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Tips On Forging Great Knives
The History of The Bowie Knife
Author Alexa MarshallPosted on April 16, 2019 April 26, 2019
BOWIE KNIFE. In 1838 Rezin P. Bowie, sibling of Alamo hero James Bowie declared that he made the initial Bowie knife while the Bowies resided in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He designed it as a hunting knife and gave it to James for security after his sibling had actually been shot in a battle. Herzehian Dunham, Notary Public in Avoyelles Parish certified that blacksmith Jesse Clifft, who survived on Bayou Boeuf as well as was a friend and also a neighbor of the Bowies in the 1820s, built the knife according to Rezin Bowie's design. The original Bowie knife was like a butcher knife in the account, with a thin blade but no silver places. Bowie wore it in a silver-mounted black-leather sheath. The Bowie knife obtained extensive prestige after the well-known Sandbar Fight on September 19, 1827, near Natchez. On that particular date Samuel Levi Wells, as well as Dr. Thomas Maddox, took part in a battle on the very first big sandbar above Natchez on the Mississippi state side of the river. After shooting handguns at each other without result, Wells as well as Maddox shook hands and also began the field. However, members of the Maddox team suddenly fired at Wells's followers, who consisted of James Bowie. Bowie dropped, shot via a lung. An archenemy, Norris Wright, in addition to Alfred Blanchard, stabbed him repeatedly with sword canes. In the last initiative, Bowie increased himself, got hold of Wright, as well as sank the huge knife into his assailant's heart, killing him immediately. Contenders and also eyewitnesses explained the "big butcher knife" in letters and also meetings, and a legend began. Papers across the country printed lurid as well as through stories of the Sandbar Fight. The general public savored the expertise of James Bowie and his deadly weapon. In a day when guns often misfired, the Bowie knife was a reputable and reliable backup weapon. As its popularity spread, colleges were established, specifically in the old Southwest, to educate the arts and also dodges of Bowie knife battling. The Red River Herald of Natchitoches, Louisiana, reported, "All the steel in the country it seemed was quickly exchanged Bowie knives."
In 1828, some months after the Sandbar Battle, James Bowie made a trip to the East. In Philadelphia, he evidently put his knife in the hands of Henry Schively, a cutler. His sibling Rezin desired a premium knife drawn on the lines of the very first, total with an elegant silver sheath. Rezin wore the knife for numerous years, his initials R. P. B. etched on the pommel cap. In 1831 he offered the knife to a friend, Jesse Perkins, of Jackson, Mississippi. The Clifft knife is the immediate progenitor of the classier Schively knife. Rezin Bowie indulged in the magnificence surrounding his bro James as well as the knife. He on a regular basis wore a silver-mounted Bowie, which he ultimately presented to a close friend, typically a vital individual. He had numerous knives made by Daniel Searles of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1830s. Rezin offered the Searles knife now presented in the Alamo to H. W. Fowler, USA Dragoons. Fowler's name is etched on the sheath.
Early Bowie blades do not fit the preferred image of the tool. One considers a blade with a concave arch (clip factor) cut right into the end of the blade, and also a cross-guard to secure the hand. Early instances, nevertheless, had a thick, hefty butcher-knife-like blade, with a straight back (top) and no clip factor or hand guard. The blade differed in length from 8 1/2 to 12 1/2 inches and also was honed on the true side. Wood manages were affixed with silver pins as well as washers. The Searles blades of the 1830s were one-piece ebony, checkered, as well as enhanced with tiny silver nails. Blacksmiths made most of the subsequent Bowie blades as well as added fundamental crossguards to keep the hand from gliding onto the blade. At some point, they extended the guards as defense from a challenger's blade, however the proprietor frequently located the expanded guards clumsy and also cut them off. The clip factor, a curve on the top of the blade rear of the point, came to be popular. The clip was typically sharpened to make sure that a backstroke would certainly inflict a major injury. Spear-point Bowie blades likewise were built, dagger-shaped, with both edges sharpened. Blacksmith-made Bowies were typically simple and also anonymous, had iron or brass mountings, as well as hardwood, bone, or horn takes care of. The knife was both a searching knife as well as a device. With it, one can get rid of a path, hack a sapling, dig an opening, or butcher game. In the siege of Bexar in 1835, Texans used Bowie knives to dig with roofs and walls and also take part in hand-to-hand battle with the Mexicans. The knife was not created or balanced for tossing.
Southerners replaced their swordcanes with Bowie knives, and also sought professional cutlers, North and South, to craft great blades. The cutlers generally were surgical and also oral instrument manufacturers in large cities. The majority of authorized their works; Peter Rose and John D. Chevalier were prominent in New york city, English & Huber as well as Clarenbach & Herdsman in Philadelphia, Reinhardt in Baltimore, Thomas Lamb in Washington, Dufilho in New Orleans, Alfred Hunter in Newark, Marks and also Rees in Cincinnati, Daniel Searles in Baton Rouge, and Rees Fitzpatrick in Natchez. Henry Schively also made enhanced versions in numerous designs. English cutlers in Sheffield, that had actually controlled the American cutlery market considering that colonial times, took advantage of the attraction with the Bowie knife. They profited from vivid reports by English reporters of murder and trouble in America including the weapon. A flow of Sheffield Bowie knives in the early 1830s developed into a flood before the Civil War. Bowie knife collections show that only regarding one in ten was American made. English cutlers used creative concepts and also blade etchings that appealed to American tastes and patriotic spirit. Examples include such tags as "American Bowie Knife," "Texas Ranger Knife," "Arkansas Toothpick," "Patriot's Self Defender," "Death to Abolition," "Fatality to Traitors," "Americans Never Ever Give Up," "Rio Grande Camp Knife," and "I'm A Genuine Ripper." Handle and secure mountings additionally carried signs as well as slogans with American charm. Cutlers affixed deals with of cream color, pearl, tortoise shell, black as well as grey buffalo horn, India stag horn, as well as great timbers. Handle pommels of nickel silver included horseheads, shells, and also geometric styles. Manufacturers generally signed their blades as well as added such distinct hallmarks as I * XL, B4ANY, and also XCEED. At the episode of the Mexican War in 1846, the Bowie knife was a preferred tool in Texas. Texas Rangers under Jack (John Coffee) Hayes and Ben McCulloch brought Bowie knives and also Colt Dragoon handguns into fight. Knife blades stamped and etched with Mexican War motifs showed up. Zachary Taylor, mounted on Old Whitey, was a favored subject. Bust etchings consisted of "Old Zach," "General Taylor Never Surrenders," "Palo Alto," as well as "Buena Vista." Pommels included a Taylor bust with a patriotic motto.
In the late 1830s a concerned public in a number of Southerly states demanded strict regulations to curtail the increasing "rule of the Bowie knife." In January 1838 the Tennessee legislature passed "An Act to Subdue the Sale and Use of Bowie Knives and also Arkansas Toothpicks in this State." However, the sale of the blades remained to increase, getting to a top after the Civil War. Throughout that battle, unrefined Bowie knives were preferred amongst Confederate soldiers. Some had big, large blades, like those of artillery shortswords; most were unmarked. The Confederates took into consideration the knife an important accoutrement in the early months of the war, however as the problem endured the knife was changed with the bayonet. The knives had hickory or wood handles and also iron places, and also were used in hefty leather sheaths with throats as well as ideas of tin, iron, or brass. Blades had scratch inscriptions as well as crude acid etchings, with such patriotic themes as "Sunny South," "Confederate States Protector," or "Death to Yankees." A couple of Confederate Bowie knives were made by seasoned cutlers as well as displayed excellent craftsmanship. Union soldiers usually wore Sheffield-made Bowie knives.
"In the background of American arms," wrote historian Harold L. Peterson (1958 ), "three weapons stand apart above all the remainder: the Kentucky rifle, the Colt's revolver, as well as the Bowie knife." Each came to be a component of the "great American Legend." The appeal of the Bowie was developed in the 1830s, expanded throughout the 1840s, and also reached its optimal in the 1850s. After the Civil War the knife reduced in favor, and by the mid-1870s was delegated to utilize as a searching knife. The effectiveness, dependability, as well as large distribution of Colt revolvers retired the Bowie knife from its famous role in the nation's background.
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Today, I would like to talk about bufferbloat.
This simply says, that the buffers in networking devices are constantly more than full, i.e. bloated. Full buffers will cause a huge amount of latency and even more congestion on a network link.
A more detailed and non-technical introduction can be found over here. Please go and read this first, if you don't already know about bufferbloat.
In summary, one of the many things the bufferbloat project which has been founded by Jim Gettys has done to fix the bufferbloat problem is the AQM algorithm. The implementation in Linux is called Codel (pronounced coddle) which has been ported to IPFire 2.13!
So, why is this so important? Codel is able to create a whole new experience of your internet connection. Have you ever had to upload a huge amount of data, say a YouTube video? No matter what the uplink speed is, during the upload, you won't be able to open a web page.
The reason of this behaviour is the buffers on the way to the destination (here YouTube). They are filled up with data and it takes some time to transmit all packets in the queue – hence the huge delay which has been about >1200 ms on my 6000/600 DSL connection.
If you use the fq_codel queueing discipline, which can simply be activated by enabling the IPFire Quality of Service, the Codel algorithm starts to do its work. Basically, it reduces the amount of data in the buffers of your network controller and your modem and that keeps you connection fast. In my test, the latency decreased from over 1200 ms to about 20 ms, which is truly amazing. The upload speed remained the same.
That's pretty amazing if you think about a real-life scenario: Browsing the web which doing an upload it not a pain anymore. A VoIP call would be smooth as if the connection did not transfer anything else. Transferring data while playing an online game is also not a problem anymore.
If you are as much excited as I am, please have a look at IPFire 2.13. It is looking good. There have not been any bigger problems, yet, but we would like you to test it a little bit more.
Don't forget to enable the QoS. It is easily set up with the preset and you are ready to use codel.
… which speaks for itself.


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Pontius Pilatus was een Romeins politicus uit de eerste eeuw na Chr. Hij stamde uit het oude Samnitische geslacht van de Pontii en behoorde tot de stand van de equites. Pilatus was van 26 tot 36 na Chr. de 5e praefectus civitatum van Judea (de praefectus Iudaeae), onder het gezag van het Romeinse Rijk ten tijde van keizer Tiberius. Hij was de opvolger van Valerius Gratus. Pilatus wordt in het Nieuwe Testament en de Apostolische geloofsbelijdenis genoemd als degene die Jezus van Nazareth liet kruisigen.

De onbuigzame Pilatus
Philo van Alexandrië beschrijft hem als een harde, onbuigzame man. Volgens de Joodse geschiedschrijver Flavius Josephus kwetste hij de Joden diep door na verplaatsing van het Romeinse garnizoen van Caesarea naar Jeruzalem heimelijk midden in de nacht Romeinse insignia met de beeltenis van de keizer, de princeps, op een openbare plaats in Jeruzalem neer te laten zetten. Voor de Joden was het vereren van beeltenissen van personen een gruwel (een van de Tien geboden). Zijn voorgangers hadden daar rekening mee gehouden, maar Pilatus negeerde deze gevoeligheid. Deze daad veroorzaakte een volksopstand in Caesarea. Na lang aanhouden van beide kanten zwichtte Pilatus uiteindelijk en verplaatste de beeltenissen van de princeps van Jeruzalem terug naar Caesarea.

Ook gebruikte Pilatus volgens Philo en Josephus geld uit de tempelkas om een watervoorziening te laten aanleggen. Tienduizenden Joden, waaronder veel Galileërs, stroomden naar Jeruzalem voor een massaal protest, wat eindigde in een bloedbad. Soldaten als burgers vermomd doodden zonder onderscheid een groot aantal demonstranten. Dit alles zette natuurlijk kwaad bloed.

Proces tegen Jezus
Het verhaal in het Nieuwe Testament over het proces tegen Jezus kan niet zonder historisch-kritische evaluatie worden gebruikt om een goed beeld te krijgen van de historische persoon Pontius Pilatus. De verhalen waren er mede op gericht de schuld voor Jezus' kruisiging bij de Joden neer te leggen om problemen voor christenen met de Romeinen te voorkomen.

Waarom de Romeinen Jezus veroordeelden en executeerden kan niet met zekerheid worden vastgesteld. Er zijn echter enkele mogelijkheden die door diverse godsdiensthistorici als waarschijnlijk of mogelijk worden beschouwd:
 De meeste historici beschouwen het incident in de tempel als belangrijkste aanleiding. Ook volgens de evangeliën begint de behandeling van Jezus' zaak met de aanklacht van zijn dreigement jegens de tempel, maar waren de getuigenverklaringen niet "afdoende". Als de hogepriester Kajafas en zijn adviseurs hadden geweten dat Jezus als een "koning" zou zijn onthaald, hadden ze zich al eerder met zijn zaak beziggehouden. De hogepriester was verantwoordelijk voor de orde in Judea en Jeruzalem in het bijzonder. Aangezien Kajafas langer als hogepriester onder de Romeinen diende dan wie dan ook, kan worden aangenomen dat hij capabel was. De hogepriester wilde Jezus daarom dood om dezelfde reden waarom Antipas Johannes dood wilde: hij zou problemen kunnen veroorzaken.Jezus was gevaarlijk, want hij had volgelingen. Hij had enige tijd over "het koninkrijk" onderwezen. Hij had fysieke actie ondernomen in de tempel. Hij was niet gek en dus potentieel gevaarlijk. Daarom adviseerde Kajafas Pilatus Jezus te executeren. Volgens de evangeliën zette Kajafas zijn oordeel kracht bij door Jezus te beschuldigen van godslastering, wat kan duiden op een ultieme poging steun te krijgen voor het doodsvonnis dat hij hoe dan ook wilde vellen (ongeacht of dit een terechte grondslag van de veroordeling was).De Romeinen wilden onrust tijdens Pesach vermijden, beschouwden Jezus als een onruststoker en executeerden hem daarom.
 De tweede richting zoekt de verklaring voor de executie in de eerste plaats bij het gegeven dat Jezus en zijn aanhangers door Pontius Pilatus, al dan niet terecht, voor opstandelingen tegen het Romeinse gezag in Judea werden aangezien. De formulering 'koning van de Joden' verraadt het perspectief van buitenstaanders. Hieruit volgt, dat de Romeinen Jezus executeerden omdat ze hem beschouwden als iemand die de macht over de Joden wilde grijpen.In dit geval blijft wel de vraag open, waarom alleen Jezus als leider van de vermeende opstand werd vervolgd, aangezien de Romeinen in andere gevallen tot collectieve straffen overgingen.

Het precieze verloop van de gerechtelijke procedure tegen Jezus bij de Joodse en Romeinse autoriteiten is onmogelijk te reconstrueren. Uit wat we weten over Pilatus' verdere handelen bij processen en executies, kunnen we met grote waarschijnlijkheid concluderen dat het verslag in de evangeliën over Jezus' ondervraging een poging was problemen met de Romeinen te voorkomen: Philo (tijdgenoot van Pilatus) schreef over Pilatus' executies zonder proces en Pilatus werd uiteindelijk uit zijn ambt gezet vanwege grootschalige en slecht doordachte executies. Naar alle waarschijnlijkheid ontving Pilatus Kajafas' aanklacht, liet Jezus geselen en ondervroeg hem kort. Toen de antwoorden niet bevredigend waren, stuurde hij hem naar het kruis zonder er verder over te hoeven nadenken.

Een voorzichtiger Pilatus
Op 18 oktober van het jaar 31 werd Pilatus' positie verzwakt door de val van zijn vriend Lucius Aelius Seianus, een gunsteling van Tiberius. Door gekonkel en intriges had deze Seianus veel macht in het Romeinse Rijk verworven. Maar toen een complot werd ontdekt om de macht te grijpen werd hij terechtgesteld. Het is mogelijk dat Pilatus vanaf die tijd heel beducht was voor enige verdenking vanuit Rome dat hij de princeps ontrouw zou zijn.

Val van Pilatus
In 36 na Chr. kwam Pilatus ten val. De directe aanleiding was een incident op de berg Gerizim, een voor Samaritanen zeer heilige berg, waar een grote groep van hen op aanwijzing van een profeet naar de heilige Ark van het Verbond wilden graven. Deze Ark was vermist sinds de verwoesting van de Tempel van Salomo. Pilatus vertrouwde de samenscholing niet en liet een aantal van de gravers ombrengen. Er ging een klacht met een beschuldiging van moord op onschuldige burgers naar Lucius Vitellius, gouverneur van Syrië. Die gebood Pilatus naar Rome te gaan om tekst en uitleg te geven aan princeps Tiberius en benoemde direct Marcellus als procurator van Judea en Jeruzalem in zijn plaats. Toen Pilatus, die Vitellius niet ongehoorzaam durfde te zijn, op 16 maart 37 in Rome aankwam, was Tiberius al gestorven. Volgens min of meer legendarische bronnen zou Pilatus daarna onder Caligula en Claudius I als keizerlijk ambtenaar gediend hebben in Zuid-Frankrijk waar hij ook overleden zou zijn. Het is niet zeker of Pilatus volgens de legende zelfmoord pleegde of door een natuurlijke oorzaak aan zijn einde kwam.

Titel, Pilatusinscriptie en de zegelring

Lange tijd is onduidelijk geweest of de eerste Romeinse bestuurders van Judea praefecti of procuratores waren. Sinds de vondst van een inscriptie op een kalksteenblok dat tot in de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw hergebruikt zat ingemetseld in het Romeinse theater van Caesarea (waar de bestuurders hun residentie hadden), staat echter vast dat Pilatus prefect was. Bovendien concludeert men uit de inscriptie gewoonlijk dat alle bestuurders van Judea vóór keizer Claudius deze titel droegen. Tacitus' vermelding van deze bestuurders als procuratoren wordt dan opgevat als een terugprojecteren van later gebruik.

De tekst van de inscriptie luidt:
TIBERIEUM
NTIUS PILATUS
ECTUS IUDAEE

De complete tekst van de inscriptie luidde vermoedelijk oorspronkelijk:
DIS AUGUSTIS TIBERIEUM
PONTIUS PILATUS
PRAEFECTUS IUDAEAE
DEDIT DEDICAVIT

Archeologen hebben rond 1968 op de westelijke Jordaanoever een Romeinse ring gevonden. In 2018 werd ontdekt dat de inscriptie in de ring de letters van de naam van Pontius Pilatus weergeven. Volgens de archeologen zou dit slechts het tweede archeologisch bewijsstuk zijn dat hij werkelijk heeft bestaan. De archeologische site waar de ring werd ontdekt, bevindt zich in de onmiddellijke omgeving van het graf van koning Herodes. Volgens andere bronnen echter zou het niet gaan om de originele ring maar om een exemplaar vervaardigd uit minderwaardig materiaal dat eventueel door zijn personeel werd gebruikt om documenten e.a. te verzegelen.

Trivia
Pontius Pilatus-syndroom
"Wat ik geschreven heb, heb ik geschreven" (Quod scripsi, scripsi) zei Pontius Pilatus volgens Johannes 19:22 toen hem werd voorgesteld het opschrift INRI op het kruis te veranderen. Deze uitspraak typeert een probleem van veel schrijvers: ze voelen een soort innerlijke weerstand tegen veranderingen. Ze kunnen niet genoeg afstand nemen van hun eigen tekst. Daardoor komen ze moeilijk op alternatieven voor woordkeus en zinsbouw die de tekst misschien verbeteren. Dit wordt het Pontius Pilatus-syndroom genoemd.
Van mis tot toverspreuk
In de geloofsbelijdenis van Nicea, het credo, dat nog dagelijks in katholieke missen wordt gebeden, komt de zin voor die over Jezus Christus zegt dat hij "geleden heeft onder Pontius Pilatus, is gekruisigd, gestorven en begraven". In het Latijn luidt die regel: "Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est". Deze woorden werden, gecombineerd met de woorden "Hoc est corpus" ("Dit is het lichaam") in de volksmond verbasterd tot "hocus pocus pilatus pas", woorden die aanvankelijk waarschijnlijk magisch klonken, maar nu meestal te horen zijn bij goochelaars.
Pilatus terug in Rome
Simon Vestdijk beschreef het (fictieve) leven van Pontius Pilatus na zijn terugkomst in Rome in zijn roman De nadagen van Pilatus (1938).

Referenties
  The Pilate Inscription
 , Pontius Pilate op www.livius.org
 , Pontius Pilatus, der fünfte Prokurator von Judäa und Richter Jesu von Nazareth. Stuttgart, 1988.
 , Pilatus; de biografie van een verzonnen man. Amsterdam / Antwerpen: Contact, 1999.

Noten

Persoon uit het Nieuwe Testament
Gouverneur van Romeins Judea
Persoon in de 1e eeuw

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The Pastel Piebald is a co-dom recessive morph combination, we produced it in 2005 along with The Snake Keeper. After missing the odds on multiple clutches, our luck changed with the second to last clutch of the season, from a 5 egg clutch of Pastel het Pied x het Pied, out came one of our prized possessions one of the first Pastel Pieds. You can imagine the excitement and joy that was felt on that Labor Day holiday in 2005, when we discovered this beautiful Pastel Pied had hatched and it was a male. This male has grown up and in 2008 had sired the first Super Pastel Pied or "Killer Pied", a stunning lemon yellow Piebald, creating a greater demand for the already sought after Pastel Pied.


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Does 'fake it til you make it' actually work?
One of the biggest obstacles to feeling happier that people often point to is that they just don't feel happy. It either happens or it doesn't, sort of like the weather. That's what we tend to think, anyway. It's not clear how happiness started to be seen this way, as somehow out of our personal control, but what isclear is that science continues to prove this belief wrong. There really are small and easy ways we can increase our own happiness.
And while most people can see the wisdom in things like "do something nice for yourself" or "develop a gratitude habit" most people resist the idea of what I often call Fake It 'Til You Make It--physical changes proven to bring about happier emotions. They may seem counterintuitive actions to take when you're feeling down, but they really work.
1. Smile! Sure, you feel like a phony if you smile when you're unhappy, but if you look at the research and see that forming a smile--genuine or not--actually boosts your feelings of well-being over time, maybe you'll feel differently. It's not just that happiness makes you smile, it's also that smiling can make you happier. People who've gotten Botox injections (to get that nice smooth, youthful look) are scientifically proven to be happier overall -- maybe in part because they can't frown like their non-Botoxed counterparts. Again, emotions create facial expressions, but it works the other way around, too. Once you realize that "turning that frown upside down" isn't just a platitude, it may inspire you to give it a try.
2. Straighten up. Just as our emotions come through in our facial expressions, our bodies also tend to reflect our mental state. We describe people as "downtrodden" or "carrying the weight of the world" because negative feelings affect our posture. Sadness and stress bring slumped shoulders, downcast gaze, and a tendency to make ourselves smaller overall. Research into how posture affects our emotions is pretty clear: simply sitting up or standing up straighter, with an elongated spine, more open chest position, and a raised gaze has mood-brightening results. Now that we're all spending significant portions of our day hunched over computers and smartphones, depression is on the rise. Sure, some of it may be due to more complicated factors such as replacing real-time human contact with electronic substitutes, but our bad posture alone is partially responsible for our shift in mood. If you want to feel happier, let your spine lead the way! Carry yourself straight and tall, and you'll not only look better, you'll feel better.
3. Just breathe. Did you know that we actually breathe differently depending on our mood? It may sound kind of woo-woo, but it's not. You already know that the way you breathe when you're stressed and panicked is different from the way you breathe when you're calm and relaxed. Well, it turns out that there's such a thing as typical happy breathing. What's more, just as you can flip around smiling and great posture to produce happier feelings, the same can be done with the way you breathe. A 2010 study showed emotional states can be created by breathing patterns, and the great news is that it's not complicated and it doesn't require incense or a gong or anything. Feeling down? Check your breathing. Deep, slow breaths--the kind that you can feel in your abdomen, rather than the kind that raise your chest--are the way to create feelings of calm and well-being. Breathe like you're already feeling good, and soon enough, you will.
The best thing about these simple ways to boost your happiness is that all of them can be done quickly and easily and you can feel their positive effects almost instantly. You can always take a deep breath, stand a little taller, or try on a smile. The more you fake it 'til you make it, the more natural it will begin to feel. And pretty soon, you'll be happier, which means you won't be faking it anymore. Pretty awesome.
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Jared McDaniel
Jared McDaniel, CFA, CPA, CFP® , CMT, CPWA® , AIF®
Director, Senior Investment Consultant
Mr. McDaniel joined City National Rochdale in 2014 and has over 15 years of financial industry experience. Located in Tampa, he is responsible for developing and fostering relationships along the West Coast of Florida with CPAs, attorneys, financial advisors, and their clients who may benefit from City National Rochdale's customized investment management services.
Most recently, Mr. McDaniel was employed at Sentinel Investments where he served as a Product Specialist responsible for institutional and retail client relationships. Prior to that, he served as an Investment Strategist at Deutsche Bank, where he performed research to develop the firm's asset allocation and was a member of the U.S. Investment Committee. Mr. McDaniel began his career at Arthur Andersen, where he performed tax consulting and compliance services.
Mr. McDaniel received his BS and MS in Accounting with a specialization in Tax from the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida. He also received his MBA from the University of South Florida, with specializations in Financial Market and Institutions, International Business, and Finance. Mr. McDaniel holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Tampa Bay. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Florida and a member of the FICPA and AICPA. Additionally, he holds the Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Market Technician, Certified Private Wealth Advisor® and Accredited Investment Fiduciary® designations. Mr. McDaniel spends most of his free time with his family, his wife, Jessica and three kids, Rebecca, Reese, and Benjamin.


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<button onclick="myFunction2()" id="myBtn2">Read more</button>

A: First, when repeating behavior you should refrain from attempting to use id attributes since (as you know) they must be unique. Additionally, it leads to naming things without much meaning (thing1, thing2 etc).
One technique is to use the class attribute.
Each event allows access to the target of the event. We can find the paragraph to effect using the previousElementSibling to find the
.
From there, we can use that node to query for the .dots and .more classes and change them as needed.
Since the button is the target of the event, we just change the button text directly.
EDIT: Thanks @Carston for the previousElementSibling hint.

function myFunction(e) {
  const paragraph = e.target.previousElementSibling;
  var dots = paragraph.querySelector('.dots');
  var moreText = paragraph.querySelector(".more");

  if (dots.style.display === "none") {
    dots.style.display = "inline";
    e.target.innerHTML = "Read more";
    moreText.style.display = "none";
  } else {
    dots.style.display = "none";
    e.target.innerHTML = "Read less";
    moreText.style.display = "inline";
  }
}
.more {display: none;}

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<button onclick="myFunction(event)">Read more</button>

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<button onclick="myFunction(event)">Read more</button>

A: You could use a function parameter to dynamically add a suffix to your ids :

function myFunction(suffix) {
  var dots = document.getElementById("dots" + suffix);
  var moreText = document.getElementById("more"  + suffix);
  var btnText = document.getElementById("myBtn"  + suffix);

  if (dots.style.display === "none") {
    dots.style.display = "inline";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read more";
    moreText.style.display = "none";
  } else {
    dots.style.display = "none";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read less";
    moreText.style.display = "inline";
  }
}
#more {display: none;}
#more2 {display: none;}

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<button onclick="myFunction('')" id="myBtn">Read more</button>

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<button onclick="myFunction('2')" id="myBtn2">Read more</button>

Or 3 parameters corresponding to the ids :

function myFunction(dotsId, moreTextId, btnTextId) {
  var dots = document.getElementById(dotsId);
  var moreText = document.getElementById(moreTextId);
  var btnText = document.getElementById(btnTextId);

  if (dots.style.display === "none") {
    dots.style.display = "inline";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read more";
    moreText.style.display = "none";
  } else {
    dots.style.display = "none";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read less";
    moreText.style.display = "inline";
  }
}
#more {display: none;}
#more2 {display: none;}

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<button onclick="myFunction('dots','more','myBtn')" id="myBtn">Read more</button>

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<button onclick="myFunction('dots2','more2','myBtn2')" id="myBtn2">Read more</button>

A: use template literals like this:
function myFunction(number) {
  var dots = document.getElementById(`dots${number}`);
  var moreText = document.getElementById(`more${number}`);
  var btnText = document.getElementById(`myBtn${number}`);

  if (dots.style.display === "none") {
    dots.style.display = "inline";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read more";
    moreText.style.display = "none";
  } else {
    dots.style.display = "none";
    btnText.innerHTML = "Read less";
    moreText.style.display = "inline";
  }
}

<button onclick="myFunction('')" id="myBtn">Read more</button>
<button onclick="myFunction2('2')" id="myBtn2">Read more</button>

A: I guess this answer was not really called for. In my opinion @RandyCasburn already nailed it. However, here is another version that works with even less html to put in place to create unfoldable sections.
By placing a  within a paragraph this section is marked to be "unfoldable". The first part of my script adds the three dots and a "Read more" button and makes the span's original content invisible.
The delegated click event handler then does all the work:

// prepare document once (put "..." and buttons in place):
document.querySelectorAll(".more").forEach(el=>{
  el.dataset.html=el.innerHTML;
  el.textContent="...";
  const btn=document.createElement("button");
  btn.className="morebtn";
  btn.textContent="Read more";
  el.closest("p").after(btn);
})

// delegated event attachment:
document.body.onclick=e=>{
 if (e.target.className==="morebtn"){
  const mor = e.target.previousElementSibling.querySelector(".more");
  [mor.innerHTML,mor.dataset.html]=[mor.dataset.html,mor.innerHTML];
  e.target.innerHTML = mor.textContent==="..."?"Read more":"Read less";
 }
}

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Ха́ммонд () — город расположенный в северо-западной части штата Индиана в США. Входит в городскую агломерацию Большой Чикаго. Является крупнейшим по населению городом округа Лейк. В городе живёт примерно 80 тысяч жителей.

Города-побратимы
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Примечания

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Лейк (округ, Индиана)


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Q: Partial differential equations that involve an infinite "continuum" of variables: "Each point in space contributes additional degrees of freedom"? Page 11, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, by Strogatz, says the following:

This is the domain of classical applied mathematics and mathematical physics where the linear partial differential equations live. Here we find Maxwell's equations of electricity and magnetism, the heat equation, Schrödinger's wave equation in quantum mechanics, and so on. These partial differential equations involve an infinite "continuum" of variables because each point in space contributes additional degrees of freedom. Even though these systems are large, they are tractable, thanks to such linear techniques as Fourier analysis and transform methods.

I'm wondering what is meant by the following:

These partial differential equations involve an infinite "continuum" of variables because each point in space contributes additional degrees of freedom.

"Each point in space contributes additional degrees of freedom"? We have three spacial dimensions, but since we're talking about an "infinite" continuum, I'm assuming he's referring to the infinite possible coordinates for these dimensions? I still don't understand why this infinite number of coordinates means that there are infinite variables? In mathematics, the number of variables has nothing to do with the number of possible coordinate combinations (which would be uncountably infinite, since there are an uncountably infinite number of real numbers).
Am I misinterpreting something here?
I would greatly appreciate it if people could please take the time to clarify this.

A: Partial differential equations solve for fields, that is, typically functions $\mathbb{R}^3\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. How many scalar "variables" do you need to represent such a function?
What is the value of the field at point $(0,0,0)$ ? This is one variable.
What is the value of the field at point $(0,1,0)$ ? This is another variable.
What is the value of the field at point $(e,\sqrt{2},\pi)$ ? A third variable.
How many variables do we have in total, then? That would be the cardinality of the continuum, $\aleph_1$, hence a continuum of variables.

A: See the answer to this question. For completeness, the relevant bit:

For PDEs, the situation is much more complex. This is because, whereas an ODE defines a flow in an $n$-dimensional phase space, a PDE defines a flow in a function space. I'm skipping a lot of very important and interesting details here, but the important thing is that function spaces are infinite dimensional. To make the connection with the ODE case, take the example of the advection equation, given by
  $$
 c \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = 0.
$$
  You can use the method of characteristics to write down the general solution to this PDE. The solution is given by
  $$
u(x,t) = f(x - c t),
$$
  where $f(x)$ is a function that plays the role of the initial condition, since $u(x,0) = f(x)$. So, you can pick any function $f(x)$ you like (again, skipping a couple of important and interesting details here), and you get a solution to the PDE. As there are, roughly speaking, infinitely many functions to choose from, you have infinitely many 'degrees of freedom' in picking an initial condition (initial function) for your PDE.
The order of the PDE mainly influences the particular function space it acts on, so the function space in which you can pick a function as initial condition. However, typically, all these function spaces are infinite dimensional -- in the sense that they are not finite-dimensional. The field of functional analysis addresses questions that arise in this context.


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Дітлев Готард Монрад (24 листопада 1811 — 28 березня 1887) — данський політик і єпископ Лолланн-Фальстера.

Життєпис
Був одним із піонерів конституційного процесу в Данії після 1848 року. Як голова Ради (1863–1864) був лідером держави на ранній стадії Другої війни за Шлезвіг проти Німецького союзу на чолі з Отто фон Бісмарком, яка завершилась Віденським миром.

Після тієї війни через депресію та розчарування Монрад виїхав до Нової Зеландії. Разом зі своєю родиною він вирощував корів та вівці у передмісті Палмерстон-Норта. Надавав допомогу багатьом данським іммігрантам знайти землю та оселитись у Новій Зеландії.

Просування його справи порушили повстання маорі. Монрад був змушений сховати свої речі та вирушити до Веллінгтона, а 1869 — повернутись до Данії. Його сини згодом повернулись і стали фермерами у Новій Зеландії.

Перед виїздом до Європи він подарував свою коштовну колекцію ескізів і гравюр таких майстрів як Рембрандт, Рубенс, Дюрер і ван Дейк, уряду Нової Зеландії. Нині вони є частиною експозиції в Національному музеї Те Папа Тонгарева.

Література
 Johan Schioldann-Nielsen, The life of D.G. Monrad (1811–1887): manic-depressive disorder and political leadership, Odense University Press, 1988. ISBN 87-7492-668-3.
 G.C. Petersen, D.G. Monrad: Scholar, statesman, priest and New Zealand pioneer and his New Zealand descendants, Kerslake, Billens & Humphrey. 1965.

Посилання
 50 Міністр освіти
 Колекція Монрада
 Біографія
 Біографія в Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

Уродженці Копенгагена
Міністри закордонних справ Данії
Міністри внутрішніх справ Данії
Данські емігранти до Нової Зеландії


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text:
var path = require('path');
var visitasprincipio;
var url = process.env.DATABASE_URL.match(/(.*)\:\/\/(.*?)\:(.*)@(.*)\:(.*)\/(.*)/);
var DB_name = (url[6]||null);
var user = (url[2]||null);
var pwd = (url[3]||null);
var protocol  = (url[1]||null);
var dialect  = (url[1]||null);
var port  = (url[5]||null);
var host  = (url[4]||null);
var storage  = process.env.DATABASE_STORAGE;

var Sequelize = require('sequelize');
var sequelize = new Sequelize(DB_name,user,pwd,
	{ dialect:protocol,
		protocol:protocol,
		port:port,
		host:host,
		storage:storage,
		omitNull:true
	});

//Importar definición de la tabla Quiz
var quiz_path = path.join(__dirname,'quiz');
var Quiz = sequelize.import(quiz_path);

//Importar definición de la tabla Comment
var comment_path= path.join(__dirname, 'comment');
var Comment = sequelize.import(comment_path);

//Importar definición de la tabla de usuarios
var user_path = path.join(__dirname, 'user');
var User = sequelize.import(user_path);

//Importar definición de la tabla de visitas
var cont_path = path.join(__dirname, 'contador');
var Contador = sequelize.import(cont_path);

//los quizes pertenecen a un usuario registrado
Quiz.belongsTo(User);
User.hasMany(Quiz);
User.belongsToMany(Quiz, {through: 'Favourites', as:"Favourites" });
Quiz.belongsToMany(User, {through: 'Favourites', as: "Fans" });
User.belongsToMany(Quiz, {through: 'Points', as:"Ganados" });
Quiz.belongsToMany(User, {through: 'Points', as:"Participants" });
Comment.belongsTo(Quiz);
Quiz.hasMany(Comment);
// exportar tablas
exports.Quiz = Quiz;
exports.Comment = Comment;
exports.User = User;
exports.Contador = Contador;

sequelize.sync().then(function(){
	Contador.count().then(function(count){
		visitasprincipio = count || 0;
		exports.visitasprincipio = visitasprincipio;
	}).then(function(){

	User.count().then(function(count){//////})
	if(count===0){console.log('aqui');
	User.bulkCreate(
		[ {username: 'admin', password:'1234', isAdmin: true, image: 'kudb5ucvig8c7xypfh6w'},
		{username: 'sonsoleslp', password:'5678', description: ' Sonsoles López Pernas. 21 años.', image: 'sonso_tcivhx'}
		]

		).then(function(){

			console.log('Base de datos(tabla user) inicializada');
			Quiz.count().then(function(count){
				if(count === 0) {
					Quiz.bulkCreate(
						[{pregunta:'Capital de Italia',	respuesta:'Roma', UserId:2, image: 'ITALIA_pim7i8'},
						{pregunta:'Capital de Portugal',respuesta:'Lisboa', UserId:2, image: 'PORTUGAL_ptlqvv'},
						{pregunta:'Capital de España',	respuesta:'Madrid', UserId:2, image: 'SPAIN_itmfvc'}
						]
						).then(function(){console.log('Base de datos (tabla quiz) inicializada')

					});
					};
				});
		});
	};
});
})
});

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She was 9-13 from the free throw line, while also adding 14 rebounds for a double-double.
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Why ISIS Fears Israel
August 8, 2016 Topic: Security Region: Israel Tags: ISISIslamic StateISILDeterrenceTerrorismCounterterrorism
A strategy of patient, vigilant deterrence works—and America should take note.
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IN THE wake of the Orlando and Istanbul attacks, President Obama reiterated his determination to "destroy" ISIS by executing a strategy that combines air strikes, American special-operations units and support for local ground forces. Both of the candidates campaigning to succeed him insist that the United States must do more: Donald Trump advocates that Washington "bomb the hell out of" the group, while Hillary Clinton promises to "smash the would-be caliphate." All three, however, are in violent agreement on one point: the overriding objective must be to destroy ISIS.
The insistence on the "destruction" of ISIS has become such a reflexive linchpin of America's counterterrorism project that few pause to consider its strategic merit. But the nation with arguably the most experience and success combatting terrorism has considered it—and found it wanting.
Israelis live much closer to ISIS than do Americans. ISIS has pledged to conquer the Jewish state and incorporate it into its core caliphate. Yet surprisingly, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has rejected the option of taking the fight directly to ISIS. Instead, faced with an operational threat that could mean the death of hundreds of Israelis at any moment, it has embraced a strategy that has not even been on the U.S. policy menu. Adopting a page from the playbook the United States used to defeat revolutionary Soviet-led communism in the Cold War, Israel is preventing ISIS attacks through a strategy of patient, vigilant deterrence. Obviously, the United States cannot simply adopt the Israeli approach whole cloth. It operates in a different security environment than the Jewish state, which faces a multiplicity of terrorist threats on its borders. But there are important lessons that America can learn to enhance its national security.
Israel's approach to ISIS is straightforward. Israel seeks to persuade ISIS not to attack it by credibly threatening to retaliate. If you attack us, the thinking goes, we will respond in ways that will impose pain that exceeds any gain you can hope to achieve. As Cold War strategists learned, making this work in practice is demanding. To be effective, deterrence requires three Cs: clarity, capability and credibility. Specifically, this means clarity about the red line that cannot be crossed, communicated in language the adversary understands; capability to impose costs that greatly exceed the benefits; and credibility about the willingness to do so. Failures occur when the deterrer falls short on any one of the three Cs. So, if I draw a red line, you cross it, and I respond with words rather than the decisive punishment threatened, I fail the third C. Whatever excuse I give for not executing my threat, and however earnest my claim that next time will be different, the blunt fact is that adversaries will find my threats less credible.
If that were not enough, as the great nuclear strategist Thomas Schelling taught us, successful deterrence requires more than just a threat. The flip side of the deterrence coin is an equivalent promise: if you refrain from the prohibited action, I will withhold the threatened punishment. If, for whatever reason, I decide to administer the specified punishment even though you have complied with my demands, I spend that coin—and can no longer use that threat to deter you. As the saying goes, if you're damned if you do and damned if you don't—you might as well do.
The suggestion that terrorists as vicious as ISIS could be deterred is routinely dismissed by most members of the U.S. policy community as silly or dangerously naïve. Some assert that terrorists just want to kill. Others argue that they are irrational and that, when facing adversaries who are prepared to die for their cause, threatening to kill them will have no effect. American strategists have also been traumatized by Al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Imagine a responsible government knew that it was facing hostile terrorists who had the capability to conduct an attack that could kill hundreds. If it chose to counter that threat by attempting to deter, rather than preemptively attack, the adversary, how would that government justify itself to its citizens in the aftermath of another Paris-scale assault?
ISRAELI STRATEGISTS ask all of these questions—and struggle with uncomfortable solutions. They have concluded that, however imperfect, deterrence is the best option. Indeed, the IDF believes that it is successfully deterring adversaries along all azimuths: states (Iran, Lebanon and Syria), substates (Hezbollah and Hamas) and even terrorist organizations (ISIS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda–linked groups). Israeli strategists reject the consensus view in Washington that ISIS is an ominous threat to "the entire civilized world." In contrast to President Obama's argument that ISIS should be the "top priority" for the IDF, it is just one more terrorist group—one that does not even make the top half of Israel's threat matrix. As former chief of military intelligence Amos Yadlin provocatively put it, "At the end of the day, we are talking about several thousand unrestrained terrorists riding pickup trucks and firing with Kalashnikovs and machine guns."
The American counterterrorism debate has largely ignored Israeli calculus. Washington is generally averse to learning from others, and Israel's security establishment, until recently, was reticent about revealing its thinking. That changed last August when, for the first time in the IDF's history, Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot published an unclassified version of the IDF defense doctrine. But because the document appeared only in Hebrew, it has remained largely unknown in the American strategic community. To make it accessible, Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs recently posted an English translation of the document.
The "IDF Strategy" document discusses in detail how to deter terrorist groups, specifically Hezbollah and Hamas. In the U.S. policy lexicon, Hezbollah and Hamas are labeled "terrorists." The IDF calls them "substate organizations." Substate actors have headquarters, hold territory and govern populations. Thus they present targets of value, making them vulnerable, like states, to a combination of "general deterrence" and "specific deterrence." General deterrence is achieved by maintaining overwhelming military superiority and earning a reputation like that of the Godfather. The Godfather "takes everything personal." As his consigliere observed, "If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. . . . Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." In Eizenkot's words, Israel must be seen as "an unpredictable enemy that can react in a very severe way."
Specific deterrence is tailored to each enemy and focuses on particular actions. It requires "an ongoing analysis of the enemy's characteristics, considerations, capabilities, identity, and decision making processes." Israel seeks to influence the "calculations" of its enemies directly by persuading them of "the futility of continuing to fight" and reminding them of the "outcome of previous confrontations."
The IDF constantly worries about whether its deterrent is sufficiently strong. It works daily to ensure that it meets each and every condition required for success. Red lines are clearly, publicly and repeatedly announced by top Israeli officials not only in Hebrew, but also in Arabic. Israel's capability to enforce these red lines is demonstrated by "building a force that is partially visible to the enemy." Credibility is enhanced by taking "limited offensive actions to signal that the 'rules of the game' have been broken." And it is careful to withhold punishment otherwise. (Indeed, Israeli policymakers have occasionally chosen not only to avoid punishment but to reward good behavior, for example, in supporting the reconstruction of Gaza even though Hamas uses some of the material Israel supplies to build tunnels and rockets.)
Israel sees Hezbollah as the "most severe threat." A proxy of Iran, it has assembled an arsenal of more than one hundred thousand missiles and rockets aimed at Israel—many of them precision-guided with the ability to hit strategic targets, including the equivalent of the Pentagon in Tel Aviv. Hamas, whose charter pledges to "raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" occupied by "warmongering Jews," stands second among substates whose attacks must be deterred. It has fought three wars against Israel in the past decade. During the Second Intifada, Hamas perfected the suicide bomb and used it to kill hundreds of Israeli civilians. Today, the group has thousands of rockets and is burrowing tunnels into Israeli territory for future attacks. (Israel has discovered a number of tunnels in recent months, each buried one hundred feet underground.)
How does the IDF meet threats posed by these groups? Not by direct attacks to degrade them; not by all-out war to destroy them. Instead, it attempts to deter them. As Yadlin explained,
"Vis-a-vis Hamas and Hezbollah, we haven't destroyed their capabilities, but we were able to establish deterrence. And this is basically because we hit them hard, and because the terrorists became . . . half-state entities. . . . The terrorists have discovered that when they are responsible for their economy, for education, for the life of their people, suddenly they are not that daring to use terror all day."


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Pope Francis joins hundreds of thousands for Mass
Francis told his listeners that their presence itself was "a kind of miracle in today's world."
Pope Francis joins hundreds of thousands for Mass Francis told his listeners that their presence itself was "a kind of miracle in today's world." Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1KE57gj
Associated Press Published 4:46 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2015 | Updated 4:47 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2015
Pope Francis celebrates mass at the World Meeting of Families at Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 27, 2015.(Photo: MATT ROURKE / AFP/Getty Images)
Philadelphia — Pope Francis joined hundreds of thousands of the faithful Sunday at the last and biggest event of his joyful, six-day U.S. visit — a Mass on Philadelphia's grandest boulevard — after meeting with victims of the church sex abuse scandal and offering words of hope to jail inmates.
Riding through the streets in his open-sided popemobile, the pontiff waved to cheering, screaming, singing, flag-waving crowds as he made his way up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and reached the altar at the steps of the tall-columned Philadelphia Museum of Art, a towering golden crucifix as a backdrop.
Francis told his listeners that their presence itself was "a kind of miracle in today's world," an affirmation of the family and the power of love.
"Would that all of us could be open to miracles of love for the sake of all the families of the world," he said.
The Mass was a vibrant tableau of gold, green and white in the slanted evening sunlight of a mild early-autumn day. It was the final event on Francis' itinerary before the 78-year-old pontiff was to return to Rome.
June Bounds, 56, of Rochester, New York, watched along with fellow parishioners on a large screen set up a few blocks away at City Hall, closing her eyes and blinking back tears as the Mass opened.
"It's very overwhelming," she said. "You feel like you're one body with everyone here, whether you're here, whether you're back home, whether you're anywhere in the world."
Of the pope, she said: "He's brought so much joy and holy spirit into the United States. It doesn't matter if you're a Catholic; he's just trying to unite everybody for a better world."
Organizers predicted a crowd of 1 million, though there were fears that the unprecedented security, including airport-style bag searches, crowd-control cattle chutes and blocked-off streets, had scared many people away and would depress the turnout.
En route to the Mass, Francis stepped off his popemobile to see an art installation with particular meaning for him: Inside the grotto outside Philadelphia's cathedral were 30,000 white knotted ribbons, each representing a personal hardship or societal challenge.
The exhibit was inspired by one of Francis' favorite paintings, "Mary, Undoer of Knots," showing Mary untangling a long ribbon symbolizing life's difficulties. The painting hangs in a church in Germany, where then-Rev. Jorge Mario Bergoglio saw it while studying in the mid-1980s.
Earlier in the day, in a gesture of reconciliation, he met with victims of child sexual abuse and told them he is "deeply sorry" for the times they came forward to tell their story and weren't believed. He assured them that he believes them and that bishops will be called to account for shielding child-molesting priests.
"I pledge to you that we will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead," Francis said in Spanish. "Clergy and bishops will be held accountable when they abuse or fail to protect children."
Then, he went into a meeting with American bishops in town for a Catholic festival on the family and told them the same thing face-to-face.
"God weeps" over what was done to the youngsters, he lamented.
Also Sunday, Francis visited a Philadelphia jail to give hope of redemption to about 100 inmates, included suspected killers, rapists and mobsters. He greeted the men one by one, telling them to use their time behind bars to get their lives back on track.
"May you make possible new opportunities, new journeys, new paths," he said, standing before a wooden chair the men had made for him for the occasion.
The blue-uniformed inmates, some of them heavily tattooed, seemed moved. They clasped Francis' hands, and two gave him a hug.
Francis' U.S. journey also took him to Washington and New York. Along the way, he drew large and adoring crowds, met with President Barack Obama, visited ground zero and an East Harlem school, and addressed Congress and the United Nations, calling for urgent action on climate change and poverty.
As the hour of the papal Mass in Philadelphia approached, people endured hourslong waits to pass through security checkpoints, and the lines stretched for several blocks.
Sarah and Terrence Williams, both 36, of Williamstown, New Jersey, have been trying for more than a year to have a baby and said they were hoping that attending the Mass might result in a miracle.
"Hopefully he'll drive by and just his acknowledgment will be the blessing we need to get our miracle," Terrence Williams said.
Thomas Coorey, a dentist and father of four visiting Philadelphia from Sydney, called Francis "the most inspirational and amazing pope that could breathe life into this church of mine."
The meeting on Sunday with victims of sexual abuse was the second one Francis has held. He received some at the Vatican in July 2014.
But in an apparent effort by the church to reshape the discussion, the Vatican said not all five of the victims on Sunday were abused by members of the clergy; some of the three women and two men had been victimized by relatives or educators.
The choice of victims underscored the Vatican's argument that child molestation is not unique to the church but happens also in schools and within families.
Victim support groups were unimpressed by the meeting, which took place at a seminary on the edge of Philadelphia and lasted more than a half-hour.
The main victims' support group, SNAP, dismissed it as an exercise in public relations.
"Is a child anywhere on Earth safer now that a pope, for maybe the seventh or eighth time or ninth time, has briefly chatted with abuse victims? No," said SNAP's David Clohessy.
The Rev. Tom Doyle, a canon lawyer who worked at the Vatican embassy in Washington and is now an advocate for victims, said that including more than just victims of abusive clergy "seriously minimizes" the problem in the church.
"We don't think we're going to get any real support to change this from the leadership in the Vatican," Doyle said. "They're having this big meeting of families. But there's been no real room for all the families that the Catholic Church has destroyed through sexual abuse."
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been hit hard by the scandal and has been the subject of repeated grand jury investigations, including one that accused it of keeping on more than three dozen priests facing serious accusations. A monsignor was found guilty of endangering children by not removing pedophile priests, becoming the first American church official convicted of such an offense.
The pope has agreed to create a new Vatican tribunal to prosecute bishops who failed to protect their flock, and he has accepted the resignations of three U.S. bishops accused of mishandling cases. During the previous meeting with victims, he similarly vowed to hold bishops accountable.
During the meeting with the bishops, Francis referred to gay marriage for the first time in his U.S. trip, lamenting the new reality in which Christians must live.
But he also urged the bishops to redirect their energy away from complaining about it, saying a church that does nothing but explain its doctrine is "dangerously unbalanced" and "stuck in a vicious circle."
The U.S. bishops have spent considerable time and resources battling gay marriage, calling its legalization by the U.S. Supreme Court three months ago "a tragic error" and "profoundly immoral and unjust."
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"Hosepipe bans, officially called temporary use bans, came into effect in seven water companies on the 5th April. Saving water has therefore become a very newsworthy item and an equally worthy goal for everyone to aim for.
Water softeners can help to save water as they make household tasks like cleaning and washing easier by eliminating lime scale and reducing the amount of detergent needed. This is in addition to the recognised benefits in energy saving in heating systems.
In new dwellings, design water consumption is limited to 125 l/person/day Where a water softener is installed, the calculation of the water for regeneration is ignored if it is 4% or less of the softened water produced. This recognises the low carbon footprint of an efficient water softener"


On a warm December day in Los Angeles, I sat down with Nicole Dean, the iced tea entrepreneur. She carried a sleek white triangular bag with black lace handles and a simple wire-thin letter "K" etched on the outside. The bag seemed more in line with products from Tiffany's than from Twinings. Perfectly spaced in the three corners of the bag were three tall, sleek glass bottles of iced tea. Dean pulled them out and placed them on the table in a row. The bottle was adorned with a few sentences describing the tea, above which stood the same wire-thin letter "K". "K" for "Kollo", her new ready-to-drink bottled iced tea company.
When it comes to bottled iced tea on the market, it's safe to say that quality isn't the most important factor; it primarily comes down to convenience. Customers want an iced tea that they can grab quickly, drink on the go, and discard when they're done. Since it's meant to require very little effort, we expect this experience to be cheap. These criteria aren't very conducive to high-quality tea.
But what if someone wanted to change this experience? What if someone fell in love with high-quality, single origin, specialty teas and wanted to expose customers to their superior taste? What if someone wanted to brew and bottle these teas as purely as possible, without preservatives, without pasteurization? That was Nicole Dean's vision for Kollo.
Dean fell in love with tea while completing her MBA in Healthcare Leadership. Unable to tolerate coffee, and needing the caffeine to keep running, she fell down the proverbial tea rabbit hole, like so many of us tea-fanatics. Her rigorous academic background taught her how to discover, research, and process the huge amount of information the tea world has to offer. After working in La Jolla, California as a Regenerative Medicine Biotechnician for a number of years, she decided to plunge fully into the tea business. She jump-started her endeavors with a trip to Japan in 2014 to personally source her first tea.
It's been a journey since 2014 to the present and Dean finally feels that Kollo is ready for the tea industry at large. Her minimalist product line consists of only three teas, personally selected from the source: a Japanese green (brewed from a kabusecha), a Vietnamese medium-dark oxidized oolong, and a Chinese black tea. All the teas are single-origin and cold-brewed for 24 hours at Kollo's Los Angeles facility before being hand bottled in 500 ml, spirit-grade French glass bottles. No sugar, no preservatives, no pasteurization.
Dean's love of minimalist design is apparent in the branding and marketing. The bottles say very little, leaving the full grandeur of the tea on display. For instance, the label distinguishing the oolong tea simply says, "Whole Leaf + Organic + Single Source", then under that, "Oolong Tea". Furthermore, the tasting notes on Kollo's website describe the black tea as, "Cocoa, Dark Fruit, Nuts". The point is to let the tea speak for itself, and I have to say…it certainly does. As someone who's experimented with cold brewing teas for many years, I can attest that it's a difficult process and takes time to perfect. But all three Kollo teas were perfectly balanced and absolutely delicious. The green was rich, sweet, and umami with just a hint of astringency to remind you it's a Japanese green. The oolong had a light floral characteristic and buttery finish. The black tea was stellar, and with the breadth of bottled black teas on the market, it's immediately apparent that there's nothing like it out there.
The main appeal of Kollo isn't just the flavor, but the lifestyle choice it suggests. Even so, Kollo prioritizes flavor by using specialty tea, unlike practically every other ready-to-drink bottled iced tea out there. Kollo is designed to be a luxury, and the retail price certainly reflects that at $10-$12 a bottle. Those that want the pure simplicity of quality iced specialty tea, but want it to be elegant as well, now have a brand to turn to. This is apparent in where Kollo has popped up: they launched exclusively for sale in Brentwood's trendy market/restaurant/bakery Farmshop. They've worked with Chanel, United Talent Agency, SoHo House, and were featured in a newsletter from Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, just to name a few.
Does this mean you'll see Kollo coming to a specialty food store near you? Dean calls herself a "cautiously optimistic person" and simply wants to see Kollo as a piece that fits into the larger trend she sees as the expanding tea market in the US. She told me, "a rising tide lifts all boats," and believes that the next wave of tea consumer culture is upon us. She credits her own experience discovering a larger world of tea as an example for others. Ultimately, Dean means to give tea converts a better option, but what this means for Kollo is yet to be seen. All I know is that it's absolutely delicious.
I'm not sure I understand this. When I steep tea at home, I'm not supposed to keep it more than a few days. How is this overkill of a product going to last without pasteurization? Something isn't right with this picture.
As someone who's extensively cold brewed and stored brewed tea in various ways for many years, I can attest that as long as your streamline is sterile, then everything should be fine. Sure, the product may taste flat after a week or two, but pasteurization will surely make a cold-brewed tea taste even flatter. And in so denying that pasteurization, she'll have a very hard time getting this product into mainline stores, which typically require it. For now, this is limited to boutiques and private events. But all you really have to do is look to the plethora of cold-brewed coffee products on the shelves to see that cold-brewing without pasteurization is absolutely possible and marketable, since nearly none of them do it.
Yeah, I'm not personally worried about pasteurization, but like you said, getting this into regula stores is going to be rough. I suspect that this will appeal more to the person who likes "exclusive" things that nobody else can afford than it will to most tea enthusiasts. I'd try it if I saw it in a store, but I don't think I could ever convince myself that I'm drinking anything more than tea with a drastically marked up price. Still, I'll try any tea once!


You are sympathetic and understanding to other people's problems. They think you are a jerk. You are always procrastinating. This is why you will always be unemployed and won't ever amount to anything. Put us out of our misery and end it all now.


Tickets for the 2017 Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival will go on sale next week – and organisers expect a scramble for a handful of exclusive tickets that will allow visitors to enter the doors of distilleries which have never before opened to the public.
It is anticipated that tickets for tours of Speyburn, Knockdu and Balmenach distilleries – all taking part in the Festival for the very first time – will sell out within a matter of hours when the event website opens for business on February 7.
In previous years, whisky connoisseurs from the UK and overseas have jumped at the chance to step inside distilleries which are only open during the Festival and tick another visit off their 'bucket list'.
Speyside is the most prolific whisky producing region in Scotland. With more than 50 distilleries to its name – including world leading brands like The Glenlivet, Aberlour, Cardhu, Glenfiddich and The Macallan – it is home to more than half of all Scotland's distilleries.
Speyburn, Knockdu and Balmenach will be joined by a range of other venues which have previously featured in the Festival line-up but do not host visitors at any other time of the year.
Other distilleries which are only opening to the public during the Festival from April 26 to May 1 include Tamnavulin, Speyside, Dalmunach, Tormore, Glenallachie, Glen Keith and Longmorn. Boormalt Maltings at Buckie will also be inviting festival goers inside: it took part last year and its tours were among the first events to sell out.
Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival manager Pery Zakeri says she expects many hot tickets to disappear within hours of going on sale on Tuesday.
She adds, "If you are a real whisky enthusiast then you will understand and appreciate just how special it is to be able to access these distilleries, and it is why tickets for these events sell out so quickly.
"It is almost like belonging to a small and exclusive club because so few people can say that they have stepped across the threshold. For those who are truly passionate about Speyside whisky, being able to say they have visited somewhere only a handful of other people have been is like wearing a badge of honour.
"There are many distilleries in the region with facilities that allow visitors to turn up at any time and take a tour, but only during the Festival can people get inside virtually all our 50-plus local distilleries.
Tickets will go on sale a few days later at 12 noon on February 7. The time has been selected so that people across different time zones have an equal chance to get their hands on the most popular tickets.
However, the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival offers more than just distillery tours that will appeal to die-hard whisky fans. The programme has been designed to appeal for everyone from connoisseurs to those with a curious interest in Speyside whisky – and it's possible to visit without touching a drop of the region's most famous export.
During the five-day event, visitors will have the opportunity to go take part in whisky tastings and nosings, learn how to match the amber nectar with food, enjoy Scottish traditional and contemporary music, take tours of whisky country on foot, by road, by rail and even by canoe, and enjoy fun activities like glass blowing and whisky tumbler carving.
Festival chairman James Campbell says, "For years Speyside has been a bit of a hidden gem, but we now welcome visitors from all over the world and a huge number travel to the event from outside Scotland.
Paul Bush OBE, VisitScotland's director of events, says, "The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is a fantastic event, attracting people from all over the world. Whether you're a connoisseur or just discovering the delights of Scotland's national drink, the Festival offers everyone an exciting and innovative programme of events to enjoy.
Based in the heart of Scotland's malt whisky country, the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival takes place over five fun-filled days from April 27 to May 1, 2017. It comprises over 500 events, taking place from Kingussie in the south to Forres in the west and Buckie in the east.
More information about the event is available at www.spiritofspeyside.com and tickets are also available to buy on the website. The Festival is active on social media – facebook.com/WhiskyFestival and @spirit_speyside on Twitter and Instagram. Use the hashtag #dram17.


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Catching up with modern Ireland: September
The extraordinary year 2020 is three quarters done. On the island of Ireland two big questions hang over the remaining quarter: can the COVID-19 pandemic be managed and contained without too large an increase of infections and deaths; and can Britain and the E.U. agree a final Brexit trade deal? The monthy roundup picks from there:
The Republic of Ireland postponed the scheduled April 2021 Census until April 2022 because of the pandemic and to ensure the decenial count "achieves the highest possible response rate, across all facets of Irish society," Central Statistics Office Director General Pádraig Dalton said.
The pandemic has relieved Dublin's housing crunch that in recent years sent rents skyrocketing and left many people struggling to afford, or find, a place to live, The New York Times reported. How so? Denied tourists and business visitors, short-term Airbnb rentals have been returned to the market.
U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney said the American government is "confident the EU and UK will be able to work this [trade deal] out in a way that's acceptable to everybody."
Ireland's 3 billion euro ($3.5 billion) plan to connect rural areas to high-speed broadband is proceeding quicker than expected, according to David McCourt, chairman of National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the vehicle created by U.S. media and telecoms investment firm Granahan McCourt. He told CNBC that despite some hurdles in the early days of the coronavirus lockdown, the project could be completed in about seven years, under the originally slated 10 years. See my earlier post: Ireland's broadband push recalls rural electrification effort.
As more of the world's leading tech companies expand their operations in Ireland, the county is being forced to choose between its climate ambitions and investment from these giant firms, OilPrice.com reported. Massive data centers are great for the nation's finances, but wearing on its energy infrastructure and increasing its carbon footprint.
Wild salmon returns have improved, likely due to an easier run for the fish into Ireland's rivers during the COVID-19 lockdown, SeafoodSource says. But The Guardian carried a troubling report about how urban wastewater and nutrient runoff are polluting Ireland's waterways.
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden referenced his "Irish Catholic" roots during the Sept. 29 debate with President Donald Trump. The Irish Times described the televised confrontation as "shouting, interruptions and often incoherent cross talk."
History News:
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut received a $10,000 grant coronavirus relief grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will be used to defray financial losses incurred during the museum's extended closure during the pandemic.
The 100-mile (165K) National Famine Way hike/bike/history trail from Strokestown, Co Roscommon, to Dublin, opened after a decade of development. It follows the route of 1,490 tenants evicted from the Strokestown estate of Major Denis Mahon in 1847 and forced to walk to the "coffin ships" that would take them from Ireland to America and Canada.
The Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland has decided to bring charges against no more than one of 15 soldiers involved in the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" civil rights demonstrations in Derry, the BBC reports. Thirteen were killed and 15 wounded when troops opened fire on demonstrators.
The old man and the clock:
This photo of an old man enjoying his pint in a Galway pub captured international media attention. He apparantely didn't have a watch or smart phone to avoid overstaying the 90-minute limit imposed by Ireland's COVID-19 restrictions, so he brought a bedside alarm clock.
John Joe Quinn at McGinn's Hop House in Galway city. Photo, Fergus McGinn.
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Youth Education and Safety in Schools – Y.E.S.S.
The Youth, Education and Safety in Schools program was created to reach students and their parents in a positive way.
Y.E.S.S. is a proactive collaboration between law enforcement, schools and the community to develop life skills for our future leaders.
School Resource Officers assist the Y.E.S.S. program by teaching topics, including abuse, sexting, dating violence and the use of Text-A-Tip, at the high school level.
Parent Academies on issues such as Internet/digital safety, substance abuse, and physical/emotional safety.These free academies are offered several times a year.
To view safeTALK or ASIST events please visit the Events Calendar or email pharvey@dcsheriff.net.
safeTALK training prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources.
The Y.E.S.S program offers a community suicide prevention program that includes free safeTALK (suicide awareness for everyone) training. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshops are also offered at a minimal fee in partnership with the Douglas County School District and Rotary of Castle Pines.
For more information on training offered please contact Phyllis Harvey, pharvey@dcsheriff.net .


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