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So now we know how it ends. Batman retires and Christopher Nolan's trilogy, which began with
the magnificent Batman Begins, draws to a majestic close. I've been a Batman fan almost from the time I learnt how to read and have loyally followed the character
through good (Frank Miller's re-invigoration of the legend; the first Tim Burton movie; Nolan's Batman Begins; the death of that nasty little creep, Jason Todd who was the second Robin etc.) and bad (the 1960s TV show; Batman and Robin, possibly the worst movie in the history of cinema; and the introduction of Aunt Harriet as a character in the Wayne household). But never has the myth of The Batman seemed as potent as it does now, after Nolan's trilogy.
Spoiler alert: if you have not seen The Dark Knight Rises and intend to see it, then you should stop reading here lest I give away too much.
There are broadly two kinds of Batman fans: those who know him from the comic book and those who knew him from movies and TV. Even within those categories, there are subdivisions. If you liked the Batman TV show, then you are probably not considered cool by fans of the later movies. If you liked the Sixties and Seventies comics when Batman and Robin came across as a pair of boy scouts (or like scout master and scout), then 'real' comic fans don't see you as cool. If you like the graphic novels that have populated the Batman universe over the last two decades, then you are so cool that you might as well be a nerd. (The line between fanatical graphic novel fans and geeks is a thin one.)
I'm not sure which of these categories and sub-categories I fit into. I got into Batman through the Sixties comic books and though they seem pretty lame now (at one stage there was a whole Batman family of Batwoman, Batgirl, Batmite and even Bat-Hound), they appealed to kids of my age. And many of the elements that we thrilled to: Batman's secret identity as playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne, the Batmobile, the Batcave and such villains as the Joker and Catwoman have stood the test of time.
What I did not know, when I first read the Sixties comics was that they were sanitized takes on the original Batman. Created in May 1939 as a masked avenger along the lines of Zorro and the Phantom (who predates Batman and was clearly an inspiration), the character was first called The Bat-Man, tended to appear only at night, was on bad terms with the cops, wore a mask as much to avoid the police as to protect the people he loved, and had no hesitation in dispatching criminals to their death.
But within a year, DC Comics, had begun to soften The Bat-Man by giving him a young sidekick called Robin. And soon, when Batman's original creator Bob Kane failed to come up with enough comics, a platoon of new writers and artists, each of whom had his own vision of the character, took over: Dick Sprang, Carmine Infantino, Mort Sheskin, Jim Mooney etc. Almost as influential as Kane himself were writer Bill Finger and artist Jerry Robinson who created the Joker. Kane, however, insisted that his byline always appear and was reluctant to share credit.
Even in this softer form, Batman went on to become an international rage, was featured in two movies in the 1940s and got his own hit TV show in the 1960s. The dark Bat-Man of the original comics was more or less forgotten for over 40 years till Frank Miller wrote The Dark Knight Returns. This was a series of comics set outside the normal continuity which imagined a future where a middle-aged Batman came out of retirement to fight crime. In Miller's world, the public had turned against superheroes, TV was full of the same idiots debating the same issues every night. And corruption had seized control of society.
Almost all retellings of the Batman legend have drawn from Frank Miller's version of the character. The idea of a dark and dangerous Batman intrigued Hollywood and a Dark Knight movie with Mel Gibson (playing Batman as an anti-Semitic midget, presumably) was planned but never got off the ground.
"From my perspective, it is the best comic book movie ever made partly because it is tightly plotted, well-acted, and well put-together."
Eventually the project went to director Tim Burton, known for his weird and fantastic view of life. Burton took a dark Frank Miller-like Batman and placed him in an imaginatively designed Gotham City which was described in the script as looking "as if hell had erupted through the sidewalk." Because the studio was not sure that Michael Keaton (who Burton cast, against type as Batman) had enough star quality, Jack Nicholson played the main villain, the Joker, and stole the movie.
Burton made one more Batman-in-a-weird-Gotham-City movie, costarring Danny DeVito as a depraved, sewer-dwelling Penguin. By then the comics had also decided to focus entirely on grown-up themes and a much darker Batman. Bane, a muscle-bound villain, was introduced and in 1995, in the long-running Knightfall series of comics, he actually beat Batman, breaking his back across his knee.
Even as the public thrilled to a darker Batman, the movies lost the plot. A new director, Joel Schumacher, made the comic book-like Batman Forever (with Val Kilmer as an excellent Batman) and then followed it up with the disastrous, campy Batman and Robin which even the casting of George Clooney as Batman could not save. That movie, as Clooney often admits, sunk the franchise.
When the Batman movie series was revived, the British director Christopher Nolan agreed to direct only after he could start afresh, wiping out memories of the last dud picture. The studio agreed and Nolan's reboot of the franchise Batman Begins starred another Brit, Christian Bale as Batman and told the story in a more realistic, matter-of-fact manner. (The movie was packed with Bit and Irish actors: Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson etc.). But Nolan went back to the idea of a Dark Knight, abandoning the comic book persona of the last two Batman pictures.
Batman Begins, a terrific movie, was followed by a film actually called The Dark Knight which most people (except me: I thought it went on for too long) regard as the finest Batman movie at least partly because Heath Ledger played a Joker who was as dark and dangerous as Bale's Batman. (Jack Nicholson had gone over-the-top with his portrayal).
But Nolan also introduced topical themes. At many levels, the Dark Knight was an allegory for the American of the post 9/11, era fighting a battle against terrorists whose motivation it could not understand. The end was morally ambiguous: Batman beats the Joker but pays a terrible price. And serious contemporary subtext kept cropping up.
The Dark Knight Rises begins eight years after the events of The Dark Knight and freely borrows from the Frank Miller series and from Knightfall. Batman has retired. He has not been seen for eight years. The villain is Bane who wants to take over Gotham and who releases all of the city's criminals. Bane is in league with Ra's al Ghul (as in the comics), the villain from Batman Begins. There is even a reprise of the famous scene where Bane breaks Batman's back across his knee.
From my perspective, it is the best comic book movie ever made partly because it is tightly plotted, well-acted, (Anne Hathaway almost steals the picture) and well put-together. And once again, Nolan taps into America's current concerns: Wall Street is bad; Bruce Wayne is cheated out of his fortune through bogus futures trades. America is no longer the land of opportunity and the cracks beneath the surface are coming to the fore --- in this movie -- literally, right after the Star Spangled Banner is sung at a football game!
I won't give more away. But even if you have no previous interest in Batman, go and see this picture. For once, every element in the Bat pantheon is brilliantly integrated. And the end has an emotional power that is unusual for comic book pictures.
What a pity it is the last movie in this trilogy!
Mihir Shah 31 Jul 2012
Hi Vir,
You have so brilliantly captured the essence of Nolan trilogy. Compared to the other Batman movies and shows, Nolan trilogy had a sense of realism. I think the idea that anyone can be "Batman" seemed more real in these movies then previous ones.
Just wanted to share my thoughts with you.
Sambhav Jain 29 Jul 2012
The ending is an Oscar conquering one. Nolan n gang have largely been ignored at the oscars for God knows what reason, but I think with this one he has joined the legue of all-time celebrated movie-makers like the Star Wars, LoTR etc. Lucky to have seen this series play out in our time.
chhaya shetty 29 Jul 2012
Inspite of the extensive coverage in every tabloid possible, reading ur article was a walk down memory lane. Can relate to the 'seventies comics' bit when one was instantly transported into this fantasy world that was protected by this super hero, and the mask was an added attraction that only fuelled the intrigue. What a brilliantly made film! Absolutely in tune with the times, the end is perfect. This is one adored superhero who rode into the sunset with his glory intact. Thank you.


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An Evening With Jaimoe
Date	 Nov 13 , 2012 Show: 9:30PM
Join us as we celebrate an evening with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Jaimoe, in the Clive Davis Theater discussing his iconic career as a drummer and percussionist. Jaimoe first rose to prominence in the R&B world, backing for Otis Redding's tour in 1966. In 1969, he became the first recruit to join the Allman Brothers Band, blending the sounds of blues, country, jazz and rock. After critical and commercial success, Jaimoe went on to lead his own jazz-rock collective known as Jaimoe's Jasssz Band. Jaimoe became a recipient of the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and is recognized as one the early pioneers responsible for the newly named genre, jam bands, whose musical improvisation cross music genre boundaries. Hosted by Vice President of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares, Scott Goldman, Jaimoe will be performing live (with his Jasssz Band) selections from their debut studio album Renaissance Man and taking questions from the audience.
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Wales camp will remain tight says hooker Matthew Rees
MATTHEW REES has no doubt the Wales squad will "stay tight" in their quest to avoid this season's Six Nations campaign unravelling with indecent haste.
Wales, on the back of a 30-22 home defeat by Ireland, next tackle pre-tournament favourites France in Paris, where the current Six Nations champions have won just three times since 1975.
Defeat at Stade de France would leave Wales not only out of the title running, but heading towards possible wooden spoon territory with Italy and Scotland – both away – and England awaiting them.
"As players, we are the ones who have got to react. We've been there before and done it (won in Paris)," Wales hooker and former captain Rees said.
"Confidence has been hit by this (Ireland) result, but when we look back at the video, and especially the second-half with the chances we created, as long as we can create those opportunities and finish them there is no reason why we can't go out to France and get a result.
"We proved how good a team we can be, and we have got to stay tight. I am sure this team will. We didn't take all our opportunities. We scored a few tries in the second half, but it wasn't enough.
"A slow start cost us, those first 20 minutes, but the pleasing thing was we came back in the second half and gave ourselves a good shot of getting a result, but in international rugby you can't afford to give 20 points away and expect to win.
"We have got to take this on the chin and make sure we get ready for France. We've got a tough schedule ahead of us in terms of three games on the road."
Wales were punished for a dreadful start after they fell, rather than blasted, out of the Six Nations starting blocks.
In two of their last three home games – against New Zealand and Ireland – they trailed 33-0 and 30-3 before stirring into action.
"We were our own worst enemies," Rees added. "We know how good a team Ireland can be, and after they scored a couple of early tries it was always going to be tough to come back from.
"We created a lot of opportunities in the second half, but didn't quite finish them. The most important thing is we don't dwell on this too much and look forward to France."
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Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). Landscape in the Roman Campagna, 1836. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/8 x 33 7/8 in. (41 x 86 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange, 1991.214 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1991.214_SL3.jpg)
Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). Landscape in the Roman Campagna, 1836. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/8 x 33 7/8 in. (41 x 86 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange, 1991.214 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1991.214_reference_SL1.jpg)
Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). Landscape in the Roman Campagna, 1836. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/8 x 33 7/8 in. (41 x 86 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange, 1991.214 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CONS.1991.214_1991_xrs_detail01.jpg)
Landscape in the Roman Campagna
In this panoramic view of sky and earth, Daubigny explores the shifting patterns of light and shade that enliven the landscape as darkened clouds move across the sky. He further enhances the sensation of movement by cropping the cloud line, suggesting that the billowing masses glide beyond the picture plane and into the viewer's space. Executed early in Daubigny's career, this work, with its hard-edged contours and seamless surface, reveals the painter's training in Neoclassical landscape. Later works by Daubigny on display in these galleries demonstrate his move toward the gestural handling of naturalistic landscape painting, and away from the idealization seen here.
ARTIST Charles-François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878
MEDIUM Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Place Made: Europe
DIMENSIONS 16 1/8 x 33 7/8 in. (41 x 86 cm) Frame: 21 x 40 in. (53.3 x 101.6 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed lower left: "Daubigny"
COLLECTIONS European Art
In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting
Realm of Marvels: Building Collections for the Future
About Time: 700 Years of European Paintings
ACCESSION NUMBER 1991.214
CREDIT LINE Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange
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CAPTION Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). Landscape in the Roman Campagna, 1836. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/8 x 33 7/8 in. (41 x 86 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange, 1991.214 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1991.214_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 1991.214_SL3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
19th century French Painting
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Two years earlier (2014) there was a corroborative study showing individuals with the lowest blood concentration of vitamin A were 265% more likely to experience a fatal or non-fatal heart attack.
Ignoring vitamin A is good for the cardiologist and bad for the patient. Pay heed to the science which strongly points to vitamin A as being both preventive and therapeutic for anyone who wants to avoid coronary artery disease or who has coronary artery disease and wants to avoid further treatments and heart damage.
Beta carotene converts to vitamin A when consumed with fats in the diet. However, this conversion from beta carotene to vitamin A may not be efficient. About half of the population has a gene variant that reduces the amount of vitamin A we get from beta carotene by 30-70%.
Conversion of beta carotene-rich plant foods to vitamin A varies by 8-fold from individual to individual. Researchers conclude beta carotene may not be a good vitamin A source.


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President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
July 01, 2010 | 34:34 | Public Domain
President Obama calls for both parties to come together to fix a broken immigration system and implement comprehensive reform that demands accountability from government, from businesses, and from individuals.
Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
11:12 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Everyone please have a seat. Thank you very much. Let me thank Pastor Hybels from near my hometown in Chicago, who took time off his vacation to be here today. We are blessed to have him.
I want to thank President Neil Kerwin and our hosts here at American University; acknowledge my outstanding Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, and members of my administration; all the members of Congress -- Hilda deserves applause. (Applause.) To all the members of Congress, the elected officials, faith and law enforcement, labor, business leaders and immigration advocates who are here today -- thank you for your presence.
I want to thank American University for welcoming me to the campus once again. Some may recall that the last time I was here I was joined by a dear friend, and a giant of American politics, Senator Edward Kennedy. (Applause.) Teddy's not here right now, but his legacy of civil rights and health care and worker protections is still with us.
I was a candidate for President that day, and some may recall I argued that our country had reached a tipping point; that after years in which we had deferred our most pressing problems, and too often yielded to the politics of the moment, we now faced a choice: We could squarely confront our challenges with honesty and determination, or we could consign ourselves and our children to a future less prosperous and less secure.
I believed that then and I believe it now. And that's why, even as we've tackled the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, even as we've wound down the war in Iraq and refocused our efforts in Afghanistan, my administration has refused to ignore some of the fundamental challenges facing this generation.
We launched the most aggressive education reforms in decades, so that our children can gain the knowledge and skills they need to compete in a 21st century global economy.
We have finally delivered on the promise of health reform -– reform that will bring greater security to every American, and that will rein in the skyrocketing costs that threaten families, businesses and the prosperity of our nation.
We're on the verge of reforming an outdated and ineffective set of rules governing Wall Street -– to give greater power to consumers and prevent the reckless financial speculation that led to this severe recession.
And we're accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy by significantly raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars and trucks, and by doubling our use of renewable energies like wind and solar power -- steps that have the potential to create whole new industries and hundreds of thousands of new jobs in America.
So, despite the forces of the status quo, despite the polarization and the frequent pettiness of our politics, we are confronting the great challenges of our times. And while this work isn't easy, and the changes we seek won't always happen overnight, what we've made clear is that this administration will not just kick the can down the road.
Immigration reform is no exception. In recent days, the issue of immigration has become once more a source of fresh contention in our country, with the passage of a controversial law in Arizona and the heated reactions we've seen across America. Some have rallied behind this new policy. Others have protested and launched boycotts of the state. And everywhere, people have expressed frustration with a system that seems fundamentally broken.
Of course, the tensions around immigration are not new. On the one hand, we've always defined ourselves as a nation of immigrants -- a nation that welcomes those willing to embrace America's precepts. Indeed, it is this constant flow of immigrants that helped to make America what it is. The scientific breakthroughs of Albert Einstein, the inventions of Nikola Tesla, the great ventures of Andrew Carnegie's U.S. Steel and Sergey Brin's Google, Inc. -– all this was possible because of immigrants.
And then there are the countless names and the quiet acts that never made the history books but were no less consequential in building this country -- the generations who braved hardship and great risk to reach our shores in search of a better life for themselves and their families; the millions of people, ancestors to most of us, who believed that there was a place where they could be, at long last, free to work and worship and live their lives in peace.
So this steady stream of hardworking and talented people has made America the engine of the global economy and a beacon of hope around the world. And it's allowed us to adapt and thrive in the face of technological and societal change. To this day, America reaps incredible economic rewards because we remain a magnet for the best and brightest from across the globe. Folks travel here in the hopes of being a part of a culture of entrepreneurship and ingenuity, and by doing so they strengthen and enrich that culture. Immigration also means we have a younger workforce -– and a faster-growing economy -- than many of our competitors. And in an increasingly interconnected world, the diversity of our country is a powerful advantage in global competition.
Just a few weeks ago, we had an event of small business owners at the White House. And one business owner was a woman named Prachee Devadas who came to this country, became a citizen, and opened up a successful technology services company. When she started, she had just one employee. Today, she employs more than a hundred people. This past April, we held a naturalization ceremony at the White House for members of our armed forces. Even though they were not yet citizens, they had enlisted. One of them was a woman named Perla Ramos -- born and raised in Mexico, came to the United States shortly after 9/11, and she eventually joined the Navy. And she said, "I take pride in our flag and the history that forged this great nation and the history we write day by day."
These women, and men and women across this country like them, remind us that immigrants have always helped to build and defend this country -– and that being an American is not a matter of blood or birth. It's a matter of faith. It's a matter of fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear. That's what makes us unique. That's what makes us strong. Anybody can help us write the next great chapter in our history.
Now, we can't forget that this process of immigration and eventual inclusion has often been painful. Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentments towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic upheaval. Our founding was rooted in the notion that America was unique as a place of refuge and freedom for, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "oppressed humanity." But the ink on our Constitution was barely dry when, amidst conflict, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which placed harsh restrictions of those suspected of having foreign allegiances. A century ago, immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, other European countries were routinely subjected to rank discrimination and ugly stereotypes. Chinese immigrants were held in detention and deported from Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay. They didn't even get to come in.
So the politics of who is and who is not allowed to enter this country, and on what terms, has always been contentious. And that remains true today. And it's made worse by a failure of those of us in Washington to fix a broken immigration system.
To begin with, our borders have been porous for decades. Obviously, the problem is greatest along our Southern border, but it's not restricted to that part of the country. In fact, because we don't do a very good job of tracking who comes in and out of the country as visitors, large numbers avoid immigration laws simply by overstaying their visas.
The result is an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The overwhelming majority of these men and women are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Many settle in low-wage sectors of the economy; they work hard, they save, they stay out of trouble. But because they live in the shadows, they're vulnerable to unscrupulous businesses who pay them less than the minimum wage or violate worker safety rules -– thereby putting companies who follow those rules, and Americans who rightly demand the minimum wage or overtime, at an unfair [dis]advantage. Crimes go unreported as victims and witnesses fear coming forward. And this makes it harder for the police to catch violent criminals and keep neighborhoods safe. And billions in tax revenue are lost each year because many undocumented workers are paid under the table.
More fundamentally, the presence of so many illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally. Indeed, after years of patchwork fixes and ill-conceived revisions, the legal immigration system is as broken as the borders. Backlogs and bureaucracy means the process can take years. While an applicant waits for approval, he or she is often forbidden from visiting the United States –- which means even husbands and wives may be forced to spend many years apart. High fees and the need for lawyers may exclude worthy applicants. And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to create jobs on our shores, we train our competition.
In sum, the system is broken. And everybody knows it. Unfortunately, reform has been held hostage to political posturing and special-interest wrangling -– and to the pervasive sentiment in Washington that tackling such a thorny and emotional issue is inherently bad politics.
Just a few years ago, when I was a senator, we forged a bipartisan coalition in favor of comprehensive reform. Under the leadership of Senator Kennedy, who had been a longtime champion of immigration reform, and Senator John McCain, we worked across the aisle to help pass a bipartisan bill through the Senate. But that effort eventually came apart. And now, under the pressures of partisanship and election-year politics, many of the 11 Republican senators who voted for reform in the past have now backed away from their previous support.
Into this breach, states like Arizona have decided to take matters into their own hands. Given the levels of frustration across the country, this is understandable. But it is also ill conceived. And it's not just that the law Arizona passed is divisive -– although it has fanned the flames of an already contentious debate. Laws like Arizona's put huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable. It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets. It makes it difficult for people here illegally to report crimes -– driving a wedge between communities and law enforcement, making our streets more dangerous and the jobs of our police officers more difficult.
And you don't have to take my word for this. You can speak to the police chiefs and others from law enforcement here today who will tell you the same thing.
These laws also have the potential of violating the rights of innocent American citizens and legal residents, making them subject to possible stops or questioning because of what they look like or how they sound. And as other states and localities go their own ways, we face the prospect that different rules for immigration will apply in different parts of the country -– a patchwork of local immigration rules where we all know one clear national standard is needed.
Our task then is to make our national laws actually work -– to shape a system that reflects our values as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. And that means being honest about the problem, and getting past the false debates that divide the country rather than bring it together.
For example, there are those in the immigrants' rights community who have argued passionately that we should simply provide those who are [here] illegally with legal status, or at least ignore the laws on the books and put an end to deportation until we have better laws. And often this argument is framed in moral terms: Why should we punish people who are just trying to earn a living?
I recognize the sense of compassion that drives this argument, but I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both unwise and unfair. It would suggest to those thinking about coming here illegally that there will be no repercussions for such a decision. And this could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. And it would also ignore the millions of people around the world who are waiting in line to come here legally.
Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons, the 11 million who broke these laws should be held accountable.
Now, if the majority of Americans are skeptical of a blanket amnesty, they are also skeptical that it is possible to round up and deport 11 million people. They know it's not possible. Such an effort would be logistically impossible and wildly expensive. Moreover, it would tear at the very fabric of this nation -– because immigrants who are here illegally are now intricately woven into that fabric. Many have children who are American citizens. Some are children themselves, brought here by their parents at a very young age, growing up as American kids, only to discover their illegal status when they apply for college or a job. Migrant workers -– mostly here illegally -– have been the labor force of our farmers and agricultural producers for generations. So even if it was possible, a program of mass deportations would disrupt our economy and communities in ways that most Americans would find intolerable.
Now, once we get past the two poles of this debate, it becomes possible to shape a practical, common-sense approach that reflects our heritage and our values. Such an approach demands accountability from everybody -– from government, from businesses and from individuals.
Government has a threshold responsibility to secure our borders. That's why I directed my Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano -- a former border governor -- to improve our enforcement policy without having to wait for a new law.
Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history. Let me repeat that: We have more boots on the ground on the Southwest border than at any time in our history. We doubled the personnel assigned to Border Enforcement Security Task Forces. We tripled the number of intelligence analysts along the border. For the first time, we've begun screening 100 percent of southbound rail shipments. And as a result, we're seizing more illegal guns, cash and drugs than in years past. Contrary to some of the reports that you see, crime along the border is down. And statistics collected by Customs and Border Protection reflect a significant reduction in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally.
So the bottom line is this: The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years. That doesn't mean we don't have more work to do. We have to do that work, but it's important that we acknowledge the facts. Even as we are committed to doing what's necessary to secure our borders, even without passage of the new law, there are those who argue that we should not move forward with any other elements of reform until we have fully sealed our borders. But our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols. It won't work. Our borders will not be secure as long as our limited resources are devoted to not only stopping gangs and potential terrorists, but also the hundreds of thousands who attempt to cross each year simply to find work.
That's why businesses must be held accountable if they break the law by deliberately hiring and exploiting undocumented workers. We've already begun to step up enforcement against the worst workplace offenders. And we're implementing and improving a system to give employers a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally. But we need to do more. We cannot continue just to look the other way as a significant portion of our economy operates outside the law. It breeds abuse and bad practices. It punishes employers who act responsibly and undercuts American workers. And ultimately, if the demand for undocumented workers falls, the incentive for people to come here illegally will decline as well.
Finally, we have to demand responsibility from people living here illegally. They must be required to admit that they broke the law. They should be required to register, pay their taxes, pay a fine, and learn English. They must get right with the law before they can get in line and earn their citizenship -- not just because it is fair, not just because it will make clear to those who might wish to come to America they must do so inside the bounds of the law, but because this is how we demonstrate that being -- what being an American means. Being a citizen of this country comes not only with rights but also with certain fundamental responsibilities. We can create a pathway for legal status that is fair, reflective of our values, and works.
Now, stopping illegal immigration must go hand in hand with reforming our creaky system of legal immigration. We've begun to do that, by eliminating a backlog in background checks that at one point stretched back almost a year. That's just for the background check. People can now track the status of their immigration applications by email or text message. We've improved accountability and safety in the detention system. And we've stemmed the increases in naturalization fees. But here, too, we need to do more. We should make it easier for the best and the brightest to come to start businesses and develop products and create jobs.
Our laws should respect families following the rules -– instead of splitting them apart. We need to provide farms a legal way to hire the workers they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn legal status. And we should stop punishing innocent young people for the actions of their parents by denying them the chance to stay here and earn an education and contribute their talents to build the country where they've grown up. The DREAM Act would do this, and that's why I supported this bill as a state legislator and as a U.S. senator -- and why I continue to support it as president.
So these are the essential elements of comprehensive immigration reform. The question now is whether we will have the courage and the political will to pass a bill through Congress, to finally get it done. Last summer, I held a meeting with leaders of both parties, including many of the Republicans who had supported reform in the past -- and some who hadn't. I was pleased to see a bipartisan framework proposed in the Senate by Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer, with whom I met to discuss this issue. I've spoken with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to plot the way forward and meet -- and then I met with them earlier this week.
And I've spoken with representatives from a growing coalition of labor unions and business groups, immigrant advocates and community organizations, law enforcement, local government -– all who recognize the importance of immigration reform. And I've met with leaders from America's religious communities, like Pastor Hybels -- people of different faiths and beliefs, some liberal, some conservative, who nonetheless share a sense of urgency; who understand that fixing our broken immigration system is not only a political issue, not just an economic issue, but a moral imperative as well.
So we've made progress. I'm ready to move forward; the majority of Democrats are ready to move forward; and I believe the majority of Americans are ready to move forward. But the fact is, without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem. Reform that brings accountability to our immigration system cannot pass without Republican votes. That is the political and mathematical reality. The only way to reduce the risk that this effort will again falter because of politics is if members of both parties are willing to take responsibility for solving this problem once and for all.
And, yes, this is an emotional question, and one that lends itself to demagoguery. Time and again, this issue has been used to divide and inflame -– and to demonize people. And so the understandable, the natural impulse among those who run for office is to turn away and defer this question for another day, or another year, or another administration. Despite the courageous leadership in the past shown by many Democrats and some Republicans -- including, by the way, my predecessor, President Bush -– this has been the custom. That is why a broken and dangerous system that offends our most basic American values is still in place.
But I believe we can put politics aside and finally have an immigration system that's accountable. I believe we can appeal not to people's fears but to their hopes, to their highest ideals, because that's who we are as Americans. It's been inscribed on our nation's seal since we declared our independence. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one. That is what has drawn the persecuted and impoverished to our shores. That's what led the innovators and risk-takers from around the world to take a chance here in the land of opportunity. That's what has led people to endure untold hardships to reach this place called America.
One of the largest waves of immigration in our history took place little more than a century ago. At the time, Jewish people were being driven out of Eastern Europe, often escaping to the sounds of gunfire and the light from their villages burning to the ground. The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic. Once here, many made their homes in a teeming and bustling Lower Manhattan.
It was at this time that a young woman named Emma Lazarus, whose own family fled persecution from Europe generations earlier, took up the cause of these new immigrants. Although she was a poet, she spent much of her time advocating for better health care and housing for the newcomers. And inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue -- the Statue of Liberty -- which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.
Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean. She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation -– but unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire. Instead, it would signal one's arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge and freedom.
"Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand," she wrote,
A mighty woman with a torch…
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome…
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"…
"Give me your tired, and your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Let us remember these words. For it falls on each generation to ensure that that lamp -– that beacon -– continues to shine as a source of hope around the world, and a source of our prosperity here at home.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America. Thank you. (Applause.)


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There is very much confusion in the Congress party, we don't know whom to report: Preeta Harit on her resignation from Congress
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Another bad day comes from the oldest party of India ,Indian National Congress because the member of the party ,Preeta Harit gave her resignation. Indian National Congress is going through a huge political crisis which is currently happening in Punjab. In addition to this Chattisgarh might become the next station of political crisis for the oldest party and yet again an important member of the party, Preeta Harit gave her resignation.
On giving her resignation, former IRS officer Preeta Harit criticised the Indian National Congress a lot. She even questioned the top leadership of the party. On her resignation, she said "There is so much confusion in the Congress party, we don't know to whom to report and who will assign us work". Preeta Harit went on to further add " The management is really bad here. It feels like being an orphan. They didn't make use of our services. I've joined the party to work for the rights of the Dalit Bahujan community. But the party is ignoring their issues".
Since few days, the country is witnessing a Punjab political crisis or might say a Punjab Congress Crisis to be precise. Few days ago, the former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amrinder Singh submitted his resignation from the Chief Ministerial post and in his place Charanjit Singh Channi was being made the new Chief Minister of Punjab. Then on 28th September around 3 pm Navjot Singh Sidhu took on to Twitter posting his resignation letter. The political crisis for Congress is increasing day by day. It seems Chattisgarh is the next station of political crisis for Indian National Congress. Bhupesh Baghel who is the current chief minister of Chhattisgarh was being made the Chief Minister with the formula of rotation. It was mutually decided within the Congress party that Bhupesh Baghel will be the Chief Minister of Chattisgarh for the first 2.5 years of the tenure and then the lead will be taken by the current health minister of Chhattisgarh, T.S. Singh Deo. Now after the coming near of the 2.5 years, Bhupesh Baghel is not wanting to leave the Chief Ministerial post and the Bhupesh Baghel's supporters are speaking for him where is the supporters of T.S Singh Deo and is time and again reminding the higher command of Congress to follow the rotation formula.
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LI Cat Missing For 2 Years Found In Time For Christmas: 'She Is Home!'
RIVERHEAD, NY — She never stopped hoping: A woman who desperately searched for the stray cat she planned to give a home for Christmas — two years ago! — saw an incredible happy ending. Her cat was found just days ago, just in time for Christmas. Birdie went missing in […]
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RIVERHEAD, NY — She never stopped hoping: A woman who desperately searched for the stray cat she planned to give a home for Christmas — two years ago! — saw an incredible happy ending. Her cat was found just days ago, just in time for Christmas.
Birdie went missing in 2020 just a heartbeat before she was to head to her forever home two years ago, said Carolyn Lowry of Shirley. She trapped the cat, who she first found while bird-watching in Calverton, then brought her to Petco for shots and dewormer.
Birdie — whose name was originally "Mama" before Lowry heard the sweet chirping noises she made — needed to be quarantined for three weeks because Lowry has another cat. She planned to bring Birdie in for her booster shot and then, to her forever home for Christmas. There was even a pile of presents and a fish-shaped stocking waiting.
But the top came off the carrier in the Riverhead Petco parking lot and Birdie escaped.
Lowry spent the days after in a long, solitary vigil, sitting in the parking lot and driving around for up to 20 hours a day, searching.
"This is just breaking my heart," she said at the time. "I'm so worried about her."
Although there was a sighting of Birdie in the area behind Home Depot on Christmas Eve, there has been nothing for literally years.
Until now. This week, Lowry reached out to Patch joyfully: "She is home!" she said Saturday. "I am beyond happy."
Explaining the long road that led to the happiest of reunions, Lowry said, just Friday night, on her way home from work, she was thinking about her Birdie, and about how PawBoost, a database for lost pets, sent her a weekly email asking for status updates and if Birdie was still missing.
"I thought to myself, 'I can't give up hope.' So I just went to work, thinking about her. I never gave up looking. I went to several places I thought she could be, even as recently as last month," she said.
Saturday morning, while she was working overtime, Lowry got a call from an unfamiliar number, with a woman saying that she had found a cat that might be hers. A while ago, that woman's cat had gone missing and another kind person called her and said that she'd found that cat in her yard.
The caller, and the hero who'd found her cat, kept in touch. Recently, the woman who'd found the first cat, called and said, "I found a gray cat that might be yours. He's a big boy." Birdie, Lowry said, was small and a muted Tortie. The woman told her, "Oh, my God, I have her!"
Still at work, Lowry couldn't immediately talk, but the two traded photos. "I was 99 percent sure that it was Birdie. I was still skeptical because I had received several texts from people saying they had my cat, but no one did."
But after work, she drove with a friend to the woman's home and, "Lo and behold, it was her."
Birdie initially ran and hid and resisted the carrier. At home, Lowry got a crate to keep her separate from the other cat, and to help her get acclimated to the sounds and smells. "She is already pretty comfortable," she said. "She already lets the kids pet her. She comes out to eat every time they pet her and I can hear her purr from about 6 feet away," she said.
She added: "She is the most trusting cat. She took a morsel of food and a couple of treats from my and, and oh, how she purrs!"
Lowry added: "She has been gone two years and two Christmases, but she is home!"
Virginia Scudder of The North Fork Country Kids:Rescue and Preservation Through Pedagogy, was also thrilled: The cat, she said, was one of the many helped at "trap, rescue and neuter" colonies the group has helped over the years. "She was fed and loved by the workers nearby. Our rescue had her spayed and tested and vaccinated. Once you trap them, every cat becomes a little piece of you, even if you don't see them regularly. Once I found out Birdie, as she is called by Carolyn, was found, I was so happy."
Scudder added: "She was lost during the holiday season and my father, who was very sick at the time, commented that she would become a Christmas miracle — and he was right. He has been gone for a whole year now."
Recovering from shoulder surgery, Scudder can't do much right now. "But if I was able, I would have jumped so high when Carolyn told me the news."
Lowry, when Birdie was lost, was tireless in her dedication. "I've been there searching more than I have been home," she said in 2020. Physically exhausted, she had to return to her job as a police dispatcher but headed back to the parking lot to search for Birdie during every free hour.
That holiday season, and the days that followed, until now, were forever colored with sadness. "I didn't really have a Christmas," she said. "I've basically just been running back and forth, looking for my cat."
Lowry estimated she'd put about 1,000 miles on her car that first week, "just trying to find her." She waited all night, until about 3:30 a.m., hoping for a glimpse, a sign of hope.
"It's awful because she could be out there, cold and scared. She might be hungry I don't know if she found another food source. I just miss her," she said at the time.
Birdie couldn't even find her way back to the new home she was meant to have — because she'd never been there. "She doesn't know my home," Lowry said. "She only knows where she used to live, in a field."
Still, Lowry put up signs in Riverhead, hoping someone would spot Birdie. And her efforts paid off, years and tears and heartbeats of hope later.
Her voice filled with tears, Lowry spoke about the cat she adores. "She stole my heart. She was so sweet and trusting for a stray. Then I lost her in a parking lot," she said. "I just wanted her home. I wanted her to be warm and have food, and to know she's loved."
Back at home, Lowry said, the new, matching buffalo plaid stockings has waited all this time, and will be filled with the toys Birdie loves and that she never got to play with on Christmas years ago.
"I've already got toys for her in my Amazon cart," Lowry said.
"We never gave up hope no matter how devastated we were," Scudder said. Birdie was found not too far from where she was initially lost. "Miracles happen — don't forget that," Scudder said.
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It's been nearly 14 months since President Trump took office, and the media and the Washington establishment still don't understand our nation's 45th President. They continue to criticize, distort, discredit, and ignore his actions and accomplishments, but they've made little to no effort to actually understand what he's doing and the way he operates.
This has been the elites' pattern since Trump first announced his bid for the White House, and it is actually what prompted me last year to write my #1 New York Times bestselling book Understanding Trump, which was released in paperback this week.
When President Trump withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Agreement, the elites could not see how breaking with these bad agreements could possibly be good for Americans. After all, some of the Washington elites had helped draft these deals — which in the minds of the liberal media, meant these deals must be good.
When President Trump imposed direct trade measures on some foreign-made products, including solar panels, steel, and aluminum to protect US industries that were being undercut, the elites reflexively questioned his political-trade-foreign relations acumen. Seemingly, none of the them stopped to consider that President Trump's decades of success in international business may provide him with an informed opinion and worldview which are simply counter to their own.
It seems the elites simply refuse to think about the Trump presidency through any lens other than that of traditional Washington – despite the fact that President Trump has never been a part of (and represents a departure from) traditional establishment. This confused, square peg-round hole analytical approach is made worse by the fact that the elites then try to use Washington jargon to define and attack the President.
In their minds, President Trump doesn't fit the post-World War II international mold that regards the United States as the world's only real super-power that can afford to prop up all its allies – and even some of its enemies. For that, the elites claim President Trump is an isolationist.
Trump doesn't fit the traditional Republican free-trader mold because he demands that Americans must benefit from trade agreements, too. Therefore, according to the elites, he must be a protectionist.
The President didn't enter office with a team of politicos and policy wonks who had been with him through a decades-long political career, so to the elites insist the Trump Administration is inexperienced.
Finally, President Trump is not afraid to take decisive action when he's made up his mind about something, so the elites claim he is unstable.
Many Americans, who for years watched factories close and American prosperity dwindle as a result of bad multinational agreements and unfair trade deals, regard President Trump's decision to get out of the TPP and the Paris Agreement as necessary and long over-due. To them, the President has been working to break away from deals that help other countries at the expense of US success – just as any good business executive would.
Similarly, they see the President taking actions to stop foreign countries that are cheating at trade as a sign that he is defending the interests of our country abroad. That's also what good business leaders do.
In Understanding Trump, I point out that Trump defeated the media and Washington elite largely because they simply refused to understand him as a candidate. Further, they were profoundly wrong about the 2016 election because they couldn't comprehend that the American people wanted something other than the traditional Washington elites' idea of a president.


With total form deliberately leaning forward and with hands comported in the "welcoming" mudra or gesture, this figure stands upon a stylized lotus blossom composed of multiple, delicately carved petals.
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With total form deliberately leaning forward and with hands comported in the "welcoming" mudra or gesture, this figure stands upon a stylized lotus blossom composed of multiple, delicately carved petals.
This sculpture represents Amida Buddha, the lord of the Western Paradise, descending to console and to welcome a recently deceased believer into the heavenly realm. The forward-tilting posture stresses the purpose of his mission. From the second half of the thirteenth century, a new, gradually discernable Buddhist sculptural style appeared in Japan. Its features are amply present in this figure: comparative realism in the rendering of garments and body parts, unified sculpture created from the assembly of multiple carved units, use of lacquer applied over wood and linen to achieve minute detail of parts, use of crystal insets for eyes and, most lavishly, application of complex patterns of gold leaf to indicate garment designs. This figure shares structural and stylistic features with the other Kamakura period (1185-1333) Buddhist sculptures displayed in this gallery.
Three documents associated with this sculpture are instructive as to dating, style and to speculation concerning provenance. The most recent of the documents, authored by Yamaoka Seibe, an early to mid-twentieth century Japanese collector and dealer, notes that in 1956 he retained a conservator to stabilize flaking found on the cut-gold garment patterns of the statue. The second document, authored by Kawabe Kinpei in 1890 describes his disassembling the sculpture, making "minor" repairs and discovering a document within the cavity of the sculpture, the third document, a sutra dedicated to the Empress Komyo (701-760) and dated to 741. Komyo was consort to the Emperor Shomu whose central achievement was to make Nara, with the construction of Todaiji and the great Buddha, a center of Asian Buddhism. In 741 a palace conspiracy drove Komyo and Shomu from Nara for a brief period. That a sutra would be dedicated to Komyo in that same year suggests a prayer requesting safety or a thanksgiving for restoration of power. At any rate, the date seems more than coincidental. The late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century documents remark that the sculpture was in the style of the Kei School.
James T. Ulak. A Decade of Remarkable Growth: Acquisitions by the Freer and Sackler Galleries. vol. 166 no. 548 London, 2007. p. 38.
Paths to Perfection, Buddhist Art at the Freer/Sackler. Washington, D.C. pp. 64-65.
Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America. no. 39 Lexington, MA, 2018. p. 93, fig.23.


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Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei rush into the next part of the castle as they reach the final chamber where Suzaku awaits. Unknown to them Suzaku's master plan is being made - to capture Keiko. Meanwhile at the human world Keiko runs for her life as she is being chased by humans possessed by the mind-controlling insects. She runs into a corner and someone pulls him beneath.. It's Botan! Botan calls Yusuke and tells him the situation and Suzaku's plan to capture Keiko.. but their conversation is rudely interrupted by the possessed people and together they run to an exit. On the other hand Yusuke and the gang are stopped by hundreds of zombies, but then Hiei thinks of a plan, and Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei worked together and formed a bridge for Yusuke to jump into the nearby entrance to the final chamber. They successfully accomplish the job, and Yusuke runs off to face Suzaku one-on-one as the three finish off the zombies.
Yusuke confronts the leader of the sacred demons - Suzaku, who is playing the flute of mind control. Just then Yusuke sees in a wide screen Botan and Keiko being chased by possessed people. With this scene Yusuke becomes enraged and decides to take back the flute by brute force, and he starts to attack with a barrage of punches. However Suzaku blocks every punch with only one hand, while the other continues to hold the flute which he plays. So Yusuke decides to finish things quickly and unleashes a devastating rei gun, however Suzaku is prepared for the situation. He quickly deflects the rei gun off and destroys part of the chamber. Yusuke gets shocked on how powerful Suzaku is, because even with his intense training with Genkai Suzaku was able to defend his rei gun. Then Suzaku decides to take on the offense, and he raises his hand a lighting bolt strikes him - then his power as a lightning-demon arises and he attacks Yusuke with an enormous lighting fist - Yusuke was able to dodge it, but the force of the fist was so powerful it electrified him and knocked him down.
Meanwhile Keiko and Botan gets trapped by those chasing them, and Botan decides to fight them off to survive. Keiko uses herself as bait as Botan grabs a fire extinguisher and showers it over the possessed people. However behind her another possessed person appears and tries to choke her out.


While browsing the Raspberry Pi forums the other day, I came across a thread called "Potentially useful things to program" which reminded me of a problem I solved when I was first becoming interested in programming. The code I wrote to solve the problem wasn't a particularly useful thing to program, as in the Raspberry Pi forums thread, but rather it was the first code that really demonstrated the usefulness of programming to me.
And the solution was found by way of brute force with a simple set of nested for loops. Trivial really, but at the time I was very pleased with myself for it was the first time I'd solved something faster and more easily using code rather than pen and paper. The original code was written for Matlab but I've recreated the program in C++ below.


ICER 2010 will organize a doctoral consortium as a pre-conference workshop on Sunday 8th of August.
To receive constructive feedback from their peers and senior researchers.
To support networking with other researchers in the computing education research field.
To discuss any relevant questions related to research and academic life.
The consortium is designed primarily for students who are currently enrolled in any stage of doctoral studies with a focus on computing education research. The number of participants is limited to 12.
In addition to organizers, senior researchers in the field will provide feedback and suggestions for improvement of the research proposals.
a summary of his/her research, including motivation, any relevant background and literature to contextualize the research, research questions, methodologies used or planned, and possible results obtained.
The research summary will be made available to other participants of the doctoral consortium to allow them to provide feedback and prepare questions on the research. This research summary should be simply formatted, 1-2 pages long.
Applicants should send their application in PDF format by email to Lauri Malmi (Lauri.Malmi@tkk.fi) by May 26th. Notification of acceptance will be sent by email on May 31th. Registration deadline is June 10th.
Note: When submitting the applications you must put ICER DC 2010 in the Subject line!
The doctoral consortium will be organized at Aarhus University on Sunday (9.30 – 17). See ICER web site http://www.sigcse.org/icer/2010 for more information about travelling and hotels.
There is no participation fee; some financial assistance will be available.


wow, thank you for helping me see beyond the salad with beets, I think they taste like earth, not dirt, but I like their flavor! Definitely unique and never thought of utilizing their greens either, maybe I'm used to a trimmed supermarket version instead of farmers market as you suggest, all great info, much appreciated!
Great list of beet recipes!


"Brooklyn-based experimental studio Snarkitecture is bringing the ocean indoors, transforming water and waves into nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls. Covering 10,000 square feet of the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., the interactive installation titled "The BEACH" will include white beach chairs and umbrellas to simulate seaside vibes, while maintaining the monochrome feel that Snarkitecture has become known for." writes Colossal. You might remember one London studio did it first but in a smaller room.


Do you ever wonder what to do or say when someone you know, whether bosom friend or barely-met acquaintance, is going through a terrible life-changing event?
There is no one good answer, but to be guided by the Spirit.
However, I know that the times I've been helped the most are the times when I've been just been listened to, hugged, and then simply told, "I'm so sorry." No one expects you, as a friend, to make it all better. But acknowledging the pain, being willing to "mourn with those who mourn," to help weather the pain even for a brief moment, is one of the most powerful things any human can do. It lets a person know they're not alone. And that's what most feel in times like this, even when it's not true.
It doesn't matter how a person got to their point of pain, whether their circumstances were preventable or not, what matters is that they hurt. Don't let anyone hurt alone. Put aside whatever personal beliefs about their situation or self-consciousness you might have, and just be with them.
That is what the baptismal covenant means, when we become members of His church. That's exactly what Christ would do, if He were here.
Which is a great thing to keep in mind.
There is a lot of talk and buzz about Elder Packer's talk. I'm not really going to address the thrust of all that, but there is one related aspect which I would like to address.
As I first heard these claims, the scripture came to my mind, "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord . . ."
Sin . . . all sin . . . makes us enemies to God. When we teach a person that their behavior makes them an enemy to God, we bring their attention to their behavior and give them a choice "to act according to their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to do good . . . ." In other words, we elevate their behavior from simple animal reasoning and reactions to conscious choice. We take ourselves out of the dust and reach for the divine within ourselves to act rather than to just be acted upon by our environment, by our genetics. We are no longer helpless victims of circumstance, but true children of the Most High God.
Teaching the commandments of God does not drive people to kill themselves, or leave the church, or turn into Church-active automatons. When we give commandments as God gives them, in an environment of charity and love, we make ourselves more than our physical, scientific bodies. We then have the chance to umkehren . . . turn around . . . repent. God created us to act, not to be acted upon. To Elder Packer's amended rhetorical question, "Why would Heavenly Father do this to anyone?" The answer is He would not. He would never create a person incapable of action, unable to fight against that which takes them away from Him, and then turn and hold them accountable. Some may have fewer opportunities for action than others (such as babies, the mentally damaged or others) but where there are fewer opportunities to act, there is less accountability.
So the answer is not to back down from the morality taught by God, whether it be homosexuality, anger management, or obsession with worldly possessions. It is to make certain that morality is taught in a framework of love.
And I think the Church does a great job of teaching that we make ourselves into enemies of God, and we likewise have the power to no longer be His enemy. Hopefully more people will get the knack of it before more children feel so unloved they choose to take their own lives.


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GoodWork picks 6 Seacoast nonprofits for incubator services
DOVER � GoodWork, a Seacoast-based nonprofit incubator that provides services including executive coaching, expert training, professional development and peer-to-peer networking, has announced its first group of nonprofits that will receive strategic and operational support.
Six idea phase and early-stage nonprofit founders, leaders and board members attended the GoodWork Orientation and Kick Off Jan. 28 at Community Action Partnership of Strafford County in Dover.
Located in Portsmouth, GoodWork serves the communities of Strafford and eastern Rockingham Counties.
Startup nonprofits often have little to no technology, legal, human resources and operational expertise in house. The cost for services in each of these critical areas can be out of reach for these organizations. At GoodWork, incubator participants have access to pro bono professional consultation and support.
�We are so excited to begin working with these organizational leaders who are incredibly committed to the work they do in addressing some of our communities� most challenging issues,� said GoodWork CEO Molly Hodgson. �The organizations we serve are typically less than three to five years old and operate with a budget of less than $250,000. The leaders must demonstrate a deep passion and dedication to the social environmental, cultural or economic challenge they are addressing and be open and willing to learn and accept feedback from diverse sources. We encourage them to explore opportunities for collaboration and partnership with other like-minded organizations as well.�
Incubator participants will be provided with a pro bono team of professional partners who will help them with the business challenges they are facing. They will also be matched with an experienced nonprofit mentor who will provide consultation and networking support. Each nonprofit incubator participant will have an executive coach that will provide a comprehensive organizational assessment, optimization report, work plan and provide guidance on setting and meeting goals. Participants will also learn from each other in a variety of peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
The GoodWork 2020 incubator participants are:
Vouchers for Veterans, Rochester
The mission of Vouchers for Veterans is to thank Veterans living in New Hampshire and Southern Maine for their service by providing them with vouchers to purchase healthy, nutritious food directly from the growers at local Farmers Markets. vouchersforveterans.org
Library of Things, Durham
The Library of Things will provide a centralized location where people can donate underutilized items to share with others who might not have the space to store things, the money to buy them, or the need to use them all the time. It works the same way as a traditional library, except the collection of items goes beyond books to include all types of things including tools, kitchen items and outdoor gear.
Friends of Lafayette House, Portsmouth
Friends of Lafayette House is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Lafayette House, a group home for the developmentally disabled. Twelve developmentally disabled residents and two dedicated house managers are happy to call Lafayette House home. friendsoflafayettehouse.org
Big Fish Learning Community, Dover
Located in the McConnell Center in Dover, BigFish Learning Community offers teens and families in the Seacoast a different approach to living and learning without conventional school. Through a self-directed learning approach, they offer mentorship, tutorials, relevant classes, and a place for teens to work and socialize. bigfishnh.org
Access Navigators, Portsmouth
Access Navigators helps people impacted by mobility impairments plan for what to expect when they visit towns and cities throughout New Hampshire and New England by providing reliable web-based guides with restaurant and attraction accessibility information. Access Navigators also builds awareness of the need for and benefits of community accessibility with speaking engagements; interacting with businesses, organizations, and government agencies; and teaching a course on accessibility at the University of New Hampshire. accessnavigators.com
Step Up Parents, Portsmouth
Inspired by a close friend�s struggle and a call to help, Step Up Parents provides financial assistance to kinship caregivers in New Hampshire who are raising the children of parents battling a substance use disorder. With the explosion of the opioid epidemic, the number of kinship families has skyrocketed. Step Up was founded on the belief that these relative caregivers are everyday heroes, and even heroes need a hand. stepupparents.net
�We are thrilled with the initial interest in GoodWork, from nonprofit organizations as well as from the business community looking to support them. Our professional partners and mentors are excited about sharing their experience and expertise,� said GoodWork Chief Operating Officer Maria Sillari. �We are looking forward to helping these nonprofits serve their important missions.�
Information: Email molly@goodworkseacoast.org or call (603) 953-4709.


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PANTZER PROPERTIES, INC. ANNOUNCES FINAL CLOSING ON FUND III
Panco Strategic Real Estate Fund III closes at $305 Million, ahead of Fundraising Target
New York, NY, January 31, 2017– Pantzer Properties, Inc. ("Pantzer") today announced the final closing of its third real estate fund, the Panco Strategic Real Estate Fund III, LP ("Fund III"), with $305 million of capital commitments, exceeding its $300 million fundraising target. Commitments to Fund III and affiliated entities total $357 million when combined with $52 million of Fund III co-investment capital raised to date. A significant number of investors in prior funds made new commitments while Pantzer attracted many new investors as well.
Fund III continues the Firm's established focus of pursuing strategic investments in tangible real estate assets and debt instruments. Pantzer invests primarily in the multifamily sector on the east coast of the United States and has done so for 45 years with a particular focus on the major markets and central business districts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic corridor.
Capital commitments were sourced from institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals.
About Pantzer Properties, Inc.
Pantzer Properties, Inc. is one of the largest apartment owners on the East Coast of the United States with nearly $3 billion in real estate assets. Pantzer is a fully integrated owner / operator with approximately 275 employees and the in-house capability to source, analyze, finance and execute transactions as well as operate and manage real estate assets through its wholly-owned management company. Founded in 1971, Pantzer is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Rochelle Park, NJ, Philadelphia, PA and Herndon, VA. Further information is available at www.pantzerproperties.com.
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ITA | January 25, 2017
Men's and women's No. 1s remain the same
Virginia's men held on to the No. 1 spot atop the ITA poll.
TEMPE, Ariz. – For the third consecutive week, the University of Virginia men and University of Florida women sit atop the Top 25, as Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the latest Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I National Team Rankings on Wednesday.
RELATED: Men's Poll | Women's Poll
While the women's Top 10 (and Top 20) remained unchanged, the men's side did see a bit of fluctuation thanks to some upsets from the weekend. Northwestern vaulted into the Top 10, moving up three positions from No. 13, buoyed by its 4-2 win over then-No. 7 TCU. The Horned Frogs fell to No. 12 this week. The other change saw Texas slide from No. 4 to No. 9, with Cal (No. 4), Georgia (No. 5) and UCLA (No. 6) each moving up one spot, respectively, and North Carolina (No. 7) and USC (No. 8) gaining two spots in this week's poll.
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Northwestern jumped into the women's Top 25 this week, checking in at No. 25.
A reminder that 2017 saw a shift in the national team rankings, with the system converting to a Top 25 poll as selected by a panel of 14 coaches for both men and women that comprise the national rankings committees. When the rankings move to the computerized format in late-February, the Top 50 teams will be publicized.
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Kaplan turbine
Propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades
A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service.
The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan,[1] who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to achieve efficiency over a wide range of flow and water level.
The Kaplan turbine was an evolution of the Francis turbine. Its invention allowed efficient power production in low-head applications which was not possible with Francis turbines. The head ranges from 10 to 70 metres (33 to 230 ft) and the output ranges from 5 to 200 MW. Runner diameters are between 2 and 11 metres (6 ft 7 in and 36 ft 1 in). Turbines rotate at a constant rate, which varies from facility to facility. That rate ranges from as low as 54.5 rpm (Albeni Falls Dam) to 450 rpm.[2]
Kaplan turbines are now widely used throughout the world in high-flow, low-head power production.
On this Kaplan runner the pivots at the base of the blade are visible; these allow the angle of the blades to be changed while running. The hub contains hydraulic cylinders for adjusting the angle.
Viktor Kaplan, living in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czechia), obtained his first patent for an adjustable blade propeller turbine in 1912. But the development of a commercially successful machine would take another decade. Kaplan struggled with cavitation problems, and in 1922 abandoned his research for health reasons.
In 1919 Kaplan installed a demonstration unit at Poděbrady (now in Czechia). In 1922 Voith introduced an 1100 HP (about 800 kW) Kaplan turbine for use mainly on rivers. In 1924 an 8 MW unit went on line at Lilla Edet, Sweden. This launched the commercial success and widespread acceptance of Kaplan turbines.
Vertical Kaplan Turbine (courtesy Voith-Siemens).
The Kaplan turbine is an inward flow reaction turbine, which means that the working fluid changes pressure as it moves through the turbine and gives up its energy. Power is recovered from both the hydrostatic head and from the kinetic energy of the flowing water. The design combines features of radial and axial turbines.
The inlet is a scroll-shaped tube that wraps around the turbine's wicket gate. Water is directed tangentially through the wicket gate and spirals on to a propeller shaped runner, causing it to spin.
The outlet is a specially shaped draft tube that helps decelerate the water and recover kinetic energy.
The turbine does not need to be at the lowest point of water flow as long as the draft tube remains full of water. A higher turbine location, however, increases the suction that is imparted on the turbine blades by the draft tube. The resulting pressure drop may lead to cavitation.
Variable geometry of the wicket gate and turbine blades allow efficient operation for a range of flow conditions. Kaplan turbine efficiencies are typically over 90%, but may be lower in very low head applications.[3]
Current areas of research include computational fluid dynamics (CFD) driven efficiency improvements and new designs that raise survival rates of fish passing through.
Because the propeller blades are rotated on high-pressure hydraulic oil bearings, a critical element of Kaplan design is to maintain a positive seal to prevent emission of oil into the waterway. Discharge of oil into rivers is not desirable because of the waste of resources and resulting ecological damage.
Viktor Kaplan Turbine Technisches Museum Wien
Kaplan turbines are widely used throughout the world for electrical power production. They cover the lowest head hydro sites and are especially suited for high flow conditions.
Inexpensive micro turbines on the Kaplan turbine model are manufactured for individual power production designed for 3 m of head which can work with as little as 0.3 m of head at a highly reduced performance provided sufficient water flow.[4]
Large Kaplan turbines are individually designed for each site to operate at the highest possible efficiency, typically over 90%. They are very expensive to design, manufacture and install, but operate for decades.
They have recently found a new home in offshore wave energy generation, see Wave Dragon.
The Kaplan turbine is the most widely used of the propeller-type turbines, but several other variations exist:
Propeller turbines have non-adjustable propeller vanes. They are used where the range of flow / power is not large. Commercial products exist for producing several hundred watts from only a few feet of head. Larger propeller turbines produce more than 100 MW. At the La Grande-1 generating station in northern Quebec, 12 propeller turbines generate 1368 MW.[5]
Bulb or tubular turbines are designed into the water delivery tube. A large bulb is centered in the water pipe which holds the generator, wicket gate and runner. Tubular turbines are a fully axial design, whereas Kaplan turbines have a radial wicket gate.
Pit turbines are bulb turbines with a gear box. This allows for a smaller generator and bulb.
Straflo turbines are axial turbines with the generator outside of the water channel, connected to the periphery of the runner.
S-turbines eliminate the need for a bulb housing by placing the generator outside of the water channel. This is accomplished with a jog in the water channel and a shaft connecting the runner and generator.
The VLH turbine is an open flow, very low head "kaplan" turbine slanted at an angle to the water flow. It has a large diameter >3.55 m, is low speed using a directly connected shaft mounted permanent magnet alternator with electronic power regulation and is very fish friendly (<5% mortality).[6]
The DIVE-Turbine is a vertical propeller turbine with double regulation by wicket gates and speed variation. It covers a range of application up to 4 MW with efficiencies comparable to standard Kaplan-Turbines. Due to the propeller design with fixed blades it is considered a fish friendly turbine.[7]
DIVE-Turbine, a propeller turbine version, during installation on site.
Tyson turbines are a fixed propeller turbine designed to be immersed in a fast flowing river, either permanently anchored in the river bed, or attached to a boat or barge.
model of a bulb or tubular turbines
model of a S-turbine
schematic of a straflo-turbine
VLH turbines
schematic of a DIVE-Turbine
Banki turbine
Draft tube
Francis turbine
Gorlov helical turbine
Pelton wheel
Screw turbine
Sensor fish, a device used to study the impact of fish
travelling through the Francis and Kaplan turbines
Three-dimensional losses and correlation in turbomachinery
Water turbine
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^ "New Austrian Stamps". The Sun (1765). Sydney. 24 January 1937. p. 13. Retrieved 10 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia. , ...Victor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine....
^ Hydropower project Tocoma (PDF). IMPSA (Report).
^ Grant Ingram (30 January 2007). "Very Simple Kaplan Turbine Design" (PDF).
^ "1000W Low-Head Kaplan Hydro Turbine". Aurora Power & Design. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
^ Société d'énergie de la Baie James (1996). Le complexe hydroélectrique de la Grande Rivière : Réalisation de la deuxième phase (in French). Montreal: Société d'énergie de la Baie James. p. 397. ISBN 2-921077-27-2.
^ VLH Turbine
^ DIVE-Turbine
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kaplan turbine.
National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark Kaplan Turbine, retrieved 2010 June 24
Bently Nevada Application Note on Hydro turbine vibration, retrieved 2014 August 14
3D model Kaplan turbine, retrieved 2021 February 10
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