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What is macular degeneration?
Macular degeneration is the physical breakdown of the central portion of the retina called the macula. The macula, which is about the size of the capital letter “O” in this sentence, is the part of the eye capable of our most acute and detailed vision. We use the macula for reading, driving, recognizing faces, watching television, and fine work. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in people over age 55, more commonly in women and those with light coloured eyes. (Legal blindness means that the best a person can see is 20/200 or worse with eyeglasses.) Even with a loss of central vision, however, colour vision and peripheral vision may remain clear.
Thirty percent of adults over age 65 have early signs of macular degeneration, and over 50% by age 80. With longevity increasing each decade, the outlook for today’s baby boomers is not good. Vision loss can occur over a short period of time, but usually occurs gradually, affecting both eyes at different rates.
There are two forms of age-related macular degeneration, “wet” and “dry”. Eighty to ninety percent of patients have the “dry” form, which involves thinning of the macular tissues and disturbances in its pigmentation. Ten to Twenty percent have the “wet” form, which can involve leakage of serum and bleeding within and beneath the retina, opaque deposits, and eventually scar tissue. The “wet” form accounts for ninety percent of all cases of legal blindness in macular degeneration patients.
What causes macular degeneration?
Like virtually every degenerative disease of the body, reactive molecules known as “free radicals” are likely the root cause of macular degeneration. Hereditary, dietary (high starchy foods) (see Starch Study) and lifestyle factors determine how well any individual is able to control these free radicals and where they will do the most damage. Diseases such as diabetes and atherosclerosis may accelerate the process.
Younger patients can also develop macular degeneration. These non-age related cases also might be linked to heredity, diabetes, nutritional deficits, injury, infection, or other factors such as excess exposure to sunlight.
The following are NOT known to be linked to macular degeneration: floaters (moving spots caused by debris floating in the vitreous fluid between the lens and the retina); dry eye syndrome; or cataracts. Cataract surgery, due to decompression of the eye during the procedure may in some cases aggravate early macular degeneration.
How is macular degeneration detected?
Reduced vision noticed by the patient before or during a routine eye exam may be the first indicator of macular degeneration. While examining the retina with an instrument called an “ophthalmoscope” the doctor may detect the formation of new blood vessels or leaking from blood vessels called “drusen” in and under the macula. In addition, the following signs may be indicative of macular problems. Anyone experiencing these symptoms should consult their eye doctor immediately:
Straight lines appear distorted and, in some cases, the centre of vision appears more distorted than the rest of the scene. (See Amsler Grid)
A dark, blurry area or “white-out” appears in the centre of vision.
Colour perception changes or diminishes.
Is early detection important?
Early detection IS important because a patient destined to develop macular degeneration may benefit from nutritional intervention, which may slow or stop the progress of the disease. Furthermore, as we develop better treatments for macular degeneration, whether nutritional, medicinal, surgical, or low vision aids, those patients can sooner benefit from them. One problem is that many eye physicians, optometric and ophthalmologic, DO NOT MENTION early changes to their patients in order to not worry them. Because they are either not aware or convinced of the ability of nutritional intervention to be beneficial, they simply monitor it over time.
If I have macular degeneration in one eye, will it develop in the other?
Yes, this is usually the case. In the early stages, only one eye may be affected, but as the disease progresses, both eyes are usually affected. Recent research, however, is showing promise for reducing the risk of developing macular degeneration as well as slowing its progress using nutritional factors.
Is there a cure for Macular Degeneration?
In the majority of cases, macular degeneration may be stopped and reversed. Depending on the type and degree of the condition it is possible to influence the speed at which it progresses and at least halt it. This is done through nutritional intervention (supplements, avoiding hydrogenated fats, chemical food additives, etc.) or by doing laser surgery of the blood vessels (see below).
After the disease has damaged the vision permanently, we also have developed low vision aids and techniques for maximizing the use of peripheral vision to help patients adapt better to their loss of central vision. Educating susceptible groups about macular degeneration risk factors can reduce their risk of developing the disease. We advise that a patient select an eye doctor who is knowledgeable about nutritional research and who will refer you to a retinal specialist should you need laser surgery.
Can nutrition help treat macular degeneration?
Studies have proven an association between macular degeneration and a diet high in saturated and hydrogenated fats, and other substances (including MSG and aspartame). Also, a diet high in Omega 3 fats and carotenoid pigments, especially Lutein, zeaxanthin and Lycopene, will be protective against the disease. These carotenoid pigments, which are obtained from eating fresh fruits and dark green, leafy vegetables (such as kale, spinach and collard greens), may significantly delay or reduce the severity of age-related macular degeneration. In the absence of consuming 5-9 fruit and vegetable servings each day, it is imperative to take a quality sublinqual spray for the eyes that contains Lutein (Lutein is converted to zeaxanthin in the retina). Taking anti-oxidants like Vitamins C and E and selenium may also have positive effects. Zinc in moderate levels is probably beneficial, as well. Consuming the wrong form or too much of this mineral can cause digestive problems and anaemia. Zinc in the L-monomethionine or proprionate forms is recommended.
Can surgery help cure macular degeneration?
Surgery to remove the scar produced by macular degeneration has occasionally been successful in younger patients, but less so in older patients. If the degeneration is associated with leaking blood vessels in the centre of the macula, and vision is worse than 20/70, a laser procedure, called photocoagulation, is recommended. This rarely improves vision but generally slows, but does not stop further vision loss. In fact, laser photocoagulation permanently destroys the small spot that is treated. Retinal transplantation is a new experimental approach to macular degeneration, but has been extremely unsuccessful, frequently causing total loss of vision. We caution you strongly against having it done to yourself or a loved one.
Is macular degeneration hereditary?
Macular degeneration appears to be hereditary in some families but not in others. Since macular degeneration affects most patients later in life, it is difficult to study successive generations in a family. Recent studies of twins indicate that both genetic and non-genetic factors play important roles in age-related macular degeneration. Research is underway to determine the genes associated with hereditary macular degeneration which may help lead to early detection, early intervention, and possible cures.
Heredity and particularly high levels of starchy foods play a major factor in one’s ability to fight free radicals in various parts of the body, which play a part in the development of macular degeneration. Fortunately, dietary and lifestyle changes can usually overcome poor heredity in many of these cases.
Does sunlight affect macular degeneration?
Yes. It has been demonstrated that the blue rays of the spectrum seem to accelerate macular degeneration more than other rays of the spectrum. This means that very intense light, such as sunlight or its reflection off of bright surfaces may worsen macular degeneration. Regular sunglasses with UV protection and dark neutral density lenses or lenses that also block out the blue end of the spectrum (for those who spend a great deal of time outdoors) may reduce the likelihood of developing and progression of the disease. Again, more research is needed in this area.
Does hypertension and heart disease affect macular degeneration?
Yes. Hypertension tends to make some forms of macular degeneration worse, especially in the ”wet” form where the retinal tissues are invaded by new blood vessels. The medications used to treat hypertension have not been shown to have any direct effect on macular degeneration, but they may slow progression of the disease by reducing hypertension. Likewise, those suffering from atherosclerosis heart disease also are at higher risk for developing macular degeneration, and the same nutrients that protect from heart disease (i.e. the antioxidants), are helpful for macular degeneration as well.
It is interesting to note that deficiencies of the vitamins and minerals that have been shown to cause heart disease also have been implicated in macular degeneration risk.
Does smoking or second hand smoke contribute to macular degeneration?
Yes. Any type of smoking or exposure to tobacco smoke can greatly accelerate the development of macular degeneration. This is especially true if the smoker consumes few of the carotenoid nutrients, especially Lutein, with those smokers increasing their risk of developing advanced macular degeneration by up to 600%.
What kind of basic research about macular degeneration is underway at eye research facilities around the country?
Many eye centres are devoted to the study of eye disease, visual dysfunction, and blindness. To work toward a cure for macular degeneration, they are studying the anatomy, physiology, and development of the retina at the tissue, cellular and molecular levels in both healthy and diseased eyes. Laboratory and clinical researchers work closely together to devise new strategies in our fight against macular degeneration. New optical technology is being developed to observe and measure the condition of the eye as well as new techniques to study the vision process. Research to develop low vision aids for patients with macular degeneration and other eye diseases is also going on.
The first large study on the effects of nutrition and macular degeneration has now been published with great success. Other smaller studies have shown great promise, even with marginal amounts of nutritional supplementation.
What can I do to help prevent and cure macular degeneration?
Have annual routine eye exams (you should have your eyes dilated for this exam). Ask your doctor if there are any early signs of macular degeneration.
See your nutritionally knowledgeable eye doctor without delay if you notice any changes in your vision or follow the plan in ‘10 Steps To Your Natural Eye Health’.
Take nutrient and antioxidant supplement on a two-three times daily basis.
Recommend this website to others who are at risk for the disease.
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Sweet, juicy homegrown watermelons capture the magic of summer with explosive taste that puts store-bought melons to shame. Like their cantaloupe cousins, watermelons demand 2 to 3 months of heat to produce ripe fruit, which makes growing watermelons in northern regions challenging, but not impossible. By using plastic mulch to warm soil and floating row covers to trap warm air near plants, gardeners in any part of the country can experience the homegrown goodness of watermelons. It also helps to skip the seeds and start with strong watermelon plants from Bonnie Plants®, so you’ll be already be closer to harvest. (Don’t settle for just any plants, either—look for the Bonnie logo.)
Nutritionists have found that watermelon should be in most people’s diets because of all the health-promoting vitamin C and antioxidants—including beta-carotene and lycopene—in every bite. These fruits combine great taste with excellent nutrition, with no cholesterol and nearly no fat—in other words, the perfect dessert.
Soil, Planting, and Care
Growing watermelons requires warm soil. Don’t tuck plants into the garden until soil temperature is above 70 degrees F, which typically occurs about the time peonies bloom in northern zones. To be safe, wait until at least 2 weeks past your area’s last frost date. Prior to planting, cover soil with black plastic to hasten soil warming. Because watermelons are heavy feeders, prepare your planting bed by adding seaweed, compost, or rotted manure, or amend the soil with aged compost-enriched Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics™ All Purpose In-Ground Soil to improve soil texture and nutrition. For best nutrient uptake, the soil pH should be between 6 and 6.8, although the plants will tolerate a pH as low as 5.
Give watermelon vines plenty of room to roam, which usually means spacing plants 3 to 5 feet apart. After planting, cover seedlings with floating row covers to keep out insects and trap warm air near plants.
Watermelon vines bear male and female flowers. Don’t be alarmed when some of the male flowers, which appear first, fall off shortly after they open; they are followed by female blossoms about a week later. The female flowers, which have a small swelling at the base of the flower, stay on the vine to bear fruit. When vines start to bear both male and female flowers, remove row covers.
Tackle weeds before vines start to run because it will be difficult to move among vines at a later stage without crushing them. Mulching soil under the vines helps suppress weeds and slows moisture evaporation.
Water plays an important role in keeping vines healthy and producing delicious fruit. Vines are most sensitive to drought during the time from planting to when fruits start to form. Avoid overhead watering. Soaker hoses or drip irrigation deliver water directly to soil, helping prevent possible spread of fungal diseases among wet foliage. Keep soil consistently moist, but not waterlogged, which will kill plants. It’s typical for leaves to wilt under midday sun, but they shouldn’t remain wilted into evening. Water vines early in the morning so leaves can dry before sunset, which will further help prevent fungal diseases.
Watermelons take a long time to mature, so be sure your plants are getting a steady source of nutrition throughout the growing season. Starting with nutrient-rich soil is the first step, but then you’ll also want to feed them regularly with a premium quality continuous-release fertilizer such as Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics™ All Purpose Plant Nutrition Granules, following label directions.
Keep ripening watermelon from direct contact with soil to prevent rot and protect fruit from pests and rodents. When fruit is about the size of a softball, place it on a bed of straw or cardboard. Setting fruit on a light-reflecting surface, such as aluminum foil, will concentrate heat and speed up ripening. If large critters, such as groundhogs, discover your melons, protect ripening fruits by covering them with laundry baskets weighted down with a few bricks.
Some gardeners like to switch fertilizer during the course of the growing season. To do this, use a fertilizer with more nitrogen than phosphorus and potassium during the period between planting and when the first flowers open. Once flowering begins, use a fertilizer with less nitrogen and more phosphorus and potassium, such as African violet food or liquid seaweed.
Some believe that pinching off a vine’s growing shoots as watermelons start to ripen will cause the plant to divert all its energies to fruit ripening. Recent research has shown this to be false. It’s a vine’s leaves that produce the sugars that sweeten fruit, so anything that reduces the total number of leaves available for sugar production actually lessens the sweetness of the melon.
In colder regions, remove any blossoms that start to develop within 50 days of your area’s first average frost date. This will help ensure that remaining, larger fruits will ripen before frost.
Watermelons are in the same plant family as squash and cucumbers, but they do not cross-pollinate successfully. Your garden will depend on bees to pollinate the flowers, so cool, cloudy weather in the spring will slow down their development, as bees are less active in such conditions. Be patient until the weather warms.
Fungal diseases can multiple rapidly on melon leaves. Alternaria leaf spot, anthracnose, and gummy stem blight produce spots on leaves, while stem blight also forms bleached or tan sections on stems and rot on fruit. Downy mildew causes yellow or pale green leaf spots, while powdery mildew produces white spots on leaves. Treat fungal diseases with fungicides. Check with your local garden center or Extension Service to learn which fungicides are approved in your state for the disease you’re fighting.
Also be on the lookout for pests. Melon aphids, for example, can quickly colonize a vine, so inspect leaf undersides daily. If you spot aphids, treat them with insecticidal soap. Spotted and striped cucumber beetles can attack vines, transmitting bacterial wilt disease, which causes vines to collapse without chance of recovery. Treat adult beetles with rotenone or a pyrethrum-based insecticide; apply at dusk to avoid harming honey bees.
Harvest and Storage
Watermelons typically ripen over two weeks. As soon as one melon is ripe, the others won’t be far behind. About a week before a melon is ripe, water only as necessary to keep vines from wilting. Withholding water causes sugars to concentrate in the fruit. Too much water reduces sweetness.You can judge a watermelon’s ripeness by its skin colour. The rind changes from a bright to a dull green, and the part that touches the soil shifts from greenish white or straw yellow to rich, creamy yellow. Gardeners also judge a watermelon’s ripeness by rapping on the skin and listening for a low-pitched thud. Tune your ear to the incorrect sound by rapping on a few fruits that aren’t ripe. Underripe fruits resonate with a high-pitched, tinny sound.
Watermelons will keep 2 to 3 weeks unrefrigerated. Place them in a cool basement to increase their holding time. After cutting, refrigerate unused portions. If you have extra melon on hand, dice or cut the flesh into balls and freeze for slushies.
How do you know when a watermelon is ready to be picked?
Ripe watermelons break easily from the vine when twisted. If you try to pick a melon and it fails to twist off easily, it probably isn’t ripe yet. Another sign of ripeness is when the underside changes from white to rich yellow.
Will a watermelon turn sweeter the longer you wait after harvest to eat it?
No. Watermelons stop ripening once they are removed from the vine. They should be picked at their desired ripeness.
How do you know if a watermelon is going to be sweet?
If you thump a watermelon and it sounds hollow, then you know it is going to be sweet and delicious.
How do you store watermelons?
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The total fat in your daily diet should average no more than 30 percent of your total calories consumed. And saturated fat should be no more than 10 percent of those 30 percent of calories. The amount of fat and saturated fat you eat depends on the foods you select and consume that have fat in them. Consider consulting with a nutrition professional to learn more about how to calculate your fat needs and to not exceed what are healthy amounts. There are many tools available to help you determine how much fat you should consume each day based on your current energy and nutrition needs. Reading food labels is one way to begin to identify where and how much fat is in particular food items.
Low-fat dairy products are excellent sources of calcium. Other good sources of calcium include salmon, tofu (soybean curd), certain vegetables (broccoli), legumes (peas and beans), calcium-enriched grain products, lime-processed tortillas, seeds and nuts. If you do not regularly consume adequate food sources of calcium, a calcium supplement can be considered to reach the recommended amount. The current recommendations for women for calcium are for a minimum of 1,200 mg per day.
While what works best for one woman may not always be the best choice for another, the important thing is to build your dietary choices around your vital nutritional needs. Whether you’re looking to improve your energy and mood, combat stress or PMS, boost fertility, enjoy a healthy pregnancy, or ease the symptoms of menopause, these nutrition tips can help you to stay healthy and vibrant throughout your ever-changing life.
According to the American Heart Association, it's better to eat more complex carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits and whole grains) than simple carbohydrates found in sugars. Complex carbohydrates add more fiber, vitamins and minerals to the diet than foods high in refined sugars and flour. Foods high in complex carbohydrates are usually low in calories, saturated fat and cholesterol.
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Notice that alcohol isn't included in a food group. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation, up to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men. Alcohol offers little nutritional value, and when used in excess, can cause short-term health damage, such as distorted vision, judgment, hearing and coordination; emotional changes; bad breath; and hangovers. Long-term effects may include liver and stomach damage, vitamin deficiencies, impotence, heart and central nervous system damage and memory loss. Abuse can lead to alcohol poisoning, coma and death. Pregnant women should not drink at all because alcohol can harm the developing fetus and infant. According to the March of Dimes, more than 40,000 babies are born each year with alcohol-related damage. Even light and moderate drinking during pregnancy can hurt your baby. If you are breastfeeding, discuss drinking alcohol with your health care professional. After clearing it with your doctor, you may be able to have an occasional celebratory single, small alcoholic drink, but you should abstain from breastfeeding for two hours after that drink.
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uplifting thoughts and inspiration on faith
John 16:33 [Jesus said:] These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Deuteronomy 1:11 May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
Deuteronomy 15:6 For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
Deuteronomy 26:18 Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments
Deuteronomy 27:3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the Lord God of your fathers promised you.
Joshua 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.
1 Kings 5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.
1 Kings 8:20 So the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:56 Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
2 Chronicles 6:15 You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
Many times in the Psalms David cried out to God from a weary soul. David was very human and when things seemed dark and bleak he asked God why. Still, as a faithful servant David was convinced his trust was not in vain and he called to mind the power of God as encouragement.
I cried out to God with my voice—
To God with my voice;
And He gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing;
My soul refused to be comforted.
I remembered God, and was troubled;
I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah
You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.
I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my heart,
And my spirit makes diligent search.
Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be favorable no more?
Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His promise failed forevermore?
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah
And I said, “This is my anguish;
But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
I will remember the works of the Lord;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
I will also meditate on all Your work,
And talk of Your deeds.
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were afraid;
The depths also trembled.
The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a sound;
Your arrows also flashed about.
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
The lightnings lit up the world;
The earth trembled and shook.
Your way was in the sea,
Your path in the great waters,
And Your footsteps were not known.
You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Jeremiah 32:42 For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
Jeremiah 33:14 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah’
Romans 4:19-21 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers
2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
Ephesians 1:12-14 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Hebrews 6:11-15 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
God’s Infallible Purpose in Christ
Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise
Hebrews 11:11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
James 1:12 [ Loving God Under Trials ] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
2 Peter 1:2-8 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
I’m standing on the promises of God.
Consider Your Thoughts
Take Control of Your Thoughts
What Was I Thinking?
Consider the Source
Renew Your Mind Daily
Think On These Things
Think Before You Speak
The Voice of God
God’s Voice is Truth
Choosing to Hear and Obey God’s Voice
God’s Voice Leads you, Comforts you, Blesses you
Learning to Hear and Trust God’s Voice
God is Sovereign
God is in Control
God Has a Plan for Your Life
God is Trustworthy
God Sees A Bigger Picture Than We Do
God Teaches the Cycle of Trust
God Strengthens Us
God Fights For Us
God is Bigger Than ANY Need We Have
God Never Puts Us Where He Can’t Keep Us
Body Soul Spirit
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Mother Sun and Sister Moon arced overhead, flung toward the great hovering monstrosities by their ally Cannonfire. They landed with Olympian grace on the gleaming head of an alligator-shaped alien the size of an office block. A sunburst flare eclipsed the alien as Mother Sun melted through the armour. Their intervention provoked an instant response. The two heroes vanished in a red haze as the four other gargantuan aliens turned crimson beams on them.
“Well once more this prompts the big question we’ve been asking on Colossal Gossip for months now, Trina. What possessed city founder Joshua Barraclough to spend his entire personal fortune to establish Colossus City on an isolated, practically uninhabitable coastal delta exactly one hundred years ago to this day? Does the keystone plaque of the Wrightson-Wolfman Centre hold a clue with its reference to “Five shadows over five fingers?” As the drama unfolds in the sky overhead, why don’t you recap some of the key points from our nine-part series from last year, Trina? Er, Trina. Hello? Did the connection drop out again?”
Tremolo quivered in and out of equilibrium with standard space-time as she strained with the effort of scanning the aliens with vibrational pulse-waves. “I can’t get a clear reading on them,” she gasped, staggering to her knees before Sympath could catch her. “All I can see for sure is that they’re achronistic. They originated in another time. The future, I think.”
“Unless you’ve suddenly discovered a way to vibrate us both into orbit, Trembles, we have no way of getting up there to help,” said Sympath. She was preoccupied with psychically suppressing a city-wide panic, enhancing senses of personal safety while quelling potentially dangerous curiosity. While she was at it, she decided to surgically excise her personal dread of losing another partner and bolster her optimism. “But don’t worry. I’ve got a feeling something will turn up.”
“Er, hello? Sorry to interrupt, but I couldn’t help overhear your conversation. I think I can fly the three of us up close to the aliens, if that would help.” To Tremolo and Sympath, who were both still in their early twenties, the newcomer in sparkling silver looked alarmingly young. “I’m…uh, until I think of something better, you can call me Ms Glitter. Give me your hands and I’ll get you where you need to go.”
An army of Colossus City’s heroes converged from all directions. With telepathic assistance from the newly-reformed Carmilla Superior, Diamondstrike coordinated the assault on the enormous aliens. The super-soldiers of Bastion Command parachuted from the Cloister, their low-orbit monitoring satellite. Spirit of ’89, the Battle Gurus’ armoured airship, disgorged brightly-coloured martial artists to scramble over the giants’ backs. The Society of Vigilance launched disruptor rockets from their hover-platforms and leapt into the fray. And Team Infinity appeared from nowhere, stepping out of a timewave like pro surfers ditching off the crest of a breaker.
Colossus City is built across a delta plain at the convergence of five rivers, along which spread the five city districts colloquially known as The Fingers – Thumb Valley, The Points, Midfinger, Ringborne and Pink Pines. The City was founded in the aftermath of the Great War by eccentric millionaire war hero Joshua Barraclough, whose declaration at the lavish ground-breaking ceremony is recorded on a plaque at City Hall. It reads in part: “Let this place stand watch, like a new colossus, against that which would disrupt an orderly future, from this day for one hundred years.”
– Excerpt from Hand of the Guardian: The Colossus City Story.
“These aren’t gator-aliens at all,” wailed Tyrannosaur as a tonsil-shaped mass extruded from the wall and walloped him like a back-swinging punching bag. “They’re biological starships!”
“The ships are self-repairing,” reported DupliKates 13 and 18 in unison. “They regenerate faster than we can damage them.”
“This technology is more advanced than any known alien society,” mused Romulus Brink, the Contemplator. “Observed anomalies verge on the irreconcilable.”
“Yeah, yeah, Rom, don’t strain yourself,” laughed Dingo Watkins. “We don’t get it either.”
“Speak for yourselves!” With a massive grin, Captain Silver criss-crossed the alien’s head, shoulders and back at lightning speed, until she found what she was looking for. “Team Infinity to all heroes! Be on the lookout for standard airlock hatches concealed under orange-red scales. Converge on alien command and control, presumably in the head.”
Having shepherded the foundling Colossus City through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression not only intact but flourishing, and just eight days after the emergence of Paragon Man, the first of the so-called “scientific phenomena”, Joshua Barraclough disappeared. He missed a city budget meeting for the new Englehart Bridge on 3 April 1935, and was never seen again. He left no statements, personal effects or will. Colossus City’s growing prosperity and its distinction of having the world’s greatest concentration of super-powered individuals remain his only legacy.
– Excerpt from Hand of the Guardian: The Colossus City Story.
Inside the lead alien vessel, while various heroes peeled off to cause as much distracting chaos as possible, a strike team crashed through robotic sentinels and the ship’s murderously animated furnishings. Ms Glitter smashed aside aggressive wall fixtures; Sympath hurled robots at other robots; Tremolo vibrated sealed bulkheads until they shattered.
The strike team barged through one last barricaded portal into the alien control room, where they froze in astonishment. Standing between Mother Sun and Sister Moon was the last man anyone expected to see.
“Good afternoon, good afternoon. Ladies, please, come on in. At the risk of making an ass of myself, I declare myself tickled pink as a prize pig to see so many formidable warriors of the fairer sex here today!”
Ms Glitter’s face was concealed beneath her helmet, but her incredulity was unmistakeable. “Are – are you Joshua Barraclough?”
The man dressed in the old-fashioned suit, complete with cocked straw boater on his head and a silver watch chained to his breast pocket, beamed in delight. “Well, I reckon I am, after a fashion. It’s downright flattering to know I ain’t been forgotten.” Barraclough looked straight at Sympath. “I ain’t been forgotten, I hope?”
“Not for one second, partner,” she replied with a slow smile. Tremolo and Ms Glitter turned quizzically toward her, but before they could ask the obvious question, a figure emerged from a shadowed corner of the alien bridge.
“Welcome back, Tock Tock,” said Night Shrike. “Where have you been?”
Barraclough’s face blurred, momentarily revealing a frog-eyed metal face before reverting to Barraclough’s freckled, red-headed features. “Oh, I’ve been here and there,” he said airily. “I’ve been now and then. I’ve been him, her and them.”
“You never used to like riddles,” said Sympath, who had been Tock Tock’s crime-fighting partner for five years. “What happened to you?”
“Well, now, it’s a long story,” said Barraclough, “but the Reader’s Digest version is I didn’t really want a personal rerun of the 60’s, so I detached myself from linear time to give Doc Ontological the slip. Spent a little time with some time archaeologists in the 33rd century. Learned a few startling home truths.”
“Well, did you know that Joshua Barraclough was a time traveller? Everyone in the 33rd knows it, only not a one knew his true identity. At least, not until I showed up and transformed into the portrait of carrot-headed magnificence you see before you.”
“Wait a minute,” said Tremolo. “You went back in time and founded Colossus City? Why?”
Mother Sun put her hand on Tock Tock-Barraclough’s shoulder. “He did it so that we would all be here in the hour of greatest need.”
Ms Glitter groaned. “Wait, I’m having trouble following the continuity here. Why would you set up the city in 1919 so there’d be a city to invade in 2019?”
Sister Moon put her hand on Tock Tock-Barraclough’s other shoulder. “This isn’t the invasion. These ships haven’t attacked us.”
Tremolo looked unimpressed. “Have you already forgotten the paralysing spray?”
Tock Tock-Barraclough looked sheepish. “Just a mild sedative. Figured it would get the right kind of attention and keep civilians from getting too jumpy.”
The famously impatient Night Shrike folded her arms. “If this is Colossus City’s hour of greatest need, but these ships aren’t an invasion fleet, what are they?”
“They’re our ride,” said Sympath. “I’m right, aren’t I? Where are we going, Tock Tock?”
Tock Tock-Barraclough spread his arms in welcome.
“There’s a problem in the 33rd century that could use a hundred heroes. Can I get any takers?”
Wow, did I really just finish my weekly Friday flash fiction project with a story about hope for the future at the expense of the present? A theme which didn’t occur to me for one moment during the writing process but is now, just a few hours later, crushingly obvious and on the nose? This is me giving my subconscious an ironic slow clap.
So yes, this is the 100th weekly Friday flash fiction story, and the last for a while. I’m not abandoning flash stories at all, but it’s time to take a break and work on some longer pieces for a while. I have settled on a new schedule yet, but Friday flash stories will certainly continue to show up from time to time. In the meantime I do have a novel I should be working a little harder on.
Thanks to all the regular Friday flash readers and commenters, here and on Facebook. Every time someone’s told me they liked a character, or a joke, or a ludicrously self-indulgent turn of phrase, it has given this project another week or two of life. I would never have expected to keep up the pace for a hundred straight weeks, but having an audience makes all the difference. It probably sounds shallow to say it out loud, but the clapplause helps.
For any new readers – um, your timing is not terrific, but there’s a back catalogue to check out. ‘Centennial’ is a Colossus City story, and you can see the previous entries in that superheroic canon by clicking on this link (go back a page and start with ‘Mister Extra‘, if you want to make sense of this extraordinarily continuity-heavy story. Most of the Colossus stories can be read alone, just not this week’s). You can find those and the rest of the 100 Friday flash stories to date at this index right here. Dive in anywhere, the water’s (mostly) fine. | <urn:uuid:ae19b06e-d6e4-43cf-b8c2-9521893038cc> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://davidversace.com/2019/06/07/friday-flash-fiction-centennial/ | 2019-08-24T05:33:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027319724.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824041053-20190824063053-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.941494 | 2,787 |
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24 July, 2019
With the BBC Proms totally ignoring Offenbach’s bicentenary, it has been left to London’s music colleges, small scale opera companies and amateur groups to help celebrate this Franco-German composer’s life and works.
Blackheath Halls is credited with being the oldest purpose built performing arts centre in London. These days it does a great deal of work in the local community, trying to get as many as possible involved in the Arts. Hence Blackheath Halls Opera, which uses some professional singers in main roles, students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in secondary roles, amateur, mostly non-trained, voices for the chorus, plus groups of young people from local schools.
In fact the director, James Hurley, and the Musical Director, Christopher Stark, visited almost every local school giving workshops on opera and Offenbach, leading to students from all those schools applying to be in the production. In total the cast for La belle Hélène numbered well over one hundred. The orchestra of 40 players was also amateur. In fact this was a real community production.
If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, read on!
The Great Hall at Blackheath posses a shallow, high stage, which runs the entire width of the hall. In order to accommodate the huge cast, the director, and imaginative designer (April Dalton) decided to have a giant staircase the width of the stage leading down to the floor of the hall. The orchestra was on the floor to the left, another acting area to the right. This worked very well, but must have been a nightmare to the MD, who had singers scattered over a large area. In practice orchestra and singers were always at one: praise here for the excellent orchestra, the woodwind especially sounding ‘perky’ and all playing very stylishly, never playing so loud that the singing was inaudible: not easy for amateur players. Those living, for example, in Germany, where many young people learn to play instruments to a high standard, may not understand my remarks: when I started teaching in 1971, all pupils had the opportunity to have free music tuition on an instrument, and even borrow instruments free of charge. In 2019, many schools in the UK no longer teach music at all!
Truly a Land ohne Musik!
The director of this de Mille epic, clearly understood the style needed for Offenbach. As the German philosopher Walter Benjamin said (he is quoted in the extensive programme notes) “operetta transforms stupidity through music … Nonsense is true, stupidity beautiful, weakness good. This is Offenbach’s secret.”
James Hurley succeeded totally in getting the whole ensemble to appreciate, act and sing in the style required. Often in these reports I complain about directors not knowing what to do with the chorus! Not in this production! All were treated as individuals. All were acting in role all the time. Credit here must also be given to the movement director, Natasha Harrison, who obviously played to people’s strengths as to what they could do movement wise – the results often being very amusing, such as the older lady refusing to move a chair and eventually flouncing off in high dudgeon. Great attention to detail!
The principal singer actors had been cleverly chosen because all understood the necessary style for Offenbach.
Oliver Johnston as Paris brought back memories of the Sadler’s Wells production as both his acting and singing reminded one of Kevin Miller, especially in his yodelling song in Act 3. He had a real gift of humour and was totally watchable.
Ben McAteer used his low baritone voice to great effect as the high priest Calchas and had a commanding stage presence. Joseph Shovelton, steeped in the British operetta tradition, especially with Gilbert and Sullivan, brought great humour and character to the role of the hapless Menelaus, reminding one of Peter Renz at Komische Oper Berlin.
Nicholas Merryweather as Agamemnon ensured that Act 3’s Patriotic Trio was as amusing as it should be.
Ellie Laugharne (Helen) had just the right sense of fun needed for this role – a young soprano of whom we shall certainly hear a lot more.
Among the students from Trinity Laban, Rachel Maby (Orestes) impressed, not only with her voice, but also with her energy in role: her opening song near the top of the show set the standard for the whole performance.
Was there anything I did not enjoy about the show? Well, the witty English translation (Jeremy Sams) did not always come over owing to the acoustics of the hall, and Ben Pickersgill’s lighting design did not always light the expressive faces on this vast stage, but overall this was a hugely enjoyable and truly wonderful evening spent in the company of Offenbach and friends. One had to make no allowances whatsoever for the fact that this was not a professional production. In fact, one hopes that there might have been scouts from English National Opera there trying to learn how French operetta can be successfully staged in England!
The following day (Monday 22 July) I saw a totally different style of Offenbach performance at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. This was Orpheus in the Underworld given by Opera della Luna, a small scale professional company that tours ‘comic opera’ to medium size venues in the UK. The company is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a revival of its 2015 production using an English version by the director and founder, Jeff Clarke.
The main differences to Blackheath were that there were only twelve performers, four of whom were dancers, excellent in the sheep ballet in Act One (inventive choreography by Jenny Arnold), no chorus, and an orchestra of eleven (string quintet, three woodwind, two brass and percussion). In other words very similar to Offenbach’s original stagings at the Bouffes-Parisiens.
Most successful at creating the necessary Offenbach style was Paul Featherstone as both an aged Mercury using a Zimmer Frame with great agility, and John Styx. He proved to be a genuine ‘singing actor’ lifting the production every time he appeared and giving it real energy and pace whenever he was on stage. His Act 3 song was an exemplar of good diction and singing ‘off the words’, as my teacher tried to drill into me! It was a shame that the 2015 satirical English lyrics about David Cameron now seem dated! Surely a revised version could have been put together for this revival?
Daire Halpin as Eurydice took time to get into role and voice, but her Act Four aria was admirable.
She was competently supported by Anthony Flaum as her lover Aristaeus/Pluto and by the remainder of the ensemble, even if Tristan Stocks (Orpheus) was clearly struggling with vocal problems and the important role of Jupiter was being ‘covered’ by Dickon Gough who needed more confidence in role.
The imaginative sets were designed by Elroy Ashmore and Maria Lancashire: the fences in the pastoral scene of Act One becoming bedsteads in the Olympian Act Two, for which very amusing ‘nude’ costumes had been designed for the Gods! Ever effective lighting was by Ian Wilson, the proscenium stage of the Bloomsbury Theatre suiting the whole production very well.
It must be very difficult for all those involved when one or two performances only are given in yet another new venue, especially for the conductor, in this case Toby Purser, who did have problems keeping orchestra and singers together, as if those on stage found it difficult to hear the orchestra buried in its pit!
All in all, an enjoyable two evenings spent with Offenbach. What was clear was that La Belle Helene is a much stronger piece than the more popular Orpheus, musically as well as structurally. For example Act One of Orpheus needs very careful directorial handling if it is not to ‘drag’, whilst in Belle Héléne we plunge straight into sheer nonsense! Every musical number in Belle Hélène is strong and memorable whilst there are some instantly forgettable ones (from the post 1858 additions?) which perhaps could and should be shelved!
There are more Offenbach treats to come in the UK before the end of this year. Opera Northern Ireland is staging two rare one-act operettas, unfortunately only in Northern Ireland. Whilst Opera della Luna is reviving its production of La belle Hélène in November
If you enjoy Offenbach in English, the 1960s Sadler’s Wells productions of the two operettas under discussion plus La Vie Parisienne are still available on the Classics for Pleasure label, June Bronhill, Joyce Blackham, Kevin Miller, Eric Shilling etc and those wonderful Geoffrey Dunn English versions! | <urn:uuid:69cfef6f-df3b-4a1d-92a7-ca194741cd8c> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-double-treat-london-la-belle-helene-orpheus-underworld/ | 2019-08-17T23:45:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313501.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817222907-20190818004907-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.970422 | 1,888 |
Southwest Harbor was asleep when I arrived, so I quietly found a spot, curled up and began dreaming. My iPhone started jumping at 5:00 AM. If I wanted to see dawn from the top of Cadillac Mountain I had to hustle, even though it’s a relatively short drive from Smugglers Den Campground. Slipping into last night’s clothes and grabbing a hat, so as not to scare small children, I started the 18-mile drive to Cadillac. For the record, there are a few ways to get to the top of Cadillac Mountain. 1. Walk. 2. Bicycle. 3. Drive. I concluded the night before that anyone choosing options 1 or 2, at 5 AM, should be immediately treated for a multitude of brain disorders. As it was, driving to the top in the dark was a test of cornering skills. Skills I began acquiring at the age of 12. But I digress.
Several people beat me to the parking lot near the summit of Cadillac, apparently shunning sleep for fear of missing an opportunity to be the first person on the east coast to see the sun rise. Considering the sun rises at a particular time regardless of who’s watching, I didn’t mind being an also-ran. After bundling up and exchanging slippers for hiking boots, I made my way to the top and tried to shelter from the wind. The horizon appeared to be back-lit from across the Atlantic, presenting graying light along its rim. As my eyes adjusted, stars twinkled atop islands as they slipped from darkness and began to take shape. Slowly the distant sky began to take on color, pushing the gray upward and replacing it with shades of yellow, orange, red. Then, as if hung from a heavenly string around the finger of God, a tiny blazing sun rose from the ocean, sat on the edge of the earth and stared back at all of us gathered to see its arrival. Flat clouds skittered along the horizon and I wondered if they were as mesmerized by this display as was I. Then I remembered they see this every day and haven’t once had to drive to see it.
An odd thing happens five minutes after the sun has fully risen. The top of Cadillac Mountain turns into a ghost town. If you booted myself and a couple other folks taking photos, Cadillac would be void of people. Apparently the enchantment of a big orange ball in the distance fades quickly. When I eventually walked back down to my van, with the exception of a few people who had obviously continued to hit snooze on their iPhone, I was alone.
To fully experience a National Park, you have to hike. Find a trail and begin to explore what prompted individuals to petition our government to protect this land. Discover the physical traits that make an area special and worth preserving for future generations. Acadia begs to be explored. Countless miles of trails guide you to mountain tops and lead you back to its craggy coastline. In between, timeless forests thrive, hiding their treasures from those who only dabble on the edges. On the way down Cadillac, I stopped at Bubble Mt trailhead and started hiking. In the wrong direction. I wasn’t lost, it’s just that there is usually more than one trail leading to the summit and I had not chosen wisely. Or, I had deliberately chosen one of the only trails in the park that was ‘natural’. I will allow the reader to decide which, but suffice it to say the trail was made up exclusively of boulders. Ever rising boulders of every size imaginable. And since boulders by definition are not flat, this made for two-hours of climbing that I will not soon forget. Boulder by boulder I inched my way to the top. Sometimes the crevices were so thin that I had to turn sideways and shimmy upward by pressing my knees against the wall in front of me and pulling myself up. Stopping several times on the way up to see an ever expanding view of the Atlantic and lakes below – and more than a few times to catch my breath and rub my knuckles – there was no way in hell I was turning back until I set foot at the summit. Which eventually I did, only to meet a wonderful couple that had hiked up the other side and said it was “a piece of cake.” I described the route I had taken and when they finished laughing, we all agreed it was well worth the effort. The Atlantic and her distant islands, lakes surrounded by sloping trees and massive rock outcroppings, all laid at our feet. Stubbornly, I finally turned and hiked back down the way I came.
Jordan Pond is a glacier formed tarn with clear water to a depth of nearly 50 feet. (Author’s Note: Tarn is a fancy word that I only recently discovered. It means small mountain lake, which moving forward I will probably stick with.) Hving sharply rising bluffs on two sides, it is a lovely oasis on Mt Desert Island. With trails branching out from the pond, I made an afternoon of finding my way around much of the shore. Each turn putting a new view of the pond on display. Afterward, I spoke with a Park Ranger at Jordan House who said, “About 95% of our visitors drive the park loop and leave. They may pull over a few times and take a picture or two. But for the most part they drive and leave. A nice day trip.” After walking the trails around Jordan Pond, I found this inconceivable. Given its breathtaking vistas, with countless photo ops, the Acadia park loop is unquestionably one of the great National Park drives. But to experience the heart and soul of the park, you have to venture inside – if even for a few moments.
Returning to Smugglers Cove (I just like saying Smugglers Cove. Makes it sound like a dangerous place instead of a campground nestled into the woods with rather large RV’s and a great bank of showers) I decided to circle through the seaside village of Northeast Harbor. With magisterial homes leaning out over the water, or tucked into the woods only to be seen by those sailing by, this area has long been known as an enclave of wealthy summertime residents. Secluded with architectural styles and materials that blend into the landscape, I was tempted to meander up one of the lengthy driveways and see if perhaps the occupants were looking for an older gentleman to adopt. One can always dream.
Hulls Cove Visitors Center is a beautiful building, set high above the parking area. Ascending the 50+ steps, you take note of how carefully the man-made structures blend seamlessly into the natural environment. A deliberate attempt to meld into what was there long before man set foot on Mt Desert Island. Inside, as in most National Park visitor centers, rooms are open and high ceilinged. On this warm day, even late in the season, several people waited in line to ask questions of a Park Ranger. This is where I met Ranger Emily. We began talking about the various trails in the park and she asked if I had had the opportunity to hike during my visit. Yes, quite a bit – and I mentioned the trails. She smiled. “I see you managed to find one of our only natural trails over by Bubble. How was it?” Hard. Still smiling. “Yep, that’s a hard one.” And to make it worse added, “You know the other side up is much easier.” Yes. I’ve been told I’m not very bright.
When I informed Emily about TheMountCo Project she opened up about funding and what it takes to “keep a park running smoothly.” She mentioned something in a context that I hadn’t considered. “People think we just set aside land and that in itself makes up a National Park. What they don’t realize is that it takes enormous resources to develop access to these pristine pieces of land. And once access is developed it requires enormous funding and manpower to maintain that access and all the attendant services.” She spoke with conviction. “I wish we could make people understand that a National Park, in particular one such as Acadia that presents unique geological challenges, is a living breathing space that must be tended to. Constantly nurtured, while integrating spaces for the public. It’s much more complex than simply setting aside a piece of land.” Well stated. I can’t improve upon Emily’s assessment.
The following day, I decided to give my legs a morning of rest and drive up to Elsbury for an oil change since I was over 4,000 miles into the trip. During the drive, my battery light came on, so while at Route 2 Oil Shop, I asked them what they thought the problem was. “Could be a low baaattary. Or the altanataaa.” I think it’s the alternator. “You a mechanic?” Nope. Hardly. “Yep. Could be the altanataaa.” Oil changed, heading back to Bar Harbor to take some photographs, every indicator light on the dash comes to life. Then she dies. No warning, just dies. But with good fortune I coast into a gas station. AAA informs me that I have used up my free services (doesn’t everyone lock their keys in the car at least 3-4 times a year?) and a tow truck would be out for the small fee of $60. And my choices are? Eddie pulls up about 45 minutes later and we head to Skip’s Auto Repair, where it’s confirmed, “The altanataaa is bad,” as he hands me the large metal part. $500 later, thanks to Shaun staying late – with his young daughter Katie watching his every move – and a paaaats store next door, I’m back on the road. Could have been worse. Could have decided to quit on the back-roads of Canada. I’d still be sitting there waiting for AAA to deliver an altarnataaa.
Before heading down to Uncle Mike and Aunt Amy’s blueberry farm in Alna, Maine for a couple days of apple picking, good laughs and good food, I needed one more hike. I wanted a few more views from above the treeline. Beech Mountain, at a little under a thousand feet and its fire tower at the summit looked like a good choice. And in one of my rare moments, I was correct. The trail leads up through trees still bristling with color, shoulder to should with pines and evergreens. Along the way there are large slabs of rock, perfectly placed millennia ago by mother nature in anticipation of mere mortals sitting and viewing her work. Which I did several times before reaching the top, climbing the fire tower, taking in every inch of the view and reluctantly heading back down.
On my way out of Acadia, I stopped for one last meal. I had another long drive in front of me and was starved after hiking all morning on a few scoops of peanut butter and a mug of coffee. Luckily, the Lobster Pound & Real Pit BBQ on Bar Harbor road had yet to close for the season. I ordered a bowl of clam chowder and a BBQ pulled pork sandwich. Oh my. Oh my. I kept biting into clams that were only slightly smaller than my head. Fresh, meaty clams in the perfect blend of potatoes, celery, pepper and melted butter. I thought I might cry, so I ate with my sunglasses on. Then I took a bite of the BBQ pulled pork and I had to put my hand over my mouth to keep from making that Mmmmmm sound too loud. Topping it off was a side of creamy homemade potato salad and a glass of freshly brewed iced tea. Days later I still drool just a touch when thinking of this meal. | <urn:uuid:bc3208b1-26ba-4c79-8e6c-98ebfb82974b> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://travelswiththebeardedman.com/2017/10/23/acadia/ | 2019-08-17T22:38:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313501.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817222907-20190818004907-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.971552 | 2,496 |
Four-element array coils and high field small animal MR scanners can be used to obtain functional MRI, also known as fMRI, at a high spatial resolution of 75 x 75 x 1000 μm3. The activation area contains fine and detailed substructures, which can be identified at unparalleled in vivo resolution, thereby widening the scope and understanding of the origin and biophysical principles of blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) to get a better insight into structure and organization of the brain. In addition, deficit and recovery of functional brain following stroke and other brain diseases can be fully analyzed.
fMRI is used to examine brain activation in both animals and humans and aside from the traditional anatomical MRI, fMRI can give data regarding intactness and function of various regions in the brain and even workflow of information and neuronal pathways between these brain regions.
The BOLD effect is nothing but a quantitative technique through which the change of tiny local field disruptions of oxygenated hemoglobin is measured at high temporal resolution. As a result, EPI sequence is often used to record the BOLD effect; EPI sequence is a rapid sequence that repetitively records the image slices of the rat brain in just 3 seconds or less. However, these EPI images of rat brain are characterized by distortion artifacts and low spatial resolution.
With advanced MRI technologies such as fast RF-readout electronics, high magnetic field strengths and multi-element array coils, high resolution functional MRI is now capable of detecting and distinguishing small volumes of activation at even sub-structures scale.
The results obtained provide a better understanding of:
- The BOLD effect
- Different aspects such as anesthesia protocols, animal models, imaging and stimulation parameters, and also analysis techniques
- The brain’s (changing) structure
- Brain reorganization and recovery after Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other brain diseases
fMRI in small animals can be obtained in magnets from 4.7 to 11.7 Tesla[2,3]. Majority of analyses depend on the stimulation model of electrical stimulation of the forepaw on rats at 9.4 and 7.0 Tesla. Functional activation studies therefore have to be carried out on anesthetized animals. An α-chloralose protocol, the animal has to be kept still and the stimulus has to be simultaneously processed under this anesthetized condition. However, α-chloralose is known to cause severe side effects and hence, it is only used in acute experiments.
In these studies, a different but powerful method is employed using the sedative medetomidine. This sedative enables the recovery of animals and thus can be used in line with the longitudinal experiments.
Coils and magnets:
- Bruker BioSpec 7.0 Tesla
- Linear surface coils
- Linear Helmholtz coils
- BioSpec 11.7 Tesla
- Four-element or quadrature surface coils, and quadrature resonator
- Gradient-echo (GE) and spin-echo (SE) single-shot EPI with16.8–25.6 mm field-of-view
- Matrix 64 (7.0 Tesla) to 256 (11.7 Tesla, four-element coil)
- Resolution 75 to 400 μm, up to 16 adjacent slices of 0.5 to 2 mm thickness
- Echo time 30 ms (SE) and 16 ms (GE)
- Repetition time =3000 ms, 115 repetitions
Initiation with 1.5 to 2% isoflurane or halothane, gradual exchange against sedative agent.
- Bolus injection of 0.5 ml of sedative mixture (0.3 ml Domitor® in 10 ml saline solution for a 300-gram rat)
- Continuous injection of 1 ml every one hour
α2 adrenergic agonist medetomidine is the sedative agent.
- Intraperitoneal injection of 0.3 ml Antisedan® for 300 gram rat
- The α2 adrenergic antagonist atipamezole
Special attention is paid during the transformation from anesthesia to sedation, to eliminate pain, noise, and movement. A temperature feedback system serves as an extremely handy tool because both sedative and anesthetic affect the auto-regulation of the rat’s body temperature. Finally, a sanitary pad is placed under the animal so that any increased urgency from the anesthetized animal can be absorbed.
When the forepaw is electrically stimulated, the thalamus, and primary (S1) and secondary (S2) somatosensory corte are activated. To achieve this, electrical pulses (1–2 mA of 0.3 ms duration, at 6 or 3 Hz) are applied for 15 seconds after a resting period of 45 seconds, repeated 5 times. It takes 5 minutes and 45 seconds for the resultant total scan.
- Stimulate”, “FSL” or Bruker “FUN” program
- Statistical t-test over activated periods against resting periods
- BOLD activation is predicted to be 7 mm2 (GE) and 2 to 3 mm2 (SE) with a BOLD contrast of 1 to 3% for the S1 cortex in rats.
Results and discussion
A highly stable method for neuronal activation experiments in rodents is the BOLD fMRI using electrical forepaw stimulation. This method can also be integrated with other imaging methods like perfusion imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and T2 imaging for lesion depiction. Different resolutions can be obtained based on the equipment, revealing the activation from an unresolved, small cluster to fine sub-structured areas.
Figure 1. BOLD activation at 7.0 Tesla on animals after stroke, with a resolution of 400 x 400 x 2000 μm3. T2-maps (left column) indicate the lesion on the right hemisphere. BOLD activation on the left healthy hemisphere (center column) and of the ischemic right hemisphere (right column) indicates transient loss of activation during the first two weeks following stroke, followed by full recovery at day 16.
Using older DBX electronics and linear surface coils at 7.0 Tesla, BOLD contrast with 400 x 400 x 2000 μm3 resolution can be obtained. Combined with T2-maps, loss of functional activity and its instant recovery as well as stroke lesion (Figure 1) was defined[4,5]. A combination of faster AVANCE II readout electronics, quadrature surface coil, and higher field strength of 11.7 Tesla increased both resolution and SNR to less than 200 x 200 x 2000 μm3, which is more than sufficient to identify the tiny structures along the neuronal activity pathway like the thalamus and secondary somatosensory cortex S2 (Figure 2) with BOLD contrast.
Matrices up to 256 x 256 were obtained with a four-element array coil, resulting in 75 x 75 x 1000 μm3 resolution. The activation becomes more resolved at this high resolution and allows the detection of sub-structures and shape in thalamus areas S1 and S2, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 2. BOLD activation at 11.7 Tesla using the quadrature surface coil with a resolution of (left) 300 x 300 x 2000 μm3 for high quality and (right) 150 x 200 x 2000 μm3 for high sensitivity.
Figure 3. High resolution BOLD activation at 11.7 Tesla using the four-element array coil with a resolution of 75 x 75 x 1000 μm3 for detection of (left) sub-structures within S1, and activation within other regions along the neuronal pathway: S2 and thalamus
Typically, BOLD contrast increases with higher field strength as a result of increased sensitivity. Owing to reduced effects of partial volume, the BOLD sensitivity is further enhanced by increased spatial resolution. When using the quadrature coil, it was observed that BOLD contrast increased from 1.5% at a resolution of 400 x 400 x 1000 μm3 to as high as 4% at 150 x 150 x 1000 μm3 at 11.7 Tesla.
Sub-structures can be easily detected at higher resolutions. At such resolutions, BOLD contrast reduced as a result of reduced SNR. However, in these analyses, an instant increase of BOLD contrast with field strength, seen up to 7.0 Tesla (Figure 4). which was no longer observed.
This is because of decreasing intravascular contributions as well as decreasing extravascular contributions from arterioles and venules. Short T2 values of blood explain these changes at such high field. Yet, higher S/N is provided by increasing field strength, and when this S/N is invested into higher spatial resolution, it provides access to finer details of sub-structures and at the same time boosts the BOLD amplitude (due to less “dilution” by partial volume effect).
Figure 4. Comparison of BOLD activation (size and magnitude) for understanding the field dependence of the BOLD effect at 7.0 and 11.7 Tesla with a resolution of 400 x 400 x 2000 μm3
Summary and outlook
Together with recent coil technology and high magnetic fields, fMRI is capable of providing high-resolution images that help detect and differentiate small activation magnitudes and small and highly resolved activation areas on single-shot, high quality EPI images, even at the highest field strength. These results will benefit future studies on animal methods and models, which will provide a better insight into the brain structure and, most importantly, the brain function.
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13 April 2018, Paris, France: The first results from the POISE biopsy sub-study have today confirmed that long-term treatment with obeticholic acid (OCA) leads to the reversal or stabilization of fibrosis/cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who have had an incomplete response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA). These results provide the first evidence that improvements in biochemical markers of PBC observed in previous studies are accompanied by anti-fibrotic effects in line with those observed in pre-clinical trials.
'There is strong evidence from clinical trials that OCA leads to significant reductions in alkaline phosphatase (ALP) that are predicted to improve clinical outcomes of patients with PBC who do not respond adequately to or do not tolerate UDCA',1 said Dr Christopher Bowlus from the University of California, Davis in the USA, who presented the results today at The International Liver Congress™ 2018 in Paris, France. 'This study offers the first evidence from paired liver biopsies that OCA is indeed a disease-modifying therapy'.
Primary biliary cholangitis is a rare autoimmune liver disease characterized by biliary destruction, progressive cholestasis, and, ultimately, the development of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).1,3 The primary medical treatment for PBC is UDCA, however, up to 40% of patients have an insufficient response to this treatment, putting them at risk of potentially life-threatening complications.1,3
Obeticholic acid is a potent agonist of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR), which regulates bile acid synthesis and transport.1 Two previously reported Phase 2 studies4,5 and a pivotal Phase 3 study (POISE)6 confirmed that OCA, primarily in combination with UDCA, leads to significant reductions in serum ALP and improvements in other biochemical liver markers, leading to the recent approval of the treatment by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).3
The biopsy sub-study of POISE involved patients undergoing liver biopsies prior to, and after 3 years of, treatment with OCA. Biopsies were centrally read and assessed using a six-tier staging system (from no fibrosis to cirrhosis). Thirteen patients - all receiving treatment with UDCA at baseline - had paired biopsies that were adequate for analysis.
At baseline, nine of the 13 patients (69%) presented with pre-cirrhotic fibrosis and four (31%) with cirrhosis. At the last visit before the final biopsy, serum ALP was reduced and direct bilirubin levels were comparable to baseline (median changes from baseline: -99 U/L and 0.0 μmol/L, respectively). After 3 years of OCA treatment, the majority of patients improved (n=6; 46%) or maintained (n=5; 38%) their histological stage, while two patients (15%) deteriorated. Of the four patients with baseline cirrhosis, three (75%) improved to fibrosis without cirrhosis while receiving OCA treatment.
'Eighty-five percent of the patients with PBC in this study with an incomplete response to UDCA had regression or no worsening of their fibrosis or cirrhosis after 3 years of OCA treatment - a period of time during which we would have expected some degree of fibrosis progression', said Dr Bowlus. 'OCA represents the first new treatment approved for PBC in decades, and these results support the potential of OCA to slow disease progression in this group of patients who have the greatest need for new treatments. The results of the ongoing COBALT study will determine if the biochemical improvements of the POISE study and the histological results reported here translate to improved clinical outcomes' (NCT02308111).
'Relevant changes are on the way for the management of patients with PBC, for which ursodeoxycholic acid has been the only treatment option for a long time', said Prof. Marco Marzioni from the University Hospital of Ancona, Italy, and EASL Governing Board Member. 'Now new medicines are coming and the first of these to be available, obeticholic acid, has been shown to ameliorate surrogate markers of disease progression. The current study, however, reports the first evidence that OCA is also able to halt the deposition of collagen tissue in the liver, a significant outcome for the natural history of PBC'.
About The International Liver Congress™
This annual congress is the biggest event in the EASL calendar, attracting scientific and medical experts from around the world to learn about the latest in liver research. Attending specialists present, share, debate and conclude on the latest science and research in hepatology, working to enhance the treatment and management of liver disease in clinical practice. This year, the congress is expected to attract approximately 10,000 delegates from all corners of the globe. The International Liver Congress™ 2018 will take place from 11¬-15 April 2018 at the Paris Convention Centre, Paris, France.
About The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
Since its foundation in 1966, this not-for-profit organization has grown to over 4,000 members from all over the world, including many of the leading hepatologists in Europe and beyond. EASL is the leading liver association in Europe, having evolved into a major European association with international influence, and with an impressive track record in promoting research in liver disease, supporting wider education and promoting changes in European liver policy.
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Onsite location reference
Session title: Poster Late Breakers
Time, date and location of session: 12. April 2018, 09:00 AM - 14. April 2018, 05:00 PM, Poster Area
Presenter: Christopher Bowlus, USA
Abstract: Long-term obeticholic acid (OCA) treatment associated with reversal or stabilization of fibrosis/cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) (5662)
Christopher L Bowlus has received grant support from Intercept, CymaBay, Gilead, BMS, GSK, Takeda, and Genkyotex; and has served as an Advisor to Contaus, Patara, Intercept, and GSK. Alberto Pares Darnaculleta has participated in advisory boards and lectures for Intercept Pharma. Paul Pockros has received consultancy and speaker honoraria from Intercept and research funding from Scripps Health. Pierre Bedossa has received funding from Intercept. Richard Pencek, Leigh MacConell, David Shapiro, Elizabeth Malecha, and Uchenna
Iloeje own stock in and are employees of Intercept. Joost PH Drenth has served on advisory boards for AbbVie, Gilead, and Intercept, and his department receives research funding from AbbVie, Ipsen and Gilead - all reimbursements received go to the Radboudumc.
Andreas Kremer has served as a consultant or advisor for Beiersdorf, Elsevier, GSK, Intercept, Janssen, MSD, and has received speaker honoraria from BMS, Falk, Intercept, Janssen, MSD. Lisa Forman and Stephen Ryder report no conflicts of interest.
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By guest author Jakob Engblom
This is the first of a series of posts that will look at the past, present, and future of Wind River® Simics® virtual platforms. In 2018, it is 20 years since its commercial launch as a product. At the time back in 1998, Simics was marketed by a startup called Virtutech, which was acquired by Wind River, an Intel company, in 2010.
To run real-world software on the virtual platform, the Simics team has always strived for target scalability and simulation speed. Real server workloads already ran on Simics 20 years ago. But what counted as “large” software then and what that means today are two different things. Let’s take a look back and then make a comparison to what Simics runs today.
The simulated sun4m architecture was used in workstations and servers that employed a variety of 32-bit SPARC V8 RISC processors. These platforms supported up to 512 MB of RAM, up to four processors at up to 200 MHz clock frequency.
Most actual hardware systems were more pedestrian, featuring sub-100 MHz clocks and sub-100 MB memories. A large software setup would have used a few hundred megabytes of RAM—today Microsoft* Word is using that much RAM on my laptop as I write this blog.
Simics back then used a pure interpreter in the core simulation instruction set processing engine. That made it between 25-100 times slower than actual hardware. Still, it was fast enough to get through the billion target instructions needed to boot Solaris in a reasonable amount of time. At the time, this was state-of-the-art.
Today, a high-end system can have 512 GB of RAM (1000x the SPARCstation above), 40+ cores (10x), and processor core clock frequencies of two to five GHz (25x). Thanks to micro-architectural improvements, new instructions, and other innovations, we probably run code about 100x faster on today’s systems compared to 20 years ago.
Simics has also improved to keep up with the times. The interpreter mode that was used in 1998 is rarely used these days. Instead, Simics relies on VMP (using Intel® Virtualization Technology for IA-32, Intel® 64 and Intel® Architecture (VT-x) to run Intel® architecture-based target code directly on the host) and just-in-time (JIT) compiler technology to convert target code to host code. These techniques make the slowdown of the virtual machine as low as 1x when running code. Thus, Simics run large workloads on models of contemporary hardware.
To see how workloads and the scope of virtual platforms have changed, let’s look at some examples of software we have seen running on Simics over the years. We start with some Java examples—in 1998, most server software was native, compiled for a particular processor architecture and OS. But Java was getting started on the client side, and a few years later, it jumped over to the server side. That provided a mostly host-independent environment for building business applications, thanks to the use of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run byte code rather than native code. Thus, running JVMs on Simics is pretty common today.
Just-in-Time running just in time
SpecJEnterprise on Simics
Our first Java example is SpecJEnterprise 2010, a benchmark from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) consortium that mimics a business workload with an application server written in Java*, talking to a back-end database. The setup contains a driver utility that sends stimuli to the application server, which in turn uses the database. SpecJEnterprise measures system performance, including the hardware, JVM, database engine, networking, and other components. We run SpecJEnterprise on Simics as a platform test case because it is a good stimulus to test the integration of the OS, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), and the hardware platform.
SpecJEnterprise requires at least two machines to run: one for the database and one for the application server. The driver utility can run on the same machine as the application server. The Simics setup is illustrated below, with two target systems inside a single Simics process. This provides neat encapsulation that does not depend on running external software or coordinating multiple simulation programs. In practice, the two Linux distributions used are slightly different, since each software stack comes with its own recommended Linux OS.
The two target machines have the same hardware configuration, and they are connected using 10Gbps Ethernet. Each target has four processor cores split over two sockets, and 192 GB of simulated RAM (96 GB attached to each socket). As a whole, the Simics setup simulates 384 GB of target RAM. Four processor cores per target system is a small configuration that is sufficient to run the benchmark setup; the Simics platform can support many more cores than that. As in 1998, Simics supports configurations all the way to the limits of the physical platform, and beyond.
When run, this configuration uses between 300 and 400 GB of host machine physical RAM—most of the simulated target RAM ends up being used and thus represented in Simics. As noted in a previous blog post, Simics can simulate very large target memories without using host RAM if the memory is not used for active data.
The two systems have their own simulated disks, and each disk has its own image. This image is a full bootable disk, basically the same as you would use on a physical system. Doing full-stack software development and execution independent of hardware and before the hardware appears are key benefits of the virtual platform.
Depending on the server load, the virtual platform slowdown is about 4x. Each benchmark test runs for about 3.5 hours in on the target machine, and between 12 and 14 hours to run in real-world time (wall-clock), depending on the load on the server which works out to a slowdown of around 4. It is good for this kind of workload – and—an order of magnitude better than in 1998!
SpecJBB on Simics
Each run of SpecJBB on Simics currently takes about 3.5 hours to run on the virtual platform, and about 12 real-world hours to complete (depending on other loads running on the same server running Simics). This is a slowdown less than 4x, similar to SpecJEnterprise.
HammerDB on Simics
HammerDB is an open-source database load testing and benchmarking tool. It is not a database in its own right, but a tool to “hammer” databases with transactions to test their performance under load. To run HammerDB, you use two separate machines, one with the database and one running the HammerDB tool. This setup is replicated in Simics by putting two server machines into a single Simics instance, just as we did with SpecJEnterprise.
HammerDB requires “only” 128 GB of RAM in each simulated target machine, with 64GB attached to each processor socket. Depending on the load from other software running on the server at the same time, HammerDB needs up to 20 hours of host time to run through 1.5 to 2 hours of virtual time—still within a factor of 10. I consider that quite reasonable for virtual platforms, especially considering the scale of the system. It is quite a bit better than the slowdowns observed in 1998.
HammerDB features a graphical user interface (GUI) to execute tests and check results. The GUI displays on a console attached to the Simics model. Most of the other tests run with serial consoles, as the server workloads are designed to be headless. Simics scripting is used to automate test execution and ensure run-by-run reproducibility.
Our final example is a web-focused workload that uses another virtual machine system, one that targets the PHP and Hack languages, not Java. HHVM (“HipHop Virtual Machine”) is an open-source virtual machine for PHP and Hack, offering a high-performance way to run many web applications and frameworks. The HHVM oss-performance benchmark uses nginx as the web server, underneath HHVM. To generate traffic to the web server and the application running on it, oss-performance uses the siege benchmark tool, which “besieges” web servers to test their traffic handling ability.
The entire set of software is run on a single Simics target machine, inside a single Linux OS instance:
The hardware resources needed to run the oss-performance benchmark are more modest than the software stacks discussed above. 24 GB of target RAM is sufficient. That illustrates the variation in scale that different software stacks exhibit. For instance, SpecJBB requires an order of magnitude more memory to run, and thus stresses the target system software and hardware in a very different way.
The oss-performance benchmark is a suite of web application tests which operate in sequence during a single run. Each component benchmark starts by launching nginx and HHVM, and then starts the web application to test on top of HHVM. Once the web application is up and running, the siege benchmarking engine starts, and an application-specific benchmark program runs. Siege connects to nginx using network sockets within the same target machine. Each component benchmark starts from a Simics script. It watches the serial port of the target system for output strings and issues commands to the serial port—a good example of how Simics can automate a long sequence of operations on the target system from the outside, and work through complex operation sequences on the target system.
Depending on the host and the other loads, each run of the oss-performance benchmark takes about one hour of virtual time, taking six to eight real-world hours to complete. Thus, the slowdown is less than a factor of ten.
Twenty years of virtual platforms
What we see from current use cases is that Simics does the same thing it did when the technology was new, 20 years ago: it runs software from the real world on virtual platforms modeling the latest hardware, and it runs fast enough that you can use full-size standard software on the virtual platform for software validation, integration testing, and development.
Workloads now use a few orders of magnitude more memory and processor clock cycles on the virtual platform than on a physical systems. Depending on the simulated processor frequency, a workload that takes an hour to run in virtual time will churn through some 40 to 60 petacycles of target time and tens of trillions of instructions. An OS boot in 1998 required one billion instructions, but today’s OSs require quadrillions.
Thankfully, host machines and Simics have scaled up along with the workloads. Just as Simics could run a contemporary server workload in 1998, it can run a contemporary server workload in 2018. In practice, the gap between the simulated machines and the host machines has actually shrunk with the advent of JIT compilers, VMP technology, and multithreading.
For more information, visit the Wind River Simics page.
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Jun 1, 2018
Better Call Saul: Lone Star (S2 E3 Recap)
We open with another country song because all country songs are ultimately about loss. Jimmy is standing in front of a wall with the lone star flag painted over it, and just to make sure we get that he is not in New Mexico anymore, Jimmy’s got the cowboy hat, and the bolo tie, but we may have seen the suit before. It’s Matlock-white.
An accessible “Sandpiper” bus pulls up, and Jimmy is told by a staff person that he has five minutes, which is plenty enough time for him. The bus is filled with olds, and the olds have always been very, very good to Jimmy. He’s there to speak with Alma May Urbano. She responded to a mailing sent out by his firm and he’s there to sign her up personally, and to make sure he speaks loudly enough for everyone to hear his spiel, which includes references to his own nana and bobo of “the greatest generation.”
There’s another meeting at HHM. Jimmy is again seated next to Kim, and their feet touch under the table. Jimmy is being lauded by Cliff Main for his outreach efforts, but all is not good. Chuck, who now seems to have been miraculously cured of his affliction, (Hallelujah!) is there. Chuck has some questions about the twenty-two, oh sorry twenty-four, new clients that Jimmy signed up in Amarillo even though only one (Alma May) responded to the mailer. He’s not so subtly cross-examining his errant younger bro, who assures everyone that these are “close knit communities” (true), where everyone “heard the scuttlebutt before [he] crossed state lines” (maybe), and that he certainly “didn’t knock on doors” (technically true but misleading).
Chuck is effectively shut down, but did he raise doubts about Jimmy? They all move on, but Jimmy interrupts and says he understands the need to go above and beyond, and he’ll find another way. No more meet and greets. Cliff again expresses confidence in the confidence man, telling him that outreach is his department.
After the meeting, Kim is not happy with him. She wants to know what happened in Texas and asks if he did “a song and dance” for residents “in the day room.” Jimmy says, “not in the day room.” She doesn’t ask for more details. She doesn’t need to. She knows him and knows what he meant, and she is not happy. He counters that Chuck had no problem with his stopping octogenarians with walkers in malls when they were first getting clients for the suit. Kim is someone who can see the lines clearly. Jimmy has a kind of moral dyslexia. It’s hard for his brain to keep tracking lines when they’re always jumping around.. She points out that not only could he get disbarred, but she was the one who put herself out by pushing for him. Her judgment is at stake. She tells him they both know he can do it, but he has to do it the right way. And we know he’ll try for, her just like the proverbial scorpion probably tried not to sting the proverbial frog.
And so, after discovering that the firm got zero mail responses from Colorado Springs, probably because staff at Sandpiper never let them get to the clients – highly illegal but hard to prove – Jimmy goes to Cliff Main with an idea: How about a television commercial? Cliff is “open” to it, but it’s not really the firm’s “thing” although they tried it once before. He leaves it as the “let’s talk” stage and mentions running it by the partners.
Jimmy has his assistant show him the old ad they ran which was a spot for an asbestos exposure lawsuit. If you think you may have seen the spot, you probably did because it looks like they copied one that a gazillion law firms were using, right down to the blue swirls, and it’s pretty awful, or as Jimmy asks, “Whatever happened to the showmanship?” His assistant mentions all the partner meetings they went through to debate the minutia, and anyone who’s ever seen their own ideas go through a committee’s grinder can only sigh in sympathy. If only there were some way to fast track this?
Cutting through the red tape, Jimmy brings in the two film students who helped him capture the moment when he “rescued” the billboard poster putter-upper who was dangling over the edge. They film the spot in the home of the awesome Mrs. Strauss, who you may recall as the woman who made a very slow entrance down the stairs in her electric stair chair last season, but who proved to be savvy, and sassy.
Can she be a regular please? There’s a reference to her beloved Alpine Shepherd figurine, the one an episode was named for, which is NOT the same Hommel figurine that Marie Schraeder picks up with a three-finger discount at an open house a few years later on Breaking Bad, but who knows? Perhaps the one Marie lifts, featuring a boy racing to a fire with a bucket and ladder, riding on the back of pig, came from the Strauss collection and was passed on to one of her lesser relations.
Jimmy describes the set up to his cohorts. Black and white. An old lady in a tattered shawl in a rocking chair. The fabulous Mrs. Strauss descends like Orpheus on her electric stair chair, or maybe more like Katherine Hepburn as Mrs. Venable in Suddenly Last Summer, and certainly like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, and announces with a knowing wink that she’s ready for her close up. Ah, Mrs. S if only Jimmy were a wee bit older. He always wanted to direct, and you’ve got star quality.
When he shows Kim the finished product, she is impressed, which is something considering that Kim is as much a film fan as Jimmy. She’s so proud of her protege/boyfriend. She tells him that she can’t believe Cliff Main went for it. He doesn’t bother to tell her that he hasn’t shown it to Cliff yet. Why ruin the moment?
The next day at work, Jimmy is in his office staring at the video in a box on his desk because this is 2002 when they still had videos. He starts over to Cliff’s office. We hear the sounds of Cliff playing guitar, but then Jimmy turns around, and has his assistant check with Fed Ex about getting the video over to Colorado Springs. Why didn’t he check with Cliff? We can all see that this is BIG MISTAKE. Is it because Jimmy knows he’s right, knows that the bottom line is clients and this will get him the clients? Does he figure he’ll be forgiven for taking the shortcut if he gets the results? Does he feel he was already hemmed in by Chuck? Or is it that like turning the light switch? He simply can’t resist the risk?
Meantime, Mike continues on his own trajectory to hell. His daughter-in-law, Stacy, tells him she’s been hearing bullets flying in her not so great neighborhood that looks perfectly fine. Mike, without her knowledge, decides to stake the place out, hanging out in his car eating his pimento sandwiches and listening to a ballgame on his old-timey transistor radio. He’s got everything in their except a bathroom, and if you’ve got an old man in your life, you gotta be wondering, where he’s going to pee. Then again, Mike’s probably been holding it in for years. He doesn’t hear a peep most of the night until he sees the lights of a car slowly coming down the street and then plop, plop, plop, which is not the same as pop, pop, pop, but could maybe that sound that way if you were really scared. It’s only bundled newspapers landing on the pavement. At dawn, he heads over to his booth, and can barely keep his eyes open. Stacy calls him convinced it happened again. When he drives over, she even shows him a chip in the outside wall that she’s sure came from a bullet. Mike doesn’t argue. He tells her he’s getting her and Kaylee out of the house, and then he takes his puppy to the vet, which on this show is both a literal thing and a metaphor – the vet being his go to guy for outside gigs of the not quite legal to very illegal variety. Does that dog even have a name?
Jimmy is looking at his wall art as though he’s trying to decipher its meaning. It’s a painting chock full of Breaking Bad references, as the internet has noted. There’s the headless figure and/or empty suit floating through the air. It reminds us of Walt’s pants blowing in the wind in the pilot, or maybe the passengers on that ill-fated flight. Where the head should be there’s a flowerpot, like the flowerpot with the lily of the valley plant that Walt used to poison Brock. As explained in this detailed analysis, there’s every reason to believe that Saul Goodman was the one that got the poison to the kid. So every picture tells a story, and this one tells a story about more short cuts in Jimmy’s future, and that his disregard for the rules will lead to his someday poisoning a child. The audience, who knows the future, can see it. Jimmy can’t. That’s the tragedy of BCS, everything already happened, so no matter how hard we wish it could change, it can’t.
The ad is about to run. A “Sandpiper hot line” has been set up to take the calls. Jimmy’s waiting for those calls, and it’s a call back to season one when he waited desperately for the phone to ring in his cramped office in back of the nail salon. When the lines start lighting up, Jimmy refers to yet another episode when he says, “Bingo.”
That night he’s in his soulless generic but well appointed corporate apartment with Kim, watching Ice Station Zebra, starring Rock Hudson, a man who hid his true self from the public for decades. Cliff calls. He’s outraged that Jimmy ran the commercial without showing it to him first. Jimmy tells him they got one hundred and three phone calls. Cliff calls him a “a God damned arsonist” and tells him to be there at eight for a meeting with the partners. They want to see “this thing.” Kim still thinks he’s Cliff’s “golden boy.”
The crooked vet, meantime, has gotten a special request for Mike’s services. He doesn’t know much about the job other than that the pay will definitely be “next level.” Who could have asked for Mike by name? Nacho of course. There’s someone he needs to get gone. Mike makes a lip smacking sound, which is not necessarily a no.
Oh Jimmy! Oh Mike!
Last season ended with Jimmy seeming to change almost instantly into Saul as a result of his realization that Chuck had betrayed him. They slowed things down, if not reset them, by having him decide to take the Davis & Main job, and try to stay on the right path – if only to get the girl, but it’s seeming less likely that we’re in for one big moment of transformation. We’ve already seen all of Saul’s qualities – his moral “flexibility,” his love of the flash, his penchant for shortcuts, and certainly his narrative gifts. We knew Saul only as sleazy comic relief, so when we first met sweet Jimmy McGill we wanted to see them as two different people. We wanted an origin story that explained how one became the other. But Jimmy always was Saul, just like Walter White was always Heisenberg. We were all like Kim, convincing ourselves that not only could Jimmy be successful, but he could do it on the straight and narrow. But what if Chuck (lying, crazy, jealous hypocrite that he is) was correct? What if Jimmy simply can’t tell right from wrong the way some of us can’t tell red from green? What if the nature of the thing is the same, no matter what name we give it? | <urn:uuid:21112cfd-faf1-44e3-b8a9-093c62976149> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.agonybooth.com/better-call-saul-golden-boy-s2-e3-recap-46946 | 2019-08-20T10:44:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315321.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820092326-20190820114326-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.980573 | 2,712 |
Consultant Who Did Work that Was ‘Crap’ Nominated to Head Mining Agency
The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement deemed the work of Steven Gardner’s firm so shoddy that it cut ties with the firm. Now President Trump has nominated Gardner to lead the federal agency that once called his work “a piece of junk.”
President Donald Trump’s choice to head a federal coal mine regulator, like more than one of his nominees, is a vocal critic of the very agency he’s being asked to lead. Steven Gardner is a longtime coal industry consultant, and he has called the agency’s marquee Obama-era regulation the product of “one of the most disingenuous and dishonest efforts put forward by a government agency.”
But in Gardner’s case, there is an unusual — and contentious — twist: He runs an engineering firm that produced a report as part of the process of preparing that regulation, and the agency deemed it so shoddy that it cut ties with Gardner’s company. Now he’s the nominee to head that agency, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. (In broad terms, OSMRE — pronounced “oz-muhr” — focuses on mining’s effect on the environment, while the other key regulator, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, focuses on the welfare of miners.)
State and federal officials at the time harshly criticized a draft report produced jointly by Gardner’s firm, ESCI, and other contractors. They blasted it as “nonsensical,” “junk,” “inaccurate and incomplete,” and “a piece of crap.” Some OSMRE staff members went so far as to accuse Gardner of trying to sabotage the regulation his firm was hired to help develop.
Acrimony and accusations flowed in both directions. Gardner charged that agency officials had pressured contractors to soften the projected economic impact of the regulation, the Stream Protection Rule. The stated purpose of the rule was to limit damage done by coal mining to waterways, but Gardner and other critics saw it as a strike at the heart of the coal industry.
Gardner is expected to testify in the coming weeks at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Former Obama administration officials and a contractor who worked with Gardner have questioned how he will lead an agency that he has held — and that has held him — in something less than high regard.
“It has been said that one of my biggest challenges will be winning the support of OSM staff I will oversee due to the past controversies,” Gardner said in an emailed statement. “While there may be some in OSM that differed with my opinions, many others sent me messages of support noting they did not agree with OSM management during that controversial period.” (The White House referred a request for comment to the Department of the Interior, OSMRE’s parent agency, which did not respond to a request for comment.)
This was no backroom tiff. The conflict between Gardner and OSMRE played out in unusually public forums, including congressional hearings. On Capitol Hill, Republican opponents of the Obama administration’s ambitious environmental and energy agendas had branded its coal policy a “war on coal.” They seized on Gardner’s claims as evidence that the administration was fighting dirty.
Gardner’s strained relationship with the agency can be traced to 2010. ECSI was among a group of contractors hired to analyze the environmental and economic impact of various proposals for the Stream Protection Rule. OSMRE officials hoped ECSI and another subcontractor, Morgan Worldwide, would serve as counterweights to each other. ECSI worked principally with the coal industry, while Morgan Worldwide tended to represent environmental interests.
By the fall of that year, state and federal officials had begun to express doubts about whether the contractors were up to the task. “If this had come from one of my entry-level students (when I taught college hydro), I would have failed them,” OSMRE scientist Debbie Dale wrote in an email that November, describing a section of the draft report assigned to ECSI. She called it the “most poorly written ‘professional’ document” she had ever seen, according to the 2013 inspector general report. Eight state regulators wrote a letter to OSMRE Director Joseph Pizarchik, calling it “often nonsensical and difficult to follow.”
At one 2011 meeting, Dianne Shawley, a senior agency attorney, laid the bulk of the blame at the feet of ECSI and the other subcontractors. “They’ve given you a piece of crap, really. To be blunt,” she told executives from the general contractor, Polu Kai Services.
Agency officials were dismayed. “In my experience, it was very unusual to receive so much negative feedback about a contractor’s work,” said Pizarchik, who stepped down at the end of the Obama administration, in an interview with ProPublica. “I’m not aware of other instances where this has occurred.”
Sean Jensen, the president of Polu Kai Services, defended the draft report, noting the contractors never had a chance to finish it. “We did our job,” he said. “I’m happy with the team’s work.”
In the meantime, another concern had surfaced, this one limited to Gardner. Staff members, who have since left OSMRE, told Pizarchik they believed Gardner was trying to undermine the Stream Protection Rule. They accused him of being uncooperative, asserting that he was deliberately misreading parts of the draft rule so he could condemn it as an overly broad ban on underground mining. (In an email, Gardner described himself as cooperative and his reading of the rule as correct.)
Gardner had spent decades consulting for coal companies and would later be elected president of a major professional association for the mining industry. A Kentucky native, he is fond of observing that, because he grew up on a tobacco farm, he has “the honor of being involved in the two most politically incorrect industries in the country.”
The dispute between the contractors and the agency came to a head in January 2011. The Associated Press had published a leaked draft of the contractors’ initial analysis. It suggested that the Stream Protection Rule would have a devastating impact, wiping out 7,000 mining jobs nationwide.
OSMRE officials disputed the accuracy of the projection, but by then it was too late. The job-loss figure had become a part of the public discourse around the agency’s incipient rule.
The fallout from the leak prompted a series of at times heated meetings at which OSMRE officials and the contractors tried to resolve their differences. The endeavor proved unsuccessful, and in March 2011, agency officials declined to renew the contract. They hired a new set of contractors to complete the project, though they retained Morgan Worldwide. (John Morgan, president of Morgan Worldwide, said agency officials never complained about his company’s work.)
Congress, however, wouldn’t let the issue rest. Republicans had found in the dramatic job-loss figure powerful ammunition for their fight against the Obama administration’s coal policy. “It was all about blocking everything the Obama administration wanted to do,” Pizarchik said. “Everything was a war on coal.”
At congressional hearings in November 2011, the tensions between OSMRE and the contractors spilled into the open. When one congressman declared that the Stream Protection Rule “will kill jobs and stop coal mining,” Pizarchik accused the contractors of producing job-loss projections with “no basis in fact.” Incensed, Gardner testified two weeks later that OSMRE officials had put pressure on the contractors to manipulate their analysis to obscure the reality that the rule would decimate the American coal industry.
The dispute attracted the attention of the inspector general for the Department of the Interior, which ultimately produced a report that criticized both sides. The IG concluded that OSMRE officials had managed the contracting process poorly, but found no evidence to support Gardner’s claim that administration officials had tried to improperly influence the contractors’ work. The contractors’ job-loss figures, investigators concluded in their 2013 report, weren’t fabricated, but they relied on little more than claims of expertise.
“The contractor and subcontractor could not identify any of the assumptions they made,” Pizarchik said. “Staff reported to me they said, ‘We’re the experts. That’s our opinion. Rely on that.’ … It was purely their opinion derived through the ‘expert elicitation process.’” (Gardner disputed this, saying the assumptions “were clearly identified.”)
All these years later, Gardner has come out on top in one respect. In February, less than a month after the Stream Protection Rule went into effect, Congress nullified it. In the intervening years, Gardner had continued to denounce OSMRE and the Stream Protection Rule in lectures, on his Facebook page and in newspaper op-eds.
It remains to be seen whether the victory proves Pyrrhic. “I think it’s a fatal flaw,” John Morgan, Gardner’s fellow subcontractor, said. “If you abused civil servants and accused them of the types of actions he did, it would be very difficult to be a leader.”
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey is set during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, but that doesn't mean people from both sides don't want a sexy distraction. I mean, how else are we going to repopulate the Mediterranean after such a catastrophic conflict? Whether you're playing as Kassandra or her brother Alexios, there's almost a dozen characters you can seduce on your travels, and our Assassin's Creed Odyssey romance guide will help you tango with each of them.
Before we get started, it's important to note that Grecian lovers are easy to come by—this isn't like Mass Effect were romance is only found at the end of a long road of quest chains and dialogue choices. In most cases, the option to get it on will be fairly obvious and corresponding dialogue choices are marked with a heart symbol. Just by going out and exploring the world, you'll find characters eager to do the deed with you. That said, the payoff isn't the same either. Unlike The Witcher 3, for example, Odyssey's sex scenes all happen off camera. Still, it's fun to canoodle, so here's every willing participant we've found (so far).
Warning: Story spoilers below.
Odessa - A Small Odyssey
A few hours into Odyssey's story you'll take a boat from Kephallonia to the nearby island of Ithaka to deal with some pesky enemies. While there, you'll see Odessa caged inside of their hideout and offering a side quest called A Small Odyssey if you free her. Seducing Odessa requires first completing a series of quests for her, starting with this one. Once you've dealt with the bandits, escort her to Odysseus' Palace and then back to her boat. Along the way, you'll have plenty of dialogue options to flirt with her. You know what to do.
Later, in Megaris, you'll find Odessa in the town of Megara with more quests for you. Handle this chain of quests and side with her when you find evidence that maybe she's not as nice as she first appears. After that, you can offer to forget both of your troubles for a bit and get it on.
Auxesia - Age is Just a Number
Head to the Sanctuary of Delphi in Phokis and you'll find this quest given by Aurexia, an old woman with a voracious appetite for getting it on. The only problem? Her elderly husband can't keep (it) up. Help her out by gathering a bear's scrotum and some deer tongues to make ancient Viagra (don't try this at home). The bears can be found almost exactly north and a little west of the Sanctuary of Delphi near a bear den, but watch out because the alpha bear that protects it is extremely tough. Deer, meanwhile, can be found all throughout the area.
When you bring the ingredients back, Aurexia's husband will still be hesitant, letting you swoop in to take his place instead. They'll both agree that it's for the best, and you'll be treated to a hilarious cutscene as he waits outside while you get it on with his wife. Weird.
Alkibiades - Oil and Love
You'll first meet Alkibiades while working through the main story quests which take you to a party at Perikles' residence in Athens. When you're free to wander around, go to Alkibiades bedroom and see if he has any information about your missing mother. Before he gives you the intel, he'll ask you to retrieve some oil, which you can find in the kitchen. Return with the oil and Alkibiades will tell you what you need to know but also offer to let you join in on the fun. Of course you should accept.
Alkibiades returns several times throughout the story, and after your first successful tryst he'll make even more advances at you. If you feel like getting it on again, all you'll need to do is agree.
Lykaon - Helping a Healer
In the Chora of Delphi, found in Phokis, you'll find this side quest from Lykaon, a local healer needing help gathering some herbs—is that what the kids called it back then? Help Lykaon out by gathering the herbs from a nearby stream guarded by wolves. Once done, deliver them to the nearby villagers who need them. Returning to Lykaon will allow you to question him about his motives, revealing that he actually wants to use the leftover herbs to euthanize his grandmother who is a fraudulent oracle. Agree to help him.
From there, you'll have to complete a series of basic quests that involve investigating the grandmother's disappearance and rescuing her from a bandit camp. Once she is safe, Lykaon will appear with the intent of finally ending her life. Intervene, selecting the option "Violence won't solve anything" to persuade Lykaon that ending her life won't restore his family's honor. Once that's done, you'll be free to get nasty.
Kyra - Trouble in Paradise
During the main story, Barnabas will give you a quest called Trouble in Paradise that requires you to sail to Mykonos to help rebels overthrow their corrupt government. Here you'll meet Kyra, who you can romance after a lengthy quest chain. During this first quest, though, you'll be party to a debate between Kyra and her current lover Thelatos about how to best deal with the corrupt leader of Mykonos. Side with Kyra to open up the option to romance her later.
After doing a series of missions for her, you'll unlock the quest Goddess of the Hunt and can find Kyra at a nearby temple making an offering before trying to kill some nearby wildlife. Join her on the hunt, respond positively when she admits her feelings for you, and before you know it you'll be making out on a beach.
Zopheras - Not My Mother's Daughter
Much further into the story you'll head to Sparta, in Lakonia, where you can pick up this side quest to help a mother train her daughter to be a better Spartan. Zopheras is a little hesitant to receive training, just flirt with her to change her mind. After both a foot race and a horse race, Zopheras will take you to a secluded spot where the two of you can train much more intimately.
Kosta - Family Values
In the village of Red Lake Bay you'll find this quest from a young boy which introduces you to the local blacksmith Kosta. Offer to help Kosta by choosing the option marked "I'll make it worth your while" and then heading out to collect flowers for him. Once you return, you'll be able to let Kosta sweep you up in his rough, weathered hands for a big kiss.
Aikaterine - An Actor's Life For Me
Near the end of the main story, Aristophanes needs you to find his star actor who has gone missing. Head to Thespis' house to look for clues and there you'll find an Athenian guard you can coerce into telling you his location. Turns out he's just at a bar being forced to drink to avoid participating in Aristophanes' play. Convince the guards to let him go and carry Thespis home to sleep it off. There he'll ask you to bring him his muse, a nearby courtesan named Aikaterine.
She's not too far away, but Aikaterine won't come unless you kill the local guard captain who is threatening her first. Fortunately, he's next door in his garrison. Dispatch of him, and Aikaterine will offer to pay you back with a heavy discount on her "services."
Roxana - Sparring with Roxana
On the island of Hydrea you'll find Roxana training to fight in the Battle of One Hundred Hands. It's a big deal, so naturally you should offer to help her. During these subsequent quests, flirt with Roxana at every opportunity. Finally, she'll challenge you to a foot race to a nearby hill. You don't have to beat her, but once you both reach the top the stunning view puts her in the mood to make it one last time before she faces death in the upcoming battle.
Daphnae - The Daughters of Artemis
In Phokis, one of the synchronization points you can climb to unlock fast travel locations is the Temple of Artemis. There you'll find Daphnae, a priestess who sets you on a mission to slay all of Greece's legendary animals, like the Nimean Lion. This is quite the involved quest that will require you to travel all over the world and reach level 40. Each time you slay an animal, though, you can return to Daphnae to make out for a bit. Kill every target, though, and she'll give you a prize better than drachmae and experience points.
Xenia - Birds of a Feather
You'll first meet this burly pirate while hunting for clues about your missing mother, but later you'll be able to return to Keos and take on the quest Birds of a Feather that eventually lets you get some real booty. This is quite the involved questline, requiring you to solve several tough puzzles, but our friends at GamesRadar have a great walkthrough you can follow. Be sure to flirt with Xenia every chance you get and once you return all of her hidden treasures, she'll show you one of a different sort.
That's every romance we've found so far, but we'll update this guide if we stumble into any more love affairs. If you see one that isn't listed here, let us know in the comments. | <urn:uuid:6c8c2f2b-91a9-4501-b4bc-cd000367461f> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-odyssey-romance-guide-all-the-characters-you-can-seduce-in-ancient-greece/ | 2019-08-20T10:26:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315321.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820092326-20190820114326-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.965168 | 2,033 |
June 25th, 2018
Smart Columbus Experience Center Opens June 30
First-of-its-kind learning destination on the Scioto Mile riverfront empowers residents to join Smart Columbus in transforming mobility in our city
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 25, 2018 – The Smart Columbus Experience Center, a destination for residents and visitors to envision the future of mobility and explore how they can help transform mobility in the Columbus region, will open to the public on June 30. Mayor Andrew J. Ginther will open the center to the public at 11:00 a.m., and the opening will be celebrated with a Smart Mobility Block Party from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The block party will be an opportunity for residents to learn about the diverse and exciting mobility options available to them, including electric vehicles, public transit, car sharing, ride sharing, bike sharing and more.
Experience Center visitors will see how new mobility options, such as connected, autonomous, shared and electric vehicles, will make Columbus a more connected community. Hands-on educational experiences and technology demonstrations will show visitors how technology and innovation in transportation will grow the local economy and create ladders of opportunity for central Ohio residents.
“Smart Columbus is about envisioning a future for our city that benefits us all, and transforming mobility to make our community safer, more equitable, more vibrant and more sustainable,” said Mayor Andrew J. Ginther. “I hope every resident who visits the center will see how our efforts to embrace the latest mobility technologies will personally benefit them; and that they will identify ways—big and small—that they can act to help us transport our city to the future.”
The center will also receive cities and technology leaders from around the world to share lessons learned from the implementation of Columbus’ smart city portfolio. As the winner of the 2016 Smart City Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Paul G. Allen Philanthropies, Columbus has embraced the task of teaching cities about its smart city successes and challenges, to help accelerate smart city advancements around the globe.
“The Smart Columbus Experience Center is an exciting addition to our skyline and our community,” said Alex Fischer, president and CEO of the Columbus Partnership. “We look forward to welcoming leaders from around the globe to Smart Columbus’ new home to share how we’re driving innovation and prosperity here in the Columbus Region.”
A Community and Global Center in Downtown Columbus
The Smart Columbus Experience Center, located at 170 Civic Center Dr., will be open to the public seven days a week following the Grand Opening. It features a 3,000-square-foot showroom where visitors will have the opportunity to experience hands-on demonstrations of new mobility technologies, including:
- Seeing is Believing: A vision for the future is clear as day as it is projected via illustrations on the showroom windows onto the real Columbus streets and sidewalks outside. Through the illustrations, visitors will see how self-driving vehicles, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, connected intersections and even wearable devices can be incorporated into our landscape and daily life.
- Understanding the Vision: An interactive map featuring videos and future visualizations showcase the projects within the Smart Columbus portfolio. These vignettes give an inside look into how an intelligent transportation system and equitable access to transportation can impact everyday challenges faced by Columbus residents.
- Cruising into the Future: Visitors can experience firsthand how driving electric is a more exciting, convenient, sustainable and affordable way to get around our great city. A fleet of six electric vehicles will be on display and available for test drives through a connected vehicle environment provided by NXP and Cohda Wireless. Vehicles on display or available for test drives include a BMW i3 provided by BMW, a Chevrolet Bolt provided by Dave Gill Chevrolet, a Honda Clarity provided by Honda, a Mercedes-Benz GLE 55e provided by Daimler, a Nissan LEAF provided by Nissan North America and a Toyota Prius Prime provided by Toyota. An electric motorcycle provided by NXP and a Ford Ojo electric scooter will also be on display.
- Tomorrow’s Technology, Today: Visitors will be able to touch and feel the latest mobility and energy efficiency technologies to understand how they’ll improve city life in the near future.
The center will also serve as the new Smart Columbus’ headquarters with workspaces, conference rooms and an event space.
A Grand Way to Explore the Experience Center
The community is invited to the Experience Center Grand Opening on June 30 at 11:00 a.m. Mayor Ginther, State Senator Stephanie Kunze and COTA CEO Joanna Pinkerton will share opening remarks and officially open the space to the public.
To celebrate and give residents firsthand experience with the mobility options our city has to offer, Smart Columbus will transform the blocks surrounding the Experience Center into a Smart Mobility Block Party from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Attendees can learn about electric vehicles and experience the performance of an electric vehicle for themselves by test driving a BMW i3, Chevy Bolt, Chrysler Pacifica, Honda Clarity, Mercedes GLE 550e, Nissan LEAF, Tesla Model S or Tesla Model X. Visit www.smartcbus.com/smrt2018 to pre-register for a test drive.
Attendees can also see, touch, and climb aboard Columbus’ multimodal transit options, with vehicles on display from the Central Ohio Transit Authority, Chariot, CoGo Bike Share, EmpowerBus, Hopper Carts, LimeBike, Lyft, MORPC’s Gohio commute, SHARE, Yellow Cab of Columbus and Zipcar. Each of these services advance Smart Columbus’ commitment to growing public transit and shared mobility in order to help the region grow in a competitive and sustainable way, and help give residents greater access to opportunity. To help residents get around in sustainable, healthy ways, OhioHealth will be share the benefits of walking, YayBikes! will offer educational bike safety rides for adults and Smart Columbus will host a bike safety course for children.
The block party will also feature food trucks, yard games and a raffle for prizes including a $100 Lyft gift card, $100 Yellow Cab of Columbus gift card, $100 Zipcar gift card, 31-day COTA pass and facility tour, a free one-year membership to CoGo, a bike from Franklinton Cycleworks and more.
Additional information about the Grand Opening and Smart Mobility Block Party is available at www.smartcbus.com/experiencecenter. Following the Grand Opening, the Experience Center will host extended hours and activities during festivals, including Red, White & Boom.
A Testament to The Columbus Way
Like the Smart Columbus initiative itself, the development of the Experience Center was made possible through public and private sector collaboration. Construction and equipment cost approximately $1 million, of which, $500,000 came from the State of Ohio Capital Bill; $300,000 came from the Columbus Partnership and its members: Cardinal Health, The Columbus Foundation, L Brands, Nationwide and The Ohio State University; and $200,000 was funded by the $10 million grant awarded to Columbus by the Paul G. Allen Philanthropies.
More than twenty organizations donated technology, design services, equipment and furniture to outfit the educational and office spaces, including:
- AT&T provided a reliable and secure network and high speed Wi-Fi as well as an interactive kiosk that educates guests on ways cities will be more connected in the future.
- NXP and Cohda Wireless will deploy a connected vehicle environment through the EV test drive area so drivers may experience this future technology. NXP also donated an electric motorcycle with an accompanying drone that alerts the driver to dangers or delays ahead.
- Pillar Technologies provided equipment and donated services to develop an augmented reality electric vehicle education experience and build the EV test drive registration platform. Pillar has also pledged additional pro-bono services to develop additional learning experiences on the future of mobility.
- AEP Ohio donated a display of its smart meter technology that highlights AEP’s work to create a smarter energy future.
- Anthem donated furniture and equipment to help furnish the work spaces.
- Bosch installed interior and exterior smart sensors that measure and report visitation data and showcase how these sensors can help improve decision making and efficiency.
- Continental Office provided pro-bono interior design services and discounted furniture to outfit the workspace.
- DriveOhio, Route 33 and Transportation Research Center partnered to provide an educational display on various smart projects underway throughout the region.
- ElectrifyAmerica donated a Level 2 electric vehicle charger for visitor education.
- JadeTrack equipped the Experience Center with smart electricity submetering and a dynamic dashboard display that reports the center’s energy consumption.
- OrangeBarrell Media provided generous cost share and in-kind design services for the creation of the center’s exterior and donated an IKE Smart City Kiosk. The six-foot-tall kiosk helps cities connect with residents and visitors by delivering information and resources in dynamic new ways.
- Security Contractors provided in-kind services for security camera installation and commissioning.
- The Ohio State University has committed to hosting quarterly events at the Experience Center highlighting the university’s Smart City research and expertise, with the first event occurring this fall.
- VoiceMetrics, a local Columbus startup, donated an Amazon Alexa supported by its technology that provides real-time updates on the Smart Columbus program
“Smart Columbus will transform our future through partnerships that make us greater than the sum of our parts,” said Fischer. “We approach big ideas and big challenges the ‘Columbus Way,’ and the Experience Center is no different. We are grateful for the support of these public and private partners, who gave us the means to bring this hands-on, dynamic educational space to life.”
About Smart Columbus
The City of Columbus’ Smart Columbus plan won the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) $40 million Smart City Challenge in June 2016 after competing against 77 cities nationwide to become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies – self-driving cars, connected vehicles and smart sensors – into its transportation network. Columbus was also awarded an additional $10 million grant from the Paul G. Allen Philanthropies to accelerate the transition to an electrified, low-emissions transportation system. Aligned investments totaling more than $500 million have been made by the private, public and academic institutions in the region to support technology and infrastructure investments that upgrade Columbus' transportation network and help make Columbus the model connected city of the future. Smart Columbus is a regional smart city initiative co-led by the City of Columbus and Columbus Partnership that includes partnerships with The Ohio State University, Battelle, American Electric Power and many more.
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Dave Dravecky was a Cinderella story – if Cinderella could have worn cleats to a ballgame instead of glass slippers to a royal ball. Sure athletes retire with every season, but America had followed the ups and downs of Dave’s career as closely as the sporting year’s many scandals and tragedies, though for an entirely different reason.
Dave Dravecky had overcome cancer surgery on his throwing arm and come back to pitch again in the major leagues. Not since watching helplessly as Lou Gehrig battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis had the nation so intimately identified with a ballplayer’s struggle with illness. Yet on Aug. 10, 1989, a capacity crowd witnessed heartwarming history as Dravecky started for the Giants against the Cincinnati Reds. He had not pitched in Candlestick since May 2, 1988, and the scoreboard flashed a giant “Welcome back, Dave!” Some who had come from out of town simply to see a professional baseball game in venerable Candlestick Park were treated to a very special celebration indeed.
Less than one year earlier, on Oct. 7, 1988 – ironically Dave and Janice Dravecky’s 10th wedding anniversary – doctors had removed the tumor and nearly half of the deltoid muscle of Dave’s pitching arm. It had been a season of pain and frustration of Dave, in a year that held great promise.
“When I started for the Giants on opening day, and we beat the Dodgers 5-1, I though, ‘This is going to be Dave Dravecky’s year,’” he recalled. “God certainly had a different plan for us in 1988.”
He started four more games for the Giants that year, complaining of stiffness in his left shoulder after each outing. Following arthroscopic surgery in June, he made one last start in a minor league rehabilitation game. Allowing 11 runs in less than three innings, he left the game – and the season.
The cancer was diagnosed in late September and the operation performed a week later. The All-Star hurler instrumental in the Giants’ 1987 drive toward the National League West Championship was down and out for 1988.
The tumor was gone but it was uncertain whether Dravecky’s future in baseball was as well. He remained optimistic, however, confidently expecting to report to spring training after his winter-long rehabilitation. And throughout their ordeal with the disease and recovery, Dave and his wife Janice exhibited an unnatural sense of calm and acceptance in spite of the uncertainty of their situation.
“I wouldn’t be truthful if I said I didn’t have any concern at all,” he said then. “But I can honestly say that during that period, for the first time in my life, I experienced peace that surpasses understanding. This was a tremendous relief for our family.”
At home in Ohio, his therapy progressed remarkably well. Late in March he was amazingly allowed to report to training camp. And then came the opportunity to test the arm in game situations. The first was a historic event on July 23 at Herbert Field in Stockton, Calif. Before a standing-room-only crowed of well-wishers and media, Dravecky threw a complete-game five-hit shutout for the San Jose Giants (Class-A). Pleased with his progress after two additional complete-game victories, the Giants and his doctors determined that Dravecky was ready to return to the majors.
The miracle had happened. Dravecky had come back. On Aug. 10, 1989, amid repeated, thunderous standing ovations, Dravecky not only returned to pitch before the home crowed, he also earned a win for his team against the beleaguered Reds. He was back, and it wasn’t a token appearance.
“I though, ‘Okay, here we go, back in baseball. Everything’s going to be fine.’ I was back in the groove. I was one of the guys again,” said Dravecky. “I could start getting in gear for what lay ahead for the rest of the season, and I could start looking ahead to the playoffs.”
Then suddenly Cinderella’s other glass slipper smashed in pieces on the infield grass. In his second start, at Montreal, the humerus bone in his pitching arm snapped as he delivered a pitch. His comeback season was over almost as soon as it had begun, and now he lay writhing in pain on the ground. His arm was broken, but surprising to some, his faith was intact.
“What is so unique about this is, why didn’t my arm break before Aug. 10, when I came back? As I went along, I built up strength. Why didn’t it break in those three rehab games? And why was I allowed to come back and pitch as well as I did, and then to break my arm five days later?
“Those are questions where I see the hand of God. So for me it wasn’t ‘Why God?’ but ‘What is going to happen next? There is something big going on here, and I’d like to know what it is.’”
The doctors had warned that a break was a possibility. As part of the procedure to remove the tumor, the bone had been temporarily frozen and would be brittle for some time. Still there was hope for Dravecky’s career. The break, when healed, would make the bone stronger than before. He faced his newest challenges with familiar confidence.
“I expressed the hope that I would come back again to play if it was at all possible. After breaking the arm that first time, all indications from the doctors were very optimistic of my being able to come back. The arm was going to be stronger and there was no reason for me to think otherwise. Retirement was the furthest thing from my mind.”
Although unable to play, he remained an active part of the Giants’ stretch run.
“It was important to me to be in the dugout with my team during the pennant drive because I wanted to lend support to them. They had been with me through thick and thin, through the whole year of 1988 and 1989.”
So in spite of the drain on his recovering body, Dravecky stayed with his team through the pressure-packed end of the season.
It was during the jubilant celebration at the mound after the Giants had captured the National League championship that Dravecky was inadvertently bumped by another player. He knew at once that the brittle arm had been broken again.
“It was a freak accident, but when I look back, I realize that it was all part of the process of coming to a decision to retire,” he said then. “And really all that means is that I want to be available to what God has in store for me from this point on. Baseball is over. I was given my day in the sun – it was for a season. Now I have this window of opportunity to share what has happened in my life. And it will be for a season. However long that is, I want to be prepared for it.”
He wrote Comeback, which hit bookstores at the beginning of the 1990 baseball season, and he and Janice co-wrote When You Can’t Come Back in 1992, both chronicling his difficulties with cancer and later the amputation of his arm.
“When I look back, I have no regrets about my career of seven years in the major leagues,” Dave Dravecky said. “I’ve had the opportunity to be part of an All-Star game, where I felt out of place among some legitimate all-stars as far as I was concerned. And what an honor it was to be in two World Series and three playoff series.”
But if a reporter asked what was the most memorable moment of Dravecky’s career he could be sure of the answer.
“It was in 1981, when I was in the San Diego Padres’ farm system. A teammate led me to open the Bible and see what it meant to me in a personal way.”
This teammate challenged Dravecky that he needed to have a personal relationship with God by believing in His Son, Jesus Christ.
It is that relationship which Dravecky credits for the ability to come out on top of the challenges he has faced.
“If it weren’t for Jesus Christ, who knows where I’d be. I’m sure most people think I’m in the pits, but I don’t think I am. I’m as excited as I’ve ever been about the future, even though I don’t know exactly what it is.”
Dravecky never played baseball again. He relied heavily on medical advice to direct and then terminate his playing career, but his trust has remained in the One who gave him hope in the darkest times. And he is confident whatever the future holds, there can be no greater comeback than that.
“We’re going in a new direction. We’re going to start a new life. God has given us a peace about that, and the desire of our heart is to be in His will. I’m actually going to be able to retire, and come out of retirement and then start all over again.”
Dravecky had his arm amputated two years after retiring. It was necessary to save his life.
But why? Dravecky wondered.
For 16 months, he and Jan went through counseling for depression. Finally, joyfully, they emerged as confident encouragers.
Both wrote books in 1996 – Dave’s was called The Worth of a Man, and Jan’s was A Joy I’d Never Known. Both were co-authored by C.W. Neal and both form the core of Dave Dravecky’s Outreach of Hope, which Dave says may be the only ministry around that encourages cancer patients and amputees from a spiritual perspective.
Dave Dravecky also wrote a Christian motivational book, Called Up, released in 2004.
Although Dave is president of Outreach of Hope, he is also a volunteer, helping Jan and others with the work on the most elementary level.
“What I’m coming to understand is I need to be a servant leader,” Dave said then. “That’s the focus of my leadership position at the Outreach of Hope. And I want to incorporate everyone there into the vision of the ministry and give them ownership, so that they are as excited about that vision as we are.”
Because the heart-tugging nature of his life story, he had plenty of opportunities to speak after his surgery to remove his arm.
Dave’s book, Worth Of A Man, is an apparent break from his baseball past. In it, he explored territory that one would expect pastors, professors, and psychologists to examine.
With warm anecdotes that seemed to pulse directly from his heart, Dravecky introduced readers to many of his friends, many who are were plain folks who had suffered. Dravecky bore their burdens in a way that make readers want to as well.
One of the book’s most powerful points was the trappings of American culture; that the seemingly endless career pursuits and recreational distractions fade swiftly into insignificance when cancer enters a life.
“(The) book has been another phase in my life that has caused me to go a little bit deeper with asking that question, ‘Who am I?’” said Dravecky. “That has been significant. You know what’s interesting? The journey starts off complicated as a Christian. But as you go through the valleys of life, all of a sudden God makes you realize it’s not the complicated life, it’s a simplified life.”
By Rick Wattman – Allen Palmeri also contributed to this article
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Whenever I walk on the streets of Toronto from the subway station to where I work, I encounter people who distribute a free copy of the Metro newspaper. I don’t know whether it’s ingrained in my mind or my memory gets refreshed every day but I remember Setit— the first newspaper I co-founded in Eritrea. The newspaper I hold in my hand reminds me of Setit and the people who distribute Metro with their broad smiles remind me of the children who used to distribute Setit and other newspapers in Asmara. That nostalgic feeling always throws me back to the past.
About two decades ago, the Eritrean government issued a law that permitted private ownership of print media. It was the highlight of the year for many people like myself who wished to exercise our democratic rights and be part of the greater conversation in the national dialogue. Although print media has long history in Eritrea, this period was a beginning of another long journey.
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Missionaries introduced the modern printing press to Eritrea in 1866. However, publication began to grow in 1891 only after Italy established Eritrea as its colony. After establishing print-press in Eritrea, the Protestant missionaries were also the first to start newspaper in Eritrea. The first Eritrean religious newspaper–መልእኽቲ፡ ሰላም። (Message of Peace)–started in 1909. But, expectedly the scene was soon took over by Italian propagandist newspapers that primarily serves the colonial agenda. The newspapers were mainly aiming for the Italians who lived in Eritrea then. The dominant topics of these newspapers were politics, sports and commerce. With the Italian educational policy of limiting Eritreans to 4th grade, Eritreans didn’t have a forum of their own to practice freedom of the press. The segregationist policy of the Italians, did not also enable them to take part in their own affairs.
This was later to change with the arrival of the British. The British Military Administration (1941-1952) started a newspaper in local language, Tigrinya. ናይ ኤርትራ ሰሙናዊ ጋዜጣ (The Eritrean Weekly News) was the official organ of the British that started in 1942. In many ways allowed Eritreans to write, debate and voice their opinions in their language. Its associate editor was Woldeab Woldemariam. The newspaper had a circulation of 5000 copies[i]. Moreover, Hanti Ertra and Wihidet Eritrea which was the Arabic version of Hanti Ertra were prominent newspapers in 1950s.
The once vibrant discussions in the newspaper was thwarted after Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia. Until Eritrea’s independence in 1991, electronic and print media were owned by the government and only served the purpose of the colonizer.
The long years of silence showed promising signs in June 1996. Implementation of the Eritrean Press Law (Press Proclamation No. 90/1996) was the beginning of a new chapter. I remember vividly reading Eritrea’s Gazette to digest the terms and conditions of that proclamation. The crucial contents were very vague and has a wide room for interpretation. For example in Part five of that proclamation, it says a journalist is not allowed to disseminate, “any document or secret information on the supreme interest of the nation and people, as well as national security and defense secrets,” but it failed to give the details. So, the interpretation of such clause will fall in the hands of the court which is not independent from the executive body. Criticizing a minister of defense or Internal Affairs for his/her ill-behavior, can be interpreted as an issue of national security in the eyes of some people. Similarly, according to the vague article, exposing corruption of some key actors in the government can also be construed as the journalist acting against the law. The officials of the government or the court will always have an upper hand in interpreting the proclamation in their own way. However, my wife and I as a team, and my two former friends Semret Seyoum and Habtom Mihreteab were not discouraged by the intimidating tone or vagueness of the proclamation or the potential risk to which we would expose ourselves. We decided to proceed with our research to start a newspaper. It took us about six months to put our findings on the table. Worse than the vague Eritrean press law, the findings of our research were very discouraging.
There was only one printing house in the country that could print the volume of a newspaper. That printing house was owned by the government. The printing cost was very expensive. It costed Nakfa $1.25 to print a single copy of a newspaper of a print run 3,000. There was only one distributor in the entire country and his area of distribution was limited to Asmara. The circulation of the government-owned newspaper—Hadas Ertra—was only 10,000 while the population then was 3.5 million. Though this paper was sold for Nakfa $0.50, half of every printed issue returned unsold despite being distributed for free in most offices.
We were really anxious about the awkward position we would face in dealing with the government-owned printing house. We were concerned about the poor reading habits of our people. We were puzzled about why the printing cost was so high and wondered whether we could afford it. We were also disturbed by the poor distribution mechanisms in place. According to our projections, we wouldn’t make any profits until we hit at least the third anniversary of our paper. Nevertheless, we were determined to dive in and launched ourselves to start raising funds.
I shared the idea with my father. I explained to him with excitement and passion the detailed results of our research and the amount of money I needed to fulfill the dream I had of establishing a newspaper. My father was apprehensive. “First, this is not a profitable business and, second, it is a risky business,” he said. “This government is not ready to be criticized. You are young, and there are so many things you don’t know.” He pinpointed so many layers of obstacles that I hadn’t seen before or uncovered in our research. I had never debated with my father on any issue to that extent. I was frustrated because I ran out of convincing arguments. He didn’t want to encourage me and at the same time, he didn’t want to disappoint me. So he gave me a one-room office and a small amount of money to start with.
My friends were also not successful in raising adequate funds. So we decided to start small by opening our first office in Gejeret, Asmara. The application process was simple and straightforward. I applied for a permit from the Ministry of Information to publish a newspaper as an individual. We named our newspaper Setit after the only river in Eritrea as we wanted our newspaper to flow like a river without interruption. We agreed to print 5,000 copies to reduce the unit price and sell the newspaper for Nakfa $1.25 to cover our expenses. If we printed 3,000 copies, we would have to pay Nakfa $1.25 per copy. But if we printed 5,000 copies, each paper would cost Nakfa $1.00.
We printed our first bi-weekly issue on August 21st, 1997. That was the beginning of the first independent newspaper in Eritrea. We recruited shopkeepers and children who would like to work on commission in distributing the paper. Though we believed that the content of our paper was rich, entertaining and informative, we were worried about whether we could sell the copies. The distribution mechanism we had in place was weak and the price was high. Our distribution was limited only to Asmara and our price was more than double that of Hadas Ertra.
It’s challenging to be a pioneer. You have no one to refer to. You are entirely on your own. So we had to test the waters ourselves, learn from our mistakes and be ready for surprises—good or bad. It’s an emotional rollercoaster.
To our surprise, around 11:00 a.m., the children who took 50 copies each to sell on the streets started to come back one after the other with cash in their hands and asked for more copies to sell. The shopkeepers kept calling us to get more copies. The 5,000 copies that we expected to sell in two weeks were gone in just one day. It was a most delightful day.
We received several calls and letters of encouragement as well as complaints about the price. We accepted the comments and dropped our price to Nakfa $1.00 just on the next issue. Our circulation grew month after month as we expanded our distribution system to all major cities of Eritrea.
Two months later, another independent newspaper called Liela (Oct 10, 1997) started, then Tsigienay (November 19, 1997), Mestiat (Nov. 30, 1997), Wintana (March 1998), Kestedebena (Nov 24, 1998), Mekalih ( Dec 29, 1998), Keih-Bahri (Jan 30, 1999), Zemen (Feb 21, 1999), Asmara Lomi (March 21, 1999), Admas (May 1, 1999), Maebel (July 1, 1999), Adal (July 14, 1999), Selam (Sept
3, 1999), Timnit (Sept 3, 1999), and Millenium (Oct 6, 1999), respectively. The fledgling independent press was not a slow process; rather it exploded. At one point, there were eighteen private newspapers. The driving force behind this roll was the very positive reaction which came from the Eritrean public and their unexpectedly high demand. (This was mainly due to the down-to-the-earth nature of the independent newspapers. They reported timely issues that the government media was unwilling to cover). The cooperation between the independent press and its readership was a totally new and pleasant surprise for all. It was also the source of our growth. The frequency of our publication increased from printing twice a month to twice a week. Our circulation grew from 5,000 to 40,000 copies on every issue, and our staff grew from three to 12 people.
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I remember every step of our way that led us to both success and destruction simultaneously while holding the Metro Newspaper in my hand. Unfortunately, Setit was banned on September 18, 2001 with the rest of the independent newspapers. Two of my colleagues and several innocent journalists from the other newspapers were thrown into jail. According to recently revealed documents, only five of the 12 journalists are alive in deteriorating health in the worst dungeons. Many others and I fled the country.
I live in Toronto now but every day I travel in my thoughts to the past—my journey with Setit. I am optimistic that one day, Setit will start flowing again in Eritrea and flow just like the Eritrean Setit river.
[i] See Ghirmai Negash. History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea: Oral and Written 1890-1991.
*Aaron Berhane, former chief-editor and co-founder of the first independent newspaper Setit is now living in Canada. Aaron continues to work
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A reliable video baby monitor is a must-have for new parents. These high-tech monitors allow you to keep tabs on your little one from a different room, giving you peace of mind as you go about your day and letting you know the minute your baby needs you. However, there are a lot of video baby monitors available today, and you may not know which one best suits your needs.
From each category, we hand-selected our finalists: the monitors with the most positive reviews on Amazon and parenting blogs, plus any that had all four of our parent-favorite features. Then we sent several monitors home with three different testers, to see which ones actually made parents’ lives easier, and which ones were more trouble than they’re worth.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) continues to warn parents against using wearable monitors on infants to track breathing and vital signs — as they aren’t FDA approved and don’t always provide the most accurate results. The caution has led to the advent of non-contact breathing monitors like Cocoon Cam Plus. It’s a ‘smart’ Wi-Fi baby monitor that not only lets parents watch live 720p high-def footage of their baby snoozing, but also track their real-time breathing, movements, and sleep patterns using computer vision and artificial intelligence. And it can do both from either above the crib or across the room, without requiring the child to wear any additional gadgets.
The best baby monitor apps allow you to monitor baby using only your existing devices, like phones, tablets or even computers. One device acts a transmitter in baby’s room, and you use another device to monitor baby. Some apps only have audio functionality, but others have both audio and video. As a plus, the best baby monitor apps often have cool features that traditional baby monitors don’t have, like remote capabilities. However, some users complain that they can be somewhat unreliable.
The Nanit couldn’t be more perfect for analytical types. The camera—when placed just so—uses computer vision to watch your baby’s every move, and then tell you what it means. You get a notice on your phone, which acts like a handheld monitor, when your child is awake, acting fussy or has fallen asleep. The Nanit also assigns a sleep score to each night based on how many hours your child was actually crashed out. Other stats include how many times you went into your child’s room and how long it took for your little one to fall asleep. Because the Nanit streams live video and audio to your phone, you can also check in on your kiddo when you’re away from home. It also has a nightlight and temperature and humidity sensors.
Both Baldwin and Kay recommend iBaby’s M6S Wi-Fi video monitor for its design and ease of use. Resembling a little robot, the iBaby offers 360-degree views and 110-degree tilt, 1080p video with night vision, and even comes equipped with lullabies. Other features include temperature, humidity, and air-quality sensors, which Baldwin admits are bells and whistles, but could be useful depending on what kind of parent you are. And, of course, everything comes straight through to your smartphone or tablet, which can also remotely control settings. And while some parents may be concerned about potential hacking of Wi-Fi monitors, Baldwin found that the risk is fairly low and usually occurred in cheap, off-brand models.
There are a few things you can demand from a decent HD video baby monitor, like a crystal clear image and good night vision capabilities. And there are things you can expect of a good Wi-Fi-enabled monitor, like easy remote access from a smart device with real-time streaming audio and video. Then there are things you might hope for from a baby monitor, like two-way talk and solid battery life.
Receiving four out of five stars based on almost 400 Amazon customer reviews, the FBM3501 boasts of a price competitive with the Infant Optics DXR-5 (see below). It has features found only in much more expensive baby monitors such as a PTZ camera, two-way talkback capability and a built-in temperature monitor. It even includes optional alerts such as a feeding timer.
Just because you’re pulling double diaper duty doesn’t mean you need to buy two baby monitors. If you’re a twin mom, simply look for a monitor that can accommodate add-on cameras. The Babysense Video Monitor comes with two digital cameras right out of the box (and can handle up to four), making this the best baby monitor for twins. With the push of a button, you can toggle between views of your twin babes. Plus, this monitor features digital pan/tilt and zoom, two-way communication, room temperature monitoring and a 900-foot range.
Together with our technology and electronics partners Voxx, Project Nursery has introduced the first-ever baby monitor system with Amazon Alexa Voice Service compatibility. In the same way you call upon Alexa for help with other tasks in your life, Alexa is now the second set of hands—okay, maybe not hands but definitely help—you have always wanted for the nursery.
The first thing you need to consider is whether you want to have an audio-only baby monitor or one that incorporates video. Some parents choose to use smart home security cameras that send a video feed and alerts to their phones via an internet connection instead. Your choice largely depends on your budget and how high tech you want the baby monitor to be.
Security is a mixed bag, especially as baby monitors get more high tech. If tech giants like Apple and Google run into security flaws, high-tech baby monitors are sure to experience similar problems. However, some less high-tech baby monitors aren't secure, either, and many suffer from signal interference. We've checked each company's security policy to find the most secure options for you.
Camera works perfectly fine. It is easy to set up. You have to take your phone off the wifi temporarily and then find the device on your local wifi to set everything up. I did a direct connection, then after setup I had it logged in through the app to my wifi. Tested all features and they seem to work well. The advantage I like is that it can spin 360 degrees. It's a 1080p camera which is clearly as I expected. Good Quality! Highly recommend!
Video baby monitors or “baby cams” are surveillance cameras and monitors used to remotely observe and supervise the activities of infants, toddlers, small children and even pets and shut-in seniors. In recent years they’ve become increasingly in vogue with parents and caretakers. As more competitors enter an already crowded market, manufacturers have rolled out newer models with a plethora of handy features such as nightlights, lullabies, temperature sensors and WiFi connectivity.
In addition to the standard parent and baby unit, these monitors include a device that tracks your baby’s movements, breathing, or heart rate, and offer time-sensitive alarms that alert you if your baby hasn’t moved in the last 20–30 seconds. While they aren’t proven to reduce SIDS, many new parents told us these monitors gave them added peace of mind.
This was a very convenient product. Ever since I started using it I didn’t have to worry about my daughter waking up or crying when I’m doing something especially downstairs. The view was very clear so you can see easily what is happening. I’ve purchased other ones and it wasn’t that clear so this is definitely really good. It was also really easy to use and setup I definitely recommend it to every mom out there that worries about their child when you’re working.
Overall rating: F-. I really dislike this monitor and wish I purchased something else. Are most of my problems with the monitor the result of my own incompetence? Yes, but a solid 30% is design flaws and needless features. My competence levels highly correspond to the amount of sleep I get, and a new baby means I'm pretty incompetent. But I want a monitor that accounts for that and doesn't make it easier for me to (1) Wake up the freaking baby; or (2) make it easier for my partner to wake me up (or vice versa) when I finally have a chance.
The audio quality is excellent, thanks to VTech's use of DECT 6.0, so you shouldn't hear any interference, static, or echoing when you listen in on your baby. Since the monitor uses a special frequency to relay the signal from the monitor in your baby's room to the parental unit, everything is encrypted and secure. No one but you will hear your baby.
The operating range of the parent unit is up to 1,000 feet outdoors or 150 feet indoors (to compensate for walls). The parent unit can be set to beep if the link between it and the baby unit is lost, or its rechargeable battery is low. If you don’t want to always concentrate on listening, the system features a vibrating sound alert that detects audio. Most Amazon.com reviewers have raved about the product for its simplicity, while others have found reliability problems with the rechargeable batteries.
The more old fashioned video monitors are better if your internet isn't reliable because they use a dedicated video monitor instead. You can also choose to pair high-tech Wi-Fi security cameras with cheaper audio-only baby monitors to have the best of both worlds. We've tested a few baby monitors and researched the rest to find the best ones you can buy no matter your preference.
If all you want is a no-fuss audio monitor, the Bump and Baldwin both recommend VTech’s DM221 audio monitor, which consistently garners a lot of accolades. Using digital audio technology, the DM221 offers clear audio transmission and eliminates the crackle of analog models. A two-way intercom allows you to talk to your baby, while a five-level sound indicator can visually alert you to cries from the other room. The transmitter also features a soft night-light for your child. And don’t sleep on its compact size, which makes it perfect for travel.
If you want to be as streamlined as possible and happen to have extra Apple devices hanging around, the Bump recommends the Cloud Baby Monitor app, which turns your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and even your laptop into a secure Wi-Fi baby monitor. Use one device in the nursery as a camera, then have high-quality live video and audio transmitted to a secondary device, or even a third or fourth. Using the “parent unit,” you can talk to your child through two-way video and audio, turn on lullabies or white noise, and adjust the night-light on the other side. The app will also alert you to any noise and motion occurring in the other room.
All of the products in our review have features for convenience and overall function, but some also offer features for fun or additional information. All of the products have night vision with sensors for automatic adjustment with light changes, and all offer 2-way communication with baby through the camera. Some of them come with lullabies, and others have nifty temperature and humidity sensors. Overall, whatever you might be looking for, or never knew existed but now want, can probably be found in the products we tested. | <urn:uuid:a3e538b5-d273-4dea-9437-c2a42d46154a> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://togetherwithmum.com/video-baby-monitor/faq:-lorex-baby-video-monitor-video-baby-monitor-reviews-find-out-more.html | 2019-08-18T03:51:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313589.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20190818022816-20190818044816-00080.warc.gz | en | 0.951277 | 2,382 |
In the fourth of her exclusive blogs for The Mixed Zone, 400-metres hurdler Eilidh Doyle offers an insight into her final preparations ahead of the Olympic Games, which start on August 5. She reveals that she is primed and ready for action, though fully aware that over-confidence could trip her up as much as any obstacle on the track
It’s almost here. After months of build-up, I leave for Brazil on Tuesday. It’s a strange feeling knowing that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics is now little more than a week away; it doesn’t feel anything like it did a few weeks out from London 2012. Actually, it still doesn’t feel like there’s an Olympics just around the corner, although I’m sure it will as soon we get out to Rio. At the moment I feel quite calm and relaxed about everything. I’m just trying to get myself ready for leaving and doing last-minute things like getting my jabs.
I’m getting really excited about racing in Rio because I feel like I’m in great shape. July has been a brilliant month for me. It began with the European Championships in Holland and I was part of the 4 x 400 relay team who won gold. It was a different type of championships for me, though, because I wasn’t running the hurdles, where I was defending champion, just the relay. I watched the hurdles final in the warm-up area and it was strange to watch someone take the title that I won two years ago. But I knew that I’d gone there to argue my case for a spot in the relay team for Rio.
We went to Holland with the aim of winning gold. That was the only colour of medal that we wanted, and we knew that if we ran to our potential we could do it. I don’t run the 400 flat too often and I wanted to remind the selectors that I can still run a decent 400 metres. It was also good for me because I was pleased with my split-times and it proved to me that I’m in good shape over the flat. I really enjoy being part of the relay team – we’ve got a great squad and it’s really fun to be a part of it.
After the Europeans, I headed to Monaco for the Diamond League meeting. It was a good night for me: I won the race and also set a personal best, which I was really happy about. It was funny, though, because when I crossed the line, I was annoyed with myself. I’d put in an extra stride at hurdle 10, and as I finished I was thinking that it could have been better. But when I watched it back I realised how good it was to have won another Diamond League meeting. It’s also really encouraging to run a personal best and know that I’ve still got room for improvement.
The Monaco meeting was also memorable because Paula Radcliffe’s daughter, Isla, was my kit-carrier. I’d heard that she was a kit-carrier and as I came out for my race, I said ‘Hi’ because I always speak to my kit-carrier. But I didn’t think too much about it because I was concentrating on the race. Then afterwards, Allison Curbishley, the former 400-metre runner who was there with the BBC, tweeted me asking if I realised that it was Paula’s daughter.
That evening, Paula, her husband and their two kids were at the hotel and I was chatting to them all, which was really nice. Some of the other athletes like Bolt are so funny with their kit-carriers and I always speak to mine. I always think it’s nice to chat to them, especially when it’s a kid because I remember being that age and thinking that the athletes were brilliant. I think Isla must be my lucky charm, though – I wish I could take her to Rio with me!
My final race before Rio was the Anniversary Games in London last Friday. I finished fourth after messing up the final hurdle. I know what I did wrong: I was too aware of where other people were in the race and what they were doing. That’s when I don’t run as well. My best races are when I’m on auto-pilot. I just need to simplify everything and not over-think things. When I just run my own race and forget about everything else, that’s when I run well.
Quite a few people have been asking me if I’m getting nervous about Rio, but actually I’m not too bad at all. I think the experience of Glasgow 2014 has really helped me because with that being a home Games for me, I’ll never get that kind of attention again so that type of pressure won’t occur again. Similarly, I felt under a lot of pressure at the European Championships a few weeks after the Commonwealth Games because I went ranked number one in Europe. And what is so helpful to me is that now I know that when I am under pressure I am able to deliver. And when I have attention on me I am also able to deliver. So I’m able to draw on those experiences now which is really useful.
There’s been a few mentions of me in the press saying I have medal potential in Rio. I take that as a real compliment because it means that I must be running well for people to think that. Personally, though, I never think about medals because I can’t control that. All I can control is my own performance. It’s all about the mindset and if you start saying you’re going there to win the gold medal, it probably won’t happen. I just think about myself and how I can run my best race. That’s the calmest way to think about things.
My own nerves might not be too bad, but my husband, Brian, and my dad are the worst people ever when it comes to nerves. My mum’s OK with watching me run, but my dad is a total nightmare. He’s been like that since I was about 13. When my race was on at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow they went right to the back of the stand because they just couldn’t watch. They find it really difficult. I think they’re so nervous because they just want me to run well, and to be happy, but they can’t do anything about it.
The news that’s come out over the past few weeks about the Russian doping scandal has been really shocking. I can’t believe the scale of it. For me, it was good news that the Court of Arbitration for Sport declined the Russian track and field athletes’ appeal last week meaning that the whole Russian athletics team is banned from competing in Rio. But for the IOC not to put a blanket ban on Russia is, I think, a bit of a cop out. Personally, I just can’t trust any Russian athlete. Having said that, I do feel sorry for any of them who are clean and have trained for years to get to the Olympic Games. But I think a precedent needs to be set and it needs to be shown that this kind of cheating is just not OK.
I think a really important part of this issue is the public who will be watching the Games. The Olympics are supposed to be this magical event and you don’t want people to be watching athletes with Russian vests on because it puts a dark cloud over the entire Games. I do feel for any clean athletes caught up in it, but frankly it’s the fault of the Russian Federation and the Russian Government who were encouraging this doping to go on. They’re the ones who have let the clean athletes in their country down. If any banned athletes are angry, it’s their federation and government they should be angry with.
I’m going to put any thoughts of doping stories out of my head over the next week and just concentrate on my own preparation. When I leave on Tuesday, I’m going straight to a holding camp in Belo Horizonte and then I move into the Athletes’ Village on August 12. I’m really, really looking forward to the whole experience. It’s so exciting knowing that I’m going into the Olympics in the shape of my life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eilidh Doyle (formerly Eilidh Child) is a 400 metres hurdler who has represented GB for the past seven years. She is reigning European champion, as well as having won two Commonwealth silver medals and two World Championship bronze medals. She was a member of Team GB at London 2012 and is currently training for Rio 2016. Eilidh is originally from Perth but is now based in Bath with her husband, Brian, and her dog, Ben. Eilidh’s latest articles.
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Susan Egelstaff is an Olympic badminton player who competed at London 2012, as well as representing Scotland at three Commonwealth Games, winning two bronze medals. She retired in the aftermath of the London Games after a 12-year international career. Having written the occasional article for newspapers while still competing, she decided to try and make sports journalism a job. Susan is now a columnist and sports writer with The Herald, The Sunday Herald and The National and is a regular contributor on BBC Radio Scotland. Susan is also heavily involved with the Winning Scotland Foundation, a charity which helps children achieve their goals. Susan’s latest articles. | <urn:uuid:3fb28fe1-b922-4595-a292-26a9328e1946> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.themixedzone.co.uk/im-heading-rio-best-shape-life/ | 2019-08-19T07:51:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027314696.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20190819073232-20190819095232-00240.warc.gz | en | 0.982954 | 2,028 |
The smell of blood is in the air, I sense it even now. People thirst for it; the entire country is mad with desire for it. And now we are going to war with our brothers because they look like us, and because we can smell our blood coursing through their veins…” A mysterious letter starts a university student on a journey into the war-torn lands of rapidly disintegrating Yugoslavia. Naively trusting his enigmatic professor, the student unwittingly descends into a dystopian crucible of decay, destruction, passion, death, romance, lust, immorality, genocide, and forbidden knowledge promising immortality. As the journey grows ever more perilous, he realizes he must confront an ancient evil that has been once again loosed upon the earth…
Meticulously researched, “Kiss of the Butterfly” weaves together intricate threads from the 15th, 18th and 20th centuries to create a rich phantasmagorical tapestry of allegory and reality. It is about divided loyalties, friendship and betrayal, virtue and innocence lost, obsession and devotion, desire and denial, the thirst for life and hunger for death, rebirth and salvation. “Kiss” blends history and the terrors of the Balkans as it explores dark corners of the soul, from medieval Bosnia to enlightenment-era Vienna, from the bright beaches of modern-day Southern California to the exotically dark cityscapes of Budapest and Belgrade, and horrors of Bosnia.
“Kiss of the Butterfly” is based on true historical events. In the year of his death, 1476, the Prince of Wallachia — Vlad III (Dracula) — committed atrocities under the cloak of medieval Bosnia’s forested mountains, culminating in a bloody massacre in the mining town of Srebrenica. A little over 500 years later, in July 1995, history repeated itself when troops commanded by General Ratko Mladic entered Srebrenica and slaughtered nearly 8,000 people, making it the worst massacre Europe had seen since the Second World War. For most people, the two events seemed unconnected…
Vampires have formed an integral part of Balkan folklore for over a thousand years. “Kiss” represents a radical departure from popular vampire legend, based as it is on genuine Balkan folklore from as far back as the 14th century. “Kiss of the Butterfly” offers up the vampires that existed long before Dracula and places them within a modern spectrum.
You might be wondering why the synopsis for this book is sporting two such diverse and different cover images … I’ll pass you over to the author to explain …
I wanted to let you know that a print version is now available. In conjunction with this, I made several changes:
1) After getting reader feedback, I decided to change the cover to the red and white butterfly design.
2) Because I am old-fashioned in some respects, I placed illustrations (all my own) at the head of each chapter to enhance the mood.
3) I added maps.
4) I updated the e-version to include the maps and illustrations.
James Lyon, an American ex-pat, is an accidental Balkanologist, having spent the better part of 32 years studying and working within the lands of the former Yugoslavia. He has a Ph.D. in Modern Balkan History from UCLA and a B.A. in Russian from BYU and has worked as a historian, editor and political analyst, as well as being involved in international peacekeeping efforts and non-governmental organizations.
He has lived in Germany, Russia, England, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Utah, and California, and spent the better part of 18 years living in the lands of the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia, and has worked in Macedonia and Kosovo. He has travelled widely, from Africa to Latin America to the Middle East, and all over Europe. He currently works in Sarajevo and bounces back and forth to Belgrade.
In his spare time he likes sailing through the Dalmatian islands and eating Sachertorte in Vienna at the old Habsburg Imperial Court’s Confectionary Bakery, Demel. He lost his cat in the forests of Bosnia and can’t find it. If you see a black and white cat that ignores you when you call the name “Cile II”, a reward is being offered…provided the cat hasn’t turned into a vampire.
James wanted to deal with some of the more difficult issues which accompanied the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, such as ethnic cleansing, fratricide, genocide and the breakdown in society. Although, given his academic background, he has published a great deal in the fields of political science, analysis and history, he has found the articles wanting when getting the reader to engage with some of the greater moral questions on an emotional level, so he turned to telling his story through writing fiction, hoping to use this as a platform to evoke discussion on some of these important issues.
You can check in with James at his ‘Facebook’ page here.
I can honestly say that James is another of the most easy to work with authors I have met to date, always ready to take part in any discussion about his books, commenting when he spots a post concerning one of his stories and responding to comments when he feels he can add value to what is being said. James is also willing to chat about anything ‘foodie’ related, at the drop of a hat, which has made him very popular with some of my fellow ‘foodie’ loving bloggers, especially when chocolate was mentioned!
WORDS FROM THE BOOK
A little bit of evil goes a long way, and complacency goes even farther.
Good against Evil, Light against Dark, a quest that could end with you losing your soul and your life, or perhaps saving the souls and lives of others.
What was in a name? Did what we call someone change who they were, how they behaved and how we perceived them?
They prepared the next generation to avenge the family and national honor that earlier generations had long ago tarnished with the blood of innocents.
Be glad you’re there and not here. Life here is crazy, as though the entire world has been turned upside down and all morals have ceased to exist. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Day is night, black is white, good is bad, virtue has become a vice.
MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BOOK
‘Like unto our Savior, … no man knoweth the hour or day of his coming … he cometh like a thief in the night to steal away the souls of Man.’
If there are just a couple of books I have read this year which are worthy of remembering for some time to come, then this is surely one of them! Whether your interest is in the historical and not so distant discord in The Balkans, together with all its attendant atrocities and worldwide moral condemnations, or if it is simply the desire to read an excellent vampire story, unique, intelligently written and certain to keep you on the edge of your seat, then ‘Kiss Of The Butterfly’ surely won’t disappoint.
The book has been so thoroughly and expertly researched, both for its accuracy in the region’s complicated historical detail, together with its excellent and redefining portrayal of vampires based on factual folklore, that we are left with a cleverly crafted, richly detailed storyline, which has been mastefully written with total authority and maturity by its author, commanding almost unanimous respect and praise from readers and reviewers everywhere.
The seamless blending of fact and fiction, gives this story a unique and original insight into the mythology surrounding the origins and development of vampire folklore, whilst ensuring the reader is kept grounded and focused by the historical connections and influences, which are introduced within the individual chapters as a series of flashbacks and only serve to add to the intrigue, terror and suspense.
The action packed storyline is fast moving, suspenseful, constantly changing and a well balanced mix of character and plot driven events. The many twists and turns in the story left me exhilarated and sometimes trying to think way ahead to the possible outcome of a particular event, only to be brought up sharply when James threw an alternative scenario into the mix, which I wasn’t expecting or anticipating, thus changing the whole emphasis of the story.
The characters are complex, well drawn and defined and above all, totally believeable .. even those who are not quite who, or sometimes even what, they appear to be! It takes Steven, the main protagonist in the story, some time to work out, that he is being duped and used by those he comes to think of as friends, when friend and foe become almost as one and indistinguishable, until revealing their true identity is either desirable, or indeed unavoidable!
Corruption and everything not being as it might at first appear, is a theme which runs strongly throughout the plot and indeed throughout the many centuries this storyline spans. From the historical notion that ‘The Dragon Order’ was formed to take on Satan, only to have Satan take upon themselves the name of their adversary, in order to steal its power and turn it against them … To the concept that the serpent is associated with both good and evil, a symbol of both God and The Devil … Right through to the almost unbelieveable concept that in folklore, if a butterfly or moth enters a home in the evening it means that someone will die at the hands of a vampire; whilst conversely and once again in folklore, upon death the human spirit will leave the body in the form of a butterfly…
A historic evil of epic proportions, unleashed into an unsuspecting world, turning friends into enemies, dividing families, challenging beliefs and claiming innocent victims … A military regime inflicting the worst kind of pain and horror, or shapeshifters and lycanthropes coming together in one of the most sinister and terrifying vampire stories written to date.
Apart from making me see the ethereal beauty of a butterfly in a whole new light, New Year’s Eve and Good Friday, will never be quite the same again! I am running the risk that I am going to give away too much of the stroyline here, so it’s probably best that I stop now.
There are just so many strong and emotional words and phrases which leapt off the pages of this book, that I could have gone on quoting them forever. It is best that you just grab yourself a copy at the earliest opportunity and immerse yourself in the ‘Kiss Of the Butterfly’!
This is the stuff real nightmares are made of!! … and remember:-
Butterflies make almost no noise, even when flying in groups.
James Lyon, has provided me with a copy of ‘Kiss Of The Butterfly’, in exchange for me reading and sharing my thoughts. The fact that my copy was gifted, has not influenced, nor in any way will influence in the future, any comments I may express about the book, in any posts I may publish. Any thoughts or comments are my own personal opinion and I am in no way being monetarily compensated for this, or any other article.
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(Everyday Bravery, Day 9)
When the idea for this Everyday Bravery project first occurred to me, one of the most prominent things in my mind was the collection of brave people I have known in my own life. And one of the first of them I thought of was my friend James Yamakawa.
James and I went to high school together. It’s been years since I’ve seen him in person, but I’ve enjoyed keeping tabs on him and his beautiful family via Facebook. He is a husband, a stay-at-home father of three, a martial arts instructor, a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Salisbury, Maryland, and the head organizer for the group Showing Up for Racial Justice Delmarva. (More on that later.)
One of the things that has stood out to me in these years of following James online is that he is a person who tries. He doesn’t seem content to sit back and let the world pass him by. Rather, in his enthusiasm for his family, his church, his work, and his community, James comes across as someone who just about dives into life.
James and I come from different religious and political backgrounds. We disagree on the substance of some important issues and, I’m sure, on aspects of any number of smaller issues too. But I love watching James go about his trying. Because in doing what he does, James seems to be engaged in a dialog with the world. He’s not somebody who will shout a slogan at you and then walk away. He’s somebody who will hold up a big, controversial poster and then pour you a cup of coffee to talk about it. (Figuratively speaking. Though I wouldn’t be surprised to know that James also does that literally.)
James is a person of good will. And I think he’s awfully brave. Below you’ll find a little interview I did with him about bravery and about his work organizing the group Showing Up for Racial Justice Delmarva.
(1) What is Showing Up for Racial Justice Delmarva and what prompted you to organize it?
The group is part of the larger, national SURJ movement, whose goal is to inspire white Americans to stand up and speak out to their communities about racism. A friend and I started the group shortly after attending a Martin Luther King Day rally in Annapolis this past winter. However, the process, internally speaking, probably began much earlier, as I started reading more on social media from voices of color, from a perspective that I had not really ever thought about before. I am half-Japanese, from my father’s side, but for all intents and purposes I present as “white,” and I benefit from appearing like that.
(2) What in your upbringing – in your family and/or your faith – encouraged you to be brave?
If I had to say the one thing that informs how I approach all of this, it’s my belief in a God that loves me for who I am, and that there is nothing I can do to make him love me any more or any less. For some that may be a reason for indifference, but for me it means having the freedom to take action. To decide to do what you think is right, because no matter what happens, God is there for you. It’s a freedom I have been looking for throughout a troubled childhood and a tumultuous growing up; becoming a husband, a father, and learning what it means to be a true member of a community. Not only am I free to make mistakes, but also free to be content that I’ve done at least some good. The latter is definitely the more difficult for me to grasp. And when dealing with an issue like talking about race, you have to be willing to make mistakes, because that’s the only way you can learn to do better than you are now.
(3) What does bravery feel like to you?
First off, I would like to say that I don’t think I can call myself “brave”. I think bravery is something that is ascribed to you, whether you want it or not. There’s a southern African concept of “Ubuntu” – “I am because we are.” If I am brave it’s because I’ve done something that others consider brave. Perhaps that’s just the Lutheran in me, but I never feel “brave” myself.
If I had to distill it down into a feeling though, I’d say it’s like a weird combination of calmness and dread. You know what you are about to do is going to make you different afterwards, somehow, from who you were before. And a part of you doesn’t want to do it, but you go ahead and do it anyway. But consider that what little discomfort I get out of doing this is nothing compared to that which many black Americans experience every day, without fanfare.
(4) What most threatens your bravery?
Definitely fear. There’s probably a reason that “Fear Not” is used so often in scripture! Fear of making a choice, and getting off the fence. Putting myself out there as saying “I believe this is the right thing to do,” and then having to do that and defend that. I’m not saying I always choose the braver course of action, but I like to think I do more now than I did before. And trying to talk to my friends, my neighbors, sometimes complete strangers about tackling a culture of white supremacy from the inside, it can get scary, because you don’t know what’s going to happen. You may lose a friend. There may be anger directed at you, especially online, where the worst angels of our nature tend to get the most airtime. It gets uncomfortable, at the best of times, but I don’t think God would want us to be comfortable at all with racism.
(5) Is there anything else you’d like to offer on the subject?
I’m a quote guy. I like to read and try to emulate wisdom from sources older, smarter, and definitely more eloquent than myself. One of my favorites is the poet, farmer, and theologian Wendell Berry. In his essay The Hidden Wound, he writes:
It is not, I think, a question of when and how the white people will “free” the black and the red people. It is a condescension to believe that we have the power to do that. Until we have recognized in them the full strength and grace of their distinctive humanity we will be able to set no one free, for we will not be free ourselves. When we realize that they possess a knowledge for the lack of which we are incomplete and in pain, then the wound in our history will be healed. Then they will simply be free, among us–and so will we, among ourselves for the first time, and among them.
That speaks to me, because one of the pitfalls of doing this kind of activism is a well-meaning white guy trying to “save” black people. They don’t need saving. We, “white people,” need to worry about saving ourselves. We are not the primary victims of white supremacy, not by a longshot. But in a way, it hurts us, just in different ways, because it forces us into separation from our neighbor, from that which would make us whole. It fractures community. So working towards racial justice is really an act of Atonement, “at-one-ment,” that is meant to bring us together, not to divide as so many seem to be convinced it is doing. It’s an act of love. Love of our neighbor as ourselves, and love of that from which they were created.
One note before we end: As my readers will know, last week I published some of my own thoughts on racism and racial justice. Though I am following that post with James’ story, I want to be clear that I am not trying, in this one interview, to be exhaustive in showing what bravery on that big, complex, divisive issue looks like. Most especially, I’m not trying to make one white man’s experience representative of the countless African Americans who work toward racial justice every day.
I just started with someone I knew. I started with a friend.
If you have an example of bravery on this issue or another – an idea of someone I might want to interview, please let me know. I’m enamored with this The Everyday Brave idea and I hope to continue it beyond my Write 31 Days project.
Thanks in advance for your ideas – and thanks especially to James for allowing me to interview him.
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Their disappearance was a mystery until their remains were found in the Californian high desert in November 2013; buried in shallow graves. This event was followed by the arrest of Chase Merritt one year later; November 2014 for their murder.
The trial of Charles Ray Merritt is two months away, however some detail came out at the preliminary hearing mid June 2015 – particularly of interest to us in our astrology case-study of choice. The following is our astrology interpretation of a possible fraud that occurred in the days following the disappearance of the family.
Please note that astrology is a pseudo science and as such is not accepted in any court of law. Please remain skeptic of our outcome. The information comes from the public record and the interpretation, from classic texts.
Background Data: the evidence presented at the Merritt Preliminary Hearing of June 2015.
A Quickbooks ‘Custom’ account was created in 2008 as an Online Account for EIP by Joseph McStay. The user Joseph McStay accessed this account with a password. Joey did not write cheques from this account at any stage, using it as an online ledger.
On 1st February 2010 the account was accessed from a computer other than that owned by the McStays using the username set up by Joey. As to how “X” accessed this account i.e. by password, we are not privy to that information at this stage. This person then added the vendor ‘chase merritt’ [sic] note Chase was already listed in the other Quickbooks account.
The following ‘fraudulent’ activity was NOT performed on any of the McStay family computers recovered from the house by LE. All cheques have ‘questionable’ signatures.
1st February 2010
- 12:24pm ‘chase merritt’ added as a Vendor to the QB Custom account.
- 12:34 – 12:52pm two cheques were ‘deposited’ into the Vendor account for chase merritt; printed out and also deleted from the account. So someone is possibly using the account to print cheques in favour of ‘chase merritt’…… Note none of these cheques drawn on 1st Feb were ever cashed. I suggest it was a trial run by a potential fraudster.
2nd February 2010
- 11:27am – 11:34am cheque for $2495.00 printed in favour of ‘chase merritt’ with a notation ‘SA101’ (Saudi Arabian fountain deal). This cheque was deleted in the QB account in an possible effort to hide the transaction. This cheque was cashed by Chase Merritt.
5th February 2010
- 12:06pm – 12.38pm transactions:
- 12:06 – $4500.00 cheque printed in favour of ‘chase merritt’ with a notation ‘paul mitchell’. This cheque was deleted in the QB account in an possible effort to hide the transaction. The cheque was DATED 5 FEB 2010; later edited to change the date to 4 February 2010. This cheque was not cashed, or banked.
- 12:19 – metro sheet metal was added as a Vendor
- 12:21-12:29 – cheques printed in favour of ‘metro sheet metal’ $1650.00 and $250.00 (backdated to 4 Feb). These two cheques were delivered by hand to Metro Sheet Metal Co. by Chase Merritt whom subsequently banked them in good faith.
- 12:38pm – cheque for $2350.00 printed in favour of ‘chase merritt’ (backdated to 4 Feb) This cheque was deleted in the QB account in an possible effort to hide the transaction. Following a questionable signature, Chase Merritt deposited this cheque into his personal bank account.
8th February 2010
- 2:20pm – cheque for $6500.00 printed in favour of ‘chase merritt’ (backdated to 4 Feb) This cheque was deleted in the QB account in an possible effort to hide the transaction. Following a questionable signature, Chase Merritt deposited this cheque into his Bank of America account on 9th February.
At 2:44pm a phone call from Chase Merritt’s cellphone lasting 107minutes was made to Quickbooks. The caller identified himself as Joseph McStay and requested that the QB subscription be cancelled. He was advised that further passwords needed to be provided – they weren’t and the account was not cancelled.
9th February 2010
- 8:06am An online attempt was made to cancel the QB account.
As for the McStay desktop computer accessing this Custom account in an effort to generate cheques:
4th February 2010
- 7:59pm cheque for $4000.00 entered in favour of ‘chase merritt’. This cheque was NOT printed and deleted at 8:05pm.
With all this information, what would an astrologer do? I have a grin from ear to ear. Silly rhetorical question, MM. We check the astrology natal charts for Chase Merritt through the perspectives of the ‘suggested’ fraud. Oh yes, there will be others as well whom we can bring into this case study. I have one in particular whom already has his hand up – Mr ‘X’. Firstly the primary occasion, which will be the most emotive: tension for us to interpret.
12:24pm on 1st February 2010. We are not aware of the location, so let’s elect to use Rancho Cucamonga, CA
As with all crimes it is the instigation; that first step that tells us everything. Whether it be the first killing by a serial killer, or the set-up for a fraud, we get what we as astrologers are looking for – heightened emotive behaviour.
This is our bingo moment and we are not disappointed. For Chase Merritt, the emotive anticipation as he drove to Fallbrook was one thing; this is another.
The perspective for both charts is a snapshot in time at 12:24pm on 1st February 2010 when someone set up the account in EIP; QB Custom account. The outer wheel in the first chart is a rectified time for the birthdate of Chase Merritt.
- Transiting in the heavens at 17:53°Aquarius is Venus in pink. Put those two together and we have money and modern technology. Exact at the midheaven, we have it as the basis for a new career (10th house). Plus it aligns by conjunction with the rectified ascendant for Chase Merritt’ the man himself – his career.
- Natal blue Moon is at the ascendant – personal needs drive the tension; the need for money.
- Transiting Venus is also in quindecile action with natal 3rd house Uranus – rebellion and communication together – the act of setting up the Vendor is an obsessive form of rebellion
- Transiting orange Sun in the 9th house identifies the date on the calendar as ‘the date’ to initiate this act of rebellion and when we note that this is also in quindecile aspect; to natal Pluto. This is an act of empowerment of the Leo symbolism. We can suggest pride is the basis of the obsession side of his actions.
Midpoints in the first chart with classic interpretation:
- Sun/Moon = rectified MC – career is the primary focus to this illegal act.
- Venus/Moon = Descendant/opposite the ascendant –
- Saturn/Pluto = Lunar North Node in 6th house – a shared act with others; family perhaps? Whom would Chase trust to be his co-conspirator?
- Mars/Neptune = natal Mercury (hidden in the 12th house) – subversive act plus imagination may lose it’s anchor. Is of interest that this is another hint of family…
As for the first of our POI’s as a possible co-conspirator, we checked the astrology horoscope of Merritt’s partner, Catherine Jarvis as she is reputed to have had an online business at one stage. Her chart does not provide us with any tension in the regard of this fraudulent action. She is not Mr X.
Mr X… I will comment first up, that this is not the chart of a regular computer hacker. It’s far too emotive. This suggests that he is likely to be someone close to Chase and most likely does not have a previous criminal record. We are not privy to his time of birth and so a mid-range Moon is used.
Was he hoodwinked by Chase into complicity? Not on your Nellie; according to the astrology. Certainly not with his natal Mars (action man) heavily in the mix. He lacks the subtlety of the midpoints than Chase Merritt, however with a natal Sun in Aries and Moon in Leo, we would expect this to be in our face. He’s the white knight for Chase.
- Transiting orange Sun (date on the calendar) quindecile natal mid-range Moon. Is blood thicker than water? When it comes down to it, yes.
- Tr pink Venus opposite natal Uranus EXACT the IC – a rebellious partner in a career of crime involving money.
- tr turquoise Neptune opposite natal mid-range Moon (blue) – a personal need for secrecy
- tr green Jupiter conjunct natal Mars – inflates the action OTT. He is certainly getting his adrenaline rush by this act.
- tr green Jupiter is also opposite natal Pluto – inflating the sense of power.
- tr Uranus gives that buzz to the natal Lunar nodal axis – is this a blood brother, or close friend?
- tr Mars in the 3rd house is square natal Neptune in the 6th house – he knows that he is operating outside the ethics boundary.
- tr Moon (blue in the inner wheel) at the cusp 4th and 5th houses illuminated yellow Mercury on the opposite side of the chart as well as all that around the Moon.
- tr Saturn square Pluto in the heavens and natal Jupiter – this ambitious surge of power could very easily become out of hand.
- tr yellow Mercury (in the inner wheel) is conjunct Saturn. He is the voice of authority on this occasion.
But of course there’s more charts that could be generated. There always is isn’t there, however we already know where this is heading. The trial of Chase Merritt is due to commence in August 2015. | <urn:uuid:5d72695c-5b7b-4cc5-ac52-e31744b38461> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://astrologyincrime.com/2015/06/27/quickbooks-fraud/ | 2019-08-24T12:11:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027320734.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824105853-20190824131853-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.963047 | 2,291 |
Traditional track: April 15th for the fall term that begins in late September on the College Place campus.
Transfer BS in Nursing—College Place Start: April 15th for the fall term that begins in late September on the College Place campus.
Transfer BS in Nursing—Portland Start: February 1st for the summer term that begins in June on the Portland campus.
Yes, apply anyway. If you are accepted, you will need to complete the pre-requisite courses with a minimal grade of C by the program start date. We call this being accepted on a "class pending" basis.
The admissions committee will not consider an application that is not complete. Application files are compiled in the Office of Enrollment on the College Place campus. A complete file consists of all of the following:
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It takes about 8 weeks after the close of applications to review all applications and process them.
Yes. Although June is the entry date for transfer students to the Portland transfer track sophomore nursing courses (held summer term on the Portland campus), the College Place transfer track offers the sophomore nursing courses beginning each September on the College Place campus. Since the sophomore year takes 9 months to complete on the College Place campus, the nursing classes are not as intense as the summer accelerated courses on the Portland campus. If you feel this slower pace is what you want, then the College Place transfer track on the College Place campus is a better choice. There is no fall entry on the Portland campus.
It is in the town of College Place in eastern Washington, very close to the city of Walla Walla, Washington. From Portland, this is approximately four hours by car traveling east and then proceeding northeast from Pendleton, Oregon.
We can accommodate 70 students in our junior class. These students come from both the Portland area and beyond (transfer students) and from WWU's College Place campus. Historically, freshman and sophomore classes were completed on the College Place campus and then students transferred to the extension campus in Portland for their junior and senior years. However, in the late 1980's the school's enrollment dropped; so to support our enrollment the idea of a summer entry program was born (the Portland transfer track). Transfer students from the local Portland area were admitted into an intense summer program consisting of the sophomore nursing classes that were usually completed on the main campus in College Place, Washington. This qualifies the summer students to join the other junior students coming to the Portland campus in September. Since the College Place campus' sophomore nursing students have already been accepted into the professional program, their numbers diminish the number of transfer students that can be admitted for the summer program each June. On average, 48 students are accepted into the traditional and College Place transfer track and 22 students into the Portland transfer track yearly.
Our BSN program is a 3-year program with actual hands-on nursing experience beginning in the sophomore year. You can start the program on either campus; the College Place campus takes transfer students in the fall of each year and the Portland campus takes transfer students in the summer of each year. All students must start with the sophomore nursing content, no matter which campus you enter. Since the Portland campus is an upper classman campus, meaning all students take their junior and senior years there (on campus housing is available), the only time the sophomore nursing content is offered on the Portland campus is during the 10-week summer quarter. Students beginning nursing on the Portland campus during the summer quarter receive the sophomore year content in one intensive 10-week term versus across three (3) academic terms, as on the College Place campus. The sophomore content consists of 15 quarter credits of nursing across four (4) courses: Intro to Nursing, Fundamentals of Nursing, Health Assessment and Pharmacology. This means that transfer students starting on the Portland campus take 7 quarters instead of 9 to complete our BSN program: One initial summer, one junior year (3 quarters), one summer off and then the senior year (3 quarters).
Because of the academic intensity of the summer term, our admitting GPA for the Portland campus (3.25) is higher than the College Place campus (2.75). Additionally, more prerequisite/cognate courses must be completed to enter via the Portland campus summer term versus the College Place campus as the Portland campus is an extension campus and does not provide Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Chemistry, and other required pre-requisite/cognate courses, facilities and/or faculty that are provided on the College Place campus. The Portland campus does provide opportunities to complete courses in PE, history, humanities, religion, speech and sociology to our current nursing students to meet general studies/cognates graduation requirements.
Of course, traditional students can still enter WWU as pre-nursing majors taking pre-requisite courses during the freshman year and then apply to begin the program in the fall of their sophomore year on the College Place campus. For these students, the sophomore year consists of the sophomore nursing content alongside required cognate courses such as chemistry, microbiology, statistics, human growth and development and other required general studies courses. This is not the case for students entering in Portland who need to have those completed already before entering our summer session, as there is no time to take classes other than nursing during the summer term in Portland.
No. We have no on-line, evening or weekend nursing classes.
This is dependent on which campus you are on. In Portland, Monday and Tuesday are classroom days. Depending on individual needs, you could be in classes from 8:00am to 3:00pm or later on both of those days. Wednesday and Thursday are clinical lab days and that means six hour labs which can be either a.m. or p.m. shifts. Fridays are usually free although there are some exceptions to this--sometimes clinical lab may be Thursday and Friday or an individual instructor's schedule may allow them to teach only on Friday. During the summer quarter for the sophomore intensive courses, Monday and Tuesday are classroom days which can go from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Wednesday is practice lab and hours can vary depending on the number and difficulty of the skill being practiced/tested. Thursday and Friday are clinical lab days of six hours each, all a.m. shift.
In college place, classroom days are variable as students are also concurrently taking nursing cognate courses. In fall, clinical lab days are Monday and Tuesdays and that means six hour labs which can be either a.m or p.m. shifts. During winter and spring terms, clinical lab days can be Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday either a.m. or p.m. shifts. You are assigned to a clinical day/time by the course instructor.
Generally speaking this does not work well on our Portland campus. All nursing classes are 8 credits per quarter and most quarters there is also one other mandatory class in addition. This means that most students must take 11-12 credits per quarter at a minimum. (Full-time ranking is 12 credits per quarter.) Also, financial aid frequently requires a student to attend on a full-time basis for full funding. Finally, taking nursing courses over too long a period of time damages the freshness of the content so state board exam success may be jeopardized.
There are circumstance in which students may study part-time on our College Place campus, but it may extend program completion time.
First, we will need a letter of recommendation from your current or former school of nursing, preferably from the dean or associate dean. This letter must show that you left in good standing and are eligible to return if you wished. We may ask you for more references. Second, we will need your official transcripts to form a plan of articulation. Some schools are very hard for us to articulate with due to a difference in philosophy and class sequence or content. This means that you may not get credit for some classes. You will need to submit syllabi to help with this process. You will also need to take our entrance exams and complete any of our prerequisites that you may not have before being admitted. Your application will go through Admissions Committee just like any other applicant. It is particularly difficult to articulate ADN nursing programs with our BS program. Transfer students with nursing courses completed are accepted only if space becomes available.
A committee oversees the admission of students to our program. The committee takes into consideration academics, life experience (in a healthcare field), the personal statement, letters of reference, and admission testing scores. Our nursing application doesn't specifically ask for life experience or current employment, so those things may be included in the essay or just as a side note on the application itself.
You can contact the official transcript evaluator on the main campus at (800) 541-8900 ext. 2360 and request an evaluation. Or, you can email unofficial copies of transcripts to a program advisor. Find contact information for advisors under your program track on the admissions page. Please note that this is a preliminary evaluation only. The office of the registrar does the final evaluation. Once you are a student, your previous classes will be placed on DegreeWorks and you can see how they compare toward the required courses for graduation. There is also a transfer pattern guide available for a number of Portland area colleges that you can find here. If you are already a four-year graduate, your past coursework may lessen or eliminate many of the general studies/cognates required for graduation. Although WWU has not limit on the age of most transfer courses, key science courses such as Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology and Chemistry are not accepted if they are greater than five (5) years old. | <urn:uuid:1cbeb29d-8005-4f2c-8d06-7558c2fda975> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/areas-of-study/nursing/faq/ | 2019-08-24T11:10:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027320734.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824105853-20190824131853-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.949115 | 2,095 |
Excitedly this month I get to do my studio visit with an artist of whom I am very fond. Marissa Raglin is not only an incredible visual artist, creating whimsical ethereal collage works on paper, she is also one of my studiomates at #nextdoorstudiosokc. Raglin’s work fuses together dynamic imagery from the past, to create comedic, dramatic, and sometimes frightening narratives that envelop the viewer in the process and content. I got the opportunity to hang out with her, in our shared studio space while she was coming up with titles for her upcoming exhibition at Hojas Artspace. You can find her current works at mgralinart.com.
How did your process develop into what it is today?
I finished my BFA and an emphasis in painting from Oklahoma Baptist University in 2012, where I was drawn to acrylic because of the quick fluid movement of the medium. I found myself drawn to paper just as much, I would tear sheets out of magazines, and books, and try to paint over them or incorporate them in the paintings I was making in some way.
I inherited a book my Great Grandmother was drawn to, the John James Audubon book of Illustrations. The idea of found imagery came from cutting up this book and using parts of it.
Was there anything besides the Audubon book that influenced you?
More recently, I’ve been drawn to collage after reading “Creative Block” by Daniel Krysa. I was following her blog called the ‘Jealous Curator’. I’m not sure how I stumbled upon her, but I got the book quickly off of amazon and read through it because I was in such a block with the abstract painting I was doing at the time. There was a lull in my art-making after school.. The book encouraged me to practice exercises from several different artists that are interviewed, I decided to pick up some different utensils and create. Funnily enough, she wrote another book called ‘Collage’ and I won a signed copy of it. After hearing about it, I knew I had to have to have a copy, I left a comment on her blog, saying something to the effect of ‘I’m a collage novice, and I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m excited about it!” and I was chosen as the one person out of hundreds, to receive the free copy. It felt like a sign, something saying ‘Keep Going!’
You have a specific aesthetic and set of imagery, can you tell me about them and where they come from?
I use found imagery from vintage magazines, postcards, and books that I purchase from thrift shops and half price bookstores. I’m drawn to natural elements and nature based imagery, as well as the different forms and shapes. I love that I can collect other people’s postcards. I love to travel, and I feel like I’m getting their memory book when I purchase these items. I am getting their appreciation for where and what they’ve experienced and wanted to share with others.
Quite a bit of the imagery comes from old publications that depict women defined in certain roles, are you interested in those ideas?
I often feature women in my work, because I’m drawn to the imagery. Elements like contours, or facial expressions, that when put together help bring your eye into the piece. I enjoy finding the humor and the absurdity of the women in these images because of the roles they are cast in, that’s why I further feature them in unexpected locations or surroundings. It is absurd to have a woman in a specific outfit and pearls at the washing machine for example. I recognize the absurdity and that is what adds to the ease of being able to manipulate the images into having her do something just as ridiculous, like embracing a mountain.
Part of your process is looking for and creating humor?
I definitely look for the humor in the work even if it’s just through the title. I’m drawn more to the illustrative imagery. I had a lot of fun recently in finding romance novel covers and cutting them out. It’s comedic to see a loving embrace between two people and then cut him out and make her hug something totally bizarre like a mountain.
Are you aware of the content you’re creating when you’re making, and do you try to push those ideas if/when you realize it?
Yes, and no. Certain pieces come to mind in which I try to create a dialogue or narrative around a specific theme. Recently, my husband lost his grandfather, and I created a piece entitled “Void” which featured a woman in an intense embrace from the point of view of the back of the man’s head. I knew I wanted to encapsulate the idea of a huge loss, I removed his image but left his figure there and blacked him out using gouache. I knew I wanted that feeling of loss or emptiness.
Specifically in one of my earlier works entitled “Mother’s Pill” it was representative of my Mother through a flower, a woman and child, and an alligator. That brute force of her and creating imagery that spoke about her. I knew I wanted to create a pill shape, or something to suggest a dietary supplement that someone could take to become like my mother. I utilized the cut shapes and forms in order to get that to happen. Often, when I’m creating I have a specific characteristic or individual in mind that I’m trying to classify through the imagery. Sometimes there are certain concepts or ideas I want to create in removing or keeping or clustering, but I am interested in happy accidents. It comes with the territory of cutting out so much imagery, that sometimes you happen to put one from next to one another and you like the way shapes and forms interact.
The layering or removing of imagery helps create the narrative?
Yes, if I’m creating and I have a specific family member in mind or I have a specific phrase that I want to say I will be deliberate in what imagery I’m trying to find and how I manipulate it.
A lot of the time the narrative can come from finding the imagery and either removing or adding to complete the story. The found imagery is key to drawing the idea, in this way the idea then comes after. I’m drawn to negative space, because the white exterior allows the imagery room for conversation, there’s more of a dialogue happening in my head and on the page. Questions along the lines of why would these images be next to each other? I utilize the negative space element in order to create the idea that the imagery is becoming unified. Sometimes the placement of shapes or negative space is only whimsical and there is not necessarily a meaning behind it, but it’s more about the shapes and the colors and how they play with each other.
Does that come from your background as an abstract painter?
I believe so, I’ve always simplified, my abstract works were too busy and I needed to simplify to this idea of minimalism. The collage pieces are more thoughtful. I find even if I’m partial to an image, I don’t copy or manipulate any of my images, once I use it it’s gone. A lot of stress goes into the gluing process. When I’m working I’ll take photos and go home and sleep on it until I’m sure, or I’ll glue it down and come in the next day and think ‘that’s not funny or interesting’ why did I do that?
It’s a commitment to put those images on paper?
Yeah, the gluing process is probably the most stressful part of the process because if something doesn’t take well to the vintage paper and it rips that’s my one shot. I can’t get these images back. I am usually careful about when I commit to putting the images together permanently.
To that end, how is process important to your work? How do you feel about failure in art making or time periods when you have to fulfill a need to make-work?
During times of loss I have had an idea that I want to be fluid in my art making. I wanted to use the repetition of covering something up and sometimes painting with black in order to fulfill a need to create. The evening we found out about my husband’s Grandfather I needed to come to the studio and make something happen. There is some concept of knowing I need to continually be creating when I’m working. I’ve begun exploring the idea of making just to make, now. I was enjoying the path I was on, creating collages, but now I’m getting to the point where I’m willing to try something new again. I have found that in the monotony of just making to make, I’m not as deliberate and precise as I am when I’m cutting and gluing for collage, things are more solidified. With painting, in my mind I continue to think that I can paint over things and fix mistakes, but it’s not the case with gouache. I think the experimentation leads to something better. I’ve made a lot of bad art, and I can say that happily, that it’s led me to a point where I’m much more confident with doing or excited about the outcome of the work I’m making. Failure is frequent; I choose to just take it in stride. To try to keep seeing if that could lead to something else.
How do you think it is different to be an artist in this part of the country? How has it shaped your artist life?
I think there are groups here that assist and promote the idea of being an artist in Oklahoma and nurture that fact. Things like OVAC, Fringe, Artist Inc, and Oklahoma City Girls Art School all play a role in shaping an artist opportunities. It has become a worthwhile pursuit, being an artist here. I feel nurtured by being in a smaller pond or a tighter community, but I feel like we stick together, we promote one another's works, and appreciate one another. The quality of life and the ease of living here, family, friends, and the people here are all factors that keep me here, it’s mushy, but it’s true. I’ve been excited that since I’ve been pursuing this work, it has taken off. There are opportunities if you apply yourself; it is possible to have lots of opportunities here.
I get an awesome opportunity to share my studio space with you and keep updated on your work but can you tell the rest of them what’s next?
In terms of the studio I am incorporating some gouache elements, trying to think about the idea of altering the scene, not with my exacto knife, but minimalistically eliminating or adding something to an image instead of splicing together many pieces. Working larger, 18”x24” for a few shows coming up, and also working some with line work creating a background or a grounding to the works, instead of having them float in space.
What about exhibitions?
I have an opening in April at Hojas Artspace in Goldsby Oklahoma, which I found out about from an Artist Inc fellow, and I’ll be showing works through June there. It will include quite a few new works. I’m featured in the second round of the ‘Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s Collector’s Circle’. I've been commissioned to create a piece for a collector in May. After that I have a show in July called ‘A Hiding Place’, which I’m in with you. It’s an exhibition wherein the gallery has given each artist a poem to create a piece based on. I haven’t started the piece yet but I know the size and have the some of the elements I’m going to use.
I haven’t started yet either.
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Technical analysis represents one third of the stock screening process in the BCI methodology. The other two are common sense principles (referred to as “descriptive terms for long-term investing) and fundamental analysis. Reading price charts is as much an art as it is a science and there is no one right way to technically analyze a stock…there are many. When I share the parameters that I use, they may not coincide with your favorites but as long as our rationale and goals are similar, the information should be useful to most of our readers.
This article will highlight the BCI parameters for long and short term technical analysis and the reasoning behind these selections. In the former, we are analyzing long-term buy-and-hold portfolios while in the latter we are analyzing for one-month option positions. Let’ start with our one-month option trade analysis:
Short-term technical analysis
The chart below represents a charting process geared to one-month positions:
1: 20-day and 100-day exponential moving averages identify trend and change rapidly as recent prices whipsaw. We look for uptrending moving averages with price bars (or candlesticks) at or above the shorter-term moving average. We have a bullish moving average indicator in this image.
2: The MACD histogram (blue bars)also identifies trend but is also a momentum indicator predictive of future price movement. In this screenshot, the MACD histogram is above zero and ascending, also a bullish signal.
3: The stochastic oscillator (black line) is also a momentum indicator, giving us a window into future price movement. A bullish signal is when it pushes above the 20% and is ascending as it has been recently.
4: Strong volume, as shown by number 4, confirms the signals from the other three indicators and also represents continuing fuel for the price acceleration. So we are four for four in the bullish signal department.
When signals are all bullish, we take a more aggressive stance in our option-selling positions (deeper out-of-the-money calls and puts closer to at-the-money rather than deep out-of-the-money puts. Mixed technicals will lead us to more conservative positions and all bearish signals will turn us away from considering that underlying security. We also use changing technicals to determine exit strategy decisions.
Long-term technical analysis
For a long-term buy-and-hold portfolio, our holdings do not turn over as frequently as they do when selling short-term options. Therefore, our time frame differs and so must our parameters for technical analysis. We are interested in a broader picture of the price action for the security so trend becomes of utmost importance. Reasonable time frames to evaluate trend are 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages. With these indicators, each day is given equal weight whereas with option-selling exponential moving averages, more recent prices are more heavily weighted into the graph. While momentum indicators are not as critical for sell points and other position management maneuvers, setting a trailing stop loss order is an outstanding management approach. This technique allows share value to rise unimpeded while setting a maximize price decline from highest price point. Here is a price chart showing 50-day and 200-day moving averages:
Note that the shorter-term 50-day simple moving average (blue line) is above the longer-term 200-day simple moving average (red line) and both are uptrending, all bullish signals. Also significant is the bullish moving average crossover in late May when the short-term average moved above the long-term average (red arrow).
Technical analysis is an art as much as it is a science. It should be crafted to reflect the particular trading style implemented and the risk tolerance of the investor. When executed properly, the analysis will assist in all aspects of our investment decisions.
Upcoming live events
1- January 26, 2017: LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER
9 PM ET
Blue Hour webinar #4
“The Poor Man’s Covered Call”
A flow chart summarizing the entire strategy is currently available in the “resources/downloads” section of the member site (scroll down to “P”). I suggest you download the chart and use it as reference when viewing the webinar.
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We will analyze the use of LEAPS options instead of buying stocks to enter a covered call trade at a much lower capital outlay
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2- February 27 and 28th, 2017
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3- March 21st and 22nd, 2017
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4- April 12, 2017
Income Generation Webinar for The Options Industry Council
Global stocks were little changed on the week as markets awaited clearer policy signals from the incoming US administration. West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell slightly from a week ago, to $52.60 per barrel from $53. Volatility, as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), tweaked a bit higher to 11.54 from 11.20 last week. This week’s reports and international news of importance:
- In his inaugural address, President Trump pledged to transfer power from Washington, D.C., back to the American people. He called for defending the US’s borders while rebuilding its infrastructure. Every decision, whether on trade, taxes or immigration, will be made to benefit American workers and families, he said. While he expects other nations to put their interests first as well, he said the United States will reinforce old alliances and build new ones
- In the first appearance by a Chinese leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Xi Jinping defended globalization. He cautioned other countries against pursuing protectionist policies, adding that no one will emerge as a winner in a trade war
- On the domestic front, Xi said that the economy has entered a new normal, driven by household consumption. He affirmed a 6.7% 2016 economic growth target, in the middle of the government’s 6.5%–7% range, but the slowest since 1990
- Interest rates will stay low or head even lower for an extended period, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said on Thursday, after the Governing Council left its monetary policy unchanged
- US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said Thursday that the Fed is close to its goals and that she expects to hike rates “a few times” in 2017. Futures markets have just over two 25-basis-point hikes priced in at present
- The US economy will grow 2.3% this year and 2.5% in 2018, according to freshly revised International Monetary Fund forecasts. The IMF raised its forecast by 0.1% for 2017 and 0.4% for 2018
- The global growth outlook remained steady from October estimates of 3.4% this year and 3.6% in 2018. The fund estimates that the global economy expanded 3.1% in 2016
- This week, several banks announced plans to move staff out of London in the wake of Brexit, including HSBC and UBS. Meanwhile, Germany’s Handelsblatt reported that Goldman Sachs may relocate half of its London staff of 6,500. Some jobs will move to New York, while approximately 1,000 could move to Frankfurt
THE WEEK AHEAD
MONDAY, JAN. 23rd
TUESDAY, JAN. 24th
9:45 am Market manufacturing PMI
10 am Existing home sales Dec
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25th
THURSDAY, JAN. 26th
8:30 am Weekly jobless claims
8:30 am Advance trade in goods Dec.
8:30 am Chicago Fed national activity index Dec.
9:45 am Markit services PMI
10 am New home sales Dec.
10 am Leading economic indicators Dec
FRIDAY, JAN. 27th
8:30 am Gross domestic product 4Q
8:30 am Durable goods orders Dec.
8:30 am Core capital equipment orders Dec.
10 am Consumer sentiment Jan.
For the first week in 2017, the S&P 500 dipped by 0.15% for a year-to-date return of 1.45%.
IBD: Market in confirmed uptrend
GMI: 5/6- Buy signal since market close of November 10, 2016
BCI: I am currently fully invested and have an equal number of in-the-money and out-of-the-money strikes. I remain cautious as we enter another earnings season and the new administration clarifies its economic and political plans.
WHAT THE BROAD MARKET INDICATORS (S&P 500 AND VIX) ARE TELLING US
The 6-month charts point to a neutral to slightly bullish outlook. In the past six months, the S&P 500 was up 5% while the VIX (11.54) declined by 1%.
Wishing you the best in investing,
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There is an article at LifeSite about a controversy boiling at Notre Dame. Apparently, a mother wrote a letter to the editor of the school paper to express shock at the sartorial inclinations of some women at the basilica on campus. The letter was published, and a sensitive nerve was touched. I want to take the opportunity to sketch out the debate and offer some thoughts about deeper issues involved. For the first part, I’m going to use the quaestio format of the Summa Theologica. (You can read St. Thomas’ own blistering critique of immodest clothing here, though he is mostly talking about over-dressing.) For the second, I am just going to ramble. Bear with me.
Whether it is a sin for women to wear revealing clothing in public?
Objection 1. It seems it is not a sin. For the man who lusts after such a woman does so from his own volition which the woman does not control. Thus does Our Lord warn against adultery of the heart: “He who even thinks lustfully of a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:28) But there is no commission of adultery by mere outward appearance. Thus, it is only the man who sins by his lust, not the woman by her attire which attracts his desire.
Objection 2. Further, modesty is a cultural norm which changes according to the tides of custom, which is easily proved by the fact that in two different nations the same attire might be looked at altogether differently. Given that more traditional restrictions of dress are more serious and burdensome for women, it is in fact laudable that these customs be gradually changed to bring about a more equal standard of modesty for men and women.
Objection 3. Further, just as it is natural for a stone to fall to the earth, so too are human beings inclined to seek what is most natural to them and thereby satisfies their God-given desires. But restrictive dresscodes contradict this tendency toward goods such as comfort, self-esteem, and the like. Therefore, whatever feels most desirable in itself ought to be licit to wear.
On the contrary, It is written (1 Timothy 2:9): “Women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control.” Since the Apostle identifies immodest dress with women in particular, it seems it is especially incumbent upon women to adhere to a strict standard of modesty.
I answer that, Modesty in outward attire, in the sense we are speaking of it, seeks a middle-path between two extremes – repression and vulgarity.
On the one hand, to subject women habitually to the total covering of the entire body even including the face, is illicit for at least two reasons, even though it would remove the occasion of lust. First, it is necessary for women to be able to attract husbands through means of their appearance, which is altogether impossible by such an arrangement, leaving some other method to take the place of self-determination. Second, identification of one person among many is much easier without exorbitantly restrictive coverings, especially of the face, which makes the public life of women and the men who interact with them much more efficient. Thus, the complete repression of individual identity and bodily features through extensive covering is undesirable.
On the other hand, the more one reveals the body, the more one tends to increase the occasion to lust through vulgarity. Therefore, if one is to incur the risk of scandal being taken by one’s attire, namely, lust, some proportionate good to that risk must be gained. Where there is only small potential of scandal being taken, only light reasons are necessary to avoid sin, such as serious inconvenience, moderate discomfort due to heat, and so on; where there is large potential of scandal being taken, only the gravest of reasons will excuse, such as the risk of one’s life. The offense will be in proportion to the similitude between one’s necessity and the risk of scandal. Given that men are more easily drawn to women by appearance than women are to men, women are especially susceptible to this vice and should guard against it most closely, which also promotes the common good by requiring men to seek them for their virtue and honor. Thus it is written, “Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of robes, but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.” (1 Peter 3:3-4) Therefore, to safeguard morals and common decency among the sexes, which are graver motives than mere pleasantries of comfort and convenience, errors ought to favor the more restrictive vice.
All of this is especially important in sacred places. As the Psalmist says, “Worship the Lord in holy attire.” (Psalm 69:6) For what is moderate in profane spaces becomes immoderate in sacred spaces due to a lack of fittingness with the outward worship of God which the space is specially consecrated to. Thus is it licit to throw darts in a pub, but it is not licit in an oratory. Likewise, dress in churches or other sacred places ought to be especially reverent and safe from occasioning sin, lest men be drawn to lower their eyes from the worship of God toward the delectation of a woman’s flesh.
Reply to Objection 1. It is also written, “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in me to sin, it is better that a great millstone was hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.” (Mark 9:42) The argument in favor of individual liberty holds to the degree of custom which reason has communally decided upon, and regarding which one should make errors on the side of safety, as said above.
Reply to Objection 2. Custom cannot eradicate concupiscence, nor can it change the greater proclivities of men to delight in the appearance of women than women do in the appearance of men. Therefore, while custom may be altered, human nature will not be altered and must be adverted to.
Reply to Objection 3. Outward attire exists primarily for three reasons. First, to protect against physical harm, such as from heat or cold or blows in battle. Second, to mark or distinguish ourselves among other people in society. Third, to protect against lust and shame, as it is written (Genesis 3:7): “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.” Therefore, these considerations hold primacy of place in the reasonable choice of outward apparel, and only afterward can other motives be evaluated.
Now on to the rambling.
Notre Dame has been plagued with “Catholic identity” troubles over the past few years. Without repeating them all, I will simply point the reader’s attention to another recent story there which broke when a large number of students asked for content filters for their internet connections to help avoid “inappropriate” content. The administration balked, and now we are seeing a rather vile backlash over a concerned mother asking young girls to dress for church better than they dress for the gym – as if it is any wonder. There are hundreds and hundreds of comments under the main story, almost all of them deeply critical.
No doubt, many of the people screeching wild accusations of bad parenting at this poor concerned mother and proclaiming the virtue of individual liberties are the same people who complain about a “rape culture” on college campuses. While there is no demonstrable systemic toleration or support of verifiable rape in universities in the West – and thus no “rape culture” – there is what one might call a “culture of promiscuity.” This is the toleration and support of every kind of sexual activity, as long as it’s consensual (with a few arbitrary exceptions, like student-teacher relationships and incest). What to say then about the high amounts of regretful sex and he-said-she-said cases of assault? One might say that it’s almost as if a climate of loose sexual mores disposes people to make dumb sexual choices, whether by not avoiding bad situations or by crossing over nearly invisible lines in the heat of already sinful passion. While wearing this or that trashy piece of clothing in public is not immediately inducing assault, the broad acceptance of such things is part and parcel of the larger paradigm of just not giving a hoot about any kind of sexual activity short of what suffices to call the cops.
What you wear (or don’t wear) in public, it should be noted, is not consensual… You make others see you as you are without their consent. It is almost never a reasonable argument to say, “They can look away if they want.” The problem with revealing clothing is precisely that many people won’t want to look away but should for the good of their souls, and for the good of your relationship with them. Heard of the phrase, “Dress for the job you want, not the one you have”? How about this: dress for the respect and real love you want, not the respect and real love you have. Those who already respect you and love you won’t care about your appearance – only new people will, who still have to be won over to a special valuation of your personhood. The better a person you are, the less you will have to compensate by flaunting your mere appearance. And if you aren’t a good person, get to work on that first.
A lot of people don’t think about this topic much for one of a few different reasons. First, they don’t understand sin in general. This is a common and large problem requiring more basic catechesis and evangelization. Second, they are so hardened by sins against chastity that they cannot even begin to see the problem with revealing a little skin. To them I say, I am sorry for you – it must be terrible to miss out on all the little joys of physicality which come along with modest courtship. (See Prof. Esolen’s wonderful article on that here.) Third, they are out of touch with how men and women actually relate with each other, both in general and in today’s particular circumstances, for whatever reason. These could even include well-meaning people who are sincerely trying to be holy but who just for the life of them can’t see why wearing skin-tight leggings to church is such a big deal. My advice to them is to accept that holiness sometimes involves giving up things that you don’t see the harm of, even if it’s simply because other people find your behavior to disturb their over-sensitive conscience. (See St. Paul’s discussion of abstaining from food sacrificed to idols in 1 Corinthians 8.)
Whatever the case, there seems to be a need to address this topic more seriously at Catholic universities. Perhaps a standard chapel dress-code, for men and women, could be implemented… Or asking some of the more committed Mass-goers to step up their fashion-game to help other people see that the church is not a gym, a dance floor, or a couch… Especially at universities named after Mary, the Mother of God!
End of rant. I didn’t even get to discuss 1 Corinthians 11!
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Inheriting A Lifestyle of Islamic Chivalry
April 25, 2008 § 6 Comments
What is chivalry? Today, we have a very narrow understanding of chivalry and what generally comes to the minds of most Americans when contemplating chivalry is: medieval knights, throwing your jacket over a puddle or some random act of kindness for a damsel in distress. All of which are about as likely to happen in today’s world as owls delivering acceptance letters to teenage children the world over, inviting them to attend the fabled and legendary school of magic.
In other words this kind of chivalry is not likely to happen. But real chivalry in today’s world means having honor and courtesy. But not the kind of courtesy we generally understand, this chivalry, Islamic chivalry has a depth that, when observed, one cannot help but to admire.
It is said that the one who exemplified Islamic chivalry in the way of the Holy Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) most perfectly was Hazreti Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra). There is a story of Hazreti Ali (ra) that gives us an idea of the spiritual power and sheer faith that it takes to embody Islamic chivalry,
“The perfect example of this level of control and chivalry is demonstrated by the conduct of Hadrat Ali ibn Abu Talib (RA) a companion of the Prophet (SAW) who once, in the midst of battle was about to slay his opponent. As he raised his sword to strike, his enemy spat in his face. Hadrat Ali immediately dropped his sword & refused to kill his opponent, “what is wrong with you, why do you not strike?” the man asked “because before you spat at me I was fighting you for the sake of Allah Almighty” Ali (RA) replied, “but after you spat I was fighting you because I was angry – and as a muslim I can only fight for Allah , never for my own Nafs. “Upon hearing this, Ali’s ( RA) opponent recongnized the nobility & truth of his words and immediately accepted Islam.”
But is Islamic chivalry dead? I can, with a great deal of certainty, tell you that it is not. The essence of Islamic chivalry is found in the Tradition (sunnat) of the Holy Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him). Therefore those who are holding tightly onto the Traditions of the Holy Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) and applying them to their lifestyle, they are the chevaliers.
I have witnessed Islamic chivalry in my time spent with Shaykh Abdul Kerim Hazretleri under his training. Prior to the time spent with the Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Sufi Association, my observations of manners in Muslim social-circles of America, from coast to coast, were nothing much different from the ordinary, and by ordinary I mean non-Muslim American social circles that I frequented.
For example, one can probably take a quick scan of the Internet or Google Blog and find a number of articles and blogs with Muslims complaining about the manners of some other Muslim or group of Muslims. Usually women complaining about other women.
However, when I was introduced to the “Ottoman Way” of the Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Sufi Association, I immediately noticed a different way of conduct. There was actually a culture of chivalry (futuwwa) and courtesy (adab) consciously woven into nearly every aspect of the day and night. From the careful movements and special attentions to detail at dawn; to seriousness, hardwork and progress during the day to developing an atmosphere of sharing and openness of the heart at dusk and closing out in a state of remembrance, gratitude and thankfulness in the night.
One of the reasons for this is because there is an emphasis on struggling for purity and perfection of the soul (jihad al-akhbar) Shaykh Abdul Kerim refers to it as, ‘stepping on your ego’. ‘Stepping on one’s ego’ is the key to Islamic chivalry and good manners. Shaykh Abdul Kerim Hazretleri once said in a sermon (khutbe),
“Man may loose his faith, if he doesn’t have good manners.”
“Shaytan, was worshipping, he was worshipping that no man, if you put them all together from the beginning of Adam until the end of the world, that much worshipping that he was doing and the faith that he had, no one could reach. One thing made him to lose everything, he lost his good manner. One word, one wrong word, saying it, loosing his manner; loosing his faith, kicking him away from Divine Presence.”
“Why is Allah subhana wa ta ala giving us an example? Why is He sending that one to us saying look and learn? For what? For us to say that we are better than that one?”
“No! To take a lesson a lesson to understand and the faith, if a man has faith, that time his heart is trembling. Moving. He is very nervous that time. Before he opens his mouth, he gets nervous. He has to know what he saying and where the words are going to reach. He has to know, if he doesn’t, that faith is not a strong faith, its shaky faith. And that means it has a price, a worldly price, somewhere; somehow, Shaytan is going to run after that one to trick and to fool.”
Seyh Efendi concluded saying,
“Think about a tree. The trunk of the tree, the trunk and the roots is like the man’s faith. The branches, it is like the man’s good deeds that he is doing. The leaves, it is like the knowledge the man has. So what’s the most important thing on that tree? The fruit.
If you don’t have the fruit, why are you raising that tree, spending all that time for nothing! So the faith and good deeds and the knowledge must teach a man to give fruit. And the fruit is good manners, if you don’t have good manners you will be kicked away from Divine Presence. If you don’t have good manners, the people who have good manners will kick you away from them or they will send you away or if they cannot they will go away!”
Allah Almighty has sent the Holy Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) to teach good manners. And this good manner; this courtesy; this honor, this lifestyle of chivalry coming from the Holy Prophet (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) was transmitted to Hazreti Abu Bakr Siddiq (ra) and from him, down the line; down the chain of forty Grand Shaykhs of the Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Tarikat holding tightly to the way of our Master Maulana Muhammad (may Peace and Blessings be upon him). This fact has been mentioned in a number of scholarly sources saying,
“Some orders, such as the Ottoman (but not the Indian) Naksibendiye, required their followers to adhere strictly to the articles of religious law. Jurists and theologians were more often among the members of such orders”
Another scholar writes,
“If the Naqshbandiyya was “the order of the ulama,” as has been suggested, in the Ottoman capital of our period it was both more and less than that. Numerous men of religion were indeed attracted to this tariqa. This is not only suggested by hagiographers such as Lami Celebi or Mustafa b. Hayreddin, with their hyperbolic assertions that most of Ahmad Bukhari’s disciples came from upper echelons of the ‘ilmiye or that Sa’ban Efendi, a century later, had as his “heart and soul” disciples “most [of the capital’s] glorious ‘ulema and illustrious shaykhs.” The same connection is reflected in the profusion of Naqshbandi disciples and shaykhs among the minor religious functionaries (mosque preachers and prayer leaders, personal tutors, calligraphers, copiers of fatwas) that fill the masha’ikh chapters in the biographical dictionaries.”
Latifi wrote in his Tezkere,
“Of all the ways of the shaykhs, this way [in particular] is considered by seri’at-minded ‘ulema to be in conformity with the Prophet’s practice and the Holy Law. It is for this reason that most men of religion… who choose withdrawal [and take up the devotional life] opt for this way.”
The scholars’ accounts of the historical culture of Osmanli Naks-i’bendi tarikat and its strict abeyance to the Holy Prophet’s way is exactly what I find today. And inshaAllah, with Shaykh Abdul Kerim’s help and support (himmat), those on this way will make the Holy Prophet’s Traditions (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) a lifestyle so that perhaps one day, we may bear fruit. That fruit being a far reaching culture of good manners, courtesy and honor, Islamic chivalry.
- Royal Chivalry. http://steppenreiter.de/royal_chivalry.htm
- Faroqhi (2007), p. 67
- Le Gall (2005), p. 55
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Moravia
MORAVIA (in German Mähren), a margraviate and crownland in the Cisleithan part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, lies between 15° 5′ and 18° 45′ E. long., and 48° 50′ and 50° 10′ N. lat. Its superficial extent is about 8580 square miles. Physically Moravia may be described as a mountainous plateau sloping from north to south, and bordered on three sides by mountain ranges of considerable elevation. On the north it is separated from Austrian and Prussian Silesia by the Sudetes, which attain a height of 4775 feet in the Altvater or Schneeberg, and sink gradually towards the west, where the valley of the Oder forms a break between the German mountains and the Carpathians. The latter are the dividing range between Moravia and Hungary, having here an average height of 3000 to 4000 feet. On the west are the so-called Bohemian-Moravian mountains, forming the elevated east margin of Bohemia and descending in terraces, but without clearly-defined ridges, to the river March. Branches of these different ranges intersect the whole country, making the surface very irregular, except towards the south, where it consists of fertile and extensive plains. Owing to this configuration of the soil the climate varies more than might be expected in so small an area, so that, while the vine and maize are cultivated successfully in the southern plains, the weather in the mountainous districts is somewhat rigorous. The mean average temperature at Brünn is 48 Fahr. The harvest amid the mountains is often four or five weeks later than that in the south. Almost the whole of Moravia belongs to the basin of the March or Morava, from which it derives its name, and which, after traversing the entire length of the country in a course of 140 miles and receiving numerous tributaries (Thaya, Hanna, &c.), enters the Danube at Pressburg. The Oder rises among the mountains in the north-east of Moravia, but soon turns to the north and quits the country. With the exception of a stretch of the March none of the rivers are navigable. Moravia is destitute of lakes, but contains numerous large ponds. There are also several mineral springs.
Nearly 97 per cent. of the soil of Moravia is productive, arable land occupying 53, gardens and meadows 8·5, pasturage 9, and forests 26 per cent. of the total. It is one of the chief corn-growing regions of the Austrian empire, and also produces excellent hemp, flax, potatoes, vegetables, and fruit. The following table shows the amount of the chief crops in 1881:—
|Rye||1,242,480||„||Beet (for sugar)||11,533,340||„|
Large quantities of hay and other fodder, besides hops, clover-seed, anise, fennel, &c., are also raised. The forests on the slopes of the Sudetes produce abundance of excellent timber. The live-stock of Moravia in 1880 consisted of 122,858 horses, 677,807 cattle, 158,852 sheep, 205,976 swine, and 116,880 goats. The breed of sheep on the Carpathians is of an improved quality, and the horses bred in the fertile plain of the Hanna are highly esteemed. Geese and poultry are also reared. In 1880 Moravia contained 83,440 beehives, and the produce of wax and honey may be estimated at 3500 to 4000 cwts.
The mineral wealth of Moravia, consisting chiefly of coal and iron, is very considerable. In 1881 the produce included 392,625 tons of anthracite coal, 50,665 tons of lignite, 5700 tons of iron-ore, 1713 tons of graphite, and smaller quantities of alum, potter's clay, and roofing-slate. The mines give employment to 4500 persons, and the annual value of the raw minerals produced is about £370,000. The amount of raw and cast iron produced by the ironworks and foundries in 1880 was 40,000 tons, and the value about £320,000.
In point of industry Moravia belongs to the foremost provinces of the empire. The principal manufactures are woollen, cotton, linen, and cast-iron goods, beet-sugar, leather, and brandy. Its woollen cloths and flannels, the manufacture of which centres in Brünn, have long been celebrated. The linen manufacture is decreasing in importance as cotton manufactures develop. The quantity of sugar made from beetroot is steadily increasing; in 1880 about 600,000 cwts. of sugar were produced in fifty-seven factories. About 10 per cent. of the total value of the manufactures of Austria, representing an annual amount of £13,000,000 to £15,000,000, falls to the share of Moravia. The trade of Moravia consists mainly in the exchange of the various raw and manufactured materials above mentioned for colonial produce, salt, and raw manufacturing material. The lack of navigable rivers or canals is compensated by good roads and an extensive railway system. The most important commercial towns are Brünn for manufactures and Olmütz for live-stock.
In educational matters Moravia compares favourably with most of the Austrian states. It contains 10 gymnasia, 10 real-gymnasia, 13 real-schools, numerous schools for special purposes, and nearly 2000 lower schools. The old university of Brünn is now represented by a technical academy and a theological seminary. Of children of school-going age 79 per cent. attend school regularly. In 1870 about 46 per cent. of the Moravian recruits could write their names, as compared with the extremes of 831 per cent. in Lower Austria and 11 per cent. in Dalmatia. Fully 95 per cent. of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the archbishop of Olmütz and the bishop of Brünn, while about 2 per cent. are Jews, and 3 per cent. Protestants.
Moravia belongs to the group of old Slavonic states which have preserved their nationality while losing their political independence. Upwards of 70 per cent, of the inhabitants are Slavs, who are scarcely distinguishable from their Bohemian neighbours. The differences in dialect between the two countries are very slight, and are being gradually lost in a common literary language. The name of Czech, however, is usually reserved for the Bohemians, while the Slavs of Moravia and West Hungary are called Moravians and Slovaks. The Czechs have lost sight of their ancient tribal names, but the Moravians are still divided into numerous secondary groups (Hovaks, Hanaks, &c.), differing slightly in costume and dialect. The peasants usually wear a national costume. In the south of Moravia are a few thousand Croats, still reserving their manners and language after three centuries separation from their kinsmen in Croatia; and in the north-east are numerous Poles. The Germans form about 26 per cent. of the population, and are found mostly in the towns and in the border districts. The Jews are the best educated of the inhabitants, and in a few small towns form a full half of the population. Their sympathies generally lie with the Germans. In 1880 the population was 2,153,407, showing an increase of 136,133 since 1869. Moravia is one of the most densely-populated parts of Austria-Hungary, the proportion being 252 persons per square mile. About 12 per cent. of the births are illegitimate. The chief towns are Brünn, the capital and industrial centre (82,660 inhabitants), Olmütz, a strong fortress defending the "Moravian Gate" (20,176 inhabitants), Znaim, and Iglau.
History.—At the earliest period of which we have any record Moravia was occupied by the Boii, the Celtic race which has perpetuated its name in Bohemia. Afterwards it was inhabited by the Germanic Quadi, who accompanied the Vandals in their westward migration; and they were replaced in the 5th century by the Rugii and Heruli. The latter tribes were succeeded about the year 550 A.D. by the Lombards, and these in their turn were soon forced to retire before an overwhelming invasion of Slavs, who, on their settlement there, took the name of Moravians (German, Mehranen or Mahren) from the river Morava. These new colonists became the permanent inhabitants of this district, and in spite of the hostility of the Avars on the east founded the kingdom of Great Moravia, which was considerably more extensive than the province now bearing the name. Towards the end of the 8th century they aided Charlemagne in putting an end to the Avar kingdom, and were rewarded by receiving part of it, corresponding to North Hungary, as a fief of the German emperor, whose supremacy they also acknowledged more or less for their other possessions. After the death of Charlemagne the Moravian princes took advantage of the dissensions of his successors to enlarge their territories and assert their independence, and Rastislaus (circa 850) even formed an alliance with the Bulgarians and the Byzantine emperor. The chief result of the alliance with the latter was the conversion of the Moravians to Christianity by two Greek monks, Cyril and Methodius, despatched from Constantinople. Rastislaus finally fell into the hands of Louis the German, who blinded him, and forced him to end his days as a monk; but his successor, Suatopluk ( ob. 890), was equally vigorous, and extended the kingdom of Great Moravia to the Oder on the west and the Gran on the east. At this period there seemed a strong probability of the junction of the north-western and south-eastern Slavs, and the formation of a great Slavonic power to the east of the German empire. This prospect, however, was dissipated by the invasions of the Magyar hordes in the 10th century, the brunt of which was borne by Moravia. The invaders were encouraged by the German monarchs and aided by the dissensions and mismanagement of the successors of Suatopluk, and in a short time completely subdued the eastern part of Great Moravia. The name of Moravia was henceforth confined to the district to which it now applies. For about a century the possession of this marchland was disputed by Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia, but in 1029 it was finally incorporated with Bohemia, and so became an integral part of the German empire. Towards the close of the 12th century Moravia was raised to the dignity of a margraviate, but with the proviso that it should be held as a fief of the crown of Bohemia. It henceforth shared the fortunes of this country, and was usually assigned as an apanage to younger members of the Bohemian royal house. In 1410 Jobst, margrave of Moravia, was made emperor of Germany, but died a few months after his election. In 1526, on the death of Louis II. of Hungary, Moravia came with the rest of that prince's possessions into the hands of the Austrian house. During the Thirty Year' War the depopulation of Moravia was so great that after the peace of Westphalia the states-general published an edict giving every man permission to take two wives, in order to "repeople the country." After the Seven Years' War Moravia was united in one province with the remnant of Silesia, but in 1849 it was made a separate and independent crownland. The most noticeable feature of recent Moravian history has been the active sympathy of its inhabitants with the anti-Teutonic home-rule agitation of the Bohemian Czechs (see Bohemia).
Authorities.—Dudik, Mährens allgemeine Geschichte (Brünn, 1860-76); Wolny, Die Markgrafschaft Mähren, topographisch, statistisch, und historisch geschildert (Brünn, 1835-40); D'Elvert, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Neugestaltung Mährens im 17ten Jahrhundert (1867); Trampler, Heimatskunde der Mark Mähren (Vienna, 1877); Statistische Jahrbücher of the Imperial Statistical Commission (Vienna). (J. F. M.) | <urn:uuid:505fb629-76dd-4b8d-b965-e1da22dc8058> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Moravia | 2019-08-22T01:38:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316555.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822000659-20190822022659-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.955571 | 2,654 |
Decoding GST for Realty
As Goods and Services Tax (GST), one of the biggest tax reforms in the country rolls out, the real-estate players look forward to its impact clubbed with recently introduced RERA on the sector.
After initiatives like “Housing for all” and RERA, GST is all set to go a long way in ensuring efficiency in the realty sector. GST will free homebuyers and investors from the hassle of paying several state taxes at different levels, therefore removing the double taxation impact. It will also help cut cash component in construction, as inputs have to be obtained from registered vendors to get input tax credits. GST is likely to boost foreign investment and benefit the NRI community for investment in real estate because of the simplification of taxation. From the consumer point of view, the major advantage would be in terms of decrease in the overall tax burden on goods which is currently estimated about 25%-30%.
While the impact of GST on various sectors and goods is now known, industry experts are still divided over how GST will impact real-estate going ahead as clarity on the tax slabs for services is still awaited.
Sukhraj Nahar, Chairman and Managing Director of Nahar Group elaborated, “GST would help cut cash component in construction, as inputs have to be obtained from registered vendors to get input tax credits. The construction of a complex building, civic construction is under 12 percent tax bracket with full input tax credit (ITC) subject to no refund in case of overflow of ITC and the better efficiency in logistics should also help reduce prices of good. But, if we talk about nitty-gritty’s of the GST , in some cases, even input credit will be more than the GST levied on the finished product, but a developer can claim a maximum credit to the extent of the GST he would be paying on the finished product. As per the provisions of GST, it can be expected that GST may lead to input cost deflation for construction industry as credit of taxes paid on various inputs used in the construction activities will be available which is not available in current tax regime.”
Brijesh Verma, Resident Partner and Co-Head, Indirect Taxes (GST), Kochhar & Co cited an example of the mixed result of GST and the challenges, “The major challenge will be the availability of credits. For example, a builder constructs 100 flats out of which 50 are booked. The developer has already purchased the construction material on which he has paid VAT and it also imbeds an element of central excise for which he doesn’t have the central excise invoice. With the implementation of GST, as the project is partially complete, he should ideally get the credit when he is being charged at 12 percent on his output instead of 4.5 percent. Though it can be said that the burden of additional 7.5 percent will be on the customer but this makes the project unfavorable among buyers.”
A vast majority of construction materials have been placed in the 28% tax slab (slightly higher than current tax rates), hence the cost of internal fittings such as ceramic articles, tiles, granites, amongst others may go up marginally; an increase that might be transferred onto buyers. An exception to this will be residential projects launched under the PMAY which have been exempted from the ambit of the GST.
The Council has allowed for 100% Input Tax Credit (ITC) on the raw materials and services used for such construction activity. This will encourage transparency, increase tax compliance and reduce dependence on cash because the ITC can only be availed if raw materials are sourced from GST registered vendors; even though the sector might take its own time in adjusting to the new guidelines, given the extent of unorganized segment in the industry.
Anshuman Magazine, Chairman, India & South East Asia – CBRE India is of the view that as a large majority of goods used in the real-estate and construction segment are sourced from vendors operating in the unorganized space, identifying value additions at each stage for evaluating input tax credit is likely to be a challenge. “While the government has done its best by bringing in the regulation at the right economic cycle (low inflationary period), however the industry will need some time, before it completely understands the implications of the tax rate on operations and compliance.”
Under-Construction & Completed Properties
Under GST, an under-construction property is covered under works contract and classified as a service. The GST Council has decided to tax construction of a complex, building for sale to a buyer, wholly or partly, at 18%, which may lead to an increase in the cost of under-constructions properties. However, partly addressing the need of the industry to exclude land from the value of computing GST; the 18% tax would be chargeable on only two-thirds of the under-construction property value, which brings the effective GST rate on under-construction properties to 12%. Since completed and ready to move in properties cannot be classified as a service, both have been kept out of the purview of GST. Stamp duty and registration charges have also been kept out of the ambit of GST.
Residential & Commercial Segment
Impact of GST may vary according to the type of project and construction methods as only under construction flats are taxable under GST and input credits on sales of under construction flats are available to set off. Rental income from residential properties used for residential purposes would continue to be exempted under the GST regime and such properties were also exempted from service tax previously. Leasing of commercial, retail and warehousing properties has been put in the 18% tax slab, as compared to the current service tax of 15%. This is likely to increase the occupancy costs for occupiers in these segments. “Developer or Promoter has to collect taxes from customers from time to time and he is eligible to take input tax credit on goods as well as services used for construction activities. GST will help cut cash component in construction as products have to be sourced from registered vendors to get input tax credits,” added Sukhraj Nahar.
Currently under VAT system in Maharashtra, tax exemption is not available to affordable housing scheme. It is expected that there will be no tax under GST on housing projects as well as on inputs and input services used for projects which comes under affordable housing scheme. This will ensure cost inflation impact is not passed by promoters / developers to customers who purchase residential units under the affordable housing scheme.
Brijesh Verma stated, “There are concessions and exemptions for the scheme of affordable housing in terms of service tax but there is no such exemption under the GST law. Government might take the route of refund to the customer i.e. the taxes and credits levied will be refunded to the customers. In case of beneficiary led individual house construction enhancement under the Housing for All or Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, the pure labour contracts are exempted, but the material used will still be taxable. Therefore, the Government nodal agency, development authority or a housing board might purchase the material on their names and engage the contractors.”
The challenges and solutions highlighted by National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO)
- Given the fact that the GST Law has proposed to tax sale of under-construction real estate property at 12% on the total sale value, in addition to the stamp duty levied around 6% on the sale value, the tax burden is likely to increase to 18%, thereby, hugely impacting the cost of property.
Suggestion – Land deduction should be allowed under the GST law for taxability of the sale of real estate property and the GST rate for sale of under-construction property should not be more than 6% on the agreement value.
- It is a known fact that builders acquire land on long term lease for the purpose of development and construction of building on that land and later offer to give the constructed units on a long term lease for a consideration which is a lump sum amount of the premium. However, under the exemption made available under GST, only premium charged for any lease of 30 years or more to any industrial unit or plot is exempted.
Suggestion – A similar exemption needs to be extended in all cases (residential/housing plots and others) for any purpose.
- Under GST law, only sale of land and sale of building (i.e., after its completion) is exempted and grant of development rights is not included.
Suggestion – It should also be included under GST on the basis of the exemption granted for sale of land as it is well-recognized in law that property is a bundle of rights whereby the property can be transacted by transfer of any or all rights and development right is one of the constituent of such a bundle of rights.
- Since the tax burden is likely to increase to almost 18% on the purchase of housing property, the common man may find it difficult to afford the additional tax burden. The increase in tax shall tentatively come out to be around 4% besides existing tax in affordable housing projects, so for the general benefit.
Suggestion – Exemption should continue to be provided for affordable housing projects as well as single residential units.
- On one hand, GST is sought to be levied on a completed commercial immovable property renting; on the other hand, input credit on such construction is disallowed possibly on the presumption that after completion of construction there is no GST applicable. Keeping in mind the fact that one of the primary objectives behind the introduction of GST Law is to enable seamless flow of input tax credit across the value chain.
Suggestion – Input tax credit of construction of property for renting/leasing purposes should be allowed.
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HOWTO: Installing and configuring an Intel Dialogic ISDN PRI DM3 Fax board for use with Zetafax
This Zetafax technical note applies to:
- Zetafax version 22.214.171.124 or later
Zetafax can be configured for use with Intel Dialogic Fax boards. The Intel Dialogic fax boards currently supported by Equisys for use with Zetafax are:
ANALOG: CPI200PCI, CPI200B2, CPI400PCI, CPI400B2
ISDN BRI: CPI400BRIPCIU
ISDN PRI: CPI24001T1PCIU, CPI30001E1PCIU
This technical note will discuss how to configure Zetafax for use with the CPI30001E1PCIU or CPI24001T1PCIU Primary rate DM3 fax boards. The Intel Dialogic software required for this installation is available on the Zetafax 126.96.36.199 product CD, alternatively it can be downloaded from the Intel website using the following link:
The Intel Dialogic software to be installed is the GDK5.1.1 System release accompanied by Service Pack 1.
Note: Intel has also released a Feature Pack 1 for the GDK5.1.1 - for more information please contact Intel or refer to their website.
The user account used to carry out the installation and configuration needs to have Local Administrator rights on the machine.
This technical note assumes that you are configuring a single fax board and hence the Board ID of the fax board you are configuring is set to 0. Please ensure the rotary switch at the front of the board is set to 0, the factory default setting.
The second assumption made in this technical note is that this is the first time the Intel Dialogic software is being installed on the machine; if there has been a previous installation of the software this needs to be completely uninstalled prior to this installation.
The main stages of this installation are:
- Installing the GDK5.1.1 System release and Service Pack 1 drivers
- Configuring the DM3 fax board using the Intel Dialogic software
- Configuring the Intel Fax board as a Zetafax device
Installing the Intel Dialogic GDK5.1.1 software for DM3 fax boards
Before installing any software exit all Windows programs.
- Run the SR5.1 install, either from the Zetafax product CD or from the downloaded file from the Intel website. You will be prompted with the following dialog box.
- Click "Next". At this point you will be asked if you would like to read the release guide. If you click "yes" the system release guide window will appear on the screen ready for viewing. If you click "no", you will be given the opportunity to read it once the installation is complete.
- You will then be prompted for registration details, once complete click "Next".
- At the next screen the following setup options will be presented:
- Click on the "CUSTOM" button to open the Custom Component Selection dialogue:
- Select "Drivers, Firmware & Configuration files", "ISDN Package", "DM3" and "GDK" and click "Next".
- Leave the dialogue box asking you to select the ISDN protocol blank, as when installing a DM3 fax board you do not need to specify a protocol. Click "Next" to move to the DM3 Component Selection settings.
- Check only the "DM3FAX" box.
- Install the files to the default location (i.e. C:\Program Files\Dialogic)
- In the "Setup Options Summary" dialogue box, check the settings are correct and click "Next" to start the installation.
- Once the installation is complete you can read the Release guide. After reading the release guide you have to reboot the machine to complete the installation.
- Once the machine has been rebooted Service Pack 1 needs to be applied. For installation instructions please refer to the read me file available with the Service Pack or for more detailed information please refer to the SP1 Release notes. Once the Service Pack has been applied, reboot the machine again before configuring the card.
Intel Dialogic System Configuration
Work through the following steps to configure the dialogic software to communicate with the installed hardware.
- The DM3 fax card is configured using the GDK Dialogic Configurator, which can be accessed through: Start | Programs | Intel Dialogic System Software | Configure GDK.
- Next configure the Network interface of the DM3 board by clicking the "DCM Utility" button. You will be asked where the device is installed; in this case the card is installed on the local computer, which is called "ESC-01". Note: You may configure the card remotely at this point however you need to know the name of the machine where the card is installed.
- Click the "Connect" button. This will prompt the Intel Dialogic Configuration Manager to start the detection phase of the board.
- During the detection you will be prompted to assign a firmware file, highlight the "gdk_isdn_net5.pcd" file and click "OK".
- Once the firmware file has been selected and the detection process is complete the Dialogic configuration manager dialogue box will appear:
- This displays the current DM3 devices installed on the machine, and the installed fax card should be visible along with the Bus it is configured on. Double click on "Bus-0" and ensure that "Media type (user defined)" is set to "ALaw".
- Also ensure that the "NETREF One FRU (User Defined)" value is set correctly.
- For E1 (Europe), set this parameter to "GDK_E1 0"
- For T1 (USA), set this parameter to "GDK_T1 0".
- In order to change the Parameter you need to type the specified parameter in the Value field and click "Apply". Click "OK" to exit this dialogue box and also exit out of the "Dialogic Configuration Manager" dialogue box. This will return you to the "Dialogic GDK Configurator" dialogue box.
- Next click the "Control Panel Applet" under "Fax Configuration".
- Click "AutoDetect", to start the detection process for all the available fax channels on the board. The following warning message will appear:
- As this is a new installation of the fax board click "OK" and the board detection process will complete.
- After clicking "OK" the following dialogue box will appear, showing all the available Fax channels that have been detected:
- As can be seen for this installation of the CPI30001E1PCIU card 30 channels have been detected and defined as 7 CP/4-LS1 (28 Channels) and 1 CPi/200 (2 Channels); this is for backwards compatibility. If however you were installing the CPI24001T1PCIU card 24 channels would have been detected. Click "OK"
- Next select "Import Predefined Configuration".
- The following dialogue will appear displaying all the predefined Configuration settings available:
- The configuration file chosen here will depend upon whether you are installing the CPI30001E1PCIU or the CPI24001T1PCIU and the type of protocol you are using.
- For the CPI30001E1PCIU select the "gdk_isdn_net5_CPi3000CTE1.prf" file (As in Europe only 1 protocol is supported). For the CPI24001T1PCIU you can choose between a number of .prf files, dependent upon the protocol in use. Please contact your telecoms provider for further information on the protocol in use.
- Once you have chosen the appropriate file click "Open" and select the number of trunks, i.e. the number of cards installed:
- Select the appropriate number; in this case 1, and click "OK" to go back to the "GDK Dialogic Configurator" box where you need to select the "Dispatcher" tab:
- The "Activate Transparent PRI Layer" is selected.
- The "Number of Trunks" is set to "1".
- The "Channels per Trunk" is set to "30", (Set to 24 if configuring the CPI24001T1CPIU).
- The "Line Interface" is set to "DM3".
Once all these settings have been confirmed click "OK", to complete the configuration.
NOTE: IF USING A FRACTIONAL PRI LINE THE CONFIGURATION SETTINGS OUTLINED ABOVE ARE NOT APPLICABLE. PLEASE REFER TO THE TECHNICAL NOTE ZTN1283 FOR THE CONFIGURATION DETAILS.
Configuring the Intel Dialogic Fax Board as a Zetafax Device
Once the device has been installed and configured using the Intel Dialogic software the device needs to be added and configured as a Zetafax fax device.
- Start the Zetafax configuration console - Start | Programs | Zetafax | Zetafax Configuration and select "Devices.
- Right click on "Devices and select "Add". This will bring up the "Device Configuration Wizard".
- Click "Next". You will then be prompted to select the type of device you are trying to add.
- Select "GammaLink fax board channel" and click on the "Add" button. You will then be asked to configure the settings for the device:
- By default the "Connected on port" will default to Channel 1 and as you are configuring the first channel this can be left at the default. This parameter is where the Zetafax device is associated with the GammaLink logical fax channel. In the description field name the device - e.g. Intel Dialogic DM3 card Channel 1.
- Configure a dial prefix - (i.e. 9, for external line) and an Organisation name to appear on the header line of each outgoing fax page.
- Specify a user to receive all incoming faxes on that channel, if the channel is used for outgoing faxes only then leave this set to "disabled". If however you want to use the channel for incoming calls only then select a user to receive incoming faxes and check the tick box "Use for incoming calls only". Click "OK".
- The added device can now be viewed under "Configured devices". A device needs to be added and configured within Zetafax for each ISDN channel used. In this scenario we are installing a 30 Channel PRI card, therefore we need to add and configure a further 29 devices in the same way.
- Note:The second device should be configured on port "Channel2" and the 3rd on "Channel3" and so on all the way till the 30th device on "Channel30", i.e. GAMMA-1 on CHANNEL1, GAMMA-2 on CHANNEL2, GAMMA3 on CHANNEL3 and so on.
- Once all the devices have been added click "Next" and then click "Finish" to complete the installation.
- Stop and restart the Zetafax server and once all the configured devices are initialised successfully, they will be sitting idle ready to send and/or receive faxes:
For additional information on configuring and troubleshooting Intel Dialogic Primary rate DM3 fax cards please refer to the following technical notes:
ZTN1283 HOWTO: Configure an Intel Dialogic CPI30001E1PCIU and CPI24001T1PCIU for use with a Fractional PRI line
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The writer introduces the reader to a suite of scripturally established exhortative messages. those short messages are the canvas on which the writer paints a compelling trip of useful software of biblical precepts and rules, putting the reader on a pathway vivid with the promise of non secular development and blessings.
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I hardly dare admit it but I’d never made chocolate brownies until this weekend so I decided that Halloween was as good as excuse as any to have a go. These are delicious. They contain more chocolate than can possibly be good for anyone but we’re not complaining. And we made them suitably scary with the addition of these ghoulish sticks of decorating joy.
by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Fizz Carr
250g good dark chocolate
200g unsalted butter
200g caster sugar
3 free-range eggs
125g plain flour
50g cocoa powder
100g broken walnuts
Pre-heat oven to 160C/gas mark 3. Put 3-4cm water into a saucepan and bring it to a simmer. Break chocolate up, cut up the butter, and place both in a mixing bowl. Put it over the pan of simmering water and turn the heat off. Stir until melted together and smooth.
In another bowl whisk the sugar with the eggs, using the balloon whisk, until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Add chocolate mixture to the eggs; mix thoroughly with wooden spoon.
Sift flour and cocoa powder and mix thoroughly. Stir in walnuts if you have decided to use them. Line the baking tin with a piece of foil and pour in the mixture. Oven gloves on. Place the tin on a shelf in the middle of the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Oven gloves back on. Take the tin out of the oven and stand on wire rack. Leave until cool enough to cut into squares.
And to accompany my baking we of course had to have a pumpkin who, carved by my husband, looks like he might have overindulged with one too many brownies.
Yes, I’ll enjoy doing some needlework in front of the fire during the cold Winter months. I should have this done in time for Christmas if I do a little bit every night. That was 3 years ago and I’ve done a despairing one line of said Emily Peacock Kiss tapestry and it now sits in a bag on a shelf near the sofa laughing at me. But still I’m determined, and strangely convinced, that I will finish it. One day. Just as soon as I work out the instructions and manage to stay awake past 9pm.
I like making things but for some reason I still haven’t learned that I’m not nearly as good as I hope I am and that these crafty things take far more patience than I will ever have. I blame Kirsty and Cath Kidston and all those women I hate to like. I don’t want to be one of them, I’m too busy doing other busy, modern woman about the countryside sort of things.
So, as I get ready for another episode of Kirsty’s Homemade Britain which I shall watch whilst lounging comfortably on the piles of envelope cushions which litter my sofa (they’re addictively easy to make once you get the hang of it) I’ve found something else I want to have a go at. These advent calendar kits from Cox and Cox not only look lovely in the pictures but I reckon they’ll look even lovelier when hanging on the wall and my children will think I’m the best Christmas Mum in the world. My husband says I’ll never finish them and he’s seen a chocolate Lego calendar which they’ll like much more. He’s probably right but I’m going to give it a go. I’ll just try the one – they can share, they’ll like that. Who’d want a chocolate advent calendar all made and ready to go, when they can have a half-finished, homemade one filled with whatever I can find lying around the house the night before. No contest surely.
Absolutely Nothing but COS by Mel Moss
Absolutely Nothing To Buy : Blankets and Throws by Samantha Taylor
Absolutely Nothing To Wear : Stripes by Mel Moss
Absolutely Nothing To Buy : The Perfect Card by Mel Moss
Absolutely Nothing To Cook : Pimp Up Your Pies by Cafe Salvation
We’re very excited to have the deliciously clever Helen Creese from Cafe Salvation contributing to ANTW. She will be sharing some of her most popular recipes from their wonderful menu and to start we have everyone’s favourite Winter warmer…..PIES!
“I may well regret saying this but at last, it’s cold enough to get some winter warmers on the menu! The woodburners arrival in the café is imminent, so to keep us toastie in the run up to its installation, last week we cooked up our tasty Punjabi Pie.
This dish reminds me of my childhood. My Dad is a fantastic cook and I spent most evenings as a kid whiling away an evening in the kitchen, chatting to my Pops whilst subconsciously absorbing everything he was doing. Pops is a fan of spice and loves to experiment with food, adapting recipes to better suit his tastes, and this dish is a prime example of that.
Based on our British Classic, Cottage Pie, the secret to Punjabi Pie lies in the spice mix added to the onion and garlic during the first stages of cooking. For 500g of beef, start by frying one red onion and 2-3 cloves of garlic (depending on size of cloves and how much you enjoy the flavour). Add one stick of chopped celery and one diced carrot. When the onion and veg are soft, add a healthy palm-full (sorry, I don’t use measured devices, but if you cup your fingers to create a well in your palm, you’ll have the right amount) of ground cumin, coriander and half a palm-full of turmeric. Stir until aromatic, then add your beef to the onion and spice mix. Season well, add some tomato puree and fresh red chilli (quantity dependent on how hot you like it), and once the beef is browned, add a tin of chopped tomatoes. Half-fill your tin with water and add this to your mixture. Taste and alter your seasoning to suit. Wack in the oven for 30-40 minutes and crack on with your mash topping.
Pops would use a mixture of potatoes and swede; I opted for pots and sweet potato (mainly because I like the colour and I eat with my eyes). Boil both veg – about 3 good sized potatoes and one sweet potato for 500g beef – in salted water until soft, drain and mash with plenty of salt and pepper and a generous knob of butter. We like to throw in some grated cheddar (again, it gives the mash a glorious golden colour as well as tasting yummy). Take the beef mixture out of the oven and pop in to your serving dish, spread the mash over the top (make it nice and thick, there’s nothing worse than an anorexic pie topping), and sprinkle on a bit more grated cheddar. Pop the dish back in the oven for about 25-30 mins (depending on your oven: I use an Aga, so in a conventional oven I’d have it on 190 for 25-30 mins). Once your topping is golden and smelling amazing, your pie is ready!
Why not Pimp Up your Pies?! You can add a twist to most run-of-the-mill recipes, turning wet, weekday suppers in to dramatic delights, just with the addition of a few spices, fresh herbs, lemon or lime juice….it really can be that simple. I’m looking forward to taking the Punjabi Pie in to another realm: Sherpa’s Pie will involve lamb, fresh ginger, chilli, toasted cumin and coriander seeds, maybe some lentils and spinach…I’m undecided on my mash topping – any suggestions? Our lovely customers enjoyed their slices of Punjabi with some Glorious Green Beans (Granny Smith’s runners always have been, and always will be, the sweetest runner beans I’ve ever tasted) and a delicious dollop of spicy red lentils. Hungry, anyone?”
Find Salvation here……
Our opening hours are:
Thursday: 0930 – 1500
Friday: 0930 – 1700
Saturday: 1000 – 1700
Lower Mitchell Barn, Nr Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 1EG
T: 01531 636380
I must have appeared rather rude as a child. I hardly ever thanked people in writing for any of the gifts received at Christmas or on birthdays. I’m not sure if I just didn’t see the point, or was just a bit too lazy, or had thanked them in my head and so thought that I didn’t need to actually tell them. It’s no wonder relatives got cross. I’d be furious.
So now, be it as an act of guilt or a reaction to email over kill, I love nothing better than sending hand written cards. I have a drawer full of postcards and notecards which I can dip in to at any time when a “Thank You” or a “Welcome to the World” or a “Happy Birthday” is required. And I have a couple of favourite places I go to time and time again to find the perfect card.
The first is Archivist. A small and perfectly formed printing press based in Oxfordshire who do the most beautiful letterpress cards as well as a Natural History collection (created from exclusive access to the NH archives) and hand printed notelets. You can buy them online or in selected retailers including John Lewis and Paperchase.
The second is Nineteen Seventy Three. An online emporium with some of the most fabulous postcards, greeting cards, wrapping paper, invitations, notebooks and all sorts. With collections from various illustrators and artists including The Good Life, Darling Clementine, Belle and Boo and Sukie, there really is something for everyone. You can buy them direct from their online store or from various retailers.
I could go on and on and on and there will be probably be many updates to this post. For now though, thank you very much.
I was never really in to stripes for myself until quite recently. I have always been in to stripes for my boys. They just seem to suit them from end to end. Stripes have always been notoriously unflattering, they widen everything – I’m talking horizontal here, vertical is a whole different story and needs to be approached with extra caution. My children were both tiny babies and giant toddlers but regardless I wrapped them both in as many straight lines as I could get my hands on. The stripe – for adult or child – has to be right though and it’s worth investing a bit of time and money in to finding the ones which really do work.
When it comes to the children I am a Polarn O Pyret addict. They do a stripe better than any other I know. From leggings – which I absolutely swear by for little boys – to long sleeved tees, all in ones, socks, hats and pants, they are the very very best. They have lasted me through two incredibly active boy babies and are still going strong.
So, after years of telling me that stripes made his “eyes go funny”, my husband recently came back from New York with bundles of stripey offerings for both me and the children. I hadn’t asked for anything apart from a denim shirt from Levis – which he found and is perfect – but I did mention that J.Crew might be worth a visit if he did feel
guilty for leaving me for 10 days that I might need anything else. That was as much direction as he was given and blimey did he do well. I am now the proud owner of 4 of the very best J.Crew stripey tops I never even knew existed. Each one a little bit different in colour or style and very well considered indeed. I would never have been this generous on myself. I’m in stripe heaven and I may be here for some time.
So to end this rather self satisfied post about stripes you might be pleased to know that J.Crew have a UK online store now which is very good news for wardrobes everywhere. And there seems to be a bit of a sale on at the moment so definitely worth a look.
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Although thanks to lots of positive lifestyle changes my anxiety is kept to a minimum now, I do still have flair ups and suffer with the occasional anxiety attack. You have to accept this, recognise the signs and try to manage them as best as you can, unfortunately there is no cure for anxiety and it will sadly never disappear from my life forever. I am just grateful the outbreaks are now few and far between rather than a weekly occurrence.
Being able to recognise your triggers is a really helpful way to manage anxiety. They will be different for everyone and some you may be able to avoid at large (for example being confined to a small space, going on a alcohol or drugs binge or facing a big height) others however will be unavoidable parts of life. Here you have to be able to say to yourself “I recognise I am feeling anxious because of x, it’s causing me to feel x and x in response and this is why I am feeling this way”. By acknowledging that the way you’re feeling has in fact been brought upon by an external factor it may make you feel you have more control over the situation.
It’s not always obvious what your triggers are, or why they are in fact triggers and it may take you several months or years of anxiety to figure out a pattern. For me being ill is a trigger, as well as unexpected big changes of plans. As my anxiety is social anxiety I obviously also struggle when socialising with big groups of people, especially if I don’t know them very well. In fact any kind of extended period of social interaction is challenging to me, it certainly doesn’t come naturally.
As you can see from my triggers these are certainly not things I can just avoid. You can’t go through life without being sick from time to time, you certainly can’t avoid change, in fact you need change in life and it shouldn’t be something you fear. Social events and interactions are a daily part of life, not only that but they can bring immense amounts of pleasure. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that I hate all socialising; I just find it really difficult sometime and I crave my own space too. My ideal is to be surrounded by small/medium groups of people who I feel comfortable with for an evening or a day but then I do need my own time afterwards. Some people are comfortable, even relish, being surrounded by big groups of new people all the time, and that’s brilliant however it’s not something I will ever feel natural doing.
I recently had some anxiety struggles I want to share with you on holiday. It’s easy to talk to you about how to change your life to help avoid anxiety but it’s also really important to address how to manage anxiety when it rears its ugly head. Now being on holiday is something one assumes will be totally stress free and unlikely to cause any anxiety. So when it does happen it can make it even more difficult, as you believe others really wont understand why you’re feeling that way. They may think, “God, x is really ungrateful, look how amazing all this is and they’re still not happy” Obviously this isn’t the case and there is a lot more going on than what appears on the surface. This judgment and frustration can cause big feelings of guilt for the anxiety sufferer, which then increases anxiety. This mag cause the sufferer to start to isolate themselves; again this will only increase anxiety and make them feel worse. It’s a vicious circle.
I could recognise why I was feeling so anxious; we were on a boat with a group of friends (who were all lovely and I knew really well, I must just mention) and on the first day we had hit very rough seas. I’m not usually seasick but as you know I am pregnant and I also have very low blood pressure at the moment. Both these things had obviously increased the effects of the high winds and huge waves that were rocking the boat and I was very, very sick. It was a long, terrifying journey for me with no respite; both my head and my stomach were in turmoil. As I’ve already mentioned being ill and social interactions are triggers for me. While I really enjoy the company of everyone on board it’s hard to have some time to yourself, especially when you don’t go into port. I think had I not been feeling the anxiety bought on by the sickness I would have been mentally strong enough to deal with the lack of ‘me time’, for want of a better phrase. However throw in the sickness (no nutrients inside me helping my body fight the attack) plus 3 bad nights sleep too and it all became a bit overwhelming. I couldn’t get back on an even keel.
How did I manage the anxiety? Well I recognised what was happening, then to help it sink in even more I wrote it all down and it became this blog! Whatever your outlet is it doesn’t matter, just try and turn your feelings into something positive and I promise it will make you feel much better. I didn’t let it ruin my trip, I just accepted it was an unpleasant but unavoidable part of my life, worked through it (with some help from my husband and friends) and still had a lovely holiday. Thats all we can do, make steps in our lives to reduce the onset of anxiety then on the occasions it does affect us try and deal with the situations as best we can.
I just wanted to highlight with my story today how easy it can be to become anxious in situations that other people really wouldn’t expect you to. I know my husband (who now through reading and my experience really knows a lot about anxiety) can even sometimes struggle to understand why I feel like I do when I do. Especially with such beautiful surroundings and no work to worry about. When in contrast during the weeks leading up to the holiday I had managed an incredibly chaotic period of work, where I had far too many jobs in the timeframe I had to do them, without any anxiety. I could get everything done without it casing me any anxiety because work just isn’t a trigger for me.
It’s so important to try and recognise why you’re feeling the way you are in order to attempt to manage the effects, you also need to know what your limits are. Understanding gives us control and power, something anxiety sufferers often struggle with. The message here is to just be aware that others around you may be struggling with things that you find easy or even enjoy but take a moment to try and understand before you judge or form a negative opinion. There’s often way more going on than you think.
Todays recipe is one that I’ve been asked for a lot on Instagram recently but have been too busy to share, so I thought I’d share with you now. Oreo cheesecake swirl brownies…because everyone knows two desserts are better than one and of course chocolate makes everything a little better.
Oreo Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
FOR THE BROWNIE
150g dark chocolate, melted
250g soft butter
350g sugar (either caster or granulated are fine)
4 large eggs, beaten
70g cocoa powder
60g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
50g white chcolate chips (optional)
FOR THE CHEESECAKE
200g full fat soft cheese
1 large egg
150g sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp lemon juice
1 packet Oreo cookies, bashed to break into chunks
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a roughly 28 x 35 large rectangle roasting tray or with baking parchment (if you don’t have a large tray then do two smaller batches in the traditional square pans). Beat all the ingredients for the cheesecake in a small bowl until combined.
For the brownie layer put the butter and sugar into a mixer fitted with a paddle (or mix with electric hand beaters) and beat until pale and fluffy, about 2 mins. Add the eggs, little by little, beating well between each addition. Fold in the flour, cocoa, baking powder and melted chocolate and white choc chips (if using) mix until evenly combined.
Spoon big blobs of brownie mix into the tray leaving room for the cheesecake then pour or spoon that into the gaps. Use a chopstick or kebab stick to marble and combine the two layers together. (See video) You want it to all merge so you get a little cheesecake in each chunk. Top with the Oreos. Bake for 35-40 minutes, (check after 35 but they may take even longer especially if you’re usina smaller size tin) until when you shake the tray there is just a slight wobble in the centre. Cool then cut into squares. Can be frozen or kept in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week. | <urn:uuid:485527fb-5fe0-4bd2-9af4-4552b4086d2a> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://bakingyoubetter.com/2017/05/17/anxiety-triggers-oreo-cheesecake-swirl-brownies/ | 2019-08-24T15:43:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027321160.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824152236-20190824174236-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.969183 | 1,889 |
USHERING IN THE ELECTRIC CAR REVOLUTION TO DENALI NATIONAL PARK! My pleasure to help the first TESLA to drive the park road to play in our wonderful mountains and park. Sam and his wife drove up to our place from Anchorage on SOLAR POWER they installed on their home, charged on our solar powered charging stations, so enjoyed a almost completely fossil fuel free vacation! First folks to do this since everyone traveled via foot, dog teams, and stagecoach, which no-one even remembers was done before our modern times, and I am sure they all had a great time just like us gas guzzlers!
Proud to have pulled this off and to share it with our guests..... Denali National Parks first ( and only for now) SOLAR POWERED GUEST CABIN!
Walked out to our office this morning and saw this... what I have to put up with every day working on my homestead... SQUATTERS!!! Snuck in at night thinking they didn't need to pay to spend the night! Or, is it just that they want to let me know that they appreciate my efforts at changing and saving the world in my own simple way? Who knows, but being a grouchy old guy now.....
Tanner and I finally got both cabins open and had our first guests this weekend! This year we will keep them open till the end of September, so come STAY and PLAY with us for a few days!
Real good snow blizzard yesterday, 10" of heavy snow, so had to 'skin up' right out of the my place and cabins, and get a few last 'turns' in before all the snow is gone..... better than plowing or shoveling!
UPDATE on my latest experiment- 6000 watts of solar grid tie system with all electric car. First month of production, March 9 thru April 9, 5 miles north of Cantwell Alaska. These panels produced just over 800 KWHs of power. We only used 400 KWHs, mainly for driving around, app 700 miles worth. DID I TELL YOU I CAN MAKE "GAS" FOR THIS CAR NOW? We now have credit with GVEA for 400 KWHs just for the month of March's production which in this CHEVY car equals between 1200 to 2000 miles of driving!!!!! April's production will be much higher as more sun and I expanded the system to 8700 watts. For me, this has been more successful than I could have imagined. For me, driving around and not burning gas or diesel, no fumes, no noise has upped my quality of life by many degrees, Tanners, our guests, crew and everyone we drive past. HOW CAN I ENCOURAGE YOU TO START DOING THE SAME?
Enjoying myself powering our car, courtesy transportation for our fishing guests, EV public charging station and office with this 6000 watts of solar, gird tie system with help from Tanner and Renewable Energy Systems. Got room for an additional 3000 watts to be installed later this year. My first gird tie system! Learning new things helps keeps a person feeling young! This system brings us up to 14 KW of working solar panels right now on our homestead.....
FOR RENT- Getting back to making my living "IN" the wilderness, I have set up this Arctic Oven about 10 miles from the trail head, out along one of my traplines, in a quiet part of the mountains. This is available for rent to skiers, hikers or fat bikers. It is set up in an area that is too difficult to snowmobile to (too steep and brushy). Great ski trip destination for several days or a stop over on a longer trip. $35 a night, 2 night minimum, includes firewood for the inside stove. Great potential for some backcountry teleskiing. Just give me a call or text for information and reservations 907 354 0016
Singing Wolves, Song of Freedom, inside Denali National Park. Today, just a short snowshoe hike from our place and cabin. These four live right here in the valley year round and this pack has been my neighbors for many years.... I pushed them from this spot that they had been sunning on and just wanted to let me know that I was not alone today and that this is their country.
If I wasn't already too far out in left field, One of Alaska's first ALL ELECTRIC CAR! I can make electricity, but not gas, so I figure another 7500 watts worthof solar panels (which are on site, but not up yet, hopefully by mid May) and we can be picking up most of our fishing clients from the big hotels, and just traveling ourselves ALL ON SOLAR POWER ! ! ! A public EV level 2 charging station will power this and visiting EVs will be available by mid October, by mid May it should be at least 80% SOLAR POWERED, and 100% is my goal and I think realistic. I just could not let this revolution develop and not 'stand up and support it with my time, energy and money'.
So, if you want, join the revolution too, and I am sure willing to share anything I have learned, and I could not do this without doing it the cheapest way possible, because I have no support from the state government, the feds, GVEA (who will not buy my excess solar energy, which there is lot's of), the Rassmanson Foundation, etc. So, just ask
Calling all active adventurers in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Mat-su needing a great break from town life! We have wonderful log cabins for you and I am happy to give you the inside scoop on current conditions and which toys to bring up into these beautiful mountains for maximum FUN!!!
The Mongoose rules, still riding the morning hard trails up the Nenana River, app 16 miles round trip to Brushkasna Creek! Not bad for a $700 Fat Bike....
Looking down on our place, lakes, airstrip, hiking right out of our cabins on hard frozen snow and tundra, can't afford health insurance so I have to do things like this.....Life ain't easy!
Denali standing tall today as I ride right out of our place through Broad Pass....life is rough!
One of my neighbors that live on our homestead, best taken care of fish in all Alaska!
The Hanson family from Sydney Australia, our first cabin and fishing guests for 2017. Perfect weather, smiles and fun enjoyed by all. What lucky kids to have such wonderful parents!
Just a few days ago, I was riding my fat bike up Windy Creek into Denali National Park and met along the trail, two young couples on a multi-day ski trip and one of the women had a small child on her back, bundled up against the strong cold winds of the day.....sure made me reminisce about being able to raise my son Tanner with lots of time out miles away from the road system and support other than what we had with us.
At the time, I made my living on horseback in the snow free part of the year and snowgo in the winter. Most all these photos are taken miles away from the roads, no cell phones, no real support and most are on multi day trips with clients! WHAT A LIFE! Boy, were we taking risks! But I would not do it any other way, and today there are lots of couples doing incredible trips with kids in tow....my hat is off to all of them or you.
GET UP AND DO IT!! So encouraging to see this video of following your dream. Mike Komperda, a favorite fishing guide here, helped these guys shot our potion of this video they were making and it just hits me to the bone, as these are all things I love....though I am not riding like Andy is, thats for sure, but ...... AWESOME video at PINK BIKE.com
Dr Suess, was ( and still probably is for folks with small children) AWESOME!! I think this book was the first time I was fed the self satisfaction or personal need / desire to " SPEAK FOR THE TREES OR MOTHER EARTH.
One of my favorite activities.......With some AWESOME friends and guests coming here for many years...... We are hiking right out of our cabins ( no driving necessary ) and are crossing the Alaska Railroad tracks inside Denali National Park, heading up into the alpine on a another gorgeous day. Andy from Vashon Island ( on far right ) sent this photo and this was his first day at Denali and hopefully more in the future!! How about you? I invite you to join me for this healthy, CARBON EMISSION FREE, fun activity this summer!
Author kirk martakis
Born in New York, came to Alaska in 1979 and have never looked back. Been a great wild ride, now at 57 yrs old, these are my thoughts.
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ElderShield Upgrade: What You Must Know If You’re 40 And Above
Have you received letters telling you about ElderShield and had no idea what it's all about?
Or perhaps someone told you about upgrading your ElderShield and you wanted to know whether it's worth it?
In this ultimate guide, we'll cover everything you need to know about ElderShield and its upgrade/supplements.
Make sure to read till the end because we're sure that you'll be well-informed on what it's all about.
Finding the best and cheapest ElderShield upgrade in 2019?
What Is ElderShield?
In 2002, the Ministry of Health (MOH) initiated a severe disability insurance scheme named ElderShield.
As a Singapore Citizen or a Permanent Resident (PR), you'll be automatically enrolled once you reach the age of 40 years old.
Roughly 3 months before your 40th birthday, you'll be sent a letter to inform you about it.
The MOH appointed 3 insurance companies to assist in the ElderShield scheme. They are Aviva, Great Eastern (GE) and NTUC Income.
You'll be randomly selected to be under any one of the three companies and have the option to change insurer once you receive the welcome package.
Do not mistake ElderShield with MediShield Life (hospitalization) as they are entirely different health schemes.
Only the 3 companies mentioned above can assist in this ElderShield.
What Does ElderShield Cover?
There are 6 Basic Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). The below definitions are taken from the MOH website:
As long as you're unable to perform at least 3 of these 6 ADLs (certified by an approved assessor) independently, with or without mobility aids, you're eligible to receive a monthly payout from ElderShield.
How Much Will You Receive?
Well it depends.
Currently, there are ElderShield 300 and ElderShield 400.
If you turned 40 and subsequently joined after September 2007, you should be under ElderShield 400. If you had joined before this date, you should be under ElderShield 300.
Now, as ElderShield was introduced in 2002, there may be a chance that those who turned 40 years old before that date to not have any ElderShield at all.
To be sure, check your CPF online.
- Login at www.cpf.gov.sg
- Click 'My Messages' on the left-hand panel
- Scroll down to Healthcare
How Much Does ElderShield 400 Cost?
If you're automatically enrolled at 40, you should be paying the amount of $174.96/year for males and $217.76/year for females. This premium is payable from the CPF Medisave till age 65, after which you enjoy a lifetime cover.
If you've opted out before or do not have an existing ElderShield and wish to enter back in, the premiums would be based on your entry age.
You can take a look at the premiums over here.
Your family members can also help you pay the premiums. Here are examples of those who can:
Is The Basic ElderShield Enough?
The purpose of ElderShield is to provide some financial assistance to deal with expenses incurred in the event of severe disability.
The monthly payout can be used to pay for long-term care like hiring a maid/caregiver or stay in a nursing home.
Imagine you're severely disabled and not able to earn an income anymore, you'll probably need someone to take care of you.
It could be one of your family members.
But do you want to burden them?
Most people don't want to be a burden to their family and would prefer a paid caregiver.
And if Basic ElderShield pays out only $400 a month for just a short period of 6 years, do you think it's enough?
Most people do not think so.
Why Basic ElderShield May Not Be Enough
According to a study done by Aviva in 2011, an individual who is severely disabled would require an amount of $2,150/month to pay for a domestic helper, nursing homes and miscellaneous expenses incurred from being unable to take care of themselves.
Long-term care can be costly and if you want to find out more about how much the different long-term care cost, you can take a look here.
Furthermore, 37% of caregivers have been providing care for more than 10 years (basic ElderShield only pays out for 6 years).
Moreover, the average life expectancy in Singapore has been increasing over the years. From the latest data updated on 12 May 2016, the average life expectancy for males is at 80.4 and for females is at 84.9. This shows a growing need for lifetime care.
So What? I Already Have My Own Private Insurance
By Age 40, most would have some form of private insurance that covers disability.
But take note that most insurance companies only provide coverage for total and permanent disability till 70 years old at most. After which, the coverage stops.
The good news is that ElderShield and its upgrade can provide lifetime coverage.
Introducing ElderShield Upgrades
With the ElderShield reform in 2007, you're now able to enhance your benefits with ElderShield supplements.
Below are some benefits of having your ElderShield upgraded:
The 7 Benefits Of Upgrading Your ElderShield Early
1. Higher Monthly Payouts
Instead of a monthly payout of $400 or $300, you can select a higher amount.
The monthly amount may differ from company to company but currently, Aviva has the highest amount allowed at $5,000 a month.
With a higher monthly payout, you're able to enjoy professional care facilities if the need arises.
2. Lifetime Payouts
Instead of a short 5 or 6 years payout period, you can enjoy payouts for a lifetime.
As severe disabilities may be permanent and occur for a long term, the lifetime payout ensures much-needed care can continuously be given.
Therefore, you wouldn't need to burden your family members with caring for you.
3. Easier Claim Eligibility
The basic ElderShield pays out upon the inability to perform 3 out of 6 ADLs.
Some may want easier claim eligibility for when the undesired situation comes.
As such, supplements would come in handy as you can choose plans that pay out upon the failure to perform only 2 out of 6 ADLs. An example would be Aviva's MyCarePlus.
4. Maximizing Your CPF Medisave
To pay the premiums of the upgrades, you can use your CPF Medisave (subjected to a cap of $600/year). For those who want a higher monthly benefit, you may need to top up with cash.
At the very least, most people would stick to solely using their Medisave to pay for their premiums.
Furthermore, you'll receive 4% interest on your CPF Medisave balance every year.
Example: If a person has $40,000 in the Medisave, an interest of $1,600 will be credited to the Medisave account every year. Even if that person had stopped working, the interest itself could cover the premiums.
As of now, there are some limitations in using your CPF Medisave.
Firstly, the Medisave is not part of your CPF retirement monies so you wouldn't be able to withdraw it out.
Secondly, if you pass away, only then can your Medisave monies go to your nominated beneficiaries.
Thirdly, you're only allowed to use your Medisave to pay for certain medical expenses (subject to limits), such as enhancing your MediShield Life or ElderShield.
So it may be a good idea to utilize the Medisave to enhance your ElderShield so that you can get better coverage.
5. Benefits Are Higher/Premiums Are Cheaper
Unlike the hospitalization plans where premiums get higher as you go up the age band, the premiums of ElderShield enhancements are leveled.
If you enter at an earlier age, the premiums you pay would be cheaper at the same amount of monthly benefit.
On the flip side, if you intend to utilize the full $600/year cap on the Medisave, the monthly benefit amount would be higher if you upgrade now compared to later.
6. Pay As You Go
Similar to how hospitalization plans work, you pay for coverage as you go.
As an ElderShield upgrade has no cash value, you may stop it without penalties (other than the premiums you've paid).
Therefore, if you find yourself in a fix 3-4 years later and unable to afford the premiums, you can choose to discontinue the upgrade. But take note, you also lose the additional coverage that comes with it.
7. Capitalize On Your Good Health
Your health is important to insurance companies.
Are you currently healthy or do you have any medical conditions?
Even conditions like High Blood Pressure (HPB) may or may not be accepted depending on its severity. Applicants with Diabetes are generally rejected.
Why wait for a chance for health to deteriorate and make it harder to apply for better coverage in the future?
How To Upgrade ElderShield
You can upgrade your ElderShield with any of the three companies:
- Great Eastern
- NTUC Income
No matter which company your basic ElderShield is from, you can choose any of the 3 companies for the upgrade.
Example: Even if your basic ElderShield is under Great Eastern, you can opt to apply for Aviva's ElderShield supplement.
Below are some of the various supplements available:
- Aviva - MyCare
- Great Eastern - ElderShield Comprehensive
- NTUC Income - PrimeShield
For a limited time only, get FREE quotes and comparisons of the 3 companies now.
We've covered quite a bit on ElderShield and its upgrades.
Hopefully, it has been very useful to you.
In our opinion, if you have excess CPF Medisave, why not do an enhancement?
You can enjoy better benefits mentioned above without the need of paying cash but by using your Medisave.
Do note that all applications need to go through medical underwriting so even if you wish to upgrade, it is not guaranteed that the application will go through as your current health condition will be assessed.
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Use This 5-Step Process to Set and Achieve Your Sales Goals
Now that it's 2019, sellers, managers and leaders are busy setting goals for the year. Many tackle this with the SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) goal framework. Good start, but not good enough. And SMART can also lead sellers down paths that don’t help.
Actually, achieving your sales goals requires taking it to the next step.
Step 1: Set meaningful goals.
People don’t achieve goals unless the goals are meaningful to them. Sure, every seller has a quota for this year, but so what? If you want to maximize your motivation to achieve the goals, you must know why achieving it is important to you. To do that, go beyond your one-year quota-focused goal.
- A big picture goal: Do you want to join the fatFIRE movement at 47? Buy a vineyard? Define your destination. Make it one thing you yearn for. Then everything that helps you arrive at your destination becomes significant and meaningful.
- Three-year goals: Set goals that put you on the trajectory to achieve your big picture goal. Get promoted to Senior Vice President? Move to the Enterprise Division? Get an MBA? You might have two or three of these goals.
- Annual goals: Set specific targets for one year. These are typically a mix of financial (make this much money or sell this much) and non-financial goals (win a major award). Limit these to no more than five.
Note that sellers at Top Performing Sales Organizations are more likely to have challenging goals. The A in the SMART framework suggests we should set goals that are achievable. In fact, setting a goal that feels achievable makes is too easy. And limiting. Instead, make your goal barely achievable. If the goal is challenging, you’ll get more and get ahead faster.
Setting goals is the first step. Now on to actions.
Step 2: Define crystal clear actions.
Outline exactly how you’re going to achieve your goals. You can do this using a goal setting worksheet. Turn yearly goals that seem so far off into something you should do today. This makes all the difference. The best way to do this is to break down the annual goals in the following sequence.
- Quarterly: 90-day priorities are the linchpins that brings the goals framework together, bridging the gap between the long-term goals and today’s action steps. Keep your quarterly priorities list between three to five items.
- Monthly objectives: You can’t work on every priority at once. Break them down further into what you will (and won’t) work on this month.
- Weekly and daily actions: Break down your monthly objectives into what you will do each week, which will help you choose what to do today.
Do this and you literally break down your annual goals to what you should do today. Let’s say you work in sales and your goal for the year is $2 million. That means that you need to sell $500K each quarter. You're confident 60 percent of your sales will come from renewals. That leaves $800,000 in new business you need to generate this year, or $200,000 per quarter.
How are you going to accomplish that? Improve your win rate? Increase your average size sale? Double your pipeline? How many leads do you expect to get from marketing? How many do you need to generate yourself?
What exactly will you do to generate them? Break down the numbers you need to achieve, and you can easily break them down to weekly and daily actions you need to take. Most goal setting stops here where the SMART process finishes. If you’re serious about achieving your goals, it’s critical to add three steps.
Step 3: Change your habits.
If you want different results, you have to do things differently, and do different things. This requires changing your habits -- getting rid of bad habits and creating better ones.
You have to change the way you work.
Here are a few bad habits we see all the time that sap productivity and kill results:
- Checking email first thing, then getting sucked in.
- Mindless web surfing.
- Being reactive.
- Leaving your door open.
- Checking messages as they arrive.
- Starting your day with your greatest impact activities.
- Saying no to others when their requests will derail you.
- Becoming impossible to distract.
Easier said than done to make the changes, but not difficult to figure out what throws you off. Most of us know what habits keep us from achieving all we could. Even if we don’t see them ourselves, someone else is often able to point them out. (Hopefully we are ready to listen.)
Once we are ready to listen, difficult as it might be, change our habits we can.
Step 4: Obsess over TIME.
Achieving goals means spending time on the right things, not the wrong things. It’s as simple as that, but most of us don’t do it. To do it, it’s not enough to focus on our time. Not enough to be careful with time. Not enough to prioritize our time.
We must obsess. When you obsess over TIME, you become ruthless about how you spend it. To help you think about your time and where you’re spending it, consider the 4 levels of TIME:
Level 4 – Treasured: This is the time you hold dear. The key to maximizing happiness and fulfilment is taking Treasured time.
Level 3 – Investment: This is the time you allocate to getting the right things done to achieve top performance. You get an outsized return on your Investment time as it pays dividends to drive priority initiatives forward. The key to achieving your goals is maximizing your Investment time.
Level 2 – Mandatory: This is the time spent doing things you feel you must do. Commuting to work, shaving, mowing the lawn, filling out expense reports or attending certain meetings. The key to Mandatory time is minimizing or converting it into Treasured or Investment time.
Level 1 – Empty: Time spent, nothing gained. Activities like scrolling through social media or watching excessive TV fall into this category. The key to Empty time is to eliminate it.
To understand how you’re spending your time, track it for a few days. Start from the moment you wake up until you go to bed. Track it to the minute. Categorize each activity with the four levels above. This is an eye-opening experience. Many people find hours, or entire days, of time each week they can reallocate to Investment activities.
Step 5: Be impossible to distract.
If you want to achieve goals, you must focus.
Let nothing take your focus away. Few will argue with this, but many of us allow ourselves to get derailed. Most distractions are avoidable. First identify them, then eliminate them. Here are a few ways you may be getting distracted and how to put a halt to them.
- Alerts: Text messages, chat, email, social media, news sites, etc. Turn them off.
- Meetings: Do you need to be at all of them? Are they crucial to your success? Are the required ones really required? Do you really need to be there the whole hour, or will giving a five-minute update at the beginning do? Can you cancel them? Will twice a month work instead of every week? Pare down your meeting time ruthlessly.
- Open door policy. Maybe you need to be approachable at times to help your team. Make it known this time is between noon and 2 p.m. When you need to concentrate, close it. If there’s an emergency, they’ll come in. If not, they’ll come by at noon.
- Workspace: Open office distracting you? Too much noise? Do what you need to tune everything out and signal to everyone, “Please do not disturb me.” And if you need total concentration, work someplace else.
These are just a few examples. Complete a few days of the TIME tracking exercise and learn which distractions derail you most.
Everyone has serious intentions to achieve when they set their goals. Then people fail to achieve them. Why? Because they fail to work on them. Literally:
- They don’t pick the right activities (thus by definition they’re not working on achieving their priorities)
- If they do pick the right activities, they then get derailed, stop and work on something else
- Even when they stay focused on the right activities, they get distracted too often and don’t make sufficient progress
Be different. Set meaningful goals. Define crystal clear actions. Change your habits. Obsess over TIME. Be impossible to distract.
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Freemasonry reveres the Light, which illuminates and chases away the darkness of ignorance. As a “bringer of light,” Lucifer can be a touchy subject, particularly in relation to Freemasonry, because Masons have been accused of devil worship by various groups, including conspiracy theorists. What follows is Part II of the post on the Archetypal Lucifer. [Part One can be read here.]
Where else does the Lucifer archetype manifest in humanity, both within and without, in culture and in self? From this point forward, I go beyond the factual, historical roots of Lucifer, and explore the concept more speculatively. Because Lucifer and Satan have been so conflated throughout history, I will refer to the merged concept as Lucifer-Satan. As always, this post is only the reflections of one mason, and does not represent the official views of Universal Co-Masonry.
Lucifer: Shadow and Light
As the Lucifer-Satan archetype is partly personified by a glorification of the intellect, I believe that one manifestation of it is the worldview of philosophical materialism, or scientism, the belief that all that is real are the phenomena we can measure and study with science. This worldview is personified by regarding only the the mental and the animal aspects of human existence as real, viewing humans as essentially a clever monkey ultimately made of meaningless space dust, and a corresponding rejection of spirit or immaterial aspects to reality or humanity. This fits quite well with the Lucifer-Satan archetype’s association with knowledge, moral relativist, or even nihilistic point of view, and position of opposition to religious authority.
However, I believe that to stop here would be a mistake; the purely objective intellect, regarding the world outside the finite self/mind as solely made up of dead and unconscious matter to be controlled for the perpetuation of mind and hedonistic pleasure is only one embodiment of this archetype. I believe that it exists beyond the boundaries of the materialists’ denial of all things “supernatural,” it is something more universal.
In fact, one of the places that the Lucifer-Satan archetype is alive and well most openly is within certain of the “dark” magical arts and practices, where Lucifer-Satan as a deity figure may at times be seen as an underdog of personal power and liberty, rejected by a spiritual authority seeking always to subjugate its creation. This loosely correlates also to a view shared by some branches of Gnosticism. All of these represent a view of Lucifer-Satan which goes beyond scientific materialism, clearly indicating that the archetype is more broad than that particular manifestation.
Masonic Interpretations of Lucifer
What about a masonic view of Lucifer? Manly P. Hall, famously wrote in his book The Lost Keys of Freemasonry:
When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather…. who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare.
This passage has often been used as evidence by some to say that Freemasons are secretly a bunch of devil-worshipping satanists. It might even be enough to give a mason unfamiliar with it some pause; what exactly did Brother Hall mean by the “seething energies of Lucifer”?To an uninformed reader, and taken out of context, this statement might sound a bit nefarious, especially given the cultural context of the conflation of Lucifer and Satan, as an embodiment of evil.
More likely, Brother Hall is drawing upon a more Gnostic perspective on Lucifer, such as that it represents the latent life-force energy, described in the East as Kundalini, dwelling “underground” and in the “darkness” of lower aspects of the self (literally in the lower body), which can be stirred and lifted by certain practices to travel through the various energy centers. Another facet of some Gnostic views is that Lucifer is the other side of the Christ aspect of the self, which rings true based on the origins of the archetype. If Lucifer/Satan is the primary antagonist of the story from which the archetype originates, we shouldn’t ignore the role of the protagonist, and all that he represents, as well. So, how does Lucifer relate to Christ, in the self?
This Gnostic account of Lucifer is as both carrier of the light, and tempter of the divine self represented by Christ; indeed, Satan (the “adversary” angel, in Hebrew) did tempt Christ during his fast in the forest, in the biblical account. This view posits that Lucifer represents both the energy within the self, and the temptation to waste that energy, working together with Christ in an antagonistic interplay within the self, to raise up and purify the fundamental raw potency contained in the lower half of the person, the generative organs and the gut. This paints an image of Lucifer as a force which ensures purity in the self, just as he was the prosecutor of Job to test his faith, in the old testament.
Alchemically, we could say perhaps that this is like an acid or solvent, which eats away all that is not gold. As such, this idea of Lucifer is as a force which guarantees that the self has evolved beyond the desires and temptations of the lower aspects of our animal nature before allowing it to become possessed of divine radiance, by tempting it at every turn. This includes the temptations which come at the highest levels of development.
Satan as Lucifer’s Folly?
Some masonic authors have extended an explanation that Lucifer and Satan are not the same, but are two very different ideas which have been conflated due to translation errors and historical inaccuracies, as alluded to earlier in this post. By this account, the term Lucifer is exactly what the etymology of the word implies: an archetypal Light Bearer, a bearer of spiritual Light, which would be represented by any of the known Light Bearers of history, including Jesus Christ himself, and is what each Freemason aspires to be. Essentially, it is the idea that a person can serve as a bridge between the divine and man, that an individual can be the bearer of God’s Light for the world, perhaps after undergoing the temptation/purification process described by the Gnostics.
I find this to be an inherently satisfying and rational explanation, but I also find myself feeling the need to take pause, before becoming too complacent with this particular understanding. Reflecting upon all that has happened with the idea of Lucifer, chiefly becoming conflated with the embodiment of all evil, one has to wonder: perhaps the archetype of Lucifer-Satan is more meaningful than simply being a human error in the interpretation of scriptures and other texts? Perhaps Lucifer-Satan is, indeed, an archetype of a fallen Light Bearer?
Warning from the Sutras
One embodiment of this which I believe may lend some clarity is in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. A particular description is given of those advanced Yogis who attained abilities which we would identify as psychic powers, or siddhis in Sanskrit, through the practice of extreme concentration, or Samadhi, but without overcoming the personal attachments of their baser nature and desires. Having not given proper attention to the taming of the lower self before attaining Samadhi, the selfish and attached mind that had achieved the siddhis became lost in the fulfillment of their desires. In other words, they learned to use their inherent divine capabilities, without attaining true wisdom. Ultimately, this results in their merging with the object of their desires at the end of their mortal life, and being locked into the material world itself as a kind of elemental spirit, rather than achieving liberation. This is also very similar to the dark shaman.
I think that this idea encapsulates the essence of the Lucifer-Satan archetype quite well, even resonating with the theme of his being cast down and bound to matter. Just like Prometheus being bound to the stone, or Lucifer-Satan being cast into Hell, this fall from grace of the Light Bearer could be an archetypal warning against the perils of succumbing to one’s own ego-based attachments and lower nature, as one advances along the spiritual path. This would include the desire for and fixation on sense pleasures, power, control, and positions of superiority.
If I attempt to distill this idea down to its essence, it might be something like: “The limited self attempting to become God, without realizing that it already is.” It’s the attempt of the finite self to have God-like perception and power, but without sacrificing all of the entrapments of the finite self’s desires, attachments, and need for control. This is the desire to be the ultimate divinely ordained King, Ruler of the Universe, and to think that one knows better than the silent, seemingly passive transcendent God. As pointed out by Manly P. Hall, mythically, this transition occurred the moment when Lucifer thought that he knew better than God how to operate creation, and that he should take over. On the other hand, in the story of Christ, it was surpassed the moment that Christ was offered this position, but turned it down.
Lucifer and the Temptation of Christ
One symbolic representation of Lucifer-Satan could be the crowned animal, the combination of the dynamo of the unrefined lower self with the mind awoken to its true potential, without the crucial mediating and transforming influence of the Heart. After all, Lucifer/Satan has been depicted as cunning, seductive, powerful, brilliant, and intriguing, but there is one quality that Lucifer-Satan rarely embodies in any depiction of him with which I’m familiar, and that is selfless Love. Loving kindness, compassion, humility, and surrender to the greater Self of which the finite self is merely an extension, is the one critical quality which Lucifer-Satan seems to lack, and which is ultimately what binds him and all who embody him to being King of This World, as he is sometimes referred to in the Bible. At the same time, it is the quality most essential to Christ. Does that make Christ the true Lucifer, the true Light Bearer?
Perhaps this is also the ultimate temptation with which we are presented, at our highest stages of spiritual development. Because when one does truly become a Light Bearer, and become possessed of corresponding expanded awareness and capabilities, the temptation to use it for selfish ends has to be one of the single greatest obstacles imaginable. We can see this manifesting in many forms, such as using the light of the intellect to build technological methods to control and manipulate nature and other people, the exertion of the light of magical will to satisfy one’s own self-centered desires, spiritually exalting one’s own ego in spiritual materialism, or in gaining material wealth and power over others.
In the end, all are the attempts of the finite self or ego to become God-like, or rather, to become like a false notion of God, as a King or Ruler on a throne, a finite entity with infinite capabilities. It’s fundamentally a refusal to realize and accept one’s place as an illusory appendage of the Infinite One, meant to act in harmony with all of Creation, and to utilize one’s gifts as a self-less Light Bearer in service to humanity. At whatever level it occurs in our development, we always have the temptation to place the will of the self over the will and well-being of others, this being perhaps the fundamental essence of evil, which ultimately culminates in the utilization of others as extensions of the self to fulfill one’s own desires.
Would You Pass?
Here’s an interesting question: If you were to be granted all the Power of This World today, would you pass The Test? Would you be able to resist the temptation to use your control over the illusory world to endlessly fulfill your own desires? Would you choose to surrender to the larger plan, which even with all your knowledge you can never fully comprehend, and to use your abilities only to heal and enlighten others, never to control them or inflict harm, or even your own brand of justice? Would you, in spite of all your power, forgive the ignorant even as they nailed your hands to the cross, rendering your Heart wide open and undefended?
The great Light Bearers of history have given us examples for how to walk the tightrope forward, to resist the temptations of power, and become the selfless servants that humanity needs. Nobody said it would be easy; in fact, its probably the most difficult thing that anyone can do. Perhaps this is why the ability to die and be reborn is such a critical component of freemasonry, as well as mythology in general. We must be able to die to the false self, and all of its desires and fears, if we ever wish to be worthy Bearers of the Light. | <urn:uuid:3e2ec748-2f59-406f-a5d2-e9a2ac214d89> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://bloguniversalfreemasonry.wordpress.com/tag/john-milton/ | 2019-08-22T05:08:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316783.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822042502-20190822064502-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.960364 | 2,762 |
Listen up–Understanding the decibel
Welcome back class. The holidays are over and it’s time to review. Today’s lesson is the decibel, abbreviated as dB.
To the frustration of police and fire chiefs, radio engineers and technicians speak the foreign language of dBs. Do we enjoy confusing management? Perhaps, but the real reason for using dBs is convenience. It’s easier to add and subtract than to multiply and divide. Decibels allow us to add and subtract. We’ll see shortly why this is true.
First, a little history. The public’s knowledge of decibels is almost exclusively tied to the measure of acoustic energy. The subject comes up when we buy a lawn mower or set noise standards for trucks in urban areas. The decibel’s roots are actually in the telephone industry where it was used to quantify attenuation of audio levels in telephone circuits. Originally, the telephone company measured attenuation indirectly in units of Miles of Standard Cable, where 1 MSC was the loss of power over a 1-mile length of standard cable at a frequency of 795.8 Hz. This was roughly the smallest attenuation detectable to the average listener. In the 1920s, engineers at Bell Labs invented the Transmission Unit (TU) to replace the MSC. The TU was defined as ten times the base-10 logarithm of measured power to a reference power level. Conveniently, the definition was created so that one TU equals approximately one MSC. In 1928, American Telephone and Telegraph (the Bell System) officially renamed the TU the decibel. At the same time, it defined the bel (10 decibels) in honor of its founder, Alexander Graham Bell.
Logarithms and logarithmic identities. Decibels are all about logarithms, so this is a good place to start. The logarithm of a number is the exponent by which another number, called the base, must be raised to produce that number. It is expressed as y = logb(x) where b is the base. For example log10(100) = 2 because 102 = 100. Natural logarithms use a base equal to the constant e (e = 2.7183…) and they are used widely in mathematics. In information theory, base-2 logarithms are popular. Figure 1 is a plot of the base-2 logarithm. Like all logarithms, the curve approaches an asymptote at x = 0 and is undefined for x < 0. In radio, we are interested almost exclusively in base-10 logarithms. Some useful logarithmic identities:
- log(xy) = log(x) + log(y) because exponents add in a product of two identical bases
- log(x/y) = log(x) – log(y) because exponents subtract in a quotient of two identical bases
- logb(xd) = d logb(x) because (bc)d = bcd
- logb(b) = 1
- logb(1) = 0
We also can change the base of a logarithm:
logba = (logda/logda)
For example, to change the base from e to 10, we divide the original base e logarithm by loge(10) = 2.3026.
Decibels. The ratio of two power or energy levels in decibels is defined as 10 times the base-10 logarithm of the ratio of the two power quantities. We can write it as 10 log10(P1/P2). The decibel is the logarithm of a ratio, so it is unit-less. If we are interested in decibels relative to a specific reference, such as 1 milliwatt (mW), then the unit is dBm. Other common units are dBW (relative to 1 W) and dBc (relative to the power at the carrier frequency). Sometimes receiver sensitivity is specified in units of dBµV, which is equal to 20 log10(Vs) where Vs is the rms voltage of the minimum useable signal. Similarly, units of dBµV/m sometimes are used when measuring field strength of an over-the-air signal. In this case, the unit is equal to 20 times the base-10 logarithm of the field strength in µV/m.
Thanks to the logarithmic identities presented above, decibels allow us to add and subtract exponents rather than multiply and divide large numbers. Indeed, the ability to deal with very large and very small numbers is really the main advantage of decibels. We would much rather write –118 dBm than 1.6 x 10–12 mW. Note that ratios less than 1 will result in negative values in decibels.
Once we are familiar with decibels, we can take a lot of shortcuts. The first and most important shortcut is to notice that a factor of 2 equals 3 dB. Every time we double or halve the power, we add or subtract 3 dB. Thus, 1/2 = –3 dB, 1/4 = –6 dB, 1/8 = –9 dB. Table 1 lists some of the common ratios used in the radio field and their decibel equivalents.
Adding power. In radio we don’t always multiply and divide power levels. Sometimes we really want to add powers. When you are accustomed to working in dBs, adding power can throw you for a loop. Algebra is required. Let’s say you are conducting an interference study and want to know what interference power level will cause a 1 dB desense of the receiver. Is it a signal 1 dB above the noise floor? Actually, no. What we want to know is what level of interference, when added to the thermal noise floor in the receiver, causes the total power to be 1 dB greater than the original noise floor. (We are assuming that interference has the same detrimental effect on receiver sensitivity as thermal noise.)
Divide each side of the equation by 10, raise both sides to a power of 10 and do some algebra to get the following:
Mathematically, the relationship is:
10 log10[(xi + xn)/xn] = 1 dB
Where xi is the interference power and xn is the noise power in the receiver.
(xi + xn)/xn= 1.26
xi / xn + 1 = 1.26
xi/ xn = 0.26
which is very close to 1/4 or –6 dB
Thus, the rule of thumb is that signals 6 dB below the thermal noise floor of the receiver, or weaker, will create no more than 1 dB of desense.
Commons mistakes. Following are two examples of the misuse and abuse of decibels:
- The sensitivity of the receiver is –118 dB. No, the sensitivity is the minimum power required for the receiver to produce a useful signal at its output. It is not a unit-less ratio of powers; it is a power. (It also is correct to say that it is a ratio of the received power to 1 mW.) The sensitivity is really –118 dBm.
- The first signal is greater than the second signal by 10 log10 (V1/V2) dB. No, decibels are ratios of power, not voltage. It would be correct, however, to write 10 log10 (V1/V2)2 dB or equivalently, 20 log10 (V1/V2) dB.
Homework. To test your understanding of the above, solve the following problems. The answers are at the end of this article.
- What is the voltage/amplitude ratio equivalent to 12 dB SINAD?
- To what distance can an existing microwave link be extended so the power drops no more than 3 dB?
- What is the dynamic range of a 12-bit A/D converter?
- If Einstein was an engineer and not a physicist, how would he write his famous expression?
Jay Jacobsmeyer, KD0OFB, is president of Pericle Communications, a consulting engineering firm located in Colorado Springs, Colo. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and Cornell University, respectively, and has more than 30 years experience as a radio frequency engineer.
- Power is proportional to the square of voltage, so the answer is antilog10(12/20) = 4. (The base 10 antilog of x is simply 10 to the x power.)
- On a line-of-sight microwave link, free space loss is the only path attenuation, and power attenuates proportionately to the square of the distance. In other words, it attenuates 20 dB per decade or equivalently, 6 dB per octave. A 3 dB decrease in power occurs at a relative distance of the square root of 2. So you can extend the link by no more than a factor of 1.414.
- The 12 bits represent 212 discrete voltage (not power) levels. Therefore, the dynamic range is 20 log10 212 = 240 log10 2 = 72.3 dB.
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2019 FUNDRAISER ITEMS
Alvaro Rola, owner of Marromeu Safaris is donation a 7-day Hunting Safari in Coutada 10, Mozambique for 1 hunter and 1 observer. Hunt may be taken in June/July 2019/2020.
Included in the donation:
7 days of daily rates for 1 hunter and 1 observer.
1 Lichtenstein Hartebeest Trophy and 1 Waterbuck Trophy.
1 Hunting License and 1 Rifle Permit.
One Professional Hunter with a fully equipped hunting vehicle and well trained skinners and trackers. Lodge with en-suite bathroom facilities, five star meals, water, soft drinks, beer and wine and laundry service. Skinning of animals and trophy handling up to time of dip and pack.
Not included in donation:
Airfare to/from Johannesburg (Commercial flight).
Airfare to/from Beira, Mozambique (Commercial flight).
Charter flight to/from Beira and camp.
Dip and packing of trophies in Mozambique, shipping to South Africa, Shipping from South Africa to U.S.A. Taxidermy. Veterinary Certificate: $13/animal. Additional Hunters can be added at $600 per day. Three additional hunting days can be added at $600/day. A Buffalo trophy can be added at $7,000. Terms: $2,500 booking deposit will confirm dates on our booking calendar.
A minimum of 3 Plains Game Trophies to be hunted on this donation-excluding the donated trophies. This donation is valued at $13,525
Contact information: Linda Ferreira [email protected]
4 DAY ARGENTINA DOVE HUNT FOR 4
Zeke Hayes and H and H Outfitters for the 8th year in a row, have invited us to take a flight to Cordoba, Argentina where you will see hundreds of thousands of dove. Included in the winning bid are all meals, transportation from Cordoba airport and the estate, laundry, open bar, lodging, trips to the fields and meals in the field. Not included are shells @ $13/box 20 ga. ($14/ box 28 and .410), gun rental @$65/day or gun import fee at the airport @ $100/gun, hunting license @$65/day, bird boys @ $60/day and tips, $500/day for extra shooters. Bryan Fitzgerald, Dr. Rick Gore and Dr. Jim Penny have hunted with H and H Outfitters several times and highly recommend this hunt.
Value of this hunt is $8,800.
PARKER GUIDE SERVICE, INC.
Bruce Parker has donated a 6 day black bear hunt for 1 hunter and 1 non-hunter. The hunt will be from his 80’ luxury yacht, THE ALASKAN HARVEST with 4 separate staterooms. Each stateroom has either a double or queen and a single bunk and includes a shower, head and sink. The trip arrival and departure point is Petersburg, AK. Specific hunt is Sept. 1-6, 2019. High bidder is encouraged to bring 1 to 3 more hunters with them. They can have the boat to themselves with 3-4 hunters.
Not included: One or two nights stay in Petersburg, air charter to and from Petersburg ($300.00 PP each way), and freight for trophy shipping ($200-$300). Hunting license is $160.00 and the tag is $450.00.
This hunt is valued at $9,500.00 and is a 100% Donation
NORFORK TROUT DOCK
Good for 2 people, 2 full days fishing on the White/North Fork River, includes boat, motor, guide, bait, tackle & shore lunch. Trip must be taken Sunday – Thursday, March 2019-May 2020. Lodging is not included, must book 2 nights at regular price starting at $60/pp/night. Arkansas fishing license and trout stamp required. This 100% donation by Mike Harrison is valued at $650.
2 Hunters and $6,000 credit
2 Hunters will enjoy the lure of Wild Africa Stalking game in the foot hills of Waterberg Mountains and in the Deep Red Kalahari sand and Join Pieter Viviers, Dolf Van Wyk, Tommie Steele and Marupa Safaris on a 10 Day plains Game Hunt on Marupa’s private Game preserves in Limpopo Province or Northern Cape of South Africa
This Hunt may be Upgraded with extra Days and Extra trophies @ $ 200 per Hunter and $100 For a Non Hunter Kids under the age of 12 will stay at no Charge Extra Hunters are welcome please contact outfitter for other Packages (See price List for Trophies) 2019/2020. This Donation can’t be combined with other Donations
2 Hunters can share $ 6000 credit on Trophies, Accommodation, Beverages, All meals, PH, Tracker, Skinner, and Airport Transport. Hunt may also be upgraded to do Photo safari after the Hunt like Vic Falls, Cape Town Kruger and Mauritius.
We thank Dolf Van Wyk for this 100% donation valued at $15,600.
KANSAS WHITETAIL HUNT
This is a 5 day 5 nights Kansas whitetail deer hunt for one hunter. The hunt can be either an archery hunt or a gun hunt. You must bring a full paying hunter with you. The archery hunt is $2,950. Archery hunts are Monday – Friday hunts beginning Oct. 29, 2018, Nov. 5, 12 and 19. The gun hunt is $3,950 starting Nov.28-Dec. 2. These are permit hunts. Applications are accepted during the month of April. The donor says that he has been 95% successful in obtaining permits on the first draw.
100% Donated by Wes & Mary Beth Traul
785 835 7090
CAVINESS CATTLE & QUAIL
4906 CT Road, Hazen AR
Fully guided Quail hunt for 2 hunters in Hazen, Arkansas including 12 birds each plus cleaning. This hunt is a 100% Donation by Harlon Caviness.
MC OUTDOOR ADVENTURES
TEXAS HOG HUNT
The hunt is for 2 Hunters, 2 days and 2 nights for 3 hogs or 1 Axis Doe in Crockett, Texas. Extra hunter can be added for $600. The hunt is to be taken July to September, 2019. This is a 100% donation by Mike Wheatley.
LAZY J HUNTING
PHEASANT HUNT FOR TWO IN KANSAS, W/6 BIRD LIMIT EACH
620 675 2338
1 day hunt for 2 hunters 1 night in furnished home with breakfast and lunch. Extra days of hunting and additional hunters can be added for $384/day.
This is a 100% Donation by Jake Holloway.
MC OUTDOOR ADVENTURES
TEXAS CRAPPI FISHING
This fishing trip is for 2 fishermen for 2 days and 2 nights on Lake Sam Rayburn in Texas. The trip is to be scheduled between April 15 and June 30, 2019. Extra fishermen may join for $50 ea. This is a 100% donation by Mike Wheatley.
14K SQUARE DIAMOND EARRINGS
Retail value $1,050
Retail Value: $4,525
DIAMOND ROSE 14 K GOLD
Designed by LeVian,
One of a kind! RETAIL VALUE $6,275
SCI RIFLE OF THE YEAR
The scaled action and optimized bolt design are only part of what makes the Barrett Fieldcraft rifle a total winner. It features a Timney trigger, hand laid carbon stock, two position safety and 21-inch barrel with 1 in 8-inch twist rifling. Without scope, the rifle weighs but 5.2 pounds. Each rifle is engraved with the SCI logo and numbered 1 to 50 (only 50 available). This rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor comes with a Zeiss Conquest V 44 – 16X44 ZMOA – 2 reticle scope.
DIAMOND PENDANT PEAR
Retail Value $875
LONE WOLF KNIVES
ARKANSAS CHAPTER SCI
STAG ELK HANDLE
Blade: 6″ Damascus (Mix of 1095 Tool steel and 15N20)
This knife was crafted and donated 100% by Willie Heible.
HOWA PATRIOT CHASSIS RIFLE 6.5 CREEDMOOR
KIMBER MICRO 9 CDP 9mm COMPACT
2.75″ Barrel, 6+1
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The link between socio-economic development and rising insurgency in Africa in general and Nigeria, in particular, has been well discussed. This research paper argues that ill-advised socio-economic policies may be a catalyst for domestic terrorism. Social policies related to inequality, poverty likely affect terrorism in many ways. This work envelopes point of view and suggestions which aids the giving of answer to questions connected with the subject of discourse. It also discusses that social welfare policies—social security, unemployment, health, education and economic development system affecting GDP, Per capita income has the potentials to initiate insurgency. This study sustained the opinions that the origin of terrorism can be linked to poverty, marginalization, and clashes of political and social interests, authoritarian rule, or state failure. Supporting this argument, in the country today, the cross-sectional estimation reveals that the nation’s weak socio-economic policies correlate with the number of insurgencies. The findings of this study recommend that reinforcing social policies in the country may serve as restructuring or development objectives as well as battling of insurgency. A number of the recommendations incorporate; permitting amendments in current laws keeping in mind the end goal of inducing development and upgrading the way of life for individuals, making educational training necessary at all levels – from primary school level up to college level, providing productive job opportunity at all levels (in all geopolitical zones of the country) and the genuine inclusion of unemployed hands and youths.
Keywords: Socio-economic development, Insurgency, Terrorism, Poverty, Nigeria, Africa.
Every living society endeavors towards a few determined least way of life. It is opined that the quintessence of any political administration is to achieve the political, social and monetary well-being of its citizens. Developed nations in the world have made one of their premier targets, the advancement or quest for the welfare, safety and prosperity of their citizens. Therefore, policies are put in place and implemented.
Development being labelled as a multidimensional occurrence, which is a core subject, is the approach embraced by decision markers to help its citizens to boost their mental and physical potentials and become useful to themselves and others coupled with taking sustainable and friendly advantage of nature to support their every day needs.
Socio-economic development is a process that tries to single out both the social and the economic needs of a community. It intends to make methodologies that will manage those basic needs in ways that are functional and in the simplest benefits of the Commonwealth as time goes on. The idea is to find ways to improve and upgrade the standard of living in the area while also making certain the local economy is healthy and efficient in sustaining the people present in the region. Financial advancement is not restricted to commercial cities but also cut across both rural and urban dwellings.
Socio-economic development is the primary goal of every well-meaning government, and it is mainly reliant on the level of economic undertakings in a country; the level of economic activities is in turn ensured and enhanced by peaceful co-existence by people.
It is well known that the socio-economic development of a nation is evaluated on the basis of the enduring security, peace and stability status of the state. In the absence of safety, socio-economic development cannot be sustained as it destroys economic, human and social capital. One of the security challenges facing the world today is terrorism.
Terrorism has become a global phenomenon since the 9/11 and a kind of global awakening and enlightenment against terrorism has been created since then. Dealing with increasing threats from terrorism has become a major challenge faced both by developed and developing countries.
Africa is no more immune or insusceptible to the threats from terrorism than any other continent. Terrorism and other forms of violence which pose security threat has become one of the continents of Africa major challenge. Some of these domestic ideologically-inspired violent groups handle periodic bouts of murderous mayhem. Most of these extreme groups have attracted ample media attention. These are most groups like the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, al-Shabaab in Somalia or Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Northern part of Africa, and Boko Haram in North East Nigeria. Moreover, it is suggested that a range of socio-economic and political conditions in Africa has given birth to criticisms and disputes that have been utilized by revolutionary individuals to vindicate their choice to violent activities. Nature has revealed that people who are subjected to unjust and undue treatment act in response violently, although sometimes the directs of the aggression are misplaced. Even though Nigeria is the one of the top leading oil producer, recognized as the most populated black nations in the world, and also one of the largest economy, Nigeria remains one of the very most significant and relevant nations in Africa.
1.1. IMPORTANCE OF THE RESEARCH AND SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The existing challenge of terrorism to physical security is threatening the Nigerian public on every front. Some foreign observers have related terrorism in Nigeria to some factors that include, political conflicts and unbalanced development that involves the horizontal inequalities, religious/ethnic distrust, poor governance coupled with leadership failure, and high-level corruption. In the world, today democracy presents nations the chance to rule by democratic principles and standard that ensures a peaceful co-existence.
As mentioned earlier, Africa is no more immune to the threats from terrorism than any other continent. Most terrorist activities in Africa are aimed specifically at African governments. Examples of anti-government terrorist groups in Africa are, the Radical Islamic Maitatsine and “Boko Haram” in Nigeria, or the pseudo-Christian Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda; others clearly seem to have a more worldwide agenda; for example, the al-Qaeda cells all along the east coast of Africa, and the Northern Africans and Sudanese, who have come back to their home countries from training and participating in the insurgency in Iraq.
Evidence abound that Nigeria is entangled in a firebox of insecurity preceding to scores of deaths of innocent and harmless civilians, foreigners, some members of the nation’s security personnel, elected officials and many government workers. The insecurity challenge has assumed formidable dimensions leading to loss of lives, properties and investments. The number of violence such as abductions, ritual killings, carjackings, suicide bombings, religious massacres, politically-motivated slaying and violence, ethnic clashes, etc., has increasingly become the regular signature characterizing life in Nigeria since 2009.
Against this backdrop, this research will review the socio-economic conditions that has precipitated or otherwise had an implication on the proliferation of ethnic militias and terrorist group in Africa with Nigeria as an exclusive focus. The research also reviews a handful of important themes related to political violence and terrorism in Africa (Nigeria). The study made would center on domestic and international trends, and the means through which politically violent and terrorist groups finance themselves, coordinate, function, and communicate (both internally as well as externally).
1.1. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of this study is to analyze the implications of socio-economic development conditions and the proliferation of ethnic militia /terrorists group in Africa with a particular interest in Nigeria. This goal will be pursued through the following objectives
1. To analyze the status of socio-economic Development as it relates to Nigeria
2. To examine the implication of social-economic policies on insurgency and terrorism
3. Explain various factors liable for regional imbalances and their socio-economic implications
4. To make useful recommendation for better socio-economic policies.
1.2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
In a study of this nature, certain questions come to mind.
1. What are the causes of rising insurgency, ethnic militias and terrorism in Africa?
Secondary research questions would include:
2. What are the factors responsible for the socio-economic crisis and their implications?
3. How does poor socio-economic development relate to rising insurgency in Africa?
4. How does insurgency in Nigeria relate to poor socio-economic development?
1.3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The study adopts qualitative and quantitative method, which involves the extraction of primary data, and secondary information from the publications of Central Bank of Nigeria, National Bureau of Statistics and other trustworthy reports on the subject. The sourced data were analyzed using descriptive approach upon which conclusions were drawn.
The data that was sourced relates fundamentally to socio-economic development and rising insurgency in Africa with specific emphasis on Nigeria. The intention was to explore purposively by applying evaluation procedures in the study so as to draw a conclusion about the subject of study.
The method that was employed for data collections includes a visit to relevant agencies websites, internet surfing, and observation. Also, data was sought from reports and publications of ministries and financial agencies and Newspaper and online media publications. Furthermore, online source and electronic database from relevant organization and agencies were used.
1.4. THEORETICAL APPROACH
This section examines the conceptual and theoretical basis of this study. The conceptual/theoretical framework merely describes the corpus knowledge, which governs and provides the link between the problem under investigation and the wider dimension of the study
Here, the study proposed to adopt the social cleavage theory relying on “Marxist Approach.” The choice of this method is influenced by the fact that it systematically considers the entirety of the society, while taking into consideration the inter-connection of social affairs, class conflict and the organic relation between the substructure (the economy) and the superstructure (politics).
However, there exist three major schools of thought that have dominated theoretical debate on terrorism. The first school thinking is the Psychology approach which focuses on personality, psychopathology and psychosocial traits of a ‘terrorist’. The second is the Orthodox—Realism and Liberalism approach that focuses on non-state actor terrorism. Thirdly is the Critical terrorism studies approach that focuses on state terrorism.
These theoretical studies espouse a general point of view on terrorism, neglecting the class analysis of terrorism. It is a fact that terrorist acts are underpinned by socio-cultural economic and institutional context.
This study seeks to fill knowledge gap by using an interesting but rather neglected theoretical discussion of Karl Marx’s ‘Historical Materialism’ in explaining the reasons for the trend of terrorism and ethnic militancy in Africa (Nigeria). The research work is fulfilled giving particular attention to what gave rise to the usage of terror, and what are the functions of social groups in the use of terror in the state, using Boko Haram and ethnic militias insurrection in Nigeria as a potential case.
This model is useful for a better review and analysis of the subject under discussion for it tends to offer better explanations on the origin of present day terrorism at the behest of the class antagonism intrinsic in contemporary global capitalist society.
It is vital to make it bold that the history of all hitherto existed society is the history of class struggle. Marxists believes that the oppressed, demoralized and the downgraded which incomprehensibly produces or bears the weight of making useful assets try to change business as usual when it gets to be cognizant.
Impoverished countries teeming with poorly educated, unemployed masses qualified by a widening gap between the rich and poorly combined with low literacy rates are fermentation tanks for dangerous and violent militants. The low levels of economic and social development increase the appeal of political extremism and encourage political violence and instability. The role of socio-economic inequality or class conflict was found to have played a noticeable part in incident analyzes of political violence revolving round Iraq’s insurgency.
Mostly on the grounds that open deliberation on the vital influence of economic conditions stays uncertain, there has been little consideration given to the part of social arrangements. For example, studies recommending that poverty and inequality goad terrorism infer however but did not contend that social program or policies may alleviate both and subsequently diminish terror. A couple of debaters contended that ineffective welfare programs or policies in a few settings may reinforce religious gatherings or groups instigating fundamentalist radicalism and, thus, terrorism. But the comprehensive consequence of such statements—more terrorism in settings with the ineffective welfare programs or policies – has not undergone scrutiny. Even though, some comment put forward that social coordination might have the negative influence, might displease and converge some groups making provision for them means to gather their momentum towards political radicalism and voilent ends which turns afterwards to terrorism.
The Nigerian rich and influential citizens, very few and always at the corridor of power, amass there wealth from oil ever since it was discovered back in the 1970s. The mentality, outlook, methods, orientations and activities of the ruling class have determined the voracious relations to oil, the crass and amoral plunder that has ensued. They further noted that the state is controlled by a dependent comprador ruling class that is accumulative, parasitic, violent, exploitative, client list, corrupt, profligate and unproductive being a neo-colonial capitalist peripheral economy.
With this perspective, one can conveniently say that militancy in Nigeria and rising terrorism in the African continent is associated with the consciousness of exploitation being perpetrated against the people, and the struggle to change the status quo.
Terrorism can be described as a weapon of the poor. Poor and poorly educated individuals are more likely to participate in terrorism, as they are more likely to see the increase in costs as small relative to the potential benefits
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
PCW invites you and your team into our space to learn a new skill, work together in a new dynamic way to build morale and develop lasting relationships that end with sitting down together and eating an amazing meal. Seriously how cool is that? What a great way to get your managers or employees to engage and work in cooperation.
Anyone who is in business knows that turnover is one of the number one labor expenses. How about cultivating a work place environment where your employees look forward to a quarterly gathering because they know it’s going to be something useful to their business relationships and to their own personal growth.
Keep Portland’s Culinary Workshop in mind next time you have a company gathering, we can cater it directly to fit your needs and budget. Reclaim Team Buildings!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Today, one in twenty people are diabetic in the United States, and if the trend continues the way that it has, one in three children born after the year 2000 are going to develop Type II diabetes in their lifetime. That’s huge. Even typing it, it seems overwhelming and unbelievable.
If you are someone who is living with diabetes or has a loved one with diabetes you know that foods can seem like an area filled with landmines. You have to know which things are going to spike your blood sugar and learn how to avoid all those hidden sugars and carbs.
PCW is having a Delicious Diabetic Meals class on Wednesday at 6pm that will steer you away from all of the fake foods and artificial sweeteners that are marketed to the public, and help you learn about natural alternatives that are easy to use. Come and learn amazing tasty recipes and develop the techniques to make things at home for a healthier life where you are missing out on decadent food.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
On this rainy Portland day, the sun has left us once again and while I am search for one little bright ray I don’t think it’s going to happen. Most of us in the culinary field will tell you that at some point we chose this profession because we love to please people with food. I am taking it upon myself to bring all of you a little sunshine from my kitchen to yours.
Since we are in the middle of Oregon strawberry season I can’t stress how important it is to gobble us as many of these luscious berries while you can. Mine rarely make it to the car from the Farmer’s Market, strawberries out of season really just don’t compare. So in celebration of the berries that are popping up, here is my berry tart recipe that will be a guaranteed winner at any dinner or BBQ.
1# powdered sugar
3# AP flour
1 T vanilla
This is often called 1-2-3 dough and if you look at the ingredients you can see why. While this makes a gi-normous amount I figured I’d leave the original amounts so that you can see the ratios, it makes it easy to remember in a pinch without a recipe. Yes you can cut this down by a third no prob AND this freezes really really well. Make leftover dough into a 1” disc and wrap well in plastic wrap.
Okay for the procedure.
Throw it all in your mixer with a paddle attachment and mix. It’s that easy. Make sure your butter is room temp.
Now the dough needs to be COLD, butter shrinks when you cook it so if you want your beautiful tart to hold it’s shape you need to:
1) Roll the dough out while it’s cold- which is near impossible since butter is solid out of the frig-this is therapy and cathartic, beat it with your rolling pin- I mean it, beat it hard!
2) After you roll out your dough to about 1/8” thick lay it into a tart shell-preferably with a removable bottom, make sure you press it into the corners and refrigerate till it’s COLD before you bake it.
3)Put pie weights in the bottom, or dried beans- I recommend putting the beans in heat proof plastic wrap or tinfoil so you can get them out easily-
Bake at 375 for 10 min and then remove the weights and finish cooking all the way through.
16 oz. half and half
2 oz. sugar
2 ea. Eggs
1 ¼ oz. cornstarch
2 oz. sugar
1 oz. butter
1 t vanilla
Use stainless steel pan. Scald half and half with first 2 oz. sugar. Combine eggs, cornstarch, and sugar and mix until smooth. Temper liquid into egg mixture, return to heat until mix thickens. Pull off heat and add butter and vanilla.
Pastry cream will form a skin on top so if you aren’t going to use it right away wrap it will plastic wrap pressing it directly on top of the cream. Once it’s cold you can spoon it into the cooled tart shell and spread out so that it’s even.
Decorate and completely cover the top of your tart with fresh berries, kiwi, or favorite stone fruit. In order for your berries to retain their color and to look shiny and beautiful dilute a little jelly (apricot is classically used because it’s almost clear) with water and heat up till it’s a little runny and brush on your tart. This will seal it.
Refrigerate or serve!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Let’s be honest. Americans have become a chicken breast nation. We will happily fork over (sorry for the pun) $8+ for 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts rather than the same amount of money for a whole chicken. And why would we not want two legs, two thighs, 2 breasts, 2 wings and bones for the same price as 2 breasts, because we like the convenience, which of course has gotten us in to a whole mess of trouble in other areas of our diet. It takes effort to separate a chicken into its individual parts, or package those for the freezer, or use the bones to make a stock.
It’s estimated that Americans throw away almost 50% of their food. Fifty percent!!! I don’t know about you but I can’t afford that. Not as a business or as an individual!
I took out my recycling the other day with a moment of glowing pride that my household recycles so much, that we have a compost for the chickens, and a worm bin, and then I took another look and saw that the recycling had paper bags in it from when we forgot the cloth ones, bottles that could have been reused or turned in for deposits, paper that could have been used for scratch, junk mail that we should have called to get removed off the lists, stuff in the garbage that could have been recycled, compost that could have been utilized instead of being thrown out or product that went bad because we didn’t use it when we should have. I still have a long way to go to consume less in general instead of being proud about the items I manage to recycle. I could have saved myself money too.
One of the ways that I try to incorporate utilizing in my life and business is to teach the Snout to Tail classes. What better way to pack your freezer on the cheap than to learn how to break down and utilize an entire animal?? More people are buying whole animals for home or going in with friends, it’s another way you can also find out where your product is coming from.
Our Snout to Tail: Pork! class is coming up Sunday June 26th from 9am-noon. It’s $95 which includes a lecture about meat make up and help you learn that knowing where it comes from will help you know how to cook it. You’ll be the one that breaks down the animal and you’ll take pork home with you. You really can’t beat that deal.
Take another step with me in making our dollars count, using the whole thing, and finding out where all that magical pork comes from.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Are you staying in town this summer, trying to save money on gas and travel? Do you know how you are going to continue your kids learning through the months? Why not send them to Portland’s Culinary Workshop to learn vital life skills!
PCW offers kids classes on Thursday morning for children 5 yrs and up and starting in July a teen camp for an entire week. Kids will learn how to make their own Smoothies, Tacos, Crackers, Fruit Leather, Pita Pockets from scratch and more, as well as working in a team environment and developing skills that will last a lifetime. Make sure your kids are prepared with kitchen know-how so they can make healthy choices all while having a great time.
For Teens, July 25th-29th from 9am-noon students will start off learning Knife Techniques, and Cooking 101 and add to their learning throughout the week. Classes can be purchased individually or the whole week for the price of four days.
Register soon on our website though our online store or at 503-512-0447. There are only 7 spots left for the Teen Camp in July.
Kids Classes $45
June 16th Tacos!
June 23rd Smoothies and Snack Bars
June 30th Fruit Leather and Crackers
July 7th Pizza
July 14th Awesome Pita Pockets
July 21st Tacos!
Aug. 4th Sushi
Aug. 11th Pasta from Scratch
Aug. 18th Dips and Salsa, Chips and Crackers
Aug. 25th Muffins and Biscuits
Teen Camp $45 a day or $190 for the week
July 25th Knife Techniques
July 26th Sauces Make it Better
July 27th Cooking 101: Principles of Cooking
July 28th Food from Around the World
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This is the second post in response to last month’s reader comment asking, “I’m very curious to know where you started. I have gone back and searched the blog and couldn’t find a journey type of blog. Can you write about this when you can? When did you get diagnosed, what were your earliest challenges? Where did he stand verbally when he was diagnosed?”
I’ve described from time to time Martin’s condition before we started biomed. Here I will try to rope those descriptions into a single post, divided into two parts: (1) my memories of our realization that Martin had challenges; and (2) our initial neuropsychological evaluation, completed a month after we began biomed.
All of this will be written with a caveat. That is, from ages two through five, Martin had additional biological and behavioral manifestations of his immune disorder that, for privacy reasons, I do not discuss on Finding My Kid. Although this blog is written anonymously, nothing in this on-line age can ever be completely anonymous, and so I err in favor of protecting Martin’s dignity, and our family’s.
Martin was born early summer 2008, in circumstances that I have described elsewhere and that I am certain contributed to the immune challenges he would later face. His first 18 months out of womb raised few eyebrows. After initial trouble latching and correction of a tongue-tie (many biomed parents see a correlation between tongue-tie and autism), Martin nursed well, for 22 months total. He started solid foods at six months.
Remarkably, at just 17 days, Martin could roll over, front-to-back. He did so in front of his pediatrician, who said, “You should videotape that.”
Martin also picked up words, so many words that to us, as first-time parents, he seemed to be “advanced”—whatever that means. He could give the nouns for objects to which we pointed. He could repeat lines of dialogue from movies and television shows. Wow! Adrian and I thought. We’d never heard, at that time, of echolalia.
Looking back with the hindsight of almost eight years in the world of autism, I recognize at least four red flags before Martin turned two. First, despite his ability to say words (lots of words), Martin never began to develop any functional language. He never combined words independently. Although he learned how to say and use “no!”, he failed to grasp the concept of “yes” or “I.” Second, Martin never took interest in other kids. He never reached the level of parallel play. Indeed, he never even seemed to notice when other kids were present, never walked up to or investigated them. Third, he could exhibit extreme hyperactivity, to the point of being unable to stop moving. He ran in circles for long periods of time. I could put him into his oval-shaped crib for a nap and return to find him running tiny laps around the edge of the mattress. Fourth, the sleeping troubles started early. We sleep-trained successfully at seven months old. Within six months, that had ended. Martin began taking longer and longer to fall asleep (60 minutes, 90 minutes, two hours) and waking frequently throughout the night.
Adrian and I finally began to recognize a potential problem around the time Martin turned two, in summer 2010. Samara, Martin’s nanny, invited some neighborhood kids over for cake to celebrate Martin’s birthday. When I observed the group, Martin stood out. He didn’t appear to be part of the group. The other toddlers came excitedly to the table for cake; Samara had to chase Martin repeatedly to get him to the table. Martin wasn’t able to blow out the two candles. He couldn’t make his lips into a pucker. He appeared to have trouble focusing on the task.
In general, Martin wasn’t listening. He couldn’t follow any direction, no matter how simple. If I held out a toy and said, “Here,” he walked away without taking the toy. He participated in Soccer Superstars. When the activity was “kick the little orange cone,” a dozen toddlers kicked little orange cones. Martin bolted to the next field and tipped over a goal. Because we were starting applications for selective private preschool—this really does seem an eternity ago—we enrolled Martin in the “Twos Club” at the Manhattan-based, for-profit “City Kids Club” (not the real name). When we signed Martin up with City Kids Club, they said they could help. They wouldn’t coddle him. They’d teach him to listen and to follow directions. It didn’t work out that way. When the Twos Club let out, half a dozen toddlers would sprint from the classroom and into their parents’ arms, showing off the art projects they’d made. Martin would wander out last, appearing not to notice me, shuffling under the direction of a staff member who carried his incomplete art project. (Eventually, the City Kids Club kicked Martin out of the Twos Club, an experience I recount here, under the subheading “Whence My Anxiety?”)
I called an old friend who was working upstate in Early Intervention. We talked by phone several times over the summer and, in September 2010, she was able to make a day trip to the City. She arrived late morning, and by mid-afternoon, she said, “I know this isn’t easy to hear, but based on what I’ve seen, Martin has autism.”
Martin’s autism was never entirely regressive; the autism was classic, insofar as there were skills he simply never acquired when he should have, like language or interest in peers. On the other hand, I recognized later that, during summer and autumn 2010, Martin was regressing. He lost the ability to point to distant objects. He lost eye contact, almost violently so: His determination to avoid locking his gaze on mine would lead him to twist his neck so far in his stroller that I feared he might injure himself. The hyperactivity began to alternate with extreme lethargy, when he would lie on his side, humming and pushing a toy car back and forth. He began drifting, walking the perimeter of our apartment’s large main room, dragging his fingertips on the wall to a sing-song sound. And his sleep, already poor, degenerated to almost non-existent. He could no longer fall asleep unless physically restrained. On the worst nights, Adrian and I had to work together, one of us securing Martin’s legs and ankles while the other lay half-upon Martin’s upper body and pinned his arms. Even then, Martin would clench and unclench his hands, roll his head, move however he could. When he finally slept, it would last no more than two hours or so. There were no more naps, ever.
Martin had the habit—I don’t remember if he did this always, or if it started around two years old—of going slack. When he grew frustrated, or didn’t want to do something, he let his body collapse onto the ground and stayed there, sometimes also screaming. Transitioning (moving from one activity to another) frustrated Martin, so he spent ample time, gelatinous, on the filthy subway floor and mats around the supermarket check-out.
He bumped into everything. When he ran, his head flew side-to-side and his limbs exploded in all directions. Low in muscle tone, he sat in the W position. He toe-walked. If he did take an interest in another child, he thrust his face uncomfortably close, as if trying to discover what it is that makes humanness.
During these days, these days I’ve just described, I saw my husband cry, the only time in our 18 years together.
Martin observing London Bridge, from the Tower of London vantage.
The Professional Analysis
We changed Martin’s diet in January 2011 and began biomedical interventions in February 2011. The next month, March 2011, we brought Martin to the developmental neuropsychiatry program at one of New York City’s leading hospitals, where he was evaluated over four separate visits. The report, presented to us in April 2011, concluded with a diagnosis “according to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR, 2000): Axis I: 299.00 Autistic Disorder.”
Here are selected findings (from the two examiners, as opposed to the parent interviews), as written in the report:
- In the area of communication, Martin used a number of single words to label and some learned phrases, such as ‘I want . . . .’ He repeated ‘No’ frequently when he did not want to do something. Frequently his expressive language was not directed at anyone in particular. He pointed directly at objects but not to show interest in an object at a distance.
- “In the area of reciprocal social interaction, Martin did not consistently use eye contact to engage others. . . . . He did not respond to the examiner when she attempted to call his name on four attempts but did so immediately when his mother called his name, though he did not look at her. He responded to the examiner’s pointing to the remote control bunny rabbit, not to her gaze and vocal prompt.
- “In the area of restricted and repetitive behaviors, Martin gazed at the wheels of a truck repetitively and repeated ‘Hello’ over and over as he held a toy phone.
- “Even though his mother remained with him, Martin had significant difficulty transitioning to the examiner’s office and into the structured testing environment. During testing, he was easily distracted by specific interests, specifically with letters and numbers, and this interfered with test administration at times.
- “Compared to other children his age in the normative sample Martin’s overall performance on the [Mullen Scales of Early Learning, AGS Edition] was significantly delayed; he performed better than 2% of similarly aged children. His Early Learning Composite score is approximately two standard deviations below and suggests some delays in his cognitive development. Additionally, he demonstrated more unevenness in his cognitive skills than would be expected. His nonverbal, fine motor skills are a particular area of weakness and very low for his age, and his nonverbal, visual reception skills are also mildly delayed.
- “Martin’s current repertoire of adaptive skills is somewhat more limited than would be expected for his age. His Adaptive Behavior Composite of 78 classifies his general adaptive functioning as moderately low; he scores better than 7% of other children his age. . . . [His mother] notes that he is making progress and attributes it to improvements in his sleep and the DAN protocol that was started 1½ months ago.”
- Martin’s Early Intervention teacher “completed the Achenbach Caregiver-Teacher Report Form for Ages 1½-5 based on her view of his behavior over the past 2 months. . . . Her primary concerns relate to Martin’s inattention and his passive noncompliance throughout the day. . . . Martin is noted to sometimes use scripted language and to display delays in both his receptive and expressive language. He often does not answer when people talk to him and sometimes avoids looking others in the eye. He is sometimes disturbed by any change in routine. He is somewhat upset by new people or situations and may resist entering a new environment at school. He will occasionally place play-doh in his mouth.”
At the time we received the report, April 2011, I skimmed but did not read it thoroughly. The exercise would have been too disheartening. Instead I invested myself wholly in biomedical recovery, and trusted that we could make this better.
There you have our starting point.
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Product DescriptionPet and fish feed production line flow chart
Product Application of complete dog food production line / dog food making machine
1. This type of machine is suitable for making puffed pet feed, such as dog food, cat feed, etc.
2. The feed pellet extruder can make kinds of feed for different fishes, such as food fish, catfish, shrimps, crab, eel, etc. The final products have unique shape and good taste, high nutrition and smooth textures. For feeds of fish and shrimp, the floating time in water can be adjusted by the extrusion degree adjustment.
Moulds of puffed feed for making differnt shape of feed
Parameter of feed extruder
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|ZGP - 120||0.5 - 0.6||55||ZSP - 120||0.7 - 0.8||55|
|ZGP - 135||0.7 - 0.8||75||ZSP - 135||1.0 - 1.5||75|
|ZGP - 160||1.0 - 1.2||90||ZSP - 160||1.8 - 2.5||90|
|ZGP - 200||1.8 - 2.0||132||ZSP - 200||3.0 - 4.0||132|
1. Dry extruder 2. Wet extrudewr
Main Features of feed extruder
1) the fish pellet made by the machine can float on water more than 24 hours without break and sinking.
2) The floating fish pellet extruder applies to the pretreatment of the animal fodder so as to reduce loss of nutrition, advance the protein content.
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4) Running in a high automatization and intellectualization,no pollution
5) Apply a linker to connect with the air conveyor ,which can directly inline with filling machine .
1. Material grinding
Name: Feed hammer mill
Raw material ingredients should be grinded to the required size by feed grinder.
2. Material mixing
Name: Feed mixer
Mixing the material thoroughly can ensure extruding efficiency and improve the feed quality. With atomizing spraying system which will add liquid like molasses and grease to material more evenly.
3. Extruding process
Name: Fish feed pellet extruder
Dry type and wet type fish feed machine. The wet type is with the conditioner and need to equip the steam boiler. The wet type fish feed extruder is suitable for large feed pellet factory and the dry type fish feed extruder is better and economic for the small and medium size user or factory.
4. Pellets drying
Name: Feed pellet dryer
Our mesh belt dryer is a continuous convective belt dryer. Pellets formed through the extruder are stacked in layers on a wire mesh or perforated plate belt conveyor and conveyed continuously through drying chambers. During this process, the drying air is passed repeatedly through the products layer until pellets have the optimum moisture content before leaving the dryer.
Name: Counter flow cooler
This counter flow cooler can cool the pellets from 70-90 to the normal temperature, that is 3-5 than the room temperature. By counter current cooling principle for cooling the high temperature and humidity of the particles to avoid the cold and hot material direct contact to produce quenching phenomenon, which can prevent the particles to produce surface cracking. In this way, pellets can be transported and stored with high quality.
6. CoatingName: Coating machineIt is widely used to coat nutritive substances, such as oil, molasses, enzyme, vitamins, amino acid and medicine onto the surface of pellet feed and extruded feed.
6. Pellet packing
Name: packing machine
Weighing, packing, conveying, and sealing automatically, which saves labor and time greatly and meet the requirements of large scale production. For this packing machine, automatic heat typing code, automatic bag sewing and automatic thread cutting can be optional functions.
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|Size||Depending on the model|
|Weight||Depending on the model|
| The normal package is wooden box(Size: L*W*H). If export to european countries,the wooden box will be fumigated.Whole production line load and transport by one full container
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Complete dog food production line / dog food making machine for sale Ranger Qi
Complete dog food production line / dog food making machine for sale adopts world-class technology to customize and produce special racks. High strength, high wear resistance, sharp teeth, uniform and delicate powder slag processing, higher starch extraction rate. The replacement of racks is quick and easy, which greatly reduces the labor intensity of labor and greatly increases the production efficiency. The separation part adopts a non-frame type three-section separation structure, which has small resistance and is more energy-efficient.
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(published November 2012)
It was December, and a newly purchased J/160 needed to be moved from Florida to Rhode Island for a refit. The owner hoped to have his boat ready for the spring, and the yard needed the winter work to keep their crew busy. The first half of the trip was quick—a textbook operation of speed and efficiency. The second part? Not quite so easy.
After getting out of the Gulf Stream in southwesterly winds, somewhat north of Norfolk, VA and almost due east of Atlantic City, NJ, the wind shifted to the northwest. It was cold—sharp, biting cold. If we went on port tack, we would head toward Halifax, Nova Scotia and even colder conditions. Starboard tack took us on a heading slightly south of west, but would leave our options open and perhaps keep us warm enough to prevent icing on the deck. Depending on the salinity of the water, salt water freezes at around 27 degrees Fahrenheit. If spray is flying across the deck, headsail changes can quickly become a life-threatening, ice skating adventure on the bow.
This wasn’t my first encounter with extreme cold weather sailing. Perhaps I’m a slow learner. Perhaps I was asked because of my experience in dealing with off-the-wall conditions. I’ll leave that assessment up to you.
Other notable cold weather passages include the not-to-be-forgotten “chainsaw” delivery in 1981 aboard Tenacious, Ted Turner’s sloop. That boat needed to be taken from Cove Haven Marina in Barrington, RI to Florida in December for the winter races of the SORC. Prior to re-launching the boat, we had to cut holes in the nine-inch-thick brackish ice in order to put the boat in the water. Then, we needed to be led out of Narragansett Bay by a Coast Guard icebreaker, which was working outside Block Island to deliver heating fuel to those islanders. As we approached the mouth of the bay, we waited in Newport for a couple of days until the weather became a more balmy 28 degrees before departing.
At the time, I was on a mission to test myself. I wanted to see if I could deal with the rigors of my first Whitbread Round the World Race. The mileage in that particular event would require extended passages through the Southern Ocean complete with icebergs, snow squalls and temperatures well below 40 degrees Fahrenheit as we raced around the Antarctic.
Since that time, I’ve managed to sail more than 50,000 nm in just the Southern Ocean—above and beyond my miles sailed in virtually every other ocean of the world. Sometimes those passages were with full racing crews. Other times they were sailed double-handed. But they were always cold, and care needed to be given in order to mitigate the effects of that cold. More than a few lessons have been learned regarding cold weather sailing—lessons that go beyond merely knowing that I don’t like being cold.
Cold, of course, causes some amount of discomfort. We can dress more appropriately, which certainly helps. Modern synthetics and traditional wool go a long way toward helping to eliminate some of the discomfort, even in a wet environment. I’ve heard that 40% of one’s body heat is lost through the head, so wearing a balaclava or hat can actually help keep your hands warmer, strange as that may seem.
What begins as discomfort can increase to the point of pain in hands and feet—I’ve seen people become relatively useless in performing simple tasks like sail changes. It’s not pleasant, but years of doing construction work in Chicago gave me a certain understanding of how the pain goes away eventually. The question then is whether or not your hands are still somewhat functional. It’s better to keep your hands warm in the first place, but the sorry reality is that there are few effective means to keep your hands both warm and useable in a cold environment. Mittens are cumbersome. Wool gloves may provide the best results, and if you have five pairs of them safely and warmly stowed somewhere, one may actually be dry. Eventually, they get wet, however, and only provide minimal help in keeping warm. Neoprene gloves shouldn’t be too tight, and eventually they, too, get cold. Perhaps hand-warmers in pockets provide some relief. I’ve simply learned to ignore the discomfort while paying attention to keeping my hands warm whenever possible and not allowing them to become totally unusable. Your hands might be needed to save your life. Take care of them.
On one delivery, we departed Newport at 3am on a cold December morning, heading south to Bermuda. The temperature was 24 degrees, well below freezing, and a northerly was gusting 25 knots. The trip was only doable because we were sailing on the leeward side of the land with relatively flat water, heading downwind with minimal spray coming across the deck. By the time we were into a somewhat large seaway, it was 11am and the temperature was up to 30 degrees, which helped us avoid icing, an extreme danger. If there is enough ice buildup on deck, it will sink the boat. And given the fact that most of the icing is likely to occur on the bow, if you’re punching into waves with severe icing on deck, you could go down by the bow.
Whenever I’m involved with extreme cold weather sailing, I’m always aware of what the wind is doing. What are my wind angle, wind speed and forecast conditions? How is the spray coming across the deck? What is the temperature likely to do? Increase or decrease? Can I adjust my sail plan prior to icing becoming a problem? The less I need to go forward or have others go forward when there is ice on the deck, the better. I’m not shy about reminding the crew that falling overboard—whether in a bay, lake or elsewhere—in cold weather will kill them just as dead as if they were in mid-ocean. As a general rule of thumb I mention that if they were 50 yards from the shore, swimming in 50 degree water, they would have a 50/50 chance of surviving long enough to get to shore. Ice adds risk to the situation offshore.
Hypothermia adds a more insidious risk to the winter offshore situation. I’ve had the initial stage symptoms, and recognize that if you’re beginning to shake uncontrollably from the cold, it’s time to correct the situation. Occasionally, additional warm, dry clothes will help. Sometimes you may need to go into a warm room, drying locker or close to the engine room, and sometimes the uncontrolled cold is due to the fact that you are not feeding your own “heating system.” Clothing does not create a warm environment—you do. The clothing merely allows you to retain some of that warmth a little longer. If you’re cold and added clothing doesn’t correct the situation, perhaps you need to eat more. A high-fat diet will quickly add to your own BTU output. If I know that the weather is going to be particularly cold, we will often have pasta al pesto for dinner that night—and I’m not shy about adding olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Eat like your life depends on it, because often, it does.
As we continued on our starboard tack, heading toward the East Coast of the U.S. several years ago that December, the wind shifted left to the WNW. We were able to tack for home. The forecasts implied that the winds would hold for another day and a half, after which they would drop for our final approach to Newport. In the late fall, both water and air temperatures tend to be colder in shallower waters. The deeper water retains the warmth created during the summer for a longer time. Our final 60 miles would be in relatively calm conditions as temperatures nose-dived to 16 degrees F.
Icing on deck was minimal but still potentially dangerous. The night before, prior to icing, we had conservatively set our heavy weather sails in 35-knot winds and left them there. As we motored to our final destination and tied the boat up, we accomplished the mission, sails frozen in place. The J/160 was at its new home and being refit by people happy for the work.
Cold weather and heavy weather sailing can provide a cruel reality—sometimes a part of life. But with attention to details, it can be safely accomplished and even enjoyed as a job well done. We all made it home in time to watch the snow storm the following day—from the comfort of a warm living room.
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Half of my professional life has been spent working on campaigns. From small ones [like a City Water Commissioner Race] to BIG ones [like a Presidential], anyone who knows one or is an organizer know how hard that job really is. It’s incredibly hard. You have to deal with volunteers that are flakey, goals that are ridiculously demanding, and hours that are normal person would never work – ever. You eat pizza and other garbage every night, drink more coffee in 6 months that some people drink in 10 years, sleep about 3-4 hours a night, and treat your body like dirt.
I have seen [and if you are an organizer, or have worked around other organizers you have also] very smart, very hard working people, have full-on nervous breakdowns in offices. Having a full on cry-fest under the pressure and stress of trying to elect the person that you are working for and stand up for what they believe in is a regular occurrence. If you survive [and I mean that quite literally, as each year we hear stories of organizers dropping down dead from stress], you leave with an enormous increase in skills, relationships that will last the rest of your life, and wondering how in the hell you made it all the way through without quitting, having a meltdown, or dying.
But, there are ways to survive this madness. Here are 4 techniques that you can use to survive a campaign. They involve self-awareness, self-discipline, and being a little selfish now and then. I would ask that you not read this as a way to waste 7 minutes, but make an attempt after reading to attempt to implement these in your day. Your boss, your volunteers, you candidate, and most importantly yourself, will be better off in the long run.
Focus on one thing at a time
When I work with teams, one of the things that I stress is to ‘play one pitch/set/shift/or step at a time.’ This skill is not just important for athletics, but for surviving a campaign. Let’s discuss why this is important: First, worrying about the outcome of the race will do nothing but stress you out. You are not in control of that – you can effect it, but you can’t control it. What you are in control of is the task right in front of you. Whether it is working with a volunteer, posting something on Facebook, or doing a large training, you are in control of that moment. So you should be putting all of your effort to what is right there, rather than something that will take place several days, weeks, or months ahead. The outcome is a result of your work. This is something that you need to realize if you are going to survive.
Second, multitasking does nothing but lessen the quality of your work. You can’t set up a training, make calls, and answer emails at the same time. And if you can, the quality of that work will be poor – and that’s unacceptable. Why not do something well and correct the first time, instead of opening up the door for mistakes? That sounds better to me. Again, focus on what you have to accomplish right now, rather than 20 things that you need to get done.
And third, when you do several things at a time and something really important comes up that you have to drop everything for – in what order are you going to go back to your work? What is the highest priority? When you are doing 10 things at a time, they think everything is equally important. You and I both know that this is not true. Begin your day by not only setting priorities, but continue to do so as the day goes along. This way, you can be more productive and work one project at a time with all of your effort focused on what is ahead of you.
Let’s have a quick physiology session, shall we? When you don’t breathe effectively, there is not enough oxygen going through your body to make it work well. Sure, since you are functioning, you are still doing your work, but does taking short, panic-like breaths help you get through the day? Hell no. In fact, your body has to work much harder when you breathe ineffectively than when you breathe properly. Your heart rate increases, your body temperature rises, and you burn through the calories from that awful pizza you just ate much faster. And by the end of the day, you are DONE. So, how do you breathe correctly?
It’s not just about breathing slower and deeper, but when you breathe in through your nose, your nervous system is actually triggered at that point to slow your heart rate down. When you breathe in through your nose and fill up your stomach with air using your diaphragm, it expands your lungs and allows more air to get it. And breathing out through your mouth acts as a natural relaxer. It allows your body to sink into your chair, relaxing your muscles. So, breath slow and deep in through your nose, filling your stomach, and out slowly, pushing all the air out of your body to help you relax. Just try it for a few minutes and a know you will feel better. It will feel awkward at first, but after a few minutes you will feel more focused and refreshed. If professional athletes do it, why can’t you?
Don’t quit, have GRIT
I am not trying to be cute here or impress you with my rhyming ability. We all at one point or another, want to quit our campaigns. It’s a hard job. It’s an exhausting job. But, those who show perseverance due to the passion they have for their work [which is the definition of GRIT], will not only be better organizers, but will find their work more rewarding. Building a Culture of Grit is something that I try to do with the Athletic Teams and Organizations that I have worked with in the past. A person can be trained to be gritty. But in order to do so, they first need to learn to have perspective. Perspective that this goal is going to be hard and getting to the goal is going to take time – you will not win the race tomorrow if Election Day is 3 weeks from now, but if you focus and do your job the right way NOW by focusing on the process [training at your best, knocking at your best, recruiting at your best], then you will have a good chance of reaching it. Good Regional, Deputy, and Statewide Field Directors can train this in their Field Organizers, but it is something that needs to be trained each day, by reemphasizing the importance of the race you are in, and reminding organizers that campaigns are marathons, not sprints.
And as far passion goes, well, that is different for everyone. Your passion could be for voting rights, fighting for the good of the environment, helping to create justice reform, whatever. But it is UNDERSTANDING that this is your passion, and KNOWING is why you are doing this incredibly hard job in the first place that is makes a huge difference. If each day, after little sleep, you go into your office thinking ‘here we go again. More volunteers, more drama, more nonsense,’ then you will be an ineffective organizer. But if you have a passion that drives you, that is effecting you to make change, then heading into the office becomes ‘I know this is hard, but who cares. We need justice reform in this country. Nothing is going to stop me from getting people to the polls because of that,’ then you will start to fight with more conviction, perseverance, and show more Grit.
BE SELFISH: Take 15 min twice day and get away from your phone & computer
If you are organizing, you are either on your phone or computer at least 90% of your day. You are crunching numbers in VAN, scheduling volunteer shifts, or digitally organizing you team. By the time you get to the end of the day, which usually lasts around 15-18 hours, your eyes are tired, your ear hurts from being on the phone and you are ready to just ‘get the day over with.’ Well, knock it off, and do something to help yourself.
Although you are putting all of your time and effort into the campaign, you still need time for yourself. This does not mean taking a smoke break, driving to get taco bell, or looking at your fantasy football team. This means taking 15 min, twice a day, and getting away from everything campaign related. A total of 30 min to yourself each day is not going to cost you an election – I promise you, it won’t. However, you can lose an election if you don’t take a break now and then because you are so fried you can’t think. This is time where you can take a walk around the block, go to your car and take a nap [with the air conditioner on of course], or just sit outside and breathe. I guarantee you that you that the world will not end if you don’t answer an email the second it hits your inbox, or miss a call. In fact, you will be in a better place from when you left your office 15 minutes beforehand.
I hope that you will take all of these suggestions and implement them with yourself and with your teams. Remember that you were hired to do a hard job, but most importantly, to do it well. The more you can focus on doing your job the best you can by taking a deep breath, focusing on the task right in front of you, and understanding the entire picture – then it will be the most rewarding experience of your life.
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How to Take a Captivating Day Trip to CapriItaly
Taking a day trip to Capri is like taking a trip to another dimension.
From Capri, the blue of the water glistens just a little brighter. The curves of the cliffs are just a bit more majestic. The location, in general, is just a bit otherworldly–like something out of a legend.
Capri’s magnificent beauty has been beckoning the rich and famous to visit it for a couple of millennia, from Roman emperors to modern movie stars, and thousands of others in between.
Today, Capri maintains a bit of that glitz and glamour–the location alone demands it–but anyone can easily take a day trip to Capri and enjoy a slice of its glorious beauty for themselves (just don’t expect to spot any celebrities unless you stay past 6:00 PM).
Paying a visit to the Amalfi Coast or the surrounding area and want to spend a day on Capri? Here’s how to do it.
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How to Get to Capri
Unless you happen to have a private boat that you’re sailing to Capri, there are, essentially, two ways to take a day trip to Capri: by ferry or by tour.
Ferries run several times a day from all the nearby tourism hubs like Sorrento, Amalfi, Positano, and even Naples–but they aren’t cheap! Depending on where you are coming from, expect to pay around 20 Euros/person each way, plus a 2.5 Euro tourist tax upon arriving in Capri.
For this reason, tours are often quite a bargain for a day trip to Capri, as they typically include both transport there and back, as well as (usually) a boat tour around the island, and some tours even cover the tourist tax for you.
We took a tour similar to this one from Sorrento and were very pleased with the value.
Book your day tour to Capri today!
Whichever way you decide to visit Capri for one day, expect to spend about 30 minutes getting there from Sorrento or Positano, just under an hour from Amalfi, or 1-2 hours from Naples.
You can check exact prices and times for ferries to Capri here.
The Best Things to Do on Day Trip to Capri
Take a boat tour around the island.
Cruising around the island of Capri is an absolute delight: the views are stunning, the grottos remarkable, and the relaxing nature of laying back on a boat and watching such a beautiful part of the world go by is incredible.
I definitely recommend making sure that a boat tour is part of your day trip to Capri–it is one of our favorite memories from our time exploring the Amalfi Coast and surrounding area!
Visit the peak of Mount Solaro.
Riding the chairlift up to the highest point on Capri is an experience within itself–and the views from the top are magnificent!
Keep in mind that to reach the chairlift, you’ll need to first head to Anacapri–so if this is at the top of your list of things to do in Capri, we recommend heading that way the moment you disembark onto Capri for the day.
Soak in jaw-dropping views at the Garden of Augustus.
At only 1 Euro, the Garden of Augustus is a downright bargain for the views you receive: just look at that water!
Somehow, these gardens don’t get spoken of as much as other viewpoints around Capri, but we just couldn’t tear our eyes away from the views of the Faraglioni or Via Krupp, which snakes toward the sea far below the Garden of Augustus.
Tour the Blue Grotto.
I’ll be honest: I’m including this here only because of its fame, but I truly don’t recommend touring the Blue Grotto during your day trip to Capri.
While the colors are supposed to be lovely, the wait times to enter the grotto are insane (think over an hour to get into it in the middle of the day), and the actual time spent in the grotto is incredibly short (think under 5 minutes).
While we didn’t tour the Blue Grotto ourselves, based on what I have read online, have heard from friends, and what we heard from our fellow tour-goers who decided to visit on the day we took our Capri day trip, I feel pretty confident in recommending avoiding the Blue Grotto on a day trip to Capri.
If you are desperate to visit, consider spending a night on Capri and then visiting the Blue Grotto the moment it opens in the morning, well before the daytrippers arrive.
Check out Villa San Michele.
Built as the dream home of a Swedish doctor in the late 19th century, this beautiful mansion-turned-museum was designed specifically to showcase stunning views of Capri–and it succeeded.
If you can bear to tear your eyes away from the sea for a moment, there are also plenty of interesting historical artifacts on the property, including the famous sphinx that overlooks Capri.
Stroll through the center of Anacapri.
While Capri Town is lovely, Anacapri is quieter–if you’re heading that way to visit Villa San Michele or Mount Solaro, definitely take a bit of time on your Capri day trip to meander through the town itself!
Sip a drink in the Piazzetta.
Capri’s Piazzetta is a place to see and be seen, and there’s something truly delightful about ordering a cocktail or an espresso and watching the world go by from your table.
Definitely make a stop here on your day trip to Capri–just chalk the prices up to part of the experience and try not to wince too hard!
Should You Take a Tour to Capri?
I touched on this above, but while it’s certainly not a bad idea to visit Capri for a day independently via ferry, day tours to Capri are actually a surprisingly good value.
We chose to take one similar to this tour and had a great time, and we loved not having to deal with booking a boat tour once we arrived on Capri.
Most tours to Capri will leave you free for most of the day to explore–ours did–but add simplicity and structure to the day by covering your transportation to and from Capri, as well as frequently a boat tour and the tourist tax the island charges, all in one flat rate.
Book your day tour to Capri today!
When to Take a Capri Day Trip
Capri is one of those lucky destinations that is stunning year-round: spring brings beautiful blooms, summer the height of its busy season with plenty of fashionable residents coming and going, autumn reduced crowds, and winter a much slower pace of life (expect for many restaurants and stores to be closed).
Personally, I’d be most excited about taking a day trip to Capri in the spring for views and in the summer for boat tours and swimming–but if you happen to be visiting the region during the offseason, I wouldn’t necessarily avoid the island.
The most important component of when to take a Capri day trip, I would argue, isn’t the temperature so much as the lighting: this is an island that looks best bathed in sunlight, and I highly recommend trying to schedule your day trip to Capri for one of the sunniest days of your visit to the area.
Tips for Taking the Perfect Day Trip to Capri
There’s just no way around it: Capri is expensive.
If you’re on a tight budget and want to see the island inexpensively, we recommend packing your own food and drinks and admiring the views from the budget-friendly Garden of Augustus.
If you’re hoping to grab food or drink on the island or to hit the major tourist spots, though, be prepared! For example, the going rate on Capri for an Aperol Spritz was around 12 Euros (about double the going rate on the already-pricey mainland)–that should give you an idea of what kind of prices you’re going to be looking at on Capri!
Avoid the Blue Grotto.
I touched on this above, but on a Capri day trip, the Blue Grotto will eat up huge amounts of your time on Capri for what is generally considered to be an underwhelming and overpriced experience–unless the Blue Grotto is a major bucket list item for you, I recommend focusing elsewhere for your time on Capri.
Visit in the sunshine!
Capri thrives on sunshine.
This island is all about the views, and since virtually all of those views include the sea, planning your day on Capri for a time when the sea will be sparkling at its very best will greatly improve your visit.
Don’t plan on sandy beaches.
While Capri is a stunning coastal destination, it’s not really a beach one–don’t plan on coming here for a stretch of sand.
The island is more about appreciating the rocky coastline than laying out in the sun, so play to its strengths during your day trip to Capri!
If you want to eat a nice meal on the island, plan ahead.
Like most destinations as popular as Capri, there are magnificent restaurants… and plenty of tourist traps.
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Impact of Ecotourism on the Local Citizenry of Cameroon
EXPLORING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ABOUT ECOTOURISM TO THE LOCAL CITIZENRY OF CAMEROON.
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Ecotourism can be however coming up with a substantial contribution to development, and in combating poverty while not while not its own problems. Many studies review on the typical impacts of the sector within developing international locations, whether public, cultural, finance, or eco. However , the sector can be discredited to be less expert poor. Tainted officials generally embezzle many of the funds of which flow inside the sector. As a result of the above, the very paper is going to explore some of the consequences for ecotourism to the socio-cultural together with environment. As being an Anthropologists, My goal is to not fall into the pitfall of assessing the area but what merits noting this is actually the fact that to the sector to be a success there need to be some kind of public amenities plus attraction theme parks.
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There are several forms of holidays and causes of holidays. They deviate across ethnicities and rely on the particular unique or online communities involved with holiday activities. When considering time, that paper will probably focus deep into ecotourism. Ecotourism is dependable travel to all natural areas which will conserves the surroundings and increases the health care of local people. “Travel for you to fragile, dazzling, and usually protected areas which strive to often be low impact plus (usually) small scale. It helps teach the visitor, provides income for efficiency, directly positive aspects the financial development as well as political personal strength of nearby communities, as well as foster honor for different ethnics and for real human rights” (Honey 1995: 25) This form of tourism will likely be intended to secure the environment, get revenues to guard the environment settle-back to watch to support community communities. There are numerous criticisms which surround this method of tousists as to whether at the present sustainable when locals are in reality the beneficiaries.
There are various updates of ecotourism that have been providers many historians but this unique paper can briefly give a few which might be very necessary to the evaluation of the pieces of paper. Tikell (1994), defines ecotourism as check out enjoy the world’s amazing assortment of organic life as well as human way of life without leading to damage possibly.
Ecotourism is tousists and fun that is together nature-based and sustainable. (Lindberg and McKercher, 1997)
Exactly what is worth remembering from the above descriptions and other scholarly definitions is that often ecotourism can be nature dependent and the knowledge of sustainability capabilities in most of your definitions at the same time. This moves a long way to stress on the incredible importance of nature so that you can human beings nicely fact that it takes to be kept for upcoming generations.
Ecotourism is also regarded one of the world’s fastest increasing tourism sub-market. This growth has been marketed by Europeans and north Americans to the majority of parts of the whole world either for free time or for the purpose of studies.
Cameroon is a opportunity tourist place owing to her rich touristic potentials such as the natural vivid sandy islands of Kribi in the Sth and Limbe in the South West provinces about Cameroon, equally its all natural priority about hosting a number of animal type like the, reddish tail apes, giraffes, is also and huge elephants which usually roam the particular savannah. The very bongo antelopes and massive west lowland gorillas, chimpanzees succeed in this primeval woodlands together with monkeys, baboons, elephants, hippopotamus and forest buffalos which have been almost vanished in certain parts of the world, it all harbors varied bird kinds.
Cameroon is definitely blessed having abundant, various kinds of forest as well as wildlife in the continent regarding Africa, Character reserve insure almost fifteen percent associated with Cameroon 475, 442km2, a great eventual country wide goal involving 20% may be set for legal reasons; These include key National leisure areas, three world Biosphere stowed away and one Unanimous Nation entire world Heritage blog but the almost all unfortunately now that they are not necessarily adequately covered some possess seriously deteriorated due to lack of funds and mismanagement, poaching and official corruption. Forest have been purchased off to foreign fascination for ecologically unsustainable carrying with no benefit to the locals while plundering of exceptional animals thru sales for bush beef has grown as well as the crime cost has risen spectactularly, the situation could possibly change by using increasing attention to economic features about ecotourism dependent on healthy areas and supplies. The Ministry of Make and Creatures in Cameroon has been hard to put over a legislation so that you can kind of determine the activities with local residential areas living all over national leisure areas and gameplay reserves.
The main conservation structure empowering the exact Baaka pygmies of the To the east and Southern region of Cameroon thus is often a seldom success story. The nation which has a large numbers of potential holiday destinations due to its wealthy nature has been plagued by an undesirable political could for finished to two . 5 decades now. The rainforest reserve on the other hand escape these disruption from the political energy be and is also turning into among the list of Cameroon’s main and couple tourist desired destination.
Not leaving behind out the excessive ‘romantic’ stuff Africa presents such as pre-historic paintings, the African night time sky, an exclusive rhythm of life almost all these experiences are readily available in Cameroon and that is the rationale Cameroon is called Africa smaller because it includes a little bit of what precisely exist in the whole of Africa
ATTRIBUTES OF ECOTOURISM TO YOUR LOCAL PEOPLE
The value of plants employed for medicinal reasons by localized communities might be calculated on the basis of their attainable future price on the worldwide market. Ecological economics, a field that addresses the relationship involving ecological and even economic devices focusing on environment policy together with sustainable improvement (Constanza 1989)
Intrinsic benefits is a considerably more subjective topic, while most folks take the innate value of people for granted the view outside the window that Dynamics is very commonly personalized in the sense that it has inherent protection under the law and is as such subject to the exact same moral, meaning and legalised protection is much more controversial (Nash 1989)
The modern world Ecotour ninety-seven the first globe congress as well as exhibition on Ecotourism happened in South africa, Brazil coming from 15 so that you can 18 12 , 1997 it absolutely was organized by Brazilian Contemporary society for the environment(BIOSFERA). The seminar was went to by roughly 2000 consumers from throughout the world. They provided ecotourism notions, policies, ideas, developments along with management versions. The key end result of the meeting was the knowledge that ecotourism is not some sort of passing craze but has got well together with truly got there, bearing the exact promise regarding environmental resource efficiency, community well being and fiscal benefits.
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Most natural areas can be found in the countryside locales; the roll-out of tourism the perfect areas may have considerable affect on the local men and women (Lindberg as well as Enriquez 1994)
Sensitive work with policies which cause the bare minimum negative cultural impact, although allow huge levels of local involvement are essential. Jobs to get local people are really a high priority, but are frequently difficult to present in a classy knowledge sector, such as ecotourism or vacation tourism. The roll-out of tourism scheme sensitive in order to local problems is essential meant for obtaining community support (Lindberg and Enriquez1994). Local global financial and cultural benefits trigger an increase in support for environmental conservation.
Tourists seek out organizations that underline the character from the locale in terms of architecture, heirloom, cuisine art, ecology, etc . Tourism bottom line give added in value to the assets. A price that the local shop may not get previously identified.
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Further to the west, Earle, Arkansas is a place of desolation that makes Crawfordsville look positively thriving by comparison. The signs at Earle’s city limits state that almost 3500 people live there, but the downtown has the look of a true ghost town, with long blocks of long-vacant stores and shops, many crumbling beyond repair. Some are floors and vacant lots, a legacy of a mysterious string of arsons back in the 1990’s. Everywhere one looks in Earle, there is gang graffiti- Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples, Crips and Bloods.
I can’t really imagine how Earle got this bad, although I recall that the town had racial problems in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and union troubles at a local factory in the 1980’s. That had brought Jesse Jackson (and the national news media) to Earle. But now, as desolate as the downtown area looks, the Southside neighborhood below the railroad tracks looks even worse. Old abandoned motels with their doors torn off and open stand beside ramshackle tenements, project apartments, a handful of churches and the occasional store or restaurant. Young people walk in groups down the streets aimlessly in the summer evening, as there are no recreational opportunities in Earle. That might explain the gang graffiti that literally covers nearly any available wall, and not just gang signs and symbols are painted, but nicknames and streetnames, as if kids were yelling “Look at me! Pay attention to people like us trapped in these forgotten towns.” A woman driving an SUV on Second Street noticed me as I was taking photos of downtown and yelled “Take a picture of me,too!” Around the corner from where I saw her, someone had sprayed graffiti on the wall of a church that read “Holy City”, which wasn’t the name of the church. but I though to myself, there is no way they could have meant Earle, Arkansas.
I took a vacation day from work, and headed out I-40 into Arkansas on a very hot day indeed. I had decided to drive up to Greer’s Ferry Lake and check out Fairfield Bay, but I wanted to stop off in Little Rock at Arkansas Record Exchange and browse for some new music. Amongst the 45 singles, I found a copy of the Adolph and the Entertainers “Old Folks Shuffle” on the Alarm label out of Shreveport, a record that I had been looking for for some time. Then I headed on to Conway, where I stopped at the Marketplace Grill and enjoyed a late lunch. It was about 3:30 PM when I left Conway, heading north on Highway 65, which was an endless string of flea markets and antique malls. I would have liked to have stopped at all of them, but the day was rapidly getting away from me, so I only stopped at one that featured a big sign announcing “RECORDS”. They did indeed have records, although nothing much that I cared to purchase, so I continued north into Clinton, and from there headed east toward Shirley and Fairfield Bay. The terrain was more mountainous than I had expected, and the road made quite a few twists and turns before I came to the main entrance of Fairfield Bay. When I was young, Fairfield Bay had been a new resort development, always offering people from Memphis a free vacation if they would agree to take a one-hour tour/seminar about purchasing real estate, condominiums or timeshares. I always wanted us to do it, and my parents never wanted to, so I was surprised to see the rather desolate look of the place as I entered it on Dave Creek Parkway. In the intervening years, Fairfield Bay had changed from a development to an incorporated town, with a mayor and local government, but the first thing I noticed was miles of streets that were little more than gravel tracks leading deep into the woods, with no sign of habitation whatsoever. I had seen on billboards that Wyndham Hotels had taken over the rental management of the resort facilities, but the first thing I saw was an assisted living home, and then gradually I came to the Village Mall, which was supposed to be the business center of town. But here too, an air of tired desolation prevailed, for the Village Mall was almost totally vacant, and the Conference Center across the street had clearly been abandoned, with grass growing through numerous cracks in its empty parking lot pavement. There was a rental office in the area with cars out front, and I had seen a couple of open convenience stores, but back on Dave Creek Parkway were two abandoned restaurants, one of them a Pizza Hut with a “For Sale” sign out in front. Fairfield Bay was beginning to look like a venture that had obviously failed. As I headed further south toward the lake, I noticed a community park with miniature golf, and a farmer’s market, and there were people around there, but the wholse community had an eery, empty feel. I followed a sign off the main road toward the Bay View Club, which was in a beautiful, Old-English-style lodge, with a large, crowded swimming pool behind it. The club was primarily a restaurant, but restricted to members and guests, and I could not determine whether memberships were sold at the door, as they are at so many Arkansas establishments. At the road’s dead end, there was a beautiful vista of the lake and mountains to the south, but it was too obstructed by houses for me to photograph. Heading back to the main road and further south, there were more houses (almost neighborhoods, finally), and I kept heading toward the lakefront, following signs for Hampton Cove Marina. The roads were quite hilly even inside the community, and there were some beautiful lake views, but no public overlook, so I was unable to photograph anything, since I would have had to walk on private property. At Hampton Cove, there was another swimming pool, and it too was crowded with kids and parents, but there was also a walking trail down to the lake, but I soon found that much of it was under water due to abnormally high lake levels. I took some pictures there, and then headed back west toward the main marina area, but there, once again, lake levels had wreaked havoc, and roads were closed. I walked out to the marina store, and took pictures from there, noticing Sugarloaf Mountain coming up out of the lake to the southeast. There had been a snack bar at the marina, but a sign said it was closed due to high water. The beach area nearby was also underwater, but people were still swimming at the places where roads dropped off into the lake, and at that point I took some of the best pictures of the lake. It was getting late, however, and the sun was disappearing behind some clouds, so I headed up Highway 330 looking for a restaurant called the Back In The Day Cafe, but when I found it, it was closed and for sale. I decided to head on around the lake, wondering what economic holocaust had hit Fairfield Bay so hard. Summer should have been the busy season there. At the village of Edgemont, the road came close to the lake, and I came upon a restaurant called Jannsen’s Lakefront Restaurant, where a large crowd was milling around outside. I expected quite a wait, but I was taking a sort of one-day vacation, and was in no hurry, so I stopped there and put my name in for a table. The crowd of waiting people had spilled over into some formal gardens behind what seemed to be a motel or some apartment buildings. There had once been steps down to the lake, but high water earlier in the year had destroyed them. Nearby was a boatdock, where a pontoon boat had pulled up to the shore, and some kids were having a lot of fun in a mudbog nearby, although their parents weren’t too happy about it. I walked down to an old bridge in the woods that must have once been part of the main road, and took some photographs there, but my table was soon ready. I ordered a dinner of pacific rockfish, which was excellent, although I was tempted by the steak offerings on the menu. While waiting for my table, I had seen the homemade chocolate mousse pie, so I tried that as well, and was very pleased. Afterwards, with the sun setting on the lake, I parked at a gravel road on the other side of the bridge, and walked out on the bridge to take photographs. Then I headed out toward Batesville, heading back to Memphis. When I came to Concord, I remembered reading about an old pressing plant there, so I stopped at a gas station and asked the girl there if she knew anything about an old record pressing plant, or where it had been. She was young, but she did know about it, and told me that I had already passed the building down the road, but that the record in it had been given to a museum. Batesville was a beautiful town, lit up in a dark valley and visible for several miles, and from there I passed through Newport, which was a steamy, dark river town with nearly nobody on the streets. 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The physicochemical properties of oil from Rosa affinis rubiginosa seeds were analyzed after extraction by (i) organic solvent, (ii) cold pressing, and (iii) cold pressing assisted by enzymatic pretreatment using a mixture of the Novo-Nordisk A/S products Cellubrix (cellulase and hemicellulase activities) and Olivex (pectinase, cellulase, and hemicellulase activities). There were no significant differences in oil quality parameters, such as iodine value, refractive index, saponification value, unsaponifiable matter, and FA profile, when applying any of the three extraction processes. Although significant variations were observed in FFA content (acid value) and PV of the oil obtained by both of the cold-pressing oil extraction processes, these results were lower than the maximum value established from the Codex Alimentarius Commission. All-trans-retinoic acid content improved by 700% in rosehip oil obtained through cold pressing, with and without enzymatic pretreatment, in comparison with organic solvent extraction. This result is quite important for cosmetic oil because all-trans-retinoic acid is the main bioactive component responsible for the regenerative properties of this oil.
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Canada benchmarked against 15 countries
The data on this page are current as of March 2013.
How does Canada’s 2012 ranking compare to previous Economy report cards?
Canada’s ranking has improved—to 6th place in the 2012 version of the Economy report card, up from 11th in 2008, the last time we provided a complete report card on the Economy. We chose not to do a complete Economy report card right after the 2008–09 financial crisis and recession, given the unsettled nature of the economic data during this recovery period.
How is economic performance measured?
The Conference Board’s overarching goal is to measure quality of life for Canada and its peers. We ask two questions: Do Canadians have a high quality of life? Is it sustainable?
When measuring the economic aspect of quality of life, we consider three dimensions:
- economic wealth
- economic disadvantage and hardship
- economic sustainability
- Economic wealth is captured by income per capita. Income per capita reflects material living standards, that is, the capacity of Canadians to purchase the goods and services needed to live, such as housing, food, and clothing. It is also indicative of a country’s ability to sustain living standards through public spending on education, health, and infrastructure, as well as through private and public savings that can be used to generate future income and to support future consumption. At the macro level, a country that is not generating enough income is hampered in what it can do in other areas, such as the environment and education.
- Economic disadvantage and hardship is measured by the unemployment rate. High unemployment hurts a country’s labour productivity and its gross domestic product (GDP) growth. High unemployment is also linked to elevated rates of poverty, homelessness, income inequality, crime, poor health outcomes, low self-esteem, and social exclusion. More detailed and nuanced indicators of economic disadvantage and hardship are included in the Society pages on this website—such as child poverty, elderly poverty, and income distribution.
- Economic sustainability is defined here as a country’s ability to sustain its economic growth and prosperity into the future. Facets of economic sustainability: economic growth, macroeconomic stability, and global integration.
- Economic growth is represented by three indicators—real (that is, inflation-adjusted) GDP growth, labour productivity growth, and employment growth.
- GDP growth is essential to sustaining living standards. A country that has a relatively high GDP level today is not guaranteed that this level will be maintained.
- Productivity growth is the single most important determinant of a country’s long-term GDP growth and per capita income, and it is therefore the only sustainable way to improve a country’s standard of living. Productivity can be enhanced by finding more efficient and effective ways to yield goods and services so that more can be produced with the same amount of effort. Productivity can also be improved by producing higher-value-added products and services that are worth more in the market place.
- Employment growth is a driver of income per capita. It reflects the capacity of a country to absorb new workers joining the labour force and to use the labour resources available. A buoyant economy is one that is creating new jobs.
- Macroeconomic stability is represented by a proxy indicator: the inflation rate.
- The inflation rate reflects sustainability because rising prices erode the purchasing power of consumers; that is, inflation reduces the quantity of goods that can be purchased with a given amount of money. Periods of high inflation or deflation undermine the economy’s ability to sustain prosperity.
- Global integration: Conference Board research connects economic sustainability with a country’s ability to integrate in the global economy. With the rise of global supply chains and complex integration flows, it is difficult to assess a country’s status on global integration. The Conference Board uses two proxy indicators: the inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) performance indexes.
- Inward FDI encourages the diffusion of technology management know-how, as well as more efficient resource allocation. Subsidiaries acquire knowledge and technologies from their international parent. Domestic firms that interact with these subsidiaries also benefit from these transfers of technology and knowledge. Ultimately, FDI leads to higher productivity, improved quality of products, and increased competitiveness. The Inward FDI Performance Index captures a country’s relative success in attracting global FDI.
- Outward FDI opens access to foreign markets and promotes deeper integration into global supply chains, making an economy’s firms more efficient and competitive. Outward FDI promotes trade by developing new exporting (and importing) opportunities. The Outward FDI Performance Index captures a country’s relative success in taking advantage of foreign investment opportunities.
Is Canada still in the gifted class?
Certainly Canada is still in the gifted class among nations. While the 2008–09 financial crisis and recession hurt Canada and its 15 peer countries, they remain among the wealthiest and most successful countries in the world.
Among its peers, however, Canada’s 6th place ranking means that it sits in the middle of the class. Canada’s overall “B” grade in Economy is good, but “C” grades on two individual indicators—income per capita and outward FDI—and a “D” on inward FDI are not. Canada’s overall “B” in 2012 reflects an “A” on inflation (along with most of the peer group), and “B” grades for GDP growth, labour productivity growth, employment growth, and the unemployment rate.
Which countries are at the top of the class?
Norway is the top-rated country among the comparator group. Norway moved from 3rd spot in the report card for 2007 to 1st position in the 2008 report card, and it remains in 1st position in 2012. Norway continues to lead the class in income per capita—a full $12,000 above that of Canada—and it both weathered the 2008–09 economic recession and shifted into recovery better than most of its peers. It is the only country to receive an “A” grade for income per capita in 2012, and it receives three other “A”s—for GDP growth, employment growth, and the unemployment rate.
Australia is the other peer country to receive an overall “A” grade, placing second overall. Unlike most of the comparator group, Australia never experienced recession in 2008–09. It receives “A” grades in this report card for GDP growth, labour productivity growth, inflation, and the unemployment rate.
How does Canada’s economic performance compare to the 16-country average?
The radar diagram below is a snapshot of Canada’s economic performance (and the 16-country average performance) relative to that of the best-performing peer country—the outer ring—for each of the eight Economy indicators.
The chart has eight axes—one for each indicator—that radiate out from the centre. A score closer to the centre represents worse performance, while a score closer to the outer circle represents better performance.
Canada fares poorly when compared with the top performers; it is well below the best country on all indicators except inflation and employment growth.
Use the pull-down menu to compare Canada’s economic performance with that of any of its peers.
Should Canada continue to look to the U.S. as a role model?
When assessing economic and most other aspects of its performance, Canada naturally looks to the U.S., its closest neighbour and most important trading partner. Canadians know this relationship must be managed carefully. But in the new integrative economy, this is perhaps too narrow a focus for comparison. As well, the 2008 financial crisis originated in the U.S., and the U.S. path to recovery has been slow—further reinforcing the fact that the U.S. is not the perfect role model.
Has Canada’s report card improved since the 1970s?
The 1970s began with Canada in a remarkably positive position. Canadian living standards were high, and the pronounced rise in economic growth and productivity throughout the 1950s and 1960s meant governments had the fiscal room to widen Canada’s social safety net. At the 1967 world’s fair in Montreal, it really seemed as if Sir Wilfred Laurier’s 1904 prediction that “the 20th century belongs to Canada” was coming true.
Alas, his prediction did not come to pass. Canada’s overall economic performance has since deteriorated relative to its peers. The summary report card for each of the decades reveals that Canada’s economic performance slipped from a “B” in the 1970s to a “C” in the 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s, although Canada has since edged back up to a “B” in the most recent period, 2010–12.
Why did Canada lose ground? Three factors stick out. First, Canada has been a chronic laggard on several important economic indicators—most notably, productivity. Second, Canada has failed to keep pace in the growing competition for global investment, receiving “D” grades for decades. Third, even in some areas where Canada has improved, other countries are still doing better.
The radar diagram below reveals that, relative to the top-performing peer countries, Canada’s economic performance in the 1970s was stronger than 2012 on four indicators. With the notable exceptions of the unemployment rate, inflation, and labour productivity growth, Canada’s 1970s circle was closer to the outer ring, which represents the best-performing country on each indicator.
Use the pull-down menu to compare Canada’s economic performance in 2012 with its performance in the 1970s.
Is Canada keeping up with the rest of the class?
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A digital thermometer is one of the most important tools for anyone who loves to cook. Not all thermometers, however, will deliver an excellent performance. If you are looking for the most accurate, read on and we’ll talk about some of the top options for the best wireless meat thermometer for smoker.
With a wireless meat thermometer, you can enjoy convenience. You do not need to be near the smoker to check the temperature. You can keep your feet up as you do other things and leave the smoker by itself. Walk freely while being confident of monitoring the smoker’s heat.
Best Wireless Meat Thermometer America’s Test Kitchen
Clueless about the meat thermometer to buy? We’ll make your life easy! Below are the top products that should be on your radar.
ThermoPro TP20 Wireless Remote Digital Thermometer
Monitoring your smoker’s temperature will be easy when you have this thermometer. It has a premium sensor probe that can deliver accurate readings, so you don’t have to be left guessing. The temperature reading is accurate at a distance of up to 300 feet.
Ease of use is another good reason to choose this product. With its simplicity, it will be effortless to use even for someone who has not used a thermometer before. There is no need for syncing, which means that it will be ready in a snap once it is taken out of the box.
The large digital display is another thing that we love in this wireless thermometer. It shows both the oven and food temperature for ease of monitoring. The display also has a backlight, so it will be easy to see regardless if it is day or night.
Lastly, if you want to have peace of mind, it is good to know that it comes with a three-year warranty from the manufacturer.
- Has a dual prong
- Durable construction
- 3-year warranty
- Metal probes can be too long
NutriChef Smart Bluetooth Thermometer
If you are looking for an affordable wireless thermometer, this is one option that should be on the top of your list. While it is easy on the wallet, it is big in terms of performance. The kit comes with two probes, but the unit itself can support up to four probes.
With this thermometer, you can enjoy a wide array of high-end features despite the price. For instance, you can get an instant notification if the temperature is higher or lower than the pre-set temperature. You can also save cooking presets.
The digital screen is also notable. It displays large numbers so that you can see the temperature accurately. Plus, you can see it even at night because of the backlight.
Aside from seeing the temperature in the included monitoring device, you can also do so through your smartphone. Download the mobile app and you can unlock more functions beyond temperature monitoring. You can set unique temperature targets and view temperature history, among other things. The best thing is that the app is free to download.
- Good wireless range
- Allows target temperature setting
- Durability can be an issue
- Only has two probes
Enzoo Wireless Meat Thermometer
This is another great option if you are looking for an affordable wireless thermometer. However, take note that this does not come with a mobile app. Rather, it has a remote receiver that comes with a backlit display so that you can accurately monitor what is in the smoker.
With this thermometer, you do not need to wait a long time before you can see the readings. The manufacturer notes that the readings will be ready within one to two seconds. It can read temperatures from 32 to 572 degrees Fahrenheit.
The remote that comes with the unit can monitor the temperature even if you are 500 feet away from the smoker. Its extensive range is one of its biggest benefits compared to those that are monitored using a compatible mobile app.
The kit comes with four probes, which means that you can do monitoring for up to four meats at a time. It is also inclusive of batteries and a carrying case.
Before shipping, the transmitter and the receiver have been already paired. This means that you do not need to do the syncing by yourself.
- Comes with a storage case
- Easy to read
- Does not come with a mobile app
- Battery doors are hard to open and close
HAUEA Bluetooth Meat Thermometer
With this meat thermometer, you can accurately monitor temperature at a distance through your smartphone. All that you need to do is download a mobile app to unlock the full features of the device.
The kit comes with six color-coded probes. This will make it easy to distinguish one from the other. It also comes with six channels to simultaneously monitor up to six items in the smoker.
Another thing worth highlighting in this product is the design of the probes. It comes with an ABS wrap that you can conveniently roll. With this winding function, it is easier to store without risking possible damage to the unit.
The large LCD is also a plus. With the design of the screen, it will be effortless to see the display. It is also well-lit, so that you won’t struggle to see the reading even if you are in a low-lit environment.
- Easy to use and clean
- Comes with six probes
- Has a smart app
- Durability can be an issue
- App needs an update
Inkbird Wi-Fi Thermometer IBBQ-4T
One thing that we like the most in this product is its magnetic design. Because of this, you can conveniently stick the receiver to your smoker or oven.
It has also been praised by many people because of its high accuracy. It has a wide temperature range at a maximum of 482 degrees Fahrenheit.
More than being accurate, we also like how it comes with 12 pre-set modes – Beef, Veal, Lamb, Pork, Turkey, Chicken, BBQ Smoke, Hamburger, Hot Smoke, Cold Smoke, and Manual. The latter will allow you to pre-set a temperature depending on what you are cooking. You can also program the temperature based on the doneness that you prefer. You can use your smartphone to tweak all these settings.
The 2000mAh lithium batteries are also commendable. They are included with your purchase. They provide long-lasting and dependable power to the unit. The best thing is that they are rechargeable, which are more economical compared to traditional batteries. When the batteries are fully charged, they can last up to 26 hours.
- Good battery life
- Accurate temperature readings
- Magnetic design
- May take a while to connect to Wi-Fi
Inkbird IBT-4XP Wireless Thermometer
This is one of those wireless thermometers that combine both form and function. It has a sleek but elegant look, making it a great choice if style is an important consideration for you.
It is packed with an abundance of praise-worthy features. For instance, it has IPX5 rating, which means that it is waterproof. No need to worry even if it gets wet! You can be confident that water will not damage the product’s internal components.
It also comes with a magnetic design. This means that it can be easily adsorbed by the smoker or oven.
We also love the large display in the receiver, making the readings easy to see. Alternatively, you can also monitor the temperature through a mobile app. The latter will unlock more features, such as a graph function.
Lastly, it comes with a 10000mAh rechargeable battery. It takes approximately three hours to fully charge the battery. In turn, the battery will last up to 40 hours.
- Easy to use
- Good battery life
- Can be difficult to connect to an app
- Flimsy case
How to Choose the Best Wireless Meat Thermometer
The options will be plenty, but do not take this as an excuse to pick just any product. To help you narrow down the possibilities, below are the most important things to consider.
The receiver is one of the most important parts of the wireless meat thermometer. You will have two choices. Most cheap models will have a remote that will allow you to see the temperature. For a more modern alternative, some thermometers have a dedicated mobile application. In this case, you will use your mobile phone for monitoring temperature.
This refers to the distance at which you can use the thermometer. It specifies how far you can be from the smoker to be able to still accurately monitor temperature. Between the two types of receivers earlier mentioned, the range is usually longer with a remote compared to an app. Most of the app-controlled wireless thermometers will have a range of up to 200 feet. Those with a remote, on the other hand, will have a range of up to 500 feet.
It is important to consider the probe because this is what directly monitors the temperature of the meat. The probe should be made of a durable and easy to clean material. Otherwise, it will be unreliable, and the readings can be negatively affected.
Some wireless thermometers are equipped with an alarm function to provide automatic reminders. You will hear an audible warning if the temperature is too high or too low compared to what is ideal.
At the end of the day, this is perhaps the most important consideration when you are choosing the best wireless meat thermometer for smoker. To know the accuracy, you have to read reviews from other people and learn from their experiences. Ask around from people you know who are using wireless thermometers to have an idea on which products are the best.
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I assume you already red Communication with demons article so you know what to expect, now we can move on to some details.
Invocation is the main technique of summoning demons used by satanists and demonolators. Before discussing details, let’s see what invocation is and how does it differs from evocation.
An invocation (from the Latin verb invocare “to call on, invoke, to give”) is a magickal act in which we invite (politely) a spiritual entity to come. Invocation can take also a form of a prayer. During that process we open ourselves to spiritual energy of an entity, allowing for natural, unrestricted communication, exchange of energies, sometimes merging of consciousnesses. If a circle is created during ritual (not always), it is used for balancing of energies, creating a suitable environment for magician and summoned entity. Both are within circle.
An invocation suggests: free, unrestricted exchange, politeness, respect, closeness, made on positive emotions.
An evocation (from Latin word evocatio was the “calling forth” or “summoning away”) – is a magical act of commanding, forcing, threatening (with names and symbols – usually of Christianity) spiritual entity. Circle is created here every time to protect magician from summoned entity/energy and to bound, restrict entity within it. Magician is in that case outside the circle, demon inside.
An evocation suggests: fear, restriction, forceful domination based on negative emotions.
Remember, old grimoires are written from christian point of view so all rituals there are evocations. Satanists don’t use them but there is no problem with using such references, information and others to transform them into your invocation ritual.
An invocation is most natural method of summoning demons (or any entity) and in opposition to evocation, it doesn’t create unnecessary tension and boundaries, which restrict flow of an energy. An evocation on the other hand requires a lot of energy and results are weak in comparison to opposite method. An invocation instead is or could be very simple and powerful. Because of that evocation isn’t only used by satanists to summon demons, but is also used by Christians or christian occultists to summon angels. There is simply no better technique that yields such results. Satanists don’t have to protect themselves from demons so they can summon demons as easily as christian occultists angels.
The catch by the method of invocation in case of demons is, you need to let go completely of christian dualistic beliefs and notion of demons, otherwise your subconscious convictions cause unpleasant results. So you need to have complete satanic beliefs, positive attitude toward Satan and demons, then you will be able to work safely and receive satisfactory results.
There are several ways of performing invocation:
1) An invocation ritual
This is most complicated method but it is recommended for newbies who begin their journey through theistic satanism and/or demonoltry. It is also used by more advanced practitioners during celebration rites or by more special occasions, or if believed that this is the most proper way to do it. Below I place an exemplary, relatively simplistic ritual (for beginners) proposed by the TG (Traditional Demonolators) from demonolatry.org.
Every proper ritual has 3 phases: a beginning, a body ritual, an end.
a) Beginning – Chose a proper place, clean it so you would feel that this is not an ordinary occasion. Prepare all needed ritual utensils. Place four candles north, east, south, west (could be of any color, although I prefer black ones, but you can have one of each corresponding color) on each quarters of the circle. Altar is in the middle (more or less) of the circle, directed north or any direction you find suitable for that occasion.
When you are ready, begin north invoking earth energy by calling on earth elemental demon of your choosing, for example Belial. Take deep breaths, relax mentally and physically. Take dagger/athame/stick/finger, point it upwards (at the sky) and draw in front of you ZD sigil as shown above on the picture, visualizing energy lines creating the symbol, reciting at the same time enn: Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehlic, Belial. You can repeat the enn three times. Imagine earth, its energy, feeling, entering the circle, creating it. Then you turn east and invoke air energy by calling upon Lucifer (or any air elemental demon of your choosing). Repeat previous step using Lucifer’s enn: Renich Tasa Uberaca Biasa Icar, Lucifer. Then visualize air energy, its feeling, entering the circle and creating it. Correspondingly you do the same south for fire (Flereous – Ganic Tasa fubin, Flereous.) and west for water (Leviathan – Jedan Tasa hoet naca, Leviathan.). In the center invoke Satan (Tasa reme laris Satan) as fifth element, the spirit, combining and balancing all elements together. Then you invoke chosen demon in the middle using his/her enn in similar way as by elements.
b) Body ritual – That’s up to you, depends on what you want to achieve. You can write down your wishes, burn them, channel demon, draw picture/sigil or burn one, dance, sing, meditate, work with energy, visualize, have sex, make sacrifice, etc.
c) End – Thank demon and all other elemental demons for being present and hearing you out, say goodbye, extinguish candles with fingers or candle extinguished (don’t blow off!).
For demonic enns see this article.
It’s good to write your all impressions, feelings and thoughts down. They may vary strongly, no ritual is the same. Depending on your focus and sensibility, you can achieve full, clear contact or slight, unclear impressions, in such case don’t worry. You will succeed with patience and motivation. Don’t try too hard. A ritual should be serious but also fun! Be creative. Your attitude must be light, only then you will be able to hear, sense demons. Ask them that you want to have clear answers and for the confirmation if you have doubts, it may come in few days or quicker.
Many advanced magick users do rituals and create circle differently. Instead 4 points circle (based on square) you can base it on pentagram or triangle. Some practitioners report that the energy of shapes does matter here so a square offers very stable energy, a circle a balanced one, a triangle very intense one (don’t recommended for beginners). You can have shapes within shapes so for example four point circle encompassing triangle based altar (points of a figure are made by candles). With experience and confidence you can create your own rituals which work the best.
Of course it’s good to follow general rules of ritual magick here. So for example: be rested. If you are exhausted, schedule ritual for different time (although there are some rituals that require to be fatigued mentally, probably because mind easier detaches itself from physical then, however control and focus drops down). Don’t eat too much and shortly before ritual (small fast could be a good idea if you are not distracted by hunger, otherwise light meal is the best way to go; sometimes food sacrifice is a part of a ritual – every rule has some exceptions), heavy stomach distracts, also digestion holds our energy more in physical range, so spiritual experiences may be harder to obtain if you are new to this. It’s good to darken the ritual space and let be lighted mostly by candles, but rituals can be also done with full light, loud music. Whatever takes you in proper mood.
2) A prayer – could be enough to initiate a contact – yes! it is sometimes so simple! Prayer could be also a part of body ritual. The form and words of a prayer are up to you.
3) A simple mental invitation – With time, experience or talent you may receive connection with chosen demon at any moment easily just by asking him/her in thoughts or even just by thinking about him/her! Or you may have easiness to connect in such way with certain demons while with others you must take more work. Some demons are easier, some harder to get in touch with, depends on person, there is no rule here. For example, when starting a tarot session I ask Vassago to come and I ask for clarity and accuracy of reading. I receive message that he is there, then I begin, as simple as that! Sometimes I am asked about certain demon and immediately I hear this demon answering me, I receive additional information mentally. It’s not always like that but it happens. Understand that with time communication with demons will be coming easily and naturally, if it isn’t already.
4) If the above mentioned methods of summoning demons aren’t doing anything for you, you may try a different one (as I said, there are many ways of obtaining the same result). Read my article about Satanic Astral Temple for more info!
Remember, demons can hear you mentally unrestricted so you can’t hide anything. But they don’t have ego like we do so they don’t judge, don’t react exactly like people. They may seemingly sound and react humanly at first glance, but they don’t get angry, resentful, scared, jealous. If they do, then you are not talking with demon only with lesser energy (residue after living person) or there is a chance you’re making it up… However, demons may give you kick in some way. It is known for some to experience small electric discharges if you violate the agreement (like: you oblige to drop smoking yet you had moment of weakness) to make you remember. They are not fairies 😉 so they can be blunt.
When speaking to demons, there is no reason to worry about wording, demons read our intentions and understand our thoughts and emotions better then we do. And they do have sense of humor. So relax, let go of fear and allow demons to merge with your energy. In time and frequent contacts with demons you may notice you have changed and behave more like them.
How to choose a proper demon? There are few methods:
– Study the literature, take all demons that sound helpful with your matter and analyze your feelings about his/her name, enn, sigil. Choose one that appeals to you the most. If you still have no clue, try to contact with each of them. The most proper one creates immediate, strong, clear connection, creating feeling of excitement.
– Trust your feelings. If you are fascinated in certain demon, there is a high chance he/she represents things in which you are strong and… weak (great chance to learn). Or you may just know which one is best for the occasion.
– Demon chooses you. You feel very strong attraction or something calls you, you feel personal energy calling for your attention. You find clues, events, “coincidences” that raise your interest in a demon.
– Ask mentally, which demon would be most suitable in given situation and wait for response. When it comes, ask for name. In that way often you meet demons that are not mentioned in literature. Don’t worry. There are thousands of thousands of thousands demons and more. In literature we meet only fraction of them so it’s not surprising if a “new” demon answers. | <urn:uuid:741ea337-76e6-459e-b7bc-175982f74e35> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://zalbarath666.wordpress.com/satanic-magick/summoning-demons-invocation/?like_comment=1131&_wpnonce=02813dfdcc&replytocom=252 | 2020-10-19T17:24:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107863364.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20201019145901-20201019175901-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.934253 | 2,426 |
Sri Swami Satyananda has given to all of us two gifts: yoga and yajna. Yoga is the subject of discovering peace, realizing the beauty and experiencing the divinity in our personal life. Yajna is the means, the medium, by which we can perceive, support and nurture the positive qualities and divinity inside other people. Yoga represents the personal aspect, yajna represents the communal aspect. These were the two gifts that Sri Swamiji gave to us and which have a clear direction. They are not just rituals being performed, or yogas being taught without any aim or purpose. There is a definite direction, a path, laid out before us by our gurus.
The work of our master is seen in Munger and Rikhia. Rikhia is being led by Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati, who is in her own right an authority on the subject of spiritual life. She has been the medium by which the teachings and the messages of the gurus are conveyed.
Munger comes in the jurisdiction which at present is mine. My only contribution is to maintain and nurture the spirit of yoga. To maintain and nurture the spirit of sannyasa, and to play around with the children of Bal Yoga Mitra Mandal for they are the future of our society. I salute all the grown-ups for their contribution and wish them well in their life, to lead a stress-free life. That is my job. I am not at the helm of an institution, but I do work for yoga and I do work for sannyasa.
The intervention of guru in one's life, in my opinion, is the most important and critical intervention, for it gives focus and a purpose and it changes the destiny of a human being. When people ask me, 'What is the role of guru in one's life? I only feel one thing: the association and interaction with guru changes one's destiny. That is true. If we look at our lives and see how it has changed, developed, become better, or we are more at peace with ourselves, we have a focus in our life, due to what? There is better understanding and appreciation of life, due to whom? There is an expanded perception of how we can live our life and beautify our environment. From where does this idea come? This idea comes from associating with those people who are spiritually oriented.
In every session of this Guru Poornima celebration, I have been referring to one incident, one statement given by one of the greatest astrophysicists in the world, Stephen Hawking, who only recently made a statement that in this present scenario, in this present environment, humanity has only two hundred years more to exist. After that, human life will be extinct from the planet, as many other life-forms have become extinct in the past. This is something we have known, that one day we are going to be gone, yet the proximity to our extinction is so close now.
Why has that happened? Earth has taken millions of years. Homo sapiens appeared on the face of this planet two hundred thou sand years ago. We were foragers and hunters then and there was no exploitation. When the agrarian society took over, humans did not become the master of their destiny but grain be came the master of their destiny. We became the servant to grains. Looking after them, caring for them, growing them, consuming them, for what? For our needs. Gradually we became servants to the things that are now essential for us today.
We are not masters of our own destiny, we are dependent on many factors. Many other factors decide what our destiny is going to be. These factors become activated when the mind is absolutely material, involved in bhoga. Bhoga is perfectly all right, but excessive bhoga is detrimental to human health and to global health.
Due to excessive bhoga there is problem in life, there is problem in family, there is problem in body, there is problem in society, there is problem in the nation, there is problem in the world, there is problem in nature, there is problem in water, there is problem in air, there is problem everywhere.
In this exploitative materialistic mentality, we are looking at a time period which is our own time period and not beyond. 'What can I do to enjoy life now?' Nobody thinks what we can do to improve the quality of life for the future generations. In our quest for comfort, pleasure and prosperity, we are destroying so many essential tattwas of our planet which are necessary for our survival. It is only three hundred years ago that we had the Industrial Revolution, the time when humans started to exploit nature and the environment. Now scientists are predicting that the result is so dramatic and drastic that within two hundred years we shall be extinct.
This is the outer, materialistic reality, but can this reality be altered? Can this condition be changed? Yes. How? By becoming spiritual yourself. Spirituality is the antidote to materialism. And if they can go hand in hand, human life is complete. If they do not go together hand in hand, then there is always conflict, confusion, destruction and deviation in human life. Swami Sivananda said that if anything can save humanity, it is spirituality. Many decades later Sri Swami Satyananda made the statement that the goal of life is to cultivate spiritual awareness through which we can manage better the influences of the materialistic life. That has to become our aspiration, if we want to see the continuity of our future generations. Two hundred years is how long? Your grandson, your great-grandson, not beyond that. The only way this destructive nature can be rectified is by becoming spiritual.
For this, Sri Swamiji did not stick to a philosophical idea, that 'you are God, God is in you'. He gave us a practical path: to experience the transformation of the human nature and personality, and to be a witness to that. To be the experiencer of the transformation that happens, by converting the negative into positive. Therefore, be a witness of the transformation that takes place within you, and do not just follow anything in a mechanical manner. When you become the witness of the transformation that happens within you, then you identify with it and it becomes part of your expression in life. When the spiritual awareness sets in, the materialistic greed takes a back seat. We all know that there is enough given to us by nature to survive, yet there is never enough to satisfy the human greed.
Greed leads to manipulation. Manipulation leads to altering the natural law of nature and human beings, and that is where conflicts come in. With spiritual awareness, the greed is observed and greed is converted into a positive need.
My need is four chapatis a day. My greed is four hundred chapatis a day. If I follow the path of greed, then no amount, no volume of grains in the world can ever satisfy my greed. If I follow the call of my need, then I find that there is everything in abundance all around me. There are rich people, who go to New York, and in one day buy goods worth six million dollars. There are rich people, who go to New York to buy, in one day, one million dollars worth of shoes. This is not a joke. What does it indicate? Greed. And what does contentment indicate? Absence of greed. Spiritual life leads you to contentment. And material life leads you to greed.
Both can be balanced and checked by each other. They both can counterbalance each other. The practical method of this was taught to us by Sri Swamiji, whose teachings we are propagating. We are only postmen, the letter has been sent by the writer. The writers are Swami Sivananda and Swami Satyananda. They have written the posts, they have written the letters, they have written the books.
Swami Niranjan is only the postman who brings their correspondence to you. You open that correspondence, you read that correspondence, you like it, you accept it; you don't like it, you throw it in the rubbish bin. That is your choice. My job is only to deliver the goods that have been packed by Swami Sivananda and Swami Satyananda. It is your job to either receive it with dignity or ignore it. One thing is definite, if we want to see the continuation and the evolution of human life, we have to become spiritual. Not tomorrow, not today, but now.
The way to become spiritual now is not by thinking about God, but by connecting with goodness in life. In that expression of goodness, you will feel and experience the grace of God. Therefore, choose one idea, one quality, and develop it in your life. Once you feel that you have come to a point where nothing more can develop, choose another one, pick another one. In this way, go on fine-tweaking your nature, your personality. One day, you will realize that you are what you were searching for. That is the message of Sri Swami Sivananda and Sri Swami Satyananda.
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The Israeli army has released an edited video clip to support its version of the events leading up to the fatal shooting of Muhammad al-Salaymeh on his 17th birthday by Israeli occupation forces in Hebron on the evening of Wednesday, 12 December.
Israel has claimed that al-Salaymeh had threatened its occupation soldiers with a gun that was discovered after they shot him to be a toy.
But the grainy 54-second video, whose authenticity cannot be independently verified, raises more questions than it answers and is inconsistent with accounts the shooter gave to Israeli media.
What the video shows
The video is shot from a high angle, possibly from a surveillance tower, and shows an Israeli occupation checkpoint. As a figure is seen walking towards the post, a caption states “Arrival of Palestinian male to border police.”
The “Palestinian male” walks calmly toward an occupation soldier and it would appear they exchange words. At about 20 seconds into the clip, the “Palestinian male” raises his arm to hand something over. This could be an identity document.
At 24 seconds, there is a cut in the video of unknown length. This is clear because the Israeli occupation soldier suddenly disappears from the position she or he was initially in. The “Palestinian male” also shifts. It is obviously impossible to tell how much footage is missing or what happens during that period.
After the cut, the “Palestinian male” is pacing up and down near the occupier checkpoint as if waiting. On the far right of the screen the shadow of another person walking past appears.
At 30 seconds, the “Palestinian male” approaches an occupation soldier. The two may have exchanged words. A caption added to the video states “Palestinian male attacks border police officer.”
At 33 seconds, the “Palestinian male” raises his arms and appears to throw a punch at the occupation soldier and the two move rapidly as they fight, first further in toward the checkpoint and then out toward the right of the screen.
Another occupation soldier runs out of the guard post toward the two figures who are grappling. A third occupation soldier appears from the right side of the screen. As the altercation continues shots are fired at the “Palestinian male.”
The officer, a 20-year-old from Tel Aviv, recounted the events in interviews with Israeli media late Tuesday night, saying that she and two border police soldiers under her command were manning a checkpoint near the Cave of the Patriarchs when the young Palestinian approached them.
“Following the standard procedure, the soldier who was with me asked him for an ID,” she said. “The Palestinian handed him his documents and I entered the room to run a background check.”
While inside, she continued, she looked out and saw that the Palestinian had charged the soldier and drawn what appeared to be a pistol.
“With one hand,” she related, “he grabbed the soldier’s neck and pressed against him, and with the other he put the pistol to the soldier’s temple. In that situation, the soldier couldn’t break free or react.”
The female officer, who was only a few meters away, cocked her weapon.
“I was looking for an angle from which to fire without hurting the soldier,” she said, and it was only after she ascertained that his life was in danger that she pulled the trigger.
“After the first shot, he continued to hold the pistol to the soldier’s temple, so I fired two more bullets,” she said, at which point the Palestinian fell to the ground, and she quickly kicked the gun away.
“It was my first time in a combat situation,” she said, explaining that she had reacted “exactly like I was taught.”
With a gun being held to the soldier’s head, there was no way she could fire a warning shot, the officer said. “My subordinate’s life was in immediate danger,” and it was important to fire without hitting him, she said.
Inconsistencies between video and shooter’s account
The video does not show, as the shooter claims, a situation where the Palestinian male “grabbed the soldier’s neck and pressed against him, and with the other he put the pistol to the soldier’s temple.”
At no point does the Palestinian male pull out a gun.
As Chaim Levinson observes in Haaretz, “it is not possible to see whether or not the deceased was holding a toy gun.” But not only that, at no time does the “Palestinian male” have the occupation soldier “pressed” into any position. The “Palestinian male” throws a punch, and there follows a fast-moving fight.
Shooting victim was not near occupation soldier when shots were fired
Recall that the shooter claimed that the victim had a gun pressed to her colleague’s head when she fired the first shot and then, “After the first shot, he continued to hold the pistol to the soldier’s temple, so I fired two more bullets.”
In the video the victim does not appear to be restraining the occupation soldier in any way just before the first shot, and was some distance away from all the occupation soldiers on the scene when the subsequent shots were fired.
At the moment the shots were fired, Noam Sheizaf observed at 972mag.com:
It is hard to tell what’s going on – Muhammad and a soldier can be seen exchanging blows, and it seems that the Palestinian is the first to try and hit the soldier (0:33). The alleged gun cannot be spotted, but the clip – which is slightly edited (0:24) – is very dark. The second soldier comes out to the street and when the soldier and the Palestinian get away from each other, she shoots Muhammad (0:48). Unless the teen was indeed holding a gun, the soldiers don’t seem to be under threat at that moment.
Perhaps because al-Salaymeh presented no danger, and Mizrahi appears to have shot to kill him, the story about him having a gun and pressing it against a soldier’s temple had to be manufactured to justify his killing. What is clear is that Mizrahi’s published account and the video released by the Israeli army don’t match.
Surrounded by occupation violence in Hebron
The area where the shooting happened, in the heart of Hebron, has been subject to gradual but intense ethnic cleansing efforts by Israeli settlers, under the protection of the army, for decades, but particularly since the February 1994 massacre of Palestinians in the nearby Ibrahimi mosque by American settler Baruch Goldstein.
Muhammad al-Salaymeh had grown up with this oppressive situation. The teen told an interviewer on Wattan TV in October 2011 about the situation near the Ibrahimi mosque:
there are always closures, but we are steadfast God-willing. We’re not going to leave our house, that we were raised in for years, for generations. We won’t leave it, because we’ll be steadfast, until our last breath.
Young Palestinians like al-Salaymeh are frequently subjected to harassment, beatings or worse by Israeli occupation soldiers – incidents that have been documented on video.
Many such incidents occur at checkpoints where occupation soldiers exercise arbitrary and oppressive authority. Israeli occupation soldiers have testified to the group Breaking the Silence about deliberately trying to “provoke” Palestinians, including children, just for their own amusement.
Israeli soldiers did this especially in Hebron, where, one testified, as quoted in a post by Adri Nieuwhof:
“So there’s a school there. We’d often provoke riots there. We’d be on patrol, walking in the village, bored, so we’d trash shops, find a detonator, beat someone to a pulp, you know how it is,” said a soldier relating incidents in Hebron in 2006-2007. “Search, mess it all up. Say we’d want a riot? We’d go up to the windows of a mosque, smash the panes, throw in a stun grenade, make a big boom, then we’d get a riot,” he continued.
The so-called “Border Police” have been particularly brutal against Palestinians trying to defend homes from takeover by settlers.
International visitors have occasionally been subjected to this kind of brutality as well.
He died steps from his house
Growing up in this oppressive atmosphere is “normal” life for young people like Muhammad al-Salaymeh, who could not get from his house to a local bakery without being confronted by armed soldiers.
It is impossible to know what was said at the checkpoint the night he was killed, if he had been humiliated, detained, or harassed on a night when he wanted to be celebrating with his family.
We do not know what happened during the period which was edited out of the video that might have preceded the “Palestinian male” throwing a punch.
What we do know is that Muhammad died violently, steps from his house, at the hands of occupation forces who had no business being in his neighborhood, his city or his land.
It is a fate Muhammad al-Salaymeh has shared with thousands of young Palestinians before him.
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April 27, 2014
Today’s Text and Thought of Encouragement:
“My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.”
Psalm 62: 5
“Every prayer of the Christian, made in faith, according to the will of God, for which God has promised, offered up in the name of Jesus Christ, and under the influence of the Spirit, whether for temporal or for spiritual blessings, is, or will be fully answered.
God always answers the general design and intention of His people’s prayer, in doing that which, all things considered, is most for His own glory and their spiritual and eternal welfare. As we never find that Jesus Christ rejected a single supplicant who came to Him for mercy, so we believe that no prayer made in His name will be in vain!”
Today’s Study Text:
“Presently, when a woman of Samaria came along to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink’ -for His disciples had gone off into the town to buy food – the Samaritan woman said to Him, ‘How is it that You being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan and a woman, for a drink.’”
John 4: 7-9
“Behold The Man” – Part 7
“You Belong to Jesus – You’re One of His Kids!”
“See what an incredible quality of love the Father has given and bestowed on us that we should be permitted to be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are!”
1 John 3: 1
Have I ever felt like I didn’t really have a place I belonged?
Do I feel like I am one of God’s children and that I belong to Him?
“All whom my father entrusts to Me will come to Me, and the one (that’s you and me!) who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out. I will never, no never, reject one of (you – My children) who comes to Me.”
John 6: 37
“Long, long ago He decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure He took in planning this!)
Ephesians 1: 6
The Message Bible
My cousin and his wife came to visit this past weekend. Because my dad was the youngest of nine children, my cousin and I are a fair number of years apart in age. Add to this the sad events which surrounded the family when my dad’s mom died when he was only six months old and then his father died when he was just two, and there’s a lot about our family that neither of us know a thing about. However, as we chatted, we realized that if we could somehow get all our living relatives together in one room, and we could bring all our individual photographs along with us, it might be possible for us to put a rather fractured jigsaw puzzle back together which would give us a broader glimpse into the family we belong to.
It may be you can relate to what I’ve shared for possibly you are part of a small or large family that for one reason or another feels splintered, and now you can’t really define where it is that you belong. It is likely that the sentiment of belonging was what motivated poet David Whyte to pen the words, “There is no home like the house of belonging.”
The idea of belonging, of feeling loved and accepted, is one which author Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote about when he observed that, “the body is a house of many windows, there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passerby to come and love us.”
For just a moment, put yourself in the sandals of the woman of Samaria. Everyday she made her way to Jacob’s well to get water. It was a familiar place, but not one where she was really made to feel welcome. She was known in her community. As Professor Deborah J. Kapp explains, “in the eyes of the Gospel writer this woman is a nobody. She does not even merit a name, and her gender, religious orientation, social standing, and personal habits distance her from Jesus and her community. We expect that people will try to avoid this woman and ignore her whenever possible.” However, as Professor Kapp shares, this story is “good news for anyone who has ever felt the humiliation of stigmatization or the pain of being a nobody, because Jesus does not turn away from this woman.”
The fact is, Jesus made a point of stopping in Samaria particularly to see this woman. Further, He engaged her in conversation and as Professor Kapp further notes, Jesus “took her seriously, and spent several days in her village. This woman, her community, and their welfare mattered to Jesus…that is good news.” I’d like to add that it is especially good news if you are a Samaritan and your new acquaintance is Jewish. Or if you are a woman and the person you’ve just run into is a man.
What’s more, while Jesus stopped at Jacob’s well, both tired and thirsty, and the woman came to fill up her empty jug with water, I believe there had to be something very special in Jesus initial approach that opened up a small door of receptive response from the Samaritan woman. She did have the option, after seeing a Jewish man at the local well, of immediately turning around and heading home, choosing to visit the well at a different moment in time. But this is not what happened. I love the thought expressed by theologian Paul Tillich who observes that, “sometimes at a moment (of despair) a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice was saying, ‘You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you.”
I believe that when Jesus came to earth, He looked at each person He met and said, "I love you. I accept you. You belong to Me." And it is Jesus open-hearted love and gracious kindness which we can show to those who may feel left outside on the margins of society or outcast by their own mistakes. I want to share with you the results of a very interesting survey which Dr. Mark Rutland writes about in his wonderful book called Streams of Mercy. In this particular survey, thousands of Americans were asked what they would most like someone to say to them. Here are the top three responses:
Number 1: “I love you.”
Number 2: “I forgive you.”
Number 3: “Supper’s ready.”
I love the observation Mark Rutland makes about these unique responses:
“It dawned on me. That’s the whole gospel. (Good News) Jesus stands behind the communion table with His nail-scarred hands outstretched and the light of mercy in His eyes. His voice, His words meet us with healing warmth as we drag our water-logged burdens up the rocky shoreline of life’s most chilling seas. ‘I love you,’ He whispers. ‘I forgive you. Come and dine.’”
As we “Behold The Man,” you and I have the opportunity to pass on to those around us the warmth of love which has penetrated our own lives. We too can say to those who may feel they don’t belong, “I love you.” And to those who may have hurt us, “I forgive you.” And to those who are hungry and thirsty, “Come eat with us.”
I love this special piece from author Anne Lamott’s book Traveling Mercies: “Our funky little church is filled with people who are working for peace and freedom, who are out there on the streets and inside praying, and they are home writing letters, and they are at the shelters with giant platters of food. When I was at the end of my rope, the people at St. Andrew tied a knot in it for me and helped me hold on. The church became my home in the old meaning of home – that it’s where, when you show up, they have to let you in. They let me in. they even said, ‘You come back now.’”
In the words of author and poet George MacDonald, “This is and has been the Father’s work from the beginning – to bring us into the home of His heart.” Why? Because it’s where we really belong! It’s where we will know we are home at last.
The Woman of Samaria
“In the hot noon, for water cool,
She strayed in listless mood;
When back she ran, her pitcher full
Forgot behind her stood.
Like one who followed straying sheep,
A weary man she saw,
Who sat upon the well so deep,
And nothing had to draw.
‘Give me to drink,’ He said. Her hand
Was ready with reply;
From out the old well of the land
She drew Him plenteously.
He spake as never man before;
She stands with open ears;
He spake of holy days in store,
Laid bare the vanished years.
She cannot still her throbbing heart,
She hurries to the town,
And cries aloud in street and mart,
‘The Lord is here: come down.’
Her life before was strange and sad,
It’s tale a dreary sound:
Ah! Let it go – or good or bad,
She has the Master found.”
The Disciple, and Other Poems
God of the Margins
“God of the margins, we pray –
for those living on the edge:
the poor, the lonely, the alienated,
the strangers in our midst;
those isolated by mental or physical illness,
by bereavement or family breakdown;
who have crossed frontiers or missed out on education;
those who slip through the net of social caring,
whose voices are unheard,
who are not quite respectable (though worthy of respect)
- for ourselves, that we may learn
from our sisters and brothers
about resilience and hope against the odds,
about celebration and sharing,
that we may never make assumptions,
or make the church exclusive
when God’s love includes all.
We pray in the name of Christ, at the heart of all.”
Jan Sutch Pickard
Dorothy Valcàrcel, Author
When A Woman Meets Jesus
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It is already the second day of battle, but I am still confined in this room. All my wraiths are out, except one, standing near me. The King of the Mountain, Thongril, Bori, the human general and the Great Magus are also protected by my wraiths. The two humans are not really comfortable with this, but the dwarves don't care. My wraiths are one of the best defenses against assassins. As for me, I just listen to all the reports coming from either my undead or Oslo. I feel like a Halfling, that knocked his head on a stone, missed the entire battle, but hear at the end that 3 of his friends died, the king included. Well, I have the radio to pass the time, but it is still boring.
(The first wall is still strong and not breached at all. Your zombies and weird creations are doing an amazing job at holding back the ratmen. The volley of projectiles never ends, and more and more ratmen are dead in front of it. Of course, that provokes some towers of corpses, but when that happens, a flamethrower is used to burn it to the ground. With all the ratmen still climbing on it. As for the rest, it's good, they haven't found the secret tunnels yet.)
Do you see the king or Thongril? What are they doing right now?
(Thongril smashes skulls and the king is just staying on the ramparts, chilling. I mean, the battle is still under control, no need for him to personally act. Just his presence is enough to make the dwarves stronger and less tired. They have good rotations, and always have fresh warriors to hold their ground against the ratmen that bypass your undead. As for the humans, they are dying more than the dwarves, but are still fighting well. But what do you expect when everything capable of destroying the wall is broken and in pieces.)
I really wanted to see those gyro-copters in action. I mean, I would have song the Ride of the Valkyries at the same time. No, you don't know that, but on my planet, it is mainly used to fight barely armed fighters with overpowered explosives. And it is a good music. As for the sniper rifles and the sorcerers?
(Well, it is either your wraiths or the human magicians. I have to admit, that woman is pretty much on par with you, at destroying things. Well, she doesn't have the same mana capacity or regeneration and doesn't have your legions of undead, but she has things that your [Purple Moon] can barely match. As for the rest, some are at the same level but only two or three humans. The rest are like the magicians that you saw at Ronta, capable of destruction, but not mass destruction. And your wraiths, well, you get the idea. Most of the time, when it is out of reach, it is your wraiths.)
Good to know that they are more useful than me. Here, another lich. 1/1800 MP and no more blood bottles. I think that I drank too much in those last few days. Be a shame if a …
(If a what? Why are you not finishing your sentence?)
No, just a premonition. If I finish my sentence, bad things will happen. And with that mana, I can't cast anything. So, I won't say anything. Better be safe than sorry.
(You know the world doesn't work that way. It is not because you say that an assassin will come after you that he will. How can he manage to reach this, he has to pass through thousands of dwarves, and your spirits, with me seeing anything and …)
No, don't tell me that. That's bullshit. I told you, you shouldn't have said that.
(Ok, maybe there is something coming towards you. Something shaped like a shadow. Not a hundred percent sure that it is a ratman, ok, no, I will be honest, it is an assassin. Just hide, he can't see you underground.)
Of course, I will. But why is he here, he can't know my presence in this room? So, he is searching for something else, like the thing you talked about in the throne.
(THAT? NO WAY! First, it is near impossible to extract it. And I don't see anything capable of doing it. Next point, destroying is even harder. No, I think he is just waiting here in ambush for the king of the dwarves. Nothing else would make sense. Look.)
I can see the shadow moving on the ceiling. And by shadow, I really mean it, I can't see the shape of a ratman behind it, even with my vision. That should be the big boss of the assassin. Maybe the one that killed the Hero, no, that means he would have lived for more than a century. Well, maybe ratmen live for a long time. After that, I see him approaching the throne, and like me, get stuck far away from it. He tries to approach it from the back, but nothing works. I know that feeling, but he loses his curiosity quickly and hides on top of a pillar supporting the room.
It is time for my wraith to act. Number one, kill him. I can see my faithful and powerful undead approaching the assassin. And then, he attacks with his scythe … empty air. Right before the attack, the assassin already jumped out of his hiding spot. Well, you can run but you can't hide, while we are capable of moving through the environment. Number one try again a few times, but each is a complete failure. He can't even touch the shadow surrounding the ratman. On the other hand, the assassin is incapable of hurting my wraith.
However, this strange dance ends abruptly. The shadow just walks away, since it can't do anything. And my wraith doesn't follow it since he can't do anything either. I just tell that to Meldun, the king, that says that I don't have to worry. Well, it is not me that has an assassin in my audience room. Following that short moment of action, I am still stuck here doing nothing. And I have to show myself to the dwarves continuously walking in and out of the room. The sad truth about being on top of the food chain. You lose your liberty and freedom.
(Ok, time to tell you the latest news. We are officially still winning. This news was brought to you by Oslo, with Oslo, the chance of dying is very low.)
Don't you have anything better? It is tiring to hear such a thing. With your eons of existence, you don't have anything better.
(Well, actually, nearly all my heroes are the serious type, so I can't joke like that with them. I try to be as respectful and sage that they think I am. Only with you, who are not really the same kind of Hero, I can do stupid things, like taunting Aria and insulting her. Otherwise, we are still doing a very serious business, like allowing me or you to survive. But you are the most cowardly Hero I ever saw. It has been so much fun seeing you just run away when something was even remotely dangerous.)
Hahaha, very funny, we are all very amused. It is my life that you are talking about, I know you don't really care that much, but I do. Like here, we are winning, and oh, a level. Great. Level 17/35. Barely below half of what I need.
(Nothing else, like a skill being improved? Can you cast [Death Ray]?)
"Not enough mana."
Nope, as for the rest, I will tell you one more time. Since otherwise, you can't know how strong I am.
Class: Manifestation of Death
[Create Acid lvl Max] [Create Plague lvl Max] [Deadly Shadows lvl Max] [Domain of Mayhem lvl Max] [Nightfall lvl 9] [Magical Orb lvl Max] [Cursed Winds lvl Max] [Raise Undead* lvl 7] [Blood Touch lvl Max] [Veil of Darkness lvl 8] [Death Ray lvl 1] [Purple Moon lvl 1]
[Language of Aria lvl Max] [Ethereal Vision lvl 5] [Status resistance lvl 4] [Magical resistance lvl 1] [Physical resistance lvl Max] [??? Resistance lvl 1] [Ethereal Body lvl Max] [Self-Healing lvl Max] [Magical Restoration lvl 9] [Magical Efficiency lvl 9] [Magical Handling lvl 9] [Cause Terror lvl Max] [Essence of mana lvl 5]
[Forsaken of Aria (Marked by the goddess Aria to be invisible for all the divinities)] [Blessed by Oslo] [Butcher (have killed more than 10000 living beings)] [Nemesis of Krieg] [Followed by Hades]"
Let me see, no nothing changed. I really want all those things related to magic to be improved, at least one more time. That way, maybe I will finally be able to cast that [Death Ray]. Otherwise, nothing changed. Hello God of Death. Just in case he is listening. Well, he should have probably fled after my first mental monologue. Why am I doing this? To not lose my sanity, being alone, lonely, I'm mister lonely, I'm so lonely.
(Stop, please, your mental voice is giving me a nightmare. Especially the weird thing you are doing with your voice, why are you singing like that?)
You wouldn't understand, that's the song. Never mind, just keep telling me what is happening during this battle where I can fight.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. -185) and index.
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Austin Cindric appeared to have Friday’s win at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in hand but with just over 15 laps remaining, he lost the power steering on his No. 22 Ford.
That opened the door for Briscoe, who closed on Cindric’s rear bumper, nudged him and cleared him for the lead with six laps to go. Briscoe ended up holding off Ross Chastain by .651 seconds at the checkered flag.
The win is Briscoe’s seventh of the season and ninth of his career.
“I was worried. Our car was really good on the long run, I couldn’t get going, those guys were so far ahead,” Briscoe said.
“The last 15 laps our car came to life, I figured something out. We had to root and gouge our way up there, that’s what Bristol is all about.
“If we could end up second in points and win the race, we’d have the same amount of playoff points as (Cindric). Mission accomplished.”
Cindric had already locked up the No. 1 seed in the series playoffs and Briscoe will start as the second-seed when the playoffs open next weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“I lost power steering with 30 laps to go and I’m not sure I’ve ever been in that much pain in my life,” Cindric said. “But that’s the way it goes. We should’ve won the race tonight.”
Cindric ended up third in the race, Harrison Burton fourth and Justin Allgaier, who won the first two stages, rounded out the top-five.
“I feel good. I'm disappointed for our guys we won both stages and didn’t have anything to show for it at the end,” Allgaier said. “We got a set of tires that was quite a bit different, we weren’t able to adjust on the car. Still, hats off to these guys.”
Joining Cindric and Briscoe in the playoffs this season are Allgaier, Brandon Jones, Noah Gragson, Harrison Burton, Justin Haley, Chastain, Michael Annett, Riley Herbst, Ryan Sieg and Brandon Brown.
Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, the lead-lap cars all elected to pit with Briscoe the first off pit road.
On the restart on Lap 179, Briscoe led the way followed by Chastain and Allgaier.
Chastain went to the outside of Briscoe off Turn 4 to retake the lead on the restart lap.
On Lap 203, NASCAR displayed a caution for debris in Turn 1. The race returned to green on Lap 210 with Chastain still out front.
On Lap 244, Dexter Bean went around off Turn 2 to bring out another caution. The lead-lap cars all pit for new tires and fuel with Chastain the first off pit road.
On the restart on Lap 252, Chastain was followed by Cindric and Briscoe.
Cindric got around Chastain on Lap 253 to grab the lead for the first time in the race.
With 30 laps to go in the race, Cindric remained the out front but was being furiously hounded for the lead by both Chastain and Briscoe.
With just over 15 laps remaining, Cindric radioed his team that he had lost his power steering.
On Lap 209, Briscoe made contact with Chastain and powered around and into the runner-up spot behind Cindric.
Briscoe powered around the struggling Cindric with five laps to go and moved into the lead.
Allgaier easily held off Cindric to complete the sweep of the first two stage victories.
Briscoe was third, Chastain fourth and Gragson rounded out the top-five.
Following the break between Stages 1 and 2, most lead-lap cars elected to pit with Allgaier the first off pit road.
Sieg stayed out and inherited the lead and led the way on the restart on Lap 94 followed by Allgaier. Allgaier quickly powered into the lead on the restart as Cindric moved into second.
On Lap 105, Haley was forced to pit under green after suffering a flat right-front tire.
Michael Annett cut across the nose of Joe Graf Jr. on Lap 120 sending both cars for a spin and bringing out the caution. The race was red-flagged for nearly 10 minutes to clean the track of fluid.
The race returned to green on Lap 130 with Allgaier still in command.
With 20 laps remaining in the second stage, Allgaier had built nearly a second lead over Cindric while Briscoe had moved back into third.
With five laps to go, Allgaier had built a more than 1.7-second lead over Cindric.
Allgaier held off Haley after a restart with 15 laps remaining to take the Stage 1 win.
Briscoe finished third, Cindric fourth and Chastain rounded out the top-five.
Allgaier started on the pole but Chastain worked his way to his inside off Turn 4 on Lap 2 to move into the lead.
After 20 laps, Chastain maintained a small but steady lead over Allgaier as Cindric ran third.
On Lap 41, NASCAR displayed a competition caution to allow teams to check tire wear. Most of the lead-lap cars remained on the track and Chastain continued to lead the way on the restart on Lap 47.
Allgaier quickly got around Chastain to retake the lead on the restart.
With 30 laps remaining in the first stage, Allgaier held a small advantage over Chastain as Briscoe climbed to third.
On Lap 63, B.J. McLeod hit the Turn 4 wall and then slammed into Tommy Joe Martins as he was coming back down the track. Vinnie Miller and Jeffrey Earnhardt also got caught up in the wreck.
NASCAR immediately displayed the red flag to clean the track of debris but the delay lasted less than 2 minutes.
On the restart on Lap 70, Allgaier led the way followed by Chastain.
With 10 laps to go in the stage, Allgaier held about a half-second lead over Haley.
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And still we keep on creating, though myself not as much I would like of late. Lacking friends with benefits, I turned earlier this summer to friends with books out.
Marcia Trahan’s memoir Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession explores her own medical ordeals, her obsession with true crime on television, women’s bodies as commodities in society, and her own identity. Sue William Silverman’s How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, a memoir in essays, explores assault and addiction, and masterfully illustrates how trauma can stalk a person’s life, sometimes in brief shadow, sometimes in full-blown flashback.
I like to call Lee Martin’s recent fiction “Southern Illinois Noir,” although whether he likes me to call it that is not something I have asked. In his recent novels and story collections, momentarily untethered people make rash decisions that lead to outsized consequences; sometimes, as in his recent Yours, Jean, based on a true crime, an entire town acts as both chorus and cast.
There has been little progress on my own work, except for publicity for and correction of the proof of Censorettes. While I have little to complain about (I know; I am lucky!), how rarely that stops me. I am able to work from home, and I am putting in more hours than ever, including Sunday afternoon, which at least provided peaceful, uninterrupted time. I am attending a virtual writing conference next week, and need to get my day job ducks in a row.
Once I was done, a walk to the park was in order. My new favorite place is Chateau Le Woof, because I love the ingenuity the owners had of turning a former industrial parking garage into a dog-friendly cafe, open to the street, across from the park. On the way there, I met a woman and her dog. The owner and I nodded, but the dog did a full-fledged double take and pulled her back to where I was sitting. “YOU AGAIN!” he would have cried, had we both been human, and cast in a romantic comedy where in an earlier scene I would have stolen his parking spot, or spoiled some meticulously prepared model just before the big presentation. He gazed at me with ardent brown eyes through dirty white fur.
“Hi,” I said to the dog, as his owner tried to break his stare and pull him along, chuckling apologies to me. I said to the dog, “Hot out, right?” and then, as a man walked by, “Okay, I’m really not that interesting. Try that guy.”
Because of allergies, I’m not a petter of strange dogs, particularly ones who regard me like an antic Cary Grant regarding the leopard, if not Katherine Hepburn, in Bringing Up Baby.
Then, I said to the dog, “Alright,” and got up to walk with them to the park.
“You a Vermonter?” asked the woman.
Strange question, I thought, until I looked down and realized I was wearing a Vermont t-shirt. I still think it is a strange question. People don’t necessarily wear t-shirts advertising their home, so they can be returned if life becomes wayward. People visit places and buy t-shirts to show they were there; there is even a cliché about it. But I once wore a t-shirt I bought in Canada on a Brooklyn riverside bike tour, and people kept asking me what province I was from, or telling me how much they liked Quebec.
The woman was herself from Burlington. I told her, then, about Vermont, how I attend the Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Conference in Montpelier, Vermont every summer (where I met the above authors, Lee, Marcia and Sue), how this year it is virtual, which means I am not at my picnic table on the town green at the top of the hill, or hanging out in the Cafe Anna with my friends, but in my apartment, in my same crippling home desk chair, a captive of Zoom, with pandemic hair and bad lighting (I know; I am lucky!)
Maybe I am a Vermonter.
We turned the corner on Vernon Boulevard, where some string players were entertaining an insufficiently socially distanced group and their dogs.
My canine love interest took off across the park, a sculpture park, which is currently home to this monolith.
The music of the strings lured me out of the park and I stood among my insufficiently socially distanced neighbors, enriched that day by so much heat and creativity. We are isolated; still, we create. We are ordered to keep a distance; still, we connect. We experience ordeals and suffer from bad decisions; still, we write books (albeit ones with blood-splattered covers).
The string players launched into I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You, alternating the melody line, first the pizzicato, then the legato. We all grew very still and drank it in. We knew we were lucky.
Screen to screen to screen has been my life this past month — my work laptop, augmented by my personal laptop, and then my desktop, when the workday is through, followed by some viewing on my laptop again. I am privileged to be able to work from home and to live in a co-op building which is well-maintained. But as I have revealed, I have taken to gazing out my window.
Now straight ahead, dead straight, to the left of the streetlight and to the right of the bright window in the building across the street, you can see a bit of colored glass. There. You see it? Had I an actual camera (instead of a phone) or were I a better photographer, I could capture that image — the streetlight, the stained glass of the Ukrainian church beyond.
Last night, I attempted it. The bars of the fire escape were too intrusive and the zoom on the cell phone camera wasn’t sufficient, so I climbed out on the fire escape and did my best.
This yellow-robed Ukrainian saint has been gazing into my living quarters for the past 20 years, but I only thought to think of it now. Of course, I was aware that there was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church a block away — I have photographed their fete on Ukrainian heritage day. Beribboned children in native costume dance all afternoon in reluctant troupes. Ornately braided girls and grim embarrassed boys prance and clap on a wooden platform in front of the church, to the blaring of recorded accordion and clarinet music. A street block is roped off from traffic to allow for tables selling embroidered goods and meat-stuffed pastries, and chairs for the parents of those mortified, loyal prepubescents.
These wares, these performances, are not meant for the likes of me. I don’t know the difference between Greek Orthodox and Ukrainian Orthodox but I know neither proselytizes. Far from it. It is from the Greeks that we get the word “xenophobia,” from the Greek xenos meaning “foreigner” or “stranger.” Also, “barbarian,” which originally meant “a person who does not speak Greek.” (Non-Greek sounded to Greeks like someone saying “bar bar bar.”)
After twenty years in Astoria, I was not keen to insert myself where I was not welcome.
It took a pandemic to make me realize that the church I look out on every day was not merely a church, but a religious residence. The low tan building I look out on (and appreciate, since it affords me sunlight when a commercial building would not) is not just extra church space, but a dormitory for the order.
How’s your world, everyone?
Here is a photo of mine, when I look out on it.
I am two blocks from a branch of Mount Sinai Hospital, as my friends and social media friends know. A branch where they have erected emergency COVID testing tents. In three minutes from the time I am writing the words “in three minutes,” the applause will start, the applause for the health care workers at the shift change. It seems to grow in duration and in volume every day.
I begin each day by opening the window and turning on the classical music station. I was fortunate in that my remote control broke one week into this isolation, so I no longer have the option to channel surf or listen to live press conferences.
There it is, the applause. Banging of pots and pans, honking of horns.
It should lift up my spirits, but instead it burrows deep into my sinews, like a fishhook, not a knife. This is a trauma not easily extracted. This is an anger not easily assuaged.
When I was on an “Unworkshop” retreat at the Highlights Foundation last fall, I met a woman named Heather Dean Brewer. The Highlights Foundation retreats take place in Pennsylvania on a rural property outside Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Because I admittedly live in an NYC bubble, Honesdale was the first town where I saw an un-ironic “Make America Great Again” sign posted in the window of a small-town business.
Heather was at Highlights for a workshop.(By way of explanation, Highlights offers a vigorous catalogue of workshops for children and young adult authors and illustrators, but also offers space and meals for any writer who might need time and space.) I was there for time and space. Heather was there for a workshop. She is the author of this happy little book which I bought for my sister’s birthday. (Spoiler!)
Heather was sweet enough to send me a bottle of wine from distant Michigan.
My cultural references these days are Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, staring out the window and speculating on the neighbors. And Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a short novel about the 1918 pandemic which has been written about by wiser heads than mine, for example, here. I cannot look at it now, not with the sirens screaming in the background, but nor can I forget the story’s final line: “Now there would be time for everything.”
A month ago, my biggest concern was that the 92nd St. Y would cancel the appearance of Dame Hilary Mantel, who was to discuss the third book in her Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light. I had been looking forward to her talk for months; bonus points for it occurring on my birthday. But of course, it was cancelled. Instead, I ordered the book from The Astoria Bookshop, my local indie, on the last day it was operating live. It is still operating virtually, if you would like to support it.
I am having a hard time concentrating on The Mirror and the Light. I loved the first two volumes. I am pretty well versed in the Tudors. But despite the fact that the circumstances are dire, and that we know how this will end (it’s the world of Henry VIII, after all), I have trouble following along and perhaps need a lighter book.
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Brexit is based on blatant mistruths and lies. You may not believe this now, but we will all believe it next year, when Brexit finally arrives, cold, clammy and callous, naked and exposed.
Every reason given to leave was a stinking falsification. When, one day, there is a public inquiry into how our country was conned, there will be gasps into how conniving, cunning politicians managed to get away with it.
Lies, lies and more lies. That’s how Leave won.
▪ MORE SOVEREIGNTY? Nonsense. We’ll get less. In the EU, we gained a share of sovereignty of our continent. Outside the EU, we’ll still live on a planet and have to obey thousands of international laws and treaties.
We share sovereignty with NATO, for example. Is that a reason to leave it?
▪ FEWER MIGRANTS? Really? Just think about it. Most EU migrants in Britain have been in gainful employment, doing jobs that we simply don’t have enough Britons to do, and making a massive NET contribution to our Treasury and economy.
Migrants come here for jobs – and if there are no jobs, they mostly don’t come, or don’t stay.
▪ MORE HOUSES, SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS? Think again. Britain has a chronic shortage of skilled workers. Without EU migrants, we’ll have fewer builders, teachers, doctors and nurses.
Migrants are not the cause of our problems. Blaming them just excuses successive UK governments from investing sufficiently in our country.
▪ GET OUR COUNTRY BACK? We never lost it. If being in the EU means losing your country, why aren’t the 27 other EU member states planning to leave?
(Really, none of them are: support for the EU is the highest it’s been in 35 years).
▪ OUR OWN LAWS? The vast majority of laws in the UK are our laws and passed by our Parliament in Westminster, otherwise it would have nothing to do.
But in the EU, we benefit from laws and regulations for our continent that no single country alone could ever achieve.
Could our UK government have got mobile phone companies to scrap exorbitant roaming charges across the entire EU? To take Google to task for “abusive practices”? To ensure generous compensation for delayed flights across our continent? Of course not.
It took the might of 28 EU countries working together to achieve that, and so much more.
▪ THE EU IS RUN BY FACELESS BUREAUCRATS? Another lie. The EU is a democracy, run and ruled by its members, the 27 countries of the EU, along with its democratically elected European Parliament.
The European Commission is the servant of the EU, not its master, and the European Parliament has the power to choose, and dismiss, the entire Commission.
THE CASE FOR BRETURN
Before Brexit, no member state had ever left the EU. And no other member state is planning to leave now.
That’s hardly surprising. All the reasons to be an EU member are based on true, tangible and tested benefits over many decades.
▪ PROFITABLE: EU membership is profitable – in real terms it cost Britain nothing to belong to the EU. On the contrary, we got back many times the cost of the annual membership fee. Being in the EU made us better off.
The CBI has calculated that EU membership was worth around £3,000 a year to every British family — a return of nearly £10 for each £1 we paid in.
[Source: CBI Report: Our Global Future, page 11:]
▪ PEACE: It’s the structure of the EU that has helped to ensure that no shots have ever been fired between member states. That’s an enormous achievement for a continent that was previously used to violence, wars and subjugation as the way to ‘settle’ issues.
In 2012, by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the causes of peace, democracy and human rights in Europe for over 60 years.
▪ FREEDOMS: The EU gives members freedom across much of our continent.
EU citizens enjoy the right to live, work, study or retire in any EU and EEA country – including access to state healthcare and education when working in those countries. That’s a precious right, that took decades to achieve.
The EU also gives members the right to free AND frictionless trade between member states, which has helped to maintain Europe as the planet’s richest continent.
The loss of these freedoms will be increasingly devastating for Britain and Britons.
Almost half of ALL our exports, and just over half of ALL our imports, go to and come from the EU. Nowhere else in the world comes even close.
The EU has an iron tariff wall against non-members. Outside of the EU, we are on the wrong side of that wall.
Even non-European countries that have negotiated ‘free trade’ agreements with the EU don’t enjoy full free trade access to Europe’s internal market, as Britain did as an EU member.
▪ DEMOCRACY: EU members have a democratic say, votes and vetoes on the running and future direction of our continent.
Outside the EU, Britain can only look on as those decisions are made without us – even though those decisions will affect us just as much, whether we’re in the EU or not.
Leaving means losing sovereignty, not gaining it.
▪ POWER: The EU is the world’s largest and most successful trading bloc, and the world’s biggest exporter and importer of manufactured goods and services.
The EU is one of the world’s top three economies, alongside the USA and China.
The Euro, in record time, has become the world’s most traded and trusted currency, alongside the US dollar.
All that gives the EU huge power, reach and muscle – enabling it to negotiate the best free trade agreements with other countries on behalf of its members.
Outside the EU, Britain is unlikely to get trade deals as good as, let alone better than, the free trade agreements we had as an EU member covering over 70 countries.
In any event, it will take years, maybe decades to find out.
▪ PROTECTION: EU laws protecting the rights of workers, consumers and travellers across our continent are probably among the most important EU membership benefits.
For example, 4-weeks paid holiday a year; the 48-hour working week; anti-discrimination law; guaranteed rights for agency workers; guaranteed worker consultation – all of these protections largely exist because of the EU.
No single national government can assure safety and protection across our continent. It needs the reach of a pan-European intergovernmental organisation to achieve that (albeit with the democratic consensus of member states).
Britain enjoys cleaner beaches as a direct result of EU directives on protecting the environment. Before those directives, successive British governments were not interested in cleaning up our beaches.
In addition, the EU is leading the world in tackling climate change – something that individual countries alone simply can’t undertake.
The government’s post-Brexit plan is to take away the rights of British citizens to sue them over issues such as workers’ rights, environmental policy and business regulation. This right to sue our government on these issues was something we only enjoyed under EU law.
There will be many other rights lost as a direct result of Brexit.
▪ STRENGTH: In a world dominated by the USA, China and Russia, Britain is dwarfed on its own. Being part of the EU gives us a bigger say and more strength on the global stage than as a small country out-at-sea and going-it-alone.
We could instead become closer to the USA – but is that what we really want?
When Brexit arrives for real, from 1 January 2021 onwards, we will be poorer, and with less sovereignty, fewer rights and protections, restricted trade, and diminished power.
The case for Breturn – Britain returning to the EU as a full member – is overwhelming.
It may take years to achieve a democratic reversal of Brexit, but it’s a worthwhile fight.
In a democracy, losing doesn’t mean having to give up. Ask Brexiters, they know.
We can win next time. We just have to ensure we get a next time.
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Twice in the last month, we’ve seen studios come forward to criticize Zynga for being too inspired by their work.
Nimblebit, which recently won Game of the Year from Apple, said a forthcoming Zynga title called Dream Heights unfairly cribs from their hit Tiny Tower. Then this week Buffalo Studios said Zynga copied some user interface and design details from their bingo game.
Frustrating as it may be to indie studios, this has always been part of Zynga’s strategy. It’s almost silly to address it. As long as games from proven genres earn outsized returns compared to ones from unproven categories and the cost of losing or settling lawsuits remains low, developers will keep doing copycat games.
Zynga’s chief executive Mark Pincus even euphemistically referred to the practice in December’s IPO roadshow by saying: “We have a rule of thumb inside Zynga. For any category we launch a game in, we expect it to be three to five times the size of the then category leader.”
Google didn’t create the first search engine. Apple didn’t create the first mp3 player or tablet. And, Facebook didn’t create the first social network. But these companies have evolved products and categories in revolutionary ways. They are all internet treasures because they all have specific and broad missions to change the world.
We don’t need to be first to market. We need to be the best in market. There are genres that we’re going to enter because we know our players are interested in them and because we want and need to be where players are. We evolve genres by making games free, social, accessible and highest quality.
Zynga does market research by looking at leading titles, designs similar games that don’t require a learning curve, optimizes them for monetization with its data prowess and then spends and cross-promotes relentlessly.
If Zynga’s titles appear too close to other games, it’s hard to take the company to task because of its deep pockets and fearsomely litigious history. Few small studios have the resources to pay for lawyers, especially against a company that has been so historically eager to sue others for theft of trade secrets and copyright infringement.
It also helps that the intellectual property system is quite fragmented for protecting games. Copyright covers the art and potentially the underlying source code while trademarks covers the brand and logo. Patents, the weakest form of protection for game developers, can cover code and mechanics.
Another factor is that as the gaming industry has moved away from a packaged goods model toward a highly iterative and serviced-based one, it makes less sense to pursue protection like patents. Like in the broader consumer Internet industry, waiting at least two to four years for a patent is absurd considering that a hit game can flame out in months.
The more interesting question to ask here is whether Zynga’s approach can do as well on mobile platforms as it has on Facebook. Zynga does not have an outsized lead on either Android or iOS. It has 13 million daily active users, which is very respectable. But it’s not enough to produce network effects that would shut out rival games from the top 10. Unlike Facebook, which signed a five-year agreement with Zynga, Apple does not have a vested interest in seeing Zynga achieve user growth targets. Smartphones also support more diversity than Facebook. The past month has proved that indie developers like Imangi Studios can nail freemium in more than casual sim or mafia games too.
Mafia Wars and Mob Wars: Launched in August of 2008, Mafia Wars triggered one of the several lawsuits Zynga went on to become ensnared with. Creator David Maestri and his company Psycho Monkey LLC went onto sue Zynga for infringing on his creation Mob Wars and settled for a reported $7 to 9 million. (But it’s also worth noting that Maestri had to settle with his former employer SGN because he launched the game while working for them when they were called FreeWebs.)
After Zynga launched Mafia Wars, it went on to reach around 10 million monthly active users in about half a year, while Maestri’s game stalled at about 2.5 to 3 million MAU.
PetVille, Happy Pets and Pet Society: Launched in December 2009, PetVille riffed on a long history of casual, animal care-taking games that have existed long before the Facebook platform even launched. It followed Playfish’s Pet Society, which came out more than a year before in the fall of 2008, and Crowdstar’s Happy Pets, which launched the previous month. Both PetVille and Happy Pets saw decent starts but then leveled off while Pet Society kept on growing.
Cafe World and Restaurant City: Zynga’s restaurant sim game Cafe World came out in September 2009 after Playfish’s Restaurant City had accumulated 16 million monthly actives. It added steps by making players chop up or dice ingredients before cooking dishes and requiring users to add friends as neighbors if they wanted to expand their restaurants. Restaurant City actually hit its peak usage two months after Zynga launched its game before it began a slow and steady decline. Cafe World also peaked shortly after at around 32 million monthly actives.
Gardens of Time and Hidden Chronicles: It’s not surprising that Zynga would want to get into the hidden object genre after Disney Playdom’s Gardens of Time topped growth charts for nearly five months in a row. It is a little surprising that it took Zynga so long to do it, however. Hidden object game designer Cara Ely was brought on at Zynga in July — three months after Gardens of Time’s launch — and it wasn’t until January 2012 that Hidden Chronicles saw the light of day. In addition to similar presentation of story elements, Hidden Chronicles also cribs Gardens of Time’s decoration-based progression system.
Mobile has been a more interesting story this past year because Zynga actually started out as the underdog on iOS. Several games like Playforge’s Zombie Farm and Storm8’s Restaurant Story were taking genres that social gaming companies had nailed on Facebook and were executing them well on the iPhone. Nevertheless, Zynga managed to accumulate 13 million daily active users by year-end, largely because of its acquisition of Words With Friends maker Newtoy, but also because it started getting its core franchises right on mobile.
Zynga Poker and Texas Poker:
Poker is a more than 150-year-old game, so it’s hard to say that any company could own it. However, Russian developer Kamagames said Zynga copied user interface details from its hit Texas Poker early last year.
Zynga started fading out non-active players on the board and added a vertical bar to raise and lower bets. Before last year, Texas Poker was trouncing Zynga’s Poker game on the iOS grossing charts and consistently had a top 10 ranking. But in the spring, Zynga Poker began a steady climb and now outranks Kamagames’ title.
Tap Zoo, Tiny Zoo Friends and Dream Zoo: Pocket Gems had an undisputed run as one of the highest-earning developers last year after Tap Zoo held on to a top 10 grossing spot for about a year. Unsurprisingly, Zynga took note and launched Dream Zoo just ahead of Thanksgiving. It took the same zoo concept but added some complexity with feeding and washing games along with more levels for each of the animals. In anticipation of such a move, Pocket Gems phased out its old game Tap Zoo and launched a new version called Tap Zoo 2: World Tour.
None of the games have managed to hold onto a top 10 ranking. In fact, a different zoo game from developer TinyCo is actually the highest ranked one in the genre right now at #17. Dream Zoo remains at #44 and Tap Zoo 2 holds at #77. It looks like all of these companies effectively split the market.
Pocket Gems hasn’t complained, with chief operating officer Ben Liu telling us, “Look. Our games have copied extensively by many, many companies.” He added, “The way we can stay ahead of Zynga is by listening to our users and putting the best features in our game. Consumers are going to judge what’s the best product.” Pocket Gems has been busy launching a number of new games in the last few weeks like Tappily Ever After and Zombie Takeover.
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The mule-drawn bird wagon trundled through Chokee Plantation in Leesburg, Georgia—a 5,800-acre homage to the vanishing wild-quail hunts that for generations put meat on the table and tendered sporting birds by the good graces of the land.
Morning temperatures were rising to the low 70s—a bit warm for the eager bird dogs confined to the kennels behind us—heating the blonde grasses and needles of the soaring pine trees to sweeten the balmy air. The southern sun soothed our bones as we ambled along to the rhythm of the wagon’s sway—a hymnal of shod hooves on soft dirt, chiming harnesses and a chorus of dogs.
Reverence for our wingshooting traditions was also playing out in my conversation with Arthur S. DeMoulas, the Massachusetts business executive who purchased arguably the greatest gunmaker, Boss & Co. of London, in November 2015. He now serves as Chairman of the privately-owned English company committed to making the finest shotguns and rifles in their London workshop at 110 Kew Green, Richmond, London.
Apprentices are the lifeblood of this business. We pair them up with our craftsmen… We can still do it the old fashioned way because we’re small.
During the course of a three-and-a-half-hour morning hunt, led by Chokee Manager Wendell Arrington, Mr. DeMoulas discussed his dedication to preserve the values and workmanship that have separated Boss & Co. from the other London gunmakers as the sole remaining hand-crafted London bespoke gunmaker.
Compared with the other two top London gunmakers—James Purdey and Sons and Holland & Holland—Boss & Co. is the remaining independently owned concern. As sole proprietor of Boss & Co., Mr. DeMoulas is free from the directives of quarterly reporting and the like.
“A company that’s 100-percent privately owned doesn’t have to go through the same procedures and steps as one owned by a conglomerate, and that’s an advantage for us,” he explained.
That’s because he values the long view of preserving Boss & Co.’s 205-year-old approach to producing meticulous shotguns and double rifles.
“We’re not deviating from our tradition,” he noted. “We’re embracing the tradition.”
Case in point, Mr. DeMoulas continues to look at hiring apprentices at Boss & Co. to sustain the endangered art of making best guns by hand.
“Apprentices are the lifeblood of this business,” he told me. “We pair them up with our craftsmen” in a course of training that could take some five years for the apprentice to become proficient at the bench. “We can still do it the old fashioned way because we’re small.”
As we talked the wagon followed two guides on horseback who monitored dogs that ranged the cover for wild quail. When a dog locked on-point, the guides waved their hats and dismounted. Our conversation stopped and we immediately stepped down off the wagon, Mr. Arrington with his SKB and Mr. DeMoulas with his pre-war, 28-gauge, sidelock, Boss over/under. A guide followed the dogs’ cues and slashed at the brush with a leather whip. Suddenly 20 or 30 quail burst up in a froth of feathers scattering between trees, racing through the strobed sunlight, as Mr. DeMoulas swiveled with the covey, the Boss rising to his shoulder when shots repeated and a bird dropped.
In those moments you saw an extraordinary flashback to our Southern quail heritage. Chokee Plantation, owned by the Taylor family since 1997, has never released a penned quail on the property, with its mission of preserving wild quail habitat and hunts. And Mr. DeMoulas’ pre-war Boss, performing as its artisans intended, captured the historical exultation that the Taylors and Mr. DeMoulas are working so hard to achieve: picture-perfect wingshooting moments isolated from the perils of modernity.
For Mr. DeMoulas, the idea of a “vintage Boss” is manifested in new guns that are barely indistinguishable from the Bosses made in the 19th and 20th centuries. Under the ownership of Mr. DeMoulas, “vintage” is woven into the fabric of the Boss culture rather than a serial number in the company ledgers.
“Boss has a 200-years-plus history of making best guns only, that allows us to go back in our archives and build any of those guns again,” he explained as we continued underway on the wagon. “We have the ability, for example, regarding a side-lever side-by-side that the company made in the late 1800s through 1941, to make them now. We can start with the 12 gauge and scale everything down proportionally to the .410. We are able to build an over/under double rifle that hasn’t been built since 1913. It’s not as though we’re coming out with a new model. Our guns are as beautiful now as they were in the 1800s and early 1900s. If you come to our company and see how our guns are made you’ll think you were back 100 years in time. The customer can specify a long bead, short bead, high bead, single or double bead, round body, whatever shape of action they like and all of that bespoke work is done by hand in our shop.”
Mr. DeMoulas believes Boss is the only gunmaker in London doing that.
He frequently travels to London as he unrelentingly embraces the ideal of the British “best gun”—a bespoke shotgun or rifle of utmost workmanship, quality and aesthetics, which stands on finish and handling over price.
Boss is thought to be the best among the best, and Mr. DeMoulas remains steadfast in safeguarding the Boss brand.
I bought Boss because it’s an iconic, world-known brand,” he said as the wagon slowly moved to the next covey. “You hardly ever see a Boss gun wherever you go to shoot. Boss made the fewest of the London best gunmakers. Case in point, after 205 years Boss & Co. is still in the 10,000 serial number range.”
Mr. DeMoulas also takes enormous pride in Boss’ history of innovation. The tenure of Scottish gunmaking genius John Robertson, who joined Boss in 1891 as a partner, was prophetic for the company. Mr. Robertson’s arrival was arranged by a Boss nephew, Edward Paddison, who had assumed management of the company after the death of Thomas Boss in 1857. Edward and his brother James, who died prematurely, were unable to sustain production and profitability—although gun quality remained a priority.
With Mr. Robertson now at the helm, Boss & Co. departed from the Paddison methodology of archaic, pragmatic designs to reach for a higher form of modern aesthetics and innovation. Mr. Robertson’s determination to combine beauty and function led to the introduction of technical breakthroughs embodied in a remarkable elegance and vision that endures today.
Driven by Mr. Robertson’s artistry and foresight, Boss & Co. introduced to the shotgun industry reliable single triggers (allowing one trigger to fire both barrels), mechanical ejectors with coil springs housed in the forend (for slimmer action profiles) and the sturdy bifurcated-lump locking system that lowered the gun’s profile for superior balance and the rounded-body action for lithe ergonomics.
But it was the Boss & Co. over/under introduced in 1909 that upended the industry. In the 2nd edition of his seminal book, Boss & Co., Best Gunmakers, Donald Dallas wrote, “Robertson’s over and under gun is regarded by many to be the finest of British O/Us and represented for Robertson the culmination of a career as a gunmaker.”
By merging his innovations, Mr. Robertson’s Boss over/under weighed a sprightly 6½ pounds with its 29-inch barrels. The new Boss stacked-barrel sidelock design shattered all preconceived biases of Gilded Age sportsmen who believed it would be ungainly and sluggish versus earlier, dominant over/unders from Germany and even the side-by-side, breech loaders of the day.
Mr. Dallas cites in his book a passage from The Country Gentleman about the new Boss over/under: “A Striking Innovation in Modern Gunnery. We have seen the same design in German weapons, but so bulky and clumsy that there was no advantage shown in them to the user. The neatness of the action and the barrels together is very marked, the workmanship being in the usual Boss superior style and finish.”
Mr. Robertson’s ingenuity made him a so-called disrupter in today’s jargon. His Boss over/under, single trigger and locking system have become the defacto configuration for nearly every target and field gun made since. The Boss shop is ground zero for the modern sporting gun.
Our Chokee guides signaled again. We hurried from the wagon, into the field—Mr. DeMoulas angling at a quick pace to the pointer. He loaded, watchful, advancing, following the guide into the grasses and shrubs. The birds were on the run and we soon lost them for good in the understory. The guides watered the dogs. Our break over, the wagon rolled again.
Our discussion kept pace with the rhythm of the Chokee Plantation wild quail hunt. Mr. DeMoulas would talk passionately about his classical vision for Boss until a dog pointed. We’d rush to the spot with Mr. DeMoulas and Mr. Arrington taking the ready position. Most flushes showcased abundant coveys intermingled with singles and doubles. Clearly, the Boss shined in pursuing quick, acrobatic birds hard-wired for evasion across their native terrain.
Although our conversation largely concerned the guns and their heritage, it did turn to the reason why Mr. DeMoulas actually bought Boss & Co.
“I was over there in 1998 or 1999,” he said. “I went there to buy a pair of guns. I had some old Boss guns from the 1920s and knew how rare and beautiful they are. I went into their shop on Dover Street. It was almost like they couldn’t be bothered. And I was surprised, as a customer who flew over there, I wasn’t taken care of in the manner that I thought the customer should. It was amazing to me. I left, ended up buying two pairs of guns from one of their competitors, but I thought that company shouldn’t be run like that. That company could be so much greater if they took care of their customers. That led me to want to buy the company. That brand and that name is much greater than that and they deserve more than that. I said to my friend, I’m going to buy that company some day, and that’s how I felt every day until I bought it. I worked on that for the next several years. The passion and the brand of what Boss needs and deserves hasn’t changed for me. And that’s my whole goal and mission. Boss has a lot of potential, enormous potential, and it’s only going to realize that with a lot of hard work.”
In that vein, Guy Bignell, CEO of Griffin & Howe, said of Mr. DeMoulas: “Boss & Co. now has somebody who is incredibly passionate about their brand and products, and I believe Arthur will bring a new proactive energy and life to the company.” As it turns out, Griffin & Howe, now located on Hudson Farm in Andover, New Jersey, has been representing and supporting Boss & Co. in the United States since 1927.
Lunch time was growing near. We would have soup and grilled cheese sandwiches with sweet tea on the lodge verandah. Maybe we had one or two more hunts left when Mr. DeMoulas asked if I wanted to shoot his Boss. I was hesitant. I felt reluctant to shoot one of his coveys. But he insisted and of course I accepted.
The wagon stopped. Mr. DeMoulas handed me his gun. The guide thrashed the bush when a whopping covey of wild quail erupted. I comfortably shouldered the Boss and it easily swung until I triggered the shot. Bird down. It was timeless. | <urn:uuid:898ab3e5-4ad7-46e6-87af-9ec8334313db> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.land.com/sport/hunting/quail-hunting-arthur-demoulas-boss-shotguns/ | 2020-10-24T03:09:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107881640.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20201024022853-20201024052853-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.965825 | 2,713 |
Day 3: Larrasoaña to Cizur Menor (via Pamplona)
Walking with simplicity, meant that one’s mind was clear, open and receptive. – Judy Foxx
After splurging on a room for myself and sleeping 8 1/2 hours, I feel like a NEW woman! My aches have settled and my energy is now restored. My private room also includes a fantastic breakfast that nourishes me for another long day of walking.
Lesson (Camino Lodging): I am going to splurge on a private room a couple of times a week. I could probably find a friend to share the room and split the cost. I am so grateful for the quietness and extra sleep that my body needs!
The only other pilgrim staying at my place is Jeroen from the Netherlands. He was with us at dinner last night and the pilgrim who helped Katie with her blisters yesterday. He and I continue our conversations at breakfast, say our goodbyes, finish our packing and go on our separate ways.
I then meet Marilee from Colorado, and Katie from Korea, at the town’s bridge. To my great surprise, Kwon from Korea decided to join us as well. We walk onward, crossing the Rio Arga (Arga river) by bridge several times, and meander through many adorable and tiny villages nestled along the river’s shores. Eventually, our bodies need a break and snack, so we stop on the bridge entrance to Villava to rest.
TIP (Camino Etiquette): On the Camino, everything is shared. I haven’t been shy and always offer snacks to others. I have found they willing to share their snacks and supplies with me as well. It’s been a great way to meet other pilgrims and begin friendships.
By sharing our snacks on the bridge, we end up meeting a gentleman from Ireland, Russ, now retired in Portsmouth, UK. Because of his cheeky personality, I have to give him a nickname. So going forward Russ will be known as our “Lucky Leprechaun.” 🙂 He walks with us for the rest of the day and plans to join us for dinner.
As we approach Pamplona, I actually begin to feel a bit anxious. We were told, after days in nature and enjoying peaceful farming villages, the city might overwhelm us. I sense my body tensing up from the rush of modern life. The site of industrial warehouses, the rush of speeding cars, and the roar of semi-trucks began to throw me off balance. I feel out of my element and already am yearning for the quiet, peaceful paths of the countryside again. At this moment, I realize how much I enjoy… simplicity and tranquility. After the Camino, I must remember to escape the chaos of daily life by walking in nature each and every day.
TIP (Camino Electronics): Before leaving for the Camino, I filled my iPhone with all my favorite music, including the soundtrack for the movie, “The Way.” Walking into my first city is a perfect time to put on my headphones and drown out the noise.
We continue – step by step – into Pamplona, soon discovering its historic grace and beauty. As we meander through the archway into the old city encased by an ancient wall, we stop and take pictures like crazy tourists. We pass the cathedral, enjoy the plazas, and of course, walk through the streets that famously host the ‘Running of the Bulls‘ festival in July.
Eventually, we discover the Plaza Sanfrancisco, where we rest on benches like the homeless, and happily people watch. I notice the great influence Ernest Hemingway has on Pamplona; so many of the restaurants & hotels are named after him. I had no idea! I then remember the time I stayed in a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, where Ernest frequented during his great African adventures. It’s such an honor to follow some of his footsteps around the world.
Pleased that I still have no blisters, except my left little toes are strained, so I wrap them with tape and trudge onward. We continue westward, meandering through town, envisioning the crowds of people dressed in white accented with red scarves, running for their lives from the bulls. We are excited to be heading to our home for the night in Cizur Menor… thrilled to be heading OUT OF TOWN! As we reach the edge of the city and the traffic subsided, I feel relief to be returning to the peacefulness of the countryside.
In Cizur Menor, we find our alburgue behind an old church and are joyfully greeted by our hospitalaro (host) who reminds me of a hippie from the ’70s. I giggle like a teenager as she introduces us to “her” alburgue, and runs through a list of “her” house rules.
We settle in, shower, and catch up on the Internet using the wifi in the main building. I have finally gotten the hang of my backpack and have figured out better ways to pack, resulting in less strain on my back and shoulders. Now understanding that every ounce counts, I am learning about simplicity and how little I really need to survive. I have begun to throw away a few items of luxury, like my Moroccan oil for my hair and deodorant. I smell at the end of the day anyway, so who cares! I even toss my nightclothes, for everything goes on the Camino, and sleeping in underwear is accepted. We are becoming a family of brothers and sisters here on the Camino, and I have begun to shed the American modesty.
Although I have no blisters, I stock up on Compeed at a local pharmacy. Compeed is a brilliant “second skin” for deterring the development of blisters.
Lesson (Camino Supplies): I learned there is no need to bring loads of bandaids from home. Compeed is the product used by most Europeans for blisters. If I begin to feel a “hot spot” on my feet, I should immediately apply the Compeed like I would a bandaid. Also, Compeed is made to stay on, even in the shower, so unless it needs replacing, I do not touch it. I can purchase Compeed at any pharmacy, located in most villages. Pharmacies are easy to identify by the lighted green plus sign. There are various shapes and sizes of Compeed for the feet and hands, so I check out the images on the box for guidance. I also purchase a box of sleeping pills. Spain is known for its great sleeping aids that don’t give you a sleep-hangover the next morning.
Now getting in the groove of the Camino, at this point my journey is simply about moving forward and becoming comfortable with the physicalness, understanding the daily system, and making new friends. My days are predictable and simple:
- I get up early, wash my face and brush my teeth
- I dress and prepare my feet for the day’s walk
- Finish packing
- Head out of town by 7:45 am or 8:00 am (this is just before sunrise in October)
- After an hour or so of walking, and if I come across a village, stop at a coffee shop or bar for café con leche and croissant or tortilla
- Continue hiking and break about halfway to rub my feet and enjoy a snack or lunch. Typically, I would eat what I might have purchased the night before stored in my pack or purchase something at a local bar, like a bocadillo (sandwich)
- Continue walking and enjoy the scenery
- Eventually arrive at my final destination village/town/city and find a place to sleep. Albergues cost around 10 euros a night, private rooms can be up to 40 euros
- Once assigned a bed, immediately get out of my clothes to shower, hand-wash my clothes in a sink, and hang to dry. Some places have old washers & dryers (and detergent) for a small fee. Knowing my clothes are fully clean feels like heaven!
- Find a market to stock up on snacks and water for the next day and explore the town a bit
- Locate a place for dinner and register for the Peregrino meal (Pilgrims’ dinner) at a local restaurant
- Relax, since I have some time to journal and email until dinner at 7:00 pm
- Enjoy dinner and meet new pilgrims, share stories, and drink wine (vino tinto)!
- After dinner, immediately pack and go to bed with clothes laid out for the next day… usually the ones I wore at dinner
- Hope to God I get some sleep with all the snoring
…and the next day begins!
Tonight our hospitalaro has assigned women in a separate room from the men, so hopefully, it will be quieter and we will get some sleep. Although I am not quite certain of this, because some of these women can snore louder than the men! 🙂
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[VIRTUAL] DREAMing Out Loud: Virtual Reading & Book Release
PEN America is proud to present this summer’s reading with the rising stars from DREAMing Out Loud, our tuition-free workshop series for young undocumented writers in New York City.
Since the program’s founding in 2016, DREAMing Out Loud has served over 125 emerging writers. Our students are primarily first-generation immigrants who came to the United States as children. As rhetoric flies, politics grind, and heat increases along all our borders, the experiences of these writers—who have risked their lives to cross land and oceans into the United States—must be heard.
This reading celebrates the courageous new voices in this year’s anthology release with readings from our students and stories from our teaching artists Álvaro Enrigue, Cherry Lou Sy, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma, and special guests Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (The Undocumented Americans, 2020), Sonia Guiñansaca (Nostalgia & Borders, 2016), Martyna Majok (Sanctuary City, 2020), Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied, 2017), and Jenny Zhang (My Baby First Birthday, 2020).
Please help make DREAMing Out Loud possible in 2021 with a donation today. The time-limited grant that supported this program from 2018-2020 has ended. Public support is crucial for the program to continue offering workshops in 2021.
Any donations are considered 100 percent tax-deductible and support DREAMing Out Loud’s mission to defend young undocumented writers and immigrants’ free expression at a time of unprecedented need. Here are some of features of the program that your donation could help us fund:
- $10 – a free anthology for a student writer
- $50 – a paid volunteer copyeditor
- $100 – lunch or dinner for students in one of our workshop sessions
- $150 – a guest speaker’s honorarium
- $200 – an hour of workshop facilitation
- $400 – a student stipend to offset costs of living while participating in the program
- $2,000 – a teaching assistant’s stipend
- $3,200 – a teaching artist’s stipend
Please contact Nicole Gervasio at [email protected] for any additional questions or concerns.
This event was a co-production of the New York Immigration Coalition and the PEN World Voices Festival. DREAMing Out Loud has been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), with special thanks to the Vilcek Foundation and the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute for their support. Thanks go to Roxanna Allen for graphic design.
Sonia Guiñansaca is an international award-winning queer migrant poet, cultural organizer, and social justice activist. As a writer and performer, they create narrative poems and essays on migration, queerness, and nostalgia, often collaborating with filmmakers and visual artists. They emerged as a national leader in the migrant artistic and political communities, where they coordinated and participated in groundbreaking civil disobedience actions. Guiñansaca co-founded some of the largest undocumented organizations in the United States, including some of the first artistic projects by and for undocumented writers and artists. Guiñansaca has worked for over a decade in both policy and cultural efforts building equitable infrastructures for migrant artists. They have been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, Poetry Foundation, British Council, and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics. Guiñansaca has performed at the Met, the NYC Public Theater, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, and has been featured on PEN America: A Journal for Readers & Writers, Interview Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Teen Vogue, Diva Magazine UK, CNN, NBC, and PBS. Their migration and cultural equity work has also taken them to London and Mexico City to advise on migrant policy and arts programming. They serve as the national advisory Board Member of the Laundromat Project in New York City. Guiñansaca self-published their debut chapbook Nostalgia and Borders in 2016. They are a contributor for the new edition of the anthologies Colonize This! (2019, Seal Press) and This is Not a Gun (2020, Sming Sming Books/Candor Arts). They are also featured in Stop Telling Women to Smile (2020, Seal Press). For more information, go to SoniaGuinansaca.com and follow them on Instagram and Twitter @TheSoniaG. Photo Credit: Quil Lemons
Martyna Majok is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, born in Poland. Plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, Cost of Living, and Ironbound. Honors include Lucille Lortel Outstanding Play Award, ATCA Francesca Primus Prize, Lanford Wilson Award, Stacey Mindich Prize, Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), NYC Champions of Change Award, Helen Merrill Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, two Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Prizes, and the Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream. Majok was the 2015–16 Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow and a 2018–19 Hodder Fellow at Princeton.
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the United States when he was nine. He was a 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard and has been granted fellowships from Colgate University, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, among others. Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) is his first collection. He lives in Harlem, where he’s working on a memoir. More info at javierzamora.net. Photo Credit: Brittany Cronin
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written about immigration, music, beauty, and mental illness for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1, and The New Inquiry, among others. She lives in New Haven with her partner and their dog. The Undocumented Americans (One World, 2020) is her first book. Photo Credit: Talya Zemach Bersin
Álvaro Enrigue is the director and founder of PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud program. He was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores of Mexico. His work has appeared in The New York Times, El País, The Believer, Letras Libres, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among others. He is the author of five novels, two books of short stories, and one book of literary criticism, published by Anagrama in Spanish and Dalkey Archive and Riverhead in English. His novel Sudden Death, first published in Spain as Muerte súbita in 2013, was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction. He currently serves on the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing for Writers of Spanish program at Hofstra University. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City. Photo Credit: Daniel Mordzinski
Cherry Lou Sy is a Chinese-Filipino writer/performer originally from the Philippines. Her work has been developed/presented in La Mama Experiments, Rising Circle Theater Collective, The Letter of Marque, Brooklyn College, Primary Stages’ ESPA, The Wild Project, The Brick, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Tank, and The Public Theater. She was a finalist/semifinalist for the 2020 Barbour Playwrights Award, 2020 Pipeline Theater’s PlaySpace Fellowship, 2020 Ars Nova Fellowship, the 2018 Space on Ryder Farm Working Farm, and the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and nominated for the 2018 Cherry Lane Mentor Project. She performed and devised in Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements series and received her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she is also a Lecturer.
Hannah Kingsley-Ma is a writer and radio producer. Her work has appeared in outlets like McSweeney’s, Literary Hub, Joyland Magazine, the CBC, KCRW and KQED Public Radio. As a graduate of New York University’s MFA in Fiction, she received the Jan Gabrial Fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing. She is the 2020-21 Axinn NYU Writer-in-Residence. | <urn:uuid:dd9b11e5-d0f0-40ac-8f53-7978e685c39e> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://pen.org/event/dreaming-out-loud-virtual-reading/ | 2020-10-25T10:31:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107888931.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20201025100059-20201025130059-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.938445 | 1,849 |
Ever wonder what to call all those tiny, sticky crystals that cover cannabis flower? They’re called kief, also known as dry sift or pollen.
Kief refers to the resin glands which contain the terpenes and cannabinoids that make cannabis so unique. While marijuana sans kief still contains cannabinoids, the resin glands that develop on flower buds pack the biggest punch.
Kief and trichomes: Built-in protection for cannabis plants
While kief specifically refers to the bulbous, crystal formation on the tip of a gland, the substance itself is just one part of what is called a trichome, or a “hair.”
Many different plants and algae have external trichomes for specific evolutionary purposes. For example, some carnivorous plants rely on sticky trichomes to trap their prey. Other plants, like cannabis, use them as a deterrent to herbivores.
Trichomes on the marijuana plant keep away hungry herbivores by producing an intense psychoactive experience, theoretically disorienting the animal and preventing it from eating the rest of the plant. The resin’s strong, distinct odor also attracts pollinating insects and predators, which might keep herbivore populations at bay.
How to separate kief from the cannabis plant
If you like the experience of concentrates but don’t want to break the bank buying expensive wax or extraction equipment, sifting kief might be a great alternative. Due to the high concentration of terpenes and cannabinoids in resin glands, separating kief crystals from plant matter is a great way to consume cannabis while reducing the amount of charred material you take into your body.
Extracting kief is simple. Using a three-chamber herb grinder will help you finely grind your cannabis while letting kief crystals fall through a screen and collect into a small compartment. While two chamber grinders are nice, they often let potent kief go to waste since crystals fall off of the dried herb and just stick to the inside of the grinder.
For extracting larger quantities of kief, using simple silk screening materials will allow you to separate kief from plant matter with the ease of sifting flower.
Many people create makeshift sifters using layered kief screens similar to the ones pictured above. Because kief tends to measure between 75 and 125 microns, it can be difficult to separate all of the resin from the plant materials. To make sure you’re collecting the cleanest kief without unwanted plant matter, stack three to four layers of fine mesh screen one on top of another.
For the best results, home extractors use consecutive sizes of screen and stack them in order from largest to smallest. When buying screens, the number of wires or threads per inch, or the LPI (lines per inch) number is an important thing to remember. The larger the screen, the smaller the LPI number. When it comes to sifting kief, mesh between 80 and 270 LPI tends to work best.
When buying extracted kief at a dispensary or retail store, keep in mind that the purer the kief, the lighter the color will be. Kief that still looks fairly green means that there is still quite a bit of plant matter mixed in, whereas kief that has been cleaned well tends to be more of an off-white color.
What to do with kief
Now that you know what kief is and how to collect it, what should you do with it? There are many ways to make good use of your stockpile of unrefined cannabis concentrate from smoking kief to making hash. Here are a few suggestions that can amplify potency and refine consistency.
Sprinkle it onto your packed bowl of cannabis
Also known as “crowning a bowl,” this is the first and most obvious use for kief. Overall potency can increase dramatically with a generous dusting of kief on top of your bowl. Corner your hits to get the most out of a kief-crowned bowl, corner your hits, which entails burning a quadrant of the bowl at a time so that you can enjoy multiple hits.
Sprinkle kief into a joint or roll a twax koint
Freshly ground cannabis is just sticky enough to make rolling a joint fairly easy. Pepper your ground cannabis with a healthy pinch of kief and mix well. The extra trichomes should more or less stick to the ground leaves, adding potency to the interior of your joint.
For those of you who want a more advanced experience, dampen the outside of your joint with a lick or your preferred wax and then roll the top 1/3 of the joint in kief. This kief-coated joint is often call a “twaxed” joint.
Make hash from kief
Hash is one of the oldest forms of refined cannabis. One of the first steps of making hash is extracting kief, as hash is basically just kief that has been heated and pressurized to form a soft, green ball. Applying heat and pressure to kief changes its composition by rupturing the resin glands. Once the kief ruptured, the overall taste and effects of the product are slightly different. Pressurizing kief also darkens its color; the more pressure you apply, the darker the hash becomes.
Moonrocks are top-quality nugs covered in oil and rolled in kief. These glorious glitter cannabis specimens are very high potency and can be considered a quick DIY concentrate. Moonrocks are relatively easy to make if you have the materials. Gently heat your oil of choice and liberally coat your buds. Sprinkle kief over still-warm buds, or dredge buds in a kief bath using tongs. Let harden, then enjoy them by breaking them up by hand and sprinkling them into your bowl (avoid using a grinder if possible, as a grinder will break them up too finely and defeat the purpose of creating your lovely moonrock).
Rosin is a rising star in the world of cannabis concentrates for its solventless extraction methods and preservation of cannabinoids. This process is usually done with flower, but higher yields and potency can be achieved by pressing kief. The at-home kief press method involves a hair straightener and a vice, while professional methods incorporate high-pressure presses.
Add potency to cannabutter
Cannabutter has so many great applications, and kief is an easy way to boost potency that doesn’t add any extra steps to the cannabutter creating process. Just remember, no matter if you decarboxylate your cannabis in the oven or in your crockpot, make sure your kief is intermixed with your flower for best results.
Make kief discs using a kief press
Kief discs – sometimes known as kief pucks, are small circular discs made of compressed cannabis crystals. If you have a kief press at home, you can easily create these discs at home. The best way to use your kief disks is to break up it up into small pieces for smoking, but plenty of people prefer to smoke the whole disk at once.
Try these kief-heavy strains
Kief-Heavy Strain #1: White Widow
A cross between a Brazilian sativa landrace and a resin-heavy South Indian indica, White Widow has blessed every Dutch coffee shop menu since its birth in the 1990s. Its buds are white with crystal resin, warning you of the potent effects to come. A powerful burst of euphoria and energy breaks through immediately, stimulating both conversation and creativity.
Kief-Heavy Strain #2: Hash Plant
Hash Plant’s tight, resin-drenched flower clusters develop a brittle surface when dried and give off a deep, rich Afghani aroma that’s undercut with a hint of hashish. When consumed, her dominant flavor is the spicy-sharp bite of smouldering resin glands. The instant vaporization of those layers of sparkling trichomes accelerates Hash Plant’s rapid, blissful and breathtakingly powerful body-stone.
Kief-Heavy Strain #3: Chemdog
Between its mysterious origin, ambiguous genetics, and the plethora of successful crosses the strain has produced, Chemdawg has practically secured itself a permanent place in the cannabis hall of fame. The original source of powerhouse strains like Sour Diesel and OG Kush, Chemdawg is known for its distinct, diesel-like aroma. Pungent and sharp, you’ll be able to smell this hybrid from a mile away. | <urn:uuid:784de80d-c3ef-48e7-acb0-b6f4252d96ce> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-kief | 2020-10-25T11:16:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107888931.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20201025100059-20201025130059-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.921642 | 1,774 |
Read with: iBooks for iPad
Genre: Erotic Romance
Series: Falling Under, #2
Publisher: Carina Press
Hero: Alexander Knight
Heroine: Amber Dolors
Date of Publication: January 19, 2015
Started On: January 15, 2015
Finished On: January 22, 2015
Under His Touch by Jeffe Kennedy is an explosive read and the second book in the Falling Under series by the author. Being my very first Jeffe Kennedy novel, I didn’t find any difficulty in immersing myself in the story, thus pretty much safe to say that this can be read as a standalone and that Jeffe writes one helluva story!
Amber Dolors is young, smart and ambitious. The only thing that seems to be lacking in her life are prospective men with whom she can connect on a physical and mental level. What Amber craves physically is someone who would hold mastery over her, but Amber finds herself hardpressed to find someone who fits the persona that she has in mind. A persona that seems to tie in perfectly with her boss Alexander Knight (Alec).
Scarred from his marriage and preceding divorce, Alec is a broody hero if ever there was one. Hailing from Britain, Alec’s move to the U.S. had come in order for him to leave his past behind. Amber is a distraction that Alec can definitely do without. Though their workplace has no strict rules on inter-office dating, Alec feels that he is way older for someone like Amber even though his body smolders from the very idea of him and Amber together.
Under His Touch is a story that has a lot of angst of the good variety in it. Alec though he wants to possess Amber in every single way possible, resists her at every level until he realizes that him and Amber will happen, one way or the other. For Amber, Alec giving in means she gets to experience the sort of sex life that she has been craving for, for a very long time. But as these two embark on an affair that has no time limit set on it, both Alec and Amber realize that it is not just the physical aspect of their relationship and connection that draws them together. And Amber realizes that if ever they were to have a chance at making things work long term, Alec would definitely need to lay the demons that hound him to rest.
Under His Touch is an erotic romance with BDSM elements to it. Alec is a man who exudes so much control over himself and that of his encounters with Amber that lent an extra charge to the sensuality that was pretty much overloading my senses to begin with. The one encounter during which Alec’s legendary control broke is one that is worthy of a mention. I couldn’t help but want more of the same.
Amber was definitely a heroine that endeared to me. I liked her spunk, her independent nature and the fact that she wasn’t willing to settle for anything less than what she wanted. And I loved her for the fact that even though she is young and inexperienced when it comes to the likes of a BDSM lifetstyle, she is intuitive enough to know what Alec wants and needs. Though Alec might be the dominant in their relationship, Amber herself provides the much needed relief and salvation that Alec had been seeking, albeit unknowingly.
Alec is a hero that would drive most readers nuts, and all in a good way. His sexuality is one that is not all over the place, but yet the strength of it could be felt at the turn of every single page. Amber labeling his attire as suit porn was one I could definitely relate to. I couldn’t help but smile and fan myself a bit everytime Alec came into the picture. Yes ladies, he is that enchanting! And now imagine all that with a sexy British accent? Swoon!
The only thing that I felt lacking in the story was a well rounded ending. I wanted a little bit more of Alec and Amber before the story was through. I felt that the ending was a trifle bit rushed. Perhaps an epilogue that showed Alec and Amber somewhere down the line would’ve done a lot to appease readers like myself who wants to actually see the happily ever after before turning the last page of the story.
Recommended for fans of BDSM, fans of angsty romances & fans of sexy British heroes! I loved it!
Final Verdict: Alec exerts mastery of the kind that would drive you absolutely mad from the wanting!
He tapped a pen on the desk, glanced out at the empty hall and back to her with a wry smile. “I find that hard to believe. I’d think they’d be lining up to buy you drinks and so forth.”
“Back at you. Aren’t the women of New York falling over themselves for a shot at you? I could name half-a-dozen on this floor alone.”
“Please don’t.” He leaned his forearms on the desk, laced his fingers, checked the hall again. Seemed to gather himself and met her gaze. “Surely you know if I wouldn’t cross the line for you, I wouldn’t for anyone.”
“A kiss,” he whispered, “to seal our agreement.”
Saturating herself in the experience, she relished Alec’s obvious desire as much as her own. It felt so perfect, to yield this way, to be half-naked on his lap, held in his grip as his mouth lowered to hers. To know he’d control the kiss and at the same time craved the taste of her. Trying to be gentle, he brushed her lips with his, but his hand tightened on her hip, fingers digging in, and he made a sound she would have called despair in another circumstance, from another person.
Heady with the moment, with him and the way his mouth sank into hers, she returned the kiss, leaning into him with a sense that she might die if he stopped. His hand on her chin shook and he transferred it to the back of her neck, winding it into the fall of her hair and twisting, pulling her head back so he kissed her more deeply. He tasted of wine and desire, kissing her so hard, the attraction they’d both banked until now meeting and opening like their mouths, feeding on each other and fusing in a nuclear reaction, slamming them into each other and into a blaze of need.
Then he replaced his finger with his tongue and she lost her mind entirely.
Oblivious to anything but the slow stimulation of his tongue on her tender breasts, feeling that at any moment she might begin bleeding through her pores, she dropped her head back, trying to absorb it. Sounds came out of her. Delirious moans and whimpers, but she gave up wondering when he’d stop this. Gave up thinking about needing an orgasm like water in the desert. She only rocketed with each tortuous lick, unable to resist in any way.
When his mouth closed on her nipple and bit, she came.
The orgasm took her like a lightning bolt. Unheralded except for the static cloud that had built so slowly and imperceptibly that she hadn’t been able to prepare. Instead it caught her in its convulsing current and she screamed, thrashing in Alec’s hands, wild and mindless. He switched to her other nipple, sucking and biting it as she bucked on his lap.
“Suck me off then,” he ordered, setting the brandy aside and making himself think about the damn McCloskey account. Which helped not at all because it reminded him immediately of how she’d smiled when she suggested they could discuss that over drinks, sly and full of that—
“Holy Christ,” he gasped as she freed his cock and closed her hot mouth over it.
She worked the shaft with her delicate fingers, taking him deep into the depths of her clever mouth. His balls clenched as she sucked the climax out of him almost instantly. Unthinking, he buried his hands in her hair, held her head and thrust himself into her mouth. Mindlessly emptying himself.
She stilled, cognizant enough now to anticipate, her breath hitching with tears and moans of encouragement. In one swift movement, he buried himself in her and slipped his fingers into her slick tissues, to press hard on her clit.
As he’d anticipated, she convulsed, wrenching as the orgasm took her. To his surprise, he nearly came, too, barely hanging on, digging his fingers into the sheets as her body milked him. He managed to make it until she crested, enough to ease himself into stroking in and out of her, finding her rhythm, bracketing her clit to ease her through the crash and prolong her arousal. She responded as a thoroughbred race horse, ramping into another rise and climax, her body shuddering and her cries going from despair to delight.
“Only when I say you can, yes?”
“Yes.” She sighed out the agreement, willing to promise anything, then sucked the air back in when he thrust hard into her, slamming his hips against hers, penetrating impossibly deep.
Though she’d just come, the near-brutal shock threw her close to climax, like a spark set to a rocket. She clenched her teeth against the keening sound coming deep out of her.
Alec pulled back, kissing her with all the gentleness lacking a moment ago, coaxing her through it. As she recovered, softly, sweetly he moved in and out of her channel, stroking in long glides, lulling her, so she rode up on steadily increasing levels of arousal. Each time he seemed to ease deeper into her and she had no ability to resist, only to yield more.
Without warning, he slammed hard into her again.
She screamed and she thought she heard him laugh, low and wicked.
“So what now?” Tell me to strip, Alec.
He glanced at her. Away again. Face and voice in that carefully neutral mode. “What
would you prefer to do? If you want to go, I understand. Maybe you should. That’s part of why I stayed away this evening. Part of me hoped you’d find me gone and leave again.”
“Why?” Her mouth had gone dry with dread. But he’d said he wanted her. In devastating, erotic detail.
His lips curved in that cruel ironic smile and he turned to face her, leaning an elbow on the rail. Not relaxed, though. Coiled. “Perhaps the monster always hopes, somewhere in its twisted heart, that its prey will escape.”
“I’m looking,” he grated out. He seized her wrists and stretched them over her head, pinning them there with one hand and using the other to flick open the front clasp of the bra. Cupping her naked breast, he squeezed, tight, and she writhed under the grip. “I’m touching.” He leaned in hard, his erection pressing against her belly, the brick wall grating against her back through the silk. “Now tell me to stop.”
Instead she moved her hips against his, wild for more. “Don’t you dare stop.”
“You know the penalties for giving me orders.” He pinched her nipple and she gasped but held his gaze, defiant.
“Do your worst.”
With a curse that sounded almost foreign, his accent had gone so thick, he released her wrists, dug in his pocket and ripped open his pants, just enough to release his cock and get the condom on. “Put your leg around my waist,” he ordered, pinning her wrists on either side of her head. “I can’t be gentle.”
“I don’t want gentle.” She barely finished the words before he’d pushed deep inside her. Fast, hard, nearly brutal. Clenching her teeth to keep from screaming as a new orgasm built on the last, she watched his face, the way his gaze stayed riveted on her as he fucked her with a wild intensity.
“I want you every second of every day.” His thrusts punctuated his words, thick and guttural. “That’s not the problem.”
“Please,” she gasped, unable to frame more than that. “Please.”
“When I say.” He thrust in and out, the sensation so intense, shattering. Unreal.
With his other hand, he gathered her breasts together, squeezing them, and she cried at it,
a long stream of pleas. The forestalled orgasm seemed as agonizing as any of it. He accelerated his pace, smacking into her hips so hard she had to brace against the glass.
“Now!” He shouted, simultaneously dragging off the clamps and pinching her clit, ramming to the hilt inside her.
She screamed. Flung far from the earth, fired into orbit by the incredible release. Rocket fuel. Nuclear fission.
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24 Hour Gym
Did you know that there is a 24-hour gym in Falmouth, Jamaica? Falmouth News will now look at 24/7 Life Fitness, an innovative gym and fitness centre located at Johnson’s Petroleum Plaza in Rock District, Falmouth, Trelawny.
Falmouth, Trelawny, Jamaica is growing at a rapid pace. Along with the business developments and increasing employment opportunities comes an increase in population.
Indeed, Trelawny parish has seen a sharp influx of persons from other parishes. Most of these people settle in one of the several housing developments close to Falmouth town.
As the town continues to grow, there is a need for support services and a gym is no less important.
The 24/7 Life Fitness Story
24/7 Life Fitness Story began as a means of filling a void. The Riddim Fitness Gym that was at the same location had closed down some time before. According to manager Craig Ernandez, his local Trelawny based family living nearby, decided to take up the challenge and opened for business in March of 2018.
Their motto is: “Yesterday you said tomorrow. Start today.”
24 Hour Gym
24/7 Life Fitness did not just want to be any gym. They wanted to be the best gym in Falmouth.
But first of all, they had to better than the gym that was there before. Additionally, they wanted to be a gym that can be accessible by all, at whatever time they found to be convenient.
As such, they have instituted a state of the art biometric entry system so clients can utilize the facilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This sets them apart from any other gym around Falmouth.
How the 24 hour Gym Works
The impressive system is monitored by King Alarm in case of emergency and paid up members have access at any time of the day or night, as long as their subscription is up to date.
This is the biggest advantage of being a member of 24/7 Life Fitness: whatever time you think is best, you have access.
To make the 24 hour use of the gym even safer, the plaza on which the gym is located is Johnson’s Petroleum, which is a 24 hour gas station. Also on the building is the convenience store, which is also a 24-hour convenience store. The well lit area is therefore always ‘active.’
The Trelawny gym is located in Rock District, which has becoming a fast growing commercial area on the outskirts of Falmouth.
The location in Rock means it is in close proximity to Falmouth’s dormitory communities of Hague, Florence Hall, Stonebrook Estates, Stonebrook Vista and the new Stonebrook Manor.
According to Craig from 24/7 Life Fitness, “It is pointless putting in the hours, if the equipment isn’t up to scratch. Equipment forms a key part of our mission to provide an outstanding fitness experience.”
Falmouth News observed new, clean and modern equipment for all types of exercises.
From 24/7 Life Fitness:
“Nobody likes to work out in a sweaty mess, that’s why here at 24/7 Life Fitness we pride ourselves on having clean, tidy and generally spick and span facility! Cleanliness isn’t just an objective of ours, it is at the heart of what we do.”
On my visit, the facilities were spotlessly clean.
Clean, well kept bathroom facilities are available to patrons of 24/7 Life Fitness. The idea is that you can workout, shower and then go to work.
24/7 Life Fitness’ prices are tailored for everyone and ranges from daily payment right up to 9 months payment. They accept debit and credit cards. Despite the high quality of the gym, you will see that the prices are for those looking for a cheap gym in Falmouth. Very reasonable.
Additionally, they have special discounts as follows.
What Is Your Goal?
Each person that goes to a gym has a goal. It may be weight loss or maintaining weight, or getting rid of belly fat or to just keep healthy. Whatever your aim is, you may choose from the free classes available to members.
Yes, members have access to regular, free classes Mondays to Fridays in the following areas:
- Body Sculpting
- Boot Camp
When they decided to take up the challenge of running a gym, Craig Ernandez, the manager decided to make himself certified as a fitness trainer.
He is ably complemented by two experienced personal trainers: Andre Thompson and Rupert Bowen.
Personal training is available (at additional cost) for $10,000 per month (training twice per week) or $15,000 (training thrice per week).
24/7 Life Fitness on Personal Training:
Here is what they have to say about personal training:
“We know that every member has joined 24/7 Life Fitness for a reason, you’ve made a commitment to make a positive change to your health and fitness and 24/7 Life Fitness wants to help you achieve what you’ve set out to do.
Whether you’re an experienced gym goer or completely new to exercise, our team of highly skilled personal trainers are there to offer support and assistance wherever needed. Whatever your goal, working with a personal trainer is a sure-fire way to ensure you achieve it.
Learn new exercises and training protocols, ensure you are carrying out exercises safely and work with an inspiring and motivating trainer. Sessions are completely bespoke to you and your individual needs.”
Here are other services offered at 24/7 Life Fitness.
The gym operates a smoothie bar so you can get nutritious liquid shakes to bolster your exercise regimen.
24/7 Life Fitness also sells gym outfits on location.
When Falmouth News visited the location, we saw clients who were quite happy to recommend the gym to others.
When asked what her experience like at the gym, Shiona replied:
Wonderful, superb, awesome, convenient. They are very understanding and flexible and work with your schedule. Great reps and instructors!
Vaughn, who has been attending the gym for approximately 6 months, said he originally went there to lose weight. He was having problems with his growing belly and saw the gym as a way of preventing sickness in the future.
So far, he is happy with results. He has gained bulk (muscle mass), lost fat and especially his belly fat. His advice?
You just need to have a mindset and not give up. Come and get results because i have seen great results.
Julia Minto is on a weight loss goal and so far she is already half-way to her goal.
The atmosphere is good as is the equipment, management is great and I am half way to my weight loss goal. I utilize the personal training service consistently and I definitely recommend 24/7 Life Fitness to everyone who wants to get into shape and stay in shape.
Conclusion: Trelawny’s Own 24-Hour Gym
So this is 24/7 Life Fitness, Falmouth and Trelawny’s own 24-hour gym and fitness center.
Falmouth News found the gym to be clean with a great atmosphere for working out. The trainers were enthusiastic and the clients appeared to be comfortable.
What’s more, 24/7 Life Fitness is quite suitably located about 2 miles away from Falmouth town center in Rock District, off the Falmouth Bypass.
Indeed, the Johnson’s Petroleum location is close to where a big chunk of Falmouth’s population resides: Florence Hall, Stonebrook Estate, Stonebrook Vista and the new Stonebrook Manor. Also in close proximity is Hague Housing Scheme, Martha Brae, Holland Estates and of course, Falmouth town.
The petroleum station/plaza provides more than adequate parking and safety. Like the gym, it is never closed, but runs for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In addition, 24/7 Life Fitness’ prices are great and they cater for different periods of access, starting from one day. To make it even more enticing, the longer you book your membership, the more discount you receive. Add to that their several discounts and rewards and we see that Life Fitness has quite an attractive package.
However, the most notable thing about the gym is its 24 hour service. At anytime one wants to workout, one can. Those on shifts that have them working for many hours do not have an excuse. There is always time and the place at 24/7 Life Fitness.
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Quick chat I had with a friend…
Why shouldn’t I combine CSS styles and JS scripts?
To combine/merge or not. It’s an endless debate over which is better.
Merging CSS/JS looks great on performance test sites like Pingdom and GTmetrix but is it really the best performance for your site?
STOP Merging CSS/JS!
Reason #1 – it slows down your site load!
For me, merging CSS is a superficial improvement that makes your test scores look better since you have fewer requests. These page speed tests were only intended to be used as guidelines. Many of them (if not all) were designed before the new HTTP/2 protocol.
[Brief] history of evolution from HTTP to HTTP/2 protocol
- Old HTTP protocol could only load a few requests at a time, queuing the other requests (imagine 1 cashier with many customers in line). So in those days, it was better to have fewer HTTP requests. Tactics like “CSS sprites” and combining CSS/JS was standard practice. With only one cashier, having one giant order was faster than several small orders, each with their own transactional overhead in DNS request times.
- HTTP/2 protocol came out allowing parallel requests (imagine multiple cashiers instead of one). With multiple cashiers, requests were served quicker as separate smaller requests rather than combined. HTTP/2 gave such massive performance increases, you would expect almost immediate adoption. Unfortunately, it required HTTPS (TLS/SSL certificates) which weren’t yet standardized (also cost money/skills to implement).
- As expected, low-budget webhosting clients weren’t willing to pay for SSL or deal with technical hassles of setup/renewal for them. They also weren’t necessarily if you didn’t have a store. (At the time, no 1-click solution existed for installing TLS/SSL certificates; you had to copy-paste long bits of encrypted text and wonder if you did it right.)
- But then the industry changed…Google started requiring all websites to have HTTPS or risk being penalized on their search engine rankings. The only one thing left in the way was affordable TLS/SSL certificates. Luckily for everyone, Let’s Encrypt came out with free TLS/SSL certificates—HOORAY! Webhosts started offering 1-click solutions overnight and HTTPS (alongside with HTTP/2) became the standard.
- While the webhosting and web-browser industry made HTTP/2 and HTTPS standard; outdated page speed tests (and many speed-up guides) are still recommended practices like decreasing the number of requests. We are still living in that conflicted aftermath today. For the record: I’m all for decreasing code and even requests; I just don’t see the point of wasting precious server resources to combine code into one lump file that takes longer to process.
People think that because their server sent out fewer requests, it means their server did less work…but that is false thinking. Your server sends out the same amount of code no matter what. If anything, your server may work harder because you merged. Merging CSS also has a few annoying issues…instead of letting your page render immediately, it now has to wait for your entire CSS to load.
Imagine eating at a restaurant with 20 friends. Do you want the food to come out as soon as it’s ready? Or only when everyone’s order is cooked?
For me…most CSS should be loaded as fast as possible and most JS should be as delayed as possible (UNLESS, there is critical JS like being used for slider above the fold).
As for merging JS (scripts)….I think it’s great if your merging mechanism can also defer and throw them to the footer (that’s the only reason why I would merge them). But in general…and especially with well-coded sites, you don’t want it.
Reason #2 – it breaks your site
You’ll end up spending a lot of time troubleshooting sites with broken CSS/JS merges. I see “cache plugin broke my site” on WordPress Facebook groups about 2 dozen times every week.
And even if things do look alright, the site might not be perfect and or might not always get performance benefits. Your contact form might break, or some scroll function, or some ajax function. There’s a myriad of possible conflicts that can happen when you merge JS.
Reason #3 – it adds unnecessary page load
- Plain pages will load your pagebuilder.
- Pages that aren’t related to your store or products will load WooCommerce.
- Pages that don’t have any forms loaded will load your forms anyway.
And so forth. Imagine if you had 30-40 plugins, well guess what…now your site loads all the CSS/JS on every single page. How wasteful!
Ok fine…there are some “intelligent” CSS/JS merges that allow separate CSS/JS for every page but now this is overkill. Your server spends more time merging CSS/JS than actually serving pages to users. Feel free to experiment on your own but my general rule is not to merge JS.
Reason #4 – it delays cache prebuild
There’s a million tactics and it’s kind of an art in itself. Depends on what kind of site, what kind of traffic, and how often you update content.
PS: those test sites are a little bit dated. Giving suggestions that would have worked better for older webhosting technology.
“Doesn’t combining CSS/JS reduce the code?”
Yes, it’s true! Merging your CSS/JS often reduces code, stripping out empty spaces and unnecessary code. So it would seem like your site would load faster since there’s less code overall to load. Only problem is, that’s not how pages render.
You see, pages render as soon as an entire asset loads.
- Let’s compare uncombined CSS (split1.css + split2.css + split3.css = 60kb total) vs combined CSS (combined.css = 50kb).
It’s reasonable to think the combined css would load faster because it’s smaller, but that doesn’t always happen. There’s a good chance your site can start rendering the page with only split1.css (with split2.css & split3.css being used to render lower parts of the page). If that’s the case, you’re better off leaving the files uncombined so the page renders earlier for users. The idea here is to start rendering soon rather than finish rendering sooner. (It’s basically the concept behind “Critical CSS“.)
“But the combined CSS doesn’t have to load if it’s cached!”
That’s a great point, too. If you combine the CSS/JS and then cached it to the user’s browser locally, they wouldn’t have to download it! The only problem is…most visits to your site are going to be 1st-time visits. Even if it was just one person…they could be visiting from their desktop, their laptop, their mobile phone. Maybe a different browser, or maybe their cache cleared. Whatever reason it is, the majority of your traffic will be first-time visits.
Here’s another thing…you can cache uncombined CSS/JS files, too! Put long expiry times on them and it’s pretty much the same thing.
“What about Critical CSS?”
If your site is bloated to the point where you actually have critical CSS vs non-critical CSS, you have a different problem. Clean up your code. If your total CSS is only 40-50kb, that’s fine. Leave it un-merged.
“Are you sure about NOT merging JS?”
The topic of merging JS is a whole can of worms in itself. Let’s start with the pros and cons. Right off the bat…merging JS is always a darn risk because something breaks in your site. Second, we’re now in the age of HTTP2 where loading multiple assets in parallel beats loading one combined asset. Those 2 reasons alone are good enough to avoid it. It’s a safer option with great performance and far less issues to fix.
So what’s the best way to manage JS and when should you merge JS?
I think most JS are not critical to initial page rendering. JS usually has to do more with the page’s function than its design. Note the operative word ‘usually’. Some JS does have to do with the design…such as image sliders, tab content, expandable/collapsible divs, pop-ups, etc.
Ideally, all JS (except for design-related JS placed above-the-fold) is deferred to the end of the page load queue and doesn’t load until the rest of your design loads first. Even better is if you can prevent certain JS from not loading at all unless the user scrolls to it or interacts with it (lazyload/onload-event)…this would be great for things like super bloated Googlemaps iframe laying at the bottom of the site.
Some of the merging mechanisms out there will do all that…combine your JS and defer it. And then you could manually exclude certain critical JS files from being merged and deferred. And also put some on lazyload if you wanted.
“But my site has faster speed scores with CSS/JS combined!”
This is a great reason many people use to justify combining CSS/JS. And in some cases, it’s true—combining CSS/JS might get you a faster FINISHING load time. But here’s the thing…what we want is faster STARTING load time.
Remember that whole trend about optimizing TTFB? It’s all about starting sooner, not finishing sooner. Having a fast response time can be just as important as a fast load time.
We want your pages to render quicker (not necessarily just to download quicker). The sooner your page renders, the faster the perceived load will be for users. This is why JS loading is such a finicky matter. Some items should load first, others should all be deferred so they don’t get in the way of critical JS items!
So decide…are you speed-optimizing your site for page scores or for users? (And FYI, it’s possible to do it for both…that’ll be a whole other guide later.)
Aren’t there any exceptions?
As with all things, yes. There are indeed exceptions but they are few and far between and still I wouldn’t recommend you to do it if you wanted a hassle-free caching experience.
Combining CSS/JS from the same theme or plugin makes sense!
If you’ve ever had a theme or pagebuilder plugin offer to combine its own CSS or JS. Yes, please enable that. It makes sense. As all CSS and JS coming from one extension is already compatible/harmonious with itself. Not only that but it can combine them natively without requiring extra server processing or mechanism to manage. It’s like choosing whether to carpool with roommates, or with friends that live all over town.
Combined CSS/JS files sometimes cache better
The key word is “sometimes”. Sometimes the combined file is more likely to hold it’s long expiry time, or hit Cloudflare’s DNS cache better. It depends on different scenarios. It’s always worth a shot if you’re not happy with your situation. The general idea is that the CSS file is cached on the user’s computer and no longer needs to be downloaded on subsequent requests. Only issue left is that even with this, your first load will still be slower as the merged CSS isn’t cached yet. Check your GA stats and if most visitors hit less than 1.5 pages, I probably wouldn’t merge.
Combining CSS/JS is worth it for small files
I especially don’t like when you combine a bunch of large 20kb CSS/JS files to make a giant 1MB file. But if you have a bunch of 0-3kb CSS/JS files, I think it’s ok to combine those. This is logical as small files cost more in DNS lookup time than they do in actual processing time.
Combined CSS/JS files sometimes has less conflicts
This has more to do with conflict resolution than performance. Sometimes, you may have a bunch of CSS or JS files conflicting with each other and breaking the site design or functions. Sometimes combining fixes that. It’s random but I’ve seen it happen.
Combined CSS/JS can speed up small sites when placed in-line
On really small/lightweight sites, the DNS resolution time is longer than the actual load time for the tiny CSS/JS files. In cases like this, it might be a good idea to just combine the CSS/JS code and place it inline with the html.
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Surefire Health Tips to
Transition to Autumn
ęDeborah Barr, 2011-16; all rights reserved.
The Autumn Equinox provides a tremendous
outpouring of energy for your use or misuse. Your
thoughts, feelings, words, choices and actions can create
greater health and an abundance of all good things if you are
consciously directing them toward what you DO want--right NOW.
Equinoxes represent balance and autumn is harvest time. What
seeds have you planted in the spring? What were your dominant
mental seeds? How healthy have your food choices been? You
will most likely reap the results of your efforts of the past
two seasons to fulfill your goals, vision and dreams. Does that
scare you or excite you? Either way, it's never too late for a
fresh, new approach to taking control of your health and
personal life. Autumn represents letting go. Are you
ready to release all that's been intensifying your challenges
and keeping you stuck?
Eating and living in harmony with the seasons is one aspect of
my Holistic WholeHealth approach to creating radiant
health and energy; a healthy fit body and mind; emotional
harmony and an abundant, joyful life you love. Many of the
reductionist and one-size-fits-all methods of western medicine
and many alternative models are inadequate in assisting you
with complete recovery from physical and emotional health
distress and personal crises.
There is a more accurate Holistic method for you to determine
what is needed for healing your emotional, physical
and lifestyle problems. My WholeHealth approach is based
on centuries old traditional health wisdom founded on solid
principles rather than popular trends that contradict each other
and fade in time. I have several offerings that can benefit you
and details are at the end of this article.
Health Challenges – Lungs, Immunity, Digestion and Skin
Each season brings the potential for specific physical and
emotional health issues. If your health is weak you are more
likely to experience health challenges during the transition
from summer to autumn. The well being of your body, mind and
emotions in any season is dependent, to a large extent, on your
food and lifestyle choices of the previous seasons.
According to the centuries old wisdom of traditional health
philosophies, autumn impacts the lungs and large intestine.
Colds, sinus problems, lung and immune ailments (including
allergies and asthma), digestive problems, skin conditions,
weakness and/or pain in the arms, thumbs and index fingers; weak
abdominal muscles; and pain and/or weakness in the thumb and
index fingers are some common imbalances related to lung and
digestive health and prevalent during this season.
there is disharmony in these organs, specific emotions and
characteristics will be more pronounced. Perhaps during this
time of year you’ve noticed that you become indecisive,
lethargic, depressed, or unable to see positive solutions and
move beyond adversity. Or you may engage in self-blame and
not-good-enough syndrome; become unresponsive, indifferent,
negative, ineffective, isolated, self-destructive, and overly
self-protective. These symptoms are caused by lung and large
intestine imbalances, and originate from poor diet, excessive or
insufficient activity, climate, and/or organ malfunction.
Anxiety, depression, and other emotional disharmonies will be
covered in great detail in my upcoming
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Most dry conditions are exacerbated during this season
and are related to the lungs—dry skin and throat, itchiness and
most skin conditions, chapped lips, and excessive thirst. Even
more common are conditions caused by an excess of mucus forming
fluids. This creates problems in the lungs by inhibiting the
exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. When too much moisture or
mucus collects in the lungs, these gases cannot pass freely.
Fruit and cow’s milk products, including cheese, yogurt, and ice
cream, cause a lot of mucus in the respiratory system even if
they are labeled low-fat. Too much mucus in the lung tissues
makes them susceptible to inflammation and hypersensitive to the
effects of irritants in the air. Mucus traps harmful pollutants
allowing them to accumulate rather than be excreted. Phlegm in
the lungs is often caused by weak digestion. Each person’s
health plan should be individualized; however, some general
guidelines are listed below.
Therapeutic Foods for Autumn Health
help clear mucus in the lungs and intestines. They
include onions, garlic, turnip, broccoli, celery, ginger,
cabbage, horseradish, radish, daikon, small amounts of hot
peppers and chilies, seaweeds, and ground flaxseed. Use several
of these every day.
Pungent cooking herbs include garlic, ginger, black
pepper, basil, fennel, cinnamon, cloves, marjoram, rosemary,
caraway, dill and bay leaf. The rich beta-carotene content of
golden-orange and dark green vegetables helps protect these
organs. They include carrot, winter squash, broccoli, parsley,
kale, mustard greens, and watercress.
foods help to cleanse the colon and lungs and whole, unprocessed
grains are the best source, including brown rice, barley,
quinoa, oats, and millet. Eat 2 cups or more daily.
dry conditions such as dry
cough, dry skin, itchiness, excessive thirst, and sluggish
bowels or constipation, emphasize these foods: seaweed, peaches,
pears, apples (best to cook fruit in the autumn and winter),
string beans, tofu, tempeh, brown rice syrup, black sesame
seeds, ground flaxseed, organic butter or ghee, organic eggs,
oysters, and clams.
bitter, spicy, and sour foods and eliminate dehydrating
substances such as coffee, alcohol and cigarettes.
3-5 day cleansing diet of simple, easy to digest foods
can help bring you back to balance. Eat only whole, unprocessed
grains, steamed vegetables and
Soup. Start the day with warm lemon water
and drink plenty of liquids including water and herbal teas.
Chew well to alkalize the food, sit down and eat in a relaxed
way, and avoid eating after 6 p.m.
Foods in the lotus family are beneficial for lung health
and other conditions.
about this little known food group and its uses.
You can give your lungs and immune system a boost by
incorporating medicinal mushrooms both as a food and in
supplement form. Learn which ones are best for you.
There are many safe and effective herbs that can clear lung,
digestive, skin, and all conditions without the negative side
effects of pharmaceuticals. Some herbal remedies
are described. There are others not listed since
it’s best to consult with a professional herbalist to determine
the best remedies for your constitution and condition. If you
have chronic problems, you'll save money, time and trail and
error with a
professional consultation so that
recommendations can be customized for your entire health.
Exercise and activities that promote higher oxygen levels in the
blood will make you feel more energetic, alert and positive.
Raising oxygen levels also allows the brain to function better
and promotes a positive mental outlook. Try yoga, tai chi or
qigong. Brisk walking, hiking, or riding a bike outdoors are
helpful especially in autumn. These all improve lung health and
help to eliminate some of the above symptoms.
have far more control over your health and happiness than you
realize. Adopting some of the suggestions in this article can
help you take control by adapting to the changing seasons with
harmony and well being. Your mental and emotional state
will improve and I'll give more tips on this in a future article
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With all the uncertainty of
our health care system, it's more important than ever to be
proactive and invest in your well being. It's difficult to do
This does not mean you stop seeing your physician
or eliminating your medications. It means educating
yourself and learning about your body and personal imbalances
from a holistic perspective. If it makes sense to you,
then begin to implement gradual changes. You can get to
anywhere that you want to be. Small, consistent changes
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Twixt my finger and my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. (Witch on the approach of Shakespeare’s Macbeth).
In a spectacle of corruption, and chicanery, the Democrats, in breach of their oath to preserve and protect the Constitution, passed a healthcare bill, declared it splendid—and now are crowing victory. Americans, however, are shouting their wrath even as they pledge the political obliteration of Democrats. Well Done Democrats! Again Well Done! You have worked from your own rope the hangman’s noose will swing thee in the November winds.
The Democrats who voted yea sought to camouflage their faithlessness in contrivance, in fig leafs, however small, might cover their moral nakedness. Some pitched a beauteous vision: The Bill will irradiate the deficit, though they know as well as we the Bill will impose trillions in debt upon Americans and their children yet unborn.
Others embrace the tactics of Machiavelli. They believe that so long as they dump truckloads of cash into the pockets of their constituents, they will survive. The Chicago Presidential Administration love these Democrats. For they are of one mind, know the subtleties of crookedness and blowing smoke. Indeed, they are of one alloyed ambition: self-aggrandizement and the ascendance of a welfare state. So for the President there is no promise too great or small, too brazen or profane for which he will not squander American wealth or plunge American children into unquenchable deficits and penury. There were others of course who drape themselves in religion. One politician announced piously he would vote for the bill only after a soulful talk with his Catholic priest. He is not worth more words than this: Suffice to say he holds himself in religious awe.
Rep. Bart Stupak and the Democrats who pledged their conscience to the protection of an unborn child’s right to life promised to vote No to the Bill—until at last, just as the cock crowed, they betrayed the peoples’ sacred trust. Suddenly, Rep. Stupak saw the light; he would vote for the Bill because President O’bama, the most pro abortion President ever to take office, would publish an executive order urging the prohibition of federally funded abortions. Clear conscience indeed. Rep. Stupak, and the pro life Democrats who joined him knew then and now that the President’s Executive Order when signed will be a nullity that it cannot constitutionally trump the legislative language of the Bill or the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade.
In Roe, the Supreme Court legitimized de facto, despite its restrictive words, any and all abortions, any time. If Rep. Stupak, and the few pro-life democrats were ignorant of the impotency of executive orders, why then didn’t they research the law? Why didn’t they ask the Council of Bishops for a copy of the briefs written by their legal staff? They would have discovered that an executive order is powerless to alter legislation or contest the ruling of courts?
The question for unborn children is one of life and death. Therefore, our would be champions must demand certainty. Why then didn’t Rep. Stupak and the pro life Democrats find out whether they could rely upon the President’s executive order to stop the taking of innocent life? As both the President and Stupak know the President’s executive order is a profane farce then, upon what law does Stupak rely to keep safe unborn children from the abortionist? The silence is deafening.
How quickly has principle surrendered to expedience. Perhaps Rep. Stupak simply erred. But why then did he so fiercely excoriate Republicans who proposed an amendment to the Bill, framed precisely in the language of the first Stupak amendment— an amendment that would have protected unborn children from federal extinction? And if Democrats are of one mind with the President and believe therefore, that his executive order will prevent federal funding of abortions why did Rep. Stupak and the rest of the Democrats vote the Republican amendment down? Why have Democrats adamantly rejected an amendment to protect unborn children from abortion that presumably is in harmony with President O’Bama’s executive order?
After the bill passed, Republicans introduced a motion that sought to send the bill back to committee and amend its abortion language using the kind of wording that Stupak originally wanted. Stupak spoke against the motion, leading to the shouts from some Republicans. Stupak told the chamber that the president's executive order would assure that "the sanctity of life is protected," and that the motion was "nothing more than an opportunity to continue to deny 32 million Americans health care.” For the Republicans to now claim that we send the bill back to committee under this guise of protecting life is disingenuous," Stupak said. "This motion is really to politicize life, not prioritize life.” The motion did not pass. CNN politics. Monday, March 22, 2010
From the beginning, President O’Bama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi conceived out of the secular caverns of their radical vision a health care bill unmoved by facts or consequence. There they discovered the Bill would lower the deficit, bend the cost curve down, insure well over forty-five million Americans presently uninsured, eliminate billions in fraud, lower the cost of annual family health care premiums by $2500.00 and probably make us all immortal. But when well-researched and incontestable facts shattered their shtick, Democrats raised a stonewall against debate or challenges to their vision, flung racial or Nazi epithets at those who tried to debate and resorted in the end to shabby gimmickry. They wrung out of the Congressional Budget Office (CB0) an opinion would confirm their vision. But they know, as do all Americans, that the CBO’s findings, as they are constrained by the presumptions provided by the Democrats are nothing less than fiction.
Tacitus wrote of the Romans They made a desert and called it peace. Just so would the Democrats make of America a welfare state and call her still a democracy. Their constituency, however, the American people detest hypocrisy. Americans also detest the arrogance of politicians who would defy the Constitution, the States and its people. Finally, the great majority of Americans want to protect unborn children from the abortionist. That’s why so many Americans placed their trust in Rep. Stupak—and in a President, remember, who promised that the Bill would not fund the aborting of unborn children.
This too will pass, they think. So the President’s office has announced a unique media blitz will calm the circus rubes. The President will make lots of speeches. He will tell us that if we want to we can keep our old policy, our old doctor, that we will pay much less for health care, that the Bill will reduce the deficit, improve health care, particularly for the elderly presumably by striping five hundred billion dollars from Medicare. But wait, all this sounds too familiar. Must we hear this rot again? Perhaps not. Here is an American, Mitt Romney in A Campaign Begins Today.
Today America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better. he calls his accomplishment “historic” — in this he is correct, although not for the reason he intends. Rather, it is an historic usurpation of the legislative process — he unleashed the nuclear option, enlisted not a single Republican vote in either chamber, bribed reluctant members of his own party, paid-off his union backers, scapegoated insurers, and justified his act with patently fraudulent accounting. What Barrack Obama has ushered into the American political landscape is not good for our country; in the words of an ancient maxim, “what starts twisted, ends twisted.” His health-care bill is unhealthy for America. It raises taxes, slashes the more private side of Medicare, installs price controls, and puts a new federal bureaucracy in charge of health care. It will create a new entitlement even as the ones we already have are bankrupt. For these reasons and more, the act should be repealed. That campaign begins today. — Mitt Romney is the former governor of Massachusetts and author of No Apology03/22 09:24 AM
It is time again to gird our loins, to fight, to screw our courage to the sticking place, to vow we will not fail, to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. After all, we are not undone nor will we be undone by the likes of Stupak and the President.
Let us condemn this obscenity: The Democrats, the President and his Congress have breathed into life a law will serve up unborn children to the fatal attractions of abortion. What have they done! What have they done!
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Chapter 2: Plan of Attack
Sookie woke up the next night a short time before the sun was to set and thought about what had happened the previous night. Stan had come back shortly before dawn and she got the impression that he didn’t like the fact that she was staying in the nest.
“Oh great another wimpy little vampire,” Stan had said when they met. His mouth was covered in blood and his fangs were still down, implying he had just fed.
“You want to find out how wimpy I am?” Sookie challenged the younger vampire angrily.
“That’s enough,” Godric commanded. The tone of his voice indicated this was not uncommon.
“Stan, Sookie is part of our nest for the moment and she is older than you so I expect you to behave,” Godric commanded.
“Yes sheriff,” Stan answered, shifting his eyes to look at the floor and sulked out of the room. The encounter had left Sookie with the impression that Stan was a man who gave into his impulses more often than not. She was like that but in a less violent way, unless someone made her angry.
After the sun set Sookie left her standard sized room (which had light blocking shutters) in search of something to do. She came across Eric who was zipping around his room packing his stuff.
“Come to wish me goodbye,” Eric smirked cockily.
Sookie rolled her eyes, “Please! Never gonna happen.”
“Never is a long time for a vampire,” Eric pointed out and sped over to Sookie.
“Not long enough,” Sookie retorted. Eric cocked an eyebrow in challenge, a smirk still on his face. “You know I used to know guys like you when I was human. I still don’t like it,” Sookie told him.
“Impossible! There are no others like me,” Eric declared.
Anger rose up in Sookie, “Not every woman wants to fuck you,” She growled. Sookie reached up with both hands and snapped Eric’s neck; he fell limply to the floor. Seconds later Godric rushed in at vamp speed. He quickly surveyed the situation and checked on Eric.
“What happened?” Godric asked, anger clearly hidden behind the calm facade.
Sookie shrugged, “I was just exploring the house and came upon Eric getting ready to leave. He then tried yet again to get me in bed in a not so flattering way. So I snapped his neck to shut him up,” Sookie explained quickly, knowing she was probably in trouble.
“I suppose it is my fault that he is this way. Which is why it is good that he is leaving,” Godric said as he looked down at Eric as Sookie remained silent. “If we ever reveal ourselves to the humans I fear impulses like this will be one of our downfalls. Now, I have some area business to attend to but there are matters we need to discuss,” Godric stated as he briefly glanced at her.
“Of course Godric,” Sookie replied, surprised he was no longer angry. She decided to go out for the night so that she was out of everyone’s way. She sped away and once she was out of the house started walking at a human pace.
Sookie had fed the night before so she wasn’t really thirsty. Since she hadn’t been to Dallas in a very long time she went into the city to see how it had changed. While taking in the sights Sookie thought about her encounters with the sheriff. He could have rightly punished her for what she had done to Eric but he hadn’t. ‘What was that about?’ she wondered. Whenever she was with him she found her eyes were drawn to him and her thoughts tended to linger on Godric when they weren’t together. Maybe she should leave before whatever this was got worse. ‘Yes I’ll leave tomorrow night’ she decided and nodded her head.
Sookie was almost back at the nest after several hours out when she heard and smelt Weres. Using her vamp speed, she raced back to the house but remained in the shadows where no one would see her. Weres were guarding the entrance of the house and Sookie heard more in the back. Using the dark and her speed Sookie climbed up onto the roof of the house and looked at what was happening in the back yard. She could see Stan, Isabel, and Godric tied up in silver and Weres all around them. Eric must have had to leave right after she left because he was nowhere in sight. There was one wolf who was clearly in charge since he was in his human form and most of the others were in their wolf form. The Were in charge was tan, tall, and had large muscles. There were ten other Weres there, seven of which were in their wolf form.
“You fangers have thought yourselves superior for far too long,” the wolf leader said.
“Blaze, I have treated you with respect and allowed your wolves to exist here so long as you don’t interfere in vampire business. So tell me why do you attack us?” Godric asked, sounding quite reasonable but Sookie could feel the anger which was hiding just beneath the surface.
Blaze signaled to one of his wolves, “Because you attacked us first.” One of the Weres who was in human form brought forth a dead woman and put her body in front of the vampires. “One of my wolves was attacked by a fanger last night. More specifically by him,” Blaze growled and pointed to Stan. Isabel and Godric turned to Stan and glared at him.
“She got in the way of my feeding last night,” Stan tried to explain and shrugged.
“Blaze I apologize on behalf of Stan but if you let us go I promise you can have a hand in punishing him,” Godric offered.
“No! This incident was the last straw. You fangers have to die,” Blaze yelled. Sookie quickly made a plan in her head. It was risky but there was no other option. She jumped down from the roof with a soft thud and crept to the corner of the house. Knowing there wasn’t much time Sookie sped over to the nearest wolf and snapped its neck. Everyone turned to her at the sound.
“Hello everyone. Sorry I’m late,” Sookie commented. She raced over to Godric and tore the silver off his wrists. The silver burned her hands with pain so intense that after she let go of them she stumbled back a little. Godric was able to get up and fend off the other Weres while Sookie healed quickly. Together they were able to tear most of the rest of them apart. When only three of them were left they surrendered.
“I suggest that next time we be civil about things?” Godric said to the remaining Weres. They all nodded their heads quickly, afraid not to. “Good now go,” Godric commanded. The wolves transformed and left immediately, scared of the force they had unleashed. Having gotten gloves from the house Sookie and Godric unchained Stan and Isabel.
“Thank you Sookie,” Isabel said and gave Sookie a little bow.
Stan came up to Sookie and slapped her on the shoulder, “Guess you are tougher then you look.”
“Yes, I am,” Sookie replied knowing that was his form of an apology and a thank you.
“I think we all need to feed so let’s go but we will discuss what happened later,” Godric told all of them. “Isabel, don’t let Stan leave your sight until I am able to punish him,” Godric instructed. Isabel and Stan nodded and sped off the find humans to feed from. “Sookie, I greatly appreciate what you did for us,” Godric said, sounding just as grateful as Isabel had.
“Godric we are in a nest right now and to me that means we watch each other’s backs and help each other out,” Sookie explained.
“Well not every vampire shares that view,” Godric responded. Sookie knew some young vampires who thought that way. However, even when she was human Sookie was taught to respect her elders and other people around her especially if they helped her. Even if Godric looked the same age as her, he was still an older vampire.
Sookie thought for a moment, “Would you like to feed with me?”
“I haven’t fed with anyone since I taught my youngest,” Godric stated sadly.
”Is that a no?” Sookie wondered, confused.
Godric was silent for a moment and seemed to come to a decision,” I would be honored to hunt with you,” He said with a small smile. Sookie returned the smile and they raced off.
Author’s Note: I have never had such an enthusiastic response. I think in the future (after I write the other stories I promised) I will write more True Blood stories. This story is planned to be four chapters and an epilogue. However, if you guys want me to I will extend it. I know you all are curious about Sookie’s past and that will be revealed in the next chapter. Thank you to my wonderful beta tj6james6 who puts up with my (probably sometime horribly confusing) writing. I don’t own True Blood. | <urn:uuid:50ae1f25-ab3f-4a8d-9d8e-6d01aa205a05> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://giddyfan.com/true-blood/immortal-lovers/plan-of-attack/?like_comment=52&_wpnonce=28a4de33f9 | 2020-10-28T08:09:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107897022.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028073614-20201028103614-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.98781 | 2,111 |
6:00am. I am thirsty and tired. I am nil by mouth as required for this afternoon’s standard procedure, a laparoscopy at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, UK. Although, I am not quite sure what all this fuss is about. My GP some weeks ago uttered, “Alison, no need for concern or alarm.” So, based on the doctor’s advice, I have decided to not give today a second thought and enjoy this rare day off from studying for my A-Levels exams. However, I only have three months remaining before my final exams and I am not quite sure how I am going to pass them, let alone become an aspiring thespian, which has always been my dream. Why do I feel like such an outsider at the moment, in a place I have been every day for the last six years? I am physically there; sitting amongst my friends but it all sounds a bit muffled and foreign. Granted, I have not been kind to myself over the recent months. My regimented intake of only one hundred and forty calories a day, compared to yesterday’s disgusting act of gluttony isn’t doing my self-esteem much good. This is driving me to despair. Who is this Ally that is making my life so difficult all the time? I know harming myself is only going to give me a moment’s bliss, followed by the stomach churning fear of how I am going to explain this cut and that mark and what happens if they make me change in drama class again and someone sees it. What is so wrong with me that I encourage such anger, self-hatred and obsessive control?
8:00am. I am perched on this really hard starchy bed and my mum is being gentle and attentive and funny as usual, when the nurse informs me I am scheduled for surgery just after lunch (what lunch?!). Gosh, I am thirsty and bored. The walls are so white and devoid of care, which seems strange for a place built to do exactly that. But still, how lucky am I to get a day off school. My best friend said she will come and visit me later today after the operation, as she works in another part of the hospital and I am tickled pink that in a matter of hours, I am going to be just like her. We have been friends for twelve years now and I don’t think there is a topic we have not dissected or giggled about? Inseparable, infallible and soul shares to the most intimate degree.
1:00pm. It’s my turn, finally! Wheeling me down a bleak, concrete corridor seems so morbid and cold, yet I still cannot fathom why I am not experiencing any bouts of nerves or fear. I have been consulted about the laparoscopy procedure which seems all very straight forward. A small camera inserts into my belly button under general anaesthetic and hopefully, I will wake up and head back home in time for tea. The nurses are smiling at me now. I am reassured and comforted as the anaesthetist softly asks me to count to twenty. One, two, three…sleep.
2:00pm.”You have the prettiest eyes”, I slur. “Thank you” said the nurse adjusting my oxygen mask. Why on earth are my shoulders so sore? Was there a careless porter using my shoulders to open the swing doors or did someone accidently roll me off the operating table during my procedure? As I am overwhelmed with pain and disorientation, I feel my mums hand wrap around mine, and finally, finally I think, I AM NORMAL. I wake up to find my friend sitting on the bottom of the bed. “How are you feeling Ally?” still slurring, “give me a couple of hours and I will be up and about in no time, I am just like you now love.” I actually realize, I won’t be going anywhere for a few days as I sense a group of ‘strangers’ have just prodded me down there for a good hour. However, I have this feeling that life is going to get much better and I can focus on the things that matter, like boys and drama classes. And I suspect, learning how to address periods and things.
3:30pm. The doctor commences his postoperative rounds. I am at the opposite end of the ward and like all the other women, waiting for my debrief, stale ham sandwich, and explanation as to why I still have not received my first period. Shortly, I suspect I will be discharged to make my way home and commence life as a young teenage girl, all intact. Out of sequence, and unlike others, my curtains are drawn. I pause and then look for my mum. She is confused and looks back at me. I am confused and look at him. The nurses seem sad and look at each other and then the doctor just stares back at me, with his sharpened pencil and a photo-clip, “ Alison, you have what is known as MRKH; Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser, the four physicians who first who first diagnosed the condition.” What do you mean no womb and no cervix and why are you talking to me about dilation and conventional sex lives versus not. Surrogacy, adoption, routine and open seminars for ‘girls like me’, I really just want to go home now please. “Please mum, I just want to go home!” I feel so sick, but there is no food to be sick with. My eyes flicker from side to side anxiously, and I look over to see my mum whispering into the telephone with her eyes closed, “we need to take her home, I have very bad news.”
4:00pm. My dad is sitting on the bed’s edge, holding my hand in a stoic, comforting and kind way. In the midst of my recent diagnosis, I believe that this is the time to confess “dad, last week I got a tattoo.” Pause. “Well, that is okay Ally; we don’t have to talk about this now.” My relief is comforting but my tears soaking through the fabric of his trousers as I rest my head on his knee, seems painfully real. My parents discuss me in the corridor and what has just occurred over the last eight hours. They look pale. I am not privy to their conversation; I do not need to be, as my grief is now their grief. The doctor politely explains to me that I have not been hit by a swinging door but in fact, my whole body was expanded by pumping excess air into my abdomen, so they could navigate the camera around my internals with a bit more ease. A common side effect just so happens, is extreme pain in the centre of the shoulder blades. Who cares!
Oh God, I am not like my friend, nowhere even close.
5:00pm. I am home. I am so, so tired, I just need to sleep.
Present day. That was me sixteen years ago. A week later I went to the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital and spoke with a consultant about the next stages of treatment. For the next 12 months, I would go through all sorts of self destruction. In fact, it gave me a license to push the boundaries even further with how much I could possibly hate myself and hate the world. The isolation of such news is beyond harrowing, it is physically gut wrenching stuff. At the time, I was fortunate enough to be in a relationship with someone who was calm and compassionate, non-judgemental and accepting (as I remember it anyway). The first leg of this journey could have been much worse and my opinions of men from the get-go could have been tainted with cynicism and fear. And, although the relationship predictably ended just after diagnosis because I could not cope, I owe special thanks to him out there.
However, my associations with people changed to those who could not identify with my pain or at least be in equal amounts of hurt also, I never sat my A-Level exams, my dad was not okay with the tattoo after all and I wish that I had met someone like me earlier. My friend is still my best friend, though I never made it as an actress and my relationships have been conventional but just as hard as any. My parents have been wonderful, a blessing and a joy and my mum, experiencing guilt as the maker of my demise, seems at peace with MRKH and the demons it brought her along the way. The treatment worked and acceptance came. I always say, that talking about this will not eliminate grief. Grief is guaranteed, however if I can reduce ten years of pain to one for someone else, then I will write for the rest of my life. MRKH sisters don’t need the same DNA to link arms and unite, to love and be loved. That feeling at 5:00pm is the silent sisterhood. | <urn:uuid:4d692923-3d59-43c3-82b2-c5eb4a4ed952> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://beautifulyoumrkh.com/2013/06/28/diary-of-diagnosis-day/ | 2020-10-21T10:02:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107876307.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021093214-20201021123214-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.976211 | 1,900 |
[content warning: discussion of murdering babies, use of disabled people in philosophy thought experiments]
The Logic of the Larder
One important issue for effective animal altruists is the logic of the larder. The argument goes like this: if farmed animal lives are worth living, then it is good to eat meat, because if you eat lots of meat then more farmed animals will exist and live happy lives. Advocates for the welfare of farmed animals should encourage people to eat more meat to cause more happy animals to come into being.
In most cases, farmed animal lives are unpleasant enough that the logic of the larder doesn’t apply. Their lives are not worth living, so it’s good not to eat animal products. However, in some cases– such as cows raised for beef, or Certified Humane chickens– some reasonable and thoughtful people argue that the farmed animals’ lives are worth living. In those cases, the logic of the larder suggests, effective animal advocates should eat more meat.
The Baby Farm
Imagine that, among very wealthy people, there is a new fad for eating babies. Out baby farmer is an ethical person and he wants to make sure that his babies are farmed as ethically as possible. The babies are produced through artificial wombs; there are no adults who are particularly invested in the babies’ continued life. The babies are slaughtered at one month, well before they have long-term plans and preferences that are thwarted by death. In their one month of life, the babies have the happiest possible baby life: they are picked up immediately whenever they cry, they get lots of delicious milk, they’re held and rocked and sung to, their medical concerns are treated quickly, and they don’t ever have to sit in a poopy diaper. In every way, they live as happy and flourishing a life as a two-week-old baby can. Is the baby farm unethical?
If you’re like me, the answer is a quick “yes.”
My intuition suggests three things. First, it is a harm– at least to some beings– to kill them. That is, I do not adopt the Epicurean position that the only harm of death comes from the grief other people feel, your unfulfilled plans, etc., none of which apply to the one-year-old babies in the baby farm. You might say that some beings have “a right to life.”
Second, my intuition is not a speciesist intuition. My intuition suggests we should also not farm Vulcan babies, orc babies, house elf babies, Twi’lek babies, or chimpanzee babies. Therefore, my intuition is not grounded in the fact that babies are members of the human species per se.
Third, the “right to life” does not depend on certain sophisticated cognitive capacities unique (or allegedly unique) to the human species, such as autonomy, practical reason, a capacity to form relationships with other beings, awareness of oneself as a subject of mental states, desires and plans for the future, the capacity to bargain, an understanding of one’s duties and responsibilities, etc. One-month-olds are pretty stupid and do not have any of these capacities.
I am horrified by the idea of a baby farm. I am not horrified by the idea of a beef cow farm. Perhaps I am being inconsistent and speciesist; whatever it is about babies that makes it wrong to murder them is perhaps also true of cows, except that I grew up in a society that undervalues beef cow lives, so I undervalue them as well. Conversely, perhaps my judgment of the baby farm is influenced by morally irrelevant factors, like it being very disgusting, and perhaps it is ethical to raise babies for meat.
Incompletely Realized Sophisticated Cognitive Capacities
I believe the solution here is that the right to life comes from certain incompletely realized sophisticated cognitive capacities. What does this mean?
Adult humans without certain disabilities have various sophisticated cognitive capacities, which I listed off a few paragraphs ago. It is not necessary right now to determine which ones give you a right to life. To have concrete examples, I’m going to talk about practical reason (the ability to understand the good for yourself, set goals and create plans, and reflect on your goals and plans) and affiliation (social interaction, putting yourself in other people’s shoes, and love and care for others). But this is purely for illustration and the argument works the same whatever capacities you use.
I will use the terminology “threshold capacity for practical reason and affiliation” as a shorthand for “sufficient capacity for practical reason and affiliation that we believe that you have a ‘right to life.'” It does not matter, for the sake of this argument, what threshold you adopt, assuming that you agree that nearly all adult humans are above the threshold. I believe that most people agree.
It is reasonable to believe that neither babies nor cows have a threshold capacity for affiliation and practical reason. A cow may very well have more capacity for practical reason than a newborn baby. But that doesn’t mean that their position with regards to capacities are the same. A cow has all of the capacities it is ever going to have; it has fully developed cow capacities. A baby has incompletely developed adult human capacities. When a newborn baby cries until it is picked up, or recognizes the face of its parents, that is the beginning of a human ability for affiliation. When a newborn baby waves its arms in front of its eyes, is delighted by the movement, and repeats it, that is the beginning of a human ability for practical reason. We consider not just what the baby is able to do but what its abilities are incomplete fragments of.
As an analogy, consider the difference between a blind person and a blind cave tetra. A blind cave tetra does not have eyes; it does not have any capacity to see in any form. Blind people, on the other hand, have an incomplete form of the capacity to see, in the sense we’re using it here. This has real, concrete effects. A blind person generally has eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, a visual cortex, and so on. Most legally blind people have at least some vision, such as the ability to perceive light. Some blind people can respond to stimuli they don’t consciously see. Blind people repurpose the visual cortex of the brain to handle language. A blind person and a blind cave tetra may have an equal ability to see, but their situations are concretely different, because a blind cave tetra is not the sort of being that sees at all, while a blind person can has much of the equipment generally associated with seeing.
Running through a list of hard problems, I believe this rule gives satisfactory results. (Again, I use “practical reason” and “affiliation” merely as examples.)
Vulcans, house elves, Twi’leks, and orcs? All capable of affiliation and practical reason, and therefore have a right to life.
Sufficiently advanced artificial intelligences? Capable of affiliation and practical reason, have a right to life.
Fetuses? It is difficult to decide when a fetus begins to have the capacity for affiliation and practical reason, even in an incomplete form. There is little opportunity to plan one’s life in the womb, and it can be difficult to distinguish reflex behavior from complex planning. Nevertheless, it is important to be very very conservative about committing murder; if your plan involves even a one percent chance of killing a person, you shouldn’t do it unless you have a very very good reason. For this reason, society should improve access to highly reliable contraceptives and provide poor and single parents the support they need to avoid abortion. Abortion regulations should be considered thoughtfully, balancing the bodily autonomy of pregnant people with the potential right to life of the fetus. Abortion regulations that lead to later abortions (for example, waiting periods) should be avoided, because they increase the chance that the abortion is murder.
People with impairments in their capacities for practical reason and affiliation? This is a complicated issue and there are several possible considerations. In many cases, impaired people can exercise a threshold capacity for practical reason and affiliation if provided with appropriate support. For example, the vast majority of autistic people are capable of understanding other people with appropriate supports, such as clearly written explanations of things that neurotypicals understand instinctively. Similarly, intellectually disabled people can almost always set life goals, but may need supported decision making. In rare cases, a human may unambiguously not have any capacity for practical reason or affiliation, even in an incomplete form, as in babies with anencephaly; in this case, the human would have no right to life.
Some disabled people will have partial or incomplete capacities. This case is similar to the case of the blind person: while the blind person cannot see, and certain disabled people cannot affiliate at the threshold level, in either case the disabled person has these capacities in an incomplete form. Finally, it is very very common among the severely disabled that we can’t know whether a person has the threshold capacity. Consider a person with total locked-in syndrome: they may be able to reason or affiliate, but if they cannot communicate, how can we know? It can be very difficult to assess the true abilities of nonspeaking disabled people or disabled people with severe motor control issues. For this reason, it is important to be conservative and extend the right to life very widely.
Animals? The threshold capacity is, by stipulation, placed at a point where nearly all adult humans pass it. How many animal species have a right to life will depend on what the threshold capacity should be, which is a subject that is too large to discuss in this blog post.
It seems unlikely that there are no species in which certain gifted members have threshold-passing capacities (or an incomplete form of the same) and others do not. In theory, if we had perfect knowledge, the right to life would be correlated with species but not determined by it, as in general beings have the capacities of other members of their species. In practice, except in extremely unusual cases such as anencephaly, a conservative approach suggests that we should extend the right to life to all members of a species of which at least one member has demonstrated threshold-passing capacities. | <urn:uuid:a345544b-69fe-4e45-a7b7-41686b658a3b> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/category/effective-altruism/ | 2020-10-22T19:01:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880014.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022170349-20201022200349-00280.warc.gz | en | 0.963747 | 2,161 |
Winnipeg Live Flight Arrivals
|Thunder Bay (YQT)||Morningstar Air Express||MAL8940||12:18||En-Route|
|Ste Therese Point (YST)||Perimeter Aviation||YP622||12:20||Scheduled|
|Red Sucker Lake (YRS)||Perimeter Aviation||YP219||12:30||Scheduled|
|Little Grand Rapids (ZGR)||Perimeter Aviation||YP112||12:45||Scheduled|
|Red Lake (YRL)||Bearskin Airlines||JV361||12:55||Scheduled|
|Oxford House (YOH)||Perimeter Aviation||YP204||13:10||Scheduled|
|Calgary (YYC)||Air Canada||AC8336||13:22||13:43||Landed Late|
|The Pas (YQD)||Calm Air||MO123||13:30||13:47||Landed Late|
|Richmond (YVR)||Delta Air Lines||DL7423||13:57||Cancelled|
|Toronto (YYZ)||Flair Airlines||F8186||14:10||En-Route|
|Thunder Bay (YQT)||Perimeter Aviation||YP1525||14:21||14:21||Landed|
|Little Grand Rapids (ZGR)||Perimeter Aviation||YP1510||14:39||Scheduled|
|Island Lk Garden Hill (YIV)||Perimeter Aviation||YP108||15:20||Scheduled|
|Sioux Lookout (YXL)||Perimeter Aviation||YP1100||15:25||15:25||Landed|
|Toronto (YYZ)||Air Canada||AC7509||15:35||Scheduled|
|Ste Therese Point (YST)||Perimeter Aviation||YP1020||15:51||Scheduled|
|Shamattawa (ZTM)||Perimeter Aviation||YP216||16:10||Scheduled|
|Ste Therese Point (YST)||Perimeter Aviation||YP610||16:20||Unknown|
|Thompson (YTH)||Perimeter Aviation||YP12||17:12||17:54||Landed Late|
|Norway House (YNE)||Perimeter Aviation||YP116||17:25||Scheduled|
|Ottawa (YOW)||First Air||7F5064||17:32||17:36||Landed|
|Thunder Bay (YQT)||Morningstar Air Express||MAL7060||18:05||17:59||Landed|
|Rankin Inlet (YRT)||First Air||7F157||18:25||18:22||Landed|
|Deer Lake (YVZ)||Perimeter Aviation||YP224||18:25||Unknown|
|Rankin Inlet (YRT)||Canadian North||5T157||18:30||Landed|
|Rankin Inlet (YRT)||Calm Air||MO307||18:30||Landed|
|Island Lk Garden Hill (YIV)||Perimeter Aviation||YP109||18:35||Scheduled|
Winnipeg International is found in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and is recognised by its IATA code of YWG. The airport is also officially known as the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson Airport, in honour of an influential businessman and pioneer of Canadian commercial aviation. The airport’s approximate 3.39 million passengers per annum have access to a rang of airline companies, and to a large number of facilities within the airport’s terminal building. Passengers on Winnipeg International Airport arrival flights also have access to a number of options for ground transportation.
The airport of Winnipeg is located just a few kilometres to the west of central Winnipeg, and is very nearby to the St. James Industrial area, Murray Industrial Park and Omand’s Creek Industrial. Areas just north of the airport include Tyndall Park, The Maples and Mandalay West, and areas to the south include King Edward, Tuxedo and South Tuxedo. The city of Winnipeg is surrounded by many smaller towns, such as Oakbank, Beausejour, Stonewall, Steinbach, Morris and Portage la Prairie, and is not far north of the border between Canada and the United States of America. On Winnipeg’s western side is the city of Brandon and Regina, in the province of Saskatchewan, and on the eastern side is the Whiteshell Provincial Park, as well as Kenora, in the province of Ontario.
Winnipeg offers departure flights to many locations, and also receives passengers from destinations in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The airport’s main airline companies are Kivallig Air, Perimeter Aviation, Calm Air, Air Canada Express and WestJet, and their flights arrive from Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Thompson, Churchill, Baker Lake, Sanikiluag, Gods River, Lynn Lake, Sandy Lake, Thunder Bay, Hamilton and Cancun, just to mention a few. Although the majority of airline companies arrive at the main terminal building of the airport, flights by Perimeter Airlines and Kivallig Air will arrive at one of the other two smaller terminal buildings. These buildings are also located on the airport grounds, and are a kilometre or two from the main building. The main terminal of the airport is not used by these two airline companies because they mostly operate smaller types of aircraft, which do not require the same facilities as the larger airplanes.
The main building of Winnipeg Airport is located in the south-eastern portion of the airport grounds, and is large enough to accommodate the number of passengers that pass through it on a daily basis. It is also a new building, having only opened at the end of October, 2011, and was selected by Travel Channel as one of the most iconic airport buildings in the world. The terminal holds a large number of shops and restaurants, including two duty-free stores, free Wi-Fi connections, currency exchange services, ATMs and information booths. Airport volunteers are also available in their gold or silver vests. Arriving passengers will find all that they require within the building, and can also hire a car from one of the Winnipeg International Airport car rental companies. They include Hertz, Budget, Avis, National, Enterprise, Alamo, Thrifty, Auto Europa, Dollar and Europcar.
Some of the other important airline companies at the airport are Air Canada, with flights from Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, Air Transat, with flights from Regina, Saskatoon and Thunder Bay, Bearskin Airlines flying from Dryden, Fort Frances and Kenora and Sunwing Airlines with seasonal flights from Cancun, Holquin, Montego Bay, Puerto Vallarta and Varadero. From the United States, direct flights to Winnipeg Airport are offered from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Palm Springs by the airline companies of WestJet, Express Jet Airlines, SkyWest Airlines and Compass Airlines.
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I have been testing out the Ninja Foodi because I’m trying to decide whether or not to get rid of my Instant Pot.
UPDATE 12/26/2019: Instant Pot came out with its own air fryer lid for their 6 quart machines!
This is such great news for those of you who don’t want to buy yet another small appliance for another task. What a great option for just being able to attach it to a machine you already have!
I can’t wait to test it out and will be sure to give a review, but for now, the Ninja Foodi and Instant Pot review below!
I tested the Ninja Foodi out for a full week and made all our meals in it.
I’ve put together an informative pro and con list for each and my final decision below.
Perhaps this will help those of you who are still wondering whether or not you should get an Instant Pot.
There is definitely more and more options out there starting with this Ninja Foodi!
Oh, this is not sponsored. I bought both machines myself so you can trust that this review is 100% unbiased.
What’s different about the Ninja Foodi?
It’s a pressure cooker AND an air fryer AND dehydrator.
It does everything the Instant Pot does (sauté, slow cook, pressure cook) and MORE.
It’s basically four small appliances in one. A slow cooker, a pressure cooker, an air fryer, and a dehydrator.
Why did you get the Ninja Foodi?
I got the Ninja Foodi because I have wanted an air fryer but I really didn’t want to buy another small appliance so I’m hoping that the Ninja Foodi can take place of my Instant Pot.
I have too many as it is and while I have the room for it, I just didn’t want to use up that space for a machine that I may or may not use often.
What comes with the Ninja Foodi?
You get the nonstick pan, the fry basket, the wire rack, and the pressure cooker lid.
How much is the Ninja Foodi?
So, it’s not cheap when you compare it to the Instant Pot BUT if you think about it, it includes an air fryer. So that’s kind of like you buying an Instant Pot AND an air fryer separately.
The cost ends up being the same, if not more, depending on what brand air fryer you buy.
The Ninja Foodi cost me roughly $193 including tax. Retail price is $229 but I bought it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond so I was able to use a 20% off coupon.
However, on Amazon, it is now $179.99!
Why didn’t you buy it at Amazon?
Well, because Amazon didn’t have it for 20% off (but now it’s actually cheaper than BBB at $179.99) but the main reason was because there’s two different models on Amazon and it’s confusing which one you are actually going to get.
Some of the product photos show it has the dehydrator function/button but then some of the product photos show that they don’t. So I didn’t want to order this giant machine and then have to ship it back if I got the one without the dehydrator. See the photo above where this one obviously has the dehydrator option. There are models apparently that don’t have that button.
It was just easier to buy in store somewhere.
Pressure cooker function of Ninja Foodi
I was very eager to test this out first because if I got rid of my Instant Pot, I would need the next pressure cooker to perform like the Instant Pot.
I’m happy to report it worked just as well. I did have an issue with the seal/vent valve but it only happened once so it might’ve been a fluke/user error.
Air fryer function of Ninja Foodi
I’ve never used an air fryer before this machine so I have nothing to compare it to.
I’m very impressed though with how little oil you need for everything to cook and get crisp.
I made my three ingredient nuggets in it — dropped the meatballs in raw and didn’t even use any oil. They came out so crispy!
We’ve made scallops in it, chicken tenders, asparagus, broccoli, and more!
Pros of the Ninja Foodi
- Essentially four machines in one
- It does everything the Instant Pot does and more
- It costs less than an Instant Pot and all the other machines you’d have to buy individually
- Easy to use
- Easy to clean
- Not much of a learning curve
- I like that as it’s coming up to pressure, the digital screen shows you that it’s doing that. With the Instant Pot, it seemed like a guessing game, haha
Cons of the Ninja Foodi
- The size; it’s definitely not a space saver, lol
- The double lid; the air fryer lid doesn’t come off so if you are using the pressure cooker, the air fryer lid stays open. See photo above.
- I don’t like that the main insert is nonstick vs. stainless steel like the Instant Pot. Because you are putting the fry basket into it, I feel like the legs of the fry basket can easily scratch up the nonstick and with use overtime, it might start to peel.
- If you use the air fryer, you have to wash both the basket and the nonstick insert it sits in. Double clean up is no fun.
- The seal and vent valve is more finnicky with the Foodi. You have to really make sure it’s on seal before you start it otherwise it starts to “leak” a little when it comes up to pressure and starts releasing a lot of steam. I ended up having to use a tong to keep it on the sealed side until it came up to pressure. That might’ve been a fluke though and user error.
- There aren’t presets on the Ninja Foodi so those of you that aren’t sure about cooking times might find that this trial and error isn’t for you. Personally, this is no big deal for me because the machine comes with a general cook time template and also I’ve cooked enough with a pressure cooker to know what times to set for each. The air fryer; you can lift the lid during cooking to check up on it.
- It only comes in one size right now. 6.5 quarts; which is decent for our family of two but I know some people have an 8 quart Instant Pot.
- Sometimes with chicken dishes, I have to cook them in two or three batches because of the small basket which makes dinner time drawn out.
Things about the Ninja Foodi that are worth mentioning
- The air fryer actually cooks a lot faster than I thought too. Most things come together in half the time.
- Though both the air fryer basket and nonstick insert look “small,” they are actually 0.5 quarts more than the Instant Pot. I think looks are deceiving because the Foodi is short and round while the Instant Pot is tall and narrow.
Ah, the machine that started it all. The good ole Instant Pot.
I honestly love this machine. I used it plenty.
I found myself to use it more in the cooler months though because I love a good cozy roast.
Pros of the Instant Pot
- It does its job.
- There are presets for those that are nervous about not knowing about cook times.
- If you just want a pressure cooker, this is really honestly the only machine you’ll need.
- It’s smaller so easier to store although I know some people think even the IP is too big!
- It has the ability to slow cook too so again, if you need space and don’t want two appliances, the Instant Pot is a good option.
- Multiple size options. 3 quart, 6 quart, and 8 quart.
- Price; you can always seem to find it on sale on Amazon for like $89.99 or similar; especially during flash deals and Black Friday.
Cons of the Instant Pot
- If you’re looking for more than a pressure cooker then the IP definitely doesn’t do it for you.
- If you want an air fryer or dehydrator, the Instant Pot doesn’t have that.
- Sealing issues with the Instant Pot seem to be the biggest issue I’ve heard. The ring is super finicky. I’ve had one incident where it never completely came up to pressure and I had to release it and it basically ruined dinner cause it was like par-cooked.
- The rubber seal keeps cooking smells and I can definitely attest to this. When I made my Instant Pot Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup, my Instant Pot now can’t “unsmell” of Chinese five spice, lol
- I’m hearing the slow cooker function is TERRIBLE on the Instant Pot; I haven’t tried it because I use my 23 year old Crockpot because I know it works.
VERDICT: which did I end up choosing?
So after using the Ninja Foodi to cook dinner in for a week, I ended up PACKING IT UP AND RETURNING IT. Don’t worry, I kept all the packaging and washed it up real good.
I just couldn’t get past the size of the beast (and its weight) and I didn’t see myself actually using the air fryer THAT often.
And the fact I would have to be lugging out the machine just to use the pressure cooker wasn’t appealing.
Additionally, I felt like the air fryer was more like a broiler than anything else.
Some people said if I had a convection oven, I didn’t need an air fryer — slightly disagree.
While the air fryer does push around hot air (it has a fan) like a convection oven, it does cook differently. The final product is crisper than a convection but that might be because the heating element is literally on top of your food — hence why I think it’s more like a broiler.
So yep, I’ll be keeping my Instant Pot!
Now that I’ve actually used an air fryer, I don’t think I’ll be buying one. I’m happy with my pressure cooker and slow cooker!
Where to buy?
- 3 quart Instant Pot
- 6 quart Instant Pot (this is the size I have)
- 8 quart Instant Pot
- Ninja Foodi, 6.5 quart
I’m sure I’ve missed something and I’m sure you’ve got questions.
Feel free to ask below and I can try my best to answer!
Pressure Cooker Recipes
These recipes can be made in either the Instant Pot or Foodi (on pressure cooker mode)!
- Instant Pot Beef & Broccoli
- Instant Pot Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
- Instant Pot Sausage and Herbed White Bean Soup
- Instant Pot Braised Korean Beef Ragu
- Instant Pot Pork Poblano Skillet Enchiladas
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For the most part though, it appeared as if most commenters were just surprised by his brazenness, writing things like, “Drake really should’ve avoided that Michael Jackson line considering his own history with underage women. Is that intentional or? Drake really addressing the shit of people saying he praying on kids lol Previously, both Brown and Eilish have defended Drake texting them.
In , Brown wrote “U guys are weird” via her Instagram, adding, “I’m lucky to have people in the business extend their time to help me further my career and offer their wisdom and guidance. Meanwhile, Eilish recently told Vogue that the backlash was a “stupid-ass mess,” before arguing that, “A grown man can’t be a fan of an artist? There are so many people that the internet should be more worried about. Fashion Beauty. Entertainment It’s Nice to Laugh.
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Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Porcelain; 42 inches by Private Collection. Weeks after Michael Jackson’s virtual performance at the Billboard Music Awards , another surreal – and controversial – avatar of the King of Pop will embark on a world tour of sorts. On June 27, Jeff Koons’ “Michael Jackson and Bubbles,” the larger-than-life gilded porcelain sculpture of the late artist and his cherished pet chimpanzee, returned to New York as one of the highlights of “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective,” the largest solo exhibition of an artist ever mounted at the Whitney Museum , and the last the institution will mount before moving downtown.
Very happy for ladygaga , congratulations on No. Like Jackson, Koons, 59, has a knack for genre-bending. His message of acceptance and tolerance for all aspects of culture has garnered him more than a few celebrity fans: Lady Gaga commissioned Koons to create artwork for her album, “Artpop”; Pharrell Williams collects his work; Jay Z name-checked him in “Picasso Baby”; and Kim Kardashian posted an Instagram photo of the artist with her and Kanye West’s infant daughter, North, at Art Basel Miami Beach in December.
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Drake’s Michael Jackson Lyric In New ‘When To Say When’ Song Draws Backlash
News has learned the special man in MJ’s life is Tommy Feight! Mercedes “MJ” Javid doesn’t just have a new man! News can confirm the Shahs of Sunset star is engaged to her boyfriend she has been dating for more than a year. I got engaged a few months ago. News exclusively. I’m so happy.
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» For commuter rail, through-running is becoming increasingly popular in city after city looking to take advantage of faster travel times, direct suburb-to-suburb services, and more downtown stops. Leipzig, Germany, whose City Tunnel opened in 2013, is a case in point.
There’s a romantic notion of the downtown rail terminal in the American popular culture, often expressed in movies and books. It’s a scene that is easy to conjure up in one’s mind: The steaming locomotive comes slowly to a halt at the end of a track, passengers stream out into a giant waiting room, and from there they exit into the bustling metropolis. The railroad terminal is the physical manifestation of the end of a journey and the exciting moment of arrival.
For railroad companies and government agencies, the need to create this welcoming travel environment has inspired multi-billion-dollar station redevelopment schemes. The argument made has been that in order to achieve the appropriate travel experience, people should arrive for train travel—whether intercity or commuter—in one, massive facility where trains begin and end their trips.
But what if this orientation towards rail terminals is actually reducing the effectiveness of our rail system? What if we eliminated terminals downtown altogether and just replaced them with regular old stops on the line, leaving terminals for outer suburban places?
European cities from Basel to Brussels have done just that, replacing commuter rail services ending at central depots with through-running operations where trains stop at several places in the city rather than one thanks to new rail tunnels. They’re expensive investments, but they may make commuting a faster and more enjoyable experience.
The Leipzig experience
Until 2013, commuter rail service in Leipzig, a half-million-person city in eastern Germany, departed from two major train stations—the Hauptbahnhof just north of the center and the Bayerishcher Bahnhof south of it. This produced a peculiar situation in which people traveling from one suburb to another had no easy connection between trains and also required travelers to make a transfer to a local bus or tram—or take a walk—to get to the center of the city.
As early as 1915, city planners plotted a connection between the stations (and some preliminary work was actually completed), but not until the 1990s was a plan finalized, and construction on the City Tunnel didn’t get underway until 2003. The roughly one-mile subway link added two intermediary stations right in the center of downtown (including one at Markt, pictured above). Though the project was years late and its budget exploded to €960 million—of which the Saxony region covered about half the costs—the project was completed.
The following map illustrates the connection the tunnel has provided: A direct link through the center of the city offering a route for six S-Bahn (regional rail) services.
Jung, who was a primary advocate for the project, emphasized that the new stations in the center of the city dramatically improved the local economic environment. “Everything changed,” he told me; “it helped the whole business district” by bringing many more visitors. Suburbanites, who once would have avoided the center, or at least only been to the areas directly near the stations, suddenly had very frequent rail access to subway stations directly in the downtown.
Jung also pointed out that the project was contributing to the overall goal of getting more people on transit. “We can’t solve the emissions, noise problems if we don’t solve the mode split problem,” he said. According to him, the city is already heading in the right direction, with a clear shift away from private passenger cars over the last five years.
That’s no surprise when you think about it. Passengers heading in to Leipzig on the S-Bahn who used to have just one available destination downtown—the train line’s terminus—now have four to choose from. That opens up four times as many possibilities in terms of places to go for a night out or a weekend shopping trip.
Meanwhile, the train itself has become more useful, now that instead of just ending downtown, it heads off to another suburban location. And instead of passengers having to run to another potentially far-away platform at the main station to switch to a destination not on one’s train line, they can just get off at any of the City Tunnel’s stations and wait for the next train, since they all operate on the same tracks.
The construction of the City Tunnel did not mean the end of terminus-based rail services entirely in Leipzig. The Hauptbahnhof—which happens to be the largest railway station in the world and also a major shopping center—is still being used, though its focus has shifted to intercity trains. Some intercity trains, however, will be shifted to the City Tunnel in the coming year, though there are capacity limitations.
Many other cities have invested similarly
Leipzig’s investment in its new urban rail tunnel has brought new vitality to its center city but it is in some ways late to the game. In fact, many of its European peers have built similar center-city rail lines over the past few decades in order to provide through-running rail service stopping at many downtown destinations.
Berlin opened its Stadtbahn in the 1880s, providing intercity and commuter service on an elevated line running east-west through the center of the city. Even today, long-distance German high-speed trains hail at several of its stops as they travel from or through Berlin. In the 1930s, Berlin complemented this service with an S-Bahn subway running north-south through the center.
Other cities followed this trend of providing tunneled service for commuter and intercity rail through their centers. Brussels connected its north and south stations in 1952; in 1967, Madrid linked its major stations with the “Tunnel of Laughter;” in 1969, Paris inaugurated its RER regional rail network with a tunnel straight through the center of the city; Munich provided an S-Bahn connection in 1972; Zurich linked up its S-Bahn trains in 1990; Basel built its network in 1997; Bilbao followed in 1999; and Milan began providing inter-suburban train service through downtown in 2004.
That’s hardly an exhaustive list, and many other cities are planning even more: Brussels is building another tunnel to create its own RER network by 2025; Berlin, Geneva, Munich, Stuttgart, and Zurich are all planning or building additional cross-city regional rail links; and London has a new regional rail line under construction and another planned.
Even South American cities are getting into the mix. In Buenos Aires, the new RER network, which includes a cross-city tunneled link (shown in the following video, in Spanish, but worth the watch even if you don’t understand the language) is expected to double suburban rail ridership.
Each of these cities has identified the benefits of combining frequent and fast regional rail networks with through-running train services under their centers. The benefits are clear: More destinations for riders; more accessibility to locations downtown; and the ability to get from one side of a region to another without transferring between trains. They’ve also saved their rail operators considerable expense by allowing them to turn their trains around somewhere other than downtown, which is the most difficult place to do so.
This is a particular benefit because peak times, which require many services heading in or out of downtown, require train operators to stack trains at the terminus, which takes up lots of storage space (in expensive areas of the city) and necessitates many platforms at the terminus, since there aren’t any other downtown station stops. A through-running service allows trains to be stored elsewhere and passengers to be distributed among several stops.
For example, Paris’ RER line A, a through-running regional rail service, carries about as many people daily (more than one million riders) on just two tracks as all services operated by commuter rail services in New York City, including Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, and New Jersey Transit, which require dozens of platforms at the two Manhattan terminals, Grand Central and Penn Station, and which require acres of train storage areas near downtown, either under Grand Central or at the huge yards on Manhattan’s West Side or Sunnyside. In Paris, trains stop at six central-city subway stops, distributing ridership, and train storage is on the suburban fringe.
Cities with through-running regional rail services have moved away from the terminus-as-destination model of providing suburban and intercity rail service. That’s a transition that benefits riders and the cities they live in.
What potential do we have for through-running in the U.S.?
In the 1980s, Philadelphia opened its Center City Commuter Connection, a new subway for regional rail trains running directly through downtown, with three stops along the way. The project did, in fact, provide riders using that city’s commuter system significantly more alternatives for destinations downtown. Ridership has increased by more than 50 percent over the past 15 years, increasing from 80,000 typical daily trips in 1996 to 135,000 last year.
But because of limited funding, a circuitous regional network (many trains heading east through the tunnel actually end up heading west, and vice-verse), and a lack of commitment to maintaining high train service frequencies or through-running services in general, Philadelphia’s system has not reached its potential. Nonetheless, the infrastructure is there.
New York also has the infrastructure for through-running between Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey thanks to tunnels under Penn Station, but trains are segregated between three operators, each of which only has one terminal station in the Manhattan core. Through-running would require cooperation between these operators and, to optimize ridership distribution (to prevent long station stops for boarding and unloading), additional new subway stations in the core, which may be technically difficult and would certainly be pricey.
Other American cities, including Baltimore, Boston, and Chicago, have commuter rail termini located relatively close to one another but which would require new, expensive downtown tunnels to connect them. Are these top infrastructure priorities for cities that have many transportation needs? That’s an open question. But what is undoubtedly true is that if we want more effective commuter rail services that serve more people, we should at least be considering them—a step few U.S. cities have taken thus far.
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Marantz Announces New SR Series Home Theater Receivers: State-of-the-Art Audiophile Sound Quality, Eye-Appealing Design, Cutting-Edge Features and Superior Ease of Operation
Mahwah, NJ, June 5, 2013 — Marantz, a world leader in advanced home entertainment solutions, announces the launch of the latest models in its acclaimed line of SR Series home theater receivers. Featuring exceptional performance enhancements and significant upgrades, models SR5008, SR6008 and SR7008 raise the bar for sound quality, design, build, and ease of use. Delivering sound quality that’s sure to satisfy even the most discerning audiophiles, all SR Series models are equipped with Marantz's proprietary HDAM® (Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Module) technology and current-feedback circuitry.
“This exclusive HDAM and current-feedback technology, part of what makes Marantz products sound so great was previously found only in our flagship and Reference series products, but we’ve incorporated it into all three SR Series receivers,” said Paul Belanger, technical product manager, D+M Group. “These new SR Series receivers bring the finest sound quality to the full range of customers who want to build the best sounding home theater system to fit their budget—a proud testament to Marantz’s 60 years of audiophile heritage.”
Other exciting upgrades in the new SR Series line include improved speaker terminals and enhanced, user-friendly setup and operation assistance on all models. In addition to HDAM and current-feedback circuitry, the SR6008 now features dual discrete HDMI matrix outputs and digital to analog audio conversion for multizone playback. The SR7008 now includes the same superior multizone capabilities added to the SR6008—plus an upgrade from 7 to 9 channels of amplification and Audyssey Laboratories’ most advanced suite of room correction features including Audyssey MultiEQ XT32 and Sub EQHT.
As always, the SR Series lineup features Marantz’s unparalleled design with the iconic “star and circle” porthole display and curved front panel. The receivers’ build quality is second to none, backed by a three-year warranty on all models covering parts and labor. All three models feature Apple’s AirPlay, allowing users to stream their iTunes music whether from Mac or PC, as well as music stored on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.* Users can also enjoy music from sources such as Pandora, SiriusXM, and Spotify**.
All Marantz SR Series Home Theater Receivers include:
- HDAM & Current Feedback Circuitry
- Audyssey MultiEQ XT
- 7 HDMI Inputs
- Networking with Apple AirPlay*
- Spotify**, Pandora, and SiriusXM** network streaming
- 7.2 Preamplifier Outputs
- 7.1 Multi-Channel Analog Inputs
- Component Video Switching
- 4K Ultra HD Scaling and Pass-Through
- RX101 Optional Bluetooth adaptor compatible
- Detachable Power Cord
- I/P and RS-232 Control
- Control4 Certification
- Three Year Warranty covering parts and labor
7.2 Channel 4K Ultra HD Networking Home Theater Receiver with Airplay At an MSRP of $899, the SR5008 offers 100-watts x 7 channels and the newly added Marantz-proprietary current feedback and HDAM pre-amplifier circuitry. Combining network capability and audiophile sound, along with Marantz's well-known "star and circle" front display, the SR5008 includes both style and comprehensive features such as an Ethernet port, seven HDMI inputs, and playback of the latest high-definition audio formats.
The power amplifier section features discrete high-current devices and identical topology for all channels. AirPlay allows users to stream their iTunes music whether from Mac or PC, as well as music stored on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.* Two audio zones and additional support for Bluetooth devices via an optional RX101 adaptor make the SR5008 a powerful and versatile solution for all home theater and music-listening needs.
7.2 Channel 4K and 3D Pass-Through Networking Home Theater Receiver with DTS Neo:X, Audyssey DSX, and AirPlay At an MSRP of $1,199, the 110-watt per channel SR6008 also adds Marantz’s acclaimed current feedback and HDAM pre-amplifier circuitry, giving it a clean sound. Beautiful, simple style, including Marantz’s signature “star and circle” front display, is paired with comprehensive features including an Ethernet port, seven HDMI inputs, and playback of the latest high-definition audio formats. The SR6008 is equipped with DTS Neo:X and Audyssey DSX to create a 3D sound space when speakers are set up for the front-height or front-wide channels.
A second HDMI port allows enjoyment of audio/video or music entertainment in a separate room while the system is in use in the main room. Two audio/video zones, networking, and support for Bluetooth devices via an optional RX101 adaptor make the SR6008 a flexible, expandable solution for home theater and music listening. The SR6008 includes the same user-friendly setup and ease-of-operation features as the SR7008, plus HDMI pass-through in standby mode.
9.2 Channel 4K Ultra HD Networking Home Theater Receiver with MultiEQ XT32 & Sub EQHT At an MSRP of $1,999, the flagship SR7008 offers simplicity and elegance with the classic blue illuminated porthole display, plus a drop-down door on a brushed aluminum front panel. Nine fully discrete, 125-watt amplifiers deliver the dynamic, beautifully detailed sound audophiles expect from a receiver of this caliber.
Comprehensive features include an Ethernet port, seven HDMI inputs, three HDMI outputs, and playback of the latest high-definition audio formats. DTS Neo:X and Audyssey DSX make full 9.2-channel playback possible when speakers are set up for the front-height or front-wide channels.
SR7008 features Audyssey MultEQ® XT32 and Audyssey Sub EQ HT Dual subwoofer calibration system making it simple and straightforward to maximize home theater performance for any size or configuration of room. MultEQ measures the characteristics of each speaker in the system and quickly generates precision digital filters for the smoothest, most natural tonal balance over the entire audio range. Additionally, Audyssey LFC solves the problem of low frequency sounds disturbing people in adjacent rooms.
The SR5008, SR6008 and SR7008 network receivers will have suggested retail prices of $899, $1,199, and $1,999, respectively. The new products will be available June 2013 in store and online at Marantz dealers.
* AirPlay requires iTunes 10.1 or later and iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS
4.2 or later. A home Wi-Fi network is required.
** Some services may require a subscription
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Losing that stubborn fat always seems impossible but the good news is you do not need to tackle it all alone, there are a variety of food items that can support you in your battle with the excess weight.
We know that how much you care about your health and you are desperately in search of solutions for getting rid of obesity but the methods should be safe n sound and that is why we decided to establish this article where we are sharing the food items that are nothing but the true gifts of nature and they are pretty helpful in losing fat.
It is not merely a claim but as a matter of fact these gifts of nature can boost the process of metabolism or can stimulate those genes or hormones that encourage your body to lose weight.
So, introducing these food items into your diet can actually be helpful for your weight loss as well as for your overall health.
1. Sweet Potatoes:
Have you ever heard the term “Slow carb”?
If you haven’t then just for the record they are good for weight loss.
Because, when you take a food item that comes in the category of slow carb, so it is a food that takes a longer amount of time to get digested and it implies, it will keep you fuller & satisfied.
Sweet Potatoes are one of those food items that come in the category of slow carbs and they do possess all those characteristics that are associated to slow carb food items.
Sweet potatoes do possess Vitamin A in a real ideal quantity and this vitamin, in particular, is good for inter-cellular communication process, vision, different functionalities of immune system and reproduction.
The good point is all these benefits are possible in just a few calorie counts of 162, isn’t it amazing?
Moreover, they are so versatile that you can pair up them with almost anything or you have various solo dishes of this divine food item.
Bottom Line: add sweet potatoes as soldiers in your battle of fat loss and you will not regret later..!
Hostility with carbs in the beginners to weight loss is quite common but to some extent, it is not based on the true facts because not all the carbs are the bad carbs, for instance, whole grain carbs like oats fall into the category of healthy food items.
Additionally, people who introduce 3-5 servings of whole carbs in their daily servings tend to reduce 9% to 11% belly fat than those who take the same amount of carbs but in this case, the carbs are fully processed carbs like pasta, rice or bread, and this point has been proven by the University of Tufts in one of its studies.
So, the point is valid but how does it work?
Oats do come in the category of those foods that are high in fiber & have properties of burning slowly in your digestive system and keep you satiated for a long duration.
For losing weight, it is essential for your body to make a calorie deficit that can result in refraining your body from storing more fat and encouraging it to melt those reserves of fat. Oat meal is helpful or your body when you eat it in the replacement of high caloric food, it is supportive in fat loss.
3. White Tea:
White tea is totally a miracle drink because it has potential to help human body in 3 different ways
- It stops creation of new fat cells (adipogenesis)
- It begins the process of fat burning (lipolysis)
- It boosts up the ability of liver to convert fat into to the energy supply
These properties have been explained in one of the authentic scientific journals that named as Nutrition & Metabolism.
Additionally, white tea has different varieties and almost all of them have the same very effects with additional benefits of antioxidants, and they are light on calorie scale too.
Bottom Line: Drink away your fat with the addition of white tea in your diet.
4. Dark Chocolate:
Are you one of those people who consider that when you are on a fat loss journey, you are going to leave everything that includes your all time favorite indulgences?
The Chocolate that contains 70% or more Cacao can be helpful in providing your weight loss extra support.
As per a study that was carried away in the State University of Louisiana, chocolate has the power to create compounds that are polyphenols and they are good for your gut health.
There are a few more elements like fatty acids and butyrate that are also very helpful in boosting the human body in melting the fat like fuel for energy and they also happen to restrict the genes that are connected to cause the feeling of inflammation.
Add 1 or 2 fruits to jack up the process of fermentation in your body to release all the previously mentioned compounds from the dark chocolate into your body.
Bottom Line: Chocolate eating is good for your health as well it is good for losing weight too because it contains the high amount of polyphenols that are antioxidants.
5. Black Beans:
This humble food category just appears “humble” look wise only otherwise in terms of properties, pulses are truly magical potent if nothing less.
First of all, beans are ideal for starch resistance (slow digestive food) and black beans, in particular, they contain fibers that are insoluble and they appear to feed the bacteria in your guts that are healthy for you.
Moreover, they also lead the generation of certain chemicals like butyrate that are super cool as they boost your body for fat burning.
Just merely taken 10 grams of this type of food category can lead your body to loss 3.7 % belly fat over the period of 5 years.
Bottom Line: Beans are totally a good option for weight loss.
6. Dried Tomatoes:
There are many different food items that are sun dried in different cultures around the globe and tomatoes are one of those items.
Recently in a Japanese study, it has been discovered that an element that is present in this red fruit (the name of the compound is 9-oxo-ODA).
This compound surprisingly has power to activate the gene in your DNA that can burn excess fat.
Moreover, tomatoes are a highly rich source of Lycopene and beta-carotene (by the way, these both compounds are antioxidants too), these elements can eliminate those harmful substances that are normally considered responsible for evoking the storage of fat.
The best thing is that tomatoes come in the category of those foods that have more properties to offer after they are in the cooked form plus it has been proven that people who have a good amount of Lycopene and Beta-carotene in their diets are likely to have the lowest fat in their belly area and they also have the smallest circumference of their waists.
Bottom Line: add some sun dried tomatoes in your diet and they are even better if they are cooked because the Lycopene ratio in cooked tomatoes gets even higher.
7. Grape Fruit (A citrus family member):
Simply a slice of grape fruit that you happen to add in your salad can be like a match stick that can start a change reaction for fat burning.
A relevant journal to Metabolism has revealed that people who eat grape fruit just even for the duration of six weeks merely can reduce up to 1 complete inch from the area of their waists.
What is the catch here?
Okay, so grape fruit is blessed with bioactive substances like Phytochemicals that are great at stimulating the secretion adiponectin (an essential hormone), It performs a crucial role in the human body for breaking down the excess fat where as another study indicates that this delicious fruit is capable of activating burning of calories in the form of brown fat cells plus it also happens to suppress the feeling of hunger naturally.
Bottom Line: the fat blasting properties can be experienced with grape fruit intake even with just a few chunks of it!
8. Coconut Oil:
Coconut is a Tropical fruit that is already jam packed with beauty and health benefits. This is a quite interesting finding that the fat of this tropical fruit in the form of oil can actually make you slim.
There are numerous studies which confirm such findings that coconut oil can literally torch the fat away specifically in your belly or lower abdominal area.
Moreover, in a study that was conducted on a reasonable number of subjects (participants) concluded that the group which was asked to add 2 tablespoons oil of coconut in their diet and the other group which was asked to add 2 tablespoons oil of soybean, both experienced weight loss but the group with coconut oil actually experienced reduction in the waistlines up to a significant mark.
These results were possible thanks to the Lauric acid and Triglycerides C.O.’s medium-chain that help coconut oil to be burned as the energy source rather being stored in the form of fat.
Bottom Line: Coconut oil is one of the apt choices among all the oils that are edible ones.
Dried spices are not only great to add flavor to your food but also they can provide some really unique and great health benefits whether you add them to your cooking or just sprinkle them a bit on to your food, they are equally beneficial.
Cinnamon is one of those spices that can provide a delicious aroma to your cuisine but it can also stabilize the levels of insulin in your blood or can reduce the feeling of hunger.
Several studies are conducted on it and they have confirmed that a compound that is part of cinnamon (Cinnamaldehyde) is apt for losing waistline fat without causing any trouble to the consumer plus this spice is rich in antioxidants.
Bottom Line: Have some cinnamon in your diet to experience its antioxidant properties.
10. Forbidden Rice:
Forbidden rice another name for black rice, this is a type of rice that is likely to be less popular than brown or white rice in all over the world but it is an ancient grain that has been pretty popular in the royal cuisine because of its tremendous benefits that are not normally found in the other kinds of rice.
Black rice offers antioxidants that are great at fighting the different diseases or can even stop their formation, diseases that are related to heart, cancers of several types or diabetes.
This particular type has anti-inflammatory characteristics and a higher index of dietary fiber.
Moreover, the rice has been in use of royals for thousands of years in China but now it is getting equally popular in the area like Europe, Australia, and the USA as the scientists are carrying several types of research on black rice to understand this category fully.
Bottom Line: Black rice is good at the benefits.
All the previously mentioned food items are highly helpful for fat loss and they have been selected carefully.
But did you know? You happen to multiply the great effect of these food items if you do some exercise and introduce some healthy habits in your life.
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Content: This post deals with food and nutrition. Also, it’s written from the perspective of an able-bodied, adult woman in Stockholm. It’s one person’s views and opinions. I do know that I have a lot of privilege, and experiences that aren’t necessarily typical. Either way, I want to share my view on a life without eating animals. Note that there are links here and there in the text, for further reading.
On Ditching Meat
In the fall of 2009, I had just started studying at the university. One of the first classmates I started spending time with was a vegetarian, and I had already considered taking the same step but felt like I didn’t have the knowledge or support to do so. Then, after a LAN party hosted by the student union, I felt so bad physically that I decided that I had to change my lifestyle drastically in one way or another. After much consideration, I came to a decision. I was to become a vegetarian.
I’ve haven’t regretted my decision for a minute.
On Ditching Dairy & Eggs
Six years after I kicked meat, me and my partner had seen too many documentaries about the meat industry and its effects to be able to continue ignoring one glaring fact: The meat and the dairy industries are one and the same. You can’t support one without indirectly supporting the other. What happens to the bull calves the milk cows give birth to? What happens to the male chicken, who can’t lay eggs?
So that’s when we, together, decided to go vegan. Not cold turkey (nor soy-based turkey substitute), but at least at home. I do “cheat” less and less, however, and today I’d say I eat 95-99% plant-based. Fun fact: This is not at all as hard as I had anticipated. I dreaded the thought of a life without cheese, and didn’t know if we would be able to cook interesting meals without cream and eggs. There are however plenty of vegan alternatives in stores as well as restaurants in Stockholm today, and it’s been increasing drastically over these past few years. With candy and ice-cream companies catching up, it’s not even necessary a healthy lifestyle anymore.
There are many reasons to not eat meat, such as protecting the environment (a plant-based diet affects the climate far less than a meat-based one), animal welfare (’nuff said), and health reasons (meat increases the risk of heart disease, colon cancer, etc). Personally, I’m not vegan because I love animals – I’m vegan because I hate plants. Jokes aside, there are plenty of good reasons not to eat meat, and none of them is better than another.
There are those who are quick to point out that saving the world from climate change etc is and should not be about individual choice, but about large-scale, national or even international policies. And I partly agree. We can’t consume ourselves out of a climate crisis. These measures are however not mutually exclusive. In a country where the government sees no consumer awareness and no green movement, politicians will have no reason and no incentive to enforce pro-environment laws. Plant-based food is not the solution, but it’s one of the many pieces of the puzzle – and one of few we as individuals can actually affect. Also in specific cases, such as the fires in the Amazon rainforest, there is a direct link between meat consumption and the environmental issue.
One thing I’ve noticed over the ten years I’ve been vegetarian/vegan, is that people’s attitudes have changed a lot. In the beginning, people made completely hilarious jokes such as “then I’ll eat twice as much meat!” all the time. It’s now been years since I heard anything like it. People never even ask why I don’t eat meat anymore, and several events I’ve been to lately served only vegan food. Eating meat is starting to get seen as one choice among many, rather than the default setting.
On “I’m vegan”
People who have chosen a plant-based diet might mention it quite often, which may sound silly and self-centered. It’s okay to make fun of it. Sometimes. It will make you appear just as obnoxious as you seem to think vegans are, though. The reason why some of us say it so often is because it affects every single choice concerning food and other consumer products we make – all day, every day. Whenever we suspect that someone might offer us food that contains meat, dairy or eggs, we want to make sure we don’t accidentally eat something we don’t want. If you have never made a decision that affects your way of life to that extent, please just accept that we think about it a lot.
Sometimes, people say things like “you can’t get enough protein on a vegan diet” and “but how do you get the nutrients you need?!” Let’s address one thing at a time.
We don’t really need as much protein as the vendors of gym supplies want us to believe – especially if we’re not actively building muscle. If you have a basic understanding of nutrition and food content, you can easily get all the protein you need on a simple, healthy plant-based diet. In our household, we also add some vegan BCAA and protein shakes, to boost our gym results. You know, just like many meat-eating gym rats do. There are plenty of athletes and even bodybuilders who eat plant-based. As long as you’re smart about it (removing the meatballs and living on only pasta with ketchup is not a healthy diet), you’ll probably be fine. I do however know that some diseases and similar make a plant-based diet unattainable or even dangerous. As with all things – not everything is for everyone.
As for nutrition in general, well… How does the average meat-eater know where they get their nutrients from? I’m fairly certain a lot of people don’t even look at the content of the food they are buying. I sure didn’t while I ate meat. Today, I can quite easily tailor my meals to fit my needs. As for supplements, we just take a standard over-the-counter vitamin pill from Apoteket – mostly for Vitamin D (good during dark Swedish winters), Vitamin B12 (otherwise only found naturally in animal products) and Iron.
I do have fairly low levels of iron in my blood – but it was actually worse before I became vegetarian. Now I know more about how the body works, which makes me much more in charge of my health. It’s not even a conscious choice. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything when changing my diet, and it’s become an interest I probably never would have had if I had still eaten meat.
This is absolutely anecdotal evidence, but I haven’t really been sick since I stopped eating meat. Sure, I’ve had bad days and a number of colds – and I’ve been food poisoned three times. However, as an example – my tonsillitis, which I’ve had something like 10 times, hasn’t returned in the past ten years. It might have been my fragile throat growing stronger with age, but it could also be a tougher immune system. Sometimes I feel something going on – tired, swollen lymph glands, etc – but it rarely takes over. This is probably partly genetic, but I have a feeling my lifestyle has a lot to do with it as well.
In addition to this – last year, I spontaneously bought a Fitbit. Among other things, it measures your heart rate. Turns out, I have a nice and low one. So low, in fact, that it’s on the level of an athlete. Trust me, I don’t work out that much. Though I haven’t been able to find research conclusively linking a plant based diet with good cardiac health, the opposite has definitely been proven. I like to think of the old saying that food is medicine, and how much truth that holds.
(Note: My Fitbit has reduced my Cardio Fitness value since the screenshot was taken, so it might have been an overestimation.)
On Building Character
There are definitely foods I love that I don’t eat anymore. But you know what? Not always giving yourself what you want builds character. Studies have shown that children who are good at waiting for a reward rather than seeking instant gratification do much better in life. Also, a person’s taste can really change. We’re basically just a bag of bacteria who crave different things, and we can reprogram them. Perhaps reluctantly at first, but after a few years you might suddenly find yourself munching down cauliflower by the handful. I liked meat when I said farewell to it, but today I actually find it repulsive. Slabs of animal meat are now about as attractive to me as human flesh.
This essay probably makes me sound like I’m on a very high, free-range horse.
It’s certainly up to everyone to understand what they can and decide what they want to do with their own bodies. It’s not my place to force anyone to do anything. You don’t even have to apologize to me if you eat meat, or tell me how often you choose the vegetarian option (which happens more often than you’d think). I do however encourage to always be vigilant about what you’re consuming, and always be willing to reevaluate what you can and want to do. If you do choose a plant-based diet, there is so much amazing food the be explored – and you’ll be in good company. We’ve come far from the days when vegans were all hippies and weirdos.
Here’s a little photo gallery to get you started.
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4 Best Methods to Undisable an iPhone
Every iPhone user always use a password in order to protect the important data in their device but what if one day you put the wrong code and the iPhone gets disabled or due to some unforeseen glitch the password feature gets stuck and your iPhone gets disabled. There are a lot of users who search for such solutions daily like “How to undisable an iPhone?” But they don’t always get a simple answer.
If you think about it, it may look like an impossible task to you and may be taking the device to the nearest Apple store will be the best way to fix the device. But there is no need for that, as a responsible company Apple has foreseen such problems and provided official solutions. You have two official ways to fix your device, iTunes and iCloud, and there are also other feasible ways to solve the problem as well. They are elaborated in this article.
- Part 1: Official Ways to Undisable an iPhone
- Part 2: Other Feasible Solutions to Undisable an iPhone
Part 1: Official Ways to Undisable an iPhone
If you are wonderinghow to enable a disabled iPhone using the official ways then it would include using the apps like iTunes and iCloud. These apps have several functions which were designed by Apple to provide undivided support to iOS users. In such cases the most popular option is to connect the device to iTunes but you can also use iCloud to restore the device but
Way 1: Using iTunes
If your iPhone is disabled and you want to fix it then you need to connect the device to iTunes immediately. If the data of your iPhone has already been backed up then you will be able to easily fix the device.
So, here’s how to undisable iPhone if the iPhone can connect to iTunes:
Step 1: You need to start the procedure by connecting the device to your computer using a USB cable.
Step 2: After that iTunes will be launched automatically.
Step 3: Tap the iPhone icon on the top.
Step 4: Then click on “Restore iPhone” option under Summary tab.
Step 5: Now, if the Find My iPhone feature is enabled you will have to disable it and proceed.
Step 6: If Find My iPhone is already disabled, iTunes will ask if you want to restore iPhone to factory settings and all your media and settings will be wiped out.
Step 7: Finally click “Restore and Update” and iTunes will now download the software and restore your iPhone.
Now, your iPhone will be fixed. But if you were unable to connect to iTunes then how to enable iPhone with iTunes, the procedure is mentioned below:
If you are unable to sync with iTunes then you have to first get into Recovery Mode.
Step 1: Run iTunes and connect your disabled iPhone.
Step 2: Press and hold buttons on your iPhone until the Connect to iTunes is visible to you.
- iPhone 6/6s and earlier: Power button and Home button together.
- iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus: Volume down button and Power button
- iPhone X/8/8 Plus: Quickly press Volume up button, then press the Volume down button. Long hold the Side button.
Step 3: Connect the device to your computer with a data cable.
Step 4: After iTunes detection, you will see another prompt:“There is a problem with iPhone that requires it to be updated or restored”
Step 5: Similarly, hit Restore and iTunes will ask you if you want to erase all data and settings.
Step 6: Click “Restore and Update” and iTunes will download the software and then restore your iPhone.
So, even if you were unable to connect to iTunes you will still be able to use the app to fix the iPhone but in a completely different way. Unfortunately, this procedure will completely eliminate all the data from your device.
Way 2: Using iCloud
No matter how smart you are, it is not impossible to lock yourself out of your precious iPhone. But when to get locked out of an expensive device like iPhone 5/6/7/8/X, the security measures that were placed to protect the device won’t let you in easily and that protection cannot be cracked by using the regular methods. Your first option is to connect the device to iTunes but if you are unable to do that then you can also use iCloud app to secure the device. So, how to open disabled iPhone, the steps are mentioned below:
Step 1: First of all you need to go to the official website of icloud.com.
Step 2: Then you need to provide your Apple ID and password to log-in to your account.
Step 3: Now, you need to go to options and select “Find My iPhone”.
Step 4: Go to “All Devices” one the top of the window and choose your iPhone from the list.
Step 5: After that you need to click on “Erase iPhone” then all of your data and settings will be erased from the device.
Now, you will be able to unlock the device. Unfortunately, this procedure will completely erase all the data on your device. So, you better save a backup beforehand so that you can restore after your device gets fixed.
Part 2: Other Feasible Solutions to Undisable an iPhone without iTunes
When iPhone was released, Apple also launched apps like iTunes and iCloud to support the users in their times of need. So, basically whenever any user gets locked out of their iPhone or when it gets stolen they usually go for iCloud or iTunes to fix it. The procedures may not be very convenient but they would get the job done. Fortunately, things have changed now, new apps have been released on the market and they are working exceptionally well. Below, you will find a few ways to fix your iPhone other than iCloud or iTunes.
Way 1: Using 3rd-Party iPhone Unlocking Tool
If you are wondering how to enable a disabled iPhone without connecting to iTunes, then the best Tenorshare 4uKey. It is convenient, efficient, and overall very effective in this kind of situations as it is a well-designed unlocker tool for iOS devices. It supports both Windows and Mac and here’s how to use it:
Step 1: Download, install and run 4uKey on your computer.
Step 2: Then, connect your iPhone and computer with a USB cable
Step 3: Then, the main interface of the tool will be visible, click on “Start”.
Step 4: After that, you have to download the latest firmware package, so after you select a location for it, click on “Download”.
Step 5: After the firmware has been downloaded to your computer, you have to click on “Unlock Now” to fix your iPhone.
After the iPhone is fixed, you can restore it from iCloud or iTunes backup if you have any. This is one of the most effective ways to fix your iPhone using the Tenorshare 4uKey software.
Way 2: Using Tricky Siri Method
This solution is a bit experimental and a bit tricky as well. Also there is a chance that it may not work every time but still this method has proven very effective many times. So, it is viable and safe to use. You can call this method more of a trick as you have to trick Siri to make this method effective and in the process you will not lose your iPhone data.
So, how to undisable an iPhone without iTunes using Siri, you will find the steps below,
Step 1: If you want to use this method then first you have to activate the Siri on your iPhone. So, press and hold the Home button. After that Siri will be activated immediately and it will respond to your voice.
Step 2: So, you have to ask Siri to open the clock of your iPhone.
Step 3: Hit the “Clock” icon, to find the World Clock.
Step 4: Now, click “+” sign to add another clock to the list.
Step 5: Type anything on the search bar and then select all of it.
Step 6: Select the “Share” option.
Step 7: Select “Message” to open a new Message window.
Step 8: Inside the message field, navigate to “To” and press and hold the “Paste” button to paste the copied message.
Step 9: Now, tap on the Home button to reach the main screen of the device.
Finally, you will see that you can access your device without using the password. This simple trick will save you from going through all of the troubles to fix your iPhone but remember that, this particular procedure may not work all the time.
In the end we can assure you that the official ways are strong enough to fix your disabled iPhone but as usual iTunes and iCloud apps are using the decade-old methods which are filled with various drawbacks. So, if you want to get your iPhone back without facing any terrible consequences then it would be best for you to use the Tenorshare 4uKey software. It is simply the best and the most effective method in this article. Highly recommended! | <urn:uuid:334260b1-7102-470b-b30e-96ab4689ca6d> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.tenorshare.com/unlock-iphone/how-to-undisable-an-iphone.html | 2020-10-20T05:47:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107869933.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20201020050920-20201020080920-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.920369 | 1,922 |
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