the verse is already existent elsewhere in the Quran itself. If such an explanatory verse exists, they elect to adhere to it as their first choice.
2. Hadith:
The words and the deeds of the Holy Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) are called hadith, and as it has been stated earlier, Allah Almighty sent him with the Quran solely for the purpose of explaining, openly and explicitly, the correct meanings of the Quran to people. Consequently, he discharged this duty with grace and excellence both by word and deed. In fact, his whole blessed life is, after all, a practical tafsir of Quran. It is for this reason that respected commentators, in order to understand the Quran, have laid the greatest emphasis on the hadith as the second source of tafsir and it is in the light of hadiths that they have determined the meanings of the Book of Allah.
However, because all sorts of narrations – sound, weak, and fabricated – are included in hadith, research-oriented commentators do not accept a narration as trustworthy until it withstands the principles used in the scrutiny of hadith narrations. Hence, simply finding a hadith report somewhere and then employing it as a source of Quranic commentary is not correct because of the very likely possibility that the report is weak or even contradictory to stronger reports. Without a doubt, hadith verification and criticism is a delicate matter and venturing therein is the exclusive prerogative of those who have spent years in mastering this field of knowledge.
3. Narrations of Companions:
The noble Sahabah, or Companions (may Allah be pleased with them all), had received their education directly from the Holy Prophet (upon him blessings and peace). In addition, they were personally present on the scene when verses were revealed, and they had themselves witnessed the circumstances and backgrounds of the Quranic revelation. Therefore, naturally, the recorded statements of these blessed souls are far more authentic and trustworthy in explaining the Noble Quran. Hence, in the case of verses the explanation of which is not found in the Quran or Hadith, statements recorded from the noble Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) are given the highest priority. Consequently, if there is a consensus of Companions on the explanation of a certain verse, the commentators follow just that and explaining it in any way otherwise is not considered permissible.
If the statements of Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) differ in the interpretation (tafsir) of a certain verse, then the commentators who come later examine them in the light of various proofs and arguments and then determine which interpretation or explanation should be given preference. In handling such a situation, an important corpus of rules and regulations already codified under the sciences of Usul al-Hadith and Usul al-Tafsir have been developed, a detailed discussion of which is not appropriate here.
4. Narrations of the Successors:
After the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) come the Successors (Tabi‘in). The latter learnt the tafsir of Quran directly from the former. Therefore, their statements too have great importance in the science of tafsir, although a difference of opinion among scholars exists on whether the statements of the Successors are considered decisive in tafsir. Their importance, nonetheless, cannot be denied. (al-Itqan, 2:179)
5. The Arabic Language:
Since the Quran was revealed in the Arabic language, in order to accurately explain the Quran it is necessary to have a complete mastery over it. There are several verses of the Quran for which there happen to be neither any attending circumstance of revelation nor any related juristic or scholastic question. Therefore, in their explanation, neither the sayings of the Holy Prophet nor the statements of the Sahabah or Tabi‘in have been transmitted. Hence, the only means through which such verses can be explained is the Arabic language, and it is on the basis of language alone that they are elucidated. Additionally, should there be some difference in the tafsir of a certain verse, then also the science of linguistics is used to run a test of veracity between varying opinions.
6. Deliberation and Deduction:
The last source of tafsir consists of deliberation and deduction. The subtleties and mysteries of the Quran are an ocean with no shore. Therefore, the more a person who has been blessed with insight into the Islamic sciences by Allah Almighty deliberates into it, the more he discovers ever-new mysteries and subtleties. As a result, commentators do present the outcomes of their respective deliberations as well, but the mysteries and subtleties so described are found acceptable only when they do not contradict the five sources mentioned above. So, should a person, while explaining the Quran, come up with a subtle point or independent judgment which is contrary to the Quran and Sunnah, Consensus (Ijma‘), language, or the statements of Companions and Successors, or stands in conflict with another principle of Shari‘ah, then it will have no credence. Some mystics in the past sought to describe such mysteries and subtleties in tafsir but investigative scholars of the Ummah did not consider them trustworthy because the personal opinion of any person that contravenes the basic principles of the Quran, Sunnah and Shariah have obviously no weight. (al-Itqan, 2:184)
Rules Pertaining to Israelite Narrations:
Judaica, or Isra’iliyyat, are narratives that have reached us through Jewish and Christian tradition. It should be noted that early commentators used to preserve all sorts of narrations which reached them from identifiable sources. Many of these narrations were Judaica, which therefore necessitates knowledge of what they truly are.
Some Companions and their Successors first belonged to the religions of the People of the Book. Later, when they became Muslims and learnt the Quran, they came across several events relating to past communities in the Quran and which they had also read in the books of their previous religion. Therefore, while referring to the events mentioned in the Quran they would describe other details to Muslims which they had seen in the books of their old religion. These very details found their way into the books of tafsir under the name of isra’iliyyat. Hafiz ibn Kathir, who is one of the authentic research scholars, has written that there are three kinds of Isra’iliyyat:
1. Narrations the truth of which is proved from evidences in the Quran and Sunnah. For example, the drowning of Pharaoh and the ascent of Sayyiduna Musa (upon him be peace) onto Mount Tur (Sinai).
2. Narrations the falsity of which is proved from evidences in the Quran and Sunnah. For example, it appears in Judaic narrations that Sayyiduna Sulayman (upon him be peace) had become (God forbid) an apostate in his later years. Its refutation is clearly given in the Quran, where it is said, “It was not Sulayman who became an infidel, but the devils did become infidels.” (2:102)
To cite yet another example, it finds mention in Judaic narrations that (God forbid) Sayyiduna Dawud (upon him be peace) committed adultery with the wife of his general (Uriah), or that having him killed through all sorts of contrivances, ended up marrying his wife. This too is a blatant lie, and taking such narrations to be false is imperative.
3. Narrations regarding which the Quran, the Sunnah, and the Shar‘iah are silent. In regards to such narrations, the prophetic teaching is to observe silence and neither confirm nor falsify. There is, however, a difference of opinion among scholars whether or not reporting such narrations is permissible. Hafiz Ibn Kathir has given a decisive ruling that reporting them is permissible but doing so is useless because they cannot be taken to be authentic.(Muqaddamah Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
Misconceptions about Tafsir
It is hoped that the details provided above have made it clear that the tafsir (exegesis or interpretation) of the Quran is an extremely delicate and difficult undertaking for which knowledge of the Arabic language alone is not sufficient. In fact, it is necessary to have expertise in all related branches of knowledge. Therefore, scholars say that a mufassir or commentator of the Quran must have vast and deep knowledge of the syntax, etymology, rhetoric, and literature of the Arabic language, as well as, that of prophetic traditions, principles governing jurisprudence and exegesis, doctrinal articles of belief, and scholastics. The reason is that one cannot arrive at correct conclusions while explaining the Quran without adequacy in these fields of knowledge.
It is regrettable that a dangerous epidemic has overtaken Muslims lately whereby many people have started taking the ability to read Arabic alone to be sufficient for the interpretation of the Quran. As a result, anyone who attains the ability to read ordinary Arabic starts passing out opinions in the domain of Quranic exegesis. In fact, it has been noticed on occasion that people having just passable familiarity with the Arabic language and who have yet to master their Arabic to perfection take it upon themselves to engage in explaining the Quran, even going to the limit of finding faults with classical commentators. Bad come to worse, there are some subtle tyrants who would, by simply reading the translation, imagine that they have become scholars of the Quran, not even feeling shy of criticizing commentators of great stature.
It should be understood very clearly that this is a highly dangerous pattern of behavior which, in matters of religion, leads to fatal straying. As regards secular arts and sciences, everyone can claim to understand that should a person simply learn the English language and then proceed to study books of the medical sciences would not be acknowledged as a physician by any reasonable person anywhere in the world, and certainly not trustworthy enough to take care of somebody’s life unless he has been educated and trained in a medical college. Therefore, having learnt English is not all one needs to become a doctor.
Similarly, should anyone knowing English hope to become an engineer just by reading through engineering books, it is clear that no sane man would accept him as an engineer. The reason is that this technical expertise cannot be acquired simply by learning the English language. It, rather, requires a formal training in the discipline under the supervision and guidance of expert teachers. When these stringent requirements are inevitable in order to become a doctor or engineer, how can the learning of Arabic language alone become sufficient in matters relating to the Quran and hadith? In every department of life, everyone knows and acts upon the principle that every art or science has its own particular method of learning and its own peculiar conditions. Unless these are fulfilled, the learner’s opinion in any given art or science is not be considered trustworthy. If that is so, how can the Quran and the Sunnah become so unclaimed a field of inquiry that there be no need to acquire any art or science in order to explain them, and anyone who so wishes starts passing out opinions in this matter?
Some people say that the Quran has itself stated that: “And surely We have made the Quran easy for the sake of good counsel.” And since the noble Quran is a simple book, its explanation hardly needs much of a support from any art or science. This argument, however, is terribly fallacious and based on lack of intellect and abundance of superficiality.
The fact is that the verses of the Quran are of two kinds. First, there are verses that offer general good counsel, relate lesson-oriented events, and introduce subjects dealing with taking of warning and acting on sound advice. Examples include verses that discuss the mortality of the world, the accounts of Paradise and Hell, the discourses likely to instill a fear of God and a concern for the Hereafter, and other very simple realities of life. Verses of this kind are undoubtedly easy and anyone who knows the Arabic language can benefit from their good counsel by understanding them.
It is in relation to teachings of this kind that, in the verse cited above, that it was said that “We have made them easy”. Hence, the expression “for the sake of good counsel” in the verse itself is pointing towards this meaning.
Contrary to this, the other kind of verses consists of those which include injunctions, laws, articles of faith, and intellectual topics. Understanding verses of this kind as they should be rightfully understood and then deducing and formulating rulings from them cannot be achieved without insight and a permeating reach into various Islamic areas of knowledge. This is why the noble Companions, whose mother-tongue was Arabic and who did require any linguistic training, would spend long periods of time in learning the Quran from the Holy Prophet. ‘Allamah Suyuti has reported from Imam Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami that the Companions, who formally learned the Quran from the Holy Prophet, such as Sayyiduna ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) and ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud (may Allah be pleased with him), have told us that after having learnt ten verses of the Quran from the Holy Prophet they would not proceed on to the next verses until such time that they had covered all that was intellectually and practically involved in the light of those verses. They used to say: “We learnt the Quran, knowledge, and action all together.” (al-Itqan 2:176)
Consequently, as reported in the Muwatta of Imam Malik, Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) spent a full eight years memorizing Surat al-Baqarah. In the Musnad of Ahmad, Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), says that “the one amongst us who would learn Surat al-Baqarah and Surat Aal ‘Imran would have his status enormously elevated.” (Ibid)
Worth pondering is why these noble Companions, whose mother-tongue was Arabic, who had the highest degree of expertise in poetry and letters, and who would have no difficulty in committing long qasidah poems perfectly to memory, would need up to eight years just to memorize one surah of the Quran and understand its meanings? The only plausible reason is that they understood that proficiency in the Arabic language was not enough to be considered learned in the Quran. In order to do so, it was also necessary to seek the benefit of the teaching and the company of the Holy Prophet, and it was the Holy Prophet himself who once said:
Whoever says anything about the Quran without knowledge, he should make his abode in Hell. (Abu Dawud, from al-Itqan 2:179)
The Holy Prophet also said:
Whoever speaks about the Quran on the basis of his opinion, even if says something true he has still made a mistake. (Abu Dawud, Nasa’i)
Famous Commentaries of the Quran
Countless commentaries of the Glorious Quran have been written since the blessed period of the prophethood. In fact, no other book of the world has received as much attention of the scholars as the Quran. Introducing all these commentaries is not possible even in a detailed book, much less in a brief introduction such as this. However, we still wish to very briefly introduce the major commentaries that served as primary reference sources for Quranic exegesis today.
Tafsir Ibn Jarir: The real name of this tafsir is Jami‘ al-Bayan and it was compiled by ‘Allamah Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (died 310 AH). ‘Allamah Tabari was a highly rated commentator, muhaddith (hadith expert), and historian. It is said that he continued to write for forty years continuously and would write forty pages every day (al-Bidayah wa ‘l-Nihayah 11:145). There are charges of being Shi‘ah leveled against him but researchers have refuted this charge, and the truth of the matter is that he is a highly regarded Sunni scholar.
In thirty volumes, his tafsir enjoys the status of having served as a primary source for later commentaries. In his explanation of the verses, he quotes different scholars and then goes on to prove the position which, according to him, is weightier in light of proofs. It must, however, be admitted that narrations of all sorts, sound and weak, found a place in his commentary. Because of this, not every narration presented by him can be relied upon. In reality, he was aiming through his commentary to collect and compile all the narrations that were available to him so that the collected material could be put to use later on. Conceded is the fact that he has given the chain of reporters along with each narration so that whoever wishes to investigate the chain of narrators can do so and decide for himself if the narrations are true or false.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir: Hafiz ‘Imad al-din Abu ‘l-Fida’ Isma‘il ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi‘i (died 774 AH), a distinguished research scholar of the eighth century, is the author of this commentary. It has been published in four volumes. In this commentary, emphasis has been laid on explanatory hadiths. A special feature is his criticism as a hadith expert on different narrations, and from this point of view his book holds a distinct place among all books of tafsir.
Tafsir al-Qurtubi: Its full name is al-Jami‘ li Ahkam al-Qur’an. It was written by the famous learned writer and research scholar of Andalusia (Spain), Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abi Bakr ibn Farah al-Qurtubi (died 671 AH). He was a follower of the Maliki school of fiqh and was renowned for his worship and piety. The basic objective of this book was to deduce juristic injunctions and rulings from the Quran. While doing so, however, he has also provided the explanation of verses, research into difficult words, discussion of diacritical marks and the elegance of style and composition (rhetoric), and related numerous hadiths in his tafsir (and quite ably so). This book is in twelve volumes and has been published numerous times.
Al-Tafsir al-Kabir: This is the work of Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (died 606 AH). Its real name is Mafatih al-Ghayb but is popularly known as al-Tafsir al-Kabir. Imam Razi is considered an imam of Islamic theology. Therefore, great emphasis has been laid in his tafsir on rational and scholastic debates and on the refutation of false sects. The truth is that his tafsir is a unique key to the Quran. The refreshing manner in which the meanings of the Quran have been clarified and the mutual link of the Quranic verses established is all too praiseworthy. Most likely, Imam Razi himself wrote his tafsir as far as Surat al-Fath. Onwards from there, he could not complete it. The remaining part of the tafsir, from Surat al-Fath to the end, was completed by Qadi Shihab al-Din ibn Khalil al-Khawli al-Dimashqi (died 639 AH) or Shaykh Najm al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qamuli (died 777 AH). (Kashf al-Zunun 2:477)
Imam Razi has particularly emphasized scholastic debates and the refutation of false sects in accordance with the dictates of his time. While doing so, his discussions became quite lengthy at several places. Therefore, some people have made the following comment on his tafsir: “There is everything in this (book) except tafsir”. But this comment is a terrible injustice to al-Tafsir al-Kabir. That which is the truth has already been stated above, namely, that this tafsir enjoys a high status as far as the resolution of the meanings of the Quran is concerned. At the same time, there are places where he has explained verses of the Quran in contradiction to the consensus of the Ummah. Such places, however, are very few and far between in a lengthy, eight-volume masterpiece.
al-Bahr al-Muhit: This was written by ‘Allamah Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati al-Andalusi (died 754 AH), a master of syntax and rhetoric in addition to many other Islamic fields of learning. As a result of his mastery of language, his tafsir is replete with discussions on syntax and rhetoric. He places special stress on investigating the words of every verse, the difference in structures, and rhetorical devices.
Ahkam al-Qur’an li ’l-Jassas: This was written by Imam Abu Bakr al-Jassas al-Razi (died 370 AH), a scholar who occupies a distinguished place among Hanafi jurists. The deduction of juristic injunctions and rulings from the noble Quran is the subject of this book. Instead of explaining verses in serial continuity, he has taken up the juristic details as called for by verses which consist of juristic injunctions. Several other books have also been written on this subject, but this book enjoys a prominent place among them.
al-Durr al-Manthur: This was authored by ‘Allamah Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (died 910 AH). Its full name is al-Durr al-Manthur fi ’l-Tafsir bi ’l-Ma’thur. Here ‘Allamah Suyuti has tried to collect all narrations about the tafsir of Quran that he was able to find. Several hadith scholars such as Hafiz Ibn Jarir, Imam Baghawi, Ibn Marduwayh, Ibn Hibban, and Ibn Majah had earlier attempted to do the same and collect as many narrations as possible themselves. ‘Allamah Suyuti assembled the narrations they had all collected in his book. But, rather than include the complete chain of narrators for each tradition, he found it sufficient to simply name the particular author who has presented that narration under his authority. If necessary, one can go refer to the original source to verify the status of the chains. Since his purpose was simply to collect a mass of narrations, all sorts of narrations, sound and weak, were included in his book. Hence, every narration allowed entry by him cannot be considered reliable without investigation into its authority. There are occasions when ‘Allamah Suyuti does indicate with each narration the degree of its authority. But, as he is known to be fairly lenient in respect to hadith criticism, it is difficult to fully rely on his judgments.
al-Tafsir al-Mazhari: This was written by Qadi Thana’ullah Panipatti (died 1225 AH). He named his book al-Tafsir al-Mazhari after the name of his spiritual master, Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janan al-Dihlawi. This tafsir is very simple and clear and extremely useful for locating brief explanations of Quranic verses. Along with the elucidation of Quranic words, he also included related hadiths in ample detail, and in doing so, he made an effort to accept narrations after much more scrutiny than that of other commentaries.
Ruh al-Ma‘ani: The full name of this tafsir is Ruh al-Ma‘ani fi Tafsir al-Qur’an al-‘Azim wa ’l-Sab‘ al-Mathani and it was written by ‘Allamah Mahmud al-Alusi (died 1270 AH), the famous scholar of the last Period of Baghdad. The commentary comprises of thirty volumes. He made his best possible effort to make the tafsir comprehensive. There are exhaustive discussions on language, syntax, recitations, rhetoric, jurisprudence, creed, scholastics, philosophy, astronomy, mysticism, and related hadith. He made an attempt to leave no intellectual aspect pertaining to a verse unexplained. In the case of hadith narratives as well, the author was more cautious when compared to other commentators. From this angle it is a very comprehensive commentary and no future venture in connection with the tafsir of the Quran can afford to ignore its assistance.
This article was taken from Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani’s introduction to Ma‘ariful Qur’an. It was translated by Dr. Muhammad Shamim and edited by Bilal Ali.
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Obama Supreme Court Is the Stuff of Nightmares
CURT LEVEY3 Nov 2012
Conservatives rightfully fear a second term for President Obama, but seem barely aware of the biggest threat posed by his re-election. Yes, there’s plenty of reason to worry about what Obama will pressure Congress into or do unilaterally through executive orders. However, it’s the third branch of government – the judiciary – that will likely give Obama the greatest opportunity to fulfill his dream of a radical makeover for America. That’s because the United States Supreme Court is at a tipping point unseen since the 1930’s, and Barack Obama will likely be able to tip the Court far to the left if re-elected.
Here are the sobering facts. There are already four solid liberals among the nine Justices on the Court. Of the five center-right Justices, two – Kennedy and Scalia – will turn 80 in the final year of a second Obama term. Should either retire or die, Obama will put a reliable liberal on the Court (no Democratic president has failed to do so since JFK). The result will be a liberal majority on the Court that can do whatever it wants, unrestrained by the precedent and constitutional text that conservative judges look to.
How likely is this nightmare scenario? The following analysis of the probability should provide a wake-up call to any conservatives thinking of sitting out this election.
Although a 76 year old male, like Justice Scalia or Kennedy, will live another 9 years on average, it is unrealistic to assume that either Justice will be willing and able to work until his death. Of the eleven Justices who have left the Court since 1980, only William Rehnquist died on the bench.
The more relevant statistic is the average age at which recent Supreme Court Justices have left the bench. Going back to 1980, the average is 79 years of age. Based on that average, there is a roughly 50% probability that each of the two 76-year-old center-right Justices will leave the Court by the time he reaches age 80 in 2016.
Conservatives like to think that Scalia and Kennedy will do everything possible to wait out an Obama second term. However, Scalia has said that he’ll retire the moment he loses a step intellectually, and it’s hardly clear that the moderate Kennedy is committed to keeping his seat in Republican hands.
Do the math and you see that the probability that both Kennedy and Scalia will serve through the end of an Obama second term is about 25% (50% x 50%). It follows that there is a 75% chance (100% – 25%) that either Kennedy or Scalia will leave the Supreme Court in time for a re-elected President Obama to install a liberal majority on the Court. And that’s before considering the small but non-zero chance that Justice Thomas, Alito, or Roberts will die or retire by 2016.
Think about it: if Obama is re-elected, there’s a 75% chance of a return to the ultra-liberal Warren Court era that began with Earl Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice and persisted, past Warren’s 1969 retirement, into the 1970’s. During that time, the Supreme Court gave us Roe v. Wade, school busing, a ban on the death penalty, and a radical separation of church and state, to name just a few of the Court’s activist excesses. The Obama Court would probably be like the Warren Court on steroids. After all, with many of the excesses of the Warren Court still in place, the Obama Court would be starting from a jurisprudential point farther to the left.
To give people a better feel for what this would mean for America, I looked at the sort of decisions an Obama Supreme Court might issue. I narrowed them down to the ten worst rulings we might plausibly see:
TOP TEN WORST SUPREME COURT RULINGS IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED
#10 – A ban on voter ID laws, making it impossible to stop voter fraud.
#9 – Carte blanche for hate-speech laws that ban videos and other expression deemed offensive to Muslims and other minorities.
#8 – Abolition of the death penalty.
#7 – A prohibition on tuition vouchers being used for religious schools, crippling the school choice movement.
#6 – Elimination of all legal limits on racial preferences for minorities.
#5 – A requirement for taxpayer-funding of abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy.
#4 – Invention of a constitutional right to gay marriage that would trump all state laws and religious objections.
#3 – Striking down, as unconstitutional discrimination, any serious attempt to curtail the flow of illegal immigrants into the country or to deny them government benefits.
#2 – Elimination of an individual right to possess firearms.
#1 – Enshrinement of welfare and government-provided healthcare as constitutional rights, thus fulfilling Barack Obama’s dream of a Supreme Court willing to bring about “redistribution of wealth” by “break[ing] free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.” (quoting 2001 PBS interview with Obama)
To conservatives – and moderates as well – this list of possible Obama Court decisions is the stuff of nightmares and should be motivation enough to go to the polls this Tuesday, November 6th. However, to Barack Obama and other far-left believers in a “living Constitution,” it’s a fantasy wish list (reminding us which of the presidential candidate has the extreme social agenda).
The Supreme Court vacancy that turns Obama’s fantasy into a reality may still be a few years away. But your last chance to ensure it remains a fantasy is this Tuesday.
Curt Levey is a constitutional law attorney and President of the Committee for Justice in Washington, DC. He can be reached at @Curt_Levey on Twitter.
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Wrap-up: Richmond
The Richmond (VA) International Raceway hosted the Nationwide Series ToyotaCare 250 on Friday night and the Sprint Cup Toyota Owners 400 on Saturday night. The Camping World Truck Series returns to action with the SFP 250 on Friday, May 9 at Kansas Speedway. The latest results on the ARCA Racing Series and the NASCAR “Home Tracks” are also shown below.
NASCAR Sprint Cup SeriesTime Trials: Qualifying for the Sprint Cup Toyota Owners 400 was rained out on Friday. The starting lineup was set based upon the first practice speeds. No. 42 Chevrolet SS driver Kyle Larson was the fastest in that session and led the field to the green flag. He will not be credited with winning the pole. Larson was spun out after contact on the first lap, never led a lap but managed to finish on the lead lap in 16th place.Did Not Qualify: No. 77 Dave Blaney and No. 95 Michael McDowell.Winner:Joey Logano won the Toyota Owners 400, his fifth victory in 192 NSCS races. This is the No. 22 Ford Fusion driver's second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2014. Logano is the second driver to win two races in the 2014 season and locks in his spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint, barring he doesn't fall out of the top 30 in drivers' points or miss any races. This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 11 races at Richmond.Contingency Awards - (Start, Finish, Points):-3M Lap Leader: Jeff Gordon, #24 173 Laps (25,2,LEADER) -Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race: Hendrick Engines, #24 -American Ethanol Green Flag Restart Award: Brad Keselowski, #2 (2,4,7th) -Duralast Brakes "Brake in the Race": Kyle Larson, #42 (1,16,13th) -Sunoco Rookie of the Race: Kyle Larson, #42 -Mobil 1 Driver of the Race: Kyle Busch, #18 (19,3,4th) -Moog Problem Solver of Race: Joey Logano, #22 Crew Chief Todd Gordon 0.048 sec (17,WINNER,6th) -Sherwin-Williams Fastest Lap: Clint Bowyer, #15 (3,43,21st)
The Richmond (VA) International Raceway hosted the Nationwide Series ToyotaCare 250 on Friday night and the Sprint Cup Toyota Owners 400 on Saturday night. The Camping World Truck Series returns to action with the SFP 250 on Friday, May 9 at Kansas Speedway. The latest results on the ARCA Racing Series and the NASCAR “Home Tracks” are also shown below.
NASCAR Sprint Cup SeriesTime Trials: Qualifying for the Sprint Cup Toyota Owners 400 was rained out on Friday. The starting lineup was set based upon the first practice speeds. No. 42 Chevrolet SS driver Kyle Larson was the fastest in that session and led the field to the green flag. He will not be credited with winning the pole. Larson was spun out after contact on the first lap, never led a lap but managed to finish on the lead lap in 16th place.Did Not Qualify: No. 77 Dave Blaney and No. 95 Michael McDowell.Winner:Joey Logano won the Toyota Owners 400, his fifth victory in 192 NSCS races. This is the No. 22 Ford Fusion driver's second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2014. Logano is the second driver to win two races in the 2014 season and locks in his spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint, barring he doesn't fall out of the top 30 in drivers' points or miss any races. This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 11 races at Richmond.Contingency Awards - (Start, Finish, Points):-3M Lap Leader: Jeff Gordon, #24 173 Laps (25,2,LEADER) -Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race: Hendrick Engines, #24 -American Ethanol Green Flag Restart Award: Brad Keselowski, #2 (2,4,7th) -Duralast Brakes "Brake in the Race": Kyle Larson, #42 (1,16,13th) -Sunoco Rookie of the Race: Kyle Larson, #42 -Mobil 1 Driver of the Race: Kyle Busch, #18 (19,3,4th) -Moog Problem Solver of Race: Joey Logano, #22 Crew Chief Todd Gordon 0.048 sec (17,WINNER,6th) -Sherwin-Williams Fastest Lap: Clint Bowyer, #15 (3,43,21st)
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1815 - Marseille Edmond Dantes is young, in love with the beautiful Mercedes, and has just been named the captain of the merchant vessel, Pharaon. It seems as if there is nothing but happiness and prosperity in the young man's future. Unfortunately, Edmond's success has brought jealous enemies. Danglars wants his career and Fernand wants his fiancée. The two conspire against Edmond and frame him for treason. He is brought before Prosecutor deVillefort, who recognizes his innocence. Unfortunately, the Prosecutor is a man with his own secrets and he fears that freeing Edmond could bring them to light. He convicts Edmond and has him imprisoned in a dungeon from which no man has ever escaped.
1830 - The Château d'If: After fifteen years in his tiny cell, Edmon dhas nearly lost his sanity. Then he meets a fellow prisoner, the brilliant scholar and mystic Abbé Faria. The two become close and Faria teaches Edmond languages, science, philosophy, and sorcery. Using his occult skills of divination, he reveals the conspiracy. Faria hopes the revelation will give Edmond a sense of peace but instead it fires his desire for vengeance. When Faria falls ill and dies, Edmond breaks his promise to his friend and turns to the darkest form of magic. He makes a pact with an unspeakable entity to help him escape and give him the power to destroy his enemies. Edmond Dantes dies in the Château d'If and is reborn as a vampire, an undead creature who hungers for revenge as much as he thirsts for blood.
1838 - Paris: The wealthy and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo arrives in Paris. He is an eccentric who is never seen eating or drinking and refuses to venture out in the daylight. Rumors abound that the Count is a vampire, but this only adds to the charismatic stranger's mystique. He becomes the center of Parisian society, seducing the entire city with his charm? including all of Edmond Dantes' enemies. Things have changed in the years since Edmond was framed, and his enemies have prospered. Danglers is now a banker and one of the richest men on the continent; deVillefort is the highest legal official in France; worst of all, Fernand--now a general and a war hero--is married to Mercedes.
The Count plays a dangerous game, turning his dark arts to the destruction of these powerful men, and even their innocent children are caught up in his byzantine schemes. Will the innocent perish along with the guilty? And what of Edmond Dantes? Will he find redemption, or will he be swept up and destroyed by the very forces he has invoked?
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Accepting Digital Wallets
Digital wallets, such as Google Pay and Apple Pay, are virtual wallets that contain credit or debit card details, including a customer’s contact and shipping information. These are becoming popular methods of payment online and in-store, thanks to mobile phones and wearable smart devices that allow customers to authenticate and pay quickly. Accepting digital wallets in your online or mobile solution is one way to make the checkout process seamless, secure and efficient for shoppers. Here’s how.
Quick checkouts lead to happy customers
Customers can pay instantly because digital wallets eliminate the need for manual entry of not only the sensitive payment details, but also the cardholder contact, billing and shipping information. By making it easier for customers to checkout quickly, online merchants can generate both simpler sales and satisfied shoppers for their business. Customers are less likely to abandon their shopping cart and more likely to return if they know they can expect a hassle-free checkout experience.
Security is built into the wallet
Customers can intuitively authorize a purchase using face ID, touch or passcode authentication, with no manual entry required – speeding the payment process without sacrificing security. In addition to biometric and passcode authentication, payment cards are tokenized within the digital wallet. This adds another layer of security to prevent fraud and assure your clients that the digital wallet being used is in the hands of the legitimate cardholder.
Easy to use
When checking out on the web or from a native app, the cardholder will see an option to pay with their digital wallet in addition to the standard credit card entry form. After selecting their preferred wallet, the customer can choose from one of their existing payment types or add a new one to use for checkout. Their selection pre-populates all relevant data, including shipping, billing and card details, making the checkout process simple, secure and nearly effortless. For more information on Moneris’ portfolio of digital wallets, visit www.moneris.com/Products-Services/Online/Digital-Wallet.
How to Start Accepting Digital Wallets
Each of these digital wallets is available to any Moneris Gateway customer, making it easy for you to build into your solution as a standard offering to your downstream merchants. There are just a few steps to follow to accept payments through digital wallets.
Activate the digital wallets of your choosing in the Merchant Resource Center. For development and testing, activate the digital wallet(s) in our QA environment.
Refer to the Moneris Developer Portal for the tools and documentation needed to develop to the digital wallets. There are many ways you can integrate to these solutions, from direct API to SDK implementations.
Once you’re ready for live transactions, you can enable the wallet(s) in the client’s production account.
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Hi everybody! I've been reading lots of posts, love these forums and this is my first time posting here. My husband and i started with 4 hives this year, up to 8 now. We are planning on expanding in the next 3 years or so to the point where we can sell bees. We don't want to get into honey production unless we have to. This is my first year beekeeping but my husband has lots of beekeeping experience (worked for commercial beekeepers for years in the past) and has always wanted his own beekeeping business. This is a sideline business for him, but full-time for me. I am in charge of the 'books' and the business end of things but have never run a business before and don't really know where to start.
What kind of business liscence do we need to get? is there a different kind for farm based businesses than for regular businesses?
Farm status? can you get farm status if you don't own the land that the apiaries are on? what are the benefits of having 'farm status'--i've read online that you can get a better rate from bchydro (tier one rates), and lower property taxes (wouldnt apply to us because we don't own the land that our bees are on), and marked gas (that would be super helpful especially if we put the bees up into the fireweed in the mountains)
we are expecting financial losses for the first few years while we build up, as we spend money on bees and equipment. can my husband claim those losses against his regular income tax at his day job?
what kind of records should i be keeping? for now i've just been throwing all the receipts for bee-related expenses into a file in the filing cabinet!! there's got to be a better way of doing this
are there any books, websites, online courses about the business side of beekeeping that you would recommend for a newbie like myself?
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
Quick answer, go find a decent sized farmer near you and ask for the accountants name. An accountant that does farm taxes is critical and will have all of your answers. First step probably get a gst/business number.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
I may be wrong but don't believe you need a GST..business..number unless you are receipting $40,000 a year or more.
Farm status is based on the land. It assesses the property value at a lower rate. The land owner applies and runs the farm. We certainly have no benefits on gas,electricity,water but you can get blue gas. However there are significant fined if you use a blue gas vehicle for anything other than direct farm work...no picking up kids, no personal shopping,no vacations etc...just point to point farm work.
For farm status you also need have sales in your first year...the amount depends on the acreage of the farm.
With farm status you can tight off expenses against sales...no problem with a loss but you must have gross sales.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
sounds like we don't really need farm status right now. we know of people who rent their land and have farm status, so i'm guessing that when we pay honey rent that we would technically be able to qualify, but we're not at the point where it would make a big enough difference to bother with the paperwork.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
If you place your hives on someone's property they have to show the required gross income. They can lease additional land and if the lease is for approved agricultural production then the owners of that land can apply for farm status. Farm status is tied to land use and affects assessed property value and related taxes etc. It is not tied to the lessee.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
It's not as big a deal as many seem to think, unless you are large consumer of electricity. Regular tiered rates are 7.52 at tier 1, 11.27 at tier 2. If you qualify for the farm rate, it's a flat rate at 9.01 cents, so roughly halfway in between. I tallied it for our consumption here over the time since we moved in last August, and, it'll make virtually no difference to our annual Hydro bill to be on regular residential rates, or farm rates. Bills will be a bit smaller in the winter, and a bit bigger in the summer, ends up to be pretty much a wash for us. It would be a whole different story if we had a barn with a milking parlor or such.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
You will want an gst/hst number before you make any large taxable purchases. Most of what you sell is zero rated(honey, livestock), so you will be claiming the the taxes you pay on gods and service for the business and getting that back. Beekeeping IS a farm business as far as CRA is concerned - I don't think you get to choose that it's not. In Ontario, once your farm business makes more than $7500 in a tax year you also have to get a farm business number and register with one of the farming organizations. I am not sure if BC had a similar setup.
Re: Starting up in British Columbia, business number? taxes? claiming expenses?
Originally Posted by grozzie2
It's not as big a deal as many seem to think, unless you are large consumer of electricity. Regular tiered rates are 7.52 at tier 1, 11.27 at tier 2. If you qualify for the farm rate, it's a flat rate at 9.01 cents, so roughly halfway in between. I tallied it for our consumption here over the time since we moved in last August, and, it'll make virtually no difference to our annual Hydro bill to be on regular residential rates, or farm rates. Bills will be a bit smaller in the winter, and a bit bigger in the summer, ends up to be pretty much a wash for us. It would be a whole different story if we had a barn with a milking parlor or such.
I contacted hydro and fortis today. Hydro has the rate differential, fortis only has the PST deducted. I think hydro also has PST deducted. There is a form to fill out. For hydro you also need to send them a copy of your bc property assessment showing farm status. For fortis you need the form plus your your farmer identity card. For the card you need your property farm status on the bc property assessment. With the card you can have PST excluded on many purchases.
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Amman to host anti-Daesh coalition’s meeting
Partners to discuss next moves after ‘caliphate’s’ fall in Iraq, Syria
By JT - Nov 10,2017 - Last updated at Nov 10,2017
Iraqi forces stand guard near Al Qaim border crossing between Syria and Iraq on Wednesday. Syria announced Thursday its control over Daesh-held Albu Kamal town and its forces and allies were supposed to meet Iraqi peers, which was cleaning the area from the terrorist group on the other side of the border (AFP photo)
AMMAN — The Kingdom is scheduled in mid-November to host a meeting of political managers of the small group of the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh, an official said on Thursday.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mohammad Kayed said that the gathering would attract the participation of representatives of 27 countries and four international organisations.
He added that the meeting is held at a crucial junction after the region has witnessed progress in the war against terrorism on the ground in both Syria and Iraq, which requires stakeholders to entrench such successes at the security, political and development levels.
Attendees will discuss the latest developments in the coalition's anti-Daesh efforts, especially after liberating Iraq's Mosul and Syria's Raqqa, as well as the best means to eliminate Daesh completely through coordinating relevant efforts.
The meeting is a continuation of a previous ministerial gathering held by foreign ministers of the small group in September in New York on the sidelines of the 72nd conference of the UN General Assembly.
The Global Coalition to Counter Daesh, which was formed in September 2014, comprises 69 countries and four international organisations: Arab League, NATO, Interpol and EU.
The members are committed to tackling Daesh on all fronts, to dismantling its networks and countering its global ambitions, according to www.theglobalcoalition.org.
Beyond the military campaign in Iraq and Syria, the coalition is committed to tackling Daesh’s financing and economic infrastructure, preventing the flow of foreign terrorist fighters across borders, supporting stabilisation and the restoration of essential public services to areas liberated from Daesh, and exposing Daesh’s delusional narrative, including its claims to statehood, military success and the group’s false religious narrative.
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The Jordan Times is an independent English-language daily published by the Jordan Press Foundationsince October 26, 1975. The Jordan Press Foundation is a shareholding company listed on the Amman Stock Exchange.
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