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Rated 5 out of 5 by annieday9909 from Beautiful modern torch We love to entertain and grill out in the back yard often. Our experience would not be complete without torches. Tiki island king large flame torch is the king of torches, I really enjoy having the long lasting effects for our outdoor entertaining. I like how it is really well made with an all brushed metal look. The poll is long enough to secure in the ground or in a poll holder and still be tall enough to look very attractive. Tiki brand fuel is the best as well, i like that is low odor and helps repel the night critters too. I would like these to come in pairs with small weighted base to make it have even more wow factor.
Rated 5 out of 5 by gr8lukn from Best ever! Easy to fill & Nice looking It has a larger wick and a body that holds more fuel. There is a rotating cover where you pour in the fuel- sort of like a sprinkle cheese shaker. This makes it easy to empty. It comes with a metal cover attached by a chain to the body. To put the torch out you just put the cover on the top - it is magnetic. The body unscrews from the pole, making it easier to store. We liked it so much we bought 10 of them for a party. Oh, the other feature is that they can stand up to moderate wind - the party was a house overlooking a beach and we had 8 to 10 mph winds - no problem for the torch.
Rated 5 out of 5 by jam901 from Easy to use - Once I figured out the trick. So I bought six of these to ring my pool area as I had been looking for torches that would be easier to use and refill than the traditional torch. These went together very easily and the fill-up procedure is much less messy than the smaller torches. They work great; the flame is huge and they lasted longer than I thought they would - I got about three full nights out of a fill up. My only issue was when I went to refill the torches it was difficult to turn the top to get the opening lined up - the heat seemed to make the top stick. It took a few minutes but I figured out if you press on the oval hole a bit with your thumb the two pieces will pop apart and the top turns freely. Other than that I love how these look at night. I am interested to see how they hold up over time but so far they've been great.
Rated 5 out of 5 by HappyHerbs from Awesome Product!!! I received 2 of the Island King Large Flame Torches & they are fantastic! The easy filling is a blessing. No more spilling all over and wasting expensive fuel. No fuel spilled all over my hands. And the large wick flames are awesome for keeping all the bugs away & lighting up our pool & deck area. I would recommend these to all my friends. They are worth the extra money as they will last a lot longer than any bamboo tiki torch on the market. Enjoy your yard again with these new torches from Tiki.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Club33fan from By far the best Tiki torches I've ever used These torches are everything you would want in a top notch high quality torch. The Island king torches provide a much more realistic and fuller torch flame. The oil reservoir holds a large amount of your tiki-oil of choice, so you can enjoy many hours of tiki fire. Unlike most Tiki torches where you have to unscrew the top off the canister and fill through a small opening these torches are extremely easy to refill with oil. The top slides open easily and all you do is pour right through the top of the torch without having to remove anything but the snuffer cap. this gives you a very large opening for filling. No need for funnels or the risk of spilling oil from over filling like in your typical torch canister. This takes all the hassle of filling your torch with oil completely out of the equation. In my opinion, this oil reservoir system needs to be implemented across all Tiki brand torches. They really hit a grand slam with the Island King Tiki Torches in very way. I could not be happier with the performance, look and ambient light provided by these awesome torches.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gabi from Elegant torches I love this elegant Tiki Island King Large Flame Torch. It is very easy to assemble and also easy to fill with the Tiki-oil. The oil reservoir holds a large amount of oil, so you can enjoy many hours of a tiki fire witout having to refill it so often. The torch has a really big flame when it's lit and stays lit when the wind kicks up. The large wick flame is great for keeping all the bugs away and it lights up the deck area. There is a magnetic cap that fits on the top to put the torch out when your done using it. I recommend this product.
I've used these torches for the last couple years and love them! I just filled them up for the season and I notice the one is leaking from the bottom, maybe from one of the tiny holes? Did I fill it up too full? Or is it broken and in need of replacement?
Hi... in love with your #65 island king large flame torches. Plan to buy 5 of them, but everywhere I look I'm told "OUT OF STOCK". Does this mean there will be no more #65s, or will you be restocking them? Please ... summer's just around the corner!
Does the torch allow citronella or mosquito repellant?
How do I know when it's time to replace the wick. We have had ours 2 Summers and never changed them and although they are black and charred, they light instantly and burn. Should we be trimming them?
I have an event in Dec...do you sell these year round on line and how long does it take to get them shipped...I live in Michigan.
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Jennifer Tremblay's second play, The Carousel (Le Carrousel) published in 2011 is the sequel to her first play The List (La Liste) published in 2007 that won the Governor General's Award for Drama in 2008. The sole character in both récits théâtrals, as she calls them, is an unnamed Woman, but the warm vital Woman in The Carousel is so different from the neurotically obsessive Woman in The List that the two seem to be completely different people and The Carousel can safely be enjoyed with no knowledge of the previous play. While the main problem of The List was the sheer improbability of its premise, the main problems with The Carousel are its internal contradictions and its promotion of antique values. Fortunately, the central role allows Allegra Fulton to give a virtuoso performance.
In The Carousel the Woman learns that her mother Florence is dying and has to leave her two sons to travel to the hospital in the town where she was born somewhere along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. While waiting in the hospital to see Florence, the Woman thinks back to various times in her life that involved driving along Route 138. Her memories are interspersed with prayers to her deceased maternal grandmother Marie sometimes asking for guidance, sometimes asking to know the answer to the question she has always wondered about. Why did Marie allow all of her sons to stay at home but send Florence away to a convent school?
Reflecting the play's attempt at a stream-of-consciousness style, the Woman re-enacts scene after scene not just from her from her own past, but from those of Florence and Marie. A scene involving Florence and her father Charlie, can easily dissolve into one between the Woman and her sons or between the Woman as a child and her grandfather Émilien. Allegra Fulton demonstrates her great talent in keeping all the voices of the many characters, male and female, including the Woman and Florence at different ages, completely distinct. Whatever confusions arise have to do with Tremblay's text rather than Fulton's performance. This is because Tremblay's stream-of-consciousness does not always flow smoothly from one similar idea to the next as in James Joyce or Virginia Woolf. Rather it just as often hopscotches about, leaping from one scene to the next without any clear connection between them. This may reflect the Woman's agitated state but it also makes her thoughts at times hard to follow.
Surprising for a play written in the 21st century are the ancient models of male and female roles that Tremblay puts forward as universal. A refrain throughout the action is that women stay but men never do. The most a woman can hope for is that they come back "often". At the ever end the Woman concludes that men are really little boys who like to go away and have adventures and that women are really scared little girls hiding at home. Two aspects of this conclusion are bizarre. First is that it is so incredibly old fashioned. Tremblay strives for universal symbolism but why does it require women to stay at home? Second is that the Woman's story itself does not support this conclusion. The problem in Marie's home is not that her farmer husband Émilien goes away, but that he does not. He looks for sexual pleasure too close to home which is his great failing. The Woman's question about Marie is that she does not stay home but is sent away.
Yet Tremblay has no praise for men who go away either, even if, as she claims, it is their nature. Florence's husband Charlie goes away to look for pleasure elsewhere, but Florence and the Woman see this as a failing, too. Yet, when the Woman decides to have a sexual liaison outside of marriage, Tremblay does not condemn her but the male object of the Woman's desire who does not desire her. Out of frustration, the Woman goes back to her house and chops down a tree – a rather too obvious form of Freudian revenge that evoked much unintentional laughter.
After hearing 75 minutes of fragments of the Woman's life, we can be excused for feeling confused because Tremblay's point of view on the action is itself confused. What she hopes to illustrate is the cycle of life, or, as Tremblay puts it is her pseudo-profound manner: "The destiny of the mother is the past of the daughter. The destiny of the daughter is the future of the mother. And vice versa." The "vice versa" at the end simply makes nonsense of what came before. Tremblay's image for the cycle of life is none other than the carousel that the Woman's sons rode in a park in Paris. Thus Tremblay sums up all the action in the play – both the repetitions in family history and the circular mediations on that history – with a cliché. In 1907 Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his famous poem "Das Karussell" about exactly the same carousel in the Jardin du Luxembourg with its elephant that Tremblay mentions and uses it to symbolize the cycle of life. The amusement park ride carries the same symbolism in the ballet of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel (1945), in the imagery of J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye (1951) and in the song "On the Carousel" (1967) by The Hollies.
First-time director Megan Follows has decided that Tremblay's words are not enough. Therefore, on the long white wall of Denise Karn's sterile hospital set, she has Karns project images that arise in the text – the iron gate of the convent school, church windows, old-fashioned wallpaper for Marie's house, a dense forest, passing headlights for Route 138. Sometimes the images match what the Woman is saying, but sometimes the Woman shifts from one setting to another so rapidly that the lingering presence of a projection is unhelpful. These attempts to amplify the text suggest that the words are not powerful enough on their own to inspire our imagination.
If Tremblay's collections of scenes results only in clichés, the same is not true of Fulton's fantastic performance where she transforms herself sometime in only the space of a word from character to character. It is entirely Fulton's energy and skill that give the purple prose of Tremblay's récit théâtral its theatricality.
Photos: Allegra Fulton as the Woman. ©2014 John Lauener.


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During their training, along with the 3 years of theoretical work, practice and supervision, Radix Body Centered Psychotherapists do a minimum of 150 hours of their own personal Radix work. Radix training is rare in its demand for ongoing, deep and comprehensive personal work. This gives the practitioner an ability to be fully present with their clients, no matter what the issues are or what is being felt or expressed. Because of this high standard of training and personal work, Radix practitioners are comfortable with and able to work effectively with emotion and recognise the role and purpose of doing so.
The founder of Radix, Dr Charles Kelley was, amongst other things, an experimental psychologist who researched the relationship between vision and emotions. He developed and incorporated vision work into Radix. Radix practitioners are very skilled in working with the eyes. Visual work is of immense importance in bringing clients more into the present moment, which facilitates healthy perception, addresses dissociation and enhances the integration of the work.
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Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Kanye and Jay-Z. Eminem and Dr. Dre. The hip-hop world is full of great musical collaborations. Kendrick Lamar is no exception, although his collaborations come in a visual form. Using his latest music video "Element", Evan Puschak breaks down the visuals through his directorial collaborations with photographers Jonas Lindstroem and Gordon Parks.
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Maybe it's time to put down that iPhone because your social media nightmare has finally been realized. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, the film follows the mentally unstable Ingrid Thorburn as she heads to Los Angeles to befriend/stalk her Instagram obsession with comedically creepy results. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., the film is slated for release August 11, 2017.
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More Greeks are Taking Cruises, Domestic Demand Up 10% in 2014
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The Greek cruise market showed signs of recovery last year with an impressive 10 percent increase in domestic passengers, after two years of sharp decline due to the country's on-going economic difficulties, according to Europe passenger figures for 2014. Last year, 18,441 Greeks took cruises.
The data was released today by CLIA (Cruise Lines Association) Europe during the 31st Cruise Shipping Miami conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
According to CLIA Europe, the cruise product still remains unknown to many Greeks, who are more used to taking ferries in order to reach island destinations where they spend their holidays.
However, it was underlined that the Greek cruise market is highly concentrated in terms of destination and transit passengers with approximately 90 percent of the market historically accounted for by Mediterranean/Black Sea cruises.
Commenting on the Europe passenger figures for 2014 , Kyriakos Anastasiadis, CEO of Celestyal Cruises and member of the Executive Committee CLIA Europe, said that for another year cruise follows a dynamic growth and positive performance.
"The recovery of Greek tourism has affected the cruise sector in our country and according to date estimates for 2015, it appears that it will be a good year in number of visitors and passengers", he said.
Mr. Anastasiadis added that homeporting ships are expected to increase in Greece by some 20 percent.
The number of Europeans taking a cruise holiday has reached an all-time high
In 2014, a record 6.39 million Europeans took a cruise, 30,000 more than in 2013, marking a 0.5 percent growth of Europe's source market compared to the previous year.
However, CLIA Europe observed that this year's 0.5 percent growth rate may look disappointing compared to last year's (four percent).
"The factors behind the reduction in the industry's growth rate include a decrease in capacity in the Med and the continuing economic difficulties throughout much of the EU," CLIA Europe says.
The number of Europeans choosing a cruise holiday has increased by 44 percent since 2008, when the economic downturn began (4.42 million passengers in 2008, 6.39 million passengers in 2014). The industry has enjoyed growth year-on-year.
Germany has become Europe's first source market with 1.77 million passengers in 2014, increasing by five percent, mostly due to capacity increases from German cruise lines AIDA Cruises and TUI Cruises GmbH. France has also achieved impressive growth (13.7 percent), consolidating itself as Europe's fourth largest source market.
"While the year-on-year growth rate has considerably slowed down compared to previous years, it is remarkable that more Europeans than ever chose a cruise holidays in 2014 in spite of the continuing challenging economic conditions" CLIA Europe said.
According to the association, National and European policy-makers can help ensure the further growth of Europe's tourism sector by fostering a favorable business environment. Examples:
– Adoption a smart, flexible visa code that facilitates the entry of legitimate third-country tourists into Europe.
– Draft environmental legislation that is workable, set on realistic targets and harmonized in a uniform way across the EU.
– Upgrade port infrastructure across the Continent to ensure that every major port can adequately cope with the industry's needs.
– Invest in infrastructure connecting cruise terminals and the hinterland to improve tourists' experiences in the ports and destinations that they visit and better capture the economic benefits generated by cruise tourism.
For 30 years, Cruise Shipping Miami (March 16-19) has been the leading international exhibition and conference serving the cruise industry by bringing together buyers and suppliers for a week of networking, sourcing, innovation and education. Last year, nearly 2,000 cruise line owners and operators from 66 companies attended.
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Our reader Arsin asked us a while back about MMOs with endless dungeon modes of some sort, and well, we do our best to find these things out. The goal here is to have an online-only game with randomly generated content between the start and end. Arguably some of these might not fit your personal criteria, but that's all right; there's plenty of variety here!
However, we're not grading on that scale; we're grading on the inclusion. And this was definitely there!
Functionally, Fractals have become less an alternative to standard dungeons and more the game's equivalent of dungeons, which I think is a bit to its detriment. Then again, Guild Wars 2 has (and had) some issues with dungeons anyway. Perhaps it's to be expected.
You can, of course, argue how "endless" Fractals really are, but that was one of the selling points when they were first introduced. I always thought they were a neat idea hampered a bit by their being the only option; a little predictability can be nice for dungeons. But the idea remains a good one.
A fairly recent addition for a game that isn't really usually in the dungeon-delving mold, Abyssal Deadspace was the content that prompted this question in the first place. But let's take a moment to appreciate the coolness of the concept, shall we? There's something just neat about a single ship drifting deep into dark, uncharted space, searching out things in dangerous territory. It's a very neat image, and I'd be surprised if some classic science fiction to that effect didn't inspire the content.
The core of what makes this stuff neat – at least to my thinking – is the idea that you're never actually done with the game. Sure, it's always just going to be similar parts arranged in random fashion, but that alone makes for a memorable experience. Trove rolls with this with its random and endless Adventure Worlds. There's always going to be something other there to try, some new challenge… or some non-challenge that you can sort out within a matter of moments. Again, random.
No, this one isn't actually in the game yet. But isn't it nice to know that World of Warcraft is finally getting in on the idea? For that matter, it's familiar territory for the company, since Diablo II's running around through randomly generated dungeons was one of the things that introduced lots of players to the gameplay style.
Island expeditions are being added with the next expansion, so we don't know whether they'll be among the more popular options or considered annoying scenarios. But they are role-agnostic and randomized, so that's fun.
We've got two Deep Dungeons in Final Fantasy XIV at this point, Palace of the Dead and Heaven-on-High. These are actually quite popular for their combination of random content (always a plus) and the fact that they work wonderfully as leveling spots for several jobs, very useful for a game where you've got more than a dozen things to level on one character. Also, there's loot. And weird lore. And lots of fun traps.
I'm a big fan, you see.
Honestly, it felt like people kind of slept on these Star Wars: The Old Republic dungeons, which is a shame. I really liked the concept behind the Star Fortresses. Random dungeons alone or in groups, with lots of mechanics and no certainty about what you'd encounter each time? Yeah, that's my jam. And the fact that you had extra stuff to hunt down which was also randomized? Totally on board.
Yet it seemed like most people found these annoying rather than fun. And I can certainly see it; there was only one aesthetic for the dungeons, so it feels more like a good first pass of the system than a final version. Plus, no one was really super on board with the Eternal Empire stuff. But a neat idea that should have been expanded just the same.
Oh, Path of Exile, you crazy. Yes, it's random dungeons showing up. But going through these random dungeons wreaks changes to a modern dungeon, which you can then go through as another dungeon to make things even more crazy. It's a really cool idea; I just wish PoE would stop using so many cool ideas on time-limited modes. Gets people playing, I suppose.
Yes, the game is gone, but I still feel like radio missions and the subsequent heists were some of the more brilliant examples of what you could do with the format, and it's almost heartbreaking that every game hasn't yanked this by now. Random missions with random locales and enemies? That's good enough. But then the culmination of several in which you either foiled or pulled off a bank heist, complete with random surrounding events that could completely change the nature of things?
The best part was that these missions were dynamic in neat ways. Fail at stopping the robber right away, and you can still stop them from fleeing. It made for fun ad-hoc adventures even without formalized roles in your group, even if you were just a collection of Blasters shooting things.
Then again, City of Heroes already felt like freeform jazz much of the time, so perhaps this was just a variation on the theme.
Although for endless in size that would more specifically refer to Sanctuary Onslaught. No bosses as such, but randomly selected tiles with randomly selected mobs and the occasional randomly selected enviro hazards. Stay in 'til you can stay no longer.
I'm pretty sure Path of Exile will add the Incursion mechanics to Standard a while after the league ended, as they have done with most cool league mechanics.
Actually this is the first league I'm playing in years, most of the time when a new one starts I just continue to play on Standard and wait for the new mechanics to arrive later (albeit with lesser spawnrate).
Although I have to admit I kinda wish I had played Abyss and Breach leagues, because those don't spawn nearly often enough for my taste nowadays.
Oh man! Thanks for this article! It's now literally the only article on the internet that talks about this. I wanna try out the FFXI one, but man, kind of slim pickins considering the age of the genre.
Reading the comments, its so mind blowing that this hasn't been fleshed out more in MMOs. I didn't even know it went as far back as Anarchy Online. Looking at the list, it looks like the genre hasn't gone deep (no pun intended) with this concept and, like many of you say, it's a good way to keep players satiated for the long haul.
I think they should focus on stuff like that honestly, its a good way to address challenging small party content. The Deep Dungeons is a good start but I think this is certainly the step in the right direction, but its being used as a leveling tool and for personal glory, which isn't enough. Heck, slap in a 4 man instance where each floor randomly stitches together sections from all the dungeons we have so far, randomize the mobs with monsters from different dungeons, add some insane random mechanic to make killing said mobs more challenging, challenge the players to complete as many floors as possible and promise of some exceptionally high end loot for dedicated statics and you've got challenging small party content that won't need as much attention as a trial or a raid.
As useful as PotD was for leveling alt jobs, i'll be honest – i disliked the design. I love the idea behind a randomly generated endless dungeon run, but the execution seemed very arcadey, artificial, and simply lazy. The square design with square rooms and square corridors that only did 90 degree turns became repetitive super fast.
I think i'm in minority though, because everyone i talk to in-game absolutely loved PotD, but i only did it as a means to level up quickly and efficiently, and not because i enjoyed it.
city of heroes has a small glimmer of hope. check out the segs emulator.
When they're done well, they can be a sure fire way too keep players active and engaged. I'm always surprised more Dev teams don't bother including them. They're not a new concept and they're not technologically complicated, for the most part. I would love to see something like this in Secret World Legends, but since they went the boring route with Orochi Tower that seems unlikely.
I remember a short-lived dungeon crawler called Warrior Epic (terrible name), that I absolutely loved for its randomly generated coop dungeons. It was playful and vibrant, with plenty of class flavour and destructible elements… And it had playable pangolins!
This sinful world isn't ready for that.
Not sure if "endless dungeons" is a correct phrase, I think FFXIV has the better definition of "deep dungeons". Because they do have limit (in case of FFXIV it's either 100 floors for HoH or 200 floors for PotD) and also pre-defined "bosses" and other monsters. Only thing that's "endless" (compared to regular dungeon) is that the monsters will keep respawning on each floor (at least in FFXIV).
I do like them in FFXIV, though, since they allow a very dedicated people to challenge themselves to complete all floors solo (it is possible and I think there's at least one person who already completed all 100 floors for HoH, in an addition to all of PotD) and also provide an optional alternative to level up your character even after you run out of all the quests (or just feel bored by the regular quests/dungeons/public quests), and I do wish more MMOs would integrate these "deep dungeons" into them.
Kinda surprised Anarchy Online isn't on here. It had randomized instances at launch. With a ridiculous amount of customizibility.
Kinda surprised Anarchy Online isn't on here.
I remember the Anarchy Online Mission Terminals, oodles of randomly generated Door Missions.
AO was my first mmo. And i heard players saying this happened to them a million times. But it never happened to me in all those years.
I think they eventually fixed it, but I played during the closed beta.
Its funny as no other mmo caught on to this feature. You could even set the difficulty of the missions or the type of missions. Man i miss that so much.


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Self-realization, what is it? Self-realization means REALIZING who you are; and BEING that True Self -- the one God created. This Realization of which we speak isn't just the Holy Grail of spiritual life -- it's the true purpose of being here, for each and every one of us.
Happily, we've all caught glimpses of our true Selfhood. And we've seen the true Selfhood of those we love as well. Such glorious beauty! But alas, we tend to forget. We forget who we are, and when we do, we forget the true identity of those around us too. Such forgetting makes life something LESS than whole, and less than Real.
Obviously then, our challenge is to STABILIZE in Self-realization. That's the ONLY way to live here and now as the True Self that God created us to be. And that's the only way we can see the True Self of others RELIABLY.
The following talk sheds a bright light on True Selfhood, Self-realization, and Self-forgetfulness. Read this transcript, and enter the heart of the matter of Self-identification. See how the True Self IS occasionally recognized -- and why we get out of touch with it. You'll remember why the most important thing you can do in life is simply to recall your True Selfhood, and bring it back to life.
The Greatest Question of all time
David: I'm happy to report that the Greatest Question of all time has been asked by every woman in suburbia. Isn't that wonderful? Nobody told her to ask the Great Question -- she asked it authentically, right from her own heart and soul. We can only hope her mate answered her in the same spirit! Here's what she said:
"What happened to us, Harold? What happened to the man I married? Where did you go?"
That last question -- "Where did you go?" -- is life's Greatest Question, the cutting edge of all of spiritual inquiry.
Why did she ask that question? She asked because she knows the REAL Harold, and she misses him. She wants him back: "I know you're in there somewhere, Harold. Won't you come back to me?" Destiny turns on the answer to that question. Will he remember who he is, and come back to life?
It's fantastic to me, that I should have pursued the Truth so diligently, always looking for the words and the meanings of Truth -- only to find those words and meanings in the mouth of a suburban woman. And not just ONE suburban woman, but EVERY suburban woman. THAT'S humbling! But it's SO worth it, because it means that the heart of Truth is known everywhere, in everyone. That's BETTER than being special. It's better, even, than being significant. So I accept, with a happy heart, that this diamond of Truth is possessed by everyone. And, people have possessed it for a long time.
F: But they didn't understand it as cosmically as you do.
David: Maybe not, but they MEANT it just as cosmically. They MEANT it and FELT it just as cosmically as possible.
[singing an Eagles song:]
"Understanding, well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
You're losing all your highs and lows,
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away,
Desperado.
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out riding fences for so long now.
Oh you're a hard one, but I know that you've got your reasons.
These things that are pleasing you will hurt you somehow.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy,
She'll hurt you if she's able. The queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Your pain and your hunger are driving you home,
Desperado."
F: Unbelievable. Oh God!
David: Now let's go back to the question: "What happened to us, Harold? What happened to the man I married?" I can answer that question, because I know exactly what happened to Harold.
The man you married wasn't merely a man -- he was a spiritual being. And when you met him you saw him for who he was. You recognized him. With recognition and love, you brought him out into the light.
He remembered himself. He remembered who he was. But eventually, he forgot that. He forgot who he was, and he went back to believing he was just a man. That's exactly what happened to Harold.
Where did he go? He didn't go anywhere. He's still there -- he's just not HERE. You know he's still there, somewhere. And you also know how sad it is, what a great loss it is, that he's not HERE. And what a loss it is to him not to be here.
He didn't go anywhere, but he should have gone everywhere. He should never have left his happy Home. Knowing who he is, not losing sight of his True Selfhood or yours, he should have stayed here, with you. He should have gone everywhere with you. That's what he should have done.
Now he needs to remember himself -- his Real Self. He needs to remember You. He should not have forgotten. He should come back.
S: As you talked about this, I saw something. I understood that when people commit to each other and decide that they're in it for the long haul, they get cold feet about their stamina for being their True Selves. They don't feel they have the strength or the will to keep BEING that beautiful person indefinitely. Thinking that way, they go into hiding from each other, perhaps self-protectively, and perhaps with a feeling of shame. I think this happens in most relationships. The people decide, "Now that this is a marathon, I can't do it -- and I WON'T do it."
David: Yes: "I've got to pace myself." But of course, that kind of thinking is illusory -- it comes from the ego construct. The True Self is of the nature of infinity. There's no end to it.
S: And it's easier, really, to be your True Self than to be so severely limited.
David: To be your True Self, you must stay in Unity, where there's no other, no othering. "Cleave to the Uncarved Block." "Inhere in That than which there is no other." Otherwise, when the honeymoon is over, the othering process begins.
S: Right. On the honeymoon, the othering process paused for the time being, and consequently, the Reality of Oneness was seen.
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S: When you're in touch with your True Selfhood, your true identity, you feel like you can do it. When you are ego-identified, you CAN'T do it.
David: Exactly. And by the same token, as your True Self, you can't NOT do it. As your True Self, you don't have to do ANYTHING to be Unified. Unity just is -- it's your reality. It's the Reality of Life that you see.
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Kishani's "Danno Budunge" in 2016: Further Vibes and Reverberations
An INTRODUCTORY NOTE
In February 2016 I borrowed an article by Sasanka Perera in Groundviews and placed it in Thuppahi When I recently advertised this article in FACEBOOK it drew a critical comment from Vinod Moonesinghe of Sri Lanka and then a spate of comments. Several of these thoughts provide food for thought …and debate. So, let fruitful reflections flow –beginning here with my original note and then deploying the critical line penned by VINOD MOONESINGHE to encourage more sparks to kindle flames.
Vinod Moonesinghe
Tony Donaldson
Darshanie Ratnawalli
THE ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION: "About a week back in an email exchange I was prompted by ethnographic anecdotes sent by Arun Dias Bandaranaike in Colombo to suggest to him that we should collaborate on an article on the topics of "Insularity" and "Parochiality." I see those concepts as inter-related and overlapping. My suggestion was/is that the foundation provided by insularity enables and inspires eruptions of chauvinism (in this focus among the Sinhalese peoples but the reasoning could be extended to other contexts and socio-political settings – for example, among the redneck and hill-billy locales in USA). So, this thoughtful essay from Sasanka Perera is serendipitous. We are on the same song-sheet. I have taken the liberty of highlighting portions of his essay in colour." Michael Roberts
Comment by Vinod Moonesinghe[1] on the Sasanka article of 2016 in Thuppahi in its Facebook advert, …. late September 2018
This article fails to place the criticism of the song in its social and political context. The song followed the victory of the "Yahapalana" coalition, which Sinhalese Buddhists view with suspicion, because of what they see as its attacks on Buddhism and traditional culture and values.
Sinhalese Buddhists see themselves and their culture as increasingly under threat. Had this song been sung at a private event it would not have raised any hackles. However, it was sung at a state-sponsored event attended by the leadership of a government seen by most Sinhalese Buddhists as detrimental to them.
This is in a situation where fewer than half the elite are Sinhalese Buddhists, in a country where 70% of the population is Sinhalese Buddhist. The culture of the elite is essentially alien to the mass of the people.
The Sinhalese Buddhists feel besieged, particularly because of the revival of separatism in the North and East following the Yahapalana victory, and the espousal by the government of the Geneva resolutions.
In other circumstances, the song would probably not have raised any hackles.
Response to Vinod by Michael Roberts
I am afraid I have no address for SASANKA PERERA ….. so let us hope that your comment is sent to him so that he can respond. Furthermore, I know too little about the circumstances leading to Kishani's choice to comment on your interpretation.
Personally, I can listen with JOY to DANNO BUDUNGE anywhere and everywhere …and Kishani's career and openness suggests to me that her rendering was ELEVATING whatever the context and whatever the machinations around her.
Vinod's Reply to Michael R
I am not criticising Kishani here. I am criticising the article (and this holds for much of the prose which emanated condemning the condemners) for not taking into account the social context.
My family were wont to sing "Lili Marlene", considered an anthem to soldierly cameraderie across borders. However, when we tried to sing it in Yugoslavia in the 1960s, we were told to shut up: for Yugoslavs it epitomised the Nazi occupation, which saw the deaths of over a tenth of the population.
The victory of the Yahapalana government saw the elite in seventh heaven, pouring scorn on the "baiyyas", a Sinhala term meaning "country bumpkin". Economic policy veered around from developing the rural areas to concentrating development in Colombo – seen in the rural areas as "kolombata kiri, apata kekiri" (milk for Colombo, musk melon – Cucumis melo kekiri- for us), a form of discrimination. The cabinet mainly wore western suits – which require air-conditioning for comfort. The whole image was of regression to colonialism, for which many of the elite did not disguise their nostalgia.
Response from Michael Roberts ….. "Thanks"
FURTHER COMMENTARY
A Note from Tony Donaldson as Email Response to Michael's Circular[2]
This is new for me Michael. Interesting reading for a quiet Sunday as I think about Ivor Denis. I don't know the background here so can't comment on specifics without studying it further, but in general terms, I would say all music has a context and knowing it is important. A mother singing a lullaby to a child will be different when the same song is sung in a concert hall with an orchestra in which audience expectations may influence the performance. A song sung in the mountains will be different when sung in a field, or by the sea. It's a human experience so context is important. Context plays a role for ritual music performed in a Buddhist or Hindu temple, or in a Church. A Filipino singing about the loss of land as a result of a natural disaster one could easily misinterpret the song if one doesn't know the context. In the Middle East, there are songs for camel riders and an analysis of those songs demands understanding the context in which the songs are performed. In South Africa during apartheid times, songs were a powerful way of uniting peoples to protest against the apartheid government, and whenever the police knew people were coming on the streets to sing, it meant there would be trouble.
My only other comment, and this is a very tiny point — is the notion of putting "Hitler's brown shirts to shame." How does one put Nazi Brown shirts of the 1920s and 30s to shame in today's terms in a different context?
A Comment from Darshanie Ratnawalli[3] within the Facebook entries
Controversies surrounding new renditions of popular songs do have a sociological basis…or rather a basis which owes something to sociological factors. But it's silly to think it's all sociological. Enjoyment of music is a function of individual taste which is unpredictable and cannot be slotted so easily into neat sociological cubbyholes. Why did some people react so violently to Kishani's rendition? Why did a Sinhala TV morning show host liken it to a screeching of a female cat in heat? It's because a powerful operatic voice trained to hit top notes can sound too powerful for ears used to and raised on Hindustani based music. But no..even that is not right. Popular music lovers of any country may find opera outside their groove zone. See this video of Whitney Houston, Sting and Elton John attempting to sing an opera aria with Pavarotti…………………………..…,,,,, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2mMPz_a4vY)
Whitney Houston, Pavarotti, Sting, Elton John – La Donna e Mobile 1994
A Further Comment from Ratnawalli
Try a small experiment. I did this unwittingly. I have Diana Damrau's Je Veux Vivre (Roméo et Juliette) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo5qZQdbBns as my ringtone. I was at Dr. Nalinika Obeysekere's Pet Vet clinic the other day when my phone rang. All the people around (Not people brought up on Hindustani based music, mind you) shuddered and shook and made like sleeping cats doused with cold water. Opera is unrealistic, exaggerated and larger than life. It operates on an epic, heroic scale and aims to thrill your soul into soaring, celestial planes. It is exactly right for the song Danno Budunge, which unlike what many people believe is not a Buddhist devotional song, which is supposed to make you serene and calm. Danno Budunge is a song describing Anuradhapura, a glorious cathedral city (I use 'cathedral city' tongue in cheek.) where instead of cathedrals giant spherical structures topped with spheres rose into the sky proclaiming the triumph of Buddhism in the island. Of all the renditions the operatic rendition does it the most justice because if you were three travellers touring Anuradhapura, marvelling at this Buddhist cathedral city, where the temporal and spiritual 'sasana' has achieved its epitome, far beyond even what the Buddha himself could have envisaged, then your marvel, your wonder, your feeling of actualization as a Buddhist traveller can find the best expression in this heroic and epic musical vehicle.
I am no real judge of opera to say how Kishani's voice may compare with a legendary opera voice like Maria Callas (after all Kishani has never sung main Opera roles in the leading theatres like another Asian, the Korean Sumi Jo has done), but her voice is powerful and it thrills. Anyway, there's something about opera which renders all this sociological baggage superfluous. It's not right to say that Sinhala Buddhists felt threatened with Yahapalanaya and with operatic renditions of songs like Danno Budunge, they felt convinced that they will lose their last bastions.
Sinhala Buddhists are not some monolith. When I was in Pakistan last November, I presented Danno Budunge Kishani version and Rukmani version to a Hindustani music aficionado as examples of Sri Lankan music and he categorically preferred the Rukmani version. So, music is an acquired taste and so many things are going on, at many levels when people love or reject a rendition. Even Michael Roberts I feel pretty sure hasn't really listened to the Kishani version, which is clear from his statement, "Personally I can listen with JOY to DANNO BUDUNGE anywhere and everywhere .. .and Kishan's career and openness suggests to me that her rendering was ELEVATING whatever the context and whatever the machinations around her."
Whether her rendering was elevating or not should be discovered by listening to her, not deduced by her career and openness. I suggest Michael download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaKsOtC3b8 and listen to her version instead of his usual record.
Also, it's no wonderful or novel thing for opera singers to get pelted by the public. It's almost a tradition. Maria Callas used to be pelted with vegetables: "I remember Callas being bombarded with vegetables as she took her bows after her second New York Norma, a Saturday matinee. Bunches of carrots and heads of cabbage are not sold at the refreshments bar at the Metropolitan.
"They were flung that afternoon by opera-lovers who knew they were going to fling them before Callas had sung so much as a note. Callas could have been dubbed Sutherland or Caballe that afternoon and she would have been pelted. Callas, the woman, was as detested as her infamous wobble or 'incorrect' separation between her high, middle and low registers. For these audiences, Callas had three voices and none of them pleased."……………………… (https://www.theguardian.com/…/maria-callas-far-from…). So I think Kishani should have just chilled and concentrated on her art and on giving even more operatic renditions of iconic Sinhala songs in a heroic metre. … YOUTUBE.COM…. Diana Damrau Je Veux Vivre (Roméo et Juliette, Gounod)
Of course. Sasanka Perera's pseudo-operatic posturing and snobbish (We know opera- you don't- you ignorant scum- so enjoy your Bollywood mimicking singers and leave real culture to us cultural elites) rant is nauseating as well as unhelpful. His assertion that Pavarotti was unknown in Sri Lanka is not true. Why affect such snobbery. Pure culture is unchartered territory to many. …..
[1] Vinod Moonesinghe is the son of Anil Moonesinghe , the LSSP intellectual and politician of yesteryear. He lives and works in Sri Lanka.
[2] Tony Donaldson is a Kiwi ethno-musicologist whose MA is on Indonesian dance/gamelan and whose Ph.D is on Sri Lanka. He lives in Melbourne and has specialized in the music of Sunil Shantha as well as Asian Pacific music.
[3] Ratnawalli is a freelance journalist and investigator in Sri Lanka who has also written on historical topics.
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I remember this incident well, much of this criticism came via social media from sri lankan EX PATS who are living abroad. Imagine that, those foreign passport holders who live, work and pay taxes in another nation are defending Sinhalese Buddhism in sri lanka. One could not make it up even if they tried. They really went after Kishani via social media and dr harsha desilva responded accordingly, ' tell those Australians to give up their foreign citizenship and come and live and work in Sri Lanka'..
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The Indeterminate Values of a He and a She (Part 1 of Undefined)
Marion Esquillo in Pasig, Philippines
February 27th, 2014, 8pm
He was on his last steps for the day. He has walked approximately half a kilometre within the city's intestine. He was the night sky's extra layer of black upon the pavement. He was a contributor to the breathing cycle. His backpack clung to him as tightly as his somewhat-drenched undershirt has. And after staring at the different ways the ground can look and be made, the first hope that lit itself to him was that of the line at the terminal. It was significantly scarce than he expected.
Along the wrought-iron fences past the gnomish metal tubes, into the open parking area where the shuttles squat, he made his way. It was a few minutes to 8:00 PM. At this time, there should have been at least five rows of domino commuters sweating, waiting for their turn to head home. There were many islands for people, all wishing for their different homes. He asked for the usual spot where the people who ride the same direction as him. To his slight confusion, the barker may have rearranged things. He was asking the wrong crowd.
8:00 PM was strip-teasing already. But for this particular day, at this particular time, he found himself before one and a half set of people supposedly religiously grouped in tens. A record-breaker. No. A miracle. Such was this line. Such was today.
He went closer to the island where his usual people are. He first preyed on the line with five people who stood like candles in it. He surmised that between the two, this was the second line. But today, he was miraculously wrong. So he went for the line with almost a full set of commuters. At the end of that line (he was number 8) he only had to ask just to be sure if he was with the right tribe. He asked commuter #7. A good number, really. He thought, "It is a beautiful number."
He asked in one breath if this line will reacquaint itself with the road to his home. She, a life-size white marble with hair the colour of late sun-drenched trees, and a face that will make one believe that God is perfection, lifted the corners of her mouth to the direction of the timid moon, made the first breath that created a world, answered ever so softly, a beautiful, "Yes."
Her feet shuffled to make space for him. He tried to find his footing, otherwise, he would have fallen for her at that moment. But Fate did not create the shape of this story that way. Fate gave it a little more firewood, stepped on the bellow and gently hummed the sound of whispers.
They waited no more than five minutes before it was their turn to step into the belly of their shuttle. Perfection rode first. Number 8 was seated across her. And for the first twenty seconds of the rest of the crawling, she was generous enough to smile, and he was brave enough to exchange gifts. There was no light in there, only some donations from street lamps, and the occasional moon. Yet, her face lived and breathed to him like ember.
He stole so many glances, he could have been incarcerated. But alas, he already was. Her countenance was ball and chain. His eyes dragged it to his mind.
She attached two white earphones unto her hidden ears. She held her phone before her, lending more light to her. Alluring him to look at it. By the reflection behind her, he can see that she was watching something. But after a few moments, she gave up and put it down. Still, the show unshakenly continued.
He, on the other hand, was still busy of thievery. He had to not forget her face. He will turn her to ink soon enough. As his eyes held on to the snap shots of her face, he was praying for this ride home to be the longest ride home.
They were a quarter of the journey into the ride. The tangerine street lights recoloured their faces. He had to do something. He had to write. (As was the only thing he can do.)
And so, from one of the two pockets at the side of his backpack, he took his field notebook. Within it, it is written, "This notebook appreciates being wrong." Within it are scratches and triumphs, and ink-form versions of his thoughts. There were no lines that guide his strings. Only a universe to write on. He took a 0.5 and he stirred it well enough for it to vomit what will then become his voice. He gauged himself. He had three minutes and an inconsistent road. He, his bag, his hand, his notebook, his pen, and his thoughts jumped up and down as does the Richter scale. But his penmanship was trained well enough to outlast and outplay the acned road that can equalise his writing to chicken scratch. Relieved and satisfied, his cursive handwriting was survived by a short, timid message for this wonder before him. It sang something like:
"I have a hard time talking to girls––especially the pretty kind. I've always had the courage of words, but never the courage of voice. But I do have the will to get to know you more. If you think you can allow me to, then think about texting me here: [he wrote the code that can help her reach him]. Only when you're ready. Only if it's okay. [He made his name known like a baptising a storm.] Nice to meet you. :)"
As he was writing this, he thought her eyes shed vision on him as the sun would to the earth. He resisted the temptation to know if it is true. He liked the mystery of her, and the thrill of the situation.
When he finished, he tore off that page from the notebook. He folded it the way peregrines are accustomed to. He felt stupid but he knew that it felt right. It was for her, after all. He battled with himself for the rest of the ride. Every once in a while, though, his eyes would step on her bubblegum eyes. They would meet and let go. But it only made the struggle even harder. But nothing he cannot win.
A few minutes passed, the van was fast but the journey felt long enough. Long enough for him to muster the bravest five seconds of his life. The Chance laid out two possibilities: a) He gets off first and on the way down he shall land the letter onto her hand, or b) She gets off first and he would have had to spoon all the boldness in the universe to hand her the letter.
Fate apparently had made a choice before I met her. It chose the second.
So, she shall get off one bridge before him. She poised herself waiting for the right time to tell the driver where she is getting off. And he collected his heart for it was throbbing in many places––especially in his hands.
When finally the van assumed its lane, and slowly came to a full stop, he unlatched and opened the door, and she was ready to unload herself. As she made her way out, his hand decided to have a mind of its own and grabbed her right hand gently and placed the letter on her soft hands. He had to coerce the words, "Take this" twice.
He did not know why he had to repeat the request. Perhaps, it was to coerce the courage. Perhaps it is because repetition breeds familiarity. And he knew in that moment that he had to familiarise himself with courage.
She took it but the paper jumped off from her hand, went down like a kamikaze fighter pilot to the ground. But her hands rescued it. She saved it. By all that's holy, she did.
The door closed. His heart stopped. She took each step away from him. Her back promising to disappear into the Thursday night. His eyes were lost inside the van. His thoughts ran like migraine. He cannot believe he did that. His introversion tapped him on the shoulders. He shrugged. And he was nervous. But he must have been in love. Somewhat. Somehow.
He does not know what fruit it will bear. All he has are seeds of recollections stitched together by romantics, and feeble optimism. It depends on how Fate would make sense of the tattoos in that paper. And all this story can conclude for now is that the moments gave birth to the indeterminate values of a He and a She.
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I still could feel in my hands the us you did not accept.
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Why does my PowerBook fan run all the time?
I thought for a while it was some rogue application eating up CPU, and sure enough Mozilla, Chimera, and NetNewsWire all seem to waste cycles when they're not obviously doing anything. But it happens even when I kill them. And I've just realized that it only seems to happen when I'm plugged in with the power adapter.


Burmese food rice Welcome to Chan Chich, Belize premier jungle lodge and nature reserve. Ideal for ecotourists, naturalists, birders and vacationers seeking a retreat. Bird watching is ord Chan offers Corporate Training, Consulting and Coaching, our comprehensive services and programmers are tailored to meet our clients' needs in achieving their business.


This trail connect the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blue Ridge Pinnacle Trail and S Toe River Road. It is a good climbing trail and not overly technical. There is not much in the way of views, but in the winter there are some good ones through the trees.


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package org.wildfly.camel.test.cdi.ear;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.ProducerTemplate;
import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.ShrinkWrap;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.EmptyAsset;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.EnterpriseArchive;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.JavaArchive;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.WebArchive;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.wildfly.camel.test.cdi.ear.config.resourceloading.ResourceLoadingCamelContext;
import org.wildfly.camel.test.cdi.ear.config.resourceloading.ResourceLoadingRouteBuilderA;
import org.wildfly.camel.test.cdi.ear.config.resourceloading.ResourceLoadingRouteBuilderB;
import org.wildfly.camel.test.common.utils.TestUtils;
import org.wildfly.extension.camel.CamelAware;
import org.wildfly.extension.camel.CamelContextRegistry;

@CamelAware
@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class CDIEarResourceLoadingTest {

    @ArquillianResource
    private CamelContextRegistry contextRegistry;

    @Deployment
    public static JavaArchive createDeployment() {
        return ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class, "camel-cdi-ear-resource-loading-tests.jar")
            .addClass(TestUtils.class);
    }

    @Deployment(testable = false, name = "resource-loading.ear")
    public static EnterpriseArchive createEarDeployment() {
        return ShrinkWrap.create(EnterpriseArchive.class, "resource-loading.ear")
            .addAsModule(ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class, "resource-loading-a.war")
                .addClasses(ResourceLoadingRouteBuilderA.class, ResourceLoadingCamelContext.class)
                .addAsResource("mustache/hello.mustache", "template.mustache")
                .addAsWebInfResource(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "beans.xml")
            )
            .addAsModule(ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class, "resource-loading-b.war")
                .addClass(ResourceLoadingRouteBuilderB.class)
                .addAsWebInfResource(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "beans.xml")
            );
    }

    @Test
    public void testCamelCdiEarResourceLoading() throws Exception {

        CamelContext camelctx = contextRegistry.getCamelContext("sub-deployment-a");
        Assert.assertNotNull("Expected sub-deployment-a to not be null", camelctx);

        String moduleNameA = TestUtils.getClassLoaderModuleName(camelctx.getApplicationContextClassLoader());
        Assert.assertEquals("deployment.resource-loading.ear.resource-loading-a.war", moduleNameA);

        Assert.assertNotNull("Expected resource template.mustache to not be null", camelctx.getClassResolver().loadResourceAsURL("/template.mustache"));

        Map<String, Object> headers = new HashMap<>();
        headers.put("greeting", "Hello");
        headers.put("name", "camelctxA");

        ProducerTemplate template = camelctx.createProducerTemplate();
        String result = template.requestBodyAndHeaders("direct:startA", null, headers, String.class);
        Assert.assertEquals("Hello camelctxA!", result);

        headers.put("name", "camelctxB");

        template = camelctx.createProducerTemplate();
        result = template.requestBodyAndHeaders("direct:startB", null, headers, String.class);
        Assert.assertEquals("Hello camelctxB!", result);
    }
}

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For liver transplant patients, traveling to Pittsburgh for an extended stay at one of UPMC's medical facilities can be a stressful time for you and your family. If you're not from the region, you normally must coordinate the details for your out-of-town visit—factors such as food, lodging, and transportation. However, UPMC Care Connect Concierge can shoulder that burden for you, aiding in many aspects of your visit for peace of mind during your treatment.
If you'd like more information about the program, please contact the Care Connect Concierge Team by calling 833-695-7280.
What Is the UPMC Care Connect Concierge Program?
This UPMC service was created to help you and your family when traveling for a liver transplant. The program makes traveling to Pittsburgh a breeze, with services including lodging recommendations and appointment and travel assistance.
Being a traveling patient doesn't mean you can't enjoy the comforts of home. With our program, you'll be able to rest easy knowing that a compassionate and caring member of our team will assist you during your trip.
Travel assistance — Need a ride? We can arrange transportation to and from the airport and from the hotel to the hospital on the morning of your surgery. We're also happy to offer you directions to other locations in Pittsburgh.
Appointment assistance — Any time you have questions or concerns, a designated representative will be there to listen and provide the appropriate assistance. In addition, a coordinator will greet you at the door for your first visit to UPMC.
Lodging — Let us find the lodging that suits you best. From hotels located throughout the city to the Family House, our preferred lodging provider, we will help you find the best accommodation to fit your needs.
Leisure — The city of Pittsburgh has a lot for both you and your family to explore. We'll help you make the most of your trip and provide options for activities that everyone will love. From family-friendly museums to exciting professional sports, we'll guide you to the best spots in our hometown.
Our concierge team is here to help you make the most of your time in Pittsburgh. Let us prepare your trip, so you can focus on what matters most: your health. In addition, the concierge program will soon be expanding to cover additional service lines and procedures throughout UPMC.


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Eurotherm Process Automation provides an efficient, well implemented control technique capable of reducing operating and pumping costs whilst providing resources for greater flexibility in plant management and control.
Process systems using water such as boilers and water treatment plants must be designed to operate efficiently whilst responding to any changes in demand. In these processes, water is generally lost in the recirculation by evaporation, drift, blowdown or leakage.
The illustrated control loop uses a PID control module to regulate the total water flow in the recirculation system by adding make-up water to the circulated water.
The circulated water flow in the plant is measured, linearized within the control module and compared with the required total flow setpoint. The resultant value is then used as a setpoint for the make-up water flow control loop.


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Silk, Cashmere, Shearling, and Other Animal-Derived Clothing
Minks, foxes, and chinchillas usually come to mind when the subject of fur comes up, but countless other species are also exploited to make clothing. From the tiniest silkworm to the largest llama, animals used by the clothing industry all suffer—and most pay with their lives.
Silk is the fiber that silkworms weave to make cocoons. The so-called "silkworm" is actually a domesticated insect who, in nature, goes through the same stages of metamorphosis—egg, larval, pupal, and adult—that all moths do. Silk is derived from the cocoons of larvae, so most of the insects raised by the industry don't live past the pupal stage, as they are steamed or gassed alive inside their cocoons.
Approximately 3,000 silkworms die to make every pound of silk. While worms can't show their distress in ways that humans easily recognize, such as screaming, anyone who has ever seen earthworms startle when their dark homes are uncovered must acknowledge that they are sensitive and fear for their lives. They also produce endorphins and have a physical response to pain.
Cashmere is made from the soft undercoats of cashmere goats, who are kept by the millions in China and Mongolia, which dominate the market for this "luxury" material. The goats can either be combed by hand or sheared. According to one cashmere goat farmer, shearing is "very stressful" to them and robs them of their natural insulation, leaving them vulnerable to cold temperatures and illness, but combing requires more time and physical effort. Cashmere is now also being combined with the fur of Australian possums, who are hunted for their coat, to create a material called "Perino."
Contrary to what many consumers think, "shearling" is not sheared wool; it is actually the sheep's skin tanned with the wool still attached to it. "Shearling" refers to the sheep: A shearling is a yearling sheep who has been shorn just once, and a shearling garment is made from a sheep or lamb shorn shortly before slaughter. It can take dozens of individual sheep skins to make just one shearling garment.
Karakul Lamb Fur
Karakul lamb fur is, according to one fashion editor, "the cruelest and most vicious fur." Designer Stella McCartney has likened wearing it to "wearing a fetus." Also called "Astrakhan" or "Persian wool," it comes from lambs who were killed as newborns or while still in their mothers' wombs. Because their unique, highly prized curly fur begins to straighten within three days of birth, many Karakul lambs are slaughtered when they are only 1 or 2 days old. In order to obtain the skin of a Karakul fetus—which is also called "broadtail" in the industry and valued for its smoothness—the mother's throat is cut and her abdomen slashed open to extract the unborn lamb.
Vicuñas, who are related to camels and llamas and live high in the South American Andes, are exploited for their wool, one of the most expensive materials used to make clothing in the world. To obtain it, wild vicuñas are rounded up, restrained, and sheared, which is terrifying for such shy animals, and some have even been injured or killed. The shearers use electric clippers and work quickly; according to a reporter who witnessed the shearing, they spend less than one and a half minutes on each animal. Vicuñas' wool grows very slowly—each animal produces only about 100 grams per year—but to make a single overcoat requires the fleece of 42 of them. Unfortunately, there have been some efforts by local communities to "industrialize" this process, which, if successful, would subject even more vicuñas to this terrifying ordeal.
Shahtoosh
Shahtoosh, often used to make shawls, is made from the wool of the endangered Tibetan antelope, or chiru. Chiru cannot be domesticated and must be killed in order to obtain their wool. Even though it has been illegal to sell or possess shahtoosh shawls since 1975, it is still possible to buy them on the black market. A single shahtoosh shawl can fetch $20,000, and according to the Times of India, "the profitability of poaching overwhelms any official ban." Three chiru are slaughtered and skinned for every shahtoosh shawl, and thousands are killed every year.
You can help put an end to the suffering of all these animals by refusing to wear any clothing made from the skin or hair of animals. Check out PETA's cruelty-free clothing guide to learn where you can find compassionate fashion.
Gucci Slaughterhouse Horror: Lizards Decapitated for Fashion
PETA Asia Exposes Louis Vuitton Owner: Workers Inflate Live Snakes to Make Leather
Rothy's Is Betraying Animals and the Planet—Take Action!
Stop the Slaughter of Bears for Hats
Urge Moncler to Go Fur-Free!
True Outliers Needs to Go Fur-Free—Speak Up!
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There is need to identify effective and efficient ways of increasing the use of evidence based research in agricultural decision making to improve agricultural productivity and service delivery. This is according to Principal Secretary in-charge of Agriculture Research, Prof. Hamadi Boga.
"Research will play a vital role in the achievement of the four pillars of development spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta, especially the pillar on food security and nutrition," elucidated Prof. Boga.
The PS was speaking, March 14, 2018 at JKUAT, when he attended the 5th HORTINLEA annual forum that brings together researchers, small holder farmers, industry players, policy, and decision makers in agriculture, particularly the African Indigenous Vegetables value chain.
Prof. Boga acknowledged that although there have been extensive deliberations on agricultural research there has been a dearth of evidence-based research in decision making, citing the recent maize shortage that plagued the country.
He encouraged academia especially the researchers to engage the government and share their ideas and innovations to help the government make informed decisions thus improving the livelihoods of the citizens and enhance the economic growth of the country.
"I intend to establish an agricultural research agenda to enhance a research culture in the country that will inform agricultural policies. With the help of academia, it is my hope that we can attract the youth to pick up farming as a viable economic venture hence improving their socio-economic status," said the Principal Secretary.
Welcoming the PS to JKUAT, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mabel Imbuga, assured Prof. Boga of the University's support and collaboration with the ministry particularly in the fight against food and nutrition insecurity in the country. She informed the PS that research is key towards efforts aimed at changing the attitude of Kenyans, and alluded to the uptake of African Indigenous Vegetables and edible insects that provide an alternative solutions to food and nutrition security.
The Coordinator of HORTINLEA Project, Prof. Wolfgang Boklemann informed the meeting that the overall goal of HORTINLEA is to significantly improve the livelihood and nutrition status of the rural and urban poor through sustainable capacity building in research.
"This initiative is an engine for economic growth, contributing to biodiversity of agricultural production system, offering entrepreneurial opportunities for the youth and women of the region," opined Prof Boklemann.
The week-long stakeholder forum comes to an end on Friday, March 16, 2018.


Later today Yorkshire Grandma will move into our spare room, until the end of January which she has done for the past few years, since she was widowed. She spends half the week with us and half with her daughter about an hour away. She gets company and somewhere to stay, and we get some help at home,with Joshua and the animals. She will help out with Joshua's morning routine. The arrangement works well, although Joshua gets used to having her aound all of the time, which is more difficult when she leaves but it is useful having that extra pair of hands.
Joshua has known Yorkshire Grandma all of his life and they have a good relationship. She does not leave his side when she is in charge of him, following him from room to room and she lets him have whatever he wants, so I have come home from work before to find him clutching the ipad with Madagascar on it, while the Live8 Show is blasting out on the TV in den and Lion King is playing away to itself upstairs in his bedrooom. If Joshua rejects the first meal that she has prepared for him, she will produce a variety of alternatives until she finds something that he likes. I accuse her of spoiling him, but she is only doing what a real grandparent would do, even though she is a long-standing family friend.
We will be out for afternoon tea when she arrives this afternoon and I want her to feel welcome, so I will hide a note in her bedroom so that she knows we are looking forward to her coming. Hopefully that will make her feel happy. I bought her a Lindor advent calendar this year and that is making her very happy every night when she goes to bed to read, with a sweet treat. She tends to take herself off to bed around 10pm so that she reads before she falls asleep and that also gives us some time without her sharing our lounge, which makes her a considerate house-guest in my book.
Yorkshire Grandma takes care of things while we are not here too : she usually looks after our pets when we go away. My husband and I are going away next weekend, while Joshua is at his respite provision, and with Yorkshire Grandma being around, we can travel on Thursday and have a long weekend. She will have Joshua overnight and pack him off to school on Friday morning for us, which is really helpful. I just need to get my head around packing everything that we need, plus Joshua's weekend bag, but I will write myself lists and chip away at that all week I suspect.
So, welcome to our home and our mad family Yorkshire Grandma!


The young Israelites who grew up in captivity are thrilled to see the Temple being rebuilt at all. But for the older people, the new foundation is a reminder of the glory of the house that had been destroyed. The new one wasn't anywhere near as impressive. They remember a spiral of sin and rebellion that resulted in the entire nation being kicked out of the Promised Land. So there's joyful shouting and loud weeping– celebration and lament, all mixed together.
This is what it's like when the church gathers. Any given Sunday morning there could be, on the same row, a couple rejoicing in God's goodness at the birth of a child and another couple trying desperately to believe in God's goodness after losing a child. And there are countless points in between. We mourn our sin. We celebrate God's forgiveness. You can't always tell the sound of the shouting from the sound of the weeping. But what matters is that we're there, together. We meet each other; we bear each other up. And our God meets us and bears us up, all of us, every time, wherever we are, without fail.