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Have you heard that craving chocolate during your period may be a cultural experience rather than a biological reaction (source)? Say what? Yes, this may actually be true. For those of us who munch down a box of cookies and tell ourselves it's because our bodies are craving it, well, it may just be what we grew up being told instead of reality. Reality is that when we get our periods we should in fact be eating veggies, rather than sweets, to reduce PMS symptoms.
In addition to chocolate being cultural…….are you ready for this…… emotional PMS symptoms are questioned as well. How can this even be questioned you may wonder? Periods often take the blame when women show more aggressive and emotional behaviors. How many times you been asked by a partner or family member if you are on your period when you were simply trying to express being upset about something? Dr. Sarah Romans, lead author of a study showing that PMS failed to show the existence of negative mood syndrome in the general population, believes PMS perpetuates the ideal that women should be giving and kind all the time (source). She states, "the whole PMS notion serves to keep women non-irritable, sweet, and compliant the rest of the time. There is a range of paradoxes -- world-turned-upside-down events -- like festivals, Mardi Gras, where people are socially prescribed to behave out of role...I think PMS is a bit like that. 'We'll let you be cranky and bad-tempered now, but just for one or two days. The rest of the time you've got to be like a true woman.'"
While Dr. Romans's study found PMS negative mood symptoms may not exist, or are at least exaggerated, other research shows that about 75%-90% of women experience both physical and emotional symptoms before their period (source). The medical community, including the prestigious American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recognizes PMS mood symptoms, which include crying spells, depression, and feeling angry (see chart below).. These are considered normal symptoms of PMS. That is unless they are interfering with your life.
In about 3-6% of women, severe symptoms of PMS (called premenstrual dysmorphic disorder) significantly interrupts their life each month (source). PMDD goes beyond being irritated or sad. PMDD is marked when a woman has debilitating anxiety, depression or irritability the week before their period. Two to three days after their period starts, the symptoms go away (source). For a diagnosis of PMDD, your doctor would look for 5 symptoms that appear up to a week before a woman's period and then disappear a couple of days after it starts (source).
Researchers do not know for sure what causes PMDD or PMS. Hormonal changes throughout the menstrual cycle may play a role. A brain chemical called serotonin may also play a role in PMDD. Serotonin levels change throughout the menstrual cycle. Some women may be more sensitive to these changes. Many women with PMDD may also have anxiety or depression. For more details on the symptoms and information on PMDD Symptoms click here.
In addition to the negative mood symptoms of PMS being challenged, PMDD is also questioned. Some research indicates PMDD may be due to something other than the menstrual cycle. Regardless, PMDD is found to be a serious, chronic condition that needs treatment. For some women, the severity of symptoms increases over time and lasts until menopause. For this reason, a woman may need treatment for an extended time. Medicine dosage may change throughout the course of treatment. To read more about the debate of PMDD, click here.
No matter how intense your symptoms may or may not be, charting your cycle symptoms can be incredibly insightful to see if you notice any patterns. If you are feeling stressed, depressed or have stomach issues, they it may be due to factors other than your cycle. If you see a pattern emerge after several cycles, you and your doctor may be able to identify if the symptoms appear to be related to your period or not. You may also be able to see if lifestyle habits make a positive impact on your symptoms.
PMS may not interfere with your everyday life, but feeling down and getting irritated for a few days to a week each month isn't exactly fun. Making healthy changes, such as working on convincing yourself that you crave salad instead of chocolate, may help relieve both PMS and PMDD symptoms. WomensHealth.gov says eating a healthy combination of foods across the food groups, cutting back on salty and sugary foods, and getting more physical activity, may also help relieve some PMDD symptoms.
1. Harvard Review of Psychiatry (2009), "Update on Research and Treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder."
2. Gynecological Endocrinology (2007), "Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Premenstrual Syndrome and Guidelines for Their Quantification for Research Studies."


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Albatross – brytyjski dramat z 2011 roku, będący debiutem reżysera Nialla MacCormicka.

Akcja filmu toczy się wokół młodej początkującej pisarki Emelii Conan Doyle, wierzącej że jest potomkiem Artura Conana Doyle'a. Przyjeżdża do miasteczka na południowym wybrzeżu Anglii, gdzie zaprzyjaźnia się z nastolatką Beth z patologicznej rodziny, a wkrótce potem rozpoczyna romans z jej ojcem.

Film w całości został nakręcony na Wyspie Man i miał swoją premierę na Festiwalu Filmowym w Edynburgu w czerwcu 2011 roku.

Film został nominowany do nagród:
 British Independent Film Awards – Felicity Jones i Jessica Brown Findlay
 Evening Standard British Film Awards – Jessica Brown Findlay

Obsada
 Jessica Brown Findlay jako Emelia
 Sebastian Koch jako Jonathan Fischer
 Julia Ormond jako Joa Fischer
 Felicity Jones jako Beth Fischer
 Peter Vaughan jako dziadek

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Linki zewnętrzne

Brytyjskie filmy z 2011 roku
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Watch This, Not That: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel vs. Demonic
According to Google, the definition of 'horror' is "an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust" which simultaneously explains, and somehow does not explain, why there are so many shitty movies lumped into this genre on Netflix. It's tough to find good horror these days, at least something that's not brought to us by the news anyway. It just so happens I do not watch the news. It also just so happens that the news watches me because this week's Watch This is a documentary on a story that made national headlines.
This past week, Netflix released a 4-part documentary called Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel which detailed the disappearance of a young tourist named Elisa Lam. I'd actually heard of this case before, not from the news (thank God) but from my favorite YouTube channel, Top5s. About 6 years ago, one of their videos featured the footage of Elisa Lam in an elevator that shocked the interwebs. When I first saw it, it creeped me out. You see, Elisa Lam was a woman who traveled from Canada to L.A., found herself staying at the infamous Cecil Hotel which is where she was last seen. After she was reported missing, video surveillance captured Elisa in one of the elevators looking paranoid and frightened. That was the last anyone saw her until she was discovered more than 2 weeks later in one of the hotel's water tanks.
Prior to the discovery of what actually happened to her (she climbed in herself which was most likely brought on by her mental illness), the story itself was something out of a true horror film. In fact, some people compared it to the 2005 film Dark Water. Those people would be conspiracy theorists who decided it was their job to find out (i.e. make up) what happened to Elisa Lam. They would also be the same people who helped pin it on someone who'd never even met Elisa Lam, causing that individual to basically give up a part of his life because of the harassment, helping this documentary land in the 'horror' genre thanks to that one tidbit of this story being absolutely disgusting. In fact, the scariest part of this documentary is the incredible amount of people who could afford to spend countless hours investigating Elisa Lam's case, making it difficult at times for actual investigators to do actual investigating.
Then there's the former GM of the hotel who gives off serious American Horror Story: Hotel vibes – she plays a great villain. The entire documentary is weird and while it's definitely a shocker of a story, it's more tragic than anything. The Cecil Hotel is worth Googling as it's actually pretty disturbing. However, the only reason you should watch the documentary is to understand what mental illness can do to a person as well as understand how much of a tool you'll look like if you spread conspiracy theories – particularly ones you made up – about a subject matter that effects millions of people.
Coincidentally, this week's "don't watch" is a movie based on demonic possession which some are more than ok with classifying as mental illness. Demonic is about a bunch of amateur ghost hunters (what else?) attempt to become professional ghost hunters by venturing into a house where a mass murder took place with a goal of raising the dead. As you may have figured out, the majority of them die because one of them gets possessed but actually he's dead and it's his girlfriend who is possessed but not for real her, her baby is possessed.
Other than that stellar description I just provided, here's why you shouldn't watch it: as with most terrible horror films, we're never told or given any sort of inclination as to what and/or who is possessing people. It could be the devil. It could be something pretending to be the devil. It could be a picture frame. Who knows? Not the screenplay writer, that's for sure. I give it one star and that's only because Dustin Milligan, AKA Ted from Schitt's Creek, is in it.
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Helen Vendler: Reading and Riffing on W. B. Yeats
Click to listen to Chris's conversation with Helen Vendler here (32 minutes, 15 MB MP3)
Helen Vendler: A Poem's Best Friend
Helen Vendler — the poet's best friend and the reader's too — helps you hear a poem by showing you first how to see it.
Look, for example, at Yeats's famous World War I memorial for Major Robert Gregory, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death." The difference between reading this elegy not as a speech, but as a poem is as simple and striking as realizing that the poem has the form of a perfect cube:
AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public man, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
From THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE (1919) in William Butler Yeats, Collected Poems
That is, the shape of it is 4 x 4 x 4. Four beats in each line. Four lines in each of the "quatrains" (each in the "perfect" rhyming order a b a b, in this case). And four quatrains (not separated here into four stanzas) in the poem.
So the one-off form of the thing is as elegantly, decisively squared away as the soldierly beat of the marching monosyllables: "fate," "hate," "love," "cross," "loss," and the rest. Form makes a tight fit with the cool, collected thought the poem voices. The form itself is a statement of the sad but settled order in Major Gregory's mind. So the original shape of this poem becomes virtually inseparable from its "message." Or as Helen Vendler puts it in her new account of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, "By such formal means Yeats confirms that the airman's choice is the correct one for his soul."
Yeats is labeled the "last Romantic" by some, the "first Modernist" by others. It's not the sort of argument Helen Vendler is impelled to settle. The thrust of her much-admired "close reading" is rather that Yeats was the Compleat Formalist: a hard-working, endlessly original genius when it came to variation and invention in the size, shape and settings of his staggering phrases, a master of all the poetic tricks of "rhythm, balance, pattern," as he said, and the imagery of passion.
There's an informal conversation here — and not specially about form, either. When you ask Helen Vendler about a Yeats poem, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard has an endearing, unaffected habit of reaching for her trusty Collected Poems and then introducing, reciting and riffing on the work with barely a look at the text.
I asked her to sit by the hearth for Open Source and show us how to see and hear a few of the great Yeats poems we think we half-know… and to break through the surface familiarity of lines like "That is no country for old men," or "A terrible beauty is born," and "the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."
The poems are: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Never Give All The Heart", "Easter 1916", and "The Circus Animals' Desertion."
Pull up a comfortable chair, please…
Whose Words These Are: Helen Vendler's Emily Dickinson
Click to listen to Chris' conversation with Helen Vendler (64 minutes, 30 mb mp3) Helen Vendler, our tutor in W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, is showing us here how...
Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler's Stevens
What is it about Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955), that such a variety of our contemporaries speak of an attachment that does not hang on "meaning"? Ask who or what drew...
October 5, 2009 Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler's Stevens
March 17, 2011 C. D. Wright in Triumph: One With Others
September 29, 2009 Whose Words These Are (4): Joan Houlihan
December 7, 2010 C. K. Williams on Whitman's Music: Whose Words These Are (30)
May 7, 2008 Mary Jo Salter's "Phone Call to the Future"
December 30, 2009 Whose Words These Are (20): Rick Benjamin
May 5, 2011 Whose Words These Are: January O'Neil's Underlife


Having problems with your Kenmore 24 in. 16039 Built-in Dishwasher ?
I HAVE NOT HAD AN ON LINE CHAT YET AND YOU ARE SENDING A NOTICE THAT MY CHAT TIME HAS EXPIRED.THIS HAS NOW HAPPENED TWICE!
What kind of issue are you having with your dishwasher?
Elite 665.13933K010 The touch panel is inactive. There appears to be no power to it. It has done this before twice...the first time I bumped the top of the door and the lights came on and it worked. Second time, I took it out of the cabinet, turned it upside down and examined everything looking for a loose wire or blown fuse. When I put it back together it worked. Any idea what is happening?
First time it happen I notice that it started before it should with the timer, so started it without timer and it worked. Now its not going though circle again. Changing the program, and trying again, which did work first time but now it is not working.
Our smeg dishwasher beeps twice when i set it running, but nothing happens. when i open the door it beeps 10 times at me... any ideas on the error?
Dish washer is seldom used , maybe twice a year. Notice during a drain cycle that the pump makes a squaling noise.This happens only after the load of the water has pass through the pump. The dishwasher is a boush,is there impeller style pump? Maybe dry rot ?
Dishwasher is less than a year old. Once in a while it will stop about 10 minutes into the cycle, then the display lights will blink. Sometimes it will stop and the lights wont blink so we will come back later thinking it is done only to open it up and there is water sitting in the bottom. Doesnt happen all the time but sometimes and yesterday happened about 10 times finally gave up. I can cancel and restart the cycle but the same thing happens.
Control panel inoperable - 2nd time this has happened. First time repairman said "it was fried" because the panel is just under the countertop - of course this is how it is designed to be. Now it has happened again. My dishwasher is GE PRofile and is now 4 yrs. old. I have tried shutting off power and the controls still do not respond to touch.


Gold has always been a safe and surefire hedge against inflation. It's a tangible asset that is easier to procure, as compared to other assets such as real estate. It also performs at its peak levels in the market even in times of political adversity or war. This is mainly the reason why many people choose trading in gold.
Why Day Trading In Gold Is A Good Financial Move?
It's a foolish move not to invest in gold. If you believe in long-term investments or accumulating wealth for the long haul, then you must really set your eyes on the goal, or gold for this matter. It is regarded as a luxury that's worth splurging on because it has no tinge of liability and also increases in value over time.
Expect high market prices. Its value depends mainly on the law of supply and demand. There is always a stable and increasing demand for gold especially in the jewellery industry. The price of gold is at a steady upward slope because of its high demand and low supply.
Gold is on the mainstream, same as the fiat money or US dollar. It's a tangible investment that anyone can take and not worry of losing their money in a blink of an eye. It's a globally accepted currency and unlike some cryptocurrencies, this does not operate on stealth mode. In other words, you can trade gold at any point in the world because this is legally accepted globally.
Gold performs at par or even better when pegged with the US dollar. It is a very competitive currency so expect higher yields or returns as opposed to other financial assets.
Gold is considered more secure and offers protection on your investments. It actually performs better over time in terms of value as compared to fiat money and other assets.
1. You have to study market trends.
The key to getting it right with day trading in gold is predicting and knowing certain market trends. If you observe, gold will always follow certain market trends. As a trader, you need to discover that trend and get into the right position and at the right timing. Analyzing market trends is very important in this step.
2. Identify and understand your market.
Check if it is a range bound market or trending market. Know the difference.
Looking into the technical indicators such as the Fibonacci retracement indicators will help you determine your strategy or where you begin your point of entry. Here is where you need to sort out the resistance and support levels.
Experts or experienced day traders would advise to wait for a breach before you make the entry position. To achieve a downward trend, you need to jump into the highs. On the other hand, creating an upward trend would require you to connect rising bottoms and them taking advantage of any support opportunity.
4. Another buying position to take advantage of is that of moving averages.
This is considered to be a favorite by many day traders because it's basically very simple and convenient to use. All you have to do is buy when the faster moving average crosses over the slower one; and then proceed to sell once the faster average passes above the slower average.
5. When trading, always check into a confirmation of divergence.
This will help boost your confidence in the trading process and come up will better trading results.
6. There is a season for gold.
There are particular seasons of the year wherein gold predictably rises and falls in precision. It's a pattern that is easy to master once you get into gold trading. It's a general pattern to follow, but gold is usually at its strongest in September and weakest in March.
It rises on the first quarter of the year and then weakens, following a rise on the last months or final quarter of the year. You have to take note of the seasonal trends or patterns in gold so you know how to implement your trading strategy the right way.
Test the technical indicators before you actually use it in trading with gold.
It pays to read, research, and be informed of the technicalities and jargons of gold trading. Basically, you cannot trade gold or anything for that matter without learning the ropes or the ins and outs of the system. There are no shortcuts to this. You need not be an expert or master to trade, but you have to at least be acquainted with the basics or strategies of gold trading.
You can actually check on the support and resistance levels based on the highs and lows of the market.
Investing in gold can be for short-, medium-, or long-term arrangements. Nobody has ever experienced financial drought by buying, holding, and selling gold. Trading is cyclical and predictive, which helps protect your assets if you are in it for the long haul or even if you want to get your profit right away. Either way, you win.
Trading in gold is a smart move if you know how to play your cards right. You can make huge money with gold trading, that is a fact. Seasonal winning streaks for gold repeats itself year after year. While it may vary a bit, you would most likely predict wins in value of actual gold and prevent losses with staying attuned to the gold seasonal pattern.
Diversifying your investment portfolio with at least 2% to 10% of gold is a good number. Understanding your market and following seasonal golding trends will certainly give you higher profit, and puts you in a better position to decide your entries and exits.


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Раиса Ефимовна Легкунец (род. 10.05.1938, с. Новоникольское Кировского района Восточно-Казахстанской области) — советский и казахстанский ученый, кандидат химических наук (1971). Окончила химический факультет КазГУ (ныне КазНУ им. ал-Фараби) (1966). Работала в Институте химических наук АН Казахстана. В 1971—2002 годы стала научным сотрудник кафедры коллоидной химии и высокомолекулярных соединений КазНУ. Основные научные исследования в области гидродинамических свойств макромолекул, поведения полимеров к смесях перекрестноселективных растворителей. Монография «Ассоциация полимеров с малыми молекулами» (1983), вошедшая в цикл «Водорастворимые полимеры и их комплексы», удостоена Государственной премии РК в области науки и техники.

Сочинения
 Влияние природы растворителя и полимера на невозмущенные размеры макромолекул, А., 1972;
 Ассоциация полимеров с малыми молекулами, А., 1983.

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Miller Systems, one of Boston's premier boutique user experience and technology consulting firms, is a Gold Winner in the MarCom Awards competition. Miller Systems was recognized in the Website/Educational Institution category for its work in redesigning the primary web site (www.snhu.edu) for Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Miller Systems also received an Honorable Mention in the Website/Intranet category for its work rebuilding WGBH-Boston's 1,000 person corporate intranet, InnerTube.
"We are delighted to be recognized by the MarCom Awards for our work with these two outstanding clients," said Seth Miller, Founder and CEO, Miller Systems. "The projects we completed for SNHU and WGBH were uniquely different, but both final products represent the best of our balanced approach to design and development, ensuring form and function."
The 2012 international MarCom Awards competition recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. This year there were over 6,000 entries from the United States, Canada and several other countries. Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts- marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity and electronic/interactive. The MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.


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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private W L Homewood
Private William Lewis HOMEWOOD, G/8228, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Vadencourt, near Vemand, Flanders France, 22nd March 1918, age 19. Buried where he fell.
30th December 1899, born Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, eldest son of Private William Homewood, (Army Ordnance Corps, Didcot Camp) and Madeline Homewood, (daughter of Joseph Burley), of 57, Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Educated Royal Victoria School, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
1911 Census - 24 Framfield Road, Uckfield, Sussex - William Homewood, head, age 50, married, upholsterer, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Madeline Homewod, wife, age 39, married 13 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Nutley, Sussex; William Lewis Homewood, son, age 12, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Frederick Percy Homewood, age 9, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Clara Cathleen Louisa Homewood, daughter, age 4, born Nutley, Sussex; Mary Chalklin, visitor, age 26, nurse, born Tonbridge, Kent.
Enlisted 15th June 1915, Tonbridge, Kent.
3rd May 1916, posted BEF; September 1916, recalled from France; October 1916, to Army Reserve, Class "W"; 30th January 1917, rejoined 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th January 1918, drafted to France with 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, where he was employed as a Lewis Gunner.
His Commanding Officer, Captain Thomson wrote: "Your son was a good and efficient soldier, who is a great loss to the Company."
Unmarried.
Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France.
This page was last updated on 15-Jan-2020.
Copyright © 2008 Janet & Richard Mason


The Cottonwood High wrestling team has been led this season by Taylorsville residents – and team captains – Jacob Knapp and Thomas Ollis.
It's that time of year again, where you dust off your glove and bring out the bat. Registration for Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth youth baseball is about to begin.
With the winter prep sports season winding down, Taylorsville High teams are preparing for final competitions as the state tournaments loom.
The Taylorsville boys basketball team had some tough luck in the preseason, so the players were certainly overdue for some good fortune.


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Silvia Martínez Micol General Technician - Biology and Microscopy
Silvia delivers technical support to services across the MC² portfolio, with a primary responsibility for the biology and microscopy.
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Silvia's role focusses on supporting a variety of complex microscopes, including a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Raman Microscope, High Content Microscope and various other analytical instruments e.g. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting (FACs), and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis (EDX).
Silvia provides general laboratory support and instrument maintenance, as well as help with sample preparation (materials and biologicals) and data analysis on these instruments.
During her Bachelors studies in Spain Silvia did a placement at the Murcian Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (IMIDA), where she worked as a Biotechnology Laboratory Assistant. She embarked fully on her career first as Science Technician and then Deputy Laboratory Manager at Alperton Community School in London. In this role she delivered high quality practicals for all students within the Science department. She prepared equipment and materials, and carried out demonstrations, assisting both staff and students, and ensuring that all experiments were carried out properly, safely and to completion on time.
Silvia graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Murcia, Spain. She completed her degree with a final year project in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology on "Modification and cloning of the genes in Mucor circinelloides for generating appropriate strains for biodiesel production".
Following on from this, Silvia studied for a MSc in Biotechnology for Environmental Sustainability at Napier Edinburgh University, Scotland, where her research project focussed on "The impact of ultraviolet treatment on Salmonella in water and sludge samples from Veolia Wastewater Treatment Plant".
Silvia speaks Spanish, basic French and is currently perfecting her English language skills by taking courses at the University of Bath Language Centre.
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Belgische personen:
Colijn Caillieu

Nederlandse personen:
Pieter Colijn (16e eeuw), Amsterdams burgemeester
Hendrikus Colijn (1869–1944), militair, topfunctionaris en politicus (ARP, minister-president)
Anton Colijn (1894–1945), amateurbergbeklimmer (zoon van Hendrikus)
Pieter Arie Colijn, politicus (ARP, burgemeester van Alphen aan den Rijn)
Helen Colijn (1921), schrijfster
Ko Colijn (1951), journalist, politicoloog en hoogleraar.


While 40% participants have shown a willingness to in cryptocurrencies sometime in the future, only 14.6% of participants agreed to be invested in the market. It seems the country's crypto crackdown and the bear market have had an effect on crypto's adoption. China has restricted the citizen's access to the cryptocurrency, the enthusiasts cannot have access to crypto-related media, news, and resources until they adapt to a Virtual Private Network or other mediums to bypass the Great Firewall.
With the rise of China's social credit system, which punishes those for breaking laws, however civil or criminal, Chinese consumers are likely to be discouraged against the ecosystem. Though in all fairness, another reason for its low adoption rate could be the volatility of the asset, the survey also showed that 63% of respondents claim that cryptocurrencies aren't a viable medium of value.
Another interesting fact that surfaced from the survey is that cryptocurrencies were majorly bought by the investors in the age range of 19-28, with investments ranging anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 yuan. A similar inference was drawn by a recent study that claimed that millennial's interest in cryptocurrencies is rapidly growing. In fact, one of the reasons behind the Chinese government's aversion with the industry is because a number of these entrants first threw money at cryptocurrencies during the 2017 bull run.
The aforementioned survey illustrates that crypto ecosystem in China is quite budding, however, some claims that the survey may be skewed. First and foremost, details like the demographics of the respondents, specifically location-wise wasn't revealed. Which leads many to believe that PANews surveyed middle-class or upper-class citizens that live in sprawling metropolises and ignored those who live in the countryside. While some also point out the vast discrepancy between those who want to invest and those who have invested as a bit fishy.
For some, the strictness of their government should have curbed the interest. As aforementioned, the Chinese government has opted for a very strict hand for cryptocurrencies. Following the governments directive, many influential companies have also opted for an anti- crypto policy like Alipay banned Bitcoin OTC Accounts from its platform. However, despite the strictness, a rise in bitcoin and crypto adoption has been observed.
There is no denying that the craze of cryptocurrencies have been on the rise and multiple surveys throughout the year have had illustrated the same. For instance, a recent survey revealed that 38% Of Freelancers Regularly Use Cryptocurrencies, than a survey by Ron Pauls suggested that most investors would choose Bitcoin for a long-term Investment.


Be with us in this storm.
We see your greatness and our weakness.
We see your almighty power over all.
O Lord we are helpless and in need of protection.
Abide with us, stay with us in this storm.
Protect our home, our crops, and our people.
The One who stilled the wind and calmed the waves.
We praise you for the renewal that you promise will come.
And take us through this storm.


Online registration for the 2018 season closes tonight! Our last official in-person registration will be tonight from 5-7pm at the Central Park board room.
****IMPORTANT – PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!**** Tonight's registration at the field is canceled. Stay well and stay safe out there!


EMPORIA – An Emporia woman was found guilty yesterday of mistreating a dependent adult and conspiring to mistreat a dependent adult, the Kansas Attorney General's Office reported today.
Dalene Miller, 56, was convicted of the charges by a Lyon County jury following a four-day trial. The case stemmed from a complaint sent to adult protective services in May 2011. The attorney general alleged that Miller misused the funds of her 93-year-old mother-in-law, who was residing at a care facility.
An investigation by the attorney general's Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division and the Lyon County Sheriff's Office discovered that between July 2011 and January 2012, Miller acted as durable power of attorney and a trustee for her mother-in-law and made purchases including a house, farm and truck while her mother-in-law's expenses went unpaid.
District Judge W. Lee Fowler presided over the trial and scheduled sentencing for 9 a.m. Sept. 26.
Charges remain pending against Miller's husband, Rick Miller, who is scheduled to face trial in November.
The cases are being prosecuted by assistant attorney general Stefani Hepford with assistance from the Lyon County Attorney's Office.


Sorry for the delay guys, my tennis season had started so very busy now a days.
That's w cup captain's 50! Well played.
hmm look like we're on chasing 200+.. hopefully anything under 200 we'll chase it.
so far good bowling by @last_knight.
16.5 @last_knight to @Canistani Hero, OUT, 136.76kph, Not much movement from this surface. C Hero miscues a late cut. BOWLED HIM!
8.6 @ahmadharis1 to @Azzurri, OUT, 61.64kph, This one bites viciously and spins a long way. @Azzurri played that with soft hands. The bails are off in a flash! D Harper goes upstairs for the review. @Azzurri could not get his foot back in time. Gone!
10.4 @ahmedwaqas92 to @hailian, OUT, 147.85kph, @ahmedwaqas92 bowls this gun-barrel straight. Hailian was in no position to play that stroke. @KhanNn juggles the edge and takes it at the second attempt!
Ellipsism finishes up with a good, solid spell.
18.5 @Arsalan Pro to @Smbhayi, OUT, 71.10kph, A Pro gives this one some air. Full length just outside off stump. @Smbhayi was in no position to play that stroke. @KhanNn juggles the edge and takes it at the second attempt!
And so the game draws to a tame conclusion with Islamabad United claiming an impressive victory by 5 wickets. A solid, if unspectacular performance there by Islamabad United and they will no doubt want to build on the foundation laid today. The bowlers were probably licking their lips when they saw the pitch today - the pitch was very sporting, to say the least. All of the disciplines benefited greatly throughout the day. These two teams were fairly evenly matched so it was tough to predict the outcome. That being said Islamabad United proved to be the stronger in the end and snatched victory.
Well played IU. A very calculated chase thanks to a match winning partnership between @hailian and @Azzurri .
And Captain @Smbhayi made sure there were no hiccups therafter.
Credit goes to bowlers. they pull things back nicely to restrict them under a below par score. and @hailian & @Azzurri calculated chase brilliantly.


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Important key events and influential Buddhist figures in the History of Tibet, India, And The Himalayan Region
C.566-486 BCE. South Nepal - North India
Buddha Shakyamuni སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Figure The birth, enlightenment, teaching and Parinirvana of Siddhārtha Gautama - Buddha Shakyamuni. [1]
3 months after the Buddha's death Rajagriha, India
1st Buddhist Council
The first Buddhist council held at Rajagriha, India with five hundred arhats དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ headed by Mahakashyapa འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ་. Mahakashyapa was one of the principles disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་ and the first who succeeded the Buddha as head of the Buddhist community. [1] [2]
Beginning 3rd century BCE Vaishali, India
2nd Buddhist Council - 1st division of the Sangha
At the second Buddhist Council, held 110 years after the Buddha's prinirvana, the first division of the Sangha དགེ་འདུན་ happened when the Sthaviras ('elderly members') divided from the majority Mahāsāṃghikas ('the Great Sangha'). [1] [2]
3rd century BCE Pataliputra, India
3rd Buddhist Council - First division of the Sangha
The Third Buddhist Council took place 137 or 160 years after the parinirvana of the Buddha. Five hundred arhats led by Arya Parsva and four hundred panditas led by Vasumitra དབྱིག་ཤེས་. [2]
c.268 BCE India
Accession of Emperor Asoka མྱ་ངན་མེད།
Video Asoka was an Indian emperor who largely contributed to the propagation of Buddhism in India and Asia. [1] [2] [i3]
C.258-232 BCE India
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Emperor Ashoka མྱ་ངན་མེད་ oversees the construction of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, said to contain some of the relics of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་. [13] [i2]
3rd century BCE Sri Lanka
Pali canon brought to Sri Lanka
Pali canon brought from northern India to Sri Lanka by Mahinda, a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor Asoka. The Mahavihara ('great monastery') was established by Mahinda himself. [1]
Reign: 127–? BCE Tibet
Nyatri Tsenpo གཉའ་ཁྲི་བཙན་པོ། - 1st King of Tibet
Post Nyatri Tsenpo is said to have been the first king of Tibet. [2] [11] [i8]
1st century BCE Sri Lanka
Written Pali Text
Pali texts were written down for the first time in Sri Lanka. Abhayagiri vihāra montsray estblished. [1]
1st Century CE Jalalabad, Eastern Afghanistan
Bimaran Casket
Video The Bimaran Casket is the oldest, dateable depiction of the Buddha in human form. [9]
c.150-250 CE South India
Nāgārjuna ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ།
Figure Nāgārjuna is revered as the founding father of one of the principal Sastra བསྟན་བཅོས། systems of Mahayana philosophy, namely the Madhyamaka དབུ་མ་. He is also renowned as an unsurpassed master by all Buddhist schools. Nāgārjuna laid out the Middle Way དབུ་མ་ between the extremes of nihilism and eternalism by clearly delineating the two truths: the ultimate truth and the relative truth. His most famous work is the Madhyamaka-karika དབུ་མ་རྩ་བ་ཤེས་རབ་ ('Verses on the Middle'). [1] [2] [7]
3rd century CE Sri Lanka
Jetavana monstary in Sri Lanka established
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4th to 5th century CE North India
Asanga ཐོགས་མེད་ and Vasubandhu དབྱིག་གཉེན་
Figure Asanga (left image) and his elder half-brother Vasubandhu were the greatest Buddhist authorities of Ancient India. Asanga was founding father of the other great Sastra བསྟན་བཅོས། school of the Mahayana ("Great Vehicle"), namely the Yogacara རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ (or Chittamatra སེམས་ཙམ་པ་, "Mind Only"). Asanga received teachings from Maitreya བྱམས་པ་ and transcribed them as the 'Five Treatises of Maitreya' བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་. [2] [3]
470-550 CE India
Buddhapalita སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས།
Figure Buddhapalita is an Indian scholar who is acknowledged as the founder of the Prasangika ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་ Madhyamika དབུ་མ་པ་. [2] [7]
c.600-650 CE India
Chandrakirti ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ།
Figure Chandrakirti was a renowned Indian scholar. He was the author of Introduction to the Middle Way དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, Clear Words ཚིག་གསལ་ and other key works on the Middle Way. [2] [7]
Dharmakirti ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ།
Figure Dharmakirti received teachings from a direct disciple of Vasubandhu དབྱིག་གཉེན. He was perhaps the greatest master of Pramana ཚད་མ་ ('Valid Cognition') and the author of Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན. [2] [7]
602-664 China - Central Asia - India
Hsüan-tsang ཧྱན་ཙང་།
Video Hsüan-tsang (also written Xuanzang) was a Buddhist monk and Chinese pilgrim to India who translated the sacred scriptures of Buddhism from Sanskrit into Chinese and founded in China the Buddhist Consciousness Only school. His fame rests mainly on the volume and diversity of his translations of the Buddhist sutras and on the record of his travels in Central Asia and India, primarily to Nalanda university. [14] [i7]
c.605-650 CE Tibet
Introduction of Buddhism to Tibet
King Songtsen Gampo སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ , is known as the 1st Dharma king. His two wives, Princess Bhrikuti from Nepal and Princess Wencheng from China, introduced both Indian and Chinese forms of Buddhism for the first time in Tibet. [1] [2]
632 Tibet-India
Thönmi Sambhota ཐོན་མི་སམྦྷོ་ཊ།
Thonmi Sambhota is the Tibetan grammarian credited with inventing the Tibetan alphabet and writing the most important treatises on Tibetan grammar. According to Tibetan tradition, King Songtsen Gampo sent a young man of the Thönmi clan to India in the year 632 with other youths, to learn the alphabet. The ancient annals of Tun-huang records the year 655 that 'the text of the laws was written'. [2] [4] [i4]
c.685-763 India
Shantideva ཞི་བ་ལྷ།
Figure Shantideva was a great Indian master, scholar, and bodhisattva བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་, who was the author of the Bodhicharyavatara བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་. He is also counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་. [2] [12]
756-97? Tibet
King Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན། - 1st Spread of Buddhism in Tibet
Figure During the reign of King Trisong Detsen (image), known as the 2nd Dharma king, an Indian monk Shantarakshita ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ was invited to establish the first monastery, Samye བསམ་ཡས་. In order to accomplish his purpose, Shantarakshita is said to have had to call on an Indian yogin, Padmasambhava པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས།, to subdue the local demons hostile to Buddhism. [1] [2]
C. 763 India-Tibet
Shantarakshita ཞི་བ་འཚོ།
Figure Shantarakshita (725–788) probably arrived in Tibet in or around 763. [2]
Oddiyana-India-Tibet
Padmasambhava པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས།
c.740-795 India - Tibet
Kamalashila པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ།
Figure Kamalashila was an Indian master and professor of Nalanda University. He was the main disciple of Shantarakshita ཞི་བ་འཚོ་. He is known for winning the Samya debate. [2]
792-4 Samye or Lhasa, Tibet
Samye Debate
A famous debate at Samye བསམ་ཡས་ or Lhasa in between an Indian faction, headed by Kamalaśīla པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ and a Chinese faction, headed by the teacher Hvashang Mahayana. The Indian opinion supporting gradual awakening is said to have prevailed. [1]
Late 8th Century India
Haribhadra སེང་གེ་བཟང་པོ།
Figure Haribhadra was a great pandita and master of the prajnaparamita ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ teachings. He is counted among the panditas of Nalanda University. [2]
806–838 Tibet
King Tri Ralpachen ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན།
King Tri Ralpachen is known as the 3rd Dharma king and one of King Trisong Detsen's grandsons. He ruled Tibet from 815 until 838, when he was assassinated. He was extremely devoted to the teachings of the Buddha and is famous for having built one thousand temples. [2]
Reign: 838-842 Tibet
King Langdarma Udumtsen གླང་དར་མ་འུ་དུམ་བཙན།
Langdarma Udumtsen was the last king of the Tibetan empire. His time is known as a dark age for Buddhism in Tibet. "Langdarma suppressed the Buddhist faith and in his time Buddhism received a severe setback" said HH the Dalai Lama. The king was assassinated by Lhalung Palgyi Dorje ལྷ་ལུང་དཔལ་གྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ། in 842. [2] [7] [10]
11 May 868 China
The Diamond Sutra - World's Earliest Dated, Printed Book
Video The Diamond Sutra in Chinese language, complete with a beautifully illustrated frontispiece, is the world's earliest dated, printed book. It was produced on the 11 May 868. [9]
? India
Tilopa ཏི་ལོ་པ།
Figure Tilopa was the first master of the Kagyu བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ lineage. Tilopa is one of the most authoritative and renowned Indian mahasiddhas and masters of mahamudra ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ and tantra རྒྱུད་. He is counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་. He received various tantric teachings and unified them and transmitted to his disciple, Naropa. [2] [5]
956-I040 India
Naropa ནཱ་རོ་པ།
Figure Nāropā, together with his teacher Tilopa, was one of the most prominent and authoritative Indian masters. He is also counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་. Naropa received the mahamudra ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ and tantra རྒྱུད་ lineage teachings from his guru Tilopa and transmitted them to his disciple, Marpa, the Great Translator of Tibet. [2] [5]
982-1054 India-Tibet
Atisha - 2nd Spread of Buddhism in Tibet
Figure Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་མར་མེ་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ (or Jowo Jé Palden Atisha ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་) was a great Indian master and scholar, and author of many texts including the Lamp for the Path of Awakening བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན. He spent the last ten years of his life in Tibet, teaching and translating texts, and was instrumental in reinvigorating Buddhism there after a period of persecution. His disciples founded the Kadampa བཀའ་གདམས་པ་ school. [2]
1007-1078 India
Maitripa མཻ་ཏྲི་པ།
Figure Indian Buddhist teacher who studied at both Nalanda ནཱ་ལེནྡྲ། and Vikramashila རྣམ་གནོན་ཚུལ། Monasteries. Maitripa is famous for brining his lineage Tibet by teaching the Mahamudra philosophy and practice to Marpa Lotsawa མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ། [2] [16]
1012-96 Tibet
Marpa Lotsawa མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས།
Figure "Marpa the Translator" brought the Kagyu Lineage to Tibet. Marpa traveled to India from Tibet at great personal peril across the Himalayas to study with his principal teachers, Naropa and Maitripa. [1] [5]
1040-1123 Tibet
Jetsun Milarepa རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ།
Figure Milarepa is widely regarded as Tibet's greatest yogi, famous for his strict mountain retreats, beautiful songs of realization, and devotion to his teacher, Marpa. [1] [5]
d.1117 India-Tibet-Bhutan
Padampa Sangye ཕ་དམ་པ་སངས་རྒྱས།
Figure Padampa Sangye was a great Indian siddha གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ who visited Tibet and Bhutan several times. He is known as the founder of the Chö གཅོད་ lineage together with his main disciple, Machik Labdrön མ་ཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་. [2]
1055-1149/53 Tibet-Bhutan
Machik Labdrön མ་ཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན།
Figure Machik Labdrön was a female master who, with Padampa Sangye ཕ་དམ་པ་སངས་རྒྱས, initiated in Tibet and Bhutan the lineage of the practice of Chö གཅོད་ ('cutting through' ego-clinging). [2]
1073 South-West Tibet
1st Sakya Monastery
Khön Könchok Gyalpo འཁོན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ founded the Sakya ས་སྐྱ་ monastery. [1] [i6]
Gampopa སྒམ་པོ་པ།
Figure Gampopa "the Physician from Gampo", Sönam Rinchen བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་ was the main student of Milarepa. He was also a doctor and tantric master. Gampopa authored the Lamrim ལམ་རིམ་ text, Jewel Ornament of Liberation དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན་, and founded the Dagpo Kagyu དྭགས་པོ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད school. [2]
1st Karmapa Lama - Düsum Khyenpa
The Kagyu བཀའ་བརྒྱུད tradition pawned various sub-schools. The Karma Kagyu ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད sub-school is headed by a teacher given the title Karmapa ཀརྨ་པ. The first of these, a disciple of Gampopa, was Düsum Khyenpa. [1]
1182 - 1251 Tibet
Sakya Pandita ས་ཀྱ་པཎ་ཌི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
The Sakyapas recoginzed five 'great masters', the most important of which is usually regarded as Sakya Paṇḍita. [1]
1292–1361 Tibet
Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen is often credited with founding the Jonang ཇོ་ནང tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a great exponent of the Shentong གཞན་སྟོང་ view. [2]
Longchenpa ཀློང་ཆེན་པ།
Figure Longchenpa was one of the most brilliant teachers of the Nyingma རྙིང་མ lineage. He systematized the Nyingma teachings in his 'Seven Treasures' and wrote extensively on Dzogchen རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ. [2]
Je Tsongkhapa རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ།
Figure The Gelug དགེ་ལུགས་ tradition sees itself as the principal inheritor of the Kadampa བཀའ་གདམས་པ tradition. The Gelug school was founded in the 14th century by the scholar-monk Je Tsongkhapa. [1]
Bodong Chogle Namgyel བོ་དོང་པན་ཆེན་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།
The Tibetan author with the largest volume of work. Bodong Chogle Namgyel was one of Tibet's most learned and realized masters as well as a most prolific writer. His collected works are in 137 volumes. [7] [8]
1410 Peking, China
1st printed edition of the Kangyur
The earliest woodblock printed edition of the Kangyur བཀའ་འགྱུར (the 'translated words' of the Buddha). [1]
Gorampa Sönam Senge གོ་རམས་པ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ
Gorampa Sonam Senge is one of the most widely-studied philosophers in the Sakya ས་སྐྱ་ school. He was fierce critic of Je Tsongkhapa རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ།. Gorampa's works were so controversial that they were suppressed by Gelug དགེ་ལུགས་ leaders shortly after they were composed. Gorampa's texts remained hidden until the early 20th century. [3] [7]
Mikyö Dorje མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Figure The 8th Karmapa. [2]
3rd Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Sonam Gyatso was the first to be named Dalai Lama. The title goes back to the sixteenth century and to Gelug དགེ་ལུགས་ relations with the Mongols, whose ruler, Altan Khan, declared Sonam Gyatso, the third in a line of reincarnating Gelugs lamas, 'an ocean (Mongolian dalai) [of wisdom]'. Sonam Gyatso was thus subsequently regarded as the third Dalai Lama. [1] [i5]
5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
The 5th Dalai Lama. Since his time the Dalai Lama has acted as Tibetan head of state. [1]
1645 Lhasa, Tibet
Potala Palace ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ།
The Potala Place, the main palace and residence of the Dalai Lamas, constructed in Lhasa by Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, the Fifth Dalai Lama. Its construction started in 1645 on a large hill upon the ruins of an old palace and hermitage, erected on 637 by King Songtsen Gampo སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ . Up until the Chinese invasion, it also housed Tibet's central administration and the Namgyal རྣམ་རྒྱལ། Monastery. [2] [6]
Jigme Lingpa འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ།
Jigme Lingpa is regarded as one of the most important figures in the Nyingma རྙིང་མ lineage. He was a great scholar and visionary, and discovered the Longchen Nyingtik ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག cycle through a series of visions of the great fourteenth-century master, Longchenpa ཀློང་ཆེན་པ།. [15]
1733 Tibet
Derge སྡེ་དགེ་ block-print edition of 1733
One of the most widely used and favored editions of the Kangyur བཀའ་འགྱུར་ today is a reproduction of the Derge block-print edition of 1733. [1]
Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
Chokgyur Dechen Shikpo Lingpa མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ་ was one of the great tertöns གཏེར་སྟོན་ (terma revealer) and an emanation of Prince Murub Tsenpo. His terma revelations are the Chokling Tersar མཆོག་གླིང་གཏེར་གསར་ (New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa). [2]
Ju Mipham Rinpoche འཇུ་མི་ཕམ།
Ju Mipham Rinpoche was a great Nyingma master and writer and one of the greatest scholars of his time. He is known to have shaped the trajectory of the Nyingma རྙིང་མ school. Longchenpa ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ was the single most influential Tibetan figure for Mipham Rinpoche. He was a known supporter of the Rimé རིས་མེད་ (non-sectarian) movement. [2] [7]
[1] Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism, Oxford Paperbacks; 1st edition (July 1 1998). p. 14, 40-42, 57, 254, 266-267, 270-273.
[2] rigpawiki.org – Rigpa Shedra Wiki,. an online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism.
[3] plato.stanford.edu – The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
[4] R. A. Stein, Tibetan Civilization. (1972), Stanford University Press. p. 51, 58.
[5] kagyuoffice.org – Office of the 17th Karmapa. Naropa, Tilopa, Marpa, Milarepa.
[6] Michael Dillon, China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary, Routledge (1998). p. 184.
[7] Douglas S. Duckworth, Jamgon Mipam: His Life and Teachings. Shambhala Publications (2011), intro, p. 20, 25-26, 33, 40, 43, 55.
[8] Rangjung Yeshe Wiki – Rangjung Yeshe Institute. Institution of higher learning for Buddhist philosophy and practice.
[9] The British Museum – The British Museum in London, England, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
[10] dalailama.com – Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
[11] Erik Haarh, Extract from "The Yarlung Dynasty", in: The History of Tibet, ed. Alex McKay, Vol. 1, London (2003).
[12] Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryavatara), Translated by The Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala Publications (1997).
[13] ancient.eu – World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organization.
[14] Encyclopedia Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia – Xuanzang.
[15] Longchen Nyingtik Project – A project to translate the Core Texts of the Longchen Nyingtik.
[16] Himalayan Art Resources – Artworks from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India, China and Mongolia
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[i4] Sahil Bhopal, Tashi Mannox, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
[i5] Gombojab Tsybikov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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@interface CameraVC ()<UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate>

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView        *imageView;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton           *takePickerBtn;

@property (nonatomic, strong) MPMoviePlayerController   *moviePlayerCtrl;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImage                   *image;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSURL                     *movieURL;
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSString                  *lastChosenMediaType;
@end

@implementation CameraVC

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.title = @"摄像头和照片库";
    if (![UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]) {
        _takePickerBtn.hidden = YES;
    }
}

- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated{
    [super viewDidDisappear:animated];
    [self updateDisplay];
}

- (IBAction)shootPickerOrVideo:(id)sender {
    [self pickMediaFromSource:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera];
}

- (IBAction)selectExistingPickerOrVedio:(id)sender {
    [self pickMediaFromSource:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary];
}

- (void)updateDisplay{
    if ([_lastChosenMediaType isEqual:(NSString*)kUTTypeImage]) {
        _imageView.image = _image;
        _imageView.hidden = NO;
        _moviePlayerCtrl.view.hidden = YES;
    } else if([_lastChosenMediaType isEqual:(NSString *)kUTTypeMovie]){
        [_moviePlayerCtrl.view removeFromSuperview];
        _moviePlayerCtrl = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:_movieURL];
        [_moviePlayerCtrl play];

        UIView *movieView = _moviePlayerCtrl.view;
        movieView.frame = _imageView.frame;
        movieView.clipsToBounds = YES;
        [self.view addSubview:movieView];
        _imageView.hidden = YES;
    }

}

- (void)pickMediaFromSource:(UIImagePickerControllerSourceType)sourceType{
    NSArray *mediaTypes = [UIImagePickerController availableMediaTypesForSourceType:sourceType];
    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:sourceType] &&
        [mediaTypes count] > 0) {
        NSArray *mediaTypes = [UIImagePickerController availableMediaTypesForSourceType:sourceType];
        UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
        picker.mediaTypes = mediaTypes;
        picker.delegate = self;
        picker.allowsEditing = YES;
        picker.sourceType = sourceType;
        [self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:NULL];
    } else {
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error accessing media"
                                                        message:@"Unsupported media source"
                                                       delegate:nil
                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"卧槽!"
                                              otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
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- (UIImage *)shrinkImage:(UIImage *)original toSize:(CGSize)size{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, YES, 0);
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- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker{
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Q: Issues with interfacing Fortran Logicals with Cython Bint I'm currently working on wrapping a Fortran module to be called from Python using Cython, the Fortran subroutine currently has an optional logical argument. I've used iso_c_binding to wrap the subroutine, and I have written the cython .pyx file to create the .so file. However, when I run my setup script, I get two warnings:
warning: passing argument 4 of 'c_geo_manipulate' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
     c_geo_manipulate(((geo *)(&__pyx_v_v1)), ((geo *)(&__pyx_v_v2)), ((geo *)(&__pyx_v_value)), ((int *)(&__pyx_v_optional_weights_output)));

And
pyginterpolation.h:17:13: note: expected '_Bool *' but argument is of type 'int *'
 extern void c_geo_manipulate(geo *v1, geo *v2, geo *v3, bool *output_weight);

Here are the files I'm using:
interpolation.f90
module interpolation_module
use iso_c_binding
implicit none

type, bind(c) :: geo
    real, dimension(2) :: coordinates
    real :: weight
end type geo

contains

    subroutine geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3, output_weight)
        type(geo), intent(in) :: v1, v2
        logical, optional, intent(in) :: output_weight
        type(geo), intent(out) :: v3

        if (present(output_weight).and.(output_weight .eqv. .true.)) then
            v3%coordinates = v1%coordinates * v1%weight + v2%coordinates * v2%weight
            v3%weight = v1%weight + v2%weight

        else
            print *, 'false'
            v3%coordinates = v1%coordinates * v1%weight + v2%coordinates * v2%weight
            v3%weight = 0
        end if

    end subroutine geo_manipulate

end module interpolation_module

pyginterpolation.f90
module interpolation_interface
use interpolation_module
use iso_c_binding
implicit none

contains

    subroutine c_geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3, output_weight) bind(c)
        type(geo), intent(in) :: v1, v2
        type(geo), intent(out) :: v3
        logical(c_bool), optional, intent(in) :: output_weight

        if ((present(output_weight)).and.(output_weight .eqv. .true.)) then
            call geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3, output_weight = .true.)
        else
            call geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3)

        end if
    end subroutine c_geo_manipulate

end module interpolation_interface

pyginterpolation.h
#include <stdbool.h>

struct _geo {
    float coordinates[2];
    float weight;
};

typedef struct _geo geo;

extern void c_geo_manipulate(geo *v1, geo *v2, geo *v3, bool *output_weight);

pyginterpolation.pyx
import numpy as np

cdef bint boolean_variable = True

cdef extern from "pyginterpolation.h":
    ctypedef struct geo:
        float coordinates[2]
        float weight

    cdef void c_geo_manipulate(geo *v1, geo *v2, geo *v3, bint *output_weight)

def f(geo v1, geo v2, output_weights = False):
    cdef geo value
    if output_weights is True:
        optional_weights_output = True
        c_geo_manipulate(<geo*> &v1,<geo*> &v2,<geo*> &value, <bint*> &optional_weights_output)
        return np.array(value)
    else:
        optional_weights_output = False
        c_geo_manipulate(<geo*> &v1,<geo*> &v2,<geo*> &value, <bint*> &optional_weights_output)
        return np.array(value.coordinates)

setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.extension import Extension
from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
# This line only needed if building with NumPy in Cython file.
from numpy import get_include
from os import system

# compile the fortran modules without linking
fortran_mod_comp = 'gfortran interpolation.f90 -c -o interpolation.o -O3 -fPIC'
print (fortran_mod_comp)
system(fortran_mod_comp)
shared_obj_comp = 'gfortran pyginterpolation.f90 -c -o pyginterpolation.o -O3 -fPIC'
print (shared_obj_comp)
system(shared_obj_comp)

ext_modules = [Extension(# module name:
                         'pyginterpolation',
                         # source file:
                         ['pyginterpolation.pyx'],
                         # other compile args for gcc
                         extra_compile_args=['-fPIC', '-O3'],
                         # other files to link to
                         extra_link_args=['interpolation.o', 'pyginterpolation.o'])]

setup(name = 'pyginterpolation',
      cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
      # Needed if building with NumPy.
      # This includes the NumPy headers when compiling.
      include_dirs = [get_include()],
      ext_modules = ext_modules)

From what I've understood, cython has bint to be used for booleans with C, but I'm not too comfortable with how they work,and I'm still very new to C/Fortran, so my understanding of how pointers (and the language in general) work is still pretty rudimentary. Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong with my usage of these logicals?
Thanks!

A: The Cython bint type does not map Python booleans to the C99 _Bool type, but rather to int. So the type of the output_weight argument should be integer(c_int). That is, something like

    subroutine c_geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3, output_weight) bind(c)
        type(geo), intent(in) :: v1, v2
        type(geo), intent(out) :: v3
        logical(c_int), optional, intent(in) :: output_weight
        logical :: ow

        if ((present(output_weight)).and.(output_weight == 0)) then
          ow = .FALSE.
        else
          ow = .TRUE.
        end if

        if (ow) then
            call geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3, ow)
        else
            call geo_manipulate(v1, v2, v3)

        end if
    end subroutine c_geo_manipulate

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The Cyber Company, the Former Officer, and the Lost Money
Three Israeli entrepreneurs are suing their former partners at cybersecurity startup Senpai Technologies, claiming they were cheated out of monetary compensation for their shares
Meir Orbach	14:5317.10.19
Senpai Technologies
A business squabble between several partners at a small cybersecurity startup called Senpai Technologies Ltd. led them to approach retired Israeli colonel Tal Dillian, a well-known investor and key figure in the Israeli tech industry, for help in resolving the dispute. The partners did not imagine Dillian would make matters much worse, so much so that they all ended up in court.
In a lawsuit filed with Tel Aviv district court earlier this week, Jonathan Lampert, Eric Banoun, and Roy Shloman allege that their partners Guy David and Omri Raiter ״stole״ the company they founded together. They further claim via their legal representation, Eran Spindel of Spindel & Co., that Dillian, who entered the picture only recently, was the one who completed their ousting and stripped them of their monetary compensation.
Tal Dillian. Photo: Amit Sha'al
According to the filing, the relationship between the plaintiffs and their partners started four years ago, when Lampert, Banoun, and Shloman joined David and Raiter to found cyber intelligence company Senpai. It was decided that David will receive a 35% stake in the company and serve as its CEO and Raiter will also receive 35% and serve as the chief technology officer. Shloman, Lampert, and Banoun were each to receive 9%, with Shloman set to serve as vice president of sales position and the other two having no official role but agreeing to scout for clients and partnerships.
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Shloman, Lampert, and Banoun have stated in the lawsuit that after a long stalemate with the defendants, they offered David and Raiter two options: full transparency, or bringing in a new shareholder who will acquire part of the company and treat all partners objectively and fairly. The second option was selected. Shloman, Lampert, and Banoun offered to bring in Rayzone Group Ltd., which will invest according to a company valuation of $15 million to $20 million. David and Raiter refused and offered Dillian instead.
Dillian held several positions in the Israeli infantry before being appointed to head the intelligence corps' tech unit. During his tenure, a military police investigation was opened against him due to financial irregularities, which eventually led to his retirement. The offer to add him as an investor surprised Shloman, Lampert, and Banoun, they said. According to the lawsuit, Banoun and Dillian were previously acquainted, having been partners at Circles Technologies, and the three already contacted him with a similar offer and were turned down. Understanding they were outmaneuvered, they allegedly agreed to sell Dillian their shares according to a company valuation of $12 million. Lampert was to receive $1.2 million, while Shloman and Banoun agreed to exchange their stock for shares of Dillian's cybersecurity company Intellexa Ltd.
Shloman received notice about his termination in May. The three were supposed to receive their compensation in June, but that never happened. The lawsuit quotes a Whatsapp conversation where Dillian asked Banoun to get Lampert "off his back." The company is bankrupt and insolvent, it is worth nothing on the market, Dillian is cited as saying. After writing that he is infusing the company with money to ensure its survival, Dillan allegedly told Banoun that "someone should explain to Jonathan (Lampert) that I am doing him a favor."
The three then discovered Senpai was listed on Intellexa's website as part of its group. After unsuccessful attempts to contact the representation of David, Raiter, and Dillian, the three were notified at the beginning of October that Senpai's operations were frozen. They were also told that their shares will be diluted unless they infuse the company with money.
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In their lawsuit, Shloman, Lampert, and Banoun state that they do not know whether the decision to defraud them was premeditated or decided upon after Dillian was added as an investor, but that they believe he has taken part in a scheme with David and Raiter with the intention of divesting Senpai of its operations.
Dillian's legal representation has yet to reply to a request for comment. David and Raiter could not be reached for comment.
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Home > Forum > Triathlon Forum > anything similar to normatech just cheaper?
anything similar to normatech just cheaper?
There is a very good thread on here which runs through how many of the mid price range options are just re-branded with a sports logo instead of a medical logo and then the price is inflated a few hundred percent!
My question is also does anyone know of some of the cheaper options that can ship to Australia??!! I can't order them through Amazon.
We just got the Air Relax system, seems to work fine. Lacks the battery operation of the Normatech and some other bells and whistles but seems to get generally good reviews.
AirRelax. Search for the thread by Thomas Gerlach.
Air Relax....we've had them over a year and they work great! I'm sitting in them right now after my 6 hour bike:) Well worth the money.
Yes there are a few of players in this space. I did the following quick comparison of Normatec vs Air Relax a couple years back. Be aware Air Relax only sells the smallest version on Amazon, the majority of us need the two larger sizes so you need to order direct form Air Relax. I do have a $20 coupon off a set of Air Relax if you go that direction. Basically gets you to a $400 price point.
Rapid Reboot does some heavy promotion at the expos with some nice packaging and the signature Normatec color ie. black legs. They are basically a rebrand, import, and big markup of Dr. Life LX7 boots. The following is a link to a set of Dr Life LX7 on eBay $255 but notice the 220-240v. In general you can save some money by importing boots by yourself but be aware of voltages. Best to buy a US voltage. Rapdi Reboot did put some money into things like the color, design, packaging, and hidden hoses that is definitely worth something. Rapid Reboot also has an all inclusive package including system, legs, arms, hips, and case for $1500. I have sets of arms, hips, waists, shorts for the various units and IME you are probably going to spend the majority of the time in boots, then hips/shorts, then arms. Regardless it seems the best price for Rapid is always with haggling with the reps on site to purchase their slightly used demo boots.
There are other systems including Elevated Legs, RecoveryPump, but I feel you best best on the top-end is going to be Normatec. You want to get the less expensive route go Air Relax.
another air relax user here. fantastic product. works well. ive used a normatech unit at a recovery place up in the woodlands in texas and really the air relax does the same basic thing at half the cost.
Did you pull the trigger on any system. If so which one and how is it going so far?
Thomas, just purchased the Air Relax for my daughter who run's cross-country and track at a D1 school for Christmas. She uses the Normatec at school all the time and after reading your review went with the Air Relax with your discount code. Thank you!!
FYI. In case anyone was interested. I was looking to get a quality version without paying the huge premium for Normatec. I bought the Speed Hound recovery system, which really looks and feels very similar to Normatec. I think the only thing that it really doesn't have is the battery pack. but since I rarely travel with it, that wasn't a huge priority. It has multiple settings and times like the Normatec for about half the price.
What about medical boots which are not the whole leg? Would they be just as good?
Most of my injuries are lower leg anyway, so I'd be fine with boots that are only lower leg.
obs: I live in the UK, so I need things that are available for purchase here. Unfortunately Air Relax are much more expensive here, although Doctor Lifes are available here for 330£ ish.
I have been testing the Speed Hound recovery system for a bit. I do have some questions for the owner and will connect with him at some point, maybe even this week. My one big concern with these is how narrow the boots are. I know they ship with extenders but from a usability/customer understanding stand point I don't like that the average person may have to use an extender. I think it is better to make wider boots. Any comments from you about that? I am a skinny triathlete but a thicker triathlete. Based on your profile picture it looks like you might be a very skinny triathlete.


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