As it does today, the idea that people will vote when they have no right to — and thus, potentially, misdirect the will of the people — shadowed the 1858 election for U.S. Senator in Illinois, the one that produced the iconic Lincoln-Douglas debates.
A 1958 postage stamp commemorating the Lincoln-Douglas debatesd the Irish.
Their fears had some merit.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company had been the recipient of political favors from Sen. Stephen Douglas, who had sponsored legislation that funded railroads through publicly held land. The Illinois Central would certainly want to protect its advantage by supporting his campaign for re-election.
Lincoln and the Republicans feared that support would take a nefarious form.
According to Allen Guelzo, author of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, Lincoln and the Republicans envisioned the Illinois Central "sending road gangs of Irish Catholics down the line, dropping them off in strategic districts days or weeks before the election to perform grading and repairs, and to turn up on Election Day to vote as though they were permanent residents." (208-209) Lincoln himself said as much, without naming the Irish, in one of this speeches.


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ASFA Talks was a speaker series open to all students that will tackle issues within the Arts and Science disciplines. It sought to bring innovative speakers to inspire students and encourage them to think outside the box. The meta-theme of the talks was the concept of sustainability and how a vast variety of realms are necessarily connected and interdependent.
The 2012-2013 speakers included Ibu Robin Lim, 2011's CNN Hero of the Year, who has dedicated her life to fighting child-bearing related complications in Indonesia, Alexandra Côté, a Concordia University alumnus who specializes in positive psychology, Jeff Rubin, one of the world's foremost energy experts and author of The End of Growth… But Is That All Bad?, David Tordjman, a specialist in sustainable foreign aid, and Aaron Vansintjen, an MSc candidate at McGill University specializing in urban food issues through the lens of ecological economics. This speaker series was hosted at Concordia University on March 14, 2013.
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Review: First Cut #10 – Cumming
HLR Jan 17, 2022 Jan 17, 2022 History of Present Complaint, Poetry
Book: A Chapbook About Nothing
Author: Scott Cumming
Publisher: Close To The Bone (December 2021)
Book #10 in the First Cut series
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I am so impressed by this debut poetry collection. Don't let the title mislead you: this chapbook is actually about Everything. What struck me when I first read it was the fact that it covers so many themes in such wonderful detail – the poet's range is extraordinary. Scott Cumming writes about childhood, adolescence and schooldays, family, fatherhood, love/sex/relationships, mental health, daily observations, music and nights out, and popular culture with wry humour (in poems like 'The Lost Art of Air-Guitar'), sardonic wisdom ('A Universal Truth'), and biting clarity ('No Name #6'). For someone who only recently started writing poetry, the poet's use of rhyme is tidy, and he commands free verse like a pro.
A Chapbook About Nothing is like a lottery in which every poem is a winner. The imagery throughout this collection is vivid, particular, realistic – the reader can practically place themselves inside the poet's memories, the emotions within are transplanted. It's so easy (and such a joy) to become totally immersed in Scott's style, to be utterly charmed by his humour and candour — you really feel like you get to know the poet personally: by the end, you can't help but feel you've made a great friend.
Personally, I found myself feeling most "seen" by the poems that reference or allude to the poet's mental health issues, especially the nods to being medicated and feeling detached from the world because of depression. It shouldn't be taboo, but men's mental health is still often ignored and widely stigmatised, so I felt strength in the language and such great admiration for Scott in the way he discusses it so openly – poems like "The Daily Battle" and lines like "Couldn't tell you if I've missed / Or added a day of pills" made me feel related to and less alone. It's refreshing and brave of Scott to tackle difficult issues like mental health, violence, crime, and grief, especially in a debut collection when you're new to the game.
This is an honest, entertaining collection that is a joy to read and experience. With underlying themes of isolation, disillusionment, anxiety, alienation, (especially in poems like 'Overtakes Me' and 'I look in the mirror') A Chapbook About Nothing will appeal to the types of outsiders among us who very much -live- and embrace life, but who feel the force of life's troubles. All of the kudos to Scott Cumming for this fantastic achievement – I can't wait to see what he does next!
Poem I couldn't stop thinking about for days: D.C./Dad
Other personal favourite poems: No Name #6 / Fixer Upper / Imagining Bob Dylan auditioning for a TV talent show if he'd been born 40 years later / The Unbearable Being of Lightness
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Look, Corima end partnership with Gazprom-RusVelo after Russian invasion of Ukraine
Look and Corima have announced they will stop their sponsorship of the Russian Gazprom-RusVelo ProTeam as the UCI prepares to announce sanctions on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
On Monday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to recommend that international sports federations such as the UCI do not allow athletes or officials from Russia or its accomplice in the invasion of Ukraine, Belarus, to take part in their competitions. The Australian Cycling Federation AusCycling also told Cyclingnews that no Russian or Belarusian national teams would be permitted to compete in this year's World Championships in Australia.
FIFA and the UEFA banned Russian teams and clubs from their football competitions, but the UCI has yet to issue a response to the IOC recommendation. The UCI told Cyclingnews that it would issue a statement on the matter later on Tuesday.
Should the UCI follow the IOC and other sports, the Russian-registered Gazprom-RusVelo team could be prevented from racing the Trofeo Laigueglia on Wednesday and Tirreno-Adriatico this weekend. Title sponsor Gazprom is the Russian majority state-owned energy company that supplies gas to much of Europe.
Czech rider Mathias Vacek won stage 6 of the UAE Tour last week but it is not clear if this would affect the long-term future of the team and if non-Russian athletes would be able to continue racing.
The team's management company is registered in Switzerland. However several rider agents have told Cyclingnews they are preparing for the impact of the UCI decision.
Key technical sponsors have opted not to wait for the UCI to act. Look provides frames and pedals to the team, while Corima supplies wheels. Other key technical sponsors include Campagnolo, Elite, Limar, Prologo, Northwave and Trainingpeaks.
In a post on social media, Look and the Corima announced in similar messages that "in light of the recent shocking and unforgivable news, we have decided to stop our technical support and partnership with the Gazprom-RusVelo Cycling Team."
"We think of sport as a means to unite nations and have always supported and will continue to support athletes of all nationalities. We join the multitude of athletes and their call for peace," Look said.
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Opinion 2/15 and the future of mixity and ISDS
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By Laurens Ankersmit
Opinion 2/15 on the EU's powers to conclude the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) delivered Tuesday received considerable attention from the press. This comes as no surprise as the Court's Opinion has consequences for future EU trade deals such as CETA and potentially a future UK-EU FTA. Despite the fact that the ECJ concluded that the agreement should be concluded jointly with the Member States, the Financial Times jubilantly claimed victory for the European Union, belittling Wallonia in the process. This victory claim calls for three initial comments as there are aspects of the Opinion that might merit a different conclusion.
Did the Court just discard the theory of facultative mixity?
In its Opinion, the Court found that the EU had exclusive competence over most of the EUSFTA and shared competence over non-direct investment and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). Despite the fact that the EU thus enjoyed competence to conclude the EUSFTA, the ECJ came to the conclusion that the agreement required the involvement of the Member States (see paras. 244 and 292).
Unfortunately the Court did not explain why Member States needed to be involved in an area of shared competence resulting in the tentative conclusion that the theory of facultative mixity has been rejected or at least affected by the Court. This theory, developed by Judge Allan Rosas, holds that there are two forms of mixity: obligatory mixity and facultative mixity. Obligatory mixity arises where a mixed agreement is required because the EU has exclusive competence over one area of an agreement, but no competence at all over another area. The EU therefore naturally needs the Member States to fill in the remaining areas of competence. Facultative mixity, on the other hand, arises when the agreement falls within shared competence of the EU and the Member States. There is then a political choice as to who exercises this competence, the EU or the Member States. To my knowledge, the choice is almost always made to resort to a mixed agreement, not least to ensure involvement of national parliaments in the ratification process.
If the Court did reject the theory of facultative mixity – and it by all means it has the looks of it – this would have significant consequences for the EU's ability to conclude international agreements in areas of shared competence. Even if the EU and the Member States elect mixity almost every single time, there is still an element of political discretion involved. By contrast, it seems now that in all areas of shared competence, such as environmental protection, Member States would as a matter of law need to be involved in the ratification process. It appears therefore that even if the EU has shared competence, the EU is prevented from acting in at least some areas of an agreement. This is anything but a victory for EU powers vis-à-vis that of the Member States.
Investment a key (and controversial) aspect of current EU trade policy
Secondly, and perhaps more concretely, the ECJ came to the conclusion that a key and controversial aspect of EU current EU trade policy is not exclusive. There was never much doubt that large parts of the EUSFTA fell within EU exclusive competence, but one area that was the source of considerable legal contention was that of investment. While article 207 TFEU makes clear that foreign direct investment is EU exclusive competence, the question was whether non-direct investment and ISDS fell within EU exclusive competence as well.
Here the Commission suffered a major defeat, in particular in relation to ISDS. The ECJ rightly dispatched with the rather outlandish argument that since Treaty provisions on free movement of capital would be affected by the EUSFTA, the EU enjoyed exclusive competence pursuant article 3 (2) TFEU (see paras. 229-238). Perhaps even more significantly, the Court found that ISDS was shared competence because it 'removes disputes from the jurisdiction of the courts of the Member States' (para. 292).
For current EU trade policy the consequences of the judgment are that future FTAs will remain mixed, requiring ratification of the Member States. It is perhaps worth recalling here that Wallonia's contention with current FTA's first and foremost have to do with investment and ISDS/ICS, and thus the confirmation of it's legal right to be involved in this area of policy is a clear victory for Walloon prime minister and professor Paul Magnette. This pinpoints to the opposite of the claims of the FT. If indeed ISDS is removed from EU trade agreements that would also be a victory for the Walloons.
The million euro question on compatibility of ISDS/ICS with the Treaties
Lastly, the Court dispatched with the idea that if it would not rule on compatibility of ISDS with the Treaties, we can all assume that the Court thinks that ISDS is compatible with the Treaties. As I wrote earlier, chief CETA negotiator Mauro Pettriccione in a hearing before the European Parliament has stated (at 12:30:30) "if the Court is examining the substance of the request in Singapore who is competent regarding ISDS, the Court must be thinking ISDS is compatible with the EU Treaty otherwise it would have stopped the proceeding, and have said this is incompatible with the Treaty, we are not going to examine the competence, because nobody is competent to do this." In at least one event I attended, I have heard an MEP repeat this assertion in defence of voting against a request for an Opinion on the compatibility of the Investment Court System (ICS) in CETA with the Treaties.
Obviously these statements are questionable as the Commission itself had limited the scope of the request to only the question of competence, not compatibility. Nonetheless, the Court similar to the Advocate General felt compelled to explicitly state this in the Opinion. It held 'this opinion of the Court relates only to the nature of the competence of the European Union to sign and conclude the envisaged agreement. It is entirely without prejudice to the question whether the content of the agreement's provisions is compatible with EU law.' (para. 30) The Court, moreover, repeated this point later on in paras. 290-293, notably pointing out that ISDS affects the powers of the courts of the Member States.
This is an important statement of the Court and one that is very relevant for the question of compatibility (see here for a more elaborate discussion). The courts of the Member States are, together with the CJEU, the 'guardians' of the EU legal order who play a key role in the uniform application and interpretation of EU law through the preliminary reference procedure, the 'keystone' of the EU's judicial system. It is no surprise therefore that so many judges associations, including the European Association of Judges and the German Association of Judges, have objected to the Investment Court System.
By acknowledging competence of the Member States in the area of ISDS and by making this strong statements on how ISDS affects the powers of European judges, the Opinion clears the path for a Belgian or Slovenian request for an Opinion on the compatibility of ICS with the Treaties, something that the Commission has been keen to avoid in the past years. In the case of Belgium, it now seems that a request for an Opinion is imminent.
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Tabletop Review: Carcosa
Chuck Platt | January 18, 2012 | Archive, Tabletop Gaming, Top Story | No Comments
Carcosa
Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com
Violence is only notable in RPGs when it is either absent or overwhelming. The threshold for sex being notable is lower, but not so much as it was pre-Vampire: the Masquerade. When I first encountered the name Carcosa, it pertained to one small element, the presence of torture, rape, and human sacrifice. Based entirely on reputation, one would expect Carcosa to be something horrifying and soul-crushing along the lines of F.A.T.A.L. With a little research, it became obvious to me that this was simply not the case with Carcosa. When Lamentations of the Flame Princess sent me a digital copy of the new edition of Carcosa, I made a pact with myself to approach Carcosa without prejudice and to rate it on its own strengths and weaknesses.
Honestly, I find much of the controversy about Carcosa's content to be hypocritical. Black Sabbaths and dark rituals have always been an implied part of classic fantasy, even if the trappings of such rituals have been left intentionally vague. I have yet to play a fantasy RPG that did not involve hacking and slashing sentient beings to bits with assorted and sundry instruments. A D&D session without bloody combat and staggering amounts of carnage would be the exception, not the rule. For players and DMs to suddenly get squeamish about ultraviolence in their campaigns strikes me as more than a little hypocritical. I have personally witnessed holocausts in the name of staying in character, with nominally good characters massacring humanoids because of differences in culture and skin tone.
Carcosa is not a rulebook. In fact, it is assumed that you will use it with your preferred flavor of D&D. In my case, that means Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Roleplaying Grindhouse Edition, but it really is fielder's choice on this one. There are rules, many of which are interesting, but you need the girding of a full rulebook. The first edition of Carcosa bore the full title "ËœSupplement V: Carcosa', indicating that this book could slide right in alongside the classic first four volumes of D&D. I can just as easily see someone using Carcosa with OSRIC or even GURPS. There are monster stats to adapt, but otherwise Carcosa is light on crunch and is very adaptable. Using it as an alternative Dimension Book for Rifts would require a couple hours of hunting and picking through the Conversion Book and maybe Aliens Unlimited. Damn, that sounds like a fun campaign to run.
Carcosa is not a fantasy setting, at least not one like you might be used to. Carcosa takes place 153 light years from Earth and has as many science fiction trappings as traditional fantasy elements. While not post-Apocalyptic in the traditional sense, the world of Carcosa feels more like Conan meets Gamma World than Forgotten Realms. There are no elves here. The lack of clerical and wizardly spells alone makes Carcosa stand out from the bulk of RPG settings. There is a palpable pulp science fiction feel to the whole book, content and artwise. Treating Carcosa like John Carter of Mars or Hyboria makes a lot more sense than trying to shoehorn it into the modern fantasy milieu, of which it is obviously not a member.
Carcosa is not for the faint of heart. The content that started the shitstorm in the OSR scene four years ago, when Carcosa was first published, is still here. No matter what you might say about Carcosa, you can't deny that Geoffrey McKinney is unflinching about his writing. Whether that turns you off or not is a matter of personal choice. I hate to belabor the point, but human sacrifice and the pursuit of power at all costs are not new tropes in fantasy role-playing, but they may seem out of place in this more sanitized era. Forcing a party to choose between the lives of a few innocents or an untold multitude of potential victims is a tantalizing plot point, but also a plot that may make some uncomfortable.
What Carcosa is, exactly, is a bit harder to put a finger on. Carcosa is a world with no clerics and no magic-users. Even thieves, Specialists in Lamentations of the Flame Princess parlance, are not present. The common fantasy races, the elf, the dwarf, the Halfling, are all unaccounted for. What Carcosa is, really, is a completely different animal from the majority of fantasy settings. When taken in small doses, Carcosa feels disjointed and odd. Taken as a whole, however, Carcosa is a truly fascinating setting. The character and flavor of the place must be seen from a bird's eye view. There is so much going on that I fear many will get lost in the individual oddities instead of seeing the whole clockwork of madness presented.
The only two character classes are the Sorcerer and the Fighter. Fighters are the same combat workhorses as usual. The Sorcerer is a conceit of the Carcosa setting, the only people who can use magic in Carcosa. They fight like a Fighter, but they also speak the language of extinct Snake-Men and can use the Rituals that made this book so famous to begin with. Since they fight the same as a Fighter, you may wonder why a player would bother playing with a Fighter. The only reasons I can think of involve player motives instead of character concerns, as some players will be put off by the Rituals of the Sorcerer. Actually, I take that back. The Sorcerer is a lot of character for a player to handle and I completely understand choosing the Fighter for character reasons. As the first chapter points out, there is no reason not to insert the thief/Specialist class into Carcosa, though I would use them in moderation. I like the idea of using a Fighter who adheres to the limitations of the Cleric (no bladed weapons), but lacks the magic powers. The beauty of Carcosa is that this is a perfectly acceptable choice for a DM to allow.
The biggest hurdle to jump when it comes to Carcosa is not the content. I suspect that anyone who has played D&D more than once has encountered scenarios as bad as or worse than anything in this book. I think the issue instead is a two-fold bit of cognitive dissonance. First, while human sacrifice and rape do occur both in fantasy literature and in many campaigns, they are rarely codified as they are here. Having them presented in a matter of fact way as part of Rituals that a PC may use is a difficult concept for many. Personally, I am not upset by this, but I am not thrilled by it either. Secondly, I think that marketing the first edition of Carcosa as a supplement to the original D&D, and this one as a generic supplement for OSR games, is a mistake. If Carcosa was a self-contained game, then the massive difference between Carcosa and the default D&D setting would be less obvious. Since so much of the bath water is thrown out, including the races and most of the classes, why not throw out the baby, too? Strangling and rending the baby with your bare hands is optional.
Using Carcosa as written, the races are the biggest change to character creation. Instead of the Tolkienesque archetypes, there are 13 different colors of humanity. Most of the colors are as you would expect, like Black, Brown, Red, Blue, and Yellow, but there are 4 that are a little different. Ulfire and jale are additional primary colors that only exist on Carcosa. Ulfire is described as "wild and painful" and jale is described as "dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous". Dolm is the described as the green to jale's red, but no other description is given. Then there are the Bone men. Bone men are transparent, save for their bones. Yeah, I'm not sure how that works, either. Not that it really matters. The Races of Men in Carcosa do not get much in the way of description, aside from appearance. It is said that they distrust each other and that they never interbreed. Otherwise, you are on your own.
Psionics, the redheaded stepchild of D&D powers, is more common in Carcosa. Based on their Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, each character has a percentage chance of being Psionic. The Psionic system as presented here is much smoother and easier to use than the old school one. Even if I never use any of the other rules presented in Carcosa, I will be stealing the Psionics system.
Then there are the Rituals. The Rituals are what has given Carcosa its infamous reputation and are the biggest break from D&D norms. Instead of memorizing spells and casting them, ala Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, Rituals are elaborate combinations of chants and actions that can be used to conjure, bind, or banish the Old Ones. It is the conjuration Rituals which require human sacrifice. This is where I think the Carcosa shitstorm is overblown. Conjuring ancient evil into the world is rarely the action of a PC group, but instead is something to be prevented. I would not be comfortable with a player group gathering 63 humans to sacrifice unless there are outrageously extraneous circumstances. On the other hand, if the PCs wander into a settlement and discover that an 11 year old girl has been abducted, the Sorcerers in the group would know that a rival Sorcerer is attempting to summon a group of Amphibious Ones into the world.
The bestiary is one of Carcosa's real strengths. The various Dolm Worms, Mummies, and Space Aliens fill the world of Carcosa with danger and weird. Combined with the monster creation rules in Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Carcosa provides a nice spectrum of monsters for PCs to slay, banish, and bind. Any world that needs stats for Cthulhu and dinosaurs is a world I want to play in. Once again, there is plenty here to steal for other campaigns.
The bulk of the book is taken by the Hex Descriptions. For every ten mile wide hex on the map, there is a description of what occupies it. These encounters vary widely, from villages full of orange men to skulking cultists seeking to conjure their fallen god. This is where the real spirit of Carcosa lives. This is a sparse, deadly world, one where danger is in the wind and ruins are crawling with shadows.
There are no magic items of the traditional sort. Alien devices fill the role of magic items and do so with aplomb. The random appearance of hand grenades or cyborgs in a game that is nominally fantasy instead of science fiction is something I greatly appreciate. While there are only a couple of pages dedicated to the gadgets of alien nature, there is plenty to use. Much as with Lamentations of the Flame Princess, I appreciate the space given to DM imagination instead of having everything written as canonical law.
The Introduction is very clear that Carcosa is a living document and that the DM is not handcuffed to any one aspect of the setting as written. Don't like the Rituals as written, disregard them completely or tone them down. Hell, make the Sorcerer class exclusively NPC and the Ritual issue goes away. For DMs who really want to challenge the limits of their players, there are definitely ethical questions to be explored in the world of Carcosa. Whether or not someone is comfortable with the implications of this world is for them to decide.
The first thing I noticed was the interior art. Rich Longmore is responsible for all of it and the results are fabulous. The whole book feels consistent because of this. Longmore's languid ink work maintains the classic D&D aesthetic of Carcosa. The robots are suitably bug-eyed and strange of limb and proportion, the aliens appropriately weird. There is much to admire here, with details hidden in every illustration. My only regret is that my copy is a digital one, as I would love to have the hardcover to throw in my bag alongside the Lamentations of the Flame Princess boxed set and Vornheim hardcover.
Ultimately, I think comfort and offense have nothing to do with appraising the worth of Carcosa. What matters is the quality of the material presented. On that criterion, Carcosa is a very troubling product. If one wants to run a game of D&D completely divorced from the tropes that practically define D&D, then Carcosa is about as far as you can go. There is much worthy content here. The Psionics and Monsters and Alien Technology sections justify the asking price alone. Personally, I would love to spend more time in Carcosa, exploring a world rife with conflict and mystery. The only content that could be considered offensive is contained within the Rituals and the implementation of those Rituals is a matter personal choice. For my money, Carcosa is an experiment worth participating in.
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New technique could slash energy use in making silicon
October 13, 2017 By David Tenenbaum
A University of Wisconsin–Madison chemistry professor has come up with a new and more sustainable way to make silicon at much lower temperatures for the kind of advanced batteries used in electronics such as phones, cameras and laptop computers.
Inside a test reactor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, silicon is extracted from this mixture of molten salts. The prongs extending into the center are electrodes that carry electric current through the mix. Photo: Linsen Li
Silicon, one of the most common elements on earth, is generally refined from sand, but it could also be sourced from glass. Silicon production is energy-intensive, requiring a temperature of 1700 degrees Celsius.
Now, in the online journal Angewandte Chemie, UW–Madison's Song Jin, with UW researchers Yifan Dong, Tyler Slade, and other colleagues, have published a recipe for a simpler electrical extraction of silicon that uses much less energy. In the new method, the reactor operates at 650 degrees Celsius — considered a "low" temperature by chemical processors, allowing the use of simpler apparatus.
The new process mimics in many respects an invention from 1886, the Hall-Héroult process, that revolutionized the transformation of aluminum oxide into elemental aluminum. Hall-Héroult changed aluminum from a precious metal into one widely used in vehicles, aircraft and structures.
The Washington Monument was crowned with an aluminum apex when it was completed in 1884. Aluminum was a precious metal before the Hall-Héroult process initiated the modern aluminum smelting industry. Library of Congress
"Aluminum was very exotic and expensive," says Jin, "not because it was hard to find — aluminum element is very common in the earth. It was because aluminum metal was expensive to make."
These factors also apply to silicon, he notes, though demand for silicon will probably never approach that for aluminum. "For several decades, the main need has been for high-purity silicon for microelectronics. But as demand for lower-grade silicon in renewable energy applications grows, we need a less expensive and energy-intensive method to produce silicon at a larger scale."
In the Hall-Héroult process, aluminum oxide is dissolved in a salt that serves as the electrolyte, which conveys electric current during the reaction. Energized by electricity, the aluminum oxide undergoes the chemical process called reduction: Oxygen is released and metallic aluminum remains.
Song Jin
Today, silicon is produced from silicon dioxide in a high-temperature process that transfers oxygen to carbon and releases a steady stream of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
To adapt the aluminum-production process to silicon, Jin's group chose to derive the silicon from the common mineral calcium silicate, which can be dissolved in molten salts. They further found a mixture of three salts — calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and sodium chloride — that can melt at a relatively low temperature and still dissolve calcium silicate. A "supporting electrolyte" of calcium oxide aids the speedy transfer of oxygen.
All of these compounds are cheap and common, and the result — at least in the lab — is a dramatic reduction in reaction temperature, and the needs for energy and reactor infrastructure.
All these factors should reduce cost, Jin adds.
Using a molten salt electrolyte, Song Jin and colleagues liberated oxygen from dissolved calcium silicate using electricity at about half the temperature needed in today's industrial silicon production process. Photo: Yifan Dong
Because silicon, calcium and oxygen are the main ingredients of waste glass, and several wastes from burning coal, Jin says, "this environmentally friendly strategy for the practical production of silicon at lower temperatures can be applied to other molten salt systems and is also promising for the recycling of glass and coal ash."
Jin suggests the new process could be used to produce lower purity silicon for large-scale material and energy applications. And since the reaction produces conducting fibers with a diameter measured in billionths of a meter, it could naturally be used in the lithium ion batteries inside myriad digital devices.
Already, he says, battery manufacturers are moving toward nanoscale silicon for electrodes in lithium ion batteries. In tests on a prototype battery, Jin's nanowires showed excellent ability to survive many charge-discharge cycles.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has applied for a patent on the invention.
Tags: chemistry, electronics, materials, nanotechnology, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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Robert "Bob" Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer. He is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as a writer for such notable shows as Saturday Night Live, Get A Life, The Ben Stiller Show, and The Dennis Miller Show. In the mid-1990s, Odenkirk and David Cross created the Emmy-winning sketch comedy program Mr. Show, which ran for four seasons and ultimately became a cult success.
In the early 2000s, Odenkirk discovered Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, and helped the pair create and produce the television series Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. To date, he has directed three films: 2003's Melvin Goes to Dinner, 2006's Let's Go to Prison, and 2007's The Brothers Solomon. Odenkirk currently appears in the recurring role of Saul Goodman in AMC's Breaking Bad.
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I love the story of the wall of Jericho. The Israelites are so close to the Promised Land, there's just a wall in the way. Not just any wall, but an impenetrable force surrounding the entire city made of heavy mud bricks designed to keep any enemy out.
But when God began readying the Israelites for battle, he said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men" (Joshua 6:2).
But God wanted them to see not with their eyes but with their faith. He wanted them to see that even though the circumstances were impossible, he would give them the promised victory, because all things are possible to him who believes (Mark 9:23).
Learning to truly trust God has been one of my greatest challenges on my way to shame-free living and freedom. When you've lived in the prison of shame for as long as I had, you've developed many broken defense mechanisms—such as never being truly vulnerable to anyone, or controlling everything you can in your life so that you will not be hurt again. These mechanisms provide a false set of comfort that you cannot fathom letting go of for an unknown future. You cannot imagine that there is security and safety "out there" in which you can actually rest. And you cannot possess the promises of a God you do not trust.
Learning to trust takes experience. Lots of experience.
Learning to trust takes repetition.
Learning to trust takes failing.
Learning to trust takes challenges, trials, and tests.
Learning to trust takes risking—following God in the face of our fear.
Learning to trust takes time—lots and lots of it.
Trust has to grow. And in my observation––and personal experience––for those who've struggled with shame, trust grows slowly.
But here's the great news. God knows how to grow trust. He knows how to plant it, how to nourish it, how to repair it when it's been broken, and how to restore it when it's been lost. God is in the trust-growing business!
Do you know what he uses to grow our trust? He uses the very tool that the enemy uses to try to stop us. He uses our fear. Fear exposes the limits of our present capacity––but not our potential capacity.
Think about this: When you come face to face with fear, do you know what you are looking at? You are looking at the very next place where God is preparing to build your trust.
He's been building mine for years.
Trust-building is a process. A journey. For all of us.
If we are not prepared to go through the metamorphosis required to walk in freedom, we will soon long for the familiar routines of our former prisons. We won't trust, and we will return to our shame again and again.
We must put more faith in what we do know about God than in what we don't know about the future. We must walk in obedience, trusting that God is good and there is no darkness in him at all (1 John 1:5). God doesn't have a dark side. He can only do good, and only good will come of the things he asks us to do.
Trust is what the children of Israel had to do to walk laps around Jericho. Trust is what I was going to have to do to forgive and be free. Pressing through our fear each time and cycling through this pattern of choosing to obey so we can grow is how we continue to mature. The longer we walk with God, the stronger our trust grows, and the smaller our fear shrinks. Our faith develops. We're not moved by what struck fear in our hearts years ago, but there remains land ahead of us that God wants us to possess, so there will inevitably be different fears we will need to overcome. There will always be new areas where we will need to trust God.
This is the life in Christ we signed up for . . . fear, trust, repeat. It's a cycle of growth—a faith adventure—we go through over and over again in our lifetime.
So, what's your story? What's your wall? Does it look too big?
Your God is bigger than your wall.
Good. Because miracles are what God does.
Remember, it's not by might, nor by power, but by his Spirit that you overcome shame. Trust and obey him, and your wall will come tumbling down!
Christine Caine is an Australian-born, Greek-blooded lover of Jesus, activist, author and international speaker. Her primary passion is to make Jesus' last command her first priority by giving her all to see the lost saved and to build the local church – globally. Christine also has a passion for justice, and together with her husband, founded the anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign. In 2015, they also founded Propel Women, an organization designed to honor the calling of every woman, empower her to lead, equip her for success, and develop a sense of God-given purpose. Powered by hot, extra-dry, skinny, cappuccinos, Christine is a lover of words who speaks too fast, talks too much, and also writes them down. Some of her other books include Undaunted and Unstoppable. Christine and their family make their home in Southern California, USA.
Powerful!! Can't wait to read Unashamed!
Thank you Christine. Beautifully written. I really needed this reminder today. God bless you as you continue to speak out His Truths to this lost and dying world.
So awesome!! I could hear the words coming out of her mouth!! Such a God filled word shared!! Thanks!!


Let's be honest, who wouldn't want their own gym at home?
The convenience alone is worthy of the cost and time taken to complete and design and build process. Imagine rolling out of bed and then stumbling bleary eyed into your own training space. No queues, no waiting for equipment to become free, sweat covered benches become a feature of the past and getting changed is no longer a horrible public task.
Meet your home gym design team. Yep, that's us.
We're working "in the trenches" every day alongside our clients and are therefore uniquely positioned to know what works and what doesn't both from a training and equipment perspective.
Our business is small and family owned. We don't favour one supplier over another, we simply supply equipment that will assist in getting you the results you're after. Otherwise that expensive piece of kit you don't use can easily become a clothes horse sat in the corner of your new gym.
After an initial chat we'll pay you a visit and have a look at the proposed space for your new gym. We'll listen to what you want and your actual needs. We want to ensure that the equipment you buy will be used and has a purpose other than a sale.
Once we've completed this survey 2d drawings will be designed and sent to you. We will discuss these and you can decide if you like what you see. There's an option at this stage for 3d drawings and you'll then be able to view the equipment in situ within your space prior to installation.
Once signed off we will agree a time line for the supply and installation of your your new gym.


Stinton, GW, Macleod, SG, Cynn, H, Errandonea, D, Evans, WJ, Proctor, JE, Meng, Y and McMahon, MI 2014, 'Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium' , Physical Review B (PRB), 90 (13) , p. 134105.
The phase diagram of magnesium has been investigated to 211 GPa at 300 K, and to 105 GPa at 4500 K, by using a combination of x-ray diffraction and resistive and laser heating. The ambient pressure hcp structure is found to start transforming to the bcc structure at ∼45 GPa, with a large region of phase-coexistence that becomes smaller at higher temperatures. The bcc phase is stable to the highest pressures reached. The hcp-bcc phase boundary has been studied on both compression and decompression, and its slope is found to be negative and steeper than calculations have previously predicted. The laser-heating studies extend the melting curve of magnesium to 105 GPa and suggest that, at the highest pressures, the melting temperature increases more rapidly with pressure than previously reported. Finally, we observe some evidence of a new phase in the region of 10 GPa and 1200 K, where previous studies have reported a double-hexagonal-close-packed (dhcp) phase. However, the additional diffraction peaks we observe cannot be accounted for by the dhcp phase alone.


The Half Shoelace Pose is a great alternative to the full Shoelace Pose if you have very tight hips. But this does not mean that it is any less intense or therapeutic a hip opener.
Yin Yoga would be aptly named "mindfulness yoga." For there is no better contemplative practice utilizing the body, than this practice. If you have never heard of Yin Yoga, I suggest you read my introductory article, "What is Yin Yoga." In reading this article, you will learn the concepts of going to your edge, without going over the edge.
Yin Yoga is also about learning to hold poses for 3-5 minutes and watch, without judgement, how your body slowly opens and releases as you send your conscious breath to those areas are that are stuck. It is an intensely internal and healing process, of the body, mind and soul!
The Half Shoelace Pose and the Half Square Pose are very similar, however the position of the knees changes the pose in more than subtle ways. In the Half Square Pose, the ankle rests on the opposite knee, but in the Half Shoelace, the knees are stacked, one on top of the other, creating the need for more balance and internal rotation of hips.
From a seated position, begin by extending your right leg. Now take your left leg and cross it over the right, bending your knee, placing your left ankle by your right hip and your left knee over the right. Please reference the first picture below.
Make sure that when you set this pose up, that your left hip does not pop off the ground. It really wants to, but keep it grounded. You may wish to take your left hand and place it in the crease of your hip, gently pushing it down to establish this necessary groundedness.
Now assess your hips. Have you found your edge? If you are finding it hard to breathe slowly and evenly in this pose, your hips are tight and you may want to place your back up against the wall. You need to ensure that you are coming to an appropriate edge - one that is interesting and mildly intense, but not so intense that you hold your breath. The minute you hold your breath, the pose becomes anti-therapeutic!
If you are not to your edge, begin to slowly fold forward at the waist, as shown in the second picture. Continue to breathe deeply as you allow gravity to take you lower, not the active pulling of your arms.
In Yin Yoga, you need to remember that the pose is definitely not about how far you are able to bend, nor how you look in the pose, but about your own experience of the pose within you! When you forget about judging your abilities, or forcing yourself beyond your edge, it is only then that insight happens and healing is a possibility. This is why we call it mindfulness yoga!
Yin Yoga is about releasing all muscular activity, and holding the pose without fidgeting, to find calmness by holding any discomfort. When you breath through the discomfort, sending your prana to your tight hips, you invite the possibility for even more opening! What a wonderful, insightful and mindful way to practice!
Hold the pose for 3-5 minutes, or even more if you find it intensely therapeutic!
If this pose is still too intense for your hips, even if you are sitting against the wall, you can always do the wonderful Eye of the Needle Pose. Any hip opener that you do will always be therapeutic for you, so please, always at least try to work on your tight hips in whatever yin yoga pose works for you!
When finished on the one side, always remember to do the opposite side, for the same amount of time. Notice which side is tighter, and as you breath into the sensations, you can contemplate what this may mean in your life. The right-brain controls the left side of the body, and vice versa. Are you more right-brained or more left?
You may also wish to take the Half Shoelace Pose into a lateral, side opening pose. Visit my page on the Lateral Half Shoelace Pose to see this one!
The effect of any deep hip opener is very releasing; physically, emotionally and mentally. The long held yin yoga poses allow the time for this slow, sweet opening to occur.
The 2nd Chakra is located in the hips and lower abdomen, and when we are stressed, it is the belly and the breath that we guard, blocking this energy and preventing its flow. As a response to strong emotions we tighten the lower belly and hold our breath. When we learn to soften the belly and deeply pull the breath into this area, through belly breathing, we open to the possibility of releasing lots of stress and strong emotions! The hip opening poses are marvels at this!
As you hold the Half Shoelace Pose, relax and soften your belly. Visualize breathing into the belly, allowing it to expand, and as you exhale, send your breath and energy to the tight area. This is the key component to the practice of mindfulness yoga, while you continue to hold still in the pose.
Learning to open the energy of the 2nd Chakra will bring about emotional health and improve all your relationships!
You too can having a yoga for healing practice when you do the Half Shoelace Pose in the Yin Yoga style. So just allow yourself to let go, release your hips, release your emotions and may you find healing of your body, mind and soul!


If you're in Brisbane this weekend (5 Dec) check out Submerged, an exhibition by Jordan and his mum Katie McGuire and sister Alex McGuire.
Katie's studio is closing its doors after 8 years, so she is showing the fruits of her 9 month residency with an exhibition of paintings, accompanied by a series of Jordan's collages and Alex's drawings.
See more at the show.
Submerged opens 7pm this Saturday December 5 at LoveLove Studio, 25 Railway Tce Milton.


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Acting for AHAB, a large group of companies run by the Al Gosaibi family, in their claims against Mr Al Sanea and his Saad Group concerning his role in an alleged fraud resulting in losses of at least US$9 billion.
AHAB contends that Mr Al Sanea used his position (as the head of a division of the company) to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars in the company's name – using forged banking documents – and then misappropriated some of the proceeds. AHAB contends that at least US$6 billion was stolen by Mr Al Sanea.
LK works with a global team of lawyers and forensic accountants to coordinate the investigation into the fraud and the tracing of misappropriated assets, including in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Further, our team is working with foreign prosecutors and authorities in an effort to pursue charges against Mr Al Sanea.


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As the years continue to quickly slip by, one thing is certain: We're all getting older. The aging process is natural. From the first few grey hairs to the fine lines that begin to appear, aging and the changes that are taking place in our bodies are all part of the progression of life.
Aging doesn't just affect our physical appearance. Our bones, joints, and muscles all go through changes. Our cardiovascular system begins to change. We experience differences in the way our digestive system works and might notice changes in our urinary health and bladder function. The aging process can come as a big surprise as the body begins to function differently than it did before.
We can't do anything to turn back the hands of time. The aging process is a natural occurrence that will (sooner or later) happen to us all. Did you know that most people reach their peak performance at the age of 30?
Aging is inevitable. With all the changes that occur with the aging process, it's important to know what's considered normal aging and what to expect as time marches on.
Whenever the aging process begins for you personally, it's important to know what's happening with your body. It's also imperative to know what changes and symptoms are normal as you begin to age. Doing so will ensure you take the proper steps to stay healthy no matter how old you are. Normal changes in the aging process include the following.
It's normal to reach for the reading glasses as our eyes begin to age. When we get older, we lose the ability to focus on objects that are close up. This is known as presbyopia and is caused by a loss of elasticity in the lens of the eye, and it usually begins around 40. Cataracts, which are the clouding of the lens of the eye, affect a large number of the aging population and typically happen around the age of 60.
Hearing loss affects approximately a third of all people over the age of 60. Say what? It's true. And absolutely normal. Hearing loss is attributed to the loss of sensory receptors in the inner ear, which makes it difficult to hear high frequencies and hold a normal conversation in a loud, crowded room. People may sound muffled, and you might find yourself turning up the volume on the stereo or TV.
If you feel like you have to use the bathroom more than you used to, you're not the only one. Urinary tract and bladder health both tend to decrease as we get older and affect quite a few people. Incontinence (loss of bladder control) and frequent urination are both common side effects of the aging process.
By the time we hit the age of 35, our bones begin to lose minerals faster than they can be replaced. As the years go by, bones also tend to shrink in size and become weaker and more vulnerable to breaks and fractures. Without adequate exercise, muscles also begin to lose strength and flexibility. The older we get, the more we have to work at maintaining muscle mass.
Forgetting where you put your phone or what you did with your keys doesn't mean you're losing your mind, but it does probably mean you're losing your memory. Memory loss is one of the most natural parts of aging. As we age, we lose our ability to quickly process information. This can lead to memory loss and some mild cognitive dysfunction.
The loss of muscle mass we experience as we age is a direct cause of the loss of strength we face. The aging process is responsible for the loss of muscle tissue, which makes muscles less flexible and is why we tend to feel stiff when we're older.
The heart is one of the most important muscles of the body, and it, too, is affected by the aging process. As our hearts begin to age, we find that we have less stamina than we did when we were younger and at our peak performance.
If you're over 60 and have high blood pressure, this is completely normal. In fact, over half of the people 60 years of age or older suffer from high blood pressure – but this condition can be avoided. Eating less sodium, getting regular exercise, and keeping a healthy weight can all help prevent high blood pressure and the symptoms associated with it.
If you're experiencing any of these, and you're past your prime, it's safe to say you're experiencing aging in its natural occurrence. While stopping the aging process is impossible, there are certain things you can do to ensure that you're aging gracefully and are correctly addressing all the things that come along with it.
You can't turn back the hands of time, but you can certainly determine how your body handles the aging process. It's vital to enjoy life in all its stages. By incorporating the following ideas into your life, you'll find the aging process isn't so bad after all.
What we eat has everything to do with how we feel. Eating a well-balanced diet that is full of the nutrients your body needs is vital as you embrace the aging process. Fill your plate with an abundance of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Also be sure to get the "good" fats you need. These can be found in nuts, seeds, hemp oil, flaxseed oil, avocados, and more. A healthy, balanced diet is the key to longevity and feeling your best!
You don't need to engage in strenuous activity to get the exercise your body needs to stay healthy as you age. According to the New York Times, any type and amount of exercise might actually slow down the aging process and the effect aging has on our cells. A balanced exercise routine that includes mild cardio (walking, jogging, swimming, etc.), strength training (even lifting 2-3 pound weights will help), and stretching can benefit the aging body and mind.
There's no better way to enjoy getting older (and all the changes that come with it) than by doing the things you love. Staying socially active and spending time with people you care about can positively impact the aging process and dramatically improve your quality of life.
As you get older, it's natural to begin to experience changes associated with the aging process. Ensuring you're taking the best possible care of yourself will make sure you enjoy these changes and live life to the fullest extent possible…no matter how many candles on your cake.
What have you found to help you gracefully embrace the aging process? We'd love to hear about it in the comments below!
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A Florida-based VoIP carrier cites net neutrality and filed a complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility company was accused of stealing VoIP services using the network to deliver voice services without even paying for it.
L2Networks files a net neutrality complaint at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tuesday, the first formal complaint for the FCC net neutrality rules passed last December 2010.
News has spread that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing a new electronic monitoring technology, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
The FBI has recently formed a secret surveillance unit in a grand goal of inventing a technology to let the police easily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.
A federal judge sentenced two men to various prison terms for their roles in a telecom fraud scheme that netted more than $ 4.4 million, the US Department of Justice said recently.
New native SDK for Android lets mobile developers easily add voice to a part of their apps. Twilio, a provider of communications in the cloud, is announcing the launch of Twilio Client for Android. The product, which is a software development kit (SDK) makes incredibly easy for mobile developers to integrate voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities to their applications in Android, it is important to any part of an app into a fully functional VoIP telephone. In addition to the recently announced iOS SDK, Android SDK release means Twilio Client is now available for 75% of global smartphones, according to recent data from Gartner.


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I have just completed a Starting Bee-keeping course with Swindon bee-keepers. I have wanted to keep bees for some time and it was fascinating to learn more about the practical workings of a hive from someone who has been keeping bees for 18 years. I hope to get my first hive in the spring, so need top decide which kind of hive to buy, and where to locate my hive. I will need to find the best Feng Shui spot for my bees – a sunny but sheltered site, with some privacy and protection against possible vandals or thieves. I shall endeavour to only use natural materials, and take care of them with the minimum of disturbance to the harmony of the hive.


According to neurologist, Paul Reber, our brains have a storage capacity of approximately 2.5 petabytes (a million gigabytes). That's the equivalent of recording three hundred million hours of high-definition television! Simply put, we have the capacity to learn something new every second of every minute of every hour of every day for thousands of lifetimes! We won't run out of hardware space anytime soon. And the three-pound supercomputer inside our craniums runs on less power than a twenty-watt lightbulb. How is that for being ecologically friendly?
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• why are they your favorites?
Note the remarkable example set by the apostle. Awaiting execution in a dark prison cell, he still wanted to keep reading and studying! He never gave up serving the Lord, preparing in season and out, knowing that he would soon meet him face-to-face.
No verse is a throw away verse, of course, and this little tidbit really does speak volumes about Paul. He was one of the most learned men of the first century and the author of much of the New Testament. Paul could have coasted to the intellectual finish line but instead, chose to be a lifelong learner! We don't know what his reading list consisted of, but he turned his jail cell into a reading room.
It might seem like a stretch, but I think it's reasonable to take a book with you wherever you go. I know I do. There really are no excuses. Especially when we can fit so many books on the digital device of our choosing!
Below you'll find my answers to the young man's questions, as well as a few summary statements highlighting why I found these particular authors and books so impactful.
The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch and The Shaping of Things to Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost. Hirsch gives keen clarification about the difference between Hellenistic (Greek) thought and Hebraic (Hebrew) thought. Hellenistic mentality generally means that a person thinks his way into action. The Hebraic mentality, on the other hand, generally means a person acts his way into thinking.
American Christianity needs a whole lot more of the way our Lord Jesus Christ (our Jewish Rabbi) orchestrated His ministry of discipleship! He taught His disciples to act their way into correct thinking. Thus, He took them on field trips☺!
All In and Play the Man, by Mark Batterson. Batterson has been my favorite author of 2018 because of his unique ability to put ideas into simple, repeatable, and memorable expressions. He is unparalleled in his ability to take particular biblical characters and translate their experiences into functional practices for us. He is also a genius when it comes to presenting scientific and sociological ideas and then integrating them in with biblical truth. I have read five of his titles.
Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, The Rational Bible by Dennis Prager. Because I love the Torah so much, this commentary on the Book of Exodus was transformative for me. Prager's insights are illuminating. Some of the topics are: indentured servitude (Exodus 21:2), when lying is acceptable (20:13), romanticizing past repressive regimes or pagan ideologies (Exodus 20:2), and the righteous influence of God-fearing people (18:21). In regard to this subject, Prager states that sometimes God has to use God-fearing people to advance His purposes because Christians can be too domesticated. Torah addresses the education of four types of children (12:26). Prager teaches about the uniqueness and profoundness of the Ten Commandments compared to other pagan cultures. He also gives a superior explanation of kidnaping, which is American Slavery (Exodus 21:2) compared to indentured servitude (Exodus 21:2). He explains the principle of an "eye for an eye" (21:24), insulting ones parents (21:17), sanctuary cities (21:14), leadership corruption, which destroys a society (23:6,7,8,9), linking love to morality, living in our "unconditional love" culture (19:5, 6), and why compassion is not a listed characteristic for judges (18:21). There is so much more!
I have read his commentary, underlined, marked it up and listened to the whole book on Audible. The richness of Torah has enlightened me to the degree that I have communicated each of the above truths from Exodus to my non-Christian friends as well as my Marxist antagonist neighbor and, of course, to our Christian friends. I listen while I am driving and while working out.
The Founders' Bible. General Editor, David Barton. This Bible has impacted hundreds of people we minister to in a most enlightening way! Why? It provides Biblical insight about subjects that we are facing in the broader culture. If you want to learn how to speak to cultural issues like: gun control (Exodus 32:2), the role of judges (Isaiah 1:26), what type of leaders should be elected to our government (Exodus 18:21), the clarification of the different types of law (Exodus 20:1-17), socialism compared to the Free-Market System, (1 Thessalonians 3:10, and 1 Timothy 5:8), the value of War (1 Chronicles 5:22; Exodus 15:3; Psalm 144:1), who and how should we care for the poor (Deuteronomy 24; 15:11;) and about 200 more germane subjects, this is the Bible for you, your family, and friends. If you have a family Bible on your coffee table replace it with this one ☺! I have spent hours talking to our grandchildren about these subjects from this Bible. We actually pay them to read the articles!
The Henry Morris Study Bible. Edited and articles by Henry Morris. This is the best Bible in print if you desire to understand how science and Scripture confirm each other. No other Bible today will address in its notes such subjects as: the creation of the space, time, and matter continuum (Genesis 1:1), the law of causality, which states that no effect can be greater than its cause (Genesis 1:1), and the laws of thermodynamics.
The first law states that no matter is being created or destroyed (Genesis 2:2) and the second law states that all existing matter and energy is proceeding irreversibly toward equilibrium and cessation of all processes (Genesis 3:17 and Romans 8:21). He explains "light" (in its most basic form is energy) mentioned in Genesis 1:2 prior to the creation of the sun, moon and stars, he explains the process of the "genetic code" from the phrase "after its kind" which is the complex information program in the DNA molecule (Genesis 1:11). Morris also describes dinosaurs, "behemoth" found in Job 40:15-24 and "leviathan" in Job 41.
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According to the Pew Research Institute, half of adults read fewer than five books per year. And men read 13% fewer books than women. Look to Kathryn Zickhur and Lee Rainie, "A Snapshot of Reading in America in 2013." To be an intelligent, intentional Christ Follower five books a year does not cut it. Most men average 20 hours of ESPN a week. Yikes!!
In a few days I will finish my list of my favorite authors, books and bibles.
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Air Burundi est le nom de la compagnie aérienne nationale de la République du Burundi.

Historique et activités

La compagnie a été créée en . À l'époque elle s'appelait Service des Transports Aériens du Burundi et n'a adopté son nom actuel d'Air Burundi qu'en . Elle est entièrement propriété du gouvernement burundais.

Ayant suspendu temporairement ses vols le , elle fait actuellement les activités suivantes :
 Assistance en escale des compagnies aériennes Ethiopian Airlines et RwandAir ;
 Assistance en matière de fret des vols cargo réguliers et non réguliers ;
 Opérations de refueling : mise à bord carburant avions (kérozène) ;
 Réservations et vente des billets des autres compagnies aériennes opérant à l'aéroport international de Bujumbura.
 Après commande des billets d'avion, livraison via internet sur demande.

Flotte aérienne

Destinations
La compagnie dessert deux des principaux aéroports d'Afrique de l'Est : Kigali (KGL) et Entebbe (EBB).

Compagnie aérienne ayant son siège au Burundi
Bujumbura

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Felixstowe Seafront Gardens have been awarded a Green Flag Award for the third year running and is officially one of the best parks in the world.
A record number of parks and green spaces in the UK will be flying the Green Flag this year, and the gardens sit among 1,883 others who have received the award.
Helen Greengrass, Felixstowe Forward Change Director, said: "This is fantastic news for the North Seafront. There is a real buzz in Felixstowe at the moment, and the gardens are the jewel in the crown of our vibrant seafront.
"We have spent a lot of time and money restoring the gardens, so they can be enjoyed by locals and tourists alike, and it is great to see it being recognised for being of the very highest quality.
The international award, now into its third decade, is a sign to the public that the space boasts the highest possible environmental standards, is beautifully maintained and has excellent visitor facilities.
The gardens have also received the much coveted additional Green Heritage Site Accreditation for the management of the historic features.
Paul Todd, International Green Flag Award scheme manager, said: "We are delighted to be celebrating another record-breaking year for the Green Flag Award scheme, with more Green Flags Awarded this year than last year.


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LGBTQ year in review: who, when, why and what happened in the queerverse in 2019
By Muri Assunção
George Fernandez (center) and other representatives from Key West, Fla., carry a 100-foot-long rainbow flag during the World Pride March in New York. (Jonathan Atkin/Getty Images)
It might've taken 50 years of arduous, tireless and oh-so-fabulous activist work, but in 2019 the LGBTQ community in the U.S. was finally able to celebrate some well-deserved firsts.
From an openly lesbian athlete posing for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue; to an out-and-proud gay presidential candidate with a real shot of passing through the primaries; to an openly gay black man to receive an Emmy as a lead actor in a drama series; to the NYPD's long-awaited apology for its past treatment of the LGBTQ community, the year will be one for the books.
Madonna performs onstage during Pride Island - WorldPride NYC 2019 at Pier 97 on June 30, 2019 in New York City. ((C)Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Pride Island)
Madonna, museums, multinationals, oh my!
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — a series of violent demonstrations in a West Village bar that marked a new and expansive phase of the queer rights movement — the LGBTQ universe gathered in New York City in June, where a record 5 million attendees participated in this year's Pride commemorations.
Paired with WorldPride celebrations — the first time the international LGBTQ mega event was held in the U.S. — Pride month brought special exhibitions exploring queer history to museums and galleries across the nation, the largest Pride parade in New York City history and a historic closing performance of Pride month by the Queen-of-All-Queens, Madonna.
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Transgender violence a distressing sign of an ongoing culture of hate
For the first time, it was decided that two transgender pioneers — Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera — will be recognized with a monument in Greenwich Village for the role they played in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
Unfortunately, the honor comes in a year when violence against transgender across the nation hit epidemic levels: at least 25 transgender people were killed by violent means in the U.S. in 2019. The vast majority of them were trans women of color.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (left) and his husband Chasten. (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)
He's here, he's queer, and he could be president
"I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor," then little-known Pete Buttigieg said during a rally announcing his presidential candidacy on a rainy Sunday afternoon in April in South Bend, Ind. "More than a little bold, at age 37, to seek the highest office in the land," he added.
Even bolder, perhaps? A kiss the current Iowa front-runner gave his husband, in front of a roaring crowd.
Less than a year before the 2020 presidential elections, Mayor Pete is now a legitimate option to become the Democratic nominee who will fight to make the White House blue again.
In this March 26, 2019, file photo, actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court in chicago after his charges were dropped. (Paul Beaty/AP)
The cruel, the bad and the ugly
The bizarre case of Jussie Smollett, an openly gay actor of color who made headlines earlier this year for being the victim of an alleged anti-gay and racist attack, is 2019's bad present that keeps on giving.
The saga, which started in January when the former "Empire" star received an outpouring of support after allegedly being attacked by two men, quickly turned sour when Chicago police doubted his story, investigated his claims, and charged him for allegedly making a false report. In November, eight months after prosecutors dropped the case against him, Smollett sued Chicago for "malicious prosecution."
The real losers in the whole story? Real hate crime victims.
Megan Rapinoe (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Megan turns Mega
In 2019, soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe became the first out lesbian to pose for the legendary Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The issue hit newsstands in May, when the 34-year-old goal-making machine still had no idea about the mega year she was about to have.
In July, the co-captain of the U.S. women's soccer team brought downtown New York to a standstill, as thousands of fans cheered Team USA as the players marched on a confetti-drenched Broadway to celebrate their World Cup victory.
In October, Rapinoe and her girlfriend, 38-year-old Sue Bird, one of the most decorated players in women's basketball, were honored with great fanfare by the Golden State Warriors for their contributions to their sports.
The cast of the TV smash "Pose" strikes a pose. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Entertainment W)
Strike a 'Pose' at the Emmys
"The category is love, y'all!," actor Billy Porter said at the Emmy Awards in September when receiving the statuette for outstanding lead actor in a drama series.
In 2019, queer actors of color finally began to receive the recognition they've always deserved.
Porter won for his portrayal of Pray Tell, the mighty grandfather to all the "legendary children" of FX's "Pose." The Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals-created show, which brought the world of New York's underground ball culture to the Twitter feeds of Anywhere, USA and which made history by having the largest-ever cast of transgender actors, also received a nomination for outstanding drama series.
The word "they" is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in New York. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313 percent increase in look-ups on the company's search site, Merriam-Webster.com, this year when compared with 2018. Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition to its online dictionary to reflect use of "they" as relating to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary. (Jenny Kane / AP)
Not your parents' pronoun
Not "impeach," not "exculpate," not even "quid pro quo." According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the 2019 word of the year is one that most people have learned shortly after their alphabetization period: they.
The term, which had been used "as object of a verb or preposition" for centuries is now "used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a sense that is increasingly common in published, edited text, as well as social media and in daily personal interactions between English speakers," according to the dictionary.
Former editor-in-chief of Out magazine Phillip Picardi (Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Good media, bad media
In 2019, RuPaul became the first drag queen to appear on the cover of the American Vanity Fair; "Pose" star Indya Moore became the first transgender cover star of Elle U.S.; "Queer Eye" grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness, who identifies as gender nonconforming, celebrated being the first non-female cover star in 35 years of Cosmopolitan U.K.; India's first openly LGBTQ athlete Dutee Chand was featured on the cover of Vogue India.
But, while LGBTQ representation in mainstream media saw a healthy growth in the past year, LGBTQ media took a noticeable hit.
The year started with the folding of the popular LGBTQ digital magazine site INTO, owned by giant hookup app Grindr. In February, dozens of freelancers signed a petition demanding payments by the groundbreaking LGBTQ-focused publication Out. The messy situation in the magazine didn't seem to improve with time: In December, the editors-in-chief of Out, as well as its sister publication The Advocate, announced that they were leaving their posts.
While country rap has been around as a genre prior to Lil Nas X's (pictured) "Old Town Road," nothing before brought the genre to the forefront quite like this. The song even won "Musical Event of the Year" at the Country Music Association Awards. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images North America/TNS)
Lil got huge
The most nominated male artist in next year's Grammy Awards — and the only openly LGBTQ artist to win a Country Music Association award — Lil Nas X was, without a doubt, one of the year's hottest artists.
The 20-year-old rapper, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, broke both genre conventions and Billboard charts records (sorry, Mariah!) with the year's biggest hit: The year's summer anthem "Old Town Road" became Billboard's longest-running No. 1 song in history, staying on top for 19 weeks.
Mr. Blackburn from the PBS Kids series, 'Arthur' (PBS Kids)
Come out, come out, whoever you are
This year, the closet door burst open in the most diverse ways possible. Some of the year's most powerful examples include:
Mr. Ratburns, a beloved third-grade teacher from PBS's kids series "Arthur," who got married to his aardvark husband in the show's 22nd series premiere; to singer-songwriter Sam Smith, who came out as gender nonbinary in March and later announced they would be using gender-neutral they/them pronouns; to Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, whose emotional coming out at 64 turned him into an LGBTQ activist teaching kids that "there is no 'cure' for being gay."
In 2019, in was so out.


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Raging over TV2: - Huge utjekket!
on Thursday night described the Extra Magazine, how the Danish singer Chio Dyrlund, who goes by the stage name CH10, was furious at TV2 and Sony, because she ha
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on Thursday night described the Extra Magazine, how the Danish singer Chio Dyrlund, who goes by the stage name CH10, was furious at TV2 and Sony, because she had not been informed that her song 'Karma is a Bitch' had been released in 'X Factor'-finalisten Mathilde Caffeys name in the wake of Saturday's finale, where Mathilde Caffey song just the song on national television.
Koda, which ensures musicians ' rights in Denmark, explained, however, that for the Chio Dyrlund was not something to come after the purely legal.
- It is legal to do cover songs, so legally there is no case here. But legal or not, so it's both a good idea and good style to inform and crediting those who have made the music, said Eva Hein, who is the communication director in Koda, to Ekstra Bladet.
The announcement is DJBFA, which is the largest association of songwriters and composers in Denmark, however, does not agree.
It has got their bestyrelsesforkvinde, Anna Lidell, to go to the keys on Facebook and comment on the matter.
'the Problem is just that the production company behind the show does not seem to have ensured that the songwriter was in on the plan. They have not explained properly what they wanted. That in itself is bad and utjekket, and something we must do away with in the music industry. Great players have great responsibility! If they are not checked, who would be it?! In addition, it would be great if the writer was credited, like the to the DR's sing', she writes.
See also: 'Scandal' on TV2: - We regret very much
Anna Lidell also think, however, that there is a legal problem in connection with the TV2 and Sony's use of CH10's song, because that is changed in the. the
'But there is probably also a legal issue. The original song lasts 3:45 min., while the 'X Factor' is 40 sec. shorter. There are eight lines of text and thus the larger sequences of the song, there simply is cut out. Apparently, without the written consent of the author. It must be basic not. It is, however, an individual assessment from song to song when doing a cover, but the assessment here is that the song is changed – especially when larger pieces of text has been removed', she writes, and continues:
'If there has been a musikfaglig person behind this decision, they would without a doubt know, that it was not in order'.
Mathilde Caffey on stage during 'the X Factor'final on Saturday night. Photo: Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix
Opposite Ekstra Bladet explains Anna Lidell his criticism:
- There are two aspects. It is ethical and legal. Legally you are not allowed to go in and change the song radically. They have been allowed to make a cover, but they have deleted a lot of text. They have done the 40 seconds shorter. This is what I think is the problem. I think it's changed, " she says, and continues:
And then there is an ethical problem. TV2 and Sony has a big responsibility. They must have time to call the author and ask if it is okay. It is hugely utjekket, it has not been done, and that there are not any artists accredited.
See also: Singer thunders against TV2: - It is theft.
For Extra Magazine tells Eva Hein, who is the communication director in Koda, performing musicians ' rights, that the case could potentially have a legal aftermath.
'When we from koda's hand writing, that legally has no case, then it is out from the premise that it is a cover version of the song, which has given rise to frustration. But if the number has changed and reworked in a way that makes it not a cover version, and this is what this conflict is about, yes, it is something that sidse end will have to be decided by a court of justice', she writes in an email, and continues:
'It is hard to say something unique about where the border between the cover (which is allowed) and machining (which requires permission) yesterday, but given that the release of covermusik is very, very widespread and litigation in the field of incredibly rare, I would think, there must be significant changes'.
Chio Dyrlund is appalled by the process. Photo: Private
the Extra Leaf has been in contact with Sony, who do not want to comment on the statements from DJBFA at the present time. They report, however, that at present they are investigating the matter.
For Ekstra Bladet says Chio Dyrlund, who is behind the CH10, that she has been made aware that her song 'Karma is a Bitch' may not have been treated in a correct way.
- From what I can understand, so is it legal to make a cover of a song, as long as there has not been amended in the text and made much of in the song, she says and continues:
- But they have changed in the order of the text and removed some of the verses. I have been told by many attorneys and musikfolk now that it's Sony and TV2 have done with my song, therefore not legal. Me and my team are still in dialogue with different people. I don't know just what I should believe in yet, she says.
- We have been in dialogue with the artist prior to 'the X Factor'. They knew well, that the number would be played in the final. But we take on our mantle, we were not enough aware of to guarantee us that they had understood that the song was also released subsequently, " she says, and continues:
- When this is said, we have not done anything legally wrong. However, it does not that we are bored of it at the purely human level. For there is a person at the other end, which is sad, and not find it here is awesome, and it will, of course, we like to dialogue about, and therefore we have also reached out to both the artist and her record label, she says.
According to Karina Fenn, therefore, they are not pale, regretting the course.
- We have tried to do what we can from a human point of view, and therefore we would also like to reach out and say that we very much regret. We should have made sure that we were 100 percent sure that they had the understanding that the song was also released subsequently. It was wrong of us to assume that they knew it, " she says, and stresses:
- But it's not something with the song to be withdrawn, or that it will have consequences on the way in, we have not done anything illegal.
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- We are just so sorry that the musicians, which should have seen the use of their songs in the 'X Factor' as a big pat on the back, instead have got a bad experience, says Dorthe Thirstrup, kanalchef for TV2.
- Chio Dyrlund and Thomas Holm, the Danish originalkunstnere behind two of the year's cover-singles, had, of course, have been informed about exactly how their music would be included in the final, and we regret that it has not happened. All the rules are followed, and the use of the numbers is, of course, reported to KODA and NBC, but the actual communication with the artists has simply not been good enough, which we regret, and, of course, trying to rectify in the future, sounds the on.


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Tampa Bay lab works to detect new COVID-19 variants
A team in a USF College of Public Health lab will be running test samples from Tampa General Hospital and USF to find new contagious variants of the virus.
Author: Angelina Salcedo (WTSP)
Published: 10:28 PM EST January 8, 2021
Updated: 11:54 PM EST January 8, 2021
TAMPA, Fla — The White House Coronavirus Task Force is not ruling out the possibility of the U.S. developing its own mutated variant of COVID-19. But, local doctors are among those who are skeptical.
"Unless they have evidence for it, it shouldn't be anywhere really. I mean, if you're just speculating whether it exists, it shouldn't be in a report," USF Public Health Virologist Dr. Michael Teng says.
Right now there's no data to show the U.S. has a dominant mutation of the virus.
While it's still uncertain, scientists continue to track the U.K. variant that's 40-60% more contagious.
"It's really important that as many laboratories as possible keep track of these mutations and see where they're going," USF Public Health Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Jill Roberts said
That's exactly what a USF College of Public Health lab will be doing. After seeing a spike in cases, Dr. Thomas Unnasch and his well-equipped staff will be searching for new mutations of COVID-19.
"We've made a decision to go ahead and start to look for the spread of this new U.K variant that's moving throughout the world now. It's been detected in Florida in several cases," Unnasch said.
63 cases of the U.K's highly contagious variant have been detected in the U.S. So far, 22 of them are in Florida.
Credit: 10 Tampa Bay
CDC continues to monitor COVID-19 variant from the U.K.
Unnasch says they're already archiving COVID-19 test samples from USF and Tampa General Hospital. They'll be run in a lab next week.
"It's going to really allow us to monitor in real-time how this virus is changing in response to, you know, what selective pressures it has as it moves throughout the population," Unnasch said.
The molecular epidemiology will be used to find any kind of variant of COVID-19 that way testing and vaccines can be adjusted accordingly.
"What's gonna happen when we do that is we're gonna find whatever's there, so if there's actually a U.S. variant there, we should pick that up when we do the testing to try to find the U.K. version. The reality is we should know relatively quickly," Roberts said.
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Lagos To Host Duathlon Championship.
Nigeria Triathlon Union (NTU) in conjunction with Cadbury Nigeria Plc will on Sunday, 10th February hold a one-day tournament tagged Cadbury Bournvita Duathlon Championship.
The national competition, which will feature junior (boys and girls) and senior (men and women) athletes among states in the country, clubs and schools, will hold inside the main bowl of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
The duathlon tournament will see athletes taking part in biking and running. While first running and biking in the senior category (male and female) will cover 5km and 20km respectively, the second running in that category covers 2.5km.
The junior male and female first running and biking cover 2.5km and 10km respectively, while the second running covers 2.5km.
President of NTU, Prince Wale Oladunjoye disclosed that cycling and athletics clubs across the country are equally invited to take part in the competition, adding that the events start by 7:30am, while the closing and awards ceremonies hold by 3:30pm.
"This Cadbury Bournvita Duathlon Championship is one of several events that we have in stock this year, even as we planned to take the sport to all the geopolitical zones of the country especially the schools," Oladunjoye said.