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The LDFL Partners with DFI
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (November 8, 2021) -- Two of the most respected American football developmental organizations sent shockwaves through the sport today with the announcement of a Southern California joint-venture partnership for the 2022 season – which both sides believe is an 'audition' for even bigger things to come.
Palm Springs-based Developmental Football International (DFI) has partnered with the LaBelle Developmental Football League (LDFL) – California's long-respected and oldest league, with teams set for play in San Diego, Los Angeles, Downey, Lancaster, Santa Clarita, and greater Palm Springs.
DFI is the nation's first turn-key American developmental football franchise platform. The DFI model fosters self-sufficient teams and wide-spread community impact through its award-winning character education programs, quality-assurance processes, and performance-driven criteria.
For communities, investors, sponsors and advertisers, the landmark DFI-LDFL arrangement is a breath of fresh air – and may well represent the future of this level of the sport.
No other American developmental football platform delivers the processes, protocols and policies as the DFI-LDFL relationship, which replicates the successful business models of established developmental club and pro soccer such as the United Soccer League (USL).
Terms were not disclosed. Nationally, both DFI and the LDFL have been participants in the Gridiron Developmental Football League (GDFL) since 2019.
Officials from both leagues expressed the joint-venture will instantly increase franchise values and demand for its selected 2022 participating teams.
"This partnership strengthens opportunities across the football landscape for our developing players, coaches and executives – and improves communities everywhere we play football throughout Southern California," said LDFL president Tony Reid.
The two leagues represent two of the most popular, successful, and iconic brands and franchises.
In 2014, NFL executives named the six-time champion SoCal Coyotes 'America's #1 Developmental Pro Football Program.' In 2021, the Coyotes were named 'California Nonprofit of the Year' by State Senator Melissa Melendez.
The success of the nine-time champion Inglewood Blackhawks – and former national champions – spans two decades.
The teams are 4-4 in head-to-head play, 1-1 in championship games.
"The consolidation of American developmental football, with the standards and success that is now the norm that pro soccer currently enjoys, must remain the goal of any teams or leagues who expect to be taken seriously by a national fanbase, or national sponsors," said J David Miller, chairman of Coachella Sports & Entertainment Stadium Authority.
DFI is owned and operated by Coachella Sports & Entertainment Stadium Authority (CSESA), which is currently in development of The Shield at 1 Coyote Way, a $400M, multi-purpose sports, medical and entertainment campus in Cathedral City, Calif.
The Shield will be the first stadium of its kind for American developmental football.
-DFI SVP Ron DiGrandi (ron@CSEStadiumAuthority.com)
-LDFL SVP John Colca (john@ldflfootball.com)

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The 4th German IPv6 Summit will take place in Potsdam at December 1-2, 2011. Hosted by the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, the German IPv6 summit provides a forum in which overseas, European, and German experts are addressing current development of IPv6 deployment with a focus on automobile networking. The first day will start with keynotes of high-ranking representatives from government, industry and research on the usage of the new internet protokoll in the automobil and traffic sector as well as on ongoing strategies for IPv6 introduction. In the evening, the winners of the International IPv6 Application Contest 2011 will receive their awards in a festive ceremony, followed by a gala diner. The second day will complement the conference program by addressing the current state of IPv6 deployment and security-specific issues of IPv6 from various perspectives from endusers to service and content-providers including new and innovative IPv6 based applications.
The 4th German IPv6 Summit will be organized by the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University Potsdam in close cooperation with the German IPv6 Council, the national chapter of the International IPv6 Forum.
The German IPv6 Council has been established to group all the different persons in industry, research, politics and administration in the IPv6 field in Germany with the clear mission to advocate IPv6 by improving technology, market, and deployment user and enduser and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet.
Why Bosch rigs up IPv6?
IPv6, ein rein technisches Thema, oder?


Gases are one of the specialties of Green Field Engineering Co. This is a handy business naturally because this company is engaged in blowers. There are many firms found in Mumbai dealing with gases, and Green Field Engineering Co is one out of several. Added outputs in Green Field Engineering Co's extent encompass pumps and compressors. Mumbai, Mumbai, India is the location where Green Field Engineering Co is. Green Field Engineering Co holds a wide range; some other outputs at your disposal include vane pumps and vacuum systems.


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César Rodríguez Garavito was the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the Institute's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies during Fall 2012.
"Usually, what public intellectuals do is to live double lives. And I've come to the conclusion that this is unfeasible."
César Rodríguez Garavito
On Being Both Academic and Activist
The half-hour film Sumak Kawsay: the Sarayaku Case opens with César Rodríguez Garavito boarding a single engine plane in Puyo, Ecuador. Rodríguez is slight, his polo shirt untucked. He carries a backpack over one shoulder. After flying over the Amazon jungle, the plane lands on a grass strip in the remote Sarayaku territory in Ecuador's southeast, where he greets a group of men in a clearing. The film cuts forward. Sitting on a stump under a canopy of woven grass, Rodríguez speaks into the camera.
"I'm here following a lead that started with a project in northern Colombia," he says, "where a dam was built 20 years ago which led to a case that is still before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights." The jungle is lush behind him; a child fidgets in a large wooden chair. "I heard of a case that is much further along, the Sarayaku case.… If the Court rules in favor of the community the case could create a fundamental precedent for indigenous rights in Latin America."
Rodríguez is a lawyer with a PhD in sociology and a professor of law at the University of the Andes in Bogota. But his professional niche is not easily defined. He is also an activist with journalistic intentions, a vocal advocate for indigenous rights, and an accomplished sociologist. He has written or edited 15 books, authors a weekly column in the Bogota daily El Espectador, and is a founding member of Dejusticia, the Center for Law, Justice, and Society. Bogota-based Dejusticia advocates for human rights and social justice through what the organization terms "action research." It is a method that, like Rodríguez himself, bridges the sharply defined institutions of the public sphere, integrating academic research, legal intervention, and public debate. ... Read the complete profile.


Get ready for some word vomit.
1. I broke my camera USB cord and was too lazy to order a new one off Amazon.
2. I made some not so appealing eats.
3. I made some super delicious eats that I stuffed in my face too quickly to photograph.
4. I had a full time job + the responsibility of planning/preparing for grad school.
5. I moved to NORTH CAROLINA for grad school.
6. I live with a strict carnivore who also happens to be a male (along with another male roommate) and as a female and vegan I can't help but be wary of the atrocious amount of bacon grease/animal product residue contaminating my kitchen due to a general lack of concern for the thorough cleanliness of our dishes and counter space, etc.
7. Did I mention I'm in GRAD SCHOOL?!?!
Sooo yeah...that should about sum it up.
But today I am resolving to get back into food blogging. I still don't have a way to import my pictures (other than my phone) so bare with me. Mayyybe I'll muster up the energy to order a USB. And we'll see how this goes.
As I mentioned before, I went on a cooking spree yesterday. And as I usually do, I searched for a decent recipe based on a single ingredient. That ingredient happens to be pickled carrots. Let me rewind...sometimes I get weird pregnant lady cravings for pickles and Oreos...and right after I got my brand-spanking new Costco membership I bought a 2-jar pack of dill pickle spears...which also happened to contain some carrots and red bell pepper (I passed on the Oreos in case you were concerned that I might have picked up a 24000 pack or whatever). So my first jar is almost depleted...except for the veggies chillin' at the bottom. I don't like to waste stuff, so I decided to find a fitting recipe for the carrots!
Yes. I am obsessed. And I miss them. You're welcome.
My brain is fried right now, so forgive me if I don't have many words...here goes!
This recipe was one that a few of my followers were quite enthusiastic about. They most certainly have good taste because this is a tasty high nutrient, high fiber meal that takes less than 20 minutes to make!
Be sure to select a tortilla with at least 3-4 grams of fiber and 5-6 grams of protein if possible.
Annnd that's all I've got right now, just make it! It's delish and easy.


And 0-170 I think. Which is not much use to anyone!
Ohh an unwinnable event... It's been a while.
I'm stuck on 22 - got Impreza WRX STI, Mitsu Lancer Evo I, Mazda RX-7, Subaru Legacy 2016 (18RQ) and Subaru BRZ as my top setup - losing on the City Streets Medium - any tips on what hidden gem may there be to win on this stage?
If you can get two stars on round 22, then you may be better off not trying to go any further. Round 24 is unbeatable for many older players as well (including me), so you probably won't have a chance to win the Tuscan. At least with two star wins on round 22 you can turn a few cards until the challange ends (you might lose that opportunity on round 23/24).
Yup, I can get two flips on that round, thanks for the tip!
The problem is the first car, you'll probably also lose more than a 100 pts there, and the rest won't compensate.
complete next challenge with 5x common?
Has grandpa recovered from his night out?
Only just. He's old AF so it does take a week.
Anyway he's currently planning a weekend away with his buddy Trevor in Tuscany. 22 more days and he'll be leaving the USA again! Stay tuned!
Disaster struck last week! While shopping for their trip on the 19th, Trevor forgot to put his SUV in reverse and accidentally smashed into the convention center. At the time there was a CX conference on and 9 people were injured including Trevor and Grandpa.
Luckily nobody died but it was back to hospital for Grandpa. Fast fwd two weeks and I doubt he'll be going to Italy.
Damn, your grandpa should went to CX conference last week. Those 9 people would be a lot happier, including me.
@O__VER thanks for these mate, your service always brings a smile, even when the news from grandpa is disappointing.
No problem mate. Gotta thank @UncleGary too, since he first got us all interested in Grandpa's antics. I'm just making sure everyone remains up to date.
That was an interesting first 5 rounds. These 5 eased through it.
Rounds 6-10 in order. The Meharis were loss leaders, often 1 or both would lose but only ever by 50 points. The other 3 (all 969) easily made up the points difference winning by hundreds in most cases.
Smurf hand for round 25. Any 4WD performance tire car, which takes a 50pt loss to the Challenge's 22B, can go in slot 2.
@HeissRod thanks, that worked for me subbing in an rq18 quattro for the 2nd race. Loses the 1st 3 by 50 each, +50 race 4 & +250 race 5 to finish 300-150.
To clarify, the 50pt win is the Patrol, on the Hill Climb vs. the Vauxhall Mokka.
I see what's happened. My Patrol is 969 and loses but my Pilot is also 969 and wins.


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But I don't understand what the formula,which starts with "~", means.
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Have you ever starred in your own photo shoot?
Photo shoots are a lot of fun, but I'll admit, if you're new to being in front of the camera, it can be intimidating.
Since I started Alive in the Fire, I've done quite a few yoga photography shoots in order to build a library of images to use here.
Whether you're a yoga teacher looking to build your website, or you're a professional in need of a good head shot, or maybe you just want to create an incredible gift using family portraits, these pointers will be helpful in making the experience fun and effortless.
Photo shoots are great — they truly do build your confidence, and you'll find yourself coming back to the images over and over.
Here are my tips for how to make your photo shoot experience a blast.
Find a photographer you're comfortable around. I love working with photographers who are easy to talk to and who make me laugh. Feeling at ease while you're on the shoot is essential to creating images that feel effortless. If possible, meet with your photographer before the shoot so you can get to know each other a little bit.
Make a list of postures you want to capture during the shoot. If you're shooting yoga poses, it's easy to have a lot of awesome ideas beforehand and then show up and completely forget what you wanted to do. I'm notorious for this. I'll have a whole list in my mind but then when I'm on location, I have trouble recalling what the poses were. What can happen is I end up shooting poses I've already done many times. I recommend writing down your list of poses, putting them on your phone, or creating a Pinterest board of ideas to reference during the shoot.
Consider your location. It's fun to shoot indoors at a studio and it's also awesome to shoot outside, whether in an urban setting or in nature. Be creative with your location-- the colors, textures, and objects (or people!) surrounding you will create the look and feel of your images.
Plan 3 or 4 outfits. I always like to bring a variety of things to wear during a shoot. Some photographers will tell you exactly how many outfits they want you to have -- I recommend bringing an extra as well, just so that if you try something and find it's uncomfortable the day of, or doesn't quite work, you have a backup.
Pace yourself. I had a revelation at my last photo shoot: for me, it's helpful to do the harder poses first. In the future, I'll start a photo shoot with inversions and arm balances since I'm most energized at the beginning. Maybe that method works for you, or maybe you're the opposite (you need to work up to the harder poses). Keep in mind that you'll need breaks, water, and maybe a snack during your shoot.
Best advice ever: breathe! Yoga is a practice of breathing deeply, and being in the moment. But something about putting your yoga practice in front of the camera inevitably brings on nerves, which can cause you to hold your breath. If you're holding your breath, your body tends to stiffen and your facial expression looks uncomfortable. If there's one piece of magic advice that I'd give to anyone doing a photo shoot, it's to BREATHE! Take your time coming into a pose, and use your breath for support. You can even ask your photographer to remind you to breathe-- it will help you both!
This is a big one... you're beautiful. Just the way you are, in your practice, right now, here, today. Go ahead and read that sentence again, and see if you believe it. :) We have so much input from images online, on Facebook and on Instagram telling us that we aren't 'good enough' or that our poses could be 'better.' Please please please don't get into that mindset and into those head games while you're being photographed. Adopt a sense of loving kindness toward yourself. Just be present in your body, breathe into the postures, and let yourself be real. You ARE beautiful and you'll be stunned by what is captured. Just let go of the need to control or force any of it and enjoy the day!
Go with it. Unexpected things will happen while you're shooting-- maybe someone walks in front of you if you're out in public, or people wave and yell at you :) Maybe your clothing malfunctions, your hair or makeup gets messed up, or the camera has technical issues. Let these moments be a chance to really put your yoga practice to work-- relax, take a deep breath, and make the best of it.
Be creative. Sometimes the unplanned images are the most beautiful and authentic. While of course you want to capture everything on your list of poses, you may also discover that in the organic process of flowing from one pose to another, or moving from one location to another, you find an incredible, raw, fun image to capture. Some of my favorite shots were total spur-of-the-moment candids, like hopping up on a bench and doing crow pose, or randomly using the space between buildings as the perfect spot for an inversion. Keep your eyes open to what's around you, and be creative!
Clear the area around where you're shooting (ie camera bag, shoes, water bottle, sunglasses, backpack). This is more of a technical/ practical tip, but keep in mind it's way easier to set up the frame for your shot while you're there in person than to spend a bunch of time Photoshopping later!
Bring a friend... or a prop :) It can be really fun to do partner yoga photos and it's also great to mix things up with a prop, scarf, set of mala beads, candle, or altar. Again, the more creative you can be, the better!
Grab lunch or a drink. Relax. Celebrate - you did it! You are awesome.
Reflect on the experience. Journal or talk to a friend. How did you feel during the photo shoot? What were your favorite moments? What challenges came up?
Be patient when waiting to hear back from your photographer. Sometimes it takes a few weeks to get your photos back. It's best to have a clear conversation right after the shoot ends, so that you're on the same page about what timing to expect.
Spend a few moments in gratitude. You have an amazing practice, and what a beautiful body, mind, and spirit you're sharing in these photos. Give thanks!
I hope you have a blast during your photo shoot, and I'd love to hear how it goes!
Any other tips? Or do you have any questions for me? Feel free to comment below!
Photos (1 and 3 and 9) by Felipe Silva of @the_lost_coast.
Photos (2 and 4 and 11) by Brynna Bryant of Respiro Photography.
Photo (5) by Ken Johnson of CKC Image.
Photos (6 and 7) by Kate Donaldson.
Photo (8) by Stephanie Sheveland.
Photo (10) by Kimberly Lewis of @photosfromkim.
Photo (12) by Christina Scellato.


the Church's position really depended on a combination of empirical evidence (embryology) woven with moral reasoning. It was natural law reasoning. As Aquinas said, the divine law we know through revelation, but the natural law we know through that reason that was natural for human beings. The Church's moral position here did not depend on faith or belief. One didn't have to be Catholic to understand it. And that was precisely the teaching of the Church.
As Arkes began to write about abortion, marriage, and other issues from a natural-law perspective, he acquired a following of readers who believed him to be a Catholic apologist. A Catholic friend said that the question for him was whether he believed in the Church as a truth-telling institution. "And I thought: I do, I really do. When the Church stands contra mundum, against the currents of relativism in the world, my inclination is to think that the Church has it right," he wrote.
Wanting to know more about this intriguing man and his compelling journey, I asked for an interview. His warmth, humor, optimism, scholarship, and generosity of spirit made for a most pleasant time together. Here is some of our conversation.
Marcia Segelstein (MS): You talk about the Church standing "contra mundum," and there's certainly a lot to stand against these days. Why do you believe society has strayed so far from traditional Judeo-Christian values?
Hadley Arkes (HA): The drift away is not something so remarkable or unthinkable. After all, isn't there a constant drumbeat of complaints by God in the Old Testament about his people drifting away? In the normal laxity of ordinary persons, it's always easier to fall away from the things that are good and rightful. Remember Mark Twain's line in Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar [from Following the Equator] that we have a moral sense and an immoral sense. The moral sense tells us what is good and how to avoid it, and the immoral sense tells us what is bad and how to enjoy it.
It's no wonder that human beings, faced with a collision between their interests and things that are rightful to do and that demand sacrifice have strong temptations to prefer their own interests. The unfolding logic of modernity is the notion that all passions should be gratified, that all inclinations should be pursued, that all desires stand on the same plane. "All men are created equal" has come to mean in its vulgar notion that we cannot discriminate between the finer desires and the coarser desires, between the more selfish desires and the more generous desires.
MS: How do we change course?
What may be truly remarkable in the overall sweep of human history, and of our daily experience, is how many examples we see of ordinary people preferring the interests of others to their own. Parents, for example, who are holding things together in order to sustain their children. In my own case I can see the effects on discrete students. You know particular persons who tell you that their own lives were changed. You see this before you and you know it must be possible. I know I sound like the cockeyed optimist in South Pacific. There's no question there's been a tendency toward the vulgar, and yet you keep seeing these signs of regeneration, of people turning their lives around, thinking anew.
MS: How has moral relativism come to be so predominant?
HA: I think the erosion of natural law and the tendency toward moral relativism go back to ancient times with ancient skeptics making the argument for relativism. You can see the arguments surfacing in Plato's Protagoras. In the Anglo-American law, it was getting accelerated from the early part of the twentieth century. It was bound up with historicism and the notion taking hold in Germany that we could know things only within their historical context, i.e., that certain things will be made clear only as history unfolds.
My late professor, Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago, wrote his critical book, Natural Right and History, in 1953. That was mid-century and he was already standing against the currents of relativism. Already they were deeply at work. Here was a country established on the Declaration of Independence—on truths grounded in nature, objective moral truths, self-evident truths—and yet falling into the wave of relativism. Strauss spoke about the effect of German philosophy on America—and here I'm paraphrasing—that it would not be the first time that a country defeated on the battlefield imposed on the victor the yoke of its own thought. Here we defeated the Germans, and yet German philosophy in its worst forms was taking hold in this country.
In the course I teach at Amherst that became the basis for the book First Things, I tell my students the biblical story of God instructing Elijah to journey to Damascus. Ultimately it is Elisha who fulfills this directive, traveling there to tell Hazael that "the Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria," and that the current king, Ben-Hadad, "shall certainly die." One commentator thought that this story, dating to the sixth century b.c., was a sign of how early the Jews were committed to monotheism. I ask the students what the connection is with moral relativism.
The answer is that a God who could tell a prophet to cross the lines of one jurisdiction to cashier a leader in another place was obviously not one of those local gods known to antiquity. This was evidently a God with universal jurisdiction. After all, I ask, did the same God who authored a universal law of physics author separate morals for Zanzibar and Jersey City? And what were the Ten Commandments? Were they municipal regulations, meant only to govern the immediate environs of Mt. Sinai?
Then I ask how many of them were raised in households that could be called Christian or Jewish or even Islamic. Almost all the hands go up. And yet, how is it that most students arrive at college with the assumptions of moral relativism, of cultural relativism? My question to them is, why do they think that the doctrines of cultural relativism have a firmer hold on them—or have been more deeply absorbed by them—than the logic of that monotheism in which they've been raised?
MS: Why do you think that is?
HA: I know there's been a falling away. If you take a look at the writings of the revolutionary period, particularly the sermons of the period, you find people who are utterly clear on the doctrines of natural rights and natural law. You don't need revelation in order to understand it. There was a time in this country when preachers, pastors, and ordinary people were remarkably clear on those things and could impart them. It may have something to do with the fact that these people weren't burdened with a college education!
In class I use the example of Plato's Meno, where you start feeding questions to the slave boy and pretty soon he's working out geometry. The message is that the logic of these moral understandings is locked away in our souls. It's there when people are treated badly and they take offense. They'll say, "I don't like it and it's wrong." So, I tell my students, so much of all this is getting fed the right questions that allow them to draw out the understandings that are already locked away within them.
MS: So the moral understandings are there, but they're not acknowledged?
HA: Some of my colleagues who object to natural law and, of course, to religion, will say that God is dead and everything is permitted. Yet they'll still talk about the man in the gutter who's broken his own life, and they'll want to help him. They'll say that there's a sanctity to him. This from people who are atheists.
An example I use in my book [Natural Rights and the Right to Choose] came from doing a piece on the Holocaust Museum and coming across a vat filled with shoes of the victims. What came flashing back at that moment were those lines of Justice McLean in the Dred Scott decision when he said, in essence, "You may think that the black man is chattel but he's a creature made in the impress of his Maker. He is amenable to the laws of God and man and he is destined to an endless existence." That is, he has a soul that will not decompose when his material existence comes to an end. The Nazis thought that the shoes were the durables. It was the shoes they wanted to keep.
People of the most liberal sympathies cannot give you the same account that McLean was able to give—the wrong of slavery or the wrong of genocide—because McLean would say it's because these creatures are made in the image of Someone higher. Those colleagues of mine who say that God is dead will say there's something sacrosanct about the alcoholic in the gutter. But they can't explain what's redeeming about him or why there's something about him that deserves their efforts to reach out and help. And they can't quite explain that.
The point is that their language, their reflexes, their dispositions on these things all spring from this religious understanding. You might say that religious capital is at work in our culture. But we've reached the point where people are no longer much aware of its origins and the source from which it was drawn.
Many liberals will express as much concern over dead Iraqi soldiers as American soldiers. They care about these strangers. So what is their problem with the lives of unborn children in the womb? They're as human as those strangers in Iraq of whom they know nothing. They are strangers for them here in their own country. They are nothing other than human beings. Their human standing doesn't depend on their height or weight, so what is it that's deflecting their judgment here?
MS: In the column you wrote the day after you were received into the Catholic Church, you talked about courage. As a Jew, did it take a unique kind of courage to become a Christian?
HA: I went on to explain in those comments that I did not see myself as abandoning the Jewish people.
MS: But as a Jew, was it harder?
HA: Theologically I don't think it was. As Michael Novak [his sponsor] said, "When you're Catholic, you're at least Jewish." Everything in the New Testament is predicated on the Old. As part of the Creed, we accept the prophets: "God spoke through the prophets." It is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I asked my wife how many people sitting in a synagogue in Amherst believe that God made a covenant with Abraham. And she said, "Actually believe it? Probably a third." And I said that every serious Catholic I know does. So on one level it may not be as difficult as people suppose.
But on the level of family, it is quite difficult. I know that my parents could not have understood this. I loved my grandparents very much and I have a sense that a decision like this would have been very hurtful to them, maybe because they wouldn't have understood it. For the most part, my family around me has been understanding and sympathetic.
Certain members of the family see it as a defection. And this is really very strange because some scoff at religion and profess to be atheists. How is it that a Jewish atheist is not thought to have left the Jewish people, but the Jewish Catholic has? Here I am affirming the God of Israel and his laws. The Jewish atheist rejects them. So which one of us is leaving the Jewish people? I'm certainly not defecting from the Jewish people and I'm certainly not even defecting from Judaism because I think Judaism is carried over into the Church. I haven't felt less Jewish being in the Church. I think I learn more about the Jewish traditions every day at Mass.
Like those revolutionary-era preachers he so admires, Dr. Arkes's thinking is utterly clear, yet full of Christian hope, optimism, and perhaps most of all, courage.
Marcia Segelstein is a part-time writer and full-time mother. A former senior producer for CBS News, she is a contributing editor for Salvo, and has written for First Things, OneNewsNow, and Worldmag.com.


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Home > Academics > Spiritual Formation
At St. Thomas we believe that spiritual formation is not separate from academic development. St. Anselm of Canterbury said that faith seeks understanding, therefore, an active Love of God seeks a deeper academic knowledge. A true Catholic School prepares each child to be college ready, career ready, and most importantly heaven ready. Our mass, retreats, and religious education program all lead each student into a personal experience with Christ. In knowing Jesus, we form true servants of the Church. We are confident that "Love for and fidelity to the Church is the organizing principle and the source of strength of a Catholic School" (The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, 44)
Sacraments and Retreats:
The Sacrament of Baptism is offered to all students from kindergarten to eighth grade. Formation of parents and godparents is available through the school and Parish.
Our first communion program begins in the second grade and is open to all students who have not received their first communion. We offer retreats for both parents and students in preparation for the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Eighth Grade Retreat
Our eighth grade retreat is the culminating spiritual event at our school. The theme of the retreat is to recognize God's love through relationships with family, friends, teachers and the greater St. Thomas Community.
Catholic Social Teaching:
Respect for Life Week
Respect Life Week (RLW) is a joint project of the Department of Catholic Schools and the Office of Life, Justice and Peace. RLW immerses Catholic elementary, middle and high school students in the understanding of the dignity of every human person and our call to proclaim the Gospel of Life in our community. RLW is a cross-curricular program. Teachers, campus ministers, and administrators are encouraged to work together to make the week meaningful and impactful for our students.
Marriage and family are the building blocks of society that must be supported and strengthened, not underminded. As a school, we provide parenting classes to support our families to build the Church.
Salvin Learning Center
In partnership with Salvin Learning Center, our school has created an integration program for students with special needs. Each grade pairs up with Salvin students in a co-educational lesson with their school.
Service Learning Project
As a requirement for graduation, students participate in a service learning program in which they learn, reflect and serve the less fortunate at St. Vincent De Paul Center and Midnight Mission in downtown Los Angeles.
Weekly School-Wide Mass
Parents are encourages to join the students and families for the school liturgy every Friday morning and on special occasions. Each grade is given the opportunity to lead a school mass which includes reading the scripture passages and prayer intentions. Father Arturo creates a personalized mass and interactive homily that reflects that Sunday's liturgical celebration.
Monthly Sunday Mass
Every first Sunday of the month, the 9:30am mass is designated as a school mass. Students are encouraged to attend mass at St. Thomas Church with their parents, grandparents, and friends. It is a special time that strengthens the bond with our faith community.


The invasive lionfish–venomous and voracious–has reached the tropical western Atlantic, where its reproductive rate is soaring. Invasive species expert, Lad Akins, of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation; along with College of the Bahamas marine science intern, Everton Joseph; and specimen collector for the Bermuda Aquarium, Chris Flook, team up in the waters of the Bahamas, where they dive, collect, tag and dissect, to better understand the invader in its new home. They'll run key field experiments, to identify potential controls, and assess the likely impacts of the invasion, on fragile reef ecosystems and ocean-based economies.


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CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was let; and to conclude an agreement, with the same tenant, for a longer term of occupation. Janet was drafted into the service of Mrs. Strong, where I saw her every day. She had been undecided, on leaving Dover, whether or no to give the finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which she had been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided against that venture. Not so much for the sake of principle, I believe, as because she happened not to like him.
Although it required an effort to leave Miss Mills, I fell rather willingly into my aunt's pretence, as a means of enabling me to pass a few tranquil hours with Agnes. I consulted the good Doctor relative to an absence of three days; and the Doctor wishing me to take that relaxation, - he wished me to take more; but my energy could not bear that, - I made up my mind to go.
As to the Commons, I had no great occasion to be particular about my duties in that quarter. To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. The business had been indifferent under Mr. jorkins, before Mr. Spenlow's time; and although it had been quickened by the infusion of new blood, and by the display which Mr. Spenlow made, still it was not established on a sufficiently strong basis to bear, without being shaken, such a blow as the sudden loss of its active manager. It fell off very much. Mr. jorkins, notwithstanding his reputation in the firm, was an easy-going, incapable sort of man, whose reputation out of doors was not calculated to back it up. I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt's thousand pounds more than ever.
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It's always better to know what you are buying. Bulbs are usually known from their caps or bases which is the part that connects the lamp to the light fitting. This section is for the lamp to receive the power from the fitting. Here are some information about the most commonly used bulbs.


"Run" is the new film for the European launch of the smart band Huawei Band 2 Pro.
This is the first film of a campaign that will be run in 9 countries (France, Spain, Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland). The campaign was created by Cayenne Milano, an independent agency guided by Peter Grosser and Lapo Brogi that in the past used to be part of Dentsu.
"YES, WE TRAIN. YES, WE LIVE" is the concept of the campaign, which was shot by Iacopo Carapelli for Filmmaster.


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Behind the Phenomenal Curtains of Dutch Designer Petra Blaisse
Dutch designer Petra Blaisse sits down with Azure to reflect on her 30-year career tying together curtain design and landscape architecture.
Portrait by Inga Powilleit
A sun-filtering, 20-metre-wide curtain hangs in the entrance lobby of the Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin. The curtain pulls back along a spiral-shaped ceiling track.
For a temporary installation inside Rotterdam's Sonneveld House Museum, Blaisse covered the entire floor with mirrors.
Blaisse's curtains weave through an exhibition of furniture by Pierre Paulin, on view last year at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Petra Blaisse has carved out a 30-year career creating massive curtains (that double as semi-permeable interior walls) and simultaneously engaging in another space-transforming pursuit: landscape architecture.
We caught up with her to discuss how her two creative occupations tie together.
You've said you do "everything but architecture." When you started out in 1987, how did you define your scope?
I didn't define it literally. In art school I had a weakness for creating three-dimensional environments. I later became an assistant curator at the Stedelijk Museum in the applied arts department, which is where you have all the disciplines, with the exception of fine arts, as subjects: architecture, design, crafts, photography and graphic design. So, it wasn't like, "Oh, I want to go into architecture." It sort of grew by itself. I was working with OMA in the late '80s, and they were working on a dance theatre in the Hague. Rem Koolhaas had recognized some kind of talent in me, so he asked me to join his team to help influence the interior by choosing finishes for floors, walls and so on. When it came time to think about the stage curtain, I said, "Well, I can do that. I've never done it before, but who cares?" So that was a beginning. The Dutch Dance Theatre is really good, so we were very motivated to do everything we could do to give them the best possible theatre and workplace.
Two layers of curtains surround the auditorium inside Bibliothu00e8que Alexis de Tocqueville in France. The building, by OMA, was completed earlier this year.
How did your relationship with OMA evolve from there?
It was a very good and creative collaboration, and very demanding. Rem had just started a
real architecture office – meaning, trying to build buildings – so it was a very young office with a small team. Of course, I became independent from OMA at a certain point, which is always good – to emancipate and do your own thing and work with other architects.
I love how you use the word "emancipate." You also say that your curtains are emancipated from the architecture. What does that mean in terms of how you view your role working with architects?
I think it's fun to make emancipation a kind of metaphor, because I'm designing gardens and interiors – which is always equated to being a woman and representing the feminine side of architecture. That's not an insult. But if people say, "You bring the warmth into the cold, inhuman architecture of OMA," or any other architect, then I get a bit angry. It's not that simple. First of all, our work has muscle, and, secondly, architects generally have enormous sensibility.
Left: Velour, faux leather, PVC mesh and transparent plastic are some of the materials used for a series of six dividing curtains installed inside a commercial bank in the Netherlands. Right: Seven layers of curtains, two of which are made of black PVC, are installed as part of an exhibition space at ETH Zurich.
The idea of the curtain does have a very feminine tone to it. The curtains you've created, though, are epic in scale, like worlds unto themselves.
To me, the curtain is connected to the landscape. If you think of planting and filtering and creating screens that change through the seasons, becoming opaque during spring and summer, transparent during winter – all these things are the same language. Of course, it's not textile but living material. And both curtains and landscapes are not only technically important to architecture, they are also a recognizable, almost consoling, presence.
Concept drawings for a project with French architect Jacques Moussafur.
You're also creating photovoltaic curtains.
We're actually going to look for sponsors and partners to continue this research, because it's still primitive. Everyone is searching for ways to catch the sun's energy, but what is special about our research is that this is a curtain for public space, and on a huge scale. So it should also be very convincing as a beautiful, functioning curtain. In other words, it has to cool, shade, darken; it has to be able to do everything.
For Qatar National Library, you designed a Jacquard woven curtain inspired by astrolabes.
We're hugely inspired by all the cultural meanings of textiles. In the Middle East there is a strong tradition of carpets that, through their patterns, represent the world or daily life, often in the form of a garden. They are actually metaphors woven right into the medium – often hiding secret messages of the makers. For me and for many of us in the West, we don't like to be that literal; modernism and abstract art is in our blood. But both worlds influence each other, so even if you're very minimal, you retrieve it from a source, which is life – all the sources of inspiration that you come across.
For the Qatar Library curtain, we wanted to do something linear and free of colour. At first, we tried lyrical images to make connections to the garden, which we also designed. But none of us were happy with the results. In Qatar, the nights are very fresh and clear, and you can see a fantastic number of stars, and that image is a very multi-interpretable metaphor. The night sky can simply mean planets and stars and the heavens, or you can give it religious or philosophical meanings. And then these astrolabe measuring instruments, which we included as a pattern in the curtain, they have their own beautiful language. In Islam, you can't represent human figures, but you can represent floral or abstract figures, and these measuring tools are very decorative.
A grid of planters filled with native desert foliage surrounds Qatar National Library, which is slated to open later this year.
You also designed the landscape for the library, a grid of planters filled with desert plants. What did that project mean to you, in terms of the tapestry you were creating?
It was like a reorganization of the natural planting communities, as if you're making a botanical garden. We couldn't take the plants literally from nature because nature is so protected; the government is very strict about that. So we are recreating it with the help of local botanical specialists who've spent their lives studying the desert. As amateurs, we look at the desert and think it's just sand. But sand is also soil, and if you water it, or if certain values change, the planting changes as well. Our garden is like an archive of this moment in time in the Qatar desert. Who knows in 10 years what will be left of it? Our hope is that the Doha universities and the Qatar Foundation Green department will actively adopt this garden. There's lots of work to be done, including, among others things, to create a nameplate for each plant.
Blaisse, along with a team of firms, is behind a master plan in Milan to add streetscapes and parks to Giardini di Porta Nuova.
The street and park landscaping you're doing in Milan's Giardini di Porta Nuova is also ambitious and years in the making. How do you convince a city like Milan to take on such a large project?
What was most difficult was convincing the city of the complexity of the planting, because most parks are usually lawns with trees and shrubs. We have four different kinds of fields, some referring more to agriculture, more linear plant systems as you would have in France – lines of lavender, lines of tulips. When you stand in certain places you see rows, but if you move along it becomes a whole field, so you have a visual change as you drive past or walk past. And then there are fields designed by Piet Oudolf, the Dutch master planting designer who became famous with the High Line in New York. I asked him especially because we wanted to do these fields with real garden typology, with different grasses and perennials and bulbs to create lyrical carpets, if you will. So that's the second kind of garden. Then you have a lawn for people to relax and play on, and meadows – a mix of wildflowers and grass. If you mow them, you can use this field as an enlargement of space. And then it can grow again. So the challenge for the city of Milan is to maintain it in four different ways.
One of your best-known curtain projects was shown at the 2012 Venice Biennale. It was programmed to glide across the ceiling on a motorized track. It was kind of a challenge to viewers: will you stay and experience this? It seems that most people will stick around long enough to "get it," but not to actually experience it. Is that a problem for you?
Not for me, but I think we should all realize the phenomenon of impatience and be aware of it. In our Western culture we think our lives gain meaning if we work hard and do many things. Especially professional women, but also men; we all feel the pressure of ambition and performance. For me, I only respect myself if I do everything. I can't just be a housewife or a maker, or the daughter of my mother, or the lover of my husband. I have to be everything. In one sense that is fantastic, but it also means we tend to not take time to digest what's going on. This is certainly the case for me. Experiencing art and nature offers welcome moments of meditation, and you have to open yourself to the vibes and languages in order to recharge and gain new perspectives.
I wish I'd been in Venice to see it.
There were people who really stayed for the entire cycle of the 12 positions of the curtain. But for the impatient who wanted to "check, check, check," it was also interesting, because as you go in and out, in and out, there's a different world waiting each time. I think what connects all my concepts is that they look very simple but are incredibly complex. And it's not bragging; it's that I realize that, OK, you have this idea and you can sketch it in two or three lines, but then to really realize it, it's an enormous multidisciplinary undertaking. Oh, OK, you know? – a desert garden in the city.
Petra Blaisse was interviewed during IIDEX Canada in Toronto.
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how long do the tubes hold up in the sunlight? Any issue with dry rot and cracking?
Depends. This backpack I did in about 2 days working long hours both days on it. I wanted to get it done fast for the instructable backpack challenge. What takes a long time usually is the sewing. So the briefcases on my Instagram take the longest. Backpacks not as bad. Especially this one with mostly rivet construction for the attachement points. I'm happy to help out if you're wanting to make something or buy something I make. Let me know.
I think it would go faster but just not end up with the same product at the end. I don't have a sewing machine, and I know leather work so this is the process I chose, I would love to have a sewing machine to try something lighter though.
I've heard that too. Looking at the bag closer as I was taking it apart, it may not have been military issue, usually I thought it would have something stamped on it, I assumed military because of the colors but couldn't find anything like it on any surplus site. I definitely was a well made pack with all the leather and copper rivets though.


Philadelphia's first and only mac & cheese food truck.
Popular food truck Mac Mart is finally ready to debut a permanent location on 18th Street in Center City. The new storefront opens today, May 17, at 11 a.m., according to their Facebook page.
Find all the classic mac & cheese combos that the food truck offers at the new storefront. BBQ Bacon Bowl, Chicken Bacon Ranch, Buttermilk Buffalo Bowl, Mac'n Tot and the original Marts Mac are just a few of the popular cheesy dishes.
The Mac Mart food truck will not be back on the streets until the Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival on Saturday, May 21.


Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, was the target of an assassination attempt linked to a power struggle within one of the nation's military bureaus, according to reports.
South Korean intelligence sources were quoted as saying that "disgruntled people inside the North" moved ahead of the demotion of Kim Yong-chol, director of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, in November.
Authorities were paying special attention because the attempt was made in downtown Pyongyang, not during one of Kim's regional trips outside the capital city, the intelligence officer told the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper on Thursday.
The precise timing of the attack has not been accurately established, although there were rumours of a skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire in Pyongyang in November of last year.
It has also proved difficult to identify who was behind the incident, with the intelligence official suggesting it was linked to the punishment meted out to General Kim.
A known hawk and a close ally of Kim Jong-un, General Kim earned a reputation for being an aggressive military leader who was behind the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in March 2010, which Pyongyang still denies involvement in.
General Kim was also a key player in the decision to bombard South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island in November of the same year, resulting in the deaths of four people and injuries to 19 others.
Promoted to a four-star general in February 2012, he was demoted to a two-star lieutenant general just nine months later because of the power struggle when the intelligence department of the Workers' Party and a division of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces were merged into the Reconnaissance General Bureau.
A dispute over which faction would lead the new entity led to the gunbattle in the streets of Pyongyang, the intelligence official said.
"The people who were purged after the gunfight could be related to the assassination attempt," he added.
General Kim has since been restored to his four-star status and appeared alongside Kim Jong-un at a musical recital in Pyongyang last month.
Analysts believe that the recent belligerence that Pyongyang has been displaying is part of an effort to increase tensions on the Korean Peninsula and win the support of the military, enabling the young and inexperienced Kim to solidify his rule and internal unity.
Confirming rumours of unrest within North Korea is difficult due to the close control the state exerts on the media, but there were also reports of assassination attempts against Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, before his death in December 2011.
Kim Jong-il was apparently sufficiently concerned about threats to his well-being that he refused to fly anywhere and only travelled long distances aboard a specially armoured train.
In April 2004, an explosion caused by what the government claimed was electrical cables accidenatally coming into contact with ammonium nitrate at a station in the northern part of the country killed more than 100 people. Kim's train had passed through the same station a few hours earlier, prompting speculation that it was actually an assassination attempt.
State media have been showing Kim Jong-un touring front-line military units and exhorting them to be ready for "all-out" war with the United States and the "puppet regime" in South Korea, but he has also been pictured looking relaxed and attending a performance by the "art squad" of Army Unit 531.
Kim enjoyed a series of musical numbers, including "Let us reap a richer bean harvest" and "All servicepersons and people will become human bullets and bombs."


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This project investigates the reasons for resistance opposed within an organization to change. It concentrates on an individual dimension of the resistance, in opposition to the organizational dimension featuring the traditional stakeholders' interactions. It analyzes in detail, the factors influencing an individual in the determination of his position. The study is influenced by direct observations carried out in a pharmaceutical company, CIS Bio International. This study does not interfere with the traditional and abundant literature over management of change but intends to provide managers with the understanding of a set of concepts allowing them to develop their own method for overcoming this resistance. The main findings of the study reveal that, although some undeniable intrinsic factors are influencing the individual for resisting to change, the main reasons are to be found in the social context of the individual, both at group and organizational level.


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Sonic Firestorm è il secondo album della band speed power metal inglese DragonForce, uscito nel 2004.

Il disco
Il disco è stato registrato presso i Thin Ice Studios a Surrey, Regno Unito, fra il 6 ottobre ed il 10 dicembre 2003. Tutte le chitarre sono state registrate all'Herman Li's LamerLuser Studios di Londra. È il primo album della band col bassista Adrian Lambert e col batterista Dave Mackintosh.

Il secondo brano, Fury of the Storm, è il secondo singolo di maggior successo di quest'album; nel 2010, viene inserito anche nella tracklist del videogioco musicale Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

L'album è stato pubblicato nel 2010 in una versione completamente rimasterizzata, con un brano aggiuntivo, Cry of the Brave, precedentemente disponibile solo nell'edizione giapponese.

Tracce
 My Spirit Will Go On (Sam Totman, ZP Theart, Herman Li) – 7:54
 Fury of the Storm (Totman, Li) – 6:46
 Fields of Despair (Totman, Li) – 5:25
 Dawn Over a New World (Totman) – 5:12
 Above the Winter Moonlight (Vadym Pružanov, Totman, Li, Theart) – 7:30
 Soldiers of the Wasteland (Theart, Totman) – 9:47
 Prepare for War (Li, Theart) – 6:15
 Once in a Lifetime (Totman, Theart) – 7:46

Traccia bonus
Cry of the Brave (Pružanov, Li, Totman, Theart) – 5:46

Formazione
 ZP Theart – voce, cori
 Herman Li – chitarra elettrica ed acustica
 Sam Totman – chitarra elettrica ed acustica
 Vadym Pružanov – pianoforte, tastiere, chitarra acustica addizionale
 Adrian Lambert – basso
 Dave Mackintosh – batteria

Collaboratori
 Clive Nolan – cori

Collegamenti esterni

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My day at school sets out every day for eight. It is a time for heavy traffic, because a lot of students come there simultaneously. First, I just go to the locker room. Inside my school, every single student offers his own locker room and a key to it. I leave my favorite coat certainly, there and modification my boots. I have to do this because the eyes are not permitted to walk the teachers corridors during the same shoes and boots as outdoors. Thanks to this particular principle, university corridors and classes continue to be clean. Occasionally, if I have got a lot of instructions in a assigned day, I leave quite a few textbooks during my cupboard to ensure that I do n't have to carry a really heavy backpack. After leaving behind things while in the locker area, I visit class. Oftentimes I have many lessons inside the same course, but typically students have to go to different instructional classes on the same daytime. When I the actual appropriate group. usually many other students usually are waiting there. Welcome along with talk for a couple minutes get started on the article. Each lessons has precisely 45 minutes, followed by a 10-minute break. Additionally there is one prolonged break, of which starts from twelve o'clock and can last 20 mins. During the break up I usually speak with friends, and often I make sure to learn one thing for the next classes, for example a crash a class. Once the third or possibly fourth article, I have something. Usually in the morning My partner and i make a sandwich, which I take on school, however , sometimes I buy a bun in a buy located on the ground floor of the college. You can also acquire tea, caffeine or additional beverages right now there, but We rarely apply it. I usually currently have six or even seven classes every day. Going back lesson Me usually highly tired u dream about coming back home. If your last call finally bands, I check out my locker to take this coat and change my very own shoes all over again and Now i'm happy to leave the house. Thanks for the survive letter. I'm so happy Joey did start to walk! It must be a great practical knowledge. I question when he will initialise talking. Retain me refreshed! And, you bet, Jane - I support Tom. I actually think it would be great in the event you moved to be able to Warsaw. We could meet more regularly. And the collection of future all the possibilites for Joey and for an individual is larger than you consider, really. These days let us like you a Content Easter. May well your hopes come true in this joyful spg time. Might the serene spirit with the Resurrection involving Christ pack your paper hearts and live in them eternally. I seriously hope you will spend this time with your along with you will take pleasure in the wonderful natural environment.
Please reduce me for such a shorter letter, yet I am certainly overloaded considering the work and also preparations to the wedding. Positive so thrilled you will appear! Eh, it could time for people! Write while you find the moment. I can't stop thinking about people since the last time I saw you. Each time I nearby my eyes, I see your personal wonderful deal with and that awesome smile about yours. Wow, Queen about my middle, I want to acquire you gone to an is where we could hide and turn into happy alongside one another forever. Together with the eyes for my imagination, I see a person, my Stunning, lying with a beach which is where mild breeze gently reduces golden summery dust with between the white colored clouds above. You just make up excuses and watch the endless pink ocean and sky. In that is, the wonderfully colourful vly would blossoms every day usually. We could make up excuses on the most environmentaly friendly, softest and also freshest yard in the world and just enjoy getting together. And in the at night, we would get and watch the sunlight sinking while in the boundless marine environments that released its light source breaking it all into nice shades of inflammed to make it some dark light, which gloves us featuring its arms along with sings probably the most breathtaking seem of quiétude. That I choose to come true someday, my Dear.
And for these days, I want to really feel your delicate sweet pure on mine again. Typically the awareness of your own existence along with your love for me is truly why to live. I possess always loved you and that i always can, my Man. Currently, folks live lengthier than they did in the past. There are a number sources of this unique phenomenon. These days life is not simply longer, but additionally better as well as easier, and we owe the item to the development of technology in addition to medicine. I will be seeing an rise in human wellbeing awareness, specially regarding HIV / ASSISTS, cancer as well as malignant cancers. Generally folks are more and more intrigued by health. The main media showcase a healthy diet and lifestyle and give advice on proper nutrient. The ideal current man is certainly slim, can sport, will never smoke and does not eat for fast-food bistros. I believe that men live lengthier today for any following reasons. First and foremost, the main medical and biotechnology industry gives you ever brand new solutions. For instance , modern medication has observed how cancer tumor cells produce and is executing everything within the power to quit these elements. What's more, for modern doctors doctors utilize a variety of procedures, paying excellent attention to typically the calm environment in the work place. They are looking for psychological strategies to solve illnesses. In the the twentieth century, folks began to consider drugs for those struggling with a number of mental disorders. Society last but not least understood the fact that isolation (imprisonment) is not a method to00 this type of aches. Doctors pointed out that, for example , despression symptoms is not only typically the patient's disheartened mood. Second of all - today, we do not experience the problem of serious and recurrent epidemics. The costa rica government is aware of the main threat in addition to tries to steer clear of it at any cost. Finally, it needs to be mentioned that we now have a great expertise in a healthy standard of living compared to precisely what our ancestors knew pertaining to health. Gals know all the things about correct nutrition along with diets. Adult males used to proceed to the gym and handle the body. Activity is popular. What's more, people start to smoking. They are completely aware of the effects of this dependency. Cigarettes critically affect overall health, can cause together lung melanoma and many other health conditions. In summary, it seems obvious men and women live more today. Received better chunks of money and we may use many new ouvrage and medicines. However , just remember, we want to take care of ourselves and now we do not pay no attention to our health troubles.


Under moonlit skies we'll be hanging like a cigarette.
Tonight's like a knife would you cut me with your kiss?
I bleed, red lips, you're unbelievable.
Take the streets all night 'cause we sleep all day.
When the world comes crashing down, who's ready to party?
Coast to coast, I'll take you down in flames.
Let the good times roll, we can let go.
This city was your city.
Heels on the sidewalk beggin' for a back-beat.
Don't worry, I fight dirty.
Tonight's like a right hook, knock you off your feet.
I'll be yours truly unbelievable.
Tonight you've never been more alive.
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The Official Start of Mods for Fallout 4 Consoles Starts Today
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MARSHALL, TEXAS (KSLA) - The City of Marshall announced that they have begun efforts to control the mosquito populations in the city.
Trucks using fogging equipment will target both adult and larvae to prevent the possible spread of diseases carried by the insect. Spraying will take place at 4 a.m.m on Tuesday and Thursday mornings twice a month. The city is divided into seven zones for fogging.
"The city has had a mosquito control program for quite some time and it is important to control mosquito populations, especially during the upcoming summer months, as they are a carrier of several diseases," said Assistant Public Works Director Chris Miles, in a news release.
Mosquito spraying will not take place during rain or if the wind speed higher that 10 mph.
"The mist is designed to be suspended in air so that mosquito flying into it are controlled," Miles said.
Spraying is scheduled in the early morning hours to limit exposure to people who may wish to avoid the pesticide.
Each season is different, but spraying efforts will usually continue through September.
For more information, contact the Public Services Department at (903) 935-4516.


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2. A PRT network serving as a secondary network, aimed at short distance transport.
A question one could reasonable ask is whether having both systems is actually necessary? One could argue that an extensive PRT system would make the maglev metro obsolete.
In a smaller space habitat such as Stanford torus or Bernal sphere, having these two system would indeed be superfluous. The the distances within the settlement are too short. However, in greater settlements, such as O'Neill cylinders, there will be a differentiation between short and long distance travel. The longer the length of an O'Neill cylinder, the greater the justification for a dual transport system.
PRT systems are usually designed to travel at speed 40 to 50 km/h, while maglev trains in vacuum could easily reach 8,000 km/h.
It might take several decades to complete an extensive PRT network (a maglev metro needs to build during the construction of the space habitat). Hence we need to consider an alternative transport system.
Again we suggest to use the maglev metro as the backbone of the public transport system. Additionally there will be a bicycle sharing system, which would allow people to travel to and from the maglev station.
In a bicycle sharing system people can use publicly owned bicycles against a low or even zero price. One takes a bike from station A and go to station B and leaves the bike there.
There are many methods to prevent people from stealing these public bikes. The system as we propose, is the following. First public bikes will be of an unusual model, to make a clear distinction between privately owned bikes and public bikes. Further bikes will be locked at their station and only be taken after paying a refundable deposit, for which people need to buy a special coin. The coin is returned once the user brings the bike to a public bike station.
The requirement to buy a special coin, rather than to use normal coins, will allow the operator to charge a higher price for the use of public bikes. This would create a greater deterrence for potential thieves as well providing some revenue to fund the program.
A bicycle sharing system could be extended to include tandems and freight bikes as well. The bikes could also be provided with an electric support motor.
In a previous post I discussed the spatial planning of the interior of O'Neill Cylinders. In a note I promised to make another post about (public) transportation inside O'Neill cylinders. For the sake of the argument, I will assume here that the chosen spatial planning is either the Broadacre city, Garden city or Colombia design. Further I want to recall that a O'Neill cylinders has a length of approximately 35 kilometers and a diameter of 6 kilometers (specific dimension may vary among different sources, however the difference is usually only a few kilometers).
A key feature of the design of the O'Neill cylinder is the alternating arrangement of "valleys" (stripes of land) and windows, three of each. It follows from the given dimension that each valley is approximately 3 kilometers wide and 35 kilometers long. Gerard O'Neill himself proposed that there would be parallel to the valley's heartline a subterranean maglev line. This would function like most subway systems on Earth and would enable (long distance) rapid transit in an O'Neill cylinder. However this system, would not quite suitable for short distance travel, therefore a second transportation system is required.
While the maglev subway will serve as the core of the framework of intra-habitat transportation, there will be finer second network. What requirements do we look for? Ideally we would like an on-demand service, great amount of privacy and the ability to choose our destination. However do not like to waste a lot of time for searching for parking lots. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a proposed idea which would combine the best of private and public transportation.
In order to show what a PRT system might look like, I have selected two YouTube videos about personal rapid transit systems. The first YouTube video (of 8.45 minutes) is about the personal rapid systems as designed by Swedish company Vectus.
This second YouTube video (5.55 min) is a promotional video of Vectus, in which they explain how their product will work.
Yes, I do realise that Vectus is a commercial company which seeks to sell its concepts. Nevertheless, I think that this "sales man videos" give a clear picture how PRT systems would operate in practice.
The prospects of personal rapid transit systems are bright. They will enable to establish the first car-free society in history without sacrificing the individual freedom of movement.


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Barometers that consisted of a column of mercury inside a glass tube would not survive for very long on a ship, so in the first half of the 19th century an unknown inventor discovered that a liquid (typically consisting of a mixture of distilled water, ethanol, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride and camphor) sealed in a tube would crystallise in different patterns that were thought to predict the weather; these were called storm glass barometers. Fitzroy promoted this mixture, and one of these barometers accompanied him on the HMS Beagle, on the voyage that took Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands (on which he was Darwin's commanding officer). Storms could be predicted (Fitzroy claimed) based on the changing state of crystallisation and appearance of the liquid, and the patterns could be interpreted as follows:
A clear liquid indicated bright and clear weather
A cloudy liquid suggested cloudy weather with the possibility of rain
Small dots in the liquid forecast humid or foggy weather
Small stars warned of thunderstorms
Large flakes in the liquid indicated an overcast sky in temperate seasons or snow in winter
Crystals at the bottom meant frost
Threads of crystals near the top suggested winds
However, it has been shown in modern experiments that changing temperature is the reason for these crystallisation patterns, so the storm glass barometer is of no use in forecasting the weather.
Storm Glass Barometers: https://www.institution-engineering-designers.org.uk/Article/Features/admiral-fitzroys-weather-glass
Admiral Robert Fitzroy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fitzroy
Fishery Barometers: Dry, Sarah. "Safety Networks: Fishery Barometers and the Outsourcing of Judgement at the Early Meteorological Department." The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 42, no. 1, 2009, pp. 35–56. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25592209. Accessed 9 July 2021.


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Dequan Townsend opens up about positive test for cocaine, fentanyl: 'I don't judge nobody'
By mmajunkie, Thursday at 04:15 PM in News in English
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Overcoming adversity isn't anything new for Dequan Townsend.
At UFC on ESPN+ 24, the UFC middleweight will return from a six-month U.S. Anti-Doping Agency suspension for cocaine and fentanyl when he takes on Bevon Lewis (6-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC).
The positive test was announced in a press release on Jan. 8. In his first interview since, Townsend (21-9 MMA, 0-1 UFC) opened up to MMA Junkie about the situation. The 33-year-old fighter said he's never been one to judge anyone and indicated he hopes he can be viewed similarly.
"Truthfully, there are plenty of ways things can get in people's systems," Townsend told MMA Junkie on Wednesday. "I've always said and I've told people a thousand times, I don't discriminate. I don't judge nobody based off of what they do with their life or how they do their life."
There are a number of factors Townsend pointed to when he spoke about the events leading to his failed test, including the short-notice nature of his UFC debut and his outside-the-cage environment.
"Obviously, I took the fight on days' notice and wasn't prepared for this USADA stuff," Townsend said. "I wasn't prepared for any of the things that happened. I was pretty much just hanging with the wrong crowd. Hanging with the wrong crowd and a mix of things, it just happened. I touched the wrong stuff.
"I was in the wrong environment, but it happened. There's nothing I can do about it. I just took the necessary precautions I needed to take to fix the situation and whatever USADA wanted me to do, I did to move forward."
Upon receiving the news of his failure, Townsend believed his UFC career was over. It took him 29 pro fights to get on the roster and feared it would all be for not. Townsend credits his manager for successfully lobbying for him a second chance.
"I worked so hard to get here," Townsend said. "… I'm like, 'Damn, I get my opportunity and then this happens.' I'm like, 'Yeah they're going to cut me quick.' I thought they wouldn't even want to deal with the situation.
"Shoutout to my manager Jason House with Iridium. He had my back. He supported me with the situation like, 'Look, this man took this fight on three days' notice. He wasn't a UFC-signed fighter. He didn't know the situation with USADA. He didn't know none of this.' It wasn't like I put steroids in my body when I knew that (expletive) is completely illegal."
Outside of fighting, Townsend works in the healthcare industry. He's aware of the dangers of cocaine use and fentanyl and said his use of the former was "completely unintentional."
"(From) 9-to-5 I am a nurse," Townsend said. "Those who actually know me from my hometown and my city, they know that I'm very aware of the seriousness of fentanyl. That was something that was completely unintentional."
Before being reinstated by the UFC, Townsend had to partake in a drug rehabilitation program. Townsend said he learned a lot, but the program served more as as reminder.
"In the program, I learned a lot of things," Townsend said. "It was mindful information, but with my mindset and my previous history, it was just doing what I need to be doing. I have never been a drug user – no offense to people who do what they do in their personal time."
The positive test presented just another moment of adversity for Townsend to overcome. In 2014, Townsend's four-year-old son passed away from cancer. Townsend hopes his success inside the cage can serve as a positive motivator for people struggling with whatever challenges life throws at them.
"I've overcame so much to make it here," Townsend said. "From the time I saw my son's heartbeat stop, can't no one tell me about overcoming anything. I've overcame it all and still managed to get into the cage, train hard, and make it to the next level. At the end of the day, this is just another stepping stone on my way to the top."
According to Townsend, fans should expect to see a new and improved fighter on Jan. 25. The version who stepped into the cage in June isn't his true self.
"I'll put it to you like this, a lot of people were surprised about a jab. They thought I was fast on the jab," Townsend said. "Mind you again, I was 205. I had a bunch of extra weight because I took a fight on short notice. I was trying to conserve my energy because I didn't get a chance to train. They will see me at 185. It's the 185 division where there'll be a lot of different eye openers for people."
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The Crown Princess introduces a number of new design innovations to the Princess fleet, including a dramatic new piazza-style atrium that features casual dining venues in a street cafe environment. Many of the hallmark features that define the Princess experience can be found onboard, including the dramatic Movies Under the Stars poolside movie screen and the famed Personal Choice Dining. Passengers can also enjoy dining in a new Steak and Seafood restaurant with a theater-style kitchen where chefs will custom-prepare steamed shellfish and cooked-to-order steaks and chops. Re-energize in the two-story Lotus Spa with fitness center or relax and enjoy the view from any of the 900 staterooms with private balconies.


There's some sort of voting thing going on over at TGT Webcomics – from what I can gather, everyone who's been on the show before is knife-fighting each other to the death having a vote-off to see who gets another interview. So I guess if you want to hear me babble even more you should go vote for Red Moon Rising, it's right at the top of the page there.
Also! The current vote incentive spawned a sequel from Karin Larsen (thanks, Karin!) along the same theme of the silly insistance my characters have of wearing somewhat weather-appropriate clothing. And on a related note, if you ever wanted to know how airships in RMR are powered (among other things), you probably should not check my formspring. You'll just be disappointed.
I dunno, with Adrianna's track record, would a concussion really involve that great a degree in behaviour change?
Galak's face is the best "DIPLOMACY DIPLOMACY OH GOD DIPLOMACY" face ever.
Hahahahahahahahaaaaa! This visual that conjures (besides the comic) is quite hilarious.
I would have been suprised if Adrianna was willing to do anything for/with them, but for her own sake i hope she gives in this time (also curious if she meets her bro' ).
Logical reasoning! Could it actually sway Adrianna to join this merry misfit mob? Or will this be another run like hell and think later moment? I'm going with the first possibility, but Adrianna is nothing if not unpredictable.
Damnit, he's being so…… reasonable.
Yeah, I support the Facepunch Initiative.
Delayed gratification, man. Less facepunching now means more, better facepunching later. Keep your eyes on the prize!
This is probably a weird thing to notice, but I want to have art-babies with the figure behind Galak's right hand in panel three. I really dig the way you do atmosphere- and that panel does it particularly well.


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