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Tide-influenced contaminant transport in coastal aquifers
Yong Peng, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering - (Ph.D.)
Yuan Ding
Paul C. Chan
Robert Dresnack
Fourth Advisor
Robert Hazen
Fifth Advisor
John R. Schuring
Coastal aquifers are distinguished from other aquifers because of tidal effects which cause complicated groundwater flow and contaminant transport phenomena in regions immediately adjacent to the coast. This study is designed to address the significance of tidal influence on contaminant transport by focusing on one-dimensional homogeneous coastal aquifers.
This study formulates a conceptual model and corresponding flow and transport equations, analyzes coastal boundary conditions, solves numerically the transport equation, and uses experiments to verify the numerical results.
Results of numerical and experimental studies conclude that tides can have a significant impact on contaminant transport, especially when under unconfined conditions, subject to moderate to high tidal amplitude, with low flow velocity, and within areas adjacent to the coastal boundary. Quantitatively, under these favorable conditions, contaminant discharge can be enhanced by tides by a factor of two or three during early stages of discharge, and the enhanced discharge can still be substantial during later stages by an order of 30 to 50 percent. When the groundwater flow is close to stagnant, as demonstrated in the case study, the tidal impact is most apparent, resulting in significant discharge tens of years ahead of the case without tides.
Peng, Yong, "Tide-influenced contaminant transport in coastal aquifers" (2005). Dissertations. 680.
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Susanna Chapman
Married to Cyrus Edmund Smith — 1859
Susanna was the second child of Susanna and William Chapman and was born on 26 February 1842 at Old Farm , Campbelltown, the original small farm owned by her grandparents and inherited by William Chapman from his mother Elizabeth Ashcroft [1]. In 1842 Susanna was baptised at St. Peters, Campbelltown. Her parents were already planning to move to the Riverina and had leased land there where they needed to build an adequate house for a family. A third child William Robert was born in 1844. The family moved before the fourth child, Edward was born in 1845 [2]. Six more children were born at Butherwah: two girls and four boys. Elizabeth and Susanna were educated at home, the boys spent some part of their education at Kings School and the two younger sisters at Mrs. Almond's Young Ladies College in Tumut. Susanna was a very pretty teenage girl with a mop of black curly hair and a dark complexion, she must have been very like her great grandmother Jane Langley when she caught the eye of Cyrus Edmund Smith and they were married on the 18 May 1859, when she was only 17. The marriage was at her parents' home Urana Station with her sister Elizabeth was a witness.
For the first nine years of their marriage Cyrus managed Urana Station for Susanna's father, William Chapman. During these years four children were born: Emma 18 May 1862, Florence 16 July 1864, in 1866 a little boy was still born. In 1866 Susanna's sister Elizabeth married Cyrus's brother Walter at Gravel Plains Station with Cyrus was a witness. The family had made their move to Tinaldra and a son Cyrus was born 13 July 1867. Cyrus was managing Gravels Plain Station for J. Mitchell.
Susanna's brother William Robert Chapman bought Urana Station from his father and married a long time family friend Charlotte Stiles [3] on 16 January 1868, and the newly married couple moved into Urana Station.
Susanna's husband Cyrus Edmund Smith had continuing interests in northern Victoria from the days when he and his five brothers were on the gold fields. While supplying cattle to the goldfields they had established a large wholesale slaughtering business on the Woolshed, Reid's Creek, and at Beechworth. They also supplied cattle to the Wollomi and the Oven's diggings. Both Cyrus and Walter were on the Ballarat Diggings in 1852.
The family grew up at Gravels Station, Tintaldra and four more children were born in these years: Ethel Blanche in 5 July 1869, Annie Beatrice 10 March 1873, May Constance 15 December 1875. Susanna and Cyrus lived an active life at Tintaldra for as well as cattle they had sheep and carted wool to the main centres for themselves and their neighbours. There was very busy social life with dances, picnics and races which were all well attended. [4]
For Douglas Urquhart's birth 12 March 1880 Susanna went home to her parent's grazing property Lumley Park at Bungonia while eleven year old Ethel was left with her grandparents, and Ethel's grandfather made Old Farm over to Ethel. Two more babies are born to Susanna this time in Wodonga: Eliza Constance Irene 5 March 1882 and Alfred Gordon 6 February 1884.
In the latter years Cyrus and Susanna lived in both Wodonga and Albury. Susanna's eldest daughter Emma was married to Alfred Snell Chauncy at their home in Wodonga. When Susanna's husband Cyrus died in 1900 they were living at Smollett Street, Albury. This is the house many of the family remember them at. They also had a house Birnam Wood at Marrickville where Susanna lived for the last five years of her life. After Susanna died of cancer 18 March 1906 her body was taken back to Albury to be buried with that of Cyrus.
[1] William and his sister Elizabeth were the surviving children of Elizabeth Ashcroft's first marriage to Robert Chapman who had been killed in a horse accident when they were very young and the property had been a grant to Elizabeth Tebbutt when she married Robert Chapman a convict. Elizabeth was adopted by her Tebbutt grandparents John and Ann.
[2] Edward was born at Butherwah in the Riverina on 26 July 1845.
[3] Charlotte Styles attended Mrs. Almond's Young Ladies College with Henrietta & Eliza Chapman. Charlotte Stiles was the step daughter of Elizabeth Chapman whose brother William Chapman Senior now became her father-in-law.
[4] 'Tintaldra 1873-1878 Diary of Charles Trench Armstrong' transcribed by Clare, Coralie and Roland Peddie.
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Situated at the south-eastern tip of China, Hong Kong has a territory size of only 1104 square kilometres but there are 6.98 million people living in it. The vast majority of the population is of Chinese descent, with foreign nationals comprising 5 per cent of the population. The official languages are Chinese and English. People are now expected to be able to speak English, Cantonese (a local dialect) and Putonghua (the official Chinese language). Hong Kong people enjoy freedom of religion and varieties of religion including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Taoism are practised in the territory. Confucianism also has an important influence on the local culture.
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Located next to the states of Campache and Quintana Roo, the peninsula enjoys a tropical climate with hot humid weather for most of the year and heavy downpours during the summer. Yucatan is also a coastal region which gives way to the flat nature of the terrain with little variation with the sole exception of the Puuc hills in the south.
More than two million inhabit the region and this is also the case for some of Mexico's cities, for the Yucatan Peninsula is also home to many major cities including Valladolid, Progreso, Progreso and Mérida. Spoken by almost half of the population in on the peninsula, Yucatec Maya is the most common language.
Arguably the most infamous attraction in Mexico is Chichen Itza but the immense sight of El Castillo is not the only incredible ruin to encounter in this region, for you can also find Uxmal, Kabah, Ek'Balam and Dzibilchaltun all within reach of each other. In fact, these are often the motivation for many of the tourists who visit the popular beaches in Cancun and other resorts in Yucatan.
Another characteristic of the peninsula which does in fact differ to much of the country is the large variety of wildlife and marine life in the area, for it is here, you can find beautiful sea turtles next to small-tooth sawfish and if you are lucky, the ominous jaguar in the same environment as the white tailed deer, crocodile, white-lipped peccary and elusive ocelot.
It must be mentioned that Cancun is not only the main tourist destination in Mexico but it is also the most common vacation destination for North Americans. Although renowned for partying, millennials and Spring Break, Cancun is also a family holiday destination and the tourism industry here has an immense affect on the local economy and surrounding areas.


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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Administration Violated Academic Good Practice
An AAUP investigating committee reports that, in suspending the faculty senate and refusing to grant governance rights to contingent faculty, the administration of RPI "contravened basic principles of shared academic governance."
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AAUP Censures One, Sanctions Two, and Removes Censure from Two
Delegates to the Ninety-seventh Annual Meeting of the AAUP voted on June 11 to place Bethune Cookman University on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. In addition, the delegates voted to sanction Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Idaho State University. The annual meeting also voted to remove the University of New Orleans and Loyola University New Orleans from its censured administration list.
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The Association's staff has prepared the following brief accounts of significant developments during the past year at institutions whose administrations have incurred AAUP censure (for departures from principles of academic freedom and tenure) or at institutions that are under AAUP sanction (for infringement of academic governance standards).
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In early August 2007, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's newly appointed provost, Robert Palazzo, summarily suspended the university's Faculty Senate. He claimed that the Rensselaer Faculty Senate (RFS) had failed to amend its constitution according to a directive from the university's Board of Trustees. At the heart of debate were the disenfranchisement of nearly 200 faculty, and contention over who should be voting members of the Faculty Senate. In fall 2007, the Rensselaer faculty voted overwhelmingly for reinstatement of the Senate. The Board of Trustees, President Shirley Jackson, and the provost ignored this referendum despite AAUP concerns and negative national publicity. Until this impasse, the Faculty Senate had played an advisory role to the Office of the Provost and had participated in the governance and direction of scholarly activities and instruction at Rensselaer, a model of shared governance typical of many universities across the country.
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That second piece opens with a rapid arpeggio pattern that quickly begins unraveling into tendrils of new melody. It packs quite a mesmerizing effect, as it feels breathless, delirious, unpredictable, and endlessly spiraling. Then, around the five-minute mark, Loher downshifts his circular patterns into a plinking simmer that calls to mind a blurred and hallucinatory twist on gamelan. Notably, two of Loher's central themes for the album were "continuous movement of the left and right hands' and "a specific technique of piano preparation," so "II" marks the first explosive realization of that vision.
The third piece is yet another stunner in a similar vein, though its spiraling arpeggios have more of a "pulsing wave" dynamic. Loher proves to be something of a genius in the realm of dynamics in general, as his subtle changes in attack and emphasis give the piece the organically kinetic feel of shifting sand dunes. Moreover, Loher's piano preparation technique works some magic of its own, as his notes have a metallic physicality and leave a smeared and lingering haze of strange harmonies in their wake. The album winds to a close with another "Feldman meets broken music box"-style piece, but it has a much darker and more sinister tone this time around. Gradually the sense of menace subsides to reveal a deep sadness, but that sadness builds to a rhythmically sophisticated crescendo of broken-sounding interwoven melodies.
In its final moments, the piece (and the album) dissolve into a simple melancholy melody that leaves a ghostly afterimage hanging in the long spaces between the notes. It makes for a lovely and quiet comedown from the technical tour de force at the heart of the album. Obviously, one more tour de force would have been just fine by me, but this is a damn-near perfect album in all respects. Notably, the conception of this album coincided with an epiphany in which Loher became less interested in "confronting" audiences with his art and more interested in creating something "beautiful but strange." I honestly do not know how Loher could have possibly done a better job at realizing that objective, as Keemuun is quite a brilliant and moving statement.


Minnesota officials are experiencing backlash after appointing "anti-vaccine advocates" to a state council on autism.
The MN Autism Council, formed by State senator Jim Abeler, aims to address issues involving "treatment, educational options, employment opportunities, independent living, and more." Minnesota's autism rate is 1 in 42, which is below the standard national rate of one 1 in 59.
The council does not have any public agenda points regarding vaccines, however, some of the council's appointees are said to question vaccine safety. Of the 30 total members, two are rumored to be vaccine skeptics.
One member, Wayne Rohde, also heads up the Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota.
Rhode told the star tribune, "We're not about causation within the council. The council is all about how to deal and help those who are afflicted, and their families and those who provide services," he said.
Some other council members are angry by the two members who question vaccines.
"Even if it's not something that's discussed or that a policy is going to come out of, giving them this large contingency on this council is dangerous. It's giving credence to a theory that's false," council member Noah McCourt told the Star Tribune.
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There is most certainly a correlation between vaccines and autism.
Findings released today showed that infant monkeys given vaccines officially recommended by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) exhibited autism-like symptoms. Lead investigator Laura Hewitson of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues presented study results at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in London. Safety studies of medicines are typically conducted in monkeys prior to use in humans, yet such basic research on the current childhood vaccination regimen has never before been done.


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Woman accused of repeatedly kicking boyfriend in the face after he refused to have sex with her
When her boyfriend refused to have sex with her, a Florida woman allegedly repeatedly kicked him in the face, an attack that has landed her in jail for battery, police say.
According to an arrest affidavit, Jennifer Furguson, 34, sought a 6:30am tryst on Wednesday with her beau inside the couple's Port St. Lucie residence.
The victim, who has been in a relationship with Furguson for two years, told police that "Jennifer became upset at him when he refused to have sex with her this morning." After being rejected, Furguson began kicking her boyfriend in the face "while he was laying on the bed," investigators charge.
Responding officers noted that the man had "significant swelling to his right cheek bone and redness to his left cheek bone." Furguson was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge and booked into the county jail, where she remains locked up in lieu of $500 bond. Furguson is scheduled to be arraigned on August 25, according to court records.
Qualiall said...
I don't like stories like this--where it seems we should be laughing at domestic violence just because it was the girl doing it. Domestic Violence is a big thing for any gender--and men are less likely to report it when it happens to them for fear of 'looking weak'


It looks like United Airlines didn't learn much from Dr. Dao. Typically, after being yanked out of his seat, dragged down the aisle and losing his teeth, the doctor was paid a healthy settlement, agreed to silence, and the incident was allowed to gradually fade from memory.
At least that's what United hopes, but it doesn't help when we have constant reminders that the airline's brutal practices for cramming airplanes to their maximum capacity on every flight are seemingly unchanging, no matter how unreasonable or inhumane the incidents that arise from these policies.
Very recently, a woman was forced to give up a seat for which she had paid $1,000 for her two-year old son in order to accommodate a standby customer.
United attributed the incident to an improperly scanned boarding pass, which made the airline think the infant had not boarded so they gave away his seat. The woman was afraid to protest in case she would receive the same kind of treatment as Dr. Dao.
This is a woman who agreed to pay a huge amount for the seat, yet then was forced to give it up. The airline refunded her money, of course.
But this is about much more than a passenger giving up her seat. The worst part of the story is that infants on laps in airplanes are not safe.
The airline forced this woman to put her baby in mortal danger.
The danger of flying without a seatbelt is not only for the rare case when an airplane crashes. Airline turbulence can also be deadly.
Just last May, an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Bangkok hit severe turbulence. According to a report in View from the Wing, a number of the passengers were not wearing seatbelts at the time, and 19 of them ended up in the hospital at the destination.
Anyone who has ever experienced a really serious incident of airline turbulence knows that a human being's strength against the forces resulting from a lurching airplane is something like an ant trying to push your shoe off to prevent you crushing it when you are walking over it.
The airline child safety issue is a personal pet peeve of William J. McGee, author of Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent — and How to Reclaim Our Skies and the consumer advocate on the airlines for Consumers Union.
McGee presided over a congressional subcommittee of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee, which gathered together leading experts in the field.
All agreed that the FAA should not allow children to fly without restraints.
After a 1989 crash in Sioux City, Iowa during which an unrestrained baby was killed, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended to the FAA that it ban the practice of allowing children to fly on parents' laps.
But the FAA never took the recommendation.
Yet, it does not outright ban the practice.
The FAA justifies its reluctance to issue a ban by saying the highways are more dangerous than the airways. The airline, on the other hand, is more concerned with the lost revenue of parents opting to drive to Disney World rather than taking a flight.
As a result, most parents assume that the practice is safe because "If it wasn't the FAA would not allow it." Unfortunately, that is not the case.
By the FAA's own admission it is not safe. And yet it is allowed.
It is one thing to give parents the "freedom" to put their children in mortal danger. But if this necessary regulation is to be waived, it is necessary for parents to be thoroughly informed of the danger.
This is not presently happening.


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Nissan Unveils New Colours Designed For The Upcoming Electirc ARIYA
Marking the rise of a new dawn in Nissan electric vehicle design, Nissan unveils a rich palette of ten exterior colours for ARIYA, inspired by its powerful spirit of innovation and the thrill of the future.
The vivid paint palette defines the visual identity for ARIYA, inspired by the next-level electric powertrain, state-of-the-art connectivity and advanced driving assistance features.
With four monotone and six two-tone options, the paint portfolio was crafted to elevate ARIYA's premium look and feel. Best of all, these stunning hues are applied by a highly advanced, environmentally sustainable paint production technology that reduces carbon dioxide output by 25% – substantially reducing the environmental impact of this zero-emissions vehicle.
New colours for a new era of electrification
The design team has sought to represent the essence of ARIYA's power, technology and sense of serenity with two unprecedented colours. Named Akatsuki Copper and Aurora Green, these captivating paints were developed especially for the all-electric coupé crossover.
"The ingenuity the Nissan ARIYA represents inspired us to adopt an entirely new mindset for colour design," said Lesley Busby, Colour Manager at Nissan Design Europe.
"ARIYA is the culmination of Nissan's electric mobility expertise and a strong statement of intent for the future of EV design. We therefore worked hard to introduce a truly futuristic and technology-driven design language for the colours, analysing them in detail to create the perfect match for ARIYA's innovative personality," Lesley Busby continued.
Inspired by the Japanese phrase for 'dawn', Akatsuki Copper's striking appearance mimics the brilliance of a sunrise, reflecting the beginning of Nissan's new brand identity. Its metallic sparkle is enhanced to evoke the conductivity of copper wires, honouring the model's advanced EV technology.
Aurora Green takes its name from the beautiful 'Northern Lights' phenomenon, aurora borealis, commonly seen in the arctic. A sophisticated blend of different tones means the colour may appear green or purple depending on the angle that it is viewed, creating a sense of wonder and intrigue.
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Highly advanced production techniques were employed to achieve a complex, clean and crisp composition with Pearl White, which offers more brilliance and clarity than ever before on a Nissan vehicle. The two-tone appearance is complete with a contrasting rich black roof, using the all-new pigment to achieve an unprecedented level of depth.
Lesley Busby commented: "We know that black and white colours are some of the most popular options with vehicle owners in Europe and around the world. With ARIYA, we have introduced a new level of richness and a premium veneer for these customer favourites. Combined with the quality and attention to detail seen throughout the colour palette, we're excited for customers to experience Nissan's new era of colour design for themselves."
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In a city that loves to party, there's no shortage of places to experience the exuberance of Sydney nightlife.
From pounding podiums, to underground labyrinths, these Sydney clubs will have you shaking it till sun-up.
Whether you have two left feet or are an expert in burning holes in the dance floor, The Argyle has just what a night-time reveller needs to keep on moving.
Shake it on salsa nights, or go off to "crazy sets that will knock your socks off " with local and international DJs and artists playing the tunes to get you grooving.
A definite dancy vibe in the heart of Sydney's The Rocks district.
No cheese, no shirts, no attitude!
That's how a typical dancing diva describes Arq, a stayer in Sydney's gay and lesbian scene.
From the dark and grungy basement dance floor to the main arena's podiums, there's no shortage of space to boogie on down.
With drag shows, shirtless men, strobe lights, lasers and plenty of dancing, its always loud, constantly busy and extremely entertaining.
A "subterranean tropical oasis" in Chinatown, channeling 1950s Cuba and regularly playing Jamaican dancehall reggae … hey, that's quirky enough for us.
Goodgod is a "one-stop funhouse" to enjoy evening drinks, tasty dinner, live music and a loose-limbed dance.
With cocktails aplenty and an under-the-sea Papua New Guinean dancehall theme, there's only one place to be in this Oxford Street establishment, and that's shaking it, tiki style, to tropical beats on the sunken central dance floor.
Gaze up at the school of paper lantern fish swimming from the ceiling, sip on a monkey hat cocktail, and dance the night away.
Palace of perennial partying … we're there!
Add the building's history as the former offices of INXS and The World Bar has serious street cred.
This Kings Cross bar and nightclub hosts an eclectic mix: indie bands playing in Parisian-inspired nooks; DJs pushing cutting-edge sounds in an underground nightclub; and an art gallery by day turned rave cave by night.
Go early for civilised sipping at the bar, or stay late for the "surging mass of dance floor sexiness … till sun-up".
Ever wanted to dance in an underground labyrinth?
That's just what Chinese Laundry, one of Sydney's biggest and longest running nightclubs, promises to provide with its low lights, ornate statues and Chinese-inspired interiors.
It has rooms playing house, electro, hip-hop and drum and bass tracks from Australian and international artists.
You'll find this place tucked underneath the Slip Inn bar on Sussex Street.
Got a favourite Sydney club? Tell us in the comments below.


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Good morning, Dear Ones, yes it is I, Mary Magdalene. As I come into your frequency I see that you are holding your light upon this most powerful day. I wish to speak about your light codes that are coming into this planet, and the power of this energy that is affecting your human body and your own psyche. I know that we've spoken very heavily about these energies, but it is very important to understand that these light codes have those what we call [unclear] forms in the light frequencies, and this pattern is quite unique for there is a mathematical equation that is being brought forward into your own DNA. What is happening is that it is the energy of what we call original creation, of how everything was designed and created within the universe. And these powerful light codes are now being infused within your pineal, your pituitary, and within your own DNA.
And so Dearest Children I ask you to take a deep, inhaling breath, and begin to bring in this essence, for these powerful frequencies are of the beautiful golden and the white light natures, they are of great significance and of great power, for it is of the union that is being brought forward through the energies of the Christ light, merged with the energy of the beautiful energy of Shekhina, as this beautiful energy of Divine Feminine is beautifully merged with the energy within the Christ Consciousness energy. It has been brought forward into the Holy of the Holies, it is there that this energy of the light frequency is of great significance and great power. And so know at this time that the light that you hold, the peace that you hold, the energy that you hold, the essence that you hold is of greatness and of grandness. So I ask you Dearest Children to take a deep inhaling breath, and to breathe in the essence of peace, breathe in the essence and presence of light, yes Dearest Ones, it is known as the elixir of life, the original creation of all that is. And we ask you to breathe and release, and allow these beautiful, powerful light codes of the elixir of life to merge within your essence.
The Holy of the Holies are here, and they stand before you, and they reach into your heart, and they open up your heart chakra if you so allow, and they allow you to merge into the essence of your being. Opening your vessel into the purest frequency, the purest of love, with your energy and your frequency in this essence of Divine Love, and allow the beautiful energy of the Holy of the Holies now to infuse you. For you see the light codes are merging through your being, and as we have told you before, they are creating both great love and joy within the hearts of many, and yet turbulence and chaos in others. These frequencies are indeed of the pure energy of God's white light, and as they enter into your physicality, allow yourself to feel them with the greatest of ease. Allow this energy to come into your physicality, allow your body to respond. Allow your heart to open to the energy of peace, and allow the frequency of the energies to merge within your essence. And so as the beautiful Holy of the Holies stand before you, they surround you with this beautiful light energy, which if you accept, may you receive the essence and the embrace of their love. Today as you emerge into this frequency and allow yourself to shift once again from your third dimensional bodies into your crystalline light bodies, these new light codes are vibrating within you, like a beautiful rainbow of colors, as your body is vibrating and shifting and awakening, and anointing you with love, bathing you with the beautiful golden light of God's love within your heart, within your soul, within your very essence you are being bathed with this beautiful beautiful Golden White Light of God. There is peace within your heart, and tranquility is felt upon your soul, so you understand and remember the energy and the essence of who you truly are.
Remember Dearest Ones that you are Gods and Goddesses, and vibrant vibrant light. Remember Dearest Ones that you are vibrant, and you are light. These light codes are infused within you, it is the energy of original creation, these light frequencies are being infused within your physicality, and they are the gifts of life. We call them the gifts of life because just as your bodies, all of your lifetimes have been in service to humanity, to Mother Earth, and to the Great Creator, you have gifted your physical body. And so Dearest Children, at this time, stand in the purity of the love that you are, may you feel the essence and presence of these powerful light codes that are being infused within your system. Allow this energy to merge within your physicality, within your merkabic field, within your ethereal energy bodies. And allow this powerful frequency of the rainbow colors to now merge through your eyes, so you will be able to see clearly and feel the essence of love, so that you will see clearly and feel the essence of love.
I know Dearest Ones it has been difficult for many of you, for you have not felt loved. You have felt cheated from life in many ways. And yet you have given your body in service, and these powerful light codes are bringing forth the power of love into your system, so that you can feel this energy and be revitalized, rejuvenated, and remember who you are, and the beautiful essence of all that you are. So I ask you to take a deep, deep, deep inhaling breath, and begin to breathe. Begin to breathe in the essence and presence of peace, begin to breathe in the essence and presence of love, and breathe in these powerful light codes. These light codes will be magnified for the next 30, 40, and 45 days. Yes, they are flooding the planet at this time, they will be quite magnified within the next 30, to 40, to 45 days. There will be intensity of energy, and as you pray and receive the light codes within your body, your bodies can heal, your bodies can be rejuvenated, your bodies can be restored with the frequency of love.
May the heart of your heart be at peace, may the heart of your heart be love, may the heart of your heart be light. As you enter into this beautiful frequency at this time, we take you into the beautiful sea of creation, not the cave of creation but the sea of creation, it is the energy of vastness, of all that is, the energy of oneness. It is as if you are going into the universe, into the galaxy, and there dearest children, there is peace, there is love, and there is hope. And so Dearest Ones, I ask you to open your heart, to this beautiful beautiful energy of the sea of vastness. You are returning home, you see, it is a beautiful seafoam green, mixed with the golden beautiful white light. As if you are the vastness of the sea, but you are floating, and you are effortless. And your spirit is awakening, and returning back to oneness. This is what these beautiful light codes are doing, they are flooding each individual so that they may return to their oneness, and there as you imagine yourself as this beautiful seafoam green, the vastness of this energy, as if you are in space traveling through time, as it were. Not your physical body, but your spirit and soul are now being bathed in oneness. And there, Dearest Children, you are feeling this freedom out of your body, out of your soul, out of your mind. Into this beautiful frequency of love, and so as you allow your heart to open, and you feel this peace, and may you feel the tranquility, and may you feel the light of God surrounding you.
And there you are in this beautiful frequency, as the energy holds you in this powerful powerful space of unconditional love. Can you feel this energy of unconditional love, and the vastness of the beautiful seafoam green energy? It is the seed of creation. It is where you were created, so allow all of your own essence and all of your essent self to feel this. Remember every soul journey, and every lifetime is being bathed with a sea of love. All of your incarnations, every aspect of your spirit and soul journey has been bathed in unconditional love. Can you feel it? Can you sense it? Can you receive it? Children you have sacrificed yourselves for your mission to serve this planet. And so we gift to you this beautiful beautiful beautiful energy, bathing you in unconditional love. Accept this as our gift unto you, for it is of great importance that you honor yourself and be honored for your service and for your devotion of all of your incarnations of time. For you see Dearest Children you do not know or understand all that you have done in service, in your history of mankind. And this incarnation may seem fruitless but it is not. You are here to hold the light, and regardless of what you are doing, or what you believe you are not doing, you are all holding the beautiful light for this planet to ascend, for humanity to ascend, for all the world to see and to know. Do not allow the darkness of the world to overcome you or overtake you. Do not allow anything or anyone to hold you back from your greatness and your grandness, just as Grand spoke last week of your magnificence, we are infusing these light codes within you today so that you can easily and effortlessly hold your frequency of grandness and magnificence, into your being. For those who are not for your highest good will fall away, people, places, things that are not for your highest good will fall away. And so know at this time that the light that you hold, the essence that you hold, the peace that you hold, the grace that you hold is indeed revered.
We know Dearest Ones that it is difficult to be on the earth plane. Jeshua and I understood this, and yes, the Holy Mother, and Joseph, and all of us understood the difficulty, but we came together to be at peace and to bring love, and to bring the joy, and as we have said we left our imprint to be reawakened at the appointed hour, for the energy of Divine Mother, Divine Shekhina, to be awakened, the energy of Divine Goddess. And now we hold this beautiful essence in this powerful frequency today, and as you allow the energy to merge into your pineal gland, it will awaken your remembrance. And you feel the presence of God within your being. You will remember your oneness within your being, that you are no longer separated, that the world that you live in is an illusion, and holds the energy of duality. But you are never separated from your Creator God, you are never separated from the individual light codes of your original creation. And so today as you feel this energy of the vastness of the light codes flooding you, surrounding you, now accelerate yourself into the next leg of your journey, and when you make the decision to turn back into spirit, into the energy of the vastness of oneness, into your final ascension home when it is time, you will be pleased with how you have served. Today we are serving you, giving on to you, our gift of light. As I have said, these light codes are upon the planet for the next 30 to 40 to 45 days, flooding your planet with new frequencies and energies for humanity and all sentient beings. Where there has been darkness there will now be light and truth will now come forward. And each of you will be able to have the clarity of purpose that you have been seeking, clarity of purpose that you have been seeking.
And may you seek the light inside of yourself, and Dearest Children the beautiful energy of St. Germain is with us, the violet flame of transmutation is now inside of each of you, transmuting your own darkness and opening your third eye so that you may bring the new light codes within your physicality into your third eye, opening and awakening your third eye even grander for clarity of purpose. And the pulsation and the energy that is being downloaded into your chakras, but particularly into your third eye, will allow you to hold the visions of your pathway, as one of the Holy of the Holies are here holding the frequency for each of you. You are very special and you are very important, and you are holding the frequencies inside of you. And so as you allow yourself to receive this gift of light, know that the heart of your heart is peace. And the heart of your heart is love, and the heart of your heart is joy. And the remembrance of who you truly are now comes flooding back to you.
And yes Dearest Children, as the third eye opens, you will be able to see visions of your future, and understand your past and your present. You see it is a journey, and everything falls into place as it should. If you allow yourself to be in harmony and synchrony with your own oneness, and yet Dearest Children most of you second guess yourself, struggling as if you're in a bubble of light, trying to get out of this bubble. You are resisting your connection to oneness. And you wonder why you struggle, we ask you to relax and to breathe, and allow the energy to unfold. Relax and breathe, and allow the energy to unfold. Relax and breathe, and allow the energy to unfold. May the light of God surround you the power of God protect you, the presence of God watches over you wherever you are God is and all is well.
So we ask you to visualize yourself as a beautiful spirit no longer struggling with these light codes that are coming in at this time, which have tremendous tremendous power, and they hold the original creation. There has been separation, and this is why the energy of what you may call your Adam and Eve, for it is this separation of unity consciousness, and the division of the Divine Union, which became separated, the story is not the truth, but it is a parable, the parable of the division of the union of Father/Mother God in its separation from truth and oneness.
So today we reconcile this within you, reconcile the division and the separation of Father/Mother God inside of you, you have returned back to Divine Union, and you are returning to your oneness, no longer struggling with the separation of your beautiful spirit and yes, the twin flames come together in Divine Union, and they too are unified in spirit. Unified in spirit, all flames are being unified in spirit, within physical form and in ethereal form, are being unified. This is the power of the light codes that are being brought forth at this time. There is no longer division or separation, there is only truth, love, light, and healing. And so as you feel this essence within your soul, that you have come now to reunification with yourself, the powerful energy of this beautiful energy, these beautiful light codes returning to oneness. I remember union, I remember the divinity inside of myself, I am love, I am peace, I am joy, I am light. And may the love of God surround you, and the power of God protect, and the presence of God watches over you wherever you are God is and all is well.
And the Holy of the Holies have healed this energy around you, and it is of great importance and great significance that you honor the light that is being gifted to you today, and to all your essent self. It is a commitment that we and all of life have agreed to. Yes, all sentient beings on this earth plane have agreed to serve, and now, the beautiful energy can begin to serve you. Allow these beautiful light codes to serve you, to heal, to restore the love within your psyche or your soul. We are never far from you, so all you have to do is ask us, to call on these beautiful frequencies, for they are there for you, flooding around you every moment for the next 30-45 days. And you will begin to feel them, and begin to feel the energy, and will be rejuvenated, no longer walking through what we call the quicksand or the sludge of the energy on this planet. It is why we have taken you into the sea of Creation, into the vastness, returning you back into this creative energy of Oneness, where all is possible, and all that is. There is no resistance, there is only love. There is no fear, there is only light, there is no separation, there is only unity. And so today as you feel this embracing around you, and truly truly surrounding you with unconditional love, you are all loved more than you can understand. We want you to feel it, and to acknowledge it, and bring it into your heart chakra, and feel at peace. I am love, and I am loved, I am love, and I am loved.
May the love of God truly surround, and may the power of god truly protect you, and the presence of God watches over you, wherever you are God is and all is well. What may appear to be separation within your life is an illusion. Step into the vastness of these beautiful light codes, into the sea of creation, and you will never feel alone, you will never feel separated. And so accept our gift unto you on this beautiful beautiful day. May the love touch you hearts, and may the Holy of the Holies anoint you, with the blessings of all that is, and all that shall be. We are here to serve you. But today as you allow yourself to open to this richness, this beautiful vastness, all that is, you are returning home to yourself, can you feel it? Can you sense it? And may it be bestowed upon your soul, and so we will leave this with you upon this beautiful beautiful day, allowing your heart to open to this richness of love. We will take our leave now, and allow you to feel the essence and presence of this energy, and may you return back into consciousness, for this is no longer to be a planet of fear, it is to be a planet of love, and you Dearest Children as you are bathed in the love, will serve the light of God, in your truest essence. Now go my children and be at peace, and know that you are God.


A night at Icelandair Hotels with your Saga Points.
As a Icelandair Saga Club member you can book a hotel stay with your Icelandair Saga Points on Hotels.com as a part of the payment or for the whole stay. With this new option, the booking process to book a hotel for Saga Points has been simplified.
You click here and sign into your Saga Club account and choose Hotels.com.
You are forwarded to a page that allows you to install the browser plugin. Further installation instructions are on that page.
After installing the plugin the page will reload and an orange button appears. After you press the button you will be redirect to Hotels.com where you can book prepaid hotels for your Saga Points.
For further information about how to use Saga Club Points, see here at Icelandair.com.
For information on upgrades and travelling with children/family rooms, see here.


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Q: How can I make a distributed shared transactional memory in a Azure webfarm? I have a REST Web service running in a azure webfarm, that I need to protect against replay attachs.
Each request contains a unique Cryptographic nonce (a token that is only allowed once) within a few minutes.
Right now I use a database to create a entry with the nonce as primary key. This means that if one webserver can insert the row in the database I'm sure that no other webserver has received a request with the same nonce. Actually I use table storage  (with rowkey/partitionkey as primarykey)... and not SQL Azure.
My problem is that table storage is pretty slow (easily takes 20-30ms to insert a row), and I'm looking for a faster solution.
Is there a distributed shared transactional memory library for .NET? It's important that I don't introduce a single point of failure (eg. with a in memory database running on one server).
Bonus: Because this is running In Azure I don't know the names or IP address of my servers, and the number of servers in the webfarm changes quite often.

A: AppFabric Caching Service perhaps? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg983488.aspx

A: I'd consider memcached (link for use on Azure here: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/memcached-in-windows-azure) so the nonce is stored quickly, then for durability I'd also (asynchonously) store the nonce in table storage.
For performance, at read, I'd perform the check of table storage asynchronously and check that the read should proceed on exit from the main read method.

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Top 5 Music Apps for Windows Phones
Other than making calls and texting, these days smartphones are used heavily for listening music, taking great images and videos, playing games etc. Though you will find a dedicated and stock music player in every smartphone these days, there are many music apps available too.
These music apps provide more features and functionality than the stock music app and due to this, they are very popular. Here I am sharing the top 5 and best music apps for Windows Phone devices. If you are a music lover then, you will love them for sure.
I have created a dedicated Nokia AppSocial page for all these apps. You can download them from the Nokia AppSocial, by visiting the link given at the end of this article.
If you do not know, Nokia AppSocial is a social app store for the Windows Phones where you can create the lists of your favorite app and share with other users. You can follow other users,their AppSocial list and app recommendations. It helps in discovering new apps based on the recommendations of your friends and people you can trust.
Best Music Apps for Windows Phones
Nokia MixRadio
As the name suggests, it is a music app developed by Nokia. It is a music streaming service which brings the free, personalised music with no advertising to your Windows Phone smartphone. You can create mixes of your own or browse the ones available and created by others. You can also choose mixes of a particular genre of your choice.
It also let you download the tracks and playlists to listen them offline, thumbs up or down songs to get better personalized suggestions.
It is the most popular and the best Internet Radio application. It offers over 100,000 stations and 2 million on-demand streams for you to choose from. You can hundreds of international and regional Internet radio stations listen on it. You can search and select a radio station according to your music genre as well.
Also Check : Top 10 Travel Apps for Windows Phones
Music WP8
This apps offers you free, unlimited and legal music download on your Windows Phone device. The song collection is huge ranging from the top popular hits to the underground songs and mixes. It also let you create your own playlist and you can download the songs on your phone to listen them offline.
musiXmatch lyrics player
This app is very much like Shazam but offers lots of extra features which makes it even better than any other similar app. Along with the song tracking feature, it also provides a full featured music player and a lyrics search engine with a profanity filter. musiXmatch lyrics player is having more than 7.3 million officially licensed lyrics localized in 18 languages which makes it one of the biggest lyrics database.
This app displays artist biographies, their Twitter handle and lyrics catalogue artist by artist. It also let you dedicate the song lyrics to other people via Facebook, SMS or email. You can also share the song lyrics on Twitter directly from this nice music app itself.
Also Check : Top 5 Headphones for Music Lovers
If you love SoundCloud then, this is a must have app for you. You can listen and download millions of songs legally on your Windows Phone smartphone. If you are a music lover and like to explore new music then, you can explore top Billboard songs, featured artists, and recommended albums to easily discover new music using this app.
Download all these best music apps for Windows Phones by visiting the link given below.
Best Music Apps on Nokia AppSocial
Which are your favorite music apps? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.
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Keeping the head covered is another one of those winter fashion tips for children that should not be ignored. Get the child to wear a hat when they are going to be outdoors. Heat escapes your body through your head and when the child does not have on a hat they are not as warm as the children wearing hats. Hats, scarves, and gloves are must haves when children venture outdoors on a cold wintry day.
Little girls should always wear thick tights under their dresses and skirts in th winter time. You can also put these thick tights on them under their jeans to help create an insulated layer. Cold winds can blow right through denim material so try and layer something under their jeans if possible.
Putting two pairs of socks on their feet will help the children to remain warmer. When your feet are cold your entire body is cold so you want to double their socks when you can and keep their little feet toasty.
Children are notorious for removing jackets because they cannot move as freely while wearing them. You can put the child in a long sleeved thermal shirt, place a tee shirt over that, and then a long sleeve button up shirt over that and if they pull their coat off they will still have enough layers on to keep them warm.


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How New York Yankee Jim Coates battled both Satchel Paige and Luke Easter
January 15, 2019 Buffalo Bisons, Jim Coates, Luke Easter, Miami Marlins, Negro Leagues, New York Yankees, Richmond Virginians, Satchel Paige No comments
The year was 1957. Jim Coates was a hard-throwing right-hander who just had his first taste of big league ball with the New York Yankees. The 25-year-old was biding his time with the Richmond Virginians in the Triple-A International League, waiting for a permanent spot to open in New York. While Coates was cutting his teeth in preparation to join Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle in Yankee Stadium, the International League had a few Negro League veterans ready to show the youngster that he still had some work to do.
Satchel Paige with the Miami Marlins / Author's Collection
Toiling with Coates in the International League was future Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige. The 50-year-old Paige was pitching for Bill Veeck's Miami Marlins, fresh off a season where he led the league with a microscopic 1.86 ERA.
"Satch was a guy that in his prime, he could throw the ball really good," Coates said to the author in 2013.
Once in awhile Paige would reach into his bag of tricks and pull out his famed blooper pitch. More than 50 years later, Coates recalled how Paige dared hitters to swing at his slow one.
"He came up with the blooper pitch and threw it real high," he said. "Satch was a type of guy that was great to watch. He could do it all, believe me. He'd tell 'em, 'Here, hit it.' He'd throw that ol' big blooper."
While Paige managed to stun hitters half his age, Coates sensed that the legend was pitching more off smarts and guile than he was with the trademark speed of his younger days.
"Satch, he knew wanted to do it, but he just couldn't," Coates said. "He was at an age and state where he tried but he just couldn't do it."
During our talk, Coates brought up how great not only Paige was in the International League, but also his Negro League counterpart Luke Easter. The slugging 6'4" first baseman was a few years removed from his time with the Cleveland Indians; however, his power still rivaled the all-time greats. Coates said that he had the perfect remedy to quell Easter's powerful stroke.
"I didn't have any trouble with Luke," he said. "All I had to do was knock him down first pitch and he didn't want any part of that plate."
Luke Easter
Easter was no stranger to being dusted off at the plate. While Coates felt that he had Easter's number from a few knockdowns earlier in the season, the Negro League veteran patiently waited for the perfect opportunity to let the youngster think he had the upper hand. The two squared off when Easter played for the Buffalo Bisons during the 1957 International League playoffs. This time Easter tipped the scales in his favor.
He sent one of Coates' offerings soaring over the center-field wall, nearly clearing the scoreboard. Coates admitted that Easter had a knack for making the ball disappear, even off himself.
"He hit 'em out of there in Richmond in the International League like a golf ball," he said.


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B.A. in Anthropology
Study human life and culture throughout time and across the world.
By enrolling in the anthropology program at the University of Mississippi, you'll study society and culture of the past and present. The four-field discipline includes archaeology, bioanthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
Become a global citizen through the multi-disciplinary and critical thinking skills to better understand our globally connected and diverse world. Develop skills in observation, analysis, research, communications, and interacting with people from all cultures--all skills that employers seek. The Center for Archaeological Research is a hub of research activity and training in research design and excavating methods (remote sensing & traditional methods), teamwork, and artifact analysis.
A liberal arts education empowers and prepares graduates to deal with complexity and change through a broad knowledge of the world. They gain key skills in communication, problem-solving, and working with a diverse group of people. Careers related to anthropology include archaeology, impact assessment, museum technology, education, law, forensics, and more. The top economic sectors of our anthropology alumni are: higher education, business/finance, STEM, government, arts/media/communication, and healthcare.
The anthropology curriculum integrates traditional classroom courses with hands-on courses, and a range of field schools. Archaeological fieldwork allows students to learn remote sensing applications as well as more traditional excavation methodologies. Students may also travel to a social science research methods field school located in Bolivia.
B.A. in Anthropology Faculty
Faculty in the University of Mississippi's Department of Sociology and Anthropology cover all the subfields of anthropology. Some hold joint appointments with the Croft Institute for International Studies or the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Zachary Miller Adamz
Croft Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
Katherine McGurn Centellas
Croft Associate Professor of Anthropology
Simone P Delerme
Associate Professor of Anthropology and McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies
Carolyn R Freiwald
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Kristin Hickman
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
Marcos Alexander Mendoza
Matthew Leigh Murray
Instructional Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Catarina Passidomo Townes
Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Anthropology
Jodi Skipper
A major in anthropology for the B.A. degree requires 30 semester hours, including Anth 303, 304, 305, and 409, and a total of 6 hours selected from the following methods courses: Anth 320, 335, 344, 375, 390, 391, 392, 393, 405, 406, 407, 408, 412, 413, and 419
Admission requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology program are the same as the UM undergraduate admission requirements.
Grace Myers
Grace (2015) was involved in the Holly Springs Craft House project where she consulted archival documentation to find contextual evidence of antebellum daily life at an urban slave dwelling. She dug for artifacts to give clues about the daily habits and foodways of the slaves who lived behind the Hugh Craft House, and gave presentations to school groups as part of the Behind the Big House tour in Marshall County, MS. Grace also earned her M.A. in anthropology at UM, and her career plans include marketing and business development because "the skills gained in my graduate program are easily applicable across many fields." Why study anthropology at UM? "The department of anthropology and sociology together - is unique because of the professors and the curriculum. Additionally, all areas of anthropology are celebrated by the professors. They have the knowledge and experience to guide students from the beginning of their college career to graduation and beyond. Their care and attention is incredible."
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FIRM activities in Costa Rica aim to assist the country to reach its climate neutrality goal by 2021. The project will therefore support the development of a sectoral Low Carbon Development Strategy. Further, Costa Rica will elaborate NAMAs in two key prioritized sectors: 1) agriculture (livestock) and 2) the housing sector (decarbonisation of building material in the housing sector).
Other UNEP activities in Costa Rica with relations to FIRM include the Technology Needs Assessment exercise (TNA).
FIRM focal institution in Costa Rica: Climate Change Directorate of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (MINAET).
The contact person is William Alpízar.
For more information on the FIRM activities in Costa Rica, please click here.


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Islam is Forcing Us to Resolve an Important Ethical Conflict
I saw a video (which you can see here) where a man and a woman were walking together in a public park, and he slaps her face. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Then she dresses in a hijab and they do the same thing: They walk along talking, this time in Arabic, and then he stops and slaps her. You could see that other people in the park were disturbed by it, but only one man eventually intervened. Everyone else looked on, didn't like it, but didn't do anything or even say anything.
The creators of the video implied that this meant the non-Muslims didn't care as much about Muslim women as they do about non-Muslim women. But I think that conclusion is off-base.
The video illustrates a deep conflict in our culture. And our increasing contact with Muslims is bringing this conflict more and more to the forefront. We will have to resolve it. We have rarely had to confront this conflict in the past, but Islam is exceedingly good at putting non-Muslims in double binds.
This ability to put us in double binds is, I believe, one of their most effective strategic ploys, and they are exploiting it wherever they can.
In case you didn't know exactly what a double bind was, I looked up a good definition to add the link above, but I also found this telling statement in the explanation: "Double binds are often utilized as a form of control without open coercion — the use of confusion makes them both difficult to respond to as well as to resist."
Islam is not strong enough and Muslims in most non-Muslim countries are not numerous enough to control non-Muslims through open coercion as they would in a Muslim country. So they use double binds to exert control.
What is the conflict illustrated in the video? One the one hand we want to be open, tolerant people. We don't want to be bigoted or narrow-minded. We don't want to be arrogant and insulting toward another's culture just because it's different. This is basic etiquette and manners, and for most of us, it is an important part of who we are.
On the other hand, what if the other culture is actually morally wrong? What if the other culture harms people? What if it interferes with others' freedoms?
Most cultural differences are very easy for us to accept. If someone wants to put a mark on their forehead or wear a cross or dress in a traditional dress from the old country or eat salted mackerel or pray in some way you are unfamiliar with, most of us don't think, "Look at those freaky foreigners. They are strange and therefore wrong and bad." We think, "That's their culture, and they have every right to live the way they want to."
The co-creator of the movie, Borat, (Dan Mazer) said he found most Americans "incredibly polite," even when the Borat character pushed them far beyond the limits of tolerance. We are the great melting pot. And one of the main reasons that people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds interact and work together with very little friction is that for the most part, we accept each other's differences. Some even embrace and celebrate those differences.
But the cultural-difference-acceptance ethic described above is being challenged more than Borat ever dreamed of. Islam puts our desire to accept cultural differences in direct conflict with our own humanity. In the video I mentioned above, the woman was slapped by a man. But when she dressed and talked like a Muslim, this created a conflict for onlookers. She was clearly a Muslim and a husband hitting a wife is a fairly common practice in Muslim culture (because the practice is encouraged in these Islamic doctrines).
For the onlookers, which ethical principle overrides which? It's wrong for a man to hit a woman. And it's wrong to condemn the practices of a different culture. We don't normally have to choose between them. But Islam is forcing us to choose, and doing their best to convince us to choose cultural acceptance.
What about FGM? Some girls have had this done to them in America. Should we accept this cultural difference, or impose our own morals on people with different cultural beliefs? What about segregation of men and women? What about nurses washing their hands? What about wearing a burka for a drivers licence photo? What about polygamy?
Orthodox Muslims keep putting us to the test. And they aren't doing it passively or accidentally. One of the core principles of Islamic doctrine is that Islam is a better political system and a better religion than any other, and that Muslims are better people than any other, and that ultimately the Islamic system of rules and law should override and supersede all others on earth. It is a pushy, domineering, assertive religion. It keeps pushing us into our double binds and most people don't know what to do about it. And to make matters worse, orthodox Muslims keep trying to prevent non-Muslims from even talking about Islam, so we're having a difficult time working it out and resolving it among ourselves. The issue is getting more and more tense and uncomfortable.
We will have to decide. When the principle of cultural inclusion and acceptance comes into conflict with the principles of women's rights, human rights, safety, freedom of speech, etc., which do we choose?
Excellent article, making important points. In Islamic cultures examples of the 'Stockholm syndrome' (as Bill Warner framed it) exist, such as Muslims under Allah-conceived-as-a-cruel-despot, Muslim women under their men, debasing treatment of non-Muslims. I think the ball starts rolling with children succumbing to pressure from adults who tell them what 'Allah wants' -- the child thinks this big person must know best despite their own hearts feeling it is a mistake, so they cave in to self-doubt, fear about themselves, and even self-directed attack and cruelty for being so wrong. This sort of thing can happen in any culture, but ipse dixit dogmatic approaches such as exist in Islam, with its apostasy and blasphemy laws, are a direct sustained attack on an individual's 'inner light'.
I read an interesting article on the rise of Arab atheism...
"The issue most often cited by Arabs as their first step on the road to disbelief was the apparent unfairness of divine justice. The picture they had acquired was of an irascible and sometimes irrational deity who behaves in much the same way as an Arab dictator or an old-fashioned family patriarch – an anthropomorphic figure who makes arbitrary decisions and seems eager to punish people at the slightest opportunity." (https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4898/the-rise-of-arab-atheism)
Another quote from that article...
"Husseini put his questions to a teacher at school. 'The teacher said it's haram [forbidden] to ask about that,' he recalled. 'I didn't have an answer so I went to an imam in Qalqilya and I got the same reply.' This kind of response is familiar in authoritarian societies and is described by many other Arabs who have abandoned religion."
If people understand that some outer aspects of Islam -- such as oppression of women -- result from its coercive inner requirement that people refrain from inner enquiry and honesty (to blind themselves) and yield to judgement said to originate from its hating and cruel conception-of-deity, they might have less compunction about speaking out against malign 'cultural expressions', as what they would be opposing is equivalence toward cultivating, and pushing others to cultivate, inner attitudes of self-blinding/dulling, enmity and cruelty (including self-directed or internalised).
Twana Blevins 9:01 AM
This is a very necessary subject. I help a niece with her homework in college business classes. Every assignment always contains in several places the need to accept other cultural differences and to not try to change them to do business with them. I always think most cultural differences in Western Countries and even some Eastern countries that is easy enough to do, but when it comes to Islam, I can't go along with it. We can't accept Islamic cultural evils as a culture norm and look the other way. It must be addressed or like you said, that one evil when looked over will just become the stepping stone to the next evil one. One time a man told me he thought Islam was a peaceful religion because he had a muslim friend who he thought was a good man. I asked him several questions and one of his answers was, the muslim man is brutal to his wife for even minor things we would think nothing of, like supper not tasting like he expected it to so he beat his wife. I remember thinking, how can someone think him a good man if he treats his wife so brutal.
Citizen Warrior 3:13 PM
The current refugee crisis is another good example of a double bind. On the one hand, there are innocent people fleeing a war-torn region. On the other hand, there are orthodox Muslims hell bent on fulfilling Allah's command to make war on the unbeliever taking advantage of the openness and kindness of Western nations to enter our countries and kill people or at least advance the political goals of Islamic doctrine.
It is not only an ethical conflict within each of us, it is also dividing us.
Very glad for the existence of Citizen Warrior. It fills a critical niche -- no other Islam-critical site is like it. We'd be further along toward our goals if all the other Islam-critical sites employed your strategies and followed your example.
One note -- another reason people might not intervene against Muslim men slapping women -- fear that insane violence might ensue, or that the matter might become public and they'd have to live with fear of Islamic violence afterwards.
Citizen Warrior 2:46 AM
That's a good point.
And thank you for your kind words about our work here. We appreciate that.
the rising of radical muslim concern me. it makes me scared amd depressed. i am atheist muslim (born in muslim society by muslim parent)
i really worried and want people to banned all of them. put them all in jail. i'm burqa-phobic and proud (i know islam more than western islam apologist, don't tell me to tolerate. shut up you. i have quran hadits and More harm mad biography in real version before the prince of arab whitewash it)


The true story of Richard and Mildred Loving's fight for interracial marriage in the segregated 1950s is hitting the big screen in one of the most highly anticipated films of the year.
Loving follows the couple's journey from Virginia all the way to the Supreme Court, after they were forced to choose prison or exile for marrying each other. The landmark civil rights case (Loving v. Virginia 1967) struck down anti-miscegenation laws nationwide.
theGrio's Natasha Alford caught up with Loving movie director Jeff Nichols following the movie's debut at the Toronto Film Festival 2016.
Nichols explains why the Lovings' story is so crucial to civil rights history and how the small integrated community of Central Point, Virginia, set the stage for their victory.
Loving stars Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton and hits theaters November 4.
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W Series to race at eight Formula One weekends in 2021 season
The W Series, the all-female motor racing championship, will compete on Formula One's undercard next season.
The championship, postponed this year following the outbreak of coronavirus, will link up with F1 at eight races in 2021.
F1 bosses announced a record-breaking 23-round campaign earlier this week. It is 44 years since a female driver, the Italian Lella Lombardi, last took part in a grand prix.
F1 motorsport boss Ross Brawn said: "It is a really important moment for us to welcome W Series as partners for eight races.
"We believe it is incredibly important to give everyone the chance to reach the highest levels of our sport and their partnership with Formula One next season shows our determination and commitment to showcase their exciting series and the importance of building greater diversity across the sport."
British driver Jamie Chadwick, 22, won last year's inaugural championship in 2019. The W Series had been due to race on the undercard of the US and Mexican Grands Prix this year before both events were cancelled.
W Series chief executive Catherine Bond Muir said: "After such a successful inaugural season, we at W Series are absolutely delighted to be partnering with Formula One for 2021 and beyond.
"Formula One is by some margin the world's premier motor racing series, and, when we promised that W Series would be bigger and better in the future, partnering with Formula One was always our ultimate objective.
"We want W Series to entertain, and entertain it will. But we also want it to become a crucial default-option stepping stone for any female racing driver who wants to carve out a professional racing career, and our proximity to Formula One will help and enhance that process."
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Motherhood is an amazing blessing and it can also be a tough journey. On Mother's Day, we say thank you and honor mothers and those who are mother figures in our lives. It's is a time of celebration for many and it can also be a hard day for women facing infertility, grieving over the loss of a child, or who are in the midst of a long adoption process. Here are a few gift ideas to help you encourage all the women in your life this Mother's Day.


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Presently, clients can arrange the Bluetooth-empowered earphones, which give up to 5 hours of music playback and superb sound through a "consistent and programmed association" between the AirPods and an iPhone. To charge the AirPods, the included travel case serves as an energizing station that gives to 24 hours of battery life for the earphones.
AirPods present an easy remote listening knowledge pressed with top notch sound and long battery life. These otherworldly remote earphones utilize propelled innovation to rehash how we listen to music, make telephone calls, appreciate TV shows and films, play diversions and communicate with Siri, giving a remote sound ordeal impractical some time recently.
The new W1 chip inside the AirPods takes into consideration consistent association with gadgets in Apple's biological system, so they interface immediately at whatever point the rechargeable battery case is flipped open close to an iOS gadget. At the point when in the client's ears, the AirPods "know when you are tuning in" and will in this manner delay music when they're removed from an ear. Playback controls are left to Siri-empowered voice summons, which are raised by twofold tapping on the buds.
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The following material is suggested as teaching material for teachers of history, geography, geology and archaeology and as suitable background material for projects.
Lower Palaeolithic c2.6 million years ago Oldest known tools - Oldowan or Mode One technology* Pebble tools.
Middle Palaeolithic c1.7 million years ago Acheulian or Mode Two technology* - typically ovate biface handaxes.
Upper Palaeolithic c. 200,000 years ago until 12,000 years ago Modes 3 and 4* technology. Still mainly core tools, but beginning of flake tools industry.
Lower Mesolithic 12,000 to 8,000 years ago Early Mode 5* - Tranchet adzes and broad blade microliths.
Upper Mesolithic 8,000 to 6,500 years ago Later Mode 5* - Narrow blade microliths + tranchet arrowheads.
c. 6,500 years ago until c 5,000 years ago (beginning of Bronze Age) Barbed and tanged arrowheads, polished axes, scrapers more crudely made.
Archaeologist Grahame Clark proposed in 1969 an evolutionary progression of flint-knapping industries in which the dominant lithic technologies occurred in a fixed sequence from Mode 1 to Mode 5. This scheme has been very widely adopted in archaeology internationally. The five technologies coincide with stages of human development - the first four in the Palaeolithic and the fifth in the Mesolithic.
The industries are: Mode 1: the Oldowan industry; Mode 2 the Acheulian industry; Mode 3 the Mousterian industry, Mode 4 the Aurignacian industry, Mode 5, the Microlithic industry. Modes 1 and 2 took place in the Lower Palaeolithic, 3 in the Middle Palaeolithic, mode 4 in the Upper Palaeolithic and Mode 5 in the Mesolithic. Mode 5 was followed by the technology of the Neolithic. These modes were not simultaneous in different regions. Mode 1, for example, was in use in Europe long after it had been replaced by Mode 2 in Africa.
discovered by the archaeologist Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The industries of Modes 2 to 4 are named after type sites in France: Acheulian refers to St Acheul, a suburb of Amiens, Mousterian to Le Moustier, where a rock shelter was discovered in the 1860s, and Aurignacian to Aurignac in the Haute-Garonne region. Mode 5, the Microlithic is named from specific type of tool (see Microliths below for details).
Broadly speaking, Oldowan, Mode 1 technology, is represented by crude pebble tools; Acheulian, Mode 2, by Oval biface hand axes made by Homo erectus; Mousterian, Mode 3, by smaller flat-based bifaces and Levallois tools, developed by Neanderthal humans, Aurignacian, Mode 4 includes fine flint blades and worked bone and antler tools made by the first modern humans, as well as early figures and painting, and Mode 5, Microlithic technology, involves the sophisticated manufacture and use of very small flint blades and tranchet arrowheads. Examples of these five lithic technologies and the tools made are shown here.
What is flint? Read about the origin and use of this remarkable material.
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The Free Library > Date > 2003 > March > 22 > Research Initiative/Treatment Action!
Development of a mouse model for HIV/AIDS.
A small animal model would be very valuable for HIV/AIDS vaccine testing, investigating HIV pathophysiology, and exploring anti-HIV therapeutics. Unfortunately, HIV does not replicate in mouse cells. Provision of mouse cells with human CD4, CCR5 and cyclin TI (cycT1) has uncovered a block to HIV assembly or release. Since mouse-human cell fusions allow viral replication, mouse cells lack at least one critical factor that permits completion of the viral life cycle. To identify this factor(s) we are employing 2 similar genetic approaches. Each cell line of a panel of monochromosomal mouse-human somatic cell hybrids was individually transduced with an HIV vector encoding both cycT1 and blasticidin resistance (HIVCIB). Each was then transfected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) G protein and measurable virus was recovered from only the hybrid-containing chromosome 2. This was verified with an M-tropic envelope and was shown to be specific to HIV. In addition, the amount of p24 release from that hybrid was substantially greater than that from the parent. A second cell line expressing chromosome 2 had a similar phenotype. CycT1 has been introduced into one chromosome 2 fine to monitor the spread of HIV. In a related but separate approach, an entire collection ~500 mouse-human microcell hybrids was transduced with HIVCIB and broken down into manageable pools. Virus was similarly recovered as above from a few of the pools. Those pools were then broken down to clones and several cell clones have been identified that allow virus release. Revertants that no longer have the human chromosome are now being tested for loss of phenotype. Clones will then be tested for ability to support both HIV replication and Gag processing. Human chromosomal content of the clones of greatest interest will be determined by STS content analysis. Results from the 2 approaches are expected to be in agreement and may provide direction for an expression cloning approach.
The final presentation of the afternoon, given by Richard E. Sutton, MD, PhD, was about the development of a mouse model for HIV/AIDS. Sutton first outlined some of the reasons why a small-animal model of HIV disease would be beneficial. He admitted that while such a model might not be as useful in therapeutics development, there could be considerable benefit for vaccine testing and pathogenesis research. Also, the animals used in the nonhuman primate model are expensive and scarce, thus preventing some research from moving forward more quickly. A mouse model of HIV/AIDS would allow the application of transgenesis techniques and the initial testing of many candidate vaccines that have not yet been tested because of a shortage of rhesus monkeys. In addition, mouse studies have already resulted in some discoveries about HIV, including the identification of co-receptors, cyclin T1 (a necessary co-factor for Tat and TAR during transcriptional elongation), and host factors required for viral assembly and release. Mouse cells have been modified to express CD4, a co-receptor, and cyclin T1, and the processes of HIV entry, integration, and transcription can be reproduced in mice. However, virus release from cells has not been achieved. HIV-infected mouse cells exhibit gag precursors (p55) and little capsid. Fusion of mouse with human cells causes a marked increase in viral production, suggesting mouse cells lack certain factors that are needed to release virus. For instance, viral protease may require a co-factor found in human cells or the Gag protein may be incorrectly ubiquitinated in mouse cells. As Sutton noted, the possible explanations abound for why this occurs, and there are 2 approaches to solving the problem: biochemical and genetic. Sutton's lab has chosen the latter.
The group used mouse-human somatic cell hybrids to screen a panel of mouse cell lines each containing a single human chromosome. The hybrids containing human chromosome 2 produced markedly higher levels of HIV than the other monochromosomal hybrids. Other tests show that this characteristic carried on chromosome 2 appears to be specifically associated with HIV release. Also, the cells containing chromosome 2 had levels of p24 and p17 comparable to human cells, and supernatant from the cell cultures expressing chromosome 2 contained viruses that were able to infect cells at a similar frequency as supernatant from infected human cells. Mouse cells without human chromosome 2 did not show these effects.
Another approach used by Sutton's group involves a collection of microcell hybrids where each clone was derived from a mouse melanoma cell line and contains a small amount of a single human chromosome. An HIV-based vector encoding cycT1 was introduced into the entire collection. The clones were separated into smaller pools and media from each clone was tested for viral infectivity of human cells. Certain cell clones produced very good HIV release. Ongoing preliminary analysis has shown that some of these clones contain part of chromosome 2. The lab will also look at whether reverting the phenotype in these clones will cause the cells to lose the ability to release infectious virus.
Sutton and his colleagues have also begun to employ expression-cloning strategies using an HIV cDNA expression vector. This strategy allows the introduction of a cDNA library into non-dividing cells and subsequent completion of complex functional selections. The group plans to use this technology for several investigations including the identification of unknown viral receptors as well as human host factors that are critical for HIV replication. Initial work has involved the introduction of the cDNA library into mouse cells containing cycT1. The cDNA and vector were rescued by transfecting the mouse cells with packaging vector and vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV G). The released virus was then amplified in human cells--only as an intermediate to increase the levels of virus, which were very low in the mouse cells. The virus was recovered from the human cells and reintroduced into mouse cells. This process was repeated several times to enrich for vectors encoding cDNA that allow completion of the viral lifecycle (as seen with the cell hybrids containing chromosome 2; see Figure). The amount of virus recovered increased after each round of this process, indicating the enrichment of some factor possibly responsible for improving virion release. However, cDNAs recovered at this point were considered artefactual and not relevant to the HIV life cycle. Therefore, the cDNA vector used in this set of experiments was not considered optimal and an improved vector is already being tested.
Sutton admits that using the human cells as an intermediate step for amplification may not have been ideal, and future studies will look at ways to improve the selection strategy (without human cells). The group is considering a standard, albeit laborious, cDNA screening approach. If such a virus-release factor was isolated, one goal would be to create a quadruply-transgenic mouse to study HIV pathogenesis and vaccine development. Another objective would be to learn how the putative factor might increase particle infectivity. One application of this work may be the eventual identification of a novel therapeutic target.
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