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The author and editor best known for helming "National Geographic Magazine" signs an appointment to the Washington Conference Committee at the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Child Hygiene Association.
Condition: lightly creased
GILBERT GROSVENOR
Partly Printed DS: "Gilbert Grosvenor" as Chairman, 7¾x5½ card. Washington, D.C., no date, but circa 1922. On card of the American Child Hygiene Association to "Dr. J. M. Hull" (name written in unknown hand). In full: "I have the honor to inform you that you have been appointed a member of the Washington Conference Committee for the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Child Hygiene Association which will convene at Continental Hall on October 12, 1922, the Honorable Herbert Hoover presiding. The favor of a reply will be appreciated." Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966) is best known for being the editor of the "National Geographic Magazine" (1903-1954) as well as serving as Director (1903-1919) and President (1920-1954) of the National Geographic Society. Married to Elsie Bell, the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, he was first tapped by Bell to serve as an editorial assistant. A writer and geographer, Grosvenor increased the magazine's circulation by using colored photographs, and Society membership grew from 900 to over two million under his leadership. Grosvenor, an early leader in the areas of conservation and wildlife, also wrote a history of the Society as well as a number of other books. At the time of this letter, HERBERT HOOVER was Secretary of Commerce under President Warren G. Harding (he would serve from 1921-1928, continuing in the post under Harding's successor, Calvin Coolidge). During his tenure, Hoover became President of the American Child Health Organization, and he would raise private funds to promote health education in schools and communities. Lightly creased at upper portion. Soiled at blank margins, light rust stains at lower margin. Overall, fine condition.
GILBERT HOVEY GROSVENOR
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Explicit content ahead! The Scantilly by Curvy Kate Censored balconette bra is not for the faint heated. Encase your bust in black satin binding inspired by the censorship bar for a daring style. A sheer mesh in the bottom cups ensures this edgy style still offers that all-important support.


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New Coalition Questions Landmarks Law And Process
West End Avenue Historic District Extension I
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) has formed a coalition seeking changes in the City's 1965 Landmarks Law, which is widely considered the strongest such law in the country.
While the coalition says it supports preservation, the members believe that the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has "overreached" in the number and size of recent historic district designations. REBNY singled out new districts in Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant, as well the proposed West End Avenue Historic District extensions—the first of which was designated by LPC this week.
The LPC has created a number of new or expanded historic districts because residents in those areas requested designation. Before voting on a district, LPC sends letters to property owners, holds public meetings in the area and seeks the support of the Community Board and local elected officials. There is still a long waiting list of areas throughout the City where residents are seeking to become historic districts.
REBNY says recent historic districts contain buildings that are not of "high architectural merit." But historic districts are meant to hold an ensemble of buildings—from high style to vernacular—that contribute to an overall sense of place.
REBNY says the City Planning Commission must do an "economic analysis" that looks at the future economic potential of an area before voting on whether to affirm a designation. City Planning already has the leeway to consider that. But preservation is an important factor in the City's economy.
Landmarking protects and enhances property values, provides homes and cultural institutions, promotes tourism, creates local jobs and helps maintain a good quality of life. There has been much new construction in recent years. But it is the great mix of architectural periods and styles that makes New York unique.
The West End Avenue Historic District extension passed by LPC this week will proceed to the Planning Commission and the City Council. The Conservancy will continue to support this designation. This new district, and the other proposed West End Avenue extensions, contains some of the finest apartment and rowhouse architecture in the City. The area embodies a comprehensive sense of place.
The Conservancy first alerted the public to the creation of the coalition on June 7th. We will continue to talk with our friends in the real estate community to underscore the benefits of preservation and work with them to keep New York a vital mix of the best of new and existing architecture.

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Author and veteran Phil Klay and comic writer Pat Mills weigh in on the "Great War's" lasting cultural impact. Rising alt-comic Kurt Braunohler on inserting humour into everyday life. Best of Q: actress Anjelica Huston on her memoir, A Story Lately Told.


Like all Scottish local authorities, Glasgow is required to produce a Food Growing Strategy. This will build city-wide commitments informed by a series of local workshops which capture the priorities for each area of the city. An overview of the strategy is available in the report Food Growing – Allotments and Green Spaces (PDF download).
The aims of the workshops are to get an understanding of current food growing, to generate interest in food growing and to identify potential growing sites.
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X and Z
is creating A Role Playing Game, Wizards Of Alamar
Imagine if Zelda hooked up with Metroid and D&D then had a crazy love child! Yeah it is that good! Wizards of Alamar is role playing wizardry at its finest! A fast-paced action-packed game that is expanded upon every week. New quests to explore and magical artifacts to collect, this game will tax your magical prowess. A multitude of puzzles and the never ending onslaught of enemies to fight through as you search for the Lost Keys of Alamar.
Alamar & X and Z Productions
X and Z Productions LLC. was founded by Xavier and Zygy in 2011, and has 7 games to its credit. Now is the time to go back to our roots and recapture the fire of our first game, Armies of Alamar. Such grand ideas we had back then, man oh man could we tell you stories… and Alamar kept calling.
So here we are answering her call.
We are dedicated and when we say we are going to do something, we do it. We will always be upfront and honest with you, that's our promise to all patrons: past, present and future. At the end of the day, your belief in us is all that matters. That's what puts food on our table and gives us the energy each and every day to make this dream a reality.
Why Patreon?
We are trying a new approach to circumvent traditional publishers and instead communicate directly with our patrons. All the while including you in this complete rebuilding of the game. This approach will help us stay grounded and focused on what you like and dislike. And ultimately develop a game that will make us all proud. Now we feel that we can get the first 4 steps below finished by the end of the first fully funded year. Let me explain.
Our Approach To Releasing Alamar…
Our approach is 5 steps:
1. Release of Wizards of Alamar for PC. This adventure will be based out of your village using a system of portals to explore the world. There will be ever expanding quests that will allow you to evolve your character into the Wizard you would like. And will of course be set in a wizard theme and all village defenses will be using magic.
2. Release Knights and Rouges of Alamar for PC. This will of course be set in a Knight theme and all village defenses will be using your armies.
3. WAR! Build an interactive platform between the two games allowing one player the ability to attack another players village which will be found on a global map. Where-in, if the attacking person is successful they will haul off half the treasure of the other player. Knights will use armies to defend and wizards will use Magic. When attacking you will use your character to try and defeat the other players defenses and get to the throne room.
4. Expand to mobile platforms.
5. Then once we have these under control and stable we will start work on Armies Of Alamar. Both the Wizards and the Knights games will be the underlying support games for Armies of Alamar. This will be a persistent MMO PC game combining a beautiful castle building process with a world that allows the player to interact with everyone at every level. Conquer lands and become the leader of a county or even a Prince of the Realm. If you are really ambitious, you could even find yourself on the throne itself. Become the merchant or farmer that trades with cities and players. Ambush wagons as they go to market as a shadowy thief. The choice is limitless.
Join Us and become a patron of ours you wont regret it.
Questing the Quests
While supporting us at this level, you will not only have access to the game and all scheduled updates, you will also receive:
1. Early releases to future quests and side quests.
2. Special rings, wands and shields.
3. Lets not forget all the added treasure rooms spread through out the game.
4. Special Characters to choose from.
And more to come in the coming months.
Supporting us at this level would mean the absolute world to us!
Not only will you get the benefits in the previous tiers:
4. Special Characters to choose from and more to come in the coming months.
You will also get:
5. Behind the scenes videos with insight to the Tech end of things, our goals for the game and more.
6. Be automatically entered into any future prize give-away. (Yep we plan on making some t-shirts and mouse pads maybe even a couple cool posters for the game.)
Creators Of Alamar
First let me say, THANKS for even considering this level. This would not only help us out, but will inspire us to go even further. We would be flabbergasted to say the least.
But when you commit to this level of patronage, your name will be added in the game credits as a Producer.
Furthermore, every person willing to support us at this level will get something named after them in the game. So how about we agree, that when you show this level of commitment, we will let you name one thing that is currently un-named inside the game.
15 of 25 patrons
When we reach a 25 members, we will start our Weekly Video log. We will basically act like fools and dress up like wizards and pretend to speak in wise ancient magical languages. It should be fun.
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Did you break your bones anytime, ms x? 'cause you surely must have dropped from the sky like an angel.
2) Why didn't I see you before?
3. Are your legs tired, because you've been running through my mind all day long?
4. You must be in the wrong place - the Miss Universe contest is over there.
5. Excuse me, but I do think it's time we met.
6. How was heaven when you left it? 8. We haven't met before, have we?


When in Hawaii go on as many adventures as possible! When talking to these two during our session it seemed liked they had planned so many cool excursions for their little get-away. If I can remember correctly they surfed and hiked a mountain before these photos were taken. My kind of people!


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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream
By John Michael Greer, originally published by The Archdruid Report
Let's take a moment to recap the argument of the last two posts here on The Archdruid Report before we follow it through to its conclusion. There are any number of ways to sort out the diversity of human social forms, but one significant division lies between those societies that don't concentrate population, wealth, and power in urban centers, and those that do. One important difference between the societies that fall into these two categories is that urbanized societies—we may as well call these by the time-honored term "civilizations"—reliably crash and burn after a lifespan of roughly a thousand years, while societies that lack cities have no such fixed lifespans and can last for much longer without going through the cycle of rise and fall, punctuated by dark ages, that defines the history of civilizations.
It's probably necessary to pause here and clear up what seems to be a common misunderstanding. To say that societies in the first category can last for much more than a thousand years doesn't mean that all of them do this. I mention this because I fielded a flurry of comments from people who pointed to a few examples of societies without cities that collapsed in less than a millennium, and insisted that this somehow disproved my hypothesis. Not so; if everyone who takes a certain diet pill, let's say, suffers from heart damage, the fact that some people who don't take the diet pill suffer heart damage from other causes doesn't absolve the diet pill of responsibility. In the same way, the fact that civilizations such as Egypt and China have managed to pull themselves together after a dark age and rebuild a new version of their former civilization doesn't erase the fact of the collapse and the dark age that followed it.
The question is why civilizations crash and burn so reliably. There are plenty of good reasons why this might happen, and it's entirely possible that several of them are responsible; the collapse of civilization could be an overdetermined process. Like the victim in the cheap mystery novel who was shot, stabbed, strangled, clubbed over the head, and then chucked out a twentieth floor window, that is, civilizations that fall may have more causes of death than were actually necessary. The ecological costs of building and maintaining cities, for example, place much greater strains on the local environment than the less costly and concentrated settlement patterns of nonurban societies, and the rising maintenance costs of capital—the driving force behind the theory of catabolic collapse I've proposed elsewhere—can spin out of control much more easily in an urban setting than elsewhere. Other examples of the vulnerability of urbanized societies can easily be worked out by those who wish to do so.
That said, there's at least one other factor at work. As noted in last week's post, civilizations by and large don't have to be dragged down the slope of decline and fall; instead, they take that route with yells of triumph, convinced that the road to ruin will infallibly lead them to heaven on earth, and attempts to turn them aside from that trajectory typically get reactions ranging from blank incomprehension to furious anger. It's not just the elites who fall into this sort of self-destructive groupthink, either: it's not hard to find, in a falling civilization, people who claim to disagree with the ideology that's driving the collapse, but people who take their disagreement to the point of making choices that differ from those of their more orthodox neighbors are much scarcer. They do exist; every civilization breeds them, but they make up a very small fraction of the population, and they generally exist on the fringes of society, despised and condemned by all those right-thinking people whose words and actions help drive the accelerating process of decline and fall.
The next question, then, is how civilizations get caught in that sort of groupthink. My proposal, as sketched out last week, is that the culprit is a rarely noticed side effect of urban life. People who live in a mostly natural environment—and by this I mean merely an environment in which most things are put there by nonhuman processes rather than by human action—have to deal constantly with the inevitable mismatches between the mental models of the universe they carry in their heads and the universe that actually surrounds them. People who live in a mostly artificial environment—an environment in which most things were made and arranged by human action—don't have to deal with this anything like so often, because an artificial environment embodies the ideas of the people who constructed and arranged it. A natural environment therefore applies negative or, as it's also called, corrective feedback to human models of the way things are, while an artificial environment applies positive feedback—the sort of thing people usually mean when they talk about a feedback loop.
This explains, incidentally, one of the other common differences between civilizations and other kinds of human society: the pace of change. Anthropologists not so long ago used to insist that what they liked to call "primitive societies"—that is, societies that have relatively simple technologies and no cities—were stuck in some kind of changeless stasis. That was nonsense, but the thin basis in fact that was used to justify the nonsense was simply that the pace of change in low-tech, non-urban societies, when they're left to their own devices, tends to be fairly sedate, and usually happens over a time scale of generations. Urban societies, on the other hand, change quickly, and the pace of change tends to accelerate over time: a dead giveaway that a positive feedback loop is at work.
Notice that what's fed back to the minds of civilized people by their artificial environment isn't simply human thinking in general. It's whatever particular set of mental models and habits of thought happen to be most popular in their civilization. Modern industrial civilization, for example, is obsessed with simplicity; our mental models and habits of thought value straight lines, simple geometrical shapes, hard boundaries, and clear distinctions. That obsession, and the models and mental habits that unfold from it, have given us an urban environment full of straight lines, simple geometrical shapes, hard boundaries, and clear distinctions—and thus reinforce our unthinking assumption that these things are normal and natural, which by and large they aren't.
Modern industrial civilization is also obsessed with the frankly rather weird belief that growth for its own sake is a good thing. (Outside of a few specific cases, that is. I've wondered at times whether the deeply neurotic American attitude toward body weight comes from the conflict between current fashions in body shape and the growth-is-good mania of the rest of our culture; if bigger is better, why isn't a big belly better than a small one?) In a modern urban American environment, it's easy to believe that growth is good, since that claim is endlessly rehashed whenever some new megawhatsit replaces something of merely human scale, and since so many of the costs of malignant growth get hauled out of sight and dumped on somebody else. In settlement patterns that haven't been pounded into their present shape by true believers in industrial society's growth-for-its-own-sake ideology, people are rather more likely to grasp the meaning of the words "too much."
I've used examples from our own civilization because they're familiar, but every civilization reshapes its urban environment in the shape of its own mental models, which then reinforce those models in the minds of the people who live in that environment. As these people in turn shape that environment, the result is positive feedback: the mental models in question become more and more deeply entrenched in the built environment and thus also the collective conversation of the culture, and in both cases, they also become more elaborate and more extreme. The history of architecture in the western world over the last few centuries is a great example of this latter: over that time, buildings became ever more completely defined by straight lines, flat surfaces, simple geometries, and hard boundaries between one space and another—and it's hardly an accident that popular culture in urban communities has simplified in much the same way over that same timespan.
One way to understand this is to see a civilization as the working out in detail of some specific set of ideas about the world. At first those ideas are as inchoate as dream-images, barely grasped even by the keenest thinkers of the time. Gradually, though, the ideas get worked out explicitly; conflicts among them are resolved or papered over in standardized ways; the original set of ideas becomes the core of a vast, ramifying architecture of thought which defines the universe to the inhabitants of that civilization. Eventually, everything in the world of human experience is assigned some place in that architecture of thought; everything that can be hammered into harmony with the core set of ideas has its place in the system, while everything that can't gets assigned the status of superstitious nonsense, or whatever other label the civilization likes to use for the realities it denies.
The further the civilization develops, though, the less it questions the validity of the basic ideas themselves, and the urban environment is a critical factor in making this happen. By limiting, as far as possible, the experiences available to influential members of society to those that fit the established architecture of thought, urban living makes it much easier to confuse mental models with the universe those models claim to describe, and that confusion is essential if enough effort, enthusiasm, and passion are to be directed toward the process of elaborating those models to their furthest possible extent.
A branch of knowledge that has to keep on going back to revisit its first principles, after all, will never get far beyond them. This is why philosophy, which is the science of first principles, doesn't "progress" in the simpleminded sense of that word—Aristotle didn't disprove Plato, nor did Nietzsche refute Schopenhauer, because each of these philosophers, like all others in that challenging field, returned to the realm of first principles from a different starting point and so offered a different account of the landscape. Original philosophical inquiry thus plays a very large role in the intellectual life of every civilization early in the process of urbanization, since this helps elaborate the core ideas on which the civilization builds its vision of reality; once that process is more or less complete, though, philosophy turns into a recherché intellectual specialty or gets transformed into intellectual dogma.
Cities are thus the Petri dishes in which civilizations ripen their ideas to maturity—and like Petri dishes, they do this by excluding contaminating influences. It's easy, from the perspective of a falling civilization like ours, to see this as a dreadful mistake, a withdrawal from contact with the real world in order to pursue an abstract vision of things increasingly detached from everything else. That's certainly one way to look at the matter, but there's another side to it as well.
Civilizations are far and away the most spectacularly creative form of human society. Over the course of its thousand-year lifespan, the inhabitants of a civilization will create many orders of magnitude more of the products of culture—philosophical, scientific and religious traditions, works of art and the traditions that produce and sustain them, and so on—than an equal number of people living in non-urban societies and experiencing the very sedate pace of cultural change already mentioned. To borrow a metaphor from the plant world, non-urban societies are perennials, and civilizations are showy annuals that throw all their energy into the flowering process. Having flowered, civilizations then go to seed and die, while the perennial societies flower less spectacularly and remain green thereafter.
The feedback loop described above explains both the explosive creativity of civilizations and their equally explosive downfall. It's precisely because civilizations free themselves from the corrective feedback of nature, and divert an ever larger portion of their inhabitants' brainpower from the uses for which human brains were originally adapted by evolution, that they generate such torrents of creativity. Equally, it's precisely because they do these things that civilizations run off the rails into self-feeding delusion, lose the capacity to learn the lessons of failure or even notice that failure is taking place, and are destroyed by threats they've lost the capacity to notice, let alone overcome. Meanwhile, other kinds of human societies move sedately along their own life cycles, and their creativity and their craziness—and they have both of these, of course, just as civilizations do—are kept within bounds by the enduring negative feedback loops of nature.
Which of these two options is better? That's a question of value, not of fact, and so it has no one answer. Facts, to return to a point made in these posts several times, belong to the senses and the intellect, and they're objective, at least to the extent that others can say, "yes, I see it too." Values, by contrast, are a matter of the heart and the will, and they're subjective; to call something good or bad doesn't state an objective fact about the thing being discussed. It always expresses a value judgment from some individual point of view. You can't say "x is better than y," and mean anything by it, unless you're willing to field such questions as "better by what criteria?" and "better for whom?"
Myself, I'm very fond of the benefits of civilization. I like hot running water, public libraries, the rule of law, and a great many other things that you get in civilizations and generally don't get outside of them. Of course that preference is profoundly shaped by the fact that I grew up in a civilization; if I'd happened to be the son of yak herders in central Asia or tribal horticulturalists in upland Papua New Guinea, I might well have a different opinion—and I might also have a different opinion even if I'd grown up in this civilization but had different needs and predilections. Robert E. Howard, whose fiction launched the series of posts that finishes up this week, was a child of American civilization at its early twentieth century zenith, and he loathed civilization and all it stood for.
This is one of the two reasons that I think it's a waste of time to get into arguments over whether civilization is a good thing. The other reason is that neither my opinion nor yours, dear reader, nor the opinion of anybody else who might happen to want to fulminate on the internet about the virtues or vices of civilization, is worth two farts in an EF-5 tornado when it comes to the question of whether or not future civilizations will rise and fall on this planet after today's industrial civilization completes the arc of its destiny. Since the basic requirements of urban life first became available not long after the end of the last ice age, civilizations have risen wherever conditions favored them, cycled through their lifespans, and fell, and new civilizations rose again in the same places if the conditions remained favorable for that process.
Until the coming of the fossil fuel age, though, civilization was a localized thing, in a double sense. On the one hand, without the revolution in transport and military technology made possible by fossil fuels, any given civilization could only maintain control over a small portion of the planet's surface for more than a fairly short time—thus as late as 1800, when the industrial revolution was already well under way, the civilized world was still divided into separate civilizations that each pursued its own very different ideas and values. On the other hand, without the economic revolution made possible by fossil fuels, very large sections of the world were completely unsuited to civilized life, and remained outside the civilized world for all practical purposes. As late as 1800, as a result, quite a bit of the world's land surface was still inhabited by hunter-gatherers, nomadic pastoralists, and tribal horticulturalists who owed no allegiance to any urban power and had no interest in cities and their products at all—except for the nomadic pastoralists, that is, who occasionally liked to pillage one.
The world's fossil fuel reserves aren't renewable on any time scale that matters to human beings. Since we've burnt all the easily accessible coal, oil, and natural gas on the planet, and are working our way through the stuff that's difficult to get even with today's baroque and energy-intensive technologies, the world's first fossil-fueled human civilization is guaranteed to be its last as well. That means that once the deindustrial dark age ahead of us is over, and conditions favorable for the revival of civilization recur here and there on various corners of the planet, it's a safe bet that new civilizations will build atop the ruins we've left for them.
The energy resources they'll have available to them, though, will be far less abundant and concentrated than the fossil fuels that gave industrial civilization its global reach. With luck, and some hard work on the part of people living now, they may well inherit the information they need to make use of sun, wind, and other renewable energy resources in ways that the civilizations before ours didn't know how to do. As our present-day proponents of green energy are finding out the hard way just now, though, this doesn't amount to the kind of energy necessary to maintain our kind of civilization.
I've argued elsewhere, especially in my book The Ecotechnic Future, that modern industrial society is simply the first, clumsiest, and most wasteful form of what might be called technic society, the subset of human societies that get a significant amount of their total energy from nonbiotic sources—that is, from something other than human and animal muscles fueled by the annual product of photosynthesis. If that turns out to be correct, future civilizations that learn to use energy sparingly may be able to accomplish some of the things that we currently do by throwing energy around with wild abandon, and they may also learn how to do remarkable things that are completely beyond our grasp today. Eventually there may be other global civilizations, following out their own unique sets of ideas about the world through the usual process of dramatic creativity followed by dramatic collapse.
That's a long way off, though. As the first global civilization gives way to the first global dark age, my working guess is that civilization—that is to say, the patterns of human society necessary to support the concentration of population, wealth, and power in urban centers—is going to go away everywhere, or nearly everywhere, over the next one to three centuries. A planet hammered by climate change, strewn with chemical and radioactive poisons, and swept by mass migrations is not a safe place for cities and the other amenities of civilized life. As things calm down, say, half a millennium from now, a range of new civilizations will doubtless emerge in those parts of the planet that have suitable conditions for urban life, while human societies of other kinds will emerge everywhere else on the planet that human life is possible at all.
I realize that this is not exactly a welcome prospect for those people who've bought into industrial civilization's overblown idea of its own universal importance. Those who believe devoutly that our society is the cutting edge of humanity's future, destined to march on gloriously forever to the stars, will be as little pleased by the portrait of the future I've painted as their equal and opposite numbers, for whom our society is the end of history and must surely be annihilated, along with all seven billion of us, by some glorious cataclysm of the sort beloved by Hollywood scriptwriters. Still, the universe is under no obligation to cater to anybody's fantasies, you know. That's a lesson Robert E. Howard knew well and wove into the best of his fiction, the stories of Conan among them—and it's a lesson worth learning now, at least for those who hope to have some influence over how the future affects them, their families, and their communities, in an age of decline and fall.
Tags: decline and fall of industrial civilization
Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma'am?
Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science
The End of Ordinary Politics
Don't Police our Emotions – Climate Despair is Inviting People Back to Life
The Era of Pretense
'Heat, Greed and Human Need': Review
Turning Toward Each Other
John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and currently heads the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn.
John Robottom
I have read many of Richard Heinberg's books, which are inspirational and informative. PCI needs funds.
By John Michael Greer, originally published by Ecosophia
The Flight from Nature
America and Russia: Stirrings in the Borderlands
The Choice of a Canon
The Taste of Another's Thoughts


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Q: Can I build a new Docker container within a Docker container? I am trying to run a container on a server to which I don't have root permissions. I, therefore, can not build the container on the server. I do it locally and transfer the image file to the server. This takes a long time (> 6 hours).
I was wondering if I could build a container with capabilities to build another container within it.
Any other ideas?

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Q: set selected value to bean to respective input fields i have my dialog this
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">

    <p:dataTable style="font-size:13px;" paginatorPosition="bottom"
        id="dialoglov" var="lov" value="#{mmsBean.admlovs}"
        selection="#{mmsBean.selectedadmlovs}" selectionMode="single"
        resizableColumns="true" scrollable="true" scrollHeight="150"
        rowKey="#{lov.id}" rows="5" paginator="false"
        paginatorTemplate="{CurrentPageReport}  {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {PageLinks} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink} {RowsPerPageDropdown}"
        rowsPerPageTemplate="5,10,15"
        emptyMessage="No data found with given criteria ">

            <h:outputText style="font-size:13px;" value="#{lov.code}" />

            <h:outputText style="font-size:13px;" value="#{lov.descr}" />

and from which the dialogue is calling is

            <h:inputText type="text" styleClass="form-control"
               id="fvar" value="#{pmBean.selectedadmlovs.code}"
               title="Estimated Cost Of WorkOrder" />

            <h:inputText type="text" styleClass="form-control"
               id="fvaar" value="#{pmBean.selectedadmlovs.descr}"
               title="Estimated Cost Currency" />

i want to set the selected value from dialogue to both of input fields
there are too many input fields so and one dialogue. when ever the dialogue is open and user select the value from it, it should set the value respectively to that particular field. i want to make generic
thanks


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Canoy, De La Serna honored as Founding Fathers of Oro Cinema
Posted byMike Baños December 22, 2022 January 11, 2023 Leave a comment on Canoy, De La Serna honored as Founding Fathers of Oro Cinema
The late former mayor of Cagayan de Oro Reuben R. Canoy and his lifetime partner in journalism and the arts Lorenzo M. Dela Serna have been honored as the Founding Fathers of Cagayan de Oro films.
The two were accorded the Golden Giant Fish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema during the awarding rites for the 3rd Cine de Oro Film Festival held at the Karumata, Bgy. Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro on December 17, 2022.
"Much of what is lost to the sands of time will never be recovered. Tonight, however, join us in celebrating a forgotten piece of the sprawling puzzle that is Mindanao cinema," said Joe Bacus, the festival's artistic director, himself a multi-awarded film maker recognized here and abroad.
"For their indelible contribution to Cagayan de Oro cinema history, Cine de Oro Film Festival gives tribute to Mr. Reuben Canoy and Mr. Lorenzo M. Dela Serna as the founding fathers of Cagayan de Oro cinema. The Lifetime Achievement Golden Giant Fish Award goes to these two giants of Mindanao cinema."
Sa Imong Lawas ug Dugo, written and directed by Lorenzo M. Dela Serna, is the very first feature film produced by Cagayan de Oro in 1979.
"Cine de Oro is first and foremost a film festival by filmmakers for filmmakers. That said, we believe that proper archiving of Kagay-anon film history should be paramount," said Rodiell Veloso, festival manager and writer. "Sa Imong Lawas ug Dugo, which is written and directed by Lorenzo M. dela Serna and produced by Reuben Canoy, is the first full-length feature film produced by a Kagay-anon. Although no copy of the film survives to this day, Cine de Oro intends to fully cement these filmmaker's indelible contribution to the history of Cagayan de Oro cinema with this award."
Rhona Canoy & Robert de la Serna receive the Golden Giant Fish Award for Lifetime Achivement in behalf of their fathers Reuben and Lorenzo.
Canoy's daughter Rhona and De La Serna's son Robert received the awards in behalf of their parents.
"My Pa wrote the screenplay and directed the full length movie, "Sa Imong Lawas ug Dugo" in 1979," Robert recalls. "Although it was mostly shot in Cebu, it involved some local Kagay-anon actors and was produced by Reuben Canoy. My hazy memory, notwithstanding, I reckon the movie tackled and provided a mature treatment of extramarital affairs, considered a societal taboo, revolving around dilemma of a child born out of wedlock, hence the title."
The movie was simultaneously premiered in Cebu and at the defunct Rizal theater in Cagayan de Or to an SRO crowd, thanks to the RMN stations' promotion of the movie, and the strong following of Canoy's daily commentary 'Perspective,' also aired over the same stations.
Reuben Rabe Canoy was a politician, journalist, playwright, lawmaker, and filmmaker.
Born on June 6, 1929 in Cagayan de Oro City, he graduated with an AA degree from University of the Philippines and a law degree from Silliman University in 1953. He was a huge part of Silliman's post-World War II generation of writers who went on to great critical acclaim in the mid-1950s.
In 1966, he was appointed Undersecretary for the Department of Public Information under the Presidency of Ferdinand E. Marcos under then-minister Francisco "Kit" Tatad. Later, he was elected and served as the fifth mayor of Cagayan de Oro from 1971 to 1976. (Casocot, 2022)
Beyond his career in politics, however, was also a career in the arts. The British Film Institute's website credits him for the screenplay of National Artist Eddie Romero's The Passionate Strangers (1966) and The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969).
He is also listed in The Movie Database as producer and screenplay writer of Cesar Amigo's Babae sa Likod ng Salamin (1976) which starred Charito Solis, Dindo Fernando, Alona Alegre and Perla Bautista, and as screenplay writer of Amigo's Sa Dulo ng Kris (1977) which starred Joseph Estrada and Vic Vargas.
In 2013, he made a brief return to film when he was announced as one of the winners of the Genre Film Scriptwriting Competition organized by the Film Development Council of the Philippines, for his unproduced screenplay The Unbelievers.
During his days in Silliman when he became a prolific writer of poem and short stories, he was among those credited to have helped develop Negros' literary scene, and was also cited as among the poets who contributed to Philippine Literature in English in the immediate post-war years.
He was editor of the university's literary folio Sands and Coral from 1951 to 1953. He published his fiction and poetry widely in national papers and magazines as well.
In 1981, Leopoldo Y. Yabes would include his short story "Deep River" in the landmark anthology, 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 1941-1955, published by the University of the Philippines Press. (Casocot, 2022)
He was also a past president of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club, the oldest press club in Mindanao.
In 1952, Canoy convinced his brother Henry to turn his fledgling radio station in Cagayan de Oro into Radio Mindanao Network. Canoy hosted an early morning radio program, Perspective, which ran for 64 years on RMN. In 1971, he was conferred the Outstanding Sillimanian Award for his contributions to mass media.
Canoy's familiar opening spiel for each episode has reverberated across generations: "Ang lungsod nga nasayod makahatag og kusog sa demokrasya, apan ang lungsod nga mapasagaron makapukan sa atong kagawasan."(An informed society strengthens democracy, but an indifferent society will destroy our freedom.)
When his health further deteriorated, Canoy wrote his commentary and had his daughter Rhona read it to his audience.
"He graciously asked me to partner in Perspective with the intent to let me continue the program after his death. But he was active with the program, even recording his last episode the morning of July 5, prior to his passing," Rhona recalls.
Canoy authored The Quest for Mindanao Independence which details the disconnect between the national direction and the aspirations of the region's peoples; and The Counterfeit Revolution: How Ferdinand Marcos Became a Dictator of the Philippines, an account of the years from martial law in 1972 up to the assassination of former Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983, which also provides insights into why Marcos Sr. rose to become a dictator, and The History of Mindanao.
He married Solona Torralba in 1953, with whom he had four children, Rhona, Chet, Marc, and Don. He died on 5 July 2022.
Lorenzo Maningo de la Serna was a writer, editor and long-time collaborator of Canoy in journalism and the arts.
He was editor-in-chief of the defunct The Mindanao Post, one of Cagayan de Oro's longest running weekly newspapers, and twice president of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club (1966-1967, 1977-1978).
Lorie started his career as a talent and scriptwriter for Phil-Ads, a Manila-based advertising agency, then producing radio dramas for DYRC-DYBU, the only two broadcast stations in the Visayas, while taking Liberal Arts at Colegio de San Jose-Recoletos.
He was still in the first year AB when he won the position of associate editor and eventually elevated to editor-in-chief of CSJ-R's school organ, Adelante, which earned him full scholarship and membership to the prestigious Cebu Editors Guild and later, the Association of Cebu Journalists (ACI). (Corrales, 2011)
Already a broadcast journalist in Cebu, De La Serna first came to Cagayan de Oro in 1952 to work as a draftsman under Col. Pablo Calo, G2 of the IV Military Area (now 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army).
RMN Logo (1052-1987)
In 1954, he joined Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Cagayan de Oro as jock, scriptwriter, news and commentary producer, production manager and station manager of DXCC, the second broadcast station in the entire Mindanao.
As the network grew, he was tasked to construct, organize. operate and manage other RMN radio and IBC TV stations in different parts of the Visayas and Mindanao, but served longest as station manager of DYHP in Cebu, and DXDC in Davao in the 1970s, until he was recalled to rejoin DXCC in 1976, boosting Canoy's Perspective as his content writer and producer, which was aired daily on 23 radio stations in the Visayas and Mindanao. (Corrales, 2011)
The house where Northern Mindanao's first radio station, DXCC started.
(Photo: Glimpses of Mindanao by Filomeno Bautista Sr.'s.
"The strong ties between my Pa and Atty. Canoy were hinged upon their tandem as co-producers of the longest running VisMin radio commentary, Perspective, where my Pa wrote the content in Cebuano, while Atty. Canoy lent his voice to this radio program– what today is the equivalent of Vox, a popular US- based socmed platform that explains just about anything–from news to political affairs, to science and culture," his son Robert noted.
Bisaya short story (fiction)
by Lorie de la Serna
Cover of the Bisaya Magazine where the short story was published
Bisaya grammar lesson
by Lorie de la Serna in Bisaya Magazine
Besides his journalistic pursuits, the elder De La Serna was active in the literary field also a frequent contributor of short stories and Cebuano grammar lessons to the Bisaya Magazine.
"As editor of the 1990s Cebu-based newspaper, Ang Sugbuanon, he became a founding member of the Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters Foundation, Inc. which was established in 1995 (now the Akademiyang Bisaya since 2009) a non-stock, non-profit and non-sectoral corporation of language preservation advocates, promoting and regulating the Visayan-Cebuano language," Robert shared.
Acknowledged as an authority in Visayan lingua franca, he was commissioned as consultant-editor and was awarded a Plaque of Appreciation "for his outstanding contribution to the Catholic Bible Society for Asia in the translation of the Bible into Cebuano language."
In 1998, as Most Outstanding District Deputy he was awarded the rare privilegé to attend as delegate representing Mindanao to the international convention of the Knights of Columbus in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Scene from Lorie de la Serna's cameo in Sa Dulo na Kris as Inez Bond Manapul's father.
De la Serna played a key supporting role in the movie, Cesar Amigo's Sa Dulo ng Kris (1977) where he co-wrote the screenplay as an uncredited writer with Amigo and Canoy. The film produced by Reuben Canoy Productions, tells the story of a sibling rivalry between rebel figure Joseph Estrada and military officer Vic Vargas over their love interest for a Muslim damsel, Inez Bond Manapul (in her first film role).
He wrote the screenplay and directed the last Visayan cinema ever filmed in Cebu, Sa Imong Lawas ug Dugo, which also produced by Reuben Canoy in 1979. (Corrales, 2011)
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Too many dangers in leaving children unattended, parenting commission warns
BY ALPHEA SAUNDERS
saundersa@jamaicaobserver.com
PARENTS are being cautioned against leaving underage children at home unattended during online classes, while they go to work or to handle other business.
Among the myriad issues that have emerged as parents and children navigate the virtual learning landscape is the question of suitable childcare arrangements for those who are not able to work from home, or others who must "hustle" to provide for their households.
Head of the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) Kaysia Kerr stressed that there are too many dangers in leaving an underage child at home unattended, and that parents should find ways to avoid this practice.
She pointed out that parents could exercise options such as seeking assistance from the school at which their children are enrolled.
"You can have discussions with the school, so that they can be aware of the particular challenge you're having. Maybe the school will be able to negotiate some terms for you and your child, so that better arrangements can be made. At no point should we be leaving underage children at home," she stated.
"For those parents who have to work, it's always been the commission's position that the safety of children is paramount, although we are not oblivious of the realities on the ground," she told the Jamaica Observer.
Kerr said, where it is not practical to work from home, the commission is advocating for parents to partner with trustworthy individuals in their communities to supervise and care for their children while they are away.
The NPSC head stressed, however, that clear guidelines must be established for this type of arrangement.
"It takes a conversation with that person, [such as]: Should you have a challenge with the child, what are the steps, is there anything you need to know about my child, is he allergic to anything, does he or she learn [in] a particular way, what are the steps to take if my child refuses to carry out your directions," she explained.
At the same time, the commission continues to urge parents to negotiate with their bosses to accommodate working from home or other flexible arrangements, where possible.
Parents who are leaving personal devices with their children are also being urged to ensure that these are cleared of inappropriate content.
"Make sure the parental controls are on, as your children would have access to certain sites," she noted.
Additionally, she said parents should seek alternative means of staying in touch with their children while away from home.
"If there is someone at work whose phone you can borrow to place calls in the interim, just to check in, do so. If it is a situation where, based on your job, you're on the road, there must be somebody within the environment who you can borrow a phone from just to make a quick call," she said.
Kerr also cautioned parents who have no choice but to leave their children in the care of others, including family.
"You have to ensure that you're empowering your child... that's why parameters and boundaries have to be communicated. You have to be willing to have uncomfortable conversations, and speak to your child about what to expect from an adult when the [person] is in charge... Every day, once you get home, you do a debriefing; you must ask questions and you listen for answers, and where you're unclear, you press for explanations," she advised.
Kerr said, too, that parents should pay keen attention to any change in behaviour.
She stressed that the community response to the novel coronavirus pandemic also includes the workplace.
"So for those persons who have small children or children in general, and you believe that if you were to work remotely not only would you be productive but also because you have peace of mind, then that's a conversation that should be had with your bosses," she stated.
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Regis Philbin, 79, to Retire
Posted on | January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments
And isn't it about time?
Regis Philbin, a star of morning television for a generation, made a surprise announcement at the start of "Live with Regis and Kelly" Tuesday morning, telling viewers that he intends to step down sometime later this year.
The decision will mark the end of one of television's longest runs on the same show for an individual host — 28 years. Mr. Philbin has shared the show with two chief co-hosts during his run, Kathy Lee Gifford and the current co-host Kelly Ripa. . . .
Mr. Philbin broke into his usual morning banter with Ms. Ripa, to say: "Well, I've got one of those announcements to make." He added that he didn't "want to alarm anybody" before declaring, referring to his producer Michael Gelman, "It's going to happen. The station needs to know and Gelman needs to know and we all need to know. But this will be my last year."
Mr. Philbin, 79, did not offer any specific reason for his decision other than to say, "There is a time. Everything must come to an end for certain people on camera — for certain old people."
Certainly after so many years as a national TV star, Regis Philbin ought to have accumulated enough wealth that he can live comfortably the rest of his life, and I certainly wish him a long life.
I'm not anti-geezer. At 51, I'm a good ways down the road to geezerdom myself. But I've always thought it was wrong for people to ensconce themselves in a key position and then stay there past the point where they're doing anything other than going through the motions — and preventing younger people from having an opportunity. There comes a time when a successful person ought to go play golf and write his memoirs.
One of the things that ruined CBS News was that Dan Rather stayed in the "Evening News" anchor chair until he was 75, preventing the organization from revitalizing its on-air personnel.
UPDATE: Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad has decided to retire rather than seek re-election in 2012, but unlike Philbin, it isn't advanced age that's driving 62-year-old Conrad out of the Senate. It's the Big Red Wave, which hit North Dakota hard in the 2010 midterms, as Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post notes, "Former [Democrat] Sen. Byron Dorgan retired in the face of a challenge from popular [Republican] Governor-now-Senator John Hoeven while former Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D) was defeated by [Republican] Rick Berg."
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The Kremlin's dream to survive Western sanctions: Utopia or reality?
Sep 23, 2014Oleg Buklemishev Opinion
Russia's plan to build an alternative financial system and seek out new sources of financing for domestic companies might backfire. It is unnecessarily expensive and risky.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, center, chairs a meeting with his deputies at the Gorki residence near Moscow. Photo: RIA Novosti
Of all the sanctions imposed by the international community in response to the actions of the Russian government in regard to Ukraine, the most painful, without a doubt, have been financial.
Events this year irrefutably confirm that Russia, despite its status as a net exporter of capital, is chronically dependent on raising funds in the international markets. Whether we like it or not, the national financial system is unable to effectively channel a steady flow of income from foreign trade into the investment process, whereupon major banks and corporations are forced to turn to foreign investors to meet their capital and borrowing requirements.
Having negatively assessed the events in Crimea, these investors began to revise Russia's risk profile. This, in turn, caused a sharp drop in price quotations for securities and effectively closed off the international markets to most Russian issuers and borrowers even before the imposition of sanctions by foreign governments.
Starting in March of this year, deals to secure financial resources from overseas became sporadic before coming a complete standstill in the wake of the restrictions imposed by the United States and the European Union, which directly impacted leading credit institutions under state ownership. As a result, Sberbank President German Gref admits that even Russia's largest and most stable bank is currently unable to obtain financing in the foreign markets for any period of maturity.
The move to starve Russian borrowers of external sources is having an adverse affect on the domestic financial market, too, which is experiencing a funding deficit no less painful.
Suffice it to recall that due to "unfavorable market conditions" the Russian Ministry of Finance canceled its weekly issue of federal bonds for the ninth time in a row, while the interest rate on ruble-denominated loans to corporate borrowers has climbed by at least 2 percentage points since the start of the year. All this, coupled with the ongoing risk of tougher sanctions, is undoubtedly contributing to the pouring out of private capital, which this year topped $100 billion. It is also undermining domestic investments, pushing the Russian economy into recession.
The Kremlin's response to the financial sanctions is comprised of several key steps.
First, it announced plans to build its own financial infrastructure, independent of external players. That would involve phasing out the domestic use of Visa and MasterCard, the SWIFT interbank payments system, international credit ratings, and so forth. Although some steps have been taken in this direction, the whole process is generally considered to be prohibitively expensive and futile.
Above all, the idea of creating a self-sufficient Russian financial market in the current climate is pie in the sky. On one hand, even if the enormous costs of a parallel "sovereign" infrastructure were overcome, demand for it would largely depend on "bridges" with the established international systems. On the other hand, any tightening in this area or attempts to erect barriers to cross-border cash flows would, in the first instance, raise the cost of financing for Russian business and undermine the competitiveness of domestic financial institutions, encouraging them to move offshore.
Second, the Kremlin started seeking out alternative sources of financing to the Western markets. But it soon became clear that rumors of the financial cornucopia on Asia's trading platforms and the ready availability of resources for Russian companies from Chinese, Arab, and other less sophisticated investors were greatly exaggerated.
Asian private investors' assessment of Russia's risk profile is often no different to that of their Western counterparts, while sovereign and government-orchestrated funds tend to see lending as a vehicle to promote national interests. Even if one leaves aside the issue of whether such deals would be in Russia's own interests, replacing the Western markets even partially would require considerable time.
Third, measures are being taken to mitigate the effects of sanctions on domestic financial and corporate structures. Some of them have already been promised direct cash injections from the National Welfare Fund. Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia is launching a currency refinancing program, and the government is setting up a special fund to help companies in trouble that will tap pension reserves (at the same time the industry of non-government pension funds with "long money" has been put to rest). The resources available to the government and the Bank of Russia will certainly last for some time, but they are not limitless.
Meanwhile, amid the ongoing capital flight, plans to float the ruble are fraught with the risk of devaluation. The acute shortage of currency in the country could lead to measures to control the movement of capital. In such financially turbulent conditions, any talk of sustainable economic development and improving public welfare is wishful thinking.
Let's wrap up. The financial sanctions have hit the Russian economy hard, both now and looking forward. The reactive measures taken by the Russian government and the Bank of Russia do not look convincing. Creating an autarkic financial infrastructure in an era of global markets is costly and pointless.
The lack of an obvious alternative to external sources of financing has caused dozens of private investment projects, especially in the manufacturing sector, to be terminated or frozen. Drawing upon the reserve of centralized financial resources will temporarily stabilize the situation at best, but cannot rid Russia of its economic woes, which are threatening to break into a full-fledged crisis at any moment.
It is all strongly reminiscent of the situation that Russia found itself in during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 — but with two important distinctions. First, six years ago, the difficulties affected nearly every country in the world, whereas this time around we are suffering alone, losing ground on our competitors with every passing month.
Second, whereas then there was hope of weathering the economic storm through cooperation with other governments back in 2008-2009, now there is no reason to imagine that the time of troubles will end soon.
The opinion of the author may not necessarily reflect the position of Russia Direct or its staff.
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Oleg Buklemishev is an associate professor in the department of economics at Moscow State University (MGU). In 1997-2000 he headed the international capital markets division. He worked as an assistant to the finance minister. In 2000-2004 he was an assistant to the prime minister and deputy director of the secretariat of the prime minister of Russia. From 2005 to 2012, he was chief analyst and member of the board of directors at NGO MK Analytics. He is author of the book "The Eurobond Market" (1999).


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Global Wireless Charging Market
Global Wireless Charging Market is Forecast to Grow at CAGR of 48.6%, and is Expected to Reach $48.86 Billion Through 2018-2023.
Published By: IndustryARC Published On : 15-May-2018
In the Report "Wireless Charging Market:
By Technology (Magnetic Inductance, Magnetic Resonance, Radio-wave); By Range (Short range, Medium range, Long range); By Applications (Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Automobile)-With Forecast (2018 - 2023)"
published by IndustryARC, the market for consumer products such as smartphones, tablets and wearable devices is set to explode in the near future.
Browse 69 Market Tables, 56 Figures spread through 230 slides and an in-depth TOC on "
Wireless Charging Market(2018 - 2023)
https://industryarc.com/Report/7384/wireless-charging-market-report.html
Associations such as Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), Power Matter Alliance (PMA), and Alliance for wireless power (A4WP) along with various industry players are aggressively working to address and eliminate the difficulties towards the mass adoption of the technology. Chip set vendors are likely to play pivotal role in the adoption of multimode products which are compatible with multiple technologies and standards.
America is the foremost region to generate a maximum of revenue of $1.59 billion in 2018. Further, the market is estimated to reach a revenue of $14.63 billion for the forecast of 2018-2023. According to estimates, Asia-Pacific will outstrip the sales volumes of both America and Europe by 2023. Growing number of industries and large number of developing economies is driving the growth of wireless charging in the APAC. The Asia-Pacific region is developing infrastructure and healthcare facilities, which increases the demand for wireless charging devices.
Selected Charging Type Analysis done in the full Report:
Consumer electronics market is the main end user application for this technology. Slowly, this technology is spreading to other end user industries like industrial equipment, healthcare and automotive. The market is segmented into Inductive Coupling Charging, Magnetic inductance, Magnetic Resonance, Resonant Charging, Radio Wave Charging, Microwave Charging and Laser Beam Charging. In 2014, inductive charging was the only commercially available method of wireless charging. It accounted to $1.32 Billion in 2015, which is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 46.89% to reach $45.13 billion units in 2023, followed by resonance charging market which will grow at a CAGR of 163.24%. The upcoming technologies will contribute significantly to the revenue as they have a higher cost. Beam charging and microwave charging, once commercialized, will have a higher market penetration rate as they will make charging more flexible, with longer range charging methods.
Excerpts on Market Growth Factors
Companies are developing new wireless chargers, which can charge multiple devices at the same time; this will provide an advantage over other forms of charging. The new technology is going to replace technologies like wire chargers and portable chargers. In the years to come, resonance contactless charging will be dominant.
Recent findings in wireless technologies showed, when transferring just 3 watts of power wirelessly, the system was only 2.3% less efficient compared to transmitting 3.39 MB/sec of data. At 2 watts of power, that efficiency difference was only 1.3%. These results were demonstrated at a distance of over 6 inches between transmitter and receiver.
In future, wireless charging will play a major role in the automotive industry. Even while driving, people will be able charge their vehicles. The wireless charging plates installed in the roads would make it possible to drive for miles without plug-in charging. This type of charging will drive the rate of adoption.
key players of the Wireless Charging Market
Qualcomm Incorporated, Powermat Technologies Ltd., Texas instruments Inc., PowerbyProxi, Murata manufacturing Co., Ltd, WiTricity Corporation and many others. Texas Instrument (U.S.) enjoys its dominant position in the wireless charging market with a market share of 18.82%. It holds the maximum market share, owing to the assorted range of products that serves key end user markets such as consumer electronics, automotive and so on. Due to the dominance of American manufacturers in the automobile wireless charging market, WiTricity, Plugless and Qualcomm are the leading companies in the automobile wireless charging market. Companies are also looking at product development in this market to expand their capabilities and position themselves in this growing market.
Industrial Wireless Transmitter Market:
By Type (Level, Pressure, Temperature, Tank Gauging, Others); By Transmission Range (Short, Medium, Long); By End Use Industry (Industrial, Aerospace & Defense, Petrochemical, Others); By Geography - Forecast (2018-2023)
https://industryarc.com/Report/247/Industrial-Wireless-Transmitters-Market-Report.html
RF Test Equipment Market:
By Application (Telecom, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Automotive); By Product (Oscilloscope, Analyzers, Generators, Mulitmeters) and By Geography - Forecast (2016 - 2021)
https://industryarc.com/Report/1283/RF-testing-equipment-market-analysis.html


slip case. Released in an edition of 50 ..
Thanks to Tunes in the Key of Thud for the drums on Thud Life 1 & 2.
What we have here is a 50 minute(ish), 6 track, CD-r housed in a digipack covered with what looks like hand-made yellow paper and spattered with red and green ink. It looks like a section of the floor of Mos Eisley Cantina following a violent argument between two species of clientele.
The set comprises several long tracks of drone and noise interspersed with short tracks of hiss and fizz. The opener is formed of several movements, each of which mutates from the previous. Some of these mutations are sudden and alarming – new limbs sprout fully formed and immediately lean their elbows on the keyboard – but this isn't just a bunch of sketches cobbled together. Patience reveals a satisfying and surprising whole. The short tracks are little shards of broken mirror, reflecting a cloudless sky. The final track is the best as it builds to a glorious, cathartic roar, like dragons mourning the death of one of their number with the fire-breathing equivalent of a 21 gun salute.
~ by STRIATE CORTEX on August 23, 2011.
We're very happy to have published Kev Nickell's review of this recording here: http://www.freq.org.uk/reviews/joinedbywire-48-space-platform/ – he makes it sound like an essential purchase.
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Bryce Wilner's Gradient Puzzle is a vibrant way to meditate on colour.
The act of putting it together is slow and deliberate, where the colour of each piece is used to locate its proper position.
Areaware have used a thick stock and high quality art paper, so the puzzle can be assembled again and again without losing its edge.
The colours in this puzzle have been arranged to suggest that there exists no precise point on the chromatic scale at which one colour becomes another. The puzzle can be considered complete even when its pieces are disassembled and mixed together in the box.
Designed by Bryce Wilner for Areaware.


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Casper (* 25. September 1982 in Lemgo; bürgerlich Benjamin Griffey) ist ein deutsch-amerikanischer Rapper und Rap-Rock-Künstler.

Leben
Casper, Sohn eines US-Soldaten und einer Deutschen, lebte zunächst mit seiner Mutter in der zur Gemeinde Extertal gehörenden Ortschaft Bösingfeld in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Die gesamte Familie zog in die USA nach Augusta (Georgia), als er einen Monat alt war. Nach dem Scheitern der Ehe seiner Eltern erlebte Casper zunächst Gewalt im Zusammenleben mit seinem Stiefvater, der Drogenprobleme hatte, bis seine Mutter mit dem damals elfjährigen Casper und seiner Schwester zurück nach Deutschland zog. In den USA war Casper vollständig englischsprachig aufgewachsen, konnte kaum ein Wort Deutsch, und so notierte er Texte in einem Notizheft, was ihm half, seine Sprachkenntnisse zu verbessern. Casper besuchte zunächst die Realschule Extertal-Bösingfeld, bevor er auf das Gymnasium Barntrup wechselte, das er mit dem Abitur abschloss. In der Theater-AG seines Gymnasiums spielte er Draco Malfoy. Nach dem Abitur zog er zum Studium nach Bielefeld, welches er selbst als seine "Heimat" versteht. Sein Pädagogikstudium mit Nebenfach Psychologie und Schwerpunkt Medienpädagogik an der Universität Bielefeld brach er jedoch aufgrund vermeintlicher Prüfungsangst vor der Diplom-Vorprüfung nach 14 Semestern ab.

Seit dem 30. Dezember 2016 ist Casper mit dem Model Lisa Andrea Volz verheiratet. Die Hochzeit fand in der Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas statt.

Karriere

Musikalische Anfänge

Casper wurde durch einen Freund angeregt, an verschiedenen Freestyle-Veranstaltungen teilzunehmen. Er war an verschiedenen Studioaufnahmen beteiligt, wobei er den Rapper Abroo kennenlernte. Gemeinsam mit ihm und dem Rapper Separate gründete er die Gruppe Kinder des Zorns. Neben den Kinder-des-Zorns-Aufnahmen unterstützten sich die Mitglieder auch gegenseitig auf ihren Solo-Veröffentlichungen.

Über Separates Label Buckwheats Music erschien 2004 das gemeinsame Kinder-des-Zorns-Album Rap Art War, welches die einzige Veröffentlichung des Trios blieb. Aufgrund interner Differenzen trennte sich die Gruppe. Casper suchte sich mithilfe eines kurzen Gastspiels im Metalcore mit seiner dort gegründeten Band A Fear Called Treason ein neues Projekt. Anschließend war er Mitbegründer der Hardcore-Band Not Now Not Ever, die mit ihm eine EP veröffentlichte.

Zurück im Genre Hip-Hop, veröffentlichte er 2006 das Mixtape Die Welt hört mich über das Label 667 – One More Than the Devil. In den darauf folgenden zwei Jahren tourte Casper durch Deutschland. Am 9. Mai 2008 erschien sein erstes Soloalbum Hin zur Sonne beim Label 667, an dem der Mainzer Shuko als ausführender Produzent beteiligt war. Für Hin zur Sonne nahm Casper unter anderem Stücke mit den Rappern Prinz Pi und Kollegah auf.

Auf der limitierten exklusiven MZEE-Edition des Albums Freiheit von Curse ist Casper neben Kool Savas, Olli Banjo und F.R. auf einem der Bonussongs zu hören. Die MZEE-Edition war bereits vor dem eigentlichen Veröffentlichungstermin ausverkauft.

Im Winter 2008/09 begleitete Casper den Rapper Prinz Pi auf dessen Neopunk-Tournee durch Deutschland. 2009 gewann Casper mit Hin zur Sonne den MZEE-Award für das beste Album 2008.

Weiterer Werdegang ab 2009
Im Februar 2009 unterschrieb Casper einen Vertrag beim Label Selfmade Records und verließ sein altes Label. Gemeinsam mit den anderen Rappern des Labels Kollegah, Shiml und Favorite steuerte er in der Folge die Beiträge für den Labelsampler Chronik 2 bei, der Platz 15 der deutschen Albumcharts erreichen konnte. Am 31. Oktober trat er neben Hip-Hop-Musikern wie Kool Savas, Olli Banjo und Marteria bei der Juice Jam 09 im Münchner Backstage auf.

Im Oktober 2010 wurde Caspers Vertrag mit Selfmade Records aufgelöst; er unterschrieb einen Vertrag beim Plattenlabel Four Music. Das Verhältnis zu seinem ehemaligen Label wird als gut beschrieben; es folgten beispielsweise ein Feature auf Kollegahs Album King und ein gemeinsamer Auftritt von Casper und Kollegah auf dem Splash-Festival am 13. Juli 2013.

Am 8. Juli 2011 erschien sein zweites Album XOXO, welches in der ersten Verkaufswoche auf Platz 1 der Charts einstieg und für das er im Frühjahr 2012 mit einer Goldenen Schallplatte sowie im Herbst 2013 mit einer Platin-Schallplatte ausgezeichnet wurde.

Am 12. April 2012 erschien zum Record Store Day die Kraftklub-Single Songs für Liam als Vinyl in einer Version mit Casper. Die Auflage war limitiert auf 700 Stück.

Casper trat 2012, 2014, 2015 und 2017 beim Hurricane Festival auf.

Am 2. August 2013 erschien die erste Single aus dem Album Hinterland mit dem Titel Im Ascheregen. Das Video zur Single wurde einen Tag vor Veröffentlichung auf der offiziellen Homepage bereitgestellt und am 25. August wurde der Titel (gemäß eigener Aussage) erstmals an den Winterthurer Musikfestwochen live gespielt. Seine dazugehörige Hinterland Club Tour im Oktober 2013 war innerhalb von wenigen Stunden ausverkauft. Das Album Hinterland wurde im Oktober 2013 mit einer Goldenen Schallplatte ausgezeichnet und erreichte im Juli 2014 Platin-Status.

Im Jahr 2016 wurde die Single Krumme Symphonie von Bosse veröffentlicht, an der Casper mitwirkte.

Seit Ende 2015 tritt Casper auch unter dem Namen Lil Creep als Teil des Trap-Trios Gloomy Boyz in Erscheinung und hat bereits eine EP veröffentlicht.

Am 1. September 2017 erschien sein Album Lang lebe der Tod.

Auf dem Kosmonaut Festival 2018 haben Casper und Marteria ihr Kollaboalbum 1982 angekündigt, welches am 31. August 2018 erschienen ist.

Auf dem am 27. April 2019 erschienenen Album Verde, von Marsimoto, hat Casper ein Feature unter dem Namen "Friendly Ghost".

Am 31. Mai 2019 begannen Materia und Casper ihre gemeinsame Tour mit dem Titel "Champions Sounds Open Air" auf der Expo Plaza in Hannover, während der sie im Sommer 2019 auf verschiedenen Festivals und bei Open-Air-Konzerten auftraten.

Am 25. Februar 2022 erschien das Album Alles war schön und nichts tat weh, das sich ebenfalls auf Platz 1 der Charts platzieren konnte.

Musikalische Entwicklung und Rezeption
Casper besitzt eine auffällig raue Rapstimme. Sie ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass er früher bei Punk- und Hardcore-Bands als Sänger ohne Übung screamte und so seine Stimmbänder dauerhaft schädigte. Eine ihm von seinem Arzt nahegelegte Operation lehnt er ab.

Thematisch finden sich in seiner Musik häufig autobiographische Elemente wieder, etwa in dem Stück Hundeleben, das seine Probleme bei der Entwicklung zum Vollzeitmusiker thematisiert. Dabei wird er in der Deutschrap-Szene häufig für seine emotionalen Texte kritisiert und abwertend als "Emo-Rapper" bezeichnet, eine Bezeichnung, die er mittlerweile gelegentlich selbstironisch auch verwendet.

Vor Veröffentlichung des Albums XOXO wurde Caspers Musik 2011 von zeit.de als ein Gegenentwurf zu dem Gangsta-Rap von Musikern wie Bushido und Sido rezensiert, der deutschem Rap als "intelligenter Rap" Perspektiven aufzeigen könne. Vom 2013er Album Hinterland schrieb man später, es sei mehr Gitarrenrock als Rapmusik.

Diskografie

Trivia
 Der Name Casper stammt von dem gleichnamigen Geist aus dem Film Casper. Sein US-amerikanischer Vater gab ihm den Namen aufgrund seiner hellen Haut, die auch im Sommer nicht braun wurde.
 Casper ist Fan von Arminia Bielefeld, für die er aus diesem Grund den Track Eines Tages zu einem Fansampler beigesteuert hat.
 2012 fungierte Casper als Hauptgewinn des 1 Live-Schulduells. Die Siegerschule, das Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, gewann ein exklusives Konzert mit ihm an der eigenen Schule.
 Im Januar 2012 zeigte Arte eine Folge Durch die Nacht mit …, in der Casper Lena Meyer-Landrut an ausgewählte Orte in Berlin führte.
 Am 30. August 2013 veröffentlichte das Magazin jetzt.de der Süddeutschen Zeitung ein Quiz, bei dem Auszüge aus Texten von Casper und Roland Kaiser zu erraten waren. Durch diesen Vergleich fühlten sich Casper und sein Management "diffamiert" und verweigerten dem Magazin sogar die Freigabe eines vorher geführten Interviews.
 Am 1. Februar 2018 war er zusammen mit Jürgen von der Lippe im Blind-Date-Podcast "Talk-O-Mat" auf Spotify zu hören.
 Casper übersetzte für das Album Viva the Underdogs der australische Metalcore-Band Parkway Drive drei Lieder ins deutsche und übernahm auf dem Titel Schattenboxen auch einige deutschsprachige Rappassagen, die er selbst in Anlehnung an den eigentlichen Text schreiben durfte.
 Für das Videospiel Accounting nahm Casper 2017 gemeinsam mit Rick-and-Morty-Autor Justin Roiland, dem Rapper Bones sowie dem Produzenten Silkersoft den Song WhosThatInTheTree auf. Casper rappt in dem Song auf Englisch und aus der Sicht eines Baumes.

Auszeichnungen
 2011: 1 Live Krone (Bestes Album)
 2012: 1 Live Krone (Bester Live-Act)
 2012: Echo Pop in der Kategorie HipHop/Urban
 2013: 1 Live Krone (Bestes Album)
 2013: 1 Live Krone (Bester Künstler)
 2016: Preis für Popkultur (Lieblingslied)
 2017: Juice-Awards in der Kategorie Bester Live-Act
 2017: Preis für Popkultur (Lieblingsvideo)
 2018: 1 Live Krone (Bestes Album) mit Marteria
 2018: 1 Live Krone (Bester Hip-Hop-Act) mit Marteria
 2019: 1 Live Krone (Bester Live-Act) mit Marteria

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Rapper
Rocksänger
Songwriter
Träger der 1 Live Krone
Echo-Pop-Preisträger
Musik (Bielefeld)
Pseudonym
Deutscher
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1982
Mann

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I have updated GD drop with alpha 2.
Main goal is to further progress with admin section and learn more of PW infrastructure.
This release does include one major change – Root Page support.
While you still need to use Additional Pages plugin to serve the root page, options and layout now can be populated from within GD theme.
In order to enable this feature, simply enable AP plugin and create empty home page, give it a name and check "Replace your gallery's homepage".
Once saved now you can go into GD admin area and Enable Root Page support, specify parameters and save. At that point content of Home page would be populated using specified parameters.


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Мария Альба (, урожд. Мария Касахуана Мартинес (); 19 марта 1910, Барселона — 26 октября 1999, Сан-Диего, Калифорния) — американская актриса испанского происхождения.

Биография
Мария Касахуана работала телефонисткой в Барселоне, пока не выиграла конкурс красоты, проводимый кинокомпанией Fox. В 1927 году Мария участвовала в международном конкурсе красоты в Техасе, представляя на нём Испанию. После этого она переехала в США, выучила английский, взяла псевдоним Мария Альба и стала сниматься в кино. За свою недолгую голливудскую карьеру она снялась в 25 художественных фильмах, начиная с «Придорожного заведения» в 1928 году и заканчивая «Золотом великого бога» в 1935 году. Её наиболее заметной ролью является роль Субботы в фильме «Мистер Робинзон Крузо» (1932), в котором она сыграла вместе с Дугласом Фэрбенксом. В 1940-х годах Мария снялась в двух испаноязычных фильмах.

9 июля 1950 года вышла замуж за Ричарда Бёрка, в этом браке родилось трое детей.

Примечания

Ссылки

Киноактрисы США


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Austal USA targets steel and repair markets
Ken Hocke
Austal USA is moving into steel manufacturing and repair. Austal USA photo
Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., has been a prolific builder of aluminum fast warships for the Navy for two decades. From its humble beginnings in the late 1990s, the yard has blossomed into a world-class shipbuilder, primarily on two Navy contracts — the 421'6"x103.7' Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) and the 338'x93'x12' expeditionary fast transport (EPF) vessel.
A recent visit to Austal USA's 700,000-sq.-ft. module manufacturing facility (MMF) brought me to a modern, hyper-technological facility with a production line that produces a ship that's 85% complete when it completes its trip across the building.
"There's no losing work because of weather delays here," said Mike Bell, senior vice president of operations. "My workforce is very young, and we run a lean shipyard."
Bell's office is not on the other side of the campus in a glassed-in office building right out of Silicon Valley. It's right there in the MMF. "Anyone can come to my office any time to discuss whatever needs to be discussed," said Bell. "I want the people who work here to feel they can come to me with whatever problem arises."
Once the modules leave the MMF they are transported to the vessel assembly bays using multi-axle transporters capable of lifting modules weighing over 400 tons and measuring up to 120'.
The only catch was putting ships in the water using someone else's drydocks. Getting the shipyard its own drydocks would solve that problem.
Austal USA enjoys a close relationship with the city of Mobile, the surrounding counties and the state of Alabama. They scratch each-others backs one might say. With success like they've found in the aluminum boatbuilding business and room to grow physically, why not branch out into the steel manufacturing business and the repair business — catch lightning in a bottle again. And that's exactly what shipyard officials are doing.
Following the acquisition of additional waterfront property along the Mobile River in September 2020, Austal USA quickly established a ship repair facility that got an immediate positive response and came with a 692'x122', 20,000-ton certified Panamax-class floating drydock.
"Almost immediately after word got out Austal USA had purchased the additional waterfront property, we were inundated with calls from commercial captains looking to return to Mobile to have their ships serviced," said Bell.
In addition to the drydock, Austal's acquisition included 15 acres of waterfront property spanning almost 3,000 linear feet of waterfront pier space, a 300,000-sq.-ft. outside fabrication area, and 100,000 sq. ft. of covered fabrication facilities all just 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
Unlike the aluminum MMF and the new steel MMF under construction, the Austal West Campus repair facility is located across the Mobile River from the 165-acre corporate headquarters providing access to deep water berthing for vessels up to 1,000', manufacturing capabilities that include a friction stir welder, CNC machines, CNC cutting tables, and a carpenter shop, machine shop and electrical and pipe shops. The repair facility also has heavy-lifting capability with mobile cranes, overhead cranes and wing wall cranes that travel the length of the 668' (length on blocks) drydock.
The new repair facility is part of the old Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. property.
Harley Combs, Austal's West Campus director, said the first order of business was to get the place cleaned up and organized.
"We hauled so much trash out of this yard that at one time I was afraid Mike (Bell) was going to stop paying for the trucks that were hauling it all away," said Combs. "We did all this inhouse. We didn't use any subcontractors. You won't recognize this place when you see what we're going to do with it."
In the meantime, they're open for business. The services provided by Austal's Mobile ship repair operation range from conversions and upgrades to advanced ship repair. The machine shop and fabrication areas are fully equipped with overhead cranes, lathes, and CNC plasma cutters. Other technical services offered to the company's service clients include full-service detail design capability, 3-D modeling, field engineering support and dimensional accuracy control.
In late March, Austal USA broke ground on its $100 million steel production assembly line facility right next to its aluminum MMF. Plans are to start steel production in April 2022. The addition of steel capability is designed to keep Austal USA as a major contributor to the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base.
During World War II, residents of Mobile built steel Liberty ships that were critical to the war effort. In the coming years, Austal will look to build and deliver steel ships needed by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy.
Austal USA will bring its proven lean manufacturing processes and facility design to the steel shipbuilding market, shipyard officials said. These processes have helped deliver 24 ships to the Navy in the last nine years.
The Navy was listening.
The military branch awarded Austal USA a $144 million, two-ship towing, salvage, and rescue ship (T-ATS) detailed design and construction contract Oct. 5. The contract award marks the first steel new ship construction program for the shipyard.
The award follows the Navy's $3.6 million T-ATS functional design contract awarded to the shipyard in June.
"We'll be the only shipyard that can build aluminum and steel combatants," said Bell. "I'm cutting steel April 1."
T-ATS will provide ocean-going tug, salvage, and rescue capabilities to support U.S. fleet operations and will be a multimission common hull platform capable of towing heavy ships. These ships will be able to support current missions, including oil spill response, humanitarian assistance, and wide area search and surveillance. The platform also enables future capability initiatives like modular payloads with hotel services and appropriate interfaces.
The T-ATS award is one of several steel shipbuilding programs the company is pursuing as it diversifies its capabilities. Austal USA previously announced it submitted a bid to build the U.S. Coast Guard's Offshore Patrol Cutter and continues to execute a Light Amphibious Warship concept studies and preliminary design contract for the Navy and Marine Corps. Austal's new steel line and facility expansion also positions it well to be the follow-on Frigate yard for the U.S. Navy.
"We plan on being here a very long time," said Bell.
Ken Hocke has been the senior editor of WorkBoat since 1999. He was the associate editor of WorkBoat from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, he was the editor of the Daily Shipping Guide, a transportation daily in New Orleans. He has written for other publications including The Times-Picayune. He graduated from Louisiana State University with an arts and sciences degree, with a concentration in English, in 1978.
Austal is adding a steel assembly line to the company's module manufacturing facility marking a major addition to the company's capabilities. Austal USA photo
Austal USA named Mobile chamber's manufacturer of the year
Acceptance Trials for LCS 30 were completed in early November demonstrating to the Navy the successful operation of the ship's major systems and equipment. Austal USA photo
Navy takes delivery of another littoral combat ship
The new floating drydock, optimized to efficiently dock small surface combatants and similar sized ships, will be the centerpiece of the new repair facility. Austal USA photo
Austal USA orders new floating drydock for San Diego repair facility


Looking for some general hadware advice..
Does slmodem really support V.44?
NVIDIA FC6 System Lockup --> HELP.
IrDA on FC6 and zd7000?
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livna nvidia driver's not available??
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How to Install hp-scanjet-4070-photosmart scanner on usb.
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How many CPUs it has?
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Dualo Head -- but using seperate cards, is it possible?
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We couldn't have asked for a better afternoon for our Sharing for Peace walk. There was a glorious bright sun at this very special spring time of the year. Green leaves were appearing on the trees and there were beautiful primroses and bluebells to be seen.
We commenced our walk at Tresillian and made our way towards the Tresillian river estuary. We had our first reading on Peace from the Baha'i faith with the splendid backdrop of the river. We continued until an open area looking over the river and followed readings from the Buddhist and Christian faiths. We had two young people as part of the group who particularly enjoyed jumping in the puddles and one individual in the group was an avid birdwatcher who showed us on his telescope shell-ducks in the distance.
Along a few more steps and then readings were read from the Pagan, Jewish and Hindu faith communities. If one closed your eyes sometimes it would be difficult to perceive which reading of faith came from each specific faith. Close to the village of St Clement's we had our reading from the Muslim faith as well as a reading from the Unitarians.
Then there was a very special treat in store for us at St Clement's village with a visit to Riverside Cottage which was open for the afternoon for charity as part of the National Garden Scheme. The small beautiful cottage garden at the front led onto a large back garden set into the hillside which had lovely views to the river. Also there were cups of tea and cake served which was very gratefully received.
Time to set back on our return walk with our final reading from Paul Haines who last year completed a walk for Peace from Rome to Jerusalem. He read moving text from a Palestinian Christian who had a dream for Peace in his land and surrounding countries.
We continued back along the footpath and shared conversations with new friends and a good time was had by all.
Keep an eye open for our next walk which will in September when we shall be walking some of the St Michael's Way in west Cornwall.