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Japantown plan timeline 'on track' as city allocates new staff
June 24, 2010 by VIVIEN KIM THORP, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor Leave a Comment
Bob Hamaguchi (right), co-chair of the Japan Center and Economic Development subcommittee, addresses the crowd. Photo by Vivien Kim Thorp/Nichi Bei Weekly
The most recent Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan (BNP) community meeting was held June 16 at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) in San Francisco's Japantown. The Japantown BNP, a program of the San Francisco Planning Department, aims to create guidelines for the development, improvement and preservation of the historic neighborhood during the next 20 years.
The meeting was the first since a "community review" phase began this May. During this period, slated to last through August, various subcommittees have been meeting at least once a month, garnering public opinion and suggestions on changes to the plan.
The subcommittees are organized under the Japantown BNP Organizing Committee, a coalition of local community members and leaders. Each group focuses on a specific chapter(s) of the plan, organized as the Community Heritage, Public Realm and Transportation, Built Form and Land Use, and Japan Center and Economic Development subcommittees.
At the meeting, Paul Osaki — executive director of the JCCCNC and co-leader of the community heritage subcommittee — told attendees that things were still "on track" with the timeline for the plan, which hopes to begin work on amendments to the original draft in September. "We're kicking off a new phase of the planning process," he said. "We're making sure this plan is something the community is supportive of."
Alternative Ownership
Several strategies for addressing growing concerns over the Japan Center, its small businesses and other important neighborhood properties were discussed. One strategy is for a new feasibility study and analysis of the Japan Center that would consider leaving the current mall mostly intact.
"What didn't get looked at was if you could you make modifications to the existing malls and not close the garage during renovations," said Bob Hamaguchi, co-chair of the Community and Economic Development/Japan Center subcommittee and executive director of the Japantown Taskforce, in an interview following the meeting. "That's something we definitely want to do this time."
An earlier study by consulting firm Strategic Economics based its scenarios on renovation plans that the financially troubled mall owners 3D Investments backed away from in late 2008. This month, the Kyoto Grand Hotel and Garden in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, also owned by 3D, defaulted on a $33.6 million loan, which could lead to the property's foreclosure, the Los Angeles Times reported.
San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi — whose district includes Japantown — asked attendees to help him lobby City Hall for $50,000 in funds to research alternative ownership of the mall.
"We could use the $50,000 to research the creation of a community land trust in Japantown," he said, "or for something that makes the community an owner so that the community has equity and can be a stakeholder."
Osaki added that land trusts, which could be used for other important sites in Japantown, "could preserve ownership of land in the community" and help maintain "culturally relevant small businesses."
Though a commercial version of the community land trust has yet to be implemented in San Francisco, Paul Lord of the San Francisco Planning Department cited Seattle's Pike Place Market as an example of a successful alternative ownership plan. A nonprofit corporation chartered by the city of Seattle in 1973 runs Pike Place, which was founded in the early 1900s. Also, a residential building in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Fong Building, successfully used a community land trust to prevent the eviction of its low-income tenants and redevelopment of the property.
New Leadership and Support
The formation of the Japantown Community Planning Council was also discussed at the meeting. The entity would process the public input collected during the community review phase and work to create amendment proposals. During the meeting, subcommittee leaders divided attendees into groups to get feedback on the qualities they'd want in a council member and how council members should vote on community recommendations.
Since the last general community meeting, held on April 27, several budget concerns have been remedied. Funds were secured for a BNP half-time employee from the planning department.
Perhaps the biggest change is that the BNP has a new planner. Lord replaced Ken Rich, who recently accepted a position in the mayor's office. Lord will be the third planner to work on the BNP, which was started in 2007. Another planner had been let go earlier in the process due to budget cuts.
A senior planner who has been working for the department since the 1980s, Lord was confident that — with clear community input — he could write the plan as scheduled. "Your voice is one of the most important," he told attendees. "This is your plan."
Lord has been involved in developing plans for neighborhoods and communities throughout the city, including South of Market in the late 1980s, Van Ness Street in the 1990s and Hunters Point Shipyard in the late 1990s. In addition to the Japantown BNP, he is also representing the planning department for the Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force, currently undergoing an environmental impact analysis. (The Japantown BNP is scheduled to begin this phase in spring 2011.) Lord cited his work with the Filipino community in Western SoMa as an example of his success in addressing cultural concerns for a historic neighborhood.
Subcommittee Updates
Subcommittee chairs offered notes from previous meetings on posters and handouts. Many recommendations centered on beautification, including the creation of Japanese gardens, wall murals and more open space with landscaping throughout the neighborhood. Other suggestions dealt with property and included furthering research on buildings eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and creating incentives for property owners to preserve external features. Feedback also included the desire for improved access to space for community activities and concerns about making more areas pedestrian friendly.
In a later interview, Diane Onizuka, co-chair of the Transportation and Public Realm subcommittee and a vice president at Union Bank, said she hoped the feedback from the general meeting will help the committee refocus and create new directions for community outreach. She and Hamaguchi both expressed enthusiasm at having planner Long onboard.
"Now that we have a city representative who can help us bring these complex ideas down to earth and put them in laymen's terms, people can explain the Better Neighborhood Plan better," said Onizuka. "And I think we may get better community understanding and participation."
Subcommittee chairs expressed concern that more input was needed and that some groups, including seniors, may not be adequately represented. They are still looking for ways to encourage more involvement. In the meantime, subcommittee meetings, always open to the public, will continue at the regularly scheduled times.
The date of the next general community meeting is still to be determined.
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Research Article|November 01 2017
The Holocaust and Humanity: Bauman at the Limit
Mike Gane
Mike Gane is professor emeritus in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He received his BA from Leicester University and his PhD from the London School of Economics, both in sociology. His publications include Baudrillard: In Radical Uncertainty (2000), French Social Theory (2003), and Auguste Comte (2006).
Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 288-292.
Mike Gane; The Holocaust and Humanity: Bauman at the Limit. Cultural Politics 1 November 2017; 13 (3): 288–292. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4211242
Whenever I read critiques of Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), by far Bauman's greatest work, I hope to find a complete and definitive refutation of every step of the argument. And this classic work, which even today retains its devastating provocative charge, should be regarded as the book to be refuted, since its thesis could not be more deeply disturbing. The recent spate of Bauman critiques, which I cannot review here, reflect the continuing power of this thirty-year-old essay. And some of the recent critiques believe that Bauman's thesis has been well and truly buried. I doubt it. The essence of the thesis is that it is a grave error not only to disassociate the Holocaust from the conceptual frame of modern civilization but also to regard more of the latter as the antidote to such an event.
I come at this work from...
© 2017 Duke University Press
Instant Selves: Algorithmic Autobiographies on Social Network Sites
Iranian Anti-Zionism and the Holocaust: A Long Discourse Dismissed
Contemporary Fascism's de-Judified Homo Sacer
Archival Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Oral Testimony
Our Holocaust
Sociology and Holocaust Study
Reconsidering Holocaust Study
Holocaust Testimony Producing Post-memories, Producing Identities


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US Indo-Pacific Strategy cannot thwart China's development: scholars
By Global Times Published: Dec 26, 2020 04:29 PM
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To deal with the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy that targets China, China should try to stimulate the potential for regional economic cooperation, increase countries' interdependence in the region and pay more attention to promote anti-virus cooperation in the context of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese experts said at an online seminar themed on analyzing different countries' Indo-Pacific strategies on Saturday.
At the seminar organized by the Global Engagement Academy of Shandong University, Weihai, ten Chinese scholars discussed via video links the nature and purpose of the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy, different countries' attitudes toward the strategy and offered suggestions on how China should respond to it.
Jia Wenshan, dean of the Global Engagement Academy, said the American elites hope the 21st century will be the American Century and the Indo-Pacific Strategy in essence is a strategy to sustain US hegemony in Asia and draw in countries including India to contain China's rise and prevent it from becoming a new center of power in Asia.
The participating scholars did not agree that the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy could lead to an extensive potential alliance network against China. Japan, India and Australia are currently the main pillars of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy, but their attitudes toward the strategy differ. Australia has now actually stood at the forefront of the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy, Yu Lei, chief research fellow at the research center for Pacific island countries at Liaocheng University, said. He noted that because Australia believes its prosperity and security relies on the US, it has in fact acted as an active promoter, advocate and constructor of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Wang Pengquan, an assistant research fellow with the Institute of Contemporary Socialism at Shandong University, said that compared with Australia, Japan and India have different views on the US strategy that emphasizes too much on geopolitical and military confrontation. Many observers in the two countries don't want to mix the free and open Indo-Pacific vision with a strategy that is aimed at containing China together, Wang stressed.
Guo Baogang, a professor in the Social Science Department at Dalton State College, said that Southeast Asia is a key region to the Indo-Pacific Strategy, but it is unwilling to take sides between China and the US. In the absence of common values in the Indo-Pacific region, it's also unlikely to form a political and military alliance similar to NATO in the region, Guo noted.
Therefore, experts agree that attempts by the US to suppress and contain China with the Indo-Pacific Strategy are unable to thwart China's development. Compared with the US, China has possessed closer historical, cultural and economic links with Indo-Pacific countries, and it has a strong will to cooperate with them, experts said. He Weiwen, a former senior trade official and an executive council member of the China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, said that the best way for China to break the US containment attempt is to develop extensive cooperation with regional countries. Wang also suggested that China should strengthen cultural and media exchanges with regional countries in addition to downplaying ideological differences in cooperation and exchanges.


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The School of Business and Economics initiated graduate education in business with the establishment of the M.S.B.A. degree in 1969 and succeeded it in 1988 with the M.B.A. The program is designed for individuals who are employed in positions of responsibility within the business community and who are pursuing a graduate education concurrently with their employment. To serve these students, all graduate courses are offered in the evening in a hybrid format. In addition, a Saturday, cohort based program is also available. From its inception, the program has enjoyed a broad base of support and participation from the Northwestern Indiana business community.
The M.B.A. program focuses on teamwork and executive leadership and provides a professional education in business for students who possess the baccalaureate degree in any discipline. For most students, the M.B.A. is a terminal professional degree designed to enhance their performance in present and future managerial positions. Increasingly, individuals employed in non-business fields have used the M.B.A. program to broaden their academic training and enhance their prospects for a career in business.
The Faculty of the School of Business and Economics of Indiana University Northwest have identified the following Student Learning Goals to provide assurance that the graduate degree programs of the School provide an educational experience for our students consistent with our mission.
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QANTAS TO FIT FLAT BEDS IN US$166 MILLION BUSINESS UP-GRADE: Qantas is to invest A$300 million (US$166 million) in improvements to its international Business Class, including installing new seats that convert to beds, with a length of 6 ft 6 ins and a width of 25 ins, "cocooned" to provide maximum privacy and noise reduction. They will each feature a PC power outlet that will allow laptops to be plugged straight in without the need for adaptor cables, plus a large 10.4 ins screen offering multi-channel entertainment with noise cancellation headsets. The cabin will feature a lighting system designed exclusively for Qantas, a self-service bar area and new-style catering to provide more choice and flexibility. oneworld™ partners British Airways and Cathay Pacific offer seats that convert to beds in their longhaul business cabins.
IBERIA OFFERS MADRID CITY CENTRE CHECK-IN: Iberia passengers flying from Madrid can now check-in for their flights at a new city centre facility at the Nuevos Ministerios underground station, handing over their baggage and obtaining their boarding cards before taking the new subway link to the airport. With the train taking just 12 minutes to reach the airport and departures every six to eight minutes, minimum check-in times are two hours before a flight for passengers with baggage to check-in, and one hour ahead for those with hand baggage only. The new facility is now open every day from 6.30 am to 10.30 pm.
BURLINGTON BACK ON-LINE AS oneworld's 572ND DESTINATION: Burlington, Vermont, has rejoined the global network served by oneworld, becoming the 572nd destination on the network served by the alliance. Affiliate American Eagle resumed services to the city with two Embraer RJ flights a day to and from Chicago O'Hare, where connections are offered to oneworld carriers operating at the hub. The regional airline has also started flying its longest route, between its Dallas/Fort Worth hub and Boise, which also brings the Idaho city onto the oneworld map. Eagle has also launched seven daily flights between Dallas/Fort Worth and Midland/Odessa.
QANTAS OPENS SOUTH HEMISPERE'S BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL LOUNGE: Qantas has opened the largest international airport lounge in the southern hemisphere– its flagship Qantas Club lounge at Sydney's International Terminal. Twice the size of the facility it replaces, Qantas says it set a new world standard for First and Business Class passengers, top-tier oneworld frequent flyers and Qantas Club members. It features seating for 150 First Class and 500 Business Class customers in separate lounge areas, individual consoles with telephone, power and data connections making almost every armchair a comfortable workplace or simply a place to relax, a separate fully equipped business centre, seven self-service bars and buffets and 15 shower rooms.
727 MAKES FINAL FLIGHT WITH AMERICAN: American Airlines has operated its final Boeing 727 passenger flight. American operated the biggest 727 fleet, at one time flying 182 of the trijets, with the first flown in 1964.
AFFILIATE GB AIRWAYS STARTS ALMERIA SERVICE: Affiliate GB Airways, which flies as British Airways under its franchise agreement with the UK carrier, is to launch twice-weekly services to Almeria from London Gatwick, from 3 November.
CATHAY BUILDS BACK NORTH AMERICAN SERVICES: Cathay Pacific will reinstate its double-daily, non-stop Boeing 747-400 service between Hong Kong and Los Angeles on 1 August, after increasing the current daily flights to ten a week from 1 June, and increase frequencies between Hong Kong and Vancouver from 11 to 14 a week from 1 July, with Boeing 747-400s replacing smaller Airbus A340-300s on its San Francisco flights at the same time.
QANTAS GOES ON HOLIDAY: Qantas will launch non-stop flights between Melbourne and Hamilton Island on from 12 July using Boeing 737s, and add capacity to the Whitsunday Islands centre from Sydney and Brisbane. It's also adding links between Sydney and Melbourne to five popular Queensland holiday centres - Mackay, Maroochydore, Proserpine, Rockhampton, and Townsville, on Boeing 717s.
IBERIA INCREASES JFK FLIGHTS: Iberia is adding another three flights a week between Madrid and New York JFK from 1 July in response to growing demand.
AMERICAN ADDS FIVE MORE CARIBBEAN ROUTES: American Airlines has launched services from New York JFK to Grand Cayman, and to Santiago and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Santiago is also served from Miami. And American has restored seasonal service between Boston and Santo Domingo and launched service to Port-au-Prince, Haiti,and to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, all effective June 15. In addition, in Central America, AA began flying from its main Dallas/Fort Worth hub to Guatamala City on 15 June and is adding a second daily, non-stop flight from Miami to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on 2 July. In South America, American added service from Miami to Medellin, Colombia, on 15 June.
IBERIA EXTENTS ETICKETS TO LONDON AND THREE OTHER ROUTES: Iberia has extended the use of eTickets to its London, Amsterdam, Milan and Rome routes. They were already in use on flights from Spain to Germany, Belgium, and Portugal, and throughout the airline's domestic network, other than on its "walk-on" Madrid-Barcelona shuttle service.
AFFILIATE BMED INCREASES SERVICES TO NEAR EAST: British Airways flights to Lebanon, Jordan and Iran – operated by its franchise partner and oneworld affiliate British Mediterranean - are being increased from 13 June in response to growing customer demand, with an eighth weekly frequency to Beirut and a fourth to Tehran and increased capacity to Amman.
IBERIA LAUNCHES SELF-SERVICE CHECK-IN AT NINE SPANISH AIRPORTS: Passengers flying on Iberia without hold baggage can now speed up their check-in process by using self-service automated kiosks at nine Spanish airports. The service can be used for any destination where no passport or immigration documents are required. The machines "speak" Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, English and French. Besides Madrid, the kiosks are available at Barcelona, Malaga, Palma de Majorca, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, La Coruña, Vigo and shortly in Bilbao. They will be installed at other Iberia airports soon.
AA STARTS CODE-SHARING WITH SWISS: American Airlines has started code-sharing with aspiring oneworld member Swiss. The European carrier has been asked to reach bilateral agreements with other members of the alliance before it can be formally invited on board oneworld.
IBERIA LINKS UP WITH TAP AIR PORTUGAL: Iberia this month started code-sharing and other forms of co-operation with TAP Air Portugal. A total of 160 flights a day, serving 21 destinations, mostly in Europe, are covered initially in their code-sharing pact. On the route between the capitals of their home countries, Madrid and Lisbon, this will mean a combined ten services a day.
FINNAIR TO CODE-SHARE WITH SN BRUSSELS: Finnair has signed a bilateral alliance with SN Brussels Airlines, Sabena's successor, covering code-sharing on one another's services. All flights operated by both airlines between their Helsinki and Brussels hubs have been carrying both the AY and SN flight codes since 4 June, giving combined frequencies of five each weekday.
DEUTSCHE BA'S oneworld LINKS END: Deutsche BA withdrew from oneworld on 1 June as part of its strategic shift to focus on German domestic flights only, ahead of its proposed sale. Any oneworld Explorer and Visit Passes bookings made before 31 May 2002 including sectors on the affiliate will be honoured. Members of the oneworld member airlines' frequent flyer programmes have not been able to earn miles or points by flying on Deutsche BA from 1 June 2002, or access lounges, through oneworld links, when flying with the airline from then, unless their airline has made any arrangements to do so bilaterally. Bookings for travel on Deutsche BA before 31 December 2002 made by members of the frequent flyer schemes before 31 May 2002 using awards will be honoured. All the airports on its network are also served by other oneworld member airlines.


Every morning they were there. All the jars with hot drinks in them. It was starting to get cold in the city. The season was changing from fall into winter. There was a man in an army jacket who came long before dawn and set up the jars. He took great care with them.
David was homeless and usually tried to sleep in a cubby hole he'd found in the park. Since the man had been setting up the hot drinks each morning, David sat in the shadows and watched him. David was a veteran of the Army. The Vietnam War. There was something familiar about the man.
The homeless people in the area always came with a cup right after dawn. David joined them. The coffee tasted wonderful and was hot. It warmed them, their bodies and their souls. The man kept coming with refills.
David looked up at him and their eyes met. They both started to smile. They had been in the same platoon in the war.
Sad that so many vets are homeless. Thanks for the reminder.
How kind of the man to give hot coffee to the homeless! It really is wonderful that they both know each other. It truly is sad that so many vets are homeless. Great story!
What a happy realisation that must have been !
What a wonderful tribute you've written for us. It is deep and poignant. Showing what we should be doing for one another.
This is absolutely delightful. The last line brought a smile to my face too.
Wonderful that they get to see each other, old friends from war, and both survived. But also very sad for their sacrifices that they gave ended up on the streets. I imagine in cold winter the coffee helps a great deal. Enjoyed your take!
It's just disheartening when men who gave their best for a Nation are left to fall through the cracks of society uncared for. Heart touching story.


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We are entering an exciting era, rich in the availability of data via sources such as the Internet, satellites, particle colliders, telecommunication networks, computer simulations, and the like. The confluence of increasing computational resources, volumes of data, and variety of statistical procedures has brought us to a modern enlightenment. Within the next century, these tools will combine to reveal unforeseeable insights into the social and natural sciences. Perhaps the largest headwind we now face is our collectively slow-moving imagination. Like a car on an open road, learning is limited by its own rate. Historically, slow information dissemination and the unavailability of experimental resources limited our learning. To that point, any methodological contribution that helps in the conversion of data into knowledge will accelerate us along this open road. Furthermore, if that contribution is accessible to others, the speedup in knowledge discovery scales exponentially. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a broad class of powerful algorithms, typically used for Bayesian inference. Despite their variety and versatility, these algorithms rarely become mainstream workhorses because they can be difficult to implement. The humble goal of this work is to bring to the table a few more highly versatile and robust, yet easily-tuned algorithms. Specifically, we introduce weighted particle tempering, a parallelizable MCMC procedure that is adaptable to large computational resources. We also explore and develop a highly practical implementation of reversible jump, the most generalized form of MetropolisHastings. Finally, we combine these two algorithms into reversible jump weighted particle tempering, and apply it on a model and dataset that was partially collected by the author and his collaborators, halfway around the world. It is our hope that by introducing, developing, and exhibiting these algorithms, we can make a reasonable contribution to the ever-growing body of MCMC research.


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2. SMD component - in our case it will be resistor in package 1206 and value 10k Ohm.
3. Tin - to solder SMD component on the PCB.
4. Resin - to keep clean solder place from contamination.
5. Tweezers - to have a better handle SMD component.
6. Soldering station - to melt tin and solder SMD on the PCB.
7. Insulating adhesive tape - to fix PCB in the one place during soldering of SMD.
8. Gauge - to check result after soldering.
Mount PCB on flat surface, stick PCB with tape on the flat surface.
Turn on the soldering iron and after the warm-up, soak the tip for 2-3 seconds in the rosin to clean it of impurities.
If you are using a soldering iron transformer, leave a drop of rosin on the top of the tip.
This will facilitate soldering tin to SMD pad on the PCB in the next step.
Cover only one pad of SMD 1206 on the PCB with a small amount of tin, which will melts under the influence of soldering tip temperature.
Covering one pad will allow us to more easily maintain the correct position SMD component and will allowed correct soldering. Pad will be cover by tin and resin.
Grab SMD component with tweezers, in our case resistor in the housing 1206, and value 10K.
Place SMD component on the proper pads regarding pictures, and solder pad.
Try to keep component symmetrical versus pads on the PCB.
If everything was done properly, component should settle on the surface of the PCB on the place dedicated for package 1206.
After about 3-4 seconds after the first pad was soldered, proceed to solder 2 pad SMD component. Delay time is needed for staying component on the solder pad. Tin should cool down to avoid unintentional movement of the soldered component.
Raster of the hole on the Awesome PCB allowed you to place standard connector (straight pin or bent) with pith 0.1inch (2.54mm). Hole diameter is equal 1.1mm wit tolerances +0.1mm.
Place connector in the holes like it is presented on the picture.
This step is similar to Step 3 and Step 4. So if you are using a soldering iron transformer, leave a drop of rosin on the top of the tip.
Solder pins of the connector to the PCB.
On the other side of the PCB there is the dedicated place where you can add value of the component to make a better tracking of it on the Bread Board during prototype phase. Silkscreen can also allow you to store and reuse Awesome PCB in the next future projects.
After all of the taken steps till now last one will be a checking value of the component with the gauge to make sure that everything is fine.
Connect pin of the gauge to pin 1 and pin 2 of Awesome PCB and make a settings of the Gauge on proper range of the resistance in case of resistor. In presented example rang of gauge is setted for 20k. If SMD component was properly soldered, around 10k will be presented on the display of the gauge.
Now Awesome PCB is ready to be place in your Bread Board or prototype circuit.
To make it more easy soldering SMD components, you could use the copper wire with a reduced diameter. Typically, the diameter of the wire solder is in the range of 2-2.5mm. The diameter of the solder wire, which I used is about 0.5mm. Wire about this range of diameter can be taken from ethernet cable.
Please keep in mind that smaller diameter of the wire will heat up faster and it will faster belong degradation compared to wire with higher diameter.
You can also mount on the Awesome PCB other type of SMD components instead of listed 0603, 0805, 1206, SOT23, SOT223.
You can download PDF from all steps from Awesome PCB.
Yep, good tutorial, but do yourself a favour and get a real soldering station. One time investment, good for decades.
Great tutorial, thank you for sharing this!


The royal family of Spain has enjoyed the support and loyalty of the Spanish people. Though scrutinizing the lives of the royalty was not looked upon nicely in the past, many Spaniards have begun questioning the activities of some members of the family.
The Spanish monarchy traces back its roots to Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Isabella I of the Kingdom of Castile. Isabella's marriage to Ferdinand unified the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, leading to the birth of Spain. However, it did not come together under a single rule, until Charles I unified the two kingdoms.
Charles I belonged to the House of Habsburg, which was also known as the House of Austria. This dynasty began with Charles I in the year 1516. It continued until Charles II named sixteen-year-old Philip V, grandson of his sister Maria Theresa of Spain, as his successor in his will.
A war broke out over the will of Charles II. The outcome was the coronation of Phillip V as the King, starting the rule of the Bourbons over the Spanish Empire. The Bourbons ruled until the year 1808.
The next dynasty did not last long. The only king from the Bonaparte dynasty was Joseph, who ruled from 1808 to 1813. He abdicated, when the Bourbon dynasty was restored again.
It came to power after Amadeo was elected as the King by the will of the nation. This was the result of the Spanish Revolution that took place in the year 1868.
The House of Bourbon again re-established itself to power in 1874, with the coronation of Alfonso XII, son of Isabella II. His son Alfonso XIII ruled from 1886 to 1931. The royal family did not rule from 1931 to 1975. The third restoration of the House of Bourbon began with the coronation of King Juan Carlos, grandson of Alfonso XIII.
The present royal family belongs to the Bourbon House. It is a part of the Capetian dynasty. The name of the ruling King Juan Carlos I, is anglicized as His Majesty John Charles Alphonse Victor Mary of Bourbon and Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
King Carlos is the son of Infante Juan, the Count of Barcelona and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, which made him the direct and undisputed heir to the throne.
The Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, in 1969, declared Juan Carlos as his successor and the next king. Now, Spain, once again, according to its centuries-old tradition had a king, after a gap of nearly 30 years.
General Franco, before his death, had passed the law of Succession. According to this law, the coronation ceremony of King Juan Carlos took place on November 27, 1975.
The biggest contribution of King Juan Carlos I is that, he oversaw the nation's transformation from a military dictatorship to a democracy. This made him extremely popular and well-respected among the people.
King Juan Carlos I is married to Queen Sofia, who was Princess Sofia of Greece and Denmark before marriage. She is the daughter of King Paul I of Greece, whose family was forced to flee form Greece during World War II.
Princess Elena is the oldest child of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. She is married to Jaime de Marichalar, the son of Count de Ripalda. She has two children, Felipe, born in 1998 and Victoria, born in 2000.
The second child of King Juan Carlos is Princess Cristina. She is married to Inaki Urdangarin y Liebaert. The youngest child of King Juan is Prince Felipe who is married to Princess Letizia Ortiz.
The Bourbon dynasty has been the longest ruling and the most powerful in the history of Spain. Though the concept of democracy has curtailed the powers of the kings; they continue to rule the hearts of the people just like their ancestors did.


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18th day of April
Living Bishop Events
See Also: Diocese Events
Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero Born Bishop Emeritus of Florida, Uruguay
Rafael Eleuterio Rey Born Bishop Emeritus of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E. Born Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pucallpa, Peru
Antoni Józef Długosz Born Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Częstochowa, Poland
Arthur Joseph Serratelli Born Bishop Emeritus of Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Manuel Sánchez Monge Born Bishop of Santander, Spain
Joseph Nathaniel Perry Born Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Georges M. Saad Abi Younes, O.L.M. Born Bishop of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Libano en México (Maronite)
Josef Kajnek Born Auxiliary Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
António José da Rocha Couto, S.M.P. Born Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
Ludger Schepers Born Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Germany
Edward Tamba Charles Born Archbishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias Born Archbishop of Luanda, Angola
Joseph Kollamparampil, C.M.I. Born Bishop of Jagdalpur (Syro-Malabar), India
Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery), O.S.B. Born Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
1962 23.4 Sigitas Tamkevičius, S.J. Ordained Priest Priest of Kaunas, Lithuania Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
Odelir José Magri, M.C.C.I. Born Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jean-Patrick Iba-Ba Born Archbishop of Libreville, Gabon
26.9 Peter Remigius Ordained Priest Priest Bishop Emeritus of Kottar, India
Dennis Cabanada Villarojo Born Bishop of Malolos, Philippines
Ivan Philip Camilleri Born Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1971 24.1 Ferenc Cserháti Ordained Priest Priest of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad} and Satu Mare {Szatmár}, Romania Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
Júlio César Gomes Moreira Born Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1973 23.7 Bruno Forte Ordained Priest Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy
26.9 Lucio Lemmo Ordained Priest Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy Auxiliary Bishop
24.6 Vincenzo Pelvi Ordained Priest Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy Archbishop of Foggia-Bovino, Italy
1981 26.8 Severino Clasen, O.F.M. Solemn Vows Member of Order of Friars Minor Archbishop of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
1982 47.7 Laurindo Guizzardi, C.S. Ordained Bishop Bishop of Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil
41.8 Donal Brendan Murray Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Glenndálocha Bishop Emeritus of Limerick, Ireland
1986 43.0 Frederick Bernard Henry Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario, Canada Bishop Emeritus of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
43.0 Frederick Bernard Henry Appointed Titular Bishop of Carinola Bishop Emeritus of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
52.0 Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E. Appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
52.0 Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E. Appointed Titular Bishop of Aquae in Numidia Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pucallpa, Peru
44.1 Patrick Percival Power Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Oreto Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
1990 46.4 José Alberto Moura, C.S.S. Appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
58.8 José Vieira de Lima, T.O.R. Appointed Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of São Luíz de Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1993 29.0 Neri José Tondello Ordained Priest Priest of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bishop of Juína, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1994 25.9 Abel Cahiles Apigo Ordained Priest Priest of Davao, Philippines Bishop of Mati, Philippines
43.4 László Bíró Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét, Hungary Bishop of Hungary, Military
43.4 László Bíró Appointed Titular Bishop of Castra Galbae Bishop of Hungary, Military
60.7 José Dimas Cedeño Delgado Appointed Archbishop of Panamá Archbishop Emeritus
41.8 Gáspár Ladocsi Appointed Bishop of Hungary, Military Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
41.8 Gáspár Ladocsi Appointed Titular Bishop of Sebarga Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
1995 59.9 John Kevin Boland Ordained Bishop Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA Bishop Emeritus
57.5 Henry Joseph Mansell Appointed Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1998 29.8 Vítor Agnaldo de Menezes Ordained Priest Priest of Jequié, Bahia, Brazil Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
50.4 Agustín Cortés Soriano Ordained Bishop Bishop of Ibiza, Spain Bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain
66.5 Geraldo Dantas de Andrade, S.C.I. Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Cibaliana Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil
43.4 Marian Florczyk Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Limata Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce, Poland
41.6 Manuel Nin, O.S.B. Ordained Priest Priest of Order of Saint Benedict Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Greek)
30.6 John Rodrigues Ordained Priest Priest of Bombay, India Auxiliary Bishop
1999 56.4 António Maria Bessa Taipa Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Tabbora Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Porto, Portugal
2001 42.4 Dulcênio Fontes de Matos Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil Bishop of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil
42.4 Dulcênio Fontes de Matos Appointed Titular Bishop of Cozyla Bishop of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil
2004 57.7 Armando Bucciol Installed Bishop of Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Bahia, Brazil
64.2 Giovanni Dettori Ordained Bishop Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Italy Bishop Emeritus
68.2 Gilbert Marie Michel Méranville Ordained Bishop Archbishop of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles Archbishop Emeritus
2007 60.7 Angelus Kujur, S.J. Ordained Bishop Bishop of Purnea, India
2008 46.3 Soane Patita Paini Mafi Succeeded Cardinal, Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)
62.0 Julio Parrilla Díaz Appointed Bishop of Loja, Ecuador Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
2009 49.1 Róbert Bezák, C.SS.R. Appointed Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia Archbishop Emeritus
37.2 Luis Eduardo González Cedrés Ordained Priest Priest of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
43.0 Strahil Veselinov Kavalenov Ordained Priest Priest of Nicopoli, Bulgaria Bishop-Elect
76.2 Javier Lozano Barragán Retired President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers Cardinal, President Emeritus
55.1 Tarcísio Nascentes dos Santos Ordained Bishop Bishop of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
63.9 Carlos Osoro Sierra Installed Archbishop of Valencia, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
73.2 Beda (Umberto) Paluzzi, O.S.B. Appointed Abbot of Montevergine, Italy Abbot Emeritus
47.9 José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C. Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Maturba Bishop of Manzini, Swaziland
75.5 Ján Sokol Retired Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia Archbishop Emeritus
56.1 José Valmor César Teixeira, S.D.B. Installed Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil Bishop of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 48.3 Pauly Kannookadan Ordained Bishop Bishop of Irinjalakuda (Syro-Malabar), India
47.8 Paul Meng Quinglu Ordained Bishop Bishop of Hohhot [Suiyüan], China
55.1 João Noé Rodrigues Ordained Bishop Bishop of Tzaneen, South Africa
50.3 Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun Ordained Bishop Titular Bishop of Mathara in Numidia Bishop of Bahir Dar - Dessie (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
2011 41.9 José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
41.9 José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo Appointed Titular Bishop of Tagase Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
2012 69.7 Arrigo Miglio Installed Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy Archbishop Emeritus
57.4 Juan Carlos Romanin, S.D.B. Resigned Bishop of Río Gallegos, Argentina Bishop Emeritus
55.8 William Charles Skurla Installed Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA
2013 52.0 Đuro Hranić Appointed Archbishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia
75.8 Walter Allison Hurley Retired Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Bishop Emeritus
75.7 Marin Srakić Retired Archbishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia Archbishop Emeritus
59.8 David John Walkowiak Appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
2014 78.2 Beda (Umberto) Paluzzi, O.S.B. Resigned Abbot of Montevergine, Italy Abbot Emeritus
2015 67.5 Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez Installed Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
54.2 Antoine Chbeir Ordained Bishop Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria
59.4 Misael Vacca Ramirez Appointed Bishop of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia
2017 50.0 Peter Kohlgraf Appointed Bishop of Mainz, Germany
2018 58.2 Paul Anthony Mullassery Appointed Bishop of Quilon, India
76.8 Stanley Roman Retired Bishop of Quilon, India Bishop Emeritus
2020 55.5 Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Brazzaville, Congo
61.7 Salvator Niciteretse Ordained Bishop Bishop of Bururi, Burundi


Follow these steps to create a Booking Form Popup, This can also be imported in the import demo's page of the plugin.
Create a Booking form in CF7.
Click on the update button to create a Booking Form Popup and Voila your popup has been created.
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Cowessess Cree camp just the beginning for language growth
Kaitlynn Nordal | July 09, 2019
Language is a big part of who people are as a culture and as an initiative under the current Chief and Council Cowessess First Nation bringing back their Cree language.
Starting in November of 2017, Sandy Pinay-Schindler, Education Director on Cowessess First Nation, applied for grants for an Aboriginal language's initiative through the Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural College.
After taking a nine-month course, knowledge keepers led a two-day Cree camp July 3rd and 4th on Cowessess First Nation where they taught participants various things. Photo courtesy S. Pinay-Schindler
Upon receiving approval, they were awarded a grant for a two-year language program. Angie Tanner, Health Director on Cowessess First Nation, had been budgeting for a language class in the community as well so that money was put into the program as well.
"Language is a part of who you are. It determines your home base. It gives you that identity. So, learning the language is the start of bringing back who we are to the community," said Tanner.
After sorting out how the program, which was entitled Re-awakening Our Language, would run 11 language keepers participated in the class on Thursday nights taught by Darren Okemaysim starting in October 2018 in the Education and Employment Centre.
"I think it's important for us to preserve and re-awaken our languages. It was a mandate Chief and Council identified but I think it's also equally important for us to do our best to learn the language," said Pinay-Schindler.
Once classes started and participants took a fluency test to see what their knowledge level was, Okemaysim then planned and taught the class accordingly.
As part of the grant, participants also filled out language assessment form at the end as well and most knowledge keepers were two levels above where they started. Some were as many as four or five levels above when they started.
Since the community had been considering doing a Cree camp in February, Tanner and Pinay-Schindler talked with the knowledge keepers and Okemaysim about what they wanted and how things should go for the camp.
The knowledge keepers finished up their classes at the end of June and to showcase what they had learned taught a Cree Camp July 3 and 4 to roughly 125 participants.
Each knowledge keeper picked what they wanted to teach and there was everything from how to snare rabbits, fry saskatoon berries, make bannock, how to get ready to play hockey, numbers, and colours among others. Everything at the camp had a label with what that item is in Cree to help participants learn.
The participants were split into three groups and then rotated from one thing to the next.
Cowessess is not only the first community to have a camp like this but is also the only community to receive a two-year grant when it comes to language education.
Although Cree is already taught in the school as a high school credit, with this new funding Pinay-Schindler and Tanner hope to expand this into the daycare for people to start learning the language younger. They also hope start teaching Cree once a week to the community in the evenings and have it led by the knowledge keepers and other contracted language instructors.
They are also working on having a full Cree immersion camp at some point.


LOS ANGELES—Chrysler Group LLC expects December to be its best sales month to date for its new Dodge Dart compact car, according to a senior executive.
Chrysler expects Dart sales of around 5,000 cars this month, and the number to rise as a better mix of vehicles arrives at dealerships, Dodge brand chief Reid Bigland said in an interview at the Los Angeles Auto Show. December typically is a strong selling month for auto makers, he added.


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Antonio Iturbe
The Prince of the Skies
Translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
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From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story – the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
Writer. Romantic. Pilot. Hero.
All Antoine de Saint Exupéry wants to do is be a pilot. But flying is a dangerous dream and one that sets him at odds with his aristocratic background and the woman he loves. Despite attempts to keep him grounded, Antoine is determined to venture forwards into the unknown. Together with his friends, Jean and Henri, he will pioneer new mail routes across the globe and help change the future of aviation. In the midst of his adventures, Antoine also begins to weave a children's story that is destined to touch the lives of millions of readers around the world. A story called The Little Prince . . . Fame and fortune may have finally found Antoine, but as the shadow of the Second World War begins to threaten Europe, he's left to wonder whether his greatest adventure is yet to come . . .
Translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites, The Prince of the Skies is a moving tale of love and friendship, war and heroism, and the power of the written word.
The language is mesmerizing, so lyrical and poetic. What a beautiful, thought-provoking read.
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I adored the character of Antoine, a man who is ingenious when flying a plane and an idiot when it comes to love. The descriptions of the life-and-death scrapes he and his aviator colleagues get into are gripping, and there's a vivid sense of the sheer thrill of flying. It's spellbinding!
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Will the Child Support Agency (CSA) be able to help you?
"All Change" a phrase which resounds in the corridors of any law firm, especially those with a family department. Enforced government changes are occurring fast and furious.
Venters appreciates that on any breakup of a relationship there are concerns as to what the future will hold, especially on a financial level, and what will happen to your children. One particular concern is the question of child support. Venters specialist family lawyers are here to take away the worry of understanding the complex rules surrounding these issues and guide your family to achieve the best possible outcome for all concerned.
The Court's powers in respect of child support remain limited following the introduction of the CSA in 1993. The CSA was devised to reduce the burden on the benefits system and hence the tax payer. Government changes made in December 2012 seek to prevent separating couples from being sucked into the system and encourages self-help.
Trying to sort out what is fair and reasonable is never easy. Clearly the "Parent with Care" of the children will usually have a completely different take on the relevant needs and requirements from those perceived by the "Non Resident Parent" (NRP).
The complicated 1993 scheme remains in force for existing claimants and. the basic rate of child support is calculated on the net income of the NRP and the number of children within the family.
The December 2012 scheme affects new claimants. . Those outside the eligibility cannot be "sucked into" the CSA and will need to resolve these matters themselves.


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import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;
import org.cloudfoundry.Nullable;
import org.cloudfoundry.client.v3.Metadata;
import org.immutables.value.Value;

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"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." C.S. Lewis, British author It wasn't a game of stump the teacher. The kid -- eight years old and messy haired -- looked at me in all sincerity and… Continue reading Why does God matter?
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J Balvin & Nicky Jam Perform "Mi Gente," "X," On Fallon
J Balvin performed a mix of his hit song, "Mi Gente ," with Nicky Jam and his hit, "X," Wednesday night on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.'
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In fashion true to World Cup theme songs, Nicky Jam, Will Smith, and Era Istrefi's "Live It Up" and Shawn Mendes' World Cup remix of his hit "In My Blood" hits every blood pumping, crowd jumping, and overall really exciting mark every World Cup anthem should.


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Six Panthers, two Nittany Lions invited to NFL Scouting Combine
February 15, 2017 by Shannon Carroll
The football season may have just ended, but it's already time to start thinking about the 2017 NFL Draft. (No rest for the weary.) And the first step for many of those college players who hope to make their pro football dreams come true? The NFL Combine. Six Pitt Panthers and two Penn State Nittany Lions were invited to this year's NFL Combine, a group headlined by Panthers running back James Conner and quarterback Nate Peterman and Nittany Lions defensive end Garrett Sickles. Here all ... Read More
Pitt RB James Conner declares for 2017 NFL Draft
December 10, 2016 by Shannon Carroll
Pitt Panthers running back James Conner will declare for the 2017 NFL draft, the redshirt junior announced on Twitter on Saturday. Forever Grateful. pic.twitter.com/B8wXA9ABZz — James Conner (@JamesConner_) December 10, 2016 The text reads: "Blessed to have been given the opportunity to play at this great university. I have given it everything I got and will do it one more time in New York City for my brothers at Pitt. When they talk about someone who made a positive impact on the ... Read More
James Conner deserves the Heisman Trophy
December 10, 2016 by Gar Bercury
"The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. The winners of the trophy epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work." If you were curious or confused, those two sentences are used to define the qualities and characteristics a player is expected to possess and display if he wants to win what is arguably the most famous trophy in sports: the ... Read More
James Conner awarded Disney Spirit Award
December 9, 2016 by Shannon Carroll
With the intensity of sports, it's often easy to forget that these athletes who we all look up to and consider to be almost untouchable are, in fact, human, too. One of the most inspirational stories in sports is Pitt Panthers running back James Conner, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in late November 2015 before beating the cancer and leading his team back onto the field at the start of the 2016 season. Despite undergoing chemotherapy, the redshirt junior never let his diagnosis ... Read More
Pitt powers to 7-4 record behind 56-14 blowout of Duke
November 19, 2016 by Daniel Greenwald
Possessing a dynamic offense has rarely — if ever — been a problem for the Pitt Panthers (7-4) this season. And Saturday, Pitt rang up 56 points in a thorough 56-14 waxing of the Duke Blue Devils (4-7) in a game that, for once, didn't come down to the wire. A week after a huge upset of the then-No. 2 Clemson Tigers, the Panthers' defense came out the chute with decidedly more bite than usual. On the second play from scrimmage, linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu punched the ball out of running ... Read More
What does Pitt's upset of Clemson mean for rest of season?
One snap. One final play. And the fate of the game between the Pitt Panthers and Clemson Tigers rested directly on the foot of Panthers kicker Chris Blewitt. Despite having an earlier kick blocked and missing an extra point, he wouldn't be deterred. Blewitt's final try from 48 yards sailed just inside the left upright and through the posts into Pitt history. 43-42, Panthers. While this year's Clemson squad hasn't had quite the same overwhelming presence as last year's final-4 team that ... Read More
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In an effort to help shine some light on charities and causes close to the hearts and minds of Napzok Files listeners, we present this list of charities, organizations, and campaigns as selected by listeners on the Patreon page and Discord Server as well as some close friends and colleagues of Ken. Some of the listed charities and causes are local and small in scale and some are larger in scope, but all of them have personal meaning to those that nominated them.
What it is: Ronald McDonald House Charities is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the well-being of children and their families. When a child is fighting a terrible illness, the last thing a family should have to worry about is the cost of making sure their child is treated. Additionally, many children may need to be treated at hospitals in cities far from home, putting an additional financial strain on families whose children may need to spend weeks or even months getting treated and who want to be nearby to support them. RMHC is committed to helping alleviate these financial strains by providing to families in need, including housing, home-cooked meals, playrooms, and more so that the families can focus on their children and not on the costs. RMHC has locations all across the U.S. and in 64 other countries.
How you can help: Monetary donations are always welcome! You can donate either to the organization at-large or to a specific chapter of your choice. Also, depending on the house, they may have wish lists of simple items they could be in need of, such as basic pantry items, cleaning products, toiletries for the families, and much more.
What is it: The California Fire Foundation, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, provides emotional and financial assistance to families of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they protect. Your tax-deductible donation will help them commemorate fallen heroes, offer scholarships to children of fallen firefighters, and provide aid to victims of fire or other natural disaster, ensuring that firefighters and their loved ones are forever cared for, as well as those they shelter from disaster.
How you can help: Donate through their website with a one-time donation, recurring donation, donation in honor or memory of someone, or become a partner.
What is it: Be The Match is the name of the National Bone Marrow Donor program. More information is available on the website, but, in short, Be The Match is a great way to match people in need of bone marrow to help fight life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma with a national registry of bone marrow donors. Bone Marrow donors can absolutely save lives and are needed every day.
How you can help: Consider signing up to be a bone marrow donor. The process is tremendously simple! Despite over 19 million volunteers in the registry, it can still prove to be difficult to find life saving matches.
Nominated by: Ken Napzok, "A few years ago I became a donor as part of a bone marrow drive put on by a friend of a friend who's daughter had a leukemia. Sadly the little girl passed away at two years of age because they could not find a bone marrow donor match in time. It impressed on me the important of gathering even more donors. A few years later I was a match for someone. Sadly, before I completed the donor process, the situation of the person I matched with changed and my marrow was no longer needed. I hope one day it can. Consider signing up today HERE!"
What is it: The St. Baldrick's Foundation is an organization that raises funds to specifically support childhood cancer research. Their support helps to fund clinical trials, helps to share research findings, and helps to ensure that there are enough trained pediatric oncologists to treat every child that is diagnosed with cancer. More information can be found on the website.
How can you help: There are many ways to get involved. You can simply make a tax deductible donation. The foundation can help you to set up your own fundraising event. They also can assist you in setting up a fund in someone's name if there is someone special you would like to honor or memorialize. They are most well known for their shaving events. At these events you can "go bald for a cause" and have your head shaved to raise funds and awareness.
What is it: In the spring of 2018, Ken announced that he was "adopting" an engineering class taught by his cousin Michelle Cox at Garehime Elementary in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can read more about it HERE.
How you can help: The class takes donations and in return you get a handmade 3D printed keychain or design. One hundred percent of the money raised goes directly to the class as the engineers of tomorrow are groomed. Funds help provide much needed supplies and equipment like 3D printers. While this is for a specific class, we hope it helps raises awareness for the needs of schools and classes everywhere. If donating to this specific class doesn't work for you, we encourage you to find a way to support a school or class near you!
Nominated by: Ken Napzok, "I was inspired by my cousin's career switch to teaching and intrigued by the "mini-city" approach to education from the school. I was then troubled by the struggle of teachers to simply have the tools to get the supplies and equipment to teach the class. While I had always heard of the growing issues, this time it was in my face. The class sent me a Star Wars keychain because they knew I was a fan. I then became a bigger fan of them."
What is it: The three-fold mission of The PEACE Fund is to protect, educate, and aid children that are in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Initiatives range from bringing clean water to villages in Niger to donations of tablets to students in Los Angeles. There is also the Helping Hands initiative where supporters focus each month on a specific child that has been nominated. There are countless ways to help children in need.
What is it: Hope for the Warriors is a group founded by U.S. combat veterans and their families with the goal to help all that are affected by military service, particularly during the difficult transitions into civilian life. It provides support to service members, veterans, and their families through grants for severely injured soldiers, career transitioning programs, and scholarships for higher education.
What is it: The CRISIS 22 Project stands with the men and women that have served our country and to bring awareness to the alarming rate of suicides among those heroes. They exist to bring their plight into the forefront to their families and friends so that they can recognize the warning signs of suicidal thoughts and self-harm. They exist to stand by our heroes in times where they may or may not be showing signs that they are possibly thinking of bringing a close to the chapters of their lives. They stand to assist First Responders, and our community as well and will provide for our Veterans and heroes by leading them to viable alternatives for assistance in managing the psychological aspects of possible self-harm.
How you can help: Visit the Crisis 22 website for ways to help and donate. Spreading the word of this and other groups like this to those who need it is a great way to help. Find your local crisis support, veterans help, and other mental health resources and support them any way you can. Help spread the awareness, not just of Veterans mental health, but of the mental health crisis in America.
Nominated by: David Ham (Owner of Temporal Radio, Patreon member, DJ Snaxx on Discord) "A fantastic group of folks heavily involved in the Mental Health community. Primarily to bring awareness to the Veterans suicide epidemic, Criss 22 Project also works with the first responders as well. I work with this group, as an associate member, at events all over the Phoenix area. This one is personal for me; not only am I a Veteran, I am an 8th generation veteran, with 2 children that are also veterans. I've lost friends to suicide, and I don't want to lose anymore to this."
What is it: Women In Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries – to achieve parity and transform culture. This is accomplished through various programs like their Speaker Series, Film Finishing Fund, Scholarship and mentoring programs, and more! They also have signature events and advocate the cause of women in film through programs and research like the Female Filmmakers Initiative.
How you can help: Visit their website to find out how to donate, volunteer to a mentor, become a member and more!
What is it: The mission of Magic Wheelchair is to give kids in wheelchairs an unforgettable experience by creating custom costumes for them at no expense to their families. Magic Wheelchair recruits talented volunteers to build EPIC wheelchair costumes for kiddos, at no cost to their families. Last year, their volunteers created 50 costumes. This year, Magic Wheelchair is planning on building for over 100 kiddos, nationwide— but, they need YOU!
How you can help: Your support will provide build materials and art supplies for each costume and ultimately, create epic smiles. Donate, find a team, or start your own fundraiser for Magic Wheelchair today!
What is it: For 35 years, Starlight Children's Foundation has continued to bring joy and comfort to hospitalized children and their families. Every 30 seconds, a child is diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. These children are often scared, confused, lonely and facing serious medical treatments. That's where Starlight comes in. Starlight programs turn a child's pain, fear and stress into laughter, fun and joy by providing seriously ill children the best in entertainment, education and one-of-a-kind experiences – because sick kids are still kids. They believe all children deserve to enjoy the magic, wonder and happiness of childhood, and they're committed to providing Starlight programs to every seriously ill child in their network of more than 800 children's hospitals and community health partners across the US.
Nominated by: Stephen Stanton. The voice of Admiral Raddus, Tarkin, AP-5 and many other Star Wars voices works extensively with the Starlight Children's Foundation raising awareness for the group and their mission through giveaways, Skype calls, and spreading the word. Join him in this important mission!
What is it: Mysterious Barricades is a cross-country classical music concert series, performed live coast-to-coast and livestreamed to the world. From sunrise in St. John's, Newfoundland to sunset in Victoria, British Columbia, on September 15, World Suicide Prevention Day, a 14-hour concert of hope and awareness will grace a sequence of stages across Canada. Featuring Canada's finest professionally trained musicians and performers, this concert will raise awareness of the mysterious barricades between mental illness and health, between the darkness of depression and the light of hope, between life and death. This free concert will encourage public discourse about the prevalence of suicide and measures for suicide prevention, encourage the formation of community by those impacted by suicide, and raise funds for education and support of those at risk and those impacted by suicide.
How you can help: On Septermber 15, tune in to the livestreamed broadcast and visit the website for more information, access mental health services, donate, and more. But above all spread the word about this event.
Nominated by: Patreon member and Executive Producer Matthew Thompson: "This annual event has done a great deal of healing for people across the country, especially for us in the classical music world. I don't know of anyone who hasn't been touched by the issue of suicide (myself included, I've gone down that dark tunnel too many times) and any way to bring this into the light and heal others is invaluable. This organization and its livestreaming component was also the catalyst in starting my own video production side business, and every year I donate my time and skills in making this concert accessible to the entire world. I hope you will join us on Sept. 15, I'll be running the Sackville NB show live from Brunton Auditorium :)"


Good News to all the Indians living in the beautiful countries of Singapore. YuppTV is now delivering all the popular Star Channels like Star Plus, Star Jalsa, Star Pravah, Star Vijay, etc. along with the other popular Indian Channels like Zee TV, Zee Anmol, Zee Telugu, ETV, Zee Marathi, Colors Marathi, etc. You can enjoy watching all the popular TV shows and serials from Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and other languages packages starts from $99.99 per year.
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The show which is being hosted by the legendary actor Kamal Hassan had already become a super hit and had recorded the highest TRP among the other TV shows. This show which is broadcast on Star Vijay has come close to the ending and if you start watching now, you can catch the Epic Finale.
Though the concept of the show is very new to the Telugu audience, the fact that the show is being hosted by actor Jr. NTR brought it to its glory of becoming one of the biggest Telugu reality show till date. This show has started recently and still has a long way to go providing entertainment all along.
The longest running Hindi Television serial, this show has surpassed Balika Vadhu and is still running with top ratings among the audience. The show which portrays the story of a young couple who live in a joint family has garnered millions of fans across the globe.
This latest show which starts on 17th September on the occasion of Durga Puja is in compliance with the tradition of Bengali Serials on Star Jalsha. The channel which always portrays the story of Goddess Durga in a beautiful and creative way is coming up with "Jagat Janani Durga" this year.
The television serial portraying the life of the legendary Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji has been one of the top-rated serials on Star Pravah. This Marathi serial which is familiar to the audience around the world is now available for the users in Singapore to watch.


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Bobsledding
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Alternative Title: bobsleighing
Bobsledding, also called bobsleighing, the sport of sliding down an ice-covered natural or artificial incline on a four-runner sled, called a bobsled, bobsleigh, or bob, that carries either two or four persons.
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Bobsledding developed in the 1880s both in the lumbering towns of upstate New York and at the ski resorts of the Swiss Alps. The first organized competition (among teams consisting of three men and two women) was held in 1898 on the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland. The sport earned its name after competitors adopted the technique of bobbing back and forth to increase the speed of the sled. In 1923 bobsledding became an internationally recognized sport with the organization of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing and with its inclusion in the first Olympic Winter Games at Chamonix, France, the following year. Since 1931 both two-person and four-person world-championship competitions have been held yearly, except during World War II. Though women have participated in bobsledding since the sport's creation, international competition for women did not begin until the 1990s. The women's two-person bobsled event made its Olympic debut in 2002. The gold medal for the inaugural women's event went to Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers of the United States. Flowers was the first black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games.
The bob run used in international competition is between 1,200 and 1,600 metres (1,312 and 1,750 yards) long, with an average slope of between 8 and 15 percent. There are generally from 15 to 20 turns per course, ranging in size up to huge hairpins of more than 180°. Most bob runs have permanent foundations of concrete or stone, which are covered with several inches of ice. The straightaways have sidewalls of reinforced ice about 46 cm (18 inches) high. The large turns are banked very steeply, built up as high as 6 metres (20 feet), and may have an overhanging lip of ice to prevent the fast-traveling bobsleds from flying out of the turn.
Early bobsleds were built mostly of wood. Steel runners were adopted within a few years and, by the mid-20th century, steel and aluminum were used throughout. The four runners are generally mounted in pairs on two axles. Steering is accomplished by turning the front axle either with ropes or by a wheel linked to the axle by cables. The brake is a toothed bar that is pressed against the ice between the rear runners.
Racing bobsleds have a streamlined cowling in front of the driver to reduce wind resistance. Two types are used: two-person boblets, as they often are called in Europe, and four-person bobsleighs. Rules limit combined team and sled weights to 390 kg (860 pounds) and 630 kg (1,389 pounds), respectively. The maximum team-and-sled weight for the two-women competition is 350 kg (770 pounds). Other sled dimensions are also specified.
Germany's Berit Wiacker and Sandra Kiriasis starting a two-woman bobsled run, 2009.
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The start of the race is crucial to a team's success. Riders, wearing cleated shoes, run alongside the sled, pushing it to achieve maximum velocity. As it builds speed, the riders jump in, the driver in front and the brakeman, pushing the back of the sled, entering last. The heavier four-person sleds attain speeds approaching 160 km (100 miles) per hour; the smaller, lighter two-person sleds are only slightly slower. A race consists of four descents by each team, the total time for the four heats determining the winner. Electric timing equipment measures elapsed time to 0.01 second.
A French national two-man bobsled team participating in a run.
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Due in large part to their innovative sled design and construction, bobsledders from the United States were both successful and influential during the first half of the 20th century. Since then teams from Germany and Switzerland have dominated international competition.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn, Managing Editor, Reference Content.
Olympic Games: Lake Placid, New York, U.S., 1932
The two-man bobsled was introduced at the 1932 Games, and the American brothers J. Hubert Stevens and Curtis Stevens won gold with their practice—then highly unorthodox and now illegal—of heating the sled's runners with a blowtorch before competition. Poor weather forced the four-man bobsled competition to be…
Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Winter Games
The two-man bobsled was introduced at the 1932 Games, and American brothers J. Hubert Stevens and Curtis Stevens won gold with their practice—then highly unorthodox and now illegal—of heating the sled's runners with a blowtorch before competition. Poor weather forced the four-man bobsled competition to be completed…
Saint Moritz, town, or Gemeinde (commune), Graubünden canton, southeastern Switzerland. Saint Moritz lies in the Oberengadin (Upper Inn Valley) and is surrounded by magnificent Alpine peaks. The town consists of the Dorf (village), the Bad (spa), and the hamlets of Suvretta and…
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Perisher Valley no 7 NSW
Netherlands, Australia
1945 - 09 Oct 2002
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Ingeborg Tyssen arrived in Australia, from her native Holland, in 1957 as a 12 year old and the photographs she made throughout her career convey the sense of loss and dislocation she experienced as a young immigrant. A non-English speaking child, she found that she had to leave behind not only her language, but, as she put it in 1986 'the onomatopoeic nursery rhymes which initiated me, as a child, into the dark secrets of the European woods.' Tyssen's interest in photography emerged during travel undertaken in the 1970s, and on her return to Sydney she took a class with John F Williams. Influenced by his teaching, Tyssen began exhibiting her own photographs in 1975.
Tyssen's work is distinguished by its particular intensity. Her earliest works were observational photographs of urban space that explored themes of isolation and dislocation. In particular she was preoccupied with sites of suburban pleasures like fun parks, pools and gardens and produced wry examinations of mundane scenes that implicate the comical and the poetic with the everyday. As critic Blair French noted in 2003, 'the fascinating "strangeness" of vision in Tyssen's work suggests an authorial consciousness formed, in part, elsewhere and constantly seeking to rearticulate itself within a different world.' Her oeuvre reflects on the difficulty of communication, while probing the expressive potential of photography as a site for critical engagement.
Tyssen's 1984 series 'From the heart of the forest to the edge of the road' explores more complex and personal themes. The gnarled and twisted trees present a very different reading of the Australian landscape to that of majestic gums and sunlit plains. These alpine panoramas manifest a European sensibility of the sublime in nature; of a darker twilit landscape that inspires awe, terror or transcendence. Indeed, Tyssen's 'Perisher Valley no 7' is comparable to the German romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich's 1822 painting, 'The tree of crows' in its depiction of an eerie landscape shaped by the forces of nature. These images gesture towards the 'dark secrets' of the European woods that Tyssen left behind.
gelatin silver photograph
14.5 x 35.7 cm image; 30.3 x 40.1 cm sheet
Signed l.r. verso, pencil "I Tyssen". Dated l.l. verso, pencil "...1984".
Hallmark Cards Australian Photography Collection Fund 1989
© Ingeborg Tyssen, 1984. Licensed by Copyright Agency
Ingeborg Tyssen - Twenty Years of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Mar 1995–09 Apr 1995
What is this thing called photography?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jun 1999–29 Jul 1999
Photography & place, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Mar 2011–29 May 2011
Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Photography: Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection , 'Not 'simply' anything', pg.266-287, Sydney, 2007, 283 (illus.).
Look , Sydney, Mar 2011, 26-27 (illus.).
Twenty contemporary Australian photographers - from the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection , Melbourne, 1990, 50 (illus.).
What is this thing called photography? , Sydney, 1999. no catalogue numbers
Ingeborg Tyssen - Twenty years on photography , Sydney, 1995. cat.no. 71
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Ingeborg TyssenUntitled (1977)120.1989
Ingeborg TyssenPerisher Valley no 5 NSW (1984)125.1989
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