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Desire, Focus and Motivation
Life Mapping
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Mission: 300 Mentorship Program
History has stumbled through with both legend and history of what happens when 300 men unify and are committed to something bigger than themselves. It has led to the reality of incredible odds being overcome.
Our story begins when over 4,000 years ago 300 men were separated from an army of 30,000. The men were filtered to a small group of young men that could overcome their fears for the sake of the one whom he stood beside, discovered how to look beyond themselves and see something great in the face of impossibilities. This does not come by accident, by providing mentors that will assist them discover who they are, drawing on their strengths and standing with them in confident belief as the venture into new areas of life.
"By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place." Judges 7:7
Releasing a new generation
The program provides fathering mentors for young men 15-24, in which we are able to inspire a solid, engaged and interactive group with a passion to positively and courageously influence others. The program not only helps the participants to grow in confidence, but also involves the participants in developing solutions for other young men in complicated circumstances around the world.
Our program is built on four pillars that have been discovered in over twenty years of working with those affected by fatherlessness: IDENTITY, STRENGTH, COURAGE AND INFLUENCE. The end objective has been young men discovering who they are, their strengths and a platform for them to courageously influence the world around them.
Our program currently operates in multiple locations in Thailand and the USA. In March of 2015, Mission: 300 was officially adopted as the development program for the DOP Juveniles in CM. Later in May, our program was adopted by the Juvenile Prison System in CM. We are also being observed by the Thai Ministry of Justice to implement in other areas where the issue of fatherlessness has affected the country. Over the last six years, we have been recognized as a major factor in the recidivism rate in the provinces we operate.
The results of the participants in our program has been better fathers, husbands, and leaders in their community and world.


College Station officially incorporated on October 19, 1938, although, the United States Postal Service used the name for many, many years. The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum invites everyone to come and enjoy "College Station: A Community History". This exhibit will be open until January 4, 2014.


I'm going to split a few hairs today. I hope you'll indulge me. Take a look at the following image of a pretty typical minor T-intersection in a 2nd ring Twin Cities suburban community.
The north/south roadway is a County State-Aid Highway carrying about 10,000 vehicles per day. The east/west roadway is a small cul-de-sac street serving eight single-family homes. The county roadway has an asphalt shared-use trail along the west side, and a concrete sidewalk along the east side. The cul-de-sac has no sidewalks. There are pedestrian ramps on the northwest and southwest corners. There are no pedestrian ramps on the east side of the county roadway at this location.
This roadway is relatively new, having been completely reconstructed within the past five years. Presumably, this intersection is compliant with current (as of five years ago) laws and policies regarding provision of pedestrian facilities.
Q: Where do marked crosswalks exist at this intersection?
Q: Where do unmarked crosswalks exist at this intersection?
Every Corner is a Crosswalk?
Subd. 20. Crosswalk. "Crosswalk" means (1) that portion of a roadway ordinarily included with the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections; (2) any portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
We know there is an unmarked crosswalk across the west leg of the intersection, because we can identify the prolongation or connection of the lateral lines of the trail (please set aside the question of whether a trail is a sidewalk or a sidewalk is a trail – we will not split that hair today). As I mentioned earlier, the cul-de-sac has no sidewalks. And this being a T-intersection, there are no east/west running sidewalks east of the county roadway. There are no lateral lines of sidewalks to connect across the county roadway, thus no unmarked crosswalk.
Of course, I'm no lawyer. If others can interpret this statute differently, I'd love to hear about it in the comments (can anyone provide a legal definition of "ordinarily"?).
Q: Where are vehicles legally required to stop for pedestrians at this intersection?
Subd. 2. Rights in absence of signal. (a) Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk.
Note that the phrase "an intersection with no marked crosswalk" is fundamentally different than if it had said "an intersection with an unmarked crosswalk." As I read it, it doesn't matter if there is or isn't an unmarked crosswalk across the county roadway. If it's an unsignalized intersection, vehicles are required to stop to yield the right-of-way regardless of the presence of crosswalks (marked or unmarked), sidewalks, pedestrian ramps, or any other pedestrian indicator (except traffic control devices expressly prohibiting pedestrians).
Stop for Pedestrians at Every Corner.
Like I said, I'm really splitting hairs here. Does any of this matter (especially since the law is clear that vehicles have to yield regardless of the presence of a crosswalk)? I think it does. For example – why aren't there pedestrian ramps on the east side of the intersection? If there is, in fact, an unmarked crosswalk across the county roadway in this location, shouldn't there be an ADA compliant pedestrian ramp on the east side? Perhaps not if there is no unmarked crosswalk. That may be a question for another day.
This difference ( crosswalk vs not at an intersection ) does make a difference to cyclists. Cyclists have the rights and duties of pedestrians on sidewalks and in crosswalks. That is, cyclists have the right of way in a crosswalk. Cyclists do not have the rights and duties of pedestrians at intersections.
I suspect that this different treatment of cyclists is the reason for this oddness.
Yes, this is true. I didn't address cyclists at all in this post.
What about crossing mid block? Is it not true that pedestrians have the right of way at all times? Does this only apply to intersections? The way I had always thought it worked was that as soon as a pedestrian steps foot into the street, cars should stop.
Pedestrians are permitted to cross the roadway at any point they choose midblock except for locations where they are between two signalized intersections. Midblock crossing between two signalized intersections is limited only to marked crosswalks. However, pedestrians crossing mid-block where there are no crosswalks must yield to motorists. See MN Statute 169.21 (linked above) Subd. 3.
In response to Phil and Reuben, even if the pedestrian is legally in the wrong, the driver still has an obligation to try to stop if possible.
I don't think you're splitting hairs. At some point there will be a crash and a case where a lawyer will need to test this.
I wonder if the case could be made that the curb ramps on the west side of the highway, with their right-angle shape, could propagate (birth? push out?) an elongation of the sidewalk across the highway to the east side.
Yea, and that's kind of where I could use a lawyer to define "ordinarily" for us. We can all imagine where the sidewalk would be if there were one present. Is that enough to establish an unmarked crosswalk? I don't know.
It seems like 'Rights in absence of signal' permits pedestrians to cross at all intersections legally, regardless of crosswalk status. I agree that based on the definition of a crosswalk, there seems to be neither a marked nor an unmarked crosswalk. The lack of sidewalks on the cul-de-sac seems to put the unmarked crosswalk status in a questionable gray area.
The design seems to put wheelchair users in a quandry: a wheelchair user can cross legally based on the fact that there is an intersection, yet once they reach the other side, a wheelchair user would have to travel on the road until reaching the next curb ramp.
Adding curb ramps to the east side would clarify that there is an unmarked crosswalk. Somehow, I doubt the folks who designed this intersection pondered whether or not they met the criteria for an unmarked crosswalk.
wouldn't the pedestrian be using the road?
1. Check the legal definition of "sidewalk". (MN Statutes169.011(75)) It is the space between the property line of the street and the curb or edge of the roadway "intended for the use of pedestrians". It doesn't have to be paved. Assuming there is such a space, and there probably is, there are legal sidewalks along the cul-de-sac.
2. The word "prolongation" is used in the definition of unmarked crosswalks so that they exist at T intersections when there isn't a corresponding sidewalk to connect to on the other side. So there is an unmarked crosswalk across the arterial here.
Aaron, can you provide any additional info or docs to support the idea that unpaved right-of-way space next to a road is a sidewalk?
Sure can. Other than the MN statute here: http://www.sauerburger.org/dona/roadrules.htm "We tend to think of sidewalks as paved walkways with curbs, but in Maryland it doesn't have to have a curb to be considered a sidewalk, and in one court case an unpaved 8-foot-wide walking area between the street and the bordering property was considered to be a sidewalk (21-502: Lipphard v. Hanes, 1963). A "sidewalk" is that part of a highway that is intended for use by pedestrians and that is between adjacent property lines and the curb or boundary lines of a roadway (21-101: t)." Yes that's in Maryland but the definition of "sidewalk" is exactly the same as MN. Of course, I wouldn't recomend anyone walk in front of motorists to prove the point.
This is an interesting idea that's worth exploring. It requires a pretty liberal reading of the law (and this post demonstrates that I have a much more conservative reading of the law), but I would be interested in learning if there is any MN precedent for this idea (or any precedent more recent than 1963). If it is the case that any space between the roadway and the ROW line is legally a crosswalk, this would (or should) have sweeping impacts on ADA requirements.
This seems like a bizarre and dangerous rabbit hole. Intended for the use of pedestrians speaks pretty clearly to me as improved upon. After all, if we considered all grassy boulevards, paths, or ditches to be "sidewalks," it means that pedestrians would be legally obligated to use them (as long as they're "accessible") rather than walking in the roadway (169.21, subd.5).
In addition, if every roadside is legally a sidewalk, ADA requirements would all but require agencies to pave an ADA compliant sidewalk along every one of them. Current ADA requirements don't always require agencies to install facilities where none exist, but they do require agencies to improve existing sidewalks. If we're going to argue that every roadside is legally a sidewalk whether agencies have done anything to designate it as such or not, current policies would require every roadside to be improved in conjunction with roadway improvements.
Subd. 5.Walk on left side of roadway. Pedestrians when walking or moving in a wheelchair along a roadway shall, when practicable, walk or move on the left side of the roadway or its shoulder giving way to oncoming traffic. Where sidewalks are provided and are accessible and usable it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk or move in a wheelchair along and upon an adjacent roadway.
So the law says I can walk on the road on your left and it doesn't say anything about paved.
So my point is still valid.
This is also the policy of Hennepin County and/or the city with regard to Minneapolis streets that are under county jurisdiction. They will not authorize the painting of unmarked crosswalks, even if done by another jurisdiction, unless it's at a controlled intersection. It's unfortunate because it does seem like the county is trying to abdicate a role in promoting the safety and legal rights of pedestrians through making things much less clear for motorists.
I wrote at my blog Marked Crosswalks Considered Harmful. If the road agencies don't put them everywhere, they should not put them anywhere, as it creates false assumptions on the part of drivers..
Sean, I do not know the answer to this question. We know that there are numerous intersections that are clearly designed to discourage pedestrians from crossing (like the one pictured in this post), but how much do agencies have to do before crossing becomes prohibited? Signage prohibiting pedestrians is enough. Is an uninterrupted median enough? Maybe (if we were voting, I'd vote yes). Is the lack of curb cuts along the east side of the roadway in the photo of this post enough? Maybe (if we were voting, I'd vote no).
I do think these are questions we need to answer, however.
I wrote this to the author of a recent StarTribune article, which seems relevant (and hair splitting). This follows very closely Sean Oleary's example.
You wrote this earlier (below). However the description of "no … crosswalk" is incorrect. There may be no marked crosswalk, but there is almost certainly an unmarked crosswalk. See this post for discussion, in particular the comments.
It appears from the <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Verndale+Avenue,+Anoka,+MN&hl=en&ll=45.208982,-93.407417&spn=0.000762,0.000758&sll=46.44186,-93.36129&sspn=17.280857,24.851074&oq=verndale+ave&t=h&hnear=Verndale+Ave,+Anoka,+Minnesota+55303&z=21" rel="nofollow">Google maps that there is no paved sidewalk on Verndale. However, that is not the relevant factor.
I don't know any specific facts of the case, or where exactly the pedestrian crossed, but drivers need to be reminded to stop for pedestrians, whether or not the intersection is controlled.
The pedestrian who was run over and killed was hit while trying to cross four lanes of traffic in the middle of a busy north metro highway, authorities said Tuesday.
The 16-year-old boy from Ramsey was struck by a car about 7:40 p.m. Monday as he was "jogging across the eastbound and westbound lanes" of Hwy. 10 near Verndale Avenue, and "not at [a] controlled intersection," according to the State Patrol. He died at the scene.
Hwy. 10 and Verndale create a T-intersection, where there is no traffic signal, stop signs or crosswalk. There is an intersection one-tenth of a mile south on Hwy. 10 that has crosswalks and traffic signals.
The patrol said it expects to release the identity of the boy later Tuesday.
The article was updated to replace "no … crosswalk" with "no … marked crosswalk".
It still has the flavor to me of the victim was at fault.
The whole design is poor and ambiguous. From the point of view of the driver on the far side of the median (where the girl was hit), there is not an apparent intersection (aside from the driveway) since there is no break in the median. From the point of view of the driver (and pedestrian) on the near side of the median there is an apparent intersection. This seems to strand the pedestrian at the median on an implicit crosswalk.
David, I think the word "ambiguous" is a good way to describe the intersection, though this type of design is also very common. It is telling that in the aerial photo, there is a very clearly worn path through the grass in the median from pedestrians repeatedly crossing here. Is the presence of a raised median without curb cuts enough to legally prohibit pedestrian crossing? What if there had been a "NO PED CROSSING" sign in the median?
Incidentally, when I complained to Mn/DOT some months ago about some pedestrian crossing signals being removed on a north metro highway and NO PED signs being installed, I was told that such signage is only advisory, and an indication that there are not designated pedestrian facilities at that point.
While I disagree with the engineer I complained to, I actually can't find what legal weight those signs would have. The only effect I can see at all would be that, at an intersection where one crosswalk is marked with signals, and the other is not marked and has a NO PED sign, the pedestrian would only have right-of-way in the marked crosswalk. However, at intersections like the one in Richfield, there are no marked crosswalks crossing the main street. This becomes even more chaotic if we start to consider new types of facilites, like Single Point Urban Interchanges, where the law simply does not speak to the type of facility at all.
Personally, I think this all becomes a ridiculous calculation. In Norway and Denmark, there is no notion of an unmarked crosswalk: all locations where pedestrians have right of way are marked (and usually signed). There is no presumption of right of way at other locations, even at intersections. While that sounds like pedestrians have less power, I think they practice, they actually have more: there is rigorous enforcement of peds' ROW at marked locations, and very little notion of social acceptability of cutting off a pedestrian.
Never mind, David beat me to it.
Media Coverage on the girl killed on HWY 10. All of it is "pedestrian fault", and "no crosswalk".


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*SOLD OUT*"Mommy Queerest" APIQWTC Benefit Night! Saturday, March 15, 2014
Posted on Feb 11, 2014 in Past Events
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***THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! But you can still attend on another, regular performance date, to see Kat's show, which has opened to rave reviews in the Chronicle, Examiner, and Advocate. Two additional performances have been added to the show's run, and tickets are available at: http://m.bpt.me/event/547871
Thanks for supporting Kat and our local queer API talent!***
Join us and Kat Evasco for her original one-woman show "Mommy Queerest" followed by an exclusive Q&A with Kat herself!
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WHAT: "Mommy Queerest" APIQWTC Benefit Night, featuring Kat Evasco *Exclusive post-show Q&A with refreshments
WHEN: Saturday, March 15th, 2014 @ 8PM
WHERE: Exit Studio, 156 Eddy Street, SF *ADA Accessible
TICKET COST: $20-$50 sliding scale *Proceeds will benefit APIQWTC internship and scholarship programs and community events*
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ABOUT: "Mommy Queerest" is a comedic, autobiographical, one-woman show written by Kat Evasco and John Caldon, performed by Kat Evasco, and directed by John Caldon. This new work chronicles the coming out process of a lesbian daughter and a closeted lesbian mother, illustrating how the reclaiming of their sexuality challenges and strengthens their relationship. Mounted as a solo performance, "Mommy Queerest" aims to celebrate sexuality, eradicate homophobia and break cycles of abuse.
Kat tackles conflict with humorous insight, while illustrating the experience of being a Filipina lesbian, gay Christian, survivor of sexual abuse and young American just trying to get some. "Mommy Queerest" contributes a voice that actively imparts the message of empowerment and inspires an intergenerational discourse among diverse communities. Her use of comedy invites the audience to laugh at the darkest human conditions, while providing a critical lens through which to analyze the detrimental effects of homophobia in our society. This play stems from the belief that silence enables homophobia and perpetuates cycles of abuse. With an in-your-face approach, Kat cuts through any pretense and dives into the core of these matters by placing her and her mother's personal experiences of struggle and triumph center stage.
This show is recommended for those 18 and over due to mature content and language. Please use parent/guardian discretion in purchasing a ticket for minors.
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Wanda Smith Fulfills Her Dream of Being an Educator
When Wanda Smith was in secondary school, it was her dream to become a teacher. She had the passion for learning and sharing knowledge, and big plans to attend college to earn her teaching degree. Sadly, when Wanda reached college age, her mother fell ill. Wanda had to go right to work to help provide for her family and care for her ailing mother.
Wanda worked as a bus monitor and custodian for the Brenham Independent School District. Her hours were grueling. She had to be up at 6 AM for her bus monitor responsibilities and worked until 11 PM at night in her role as a custodian.
"I never really thought about it. I just did it because it had to be done," Wanda said, referring to her work. Now a mother of three, Wanda had spent her entire life in service of others, but there was more of herself she wanted to share.
At the age of 37, Wanda added college courses to her schedule, with the encouragement of her husband and children. Nine years later, through hard work and perseverance, Wanda earned her bachelor's degree from Sam Houston State University. She got a job teaching elementary school in the same district she had served as a bus monitor and custodian for all those years.
"When I stand in front of my classroom—my classroom—I am living my dream," Smith said during her segment on the TODAY Show. (View the full segment on YouTube)
Wanda had a long journey to realize her dream of becoming an educator, and she's not letting it go to waste. When the COVID-19 pandemic led to her students learning remotely, some parents' busy schedules made it difficult for them to pick up the educational packets their children needed for class. Wanda took it upon herself to hand deliver her students' packets to their homes.
To recognize her commitment to service, and inspiring story of perseverance, Sam Houston State University established a $500 scholarship in her honor, set aside for first-generation college students aiming for a career in education.
Because Wanda never forgot what truly inspired her, she was able to realize her dream to become an elementary school teacher. Her example and commitment to her students will impact and inspire dozens of students each year.
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BART bargaining continues into early morning
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BART labor talks
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1of3BART commuters exits Embarcadero station during early morning rush hours in San Francisco Monday morning, June 29, 2009. BART and its two largest unions have agreed to extend labor contract through July 9 to continue ongoing new contract negotiations and forestall possible strike which would cripple the regions traffic and public transportation system. BART currently carries approximately 355,000 riders on a daily basis.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of3BART commuters exits the trains at Embarcadero station during early morning rush hours in San Francisco Monday morning, June 29, 2009. BART and its two largest unions have agreed to extend labor contract through July 9 to continue ongoing new contract negotiations and forestall possible strike which would cripple the regions traffic and public transportation system. BART currently carries approximately 355,000 riders on a daily basis.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
BART and its labor unions stayed at the bargaining table through the wee hours of the morning today in hopes of reaching agreements that would save the transit agency millions and avert a commute-crippling strike.
A spokesman for the Service Employees International Union, Carlos Rivera, said at 3 a.m. that significant progress was being made at the bargaining table, and that members of the bargaining team expected it would take "hours more" to reach an agreement. But both sides were eager to continue the talks - and the momentum, he said.
BART's Board of Directors threatened to impose working terms and conditions if agreements were not reached by midnight. But just after midnight, BART spokesman Linton Johnson sent word to reporters waiting outside the BART bargaining headquarters that progress was being made and talks would continue.
"Our goal is to get it settled tonight so that everyone can breathe easier and not worry about work stoppages," Board President Tom Blalock said earlier.
Blalock had said that if agreements were not reached by midnight, the BART board would schedule a special meeting for Saturday morning to consider unilaterally imposing terms and conditions in lieu of a contract.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the board could consider other options - including layoffs or continued talks - but stressed that imposing conditions "is the primary option."
The decision to take such an aggressive stance could provoke a strike by the 2,800 union employees. The unions have said in the past they would give "reasonable" notice if they intended to strike, but they are not legally required to do so.
"If they're going to impose a contract, that's like slapping you on the face," said Larry Gerber, chief negotiator for Service Employees International Union Local 1021, BART's largest union.
Despite the rhetoric, both sides said they were committed to talking up until the deadline - and said that some progress was being made at the bargaining table.
"Several pieces look like they have fallen into place," Blalock said. "There's been progress. But there are still some big issues with one union."
Blalock did not identify the union, but BART officials have been blunt in the past about the need for major concessions in work rules from the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1555, which represents 897 train operators and station agents.
BART is asking its five labor unions to agree to $100 million in concessions over the next four years. The transit district has targeted the costs of employee benefits along with work rules that it says contribute to excessive overtime. BART's unionized employees were paid $29 million in overtime in the 2008 budget year.
Jesse Hunt, president of the ATU local, said that his union is facing the most pressure at the bargaining table, but said that a deal was possible.
"Management is certainly aiming their guns at ATU," he said. "There's certainly some work to do ... to reach an agreement that's fair for everyone."
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He previously covered all things transportation for the San Francisco Chronicle - from BART strikes, acrobatic bridge construction and dark dirty tunnel excavations to the surging ridership on public transportation and the increasing conflict as cars, bikes and pedestrians struggle to coexist on the streets. He's ridden high-speed trains in Japan, walked in BART's Transbay Tube and driven to King City at 55 mph to test fuel efficiency.
He joined The Chronicle as a suburban reporter and deputy bureau chief in Contra Costa County, and has also covered the general assignment beat. In addition to transportation, Michael covers a variety of Bay Area news, including breaking news events. He's been tear-gassed covering demonstrations in Oakland and exposed to nude protesters in the Castro District.


The two main games of the GAA (gahhhhh) are "football" and "hurling", the chief difference being that in football, the fights are unarmed. There is also "camogie," which is like hurling, except that in fights the hair may be pulled as well.
Howryez! Welcome to the The O'Byrne Files © easy-to-follow, comprehensive online cut-out-and-keep guide on how to follow the sport called "hurling". It's full of handy advice to make even the most clueless person into an avid hurling fan in only a few centuaries. I should let you know first that hurling had a major role in the legend of Cuchulainn, who was a sort of Herculean or O'Byrne -type hero in early Irish politics and was apparently related to the country's latter day greatest villain, C. J. Haughey. I should also mention that in Scotland the natives practised "shinty", the Scottish form of hurling, alone in the hills of the Highlands (it was a solo game there for obvious reasons) and around St Andrews. This led to the creation of golf. Hurling also reached Nova Scotia in the early 1800s and was picked up by the Micmac Indians, to create the multimillion-dollar sport known today as "Ice Hockey". Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the lessons.
"What the feck is Hurling?"
Hurling is an ancient game from the Ice Age, but it didn't get official recognition until approximately 1889 or thereabouts. As Liam Griffin, the former Wexford hurling manager and amateur poet, once described it: "Hurling is the Riverdance of sport."
NB: This doesn't mean that it involves loads of tap-dancing by poncy blokes in black mini-skirts (or girls either). Hurling is actually a venerable outdoor activity, a traditional game of immense skill in which people of all ages beat the crap out of each other with quite big sticks. It also involves a ball (called a "Sliotar"), two goalposts (shaped like a "H", or a "h" if they need repairing), and a very muddy field named after a dodgy bishop.
The ball is about the same size as a tennis ball, only much heavier if you get whacked with one. If you get the ball over the bar but between the posts (as if they extended infinitely into the air), you get one point.
When you do this, you get a damn big cheer and people slap you on the back and say "Fair play". If you get it under the H, you get a goal. This is worth three points. So you get three times as much cheers. More about cheering techniques in lesson six or seven.
There are 15 players in each team, until several of them are sent off. The players' sticks are called "hurleys" (after which Elizabeth Hurley's family gets its name). These sticks have a broad bit at one end called the bas (boss). The rest is called "the rest".
Incidentally, one of Ireland's former taoisigh (but not Jack Lynch) was also known as The Bas, and also sometimes called The Crook.
Fair play to ya! You've reached the end of lesson one! Now turn off your PC and memorise all this until the next lesson.... ...and we are outta here. Remember: In case of doubt, just make what you think you know sound convincing.
Well done! Now that you have a hurley, it's time to pick your team. This is normally not required, because you are simply stuck with the parish/town/county you were born in. You are also stuck with a geansai (jumper or jersey) of a particular colour and shape. But for The O'Byrne Files many overseas readers this may not be an option. So you will have to plump for either Wexford or Kilkenny - because these are good hurling counties but brutal at football (let's keep it simple) - or Cork if the worst comes to the worst.
Fair play to ya! You've reached the end of lesson 2! Now turn off your PC and memorise all this until taking the next lesson.
Welcome back to the The O'Byrne Files © easy-to-follow, comprehensive online cut-out-and-keep guide on how to follow the sport called "hurling".
"Going to your first match"
On arrival at the ground, make a rough assessment of the players' ages. If they look like they're under 18, you're at a "Minors" match. Any older and you're probably at a "Seniors". Unless, that is, they are Under 21s. To complicate things, though, some players could be playing both Senior and Under 21. Then again, others simply give up playing. And sometimes they are actually picked for an important game and though they are on the pitch they aren't actually playing. Seasoned match-goers often refer to this condition by its old Irish terms (either "Arafeck yalayzee bollicsya" or "Getuptha fieldya cunchya").
For the first few matches, keep as quiet as possible: listen to the other fans nearby, and if asked a question, answer as briefly as possible and never smile. It is always better to communicate with a quick nod or shrug of the shoulders rather than actually talking. Remember to clap when everyone else claps or jumps in the air.
Then in the pub afterwards, you might be asked to re-create the finer moments of the game you have just witnessed. The Fairy Liquid bottles make an ideal bottom of the goalposts, and construct the rest of the posts with the coat hangers and sticky-back plastic. Get a sharp Stanley knife (always ask an adult to help you) and cut the beer-mats into the shapes of each member of both teams, in order to create that vivid action replay in full colour.
The most important part of hurling is knowing how to cheer. All cheering phrases begin with a "Grrrr" sound, and almost all end in a "yahh!" sound. You will also need to lower your voice as far as it will go. Practise this voice in the bath and on your kids/little sister/pet dog. Remember that even if your team scores a point or three, your voice must always sound a bit angry and growly.
Next you have to get the accent right. The accent can be easily picked up at a local pub or Spar supermarket. To cheer properly you will also need one of the following multi-purpose phrases so you can fit in properly.
* Come on now yaboya!
* That's the ball yafeckineejitya!
In English premiership football, due to the inclement weather you will find many teams togged out in shorts that stretch down to their knees, and in the style of Accrington Stanley circa 1880. But in hurling (and Gaelic football too), there's no mucking about: shorts live up to their name. They are much shorter. In fact the shorter your shorts are when playing hurling, the more you will distract your opposition, and the more likely you are to win. Who needs skill!
This is probably the most difficult lesson in the entire series, particularly if you're from abroad. There is probably no more famous name in Gaelic Games than Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh. Well, apart perhaps from Tommy Semple, Jason Sherlock, Master McGrath, Cusack Park, Bibi Baskin and Lana Bus.
"Micheál" is Irish for, well, "Micheál". A rough translation into other European languages is "Mikhail" or "Michelle". All of Ireland's greatest broadcasters have the first name of Micheál, with two notable exceptions: Gay Byrne and Gabriel Byrne. And Ó Muircheartaigh is a good South Kerry name. In English it roughly translates as Moriarty.
Broadcaster Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh became famous from Ireland to Timbuktu for the special language he developed for people to talk about Hurling in all its glory. Micheál also covers major greyhound meetings, and beneath that genial exterior is a man of steel and a fierce competitor on the golf course.
The first hero of hurling history was Cuchulainn, who was a sort of Herculean hero in early Irish politics and was apparently related to C. J. Haughey. We also forgot to mention in Lesson 1 that clansmen practised "shinty", the Scottish form of hurling, alone in the hills of the Highlands (it was a solo game there for obvious reasons) and around St Andrews Golf Course. This led to the creation of golf.
Hurling also reached Nova Scotia in the early 1800s and was picked up by the Micmac Indians, to create the multimillion-dollar sport known today as "Ice Hockey". Hence the famous ballad "Micmac Paddywhack Give A Dog A Bone".


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Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (* 28. Februar 1802 in Jakobswalde, Landkreis Cosel (Oberschlesien); † 22. September 1861 in Köln) war ein deutscher Architekt und Kölner Dombaumeister.

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Zwirner besuchte bis 1821 die Bauschule zu Breslau, anschließend bis 1828 die königliche Bauakademie und die Universität zu Berlin. Bald darauf trat er in Berlin als Schüler Karl Friedrich Schinkels als Hilfsarbeiter in die königliche Oberbaudeputation ein. Im Jahr 1830, als Schinkel die Leitung der Oberbaudeputation erhielt, bestand Zwirner das Landbaumeisterexamen. Mit diesem formellen Befähigungsnachweis wurde er von Schinkel in der Oberbaudeputation angestellt. In den Jahren 1829 bis 1831 errichtete Zwirner in Kolberg nach Schinkels Entwurf das Rathaus und nach eigenem Plan die 1834 fertiggestellte reformierte Kirche.

Am 14. August 1833 übernahm er – nach dem Tode seines Vorgängers Friedrich Adolf Ahlert – als Dombaumeister die Leitung der Bauarbeiten am Kölner Dom. Zu dieser Position hatte ihn die staatliche Bauverwaltung in Berlin vorgesehen. Als Protestant hatte er anfangs Befürchtungen, auf örtliche Bedenken zu stoßen.

Durch seine Leitung nahm der Dombau rasch einen neuen Aufschwung. Sein besonderes Verdienst ist die Organisation der Bauhütte des Domes, aus der viele mit den Grundregeln der Gotik gründlich vertraute jüngere Baumeister hervorgingen. 1841, nach Abschluss der Restaurierungsarbeiten, legte Zwirner König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. die Pläne für die Vollendung des Domes vor, die dieser akzeptierte. Mit seiner 1842 erschienenen Schrift Vergangenheit und Zukunft des Kölner Dombaues begeisterte er nicht nur König Wilhelm, sondern ganz Deutschland für die Vollendung des Doms. Die Katholische Enzyklopädie von 1913 nennt Zwirner "einen der feinsten Kenner des mittelalterlichen Stils"; dennoch bemängelte sie, dass bei seiner Arbeit am Dom "Monotonie des Entwurfs" sichtbar werde.

Unter Zwirners Leitung wurde bis 1855 das Querhaus mit seinen beiden Fassaden, anschließend der Obergaden des Langhauses errichtet und gewölbt, der Unterbau des Nordturms begonnen und 1860 der gusseiserne Vierungsdachreiter vollendet. Die eigentliche Vollendung des Kirchenraums im Jahre 1863, als die Trennmauer zum Hochchor entfernt wurde, erlebte Zwirner nicht mehr.

1853 wurde Zwirner in Köln zum Geheimen Regierungs- und Baurat ernannt. Zwirner war Mitglied der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte.

Nach seinem Tod am 22. September 1861 erschien das Domblatt, die Vereinszeitschrift des Dombauvereins, mit schwarzer Umrandung der Titelseite – eine Ehre, die außer Zwirner bis dahin nur der im selben Jahr zuvor verstorbene König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. erhalten hatte.

Bis zu seinem Tode war Zwirner Dombaumeister. Beigesetzt wurde er auf dem Melaten-Friedhof (Lage: HWG zwischen Lit. K und Lit. L).

Der Dombau wurde nach seinen Plänen von seinem ehemaligen Stellvertreter und Nachfolger Richard Voigtel vollendet. Anfänglich dem klassizistischen Stilgefühl noch nahestehend, zeigte er sich in seinen eigenen Bauten dann als Vertreter eines neugotischen Historismus.

Im Kölner Severinsviertel im Stadtteil Altstadt-Süd ist die Zwirnerstraße nach ihm benannt.

Werk
 1831: Rathaus Kolberg
 1832–1834: Hauptgebäude der Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (mit Wilhelm Heinrich Matthias)
 1837: Grabmonument für Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Fürstenberg in Kirchhundem-Oberhundem
 1838: Herrenhaus auf dem Gelände von Haus Orr
 1839–1843: Apollinariskirche in Remagen, im Auftrag von Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim
 1840er: St. Marien in Witten
 1840: Wiederaufbau des Rolandsbogens der Burg Rolandseck bei Remagen
 1840–1844: Teil-Neubau der Kirche St. Dionysius in Krefeld
 1842: Herrenhaus Fürstenberg bei Xanten
 1842–1861: Weiterbau des Kölner Doms im Auftrag von Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
 1844: Wiederaufbau des Römergrabs in Köln-Weiden
 1844–1853: Neubau des Schlosses in Herdringen für Graf Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen
 1845: Burg Ariendorf in Bad Hönningen, Stadtteil Ariendorf
 1845: "Haus Wittgenstein" in Roisdorf im Auftrag der Bankiers-Familie von Wittgenstein
 1846–1848: Entwürfe zum neugotischen Umbau der Schlosskirche im Schweriner Schloss
 1849–1855: Umbau des Renaissanceschlosses Arenfels in Bad Hönningen
 1850: Kirche St. Margareta in Stieldorf
 um 1850: Oberwinter, Villa Rolandshöhe
 1852: Neubau der Kirche St. Johann Baptist in Mechernich-Antweiler
 1853: Umbau von Haus Horst in der heutigen Erhaltung
 1853–1858: Neue reformierte Kirche (Sophienkirche) in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
 1854 erhielt Zwirner den Auftrag von Nikolaus Johann von Steengracht, das Schloss Moyland im neogotischen Stil zu ummanteln.
 1855: Ostflügel der Prälatur der Abtei Maria Laach
 1856–1858: Mäuseturm bei Bingen
 1856–1858: Pfarrhaus in Rosbach
 1857: Errichtung einer gotischen Fialsäule nach dem Entwurf Zwirners auf dem Drachenfels oberhalb von Königswinter als Kriegerdenkmal für die Gefallenen der Befreiungskriege. Das Denkmal entstand als Nachfolgebau eines bereits 1855 errichteten Denkmals.
 1857: Kirche St. Audomar in Frechen
 1858: Reformierte Kirche in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf
 1859: Restaurierung des Hochkreuzes bei Godesberg
 1859–1861: Synagoge in der Glockengasse, Köln (im maurischen Stil; zerstört während der Novemberpogrome 1938)

Postum wurden folgende Entwürfe ausgeführt:
 1862: Rathaus und Restaurierung des Herriger Tores in Lechenich
 1863–1864: Restaurierung der Stadtpfarrkirche St. Peter in Sinzig

Siehe auch

Literatur
 Nikolaus Gussone: Das Kölner Dombaufest 1842. Ernst Friedrich Zwirner und die Vollendung des Kölner Doms. Ratingen-Hösel 1992, ISBN 3-89960-114-9.
 MacMillan encyclopedia of architects. MacMillan, London 1982.
 Willy Weyres: Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802–1861). In: Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde (Hrsg.): Rheinische Lebensbilder. Band 3, Düsseldorf 1968, S. 173–189.
 The Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907–1914. (Zwirner-Artikel online einsehbar unter catholicity)
 Michael Werling: Architekturlehrer der FH Köln, Teil I. Die Ehemaligen. Köln 2006, S. 219 ff.
 Arnold Wolff (Hrsg.): Sulpiz Boisserée – Der Briefwechsel mit Moller, Schinkel und Zwirner. Unter Verwendung der Vorarbeiten von Elisabeth Christern und Herbert Rode. Greven, Köln 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0405-5.

Weblinks

 Ansgar S. Klein: Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802–1861), Kölner Dombaumeister, Biographie beim Landschaftsverband Rheinland
 Bild und Text Stich Arenfels aus der Sammlung Alexander Duncker (PDF-Datei; 198 kB)

Einzelnachweise

Kölner Dombaumeister
Architekt (Preußen)
Architekt (Köln)
Mitglied der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
Deutscher
Geboren 1802
Gestorben 1861
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Alabama Turnout Analysis
Jun. 2, 2010 , at 7:52 PM
The dream of a biracial progressive coalition supporting a southern African-American politician took another hit last night as Rep. Artur Davis was crushed by underdog primary opponent Ron Sparks in the Alabama Democratic gubernatorial primary. And so, for some who don't look too closely at the numbers, Davis joins the list along with Georgia's Andrew Young, North Carolina's Harvey Gantt and Tennessee's Harold Ford, of southern black candidates who couldn't get enough white votes to win.
Without exit polling, it's impossible to accurately break down racial patterns in yesterday's vote. But even a cursory look at the numbers shows that while Sparks did indeed wax Davis among white Democrats, he did exceptionally well among black Democrats as well. Moreover, Davis wasn't hurt by some dropoff in black turnout attributable to his refusal to pursue African-American endorsements or focus on that community and its issue priorities; indeed, in most parts of the state, black turnout seems to have held up relatively well as compared to the last statewide gubernatorial primary in 2006 (overall, Democratic turnout was down 31% from 2006). Sparks trounced Davis by winning votes, not by exploiting some fluke of racial turnout patterns.
That Sparks won something approaching half the African-American vote is evident from a look at Davis' own majority-black congressional district, the 7th. In Greene County, which according to 2008 Census data is 78% African-American, Sparks beat Davis by better than two-to-one, with turnout virtually unchanged from 2006. In Wilcox County, 72% black, Sparks won by better than three-to-one. Again, in sharp contrast to the state as a whole, turnout was essentially unchanged from 2006. Most symbolically, in Dallas County, whose county seat is Selma, and which is 68% black, Sparks won 55-45, and yet again, turnout was not at all down from 2006. And in the state's largest county, Jefferson (Birmingham), which is 41% black, Sparks won 58-42, with turnout down a relatively low 14% from 2006.
Undoubtedly turnout in the 7th was boosted by the highly competitive primary to choose a successor to Davis, but that did not help the incumbent. Davis' best county statewide was Mobile, 34% African-American, which he won 60-40, and even there the drop in turnout from 2006 was significantly lower than the statewide average.
Meanwhile, when you look at the heavily white northern Alabama counties thought of as Sparks Country, he did win big, but turnout was way down. In Marion County in northwest Alabama, 95% white, Sparks won 74%, but turnout was down 53% from 2006. In Cullman County, 97% white (and the home of the Folsom clan), Sparks won 78%, but turnout was down 55% from 2006. In Limestone County, 84% white, Sparks won 70%, but turnout was down 42% from 2006.
The more you look at the numbers, it's clear that Davis lost this primary by failing to have any real electoral base, demographically or geographically. And strange to say, the candidate who actually put together a pretty impressive biracial coalition was Ron Sparks.
UPDATE: In reading a Birmingham News story on the Alabama gubernatorial primary, it finally hit me that some observers think Davis lost not because they believe African-American turnout was down from 2006, but because it was down from the 2008 presidential primary in the state. Maybe I'm slow on the uptake, or maybe it really hadn't occurred to me that anyone would seriously expect African-American voters to turn out for Artur Davis like they did for Barack Obama, or that midterm and presidential primary turnout levels were comparable.
Since the burden of the post above is to suggest that Davis' problem was poor performance among black voters, not their turnout levels, the distinction is largely irrelevant, but the subject did lead me to look back at those 2008 presidential primary numbers, and a surprising discovery: in many of those heavily-black counties in the 7th congressional district of Alabama, turnout was actually higher yesterday than in 2008, in some cases much higher. In Sumter County, for example, turnout was 95% higher in 2010 than in 2008; in Greene County, it rose 44%. Overall turnout statewide was 40% higher in 2008 than yesterday, but a quick glance indicates the boost was mostly in the large urban areas. I'm sure African-American voters were a big, perhaps dominant, part of that story, but the patterns suggest that Obama's organization, not just his race, had a lot to do with that outcome.


Today the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an update to its guidelines for the management and treatment of low back pain. The guidelines govern which treatments GPs in the NHS can offer to their patients who suffer with back pain.
Acupuncture has been removed as a recommended treatment. This decision reverses the one made by the 2009 committee, who included acupuncture on the basis of robust evidence.
Watch this 6 minute video which explains where NICE have gone wrong but more importantly some of the research that shows the effectiveness of acupuncture for low-back pain.
Below is some of the press release issued by New Zealand Register of Acupuncture.
The reversal by this committee stands in contrast to recommendations by research and policy institutions in other countries - the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia. These countries include acupuncture as a safe, effective, non-pharmacological treatment for low back-pain based on evidence that shows acupuncture outperforms usual care, and has fewer risks and side effects than commonly used pain medications.
All other manual therapies reviewed and recommended by NICE, such as manipulation, massage or exercise, were primarily compared to usual care and generally were not shown to be better than placebo. Their superiority over usual care was less than that for acupuncture yet still it was decided to exclude acupuncture. By requiring acupuncture to outperform sham treatment, whilst not requiring the same of exercise or manual therapies for example, represents a bias in recognised guideline development practice, where great lengths are normally taken to compare treatments using the same measuring stick. NICE has not adequately justified why acupuncture alone was singled out in this way.
The NHS spends over £300 million pounds treating injuries caused by the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Conditions such as GI bleeds and heart failure result in two thousand preventable deaths every year in the UK. The new guidelines do caution that doctors should recommend the lowest dose of NSAIDs for the shortest amount of time possible.
Recommending access to acupuncture as an effective drug-free alternative to treat low back pain could easily lead to a reduction in the intake of harmful medications.
In New Zealand, patient treatments and GP referrals are not constrained by NICE guidelines, however, New Zealand GPs may well be influenced by these guidelines to not recommend acupuncture, a safe and drug-free treatment that is proven to be effective for the treatment of low back pain. Acupuncture NZ members have been recognised by ACC as Treatment Providers since 1990 and GPs throughout the country frequently refer their patients for acupuncture treatment.


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More confusion for thousands of British holidaymakers over Spain quarantine – BBC News
Latest video updates about Coronavirus. Check out this "More confusion for thousands of British holidaymakers over Spain quarantine – BBC News" video below:
Thousands of British holiday makers are facing uncertainty, following the government's decision to impose a two-week quarantine on people travelling to the UK from Spain, including its hugely popular island destinations.
Travel companies say they're deeply disappointed that the Balearic and Canary Islands have been included, because they have not had the recent surge in coronavirus cases of Coronavirus seen in parts of mainland Spain.
The UK government has extended its warning — now advising against all but essential travel to the islands as well as the Spanish mainland.
Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands, is the most popular destination for Britons on their summer holidays with more than 18 million visits last year. France was second and Italy third.
There is now uncertainty over almost 10,000 flights which have been scheduled from the UK to Spain between now and late August, with the planes due to carry around 1.8 million passengers
Travel firms are warning that unless the quarantine policy is applied in a more focused way, firms will go out of business.
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COMSTOCK PARK – For the second straight year, the Lower Peninsula Division 3 boys track & field championship came down to the final race at Comstock Park.
Chesaning was the benefactor last season. On Saturday, it was Clare's time.
The Pioneers finished third in the 1,600-meter relay, and although Berrien Springs won the event to finish with 42 points, Clare came away with the big team trophy with 44 points. Kent City finished third with 32 points.
Clare's championship was its first in boys track since 2000, and coach Adam Burhans said he had a handle on the standings throughout most of the day.
Berrien Springs likely found the outcome mildly shocking as Clare was nowhere in the top four with just three events left. The standings at the point did not account for the points that hadn't been tallied in the discus, where Clare's Noah Nivison won with a throw of 156 feet, 7 inches, and teammate Zac Stickler placed sixth. Stickler was also third in the shot put, which were 16 big points in the grand scheme.
But Burhans really has senior Xavier Martin to thank. Martin anchored two of Clare's three all-state relays – and was the third leg of the other – and finished second in the 200 in 22.54 to Kent City's Giovanni Weeks (22.36).
Clare was second in the 800 relay in 1:29.64 with junior Jake Hawley, sophomore Colt Smedley and Brenden Sersaw joining Martin; third in the 400 relay in 43.91 with the same group except Sersaw anchored ahead of Martin; and third in the all-important 1,600 relay with Sersaw, Smedley, senior Justin Tickle and Martin in the lineup.
Martin said the team watched Berrien Springs put up a 3:23.42 time in the heat before the Pioneers' preliminary and knew it had a tough battle.
Needing a finish no worse than fourth to claim the Finals championship, the Pioneers responded in the last boys event of the day.
"It's a situation kids dream of, to make a last-second shot to win, but it's not what a coach dreams of," Burhans said, chuckling.
Elsewhere, Jackson Blanchard had some big shoes to fill at Houghton Lake in terms of the hurdle events. He's wearing them quite well.
Blanchard, a senior, successfully repeated with championships in the 110 and 300 hurdles, claiming the 110 title in a meet record 14.23 seconds. That eclipsed the time of 14.3 set by Derrick Cook of Muskegon Oakridge in 2003.
Blanchard won the 300 hurdles in 37.79 seconds, beating his nearest opponent (Kalob Bellows of Lake City) by nearly two seconds.
But perhaps more satisfying to Blanchard was that he took down the school records set by his father and hurdling mentor, Thomas Blanchard.
The younger Blanchard, who took up the hurdles even semi-seriously only as a sophomore, beat his father's school record in the 300 that season. He topped the 110 several times this season, punctuated by Saturday's time. Blanchard's main focus was golf during the spring sports season, so he rarely practiced for track. As a sophomore, he competed in only the minimum number of meets he needed to qualify for Regionals.
"Imagine what I could do if I practiced," said Blanchard, who next heads to Central Michigan University to run the 110 and 400 hurdles for the Chippewas.
In the field events, Jacob Ager of Boyne City sat seventh going into the final round of the shot put. On his last attempt, he launched a bomb 59 feet, 11 inches to comfortably win the championship. Jack Boyle of Roscommon was second at 58-1½.
The finish surprised even Ager.
Ager, who also finished 10th in the discus, is heading to Northern Michigan in the fall and will play football.
In the pole vault, Manton senior Zach Flint won after being the only athlete to clear 13 feet, 6 inches. Flint, who entered the meet with a vault of 13-0, failed in his quest to conquer 14 feet but already had first place in his pocket.
Flint, who cleared 14-3 on Monday in winning the Cadillac News meet, will vault for Aquinas College in the fall.
Saugatuck junior Corey Gorgas was a double winner on the day, claiming the 1,600 in 4:15.74 and later adding the 3,200 in 9:17.32.
Caro won the 3,200 relay in 8:05.71 with juniors Yami Albrecht, Caleb Cotton, Bryden Miller and Aaron Hulburt.
Junior Caleb Schuette of Grandville Calvin Christian won the 100 in 11.10 seconds, and Hart senior Logan Wells won the 400 in 48.89 seconds. Leslie senior Devin Gibbs won the 800 in 1:55.88.
Sam Spaulding, a junior at Berrien Springs, won the high jump with a 6-7, and Quincy senior Bryce Ruhl won the long jump with a 21-¾.


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January 2013, 33(1): 321-333. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.321
Infinitely many solutions for some singular elliptic problems
Andrzej Szulkin 1, and Shoyeb Waliullah 1,
Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden
Received June 2011 Revised November 2011 Published September 2012
We prove the existence of an unbounded sequence of critical points of the functional \begin{equation*} J_{\lambda}(u) =\frac{1} {p} ∫_{\mathbb{R} ^N}{||x|^{-α\nabla^k} u|} ^p - λ h(x){||x|^{-α+k}u|} ^p - \frac{1} {q} ∫_{\mathbb{R} ^N}Q(x){||x|^{-b}u|} ^q \end{equation*} related to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality and its higher order variant by Lin. We assume $Q\le 0$ at 0 and infinity and consider two essentially different cases: $h\equiv 1$ and $h$ in a certain weighted Lebesgue space.
Keywords: infinitely many solutions., Nehari manifold, sign-changing weight function, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J35, 35J62; Secondary: 35J30, 58E3.
Citation: Andrzej Szulkin, Shoyeb Waliullah. Infinitely many solutions for some singular elliptic problems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2013, 33 (1) : 321-333. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.321
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Seeds have been sown for a digital artwork to appear on the facade of the Dutch Embassy in the United Kingdom. Dutch artist Simon Heijdens has been assigned to display a new version of his famous Lightweeds on the front of the building at 38 Hyde Park Gate, London. The artwork will be revealed ahead of the state visit of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima to the United Kingdom on 23 and 24 October.
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Lightweeds is a dynamic artwork. The digital plants react to their environment. Weather sensors register the amount of rain and sunlight, which directly influence the plants' growth. Sensors also pick up how windy it is, enabling the plants to sway in the wind. And the artwork interacts with people walking past too. Passers-by cause the Lightweeds to tremble and drop a few seeds, from which new plants will grow. Hence, Lightweeds is ever evolving. New plants emerge all the time, growing in places where there is most human activity, moving in the wind and digitally reproducing.
Lightweeds is a temporary artwork. It will be on show until the beginning of January 2019.
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Simon Heijdens is a Dutch artist, living in the United Kingdom. His installations explore and reveal hidden narratives in our everyday surroundings, often using light as a medium to make tangible the essence of a space, material or ritual. His acclaimed light projection works of living digital organisms Tree and Lightweeds have been exhibited and installed in over 50 museums, galleries and public spaces throughout Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia, including The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain France, the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Haus der Kunst Munich and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow.
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Temple of Apollo
The Temple of Apollo is one of the most important ancient Greek monuments in Syracuse. It is dated to the beginning of the 6th century B.C. and is therefore the most ancient Doric temple in Sicily and more or less, the first which corresponds to the model of the temple surrounded by a peripteros of stone columns that became standard in the whole Greek world.
The temple underwent several transformations: closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, it was a Byzantine church, from which period the front steps and traces of a central door are preserved, and then an Islamic mosque during the Emirate of Sicily. Later it was restored to its previous purpose, becoming the Norman Church of the Saviour, which was then incorporated into a 16th-century Spanish barracks and into private houses, though some architectural elements remained visible.
These successive renovations severely damaged the building, which were rediscovered around 1890 inside the barracks and was brought to light in its entirety thanks to the efficient excavations of Paolo Orsi.
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The construction of a building with forty-two monolithic columns, probably transported by sea, must have seemed incredible to its builders, as demonstrated by the unusual inscription on the top step on the eastern face dedicated to Apollo, in which the builder (or the architect) celebrates the construction of the building with an emphasis on the pioneering character of the construction.
The remains permit the reconstruction of the original appearance of the temple, which belongs to the proto-doric period and shows uncertainties in construction and style, such as the extreme closeness of the columns on the sides, the variation of the intercolumniation, the lack of concern for the correspondence of the triglyphs with the columns and archaic aspects the very elongated floor plan. The architrave was unusually high and lightened at the back by an L-shaped cross section.
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Terracotta from the structure is preserved in the Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi in Syracuse, along with fragments of the gutter and of the akroteria, and some roof tiles, probably among the first produced in Sicily.
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Imagination required to picture the temple in full glory. More about the area around the temple, nice places to sit and cafes nearby to grab an ice cream or coffee. Close to the food market too.
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Temple in ruins; great if that's what you like but not quite enough left to get the full 5*.
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The Temple is not very interresting. Not worth an trip BUT the squares and Cathedrals nearby the Temple are very beautifull and the little streets are great to walk trough. Alsof very nicd to go dining in the little side streets.
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Not much left from the original construction, some imagination necessary to fully appreciate this place.
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Birth Day: February 04, 1926
Birth Place: Charleroi, Belgium, Belgium
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Albert Frere was born on February 04, 1926 in Charleroi, Belgium, Belgium. Albert Frere owns CNP, a media, utilities and oil empire that he built from his family's scrap-metal business. In July 2008 he completed what some say is the greatest coup of his career, helping push through the stalled mega-merger of CNP subsidiary Suez with French utility Gaz de France. The merged company, European energy giant GDF Suez, is one of the largest independent electricity suppliers in the world; Frere remains its vice chairman. Born the son of a nail merchant, he helped with the family business from an early age. His father died when Frere was 17, so he left school and ran the company. At age 30, he started investing in Belgian steel factories and by the end of the 1970s practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi. He expanded into finance, investing through his Pargesa holding company. In Bordeaux, he co-owns Chateau Cheval Blanc with fellow billionaire and LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault.
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At the age of 30, he started investing in Belgian steel factories and by the end of the 1970s he practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi. He foresaw the coming steel crisis of the late 1970s and sold his enterprises to the Belgian state after merging them with the competing steel firm Cockerill to create Cockerill-Sambre.
Frère used the proceeds from this sale to build an investment empire around the Swiss holding company Pargesa which he founded with the Canadian investor Paul Desmarais. Pargesa took over the Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert in 1982 and over the year added significant stakes in such wide ranging Belgian companies as Petrofina, Royale Belge Insurance, Compagnie Luxembourgoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and Tractebel. He actively promoted international consolidation of the sectors in which he was involved, selling Banque Bruxelles Lambert to ING Group, Royale Belge to AXA, Tractebel to Suez, Petrofina to Total S.A., and RTL to Bertelsmann.
Frère is married and has three children. His first wife was Nelly Poplimont, and they had a son, Gérald. His second wife is Christine Henning, and they have had two children, Ségolène, and Charles-Albert, who died in 1999, in a car accident at the age of 19.
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Ron Phibun (în ) este un district (Amphoe) din provincia Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailanda, cu o populație de 82.754 de locuitori și o suprafață de 335,5 km².

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Stone, who lives in a mobile home park in Santee, said he takes satisfaction in knowing he's helping children.
"Some kids don't get much," he said. "I feel very rewarded that we can help these kids and make them better citizens."
Stone — whose actual birthday is Aug. 28 — was born in Mesa, Ariz., but his family moved to National City when he was 13. After high school, he served three years in the Air Force, then worked in a grocery store.
He opened his own store, Stoney's Rock 'n' Roll Market, in El Cajon in 1957. He went into finance in the mid-1970s, helping found American Valley Bank. Although he officially retired from banking 32 years ago, he said he stayed involved in the business until a couple of years ago.
Stone's efforts for East County youth began when Jim Davis, then chief of the El Cajon Police Department, approached him because the department's DARE program, which teaches children to avoid drugs, was in financial trouble. The help for DARE grew into a more wide-ranging plan to help East County youth, leading to Stoney's Kids.
Stone is so devoted to Stoney's Kids that when his wife of 55 years, Bonnie, died in October 2009, he asked for donations to the nonprofit instead of flowers.
"Flowers are pretty, but they die and go away," he said.
Stone said 98 percent of the money donated to the all-volunteer organization goes to the programs it benefits. The only overhead goes toward paying for insurance and some costs to put on the party, said Odie Goward, a Stoney's Kids board member.
Lori Beliveau, director of the El Cajon Recreation Department, said Stoney's Kids last year provided $8,000 in scholarships for more than 400 children who otherwise couldn't have afforded to attend recreation programs. The nonprofit also contributed $5,900 for an after-school program at the department's Bostonia Center, which offered homework assistance, cooking classes and other activities.
Stoney's Kids has also pledged $14,000 this year for a sports program for El Cajon youth, to be funded from the money raised at Stoney's birthday party, she said.
Like other nonprofits, Stoney's Kids has seen a decline in donations with the economic downturn. The organization's tax returns showed it raised $39,106 in the fiscal year ending in July 2009, down from $54,745 the previous year.
Goward said she still expects several hundred people at the dinner.
She said it has been more difficult to obtain donations for items up for auction at this year's event. "We're struggling with getting things," she said. "Everybody is struggling."
There is no charge for the dinner, and reservations are not required. Guests are asked to donate whatever they can. This year, the group is seeking 85 donors to pay $100 each for the candles to be placed on Stone's birthday cake.
Stone still stays active, and occasionally drops by to see the children benefited by Stoney's Kids, even trying a little hip-hop dancing with youths at an El Cajon Recreation Department program.
"I'm just out and going every day," he said. "I don't sit around and brood."
Goward, who has known Stone since she started at American Valley Bank in 1991, said Stone's positive attitude has contributed to keeping him so healthy.
"Stoney loves his days every day," she said. "He's always been about helping people and loving life."
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