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Vessel Name : CAPT. BILL IKNER
City : HOUSTON
STATE : TX
The Dutra Group Names Stewart CEO
The Dutra Group has named Harry K. Stewart as its Chief Executive Officer. Stewart, who previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer at Dutra, assumes his new role as the company celebrates its 50th anniversary. Bill T. Dutra, who led the company since its founding, will move into the role of Executive Chairman.
Philippine Legislator Proposes Law to Keep Chinese Boats in Check
A lawmaker in the Philippines has reintroduced legislation to prevent maritime and airspace encroachment by Chinese vessels, by restricting them to designated sea lanes and air routes and prescribing jail time for captains or vessel owners.The Philippines has complained repeatedly about Chinese activities in its 200 mile (322 km) exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
US Navy Recovers Lost Fighter Jet from the Bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
The U.S. Navy said it has retrieved a fighter jet that was lost from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea last month.The F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, which blew off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in "unexpected heavy weather" on July 8, was recovered by a team from Task Force (CTF) 68, Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), Harry S.
US Coast Guard Cutter Collides With Fishing Vessel Near Puerto Rico; One Dead
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter was involved in a fatal collision with a small fishing boat Monday afternoon off the coast of Puerto Rico.The 154-foot Sentinel Class fast response cutter Winslow Griesser and the 23-foot commercial fishing vessel Desakata collided, approximately four nautical miles north of Dorado, Puerto Rico.
US Senate Bill Could be Death Blow for Biden Anti-drilling Pledge
U.S. President Joe Biden vowed during his 2020 election campaign to end federal oil and gas drilling as a major step in his strategy to fight climate change.The U.S. Senate Democrats' $430 billion spending bill agreed this week could kill that pledge. If it passes, it would effectively guarantee continued drilling rights auctions on federal lands and waters for at least another decade.
Obituary: Captain Brian A. McAllister Passes Away
Capt. Brian McAllister, a prominent member of the American maritime industry and a true New York area maritime industry icon, has passed away.The following was posted on the mcallistertowing.com website:"It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Captain. Brian, who changed the future of McAllister Towing when he bought the company with his brothers and cousins
Biden Signs Ocean Shipping Reform Act Into Law
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation to improve oversight of ocean shipping, which lawmakers say will help curb inflation and ease export backlogs.The bipartisan bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a 369-42 vote earlier this week. Biden said he had "promised to crack down on ocean carriers whose price hikes have hurt American families.
US House Passes Ocean Shipping Reform Act
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Monday to improve oversight of ocean shipping, which supporters say will help curb inflation and ease export backlogs. The bill was approved 369-42 and will head to the White House for President Joe Biden's signature. Biden said in a statement he looked forward to signing it into law.
US Senate Approves Bill to Ease Export Shipping Backlogs
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to improve oversight of ocean shipping, a step supporters say will help ease export backlogs.The Ocean Shipping Reform Act, led by Senators John Thune and Amy Klobuchar, would strengthen the investigatory authority of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the U.S.
P&O Ferries Sacks 800 Staff, Threatening Union Standoff
Britain's P&O Ferries made 800 staff redundant with immediate effect and suspended crossings for the next few days, sparking a backlash from politicians and unions over reports it would hire cheaper agency workers instead.The shock move caused delays around Britain's busiest port, Dover, and drew threats of a standoff as trade unions urged their members to defy any instructions to leave P&O ships.
Crystal Symphony Diverts to the Bahamas to Avoid Arrest
A luxury cruise ship has skipped its call to Miami and diverted to the Bahamas after a U.S. judge ordered its seizure as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel bills.The Crystal Symphony, operated by Genting Hong Kong's Crystal Cruises, was scheduled to conclude a Caribbean voyage in Miami on Saturday


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Reinhard Huetter, Dr. theol. habil.
Ordinary Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology
Dogmatic Theology
Reinhard Huetter is a native of Lichtenfels, Germany. He studied theology, philosophy, and German literature and philology at the University of Erlangen, the University of Bonn, and Duke University. He received his MDiv equiv. (best of the class) from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in 1986, his Dr. theol. (summa cum laude) in 1990, and his Habilitation in 1995, both from the University of Erlangen. He taught for nine years theological ethics and systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and for seventeen years systematic theology at Duke University Divinity School. In 2004, he and his wife entered into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Huetter was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Religion of the University of Chicago, a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, and a visiting professor at the University of Jena, Germany. He held the the Robert J. Randall Distinguished Chair in Christian Culture at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Chester and Margaret Paluch Chair of Theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. He is a member of the American Theological Society, was a founding member and served as president of the Academy of Catholic Theology, is an ordinary academician of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and is a faculty fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology of The Catholic University of America. He is a member of the International Theological Commission, 2021–2026.
His teaching and research focuses on fundamental theological questions of the relationship between faith and reason, nature and grace, revelation and faith, theology and philosophy, dogma and history, on questions of theological anthropology (grace and freedom), and the theology and epistemology of faith. He has an abiding interest in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and has, in more recent years, developed also an intense interest in the thought of John Henry Newman.
Huetter is the author of numerous books, most recently Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2012), Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics (2019), Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (2019), and Newman and Us: A Guide for Our Times (2020). He has contributed numerous chapters to handbooks and edited collections, and has published many scholarly articles in theological journals in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Chile. He has served as editor of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology and as co-editor of Nova et Vetera: The English Edition of the International Theological Journal. He is presently working on a book on the development of doctrine and on a theological treatise on the theology of faith.
He is married to Nancy Heitzenrater Huetter; they have four children and six grandchildren.
Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2012)
Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics (2019)
Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (2019)
Newman and Us: A Guide for Our Times (2020)
Email: huetter@cua.edu
TRS 203 The Church: Community and Institution
TRS 377: John Henry Newman
TRS 662 Revelation and Faith
TRS 763 The Theology of Thomas Aquinas
TRS 868 Faith and Reason in John Henry Newman
TRS 870A: Development of Doctrine
TRS 996B: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Pope Francis Appoints Two Catholic University Professors to the International Theological Commission September 29, 2021
Read Dr. Huetter's curriculum vitae

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}

Bucket::Bucket()
{
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}

Bucket::~Bucket()
{
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}

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{
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	this->elementsCount = rhs.elementsCount;

	this->container = new Egg[rhs.containerSize];
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Bucket & Bucket::operator=(const Bucket & rhs)
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		this->elementsCount = rhs.getElementsCount();
		this->containerSize = rhs.getSize();
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Egg & Bucket::operator[](int index) const
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{
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		{
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		{
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		}
	}

	*this = newBucket;
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Bucket Bucket::operator+(const Bucket & rhs) const
{
	Bucket newBucket = *this;

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	{
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	}

	return newBucket;
}

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{
	Bucket newBucket = *this;

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	{
		newBucket.addEgg(rhs.getContainer()[i]);
	}

	*this = newBucket;
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Bucket Bucket::operator*(int size)
{
	Bucket newBucket = Bucket(this->owner);

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	return newBucket;
}

Bucket & Bucket::operator*=(int size) const
{
	for (int i = 0; i < this->elementsCount; i++)
		this->container[i].setSize(this->getContainer()[i].getSize() * size);
}

Bucket Bucket::operator/(int size)
{
	Bucket newBucket = Bucket(this->owner);

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	return newBucket;
}

Bucket & Bucket::operator/=(int size) const
{
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}

bool Bucket::operator==(const Bucket & rhs) const
{
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		if (this->getContainer()[i] != rhs.getContainer()[i])
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bool Bucket::operator!=(const Bucket & rhs) const
{
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bool Bucket::operator<(const Bucket & rhs) const
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	{
		if (this->getContainer()[i] < rhs.getContainer()[i])
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	}

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}

bool Bucket::operator<=(const Bucket & rhs) const
{
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	}

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{
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	{
		if (this->getContainer()[i] > rhs.getContainer()[i])
			return true;
	}

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bool Bucket::operator>=(const Bucket & rhs) const
{
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	{
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			return true;
	}

	return false;
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void Bucket::addEgg(const Egg & egg)
{
	if (this->elementsCount == this->containerSize)
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	this->container[this->elementsCount] = egg;
	this->elementsCount++;
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void Bucket::removeEgg(const char * name)
{
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void Bucket::print() const
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{
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int Bucket::getSize() const
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int Bucket::getElementsCount() const
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{
	Egg* newContainer = new Egg[this->containerSize / 2];
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	delete[] this->container;
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}

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{
	Egg* newContainer = new Egg[this->containerSize * 2];
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	delete[] this->container;
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}

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	{
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	}

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}

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Hyderabad, 26th July 2016: The most popular radio channel, Radio Mirchi, is all set to once again pump up the energy levels for Hyderabad city folks. 'Mirchi Happy Times' is a novel concept engaging the entire community in health, fitness and happiness activities which was officially launched at a grand gala event held today. Chief GuestsSri Jitender – IPS, Addl Comissioner Of Police, Traffic Hyderabad City, Sri A.V. Ranganath – IPS, DCP, Traffic-II and Manarra Chopra the face of the upcoming movie Jaakanna not only graced the inaugural occasion, but encouraged one and all to participate in this unique initiative in large numbers.
Radio Mirchi's 'Mirchi Happy Times' is a city connect program conceptualized for the betterment of the society, targeting family members of all ages. The single platform brought right to the doorstep of their homes, combines the goodness of health, fitness and happiness, involving the roll out of a wide array of interesting physical activities for the family to partake in. The one day power-packed program will be conducted in 20 privileged societies from the city, starting from the 1st week of August.
Mirchi Happy Times will organize and conduct several activities dedicated specifically towards fitness, fun, sports, creativity, culture, food, lifestyle and social education at each of the participating societies across one full day. Starting from the early hours of the morning, participants can thoroughly enjoy activities revolving around fitness like yoga, laughter club, zumba and health check-up programs, inducing in them the concept of 'Happiness starts with fitness'. During the day, activities like wall painting, photography, business India, traffic rules awareness camp and driving school camp will be organized with the objective of opening up creative minds and have fun while learning. Later in the evening, a special health food camp with a few sports activities will be conducted, having the residents gather and socialize with each other, creating memorable experiences to cherish.
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NTU has signed the contract for Technical Assistance for the Assessment of DH Projects in Croatia and Romania. The assignment will be executed within the Framework agreement to support EIB advisory services activities inside and outside EU Lot 2 Energy, led by NTU.
Preparation of Action Completion Notes after finalization of the JASPERS involvement in each project summarizing the results of the project appraisal.


As I walked by the Ganges River this week, with my father, in the ancient and holy city Varanasi, India, two corpses floated right by us. This was near the ghats where bodies are cremated. In India, for Hindus the bodies that are put in the sacred river and not cremated are priests, sadhus (holy men), pregnant women, children and those with leprosy.
In contrast to the lifeless corpses, less than 100 feet away there were locals bathing; some were chanting and praying at sunrise on the riverbanks, chanting mantras and the names of the Divine. These uplifting sounds and bathing in the river ensure their day will be a happy one, according to the locals. Many start the chants, meditation, prayers and bathing or swimming in the "mother" Ganga (as the river is sometimes endearingly called) all before sunrise.
The Sanskrit term for these two hours is the Amrit Vela, the auspicious and ambrosial hours when all is the most calm and settled outside and in the mind, fresh from a night's sleep and when most others are sleeping. The yogis meditate at this time, to gain clarity, inner stillness and peace when the universe is the most peaceful.
"The period between 4 and 6 in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate." — Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras.
Many people living in Varanasi, including travelers from other parts of India, on this morning, as all mornings, were on boats or on the banks of the river, offering flowers with a candle to the river that would swiftly float away as they said a prayer for their families. Some women and children were also bathing with their heads shaven, showing they are in mourning of a loss of a husband or father.
A corpse, those in mourning, those praising and chanting with bhakti (the Sanskrit word for devotion and love) with gratitude and joy…both life and death, sharing the same waters, yet flowing in complete harmony.
"Through intellect you know the difference between the permanent and the impermanent." — Yoga master Swami Sivananda.
We all understand that our physical bodies are limited to a mere 100 years or so, if that, on this planet and we all know one day soon our bodies, too, will be a corpse (regardless if you believe in an afterlife or reincarnation). Witnessing this from the perspective of a Westerner, not used to seeing decaying bodies floating in a river, touched the very core of my being in a profound way. Truth brings peace. This truthful contrast of life and death in one river was reminding me, yet again, that we are all here for such a short time.
Awareness of the temporary reality of our body and time on Earth can cause anxiety and depression for some. It creates an urgency to complete visions, goals and a life purpose (one's dharma, as the Buddhists call it). For others, this reminder of impermanence may cause a sense of grief for dreams unfulfilled.
However, with the practice of meditation (dhyana in Sanskrit), concentration (dharana in Sanskrit) and sitting in stillness as you observe the breath, the anxieties, and unsettled thoughts or emotions may disappear as you detach from the sense that "I am only this body or I am only this mind." Then a great acceptance and inner peace may arise even in the impermanent and chaos of this "world ocean," as some yogis call it.
When you experience a taste of the peace that lies beneath the waves of the mind and external sources of joy, then all that occurs on the outside, even if temporary and fleeting, can be experienced with more ease, joy and a sense of present awareness, so that life flows…just like the river.


The fundamental shift for businesses in the past 15 years from paper documents to computer data has forced the courts to decide whether intangible electronic data should enjoy the same legal protections as physical property.
Because of this shift, it is important to review the judicial response to the electronic-data issue in the context of a federal criminal statute, the National Stolen Property Act (NSPA), and common law conversion.
The NSPA makes it a felony for one who "transports, transmits, or transfers in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise … of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud." Conversion is the state civil cause of action for the theft of property.


The CFP Provides A Holistic View Of All Aspects Of Carbon Dioxide Emission To Help Reduce Carbon Emissions Into The Atmosphere. EPA Is A Cross-sector Label Developed By The Taiwanese Environmental Protection Administration.
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Green Resources helps clients establish a process, build organizational capacity to measure, analyze and monitor their GHG emissions that help organizations build climate change mitigation strategy. The analysis typical includes life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of product and services.
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Measurement – Calculating the carbon footprint of organizations (Scope I, II & III). This entails data collection and applying appropriate calculation methodologies.
Preparing the CFR or the Carbon Footprint Report so that companies understand in simple language how burdening their operations are on the eco-system.
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Why did I read this? I saw that Marilyn Weisenburg had picked it up and that the author was in the same company as her son David in Iraq.
Sean Davis had been in the Army but had gotten out and then on September 12, 2001 he reenlisted in the National Guard. 3 years later he along with his company of National Guardsmen from Oregon he found himself in combat in Iraq. This is his memories of that time up until he was seriously injured by an IED while on patrol. The rest of the book is his story of recovery, physically, which seems to have been the easiest part. The difficult part was dealing with the death of his friend in the same incident. Sean tried to bury his feelings in alcohol and drugs, until he reached a point where he couldn't go any lower. He is an artist and finally returning to his art helped pull him out of his downward spiral. This is the story of a man who fought for his buddies and friends and was not prepared to deal with the aftermath. His Army and his country didn't seem to do much for him after his experience in combat.
Grade A, a clear and gripping view inside the mind of a combat veteran.
I don't know what to say about this book, it is mostly a rehash of American Sniper. I can sympathize with Taya, having been raised by a single Mom (since Dad was so often deployed). There were moments that moved me and moments that frustrated me. I just know what to say.
A pair of miners, a old grizzled veteran and his seventeen year old sidekick, cash in their claim and try to decide what to do next. When they here that many of the miners, storekeepers and entertainers in and around the gold mines want ham and bacon, they decide to become hog buyers from Frisco. After that announcement they get a contract from a butcher in San Francisco for fourteen thousand pigs either one hundred pounds on the hoof or one hundred pounds dressed out. They search all over Northern California and are unable to find that many pigs, and make their way north to Portland where they meet Joe Meek who helps them find the necessary number of pigs. Through a series of misfortunes it turns out that they have to drive the pigs overland from Oregon City to San Francisco. Just when it seems that their entrepreneurial spirit has been their downfall things work out for them. This story is supposedly on a true story that the author read about in a biography of people from Oregon.
Did I enjoy the story? Yes, the gold rush is a favorite era of stories for me. There were so many colorful characters mixing with one another that they made for interesting stories.
What is with the title of the review? Lemony Snicket wrote several books title A Series of Unfortunate Incidents, whenever anything good happened to the main characters something seemingly out of nowhere would destroy that good. Here the characters use their wits to help themselves out of unfortunate circumstances.


Do finance brands work on Facebook?
Dawn barely touches the Sussex sky, somewhere an owl hoots mournfully, the battlements of Lord McKelvey's enormous pile rear up above the chicken sheds. There is a clanging from the brass tube that connects my cot with the Master Bedroom. It is the master himself calling me. I shuffle barefoot, shivering, through the feathers and apply the tube to my ear.
With a terrible clanging and the suggestion of muffled giggling the pipe falls silent. I light a candle stub and sharpen my quill.
It is, as ever, a good question without an obvious answer.
Even the most cursory trawl through the Facebook profiles of the UK's leading FS brands will leave the professional FS marketer demoralised. A mixture of raggedy corporate puffery and 'dad dancing at the disco', 'down with the kids' ghastliness parades itself monotonously before us.
Where offers are offered they scream of desperation, where TV campaigns are referenced, the connection is so thin as to be transparent. Could it simply be that FS brands should stay away from Facebook? I think that the answer is probably 'yes'. And yet many FS brands successfully exploit Twitter in the realm of customer service, pouncing on negative PR and spinning it positively. Why is it that Facebook so uniquely leaves them and their millions of customers at a loss?
I think it's probably to do with salience.
Compare and contrast the Facebook presence of Barclays Bank and The Barclays Premier League: the former a wilderness, the latter a busy, interested, interesting forum where lively debate is intelligently moderated. We use Facebook in the same way as we used to use the saloon bar, to keep up with acquaintances, to argue and mock, to begin and end romances and, above all, to gossip. It is both too human and too unmanageable a forum for big brands to negotiate intelligently without coming across as a bullies or bores.
Perhaps the natural Facebook function most appropriate for FS brands to try to emulate is the one I find most engaging about the site: keeping up with geographically distant friends, family and acquaintances. If FS brands can incentivise customers to 'friend' them with offers that are relevant within the context of Facebook they can then communicate offers and opportunities to them in a meaningful way.
Frankly none of us wants to be friends with a bank today. But we all want to save money or get something for nothing. If HSBC (for example) can treat me with respect via mail, email and online, surely it can learn the social rules of engagement of what is, after all, a simple networking site.
It may be an old-fashioned way of looking at a modern phenomenon but ultimately it all comes down to good manners and 'knowing one's place'.
Naturally the enemy of this common sense solution is the opportunity cost. To manage a bank, building society, insurance company or investment house's 'Facebook presence' intelligently requires an intelligent use of resource.
All too often it is the job of some desperately underworked junior marketer who is crippled by stakeholder interference and the dead hand of compliance. In fact, in order to use Facebook intelligently these FS brands will have to do something that they have always found hard and today find harder than ever: they will have to invest .
Invest in people, invest in research, invest in their agencies (PR, online, integrated whatever) in order to maximise the promotional and PR potential of a site that has yet to be (dread word) monetised effectively by many brands of any description.
The candle gutters on the ledge as the sun comes up over McKelvey Mansion. Tongue poking from the corner of my mouth, I review what I have written and find to my satisfaction that I have exceeded my quota of words and probably at least half-answered Lord McKelvey's question without upsetting any of my clients.
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Lalitha Sahasranama - An Interpretation of 1000 Names!!!
Lalitha Sahasranamam 322
Kāmakalā rūpā कामकला रूपा (322)
She is in the form of kāmakalā. This is Her subtler form which is known only to Her spouse Śiva. The subtlest form is Her kuṇḍalinī form in sahasrāra, where She conjoins Her spouse. Kuṇḍalinī in lower cakra-s does not become subtlest and it attains the subtlest form only in sahasrāra. Kāma refers to the object of adoration, the object that is desired. Here, Śiva becomes the most desired of all, as He is the Supreme Reality or Paramārtha. Śiva being the Supreme Ruler, He is addressed as Kāmeśvara. By addressing Him thus, He not only becomes the object of desire (Kāma), but also becomes the Supreme Ruler (Īśvara). This how He becomes Kāma + Īśvara = Kāmeśvara. Kalā refers to vimarśa form of Śiva, Mahātripurasundarī. Śiva alone is Self-illuminating and Śaktī illuminates the universe with the brilliance of Śiva. Their conjoined form is Kāmakalā.
Kāmakalā consists of three bindu-s (dots) forming a triangle and below this triangle there is an inverted triangle (hārda-kalā) where the three kūṭa-s of Pañcadasī mantra are placed. From this lower inverted triangle all triads are born which ultimately leads to the creation of this universe. The two parallel dots are Her bosoms by which this universe is nurtured and a single dot above these two dots is Her third eye. Kāma means intent to create and kalā refers to a part of the main object, in this case, Śiva. The conjugation of Kāma and kalā leads to the manifestation of Kāmeśvara and Kāmeśvarī forms. Śiva and Śaktī unite only in their kāma forms i.e. kāma + īśvarī and kāma + īśvara. These two, are Their highest forms that cause Creation. She is known as 'Mahā-tripura-sundarī' in the Kāmakalā form and is also known as bindutraya samaṣti rūpa divyākṣara rūpiṇi. Mahā means supreme, tripura means three cities (could mean entire triads, the cause for creation that are ruled by Her). The deeper meaning of tripura is Her three actions viz. creation, sustenance and destruction. Sundarī means beauty. So 'Mahā-tripura-sundarī' means the beautiful and Supreme Mother, who creates, nourishes and dissolves. These three acts are subtly mentioned in Kāmakalā.
The three bindu-s are extremely powerful. They represent sun, moon and fire. Bindu is called the highest light. The highest form of light naturally should be the origin of light from which all others should have emerged. Self illuminating light is Śiva and that is why He is called as prakāśa form. Śaktī reflects and distributes the light received from prakāśa form and that is why She is called as vimarśa form. Vimarśa can be explained as knowledge with reasoning. The light of Śiva will not be reflected unless Śaktī is by His side. These three bindu-s are therefore the three different forms of Śaktī and each of which represent three divine energies viz. Vāma, Jyeśta and Raudrī. These goddesses represent Her three acts of creation, nourishment and absorption. This is as far as the upper triangle is concerned. It must be remembered that there is no triangle here but only three bindu-s (Bindu-s are further elaborated in nāma 905). It is called as a triangle because if these dots are joined by straight lines, a triangle is formed.
This upper conceived triangle is coupled with the lower hārda-kalā or the lower inverted triangle. Each of the three lines of the triangle represents the three kūṭa-s of Pañcadasī mantra. From this lower triangle which is formed out of the three kūṭa-s of the supreme Pañcadasī mantra, all other mantra-s are born leading to the creation of the universe. Thus the lower triangle is known as the organ of creation from which the universe was created. In the upper triangle the two lower bindu-s mean the sustenance or nourishment and the upper most triangle is the bindu for destruction. These bindu-s are also known as sun, moon and fire possibly indicating sustenance (sun-without which the universe cannot function), sustenance (moon – moon is the symbolic representation of love) and fire (one of the qualities of fire is destruction). This can be in fact compared to the three kūṭa-s of Pañcadasī where the kūṭa-s are also known as agni (fire) kūṭa, Sūrya (sun) kūṭa and Chandra (moon) kūṭa.
The same interpretation is given in Saundarya Laharī (verse 19) which says, "The one who meditates on your Kāmakalā form, treating your face as the bindu (the upper bindu) and the pair of your bosom (the two lower bindu-s) and the half of the letter H below it (the lower triangle), at once impassions women, is but a triviality."
It is not appropriate to provide a detailed interpretation, which should be known only from a learned guru of Śrī Vidya cult. But those who do not have a guru, but are deeply attached to Śrī Mātā, the Divine Mother MĀ, should not be deprived of the opportunity to know the significance of Kāmakalā. Hence, a moderate interpretation is given here. The usage of this Kāmakalā in ṣoḍaśī mantra in an appropriate place will provide early siddhi of the mantra.
Sreekanth Kaanthan
will you please diagramatically explain how both kamakala and hardakala will look once it is drawn. i gues this is the samething invoked in visesharghya too. please help
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I have been an ardent (some would say eccentric) recycler since the advent of modern recycling began in the 1970's. It got in my blood. In fact, I actually remove the aluminum cutting strip on boxes of foil and plastic wrap and recycle that separately from the paper. Does that make me weird? Occasionally, I do meet someone who cocks an eyebrow at me. Not sorry. This behavior got baked into me at an early age.
My Eagle Scout project involved cleaning up Glover Archibald Park, a 2.5 mile stretch of woods and streams in Washington DC. We pulled out tons (quite literally) of trash – plastics, discarded toys, automobile tires, appliances, magazines, etc. We even pulled out a fallen galvanized steel light pole. How it got in the woods I will never know…but there it was all bent up. How a bunch of Scouts managed to drag it out of the woods is somewhat surprising - it was very heavy and we were just kids. We put everything we pulled out into large heavy duty plastic bags and it all got carted away by the Department to Public Works. In fact, my Dad who worked for the City then, said they were pretty pissed because we were giving them so much extra work to do. Yup, it all got carted away. Away. To a landfill. Jut where is "away" anyhow? A landfill may be away from me but it is someone else's "here" and is not a sustainable solution to anything.
As I grew into adulthood, I found myself thinking about all the material we pulled out of those woods and I designed, in my head, this giant centrifugal machine that would mine and separate all the reusable materials in a landfill. In between living life and daydreaming inventions, somewhere along the line, I became that recycler guy mentioned above. It's easier to do than build a giant centrifugal machine. I do not care what the naysayers contend – they will say it doesn't matter, it doesn't add up, it all gets dumped in the same place. Again, not sorry, I recycle anyway. The fact is that if we all do it and we all pay attention to what we use, how much we use, and we think a little bit more about resources being finite, we will move the needle in the right direction. Let's just take paper and expound on it.
The Environmental Impacts of Paper Production
According to the Environmental Paper Network's Paper Calculator, it takes about 32 million BTU's of energy to produce one ton of virgin paper fiber. This analysis and its methodology was overhauled in 2018 and evaluates the impact profile of 14 different paper grades along each stage of its life cycle from harvesting to manufacture and using a methodology conforming to ISO 14044, the draft LEO-S-002 standard, the Product Category Rule (PCR) for Pulp and Paper, the Product Category Rule (PCR) Module for Roundwood and the LCIA Methodology for Roundwood and Pulp/Paper PCR Modules. You are encouraged to visit this site as it is pretty amazing. So, let's get back to 32 million BTU's to manufacture one ton of paper. This process takes about 24 trees and yields about 200,000 sheets of paper. That's about 400 reams of paper which, if you stacked them, would stand almost 67 feet high. Of course, examining energy usage is merely one aspect of the impacts which need to be teased apart, expanded in detail, and evaluated. Once that has occurred, we can begin to develop the metrics to understand the benefits of recycling paper. Before we do that, Let's take a quick look at the early history of recycling.
Recycling Paper – Early History
According to the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), The first recorded use of recycled paper was in 9th century Japan which was relatively soon after figuring out how to produce it. Recycled paper was considered more precious than newly produced paper as though the recycled pulp itself carried an echo of the life – the writing, art, and poetry it may have once held. Japan, as an island nation, may be considered a microcosm of our planet. Resources – all of them – are to be used with care and reverence. While we have no recorded data of the energy and resource savings 9th Century Japanese recyclers, we do today, and the benefits of recycling paper are astonishing. For an expanded view of its history, check out NERC.org website.
Recycling Paper – SO, what are the Benefits?
There is of course the water required to manufacture paper. The most efficient kraft pulp and paper mills use about 4,500 gallons of water per ton of paper produced. There are greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and other negative environmental impacts. In short, here is what recycling paper can do for us:
According to the US EPA, recycling one ton of paper would:
Save enough energy to power the average American home for six months.
Save 7,000 gallons of water.
Save 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton of carbon equivalent (MTCE).
To produce 1 ton of recycled paper, it takes about 22 million BTUs and releases abut 44% less GHG and uses ZERO trees.
Currently, around 40% of all commercial trees harvested across our planet are used to manufacture paper products. So, the more we recycle paper, the fewer trees need to be harvested and this virtuous cycle is reinforced. It requires about 1.2 tons of wastepaper to produce about 1 ton of recycled paper. It would take about twice as much wood (2.5 tons) to produce 1 ton of virgin paper.
The University of Southern Indiana, as do many institutions of higher learning, has a robust recycling program and records the following Fun Facts about Paper Recycling (University of Southern Indiana):
To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!!
The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
Commit two or three of these tidbits to your memory and you can rebut any paper recycling naysayer.
It is important to say, part of proper stewardship is responsible management of the source itself. The Forest Stewardship Council "runs a global forest certification system with two key components: Forest Management and Chain of Custody certification. This system allows consumers to identify, purchase and use timber and forest products produced from well-managed forests. At present, 90% of the virgin fibre content of our papers is FSC certified." So, as with most everything, there is no panacea solution. We cannot expect the FSC – or any entity – to protect us from our own daily practices and must therefore commit to personal behavioral change to make a lasting difference.
Inbebo examines every one of the products it features for a range of attributes. Sometimes a really innovative product improves our productivity, our health, or helps solve some environmental challenge. Occasionally, we come across a product that does all of that and more. Such is the case with our Artstand product.
Artstand is ergonomically designed to help with posture and working while at our laptops. Improves productivity? – check!
Artstand is a piece of art. Harvard Health studies have shown that artistic expression can help people with depression, anxiety, even cancer. Improves health? – check!
Artsand is made from 100% recycled paper and uses no bonding agents or harmful VOC's in its manufacture. Is sustainable? – check!
Artstand features art created by individuals with disabilities. There is a spirit to that which resonates with the 9th Century Japanese notion of recycled paper being held as almost sacred. We are all enriched by the artwork these individuals have shared with us and which now adorns this 100% recycled product.
By Brian H.


With back-to-school and fall sports registration imminent – sharing a child's personal information could put them at risk for identity theft. Yet, it's something parents are often asked to provide. Children are increasingly victims of identity theft. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, kids are 51 times more likely to be subject to identity theft than an adult. And, parents need to be diligent about how and where they share their child's personal information. For example, submitting social security numbers on school forms and athletic registrations are all areas of vulnerability.
1. Verify that school records are secure.
2. When asked, don't automatically share a child's social security number with any agency or organization, unless necessary. Often, another form of identification is acceptable.
3. Know how any personal information provided on school forms will be used – and whether it will be shared, and with whom. Verify that these forms are updated and that it is indeed necessary to even provide that level of personal information.
4. Ask about the school's directory information policy and what information is really required. Remember, opting out is always an option.
5. Review junk mail carefully! If there are things like pre-approved credit card offers, extended warranty offers on product purchases never made being addressed to a child that's an indication that some level of personal information may have been compromised.
6. Use a cross-cut shredder to shred any unnecessary paperwork that contains a child's personal information.
7. Remind children to never share personal information online, e.g. name, address, age, the name of the school they attend, or any other personally identifiable information that could be used to open accounts in their name.
8. The FTC Consumer Information website provides additional advice, such as identifying anybody else who may have access to a child's personal information, e.g. outside programs offered at the child's school.
Unfortunately, child identity theft is here to stay. Be prudent and pay careful attention to how and when a child's information is disclosed. The last thing a parent would want is for their child to be denied a driver's license because one has already been issued with their child's name and social security number, or being denied a loan for a car, or student financial aid, due to bad credit.
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La ville de Saint-Louis est située dans la province de la Saskatchewan, elle fait partie de la municipalité rurale de Saint-Louis N°431.

La cité de Saint-Louis est située au Nord de la ville de Batoche et au Sud de la ville de Prince Albert (Saskatchewan).

La ville de Saint-Louis fut fondée par les colons métis et canadiens-français qui s'établirent dans ce territoire autour de la rivière Saskatchewan Sud.

Elle constitue avec les villes de Batoche, Saint-Laurent de Grandin, Domremy, Hoey et Saint Isidore de Bellevue la municipalité rurale de Saint-Louis N°431 peuplée majoritairement de francophones Fransaskois.

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 John B. Boucher (1938-2010), chef métis canadien décédé à Saint-Louis.

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Nao is a St. Louis native, adopted into the heart of Memphis for the love of music. After graduating from Visible Music College with a songwriting degree, she pursued every part of the industry that she could. Nao works as a publicity assistant at a boutique public relations firm for local musicians, and is excited to begin teaching songwriting at Visible in the fall. She is also pursuing a master of arts in cultural apologetics from Houston Baptist University. When she is not teaching, writing, or working behind the scenes for live music events, Nao can be found on stage with her post-hardcore band, You The Few. Over the last three years she has fronted the band through three records, a regional tour and many local shows. While performing heavy music is a massive piece of Nao's heart, writing about it lights a totally separate fire. She has only just begun, but looks forward to learning and growing endlessly in craft and passion.
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Obtaining a visa to travel, work or live in another country can require extensive paperwork, hence the Russian to English medical document translation undertaken by Tomedes recently.
Health care documents like this require specialist medical translators to work on them, due to the complex terminology that is used. This is why Tomedes has built up a bank of skilled medical document translators for almost every language pairing.
One of our team of London-based medical translators took on this particular job, as she was available to start work immediately. We always scan our network by looking at skillsets and availability in this way, so that we can provide the highest quality service in the shortest possible time.
Our translator made short work of the client's medical documents, translating them from the original Russian to flawless English. She then passed the documents over to our professional proofreading team, who carried out our standard quality assurance checks before issuing the completed translation to the client.
Our price for the job was extremely competitive and even included a certificate of translation, which the client needed to accompany her translated documents. With the translation and certificate in hand, she was able to progress with her visa application, ready for her new life overseas.


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President Vaclav Klaus has asked the acting leader of the Social Democrats, Stanislav Gross, to begin talks on forming a new government.
Police have seized about 500 items bearing neo-Nazi symbols from a shop in the west Bohemian town of Pilsen.
As Synot football club are allowed to stay in the Czech football league's first division, police have begun investigating corruption allegations against another club, Teplice.
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President asks Gross to begin talks on forming new government
President Vaclav Klaus has asked the acting leader of the Social Democrats, Stanislav Gross, to begin talks on forming a new government. Mr Gross is hoping to build a coalition with the same two centre-right parties who were in government with the Social Democrats under his predecessor Vladimir Spidla; he resigned last weekend in the wake of poor results in elections to the European Parliament.
However, Mr Gross must find at least one extra vote to secure a majority in the Chamber of Deputies before the president will appoint him prime minister. The previous coalition had a majority of one in the 200-seat lower house, but one MP from the smallest party, the Freedom Union, has joined the opposition and another has announced he is going to follow suit.
In the meantime, a former member of the opposition Civic Democrats has allied himself with the Freedom Union.
Newspaper reports on Friday suggested that Mr Gross, who is 34, would try to win the support of MPs from the opposition benches in order to gain a majority.
Speaking to journalists on Friday, President Klaus said the new government should offer more than just the replacement of a few faces. He said the Czech people were expecting them to deliver change.
Shop-owner facing prosecution over neo-Nazi goods
Police have seized about 500 items bearing neo-Nazi symbols from a shop in the west Bohemian town of Pilsen. The haul included clothing, badges and stickers. Police said Friday the owner of the shop would likely be charged with propagating a movement aimed at suppressing the rights of others.
Golden Boot no consolation for missing Euro 2004 final, says Baros
After the Czech Republic were beaten 1:0 by Greece in the semi-finals of football's European Championships on Thursday, Czech striker Milan Baros said finishing as top scorer would be no consolation for being knocked out of the competition. Baros looks set to receive the Golden Boot award after scoring five goals at Euro 2004.
Meanwhile, Czech manager Karel Bruckner said his players had gained credit around Europe for their style of play. Incidentally, in a strange twist of fate, the Czechs are due to play Greece again in a friendly in Prague next month.
Teplice football club comes under investigation, as Synot are allowed to stay in first division
Following earlier reports that investigations into corruption in the Czech league would intensify after Euro 2004, police have begun looking into allegations involving Teplice football club. Czech football became engulfed in what has been described as its biggest scandal ever in early May, when several arrests were made in connection with alleged match-fixing involving the club Synot.
On Friday the Czech football association announced that Synot would be allowed to stay in the first division next season. However, the club will be docked 12 points and must pay a fine of half a million crowns (over 16,000 euros).
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Penile Amputation and Wrongful Death – Castaneda v. U.S. & State of CA – $3,680,000 Result
Civil Rights/Medical Malpractice
Castaneda v. State of California
Conal Doyle obtained a $1,735,557 jury verdict on November 10, 2010 on behalf of the family of Francisco Castaneda, a state prisoner who died because the State of California refused to provide him a biopsy to rule out penile cancer during his four month detention. The suit was brought by Mr. Castaneda's 17 year old daughter, Vanessa Castaneda. Prior to trial, the State offered $10,000 to settle the claim, and disputed liability, causation, and damages. During trial, Mr. Doyle asked the jury to return a verdict of $1,500,000 in non-economic damages and $235,557 for past medical bills.
After deliberating for less than four hours, the jury returned a verdict for the exact amount requested, which was 170 times the pre-trial defense offer. The amount of the verdict was not reduced due to comparative fault and is not subject to California's medical malpractice tort reform act ("MICRA"), and is 100% collectible.
The Daily Journal, California's daily legal newspaper, recognized Castaneda v. State of California as one of California's Top 10 most impactful verdicts of 2010. The Castaneda verdict was ranked third in impact, behind only the verdicts striking down the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and Proposition 8, the California ban on gay marriage. The Castaneda verdict was recognized for its impact on improving the medical care system for immigration detainees.
Castaneda v. United States
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Castaneda v. United States is a companion case to Castaneda v. State, and the settlement with the United States is in addition to the $1.73 million dollar verdict obtained against the State. This settlement is almost eight times the $250,000 medical malpractice cap that the United States argued applied to the case. The Firm spent more than $180,000 in case costs prosecuting the Castaneda cases.
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Based on its polarization dependency, second harmonic generation (PSHG) microscopy has been proven capable to structurally characterize molecular architectures in different biological samples. By exploiting this polarization dependency of the SHG signal in every pixel of the image, average quantitative structural information can be retrieved in the form of PSHG image histograms. In the present study we experimentally show how the PSHG image histograms can be affected by the organization of the SHG active molecules. Our experimental scenario grounds on two inherent properties of starch granules. Firstly, we take advantage of the radial organization of amylopectin molecules (the SHG source in starch) to attribute shifts of the image histograms to the existence of tilted off the plane molecules. Secondly, we use the property of starch to organize upon hydration to demonstrate that the degree of structural order at the molecular level affects the width of the PSHG image histograms. The shorter the width is the more organized the molecules in the sample are, resulting in a reliable method to measure order. The implication of this finding is crucial to the interpretation of PSHG images used for example in tissue diagnostics.
CitationPsilodimitrakopoulos, S. [et al.]. Effect of molecular organization on the image histograms of polarization SHG microscopy. "BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS", 2012, vol. 3, núm. 10, p. 2681-2693.


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Story and life are built around decisions.
There are decisions made in each, triggering action and, of course, triggering the response of no action. Story and life may have, in a metaphoric way, become the equivalent of toothpaste squeezed out of a tube. Those are the decisions or their lack that have left a permanent appearance of consequence, which in its own way goes at the tube of toothpaste again for another squeeze.
Story and life revolve about the concern, the suspense of which decisions will be needed now "to get out of this mess."
A story without decisions is no more a story than a life without decisions is a life. In each case, the lack of need for a decision or the lack of consequence for a former decision are of a piece with the shoplifter who takes some trinket for the excitement of getting away with the theft.
The imperative to make up your mind resonates within you, reminding you how much a part of your life story is and how inextricably story is wrapped in life. This imperative produces the strange calculus where you find yourself wishing your moments of leisure and memorable dreams involved more decisions, more crisis points, and more pressures to do "things," even if these "things" were such small details as connecting random ideas.
Again the metaphor speaking to you, urging to make your life more story, make your story more deliberate. Conflate story with deliberation; conflate deliberation with the build-up to decision.
At times these matters seem arbitrary, perhaps even self-canceling. You also see story and life more as a sense of alertness and openness to potential. You, the pragmatist, survey the options before making the decision that will send you and your story along a particular vector. There is an improvisational presence in such an approach that appeals to you because of your fondness for the improvisation resident in jazz.
For the moment, the goal is surprise. A decision made has an unforeseen consequence, which leads to the eruption of surprise, which leads to the energy of discovery. You, your narrative, and your characters derive great mileage from such combustion.
This line begins to make sense: you, your narrative, and your characters experience the pressure of arriving at a decision, which becomes the tipping point. Once you and they pass the tipping point, only another draft can save the situation.
If you all pass the tipping point with enough momentum, there will be surprise, discovery, and energy to continue. In this calculus, boredom becomes minus inertia, the force that slows the narrative, spaces the decisions at greater distance from one another, delays or clouds the surprise, suppresses the energy to continue.


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Feel The Balls Of Steel. A Steel Panther Concert Review.
It was Thursday night and as our work day drew to a close, we began putting the finishing touches on our outfits for the Steel Panther concert. My trusty sidekick Victoria and I had been looking forward to the show for weeks now. Last time I saw Steel Panther it was the first opportunity in two and a half decades I had to wear my much coveted leather lace-up pants, so the wardrobe standard was set pretty high! We decided to double the awesome factor with matching outfits. Fish net stockings, short shorts, high boots and skull bandanas!! Where else but at a Steel Panther show can you dress up in your best eighties gear, party like a rock star and no one bats an eyelash?! Stopping for a bite to eat on the way there, however, was a completely different story!
We drove to Toronto with the top down and our teased up, rocker hair blowing in the wind. It was a great beginning to what was sure to be a fun-filled night!!
We walked into The Sound Academy just in time to catch the opening act Hillbilly Herald. I'd looked them up on YouTube and they were just as I had expected. Loud and raunchy! They had that southern metal sound and were really talented, but not necessarily my kind of music. You only had to take one look at us to know we were only there for the headliners.
For anyone who doesn't know Steel Panther, they are the Glam Metal equivalent to Spinal Tap. They are incredibly talented, enormously inappropriate, lyrically ridiculous and downright hilarious. Their story reads much like most moderately successful eighties hair bands. They payed their dues for years in the eighties playing night after night on the Sunset Strip and just missed their superstar calling. They are, in fact, a band who formed in 2000 under the name Danger Kitty and then Metal Shop, Metal Skool , and finally Steel Panther in 2008. Former members of a Van Halen tribute band, LA Guns and various other successful bands, they are each, in their own right, masters of their craft. They have an extremely loyal following and their fans are like no other.
After Hillbilly Herald had finished their set, we decided to move in for a better audience position. We made it quite close to the front but having been to more than one Steel Panther show I was fairly sure we would be retreating to a safer location once the show started. My co-pilot is just shy of five feet tall and she was being swallowed into the crowd already. For now though, we stood our ground.
The lights went down and Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast came blaring through the speakers. The crowd went INSANE!!!!! Still we stood our ground. It was time!!!! The recorded intro "In The Future" blasted out into the darkness and suddenly the band exploded onto the stage in their spandex, leather, glitz, glamour and full on eighties regalia!!
All hands were in the air with the symbolic Steel Panther three finger "Shocker" salute!! (Look it up if you're not easily offended.)
I looked at my brave little co-pilot and point
ed to the left side of the audience, she nodded and I grabbed her hand and dragged her through the sea of flying beer cans and inflatable dildos to safety.
Steel Panther was flawless as always both in talent and stunning good looks! Sexy Lexxi Foxxx had a full sized makeup mirror positioned at left stage so he could ponder his pure perfection at any given moment. You could say it's a good thing Lexxi's pretty!! What he lacks in intellect he more than makes up for in girlish good looks which he he isn't afraid to credit Botox and Collagen for.
No Steel Panther show would be complete without a ripping guitar solo by the insanely talented shredder, Satchel.
He disappeared into a giant blanket of smoke during his killer solo which, along with his own stylings, was a kick ass medley of Maiden, Metallica, Rush, G&R, Black Sabbath, brought to a climax by a lovely little excerpt from The Sound of Music (Doe a Deer)
All the while Lexxi was stage left, destroying the ozone layer, applying lip gloss and practicing his best poses in his mirror. He doesn't get to speak much and when he does, you realize quickly that he's merely there for his unequivocal beauty and his ability to hold down the killer bass lines like a true glam metal rock star.
They played all the crowd favorites. Death To All But Metal, Asian Hooker (as per usual a cute little Asian girl from the audience ended up on stage), Just Like Tiger Woods, Fat Girl (Thar She Blows), Supersonic Sex Machine, If You Really, Really, Love Me, and of course the beautiful acoustic ballad, Girl From Oklahoma (Suck My…well I'm sure by now you get the idea!)
The girls started throwing themselves onto the stage for Community Property and by the time the band hit their encore of Seventeen Girls In A Row, the whole crowd was literally jumping and the stage was a hot mess of Canadian boobies and debauchery!
And that, my friends, was that!! Another fabulous show in the city of Toronto and back to reality we head once again. Steel Panther is never a disappointment but definitely not for the faint of heart or the easily offended!! I'll go back to see them again and again!!


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About 218,000 Onesies Recalled for Possible Choking Hazard
By Samantha Tata
With a zipper from the foot to the neck that may detach and pose a choking hazard, these one-piece infant outfits are being recalled by manufacturer The William Carter Company. Eight styles, two of which are pictured here, are affected by the recall, which was posted on April 11, 2013.
Infant onesies sold by major retailers nationwide is being recalled because zippers on the clothing can detach, posing a choking hazard to the young children who wear them and their siblings.
About 218,000 Sleep N' Play one-piece footed garments in eight styles are affected by the recall, according to manufactuer The William Carter Company.
Popular child clothing store OshKosh B'gosh, and major retailers Walmart and Target sold the onesies from December 2012 to January 2013. They ranged in price from $7 to $20 and were sold in sizes newborn, 3, 6 and 9 months.
Baby B'gosh, Child of Mine made by Carter's or Just One You made by Carter's is printed on the fabric inside the neck area.
No injuries have been reported. Consumers are being urged to stop using the outfits immediately and return them to The William Carter Company for a full refund.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26 heard spirited arguments in the Janus v. AFSCME case, a lawsuit aimed at starving public-employee unions, including the UFT, of the funding they need to provide services to and advocate for workers.
AFT Wisconsin President Kim Kohlhaas told her story, about what Wisconsin public school educators gave up when they lost collective bargaining rights, at a series of meetings with classroom teachers, UFT staff and press and at a packed Delegate Assembly during a recent two-day visit.
Thousands of UFT members at schools across the city wore the color on Valentine's Day to show their love for their union.


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Rules, rules, rules — really? Social media is gaining in knowledge, experience but rules. I like to think of them as guidelines or even truths.
1. Social media has changed everything — not really, great networking started with Dale Carnegie; only now a lot of that good behavior is on Twitter.
2. You can't sell in social media — when you put the right message in front of the right people, in the right social media space, sales happen.
3. You have to stay on message — sharing your interest, whether it's gardening, cooking, sky diving, or driving accuracy or better putting, will attract like-minded people to you and help build your network.
4. You need to have a lot of followers — it's better to have 100 followers with whom you regularly engage than 10,000 who never pay attention to you. McKinsey reports that powerful word of mouth is about the quality versus quantity of the follower and influencer.
5. You need to have a lot of comments on your blog — if growing your business is your goal, then focus on whether your blog appears in the search engines and delivers warm leads to your website.
6. You can't measure social media ROI — there are hard numbers, like traffic that social media and blogs send to your website — how much of that traffic converts into business.
7. You have to be on Facebook, or Twitter, or have a blog, etc., etc., etc. — if you're going to use social media to grow, you need to focus on the sites and applications that are already being used by your target audience.
Final truth is to always provide value. Every Tweet, status update, blog post, video or check-in should provide value to your audience. Value is about creating thought leadership blogs, posting links to great resources or comments in discussions and forums.
They're certainly not rules, not now, but they are excellent guidelines.


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Home Boxing News Dana White Reveals What He & Floyd Mayweather Have Planned For 2020
Dana White Reveals What He & Floyd Mayweather Have Planned For 2020
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UFC president Dana White and retired boxer Floyd Mayweather are seriously working on an event for 2020.
Last month, the pair were at a Los Angeles Clippers game with Mayweather claiming he would be coming out of retirement again for a "spectacular event' in 2020. Many speculated that it could be a collaboration for another boxer vs. MMA fighter event. Or maybe Mayweather would be competing under Zuffa Boxing.
For now, we still don't know. But White confirmed that there is a deal in place — at least verbally — and if everything works out, there will be an event in October or November next year:
"It's true," White said on The Jim Rome Show (via MMA Weekly). "We sat at the Clippers game. We started talking and we literally got a deal done right there on the court. And if things play out the way things Floyd and I think they will, I will probably sit down with Al Haymon [Mayweather's manager] in March and get a deal on paper.
"If everything goes our way, Floyd and I would be doing something in October or November [of 2020]."
We should expect more details in the coming months.
What do you think White and Mayweather have planned for the combat sports world?
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SANTA FE SPRINGS — At least 10 vehicles were destroyed in a carport fire this morning in Santa Fe Springs.
The Santa Fe Springs Fire Department received multiple calls from residents at the apartment complex about the blaze around 1:15 a.m. in the area of Pioneer Boulevard and the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway.
The fire was knocked down by about 40 firefighters in 30 minutes, said a Santa Fe Springs Fire Department dispatcher.
The cause of the fire was under investigation by the Whittier Police Department, which provides police services in Santa Fe Springs.


Do You See The People Around You?
I stood in the coffee shop, staring out of the window, as my co-worker was preparing her tea. I watched as an elderly man stood there with his hand out, begging for change. I wasn't really watching him but rather the reactions of people as they walked by him.
As people passed by this elderly man on the sidewalk, they quickly adverted making eye contact and pretended he was not there….like he didn't even exist.
The elderly man was just standing there with his hand out stretched ….not saying anything. To the people that passed by him, he was invisible.
I worked at a homeless shelter for over a year. That experience forever changed the way I see the world around me….. for the better.
I remember one housekeeper who still works there, and has been working there for almost thirty years. If you ask him what he does for a living he will tell you that he helps people.
He helps keep the shelter clean for the residents. That is helping them.
I helped them too. I helped to hire the right people for the organization, who in turn helped the residents directly.
It was a tough environment to work in. I saw a lot of people with addiction issues and mental health issues. But I also got to celebrate in the success stories….the stories of people finally getting their high school diploma. Or getting their addiction under control and reconnecting with family members after many, many years.
I cried a few times and laughed many other times.
The biggest lesson that I learned working there is that everyone wants to be treated with respect and dignity, no matter their circumstances. Everyone wants to feel valued and know that they matter.
This is a lesson that can apply to any leader, any organization or any individual.
As a leader, you can apply this by acknowledging your employees, say hi to them, smile, say thank you. Make eye contact. Don't hide in your office all day.
As an employee, you can apply this by smiling and saying hi to your co-workers. Is there a co-worker that appears to be 'left out'? Invite them to eat lunch with you. Make new friends.
As a human being, you can apply this by not looking away when you come across homeless people on the street. Smile and say hi. Acknowledge their existence… their humanity.
Everyone has a story. Everyone has value.
Thank for your comment Jon. I appreciate it.


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Q: clojure recur vs imperative loop Learning Clojure and trying to understand the implementation:
What's the difference from:
(def factorial
  (fn [n]
    (loop [cnt n acc 1]
       (if (zero? cnt)
            acc
          (recur (dec cnt) (* acc cnt))
; in loop cnt will take the value (dec cnt)
; and acc will take the value (* acc cnt)
))))

and the following C-like pseudocode
function factorial (n)
    for( cnt = n,  acc = 1) {
        if (cnt==0) return acc;
        cnt = cnt-1;
        acc = acc*cnt;
    }
// in loop cnt will take the value (dec cnt)
// and acc will take the value (* acc cnt)

Are clojure's "loop" and "recur", forms specifically designed to code a simple imperative loop ?
(assuming pseudocode's "for" creates it's own scope, so cnt and acc exists only inside the loop)

A: One way to look at loop/recur is that it lets you write code that is functional, but where the underlying implementation ends up essentially being an imperative loop.
To see that it is functional, take your example
(def factorial
  (fn [n]
    (loop [cnt n acc 1]
      (if (zero? cnt)
        acc
        (recur (dec cnt) (* acc cnt))))))

and rewrite it so that the loop form is broken out to a separate helper function:
(def factorial-helper
  (fn [cnt acc]
    (if (zero? cnt)
      acc
      (recur (dec cnt) (* acc cnt)))))

(def factorial'
  (fn [n]
    (factorial-helper n 1)))

Now you can see that the helper function is simply calling itself; you can replace recur with the function name:
(def factorial-helper
  (fn [cnt acc]
    (if (zero? cnt)
      acc
      (factorial-helper (dec cnt) (* acc cnt)))))

You can look at recur, when used in factorial-helper as simply making a recursive call, which is optimized by the underlying implementation.
I think an important idea is that it allows the underlying implementation to be an imperative loop, but your Clojure code still remains functional. In other words, it is not a construct that allows you to write imperative loops that involve arbitrary assignment. But, if you structure your functional code in this way, you can gain the performance benefit associated with an imperative loop.
One way to successfully transform an imperative loop to this form is to change the imperative assignments into expressions that are "assigned to" the argument parameters of the recursive call. But, of course, if you encounter an imperative loop that makes arbitrary assignments, you may not be able to translate it into this form. In this view, loop/recur is a much more constrained construct.

A: Are Clojure's loop and recur forms specifically designed to code a simple imperative loop?
Yes.
In functional terms:

*

*A loop is a degenerate form of recursion called tail-recursion.

*The 'variables' are not modified in the body of the loop. Instead,
they are re-incarnated whenever the loop is re-entered.

Clojure's recur makes a tail-recursive call to the surrounding recursion point.

*

*It re-uses the one stack frame, so working faster and avoiding stack
overflow.

*It can only happen as the last thing to do in any call - in so-called tail position.

Instead of being stacked up, each successive recur call overwrites the last.
A recursion point is

*

*a fn form, possibly disguised in defn or letfn OR

*a loop form, which also binds/sets-up/initialises the
locals/variables.

So your factorial function could be re-written
(def factorial
  (fn [n]
    ((fn fact [cnt acc]
      (if (zero? cnt)
        acc
        (fact (dec cnt) (* acc cnt))))
     n 1)))

... which is slower, and risks stack overflow.
Not every C/C++ loop translates smoothly. You can get trouble from nested loops where the inner loop modifies a variable in the outer one.

By the way, your factorial function

*

*will cause integer overflow quite quickly. If you want to avoid
this, use 1.0 instead of 1 to get floating point (double)
arithmetic, or use *' instead of * to get Clojure's BigInt
arithmetic.

*will loop endlessly on a negative argument.

A quick fix for the latter is
(def factorial
  (fn [n]
    (loop [cnt n acc 1]
      (if (pos? cnt)
        (recur (dec cnt) (* acc cnt))
        acc))))
; 1

... though it would be better to return nil or Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY.

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Léo Gausson (Lagny-sur-Marne, 14 februari 1860 - aldaar, 27 oktober 1944) was een Franse kunstschilder, beeldhouwer en graficus. Hij was een van de voorlopers van het neo-impressionisme in de regio Seine-et-Marne. Hij was altijd op zoek naar moderniteit en op het einde van zijn schildersloopbaan kwam hij dicht in de buurt van de levendige en gedurfde kleurcombinaties van Paul Gauguin en de school van Pont-Aven.

Biografie
Léo Gausson werd geboren in Lagny-sur-Marne op 14 februari 1860. Hij maakte al vroeg kennis met kunst in het atelier van Eugène Froment, een vriend van de familie. Léo begon met het bestuderen van de beeldhouwkunst aan de École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, schakelde daarna over op de grafiek maar vond uiteindelijk zijn roeping in de schilderkunst. Via Antoine Cortès, een leerling van Constant Troyon gevestigd in Lagny, leerde hij de school van Barbizon kennen, maar hij was ook geïnteresseerd aan de moderne schilderkunst van de impressionisten. In het atelier van Froment maakte hij kennis met Maximilien Luce en Cavallo-Péduzzi die hem zouden beïnvloeden in de richting van het neo-impressionisme. Ze bestudeerden samen de wetenschappelijke grondslagen van de schilderkunst onder meer het werk van Eugène Chevreul: "De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs".

Toen Georges Seurat en Paul Signac met de steun van Camille Pissarro hun eerste pointillistische werken realiseerden gingen ook zij de nieuwe techniek en de theorie van Eugène Chevreul vanaf 1886 enthousiast in toepassing brengen. Gausson exposeerde op de salons van de Société des Artistes Indépendants vanaf 1887 tot 1895. Hij frequenteerde het artistieke milieu in Parijs en raakte bevriend met onder meer Émile Bernard, Paul Signac en Camille Pissarro en diens zoon Lucien Pissarro.

Samen met Lucien Pissarro vormen de drie vrienden de Groupe de Lagny die een vijftal salons organiseerde tussen 1889 en 1904. Ze schilderden de landschappen in Lagny en de omgeving onder meer in Gouvernes, een van zijn lievelingsplaatsen.
Gausson was een groot bewonderaar van Vincent van Gogh, op de tentoonstelling van de Artistes Indépendants van 1888 hingen hun werken naast elkaar. Hij wilde een werk ruilen met Vincent maar diens vroegtijdige dood maakte dit onmogelijk. Gausson schreef daarover een brief aan Theo van Gogh die de ruil alsnog liet doorgaan.

Van het pointillisme evolueerde hij naar het synthethisme. Vanaf 1890 tot 1894 maakt hij werken met vereenvoudigde vormen met vlakke tinten ingesloten met donkere contourlijnen. Hij liet zich hierbij inspireren door het werk van Gauguin en Les Nabis. Ze schilderden een subjectief zicht op de wereld in een extreem vereenvoudigde vorm. Gausson nam vanaf dan deel aan tentoonstellingen van de avant-garde in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, bij les XX in Brussel, l'Association Pour l'Art in Antwerpen, in de Barc de Bouteville in Parijs en op het Salon des Cent.

In 1896 werden een vijftigtal van zijn werken uit de periode 1884-1885 tentoongesteld in de Galerie Lafitte. Hij koos hier blijkbaar zelf voor studies naar de natuur in zijn eigen stijl wars van alle '-ismen'. Het voorwoord bij de catalogus was van de hand van Gustave Kahn, de symbolistische dichter.

Hoewel hij erkenning vond bij zijn artistieke collega's, slaagde Gausson er niet of slechts heel moeilijk in, om van zijn kunst te leven. In 1901 neemt hij een betrekking aan bij de dienst voor koloniale zaken die hem naar Frans-Guinee voert waar hij blijft tot 1908. Hij was de eerste die schilderijen uit die regio meebracht naar Frankrijk. Na zijn terugkeer uit Afrika verblijft hij tot 1914 in Brie in Bretagne. De werken uit die tijd tonen de colorist in Gausson, zijn kleuren worden intenser en het beeld wordt als het ware samengesteld uit kleurvlakken.

Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog neemt hij een betrekking aan bij de prefectuur van de politie en vanaf 1920 is hij werkzaam bij de Censure cinématographique (filmkeuring). Hij had het schilderen volledig opgegeven

Hij was op het einde van zijn leven gevestigd in Parijs, maar overleed tijdens een bezoek bij zijn neef in Lagny-sur-Marne.

Weblinks
 Werken van Léo Gausson op The Athenaeum.
 Website Léo Gausson

Frans kunstschilder
Kunstschilder van het impressionisme
Kunstschilder van het postimpressionisme