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Link Between Sports Injuries, Brain Damage
Many athletes at risk of developing deadly, lifelong health problems
Seattle personal injuryInjuries are a part of sports. Every fan and every athlete knows that. But in far too many cases, that understanding has given rise to a culture where the long-term dangers of many injuries are ignored. Athletes are taught to “shake it off” and push through injuries in order to get back in the game as quickly as possible, even when doing so is detrimental to their health.
This attitude is extremely dangerous when it’s applied to head and brain injuries, such as concussions.
In recent years, concussions have been in the news largely because of several high-profile cases involving professional football players. But the dangers of concussions go far beyond football. Nearly every sport or recreational activity carries with it some risk of a head injury, and because there is still much to learn about the way the brain responds to trauma, every case needs to be handled with care and support – not the cavalier attitude that is so prevalent in sports.
Winter sports can put athletes in dangerous position
Many sports can be dangerous. This time of year, the risk of a head injury involving winter action sports, such as skiing and snowboarding, can become elevated. That’s why it’s important for skiers and snowboarders to be more aware of the risks of a serious head injury.
But far too many winter athletes aren’t aware of the dangers sometimes associated with their sport. And awareness of head injuries involving skiers and snowboarders has lagged behind other sports, according to a recent article about concussion awareness among winter action sports athletes.
Winter athletes often lack the support of a team or league that is at least ostensibly looking out for their best interests. In sports that don’t draw a great deal of media attention, unlike the “Big Four” of baseball, basketball, football and hockey, competition is intense because very few successful athletes are ever rewarded. The consequences of missing even a single event due to a head injury can be career-threatening, and too many athletes feel as though they have to ignore their injuries and press forward.
Compounding the problem is that the consequences of brain injury are so complex and affect every victim differently. Much research has shown that repeated blows to the head can cause a progressive, degenerative condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), with debilitating symptoms such as depression, dementia, insomnia and memory loss. But because those cumulative impacts only permanently affect a minority of the population – and there is no way of knowing which athletes are at risk – it’s easy for symptoms to be ignored or overlooked.
Treatment, care for brain injuries still evolving
Plenty of progress has been made in recent years in terms of effectively treating sports concussions, but there is still much to be done. For instance, the current standard of care recommends strict rest until concussion symptoms completely disappear. But new research, as the Seattle Times reports, suggests that resuming light physical activity, such as walking or swimming, may actually help to avoid lingering symptoms – the authors speculate that this may be due to increased blood flow to the brain.
At the same time, it remains critically important to remove the athlete from the sport or activity that caused the initial concussion until cleared to return by a doctor. This is due to the danger of second impact syndrome, a rare but potentially deadly condition that involves rapid and catastrophic swelling of the brain. In Washington, young athletes are protected from second impact syndrome by the Zackery Lystedt Law, which our law firm was involved in creating. Similar laws have since been enacted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
What is clear is that every brain injury is unique, and that means every injured athlete needs to be treated with care and caution. Two people who sustain exactly the same injury may have completely different symptoms. The best practice is to take every concussion seriously, exercise caution, encourage athletes to come forward with their injuries and never tell an injured person that he or she is “faking it” or needs to “shake it off.”
We owe it to athletes, especially young athletes, to do better.
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Janet Jackson shares 1st photo of baby boy
ByCNN
Janet Jackson posted the first photo of her son, Eissa, on social media and her website.
Fans got a first glimpse of Janet Jackson's baby boy, Eissa, via the pop star's website and social media on Friday.
"My baby and me after nap time," Jackson wrote in the photo she shared that shows her hugging Eissa while he yawns.
Jackson, 50, and her husband, Wissam Al Mana, welcomed their first child in January after a "stress-free healthy delivery," a representative for the singer said.
Last year, Jackson announced that she was postponing her tour amid speculation that she was pregnant.
"I thought it was important that you be the first to know," she said in a video. "My husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour."
Jackson then went under the radar, though she was spotted shopping in September and appeared to be pregnant in photos published by "Entertainment Tonight" on the show's website.
The singer publicly confirmed the she was expecting in an interview with People in October.
"We thank God for our blessing," she told the publication.
There are reports the superstar singer split from her husband of five years shortly after giving birth to their son.
Jackson's representatives have not commented on the current state of her marriage to Al Mana, a Qatari businessman.
(The-CNN-Wire & 2017 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
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FDA Recommends Limits to High-Dose Zocor
FDA review finds increased risk of muscle damage, kidney failure.
ByLARA SALAHI
June 9, 2011 — -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended limiting high doses of a widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug called simvastatin -- commonly known as Zocor -- after reviewing the results of a clinical trial that found a higher risk of muscle damage compared to patients taking lower doses of the statin.
The use of the 80-mg dose of Zocor, the highest approved dose of the drug, can harm muscles and potentially cause deadly kidney damage, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.
The new recommendation applies only to what the FDA estimates to be 2 million Americans who in 2010 were prescribed 80 milligram doses of simvastatin in one form or another -- whether as Zocor or its generic equivalent, or in the combination statin drugs Vytorin and Simcor.
The most common side effects of Zocor include muscle pain, tenderness and weakness. While rare, more serious side effects include muscle damage that can lead to liver disease and kidney failure. Five out of every 100,000 people taking Zocor for a year experienced the effects, according to the FDA.
Statins, including Zocor, have been shown to dramatically lower bad cholesterol in patients with heart disease and diabetes. But many doctors say they've known long before this warning of its potential dangers. And, some said, an FDA recommendation for a warning label is a necessary next step.
"It's about time," said Lynn Willis, professor of the department of pharmacology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. "I'm of the view that the muscle pain induced by Zocor occurs with much greater frequency than we would think."
Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic referenced an editorial he wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2004 citing potential dangers of the high dose medication.
"It takes the FDA a long time to make these decisions," said Nissen. "Unfortunately it takes time to sort through the evidence."
Many doctors said they already switch to other kinds of statins, including Crestor and Lipitor, if a patient requires a higher dose. The drugs were not among those shown to raise the risk of muscle damage.
"The more we study drugs in a systematic fashion and conduct surveillance, the more we find out," said Dr. John McPherson, a clinical cardiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
McPherson is among many researchers at Vanderbilt who are looking into specific genes that can show if a patient is at risk for complications from Zocor before they are even put on the drug.
Many heart patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now undergo genetic tests before they are prescribed any kind of heart medications, including statins.
"An abnormal copy of the gene can affect how we metabolize drugs," said Dr. Russell A. Wilke, director of genomics and cardiometobolic risk at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "We are using genetic tests to reduce the frequency of statin-related side effects.
"We can know at the point of prescribing," Wilke said, adding that doctors can get test results within 24 hours.
Doctors can also determine how a patient might react to high-dose Zocor by looking at other drugs a patient is taking, his or her age, and family history.
Only patients who have been taking the 80-mg dose for 12 months or longer without signs of muscle damage should continue to take Zocor, the FDA recommended.
Patients should not stop taking their medication unless told by a doctor to do so.
"Certainly, many of these patients will be cut down to lower dose to stay within guidelines," Vanderbilt's McPherson said. "We'll also consider moving to other statins that aren't as high risk."
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What is webmail?
Posted on November 25, 2022 by DomainRooster
Webmail is an alternative to using a dedicated email software that allows you to send and receive email directly from inside a web browser. Webmail allows you to check your email from any computer, smartphone, or tablet, which is convenient if you’re always on the move. Emails are kept on the servers of webmail, ISP, and hosting providers like Gmail, Comcast, and GoDaddy when they are sent or received. When you use webmail, you connect to your email through the servers of your service provider. Messages may be sent and received from any device, as long as they have access to the internet. To accomplish this, simply visit a website that asks for your email address as authentication.
When you use webmail, your messages are stored permanently on the server of your service provider. You can’t access your webmail if you don’t have access to the internet or if your service provider’s servers are down. Email clients, such as Outlook, save messages locally on your computer or a local server. You can check your inbox anytime you choose, online or not.
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At the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation, we believe all children deserve access to fresh, healthy food. From school garden support organizations to school-based food pantries, or youth cooking programs to youth farmers markets, our partners provide the access, as well as the tools, knowledge and resources, to start kids on a path of healthy living.
Through Seed to Table programming, our partners lead students through the plant life cycle, culminating in the tasting and cooking of garden-fresh produce. Science, math, and writing lessons come to life in the garden as students observe the plants, and important topics, like nutrition, are woven into the curriculum, too. When garden education is then coupled with culinary training, and kids are taught how to prepare healthy meals on their own, they are empowered with the tools needed to encourage lifelong healthy eating habits.
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation was established to empower individuals to live healthier lives.
The Foundation donated $50,000 to No Kid Left Behind, funding a school breakfast program for low-income students in California and healthy cooking classes for families in Colorado.
The Foundation raised $430,000 for Vitamin Angels to help combat childhood malnutrition around the world through vitamin supplementation.
The first learning garden with REAL School Gardens was built at Jerry Junkins Elementary School in Dallas, Texas with the support of funding from the Foundation.
The first Visionary Partners golf tournament was held with Sprouts' vendors and partners participating to raise funds to help shift the landscape of health in our society.
The Neighborhood Grants program launched, donating more than $400,000 to 54 local nonprofit organizations that directly benefit the neighborhoods where Sprouts team members and shoppers live, work and play.
The Foundation awarded $500,000 to REAL School Gardens to fund 13 new learning gardens and the creation of a nutrition curriculum for students.
REAL School Gardens built its second learning garden at Regan Elementary School in Dallas, Texas with funding from the Foundation.
The Foundation awarded $225,000 to Soil Born Farms in Sacramento, Calif. to support school-based nutrition education and gardening programs at 10 low-income schools.
Denver Urban Gardens received $500,000 from the Foundation to create 10 new community gardens and Youth Farm Stands at multiple schools in Denver, Colo.
Teachers in North Carolina began piloting the Foundation's and REAL School Gardens' nutrition curriculum with students at seven elementary schools.
The Foundation awarded $430,000 in Neighborhood Grants to 58 local nonprofit organizations.
The Foundation awarded $150,000 to support Spaces of Opportunity, an 18-acre community farm in Phoenix, Ariz.
The Foundation’s annual in-store Round Up for Children’s Health & Nutrition Education raises a record-setting $315,000. Proceeds from the round up helped fund local Neighborhood Grants in the states where the dollars were raised.
The Foundation announces a three-year partnership with the College of Natural Sciences at University of Texas at Austin to support hands-on cooking and nutrition curriculum as an intervention for childhood obesity.
The Foundation announces $2.2 million in donations to 130 organizations specializing in children’s health and nutrition.
Sprouts hosts its first Day of Service uniting more than 500 team members in 28 communities to volunteer.
The Foundation awarded Life Lab, a pioneer in school gardening, with a multi-year gift of $650,000 to increase organizational capacity and enhance in-person learning opportunities for school garden support organizations.
The Healthy Communities Grant launched, providing $50,000 to $100,000 grants to four leading school garden support organizations. The recipients, located in Baltimore, Tampa, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, offer hands-on garden education to children.
The in-store Round Up for Children’s Health and Nutrition campaign raised $422,490, exceeding the previous record by more than $100,000. All donations were awarded back into the community where they were raised through the Neighborhood Grant program.
Foundation Impact Partners, Out Teach and UT Austin, collaborate on their first outdoor learning garden with the help of Sprouts Team Members at Casey Elementary School in Austin, Texas.
Sage Garden Project was awarded a $375,000 Impact Grant to expand their mobile cooking cart program, bringing nutrition education to 38 Title I schools across San Diego. Each student receives lessons in gardening, harvesting and preparing simple, healthy meals.
The Foundation awarded $720,000 in Neighborhood Grants to 120 nonprofit partners. This included six organizations in new states for Sprouts, in Louisiana, New Jersey and Virginia.
More than 650 team members volunteered at the second annual Sprouts Day of Service. A total of 2,600 volunteer hours were donated in just one morning!
In response to COVID-19, the Foundation supports Resiliency Garden efforts in cities across the US. In Colorado, Sprouts funds the creation of 500 home gardening kits with Denver Urban Gardens, enabling families to grow their own food through the summer and fall.
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation supports a variety of nonprofit partners, from those working at the community level to those operating nationwide. With the size and scope of programs varying widely, we offer three levels of grants to meet our partners’ unique needs.
Neighborhood Grant: A one-year grant up to $10,000. Recipients often support a single community, and funding is allocated to one program.
Healthy Communities Grant: A two-year grant, between $50,000 and $100,000. Funding supports the development and implementation of new programs, allowing organizations to serve a greater number of people.
Impact Grant: Three-year grants of varying amounts, determined by the scale of our partners’ programs. Recipients are considered experts in their field, and their programs often span across cities and states, uplifting entire communities, providing nutrition education and food access programs, or producing critical research on these important topics.
Learn more about our grant opportunities here.
Knowledge Network
As we all work towards a common goal, of increasing nutrition education and fresh food access, it is our collective impact producing the greatest results. With this in mind, the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation aims to connect nonprofit partners sharing in this work, exchanging best practices and resources to empower us all.
Through in-person and virtual events, we are creating a Knowledge Network, bringing experts in the field of school and community gardening together to help advance the movement. With years of experience, these organizations build upon each other’s great work, taking the most effective programming and bringing it to their own communities.
Our team members at Sprouts Farmers Market love serving their customers and community, and for many of them, their desire to give back extends beyond the store. That’s why we launched the Sprouts Annual Day of Service. On the first Saturday of November, team members nationwide partner with local nonprofits to give back, cleaning up parks and gardens, packing emergency food bags, and showing that “goodness grows” in their community.
See Pictures from Our 2021 Day of Service
The 2021 Day of Service brought together 700 Sprouts team members in 50 events, donating 2,500 service hours in just one day!
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Tag: sexual activity
Cannabis and sex: how to improve sexual desire?
admin November 21, 2021 May 10, 2022
A lot of people would agree that sex and cannabis are a great combination. Thanks to scientific research, let’s see if cannabis is an aphrodisiac. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11939 | {"url": "https://acbdnews.com/tag/sexual-activity/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "acbdnews.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:DQZ2UFH5QH3RV6J7SPCPQJ6M3AB6JDID"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 252, 252.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 252, 1560.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 252, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 252, 56.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 252, 0.91]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 252, 230.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 252, 4.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 252, 0.30188679]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 252, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 252, 0.01886792]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 252, 0.24528302]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 252, 0.8372093]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 252, 4.69767442]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 252, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 252, 3.52335573]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 252, 43.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 21, 0.0], [21, 69, 1.0], [69, 106, 0.0], [106, 252, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 21, 0.0], [21, 69, 0.0], [69, 106, 0.0], [106, 252, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 21, 3.0], [21, 69, 8.0], [69, 106, 7.0], [106, 252, 25.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 21, 0.0], [21, 69, 0.0], [69, 106, 0.35294118], [106, 252, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 21, 0.0], [21, 69, 0.0], [69, 106, 0.0], [106, 252, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 21, 0.04761905], [21, 69, 0.02083333], [69, 106, 0.05405405], [106, 252, 0.01369863]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 252, -9.66e-06]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 252, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 252, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 252, -30.32012796]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 252, -5.74889406]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 252, -21.7027529]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 252, 3.0]]} |
Tag: skincare
Cannabis has a long history. For centuries, it has been used for a variety of purposes, from textiles to medicine. In this article, we, with | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11940 | {"url": "https://acbdnews.com/tag/skincare/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "acbdnews.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:24:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WVGFYZ5UUVQFWJYOZT4HMA4423P754ZQ"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 154, 154.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 154, 1507.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 154, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 154, 56.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 154, 0.96]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 154, 67.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 154, 0.41176471]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 154, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 154, 0.20588235]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 154, 0.88888889]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 154, 4.48148148]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 154, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 154, 3.14180416]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 154, 27.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 14, 0.0], [14, 154, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 14, 0.0], [14, 154, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 14, 2.0], [14, 154, 25.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 14, 0.0], [14, 154, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 14, 0.0], [14, 154, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 14, 0.07142857], [14, 154, 0.02142857]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 154, 0.01789206]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 154, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 154, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 154, -4.26939078]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 154, 3.09870151]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 154, 0.3763241]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 154, 3.0]]} |
Bandoneon
Victor Hugo Villena
Latin America | New classes
The bandoneon is an instrument of German origin born in 1843 with the name "accordion concertino", which during the twentieth century was developed by musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, who made the keyboard of the instrument evolve until finding the model that will become standard from 1915 until today: with 71 keys. It became the main instrument of Tango music. However, since the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st, it began to be requested for other repertoires: jazz, contemporary music, German music, ancient music and current music.
The bandoneon is a polyphonic instrument that also allows polyrhythms with independent hand playing. Therefore, the harmonic, timbre, vibrato, articulation and dynamic (pppp-ffff) possibilities are immense.
All levels accepted
Learning, revision of the fundamental aspects
Work on the sound
Art of the bellows
General knowledge of the repertoire and history of the instrument
Technical mastery
Individual and group practice, depending on the level and number of students.
Born in 1979 in Argentina, Victor Villena, is a bandoneonist recognized and celebrated by the press. The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Villena's bandoneon expressing extremes of earthiness and ethereality, an emotional universe unto itself. A master of the instrument".
Henri Demarquette wrote: "The first time I heard Victor Villena, I was struck by the personality of his playing, extremely seduced by a sound, a technique of great purity and a very deep expression.
At the age of 17, he was elected "bandoneonist revelation" by the National Academy of Tango of Buenos Aires. He won the prize for best soloist at the National Competition in Cosquin (Argentina) in 1997. In 1999, he leaves Argentina to settle in France.
His career continues throughout Europe. He performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre Symphonique de Besançon, Rotterdam Youth Philarmonic (Netherlands), Emerald Ensemble (England), Moritzburg Festival Orchestra (Germany), Stockholm Jazz Orchestra (Sweden), Brussels Jazz Orchestra (Belgium). His talent allows him to perform on the most famous French stages: Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Châtelet, Olympia de Paris, Grand Rex, Arsenal de Metz, Auditorium de Dijon, Salle Gaveau and worldwide: Hollywood Bowl (USA), Broadway 54 (USA), The London Barbican, the London Queen's Hall (UK), Tokyo Forum (Japan)...
Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie - 10, rue Montbrillant - 1201 Genève
DATES & TIMETABLE:
Saturday 4 February 2023
FEE: 80.- CHF (ADEM members 70.-)
CONTACT & REGISTRATION:
victorhugovillena@gmail.com
https://www.victorvillena.fr
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Oriental Dances
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VIVIAN' ADAYA
Viviana sees Oriental dance as a unifying force in its traditional form, because it touches upon one’s deepest being. The dance remains both sacred and feminine for her. She recognises the therapeutic powers of dance and it is with this in mind that she transmits her knowledge.
Yodeling from Switzerland and elsewhere
January 14 & 15, March 11 & 12, June 10 & 11, 2023
Héloïse Fracheboud
Yodeling is the cry that becomes a melody, sometimes nostalgic and contemplative, sometimes joyful and festive, it can be "raw" as well as very sophisticated, with the same purpose: to express oneself, to share a part of what moves us, to materialize the unspeakable.
Workshop : Dhrupad
Video lessons on request
This workshop aims to introduce and familiarise participants with the vocal practice of dhrupad and its methods, which are based on practices derived from yoga and find their source in the Vedic tradition of reciting mantras.
Corsican Polyphony
Tristan Morelli
The oral tradition of Corsican vocal polyphony is wide open to expression through its various forms. 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Better Than Shakespeare?
The trailer to Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw played at the cinema the other day and I heard a couple of teenaged boys exclaim that “these films have gotten too stupid now”. “Err.. no. Actually, you've gotten too stupid now, you fucking little dweebs” is what I screamed back at them with the power of my mind. This franchise started as a flat-out rip-off of Point Break but in which Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze had been replaced by a couple of bargain-basement understudies. It wasn't until the fifth instalment in which The Rock arrived to kick the doors off the franchise that it finally evolved from something tediously dull and into something enjoyably so. The stupider the films became and the more stubbornly oblivious Vin Diesel remained to the fact that he was now in a comedy, the better they seemed to get. In the way that a shark can smell a drop of blood in a mile of ocean however, it was only a matter of time until the scent of this dumb action comedy would attract the attention of Jason Statham. He entered the series by murdering one of the key members of the lead gang before being locked up in a maximum-security prison for attempting to kill the rest of them. But it's all good because they're all cool now.
Attempting to keep track of the character arcs and various plot threads of this series is like trying to keep the Zodiac killer as a pen pal and then realising that he might also be fucking dyslexic. I haven't got a fucking clue what's going on but none of that matters now because The Rock and the Stath have teamed up to fight crime alone. Buddhism attempts to teach the importance of living in the moment which is clearly how these films have been written with what's going on rarely having any relation to where things have been or what's about to happen next. When finding out about this planned spin-off, original Fast And Furious star Tyrese Gibson published an emotional tirade in which he made it pretty obvious that if it was up to him then the movie wouldn't be happening. Luckily for us however it wasn't up to Tyrese Gibson who then went on to blame his outburst on a reaction to the medication he was taking and the fact that he's a Capricorn. I guess the medication hadn't fully worn off at that point either. Hobbs and Shaw are forced to team up for reasons that don't really matter after Idris Elba's bad guy Brixton decides to start causing some shit. The plot here is basically the same as Mission: Impossible 2 but if it had been recited by a toddler on cocaine. Oh, Idris Elba's Brixton also has a metal skeleton like the Terminator and can dodge punches like Neo because, at this point, why the fuck not?
I read an interview with director David Leitch in which he explained that Brixton wasn't always going to be what the character refers to as the “Black Superman”. I suppose if you'd only seen the first Fast And Furious film then finding out that the current villain is like a cross between Luke Cage and a transformer might seem like a bit of a fucking leap. But after careful consideration, it was concluded that no human on Earth could act as a realistic threat to both The Rock and the Stath and so superpowers were introduced. That works for me. Send these fuckers back in time for all I care so long as nobody lets Vin Diesel in on the joke. I have to say though that this was an incredible idea if only for all of the slow-motion fighting that takes place as a result. Because of how fast Brixton is we get to see him, Hobbs and Shaw, take punches to the face with the camera slowed down and the results are truly glorious. Do you know that genre/brand of porn known as 'beautiful agony'? Me neither, obviously, but the fight scenes in which The Rock, the Stath, and Elba, all grimace and gurn in bullet-time are like a beautiful agony tribute to the lost art of beefcake action cinema. You don't realise how weird Jason Statham's head is either until you have the time to properly stare at it in slow-motion. The Rock and the Stath spend the movie bickering in true early-90's buddy-cop movie-style and yet at no point does The Rock point out that the Stath's head is like a light bulb wrapped in cock skin.
David Leitch also went on to say in that same interview that the technology in the film that's used to empower Elba's Brixton isn't too far away from reality and is “literally like five minutes in the future”. I guess he's got to say that to convince the fans of the dull first movie to still believe in this superior sequel but he's obviously talking shit. At one point we see Elba sat on a table with his back spread wide open and a pair of robot arms working on his metal spine. If this is only five minutes into the future then expect a lot less to get done soon as most people inevitably use their pneumatic limbs for wanking and nothing else. Leitch, however, is the best action director of both this franchise and The Rock and the Stath's career so far. Leitch was a stuntman that co-directed the first John Wick, before moving on to Atomic Blonde, and Deadpool 2 which is obvious when you consider that virtually every other cast member has been on one of those three films. The movie airdrops actors in to do nothing more than their schtick as though firing a precision missile of comedy that hits the funny bone each time. I used to think it was funny when something ridiculous would happen and then Vin Diesel would hug the entire cast, look to camera, and deliver and earnest monologue about family. It turns that out it's just as funny to give cameos to actual comedians too.
And speaking of letting people do their schtick, that's exactly what the film does with The Rock and the Stath who bulge and strain their way through the movie like a dick being slammed in a car door. With their big bald heads, it's fun to finally see the shaven twins in a big-budget movie that understands their appeal. Coincidentally 'the shaven twins' is what one of my friends refers to his testicles as although it's my understanding that they haven't made it into a blockbuster just yet. After the film was over the friend I was seeing it with, (as in a different friend and not the owner of the shaven twins), described it as, “everything that (he) could possibly want from a film”, which goes to show that all involved have delivered what their audience is after. He did also go on to say that it was “better written than Shakespeare”, but I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's a compliment to the film or a damning indictment on the educational system. I agree with him in both cases though with this film being the most fun that you can legally have in a cinema and the action indisputably better than Shakespeare's Henry V. Unless there was a scene in Henry V in which one of the lead fights a small army with his Samoan brothers by swinging a club around as though he's fucking Sauron?
The chemistry between The Rock and the Stath is also off the charts and more believable than any love story that Shakespeare could conceive. Romeo And Juliet might have died for each other but I don't believe in love until I see two people bicker to the point that they're both on the verge of fucking murder. In honesty, I only stayed for the post-credit scenes because I assumed it would be the two men violently bumming each other and I was curious as to how bad their sex-talk one-liners would be. Would they go so low as to have him shout, “Do you smell what the Rock is fucking?” Because I was pretty confident that they would. In The Fast And Furious, the lines are funny because they're delivered with such a straight-face despite being total shit. In Hobbs and Shaw however, the jokes are funny because they're terrible and yet delivered by two men whose tongues couldn't be further in their cheeks. At one point the two are bickering so heavily that I thought The Rocks eyebrow was going to fly the fuck off as the Stath scowled so hard that his face seemed to turn into a literal anus. If you can think of a better use of cinema as an art-form than making two big men pull funny faces and make terrible jokes then clearly you're a smarter person than me. Thanks for reading, motherfuckers, and see you next time.
Labels: Atomic Blonde , Beefcake , Buddy Movie , David Leitch , Deadpool 2 , dwayne johnson , fast and furious , Hobbs And Shaw , jason statham , john wick , Spin-off , the rock , Tyrese Gibson , vin diesel
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The Monster Book Of Monsters
The Sharon Situation
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I went to a stand-up club the other day in which people who weren't famous were allowed to jump on stage and try out their new material. One such character was a young man with blacked-out eyes, a beating stick, and a hand-puppet. He said that his name was Lynda. I remember this because he opened with a three-minute song in which the only lyrics were “Lynda's coming out to play” repeated over and over again. He then used the hand-puppet as an excuse to sexually assault one of the men on the front row. If I'm honest it was probably the most terrifying few minutes of my entire fucking life. Not a bad night out though. In many ways, this entire experience is sort of what I think the new Joker film was going for. Both Lynda and the Joker film involve a mentally ill person expressing themselves through comedy as the audience sits on the edge of its seat and watches a psychological fucking breakdown take place. I suppose that the difference is that nobody is suggesting that Lynda might be worthy of any future awards and I'd also be pretty surprised if anybody cited her as an influence in their upcoming fucking shooting spree.
Despite nobody having asked for it, the world has now delivered a Joker origin story from The Hangover director Todd Philips and that has nothing to do with the DC Extended Universe. So this is nothing to do with the Ben Affleck Batman films that we've been getting and it's supposedly nothing to do with the Robert Pattinson Batman films that we're about to get. It's pretty much just it's own little thing. All alone. Nothing else around it. A loner. Just like most of the sad bastards that are no doubt about to start wanking on about how good it is. Here Joker lives alone with his mother, misunderstood by everybody around him, angry at how the world has treated him, and ready to start fighting back. He's a poster boy for all of those grubby little incels and future mass shooters that are sat at home with nothing but their furious rage and their untouched chipolata boners. If you're the kind of person that hated Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman because their vaginas made you feel insecure about being the pussy that you are, then Joker is the movie for you. But just because the wrong kind of people are about to like a movie or even use it as a justification for their real-life violence doesn't mean that movie should, therefore, be condemned right? A friend once complained to me that he had a sore finger to which I asked what he'd done. He told me that he'd, “put it in a pencil sharpener and then twisted it”. It's incredible how quickly you can lose sympathy for a person at times and so I just told him to be grateful that he hadn't tried that with his dick. The point is though that, as with a movie that has been appropriated by a violent or unjustly angry mob of online village idiots, it'd be unfair to blame the fucking pencil sharpener.
On March 30th, 1981, John Hinkley Jr decided to pop a bullet into the lung of the then-President Ronald Reagan because of his mad bastard obsession with the movie Taxi Driver. I mean, it's a good movie to be fair, but I think I just celebrated having seen it by having a cup of tea and a fucking cupcake. I told my friend about how great my night had been because of this to which she told me that I needed to “get a blow-job”. Nobody blamed the film for Hinkley's demented plan though because you'd have to be a fucking fruit loop to begin with to view its deranged lead character as being an aspirational figure. I do like his vagina-style haircut to be fair. The end of that movie is also specifically designed with an ambiguity that implies its crazy old main character might actually still be lying in a pool of his own blood and dying. So if you're a deranged psychopath that's tooling up for a kill-spree after watching your favourite movie then you know... check the subtext, you fucking dipshit. By contrast, my issue with Joker is that at no point does it really do anything to counter the view of its crazed lead character. When we're introduced to him we feel sorry for him because of how badly the world is taking a collective dump onto his face. As he uses this self-pity to begin committing his various atrocities though, a sane person will feel repulsion because we know that what he's doing is abhorrent. But if you start from a position of identifying with him then the film absolutely glorifies his actions to the point that it more or less concludes with him being worshipped in a Christ-like pose. Although with Trump and Johnson as the current American President and British Prime Minister, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised to see people worshipping a fucking clown right now.
Interestingly though, this idea of putting Joker on a pedestal might, in fact, be one of the few valid defences of the movie. There's no doubt that over the decades, people have taken to liking the character and even rooting for him to commit as much anarchy as possible. This is especially true of the incel committee already. It's not hard to see why either, when you consider quite how anti-establishment he is, as well as being free from the burden of giving a solitary shit about anything. He's like Bill Murray if Bill Murray stopped turning up at random peoples parties and having fun and just starting murdering them instead. The issue of this idolisation of Joker is completely forgetting the fact that he's the fucking bad guy. The people that he kills are usually innocent victims and the sole focus of his obsession is a rich man with a fetish for latex. The argument in defence of the film is that it shows this man to be nothing more than being a pitiful piece of shit that couldn't possibly be idolised by anybody and then asking, “Is this really who your hero is?” The downfall of this argument, of course, is that by depicting him in this way you've accidentality just made him relatable and sympathetic to the kinds of people that you're trying to make your point to. There's also no doubt that when Joker starts killing all of the people that have wronged him, the film doesn't exactly condemn this sad little man as much as unleash him. It shows no negative consequence to his violent actions and even puts a woman that won't sleep with him in the same evil bracket as the crueller people that make fun of him. You can almost hear the greasy fapping of the incels as they stroke themselves stupid as the film goes on.
Of course, none of this has been helped by the director Todd Philips who has spent most of the films press tour whining like a little bitch about how 'woke culture' has destroyed comedy. Although in a year that fellow director Taika Waititi is releasing Jojo Rabbit, a comedy set in Nazi Germany in which he'll be playing fucking Hitler, I'm not sure how true this is? I think that what Philips means is that he's no longer able to have every single punchline simply be the word “fag”, in which case, fuck him. But even lead actor Joaquin Phoenix had to walk out of an interview when asked about whether the film might inspire real-life violence because the question apparently just hadn't occurred to him. So I'm not saying that the film is directly pandering to these incels and mass shooters intentionally but rather that it's just too dumb to have seen what it was doing itself. If we ignore all of that though and treat the film as a single piece of art in which the views of its makers are irrelevant and the actions of its fans completely separate I suppose the real question is simply is the film any good? To which the answer is, yeah I guess so. It's okay. Although that's a lot of caveats that we've had to include to be able to enjoy it. It grounds a comic book character in a completely real world in the way that Unbreakable did (and better) almost twenty-years earlier. It has a good performance from Phoenix at the centre although I'd argue that he was way more nuanced and impressive as the traumatised hitman in last years You Were Never Really Here. And it's also nice to see a modern-day movie pay tribute to Scorsese's underrated masterpiece King Of Comedy. Even if this tribute doesn't seem to realise that the celebrity-obsessed lead character in that film was actually the fucking villain.
Of course, it'd be nice to read this back in years to come and discover that nobody had subsequently hurt anybody and claimed it as their inspiration. And even if that does take place, the real cause will be the individual involved and the failing of both gun control and mental health care and not that of the film. That later point regarding mental health is even something that is constantly referenced in the movie, although it does then unfortunately also propagate the notion that a mentally ill person is only a few missed pills away from going berserk and fucking capping people. I agree that mental health services need more investment and applaud the film for highlighting this fact, it's just that it's a point that is slightly undermined by then revelling in Joker's cathartic murders as he does a celebratory dance to the pump-up, fun time tunes of Gary Glitter, the glam-rock nonce. Joker is a well-made film and I'd be lying if I said that I'd hated it, but it's fully let down by its muddled, if not slightly problematic, message. I fucking love Raiders Of The Lost Ark but if there was a moment in which Indy turned to Marion and stated, “You know I kind of admire these Nazis”, and then the movie continued unchanged and that was never referenced again you'd still feel pretty uncomfortable as a result. That's even if he was only referring to their dapper uniforms and not the mass fucking genocide. At the very least you'd still wonder why it had thrown them any kind of bone whatsoever. Well, that's pretty much what this Joker was like for me except it's not actual Nazis, it's raising a knowing eyebrow to, but the online ones that haven't felt the inside of a vagina since their own fucking birth. Thanks for reading, motherfuckers, and see you next time.
Labels: Batman , DC Extended Universe , Incel , Joaquin Phoenix , John Hinkley Jr , joker , King Of Comedy , Mass Shootings , taxi driver , Todd Philips , Unbreakable , You Were Never Really Here
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This Franchise Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Unt...
Double Tap Or Double Crap?
A Couple Of Guys Who Were Up To No Good | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11943 | {"url": "https://ademonsvoice.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-so-serious.html", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "ademonsvoice.blogspot.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:G7A37GN74WVE4VH4BAC3IVGL4ZZ3HLWD"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 10365, 10365.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 10365, 14213.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 10365, 11.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 10365, 174.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 10365, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 10365, 306.6]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 10365, 25.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 10365, 0.49817017]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 10365, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 10365, 0.01187591]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 10365, 0.00727096]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 10365, 0.00399903]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 10365, 0.00545322]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 10365, 0.01509607]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 10365, 0.09090909]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 10365, 0.10978957]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 10365, 0.38832351]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 10365, 4.41992501]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 10365, 0.00091491]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 10365, 5.73694124]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 10365, 1867.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 1138, 1.0], [1138, 2900, 1.0], [2900, 4705, 1.0], [4705, 6443, 1.0], [6443, 8257, 1.0], [8257, 10037, 1.0], [10037, 10233, 0.0], [10233, 10245, 0.0], [10245, 10299, 1.0], [10299, 10326, 1.0], [10326, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 1138, 0.0], [1138, 2900, 0.0], [2900, 4705, 0.0], [4705, 6443, 0.0], [6443, 8257, 0.0], [8257, 10037, 0.0], [10037, 10233, 0.0], [10233, 10245, 0.0], [10245, 10299, 0.0], [10299, 10326, 0.0], [10326, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 1138, 207.0], [1138, 2900, 324.0], [2900, 4705, 326.0], [4705, 6443, 315.0], [6443, 8257, 326.0], [8257, 10037, 316.0], [10037, 10233, 27.0], [10233, 10245, 3.0], [10245, 10299, 8.0], [10299, 10326, 5.0], [10326, 10365, 10.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 1138, 0.0], [1138, 2900, 0.0], [2900, 4705, 0.00339559], [4705, 6443, 0.0], [6443, 8257, 0.0], [8257, 10037, 0.0], [10037, 10233, 0.0], [10233, 10245, 0.14285714], [10245, 10299, 0.0], [10299, 10326, 0.0], [10326, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 1138, 0.0], [1138, 2900, 0.0], [2900, 4705, 0.0], [4705, 6443, 0.0], [6443, 8257, 0.0], [8257, 10037, 0.0], [10037, 10233, 0.0], [10233, 10245, 0.0], [10245, 10299, 0.0], [10299, 10326, 0.0], [10326, 10365, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 1138, 0.01669596], [1138, 2900, 0.0215664], [2900, 4705, 0.0199446], [4705, 6443, 0.01150748], [6443, 8257, 0.02260198], [8257, 10037, 0.01573034], [10037, 10233, 0.12755102], [10233, 10245, 0.08333333], [10245, 10299, 0.14814815], [10299, 10326, 0.18518519], [10326, 10365, 0.25641026]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 10365, 0.77000862]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 10365, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 10365, 0.66324067]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 10365, 125.26068119]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 10365, 226.54323441]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 10365, -474.67165479]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 10365, 76.0]]} |
Dr. Roger Legtenberg
Roger strongly believes that a change in business eco-system is required in order to address one of the most important challenges for the Life Sciences industry: the sustainability & society acceptance of development of new treatments for patients.
After obtaining his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology in 2001, Roger Legtenberg started his career in Life Sciences. Until 2009 he held Project Manager, Clinical Research Manager and Director Business Development positions.
From 2010 until the end of 2018, he was co-owner and CEO of PSR Orphan Experts, a specialized clinical CRO focused on rare diseases. He successfully led the organizational transformation finding its true purpose and utilizing Lean & How (Golden Circle) principles. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant growth in staff, finances, and most importantly impact for the rare disease community. In 2017 PSR was acquired by Ergomed plc.
Roger is a recipient of the 2018 CEO Today Europe & 2018 International Life Sciences GHP Drug Development CEO awards. He also previously served as a board member of ACRON and BioFarmind (now HollandBio).
Roger strongly believes that a change in the business eco-system is required in order to address one of the most important challenges for the Life Sciences industry: the sustainability & society’s acceptance of the development of new treatments for patients.
On this premise, Roger founded Up Strong in early 2019 to passionately facilitate companies and all other stakeholders in the industry with their (upcoming) challenges in Training & Coaching, Business Strategy, and (Interim-) Management with a clear focus on the human side of the Drug Development Cycle.
Currently, Roger is Senior Partner & Co-Owner of admedicum and also Head of the Benelux Region. Besides his role at admedicum, he is also a clinical advisor at Immunetune, a pioneering biotech company developing personalized DNA-based vaccines (NeoVAC) against cancer.
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Kristian Chong
Pianist Kristian Chong is rapidly establishing himself as one of Australia's leading musicians. Performances have taken him throughout Australia and the UK, and also in China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA, and Zimbabwe. As concerto soloist he has appeared on numerous occasions with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and various orchestras in the UK and China under conductors such as Graham Abbott, Werner Andreas Albert, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Braithwaite, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicholas Milton, Tuomas Oillia, Marcus Stenz, Arvo Volmer and Marco Zuccarini. He has recorded and broadcast for Australian and American radio (WGBX - Boston), HKRT (Hong Kong), ABC-TV, and has appears for Musica Viva Australia. His many competition successes include winning the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award.
Performance highlights have included the Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto with the Sydney Symphony, the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini with the Beijing International Festival Chorus Orchestra, and the Britten Piano Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights include Mozart's Concerto for two pianos with Caroline Almonte and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Emperor and Saint-Saens 2nd piano concertos in the UK, Beethoven's 2nd concerto with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, recitals in Hong Kong and Shanghai, the Huntington and Adelaide Festivals and the complete 24 Rachmaninoff Preludes at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.
As a highly sought after chamber musician, in 2008 he gave an six city Australian national tour with the Australian String Quartet and Ilya Konovalov (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic) performing Chausson's Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet. He has also performed with artists such as Teddy Tahu-Rhodes (bass-baritone), the Flinders Quartet, Caroline Almonte and Benjamin Martin (pianists), Peter Rejto (cello), Kees Boersma (double bass), violinist Niki Vasilakis and flautist Meg Sterling, principal flute of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he has given performances in Hong Kong, China and the USA. He is also in a violin-piano duo with Erica Kennedy.
Currently Kristian is based in Melbourne but until recently was based in London, where has completed studies at the Royal Academy of Music with pianists Christopher Elton and Piers Lane. He was a recipient twice of the Dip. RAM, the academy’s highest performing accolade. In Australia he studied with Stephen McIntyre at the University of Melbourne, where he is currently undertaking a PhD in performance as one of the University's prestigious 'Grimwade' Scholars. Kristian also teaches chamber music and piano at the University.
Performances in 2009 include the Shostakovich Piano Quintet with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, 2009 Piano Landmarks Recitals, appearances with violinist Erica Kennedy, a recital for ABC-Classic FM's Sunday Live Series with violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto (concertmaster Adelaide Symphony), and recitals in Melbourne, Sydney, Ballarat and Adelaide amongst other appearances. Kristian is also working towards a debut solo disc of both sets of Op.23 and Op.32 Rachmaninoff Preludes. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11945 | {"url": "https://ado.net.au/ado/public/concerts/2009/kristian_chong_bio.aspx", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "ado.net.au", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KP4LAOB3G7CR5HBR5MSRNOFWFRT73JKW"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3310, 3310.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3310, 3343.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3310, 7.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3310, 7.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3310, 0.93]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3310, 247.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3310, 0.29491525]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3310, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3310, 0.01794215]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3310, 0.01647748]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3310, 0.01464665]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3310, 0.02033898]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3310, 0.16949153]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3310, 0.5177453]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3310, 5.70146138]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3310, 5.02458071]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3310, 479.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 921, 1.0], [921, 1196, 1.0], [1196, 1602, 1.0], [1602, 2285, 1.0], [2285, 2815, 1.0], [2815, 3310, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 921, 0.0], [921, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1602, 0.0], [1602, 2285, 0.0], [2285, 2815, 0.0], [2815, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 15, 2.0], [15, 921, 128.0], [921, 1196, 38.0], [1196, 1602, 58.0], [1602, 2285, 102.0], [2285, 2815, 83.0], [2815, 3310, 68.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 921, 0.0], [921, 1196, 0.00369004], [1196, 1602, 0.01010101], [1602, 2285, 0.00610687], [2285, 2815, 0.0], [2815, 3310, 0.02494802]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 921, 0.0], [921, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1602, 0.0], [1602, 2285, 0.0], [2285, 2815, 0.0], [2815, 3310, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 15, 0.13333333], [15, 921, 0.09050773], [921, 1196, 0.06545455], [1196, 1602, 0.07635468], [1602, 2285, 0.06734993], [2285, 2815, 0.05660377], [2815, 3310, 0.07272727]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3310, 0.71212524]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3310, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3310, 0.83059716]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3310, -81.15562214]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3310, 13.87819377]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3310, 122.50218926]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3310, 19.0]]} |
I Just Wanted to Volunteer
By Dixil RodríguezI have a confession: I never wanted to be a chaplain. I just wanted to volunteer.
“Left or right?” He takes a breath that sounds hollow, like a coin dropped into a tin can. He quickly gasps for more air so his lungs won’t be thirsty. I’m witnessing death.
“Was it the one on the left or the right?” His swollen eyes look at me. The many scars and his current injury speak of a life that I cannot understand. You must be in pain.
The gurney I’m lying on slides. I feel the jolt of the paramedic pulling me back, putting more room between the patient and me. There’s no way to disguise the sound of the paramedic’s shoes squeaking in the blood. I glance at the attending nurse. I watch her quick actions. She said the patient wasn’t in pain; he just wanted to talk to me. Now she carefully tends to the IV.
I wonder if she has any thoughts on whether it’s a waste of time to keep a criminal alive so he can talk to a chaplain. “There were two men.” He’s fighting so hard to get the words. “The cross . . . Jesus . . . left or right?”
His last words come down heavy with urgency of voice. I know what you’re talking about. I tear the glove off my hand, and my fingers move quickly through the Bible.
I pull into the parking space designated “Hospital Volunteer.” I like those words. Of all the places I could be right now, this is where my heart belongs. I’ve volunteered in pediatric oncology wards for 10 years. The amount of love and prayers in these hospitals is more than abundant. You can’t walk down the hall without finding hope and faith around the corner. Nobody forces me to be here. I want to be here. I’m a volunteer.
At night, when I walk through the halls and peek into rooms, I see parents reading to their children or people settling into a room to stay overnight before a long surgery in a few hours. This is a reverent, silent moment for me. I know that angels roam these halls. In the late-night hours I talk with parents who are ripping at the emotional seams of their lives. They cry because their beautiful child is ill. Volunteering in a hospital is a humbling privilege. I’m being invited to witness joy and pain, and to be part of a ministry of healing.
One night, as I walked through the halls of the hospital, I had an overwhelming urgency to kneel and pray. It was a simple prayer: God, be present in this place, and give these hurting little bodies a few hours of sleep without pain. As I prayed, I heard a child’s soft voice singing, “He’s got the whole world in His hands.” It was Amanda. I met her for the first time that night. I found her alone in her room. She asked me to sing with her, and without waiting for an answer she began singing, “Jesus loves me.”
Amanda is the reason I’m in the volunteer parking today. After three years of fighting constant illness, this precious child has a reprieve. Today the family is packing up the hospital room, placing all the personal items that made the room “warm” in cardboard boxes with heavy lids. I wonder if they will ever open those boxes again.
Amanda has motivated me to talk with Caroline, the volunteer service coordinator. I am a volunteer. Just a volunteer. Volunteers, however, now need a chaplain’s license to participate in any hospital activity that requires pastoral care responsibilities. I never wanted to be a chaplain; just a volunteer! Still, I can’t imagine my life without these dear children. How different can it be to minister to adults in a hospital setting?
I carry the precious letter of acceptance into a chaplain certification program. I leave Caroline a note that says: “I will work on the chaplain’s license.” With that simple phrase, I have committed myself to on-call hours, 24-hour shifts, and a sacred ministry that fills me with great reverence and respect.
“Chaplain!” I’m running down the trauma hall with a pager, a phone, two ID badges, and my Bible. Now a hospital chaplain, I’ve just been paged into someone’s worst day. It’s a long journey to the location. Somehow the body forgets that it’s 2:00 a.m. or that it hasn’t eaten. Tonight the physical assault of sprinting through one of the largest hospitals in the metropolitan area only reminds me: I’m not moving fast enough.
I’m humbled by calls requesting a visit with families that have lost a loved one. I’ve learned about trauma, loss, revenge, and peace. I realize there are more steps to grieving than I know. Sometimes it’s more difficult for adults to find comfort. I miss the laughter of the children in my volunteer unit. I think of all this as I push through the trauma doors.
“Chaplain, over here.” Officer Adams is at the end of the hall. I like working with him. Next to him is a paramedic I’ve never met.
“I need you to put this on, Chaplain.” The young paramedic hands me a gown, gloves, and booties. I watch him carefully as he opens the gown for me. Why do you look so scared?
“I haven’t met you before. Are you new?” His hands are shaking. I smile and take the gown from him. I don’t think he can do this. I learn that his name is Jeremy and that this is his first “real shift” as a training paramedic.
Jeremy’s responsibility is to fill me in on the details of the trauma coming in. There’s much commotion. “There’s a live patient coming in, fatal gunshot wound, and the paramedics say he’s badly injured. His name is Kevin. He’s conscious but cannot move. He’s asked for no extraordinary measures to save his life. Kevin’s head cannot be moved, and he is lying on a gurney facing right. He’s asked for a priest, and the nurse told me to page you.”
Silence. I have an officer and a paramedic looking at me. All we have in common is an ambulance racing to our trauma room and a person who has asked for a priest and gotten a chaplain. My mind is quickly going over the possibilities of conversation topics. I’m running out of time.
I hear the sirens of the ambulance. He’s here. Officer Adams explains the patient has lost a lot of blood and might die very quickly. He reminds me he’ll be close by if I need anything. Once the doctors have completed stabilizing the patient (if they can), I’ll be brought into the room.
“You have all you need, Chaplain?” Jeremy has been watching me intently as I listen to the details from Officer Adams. Noise. There’s so much noise. I hear the doors and the paramedics talking very quickly, but I can’t understand what they’re saying. The doctors run into the trauma room. For a moment the whole world is just moving around me, and I’m standing still, watching it all go by in slow motion, knowing well what’s expected of me. The ambulance doors open again. A cold blast of air hits my face.
“I need to get in there to talk to Kevin, Jeremy.” I pick up my Bible from the counter and leave my pager and phone aside. I cannot feel the Bible through the gloves. God is here, but in the midst of this chaos I can’t feel His presence. I pray right there, among my colleagues: “God, come into that trauma room with me, because this man is one of Your children, and I need Your strong presence in this place.”
As I open my eyes, I look at Officer Adams. I have an idea. He notices, shakes his head, and smiles. Synergy in ministry sometimes comes from people you least expect. Officer Adams gives Jeremy orders: “Get the chaplain a gurney. She needs to look at Kevin while they pray. She’s going to have to lie down.”
We watch Jeremy run down the hall. Officer Adams turns to me and says: “Chaplain, they’re not paying you enough for this.”
“That’s because I’m a volunteer.” Just a volunteer.
“Are you scared?” I’m still visiting with Amanda, and I’ve shared with her my new upcoming adventure of volunteering as a chaplain.
“Scared about working in other hospitals?”
“No, about working with older people.”
“I don’t know; I haven’t done it before. If I do get scared, Amanda, what should I do?”
I watch her look at her parents for a moment. She’s thinking. In an honest voice she tells me: “Sometimes I think Jesus isn’t watching me, because a lot of my friends are really sick and they need Him watching. So I don’t ask Him to watch me; I tell Him to watch my friends. He can hear me. That’s why I tell Him what’s going on with me—so that He can watch my friends and still know what I’m doing. Like a story!”
She narrates her life to Jesus? She tells Him a story? I can only imagine how beautiful and honest those words must sound as they reach the ear of God.
Jeremy arrives with the gurney. We stand near the glass entry doors to the trauma room watching the doctors work. I watch a nurse glance our way and then say: “Kevin, hold on; the chaplain is here.”
Officer Adams lifts me up onto the gurney. The room starts to empty. All that can physically be done has been done. There’s a trauma nurse who stays behind and nods for me to enter the room. Jeremy pushes the gurney, sliding over Kevin’s blood on the floor. I lie down on the gurney facing this stranger and look into his bruised, swollen face.
“Kevin, I’m Chaplain Rodríguez.”
I don’t know how long it’s been. I’ve read Scripture, I’ve prayed, comforted, and spoken of forgiveness. I silently pray that every word that comes out of my mouth will be blessed with heavenly comfort. Kevin says he’s ready. After all we’ve done here, I believe you are.
“You think He’ll remember me?” He’s getting tired.
“He never forgot.”
“23 again?”
I read through Psalm 23, aware of the heart monitor indicating a slower and slower-paced heartbeat. Once done, I look at him. He’s crying. I close my eyes and begin to pray out loud. In the middle of the prayer the heart monitor hits a flat line. I hear the nurse quickly shut it off. I complete my prayer. The room has become a gallery of observers at the doors: nurses and doctors. Have they been there all along?
Jeremy pulls my gurney out of the room. I cannot move my body. Officer Adams reaches over and carries me off the gurney.
“You OK, Chaplain?” he asks in a soft voice. I nod. “Good. Because the grandmother is in a family room, so you can talk to her. She doesn’t know. I’m coming with you, OK?”
“Do you think it’s a good idea, Amanda?”
I’ve just shared another project idea with Amanda. Now that I’m going to work with “older” people, I’ve decided to keep a stock of The Desire of Ages with me. The books have favorite psalms from my friends handwritten on the front page. I bring Amanda a sample book.
“My mom loves that book,” she says.
“Yes, I think it’s a good idea. Can I give you my favorite psalm too?” Of course you can, and I will ask you to sign your name on the page, too.
Adrenaline runs through me as I quickly get out of the gown and gloves, take my Bible, and head toward the family room. Officer Adams offers to stop by my trauma locker and pick up one of “those books” I always have. I nod and keep running.
My presence as a chaplain is meant to remind everyone (including myself) of a merciful God, who is keenly aware of what happens in these halls; a reminder that He, too, feels our sorrow.
I hope I can convey this to Kevin’s grandmother.
“I know he’s dead.”
I have just walked into the family room. Kevin’s grandmother sees me walk in and whispers the words right away.
“How did he die? And I don’t mean physically; I don’t want to know that. How did he die? He tried so hard to put his life back together this year. His mother, my daughter, died of breast cancer, and he only got into trouble after that. So just tell me how he died. Was he angry?”
She begins to cry. I sit next to her and hold her. She looks up at me and poses the most important question: “Did he pray? Did he make peace with God?”
I open my Bible to where Kevin and I had read and begin to share. Let me tell you.
It’s almost morning, and the sun is creeping over the horizon. I walk Kevin’s grandmother to the entrance of the hospital. Officer Adams has offered to drive her home. As I give her the book, I tell her how influential it’s been in my own life. She takes it from my hands and flips through it. She stops at the story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel. She reads for a minute.
“Thank you for this.” She opens the front page. It has Amanda’s signature and pictures of sheep, a shepherd, and a copy of Psalm 23. I explain that Amanda is a 7-year-old friend and that this is her favorite psalm.
“That was Kevin’s favorite psalm, too.” I know.
“Thank Amanda for me.” I will.
As I watch her drive away with the officer, they reach the stop sign. The vehicle door opens, and Kevin’s grandmother calls out:
“God bless you, Chaplain,” and waves goodbye.
I watch them drive away. I take it all in, and narrate it to God.
Dixil L. Rodríguez is an English professor and a volunteer hospital chaplain in Texas. This article was published in the January 13, 2011 Adventist Review.
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2017 Soybean Acre Madness
Posted by David Widmar on March 20, 2017
by David Widmar and Brent Gloy
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When you think of March, two big events come to mind: the NCAA’s March Madness and the USDA’s Planting Intentions report. In both cases, speculation and anticipation is in full force on how the brackets and balance sheets will sort out. Furthermore, both the NCAA tournament and U.S. spring crop plantings will likely have a few surprises.
This week’s post takes a look at the latest crop insurance and commodity price data to provide some insights on what 2017 planting might have in store.
Corn Crop Insurance Guarantees
The crop insurance guarantee prices are set in February. For 2017, the corn price guarantee is $3.96 per bushel. This is $.10 per bushel higher than 2016, but the second lowest price of the past 11 years. Assuming a 200 bushel per acre insurance APH and 80% coverage, the crop insurance revenue guarantee is $634 in 2017 (Table 1).
The table also shows Purdue’s budgeted variable costs in the fourth column and the net that remains after subtracting the variable costs from guaranteed revenues. The net guarantee for corn has remained flat for the last three years. Despite falling variable costs, the 2017 net guarantee is the lowest seen in the last 10 years.
Table 1. Corn Crop Insurance Guarantees for an Indiana Farm with 200 Bushel per Acre APH, 2007- 2017. * Indicates year where net guarantee was sufficient to cover 2017 estimated cash rent of $244 per acre.
** Indicates year where new guarantee was sufficient to cover all 2017 fixed costs ($445).
Similar calculations for soybeans are shown in Table 2. Here, one can see that the revenue guarantee for soybeans is considerably ($65 per acre) higher in 2017 than 2016. While variable cost increases have eaten away at some of the gain, the net revenue guarantee for soybeans has increased $36 per acre over 2016. Unlike corn, the net guarantee is higher than at any time in the last three years and exceeds the corn net by $47 per acre. This is one reason that many people expect soybean acres to increase.
Still, it is important to realize that the data in Tables 1 and 2 represent an approximation to conditions in Indiana. One should keep in mind that costs, yields, and farm level prices will vary considerably throughout the country. As we pointed out in an earlier post, these differences can be significant and lead to different conclusions for different situations. Still, for a farm with a similar situation as depicted in these tables one would think that soybeans would be very, very competitive with corn.
Table 2. Soybean Crop Insurance Guarantees for an Indiana Farm with 60 Bushel per Acre APH, 2007- 2017.
* Indicates year where net guarantee was sufficient to cover 2017 estimated cash rent of $244 per acre.
Price Relationship
Another way to assess the relative attractiveness is to construct the ratio of soybean to corn prices. This ratio is shown in Figure 1. In it we graph the ratio of the crop insurance prices as well as those found in the Purdue crop budgets. As one can see, the current soybean to corn crop insurance price ratio is at its highest level over the period of 2007 to 2017. This is just more evidence of the relative attractiveness of soybeans versus corn. However, one should keep in mind that recent analysis by Todd Hubbs and Darrel Good at FarmDoc Daily who noted that this ratio has somewhat limited ability to predict acreage shifts among the crops.
Figure 1. Soybean to Corn Price Ratios, 2000- 2017. Purdue Crop Budget and Crop Insurance Prices.
Thinking About Corn and Soybean Acres
While we (Brent and David) often speculate about the number of corn and soybean acres among ourselves, we don’t make a formal forecast – there are just too many ways to be wrong. With that said, we will provide a few thoughts on how things might shake out.
Figure 2 provides several insights for 2017 planting. While we generally dislike dual-axis graphs, we will make an exception here. The graph shows total corn and soybean acres on the left axis and the percent of that total planted to soybeans on the right axis. There are a couple of things that we can discern from this graph. First, total corn and soybean acres (graphed in blue) have increased considerably over time. In fact, at 177 million acres in 2016, total corn and soybean acres were at a 27-year high. This total acreage can be thought of as the total acreage pie that these two crops will split.
Looking to 2017 it’s completely possible to set another high for combined corn and soybean acreage. In other words, it seems plausible that the pie will continue to expand. Why? The USDA estimated in January that U.S. winter wheat acres were set to decline by 3.75 million acres in 2017. It seems likely many of these acres will migrate to corn and soybeans.
The second data series graphed in Figure 2 is the share of total corn/soybean acres planted to soybeans (graphed in orange). This is analogous to the size of the two slices of the pie. Historically, soybean acres have been less than 50% of total corn/soybean acres. The share was as high as 49.5% (2001) and as low as 40.9% (2007). Over the 27 years, the soybean share has averaged 46.3%. Even though the share was lower in 2016 (47.0%), it was still above average.
Perhaps most noteworthy is the frequency at with the soybean share has been 48%. A total of 6 times (or 22% of the time) the soybean share of total corn/soybean acres has been 48.0%-48.9%. While these small changes in share at first seem insignificant, it is important to realize that at the 2016 planting levels each 1% amounts to 1.7 million acres.
Figure 2. Total U.S. Corn and Soybean Acres and Share of these Acres Planted to Soybeans, 1990 – 2017.
Let’s Look at a Few Scenarios
Considering the two measures in figure 2 – total corn/soybean acres and the share of soybean acres – a few key insights can be made by considering different scenarios around these metrics. Let’s first think about total corn and soybean acres (the size of the pie) and then the proportion of the pie that goes to each crop (the size of the two slices).
With respect to the total corn/soybean acreage we will look at two possible scenarios. First, we consider a large increase in total corn/soybean acres. Even though total corn/soybean acres were at a 27-year high of 177 million acres in 2016, an increase is again likely in 2017. In fact, this could be up as much as 3.75 million acres if all the reduction in winter wheat acres is planted to corn or soybeans. This assumption ignores changes in spring wheat acres and cotton. Cotton acres may be higher in 2017 given strong prices. This assumption also ignores changes in small acreage crop and hay. In short, this is an aggressive assumption about acreage expansion. Second, we will look at the situation where combined corn/soybean acreage is unchanged from 2016.
Now consider the share of total corn/soybean acres devoted to soybeans. Here again, we look at two scenarios. Given the crop insurance and price signals, an increase in this share seems possible. One scenario is a modest shift toward soybeans with 48% of total corn/soybean acres planted to soybean (compared to 47.0% in 2016). While this is an increase over 2016 it is slightly less than the share of acres devoted to soybeans in 2015 (48.4%). The second scenario is a planting rotation that strongly favors soybean (a soybean share at 49.5%). This share is a much more aggressive assumption toward soybeans and is a level last approached in 2006 (49.1%).
Given these assumptions and scenarios, four potential outcomes of 2017 planting of corn and soybean acres is shown in Table 3. Again, these are not estimates, but rather a range of outcomes given historic data.
The first important observation is that in all scenarios more soybeans are planted. The range of the soybean acres is 85.2 million to 89.7 million acres (up 1.8 million and 6.3 million from 2016). The most aggressive increase in soybean acres (up 6.3 million acres) would require a large increase in total corn/soybean acres and a simultaneous increase in the share of total acres captured by soybeans reaching historically high levels; a tall order!
In three of the four scenarios, corn acres are down. The exception is with a large increase in total corn/soybean acres and an acre share that only modestly favors soybeans. Here, corn acres would increase by 0.2 million acres over 2016 levels. In other words, if soybean’s share of acres reach 48%, it is difficult to find situations where corn acres would increase in 2017.
Table 3. Potential 2017 Corn Soybean Planting Scenarios.
Finally, given the ranges used in these scenarios, the share of soybean acres is of greater importance for determining final acreages. For example, assuming total acres are unchanged from 2017, an increase in the share of soybean acres (from 48.0% to 49.5%) brings about an additional 2.6 million soybean acres. On the other hand, given a share that strongly favors soybeans (49.5%) and increasing total acres by 3.75 million, brings in an additional 1.9 million soybean acres.
The magnitude of these changes are based on the assumptions we made, but these are ranges that we feel are possible and reasonable.
A couple of things are important in thinking about corn and soybean acreages. We have framed the discussion around 1) the total number of acres devoted to these crops and 2) the distribution of acres between the two. Of these two, the distribution may deserve the most attention. It has varied considerably in recent years and if it returns to a level of 2015 will result in significantly more soybean acres in 2017. The total acres are also key and here the debate seems to be focused on how many acres will be gained at the expense of wheat and perhaps lost to cotton and other crops.
Overall, the assumptions that we used in this post suggest that soybean acres will likely increase anywhere from a little to a lot. It would take scenarios outside what we have considered to result in decreased soybean acreage. However, that is not to say it can’t happen. Given our assumptions, corn acres declined in three of the four scenarios, but it would take a strong shift in the share of the crop going to beans to result in large declines in corn acreage. Again, it is not to say that either situation can’t occur.
It’s important to note the USDA’s March prospective plantings estimate is subject to a lot of changes. This is because a large number of factors impact planting decisions. The most obvious is weather. Previous yields and local economic situations are also key. However, one of the most tricky elements of predicting plantings is that market reactions to the estimate can influence decisions. In other words, a disconnect between the USDA’s estimate and the markets’ expectations will impact commodity prices. If changes in commodity prices are significant enough, it will begin to change producer decisions. In our post last year we used a quote by someone much wiser than us to summarize this idea and we think it is worth repeating:
“In some ways, predicting the economy is even more difficult than forecasting the weather, because the economy is not made up of molecules whose behavior is subject to the laws of physics, but rather of human beings who are themselves thinking about the future and whose behavior may be influenced by the forecasts that they or others make.”
Ben Bernanke –“Flexibility and Optimism in an Unpredictable World” Boston College Law Review. September 2009; pg. 942.
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Umeme, grain and coffee: Why Kenya should fear Uganda’s economic gamble, By Charles Onyango-Obbo
Tunisian interior minister, Taoufik Charfeddine, resigns over family reasons
Ifeoluwa Dada
Uganda, the 1990s shining Africa poster boy for privatisation, is engaging in what could be East Africa’s biggest economic liberalisation reverse gear. Last year, the Uganda government formally announced it would not renew the contract of electricity distributor Umeme in 2025, when its concession expires, and that it will form a state-owned entity to take over its business.
The government’s main criticism of Umeme is its margins are too high, so it has failed to lower electricity costs, and the expensive rates have hobbled Uganda’s industrialisation ambitions. Umeme counters that it is just a distributor, and the high electricity costs are passed on from the power generators.
In two years, the debate will be resolved. Uganda will be in the midst of campaigns ahead of the January 2026 election, when President Yoweri Museveni, weighed down by the wear and tear of 40 years in office, will likely be bidding for a record-shattering ninth term, with his son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, among those trying to wrestle the crown from his head. It will be the worst possible timing because incumbents rarely make the most enlightened decisions during heated election campaigns. As the West Africans say, there will likely “be a lot of cry.”
Distribution concession
Umeme was formed in 2004 when the government of Uganda granted the distribution concession to a consortium belonging to Globeleq, a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Development Corporation of the UK, which held 56 per cent, and South Africa’s now inept utility corporation Eskom, which had 44 per cent. In 2006 Eskom exited the consortium, and Globeleq became the sole owner of Umeme.
The regional impact could be significant because, among other things, Umeme shares are cross-listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. If it unravels, Kenyan shareholders would be left crying in their bowls, and we could be back to the feud over regional assets that followed the break-up of the first East African Community in 1977.
Too messy to swallow
The renationalisation of Umeme will not be unique. Kenya just tried to renationalise cash-haemorrhaging national carrier Kenya Airways but found it too messy to swallow. The recently elected new government of President William Ruto has decided to throw it back on the block.
The difference in Uganda is that Umeme is just the shallow end of the pool. There are other moves to renationalise the very lucrative liberalised coffee sector by granting a near-monopoly to a Vinci Coffee Company, owned by controversial and shadowy Italian “foreign investor” Enrica Pinetti, to process and export Uganda’s coffee. That would take Uganda back to the early 1990s when the disastrous Coffee Marketing Board was disbanded.
A similar move is being made to give the Grain Council of Uganda, on paper a non-profit membership organisation, the kind of sway over the country’s grain last seen in the colonial era.
The force behind the Grain Council is the otherwise amiable president’s younger brother, retired Lt-Gen Salim Saleh (Caleb Akandwanaho), a sly operator who is the second most powerful figure in the land. A nationalist and statist, Saleh has led a quiet but effective assault against laissez-faire liberalisation, which he argues has mostly benefited foreigners and left Ugandans with only holes in their pockets. He has taken over a large chunk of the country’s agricultural budget and several “development” functions under the amorphous state-created vehicle Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) that he heads and inserted disciples in key national economic institutions.
Return to old roots
This state of affairs is a dramatic return to old roots. Uganda launched the first of a series of economic liberalisations in the 1990s that were deemed impossible in Africa at the time and anathema in the hyper-nationalist traditions that were entrenched in post-independence Africa.
It was the first country in Africa to radically liberalise its foreign exchange market and still maintains one of the least-interventionist approaches to the money market on the continent. It was also the first in East Africa to pass laws that gave the central bank extensive independence.
It was the first on the continent in the early 1990s to liberalise the fuel market and scrap fuel subsidies. Again, in East Africa, at least, it is the government that meddles least in setting the price of gas at the pump. When fuel prices skyrocketed everywhere following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, it alone was the East African government to flatly refuse to even consider a fuel subsidy and price cap, as all the rest of the EAC states did.
Uganda, too, is the country where the price of food is most considered none of the government’s business. When Ugandans read stories and political fights over maize in Kenya, and the government setting the price, to some of them, it sounds like a tale about an alien planet.
The country and economy that Uganda is today are about to change. Some of the changes have to do with the politics of the Museveni succession and how the family and vested interests that have coalesced around the State House view their future security. A lot of it, though, is because of some good things: the rebirth of the EAC; the end of the wars in Uganda and the ushering in of the country’s longest spell of peace; the rebound of a post-KANU Kenya; and the Rwanda post-genocide recovery.
If there are two people in East Africa outside Uganda, who have edged Uganda to the fork in the road where it is today, they are Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and former Kenya president Mwai Kibaki.
The author is a journalist, writer, and curator of the «Wall of Great Africans». Twitter@cobbo3
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Uganda: General Kainerugaba disses father, President Museveni, eyes Presidency in 2026 elections
This week, the opening salvo will be fired to signal the onset of the final round of voting in Nigeria’s electoral marathon. This is not a reference to the state-level ballots that occurred around the country on Saturday, March 18. I refer instead to something far more consequential.
Democracy may be about choices and decisions by citizens in theory. As practiced in Nigeria, however, citizens are mostly spectators. In every election, Nigeria’s judges have the final votes.
Every election cycle in Nigeria has three seasons. The campaign season belongs to the parties, the politicians, and godfathers. This is followed by the voting season, during which the security agencies, thugs, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hold sway. Thereafter, matters shift to the courts for the dispute resolution season, which belongs to the lawyers (mostly Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs) and judges. All three are separate but interdependent.
Of 1,490 seats contested federally and in the states in 2019 (excluding the CT Area Council ballots), the courts decided 805 (54.02%). This is higher than just over 45% recorded in 2015 and 51% recorded in 2011 but lower than the high of 86.35% from the nadir of 2007. So, by 2019, Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC had bled all the confidence that Attahiru Jega, his predecessor, had built in the electoral process. In 2023, he shamelessly pulverized what was left of it.
With elections to federal offices concluded on 25 February and to state offices on 18 March, election petition season is now formally open. On 22 March, the first landmark will be reached with the expiration of the 21-day deadline for filing petitions arising from the presidential election results announced on 1 March.
Already, every piece of evidence points to the likelihood that this will be no ordinary season. On March 3, 48 hours after the announcement of the results, the Court of Appeal ordered the INEC to grant access to the parties to inspect the materials generated from the presidential elections. Three days later, the order was served on the INEC. Instead of complying, the commission stone-walled.
On March 13, INEC chairman, the execrable Mahmood Yakubu, informed lawyers for the parties who demarched him at the INEC headquarters in Abuja, that he had nothing to hide before quickly reminding them that most of the documents that they wanted were in the states and not at the INEC Headquarters. As with all the acts of infamy to which this INEC chairman has become habituated, he said this with a straight face.
This decentralization of obfuscation is original but unlawful. Under the Constitution and the Electoral Act, Nigeria is one constituency for the presidential election and the INEC Chairman is the only returning officer. The idea that documents used in the election are in the custody of INEC states offices is quite simply nonsensical. It is his place to organize custody in such a manner that the standards of access to them is uniform and predictable. By sending the lawyers on an obstacle course through 36 states and the FCT, Mahmood makes manifest his design to frustrate election dispute resolution.
Livy Uzoukwu, the SAN leading the legal team for Labour Party’s Peter Obi, credits INEC’s stone-walling with forcing them to reduce the scope of their inspection of materials from 36 states to just nine. Even then, by March 16, they had granted the lawyers access to only two states.
In Nigeria, every election petition is heard by a panel of three, five, or seven judges. If they all don’t agree, the judges will decide by majority vote. To win, a party must have the votes of two judges out of three (first instance); three justices out of five (appeal), or four justices out of seven (Supreme Court). Where there is such disagreement, there will be dissents.
The heightened role of judges in elections is essentially a feature of the presidential system of government. In Nigeria, Kayode Eso handed down the first notable dissent in this field in the Supreme Court decision in Obafemi Awolowo’s challenge to the victory of Shehu Shagari in the 1979 presidential election. Six of the seven Justices, led by Chief Justice Atanda Fatayi-Williams, ruled that the elections were in “substantial compliance” with the law, but Eso, the junior Justice on the panel, filed a memorable dissent.
Sometimes, the decisions of the courts inexplicably diverge. Following elections in September 1983, Nigeria’s Supreme Court heard two cases arising respectively from the governorship elections in Anambra and Ondo States. The issues were broadly the same: the then ruling party, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), was credibly accused of rigging the elections in both states, enabling the Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) to announce NPN candidates as winners when they lost. In Anambra, the citizens mostly went back to their businesses.
In Ondo State, the citizens decided to make the state ungovernable by burning everything in sight. On December 30, 1983, the Supreme Court upheld the Anambra governorship election by a majority of six to one but invalidated the Ondo Governorship result by the same margin. Hours later, on the night of the same day, soldiers sacked the government. By the time the court issued its reasons on January 6, 1984, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was already one week old as a military ruler.
It is not only in Nigeria that election courts can announce incomprehensible outcomes. In 2006, Uganda’s Supreme Court considered a petition by the opposition candidate, Kizza Besigye, against incumbent President, Yoweri Museveni. In its decision, the Court concluded that “there was non-compliance with the provisions of the Constitution, Presidential Elections Act and the Electoral Commission Act, in the conduct of the 2006 Presidential Elections”; that there was “disenfranchisement of voters by deleting their names from the voters register or denying them the right to vote” and that “the principle of free and fair elections was compromised by bribery and intimidation or violence in some areas of the country.” Nevertheless, Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki led three other judges in a majority of four to uphold the outcome in favour of Museveni.
Sometimes, the decisions in election petitions are dodgy. When it decided the election petition against the outcome of the December 2012 presidential election filed by then-opposition candidate, Nana Akuffo-Addo, on August 29, 2013, Ghana’s Supreme Court announced a majority of six against three in favour of upholding the declaration of President Mahama as the winner. Economist, George Ayittey, wrote that the announced decision was “bungled. There was an inexplicable 4-hour delay in announcing the verdict, fueling speculation that something fishy was going on behind the scenes. Then Justice Atuguba announced a six–three verdict dismissing the petition. A day later, the verdict was changed to 5-4.” In a study of the judgment published in 2014 under the title ‘The Burdens of Democracy in Africa: How Courts Sustain Presidential Elections’, late Nigerian lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, showed that five of the nine justices who sat on that election petition in fact ordered a partial or total rerun of the election. In effect, rather than the announced majority of six–three in favour of President Mahama, the verdict was in fact five-four against him.
More recently, miracles have occurred. In August 2017, Kenya’s Chief Justice, David Maraga, led the Supreme Court to strike down a presidential election in Africa for the first time. In May 2020, Malawi’s Supreme Court did the same. In Nigeria four months earlier, the Supreme Court on January 13, 2020, declared Hope Uzodinma governor of Imo state despite his having been returned fourth in the election.
What Nigeria’s Supreme Court does in 2023 will matter. Like the major parties, all actors in Nigeria’s election petition process have learnt to build “structures”. For the parties, their structures are in the infrastructure of election rigging, or what former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, once famously called the criminal network of “five gods and the godfather”, including the highest levels of INEC, the security services, thugs, and the judiciary. For INEC, it is in the ruling party and the power network of incumbency at the federal and state levels. For the judiciary, it is in the same mutual benefit network of incumbency in the various branches of government at various levels.
Election petitions have become a preoccupation of judges in Nigeria and around Africa and a defining process in public perception of the courts. In the past, they provided moments of high forensic and judicial drama. Increasingly, however, they have become performative rituals for sanctifying electoral burglary and celebrating judicial capture. The beneficiaries are the burglars and the judges. The best the victims can often expect to receive is a timorous Pontius Pilate mistaken as a valiant judge. In 2023, Nigeria’s judges can sculpt a different narrative.
A lawyer and a teacher, Odinkalu can be reached at chidi.odinkalu@tufts.edu
Of the bold moves that have been undertaken in recent months to effect some détente in the political situation in Tanzania, this is probably the most daring. That the main opposition party would have the cheek to invite President Suluhu Hassan to officiate at its political rally, and that she would accept was, until it happened, unthinkable.
Now that it has happened it has raised a number of questions without answers, simply because of its novelty, given our recent history in all matters political. What is the game plan? people are asking. Who is pulling a fast one on whom? Who is the card and who is the dunce? What is the strategic aim of all this, and what is each party expecting as the outcome of the game?
All we mortals know is that the chairman of Chadema — probably the biggest opposition party in the country —announced out of the blue that he had invited President Samia, who is also chair of the ruling party CCM, to be the guest of honour at a Chadema symposium on March 8, commemorating International Women’s Day.
That was clearly unprecedented, and when it was confirmed that Samia had indeed accepted the invite, it was clear that we had moved away from the times when these two political formations were mortal enemies. The very thought that they would open the doors to each other’s activities was mutually anathema. At least that is how casual observers viewed the political chasm between these organisations.
Political culture
It has been the political culture in the country that opposition political parties have been registered but not openly allowed to operate, only being tolerated as an unnecessary evil that has been foisted on the country by circumstances “beyond our control.” The ruling party has had that stance all the time since former Chief Justice Francis Nyalali produced a report that was adopted by all the structures of the political system, leading to multiparty politics.
The multiparty system limped, huffed and panted under successive regimes headed by Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Benjamin Mkapa and Jakaya Kikwete, all of them presidents who paid lip service to the new dispensation but did everything to kill it. They were all too hypocritical to say openly what they wanted.
With the arrival of John Pombe Magufuli at the helm, and after being made chair of CCM, a new order was born —one of zero tolerance to opposition. His stance was clear for all to see: The opposition had to be killed, and he did his damnedest to make that a reality. By 2020, he had achieved that, only he died.
Undoing the system
Samia, as Magufuli’s successor, has had other ideas, and she has been meticulously undoing the system that the dead president had crafted, which wanted the single-party rule reinstated and his personal rule extended forever.
That is why he did not allow his own party cadres, who could have won without vote stealing; he replaced them with candidates who had polled far fewer votes in the preliminaries, and then stole the ballots at a strategic level, where his security operatives replaced the returning officers, election observers and even voters, wholesale.
We started hearing people saying they were going to “force him” to change the constitution to “allow him” to rule without end when, in fact, it was he who was making himself president for life. His henchmen/women were busy with all manner of stratagems, including killing or disappearing people who he wanted dead, stashing away slush funds for his project, and preparing a compliant base of sycophants who would never challenge him.
In those circumstances, when Magufuli died, Samia found herself with no real support from her own party, and the first steps she took included bringing together all elements of goodwill, notwithstanding political affiliation.
Help the country move on
It is not too crazy to think Samia and Freeman could have come to understand that the political conditions of the country require them to come closer together with a view to helping the country to move forward.
March 8 comes across as the ideal moment to break the ice, because the advancement of women’s issues is something there can be little disagreement over. For that reason, I think the choice of the occasion and the date was superb.
That did not stop tongues wagging on both sides of the spectrum. On the opposition side, it might appear that Chadema is selling out, while on the side of CCM, Mama is too eager to appease the very people who want her job and CCM’s comfort zone just to please their sworn “enemies.”
During the meeting, it was refreshing to hear the two main protagonists exchanging good-natured barbs in political conversations, emphasising competition without enmity. Freeman did not miss the opportunity to reiterate his party’s basic demands on political reforms, and Samia stressing the importance of the collaboration shown by the two parties to become a norm, because, she said, there were people who did not want conversations such as this one to take place.
This ice-breaking mode serves as a safety valve that will allow the nation to breathe, and should be encouraged. As they say, yaw-yaw is better than war-war.
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September 8, 2020 • 0
Rush: Time Stand Still (2016)
written by Dave Bidini
directed by Dale Heslip
I’ve been a lifelong Rush nerd since 1985, since my first incursion into the Canadian prog-rockers’ music at the Power Windows tour. Since then, I was able to see the band three more times, and all of them were pretty damn amazing. Thirty years after that moment under the Costa Mesa night sky, the band went on the road for the very last time. Drummer Neil Peart was struggling with tendonitis and he wanted to retire and spend more time with his young daughter.
It was a bittersweet goodbye, as neither bassist Geddy Lee nor guitarist Alex Lifeson felt ready to hang up the spurs just yet. The resulting film, Rush: Time Stand Still, chronicles the band’s final tour, and while the result is not as captivating as Rush’s earlier documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010), it’s still a heartfelt coda that speaks to the legacy of one of rock’s most enduring trios, made even more poignant by Peart’s death five years later from brain cancer.
Rush has been an inspiration in my life for as long as I can remember. I’m sad it’s over. But just as the lyrics to Time Stand Still say, the songs will always be there to pass an evening with a drink and a friend (you know who you are), as we discuss Rush’s best lyric, guitar solo, or drum fill. Let’s freeze this moment a little bit longer.
Rating: **½
Categories: Documentary
Tagged as: Alex Lifeson, Film Review, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Rush
A Quiet Place (2018) / Bird Box (2018)
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COVID-19 Impacted HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Care in 2020
This 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Global Fund for the response to AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, an organization for mobilizing economic resources to end HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria on the planet.
Each year, the Global Fund mobilizes some $4 billion to fund programs operated by local experts in more than 100 countries. But this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has registered negative results in some of its objectives for the first time in its history .
It should be remembered that before SARS-CoV-2, tuberculosis was the most lethal infectious disease in the world, in addition to being closely related to HIV, as it is the leading cause of death among people with this virus in the world.
According to its 2021 Results Report, the Global Fund recorded that the number of people in treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis decreased by 19% during 2020, and the number of those in treatment for broadly resistant tuberculosis fell even more, by 37%. At the same time, the number of people with HIV and TB taking treatments for both infections fell by 16%.
Resources Allocated to the Emergency
Faced with the global emergency derived from COVID-19, the Global Fund allocated $980 million to respond to the new pandemic. As stated by the agency, in 2020 it reacted “quickly and decisively” to prevent the negative impact on its objectives from being greater.
Thus, in addition to the 4.2 billion dollars with which the year began, the fund was mobilized to deliver another 3.3 billion in 100 countries to adapt HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs that provide essential tests, medical supplies, and treatment. as well as to protect front-line workers and try to strengthen the most fragile health systems.
There is Also Good News
Despite the enormous challenge of 2020, the Global Fund’s investments also paid off, including an 8.8% increase in the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment and the 8.7 million people who accessed HIV prevention services.
“Together we have managed to change the trajectory of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria,” said the agency’s executive director, Peter Sands, “and we are determined to continue to do so. By continuing to innovate and collaborate – nationally, globally, and locally – we can end HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, defeat COVID-19 and build a much stronger foundation for pandemic preparedness and response. “
At AHF Latin America and the Caribbean, we work to achieve a world without AIDS. Learn about our free services, such as HIV testing and condom delivery. Find the closest center in your country. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11950 | {"url": "https://ahflatamycaribe.org/en/covid-19-impacted-hiv-tuberculosis-and-malaria-care-in-2020/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "ahflatamycaribe.org", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:22:36Z", "digest": "sha1:APY35HHLXVP3TGMUPQDHICQNHKYF5DHK"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 2665, 2665.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 2665, 4103.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 2665, 12.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 2665, 96.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 2665, 0.96]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 2665, 159.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 2665, 0.36328872]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 2665, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 2665, 0.02592593]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 2665, 0.04166667]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 2665, 0.04166667]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 2665, 0.0462963]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 2665, 0.03441683]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 2665, 0.20076482]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 2665, 0.51732102]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 2665, 4.98845266]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 2665, 4.87663215]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 2665, 433.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 61, 0.0], [61, 289, 1.0], [289, 555, 1.0], [555, 793, 1.0], [793, 1159, 1.0], [1159, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1460, 1.0], [1460, 1811, 1.0], [1811, 1835, 0.0], [1835, 2071, 1.0], [2071, 2472, 0.0], [2472, 2665, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 61, 0.0], [61, 289, 0.0], [289, 555, 0.0], [555, 793, 0.0], [793, 1159, 0.0], [1159, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1460, 0.0], [1460, 1811, 0.0], [1811, 1835, 0.0], [1835, 2071, 0.0], [2071, 2472, 0.0], [2472, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 61, 9.0], [61, 289, 36.0], [289, 555, 46.0], [555, 793, 41.0], [793, 1159, 61.0], [1159, 1196, 5.0], [1196, 1460, 43.0], [1460, 1811, 56.0], [1811, 1835, 5.0], [1835, 2071, 35.0], [2071, 2472, 62.0], [2472, 2665, 34.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 61, 0.10344828], [61, 289, 0.02714932], [289, 555, 0.0233463], [555, 793, 0.004329], [793, 1159, 0.03943662], [1159, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1460, 0.03501946], [1460, 1811, 0.02064897], [1811, 1835, 0.0], [1835, 2071, 0.0349345], [2071, 2472, 0.00516796], [2472, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 61, 0.0], [61, 289, 0.0], [289, 555, 0.0], [555, 793, 0.0], [793, 1159, 0.0], [1159, 1196, 0.0], [1196, 1460, 0.0], [1460, 1811, 0.0], [1811, 1835, 0.0], [1835, 2071, 0.0], [2071, 2472, 0.0], [2472, 2665, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 61, 0.19672131], [61, 289, 0.04385965], [289, 555, 0.03383459], [555, 793, 0.04201681], [793, 1159, 0.03005464], [1159, 1196, 0.08108108], [1196, 1460, 0.03409091], [1460, 1811, 0.01139601], [1811, 1835, 0.16666667], [1835, 2071, 0.02542373], [2071, 2472, 0.03740648], [2472, 2665, 0.08290155]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 2665, 0.05830973]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 2665, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 2665, 0.78837782]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 2665, -94.98507901]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 2665, 45.85856724]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 2665, 9.56470073]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 2665, 20.0]]} |
Natan Dvir’s work on display
During the past few months, Photographer Natan Dvir captured a number of interesting individuals and stories related to the coverage of the US elections and the events that followed. His work was featured on Der Spiegel in a leading article following Donald Trump’s inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, and also in the annual New York special issue for L’Express (France) including articles about the new WTC complex, Trump’s real-estate empire, Lincoln Center, Chinatown, and Staten Island among others. Some other latest work by Dvir include Kimberley Motley for IO Donna (Italy), Gay Telese for Haaretz (Israel), De Correspondent (Holland), Creative Image (India) – “Natan Dvir” and LensCulture (France) – “Coming Soon”. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11951 | {"url": "https://aicf.org/news/natan-dvirs-work-display/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "aicf.org", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:04:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VHQ4KH6VKOTR3TLJ57YBC6RHARPOJOHL"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 765, 765.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 765, 3613.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 765, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 765, 120.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 765, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 765, 250.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 765, 0.27272727]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 765, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 765, 0.01926164]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 765, 0.02597403]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 765, 0.20779221]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 765, 0.77966102]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 765, 5.27966102]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 765, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 765, 4.37461608]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 765, 118.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 765, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 765, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 29, 5.0], [29, 765, 113.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 765, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 765, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 29, 0.06896552], [29, 765, 0.07201087]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 765, 0.84117335]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 765, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 765, 0.00430429]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 765, -89.85434618]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 765, 12.8335603]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 765, -4.71061109]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 765, 3.0]]} |
5G services | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11952 | {"url": "https://airlinergs.com/tag/5g-services/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "airlinergs.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:31:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HVST44EKALRINNNFDP5G7KUDNNRJVRXR"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 11, 11.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 11, 2712.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 11, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 11, 80.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 11, 0.99]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 11, 217.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 11, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 11, 0.5]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 11, 1.0]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 11, 5.0]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 11, 0.69314718]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 11, 2.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 11, 2.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 11, 0.09090909]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 11, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 11, 0.09090909]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 11, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 11, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 11, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 11, -1.33386201]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 11, -0.85571194]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 11, -0.72253264]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 11, 1.0]]} |
The Three-Year Swim Club
Book Club Kits: The Three-Year Swim Club
Julie Checkoway
The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.
They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water.
In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory.
They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.
Sakamoto emphasized consistent, planned effort for his athletes. How do you think that emphasis reflected the world in which he worked and they grew up?
Throughout the book, the Olympics serves both as a competitive goal (for the 3YSC) and a symbol of international peace. How do you think the Games use athletics to bring nations together? Can that approach affect serious international conflicts?
Keo Nakama and Halo Hirose swam together but differed significantly. How do you think they reflect the power of personality in shaping our lives?
In some ways, the book focuses more on determination and perseverance than swimming. How do Sakamoto, Nakama and other figures reflect the power of those traits?
Female swimmers clearly received different treatment from their coaches, the public, the media, and even their families. Discuss the role of the female swimmers and the differences between their experiences and those of the males?
The book demonstrates how tragic generational change can be. Discuss the experiences of older Japanese-Americans during the war. Why did they have to abandon their cultural heritage? What do you think of the ways that their children rebelled against their expectations?
Again and again, the book identifies unlikely heroes. Where do you think that personal achievement originates? Think about Sakamoto, Nakama and Smith but also Kiphuth and Peppe.
How do you think the “Gee Whiz” school of journalism helped to support and encourage the 3YSC? Was it entirely positive, or did it both help and hurt them?
Consider the role of expertise in the 3YSC’s success. E.L. Damkroger disdained Sakamoto because the latter was just an elementary school teacher with no experience as a coach. But Sakamoto achieved things no one else had. Why?
Many characters in the 3YSC swam against the current of adversity—economic, racial, gender, and educational. How do you think they responded to those challenges and what do you think swimming contributed to their lives?
Imagine the contradictions between travel in the Jim Crow-era United States and the adulation the 3YSC attracted for its successes. How do you think the swimmers coped with that disconnect, and what do you think it reveals about athletics and race?
Sakamoto demanded more from his athletes than any other coach before him. They loved him and performed amazing feats under his direction. What do you think this suggests about hard work? About leadership?
Halo Hirose became a swimming coach. In that role, he “never promised…more that he…could deliver” and “never played favorites.” Consider what that reflects about his experience in the 3YSC. Does it change the way you think about Sakamoto?
What does it mean to be an American? As the story of the 3YSC shows, American identity rests on ethnic, religious, racial, regional, and philosophical bases. How do you think the members of the 3YSC came to think about their American identity in the course of the forties? How do you think white Americans like Damkroger and Kiphuth though about them?
Why do we admire athletic achievement? What do you think we see in athletes that makes us proud and leads us to invest their success with regional, national, and even international significance?
Do companies owe a decent life to their employees? The people working and living at Pu’unene endured extreme poverty under the umbrella of the sugar companies. Should those companies have done more for the sugar ditch kids?
History, like human life, can be terrifyingly unpredictable. Choose two or three examples from the book and consider how the 3YSC and its coach coped with the changes occurring around them.
Checkoway reconstructed the story of the 3YSC from fragments—memoires, newspaper articles, photographs, and records of swim meets. Some details were lost in time. What would you like to know about the 3YSC that is left a mystery?
Halo Hirose visited Nazi Germany and later said dismissively, “It was Heil Hitler this, and Heil Hitler.” What do you think the differences are between living in the midst of historical events and looking back at them later? How hard is it to see the present and understand the significance of its events?
Over and over, the media portrayed the 3YSC in ways that reflected American racial ideas. Discuss examples of this and what you think it shows about the challenge race posed for the athletes and Sakamoto.
Discuss the various ways in which members of the 3YSC were perceived and treated in different parts of the county—including their home state—in terms of race. How do you think the twenties, thirties, and forties differed in terms of those experiences?
A number of people in the history of the 3YSC escaped near-death scenarios at some time or another, including Bill Smith, Blossom Young, and Sakamoto himself. How do you think these experiences changed them or shaped their lives, and why?
A common adage asserts that “history is written by the victors.” The Three-Year Swim Club was victorious in many ways, even producing an Olympic gold medalist. Why do you think their story was left largely untold for so long?
Who is the real hero of the book? Is it Sakamoto? Which athlete was most heroic? How do you think the stories in the book reflect different versions of heroism?
Were Damkroger and Kiphuth villains? Discuss their motivations and consider whether it’s possible that they were good-hearted with good intentions.
Julie Checkoway is an author and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and fellowships at writers’ colonies, including Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salt Lake Tribune, and Huffington Post.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance.
The goal?
To become Olympians. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. 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Alaska’s Economic Outlook, Ranked: 2022
Published on August 22, 2022 August 11, 2022 by Quinn Townsend
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has released the updated edition of Rich States, Poor States, which examines the economic competitiveness of every state using 15 equally weighted policy variables. Alaska is ranked 21st out of 50 states for its economic outlook, a reminder that our economic performance is mediocre, at best. Measuring the health of Alaska’s economy is a crucial first step to crafting targeted policy that will improve the economic outlook in the Last Frontier.
ALEC uses 15 equally weighted policy variables that measure financial stability, thus giving policymakers and the public a well-rounded picture of states’ economic outlook. The 15 variables include: the top marginal personal income tax rate, the top marginal corporate income tax rate, personal income tax progressivity, the property tax burden, the sales tax burden, the remaining tax burden, estate/inheritance taxes, recently legislated tax changes, the debt service as a share of tax revenue, the share of public employees, the state liability survey system, the state minimum wage, the average workers’ compensation costs, whether it is a right-to-work state, and tax expenditure limits.
Source: Rich States, Poor States (Alaska is represented by the bolded box in the bottom left corner, ranked 21st).
Where Does Alaska Rank?
Among all 50 states, Alaska ranks 21st for economic outlook, and ALEC describes this ranking as a “forward-looking forecast based on the state’s standing (equal-weighted average) in 15 important state policy variables.” Backward-looking at economic performance, however, Alaska ranks 49th. In comparison, Utah, North Carolina, and Arizona rank the highest while California, New Jersey, and New York rank the lowest for economic outlook.
Because Alaska does not levy a personal income tax on residents, the state ranks very well for both categories that score personal income tax rates and progressivity (first and second-place rankings, respectively). On the other hand, Alaska levies one of the highest top marginal corporate tax rates in the nation, which brings down the state’s overall ranking.
In terms of tax burdens, the state has a low sales tax burden, a high property tax burden, and a low overall tax burden, considering both state and local taxes. According to the report, Alaskans’ average total state and local tax burden is $56.21 for every $1,000 of personal income. Additionally, the state does not levy an estate or inheritance tax, which reduces the overall tax burden compared to residents in other states.
While Alaska mostly scores well in the tax rates and burdens categories, there are several other categories in which Alaska scores very poorly. According to the ALEC report, Alaska has one of the highest shares of public employees—state and local—in the nation, ranking 48th. Having a high share of public employees keeps dollars flowing within the government, rather than boosting local economies.
Additionally, Alaska has a high debt-payment-to-tax-revenues ratio. This is the interest paid on state and local debt as a percentage of tax revenues. Having a high ratio (8.86% in Alaska) means that a large portion of tax revenues are paying off debts rather than funding current and future projects. Spending state funds on past projects does little to boost the economy. Similar to a personal budget, it is better for money to be forward-funded or saved rather than back-funded.
Lastly, the Rich States, Poor States report scores Alaska’s constitutional tax expenditure limit as 3rd in that category. Unfortunately, it is clear ALEC did not consider how the limit actually functions in the state. As Alaska Policy Forum has pointed out, the state’s constitutional expenditure limit, or spending cap, is set so high as to be essentially meaningless, thus requiring a lower score than ALEC gave Alaska in the 2022 Rich States, Poor States report.
Overall, Alaska’s 21st place ranking is middle-of-the-pack. While the state has multiple policies working in its favor, such as no personal income tax or statewide sales tax, the state also has policies that could be changed to improve Alaska’s economic outlook. Policy changes that would positively impact Alaska include setting a meaningful spending cap, maintaining a low tax burden, paying off debt, and implementing policies to encourage private job growth rather than boosting government jobs.
In many respects, Alaska is primed to become an economic powerhouse in the nation, but current policies are keeping the state in gridlock. Policymakers should take meaningful steps to encourage innovation, business growth, and economic prosperity in the Last Frontier.
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Alberto’s biography
Ever since he was a little kid, Alberto has been developing a particular artistic sense, by creating different mixes of colour and lightning in his pieces.
Through his whole life, self-taught experimentation has been key, with personal research on different works and inspirations from different periods and styles. These studies of colours and materials have developed a personal style allowing his works to give birth to bursts of life through shadows and lights. These studies then extended to the movements of the human, animal and vegetable body. Years of reading, observation and experimentation have made it possible to transcend this artistic vision.
From 2013, Alberto has continued the exploration of oil painting by working on the walls of his childhood home, bringing out a certain taste for 18th century Baroque art. This activity was thus his best weapon to highlight his personality, his emotions, his fears and joys.
Then, in 2016, with his arrival in Paris he had an explosion of influences in its greatest diversity, overflowing and inexhaustible. While continuing his studies, he decided to resume his work in pastel and to sublimate it through these new discoveries.
Subsequently, from 2018, the acrylic process will make a comeback on his work, with the idea to keep innovating and experimenting on the techniques, with the creation of several canvases, which testify his influences and his admiration of great artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet.
This was a decisive year, with the creation and mastery of his own style: Lineism.
Lineism is the union and, at the same time, the separation of colours, by lines that divide each ray of light, each part of shadow and every subject on his paintings.
In recent years, he has switched to oil painting, while developing his technique independently. Auto-didacticism has always been the source of his know-how and continuously nourishes his aspirations. This forces him to study all styles from a fresh and unique perspective, to draw inspiration from others while keeping his own style and to take a greater step back and look at art from a pure perspective.
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What’s Tool Defense?
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There are many factors that contribute to unit safety, but one of the most important is quality control. Quality control is the process of ensuring that all products meet the same high standards for safety and performance. It includes everything from testing products before they are released to ensuring that they are manufactured correctly. Quality control is essential for all companies, but it is especially important for companies that deal with products that could be dangerous to consumers. In an article regarding the class at TDI Packsys stated that, if you produce food, Food processors need to control and verify the safety of products or face great risk to consumers, and to companies’ futures. Also, if you manufacture or sell toys, you need to be aware of the latest toy safety requirements from the CPSC.
How-to Perform Unit Safeguards
The best way to manage product safety is to have a plan in place from the very beginning. That means starting with a safe design and then following through with quality control at every stage of the manufacturing process. It is also important to have a system in place for handling customer complaints and recalls. By being proactive about product safety, you can avoid costly mistakes and keep your customers safe.
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Product safety is more important than ever. In today’s climate, customers are looking for ways to slow down the chance of purchasing products that may be unsafe.
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Treatise on the Astrolabe
Here’s a nice TED talk on the astrolabe, thanks to Alun Salt for the tip-off. The speaker uses an example of an astrolabe from the Oxford Museum for the History of Science (also featured in Alun’s blogpost). The Science Museum have some pretty gorgeous ones too.
I won’t rehearse what an astrolabe is here, watch the video. But I can use it to say something about children’s science books. The first manual for the Astrolabe was written for a kid (Geoffrey Chaucer’s son Lewis, yes that Chaucer). The British Museum has an astrolabe they think matches the one the Chaucers would have used. This book is often described as first children’s book. So, the first ever children’s book was a science book.
This little fact-ette pleases me immensely. Obviously it relies on a rather ridiculous (not to mention anachronistic) over-simplification of our definitions of “children” “science” and “book”. I don’t care though. When people at children’s literature studies conferences look at me with incredulity when I say I study science books (people have, quite seriously, looked down their noses and informed me “but, non-fiction isn’t literature“), I love to direct them to Chaucer.
Via Peter Hunt (1994) An Introduction to Children’s Literature (Opus, Oxford: pp.189) if you want a full bibliographic reference from a professor of children’s literature studies.
This entry was posted in astronomy, books, historyofscience, museums and tagged astronomy, books, history of science, museums on April 28, 2010 by alice.
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3 thoughts on “Treatise on the Astrolabe”
Scott K May 4, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Thank you. That's brilliant – not the video, the riposte for "science books aren't literature" rubbish.
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Tag Archive | fear
It has been a while since I wrote on my blog.. I began this blog in March of 2010. So here I am 12 years later living a life I could never have imagined. If you have been following me, you know that my life turned upside down in 2019 when my husband was hospitalized for early onset dementia and he went to be with Jesus in August of 2020.. during the pandemic.. I moved, gave away everything and eventually ended up where I am living now. On March 30th of 2020 I moved here.. that was our 18th wedding anniversary.. if he were here we would be celebrating our 20th anniversary in a few weeks.
My life started over … living alone for the first time.. widowed for the second time and now facing a very uncertain future. How long will I be here? What lies ahead? Is there another season for me? I was only 51 when I was widowed for the first time and it was clear that I would have another season.. in many ways it was the best part of my life.. My daughter married, I married again and the grandchildren were born. Now I am much older and the grandkids are almost grown.. It is more difficult to imagine that there is more in store for me.. yet at the same time, I am here and I could live much longer. My mother just turned 100 in November.. good genes.
The biggest challenge is living in the uncertainty daily. What is God up to ? Will He help me to find a new path.. a new direction.. a new purpose? Well.. He knows me and He shaped me so I believe He will do all these things and more.. but the waiting is difficult. I have never been a patient person.. it is hard to live without knowing. .Yet there is one thing I do know and that is that He is faithful and will never change.. I lost my husband, my job, my things, and even my health has been challenged, but I cannot lose the Lord… the losses are hard, the grief continues , but He seems more real and closer to me than ever before. He is with me, He is for me, He follows me, and He leads me as I trust Him.
The Bible verses on fear have helped me so much during this time.. here is one of my favorites.
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
Do you face an uncertain future? Look to Him .. He will never fail you.
This entry was posted on March 9, 2022, in Desires, Encouragement, Grief, Hope, The Waiting Room and tagged Christianity, fear, God, Hope, pandemic, Trust, uncertainty, Waiting. 2 Comments
Almost 11 years !
It was 11 years ago that I started this blog. In the beginning I really didn’t know what a blog was and I had no idea how to start one or how to keep it going. I was on Facebook and felt frustrated because I wanted to express more of myself than I could there. So.. I started this blog. Throughout the years I often wondered if I should quit.. just leave it up but never add to it. I decided to keep going and to write one more post.. and then another one and then another one.. and here we are today.
Maintaining this blog is like living life.. we take one step and then another and another and here we are. I write because I hope that what I share helps others and that my vulnerability helps people open up to their true feelings and struggles. I don’t get much feedback but that’s OK.. it is something that the Lord has called me to do and I really enjoy the process and the comments:)
My last post was a few weeks ago and I feel like I have been moving forward quite a bit since I posted on February 1st. I am still grieving , of course. It has been almost 6 months since Steve went to be with the Lord.. sometimes it seems like years and sometimes it seems like minutes. The grief comes and it goes. I know it will always be like that but I am learning to live in this season with hope. So many things happened at once for me that I was literally reeling for months.. trying to understand what happened and hoping to get insights into why. Well.. I know what happened.. I lost everything almost at once but I don’t know why. What I do know is that I can survive without any explanations. God is not going to reveal to me the reasons for taking Steve and that makes sense to me now. He is the Lord and He gives and takes away..
My challenge is to keep living and believing that there are purposes for me without him.. not easy. As I spend time alone these days.. the fear is less.. the loneliness is less.. that is a huge gift. I miss sharing my life with Steve.. I won’t get over that.. but I am learning to live with it.. believing that God is the redeemer. So each day I take steps like I did when I started this blog.. one blog post at a time and one step at a time. One day I will look back and realize I made it to 1 year.. then to 5 years and maybe 10 if I am still here. God will carry me into the future even though it looks like a blank slate. He wrote the story of my life and He will unfold it page by page as He has always done. My job is to trust Him and to know that He is good.
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
This entry was posted on February 22, 2021, in Aging, Desires, Grief, Life, Remembering, suffering, Trials, Trust and tagged fear, God, God is good, Grief, He is faithful, Hope, loneliness, Proverbs 3, Trust. 5 Comments
Yes..that word is powerful..the things that happen in that space are deep and profound. For the last several years the Lord has been working through a lot of isolation..at first when I began to experience it..I was frustrated and bored..wanting more contact with people..more activities..more life..
Strangely it seemed impossible to have a “real” life if I felt alone and isolated..As things have unfolded the isolation has become much more normal..but incredibly difficult. The last 6 months have been a major challenge..my life with Steve is gone and I am in my 3rd living situation where there is a family on the other side of the walls..Does that make the isolation worse? Of course..and now I can’t go see people at all..unless we talk from a distance and we are supposed to restrict our driving to essential things..my emotional health is not great..I am grieving the loss of my husband (he is still alive but in skilled nursing) the loss of our life together..our home..all the things we collected over the years..my work..the death of so many dreams.
Things are hard..but I still have my health and I still have hope..Hope in the Lord and His goodness. The time alone is hard but needed..grieving takes time..it requires all of our strength and energy..it refuses to wait..demanding our attention..it has no timeline..no deadline. Grieving is hard work..if we ignore our grief it will not go away..it just hides inside of us and one day it will emerge and try to destroy us.
Yet grief is not our enemy..if is ordained by God to bring healing and restoration..He works in these seasons of loss and grief..unearthing old grief that we forgot we had. He takes our hand and walks us through the pain so we can begin to heal..He reveals His love to us in our helplessness..we turn to Him because there is no place else to go.
Right now the entire world is grieving ..many of us are grieving on all kinds of levels..people are losing loved ones..jobs..friends..money..we have lost our freedom to go places and do things. Make time to sit with your grief to feel all your feelings..even the ones you wish were gone..be real with yourself and others.
Lord we trust you in the middle of all this ..we believe you are at work and that you are good.
This entry was posted on April 7, 2020, in Desires, Faith, Grief, Healing, Life, The Waiting Room, Trials and tagged Corona virus, covid 19, fear, God, Grief, Hope, isolation. Leave a comment
If there is one word that continues to haunt me these days.. it is hope. I think for the first time that I can remember as a Believer.. I am struggling to have hope. The world seems like such a mess.. as I write this, fires are still burning in Northern California.. and that is our home. We smelled the smoke and looked at the pictures of homes burning, people dying and there was nothing we could do to stop it. It is heart breaking to see the suffering that is all around us.. the mass slaughter in Las Vegas.. just a week earlier. What is happening Lord? Everything seems to be out of control and there is so much suffering.. In my personal life there have been challenges on a level I have never encountered.. emotional and physical trials..
So as I process all of this.. the word HOPE emerges. We cannot live without it, but it does not come from our circumstances or our surroundings. Our hope .. my hope.. can only be found in the Lord. He is with us and He is unchanging and we are living in a fallen world.. a dark world. All of these tragedies teach us that this world is not going to provide us with security or be our refuge .. it is an unstable place and we are not safe here. I believe that God is taking us deeper.. to a place where our faith truly rests on His goodness. Often that happens when everything else fails.. when all our dreams are broken..when we no longer believe that anything here can save or protect us. The world gets excited when people come together and accomplish good things.. and of course that is encouraging.. but not enough to sustain us through the long years of recovery.. through the grieving process. Once the headlines are gone.. and we go back to our “normal” lives.. there are people who cannot do that and we may forget about them because their pain is not public.. time to pray for them.. to remember them.. because it could have been us.
I am grateful for my life.. grateful that so far we have a roof over our heads .. grateful for the way I see people reaching out to help others.. but what I am the most grateful for is my relationship with the Lord.. for the knowledge that He loves me and is with me no matter what happens next.. He is my safe place and my refuge in the storm.. He is good and we can trust Him when nothing makes sense and when our next trial starts.. Our faithful loving God.. we are blessed.
Hebrews 6:18 in the Message says:
We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us..
This entry was posted on October 23, 2017, in Encouragement, Faith, Grief, Hope and tagged Believers, Christian, Encouragement, fear, God, hebrews 6, His faithfulness, Hope, Jesus, Rescue, strength, Trials, Trust. Leave a comment
A conversation I had with a friend this morning made me think deeply about choices. We have so many of them in this world. Everyday we are choosing without even knowing it. The Lord gave us free will and He gave us a mind. Both of these enable us to choose.. He seems to be very in favor of that or He would not have created us with the ability to choose so freely. I realize that there are people who think we should choose everything that feels good with no regard for anyone else.. I am definitely not in that camp. Then there are those who believe if you do not choose what I choose.. then something is very wrong with you.. not in that camp either. Choices are very serious and they are messy.
What prompted this blog post was the realization that we may have more choices than we realize.. maybe we feel like if we don’t choose wisely right now.. this could be our last chance. While I realize that there are grave consequences to choices made lightly without careful prayer and seeking God’s best.. I also know we are serve a God of second chances. third chances etc. Basically we cannot run out of chances with Him. So how do we navigate this road which often feels like it is full of potholes? I can’t claim to have all the answers.. but I do know that we live in a world where the Lord is constantly redeeming things. I also know that so many of the heroes of the Bible did really unbelievable things.. in fact if we were in charge we might say to them.. ” that is it.. no more chances.” Fortunately we are not in charge and that is not how God sees things.. He does not run out of grace and mercy.. even we take a wrong turn He will steer us back in the right direction.
So choosing is an awesome responsibility .. God knows that through our choices we will see Him more clearly.. even the bad choices. He knows that we will learn to seek Him more deeply as we choose.. if we desire to follow Him throughout our lives and He does not have a list of consequences we can read before we decide. Choices are deeply entrenched into our life.. we are walking by faith and not by sight. Choices tell the Lord we trust Him even if everyone around us thinks we are crazy.. Choices knit us to Him in a way that rules and regulations never will. We are given freedom.. lots of it.
Really the only thing we can do is pray and seek Him and ask Him to stop us when we are moving in the wrong direction. Then we can shut out of the voices of well-meaning people or how- to books and leap ahead in the direction that is right for us. Once we realize that if we fall He will catch us.. We can ask for courage and turn away from fear as we move forward..
I hope this year is one filled with hope for you as we move into 2017.. may you choose wisely as you follow our amazing God.
If you wander from the right path, either to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice behind you saying, “You should go this way. Here is the right way.” ( Isaiah 30:21)
This entry was posted on January 13, 2017, in Devotional, Faith, Freedom, God, Trust and tagged Christianity, courage, Encouragement, faith, fear, freedom, God, Isaiah 30:21, Trust. 5 Comments
The last ten years..
For the last few days I’ve been aware of this sense that I need to tell my story.. I used to do this when I had the opportunity to do it in women’s groups. Those seem to be gone, yet I still need to tell my story … I know that other people’s stories bring me such encouragement. So.. the last ten years have been extremely challenging.. I graduated from Seminary in 2006 and started my counseling practice that same year. My prayer was that the Lord would provide through my husband Steve. I knew the counseling was more a ministry than a business and I was hoping for a release from financial problems. That really never happened.
Steve has worked.. but all the jobs have been temporary and even those opportunities dried up. The country went into a recession and he got older. We have been in this unemployment prison for over 3 years and there is no release date posted.. God is keeping that to himself at the moment. It has been extremely difficult. We have been hopeful and then the hope was gone.. like a roller coaster ride of emotions. I am facing another birthday next month and wondering how we will make it through the rest of our lives. We have no house to lose or any savings to lose.. maybe that is better than watching everything disappear. It is lonely and I never expected these years to present this type of challenge. The uncertainty is huge and unfortunately it triggers lots of fears and insecurities.
But.. God is in this.. He is allowing it.. He knows all about it and it is not punishment or abandonment. I have been able to work for this entire time.. I learned that He is my source.. I can only do counseling because His spirit is in me and guides me. We are still married and even though we have arguments..they never last long. My own emotions have been hard to manage.. but my husband is very forgiving and loving. I have been blessed.. watching him continue to try for jobs week after week.. to remain hopeful month after month. His unconditional love for me when I have been angry and frustrated has been amazing. Our marriage is stronger.. our faith is stronger. We are relying totally on the goodness of God as this trial continues.
Life does not always turn out the way we want it to.. there are many surprises and disappointments. God is the same no matter what happens. He is good and He is faithful. He does not leave us or forget us. Our only hope is in Him.. trials remind us that there is no where else to go. We cannot lose Him even if we lose everything else.
This morning God reminded me of this scripture from 2nd Chronicles… it is a favorite.
“But you will not even need to fight. Take your positions; then stand still and watch the LORD’s victory. He is with you, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out against them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you!”
This entry was posted on November 14, 2016, in Aging, Hope, The Waiting Room, Trials and tagged 2nd Chronicles, disappointment, fear, God, Hope, Trials, Unemployment, Waiting. 9 Comments
This is the word that keeps coming to mind “This is my command–be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” I hear this verse in my head and believe that it is His word to us in these times.
The world does not feel like a safe place. We have access to so much bad news and we hear about tragedy that we never imagined could happen. Our hearts are heavy as we look around and realize there is so much we cannot change in our own lives and the lives of others. At the same time, there are things that we can do and they often take courage. It is surprising how much courage is involved in our decisions. Just stop and think about something that you want to do, but somehow fear is keeping you from moving forward. What do you need ” courage “and God wants to give it to you. If His command is to be strong and courageous then we have to trust Him to provide strength and courage.
Courage often means stepping out and making a decision that others think is foolish. God may be calling you to do something they cannot understand. He is asking you to follow him and not the voice of reason or logic. He is asking you to do something that only you know is from Him. He is leading you down a road that no one sees except you. Often He leads us forward into a new adventure and it looks crazy to other people. At times He tells us to stand still and wait ..that may look even more crazy to others. In our culture waiting and standing still patiently are not very popular. In the kingdom of God it is the opposite. “Now stand here and see the great thing the LORD is about to do.”
Are you struggling with circumstances that make no sense? Are there things in your life that you never anticipated? Are there more questions than answers? If so, then you are not alone. Many of us are in the same situation and God is with us. He is asking us to trust Him. He is growing our faith and He is deepening our relationship with Him. He is our shelter in the storm.. our safe haven. Let’s pray for strength and courage and trust that He is more than willing to give it to us.
I love the movie ” Finding Nemo” because it is all about courage. Remember this part?
Marlin:
I promised I’d never let anything happen to him.
Dory:
Hmm. That’s a funny thing to promise.
Well you can’t never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.
It makes sense doesn’t it. Courage involves risk and without risk life is not worth living..
This entry was posted on November 4, 2015, in Encouragement, Faith, Trust and tagged Christianity, courage, Dory, fear, Finding Nemo, God, Hope, letting go, Trust, Waiting. 4 Comments
He is truly ahead of us..
Today I was realizing in a new way that God is truly ahead of us on the road of life. He is paving the way for us and He knows exactly what will happen to us and when. His perfect plan is unfolding a day at a time and He continues to lead us as long as we want to follow Him and trust Him with all our doubts and fears.
These worries and anxieties spring from our desire to be in control and to understand the way God does things..something that is impossible. He tells us that “his ways are not ours.” Yet we continue to use our finite minds to understand the finite. We can’t do it.
So as we follow Him and He asks us to do things that seem risky, we can remember that it is part of the larger story that God is writing for our lives. He doesn’t explain why to us..He asks us to follow His lead and to join Him in what He is doing. Later He may reveal how it all fits together in ways we could never imagine.
I have developed a fondness for the mystery of our faith. When God gives me even tiny glimpses of how all of our stories intersect and the great plan He has for each of us.. I find myself amazed over and over again.
Our great God has everything under control..our part is to trust and obey. To seek Him and to believe in His goodness even when we see through a glass darkly. He will not fail or abandon us. He is for us and with us during every dark season and promises to bring us out into the light again.
Live fully today trusting Him to unfold your future..He is already there.
“I will always show you where to go.
I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—
firm muscles, strong bones.
You’ll be like a well-watered garden,
a gurgling spring that never runs dry.” Isaiah 58:11
This entry was posted on December 13, 2013, in Encouragement, Faith, God, Remembering, Seasons, Trust and tagged Christianity, faith, fear, future, God, Hope, Isaiah 58:11, Light, Seasons, trust and obey, Waiting. 6 Comments
F.E.A.R.
False evidence appearing real. I found this to be very helpful in conquering fear. In fact I had it on my wall for a while.. to remind myself of that truth. We often choose to stay in fear because it seems to be so real and so threatening. It keeps us from taking risks.. from moving forward into unknown territory. It is a good tool of the enemy to keep us in bondage.
If you remember the story of the Israelites in the wilderness.. it was fear that kept many of them out of the land of Canaan..fear and unbelief made them wander for another 40 years before they could enter the land. In fact all the spies that gave a bad report..those who failed to trust that God was their defender.. never lived to see the land of milk and honey again. God blessed Joshua and Caleb (the only two spies who believed Him) with a wonderful assignment. They were to enter the promised land claim it for the glory of God.
Nothing much has changed since that time. We still encounter giants in the land..we still refuse to believe God.. and some of us die without receiving the blessings God has prepared for us.
So..remember what fear really is. Don’t look at the giants and don’t believe bad reports that say God will not or cannot do what He says He will do. Take risks with Him..go forward with Him..trust in His goodness. Let’s enter that promised land that He has prepared for us.. the land of milk and honey. In that land we are sure to find both the abundant life and streams of living water. What more could we want?
“So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.”
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Tag Archive | journey
Sweet Sorrow
It has been a week since my wonderful husband fell into the arms of Jesus. I miss him every minute of every day but I am so thankful the struggle and suffering are over. This grief that surrounds me now is a sweet sorrow. We had a very good marriage and I never doubted for a minute that the Lord put us together. He was the first person to show me the unconditional love that I needed to experience to truly understand the Father’s love and be able to receive it. What a gift. I always think of him as the balm of Gilead on all the wounds I received before I met him.
Steve was a man of few words, but when he spoke.. he said something worth saying. I learned what the phrase ” action speaks louder than words” really means from this man. He loved me deeply and showered me with that love even when I knew I did not deserve it. I adored him and thankfully because I was widowed 21 years ago, I never let him forget that I loved him and checked in regularly to make sure he knew it. It is too late once someone is gone ..
When Steve began to get sick the first thing to go was language.. the one thing that he struggled with all his life. As time went on the dementia slowly progressed and robbed him of everything until at the end he was bedridden and unable to do anything for himself. It is a ruthless disease. He went into the hospital in early Sept of 2019 and then a month later was admitted to skilled nursing.
This last year was so challenging for both of us , but in the midst of it I saw God move over and over on our behalf. He was placed in the best skilled nursing in the county.. close to where I lived with the most caring people you could ever hope to meet. I went to see him every day for months until Covid struck our country. I continually prayed that he would know me .. many people don’t remember their loved ones. As long as he was able to communicate at all. I would tell him I loved him and he would tell me he loved me. He never forgot me and was always glad to see me even when he became very disabled. Many believers came through this life as his journey progressed. I was locked out of the facility for 2 months and suddenly with no real explanation they let me back in.. I was the only person I knew in Marin who was able to visit someone in skilled nursing.
I spent as much time as I could over the last 4 months just being with him.. playing music.. praying and reading to him. It was a privilege to be in there and to walk with him to the end. I had Hospice support for 6 months,, but because of Covid they were locked out.. three wonderful workers talked with me each week on the phone and helped me survive.. it was a lonely road.. The grief of the last year was complicated.. I wanted it to end so he would not suffer… but wanted him to live as long as possible.. the only thing I could do was pray and tell the Lord that it was up to Him and not me.. and that I would give to Steve until he was released from this world and went to be with the Lord. He died peacefully and I had a vision of the angels coming for him the morning he passed on.. God has provided for me in every way during this trial and continues to provide each and every day as I lean on Him for strength and courage to continue.
Thank you for reading my story and I pray that the Lord uses this to build your faith and helps you as your trust Him.
This entry was posted on September 6, 2020, in Grief, Life, suffering and tagged covid, death, Dementia, God, Grief, His faithfulness, Hope, journey, Seasons, strength, suffering, Trust. 7 Comments
Life on the other side of the wall
I know.. that title is a bit strange. It is a description of my life for the last 8 months. When I moved out of my condo last September and moved in with my daughter’s family there was a lot of life in that home.. on the other side of my wall. In my room there wasn’t much. Then I moved again 3 months later and there was a lot of life in my friends’ home and once again there wasn’t much life in my room. I had to move again. Here I am living on the other side of the wall and there is a wonderful family that rents this in law unit .. living fully each day. In every situation I have experienced being on the outside of life. The life I once knew is gone.. Steve is living in a facility and will never come out. As for me.. only the Lord knows if I will ever really feel like I am living again.
Before this last move I was sure I would not have to live in a situation where I could hear a family but not really be a part of it. Apparently that was my desire but not what God had in mind. He brought me here ..where once again.. I am an outsider.. living alone in my own room.
What is this all about? I am not totally sure .. I do have memories of my childhood that may be connected. My parents were very close and growing up I often felt like an outsider in my own family. My sister wormed her way into their united front by becoming the child with all the problems.. I continued to be on the outside as life unfolded on the other side of the wall.. Could the Lord be doing some healing in me? I hope so. I am tired of feeling that I am an outsider.. someone who doesn’t fit in.. who is not included. Now.. I am wondering.. is there a root issue that needs to be dealt with in my life?
One thing that I do know about God is that He often puts us in the very circumstances that will cause our old stuff to rise to the surface. Why? To torture us? No .. to show us that we need to let go of the old stuff to give it to HIm and ask Him to heal us in the broken places. To tell you the truth I just realized that I had this issue as I started writing this post. I want the healing but it is not easy.. the old feelings are working their way to the surface.. When we bury old feelings they don’t die, they are buried alive and they will be triggered by our current circumstances… it is a tool that God uses to bring freedom. He wants to pull off the band aids and heal the wounds. He wants to pull out the arrows in our heart that have been there all our lives.
I love being part of that process in other people’s lives.. probably why I became a counselor.. Right now I am in need of healing and He is at work in these very circumstances.. getting my attention.. revealing the old hurts and pain that I have kept hidden from myself all these years.. So here I am in my room..just like I was as a teenager.. hearing the life.. on the other side of the wall.. only this time when I come out of my room I won’t be an outsider I will know that I am complete in Him. He is the healer and His purposes will be fulfilled in my life and in yours. Are you in your room right now? After all we are being told to stay inside in our rooms.. an interesting time to check in with the Lord and ask Him what wounds He may want to heal that you have carried inside your heart all these years.
Lord my God, I called to you for help,
and you healed me.. Psalm 30:2
This entry was posted on May 4, 2020, in Freedom, Healing, Life and tagged Christianity, God, Grief, healing, His faithfulness, journey, restoration, Trials, wounds. 1 Comment
Rough Waters..
This has been a very difficult year so far and it does not show signs of letting up..trials continue and seem overwhelming at times. In the beginning of every year I hope for an easier time in the next year and for a long time that has not been the case.. in fact it seems like the opposite has happened. Each new trial is more challenging than the last.. time to take a look at that. What is God up to? He could intervene and remove the challenges..He is able to smooth things out so they are not so rough. He allows these tests to come into my life and He brings the storms.
Do I have answers for you? No.. I don’t. All I know is that He is at work and He is in control. His plan is unfolding daily for my life and for yours. He is doing things in us through the suffering. Unfortunately that is the way it seems to work.. we are being drawn closer to Him because we feel like the next wave of disappointment or grief will drown us. For me.. as I am aging and facing things I never expected.. I find that nothing matters as much as I thought when it comes to this life.. It all seems so important doesn’t it? We long for things and dream dreams about our future.. yet it is clear we were not made for this world. So much heartbreak and sadness in our lives and the lives of those around us.
As a counselor, I may be more aware of this than most people. I hear the stories.. I see the sadness in their faces.. women of all ages. Their lives are very difficult and their past is far from perfect. I have no illusions about the condition of the world or the condition of people’s hearts. As I work with others.. the Lord works on me.. going deeper and drawing me into a greater dependence on Him and His spirit.. I suffer with them and cry with them.
Why? Because He is the comforter.. not me.. He is their savior, not me.. He is the one who will bring healing.. not me. We need to know our own limitations if we are going to walk this walk. We cannot fix or change anyone. God is the one who will save them..rescue and restore them. He is also the one who will do that for me..we are all in the same boat. That makes me think about the disciples when they were in the boat at sea and a great storm came upon them. They were frightened and thought they would die.. but their Lord was with them and He calmed the sea. He appeared to be sleeping and unaware of their dilemma..but He knew and He rescued them and saved their lives..despite their fears and unbelief. He does the same for us.. we are like those disciples.. forgetting who was in that boat with them and imagining the worst.
If you are in a storm right now.. remember that you are not alone. If you think you are drowning in a sea of depression and despair.. stay close to Jesus.. rely on Him.. trust Him to come to for you.. He always does.
We put our hope in the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.
Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord,
for our hope is in you alone.
This entry was posted on May 10, 2018, in Aging, Encouragement, Faith, Hope, Life and tagged Christianity, Encouragement, God, Grief, healing, journey, loss, Rescue, tears, Trials, Trust. Leave a comment
Seeking healing..
I had an interesting conversation a few days ago and the topic of healing came up. That is not unusual when I am engaged in a deep conversation because healing is the focus of my life. For the last almost 20 years I have sought healing and for the last 11 years I have facilitated healing in the lives of my clients. Much of my life revolves around this concept.. healing is so critical and it leads to much more freedom than we could ever imagine.
Many of us walk around with deep wounds from our childhood and later from our adult years. These wounds appear to be harmless and often we decide that we can’t do anything about them so we bury them. They may try to open up again… we grab the band aids and plaster them all over the wounds to keep them from bleeding out into our lives. There is a better way. We have a God who not only wants to heal.. but actually can heal those wounds so they never have power over us again. The key to receiving the healing is to seek it.. diligently. I decided that without healing I would never be able to live fully. My desire was to be a whole as I could be while I was here.. we are not going to be perfectly healed on earth.. but we can definitely make a lot of progress in that direction.
Our childhood memories are keys.. what do we remember and why? What was it like growing up? Most people say.. “my parents really loved me” or “I really love my parents” Right.. that is easy enough to say.. but what happened to you as a child? Parents love very imperfectly and as a result there is emotional damage that happens to us. If we take the time to look at it fully.. to grieve our losses and to face the way things really were.. we have the opportunity to move ahead in forgiveness and faith. There is a cost.. we may need to revisit the painful things that occurred or feel a glimpse of the abandonment or fear that we had as children.. it is worth doing even though there is pain. God wants to heal those broken places in your heart.. His longing is for you to realize that His love is nothing like the love we get from our earthly parents. It is not only unconditional.. it is always available at a moment’s notice and it is the cure for all the ways that people have failed us.
So.. I named this post Seek healing.. as a way of encouraging you to do this. Get help if you need it.. pray and ask God to direct your steps to the person who can help you and expect the Holy Spirit to be at work revealing things to you as you step out in faith.. believe that the Lord is at work in your life.. longing to heal and set you free.
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free. Jesus said this in the book of Luke!
This entry was posted on September 25, 2017, in Freedom, Healing, Holy Spirit and tagged Christianity, freedom, God, healing, Hope, journey, Luke 4, restoration, wholeness. 2 Comments
God waits for us..
Throughout the years that I have been writing on this blog.. the theme of waiting has emerged over and over again. Waiting is difficult and we struggle with it as we move through this life. This morning I sensed the Lord showing me that He waits for us more than we realize.
Since He has a plan for our lives that is better than anything we could dream up or imagine..He has to wait for us to be willing to follow Him. We have our own plans and dreams and it is difficult for us to surrender those to Him. After all.. our plans will bring us happiness and security. We imagine ourselves with the things that will fulfill us and take away the emptiness. God is after more than that.
He imagines us whole and filled with joy.. He sees us as complete and fulfilled in Him. We look everywhere else..afraid that He is not going to be there for us.. that He may fail us or forget us. He waits patiently as we try to make our dreams come true. He watches us and cares for us as we resist His plan. He allows us to suffer and struggle.. knowing that eventually we will turn to Him.
He sees us.. He knows us.. He is with us and He is for us. We are His. He is the good shepherd who tenderly cares for each of his sheep. He seeks us when we are lost and cares for us when we are wounded. He waits for us to follow Him to safety. He leads us to green pastures and still waters. His love for us is unfailing and everlasting. He pursues us..holding out His Hands and asking us to trust Him in all things.. will we trust Him with hearts? Will we follow Him when the path is not clear.. and all we can see is the next step? He is waiting..
“And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you…” ( Isaiah 30:18 KJV)
This entry was posted on October 9, 2015, in Desires, Faith, The Waiting Room, Trust and tagged Christianity, Encouragement, God, Good Shepherd, His faithfulness, Isaiah 30:18, journey, Trust, Waiting. 8 Comments
What happened to January? Well.. for me January was not the start I hoped for in this new year. My husband was sick for many weeks and a neighbor died rather suddenly of cancer. The weather was extremely dry after having so much wonderful rain in December. There is our continuing challenge as well..we are moving toward 2 years of unemployment for my husband. I don’t know about you, but every year I hope for a good beginning and get disappointed when that does not happen. This year was no exception.
In the midst of the difficulties.. I have seen God working in me and through me. I was able to minister to my neighbor’s wife because of the loss I suffered 15 years ago when I was widowed… I hope to continue to support her as she adjusts to a totally new life. God does not waste our suffering. I think the biggest learning curve for me is realizing the importance of leaning on the Lord. There is not a day that I don’t feel the need for more of Him and not an evening when I don’t realize that without Him I cannot carry on. A great lesson in humility and absolute dependency.
Two things have helped me during this season.. one is being part of an amazing church. It is amazing because the pastor teaches the Bible so well.. our current study is on the book of Isaiah and it is rich with lessons that we need in our times. God is speaking truth to his people through his servant Isaiah. So many wonderful metaphors and prophecies. The second thing has been the discovery of a website called ” My Kingdom Come.” There is a great weekly study ” Take Me Deeper.” The site is filled with ideas for art journaling, photography, mixed media etc. A group called Logos365 is a wonderful opportunity to seek the Lord for a word and keep it in front of you.. for 2015.
Here is a link to the site:
http://his-kingdom-come.com/
I mention these things but I suspect you are struggling too. I pray that you will find those resources that God has for you as you trust Him and explore ways to dig deeper and move closer to His heart.
“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.” (Isaiah 43:2)
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Incredible pixel art September 5, 2006
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Here we have another person with far, far too much time on their hands. I cannot even imagine how long it took to create something this detailed and yet so big. In this one picture you have the space shuttle, the army, the navy, a race rack, construction work, farm land, an airport, shopping malls, soccer, beach life, basketball and more.
You need to use the scroll bars, you can’t click and drag. But it’s worth having a look around, and then wondering if maybe the artist could have found something more to do with their life. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11962 | {"url": "https://alonline.org/2006/09/05/incredible-pixel-art/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "alonline.org", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:19:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LMQR4IEI5J7MOZQOLV7UCR3LVSALLO7Y"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 610, 610.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 610, 1582.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 610, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 610, 35.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 610, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 610, 316.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 610, 0.44852941]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 610, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 610, 0.00735294]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 610, 0.19117647]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 610, 0.79816514]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 610, 4.3853211]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 610, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 610, 4.36147149]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 610, 109.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 39, 0.0], [39, 80, 0.0], [80, 421, 1.0], [421, 610, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 39, 0.0], [39, 80, 0.0], [80, 421, 0.0], [421, 610, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 39, 6.0], [39, 80, 6.0], [80, 421, 61.0], [421, 610, 36.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 39, 0.13513514], [39, 80, 0.0], [80, 421, 0.0], [421, 610, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 39, 0.0], [39, 80, 0.0], [80, 421, 0.0], [421, 610, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 39, 0.05128205], [39, 80, 0.04878049], [80, 421, 0.00879765], [421, 610, 0.01058201]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 610, 0.00159651]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 610, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 610, 4.17e-06]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 610, -13.26114856]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 610, 6.39331302]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 610, -48.12475306]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 610, 5.0]]} |
Ship's Surgical Kit
This wooden surgical case with brass fittings has three main compartments, one of which is a tray that lifts out from the lower case. The interior of the case is molded so that each instrument has its own compartment. The entire interior is lined with purple velvet. The exterior of the lid has an oval escutcheon which is marked, "U.S.A./ Hosp. Dept." The set includes 45 instruments, three of which are not original to the set. At least six instruments are missing, including four knives and a bandage scissors.
During the Civil War the United States Army contracted with several surgical instrument makers, including Herman Hernstein to provide surgical sets for the Union troops.
As a young boy in Germany Hermann Hernstein was apprenticed to a surgical instrument maker. He came to the United States in 1841 and settled in New York City. Within a few years, he had established his own shop.
According to Edmonson much of Hernstein’s inventory was imported from Europe.
Surgical kits were not required on merchant vessels, but the larger and better-equipped ships often carried them. These were used for everything from pulling teeth to the amputation of limbs, and everything in between. Like the medicine chests, these kits too were often sold with simple pamphlets, with instructions and diagrams on how to use them in emergencies. The captain or first mate most commonly carried out any needed procedures.
Hermann Hernstein & Son
"Cultures & Communities"
"Manufacturing industries"
"National Museum of American History"
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Owning a Business Website is Like Owning a House
You have a great idea for an online business. Or you decide you need a website for your business. But where do you start? What do you do?
There are many pieces that go into creating and running a business website. It’s a fairly simple process for a small business website or blog that is used to give clients and customers information. You can usually get started with a domain name, hosting, WordPress and a theme.
If you want to create an e-commerce website, there are more pieces to your website that you need to understand to make wise decisions.
Every website needs a domain name. A domain name can be purchased from a domain registrar service – your hosting company, another hosting company, or a company that just sells domain names.
A domain name adds your business “pretty” name to your website, so that people can remember you. Your website address is really an IP address, like 123.456.789.123. This number will depend on where you have your website hosted.
A domain name is similar to using a street address for your house instead of giving someone the longitude and latitude numbers.
Every website needs to be hosted somewhere. A website host creates space on a server for you to put the files that make up your website. The server also has an environment and software that runs or executes the files that make up your website.
Hosting plans are generally priced based on traffic or bandwidth. If you have a very small informational website, you won’t need as large or feature-filled a hosting plan, as you do if you have a very large e-commerce website with a lot of traffic. Also, if you have a website that is used to download many, large files (e-books, mp3s, videos), you will use more bandwidth than a site that has no downloads, and you will need to make sure that your host can manage that type of website.
A hosting company that allows you to easily change plans as you grow is great, or you can plan to take your website to another host when you outgrow the first. There is also managed WordPress hosting to make maintenance a bit easier.
A website host is like the lot on which you build your house.
Many websites today use some extra software called a content management system. WordPress is a CMS that allows website owners to add and edit their own content easily which is great for small business owners. Since WordPress is open source, it’s also a cost-effective CMS. Managed WordPress hosts use the WordPress CMS.
The CMS is like your house.
While you may never need to be concerned with a database, it is a crucial part of your website. A CMS stores your website content (data) in a database. The database resides with the hosting company. When your content is in a database, you can move the content somewhere else if you need to, and you can change how it is presented easily.
The database content is like your furniture. You keep it even when you move to a new house.
Your theme has all the code needed to deliver your website pages (with the CMS) in the order and with the look you want. Your page content is stored in the database, and the theme with the CMS gets that content, adds your images, and displays it for your browser with the look and in the way you want.
The theme is like the inside of the house itself. Some of the theme code just lays out the pages (rooms) and some decorates it, like decorating your house or giving it a fresh coat of paint.
Your website has to be backed up and maintained. The software that runs the website needs to be kept updated – your CMS, your theme, your plugins. And you need a copy of the data and images, in case something goes wrong.
Website maintenance is like maintaining your house. You need to fix the broken garage door opener or the wobbly ceiling fan or take care of the termites. Regular backups are like homeowners’ insurance.
It used to be that only ecommerce websites needed to have an SSL certificate to allow credit card or other sensitive information to be encrypted and transferred securely. But recently, all websites are using SSL, even if the site does not handle sensitive information because it helps prevent tampering with the information sent between your website and your users’ browsers.
When you see a padlock or https:// in your browser, you are using a site that has an SSL certificate. You can often use a free SSL certificate with is easily installed in your hosting account. There are still a few hosting companies that require you to purchase an SSL certificate, and then it’s best if they also install it.
And SSL certificate can be compared to putting locks or security doors on your house.
Merchant Account and Payment Gateway
If you have an ecommerce website, you need a merchant account and a payment gateway. You use them to help handle the financial transactions. The merchant account allows you to accept credit cards online. The payment gateway is the service that authorizes the credit card payments and processes them. Sometimes these are all-in-one solutions like PayPal, Stripe, and Square.
Whenever you buy or sell a house, you need to exchange money through a broker service; that’s like connecting your website to a merchant account and payment gateway.
You may need a CDN for delivering your images or other large files, so that your website loads faster. Even smaller sites are using CDNs for delivering images. Some website hosts will provide CDN services, or you can use a third party CDN. A CDN is especially helpful for a large e-commerce site.
This can be compared to putting some of your furniture in storage, but moving it back and forth to your house every day. Now, while you wouldn’t do that with your furniture, a CDN is very helpful!
Marketing is like trying to sell your house. You can buy ads to market your house or your furniture for sale. This is similar to buying ads to send traffic to your website on Google or Twitter or Facebook.
You want keep track of people who visit your open house or respond to your ad, just like you would do for your website. This is collecting names for an email newsletter or marketing letter. Then you can use a newsletter service (like MailChimp or ConvertKit) to send out emails about your home for sale.
You can also tell your friends that you are selling your house, and ask them to send anyone who might be interested to see your house. This is similar to social media marketing on Facebook and Twitter.
Just as with your house, you can do everything yourself, or you can hire people to help you with all aspects of your website.
4 responses to “Owning a Business Website is Like Owning a House”
Haha great analogy Marcy. I dare say a house is somewhat less troublesome than a website!
Thanks, Matt. Yes, sometimes a house is easier. :)
Shahriar Alam says:
Excellent analogy with a house! Made a novice like me understand. Thank you
You’re welcome, Shahriar! 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Amid school reopening uncertainty, affluent parents hire private tutors
Sara Elahi isn’t waiting to find out whether her children’s schools will reopen in the coming months. After an extensive interview process of several candidates, she found a private educator who will be going to her home to professionally home-school her two children during the first semester. “Education is the […]
Sara Elahi isn’t waiting to find out whether her children’s schools will reopen in the coming months.
After an extensive interview process of several candidates, she found a private educator who will be going to her home to professionally home-school her two children during the first semester.
“Education is the most important thing to our family,” she said. “My kids need to have in-person instruction to really learn and absorb material, and, by no fault of their own, I can’t rely on the school to provide that.”
Elahi, a consultant in the Baltimore area, said that although the costs were high, she and her husband, a pharmacist, were willing to dip into their savings to provide their children with an “undisrupted education.”
“In our minds, it will be a long-term investment for our kids,” she said. “If they fall too behind in all the shuffle, they’ll be playing catch-up forever.” Her children are starting ninth grade and seventh grade.
Even though the extra cost, around $2,800 a month, will strain family finances, Elahi said she recognizes that having the choice is a luxury few can even consider.
As the schooling dilemma continues to daunt millions of parents, some with the means to front the steep costs are hiring private educators and tutors, an option experts say few can afford and will likely widen an already glaring education gap.
Some systems, like those in Los Angeles and San Diego, have already announced that they will go online, but countless others are still grappling with how to proceed among in-person learning, online instruction or a hybrid of the two.
Agencies that place professional educators — who are certified licensed teachers — and tutors have reported a sharp rise in interest over the last few weeks, said Teresa Lubovich, a representative of the National Tutoring Association who is owner of Poulsbo Tutoring in Washington state.
Some parents are worried about sending kids back in the midst of a pandemic. But most are even more concerned about the quality and consistency of their children’s education, and many are just not happy with the options presented by schools, Lubovich said.
Others cannot continue to take on the burden of being their children’s de facto teachers, juggling at-home lessons, video conferences and full-time child care with work and life responsibilities, she added.
While costs for private instructors are $25 to $80 per hour depending on location and the instructors’ qualifications and experience, parents are “willing now more than before to sacrifice something to help their student manage better at this time,”Lubovich said.
“Even though this is out of their price range for most families, they are letting go of something else to make it happen,” she said. “And that has never been more true than now.”
Rachel Urtiaga, the owner of Capitol Park Nannies & Staffing in the Sacramento, California, area, said she has never been busier in her nine years in the business.
Before COVID-19, private educators were infrequently used outside of situations involving children with special needs or parents who traveled extensively. Now, families who have never had nannies or tutors before are reaching out in droves for private educators and other education supervisors, Urtiaga said.
“People are extremely desperate right now,” she said. “Parents have to work, and some have just been overwhelmed in this role as teacher.”
Splitting costs
In addition to digging into savings, some families are coupling up to split tutors or using part-time supplemental instructors.
Brian Richardson, who is the Midwest regional director of the nonprofit civil rights organization Lambda Legal, started looking into a tutoring “pod” with one or two other families to supplement his rising first grader, who attends a Chicago public school.
“It’s not in any budget, and it’s not something that we prepared for, so we’re looking into sharing with other families to try and make it work,” he said.
Chicago Public Schools on Friday released a preliminary framework for reopening that calls for a hybrid model that would include two days at school, two days of independent learning at home, and one “virtual” instruction day each week. A final decision on the reopening plans is expected in August.
Amid the uncertainty, Laura Reber, owner of Chicago Home Tutor, which offers private instruction, said she has fielded a slew of calls from parents — as well as from teachers who are considering becoming private educators.
“A lot of teachers are talking about how, if their school requires them to be in person, they might not return,” she said. “I do see more and more teachers saying they won’t return if they don’t feel safe.”
While private tutoring is a desirable option for most parents, access is still reserved for a small percentage who can afford the costs, which can be tens of thousands of dollars a year.
Learning “pods” can lessen costs, because most private instructors charge less for additional kids or give package rates for small groups versus one-on-one instruction. The cost is then equally shared per child among parents. This option has been extremely popular with parents inquiring about private instruction, many tutoring companies said. But with an ongoing pandemic, they added, most pods probably could not extend beyond two to three families to stay in accordance with health precautions and to avoid liability issues.
Even a pod arrangement is financially out of reach for many parents, who find themselves forced to follow along however their children’s schools choose to operate, regardless of how optimal it may be to the children’s learning process.
The learning gap widens
The abrupt transition to online learning in March, coupled with a listless summer, caused many kids to fall behind.
The average student will likely return to school having retained only 63 percent to 68 percent of learning gains in reading and as little as 37 percent to 50 percent of learning gains in math compared to a typical year, according to projections in a working paper from NWEA, a nonprofit organization formerly known as the Northwest Evaluation Association, and scholars at Brown University and the University of Virginia.
The gap widens along racial and socioeconomic lines.
“Exposure to instructional time was different between high- and low-income schools, so if you factor that into the projections, what we saw was a widening of achievement gap on the basis of school socioeconomic status,” said a co-author of the paper, Jim Soland, an assistant professor of quantitative methods at the University of Virginia School of Education. “Now, if you imagine parents in high end schools are also going out and getting additional resources paying for a tutor and the like, it’s hard to imagine that not further exacerbating achievement gaps.”
An education analysis by the consulting group McKinsey & Co. found that the average learning loss is about seven months but that Latino students are falling nine months behind and that Black students are lagging by 10 months.
Private tutors will further widen the gap in education, and those who are unable to afford them will continue to lag behind more advantaged peers, said Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
“We had lots of kids with no internet access, so they were not participating in online learning during a large part of the quarantine, but this [private tutoring] is just going to exacerbate it further,” he said.
Noguera said he fears that disparities in instructional guidance and support during the COVID-19 pandemic will have lingering impacts for students in the years ahead.
“It’ll show up in higher dropout rates and more kids who are not prepared for college or work, because they didn’t get an education that made that possible,” he said.
The cost of reopening
Under the federal CARES Act, $13.5 billion was earmarked for K-12 schools to help coordinate long-term school closures, purchase educational technology to support online learning for all students, fund activities to address unique needs of low-income students, boost mental health service and pay for various other plans necessary for optimal and safe learning.
The Department of Education has distributed all of those funds, but as of Friday, only 2 percent of that money has been expended or “drawn down” by states, the Department of Education told NBC News.
This means that money has yet to trickle down to many school districts in need that are scrambling to come up with a reopening plan.
The decision to reopen schools, in large part, is coming down to costs. A study released in June by the School Superintendents Association and the Association of School Business Officials International estimated that it will cost school districts nearly $1.8 million on average to reopen.
The projected costs — divided among health monitoring, cleaning and disinfecting; additional staff members to carry out health and safety protocols; personal protective equipment; and transportation and child care — dovetail with guidance and suggestions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Education advocates say schools will need tens of billions of dollars more from the federal government to be able to reopen for the full school year.
In addition, multiple states and the District of Columbia sued the Education Department and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over guidance that would, according to the lawsuit, reallocate some CARES Act money meant for public schools “to affluent private schools, with consideration neither of the private schools’ needs or available resources nor the harms these reallocations cause to public schools.”
The financial unknowns are fueling further anxiety. And as schools consider their options, more parents are considering alternative options.
Sara Elahi said her heart goes out to the parents who are still waiting to hear from schools, but she says she is grateful that she was able to get her children settled. She is not sure whether she will continue using the private educator for the second semester.
“If there is something that I am able to do that will help them keep on the right track, yes, no doubt, I’ll do it,” she said. “Any parent would.”
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The History of the Fourth of July
Independence Day is the day we celebrate the courage of our founding fathers to stand up to opression. These brave souls did what was thought to be the impossible. This is the first day that democracy became the standard of which we are governed.
May all Amvets and their families have a safe and healthy Fourth of July.
Amvets National Leadership Visits ROC (Taiwan)
Leaders of AMVETS (American Veterans), a congressionally chartered veterans' service organization in the U.S., just completed their extended annual visit to Taiwan.
AMVETS National Commander Harold Chapman and AMVETS National Ladies Auxiliary President Evelyn R. McElvin were visiting at the invitation of the Minister of the R.O.C. Veterans Affairs Council (VAC) General Lee Hsiang-jow.
While in Taiwan, they paid a courtesy call on President Tsai Ing-wen at the Presidential Office.
President Tsai noted that AMVETS had been a strong supporter of Taiwan for over three decades, and that each year, leaders from the VAC and AMVETS exchanged information on veterans' affairs, national defense and foreign relations.
President Tsai thanked the visitors for the latest AMVETS National Resolution on Taiwan, in which AMVETS recognized that the R.O.C. on Taiwan was a long-time friend, ally and strategic partner of the U.S.
At a welcome dinner party, Minister Tung expressed his gratitude to AMVETS' continued support of Taiwan through its Resolutions at the AMVETS National Convention each year.
In return, Commander Chapman and President McElvin conveyed appreciation for their hospitality and noted that they were impressed with the dedication of the VAC in caring for the country's veterans.
Commander Chapman said that, in view of their long-standing relationship, AMVETS was happy to assist the VAC in any way possible.
Commander Chapman gave a speech on R.O.C. Veterans Day and received a medal from the VAC in honor of his dedication to veterans' affairs and the promotion of relations between U.S. and R.O.C. veterans.
During their visit, the AMVETS leaders were given a briefing on the operations of the VAC, which include health care, home care, vocational assistance, educational assistance, and services for R.O.C. veterans and their families.
They also visited the Veterans General Hospital, the VAC Taoyuan Training Center, the National Palace Museum, the Bade Veterans Home, the Suao Naval Base, as well as other cultural, economic and historic sites.
It is the stated position of AMVETS that Taiwan, as a strategically located island, is extremely important to the peace, prosperity, and stability of the Pacific Rim. The AMVETS resolution stated that the R.O.C. maintains a strong and well-trained military force, has extensive air and naval facilities and, therefore, is a vital link in the Pacific defense chain.
Consequently, AMVETS supports and encourages the democratic process in Taiwan, and encourages the U.S. president to promote peaceful dialogue and avoid any actions that could lead to military conflict.
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General information about the FICE international organization
FICE International
International Federation of Educative Communities
Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen
Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives
FICE’s main aim is to promote child and youth care throughout the world
What do the initials FICE stand for?
The initials FICE are usually pronounced fee-say. FICE stands for the Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives – the French version of its name. The literal English meaning is the International Federation of Educative Communities, but that does not really describe what FICE does.
What does FICE do?
It is concerned about high standards of services for children and young people, especially those who have to live away from their own homes. Its activities include some which involve children, but mostly it supports the people who work with them.It runs conferences, produces publications, runs the Professional Experience Programme and a lot of other projects. In general, FICE-International offers its members the chance to network, to learn about new ideas from other countries and other people’s ways of doing things, and to make friends in other countries who are in the same line of work.
Is FICE only concerned about children and young people?
Children and youth are FICE’s main concern. However, some of the National Members of FICE have individual or organisational members who work with other client groups. A lot of important issues in work with children are also of concern for other groups. However, for the present, FICE has decided to stay focused on children and young people, so that it does not lose its special focus and knowledge.
FICE’s main aim is to promote child and youth care throughout the world.
FICE:
· recognises the individuality of children, young people and their parents, and does not seek to force them to conform with pre-determined norms.
· supports the family as the basic social structure for the upbringing of children.
· advocates the highest quality of care and education for children and young people unable to live at home.
· seeks to find individual solutions to match the needs of each child or young person.
· encourages the ongoing development of services for children through research and theoretical innovation.
· bases its work on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
· observes strict political and religious neutrality.
· values diversity and rejects all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political opinion or social origin.
In order to achieve its aims, FICE-International :
· works through national organisations whose members are engaged in providing services for children and young people, or work in support services such as staff training or the management of services.
· supports national member organisations through the creation of networks of contacts.
· organises major international Congresses, usually every two years.
· supports projects which involve international contacts between children, young people and those who care for them, such as the Balkan Friendship Camps.
· encourages international exchanges of workers and/or children and young people.
· provides the Professional Exchange Programme for experienced workers.
· organises international seminars, expert workshops and working parties on issues concerned with services for children and young people.
· consults with UNESCO, the European Union, the Council of Europe, ECOSOC and other international bodies.
· provides information and the opportunity for networking through its website.
· disseminates new ideas and research findings through its publications.
The organisations which are FICE’s National Members
· bring together various professions concerned with the welfare and education of children and young people regardless of status and other interests. · examine and analyse problems and other issues concerning children and young people.
· develop new initiatives to meet the needs of children and young people.
· educate the public and those in positions of power and influence in the country about the needs of children and young people.
· support individual and organisational members, encouraging them to set high standards of practice.
· encourage the creation of supportive networks of members.
· organise seminars, conferences, educational trips and professional training.
· assist other FICE National Members (and others) at times of crisis and natural disasters.
· publish books, journals, magazines and other materials.
· are open to individuals and / or organisations (including agencies providing services, colleges offering professional training. local authorities and other associations) concerned about the welfare and social education of children and young people to join.
To get more information, please visit www.fice-inter.org
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Arnold Bangerter
Male6 January 1918–7 November 2010 •
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Brief Life History of Arnold
When Arnold Bangerter was born on 6 January 1918, in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Alma Bangerter, was 31 and his mother, Gertrude Hayden Brooks, was 28. He married Ilene Turpin on 9 December 1942, in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in World in 1935 and Bountiful Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1940. In 1955, at the age of 37, his occupation is listed as fisheries biologist for the state of utah division of wildlife resourses in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 7 November 2010, in Stockton, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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Ilene Turpin
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Arnold Bangerter, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
Arnold Bangerter, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
Male1918–2010 • Male
Female1922–2005 • Female
9 December 1942Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States
Male– • Male
Alma Bangerter
Gertrude Hayden Brooks
Alma Horace Bangerter
Thelma Bangerter
Laurence Bangerter
Eva Bangerter
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Bangerter
South German and Swiss German:
variant of Baumgartner .
variant of Bangert .
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Anshu DV Vaishnav
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I'm Anshu DV Vaishnav
“Someone will declare, “I am the leader!” and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.”
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Ethical hacking involves an authorized attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, application, or data. Carrying out an ethical hack involves duplicating strategies and actions of malicious attackers. This practice helps to identify security vulnerabilities which can then be resolved before a malicious attacker has the opportunity to exploit them.
Cyber security is the application of technologies, processes and controls to protect systems, networks, programs, devices and data from cyber attacks. It aims to reduce the risk of cyber attacks and protect against the unauthorised exploitation of systems, networks and technologies.
Web Development involves coding, designing, and operating web applications and websites. A proficient Web Developer is expected to design and develop a user-friendly website with easy navigation. The programming languages needed for web development are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
“Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something.”
“If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too.
#A.D.V.
Anshu DV
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When did Obama issue a question and answer session with youtube in what month and year?
YouTube carried out early experiments with live streaming, including a concert by U2 in 2009, and a question-and-answer session with US President Barack Obama in February 2010. These tests had relied on technology from 3rd-party partners, but in September 2010, YouTube began testing its own live streaming infrastructure. In April 2011, YouTube announced the rollout of YouTube Live, with a portal page at the URL "www.youtube.com/live". The creation of live streams was initially limited to select partners. It was used for real-time broadcasting of events such as the 2012 Olympics in London. In October 2012, more than 8 million people watched Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of space as a live stream on YouTube.
When did James Zern reveal that 30% of youtube videos accounted for 99% of total views?
In October 2010, Hurley announced that he would be stepping down as chief executive officer of YouTube to take an advisory role, and that Salar Kamangar would take over as head of the company. In April 2011, James Zern, a YouTube software engineer, revealed that 30% of videos accounted for 99% of views on the site. In November 2011, the Google+ social networking site was integrated directly with YouTube and the Chrome web browser, allowing YouTube videos to be viewed from within the Google+ interface.
Who was Google's senior vice-president of global affairs?
On March 20, 2019, the European Commission imposed a €1.49 billion ($1.69 billion) fine on Google for preventing rivals from being able to “compete and innovate fairly” in the online advertising market. European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Google had violated EU antitrust rules by “imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites” that required them to exclude search results from Google's rivals. Kent Walker, Google's senior vice-president of global affairs, said the company had “already made a wide range of changes to our products to address the Commission’s concerns,” and that "we'll be making further updates to give more visibility to rivals in Europe."
What is the name of Google parent company?
In 2006, Google moved into about 300,000 square feet (27,900 m2) of office space in New York City, at 111 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. The office was designed and built specially for Google, and houses its largest advertising sales team, which has been instrumental in securing large partnerships. In 2010, Google bought the building housing the headquarter, in a deal that valued the property at around $1.9 billion. In March 2018, Google's parent company Alphabet bought the nearby Chelsea Market building for $2.4 billion. The sale is touted as one of the most expensive real estate transactions for a single building in the history of New York. In November 2018, Google announced its plan to expand its New York City office to a capacity of 12,000 employees. The same December, it was announced that a $1 billion, 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m2) headquarters for Google would be built in Manhattan's Hudson Square neighborhood. Called Google Hudson Square, the new campus is projected to more than double the number of Google employees working in New York City.
What state is Google's AdWords division located in?
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Jeff E.(Canada) - Received all 4 pieces safe and sound. They look even better than they did online. Thanks for your help. Looking forward to my next order. Sincerely, Jeff E.(Canada)
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohías, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, was a cartoonist most famous for creating the comic strip Spy vs. Spy for MAD Magazine.
In 1946, Prohías was given the Juan Gualberto Gómez award, recognizing him as the foremost cartoonist in Cuba. By the late 1940s, Prohías had begun working at El Mundo, the most important newspaper in Cuba. In January 1959, Prohías was the president of the Cuban Cartoonists Association; after Fidel Castro seized power, he personally honored the cartoonist for his anti-Batista political cartoons. But Prohías soon soured on Castro's policies. When he drew cartoons to this effect, he was dismissed by his newspapers, which had been taken over by Fidel Castro's government. With his professional career in limbo, Prohías left Cuba for New York on May 1, 1960. Ten weeks later, he had sold his first work to Mad.
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Spy vs. Spy from MAD Magazine Vintage Pencil 6 Page Prelim
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Festivals on March 12, 2015
Today, on March 12, 2015, our calendar presents 29 festivals. There are festivals in 10 categories that take place in 26 cities of 18 countries. They attract thousands of locals and tourists from all over the world.
Taste of Dubai
in the category "Food Festivals". Takes place from March 12, 2015 to March 14, 2015 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Wairarapa Balloon Festival
in the category "Other". Takes place from March 12, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Masterton, New Zealand.
My Balloon Fiesta
in the category "Other". Takes place from March 12, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Leipzig Book Fair
in the category "Fairs". Takes place from March 12, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Leipzig, Germany.
Taste of Sydney
in the category "Food Festivals". Takes place from March 12, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Sydney, Australia.
Night of the Proms
in the category "Music Festivals". Takes place March 12, 2015 in Lodz, Poland.
Brazilian Beer Festival
in the category "Food Festivals". Takes place from March 11, 2015 to March 14, 2015 in Blumenau, Brazil.
Cartagena Film Festival
in the category "Film Festivals". Takes place from March 11, 2015 to May 17, 2015 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Moscow Boat Show
in the category "Exhibitions". Takes place from March 10, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Moscow, Russia.
BUFF International Film Festival
in the category "Children & Youth Festivals". Takes place from March 9, 2015 to March 14, 2015 in Malmö, Sweden.
Canberra Balloon Spectacular
in the category "Other". Takes place from March 7, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Canberra, Australia.
in the category "Conventions". Takes place from March 7, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
GPP Photo Week
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from March 6, 2015 to March 13, 2015 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Guadalajara International Film Festival
in the category "Film Festivals". Takes place from March 6, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Taiwan Lantern Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from March 5, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Taichung, Taiwan.
Sofia International Film Festival
in the category "Film Festivals". Takes place from March 5, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Geneva International Motor Show
in the category "Exhibitions". Takes place from March 5, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Hong Kong Arts Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 27, 2015 to March 29, 2015 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Adelaide Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 27, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.
New York International Children’s Film Festival
in the category "Children & Youth Festivals". Takes place from February 27, 2015 to March 22, 2015 in New York, USA.
Starkbierzeit (Strong Beer Festival)
in the category "Other". Takes place from February 27, 2015 to March 28, 2015 in Munich, Germany.
New Zealand Fringe Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 20, 2015 to March 14, 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand.
Bay Area Renaissance Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 14, 2015 to March 29, 2015 in Tampa, USA.
Florida Renaissance Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 7, 2015 to March 15, 2015 in Deerfield Beach, USA.
Arizona Renaissance Festival
in the category "Cultural Festivals". Takes place from February 7, 2015 to March 29, 2015 in Apache Junction, USA.
Carnival of Limoux
in the category "Carnivals". Takes place from January 11, 2015 to March 22, 2015 in Limoux, France.
World Amigurumi Exhibition
in the category "Exhibitions". Takes place from December 12, 2014 to March 31, 2015 in New York, USA.
in the category "Music Festivals". 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Ways You Can Detect A Sociopath
March 7, 2023 AnyTrivia Objects 0
Sociopathy, also known as antisocial personality disorder, is a condition that affects a person’s ability to empathize with others, control their impulses, and follow social norms. Sociopaths often have a superficial charm and appear to be friendly and outgoing, but beneath the surface, they may be manipulative, deceitful, and even dangerous. If you suspect that someone you know may be a sociopath, here are five ways to detect the condition.
1. Lack of Empathy
One of the hallmark traits of a sociopath is a lack of empathy. Sociopaths do not feel compassion or concern for the feelings of others, and they may be dismissive or indifferent to other people’s needs. They may appear to be charming and friendly, but they may also be calculating and manipulative, using their charm to exploit others. If you suspect that someone you know lacks empathy, pay attention to how they treat other people. Do they seem to take pleasure in others’ misfortunes or show no concern for the suffering of others?
2. Deceitful Behavior
Sociopaths are skilled at lying and manipulation, and they may use their charm and charisma to get what they want. They may tell elaborate stories or create fake identities to deceive others, and they may have a history of fraud or other criminal activity. Pay attention to inconsistencies in their stories and behavior. Do they seem to exaggerate or embellish their experiences? Are they evasive when asked direct questions?
3. Lack of Remorse
Sociopaths do not feel guilt or remorse for their actions, even when they harm others. They may blame others for their mistakes or misdeeds, and they may be indifferent to the consequences of their actions. So look at how they react when they hurt others. Do they apologize or try to make amends? Or do they dismiss others’ feelings and continue to behave in hurtful ways? If someone seems to have no regard for the feelings of others, it may be a sign of sociopathy.
4. Impulsivity
Sociopaths tend to act impulsively without considering the consequences of their actions. They may engage in risky behaviors, such as substance abuse or criminal activity, without any regard for the harm they may cause to themselves or others. Pay attention to their behavior. Do they engage in risky behaviors, such as driving recklessly or using drugs? Do they seem to act without thinking things through? T
5. Lack of Long-Term Goals
Sociopaths tend to live in the moment and have little concern for their future or the future of others. They may lack direction or purpose in their lives, and they may not have any long-term goals or plans. So ask them their ambitions and aspirations. Do they seem to lack direction or purpose in their lives? Do they frequently change jobs or relationships without any clear plan for their future?
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HomeDesign tipsOil or varnish? Choosing a covering for a wooden floor
Oil or varnish? Choosing a covering for a wooden floor
Parquet varnish
The advantages of varnishes:
Disadvantages of varnish:
Myths about varnish
Traditional parquet oil
Oil advantages:
Oil Disadvantages:
Soft wax oil
Hard wax oil
So what to choose: varnish or oil?
Users who have opted for wooden floors need to take care of the finishing coat, which will protect the wood from moisture and mechanical stress. Let’s figure out how to choose the best coating option for a tree.
A topcoat that forms a hard protective film on the surface of the wood. The varnish practically does not penetrate into the depth of the board, therefore, after a while, if necessary, the coating can be completely sanded off and a new one can be applied.
According to their composition, varnishes are water, alkyd, acrylic, primer, polyurethane, formaldehyde. All these varieties have certain properties, so they are selected in accordance with the functional purpose of the room and the expected load. In addition, oils or polymer resins, a solvent, various pigments or additives may be present in the composition. The most environmentally friendly varnishes are water-based, but they are also the least resistant to mechanical stress. For example, in Germany, solvent-based varnishes are prohibited, as they are considered harmful.
Wear resistance. Using varnished floors, you wear out the varnish film, which can withstand up to 20 thousand movements. High-strength varnishes, if properly applied and maintained, can last up to 10 years or more without restoration. In terms of durability, there is nothing better than varnish.
Resistant to surface moisture. You can spill some liquid on the parquet flooring, and after you pick up the moisture, there will be no marks on the surface. There are cases when lacquered floors withstood severe flooding without any consequences.
The lacquered surface can have varying degrees of gloss (high, medium and low), or it can be completely matte. There are ultra-matt varnishes that do not reflect the sun’s rays.
Ease of care. Various contaminants are easily removed without leaving marks on the coating.
In case of wear of the lacquered surface, the product is sanded and a new layer of lacquer is applied.
No direct contact with wood. Most users who choose hardwood floors say it is important for them to walk barefoot on the floor. This means that tactile sensations are important to them, it is important to contact with the natural texture of wood. The varnish creates a dense film that deprives a person of direct contact with the tree.
Varnish is the most expensive type of coating. According to the standard, the coating should have a thickness of 90 to 100 microns. To create such a layer, you need to apply at least three coats of varnish and one more, a primer coat. That is, a total of four layers of coating are applied. This requires certain material and time costs.
There is a widespread misconception that an increase in the number of layers of varnish coating to 9-10 allows you to completely protect the tree from external influences. This is not so, especially since such a thick varnish film forms a layer that is very different in its properties from wood. In this case, the adhesion between the surface of the parquet and the first layer of varnish is broken, and such a varnish coating peels off over time.
This is a product made on the basis of natural vegetable oil or a mixture of oils (sunflower, soybean, hemp, linseed). Natural oil penetrates deep into the structure of wood, as experts say, impregnates. Almost nothing remains on the surface of the wood. Oil is applied to the surface of the board with a spatula and the wood is saturated until it retains its ability to absorb. The excess is then removed with a soft cloth and the floors are polished – by hand or by machine.
Different types of wood have different ability to absorb oil. For example, beech absorbs more than other species. Oil enhances the texture of wood, fully revealing its beauty.
The oil does not oxidize, does not decompose, over time it penetrates deeper into the wood. It also leaks out of the surface over time. Unlike varnish, oil does not form a surface film, penetrating deep into the structure of the tree. Therefore, you are not walking on a protective film, but on the tree itself.
Upon contact with a surface covered with natural oil, all the natural warmth of the wood is transferred, the structure and pores of the wood are felt.
Environmental friendliness of the coating. However, it depends on the specific composition, since natural oil can contain various additives – varnishes and hardeners (in small quantities).
Oil treatment of the floor is much faster and easier than varnish. All work can be done by yourself, without having grandiose experience in the field of repair work;
Like varnish, the oil finish does not require any special maintenance.
Disadvantages of oil:
Various contaminants, including stains from spilled drinks, are difficult to remove, as they easily penetrate the open pores of the wood.
To preserve the original appearance of the floor, it is worth applying a new layer of oil with a regularity of 1-2 years.
The oil does not impart wear resistance to the wood. Resistance to mechanical damage is provided by the wood itself. The oil protects only against decay.
The oil cannot be completely sanded down to apply any other coating.
Oil repels water. In fact, even water droplets can leave stains on such a floor if they are not removed in time. The drops stand for a few minutes, then capillary absorption into the pores of the wood takes place.
That the coating can be restored locally. In fact, experts do not advise trying to restore the type of coating on your own – to clean off the dirt and reapply the oil. It is better to entrust the removal of damage and stains to professionals.
It is a mixture of natural oils (olive, jojoba, linseed) with beeswax. Oil saturates the wood, and wax closes the pores on its surface, protecting it from the penetration of contaminants. It is important to remember that this type of coating is applied differently than a regular parquet oil. The wax coating should not be rubbed into the wood as is done with oil.
Compositions that combine wax and oil are applied with a roller, brush or brush in strict accordance with the instructions – usually about 40-45 grams per 1 square meter of area. After applying the composition, it is left to dry. And in no case do they rub it into the floor, so as not to remove the wax film. To maintain the protective properties, regular (1-2 times a year) renewal of the surface wax layer is required.
Benefits of Soft Wax Oil:
Retains the natural beauty and texture of wood
Environmentally friendly coating: the material is created on the basis of natural vegetable oils and wax with a low content of solvents, is almost odorless and quite comfortable to work with.
With proper care, it allows for longer than film coatings (varnish or oil with hard wax), to use parquet with heavy loads without regrinding and restricting the passage of premises.
Disadvantages of Mild Wax Oil:
The coating requires constant cleaning and maintenance. To restore the wax film, you need to use the recommended care products on an appropriate basis.
Without systematic maintenance, the appearance of the floor quickly deteriorates. Dirt adheres to the soft wax, after which it becomes necessary to clean and remove the dirt along with the wax and re-treat with the soft wax oil.
It is a mixture of natural oils with vegetable (carnauba or candelilla) wax. Having caught the trend towards the naturalness of wooden surfaces in time, the manufacturers offered a coating that completely imitates natural wood, but has the protective properties of varnish. In fact, this is a solvent varnish containing oil-wax components. After drying, a film-like protective coating is formed, similar to varnish.
Oil with hard wax is applied in two thin layers (not 3-4, like varnishes) with a roller or brush and does not require polishing with a disc machine.
Benefits of hard wax oil:
The matte surface gives the impression of an all-natural wood with seemingly open pores (in fact, they are closed).
Tactile: Due to the thin finish layers, the texture of the wood can be felt to the touch.
The presence of a protective film means that there is a full-fledged barrier between you and the wood – a film covering.
Cleaning and maintenance is carried out using compatible polishes that delicately clean the surface during washing without disturbing it.
Despite the possibility of periodic replenishment of the worn-out wax on the surface in case of complete wear to bare wood, a complete re-grinding of the room is necessary, just as with the varnish layer.
In fact, there is no definite answer to this question. As we can see, these coatings require different maintenance and care. The best solution is to choose the coverage depending on the functional areas. In areas with the least traffic, such as a bedroom or study, you can use an oil coating. If we are talking about a country house, then oil-coated boards can be used, for example, for finishing the second floor. For a hall, kitchen or living room, especially if a large number of visitors are expected, it is better to choose a varnish coating. varnishing.
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Semantic-Based Concurrency Control for Object-Oriented Database Systems Supporting Real-Time Applications
VIRGINIA UNIV CHARLOTTESVILLE DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Lee, Juhnyoung
Son, Sang H.
Recently, object-oriented database technology has started to gain the attention of researchers in real-time database systems. This paper investigates major issues in designing semantic-based concurrency control for object-oriented database systems supporting real-time applications, and it describes approaches to solving these problems in an efficient way. This approach depends on the notion of affected-set of operations to determine operation compatibilities, and it employs concurrency control algorithms augmented with priority-based conflict resolution schemes. With this method, it is impossible to maneuver the tradeoff between logical and temporal consistency constraints in determining operation compatibilities, because the method deals with the two separately in different dimensions. However, this approach significantly lessens the complexity of the compatibility relation construction process, and can easily apply results from previous research on semantic-based concurrency control for object-oriented databases and on priority-based concurrency control for real-time database systems.
*DATA BASES
*REAL TIME
*OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
*SEMANTICS
*CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
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The Ukrainian Crisis and European Security: Implications for the United States and U.S. Army
RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
Larrabee, F. S.
Wilson, Peter A.
Gordon, IV, John
Vladimir Putins decision to annex Crimea and attempt to destabilize eastern Ukraine have sparked widespread concern among Western policymakers that Russia has embarked on a more confrontational policy that could have far-reaching implications for Russias relations with the United States and for European stability. The annexation of Crimea challenges two basic assumptions on which U.S. policy toward Europe in the post- Cold War era has been based 1 that Europe is essentially stable and secure, thereby freeing the United States to focus greater attention on other areas, particularly Asia and the Middle East, and 2 that Russia had become more of a partner than an adversary. The annexation of Crimea and attempt to destabilize eastern Ukraine suggests that both these assumptions need to be revisited. After the annexation and its effort to destabilize eastern Ukraine, Russia can hardly be viewed as a partner. The United States will thus have to reexamine the basic premises on which its European policy is based as it adjusts to deal with a more nationalistic and assertive Russia.
*GEOPOLITICS
*SECURITY
*STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
*UKRAINE
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As Teddy Roosevelt once observed, “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
The challenges seniors have met throughout their lives have made them wiser and stronger, preparing them for the unique challenges that come with aging.
As we age, the potential for cognitive decline increases, ranging from simple forgetfulness to dementia. Long-term illness can sap time and energy from tending to your financial affairs in retirement. Even a decline in vision may make it harder to manage your financial affairs.
Fortunately, you can look ahead to help protect yourself and your family against the financial consequences of deteriorating health, and in many cases, insurance may play an important role.
Let’s examine some of the ways you can employ insurance to help protect your financial health.
For some, healthcare costs represent a larger share of their budget as the years pass.
Recognizing this, you may want to consider Medigap insurance to cover the expenses that Medicare does not, which can add up quickly. You also might want to consider some form of extended-care insurance, which can be structured to pay for nursing home and home healthcare services—two services that Medicare doesn’t cover.
Managing Your Wealth
The involvement you have with managing your investments may change as you age. For many seniors, that sort of day-to-day responsibility is unattractive and even untenable.
If that’s the case, you may wish to consider what role annuities can play. Annuities can be structured to pay you income for as long as you live, relieving you of the concern of outliving your retirement money. Certain annuities even offer extended-care benefits, which allow you to address two concerns with one decision.1
Transferring Your Estate
If you’re like many seniors, you have a strong desire to leave something to your children, grandchildren, and perhaps a favorite charity. Through the use of life insurance, you can pursue these objectives. For example, life insurance can be used to create an estate or to equalize an estate transfer among your heirs.2
Insurance will never be able to prevent the health issues that come inexorably with age, but it can be used to mitigate their potential financial consequences.
2. Several factors will affect the cost and availability of life insurance, including age, health, and the type and amount of insurance purchased. Life insurance policies have expenses, including mortality and other charges. If a policy is surrendered prematurely, the policyholder also may pay surrender charges and have income tax implications. You should consider determining whether you are insurable before implementing a strategy involving life insurance. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11978 | {"url": "https://aquestwealth.com/2022/07/25/preparing-for-the-expected/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "aquestwealth.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T08:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DK2G7C7RI7J7SVNKIQ3QHME5JWHI5D64"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 2729, 2729.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 2729, 9346.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 2729, 14.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 2729, 184.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 2729, 0.96]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 2729, 311.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 2729, 0.42829077]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 2729, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 2729, 0.01784917]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 2729, 0.02900491]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 2729, 0.01784917]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 2729, 0.0151718]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 2729, 0.13163065]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 2729, 0.51388889]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 2729, 5.1875]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 2729, 4.97148839]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 2729, 432.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 121, 1.0], [121, 274, 1.0], [274, 553, 1.0], [553, 743, 1.0], [743, 838, 1.0], [838, 925, 1.0], [925, 1247, 1.0], [1247, 1268, 0.0], [1268, 1440, 1.0], [1440, 1764, 0.0], [1764, 1789, 0.0], [1789, 2108, 0.0], [2108, 2268, 1.0], [2268, 2729, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 121, 0.0], [121, 274, 0.0], [274, 553, 0.0], [553, 743, 0.0], [743, 838, 0.0], [838, 925, 0.0], [925, 1247, 0.0], [1247, 1268, 0.0], [1268, 1440, 0.0], [1440, 1764, 0.0], [1764, 1789, 0.0], [1789, 2108, 0.0], [2108, 2268, 0.0], [2268, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 121, 22.0], [121, 274, 24.0], [274, 553, 44.0], [553, 743, 29.0], [743, 838, 16.0], [838, 925, 15.0], [925, 1247, 51.0], [1247, 1268, 3.0], [1268, 1440, 26.0], [1440, 1764, 54.0], [1764, 1789, 3.0], [1789, 2108, 53.0], [2108, 2268, 26.0], [2268, 2729, 66.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 121, 0.0], [121, 274, 0.0], [274, 553, 0.0], [553, 743, 0.0], [743, 838, 0.0], [838, 925, 0.0], [925, 1247, 0.0], [1247, 1268, 0.0], [1268, 1440, 0.0], [1440, 1764, 0.00316456], [1764, 1789, 0.0], [1789, 2108, 0.00322581], [2108, 2268, 0.0], [2268, 2729, 0.00221729]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 121, 0.0], [121, 274, 0.0], [274, 553, 0.0], [553, 743, 0.0], [743, 838, 0.0], [838, 925, 0.0], [925, 1247, 0.0], [1247, 1268, 0.0], [1268, 1440, 0.0], [1440, 1764, 0.0], [1764, 1789, 0.0], [1789, 2108, 0.0], [2108, 2268, 0.0], [2268, 2729, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 121, 0.04132231], [121, 274, 0.00653595], [274, 553, 0.01075269], [553, 743, 0.00526316], [743, 838, 0.01052632], [838, 925, 0.01149425], [925, 1247, 0.01552795], [1247, 1268, 0.14285714], [1268, 1440, 0.01162791], [1440, 1764, 0.00925926], [1764, 1789, 0.12], [1789, 2108, 0.00940439], [2108, 2268, 0.00625], [2268, 2729, 0.00867679]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 2729, 0.62141681]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 2729, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 2729, 0.01290959]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 2729, -125.58226369]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 2729, 12.60149933]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 2729, -172.39603367]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 2729, 25.0]]} |
The historical importance of Bharatanatyam and its name
By Aranyani Bhargav|2015-03-04T12:41:34+00:00 February 28th, 2011 |
When Bharatanatyam is learnt, many dancers eventually see themselves as carriers of an ancient tradition that has been preserved by dancers for generations and believe it to […]
Amongst the many dilemmas an artist faces today, is yet another one – regarding how many performances to accept in a month. My personal predicament came when […]
The Interdependent Artists of India
By Aranyani Bhargav|2015-03-04T12:41:37+00:00 February 7th, 2011 |
‘Pratyayin’ is a community that I’m quite excited about. I thought up this little community in 2010 after attending a conference on global interdependence in Berlin that […]
The Good,the Bad and the Ugly
By Aranyani Bhargav|2015-03-04T12:41:37+00:00 January 30th, 2011 |
Post-script: I know that by writing this post, I run the risk of offending some people, or certainly sending them into a defensive state. Just to be […]
Choreograph me (but my way)
I recently signed up for a part-time job. I was to choreograph something for them, and the theme they had chosen was ‘Unity in Diversity’ in India. […]
A Must Watch – Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’
By Aranyani Bhargav|2015-03-04T12:41:37+00:00 January 3rd, 2011 |
I was waiting for the day someone would make a film about the darker side of the dance world. A side that the audience rarely gets to […] | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11979 | {"url": "https://aranyani.in/?page_id=10870&paged=7", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "aranyani.in", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:39:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LXODUGPJLA23PGPZPDSXU33A5MMDAKZA"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1414, 1414.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1414, 1977.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1414, 15.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1414, 48.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1414, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1414, 259.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1414, 0.32176656]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1414, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1414, 0.03561888]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1414, 0.09617097]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1414, 0.07658059]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1414, 0.04100946]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1414, 0.30914826]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1414, 0.62331839]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1414, 5.03587444]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1414, 0.01892744]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1414, 4.66727233]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1414, 223.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 124, 0.0], [124, 302, 0.0], [302, 464, 0.0], [464, 500, 0.0], [500, 567, 0.0], [567, 741, 0.0], [741, 771, 0.0], [771, 838, 0.0], [838, 991, 0.0], [991, 1019, 0.0], [1019, 1171, 0.0], [1171, 1211, 0.0], [1211, 1277, 0.0], [1277, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 124, 0.0], [124, 302, 0.0], [302, 464, 0.0], [464, 500, 0.0], [500, 567, 0.0], [567, 741, 0.0], [741, 771, 0.0], [771, 838, 0.0], [838, 991, 0.0], [991, 1019, 0.0], [1019, 1171, 0.0], [1171, 1211, 0.0], [1211, 1277, 0.0], [1277, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 56, 8.0], [56, 124, 6.0], [124, 302, 28.0], [302, 464, 28.0], [464, 500, 5.0], [500, 567, 6.0], [567, 741, 28.0], [741, 771, 6.0], [771, 838, 6.0], [838, 991, 28.0], [991, 1019, 5.0], [1019, 1171, 28.0], [1171, 1211, 7.0], [1211, 1277, 6.0], [1277, 1414, 28.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 124, 0.42105263], [124, 302, 0.0], [302, 464, 0.0], [464, 500, 0.0], [500, 567, 0.41071429], [567, 741, 0.02352941], [741, 771, 0.0], [771, 838, 0.42857143], [838, 991, 0.0], [991, 1019, 0.0], [1019, 1171, 0.0], [1171, 1211, 0.0], [1211, 1277, 0.41818182], [1277, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 124, 0.0], [124, 302, 0.0], [302, 464, 0.0], [464, 500, 0.0], [500, 567, 0.0], [567, 741, 0.0], [741, 771, 0.0], [771, 838, 0.0], [838, 991, 0.0], [991, 1019, 0.0], [1019, 1171, 0.0], [1171, 1211, 0.0], [1211, 1277, 0.0], [1277, 1414, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 56, 0.03571429], [56, 124, 0.07352941], [124, 302, 0.01123596], [302, 464, 0.01234568], [464, 500, 0.11111111], [500, 567, 0.07462687], [567, 741, 0.02298851], [741, 771, 0.13333333], [771, 838, 0.07462687], [838, 991, 0.02614379], [991, 1019, 0.03571429], [1019, 1171, 0.03289474], [1171, 1211, 0.15], [1211, 1277, 0.07575758], [1277, 1414, 0.01459854]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1414, 1.74e-05]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1414, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1414, 0.00358772]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1414, -124.93068173]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1414, -48.31969075]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1414, -112.31979298]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1414, 7.0]]} |
Benefits and Risks of Satisficing Levels for Input and Output Quantities in Efficiency Analyses from a Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective
Malte L Peters Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences, Department of Finance, Muenster, Germany
Stephan Zelewski Institute of Production and Industrial Information Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.11/2016.5.12/11.12.94.101
In efficiency analyses it is being regularly insinuated that it is desirable to realize a maximum ratio between the produced outputs and the used inputs. According to the concept of satisficing, however, activities can be assumed to be satisfactory if they meet a specific aspiration level. The concept of satisficing has been incorporated into efficiency analysis techniques through satisficing levels. In this paper, benefits and risks are being discussed that result from considering satisficing levels in efficiency analyses from the perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), EATWOS, EATWIOS, Efficiency, Satisficing levels, Sustainable development
Peters, M. L., & Zelewski, S. . (2016). Benefits and Risks of Satisficing Levels for Input and Output Quantities in Efficiency Analyses from a Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective. International Journal of Management and Sustainability, 5(12), 94–101. https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.11/2016.5.12/11.12.94.101
Malte L Peters, Stephan Zelewski, Some Thoughts on Operationalizing the Concept of Sufficiency in Efficiency Analysis , International Journal of Management and Sustainability: Vol. 7 No. 1 (2018) | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11980 | {"url": "https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/11/article/view/1028", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "archive.conscientiabeam.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T08:53:30Z", "digest": "sha1:OW67JWGIX65DNC2GF6QSNTDJPXB4N3VV"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1653, 1653.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1653, 2867.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1653, 8.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1653, 75.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1653, 0.85]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1653, 260.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1653, 0.21967213]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1653, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1653, 0.18567251]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1653, 0.25730994]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1653, 0.25730994]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1653, 0.18567251]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1653, 0.18567251]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1653, 0.18567251]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1653, 0.0621345]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1653, 0.05847953]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1653, 0.05263158]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1653, 0.02622951]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1653, 0.31803279]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1653, 0.52173913]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1653, 6.60869565]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1653, 4.39420748]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1653, 207.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 147, 0.0], [147, 258, 0.0], [258, 383, 0.0], [383, 442, 0.0], [442, 1028, 1.0], [1028, 1140, 0.0], [1140, 1458, 0.0], [1458, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 147, 0.0], [147, 258, 0.0], [258, 383, 0.0], [383, 442, 0.0], [442, 1028, 0.0], [1028, 1140, 0.0], [1140, 1458, 0.0], [1458, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 147, 20.0], [147, 258, 14.0], [258, 383, 14.0], [383, 442, 1.0], [442, 1028, 85.0], [1028, 1140, 11.0], [1140, 1458, 35.0], [1458, 1653, 27.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 147, 0.0], [147, 258, 0.0], [258, 383, 0.0], [383, 442, 0.58139535], [442, 1028, 0.0], [1028, 1140, 0.0], [1140, 1458, 0.13074205], [1458, 1653, 0.03225806]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 147, 0.0], [147, 258, 0.0], [258, 383, 0.0], [383, 442, 0.0], [442, 1028, 0.0], [1028, 1140, 0.0], [1140, 1458, 0.0], [1458, 1653, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 147, 0.08843537], [147, 258, 0.10810811], [258, 383, 0.096], [383, 442, 0.0], [442, 1028, 0.01194539], [1028, 1140, 0.19642857], [1140, 1458, 0.06918239], [1458, 1653, 0.09230769]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1653, 0.07166165]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1653, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1653, 0.00670058]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1653, -151.5110278]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1653, -49.65473857]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1653, -14.83300076]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1653, 29.0]]} |
Rocky Contos: The Río Marañon
The Marañon River (Río Marañon) is the hydrological source of the Amazon River and flows through a canyon comparable in many ways to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona. It is literally a dream river for raft support trips, making it accessible to people with and without whitewater kayaking or rafting skills. Due to its unique status as the source of the biggest river in the world and its other outstanding attributes, the Marañon is the most precious river in Latin America and worth every minute of conservation effort to protect it from a series of 20 hydroelectric dams that are planned along the river. The construction of these dams would be one of the greatest environmental tragedies in human history – of the same magnitude as damming the Colorado in the Grand Canyon or Three Gorges on the Yangtze. We need to take action to stop the dam plans on the Marañon!! Save Río Marañon!!
There are many parallels between South America’s Marañon and North America’s Colorado through the Grand Canyon. Both rivers offer a spectacular combination of whitewater, natural scenery, expansive camps, interesting hikes, and a sense of adventure for recreational paddlers who long to immerse themselves in nature for several weeks. Both rivers contain clean water and steep canyon walls with striking rock formations, and give the river traveler a sensation of being transported back in time. The more than 22,000 people who are lucky enough to paddle the Colorado through the Grand Canyon each year cannot help but marvel at the story of John Wesley Powell and his crew, who explored the region in 1869 in wooden oarboats, and be saddened about the loss of the lower part of the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Current-day appreciation for the Colorado as a natural treasure has fostered opposition to and eventual blocking of several additional dams that were planned within the Grand Canyon in the latter part of the 20th century, a major victory for environmentalists.
The Marañon as it now exists offers paddlers the feeling that boaters must have experienced on the Colorado before it came to be controlled and destroyed by Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams. It also offers Peruvians living along its banks a way of life that they have come to love and depend upon, and are in danger of losing forever.
Rocky Contos beside The Marañon River
Our 2012 trip down the entire Río Marañon was prompted by a desire to descend the entire Amazon River from source to sea and also to experience what appeared to be a Grand Canyon-type trip in South America. I first surmised that Río Marañon might be one of the finest rafting rivers in the world during the 1990s when I started searching for unknown river gems in Latin America by perusing maps in atlases. Although I noticed many long rivers, only a few possibly could meet “Grand Canyon” criteria: free-flowing, clean, deep undeveloped canyon, high volume, interesting hikes/sites, a long class III-IV raftable section (>300 km), and few or no portages. While many rivers in Latin America meet many of these criteria, almost none meet them all. For instance, Mexico’s Río Grande de Santiago and Peru’s Río Mantaro are polluted and have dams. Chiapas’ Río Grijalva and Chile’s Bio Bio are clean, but now have dams. Peru’s Río Apurimac is too difficult with too many portages. However, one river did appear to meet all the criteria: Peru’s Río Marañon. I wanted to explore Río Marañon and see for myself if it really was a “Grand Canyon”.
Organizing and planning the month-long expedition took a lot of work – getting maps and analyzing them, figuring out how to get a raft and kayaks to the river, shopping for food and other items, and finding partners. I was able to secure nearly an entire set of topographic maps of Peru, which I used to analyze the Marañon and other rivers in the country. Interestingly, during this exercise I happened to make a major discovery of where the most distant source of the Amazon was located (a result soon to be published). My Amazon source discovery does not change the fact that Río Marañon is still the hydrological source of the Amazon – that is, where the majority of water originates. Traditionally, hydrological sources of rivers were generally recognized by geographers and the public. For example, the source of the Mississippi is considered to be in Minnesota at Lake Itasca rather than up the Missouri River – and is named as such. The Blue Nile was often considered the source of the Nile (contributing the bulk of water), even though the White Nile extended farther upstream. And even Río Marañon was considered the source of the Amazon for over 2 centuries. Nowadays, both “most distant” and “hydrological” sources may be recognized. Although I descended the Amazon from the new farthest upstream source that I had identified (in a separate month-long expedition), I still wanted to paddle the entire Marañon, which has just as much a claim to the “source of the Amazon” title.
My partners for the expedition ended being my wife Barbara Conboy and two kayakers (Mike Doktor and Amie Begg). On July 1, 2012, we began our 664 km (412-mile) month-long Marañon raft journey by Puente Copuma just upstream of the Río Puchka confluence. Although it was the middle of the dry season and the river was low, there was still plenty of water and it was quite raftable. In fact, I later realized that after a few more tributaries entered the river, Río Marañon averages about the same flow rate as the Colorado through the Grand Canyon.
We were all taken aback by the amazingly scenic canyon at the put-in - a canyon that continued downstream for nearly the entire trip. Vertical red dirt and limestone walls rose directly from the river in places with interesting layered geology in others. High walls in the canyon towered over 3000 m (10000 ft) above the river - and on both sides a times. We passed tributaries entering the Marañon with warm turquoise-colored water depositing travertine. We stopped to hike into slot side canyons, most with waterfalls creating secluded grottos. We enjoyed soaking in 95oF hot springs about a week into the trip. We camped on expansive beaches and cooked over fires every night with the abundant firewood present everywhere.
The Marañon River at Sunset
The air was usually crisp, clear, dry and hot during the day, with nights comfortably cool – overall, just about perfect weather. Surprisingly, we seemed to be in a desert at our put-in, something that only became more apparent farther downstream. Aside from a little green riparian vegetation with mango trees and banana plants in places, the flora was brown, dry and sparse, making hikes easy. Cacti abounded, sometimes up to 8 m high and similar to the stately saguaros of the American Southwest. As a testament to the desert-like climate, on our initial 25 days of the trip, we had only two light daytime sprinkles of rain!
The whitewater on the river was challenging, fun, and comparable to that of the Grand Canyon. Although most of the Marañon had been paddled previously, little had been written about it, so our trip involved a lot of eager anticipation of what might be coming up next. In general, we found class III and IV rapids along most of the river, but two class Vs in the initial section down to Chagual (“Wasson’s Landslide” and “Yamara”) incited at least as many butterflies in our stomachs as Lava Falls and Crystal did on the Colorado River. Yet many days of our trip also were quite relaxed - with only class II rapids in sections downstream of Chagual and near Bagua – or in layover camps.
People we met living along the river were generally friendly to us, especially after they learned we were not dam survey crews. On day 5 we met Francisco and Leonardo, two professors who had come down to the river from the village of Quiches to document what was going to be lost with a Korean-financed dam soon to be constructed on the river. They wanted to photograph some Incan ruins and landmarks that would be drowned by the planned reservoir. When I asked when the reservoir was to be constructed, they replied, “next year”. Although I had read a little bit about some dams planned for the jungle sections of the river, this was the first I had heard of plans to dam the upper river. Our new friends wanted to organize opposition, but it seemed like a hopeless battle.
On day 11, in the section after Chagual, we passed some homemade balsa rafts on the side of the river and guys panning for gold with a little dredging machinery. We were near the village of Calemar, so I reminisced of the stories told by Ciro Alegría in his novel, “La Serpiente del Oro”, written in 1935 about this same village. In it, he described the balseros from the village, their struggles in daily life, and the beauty of their customs. The book was a bestseller and is considered one of the most iconic books of Peru – a classic still read by many students throughout South America. Yet the life described by Alegría, still experienced by many of the residents living along this section of the Marañon, may soon come to an end if the intended giant dams are constructed, destroying the river for centuries.
A little past Balsas, on day 18, we stopped on the left side of the river where some folks mentioned that there were Incan ruins. Walking up a wash and then over to a ranch house, we found its owner, Wilson, and his brother. The brothers graciously showed us around the dozens of Incan stone structures with pottery sherds and bones scattered near them. They then led us up the hill to a small cave area where one of Wilson’s sons had found an entire human skeleton only a year before. After our tour of the area, Wilson gave us a few papayas and showed us the recently completed environmental impact statement (EIS) of the planned 175 m Chadin2 dam, with consequent reservoir that would drown Wilson’s property. If this plan goes through, Wilson and his family will be forced to relocate and most of the nearby Incan ruins – never excavated or studied by archeologists – will be flooded and lost. Although Wilson and his family are opposed to the dam, they don’t know how to stop it.
In the village of Mendán, which we arrived at on day 20 of our trip, we heard that residents were hostile to the dam survey crews who had come down the river on rafts as recently as a month before. Every time we approached folks along the river, we waved to them and made a point of stopping and talking to them, to let them know that we were not a dam survey crew, but rather wanted to help the folks along the river in their efforts to oppose the dams from being constructed. Usually after that, we were greeted quite warmly. We heard tales of their struggles for existence, and how the government was planning to relocate the villages to less fertile grounds – without much compensation. The residents of the banks of the Marañon want to do as much as possible to stop the dams, and have been looking for ways to mobilize their opposition.
Down near the village of Lonya Grande, which we arrived at on day 23, we spoke to a woman who was about to ferry a load of bananas across the river. She mentioned how a meeting was planned in Cajamarca to oppose the 168 m Veracruz dam that would flood her property, but the day the meeting was to be held, the government ordered a blockade of the roads to thwart it. She related how dam company officials had called meetings of the residents in the past, offering free food and other treats to get the residents to sign forms - without informing them of what the forms actually stated. Many residents who had limited literacy signed the forms in earnest, convinced that what they had been told was the truth. Apparently, the forms were designed to get the residents to release rights to property along the river, be relocated, and allow the dam construction to proceed.
The final days of our trip on the Marañon were spent in the Amazon jungle, where the river passes by Aguaruna communities living along the riverbanks. The Aguaruna tribe has inhabited this region since antiquity, and has recently organized vociferous opposition to some exploitative plans for economic development. One well-known incident occurred in June 2009, when a group of Aguaruna travelled to Bagua to block a road in order to oppose a petroleum-drilling project planned in their territory. The ensuing conflict resulted in more than two dozens of deaths of national police force members and an unknown number of deaths of Aguaruna tribe members. This event has led many residents of the Bagua area, upstream of the Aguaruna settlements, to fear the Aguaruna people. A pair of brothers (Noe and Ernesto Piedra) from the small town of El Mullo, on the bank of the Marañon just downstream of Bagua, offered to accompany us on our raft farther into the jungle, and Eusebio Chumpi and son from an Aguaruna settlement a few miles downstream agreed to join our group so that they could talk to the people who lined up along the river banks as we passed. Yet all these folks we talked to, including the members of the Aguaruna community, were not aware of the plan to put in three massive mega-dams at sacred places like the Pongos de Manseriche, Escuprebaga, and Rentema. When I mentioned it to them, they were appalled. It just goes to show the need to inform folks about what may be in store for their future: stagnant reservoirs, forced relocations, and ecological disaster.
Once we reached the village of Imacita on day 28, regular passenger boat service was available to downstream towns all the way to Iquitos. Amie and Mike had already departed, so Barb and I sent our raft back to Lima and continued the rest of the way on our own. In Santa Maria de Nieva, we met, a sociologist from the Aguaruna community named Segundo Valera Wajuyat, who told us about his plans to help lead his people in sustainable eco-tourism. We learned about President Ollanta Humala’s establishment of an Indigenous Congress in Lima to give people like the Aguaruna a voice in national politics. We wondered how we could assist our new friends in Quiches, Chagual, Calemar, Balsas, Mendán, Lonya Grande, El Mullo, and Nieva in their quest to preserve and improve their ways of life.
After making it through the Pongo de Manseriche – the Marañon’s final gorge in the Andes – we spent our final days on the Marañon cruising to Iquitos. We took in the jungle life by exploring the Pacaya-Samiria reserve by canoe and visiting indigenous tribes near Iquitos. Yet we still reminisced about the immense beauty of the desert Amazon canyons upstream. The Marañon had incited in us a desire to help the residents protect this amazing natural resource from misguided attempts at modernization. At the end of our journey down the hydrological source of the Amazon, I only yearned to return, introduce others to this Grand Canyon of South America, and help the river’s residents stop the 20 destructive dams from being constructed.
Río Marañon: The Grand Canyon of South America from Rocky Contos on Vimeo.
Read more about Río Marañon and the planned dams at the SierraRios website. See for yourself how magnificent this Grand Canyon of South America is by joining a raft-support trip on Río Marañon. Two to four-week trips are tentatively scheduled for October 2013 and January 2014. Kayakers, rafters, and passengers are welcome: no experience is necessary as a passenger/paddler on rafts.
See more photos from Rocky's trip along the Río Marañon in our Flickr set.
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The Mega-City in Latin America
Edited by Alan Gilbert
By the year 2000, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those five cities. Two of them, Mexico City and S�o Paulo, will arguably be the world's two largest cities.
The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11982 | {"url": "https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/backlist/ab-megacity-la.html", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "archive.unu.edu", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:30:14Z", "digest": "sha1:NKGZLYVVIJ5E4NXU7AGLADGLYICRNQUL"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 788, 788.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 788, 1047.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 788, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 788, 11.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 788, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 788, 149.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 788, 0.38709677]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 788, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 788, 0.02184087]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 788, 0.00645161]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 788, 0.15483871]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 788, 0.6875]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 788, 5.0078125]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 788, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 788, 4.26309945]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 788, 128.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 54, 0.0], [54, 374, 1.0], [374, 788, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 54, 0.0], [54, 374, 0.0], [374, 788, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 31, 5.0], [31, 54, 4.0], [54, 374, 54.0], [374, 788, 65.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 54, 0.0], [54, 374, 0.02250804], [374, 788, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 54, 0.0], [54, 374, 0.0], [374, 788, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.16129032], [31, 54, 0.13043478], [54, 374, 0.034375], [374, 788, 0.01207729]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 788, 0.9770419]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 788, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 788, 0.09554613]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 788, -9.35197284]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 788, 19.15274527]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 788, 18.13478986]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 788, 6.0]]} |
For a similar image, but less distant, see Y3042C/67. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11983 | {"url": "https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/212339", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:62Z3RIBBVBBS3G57MCWBDMC4SA4YQJG6"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 53, 53.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 53, 2729.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 53, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 53, 79.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 53, 0.8]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 53, 300.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 53, 0.28571429]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 53, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 53, 0.07142857]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 53, 0.35714286]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 53, 1.0]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 53, 4.55555556]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 53, 2.19722458]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 53, 9.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 53, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 53, 9.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 53, 0.12244898]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 53, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 53, 0.05660377]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 53, 0.1118176]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 53, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 53, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 53, -0.7985123]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 53, 0.2933986]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 53, -2.85525167]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 53, 1.0]]} |
Major League Baseball World Series Programs and Scorecards
Identifier: BAS 620
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Major League Baseball World Series game programs and scorecards. The World Series programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the World Series. Some programs also include pictures and information about team managers, team owners, other team personnel, league officials, historical articles, information about the host city, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through the...
Names: Oakland Athletics (Baseball team) X
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An order number or registration number is a number or alpha-numeric number used to identify a customer’s move. This number will vary slightly from carrier to carrier. Arpin of RI’s order numbers start with our agency number 7107, then a hyphen (-) and then a 4-digit number that identifies the specific Arpin of RI customer. The order number is listed on the three main moving forms; the inventory, the Order for Service, and the Bill of Lading. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11985 | {"url": "https://arpinri.com/glossary/what-is-an-order-number-on-an-interstate-move/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "arpinri.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LFPSFU3PYUCXU5F2CCJ2TZPRHDMW45C3"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 445, 445.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 445, 7890.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 445, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 445, 189.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 445, 0.79]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 445, 192.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 445, 0.35483871]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 445, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 445, 0.06179775]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 445, 0.02150538]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 445, 0.16129032]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 445, 0.64473684]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 445, 4.68421053]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 445, 3.65341306]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 445, 76.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 445, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 445, 76.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 445, 0.01160093]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 445, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 445, 0.02921348]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 445, 0.75129062]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 445, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 445, -2.15e-06]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 445, -24.72328239]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 445, 1.93910242]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 445, -7.33118038]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 445, 4.0]]} |
Tool Testing Time Becomes Reduced With 3D Laser Scanning
Tool Testing Time Becomes Reduced With 3D Laser Scanning Saving time, money, and increasing productivity Technopark Aviation Technologies, based in Russia, has worked with the country’s largest gas turbine engine largest provider. These are necessary engines that provide power to…
Uncategorized, 3D Laser Scanning, 3D Laser Scanning Application, 3D Laser Scanning Resource, 3D Laser Scanning Services, 3D Scanning, 3D Scanning Application, 3D Scanning Services3d imaging, 3d laser scanners, 3d laser scanning services, 3d measurement, 3d scanning, gas turbine, russia, technopark, technopark aviation technologies, turbine engineLeave a comment | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11986 | {"url": "https://arrival3d.com/tag/technopark/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "arrival3d.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:32:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KBLXK6QZGMZDDXPT5RZE66YD4HOXPK56"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 702, 702.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 702, 2071.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 702, 3.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 702, 79.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 702, 0.82]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 702, 307.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 702, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 702, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 702, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 702, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 702, 0.09166667]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 702, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 702, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 702, 0.24914676]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 702, 0.16382253]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 702, 0.16382253]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 702, 0.16382253]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 702, 0.16382253]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 702, 0.09556314]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 702, 0.17918089]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 702, 0.07508532]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 702, 0.075]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 702, 0.33333333]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 702, 0.19166667]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 702, 0.5]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 702, 6.10416667]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 702, 0.00833333]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 702, 3.47279291]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 702, 96.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 57, 0.0], [57, 339, 0.0], [339, 702, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 57, 0.0], [57, 339, 0.0], [339, 702, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 57, 9.0], [57, 339, 40.0], [339, 702, 47.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 57, 0.01785714], [57, 339, 0.00362319], [339, 702, 0.03458213]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 57, 0.0], [57, 339, 0.0], [339, 702, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 57, 0.15789474], [57, 339, 0.05319149], [339, 702, 0.06887052]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 702, 0.03853106]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 702, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 702, 7.617e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 702, -35.96937767]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 702, -6.56412447]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 702, -25.13915526]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 702, 2.0]]} |
Viriviri Barbershop
Category:Branding
Client:Arloko Corp.
Images by:Draxler
Aussies were developed on ranches in the western United States, and were seen as early as the 1800s. These pups are very focused, and need lots of attention, pawsitive reinforcement, and exercise. They can still be found working on the ranch, but also work as guide dogs, therapy dogs, drug detectors, and of course, man’s best friend. People often seek them out for their incredibly strong hunting abilities. They are excellent swimmers, too, so a nice lake or pool is A-OK! However, they do require regular exercise and would fit best with an active family. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11987 | {"url": "https://arromorosa.com/myproject/piece-of-magazine/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "arromorosa.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:03:39Z", "digest": "sha1:R4FU7ELIJDXESCAIWUAXDQDEAKERR73T"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 635, 635.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 635, 936.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 635, 5.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 635, 33.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 635, 0.99]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 635, 295.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 635, 0.36641221]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 635, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 635, 0.01526718]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 635, 0.18320611]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 635, 0.83333333]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 635, 5.00980392]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 635, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 635, 4.35400457]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 635, 102.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 20, 0.0], [20, 38, 0.0], [38, 58, 1.0], [58, 76, 0.0], [76, 635, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 20, 0.0], [20, 38, 0.0], [38, 58, 0.0], [58, 76, 0.0], [76, 635, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 20, 2.0], [20, 38, 1.0], [38, 58, 2.0], [58, 76, 2.0], [76, 635, 95.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 20, 0.0], [20, 38, 0.0], [38, 58, 0.0], [58, 76, 0.0], [76, 635, 0.00740741]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 20, 0.0], [20, 38, 0.0], [38, 58, 0.0], [58, 76, 0.0], [76, 635, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 20, 0.1], [20, 38, 0.11111111], [38, 58, 0.15], [58, 76, 0.11111111], [76, 635, 0.019678]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 635, 0.5933674]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 635, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 635, 0.0034979]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 635, -15.57567817]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 635, 3.11219205]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 635, -5.87238206]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 635, 7.0]]} |
Meet Andrea
Andrea ModicaAmore (2nd from right) and her host family
Andrea spent spring semester 2019 teaching English at the Instituto Maria Consolatrice as part of the English for Everybody program, a network of public schools in the provinces of Brescia, Italy, and Oxford, Bath, and Cardiff Universities. She recently completed her assigment, and writes about her experiences:
For the past three months, I have had the absolute pleasure of spending every day with the intelligent and kind-hearted students and staff of Istituto Maria Consolatrice, a joint elementary and middle school located in Sant’Omobono Terme, Italy.
After completing my undergrad a bit earlier than I had expected, I knew I wanted to take advantage of what would have been my final spring semester at UB. I learned that there were opportunities to teach English abroad and with my undergrad completed, I decided that spring 2019 would be the perfect time to apply for the English for Everybody program. English for Everybody is a program run by Professor Gianfranco Serioli where American and UK college students, with a BA in Italian, are sent to different schools throughout Northern Italy to teach English to children. Through this program I was paired up with IMC and my mentor at the school, Professor Francesco Salvador.
At the school, I had a weekly schedule where I spent a certain amount of time with each of the classes. My days were spent in the classrooms with the students, conversing with them and attempting to improve their English skills. I often planned English lessons for the students, sometimes alongside the other teachers. At first, the students found my American accent particular, sometimes even difficult to understand. After each day they became more comfortable with me, as I did with them. Having the opportunity to be able to watch the students learn and grow was truly amazing experience for me.
Professor Salvador, along with the rest of the IMC staff, made sure I felt welcome right from the beginning. They are a group of young, brilliant professors are passionate about teaching and constantly putting the children of their school first. Seeing firsthand how special the relationships between the students and teachers were made me realize that teaching may be a potential career for me in the future. I’m pleased to say that my time at IMC has led me to the decision to pursue an MA in education.
Aside from the school itself, a huge part of why my time in Italy was so special was because of my wonderful host family. From the first day we met, they have made me feel nothing but welcome in their home and community. They immediately made me feel as if I was a part of their family.
As my time here in Italy comes to an end, I can’t help but reflect on these last three months and feel so incredibly lucky to have had this experience. I could not have asked for a better school and family to have spent my time with. I now consider this tiny, close-knit community to be another home of mine. Throughout my time here I have made forever friends, gained new family members, and have developed a passion for helping students learn and achieve their goals. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/11988 | {"url": "https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/about/meet-our-students/andrea-modicaamore.html", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "arts-sciences.buffalo.edu", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:43:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HLIC4BIGDPR3RTNRWYVWEDI63URBLGPC"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3166, 3166.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3166, 6048.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3166, 9.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3166, 139.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3166, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3166, 243.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3166, 0.44736842]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3166, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3166, 0.02259447]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3166, 0.02142579]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3166, 0.02220491]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3166, 0.01714063]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3166, 0.04111842]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3166, 0.10197368]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3166, 0.4640884]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3166, 4.72744015]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3166, 5.01451843]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3166, 543.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 12, 0.0], [12, 68, 0.0], [68, 381, 0.0], [381, 627, 1.0], [627, 1304, 1.0], [1304, 1904, 1.0], [1904, 2410, 1.0], [2410, 2697, 1.0], [2697, 3166, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 12, 0.0], [12, 68, 0.0], [68, 381, 0.0], [381, 627, 0.0], [627, 1304, 0.0], [1304, 1904, 0.0], [1904, 2410, 0.0], [2410, 2697, 0.0], [2697, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 12, 2.0], [12, 68, 9.0], [68, 381, 47.0], [381, 627, 38.0], [627, 1304, 115.0], [1304, 1904, 101.0], [1904, 2410, 88.0], [2410, 2697, 57.0], [2697, 3166, 86.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 12, 0.0], [12, 68, 0.01886792], [68, 381, 0.01315789], [381, 627, 0.0], [627, 1304, 0.005997], [1304, 1904, 0.0], [1904, 2410, 0.0], [2410, 2697, 0.0], [2697, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 12, 0.0], [12, 68, 0.0], [68, 381, 0.0], [381, 627, 0.0], [627, 1304, 0.0], [1304, 1904, 0.0], [1904, 2410, 0.0], [2410, 2697, 0.0], [2697, 3166, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 12, 0.16666667], [12, 68, 0.05357143], [68, 381, 0.04472843], [381, 627, 0.03658537], [627, 1304, 0.04874446], [1304, 1904, 0.02], [1904, 2410, 0.02766798], [2410, 2697, 0.0174216], [2697, 3166, 0.01492537]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3166, 0.34406954]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3166, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3166, 0.09299266]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3166, -17.24661509]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3166, 32.39272772]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3166, -119.1601176]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3166, 23.0]]} |
Meet Suzanne
Suzanne Toczyski earned a BA in French from UB and is now a Professor of French at Sonoma State University.
"In 1985, during my junior year at UB, my fiancé (now husband) encouraged me to apply to graduate school, at which point I had to choose between my two loves, math and French. I knew I wanted to teach, and Dr. Ludwig – a most excellent advisor – sat down with me during my first year to map out a plan for completing a double major with a teacher ed minor in four years. Pondering my future choices, I thought of the inspiring teachers I had had at UB: Dr. Benay, who gave me a true love for seventeenth-century theater (which became the subject of my dissertation), Dr. Ludwig, who helped me to appreciate language in its most fundamental elements, Dr. Simon, whose conversations about modern theater were fascinating – and the choice was relatively easy. (Study abroad in Grenoble was also a huge plus!)
I earned my PhD in French in 1994, taught briefly at the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma while my husband was doing his post-doc, and then accepted a position at Sonoma State University, where I have now taught for almost twenty years. I hope my students leave SSU with fond memories of their work with the faculty here, and a real passion for French language and francophone literature and culture. I’m also happy to note that some of my own students have gone on to MA and PhD programs in French (at Johns Hopkins, UC-Davis, UC-Berkeley, San Francisco State, etc.), so the baton is being passed on. I’m very grateful to UB for a solid grounding in French!" – Suzanne Toczyski
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Over Winter Break 2019 Dijana served as volunteer translator with a UB Law School team at the US-Mexican border in Dilley, Texas. She writes: "I learned a lot about the immigration laws of our country, and a whole lot about the lives of Honduran, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan women and children. The whole experience was challenging but absolutely worthwhile. 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An American in London: Whistler and the Thames
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge, 1872–73, Oil on canvas, Tate Britian, London
The Washington Post, “A change in visual language signals a bigger cultural shift,” by Philip Kennicott
The Wall Street Journal, “Whistler Along the Thames,” by Lance Esplund
Town & Country, “Whistler on the Thames: The Witty Painter Who Could One-Up Oscar Wilde,” by Kevin Conley
The Economist, “A river runs through it”
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VerseD: Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16, ESV
God’s light is put in us by the Holy Spirit when we put our faith in Christ. Then Christ works in us to do good works in this world that some may also trust Him.
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Alarm Anxiety
Posted on February 16, 2023 February 16, 2023 by Astrid
I just came across an interesting concept when reading Pat’s Soapbox Thursday for today: alarm anxiety. Alarm anxiety is the fear of the alarm not going off or of not getting enough sleep before it does. When I read her description, immediately alarm bells (pun intended) went off in my head. This is what I dealt with throughout high school and into university.
When I was at secondary school, I’d compulsively check that my alarm was on. Since my alarm was at the other end of the room and I couldn’t visually check it due to being blind, I had to physically leave my bed to do so. And I’d do so at least thirty times a night. And worry that, by the time I’d finally fall asleep, if my alarm did go off, I’d still sleep through it because I hadn’t had enough sleep. This only happened once in my entire six years of secondary school.
I had other compulsions too, but these are too embarrassing to share here. In general, I’d spend hours engaging in my various rituals at night. I wouldn’t necessarily say I had OCD, as these obsessions and compulsions only affected me at night.
They got a lot worse when I lived independently and went to university. I had to check whether my front door was locked, all non-essential electronics unplugged, window open, heating off, alarm on and I’m pretty sure there’s something I’m forgetting right now. All of the things that needed to be checked, were for a reason, of course. For example, the heating needed to be off in case of a carbon monoxide leak (even though I didn’t have my own boiler) and the window needed to be open so that, if such a leak occurred, the chance of me getting poisoned would be lower.
I’d spend hours upon hours pacing through my apartment checking that these things were as I needed them to be. It was exhausting!
Thankfully, my compulsions left immediately when I was admitted to the psychiatric hospital. Either the fact that a staff member was on the ward at all times, comforted me, or the mere fact of my having been removed from my apartment and its specific triggers, caused me to be able to let go. And, of course, alarm anxiety was no longer a thing, as the staff would wake me. Besides, we weren’t required to be up by a certain time anyway.
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Advice I’d Give My Younger Self
Posted on January 15, 2023 by Astrid
In today’s Sunday Poser, Sadje asks what advice you’d give your younger self. Like in her case, for me it would be different depending on my age.
For example, I could have advised my twelve-year-old self not to be so loyal to her parents’wish to have her go to mainstream grammar school. However, rebellion in a young adolescent is rarely seen as a positive thing and even much less taken seriously. Preteens are expected to be loyal to their parents.
Besides, as someone who had hardly any social contact outside of the home, I didn’t know what was “normal” other than what I saw in the house – which in hindsight was far from normal.
For this reason, I am not really sure what advice to give my childhood self other than to savor the few friendships she did have.
To my teenage self, I would give the advice of standing up for herself more but in a kind way. Then again, this is basically the advice I’d give any younger version of myself and even present-day me, but I have little idea of how to go about actually doing it. I mean, I feel like I’m a doormat that can be walked over and a bed of nails at the same time.
I wish I could give myself the advice not to let others make decisions for me, but the two times I sort of made the decision to move somewhere on my own initiative, both went horribly wrong: my move to the psych hospital in Wolfheze in 2013 and my move to my current care home. For this reason, I’m still unsure I can trust my own decision-making. In truth, of course, I was misinformed in the latter case and not given enough time to process the decision in the former, so it’s not entirely my fault.
I guess, after all, there’s one piece of advice I’d give my younger self. It’d be for my nineteen-year-old self in April of 2006, when my parents threatened to abandon me because I was delaying going to university for another year in order to prolong my training home stay. The advice I’d give her is to let them have their way and not allow the training home coordinator to mediate. This, after all, led to the training home being pressured to require me to live completely independently and go to university after completing the program, something I never even wanted.
I know it’d take immense courage for me at that age to be disloyal to my parents, but had I been completely honest about my needs back in 2006, I would most likely not have ended up in my current care home now and wouldn’t even have needed as much care as I do now.
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Confronting My Dependent Shadow Side
Posted on July 3, 2022 by Astrid
This afternoon, I downloaded a small collection of shadow work-based journaling prompts. One of them is to write about the time I felt most offended by someone. What did that person say or do? And more important, what was my reaction? I am encouraged to focus mostly on the emotions involved rather than the mere facts.
The first thing that came to mind, was my former psychologist diagnosing me with dependent personality disorder. This, though, didn’t really offend me: it scared me. After all, she claimed not just that I was being passive and clingy, as people with DPD often are, but that I was misusing care. I, obviously, disagreed and feared losing my care because of her diagnosis. This, indeed, did happen about six months later.
The moment I felt most offended though, was the moment in June of last year when my husband said he thought I might have DPD. He may’ve forgotten that this was the exact diagnosis my psychologist had given me in order to kick me out of the psych hospital, since he did not propose I move back in with him. His reasoning was, however, the fact that, even with one-on-one support for most of the day, I still struggle.
I felt intensely triggered and scared again, but also angry. However, I wasn’t necessarily angry with him, but with my own dependent side. After all, maybe, just maybe, he is right indeed.
Deep down, I do know it is crazy to want – to feel I need – one-on-one attention all of the time. I don’t even want it, truthfully. Right now, I’m very content being by myself. But then again, why do I feel so anxious some of the time when my staff leave? Why can’t I make simple choices? Why do I need my husband to take responsibility for any major parts of my life? These are telltale DPD criteria!
I am not even scared of the diagnosis itself. Diagnoses are just labels. But I am scared of losing the care I have now, like I did in 2017. And then the little voice, my independent part, is telling me that I coped just fine. I mean, I know I took two overdoses of medication during my first six months of living with my husband, but wasn’t that just manipulation?
Couldn’t I have a much better, much richer life if I unlearned this intense fear of needing to fend for myself? Yes, yes, yes, I could! But does unlearning this fear mean being given a kick in the behind and being forced to live with my husband again? Maybe there are steps in between. Like, today I poured myself a glass of fruit-infused water, spilling a little over myself, but I did it anyway. I felt intense anxiety, because I knew my staff noticed and maybe she’s going to expect me to always be able to do this independently. Then again, so what? Then the worst thing that could happen is I can’t get fruit-infused water if this staff is working my shift and I don’t feel like pouring it myself. Is that so bad after all? And just to say, the staff didn’t even tell me to pour the drink myself. I just noticed the bottle was in front of me and I decided to try to do it. I could’ve asked her to pour the water for me, in which case she’d likely have done so. She is a staff who generally encourages independence, which sets off my demand avoidance. However, the fact that I not only did something independently I wouldn’t normally have done, but took the initiative rather than being encouraged (read: pushed), gave me a confidence boost.
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What If I Lose My Care?
Posted on May 4, 2022 by Astrid
Today’s prompt for the Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge is fear. More specifically, the organizers ask us to consider whether we ever worry about the “what if’s” of a situation without looking at the positive present. Fear, for me, takes many forms, including post-traumatic stress, in which I relive the past. However, it also includes worrying about the future indeed.
Specifically, I worry about losing my support. Of course, this is a realistic worry in a sense, in that my one-on-one support has only been approved until sometime in late 2023. However, right now it’s only May 2022 and a lot could happen between now and then.
This worry also takes unrealistic forms. For example, sometimes I’m convinced that the psychologist from the psychiatric hospital who diagnosed me with dependent personality disorder to “prove” that I was misusing care, will find out that I’m in long-term care and will report me for care fraud. If she does and if the authorities follow along with her allegation, I will not just lose my one-on-one, but all my long-term care and will essentially be required to move back into independent living with my husband.
In a sense, the fact that this “what if” is my worst fear, does prove sort of that I do have dependent traits. However, dependent personality disorder or dependency in general is not the same as misusing care. After all, I never disputed my psychologist’s claim that I wished to be cared for. What I disputed, is her claim that this wish is unfounded, in that I don’t really need this care.
In a similar fashion, recently I’ve had “what if’s” in my head about moving to another care home. What if the staff there expect me to be much more independent than I am right now? In a sense, one reason I want to move to another care home is to have a better quality of life, a broader perspective. This may include greater independence. But I don’t want to be forced into it.
I am reminded of a question on a personality test I had to fill out for my autism re-assessment back in 2017. The agree/disagree statement went something like this: “Being left behind alone is my worst fear.” I didn’t know how to answer it back then, as I thought at the time that being in serious pain would be worse, so I ticked the “Disagree” box. Then again, at the time, I hadn’t experienced significant time being left to my own resources in at least nine years. Now, I would certainly tick the “Agree” box even though I know it was a red flag for dependent personality disorder. I don’t care.
What if I lose all my care and am left to my own resources? During the same assessment, I had to answer a question about how difficult it would be to stay on my own for a couple of days. I ticked the “Very difficult” box, not the “Impossible” box that I would have ticked now. Then again, if my husband had stocked up on food and I had my computer and phone with me, would it literally be impossible? Hmmm, well… emotionally, yes, it would be.
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A Letter to Myself Five Years Ago
Posted on March 27, 2022 by Astrid
Today, I stumbled upon a journaling prompt that asked me to write a letter to myself five years ago. I’m pretty sure I’ve done something similar to this at least a couple of times before. In fact, when I searched this blog for letters, I saw that I’d written A letter explaining my life at the time in early 2020, a letter to my younger self in general in October of 2018 and even a letter from my (then) future self in 2019.
Those who know the timeline of my life, of course, will not be surprised that I am going to pick this prompt anyway, as the “five years ago” part of the prompt is particularly significant. After all, it was weeks before I’d be kicked out of the mental hospital. I am not going to bore you with a timeline of the past five years in this letter. Instead, I’m trying to provide some new insights.
Raalte, March 27, 2022
Dear Astrid,
It is tempting to start this letter with a cliché, such as, “How are you?” However, I know how you are. You are struggling greatly with self-doubt and uncertainty. Fear of abandonment and attachment loss. You’d rather avoid taking the next step in your life, leaving the familiar behind to step into unfamiliar territory. Even though you’d rather not admit it, your psychologist is right that you’re scared of needing to become independent.
I want to let you know I understand. Independence is scary. The unfamiliar, leaving the psychiatric institution to go live with your husband, is even scarier. I understand you’d rather stay with unsupportive people you know, ie. in the psych hospital, than live with a supportive person, ie. your husband, under circumstances you don’t know.
And, to be honest, if I had a choice back when I was you, I’d not have chosen to live with my husband. The thing is, you don’t have a choice. Not yet. But you will, at some point.
Please, for my sake, hold on for a bit. Do what your psychologist tells you, but also stand up for your right to proper day activities and community support. It will be hard, living in the community with your husband. But things will get easier.
I am writing from a care facility. In 2019, I was approved for long-term care based on blindness. I also have extra one-on-one support. Please don’t tell your psychologist all of this, as she’s going to time travel right ahead to me and make sure my funding gets taken away. This is just between you and me, so that you know things will improve. I know they will get worse first, but please do hold on.
Looking to you, I do see that you struggle to let go of the familiar, even when it isn’t good for you. I sometimes think I face the opposite issue, chasing perfection rather than being content with what I have now. It’s a true balancing act.
I also want to let you know that, as much as you’d like to make your own choices, being allowed to make those choices also can be a burden. The fact that, now, I am free to stay in the care facility for as long as I want or leave when I want, is quite scary, I must admit. In that sense, your psychologist was probably right about my dependent personality disorder features.
I wish I could tell you that your attachment issues would be over by now. They aren’t. I’m still struggling with them, worse even than I was when I was you. However, I do have a supportive mental health treatment team now,for which I’m forever grateful.
In summary, please do believe in yourself. You have every right to feel that you need more support than your psychologist says you need. You just won’t get it yet. Eventually though, you will.
Your future self
Posted in MusingsTagged 2017, Attachment Issues, Care Facility, Dependent Personality Disorder, Future Self, Husband, Independent Living, Letters, Life Choices, Long-Term Care, One-on-One Support, Psychiatric Hospital, Psychologist, Younger Self6 Comments
#WeekendCoffeeShare (January 30, 2022)
Hi everyone. I’m extremely late joining in with #WeekendCoffeeShare this week. I already had all my coffee for the weekend, in fact, so the title of my blog post is rather off, but oh well. The linky’s still open for another nine hours, so I’m going to take advantage of it and participate. Let’s have a drink and let’s catch up.
If we were having coffee, I’d start by sharing that the weather is slightly better than it was last week. It’s warmed up a bit, at least. That being said, we’re supposed to get rain all of next week, so I’m probably still not going out much.
If we were having coffee, I’d tell you that today is my father-in-law’s 65th birthday. Retirement age is now 67 here I believe, so it’s not significant in that sense. At least, my father-in-law is keeping his dentistry practice until he’s 67. My husband did buy him a beer and I sent him a text, but that’s as far as birthday celebrations go, I think.
If we were having coffee, I’d share that I’ve been creating some quite interesting polymer clay things lately. One is a flower fairy, another a kawaii pig pendant and another a daisy. That daisy didn’t turn out as good as I’d like, but my husband did say he liked the fairy. I haven’t baked any of the things yet.
If we were having coffee, I’d use the rest of my post to whine about how my anxiety is still through the roof. I hardly slept at all Friday night. Then yesterday, I had an okay day until in the evening a fellow client started screeching. I tried to get the staff’s attention but they wouldn’t react until I grabbed the other client by the arm, then only told me that said client, who is non-speaking, couldn’t help her behavior. I’ve been feeling extremely unsettled and unsafe in my current care home ever since. I am all the more triggered because staff keep repeating that I’ll likely feel unsafe in any other place. They probably say it to mean every other place has its drawbacks too, but I take it to mean that my anxiety is my problem and I’m the one who needs to change so I just need to suck it up and stop complaining.
I’ve also been thinking about how I had fewer crises when living with my husband than now that I live in the care facility. Isn’t this telling? I mean, doesn’t this mean that I should get a kick in the butt and go back to living semi-independently? Granted, I had far fewer moments of joy too, but I’m not sure that matters if I was less dependent back then. Isn’t the goal independence, after all? Eek, that scares me, and that in turn should be quite telling, right? I’m probably just one giant mess of a dependent, manipulative, attention-seeking monster.
Okay, if we were having coffee, I’d end on a positive note and say I had a delicious tuna wrap today when going to the Subway drive-through for lunch with my husband. I also had one half of a Bueno candy bar, as my husband had bought it at the supermarket. I originally wanted to refuse as it isn’t on my food plan, but the dietitian had said exceptions are okay.
Posted in DiaryTagged #WeekendCoffeeShare, Anxiety, Attention-Seeking, Birthday, Care Facility, Dependence, Dependent Personality Disorder, Father-in-Law, Husband, Independence, Independent Living, Manipulativeness, Polymer Clay, Weather23 Comments
My Shed
Posted on January 6, 2022 by Astrid
One of Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop prompts this week is to write about your very first apartment. I am going to cheat a little and write about the first apartment I rented rather than the very first apartment I lived in. The first apartment I rented was my student housing apartment, which I called “my shed”. This sounds affectionate in English. In Dutch, not so. “My cage”, though not as correct a translation, more correctly captures the feeling I had about this apartment.
When I got on the housing list in Nijmegen for the academic year starting 2007, the student counselor made sure I got a letter getting me to a priority place on the list because of my disabilities. This meant I was allowed to provide a preference for which student housing complex I wanted to live in. I had to list my top three. Based on the little information the housing association provided and what my support staff at the independence training home I lived in before moving to Nijmegen knew, my number one choice became the complex “my shed” was part of. My reasons were that its apartments reserved for disabled students were on the ground floor and the neighborhood was supposedly quiet.
Indeed, my apartment was on the ground floor, right beside the main entrance to the building. I didn’t have to enter the complex to get to my apartment.
It was a one-bedroom apartment. When you entered through the door, you were in the long, narrow living room and kitchen. Then you went through to something like a landing, with the bathroom on your right hand. Then, you’d enter another long, narrow room, which was the bedroom. The apartment altogether was 35m².
My apartment had just a few, very dim lights in the living room and one equally dim light in the bedroom. I guess my parents thought that I didn’t need much light since I was blind anyway. I had my desk, the one I currently still use to sit on whilst typing this post, in the living room. Other than that, I just had two kitchen chairs and a folding table to eat at. I did have one recliner that I’d gotten at a thrift store and a few rather tacky pillows. I had never thought of decorating my place at all. In fact, this past holiday season is the first time I’ve ever decorated my room and that’s quite a milestone.
Like I said, my apartment was very narrow and long. Its windows were on the short end of the apartment. Due to this and the lack of lighting, the apartment looked rather dark and gloomy. If I wasn’t depressed already, I’d become depressed from the lack of light in my shed.
The place quickly got rather filthy from my poor cleaning habits. I did try, but due to the combination of my disabilities, I just couldn’t keep the place properly cleaned. Looking back, I am so grateful my now husband didn’t go on a run as fast and as far as he could when I invited him into the shed on our second get-together.
I only actually lived in the shed for three months before landing in the psychiatric hospital. It is by far the worst place, in terms of interior, I’ve ever lived in.
Posted in MusingsTagged 2007, Independent Living, Memories8 Comments
House Inspection
Posted on December 2, 2021 by Astrid
One of Mama Kat’s writing prompts for this week is to tell us about a time someone showed up at your front door. Since I no longer live in regular housing since moving into the care facility, no-one ever shows up at my front door unexpectedly and, if they do, the staff will open it for me. When I still lived with my husband though, several times, people would show up at my front door unexpectedly. Not salespeople, thankfully. However, my experiences with the housing corporation were so bad that my husband actually asked me not to open the door. I always reflexively did anyway.
One time, the housing corporation, or I’m assuming some technical company sent by them, showed up when I did expect them. They were supposed to be repairing our gutter, but asked a ton of questions about where the problem was located and what kind of gutter we had. I had no idea and the people said they couldn’t just climb onto the roof and have a look. I called my husband to inquire, but he didn’t answer the phone, so they left without having done anything. This encounter led me to get into a mental crisis.
The first time the housing corporation showed up unannounced was in early August of 2017, just two weeks after the gutter repair guys had showed up. They came to ask us to weed the path behind our backyard. I had no idea there even grew plants there, but, under pressure, agreed to ask my husband to do it within a couple of weeks. Apparently, the back neighbors had been complaining, since I don’t expect the housing corporation to come out from the town to check on our tiny village house for no reason.
The other time was in September of 2019. My husband had scheduled the final inspection of our home for the 26th, when I’d be at the care facility and he’d be home alone. However, they showed up a week early when I was home alone. I was sleeping when I heard the doorbell and felt I had no time to dress into my day clothes, so quickly ran downstairs to open the door.
I told them they were a week early, but they insisted they take a look around “now that we’re here anyway”. After their inspection, they asked me to sign a document. I initially refused, but they insisted I am a renter too (I was). Then they asked: “Can you read?” I explained that I can, but not print, since I am blind. “There’s nothing to worry about in this document,” they told me. In my overwhelm, I signed and sent them on their way. My husband did complain about the way they’d treated me this time and it was my final reminder of why I want to never live in regular housing again.
Posted in MusingsTagged Blindness, House, Husband, Independent Living, Mental Health13 Comments
Life Skills I Struggle With As a Multiply-Disabled Person
Posted on November 23, 2021 November 28, 2021 by Astrid
Earlier today, Ann Hickman wrote an interesting list of ten life skills she is teaching her autistic teenager. As a teen, I missed out on most of these lessons she mentioned, leading to a big gap in my skills as well as my awareness of them.
Of course, lack of education isn’t the only reason autistics and otherwise disabled people may struggle with life skills. I struggle with many of them due to lack of energy, executive functioning issues and other things.
Today, I am sharing life skills I struggle with and why.
1. Personal hygiene. I remember vividly my sister gave me a deodorant for my fourteenth birthday as a hint. I didn’t get it. I wasn’t taught about hygiene much beyond childhood, but even if I were, I didn’t grasp the concept.
Similarly, because we had a bath at my parents’ house, I didn’t learn to properly shower. I didn’t know until a few years back that you’re supposed to use body wash when showering each time.
Other personal care tasks, I simply cannot do due to my physical limitations. I cannot clip my nails, for instance. I know some other blind people (presumably without physical disabilities) can, but other blind people I know go to the pedicurist for this.
2. Meal preparation. While in the training home, I tried for weeks to learn to put peanut butter or jelly on my bread without success. My mother can’t do it blindfolded either. My father can, but he assembles all his supplies around him in a very structured manner.
To be honest, I never had to prepare my breakfast or lunch before going into the training home, as we didn’t eat breakfast at my parents’ home and my lunch was always packaged by my mother (or I’d eat a sausage roll at the cafeteria).
There are probably ways I could prepare my own meals if I really need to. I mean, when living on my own, I just ate plain bread without toppings. However, I prefer my staff prepare it for me.
3. Cleaning. This is a difficult task for most blind people, but it can be done. I can dust my desk and table with minimal help if I’m reminded to do so. However, I can’t vacuum or mop the floors. I learned both, but with each house having a different way it’s set up, it’s very hard to find my way around it with a mop or vacuum cleaner.
What I struggle with most with respect to cleaning, is remembering how often each task needs to be done and actually organizing them. For example, in the training home, I’d clean the top of the doors each week despite no-one ever touching them. On the other hand, I’d procrastinate about changing my bed sheets, sometimes leaving them on for months.
4. Getting around. Ann mentions navigation for a reason: regardless of high-tech solutions to help people navigate, they still need to learn to use maps or to use public transportation. For me as a blind person, mobility was always more important, as it additionally involved safe white cane travel. I never mastered this, even with seven years of mobility training in special education and many more lessons once out of special ed. I only recently learned that more blind, neurodivergent people struggle with white cane usage.
Currently, I can for the most part move around inside the care home by myself, but I cannot at all get around outside without a sighted guide. My parents used to blame this on lack of motivation. While I am pretty sure this, as well as anxiety, does play a part, it is also about other things. Besides, lack of motivation is not the same as laziness. In my case, it feels as though the activity of independent travel overloads me cognitively to the point where I feel incapacitated.
I am assuming Ann’s son is “just” autistic, whereas I am multiply-disabled: autistic, blind and mildly physically impaired. However, with this article, I want to make it clear that there are many reasons a disabled teen or young adult might struggle with life skills and, for this reason, many different approaches to supporting them.
Posted in AwarenessTagged Autism, Blindness, Disabilities, Disability, Independence, Independence Training, Independent Living, Life Skills, Multiple Disabilities, Orientation and Mobility, Parents, Personal Hygiene26 Comments
Loneliness Comes From Within: Some Reflections
Posted on October 12, 2021 by Astrid
I am still struggling badly. I have been having flashbacks of the time when I lived on my own in 2007. When I told my husband this tonight, he asked whether any traumatic events happened there. Not really in the classic sense of the word, but I did suffer intensely. The “cage”, as I called my apartment, was a filthy, dark and gloomy place. Neither I nor anyone else had ever thought of making it into a home.
I was intensely lonely during the three months that I lived in that place. Nonetheless, people did reach out to me. I was in touch with several of my fellow students in the linguistics program at university, one of whom lived in my housing complex too.
When I mentioned this, my husband said that loneliness rarely comes from the environment. It wasn’t that no-one cared, as had been the case during most of my high school years. In fact, multiple people reached out to me, but I was closed off to contact with others. I was so convinced that I was unloveable that I didn’t attempt to form genuine bonds with people.
Sadly, it’s still mostly this way. Just a few days back, I was telling my husband that all caring staff eventually leave, referring to the idea I’ve gotten in my head that my assigned staff is not coming back. Indeed, a number of staff have left in the past or told me they had to distance themselves from me due to my behavior. However, a number have stayed too. In particular, my support coordinator from when I lived with my husband, stuck by me till the end.
Of course, staff/client relations are different from friendships. Staff might leave for reasons that have nothing to do with me. Others will come in their place, sad as it may be. Friends though will not necessarily be replaced. And that’s where it hurts more: I feel intensely incompetent at forming friendships.
I mean, though I did have contact with fellow students and people in my housing complex while living on my own, I mostly sucked up their energy. I feel intensely sad about this. I still feel like I’m not able to make friends ever at all. However, there is hope. Now that I (hopefully) am in a stable living situation, I may be able to build on some genuine friendships after all. I already consider some of my fellow clients my friends. I don’t need to rely on them for support, as I (hopefully) have my staff for that. That should be a relief.
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The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward (1978)
There is full many a man that crieth “Werre! Werre!”
That wot full litel what werre amounteth.
(Geoffrey Chaucer, captured in France on campaign with Edward III in 1359 and ransomed – with a contribution of £16 from the king)
The hundred years war lasted more than a hundred years
The Hundred Years War did not last a hundred years, it was really a sucession of conflicts between successive kings of France and England which are generally agreed to have started in 1337 and trundled on until a final peace treaty in 1453 (same year that Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks).
It see-sawed between prolonged periods of war, and long periods of truce
The ‘war’ was periodic, blowing hot and cold, with long periods of peace or truce – for example, there was peace between the Treaty of Brétigny of October 1360 and a new outbreak of hostilities in June 1369, and an even longer lull between 1389 – when Richard II signed a peace treaty with Charles VI of France – and the renewal of hostilities by Henry V and continued by his successors from 1415 until the final collapse of English possessions in 1453. Modern accounts divide the war into three distinct periods of conflict:
Edwardian phase (named for English King Edward III) 1337-1360
Caroline phase (named for French King Charles V) 1369-89
Lancastrian phase (named for the House of Lancaster which came to the throne with Henry IV, and renewed the war at the wish of his son Henry V) 1415-53
What gives the long sequence of battles and campaigns a conceptual unity is that between 1337 and 1453 the King of England made a formal, legal claim to the crown of France. For much of that period successive English kings styled themselves King of England and of France.
Historical origins of the war
The deep background to the war is of course the fact that William of Normandy invaded and conquered England in 1066, and his successors ruled not only England but Normandy and an ever-changing constellation of states, duchies and princedoms scattered round northern France.
It was Henry II who, by marrying Eleanor of Aquitaine, expanded the northern realm by bringing this huge area of south-west France under ‘English’ rule, thus expanding the so-called Plantagenet Empire to its fullest extent. In this map everything in pink was controlled by the Plantagenet king and amounted to just over half the nominal territory of France.
Plantagenet possessions in France in 1154 (source: Wikipedia)
Alas, Henry’s second son, King John, managed to throw away almost all this territory, through mismanagement, bad alliances and military defeats, and his successors – notably Henry III (1216-72), Edward I (1272-1307), and Edward II (1307-27) – lived in the shadow of the loss of the empire’s once-huge extent in France, and made spasmodic attempts to revive it.
Edward III’s claim to the throne of France
It was King Edward III, who ascended the throne as a boy in 1327 but then seized power from his guardians in 1330, who took the bull by the horns.
When the French king Charles IV died in 1328 without a son and heir the nobles of France had to decide who to succeed him. Edward’s claim was that he was the son of Isabella, sister to Charles IV. However, the French nobles, understandably, did not want to hand the crown to the English and chose to emphasise that the French crown could not be handed down through the female line – so they chose instead Philip VI, a cousin of the recently dead Charles IV.
Philip’s father had been a younger brother of a previous king, Philip IV, and had had the title Charles of Valois. Thus the throne of France passed to the House of Valois (having previously been the House of Capet).
Edward, only 16 when all this happened, was under the complete control of his mother and her lover, Roger Mortimer, who were allies with the French crown, who had indeed needed the support of the French king to overthrow Edward’s ill-fated father, Edward II, and so who made no protest and didn’t promote boy Edward’s claim.
It was only once he had himself overthrown Mortimer and banished his mother, and securely taken the reins of power, only in the 1330s, that Edward III got his lawyers to brush up his claim to the French throne and make a formal appeal for it. But it was, of course, too late by then.
Relations between the two kings deteriorated, and the road to war was marked by numerous provocations, not least when Edward happily greeted the French noble Robert of Artois who had, at one point been a trusted adviser of Philip VI, but then was involved in forgeries to secure the duchy of Artois, and forced to flee for his life.
This offensive gesture led King Philip to declare that Guyenne (another name for Aquitaine, which the English had held on and off ever since Henry II married Eleanor) was now forfeit to Edward i.e. no longer his. This triggered a formal letter from Edward III objecting to the forfeiture of Guyenne, and in which Edward formally lay claim to the throne of France.
A maze of powers and alliances
Almost any summary of the war is likely to be too simplistic for two reasons. One, it went on for a very long time with hundreds of battles, sieges, campaigns, on land and sea, each of which deserves a detailed account.
But – two – I was also struck by how many kingdoms, dukes and princes and whatnot got involved. Just in the early stages in the 1330s and 1340s, you need to know that Edward sought alliances with the Count of Flanders up in the north-east of France, and also tried to ally with the dukes of Burgundy on the eastern border. He also tried to get on his side the Holy Roman Emperor and the pope. Early on (1341) there was a civil war in Brittany between two claims to the title of Duke of Brittany, one backed by Edward, one by the French, and this degenerated into a civil war which went on for decades. Normandy – once the base of the Plantagenet empire – was, and then was not, allied with Edward.
In other words, France was far more fragmented an entity than the England of the day, and this made for a very complex kaleidoscope of shifting alliances. It’s broadly correct to speak of the king of England trying to secure the crown of France but that doesn’t begin to convey the complexity of the situation.
And that’s without Scotland. The king of England was always worried about what the Scots were doing behind his back which was, basically, to invade the north of England whenever the king of England was busy in France. It didn’t take much brains for the French to renew a sequence of pacts and alliances with Scotland to provide men and munitions to encourage their repeated invasions, renewing the ‘Auld Alliance’ which had first been made during the time of the aggressive ‘Hammer of the Scots’, Edward I, in 1295.
The same goes, to a lesser extent, for Wales and Ireland, which periodically rebelled against English rule, and which required armed expeditions, for example the large army which Richard II led in person to put down Irish rebellion and force Irish chieftains to submit to English overlordship in 1394.
And Spain. Spain also was divided into warring kingdoms and these, too, got drawn into the complex alliances north of the Pyrenees, which explains why, at various moments, the kingdoms of Castile or Navarre became involved in the fighting. Castile, in particular, allied with the French king and provided ships to the French fleets which repeatedly harried and raided ports on the south coast and attacked English merchant shipping going back and forth from Flanders (wool) or Guyenne (wine).
Famous highpoints
For the English the high points are the early, Edwardian phase of the war, featuring the two great battles of Crécy (26 August 1346) and Poitiers (19 September 1356) where we heartily defeated the French, plus the sea battle of Sluys (24 June 1340) where we destroyed an invasion fleet anchored off modern-day Holland, and the Battle of Winchelsea (29 August 1350) where a British fleet just about defeated a Castilian fleet commanded by Charles de La Cerda.
The Caroline phase 1369-89 marked the slow disintegration of the English position in France, latterly under the unpopular King Richard who, in 1389, signed a long-term peace.
Then, after a very long lull, Englishmen like to remember the Battle of Agincourt in 25 October 1415, fought as part of a prolonged raid of northern France undertaken by King Henry V, but this was just part of Henry V’s sustained campaign to conquer France, which was continued after his early death in 1422 by his brother John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, and others, until England had complete control of all Normandy and even Paris.
But this is, of course, is to forget the various achievements of successive French kings during this period, and to underestimate the importance of the fact that France descended into civil war (the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War) from 1407 to 1435, partly because it was ruled by a completely ineffectual king, Charles VI, also known as ‘the Mad’ (1388-1422). It was only because France was completely divided and that we allied with the powerful Burgundians, that we managed to seize and control so much of northern France.
As soon as Philip of Burgundy defected from the English cause by signing the Treaty of Arras with Charles VII and recognising him (and not the English Henry VI) as king of France, the rot set in and the period from 1435 to 1450 marks to steady decline of English landholdings and influence in France, ‘a protracted rearguard action by the English in France’ (p.235).
The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colourful in European history: King Edward III who inaugurated the Order of the Garter, his son the swashbuckling Black Prince, and Henry V, who was later immortalized in the play by Shakespeare. In the later, Lancastrian phase, I was impressed by Henry V’s brother, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, who took over control of the war and acted as regent to the baby Henry VI, and to the great commander of the day, Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, known as ‘Old Talbot’, ‘the English Achilles’ and ‘the Terror of the French’.
On the French side there were the splendid but inept King John II who was taken prisoner at Poitiers and died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; Charles VI who went spectacularly mad; and the enigmatic Charles VII, who at last drove the English out – not to mention Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, who died aged just 19 but whose legend was to grow enormous.
The war also features walk-on parts from King David II of Scotland, who was captured when the Scots army was defeated at the Battle of Neville’s Cross on 17 October 1346, and spent the next 11 years in captivity in England. And Peter the Cruel, king of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369 who lived up to his nickname, and whose daughter married Edward’s son, John of Gaunt, who thus became heir to the crown of Castile.
And Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, who proved a thorn in the side of the French crown because of ancestral lands he owned near Paris. The deeper you read, the more complex the web of personalities and players becomes.
Seward’s account
Seward’s book is a good, popular account, which includes family trees explaining the complex genealogical aspects of the war and is dotted with black and white reproductions of paintings, tomb effigies and brass rubbings of the main protagonists.
He describes all the military campaigns and diplomatic manoeuvrings behind them. The book includes interesting sections about the arms and ammunition of the day (English longbows versus French crossbows) and brings out the uniqueness of the English tactics which lay behind our early victories, namely the tactic of having mounted archers who were able to ride into position, dismount, and then release volleys of arrows at such a rate (ten per minute!) that the sky turned dark and the attacking French was slaughtered.
But I just happen to have read Dan Jones’s account of the Plantagenet kings and, although Jones’s book is also popular in intent, I felt it gave me a much clearer sense of the machinations going on in English politics at the time. Take the reign of Richard II (1377-99). Once you start looking into this 22 year period, it reveals a wealth of issues which lay behind the two big political crises of 1386–88 and 1397–99. Only by reading the 40 or so pages that Jones devotes to it did I develop a feel not only for why Richard was against war with France and signed the peace treaty of 1389 and married his child bride (Isabella of Valois, aged just seven when she married Richard), but why there continued to be a powerful War Party among the top aristocracy, which continued to promote raids and attacks on France.
Seward conveys some of this, but his account of Richard’s period of the war lacks the depth and detail of Jones’s account – he skims over the first crisis in Richard’s rule without even mentioning the so-called ‘Merciless Parliament’, which seized control from the king and oversaw the systematic arraignment for treason and execution of most of his council.
This, I suppose, is reasonable enough if we grant that Seward’s account is focused on the war and deliberately gives no more about the domestic situation of the English (or French) kings than is strictly necessary. But comparison with the Jones brought out the way that it is not a full or adequate account of the period as a whole, and begs the question: how much of the domestic political, economic and social situations in England, France (and the numerous other countries involved, from Scotland and Burgundy to Castile) do you need to understand, to fully understand the Hundred Years War?
What is a full understanding of a historical event or era? Is such a thing even possible?
From what I can see, the fullest possible account of not only the war but all the domestic politics behind it in both England and France and further afield, is Jonathan Sumption’s epic, multi-volume account:
The Hundred Years War Vol. 1: Trial by Battle
The chevauchée – death and destruction
Instead the main thing that came over for me was the scale of the destruction involved in the war.
Obviously war is destructive but I hadn’t quite grasped the extent to which the English pursued a deliberate scorched earth policy, a conscious policy of systematically devastating all the land they passed through, as their main military strategy, sustained for over one hundred years.
Some campaigns the English launched had little or no strategic value, their purpose was solely to destroy as many French towns and villages as possible, to loots and burn, to rape and pillage, to steal everything worth stealing and to murder all the inhabitants over really significant areas of France – from Gascony and Aquitaine in the south-west, up through the Loire valley, in Brittany, in Normandy and right up to the walls of Paris itself.
What makes the 1339 campaign of particular interest is the misery inflicted on French non-combatants. It was the custom of medieval warfare to wreak as much damage as possible on both towns and country in order to weaken the enemy government. The English had acquired nasty habits in their Scottish wars and during this campaign Edward wrote to the young Prince of Wales how his men had burnt and plundered ‘so that the country is quite laid waste of cattle and of any other goods.’ Every little hamlet went up in flames, each house being looted and then put to the torch. Neither abbeys and churches nor hospitals were spared. Hundreds of civilians – men, women and children, priests, bourgeois and peasants – were killed while thousands fled to fortified towns. The English king saw the effectiveness of ‘total war’ in such a rich and thickly populated land; henceforth the chevauchée, a raid which systematically devastated enemy territory, was used as much as possible in the hope of making the French sick of war… (p.38)
in autumn 1339 English ships raided Boulogne burning thirty French ships, hanging their captains and leaving the lower town in flames
in September 1339 Edward invaded into France from the Low Countries, ‘he advanced slowly into Picardy, deliberately destroying the entire countryside of the Thiérache and besieging Cambrai’
in 1339 the pope was so appalled by the ruin the English were inflicting that he sent money to Paris for the relief of the poor, and the envoy who distributed it wrote back a report describing the 8,000 utterly destitute peasants forced to flee their land, and of 174 parishes which had been utterly laid waste, including their parish churches
in 1340 Philip’s army invaded Aquitaine and ‘laid waste the vineyard country of Entre-Deux-Mers and Saint-Emilion’
In 1346 Edward landed with a huge force in Normandy and proceeded to rampage through the countryside.
The following day the king launched a chevauchée through the Cotentin, deliberately devastating the rich countryside, his men burning mills and barns, orchards. haystacks and cornricks, smashing wine vats, tearing down and setting fire to the thatched cottages of the villagers, whose throats they cut together with those of their livestock. One may presume that the usual atrocities were perpetrated on the peasants – the men were tortured to reveal hidden valuables, the women suffering multiple rape and sexual mutilation, those who were pregnant being disembowelled. Terror was an indispensable accompaniment to every chevauchée and Edward obviously intended to wreak the maximum ‘dampnum‘ – the medieval term for that total war which struck at an enemy king through his subjects. (p.58)
On this campaign the English burnt Cherbourg and Montebourg and Caen. In Caen, after the garrison surrendered, the English started to plunder, rape and kill. The desperate townsfolk retaliated by taking to the rooves throwing down bricks and tiles onto the English soldiers, killing several hundred at which Edward went into a rage and ordered the massacre of the entire population, men, women and children. Later persuaded to rescind the order, but the sack lasted three days and some 3,000 townsfolk were murdered. Nuns were raped, religious houses looted, the priory of Gerin was burned to the ground, and so on.
This chevauchée took the army right to the walls of Paris where they burnt the suburbs of Saint-Cloud and Saint-Germain before retreating northwards and burning the town of Mareuil, along with its fortress and priory.
After the famous victory at Crécy, the English went on to besiege the port of Calais for over a year, which involved the systematic destruction of the entire countryside for thirty miles around.
In 1355 the Black Prince rode out of Bordeaux with a force of 2,600 and carried out a 600-mile chevauchée across Languedoc to Montpelier and almost to the Mediterranean burning as many villages and hemlet as they could, burning mills, chateaux and churches. His forces took by storm and then burned to the ground Narbonne, Carcassone, Castlenaudry, Limousin and many other settlements large and small.
When war broke out in 1369 John of Gaunt led a chevauchée through Normandy, employing mercenaries and criminals. In 1370 the mercenary leader Sir Robert Knolly led a chevauchée through the Ile de Paris, burning and looting villages and towns right up to the walls of Paris, so that the king of France could look out over the burning and devastated landscape surrounding the capital.
In 1373 John of Gaunt led 11,000 men out of Calais on a chevauchée through Picardy, Champagne, Burguny, the Bourbonnais, the Auvergne and the Limousin, ‘cutting a hideous swathe of fire and destruction down central France’ (p.114).
During such a chevauchée the English killed every human being they could catch (p.85)
It is shocking to read that even the ‘great’ Henry V pursued exactly the same policy. The Agincourt campaign was in fact an attempt to take the walled city of Harfleur and then march up to the Seine to capture Paris. This completely failed because Harfleur held out for over a month during which a third of Henry’s expensively assembled army died of disease. Once the town was finally taken he decided to retreat north towards Calais, burning and laying waste to everything in sight, in the by-now traditional English way. Henry is quoted as saying that was without fire was like sausages without mustard.
Indeed Seward is at pains to deconstruct the image of the Shakespearian hero. Seward emphasises the ruthlessness of the young king – a man of ‘ruthless authority and cold cruelty’ (p.154) – and compares him, somewhat shockingly, to Napoleon and Hitler, in his single-minded self-belief, religious fanatacism and obsession with war and conquest. The account of his short reign is quite harrowing, involving the massacre of the entire population of Caen after it fell to an English siege in 1417, and the deliberate starving of the besieged population of Rouen later that year. All his sieges are marked by brutal treatment of the losers.
As late as 1435, when the English began to slowly lose control of their territory, an experienced soldier like Sir John Fastolf suggested that two small forces of 750 men be created who, twice a year, in June and November, would invade a different part of France and burn and destroy all the land they passed through, burning down all houses, corn fields, vineyards, all fruit and all livestock. The aim? To create famine. To starve the French unto submission.
Throughout this period the main motivation for ordinary soldiers to go and fight was loot. Everything of value in enemy territory was stolen. The English confiscated all the food and drink from every farm they despoiled and then burnt.
In the towns they stole gold, silver, jewels, fur coats. The king took possession of the best spoils and from each chevauchée sent convoys of carts bearing clothes, jewels, gold and silver plate and cutlery and much else lumbering back to the coast and to ships which bore it all back to England.
The English now regarded France as a kind of El Dorado. The whole of England was flooded with French plunder (p.81)
In the countryside they took all the livestock and stole all the grain then burned everything else. Many areas took decades to recover. Seward quotes contemporary chroniclers describing mile upon mile of devastated landscape, every building, cottage, manor house and church gutted and burnt to the ground, with no survivors to prune the vines or plough and sow the land, the sheep and cattle all killed and eaten by the English, the roads empty in every direction.
No wonder the English came to be hated like the Devil, like the Nazis were 600 years later.
A crucial aspect of the war was the employment of mercenaries. Warriors for hire had, of course, existed through the ages. In post-Conquest England they flourished during the Anarchy i.e. the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda from 1135-1153. Later, King John used mercenaries in his wars against the barons in the early 1200s, leading to the hiring of foreign mercenaries being specifically banned by Magna Carta.
But not abroad. The reappearance and flourishing of mercenaries was particularly associated with the Hundred Years War. By the 1340s the English king was finding it difficult to pay his own or foreign troops and license was given to soldiers to ‘live off the land’.
This opened the road to hell, for soldiers, English and foreign, quickly took advantage of the new liberty to a) take all the food and drink from every farm or village they passed b) terrorise and torture the natives to hand over not just foodstuffs but anything of value c) to create protection rackets: pay us a regular fee or the boys will come round and burn everything to the ground. This became known as the pâtis, or ‘ransoms of the country’.
For example, in 1346 the Earl of Lancaster captured Lusignan, a fortress near Poitier. When he moved on he left a garrison under the command of Bertrand de Montferrand. Many of his troops were criminals and misfits. Despite a truce between 1346-1350, the garrison laid waste to over fifty parishes, ten monasteries, and destroyed towns and castles throughout southern Poitou. One story among thousands.
It is easy, reading the countless examples of blackmail, threat, looting, ravaging, burning, stealing and extorting, to see the entire era as one in which the English and their mercenaries mercilessly terrorised, attacked and looted the French people for over a hundred years. The Hundred Years Extortion.
After the Treaty of Brétigny, signed between England and France in October 1360, which brought the first phase of the war to an end, thousands of mercenaries and low-born vassals, serfs and miscellaneous crooks from a number of nations, were left jobless. They didn’t want to go back to slaving on the land, so they set up their own mercenary groups.
In French these groups became known as routes and so the mercenaries acquired the general name of routiers (pronounced by the barbarian English ‘rutters’).
But in English they came to be referred to as the Free Companies, ‘free’ because they owed allegiance to no king. The Free Companies included all nationalities including Spaniards, Germans, Flemings, Gascons, Bretons and so on, but collectively the French chroniclers refer to them as ‘English’ because of the terrors the English chevauchées caused throughout the period (p.135).
Many of the routier groups were well organised, with administrative staff, quartermasters, and army discipline. They continued to be available for hire to the highest bidder. One scholar has identified 166 captains of mercenary groups during the period. The largest bands became notorious along with their leaders, such as the notorious Bandes Blanches of the Archpriest Arnaud de Cervole. Some routier groups even defeated the national armies sent to suppress them.
Many of the leaders became very rich. In an intensely hierarchical society, one of the chief motivations for fighting, for joining up with an army, was the incentive to make money. Really successful mercs were extremely useful to the sovereigns who paid them, and quite a few were given knighthoods and ‘respectability’, allowing them to retire back to England where they built mansions and castles, many of which survive to this day.
For example, plain Edward Dalyngrigge enlisted in the Free Company of Sir Robert Knolles in 1367 and over the next ten years accumulated a fortune in loot and plunder, returning to Sussex in 1377, marrying an heiress and building the splendid Bodiam Castle in Sussex, which is today a peaceful National Trust property. Built with money looted and extorted abroad by a mercenary soldier. Possibly a fitting symbol of this nation, certainly a classic example of the money, power and rise in social status which was possible during the Hundred Years War.
Other examples include Ampthill Castle built by Sir John Cornwall with loot from Agincourt, and Bolton and Cooling castles, as well as Rye House near Ware, built with French money by the Danish mercenary Anders Pedersen, who rose through the ranks of the English army and found respectability as Sir Andrew Ogard MP.
This helps explain the unpopularity of Richard II’s policy of peace with France.
[The English] had been fighting France for over half a century; almost every summer ships filled with eager young soldiers had sailed from Sandwich to Calais or from Southampton to Bordeaux. War was still the nobility’s ideal profession; the English aristocracy saw a command in France much as their successors regarded an embassy or a seat in the cabinet. Moreover, men of all classes from [the Duke of] Gloucester to the humblest bondman, regarded service in France as a potential source of income; if the war had cost the English monarchy ruinous sums, it had made a great deal of money for the English people… (p.141)
Why are there wars? At the top level, because of the strategic and territorial greed or nationalistic fervour, or simple mistakes, of dim leaders. But if you ask, why do men fight wars, this sociological explanation must be taken into account. It’s because wars are a way of escaping from poverty and being trapped in the lower levels of society and offer the opportunity of escape, foreign travel, adventure, testing yourself as a man, and 1. raising your social status and 2. making money – in the case of the Free Companies of the Hundred Years War, lots of money.
The war was long remembered as a time to rise in the world. The fifteenth-century herald, Nicholas Upton, wrote that ‘in those days we saw many poor men serving in the wars in France ennobled.’ (p.119)
Looking beyond the boys’ adventure aspects of the great military victories, and the supposedly dashing figures of the Black Prince or Henry V, the distraction of the girl saint Joan of Arc (who was burned to death by the English aged just 19), mad King Charles who thought he was made of glass, or the long rearguard action by John Duke of Bedford – it is, I think, difficult for a modern reader not to feel oppressed by the sheer scale of the deliberate wanton destruction the English visited across huge areas of rural France and the ultimate futility of all those lives wasted, all that treasure expended, all that land and buildings and carefully built farms, manors, churches, priories and so on burnt to the ground. Human folly.
By 1453 all the English had to show for over a century of oppressive taxation, countless deaths and the expenditure of vast fortunes paying for weapons and mercenaries, was to end up pathetically clinging on to tiny little Calais. Meanwhile, France had become unified as a nation and emerged as the strongest state in Europe. And a long legacy of mutual mistrust which, arguably, lasts right up to the present day, as Seward points out in the very last sentences of his book.
France suffered horribly when England escaped unharmed – every local historian in northern and western France will show the tourist a château or a church which was sacked by the English. There is a strong case for maintaining that the origin of the uneasy relationship between the two peoples can be found in the battles, sieges and the chevauchées, the ransoming and the looting, the pâtis, the burning and the killing by the English in France during the Hundred Years War. (p.265)
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Obituary for Ronald Britten
19 July 2013 in 20th Century Left Behind | 9 comments
Sonny Salasa has given me permission to post the obituary on my blog:
Ronald John Britten, or Ronnie as he affectionately became known to family, friends and comrades, was born in 1928, at a turbulent and troubled time, when the repressive minority state was fine tuning its racial policies to divide and rule the South African people.
He grew up in Paarl, a small rural town near Cape Town in the heart of the wine lands of the Western Cape. Like many of his generation, Ronnie was politicised at an early age, doubtless due to the influence of his teachers, and later, by the contacts he made at the University of Cape Town, where he studied History. It was here that he made contact with and formed lifelong friendships with the leading left wing intellectuals and activists of the day.
This is not the time or place to analyse the ideological differences between the many groups involved in the South African liberation struggle at the time, except to understand the background to how Ronnie came to be in the organisation that he spent all his life promoting, viz. The Non-European Unity Movement or as it later became known, The Unity Movement of South Africa.
Arising out of the Smuts government’s decision to set up a Coloured Affairs Department to control the affairs of the so-called Coloured people (Coloured as opposed to Whites, Blacks and Indians) the New Era Fellowship, a cultural organisation formed in 1937, convened a meeting of all non-White organisations to discuss ways to oppose the Smuts proposals. Prominent intellectuals in the New Era Fellowship, were I.B. Tabata and Jane Gool. It was out of this meeting that an organisation called the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department or Anti-CAD was created.
Later, an organisation for Africans formed by I.B. Tabata in the 1930s, called the All African Convention joined with the Anti-CAD movement to form the Non-European Unity Movement in 1943 in an effort to unite all non-Whites in their fight against the government. It became the first organisation in South Africa to adopt the principle of non-racialism, rejecting the idea of racial difference, the keystone policy of the minority government. The NEUM’s Ten Point Programme outlined the basic demands for a democratic non-racial South Africa, and preceded the ANC’s Freedom Charter by some twelve years, a fact now forgotten by many.
From this rather sketchy historical background of mine, we can understand Ronnie’s profound abhorrence of racism in any form and his respect for all peoples whatever their background or social class. I use background and social class advisedly instead of race, colour or creed because Ronnie was not one who believed in the concept of race, colour or creed, and only saw people as human beings.
I have mentioned that Ronnie studied History at university. He spent all of his life teaching, in the classroom and out. He taught History at school in South Africa and in this country, and latterly was Head of History at Mountbatten School. More than most he was someone who had to understand why things were the way they were, for to him, “those who did not know history, risk repeating it.” But Ronnie was more than just a teacher. He was a mentor in the classical sense of the word, and felt it important to nurture the next generation of intellectuals especially those involved in politics.
He was an intellectually curious man who needed to understand and make sense of the complex world in which we live. I remember vividly an occasion when he dismissed pop music as an irrelevance. My partner, Bill, took it on himself to explain to Ronnie the origins of Punk music as a reaction to the artistic and financial exploitation of pop musicians by the record company moghuls. We were all highly amused, when after listening very carefully to Bill’s exposition, he excitedly exclaimed, “Now I understand it!”
I think Ronnie would have liked me to mention just a few names from the formative years of his life. Foremost, from his university days were Dr J.G. and Mrs Dora Taylor, both of them brilliant left wing intellectuals. The Taylors were the ones to offer him a home when he arrived in this country as an exile in 1964, and helped him in practical ways to find a job and somewhere to live.
Ronnie had a lifelong friendship with the founders and leaders of the Unity Movement, Mr I.B. Tabata and his partner Miss Jane Gool, who sometimes stayed with him and Crystal in Hemel Hempstead on their visits to the UK. They were his mentors, and he respected their intellects and their devotion to the struggle. In time, as Ronnie and Crystal became more settled, their home in turn became a meeting place and a safe house for many left wing intellectuals and exiles passing through this country.
Ronnie’s political activities in SA during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s did not go unnoticed by the minority government’s security forces. Unlike his brother-in-law, Frank Anthony, who was arrested and imprisoned on Robben Island, Ronnie was alerted to his own imminent arrest and was smuggled across the border with the police in hot pursuit. Suffering great hardship, he managed to travel to Ghana, where the first post-independence President, Kwame Nkrumah, who knew Mr Tabata well, and also happened to be sympathetic to the Unity Movement, gave him asylum. Unfortunately, within months of his arrival in Ghana, Nkrumah was deposed in a coup, and Ronnie had to leave Ghana, this time to seek asylum in this country (England).
Ronnie lived his life true to his political principles. He was a humane and empathic man whose feelings were with the downtrodden and oppressed. Like the oppressed peasants in the rural areas of South Africa, whom he and the Unity Movement, and its successor organisation, APDUSA (African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa) worked so hard to mobilise politically against the repressive forces of the State. I think Ronnie would forgive me when I say that he saw himself as one of those oppressed peasants. For him peasant was not a pejorative term, but defined a person’s position in relation to the land.
The garden of his parents’ house in Paarl, in which he worked physically to relax and alleviate the stress of his political work, was a refuge, which I know he missed in later years. He loved Nature, and I remember him well in the 70s and 80s digging his garden and allotment in Gadebridge to grow vegetables which he and Crystal deep froze for the winter months. Unfortunately, a torn ligament in his knee put paid to that, but he still found pleasure in walking in the woods at Ashridge, and latterly on the boat trips which Crystal organised on the canals near Hemel. It is sad that his ill health prevented us recently from celebrating his 84th birthday, and their wedding anniversary on such a trip.
Ronnie and Crystal were married for 50 years. Their relationship was more than a marriage. Apart from companionship and friendship, they respected and understood each other. They were like the two faces of the same coin. In the latter years when his memory began to fail, if asked a question, the response would invariably be, “Ask Crystal, she will know,” showing the depth of understanding and trust they had in each other.They shared the tasks of daily life equally, and brought up their only child, Ronald, in the same mould. People sometimes saw Ronnie as a bit serious and aloof, but he had a sense of humour, which Crystal with her sense of fun, could easily harness when he became too serious! So much so that family and friends would sometimes joke that she was the only person who knew how to deal with him!
A shy, quiet and modest man, Ronnie would have been embarrassed at being the centre of all this attention today. He disliked personality cults. The Unity Movement and APDUSA to which he gave his life, unlike the ANC with its Mandela cult, eschewed the cult of personality. It advocated collective leadership. Individuals did not matter. The struggle for liberation and democracy and the final goal of Socialism were all that mattered. Ronnie, my cousin, friend and comrade, lived by this ideal.
This obituary was delivered by Ronald Britten’s cousin, Sonny Salasa at the funeral on 11 July 2013.
Ronald Britten
1 July 2013 in 20th Century Left Behind | 4 comments
Yesterday afternoon, Ronald Britten, a principled man, who believed in freedom and equality passed away.
You probably have never heard of him, but his family will miss him. He was forced to leave South Africa in the 1960s and travelled via Ghana to the UK where he and his family made a home for themselves. Away from the rest of their family.
Ronnie Britain was a member of the progressive anti-apartheid Non-European Unity Movement, a movement that was founded in Cape Town by, amongst others, I.B. Tabata. It’s more recent members included Neville Alexander, Irwin Combrink and RO Dudley, all now passed away. I do believe the movement lives on and that there are members in the Eastern Cape Pondoland region, too.
In 1988 I met Ronnie, my uncle, for the first time when I travelled to England. I was thrilled to have an adult to debate political and philosophical matters with at any time of the day.
Goodbye Uncle Ronnie – I will always remember the time you took to debate with and challenge me.
On Documenting
21 November 2010 in 20th Century Left Behind, Film, Quotes | Tags: documentary filmmaking | Leave a comment
Erik Barnouw in his Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film writes this about Polish cinematographer Boleslaw Matuszewski on pages 27 to 29:
He recognized that history does not always happen where one waits for it, and that effects are easier to find and photograph than causes.
This makes me wonder whether brilliant documentary filmmaking captures the causes and not only the effects. It allows viewers to understand why something happened or why something is the way it is.
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Sublimating
A Step--Step Guide to Sublimating on Shirts
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AN ARCHITECT ON THE MOVE-AN ARCHITECTURE...
AN ARCHITECT ON THE MOVE-AN ARCHITECTURE ON THE STAGE: RE-READING BRUNO TAUT
Duman Ş., Beşgen A.
LIVable ENvironments & ARCHitecture 6th international congress, Trabzon, Turkey, 25 - 28 September 2019, vol.1, pp.15-33
City: Trabzon
Many concepts such as population growth, economic crises, revolutions, wars, unemployment, immigration and refugee movements forced the act of producing architecture, away from its original purpose, into an endeavor to build characterless and spiritless buildings which are actually incompatible with the context, isolated from their places, not alive but nonetheless serve as forced habitats. Within this fact and in reference to the Livenarch-VI’s theme of “Replacing Architecture”, “the uprooted architects” who are expatriated and lived abroad, and the buildings they produced are certainly worthy of debate. In this aim, the proposed paper intends to lead to a discussion within the framework of the congress, on the architecture of Bruno Taut, who was considered as a “stateless architect”, and who stayed in numerous locations including Koenigsberg (East Prussia), Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Magdeburg, Berlin, (Germany), Osaka, Tokyo (Japan), Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Trabzon (Turkey) through years, due to various political, social and economic reasons. Taut left his mark in every place he lived in, even Turkey, which he often called “the land of Sinan”. He was an architect “who did not belong to a single place”, and who had addressed even today as he approached the architectural problems of his era with specific references to his day. In his discourses, Taut developed as solutions for existing problems; he discussed architecture based on the “spirit of the place” and universal solution proposals for the “replacing architects and architecture”, which arose out of the problems of the day. Through his opposition to the codification of absolute rules for construction, he offered different perspectives towards the architectural 16 thought of the modern era, and built a synthesis of traditional-modern architecture. He claimed that architecture is a universal language, that formal and dogmatic architecture is simply unacceptable in a perspective of architecture in harmony with the humanity. With a view to understand and explain Bruno Taut on the basis of “place”, “emotions”, “spirit” and “essence”, the authors came up with the method of “production of concepts”. A number of concepts including “background” (Taut’s design philosophy), “betweenness” (the balance Taut established between science and art, past and future, transparent and opaque), “openendedness” (Taut’s flexible, creative and legible solutions) and “retrospection” (Taut’s various spaces which allow and enable the accumulation of memories on part of the individual) were proposed by the authors. The architectural perspective that does not require a move to find itself a suitable background, one that was nonetheless proposed by an architect who did his share of moving around was discussed with reference to the universal thought system, principles and concepts considered the legacy of the architect and architecture. 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Todd Phillips shares new still from Joker movie
By Sean P. Aune June 16, 2019 July 11, 2019 0
Todd Phillips took to his Instagram account on Sunday to share a new still from his upcoming Joker movie.
Simply tagged with “Finishing touches,” we see Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) applying his clown white. We don’t know if this is from when he is employed as a clown or if it’s when he’s going full Joker, but it’s still a creepy image either way.
A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips)
Following the posting of the image, Phillips was asked what the MPAA rating of the film will be, to which he replied in a comment, “it will be Rated R. I’ve been asked this a lot. Just assumed people knew. Sorry.”
Joker will star Joaquin Phoenix as Arther Fleck, a mentally ill man that society has tossed aside. As the trailer showed, we’ll follow his story as he descends into madness and slowly takes on the guise that will come to be known as the Joker.
The film also stars Robert De Niro as talk show host Murray Franklin, Zazie Beetz as Arthur’s love interest Sophie Dumond, Frances Conroy as Arthur’s mother, Penny, and more.
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Can you help RCMP solve the mystery of these unidentified human remains?
Carly Yoshida-Butryn CTVNewsVancouver.ca Reporter
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Published Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:30PM PST Last Updated Friday, January 24, 2020 9:33AM PST
The faces of some of the deceased are shown in a composite image of sculptures.
VANCOUVER -- Police across British Columbia are hoping that new facial reconstruction technology will help solve the mystery of unidentified human remains found across the province over several decades.
The RCMP partnered with the New York Academy of Fine Art on the project to reconstruct the faces of 15 unidentified men found in B.C. and Nova Scotia from 1972 to 2019.
Mounties provided the school with 3D-printed versions of 15 skulls, and at the beginning of January, the students reconstructed the faces using clay.
Mounties reached out to coroners and medical examiners across Canada to find skulls for the project, and the ones selected were in the best condition. The RCMP has more than 700 unidentified human remains in its national database.
Fourteen of the people Mounties are hoping to identify were found in B.C., and one was found in Nova Scotia. That man has since been identified. His remains were found at Sandy Cove Beach in 2019, and he was identified through DNA analysis. Mounties said the deceased person was a 43-year-old man from Saint John, N.B., who was reported missing in the summer of 2018. His death is not considered suspicious.
Here are the photos and profiles of the 14 men whose remains were found in B.C.:
Chilliwack—Found Sept. 18, 1972
The man is believed to be about 18-35 years old, with brown hair and brown eyes. He had two fillings and Mounties describe his teeth as "well-looked-after." He was found wearing grey canvas running shoes with a rubber sole.
Hollyburn Mountain—Found Apr. 23, 1984
The man's remains were found east of Cypress Bowl Road along the Skyline Trail. He's believed to be about 20-40 years old and was wearing leather cowboy boots.
Whistler Mountain—Found on Aug. 12, 1987
Mounties describe him as white with long brown hair and about 30-49 years old. His skeletal remains were found near the Franz Run on Whistler Mountain, and Mounties believe he could be from South Africa or the U.S.
Vancouver—Found May 22, 1990
Mounties describe him as white, about 45-70 years old with long brown hair. He had several healed fractures, including in his skull, right jaw, and fingers.
Parksville—Found Nov. 5, 1992
Mounties say he had extensive dental restoration work and could have been American. He had a healed fracture to his left collarbone which had been repaired with a surgical wire. He also recently had surgery for ingrown toenails on both feet.
North Vancouver—Found Aug. 25, 1994
Police believe his death may be suspicious. His remains were found in Cates Park, and he had a healed fracture to his right wrist and an old lower back injury. He's described as Asian with stained teeth and was found wearing a tweed Le Chateau blazer.
Port Moody—May 14, 1995
He was found wearing underwear from the Edmonton Psychiatric Centre. Mounties believe he may have been from Alberta and died more than a year before his remains were found. He's described as 40-60 years old and had osteoarthritis in his neck and back.
West Vancouver—Found March 24, 1996
The man's remains were found near the Upper Levels Highway and had recently healed from injuries including a fractured skull, nose and ribs, possibly from a major accident.
Port Coquitlam—Found July 2, 1998
The man was missing an upper front tooth on the left side of his mouth, and he had a deformity in his left knee. His remains were found north of the cemetery in Port Coquitlam, and he appeared to have been suffering from Osgoode-Schlater's disease.
Delta—Found Aug. 3, 1998
He's described as Asian, about 30-49 years old, with long black hair and good teeth. He was wearing a cross necklace and a Bugle Boy brand t-shirt.
Richmond—Found July 8, 2004
His remains were found on the shore of the Fraser River in Richmond. He had a gold tooth in his lower left jaw and was found wearing a black nylon fanny pack.
Richmond—Found June 8, 2008
He had badly worn dentures for his upper and lower teeth, and his remains were found floating in the Fraser River. He also suffered from severe coronary artery disease.
Lytton—Found March 9, 2016
Police believe he may have died several years before his remains were found, and his remains were found near an old landing strip.
Burnaby—Found March 11, 2019
He's believed to be between 40 and 60 years old and was wearing a green hoodie with "Athletic" printed on the front. Mounties say he was found in a forested area in North Burnaby and they believe he may have gone missing in 2013.
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Two Ways to Make Your Business More Visible Today!
You have created the perfect search engine optimization for your website. You have done everything right, everything you were supposed to do. But why are you not seeing any new traffic?
On average it takes between 6-9 months for SEO to begin to become effective. But you don’t have to just sit around and wait during that time, you can use Google Adwords!
1.Google Adwords
Skip the wait, Google Adwords will allow you to see a rise in the traffic on your site within one or two days! You will need to create a strong copy, a target audience, the correct bid, and proper optimization. Then you will be able to watch your targeted customers build up the traffic on your site.
Having a Facebook page is a great step for your business, but it can also take a year or even longer to build a strong presence on the social media site. Even after you build a following it can still be hard to reach new customers, unless you are using Facebook Ads!
2. Facebook Ads
Facebook ads not only allow you to become more visible, they allow you to be seen by your target audience. You get to choose your audience by location, age, gender, and interest. With these highly specific targeting tools, you no longer waste your advertising spending on people outside of your target audience. You can even send viewers straight to your website from the ad.
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What Elon’s Twitter Takeover Means For Your Social Strategy
As you’ve probably heard in some way, shape, fashion, or even sketchy news article: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, was the talk of the town—and world, for that matter— last week after coming to an agreement with the 11-member board of Twitter to acquire the social media platform for roughly $44 […] | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12005 | {"url": "https://beeonbrand.com/tag/twitter/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "beeonbrand.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GQSNPVZQ54NKMCM3I5X3K32SRIOFBPVD"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 397, 397.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 397, 939.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 397, 3.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 397, 34.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 397, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 397, 273.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 397, 0.3255814]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 397, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 397, 0.03488372]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 397, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 397, 0.20930233]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 397, 0.84057971]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 397, 4.60869565]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 397, 0.01162791]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 397, 3.9653373]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 397, 69.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 82, 0.0], [82, 397, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 82, 0.0], [82, 397, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 22, 4.0], [22, 82, 9.0], [82, 397, 56.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.19047619], [22, 82, 0.0], [82, 397, 0.01315789]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 82, 0.0], [82, 397, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.59090909], [22, 82, 0.15], [82, 397, 0.03174603]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 397, 0.00100404]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 397, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 397, 0.00252402]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 397, -26.33799776]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 397, 8.40733289]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 397, -14.32791189]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 397, 1.0]]} |
Belinda and John
LIFE AS WE ROLL…
About “Life As We Roll”…
We met in 1997 and have been together ever since. We married in 2001 and have lived in the WDC metro area for many years. This is where it all started.
Belinda is self employed and John works at a great company approximately 20 minutes away from home. Belinda and John are really a match made in heaven. Both of us are faithful to each other and God. Faith first. We love life and to laugh, we have navigated a lot together but we continue to love and respect each other and see the things on the brighter side. So “Life as We Roll” is just a glimpse at some of the things we do and think. Thank you for stopping by! | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12006 | {"url": "https://belindaandjohn.com/about/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "belindaandjohn.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZOQTVOWL6UE6NYBGKDBGDU3N4HISE7I"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 675, 675.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 675, 1657.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 675, 5.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 675, 46.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 675, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 675, 272.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 675, 0.47333333]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 675, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 675, 0.03954802]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 675, 0.0527307]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 675, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 675, 0.03333333]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 675, 0.4]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 675, 0.12666667]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 675, 0.63432836]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 675, 3.96268657]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 675, 0.01333333]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 675, 4.19290947]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 675, 134.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 17, 0.0], [17, 34, 0.0], [34, 59, 0.0], [59, 211, 1.0], [211, 675, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 17, 0.0], [17, 34, 0.0], [34, 59, 0.0], [59, 211, 0.0], [211, 675, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 17, 3.0], [17, 34, 4.0], [34, 59, 5.0], [59, 211, 31.0], [211, 675, 91.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 17, 0.0], [17, 34, 0.0], [34, 59, 0.0], [59, 211, 0.05405405], [211, 675, 0.00438596]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 17, 0.0], [17, 34, 0.0], [34, 59, 0.0], [59, 211, 0.0], [211, 675, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 17, 0.11764706], [17, 34, 0.70588235], [34, 59, 0.2], [59, 211, 0.03947368], [211, 675, 0.02801724]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 675, 0.06058145]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 675, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 675, 0.03368765]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 675, -17.39274924]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 675, -0.97542014]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 675, -50.13845981]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 675, 10.0]]} |
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Top 6 Labor Day Apple Sale 2022 and Deals – Save on AirPod, IPadS
Apple’s Labor Day sales event has arrived, which means incredible discounts on Apple’s best-selling products, including AirPods, iPads, the Apple Watch, and MacBooks, are now available to the public. We’ve put together this list of the best Labor Day Apple deals for your convenience, so you don’t have to look anywhere else.
Apple Labor Day sales can be found just about everywhere, as the holiday approaches. When it comes to saving money on your favourite Apple products, Labor Day is a great time to take advantage of the deals.
Amazon and Best Buy are the best places to shop for Labor Day deals if you’re an Apple fan. Even on Labor Day, these two retailers continue to offer the best Apple deals. Amazon currently has the best Apple Labor Day sale.
It is selling the MacBook Air M1 for $849. (opens in new tab). Even though Best Buy offered it for $100 less earlier this summer, that offer was restricted to students with a valid edu email address. Anyone can take advantage of Amazon’s deal, which is open to everyone.
Once again, Amazon is offering the 10.9-inch iPad Air for just $499.99. (opens in new tab). This is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for Apple’s sleek tablet, saving customers $100. The sales mentioned above aren’t the only ones going on during the Apple Labor Day weekend, of course. Everything from the iPhone 12 to the Apple Watch 6 is on sale below.
All-time low prices on the Apple Watch 6 and AirPods Pro, as well as the powerful iPad Air 4 are some highlights of the sale, which runs through September 15.
Amazon has the M1 MacBook Air for $849.99 (was $999) and the 2020 MacBook Pro for $1,149.99 (was $1,299.99) if you’re looking for MacBook deals.
In addition to the deals listed below, you can find even more savings at Best Buy, Walmart, and Home Depot’s Labor Day sales. Check back later for more great deals. Keep in mind that most deals expire tonight, and you won’t see anything like this again until Black Friday.
Top 6 Labor Day Apple Sale 2022 and Deals
For the past two weeks, your husband, your wife, and, of course, your angel-like teenage daughter have been pleading with you to buy them a gift. The term “2 weeks” refers to a period of time that is equal to one year. It’s always a good idea to keep an eye out for fake Apple products when shopping online. As a general rule of thumb, anything that appears to be too good to be true probably is.
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As a whole, we’re seeing discounts of between 20% and 25% off the original prices, which is quite impressive. Even a tenth of a percent discount!
This Labor Day 2022, you’ll most likely be able to get the best deal possible, so why wait? The best of the best, such as Apple Watch, iPads, Laptops, and Accessories have been grouped together because there are so many options. Basically, this is the best shopping day I’ve ever had.
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How to pack your apartment overnight?
Moving is a great experience and it will make you feel like you are starting a new life. That is why you should really do your best to see it as a positive experience. You will have a lot of fun and learn so many new things. It doesn’t even matter why you are moving, you will have to focus and make the best of it. But, sometimes having a positive attitude is a bit harder if you are forced to move out, especially in a short period of time. A reason for this doesn’t have to be negative, you might be having a relocation for a new job in a great new city, and that is great for you. But, it might be the case that you can’t afford to live in this apartment anymore, and that is not as great reason to move out. Staying positive is key.
Where to start if you have to pack your apartment overnight?
This is not as hard as you might think. You will be able to pack your apartment overnight if you try hard enough, and it won’t even be too hard to achieve. There are things you can do to make it faster. Packing the traditional way will not be fast enough, so you might want to get as much advice on the fast packing as you possibly can.
Moving is easier if you use your bags and suitcases first
You might be able to get the best packing services Florida has to offer, but not in this short time you have. So, you will probably have to do it by yourself. Here is how to do it as fast as you can:
Get friends to help you out with your packing
Organize and declutter
Pack room by room
Label, so you can unpack easily
Don’t pack your clothes neatly, it takes too much time
Have the packing supplies ready and handy
Pack fragile and valuable items first
The trash bags are the ultimate packing supply in this case
If you make sure you do everything as fast as you can, you are sure to have a great experience and move out in no time. Just make sure you get as much moving help as you can since even if you do this as fast as you possibly can, there is a slight chance you alone won’t make it just in time.
If you think that you can pack your apartment overnight, you just might be mistaking. It depends on the size of the apartment, the quantity of the things you need to pack and how well prepared are you. But, getting your friends to help you out will be a great start, and you just might pack everything in time, even if your apartment is huge. So, make sure you call all your friends and family and ask for as much help as they can provide. Every single person counts. Once you are done packing, call the best moving companies Deerfield Beach FL has to offer and you just might be able to find the ones that can move you in a short time.
Get your friends to help you out, you will be done much sooner
Declutter and you will have less work to do
Once you start packing, make sure you decide what are the things you don’t want or need anymore. Don’t just like them up, make sure you decide them in the piles so you know what will be given away, donated or thrown away. This is great since you will have to pack less stuff, moving will also cost you less and unpacking will be finished sooner. In case there are items you don’t need right now, but will, later on, you can always store them in a storage unit. Make sure you don’t save anything that you won’t be using soon again.
The best way to pack your apartment overnight is room by room. This proved, many times over, to be the best way to pack, even if you have much more time to do it. Start with the kitchen, since most of your fragile items are here. Then go to the next room, but only when you pack every single thing in the kitchen. Do not pack more than one room at the time.
Packing one room at the time is easiest and the fastest way to pack
Every single box or bag should be labeled. Write the name of the room you packed it in, and then write what is inside. If there are fragile things inside, make sure you write it in capital letters and tell the movers that they need to be careful when moving it. Long-distance moving usually lasts long so your belongings might get damaged in the process if movers don’t know that they are fragile. If they are aware of it, they will place it in such a place in the truck that they will be safe.
Clothes are not going to be damaged
There is no need to fold your shirts and pants. It takes a huge amount of your packing time. Nothing will get damaged if you just put them in the trash bags and move them like this. If you have some dirty clothes, put those in a separate bag, and you are good to go. You can use your clothes as a packing supply as well since they will protect the items you wrap them around. Drawers don’t have to be emptied at all. You can just put them in a bag and move them like this.
Once you realize you will have to move soon, get the packing supplies. You can get them cheaper online, using apps, like Kartonara. This way, you are able to assemble the moving boxes right away. Now you will have them right beside you all the time. If you have everything ready, you will be done sooner.
Using the second-hand moving boxes is great and easy
Once you made sure you have everything you need to be moved fast, start packing as fast as you can. This way, you will be able to pack your apartment overnight and not worry about doing it in time.
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Sep 28, 2015 Big Changes to Washington’s GET Program
Earlier this month, changes were made to the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program. The changes were in response to the recent reduction in tuition for Washington’s public colleges and universities. Tuition will be reduced at UW & WSU by 15% over the next two academic years.
In addition, beginning in 2017-18, resident undergraduate tuition will not be allowed to grow by more than the state’s average annual growth rate in the median hourly wage as determined by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These changes are important because GET’s payouts are based on tuition at UW & WSU. The drop in tuition has reduced the payout value for GET units to $117.82, meaning those who remain in the program may not recover all of their initial purchase price. Should a student decide to attend school at a private or out-of-state school when they reach college age, GET units may not provide the purchasing power once anticipated.
In response, the GET program has provided the following three options for your existing units:
The current payout value of the GET program will now be $117.82 per unit. If you choose to remain in the program, you will receive this payout value.
If you wish to move your GET funds into a different 529 plans, including a 529 savings plan, the GET program will waive all state program refund fees and the two-year hold requirement.
If you wish to cash out your GET funds, you will receive a refund of your contributions or the payout value, whichever is greater. Be aware that this option may have tax consequences. In addition to the changes above, customers who purchased units between 5/1/2011 and 6/30/2015 will be due a refund of the amortization fee originally paid when units were purchased. Moving forward, this amortization fee will not be charged to new units purchased. You will not need to take any action to redeem your refund. Customers should expect to receive these refunds by December.
The deadline to exercise options 2 or 3 is December 1, 2016, however the Washington State Institute for Public Policy is currently conducting a study to look at growth factors moving forward. This report will be available by December 1st, 2015 so you may wish to wait until this deadline in case there are more favorable options presented.
The table below gives the refund amount per unit you should expect:
Year Unit Purchased
Refund Amount Per Unit
5/1/11 – 6/30/12
7/1/12 – 6/30/13 $19.73
We recommend waiting to take any action until after the December 1st, 2015 meeting, in the event more favorable options are presented. We encourage you to review your individual situation and meet with your financial advisor if you’d like to discuss your options.
Here are the links to the GET Refund Cancellation Policy and Refund Form.
http://www.get.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/GET-Refund-Cancellation-Policy-09-02-2015.pdf
http://www.get.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/GET-Refund-Form-09-02-2015.pdf
Please note: prior to investing in a 529 plan investors should consider whether the investor’s or designated beneficiaries home state offers any state tax or other benefits that are only available for investments in such state’s qualified tuition program. Withdrawals used for qualified expenses are federally tax free. Tax treatment at the state level may vary. 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Maximize your 401(k) plan to save for retirement
Contributing to a tax-advantaged retirement plan can help you reduce taxes and save for retirement. If your employer offers a 401(k) or Roth 401(k) plan, contributing to it is a smart way to build a substantial sum of money.
If you’re not already contributing the maximum allowed, consider increasing your contribution rate. Because of tax-deferred compounding (tax-free in the case of Roth accounts), boosting contributions can have a major impact on the size of your nest egg at retirement.
With a 401(k), an employee makes an election to have a certain amount of pay deferred and contributed by an employer on his or her behalf to the plan. The contribution limit for 2020 is $19,500. Employees age 50 or older by year end are also permitted to make additional “catch-up” contributions of $6,500, for a total limit of $26,000 in 2020.
The IRS recently announced that the 401(k) contribution limits for 2021 will remain the same as for 2020.
If you contribute to a traditional 401(k)
A traditional 401(k) offers many benefits, including:
Contributions are pretax, reducing your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), which can also help you reduce or avoid exposure to the 3.8% net investment income tax.
Plan assets can grow tax-deferred — meaning you pay no income tax until you take distributions.
Your employer may match some or all of your contributions pretax.
If you already have a 401(k) plan, take a look at your contributions. Try to increase your contribution rate to get as close to the $19,500 limit (with an extra $6,500 if you’re age 50 or older) as you can afford. Keep in mind that your paycheck will be reduced by less than the dollar amount of the contribution, because the contributions are pretax — so, income tax isn’t withheld.
If you contribute to a Roth 401(k)
Employers may also include a Roth option in their 401(k) plans. If your employer offers this, you can designate some or all of your contributions as Roth contributions. While such contributions don’t reduce your current MAGI, qualified distributions will be tax-free.
Roth 401(k) contributions may be especially beneficial for higher-income earners, because they don’t have the option to contribute to a Roth IRA. Your ability to make a Roth IRA contribution for 2021 will be reduced if your adjusted gross income (AGI) in 2021 exceeds:
$198,000 (up from $196,000 for 2020) for married joint-filing couples, or
$125,000 (up from $124,000 for 2020) for single taxpayers.
Your ability to contribute to a Roth IRA in 2021 will be eliminated entirely if you’re a married joint filer and your 2021 AGI equals or exceeds $208,000 (up from $206,000 for 2020). The 2021 cutoff for single filers is $140,000 or more (up from $139,000 for 2020).
The best mix
Contact us if you have questions about how much to contribute or the best mix between traditional and Roth 401(k) contributions. We can discuss the tax and retirement-saving strategies in your situation.
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The Sixth Blow: Boils
9:8 18 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot19 from a furnace, and have Moses throw it20 into the air while Pharaoh is watching.21 9:9 It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester22 on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.” 9:10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.
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Should You Get an Accident Report After a Crash?
If you’ve been in the unfortunate event of being involved in a car accident, you should be familiar with the importance of an accident report. This form is the backbone of any claims you may have regarding your accident, regardless if you or the other party is at fault. Therefore, it is vital to obtain a copy and ensure that the police accident report is accurate.
What Is An Accident Report?
An accident report, also known as the crash report or an incident report, is the formal document completed by the officer present at the accident, accounting for all pertinent information regarding the incident. It contains the official report after law enforcement has conducted its investigation.
Why Is An Accident Report Important?
An accident report is typically required for insurance claims or lawsuits, given its official capacity for the accident. It is also essential since it contains information that provides a third party who was not at the scene of the accident to assess what happened.
Is An Accident Report Required To Be Filed Under Louisiana Law?
Under Louisiana Revised Statutes Sections 32:398, an accident report is required for accidents that result in either:
an injury or death of any person, or
Property damage over $500
Who Writes Up The Accident Report?
The law enforcement officer who was present at the car accident scene and investigated the incident will write the report. If the Louisiana State Police investigated the accident, the investigating law enforcement officer is supposed to forward their written report of the accident to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections within forty-eight hours upon their completion of their investigation. In reality, it usually takes at least seven to ten days before the officer can complete the investigation and submit the report. However, suppose the accident occurred within the limits of a parish, city or town. In that case, the investigating officer will forward their report to the sheriff’s office or the police department. A copy is supposed to go the Department of Public Safety and Corrections within the same forty-eight hours limit upon the conclusion of their investigation. However, that often does not happen.
What Information Is Included In An Accident Report?
A police accident report contains all the pertinent information referring to the accident, including:
All of the names, contact information, car insurance coverage information, and the model of the vehicles involved in the accident;
All of the names and contact information of the passengers involved in the car accident;
An accurate and detailed account of how the accident occurred based on the investigation of the officer. The accident report may include witness account, the evidence available, and other pertinent information such as the condition of the pavement, weather, and traffic condition when the accident happened; and
The accident report will also indicate whether a ticket or arrest has been issued due to the accident.
How Long Does It Take Before An Accident Report Is Completed?
Generally, a police accident report is available seven days after the officer has completed their collision investigation. It is beneficial to request the accident report through your legal counsel to ensure that it is asked for and delivered correctly. Moreover, an attorney can address any issues on the information to the investigating law enforcement officer to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the accident report.
How Can I Obtain An Accident Report?
There are numerous ways one can obtain an accident report for their car accident. Some of the ways they can get a copy of the report are through the following:
An online request can be done from the Louisiana State Police through their website. However, only accidents that occurred on non-toll roads on or after January 1, 2015, can be requested through their online portal. A written request or an in-person request may be needed to obtain an accident report for other incidents that occurred before January 1, 2015.
If the accident occurred in a city or town limits, the local Sheriff’s Department or the appropriate City Police Department might have a record of the police accident report. Depending on how each town’s sheriff’s department or city’s police department operates, you may be able to request a copy of the police accident report online. However, some departments require in-person or mail-in requests for police accident reports.
There are also a couple of private companies that provide police reports through their websites. However, there is no guarantee that the report pertaining to your accident is available, or if there are any issues with the information included in the report, you would still have to reach out to the investigating law enforcement’s department. Thus, this method may be more costly, time-consuming, and ineffective.
The most accessible, most efficient, and trusted way to request and obtain an accident report is through your attorney. Our firm is knowledgeable and experienced in handling accident cases, including issues with accident reports and claims. By reaching out to us, we can timely assist you in obtaining a copy of the police accident report from the proper source and work with the investigating law enforcement officer on your behalf if there are any issues with the police report. More importantly, we can also advise you on any legal matters about your case. We can work with you in assessing the issues caused by the accident or answer any questions you may have regarding third-party claims, insurance claims, or other legal matters arising from the accident.
If you have been involved in a car accident in Louisiana and unsure of what to do to ensure that your interests are protected and advocated, you should speak with us. Our experienced personal injury attorneys have extensive knowledge in representing the interest of our clients in vehicular accidents. Please feel free to give us a call at (225) 963-9638, or you can click here to contact us and schedule a free consultation.
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Frequently Asked Questions When Recovering From a Traumatic Brain Injury
Frequently Asked Questions When Recovering From a Traumatic Brain Injury Over 5.3 million adults and children throughout the country suffer from permanent brain injuries and disabilities, according to the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). To put that in perspective, that means that approximately one in 60 people currently live with… | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12014 | {"url": "https://bigriverlaw.com/tag/brain-injury-lawyer/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "bigriverlaw.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:01:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KXIKYODXDMGWU4KWPUMCFKWOFDAWPRPU"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 417, 417.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 417, 2344.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 417, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 417, 101.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 417, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 417, 129.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 417, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 417, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 417, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 417, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 417, 0.27941176]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 417, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 417, 0.35897436]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 417, 0.09401709]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 417, 0.13675214]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 417, 0.15954416]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 417, 0.01470588]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 417, 0.5]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 417, 0.13235294]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 417, 0.67213115]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 417, 5.75409836]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 417, 0.01470588]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 417, 3.60789147]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 417, 61.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 417, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 417, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 73, 10.0], [73, 417, 51.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 417, 0.01183432]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 417, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 73, 0.12328767], [73, 417, 0.05523256]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 417, 0.07470107]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 417, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 417, 0.00105852]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 417, -23.37188456]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 417, -1.0458624]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 417, -2.3723908]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 417, 3.0]]} |
Articles in the Press 2019
New Jersey Jewish News
Archaeologist to share discoveries from ancient Israel
November 25, 2019 — Renowned archaeologist Jodi Magness — who, since 2011, has directed the major excavations in Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee — will share the landmark discoveries made by her team.
Driving Force Behind Rutgers Jewish Film Festival Has a Second Act as Tony-Winning Producer
October 29, 2019 — Rutgers alumna Sharon Karmazin proposed the festival 20 years ago and remains its largest benefactor.
Raising the curtain on ‘Fiddler’
October 28, 2019 — Marc Aronson, a Rutgers University assistant professor of practice, library, and information science, has marvelous memories of the beginnings of Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Historians to examine Paul Robeson's ties to the Jewish community
October 3, 2019 — Paul Robeson — scholar, celebrated actor, concert artist, all-American football player, and Rutgers University alumnus (class of 1919), who became famous for his cultural achievements and political activism — will be the subject of a program exploring his connections to the Jewish community, left-wing political movements, and the Soviet Union on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. at Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick.
Holocaust scholar uses Shoah to shed light on plight of modern refugees
September 16, 2019 —Holocaust expert Debórah Dwork, visiting scholar at Rutgers University’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, said, “The past can offer us a compass to guide us to where we want to go as a society.”
Author to explore Negev's meaning
August 28, 2019 — Bildner Center's Zerubavel to give talk on "Desert in the Promised Land"
The secret Jewish history of human rights
March 28, 2019 — It was three years after the end of World War II, and Jews were busy trying to build a future that could be radically different from the recent, deadly past.
New Jersey Stage
Grammy-Nominated Yiddish Songs Brought to Life in Concert and Lecture March 13 at Rutgers-New Brunswick
February 12, 2019 — During the Holocaust, Jews from across the Soviet Union told their personal stories through Yiddish songs in a collection that was thought to be lost forever, but is now part of a Grammy-nominated recording in the world music category.
Works of Bach include allusions revealing anti-Jewish attitudes
February 4, 2019 — Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th-century German musician, is considered one of the greatest classical music composers — by many, the greatest — of all time. But unknown to many of his modern listeners, a number of his cantatas and librettos are filled with blatant expressions of the religious anti-Semitism of his time.
Public art project opens 'Windows of Understanding'
February 4, 2019 — Cassandra Oliveras-Moreno, alarmed at the rise in racism and anti-Semitism throughout the country, decided a strong counter statement needed to be made in her community. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12015 | {"url": "https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/news/articles-in-the-press/882-articles-in-the-press-2019", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "bildnercenter.rutgers.edu", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:31:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2ELCEOP6TJCGW3V2UNZTBRJGYQDHRAWN"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 2907, 2907.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 2907, 6470.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 2907, 23.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 2907, 181.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 2907, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 2907, 231.7]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 2907, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 2907, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 2907, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 2907, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 2907, 0.29432624]], 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Ramdas Bill Sinclair, MSW
Vedic Astrology Consultations
Consultations and Tutoring
Meet Ramdas Bill
For over 3,000 years the cultures that occupied the Indus valley and the subcontinent of India have studied the relationship between the planetary movements and life events. This observational history has been enriched by the contributions of many different cultures.
In the fifth century AD, Parashara wrote an encyclopedic text, Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, which captured the astrological knowledge of his time and has served as the basis for all future studies and texts. While the principles have remained the same, the manifestations of these planetary forces continually take new forms. Therefore the ancient texts must be correctly applied to modern society.
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Renewable energy is the key to individual and national energy independence, financial savings and carbon neutrality. However, renewables aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution — a medley of energy generations exists for green households, but depends on individual circumstances. Uncover which renewable energy makes the most sense for your home and lifestyle. Why Does it Matter Which […]
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The Beginner’s Guide to Carbon Offsetting
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Protecting Pollinators While Outdoors
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Your favorite flowers, trees, birds and butterflies may be part of your everyday experience, but they’re also an integral part of the ecosystem. Because they provide food for all animals, pollinators are critical to human survival. Yet, it’s not only about getting out there in the woods or on a trail — it’s essential to […]
Why You Should Consider Buying the “Ugly” Vegetables
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If you are looking for a healthier approach to eating, where you do what’s best for your body and the planet, then consider the reducetarian lifestyle. Reducetarians have the desire to eat less poultry, red meat and seafood, but instead of going all in on becoming a vegetarian, they take it one step at a […]
Get Outdoors: Outdoor Exercise Trends and How to Get Started
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Outside exercise trends are more popular than ever, encouraging people to use the outdoor environment to get their physical activity. No matter how you like to engage in physical activity, there’s sure to be a way to get outside and enjoy it, too! Environmentally-conscious health nuts may wonder how these trends impact the outdoors they […]
Is Golf Bad for the Environment?
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There is a huge amount of debate over whether golf is bad for the environment. It is not necessarily the sport itself that is maligned, but the venue – golf courses take up an enormous amount of space, and are often prime land. Indeed, golf courses take a huge amount of maintenance, water and chemicals […]
How Outdoor Fitness Stations Help Promote Sustainability
January 26, 2023 February 1, 2023 by Mia Barnes No Comments Share this
A gym in your community is great for working out with peers and meeting people with similar interests. It can be empowering to be surrounded by people with goals that align. However, these community fitness centers could become more eco-friendly. Here is how outdoor fitness stations help promote sustainability. Gyms and the Environment Many gyms […]
How Can Commercial Buildings Become More Sustainable?
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For the past few decades, most sustainable advances in commercial real estate have been an afterthought. Construction professionals and architects use the same long-standing design methods. 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2012 Debut Author Challenge – A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont (Book Review)
Good morning, everyone! Today, I have another review from the 2012 Debut Author Challenge!
I originally found the DAC through Jessica Therrien, when she announced on Facebook that her book (Oppression) was going to be included in it. I had originally thought to (hopefully) review her book for free, through the DAC ARC Tours, but I didn’t get approved for that one. That’s okay, though, I ended up getting some unexpected gift cards and was able to buy Oppression for myself!
While I was browsing the page, looking at what other books were also available for the ARC Tours, I found A Breath of Eyre. Since I have always loved the classics (Jane Austen, some Dickens, the Bronte sisters . . .), I decided I wanted to read this book. I applied for the ARC tour, and lo and behold, I was chosen!
Must she choose between worlds?
(from the back cover)
Emma Townsend has always believed in stories – the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates. Perhaps it’s because she feels like an outsider at her exclusive prep school. And her only romantic prospect is Gray Newman, a friend who just adds to Emma’s confusion. But escape soon arrives in an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre . . .
This story is so much more than is contained on the back cover. Emma feeling like an outsider is just a brief portion of her life – she’s also sixteen, and struggling with the absence of her late mother. It’s been several years since her death, but a teenage girl feels the absence of a mother more acutely, no matter what the absence is from.
The plot begins when Emma, at her sixteenth birthday party, goes for a swim and gets stuck in the riptide. She somehow survives, but her family starts looking at her with different eyes, because her mother drowned herself (though Emma has been told that she died of a bad heart).
But before long, it’s time for her to return to her preppy, boarding school. It’s close to home, but far enough away that she doesn’t go home all the time. She and her new roommate are the outcasts of the school, because they’re there on scholarships, instead of actually being rich. Their friendship is rocky at first, but they soon bond over mutual pain (both are motherless), and mutual persecution. Soon they find themselves caught up in school, and both have their respective boy interests.
Everything changes on Halloween night, though. Emma and her roommate sneak away to the boys school a mile away, and on the way back Emma is struck by lightning. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the world of Jane Eyre, and struggles to find her way back – and if she even wants to come back at all.
I enjoyed reading this – the characters were complex, the plot was unique, and the writing was uncomplicated.
What I didn’t enjoy was the first portion of Emma’s stay in Jane’s world. Since I was familiar with the Jane Eyre and it was a very slow part of the classic, it felt like Emma’s life/the plot was dragging. I know that not everyone reading this book will be familiar with Jane Eyre, but I think some of it could have been shaved off.
Also, I personally would have liked a warning/hint/anything a little earlier in the book about the voodoo beliefs that were going to come into play. They weren’t overpowering, but rather surprising. Since nothing else had hinted at it before, it felt like it didn’t fit.
There was also a specific line in the book that gave me flashbacks to Princess Bride. It’s not an obvious line unless you’ve seen Princess Bride over and over and over again, and I doubt it was intentional, but yeah . . .
I enjoyed the book, but I’m up in the air about if I want to read the next one in the series or not, which will involve Emma being transported in the world of The Scarlet Letter (another favorite classic of mine). There was an excerpt and blurb in A Breath of Eyre that makes me cringe knowing some of the decisions Emma is going to make, and I like Emma as she is now. I don’t know if I can handle seeing her change that much.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book for free from the publisher for review through the DAC ARC Tours.
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7 thoughts on “2012 Debut Author Challenge – A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont (Book Review)”
Angela Brown on March 30, 2012 at 9:41 am said:
I’m glad to see you got to do this book. It sounds like an enjoyable read, with its little things here and there, of course. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this one.
Margo Kelly on March 30, 2012 at 9:44 am said:
Wonderful review. Thank you! Have a great weekend. 🙂
Christy Farmer on March 30, 2012 at 10:10 am said:
Well thought out review, Rebekah! I may have to add this to my TBR list 😉
karalianne on March 30, 2012 at 10:31 am said:
About the voodoo stuff – could it have been the result of Wide Sargasso Sea? That is supposedly a prequel (though not written by Bronte and I’m pretty sure in the wrong time period). But the book makes the case that the first wife was Cajun, and that would make the voodoo things more likely. Not that I’ve read the book yet. 🙂
Rebekah Loper on March 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm said:
I didn’t see a connection between Edward Rochester’s Jamaican wife and the voodoo elements at all, and the topic was barely brushed on later after the voodoo elements had been introduced. I could see how there would be a connection, but it wasn’t explained in the book at all.
thanks for commenting, Kara 🙂
Alex J. Cavanaugh on March 30, 2012 at 6:13 pm said:
Hey Rebekah! Glad you are participating in the A to Z Challenge and I look forward to your posts next month,
Rebekah Loper on April 1, 2012 at 10:53 pm said:
Thanks, Alex! 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The Symbolic Meaning of the Gillyflower
Posted by Suzie Canale on Fri, Aug 11, 2017
How many of you out there have ever heard of the “Gillyflower”? I have to admit, I was kind of in the dark about this stock flower, which not only has an interesting appearance but also holds significant symbolic meaning to many cultures around the world. The species grows quite richly in diversity and is thought of as a traditional bloom originating in the Mediterranean. Although it has now been successfully cultivated in other warmer regions and still continues to grow as a highly demanded import, gillyflower remains historically as one of the original “romantic” plants for lovers.
Coming from the “stock” family, this flower holds a stunning scent within every puffy bloom and also possesses the sought after trait of being a hardy crop. While gillyflower grows in a multitude of different colors, pink, cream and shades of white are popularly used in wedding bouquets and centerpieces (different meanings apply to different shades). Of course, the flower’s intoxicating smell is a strong seller to brides but more than that is it’s sweet yet sturdy presentation when intermixed with a variety of other species. The fact that gillyflower is also attached to themes of “bliss” and “everlasting love” also helps to put this bloom at the top of many wedding party planner’s lists.
The symbolism of the stock flower dates back to centuries ago in England where it was used as a type of currency to buy parcels of land. Often referred to as “clove”, people believed the blossom to be valuable, which attributes the “opulence” and “wealth” end of its meaning. Gillyflower can also stand for accepting and enjoying the life you have been given, endless beauty, purity, adoration, a religious connection and even as a sign for the zodiac, Taurus. In general, this flower represents a long lived life, luck and immense happiness so it’s a wonderful choice for weddings, births and special anniversaries.
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Before same-sex marriage: finding ‘homonormativity’ in rural Wales in the early 1980s
by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications September 8, 2015 June 9, 2022
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By Gavin Brown (University of Leicester)
On 26 June 2015 the US Supreme Court ruled that state-level bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Four days before marriage equality was approved in the United States, the Pitcairn Islands, with a population of just 48 people (and no known same-sex couples) also joined the growing list of nations to recognize and allow same-sex marriage. The accelerating acceptance of same-sex marriage around the world is part of a wider trend, over the last two decades, of greater social tolerance towards sex and gender minorities in many countries. This has been accompanied by new forms of legal recognition and protection for lesbian, gay and transgender people in some countries (at the same time as more repressive legislation has been threatened or enacted elsewhere).
Geographers and other social scientists have attempted to understand and make sense of these changes in social attitudes. One popular explanation is that these changes are an expression of a ‘new homonormativity’. This concept was first articulated by Lisa Duggan, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, who argued that the incorporation of some lesbian and gay people (particularly those in settled couples) into American society’s normative understandings of appropriate sexual conduct was an expression of ‘the sexual politics of neoliberalism’. By this, she meant that society was increasingly willing to accept and support lesbian and gay people who took responsibility for their own well-being (without recourse to state welfare benefits) and who preferred to express their sexuality within domestic spaces rather than the public sexual cultures of earlier (lesbian and) gay neighbourhoods in major urban centres. Homonormativity is said to have domesticated gay culture. ‘Homonormative’ lifestyles are understood to be socially liberal, but fiscally and sexually conservative.
As I have previously argued (Brown 2012), although there is a lot of merit in many analyses of contemporary ‘homonormativity’, too often they focus on the experiences of people living in major urban centres (in Europe and North America) at the expense of those living in provincial cities, smaller towns and rural areas. By studying lesbian and gay lives in a wider range of locations, it is possible to reconsider what it means to be socially ‘normative’, and what it takes for sexual minorities to fit in, or feel part of, different types of localities. The geographical study of sexuality and sexual politics is diminished if scholars over-emphasize urban (and specifically metropolitan) sexual cultures at the expense of other places.
In the 1970s, lesbian and gay subcultures became more visible in the urban landscape and many lesbians and gay men migrated to large cities in the hope of finding community and the possibility of leading more open lives. At the same time, and in parallel with a wider ‘back-to-the-land’ movement, smaller numbers of lesbians and gay men left the cities for a ‘simpler’, more self-sufficient, and ‘environmentally friendly’ life in rural areas. I have recently been revisiting the archives of a lesbian and gay organization from the period, the Gay Rural Aid and Information Network (GRAIN), which offered practical support and encouragement to gay people who wanted to move to rural England and Wales (see my paper published recently in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers). Although many in the network believed that they were socially and politically progressive, I find their rejection of urban gay subcultures and their promotion to domestic-level self-reliance, to be more complex and contradictory, at times being socially and sexually conservative. Even so, the economic practices pursued by these lesbian farmers and gay smallholders were far removed from the emerging (urban) neoliberal economies from which they had fled. They engaged in all sorts of non-waged labour, domestic production, bartering and skill-swaps. Some of these practices were part of their ideological commitment to living sustainably on the land; but they also helped to embed them, as lesbians and gay men, in the existing diverse economies of the rural areas to which they had moved. Although these people (and the places where they lived) are very different to those normally considered in debates about contemporary ‘homonormativity’, I believe traces of emergent homonormative beliefs and practices can be found in their lives.
Thinking about the diversity of economic practices and social relations that might be associated with the emergence of homonormative attitudes over recent decades emphasizes that ‘homonormativity’ is not as a single entity, but a cluster of traits, relationships and values. Geographers can make an important contribution to understanding homonormativity by demonstrating that homonormativities are multiple, as well as time and place specific. A cultural and historical geography approach to these questions can help find traces of homonormativity in some very unexpected places.
Feature image: World Pride Toronto (June 2014). Photo Credit: Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester where he leads the Critical and Creative Geographies research group.
BBC (2015), ‘US Supreme Court rules gay marriage is legal nationwide’, 27 June,
Brown, G. (2012), “Homonormativity: a metropolitan concept that denigrates ‘ordinary’ gay lives,” Journal of Homosexuality 59 (7): 1065 – 1072.
Brown, G. (2015), ‘Rethinking the origins of homonormativity: the diverse economies of rural gay life in England and Wales in the 1970s and 1980s’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, doi: 10.1111/tran.12095
The Guardian (2015), ‘Pitcairn Island, population 48, passes law to allow same-sex marriage’, The Guardian, 22 June
Halberstadt, A. (2015), “Out of the Woods”, New York Times, 6 August.
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single frame: A portrait of the doggo as a young pupper
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dogs, Ilford HP5 Plus, Nikon N90s, Obie
A portrait of the doggo as a young pupper
Nikon N90s, 50mm f/1.8 AF Nikkor
Ilford HP5 Plus
This is our son Zach’s dog Obie, sitting regally on the rug by the door to the garage. We see a lot of Obie as we’re his default babysitters when Zach travels. He’s a chihuahua-rat terrier mix. This is as big as he’ll be. I’m much more a large-dog person, but Obie’s a charmer and we’re always happy to have him around.
It seems appropriate to photograph a black-and-white dog on black-and-white film. I’d never shot Ilford’s HP5 Plus before, but Analogue Wonderland sent me a roll to try (get yours from them here) in exchange for mentioning that they did.
I’ll have much more to say about HP5 Plus tomorrow, but for today: this ISO 400 film is just lovely, sensitively capturing the entire range of grays. This photograph required no frippery in Photoshop to correct anything. It is perfect just as it came off the processor’s scanner.
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2 responses to “single frame: A portrait of the doggo as a young pupper”
Well, the subject is beautiful of course, but the photograph is also very beautiful in its own right. This one really deserves to be framed.
I don’t think I’ve ever shot HP5. I’m not sure why. Maybe because I’ve always been very happy with Tri-X and Tmax 400. But I think I’m going to buy a few rolls now. I’m interested to see what you’ve got to say about it tomorrow.
I’ve always been very happy with Tri-X and T-Max too, but now that I’ve seen what this HP5+ (and, earlier, the FP4+) can do, I simply must explore these films more. They’re gorgeous. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12023 | {"url": "https://blog.jimgrey.net/2019/07/30/single-frame-a-portrait-of-the-doggo-as-a-young-pupper/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.jimgrey.net", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WVU3GXG4OVOSM7FWP2IJVFPEFQVKVABJ"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1814, 1814.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1814, 2654.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1814, 14.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1814, 57.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1814, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1814, 315.4]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1814, 0.42410714]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1814, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1814, 0.06184118]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1814, 0.16092762]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1814, 0.16092762]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1814, 0.16092762]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1814, 0.16092762]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1814, 0.16092762]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1814, 0.02529866]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1814, 0.03092059]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1814, 0.03935348]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1814, 0.06473214]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1814, 0.19196429]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1814, 0.55223881]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1814, 4.24776119]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1814, 4.89428964]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1814, 335.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 126, 0.0], [126, 166, 0.0], [166, 208, 0.0], [208, 241, 0.0], [241, 257, 0.0], [257, 577, 1.0], [577, 815, 1.0], [815, 1095, 1.0], [1095, 1189, 1.0], [1189, 1262, 1.0], [1262, 1403, 1.0], [1403, 1632, 1.0], [1632, 1814, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 126, 0.0], [126, 166, 0.0], [166, 208, 0.0], [208, 241, 0.0], [241, 257, 0.0], [257, 577, 0.0], [577, 815, 0.0], [815, 1095, 0.0], [1095, 1189, 0.0], [1189, 1262, 0.0], [1262, 1403, 0.0], [1403, 1632, 0.0], [1632, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 56, 11.0], [56, 126, 14.0], [126, 166, 7.0], [166, 208, 9.0], [208, 241, 6.0], [241, 257, 3.0], [257, 577, 62.0], [577, 815, 39.0], [815, 1095, 48.0], [1095, 1189, 18.0], [1189, 1262, 14.0], [1262, 1403, 25.0], [1403, 1632, 46.0], [1632, 1814, 33.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 126, 0.01470588], [126, 166, 0.08333333], [166, 208, 0.0], [208, 241, 0.20689655], [241, 257, 0.06666667], [257, 577, 0.0], [577, 815, 0.00438596], [815, 1095, 0.01465201], [1095, 1189, 0.0], [1189, 1262, 0.01408451], [1262, 1403, 0.0], [1403, 1632, 0.01801802], [1632, 1814, 0.01176471]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 56, 0.0], [56, 126, 0.0], [126, 166, 0.0], [166, 208, 0.0], [208, 241, 0.0], [241, 257, 0.0], [257, 577, 0.0], [577, 815, 0.0], [815, 1095, 0.0], [1095, 1189, 0.0], [1189, 1262, 0.0], [1262, 1403, 0.0], [1403, 1632, 0.0], [1632, 1814, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 56, 0.01785714], [56, 126, 0.01428571], [126, 166, 0.175], [166, 208, 0.02380952], [208, 241, 0.15151515], [241, 257, 0.25], [257, 577, 0.03125], [577, 815, 0.03361345], [815, 1095, 0.03571429], [1095, 1189, 0.0106383], [1189, 1262, 0.01369863], [1262, 1403, 0.0141844], [1403, 1632, 0.06113537], [1632, 1814, 0.06593407]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1814, 0.34434271]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1814, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1814, 0.09244174]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1814, -179.21284581]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1814, 21.9185845]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1814, -291.04469586]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1814, 21.0]]} |
Jack Nash18 March 2021 Open Science
Celebrating the International Day of Forests
Forests cover over 1/3 of the landmass of our planet and are a key part of life on Earth, as the habitat for over 80% of terrestrial species. They also play a vital role in the oxygen cycle, taking in carbon dioxide and providing us with oxygen. International Day of Forests, which takes place on Sunday 21st March 2021, recognises the importance of these green, leafy oxygen factories. Originally set up as World Forestry Day at the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1971, the celebration evolved into the International Day of Forests in 2012, when the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution to celebrate this occasion every year on the 21st March.
The aim of the International Day of Forests is to raise awareness of threats to all types of forests, to protect and maintain both the forest itself and the biodiversity of the species which call it home, and to educate on the importance of forests in our everyday life. From the paper we read to medicines we take when we are ill, to the building materials for construction, all of these would be vastly different without forests. Moreover, there are health benefits to forests and woodlands, with experts recommending that getting some fresh air does wonders for our mental health. With isolation more prominent than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking time to appreciate nature is something we should all be doing more. You can read about the health benefits of outdoor spaces (including forests) in the following review from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Currently, 45% of the world’s renewable energy supply comes from wood. Although technologies are being further developed to produce biofuels from plant resources, there are also advancements in other renewable energy technologies. You can read about these in the Special Issues “Energy and Environmental Evaluation of Biofuel and Forage Processing and Utilization Technologies” and “Energy for Sustainable Future” from the MDPI journals Sustainability and Energies, respectively.
Finally, as mentioned before, woodlands and rainforests are so important to life on earth, and house many diverse ecosystems containing 80% of terrestrial species. The journal Forests covers forest ecosystems within its scope, including multiple Special Issues exploring the changes to forest ecosystems, such as the upcoming Special Issue “Impacts of Climate Change on Tree Physiology and Responses of Forest Ecosystems “, which focuses on the sustainable management of forests with regards to the protection of vunerable ecosystems. Alternatively, the Special Issue “Forest Ecosystem Restoration on Postindustrial Sites” looks at restoring previously mined and logged areas back to their native biological systems. With the focal theme of this year’s event is forest restoration, this special issue is particularly relevent as the development of industry in many countries is leading to mass deforestation, so any effort to restore the natural habitat of species is a positive change.
At MDPI, our open-access journals are primarily available online, reducing the company’s impact on deforestation and helping to protect the world’s forests. We hope you will join us in celebrating and further protecting the planet’s forests this International Day of Forests, which takes place on Sunday 21st March. Take some time out of your weekend to enjoy the luscious greenery of nature because it is important that we, as a species, take action to protect these resources and ecosystems before it is too late. There are many charities operating at local, national and international levels to help maintain and protect our forests, along with the wildlife living in them, so support their amazing work wherever possible.
Announcements,Open Science | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12024 | {"url": "https://blog.mdpi.com/2021/03/18/4493-revision-v1/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.mdpi.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T10:07:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5F3KJX5XA3YP2WAKEXXYA5R2PNMQRZHL"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3878, 3878.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3878, 5255.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3878, 8.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3878, 62.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3878, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3878, 223.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3878, 0.4132948]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3878, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3878, 0.03554724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3878, 0.06173994]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3878, 0.03554724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3878, 0.03554724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3878, 0.03554724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3878, 0.03554724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3878, 0.02245089]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3878, 0.02806361]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3878, 0.03897724]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3878, 0.00578035]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3878, 0.12572254]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3878, 0.49258649]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3878, 5.28336079]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3878, 5.12729904]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3878, 607.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 36, 0.0], [36, 81, 0.0], [81, 753, 1.0], [753, 1659, 1.0], [1659, 2139, 1.0], [2139, 3126, 1.0], [3126, 3852, 1.0], [3852, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 36, 0.0], [36, 81, 0.0], [81, 753, 0.0], [753, 1659, 0.0], [1659, 2139, 0.0], [2139, 3126, 0.0], [3126, 3852, 0.0], [3852, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 36, 6.0], [36, 81, 6.0], [81, 753, 115.0], [753, 1659, 150.0], [1659, 2139, 66.0], [2139, 3126, 146.0], [3126, 3852, 116.0], [3852, 3878, 2.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 36, 0.17142857], [36, 81, 0.0], [81, 753, 0.0304878], [753, 1659, 0.00224719], [1659, 2139, 0.00423729], [2139, 3126, 0.00205761], [3126, 3852, 0.00280899], [3852, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 36, 0.0], [36, 81, 0.0], [81, 753, 0.0], [753, 1659, 0.0], [1659, 2139, 0.0], [2139, 3126, 0.0], [3126, 3852, 0.0], [3852, 3878, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 36, 0.13888889], [36, 81, 0.08888889], [81, 753, 0.03571429], [753, 1659, 0.0209713], [1659, 2139, 0.04583333], [2139, 3126, 0.02431611], [3126, 3852, 0.01790634], [3852, 3878, 0.11538462]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3878, 0.39819753]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3878, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3878, 0.14712471]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3878, -150.80144999]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3878, 26.91422543]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3878, -49.70659696]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3878, 21.0]]} |
Art of Unit Testing 2nd edition
Book Reviews , Unit Testing
I originally bought this book on Fab’s recommendation. I had read the XUnit Test Patterns book and I liked it, but I thought it was rather large and cumbersome. It was 900 pages, so I was looking for something smaller and lightweight that I could recommend to people. I asked Fab about it and this is what she recommended. I went out and bought the 2nd edition not realizing that the 3rd edition was about to be released. So this is a review of the 2nd edition.
The first thing I will say is that at 292 pages, The Art of Unit Testing (AUT) is certainly shorter than XUnit Test Patterns (XTP), but I’m not convinced it is an easier read. I think AUT makes some assumptions about the skill of the reader. I personally found the C# examples difficult to follow (I am not a C# developer). The examples in XTP, I found much easier to understand. XTP seemed to explain things in a much simpler way. Perhaps that is why it is so much longer.
Now that is out of the way
Even though I found the examples hard to follow, there is a lot to like about AUT. Overall I really like the tone of the book. It’s more pragmatic than dogmatic. Roy talks a lot about how his views have evolved over the years, particularly with regard to the first edition. I’m sure the third edition will probably have some new recommendations and opinions.
The first chapter which defines unit testing and talks about the qualities of a good unit test is a must-read chapter. Roy does a very good job of explaining why unit testing is important, what a good unit test looks like and the difference between unit testing and integration testing. He also briefly mentions and discusses Test Driven Design (TDD).
A unit test is an automated piece of code that invokes the unit of work being tested, and then checks some assumptions about a single end result of that unit. A unit test is almost always written using a unit testing framework. It can be written easily and runs quickly. It’s trustworthy, readable, and maintainable. It’s consistent in its results as long as production code hasn’t changed.
Updated And Final Definition 1.2 on page 11
Part 2 – Core Techniques
Chapter 3 on test stubs is excellent! Its treatment of seams is very thorough. It offers various ideas on how to override certain behaviors while testing. It also offers suggestions on refactorings to make adding seams easier. Chapter 4, which introduces mocks is also quite good. It does a great job of differentiating between mocks and test stubs and why you would use one over the other and how they complement each other. Chapters 5 and 6 delve into various C# mocking frameworks. Being a LabVIEW Developer I didn’t really find those chapters that useful.
Part 3 -The Test Code
Chapter 7 is Test Hierarchies and Organization. It covers everything about naming, storing, organizing, finding, and automating tests. Chapter 8 is all about Trustworthy, Maintainable, and Readable Tests. It covers everything needed to make sure your tests don’t become a burden in the future. My only complaint about Chapter 8 is that I would put readability first. It’s hard to even assess the other two if the test isn’t readable.
Part 4 – Design and Process
Chapter 9 discusses how to integrate tests into your organization and how to get management and your colleagues on board. Chapter 10 discusses how te deal with Legacy Code. It discusses a few useful strategies and tools. Chapter 11 deals with designing for testability. It references back to the seams in Chapter 3.
Who should read this book
I still like both books and still recommend both. However, I think XTP is a much better book for beginners and for those managing large amounts of tests (It’s got lots of advice in that arena). AUT covers unit testing at a much more advanced level. AUT is much better for those thinking about Test Driven Design and exploring how to put seams into their code. I find it better for more advanced programmers and those already familiar with XUnit Testing in general. | 2023-14/0037/en_head.json.gz/12025 | {"url": "https://blog.sasworkshops.com/art-of-unit-testing-second-edition/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.sasworkshops.com", "date_download": "2023-03-20T09:18:01Z", "digest": "sha1:PIVISOM4GLQUIKKGXSXZPOSINHC4P5PU"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4044, 4044.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4044, 5021.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4044, 17.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4044, 41.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4044, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4044, 309.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4044, 0.41605839]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4044, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4044, 0.027127]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4044, 0.00924784]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4044, 0.00986436]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4044, 0.04501217]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4044, 0.13868613]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4044, 0.43356643]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4044, 4.53706294]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4044, 0.00364964]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4044, 5.18933747]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4044, 715.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 32, 0.0], [32, 60, 0.0], [60, 522, 1.0], [522, 996, 1.0], [996, 1023, 0.0], [1023, 1382, 1.0], [1382, 1734, 1.0], [1734, 2125, 1.0], [2125, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2194, 0.0], [2194, 2754, 1.0], [2754, 2776, 0.0], [2776, 3210, 1.0], [3210, 3238, 0.0], [3238, 3554, 1.0], [3554, 3580, 0.0], [3580, 4044, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 32, 0.0], [32, 60, 0.0], [60, 522, 0.0], [522, 996, 0.0], [996, 1023, 0.0], [1023, 1382, 0.0], [1382, 1734, 0.0], [1734, 2125, 0.0], [2125, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2194, 0.0], [2194, 2754, 0.0], [2754, 2776, 0.0], [2776, 3210, 0.0], [3210, 3238, 0.0], [3238, 3554, 0.0], [3554, 3580, 0.0], [3580, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 32, 6.0], [32, 60, 4.0], [60, 522, 87.0], [522, 996, 90.0], [996, 1023, 7.0], [1023, 1382, 64.0], [1382, 1734, 60.0], [1734, 2125, 67.0], [2125, 2169, 8.0], [2169, 2194, 5.0], [2194, 2754, 95.0], [2754, 2776, 5.0], [2776, 3210, 70.0], [3210, 3238, 6.0], [3238, 3554, 53.0], [3554, 3580, 5.0], [3580, 4044, 83.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 32, 0.03225806], [32, 60, 0.0], [60, 522, 0.01324503], [522, 996, 0.00657895], [996, 1023, 0.0], [1023, 1382, 0.0], [1382, 1734, 0.0], [1734, 2125, 0.0], [2125, 2169, 0.0952381], [2169, 2194, 0.04166667], [2194, 2754, 0.00728597], [2754, 2776, 0.05], [2776, 3210, 0.00712589], [3210, 3238, 0.03703704], [3238, 3554, 0.01935484], [3554, 3580, 0.0], [3580, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 32, 0.0], [32, 60, 0.0], [60, 522, 0.0], [522, 996, 0.0], [996, 1023, 0.0], [1023, 1382, 0.0], [1382, 1734, 0.0], [1734, 2125, 0.0], [2125, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2194, 0.0], [2194, 2754, 0.0], [2754, 2776, 0.0], [2776, 3210, 0.0], [3210, 3238, 0.0], [3238, 3554, 0.0], [3554, 3580, 0.0], [3580, 4044, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 32, 0.09375], [32, 60, 0.14285714], [60, 522, 0.03463203], [522, 996, 0.07172996], [996, 1023, 0.03703704], [1023, 1382, 0.02785515], [1382, 1734, 0.02556818], [1734, 2125, 0.01278772], [2125, 2169, 0.09090909], [2169, 2194, 0.12], [2194, 2754, 0.02857143], [2754, 2776, 0.18181818], [2776, 3210, 0.03456221], [3210, 3238, 0.10714286], [3238, 3554, 0.02531646], [3554, 3580, 0.03846154], [3580, 4044, 0.04310345]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4044, 0.1226204]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4044, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4044, 0.12725413]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4044, -191.99627875]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4044, 19.870873]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4044, -274.54872905]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4044, 50.0]]} |
The Movie "2012" - Who Lost Tibet?
The world as we know it pretty much comes to an end by the end of Roland Emmerich's new globe-busting block-buster 2012. My apologies if this comes as a spoiler, but, honestly, revealing that an Emmerich film finds a way to decimate the population of the planet - flora and fauna - is like revealing that a romantic comedy winds up with its initially mismatched, bickering couple entwined in each others arms as the closing credits roll. Not exactly a surprise.
Apparently. such is the power of cataclysmic crustal displacement that no tectonic plate will be left unturned, as an infelicitous planetary alignment and a stampede of mutant solar neutrinos conspire to wipe every nation, save one, from the face of the earth. One nation is spared this particular fate, but not because it miraculously survives the natural disasters that Emmerich serves up, but because it has met an untimely editorial demise long before 2012 went into production. That nation is the nation of Tibet.
To watch this film is to be taken by an odd sense of geographical "dislocation", in a very literal sense of that word.
Scenes of Tibet and its people appear early on. Indeed, images of Tibet, including one of an iconic maroon-and-yellow-robed Tibetan Buddhist monk gazing meditatively as a tsunami sweeps across the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and a Tibetan monastery is engulfed by waves in the distance, have been used to promote the movie. It is a Tibetan family whose acts of compassion and heroism deliver the American Curtis family, the featured characters, to a safe haven in the final act of the film, which unfolds on the crucial high ground surrounding Mount Everest, which itself lies near the border of present-day Tibet and within the land claimed by the ancestral Tibetan kingdom.
But the word "Tibet" is never uttered in the film. It is even absent from the map that is used by the Curtis family to direct their flight across a crumbling continent and a tsunami-riddled ocean to safety. Their destination is China, only China, a vast, monolithic China. It is as though, for purposes of 2012, Tibet has become "the province that dare not speak its name".
Now, what may appear, superficially, to be an act of omission is anything but. The elimination of references to Tibet in the film is the result of a high-level financial calculation, and it is also an illustration of what happens when the standing of a culture perched on the roof of the world runs afoul of the bottom-line of one of the most expensive movies ever made.
The fact of the matter is that the cost for making and marketing 2012 is estimated to exceed a quarter of a billion dollars. There is no way on God's green earth - or on Roland Emmerich's lava-riven one - for the people and corporations who invested in that film to turn a profit without massive international ticket sales. Critical participants in that prospective box-office are tens of millions of Chinese movie-goers. And there is also no way, given the current political climate, that the People's Republic would tolerate the distribution of a mass-market film that placed Tibet or Tibetans anywhere near front and center.
Be that as it may, I must admit to being taken aback that Emmerich's kowtowing in response to either actual or to anticipated editorial demands by the Chinese authorities would result in the removal of every mention of Tibet from the 2012 screenplay. Sadly, given the money at stake, some amount of obsequiousness on the part of the director could have been expected, but what Emmerich has done here by tossing Tibet under the bus - or the ark, as the case may be - approaches the Orwellian.
The phrase "memory hole" was devised by George Orwell in Nineteen Eight-four, his classic dystopian novel set in a near-future totalitarian state, as a nickname for the chutes into which potentially damaging or embarrassing political documents - even scraps of paper - were tossed to be incinerated and thus expunged from the historical record.
From all appearances, every allusion to Tibet was excised from the production documents of 2012 by is creators, and the resulting scraps of paper were collected and tossed down a Tibetan memory hole, one made to order for the film.
Admittedly, artists make compromises to realize their most cherished visions. But what artistic vision was realized by Roland Emmerich in making of 2012 that was so worthy that it demanded that he purge the words "Tibet" and "Tibetans" from his movie, inconvenient bits of truth, jettisoned in the pursuit of globe-busting box-office receipts? Unfortunately, the answer is, "none at all."
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Ernie Croot said...
This film was absolutely rotten, and not worth seeing except to experience the special effects (which is the only reason I went to see it).
I suspect that the movie producers and director not only didn't want to offend Chinese officials, but also recent Chinese immigrants living in the U.S. and elsewhere. I have spoken to several immigrants from China about Tibet in the past, and most of them think that China was in the right to invade and seize Tibet. Invariably I hear that they think the Dalai Lama is a ``cult leader'' who had enslaved his people with religion, and that China's invasion was a righteous act.
Perhaps the best argument I have heard against the Dalai Lama being a ``cult leader'' is the fact that he didn't choose to be the leader of Tibet -- he was chosen (recognized as the reincarnation of the D-L while only a poor, very young child). Of course, one could argue that ``cult leader''-type corruption is a consequence of power -- power may not corrupt absolutely, but it does corrupt (e.g. the ring of Gyges). That may be so to some limited degree, but I suspect that there is probably also a strong genetic component to corrupt power-seeking behavior, and that such a proclivity is exceedingly rare in the general population. So, unless the infant Dalai Lama was selected for power-seeking behavior, it is unlikely that he has these tendencies now.
Ernie,
Thanks, as usual, for your comments.
I couldn't agree with you more, this was one rotten movie. I will forever hold it against Roland Emmerich that I saw it twice; the first time, like you, because I was in the mood for special effects extravaganza and the second time, in part, because I felt duty-bound as a blogger to verify my suspicion that the word "Tibet" was not mentioned in the film.
I want to be clear that I did not write the essay with the aim of promoting the cause of Tibet, and I certainly do not long for return of the kind of state that existed there before the Chinese invasion - a theocratic, feudal government largely unconcerned with the welfare of the people under its rule.
This set of circumstances was used as a pretext for a brutal "liberation" of the country with the resulting emplacement of a Maoist, authoritarian government largely unconcerned with the welfare of the people under its rule.
Of course things are much better now for the rest of China and, to a much lesser extent, Tibet.
Whether one is a fan of Tibet or not, it exists as a recognizable geographical and cultural entity. To locate a film there without mentioning the place or its people by name is like setting a film in New York City and insisting on referring to Manhattan as "America" in the screenplay.
It is this legerdemain with place names for political purposes that I object to.
Sorry, but i dont agree.Its a very good movie..you seem to have allowewd your politics to get in the way of your movie viewing.
What makes the film 'absolutely rotten'?
'I want to be clear that I did not write the essay with the aim of promoting the cause of Tibet, and I certainly do not long for return of the kind of state that existed there before the Chinese invasion - a theocratic, feudal government largely unconcerned with the welfare of the people under its rule.'
This is ironic....as that WAS rhe justification for the chinese invasion!
Its also ironic to quiz chinese americans about what they think of tibet, when americans are so ready to be enslave by ameican ideas of US occupations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile. tibet apart, 2012 is one fine movie.
FYI:
''I saw it, it is an interesting movie. I agree with you first point, he should have used Tibetan actors or actress, the accents are not clearly Tibetan, rather several Inji speak Tibetan, kind of funny though.
But I disagree with your second point, the movie is telling a very important political messages about the current situation in Tibet without insulting Chinese, btw, the movie is very popular in china now. (1) the Chinese forcibly moved Tibetans (actually, PLA with guns ask Tibetan to move from their own land) from their land to “accommodate” these international gigantic arks. (2) It suggests that Tibetans have no choice, but killing chicken ( not Tibetan ways of life) to survive. (3) Even though the most workers are Chinese, they are not even told the mission and did not tell to “board” the ship, it portrayed Chinese are cheap and the government are brutal'
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Roman Catholic Cardinals in the SDA church?!
As we all know the Vatican hierarchy is made up of many ranks just as was the original military ranks of Pagan Rome. And one of the ranks that just about everyone alive knows about is in fact the office of Cardinal which is second only to the Pope. A vice president of the Pope if you will. In fact, it was stated back in May of 2015 that…
“Many things changed on March 13, 2013, the day Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected as Pope Francis. Perhaps nothing mutated as dramatically as the career of Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, a leading progressive voice in Catholicism. …Today he comes off as virtually a “vice-pope,” the coordinator of Francis’ all-important council of cardinal advisors and his most visible and outspoken interpreter.” –Source
And yes, this vice-pope is just as evil as his Pope. Check this out when you get time.
And so it is obvious that to call a man Cardinal in the hierarchy of Rome is to also declare that man vice-Pope. And since there are literally millions of quotes in all sorts of publications confirming this as fact that cardinals are second only to the Pope; I will quote from one publication that the Vatican actually uses to teach its flock all about their hierarchy. That book is something every Catholic is familiar with. It’s their Catechism, and this is what it says about Cardinals.
“’The college or body of bishops (or cardinals) has no authority unless united with the Roman Pontiff, Peter’s successor, as its head.’ As such, this college has ‘supreme and full authority over the universal Church; but this power cannot be exercised without the agreement of the Roman Pontiff.’” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Section Two, Paragraph 4, Section I, #883.
Even the description of the office of Cardinal is clearly the same as the office of vice-president when used in the ecclesiastical sense. And so with that said, does the Seventh Day Adventist church also embrace the office of the Cardinal since we already know they have embraced its Pagan hierarchy structure as I shared in a previous video wherein they place the SDA President above Jesus in the church in the exact same way the Pope stands in the Roman Church, and since we already know the SDA leadership has declared in writing that they already see some of their women workers in the same exact way as the Popes does when it comes to his nuns as I shared in this video; could it be they also have the same Roman Catholic office of the Cardinal in the SDA church? We already know there are more than a few vice-presidents in the General Conference divisions, does the leadership of the SDA church goes so far as to describe them as Roman Catholic Cardinals?
Notice what a past president of the General Conference Neil C. Wilson who is the father of the current SDA president stated back in 1985.
“Division and General Conference officers form a critical area of church leadership around the world. Vice presidents (and you understand that division presidents are first vice presidents of the General Conference) report to the General Conference president. According to the Bylaws, while they serve a division they are vice presidents of the General Conference… “If you compare vice presidents to ‘cardinals,’ we already have a ‘cardinal’ from Africa, and before this [1985 General Conference] session ends, I predict we will have two African ‘cardinals’ among our 15 vice-presidents. …there is no ‘cardinal’ from all the countries of the Far East, while there will probably be two ‘cardinals’ from Africa.” (General Conference President Neal C. Wilson, in Adventist Review, July 3, 1985, p 11).
Think about what he just said here in regards to all division presidents who are vice presidents of the General Conference president. Since he just described these vice presidents in a way that likens them unto the same office of the Roman Catholic Cardinal, that makes the General Conference president the one supreme leader or Pope of the entire Seventh-day Adventist Church in the same way as the Pope is declared supreme leader of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic church. And since we know the SDA General Conference or even the vice presidents of same never demanded Neil C. Wilson recant his statement about Cardinals in the SDA church, and the fact the SDA church already has a Vatican in Maryland wherein the Pagan hierarchy is confirmed in reality, this means the SDA people, who for the most part are unaware, these poor souls trapped in apostasy officially have a Pope named Ted Wilson as we speak, who is in fact the son of Neil C. Wilson that declared his office to be the same as that of the Roman Pope long before his son took on that very same office.
THE POPE:
“I promise and swear that I will always be not only your helper and supporter, but your chief and leader.” -Pope Pius VII, in Diu Satis (On A Return to Gospel Principles), Encyclical promulgated on May 15, 1800, #10.
“Faith has been preserved with the Roman Pontiff, there is one flock of the Church of Christ under one supreme shepherd.” -Pope Pius XII, Ad Apostolorum Principis (On Communism And The Church In China), Encyclical Promulgated on June 29, 1958, #46.
“The supreme pontiffs….the supreme pastors and teachers of the Church of God, the guardians and interpreters of the patrimony of the faith…” -Pope Paul VI, in Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (The Celibacy of the Priest), Encyclical promulgated on June 24, 1967, #36.
“As captain I spur you not to close yourselves on the defence: don’t lock yourselves into the defensive, but go on the offense, play together for our team, which is that of the Gospel.”
–Address of Pope Francis to members of the sports associations for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the CSI (Italian Sports Center) Saint Peter’s Square Saturday, 7 June 2014
THE SDA PRESIDENT:
“He’s the spiritual leader of the community of faith….He’s shepherd, guardian, guide and captain.” -Walter Scragg, President of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in the Record, June 23, 1990, p 4.
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Taking Tips from Nature
“In biomimetic chemistry, we take what we have observed in nature and apply its principles to the invention of novel synthetic compounds that can achieve the same goals….”1
– Ronald Breslow
Biomimetic chemistry is broadly defined as the area of chemistry which aims to imitate the biosynthetic pathways (or parts of the biosynthetic pathways) used by Nature to create chemical bonds.
Just as the fundamental principles of chemistry help us to understand how biological systems work, we can also use biology as an inspiration for developing new chemistry.
Biomimetic chemistry is often used as a method for attempting to prove or disprove proposed biosynthetic pathways; however it can also be used to design laboratory procedures for making synthetic compounds, resulting in reactions which imitate a natural chemical process. For example, elaborate natural products can be more efficiently synthesized in the laboratory by looking at how Nature handles the chemical complexity of such an operation; reaction selectivity can be greatly enhanced by taking tips from how Nature uses enzymes to hold substrates in position while reactions occur.2
α-Amino acids are a fundamental building block in Nature, as the precursors to many biological molecules. In biological systems, amino acids are synthesized from α-ketoacids in a transamination reaction catalysed by the enzyme aminotransferase, with glutamate as the nitrogen source (Scheme 1).3
In this paper, Shi and co-workers seek to mimic this reaction with an enantioselective transamination of α-ketoesters (which can be readily transformed into amino acids) using a substituted benzylamine as the nitrogen source (Scheme 2). The enantioselectivity is induced using chiral base (1, Scheme 2) derived from quinine, a naturally occurring alkaloid which is isolated from the bark of the cinchona tree. This new, biomimetic methodology is highly complementary to the current literature methods for making enantioenriched α-amino acids.
To read more, see;
Organocatalytic Synthesis of Optically Active β-Branched α-Amino Ester via Asymmetric Biomimetic Transamination
Cunxiang Su, Ying Xie, Hongjie Pan, Mao Liu, Hua Tian, Yian Shi, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014, DOI:10.1039/c4ob00684d.
1 R. Breslow, J. Bio. Chem., 2009, 284, 1337.
2 S. France, D. Guerin, S. Miller, T. Lectka, Chem. Rev., 2003, 103, 2985.
3 E. J. Parker, A. J. Pratt, 2010, “Amino Acid Biosynthesis, in Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Chemistry: Building Blocks, Catalysis and Coupling Chemistry”, Volume 3 (ed A. B. Hughes), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
Dr C. Liana Allen is currently a post-doctoral research associate in the group of Professor Scott Miller at Yale University, where she works on controlling the enantio- or regioselectivity of reactions using small peptide catalysts. Liana received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Bath University with Professor Jonathan Williams, where she worked on developing novel, efficient syntheses of amide bonds.
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Taking on the Vinigrol Challenge
Vinigrol is a diterpenoid natural product, first isolated from the fungal strain Virgaria nigra F-5408 in 1987 by Ando and co-workers. It has been found to display biological activity against hypertension, platelet aggregation, HIV and inflammation. Despite these broad potential medicinal uses of vinigrol prompting great interest in its chemical synthesis, the first total synthesis of this molecule was not achieved until 2009, when Baran and co-workers published their outstanding stereocontrolled and fully scalable twenty three step route.1
Figure 1. Vinigrol
The over two decade gap between isolation and the first published total synthesis can be attributed to the great synthetic challenges posed by the structure of vinigrol. The molecular structure of vinigrol (elucidated by X-ray crystallography) contains an unusual cis-decalin ring system, bridged by an eight membered ring, in addition to eight contiguous stereocentres. Due to this rare molecular structure, retrosynthetic analyses of vinigrol have been highly varied. A total synthesis attempt in 2003 by Paquette involved an anionic oxy-Cope rearrangement to create a decorated decalin ring system, however final closure of the eight membered ring was unsuccessful. In 2005, the same group found a ring closing metathesis strategy using Grubbs catalyst also failed to deliver the eight membered ring (Figure 2).2 Separate attempts at a vinigrol total synthesis by Fallis, Njardarson and Hanna also did not result in complete synthesis of the natural product.3 The 2009 synthesis by Baran utilized two challenging Diels-Alder reactions to create much of the cyclic core of vinigrol (Figure 2). A subsequent Grob fragmentation was the key step towards furnishing the tricyclic vinigrol core, with minimal further elaboration giving the completed natural product in 3% overall yield.
Figure 2. Precursors for the eight membered ring formation
In this paper, Sun and co-workers take on this long standing challenge from a new perspective. Instead of attempting to install the troublesome eight membered ring in a late-stage transformation, they begin with an eight membered ring as a starting material, and rely on its inherent conformational bias to control the selectivity of further functionalisations. This cleverly circumvents the necessity for the ring-closing step which caused so many problems in earlier synthesis attempts. Their strategy proved successful, with two Michael additions (which indeed proved to be stereoselective, based on the natural conformation of the eight membered ring) providing three of the eight stereocentres in just two steps. Further elaboration of the ring system followed by an intramolecular Tsuji-Trost allylation reaction gave 1 (Figure 3), which, despite bearing the wrong stereochemistry at one of its six stereocentres, can be regarded as a potential late-stage precursor to the natural product vinigrol.
Figure 3. Sun and coworkers approach to the synthesis of vinigrol
“A novel synthetic approach to the bicyclo[5.3.1]-undecan-11-one framework of vinigrol”
Xian-Lei Wang, Yun-Yu Lu, Jie Wang, Xuan Wang, He-Quan Yao, Guo-Qiang Lin and Bing-Feng Sun,
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014, DOI:10.1039/c4ob00046c. Free to access until 26 May
1 T. J. Maimone, J. Shi, S. Ashida, P. S. Baran, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 17066.
2 L. A. Paquette, R. Guevel, S. Sakaoto, I. H. Kim, J. Crawford, J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 6096; L. A. Paquette, I. Efremov, Z. Liu, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 505.
3 J. Lu, D. G. Hall, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 2286.
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Strengthening the Bonds Between Bases
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is one of the most famous molecules in the world. First isolated and identified by Freidrich Miescher in 1871,1 DNA is responsible for coding ‘genetic instructions’ in all known living organisms and viruses. DNA molecules consist of two long helical biopolymer chains wrapped around a common axis and held tightly together by intermolecular forces called hydrogen bonds and base-stacking interactions. Each biopolymer chain is made up of small units called nucleotides, which themselves consist of a sugar, a phosphate group, and one of four different nucleobases (guanine, adenine, thymine or cytosine, abbreviated to G, A, T and C respectively). The specific orders in which the nucleotides appear in a DNA strand is what allows for the storage of genetic information.
Figure 1. Modified deoxycytosine and deoxyguanosine forming four hydrogen bonds
Shorter, single strands of nucleotide residues bonded together are called oligonucleotides. They are capable of binding to another oligonucleotide strand (via the same intermolecular forces as found in full length DNA helices) if the other strand has the ‘complimentary’ order of nucleotides (cytosine and guanine exclusively bind with each other; as do adenine and thymine). Due to this property, they are used in areas such as genetic testing, gene therapy, DNA probes and forensics.
The binding of one strand to its complimentary strand can be strengthened by modifying the nucleobase, as long as the modifications do not disrupt duplex formation. In particular, the nucleobase cytosine has several reported modifications2 which allow for additional hydrogen bonding (thus strengthening the binding of two strands). Unfortunately, a lot of the previously reported cytosine modifications have the drawback of long synthetic sequences necessary to make them.
In this paper, Sekine and co-workers report their modifications of cytosine nucleotides, and measure these new molecule’s binding affinities with guanine (the ‘complimentary’ base which cytosine hydrogen bonds with, Figure 1). As well as demonstrating an efficient synthetic route to their new cytosine derivatives, the authours prove that oligonucleotides which incorporate their modified cytosine residue show an increased binding affinity to the complimentary strands when compared with the unmodified, parent oligonucleotide. These promising results could lead to the design and synthesis of even better cytosine nucleotides inspired by the scaffold reported in this work, in turn leading to oligonucleotides which can perform better in DNA-recognition based tests.
A new modified cytosine base capable of base pairing with guanidine using four hydrogen bonds
K. Yamada, Y. Masaki, H. Tsunoda, A. Ohkubo, K. Seio and M. Sekine,
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014, DOI:10.1039/c3ob42420k. Download PDF
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1 R. Dahm, “Discovering DNA: Friedrich Miescher and the early years of nucleic acid research” Human Genetics, 2008, 122, 565–81.
2 A. S. Wahba, A. Esmaeili, M. J. Damha, R. H. E. Hudson, Nucleic Acids Res., 2010, 38, 1048; S. Preus, K. Kilsa, L. M. Wilhelmsson, B. Albinsson, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 8881; A. Ohkubo, T. Sakaue, H. Tsunoda, K. Seio, M. Sekine, Chem. Lett., 2010, 39, 726.
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.Discovering the Dangers of Too Much THC
By Michael Giotis
The intense amounts of THC now normalized among young consumers can have serious and long lasting negative effects. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash.
In past editions of this column, I have written about some of the issues that come along with high THC content products. Now, some of those same concerns have made it into America’s paper of record.
On June 23, the New York Times reported on recent studies and firsthand evidence that have come to similar conclusions. In short, the intense amounts of THC now normalized among young consumers can have serious and long lasting negative effects.
In Greek, farmakeio, the root of our word “pharmacy,” means both medicine and poison. So often we talk about the ancient roots of cannabis use for healing to legitimize the importance of access today. Yet the modern intellect too often emphasizes either the good or the bad of a thing, rarely taking both sides together. This is the greatest wisdom of the ancients lost to the thinking of today.
What the Greeks understood about medicine and plants seems lost on the cannabis users of today. The same happened with the co-opting of the physical substance of mushrooms and peyote by the hippies without grasping or honoring the spiritual component of those substances. Are we making the same mistake again? And what will be the consequences?
The recent reports suggest dire consequences for some who regularly use high amounts of THC, including psychosis, loss of consciousness, depression, and a new one to me, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome—basically extended vomiting. They didn’t mention seizures, but I enjoyed one of those myself at age 20, the first time I was alone with a bong. While the report focuses on effects on youth whose developing brains are particularly vulnerable, I suggest that the impacts can be as important for those users of any age who unwittingly jump to max doses.
Honor the plant and its power, or suffer the consequences. When a teenager tells me that she needs 100mg of edibles to get high, or an aloof budtender fails to mention that the cart he’s recommending to this here 50 year old has 92% THC, or a floating dab-head stumbles through the basics of some transaction, I am reminded of the line from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: “To have difficulty [and not know it is] true difficulty.”
Here we have scientific evidence that the high doses that are more and more common today have consequences that moderate use does not. At some point, the plant flips from medicine to poison. The followers of the Tao, the mystery festivals of the ancient Greeks, the Native American Church and the traditions it is built upon have all understood and honored the power and dangers of spiritual medicines. Are we equipped to do the same, or has cannabis become just another example of the American appetite for more and faster?
Michael Giotis
John Knutson Aug 4, 2022 At 1:25 pm
Hippies co-opting of physchedlics definitely honored spirituality and creating a whole New Age vision, higher consciousness, and tradition, which is responsible for much of the consciousness we see today in environmentalism, and progressive politics. If society had been able to integrate this higher level of consciousness into the greater society, the world would be in much better shape than it is today. It’s not possible to take mushrooms, peyote, or LSD and not become one with all that is, which is the heart of all true spirituality and religions. Where were you? You need to retract and reframe that statement.
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Bombardier Closes Sale of its Transportation business to Alstom
Net proceeds to Bombardier of ~$3.6 billion, including ~$600 million in Alstom shares
Proceeds strengthen liquidity and will allow the Company to begin debt paydown1; Pro-forma net debt as of December 31, 2020 ~$4.7 billion2
Completes Bombardier’s repositioning as a pure-play business jet company
All amounts in this press release are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. Amounts in EUR in this press release are converted to USD at an exchange rate of 1.22, except for certain transaction cash proceeds fixed at an exchange rate of 1.17.
Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) confirmed today the closing of the previously announced sale of its Transportation business to Alstom.
Total proceeds to the vendors after the deduction of debt-like items and transferred liabilities are $6.0 billion3. After deducting la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec equity position of $2.5 billion, transaction costs, and including the impact from closing adjustments and obligations related to achieving a minimum cash balance at Bombardier Transportation at the end of 2020, Bombardier expects net proceeds of approximately $3.6 billion. This amount includes $488 million of cash from the redemption of equity and a $125 million loan reimbursement by Transportation4, settled in conjunction with the transaction closing. Net proceeds also include approximately $600 million of Alstom shares (€500 million representing 11.5 million shares for a fixed subscription price of €43.465 per share), monetizable starting in late April 2021.
“With this transaction now complete, Bombardier begins an exciting new chapter focused exclusively on designing, building and servicing the world’s best business jets,” said Éric Martel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bombardier Inc. “With an unmatched product portfolio, a world class customer services network and incredibly talented employees, we have a strong foundation to build upon as we use the proceeds from the transaction to begin addressing our balance sheet challenges through debt paydown.”
Proceeds from the transaction were lower than previous estimates as a result of Transportation’s lower than expected cash generation in the fourth quarter due in part to unfavorable market conditions, as well as disagreements between the parties as to certain adjustments which Bombardier intends to challenge.
Pro-forma net debt2 is approximately $4.7 billion, which includes long-term debt of $10.1 billion, net of $1.8 billion cash on hand at Bombardier Inc. (excluding Transportation) as of December 31, 2020, and the approximately $3.6 billion proceeds from the Transportation sale. The Company intends to deploy available proceeds from the sale of Transportation towards debt paydown and continues to evaluate the most efficient debt reduction strategies.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is a global leader in aviation, creating innovative and game-changing planes. Our products and services provide world-class experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy efficiency, reliability and safety.
Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Bombardier is present in more than 12 countries including its production/engineering sites and its customer support network. The Corporation supports a worldwide fleet of approximately 4,900 aircraft in service with a wide variety of multinational corporations, charter and fractional ownership providers, governments and private individuals.
News and information is available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @bombardierjets.
Bombardier is a trademark of Bombardier Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Jessica McDonald
Advisor, Media Relations
and Public Affairs
Bombardier Inc.
jessica.mcdonald@bombardier.com Patrick Ghoche
Vice President, Corporate Strategy and
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1. See the forward-looking statements disclaimer at the end of this press release.
2. Non-GAAP financial measure. Pro-forma net debt is defined as Long-term debt of $10.1 billion less cash and cash equivalents at Bombardier Inc. (excluding Transportation) of $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2020 less net proceeds of approximately $3.6 billion from the sale of Bombardier Transportation, which includes approximately $600 million of Alstom shares. Non-GAAP financial measures are mainly derived from the consolidated financial statements but do not have standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS. The exclusion of certain items from non-GAAP performance measures does not imply that these items are necessarily non-recurring. Other entities in our industry may define the above measures differently than we do. In those cases, it may be difficult to compare the performance of those entities to ours based on these similarly-named non-GAAP measures.
3. Includes the amount paid by Alstom to redeem Bombardier and CDPQ’s capital injections of €400 million ($488 million) and €350 million ($427 million), respectively, in BT Holdco made in 2020 to support working capital.
4. Represents the redemption by Alstom of Bombardier’s share of the capital injection made in BT Holdco in 2020 amounting to €400 million ($488 million) and the pre-closing reimbursement by BT Holdco of the intercompany subordinated loan of €103 million ($125 million) made by Bombardier in 2019.
5. Because shares were issued by Alstom following the execution of the SPA, Bombardier’s share subscription price was adjusted from €47.50 per share to €43.46 per share in accordance with the previously agreed upon anti-dilution adjustment mechanism.
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By their nature, forward-looking statements require management to make assumptions and are subject to important known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause our actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecast results set forth in forward-looking statements. While management considers these assumptions to be reasonable and appropriate based on information currently available, there is risk that they may not be accurate. The assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements made in this press release in relation to the transaction discussed herein include the following material assumptions: the realization of the intended benefits therefrom (including intended use of proceeds) within the anticipated timeframe; our ability to retain key management and employees following completion of the transaction; our ability to satisfy our liabilities and meet our financial covenants and debt service obligations following completion of the transaction; our ability to access the capital markets as needed following completion of the transaction; and fulfillment by the other parties of their respective obligations, commitments and undertakings pursuant to transaction documentation. For additional information, including with respect to the other assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements made in this press release, refer to the assumptions below the Forward-looking statements in the MD&A of our financial report for the three-and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and the Strategic Priorities and Guidance and forward-looking statements sections in the applicable reportable segment in the MD&A of our financial report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. Given the impact of the changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the related response from Bombardier, governments (federal, provincial and municipal), regulatory authorities, businesses and customers, there is inherently more uncertainty associated with our assumptions as compared to prior periods.
With respect to the transaction discussed herein specifically, certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: uncertainty regarding all or part of the intended benefits therefrom not being realized, or it is determined, necessary or required to direct all or part of the anticipated proceeds therefrom towards other uses than those identified in this press release the failure by the parties to fulfill their obligations, commitments and undertakings pursuant to transaction documentation; Bombardier being unable to satisfy its liabilities and meet its financial covenants and debt service obligations following completion of the transaction; the failure to retain our key management, personnel and clients following completion of the transaction and risks associated with the loss and replacement of key management and personnel; and the impact of the announcement of the transaction on our relationships with third parties, including potentially resulting in the loss of clients, employees, suppliers, business partners or other benefits and goodwill of the business.
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The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other Poems. --
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The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
Заглавие The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other Poems. --
Автор Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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the cambridge history of the british empire
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