Summary: Three scenes to show how people have trouble recognizing who Jesus really is. Themes: Christmas, Jesus is King, Christian living.
Narrator: Often we fail to recognize Jesus for who he is. A conversation like this may have occurred some years ago.
Joseph, I'm so glad we were able to find room for you and Mary. I see the baby arrived, and you are both well.
Mary: Yes, thank you. God's greatest gift is here.
I know what you mean, babies are a wonderful gift from God. I remember when my little Jacob was born. He's such a treasure.
Mary: Jesus is a very special baby. He is God's son.
How sweet. You've already dedicated him to the Lord. Have a safe journey.
She just doesn't understand. Gosh, Joseph. The king of heaven was born as a baby here and she doesn't seem to know. I would have thought all the angels would have woken her last night with all their singing. There were legions of them. Wouldn't that make her take note? And all those shepherds bowing down and worshipping? You'd think that everyone at that full inn would have gotten a clue.
Joseph: Some people sleep through anything. Don't worry, Mary. Not everyone will recognize him. We know who he really is, and God will reveal it to others, in His time.
Narrator: Joseph was correct. There were those who recognized how very special Jesus was. Three wise men from the East knew that a King had been born, and brought Jesus royal gifts. At the temple in Jerusalem, Simeon and Anna knew, as soon as they saw the baby, that he was the messiah. However, most people saw nothing unusual about this baby. Even later, while Jesus' ministry was in full swing, people did not see Jesus as he truly was; an heir to a heavenly kingdom.
Jonah: That guy sure can preach it. He's a true prophet. And just look at all these people who follow him.
Mathias: Yes, surely this is the promised Messiah, who will save us from Roman rule. With him as our leader, I am sure that we can overcome the Romans.
Jonah: I'll be glad to give him my support. I have a strong arm and am willing to fight.
Mathias: It will be good to have a Jewish King to rule over us.
Narrator: Well, Mathias didn't get his wish. He must have missed the part where Jesus said His kingdom was not part of this world. The twelve apostles understood; they even argued about who would sit on the right side of Jesus in His heavenly kingdom. The Roman soldiers that crucified him took notice when the earth quaked and said "Truly, this must be the Son of God".
Narrator: Even today, multitudes claim that there is no evidence of God. Nevertheless. Jesus is living and active in the hearts of His people. Those who have placed Jesus on the throne of their lives make him King of their choices and act according to the will of Jesus.
Sue: It always amazes me how Carl drops what he is doing and takes care of whatever I need.
Frank: Yeah! He's a really nice guy. He helps out in so many ways. Carl never pushes me aside or makes me feel bad. Even though I used to pick on him all the time. He always seems glad to see me and almost delighted to help me out.
Sue: Yeah! He definitely puts others before himself.
Frank: Hey, Carl. Sue and I were just talking about you.
Carl: I hope it was all good.
Frank: How could it be otherwise? Carl, we were wondering, what makes you such a nice guy?
Carl: Honestly, I'm just trying to do what I believe Jesus would do.
Narrator: When you see unselfish acts of forgiveness and love, in the lives of God's people, we can know that Jesus is alive and ruling as king in some hearts. Many of us make Jesus a part of our lives, but do not make him the King. Today , it is easy to see that Satan rules in the world of men. But there will come a time, when Jesus will come, in all his Glory, to claim his kingdom. And that is why, my friend, that WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM.
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Kristine McKenna is an American journalist, critic and art curator best known for her interviews with artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers and musicians. Many of these have been collected in Book of Changes (2001) and Talk to Her (2004). Among the people she has interviewed and written about most often over the years are Exene Cervenka, Leonard Cohen, David Lynch, Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno and  Dan Hicks.

Career
McKenna wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1977 through 1998 and was one of the first mainstream journalists chronicling the early L.A. punk rock scene. She was Music Editor for influential avant-garde arts publication Wet and West Coast Editor of NME. Her profiles and criticism have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, ARTnews, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many other publications.  She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Administration grant (1976) and a Critics Fellowship from the National Gallery of Art (1991). She has contributed to many programs by radio artist Joe Frank.

McKenna co-curated the 1998 exhibition Forming: the Early Days of L.A. Punk, for Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. She was co-curator of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & his Circle, a traveling group exhibition that opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2005. She is producer and co-writer of The Cool School, a documentary about L.A.'s first avant-garde gallery, and her book, The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin, was published by Steidl in 2009.

Her 2007 monograph on the photography of Wallace Berman, Wallace Berman Photographs, co-written with Lorraine Wild,
 was selected as one of the 50 best art books of the year by the AIGA. In 2009, she curated She: Work by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince, for the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2010 McKenna curated The Beautiful and the Damned, a show of photographs of L.A.'s early punk scene by Ann Summa. Her 2011 survey exhibition of photographer Charles Brittin was accompanied by the artist's monograph, Charles Brittin: West & South.

In 2010 she partnered with Donna Wingate and Lorraine Wild to launch the publishing imprint Foggy Notion Books.

In October 2015 it was announced that she was co-writing filmmaker David Lynch's "quasi-memoir" titled Life & Work. The book, retitled Room to Dream, was published in June 2018. She has participated in Lynch's "Festival of Disruption," doing onstage interviews with Lynch, Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, Sheryl Lee and others.

Musician Dan Hicks spent hours on the phone with McKenna every Friday for several years before his death in 2016, telling her his life story. She edited the conversations into Hicks' posthumous autobiography, I Scare Myself, published in 2017.

Books
Book of Changes, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2001.
Talk to Her, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2004.
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & his Circle, written and edited with Michael Duncan, New York, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Wallace Berman Photographs, written and edited with Lorraine Wild, Santa Monica, CA, RoseGallery/Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2007.
She: Work by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince, Kohn Gallery/Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2009.
The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2009.
The Beautiful & the Damned: Photographs by Ann Summa, Los Angeles, California: Foggy Notion Books, 2010.
Charles Brittin: West & South, Los Angeles, California: Foggy Notion Books, 2011.
Richard Prince: Collected Writings, Los Angeles, California: Foggy Notion Books, 2011.
Notes  From a Revolution: Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight, edited with David Hollander, Los Angeles, California: Foggy Notion Books, 2012.
Room to Dream, written with David Lynch, Random House, 2018.

References

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American art curators
Los Angeles Times people
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The Claremont Colleges has just won the 2019 NSCRO PacWest Region Championship. This is their fourth PacWest Championship title in a row. They defeated California State University Maritime Academy with a final score of 61-19. The 2019 PacWest Region Championship was held at the University of Denver in Denver, CO.
They will join Endicott College (Region 1/Northeast), Christendom College (Region 2/Mid-Atlantic South), and St. John's University (Region 3/Central) at Siena College in Loudonville, NY on 26 & 28 April for the 2019 NSCRO Champions Cup National Championship.
Earlier today, the New Mexico Highlands University faced Regis University for 3rd place. The Vatos took an early lead, 38-19 going into the half and was able to stave off the Rangers for the win, 65-50.
Lawrence Garcia of NMHU was named MVP. Heart & Soul awards were also given. The Heart & Soul awards are given by the players to a teammate whom they nominate that best represents the "heart and soul" of their team. The winners include Justin Stallworth (NMHU), Donovan Ronan (Regis), Frankie Rayis (The Claremont Colleges), and Kevyn Huntsman (California State University Maritime Academy).


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Quebec's Squeeze Studio Animation has released its first Live Wallpaper on Google Play. The app, which is on sale for 99¢, features Fernutz the dancing farmer, one of the studio's original characters. Fernutz Latino Dancing is a fun Live Wallpaper showcasing a highly detailed funny 3D animated character, challenging the studio's artists with some crazy meringue-inspired dance choreography. More than a simple Live Wallpaper, Fernutz Latino Dancing proposes a cool 'Match the Pose' mini-game triggered by a quick touch of the on-screen joystick icon. Read the rest of this entry »
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Researchers using 3D radar find 'ghost' footprint of human who stepped in ancient mammoth track
Through newly discovered prints, researchers have been able to offer a glimpse into what life might have been like 12,000 years ago
A human footprint is shown within a mammoth track, which was discovered by using GPR in White Sands National Monument.Thomas Urban
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With the help of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scans, researchers have found the tracks of mammoths and humans, among other species, spread across the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, United States.
In an closely monitored area of 800 metres on the eastern side of the Alkali Flat, researchers have also found one case where a human track is within that of a mammoth's. Other similar cases between species have also been found through the White Sands National Monument, but only one has been excavated for a recent study published in Scientific Reports.
Through the prints, researchers have been able to offer a glimpse into what life might have been like 12,000 years ago, which marked the end of the Pleistocene era, as well as the end of the last Ice Age. Through the use of GPR scans, which were being tested on footprints in this research study, they can go beneath the surface to identify hidden contours that lay underneath and aren't visible to the naked eye.
By using GPR technology, they're able to preserve the ecological terrain, while also learning more about the biomechanics of the species that used to roam the territory.
Researchers use GPR scans to track mammoth and human footprints at White Sands, New Mexico. Thomas Urban
"These footprints are very delicate. To use the typical procedure for studying them, it involves really destroying the footprint and the area because you have to excavate it out and cast it," says Cornell University's Thomas Urban, the lead author behind the study. "So minimizing that, using these non invasive technologies, helped preserve what was in place."
With tens of thousands of track marks in the White Sands National Monument, Urban says that there's simply too many of them to be excavated. By using GPR technology, they're able to gather information on the bigger picture without having to resort to a very time-consuming process. What the researchers were looking for are also known as "ghost" footprints, because they can become visible for a short period during specific moisture and salt conditions, but can quickly be hidden by drifting sand.
"The unusual thing about this project is that we used GPR on footprints, which is fairly unique in archaeology," says Urban. In the past, GPR has been used for decades, more commonly with larger structural elements, such as when researching buildings or tombs. It's also been used in fields such as geology and civil engineering to access structural conditions in railroads and bridges, says Urban.
For it to work, the GPR equipment needs to be dragged over the ground. The sensor/radar sends a radio wave through the ground, which then bounces back to provide a picture of what lies underneath the surface. At first, Urban and his team weren't even positive that they were going to find human footprints because of their small size. But upon using the GPR technology, they were able to locate 96 per cent of the human tracks that were present, to go along with all of the larger vertebrates.
The map shows the amplitude of the tracks. T1 represents the track that's shared by a mammoth and human. Manus and Pes are latin for hands and feet. Thomas Urban
After finding the prints with the radar, Urban and his team needed to excavate some of them for proof and research. They removed the flush and sentiment out of the negative relief of the footprint. To create digital copies, they took detailed photographs with photogrammetry. Then the footprints were filled with plaster and transformed into casts.
Along with excavating a stretch of human footprints, Urban and his team also created a cast of the mammoth and human track.
In the case of the mammoth and human coexisting through their print, it came to be simply by coincidence, says Urban. After a human trekked on a path northbound, a mammoth crossed his path perpendicularly. When the human returned using the same path, he crossed the mammoth's track. As a result, they stepped into the same area to form one track.
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In the past, the same group of researchers found evidence to show that humans used tracks to follow and hunt large sloths. In the case of the mammoth and human tracks, their relationship doesn't appear to be used for a hunt. Instead, this discovery provides insight into what early humans did when they weren't at a campsite or kill site, which are the archaeological sites best known for the time period, since they're easier to find as they contain objects such as tools or skeletons from dead animals.
To identity the footprints of these species, researchers need to rely on past work of archaeologists who have the skeletons of animals such as mammoths and giant sloths. But there were instances where Urban and his team had to take an extra step in identifying whether a small track belonged to a human or sloth. But upon closer examination, the owner of the footprint becomes more clear. Along with the indents of their claws, sloths move with a three dimensional rotation on the side of their foot.
Through the GPR technology and footprints, the team of researchers are also able to understand the bio mechanical data of the species. With each step, the species are exerting pressure due to their weight and momentum. Therefore, it compresses a large area and underneath the footprint, which can be detected with the radar.
"This is something we're just scratching the surface of in terms of the potential to make inferences about how mammoths and giant sloths and other animals that are extinct actually moved around, their locomotion," said Urban. "We think we're the first published research study that has used GPR for footprints, and we think it can be used elsewhere, such as with understanding dinosaurs…We're hoping this can spur more people into using GPR."
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Institute for Safe Medication Practices to distribute Bridge 'Beyond Blame' documentary
ATLANTA, Ga.--Dec. 9, 2002 - On Dec. 9, 1997, "Beyond Blame" premiered in Atlanta.
"The documentary drew national attention to the problem of medication errors," says Institute for Safe Medication Practices President Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, DSc, FASHP. "Two years later, the Institute of Medicine reported that thousands of hospital patients experience the often tragic results of medication errors similar to those the film details. An estimated 7000 of these are fatal.
Today, Beyond Blame producer Bridge Medical officially donated exclusive Beyond Blame distribution rights, and all ensuing video revenues, to the Institute, notes Cohen.
"Judging by its continued popularity, Beyond Blame's educational mission is far from complete," explains Bridge President and CEO John B. Grotting. "Giving Beyond Blame to ISMP ensures the broadest possible dissemination of its key messages, supports ISMP's mission of promoting medication safety and allows Bridge to focus its full attention on MedPoint." The bedside barcoding system prevents medication errors similar to those detailed in the documentary.
The ten-minute film premiered at Atlanta's historic Fox Theater during the 1997 Midyear Clinical Meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Since then, it has been distributed by the American Hospital Association to all its members and used by Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in new employee training. An estimated 15,000 copies have been distributed in total.
Notes Cohen: "Bridge received the 1998 ISMP Cheers Award for Beyond Blame's role in raising awareness of the system flaws behind most medication errors.
Today, ASHP members are back in Atlanta for the 2002 Midyear Meeting (the conference officially opened Sunday at the Georgia World Congress Center) and Beyond Blame is still a powerful force for changing behavior."
Beyond Blame's case histories of a pharmacist, a nurse, and a physician--each of whom has been involved in a fatal medication error--demonstrate the impact of medication errors on clinicians and patients. Last New Year's Day, Dateline NBC focused on Ben who died because of a simple error--pouring the right medication into the wrong container. Beyond Blame had told the 7-year-old hospital patient's story many years earlier. "The badly designed system in their operating room," reported NBC Correspondent John Hockenberry, "had allowed good people to do something terribly wrong."
"Beyond Blame demonstrates the courage and wisdom exhibited by the Stuart, Fla., hospital where Ben had his ear surgery," says Cohen, a former hospital pharmacist. "Hospitals like Martin Memorial have decided to help families heal by admitting their mistakes and making a fair settlement that recognizes the family's loss. They analyze the error, correct its root cause(s) and move on. Beyond Blame's message is simple: Why waste energy blaming 'bad' individuals? Fixing the 'bad' systems that breed errors is so much more productive.
"ISMP and Beyond Blame are essentially saying the same thing: sharing your experience will help others learn from past mistakes. Both strive to draw attention to a serious public safety issue, and focus on solutions not blame."
About ISMP
Headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, Penn., the Institute for Safe Medication Practices works closely with healthcare practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about adverse drug events (ADEs) and their prevention.
The nonprofit organization provides an independent review of medication errors voluntarily submitted by practitioners to a national Medication Errors Reporting Program operated by the U.S. Pharmacopeia. USP shares information derived from MERP reports with the FDA and pertinent pharmaceutical manufacturers. An FDA MEDWATCH partner, ISMP regularly communicates with the FDA to help prevent medication errors and encourages error reporting to MEDWATCH.
The biweekly ISMP Medication Safety Alert! provides vital information about medication and device errors, and ADEs, to more than 560,000 U.S. health professionals--as well as regulatory agencies and others in 30 foreign countries. ISMP also sends urgent advisories about serious errors or information requiring immediate attention. A national advisory board assists the Institute in helping to promote the safe use of medications through its advocacy of improvements in drug distribution, naming, packaging, labeling and delivery system design.
Order Beyond Blame on videocassette at http://www.ismp.org/Pages/videoorder3.asp or at ASHP Booth #755. All proceeds benefit ISMP medication safety activities.
On the Net: ISMP site: http://www.ismp.org
Contact: Rachel Cohen, 215-947-7797, rcohen@ismp.org or ismpinfo@ismp.org
About Bridge
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Solana Beach, Calif., Bridge Medical has pioneered the use of barcoding at the point of care to prevent medication and other clinical errors. Bridge clinicians will demonstrate the Bridge MedPoint™ system--which uses barcoding and ISMP safety alerts to help hospitals prevent medication and other errors--at the 2002 ASHP Meeting in Atlanta (Booths #1746 and 152). Bridge executive and former hospital pharmacist Barbara Trohimovich, RPh, BSPharm, will speak on medication errors in the Booth #152 theatre three times daily at 12, 1 and 2:30 pm.
On the Net: Bridge Medical site: http://www.bridgemedical.com
Contact: Carol Somer at 858-314-5538 or 888-578-0100 x5538 (Cell 858-204-7424) or csomer@bridgemedical.com
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The director and multimedia designer Pietro Galliano presented at the Venice Film Festival a VR-short film whose characters are controlled by machine learning algorithms. They set the motivation for the characters and make each experience of playing/viewing this interactive film unique. The project is a pure experiment, but it clearly shows where exactly the production of entertainment film will move in 10-15 years, when the algorithms and graphics will be even more perfect. The viewer will be able to interfere in the plot and interact with the characters at any time.
A short interactive film in virtual reality "Agence" ("Agency") by Canadian film company Transitional Forms is unlikely to attract the attention of a wide audience. It belongs to an innovative category of works of art that are somewhere between video games and animated films. Its main feature is the use of machine learning algorithms to enliven characters.
"I am simply in love with artificial intelligence because I believe that AI and cinema complement each other," said director Pietro Galliano. In 2015 he already received the world's first Emmy for a VR movie. And now, together with the producer David Oppenheim, he is working on a new kind of narrative, which they call dynamic film, tells MIT Technology Review.
"We see Agence as a kind of dynamic film from the silent film era," Oppenheim said. – It's a beginning, not a blockbuster," Oppenheim told MIT Technology Review.
"Agence debuted at the Venice Film Festival last month and is now available through the Steam gaming platform. The plot revolves around a group of creatures who want to get a mysterious plant that appeared on their planet. Will they be able to control their thirst or destabilize the planet and die? In order to know it, the viewer will have to go to the end.
Unlike other video games with a deep story, where the player can make a choice at key moments, thus directing the course of the story, in "Agence" the viewer can control the story at any point of the plot.
A certain level of interactivity comes from the AI, which controls each character. Everyone has their own tasks, and they strive to perform them as best they can. But the viewer can also intervene: with the help of VR or gamepad, he can move the characters, grow more plants and help manage the planet.
At the film festival "Agence" was warmly received – many liked this combination of history and interactivity. But gamers were cooler about the experiment. They considered the work to be a puzzle game, too short and not complicated.
However, the authors are not discouraged. They plan to cooperate with other AI developers, so that the characters have different motivations that will lead to the emergence of unique story lines. In the future, the AI can be used to generate all elements of the film, from the characters' behavior to dialogues and scenery, they are sure.
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Q: Is there a feature that can add row spacing as print.default does for columns I was wondering if there is a way to add padding between rows, the same way
print.default do to rows, or maybe with different frequency, like adding an empty row (or some space) every 3 rows.
mat <- matrix(rnorm(25),5,5, dimnames = list(paste0("row",1:5), paste0("row",1:5)))
print(mat)
print.default(mat, print.gap = 5)

Also, is there a way to manipulate positioning as you do with format?
print.default(format(mat, width = 15), quote = FALSE)

Thanks!

A: You could make a function which adds an empty row. But note that this would be just for printing purposes. Below function should get you started.
rowSpaces <- function(x, chunk = 2, digits = 3) {
  x <- round(x, digits)

  emptyrow <- rep("", ncol(x))
  nrows <- nrow(x)
  indices <- split(1:nrows, ceiling(seq_along(1:nrows)/chunk))

  inserted <- sapply(indices, FUN = function(m) c(m + 1, 1))
  inserted <- do.call(c, inserted)
  xy <- rbind(emptyrow, x)
  out <- xy[inserted, ]
  rownames(out) <- gsub("emptyrow", "", rownames(out))
  out
}

print(rowSpaces(mat, chunk = 2), quote = FALSE)

     row1   row2  row3   row4   row5
row1 -0.47  1.076 -0.551 -0.091 0.478
row2 1.058  0.384 -1.138 -0.155 0.031

row3 -0.825 -0.43 -0.105 -1.658 0.078
row4 -0.282 0.037 -0.567 -0.317 0.65

row5 -1.209 1.262 -1.116 0.529  2.18

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Borradaile Island är en ö i Antarktis. Den ligger i havet utanför Östantarktis. Nya Zeeland gör anspråk på området.

Ön upptäcktes 1839 av den engelska sjökaptenen John Balleny och den uppkallades efter en av expeditionens mecenater, W. Borradaile.

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Q: Clementine does not play after update to Xenial After the update, Clementine does not want to play music any more. A dialog with this error pops up (the bold font is added):

GStreamer could not create the element: gsettingsaudiosink. Please make sure that you have installed all necessary GStreamer plugins (e.g. OGG and MP3)

I have tried searching for solution. One of them suggested removing some registry cache files, which I did, one ~/.gstreamer-0.10 and another in ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0.
After I have tried the above and failed, I found that it was possible to get some debugging output from gstreamer by setting up GST_DEBUG=4 environment variable. With this I can see similar message in the logs:
0:00:04.516526128 15284      0x1ab2800 INFO     GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:457:gst_element_factory_make: no such element factory "gsettingsaudiosink"!

It basically shows the same as the dialogue message. It does not make things any clearer to me.
What else am I supposed to do to make this work?
UPDATE
It seems that nuking some parts of .cache, .config and .local has helped. Unfortunatelly I am not sure which part made it work again as I have deleted most of it.

A: Removing this directory worked for me to get rid of the error:

rm $HOME/.config/Clementine

UPDATE: After further inspection, the problem comes from the Clementine config file "$HOME/.config/Clementine/Clementine.conf"
You can either erase the file, or if you want to keep your seetings, simply remove the GstEngine section within the file. Here's what mine was looking like:

[GstEngine]
  sink=gsettingsaudiosink
  device=
  rgenabled=false
  rgmode=0
  rgpreamp=@Variant(\0\0\0\x87\0\0\0\0)
  rgcompression=true
  bufferduration=1000
  monoplayback=false

I've opened an issue on github for the Clementine developers:
https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/5378


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Building strong bones and keeping them that way is easier than you may have thought.
This Web page focuses on debunking a myth sold to the American public by a multibillion-dollar industry—an industry that has repeated its marketing message so often and for so long that most people now believe that dairy products are essential to bone health, despite extensive evidence to the contrary. The dairy industry has an army of dietitians, public relations consultants, and lobbyists on its payroll but does not have the evidence on its side.
The dairy pushers pay dietitians, doctors, and researchers to endorse dairy products, spending more than $300 million annually, just at the national level, to retain a market for their products. The dairy industry provides free teaching materials to schools and pays sports stars, celebrities, and politicians to push an agenda based on profit, not public health. Dr. Walter Willett, veteran nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that calcium consumption via dairy-product intake "has become like a religious crusade," overshadowing true preventive measures such as physical exercise. To hear the dairy industry tell it, if you consume three glasses of milk daily, your bones will be stronger and you will be able to rest assured that osteoporosis is not in your future. Not so.
After examining all the available nutritional studies and evidence, Dr. John McDougall concludes: "The primary cause of osteoporosis is the high-protein diet most Americans consume today. As one leading researcher in this area said, 'eating a high-protein diet is like pouring acid rain on your bones.'" Remarkably enough, both clinical and population studies show that milk-drinkers tend to have more bone breaks than people who consume milk infrequently or not at all. For the dairy industry to lull unsuspecting women and children into complacency by telling them to be sure to drink more milk so that their bones will be strong may make good business sense, but it does the consumer a grave disservice.
Much of the world's population does not consume cow's milk, and yet most of the world does not experience the high rates of osteoporosis found in the West. In some Asian countries, for example, where consumption of dairy foods is low, fracture rates are far lower than they are in the United States and in Scandinavian countries, where consumption of dairy products is high.
While reading this, please remember that dairy products contain no complex carbohydrates or fiber but are packed with saturated fats and cholesterol and have been linked to heart disease, cancer, Crohn's disease, and a host of childhood illnesses from asthma to diabetes.
In one study, funded by the National Dairy Council, a group of postmenopausal women were given three 8-ounce glasses of skim milk every day for two years, and their bones were compared to those of a control group of women not given the milk. The dairy group consumed 1,400 mg of calcium per day and lost bone at twice the rate of the control group. According to the researchers, "this may have been due to the average 30 percent increase in protein intake during milk supplementation. ... The adverse effect of increases in protein intake on calcium balance has been reported from several laboratories, including our own" (they then cite 10 other studies). Says McDougall, "Needless to say, this finding did not reach the six o'clock news." This is one study that the dairy industry won't be repeating any time soon.
After looking at 34 published studies in 16 countries, researchers at Yale University found that the countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis—including the United States, Sweden, and Finland—were those in which people consumed the most meat, milk, and other animal foods. This study also showed that African-Americans, who consume, on average, more than 1,000 mg of calcium per day, are nine times more likely to experience hip fractures than are South African blacks, whose daily calcium intake is only about 196 mg.
Says McDougall, "On a nation-by-nation basis, people who consume the most calcium have the weakest bones and the highest rates of osteoporosis. ... Only in those places where calcium and protein are eaten in relatively high quantities does a deficiency of bone calcium exist, due to an excess of animal protein."
Harvard University's landmark Nurses Health Study, which followed 78,000 women over a 12-year period, found that the women who consumed the most calcium from dairy foods broke more bones than those who rarely drank milk. Summarizing this study, the Lunar Osteoporosis Update (November 1997) explained: "This increased risk of hip fracture was associated with dairy calcium. ... If this were any agent other than milk, which has been so aggressively marketed by dairy interests, it undoubtedly would be considered a major risk factor."
A National Institutes of Health study at the University of California, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2001), found that "women who ate most of their protein from animal sources had three times the rate of bone loss and 3.7 times the rate of hip fractures as women who ate most of their protein from vegetable sources." Even though the researchers adjusted "for everything we could think of that might otherwise explain the relationship ... it didn't change the results." The study's conclusion: "[A]n increase in vegetable protein intake and a decrease in animal protein intake may decrease bone loss and the risk of hip fracture."
Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2000) looked at all aspects of diet and bone health and found that high consumption of fruits and vegetables positively affected bone health and that dairy consumption did not. Such findings do not surprise nutritional researchers: The calcium absorption rate from milk is approximately 30 percent, while figures for broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard greens, turnip greens, kale, and some other green leafy vegetables range from 40 percent to 64 percent.
After reviewing studies on the link between protein intake and urinary calcium loss, dairy industry researcher Dr. Robert P. Heaney found that as consumption of protein increases, so does the amount of calcium lost in the urine (Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1993): "This effect has been documented in several different study designs for more than 70 years," he writes, adding, "The net effect is such that, if protein intake is doubled without changing intake of other nutrients, urinary calcium content increases by about 50 percent."
Researchers from the University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital discovered that consumption of dairy foods, especially early in life, is associated with increased risk of hip fractures in old age (American Journal of Epidemiology, 1994).
In Pediatrics (2000), published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University researchers showed that calcium intake, which ranged from 500 to 1,500 mg per day, had no lasting effect on the bone health of girls in their teens. "We (had) hypothesized that increased calcium intake would result in better adolescent bone gain. Needless to say, we were surprised to find our hypothesis refuted," one researcher explained.
Finally, a review of all research conducted since 1985, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2000), concluded: "If dairy food intakes confer bone health, one might expect this to have been apparent from the 57 outcomes, which included randomized, controlled trials and longitudinal cohort studies involving 645,000 person-years." The researchers go on to lament that "there have been few carefully designed studies of the effects of dairy foods on bone health" and then to conclude that "the body of scientific evidence appears inadequate to support a recommendation for daily intake of dairy foods to promote bone health in the general U.S. population."
What we do know is that osteoporosis rates decline markedly as body weight, exercise, and caloric intake rise. Corroborating the researchers' concerns about poorly controlled studies, only three studies have factored caloric intake into the analysis. Two of these studies found no correlation between dairy intake and osteoporosis, but the other found a positive link; that is, the more milk, the higher the fracture risk (Harvard Nurses Study, above). The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2000) study cited above argued that since it's clear that total caloric intake and body weight are positively associated with bone mass, such factors are "particularly important" in any study of osteoporosis and bone mass.
Is the dairy industry ignoring these factors by design in its clinical studies, perhaps because dairy-product consumers tend to be heavier and have a higher caloric intake than those consuming fewer (or no) dairy products? Despite the fact that so many dairy researchers ignore this information, most studies still show no correlation between cow's milk consumption and a lower risk for osteoporosis, and some actually indicate that milk is associated with an increased risk. Perhaps if these factors were taken into account, the studies indicating no link would instead show, in fact, that dairy-product intake is linked to an increased risk of osteoporosis, as does the Harvard School of Public Health study. That would bring clinical analysis in line with the population analysis, which clearly states that increased dairy-product consumption is linked to increased risk for osteoporosis.
Of course, calcium is an essential mineral. According to Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "Milk, in particular, is poor insurance against bone breaks ... the healthiest calcium sources are green leafy vegetables and legumes. ... You don't need to eat huge servings of vegetables or beans to get enough calcium, but do include both in your regular menu planning." To learn more or for a free vegetarian starter kit—which includes information on nondairy sources of calcium—visit DumpDairy.com.
So what can I do to maintain strong bones?
Although the evidence is strong that dairy-product consumption doesn't prevent osteoporosis, simply eliminating dairy products does not ensure strong bones.
Getting plenty of exercise. Studies have concluded that physical exercise is the key to building strong bones (it's more important than any other factor). For example, a study published in the British Medical Journal that followed 1,400 men and women over a 15-year period found that exercise may be the best protection against hip fractures and that "reduced intake of dietary calcium does not seem to be a risk factor." And Penn State University researchers found that bone density is significantly affected by how much exercise girls get during their teen years, when 40 to 50 percent of their skeletal mass is formed.
Getting enough vitamin D. If you don't spend any time in the sun (about 15 minutes on the face and arms each day is enough), be sure to take a supplement or eat fortified foods.
Eliminating animal protein. For a variety of reasons, animal protein causes severe bone deterioration.
Limiting salt intake. Sodium leaches calcium out of the bones.
Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. They contain vitamin C, which is essential for building collagen, the underlying bonematrix.


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package org.keyboardplaying.mapper.parser;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import org.keyboardplaying.mapper.annotation.Temporal.TemporalType;

/**
 * {@link TemporalParserTest} implementation for {@link DateParser} for datetimes.
 *
 * @author Cyrille Chopelet (https://keyboardplaying.org)
 */
public class DateTimeParserTest extends TemporalParserTest<Date> {

    /**
     * Creates a new instance.
     */
    public DateTimeParserTest() {
        super(makeParser(), makeExpected(), true);
    }

    private static DateParser makeParser() {
        DateParser parser = new DateParser();
        parser.setFormat(TemporalType.DATETIME.getFormat());
        return parser;
    }

    private static Date makeExpected() {
        Calendar dateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        dateTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, 1985);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.OCTOBER);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 24);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 21);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 20);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.SECOND, 42);
        dateTime.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

        return dateTime.getTime();
    }
}

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I am researching IPC mechanisms for Android and I was wondering if there was a great resource that compares all the possible IPC mechanisms. I am interested in primarily three areas: performance, simplicity (whether it can be accessed from Java and native code) and security.
Here are the ones I've found for Android.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-platform/-/qF2gZcb0kv0J.
One of the best resources is the source code. Barring that, I've found these sites pretty useful.
LWN has a good article on linux IPC mechanisms, including android's binder.
> LWN has a good article on linux IPC mechanisms, including android's binder.
>> be accessed from Java and native code) and security.
>> Here are the ones I've found for Android.


Then you can be astounded to learn how complicated spending fees are to get a U.Ssident living abroad being an American citizen was overwhelming in case you imagined filing a tax return each year. All-American people have to pay their taxes, regardless of whether they / and are currently existing or operating away from country. There are lots of conditions inside the U.S. tax rule to generate spending fees from across the globe somewhat more easy, but the procedure for determining your duty liability can be time intensive and puzzling even to get an experienced preparer. The IRS Still Wants your Money You may not be unsurprised to find out that even through the country may be moved out of by you, and function abroad, you're nevertheless needed to pay taxes. Every year you'll should record a tax-return declaring your worldwide income, even although you have paid fees around the income in the country you're living in. This relates to both received income (such as wages or self employment income) and unearned income (for example capital results, curiosity and dividends, etc). Earned Income Exclusion While living abroad for more than a year, for those who have been generating money, then you can qualify for the overseas earned income and foreign housing exclusions and the overseas property discount. It would let you banish up 400 of international revenue for your 2009 year, to $91.
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The requirements rely on which nation you are moving into, how many nights you have been living there, as well as your global revenue. This credit may be specially advantageous to taxpayers who might be subject to double-taxation (those who have to pay for taxes to both the U.Sernment as well as their regional tax specialist). You should use the overseas income exclusion type (IRS Form 2555) to state this discount, but make sure to speak with a tax professional specializing in overseas revenue before sending-off your return. International Tax Treaties Luckily, the United States has created tax agreements with many foreign countries to generate spending fees less complicated for many Americans residing abroad. These agreements allow qualifying taxpayers to cover a diminished tax rate. Some are also permitted to be exempt from canceling unusual income. Nevertheless, do not get too excited. Not every international state has produced an agreement with all the government, thus be sure to check-out Publication 901, before starting benefiting from agreement associated tax benefits, and talk to a qualified specialist.
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Who's Afraid of a Public School? Public Perceptions of Education in Australia
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06 Mar, 2014 Who's Afraid of a Public School? Public Perceptions of Education in Australia
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By Verity Firth and Rebecca Huntley
Children's education has become the new topic du jour in Australia, nudging out house prices as a conversation piece at many a dinner party and BBQ across the nation. In the wake of the Gonski Report into school funding and the previous Labor government's National Plan for School improvement, the public discussion about the quality of Australian schooling is about to claim more of the spotlight. At the heart of all of this is the divide between public and private systems in this country, a sensitive issue for our politicians and an emotive and confusing issue for voters.
It is clear from research done by Ipsos, for this report and elsewhere, that Australians are in an ongoing, as yet unresolved, debate about the value of private versus public education. While the trend is definitively towards greater investment in private education, Australians remain ambivalent about whether private education is in fact better quality, is worth the money and whether going to a private school is a better foundation for career success. What is clear from the qualitative research is that even among Australians who live in areas where there are excellent public schools, there is a question mark over some parts of the public system not just in terms of standards of teaching but in relation to their social environments and their ability to cater to the needs of all children. There seem to be a mixture of emotional and logical drivers behind this anxiety about the quality of public schooling.
This paper aims to do two things. First, it will measure and explore (through both qualitative and quantitative research) the attitudes of Australians towards the relative merits of public versus private education. This section of the paper is authored by Rebecca Huntley, the director of the Mind and Mood Report, Australia's longest running social trends study. Second, it will evaluate those findings according to the established literature and data available about actual strengths and weaknesses of the two different systems. This section of the paper is authored by Verity Firth, former Minister of Education in New South Wales and now Chief Executive of The Public Education Foundation. Both authors then combine forces to make some conclusions about public perception of education in Australia and what this means for public policy, particularly for those working within in and around public school communities.
Download the report here: Who's Afraid of a Public School?
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Ages 4 through 6 with adult. Your kids will get messy and have fun learning about Gyotaku. They will create fish prints on textiles using flounder or sea stars.
Ages 8 to 12. Aboard a traditional NC wooden work boat and in the company of Captain Bert Felton, kids will bird watch off Battery Island, conduct scientific experiments and learn the history of the Cape Fear river.
Ages 7 through 11. the kids will learn how to create fish prints using real and faux fish on paper and fabric. They will even decorate their own T-shirts.
Ages 4 through 6 with adult. You will take a walk along the Cape Fear River carrying your bucket for storing found treasures while learning about the history and natural environment of the region. There will be a story time after the walk and a time for identifying your treasures.
Ages 7 through 11. Kids will meet costumed Colonial characters of the Lower Cape Fear while candle dipping, creating flags and learning about every day activities of Colonial kids.
Ages 4 through 6 with adult. Kids will hear a pirate's tale, make a pirate flag and walk the plank!
Ages 6 through 12. Guest instructor, Donna Micheaux, will talk about the life and life cycle of sea turtles and how you can help to protect the babies.
Ages 6 through 10. The kids will learn about royalty and villains of the sea in mythology and literature, then create their own story of a water sprite and make a tissue mosaic.
Ages 7 through 11. Kids will dig for artifacts at a mock site and learn how archaeologists interpret history through found objects. They will meet real archaeologists and see artifacts from different historical time periods as well as learn subcategories of archeology.
At this festival you can participate in events or enjoy fun for the whole family.
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Brunswick Air offers Fun Flights aboard a Cessna 172 for scenic tours from Bald Head Island to Lockwood Folly. Now you can get a birds eye view of the area beaches where you play.
Why not ride a dragonfly in the sky? You can design your own scenic tour or take one of theirs.
On these scenic tours you get to feel the wind on your face and you can even customize a sunset flight.


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La provincia de Yauyos es una de las nueve que conforman el departamento de Lima en el Perú. Se encuentra en la circunscripción del Gobierno Regional de Lima-Provincias.

Ubicada en el sureste del departamento de Lima, limita por el Norte con la provincia de Huarochirí; por el Este con el departamento de Junín y el departamento de Huancavelica; por el Sur con el departamento de Ica; y, por el Oeste con la provincia de Cañete.

Dentro de la división eclesiástica de la Iglesia Católica del Perú, pertenece a la Prelatura de Yauyos

Historia
La provincia de Yauyos se crea por Decreto del Generalísimo José de San Martín, el 4 de agosto de 1821, como parte del departamento de Lima. Sus primeros nueve distritos fueron creados en la Época de la Independencia en 1825 durante la Administración de Simón Bolívar. Estos nueve distritos son: Yauyos, Huañec, Laraos, Ayavirí, Omas, Tauripampa, Pampas (hoy Colonia), Víñac y Chupamarca. En 1898 Huangáscar que era de Castrovirreyna viene a Yauyos por permuta con Chupamarca. Los restantes 24 distritos fueron creados en la Época Republicana desprendiéndose de los primeros 9 distritos, hasta completarse los 33 distritos que actualmente tenemos.

Época preincaica
Los pobladores yauyinos en los primeros periodos vivieron en cavernas formando agrupaciones de familias. Las principales cavernas encontradas son: Cuchimachay en Tanta, Topunte en Huáñec, Quilcasca en Laraos y Shocoparara en Huancaya.

Pasados miles de años se forma la Cultura primaria Yauyos como fusión de la cultura Kauki y Aimara.

En el periodo de los Reinos Regionales, los Yauyos se agrupan en confederación de tribus encabezados por cuatro pueblos: Ñaupahuasi, Ampahuasi, Vichuca y Kariachi a los que se les denominó el Hatun Yauyos y ellos conquistaron nuevas tierras, hasta formarse la provincia de los Yauyos. Dice el primer corregidor Diego Dávila Briceño:

"Está esta provincia de Yauyos partida en dos partes, el ANAN YAUYOS y LORIN YAUYOS: Anan Yauyos llaman a los que están más a la parte Sur (Yauyos actual) y Lorin Yauyos los que están hacia la parte Norte" (Huarochirí actual); gobernado por el curaca de los Yauyos que residía en Ñaupahuasi. Su lengua fue el kauki hoy llamada jaqaro.

Época incaica
Se inicia al ser conquistado por los incas mediante una alianza alrededor del año 1450, encabezada por el príncipe Túpac Yupanqui hijo del inca Pachacútec.

Por Yauyos, emprenden los incas la conquista del Gran Chimú y luego  del Reyno Huarco (Cañete).

Por el territorio yauyino pasaban dos caminos incas para venir del Cuzco a la Costa. El primer y principal camino era procedente de Jauja, pastales de Cochas (Yauyos), Huarochirí y Pachacámac.

Los Yauyos colaboraron con los emperadores incas prestando servicios de mitimaes en la tierra de los huancas, donde formaron las poblaciones de Yauyos y Muquiyauyo.

Época de la conquista
Francisco Pizarro desde Jauja, solicita apoyo y alianza a los Yauyos, pero respondieron negativamente, entonces decide conquistarlo por la fuerza despachando un batallón de jinetes al mando de Hernando de Soto y Diego de Agüero en 1534 derrotando al ejército yauyino, siendo así conquistados.

En la guerra de la Reconquista encabezada por Manco Inca, los Yauyos participaron en las batallas de cerco a Lima. Luego de ellas, Pizarro dispone que en los Yauyos se establezcan 5 repartimientos: Mancos y Laraos, Hatun Yauyos, Huarochirí, Mama y Chacalla; los dos primeros en el HANAN YAUYOS o actual provincia de Yauyos y los tres restantes en el HURIN YAUYOS o actual provincia de Huarochirí.

En la guerra civil entre los conquistadores, sacaron gente yauyina para sus tropas, por ser gente inclinada a la guerra según narra su primer corregidor.

Época del virreinato
En 1571 se inicia la fundación de los primeros pueblos actuales, como "reducción de indios". El primero en fundarse fue la ciudad de Yauyos, dice al respecto su fundador Diego Dávila de Briceño:

"…aunque estos Yauyos era poca gente y estaban poblados en cuatro pueblezuelos, que yo reduje en uno que se llama Santo Domingo de Atun Yauyo. Serán hasta trescientos y cincuenta indios tributarios. Y por estos, como dicho es, tiene toda esta provincia nombre de Yauyos".

A continuación, fundaron pueblos en los 5 repartimiento ya dichos, que de más de 200  que encontraron los españoles, lo redujeron a 39 fundando en sitios más bajos; de los que 22 fueron fundados en el Hanan Yauyos o actual provincia de Yauyos y 17 en el Hurin Yauyos o actual provincia de Huarochirí, conformándose el Corregimiento de los Yauyos. Por esos años existía en los Yauyos un total de 10 000 indios tributarios o personas entre 18 y 50 años de dad, que pagaban el tributo de indígena. Poco después, Huarochirí se separa de Yauyos para formar un nuevo corregimiento.

En 1588 Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, visita los pueblos de la provincia de Yauyos y el 20 de septiembre realiza el V Sínodo Diocesano Limense en Huáñec. En 1602 regresa Santo Toribio para realizar su segunda visita pastoral, dejando constancia que había en Yauyos 15 377 habitantes y las personas en edad de tributar pagaban 2210 pesos.

Según el cuadro tributario de 1754, Yauyos era una de las 15 provincias del Arzobispado de Lima con 6833 habitantes y sus pobladores en edad de tributar pagaban 3185 pesos, habiendo 275 personas reservadas o exoneradas, 3678 mujeres, 1535 muchachos, 10 caciques y 7 sacerdotes.

En 1784 a consecuencia de la revolución de Túpac Amaru II, en el Perú se implanta el régimen de las intendencias, y Yauyos pertenece a la intendencia de Lima y es denominado Partido de Yauyos a cargo de un subdelegado español.

Época de la emancipación o independencia
Después del desembarco de San Martín en Paracas en septiembre de 1820 y luego del recorrido de Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales por la sierra central; la población yauyina organiza sus guerrillas, encabezadas por Juan Evangelista Vivas. En mayo de 1821 los yauyinos deponen a las autoridades españolas de Yauyos y, nombran alcalde patriota a Romualdo Elguera y gobernador a José Guillermo Cayro. Luego con las guerrillas de Huarochirí y Canta, asedian la capital  -Lima-, para que salga el virrey e ingrese el general José de San Martín, que lo hace el 10 de julio. Al evacuar La Serna, por Yauyos a Jauja, los yauyinos le presentaron sucesivas batallas, entre ellas la Batalla de Pilas el 16 de julio donde el ejército colonial es derrotado. El sábado 28 de julio de 1821 San Martín proclama la Independencia del Perú; ese mismo día el virrey José de la Serna y sus tropas ingresan al pueblo de Carania y la saquean, y al no encontrar alimentos terminan por incendiarla; los pobladores la habían abandonado para que los realistas no se aprovisionen de víveres. El 30 y 31 de julio se da la Batalla de Puente Llapay.

CREACIÓN DE LA PROVINCIA DE YAUYOS:

El 4 de agosto de 1821 el Generalísimo José de San Martín crea la provincia de Yauyos, el dispositivo dice (extracto):

"Decreto Supremo

1º. Los Partidos del Cercado de la Capital, Yauyos, Cañete, Ica y el Gobierno de Huarochirí, formarán uno de los Departamentos Libres del Perú, bajo la denominación de Departamento de la Capital".

La provincia continuaba conformada por doctrinas o parroquias.

El 1 de octubre de 1821 San Martín otorga la primera medalla a las guerrillas de Yauyos con las inscripciones:

"EL VALOR ES MI DIVISA" Y

"A LAS PARTIDAS DE GUERRILLAS".

Los pueblos de Yauyos empiezan a jurar su independencia: el 18 de noviembre de 1821 lo hacen San Gerónimo de Omas y el pueblo de Allauca; y el 20 de noviembre Atun Yauyos, Pampas y Tauripampa.

El 24 de noviembre de 1821 San Martín otorga la segunda medalla a los yauyinos con la inscripción:

"A LOS CONSTANTES PATRIOTAS DE YAUYOS".

El 21 de febrero de 1822 el párroco de Huáñec exhorta a los pobladores a que todos luchen por la independencia, el 25 de febrero de 1822 los párrocos de Ayavirí y Laraos les hace la exhortación; y el 26 de febrero de 1822 Laraos jura su independencia.

A fines de 1822, de Omas y Viscas parten ciudadanos yauyinos para integrar el Primer Ejército Peruano denominado "Legión Peruana de la Guardia", el primer grupo fue conducido por el capitán Francisco Vidal (más tarde presidente de la República) y el segundo por el capitán del Ejército Libertador don José Manuel Abal. En las batallas de Junín y Ayacucho, los yauyinos participaron en el Ejército Unido Libertador integrando los escuadrones  vencedores.

CREACIÓN DE LOS PRIMEROS DISTRITOS: En 1825, durante la administración de Simón Bolívar, se crean los 9 primeros distritos de la provincia: Yauyos, Huáñec, Laraos, Omas, Ayavirí, Tauripampa, Pampas (hoy llamado Colonia), Víñac y Chupamarca, dando cumplimiento a la Constitución de 1823 que disponía que el Perú se dividirá en distritos. Hasta 1825 los futuros distritos eran denominados doctrinas o parroquias.

Época de la república
El poblador yauyino, se dedicaba a la ganadería y agricultura arrasadas por la guerra de la independencia.

Por ley de 2 de enero de 1857 se crean las primeras municipalidades mediante elecciones en las 9 capitales de distritos, y en los pueblos con más de 1000 habitantes; en la provincia de Yauyos y en todo el Perú,

En 1861, parte de la hacienda de Cochas -que hoy conforma la Reserva Paisajística Nor Yauyos Cochas-, que pertenecían al distrito de Huáñec, pasa a formar parte del distrito de Yauli, del departamento de Junín.

En 1862 Antonio Raimondi recorre la provincia de Yauyos, haciendo estudio de su potencial natural.

En el censo de 1876 la provincia arroja una población de 15 075 habitantes, de lo que 7828 eran hombres y 7447 eran mujeres, contando con 9 distritos.

En la guerra con Chile, la provincia mediante sus pobladores, participa en las batallas libradas en Lima y luego en la Campaña de la Breña con Andrés A. Cáceres.

En 1866 se decreta que el distrito de Huangáscar de Huancavelica, pase a Yauyos y el distrito de Chupamarca de Yauyos pase a Huancavelica, y se ratifica por ley de 1898.

En 1924 el pueblo de Pócoto y todo su territorio del distrito de Tauripampa, pasan a formar parte del distrito de Imperial de la provincia de Cañete.

En 1940 el presidente Manuel Prado visita la capital de la provincia al inaugurar la carretera Cañete-Yauyos. Y según el censo de ese año la provincia contaba con 29 887 habitantes, de los cuales 13 427 era población urbana y 16 460 población rural, distribuidos en 20 distritos.

De acuerdo al censo de 1961 la provincia de Yauyos tenía 37 023 habitantes, contando con 18 031 hombres y 18 992 mujeres, con 29 distritos.

El presidente ingeniero Alberto Fujimori y luego el presidente Pedro Pablo Kuczynski visitaron la provincia de Yauyos conociendo el tramo del río Cañete.

El 14 de junio del 2022 el presidente profesor Pedro Castillo realizó el XV Consejo de Ministros Descentralizado en la ciudad de Yauyos.

Actualmente la provincia de Yauyos tiene 33 distritos.

División administrativa
La provincia tiene una extensión de 6901,58 kilómetros cuadrados y está dividida en treinta y tres distritos:

Población
Según el censo del 2007, la provincia tiene una población de 27 501 habitantes.

Capital
La capital de esta provincia es la ciudad de Yauyos, que está ubicada en el Distrito de Yauyos a 2887 m s.n.m. y tiene 637 viviendas. . La ciudad de Yauyos, antes fue pueblo y elevada a la categoría de villa, por ley de 3 de octubre de1836 firmada por el Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz "…teniendo en consideración los antiguos servicios prestados a la causa de la independencia…". Esta villa fue elevada a la categoría de ciudad por ley Regional No. 490 de 29 de agosto de 1921 firmada por el presidente Augusto B. Leguía.

Autoridades

Regionales
 Consejeros regionales
 2019 - 2022
 Jesús Antonio Quispe Galván (Fuerza Popular)
 Juan Rosalino Reyes Ysla (Movimiento Regional Unidad Cívica Lima)

Municipales

 2019 - 2022
 Alcalde: Elva Filomena Dionisio Inga.
 2015 - 2018
 Alcalde: Diomides Alfonso Dionisio Inga, Movimiento Patria Joven (PJ).
 Regidores: Juan Pablo Quispe Rodríguez (PJ), Francisco Javier Abarca Ramos (PJ), Nilton Walter Ascencio Peña (PJ), Sergio Vicente Reyes Ramos (PJ), Ada Jessica Farfán Fernández (PJ), Rogelio Edito Quispe Soriano (Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional), Antonio Gómez Quispe (Fuerza Regional).
 2011-2014
 Alcalde: Diomides Alfonso Dionisio Inga, Movimiento Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR).
 Regidores: Francisco Javier Abarca Ramos (CDR), José Son Severo Goicochea Alvarado (Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional), Arcángela Betty Fernández Romero (CDR), Sofía Georgina Rodríguez Aguado (CDR), Frank Elio Ponce Reyes (CDR), Josías Sergio Luciani Mateo (Patria Joven), Froilán R. Trinidad Ramos (Partido Aprista Peruano).

Policiales
 Comisaría de Yauyos
 Comisario: Mayor PNP Abelardo Sandoval.

Religiosas
 Prelatura de Yauyos
 Obispo Prelado: Mons. Ricardo García García.
 Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
 Párroco: Pbro. Artemio Quispe Huamán.
 Vicario parroquial: Pbro. José Carpio Urquizo.

Educación

Instituciones educativas
 I.E.

Festividades
La fiesta patronal y fundación de Yauyos se lleva a cada 4 de agosto en la capital del mismo nombre y convoca a gran cantidad de gente.

Asimismo, en el mismo mes también se realiza la festividad en honor a Santa Rosa de Lima.

Los carnavales de febrero también tienen gran convocatoria de gente.

Turismo
El geógrafo Daniel López Mazzotti en su libro "A mochila a Perú" describe como atractivos un molino de piedra actualmente en desuso, una caída de agua a la salida del pueblo, un mirador en el cerro y las ruinas de Ñaupihuasi, todo esto en la ciudad de Yauyos.

En el mismo libro el autor menciona algunos lugares por visitar en la Reserva paisajística Nor Yauyos-Cochas:
 Cascadas y lagunas de Huancaya y Vilca.
 Lagunas de Piticocha, Mullucocha y Paucarcocha, en Tanta
 Sitios arqueológicos:
 Huamanmarca en Carania
 Huaquis en Miraflores
 Vinchos y Andas en Canchayllo
 Andenerías de Laraos, Carania y Vitis, donde se puede observar cuatro tipos diferentes de andenes.
 Pinturas rupestres de Cuchimachay en Tanta y Quilcasca en Laraos.

Galería

Bibliografía

Villar Córdova, Pedro E.- "Las Culturas Pre-Hispánicas del departamento de Lima", 1955.
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.- "Comentarios Reales de los Incas", Ed. 1973.
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada.- "Relaciones geográficas de Indias Perú", Descripción y relación de la provincia de los Yauyos, Anan Yauyos y Lorin Yauyos, hecha por el corregidor Diego Dávila Briceño de 16 de enero de 1586.- Ed. 1965.
Archivo Arzobispal de Lima.
Archivo General de la Nación.
"Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima Independiente julio 1821-diciembre 1822".- Ed. 1950.
Comisión Nacional del Sesquicentenario de la Independencia del Perú.- "Colección Documental de la Independencia del Perú, La Acción Patriótica del Pueblo en la Emancipación, Guerrillas y Montoneras".- 1971.
Tarazona, Justino.- "Demarcación Política del Perú",  Recopilación de leyes y decretos de 1821 a 1946, Ed. 1946.
Suyo Rivera, Dante.- "Historia de la provincia de Yauyos".- Ed. Digital 2019. ISBN: 978-612-00-3508-5.

Referencias

Véase también
 Regionalización del Perú
 Organización territorial del Perú

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial de la Municipalidad Provincial de Yauyos
 INEI Perú

Yauyos


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"Mid90s" is a cinematic ode to an era where teens smoked Marlboros on street corners, worshipped Michael Jordan like a god and found solace in skateboarding late into the night. As Jonah Hill's directorial debut, one can only assume that "Mid90s" mirrors his childhood and is a portrait of a decade that's looked back on with great nostalgia by a bunch of 30-somethings who wish more than anything that skating was still all the rage today.
It isn't enough for me.
The movie follows 13-year-old Stevie — played by Sunny Suljic — as he discovers skating and uses it as a means of escaping a more-than-troubling home life. Stevie is meant to represent the typical adolescent. He rejects any and all authority, is just starting to like girls, and is desperately searching for a place to belong. Oh, and his older brother physically beats him on a regular basis.
That's one of my main issues with the film: I just don't believe anything about Stevie's circumstances. I don't believe that Child Protective Services wouldn't be called on Stevie's brother, Ian (a poorly-written character played by the otherwise talented Lucas Hedges). I don't believe that a troop of high schoolers would so quickly allow a 13-year-old into their ranks. I don't believe that Stevie's mom wouldn't do more than just scold him when he comes home with a cracked skull, obtained from falling off a roof while attempting a dangerous skating trick.
The film's worst offense, though, is that it fails to meaningfully develop its characters or really develop any semblance of a plot. The movie tries to shoehorn some drama in during its final 15 minutes or so, but at that point, the audience has no motivation to invest emotionally in what's happening. As the credits rolled, I couldn't help but think that the whole thing felt empty. It was a little too apathetic toward its characters while being a little too self-indulgent in its setting and its many references to '90s culture.
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Maybe. But they might want to give the people more time to work before they announce anything. Plus, both Lunars and Hunter need to be approved by White Wolf, which can take a few weeks and might produce other changes before starting the loop again.
I'm not saying they definitely won't announce it tomorrow, but it's just as likely that they'll wait until they're definitely sure they can be ready in time for the KS to announce it.
I'd kind of like them to finish some of the Dragon Blooded and Realm stuff before they start providing Lunars.
Pushing back preparation for the Lunars Kickstarter wouldn't speed up the release of Dragon-Blooded or The Realm.
You misunderstand me. Those books could take another three years to come out, and I would still want it to be in a particular order with a certain space of time between them. It's a personal thing.
Based on prior history, it means Lunars are next - they've got the final KS art in, and are now preparing the Kickstarter. Should be sometime in the next few weeks.
Fair enough if that's the case, but my brain has been in the hype cycle for lunars since the core dropped. So I can't wait. I was somewhat surprised to see no new Kickstarter announced with the newest MMN.
Personally, while extra DB stuff is nice, basic Lunars stuff would simply be more useful. I can run a DB game now, I can't run a Lunars game.
So I'd rather have Lunars first, then the extra DB stuff, then Exigents, then the extra Lunar stuff, etc.
Honestly, I got the DB KS text nearly a year ago. The hype cycle on DB has wound down for me.
Incidentally, I assumed they'd want to get the Lunars KS released by March at the latest, because I think they'll want to be able to say that the Lunars KS was released within a year of the DB KS. And that looks like it'll happen. Which is great!
This makes me think of a weird kind of layering in Exalted consumers. If you took part in the Kickstarter, you've had Dragon Blooded for about a year, and are ready for Lunars. If you didn't, you're still waiting on that release by the time all of the hype and attention shifts to Lunars, and have only had little releases of enemies to tide you over in the meantime. It feels a bit fragmentary.
Oh yeah. It seems really weird to me that the Dragonblood book still isn't technically out, when my friends have been playing a 3rd ed Dragonblood game for a year, I play a mixed game with a Dragonblood member, and I've been considering whether to play a DB after this arc ends and I retire my Solar for, what, about 8 months?
I got a lift from an old friend the other day, whose gaming group had recently tried Exalted 3rd ed, and the players liked it but the ST got frustrated with just having the Core antagonists, which didn't at all challenge four combat-orientated Solars, and gave up. I guess he couldn't go to Drivethru and see the Dragonblood book, because it's not actually out. And while I like the monthly releases (because, frankly, I buy the ones I like the look of and not the boring ones or ones similar to something I could easily make myself), someone who doesn't pay attention to Exalted so much would probably miss them.
I mean, I'm not sure there's any good alternative (unless you could go back in time to when funding models for rpgs were different). But it still does maybe feel a bit weird.
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I mean, I'm not sure there's any good alternative (unless you could go back in time to when funding models for rpgs were different).
I want to analyse this line a bit, but first I'd want to be sure exactly what you mean by it.
Well, basically most RPGs, other than DnD (ie the one with the most money), get Kickstarted now. I assume this is because of economic and advertising reasons.
When they do Kickstarters, I think they do far better when they promise to release the text as part of the KS. I assume that's why OP does that with most of their KSs now. People back because they want the text, but also people know that the text is done, so they're not going to have to wait years (my friend who invested like £100 in the Exalted Core KS was very annoyed that he had to wait years to get anything, but was mollified with Dragonblood because he knew the text was written and he'd get it straight away). I myself didn't back the Core, but backed the Dragonblood Kickstarter. And while I'm still waiting for my copy of Heirs and the Realm (I think that was on the backer tier? I don't remember), I got the text of Dragonblood pretty much straight away, so I'm happy, and will back Lunars.
But, if they a)do Kickstarters, and b)release the text as part of that Kickstarter, then you're going to get this disconnect in the development cycle between backers and non-backers (and, frankly, that's a tool to get people to back; a kind of early-access pass).
Saying that, I believe it's possible to get the stuff already released on the Kickstart page by backing now, even though the KS finished? I think maybe someone said that? Not sure.
But it's easy to miss if you didn't know about it.
So, maybe there's some way to make that better known? Advertising, links on the Onyx Path shop? Something on Drivethru would be most useful.


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