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The Compact Fact
By Brion McClanahan on Aug 4, 2016
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Mainstream historians are both an incestuous and snarky bunch. They latch on to trends–fads really–and pull those trends like mules lugging a heavy cart to market (where they hope to sell books to their tens of fans). In time, the mules give out, but unlike the mule, these historians never realize they are whipped. They hire more mules like them and cut and snipe at the stallions who bravely defy the yoke.
Unfortunately, these trends become ingrained in the academy and become the catchy slogans and cliches of the "educated" elite. Our history then becomes distorted, often unrecognizable from a traditional viewpoint.
Every now and then a stallion is allowed to run free.
Professor Nathan Coleman's new tome, The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765-1800, is the type of book the mules will hate. He refutes the now cliche nationalist narrative of American history and paints a different picture of the American founding, one that places the States at the center of American government.
The evidence is entirely on his side. From the beginning of the Imperial Crisis in 1765, American colonists viewed the struggle with Parliament as a constitutional crisis over the scope and power of the central government in London. For over one hundred years, the colonial legislatures were able to define taxing and monetary policy within their colonial borders. The central authority in London was charged with defending the colonies and regulating international trade. Such regulations were often overlooked, thus leaving the colonies as virtually self-governing societies with different cultures and customs. Benjamin Franklin recognized as much when he complained in 1754 that the prospect of forming a "congress" of all the colonies would be impossible because of colonial "provincialism."
When the Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, American reaction against the act was based on the traditional decentralization of the British empire. Several colonies in fact nullified the law. The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Francis Bernard, knew that unless the colonial legislatures could be consolidated into one large mega-colony, the British would be facing continual resistance to acts of the central authority, particularly when the colonies were only "virtually" represented in London. Their intransigence and intractability were predictable considering they had been largely left alone during the era of "salutary neglect."
Every step from 1765-1776 showed that the colonies viewed themselves as separate entities with only one common enemy: the Parliament in London. Certainly they acted in concert at times, but an American "nation" in the traditional sense of the word did not exist. John Adams called the delegates to the Continental Congress "ambassadors," and each were mutually suspicious of the other delegations.
When Jefferson declared that the "states" were now "free and independent"–on equal footing with the "state of Great Britain"–in 1776, he was simply codifying what had already been established by custom and precedent in the previous one-hundred and fifty years.
Coleman expertly moves through the early federal period and explains in detail how a "constitutional settlement" was reached between the nationalists, most conspicuously Alexander Hamilton, and the republicans who favored the traditional role of the "local" over the "national." This settlement did not abridge the sovereignty of the States; rather it strengthened American federalism by forcing the nationalists to recognize the importance of the State governments within the Union.
The Constitution, Coleman correctly contends, was a compact fact between States, not a "compact theory." Suggesting it is merely a "theory" concedes too much to the other side.
Certainly, the settlement established at Philadelphia and in the ratifying conventions faced challenges, and Coleman nicely details how the nationalists attacked the Constitution as ratified in 1788. The First Judiciary Act of 1789, Hamiltonianism, the Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), and the Alien and Sedition Laws offered serious challenges to the compact. The Judiciary Act in particular, an often overlooked law that did tremendous damage to the "settlement," is one area where Coleman offers a fresh perspective. Each of these obstacles were briefly overcome, but the fact that real federalism has been so largely ignored by historians and the public at large shows that the nationalist position won the day, not because it was correct, but because as Coleman concludes the nationalists bludgeoned the other side to death in the great war between 1860-1865. They rewrote the original meaning of the Constitution and created their narrative of American history, one that portrayed "state sovereignty" as nothing more than a quaint outlier, or more accurately a retardant, in the nationalist/progressive futuristic Utopia.
Forward, comrades!
Coleman has done a great service to the prestige of the academic community, though they will not see it as such. For once, an academic book has bucked the groupthink so pervasive in the ivory tower and has given us room to hope. Too bad none of the mules will read it and those that do will inevitably dismiss it as some "originalist" fantasy. That will say more about them than it does about Coleman's skill as a historian or his attention to detail both of which are exemplary, as is his book.
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About Brion McClanahan
Brion McClanahan is the author or co-author of six books, How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America (Regnery History, 2017), 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (Regnery History, 2016), The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, (Regnery, 2009), The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution (Regnery History, 2012), Forgotten Conservatives in American History (Pelican, 2012), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes, (Regnery, 2012). He received a B.A. in History from Salisbury University in 1997 and an M.A. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1999. He finished his Ph.D. in History at the University of South Carolina in 2006, and had the privilege of being Clyde Wilson's last doctoral student. He lives in Alabama with his wife and three daughters. More from Brion McClanahan
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2 thoughts on "The Compact Fact"
Charlsie Russell on August 8, 2016 at 10:54 am said:
What gives on the price? Certainly serves to discourage its consumption by a broad audience, and that's not good.
Brion McClanahan on August 8, 2016 at 11:21 am said:
Yes, it is very expensive, but if it becomes available in paperback format, it will be much cheaper. Lexington is notorious for having outrageous prices for hardback books.
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As it inches closer to its 8,000 episode, the iconic Aussie soapie has signed up BMG as its exclusive music partner.
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It's a huge coup for BMG, which established its brand here in 2016 when it bought the celebrated indie Alberts. The Neighbours rights have previously been with Mushroom for a long while, dating back to the show's debut in 1985.
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#BajanVibes – Teen Talent . . . Reckon Drums making magic with music
- by Barbados Today July 30, 2020
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With a family lineage that leans heavily to drumming, Tariq Ellis' gravitation to playing that instrument was a natural step. He has followed in the footsteps of his father, Tito Ellis, a longstanding member of the Royal Barbados Police Force and drum extraordinaire with multiple bands on the entertainment circuit.
The youthful musician who has been drumming from the age of three, has already performed alongside some of the best in the business on the island. The extensive list of well-known entertainers the 16-year-old musician has backed includes Edwin Yearwood, RPB, Grynner, Adrian Clarke, Mikey, Marzville, Faith Callender, Biggie Irie and Natahlee Burke, to name a few.
Possessing an overwhelming passion for all things musical, he is not content to simply walk in his father's shadow. The young entertainer's interest in music is multidimensional. With a strong determination to plot his own musical path, he has been equipping himself with the tools for success.
It is not often that you see a drummer who is accustomed to making his magic behind the scenes step into the limelight. But that is exactly what the entertainer has done with his debut soca release.
Despite his recent emergence in the big-league, Tariq is by no means a novice when it comes to singing. The student of the St. Leonards' School has attained a Grade 4 in voice from the Royal School of Music and is a member of his school's award-winning choir. He has participated in the Junior Soca Monarch competition, advancing to the semi-final round.
It was the song Up and Up, by one of his favourite artistes, Skinny Fabulous, that gave him the much-needed push to start this new part of his journey. He can not say if it was the riddim or the melody that resonated with him, but this popular, catchy song confirmed in his mind that this was an avenue that he wanted to pursue.
Under the stage name Reckon Drums, a moniker influenced by his friend Renaldo Griffith, he has taken up position behind the mic and takes centre stage with the launch of his single. The sweet soca tune De Way How Ya Whine has an innate ability to make you want to move your waistline and has been receiving positive feedback since its release.
The artiste recently got the opportunity to test his song in front of a live audience. Though he is accustomed to performing before large crowds, this was not enough to keep his nerves at bay during his first performance of his original song at McBride's and then at the D'Music Summer Soca Fest.
"I was really, really nervous the first time I actually performed on stage in front people, but when I got on the stage, I let all of my fears go." Thankfully, his nerves were not evident to the crowd as he delivered an energy-packed performance that belied any initial trepidation.
Reckon Drums' input on this initial track goes beyond simply delivering smooth lyrics on the lead vocals. It extends to the technical components as well. He shares writing credits with Kevin Watson and production credits with Randy Eastmond of Quantum Productions. Eastmond, who has assumed the role of mentor, has taken him under his wing and has been showing him the ropes.
The top-class production team for this song included industry veteran Anthony Lowhar. Tariq's contribution to the process is monumental and must be underscored because of his age.
Ultimately, the musician wants to create music that leaves listeners craving more each time they listen to it. Being an instrumentalist, a part of his musical formula is the incorporation of sweet melodies. These are influenced by his disposition as he explained to Bajan Vibes: "My music expresses the happiness and love I have within myself."
Beyond his talent on the drums, Tariq can also play the keyboards and is adept with Ableton programming. Like any other teenager, he quite enjoys simple partying and along his musical journey the fun-loving teenager has enjoyed a stint as a disc jockey. The multi talented entertainer is a songwriter as well. He is focused on learning different styles and using highly successful artistes as his benchmark.
Propelled by a thirst for success, Reckon Drums plans to make music his full-time career. He is guided by his personal mantra: "Stay true to the music and work hard."
The talented teenager is determined to explore the full scope of the entertainment field and draws inspiration from Darien Bailey, Randy Eastmond, Renaldo Griffith, Kereesa Chase and most significantly, his dad.
One local performer Tariq would be thrilled to work closely with is King Cudi. The creative expressed to Bajan Vibes that their voices would work very well together. Admittedly, it is the performer's positive attitude and vibes which push him to work harder.
Reckon Drums does have plans to release more music, but he is saving additional material for next year. In the meantime, music lovers can enjoy a sneak peek at what he has to offer on his social media platform. (STT)
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In past articles on books and publishing, we have shown you where books have been (see PUBLISHING IN PERSPECTIVE) and where they might go in the future (see THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK), but now, in 2015, everyone seems to be wondering where books are going. E-book sales have leveled off and the dystopian young adult novels which dominated the publishing world last year, have some real challengers this year in the traditional adult literature arena. There have been a plethora of predictions for the publishing industry, so below is a list of our favorites with links to sources so you can try to forecast for yourself what the future of books will look like. We have also created some very helpful graphs so you can visualize the state of publishing.
12 Facts and Predictions
1. The proportion of books now sold through independent bookstores. "Amazon's arrival on the scene is only part of the story here, of course; the decline of the indies started with the debut of big-box stores like B&N and Borders." (1)
2. The number of independent bookstores is less than half of what it was 20 years ago. There used to be about 4,000 in the U.S.; now there are fewer than 2,000. (1)
3. Amazon's annual revenue from book sales compared to its total yearly revenue. Amazon's current annual revenue from book sales is $5.25 billion. That means books account for 7% of the company's $75 billion in total yearly revenue. (1)
4. Growth of Self-published titles between 2008 and 2013. "…the number of self-published titles in 2013 was up 437% over 2008. Not only that, but a small but growing number of indie authors have been making incomes in the high six figures—and sometimes more." (2)
5. The average number of books sold for a self-published book. "With all of the hundreds of thousands of books published, many more of those (more than ever) will go unnoticed. Right now the average sale for a self-published book is 100 copies. I believe that number will drop to 10 or less." (3)
6. Bigger phones mean a bigger mobile reading market. "…technology analyst Gartner has predicted that next year alone consumers will buy 2.4 billion smartphones.… In Asia large-screened "phablets" have been popular devices … for some time. This trend has spread to Europe and the US too, with the phablet form factor getting the official seal of approval when Apple launched its 5.5-inch screened iPhone 6 Plus this autumn…. As phones around the world get bigger, both physically and as a category, we will certainly see more people use them for reading books in the coming year." (4)
7. E-book purchases from tablets alone. In the U.S. there are almost 300 million tablets, smart phones, and e-readers combined. Betty Kelly Sargent writes in Publishers Weekly, "… publishing analyst Thad McIlroy's "11 Topmost Digital Book Publishing Trends & Opportunities" report cites data from the Pew Research Center and Nielsen Book Research indicating the following:
About 70 million people in the U.S. have tablets. Roughly, one-third of these people use their tablet for reading, and they're the source of 42% of e-book purchases.
Around 175 million people in the U.S. own cellphones. About 12% of them (that's 21 million people) read books on their devices. They account for about 7% of e-book purchases.
Sales of dedicated e-readers are on the decline, but about 50 million people in the U.S. have them, and e-readers are still the source of one-third of e-book purchases." (3)
8. E-book pricing finds its groove. "Now with agency pricing back in full swing, and publishers putting whatever price they want on their eBooks (per the Hachette/Amazon dispute), I think you're going to see a surge of pricing changes in 2015. Readers won't pay high prices for an eBook, and Amazon's figures have proven that the sweet spot is $2.99 to $5.99 for eBook pricing. Yes, it's low, but also consider the average reader. The best market for digital is genre fiction and these fans tend to be avid readers, meaning they could blow through a book a week, or two books a month. So pricing books high does not make a ton of sense, because this market won't support it. Maybe your book isn't in genre fiction, and that's fine, but these price points affect all of us." (3)
9. Print books outsold e-books in 1st half of 2014. "According to Nielsen's survey, ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit sales for the first six months of the year, while hardcovers made up 25 percent and paperback 42 percent of sales. In other words, not only did overall print book sales, at 67 percent of the market, outpace ebook sales, both hardcovers and paperbacks individually outsold ebooks." (5)
10. Amazon's percentage of control of the e-book market (but Apple is about to challenge them). "Ever since it was sued by the government for conspiring to fix e-book prices, Apple has been forced to slow its inevitable crawl into book publishing. But in 2015 the crawl may build into a sprint. The early indication is that Apple will likely win its appeals hearing, now that the (new) judge seems to appreciate that Amazon monopolizes 90 percent of the e-book market. My prediction here is simply that Apple will win its appeal in advance of Apple vs. Amazon: The Great Publishing War of 2016." (6)
11. Large publishers step up usage of FREE (and FREE will lose more mojo). For some time now the e-book market has been skewed due to the proliferation of the trend to offer FREE books. (7)
12. The proportion of all books sold in the U.S. that are Kindle titles. "E-books now make up around 30% of all book sales, and Amazon has a 65% share within that category, with Apple and Barnes & Noble accounting for most of the balance." (1)
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(1) — ("Book Publishing Predictions for 2015" By Jeff Bercovici Forbes Staff, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/02/10/amazon-vs-book-publishers-by-the-numbers/, February 10, 2014)
(2) — ("Self-Publishing Predictions" By Betty Kelly Sargent, Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/65301-self-publishing-predictions-for-2015.html, January 26, 2015)
(3) — ("12 Publishing And Marketing Predictions For 2015" By Penny Sansevieri, The Future of Ink, http://thefutureofink.com/publishing-and-marketing-predictions-for-2015// December 26, 2014)
(4) — ("Five Trade Publishing Predictions for 2015" By Michael Cairns, Publishing Technology, http://publishingperspectives.com/2015/01/five-trade-publishing-predictions-2015/ January 14, 2015)
(5) — ("Print Books Outsold Ebooks in First Half of 2014" By Claire Fallon, Huff Post Books, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/ebooks-print-books-outsold_n_5940654.html, October 06, 2014)
(6) — ("Book Publishing Predictions for 2015" By Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire, http://flavorwire.com/496517/book-publishing-predictions-for-2015, December 30, 2014)
(7) — ("2015 Book Publishing Predictions: Slow Growth Presents Challenges and Opportunities" By Mark Coker, Smashwords, http://blog.smashwords.com/2014/12/2015-book-publishing-industry.html December 31, 2014) |
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Recently I'm reading the blog post A Theory of Moderation.
I noticed that when you click on the POST COMMENT button without filling in any details, one error message box is appearing with Please fill out this field.
When the error message box is appearing and at the same time we scroll the page the error message box still remains fixed at the same position and overlapping in the whole page not hiding while we scroll the page.
Click on the POST COMMENT button without filling in any details.
Please check the below image for the same problem produced in Mozilla Firefox 58.0.
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Discussion in 'iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting' started by Flowergoddess, Mar 5, 2011.
I have poured over the forums and tried a couple of the fixes suggested, with no luck. So I'm posing the question again. About a week ago while driving I tried to play music from the iPod in my I phone. As I recall, the sound seemed to go in and out for a minute, then nothing. Speaker phone will not work, phone will not ring, alarm will not sound. When I plug it in to an external speaker i will hear sounds..but not if I plug it in the car stereo, and not when making calls while pressing speaker. I don't understand the difference there... There is a chance something got down in the plug area..but I've tried blowing it out, and repeatedly putting a headphone jack in and out of the hole. What is happening here?
I had this problem on my 3G and thought it was interference in the area but wasn,t so i synced the phone about 3 times and have not had this trouble since.Hope this helps and sorry for being vague.
The information is much appreciated, thank you.
That sure sounds like a hardware issue to me, and it probably isn't gonna get any better. Is it repeatable? You don't say what version of iPhone that you have, but if it is an iPhone 4, it is still under warranty.
Yes, the actual phone. Is the 3GS still in warranty? If you can repeat the problem, by pressing on that corner, make an appointment at the Apple Genius bar.
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Whether you're an Adelaide local or a visitor, the Tour Down Under is an exciting time for cyclists.
Maybe it's inspired you to be a bit more adventurous with your own riding and go somewhere you wouldn't normally?
With high-quality trails within 30 minutes of the CBD there's no need to restrict yourself to riding on roads and paved paths.
Get your wheels dusty and experience the natural beauty of our bushland with a hit of mountain biking.
With over 40 kilometres of single track, mountain-biking through Sturt Gorge Recreation Park is a great way to explore Adelaide's natural heritage and high value ecosystem. Enjoy the race-ready trails in the Craigburn Farm area, or take a longer ride all the way around the gorge .
Rider's tip: Start with the 'Surf and Turf' trail in the Craigburn Farm area to find your feet, then make your way to Gunners Run via Little River, a fun flow trail for more experienced riders. Continue down to Horner's Corner if you're game to attempt the full 25-kilometre loop. The cool shady areas of the Wattle Trail and the fun flow of the Lomandra and de Rose Trails will make it worth your while.
Despite being a small park, Shepherds Hill Recreation Park contains 16km of mountain bike tracks and trails. Trails include family-friendly green circle loops, short but tough cross-country loops, and fun intermediate downhill runs.
Rider's tip: Start and finish with a few laps of the Pump Track and Kids' Zone obstacles at the Ayliffes Road entrance.
Belair National Park has a great range of trails for everyone, from beginners to more experienced riders. The park's easily accessible directly from public transport – from North Terrace in Adelaide you and your bike can ride the train all the way there. From the Belair Railway Station you can go for a challenging spin around the park on the 12km Adventure Loop.
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Introduce the kids to mountain biking on either the Beginners' Circuit or 'Easy Does It' trail at Cobbler Creek Recreation Park, or join the big kids on the new Jump Tracks in Pedler's Paddock.
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Rider's tip: These gravity trails are fun! With dedicated climbs to bring you right back to the top of the trails, you'll be able to try them all. Start with the easier green trails , see how you go on the intermediate blue trails, and try to work your way up to the advanced trails marked on the map in black.
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Q: updating a line variable without printing it over an over for(int i=0; i<10;i++){
cout<< " I value is: "<< i;
}
how to print "i value is:" only once while updating i's value after the first time.
Thanks your help
A: Your output has to be outside the scope of the for loop for it to print once otherwise. If you put it within the loop it will print repeatedly until the loop terminates.
You want something like this :
for( int I =0; i<1 10; i++{
perform calculations involving i;
}
cout<< " I value is: "<< i;
A: cout<< " I value is:";
for(int i=0; i<10;i++) {cout<< " "<< i; }
Will this work?
Update:
Assuming you want to add a "thread sleep" in the loop, you can try print "\b" to move the cursor back and override the value, for example:
cout<< " I value is: ";
for(int i=0; i<10;i++) {cout<< "\b"<< i; }
But depending your computer and compiler, it may not be the result you wanted.
Final example (tested using Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt):
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
using namespace std;
void main()
{
cout<< " I value is: ";
for(int i=0; i<10;i++)
{
cout<< "\b"<< i;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1000));
}
}
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Q: RandomNum is undefined, and I don't understand why I took this script tutorial from here, and I tried to combine the random function from this similar tutorial here, except make it a setting, and it says RandomNum is undefined. Why, and how do I fix it?
Javascript:
/*** LET'S ADD THE VARIABLE SETTINGS. TO TOGGLE USE TRUE/FALSE ***/
var domainURL = window.location.hostname;
var className = "default";
var postCount = 3;
var showPostLabel = "test";
var showPostContentAmount = 160;
var showPostTitle = "true";
var showPostTitleAmount = 80;
var showInPostImageSize = 320;
var showPostComments = "true";
var showPostDate = "true";
var showPostAuthor = "true";
var showPostImage = "true";
var showPostCategory = "true";
var showPostTags = "true";
var showPostContent = "true";
var showCategoryArchive = "true";
var showRandomPosts = "true";
/*** LET'S GENERATE RANDOM POSTS ***/
if (showRandomPosts == 'true')
{
var RandomArray = [];
var TotalPosts = 0;
var RandomArray = new Array(postCount);
function TotalCount(json)
{
TotalPosts = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
}
document.write('<script src="https://'+domainURL+'/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=TotalCount"></'+'script>');
function GenerateNum()
{
for (var i = 0; i < postCount ; i++)
{
for (var j = 0; j < RandomArray.length; j++)
{
var RandomNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * (TotalPosts ) + 1);
RandomArray[i] = RandomNum;
}
}
}
}
/*** LET'S START THE POST LIST ***/
function jsonposts(json)
{
document.write('<ul class="json-posts '+className+'">');
for (var i = 0; i < postCount; i++)
{
/*** LET'S DECLARE VARIABLES ***/
var postVariables= postImage = postUrl = postTitle = postImage = postContent = postArticle = postAuthor = postLabel = postDate = postUpdated = postComment = postImageURL = postCategoryArchive = postImageURLSize = postAuthorImage = postDateFormat = Y = D = M = m = YY = DD = MM = mm = TT = "";
/*** LET'S GET THE POST LABELS ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].category != null)
{
for (var k = 0; k < json.feed.entry[i].category.length; k++)
{
postLabel += '<a class="json-post-article-tags-item" href="'+domainURL+'/search/label/'+json.feed.entry[i].category[k].term+'">'+json.feed.entry[i].category[k].term+'</a>';
if(k < json.feed.entry[i].category.length-1)
{
postLabel += '<span class="json-post-article-tags-item-seperator">, </span>';
}
}
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST URL ***/
for (var j = 0; j < json.feed.entry[i].link.length; j++)
{
if (json.feed.entry[i].link[j].rel == 'alternate')
{
break;
}
}
postUrl= '"' + json.feed.entry[i].link[j].href + '"';
/*** LET'S GET THE POST INFO ***/
postCategoryArchive = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
/*** LET'S GET THE POST TITLE ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].title!= null)
{
postTitle= json.feed.entry[i].title.$t.substr(0, showPostTitleAmount);
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST COMMENT COUNT ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].thr$total)
{
postComment= '<a href="'+json.feed.entry[i].link[j].href+'#comment-form">'+json.feed.entry[i].thr$total.$t+'</a>';
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST AUTHOR INFO ***/
postAuthor= json.feed.entry[i].author[0].name.$t.split(' ');
postAuthor=postAuthor.slice(0, 1).join(' ');
postAuthorImage = json.feed.entry[i].author[0].gd$image.src;
/*** LET'S GET THE POST CONTENT ***/
postArticle = json.feed.entry[i].content.$t;
postContent= postArticle.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,'').substring(0, showPostContentAmount);
/*** LET'S FORMAT THE POST DATE MONTH ***/
postDateFormat= ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
/*** LET'S GET THE POST DATE ***/
postDate= json.feed.entry[i].published.$t.substring(0,10);
/*** LET'S DO THE POST DATE FORMAT ***/
Y = postDate.substring(0, 4);
m = postDate.substring(5, 7);
D = postDate.substring(8, 10);
M = postDateFormat[parseInt(m - 1)];
/*** LET'S GET THE UPDATED POST DATE ***/
postUpdated= json.feed.entry[i].updated.$t.substring(0, 16);
/*** LET'S DO THE UPDATED POST DATE FORMAT ***/
YY = postUpdated.substring(0, 4);
mm = postUpdated.substring(5, 7);
DD = postUpdated.substring(8, 10);
TT = postUpdated.substring(11, 16);
MM = postDateFormat[parseInt(mm - 1)];
/*** LET'S GET THE POST IMAGE ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].media$thumbnail)
{
postImageURL = json.feed.entry[i].media$thumbnail.url;
postImageURLSize= postImageURL.replace("/s72-c/","/s"+showInPostImageSize+"/");
postImage= "'" + postImageURLSize.replace("?imgmax=800","") + "'";
}
/*** LET'S ADD VARIOUS IMAGE TYPE SUPPORT***/
else if (json.feed.entry[i].content.$t.match(/src=(.+?[\.jpg|\.gif|\.png]")/) != null)
{
postImage = json.feed.entry[i].content.$t.match(/src=(.+?[\.jpg|\.gif|\.png]")/)[1];
}
/*** LET'S OPEN THE POST ARTICLE ***/
document.write('<li class="json-post-article-'+[i]+'">');
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST CATEGORY ***/
if (showPostCategory == 'true')
{
document.write('<div class="json-post-article-tags"><span class="json-post-article-tags-label"></span>'+postLabel+'</div>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST IMAGE ***/
if (showPostImage == 'true')
{
document.write('<a class="json-post-article-featured-image-link" href="'+postUrl+'"><figure class="json-post-article-featured-image" style="background: url('+postImage+') no-repeat center center / cover !important"></figure></a>');
}
/*** LET'S OPEN THE POST INFO BOX ***/
document.write('<div>');
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST TITLE ***/
if (showPostTitle == 'true')
{
document.write('<h4 class="json-post-article-title"><a class="json-post-article-title-link" href="'+postUrl+'">'+postTitle+'</a></h4>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST AUTHOR ***/
if (showPostAuthor == 'true')
{
document.write('<span class="json-post-article-author-label"></span><figure class="json-post-article-author-avatar" style="background: url(https:'+postAuthorImage+') no-repeat center center /cover !important"></figure><span class="json-post-article-author-avatar">'+postAuthor+'</span>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST DATE ***/
if (showPostDate == 'true')
{
document.write('<div class="json-post-article-date"><span class="json-post-article-date-label"></span><span class="json-post-article-date-month">'+M+'</span> <span class="json-post-article-date-day">'+D+'</span> <span class="json-post-article-date-year">'+Y+'</span></div>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST CONTENT ***/
if (showPostContent == 'true')
{
document.write('<p class="json-post-article-content">'+postContent+'...</p>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST TAGS ***/
if (showPostTags == 'true')
{
document.write('<div class="json-post-article-tags"><span class="json-post-article-tags-label"></span>'+postLabel+'</div>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST COMMENT COUNT ***/
if (showPostComments == 'true')
{
document.write('<div class="json-post-article-comment-count"><span class="json-post-article-comment-count-label">Comments: </span><span class="json-post-article-comment-count-number">'+postComment+'</span></div>');
}
/*** LET'S CLOSE THE POST INFO BOX ***/
document.write('</div>');
/*** LET'S CLOSE THE POST ARTICLE ***/
document.write('</li>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST CATEGORY ARCHIVE LINK ***/
if (showCategoryArchive == 'true')
{
document.write('<a class="json-post-article-category-more" href="'+domainURL+'/search/label/'+showPostLabel+'">More</a>');
}
/*** LET'S STOP THE POST LIST ***/
document.write('</ul>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST AS RANDOM OR ELSE AS RECENT ***/
if (showRandomPosts == 'true')
{
for (var i = 0; i < postCount ; i++)
{
GenerateNum();
document.write('<script src="https://'+domainURL+'/feeds/posts/default/-/'+showPostLabel+'?alt=json-in-script&start-index='+RandomNum+'&max-results=1&callback=jsonposts"></'+'script>')
}
}
else
{
document.write('<script src="https://'+domainURL+'/feeds/posts/default/-/'+showPostLabel+'?alt=json-in-script&callback=jsonposts"></'+'script>');
}
Is is the same code with domainURL and showPostLabel settings changed so it can be properly tested.
/*** LET'S ADD THE VARIABLE SETINGS. TO TOGGLE USE TRUE/FALSE ***/
var domainURL = "www.mybloggertricks.com";
var className = "default";
var postCount = 3;
var showPostLabel = "Widgets";
var showPostContentAmount = 160;
var showPostTitle = "true";
var showPostTitleAmount = 80;
var showInPostImageSize = 320;
var showPostComments = "true";
var showPostDate = "true";
var showPostAuthor = "true";
var showPostImage = "true";
var showPostCategory = "true";
var showPostTags = "true";
var showPostContent = "true";
var showCategoryArchive = "true";
var showRandomPosts = "true";
/*** LET'S GENERATE RANDOM POSTS ***/
if (showRandomPosts == 'true')
{
var RandomArray = [];
var TotalPosts = 0;
var RandomArray = new Array(postCount);
function TotalCount(json)
{
TotalPosts = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
}
document.write('<script src="https://'+domainURL+'/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=TotalCount"></'+'script>');
function GenerateNum()
{
for (var i = 0; i < postCount ; i++)
{
for (var j = 0; j < RandomArray.length; j++)
{
var RandomNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * (TotalPosts ) + 1);
RandomArray[i] = RandomNum;
}
}
}
}
/*** LET'S START THE POST LIST ***/
function jsonposts(json)
{
document.write('<ul class="json-posts '+className+'">');
for (var i = 0; i < postCount; i++)
{
/*** LET'S DECLARE VARIABLES ***/
var postVariables= postImage = postUrl = postTitle = postImage = postContent = postArticle = postAuthor = postLabel = postDate = postUpdated = postComment = postImageURL = postCategoryArchive = postImageURLSize = postAuthorImage = postDateFormat = Y = D = M = m = YY = DD = MM = mm = TT = "";
/*** LET'S GET THE POST LABELS ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].category != null)
{
for (var k = 0; k < json.feed.entry[i].category.length; k++)
{
postLabel += '<a class="json-post-article-tags-item" href="'+domainURL+'/search/label/'+json.feed.entry[i].category[k].term+'">'+json.feed.entry[i].category[k].term+'</a>';
if(k < json.feed.entry[i].category.length-1)
{
postLabel += '<span class="json-post-article-tags-item-seperator">, </span>';
}
}
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST URL ***/
for (var j = 0; j < json.feed.entry[i].link.length; j++)
{
if (json.feed.entry[i].link[j].rel == 'alternate')
{
break;
}
}
postUrl= '"' + json.feed.entry[i].link[j].href + '"';
/*** LET'S GET THE POST INFO ***/
postCategoryArchive = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
/*** LET'S GET THE POST TITLE ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].title!= null)
{
postTitle= json.feed.entry[i].title.$t.substr(0, showPostTitleAmount);
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST COMMENT COUNT ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].thr$total)
{
postComment= '<a href="'+json.feed.entry[i].link[j].href+'#comment-form">'+json.feed.entry[i].thr$total.$t+'</a>';
}
/*** LET'S GET THE POST AUTHOR INFO ***/
postAuthor= json.feed.entry[i].author[0].name.$t.split(' ');
postAuthor=postAuthor.slice(0, 1).join(' ');
postAuthorImage = json.feed.entry[i].author[0].gd$image.src;
/*** LET'S GET THE POST CONTENT ***/
postArticle = json.feed.entry[i].content.$t;
postContent= postArticle.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,'').substring(0, showPostContentAmount);
/*** LET'S FORMAT THE POST DATE MONTH ***/
postDateFormat= ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
/*** LET'S GET THE POST DATE ***/
postDate= json.feed.entry[i].published.$t.substring(0,10);
/*** LET'S DO THE POST DATE FORMAT ***/
Y = postDate.substring(0, 4);
m = postDate.substring(5, 7);
D = postDate.substring(8, 10);
M = postDateFormat[parseInt(m - 1)];
/*** LET'S GET THE UPDATED POST DATE ***/
postUpdated= json.feed.entry[i].updated.$t.substring(0, 16);
/*** LET'S DO THE UPDATED POST DATE FORMAT ***/
YY = postUpdated.substring(0, 4);
mm = postUpdated.substring(5, 7);
DD = postUpdated.substring(8, 10);
TT = postUpdated.substring(11, 16);
MM = postDateFormat[parseInt(mm - 1)];
/*** LET'S GET THE POST IMAGE ***/
if (json.feed.entry[i].media$thumbnail)
{
postImageURL = json.feed.entry[i].media$thumbnail.url;
postImageURLSize= postImageURL.replace("/s72-c/","/s"+showInPostImageSize+"/");
postImage= "'" + postImageURLSize.replace("?imgmax=800","") + "'";
}
/*** LET'S ADD VARIOUS IMAGE TYPE SUPPORT***/
else if (json.feed.entry[i].content.$t.match(/src=(.+?[\.jpg|\.gif|\.png]")/) != null)
{
postImage = json.feed.entry[i].content.$t.match(/src=(.+?[\.jpg|\.gif|\.png]")/)[1];
}
/*** LET'S OPEN THE POST ARTICLE ***/
document.write('<li class="json-post-article-'+[i]+'">');
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST CATEGORY ***/
if (showPostCategory == 'true')
{
document.write('<div class="json-post-article-tags"><span class="json-post-article-tags-label"></span>'+postLabel+'</div>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST IMAGE ***/
if (showPostImage == 'true')
{
document.write('<a class="json-post-article-featured-image-link" href="'+postUrl+'"><figure class="json-post-article-featured-image" style="background: url('+postImage+') no-repeat center center / cover !important"></figure></a>');
}
/*** LET'S OPEN THE POST INFO BOX ***/
document.write('<div>');
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST TITLE ***/
if (showPostTitle == 'true')
{
document.write('<h4 class="json-post-article-title"><a class="json-post-article-title-link" href="'+postUrl+'">'+postTitle+'</a></h4>');
}
/*** LET'S SHOW THE POST AUTHOR ***/
if (showPostAuthor == 'true')
{
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I, Mike Dunleavy, Governor of the State of Alaska, under the authority of Article III, Sections 1 and 24 of the Alaska Constitution, and in accordance with AS 44.19 .145( c ), hereby order the establishment of the Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force (ABRT).
Bycatch is defined as fish which are harvested in a fishery but are not sold or kept. Simply put, bycatch occurs when fishermen unintentionally catch fish, or other marine species, they do not want, cannot sell, or are not allowed to keep.
The ABRT is hereby established for the purpose of exploring the issue of bycatch and providing recommendations to policy makers with the goal of improving the health and sustainability of Alaska's fisheries, and protecting Alaska's record as a leader of fisheries' conservation and sustainability.
More specifically, the ABRT shall:
Study what impacts bycatch has on fisheries.
Evaluate and recommend policies informed by a better understanding of the issue of bycatch of high-value Alaska fishery resources.
Ensure state agencies are leveraging available resources to better understand the issue of bycatch.
Utilize the best available science to inform policy makers and the public about these issues.
The Bycatch Review Task Force will consist of 13 voting members who are appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of the Governor, and two non-voting members requested by the Governor as detailed below. The Governor shall select a Chair and Vice Chair from the voting members.
Two voting members from the State of Alaska:
The Commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game, or the Commissioner's designee.
The Commissioner of the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, or the Commissioner's designee.
Eleven voting members, who are not state officials:
One representative who serves on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
One representative of an organization representing Community Development Quota
(CDQ) entities in the state.
One representative who is an active trawl fisherman or representative of the trawl sector in the state.
One representative who actively harvests salmon or who represents salmon fishermen in the state.
One representative who actively harvests crab or who represents crab fishermen in the state.
One representative who is an active halibut fisherman or who represents halibut fishermen in the state.
One representative who is an active fishing charter operator or who represents charter operators in the state.
One representative of the general public.
One representative of an organization that represents Alaska Natives in the state.
One representative of an organization that represents personal use and sport fishermen in the state.
One mayor from a coastal Alaskan community.
Two ex-officio non-voting members:
The Governor requests two non-voting ex-officio members, one who is a member of the Alaska State Senate appointed by the Senate President, and one who is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House. Failure of the Legislature to appoint these members shall not prevent the Task Force from completing its duties and responsibilities as outlined herein.
The Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force is assigned to the Department of Fish and Game for administrative purposes.
Consistent with law and available appropriations, each designated state agency shall use existing personnel and monetary resources to comply with this Order.
Task Force members receive no compensation or other remuneration from the State as members of the Task Force. However, members of the Task Force who are not state or federal employees are entitled to per diem and travel expenses in the same manner permitted for members of state boards and commissions under AS 39.20.180. Per diem and travel expenses for members of the Task Force who are a representative of a state or federal agency are the responsibility of that agency.
The Task Force may create advisory-only subcommittees.
The Task force will meet monthly, at a minimum. Additional meetings may be called by the Chair. The Task Force and its subcommittees will use teleconferencing and other electronic means, to the extent practicable, in order to gain maximum public participation at minimum cost.
At times and locations to be determined by the Chair, the Task Force may convene public meetings to present information and receive comments.
Meetings of the ABRT and any subcommittee shall be conducted in accordance with AS 44.62.310 – 44.62.319 (Open Meetings Act).
Records of the ABRT and any subcommittee are subject to inspection and copying as public records under AS 40.25.110 – 40.25.220.
EFFECTIVE DATE AND DURATION
This Order takes effect immediately.
The ABRT will sunset on November 30, 2022.
DATED this 18th day of November 2021. |
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Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space telescope mission proposal by the European Space Agency that would study gamma-ray bursts and X-rays for investigating the early universe. If developed, the mission would investigate star formation rates and metallicity evolution, as well as studying the sources and physics of reionization.
THESEUS is a mission concept that would monitor transient events in the high-energy Universe across the whole sky and over the entirety of cosmic history. In particular, it expects to make a complete census of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the Universe's first billion years, to help understand the life cycle of the first stars. THESEUS would provide real-time triggers and accurate locations of the sources, which could also be followed up by other space- or ground-based telescopes operating at complementary wavelengths.
The concept was selected in May 2018 as a finalist to become the fifth Medium-class mission (M5) of the Cosmic Vision programme by the European Space Agency (ESA). The other two finalists are SPICA, an infrared space telescope, and EnVision, a Venus orbiter. The winner will be selected in 2021 and it would launch in 2032.
The space observatory would study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and X-rays and their association with the explosive death of massive stars, supernova shock break-outs, black hole tidal disruption events, and magnetar flares. This can provide fundamental information on the cosmic star formation rate, the number density and properties of low-mass galaxies, the neutral hydrogen fraction, and the escape fraction of ultraviolet photons from galaxies.
Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), sensitive to 0.3-6 keV is a set of 4 lobster-eye telescopes units, covering a total field of view (FOV) of 1 sr with source location accuracy <1-2 arcmin.
InfraRed Telescope (IRT), sensitive to 0.7-1.8 μm is a 0.7 m IR telescope with 10x10 arcmin FOV, for fast response, with both imaging and spectroscopy capabilities. Mass: 112.6 kg.
X-Gamma ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS), sensitive to 2 keV-20 MeV, is a set of coded-mask cameras using monolithic X-gamma ray detectors based on bars of silicon diodes coupled with CsI crystal scintillator, granting a 1.5 sr FOV, a source location accuracy of 5 arcmin in 2-30 keV and an unprecedentedly broad energy band. Mass: 37.3 kg.
^ a b ESA names space mission concepts in running for Cosmic Vision mission slot. David Szondy, New Atlas. 7 May 2018.
^ ESA selects three new mission concepts for study. European Space Agency. Published by PhysOrg. 8 May 2018.
^ New ESA Orbiter Might Explain Why Venus Went So Wrong. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes. 8 May 2018.
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"Fjögur píanó" is a song by Icelandic band Sigur Rós from their sixth studio album, Valtari. Two official music videos were released. The first, directed by Alma Har'el and starring Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen, premiered on June 18, 2012. The second premiered on 15 October and was directed by Anafelle Liu, Dio Lau and Ken Ngan.
Music videos
The first music video for the song premiered on June 18, 2012. It was directed by Alma Har'el and stars Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen as "a couple trapped in a perpetual cycle of addiction and abuse, set to a somber piano melody that at times hints at some light at the end of the tunnel."
The video gained millions of views on YouTube, and was widely acclaimed. Filmmaker magazine called it "provocative and dramatically compelling," while Nowness magazine called it "Hypnotic." In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Har'el said, "For me, it's about not knowing how to get out of something without causing pain to somebody else. For other people it might be about candy and fish. I'm down with that."
The second music video, entitled "Skinned", was released on October 15 and was chosen by the band as the overall winner of the Valtari Film Competition.
Background
As part of their "Valtari Mystery Film Experiment" series, Sigur Rós contacted twelve filmmakers to each direct a music video for a song of the filmmaker's choice from Sigur Rós' sixth studio album, Valtari. Each filmmaker was presented with a budget of $10,000 and no instruction from the band "to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom." "Fjögur píanó" is the third instalment in the series. Sigur Rós bassist Georg Hólm said that Har'el's original concept for the video was Sigur Rós "on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she'd met Shia LaBeouf and they'd changed the idea, that was the last [Sigur Rós] heard of the concept and she told [them] nothing about what was going on." Hólm went on to say the finished video was "absolutely amazing." Har'el stated that the music video for "Fjögur píanó" is about "addiction to drugs, or sex, or anything–and how you get stuck in a cycle."
The Wall Street Journal wrote of Har'el's video, "All the directors received the same $10,000 budget and zero instructions from the band. With that creative freedom, filmmaker Alma Har'el delivered dead butterflies, light-up lollipops and a naked (in every sense) performance from a star of megabudget Hollywood movies." In an interview for Vulture magazine, Shia LaBeouf explained his involvement in the project and how he met Har'el, "I wrote a fan letter, I saw Bombay Beach, the movie that Alma Har'el made. It touched me. I told her so. She told me she'd like to work with me. I said, 'What are you doing?' She said, 'I got this Sigur Rós thing.' I said, 'Cool. Can I get involved?' And at the time, it was a different idea. So we worked on the idea for a week."
Promo News wrote that "Shia LeBeouf unquestionably gets back in touch with his art in this raw (in every sense), thought-provoking, and beautiful directed piece." Har'el said in an interview about the video for Filmmaker Magazine, "I suffer a lot when I have no freedom to do what I want because it always turns less than what it can be. But making films is expansive and you have to choose your battles. In this one, we were all on the same side." When asked if she was inspired by relationships, cinematic or otherwise, for the video, Har'el explained, "I was mostly inspired by relationships I know, from seeing how hard it is to get out of something that is both beautiful and deadening. For me, the butterflies symbolize beautiful, perfect things that die fast."
References
External links
Music video on Vimeo
"Making of" Music Video
2012 songs
Sigur Rós songs
Songs written by Jónsi
Songs written by Orri Páll Dýrason
Songs written by Georg Hólm
Songs written by Kjartan Sveinsson |
This is the High Handle Strainer Glass Teapot for those who want to make their tea perfectly. It is hand-made by the master of craftsmen using the finest quality and heat resistant glass. It is perfect for any kind of teas, the glass allows you to enjoy watching your tea leaves unfurl, you can watch the flowering tea bloom or experience the dance of tea leaves as they gently infuse. It is an excellent way to show your attractive tea! You will begin to enjoy every nuance of taste and aroma from your tea. Features large, made in heat resistant glass, so it won't hurt your hands or fingers. Place it on the teapot warmer to heat it up, you can enjoy the hot tea all day. And use the glass teapot is the most healthy way to brew tea. As it is made with thoughtful considerations because we chose the best high borosilicate environmentally-friendly glass which is temperature-resistant and can be heated on the fire. The High Handle Strainer Glass Teapot is transparent and safe to use for it is unpoisonous. It is a beautiful way to enjoy tea!
Includes: Lid, Tea Strainer, Gift Box.
Capacity: 600 ml (20.5 oz).
I bought this teapot for my wife as a little surprise gift little over three months ago as we're tea fans. The glass teapot is thin, but nicely crafted. You just have to be a bit careful in handling it.
The teapot was received, it's packed well, and the logistics was very good. The quality of the teapot is very good, the glass is thicker and the size is just right, the shape and design is very good, but still the spout design is very good, pouring water is not outflow at all, very good, satisfactory.
I was so impressed with the packaging; it was so beautiful that it didn't need any wrapping paper. Great size and the infuser is large enough to let the flower bloom. |
We live in a world of energies. For that reason, when we are born, we each are equipped with a certain quota of energy that is ours to use to be creative and expressive. These energies which constitute the equipment of the incarnating Soul are known as the Seven Rays. Think of the Seven Rays as seven primary differentiations of energy or seven types of energy that have been IMPRESSED by Source with seven specific intentions. Our job is to work with these divinely impressed energies and EXPRESS their Divine intent in the lower atmospheres of the Soul: thinking, feeling and acting.
Now, when we intuit abstract divine ideas, which are the origin and source of all the thoughts we think, we give these abstract ideas form as thought and assemble them into thought forms, we charge them with astral force (thereby strengthening their attraction to the physical plane) and give them etheric/physical substance; and in the process of doing so we distort the divine idea according to our point in evolution and our personal motivations.
You see, as a human family, we are only beginning to awaken to the reality of the Soul. We are only beginning to realize that our current evolutionary goal is to advance into a Soul-conscious species. We don't even realize yet that we live in a world of energies. For that very reason, more often than not, instead of using the energies - that are placed at our disposal - to selflessly serve the greater life of which we are a unit, we misuse them for separative purposes. When we misuse the energies, we are unable to express the Divine intent - inherent in the energy - in its purity. Why? Because we condition them with our own separative intent. As a consequence, we end up misqualifying the energies in inappropriate ways. These misqualified energies accumulate as crystallizations in our aura. We intuitively recognize these crystallizations as character flaws, weaknesses and deficiencies. Any and all crystallized energy in our auric field turns into a limitation. However, in order to expand our consciousness to grow into a Soul-conscious species, we need to clear away these limitations because our limitations imprison our very own Soul.
This guided meditation has been created with this very need in mind. In this Ray Clearing Meditation, we will throw a searchlight into your auric field to highlight distorted thought forms, astral forms and etheric forms, containing Second Ray energy, that are buried in your consciousness and need to be cleared, devitalized and depleted of vital life energy. You, as the Soul, by virtue of your inherent magnetic powers of attraction, will magnetically draw all the impure personal expressions into their Soul opposite, thereby safely and gently releasing any related buried emotions and taking away from the thought forms the power to influence your consciousness and life. Think of the misappropriation of energy for separative purposes as imprisoned energy. By drawing this imprisoned energy into its Soul opposite, you are releasing the energy from imprisonment in separative form and returning it to Source.
As a consequence - if you keep working with this meditation for a prolonged period of time - you will begin to feel lighter and happier. Why? Because when unserving thought forms are depleted of vital life energy, they disintegrate, and along with them the invisible blocks that have been hindering us and holding us back. And so, as we remove these fear-based thought forms, our automatic emotional reactions that have held us prisoner for so many years (or even lives), will slowly begin to disappear along with them. That is one of the reasons why attending to the purification of the matter - gathered together to form our bodies - is an essential step on the Spiritual path. The Soul is limited, in its expression, by the limitations of the bodies through which it works and expresses itself. This meditation will help you to release some of these limitations so the Soul may more fully incarnate and radiate its divinity out into the world.
Please note: This is a guided visualization exercise. Visualization is not fantasy. It is the ability to direct, move and control our energies in a scientific way.
This Clearing Meditation focuses on the clearing of misqualified expressions of the Second Ray of Love, Wisdom, Understanding.
I forgot to add to my review that I love the way that this meditation is Soul therapy not analytical therapy.
I also really appreciate how these meditations keep us focused on what we want to co-create as Souls.
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Jim Hudak has composed, recorded, and performed for delighted audiences since age 10. He currently has six CD's and digital downloads available on his Brainstorm Records label. His compositions are published under his Savvy Music Publishing Company (SESAC) he owns with his wife, Linda, and based in Clayton, CA. Jim was a music executive for ASCAP and SESAC for 16 years, learning the songwriting and music publishing side of the music business. He assisted in the music licensing process between music publishers, composers and businesses that use music, an invaluable experience for his own songwriting interests.
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How to Turn Off the Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer Using a Group Policy
By Alan Sembera
Internet Explorer's SmartScreen filter automatically attempts to detect malicious websites such as phishing sites, which attempt to trick you into revealing personal or financial information. The filter isn't foolproof, however, and you may get false alerts for many of the websites you frequent. If you decide you don't want to use the filter, you can deactivate it for all user accounts on your computer using the Local Group Policy Editor applet.
Sign in to Windows using an administrator account.
Click "Search" on the Charms bar, click the "Settings" charm and then type "group" into the search field. Select "Edit Group Policy" to launch the Local Group Policy Editor. Click "Yes" to allow the applet to run.
Navigate to the "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer" folder in the left pane.
Right-click "Turn Off Managing SmartScreen Filter …" in the right pane, and then select "Edit" from the pop-up menu. You can find the entry more quickly by clicking the "Setting" header in the right pane to alphabetize the entries.
Click the button next to "Enabled" to activate the group policy, and then change the setting in the Options pane to the "Off" position.
Click "OK" to save the setting. The Windows SmartScreen filter will no longer perform automatic reputation checks of websites.
Microsoft Windows: SmartScreen Filter: FAQ
Microsoft TechNet: Smartscreen Filter and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
After you turn off the SmartScreen filter, you can still check the safety of individual websites by clicking "Tools," SmartScreen Filter" and then "Check This Website."
Information in this article applies to Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 8. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
Alan Sembera began writing for local newspapers in Texas and Louisiana. His professional career includes stints as a computer tech, information editor and income tax preparer. Sembera now writes full time about business and technology. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Texas A&M University. |
Frank Brandon Nelson fue uno de los actores de comedia más conocidos de Estados Unidos en la radio y en televisión. Hizo más de 10 000 apariciones en programas como I Love Lucy (y su precedente radial My Favorite Husband). Sin embargo, sería mejor recordado por su rol recurrente en los programas de Jack Benny desde los años 30 en adelante.
Biografía
La primera aparición de Frank Nelson en pantalla fue en la película de 1926 The Sea Beast, adaptación de la novela de Moby-Dick.
Encontró por primera vez la fama con Jack Benny en The Jack Benny Program desde 1937 aproximadamente. Nelson aparecía normalmente como dependiente de alguna tienda o negocio cualquiera. Se inició con la aparición de su lema "¿Siiiiiiiiiiii?". Sus diálogos eran humorísticos y con respuestas y preguntas sarcásticas como: "¿Trabajo en este aeropuerto? No, soy un DC-4 con bigote".
Nelson siguió a Benny a la televisión en 1950, donde siguió haciendo de "empleado grosero". Sus otras frases típicas fueron las mundanas y cotidianas, como por ejemplo cuando Benny le preguntaba: "¿Hacen estas camisas de la talla mediana?" a lo que Nelson respondiía "Oo-oo-oo-ooh, que las hagan ELLOS". También apareció en otros programas de radio, donde acababa arrancando el aplauso o las risas del público con sus ocurrencias.
Después de trabajar con Jack Benny, siguió participando en otras comedias con papeles similares, especialmente en The Hank McCune Show y en I Love Lucy durante los años 50, y en Sanford and Son durante los años 70. En 1981, Nelson hizo varios anuncios para McDonalds con su mítica coletilla de "¿Siiiiiiiiiii?". Garfield in Paradise, en 1986, fue la última vez que se escuchó esta muletilla.
Además de su trabajo en pantalla, Nelson fue una voz muy solicitada para doblar series de dibujos animados como Los Picapiedra, Los Supersónicos y el Gobernador Wetworth en The Snorks. También trabajó como jefe de la AFTRA entre 1954 y 1957. Su labor en la radio incluye papeles dramáticos de la CBS como el radioteatro Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar en 1956.
Nelson no fue tan prolífico en películas, pero apareció de vez en cuando en cine con variaciones sobre su típico empleado untuoso. Uno de sus mejores papeles fue Down Memory Lane en el año 1949, donde actúa como gerente de una importante emisora de televisión. También apareció en So You Want to Know Your Relatives, una parodia de Joe McDoakes de This Is Your Life en la que actúa como maestro de ceremonias.
Nelson murió el 12 de septiembre de 1986 en Hollywood, y fue enterrado en el cementerio Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Legado
Su apariencia y su manera de decir "¿Siiiiiiiiiiiiii?" ha sido parodiada en múltiples ocasiones, sobre todo en la serie de animación Los Simpson donde le imitan con un personaje llamado "El tipo del ¡¿Siiiiiiiii?!".
Jack Benny, co-estrella, y Mel Blanc, artista de voz de animaciones, a veces rinden homenaje a Nelson metiendo un "¿Siiiiiiiiiiiii?" en sus trabajos. Al igual que ellos, otros muchos artistas han hecho lo mismo. Por ejemplo, en un episodio de la comedia Three's Company, donde Ralph Furley (Don Knotts) acude a la consulta del médico, quien realmente es Jack Tripper (John Ritter), quien está cubierto con una máscara de cirujano. Cuando Furley le llama, se oye la voz de Jack Nelson diciendo "¿Siiiiiiiiiii?".
Pedro Picapiedra, que normalmente es muy grosero, se comportó de una manera muy suave con un empleado muy pesado que imitaba a Jack Nelson.
Enlaces externos
Ficha de Jack Nelson en IMDb
Referencias
Actores de televisión de Estados Unidos
Actores de voz de Estados Unidos
Humoristas de Estados Unidos
Presentadores de radio de Estados Unidos
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This weekend is thanksgiving so I headed home to celebrate with my family!! I even get to stay home for the week as I have a study week off from school. My brother also came back from university so we were all together. Last night I met up with Serena and Alex for some bubble tea, but it wasn't the same without Larissa and Courtney!
Today we celebrated thanksgiving so we had a turkey dinner with my family, and brothers girlfriend.
I wore my new shirt from topshop, it looks like a pajama shirt so my family was teasing me a bit! But I thought it was so cute with the bird print, I paired it with my jbrand jeans and a grey scarf to keep me warm on this cool autumn day!
Can always count on phil to pull the funny faces!
Then of course my sister had to pull out her piano skills... although she can't actually play! Mickey wanted to join in as well. Look how happy he looks here. |
How many yards in a mile and a half
Current use: The yard is commonly used in field-length measurement for certain sports such as American and Canadian football, and association football (soccer). The yard is also used in cricket pitch dimensions, and sometimes in golf fairway measurements. In the United Kingdom (UK) as well as the United States, the yard is frequently used when referring to distance. In the UK, it is also a legal requirement that road signs indicating shorter distances are displayed in yards.
There are a number of instances when you may have a distance given to you in yards and you want to know how far that measurement is in miles. To answer these types of questions, we need to know how to convert yards to miles.if we are given a distance in yards, we want to convert it to miles so we have a better idea of how far it is. For instance, if I told you I ran three miles, you would have a rough idea of how far that is. However, if I were to tell you that I ran 5,280 yards, you may have a harder time picturing how far that is.
It is very common to want to convert yards to miles because we are more used to dealing with miles as a measure of distance than we are with yards as a measure of distance. Performing this conversion is quite easy. This allows us to better be able to picture a given distance in our heads.The Imperial system recognizes a yard as a linear measurement unit for measuring length or distance. Yard is commonly used in modern US system of measurement. A yard is equal to 36 inches or 3 feet. Both units of yard and inch have been used since the 13 (Source: www.conversion-metric.org)
One of the oldest known units of distance and length used in the US and the Imperial systems, a mile is equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet. In contrast to inches or yards, miles can be considered the most internationally recognized and used unit of distance. There is a so called international mile, which is nevertheless about 0.0002% shorter than the common for the United States US survey mile.
Unlike units in the International System of Units (SI), where prefixes are used to denote varying powers of 10 of a base unit, units of measurement in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement are more arbitrary. To convert between units, it is necessary to remember or reference conversion factors. As mentioned above, (Source: www.math.net)
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Marli's Mock 2018: 2.0 No Trades No Changes
2018-04-02 2018 Packers Off-Season, Featured
Rd. 1 Pick 14 (14)
Harold Landry EDGE 6'3" 253 lbs. Boston College
6.18 grade on NFL.com
Compared to Vic Beasley, Landry might not be the biggest Edge rusher but he has long arms, he's a great athlete and is very quick for his size. In 2016, he finished in the top 5 rushers nationally with 15.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, and three forced fumbles. He has also received honorable mentions as well as a firstteam ALL-ACC mention. Even though he missed a few games in 2017 he still managed to stack up 38 stops, 8.5 tackles for a loss, 5 sacks and 2 pass break-ups. Needs a bit of improvement on hand work and developing a variety of rush approaches as he seems a bit limited and relies mostly on his athletic ability to get passed tackles. He should be available at 14 and would benefit from the veteran LB's already on the roster like Clay Matthews and Ahmad Brooks if he is re-signed.
Justin Reid S 6'1" 200 lbs. Stanford 6.12 grade on NFL.com
Brother of pro-bowl safety Eric Reid. With both his high athleticism and high football IQ Reid is one of the best Safeties in the draft. In 2017 he earned a first-team all-conference nod as well as second-team Associated Press All-American mention. He started 11 of 14 games, garnering 99 tackles, 6.5 for loss, 5 interceptions, and 6 pass break-ups. He can help with man coverage while also having the instincts for ball-hawking duties. Can be overly aggressive but scouts say the positives far outweigh the negatives. Supposedly, better in man-coverage than his brother.
Carlton Davis CB 6'1" 203 lbs. Auburn
First-team ALL-SEC pick in 2017 starting 13 games, making 36 stops, 1 interception and 11 pass breakups. Compared to Richard Sherman, a scout is reported as saying "his own quarterback stayed away from throwing to his side in practice." Great combination of height, weight, and speed the one question is whether he can catch. Although he led the team in pass break-ups he only had 1 interception. He can also be a bit aggressive man on man, causing 6 DPI penalties called on him last year. With a little coaching, guidance and some veteran leadership Davis could be an NFL starter.
Rd. 4 Pick 1 (101)
Darius Leonard OLB 6'2" 213 lbs. South Carolina St.
MEAC defensive player of the year in 2016 gaining 124 tackles, 14.5 for a loss, 3.5 sacks, 2 interceptions, three pass breakups, and 4 forced fumbles. He had high impact production throughout his college career, blazing speed, good sideline to sideline range. High NFL IQ and good in both zone and man coverage. He may lack desired physicals of an OLB but his athleticism and speed make up for it. He also tends to go for the ball/throwing arm as opposed to getting the QB on the ground which is always a nice commodity.
Rd. 4 Pick 33 (133)
J'Mon Moore WR 6'3" 204 lbs. Missouri
Led Tigers in receptions and receiving yards in 2017 catching 65 passes for 1082 yds and 10 tds. Second Team ALL-SEC. Dangerous after the catch, but still raw. Needs a bit of work on his route running but has soft hands and is great at catching the deep over the shoulder balls as well as contested balls. Should benefit from both the veteran receivers already on the roster and Aaron's pinpoint accuracy.
Holton Hill CB 6'3" 200 lbs. Texas
There are some questions about the maturity of Hill as he was suspended from play in 2017 for violating team rules. He did, however, start the first 9 games intercepting 2 passes both returned for touchdowns. He broke up 6 passes and had 51 tackles. He can play both man and zone and can disguise zone coverage well. Didn't run that fast at the combine but proved that he can keep up with fast wide outs like James Washington who he held to 4 catches and 32 yards and has also proved he is quick on his feet having as many pick-sixes as he does under his belt. Also helpful in run support, there is the potential for Hill to switch to safety.
Brandon Facyson CB 6'2" 197 lbs. Virginia Tech
5.4 grade on NFL.com
Facyson has dealt with some injuries throughout his career at Virginia Tech and if it weren't for that he would probably be much higher on the board. After a stress fracture and a broken leg in 2014. He returned in 2015 starting 10 of 12 games posting 27 tackles, and 10 pass break-ups. He got healthier as did his numbers through 2016 and 2017. In 2016, he made 48 tackles, 4 for loss and 11 pass break-ups. In 2017, Facyson started 11 of 13 games making 19 tackles, 2 for a loss, and 5 pass break-ups. He's known to be great teammate, extremely mature and a good locker room presence. Slightly limited and
would be best suited for specific schemes but otherwise very naturally gifted player with grit and perseverance.
Byron Pringle WR 6'2" 205 lbs. Kansas St.
Pringle will be a 25 year old rookie in 2018 due to some criminal indiscretions that occurred in his youth but NFL teams will have to be the judge of that. In 2016 he led his team with 631 yds, 4 tds and 39 catches. He was named first team All-Conference for his return skills averaging 28.7 yds per kick return in 2016. He was honored again for his return skills in 2017 with a 26.1 yd return average and one touchdown. He averaged an insane 24.1 yds per catch as a senior with 6 touchdowns on a team that was not pass-heavy. He might have trouble with drops but so did a few of our other WR's their first and second years.
Will Richardson OT 6'6" 304 lbs. N.C. State
Given that the Packers love to move tackles in to the guard position Richardson actually fits the bill quite nicely. Has had some off the field issues, a suspension in 2017 and a DUI in 2015. But he has good foot quickness and has strong, well timed punch and has both right tackle and guard potential. The Packer's offensive line can always use more big guys who can play a variety of positions. There is a lot of potential for Richardson if he can keep his nose down and focus on the game, fix some of his inadequacies and learn from some of the best tackles in the league.
Auden Tate WR 6'5" 225 lbs Florida St.
5.43 grade by NFL.com
Although Tate was injured in 2017 he still impressed in his junior year. Huge target with outstanding body control. Leaps in mid-air and adjusts to make the catch using very strong hands. Extremely tough as he played through a shoulder injury that year. The one major knock on Tate is his speed but coaches swear he will run better on the field than at the combine. Tate could be another major red-zone threat for Rodgers.
Joseph Noteboom OT 6'3" 319 lbs TCU
Noteboom has not missed a game since his red-shirt freshman year. Played both right and left tackle earning him an honorable mention by Big-12 as a senior. Good NFL frame, can handle double team blocks, strong hands, and a good athlete in space. There are inconsistencies in his tape due to his technique slipping a bit when rushed with power, needs faster hands and a more consistent punch. Noteboom could also see the Packers' perennial move to guard as he has the right build and since speed usually causes him some issues. Interior linemen have a little more time to block.
Durham Smythe TE 6'5" 257 lbs. Notre Dame
Although Smythe does not have much value in terms of his production for Notre Dame, he is a classic "Y" tight end who is a technically sound blocker. Since signing Jimmy Graham and as long as Richard Rogers is still a pending free agent the Packers are badly in need of a blocking tight end rather than another red zone threat. Both able to play in pass-protection and run blocking, Smythe could be an excellent addition as a late rounder who can help bolster the offensive line in certain schemes. Playing behind Graham will certainly have its benefits as well and could potentially help Smythe become a better pass-catching tight end.
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Ounces made it into two top 10 questions for recent Google searches.
Between the two of them, they accounted for 900,000 questions in that six month time frame. So how does that play out? Let's say you're working in the kitchen and you decide you want to scale a recipe up or down and need that "How many ounces in a …?" question answered. The first thing I'd do is search my memory bank to see if that was something I already knew. Then, if I didn't know, or was less than confident in my answer, I'd need to either whip out my phone or mosey over to my computer to get the answer.
While the actual Google search might seem almost instantaneous, the process of getting to enter the question is not. Let's say that it takes about 90 seconds before you get to the Google search part (I have nothing to back this assertion up but it is probably conservative). If so, that means we (and by "we" I mean either Americans or the poor souls who find themselves confronted with our crazy units here or elsewhere in the world) spend 45,000 hours each year searching for this information. Put another way, every year we spend more than five years of our time reminding ourselves how many ounces there are in things.
This amount of time, of course, doesn't include all the time spent looking such information up in a cookbook only to discover (in most cases) that conversions between metric units are sometimes included but not how many ounces, for instance, there are in things.
Most cookbooks include units between U.S. customary and metric system, not within customary units.
I can't confidently promise that we'd likely spend any saved time on something productive but at least we'd have the opportunity to spend it on something less wasteful.
As if that wasn't bad enough, I also recently came across the cheat sheet on the right.
It's just nuts that we put ourselves through these machinations when using the metric system is so easy. Unless you're really slow, you wouldn't even need such a chart.
Given that we already use decimalized currency, most everyone could immediately tell you that half a dollar is 50 cents and a quarter of a dollar is 25 cents without a calculator or a Google search. It's the same with metric system mesures.
While it might take some thought and effort to switch over to the metric system initially, once there, our lives become a whole lot simpler.
If only more people knew. Help spread the word please.
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great post! I especially appreciate the conversions!
Cooking is only one example of this probem. Doing carpentry and adding up lengths in eighths of an inch or less is another, and the Metric Maven wrote a whole blog entry on the difficulties of American drill bits with sizes designated by numbers and letters to suit various sizes of fasteners and another series in 64ths of an inch. |
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Hearing aid music-listening programs and sound quality: A recent research project at the University of Tennessee
by Neil Hockley
In my last post, I discussed the conversations that I had with the journalist Gary Parks about music and hearing loss. Just after writing this post, I received a copy of a poster about music and hearing aids that was presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) meeting in Baltimore Maryland U.S.A. in February 2019. This work was conducted at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville by Patti Johnstone, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Education in Audiology, along with her colleagues in engineering and music. One of the authors was Marshall Chasin, AuD whom I have personally collaborated with over the last 10 years. He was the one who passed this poster on to me.
The goal of this investigation was to determine, using blinded listening tests, if child and adult musicians:
prefer live music recordings of individual musical instruments with a dedicated music program (DMP) activated or deactivated;
prefer one signal processing scheme over another when listening to recordings of live musical instruments;
can correctly identify a musical instrument when listening to recordings of live music.
The authors used live music recordings of musical instruments recorded through 5 different hearing aids. The musical instruments were the bassoon, cello, marimba, trumpet, tuba, xylophone, and violin. The live music recordings included a C major scale and a short musical excerpt. The hearing aids were all programmed using NAL NL2 for a 50dB HL flat hearing loss. The DMP was activated and deactivated in each hearing aid. The hearing aids used in this study included a Bernafon ChannelFree™ instrument.
There were 60 normal hearing subjects – all musicians – who participated in the experiment, 30 children and 30 adults. The subjects listened to the recordings via headphones that were randomly presented using a custom MATLAB interface. The subjects were blind as to the make of the hearing aid, if the DMP was activated or not, and which musical instrument they were listening to.
One of the most interesting results of this study, especially for me, was that the Bernafon Juna ChannelFree™ hearing aid was ranked significantly higher than the other hearing aids when the musical instrument had a bass fundamental frequency or more bass harmonics (e.g., a tuba) regardless of whether the DMP was activated or not.
The authors discussed several interesting conclusions. The first three are listed below:
child and adult musicians with normal hearing prefer music recorded through a hearing instrument with the DMP activated;
compression systems like Bernafon's ChannelFree™ may enhance the perception of music for instruments with a bass fundamental frequency and harmonics;
music fidelity, richness, circuit noise, and pitch distortion are factors that may affect a musician's willingness to use a hearing aid.
This multidisciplinary study is impressive given the number of subjects who are musicians - 60 subjects - and the number of stimuli - 126. The authors also made the effort to record the musical instruments live rather than use commercially available sound samples. This work adds to our knowledge about how music is perceived by musicians and potentially hearing aid users via hearing aids and gives some further insight into how future devices should be designed. It was also very interesting to me that both adults and children were included in this study.
Music is an important part of many individual's lives, regardless of age, whether they are musicians or music lovers. It is therefore a good idea to find out about an individual hearing-impaired person's experience with music and then encourage them to use their music program whenever they play or listen to music. It is always interesting to hear what they think and learn from their experiences.
Johnstone, P., Reinbolt, J., Pappas, J., Chasin, M., Hausladen, J., Philips, T., Thornton, K., & Martin, K. (2019). A comparison of hearing aid music-listening programs on perceived sound quality of individual musical instruments by child and adult musicians. Poster presented at The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) meeting in Baltimore Maryland U.S.A., February 9-13.
Neil Hockley
Neil Hockley, M.Sc. Human Communication Disorders (Audiology: Research and Clinical program) McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. BaH Psychology (Perception) Queen´s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Neil is the team leader of Product Management Audiology at Bernafon AG in Bern. He plays a key role in developing and bringing to market audiological hearing instrument and fitting software features. Prior to joining Bernafon in 2001, he worked in clinical and academic settings in the Niagara region of Ontario (Canada). When he is not at work, you can find him at home spending time with his children, cooking, listening to music, in the allotment, or out and about on one of his vintage bicycles.
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YEAR OF THE RABBIT by Lisa Meltzer Penn
Posted on August 30, 2020 by adminFA in - 6 Comments
At the inner edge of San Francisco's Richmond district, an eye winks open from the fog. The eye surveys the streets and avenues below, pausing on a house with an old van stalled in the driveway and weedy patch of fenced yard out back. One could say the plot of land was unloved. But Earth prefers other forms of love, like fire and rain and roots, like worms tunneling earth through their elastic bodies. And fences mean nothing to the worms as they go about their silent and unseen business.
The peephole shifts ever so slightly to the next yard where a black Labrador retriever guards a crop of dark, leafy collards. A man stands over the dog. "Don't be lettin' no raccoons or Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, or Peter hop in and pilfer my collards," Mr. Jefferson says. "You've got a job to do. Don't forget."
The retriever barks in reply, a sound from deep in its throat. On occasion, it digs up the collards itself and is soundly thwacked. Otherwise, it is a regular Farmer McGregor, seven years old and in the prime of life.
"Jeffer-son," calls a voice from inside. "Come on in. You'll be late for work!"
Not even Magnolia Jefferson calls her husband by his first name. She cooks up a daily pot of grits and collards for his breakfast before greeting her own crop of little children dropped off each morning. "Magnolia's Daycare" reads the sign over the door. They play in the tiny, gated front garden adorned with toy cars and balls, not out back where the dog stands guard over the rows of vegetables.
If a child in her charge dares to misbehave, for instance making a break for the corner on a Big Wheel, or God forbid, fighting with another child, Magnolia positions the offender on the front porch directly in her line of vision and stares him or her down. "Now you have to look at my ugly, black mug until I say you can stop," she'll say. "No, no, anything but that!" the child will scream. But they all obey, staring into her eyes until she lets them go. They respect her. When they grow into middle- and high-school students, they will come back in the afternoons to do their homework on the steps.
Magnolia ladles breakfast into a bowl for Jefferson and sighs. Rollo Lee, who was raised next door, might have benefited from staring into Magnolia's mug. Rollo, now a young man, attracts the wrong element. He's been moved into the basement in-law unit of his house, and his older sister, Jade, rents out the upper floors to make ends meet. He's Jade's responsibility now.
"I sure do miss Mr. and Mrs. Lee," Magnolia says aloud, looking out into the Lees' yard.
Rollo doesn't venture into the yard much, or go anywhere most days. Not since his van stopped running. But it's Chinese New Year, and his ne'er-do-well friends have shown up at the narrow door below the stairs carrying longevity noodles, a case of Tsingtao, and a squirming burlap sack.
The guy holding the sack has a Mickey Mouse tattoo on his wrist. When Rollo opens the door, the guy reaches into the sack and pulls out a rabbit by its long ears. "Surprise!" he says, and the rabbit's hind legs kick at air. He laughs. "Five of them for Year of the Rabbit."
When Rollo was a kid, he played magician. But these rabbits did not come to be pulled out of hats. And they are not exactly guests of honor, even if this is supposed to be their year.
"For the frying pan," says Mickey Mouse.
The rabbit is a soft beigey-gray color. Rollo looks deep into its beady eyes and the rabbit looks back. "Okay, bring them in," he says. "But they're not for dinner. Jade cooked me a whole chicken. I'll share it with you guys." So, the rabbits come to the house for one purpose, but are saved from the frying pan for another fate.
The moving men's T-shirts are emblazoned with a logo of a giant balancing a truck on one finger. The men carry furniture and a procession of boxes up the stairs of the Lees' house. The newest renters, newlyweds Dinah and Nathan Levin, are just out of the proverbial frying pan themselves, having escaped a terror of a landlady at their last digs.
As the bride carries a suitcase past the old van, an inquisitive, long-whiskered gray nose pokes out the driver's side window.
The bride nearly jumps out of her shoes, and the groom catches her. "Whoa, Nellie," he says.
She peers into the furry face. "What is that?"
Two paws are positioned at ten and two o'clock on the steering wheel. A big rabbit looks back at her while four others hop around the back of the van. The soft-hearted Lee boy has converted the vehicle into temporary housing for the New Year's rabbits.
When Dinah moved into Nathan's last place before their engagement, his landlady was nice enough at first. But soon she took to dialing their number late at night.
Dinah would pick up the phone.
"What do you think you're doing there?" the voice on the other end would demand. "I didn't rent to you! Leave my house or I'll kill you!"
Startled, Dinah would slam the phone down. But it would ring again and again. The landlady would shout into the answering machine, leaving foul messages the couple saved for their lawyer.
"You can't really be afraid of her," the police officer said, taking the report. "She's a little old lady."
"She might look it," Dinah said, "but she's either crazy or evil or both. I don't know what she'll do!"
Dinah stayed awake at night, waiting for the next call, and checked every time she left the flat to make sure no one was hiding in the greenery. She and Nathan vowed to find a new place right after they got married.
Now she slides her feet back into their shoes and follows the movers up the stairs. A Chinese calendar hangs from a nail in the kitchen, the only reminder of the last tenants. The calendar page is still on February and illustrates the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac in a colorful circle from Rat to Ox to Tiger to Rabbit, then Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig, with a brief description of each in fancy gold ink.
"Like the twelve tribes of Israel," her husband says. He jabs his finger at Rabbit in the three o'clock position. "Hey, Dinah, look, you're a Rabbit. It's your year."
She groans. "Enough rabbits! Besides, I'm nineteen sixty-four. Dragon, same as you."
"Nope. The Chinese year won't change from Rabbit to Dragon until next February, a couple of weeks after your birthday."
She reads the small print. She falls between the cracks of the regular and the Chinese New Year's. Not a Dragon after all.
Nate reads off the calendar, "'Intrepid Rabbit managed to hop from stone to stone in the river and get some help from Dragon to finish the race and make it onto the list of twelve animals.' Typical rabbit, calmly sizing up the situation and making it work with a dose of good luck."
"Kind of a demotion, though, isn't it?" Dinah says. "A Dragon to a Rabbit?"
"Hmmm," Nate says, scanning the calendar page. "Maybe not. 'Rabbit strengths: even-tempered, gentle, faithful, compassionate, and clever.'"
"Those aren't so bad," Dinah says. "I guess I never really felt like a Dragon anyway."
"Terrific! Now you're a newlywed, a Levin, a Capricorn, and a Rabbit. So many new things!"
"And clever and lucky," the bride adds. "Don't forget that." She flips the calendar page to March, and they get to unpacking.
When the five rabbits outgrow their holding pen in the driveway, Rollo Lee sets them loose in the backyard. "They're all boys," Mickey Mouse reminds him. "They told me when I got them. So don't worry."
A light breeze riffles by and blows the fog about. The rabbit last seen at the wheel of the van stretches up on its powerful hind legs. It's two feet tall now. The rabbit twitches its whiskers. The smells of vegetables and dog hair tickle its nose. The fine hairs on its back shift in the breeze in alternating shades of gray and beige. A bay, they call that type at Animal Control.
The rabbits are very hungry and nibble at everything they can find in their new patch of yard: the overgrown hedge grass, the clover and dandelions, and those tiny white daisies that crop up in clusters everywhere in San Francisco. The rabbits strip the bark from the tree trunks as high as they can reach with their long teeth. They lick the droplets of water the fog deposits on the clover and fences and siding of the house.
The bay rabbit lowers its forelegs and hops a few feet. Life is good. Out of the frying pan, out of the van, the five rabbits have a chance for a new life, free for the taking.
Like magic, the five purportedly male rabbits begin to reproduce. Someone was mistaken, or was pulling a leg. Or else a lucky rabbit's foot kicked a hole in Mickey Mouse's theory, the way the blue sky keeps trying to punch a hole in the fog layer.
One day, the hapless Rollo Lee tags along with his friends to the corner market. When he slips a candy bar and several packages of extra-strength Sudafed inside his jacket pocket, he is promptly arrested for shoplifting. And then the police come by with a search warrant.
Magnolia Jefferson clucks her tongue when she hears the news. "A crying shame," she says to her husband as he labors over his collards and carrots. "Those friends of his taking advantage. Did you hear? They were cooking up concoctions and selling drugs out of his little apartment. I knew something wasn't right. In the same house where he grew up! His folks will be turning over in their graves."
Jefferson shakes his head.
Rollo and one of the friends go to jail.
When someone knocks on the door of the main house. Dinah puts her eye to the peephole. It's the Mickey Mouse tattoo guy.
When he says he needs to cut through their house to collect something from the basement apartment, she opens her door an inch with the chain on and glares at him, as good as Magnolia Jefferson could glare. "Nuh-uh," she says. "No way."
The guy takes a step back. "It's okay, really. I'll leave through the side after."
Dinah grips the doorknob, her jaw set. "You will not cut through my house."
"Oh." His face falls. "Sorry. I won't bother you again."
Afterwards, she stares at the empty porch. The guy's in his early twenties, as young as her kid brother, who also likes Mickey Mouse. She wants to be safe. She wants to be a newlywed and forget the past year's nasty business with the crazy landlady.
A few days later, a scratching sound comes from below. Dinah goes down the outside steps and knocks on Rollo's back door. But nobody answers. There's a small movement in the bushes. When she looks closer, she sees the bay rabbit studying her from the fence line.
By the time Dinah calls Animal Control, the basement apartment has been vacant for a month. During that time, the five rabbits have multiplied to twenty-five.
"What should we do?" she pleads into the phone from the back landing as brown, silver, white, and various shades of dappled bunnies tear out grass and daisies by their roots.
"Give them carrots but not carrot tops," a woman from Animal Control cautions over the phone. "Not for the babies. And no iceberg lettuce."
"I meant, can't you come get them? They're not ours."
"Do you live there?"
"Is it your yard?"
"Yes, but we're renters. The guy downstairs put them there."
"Good, so he can take care of them."
"Not really. He's in jail."
Dinah hears a sigh on the other end of the phone. "Then they're yours. You're the responsible party now. Or you can call your landlord. But one of your other neighbors will have to complain before we come out."
"Why would the neighbors complain?"
"Trust me. It will happen."
The smell of succulent greens on the other side of the fence is too much for little bunnies to resist. The new Flopsys, Mopsys, Cottontails, and Peters are small enough to get through the cracks between the boards. Several of them tunnel underneath, straight into the jaws of the black Lab. What the dog doesn't snap up in the daytime, the neighborhood cats and raccoons tear to pieces in the dark of night. The cats leap the fence when the black Lab is off duty. They carry away the bunnies' little feet and little heads and red strings of guts in their mouths. They drop the remnants as offerings on nearby driveways and porches.
A cheerful woman from Animal Control finally comes out to set humane traps in the yard. "Let's see if we can catch some bunnies and find them their forever homes."
A few of the Flopsys and Mopsys are captured. Animal Control comes back whenever Dinah and Nathan report a rabbit in a trap. By this time, there is almost nothing left of the yard to eat, and the summer fog that blows across the neighborhood is chilling. Worms hum through the soil. Dirt nestles against the houses. The rabbits burrow for warmth. To the bigger ones, who are not so particular, the concrete foundation is starting to look like good eating. Their teeth still have to be ground down, lest they grow into deformed tusks. They dig with abandon and gnaw at the foundation, heedless of the impact to their bellies.
One morning, early, the woman from Animal Control reaches into a trap. The brown and white rabbit that wandered in for a juicy carrot the night before lies stiffly on the bottom. It's one of the original five. It needed water to quench the insatiable thirst from the crumbled bits of concrete in its belly. It needed cover for warmth. The woman holds the limp creature close to her chest, her long ponytail brushing the rabbit's silky ears. She strokes its head. "They're cute even when they're dead," she coos.
One way or another, before long, all the rabbits are gone. They are caught in traps; they are eaten by other animals. If they are lucky, they escape through fences. There is nothing left for them, and nothing left of them, in the Lees' yard.
Jade Lee parks her VW Bug behind a tow truck. Dinah comes outside. The ruined van is being hooked onto the ball of the truck.
"Look at that real truck," a little girl declares from Magnolia's play yard. "I'm gonna drive one of those someday."
Dinah turns to look at the little girl. "Good for you," she says.
After Jade Lee signs the paperwork, the tow truck driver pulls the van down the street and around the corner out of sight.
A fuzzy van-size rectangle remains in the driveway like the outline of a body. Jade scuffs her foot along its edge. "When my brother gets out of jail, he'll be going to a group home," she says.
"Bless your heart," Magnolia Jefferson says from her yard. "He got mixed up with the wrong folks."
Dinah crosses her arms. "What about the drug den in the basement?"
Jade sighs, her crow-black hair falling over her face. "It will be taken care of."
Dinah's face twists a little. "I get it. I have a brother, too." She leans over and gives Jade a hug. "Thank you."
"Mmm, hmmm," says Magnolia and nods her approval.
A demolition crew arrives and takes the basement apartment down to the studs. After they haul the mess away, a renovation crew gets to work.
The Levins' lawyer finishes settling the claim against the crazy landlady from the old place. And when a long, official-looking envelope arrives with the settlement check exactly a month before Halloween, the couple decides to mark the occasion with a party.
Dinah stands on the back stoop and surveys the yard. The patch has been transformed from overgrown and weedy to a barren moonscape. It's hard not to admire the rabbits' industriousness. They did a very thorough job. Jade has promised to replant after the downstairs apartment renovation is complete. But for now, it seems a shame to waste all the rabbits' hard work.
On All Hallows Eve and the days leading up to it, the lines blur between living and dead, good and evil, sacred and profane. While Dinah rummages for Halloween decorations, she pulls an old broomstick out of the utility closet, the worn bristles like a bad hairdo. She props it up, and almost as an afterthought, clothes it in a dress from the giveaway pile. She tops it with a black witch's hat, carries her creation out back, and plants it in the center of the barren yard.
Before the party guests arrive, Dinah picks up a dead branch from the ground and scratches a wide circle in the dirt around the broomstick. A witch in a circle in a moonscape. With the circle complete, she tosses the branch against the fence. The Jeffersons' black Lab barks from the other side. Dinah recites a line from the kitchen calendar: "I eschew aggression and violence, particularly in public situations. I aim to maintain tranquility and balance at all times." She giggles.
Nate is Ali Baba in an embroidered vest with a shirt open to his chest and a golden turban atop his head. Dinah is a skimpily clad saloon girl in red and black stripes with a feather hairpiece, boa, and fishnet opera gloves. Their friends show up in costume too. No one is him or herself tonight. Even Dinah's intractable cousin, who swore she wouldn't dress up, has transformed into a witch with her own pointy black hat.
It's Dinah's first time hiring caterers. She checks the kitchen between rounds of appetizers and is drawn to the back stoop. The fog has vanished and the sky is clear and black. A big moon rises over the abandoned yard, so low she could almost run to it. The moon's glowing face does not reveal the familiar countenance of the man in the moon but a blue-gray shadow resembling a rabbit. "More rabbits?" Dinah says aloud. The moon rabbit is leaning forward like it's grinding something between its teeth, a substance that might sprinkle down onto their yard and the broomstick witch. Dinah shuts her eyes, but when she opens them, the moon rabbit is still there. "Even the moon is in disguise tonight," she says.
"It's a rabbit moon," a caterer calls from the kitchen.
"You saw it too?"
The caterer laughs. "It says so right on your calendar."
Everything is different tonight, as if the patch of yard is inviting something new, one moonscape to another. Though it's cool out, heat radiates from the bare skin of Dinah's shoulders.
She cocks an ear over her red-and-black feather boa. It might be the party punch taking effect, but the lunar rabbit seems to bend close to whisper, "You're a rabbit like me. Here is your image for all to see." Dinah smiles at the moon and raises her punch cup in a toast. She goes back in and invites the costumed guests to the yard.
When everyone is gathered, she instructs them to link hands around the dirt circle. Dinah begins chanting a song from deep in her gut. "Mother, I feel you under my feet. Mother, I feel your heart beat." Soon everyone is chanting and dancing and circling the broomstick witch while one of the guests beats a rhythm on a drum.
Dinah produces a disposable lighter from within her sequined costume. She crosses to inside the dirt circle and crouches at the base of the broomstick. The lighter sparks once, twice. The third try yields a thin line of flame that licks at the hem of the witch's dress. The flame grows bolder and leaps upward, causing the broomstick witch to quiver with false life.
The black Lab barks again, and the neighborhood cats and raccoons pause their nighttime explorations, slitted eyes glittering. When the chanting reaches a crescendo, Dinah sucks in a breath and shouts, "Now!" And the flaming broomstick witch falls backward, landing with a thud on the ground barely within the boundary of the dirt circle.
The Halloween guests raise their joined hands and cheer as the fire burns itself out.
"How did you do that?" Dinah's cousin asks. "Did you pull a string or something?"
Dinah watches the glowing embers die. "No string. It was time. Couldn't you feel it?"
"That was your crazy old landlady, right?" a friend asks.
Dinah shudders. "No, it wasn't her. Not exactly." The night is about reclaiming tranquility and balance, no matter what it looks like. "Good riddance to the negative energy. That goes to the fire."
After the guests leave, Dinah and Nate go to their bedroom at the top of the house and change out of their costumes. Everything old has burned away. Rollo is gone, his apartment transformed. The lucky rabbits have sprung off. The old van is hollowed out in a junk yard, disassembled for parts. Even the broomstick witch has dissipated into the night. Dinah looks out the window at the yard below. All is quiet.
The grass is growing back after the season's first rain. Jade Lee, true to her word, comes by to plant honeysuckle along the fence. "My mom used to love honeysuckle." She points out a dusty planter box along the side of the yard. "She was a real gardener. She didn't speak much English, but she and Mr. Jefferson used to compare plants. They both brought natives with them from their first homes. You can grow whatever you like."
"I think I will," Dinah says. "My parents are coming for a visit soon. My mom can help."
Looking at the yard and the still-black circle of dirt in the middle, Dinah starts to feel a tiny bit nauseated. The night of the party, her Ali Baba peeled the fishnet gloves from her arms, unzipped the slick and shiny striped dress with a swish under the rabbit moon.
She buys a pregnancy kit at the drugstore. When Nate gets home, they open the package and follow instructions. After a few minutes, the results are confirmed on the plastic test stick. A little blue window winks open at the top like a break in the fog. She lays her hand on her belly. A tight little knot is already growing inside her. Nate hoots and wraps her in a hug. "This is great!" he says.
Dinah breaks free and runs downstairs to the back garden. For a strange moment, a shimmering vision hovers in the air: a beige-gray rabbit birthing a litter of bunnies.
"But it's so soon," she says. "Not even a year since we got married."
Nate touches her shoulder. "Well, you said you didn't want to wait too long."
Dinah takes a deep breath. "That's true." She places Nate's hand over her still-flat belly. "Do you feel anything?"
"Something's in there," Nate says.
Dinah's face twitches. "How can I be nauseated and starving at the same time?"
In the kitchen she devours two grilled cheese sandwiches, then she and Nate toss a big salad in the wooden bowl that was one of their wedding presents. Lettuces, radishes, avocado, and some carrots from Mr. Jefferson's garden. Just how the rabbits would have liked it. Maybe, like the rabbits, she needs to keep eating everything in sight.
Dinah flips the calendar page one last time for 1999, for the century, and for the millennium, though Rabbit won't roll over to Dragon until February. Their little bunny will be born a Dragon like its father. That is, if all the numbers on all the clocks and computers of the world don't reset to zero, and the world doesn't roll over and end with Y2K. But Rabbit is still a lucky sign and will get them there.
Dinah's mother helps her plant daffodil bulbs in the yard, then pulls a faded envelope from her purse. The envelope bears the wavy ink stamp of a long-ago postmark.
"Read this," she says.
"Open it up."
It takes Dinah few minutes to decipher the slanted, old-fashioned handwriting.
Dear Dr. Siegelman,
This letter is to affirm the results of your lovely wife's hCG test. After her urine was injected into a juvenile rabbit and the sufficient 72 hours had passed, I personally examined the ovaries. They had swollen the characteristic amount with a series of recognizable red dots. I can positively verify the results without hesitation.
Best wishes to you and your wife.
Dr. Herbert Miller
Dr. Siegelman was Dinah's mother's father, her grandfather. She reads the letter again. "Is this the rabbit test?" she asks. "With an actual live rabbit?"
Her mother nods.
"When you were pregnant with me?"
"Look at the date."
"Grandma?" Dinah says. "Pregnant with you?" The letter contained good news, though apparently not so good for the rabbit. "So, the rabbit died?"
Her mother shrugs. "It was cut open. They all were. That was part of the test back then. They stopped doing it that way before you came along."
When the calendar turns again, to a new century and a new millennium, lo and behold, the world keeps turning too. And before you can blink, the Year of the Rabbit is coming to a close.
But before it's over, the intrepid bay rabbit arrives at a final destination. Not the moon, but a new home in the Outer Richmond near the ocean, where a lucky little boy adopts it as a pet. The boy feeds the rabbit a steady stream of leafy greens, carrots, and alfalfa, and an endless supply of water from a bottle attached to the side of a roomy hutch. He holds the rabbit's lucky foot in his small hand. And soon, like magic, the bay rabbit brings forth a final litter of kits. The kits go to new homes, and then it's just the bay rabbit and the boy. On nice days, the bay goes into the yard and stands on hind legs, nose twitching to the sky. Sea breezes flow across, bringing scents of everything beyond the yard. Worms chug through the soil, poking their heads through the mantle on rainy days and cuddling up to other worms to transmit all they've learned about the earth.
And the eye in the sky sweeps over the boy's house in its foggy, free-wheeling passage. Way above the fog, the rabbit on the moon is still grinding away like a pestle, mixing an elixir of life to sustain future generations. The moon rabbit winks, and the bay rabbit in the new forever yard twitches its long whiskers in response. Then the bay hops through the green grass and over to the boy, who scoops up his rabbit and hugs it close.
Lisa Meltzer Penn writes layered, lyrical fiction that explores the ways landscapes, both exterior and interior, seduce us. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in multiple Fault Zone anthologies, Travelers Tales: Spain and other literary publications, won awards, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her novel The Siren Dialogues, literary fiction with a twist of magical realism, is complete and ready for publication.
Lisa is founding editor of the Fault Zone anthology series for the California Writers Club San Francisco Peninsula branch, where she is Immediate Past President, active on the board, and 2013 recipient of the prestigious Louise Boggess Award. A former New York editor of bestselling middle grade and young adult fiction, Lisa is known for digging into the bones of a story to bring out the best in it. She lives by the San Francisco Bay with her family and is at work on fiction and memoir projects. Follow her blog Lisa Melts Her Pen and find out more at: https://lisameltzerpenn.com/
WHY WE CHOSE TO PUBLISH "Year of the Rabbit":
Author Lisa Meltzer Penn has crafted a delightful story whose interesting characters catch our attention immediately. From there the story pulls us along with a solidly crafted theme that smoothly takes us from one story point to the next, deftly blending all of its elements together.
And we're not disappointed when the story comes full circle in a perfect ending that nicely caps the whole piece. This is how good stories are written and what we look for in the pieces we choose to publish.
6 comments on "YEAR OF THE RABBIT by Lisa Meltzer Penn"
James Hanna says:
Pure poetry.
Celia Harms says:
I loved Year of the Rabbit which held special significance for me as I was born in the year of the Rabbit too and find the Rabbit's characteristics very true. Beautifully written and well developed story.
Lisa Meltzer Penn says:
So glad you liked it, Celia! Thank you.
Thank you, Jim–you helped make it sing!
Josephine Carpignano says:
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Tim Flood says:
Lisa, what a sweet, warm story, where you've gathered animals and people into a kind of story menagerie. The characters feel like real-life people I want to get to know better after meeting them in your prose. (I'd also like to cuddle a rabbit right now.) Your story is infused with the characteristics of the Year of the Rabbit: It is "even-tempered, gentle, faithful, compassionate, and clever." Your warmth and sense of humor shine through. We need more kind-hearted stories these days, and this one certainly brightened my early morning. Thank you, Lisa.
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Q: ZFS autoreplace unavailable drive I have the fallowing ZFS test pool setup in my vm:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
spares
sdd AVAIL
I a trying to test the ability to replace a drive that becomes unavailable automatically in a zfs pool. For example if for some reason the drive is removed from the system the spare dive could take its place immediately upon the drives removal. I have configured a spare drive and from the reading I have done, the way I understand it is that this should accomplish my goal. I have also set the autoreplace flag to on to tell zfs to replace any bad drive if detected. When remove a drive from the vm, say sdb and recheck the status of zfs it looks like the fallowing:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
sdb UNAVAIL 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
spares
sdd AVAIL
The sdb device becomes unavailable but is never replaced by the spare. Is there a way i can get my use-case to work?
A: Intro
First of all for anyone who is having the same issue on Ubuntu 16.04, it is currently an ongoing bug and as of now, to my knowledge, has not been fixed. You can visit the github conversation here to see the bug I am referencing. Secondly I am writing this post as an enthusiast and intermediate linux user, I am not a developer or currently work on linux as a profession. That being said I will provide the info I have found on this issue to the best of my knowledge.
The Issue:
The hot spare functionality built into the zfsonlinux package currently does not work as stated in the man page. zpool man page:
Hot Spares
ZFS allows devices to be associated with pools as "hot spares".
These devices are not actively used in the pool, but when an active
device fails, it is automatically replaced by a hot spare.
Note: Cold spare (a spare not replaced automatically) functionality is working but only in configurations consisting of mirrors or any of the raidz's. If you have a configuration like the fallowing:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
spares
sdd AVAIL
Upon the failure of a drive you will be unable to replace it with the spare due to the pool I/O is currently suspended error.
Attempted Solutions:
This is a list of attempted solutions I have gone through and the results is got:
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*ZFS auto replace: It turns out that according to the zpool man page and my understanding of it, the autoreplace functionality is not to replace a damaged drive with the spare but rather to replace the damaged drive itself with any new device found at its location. zpool man page:
If set to "on", any new device, found in the same physical location
as a device that previously belonged to the pool, is automatically
formatted and replaced.
autoreplace is good to have on, but to achieve the functionality of a hot spare I don't believe it is needed. Im not able to confirm this other than through the man page because i was unable to get the spare to work.
*ZED.rc: I later found from within the conversation on github that the ZED_SPARE_ON_CHECKSUM_ERRORS and ZED_SPARE_ON_IO_ERRORS flags needed to be set within the zed.rc. As @user121391 said in his answer to this post, the zed service/daemon is what determines the status of the pool and what is required to be done based on that status. You can see zed.d at work by running zpool events. After setting the flags, rebooting and, reconfiguring a new pool just in case, my testing of the hot spare came up negative again.
*ZED.d scripts: In @Michael Kjörling's comment he mentioned some scripts packaged with ZED that are written to help with the hot spare scenario. I did indeed find the scripts located in /etc/zfs/zed.d. You can view these scripts on the github page here. From my understanding of zed.d, when an event is triggered the ZED daemon runs one of these scripts based on its status. That being said I did try to run the io-spare.sh and checksum-spare.sh manually and judging by the time they took to execute as well as the unchanged status of the pool, they didn't seem to be running correctly. Maybe this is a potential source to the issue.
My Plans
For Ubuntu 16.04 users of ZFS, to my knowledge there currently seems to be no fix to this issue. I plan to continue to use ZFS with the configuration of a mirrored or raidz(RAID5) depending the the performance i get in testing.(mirrored will be faster but I want to see the speed of raidz) A hot spare would increase the redundancy of both these configs but unfortunately we will have to wait until further development of the zfsonlinux project. v
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Busted With Weed
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There's something that happens in the heart and soul of a young man when he begins to taste of criminal adrenaline. I learned to lie more effectively, and my drug habits increased. This made me hungry to delve into madness more deeply.
Every chance I got, I was smoking dope, or "bud" as we called it back then. I began to understand that there were different levels of marijuana quality, and the higher the quality, the more expensive it was. I sampled stronger weed. I smoked by dumpsters during rock concerts with people I didn't know. I jammed with older high schoolers that smoked in their parents' basements.
One time I was smoking a pipe with Maxwell Clancy, a well respected doper in the 12th grade who always had high quality stuff, in the school bathroom during lunch. The hall monitor of the school who we had named "Hall Hitler" walked in. I was deeply freaked out and sure I was busted. I put the pipe in my pocket, spurred on by Maxwell to hold onto it, and not realizing that I could potentially take the heat for him. Hall Hitler came in, declaring loudly, "Alright everybody! Get outta here! Stop smoking and doin' whatcher doin'!" As we walked out of the bathroom, with our high coming on, Maxwell walked up to me, likely afraid that I'd steal his pipe. He asked me to hand it over to him. I cupped it in my hand and handed it over. Hall Hitler came up to us and barked, "Hey! What was that you handed over!" Maxwell babbled something in court jester fashion, running off like a carnie circus man. Hall Hitler confronted me, and I told him all I had was a lighter. I pulled it out of my pocket. He let me slide with a warning and an after-school detention.
Somehow, experiences like this just furthered the hunger for mayhem within me. Duane and I had heard of some older friends who planned on going to a "Rave"- an all night illegal party in the city of Cleveland, Ohio that would surely have lots of drugs, girls, pumping techno music and colored lights. The thing was, I'd have to sneak out of my house in the middle of the night on a Friday night, and they'd come and pick me up. Everything was set for me. I had an eighth of an ounce of greens in my pocket, and they were heading over to get me about a block away from my house to avoid suspicion. They were coming to get me at 1:30am, and would get me back by 6am, just in time to sneak into bed before my parents woke up.
I snuck out of the house carefully and slowly, making sure that our English Springer Spaniel "Nick" wouldn't wake up. I crept out of the back porch door of our little ranch house. I walked through our backyard into a neighbors back yard, and before long was out on the street in the middle of the cool March evening. The stars were out, and it was a little bit chilly. I lit up a Camel Light cigarette and waited. Looking at my watch I realized it was 1:32am. No sign of them yet. I waited some more and finished the cigarette. My watch said 1:41am. Where were they? I decided that it was all a bad idea. What if I got caught? What if they never came and I got caught for nothing? I began to head back to my house. I felt the horror run through my veins as I saw the dining room light on from a distance.
Panic ensued. Should I ditch my large bag of weed in a tree? Should I throw out my cigarettes and lighter? I was freaking out. I just decided to admit that I was outside smoking a cigarette, and left the dope in my pocket. My parents would be mad, but at least it would explain the smell, and I would maybe get grounded for a weekend. No big deal, no big deal at all…
I creaked open the door and came inside. My parents gazed at me in horror. "What are you doing, Ben? It's almost 2am!" My Mom vehemently asked me. "Ummm… nothin' Mom, I was out smoking a cigarette. I'm really sorry. I only had one of them, I won't do it again." I replied squeamishly. Then the axe came down. Just like in 7th Grade once before my Mom asked me, "Empty your pockets, and let's get rid of these cigarettes." I fumbled for a lie. "I don't have em' Mom! I only had one that I got from a friend!" Really, I had a pack of Camel Lights that was almost full. "GIVE THEM TO ME!" My Mom barked back. I carefully pulled the pack out of my pocket, trying desperately not to pull the bag of green buds out with it. Then she yelled the words I didn't want to hear. "PULL OUT EVERYTHING, BENJAMIN! I WANT TO SEE THE BOTTOM OF THOSE POCKETS!" I pulled out the weed.
Jesus was talking about religious, charlatan fakers when He said; "Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known." (Luke 12:2) He was addressing living a duplicitous religious life. But the phrase applies to every scenario. People eventually get caught… no matter how well they think they can hide it… Even those that try to hide their misgivings their whole life will be found out after their death.
My parents were shocked. Somehow my Dad just could't believe that I would ever do any of this stuff. My Mom had been suspicious all along, because she was a little less idealistic than my Father. I was to be grounded for one full month. No sneaking out, no hanging out with friends. I was only allowed to play music with my friends under supervision. Also, they made me cut my hair short. My curly-haired girlfriend at the time, "Adah", broke up with me shortly after, since I couldn't ever come out to hang out with her, and I think she really dug my hair.
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Prescribed Darvocet for a Broken Wrist
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To be sure, being grounded for a month after being busted with weed was a drag. But the hair that my parents cut off began to grow back, as did my hunger for the adrenal reality of post-adolescent mischief.
The song, "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis was high on the charts throughout April of 1996. Oasis was a band that rode on the back of what could have been the twentieth consecutive wave of Beatlemania that happened after the Fab Four hit the charts. I liked what they were doing, but then heard that lead man Noel Gallagher thought that "his band's first album was better than the first put out by music legends THE BEATLES, THE WHO and THE ROLLING STONES." (http://www.contactmusic.com/news/gallagher-my-debut-was-better-than-the-beatles_1013583) I felt this statement to be so deeply offensive, that I decided to boycott Oasis. I wrote their name on a piece of paper and taped it to my bedroom wall with a circle around it and a line through it.
My room was becoming quite the rock n' roll shrine. It contained pictures of Jimi Hendrix playing at Woodstock, it had myriad photographs of John Lennon and the Beatles, it had a poster of the Who from the 1980's that contained an ad for "Schlitz Beer". These posters replaced all my half naked photographs of women. Looking back I still can't believe some of the things my parents let me get away with. But making moral, ethical decisions wasn't something on my radar until years later. And it's still not natural for me to make those decisions, but rather the Spirit of God that compels me towards them.
I may not have been able to leave my house regularly since being grounded for a month when caught with dope, but I did find creative ways to keep my marijuana habits regular. I had kept acquaintances with one of Percy's good friends, Damien. He was regularly into the use of dope and was starting to dip into the world of psychadelics. My parents thought they were monitoring me well, and I convinced them to drop me off early for school so I could get caught up on homework. Really, I was meeting with Damien and smoking pot behind a set of canoes that were not far away from Hudson High School in Ohio. We would meet on these cool spring mornings, with a layer of dew kissing the blades of grass on the ground. We'd smoke pot through a pop can, poking holes in the center and crushing the middle of it, and sucking the smoke through the open drinking hole. He would bring cigarettes filled with marijuana also. He managed to get me high before school on a good number of days.
I would buy marijuana in small amounts from Damien, and take it home. My parents didn't get home from work until 5pm and I'd be home off of the bus by 3:30pm. I'd always have an hour or so to smoke weed on my own, through pop cans or whatever I could find. Sometimes drug buddies would come home with me for an hour and leave before my "rents" got back.
I learned the trick of using eye drops as well. I would put them into my beet-red eyes, which would always be the side effect of smoking pot, and they would turn my eyes white. I would spray cologne on before my parents' got home. As far as they knew, I was making quite the turn-around. But I was pretty sure I had them fooled.
One day I was stoned at school, and it was gym class time. At this point I still had shaggy, long hair and was becoming as skinny as a rail from continued use of cigarettes, dope and a steady diet of strong black coffee. I would normally skip lunch and use substances to stave off my hunger. The gym teacher "Mr. Norman" used to call Duane, Mitchell and I "Rock n' Rollies". Especially me, because the only sport I was engaging in at the time was running sprints from school authorities and testing my lung capacity with various types of toxic smoke. Mr. Norman always made fun of me for my inability to run more than one lap around a track without getting winded, and my knack for only performing 3 push-ups before collapsing to the ground.
We were playing "Broomball" a fun gym class game this day, and I was high enough to be making quite a spectacle of myself. I began running backwards and cracking jokes, mocking the foolishness of the game. Kurt Bartmann was a short kid who happened to be tying his shoes on his knees behind me as I was running backwards. I ran backwards right into him and tripped over him like modern version of Donald Duck in the old Disney cartoons. But this was no cartoon- I landed straight on my wrist and heard a loud "SNAP"!!
The next thing I knew I was in Mr. Norman's office. "Hey Joe, you see this Rock n' Rollie's wrist? Twisted up like a pretzel eh? You ever seen an injury like that Joe, huh?" Mr. Norman was commenting, making a spectacle of my severe injury to his jockey, meat-lovers pizza eating friends. Mr. Norman had a killer tanning bed tan. He ran 5 miles every morning at 4:30 am. He was 53 years old and could beat up most 20 year olds. All I knew is I was in severe pain.
I was taken to the emergency room by my Mom. After 2 hours of waiting in the emergency room for the deeply competent hospital to see to my wrist- which looked as if it was slanted in an unnatural 45 degree angle, they treated my ailment. They put an x-ray on my wrist and put my fingers into 5 metal Chinese-fingertraps that made up an iron claw. They pricked my wrist with a shot, numbing it with some sort of anesthesia. They then strapped my upper arm down and cranked the iron claw up, blasting my bones back into place. I was still coming off of the high, and was numb from that as well, so my Mom was surprised that I reacted so calmly to the seriously painful situation (though I did let out a little yell when they snapped my wrist).
They then sent me home with another big mistake for a kid of my addictive nature. They gave me a big bottle of pink pills labeled "Darvocet", and told me to take them for my pain.
The next week I was off school, with a glow in the dark cast on, recovering from my pain. My parents were lenient with my grounding and allowed friends over to see me as I was laying around. I entered into the haze of these little pink Darvocet pills. They were tremendously strong and gave me a doped up feeling that I looked forward to. I learned from someone that crushing them up and snorting them would have a more impactful effect, so I did that a few times. Occasionally I would get a bit of weed from a friend and combine it with the Darvocet, putting me into a whole new high I hadn't experienced before.
As I recovered from my broken wrist and floated on in a haze of Dextropropoxyphene (the active ingredient in Darvocet), nicotine and THC (the active ingredient in marijuana), I was being set up for release from school. It would be the summer of my 9th Grade year.
As "Pretty Noose" by Soundgarden, and "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla blasted on the radio waves and audio tracks behind vivid images on MTV, I was heading into my first 3 months of total wreckless abandonment as a young party-hungry miscreant. I didn't even catch the lyrical message of the Cranberries anthem "Salvation", which foreshadowed brighter days to come.
To all those people doin' lines,
Don't do it, don't do it.
Inject your soul with liberty,
It's free, it's free.
To all the kids with heroin eyes,
Because it's not not what it seems,
No no it's not not what it seems.
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.
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Drunk and Arrested at Age 15
Hiatt type 2010 handcuffs. Circa 1990s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It was late July of 1996, and "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" was #1 on the alternative rock charts. Not far behind was Stone Temple Pilots' "Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart", a modern psychedelic rocker, and Beck's "Where it's At"- an genius hybrid of minimalistic alt-rock and hip-hop done by the white grandson of a Vaudeville performer.
This had been an interesting summer. My parents, in the midst of their continual fighting about money, had certainly moved ahead financially. We bought a nicer house closer to the High School in Hudson, Ohio. It was actually within walking distance. One positive result of this was my removal from old surroundings. Some of the neighbors around me who perpetuated my drug habits were now absent from my every day life.
On top of this, our high school band, "Mulberry Tree", was facing some strain. Our drummer, Duane, had disappeared from our existence for the summer. We found later that he was hanging out with his older friends, and had really gotten the love bug for an older girl. I suppose I would have done the same thing were I in his shoes.
But in our youth, me and the bass player of Mulberry Tree, Mitchell, took it personally. We started writing our own music, which had more of a progressive-rock edge to it. We wrote 6 to 9 minute long opuses, which were deeply influenced by prog bands like Yes, Rush, early Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and King Crimson. We were also certainly influenced by Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
Yet the removal of Duane and his older friends from our little rock star utopian dream world severed us from the ability to acquire marijuana. We began to experiment more often in the cedar lined shelves of our parents' liquor cabinets.
Mitchell would come over on Summer Evenings, after playing baseball all day, and we'd conjure up some form of liquor or beer. We'd fill ourselves with it to the point of buzzing or being intoxicated, and then we'd congregate in my basement, which now had a full drum set, guitars, a bass, amplifiers, a keyboard, PA speakers, and a little recording studio with equalizers and mini-speakers. It was every thing a young rocker would dream of. We'd record our original music, with me on drums, and rhythm guitars, and Mitchell would play bass and lead guitars. We'd mess around with over dubs and share doing the vocal tracks. We created some great material when the alcohol wasn't disabling us too much.
We ended up connecting with an older girl named Madeira in our circle of friends. Mitchell had a love interest in her, and I had a bit of one, but knew that it was only right to allow my friend to pursue his interest before mine. Our first connection with Madeira was at one of her parties. Her parents would leave town and her 21 year-old sister would buy enough beer to kill an army of kittens. She'd invite her sphere of influence into her den of high school freedom, and we'd partake of the spirits.
Now, I haven't touched a drop of alcohol for two years, and have never been legally drunk, because the only drinking I did past the age of twenty-one was a beer or glass of wine here or there. I was floored by Ephesians 5:18 that says; "do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit." I want that fulfillment and joy that can come from sobriety and being filled with God's presence. But at the age of fourteen going on fifteen, I dug debauchery. The dictionary defines debauchery as "excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures". This was my M.O.
The first party we attended at Madeira's house began with Mitchell and I sharing a 12-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and ended with both of us laying like fools on a bathroom floor, vomiting what seemed to be an endless ocean out of our insides, and professing of our bro-mance friendship love for one another. People say and do completely silly and regretful things under the influence of alcohol to be sure.
Later, Madeira had invited us to hang out with her and go bowling. She obtained a bottle of 40 proof (1/2 strength) whiskey and 2 bottles of Boone's sparkling wine for our voyage. We made it to the parking lot of Stonehedge Bowling Alley in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Madeira was 16 and drove us there. Mitchell had a learner's permit because he was 15, and I had no sort of driver's license because I had just turned 15. We certainly had no plans for a designated driver.
We decided to drink the alcohol before going in to bowl. Mitchell and I drank the whiskey, and Madeira drank the Boone's. Mitchell and I managed to finish the entire bottle, which was ½ strength but a large quanitity, especially for 15 year-olds! Madeira finished both of the bottles of Boone's. We stood outside and smoked cigarettes as the deeply inebriating effects began to destroy and flood our minds. Mitchell and Madeira ended up further away and I was on my own smoking. I saw them kiss. Madeira later got so sick that she started throwing up. We never made it into the bowling alley to bowl…
So we had a serious dilemma. Madeira was in no state of mind to drive. Mitchell had a learner's permit and half a bottle of rot-gut whiskey in him. I had the same amount as Mitchell and no license. We collaborated with great wisdom and intelligence to have Mitchell drive us home. "We'd take a back-road highway- Route 91, and avoid the Route 8 freeway. That way we'd stay away from potentially getting pulled over." So we thought…
Mitchell drove us home as Madeira laid down in the back on my lap. She was feeling terrible and not in the best place, but still my feelings for her were there… hidden underneath the surface. I looked out the window into the beautiful summer night sky. It was July 29th, 1996. The stars were out. What were we doing? Were we crazy? I held back my feelings for Madeira. I hoped that we wouldn't get in deep trouble. Things weren't looking good.
Mitchell drove through Cuyahoga Falls, then Stow, and then we were close to the border of Hudson, Ohio. All the way he kept turning around to us in a fit of adrenaline. He spoke loudly with a slur, "I think we're going to make it! Everything is gonna be ok!"
When we crossed the border into Hudson, a cop car pulled out of the darkness. Flashing lights beamed in behind us. Mitchell began to freak out. "Oh no! Oh no oh no!!! What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?" He yelled. I responded, in my inebriated tone, "It's all good man, just tell him you're taking us home and Madeira has the flu man!"
Mitchell pulled over. The cop shone a flashlight in from behind us, making our adrenaline spike up. Mixed with the alcohol, the feeling was numbing and terrifying. The cop came up and addressed Mitchell, "Son, do you realize you were driving without your headlights on?" Mitchell flipped and started apologizing. He got out of the car and admitted he didn't have a real license.
Everything else seemed to flash before our eyes like a nightmare. Mitchell getting a sobriety test, then getting cuffed and put in the cop car. The cop pulling me and Madeira out of the car and cuffing both of us. Two back-up cops showing up and taking all of us separately… isolated from one another… They put me in the back of a cop car alone. I was drunk, only 15 years old for 9 days, and breaking curfew. An accomplice to under-age drunk driving. I don't remember all the details in the haze, but I was definitely weeping like a little child in the back of that cop car.
Later that night at the police station, our parents would come and pick us up. I was too drunk to remember any of the conversations. But I do remember when my Dad brought me home, and my Mom was waiting at the door. It was about 3 am. She didn't say a word to me, she just wound up and slapped me hard in the face. The numbness of the alcohol combated the physical pain. But the emotional pain and shame were magnified.
I went up and slipped into a drunken slumber. I would be grounded again for another month. I would be enrolled into Oriena House for substance abuse counseling. I would have to serve community service.
"Burden in My Hand" by Soundgarden would enter the soundwaves of the summer of August, 1996. I would write songs in my month of grounding that were reflecting on my own addiction and desperation. What would my Sophomore year of High School hold for me? Would it be a year of reformed salvation? Would it be a spiral into degradation? Time would tell, but the words of Soundgarden certainly reflected my current state.
Follow me into the desert
As thirsty as you are
Crack a smile and cut your mouth
And drown in alcohol
Cause down below the truth is lying
Beneath the riverbed
So quench yourself and drink the water
That flows below her head
Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone
Who isn't me
So kill your health and kill yourself
And kill everything you love
And if you live you can fall to pieces
And suffer with my ghost
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Vomit and Tears
Puking and Driving (Photo credit: Mike "Dakinewavamon" Kline)
Fall was always my favorite time of year. The Fall of 1996 in northern Ohio was complete with sun-kissed luminescent leaves on trees like every color of a neon, ultra-violet rainbow. The chill in the air lent itself to thick button-up shirts and sporting my blue and black winter hat with flaps on the ears.
Sublime's "What I Got" and The Wallflowers "6th Avenue Heartache" were filling the ears of listeners during the autumn of '96. But I was still a classic rocker to the core. I carried around a big yellow Sony Walkman with Korg studio-headphones that looked like ear-muffs. I wore it in the hallways of school and filled my brain with Led Zeppelin 3 and The Beatles' 'Revolver', as well as Lenny Kravitz and Jimi Hendrix originals. By this time I had so many recordings I had made on my own that they became a regular part of my listening too.
I smoked pot weekly. It had become normal for me. In the midst of my creative pursuits I had a disdained disinterest in school, sports and the functional, healthy ways of life that I saw my peers embarking upon. I smoked Camel Lights, about 5-10 a day. I lit up in the bathroom sometimes, but mostly before and after school. The nicotine rages would kick in at the end of the school day if I hadn't had a cigarette, which is why I would sometimes sneak one in the lavatory. Lots of others in the school did this. The boys bathroom wasn't even allowed to have doors on the stalls because the teachers and hall monitors wanted to police the students constantly for puffing on cigarettes.
I also acquired a fascination for drinking hard liquor. I learned the wild ride of pumping a bunch of it into my system at once. I would mix it all of the time. I would drink Whiskey, Cognac, Rum, Gin, and Vodka in any order at any time. Straight shots, Screwdrivers, Rum and Cokes, you name it. My parents had a liquor cabinet, and I learned that they'd less likely catch me drinking if I combined a bunch of different liquors.
By this time I had been convinced to "go out" with Jaen, who was Duane's 'blind date' at the homecoming dance. It was odd, because Jaen was 17 years old, and I was only 15. I could tell she had never kissed anyone, because at one point we kissed and it was about as awkward as seeing a clown at a bus stop. I hung out often with Jaen and her group of friends, which included my blind date, the cool hippie-girl, now turned friend and party buddy Elysia. We would have parties, and find parties to go to. There would always be beer, liquor or dope. We began to learn the madness of mixing the three as well.
I was still in love with my ex-girlfriend and now best friend Harmony also. We talked all the time on school nights and weekends. We shared all that we went through with our relationships. Something inside of me always felt that I was dating people just to see if she would become jealous. She would definitely ask me questions about girls I was with, including Jaen. I would act like I really dug them, but I was just hoping that Harmony would admit her feelings for me. She began to give me little notes at school. I kept them all in a shoebox.
I loved to raid my parents' liquor cabinet before going out on social functions. By this time, Duane, our drummer from Mulberry Tree, could drive. He would drive me all over the place. If my parents happened to be at work at the time I would raid the liquor cabinet and fill myself with alcohol, then call Duane and have him come and pick me up. Sometimes we'd have plans, so I'd take some shots before and find myself falling all over the place, making a total fool of myself in front of our friends. It became a kind of image. People would say, "awww… Benny's at it again!" I became that guy. I was the intoxicated guy, the one that was drunk at 3pm, the one that was stoned at 8am in the morning at school. I lost weight rapidly. I eat Vivarin caffeine pills all the time to try to keep myself alert when I wasn't wasted. I dropped to 135 pounds, and earned the name "Skeletor" amongst my friends, because I always had dark circles under my eyes and was bone-thin skinny. I also had a huge puff of hair on top of my head, making me look like an oblong q-tip.
One day Duane had planned to come and pick me up, just to hang out at Arabica, our favorite coffee house, to smoke cigarettes and drink coffee. I decided to hit my parent's liquor cabinet, since they weren't home. I drank an insane amount of liquor. I drank it all straight, mixing Gin with Rum and aged Cognac. I took a huge swig of pretty much whatever they had in the cabinet. I felt a twinge each time in my throat as it burned down my esophagus and into my guts. I certainly hadn't had much to eat. I probably drank the equivalent of 15 shots. Duane showed up in the driveway and I got in his car.
The alcohol quickly began to kick in as I lit a cigarette and smoked it out of Duane's window. I don't remember much of what happened, just that Duane was amused with how tanked I was. What transpired after wasn't amusing at all really…
The next thing I knew we were at the coffee shop. I tried to sit down but I kept having to put my head in my arms on the table. Everything was spinning out of control. I had been drunk plenty before, but this was another level. I got up and stumbled to the bathroom, running into every table and chair on the way, falling over on the ground, running into people. I got into the restroom and grabbed one of the 5 blurry toilets I saw spinning around in a kaleidoscopic whirlwind. I aimed my mouth into it and spewed out what seemed to be an endless flow of poisonous vomit. I don't remember much of what happened after that for a period of time…
The next thing I knew Duane and I were sitting on the pavement in some obscure area behind the Acme Plaza in the town of Hudson, Ohio. There was puke all around me. Duane had bought me a loaf of bread to eat, and some water. I was trying to eat and drink… everything went blank after that…
The next thing I remember, Duane and I were in my room. He had really gone out of his way to look out for me. I had gotten myself into a shower and changed my clothes on my own somehow,. The problem was, my old clothes stank like grandma's cough medicine and barf. I was laying in my bed and Duane was telling me he had to go. He had to take off before my parents' got home, in case I would get busted. Since I was obviously drunk, like an insane vagrant stumbling in the streets, it was apparent that I would be found out. I was as obviously impaired in my judgement as the princes of Zoan in Egypt were in the time of Isaiah the prophet in the five-hundreds, B.C. The Lord had mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they would make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. (Isa. 19:14) Like an ancient analogy coming to life, I was a drunken man staggering in his vomit to be sure.
My parents got home. I don't remember much of our conversation. But I do remember being at the dinner table. They told me if I did this again, they'd take away all my instruments and not let me play music. I started weeping and crying like an alcoholic. "Don' take away my moooosic man…", I whimpered. I was to be grounded yet again. Though they threatened to take away my music, they didn't, just friend privileges and freedom to go out on weeknights and weekends.
Many original songs would flow out of these struggles. I was earning the reputation as a seriously troubled kid. I certainly wouldn't cease smoking marijuana, drinking, and smoking. Though I learned to hide it better. For some reason I couldn't get enough. The life around me continued to shatter and crumble. All I cared about was the next buzz and the next song. The lyrics and melody of Smashing Pumpkins' "Muzzle" rang in my head like a soundtrack and anthem…
I fear that I'm ordinary, just like everyone
To lie here and die among the sorrows
Adrift among the days
For everything I ever said
And everything I've ever done is gone and dead
As all things must surely have to end
And great loves will one day have to part
I know that I am meant for this world
My life has been extraordinary
Blessed and cursed and won
Time heals but I'm forever broken
By and by the way…
Have you ever heard the words
I'm singing in these songs?
It's for the girl I've loved all along
Can a taste of love be so wrong
And in my mind as I was floating
Far above the clouds
Some children laughed I'd fall for certain
For thinking that I'd last forever
But I knew exactly where I was
And I knew the meaning of it all
And I knew the distance to the sun
And I knew the echo that is love
And I knew the secrets in your spires
And I knew the emptiness of youth
And I knew the solitude of heart
And I knew the murmurs of the soul
And the world is drawn into your hands
And the world is etched upon your heart
And the world so hard to understand
Is the world you can't live without
And I knew the silence of the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8bfBKVVv0Q
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The Post-Hippie Scene of Kent, Ohio
Main St Bridge – Kent (Photo credit: Todd Baker << technowannabe)
Kent, Ohio was made infamous by the 1970 May 4th shootings of 4 college students on campus, and Neil Young, backed by Crosby, Stills and Nash, coined the song "Ohio", which forever rang in the consciousness of Kent residents. Ever since then it was one of the premier hippie spots in the Cleveland/Akron area.
In the center of this hippie culture was Brady's Café. Brady's Café was right next to the Kent State University Campus, and was upheld by hippies who had been around Kent for a long time. It attracted a new generation of hippies… Gen-Xers and Slackers who listened to Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, as well kats who were into the Grateful Dead, Phish, and the more widely accepted Dave Matthews Band.
Duane and I were drawn into the scene of Brady's, and were introduced to it by his older friend Brenden, who often sold us dope. At least once a month, a band called "The Black Hole Jokers" would play there. They were mostly a Grateful Dead cover band. I had my "initiation" into the Brady's scene at the ripe age of 15 when the Jokers were playing.
You can imagine the kind of scene a Grateful Dead cover band drew in. A synchronistic plethora of freaks, circus clowns, dopers, hippies, Frat Boys, Goths, Wiccans, Transexuals, Preppy Kids, Metal Heads, Harley Riders, Bisexuals, Satanists… you name it, were all there in their respective haze of choice to enjoy the surrogate psychedelic sounds. I was just a kid, and no doubt got stoned on weed that was stronger than what I was used to at Brady's. Now I was hanging with college kids and adults in the drug scene. At times, it was more than I could handle.
I spent many nights at Brady's sick from something or another. One night I was just ill and spitting up by the ledge on the outside of the café. It may have been that I had been taken hold of by some bad pipe greens that were laced with something nasty.
We literally used to buy drugs in the upper floor of Brady's from crazy dudes we didn't know. One dealer was named "Seff". He was a bi-sexual nymphomaniac, and a heroin addict. He would sell Duane and I weed, sitting right in the middle of the coffee shop on the upper floor. Looking back I realize I could've gotten into some weird situations that I didn't understand or know how to prepare for. Someone transcendent was looking out for me…
They turned Brady's into a Starbucks years later…
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High at a Haunted House
English: Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill – cropped screenshot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Amidst the haze in my cobwebbed brain that paved a way into Halloween during October of 1996, I was convinced to be a part of the Hudson Haunted House. The Hudson Haunted House was a locally known haunted favorite in the Cleveland/Akron area of Ohio back then, and it still is.
You have to understand that Hudson was a predominantly Upper-Middle Class community. Most of the people of Hudson were well off, white Protestants. We in our family were middle-class agnostics. I felt caught like a rock in a hard place… torn between two worlds. The world of the lower-middle class, salt of the earth misfits always seemed to have an alluring grip upon me.
The Hudson Haunted House was full of infamous yard-birds, run by the "Hudson Jaycees". The Hudson Jaycees rightfully sought out disadvantaged and "troubled youth" to volunteer at the house. This was quite a bunch of vandals, stoners, and mobile home dwellers. We had Jeff, who had a throwback mullet from the 80's heavy metal scene, and seemed to always have a 40 oz. bottle of Mickey's Malt Liquor surging through his veins, and then there was Myron, caked in facial blemishes and at least 60 lbs. overweight. There were many more of a colorful variety like this that worked with the Jaycees at the House. And I was to join the band, a toothpick-thin skinny stoner with a 1966 Beatles haircut.
There was a lounge in the back room of the House where everyone hung out, smoked cigarettes, and geared up in costume for their next scare in a room. The rooms all had a different theme and a plethora of costumes, complete with various rubber, decapitated body parts and unlikely weapons such as meat cleavers and hammers.
My favorite room was called "Bloody Butler". It must have been something of the only child narcissist in me, because it was a room that was run solo. One would put on a torn up, sanguine steward's uniform, and a zombie like mask with a bald head, and long, gray, curly hair sticking out over the ears and back of the head like George Washington. The room would be strewn with decollated heads, arms and legs. Their was a severely creepy chandelier that hung above, laden with cobwebs and dimly lit. Organ music similar to a Bach fugue would play at a suspicious medium volume in the background.
As the Butler I would wait behind an unseen doorway and wait for a crowd of people to enter. I would walk past a sensor quickly into the sight of the people and wave the meat cleaver in the air in front and close to them. A strobe light would come on and a Vincent Price-esque laugh would blare at loud volume when the sensor was triggered. Women would always scream and cling to their boyfriends or husbands. Once or twice, a large football player would freak out and scream at a high pitch, which was satisfying to this Rock n' Roll whey-face.
One day I was to work Butler, and Elysia my favorite hippie girl friend showed up before my time to go in. She told me she had some really potent weed on her. She grabbed me and we ran out into a forest nearby. She packed that silver and black pipe she had full of herb and we smoked it. Something about jogging a bit before doing this would intensify the high, because my lungs and adrenaline were pumping. Also, I wasn't one to run or exercise regularly, so any bit of it would really get my blood moving.
I walked back to get into costume, feeling insanely fried. I don't even remember putting on the costume or heading into the room… But I do remember one instance that followed.
I did my normal gig of walking past the sensor and into people's faces to scare them. Besides making one lazy, hungry, affected and aloof, ganja affects one's depth perception, to where sometimes things right in front of you look almost two-dimensional instead of three-dimensional. I went out past the sensor and towards the crowd, while lethargically waving my meat cleaver into the air. There was a gated fence made of black iron that separated me from the line of people coming through, and I fell over it and practically right on top of this girl! She was screaming her head off and freaking out. One of the security guys, Brutus, who wore a yellow shirt labeled "STAFF" and generally watched for the welfare of our customers punched me in the head and cussed me out.
I was taken into a room and scolded by someone, I don't remember who. I just know that I stared at them lackadaisically with a dumb smirk, which intensified their anger and irritation.
After that I think I was asked to leave the Hudson Haunted House. But I didn't care. It was all the more reason to blaze up another joint, have another beer, do another shot, eat another caffeine pill, chain smoke some cigarettes, and slip into oblivion. By this time I was spending at least $10 a week on dope, probably $40 a month on liquor and beer, and smoking a pack of cigarettes every three days, which back then cost about $1.85. Where did I get the money you ask? From my parents. I would use the money for this stuff instead of lunch at school or other things. That was also why I got so skinny, because I would spend money on drugs instead of food.
I began to write weird, dark, depressing songs. They cried out in desperation, sorrow, and heartbreak as these emotions crept through a haze of inadvertence. I was addicted also to the depression and pain that came with my self-induced blues.
Local H's "Bound for the Floor" was popular in 1996. The lyrics described my life and echoed into my soul, though I would have explained them to be about someone else.
"And you just don't get it, you keep your copasetic, and you learn to accept it, and no, you're so pathetic…"
I was in ignorant bliss, as the world around me seemed to continue crumbling. My parent's and I fought more, my grades plummeted, my feelings for my ex-girlfriend Harmony seemed to magnify, but it seemed that there was nothing I could do about it. I drowned myself into a haze of smoke and liquid, as the holidays approached nearer and nearer. I don't remember the Christmas season of 1996, but I'm sure that I was stoned and drunk for most of it.
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The First Time I Did LSD
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The humiliation of being a flagrant drug addict gets old, and brings one to myriad crossroads. On the freeway of addiction one road sign reads; "It's time to cut back". Another sign reads; "It's time to quit altogether". Yet these signs are small and seem to speed by in an incoherent blur. They unnoticeably lurk in small font on the side of the road while the vehicle of life is travelling at seventy-two miles per hour. Then, a large, green exit sign with huge white letters states what has seemed obvious all along; "Try new drugs" it exclaims in your face. It seems to beckon to you like a side road hotel after a 10-hour road trip. You slow down and prepare to exit, to a new freeway, and a new wild ride where you do not know the destination at the journey's end.
John Lennon tried LSD almost by mistake with George Harrison in 1966. They were spending time with a friend that they would later call "Dr. Robert" in a song on the album "Revolver". The lyrics lilt in a melody laden with psychedelic oblivion;
Well, well, well you're feeling fine
Well, well, well he'll make you
John and George's friend convinced them to try this new drug, "lysergic acid-diethylamide" and put some in their tea, and said it was all the rage among young swingers and hipsters of the time. An hour later Lennon described his experience, that they were going up a "lift" (British for "elevator") and swore that the building was on fire and were in a frenzy, and then minutes later, the fear abated and everything went to normal. This was the way of the mysterious acid trip… a game of Russian roulette in the mind. Would insanity strike? Insane joy? Fear? Reckless abandonment? Power? Violence? Harmony with the universe?
In the second semester of my Junior year of High School in Hudson, Ohio, I joined the Orchestra to play percussion. I had heard it was an easy gig and we had a sweet-hearted teacher named Mrs. Bush. Mrs. Bush made music fun and easy, and didn't have incredibly high requirements for our excellence. Also, if one joined the orchestra, they could be in the steel drum band with Mrs. Bush's son, Mark. This was a larger motivator for me to join, because my friend Mitchell played bass in that group, and aside from all my personal creative pursuits I longed to be busy playing music again.
In the group were a great collection of misfits, including one David Wilt. David Wilt was six foot two inches tall. He had long hair that he pulled behind his ears. He wore tie-dyed shirts and smoked the best weed in town. He also sold acid.
David Wilt didn't only find acid to distribute, he actually made it at home. He had a conversation with me one day about it. "Hey Benny, I know that you dig smoking dope. Have you tried acid yet?" I answered in haste, "Ummm… no man."
I had a pensiveness about LSD. I knew that the Beatles and Hendrix did it. But didn't this stuff put people in the Looney-bin? I talked further with David Wilt about it.
"Look man…" I said, "Isn't that stuff kind of crazy?"
"No bro," David replied, "This stuff is killer man. You just have to be in the right state of mind to take it."
"Right state of mind?"
"Yeah man. If you like have a bad thought, or are in a bad place with weird people when you take it or something, then your trip will go bad. But if you surround yourself with the right situation and the right people, you'll have like the best time of your life bro. I've done it a bunch of times, and never had a bad trip! It's 10 times better than getting high or drunk, and it lasts like 8 hours! It's also cheap man, 5 bucks for a hit, or take two hits if you wanna really trip your brains out."
The reasoning made sense to me. In fact, it seemed like taking this drug would even guarantee a good situation! Just remove any bummer from your surroundings, and it would go well.
I didn't know then that David meant that you couldn't have a notion of conscience or awareness of mortality while you were on an acid trip. I didn't know then that you couldn't have a friend around that really cared about your health and well-being, because they would bum your trip. I only knew that I wanted to get higher than I was before. And hey man, if this drug helped produce songs like "I am the Walrus" by John Lennon and "Axis: Bold as Love" by Jimi Hendrix, then I was in. I wanted to make heavier, deeper, more colorful music like that too.
My theological framework was one that adopted the religious and spiritual views of my heroes. John Lennon sang "All You need is love", so I wanted to follow him. My room was actually a John Lennon shrine. There were times when I actually believed I was praying to his spirit, and asking him for guidance. I know it sounds wild, but these were some of the many wild religious thoughts that crossed my mind in the middle of my pursuit of "higher consciousness" or "enlightenment". I didn't have any specific belief about God or gods that may have existed beyond me, just a plethora of ideas that came and went in and out of my mind.
I wanted to write songs like the Beatles did, so the next step of risk seemed to be taking the plunge into heavier drugs. "So Dave…" I said to my tall, new hippie friend, "Can I score some of this stuff off of you?"
I also convinced my bass player friend Mitchell to take this stuff with me. I told him how we'd probably make music like the Beatles in their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band era. I told him it would open up our minds more. I tried to convince my drummer friend Duane to do it with us. He just agreed to be there with us and get stoned with us while we were tripping.
I bought the weirdest dose of LSD that I would ever buy from there on out off of David. It was homemade, and not cut into regular doses. It looked like a bunch of purple, dried-up, crooked jello-glass. David explained to me that he didn't divvy it out correctly, and just to try little pieces of it at a time, and eat more if it wasn't kicking in after an hour.
The moment of this monumental risk came like an adrenaline flood of chaotic fear and excitement. It was the feeling one would have before going on a rollercoaster or bungee jumping. Would we make it to the other side without losing ourselves, or would we understand what Jim Morrison meant when he sang "Break on through to the other side"?
Mitchell and I got Duane to drive us to the Acme Plaza where we always hung out on a Friday after school. I had all this strange purple acid in a little baggie, which I had paid $20 for. I also had a $40 bag of mid-grade Mary-Jane, a lighter, and a new blue and purple glass pipe I had recently purchased to cement my constant pot habit, and I also had my trusty pack of Camel Lights.
Mitchell and I each ate a small shard of what looked like purple jello glass. We were totally freaking out. "Oh man! We're going to trip, we're going to trip!" Many colorful expletives were used to exclaim our excitement and fear.
We lit up a pipe of dope and passed it around in Duane's car. The stoned feeling began to kick in and I don't remember much of what happened after. Though I do remember when the acid kicked in.
We were walking towards a large water tower in the town of Hudson, Ohio, and the water tower began to vibrate and pulse. A body buzz kicked in that seemed to overtake me with total numbness. I think I turned to Mitchell and said, "Man, are you high right now?" And he said with a euphoric foolery, "Oh yeah man!" I honestly don't remember the rest of that day. But I do remember more of the next time we took it.
Mitchell and I had a history exam to study for. It was a good front to convince his parents to let us have an overnight study session at his house during the week. Mitchell and I shared one thing- a crazy streak. We had a hunger for adventure and wildness, and loved to break rules. I brought my study stuff over on a Wednesday night the next week, and we faked like we were studying from 8pm to 10pm. His Dad came in and told us we should go to bed. I had a sleeping bag on the floor and Mitchell was in his bed. We ate more of that weird purple LSD that I had. We actually split up the bag and finished the rest of it- what was probably the equivalent of 2 hits each, because it was certainly a mild batch (something I would discover later).
Mitchell and I were into prog-rock and were listening to an album by Steve Hackett- the former guitarist for the original Genesis (with Peter Gabriel- pre-Phil Collins corniness). We played his album "Voyage of the Acolyte" – a wild, instrumental, medieval, psychedelic masterpiece. The acid kicked in, and the song from the album called "A Tower Struck Down" was played about 10 times consecutively throughout the evening. The song made us laugh like little children with all it's dissonance and maniacal melodies. Click on this link to hear it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxl6RLlKkHI (Listening to it now I laugh, because I realize how ridiculous it was- yet at that point we literally thought the music was going to make the ceiling cave in!) We stared at Mitchell's ceiling fan and watched it rotate, which he had put a blue, red and black lightbulb in. We began to explain that it was "The Wheel of Fire", because the fan blades would catch trails of each other and look like a vortex. The guitar of Steve Hackett wailed through the night, and we got no shut-eye, all the way up until 3 am, when Mitchell's Dad busted in with grave anger, likely because he heard our hysterics and brain-fried laughter. "What in the world are you boys doing?" He exclaimed… well… he used more expletives than that. "Uhhh… nothing Dad!" Mitchell exclaimed, his eyes dilated and wide open. "We were just about to go to sleep!"
Of course we got absolutely no sleep, and the sun came up. We went to school that next day, sleeping in class and telling all our friends about our wild experience. The Beatles albums like "Revolver" and "Magical Mystery Tour" seemed to make more sense to me, as did Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn". It would be our own version of the year 1967 soon, and the trip was about to get wilder than ever.
My grades plummeted to D's and F's, my relationship with my parents grew more strained. As for my girlfriend, Harmony, I told her about this first trip and encouraged her to take it with me. It freaked her out really bad and she wanted nothing to do with it. She made me promise I would never take acid again, and I agreed. I decided that I would keep taking it, and not ever tell her.
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A Stoner on Local Cable TV
The Human Condition [a tribute to René Magritte] (Photo credit: [ piXo ])
One of the worst things about drug addiction is the tolerance factor. When one uses drugs frequently they need more and more of them to get the effects they once experienced. This was the case for me as April and May of 1998 rolled around. I had been using harder drugs like psychedelics and prescription speed. My marijuana use was through the roof. To get any effect from using pot I would have to do 4 or 5 times the amount that I normally did to even feel it, and at times I didn't even enjoy it any longer. This did a number on my lungs. There were times at the end of a dope smoking session that I would feel as if I could barely breathe.
It's amazing the illusion one cultivates in the midst of addiction. Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible. (Proverbs 10:23) It's a horrible thing to have your health deteriorating at the age of 16, but when you're high you almost don't care. As time rolls forward you convince yourself that committing slow suicide is the way to go. People used to ask me at the age of 16, "So Ben, what do you see yourself doing with your life?" I would answer, "I don't know man. I might not even make it past 20… But I'm going to party as hard as I can until then." Drugs had become my god. I even believed that my destiny was destruction, and my glory was in their shame, because my mind was set on earthly things. (Phil. 3:19) I was even willing to die because of drugs and for drugs, because they seemed to give me my only moments of manufactured happiness amidst the desperation and brokenness of the social order I observed around me. On the outside I was the court jester, a king of fools, a peace-child wanna-be sixties hippie, and on the inside I was growing more cynical and angry every day. The alienation that one experiences in the midst of chronic drug use is profound and deeply devitalizing.
Despite the popular music of 1998, early 90's bands like Alice in Chains began to sing the lyrics of my existence.
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, outta control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied
In moments alone, stark moments of sobriety which lasted only minutes and hours, I was buried in a hole. I was lying to everyone I really cared about- my girlfriend Harmony, my parents, and even some of my friends. In fact, many of my friends were becoming afraid of me. I began to identify more with people who I once thought were too crazy or too criminal to associate with. There were strange moments when I longed for my childhood again… days when I felt untainted and more innocent.
Where was my soul in all of this? I suppose I had buried it beneath the mounds of drugs, alcohol, and lapsed memories. My conscience had been hardened in so many ways. I didn't care if I turned in homework at all, and I had no problem lying all of the time. It didn't matter to me if everything around me crumbled. "These are all things that society just expects me to do man…" I would reason to myself. I may have kept a calm exterior because I was self-medicated all of the time. But deep inside my world was spinning out of control. "If there is a God out there he definitely wouldn't want anything to do with me", I often thought in my darkest moments. I would just do another shot, smoke another bowl, pop another pill or drop another tab to try and forget about my deeper thoughts. To me, God was a distant memory, a figment of my childhood imagination. "Maybe God doesn't really exist", I thought. "Maybe just the moral, do-gooders of the world made him up to feel like they're better than everybody". These were the honest reflections of my mind as I became more marginalized by the mainstream people of my little microcosm of culture. "No one will ever really love me", I thought. "Nobody really wants to understand me or know me". "I'm all alone in this world… in my addiction and misery". I would've mustered the strength to pray if I thought someone was listening, but I couldn't bring myself to do that. How was I even sure that anyone was there? Nobody really cared anyways, I thought to myself.
Even music had become an afterthought for me. It was ironic, because I had originally thought that drugs would enhance my music. Quite the opposite was true. In years before, I had written between thirty and fifty songs a year. In the year of 1997, I had only written about twenty songs, which were getting increasingly weird. The recordings I made contained more mistakes than ever, and my vocals were out of key at times. Even the sound of my voice deteriorated as I assaulted it daily with a variety of smoke, sleepless nights and hard living. Throughout the winter and spring of 1998, and all the way into summer, I continually worked on the recording of one eight-minute song, and kept scrapping parts because I was too constantly intoxicated to produce anything of musical value. I certainly hadn't found the inspiration that I thought would come from LSD… Lucy was so far away in the sky with diamonds that I couldn't make out her distorted face in the clouds. The only happiness I experienced was chemical… fake… and I began to view everyone and everything through that lens. "What a bunch of fakes and phonies" I thought about the world and society around me.
In Ohio, at Hudson High School, during the spring of 1998, the teachers had gotten tired of a bad contract and decided to go on strike. This meant that we would get a lot of press from the local news stations. This also meant that they would try to set up a system to keep us in school. They sent teachers in to substitute and pick up where the others had left off. But because of the strike we knew there was no legal requirement for us to attend.
I remember when the cameras from the local news showed up at our institution. All the students had decided to march out of the building and skip at 10am. There was nothing anyone could do about it- not the school board, not the cops. When 10am arrived, we all marched our way out of the temple of learning in great defiance. I felt like I was part of the late 1960's. The cameras from the news station were there as we walked out. I was definitely out of my mind when I saw them, and was yelling expletives as they passed by… I was shocked that I didn't make it on the local news that night at 11pm. Looking back I realize how silly I was to think that they'd put a loudmouth kid swearing at the camera on TV.
This began 18 days of freedom from responsibility. It was like summer vacation. We never went to school. Of course I started to go completely out of control. I was using more than I ever had before. I honestly don't even remember one detail about those 18 days. I just know that I was let loose like a wild, untamed golden retriever in a vacant candy store. I was bound to leave a trail of devastation behind… and have no idea exactly what that devastation even looked like.
I do know that we had RockFest for our Junior year of High School after the strike was over. I was playing bass in a psychedelic cover band with mostly guys that were older than me at the show, and was invited to play one acoustic tune on my own. The Hudson local channel had come to film the performance and interview the performers. I only heard about this afterwards, because they had supposedly interviewed me and I had absolutely no recollection of even talking to them. But there I was, on local TV for all the parents of Hudson students and local authorities to see me. I never watched what I said, but people told me that I acted completely insane and babbled in incoherent riddles. I do also know that I played the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd acoustically when I had my solo spot. I invited an older friend, Willie Martin, to sing with me. At one point I was addressing the audience;
"Hey man… is Willie Martin out there?" I said into the microphone before an audience of about 300 kids. "I need him to come up and sing with me… Yo Willie, where are you brotha? Haha…"
I was told later that I kept asking for Willie to come up, for about 3 minutes. He had been right next to me on the microphone to my left for about 2 of those minutes. I do remember only the moment when I looked over and saw him. I exclaimed, "Oh man, there you are!" and everyone was laughing at me. I officially had the reputation of being a complete stoner.
The summer of 1998 was about to unleash me into a wild realm of reckless existence. My friend Mitchell began to become afraid of doing harder drugs. He backed away from my pursuit of deeper aberration. I was beginning to hang out in the haunts of my town with the freaks, drop-outs and super bohemians. I had friends in their twenties who dealt drugs. I was stepping into a world of danger that I knew nothing about, but I didn't care where it led me… whether it be insanity, prison, or even death. I know that my parents were afraid for me, but I didn't care what they thought anymore. I didn't want to follow any rules except the voice of id.
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How Nestlé is tapping voice tech
Food industry (general)
Voice, chatbots
LAS VEGAS: Nestlé, the food and beverage company, is putting the customer service experience at the heart of its efforts to tap the burgeoning power of voice technology.
Pete Blackshaw, Global Head/Digital Innovation & Service Models at Nestlé, discussed this subject during the Medialink + CDX Brand Innovation Salon at CES 2018.
"At a broad level, voice, chatbots, smart assistants, smart kitchens – they all fall into what I call the 'concierge economy'," he said. (For more details, read WARC's in-depth report: Nestlé's Blackshaw spreads the word on voice technology.)
Drilling down into this topic, he asserted that brands must base their activations around consumers, rather than focusing primarily on technological capabilities.
"How do you provide a reinvigorated customer service experience for consumers?" he asked. "I think voice falls into that: It's both utility and it's entertainment. And, for us, it's a potential service layer that sits on top of our brand."
Nestlé's activity in this space to date has incorporated the launch of a "Skill" for Amazon Echo, some tests of Google Home and a tie-up with JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce retailer.
And for Blackshaw, the best advice for marketers seeking to undertake similar efforts must link back to the end user. "We all need to go back to the basics of customer service," he said.
If a brand custodian at Nestlé is interested in using voice technology – or related tools like chatbots – he poses them a simple challenge: "Can you tell me the top five questions that consumers ask you through the call centre or through email?"
"Half the time," he continued "they don't know the answer. And I send them back and say, 'You've got to know these things' … And we've learned a lot.
"If you look at our call-centre databases, you find a lot of unclaimed territory – questions that people are asking – and think, 'Oh, my gosh, that's my idea for Alexa' or 'Oh my gosh, that's exactly what I need to do for chatbots.'"
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London - June 12th. 1874.
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland (YMSM 106). It was exhibited in what was considered an unfinished state at Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874. |
All the fun and games on Duval Street!
Southernmost Hotel, Hemingway House, Blue Heaven, KW Lighthouse, Truman Annex!
"Key West Charm close up"
"Key West Divers close up"
"Mallory and dockside clubs, Key West"
Original Watercolor 30" X 40" painting.
"Hemingway House Spring, Key West"
"Conch Cafe Duval Street, Key West"
"Marquesa Hotel , Key West"
"Club La Te Da, Key West"
"La Te Da close up"
"The Southernmost House, Key West"
"The Banyan House, Key West"
"The Hogs Breath Saloon close up"
Original Watercolor 14" X 10" painting.
"The Bull and Whistle, Key West"
"Bull and Whistle close up"
"Sloppy Joe's Bar, Key West"
"Blue Heaven Restaurant, Key West"
"The Blue Heaven close up"
"Truman Annex Mansion, Key West"
"The Truman Annex Mansion close up"
Conch Train Station, Key West"
"Conch Train Station close up"
"100 Southard House, Key West"
"Ron Jon Surf Shop, Key West"
"815 Duval Street close up"
"Capt. Tony's Saloon, Key West"
"Capt Tony's Saloon close up"
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What Is a Maker Monday?
What if students began each week by making and designing and creating? What if kids stepped into the classroom each with a sense of wonder and excitement?
This is the idea behind Maker Mondays. It begins with a simple premise: start the week off with hands-on creativity...Maker Mondays might seem small, but it's a first step in a journey that slowly leads to a maker mindset, where students learn to think like designers, engineers, architects, artists, and problem-solvers.
I think this idea is a perfect fit for creatives as well as students. Why not start the week off right with some sort of project to get going? Obviously, others have thought of this too since #makermonday is a popular hashtag on Instagram.
Now I just need to decide what to make today! |
Solar eclipses Saros cycles Country overview Chaser log
Future eclipses Past eclipses
When is the next solar eclipse in Lithuania?
The following table listens all solar eclipses, whose path is crossing Lithuania. It is crucial that the eclipse path touches the country. Solar eclipses which can only be seen partital are not considdered in the table below. With other words: The following table shows all solar eclipses, whose totallity or annularity can be seen in Lithuania.
Next solar eclipses
The next partial solar eclipse in Lithuania is in 141 days on Thursday, 06/10/2021.
The next total solar eclipse in Lithuania is in 44319 days on Friday, 05/25/2142.
Annular
The next annular solar eclipse in Lithuania is in 6726 days on Tuesday, 06/21/2039.
Future solar eclipses
Date Type Time of greatest eclipse Saros cycle Gamma Magnitude Width of eclipse path Maximum duration
06/21/2039 annular 17:12:54 147 0.8312 0.9454 365km 04m05s
05/25/2142 total 09:32:37 130 0.5937 1.0449 187km 03m17s
05/16/2227 total 08:21:31 151 0.6774 1.0135 63km 00m59s
09/18/2229 annular 10:34:51 138 0.6439 0.9805 89km 01m44s
04/20/2433 total 11:01:32 155 0.545 1.0449 177km 03m21s
05/10/2757 annular 09:32:11 150 0.669 0.9758 116km 02m01s
Past solar eclipses
05/15/1836 annular 14:01:39 135 0.47 0.9509 203km 04m47s
06/01/1639 annular 15:55:16 112 0.7597 0.993 38km 00m31s
11/12/1547 annular 12:54:24 135 0.9683 0.9106 1419km 08m59s
01/24/1544 hybrid 08:57:45 133 0.9533 1.0035 40km 00m16s
03/20/1140 total 14:08:51 96 0.6143 1.0607 251km 04m42s |
New protections for tenants will soon come into effect that include limits on what landlords can charge and a way out of long-term leases.
Practices such as demanding multiple months of rent in advance and locking tenants out will become illegal May 1 under new safeguards in the Consumer Protection Act passed last month to more tightly regulate landlords and boost the rights of renters. The changes apply to property owners that lease five or more residential units, whether in one or multiple buildings.
Over the past year I required a prenuptial agreement, MOU, A Mortgage on a property and two Wills on the fantastic advice of Sebastian here in Nakhon Ratchasima.
The advice turned out to have saved my bacon so to speak as I purchased a home with a Thai lady, who left me after only six weeks.
I managed to sell the property and have my money return to me.
Then I had a further problem and a much more stressful problem of sending my money back to Australia. The bank here was being very stubborn because the home that was sold was not in my name.
I called on Sebastian for his valuable assistance.
He promptly marched into the bank and quickly sorted that lot out.
My money is now safely in my bank account in Australia.
I can highly recommend a visit to the Isaan Lawyers website if you have any problems regarding buying property or getting involved in a marriage.
Book an appointment and talk to Sebastian before you go recklessly into any financial arrangement with a Thai lady.
Good luck everyone and heartfelt sincere thanks to you Sebastian.
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HAS AMERICA LOST ITS MIND? | "Global Possibilities"
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Kurt Anderson in "How America Lost Its Mind" should have stretched his imagination beyond a reductionist blame the hippies as the root of our Trumpian agonies. The divide between being and knowledge, between ontology and epistemology, between belief and knowledge runs deep indeed, back to the divide between Plato and Aristotle, between imagined archetypal forms and the examination of concrete manifestations. This has led not just to arcane philosophical disputations, but to culturally counterposing belief and knowledge. And knowledge, of course, is handicapped by requiring much more effort than faith. To flee knowledge and rely on faith and obedience is the warning, of course, in Genesis to Eve and Adam, not to eat of the tree of knowledge "or as soon as you eat of it you shall die".
The sixties were about much more than a rejection of reality. It was also about the rejection of the murder machine in Vietnam, a challenge to systematic discrimination, a deep and wrenching disillusion with the received wisdom of business and war, of racism and sexism and ecological pillage as usual. The social and political ferment of the 1960s were driven not just by a counter culture but by the clear eyed and committed activism epitomized by Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement.
Yes there is a jagged line that can be drawn between smoking pot and taking acid in the 1960s and the prescription drug driven opioid epidemic of 2017, but it is similar to the assertion that the popularity of Gilligan's Island and the like led irresistibly to reality TV and the Age of the Donald.
It is the Mario and Maria Savios of our times who will be the instruments for helping catalyze the reality of a new American birth of freedom, not a return to the sureties of an imagined happy days and an "objective" science that was always contested terrain where people had to know their place and keep their mouths shut or else.
Roy Morion's latest book is Sustainability Sutra: A Ecological Investigation (2017)Publishd by Select Books. |
Q: How to hide sdcard path name? Hi I created a media player. It displays the number of video thumbnails. If I click any video thumbnail, the video will play, at the same time /mnt/sdcard/funny baby.3gb file path name is also displayed at this bottom. I want to hide that. Can someone help me out here?
source code:
package videothumb.videothumb;
//import com.example.android.apis.R;
//import popupTest.popupTest.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.LinearGradient;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.Gallery;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.PopupWindow;
//import android.widget.ListView;
//import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.net.Uri;
//import android.view.Window;
//import android.view.WindowManager;
//import android.widget.GridView;
import android.graphics.Color;
//import android.view.MotionEvent;
//import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.Shader.TileMode;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode;
import android.graphics.Shader.TileMode;
import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode;
public class videothumb extends Activity
{
private final static Uri MEDIA_EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
private final static String _ID = MediaStore.Video.Media._ID;
private final static String MEDIA_DATA = MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA;
//flag for which one is used for images selection
private Gallery _gallery;
private Cursor _cursor;
private int _columnIndex;
private int[] _videosId;
private Uri _contentUri;
//private int video_column_index;
protected Context _context;
//PopupWindow pw = null;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
_context = getApplicationContext();
setContentView(R.layout.main);
//set GridView for gallery
_gallery = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.videoGrdVw);
//set default as external/sdcard uri
_contentUri = MEDIA_EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
//initialize the videos uri
//showToast(_contentUri.getPath());
initVideosId();
//set gallery adapter
setGalleryAdapter();
}
private void setGalleryAdapter() {
_gallery.setAdapter(new VideoGalleryAdapter(_context));
_gallery.setOnItemClickListener(videogridlistener);
}
private void initVideosId() {
try
{
//Here we set up a string array of the thumbnail ID column we want to get back
String [] proj={_ID};
// Now we create the cursor pointing to the external thumbnail store
_cursor = managedQuery(_contentUri,
proj, // Which columns to return
null, // WHERE clause; which rows to return (all rows)
null, // WHERE clause selection arguments (none)
null); // Order-by clause (ascending by name)
int count= _cursor.getCount();
System.out.println("total"+_cursor.getCount());
// We now get the column index of the thumbnail id
_columnIndex = _cursor.getColumnIndex(_ID);
//initialize
_videosId = new int[count];
//move position to first element
_cursor.moveToFirst();
for(int i=0;i<count;i++)
{
int id = _cursor.getInt(_columnIndex);
//
_videosId[i]= id;
//
_cursor.moveToNext();
//
}
}catch(Exception ex)
{
showToast(ex.getMessage().toString());
}
}
protected void showToast(String msg)
{
Toast.makeText(_context, msg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
private AdapterView.OnItemClickListener videogridlistener = new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position,long id) {
// Now we want to actually get the data location of the file
String [] proj={MEDIA_DATA};
// We request our cursor again
_cursor = managedQuery(_contentUri,
proj, // Which columns to return
null, // WHERE clause; which rows to return (all rows)
null, // WHERE clause selection arguments (none)
null);
//System.gc();
// video_column_index = _cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA);
_columnIndex = _cursor.getColumnIndex(MEDIA_DATA);
// Lets move to the selected item in the cursor
_cursor.moveToPosition(position);
String filename = _cursor.getString(_columnIndex);
Intent intent = new Intent(videothumb.this, ViewVideo.class);
intent.putExtra("videofilename", filename);
startActivity(intent);
showToast(filename);
// Toast.makeText(videothumb.this, "" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
};
private class VideoGalleryAdapter extends BaseAdapter
{
int mGalleryItemBackground;
public VideoGalleryAdapter(Context c)
{
_context = c;
TypedArray a = obtainStyledAttributes(R.styleable.Gallery1);
mGalleryItemBackground = a.getResourceId(
R.styleable.Gallery1_android_galleryItemBackground, 0);
a.recycle();
}
public int getCount()
{
return _videosId.length;
}
public Object getItem(int position)
{
return position;
}
public long getItemId(int position)
{
return position;
}
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
ImageView imgVw= new ImageView(_context);
try
{
if(convertView!=null)
{
imgVw= (ImageView) convertView;
}
imgVw.setImageBitmap(getImage(_videosId[position]));
imgVw.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
//imgVw.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
imgVw.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(650, 550));
imgVw.setPadding(1,1,1,1);
imgVw.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
System.out.println("StartActivity:getView()-1 : ex " + ex.getClass() +", "+ ex.getMessage());
}
return imgVw;
}
// Create the thumbnail on the fly
private Bitmap getImage(int id) {
Bitmap thumb = MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(getContentResolver(),id, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, null);
System.out.println("ff"+MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(getContentResolver(),id, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, null));
return thumb;
}
}
}
A: Are you sure it is not the line in your code that says:
showToast(filename);
This is displaying a message with the filename
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Combine the yeast and milk in a small bowl and stir to dissolve the yeast. Add 1 cup flour and mix to blend well. Using a knife, scrape the vanilla bean and stir the pulp into the yeast mixture. Let sit at room temperature in a warm, draft-free place for about 2 hours to allow fermentation. Put 2 cups of the flour into a large mixing bowl. Add 4 of the eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly into the flour sing a wooden spoon with each addition The dough will be sticky, thick, and spongy. Add the water, sugar, and salt and mix well, beating vigorously. Add 3 sticks of the butter and work it into the dough with your hands until it is well blended Add the remaining 2 eggs and mix well into the dough. Add the remaining 2 cups of flour and blend into the dough, breaking up any lumps with your fingers. Add the yeast mixture. Using your hands, knead and fold the starter into the dough Continue kneading and folding until all is well mixed, about 5 minutes. The dough will be sticky and moist. Cover with a clean cloth and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until it doubles in size, about 2 hours. To make loaves, lightly butter two 9x5x3 inch loaf pans with the remaining 2 tablespoons butter. To make rolls, butter 12 standard-size muffin cups. With your fingers, lightly punch down the dough. Divide the dough into 2 equal portions and place in the pans. For rolls, divide the dough into 12 equal portions and place in the muffin cups. Brush the tops with egg yolk. Cover and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until it doubles in size, about 1 hour. Bake the loaves for 25 to 30 minutes and the rolls for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove the pans from the oven and cool on wire racks. Turn the loaves or rolls out of the pans and cool completely on the wire rack. |
EDITORIAL: Will Trudeau ask Trump to help him out of a jam?
US President Donald Trump, left, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is at his most uncomfortable at home in Ottawa enduring political flak, will do what he does best on Thursday — and that's get himself the hell out of Dodge.
So, he's off to Washington to visit U.S. President Donald Trump, who spent his weekend conjuring strategies to deal with the mad mullahs of Iran, the suspected sponsors of the bombers who have recently inflicted damage on two fuel tankers on the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, passageway for almost a fifth of the oil consumed globally.
Iran and the United States have barely been on speaking terms since the late 1980s — just Google American hostages and Iran — but relations have gotten steadily worse since Trump pulled out of the 2015 deal between Iran and other global powers to restrain the nuclear dreams of Tehran.
Then Trump tightened down by putting even heavier sanctions on the regime, which has left Iran taking deep cuts in its oil exports.
All this is out of Trudeau's league, of course, but as a former student of environmental geography, Trudeau should at least know the general whereabouts of the Gulf of Oman.
Trudeau has gone to the White House not to talk about U.S.-Iran relations, of course, but to seal the deal on NAFTA 2.0, and then ask a favour.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has already said Canada would not release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from house arrest in Vancouver until the U.S. extradite her for ignoring sanctions on Iran and having illegal business dealings with the same mad mullahs.
BONOKOSKI: Free trade, sure, but what about those disgusting Tory pro-lifers?
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But what if Trump, as a favour, decides not to extradite Meng?
Would that lead to the freedom of two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arbitrarily imprisoned in China as a quid-pro-quo to Meng's detainment by Canada?
One can only hope.
But Trump could also tell Trudeau to take a hike for ambushing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence when he was on a recent "friendly" to Ottawa and, without warning, bringing up abortion.
Pence proudly wears his pro-life credentials on his sleeve, so what was Trudeau's point other than to theatrically regain some lost feminist bonafides
Likely none. |
and this will regenerate hair follicles and improve hair growth. One study showed SM04554 was safe for use with very few side effects. A second study's results look promising: Follicle counts increased even after treatment had ceased after 90 days. A third, larger-scale study performed with more than 300 male subjects found hair count and density increased.
An autoimmune disease called alopecia areata causes complete hair loss, including the eyebrows and eyelashes. In a study conducted at Stanford, Yale and Columbia universities, 66 alopecia areata patients received the rheumatoid arthritis pill Xeljanz. More than half the subjects saw hair regrowth. A third recovered more than 50 percent of their hair loss. In another study, nine of 12 patients with alopecia areata recovered more than 50 percent of hair growth using a similar drug, Jakarfi, which is approved for cancer treatment. Medical researchers are evenly split about whether a topical ointment from either of these drugs may be useful for male pattern baldness.
The carrot on a stick many men are waiting for is multiplication via cloning. It is said to be five years away. The idea is to take hair unaffected by DHT from the back of the head and miniaturize and clone it to make hundreds or thousands of similar hairs. Although there has been success with this procedure in experiments, it remains too costly and impractical for the market.
Some men look in the mirror and regard a receding hairline with distress, wondering if there is a cure for baldness. Currently, the only truly effective medically proven way to arrest hair loss is to lower dihydrotestosterone (DHT) levels. DHT is a form of testosterone that regulates beard growth and hair loss. Higher levels of DHT produce fuller beards at the cost of male pattern baldness. Lower levels of DHT ensure a full head of hair at the cost of the inability to grow a beard. Two treatments clinically proven to be successful for male pattern baldness are finasteride and minoxidil.
Finasteride, the generic name for Proscar and Propecia, works by inhibiting the enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT. A 1-mg dose of finasteride taken daily can lower DHT levels by as much as 60 percent. This decrease has proven to stop the progression of hair loss in 86 percent of men taking the drug during clinical trials, and 65 percent of trial participants experienced a substantial increase in hair growth. However, finasteride doesn't work for everyone. Its biggest downside is its side effects, which include impotence, swelling of hands or feet, dizziness, headache, runny nose and skin rash.
balding areas has been clinically proven to slow the progression of hair loss and regrow some hair. But most experts see it as a marginally effective drug because it does not affect the hormonal process of hair loss. Its positive effects are often temporary.
U.S. scientists exploring how certain cancer tumors form stumbled upon cells that make hair turn gray. The protein KROX20, commonly associated with nerve development, is also progenitor or precursor cells that become the hair shaft. These cells then produce another protein called stem cell factor that is essential for hair pigmentation. The results were published in the journal Genes & Development. |
Qatar Petroleum
Sinopec Receives First LNG Cargo From Qatar
by Fatma Ahmed
Sinopec corporation announced that it has received the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from Qatar, based upon the new term supply deal that was signed with Qatar Petroleum in 2021.
Qatar Petroleum Orders Four LNG Ships for North Field Expansion Projects
Monday, 4th October 2021
Qatar Petroleum has ordered four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group Co. Ltd. (Hudong), a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC).
Qatar Petroleum, CNOOC Sign Major Liquefied Natural Gas Deal
Wednesday, 29th September 2021
Qatar Petroleum signs a long-term sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with CNOOC Gas and Power Trading& Marketing Limited to supply 3.5 million tons per annum (MTPA) of LNG.
Qatar Petroleum Assigns EPC Contract to Técnicas Reunidas
Wednesday, 25th August 2021
Qatar Petroleum (QP) company announced that it has awarded a major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Técnicas Reunidas S.A., a Madrid based contractor, to provide EPC serviced to QP's North Field Expansion Project.
Qatar Petroleum Enter Agreement with TotalEnergies to Acquire Interests in South Africa Blocks
Sunday, 4th July 2021
Qatar Petroleum has signed agreements with TotalEnergies for acquiring three offshore exploration and production (E&P) blocks in South Africa.
Major IOCs Compete for Share in Qatar LNG Project
Monday, 14th June 2021
Six major international oil companies (IOCs) are competing to be partner in the expansion of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production which help the country to foster its position as leading LNG producer.
Qatar Petroleum, Shell Sign Agreement for Offshore Blocks in Namibia
Tuesday, 6th April 2021
by Lobna Hefny
Qatar Petroleum has signed an agreement with Shell to become a partner in two exploration blocks offshore Namibia, according to Qatar Petroleum's press release.
Qatar Petroleum to Fully Own Qatargas from Jan. 2022
Wednesday, 31st March 2021
Qatar Petroleum company announced that will be the sole owner of 100% of the Qatargas Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (QG1) assets and facilities starting from January 2020 as Qatar petroleum will not renew the joint venture upon the expiry of its associated agreement.
Qatar Petroleum Signs SPA with Pakistan
Sunday, 28th February 2021
Qatar Petroleum Company has signed a new long-term Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Pakistan State Oil Company (PSO) to supply up to 3 million tons (mmt) of LNG to Pakistan.
Qatar Petroleum to Develop Giant NFE's LNG Project
Qatar Petroleum (QP) company announced that its has signed an agreement for developing the North Field East (NFE) project, which is the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG). |
Q: Rspec giving false result Hi I'm writing test case where I have to check if correct parameters are send to the controller or not below is my rspec
context 'when some button is clicked ' do
it 'some other button value in the DOM has to set false value' do
find("label[for='someButton']").click()
click_button('Save')
allow_any_instance_of(SomeController).to receive(:update) do |*args|
expect(args[0].params[:some][:some_param]).to be('xyz') # but here params[:some][:some_param] is 'true' still the test case is passing
end
end
end
i'm getting params[:some][:some_param] = 'true' but still test case is passing
any idea !!!
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Helping businesses to recognise the benefits of e-invoicing
Tungsten believes in the potential for technology to enhance the way everyone does business. Technology has transformed our personal lives, so why shouldn't it transform business too?
With electronic invoicing technology in place, businesses of any size can adopt faster, smoother practices which save valuable time and resource, as well as paper. Rarely does a product or service benefit a businesses' bottom line and the environment as effectively as e-invoicing.
The number of businesses using e-invoicing to improve their accounting procedures is rapidly approaching a critical mass. The technology is no longer a secret weapon for the more tech savvy businesses, but a must have for any company looking to stay competitive. Without it, each invoice requires a person to open, scan, and send it to the correct department, before it is filed and archived. And even then it can get lost along the way.
However, while many of the world's largest organisations use e-invoicing to transact with their suppliers (Tungsten alone serves 56% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the FTSE 100), there are also too many businesses that are still somewhat stuck in the past and have yet to reap the benefits of financial automation.
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The site also features a tool based on the savings calculator in the 2015 Billentis E-invoicing Market Report, which allows users to instantly calculate how much e-invoicing could save their business depending on the number of invoices sent or received per year.
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And finally, the microsite links to the interactive Tungsten Readiness Assessment, which asks users a series of questions to help them determine whether they are ready to embark on an e-invoicing programme, and also benchmarks their business against a typical Tungsten customer.
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The Sun Star is the student newspaper of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, formed in a merger of the Northern Sun and the Polar Star. The newspaper has been the recipient of journalism awards from the Alaska Press Club, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and other groups in past years.
In addition to news, advertisements for local companies and event listings, the Sun Star website gives the public the ability to access financial information regarding University of Alaska (including UAA, UAS and UAF) employees. In April 2018, The Sun Star transitioned from print to digital-only editions.
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External links
The Sun Star digital archive (2009–2017)
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Most people planning a family holiday to Spain will jump in taxis from Málaga airport straight to the big resorts, but Marbella has just as much to offer.
(businesspress24) - If you thought of Marbella as being exclusively a glitzy, 'grown up' destination, then think again. From the public beaches with entertaining 'elephant showers' to theme parks and adventure playgrounds, the city has a range of family-friendly activities to keep everyone happy.
Marbella has more than 23 beaches along its 17-mile coastline, 12 of which have been awarded the Blue Flag in recognition of their high quality.
The Spanish love children so don't be afraid to let them loose to play and enjoy the beach. There are also plenty of umbrellas, bars and restaurants offering cooling shade during the hottest part of the day.
The sea is a natural playground so relax as the kids splash around and when they're finally tired of paddling they can play in the elephant shaped showers available on the public beaches along the Paseo Maritimo.
From Tivoli World, with its thrilling fairground rides in Torremolinos, to the 19-hole miniature golf course at Fuengirola Adventure Golf and Funny Beach in Marbella, there's loads of family fun to be found along the Costa del Sol.
Funny Beach, in Marbella, is set on the beachfront with its own pool and restaurant and a range of family activities from go-karting and trampolines on land to banana boats and jet skis on the water.
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This well-maintained Cape Cod features hardwood floors upon entering and carry throughout the living room, dining room, kitchen, stairs and second floor hallway. Custom built-in, separate living and family rooms, a full basement that is partially finished with outside access and an 18 x 36 in-ground pool are a few great features of this home. Modern appliances in the kitchen with access to back deck from kitchen and dining room make entertaining a breeze. The master bedroom includes walk-in closet, dual vanity and whirlpool tub. The property also has dual HVAC systems, a fenced and private rear yard, maintenance free deck for your outdoor entertaining, shed and mature trees in front and back. This home is convenient to schools and shopping centers and less than 10-miles from Dover Air Force Base. This home is a "must see", make an appointment to tour this home today! Shed is "AS IS" |
Q: i want to delete a specific text line from my text editor using imacros I am a newbie in imacros. I use imacros for firefox and imacros own browser. I want to delete extracted text line from my web page.
Problem is that it is in mid of all texts but advantage is the text which i want to delete does not changes.
I am able to extract the text line but unable to delete it.
I have used eval command with replace but nothing worked out.
I am using latest version of firefox and latest plugins of imacros.
TAG POS=1 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:Please<SP>feel<SP>free<SP>to<SP>contact<SP>us<SP>anytime<SP>@<SP>+91-22-40149634<SP>or<SP>write<SP>us<SP>info@spsat*
TAG POS=77 TYPE=P ATTR=* EXTRACT=TXT
Now I have extracted the line but dont know how to replace it with nothing or delete that line from there.
A: I hope that my idea will be more relevant to the described problem. Below is an example of how you can remove a certain text from the html page:
URL GOTO=http://wiki.imacros.net/Firefox
SET !EXTRACT_TEST_POPUP NO
SET textToRemove "iMacros for Firefox"
SET textXpath "//span[text()='{{textToRemove}}']"
' just to highlight this text '
TAG XPATH={{textXpath}} EXTRACT=TXT
WAIT SECONDS=2
' ...and remove it '
URL GOTO=javascript:{document.evaluate("{{textXpath}}",document,null,9,null).singleNodeValue.innerHTML="";undefined;}
The macro should work in 'iMacros for Firefox' v. 8.9.7 (and perhaps, in 'iMacros for Chrome').
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One of the few RML's that has been returned back from the modernised fleet to a more traditional feel. With original style seating and soft interior lighting reinstated, you have the ability to carry 72 people but in a really retro way. Another unique feature is that one side of the main exterior adverts is illuminated as they were earlier in the vehicles life and provides a great advertising opportunity to this day.
Following The successful experiment to operate a longer version of the Routemaster the final 500 were all built to this longer specification. RML2588 was one of these and was delivered new for service in October 1966 to Putney garage, where she would spend the next six years of her working life. Following an overhaul at Aldenham she was returned to service, moving from West to East London by moving to Upton Park gagare where she took up regular duties on the route 15.
In 1991 the vehicle received a refurbishment that saw it gain a Cummins engine and be returned to Tottenham garage where its regular route the 73's became one of the final routes to have large numbers of Routemasters operating on it. When London's bus were privatised 2588 being at Tottenham eventually became part of the Arriva London North fleet.
When the 73s were converted to new buses 2588 was placed in storage whilst its future was considered and was disposed off in 2005 to Ensignbus. Noting the historical significance of being only one of two RMLs to still boast the illuminated advert panel a good home was sought for 2588 and she joined the fleet of London Heritage Travel in 2006. Used for wedding and private hire work the vehicle received a full restoration in its time with LHT and when Ensign acquired the vehicles from the company in August 2012, 2588 was kept to operate within the Ensignbus heritage fleet as an additional unusual and high quality RML had been needed to cover additional work for sometime. |
A clogged up washing machine drain can result in a myriad of troubles for a homeowner. Not just can an obstructed drain potentially mean ineffective draining of water, it can likewise slowly lead to overflow. Cleansing a washing machine drain is essentially a simple procedure, and in the end, will produce remarkable operation from your device says Drain Cleaning Santa Rosa.
Before beginning a task with electrical appliances, you need to unplug them to avoid unexpected shock.
The drainage pipe is a big, flexible pipe found on the back of the washing equipment. It is attached with four screws and a plate. First, remove the screws from the plate with a screwdriver, and remove the pipe from the washing device. It is advised to hold the pipe over a bucket to empty out any water that remains in the drain.
Separate the washing device drain hose from the drain pipe. The curved end of the hose is situated on the top of the pipe, and is generally held by a piece of plastic tie or wire. Utilizing wire cutters or scissors, cut the wire or tie to release the drain hose.
Next, insert a plumbing technician's snake into the drain pipe of the washing machine. Remain to advance it forward until you meet resistance. When this takes place, tighten up the wing nut on the front of the plumbing technician's snake, and turn the rotation knob on the backside of it. This will help to split up any obstructions. Keep rotating the snake. Repeat this exact same procedure up until you no long feel resistence. This suggests that the drain is clear. Slowly pull the plumbing snake out of the end of the drain pipe. If there was a blockage in the drain, an item or mass will come out with the snake.
The drainage pipe can be changed by reinsertion of the plate and screws. To get rid of any remnants of debris, run a cycle without any clothing through your washing machine.
For small build up and little obstructions, there are non-caustic solutions that are best for cleansing washing machine drains. To use this homemade dish, drain all the water from your cleaning machine. Pour one cup of baking soda into the drain of your device. Then, pour two cups of boiling water into the drain. Enable 10 minutes for the blend to process. Next, include an extra cup of baking soda straight followed by one cup of vinegar. Utilizing a rubber stopper, plug the drain. The response of the ingredients need to get rid of any unwanted product, and liquefy any small obstructions. Pour at least a half a gallon of boiling water after 10 minutes to purge the staying rubble through the plumbing system.
For a more relentless obstruction, a more powerful solution will have to be made use of. For this blend, you will need cleaning soda. This can be discovered in the laundry cleaning agent area of the supermarket. Pour one cup of the cleaning soda down the drain. Let this sit in the drain for several hours. Then, put one cup of baking soda and one-fourth cup of salt into the drain. These elements can sit in the drain as little as one hour, and as long as over night. Pour a compound of 2 cups of white vinegar and two cups of water slowly down the drain, waiting up until the foaming subsides. Lastly, douse the blend with hot water.
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Blu-ray Review: Fight Club -- 10th Anniversary Edition (1999; 2009)
The idea of an unreliable narrator is a fascinating literary device that seems to play best in the realm of cinema as film manages to trick viewers like no other medium. Upon researching unreliable narrators, I discovered that they originated in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and since the publication of that work, writers have been using false tricksters to guide readers and viewers with tales of increasing complexity.
Probably the most famous work of unreliable narration of the '90s was employed in Bryan Singer's masterful film, The Usual Suspects, which starred Kevin Spacey. The actor followed up Usual Suspects with another neo-noir for director David Fincher in the form of Seven.
After my friend and fellow film critic Colin Boyd urged me to see Zodiac, I realized that I've been consistently impressed by the films of David Fincher including Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Panic Room. However, at the time it was released, I loathed Seven and have yet to see it again. Although I grant that it was indeed intelligent and that Fincher's frequent star (in their initial coupling), Brad Pitt finally had the chance to show his enormous range for the first time, overall I felt that it was a downright disgusting thriller. Saw before the horror franchise and torture porn genre was born, Seven is a work I felt sickened trying to view as one that left nothing to the imagination and had no purpose other than to simply horrify.
Yet ironically, most individuals called Fincher's follow-up Fight Club even more disturbing with some of my favorite critics going as far as to damn the film as one of the most dangerous pieces of cinema ever made… and not in a great Roman Polanski way. However, while it definitely was a chore to sit through, as a film, Fight Club was also brilliant, darkly comic and impossible to forget.
At its essence, the movie was more of an assault on our commercial society than simply a film about a bunch of guys just wailing on each other, which unfortunately was the way it was dismissed by a large amount of reviewers. Still enough viewers identified its underlying theme and overall message on a visceral as well as intellectual level which Variety's David Rooney likewise acknowledged by writing that, "rarely has a film been so keyed into its time." And the audience for Fight Club has only grown more passionate about the 1999 work ever since, thereby making it a bona fide cult classic ten years after Fincher's previous star, Spacey and his film American Beauty earned Oscar gold.
Allegory to the max, Fight Club's final cut was extreme in every way imaginable to ramp up the Fincher's subtext in Jim Uhls' brilliant adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel. Every frame reaffirmed the film's "message statement" against a generation abiding by "mission statements," via its expressionistic usages of sound bridges and impressionistic marriage of production design, editing trickery, juxtaposition, and Edward Norton's deadpan narration. In copious behind-the-scenes extra features, you can witness the painstaking effort of various departments working in tandem like the real external Project Mayhem crew of the movie's internal guerilla group Project Mayhem to ensure that Fincher's movie was as much of a psychological extension of the antithesis of late '90s consumer driven culture as was its main character Tyler Durden.
While on the surface, guys thrashed each other with full force, once you peeled past that outer layer, astute viewers understood that it's a counterculture work using graphic imagery in place of a dull professorial lecture. As such, Fight Club is best experienced in the same allegorical spirit Peter Greenaway employed in his intensely sexual, over-the-top NC-17 rated The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover which was a disturbingly in-your-face response film to the British monarchy system of the '80s.
For those who have yet to see the movie, Fight Club follows our existentially adrift Narrator, played by Edward Norton, as an insurance calculator/cubicle drone who spends a large amount of time living a "single serving" life of travel by providing an impersonal mathematical formula gauging death vs. cost in deciding whether or not the major automobile company he works for should financially initiate a recall.
Furthermore, throughout the movie, Norton is credited with no set name other than "Jack" which is an in-film ironic joke after he finds a retro stack of informational health literature about Jack's Medulla Oblongata, etc. Insomniac and dispassionate in his job, he takes to attending support groups for diseases he doesn't have—anxious to simply feel and connect with strangers even for a brief period. However, our Narrator's new and disturbing homeostasis proves to be a temporary solution, which is irrevocably altered when his condo full of Ikea purchased possessions blows up, forcing him to face his life and realize that he's missing something vital. What he's missing, he realizes once he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt)—a loose cannon with whom he co-creates a "fight club" wherein men can work out their aggression on one another until this leads to acts of homegrown terrorism under the name of Project Mayhem.
Obviously this plot-point was a frightening development that critics and journalists feared would lead to off-screen destruction. And unfortunately, some young men—completely missing the film's point—did indeed create their own fight clubs but again, this reaction made me recall the reaction to another movie made a decade earlier. Like Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, which many people felt would incite riots (and was blamed for the misfortune of being released before Rodney King)—Fight Club is a brilliant work that should incite thought instead of violence. Moreover, I couldn't help realizing how sad it was at the time that those critiquing it didn't give American audiences more respect and let the few who may have let media do their thinking for them give the millions of other intelligent viewers a bad name.
Additionally, as I learned in "How to Start a Fight," the original twenty page DVD booklet (which admirably cited reactions which ran the gamut), there is "more violence in the first 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan than if you watched Fight Club for an entire year." Moreover honestly, underneath all of the "macho posing," right from its opening phallic imagery of a gun barrel placed in Norton's mouth, overall it's quite homoerotic as both women and gay men noticed instantly. This makes the idea that it's a total "Guy Film Hall of Fame" movie (as SpikeTV inducted it a few months back, which is included on the Blu-ray) seem far more subversive and fun on another level as several years ago author Chuck Palahniuk finally outed himself as a gay man.
While I've never read the book by Palahniuk, I learned from research that the ending varies greatly from his original plot but the author has been widely quoted as stating that he prefers the film's ending to his own published version. Overall, Jim Uhls' script echoed the tone of the book, which Uhls described as, "a seminal statement of the times, a statement about this particular generation, much in the same way the '60s were captured in the better films of that decade," in Fight Club's original production notes. And to his immense credit, Uhls succeeded as the film perfectly captured Palahniuk's beliefs on the power of culture, which were listed in the booklet as follows:
"The first way in which a new generation takes control of society is through the culture; the arts, films, books, music. Through all entertainment. People who feel safe and secure in the existing society are frightened by ideas that threaten their power. People who hold the power in society want nice complacent forms of entertainment, films that comfort people and support the status quo."
Fight Club was a risky film to be sure and one quite excessive in its violence but the visuals and juxtaposition of shots are quite novel. Producer Laura Ziskin (yes, only a female producer would touch it) really helped keep this labor of love on track by giving unprecedented power to Fincher. In doing so, former music video director Fincher shot more than three times the normal amount of film reels (IMDb) to get his vision right.
The film's huge narrative shock and switch revealing our unreliable narrator was quite surprising in the first viewing but after one goes through the film again, one notices what a clever craftsman Fincher and his editor were as there are so many clues littered throughout the movie on several sensory levels designed to hit each part of the brain, whether visually, in a literary fashion etc. for a stunned intellectual punch.
Although it's filmed in L.A., the setting of the work was always Wilmington, Delaware but predictably and with justification, the city officials were worried about duplicate attacks witnessed onscreen so the setting is anonymous, giving viewers a more terrifying experience as we see that it could occur anywhere. And indeed, the film itself took on a whole new resonance after the events of 9/11.
Suddenly a film about a generation without direction, without "great wars" or purpose whose characters resort to terrorism from consumer slavery became a bit too hard to handle as in a scene where Norton's character prays for a plane crash as well as in the final moments as skyscrapers explode. It only had two years there (released in '99) when the film fit in with its time but following 9/11, everything changed and suddenly the film felt like a period piece… or it did until its tenth anniversary rolled around.
While watching it again a few years back for an undergraduate project on neo-noir films, I did find it especially eerie considering the aforementioned sequences and sentiment. However, now in 2009, it feels not like it was simply a clever allegory nor a period piece of a more consumerist time but a wake up call in retrospect. Just like viewing the miniseries of Traffik in its twentieth anniversary hit me on a global level in terms of alarm bells regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan that will make you want to shout "why didn't we do anything?" Fight Club is deeply affecting on the level of not just terror but consumerism as well.
In '99, Tyler's "you're not the car you drive," monologue was indeed meaningful but not nearly as much as it is now when viewed again in an era where debt has enslaved us to the point wherein most of us can't even "go to jobs we hate" to "buy shit we don't need," since the basics are what's adding up and this time around, we're also indebted by fighting two "great wars" that we didn't have then. So suddenly Fight Club becomes just as urgent, tragic, and retroactively potent as ever. This is particularly evident given Project Mayhem's insane movement to set the debt record back to zero so that everyone becomes free, which is not only just as terrifyingly allegorical as it always was but now makes us want to shout, "why didn't we do anything?" from a peaceful standpoint, of course since as Palahniuk noted entertainment is the way to introduce ideas for real change.
Yet that quote from the Fight Club scribe is one of the problems with the film's 10th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition... since it doesn't exist. When purchased originally in 2000, the two disc DVD set featured not just superlative features packaged in a gorgeous format of concept art but it also contained a twenty page fact and photo filled guide that was Fox 2000 Pictures' equivalent of releasing their own pre-Criterion version essay.
Missing even a basic one-page Blu-ray insert of what was then titled "Jack's Chapters," as well as the aforementioned guide, while Fox's enviable Blu-ray clarity is top-notch, this single disc dully packaged edition contains just three new extras, with one consisting of a simple search index. Still, a search index is needed since the menu is presented in tinier font and laid out in a more confusing manner. But being that the other two new extras are purely the SpikeTV induction (memorable only for Norton's dare to Pitt involving Mel Gibson) and a very interesting yet way too short demonstration of the sound design with 2-time Fincher Oscar nominee Ren Klyce, it leaves me hesitant to recommend the full price-tag of the Blu-ray upgrade since no doubt you'd want to hang onto your original DVDs and would therefore double your shelf-space.
While high definition is a great way to appreciate the movie, such a passionately thorough job was done by Fincher in the original film itself that—although it does improve the depth perception—I'm assuming that there will be a far more worthwhile Blu-ray release down the road, either from Fox or perhaps Criterion who were involved in Fincher's Benjamin Button from its home entertainment debut.
The absence of new features with the cast in fact does make me wonder if they were all far too busy in their respective endeavors like the Button release and Inglourious Basterds to get more involved, yet Fincher does provide a small but tiny gag by inserting the menu of the 1999 film that drew in more box office than Club in the form of Drew Barrymore's Never Been Kissed for a few seconds before Club kicks in.
Since press were sent notes and e-mails (I received one with the disc and one in the inbox) regarding the importance of not revealing the "Fincher gag," I was extremely eager to uncover just what we were to expect when it finally arrived and while it's cute for a moment, sadly just like the subtext of Kissed as having earned more money, this release without the superior packaging, DVD booklet or more than only a handful of bonuses just feels like a format upgrade for the dough and sans the spirit of Durden.
Needless to say, I am Jack's Supreme Sense of Disappointment. Yet for those whose only interest is purely for the film and its format and not for the features, this particular release echoes one of my favorite lines by Norton's memorably unreliable narrator of, "it's called a changeover, the movie goes on and nobody in the audience has any idea."
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Q: HTML page template for multiple pages I am working on a somewhat extensive website and have not worked with web development in a while. I would like to create a basic layout for every page on the site. That is, I would like to create a header, footer, nav bars, and standard containers that will be the same across all the pages on the site.
However, I do not want to simply copy and paste code. Is there a method to create a basic central page template that I can edit and have changes go in effect across all pages?
A: Bootstrap, a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development
http://getbootstrap.com/
Bootstrap is a templating system which may help you.
A: You can do like this.
Create header.php navigation.php footer.php then just include them in any file where you need.
i.e.
<html>
<body>
<div>
<?php include 'header.php'; ?>
<?php include 'navigation.php'; ?>
</div>
<div>
Some central content here
</div>
<div>
<?php include 'footer.php'?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Now when you change the header.php its changes will be reflected in every page where you included it.
One more thing I want to mention it is better if you use some MVC Framework. In it there is default.ctp concept. Where you can create common templates for pages.
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Some Lessons Learned: Interview with Kristin Chenoweth
by amy · October 12, 2011
After listening to Kristin Chenoweth's latest album, Some Lessons Learned — and a re-run of Bewitched on TNT — I got the chance to ask her a couple of questions regarding what her latest album means to her, her music inspirations, her career and her future plans in tv and music.
Though we only got a chance to get some of our questions asked in an email, Kristin was cool enough to get back to us as soon as possible!
You are probably most known to the general public for singing Broadway tunes, perhaps Christian music, what makes you go and say "I want to work on a country album"? How did Some Lessons Learned come to exist?
I grew up singing that way. I wanted to return to my roots and get the opportunity to write a few songs as well.
Who are your favorite country musicians?
Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Chely Wright, Faith Hill.
As a Latin American, I tend to favor overly romantic and dramatic lyrics in songs, one of the reasons why I connected with country music so easily. What do you love about the genre?
I like that most songs tell a story. It is always from the heart. They are relatable and you can sing along ;)
How was the process of picking the songs in the album? — I particularly loved the first lines on Fathers and Daughters, where you go "Well you laughed and told me you'd really wanted a boy, but you cried the first time you held me."
I was listening to music forever thinking I might want to perform that.
For one year I listened with the help of Diane Warren and Bob Ezrin. Every song has a purpose. Father and Daughters is special because I think of my dad when I sing it. I miss him! It is about a special relationship between a father and a daughter.
We interviewed Diane Warren about a year ago, what was the experience of working with her as an executive producer? How do you feel singing her material?
Diane is so fun. She lives for music. I can relate to that!
The lyrics to each of her songs are so human. I'm lucky that I was able to sing four of her songs and that she took so much interest in this project.
What was the song that was the most fun to record? I love how cheeky you sound in I Didn't.
What Would Dolly Do. I had the Jordanaires singing backup. If they are good enough for the King, they are good enough for Kristin!
In your latest interview with Piers Morgan you talked about people wanting to make it in the industry without putting in the hard work. What is one of the hardest things you had to go through during the early years of your career, and how do you think that changed you?
When I first moved to New York I had three roommates. We had bunk-beds. We shared a closet. I had no personal space. I learned then how little you need to live. Looking back, those are some of the best memories I've ever had. It was all about helping each other and eating as cheap as we possibly could.
The YAM Magazine team loved your interpretation of April Rhodes on Glee. Will there be any other future guests on the show?
I'm not sure if April will be back, but I would love to play her again.
Since your role as Olive on Pushing Daisies — you were brilliant in it, especially when Olive had to keep the secret from Chuck — you haven't been on television on a weekly basis. Are there any pilot scripts circling your table? What can you tell us about Good Christian Belles?
It's about five women in the south who have grown up together in church, their spirituality and relationships with humor.
What can you tell us about your project with Dusty Springfield? Any hints?
Marc Platt is the producer! Can you please call him and ask him what's going on?? Haha!!
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Q: In Jenkins, can I trigger a downstream job once a day We've got a Jenkins setup where we do incremental builds on SCM change, validate and then if this works do a full build (from scratch). This basically works but we waste time doing full builds during the day that we don't normally use.
I know we could trigger full builds every night, but many of our branches won't change for a few days - and then we might get a rush of changes. Thus building every branch every night is wasteful too.
What I really want is some mechanism where we only do the full builds once (say at night) if there has been an SCM change and the incremental build and validate worked - there is no point auto-triggering full builds where the incremental build and validate failed. Actually just "the incremental build and validate worked" should suffice - as these normally just run on SCM change.
Any suggestions? Is there some Jenkins extension that would help with this?
A: To achieve what you've asked for you can create a new job that is the same as your existing one, but have it only poll the SCM once a day, for a nightly build.
Set the schedule to something like this: H H(0-5) * * *.
In your original job, remove the post-build triggering of a full build.
That will give you pretty much what you've asked for, except the nightly build will do an incremental build and then a full build if the incremental one succeeded, rather than just checking the result of the last incremental build.
BUT...
What is the cost of the 'waste' you are trying to avoid? How much does running a full build every night actually cost you? And wouldn't you be better off finding out when the full build is broken as soon as possible, i.e. during the day when it was broken rather than only the following morning?
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Weak March jobs report sends a shiver through the economy
06 Apr Weak March jobs report sends a shiver through the economy
Posted at 06:09h in DC News, Economic news, Home, Latest News by Posting Account
WASHINGTON _ A disappointing March jobs report Friday, marked by a sharp slowdown in hiring and shrinking labor force participation, triggered new concerns about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery.
Mainstream economists had expected the report to show between 180,000 and 200,000 new jobs to have been created last month, but the Labor Department reported that employment increased by just 88,000 jobs nationwide.
The worse-than-expected numbers, coming off a February when 236,000 jobs were created, sparked an early sell-off on Wall Street. After the first 90 minutes of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by about 145 points, or 1 percent.
Over the past 12 months, hiring had averaged 169,000 new jobs per month _ February's strong number was also revised upward _ so the weak March statistic suggested a very rapid slowdown and eclipsed a slight decline in the unemployment rate, 0.1 of a percentage point, to 7.6 percent.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for forecaster Moody' Analytics, said the job market faces still more challenges in the months ahead, citing both government budget cuts and the impact of health care legislation.
"The weak March job gain presages weaker job gains this spring and summer," he said. "Fallout from the (budget) sequester has yet to hit and adjustment to health care reform by small businesses will weigh on jobs for much of the year."
That's likely to be the case, even allowing for the impact in March of unusually cold weather, Zandi said.
"The March number overstates any weakness, cold weather likely hurt retail employment, and there were significant upward revisions to past months, but job growth will throttle back in coming months," he said.
One month does not make a trend, but the March report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was nonetheless jarring.
"This is an extremely troubling labor market report, given how strongly stocks have rallied, and how much expectations have been lifted with optimism around the consumer and housing. This report this morning calls this whole thesis into question," said Scott Anderson, chief economist for Bank of the West in San Francisco. "The negative impact of the (budget) sequester is readily apparent in these numbers, and we can expect more economic difficulty and job loss in the months ahead."
The budget sequester took effect on March 1 and cut $85 billion in federal spending throughout the federal government, with the exception of Congress and its staff. The Defense Department plans furloughs for its civilian labor force in April, and the prospect of another $100 billion in cuts scheduled to begin on Oct. 1 absent a budget deal have dampened spending by businesses and consumers, many of whose jobs depend directly or indirectly on government or government purchasing.
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The White House blamed the sequester for Friday's weak jobs report and warned it is adding uncertainty about the year ahead.
"Now is not the time for Washington to impose more self-inflicted wounds on the economy," Alan Krueger, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement.
Krueger noted that Friday's jobs report was the first since the sequester took effect and that neutral observers have projected that 750,000 fewer jobs will be created because of it, adding that "the recovery was gaining traction before sequestration took effect, these arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness."
Republicans saw it differently.
"The president's policies continue to make it harder for Americans to find work. Hundreds of thousands fled the workforce last month and unemployment remains far above what the Obama administration promised when it enacted its 'stimulus' spending plan," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement.
Boehner was referring to the Labor Department's finding that 496,000 people had stopped seeking work in March. That decline, rather than robust hiring, was largely responsible for the small drop in the unemployment rate, which is a comparison of those out of work to the number of those with jobs or looking for one.
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Within the numbers, there were some bright spots. Professional and business services, a broad category made up mostly of better-paying white-collar jobs, led all sectors with 51,000 new jobs in March. Within the category, temporary help services, usually a harbinger of future full-time hiring, posted 20,000 new jobs.
The health care sector, which has continued to add workers even in the worst of times, grew by another 23,000 jobs. And the hard-hit construction sector added another 18,000 jobs in a down month, prompting hopes that the moribund housing market is slowly coming back to life.
But manufacturing, which had been a bright spot in late 2011 and early 2012, saw employment shrink by 3,000 jobs last month.
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"The sector has added 77,000 net new workers over the past 12 months. Over that time frame, there were 1.9 million nonfarm payroll workers hired, implying that manufacturers created just 4 percent of all of the net new jobs since March 2012," Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, wrote in his Shopfloor.org blog. "That really illustrates how uncertainty and weak global demand have impacted a sector that had before last year been providing outsized growth for output and employment."
Leading the job decliners was the retail sector, which shed about 24,000 jobs, and economists think that extended cold snap last month influenced this number. Government hiring shrunk by another 7,000 jobs in March, a continuation of what's been an ongoing slide since 2011. Federal government hiring fell by 14,000 but it was offset by about 9,000 new state education jobs.
MARCH BY THE NUMBERS
Professional and business services, up 51,000.
Manufacturing, down 3,000.
Leisure and hospitality, up 17,000.
Health care, up 23,400.
Construction, up 18,000.
Temporary help services, up 20,300.
Transportation and warehousing, down 2,800.
Retail, down 24,100.
Financial services, down 2,000.
Government jobs, down 7,000.
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Gert Haucke (* 13. März 1929 in Berlin; † 30. Mai 2008 in Lüneburg) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Hörspielsprecher und Schriftsteller (Sachbuchautor).
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Gert Haucke gab sein Bühnendebüt 1947 unter Boleslaw Barlog am Schillertheater in Berlin, wo er bis 1951 beschäftigt blieb. Weitere Bühnenstationen waren Hamburg, Buenos Aires und Lübeck.
Daneben arbeitete Haucke als Nachrichtensprecher beim RIAS Berlin und lieh seine Stimme zahlreichen Hörspielproduktionen. Besonders populär wurde er dabei als Vater in der Hörfunkreihe Papa, Charly hat gesagt… aus der Feder seiner Schwester, der Schriftstellerin Ursula Haucke. Für diese Rolle wurde er mit dem Goldenen Mikrophon ausgezeichnet. Im norddeutschen Raum sehr beliebt war er auch als Erzähler in der Hörspielkrimiserie zum Mitraten Zeus Weinsteins Abenteuer von Peter Neugebauer, die der NDR über fünf Staffeln von 1972 bis 1984 in 63 Folgen ausstrahlte. In den Jahren 1985 bis 1987 sprach Haucke unterschiedliche Rollen in den Hörspielen Das Brillenetui, Verständigung, Lohn der Arbeit, Frohe Weihnacht, Gleichbehandlung, Peepshow, Der Mantel und Zukunft mit Vergangenheit von Heinz-Werner Geisenberger beim Hessischen Rundfunk.
1962 gab er in Fritz Genschows Märchenfilm Rumpelstilzchen sein Leinwanddebüt. Es folgten über hundert Auftritte in Film und Fernsehen, wobei der facettenreiche Darsteller Haucke oft aufgrund seiner großen und mächtigen Erscheinung und seiner markanten Stimme auf ungeschlachte und negative Charaktere besetzt wurde. So sah man ihn 1967 in dem Durbridge-Mehrteiler Ein Mann namens Harry Brent in der Rolle des William Brother, der am Schluss als Täter entlarvt wurde. In der Fernsehserie Hamburg Transit (1970) hingegen erlebte man ihn als Kommissar John auf der anderen Seite des Gesetzes. Er spielte auch in Filmkomödien neben Dieter Hallervorden (Didi auf vollen Touren), Thomas Gottschalk (Die Supernasen) und Heinz Rühmann (Hokuspokus), in Fernsehsatiren wie Halali oder Der Schuß ins Brötchen und in Fernsehspielen wie Heinrich Breloers Kollege Otto (hier verkörperte Haucke den Alfons Lappas). Haucke übernahm auch Rollen in Kinofilmen, darunter Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (neben Jürgen Prochnow) und Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind (nach Johannes Mario Simmel) sowie in Krimis aus der Tatort-Reihe, dem Jerry-Cotton-Thriller Der Tod im roten Jaguar und preisgekrönten Fernsehproduktionen über die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, wie Tadellöser & Wolff (nach Walter Kempowski), Die Geschwister Oppermann (nach Lion Feuchtwanger) und Ralph Giordanos Die Bertinis (hier als brutaler Gestapo-Mann). Daneben hatte er zahlreiche Gastauftritte und wiederkehrende Rollen in Fernsehserien wie Freunde fürs Leben, Ein Bayer auf Rügen und Der Landarzt.
Darüber hinaus engagierte sich der Tierschützer Haucke umfangreich für Rechte von Hundehaltern und verfasste sehr viele Artikel, Kurzgeschichten, Jugendromane und Erzählungen um und über Haustiere. Er ist Mitverfasser des 1993 erschienenen Sachbuchs Die Sache mit dem Hund. 100 Rassen kritisch unters Fell geschaut und viele Tipps, wie man sich den Hund zum Freund macht.
Gert Haucke war verheiratet mit der 2004 verstorbenen Ute Blaich. Er selbst verstarb am 30. Mai 2008 im Klinikum Lüneburg an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts, den er am 21. Mai 2008 am Steuer seines Wagens in Salzhausen erlitten hatte.
Filmografie (Auswahl)
1962: Rumpelstilzchen
1965: Ein Tag – Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939
1965: Bernhard Lichtenberg
1966: Hokuspokus oder: Wie lasse ich meinen Mann verschwinden…?
1966: Intercontinental Express – Reise an die Grenze (Fernsehserie)
1966: Hafenpolizei – Die Pokerpartie (Fernsehserie)
1966: Ganovenehre
1968: Der Tod im roten Jaguar
1968: Ein Mann namens Harry Brent (nach Francis Durbridge)
1969: Die Unverbesserlichen und ihre Menschenkenntnis (Fernsehserie)
1970: Hamburg Transit (Fernsehserie)
1971: Der Kommissar – Lisa Bassenges Mörder (Fernsehserie)
1971: Schneewittchen
1972: Wir 13 sind 17 (Fernsehserie)
1972: Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind
1972: Hoopers letzte Jagd (TV-Zweiteiler)
1972: Ludwig – Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König
1973: Tatort – Kressin und die zwei Damen aus Jade (TV-Reihe)
1973: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben
1973: Der Lord von Barmbeck
1973: Black Coffee (Fernsehfilm nach Agatha Christie)
1974: Die Verrohung des Franz Blum
1974: Konfrontation
1974: Motiv Liebe - Ich wollte, dass er glücklich ist (Fernsehserie)
1974: Der kleine Doktor – Ein Holländer in Paris (Fernsehserie)
1974: Okay S.I.R. – Einen für den anderen (Fernsehserie)
1975: Derrick – Alarm auf Revier 12 (Fernsehserie)
1975: Das Messer im Rücken
1975: Tadellöser & Wolff (Fernsehmehrteiler)
1976: Verlorenes Leben
1977: Der Alte – (Folge 1: Die Dienstreise) - Pilotfilm der Fernsehreihe
1978: Ein Mann will nach oben
1978: Kommissariat 9 – Konjunkturbelebung (Fernsehserie)
1979: Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse – Die Sache mit dem Backofen (Fernsehserie)
1980: Land, das meine Sprache spricht
1981: Der König und sein Narr
1982: Die Barrikade
1982: Der Alte – Folge 57: Teufelsküche
1982: Wir
1983: Die Geschwister Oppermann
1983: Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
1983: Die Krimistunde (Fernsehserie, Folge 5, Episode: "Der Handschuhtäter")
1983: Die Supernasen
1983: Nordlichter: Geschichten zwischen Watt und Weltstadt
1983: Is was, Kanzler?
1984: Der Ausflug, ein Betriebsausflug
1985: Didi und die Rache der Enterbten
1985: Mit Axel auf Achse
1985: Seitenstechen
1985: Ein Heim für Tiere (Fernsehserie, zwei Folgen)
1985: Geschichten aus der Heimat (Fernsehserie) Episode: Der Käpt'n
1986: Geschichten aus der Heimat (Fernsehserie) Episode: Loreley in Kollerum
1986: Geschichten aus der Heimat (Fernsehserie) Episode: Der Gebrauchtwagen
1986: Die Krimistunde (Fernsehserie, Folge 20, Episode: "40 Detektive später")
1986: Didi auf vollen Touren
1987: Großstadtrevier – Geleimt (Fernsehserie)
1987–2004: Der Landarzt als Bruno Hanusch
1988: Fifty-Fifty
1988: Didi – Der Experte
1988: Geschichten aus der Heimat (Fernsehserie) Episode: Ein ungewöhnlicher Fall
1989: Derrick – Wie kriegen wir Bodetzki (Fernsehserie)
1989: Die Bertinis
1989: Ein Fall für zwei – Zyankali
1990: Die Frosch-Intrige
1991: Kollege Otto
1991: Ein Fall für zwei – Tod frei Haus
1993: Ein Bayer auf Rügen
1993: Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte
1993: Liebe ist Privatsache (Fernsehserie)
1993: Das Traumschiff – Hongkong
1994: Halali oder Der Schuss ins Brötchen
1994: Ihre Exzellenz, die Botschafterin (Fernsehserie)
1995: Tatort – Tödliche Freundschaft
1996: Diebinnen
1997: Großstadtrevier – Brennende Probleme (Fernsehserie) (als Jakob Meier)
1998: Männer sind was Wunderbares (Fernsehreihe)
1999–2001: Freunde fürs Leben (Fernsehserie) als Heinz Otto
Theater
1965: Félicien Marceau: Der Manager – Regie: Dieter Reible (Renaissance-Theater Berlin)
Hörspiele
1968: Ephraim Kishon: Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht – Regie: Wolfgang Spier (Hörspiel – RIAS)
1970: Raymond Chandler: Stichwort Goldfisch – Regie: Hermann Naber (Kriminalhörspiel – SWF/WDR)
1972–1984: Ingrid Hessedanz und Klaus Emmerich: Papa, Charly hat gesagt... – (Hörspielreihe – NDR/ARD)
1974: Tankred Dorst: Auf dem Chimborazo – Regie: Ulrich Gerhard (Hörspiel (Kunstkopf) – BR/RIAS Berlin/SDR)
1976: Lisa Kristwaldt: Tag der Verkäuferinnen – Regie: Richard Hey/Lisa Kristwaldt (Feature – NDR)
1980: Die Kanincheninsel (Hörspiel Teldec)
1984: Per Wahlöö: Mord im 31. Stock – Regie: Gottfried von Einem (Kriminalhörspiel – RB)
1986: Horst Bieber: Der Irrtum – Regie: Albrecht Surkau (Kriminalhörspiel – WDR)
1998: Michail Bulgakow: Der Meister und Margarita (Kaiphas) – Regie: Petra Meyenburg (Hörspiel (30 Teile) – MDR)
1999: Ingomar von Kieseritzky: Fin de Partie - oder - Das Rauschen des Äthers (Buss) – Regie: Götz Fritsch (HR)
2007: Gisbert Haefs: Das Triumvirat hext (Oberst a. D. Albrecht) – Regie: Christoph Pragua (Hörspiel – WDR)
Literarische Werke
1991 Koschka. Sieben Kapitel aus dem Leben einer Katze. Rowohlt 1997, ISBN 3-499-20849-0.
1993 Mops und Moritz. Rowohlt 1993, ISBN 3-499-20674-9, (Jugendbuch).
1993 Die Sache mit dem Hund. 100 Rassen kritisch unters Fell geschaut und viele Tips, wie man sich den Hund zum Freund macht. (mit Heiko Gebhardt), Heyne 1993, ISBN 3-453-06024-5.
1996 Shir Khan. Fischer 1996, ISBN 3-596-80067-6.
1997 Hund aufs Herz. Rowohlt 1997, ISBN 3-499-60444-2.
2001 Mein allerbester Freund. (mit Barbara Treskatis), Aufbau-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-351-04018-0.
2009 WarteSchleife – Unfrisiertes von Gert Haucke. KSP-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027502-9.
Literatur
Hermann J. Huber: Langen Müller's Schauspielerlexikon der Gegenwart. Deutschland. Österreich. Schweiz. Albert Langen. Georg Müller Verlag. München Wien 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3, S. 369.
Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 3: F – H. John Barry Fitzgerald – Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, S. 573.
Weblinks
ARD-Audiothek: Hund aufs Herz - Eine Unterhaltung mit Gert Haucke
Einzelnachweise
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Person (Hörfunk)
Autor
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Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Sachliteratur
Person (RIAS)
Darstellender Künstler (Berlin)
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Gestorben 2008
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National Safety Council calculations signal a decline after several years of spikes
For the second consecutive year, the U.S. experienced a small decline in roadway deaths, according to preliminary estimates released today from the National Safety Council. In 2019, an estimated 38,800 people lost their lives to car crashes – a 2% decline from 2018 (39,404 deaths) and a 4% decline from 2017 (40,231 deaths). Approximately 4.4 million people were seriously injured (i) in crashes last year – also a 2% decrease over 2018 figures.
At the state level, fatalities are estimated to have dropped more than 13% since 2018 in seven states – Alaska (-16%), Connecticut (-14%), District of Columbia (-21%), Nevada (-14%), New Hampshire (-30%), South Dakota (-21%) and Vermont (-31%). Six states experienced estimated increases in fatalities by more than 5% – Delaware (20%), Maine (35%), Nebraska (8%), Ohio (8%), Tennessee (10%) and Wyoming (32%).
Research to definitively determine why fatalities have decreased for the last two years is likely to lag several years. However, the NSC preliminary estimate signals that the country may be experiencing the benefits of several risk mitigation actions implemented in the last few years. For example, 10 cities have embraced Vision Zero models, which make streets safer by taking actions that include redesigning high-crash areas to reduce crash risk. Other proven measures include lowering the legal alcohol concentration limit. Utah's implementation of a .05 legal limit has prompted others states to consider similar laws. Coalitions such as Road to Zero have raised the national dialogue.
And today, the majority of newly manufactured vehicles include advanced driver assistance systems such as automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning systems, backup cameras and adaptive headlights, all of which are proven to reduce the severity of crashes or prevent them altogether.
"Thirty-eight thousand deaths is still unacceptable, even if it is fewer than in years past," said Lorraine M. Martin, president and CEO of the National Safety Council. "We are encouraged by the actions so many organizations are taking to reduce deaths, and we applaud legislation that curtails common crash causes such as impairment, distraction and speed. But as a nation, we still need to demonstrate better commitment to saving lives. Roadway deaths can be prevented by doubling down on what works, embracing technology advancements and creating a culture of safer driving."
The Council's estimates do not reveal causation; however, 2018 final data (ii) show continued spikes in deaths among pedestrians, while distraction continues to be involved in 8 percent of crashes, and drowsy driving in an additional 2%.
The National Safety Council has tracked fatality trends and issued estimates for nearly 100 years. All estimates are subject to slight increases and decreases as the data mature. NSC collects fatality data every month from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and uses data from the National Center for Health Statistics, so that deaths occurring within one year of the crash and on both public and private roadways – such as parking lots and driveways – are included in the estimates.
To help ensure safer roads, NSC urges motorists to:
Practice defensive driving. Buckle up, designate a sober driver or arrange alternative transportation, get plenty of sleep to avoid fatigue, and drive attentively, avoiding distractions. Visit nsc.org for defensive driving tips.
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The National Safety Council has issued traffic fatality estimates since 1921. Supplemental estimate information, including estimates for each state, can be found here.
Founded in 1913 and chartered by Congress, the National Safety Council, nsc.org, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate preventable deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy. NSC advances this mission by partnering with businesses, government agencies, elected officials and the public in areas where we can make the most impact – distracted driving, teen driving, workplace safety, prescription drug overdoses and Safe Communities.
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2. Corsets did not create misshapen livers or life-threatening diseases.
Over the years, corsets have been credited with causing a whole litany of health problems. It's been said that they misshape internal organs and cause cancer. Other illnesses attributed to corsets were fake, sexist conditions, like "hysteria." There's also no record of a woman having a rib surgically removed so she could better fit into a corset, which is a particularly absurd myth, given how deadly surgery was in the 1800s.
Of course, they weren't exactly the healthiest things to wear every day, either. They did force organs to shift around, cause indigestion and constipation, and eventually weakened back muscles. And they didn't leave a lot room for pregnant women's fetus-incubating bellies. But deadly they were not. They also didn't prevent women from doing their work—any more than, say, stiletto heels do.
"Most people today think corsets were extremely dangerous and caused all kinds of health problems, from cancer to scoliosis," Steele says. "And that's quite inaccurate. Most of the diseases that have been credited to corsets, in fact, had other causes. Corsets did not cause scoliosis, the crushing of the liver, cancer, or tuberculosis. It doesn't mean that corsets were without any health problems, but it does mean that most modern people are wildly naive in believing the most absurd antiquated medical accusations about corsetry.
"For example, the idea of the misshapen liver seems to be a mistake based on the fact that there is a lot of variation in the shape of livers. When doctors did autopsies, they would see these weird-looking livers and they'd go, 'That was caused by the corset.'"
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Essential tremor is a neurological disorder characterized by shaking of hands (and sometimes other parts of the body including the head), evoked by intentional movements. The exact incidence is unknown, but it is presumed to be the most common type of tremor and also the most commonly observed movement disorder.[citation needed] Essential tremor was also previously known as "benign essential tremor", but the adjective "benign" has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.
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Half of the cases are due to gene mutation and transmitted dominantly. There are two main loci: ETM1 and ETM2.[1] The rest are idiopathic. No identifiable and consistent structural abnormality has yet been demonstrated to exist in the nervous system of every person with ET.
A French kindred study found that the Ser9Gly variant of the dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3) was strongly associated with ET in 23 out of 30 families studied.[2]
Usually the diagnosis is established on clinical grounds. Tremors can start at any age, from birth through advanced ages (senile tremor). Any voluntary muscle in the body may be affected, though it's most commonly seen in the hands and arms and slightly less commonly in the neck (causing the patient's head to shake), eyelids, larynx, tongue, trunk, and legs. A resting tremor of the hands is sometimes present.
ET does sometimes occur in combination with other neurological disorders such as dystonia and benign fasciculation syndrome. However, there is no clear evidence that having ET predisposes a person to one of these disorders.
Essential tremor (ET) generally presents as a rhythmic tremor (4-12Hz) that is present only when the affected muscle is exerting effort (i.e., it is not present at rest). Any sort of physical or mental stress will tend to make the tremor worse, often creating the false impression that the tremor is of psychosomatic origin. It is typical for the tremor to worsen in "performance" situations, such as when making out a check at a checkout stand. ET-related tremors do not occur during sleep, but patients sometimes complain of an especially coarse tremor upon awakening that becomes noticeably less coarse within the first few minutes of wakefulness. Tremor intensity can otherwise worsen in response to fatigue, strong emotions, low blood sugar, cold, caffeine, lithium salts, some antidepressants or other factors.
In disabling cases, ET can interfere with a person's ability to perform tasks of daily living, including feeding, dressing, and activities of personal hygiene.
ET is usually painless, although in some cases tremor of the head or neck causes pain, and writing can become painful quickly for a person with hand tremors who grips a pen tightly in a struggle to maintain control over penmanship.
Sometimes people with ET develop a raspy speaking voice while their ET symptoms worsen over time. When this dysphonia occurs, it is true even in cases where the person's tremor symptoms were first noticeable during early childhood and, so, is unlikely to be related to commonplace reductions in quality that can gradually affect the speaking voices of some elderly people.
People with ET often report a progressive decline in their sense of balance and their fine motor skills.
ET is clearly progressive in most cases (sometimes rapidly, sometimes very slowly), and can be disabling, but significant disability is rare.
Drug treatment may include tranquilizers, beta-blockers, and antiepileptic drugs. Surgical treatments (which are generally reserved for the most severe cases) include botulism toxin injections into the affected muscles, thalamotomy, pallidotomy, and deep brain stimulation – the insertion of a brain pacemaker.
The two medications that are prescribed most commonly for control of ET symptoms are the anticonvulsant Primidone (Mysoline) and the beta-blocker propranolol (Inderal).
Minor cases of ET can be treated with physical therapy and development of the muscles in the sections of the body that are severe in their shaking.
Other potential sources of tremor (excessive caffeine consumption, recreational drug use, medications, hyperthyroidism) should be excluded if possible
The International Essential Tremor Foundation (IETF) provides information, services and support to individuals and families affected by essential tremor (ET). The organization encourages and promotes research in an effort to determine the causes, treatment and ultimately the cure for ET. The IETF is a worldwide organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those whose daily lives are challenged by ET. IETF, an international non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that derives its support entirely from its membership and the general public, was founded in 1988 and is guided by a board of directors and a medical advisory council. The organization's membership consists of patients, physicians, educators, parents, relatives and volunteers who provide education, community services and funding to help support tremor research.
The National Tremor Foundation (NTF), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988. The organisation's primary work is production of a quarterly informational newsletter. The NTF also maintains a list of ITF medical advisors, and facilitates the formation of self-help groups. NTF was granted charitable status in 1994.
Help with Technology
Tunic Software has released software to help people with essential tremor, Parkinson's Disease, and other causes of hand tremor control their computer mouse. Called 'MouseCage', the software automatically smooths mouse cursor motion to reduce the effects of unsteady or shaky hands.- anti-tremor mouse software
IBM created a peripheral device that filters out tremoring movements of the hand. The hardware adapter, termed AMA, is connected between the computer and the input device. It is switched on or off and adjusted for tremor severity right on the device.
IBM also offer a free smoothing mouse driver for windows 2000 and XP which uses the same technology that helps steady the image in a hand held camcorder. See http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/mousesmoothing
Another option is http://www.steadymouse.com/about/
Other tools have also been adapted for people with tremors; for example, eating utensils which are weighted to help damp out tremor.
^ Kovach M, Ruiz J, Kimonis K et al (2001). "Genetic heterogeneity in autosomal dominant essential tremor". Genet Med 3 (3): 197-9. PMID 11388761.
^ Jeanneteau F, Funalot B, Jankovic J, et al. (2006). "A functional variant of the dopamine D3 receptor is associated with risk and age-at-onset of essential tremor". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103 (28): 10753–8. PMID 16809426.
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Inflammatory diseases
of the CNS
Meningitis (Arachnoiditis) - Encephalitis - Myelitis - Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated) - Tropical spastic paraparesis
Systemic atrophies
primarily affecting the CNS
Huntington's disease - Spinocerebellar ataxia (Friedreich's ataxia, Ataxia telangiectasia, Hereditary spastic paraplegia)
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Alzheimer's disease - Pick's disease - Alpers' disease - Dementia with Lewy bodies - Leigh's disease - Multiple sclerosis - Devic's disease - Central pontine myelinolysis - Transverse myelitis
Seizure/epilepsy
Focal (Simple partial, Complex partial) - Generalised (Tonic-clonic, Absence, Atonic, Benign familial neonatal) - Lennox-Gastaut - West - Epilepsia partialis continua - Status epilepticus (Complex partial status epilepticus)
Migraine (Familial hemiplegic) - Cluster - Vascular - Tension
Transient ischemic attack (Amaurosis fugax, Transient global amnesia) - Cerebrovascular disease (MCA, ACA, PCA, Foville's syndrome, Millard-Gubler syndrome, Lateral medullary syndrome, Weber's syndrome, Lacunar stroke)
Insomnia - Hypersomnia - Sleep apnea (Ondine's curse) - Narcolepsy - Cataplexy - Kleine-Levin syndrome - Circadian rhythm sleep disorder - Delayed sleep phase syndrome - Advanced sleep phase syndrome
Hydrocephalus (Normal pressure) - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension - Encephalopathy - Brain herniation - Cerebral edema - Reye's syndrome - Syringomyelia - Syringobulbia - Spinal cord compression
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We bring to you the fourth part of 'What to see in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in 2020'. Dubai is a country that does not really believe in living in the present. The country always aims to bring something that is straight out of the future. And to establish this futuristic philosophy, they are now building the Museum of the Future. The museum is one of the '10 Things to look forward to in UAE 2020!'
The place of future innovation and design, the Museum of the Future opens in Dubai in the mid-2020. It is a part of the ambitious projects under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. These projects will precede the celebrations of Expo 2020 Dubai.
What is Museum of the Future?
Unveiled in 2015, the Museum of the Future is one of the most complex architectural innovations in the world. The opening was due in 2019 but is postponed to 2020.
The museum will be the hub where the latest innovations and prototypes will be tested from the world's biggest technology giants and startups. The future of AI will be tested at the Museum of the Future. Also, you can attend science conferences, specialized workshops, public talks and events there.
Invitations will be sent to fifteen companies to showcase their technology and develop pilot projects. They also compete for some funded projects that will be a part of the museum when it opens.
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it, and execute it. It isn't something you await, but rather create."
-HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai)
See the Future, Create the Future
This is the motto of the Museum of the Future. Over 5 years of temporary exhibitions at the World Global Summit have laid the stepping stone to this mega project.
The Museum of the Future has three underlying themes.
Firstly, it gives us a sneak peek into how robots and Artificial Intelligence can impact and improve the physical abilities and mental capabilities of human beings. The museum gives an insight into New Knees that gives the user superhuman abilities to jump and run. WOW! Where can we sign up to try this one?
Secondly, the relationship between robots and human beings. Have you ever wondered, How does it feel to have robots care for the elderly or Will the relationship between humans? Can robots develop to become identical to the relations between human beings? The museum will have answers to these questions.
Thirdly, the effect of the development of Artificial Intelligence on the management and decision making processes will be tested at the Museum of the Future. It depicts a future where AI will manage your careers and money! Mind-boggling stuff, right?
Architecture beyond imagination!
The architectural world calls the unique shape of the Museum of the Future as a torus with an elliptical void. The local architectural firm, Killa Designs that won the competition to design the museum in 2015 invented the shape. The shape of the building is according to "Feng Shui", in which the solid shape defines what we know now, the knowledge that we have. The void represents the unknown- the future. How insightful!
The aviation industry has provided the technology for the construction of the smooth exterior. The construction required using 890-joint free stainless steel and fiberglass panels. The only horizontal part of the museum will be the floors. Also, the museum will probably have ten levels.
Poetry and art are a major part of the design of the architectural wonder. The exterior features quotes on the future by the Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. You will not believe that these are not mere inscriptions! In fact, these are highly engineered windows. What a unique blend of function and art!
The museum will connect to the Metro Station with an elevated walkway. A bridge will connect the museum to the Emirates Towers.
Location of the Museum of the Future
The museum is located at a prime location, adjacent to the Emirates Towers.
Museum of the Future Ticket Prices
The announcement regarding the ticket prices and timings of the Museum of the Future will be done shortly. We hope!
Keep checking the blog for updates!
While we wait for the Museum of the Future to open, you can visit the Museum of Illusions and Louvre Museum.
Arshi Bansal December 10, 2019
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August 20, 2017 9:39 PM PST
New York Giants' Michael Bowie is facing a misdemeanor domestic violence charge related to allegations he physically assaulted his girlfriend during an argument.
There's a warrant out for his arrest and he has been charged with one count of domestic assault and battery and two counts of malicious injury to property under $1,000.
According to reports, he got into an argument with his girlfriend and things got physical when she made a comment about his mother.
via TulsaWorld:
Bowie, a graduate of Charles Page High School in Sand Springs, finished his college career at Northeastern State University after transferring from Oklahoma State University. He has been an offensive tackle for the Giants since January. Drafted in 2013 as a seventh-round pick, he began his career with the Seattle Seahawks and also had a brief stint with the Cleveland Browns after being waived by Seattle following an injury.
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Elmore said reports about the incident indicate a fight between Bowie and his girlfriend began over finances, but then became physical when Bowie's girlfriend made a remark about his mother.
The Tulsa World does not identify reported victims of domestic violence.
Elmore said police determined Bowie grabbed his girlfriend by the neck during the argument and threw her on the ground, then broke two TVs and punched a hole in her wall.
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73. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery
56. Lette Anti-luftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
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42. Royal Tank Regiment
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26. Bataljon New Zealand Infanteri
9. britiske pansrede brigade Brigade John Currie 35 Sherman, 37 Grant, 46 Crusader =118
3. (The King's Own) Hussars
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Warwickshire Yeomanry
14. Bataljon The Sherwood Foresters
1. sydafrikanske infanteridivision (generalmajor Dan Pienaar)
3. sydafrikanske panservogns rekognosceringsregiment
Regiment President Steyn (Maskingeværbataljon)
2. Regiment Botha
1. Felt Regiment, Cape Felt Artillery, South African Artilleri
4. Felt Regiment, South African Artillery
7. Felt Regiment, South African Artillery
1. Lette Anti-luftskyts Regiment, South African Artillery
1. Anti-tank Regiment, South African Artillery
1. Felt Kompagni, South African Ingeneers
2. Felt Kompagni, South African Ingeneers
3. Felt Kompagni, South African Ingeneers
5. Felt Kompagni, South African Ingeneers
19. Felt Park Kompagni, South African Ingeneers
1. sydafrikanske Divisions Signalenhed
1. sydafrikanske infanteribrigade (brigadegeneral E.P. Hartshorn)
1. Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles
1. Royal Natal Carabineers
1. Transvaal Scottish
2. sydafrikanske infanteribrigade (brigadegeneral Evered Poole)
1. Cape Town Highlanders
1. Natal Mounted Rifles
1./2. Felt styrke Bataljon
3. sydafrikanske Infanteribrigade
1. Imperial Light Horse
1. Rand Light Infanteri
1. Royal Durban Light Infanteri
4. indiske infanteridivision (generalmajor Francis Tuker)
Central India Horse (Rekognoscering)
5. bataljon 6. Rajputana Regiment (maskingevær)
1. Felt Regiment Royal Artilleri
11. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
32. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
149. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery
57. Lette anti-luftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
4. Felt Kompagni, Bengal Sappers and Miners
12. Felt Kompagni, Madras Sappers and Miners
21. Felt Kompagni, Bombay Sappers and Miners
11. Felt Park Kompagni,Madras Sappers and Miners
4. Indiske Divisions Signalenhed
5. indiske infanteribrigade (brigadegeneral Dudley Russell)
1/4 bataljon The Essex Regiment
4. bataljon (Outram's) 6. Rajputana Rifles
3. bataljon Queen Mary's Own 10th Baluch Regiment
7. indiske infanteribrigade (brigadegeneral Alan Holworthy)
1. bataljon The Royal Sussex Regiment
4. bataljon 16. Punjab Regiment
1. bataljon 2. King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles
161. indiske infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral Francis E.C. Hughes)
1. Bataljon Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
1. Bataljon 1. Punjab Regiment
4. Bataljon 7. Rajput Rifles
XIII Britiske Korps
Under kommando af generalløjtnant Brian Horrocks
577. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
578. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
576. Felt Park Kompagni Royal Engineers
13. Korps Signalenhed
50. Britiske Infanteri Division (Generalmajor John Nichols)
2. Bataljon Cheshire Regiment (maskingevær Bataljon)
74. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
111. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
124. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
154. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
102. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery
34. Lette Anti-luftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
233. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
505. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
235. Felt Park Kompagni Royal Engineers
50 Northumbrian Division Signalenhed
1. Græske infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral Pausanias Katsotas)
1. Infanteribataljon
2. Infanteribataljon
3. Infanteribataljon
1. Artilleri Regiment
1. Maskingeværkompagni
1 Ingeniørkompagni
151 Britiske Infanteribrigade (tilknyttet 2. New Zealand Division 29. oktober – 3. november)
(Brigadegeneral Joscelyn E.S. Percy)
6. Bataljon Durham Light Infanteri
8. Bataljon Durham Light Infanteri
9. Bataljon Durham Light Infanteri
69. Britiske infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral Edward C. Cooke-Collis)
5. Bataljon East Yorkshire Regiment
6. Bataljon Green Howards
7. Bataljon Green Howards
44 Britiske Infanteridivision (Generalmajor Ivor T.P.Hughes)
44. Rekognoscerings Bataljon
6. Bataljon Cheshire Regiment (maskingevær Bataljon)
53. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
57. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
58. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
65. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
57. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery
30. Lette Anti-luftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
11. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
209. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
210. Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
211. Felt Park Kompagni Royal Engineers
44. Home Counties Division Signalenhed
132. britiske infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral Lashmer Whistler)
4. Bataljon The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
5. Bataljon The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
2. Bataljon The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
7. Britiske pansrede division (Generalmajor John Harding)
1. Household Cavalry Regiment
11. Hussars [under kommando af 4. Pansrede Brigade]
2. Derbyshire Yeomanry [under kommando af 8. Pansrede Division]
3. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
4. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
97. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
65. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery
15. Light Anti-luftluftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
4. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
21. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
143. Felt Park Eskadron Royal Engineers
7. Pansrede Divisions Signalenhed
4. Britiske let Pansrede Brigade (Brigadegeneral Marcus G. Roddick) 57 Stuart, 14 Grant –71 Kampvogne
Royal Scots Greys
4./8. Hussars
1. Bataljon King's Royal Rifle Corps
22. Britiske pansrede brigade (Brigadegerneral George "Pip" Roberts) 57 Grant, 46 Crusader, 19 Stuart-122 Kampvogne
1. Royal Tank Regiment
5. Royal Tank Regiment
4. County of London Yeomanry
1. Bataljon Rifle Brigade
131. infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral William Donovan Stamer)
1/5 Bataljon Queens Regiment
1/6 Bataljon Queens Regiment
1/7 Bataljon Queens Regiment
1. Frie franske brigade (brigadegeneral Marie Pierre Koenig)
2. Bataljon Fremmedlegionen
3. Bataljon Fremmedlegionen
1. March Bataljon
1 Artilleriregiment
X Britiske Korps
Under kommando af generalløjtnant Herbert Lumsden
571 Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
572 Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
573 Felt Kompagni Royal Engineers
570 Felt Park Kompagni Royal Engineers
10 Korps Signalenhed
1. britiske pansrede division (Generalmajor Raymond Briggs)
12. Royal Lancers
4/6 Sydafrikanske panservogns Regiment
2. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
4. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
11. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery [fra 8. Pansrede Division]
76. Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artilleri
42. Lette Anti-luftskyts Regiment Royal Artillery
1. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
7. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
1. Felt Park Eskadron Royal Engineers
1. Pansrede Divisions Signalenhed
2. britiske pansrede brigade ( Brigadegeneral Arthur Fisher 92 Sherman, 68 Crusader-160 Kampvogne
2. Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
9. Queen's Royal Lancers
10. Royal Hussars
Yorkshire Dragoons
7. britiske motoriserede brigade (Brigadegeneral Thomas J. Bosville)
2. Bataljon Kings Royal Rifle Corps
2. Bataljon Rifle Brigade
7. Bataljon Rifle Brigade
10.britiske pansrede division (Generalmajor Alexander Gatehouse
Royal Dragoons
1. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
5. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (tilknyttet fra 8. Pansrede Division)
104. Felt Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (tilknyttet fra 8. Pansrede Division)
98. Felt Regiment Royal Artillery
84. Anti-tankregiment Royal Artillery
53. Lette Anti-luftskytsregiment Royal Artillery
2. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
3. Felt Eskadron Royal Engineers
141. Felt Park Eskadron Royal Engineers
10 Pansrede Divisions Signalenhed
8. britiske Pansrede Brigade (Brigadegeneral Edward C.N. Custance)45 Crusader, 57 Grant, 31 Sherman-133 Kampvogne
3. Royal Tank Regiment
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
Staffordshire Yeomanry
24. britiske pansrede brigade (Brigadegeneral Arthur G. Kenchington) 93 Sherman, 45 Crusader=138 Kampvogne
41 Royal Tank Regiment
45 Royal Tank Regiment
47 Royal Tank Regiment
11 Bataljon Kings Royal Rifle Corps
133. britiske infanteribrigade (Brigadegeneral Alec W. Lee)
2. Bataljon, The Royal Sussex Regiment
4. Bataljon, The Royal Sussex Regiment
5. Bataljon, The Royal Sussex Regiment
Panzer Armee Afrika
(Feltmarskal Erwin Rommel, Georg Stumme ved slagets start i Rommels fravær)
Tropper fra hæren
90. tyske lette infanteridivision (Generalmajor Ernst Strecker)
155. PanzerGrenadier Regiment (med 707. tunge Infanteri Kanonkompagni)
200. PanzerGrenadier Regiment (med 708. tunge Infanteri Kanonkompagni)
361. PanzerGrenadier Regiment (tidligere franske fremmedlegionærer af tysk herkomst)
190. Artilleriregiment
190. Anti-tankbataljon
under kommando: Styrke 288 (PanzerGrenadier Regiment 'Afrika', de tre nedennævnte bataljoner er ikke en del af denne 8-10 kompagniers detachement)
605. Anti-tank Bataljon
109. Anti-luftskytsbataljon
606. Anti-luftskytsbataljon
164. tyske lette infanteridivision (Generalløjtnant Carl-Hans Lungershausen)
125. Infanteriregiment
382. Infanteriregiment
433. Infanteriregiment
220. Artilleriregiment
220. Ingeniørbataljon
220. Cyklist enhed
609. Anti-luftskytsbataljon
Ramcke faldskærmsbrigade (Generalmajor Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke)
En bataljon fra hver af 2., 3. og yderligere et faldskærmsregiment
Uddannelsesbataljon Burkhardt
Faldskærmsartilleribatteri
Faldskærms anti-tankbataljon
Tyske Afrika Korps
(Generalløjtnant Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma)
15. tyske Panzer Division (Generalmajor Gustav von Vaerst)
8. Panzer Regiment
115. PanzerGrenadier Regiment
33. Artilleriregiment
33. Anti-Kampvognsbataljon
33. Ingeniørbataljon
21. tyske Panzer division (Generalmajor Heinz von Randow)
5. Panzer Regiment
104. PanzerGrenadier Regiment
155. Artilleriregiment
39. Anti-tankbataljon
200. Ingeniørbataljon
Italienske Arme i Afrika
(Marskal Ettore Bastico)
(Note: Bortset fra Pistoia divisionen og tropperne i bagområderne, havde den Italienske hærs hovedkvarter i Afrika kun administrativ kontrol over de italienske styrker. Alle italienske styrker var under taktisk kontrol af Rommels Panzer Armee Afrika.)
Pistoia Division
35. Infanteriregiment
36. Infanteriregiment
3. Motoriserede Artilleriregiment
?? Bersaglieri Bataljon
Giovani Fascisti (Ungfascisterne) Division
2 Infanteribataljoner
X Italienske Korps
(Generalløjtnant Edoardo Nebba; Generalajor Enrico Frattini havde midlertidigt kommandoen indtil den 26. oktober)
9. Bersaglieri Regiment
16. Korps Artillerigruppe
8. Arme Artillerigruppe
27. italienske infanteridivision Brescia (Generalmajor Brunetto Brunetti)
19. Infanteriregiment
20. Infanteriregiment
1. Selvkørende Artilleriregiment
27. Blandede Ingeniørregiment
17. italienske infanteridivision Pavia (Brigadegeneral N. Scattaglia)
27. Infanteriregiment
28. Infanteriregiment
26. Artilleriregiment
17. Blandede Ingeniørbataljon
185. italienske Faldskærmsdivision Folgore (Generalmajor Enrico Frattini)
185. Faldskærmsregiment
186. Faldskærmsregiment
187. Faldskærmsregiment
185. Faldskærmsartilleriregiment
XX italienske Korps
(Generalløjtnant Giuseppi de Stephanis)
8. Arme Artillerigruppe (del)
90. Ingeniørkompagni
132 italienske pansrede division Ariete (Major General Francesco Arena)
132. Pansrederegiment
8. Bersaglieri Regiment (motoriseret)
132. Artilleri Regiment (motoriseret)
3. Bataljon Lancieri de Novara
3. Bataljon Nizza Cavalleria
32. Blandede Ingeniørbataljon (motoriseret)
133. italienske pansrede division Littorio (Major General G. Bitossi)
133. Kampvognsregiment
5. Bersaglieri Infanteriregiment
3. Artilleriregiment
133. Artilleriregiment (del)
3. Kampvognsgruppe Lancieri di Novara
101. italienske motoriserede division Trieste (Brigadegeneral Francisco La Ferla)
11. Kampvognsrataljon
65. Infanteriregiment
6. Infanteriregiment
21. Artilleriregiment
8. Pansrede Bersagliereregiment
52. Blandede Artilleribataljon
XXI Italienske Korps
(Generalløjtnant Enea Navarini; generalmajor Alessandro Gloria havde midlertidigt kommandoen indtil 26. oktober)
7. Bersaglieriregiment
24. Korps Artillerirruppe
8. Arme Artillerirruppe (del)
102. italienske motoriserede division Trento (Brigadegeneral Giorgio Masina)
61. Infanteriregiment
62. Infanteriregiment
46. Artilleriregiment
25. italienske infanteri division Bologna (Generalmajor Giorgio Masina)
39. Infanteriregiment
40. Infanteriregiment
205. Artilleriregiment
25. Ingeniørbataljon
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We saw ducks and slugs and fossils and dragonflies as we walked along the River Dove from Milldale to Dovedale. We found some strange money trees and even spotted the Gruffalo's cave. It was a bit tricky crossing the river but we made it just in time for ice-cream.
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50 days after Easter, we celebrate Pentecost. God sent the Holy Spirit to the disciples to fill them with all the gifts they would need to do the job He had asked them to do – to tell everyone in the world the good news that Jesus is alive and he loves each one of us.
We wrote our prayers on the symbols of the Holy Spirit.
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Year 1 and 2 have been learning all about plants. They decided to open their own Garden Centre to show us what they had found out. Here are some pictures of the grand opening. The children were wonderful hosts and looked after their visitors very well. They even made soup and fruit kebabs for us.
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On 1st May Canon Pat Browne came to St Vincent's to officially present Father Solomon to the parish and install him as the parish priest. The children sang beautifully. The Eritrean community sang and danced……and Father Solomon joined them on his drum. At the party afterwards there was an Eritrean coffee ceremony – it smelt delicious!
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Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt o Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt (en hongarès: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert) (Budapest, Imperi austrohongarès 1893 - Woods Hole, EUA 1986) fou un metge nord-americà, d'origen hongarès, guardonat amb el Premi Nobel de Medicina o Fisiologia l'any 1937.
Biografia
Va néixer el 16 de setembre de 1893 a la ciutat de Budapest, en aquells moments ciutat situada a l'Imperi austrohongarès però que avui dia és la capital d'Hongria. Va iniciar els seus estudis de medicina a la Universitat de Budapest, avorrit d'aquests inicià la seva recerca al laboratori químic del seu oncle però els hagué d'interrompre durant la Primera Guerra Mundial on serví com a metge. Durant la Gran Guerra es disparà un tret al peu per tal d'abandonar el front, cosa que li permeté finalitzar els seus estudis l'any 1917.
Després de fugir d'Hongria l'any 1947 s'instal·là als Estats Units, d'on fou nomenat ciutadà l'any 1955. Va morir el 22 d'octubre de 1986 a la ciutat de Woods Hole, situada a l'estat nord-americà de Massachusetts.
Recerca científica
Inicià la seva recerca a la ciutat de Pozsony, avui dia anomenada Bratislava. Quan la ciutat es va convertir en part de Txecoslovàquia el gener de 1919, ell va abandonar la ciutat alhora que la major part de població d'origen hongarès.
Posteriorment desenvolupà la seva recerca a la Universitat de Groningen, centrant-se en la química de la respiració cel·lular. Aquests treballs i gràcies a la Fundació Rockefeller li van permetre viatjar fins a la Universitat de Cambridge, on es va doctorar el 1927 gràcies a uns treballs que li van permetre aïllar l'"àcid hexurònic", avui dia denominat Vitamina C.
Posteriorment a la Universitat de Szeged va utilitzar "paprika" com a font de vitamina C (el L-enantiòmer de l'àcid ascòrbic) i es va adonar de la seva activitat anti-escorbútica. L'any 1937 fou guardonat amb el Premi Nobel de Medicina o Fisiologia per les seves investigacions en relació amb els processos de combustió biològica, en especial els referents a la vitamina C.
Durant la Segona Guerra Mundial va participar activament en la Resistència hongaresa. Encara que Hongria s'alià amb les potències de l'Eix, el primer ministre hongarès Miklós Kállay va enviar Szent-Györgyi a la ciutat d'Istanbul l'any 1944 per tal de negociar en secret amb els Aliats.
Adolf Hitler va dictar una autorització per a la detenció de Szent-Györgyi, però aquest s'escapà de la Gestapo i va romandre amagat dos anys. Després de la guerra recuperà el seu crèdit i fins i tot s'especulà amb la possibilitat que els soviètics l'anomenessin primer ministre, s'afilià al Partit Comunista d'Hongria i fou escollit membre del Parlament alhora que creà el Laboratori de Bioquímica de la Universitat de Budapest i restablí l'Acadèmia de Ciències d'Hongria. Descontent amb el sistema comunista va emigrar als Estats Units l'any 1947.
Durant la seva estada als Estats Units va crear el seu propi laboratori a Woods Hole, Massachusetts, i inicià la seva recerca al voltant del càncer i desenvolupant teories sobre física quàntica a la bioquímica d'aquesta malaltia. Durant la dècada del 1970 la seva recerca el va conduir a deduir que els radicals lliures esdevenien una causa potencial del càncer.
Vegeu també
Charles Glen King
Enllaços externs
Pàgina de l'Institut Nobel, Premi Nobel de Medicina 1937
Metges estatunidencs
Premis Nobel de Medicina o Fisiologia
Alumnes del Fitzwilliam College
Morts a Massachusetts
Morts d'insuficiència renal
Metges hongaresos
Científics de Budapest
Naixements del 1893 |
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I notice the profound effect of the triangle in this vision. the base wide at the bottom. it speaks to me of great energy that, like the lotus, is supported for growth here – grounded. reaching an apex as it rises. it is good. peace and blessings on your continued growth!
The triangle is the most stable shape for construction. Might this offer stability along the spiritual path?
Yes, the triangle was profound, and while I don't know what it all means yet, I do believe you are both right in your sharing about stable, grounded, supported. And FROM THERE came the lotus stem, and bud, rising. I felt upon waking that I had just missed the opening of the lotus blossom, which must be in some way related to my life with Meher Baba, happening in me now.
"Books and discourses will never bring about one's spiritual regeneration. The mind cannot be annihilated by the mind, just as one cannot jump over oneself. Only by loving me as I ought to be loved can the mind be destroyed. Anyone may have love for me, but not the love I want.
"My lovers may be likened to one who is fond of lions and admires them so much that he keeps a lion in his own home. But, feeling afraid of the lion, he puts it in a cage. The lion is always kept caged, even while he feeds it; he feeds the pet from a distance, standing outside the cage.
Yes, the cover by Najma Carter. In another reference to your dream old egypt viewed the lotus as a symbol of creation and rebirth… One version of Osiris depicts him as a God in human form who is murdered and cut into 14 pieces. Isis gathers him and resurrects him and later after death he become the God of the afterlife represented by the 14 stars that make up the constellation of Orion. After death Egyptians hoped to meet Osiris in a boat and be taken through the Duat. Orion was seen as a ladder to the milky way, river of life, Goddess Nut and rebirth in the afterlife. Meher Baba could be seen as a modern day Osiris with his promise to meet you in the afterlife if you take his name with your final breath. Osiris was also know as the Lord of Love and the Lord of Silence. Hmmm. Meher Baba made a comment that the coming awakening had something to due with earths position and the Ompoint. Well, the location of Ompoint for the universe is still unknown, but the practical Ompoint for our solar system is the Orion Nebula. About 1400 light years away. But these days I have my eye on the link between Orion and that celestial triangle which lies about 700 hundred light years away. This is not an if but more of a when………..
Also this, Meher Baba said the inner-circle of the Avatar is 12 men and 2 women = 14. Maybe the 14 parts of Osiris corresponds to the inner circle of the Avatar (and Perfect Masters)?
The unfoldment of life and consciousness for the whole Avataric cycle, which has been mapped out in the creative world before the Avatar took form, is endorsed and fixed in the formative and material worlds during the Avatar's life on earth.
How does the beautiful quote from Meher Baba relate to that dream? Thoughts, feelings?
Vishnu, the one dreamer, passes in and out of time as Rama and then as Meher Baba shaping and adjusting the dream as it likes. With this process in mind I feel your dream is pointing to the star of osiris which could be renamed Mary Pickford.
Indeed and please say more about Mary P.
I hope this makes you smile for this should be the humor of the legend. Mary Pickford was the silent movie star who eventually did speak. Being this star she was to introduce God at the Hollywood Bowl who being silent for a long time would release a transmission of love over the radio. Not long after this time this is fulfilled through the fantasy of film. In Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove Mary Pickford introduces the beloved one played by Bing Crosby who then sings a song of love through the microphone. Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove completed Mary Pickfords film career and you can find it on YouTube.
Here is a riddle about Vishnu. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""` It is a star with two mouths, a star like Shyam.
There is air above, all good below.
He is exceptional; he killed himself! Whose beloved is he?
He who explains the meaning of this will be like Alexander and Dara!
By location King Osiris will give his explanation and the natural event will speak for itself. This also expresses to me a creational story: Stars kill themselves so minds can be born. Minds kill themselves so I can know who I am without the other.
Hi P. Haan, I answered this riddle in my diary.
Want to hear my answer?
A star, a soul of God, all bodies, a second mouth to eat it's own mouth!
As a man on Earth, the Avatar, air is above.
Seeing clearly the Truth, all is a degree of good. Evil is an illusion.
He killed his false ego without the help of a Master for he was (became) the first Master. |
Half a century ago, Porirua officially became a city. And it celebrated its milestone in style, culminating with the 50th Anniversary Awards Dinner honouring 50 of the city's residents "who have helped make Porirua the city it is today".
A crowd of more than 660 filled the city's Te Rauparaha Arena to celebrate the milestone bursting with colour and energy in song, dance and creative cultural fashion. Ruth Pretty Catering was proud to cater this celebration, which concluded a month of local events.
"The Te Rauparaha Arena is an incredibly good venue, with very modern technology and facilities for conferences and events. I am most interested in the kitchen of course," Ruth smiled, "and this is large, well equipped and easy to use even for such a big dinner. With two Whitireia Hospitality tutors, 11 international hospitality students joined our large food and beverage team for the evening.
Local chocolate icon Whittaker's came to the party in all sense of the word. They created a special Anniversary Edition block of Creamy Milk chocolate, as a gift at each place setting.
"I was worried guests would go for the chocolate and not eat their dinner!" joked Ruth.
The menu (click here) was planned around the entertainment and awards, so detailed organisation and careful timing were critical for food and service. We catered for a range of special dietary requirements, which is the norm these days. The students did well in a pressured situation.
The Arena looked very dramatic with creative high-tech lighting, and the tables were imaginatively presented in blues and silvers, highlighting 50. They were created by Robert Baldock, the Council's Events and Sponsorship Manager. We were very impressed, and so were the guests.
We were very pleased to receive thanks from the Porirua events team andTe Rauparaha Arena "for the positive and fantastic contribution you all made to the 50th Anniversary Awards evening.
The feedback from the community is unparalleled and most are quite stunned at the production and entertainment delivery. Comments like " best ever" were common.
Feedback also mentioned the high quality food, presentation and service which was expected of Wellington's best caterer.
This was a first class delivery you all made and we hope you are proud of what we all achieved through a high level of professionalism.
A personal note from Robert the event co-ordinator was greatly appreciated " We hired the best and received the best".
The 2013 Census revealed Porirua as New Zealand's 10th biggest city as well as having the third highest per capita household income of any council in New Zealand. As Mayor Nick Leggett said, " Our first 50 years has seen us on the path to growth, community enrichment, and has shown everyone that we are not only a great place to live, but that we as a city, with a fabulously diverse community have so much more potential to realize in the next 50 years". |
Contributors to Tsss Tapes Free Percussion comp put their respective allsorts to work on what is the label's inaugural release. Based in Granada, Spain, Tsss is a "tape label for quiet, textural, weird sounds." The comp knocks to life with Claire Rousay precision, then shifts into metallic crab territory from Rie Nakajimi. Seems like ball bearings are pattering on Chris Dadge's kit while Hakon Berre gets a great dull-shears-cut-cans effect out of who knows what.
Can't say enough about how well this tape is sequenced, often alternating between playing on what probably is a drum set, and what probably isn't. For every Ted Byrnes continual junk-drawer overturn there's a pinpoint flourish from Simon Camatta. For every atmospheric piece from Will Guthrie or João Lobo, there's a gnaw-fest from Tim Daisy. There's the aggregated density of Kevin Cocoran's snare drums and bells, Skyler Rowe's wave/particle exchanges, Francesco Covarino's saturated rattlings.
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