If you've ever wanted to use Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone directly and enjoy them everywhere, just update your device to iOS 12 and follow the guide on how to use Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone or iPad directly.
If you've updated to iOS 12, using Apple's new Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube videos to iPhone directly can be an amazing experience for you. Sounds wonderful, right? Today, we'll show you how to use Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone directly so that you can enjoy them on your commute without using Cellular Data.
If you don't know how to use Shortcuts before downloading YouTube videos, check this guide: how to use Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12.
Before using Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone, you must ensure that you've downloaed Shortcuts app on iOS 12 and get the right link of "Download YouTube" shortcut. Now follow the two parts below.
Simply search for "Shortcuts" in App Store and click "Get" to install it to your iPhone or iPad.
Use your iPhone or iPad to directly tap the link and get the "Download YouTube" shortcut. Or just copy the following URL to your Safari and click "Open" icon. Then it will be displayed in the Shortcuts "Library".
Note that you can't directly find "Download YouTube" in the Shortcuts "Gallery" tab. Therefore, if you don't create it by yourself, you need to download it from someone who has already created one. This shortcut can be triggered in Safari, and will save the downloaded YouTube video into your Photos app on iPhone.
Now let's start using Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone. It works when you're viewing a YouTube video in Safari, Google Chrome, etc. or in the YouTube app on your iPhone. Follow the detailed guide to start downloading and then watch YouTube videos offline.
You need to access the "Share" button before downloading. If you can't find the "Share" icon in Safari, YouTube app, or any other common apps, just simply check the list below.
Safari: Share icon is in the bottom center of the screen.
YouTube app (when browsing): Vertical ellipsis next to the video > Share.
YouTube app (when on video): Share icon is under the video.
Google Chrome: Share button is next to the URL bar.
Firefox / Firefox Focus: Ellipsis in the URL bar > Share Page With.
DuckDuckGo: Hamburger icon next to the URL bar > Share.
After clicking the Share button, tap on "Shortcuts". If you don't see this option, tap on "More" and then switch on "Shortcuts" from the list. Then click "Done" next to the "Activities".
After enabling "Shortcut", tap on it. Click "Download YouTube" in the popup page and then it will begin the download process which is called "Get Contents of URL". Once this action finished, you can choose "Share" or "Save to photo album". Here I save it to my photo album and I can find it in Photos app > "Albums" > "Videos".
As you see, the downloaded YouTube video will be saved in "Videos" in Photos app. Here you are able to create a new "YouTube" album in your Photos to save them. Go to Photos app > Albums > click the "+" (plus) icon on the top left corner > "New Album".
Then open Shortcuts app and click the ellipsis in the top right corner of "Download YouTube" shortcut. Scroll down to the bottom and click "All Photo" in the "Save to photo album". Then choose the new added album like "YouTube" album to save the videos.
In fact, there are some third-party tools that can also enable you to save YouTube videos to iPhone directly. Here we introduce a reliable and easy video downloader - IOTransfer to download your favorite videos from YouTube. Follow the steps now.
Download IOTransfer here and install it to your Windows 7/8/8.1/10. Then connect your iPhone to PC with a USB cable so that IOTransfer can automatically transfer the downloaded videos to iPhone.
If you don't have an available USB cable, you can also wirelessly transfer video to iPhone after downloading.
Launch IOTransfer and click "VIDEOS" at the top menu. Tap on "Downloader" in the left and then copy the URL of YouTube video into the blank bar. If you connect your iPhone to PC with a USB cable, remember to tick off the check box before "Automatically transfer converted videos to your iOS devices." After that, tap on "Download" to start downloading.
Using Siri Shortcuts to download YouTube to iPhone directly is an interesting experience for many users who love viewing YouTube videos offline on their devices. You can share the guide with your friends and families.


The Xiqu Cultural Center, located in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, was developed as a regional hub for traditional Chinese opera. The project, designed by Vancouver and Hong Kong–based architecture firm Revery Architecture, was inspired by the diaphanous theater curtains. About 13,000 curved aluminum fins, arranged as a series of waves, clad all of the structure's elevations. The project rises as a box-like volume enclosing a multi-story entrance atrium and performance spaces. The flowing character of the facade, paired with subtle openings at each corner, produces a dynamic enclosure that floods the interior with natural light. Costing over $300 million, the project is the first of dozens of cultural centers planned for the area surrounding the newly opened West Kowloon railway station.
Every panel is of a similar dimension, approximately 8-feet wide and 20-feet tall, and is composed of CNC-cut marine-grade aluminum. Because of the marine-grade aluminum, the facade is capable of withstanding the intensely humid environment of Hong Kong, which naturally corrodes weaker aluminum products. Venelin Kokalov, principal-in-charge of Revery Architecture, said the goal of projecting a natural appearance was crucial to the design team. "The original design was based on copper, which proved to be too expensive. This propelled the search for ways to use a more common material like aluminum and a means to bring out its natural qualities." To this point, the aluminum was glass-bead blasted rather than painted or glazed with a coating. The facade's fins are structurally glazed to a steel-reinforced aluminum frame and are further supported by intermittent welded studs. The aluminum frame is, in turn, hung off the primary structure with three-way adjustable unitized curtain wall brackets. Working with facade consultant Front Inc. and manufacturer SINGYES/MRW, the design team developed a parametric model to ensure the utmost cost-effective design, fabrication, and installation methods for the facade. The aluminum half-pipes are essentially cut in two to create two identical pieces, each installed with their flat ends facing each other. Following the fabrication and bead-blasting of the fins, Revery constructed a full-scale mock-up of a facade section for review. "It was only after viewing the full-scale mock-up that we, together with the client, were convinced that this was the right material, and the stainless steel brackets were further modified to reduce the scale of the bracket," continued Kokalov. "We were pleasantly surprised at how much the fins' appearance varies in different light conditions, seeming to change from grey to pink to gold depending on the ambient light."
In Cambridge, England, Marks Barfield Architects (MBA) is erecting a timber-structured mosque inspired by geometric design and landscaping found throughout the Islamic world.
The Cambridge Mosque Project, founded by Dr. Timothy Winter in 2008, purchased the one-acre site in 2009. Allées of cypress and linden trees ring the mosque, which occupies a symmetrical 27-feet-by-27-feet grid. The new house of worship will be able to accommodate approximately 1,000 worshippers.
In a statement to The Guardian, the deceased architect David Marks viewed the project as a shift from the "preponderance of Ottoman mosques" found throughout the United Kingdom. MBA saw an opportunity to design an Islamic center unique to the British community, with a massing similar to the surrounding Georgian terraces, featuring a height of three stories, brick elevations, and a subtle dome rather than a towering minaret.
For the project, MBA reached out to Swiss timber-construction specialist Blumer–Lehmann AG (BLA). Thirty free-form timber columns, built of curved glue-laminated beams, form the primary support structure of the Cambridge mosque. Each column flowers into a network of latticed arches and beams that is topped with a lightweight, 20,000 square-foot timber roof. Rows of circular skylights are embedded above the supporting columns, allowing for the significant diffusion of natural light throughout the prayer space.
Design-to-Production (DP), a Zurich-based firm at the forefront of building information modeling, was commissioned by BLA to optimize the timber structural system's geometry, establish a pre-fabrication and assembly strategy, and develop a comprehensive 3-D model of the project.
Through parametric design, DP whittled down the project's 6,000 structural joints to just 145 different timber parts. Then the firm plugged in their digital fabrication data to a 5-axis CNC milling machine to mass-produce the timber components along with pre-assembly instructions and drawings. After being transported 900 miles over land and sea to the United Kingdom, the components were assembled in under a month.
The onion-dome, with a base of arched clerestory windows, reaches a height of 30 feet and is placed atop the truss system made of glue-laminated beams.
Construction for the project should wrap up in 2018 and will open in January 2019.
Though only one semester had elapsed since the student-designed and fabricated FIBERwave carbon fiber pavilion went up, by early 2015 IIT professor Alphonso Peluso was hungry for more. For his Digital Fabrication seminar this spring, Peluso upped the architectural ante, asking students to think in terms of a facade panel system rather than a freestanding structure. "It seemed like if we wanted to be taken seriously, we'd have to [focus on] a real-world application," he explained. With support from a number of outside experts, Peluso and his students designed and built a full-scale panel segment in a single semester. Beyond demonstrating the capacity of carbon fiber to function as a building skin, CARBONskin evidences the synergetic power of curiosity backed by experience. "The big story" behind CARBONskin, said Peluso, is the network of designers and fabricators he has become a part of since FIBERwave. Thanks to interest generated by the pavilion, several sponsors have donated materials. "Now we can keep moving forward," said Peluso. "I wasn't sure, because the crowdfunding thing is too difficult to do over and over." In addition, several leading lights in the field of carbon fiber architecture have offered technical assistance. Kreysler & Associates consulted on both FIBERwave and CARBONskin. And Greg Lynn, whose previous experiments with carbon fiber (including his RV PROTOTYPE House) served as models for CARBONskin, also shared information and advice. Lynn "has been a real inspiration for me and my students," said Peluso. "He's really ahead of the curve." Before tackling the facade panel design, the seminar enrollees—Carlos Davalos, Pablo Ferrer Franco, Jacob Harney, Raleigh Howard, Zhitao Hu, Zachary Jaffe-Notier, Aishwarya Keshav, Bowen Lu, Caio Mendonca Placido, Mina Rezaeian, and Eric Schwartzbach—gained early exposure to carbon fiber in a seasonally appropriate exercise. Knowing that students enjoy fabricating at full scale, and deciding to take advantage of the particularly cold weather, Peluso tasked the students with designing ice structures in the vein of Heinz Isler. "I saw a connection between ice structures and carbon fiber," he recalled. "With carbon fiber, you work with cloth, and use chemicals to make it structural. I thought, 'Why not use water instead, and harden the cloth into ice?'" Because the forms involved hanging cloth over supports, moreover, the students could start working with carbon fiber immediately, building small-scale prototypes of their ice structures without first completing a tutorial in CNC milling or molding techniques. Soon, however, it was time to shift focus to the facade system itself, which would be applied to a disused two-story curtain wall mockup on the IIT campus. Working in groups, the students designed and fabricated scale carbon fiber models of four facade panels. At midterm, they presented their designs to Polynt Composites' Rick Pauer. (Peluso and Pauer first met through the comments section in an AN article on FIBERwave.) Both Pauer's critique and the students' own experience were instrumental in determining a final panel configuration, which the class voted on after a design charrette. "When they make these small-scale models, they start to run into a lot of challenges; they start to understand the capabilities of carbon fiber," explained Peluso. "They use that as a feedback loop, and make adjustments based on the actual process of working with the material." Featuring a complicated topography of hills and dips punctuated by amorphous PETG windows, the design the students selected was the most complex of the those produced during the charrette. "It was exciting and intimidating at the same time," recalled Peluso. "But that's where the best projects come from, in general—people who are willing to just go for it." Meanwhile, a number of industry sponsors had volunteered to donate materials. But with the semester flying by and none of the promised supplies yet on hand, Peluso made a tough decision: he purchased (at a discount) enough cloth from Soller Composites to build three feet of the 9-foot-11-inch-tall panel at full width. (Peluso and his summer students will use material since delivered by Hexcel and Vectorply to fabricate a full-scale panel.) To work around another challenge—the fact that the molds were too large for the school's vacuum former—Peluso called on Matt Locaciato of Fiberworks. Locaciato showed the class how to use a Duratec primer (donated by Composites One) to prevent the carbon fiber from sticking to the CNC-milled wood molds. "It was our first time using the primer and it worked," said Peluso. "It was one of those magical things." The rest of the fabrication process, which involved curing the carbon fiber with West Systems epoxy resin, releasing it from the mold, CNC-trimming the panel to size, and finishing with several applications of a Duratec top coat, went smoothly. Given the speed with which a single semester passes and the nature of the course—a seminar rather than a studio—the fact that Peluso and his students completed one-third of a full-scale panel before the summer break is itself remarkable. For Peluso, the crowning achievement was the collective pride the project engendered. At the beginning of the term, he said, "I didn't really know what the outcome would be. When you have students in studio, you can count on them for a lot of hours. For an elective, they don't put in that kind of time." But by the time they joined Locaciato in the shop to prime the molds, all of the enrollees were fully committed. "At that point, the students started to become really excited about full-scale fabrication with this exotic material—you started seeing them more," recalled Peluso. "I think that's the coolest thing [about this experience]. The success is that these students came together."
Fly's Eye Dome reproduction applies contemporary tools and materials to 1970s concept.
Thirty years after R. Buckminster Fuller's death, the visionary inventor and architect's Fly's Eye Dome has been reborn in Miami. Unveiled during Art Basel Miami Beach 2014, the replica dome, designed and fabricated by Goetz Composites in cooperation with the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), pays tribute to Fuller both aesthetically and technologically. Constructed using contemporary materials and digital design tools, the new 24-foot Fly's Eye Dome (which serves as the pedestrian entrance to a parking garage in the Miami Design District) is yet further evidence that the creator of the geodesic dome was ahead of his time. BFI commissioned Goetz based on the firm's prior work restoring the original Fly's Eye Dome. At the end of that process, they created a 3D scan of the prototype for BFI's records. The digital files were the jumping-off point for the reproduction, for which ConForm Lab's Seth Wiseman provided critical design assistance, as did Daniel Reiser of DR Design. Wiseman produced a parametric model of the dome's truncations in Grasshopper, then compared his model to the 3D scan of the original to make sure the geometries matched. A 2012 reproduction of the Fly's Eye Dome, the MGM Butterfly Pavilion in Macau, China, constituted a practice round of sorts. "For Macau, we had a tight timeline: from the algorithm to shipment [we had] six weeks," said Wiseman. "We were able to review and tweak the geometry for the Miami dome—to refine it and make it more consistent with the original prototype."
Goetz, Reiser, and Wiseman introduced a few crucial changes into the Miami reproduction. "Bucky's original intent and concept was well-placed, but it suffered in execution," observed Wiseman. Fuller's prototype used a shingle system of overlapping truncations to shed water. As a result, the geometry was complicated. "The problem for us, from the manufacturing standpoint, is that it required four different molds," said Wiseman. "Though technology allows us to produce something of this complexity fairly easily, it's cost-prohibitive unless we're doing something on a production scale." The design team eliminated the shingle system, instead using a standard two-legged flange and coupler attachment to connect adjacent truncations on the dome's interior. The attachments are both mechanically fastened—for fidelity to Fuller's vision—and epoxy fitted—to meet engineering requirements. "If we were to do a third iteration, our hope is to develop joinery to eliminate the fasteners, for both assembly and aesthetic reasons," said Wiseman. In keeping with Fuller's commitment to all things cutting-edge, Goetz fabricated the reproduction using 21st-century materials and methods. They selected a PRO-SET epoxy originally developed for use on Coast Guard vessels to stand up to the South Florida weather, and replaced the glass domes with polycarbonate lenses sourced by Wasco and detailed with help from 3M. The composite forms were milled on a 5-axis CNC machine using EPS foam molds. (MouldCAM did some of the CNC cutting.) "The nice part with the Miami dome is that it's the next iteration," said Wiseman. "We've created a fire-retardant, code-compliant structure in the same vein [as the original]. I hate to say it, but I'm kind of excited to see a major storm hit Florida and see how it performs." For Goetz's Chase Hogoboom, the Fly's Eye Dome represents not just the history, but also the future of architecture. "Our background historically has been building state-of-the-art racing sailboats," he said. "We're seeing more and more demand for use of composites in architectural applications, mainly as a result of designers using programs that allow them to design very complicated shapes that need to be structural. And if you look at a Bucky dome, it's a complicated shape that needs to be structural."


An emerging sport will be defined as a NCAA sanctioned sport that is sponsored at the varsity level by a minimum of four member institutions.
To be designated as an emerging sport, an official letter of request must be submitted to the Commissioner by all of the member institutions sponsoring that sport.
Once a sport is designated as an emerging sport, a Coaches Committee will be established for that sport.
The conference will allow the sport to have one post-season game that will be designated as the conference championship in that sport (Note: No regular season champion).
Each emerging sport will be allowed to name one All-Conference Team along with one Player, Freshman, & Coach of the Year, along with an Elite 23 winner for post-season awards.
Each emerging sport will be allowed to name one All-Tournament Most Valuable Player following the tournament championship game (9/20/10).
Sports under the designation of emerging sports will not win points toward the Hawn Cup.
The emerging sport status will be reevaluated after a period not to exceed five years. (At any time 50% of the members sponsor the sport it becomes eligible for conference sport status).


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Florida bill allows teachers to bear arms
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2019
The Florida legislature on May 1 passed a bill allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom.
Florida's House of Representatives voted 65 to 47 to pass the bill. Florida's Senate approved it 22 to 17 last week. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is expected to sign the bill into law.
Gun-control advocates in the state pushed to stop the legislation. Among them were Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense, which is funded by billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The legislation allows school districts wishing to take part in the voluntary Guardian program to arm teachers who pass a 144-hour training course.
In anticipation of the law's passage, school employees in 40 of Florida's 67 counties had already enrolled in or planned to take the 144-hour course, according to a spokesman for state Speaker of the House Jose Oliva. Some counties have said they would not to participate in the Guardian program.
"Contrary to what the groaners on the left will say," the new legislation "means Florida is poised to become one of the safest states in the nation for little kids and teens to go to school," columnist Cheryl K. Chumley wrote for The Washington Times on May 2.
"The naysayers can naysay. (One late-night legislative protest, for instance, focused on what The Washington Post summarized as 'an explosive debate on racial bias' of the right-to-carry law). The naysayers, in fact, naysay all the states that allow school officials to bring firearms onto campus to protect students and staffers," Chumley noted.
"But the fact is: We live in a world where mental illness is rampant, where violence is masked as entertainment, where legal and illegal prescription drug use has resulted in deranged behaviors, where broken homes bring forth dysfunctional kids, where the rotten culture breeds low and no tolerance for absolutes, for rights versus wrongs — where God has been removed from most of the public arena. And one of the consequences of this world has been shootings in schools that have killed and harmed innocents," Chumley wrote.
The availability of guns is not the problem in school violence, Chumley stressed — "it's a problem with hearts and minds and souls. Until we treat it as such — until we treat the shootings and violence and attacks and killings as the sicknesses of the mind and soul they are — then we're really only treating symptoms."
Chumley concluded: "When a gun-toting individual with the intent of killing enters a school, it's too late to treat his or her twisted mind, blackened heart, darkened soul. The only way to fight and save innocents is with a gun."
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Iran, Russia and conspiranoids left and right line up to call the Syria gas attack a "false flag" op—rushing to judgement before the facts are in, just like those who blame Assad.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights  posted to its Facebook page  Aug. 21 claims, based on witness reports, of a chemical gas attack on the eastern Damascus suburbs. Dozens were reported killed and hundreds injured in the towns of Erbin, Zamalka, Ein Terma and East Ghouta. Al Jazeera  puts the death toll at "at least 100," and notes that Syrian authorities dismissed the reports as "baseless." The Syrian National Coalition  is apparently putting the toll at 650 lives. The claims coincide with a visit to Syria by a 20-member UN team to investigate three sites where chemical weapons were allegedly used  over the past year. Al Jazeera  and Russia Today  report Moscow's rejection of the claims. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the timing of the claimed attack "makes us think that we are once again dealing with a premeditated provocation." Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich charged that "biased regional media have immediately, as if on command, begun an aggressive information attack, laying all the responsibility on the government."
A false flag is being hoisted. It is a big one, with garish colors, and it signals large-scale war. Needless to say, it is the Americans who are doing the deceitful hoisting. When it comes to deceit, they are only outclassed by the Israelis. Every sane person knows that, in Syria, it is the insurgents, particularly the Takfiri [Shi'ite pejorative for Sunni militants ] lunatics, who are using sarin gas. The evidence is clear. It includes videos as well as testimony from casualties and medical staff.
Oh, "every sane person knows," eh? OK, good. Otherwise we might have to actually do an investigation and pay attention to the facts. Although we are told "the evidence is clear," Press TV doesn't present any, not even with a link to the supposed "testimony from casualties and medical staff." The best they can do is echo the claims of UN investigator Carla Del Ponte over one incident back in May. Even this is presented with a glaring misquote. A few minutes on Google will reveal that Del Ponte did claim that the Syrian rebels "may have used" sarin gas (see The Independent , May 6). But Press TV's purported quote from Del Ponte to Swiss TV accusing US propaganda against Assad of being "on the Joseph Goebbels principle" is purely fictional. Press TV apparently got it from the right-wing crackpots at Rense —but that line was Rense's own editorializing, and not from the Del Ponte quote they lifted, which was limited to: "Sarin was used on the part of the opposition, rebels, not by the government authorities." Very professional, Press TV.
The relentlessy conspiranoid InfoWars  seizes with glee on a Reuters  quote from Rolf Ekeus, a retired Swedish diplomat who served as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the '90s, who had this to say on the new allegations: "It would be very peculiar if it was the government to do this at the exact moment the international inspectors come into the country... At the least, it wouldn't be very clever." InfoWars touts this under the utterly misleading headline "Hundreds Dead In Syrian Chemical Attack As Even Impartial Experts Allege 'False Flag'"—which Ekeus didn't do! At best, his comment was an allusion, not an allegation.
Ironically, even the gung-ho GWOT-boosters at Long War Journal  note the Ekeus quote, and write that "it is...conceivable that rebels used the chemical weapons in an effort to frame the Assad regime." As we've noted , neocons and Zionists are divided on whether to give Assad a shove or prop him up as the Devil they know. Long War Journal seems to be throwing in its lot with the latter camp.
Do the conspiranoids grasp the irony that they are doing exactly what they accuse the US of doing—rushing to a conclusion before the facts are in, on the basis of political convenience? We will wait for more objective parties to weigh in on whether there was any "massive advantage" to the alleged attack for the Assad regime. But if it is not contested that the regime was raining artillery fire on these same suburbs (as the Observatory report also said), we wonder if they are really as pacified as Pravda would have us believe.
Furthermore, all this talk as if the claims originated from the White House ignores the fact that they didn't—they originated from Syrian human rights observers. The White House has thus far been nearly silent on the matter, issuing only a perfunctory statement of "concern"—as columnist Max Fisher decries in the Washington Post .
Not to mention that the fixation on use of chemical weapons is a little perverse. Just a few months ago, the death toll in the Syrian war over the past two years was placed at 60,000 . On July 25, BBC News  reported that the UN had released a new estimate, of more than 100,000. It presumably makes little difference to the dead whether they met their demise via sniper fire, artillery shells or poisonous gas.


PowderQuest is proud to have an outstanding team of fully certified backcountry skiing guides in South America and Japan for our Off Piste and Backcountry ski tours. Our guide family expands into a team of professional skiers including Jess McMillan along with certified snowboard and ski instructors and coaches leading our popular Progression and All Mountain trips.
Personality, experience, and safety have set our instructors and certified alpine skiing guides apart since our start in 1999.
Lead guides are certified by the International Federation of Mountain Guides Association IFMGA, the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides ACMG, or the Argentine Mountain Guide Association AAGM. All our lead ski guides have extensive wilderness first aid training.
Our tail guides assist our leads and are required to hold a minimum certification of Canadian Avalanche Association Operations Level 1, or similar certification from associations in other select countries. Extensive wilderness first aid training is also required.
What makes a trip like this so successful is the ability of the guides to relate to the members of the group and remain flexible. PowderQuest was flawless.
David first stepped into a pair of rear entry ski boots at the age of 5. As he grew, so did his passion for snow and travel, taking him on his own global PowderQuest after university; exploring Colorado, Wyoming, Canada, Alaska, Japan, Chile and Argentina. Before he knew it, he had also explored 15 Latin American countries, becoming fluent in Spanish. In 1998 upon discovering the adventure Mecca of Pucon, Chile, PowderQuest was born in the beautiful southern Andes.
Mo grew up skiing the small Australian resort of Thredbo. Falling in love with skiing during university, the mountains brought him to Whistler, British Colombia where he discovered the bliss of powder skiing. Teaching skiing, avalanche courses, and guiding to pay for his travels, he has ski toured in Japan, Australia, Canada, Alaska, Europe, Chile and Argentina. He has gone over 15 years without a summer and has been working with PowderQuest ski guiding since 2006.
Phil joined PowderQuest in 2006. He has worked as a mountain professional in The Americas, Japan and Europe teaching Canadian Avalanche Association professional avalanche courses and ski guiding. As a heliski guide he has been involved with the development of new programs in BC and Quebec. Phil has skied extensively in The Andes and has lead ski touring/ski mountaineering expeditions from the central ranges to Tierra del Fuego. Currently he is involved with adventure television acting as a consultant, researcher, and guide.
Maxi was born and raised in San Martin de los Andes, Argentina where he began skiing at the young age of four at the local ski hill, Chapelco Ski Resort. As a teenager he started doing more mountaineering and skiing in the backcountry of his epic backyard playground; beautiful North Patagonia. From 2004-2017 he spent winters in Whistler Ski Resort in Canada where he worked as a ski instructor. Maxi joined the PowderQuest team in 2009 as an assistant ski guide and is now leading many of our guided trips in Chile, Argentina and Japan.
Vicente better known as Vicho, is originally from Santiago de Chile and started skiing with his family at the young age of five in the Three Valleys area. (El Colorado, La Parva, and Valle Nevado). After finishing school Vicho decided to spend every winter possible on skis, and in 2004, he started to work as a ski instructor in La Parva ski resort. Now Vicho lives in beautiful Northern Patagonia with his family, seeking nature and new backcountry experiences on the southern volcanoes. He started with PowderQuest in 2012.
Born and raised in the San Francisco bay area, Max spent his childhood driving to and from Lake Tahoe. After high school, he decided to simply stop driving and stay permanently in a gem of a town, Truckee where he is the Adult Snowsports Manager at Boreal Mountain Resort and Woodward Tahoe. He has over a decade of experience working as a snowboard instructor in North and South America. Max loves nothing more than snowboarding with his friends and making new amigos while in the mountains.
Jess McMillan from Jackson Hole, Wyoming is the all-time most winning big mountain free-skier in history. (Freeskiing World Champion and US Freeskiing Champion). You may have seen her featured in the past 7 Warren Miller films or ski coaching around the world while chasing winter in some pretty stellar locations. We welcome Jess to the team to host our Women's Adventure Ski Camp in Chile.
PowderQuest's goal is to provide the best cultural, culinary, social and ski/snowboard product in the regions we explore. Safety is the paramount guideline for all operations.
PowderQuest strives to provide a safe experience in the mountain environment yet it cannot entirely control or remove this environment's inherent risks, hazards and dangers. Mountain travel is exposed to dangers and hazards that can only be completely eliminated by not participating in the activity. This said, it is incumbent on each participant to assume the activity risk. To do so, each participant is therefore required to take knowledge of, understand and knowingly sign a legal waiver which is necessary to complete the reservation.
If a participant is not willing to assume this risk, then he or she will not be permitted to partake in the activity. Once on location participants will participate in a rescue scenario tutorial (including avalanche and other incidents) where the guides will explain the general course of action as well as the use of rescue equipment such as beacon, probe and shovel.
PowderQuest guides are equipped and trained for field rescue and primary first aid. Participants are responsible to provide their own or rent safety equipment from PowderQuest as well as present themselves with the appropriate mountain travel equipment. When a situation requires external help, the company and affected participants must rely on the local medical and rescue support teams (ski patrol, rescue team, ambulance and hospital).
In many of the countries we visit, organized rescue, transport, medical assessment and medical treatment are determined by local social and economical realities. Thus a participant on a PowderQuest Tour cannot expect the same level of external rescue resource availability and ensuing medical care as in their home countries. This said, PowderQuest has established a network of the quality local and international medical contacts available as well as private transport agencies that can be engaged to support the companies rescue effort.
Guides are trained to be as self sufficient and resourceful, yet PowderQuest cannot guarantee the competence, reliability or availability of local rescue, transport and medical support.
Each given PowderQuest tour utilizes a wide variety of terrain in multiple locations. PowderQuest has a network of local contacts that are used to gather information on specific snowpack and mountain travel conditions. Moreover, PowderQuest has an internal terrain and snowpack information exchange system that is used to capture and transmit information between the company's guides.
These sources of information coupled with the latest weather forecast serve as a basis to establish the day's mountain objective. These objectives are then discussed by the guide team and presented to the participants.


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Superb evergreen shrub with prickly ovate sage green leaves for coastal area hedging. Macrodonta produces a profusion of large panicles of fragrant daisy-like white flowers in the summer. Awarded RHS AGM (Award of Garden Merit) Ultimate height and spread – 4m x 4m in 10-20 years. Perfect for Coastal hedging, screening as they are low maintenance.
Plant full sun, well draining soil. Tolerates chalky, clay, loamy and sandy soils. Macrodonta is a vigorous grower and can be hard pruned.


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Der Drum național 51 (rumänisch für "Nationalstraße 51", kurz DN51) ist eine Nationalstraße in Rumänien.

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Die Straße beginnt an der Donaufähre, die von Swischtow in Bulgarien zum Donauhafen von Zimnicea führt, und führt über Zimnicea, wo sie auf die Drum național 5C und die Drum național 51A trifft, nach Smârdioasa, und folgt von dort an dem Fluss Vedea nach der Kreishauptstadt Alexandria, wo sie an der Drum național 6 (Europastraße 70) endet.

Die Länge der Straße beträgt rund 43 Kilometer.

Einzelnachweise

051
Verkehr (Kreis Teleorman)
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HEARding Cats Collective is pleased to announce Analog Revenge II, an evening of performance on the analogue synthesizer. It is a rare chance to see a presentation of advanced synthesis technique by three artists who have spent much of their lives mastering the voltage-controlled, patch programable synthesizer.
The event takes the form of an environmental sound installation, utilizing a large space with performers intentionally placed apart to provide a degree of sonic separation from one another. This creates an environment in which the entire room is filled with sound, yet many listening variations can be achieved by moving throughout the room. Sometimes moving a distance as small as a few steps – or even a head turn - can drastically change ones listening experience.
Rich O'donnell, Mike Murphy, and Kevin Harris represent three generations of obsession with and mastery of the analogue synthesizer. All seasoned improvisors, they will perform solo and in group configurations to create the event. Their approaches to synthesis are stylistically diverse, a fact no doubt related to the high degree of programability inherent to the voltage-controlled synthesizer.
Rich O'donnell is the director of the Washington University electronic music studio. He now performs analogue synthesis on a combination of a modern Eurorack system and sections from THROD (a massive modular synthesizer he built in the 1970s, which now lives at the Washington University studio).
Mike Murphy performs under the moniker, "Dr Mabuse" and is a prolific designer of analogue and digital synthesizers. His performance instruments are a vast and ever expanding collection of his handmade designs, customized for his needs. He continues to push the boundaries of what analogue electronics are capable of and has been playing modular synthesizers for over 45 years.
Kevin Harris began playing modular synthesizer in 2002 with a synthesizers.com system. Since then, the modular synthesizer has been his main musical focus. He now performs on a eurorack system and has a particular interest in advanced digital signal processing under voltage control.
The event takes place at Tietjens Hall at Washington University, 6500 Forsyth Blvd., on Sunday, February 18, 7:30 pm. Admission is free.


In view of the centenary celebration of Sai Baba's samadhi, the Saibaba Sansthan Trust (SSST) will compere the Global summit where representatives of all Sai temples across the world will participate.
The Sansthan Chairman Suresh Hawre said that the meeting is conducted to finalize the planning of the centenary year celebrations. He also said that 86 representatives from 43 Sai Temples abroad and more than 2500 representatives from India are expected to attend this summit.


With the start of the 2014 tennis season just FIVE DAYS AWAY (help!), the WTA rankings will look a little bit different in 120 hours. Earlier this year, the WTA Board of Directors voted to implement changes to the ranking system. The new ranking points will be introduced over a 12-month period from the start of the 2014 season.
Straight from the horse's mouth, the WTA website posted this press release to summarize the changes last week.
Let's take a look at the changes side by side.
At first glance, the new ranking system still rewards players for winning tournaments (duh) and doesn't really look all that different. However, players are playing for less points, as all totals except the champion's have been decreased. The point inflation in the first week of slams has also been addressed nicely.
The WTA asserts that the changes will be implemented gradually, but there is no doubt that this new ranking system shortchanges players who have a lot of points to defend early in the season. Players with lots of points at the end of this season will keep the previous values on their ranking for a longer period of time.
One of the biggest improvements I can see is the (slight) increase in points for qualifying at International tournaments. Perhaps now, draws like this will be a funny memory.
They do this every few years, and it has never been a relevant change with any real significance. It amazes me what some people are paid to do.


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This Week's ESSA News: Trump's Education Budget Under Fire, Idaho Rethinks Accountability Goals, Building Trust Key to Engaging Rural Parents in Georgia & More
By Erika Ross | March 4, 2020
This week's #ESSA news: Trump education budget under fire, Idaho rethinks accountability goals, engaging rural parents in Georgia & more @StudentSuccess
This update on the Every Student Succeeds Act and the education plans now being implemented by states and school districts is produced in partnership with ESSA Essentials, an ongoing series from the Collaborative for Student Success. It's an offshoot of their ESSA Advance newsletter, which you can sign up for here! (See our recent ESSA updates from previous weeks right here.)
President Trump's 2021 budget proposal is receiving harsh criticism from education unions, such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. While it is "more than likely to be rejected by Congress," the proposed budget includes a number of cuts in education funding and changes in education policy, including "an elimination of the government's Charter School Program with the intention to have the program lumped into other education department programs."
DeVos Faces Tough Questions as Trump Budget Sparks a Reckoning on School Choice
Additionally, according to NEA President Lily Eskelsen García, the "Trump/DeVos budget continues pushing schemes that will result in deep funding cuts to public education, including $5 billion for a private school voucher program that will take already scarce money out of public schools." She also noted that "by turning Every Student Succeeds Act funding for schools into a block grant program, this budget would effectively make deeper cuts to funding for our students in communities with the greatest need."
"Although this budget has no chance of being adopted by the current Congress, it provides a roadmap that the Trump administration will continue to use in its regulatory war on economic security programs," @ShawnFremstad told @NYAmNews #1u https://t.co/XWHuxnNNYj
— CEPR (@ceprdc) February 21, 2020
Idaho state board rethinking accountability goals
The Idaho State Board of Education is considering changes to the state's accountability system to ensure that performance metrics not only are complying with federal requirements under ESSA, says State Board President Debbie Critchfield, but are actually helping target, address and improve student performance and achievement. Critchfield wants to "use appropriate accountability where it best serves students and support the work of local school boards in accomplishing their goals as well as the federal accountability requirements under ESSA." She also highlighted the need to focus less on proficiency and more on growth. The board will continue to review student performance measures in order to ensure an equitable approach for all of Idaho's school districts.
The Idaho House Education Committee had previously voted to "repeal all of Idaho's K-12 academic standards in math, English and science." Since then, the Senate Education Committee voted unanimously to keep the standards.
OPINION: Debbie Critchfield talks about accountability goals that need to be realistic and achievable. #idleg #idedu
— Idaho Education News (@idahoednews) February 19, 2020
Also in Idaho, unequal access to advanced coursework for Latino students
Despite some modest improvements since the state "implemented a new accountability system under the Every Student Succeeds Act," Latino students in Idaho "have unequal representation in Advanced Placement classes, advanced math in junior high and especially in elementary school gifted and talented programs," according to a nationwide comparison by Education Trust. For example, despite Latinos making up 19 percent of elementary school students, only 6 percent of students enrolled in gifted programs are Latino. According to Kris Rodine with the Idaho State Department of Education, "Our accountability system focuses on the need to continue to improve participation in advanced courses and opportunities for Latino students … and we have made significant improvements on that front."
The data suggests part of the problem is Latino students are less likely to attend schools that have these programs or courses in the first place. @nicoleMfoy and @sami_edge report. #education #idedu https://t.co/ydPHRbNOe4?
— David Staats (@DavidStaats) February 20, 2020
Building trust with rural parents
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, education expert Christopher Holmes takes a look at what rural school districts can do to facilitate greater parent engagement. Holmes writes: "To meet the goals of parent and family engagement policy in ESSA, educators must abandon their own middle-class mindsets and cultivate relationships that value and consider the cultures in rural communities." Holmes says that schools can leverage the autonomy provided by ESSA "to develop and implement unique programming that specifically focuses on the needs of their student population." Ultimately, when rural schools "develop new and innovative strategies that gain them access to the communities they serve," Holmes argues, parents will become more engaged and aligned with rural school districts across Georgia.
In this @ajc article, Chris Holmes takes a deep dive into what rural school districts can do to encourage parent engagement, as outlined under #ESSA. Learn more: https://t.co/rX0JrL2hM7
— ESSA Updates (@ESSA_Update) February 26, 2020
Parent Engagement Lessons From a 200-Person Mountain Village: Use Lower-Impact Strategies as a Platform for Higher-Impact Programming
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Erika Ross
Erika Ross is the communications manager of the Collaborative for Student Success.
Chicago Cancels School Wednesday, to Dock Teachers' Pay as Union Votes Against In-Person Learning; CTU Accuses Mayor of Prioritizing 'Free Child Care' for Business Class
As COVID Cases Break Records and Thousands of Schools Close, Families and Educators Struggle — Again — Over Keeping Classrooms Open


Goldberg Segalla added associate Andrew A. Carlson to the law firm's Workers' Compensation Practice Group in Orlando.
Andrew focuses his practice on representing insurers, employers, and third-party administrators in a variety of workers' compensation claims. He counsels and defends clients in matters relating to general liability, premises liability, and first- and third-party property defense, and handles all stages of claims litigation from inception to mediation and trial. Andrew received his bachelor's in Communications from Northern Illinois University before going on to earn his master's in Management and Leadership from Webster University. He is a graduate of Barry University School of Law.


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Telekom Bonn inks guard Chylinski
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Telekom Baskets Bonn improved its backcourt by inking guard Michal Chylinski to a one-year deal this weekend. Chylinski (1.96 meters, 29 years old) arrives from PGE Turow Zgorzelec, where he averaged 14.3 points in 8 Eurocup games last season. In his five seasons with Turow, he helped his team win the Polish League title in 2014 and reach the final in 2013 and 2015. Chylinski has also played for SMS PZKosz Warka and Ostromecko Astoria Bydgoszcz of Poland, JSF Nanterre of France, as well as for Unicaja Malaga and Clinicas Rincon Axarquia of Spain. He is also a regular member of the Polish national team. "Michal has already played in other European countries and would like to take the next step in his career," Bonn head coach Mathias Fischer said. "He brings with him international experience and gives us a lot of firepower due to his solid shooting skills."
Telekom Bonn's McKinney ties Eurocup record with 9 threes
Jimmy McKinney of Telekom Baskets Bonn entered the Eurocup history books on Wednesday when he tied the competition record for the most three-pointers made in a single game.
Telekom Bonn completes roster with swingman Silas
Telekom Baskets Bonn completed its roster for the 2015-16 season with the signing of Xavier Silas. The swingman arrives from Greek club Nea Kifissia and has also played in...
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Trevor Ariza And Gerald Green Are The Fall Guys For The Rockets' Locker Room Raid
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Per Adrian Wojnarowski, Houston's Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green will be the only players getting discipline from the NBA after the Rockets' reported invasion-by-secret-passage of the Clippers' locker room following their loss in L.A. on Monday night. Chris Paul and James Harden, despite reportedly being a part of the brigade, will get off with no penalties.
"Aggressively entering" is evidently the NBA's own official wording for what Ariza and Green did, and it's a good rhetorical flourish. Woj mentioned yesterday evening that, according to his sources, Ariza was the "most aggressive and determined" to try and get into the locker room, while Paul and Harden tried to slow him down. The NBA's Kiki VanDeWeghe also described Paul and Harden as "peacemakers" in the whole affair.
Marc Stein of the New York Times said he was also "hearing strongly today" that Clint Capela, who Woj initially reported to be hanging out in the Clippers' locker room doorway, was actually Tarik Black. You might be thinking that Black was employed as some sort of diversionary tactic. He was not, says Stein.
A bunch of Rockets spoke to the media today and made some attempts at denying the most hilarious parts of the reports. James Harden, specifically, had to claim that there is no "secret passageway" to get into the Clippers locker room, and that apparently it's just a plain old passageway that everyone knows about.
Update (7:49 p.m. ET): The NBA explains the Tarik Black detail, saying that he went to lift weights after the game and was curious about the loud noises.
The Rockets Hilariously Tried To Storm The Clippers' Locker Room
Chris Paul And The Rockets Were Never Going To Fight Anyone
Mike D'Antoni To Blake Griffin: "Fuck You"
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Transcriptionally Active Human Papillomavirus Is Strongly Associated With Barrett's Dysplasia and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Rajendra, S and Wang, B and Snow, ET and Sharma, P and Pavey, D and Merrett, N and Ball, MJ and Brain, T and Fernando, R and Robertson, IK, Transcriptionally Active Human Papillomavirus Is Strongly Associated With Barrett's Dysplasia and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 108 pp. 1082-1093. ISSN 0002-9270 (2013) [Refereed Article]
Copyright 2013 American College of Gastroenterology
DOI: doi:10.1038/ajg.2013.94
OBJECTIVES: The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in Barrett ' s esophagus (BE) remains unclear. The few studies that have previously investigated HPV and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) or BE have produced either negative data or positive results of doubtful clinical / etiological significance or have detected only low-risk HPV types. We therefore prospectively determined the prevalence of biologically active HPV in esophageal epithelium of patients representing the Barrett ' s metaplasia –dysplasia – adenocarcinoma sequence. METHODS: HPV DNA was estimated by nested PCR and viral transcriptional activity detected by E6 / 7 oncogene mRNA expression and p16INK4A immunohistochemistry in fresh frozen and paraffin-embedded esophageal biopsies of patients with BE, Barrett ' s dysplasia (BD), and EAC, as well as controls. Biopsies were obtained from the transformation zone (squamocolumnar junction (SCJ)) and the lesion, or corresponding site in controls, i.e., 2 cm above the gastroesophageal junction (GEJ). RESULTS: Of the 261 patients, 81 were positive for HPV DNA. In controls and BE, the virus was mostly detected at the transformation zone. Compared with controls (18.0 % ), HPV positivity was significantly more common in BD (68.6 % , incidence rate ratio (IRR) 2.94, 95 % confidence interval (CI)1.78 – 4.85, P < 0.001) and EAC (66.7 % , IRR 2.87, 95 % CI 1.69 – 4.86, P < 0.001), but not in BE(22.1 % , IRR 1.06, 95 % CI 0.60 – 1.85, P = 0.85). Of the patients, 92.6 % were high-risk (HR) HPV, i.e., types 16 and 18. Again, p16INK4A positivity was greatest in BD and EAC and much less in BE patients (44.1 % , IRR 17.0 (95 % CI 4.86 – 59.6, P < 0.001), 44.4 % , 17.0 (95 % CI 4.87 – 59.4,P < 0.001), and 10.6 % , 3.93 (95 % CI 1.01 – 15.3, P = 0.048) respectively). In 66 HPV DNA – positive patients tested for E6 / E7 mRNA, none of the control ( n = 16) or BE ( n = 13) individuals were positive, whereas 9 / 22 BD and 9 / 15 EAC patients demonstrated oncogene expression ( P < 0.001). When HPV DNA, p16INK4A, and E6 / E7 mRNA were all positive, there was a very strong association with disease severity (SCJ: odds ratio (OR) 104, 95 % CI 20.3 – 529, P < 0.001; lesion: OR 62.2, 95 % CI 12.4 – 311, P < 0.001) than when all were negative. CONCLUSIONS: Transcriptionally active HR-HPV was strongly associated with BD and EAC, but was largely biologically irrelevant in BE and controls, suggesting a potential role in esophageal carcinogenesis. These data provide robust justification for further detailed longitudinal, interventional, and molecular studies.
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Snow, ET (Associate Professor Elizabeth Snow)
Ball, MJ (Professor Madeleine Ball)
Robertson, IK (Dr Iain Robertson)
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Whatever forms you may worship, whatever names you may chant, even after one million years ultimately you need to reach the state of Brahmam. Then why don't you aim towards the self (Aatman) in this birth today itself?
On remembering your Ishta Daiva (personal god) again and again your mind gets concentration, and all the thoughts including the present will perish away and thereby self (Aatman) reveals onto you.
After that visit to Sri Nannagaru, He went back to Jinnuru only to come again ten days later. I was planning to go to China for a conference and wanted to take His permission. I wanted to go and receive Sri Nannagaru in the Railway Station and hence woke up that day in the early morning and made my way. I waited with the devotees and saw the train come in.
I saw Sri Nannagaru through the windows of the train and was extremely pleased. All the devotees had gathered and waiting for Him to get down. I suddenly saw Sri Nannagaru try to pick up a suitcase. I ran to the other end of the compartment and got in hastily and ran to his cabin. Seeing me he smiled and patted me affectionately. The ruse of lifting the suitcase was to make me have his darshan first, I thought excitedly! We got down on the platform and I happily prostrated to him. After the railway station I met him in SR Nagar where I told him that I wanted to go to China. He nodded and gave his agreement.
"How far is China? How many flights will yoou have to change?" He asked.
He looked surprised "Oh I thought China is so near, you have to change three flights! Thats a lot!" He smiled.
I thought How sweet is your confusion O Doll of Sweetness! Next time I met him was when I returned from China.
I had put the alram at 4 o clock in the morning and was happy when I got up at the expected time. A small sense of laziness in me though made me sleep for some time more and suddenly it was 4 45!
I rushed and got ready. I drove my way to the railway station.
My worst fears seemed to have come true...has the Guru reached and left? I wondered. There was a lot of commotion in the railway station. I seemed to have missed him I thought.
But a sense of devotion in me made me turn back and head back into the railway station. I saw a coolie come out and I asked him excitedly about the train in which my Guru was supposed to come.
"It has just arrived" he said.
Thanking him profusely I parked the car and hastened towards the Darling of Uma.
I saw some devotees on the platform and felt extremely happy.
"Is Nannagaru here?" I asked excitedly.
"We dont know. The train came a long time back." they said.
I felt sad for a moment.
"Wait there he is!" one of them said as I made out the form of the Darling of Lakshmi come walking towards me.
"You have taken great pains to come so early." he said and smiled.
"I came for you" I said. He smiled.
I think he called me Satish.
He asked me about China and my trip.
The he got into a car and started towards SR Nagar...we followed him.
Once in the satsangh room I sat in the corner away from him.
The people who are sitting in front of Him are me only in other forms, I thought and didnt feel sad that I was sitting away from him.
There was momentary silences interspersed with talks.
He looked at a lady devotee and said " Do you want Moksha or do you want to come to Hyderabad?"
The lady devotee kept quiet and looked at him.
"I am not joking. I am very serious" he said "Moksha or Hyderabad?"
"Why the thought? To come to Hyderabad you have no doubts but why doubt attaining Moksha? You think about and tell me what you want. If you want Moksha the doors will be opened for you." He said emphatically.
I watched this all amazed.
Sri Ramakrishna! Distributing liberation as if it were a sweet in one's hand!
My God, this power is unimaginable!
I had two doubts in my mind.
Is Self Enquiry better or Surrender and whether I should do sadhana? the second doubt was about Body Conciouness.
And at last self (Aatman) reveals to you.
Happiness lies in satisfaction but until the self is realized none can ever be satisfied.
I was left with his pure love. At last the time has arrived; I had to depart from India. Few days back, I had a wish, that I could have a glance of my guru before I leave. I think he listened to my prayers. Four days before my travel, I got the news that he would be visiting my city on an occasion of a wedding.
There was no limit to my happiness. It was just a day before I had to leave, that he arrived. I went to the place where Nannagaru resides. As it wasn't a planned occasion there weren't many devotees for his darshan. To my surprise that day, it happened to be Krishnashtami (Lord Krishna's bday). I felt what a sheer coincidence! I felt how fortunate am I to have a darshan of Lord Krishna on his birthday.
I felt happy that I could spend few minutes at his feet. Meanwhile I was doing chanting of Shree Ram as I do it often for my japa, and to behold!! There my Guru comes; he slowly walked into the hall.
Later his attendant came to massage his legs; meanwhile he closed his eyes and was in silence.
After the attendant left Nannagaru opened his eyes and immediately looked at me.
"More Remember Krishna, remember more and more." then with a smile he extended saying then people will not address by your name but they will call you as Hare Krishna.
I felt so much bliss; he addressed all these gems looking into my eyes. Tears did not stop. I felt Nannagaru was drowning in bliss or ecstasy and I clearly could see that ONENESS through him.
Later it was surprise that we all celebrated gopala's birthday with nannagaru along with cake celebrations.
Having experienced those moments, I dint feel like leaving nannagaru. So I planned to stay back for few more hours. Since I couldn't bring anything for my guru, I thought to get some sweets. I bought some sweets, meanwhile he had his lunch. So I offered him sweets. He gave me one, and gave the rest as Prasad to others.
There were some other devotees who came to celebrate aksharabhyasam (To choose an auspicious day to start the education of a child). Nannagaru wrote OM on the slate in Telugu. He made to write the same with the child. Later someone bought butter since it was krishnashtami, Nannagaru on seeing this butter said "Krishna would swallow you when your heart becomes like butter". He blessed the children with akshintalu (Sacred and holy turmeric rice grains). He then called me and blessed me.
He then asked "Did you pack your luggage?" I said "No." He said "You will be getting late, weigh the bags and pack them." I felt I am unable to leave you my lord, but where there is meeting there is parting. I felt I now have loads of peace and joyous moments that I can cherish throughout my life. I left happy.
When I first left to US I cried a lot, but after having these joyous moments, I dint shed a tear though my parents felt little bad. I got an assurance from him that I am with you, so I dint had any piece of sorrow.


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Q: how to order the color dropdown data when in click will move to the part that I put it using jquery? how to order the color dropdown data when in click will move to the part that I put it using jquery ??

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how to make what I have selected or click it can not be selected again ?

You want the li to be clickable only once?
Look for the unclicked class in the code below.

$("#ssss").on('click','li.unclicked', function(){
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  $(this).removeClass("unclicked");
});

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Life In Legacy - Week ending Saturday, September 28, 2019
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Alfred Alvarez (90) critic and author who helped to shape the modern poetry canon in his native England, explored everything from oil digging to poker, and wrote a best-selling history of suicide bracketed by his attempt on his own life and the death of his friend, poet Sylvia Plath. Writing alternately as A. Alvarez or Al Alvarez, he had a long, productive, and controversial career. He began as a highly influential critic who as poetry editor of the Observer was an early champion of Plath, her then-husband Ted Hughes, John Berryman, and others he believed would enliven contemporary poetry. Alvarez later wrote novels and poems and completed nonfiction books about life "beyond the fiddle" of the book world, whether rock climbing (Feeding the Rat), swimming (Pondlife), the search for oil in the North Sea (Offshore), or poker (The Biggest Game in Town). He died of pneumonia in London, England on September 23, 2019.
Huguette Caland (88) Lebanese artist who celebrated freedom of expression in both her paintings and her unconventional life. As an artist, Caland moved freely among oils, ink, sculptures, textiles, representational figures, abstractions, and line drawings. Her pieces were voluptuous, organic, whimsical, erotic, exuberant, sometimes cartoonlike, but most often decidedly feminist. Perhaps her most famous work was Bribes de Corps (Body Parts), a series of paintings, begun in the '70s, showing fleshy, curvaceous forms that resemble parts of the female anatomy. Caland had experienced neurological problems since a fall in 2006 and by '13 had lost her ability to paint. She died in Beirut, Lebanon on September 23, 2019.
Mac Conner (105) illustrator whose realistic, colorful, and often dramatic paintings for major magazines and advertisers helped to lend a distinctive look to postwar popular culture. Conner thrived as an artist from the late '40s to the early '60s, when magazines still prized illustrations for short stories and advertising agencies on Madison Avenue valued artwork over photography to pitch clients' products. Conner's illustrations, largely in gouache, appeared in major magazines like the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, and Woman's Day and in ads for United Air Lines, Armco Steel, Blue Bell denim, and many other companies. The stories he told for advertisers were largely upbeat ones about prosperous, mostly suburban life in the '50s. Conner died in New York City on September 26, 2019.
Elaine Feinstein (88) British poet, novelist, and biographer who found inspiration in her Jewish heritage and the work of female Russian poets. Feinstein published more than a dozen poetry collections, full of evocative, accessible poems about remembrance, loss, relationships, historical figures, struggles from her own life, and simple pleasures. She wrote 15 novels, beginning with The Circle in 1970. Some drew on her Jewish heritage. All four of her grandparents were Jewish and had emigrated from Ukraine, settling in northern England. The Border (1985) was about two Jewish intellectuals traveling across Europe in 1938 to escape Hitler's persecution. Feinstein died of cancer in London, England on September 23, 2019.
Mordecai Gerstein (83) writer, illustrator, and master storyteller whose books created magical worlds where young readers could ponder big questions. Gerstein wrote and illustrated more than 40 books. Although they were intended for children, they also resonated with adults. They ranged across a variety of styles and subjects, including contemporary fantasy (How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers, published in 2013), biblical retellings (Noah & the Great Flood, 1999), and Greek myths (I Am Pan!, 2016). Gerstein's most famous book, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2003), which won the Caldecott Medal, tells of the breathtaking moment in 1974 when Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist, secretly strung a cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked—and danced and pranced—across. There was no net below, only slack-jawed New Yorkers looking up and wondering whether he would make it. Gerstein died of metastatic esophageal cancer in Westhampton, Massachusetts on September 24, 2019.
Business and Science
Michael D. Coe (90) Yale anthropologist who devoted his career to proving that the ancient Maya devised an elaborate written language that had previously been undervalued by many scholars. Coe was instrumental in deciphering the Maya script and in translating and validating the authenticity of what became known as the Grolier Codex—a document found in a Mexican cave that was believed to have been written around the 13th century on fig bark. It is now considered the earliest existing manuscript in the Americas. First exhibited at the Grolier Club in Manhattan in 1971, it is one of only four written Maya works known to have survived marauding Spanish conquistadors and purges by Roman Catholic priests. Coe died of a stroke in New Haven, Connecticut on September 25, 2019.
Anthony Mancinelli (108) man who was still working as a barber when he was 108 years old. The Italian immigrant worked as a barber from age 12 until this past July in and around Newburgh, 50 miles north of New York City. Guinness World Records credited him with being the oldest working barber. Mancinelli opened Anthony's Barbershop of Newburgh in 1930 and owned it for 40 years. He later worked at other shops. He outlived his wife of 69 years, seven siblings, and one of his two sons. Anthony Mancinelli died in New York City on September 26, 2019.
James ('Rocky') Robinson (79) when a 7-year-old girl was hit by a car one day in 1988 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it took more than 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. When it did, her uncle, James Robinson Jr. (known as Rocky), climbed in for the ride to the hospital. The ambulance was equipped with lifesaving equipment, he said, but "the attendant didn't even know how to turn on the oxygen." Robinson's niece, Cynthia Lomax, died along the way. The incident prompted him to start a volunteer ambulance corps in Bedford-Stuyvesant that has answered calls ever since, cutting response times to only a few minutes. The group, one of more than 30 volunteer emergency service agencies in New York today and one of nearly that many certified to give basic life support, has also trained more than 1,000 emergency medical technicians. Robinson died of heart failure in New York City on September 27, 2019.
Plato Cacheris (90) Washington lawyer of choice for accused spies, wayward sheikhs, and notorious figures in scandals, from the Watergate affair to the sexual peccadilloes of President Bill Clinton. Cacheris specialized in cases that captivated the nation, including those of Robert Philip Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, and Edward J. Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who illegally disclosed national secrets to journalists and fled to asylum in Moscow. Victory, to Cacheris, often did not mean acquittal. For Hanssen and Ames, who faced the death penalty for espionage, it meant life sentences negotiated by their lawyer in plea deals with prosecutors. For Snowden, who retained Cacheris in 2013 after being charged with espionage, it has meant exile in Russia, out of reach of prosecutions and prison in America. And for clients like Monica Lewinsky, Clinton's Oval Office mistress, and Fawn Hall, National Security Council secretary who shredded documents for her boss, Lt. Col. Oliver North, in the Iran-contra scandal during the Reagan administration, the arrangements meant freedom from prosecution in exchange for their testimony. Cacheris died of pneumonia in Alexandra, Virginia on September 26, 2019.
Paul Badura-Skoda (91) Austrian pianist known for insightful interpretations of classical era repertory who had one of the largest discographies of any major pianist, more than 200 recordings. Although not a formidable technician, Badura-Skoda was admired for refined and elegant performances, especially of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. He was praised for the singing tone he drew from the piano. Although associated with the classical period masters, Badura-Skoda actually had an extensive repertory, including works by Chopin, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Hindemith. He died in Vienna, Austria on September 25, 2019.
Myron Bloom (93) one of the most distinguished French horn players of his generation and a force in molding the sound of the Cleveland Orchestra during its golden age under conductor George Szell. As Szell's principal horn in Cleveland for more than 20 years, Bloom appeared on many of the orchestra's recordings and was soloist in its classic version of the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He later became principal horn of the Orchestre de Paris under conductor Daniel Barenboim and an influential teacher. In 1985 he became a professor at Indiana University music conservatory, now called the Jacobs School of Music. He died in Bloomington, Indiana on September 26, 2019.
Robert Hunter (78) man behind the words for many of the Grateful Dead's songs. Although proficient on several instruments including guitar, violin, cello, and trumpet, Hunter never appeared on stage with the Grateful Dead during the group's 30-year run that ended with the 1995 death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, his principal songwriting partner. When he did attend the group's concerts, Hunter was content to either stand to the side of the stage or, better yet, sit anonymously in the audience. His most memorable Grateful Dead songs include "It Must Have Been the Roses," "Terrapin Station," "The Days Between," "Brown-Eyed Women," "Jack Straw," "Friend of the Devil," "Box of Rain," "Uncle John's Band," and "Black Muddy River." Hunter, who underwent recent surgery, died in San Rafael, California on September 23, 2019.
José José (71) Mexican crooner, an elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the "Prince of Song." José climbed to the top of the Latin charts in the '70s with slow songs such as "El Triste" ("The Sad Man") and "Amar y Querer" ("Love & Want"). The power of his voice and ability to sing technically difficult tunes in a wide register made him a treasured cultural icon in Latin America. His music also became popular in countries including Japan and Russia. The artist's voice, a combination of baritone and lyric tenor, captivated audiences, while his dress style of suits accented with bow ties, pocket handkerchiefs, and silk scarves was copied at nightclubs across Latin America. José died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in south Florida on September 28, 2019.
Jimmy Nelson (90) in the '50s and '60s Nelson was one of the stars of the golden age of ventriloquism, performing with his dummies Danny O'Day, a smart aleck in a suit and bow tie, and Farfel, a quick-witted hound dog. His contemporaries included Paul Winchell (with dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff), Shari Lewis (who gave voice to Lamb Chop, a sock puppet), and Señor Wences (whose characters included Johnny, a gruff-voiced head in a box). They all followed the lead of Edgar Bergen, celebrated vaudeville and radio ventriloquist whose best-known dummy was Charlie McCarthy. As successful as Nelson was on TV and in nightclubs, he had a greater legacy as a ventriloquism teacher, via instructional albums he recorded in the mid-'60s. Jeff Dunham, currently the most successful ventriloquist, credits his career to Nelson and his albums. Nelson died in Cape Coral, Florida of complications from a stroke he had in May, on September 24, 2019.
Jimmy Spicer (61) in the era of recorded hip-hop, Spicer released a handful of songs that became part of the genre's bedrock. His rap career was brief, and his songs were sparsely released, but they featured phrases that entered hip-hop's core catalogue. His debut single, "Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap)" (1980), was part of the first wave of hip-hop singles that arrived in the wake of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and is widely regarded as the first true storytelling rap. Running for more than 15 minutes, "Adventures" is a mixture of boastful narrative, pinpoint flow, oddball quirks, and character acting. At one point Spicer raps in Dracula's voice; later, as Aladdin, he invests in an oil well, then abandons the desert for the disco. Spicer was an impressive boaster, crafting an otherworldly origin story for his talents. He died of lung and brain cancer in Brooklyn, New York on September 27, 2019.
Politics and Military
Jacques Chirac (86) two-term French president, the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust who opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Chirac was long the standard-bearer of France's conservative right and mayor of Paris for nearly 20 years. As president from 1995–2007, he was a global diplomat but failed to reform the French economy or defuse tensions between police and minority youths that exploded into riots across France in 2005. Yet Chirac showed courage and statesmanship during his presidency. In what may have been his finest hour, France's last leader with memories of World War II crushed the myth of his nation's innocence in the persecution of Jews and their deportation during the Holocaust when he acknowledged the actions of the French nation at the time. He died in Paris, France on September 26, 2019.
Ginny NiCarthy (92) was working as a waitress at a Howard Johnson's when she met her first husband, a customer who always had books with him. The year was 1953. When her self-help book Getting Free: You Can End Abuse & Take Back Your Life was published in 1982, the battered women's movement was in its infancy, and the book, translated into several languages, became widely used at women's shelters and in support groups for victims of domestic violence. Over the decades, NiCarthy's political protests landed her in jail more than once. She was active in movements for feminist causes, civil rights, an end to the Vietnam War, nuclear disarmament, and death with dignity. She died of dementia in Seattle, Washington on September 23, 2019.
Joseph Wilson (69) former ambassador who set off a political firestorm by disputing US intelligence used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion. Wilson's former wife was Valerie Plame, whose identity as a CIA operative was exposed days after her husband's criticism of US intelligence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium. The leak of Plame's covert identity was a scandal for the administration of President George W. Bush that led to the conviction of vice presidential aide I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby for lying to investigators and obstruction of justice. President Donald Trump pardoned Libby in 2018. Wilson died of organ failure in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 27, 2019.