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I recently came across the papers by the groups of Fürstner at the Max-Planck Institute (1) and Postema at Eisai (2) outlining their efforts toward the ipomoeassin family of natural products. What struck me is not that they both used RCM to make a macrocycle, but that both groups targeted the same bond within the macrocycle. Considering all those methylenes in that part of the molecule, why would that be? The answer is in either the supporting information (1) or the footnotes (2), and comes down to the necessary chiral secondary alcohol fragment.
(1) Fürstner, A.; Nagano, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 1906-1907.
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Phantom Epistemologies
Posted by John McCreery on March 14, 2014 at 4:22am in The OAC Forum
Once in a great while, while reading anthropology, I stumble across an idea that seems both fresh and provocative — very likely to shake up my thinking in productive ways. Kristin's Peterson's "phantom epistemologies" is just such an idea. I offer it here in the form of a quote from the book in which I found it, with no further comment, in the hope of seeing what others make of it.
In James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus (2009) Fieldwork is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 37-51.
I propose the idea of "phantom epistemologies." Specifically, I refer to empirical elusiveness, unspoken common sense, a politics of (in)commensurability, and how the presence of any "ghost" becomes viewable to those who believe—these are the ethnographic entryways into what is knowable. Yet what is knowable will often lie in the realm of uncertainty; that is, the very thing of empiricism cannot be absolutely defined in the presence of phantoms and unknowable possibility. My thinking is partly informed by "shadows" theorized by Carolyn Nordstrom and James Ferguson. Both refer to "shadow" political economies that are liminal, hidden, or simply unaccounted for. James Ferguson writes:
A shadow is not only a dim or empty likeness. It also implies a bond and a relationship. A shadow, after all, is not a copy by an attached twin—a shadow is what sticks with you. Likeness here implies not only resemblance but also a connection, a proximity, an equivalent, even an identity. A shadow, in this sense, is not simply a negative space, a space of absence; it is a likeness, an inseparable other-who-is-also-oneself to whom one is bound. (2006: 17)
The desire here is directed toward recognition, not one marked by an empiricism that provides a finiteness or certainty of something, but a recognition of some hidden essence, implication connection—one that sits, for a moment, underneath or beside our apprehension. While the shadow waits to become known in some concrete form, a phantom epistemology does not count on revelation. Rather than dismissing our quandaries of "not having all the data" that may not be gotten, a phantom can inhabit the data in ways that do not always desire the fullest of answers—one that allows the unknowable to remain as powerful an analytic figure as the know. That is, the phantom—the stuff of familiarity, yet also the stuff of the unknowable—is the ethnographic object of inquiry, rather than being some shadow whose materializing requires further patience and digging. Finding one's way through (or even detecting at all) the presence of such ghosts is difficult, as the latter occur at different levels of scale, not only in fieldwork but at the level of interpretive circulation.
Examples include assumptions used to interpret statistics whose compilation itself is fraught with uncertainty and the likelihood of political interference, e.g., in relation to capital flight and the AIDS epidemic.
Permalink Reply by Neil Turner on April 22, 2014 at 4:37am
After several years of ethnographic research here in Brazil, I have just recently be able to penetrate into the deeper levels of this society's cultural underbelly. It was here that I discovered much of what you are alluding to in "Phantom Epistemologies." I was particularly impressed with the following passages:
It also implies a bond and a relationship…Likeness here implies not only resemblance but also a connection…
The desire here is directed toward recognition, not one marked by an empiricism that provides a finiteness or certainty of something, but a recognition of some hidden essence, implication connection—one that sits, for a moment, underneath or beside our apprehension. While the shadow waits to become known in some concrete form, a phantom epistemology does not count on revelation.
That is, the phantom—the stuff of familiarity, yet also the stuff of the unknowable—is the ethnographic object of inquiry, rather than being some shadow whose materializing requires further patience and digging.
These have surely defined and redefined human praxis much more than any kind of self-critical attention to efficient, reasonable, "best practice".
Now it occurs to me that assumptions need not be epistemological. They may also be ontological, assumptions about the world as opposed to how we know it.
How "everyone knows" becomes embedded in institutional practice is a classic problem for the sociology of knowledge.
And especially:
So "phantom epistemologies" can be seen as those assumptions for which we've lost a reason, though they continue to affect our behaviour, inevitably putting us in friction with an innovating world.
And this focus on "unknowableness" could make anthropologists more receptive to the effectivity of alienation in everyday life... While "taking our subjects seriously", we could also be more attentive to moments in which they have trouble taking themselves seriously, and rely on phantom epistemologies to guide them through a disjointed world.
Could it be that what symbolic activity does is impose order on chaotic situations, enabling actors to get on with whatever they need or want to do without being paralyzed by information overload?
In the introduction to the book that I have been working on, I make the following statement about an "unspoken order." The following is an excerpt:
This study analyzes Brazilian society with its stark contrasts and paradoxes. It attempts to reveal the fundamental modes of its culture - its forms of perception, its exchanges, techniques and the values established for its inhabitants. Its many different elements and forms are both greatly diversified and at the same time clustered and joined. Many studies have documented the enormous disparity in terms of economics and income but beneath the region of scientific or philosophical interpretations lie a domain more confused, more obscure and less easy to analyze. It is here that the culture of Brazil imperceptibly deviates from transparency and creates for itself forms and processes that belong to a certain unspoken order. This inquiry attempts to analyze that experience and to show its cultural elements and the modalities of this unspoken order, to examine cultural factors, not by arranging abstracted entities into unified patterns but by taking into account the specific cultural forms by means of which Brazilians communicate, perpetuate and develop their attitudes toward life.
I have found that these epistemologies actually do exist and take on a quality of "phantomness" because no one seems to know the origin, nature or method of these cultural assumptions/pratices. They do define and they do redefine and in many instances impose order in situations that exceed an individual's knowledge, education, or awarness. It should also be noted that this domain comes very dangerously close to the realm of spiritism, at least here in Brazil where Candoblé, Macumba Ritual and Jaré exist and is openly practiced. John alludes to a Chinese ritual of food and money that exemplifies the "no, no, you can't do that" but no one had an explanation why. And again, in his example of Nigerian oil being stolen and the only reference for that knowledge is that "everyone seems to have heard it from someone else."
This is, indeed, a very penetrating look into the depths of cultural awareness and practice.
Permalink Reply by John McCreery on April 22, 2014 at 8:16am
Neil, when does your book come out? I am eager to read it.
Permalink Reply by Jeremy Withers on May 4, 2014 at 12:33am
Hey guys, good to come back and find a ripe discussion. I'll dive in in response to John's pondering whether what "symbolic activity does is impose order on chaotic situations, enabling actors to get on with whatever they need or want to do without being paralyzed by information overload?" This seems a good question tying together concerns about both the 'truth', and role / function a lack of grounds for sureness plays in people's lives.
There's an interesting popular tendency to which this responds that would have us view knowledge as something one has more or less of, a discrete quantity like gigabytes - (the popular Homer Simpson line, "every time I learn something new, something old falls out of my head!") It's easy to see these as vast quantities of data, and so sometimes they do feel as if they exert a pressure through sheer mass / momentum. Betwixt and between these we feel the pull of non-formally articulated phantoms as the call to explain ourselves, a feeling I believe Derrida (and Paul!) calls standing before the Law. The idea, expressed so zealously by our contemporary pushers of psychoanalysis ala Lacan, is that doubt, anxiety, a sense of lack is the prime mover of subject formation. The inability to know what you are as an object to others moves you ceaselessly towards this dangling carrot - the bewilderingly named, "petit objet a". No doubt the societal demand to take a name, foster a cohesive identity amidst the flux, and interact as an individual self, can feel an audacious task now and then. Some know better than others the anxious energy manifest when chatting with strangers standing in line to order coffee, or showing who we are on a first date, etc.; some know better than others the self-conscious reflections of how we ought to have acted, aught to have been to be cool, to be ourself. Social anxiety is an infectious and continuous reminder that subjectivation is a creative and ongoing project, not the inertia of some fixed nature. But to imagine this anxiety is the prime mover behind all subjectivity, the dark matter that produces and defines our gravity, is to overextend the analysis of one of many emotional undercurrents pouring us into the real world. It's also to turn from the path of engaged social science to the fatalism of physical science. Social scientists should work hard to make sure the exceptional schizophrenias of Lacan's patients aren't the rule! Human nature is more of an open source discussion than a fixed directive, and removing the doubts people experience in making their own requires good translators. No doubt the will to meditation of this recurring tension between overdetermined, oppositional historical imaginaries is the driving force of human history, and of every "individual's" psychological growth, in whatever momentary direction. But to imagine this will is impassioned, executed, and legislated wholly in reaction to a nervous fear of the nothingness beyond comprehension is to make a universal tendency out of a historical moment (whether we call this the remnants of a hangover upon waking up from a three millennia binge on metaphysics, or the god shaped hole of those still stubbornly fetishizing secularity…)
Either-or, the way I see it, those geniuses who can refine and raise these tense over-determined massive feeling jumbles into simple, elegant wholes will determine history. Generalizing out these wider circles is the role of what Antonio Gramsci called intellectuals. An intellectual's ability to speak to the sensibilities not just of academic peers, but of vast swaths of those for whom these previously disparate materials were haunting, is what separates the 'traditional intellectual' from the 'organic intellectual'. And this latter, engaged, organic intellectual will be what the emergent socialist democratic circle will demand, should our nascent universal democratic society seek to collaboratively refine and raise itself out of this rotten, protective, individualist capitalist kernel.
This brings the conversation back to a point Jacob chose to sum the conversation with. "The question I am asking is why a pattern of symbolic activity should be so orderly when the underlying causal processes are so complicated?" My thoughts are that making social, political, economic knowledge a complicated, expert domain is often, like the maintenance of any elite dialect of distinction, a protective measure to uphold interest group status quo. Think of the opaque science of financial derivatives - a fancy codification for "we want to keep all of this money moving, and not just most of it!" Hierarchies, when not maintained by brute force, are done so by connecting themselves to an emic logical truth (divine will, mathematical necessity). Nothing upholds complacent confidence in these like keeping things seeming too complicated for the masses (or for most of the elites though they don't admit it: folk tale of the emperor's new clothes). But it is in the dream of a universal democratic society - towards which we've been stumbling for some centuries - that these logical certainties are supposedly collaboratively affirmed. And so the role of an engaged / organic intellectual considering the effectivities and compositions of phantoms assumptions, (whether manufactured to maintain or resist situations), might be to trace their development as part and parcel of wider political projects, be they those of empire builders or of egalitarian integration. In doing so these gut reactions might become more sensibly understood as expressions for and of particular visions of society, and critically interpreted as such.
Jacob, you ask in conclusion - "Why is it that interpretation in terms of meaning always feels so removed from time?" The potential / power of a mode of signification might be measured by its ability to become, to borrow a phrase from Badiou, the amplitude of the present. Gramsci would say the engaged intellectual's job is to translate meanings into destiny.
Permalink Reply by John McCreery on May 4, 2014 at 2:29am
Jeremy, your comments are so rich that I wish I could spend at least a whole day on them. Alas, the day has other commitments. So just a couple of quick remarks to see what you think.
Your mention of Lacan and "lack" reminds me of what I see as the most fundamental difference between our era and the ones that preceded it. Information used to be expensive. Huge amounts of labor were invested in conducting experiments, mounting exhibitions, burrowing in archives, and taking censuses to establish "facts" whose significance could then be debated. In some fields that is still true. If you are a particle physicist and want to establish the existence of the Higgs boson, the effort required to build the accelerator at CERN is immense. But for most of us involved in business, policy making, or the social and cultural sciences, information is cheap. Our problem isn't lack. Our problem is how to handle excess.
Consider what goes on in an ad agency creative process. Brainstorming produces a flood of ideas from people whose experience and professional skill sets have accumulated all sorts of diverse knowledge. But deadlines loom. Someone has to say, "Let's go with this one." Only then can the refinement and production that results in a successful presentation and, ultimately, the ad that appears begin.
Why is the pattern of symbolic activity so orderly? It isn't. Only the result makes it look that way.
Why is it that interpretation in terms of meaning always feels so removed from time? Because when action is needed, the creative flow has to stop, with the meaning on which the action is predicated frozen in time.
How does this sound to you?
Permalink Reply by Jacob Lee on May 4, 2014 at 6:26am
I think I see what you are getting at. Dirt, as described by Mary Douglas in Purity and Danger, is "matter out of place" which logically implies "a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order." For Douglas these thoughts motivate a theory of magic and ritual, of ideas about cleanliness and purity, and of punishing of transgressions, as "impos[ing] system on an inherently untidy experience." What is not completely clear to me (yet) is whether she means imposing order on the world or imposing order on our experience of the world, or both. It is true, that in imposing order on the world, we impose order on our perceptions, since we are perceiving then a more orderly world. By tidying my desk, I make my desk situation that much less untidy. Of course the tidying up is achieved relative to some sense or model of what is orderly. Some, may consider their desk to be untidy when a few papers are not filed in accordance to some elaborate organizational scheme; for others it is simply a matter of whether their keyboard still fits on the desk without spilling last week's coffee. But, the (external) world needn't be transformed for us to see that world differently. Likewise, the world does not necessarily need to be made any simpler for it to be perceived as simpler; for that we need only to view it through a simpler, lower resolution model; a person with a thermometer may see her environment as being some degree Celsius or another, one of many, but another person may see it as only either 'damned hot' or 'damned cold'. But seeing the world one way or another must factor in to how behavior transforms the world, and getting others to see the world as you do, or at least to believe that others see the world as you do, is one of the things that ritual seems to be capable of effecting, at least some of the time. The imposition of the Nazi salute must have induced the perception of their being more support for the Nazis than was actually the case, which might well have in turns increased their support, given how people tend to adopt behaviors and beliefs that are common among their peers.
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(and Paul!) calls standing before the Law. The idea, expressed so zealously by our contemporary pushers of psychoanalysis ala Lacan, is that doubt, anxiety, a sense of lack is the prime mover of subject formation. The inability to know what you are as an object to others moves you ceaselessly towards this dangling carrot - the bewilderingly named, "petit objet a". No doubt the societal demand to take a name, foster a cohesive identity amidst the flux, and interact as an individual self, can feel an audacious task now and then.
It is an interesting idea, none the less. But is it not possible for non-social animals to have a sense of self?
This brings the conversation back to a point Jacob chose to sum the conversation with. "The question I am asking is why a pattern of symbolic activity should be so orderly when the underlying causal processes are so complicated?" My thoughts are that making social, political, economic knowledge a complicated, expert domain is often, like the maintenance of any elite dialect of distinction, a protective measure to uphold interest group status quo....Nothing upholds complacent confidence in these like keeping things seeming too complicated for the masses (or for most of the elites though they don't admit it: folk tale of the emperor's new clothes).
Your response befuddles me. It does not answer my question and in a sort of vague way seems to suggest that my asking it was somehow questionable. I hope I am not being unfair in suggesting that if you think that making social knowledge a complicated expert domain is so problematic (and I concur, with some qualifications), then might you write more plainly? In any case, some things really really are complicated, and require complicated solutions that require domain expertise. Sometimes, because things are so complicated, and the tangle of dependencies so deep, that one is both uncertain why something became the way it is, or what the consequences of changing it would be; in such instances, it is usually much more advantageous to take those things as social facts, taken-for-granteds upon which you can build solutions to solve your problems (who knows why the data is structured that way, but it is, so my scripts are going to assume that they are, because not assuming that they are that way is going to make writing the scripts a lot lot lot harder). That's the basic reality of dealing with big complicated things. Its what I do every day. So even if experience dealing with a big complicated things makes you more valuable (and it does), it needn't be the case that the complicatedness is just some consequence of vested interests.
Jacob, Jeremy,
This debate within the debate to which Jacob has just replied both raises important issues and has me feeling like the proverbial Sufi judge, first turning to one party and saying, "Yes, yes," then turning to the other party and saying, "Yes, yes."
Yes, to Jacob, the world and the problems it poses can be very complicated — too complicated for common sense and conventional wisdom to solve. Yes, to Jeremy, one of those complicated problems is that experts can become blinded by their expertise and too full of themselves with the power and prestige attached to expert status.
The German sociologist Ulrich Beck has a lot to say about this issue in his book The Risk Society. Beck is not only a very fine sociologist; he is also a Green activist. In one of his most telling examples, he mentions scientists engaged by the German government to assess environmental damage, who ignore what local farmers tell them. Why? Because what the farmers have to say does not fit their experimental protocols. The result is "environment-friendly" policies that may do more harm than good.
Going back to what Jacob says about Mary Douglas. I do wish everyone who reads Purity and Danger would also read Natural Symbols. In the first book Douglas observes that taboos point to things out of place. Not fitting into ordinary categories, they come to be treated as either too dirty or too sacred for everyday consumption or use. In the second, she has realized that how strongly people feel about the boundaries that divide categories is a variable.
Thus, to use a classic example, menstrual blood, treated as a monstrous threat in one society, may be simply a nuisance in another. Or, when considering current common sense, creators of advertising and other examples of pop culture know that violating boundaries can produce a range of responses: a silly joke to one audience may be a thrilling horror to another or absolutely unacceptable to a third. Some may be so enraged that they will kill to preserve the boundary in question.
To borrow an expression from the test pilots turned astronauts in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, "pushing the envelope" too far can result in crash and burn. Returning to the issue at hand, determining how far is too far can be a complicated question that only expertise and carefully honed skill can answer—and, even then, not always correctly.
The village idiot may be a sage. He may also be simply an idiot. His possession or lack of power makes him neither one nor the other.
Permalink Reply by Jeremy Withers on May 15, 2014 at 5:57pm
I've been up in Northern British Columbia planting trees (where wifi is scarce) for a while so my responses are not so timely, excuse me. No doubt you're right, and I guess my response swept over that to make a more general point: often that complicatedness is manufactured (whether consciously or not) into aloof insular rhetoric of traditional intellectuals distant from the agents of social patterns on which they're commenting. I'm sorry to have floated off from the context of your point, which was to point out that a lot of stuff sounds complicated because it's actually really complicated! Computer code is a good example, a dialect that can change weekly. But we often find as we look back through the history of social theory (or any science) that what's being discussed now is far more complicate sand hard to explain than half a century ago. The dynamic and at times visceral debates over what a particular grand theory "means" become, with time, compacted into cleaner, simpler, undergrad friendly, debates; a book chapter, a lens - not a seething new universe of inquiry. I'm not suggesting that all expert domains are indulgent elitists playing holier than thou rhetorical games. I am suggesting that those intellectuals at the forefront of their field will be the ones who can articulate these complex debates into succinct, simple meanings, translating opposition into equivalence. (Not unlike John's maieutic approach, "yes yes", you're both right and here's how!) You're right to remind that "it needn't be the case that the complicatedness is just some consequence of vested interests." But I'll add to this that attention to how things are made to be simple (or maintained as complex) can be a useful insight into how knowledge progresses; whether open source geeks win the day for coding or not!
What might make this (by now) truism more useful to us, is to think about the ways knowledge production is organized, tracing how this effects the accessibility or 'plainness' of its rhetoric.Online forums, seminars, boardroom presentations, Q + A's with a visiting rockstar intellectual. My masters thesis considered how Occupy's consensus decision making work groups and general assemblies converted the scattered rhetorics of resistance of so many leftists, anarchists, angry joes, libertarians, into an accessible (perhaps at times overly accessible) language of resistance that seldom relied on vocabulary associated with Marxism or sounded particularly "ideological" to much of the public. This was surely a huge part of its momentary spectacular success. Consensus decision making as to the self-representation of the group (facilitated by a volunteer mediator (a facilitator)) led to many grievances between traditionally at odds leftists being aired out and equivalences identified and underlined. It's interesting to think that the IETF (task force for facilitating the cohesive development of the internet) organizes themselves with a very similar model and principles. I wish I had more time to go into all this but I've got to run. Hopefully this bridges our streams of thought a bit.
Permalink Reply by John McCreery on May 23, 2014 at 6:05am
Hopefully this bridges our streams of thought a bit.
It does, indeed. What you have discovered is something that I have noticed in other political and business situations. The art of the political lies in finding common ground, which frequently requires overlooking, deliberately or otherwise, possible conflicts. In her American Scholar article (now a book) "On Bourgoise Virture," economist Deirdre McCloskey observes that academics tend to behave like peasants, whose passion is protecting their fields, or aristocrats, who have an exaggerated sense of personal honor that must be defended to the death. For both compromise, the key bourgeoise virtue, is anathema. I often return to this thought as debates in forums like OAC bog down in Punch-and-Judy posturing. I am also reminded of what Freud called "the narcissism of small differences."

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You developed your own business because you wanted to be in control of your own destiny.
You wanted the freedom that comes from answering to no one but yourself.
And you wanted to make as much money as you could.
So, what happened along the way?
Did you look up one day and realize that you were more controlled by this than when you could up and leave at 5 o'clock?
Have you on more than one occasion thought that it might be easier to go back to a j.o.b?
Or have you run through several businesses, continually looking for the right one? Convinced that your run of bad luck will end with this next endeavor?
I know right where you are. I did not want to go back to a j.o.b. when my son went to school and I spent several years looking for the "right" business, plying my skills and talents to several, convinced that if I worked hard enough, one would be successful.
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Daniel Ellsberg testifies about the Pentagon Papers at a Senate subcommittee meeting on May 16, 1973. (AP)
How does the federal government celebrate the anniversary of one of the biggest leaks of all time? By declassifying the entire trove of documents.
Granted, it's unlikely that the government will make a habit of this, but at noon on Monday, the National Archives and Records Administration declassified all 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers. First leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, when the New York Times published a series of reports based on the papers on June 13 of that year, Americans learned the truth behind the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. The Times' articles triggered a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press and a series of legal battles with the Nixon administration that culminated in a Supreme Court victory for the Times.
So why now? The bulk of the Pentagon Papers has been available to readers for 40 years. The declassified documents will include every single word, reportedly including 11 secret words that the government had initially said would remain classified. We speak with the original source himself, Ellsberg, on the Pentagon Papers, past and present.
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Pagodas ready for pilgrimage season
By Cherry Thein, Myanmar Times & Business Reviews, Oct 13-19, 2008
Yangon, Myanmar -- A MYANMAR Buddhist goes to the pagoda not only to take refuge in the Buddha and his teachings, but also to spread goodwill and loving kindness to fellow beings who are on different planes of existence.
<< Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda in Mon State one of the most revered Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Myanmar.
Pic: Hein Latt Aung
Buddhists go to pagodas to perform deeds of merit, not merely for themselves, but in order to share with others. A visit to the pagoda entails education, recreation and the making of good deeds.
The pagoda is where children learn their religious lessons, teenagers recite songs and poems, lovers sing of the troth they plighted in its precincts, and the elderly reflect and seek solace in the contemplation of Buddha's teachings. Pagodas are an integral part of the life of Myanmar.
Everybody knows Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, not only the premier religious site in the city and the country, but also a major attraction for tourists from the rest of the country and from overseas. For Myanmar Buddhists, Shwedagon represents the infinite wisdom of the enlightened ones.
Now let's look at some of the many pagodas in the rest of the country.
Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock, one of the most revered Buddhist pilgrimage sites, is located in Mon State. It rests on the peak of the mountain, deep in the forest, amid 33 mountains and hills that have to be crossed in order to reach it. Despite this, it never fails to attract a steady stream of visitors.
Buddhists make a point of going on pilgrimage to Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda. Non-Buddhists love to wander around the surrounding peaks – Phoe Pyan Taung (where old people give up and turn back), Shwe Yin Sout (where the golden heart gets tired) and Shwe Yin Aye (where the golden heart is refreshed) in the green of the forest depths. It is said that three visits to Kyaikhtiyo will ensure a rich and fulfilling life. The annual pagoda season starts in October when the rains cease and people seek time to travel.
"Buddhists make a pilgrimage to Kyaikhtiyo especially in December, during school holidays. Elders go for their religious purposes and younger folk follow suit without knowing what great devotion is, but it is a kind of meritorious deed," U Win Myint , the manger of Shwe Oozi pilgrim tour agency.
He said Kyaikhtiyo is one of the most magnetic tourist sites in Myanmar, not only for the Buddhist devotees who pay much respect to the pagoda, but also for those who consider the trip a kind of recreation, rich in subtle excitements.
This is one of the most famous pagodas of upper Myanmar, where giant imprints of the Buddha's feet can be found. The left footprint is beside the Mone Creek, while the right is enshrined in a stupa on the hill above in Magwe township. The pagoda festival is held from February to April alongside Mone Creek and attracts many pilgrims from near and far.
"The pagoda is well-known for its background histories. The creek is one of the most compelling sites for pilgrims," U Win Myint said.
The celebrated Mahamuni Pagoda and the two huge snakes that guard Mandalay Hill and the surrounding pagodas are places guaranteed to attract pilgrims in significant numbers.
Bagan stands in the heart of the country, a living treasure trove of Buddhist architectural beauty. The 40-square-kilometre plain adjacent to the Ayeyarwady River features more than 2000 pagodas and temples dating back hundreds of years. Of all the pagodas standing in the arid plain, Ananda, Shwezigon, Sulamuni, Gubyaukgyi, Abeyadana and Nagayon stand out. The pagodas of Bagan have long and elaborate histories that the young guides at each pagoda are happy to relate.
About 50 kilometres to the east of Bagan, the extinct volcanic cone of Mount Popa rises to the height of about 740 metres above the surrounding plain, in a place famed for Myanmar's nat, or spirit. For Buddhists, nat loom large as semi-kin to humans in the cycle of birth and rebirth.
This pagoda is sheltered by the escarpment of three mountains in Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park, which is rich in natural resources. According to legend, the remains of the Venerable Ashin Mahar Kathapa, a renowned monk from the time of the Buddha, repose in the cave beneath the pagoda.
The pagoda's visiting season runs from December to April. Two festivals held at the pagoda are the Tabodwe htamane (a concoction of glutinous rice) festival and the Tabaung festival.
"Ten years ago, it was hard to find transportation to get to the pagoda. But because there was so much interest among pilgrims to go there, the transportation is now so improved that it has become a site for regular tourists as well," said U Win Myint.
Inle Lake is a 22-kilometer-long body of water nestled among green mountains occupied by the Intha people. The Intha are well known for their devotion to Phaung Daw U Pagoda.
Phaung Daw U is home to five Buddha images, four of which are taken on a tour of the 19 villages around the lake on a decorated barge during a 20-day festival held every year in October. The festivities also include entertaining leg-rowing races.
There are also several religious sites on the lake, including Nga Phe Chaung Monastery, which is more than 100 years old. This teak structure was once famous for its cats, trained by the monks to jump through hoops.


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Q: Labeling for Highchart Funnel Visualization I am trying to create a funnel visualization that would visualization the number of guests and also percent of prior visit for 3 categories of consumers: 1 Visit, 2 Visits, 3+ Visits.
Right now I have 2 labels for each category (sticking out to the right hand side) but I want 1 label for each category sticking out on the right hand side stating both the # of Guests and Percent of Prior Visit. I also want a box-shaped label for each block of the funnel so that when you hover over it it looks like:
[CATEGORY]

Percent of Prior Visit: [VALUE]

Guests: [VALUE]

Right now, the box-shaped label when I hover over the block just shows Percent of Prior visit. So I want the box to be fixed and the label to the right hand side to be just 1 per block. I hope this makes sense. How would I do something like this? Thanks in advance.
My code is at: https://jsfiddle.net/ug4rc6pn/150/

A: Using the style you tried with earlier makes this easier. That is, setting both value and percentage in the same series, like this:
 series: [{
  name: 'Guests',
  data: [{
      y: 352000,
      yPercentage: 100,
      name: '1 Visit',
      color: "#ff0000",
    },
    ...
  ]
}]

You can then format your datalabel like this:
dataLabels: {
  enabled: true,
  format: '{point.name}
{point.y:,.0f} ({point.yPercentage} %)',
  ...
}

And your tooltip like this:
tooltip: {
  headerFormat: '{point.key}
',
  pointFormat: 'Percent of Prior Visit: {point.yPercentage} %
Guests: {point.y:,.0f}  '
}

Which gives you this:

Highcharts.chart('container', {
  chart: {
    type: 'funnel',
    //Only for Pie Charts
    options3d: {
      enabled: false, // change to true to activate 3D
      alpha: 40,
      beta: 40,
      depth: 100,
    },
  },
  title: {
    text: 'Guest Return Funnel'
  },
  plotOptions: {
    funnel: {
      depth: 100
    },
    series: {
      events: {
        legendItemClick: function() {
          $.each(this.chart.series, function(i, serie) {
            if (serie.visible)
              serie.hide();
            else
              serie.show();
          });
          return false;
        }
      },
      shadow: true,
      allowPointSelect: true,
      borderWidth: 18,
      animation: {
        duration: 400
      },
      dataLabels: {
        enabled: true,
        format: '{point.name}
{point.y:,.0f} ({point.yPercentage} %)',
        color: (Highcharts.theme && Highcharts.theme.contrastTextColor) || 'black',
        softConnector: true,
        crop: false
      },
      center: ['50%', '50%'],
      neckWidth: '40%',
      neckHeight: '0%',
      width: '65%',
      height: '100%',
      tooltip: {
       headerFormat: '{point.key}
',
       pointFormat: 'Percent of Prior Visit: {point.yPercentage} %
Guests: {point.y:,.0f}  '
      }
    }
  },
  legend: {
    enabled: true
  },
  series: [{
      name: 'Guests',
      data: [{
          y: 352000,
          yPercentage: 100,
          name: '1 Visit',
          color: "#ff0000",
        },
        {
          y: 88000,
          yPercentage: 25,
          name: '2 Visits',
          color: "#FFA500",
        },
        {
          y: 42000,
          yPercentage: 48,
          name: '3+ Visits',
          color: "#32CD32"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
});
/*
series: [{
name: 'Guests',
name2: 'Percent of Prior Visit',
data: [{
y:352000,
name: '1 Visit',
color: "#ff0000",
y2: 100,
name2: 'Percent of Prior Visit'
},
{
y: 88000,
name: '2 Visits',
color: "#FFA500",
y2: 25,
name2: 'Percent of Prior Visit',
},
{
y: 42000,
name: '3+ Visits',
color:"#32CD32",
y2: 48,
name2: 'Percent of Prior Visit'
}
]
}]
});
*/

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El vireo solitario (en Costa Rica, Honduras y México) (Vireo solitarius), también denominado vireo cabeciazul o vireo anteojillo (en México) o vireo de anteojos (en Nicaragua), es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Vireonidae perteneciente al numeroso género Vireo. Es nativo de América del Norte (donde anida) y América Central y más raramente islas del Caribe (hacia donde migra).

Distribución y hábitat
Esta especie se reproduce en el centro oeste y sureste de Canadá, noreste y este de Estados Unidos y migra hacia el sur y sureste de Estados Unidos, México, hasta el norte de Nicaragua y raramente en Cuba. Aparte de los países ya mencionados, se registra su presencia en Bahamas; Belice; Islas Cayman; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Saint Pierre y Miquelon y Turks y Caicos. Fue registrado como divagante en Jamaica y Panamá.

Su hábitat de reproducción es el bosque boreal y templado y migra hacia una variedad de bosques tropicales y subtropicales secos y húmedos, de tierras bajas o montanos.

Subespecies
Según la clasificación del Congreso Ornitológico Internacional (IOC) (Versión 6.2, 2016)  y Clements Checklist v.2015, se reconocen 2 subespecies, con su correspondiente distribución geográfica:

 Vireo solitarius solitarius (, 1810) - anida desde Canadá (suroeste de los Northwest Territories y oeste de Alberta al este hasta el suroeste de Newfoundland y Nueva Escocia) al sur en los Estados Unidos hasta el norte de Minnesota, norte de Wisconsin, Pensilvania y Nueva Jersey; migra hacia el sur de los Estados Unidos (centro de Texas al este hasta el centro norte de Carolina del Norte, al sur hasta el centro de Florida), este de México y al sur principalmente hasta el norte de Nicaragua, raramente en el oeste de Cuba e isla de Pinos.
 Vireo solitarius alticola , 1886 - anida en el sur de los montes Apalaches desde el noreste de Virginia Occidental y oeste de Maryland al sur hasta el norte de Georgia, casualmente en muchos locales al este de las montañas; migra hacia el sureste de Estados Unidos (sureste de Louisiana al este hasta el sur de Carolina del Sur, al sur hasta el sur de Florida).

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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1974 → July 1974 → 8 July 1974 → Commons Sitting
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRIVATE PRACTICE)
HC Deb 08 July 1974 vol 876 cc946-54 946
§ Sir Geoffrey Howe (by Private Notice)
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether she will make a statement about the negotiations in which she took part last Friday in connection with the dispute about private practice in the National Health Service.
§ The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mrs. Barbara Castle)
I am circulating in the OFFICIAL REPORT the text of the statement, the relevant parts of which were agreed with all parties concerned in last Friday's discussions, which was circulated to the Press early on Saturday morning. I am also circulating copies of correspondence which has since passed between me and the Secretary of the British Medical Association confirming some of the points of principle which affect its members.
The esentials of the statement are these. The work of the working party on the consultants' contract is to be speeded up. The Government's declared policy of phasing private pay beds out of National Health Service hospitals remains a firm commitment, but, as I have made clear on several occasions, it is the Government's intention to proceed in an orderly way and after the fullest discussions with those most directly concerned.
The BMA and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association have said that they do not agree with phasing out and hope to persuade the Government not to proceed.
I would remind the House that the joint working party is concerned not only with the future of private practice in NHS hospitals. This is only one part of 947 our discussions which are intended to result in a new charter for hospital consultants. The Government will consider the report of the working party and will base their detailed proposals on that.
Meanwhile, although I have a discretionary power to reduce or withdraw the authorisation of pay beds, I have no intention of making any arbitrary reduction in the present allocation of pay beds while awaiting the report of the working party.
So far as Charing Cross Hospital is concerned, it was agreed that, though the authorised number of pay beds would not be reduced, when private patients are treated for clinical reasons in special units elsewhere in the hospital, the equivalent number of beds in the private floor will be occupied by NHS patients. Thus, a mixed floor will result without in any way interfering with the clinical freedom of the consultant staff.
On this basis NUPE and COHSE agreed to issue a call to their members throughout the country to discontinue their action and to await the working party's report. For their part, the BMA and HCSA agreed to withdraw their threat of working to rule.
This settlement depends for its success on the good will of all parties. It is not, as has been suggested, a victory for any party: rather it is a victory for common sense. We all know that the service is faced with major difficulties in present financial circumstances. There is the added danger that conflicts between various groups will destroy it. We can maintain the National Health Service only if all are prepared to work together and accept that changes must take place on the responsibility of the Government of the day after proper consultation and negotiation.
§ Sir G. Howe
The whole House will welcome the last sentence of the right hon. Lady's reply together with her statement that it is not her intention to make any arbitrary reduction in the present allocation of pay beds.
Will she confirm that it follows from what she said that there will be no reduction in the number of beds available for private patients at the Charing Cross Hospital and that until the report of the working party under the chairmanship of 948 her hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health has been considered and agreed it will remain the Government's policy to permit the provision of private beds in National Health Service hospitals on the present basis?
Does she accept that doing away with private beds can only serve to weaken the finances of the National Health Service at a time when she has acknowledged that the service is facing major difficulties in our present financial circumstances?
What estimate have the Government made of the loss in income to the National Health Service from doing away with private beds, of the cost of treating at public expense extra patients who would thus have to be treated, and of the cost of compensation, in whatever form, to consultants from any such change?
Finally, does she acknowledge that it is the view of the House that it is absolutely intolerable for a matter of this kind to be resolved by competing deployment of industrial strength and that it is wholly to be regretted if either side, in the light of her statement, seeks now to deploy a political case at the expense of innocent patients by means of anything resembling industrial action?
§ Mrs. Castle
I had hoped that in his opening remarks the right hon. and learned Gentleman would have welcomed the whole settlement. I think that it is an important step forward in a very tricky situation indeed. Most of the questions put to me by the right hon. and learned Gentleman have already been dealt with in my original answer to the House this afternoon. In that answer I made it clear that I shall not use my discretionary power, pending the publication of the working party's report, to reduce the number of pay beds. I cannot guarantee that no reduction will take place because, owing to shortage of staff, a number of hospitals are having to curtail various facilities. If that happens, pay beds must play their proper part. However, that is a matter for local discussion and decision, not for intervention by me.
I cannot accept that the phasing out of pay beds from National Health Service hospitals will weaken the service. On the contrary, those of us who believe in a service in which treatment is given on 949 medical priority alone believe that such a step will strengthen the purpose for which the National Health Service was originally created.
The loss of revenue due to the phasing out of pay beds this year is estimated to be £17 million. However, that means that we would have £17 million worth more facilities available to NHS patients.
§ Mr. English
Being slightly fractured, I suppose that, according to the rules—and as the House will observe my bandaged arm—I should declare an interest. My services were not those of the private patient, but of the NHS and the free service of a kindly professional medical Conservative Whip. That should suit both sides.
May I ask my right hon. Friend to refer to the working party the question of the serious discrepancies between different areas in the country? Since 1948 Nottingham has been the city worst served by the NHS. The discrepancy goes back before the National Health Service in this and other respects. Will my right hon. Friend take care to ensure that an equal service is provided throughout the whole country? I hope that she will refer that specific point to the working party.
This is a point which may come up in the discussions. As my hon. Friend knows, my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) is chairman of that working party, and he has been here listening to and noting what has been said.
§ Mrs. Knight
May I ask the right hon. Lady what criteria she intends to use in future for the allocation of single rooms for patients? If single rooms are not to be allocated to people who will pay for them, can the right hon. Lady say that they will not be allocated to powerful political figures who use their weight to obtain them?
At present, the allocation of single rooms to patients is done by the consultant on clinical grounds, and that freedom is something that we must preserve. I remind the House and the hon. Lady that there is such a provision as amenity beds for those who wish to have privacy, and it is our intention to extend this provision.
§ Dr. M. S. Miller
Will my right hon. Friend accept congratulations on her decision not to resile from the phasing out of pay beds? Will she also accept that when she is deliberating on whatever report comes from the working party she should ensure that the National Health Service is not dominated by the great white chiefs of the scalpel and the syringe but is used for the benefit of patients and that the provision of beds is dependent upon the need for treatment when it is necessary and not on the ability to pay?
It would be my intention to stress the value to the National Health Service of all who work in it—and this is a point that emerged in the consciousness of all who argued during those long hours of last Friday. We must respect the part played by everyone. I repeat that the purpose of the working party is to examine the present consultant contract—and the arrangements for private practice are inextricably involved in this—with a view to giving hospital consultants the charter to which they are entitled.
Several Hon. Members
§ Mr. Speaker
Order. This is Private Members' time and I think that we have encroached upon it sufficiently. I had my doubts whether to allow this Question. These matters must be debated on some other occasion.
§ Following is the information:
§ STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES ON 6TH JULY 1974 ABOUT THE DISPUTE ABOUT PAY BEDS IN NHS HOSPITALS.
§ I have made the Government's position on this dispute over private beds in NHS hospitals clear both in statements in the House and in my letter of 4th July to the Chairman of the Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Area Health Authority—a copy of which has been made public. The following are the relevant extracts:— In all these discussions the concern of the AHA has been, and will be, to safeguard the interests of the patients as a whole. As the House is aware, it is the policy of the Government as set out in our Manifesto and reiterated since to phase out private practice from the hospital service. While therefore I can understand the feelings of the staff I cannot condone the action they are taking. We believe that this issue must be dealt with by the Government of the day, and in an orderly way. In the past in industrial disputes in the hospital service it has always been recognised by all concerned that whatever the difference of view the health of patients 951 must not suffer. My responsibility is to do everything in my power to ensure that ill patients whether private or NHS do not become the innocent victims of any action taken in any industrial disputes. I have already in the House of Commons made clear the Government's position on its policy as to private practice in the hospital service. I cannot stress strongly enough that all concerned should leave this to the Government to pursue in an orderly way through normal negotiating procedure. I have already said that I do not condone the action which is being taken. I deplore anything which could damage the health of patients or the interests of the NHS.
§ It is the present policy allowed by statute and agreed with the medical profession to include pay beds in NHS hospitals. The Government has however set up a joint working party with the medical profession to consider the terms on which consultants are employed, including the arrangements for private practice, and had it in mind to present its proposals early next year. For their part, the BMA and HCSA and the Government, have agreed to expedite very considerably the work of the working party, both on the consultant contract and on private practice within NHS hospitals, and it was decided to aim at agreement in the working party in November 1974.
§ The BMA and HCSA welcome the Secretary of State's intervention in the dispute at Charing Cross Hospital and in view of this have agreed to call off their threatened action on Monday, on the understanding that the other parties will also call off their action in any NHS hospitals involved.
§ In the circumstances of such a general agreement and while awaiting the report of the working party, the Secretary of State has made it clear that it is not her intention to make any arbitrary reduction in the present allocations of pay beds.
§ With regard to the distribution of private beds at Charing Cross Hospital, when private patients are treated for clinical reasons in special units elsewhere in the hospital the equivalent number of beds in the private floor will be occupied by NHS patients thus ensuring a mixed floor, and releasing acute beds elsewhere in the hospital. In the light of this NUPE and COHSE have agreed to call on their members throughout the country to discontinue their action and await the report.
§ From the British Medical Association—6th July 1974:
Rt. Hon. Mrs. Barbara Castle.
Secretary of State for Social Services,
Department of Health and Social Security,
Alexander Fleming House,
Elephant and Castle,
London, S.E.1.
§ Dear Mrs. Castle,
§ I am writing on behalf of the Chairman of Council, Mr. Walpole Lewin, about the reports which have appeared in today's Press following our 10 hour discussions last night. Whilst I agree that the hour was very late, we were under the impression that we would have an 952 opportunity to talk to the Press late last night. In the event, we were able only to have a brief interview with the Press Association.
§ To put the record straight, I wish to emphasise that we felt able to call off our threatened action only because
§ (1) you had agreed to include in the statement the fact that you "did not condone the action which had been taken at Charing Cross and deplored anything which could damage the health of patients or the interests of the NHS";
§ (2) that there would be no reduction in the number of private beds at Charing Cross;
§ (3) that until the Owen Working Party had reported it will remain the policy of the Government to permit pay beds in NHS hospitals.
§ (4) that it was not your intention to make any arbitrary reduction in the present allocation of pay beds;
§ (5) that the BMA and the Government have agreed to expedite the work of the Owen Working Party both on the consultant contract and on private practice. You have made your Government's position on the future of private practice quite clear. We for our part have made our position quite clear that we wish to preserve private beds in the public sector. Everything must therefore depend on the finding of the Owen Working Party which we agreed must be hastened.
§ Finally, I wish to make it known that the BMA's delegation throughout yesterday's discussions included 2 representatives from the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, including their President.
§ In the interests of those whom we represent it is essential that all these points should receive the earliest publicity and with your knowledge I am therefore issuing a copy of this letter to the Press."
§ Yours sincerely,
§ DEREK STEVENSON,
§ Secretary.
§ From the Secretary of State for Social Services—8th July 1974:
Dr. Derek Stevenson, CBE,
British Medical Association,
Tavistock Square,
London, WC1H 9JP.
§ Dear Dr. Stevenson,
§ Thank you for your letter of 6th July about our discussions on Friday evening. Like you I am sorry that owing to the lateness of the hour when we completed our discussions, you did not have a full opportunity of making your position clear to the Press, and I welcome this chance of confirming your explanation of what we agreed.
§ You will of course accept that the Government is committed through its Manifesto to the phasing out of private practice from the hospital service and I for my part fully recognise that the BMA remains opposed to this policy. In setting up the Joint Working Party we neither of us surrendered our basic point 953 of view but we desired genuinely to work out together a new charter for consultants and, as far as the question of private practice in the hospital service is concerned, we no doubt each hope we can convert the other. As you say in your letter I do not in any way condone attempts to pre-empt our discussions by industrial action from any quarter and I was happy to assure you, that as part of our firm settlement and in this spirit, I do not intend to withdraw authorisations for pay beds or arbitrarily to reduce their number while await 954 ing the report. I also confirm that the agreement reached over the private floor at Charing Cross does not involve a reduction in the number of pay beds but affects their distribution throughout the hospital group.
§ I am glad we were able to agree to speed up the work of the Joint Working Party and I still cherish the hope that we might be able to reach a degree of agreement at any rate.
§ BARBARA CASTLE.
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Q: Reset css or script when browser is resized This might be hard to explain but say my browser size is small like in image 1. The bottom text is positioned where it should be and when I scroll down a script activates.
EDIT https://jsfiddle.net/j4f53rds/1/
function fixDiv() {
    var $div = $("#nav_color");
    var top = $div.data("top");
    if ($(window).scrollTop() > top) {
        $('#nav_color').css({'position': 'fixed', 'top': '0px'});
    }
    else {
        $('#nav_color').css({'position': 'absolute', 'top' : top + 'px'});
    }
}

$("#nav_color").data("top", $("#nav_color").offset().top);
$(window).scroll(fixDiv);

The script causes the text on the bottom to become fixed on the top of the html as the user scrolls down. Now here comes the issue. After firing, if I resize the browser, say make it full screen, like in image two, and then scroll back up. The text doesn't reposition to it's would be new location, it resets back to the original position in the smaller browser. How do I get the script to take into account a new browser size when the user scrolls back up?

A: The problem is that you are saving off the top position when the page loads, but that position changes when the window is resized. Try this:
$(window).resize(function() {
    $("#nav_color").data("top", $("#nav_color").offset().top);
    fixDiv(); //not sure if you need this.
});

A: The problem is that you're top: inline CSS property is sticking to the #nav_color element and is not being recalculated when you resize,
try this (variable top definition still isn't perfect..):
var top = $("#nav_color").offset().top;

function fixDiv() {
    var $div = $("#nav_color");
   // var top = $div.data("top"); shouldn't define it here
    console.log(top);
    if ($(window).scrollTop() > top) {
        $('#nav_color').css({'position': 'fixed', 'top': '0px'});
    }
    else {
        $('#nav_color').css({'position': 'absolute', 'top' : top + 'px'});
    }
}
$(window).scroll(fixDiv);

function positionDiv() {
    top = ($(window).innerHeight())*0.86;
    if ($("#nav_color").css('position') == 'absolute'){
        $("#nav_color").css({ 'top': top });
    }

}
$(window).resize(positionDiv);

fiddle

A: You need to call function on window.resize
You can call your function like :
$(window).resize(function(e) {
    $("#nav_color").data("top", $("#nav_color").offset().top());
    fixDiv(); //not sure if you need this.
});

A: This should work:
$addHandler(window, "resize", fixDiv);

Each time a user resize the window, the funcion fixDiv will be triggered


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Chandrayaan 2 to be launched from Sriharikota at 2:43 pm
Central ChronicleJuly 22, 2019
India's expedition to the moon is all set to begin today with the launch of Chandrayaan-2 by using the heavy-lift launch vehicle GSLV-Mark-Three.
The rocket carrying the prestigious probe will be ignited at 2.43 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometres off Chennai.
Indian Space Research Organisation scientists said, the 20-hour countdown for the launch began last evening at 6.43 pm and is progressing smoothly. The launch rehearsal has been done by the scientists and engineers of the ISRO at Sriharikota on Sunday.
The national space agency has said all the parameters during the rehearsal were found to be normal. Speaking to reporters in Chennai yesterday, ISRO chairman Dr Sivan said, that all preparatory arrangements have been put in place for the mission.
Originally Chandrayaan-2 was planned to be launched on the 15th of this month. However, a technical snag was detected less than an hour before its scheduled lift-off, forcing the mission to be halted.
To make up for the loss of seven days due to the delay in the launch, the flight duration of Chandrayaan-2 from the earth to the moon has been reduced from 54 days to 48 days by tweaking the flight path. Its lander will descend on the moon by September 7 as planned earlier.
Dr Sivan said the scientists would perform fifteen crucial manoeuvres to navigate the probe from an earth-bound elliptical orbit to the surface of the moon. Our correspondent reports, total cost of the mission is worked out to be 978 crore rupees.
The mission objectives of Chandrayaan-2 include studying mineralogy and chemical composition of lunar soil, to search for water or ice in the near-South Pole of the moon, examining its atmosphere, studying lunar seismic activities and to carry out mapping of the moon using high-resolution cameras.
One of its main goals is to make a soft-landing of an indigenous lander on the uncharted territory of the moon. The mission Chandrayaan-2 has evoked huge interest among the people of the nation.
It is evident from the booking of all the slots meant for the public to view the launch, within minutes of opening the online window for registration. In short, Chandrayaan-2 is set to carry the dreams of over 1.3 billion hearts to the moon, besides yielding rich dividends for the nation's scientific pursuit and nourishing scientific attitude.


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Who Invited the Tequila to the Party?
March 30, 2022 greenbich Evidence
It's important to remember that while all tequilas are technically mezcals, not all mezcals are tequilas.
It was in the mid-1500s that the Spanish government established a trade route between Manila and Mexico, and it was in the early 1600s that the Marquis of Altamira erected the first large-scale distillery in what is now the city of Tequila, Jalisco, that the world's first tequila was produced.
A coa is used by a guy to gather blue agave.
What is the tequila party movement?
In 2012, the National Tequila Party Movement is a nonpartisan, Latina-led movement dedicated to increasing the number of young Latinos who vote in the United States. In addition, the Tequila Party Movement advocates for the adoption of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) and the DREAM Act at the federal and state levels.
Who was the first person to make tequila?
Although there is some disagreement, the majority of sources credit Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the Marquis of Altamira, with being the first person to mass make tequila, perhaps around the year 1600. However, it was not until 1795 that Don José Maria Guadalupe de Cuervo became the first person to gain a permission from King Ferdinand IV of Spain to manufacture it in his own home.
What is tequila made from?
Despite the fact that tequila has only been around for a few hundred years, humans have been using the heart of the agave plant to produce exquisite alcoholic beverages for centuries.
It is believed that the Zapotecs of the Oaxaca Valley in southern Mexico began cultivating the maguey as early as 200 A.D., and that the plant has been an integral part of their way of life for well over a thousand years now.
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Once I began reading the labels on many over the counter lotions and skin care products, I was amazed and disgusted by the ingredients they contain! I believe that our bodies were designed to properly process NATURAL substances, not synthetic and unnatural chemically created "junk"! Your skin is the largest living organ and anything you put onto your body, you may as well have put INTO your body because it will be absorbed into your bloodstream anyway. So do you really want to cover your body in petroleum jelly, parabens, paraffins, plus countless other unpronounceable ingredients?
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After realizing the potential harm to your health from the products you are currently using on your skin, I'm very happy to encourage you that there are some great natural options! If you absolutely must buy store bought, look for products with just a few simple and easily recognizable natural ingredients. But be aware that even very natural looking items like "Coconut Body Butter" at Trader Joes may still have some additives that you don't want on your skin! With just a few simple ingredients and a few minutes of time, DIY personal care items are easy, inexpensive, and much nicer to use than their store bought competition.
This DIY Soothing Salve Recipe is made with 100% natural and edible ingredients! This is the stuff that you can feel good about putting on your skin, and that will make your skin feel good! This soothing skin salve is also easy, incredibly versatile, and inexpensive. I am confident that you will love it! It uses simple ingredients that can be used in many other homemade beauty and personal care recipes, so buy beeswax once, and you can use it in many other recipes. If you are interested in homemade lotions, be sure to try out my luxurious Whipped Body Butter.
*You can also substitute organic olive oil for the avocado oil.
Step 2: Measure and melt your ingredients in a double boiler over medium heat.
I used 1/2 cup of coconut oil, 1/2 cup of avocado oil, and 4 Tablespoons of beeswax. Let it heat until all of the beeswax is completely melted. Mine took about 5-10 minutes.
Step 3: Remove the bowl from the heat and allow it to cool slightly.
Step 4: Add the essential oils. Now that the liquid is cooled you can add the essential oils. If you added them when it was still very hot it could have destroyed their beneficial properties that provide therapeutic benefits to the skin. I added 6 drops of lavender, and 4 drops each of lemon, melaleuca, and frankincense. Stir to combine. This is a good time to mention that when working with essential oils you should only use glass or metal bowls and no plastic spoons or spatulas.
Step 5: Put the salve in the freezer for 15 minutes or more until it is solid, but still soft.
This is what mine looked like when it was ready to be removed from the freezer. If yours overfreezes simply place it at room temperature until the right consistency is achieved- like softened butter.
Step 7: Spoon the mixture into either one 8oz or two 4 oz glass jars with lids. Label it nice and pretty to give as a gift (it is great for EVERYTHING!) or keep it for yourself. Those two jars only last so long in my family of 6, so next time I'm making a double batch and putting a jar in every bathroom!
This Soothing Skin Salve is ah-maz-ing! Dry, itchy, and irritated skin everywhere will LOVE this stuff!
This salve is made out of natural oils- so it is "greasier" and more "oily" than synthetic lotions.
Be sure to use paper towels to remove any salve residue from bowls or utensils used in making it prior to washing them. This will make dish washing much easier.
This oil can stain clothing, so please be sure to wipe it off of your hands before touching clothing and let it absorb into your skin before dressing.
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This soothing salve is the perfect solution to your dry, chapped skin and provides relief to other troublesome skin conditions.
In a double-boiler (aka pan filled about 1/2 full of hot water with a glass or stainless steel bowl on top of it) over medium heat add the coconut oil, avocado oil, and beeswax and heat until completed melted. Depending on your brand of beeswax this can take anywhere from 5-15 minutes. Make sure the beeswax completely melts or it will be chunky.
Set the melted ingredients aside to cool until no longer hot to the touch. Add in the essential oils and combine.
Remove and either place in jars, or whip with a mixer until smooth. Place in one 8 oz jar or two 4 oz jars with lids. Use on any dry, cracked, or irritated skin that needs extra moisturizing. Enjoy!
I have a boxer mix and she is almost nine years old. She has had increasingly worse skin problems for the past five years. We have tried special diets, special shampoos, allergy meds and steroids. Nothing helps for long. Now, she has damaged skin due to excessive itching, scratching and biting which has turned her skin black in several places. Can this salve be helpful for this? The vet has told us that the skin damage is permanent.


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Applications of blockchain in government education sector: a comprehensive review and future research potentials
Dash, Manoj Kumar, Panda, Gayatri, Kumar, Anil and Luthra, Sunil (2021) Applications of blockchain in government education sector: a comprehensive review and future research potentials. Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing. ISSN 2398-5364 (In Press)
Revised Paper-1.docx - Accepted Version
Restricted to Repository staff only until 9 November 2022.
With the time and increase in usage of Information Technology (IT), blockchain technology is gaining immense attention from researchers, academicians, and practitioners because of its distinctive features such as transference, security, and data reliability. The sole purpose of this research work is to endow with a systematic review of literature on blockchain in context to the government education sector in terms of its usage, benefits, obstacles, and practical implementation in future areas in education.
The study adopted a bibliometric visualization tool to classify data in yearly publications, highly cited journals, prominent authors, leading publications in countries and institutions, and highly cited papers - the data was extracted from the SCOPUS database by using relevant keywords. Thus, the following research questions developed as (1) How has Blockchain technology been utilized in the government educational sector? (2)What are the benefits examined in the field of education? (3)What were the problems/obstacles faced using the technology in a government education structure?
Research findings:
The findings identify and provide a comprehensive review of the technique regarding the present research stream in terms of highest publication, author, Journal, subject wise, and relevance of the technology in government education structure. Thus, the future research potential of the technology in the education sector is much more as it is in the initiation stage. A lot of opportunities and benefits need to be extracted at large.
Implications:
The present findings of the study provide a base work for government education institutions, policy developers, and researchers to investigate other areas where the technology can be implemented. Lastly, more technology applications will develop strategies for proper data management and cost-effective decisions.
Lastly, the research explains the relevance of technology in education through bibliometric visualization. The study adopted the review and significance of blockchain technology in the government education sector by identifying its benefits, current scenario, application, and future research potential areas.
systematic literature review; application; bibilometric; education; blockchain; government


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What happens when Formula 1 and NASCAR champions swap cars?
Must have been a great day on the track
If you read the title of this car and immediately became curious, then you're reading the right website. This recent video from McLaren shows two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso swapping driver's seats with NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson.It'
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This guy made a cardboard Formula 1 car in 500 hours
A+ for effort, dude
We know the question that popped into your mind when you read the title: Why? Why on earth would someone spend 500 hours of their time creating a race car out of cardboard? Why spend so much time on something that won'
Michael Schumacher's 2001 F1 car just sold for a record amount
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Its 2017 car sure looks the part
It's always said in Formula 1 that a car will always be beautiful so long as it's fast. But if this were a beauty contest, then the all-new Mercedes W08 for the 2017 season appears to have the early
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Renault and Force India launch their 2017 Formula 1 cars
Meet the RS17 and the VJM10
Pointed noses and shark fins are still the hallmarks of the latest Formula 1 cars to be unveiled ahead of the 2017 season, as shown by the Renault RS17 and the Force India VJM10. These follow the recent launches of the Williams
Williams and Sauber give first look at cars for 2017 F1 season
Ahead of pre-season testing
The first Formula 1 pre-season test for the upcoming season kicks off in Barcelona on February 27th, but as per usual, most teams are unveiling their 2017 cars online or at various launch events.Williams was first to take the wraps
This 1:8 scale model of the Ferrari SF16-H is as close to the real thing as you'll get
But it comes at a price
We're huge fans of scale-model cars. Whether it's Tomica, Lego, Hot Wheels or the like, being able to hold and admire our favorite cars in detailed miniature form never gets old. Now, Amalgam is giving us another collectible to
by Gerard Jude Castillo
Fancy a Formula 1 car? Here's one for sale
It costs about P13.7 million
We've seen Formula 1 cars for sale on the open market before, but usually, the ex-racers available to the highest bidder are long-out-of-commission veterans, safely obsolete in their technology.Which makes this Marussia yard sale that bit
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To invite us to an event, Globe sends us this DIY race car cardboard kit
See the finished product
Let's get this out of the way: Globe Telecom, in partnership with the Lotus F1 Team, is holding the "Globe Slipstream" event on August 30 (Saturday) in Bonifacio Global City. Mark your calendars, girls, because this event will feature Filipino-Swiss
by Vernon B. Sarne
Historic Jordan Grand Prix Formula 1 cars now on sale
Including Michael Schumacher's
Historically significant Formula 1 cars usually go through an auction. For ex-Jordan Grand Prix team owner Eddie Jordan, he'd rather sell two of his former team's legendary cars through Cars International, with the proceeds going to the CLIC Sargent
Red Bull's Formula 1 title defense starts now with the RB10
Team finally unveils 2014 car
It's a well-known fact that Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey would rather bleed through every orifice of his body than pen an unsightly Formula 1 car. Okay, that's overstating things, but the saying "if it's fast,
Is the gorgeous Mercedes F1 W05 the face of a new Formula 1 era?
Finally, we have a looker.For the past few years, Mercedes has been pirating some of the best brains in the Formula 1 paddock--folks like Bob Bell (technical director), Aldo Costa (engineering director), Geoffrey Willis (technology director), and Paddy Lowe (executive
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Here come the middle-of-the-pack cars
We call these two Formula 1 teams midfielders now, but think back on where Red Bull and Honda were in 2008, then consider how Red Bull and Brawn--the last-minute entry formed from the remnants of the Japanese works team--fought
The Lotus E22 has a two-tip nose
A departure from the anteater styles
McLaren had been one of the first teams to confirm the date of its 2014 Formula 1 car unveil, and in return for its early-bird efforts, a couple of its competitors happily crashed the launch event via social media.First, Ferrari
McLaren's MP4-29 breaks cover
We have another pointed nose here
McLaren is determined to bounce back from its winless and podium-less 2013 season, and if having a pointed nose on the 2014 car is a means toward that end, then so be it. Here's the MP4-29 in all its
Williams shows off 2014 Formula 1 car with its peculiar nose
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