It's time to tackle the somewhat controversial area of breathing and support in singing.
There are so many different opinions out there; you may hear breathing advice such "Take in as much as you can" or support advice such as "Push down like you're going to the toilet".
But I will outline what works in conjunction with how the body is designed and therefore what I believe is most effective.
Essential to life of course, 'tidal' (normal) breathing can be observed best when people are sleeping, i.e. the natural rising and falling of the abdomen.
This breathing pattern isn't generally enough for the requirements of singing, but it does show how things are designed to move.
However, I've also observed that some singers tend to breathe in too much when singing, perhaps from a mistaken "more must be better" philosophy, which creates excessive pressure under the vocal cords.
The most air-efficient sound is clear tone.
Breathy tone has the highest airflow and clear tone the lowest.
I've found there can be up to a 5 to 6-fold difference in the length of a note between these two voice qualities, let alone the fact that breathy singing also dries the vocal cords out.
And believe it or not, your loudest voice uses the least air!
So when you're belting out that long 'money note' in a power ballad and you feel like you can hold it forever, this is the reason why.
The support strategy I support (excuse the pun!) is similar to what you can feel happening in reflex actions such as laughter, i.e. an inward/upward movement of the lower abdominal wall on voicing.
This movement happens at the onset of each sung phrase and should adjust reflexively depending on the intensity of your singing.
Lastly, if you wish to access a 'turbo charge' to stabilise and enhance particularly spectacular notes, you can also engage your 'wing' muscles or 'lats', thereby revealing your inner 'Terminator', 'Rambo' or 'Xena Warrior Princess'.
This tribute to your friend is very touching. You deliver it with such feeling and you have a strong, well-developed singing voice for your age. Technically, I'd like to mention you're singing with some nasality that's easy to fix. To demonstrate, choose a short line of lyric in this song that doesn't contain the letter 'm' or 'n'. Block your nose off whilst singing it and you'll hear the difference it makes when you remove the nasal airflow.
Kim, I absolutely agree. This is a great article, definitely one that I shall be showing my students!


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Monsters under the bed …. The Sandy Hook Promise!!
Like a bad memory …. a nightmare. It's been two years.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings.
The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
"As it appears in …. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
The following video speaks for itself ….
~~Monsters Under the Bed~~
#ProtectOurKids #SandyHookPromise
Let's #ProtectOurKids from the real threats, not just the monsters under the bed.
Join us at http://SandyHookPromise.org.
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4 thoughts on "Monsters under the bed …. The Sandy Hook Promise!!"
Jueseppi B. on December 18, 2014 at 2:08 pm said:
Raewyn's Photos on December 18, 2014 at 3:56 pm said:
Nothing has been done and it will continue while the debate goes on. Money will win out every time over peoples lives.
Dr. Rex on December 18, 2014 at 4:29 pm said:
You are so right!! A shootings continue …. what to do? Can we go back?
valentinelogar on December 18, 2014 at 6:48 pm said:
Renewed debate, no changes. It is a pitiful state of affairs.

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Don't Be Fooled by Dialogue -- Argentina Only Wants One Answer to 'the Falklands Question'
The right of self-determination of all peoples in enshrined in the United Nations Charter, and safeguards the inalienable right to determine one's own political future, and any allegiances therein. We, the people of the Falkland Islands, have a right to a say in our own political future.
Jan Cheek, Contributor
Chair of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands
On Friday 4, Ms Cecilia Nahón, Argentina Ambassador to the United States, wrote an article for the Huffington Post, titled 'Malvinas: All Argentina Is Saying Is Give Dialogue A Chance.'
In the article, Ambassador Nahón described how old political disputes in the United States were being solved as a result of 'a willingness to engage in dialogue and diplomatic negotiations.' Amb. Nahón went on to detail how the Question of the Falkland Islands was an '182-year old sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom', in reference to the reassertion of British sovereignty of the Islands in 1833. Argentina refers to this as the 'usurpation' of the Islands, and claims that the entire Argentina population was forcibly ejected from the Islands, although records within the Argentine National Archives show this was not the case.
The Government of Argentina states regularly that its claim to the Falkland Islands runs continuously from the 1820s. It does not. The Argentine claim to Spanish succession, which was never accepted by the United Kingdom, was ended by the 'Convention of Peace', ratified in 1850, and for 34 years Argentina was silent over the Falklands, during which time several Argentine leaders stated that Argentina had no dispute with Britain. There was a brief flurry of letters in the 1880s but after that, the 'claim' to the Islands was dropped by the Government of Argentina until the 1930s. José María Ruda reignited the discussion over the so-called 'claim' to the Islands in 1965 with his impassioned (and inaccurate) speech to the United Nations Subcommittee III.
The Falkland Islands Government has previously worked alongside the Government of Argentina, with joint accords on a range of economic issues. One by one, and largely under a Kirchner regime, the Government of Argentina has reneged on these agreements. In the decade of Kirchnerite government, Argentina has walked away from every chance of dialogue on the Falklands.
Amb. Nahón accuses Britain of 'militarization' of the South Atlantic, but the military presence in the Islands is a level appropriate to deter aggression by Argentina, and is proportionate to the perceived threat. The Government of Argentine, whilst denying any military designs on the Islands, has spent the past year attempting to broker deals for fighter aircraft from Spain, Sweden, Israel, Russia and China to bolster its own forces, yet bitterly complains about infrastructure upgrades (including the construction of a new school) in the Falklands.
The right of self-determination of all peoples in enshrined in the United Nations Charter, and safeguards the inalienable right to determine one's own political future, and any allegiances therein. We, the people of the Falkland Islands, have a right to a say in our own political future, and the United Kingdom has assured us that there can be no discussions on sovereignty with Argentina unless we, the people of the Falkland Islands, so wish. And we expressed our wish in our historic referendum in March 2013. This was internationally overseen and saw 99.8% of those who voted freely choosing to retain our current relationship with the UK.
Amb. Nahón claimed that the UK refuses to enter negotiations about issues other than sovereignty. But it is untrue. The UK has simply said that Islanders need to be involved in any discussions, and we have extended numerous invitations to talk to the Government of Argentina. These go unacknowledged. In February 2013 then- British Foreign Secretary Hague agreed to meet with the Foreign Minister of Argentina in London. Timerman refused to attend because my colleague and I, as elected members of the Falkland Islands Government, were present. The empty chair at that meeting speaks volumes about the sincerity of Argentina's call for dialogue.
Amb. Nahón claims to seek dialogue with the United Kingdom to 'negotiate' over the Falkland Islands, yet the Argentine Constitution (revised in 1994) plainly states 'the recovery of said territories [Falkland Islands, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands] and the full exercise of sovereignty [...] constitutes a permanent and unrelinquishable goal of the Argentine people.' Constitutionally, then, Argentina cannot, and will not, settle for anything less than full control of the Falklands, and therefore any conversation about the Islands isn't a 'negotiation' at all - when Argentina says 'dialogue' it really means 'deliver the Falklands to us.'
The Falkland Islands Government has made it perfectly clear that we are prepared to sit down and talk with Argentina about matters of mutual interest, yet it is Argentina who consistently ignores our invitations whilst crying out for conversation.
Argentina's disingenuous call for dialogue is in reality a call to colonise our country, seize our natural resources and deny our right to self-determination.


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Jay Leno's Garage Website is getting better & better. Going there from time to time to check out the old bikes. See Jay riding the superbike of the 30's. Like me, be envious of all what Jay keeps in his garage.
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As an artist fascinated with plant life and the botanical world, Frank Bruggeman tries to explore and redefine the boundaries between horticulture and the natural world.
In his work, he questions our relationship with plants and flowers, as well as our indifferent attitude towards them. We often don't see them as living things- but as products to be enjoyed for a little while and then thrown out. Frank wants us to have a more conscious relationship with plant life, and to redefine our understanding of what the botanical world entails.


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La Ley 26.639 de la Nación Argentina, más conocida como Ley de protección de glaciares, establece los presupuestos mínimos para la protección de los glaciares y del ambiente periglacial con el objetivo de preservarlos como reservas estratégicas de recursos hídricos para el consumo humano; para la agricultura y como proveedores de agua para la recarga de cuencas hidrográficas; para la protección de la biodiversidad; como fuente de información científica y como atractivo turístico.

En 2010 el Congreso de la Nación aprobó la ley 26639 y en octubre de 2010 se promulgó. La ley fue reglamentada por el decreto 207/2011 el 28 de febrero de 2011 estableciéndose los presupuestos mínimos y la inmediata confección de un inventario de glaciares. La ley regula las actividades permitidas en los glaciares y su entorno, prohibiendo absolutamente las actividades industriales y mineras, la construcción de obras de arquitectura e infraestructura (con excepción de las científicas) y la liberación de sustancias contaminantes sin importar el volumen de las mismas.

El Gobierno nacional firmó un convenio con el CONICET para la realización del inventario de glaciares y se convocó al Instituto Argentino de Glaciología y Nivología (Ianigla), unidad del CONICET con sede en Mendoza. Participaron además la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y los Gobiernos de Mendoza y San Juan, como autoridad de aplicación. El relevamiento estableció, en 2018, que existen en el país 16.968 cuerpos de hielo que ocupan una superficie de 8.484 km².

Contenido de la ley

La norma tiene por objeto establecer los presupuestos mínimos para la protección de los glaciares y del ambiente periglacial con el objeto de preservarlos como reservas estratégicas de recursos hídricos para el consumo humano; para la agricultura y como proveedores de agua para la recarga de cuencas hidrográficas; para la protección de la biodiversidad; como fuente de información científica y como atractivo turístico constituyendo a los glaciares como bienes de carácter público.

Prohíbe la liberación de elementos contaminantes y la exploración minera e hidrocarburífera en los glaciares y periglaciares; y ordena realizar un inventario de glaciares completo cada cinco años, y a que, antes del 30 de marzo de 2011, se relevarán las zonas prioritarias, donde existen emprendimientos industriales.

En el artículo 15º -"Disposiciones Transitorias"- se establece que en un plazo no mayor a ciento ochenta días deberá realizarse el Inventario Nacional de Glaciares, donde se individualizarán todos los glaciares y geoformas periglaciares que actúan como reservas hídricas existentes en el territorio nacional, sobre aquellas zonas en las cuales se estén desarrollando actividades prohibidas expresamente en artículo 6° de la ley 26.639.

Historia
En los años de la presidencia de Néstor Kirchner se construyó la mina de Veladero; un megayacimiento de oro de la empresa transnacional Barrick Gold, en la provincia de San Juan, que generó una controversia en la opinión pública por la contaminación del medio ambiente, y por el excesivo consumo de agua y la gran cantidad de espacio utilizado para el desarrollo del proyecto. Además se abrieron minas en las provincias de Santa Cruz, Chubut, Jujuy y otras, que provocaron quejas de muchos vecinos de las poblaciones aledañas al proyecto y de organizaciones ambientalistas, por el posible daño al ambiente que podrían provocar, temiendo fundamentalmente por la contaminación del agua de los glaciares con cianuro, elemento este que se utiliza en la extracción de minerales en minas a "cielo abierto". Los gobiernos de las provincias mineras y el gobierno nacional mantuvieron en cambio una postura a favor de la explotación minera.

En 2008 el diputado Miguel Bonasso, en aquel entonces perteneciente al partido oficialista del Frente para la Victoria, impulsó la ley 26.418 de protección a los glaciares que fue aprobada por mayoría en la Cámara de Diputados (136 votos afirmativos, 3 abstenciones y 121 ausencias). Pero el 10 de noviembre de 2008, se publicó en el Boletín Oficial el decreto 1837/08, a través del cual la presidenta vetó esa ley 26.418. Este fue el primer veto total de una ley por parte de la presidenta Cristina Fernández, quien adujo que la ley excedía el alcance de las facultades reservadas a la Nación en el artículo 41 de la Constitución Nacional. Los glaciares constituyen bienes de carácter público. Poco después de este veto Bonasso retiró su apoyo al gobierno y se integró en 2010 al interbloque del Movimiento Proyecto Sur.

Después de cambios realizados a la norma por el senador oficialista Daniel Filmus, fue aprobada el 30 de septiembre de 2010 por el Congreso, esta vez dividido. Recién en marzo de 2011 la reglamentó el poder ejecutivo nacional publicándola en el boletín oficial.

Aplicación de la ley
La Ley 26.639 se aplicó por primera vez el 23 de noviembre de 2010 en el caso "Caminatta Juan Carlos c/Provincia de Neuquén ex.10414/10". Se trata de un amparo ambiental interpuesto ante la cesión que realizó el gobierno de Neuquén de una zona ambiental protegida a una empresa de energía. El 23 de noviembre del 2010, la jueza de primera instancia Dra. Ivonne San Martín, de Zapala, suspendió toda actividad de exploración, explotación, construcción u operación relacionada con el proyecto geotérmico de Copahue. Ante la falta de un inventario de glaciares se aplicó el principio precautorio frente a un posible daño ambiental irreversible, al considerar que existirían formaciones de hielo en la zona, que se encontrarían alcanzados por la ley 26.639, de preservación de los glaciares y del ambiente periglacial. Este fallo fue apelado por el Gobierno de la provincia del Neuquén ante Cámara de Apelaciones de Zapala y en diciembre de 2010 dicha Cámara confirmó la medida cautelar oportunamente dictada por la Dra. San Martín. El caso llegó hasta el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la provincia del Neuquén, quién finalmente lo revocó fundamentándose  en el tecnicismo que el amparista residía en Loncopué, es decir a 40 km de la zona afectada (Caviahue-Copahue). La Asamblea de Vecinos Autoconvocados de Caviahue, con el patrocinio letrado de la Dra. Cristina Montserrat Hendrickse, presentaron un nuevo amparo ante la jueza San Martín bajo la idea de que la empresa "resulta violatorio" de la Ley de Glaciares.

El Gobierno nacional firmó entonces un convenio con el CONICET para la realización del inventario de glaciares y se convocó al Instituto Argentino de Glaciología y Nivología (Ianigla), unidad del CONICET con sede en Mendoza. Participaron además la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y los Gobiernos de Mendoza y San Juan, como autoridad de aplicación. En esta primera etapa se relevaron 4000 cuerpos de hielo en distintas subcuencas de las provincias de Catamarca, Mendoza, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz y Tierra del Fuego. En total, la sumatoria de estos cuerpos cubre una superficie mayor a 3700 km², más de 17 veces el tamaño de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. También se firmó un convenio para que los relevamientos sean sometidos a una auditoría externa por parte de expertos nacionales o internacionales, entre ellos del Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) de Francia. en total Argentina cuenta con 16 968 cuerpos que representan 8484 kilómetros cuadrados cubiertos de hielo, siendo el segundo país de América Latina con más glaciares y uno de los 15 países del mundo con más cuerpos de hielo.

El tema de las empresas mineras en la Argentina comenzó a conocerse más tanto en el país como en el exterior a partir de la protesta de los habitantes del poblado de Famatina, quienes lograron frenar dos veces un proyecto megaminero en la zona, primero cuando lo intentó la empresa Barrick Gold, luego cuando lo intentó la empresa Osisko Mining Corporation, y a pesar de no contar con la oposición del gobierno provincial. En el caso del yacimiento Bajo de la Alumbrera, en Tinogasta, Catamarca, pobladores de la zona contrarios a la explotación minera que impedían el pase de camiones relacionados con la minería por la ruta, fueron desalojados por la policía de manera violenta en febrero de 2012.

Barrick Gold y los gremios mineros habían conseguido una medida cautelar en la justicia de la Provincia de San Juan y la empresa continuaba operando. Pero en julio de 2012 la Corte Suprema de la Nación puso en vigencia la ley de glaciares y dejó sin efecto la medida cautelar que paralizaba su aplicación. Además ordenó que se realizara un inventario de los glaciares y las áreas de periglaciares y una auditoría sobre la actividad industrial que realiza la minera Barrick Gold para determinar si su labor industrial afecta alguna zona protegida. En junio de 2019 la Corte declaró la constitucionalidad de la ley de glaciares, cerrando la causa iniciada por Barrick Gold.

En mayo de 2018 presentaron el Inventario de glaciares, que establece que en el país existen 16.968 cuerpos de hielo que ocupan una superficie de 8.484 km².

Críticas a la ley aprobada y su implementación
Como el proyecto del diputado Miguel Bonasso fue vetado por el Poder Ejecutivo, el Senador Nacional Daniel Filmus, oficialista, lo volvió a presentar con cambios que no fueron del agrado de los que habían presentado el primer proyecto. Para Bonasso, el principal punto de discusión entre ambos proyectos es la definición de lo que es el área periglaciar:

Otra de las principales críticas provino de la Asociación Argentina de Abogados Ambientalistas. Ellos afirman que los cambios achican el alcance de la norma y el bien jurídico tutelado, reduce las zonas donde van a regir las prohibiciones de la ley y el área de acción, estudio e intervención del Inventario Nacional de Glaciares, incorpora como Servicio Ambiental de los glaciares y del ambiente periglacial la reserva de recursos hídricos para las "actividades industriales", elimina la obligación de realizar una Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica, incorpora a las autoridades provinciales en la confección del Inventario Nacional de Glaciares, y establece plazos determinados para la realización de las Auditorías Ambientales sobre los emprendimientos actualmente en ejecución.

En febrero de 2013 el diputado por la provincia de La Rioja, Julio Martínez, (de la Unión Cívica Radical) aseguró que no existía presupuesto para que durante ese año se concretase el inventario por parte del Ianigla. Explicó que "darle presupuesto significa que el Ianigla tenga plata para contratar técnicos, comprar vehículos y equipamiento adecuado para subir a la montaña. Son 11 provincias argentinas y casi 4 mil kilómetros de Cordillera donde hay que ir a buscar glaciares. Y el Ianigla no tiene posibilidad de hacerlo porque carece de medios económicos". Además afirmó que se estaba liberando a las provincias la potestad de contar los glaciares dentro de sus fronteras, dejando así, según Martínez, a Luis Beder Herrera (gobernador de la La Rioja) y a José Luis Gioja (gobernador de la San Juan), "que son los mismos gobernadores que dicen que no hay glaciares. O a Lucía Corpacci, que fue quien realizó represiones por pedido de la Minera Alumbrera".

Referencias

Glaciares de Argentina
Glaciares
Presidencia de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Leyes de 2011
Argentina en 2011

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Taste test: These round tortilla chips generally had wiggly shapes, with some of the chips folder over, though some of the chips were flat.
The curvature made them good for dipping, but you could just as easily enjoy these without dip, as the plain chips had just enough salt to really bring out a nice corn flavor. Quite a tasty tortilla chip.
Smell test: Strong, salty corn tortilla chips smell.


Foundational Faith and Visionary Faith"
Today I'm going to talk about two kinds of faith, foundational and visionary. So I've picked some readings to illustrate them.
Your foundational faith is just what it sounds like: the things that seem so certain to you that you can build the rest of your worldview on that foundation. In the West, the most iconic story of a search for a firm foundation is that of Descartes, which he told in A Discourse on Method, published in 1637.
Because I wished to give myself entirely to the search after Truth, I thought that it was necessary for me to reject as absolutely false everything as to which I could imagine the least ground of doubt, in order to see if afterwards there remained anything in my belief that was entirely certain.
Thus, because our senses sometimes deceive us, I wished to suppose that nothing is just as they cause us to imagine it to be. And because there are men who deceive themselves in their reasoning -- and judging that I was as subject to error as was any other, I rejected as false all the reasons formerly accepted by me as demonstrations.
And since all the same thoughts and conceptions which we have while awake may also come to us in sleep, without any of them being at that time true, I resolved to assume that everything that ever entered into my mind was no more true than the illusions of my dreams.
But immediately afterwards I noticed that whilst I thus wished to think all things false, it was absolutely essential that the "I" who thought this should be somewhat. And remarking that this truth "I think, therefore I am" was so certain and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions brought forward by the skeptics were incapable of shaking it, I came to the conclusion that I could receive it without scruple as the first principle of the Philosophy for which I was seeking.
Visionary faith has more to do with leaps of faith, those moments when people defy common sense and do things that appear highly impractical, because their attention is fixed not on their experience of the way the world is, but on their vision of how it could be.
I've read to you before from William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, which comes from a series of lectures he gave in Scotland in 1901 and 1902. In the previous lectures he had identified a state he called "saintliness", and listed the saintly virtues that go with it. So in this lecture, "The Value of Saintliness", he critically assesses those virtues.
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. The powers of darkness have systematically taken advantage of them. The whole modern scientific organization of charity is a consequence of the failure of simply giving alms. The whole history of constitutional government is a commentary on the excellence of resisting evil, and when one cheek is smitten, of smiting back and not turning the other cheek also.
You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoy, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.
And yet you are sure, as I am sure, that were the world confined to these hard-headed, hard-hearted, and hard-fisted methods exclusively, were there no one prompt to help a brother first, and find out afterwards whether he were worthy; no one willing to drown his private wrongs in pity for the wronger's person; no one ready to be duped many a time rather than live always on suspicion; no one glad to treat individuals passionately and impulsively rather than by general rules of prudence; the world would be an infinitely worse place than it is now to live in.
The tender grace, not of a day that is dead, but of a day yet to be born somehow, with the golden rule grown natural, would be cut out from the perspective of our imaginations.
The musical 1776 is about John Adams and his eventually successful effort to convince the Continental Congress to declare independence. The song "Is Anybody There?" happens at a low point in that process, when Adams is feeling very much alone. After everyone else has gone home, he stands in the dark in what today we would call Independence Hall.
Ideally I would sing this to you, but that's a leap of faith I'm not willing to make.
I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory!
Faith is something that Unitarians are deeply ambivalent about. On the one hand, we sometimes envy people who remain serene and steady when we are plagued by doubt. We may admire people whose faith motivates them to keep going, and ultimately succeed, in situations where common sense would have told them to give up.
And yet, we also recognize that faith sometimes makes people certain of things that are not true. It can justify oppression, block the progress of science, start wars, and inspire terrorism. On a much smaller scale, faith can cause people to make nuisances of themselves by walking up to total strangers and asking them if they're saved.
I know that a lot of UUs don't like to call Unitarian Universalism a faith. Faith, we sometimes think, is an irrational thing that other people do. We just believe reasonable things supported by good evidence. How can that be faith?
I also understand that it can feel a little threatening to see someone stand in a pulpit and proclaim his faith, because faith is commonly thought of as a private road to truth. Through faith, I might claim to know truths that apply not just to me, but to you as well, and to know them through a means that you can't check. You can't look at my evidence or follow my logic, because evidence and logic are not how I know these things, if I know them by faith.
And since I am completely certain of these truths that apply to you, I might be tempted to impose them on you for your own good -- through institutional power, if I have it, or by law, or maybe even by force. So I understand why people of faith can be scary.
But what I'd like to do this morning is rehabilitate faith somewhat, by telling you about two kinds of faith that I find in myself, and explaining how it is possible to frame them in ways that allow them to guide my own life, but don't tempt me to impose them on anybody else. The key, in each case, is to let go of the vision of faith as a private road to universal truth, or a personal connection to the mind of God, and instead to see it more humbly as a way of finding my own path.
Foundational faith, as I explained when I introduced the Descartes reading, is that sense of certainty that you might feel about a few core beliefs that you build your worldview around. Descartes' story of how he came to be certain of his first principle is still being told almost 400 years later. I think that's because we can still identify with the problem he was facing.
Today, maybe more than ever, our minds are full of clutter: stuff our parents and teachers told us when we were too young to know any better, stereotypes of race and class and gender that society has imprinted on us, a sense of neediness and incompleteness that advertisers have induced us to feel so that we will buy their products, and incalculable numbers of other things that may or may not be facts. We may not even remember where we heard them or why we thought they might be true.
And so, what Descartes says he did still makes a good fantasy: What if you just blew it all away, doubted everything, and didn't believe anything again until you found some good reason?
It's like the fantasy where you take everything out of your house and only bring stuff back when you actually need it. The clothes that don't fit any more, the wedding presents you never took out of the box, the broken stuff you never get around to fixing -- it's all just gone, and you live surrounded only by things that you actually want.
Another key piece of the fantasy is that when Descartes does blow everything away, it doesn't turn out the way that we're afraid it would: He doesn't keep sinking deeper and deeper into a bottomless quicksand of doubt. He didn't wind up as a nihilist, believing that nothing is true, and that nothing is ever really right or wrong.
Instead, he fairly quickly hit bedrock: "I am thinking," he says, and he finds himself unable to doubt that. "So I must exist," he concludes, and starts building upward from there.
And he builds at a speed that seems incredible to a modern reader. Within a few pages he is equally certain of the existence of the soul, the benevolence of God, and all kinds of other things that leave me scratching my head. But even so, his story suggests an idea that still appeals: Maybe if you started shoveling all the clutter out of your mind, before long you'd reach bedrock truths too solid to doubt.
In Descartes' day, and in the Enlightenment Era that followed a century later, those chunks of intellectual bedrock were known as self-evident truths, and philosophers explained them like this: Each human soul contains a tiny sliver of the divine omniscience, just enough for us to see certain simple truths immediately, without evidence or deduction.
The examples they usually pointed to were the postulates of geometry, but in case some of you would rather not remember a high school math class right now, I have a simpler example: What if I handed you a jar of marbles and asked how many marbles were in it? You could count them, and when you got done, you might or might not be confident that you had the right answer.
But if I handed you three marbles, you wouldn't count them. You wouldn't say "One. Two. Three." You'd just look at them and perceive immediately that there are three, with no conscious process whatsoever. You'd be absolutely certain.
Some things are like that. They are so simple and clear that you don't have to gather evidence or go through some reasoning process, you just see immediately that they're true. Because all the evidence you need is in the thing itself. It's self-evident.
Now, if the phrase self-evident truth rings a bell, it's because you've heard it before. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Jefferson was actually making a very audacious claim there. He's saying: "I'm not going to argue with you about this. I'm not going to gather evidence to convince you, because you shouldn't need convincing. If you just hold in your mind the thought -- All men are created equal', you will see that it is true." You'll see it the way you saw those three marbles. It's self-evident.
The problem -- and this turns out to be a problem with self-evident truth in general -- is that not everybody did see it. There were people who found it self-evident that somebody has to be on top. And to others it was self-evident that George III would never have become king in the first place if God didn't want it that way. Some people jumped to the conclusion that African men were created equal too, which apparently was not at all what Jefferson meant.
And so the vision of the Enlightenment -- that those little slivers of divine omniscience would lead us all to see the same building-block truths -- failed. Worse, it failed in a way that provoked envy and competition, because if I can see self-evident truths that aren't self-evident to you, that must mean that the sliver of God in my soul is bigger than the sliver of God in your soul. It's not surprising that wars would be fought over claims like that.
That's how things stood for about another century, and then the pragmatic philosopher Charles Peirce came up with an insight that flipped everything upside-down. Instead of self-evident truths, Peirce left truth out of it and just talked about "indubitable propositions".
In other words, he agrees that if you try Descartes' exercise of doubting everything, eventually you will fail, as he failed; you'll find something you can't doubt. But where Descartes would say that you have found truth, Peirce says something more modest: What you have learned is not something about the Universe, but about yourself: You have found the limits of your doubt.
So where Descartes or Jefferson would have seen an achievement of faith, Peirce sees a failure of doubt.
When you flip the framing that way, it starts to make sense that different people's doubts would fail at different points. And in fact, they do. For example, when Buddhists try to reproduce Descartes' experiment, they get a different result. Rather than getting to "I am thinking" and deducing "I must exist", Buddhists get to "Thinking is happening" and find themselves unable to deduce anything about a thinker.
Once you've found something you can't doubt, Peirce, like Descartes, would advise you to start building on it, but for a humbler reason: If you can't doubt some idea, you might as well accept it and work with it whether or not you can be sure that it's true, because what else are you going to do? You can't doubt it, so you might as well use it.
So how does that apply to me? One of the things I believe is that love and compassion lead to a more satisfying and meaningful way of life than hate and cruelty. Now, I could give you reasons and evidence for that, but when I'm being totally honest with myself, I have to admit that I don't believe it because of reasons and evidence.
I believe it because I just do. I doubt there is any new argument or fact that someone could show me that would convince me that hate and cruelty produce a better life. I believe in love and compassion because I'm just not able to doubt it.
My failure of doubt doesn't mean that I have arrived at some universal truth that I should impose on everyone else for their own good. But it does mean that I have found at least one foundational stone for my personal faith. I might as well build on it, because what else am I going to do? I seem to be stuck with it.
Two things change when I start thinking about faith that way.
One is that I have more empathy with people who have a different faith, because I can imagine having my doubt fail in a different place. Some people look at the world and say, "There has to be a point to all this. It can't just be meaningless chaos." I can doubt that, but I can also imagine not doubting it.
Some people at various points in their lives have had moments of insight and clarity hit them with such force, that they are unable to doubt that those experiences are important. A skeptic might say, "These so-called religious experiences are just fortuitous configurations of neurotransmitters in the brain."
But often the people who have had such experiences can't go there, because if this experience didn't mean anything, then what does? And if that experience, or those collections of experiences, are connected with a holy place, or a religious ritual, or a sacred text, or a great teacher, then they're not able to doubt that those things are special.
Understanding what the failure of doubt feels like, I can cut them some slack for that.
The second change is that I hold my foundational faith with more humility, and recognize that it might change as my life unfolds. Like any other faculty, doubt can get weaker or stronger. So from time to time, I need to revisit those foundation stones of my personal faith, to see if I still find them undoubtable. Maybe, the next time I look, I'll find that they are shaped a little differently than I had thought.
Another kind of faith I want to tell you about is visionary faith. Visionary faith is what motivates people to make efforts beyond what common sense can justify. Visionaries go to more trouble, take bigger risks, and keep trying even after it seems obvious they're bound to fail. They do that because they're not just looking at the world as it is; they're also seeing a vision of a world that could be.
The content of that vision might be anything from world peace to two kids and a white picket fence. But whatever it is, it beckons to you, it draws a commitment out of you that goes far beyond anything a cost/benefit calculation can justify.
All the historical movements for change that Unitarians admire were driven by this kind of visionary faith: abolition, women's suffrage, the labor movement, civil rights, women's equality, gay rights, and so on. People put themselves out in ways that didn't strictly make sense. And if they hadn't, as William James pointed out, "the world would be an infinitely worse place than it is now to live in."
Those among us who continue to work for a better world, who are trying, say, to preserve democracy against the current wave of authoritarianism, or protect the biosphere from climate change, or complete the revolutions of women's rights or civil rights, I think we do have a certain amount of we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident in us. But if we introspect deeply, I think most of us would end up admitting that our foundational faith doesn't take us all the way there. At some point, you have to see that vision of the better world, and feel the pull of it. That's what makes worthwhile all the effort and inconvenience and sacrifice.
But visionary faith can also be toxic. The Nazis were visionaries but that didn't make their visions good. In America today, many in the alt-Right are driven by a vision of a white ethnostate. Christian Dominionists envision church and state united into single all-powerful institution, imposing on everyone the will of their God.
So while a lot of good comes from visionary faith, not all visionary faith is good. Like foundational faith, it needs to be held with a certain humility.
A key thing to understand, if you're going to maintain that humility, is that visionary faith is different from foundational faith, in that it's not about truth and certainty. It's about love and risk. A vision has gotten into your head, and no one can promise you that it is good or true, but nonetheless you have fallen in love with it, to the point that you are willing to make sacrifices to bring your vision into reality. That vision is lighting up your life the way that love does.
That's how the 1776 musical portrays John Adams. In those lyrics I read you, he's not giving reasons for American independence. He's presenting a vision of the new nation and saying, "If you could see this, you would love it the way I do."
And when William James talks about what he calls "the saintly virtues", he is almost apologetic about how much he loves them. "I know the world doesn't work this way," he tells us. "But it could." And having envisioned a world with "the golden rule grown natural", don't you love it? Isn't it worth risking a little imprudence and foolishness?
But the fact that you love a vision does not guarantee that it will come to pass, or even that anyone else will see it, no matter how hard you try to show it to them. It won't necessarily happen just because you love it, and you can't wish it into fruition just by loving it more. If it does come true, it may not come true for you, or in your lifetime.
That also is the lesson of abolition and unionization and civil rights. Many runaway slaves were recaptured. Strikes were broken. Like many civil rights pioneers before him,Martin Luther King was murdered. He climbed to the mountaintop and saw the promised land, but he did not get to go there.
Love is not about certainty, it is about risk. It is about moving forward without guarantees. Loving a vision doesn't mean that you know it will happen, it means that you are willing to risk it not happening. You are willing to risk being wrong, being laughed at, seeing all your effort come to nothing. "To love," Salman Rushdie wrote, "is to risk your life."
Sometimes that is literally true, as it was for Dr. King. But it is almost always true in at least a figurative way. Love doesn't make us indestructible.Quite the opposite: It is the people and things and visions we love that make us vulnerable.
Now, at this point I imagine that a question might pop into the mind of any person of good practical common sense: Why do it? Why let yourself fall in love with a vision of how the world could be? And if you find such a feeling rising up inside you, why indulge it? Why accept the risks? Why make the sacrifices? Why let all that impracticality and foolishness and vulnerability into your life? And my answer is simple: Love lights life up. A life that is full of love, and full of the commitments that love calls a person to make, is fuller, deeper, and richer than any other kind of life. Why do I believe that? Well, if I'm being honest with myself, I have to admit that it's not because of reasons and evidence. I believe it because I just do. I can imagine that other people would doubt it. I can even imagine doubting it myself. But I find that I can't actually doubt it. Love lights life up.
I don't know if that's a universal truth, but it's a belief that I seem to be stuck with. So I might as well build on it.
Muder, Doug 2017. Foundational Faith and Visionary Faith, http://www.uuquincy.org /talks/20171119.shtml (accessed April 26, 2019).


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I once tried to wean myself off the cream and sugar I put in coffee. The first time I went cold-turkey, drinking just black coffee, I vomited an hour after I drank it. Maybe it was the eggs I ate with breakfast.
The next day, drinking it black, I vomited it again about an hour after I finished the coffee. Maybe it was bad coffee.
When it occurred the third day I figured I was dumb; it must be the lack of sugar or cream. I added a teaspoon of sugar the next time with no cream, and I didn't vomit.
Over the next few days I reduced the amount of sugar until I had none, and then I vomited. I need sugar in my coffee.
Apple juice doesn't appeal to me either; it's never made me puke, but its acidity makes me nauseated after a few sips.
So, my question: does any common food or beverage make you vomit like clockwork?
I grew up eating a Greek diet so I grew up eating wierd things. I do remember one time when I was about 10 and visiting Greece, I ate some cheezies and I puked hard that night. I have since been turned off on cheezies although I will still eat them.
I hardly ever puke, but when I do, they should have a sound crew in the bathroom with me. My wife has only ever heard me puke once, and she thought I was dying! My pukes are of the Exorcist projectile vomit variety.
Creamed corn makes me gag but that is because it looks like vomit. I am sure if I ate any, I would spew it back up. Your problem sounds unusual and would make me switch to herbal tea.
Brussels sprouts make me want to heave. I couldn't stand them when I was a kid, and recently I was at someone's house for supper, and they served me brussel sprouts. I took one bite, and couldn't bring myself to swallow it. I chewed it for about a minute before I left the table to spit it out. Just couldn't do it. It wasn't just the taste of it, which is bad enough, but I had a physical reaction to it. My mouth dried up, my stomach began to turn. It wasn't a good scene.
phillip, brussel sprouts..roasted with pancetta and butter…it converted me….
In a startling turn of events, I'm solidly with Phillip; Brussels sprouts make me gag. I cannot swallow or even chew them. Though I've never tried head cheese or anything more exotic than rabbit and beef ligaments (those wacky Milanese).
Here's a tip if you want to skip over the hour it takes the coffee to make you puke. Put in a teaspoon of salt instead.
PS: playing language cop b/c this one is a pet peeve: "nauseous" is just like noxious; it refers to the quality of making other things queasy. "Nauseated" is the right word.
Here in the Southern part of the USA they make coffee VERY strong. I have to have cream and sugar. In fact mine is more like coffee-milk.
I like language cops, but maybe that's because I consider myself one to a small degree, to the annoyance of everyone I know.
Gag and vomitting are not the same. Pickled cow tongues might make me gag, but I doubt it'd make me vomit. Eat a brussel sprout, then see if you puke. I dare ya. I double dare ya!
I'm surprised Chris never responded to this post. Apparently he has quite an array of foods that make him gag. Mmmmm, peas & carrots Chris?
The only consumable item that has ever managed to make me puke is rum.
I still love coffee, but rescently it has started making my stomach spasm, and sometimes vomit.
Any quantity of .5L or more of hard liquor makes me vomit too, and the day after just about anything may cause a similar reaction, at least until properly rehydrated.
I used to pretend I was sick sometimes to get out of going to school, in case I had a test or something due that day that wasn't ready. The next day I'd REALLY be sick, which is cool, but also pissed me off; being sick is no fun. I stopped doing it after awhile.
yes, carrots on an empty stomach make me vomit and I dont understand why. On an empty stomach while I eat carrots, I can feel the saliva build up and have to stop eating them or i puke. is there any reason behind this that you know of?
haha, Ryan is right, almost all veggies make me gag. it's sad… i need to get over that. i even tried a hypnotist! what a load of crap that was!
Just the smell of brewing coffee makes me queasy. A full on whiff can make me vomit. I can't even contemplate the idea of drinking it. I've checked on line for an obvious explanation but don't find any. I'm not allergic to caffeine or protein. Does anyone else have this same aversion to coffee?
yeah katydo.. ditto for me… have never even tried hot coffee because the smell is enough to make me feel sick.. in fact when someone sitting next to me is drinking hot coffee, i get a head ache! and am not allergic to caffeine either.. i have tried cold coffee once or twice and i think i vomited it out.
Don't worry, you aren't alone.
Coffee makes me puke too. It's frustrating, because I have this bugging thought in my head that I'm missing out on something, when 3/4 of the rest of the world are hooked on caffeine, starbucks and the like.
My aunt says its due to hypersensitivity to caffeine, and it seems to run in my family.
When I drink more than 20ml of coffee, I get incredibly accelerated heart rates, and a deep sense of nausea.
Hi! A web search brought me to your post, which is well over two years old. Nonetheless! I was searching the web because, recently, coffee has been making me feel nauseated. I've never had trouble with it before.
So… Maybe it's strange to ask you whether you ever pinpointed why black coffee makes you vomit — but I am curious. Have you ever investigated?
> Maybe it's strange to ask you whether you ever pinpointed why black coffee makes you vomit — but I am curious. Have you ever investigated?
I never went to a doctor about it. What else would I do? I experimented with reducing the amount of sugar in it, which I described in the post. Sugar reduces its acidity. I vomit when there's no sugar.
It wasn't a new condition, either – my stomach just can't handle the acidity.
I too have the same reaction to drinking coffee. Sometimes I can't get through an entire cup before I am running to the bathroom to throw it back up. But then there are other times when I can drink 4 or 5 cups and I am fine.
I have found that the more stressed I am the easier it is for me to get sick. The coffee seems to weaken my stomach for some reason.
The coffee seems to weaken my stomach for some reason.
Coffee is acidic, especially cheap coffee or dark roast.
Until I switched to medium roast beans which I grind myself, I haven't had any stomach problems. Once in a while I'm over at someone's house and they serve Nabob coffee or something else pre-ground, and before I'm half way through the cup (and I drink it with cream), I can feel my stomach burning, almost churning.
I drink honey with my coffee now, if it's available. I drink tea without sugar, though – it isn't acidic.
Speaking of coffee, Jody, you may want reconsider buying a Bodum fresh press. At first I thought it was too much work emptying and cleaning it afterwards, but I just dump the grinds in the kitchen compost or swish it around with some water and flush it down the toilet. That's the only possible negative I can think of.
Using the cone method for making our coffee, Jenny and I used to use 3 scoops of grinds each (a scoop is about a tablespoon, I suppose, maybe less). Now with the Bodum, we only use 4 scoops between the two of us. The coffee from the Bodum has a heavier, richer flavour, almost earthy like a good peaty scotch is earthy.
I still use the cone method when I'm making a single cup just for myself, and the cone method is better than any coffee maker coffee I've ever had, but the cone filter seems to filter out some flavour too. Not as rich, almost light compared to the Bodum.
It took me about a month of using the Bodum to be sold on it. Once I got used to the richer flavour of the coffee, though, it was hard to go back to cones.
phillip is it time for some more Kemble Mountain Roastery coffee…I think they have a web site…check out what they have …let me know I will send you some….they just expanded and opened a shop..the second vendor to do this in the past year…the market has become a hotbed of entrepeneureial spirit…despite the government grant sucking, socialist scam artist manager that runs the place….
I have found the Methoxetamine, MXC it is a analogue of ketamine, a very strong dissasociative, counter acts the problem. i have some major health problems a few years ago, they put me in hospital, and i, and the doctors thought i might have cancer. i thought i was dying, and the doctors could not do anything about it.
anyway something happened with my immune system, and it affected how i process some chemicals on a bio chemical level. i cant really drink coffee anymore, it is safer if i don't.
anyway small doses of MXC every day make you high, but with stimulants you level back out. so that it changes the way your brain interacts with your digestive system.
and my health problems went away. this chemical and its associated related chemicals are all illegal. i am no doctor so i don't know biologically what they do to your system, but if something helps you in your day to day life, i don't think it should be ignored.
Since I was a child the smell of roasting coffee makes me sick. I think it's due to high acidity in the system. This forum has been insightful.


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Q: Volume to capture dropdown blank /Windows OS VM/ I have setup a 2008 R2 WDS server and I am trying to boot with capture image. /Both server and clients are VM on the Vmware workstation./
But when I PXE boot the VM and enter the windows deployment services image capture wizard, the volume to capture dropdown is blank :-(

Do I need to format drive of my PXE boot client? Or do I add the correct driver to the PE image so that I can see the volume to capture?
Thank you for any help!

A: This is a popular idea to test with that doesnt work. The VM drivers are not included in the standard boot image so it wont see the storage on the capture PCs C: drive.
If the sample desktop is physical, the test will likely work without change.

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Democracy and tribalism in Ghana; the need to depart from our deeds
Thu, 1 Oct 2020 Source: Denis Andaban
Ghana is made up of people from different ethnic backgrounds. However, the state of nationhood unites the people amidst the diversity.
The founder and first president of Ghana had always opined that our diversity is our strength. Time had indeed proven that indeed, with a sense of unity, with the spirit of nationalism, our diversity can be precious than gold. We have been able to do so many things together.
We work together, school together, intermarry, and demonstrate some level of respect for one another, among others.
Prior to the adoption of multiparty democracy in Ghana, people argued against it. Indeed the late Kobina Sakyi occasionally admonished against the wholesale importation of western multiparty democracy.
At the end of it all, the people of Gold Coast found the need for democracy, even though the form of government equally became a tag of war among politicians and political scientists. Dr Kwame Nkrumah led a strong call for a unitary state. That call was heeded and that ensured some level of oneness among the people of Ghana.
Now to my substantive issue. Palous (2002) argues that democracy is a form of government that involves the rule of the many. His definition makes a contrast to Oligarchy, which is the rule of a few.
Where only a few rule, enjoys power, act in their interest and relegating the interest and views of the many, it is not democracy but Oligarchy.
The dichotomy must be noticed carefully because the actions and inactions of the ruling class in democracy can at any point in time, change the governance model, not on paper but in deeds, without many noticing.
The evaluative tool may only be measuring the perception of the larger society. Even that because of excessive polarization, public perception is often downplayed by those in power.
The efficacy of democracy is proven all over the world. Literature is replete with how most of the world economic powers made it through good democratic governance. According to Guo (1998), at higher levels of economic advancement, democracy would do a better job than non-democratic countries so far as encouraging economic development is concerned. Barro (1986:14), also made it emphatic that the middle level of democracy is most favourable for growth, the lowest level comes second and the highest level cones third.
Even though, I can give many indisputable facts to justify the efficacy of democracy, let me be succinct here by relying on Taye et al (2001). According to them, one of the most important benefits of the democratic process is to curtail tribalism, ethnic alliances and cronyism in the distribution of national resources among various tribes/clans/groups that make up the nation or state.
I wish to passionately crave the indulgence of readers to reflect deeply on the rendition of Taye et al.
Having been described by many political pundits as the beacon of hope for Africa democracy, can we as a country, be true and bold to the world, to proudly say that our democracy curtails tribalism and ethnic alliances? What about cronyism? Do we equitably share the national cake without tribal and ethnic consideration? I am sure you know the reality!
The reality is that tribalism and ethnic alliances is far becoming our new religion, discrimination is our bane and cronyism has become the new norm! That is the sad reality that any objective countryman or woman, will agree with.
I think we are gradually getting out of the lane of the theoretical justification for democracy. We are relegating the interest of larger majority to the interest the ruling class, who have been given power to act in the interest and will of the people.
Views are increasingly, becoming subjective, mostly to the whims and caprices of the ruling class. Those who have the opportunity to govern, do not only concentrate in amassing wealth to the detriment of the people, they gain prominence to the extent that they are the first-class citizens while any other person is marginalized, starved and in some cases, defined in different forms.
The tribal orientation in particular, cannot be blamed on any single politician or political party. Every history has its fall out. What we need to do, is to take deliberate steps, so as to strengthen our democracy. If we are reinforcing the status quo, then the future of our democracy is gloomy.
Research has proven that the major political parties in Ghana have some tribal and ethnic alliances. For instance, the work of Sen (2000) reveals that the NPP is perceived as a party for the Asantis and the NDC as aligned to Ewes. In my view, it is no longer an argument because the electoral records of each of the party vindicates this assertion.
I don't have any qualms of political parties enjoying ethnic or tribal support. Even in the United States of America, "a citadel of democracy", political parties have their strongholds in forms that are not very different from ethnic and tribal alliance.
My problem, however, is that once a government wins political power and tend to show obvious hatred, vindictiveness and contrived dislike for some groups, which might not have given it enough votes then ethnicity and tribalism take a center stage.
This manifests in public discourse and political actors no longer shy away from demonstrating their dislike for others because of where they come from. That tendency polarizes and kills the potency and sanctify of our democracy. The rippling effect could be dire!
The reason why we must appreciate our current political architecture carefully and take pragmatic steps to instil a "national bond-hood" and a sense of oneness. One may benefit from any divide and rule today, but many may suffer the repercussions thereof.
Let's think and think again.
Perhaps because of capacity, time and resources, I may not be able to do comprehensive research to establish all the linkages between our democratic architect and tribalism and juxtapose same on current happenings in the country but I think researchers especially political scientists must consider researching comprehensively into this area and make the outcomes available for policymakers.
If we don't invest into that area and begin to rejuvenate the spirit of nationhood, then we will be digging our own graves. As for me, I can see and hear but I don't have the powers to change the situation.
My role is to do public advocacy and hope that people learn from it. May we the youth of this country begin to think alike for the love of God and country.
May God Save Us!
And may the spirits of our ancestors come to our rescue.
Denis Andaban
The village boy from DBI


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Coppercoat is deemed fit for another two circumnavigations
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After a superlative job of protecting the hulls during the 2017-18 edition, Coppercoat is again selected as Official Antifoul Supplier for the next two editions of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, 2019-20 and 2021-22
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Coppercoat has just signed a contract confirming the company as the Official Antifoul Supplier for the next two editions of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2019-20 and 2021-22. This partnership both reflects and consolidates Coppercoat's resounding success in the same official capacity during and after the Clipper 2017-18 Race: for the very first time since the Clipper Race began in 1996, there was no need to lift the boats out for hull cleaning at the halfway point in Sydney.
Remarkably, the antifoul's integrity was still uncompromised when the boats were eventually lifted out at the race's end, following 16 months of constant seawater immersion over an enormous distance of over 40,000 nautical miles. The unprecedented outcome of this accomplishment is that the existing Coppercoat on the race boat hulls will not need to be stripped off and reapplied, and will still be in place when the boats set off again in August 2019 for the start of the 2019-20 race.
"We have of course made it clear that we will touch up the coating on the race boat hulls if required, but this emphatically hasn't been necessary as yet," smiles Ewan Clark, Coppercoat Director. "Based on the unsullied condition of the Coppercoat on those hulls, supported by the innumerable positive testimonies we've accumulated over almost three decades of trading, there's every reason to suggest that the original coating we applied in 2017 will last not only throughout the 2019-20 race, but will also see out the 2021-22 event. Its coat-and-forget properties represent their own ringing endorsement."
Although the finer details of the Clipper 2019-20 Race route have yet to be ironed out, it is already known that the next 40,000NM odyssey will consist of eight legs including stopovers in South America, South Africa, Australia, China, USA and the UK, with Chinese stopovers in Sanya, Zhuhai and Qingdao already confirmed.
"Our confidence in Coppercoat has been rewarded," says Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Clipper Race Chairman. "Across the fleet of Clipper 70s, the coating withstood the rigorous conditions of a 40,000NM circumnavigation, and following the Clipper 2017-18 Race remains in near-perfect condition. As we prepare for the next race there was absolutely no question that we'd extend our association with the company.
"Due to the durability of the coating, the need for removal and replacement every year has been removed. Over the span of the partnership this will dispense with entire layers of inconvenience and expenditure."
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The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is undoubtedly one of the greatest ocean adventures on the planet, also regarded as one of its toughest endurance challenges. Taking almost a year to complete, it consists of 11 teams competing against each other on the world's largest matched fleet of 70ft ocean racing yachts.
The Clipper Race was established in 1996 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail solo non-stop around the world in 1968-69. His aim was to allow anyone, regardless of previous sailing experience, the chance to embrace the thrill of ocean racing; it is the only event of its kind for amateur sailors. Around 40 per cent of crew are novices and have never sailed before starting a comprehensive training programme ahead of their adventure.
This unique challenge brings together everyone from chief executives to train drivers, nurses and firefighters, farmers, airline pilots and students, from age 18 upwards, to take on Mother Nature's toughest and most remote conditions. There is no upper age limit; the oldest competitor to date is 76.
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