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DC suspends South American production DaimlerChrysler AG plans to close or severely curtail production at its factories in Argentina and Brazil as part of a global cutback aimed at stemming losses. In Brazil, the automaker will halt production of the slow-selling Dodge Dakota pickup truck by the end of the year at its Campo Largo Parana factory, affecting 350 workers. The $315 million plant, inaugurated
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DC suspends South American production
DaimlerChrysler AG plans to close or severely curtail production at its factories in Argentina and Brazil as part of a global cutback aimed at stemming losses. In Brazil, the automaker will halt production of the slow-selling Dodge Dakota pickup truck by the end of the year at its Campo Largo Parana factory, affecting 350 workers. The $315 million plant, inaugurated in 1998, garnered attention for the truck's "rolling chassis" provided by Dana Corp. Insiders say DCC received tax incentives to set up operations in Parana and now would face heavy fines if it shuttered the facility. Although the plant has a 40,000-unit annual capacity, it produced only 4,600 pickups last year, reportedly selling less than 7,000, with nearly 20% exported to Argentina. The factory may switch to a new product from either Chrysler or Mercedes-Benz, or from DC alliance partners Mitsubishi Motors Corp. or Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd.
GM approves AvtoVAZ JV, prod to start in 2002
Following nearly a decade of discussions, General Motors Corp. approves a project to build cars with Russian automaker AO AvtoVAZ. The plan is to create a joint venture with GM, AvtoVAZ and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as partners, Russian sources say. The company, which is yet to be named, would build AvtoVAZ's new small sport/utility vehicle (SUV), the Lada Niva 2123. The model likely would be badged a Chevrolet. AvtoVAZ's contribution is expected to be $101 million, including $65 million in the value of the new Niva and $36 million in facilities and land. GM is expected to invest $99 million, while the EBRD will contribute $40 million as an investment and $93 million as credit, sources say. The JV's ownership structure likely will be 41.5% GM, 41.5% AvtoVAZ and 17% the EBRD. The project still has to be approved by the EBRD and then will be announced to the public. The earliest the JV could start production is fall of 2002. Some 75,000 Lada Nivas reportedly will be built each year.
GM moves closer in offer for Daewoo
Larry Zahner, head of General Motors Corp.'s Asia/Pacific manufacturing operations, is back in Korea, fueling rumors that GM may be getting close to making an offer on bankrupt Daewoo Motor Co. Ltd. Sources tell WAW an offer likely will come this month. Joining Mr. Zahner is a high-profile GM corporate attorney from Detroit, who informed sources say has been assigned to Korea for a three-year period to serve as "chief legal counsel for the new entity." Plus, two human resources executives supposedly are being assigned to Seoul from GM Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Also in Seoul are GM-trouble-shooter Scott Yoder and Alan Perriton, GM's executive in charge of acquisitions for Asia/Pacific. Richard Pyo, security analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), tells WAW that these new developments are in line with reports that his GM sources have provided. "As long as the labor issue is resolved at Daewoo, GM has the opportunity to grab quite a substantial product base at a very low price," says Mr. Pyo, who has conducted financial analyses of the Korean car companies for several years. Daewoo suspended operations at its main Pupyong plant in February to reduce inventories and aims to cut nearly 7,000 workers. Mr. Pyo expects GM's offer to be low, with a very small amount of cash up front. Should the offer fall within the $2 billion to $3 billion range, Mr. Pyo says it likely will be accepted.
Mazda execs take sympathy pay cut
Mazda Motor Corp. executives agree to take a 10% pay cut, a sympathy move for the 1,800 workers being asked to take early retirement this month, Mazda President Mark Fields says in published reports. The uniform 10% cut applies to all 25 members on the board of directors. The pay cuts, Mr. Fields says, are designed to show that senior managers are doing their part "in taking painful action as the rest of the company." Mazda has been trying to trim its workforce as part of a grand-scale economic restructuring plan, with a goal to reduce its 22,000-employee rolls by 8% through voluntary retirement of white-collar workers. The plan up to now has not met with success because white-collar workers were not volunteering to retire. So far, under the latest appeal, several hundred workers have agreed to an early retirement.


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The tryout refund policy that existed for the last 4 years will no longer be in effect.
How are the teams finalized? Instead of the old way of putting teams together for ex. U14, U16, U18. The teams will now be put together one birth year at a time. In the past players who were considered a first year would have a difficult time making the team. With the teams broken down by birth year it allows all players a chance to participate and represent their province/state.
I heard there were scouts at the tournament, is this true? Yes, this is true. The Americans have a large Collegiate Roller Hockey Program. The Colleges send out their scouting staffs to attend the tournament in an effort to find their future players. The scouting process begins with the 13-14 yr olds where they are identified and ends with the 17-18 year olds with invites to tryout camps and scholarships.
Why State Wars over other tournaments? This is currently one of the larger Roller Hockey events in North America and continues to grow in size each year, In 2017 it eclipsed 300 teams. State Wars is the only State/Provincial tournament of its kind for the sport of Roller Hockey. As well it will be an event that stands alone when players/parents look back on their Roller Hockey experiences. This is now the only tournament in North America where you will have the opportunity to play teams from all corners of Canada, the US and around the world.
Whats the estimated cost of having my child participate in the program? The estimated cost including flight, hotel, team gear, tournament registration, food and entertainment would be approximately $2800.
I've heard there is potential to have more then one team per birth year. How does that work? There are 3 divisions of play AAA, AA, A in each birth year. If the numbers of players trying out is sufficient we will attempt to put teams toghether in each division.


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Australia's move to a demand-driven higher education system has not increased the proportion of poor students entering the system, a report has concluded.
According to The Australian newspaper, the forthcoming report by Australia's National Centre for Vocational Education Research finds that although the demand-driven system - which was fully implemented in 2012 - has led to more students entering higher education, most of the extra places have been taken up by students from relatively wealthy backgrounds.
The report, The Factors Affecting the Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Young Australians, also finds that the uncapping of apprenticeship places has not led to more wealthy students becoming apprentices. It says that the only change wrought by the demand-driven system in the university and college sectors has been a slight lowering of entry standards.


The potential combination of Germany's two largest lenders to create a national champion, with the government as a major shareholder, may seem the antithesis of American financial capitalism. Dig beneath the surface, however, and myriad links to Wall Street reveal themselves.
Take Goldman Sachs. The U.S. firm, along with Rothschild, is among its advisers. Deutsche chairman Paul Achleitner is a Goldman alumnus, as is John Thain, who sits on Deutsche's supervisory board.
The German government, which owns a 15 percent stake in Commerzbank, is pushing for a deal, according to local media reports. One of its keenest supporters is Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. Last year he appointed Joerg Kukies, the former co-head of Goldman's German and Austrian operations, as his deputy.
Citi is advising Deutsche, according to a person familiar with the situation. U.S. private equity fund Cerberus, meanwhile, is an investor in both Deutsche and Commerzbank. Its President Matt Zames, who is currently advising Deutsche on treasury and liquidity issues, was previously JPMorgan's chief operating officer.
It's no surprise that European companies turn to American banks for merger advice. For the past five years Wall Street groups have dominated the league table for German M&A fees by deal value, according to Refinitiv. Deutsche hasn't bagged the top spot in four years. The last time a European investment bank featured in the top five M&A advisers in the region was Deutsche back in 2014.
That's one incentive to create a regional banking champion. Together Deutsche and Commerzbank would have assets worth nearly 2 trillion euros, rivalling France's BNP Paribas. Still, the prospect of rainmakers advising on how to slash tens of thousands of jobs is unlikely to endear them to the German public.
After years of trying to build up a global investment bank capable of competing with American rivals, Deutsche is now applying M&A skills to itself. The irony is that Wall Street will play a big part in making it happen.


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Well, that's what happened to a mum in the UK, who forked out £500 ($AU872) on a new fridge and had it delivered to her home.
Jacinta Ford spoke to The Sun Online, and described the smell; "I can't even describe it, it was so pungent.
"For a second, it didn't even dawn on me that the smell was from the fridge-freezer, because as far as I was concerned, it was brand spanking new.
"It made me heave." Jacinta revealed she first realised something was wrong when she pressed the water dispenser and water came flooding out — with the overwhelming stench surrounding her when she opened the door to discover mould.
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A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi – Blog Tour, Book Review and Giveaway
I received a free copy of A House for Happy Mothers for my honest review from TLC Book Tours.
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (June 1, 2016)
A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season.
In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much—raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads—but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset—her womb—to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faith in a woman she's never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true.
Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India's rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world—and renewed hope to each other.
Amulya Malladi is the author of six novels, including The Sound of Language and The Mango Season. Her books have been translated into several languages, including Dutch, German, Spanish, Danish, Romanian, Serbian, and Tamil. She has a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she works as a marketing executive for a global medical device company. She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and two children.
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There are so many underlying themes in this book from the desire to have a baby, family dynamics, the economics of the poor, the ethics of surrogacy and privilege. The heart of the story belongs to Priya who desperately wants a baby. She has been trying and trying; she's suffered several miscarriages and failed IVF treatments. She is OVERWHELMED with wanting to have a baby. Her husband supports her but he'd be fine with or without and it's leading to strains in their marriage. Priya learns of a program where underprivileged women in India will act as surrogates and she sees this as the answer to her prayers. Others around her aren't so sure.
Asha is a poor woman in India with two children. Her son is academically advanced and he is completely bored in his current school but she and her husband cannot afford to send him to a better school. Her husband wants out of the tiny village where they live and into the city. He encourages her to become a surrogate for the money – to him it's no big deal. Then they can buy a flat and he can find a better job. He gives absolutely NO consideration to the emotional toll it will take on her. He also does not think spending the money on their son's education should be a priority. He is more concerned with his ego.
The House for Happy Mothers is where Priya's world and Asha's worlds come together and each woman learns that what they thought about the other's life is not necessarily true. Nor is the house full of happy mothers.
This was a very interesting book for so many reasons. It is so far off of my radar for reading genre and in regards to my life in general but something about it intrigued me. I'm glad I took the chance on it. It's not perfect, I think it could have goon even deeper into some of the issues – but perhaps the author chose not to intentionally. It could be she wanted to leave the book on the lighter side. Is it ok for a rich woman to pay a poor woman to carry her child? Is it exploitation or is it helping that woman climb out of poverty? In a patriarchal society is the woman really making the decision or is she being pressured into it by a husband? Lots of very interesting questions arise.
The book is well written. Most characters are well developed and the storyline was fascinating to me. I've never had that baby lust that drives the plot but I was still turning the pages to see how everything played out. It's a book that makes you think and I was still thinking long after I had turned the last page.
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Exciting news out of Singapore! The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Singapore recently announced its new Board leadership and Committee Co-Chairs for 2017.
James Sampson, Vice President & General Manager of DataXu APAC, will join the board along with other distinguished members across a wide section of industry players from publisher, agency and technology platforms alike. A longtime member of the IAB Singapore, James has served as co-chair of the Programmatic Committee since 2015.
"I am very excited and humbled to be elected to this elite group. Southeast Asia is a collection of high growth markets where we hope to increase the adoption of quality digital advertising through awareness, standards and education initiatives," he commented.
This year's election process was spread over a two-week voting period and was exclusive to IAB members. As of 2017 the IAB APAC has expanded its total board members from eight to 12, reflecting the growth of digital advertising across the region. In the latest IAB APAC ad spend report, digital ad spending is projected to be 44.4% of the total media budget in APAC. That figure is set increase to 53.5% by 2020. Increased demand for mobile, video and social media advertising will drive this growth. Advertisers in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam have been slow to adopt digital in the past. As we look ahead however, due to rapid internet adoption (particularly through smartphones), digital ad spending will begin to surge in those markets.
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Magoo (nacido como Melvin Barcliff el 12 de julio de 1973 en Norfolk, Virginia) es un rapero estadounidense más conocido por formar parte del dúo de hip hop Timbaland & Magoo con el productor Tim "Timbaland" Mosley. Al igual que Timbaland, Magoo comenzó en la industria de la música como un miembro de Swing Mob.

Timbaland & Magoo abandonaron Swing Mob después de 1995 y comenzaron a actuar como dúo. Firmaron con Blackground Records (casa de Aaliyah, una de las principales colaboradores de Timbaland) y lanzaron un gran número de álbumes, no siendo tan exitosos como los sencillos con los que se ganaron el respeto. Singles como "Up Jumps the Boogie [Remix]", "Clock Strikes [Remix]", "Here We Come", "Drop", "All Y'all" y "Cop That Disc" tuvieron mucho éxito, mientras que los álbumes en los que aparecían generalmente no tenían un buen resultado. Su primer LP Welcome To Our World, vendió sobre un millón de copias.

Magoo es distinguido por su extraña, aunque natural, voz aguda, por lo que muchos admiradores de hip-hop dicen ser similar a la de los populares raperos Eazy-E de NWA y Q-Tip de A Tribe Called Quest.

Discografía de Timbaland & Magoo

Álbumes
 1997: Welcome to Our World (Platino)
 1998: Tim's Bio: Life From Tha Bassment
 2001: Indecent Proposal
 2003: Under Construction, Part II

Sencillos
 1997: "Beep Me 911" (Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott con 702 & Magoo)
 1997: "Up Jumps the Boogie [Remix]" (con Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott & Aaliyah)
 1997: "Luv 2 Luv U" (con St. Nick & Playa)
 1997: "Clock Strikes [Remix]" (con Mad Skillz)
 1998: "Here We Come" (con Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott & Darryl Pearson)
 2000: "We At It Again"
 2000: "Roll Out"
 2001: "Drop" (con Fatman Scoop)
 2002: "All Y'all" (con Tweet & Sebastian)
 2003: "Cop That Disc" (con Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott)
 2003: "Indian Flute' (con Sebastian & Raje Shwari)

Referencias

Raperos de Estados Unidos
Nacidos en Norfolk (Virginia)

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I'm having some troubles with I2C MDB Tooldbox implementation using S32144k.
Basicaly I´m sending Write command with address 0xC8 to receive 0x08 address information from this I2C device.
I have this same implementation in S3K144K and another microcontroller.
From NXP the starting of the CLOCK is in PHASE with start of the message sent (address + data), and the I2C device do not reply to my request.
From the other microcontroller with the same implementation and same clock speed, the start of the message sent (address + data) is with 1 clock delay, and I get the information from the I2C device that I was expecting.
Is there any sort of way to modify/delay the message sent? For example modify low level drivers.
Having this in mind, in both cases we have a START condition at first (while SCL is high, SDA goes from high to low), then we get the following data (sampled on the rising edge of SCL): b 1100 1000 (0xC8).
In the NXP_log picture you have highlighted the SCL transitioning from high to low, while in the OTHER_uc_log you have highlighted SDA transitioning from low to high. Note that you have SDA and SCL reversed in the two images.
To answer to your direct question, there is no way to delay the I2C - and there is no phase and/or polarity as in the SPI case - they start with the START condition mentioned above. But again, even though I'm not sure what the problem might be, the 2 frames carry the same information (Write 0xC8 frames from the 2 images you posted).
If you can share what type of device you're trying to communicate with, I can take a look at it, maybe try it out if I can get my hands on the hardware necessary.


One of the quickest avenues through which to lose money as a homeowner is through a draft in your dwelling. In a very short length of time, drafts can easily skyrocket your heating bill. Not only do they create a cooler environment in the home than you desire, drafts also make your furnace run longer and work harder. Similarly, when the weather turns hot, the draft can cause cool air to be lost from your home.
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PCIe SSD vs all-flash for enterprise storage
We run the rule over PCIe SSD and assess its potential as a server-side alternative to all-flash storage, as cache in conjunction with shared storage and in hyperscale environments
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And while much recent interest has focused on all-flash arrays, there are other key locations where flash-based storage can play a big role in accelerating application performance -- and especially Hyperscale computing performance.
Key among these is server-side flash, installed in a PCI Express (PCIe) slot where it can work as local disk storage or as cache for a server. The former replaces at least some of the requirement for all-flash array-style shared storage, while the latter can augment network storage or the server's main memory.
PCIe SSD has several advantages when used as storage local to the server. Not only is it rather cheaper than the same volume of all-flash array capacity, but PCIe eliminates the host bus adapter (HBA) or drive controller and its latency, plus the overhead from the network connection.
This can bring latency down from milliseconds to microseconds. At the same time, all the other benefits solid-state storage has over spinning disk are there, such as lower power consumption, heat generation and vibration, greater robustness and higher density.
Most SSDs today are based on flash but, to be accurate, we should speak of non-volatile memory (NVM) in general. That is because there are other memory types besides flash in use and in development that promise even better performance.
The problem with putting SSD in the server is the same problem you have with any direct-attached storage (DAS).
That is, unless you are going to run specialist disk-sharing software -- for example, using software-defined storage tools to abstract local storage and pool it network-wide -- then local storage is available only to its host server. But, as we will see, there are emerging use-cases such as hyperscale computing, where local SSD can actually be more useful and cost-effective than shared storage in the network.
So, the big advantage of all-flash arrays and other forms of shared storage is that it can be available to any connected system. Unallocated space can be shared, as can data on shared volumes. The former is a win because DAS is typically over-provisioned to allow for future growth and, of course, we typically over-specify by a considerable margin to avoid the pain of having to migrate or rebuild an overloaded server in the future.
Combined with technologies such as thin provisioning, where a logical volume takes up only the physical space on disk that its data requires and not its full provisioned space, shared storage has allowed considerable economies to be achieved. Also, once you add appropriate locking mechanisms, servers and applications can share access to the same data, yielding even more advantage.
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PCIe SSD performance has not increased significantly but new form factors and protocols -- such as NVMe -- have emerged for better connectivity.
New Intel PCIe SSD features dual NVMe controllers and eight lanes of PCI Express 3.0 to target HPC, database and big-data analytic server workloads.
Server-side SSD on a PCIe board can still be useful in this environment as cache, of course. Caching pre-loads the most frequently accessed data, with the master copy still stored on, and synchronised back to, shared storage in the network. This can be a good way to boost the performance of specific applications.
However, the possibility of a cache miss -- where the required data is not cached and must be retrieved normally over the network -- means that the resulting latency improvement is not consistent or guaranteed.
This is made worse by the fact that some applications have data access patterns that are difficult to identify and cache accurately, making cache misses more likely. There are also issues involved in maintaining coherency between local cache and the remote master data, and questions over the suitability for caching of the large files that store entire virtual machines.
More and more interest is therefore turning towards the idea of using server-side PCIe SSD as local working storage, helped both by the falling cost of flash in particular and by two key developments in IT.
The first is the creation of specifications to implement enterprise-grade server-side SSD, and second is the evolution of new computing paradigms that make shared working storage more of a liability than an advantage.
Relevant standard
One relevant standard is obviously PCIe itself, which is currently at generation 3.0, with generation 3.1 coming and 4.0 under development. Architecturally, PCIe is serial, with the ability to consolidate or bond multiple lanes into a single high-speed point-to-point connection.
As well as PC expansion boards, there are 2.5-inch SSDs that use four-lane PCIe over a U.2 (formerly SFF-8639) connector, while two-lane PCIe is also part of the SATA Express (SATAe) specification for external storage that is intended to succeed SATA 3.0.
In addition, the Intel/Apple Thunderbolt interface incorporates four-lane PCIe, while there are specifications to extend PCIe outside the system box, turning it into a kind of short-range storage network but without the latency of a SAN.
Perhaps more important, in some ways, is NVM Express (NVMe), which is a specification to access solid-state storage on a PCIe device (whether PCIe, U.2 or SATAe). It allows the host to take full advantage of the parallelism and low latency of a PCIe-connected SSD, where formerly these devices required proprietary software drivers.
In effect, where PCIe cuts out the storage controller latency, NVMe removes most of the remaining software latency. NVMe means the operating system needs only one standard driver to support any NVMe SSD -- and SSD developers do not need to create their own drivers, thus removing the scope for compatibility issues they can bring. It is also optimised for solid-state storage, unlike superficially similar technologies developed in simpler and slower days, such as AHCI.
(Not all server chipsets will support PCIe 3.0, though, so you need to check. You also need to ensure your server and your storage product support NVMe and the right level of cabling.)
Hyperscale computing
Then, building on that underlying evolution in the server platform comes the paradigm shift toward hyperscale computing.
Legacy applications were built on the assumption that high reliability would be baked into the infrastructure, but the same is not true of the modern scale-out design models popularised by the likes of Google and Facebook. Here, the hyperscale concept comprises independent yet connected nodes where redundancy is at the level of entire server/storage nodes rather than components in the server and shared storage architecture.
So where legacy applications require shared storage in case they need to failover, and are therefore better suited to an all-flash array-type deployment, modern scale-out applications can have thousands of clustered nodes. Each node is typically based on off-the-shelf hardware and provides compute, storage and networking resources.
The nodes are then clustered together and managed as a single entity, replicating among themselves for availability via distributed storage platforms such as Apache Cassandra, Ceph and Hadoop -- you could even call the result a redundant array of inexpensive servers.
All of a sudden, the advantage of having local storage with super-low latency becomes greater than the disadvantage of that storage not being shared.
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Volzhsky Utyos Rural Settlement () is an administrative and municipal division (a rural settlement) of Shigonsky District of Samara Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Volzhsky Utyos. Population: 2,303 (2010 Census);

Settlements
 Berezovka
 Komarovka
 Volzhsky Utyos (administrative center)

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Rural settlements of Russia


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Does our faith belong in the public square?
In more than 30 years of pastoral ministry, I am having conversations these days that are different than anything I have ever seen. I see people, some inside my church, many more outside of my church, who are succumbing I think to the temptation to despair. They look at current events. They watch what's happening on the news. And they just throw up their hands and say, "I don't know what to do. I'm not an influencer. I'm not a mover and shaker. I'm not a person of power or influence. And it just seems like the world is spiraling out of control."
The temptation that the enemy sends our way in that kind of moment is a temptation to withdraw into ourselves and just sort of "go along to get along." To let the culture just go its way and we'll just do our own private thing.
Actually, that's not new. It happened 95 years ago this month. Ninety-five years ago in a little town called Dayton, TN there was one of the most significant legal battles in the history of the United States. We call it today the "Scopes Monkey Trial." But it was simply a trial for a substitute science teacher in the little town of Dayton, TN who intentionally taught the idea of evolution to his students. He did this so that he would be arrested so that the ACLU could have a test case of the Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution.
His name was John Scopes and the defense was put on by the American Civil Liberties Union. They enlisted the help of the leading secularist of the 1920's, a lawyer by the name of Clarence Darrow. William Jennings Bryan, who was a populist Democrat presidential candidate and a conservative Christian, volunteered his services for the prosecution. And what turned into a spectacle was this battle between the "scientific secularist" Darrow and the "Bible thumping" William Jennings Bryan.
What happened was Darrow only called one witness. He called Bryan, the opposing lawyer to the stand. And Bryan, a layman with no theological education just a simple faith, did not acquit himself well on stand. He didn't answer Darrow's questions about the creation of man and other questions that were put to him. And the bottom line is Darrow made his opposition look like a fool. It was the first trial in American history that was broadcast nationwide by radio. People all across the country listened every single day. And as conservative Christianity was ridiculed, as the editorials in major newspapers in major cities across America made fun of Bryan and his Sunday School answers, Christians did something that we still have not recovered from. Conservative Christians said, "Fine. We'll withdraw from the culture." And they did. And beginning in the late 20's, Christianity in America became a private enterprise. It became something that was divorced from the public square.
By the time Christianity had been out of involvement of public morals for a generation, we see prayer removed from the school systems. We see the Roe vs Wade opinion in the early 1970's. And it was really not until the 1980's, fifty years later that Christians began to say, "Maybe we made a mistake. Maybe we should be influencers. Maybe we should be speaking truth to power. Maybe we should be involved in the civic life of our country."
Well, we find ourselves in the same position that they were in in the 1920's. Christianity is ridiculed. Christians are made to feel like they are intellectually vapid, that we have nothing to offer. We're told to sit down and shut up. "If you want to go to your church and do your thing in private, then you do that." By the way, that won't last.
But, we've got a generation of people who say, "I'm just tired of being in this position. Maybe I'll just withdraw and I'll just do Christianity on my own, in private. We'll just have our church services and we'll let the world go to hell in a hand basket."
That's older than ninety-five years ago. Actually, there's a scene in the Old Testament in the book of 1 Kings with a couple of kings. One by the name of Omri and then his son Ahab, two of the worst kings in Israel's history, they combined for almost 40 years of terrible leadership in the nation of Israel. But while the kings were bad, the most disturbing part of the story in the Old Testament is that the average person, the regular people, just began to go along with the flow. They trivialized the sins of their leaders and in essence withdrew from speaking truth to power. And they just let the culture drift.
Let me read you a couple of verses in 1 Kings 16. In verses 29,30 it says:
"Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Judah's King Asa; Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the LORD's sight more than all who went before him."
I mean I guess everybody has to be good at something. And Ahab was good at being the best "worst" king in Israel. He did more evil than all of those who went before him. Now that tells us about Ahab but the next statement tells us about the regular people in Israel. Verse 30 says:
Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not enough, he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and bow in worship to him.
What happened was in the king's sin the rest of the culture just accepted the corruption of leadership. And it continued to cascade downward until he married a woman named Jezebel, who brought all of her pagan gods, all of her false prophets, all of her heathen priests into Israel and completely compromised the spiritual life of a nation.
There's a Washington Post ABC poll recently that tells us something that we really didn't need a poll to tell us. It tells us that 64% of the American public believes most Congressman would make campaign promises they had no intention of keeping. 73% said the majority of representatives would lie if the truth would hurt them politically. And yet, we see across the board it's almost impossible for incumbents to lose because people keep voting for them.
In other words, we have this kind of cynical attitude in our nation that says, "Our leadership is corrupt. We know they're lying to us. The politicians are mostly corrupt. The media is mostly untrustworthy." And yet, we still vote for the politicians. We still listen to the media. What that says is that as a culture it's on us for withdrawing into ourselves and allowing ourselves to just drift down the river in the direction that the culture is taking us. We've trivialized sin as though as long as it's not "on me," it doesn't really matter.
Well, in Ahab's day God raised up one of the most powerful prophets of the Old Testament. His name was Elijah. God raised up Elijah and used him to lead a movement to purge the nation of ungodly leadership, of ungodly spiritual guidance and to turn the hearts of the people back to Him. But Elijah, in all the difficulties of his day, finds himself after some great spiritual victories, he finds himself sitting under a tree asking God to take his life.
You say, "How can Elijah of all people, think that he just wants to die because things are so bad?" It's because Elijah fell victim to the idea that he was the only one serving God. See, that's the problem with us. We pull back because we think if we speak out on social media, if we talk to our co-workers, if we challenge the assumptions of secularism, people will ridicule us. They'll turn on us. It's called the "cancel culture." And we fall victim to the idea that we can't do that because number one, we're the only one. And number two, we tell ourselves all the time, "Well, I'm no Elijah. I'm not a great man leading great movements."
Here's what God told Elijah when he found himself under that tree just asking to die. He said, "Lord just take my life, just let me die. I'm the only one in Israel who serves you." And God comes to him and says this, "There are still seven thousand men in Israel who follow Me and have not bowed their knees to the false god, Baal."
Elijah needed to be encouraged that he was not the only one. I think we need to fight the discouragement, the temptation to withdraw, the apathy that allows us to just sort of drift with the culture, to trivialize sin, to just shrug our shoulders and say, "Well, you know, it is what it is." We need to capture the idea that there are a lot of people still seeking after God, still chasing after Jesus. We are not alone.
It's easy for us to say, "Well, I'm no Elijah." That's ok. God raises up Elijahs in His perfect timing. You don't have to be an Elijah. You just have to be one of the seven thousand who does what's right, who takes sin seriously, who intercedes at the Throne of Grace for God to move in power in this generation. You just need to be faithful. Quit trivializing sin. Quit allowing our leaders to get away without being spoken to. Quit allowing those conversations at work to go unchallenged. Do what's right. Be faithful as a people of God. Be one of the seven thousand.
It's interesting. We've got to do two things. Instead of giving up, instead of withdrawing, we need to stand for what's right. We need to speak truth in every conversation, in each situation in which we find ourselves. We need to stand up for what's right and speak truth.
And secondly, we need to support each other. You know Ronald Reagan in the 1980's, he had a saying as the leader of the Republican party. He used to say that the eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not criticize your own party." I think we need to capture that in a non-partisan way and say, "You know, right now in the world in which we live, our eleventh commandment is Jesus followers should not criticize other Jesus followers."
I've been stunned in recent days as the Governor of California has tried to shut down churches. He doesn't mind protests. He's not against riots. He just wants to shut down churches. A mega-church pastor issues a statement and says, "We don't answer to the state. We will continue to meet." And the greatest criticism of that pastor has come from other pastors and evangelical leaders across the country. I've been stunned at which side different Christian leaders fall on.
It's not time for us to press against each other. It's time for us to understand that we're a part of the seven thousand. Minority that may be, but with God we can impact this culture. But we got to quit cannibalizing our own people.
The first Great Awakening in America almost didn't get off the ground because there were pastors critical of the churches that were breaking out in revival. It has always been this way. Let us quit throwing rocks at other Jesus followers because they don't do this or that exactly the way we would do it. Let us come together and be a part of the seven thousand that have not bowed our knee to the gods of this generation. And let's rally behind the Elijahs that God raises up. And let's change the culture.
Ninety-five years ago Christians withdrew and we still haven't recovered. We owe it to the generations who come after to live the life of Christ on public display in our words, with our actions, and without shame. Get up and get back in the game.
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Asked by: Janire Frielinghaus
asked in category: General Last Updated: 8th June, 2020
Is soy sauce bad for gluten intolerance?
Most standard soy sauces contain gluten , while most tamari soy sauces are gluten -free. However, you should always look for gluten -free labeling on the packaging.
Keeping this in view, can you have soy sauce if you are gluten intolerant?
No. Traditionally, soy sauce is made from four main ingredients: soybeans, wheat, salt and water. First, Aspergillus mold is added to cooked soybeans and wheat. Even though soy sauce does not have intact gluten , it can still elicit a reaction because these immunogenic peptides are still present.
Beside above, how much gluten is in soy? A 2010 study by celiac dietitian Tricia Thompson on gluten in so-called ' gluten -free' grains found that soy was one of the most cross-contaminated grain. In fact, one sample of soy flour contained a whopping 2,925 parts per million of gluten .
In respect to this, is there gluten in Kikkoman soy sauce?
The gluten in Kikkoman Naturally Brewed Soy Sauce is below the detection limit of 10 ppm (according to tests by independent institutes). We recommend Tamari Gluten -free Soy Sauce for people with gluten intolerance.
Does gluten free soy sauce have yeast?
All Tamari soy sauces are yeast free . However, Shoyu soy sauce contains yeast .
Do potatoes have gluten?
The simple answer is yes — potatoes are gluten-free. Gluten is a type of protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and other grains. Potatoes aren't grains, they're a type of starchy vegetable. That's good news for people who can't tolerate gluten because they have celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
Is white rice gluten free?
Yes, all rice (in its natural form) is gluten-free. This includes brown rice, white rice and wild rice. In this case, the "glutinous" term refers to the sticky nature of the rice and not the gluten protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Rice is one of the most popular gluten-free grains for people with celiac disease.
Is peanut butter gluten free?
In its natural form, both peanuts and peanut butter are gluten-free. Many store-bought brands of peanut butter are also gluten-free, with gluten-containing peanut butter tending to be the exception rather than the rule.
Is oatmeal gluten free?
The short answer is YES — non-contaminated, pure oats are gluten-free. They are safe for most people with gluten-intolerance. The main problem with oats in gluten-free eating is contamination. Most commercial oats are processed in facilities that also process wheat, barley, and rye.
Does Mayo have gluten?
Mayonnaise or "mayo" is typically made from naturally gluten-free ingredients: eggs, oil, vinegar, lemon and sometimes mustard/mustard seed or other spices. Mayo brands that have a gluten-free label have passed thorough testing and are safe to eat for people with celiac disease.
Is soy sauce healthy?
Despite its high sodium content, soy sauce can still be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet, especially if you are limiting processed food and mostly consuming fresh, whole foods with plenty of fruits and vegetables. Summary Soy sauce is high in sodium, which is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure.
Is ketchup gluten free?
Heinz Ketchup. Heinz, which makes the most popular ketchup in the U.S., is considered gluten-free to 20 parts per million. For those who are sensitive to vinegar made from gluten grains, Heinz reports that its distilled vinegar is made from corn, not wheat, sources.
Does chocolate contain gluten?
Chocolate by itself in its pure unsweetened form doesn't have any gluten. However many chocolate products will have gluten due to additives that have been added.
What brand of soy sauce is gluten free?
Here are several varieties of gluten-free soy sauce: Kikkoman Gluten-Free Soy Sauce. Kikkoman Tamari Soy Sauce. San-J Tamari Gluten-Free Soy Sauce.
Is Worcestershire sauce gluten free?
Yes, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce is gluten-free (see below), but Heinz 57 steak sauce is not on the list of gluten-free steak sauces. Ingredients include distilled white vinegar (which can be derived from gluten grains), molasses, sugar, onion, anchovies, tamarind, red pepper, and other spices.
What alcohol is gluten free?
Yes, pure, distilled liquor, even if made from wheat, barley, or rye, is considered gluten-free. Gluten-free liquors (after distillation) include: Bourbon. Whiskey/Whisky. Tequila. Gin. Vodka. Rum. Cognac. Brandy.
Is butter gluten free?
Butter is gluten-free. While some cheeses can have additives or flavorings that contain gluten, butter is usually a low risk unless flavored.
Does hoisin sauce have gluten?
Hoisin. This Hoisin Sauce is made from our famous Tamari soy sauce with 100% soybeans and no wheat content, certified gluten-free by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization and verified Non-GMO by the Non-GMO Project.
Is Kikkoman a soy sauce?
Kikkoman soy sauce is naturally brewed (see Soy Sauce, Traditional Production). After soaking in water for an extended period, soybeans are steamed at high temperature before they are mixed with crushed roasted wheat. Salt is added, which acts as an anti-bacterial agent and preservative.
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The benefits of tourism in a small island like Haiti are plentiful, but the country's political instability and inadequate infrastructure keep hoteliers from capitalizing on its Caribbean shores.
Haiti's prime minister says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so it can get on its feet after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Saturday he recognizes that's an ambitious dream for a country where 52 percent of the people live below the poverty line and where infrastructure is desperately lacking.
Still, he pushed that concept — and a bid to build up Haiti's tourism industry — in meetings with CEOs this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"Haiti is open for business," Lamothe said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Haiti still has huge humanitarian needs and little more than half of the $5.3 billion in aid promised after the earthquake has been disbursed.
Yet humanitarian groups are unlikely to go away, for they have long provided basic services to Haitians because the government can barely do so.
Lamothe argued that his visit to Davos — a pricey Alpine resort reserved for business and political leaders this week — was a worthwhile venture that would bear fruit for his Caribbean country, such as an investment pledge from Heineken and new projects with Coca-Cola.
The prime minister called building up the tourism industry "a very high priority," noting that a five-star hotel was already under construction and that new tourist police would provide security for visitors in a country with a turbulent past.
Yet efforts to bring in foreign investors and tourists could prove a tough sell. Haiti is expected to hold legislative elections this year, and the run-up could be fraught with political agitation and protests.
The capital, Port-au-Prince, is also crowded, dirty and clogged with traffic.
Haiti is still clearing the last rubble from the 2010 quake, which killed about 316,000 people. Another 350,000 Haitians are still living in impromptu camps. The reconstruction effort has been slow due to political paralysis and the level of devastation.
Trenton Daniel in Port-au-Prince contributed to this report.


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Frédéric François Louis Perrier (* 22. Mai 1849 in Neuchâtel; † 16. Mai 1913 in Bern, heimatberechtigt in Orges und Sainte-Croix; überwiegend Louis Perrier genannt) war ein Schweizer Architekt und Politiker (FDP). Er entwarf zahlreiche Bahnhöfe und andere öffentliche Gebäude. Nach politischer Tätigkeit auf Gemeinde- und Kantonsebene gehörte er ab 1902 dem Nationalrat an. 1912 folgte die Wahl in den Bundesrat, er starb aber nach nur 13-monatiger Amtszeit.

Biografie

Studium und Beruf
Der älteste Sohn des Architekten Louis-Daniel Perrier und von Cécile Dardel erhielt seine Schulbildung in Neuchâtel. 1868 begann er an der Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart ein Architekturstudium, das er drei Jahre später am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum Zürich mit einem Diplom abschloss. Erste berufliche Erfahrungen sammelte er zusammen mit seinem Vater, unter anderem 1878/79 mit der Projektierung des Hauptsitzes des Internationalen Büros für Mass und Gewicht in Sèvres bei Paris.

Daraufhin machte sich Perrier selbständig und erhielt zahlreiche Aufträge für öffentliche Gebäude. Dazu gehören die Hauptpost von La Chaux-de-Fonds, das Spital von Saignelégier, die Universität Neuchâtel, die Kasernen von Colombier sowie die Schulen von Les Verrières und Marin. Hinzu kommen der Bahnhof von Le Locle und sämtliche Bahnhöfe an der Broyelinie zwischen Lyss und Palézieux. Ausserdem war er Bauleiter der Strassenbahnlinie Neuchâtel–Boudry und der Wasserleitung zwischen der Areuse-Schlucht und Neuchâtel. Perrier, der zeitlebens Junggeselle blieb, verfolgte auch eine militärische Karriere. 1896 zum Obersten befördert, befehligte er die Genietruppen des 1. Armeekorps. Von 1902 bis 1906 war er Kommandant der Festung Saint-Maurice.

Politik
1888 begann Perriers politische Karriere, als er in den Conseil général, der Legislative der Stadt Neuchâtel, gewählt wurde. Diesem gehörte er bis 1891 und erneut von 1894 bis 1903 an. Bei den Parlamentswahlen 1902 liess er sich als Kandidat der FDP zum Nationalrat wählen. 1903 erfolgte zusätzlich die Wahl in den Neuenburger Staatsrat, in welchem er das Baudepartement übernahm. In dieser Funktion leitete er unter anderem umfangreiche Restaurierungsarbeiten am Schloss Neuchâtel. Im Nationalrat erwarb er sich den Ruf, besonders kompetent zu sein.

Nachdem Bundesrat Robert Comtesse seinen Rücktritt angekündigt hatte, bestimmte eine Gruppe Westschweizer Parlamentarier Perrier zum Kandidaten für dessen Nachfolge. Liberale Zeitungen beschrieben ihn als freundlichen, intelligenten und kultivierten Mann, der dank seiner Umgänglichkeit, Willensstärke, Erfahrung und Entschlossenheit ein guter Bundesrat und Verwalter sein werde. Einziger ernsthafter Gegner war der frühere Bundesrat Adrien Lachenal, der dreizehn Jahre nach seinem Rücktritt erneut antreten wollte, seine Kandidatur aber wieder zurückzog. Die Bundesversammlung wählte Perrier am 12. März 1912 in die Landesregierung, wobei er sich im ersten Wahlgang mit 160 von 192 gültigen Stimmen durchsetzte. Auf Professor Eugène Borel jr. (Sohn des gleichnamigen Bundesrates) entfielen elf Stimmen, auf weitere Personen 21 Stimmen; 21 Wahlzettel waren leer.

Sein Amt als Bundesrat trat Perrier am 15. April 1912 an. Er übernahm die Leitung des Post- und Eisenbahndepartements. Sein Ziel war es, die letzten privaten Eisenbahnen der Schweiz in Bundesbesitz zu überführen, was nur zum Teil gelang. Zu Beginn des Jahres 1913 wechselte er ins Departement des Innern und begann mit der Ausarbeitung eines Gesetzes über die Nutzbarmachung der Wasserkräfte. Doch etwas mehr als fünf Monate später starb er unerwartet nach kurzer Krankheit. Bis heute ist Perrier jener Bundesrat mit der kürzesten Amtszeit.

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Philanthropy Magnified: The Unique Power of Recoverable Grants
Giving Compass Sep 21, 2018
[Photo credit: Upaya Social Ventures]
When thinking about the causes that are near and dear, most donors think about their contributions to their favorite nonprofits as "one way" transactions. A check is written, sent off, and expected to result in tangible social benefit. The money converts into a metric, one that ideally moves the needle on a particular issue.
What if we could add a dimension to this tried-and-true model: not only does the money effect social change, but it then comes back to the donor, in part or in full? What if it could even come back to the donor with some small financial return on top?
This possibility raises exciting and important implications for the traditional model of philanthropy. The donor suddenly has options to re-deploy the returned funds for additional impact. They can also pledge the returns to the same nonprofit, and have the organization regularly report back on the "multiplied" impact those dollars are having in the future.
Our organization, Upaya Social Ventures, operates at the intersection of traditional capital markets and philanthropy. For the past seven years, we have raised philanthropic dollars and put them to work as investment capital into early-stage enterprises that employ the poorest of the poor in India. We fundamentally believe that philanthropic capital is the best risk capital, and is able to penetrate highly marginalized communities and environments where traditional investment capital fears to tread.
To date, Upaya has invested in 14 companies in India that have created more than 10,500 dignified jobs ranging from manufacturing eco-friendly palm leaf dinnerware to recycling corporate waste to increasing incomes for smallholder farmers. Despite the diversity of these jobs, across our portfolio we see jobholders moving out of extreme poverty within one year of starting a job. Of the 14 companies invested in, Upaya has experienced three successful exits.
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How Recoverable Grants Work
In the past, we have successfully experimented with recoverable grants; several foundations have provided grants to be invested into specific companies. If, after an agreed-upon tenure (say five years) Upaya is able to exit successfully, we return the original grant to the foundation and in some cases provide some small return on top. This return is negotiated with the donor as part of the grant agreement but will always be below a market rate return to satisfy IRS guidelines. Whatever remains is recycled within Upaya and committed to the furthering of our mission.
Recoverable grants are appropriate to support the kind of program activity that leads to asset building—situations where capital is needed to stimulate economic development, but is not needed for ongoing subsidy. From the donor's perspective, they can be a great tool to magnify the impact of the donor's philanthropic dollars.
However, they can be more complicated to structure and account for and there is no guarantee of a return. In the event that the recoverable grant is not returned, the grant is treated as a traditional philanthropic gift that drove positive social outcomes.
This fall, Upaya is scaling up this practice. Instead of putting in place one-off, bi-lateral agreements with foundations, Upaya is launching a campaign powered by a select group of donors who are creating a pool of recoverable grants.
Participants in the pool commit to units of $50,000 each, payable to Upaya to draw-down as investments warrant over five years. These funds get pooled with other donors' funds and will be used to make up to 20 investments in the first five years. By pooling funds, we diversify the portfolio and hence, there is a greater chance of portfolio-level return, which will be distributed by Year 10, the final year of the pool.
Our due diligence targets early-stage enterprises that are primed to expand and, above all, positioned to create hundreds or thousands of lasting, dignified jobs for the extreme poor. As the businesses grow and our investments are returned, those philanthropic dollars grow and are renewed for even further impact. Donors can choose whether to have their returns paid out or re-committed to Upaya.
What is exciting about this recoverable grant pool, and other like-minded initiatives (Ceniarth recently unveiled its Impact First Capital Preservation strategy in a similar spirit), is that we are building on traditional philanthropy, creating additional innovative tools to help plug gaps in market-based economies, and benefit those who may otherwise be left behind.
As an organization, Upaya will always be committed to impact first. We will undoubtedly have cases where we help build jobs in extremely difficult environments, and perhaps those businesses do not produce significant financial return … so we're left with unremarkable financial return, but tremendous social return. Our own experience, however, does tell us that we'll also have businesses that are hugely successful financially, whose proceeds can pave the way for future enterprise development. We have a duty to deploy philanthropic funds in creative ways to ensure we will always have the resources to fuel our most exciting, world-changing ventures.
Support organizations like Upaya Social Ventures, that are creating job opportunities for those living in poverty.
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Original contribution by Sachi Shenoy, Chief Impact Officer and Co-founder, and Kate Cochran CEO at Upaya Social Ventures.
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Mourning Doves are one of the most common species of birds in the country.
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Here you're seeing a female Mourning Dove sitting on a spot she's chosen for her nesting site. Once she's chosen a site, the male will go in search of fine twigs and grasses and carry them to her to arrange as she pleases. Photo by Mary K. Hanson.
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Coo-hoo-woo-woo-woo. It's an easily recognizable sound. The gentle cooing of the Mourning Dove (Zenaida marginella) is most often performed by the male of the species when he's courting a female or reestablishing a bond with a mate. The doves are generally monogamous, especially if they don't participate in any form of migration.
Some individuals migrate, others do not. (Some have actually shown up in Canada and Great Britain!) It's very often the availability of food sources that determine their migration status. So, keeping platform-type bird feeders available to them in your yard or garden year-round will encourage them to stay. Bear in mind that the doves eat most often from the ground, so if you have feeders around, keep your cats indoors.
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You can help the doves with nesting sites by providing them with simple wire- or twig-mesh nesting cones in the trees around your house or property. The construction of these cones is simple enough for children to produce, and detailed instructions including the optimal places to secure the cones can be found online at Nest Watch (https://nestwatch.org).
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Future Rock: Shredding Enclosures
Sam Bell
Chops: Advanced
Theory: Intermediate
Lesson Overview:
• Use enclosures to target chord tones.
• Create compelling lines by adding chromatic notes to symmetrical fingerings.
• Improve your hybrid-picking and legato techniques.
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It can be incredibly easy to become trapped within a set of comfortable fingerings. When that happens, your lines begin to feel stale and predictable. In this column, I'd like to introduce you to some jazz-influenced phrasing ideas that fit quite nicely in a three-note-per-string framework. The centerpiece of this concept is what's called an enclosure. Simply speaking, it's when you target a note by surrounding it with other—possibly non-diatonic—notes to create more tension and interest. Think of short phrases that highlight certain diatonic notes on strong beats while adding chromatic notes on either side of the diatonic ones. Even with only a few chromatic enclosure fingerings under your belt, you can start to add a slightly jazzier sound to your rock licks.
Each phrase in this lesson demonstrates just a small amount of what you can do with chromatic ideas. Be sure to take what you like from the licks and try to apply them to some of your favorite rock licks. For example, I had a lot of fun mixing these enclosure ideas with some classic Paul Gilbert-style runs. Though the phrases I play here mostly use legato and hybrid picking, I encourage you to try this concept with whatever techniques you find comfortable.
Before we start, it's very important to be aware of how playing chromatic passages, especially faster ones, can affect the rhythmic and harmonic movement of your line. The enclosures I'm using in the first few examples are structured to let diatonic notes fall on strong beats of the measure or in strong segments of the subdivision. Some of the lines later in the lesson really demonstrate how we can simply use chromatic legato rolls to add an extra sense of speed and style to our classic shred licks and phrases.
Ex. 1 demonstrates a three-note-per-string scale fragment in the key of Em that uses two different fingering combinations on each string. In the first measure we outline the basic fingering using a legato feel. In the last measure we add in some chromatic notes.
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For Ex. 2 we'll use a symmetrical scale pattern (shown in the first measure). Notice how we make sure to land on a chord tone on beat 3 of each measure. Both this example and Ex. 1 will be the basis for most of the lines we'll cover in the lesson. Look for these chromatic enclosures in all diatonic fingerings and other scales.
In this lick (Ex. 3), I wanted to show how we can directly apply the enclosures we looked at in Ex. 1. You will notice the use of slides and legato throughout this line. I also added in a few double notes on the start of beat 3 of the second measure to create a cool syncopated effect.
Ex. 4 uses the enclosures we looked at in the first two examples, but this time we are in the key of C major. We're using a strict 16th-note feel all the way up until the last few beats of the third measure. You'll notice I've included some full chromatic legato rolls throughout the example. Don't get caught up in the rhythmic subdivisions in the third measure—they're simply a guide.
Ex. 5 features a really funky C Dorian (C–D–Eb–F–G–A–Bb) phrase that was inspired by Greg Howe. We are using a wider chromatic enclosure pattern to open the lick up. This enclosure pattern can be used for any diatonic fingering that features two whole tones next to each other. The lick uses some hybrid picking to pedal back and forth between the 4th and 3rd strings in the first measure.
We'll go full shred in Ex. 6, which shows how to combine diatonic legato lines and chromatic legato rolls for a really crazy-sounding shred lick. Rather than being all chromatic and sounding like a video "game over" screen, the diatonic notes bring a harmonic and rhythmic framework into the mostly chromatic line.
Last but not least, this terrifying rhythmic 16th-note triplet phrase (Ex. 7) uses a pattern of descending groups of three in C# minor and was heavily inspired by Nick Johnston. Be sure to keep very relaxed during this line, especially when it gets chromatic on the 3rd string. I visualize this part as just a three-finger phrase on the 9th, 10th, and 11th frets moving down towards the 8th, 9th, and 10th, respectively. This makes the lick much easier to execute.
This next audio-only example illustrates how to practice applying new sequences in your improvisation. In Ex. 8 you'll notice I'm navigating the neck with only eighth-notes, trying to find new places to go and ways to apply some of the smaller fragments of the licks we've explored in this lesson. Doing this slow enough allows me to fully think about where I'm headed next and helps my brain process the smaller fragments into a more spontaneous area of my reflexes. Try this with any backing track and have fun developing your own chromatic enclosures.
Sam Bell began playing guitar at age 4, and since then has explored everything from funky blues to screaming metal on an 8-string. A member of tech metal band Mask of Judas, he is also currently writing his own solo instrumental album. For more information, visit sambellguitar.com.
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