Thirty five years or so ago people trained dogs almost exclusively with force. Recently dog training, which includes our beloved Shih Tzu, consists of head halters with no corrections. Some trainers feel this is wrong because of the explosion of dominance and aggressive dog problems found in family pets. These same trainers feel the correct position about dog training and Shih Tzu training is in the middle.
Your Shih Tzu should respect you, cooperate with you and try to do what you ask. If you have that, then it is most likely you can train the Shih Tzu to do almost anything.
. The reason for this is a lack of pack structure.
A Shih Tzu with a solid pack structure is not going to be aggressive in the presence of its pack leader. You as the Shih Tzu owner needs to become the leader of the pack even if the pack only consists of you and the Shih Tzu. Dogs are pack animals. The Shih Tzu so loves and is so human-like it is easy to forget they are "animals," and not our children. We need to apply the rules in which animals understand in their own pack existence.
In order to become the pack leader, you need to learn to apply responsible pack structure techniques, and master concepts of a learning phase, a distraction phase and a correction phase along with a maintenance phase. Apply sound pack structure principles in your day to day life with your Shih Tzu to establish you and family members as higher pack members in your family pack.
Becoming a pack leader does not involve aggression towards the Shih Tzu or hard leash corrections or even raising your voice to the Shih Tzu. It means to adopt a leader's attitude. Remember that most dogs prefer to be followers. Your Shih Tzu would rather you be the leader of the pack.
Strive to make sure your Shih Tzu understands that you will always be fair with him. This is the first step in building respect and leadership. He should learn that he has a responsibility to follow known directions and if he refuses there will be consequences.
Dogs and the Shih Tzu see things that are good for them and things that are not good for them, sort of looking at life in black and white terms. They do not understand English. For the most part they do not reason either. They react to the black and white parts of life.
Through training experiences, your Shih Tzu will learn you are only going to ask him to do things he knows how to do. If he performs correctly let him know you are happy with him. If he does something wrong always let him know he has made a mistake. Avoid correcting your dog in obedience training for things that he has not been trained to do. You only correct because you know, through the Shih Tzu's training experiences that he understands a command and he is refusing to do it.
It is important that your Shih Tzu learns you are 100% consistent in how and when you administer corrections. One of the most important parts of being a pack leader is being consistent at all times. For example, do not ignore incorrect behavior toward guests in the home and then correct the Shih Tzu when he exhibits incorrect behavior while on walks. Remain consistent.
Effective corrections must be administered within 1 ½ seconds of an infraction. It is never a positive thing to correct your Shih Tzu an hour or more after he has urinated on the wrong spot. Don't ever think your Shih Tzu "knows" he did something wrong while you were gone.
Another important key of training your Shih Tzu is to learn to administer corrections at a level that produces harmony in the family pack. You must learn when simply saying "NO" is enough of a correction to the Shih Tzu knows that he is doing something wrong verses learning when to administer a higher level of discipline correction for more severe offenses. This is one of the most difficult concept for new trainers/owners to learn.
Remember that dogs and the Shih Tzu learn through repetition. It often can take as many as 30 repetitions for a dog to learn a new command. You need to repeat the exercise often enough for the Shih Tzu to completely understand the exercise.
When you are seeking for a professional trainer, you might ask if any of these techniques are those they incorporate into their training programs.


Florida Housing will hold a 2nd Rule Development workshop on April 22, 2019 at 2:30 pm EDT to discuss proposed changes to Rule Chapters 67-21 and 67-48 of the Florida Administration Code.
Secretary Carson recently traveled to Miami to tour Tuscany Village Housing Complex, an apartment community located in an Opportunity Zone. Tuscany Village Housing Complex was recently built to provide affordable housing for low-income, elderly families in the neighborhood. This Miami community is just one of 427 Opportunity Zones which were designated by the Florida Governor as areas in need of economic revitalization. Secretary Carson was joined for the tour by Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
Florida Housing issued RFA 2019-109 "HOME Financing to be used for Rental Developments for Hurricane Michael Impacted Counties and in Rural Areas." To apply for funding, interested parties must submit the application, the Principals of the Applicant and Developer(s) Disclosure Form and the Development Cost Pro Forma. The deadline to apply for funding is 3 pm, ET on March 26, 2019.
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation will hold a Rule Development Workshop on Feb. 27 at 2 pm ET to discuss proposed changes to Rule Chapters 67-21 and 67-48 of the Florida Administration Code. Chapter 67-21 governs non-competitive affordable multifamily rental housing programs including the Multifamily Mortgage Revenue Bonds Program and 4 percent LIHTC. Chapter 67-48 governs competitive affordable multifamily rental housing programs including the State Apartment Incentive Loan Program, the Elderly Housing Community Loan Program, the HOME Investment Partnerships Program and 9 percent LIHTC.
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) issued a Request for Applications (RFA) 2019-106 – Housing Credit and State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) Financing to Develop Housing for Homeless Persons. An estimated $3,620,000 of Housing Credits and an estimated $10,300,000 of SAIL funds are available to proposed developments under this RFA.
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) will hold a workshop on its RFA 2019-107 Financing to Develop Housing for Persons with Disabling Conditions / Developmental Disabilities on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 at 10 a.m. ET. The RFA is expected to be issued in late February and applications will likely be due in late March.
The workshop regarding RFA 2019-107 Financing to Develop Housing for Persons with Disabling Conditions / Developmental Disabilities has been moved from 2:00 p.m. on January 8, 2019 to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 18, 2019. The workshop will be available by telephone or interested parties may attend in person at Florida Housing's offices located at 227 N. Bronough Street, Seltzer Room, Suite 6000, Tallahassee, Florida. The Workshop Notice and Call-In Instructions on page https://www.floridahousing.org/programs/developers-multifamily-programs/competitive/2019/2019-107 have been updated to reflect the new date and time.
The Tentative 2019 funding amounts and timeline on page https://www.floridahousing.org/programs/developers-multifamily-programs/competitive will also be revised to show that the RFA is expected to be issued in February, and Applications are expected to be due in March. The Review Committee meeting is expected to be held in April. The Corporation will present the Review Committee Recommendations for funding at the scheduled Board Meeting on May 10.
Please send any comments regarding this RFA to Marisa Button at Marisa.Button@floridahousing.org.
The Corporation expects to issue the RFA on Wednesday, January 9, 2019. Applications are expected to be due on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. The Review Committee Meeting is expected to be held March 6, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.
A draft of RFA 2019-105 "Housing Credit Financing To Provide Affordable Multifamily Rental Housing That Is A Part Of Local Revitalization Initiatives" has been posted to the webpage https://www.floridahousing.org/programs/developers-multifamily-programs/competitive/2019/2019-105 .
Florida Housing expects to issue this RFA on January 9, 2019 with an anticipated Application Deadline of February 6, 2019.
Please send any comments regarding this RFA to Marisa Button (Marisa.Button@floridahousing.org).


A Homemade Bubble Pipe made from a straw and a coffee filter! Pair it up with some dish detergent straight out of the bottle, and blowing bubbles just got a whole lot cheaper and easier!
Well, I'll tell you what we did. We got out the dish soap and a few household items and started experimenting. And we discovered that we could make some pretty fine bubbles with things we had around the house.
This is one of the homemade bubble blowers that we had the most fun with!
It's a homemade bubble pipe! Remember bubble pipes? I never quite understood their purpose when I was a kid. I thought a bubble should take flight and float up and away over the roof-tops. Not so with the bubble pipe. What was up with that? Recently I saw these amazing bubble snakes over at Housing a Forest, and it all made sense!
And so today, I decided we'd see if we could make a bubble pipe one with some stuff we had on hand.
To make your bubble pipe, simply tear off a small piece of the coffee filter. Not a big piece at all. You know the size of a square of toilet paper? Probably about a quarter of that size.
Place that piece of coffee filter over the end of the straw and twist the loose stuff snugly around the straw.
Wrap a piece of tape around it a couple of times to hold everything in place.
I've heard for years that when you're making bubble solution Blue Dawn Original (NON-Concentrated) dish soap is the best brand to use, so I figured if any detergent was going to work as a bubble mix straight out of the bottle, it would be this one. Guess what! It was GREAT!
I poured 1-2 tablespoons into a shallow bowl. Just enough to make a small puddle for the girls to dip the end of their bubble pipes in.
The trick here, as with all bubble mixtures, is to try to avoid rapidly stirring or swishing soap. That will create a lot of foam and froth, and you'll have problems blowing any bubbles. You want to keep the detergent as close to its normal, liquid state as possible. I just kept encouraging the girls to dip their straws in and out of the soap slowly and gently.
Check it out! I was so amazed at how well these bubble pipes worked! We were actually able to gently transfer our bubble blobs to a solid surface and then we'd blow another string of bubbles and gently transfer it on to the first blob. We'd repeat again and again, and we ended up making some decent bubble structures!
Not bad for a straw and a coffee filter, is it?
And now you know, when you're in a pinch, that you don't need bubble solution and a store-bought bubble wand! You can make your own bubble-fun with a few simple things that you already have on hand!
Stay tuned! The next homemade bubble blower I'll be sharing requires only ONE common household item!


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The Darkness of Kristen Wiig
Like Steve Martin and Robin Williams before her, Wiig is much more than funny
By Noah Gittell
When a comedian tries to make the leap to drama, we make a lot of assumptions about their motives, chief among them being that they are sick of playing clowns and desperate for the respectability that only serious-minded fare brings. That's what critics said about Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Jim Carrey, for example, during their mostly ill-fated attempts at drama. But there are also comic actors for whom drama is a natural extension of their art. Their comic instincts are clearly born of pain and anguish, and their serious work subsequently casts even their comedy in a new, more substantial light. Steve Martin may be one of those actors. Robin Williams, we now know, certainly was. But it is also time to add another name to the list of those who have succeeded at both comedy and drama: Kristen Wiig, who gives the best performance of her career in The Skeleton Twins, out this weekend.
The film sees Wiig and old SNL buddy Bill Hader playing estranged twins, Maggie and Milo, who reunite and attempt to fix their broken lives after they each attempt suicide. Hader is the film's lead, and he gets plenty of laughs as a struggling gay actor back in his conservative hometown, but Wiig has the more compelling arc. Her character is the twin who, by comparison, has her life put together. She has a job and a husband, and is trying to get pregnant. But we know from the opening scenes that she, too, suffers from severe depression, and we spend the rest of the film peering inside her head as she struggles to maintain her façade.
The darkness of The Skeleton Twins is not an outlier; Wiig's last three starring roles have all come in dramas. In 2012's Girl Most Likely, she plays a once-promising playwright forced to move back in with her gambling-addicted mother after faking a suicide. The film isn't great, but Wiig showed that she can carry a movie without relying on laughs. This year's Hateship Loveship featured Wiig as a caretaker who is thrust into a new job after the woman she worked for since she was 15 years old dies.
There is a common thread that runs through these characters: Each is dealing with depression brought on by the loss of a parent at a young age, and they are struggling to succeed as an adult, both in their career and in their relationships. Suicide factors heavily into all of them. There is no correlation here to Wiig's personal life or her childhood that we know of, but we should not be surprised that she was drawn to these darker elements of the human experience, as they are present in her comedy.
From her early days on Saturday Night Live to the present, the persisting subject of her art has always been human loneliness. When director Liza Johnson cast her as the lead in, she cited Wiig's comedic work as proof that she could tackle the challenging role: "Underneath the awkwardness is a real core of soulful emotions that include shame and embarrassment."
You can see this in some of her most famous SNL characters, like the troubled schoolgirl Gilly or the compulsive one-upper Penelope. Both of them were anti-social, desperate for attention, and, like almost all Wiig characters, struggling with loneliness, albeit in an outlandish, comedic way.
Shame, embarrassment, and loneliness were also the key tenets of Bridesmaids, Wiig's 2011 breakout hit. She milked a lot of laughs out of the trials of Annie, a poor, unemployed baker, but underneath the slapstick humor was a very dark story of a woman hitting bottom. Over the course of the film, Annie loses her boyfriend, her job, her apartment, and, of course, her best friend. People remember the gross-out sequences the most, but the scene that has stayed with me the longest was a lyrical interlude in which Annie bakes a single, beautifully-rendered gourmet cupcake, and has no one with whom to share it.
In each of these roles, Wiig gets to laugh and cry, bask in the light and plumb the depths of her darkness. In other words, she maintains a complex duality, and this has always been her talent. Consider her star appeal: She is undeniably attractive, but her specific allure is hard to pin down. Is she a tomboy, girl-next-door type, or more of a sexual being? She has played both types in her career, often in the same role (see Hateship Loveship). She eschews political statements in her work, yet Bridesmaids was seen by many as a feminist text, breaking ground in film for foul-mouthed women the way Joan Rivers once did as a stand-up.
These seemingly contradictory parts do not add up to anything you can grasp; they only adds to Wiig's ability to transfix an audience. "She has the kind of mystery you generally associate with an actress and not so much with a comedienne," said Sean Penn, her co-star in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and her upcoming roles reinforce the perception of Wiig as a serious and, yes, brave actor. She's become far more than just a comedian.
Welcome to Me, which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, features Wiig as a woman suffering from bipolar disorder who wins the lottery and uses her newfound wealth to make a talk show about her life. One scene features a fully-nude Wiig walking across a casino floor. Also debuting at TIFF is Nasty Baby, a drama in which Wiig and Alia Shawkat play a gay couple trying to have a baby with the help of a male friend.
Lastly, Wiig and Annie Mumolo (who co-wrote Bridesmaids) have been hired to write another studio comedy, and this time Wiig will be directing. In the press release announcing the film, Tom Rothman, chairman of TriStar Productions, joked, "Kristen and Annie assured me that the film will be a searing and depressing drama, which is what the world needs right now."
Though depressing dramas may be the last thing the world needs right now, we know that however hilarious whatever Wiig and Mumolo come up with is, it will be based in something a little darker and a little more real. Sometimes, this darkness is exactly what a comedy needs to truly be funny.
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18 Stars Who Looked Great on the Toronto Film Festival Red Carpet
11 Oscar-Worthy Performances You Need to See By the End of 2015
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Reconsidering the Cop Movie After Ferguson
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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
The war on Christmas is not going away any time soon.
With Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and Christmas all celebrated this time of year, one would think that we would embrace an all-inclusive seasonal greeting emblematic of our nation's religious landscape with two simple words—Happy Holidays!
This year the controversy started with the inanity over the new design of Starbucks red holiday cup that didn't have a Christmas theme or the greeting "Merry Christmas."
"Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus. Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to take Christ and Christmas off of their brand new cups? That's why they're just plain red.," Joshua Feuerstein wrote spewing an anti-Starbucks rant on Facebook that went viral.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump helped stoke the frenzy.
"I have one of the most successful Starbucks in Trump Tower," Trump stated during one of his campaign stump. "Maybe we should boycott Starbucks?…By the way, that's the end of that lease but who cares."
Trump tied his verbal boycott of Starbucks (Trump Towers in NYC, however, are servicing Starbucks drinks in the holiday red cups.) to one of his presidential promises.
"I'm a good Christian," Trump stated in October. "If I become president, we're gonna be saying Merry Christmas at every store … You can leave happy holidays at the corner."
But more than a decade now, when this holiday season rolls around we can always count on a yearly kerfuffle about what the appropriated season's greeting should be, exemplifying the continued chapter in the culture "War on Christmas."
Sadly, the kerfuffle concerning Christmas is right here in my liberal backyard, too.
In 2012 the then governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, tried to avoid the controversy he generated by calling the state house Christmas tree a "holiday tree."'The Daily Mail reported, "The governor defended his decision by arguing that it is in keeping with the state's founding in 1636 by religious dissident Roger Williams as a haven for tolerance —where government and religion were kept separate."
The decorated evergreen coniferous tree that has come to be known as the Christmas tree began in 16th century Northern Germany. And Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, is the first to add lighted candles to the tree.
But traditions are hard to let go of or to modify or even to expand to include our present-day religiously diverse and atheist landscape.
For example, in 2005 when Nova Scotian tree farmer Donnie Hatt gave Boston its tree, Hatt told the Boston Globe that he "would rather have put the tree in a wood chipper than have it named a 'holiday' tree… Ever since I was born, a tree was put up for Christmas, not for holidays, because if you're going to do that you might as well put a tree up for Easter."
Is there really a war on Christmas, some ask?
Well, it depends not only on whom you ask, but which type of Christian you are.
Some see the war on Christmas as an assault on Christianity, where the mere utterance of the word is gradually being expunged from the holiday public lexicon. And it feels to these Christian holiday revelers, the country, in its effort to be political correct, is moving toward religious intolerance.
In an email exchange between a friend from North Carolina and me about this war of words wrote "It's a Xmas tree for me and holiday tree doesn't cut it. This PCness feels like it's over the top. Next will be the word 'Easter'… And what about 'Saint' as in St Patrick Day…a big deal in Boston."
But there is a difference, in my opinion, between Christian apologists and Christmas apologists.
For many Christians this is one of their high holy holidays, and it's their religious bedrock that not only anchors them in their faith but it also shapes and governs them in their view of the world. The author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis eloquently captured this essence when he wrote in his 1945 essay "Is Theology Poetry?" "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
But for Christmas apologists they refuse to see anything else because the war on Christmas is about their cultural dominance and they are fighting back with all their might.
Christian evangelist Pat Robertson said on his "700 Club" television show that the problem is Muslims. "If people don't like America and the traditions that made America great, let them go to Saudi Arabia, let them go to Pakistan. Yeah, they can go to Sudan and find a wonderful Muslim holiday."
Trump has taken Robertson's Islamophobia to a fascist level in his most recent public diatribe stating that our government should ban all Muslims from coming to the United States, even American Muslims returning home from overseas.
Truth be told, Muslims, secular progressives and Jews, atheists have never been the folks trying to abolish Christmas. Instead, it was once an extreme group of Protestants — yes, the Puritans. With the date of Dec. 25 deriving from the Saturnalia, the Roman heathen's wintertime celebration, and with the date found nowhere in the bible stating it as the birthday of Jesus, the Puritan Parliament banned Christmas from 1659 until 1681.
The intolerance of a multicultural theme for this holiday has little to do with a heightened renewal of the birth of Christ or the fading of an American holiday trodden. Instead, it has much to do about a backlash toward a country growing more religiously pluralistic.
As a Christian, I know that the central message of this holiday is the embrace and celebration of human differences and diversity. And it is with this message that I know all people—religious and non-religious, straight and queer, black and white —can be included to enjoy and to celebrate and to acknowledge this season with one simple greeting.
Irene Monroe	2016-01-16T23:54:01+00:00	December 23rd, 2015|


In the part one I used Clojure built-in functions juxt and comp to perform several steps of transformation on a data collection.
The data collection is very simple: [:value :location :unit], and the aim is for it to undergo two steps of transformation (using the built-in functions name and clojure.string/capitalize) to get the following collection: ["Value" "Location" "Unit"].
This time I'm using Clojure built-in function partial.
Afaik partial is a higher-order function as it takes in a function and returns a function. It's quite cool and also useful!
In case you're curious, it's defined using nested multi-arity.
As you can see below, partial always expects a function as an argument. The multi-arity enables it to accept as many arguments as the user wants, but always with a function as its first argument. Then it returns a function, and multi-arity enables this new function to be called with the arguments given when defining the "partial function" and the arguments given when calling this new function.
Here I expect this new function (ktcs-partial) to be called on each element of the collection inside a map. For this reason I want it to return a thread (Clojure function represented as a -> like here, or a ->>) of the two steps of transformation needed.
In this case there's no benefit over using comp for example (see blog post part 1). However when you have several steps of transformations to be executed several times, using partial in this way gets useful.
In the previous post I used the Clojure built-in function comp (for "compose") to combine two functions (namely name and capitalize) into one.
Here I got wondering if I could define a partial function that uses comp to combine the two steps of transformation I want to perform. I'm just combining Clojure functions for the fun of it!
So again, no revolution here. Just trying out functions so I can use them efficiently when needed!
I reviewed the use of Clojure built-in function partial, and i think I'll use it more now.
That's it for now! Hopefully I'll (finally) get faster at writing blog posts!


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Beti (jerm. -{Էլիզաբեթ Դանիելյան}-, 7. mart 2003, Jerevan) je jermenska pevačica. Predstavljala je Jermeniju na Dečjoj pesmi Evrovizije 2014. godine sa pesmom People of the Sun, plasiravši se 3, sa osvojenih 146 poena.

Pored maternjeg jermenskog, Beti tečno govori ruski i engleski.

Biografija
Beti je rođena samo jedan dan pred veliki praznik žena, 7. marta 2003, pa njena majka smatra to svojim najlepšim poklonom za ovaj praznik. Beti je od svoje četvrte godine pohađala razne škole, piše pesme, a uči i da svira gitaru. Učestvovala je na mnogim nacionalnim i međunarodnim festivalima, a poznata je i kao domaćin nekoliko emisija na različitim TV stanicama.

Njeni uspesi su i nagrada za najbolje TV dete, Princeza planete 2012, učesnica je međunarodnog matematičkog takmičenja, a sa Dečjih olimpijskih igara 2012. godine koje su održane u Antaliji donela je čak četiri medalje za svoju zemlju.

Voli plivanje, košarku, golf i streljaštvo. Kaže da nema muzičke idole, ali voli da sluša Elu Ficdžerald, Vitni Hjuston, Kristinu Agileru i Bijonse. Jedan od njenih snova jeste da snimi pesmu sa italijanskom legendom Adrijanom Čelentanom.

Dečja pesma Evrovizije
Beti je bila osma predstavnica Jermenije na Dečjoj pesmi Evrovizije. Beti je priznala da već nekoliko godina sanja o tome da predstavlja Jermeniju na dečjem Evrosongu. Bio je ovo njen drugi pokušaj na nacionalnom izboru. 2013, bila je član grupe Happy day koja je takmičenje završila na 3. mestu.  Naredne godine se predstavila pesmom People of the Sun. Pesmu su komponovali i producirali Avet Barsegjan (voditelj dečjeg Evrosonga 2011. u Jerevanu), Mane Hakobjan (autor jermenske pesme na 'velikoj' Pesmi Evrovizije 2009) i Martin Mirzojan. Avet je za Beti rekao da ga asocira na sunce – bistra devojka sa puno interesovanja i snova. Tako je i nastao naziv za ovu pesmu.

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Jeez, I've written some hacky code in the past. Just had my attention to something I wrote three years ago which is clearly a hack that doesn't work as I intended. It appears I realised this at the time but only half-backed out the changes 😊. Interestingly, that hacky code was peer-reviewed and accepted 😁.


Rosh Chodesh Adar "Aleph" - Time to Increase Our Joy!
We're in Year 6 of the current 19 Year Cycle of the Hebrew Calendar, which happens to be a 13-month Leap Year, and those two facts together explain why we're so far off the cycle of time - almost two whole weeks, considering that today was the New Moon in Aquarius (10/11 Degrees) and this evening is Rosh Chodesh Adar "Aleph," the extra month added for the Leap Year 5774 that will, by Purim - I promise! (Bli Neder) - Everything will start to feel "normal"-ish, again, like it hasn't in a while.
It is said that when the Month of Adar comes, it's time to increase our joy. Because we have two Chodesh Adars this year, we can double our joy and believe me world, we sorely need it right now.
The Aquarius/Aquarius New Moon gives Adar Aleph a particularly "out of this world" energy.... and for a very good reason. In classical Astrology, the Planet Jupiter was associated with both Sagittarius and Pisces, while the Planet Saturn was associated with both Capricorn and Aquarius. Later when the unseen-with-the-naked-eye planets Uranus and Neptune were "discovered" (although Astrologers always knew they were there), Uranus was assigned to Aquarius and Neptune to Pisces. However, Aquarius and Pisces still retain a relationship with Saturn and Jupiter despite the addition of other Planets.
Instead of the Jupiter/Saturn/Saturn/Jupiter of non-Leap Years, this year we have Jupiter/Saturn/Saturn/Jupiter/Jupiter, and the kickoff to Adar Aleph happens on the Aquarius/Aquarius New Moon, making it literally the "furthest out" month of the Year, as far as we can go before we are reined back into a more "normal" expression of time.
So too Adar Aleph is "far out" energetically, enabling us to meld the structure and discipline of Saturn (Shabtai)'s Aquarian energy, infused with the LIGHTENING MAGIC of Uranus, Planet of Hiddushim and the higher expression of "Bina," and move that into expansive Jupiter's enhancement of Neptune's big dream of universal love, brother/sisterhood and one-ness with our Creator and each other.
Leap Years in the Hebrew Calendar, when Adar Aleph is added to the Calendar called "Pregnant Years" (the actual Metonic Cycle term is "Embolismic") and Adar Aleph is what we're pregnant with - so Mazal Tov and welcome to the world, Adar Aleph, may joy begin to increase due to your arrival and may we all give birth to something joyful today!
Chodesh Adar Aleph Tov - Shabbat Shalom!
The "Mini-Moon," the first Full Moon of 2014, the Full Moon of the Month of Shvat - Tu b'Shvat 5774.
A "Mini Moon" when the Moon reaches its apogee – or its further point from Earth in its orbit.
This will be the closest a full moon has been to its exact time of apogee since November 1994, and will not be as close again until 2052.
The Native and Indigenous Peoples of North America call this phenomenon a "Wolf Moon," because the wolves howl with hunger at the Full Moon that climaxes the Winter months.
Issues of abundance, scarcity, provision, protection, security and stability are at the forefront of the Chart for the "Mini Moon."
Some years in the 19 year Hebrew Calendar Cycle find Tu b'Shvat falls on Capricorn/Cancer (Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Cancer), other years it falls in Aquarius/Leo. This year the Capricorn/Cancer dynamic is a powerful archetype for control of security, resources, provision, and all that manifests as the material or "gashmi" aspects of sustainable life.
Power Struggles between our values and what we value. Encouraging erratic, abrupt and headstrong dynamics with passive-aggressive opponents who hold the resources won't yield fruitful results. Find common ground in concerns about security and what that really means on a day-to-day level - home, food, family, relationships - and stop distracting yourself from facing the "Tachlis" reality by chasing after shadows that aren't really there - especially when there are real shadows to be dealt with, right in your own backyard.
The real shadows to be wrestled with are mistrust, miscommunication, powerfully controlling agendas controlled by fear, rigidity and entrenched belief systems.
Let the common ground of Mother Nature and Father Time be a place to invite the "other" to dance - Let the humanitarian, human race-loving energy of Shvat flow like the "Glee," the bucket that the Water-Bearer brings to "Shower the people you love with love, show them the way that you feel - things are gonna get much better if you only will...."
Egyptian Astrologer Warns The World: The Jews Are Gaining Power!
All sorts of hooplala going on out there in Internet Land right now regarding this video of Egyptian Astrologer Sayyed Al-Shimi which appeared on Al-Nahar TV explaining why the upcoming transit of the Planet Saturn though Sagittarius (scheduled for December 2014) means that the Jews will be stronger.
What's funny, of course, is the timing of this video - corresponding to the time when we read in the Torah about the birth of Moses and how he becomes the deliverer of the Jewish People from Egypt.
You know there's a Midrash that says that the Egyptian Astrologers correctly predicted that Moses' downfall would come about through water - they just didn't get that it would be in G*d's time and G*d's way, with a water (from the rock he should have spoken to instead of struck) they never could have foreseen.
Saturn ("Shabtai" - "My Sabbath") is a Planet very closely associated with the Jewish People. Saturn typically transits through each Sign of the Zodiac for about 2 1/2 years. Right now Saturn is in Scorpio, a Sign traditionally associated with the Arab Nations. Saturn has been in Scorpio since early October, 2012.
Beginning in December 2014 until December 2017, Saturn will be transiting through Sagittarius. It's a very favorable position for us, in that it has a lot of energetic potential.
One should not take Carte Blanche with the concept that Saturn in a Fire Sign is automatically good for the Jews. But I will make the following observation - from late April 1937 until the end of July 1939, Saturn was in the aggressive, Mars-Ruled Fire Sign of Aries. Those were the years that Hitler (y'mach sh'mo) and his Nazi Party had HUGE success not only in Germany but in Europe in general with their aggressive stance and their antisemitic rhetoric.
Hitler himself was very involved in the occult and employed astrologers. When Saturn made a hard conjunction to Hitler's natal Sun in Taurus, Hitler invaded Poland. It's still a mystery as to whether Hitler chose that time period because he knew it was a powerful energetic opportunity for him to exert his will over hundreds of thousands of people.
Most of the beginning of WWII happened when Saturn was in Taurus. It wasn't until May 1942 that Saturn entered the Air Sign of Gemini that things peaked (the Axis Powers had their biggest successes January - May 1942) and the war began to change direction.
The movements of the Planets does not CREATE circumstances and events as much as they REFLECT them. Saturn''s transit through Mars/Pluto-ruled Scorpio has not been "good for the Jews." The combative, aggressive and hostile energies of Mars and Pluto move Saturn from mature to stubborn, rigid to ossified, structured to enmeshed and mired in the same-old, same-old.
There are three Fire Signs - Cardinal/Initiating Fire Aries (ruled by Mars), Fixed/Establishing Fire Leo (ruled by the Sun), and Mutable/Transforming Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter). When Saturn is in any of these Fire Signs, Saturn's "tzimtzuming" energy (which is to constrict, create borders and boundaries, control) meets the energy of the ruling Planet of the Sign that Saturn is visiting.
The upcoming transit of Saturn through Sagittarius is a melding of the energies of Saturn ("Shabtai" - "My Sabbath") and Jupiter ("Tzedek" - from the word Tzadik, Righteous). It's a most profoundly auspicious time to wed the maturity and wisdom of Saturn with the fortuitous, positive, expansive and beneficent energy of Jupiter.
All the Saturn in Sagittarius transits of the previous Century (March 1897 thru the beginning of January, 1900, December 1926 - November 1929, April 1937 - July 1939, October 1956 - January 1959, November 1985 - February 1988) had the same Saturn the Sign of Jupiter energy, with different material world manifestations.
So what I have to reply to you, Mr. Egyptian Astrologer Sayyed Al-Shimi, is, like your Egyptian Astrologer predecessors who predicted a savior would arise who would meet his downfall through water, you're seeing something that you don't know how to perceive. Although you DO see that the upcoming Saturn in Sagittarius will be good for the Jews, tragically, because of the brainwashing you've received from your culture and your religion, you don't see just HOW GOOD something that's good for the Jews is also good for this WORLD.
The Hebrew Month of Shvat begins at Sundown on January 1st.
Shvat belongs to the Tribe of Asher, and is associated with the Mazal of "Dlee," the pitcher of water, otherwise known as Aquarius, the Water-Bearer.
Shvat's element is Fixed Air (even though Aquarius is the water-bearer!) and, appropriate to the Tribe of Asher (which is associated with delicious foods) the Sefer Yetzirah tells us that the stomach is the body organ associated with Shvat, and the Tikkun of Shvat has to do with eating.
The Bnei Yisachar ("Discourses on Shvat") says that according to Astrology, Dlee-Aquarius is the sign of the Jewish People. No other sign of the Zodiac is as concerned with issues of humanitarianism, universalism and the brotherhood of mankind as is Aquarius. The bucket of water is an appropriate sign for Israel, because water is a symbol for Torah, and it is Israel's job to be the water-bearer for this world.
Each of the Four Elements (Fire, Air, Earth and Water) operate in one of Three Modalities (Cardinal/Initiating, Fixed/Establishing or Mutable/Transforming). The Month of Shvat is the Fixed Air Sign of the Zodiac.
All three Air Signs (Gemini/Sivan, Libra/Tishrei and Aquarius/Shvat) are associated with the Torah - which was given over by Moshe ("Mishna Torah") beginning on Rosh Chodesh Shvat (Aquarius, Fixed Air, Establishing Torah). The Torah was given to the Jewish Nation at Sinai during the Month of Sivan (Gemini, Mutable Air, Transforming Torah) and during Tishrei the Second Set of Tablets were given (Libra, Cardinal Air, Initiating Torah).
It is interesting to note the Planets associated with the Months and their Modalities in this example. The Planet Mercury (Kokhav) which has to do with communication, is associated with Gemini (Mutable/Transforming Air) and the Tribe of Zebulon, known for conducting commerce (via shipping) with foreign nations.
The Planet Venus (Noga) is associated with Libra (Cardinal/Initiating Air) and the Tribe of Ephraim. Venus is concerned with beauty, relationships, balance and justice/fairness, as well as the arts and romantic love. The Second Set of Tablets that were given by Moshe during Tishrei were the sign of the RELATIONSHIP that HKBH could live with in regards to the Jewish People.
There are two Planets associated with Aquarius. One is Saturn (Shabtai) which co-rules Capricorn/Tevet, and the other is Uranus (Oron). There are good reasons for the co-rulership and the evolving of our consciousness about the Planets in general and their relationship to the Nations of this world.
Saturn (Shabtai) is concerned with structure, order, organization, boundaries and restriction ("Tzimtzum"). The relationship between Tevet and Shvat is most interesting. They are the Months on this side of the year said by the Ari as "belonging to Esav" from Rosh Chodesh Tevet - which remember, is STILL within Chanukah! - until Tu b'Shvat). Tevet and Shvat are the two eyes (according to the Holy Ari who attributed facial organs to the Hebrew Months), Tevet is "Ayin" and associated with the right eye, and Shvat is "Tzadik" and associated with the left eye. One needs both the right and left eye to see properly and in perspective.
Uranus (Oron) is originality, individualism, humanitarianism, a visionary perspective. It's the energy associated with hiddushim, original insights. No other Sign of the Zodiac has more talent for originality, or is so intellectually curious, as Aquarius. It is interesting to recall that both Copernicus and Galileo were Aquarians. Shvat is the Month most conducive to original thought.
Wishing everyone a Happy Solar/Gregorian New Year 2014, and a happy and holy Chodesh Shvat 5774!


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According to the 2010 census, the current population is 12,303.
Does Salem have a Chamber of Commerce?
Yes. The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce can be reached at (330) 337-3473, or you can visit the Salem Chamber website.
Where may I obtain a copy of a birth/death certificate or marriage license?
Birth and death certificates may be obtained from the Salem office of the Columbiana County Health Department (330/332-1618); marriage licenses and records are obtained from the Probate Court at the County Courthouse in Lisbon (330/424-9511).
Is there a recycling center in Salem?
Yes, the recycling center is located next to the Fire Department in the adjacent parking lot. The center accepts cardboard, paper items, glass (green, brown, & clear), steel, and aluminum cans.
Where can I get information on the industrial park?
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Today I want to share MetaMoji Note Lite (also known as Note Anytime). This PDF annotator is a snap to use and it has versions for the iPad, Kindle Fire, Windows, and Android tablets. On the MetaMoji site there is a list of the features that are in each version.
This app is great for anyone who wants to draw on a document, photo, or blank page. I particularly like how easy it is to open a PDF document in a lesson.
1. Download the app from iTunes on your iPad. You can also download it to your iPhone.
2. On today's post, select this PDF file, Let's Draw a Treble Clef, and open it on your iPad or iPhone.
Select "Open In" and below that a tab will open up icons of all the apps on your iPad that can open PDF documents. Remember, just because your iPad lists all the apps that will open a PDF for you to read, it doesn't mean that you can also write on the PDF. Scroll across until you get to the one that says "Open in Note" and select it.
4. Now you will see a window that says "Import". Select "As New Note" and then select "Done". The graphic below shows my PDF opened in MetaMoji Note Lite. Use the pinch gesture to drag the worksheet to make it larger.
5. At the top you will see an icon that looks like a pencil. Select it and the lines that appear are the pen settings for the lines you will draw with your stylus or finger. Select one and hold it. Another small window will open and you can choose the color and thickness of your line. I chose the calligraphy pen with the two-tone color. Select "done". Below you can see the lines I drew with the calligraphy pen using different colors.
Now you are ready for your student to write on the worksheet!
When you finish, you can select the box with the arrow pointing up to see ways you can save this PDF. I usually don't save my student's work, but I do save the PDF to use again with another student. To see your saved PDF's, select the folder in the top left of the tool bar.
Another great thing about this app is that you can open multi page PDF documents. There are not too many free PDF annotators that will do that.
In the graphic above, I have labeled the tool bar, but it is really simple to use. The screen lock keeps the PDF from being written on. If you have an impulsive student who wants to start writing before you have explained something, keep the screen locked. The pencil tool is for drawing and writing by hand. The eraser will erase all of your markings, but will not erase the original PDF. The lasso tool allows you to select something you have drawn and move it around the screen. This comes in handy if you have a PDF of a music staff and you want to draw a note and move it around the screen. Your PDF will remain unchanged. The undo button will clear your PDF so you can use it again.
What a PDF annotator will not do is allow you to cut and paste the original PDF.
There is a wrist guard on the bottom right of the screen that keep students from making accidental markings with their wrists. Simply grab it from the corner to enlarge it or flip it around.
This app has many other features that I am not going into. There are even more extra features in the paid version. At their website, you can view several short video tutorials to get started. I found this app so easy that I didn't need the help features, but if you can get all kinds of support at their website. And you can always ask your students for help because they always seem to know how to use anything on the iPad!
I'm not getting the different colored pens. Is there a secret? Only red and black were available when I downloaded this version. Any help or ideas is appreciated! Thank you!
Kristy, what device are you using? First select the pencil tool. Then when that opens, select any one of the circles and another window will open. That is the window where you can choose colors. If you're still confused, watch the videos, because it really helps to see it, rather than just read about it!
You are really amazing. I have learned so much from your many blogs. I have a question not about this app. . .but about group piano. I used to teach for Yamaha, so I have the skills to teach group piano, but I haven't found a curriculum that seems to work. Could you give me some advice?
Georgia, most of the group curriculum products I know of are the franchise type for small children. I really haven't studied them and don't know a lot about them.
For average beginners I have heard good things about Piano Safari. I believe you have to get it from their website.
The teachers I know who teach in groups use regular method books and modify them for groups.
http://www.grouppianoteaching.com might have some suggestions for you!
This is a really cool app! thanks Susan!
That seems to be a strange way to draw a treble clef. I was always taught to draw it starting on the G line, round then up, loop at the top then vertically down through the starting point with a little hook at the end, and that's how I teach my students. I'm not sure whether I can draw it "backwards". Haha!
I suppose there are many ways to draw one!
You're welcome, Ann. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!


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The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) notes and welcomes the Department of Basic Education's decision to delay the opening of schools from the 27th of January and allow the learners on the 15th of February depending on the virus' behavior during the two-week delay. However, the SADTU does not agree with the call for educators and SMTs to report for duty from the 25th of January. The unions were not consulted.
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SADTU in KZN is worried by the state of affairs in some marking centres. Since markers reported for duty there are cases where the Union has intervened on, which include a large number of teachers who did not have accommodation. SADTU urges teachers to take the call seriously for them to indicate if they need the Department to organize accommodation for them.
South African Democratic Teachers Union Statement on the passing on of the Eastern Cape Department of Basic Education Superintendent General (HOD), Cde Temba Kojane
SADTU is saddened by the untimely passing of Superintendent General, Cde Temba Kojana. This is a devastating blow to our Union because as the province, we had had to work with acting HODs until his appointment. It is with immense sorrow that we mourn the untimely passing Cde Temba who was a founding member of SADTU.
Corrected SADTU statement on the passing of the President of the National Teachers' Union (NATU)
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) is saddened by the news of the passing on of the President of the National Teachers' Union (NATU), Allen Thompson. He was elected as the President of NATU in 2018 after having served as the Union's Deputy President in the previous term.
SADTU statement on the passing of the General Secretary of the South African Municipal Workers Union
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) has received with great shock and sadness the reports about the passing on of the General Secretary of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), Cde Koena Wilson Ramotlou on the 2nd of January 2021. This happens just after he was elected as the General Secretary at SAMWU's 12th National Congress last month and hardly a week after we lost the sitting General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
SADTU statement on the passing on of the General Secretary of the NUM
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) has received, with great shock and sadness, the news about the passing on of the General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cde David Kolekile Sipunzi on the 25th of December 2020.
SADTU North West mourns the tragic death of three (3) Grade 12 learners
The South African Democratic Teachers Union in the North West (SADTU NW) has learned with great shock, the horrific and fatal taxi accident on Friday 11 th December 2020 that took the lives of three Grade 12 learners from Rethusegile Secondary School in Lethabong Village near Rustenburg. The three met the accident on the way from attending attending an "After examination celebration".
SADTU Statement on the court ruling on the Rewrite of leaked Matric Exam Papers
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) welcomes the decision by the High Court, Pretoria Division to set aside the decision by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to have all learners who wrote the National Senior Certificate (Matric) mathematics and physical science PAPER 2 to be rewritten.
SADTU statement on the rewriting of leaked matric Exam Papers
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union(SADTU) is seeking legal action against the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and examinations quality assurer Umalusi over the decision to have all learners who wrote the National Senior Certificate (Matric) mathematics and physical science rewrite because the examination papers were leaked.
COSATU affiliated Public Service Unions ready to fight salary increases at Labour Appeal Court
The government has failed to present 'exhaustive evidence' to show it cannot afford wage increases for its employees; lawyers for three COSATU affiliated public-sector unions are arguing in papers before the Labour Appeal Court.
EUSA unconditionally apologise to SADTU
An unrecognised trade union - the Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) has unconditionally apologised to the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) and her members for the defamatory statements they published against SADTU on their Facebook page and website on 15, 16 and 20th July this year.
SADTU wishes TVET colleges students good luck in their examinations
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) wishes the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students all the best in their examinations. Examinations began on 10 November and will finish on 10 December.
SADTU calls on DBE and DOH to convene an urgent meeting on the unilateral decision that violates the isolation protocols during the writing of final examinations
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) strongly condemns the unilateral decision of the Department of Basic Education (DBE), together with the Department of Health to allow learners who might have tested positive during the writing of examinations to write in isolation but in the same schools or examination centres where other learners are writing.
SADTU Statement on the appaling conditions Grade 12 Learners are taught under
SADTU is shocked by what is said to be a centre or a camp for matric holiday classes near Umzinto, South Coast of KwaZulu Natal. It cannot happen that when all of us are frightened by the scourge of the Covid-19 and its effect, the department of education put our learners and teachers in a situation where there is total disregard of regulations that are meant to curb the spread of the virus. We find this strange and totally inhumane.
SADTU statement following the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement delivered by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has left SADTU, the largest union in the education and public service sector with no joy. It is a slap in the face to hard working educators and public servants.
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COSATU, SACP, ANC, SANCO, COSAS, SASCO AND SADTU notes with apprehension and concern the alleged irregular extension of the appointment contract of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) Head of Department (HOD) Mr. Brian Schreuder as is per the report of the Public Service Commission (PSC). More alarming is the Premier's refusal to take corrective action and to actually undermine the findings of the report of this independent oversight body.
SADTU Western Cape's weighs in on the debate of on educator who was charged for identifying himself as African
Recently, the public was embroiled in a matter of an educator being charged for taking a conscious decision to proclaim that he is an African. SADTU does not have a history on commenting on individual cases, like we have not gone public on the Neumann matter, notwithstanding the fact that it is well known that we represented Neumann at the schedule 8 consultation, prehearing and consultation with his legal team.
SADTU confident of victory at the Labour Appeal Court
The South African Democratic Teachers Union, the country's biggest education union and one of the public-sector organisations involved in a legal battle with the government over its refusal to honour a three-year multi-tier wage deal it had agreed to in 2018, says it is confident that the Labour Appeal Court will rule in favour of the workers.
SADTU North West condemns the burning and damaging of school property
The South African Democratic Teachers' Union in the North West Province (SADTU NW) is deeply concerned about the burning and destruction of property in four schools around Moruleng in the Rustenburg area.
SADTU notes the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery plan presented by President Cyril Ramaphosa
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Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC Saint-Jean) went through the traditional Exercise BLIZZARD NORDIQUE from February 9 to 11.
For Officer Cadets Noémie Pelletier and David Belley, from Richelieu Squadron and Tracy Squadron respectively, it was their first time taking part in this annual exercise. Both in the first year of studies at RMC Saint-Jean, they said that throughout the three days, they learned to work as a team.
"This is the key to successful operation simulations. During these challenging days, we really learned to get closer to our colleagues," said OCdt Belley.
OCdt Belley, who hopes to join the ranks of an armoured unit, noted that having spent a weekend with Le Régiment de Hull in recent months was very useful to prepare him for Ex BLIZZARD NORDIQUE.
OCdt Pelletier added that the exercise allowed future officers to work well together. "It made us discover each other's strengths," she said, admitting that she really enjoyed going to the exercise site aboard a Chinook helicopter. Her favourite part was working at the operations posts overnight, and transmitting the instructions of those in command. "I want to make a career in signalling, so it was a fantastic opportunity," she noted.
Last fall, the two officer cadets attended Ex LEADERSHIP CONQUÉRANT at the Farnham site. They said the exercises are very complementary. "In fact, we discovered that a winter war has major differences. The cold is one of our enemies during this type of operation," said OCdt Belley.
Each year, participants of Ex BLIZZARD NORDIQUE are presented with a different challenge. This time, organizers opted for the Ice Breaking Drill, in which the officer cadets had to face the water in Hayes Lake while the outside temperature was -10°C.
It was the most difficult time of the weekend. "I admit that I was a little scared to go, but a strong adrenaline rush got me through it," said OCdt Pelletier.
To see more photos, visit the CMR Saint-Jean image gallery.
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The retreats are held in Bozeman, MT. Bozeman is a beautiful small town nestled at the foot of the Rockies. Yellowstone Park is just an hour and one half away, legendary fly-fishing on the Madison and Gallatin Rivers are just minutes away, and Bozeman is home to the world-class dinosaur museum, The Museum of the Rockies. The local full-service airport has direct flights from many of the airline hub cities and is easy to get to.


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Sebastian Münster
Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552
Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552),[1] was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.
Cosmographia
He was born in Ingelheim, near Mainz, as the son of Andreas Münster. His parents and other ancestors were farmers.[1][2] In 1505, he entered the Franciscan order. Four years later, he entered a monastery where he became a student of Konrad Pelikan for five years.[1] Münster completed his studies at the Universität Tübingen in 1518. His graduate adviser was Johannes Stöffler.[3]
He left the Franciscans for the Lutheran Church in order to accept an appointment at the Reformed Church-dominated University of Basel in 1529.[2][4] He had long harbored an interest in the Lutherans, and during the German Peasants' War, as a monk, he had been repeatedly attacked.[2] A professor of Hebrew, and a disciple of Elias Levita, he edited the Hebrew Bible (2 vols. fol., Basel, 1534-1535), accompanied by a Latin translation and a large number of annotations. He was the first German to produce an edition of the Hebrew Bible.[5]
He published more than one Hebrew grammar, and was the first to prepare a Grammatica Chaldaica (Basel, 1527). His lexicographical labours included a Dictionarium Chaldaicum (1527), and a Dictionarium trilingue for Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in 1530.[5]
He released a Mappa Europae (map of Europe) in 1536. In 1537 he published a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew which he had obtained from Spanish Jews he had converted. In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations. The 1550 edition contains cities, portraits, and costumes. These editions, printed in Germany, are the most valued of this work. Other writings that followed are Horologiographia (a treatise on dialling — constructing sundials, Basel, 1531), and Organum Uranicum (a treatise on the planetary motions, 1536).[4]
His Cosmographia of 1544 was the earliest German-language description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French, Italian, English, and even Czech. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular works of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years.[6] This success was due to the fascinating woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel), in addition to including the first to introduce "separate maps for each of the four continents known then--America, Africa, Asia and Europe."[7] It was most important in reviving geography in 16th century Europe. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death.
His Rudimenta Mathematica was published in Basel in 1551.[4]
He died at Basel of the plague in 1552. His tombstone described him as the Ezra and the Strabo of the Germans.[5]
Several paintings with oil on canvas, woodcuts and copper etchings depict Sebastian Münster, by Hans Holbein d. J. (Basel, c. 1530), Willem de Haen (1615), as rector of the University of Basel (by Christoph Amberger, um 1547), and on the 100-DM-bill as used 1962 to 1991.
Statue of Sebastian Münster in front of St. Remigius Church, Ingelheim
Cover of first edition of Cosmographia
his home town Ingelheim in Cosmographia
Porträt of Sebastian Münsters, edition of 1628
Europa regina in Münster's "Cosmographia", 1570.
Old 100 DM banknote, 1962-1991, depicting Münster's effigy.
1 2 3 Miles Baynton-Williams. "MapForum Issue 10". Mapforum.com. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
1 2 3 Horst Robert Balz; Gerhard Krause; Gerhard Müller (1994). "Münster, Sebastian (1488-1552)". Theologische Realenzyklopädie. 23. Walter de Gruyter. p. 407. ISBN 3-11-013852-2.
↑ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
1 2 3 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Münster, Sebastian". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
1 2 3 Baynes, T.S.; Smith, W.R., eds. (1884). "Münster, Sebastian". Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (9th ed.).
↑ Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Münster, Sebastian". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
↑ National Library Board of Singapore. Visualising Space: Maps of Singapore and the Region. Collections from the National Library and National Archives of Singapore, 2014, p. 42
Karl Heinz Burmeister: Sebastian Münster - Versuch eines biographischen Gesamtbildes. Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 91, Basel und Stuttgart 1963 und 1969.
Karl Heinz Burmeister: Sebastian Münster - Eine Bibliographie. Wiesbaden 1964.
Ralf Kern: Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in ihrer Zeit. Vol. 1. Cologne, 2010. pp. 307–311.
Hans Georg Wehrens: Freiburg in der "Cosmographia" von Sebastian Münster (1549); in Freiburg im Breisgau 1504 - 1803, Holzschnitte und Kupferstiche. Verlag Herder, Freiburg 2004, S. 34 ff. ISBN 3-451-20633-1.
Günther Wessel: Von einem, der daheim blieb, die Welt zu entdecken - Die Cosmographia des Sebastian Münster oder Wie man sich vor 500 Jahren die Welt vorstellte. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-593-37198-7.
Ludwig Geiger (1886), "Münster, Sebastian", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 23, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 30–33
Claus Priesner (1997), "Münster, Sebastian", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 18, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 539–541
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Wer war Sebastian Münster? - Umfangreiche Dokumentensammlung des Sebastian-Münster-Gymnasiums in Ingelheim.
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Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Sebastian Munster in .jpg and .tiff format.
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NFL Likely Cracking Down on Celebratory Spinning (UPDATE)
Two training camp reports have mentioned referees talking about spinning, and not the bicycle-related type.
By 3k@3k_ Aug 6, 2013, 9:13am CDT
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Well, it wouldn't be a modern NFL season if the league weren't looking for ways to strip the emotion and enjoyment of the sport out of it. So consider this part of the preseason ritual.
Both this report from Pat Yasinskas who covers the NFC South for ESPN and this one from the Vikings reporter for Minneapolis/St. Paul's ESPN radio affiliate mention the referees have indicated that spinning the ball will draw more frequent unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.
I get the intent. The celebrations that turn into pushing and shoving -- I understand why the league wants to avoid those when possible. But the reality is, the rulebook prohibits a host of celebrations, as noted by PFT:
The 2012 official playing rules listed examples of prohibited acts that will result in unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, saying, "These acts include but are not limited to: sack dances; home run swing; incredible hulk; spiking the ball; throwing or shoving the ball; pointing; pointing the ball; verbal taunting; military salute; standing over an opponent (prolonged and with provocation; or dancing."
So the rulebook actually penalizes pretty much any celebration (including incredible hulk...), which is stupid and completely counter to the argument presented in early 2006 by one of the NFL competition committee chairmen...Jeff Fisher who indicated that dancing was an acceptable/ outlet for emotional displays:
So spiking the ball in the end zone will be OK. And spinning it on the ground, or dunking it over the goalpost. Dancing in the end zone is fine, too, as long as it's not prolonged or a group effort.
Almost all other celebrations will be out if the committee's recommendation to clamp down further on the frivolities is passed by the owners.
Players can't use props for any celebrations, and they can't be on the ground when they do their thing. Asked what happens if a player is tackled in the end zone and begins celebrating while down, Fisher said it would be a penalty.
"Get up and dance," he said, prompting laughter at a news conference.
Is this really going to have much of an impact on the entertainment of the game? Probably not. people like football for football.
But I do feel bad that kids in a couple years might not get to enjoy the goofiness of the NFL that I did when I was 8 or 9 if they start cracking down on some of that stuff. The handful of VHS tapes I had received from re-upping my subscription to Sports Illustrated for Kids or that had made it into the family VHS collection were the ones I treasured most (along with Michael Jackson at the Motown 25 tape...don't ask).
So take away the spinning if you must, Goodell. But let the people have their sack dance. For God's sake, let them have that dance, man.
SBN has released a very thorough, very serious list of all acts which will be penalized as unsportsmanlike conduct.
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Congratulations 2016 VBCOA Mid-Year Conference Scholarship Recipients!
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Congratulations to the 2016 VBCOA scholarship award recipients to attend the 2016 VBCOA Mid-Year Conference in Charlottesville Virginia on April 10 – 11 2016! To support their attendance, participation, and contribution to the statewide conference, fourteen (14) dedicated VBCOA members representing ten (10) jurisdictions, including City of Alexandria, City of Emporia, Fairfax County, Grayson County, James City County, City of Manassas Park, City of Norton, City of Richmond, Roanoke County, and Warren County, were recently awarded $75 scholarships for single-day attendance or $150 scholarships for two-attendance. VBCOA thanks these deserving scholarship applicants for their continued and committed service to the professional code organization and the code compliance industry. VBCOA looks forward to seeing them and everyone at the 2016 VBCOA Mid-Year Conference in Charlottesville!


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Somerset County children can get first COVID vaccine shots. Here's where
Mike Deak
MyCentralJersey.com
Somerset County will begin administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children 5 to 11 years old on Friday.
The vaccine will be offered 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Somerset County Senior Wellness Center, 876 E. Main St., Bridgewater. The walk-in clinic will be only for children.
The clinic for children will also be open the same hours on Nov. 12 and 19.
Previously scheduled second-dose appointments for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will also be accommodated at these clinics.
The Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11-years old will be given in two doses, with 21 days between the first dose and second dose.
Kids' COVID vaccine:Here's how to get an appointment in New Jersey
Eligible children must have parental or legal guardian consent, a parent or guardian present during vaccination, and Somerset County residency to receive the vaccine at the clinic.
Somerset County has 238,746 fully vaccinated residents, representing 74.8% of the 12 and older population and 84.5% of all residents, according to state figures. Both are the highest percentages for any county in New Jersey.
All Somerset County COVID-19 vaccination clinics are listed on the county's website.
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Chopin Not Good Enough For America
Gamesarefun writer Josh Freund informs us that Tri-Crescendo is making a fantastic new rpg which features the music of Polish pianist Fryderyk Chopin. The game appears to feature other themes from Chopin's time and life as well. In fact, the Japanese version is titled Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream. Now, that's pretty exciting for me, being Polish and all.
So imagine my disappointment when I found that the US version is not going to have Chopin in the title. Slated for sometime in 2007, the US version will be called Eternal Sonata. Not only that, but there is a possibility that Chopin's character in the game will be renamed to something fictional.
So, what are those marketing dudes for Namco Bandai doing? Is the home country of Polish jokes just not suitable to have a famous Polish musician in a mainstream game title? These are the questions that make we wonder if this decision is racially motivated. It's no secret that Polish people are not entirely viewed as intelligent in this country, so maybe they think this would hurt their sales.
Or maybe--just maybe--they think America isn't smart enough for them to understand the complexity and class of a famous pianist. Well, whatever ridiculous reason they've got for it, Chopin deserves to stay in the game no matter where in the world it gets released. I think everybody knows in this day and age that Chopin created some of the most incredible music this world has heard. If only that knowledge could be retained in this high quality mainstream video game. Tri-Crescendo has previously given us incredible games to enjoy, and I am sure that it will be no different in this case. American gamers can be proud of these titles as much as the Japanese, just as they can honor Chopin's achievements. So come on Namco Bandai, where's the love?
Update: Reader Comment -- Nick Q writes "For once, this is not an issue of Namco(Bandai) being retarded, but an issue of abusive copyright. Here in the States, it is very likely that whoever owns Chopin's estate would sue for unlicenced use of his name, likeness, or whatever. Copyright laws are much, much more relaxed in Japan though, so none of this is an issue."
However, since Chopin lived during 1810 - 1849, this puts his name and work in the public domain. The game will feature his music prominently after all, even if his name isn't present. Chopin's estate should be located in France (or possibly Poland). However, Google did not find any results for his estate. So it would seem that with his estate being in another country, and the game being released un the US, there should not be any problems with using a name and music in the public domain.
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Three Miles Was Just Right
Jul 27, 2010 - By Barbara
When I sent Glenn the link to Kingdom Swim (KS), I didn't think he'd even check out the site, let alone sign up. But less than a minute later he emailed back saying, "The 10-miler looks good. I'm in." That was in January, right after we'd spent time with open-water superstar Fran Crippen. Fran made it look easy, and his enthusiasm for open water obviously had an effect on us. I took a gulp and signed up for the 3-mile Kingdom Swim. So there I was — a freestyle-challenged breaststroker, faced with the task of preparing for a 3-mile swim.
The swimming prep was pretty easy: Build gradually on my daily workouts (from a typical 3000y to around 3500y), and build gradually at my longer Saturday workout (from 3500y to 6100y on the final week before KS). From marathon training, I knew that Goal #1 is to get to the starting line without injuries, so I was religious about doing shoulder-strengthening exercises, and about including backstroke, breaststroke, and kicking into those longer workouts.
I was able to do 5 or 6 open-water lake swims before the race, and these were key for mental and logistical preparation. On most of them, I was accompanied (oops, I mean GUIDED) by my husband, Kermit. At Kingdom Swim, all the 3- and 10-mile swimmers must have a kayaker with them at all times, and Kermit was my "yakker." It took several training sessions before I came to the understanding that HE was in charge, not me. I needed to trust him totally to guide me from buoy to buoy. As Phil White, Kingdom Swim's outstanding race director, advised the yakkers: "Remember: Swimmers are waterlogged, stubborn Idiots, who want to swim and swim and swim and who will swim you right into Canada if you let them." Once I let go and admitted that my yakker was in charge, we became a true Team.
The start of the 10-mile swim was spectacular, as 80+ swimmers high-stepped into the water and began swimming toward the "Start Buoy" some 200 yards off shore. Beyond the buoy was a flotilla of nearly 200 kayaks of all shapes, sizes, and colors. As the 10-mile swimmers rounded the buoy, half the kayakers peeled off to link up with their swimmers. The other half moved into position to await the 3-mile swimmers, who started half an hour later. I was in the second group, and it was my goofy pink bathing suit that helped Kermit pick me out from the crush of swimmers. We locked into formation and sailed a straight course from buoy to buoy.
The 3-mile swim went by in a flash. I kept thinking everything was PERFECT — the water temp, the air, the taste of the water, and the way the light was filtering through the top layer of this incredibly beautiful lake at the border of Vermont and Canada. For the first mile and a half, I settled into a long stroke, focusing on just a few basic things like keeping my head down, my breathing relaxed, and my pull nice and shallow.
I found myself thinking about the freestylers with whom we've worked, and what I learned from them. So many strong visual images! For part of the race, I was trying to look like Fran Crippen, sighting with just my goggles above the waterline. As I rounded each buoy, I tried to execute Sara McLarty's special freestyle/backstroke turning technique. For most of the race, however, I was seeing underwater images of Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and her high-elbow catch and straight wrists. I could hear her talking in my head, telling me "Don't hold your breath. Relax your breathing." At buoy #7, when I was swimming breaststroke through a weedy area and trying to fight off some foot cramps, I was seeing images of Amanda and Brendan getting into streamline on every stroke. And as I rounded buoy #8 with less than a mile to go to the finish, I saw flashes of Scott Tucker's 12-beat kick, as I tried to get a little more umph out of my own 6-beat kick. Of course, I don't look ANYTHING like these great swimmers, but their images gave me direction and focus.
With all this visual help, and with sighting help from Kermit, I felt like I was swimming with a posse of superstars. I was able to finish strong and have already marked my calendar for next year's race and for a 4-mile swim next month on Lake Willoughby, another crystal-clear lake in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Many thanks to Phil White for making Kingdom Swim possible, and for Kermit, Glenn, and Rachel for making it fun. The event allowed us to meet new challenges, new friends, and a new way of swimming.
Boring Practices
Yep, it happens to the best of us (and me). The other day, I was giving some kids I work with a practice, and about half-way through, one looks up to me and says, "Are we doing this again?"
Creative Coaching on a Shoestring Budget
It's the start of a new season, and you're trying to decide what equipment your team will need. The options are endless: paddles, kickboards, fins, pull buoys, tethers, and even snorkels. The trouble is…budget.
Two Paths to Success?
So here's the scenerio. You have an 8-year-old swimmer and, like most 8-year olds, he/she is pretty new to the sport (even 8-year olds who've been swimming for a while are NEW to the sport). You have a decision to make… which path to go down for their future?
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An Epic Odyssey Returns In New Form!
Prepare to re-engage your thrusters and pilot your very own spaceship through the depths of the great beyond as the iconic Flash game from Wx3 Labs revives itself in, Starcom: Nexus.
After ten years of existence, Starcom is back with a stunning reinvention as a standalone PC game after the original Flash game went on to create a cult following.
What's New In Starcom: Nexus?
Players will take control of an agile spacecraft in a scenic top-down view and engage in heated space battles, universal exploration and riveting alien interaction.
With slick customizing options, pilots will equip their combat ships with bullet deflecting armour, powerful engines and devastating weaponry like plasma cannons, missiles and other fiery projectiles.
Communicate with other alien species in hopes of acquiring new allies, or stay wary of enemy hostiles when scouring the vast darkness. Use rich dialogue options to create a rewarding narrative between you and other sentient beings.
The action-adventure RPG provides a near-limitless sandbox of space exploration, planetary interactions brimming with tons of anomalies and other peculiar discoveries.
Officially opening up to the public, Starcom: Nexus enters Early Access on Steam on December 12th, 2018.


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I-Square is a mixed-use development in Irondequoit, off Titus Avenue, intended to serve as a town center for Irondequoit. It currently has a "food court" consisting of several restaurants, as well as a conference center. Future plans call for rooftop gardens, an outdoor amphitheater, office space, an art gallery and science center called the Imaginarium.
Construction included a new road, intersection, sidewalk, and utilities.