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Kim Ok-bin is leading lady in Park Chan-wook's new flick
It has been revealed today (Feb 12) that Over the Rainbow actress Kim Ok-bin will be the female lead in director Park Chan-wook's (Old Boy) sexy vampire horror movie entitled Bat.
Going Bat-y too: Kim Ok-bin signs up for
Park Chan-wook's latest project
Kim will star opposite award-winning actor Song Kang-ho in the movie, which reportedly has many explicit sex scenes.
In the flick, Song plays a surgeon who accidentally turns into a vampire who craves blood, sex and love. The film will start lensing at the end of March.
So does this mean Kim Ok-bin will shed her clothes for the camera?
Source: Yonhap News & Variety Asia Online
Pic credit: YonhapNews
Park Chan-wook hunts down female lead for Bat
invisibelle February 13, 2008
This is totally a popseoulish kind of thing to say, but whoa, her face does not match her body in that pic, it's a totally different color. gross
Clammy February 13, 2008
Well, at least the sex scenes will include a pretty face and body! ha ha!
PrincelyLuna February 12, 2008
Park Chan Wook is also one of my favourite Korean directors and i've immensely enjoyed all his movies that i've watched … well … except for Cyborg … and that's because i can't stand Bi!! and i love Song Kang Ho .. that alone is sufficient to entice me to watch the whatever movie!!
who? February 12, 2008
i've seen her in over the rainbow as well. but i wasnt that impressed. one thing tho, she IS a cutie. her body's not bad as well hehe
but how BAD can korean movies get? so far the 'bad'dest one i saw was April Snow (Son Yeh-Jin and Bae Yong-Joon)… sexy vampire story, eh? hmmmmmm this is the dude who directed I'm a Cyborg but that's OK right? ok then i'm setting my expectations as low as possible
joojoo February 12, 2008
I'm not impressed at all by Kim Okbin.. like the kid of actress who only has a pretty face… I mean she's mediocre.. but let's see.
This is really a make or break to her career… And I cant wait for the movie.. I'm a fan of Dir. Park Chanwook.. 0_0
Liz February 12, 2008
I guess it's a "make or break" role. Tang Wei won the gamble, don't know if it will happen for Kim Ok-bin.
I've only seen Ok-bin in the drama Over the Rainbow. She was OK.
The other day, I saw her dancing at the 2006 Mnet Countdown (it was shown on TV during the CNY holidays). And man, she looked so pissed, like she wanted to be every else except dancing on that stage. That was such a weird performance.
mmm … i'm not too excited with the choice of Kim Ok Bin as the leading lady. so far, have not been impressed by her acting. if there's really going to such explicit sex scenes such as those in Lust Caution, i hope she knows what she's going to get herself into … *thinking of what happened to the deceased Lee Eun Joo*.

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Thomas Hucker featured at New York gallery
Jennifer Hicks
The Pritam & Eames Gallery introduced new work by Thomas Hucker at an exhibit held Aug. 10 through Sept. 18. The featured pieces included a settee, a foyer table, a pair of ebony upholstered chairs and a low table, as well as a presentation of the artist's drawings.
Highly regarded as both an artist and a craftsman, Hucker's work is deeply influenced by traditional Japanese aesthetics and contemporary Italian design thinking.
"His furniture combines qualities that are seemingly incompatible — buoyancy and mass, abstraction and utility, richness and plainness," gallery partner Bebe Johnson said in a statement. "As such, he never fails to come up with sophisticated, engaging work."
While he was a teenager in Pennsylvania, Hucker began a two-year apprenticeship with German master cabinetmaker Leonard Hilger. He continued his training in furniture making with Jere Osgood at Boston University's artisanry program in the 1970s. These artists provided Hucker with a strong technical base that paved the way for provocative and conceptually engaging work that he is known for today, according to the gallery.
Hucker has taught at New York's Pratt Institute and New York School of Design, California College of the Arts in San Francisco and the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York; Detroit Museum of Art; Los Angeles Country Museum; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C., and the Smithsonian Institution of American Art in Washington, D.C.
A Taste for Spoons
Through Nov. 4, the Fuller Craft Museum will be hosting an exhibit called "A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens."
The exhibit, which opened Aug. 18, features a collection of works from woodcarvers from around the world who will take a popular everyday tool — the spoon — and create sculptural works of decorative art. The exhibit features 90 of the nearly 900 spoons in the collection.
Started by Norman Stevens in 2005, this distinctive collection of 9" carved wooden spoons has an exciting range of designs from the more traditional spoon shapes of neck and bowl, to spoons shaped like bullfrogs, faces, strawberries, eagles and hearts. The exhibition highlights the various carving techniques, styles and interests of a variety of woodcarvers from almost every U.S. state, several Canadian provinces and 28 countries including Australia, Great Britain, Romania and Sweden.
The collection represents a wide spectrum of wood species such as ash, English boxwood, lilac, mesquite, persimmon, plum, sycamore and many unusual woods. It also includes some longtime carvers who specialize in carving functional spoons as well as other well-known makers who do not specialize in spoons including: Michael Cullen, Mark Gardner, Dewey Garrett, Louise Hibbert, Peter Petrochko, Jamie Russell, Betty Scarpino, Mark Sfirri, Holly Tornheim and Jacques Vesery.
Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton, MA 02301. Tel: 508-588-6000. www.fullercraft.org
Pritam & Eames, 29 Race Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937. Tel: 631-324-7111. www.pritameames.com
This article originally appeared in the October 2012 issue.
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New York exhibition celebrates silver anniversary
Philadelphia gallery takes a new turn
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Pritam & Eames ready to roll out new Maine gallery exhibit
New Hampshire gallery takes a new look at chairs
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What Is the Resveratrol Scam?
By Jeanne Grunert
The patent medicine scam of yesteryear has given way to the resveratrol scam of today. The resveratrol scam consists of using Dr. Mehmet Oz's picture or videos taken from his appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he explains the benefits of resveratrol, then making it seem as if Dr. Oz endorses the supplement. Neither Oprah nor Dr. Oz endorse any supplement, and buyers must beware of any companies online seeking their credit card information to obtain a 'free' trial of resveratrol.
Anatomy of the Resveratrol Scam
Like most scams, this one relies upon half-truths to support the lies.
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Resveratrol Facts
Resveratrol is a chemical found in the skin of red or purple grapes and in other plant sources such as blueberries, peanuts, and other dark red or purple berries. Plants produce resveratrol to fight off microorganisms, and transmit the chemical to people who eat the plants or products made from the plants such as red wine. A Harvard study conducted on obese mice demonstrated the overweight rodents lived longer if they took resveratrol supplements. Since then, claims have been made that resveratrol stops or reverses aging. There is no scientific evidence to support these claims and the FDA does not endorse these statements.
Some research links drinking red wine to good health, and there's speculation that red wine may somehow confer health benefits. According to Dr. Oz, however, it's the alcohol content of red wine, not the resveratrol, that confers benefits. Resveratrol may provide some benefits but not enough to justify the supplement makers' claims.
How the Scam Works
People seeking information on resveratrol type the term into a search engine or stumble across a flash ad on a website featuring photos of celebrities such as Demi Moore. Once the visitor clicks on the ad or a link, a website opens that includes celebrity images and claims resveratrol keeps them looking young. Many sites include video clips obtained from Dr. Oz's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he discusses resveratrol.
At this stage, unsuspecting visitors may believe the claims and click on an offer for a free trail. That's when the resveratrol scam kicks into high gear. A very enticing offer promises a free trial, yet you must enter your credit card information to obtain it. A tiny star and very small font printed at the bottom of the screen indicates your card will be charged an exorbitant fee for the 'sample' and you'll be included on the company's automatic shipment program. Automatic shipment means that each month, the company will charge your credit card and ship you new bottles of the supplement. You must cancel within 10 days to get your money back.
Angry Consumers
Many consumers claim resveratrol scam companies charge their credit cards not just with an outrageous shipping fee for the supplement but also for supplements they never receive. Worse, consumers who attempt to cancel their order find themselves left on hold for hours at a time. Emails sent to the company are neither acknowledged nor returned. Many consumers have had to resort to cancelling their credit cards and alerting their banks not to allow charges from unscrupulous vendors who obtain their credit card information.
For more information on the resveratrol scam, visit Oprah Winfrey's site. Many of her loyal readers and fans have posted nightmare stories about their experiences with various companies. There isn't just one company pitching a resveratrol scam. Many companies are using the same tactics to lure consumers into the 'free' trial offer. Another source of information on the scam is the Consumer Complaint Board, which includes many details on various companies using the resveratrol scam to obtain credit card information.
Buying Resveratrol
If you do believe resveratrol holds health benefits, you can obtain resveratrol supplements from legitimate sources such as retail stores, vitamin and supplement shops, pharmacies and online outlets nationwide. Don't lock yourself into an autoship program unless you know the company you're dealing with, and never give away your credit card information to obtain a free sample. A free sample should be shipped to you with minimal information provided to the company.
What to Do if You've Been Scammed
If you do fall prey to a resveratrol scam, here are some steps you can take to rectify the situation:
Try calling the company and cancelling your shipment. Keep a detailed log of the time, date and number you called, who you spoke with, and any other details. If you get put on hold and nobody answers, record how many times you tried to call, the time of each call, and the duration of your hold time. You may need these facts to follow up with the Better Business Bureau and others if the scam continues.
Return the unopened product to the company with return receipt requested so someone at the company must sign for the product. Keep the proof that they received the return with the record of your calls.
If you still see charges on your credit card, you may be required to pay the charges while you attempt to get the money back from the resveratrol scam company. If you do not pay the charges, your credit card company may be within their rights to charge interest on the unpaid balance. Call your credit card company with any questions.
Call the Better Business Bureau with your complaint.
Cancel your credit card so the company can no longer charge it.
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Q: iterate over a set of dataframes in R Let's say I have a set of dataframes: df1, df2, d3, df4. I want to apply some sort of behaviour over each of these dataframes. Rather than copying the code repeatedly, I want to do this through some sort of for loop. For example, let's say I want to take the df and re assign it so that the first column is row names. The normal way I'd do this is:
df1_b <- df1[,-1]
rownames(df1_b) <- df1[,1]

How would I go about doing this to all four dataframes that I have. I imagine I'd need to somehow make group the dataframes into a single set and then do something like
for (i in set) {
  i+"_b" <- i[,-1]
  rownames(i_b) <- i[,1]
}

I tried to do this with a cbind:
df_set <- c(df1, df2, df3, df4)
for (i in df_set) {
  i+"_b" <- i[,-1]
  rownames(i_b) <- i[,1]
}

But of course that didn't work (I'm pretty sure R does not do string concatenation like this).
Any help would be appreciated!

A: We can use mget to get the values of the multiple objects into a list and then do  the processing in the list by looping over the list with lapply
lst1 <- lapply(mget(paste0("df", 1:4)), function(x) {
               row.names(x) <- x[,1]
                x[,-1]
    })

If we want to change the original objects (not recommended)
list2env(lst1, .GlobalEnv)

Or another option is tidyverse
library(purrr)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
mget(ls(pattern = "^df\\d+$")) %>%
     map(~ .x %>%
               column_to_rownames(names(.)[1]))

A: You can apply a function this way for example:
# getting some dummy data
df1 <- mtcars
df2 <- mtcars
df3 <- mtcars
df4 <- mtcars

lst <- list(df1, df2, df3, df4)

# example of applying the function row.names to the data
Map(row.names, lst)

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There's a pot of beef barley soup on the stove, it's raining & the temp is almost 70. Today is going to be the last warm day of the week with the daytime temps only in the low 60's. Fall is setting in quickly this year & I noticed on a trip to town a few days ago that the trees are already changing. Halloween will be here very soon. Chicken Chick has her costume all ready to go. We are ready for winter.
There is only one thing that we didn't get done this year. We lost our chicken's to wild dogs & we didn't get the flock started again.We'll do in the spring maybe with baby chicks from our local feed store. They have chick days every year. Other than that we pretty much got all the yearly chores completed. There shouldn't be too much more mowing to be done. Now I will be able to get back to my winter knitting. I only work on it in the cold weather. I'd sure like to get the shawl done.
By January I will be deep into planning the garden & getting things started, but until then I am going to enjoy the upcoming holidays & being inside.


The Dutch Supreme Court has ordered that a long-running web-blocking case in the country be considered anew by a lower court.
This relates to long-running efforts by Dutch anti-piracy group BRIEN to get The Pirate Bay blocked in the country. Web blocks, of course, are where courts order internet service providers to block their customers from accessing specific websites that have been deemed to primarily exist to facilitate copyright infringement.
Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL opposed BRIEN's web-blocks, getting them withdrawn on appeal. But BREIN took the matter to the country's Supreme Court, which in turn consulted the European Courts Of Justice as to whether there were any issues with web-blocking on copyright grounds under European law. The EU courts ultimately said there weren't any problems and therefore national courts could web-block if they so wish.
Following that judgment, the Advocate General back in the Supreme Court said in March that – with web-blocking allowed in principle – judges now needed to consider whether blocking The Pirate Bay correctly balanced the rights of copyright owners and the rights of internet users. That, he advised, would require another lower court hearing.
According to Torrentfreak, judges in the Supreme Court last week accepted the Advocate General's advice and told the Court Of Amsterdam to consider the whole case anew.
Given recent rulings elsewhere in Europe, it seems likely that arguments presented by Ziggo and XS4ALL against web-blocking in the past won't go down especially next time, but we will see. In the meantime The Pirate Bay remains blocked in the Netherlands as a result of an interim ruling last year that said that ISPs should put up blockades in front of the piracy site, pending a final judgment in this long, long running web-blocking case.


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Der Motoriktest für vier- bis sechsjährige Kinder (kurz MOT 4-6) ist ein 1987 publiziertes, standardisiertes, motodiagnostisches Verfahren zur Messung des motorischen Entwicklungsstandes bei Kindern im Vorschulalter, um motorisch unterentwickelte Kinder zu erkennen.

Der Test beruht auf den Lincoln Oseretsky Motor Development Scales (LOMDS) und dem von Ernst J. Kiphard entwickelten Körperkoordinationtest für Kinder (KTK), zu welchen für die Anwendung bei Vorschulkindern Anpassungen gemacht wurden.

Stärken des Tests sind seine Altersgerechtheit für Kinder im Vorschulalter, die Eignung für den Einsatz in einer pädagogischen Umgebung, der kurze und übersichtliche Bewertungsbogen, die Effizienz durch die getesteten Items und den Testumfang, den Bezug auf allgemeine und grundlegende Bewegungsfertigkeiten und den Aufschluss über die Beherrschung von Fertigkeiten, sowohl unterhalb als auch oberhalb des zu erwartenden Entwicklungsniveaus des Kindes.

Nachteile sind das Alter der normativen Daten, kein Vorhandensein aktueller Revisionen des Tests und geringe Rezeption des Tests und seine Ergebnisse in der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Literatur.

Testablauf
Die Testzeit für ein Kind liegt bei 20 bis 25 Minuten. Der Raum, in dem der Test durchgeführt wird, muss mindestens vier mal sechs Meter groß sein. Es gibt einen speziellen Testsatz mit Materialien, die aus genormten Sportgeräten und Alltagsgegenständen bestehen.

Unterteilung der Aufgaben
Die Aufgaben lassen sich motorischen Dimensionen zuordnen:

 Gesamtkörperliche Gewandtheit und Koordinationsfähigkeit (Aufgabe 7, 11, 14, 16, 18)
 Feinmotorische Geschicklichkeit                          (Aufgabe 3, 4, 10)
 Gleichgewichtsvermögen                                   (Aufgabe 2, 8, 12, 17, 18)
 Reaktionsfähigkeit                                       (Aufgabe 6, 13)
 Sprungkraft                                              (Aufgabe 15, 18)
 Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit                                 (Aufgabe 3, 5, 7)
 Bewegungssteuerung                                       (Aufgabe 9, 10)

Auswertung
Für die Aufgaben werden je nach Leistung null (Fähigkeit nicht beherrscht) bis zwei Punkte (Fähigkeit beherrscht) vergeben. Die Summe aller Punkte ergibt einen Rohwert. Dieser kann zur weiteren Auswertung mit der Hilfe von Normentabellen interpretiert werden, um Standardwerte zu erhalten. Der Standardpunktewert unterscheidet zwischen "sehr guten" (145–131), "guten" (130–116), "normalen" (115–86), "unterdurchschnittlichen" (85–71) und "auffälligen" (70–56) MOT-4-6-Ergebnissen.

Geschichte
Der Test enthält zum Teil Aufgaben, die aus älteren Testverfahren übernommen und modifiziert wurden, sowie Aufgaben, die für das Verfahren neu konzipiert wurden. Die erste Rohfassung wurde im Jahre 1973 nach einer 10-jährigen Erprobungszeit an rund 1.200 Kindern in verschiedenen Zeitschriften veröffentlicht. Zwischen den Jahren 1973 und 1977 wurde er weiter modifiziert, bis er seine heutige Form erreicht hat. Das endgültige Manual wurde schließlich im Jahre 1987 veröffentlicht.

Literatur

Weblinks

Siehe auch
 Motodiagnostik
 Psychomotorik
 Motometrie

Einzelnachweise

Entwicklungspsychologie
Diagnostisches Verfahren in der Kinderheilkunde
Scoring-System

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Every year there is a small but loyal group of former readers of the former Midnight Engineering magazine who gather in the Denver, Colorado area for a conference known as Entrepreneurial Connections, or EntConnect for short. These are people who have a background or interest in technology and are either running their own businesses or would like to be running their own businesses. Some attendees don't have quite the depth of technical background, but are simply interested in the special angle on business that the conference offers.
This year's conference is being held on March 23-26, 2006.
The conference is run by John Gaudio. Details on the conference can be found on his official conference web site at www.EntConnect.org, or you can check out descriptions of past conferences at my Enrepreneurial Engineers web site.
So, if you're in the Denver, Colorado area, or you live in a galaxy that is within teleportation range, and you're a technical entrepreneur or have entrepreneurial aspirations, consider checking out EntConnect this year. Even if it sounds as if you might not fit the profile of a typical attendee, you might consider the conference anyway. Sure, a lot of technology gets discussed, but the focus is running your own business and thinking like an entrepreneur.
And, if anybody wants to leave off -centric in common use, I won't object vociferously, assuming that they still mean that it is consumer-centric and not something vender-centric that happens to be consumer-oriented.
Where the second meaning is used as the core source for the O in COW and reflects more of a schema for the consumer knowledge web, the first refers to the actual instances of knowledge in the web, and the third refers to combination of the schema and the instances of specific knowledge.
I'm still not quite happy with this formula, but at least some progress has been made.
After all, it captures all of the meaning that I intended, and has an almost-precise acronym. And, people can simplify it in a slang manner as they see fit.
Now the question comes up of whether a large, lumbering beast is the desired metaphor for a consumer knowledge web. Unfortunately, it may be more precise than we would hope.
Everybody knows what a bit is, but what is it really, and what do we really mean when we talk about a bit?
I would distinguish between physical bits and virtual bits.
A physical bit is the actual 0/1, on/off condition in a physical media, whether it be in RAM, on a hard-drive, a signal level in a wire, or even photons in a fiber-optic cable.
Obviously physical bits are important since we couldn't do any computing without them, but what interests me is the virtual bits which comprise the information that we are processing.
For example, I have a word processing document. The virtual bits that are used to represent the totality of my Word document are what really matter to me. If I load the document and save it, a completely distinct set of physical bits will be stored, possibly at a completely different location on the hard-drive. And if I post the document on the Web or email it to somebody, the virtual bits are still the same even though they are stored in replicated physical bits in multiple locations, possibly even around the world.
And I don't even think about the physical bits in RAM where my document is temporarily stored while I'm working on it, unless of course something "happens" and I lose my changes, then I care very much about those physical bits that, unfortunately, are gone.
The point is that unfortunately, given today's technology, we do have to care, and care too much, about all of those physical bits, when it is really only the virtual bits that we should care about.
So, I'm thinking about what I call virtual networked bits, which basically means storing virtual bits redundantly around the global network, and doing it automatically (in the same spirit with which parity or ECC bits are handled automatically), so that we, the users, never again need worry about physical bits when all we really care about is our virtual bits.
Obviously there are lots of details to be dealt with, but that's the concept of virtual networked bits in a nutshell.
Please feel free to encourage your favorite technologists to pursue support for virtual networked bits as widely as possible.
I'm starting to look around for some conferences to attend. I want something different, that has the prospect of allowing me to learn something that I can't learn by reading web sites and online PDFs. And I certainly want to do a lot of networking. One possibility is the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference to be held March 6-9, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California, which is focusing on what is called the Attention Economy.
Today's consumer technology breaks focus rather than facilitating it, peppering us with pleas and offerings by dozens of applications competing for our attention. Not to mention the overwhelming amount of data we produce and consume every day. No longer constrained by any virtual limits, we're feeling the effects of this flood of digital assets . It's in our inboxes and news aggregators, on our hard drives and iPods, overloading our very capacity for managing it all. As organic creatures with fallible and finite perception systems, complex desires, and an ever-decreasing amount of time, how do we attenuate the flow to allow for synthesis and reflection?
This year's edition of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference explores the applications and services, interface overhauls and algorithmic underpinnings, technological hacks and etiquette tweaks of what we call the Attention Economy.
You'll find these themes reflected in ETech's roll-up-your-sleeves tutorials, meaty and to-the-point plenary presentations, and real world focused breakout sessions, spilling out into the hallway conversations of hackers and luminaries.
ETech shines a light on the innovations coming from non-traditional sources in an effort to get them on to everybody's radar. While the initial impact of these innovations may seem small, their ripple effects can have a huge impact in the larger computing arena. What you touch at ETech, you'll be using in the products, applications, and services of tomorrow.
In short, to build the future you have to be there.
Sounds quite interesting, but here's the catch: The conference registration fee is now $1,645, which is far, far beyond my budget and my financial ability. Maybe next year, probably never.
Query for my readers: Do you know anybody who will be attending the conference? And, how do so many people manage to afford such an expensive conference in these days of ultra-tight budgets?
C-KOW (pronounced "see cow") is an alternative to Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW) which is a bit wordy and not very memorable, Consumer Knowledge Web (CKW), or even Consumer Ontology Web (COW).
For now, I'm sticking with COW (Consumer Ontology Web) as my prime candidate since it's so simple to write and say. It's starting to grow on me. If I go with it, next I'll have to decide what MOO would stand for. Obviously one of the "O"s would be ontology. I think it should relate to a much simpler approach or method to constructing ontologies. More Obvious Ontologies?
Yes, it is Friday evening.
As I continue to work on my white paper entitled "The Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web - A Vision of Consumer Applications of Software Agent Technology - Enabling Consumer-Centric Knowledge-Based Computing", I also continue to struggle with how to crisply refer to it. Consumer-Centric Knowledge Web (CCKW) is a bit wordy and not very memorable. Even Consumer Knowledge Web (CKW) still isn't "there".
My latest rendition is to call it the Consumer Ontology Web (COW). That has the disadvantage that nobody knows what an ontology really is (including most of the people working with the W3C and the Semantic Web, unfortunately), but at least COW is memorable and might inspire a sense of curiosity and get people to ask "Well, so what does the 'O' in 'COW' really mean?"
Hey, it least it might be a great conversation starter... "I'm working on a COW." Or, "My goal is that some day everybody will have a COW, and be happy about it."
I'm thinking that maybe the COW could be the underlying infrastructure, the real ontology on which the higher-level, consumer-oriented knowledge management and user interface layers operate.
Or, maybe the COW is the sum total of all of the interacting software agents that are needed to really make a distributed ontology fly.
I have mixed feelings about this new name for my vision... any thoughts?


Welcome to all of you, welcome to this moment, this opportunity for new beginning.
It's been quite a year since we gathered here last year. Thinking back to last year's high holidays I kind of shake my head in disbelief at how different the world is from what so many of us envisioned it would be… So many of us were so sure that we had entered a new phase of America.
And we have entered a new phase… just not the phase we thought we were entering. We can't enter this new year without considering how we as Jews will respond to the many and significant challenges that our country and our world are facing, and addressing them uniquely as Jews because we have skin in this game whether we like it or not, as the events in Charlottesville recently reminded us, as the desecration of Jewish cemeteries earlier this year reminded us.
But what's happening out there is so loud, so dominant in our minds… often infuriating to the point of being absurd, tragic to the point of almost being unbearable… and yet, as we begin tonight, I want to bring us into our bodies, and acknowledge the experience in this room. Not because all of that isn't very real– we know it is– but because the work we are here to do begins within us, and that's where we will begin tonight.
Close your eyes if you feel comfortable and feel yourself here, a year since last Rosh Hashannah, on the cusp of a new year. Take a few breaths, breathing out everything stale, old, last year.
I have a friend who said "I do the beach for the New Year… it's better for me." Which made me think I'm sorry she's not going to be here- think she'd dig it, but also good for her for thinking about her intention going into the new year. For so many of us it just sneaks up… let's take a moment to do that now.
What are you walking in here with tonight as you reflect back on this year of your life?
Anger or sadness about something that remains unresolved, a wound that's still fresh? Or about what' happening in our country and world?
Set the intention for yourself here at services you want to to aspire toward tonight, and over these coming 10 days. Who we are anywhere is who we are everywhere, so who do you want to be here in this space?
My friend Dan Liebenson makes a podcast called Judaism Unbound and they explored the phenomenon of Burning Man in a 3-part series– he called the series Burning Mensch. The podcast generally explores the kind of conversations you might think are irrelevant or inappropriate, challenging the status quos and sacred cows of the Jewish community, and in this series he asked the question– how can Judaism be more like Burning Man? Here is this phenomenon that in 20 years has grown from a small gathering of friends to a city in the Blackrock desert in Nevada with 70,000 people and devotees, many among them Jewish, and far more devoted to the pilgrimage of BM than they are for the Jewish pilgrimage festivals like Sukkot or Shavuot.
Gifting. Please, tonight, tomorrow, over the coming days, on Yom Kippur- operate from a generous spirit. Give people around he benefit of the doubt. Give people your attention, your smiles, your kindness. If it looks like the person next to you doesn't know what page we're on, share with them, show them. Put a hand out and say hello to the people around you. Don't withhold yourself from this space in the austere and polite way that many people think we need to be in services- share yourself.
Radical inclusion. We are across the spectrum of people here tonight, on so many spectrums. We are intersecting lines of Jewish background, gender identity and sexuality, race, wealth, privileges of all different sorts, political affiliations, abilities. Don't assume anything about anyone around you, but rather, take the opportunity to get to know people, ask questions, discover the amazing and wonderful differences that help create this incredible community.
radical self-reliance. This is not a performance. I want to thank Rabbi Lauren Henderson and the Davening Team in advance for all the hard work they will do up here– especially since I had a kid 14 weeks ago I have been indebted to your strength and spirit. Want to thank all the shofar blowers and Torah readers and speakers and spoken word poets you may encounter over this HH experience. But none of their offerings are performances– they're just modeling what all of us have the opportunity to do here tonight and during this season: put your whole self into it. Sing your heart out. Experiment with singing songs you don't know super well and see what happens, how that exertion makes you feel. If you feel like dancing, grab the hand of the person next to you, scooch out of your seat and dance up the aisle.
Really trying to address different parts of the way we engage and learn and connect with spirituality, as well as different abilities– toward that end, want to thank our ASL interpreter Jessica, and if anyone wants printed copies of remarks made from the bima, you can get those at the fixins table.
Radical self-reliance also means you can't walk out of here and say you were bored, because there are so many ways for you to engage your mind, hands, spirit. There is a prayer wall up front here to stand before and contemplate, to put a note into if you want… there are installations all over the building to check out, there is the far right-hand column of the prayer book to look at for deeper insights into the liturgy. Take responsibility for the quality of your experience and I guarantee you a more satisfying High Holiday experience. Resident artist Rachel Ellison of Bat Sara press will have artist journal booklets that you can deepen your experience of the holidiays. In any case, You will have far more to talk about than the usual question "What was the rabbi's sermon about".
Thank you for bringing all of yourselves tonight, and for the next 10 days to Mishkan, for what I know will be a Yamim Noraim of challenge, transformation and potential.
There's something called "the overview effect,", something that happens to astronauts once they've gone to space – when you get up there, you see the earth just as a tiny blue ball, and it completely changes how you see the world when you get home. You think, "Everyone I know and love is down there – and everyone I struggle with, along with billions of other strangers, all in the same little blue ball." From space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and it's suddenly tremendously important to create a planetary society that is bound up in protecting our shared home, together.
What would it take for us to shift into this consciousness without going into space? To feel responsible for the well-being of the world, for its core, for the healing of those we love and those who we'll never meet?
Hashkiveinu, this next tefillah, says: Ufros aleinu sukat shelomecha" – spread a sukkah of peace, a canopy of wholeness over us. It's a reminder that we're all in the same house, for better or for worse, covered by the same canopy of atmosphere and sky. And during this prayer, which is also a prayer for healing, you might be praying for someone in particular who really needs it. You may want to whisper their name aloud, sending prayers of wholeness off to them, whether they're close or far away. But if there's not someone in particular that you're thinking of, now could be the time to pray for a total stranger. The parent of the person a few seats down from you who's sick. The brother or sister of someone here tonight who is hurting. The folks down the street who don't have a bed or a home to sleep in tonight who could use some help. This is what we can all do, right in this moment, to knit the fabric of our community a little closer together.
Three things happened at the beginning of my freshman year of college that started to shift me toward the path that I'm on now.
First, there were hurricanes. It was 2005, and Katrina had just hit New Orleans, and thousands of evacuees fled to Houston, where I had just moved to start college.
Three weeks later, my mom calls me in a panic to say that another hurricane, Hurricane Rita, is on its way to Houston, and she's already made my evacuation plan for me. She had called everybody she knew in Texas and found a former coworker who moved to Dallas, who had a son, who had an ex-girlfriend, who happened to be driving from Houston to Dallas and can take me with her as long as I was ready to go at 3am the following morning. This was how I ended up in a car with a total stranger evacuating the city the same time that most of Houston decided to flee, too.
I was just starting to get settled on campus and feel like I had a home there, so I didn't really want to leave, and the campus felt safe, but I didn't want to say no to my mom, because I knew how worried, so I just acquiesced. We left Houston the next morning, and I remember seeing cars stranded on the highway, having run out of gas, and that we turned off the A/C in 100 degree heat and humidity because we thought it would help us conserve gas. It took us 26 hours to drive from Houston to Dallas, which normally takes 5. And I just remember thinking the entire trip, "Where the hell am I?" When I got back to Rice after a few days – and I don't really remember how I got back home – this deep and profound homesickness had started to sink in. I just wanted to feel like I was home again, and that I knew where that home was.
About a week later was Rosh Hashanah. I showed up at the synagogue that happened to be right next to campus, by myself, in a room full of strangers. I would have just sat at the back, but the back rows filled up first (of course) and the only space was in the very front row, right behind the closed captioning reel. Nothing was familiar. I wanted someone to talk to me, some familiar tune that I could sing along to, something to make me feel less alone – and there was nothing. Just this emptiness. I refused to go back the next day. I think I just sat around in my dorm room, longing for something that I don't know if I had ever experienced, even at home.
And then finally, a few weeks after that, a new friend of mine invited me to come with him to the Campus Crusade for Christ meeting on a random Wednesday evening. I don't really know what made me say yes – I didn't have anything better to do, and that's what I do, I say yes to things, because I'm easygoing, and why not? This time, I sat in the back, and the professor started giving a talk, the gist of which was that Christians needed to be actively going out and working to convert their friends who weren't yet Christians, and I finally woke up out of this passive go-with the flow spiritual slumber that I was in. I realized: This is not my spiritual home. I'm not sure what it is that I'm looking for, but I'm longing for something, a sanctuary, a safe place, a real home, and it's not going to come find me. I have to go find it, or work to create it, for myself.
The word sanctuary, from the Latin, means a container for holiness. The Hebrew word, too, is similar – Mikdash, a place that's a vessel for holiness of all kinds- God's presence, offerings, holy work. It's often most associated with big rooms like this one, that can fill a thousand worshippers directed toward what's happening up on the stage, but a sanctuary can be any size, any container. It's more than just a building – sanctuary is a mentality that we enter into. A place of protection and safety. Where courageous risk-taking is possible. A place where we're more able to hold onto emotions and feelings that were too overwhelming before, and can create the space to contain them.
And most of all, our vision of sanctuary on the high holidays is a vessel through which radical and profound personal and collective transformation can occur. We call this teshuva – radical transformation – and it's the movement from passively accepting what life offers us to taking active responsibility over our lives, into the places where we have control right now.
Sanctuary's like a fractal – it's a pattern that you can see repeating in similar ways on multiple levels and scales, from the global to the local to the interpersonal to the inner-personal. So tonight, I want to share a few examples of what sanctuary can look like in our world, and how we might take an active role in creating it for ourselves.
One, is sanctuary as safety and refuge: This past Friday night, Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis became a sanctuary to people who were protesting after the St. Louis circuit court announced the acquittal of another white officer who had shot and killed a black suspect, Anthony Lamar Smith, in 2011. Riot police pushed and used tear gas against protesters, and Rabbi Susan Talve offered them refuge in their shul while police surrounded the building. Afterwards, there was even a hashtag that trended on Twitter to #gasthesynagogue. A community that's feeling threatened could easily choose to protect itself first, to shut its doors to all of the trouble going on outside and continue to sing Kabbalat Shabbat prayers. What does it say about a Jewish community in the midst of a city in protest that it responds to threats by opening its doors to people in distress? What does it say about how we truly ensure safety?
One of the reasons why we're excited to meet here at Preston Bradley and support their work is because it houses the Uptown Men's Transitional Housing, a shelter and social service provider here in Uptown. And yet, tonight my mind and heart are with the former residents of the tent cities at Lawrence and Wilson, who were evicted on Monday while the city does construction on the aqueducts, many of them who still don't have a place to call home.
For this community, the synagogue building wasn't just about prayer and spiritual connection – although it was serving that purpose too. It was a community meeting place designed with newcomers in mind. You might come into this place and think "oh, it's just all of these people who already know each other and are friends sitting together and schmoozing," but it was designed precisely so that newcomers could find their fellow artisans and craftsmen and have an instant community. Not only that – it was a place where people without a livelihood could find the human connections they needed to get employed and support their families out in the world. The space was designed not only by thinking about what functions it served to support the community within its walls, but also about how it could actually empower people OUTSIDE of the sanctuary walls too. One of the reasons why in every service we ask you to talk to the people nearby you is so that we can create the same kinds of friendships and connections that allow us to be empowered and strong.
Here's a contemporary example of sanctuary acting as a place of personal empowerment, in addition to being a safe refuge. A woman named Jeanette Vizgera, an undocumented immigrant living in Denver, Colorado, was about to check in with her immigration agent, but was afraid that if she did she'd be deported. So back in February she decided to take refuge in a church in Denver. In an interview about a month after she declared sanctuary, Jeanette was asked about her decision to seek sanctuary and what it meant for her to be placing herself under the care of a predominantly white church community for months or even years. Specifically, was she giving up agency over her life by making this choice?
For Jeanette, taking sanctuary was the beginning of reclaiming control of her life – not only from the whims of immigration authorities, but also from those around her who meant well and wanted the best for her, but thought that they could help by taking away her agency. She's made a point of being clear with her allies in the sanctuary movement: Fight with me, but not for me. I control my future.
Because for Jeanette, and for us – the point of sanctuary isn't to stay there forever. The point is to take refuge, to get what you need, to connect to others, and then to emerge back out into the world more whole, more empowered, more ready to act.
And for us, the success of our spiritual work here in this sanctuary during the high holidays is not only measured by the moments of insight we experience or the tears that we shed or the songs that we sing, all of which are made possible by this space, and are activities we probably wouldn't feel safe enough out in public to be engaged in, but do feel a sense of safety here to do. And we should. But the real success of these days is how those tears and moments of insight transform who we are outside these walls, to sensitize us even more deeply to the world around us. It is measured by the transformation that we are able to effect on the parts of the world that our lives touch. That is how we will know if this sanctuary is truly a mikdash, a space for divinity and holiness and God to dwell here, on the earth.
One of Mishkan's early classics is a song called Sanctuary, that actually has its roots in Christian traditions – originally a Shaker hymn, and then was adopted by the gospel music tradition, and then made its way to the Jewish community. But it had its roots in Jewish tradition all along. The original Hebrew words that the melody was based on and were later added back in are "V'asu li mikdash, v'shachanti b'tocham," from the book of Exodus. God tells the Israelites, "Make for me a sanctuary, so that I can dwell among them." The point of the sanctuary is not so much that God lives in the building – rather, the purpose of the sanctuary is for God to dwell within the people, among them, in each and every one of them.
Our task, during the high holidays, is to create sanctuaries within ourselves and within this space of possibility. We might do that by welcoming into ourselves what feels threatening and dangerous, and creating space for those emotions. We might do that by reaching out to make connections to strangers. Or by practicing patience, whether you're waiting in line at the fixings table or sitting behind a slow car in the parking lot as you're trying to leave here today. And above all, by being courageous, by stretching toward our potential for transformation.
Something happened at Mishkan Friday Night, November 11th, 2016, the shabbat after the election. On a Friday night at 2nd Unitarian where we hold services 2x a month, where usually we get a good 180 or so people on an average night and everyone can sit in a chair… we were bursting at the seams, well over 200 people, people sitting on the floor, and in laps and standing… everyone looking dazed, still sad, still in disbelief, shocked, incredulous… that a person who ran on a platform of racism, hatred and suspicion toward immigrants, minorities, and women… that this person won the hearts of enough people in this country to become president sent a lot of people running… as it turned out… toward religion.
There is an idea, well-anchored in Judaism, just that we didn't know until that very moment that we needed: the idea of God as king.
Probably all of us at some point have said here's what I DON'T believe in: the God who's a king in the sky on a throne picking off sinners and rewarding saints. Smiting me for eating traif. I don't believe in that God because you've tempted that God's wrath with the traifiest traif and nothing happened!
But now that I have to wake up to news about the Trump White House… the idea of a king of kings of kings, above and beyond our earthly rulers, is strangely comforting.
You may know that the first of Tishre became Rosh HaShannah not because this is the actual beginning of the Hebrew calendar but because this was the day on which kings were coronated in Babylonia and around the ancient near east. The king of a society represented God on earth for them, was the physical incarnation of God on earth. So for Judaism to proclaim that we would be coronating not an eartly king of flesh and blood but the Creator of the Universe, was a radical subversion of that ancient practice. Actually it mocked the whole system of kings and coronations. It would be like putting our most major religious holiday of the year– judgement day and the day we honor the creation of the planet- on inauguration day. Just to demonstrate to that our actual loyalties lie not with the earthly king but with HaMelekh, the melekh malakhay ha'melachim, the king of king of kings, the ultimate in power and authority.
Suddenly I take comfort in the idea of God as someone who holds us accountable, that there is nothing we do, nothing, that escapes God's vision. that at the end of the day we will all be called to account for the kindnesses we withheld, for the insults we lobbed so casually… for the times we were bystanders, not upstanders… Knowing that this God reigns over all of us, including the most, the most powerful, the people who hold earthly positions of authority… is comforting because they, too, will be called to account.
Whereas earthly kings and rulers rule harshly, lacking compassion and even common decency– our image of God as the melekh malchey ha'mlkachim is of a compassionate forgiving presence who loves goodness, who loves love.
And so as we enter the next section of services, beginning with these words- haMeleh haYosev al Kiseh ram v'nisah: the king, who sits on a throne, lofty and high… open yourself to two possibilities: 1. That people you find abhorrent, annoying, awful, and mystifyingly in positions of power and authority– will be called to account and judged according to their deeds; 2. That you, too, will be called to account.
In this very moment, whether you are aware of it or not, we are each standing at the gateway of an epic journey of transformation. This thing we do between Rosh HaShanah & Yom Kippur called T'shuva is not only an opportunity for emotional alchemy and deep personal healing, but also the greatest contribution we as individuals can make to humanity at large… should we choose to accept the challenge. In a year where the collective suffering and fear in our tribe, our nation, and the world are obvious and brutal, many struggle to understand the importance of inner-work when there is clearly so much external work to be done. Yet, here we are, once again entering into this interpersonal cleansing cycle with a profound example of why we do this inner and inter-personal work right in the Torah portion.
We are about to experience the joyous moment when Sarah, wife of Abraham, learns that she is pregnant with their son Isaac at 90 years old after many many years of trying to conceive. Years prior to this moment, she felt so ashamed of not being able to birth a child for her and her husband that she invited her maid Hagar to sleep with her husband in order to bare him a son, which she did – Ishmael. After the joy of her miraculous conception waned, as Isaac weaned and began to walk on his own, Sarah looks around and is pierced once again with jealously and feelings of inadequacy when she sees Ishmael playing, realizing that her biological son is destined to share the physical and spiritual inheritance of her husband Abraham's legacy. This discomfort drives Sarah to essentially demand her husband banish Hagar and Ishmael into the desert with little means to survive. Reluctantly, but with assurance from g-d, Abraham does this. Ishmael and Hagar eventually resettle in Paran, a desert region now known as Mecca, but not without immense struggle and testing of their faith.
I find a lot fascinating about this story – like the fact that Hagar's name in Hebrew literally means "the stranger," pitting this Egyptian servant against her Jewish employers. The section's lessons about power, privilege and identity politics are both potent and plenty, which I'd encourage you to talk more about over lunch. But what I am most fascinated by in this moment in biblical history is everything we know about what follows, and the ways this story is still unfolding today. This is not just a tale about the birth of two boys; these ancient words we are about to read contain the DNA that formed two distinct nations that are not only still alive today, but remain locked in perpetual, gut-wrenching, tragic conflict. And this whole thing started because our moms couldn't get along.
In this reading we also see vividly how interpersonal relations are a result of one's inner-personal relationship with self. Sarah's resentment toward Hagar didn't actually have anything to do with Hagar. Instead it had everything to do with Sarah's own insecurity and fear. In other words, hurt people hurt people. One way that we can trace this hurt is to start with Sarah's resentment and ask – what is the resentment about? Hagar had a baby with Abraham and the boy was growing to be strong with leadership potential. Next we ask – how does this impact Sarah? It impacts Sarah's self-esteem, and sense of security. Finally, we ask – what fears are at the root of this impact? I imagine Sarah's feelings were rooted in a deep seeded fear of lack, or not-enough-ness. This fear made it impossible for Sarah to imagine a situation where both boys, and both women, were provided for and nurtured and nourished, where both boys could inherit Abraham's legacy– and so she acted on this fear and felt justified doing so. Fear lays at the root of this conflict, and this violence, and I'll go as far as saying – it pretty much always does.
As we read this story today, and as we simultaneously enter a period of deep self reflection and immediate action to repair all relations where we have acted out of fear and caused harm as a result, we are reminded that when interpersonal resentments and fears go unchecked they not only persist, but have the potential to snowball overtime, then avalanche. And if you think that your petty conflicts don't rise to this level of drama, remember that Sarah and Hagar were just two women, way back when. I'm sure they could not have imagined what the long term outcome of their story would be, that thousands of years later we'd still be playing out their conflict.
Should we each be courageous enough to examine our own resentments in this way, tracing them to how we ourselves are affected and our underlying fears – we just might gain the insight necessary to objectively see our own role in our interpersonal conflicts.
May we each find the clarity needed to approach ha – ger (the other) in our lives (whoever they may be) compassionately and in a manner that heals. May we each also find the strength to examine those deepest spaces within ourselves that are most in need of healing with compassion. This process is not silly, nor self-indulgent. It is the work of spiritual warriors, and it is the most significant service any individual can make toward healing the collective.
Unetaneh Tokef, the next part of the Musaf Amidah, is a window into a truth that is always present, but easily avoided or forgotten until we're directly confronted with it: that life is short and fleeting. The images on the next page try to describe this: they compare our lives to things like broken shards of pottery, passing shadows, scattered dust. All of these are images of how vulnerable and temporary we are as human beings.
I think it's important to say here that there's a distinction between vulnerability and fragility. People often will call life fragile, especially when there's a tragedy, but when we say something's fragile, it means "Don't drop it! Don't break it! Handle with care!." It induces this kind of paralysis where we can't do anything at all for fear that things might break. Life is actually quite resilient, and incredibly strong, but also vulnerable. We're capable of far more than we give ourselves credit for while we're here, and we have no idea how long that will be. So how do we live our lives in the awareness of our vulnerability? When do we lean in and live harder, and when do we pull back?
This year, in this prayer, I'm thinking of a little boy who was my camper at Camp Ramah in the Rockies two summers ago, named Koby Gruenwald, who's now 12 years old. This time two years ago, his mom Melanie was diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent treatment in the fall, and then, thank God, went into remission in January. And then at Purim, in late March 2016, Koby was having headaches, and Melanie and Solomon took him to the ER, where they found a glioblastoma, hemorrhaging. There were treatment options, which Koby's gone through, but this is, in all likelihood, a terminal diagnosis.
When you were born, we went through so many firsts with you- and now we are entering the phase we fear each are your 'lasts.' From annual, to monthly, and weekly cycles- will you be here for the next? That question is not just for you. We just live keenly aware of it. No one knows their time here, their series of lasts, even the ones who aren't wrapped up in diagnoses and prognoses.
We can't worry about "if" you are going to die, we worry about "how" you are going to live. Not just you, but all of us. We have learned to fight for how we want to live. Every decision has been framed with your quality of life in mind. From medical decisions, to 'experiences'– all about improving quality of life.
If everybody could learn one thing from the hell we've been through these past 18 months– it's that we have choices in life, and we have to choose how we are going to live. We have to live with purpose and meaning, not just for the Days of Awe. We have to infuse our entire year with that. Living with meaning. Being a light. Letting the people around us know we love them. Because… you never know.
This question is for us: What would it mean to choose life? What would that mean to you this year?


FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard voted on April 7 to pursue a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that could help the town market the 34.91-acre parcel Ferrisburgh owns at the intersection at Routes 7 and 22A.
Acting on the suggestion of resident Tim Davis, who offered to serve as the grant manager, Ferrisburgh will apply for a $50,000 USDA Rural Development Grant that would fund a study to determine whether an agricultural incubator space, also called a food hub, could be successful on the property.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After reconvening for the new session, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have found themselves again gridlocked over a new federal farm bill.
When Congress got back to business Jan. 6, some members expressed a belief that a new bill could be sent to President Obama before the Martin Luther King Jr. Day break. But those hopes were dashed as a new bill will not make it out of the 41-member conference committee to the floors of the House and Senate before members head home at the end of this week.


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Le Mans - Rematch: Audi v Peugeot
Audi R18 has its Le Mans debut this year
1 Result TBD
Those are the key stats at Le Mans over the past 5 years.
They serve to highlight the dominance of Audi at the Circuit de la Sarthe for the most famous endurance race in the world.
Revised Peugeot 908 now has V8 TDI power
However they dont pay the full picture.
Elsewhere in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, and in the LMS/ALMS, Peugeot speed and success has filled the results tables
Furthermore last year at le mans Peugeot had the legs on Audi until one by one they all dropped out with engine failures gifting a late result to Audi.
This year they return with new cars - with Audi switching to a hard top for the first time in 12 years, and switching to a V6 TDi engine for their new R18, with Peugeot launching a revised 908, with a V8 engine instead of the previous V12.
With the rules theoretically balanced to give a chance to the petrol cars, such as the Aston Martin AMR-One, it is poised to ensure that there's a thrilling race at Le Mans once again.


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Showing 16 items:
Annacoona Top 597m, Benbulbin 526m, Benwiskin 514m, Benwiskin South Top 508m, Benbulbin South-East Top 505m, Kings Mountain 462m,
2747, 30km 2872, 21km 3127, 16km 1421, 14km 4085, 13km 3419, 13km 1337, 12km 4368, 12km 2948, 11km 3553, 5km
Peter Walker: Track 4085 in area near Kings Mountain, Dartry Mountains (Ireland)
Benbulbin & Kings Mountain from the north
Length: 13.4km, Creator time taken: 2h51m, Ascent: 520m,
Places: Start at G69757 47327, Kings Mountain, Benbulbin, Benbulbin South-East Top, end at G70118 46947 525m SE from Start
An English blow-in decided that St Patrick's Day needed some form of acknowledgement, so off he went to the most iconic Irish mountain he could think of that isn't Croagh Patrick (because he's done that, it's a four hour drive and I thought it'd be heinously busy). Sunshine and blustery showers were forecast, and the latter was very much winning out over the former on the way out west. But by the time I squeezed my car onto what little parking space remained at Luke's Bridge things had brightened up a bit, so I was optimistic that while I might be cold and blown around, any moisture that attacked me would most likely be through the bog under my feet rather than via the sky over my head.
A steady climb up the road led to a junction with two tracks setting off south towards the mountain. I picked the left (east) one and soon had second thoughts, as the walking club who had set off ahead of me now seemed to be engaged on the ascent of the stream heading the valley on the other side of it to myself. A quick boggy flounder west 'fixed' this, or at least I thought it had before they all transferred over to my original side about halfway up. Regardless of such malarkey it's a sharp but pleasant climb, the funneling wind blowing the stream back up its descent gully at the lip of the plateau.
With the harder work done, it was time to go list ticking and bog hopping across the plateau. First up was Kings Mountain, a stark little top that soon appeared in the middle distance and (following a lot of ins and outs in peat hags) it yielded to a short clamber. The morning's rain seemed a long time ago as the light skittered around the fantastic view. Still bleeding windy, mind you.
Inevitably such meteorological smugness was short-lived, as a nasty little hailstorm enlivened the boggy wander over to Benbulbin itself. It was somewhat murky at the trig point, and I didn't linger given both that and the fact that Benbulbin is one of those mountains where the summit is the flattest and dullest bit. So the view has way too much foreground...
Looking south along the coast
...so I wandered over to Trebauns, the top of the prow of Benbulbin that is so prominent from the west, a location that definitely doesn't suffer from that 'excess of foreground' issue. The weather had cheered up by the time I was standing on the lip and looking out over the coast...that Yeats bloke was clearly onto something. Then I wandered back up the track towards the top before contouring it to the south (with hindsight this probably doesn't save time or energy) and walking over the embryonic summit of Benbulbin SE Top.
A shower approaches Benbulbin
Back down to the top of the gully, and this time I decided to stick to the true right side of the stream. This was steep (but ok) higher up, but nearer the bottom became something akin to a mudslide, with several clumsy middle-aged falls being taken. Mucky bit accomplished it became time for the squelchy bit, as some full-on bog had to be crossed to reach the end of the track...all good, character-building stuff.
Benwisken
And so back to the car. As I crossed the bridge a group of four late teens coming the other way said hello and asked me if I'd just been on the plateau. I said yes, whereupon the follow-up question was 'how long does it take?'. I glanced at their pristine trainers and tracksuits, and decided that these were folk who would benefit from a bit of Anglo-exaggeration-cum-deterrence. 'It's about an hour and a half to get up there...and it'll be properly nasty coming down'. 'Ah thanks!' came the reply, before they all set off anyway. Kids today, eh?
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Death toll due to swine flu rises, government issues guidelines
Southern states Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are worst affected
By Jyotsna Singh
Published: Monday 05 January 2015
With fresh cases of swine flu, one each from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi, the total cases of for this season stands at 88. Though no fresh casualties due to the flu have been confirmed yet, it is suspected that eight to 10 people, mainly in the two southern states, have died so far.
However, two deaths have been reported from Delhi as well. While the one that occurred on December 24 was confirmed by the health ministry's National Centre for Disease Control, the death of a woman in Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Friday has been confirmed by private laboratory Dr Lal Pathlabs. She had died after a multiple organ failure.
According to official data, Delhi has had 43 confirmed cases of swine flu this season, five of them reported since January 1. Two of them have been confirmed by National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) while the others were confirmed by private laboratory Dr Lal Pathlabs.
Awareness can curb its spread
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has issued guidelines for public to assess and respond to the flu conditions. It has said that swine flu has not taken epidemic proportions yet, unlike last year. In last winter season, Delhi alone reported 16 deaths. However, IMA said that rise in cases in the last three weeks calls for immediate attention.
In its public statement, prepared by a committee of experts, IMA said that symptoms of swine flu are similar to ordinary flu like fever, cough, sore throat, body ache etc. It, however, noted that patients who have fever with coryza, i.e inflammation of mucous membrane, and breathlessness should be kept in isolation and investigated for influenza.
"We recommend everyone should take vaccine for ordinary influenza. It will not prevent swine flu, but will reduce its severity," said K K Aggarwal, Honorary Secretary General, IMA, and member of the expert committee.
But a doctor from pulmonary medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences said that as swine flu is contagious, it can spread fast.
"Swine flu is air borne. Even the sneeze of a patient can infect the others. Proper arrangements should be made immediately," he said, requesting anonymity.
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Q: What's wrong with this PHP statement? I'm new at using PHP & I'm trying to read a book called PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide by Larry Ullman. I'm not sure what version it is seeing as how I have the pdf version, but anyways, I'm getting this error when I run my script:

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A: It seems that you copied and pasted line numbers as well as the code.
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The reason this works is because a # sign at the start of a line tells PHP that it is a comment and that it shouldn't read that line. Copy and paste is not such a good idea sometimes.


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Góra Parkowa w Sanoku, znana też pod nazwami: Stróżnia, Straszyna Góra, Struszyna, Stróże, Aptekarka, Góra Mickiewicza, Góra Parkowa, Władycza Góra (364 m n.p.m.) – góra znajdująca się w centrum miasta Sanoka.

Historia
W źródłach historycznych góra wspomniana po raz pierwszy w 1446, gdy królowa Zofia potwierdzając orzeczenie komisarzy przez siebie wyznaczonych dla rozstrzygnięcia sporu między radą i pospólstwem miasta Sanoka a Tomaszem Skonczewiczem, mieszczaninem, o ogród na górze Stroznia, położony blisko miasta, przyznaje ten ogród miastu. Ówczesna nazwa góry Stróżnia pochodziła od straży (stróży) wystawianych na szczycie, które w zamierzeniu miały dokonywać obserwacji okolic i w razie potrzeby alarmować Zamek Królewski o zbliżaniu się potencjalnych wrogów.

Plan katastralny miasta z 1852 podał nazwę tej góry jako Struszyna Góra. Z kolei nazwa Aptekarka wiąże się z terenami położonymi u podnóża góry od strony południowej i wschodniej, należącymi do Jana Zarewicza, który był farmaceutą i posiadał Aptekę Obwodową (później prowadzili ją Feliks Giela i Marian Kawski).

W związku z obchodami 300-lecia unii lubelskiej Rada Miejska w Sanoku uchwaliła 6 sierpnia 1869, że w trakcie uroczystości 11 sierpnia 1869 zostaną położone i poświęcone fundamenty pod pomnik na górze Stróżni na gruncie Ignacego Gądylowskiego lub Ksawerego Chmielowskiego lub Katarzyny Stopczyńskiej. W związku z setną rocznicą urodzin Adama Mickiewicza w 1898 roku na górze usypano kopiec (także imienia poety), a na zboczach utworzono park miejski im. Adama Mickiewicza w Sanoku. Jego projekt wykonał architekt miejski, Władysław Beksiński. Tworzenie parku miejskiego zainicjowało pierwotnie towarzystwo "Znicz" (zajmujące się krzewieniem oświaty, kultury, czytelnictwa) za sprawą jej organizatora Jana Zarewicza (z zawodu aptekarza – stąd nazwa góry Aptekarka). Zarewicz odstąpił miastu za symboliczną kwotę południowe i wschodnie zbocza góry Stróżni. Podobnie uczynił hrabia dr Aleksander Mniszek-Tchorznicki (jako sędzia i przewodniczący delegacji przyczynił się do pozostania Morskiego Oka w granicach Polski w wyniku sporu terytorialnego), który na przełomie 1909/1910 ofiarował miastu północne zbocze góry o powierzchni 7 morgów ziemi celem powiększenia areału parku. Zgodnie z decyzją Towarzystwa Upiększania Miasta Sanoka anektowana część ogrodu miejskiego została mianowana imieniem Fryderyka Chopina w setną rocznicę urodzin kompozytora (1910).

U kresu II wojny światowej po nadejściu frontu wschodniego jesienią 1944 na południowym stoku góry ulokowane punkty obserwacyjne dowódca jednostek Armii Czerwonej.

Na górze znajduje się wieża nadawcza TSR Góra Parkowa o wysokości 38 m, która do 19 marca 2013 nadawała naziemnie analogowo programy TVP1 i TVP2. Tego samego dnia rozpoczęto cyfrową emisję naziemną. Obecnie jest emitowany III multipleks naziemnej telewizji cyfrowej.

Zobacz też
 Park miejski im. Adama Mickiewicza w Sanoku
 Kopiec Adama Mickiewicza w Sanoku

Przypisy

Szczyty Gór Sanocko-Turczańskich
Geografia Sanoka


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Teuvo Ensio Aura (* 28. Dezember 1912 in Ruskeala, Karelien; † 11. Januar 1999 in Helsinki) war ein finnischer Politiker und zweimaliger Ministerpräsident.

Aura, der der Nationalen Fortschrittspartei und später dem Freisinnigen-Bund und der Liberalen Volkspartei angehörte, war von 1968 bis 1979 Bürgermeister von Helsinki. Vom 14. Mai bis zum 15. Juli 1970 sowie vom 29. Oktober 1971 bis zum 23. Februar 1972 war er jeweils Ministerpräsident von Übergangsregierungen aus Fachleuten. Die erste Regierung war mit nur 63 Amtstagen eine der kürzesten Regierungen der finnischen Geschichte.

Für seine Verdienste um die finnische Politik wurde ihm das Großkreuz des Ordens der Weißen Rose von Finnland verliehen. 1972 erhielt er das Große Goldene Ehrenzeichen am Bande für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich.

Werke
 Teuvo Aura und Pertti Mustonen: Sovitellen. 1982, ISBN 951-35-2633-X

Weblinks
 Biographische Angaben auf rulers.org

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Ministerpräsident (Finnland)
Bürgermeister (Helsinki)
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Träger des Finnischen Ordens der Weißen Rose (Großkreuz)
Träger des Falkenordens (Großkreuz)
Träger des Großen Goldenen Ehrenzeichens am Bande für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
Finne
Geboren 1912
Gestorben 1999
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Interview with Paul Cliche, published originally in French in Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme, Winter 2015 (No. 13). Translated to English by Richard Fidler and published on his blog 'Life On The Left' on March 20, 2015.
There is probably no one more qualified to describe the 60-year struggle in Quebec to build a democratic and progressive left party than Paul Cliche. As a journalist and union activist, Cliche (who will be 80 years old in May of this year) was at various times a member of the Parti social-démocratique (PSD), the Parti socialiste du Québec (PSQ), the Front d'action politique (FRAP), the Mouvement socialiste (MS), and is currently a prominent member of Québec solidaire (QS).


We LOVE sunflowers. They are pretty close to the ideal cut flower crop, they are easy to grow, reliable, flexible on timing and they sell well. Of course we are not talking about the run of the mill orange with black center types, we just don't do those here…we are talking about the world of oddball sunflowers, the reds, greens, doubles, halos; happiness on a tall stem.
This year we grew "Jade" and "Chianti", the Jade were the overall crowd pleaser, florists and their customers liked them whereas the Chianti went over well with the florists but did not sell well for them in their shops. This was actually an interesting lesson in regional tastes. Our NYC friends absolutely loved the dark red almost black flowers but the more rural tastes where we do the bulk of our selling was skewed heavily towards the "happier" aspect of the lighter colored daintier Jade blossoms. Our plantings next year will be heavily skewed towards the Jade with some chianti mixed in, we are also planning on trialing several other varieties to see how they grow and sell.
To grow sunflowers for cut flower production you MUST do succession plantings. There are some crops that you can plant once and harvest throughout the season, sunflowers are not one. You plant the seed, grow the plant and then harvest it. In order to have a continuous and steady supply the seeds need to be sown every two weeks. One of the nice things about the Jade is that once you cut the main stems they will throw some small stems up from what's left of the main stem. These little stems are like perfect miniatures of the full sized flowers and the stems can be up to 20" in length which is perfect for florist work.
Our sunflower season has come to an end here in upstate NY, fortunately Ermela's cousins were in town and willing to help cut the crop down and prepare the beds for fall.


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St. Maria Immaculata ist eine als Votivkirche erbaute Pfarr- und heutige Filialkirche von St. Martin in Raesfeld und steht in der zu Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, gehörenden Bauerschaft Rhedebrügge.

Geschichte
Erbaut wurde St. Maria Immaculata in den Jahren 1886 bis 1889 von Wilhelm Rincklake für die Besitzerfamilie des neben der Kirche gelegenen Gutshofes nach einer gut überstandenen längeren Seereise eines Familienmitgliedes. Die Kirche ist um 1900 nochmals erweitert worden.

Architektur und Ausstattung
Es handelt sich dabei um einen neugotischen roten Backsteinbau mit einer Doppelturmfassade und kurzem Querhaus. An die Doppelturmfassade schließt sich ein zweijochiger Saal an, an diesen schließt sich eine zweijochige, dreischiffige Halle mit schmaleren Seitenschiffen an, die von außen als Querhaus erscheint. Den Abschluss bildet der einjochige Chor mit 5/8-Schluss. Südlich des Chores eine Art Patronatsloge zu ebener Erde, nördlich befindet sich die Sakristei. Das Dach über dem Querhaus ist abgewalmt. Die Fenster haben ein sandsteinernes Maßwerk.

Die Ausstattung ist grob orientierend zwei Abschnitten zuzuordnen. Die Kirchenbänke sind neugotisch, ebenfalls der Orgelprospekt samt -bühne. Der Kreuzweg ist modern, ebenso das Chorgestühl im Querhaus und der Zelebrationsaltar. Auch der Hochaltar, offensichtlich noch kurz vor dem Konzil errichtet und selten genug dass ein solches eher schlichtes Werk noch steht, ist ein "typisches 1950er-Jahre-Werk" mit einem niedrigen Tabernakel aus Silber(-farbenem Material?). Der Hochaltar ist ein nach unten zu beiden Seiten abgeschrägter, frei stehender Block auf schmalerem Sockel. Dahinter an der Wand als Altarbild befindet sich ein Ölgemälde (St. Joseph?) in allerdings relativ kleinem Ausmaß. Beide Altäre sind aus grünlichem Stein. Statt Seitenaltären befinden sich an der Nahtstelle Langhaus/Querhaus zwei moderne Mosaike, links ein Gnadenbild Unserer Lieben Frau von der immerwährenden Hilfe, rechts ein männlicher Heiliger. Das Gewölbe ist mit Rankenmalerei verziert.

Im Giebel über dem Eingangsportal befindet sich ein Triumpfkreuz, welches vom Bildhauer August Schmiemann (Münster) im Jahre 1910 geschaffen wurde. Der Jesusfigur sind links und rechts zwei Personen beigestellt. Diese befinden sich jeweils auf einer Blattkonsole.

Die Orgel wurde 1978 von dem Orgelbauer Walcker mit elf Registern auf zwei Manualen und Pedal in einem vorhandenen Orgelgehäuse des Orgelbauers Breil aus dem Jahre 1896 erbaut. Die Disposition wurde später erweitert. Das Schleifladen-Instrument hat heute 17 Register auf zwei Manualen und Pedal. Die Spiel- und Registertrakturen sind mechanisch.

 Koppeln: II/I, I/P, II/P.

Friedhof und Denkmal
In unmittelbarer Nähe zur Kirche befindet sich ein Friedhof sowie ein Denkmal zu Ehren der Gefallenen und Vermissten der beiden Weltkriege.

Fronleichnamsprozession
Bei der am Sonntag nach Fronleichnam stattfindenden Prozession zu vier Außenaltären wird während der gesamten Prozession zum nächsten Segensaltar geläutet. An den Außenaltären wird bei Ankunft und zum sakramentalen Segen geböllert. Die Kreisstraße 39 ist auf dem gesamten für die Prozession genutzten Abschnitt beidseitig mit Fähnchen bestückt. Die Gesänge auf dem Prozessionsweg werden von einer Musikkapelle begleitet.

Literatur
 Herbert Sowade: Pfarrchronik St. Maria Immaculata Rhedebrügge. Pfarrverwaltung, Borken, 1983

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Weblinks

 St. Maria Immaculata auf der Website der Stadt Borken
 Bilder auf glasmalerei-ev.net

Rhedebrugge, Maria
Rhedebrugge, Maria
Rhedebrugge, Maria
Rhedebrugge
Rhedebrugge, Maria
Erbaut in den 1880er Jahren
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Backsteinkirche
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Rhedebrügge
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By Abby Ohlheiser
September 27, 2016 at 12:44 a.m. EDT
During the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Monday, Clinton accused her rival of believing "that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese."
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How'd this confusion start? The initial image came from @itsjuanlove, a writer who later tweeted that he didn't fake the screenshot, implying that the "tweet not found" was the result of a bug.
Although he's deleted his original tweet, the damage is done. Several other accounts copied the image and tweeted the same claim about a deleted tweet, and those claims subsequently went viral on their own. Some journalists also picked up on the claim, believed it, and repeated it to their own followers, helping to spread the rumor rather quickly across Twitter.
When Trump lied about saying China started climate change boat, why did his campaign delete the tweet saying that? They think we're stupid?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 27, 2016
Comedian Patton Oswalt, who has more than 2 million followers, tweeted, "Oh my God. Trump's campaign is furiously deleting his Tweets from back in his timeline," with the hashtag #WinstonSmith, in reference to the protagonist of George Orwell's 1984. It seems likely that he was referencing the confusion about Trump's global warming tweet.
It's worth noting that if Trump's campaign was, for some reason, interested in erasing the candidate's tweeted statements about global warming, they'd have a lot of deleting to do. He's tweeted 101 times about global warming, according to a new archive of all of Trump's tweets from 2009 to the present. The vast majority of those tweets claim in some way that global warming is a hoax.
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