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The Impact of Voice Search on SEO
David Westman|Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Marketing Blog, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)|November 29, 2017
The impact of voice search on SEO is becoming more real as voice search is steadily growing in the search market. Discover how voice search is changing SEO strategy and how it will impact your website, business or both, either today or in the very near future.
What is Voice Search?
You have probably heard the term 'voice search' being used more recently with all the new voice-activated technology devices entering the market. The term 'voice search' refers to any device that uses a voice command to search the internet to provide your desired result. This is demonstrated in Google's microphone in the search bar on mobile devices, or from Amazon's Echo by just saying 'Alexa' (or the wake word you use for your device), or more famously and popularly known by Siri, an intelligent personal assistant (IPA). All of these voice controlled devices allow you to use a voice command to achieve a voice-enabled search on the internet or on your device to achieve the same type or text result.
The Growth of Voice Search
The company that brought the term 'voice search' to the industry was Google with the introduction of Google Voice Search in May 2002. As this was the original voice feature that turned mobile devices or desktops into voice controlled devices that allowed users to search Google by just speaking. Users would use Google Voice Search by saying "OK Google" and then be speaking their search intent like, "OK Google, what is the weather for tomorrow?" Google would then retrieve the weather forecast for tomorrow, based on the device's location or if you specifically asked for a city and state in correlation with your weather search.
In October 2011 with the iPhone 4S, the device that brought voice search to the mainstream originated from Apple with the introduction of Siri, an intelligent personal assistant.
Since the invention of Siri, the voice controlled device market has grown steadily with users slowly adopting and incorporating voice search into their everyday lives.
However, voice search wasn't widely adopted until recently, specifically when Amazon introduced the Amazon Echo. The device is controlled by Amazon Alexa or 'Alexa' for commands that allow you to use your voice to complete searches for tasks, like music playback, adding to your calendar, providing real-time information for weather, traffic, and answering your questions from online results.
Today, the market of voice search devices is rapidly growing with Amazon Alexa (i.e. Echo & Dot), Google Home (i.e. Mini & Max) and AppleTalk, now called Homepod becoming the familiar products that are recognized when people mention the term voice search now. However, there are many more voice controlled devices that are being incorporated into everyday products that are either impacting or are going to be impacting our everyday lives. These voice controlled devices are becoming 'features' of an already existing product on the market and aren't being categorized with voice search devices at all, but are one in the same. Example, products like the Roku and Amazon Fire that have the voice to search feature on their remotes, to the launch of Home – Google's voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant and lately the integration of Google Assistant into the newer smart TVs now. December 2016 saw Amazon's Echo products become their most popular product over the holiday period, with all voice-enabled devices expected to rapidly grow, even more, projections indicate by double in 2018. The growth of voice search is forever going to change the landscape of SEO, because of having to incorporate strategy with keywords, key terms, and content that will rank for voice searches being conducted by users. Creating another 'element' in SEO that strategists will have to consider moving forward.
Voice Activated Technology Voice Activated Device Capabilities (Not Limited Too)
Virtual Assistants Amazon Echo
AppleTalk Home Control (temp, lights, etc.)
Weather/News
List Making
Shopping (limited)
TV/Media Remotes Amazon Firestick
Roku Devices Change Channels
Find Shows of Interest
Set Timers/Preferences
Mobile Assistants
OK Google
Dictate Texts
Browser Assistants
Source: Seer Interactive
Voice Search Statistics
In the past couple of years, there weren't many statistics related to voice search. However, with the release of all the new voice-controlled devices with voice-activated technology, the usage has greatly influenced search behavior with search results and rankings. According to intelligentvoice.com in 2013, almost 85% of people had NOT used Siri on their Apple iPhone with iOS 7. But, according to Meeker Internet Trends in 2016, voice search is beginning to replace text or typing queries, with 20% of mobile queries being made with voice search with machine learning software accuracy at about 95 percent.
This correlates with Search Engine Watch claiming that Google voice search queries in 2016 were up 35 times over 2008 from Google Trends statistics. This is astounding now that "40% of adults are now using voice search once per day." according to Location World and this number is only expected to grow as VoiceLabs has predicted that this year in 2017, 25 million voice-first devices will be shipped to having 33 million in operation. This correlates with MindMeld's statistics in relation to voice search that 11% of people using voice search started more than 3 years ago, while 60% started in the last year and 41% started in the last 6 months. These numbers are only expected to grow and are going to make a crucial impact in the search world, primarily for SEOs.
What Voice Search Means For SEO?
Just like with any SEO, you have three types of search queries: transactional, informational, and navigational. This is the same with voice search, with the difference being more of a conversational search than a normal text or type search, that SEO is accustomed to performing. Focusing on keywords for a website and its pages was the initial way to conduct SEO. However now because of the Google Hummingbird update and with voice search, it's shifting from keywords to conversational key phrases, not just 'conversational keywords' and understanding user intent. It's not just computer language anymore, as technology is getting smarter with the incorporation of artificial intelligence and understanding the meaning, context, and purpose behind the user's voice search query instead of 'exact' keywords.
For example, when people search for weather using text search or typed search, the searcher typically types in the text word 'weather' and then finds their city and state on the weather website they chose from the search results page. Another type of search the user can conduct is 'weather city/state' to receive direct results for what they searched for specifically for the weather. This is the closest text-based search that correlates with voice search but is not similar. Because with voice search when people want the weather it's in a more conversational tone. For example, they'll ask, "What is the weather going to be like today?" or "What is the weather going to be like this weekend in city/state?" They do this instead of the small 'micro-type text-based searches' that allow the searcher to navigate to their answer from search engine results. Now, instead of having to navigate the search engine results. The voice technology device is deciding the result for them and providing it to them with a voice-enabled answer.
Voice search allows the user to specifically receive their answer from their search intent with just one voice command, and this is faster than typing and navigating through a search results page.
However, users are not realizing that they have altered their search behavior with voice vs text type searches and are still achieving similar results. I state similar because the voice search technology is choosing the result for them, unlike text-based searches for the user to decide what they believe is most relevant to their search. This makes the Google Hummingbird update that brought the semantic context into the Google Search Algorithm even more important. This update correlated more with the searcher's query with incorporating natural language and the intended meaning for better, more relevant results to the user. Likewise, it allowed Google to better understand the searcher's intent.
Who is Using Voice Search?
The most interesting factor one has to understand is that voice search, maybe the third most popular search method at around 60% of usage, versus the first and second search method of opening up a mobile browser (80%), or typing the question into a search engine app (70%), according to a 2017 study done by Search Engine Watch. However, Google conducted a Mobile Voice Study in 2014 (no recent demographic studies have been completed on voice search) and discovered at that time 55% of teens and 41% of adults use voice search more than once a day. However, the most interesting discovery was that voice search was primarily being used when one is alone or with friends. Otherwise, both demographics found it not acceptable to use voice search in public and attributed it to being similar to somebody speaking loudly while on the phone in public.
Source: Google – The Mobile Voice Study
However, the study concluded that each demographic admitted that they were scared of using voice search at first. But realizing how easy it was for using it and are now wanting voice search to do even more for them. Therefore, indicating that there is going to be a large shift and transition of voice search being more readily adopted in the coming years, which we are now starting to experience in 2017. But, will it replace the standard text search?
What is Voice Search Being Used For?
According to a majority of the research statistics on voice search. Voice Search is rapidly growing and being adapted to being used by the market. But voice search is being used for 'simple searches' or 'short-tail keywords' as indicated by Google in the graphic provided below. A simple search is essentially an informational or navigational search to provide a quick and relatively easy answer, which indicates the limitations of voice search versus more advanced searches or 'long-tail keyword' searches that require sifting through lots of specific and detailed information, primarily related to transactional searches (i.e. products, services, etc.). As people want to know specific information related to the product or services they are purchasing This is why the initial focus with voice search was as a digital personal assistant. Yet, the market is quickly expanding in voice search because of the adoption of it and as mentioned above with the different types of voice-activated technology and devices readily available in the market, it's expected to expand as comScore states 50% of searches will be voice by 2020. The question that remains is voice search technology going to be able to adapt for more advanced searches to replace text-based searches? That isn't believed to be the case by 2020, but the adoption of using voice search in everyday life is expected to change the everyday search habits of users and therefore impacting SEO strategy for all businesses in the upcoming new few years here.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/omg-mobile-voice-survey-reveals-teens.html
Voice Search Content & Keywords
Voice search makes it even more important for websites to not just rank their website for voice search but rank first with providing the most relevant and detailed information possible from all the potential search queries from voice search. Because voice search or artificial intelligence is deciding which 'result' to provide to the user instead of the user choosing the result from a search engine result page. Remember, with voice search the language is more conversational versus it being more computer-based with text searches.
Types of Queries
The types of queries that occur with text searches are usually pretty short, like about 2-4 words (i.e. 'weather city/state'). This is why many website focus on having 1-2 primary keywords for their site and specifically 1-2 keywords per page. The types of queries that occur with voice searches are longer as they are around 7 words or more words because the keywords are in the 'conversational' tone (i.e. 'what is the current weather in city/state?'). To rank for voice search, it is important to incorporate those 1-2 keywords into a more voice-friendly keyword content and text that can expand the keyword coverage on your website; and to be relevant for all the devices being used to conduct a search that includes desktop, mobile, tablets, and voice-devices.
Words for Questions
As explained above with the types of queries occurring on voice search, voice searches use questions queries or words than with text searches. The question words are "Who", "What", "Where", "When", "Why", and "How" and all these informational question-based queries are looking for specific answers. It is important that your content on your website utilizes these question words or technically speaking adverbs and answer them as clearly, coherently and conversationally as possible to optimize for voice search. Ideally, this could be implemented on an FAQ page if it doesn't already exist. For example, these question words could all be like:
1.) Who owns Google?
2.) What does Google do?
3.) When did Google start?
4.) Where is Google located?
5.) Why did Google buy YouTube?
6.) How do I get to Google?
If an FAQ page is not applicable to your website for some reason, just remember to focus on trying to incorporate these questions words throughout the content on the website. To ensure that you can be ranked for both text-based searches and voice-searches.
Conversational Phrases
By understanding the types of queries and the words for questions, your content needs to be written in a conversational phrase or context to ensure that your website can rank for both text and voice search. Websites can't just focus on keywords anymore for rankings because Google is enforcing the relevancy of a website. This is demonstrated by the Google Hummingbird update, which aims to make your content more humanistic and conversational, instead of sounding stoic and stale for a computer program to read it and rank for those keywords. This puts even more of a focus and emphasis on content marketing for SEO, as they are essentially becoming one in the same now with the advancements in voice search and artificial intelligence.
SEO Challenges for Voice Search
The challenges for voice search is that the majority of searches, based on the trends are 'simple' searches basically focusing on informational and navigational types of searches. Although transactional searches can be conducted on some of the devices, statistics are indicating that it's not happening, yet at least. Which makes the ranking for informational and navigational searches highly competitive, unless you are already ranking high, essentially number one for these searches, which normally isn't the case, as dominant websites like Wikipedia may prevent you from achieving this high of the rank. The advantage may only come from local search results for informational and navigational, depending upon the specific nature of the query (i.e. "where is the best pizza shop" vs. "what is the best pizza shop?")
Google Instant Answer
Working in SEO, we all know how difficult it can be for achieving rank zero, while extremely exciting when this is achieved in Google from their snippets for an instant answer. However, the challenge is that you need to be ranking on the first page from the voice search query and needing to have the right content structure for Google to select your website or blog for the instant answer from the voice search query. This will be challenging as these voice-activated technology devices are going to make achieving this even more challenging, based on the search queries and keyword or keyphrases that you are trying to rank for with your website.
Lastly, the focus should be put into local search as the majority of voice searches are going to be local searches. However, the challenge is that your website needs to be already optimized for all the Local SEO standards to start being ranked for local searches on voice search. Therefore, local voice search is probably going to become a double-edged sword for local businesses. Especially since the voice search device or personal assistant decides which results is most relevant to the user, unless the user is specified in their voice search query. For example, if a user using voice search says "find pizza place" the voice search device will choose the nearest and most relevant business. But if the user states "find pizza hut" the voice search will locate the nearest pizza hut for that user. However, there have been some advances for the broader simple searches of "find a pizza place" with some voice assistants actually providing the number of locations that are related to pizza and will list them off for the user. The only problem is that depending upon the number of results the user could be over inundated with voice results and may only pay attention to the first, two or three listings being read from the list. Therefore, still emphasizing the importance of being ranked high in the results of local SEO.
Conversational Ranking
As discussed earlier and throughout this post. It cannot be emphasized enough that the conversational content is included with your website, primarily using the question words, as it is so much easier to write the marketing taglines or copy for your website to entice the visitor of your website to complete the intended conversion (i.e. signup for newsletter, purchase product or service, etc.). However, with voice search since the search queries are conducted in a conversational tone, it will be imperative to have this type of content/copy on your website to ensure you are able to provide the ranking for voice search. Depending upon the type of voice search device being used it can be difficult to achieve a conversion with a voice-activated device (i.e. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, etc.) versus the virtual assistants that can do a web search for you and provide the results, like if you did a text-based search in the browser yourself. This is going to be the most challenging aspect of voice search with SEO is truly understanding user intent and providing the most relevant possible to be ranked and chosen by the voice search assistant.
Voice Search Conclusion
For all of those that are feeling TLDR; this is what you need to understand and take away from the impact of voice search on SEO.
The term 'voice search' refers to any device that uses a voice command to search the internet to provide your desired result.
The company that brought the term 'voice search' to the industry was Google with the introduction of Google Voice Search in May 2002. MindMeld's statistics in relation to voice search that 11% of people using voice search started more than 3 years ago, while 60% started in the last year and 41% started in the last 6 months. These numbers are only expected to grow and are going to make a crucial impact in the search world, primarily for SEO strategists.
Voice search allows the user to specifically receive their answer from their search intent with just one voice command, and this is faster than typing and navigating through a search results page. However, users are not realizing that they have altered their search behavior with voice vs text type searches and are still achieving the similar results.
voice search or artificial intelligence is deciding which 'result' to provide to the user instead of the user choosing the result from a search engine result page. Remember, with voice search the language is more conversational versus it being more computer-based with text searches.
The challenges for voice search is that the majority of searches, based on the trends are 'simple' searches basically focusing on informational and navigational types of searches. Although transactional searches can be conducted on some of the devices, statistics are indicating that it's not happening, yet at least. Which makes the ranking for informational and navigational searches highly competitive. The advantage for many may only come from local search results for informational and navigational, depending upon the specific nature and intent of the search query.
The growth of voice search is forever going to change the landscape of SEO, because of having to incorporate strategy with keywords, key terms, and content that will rank for voice searches being conducted by users. Creating another 'element' in SEO that strategists will have to consider moving forward. Contact AdShark Marketing today to have a free consultation on SEO!
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Is There A "Pauline Exception" In 1 Cor. 7?
Posted on October 18, 2018 October 18, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment on Is There A "Pauline Exception" In 1 Cor. 7?
Jerry C. Brewer
It is postulated by some that when one who is in an adulterous union obeys the gospel, he is forgiven of his sins and may remain in that union. This doctrine has led, and will continue to lead, souls to eternal loss. One who is in such a union and becomes a Christian must leave that union. To remain in it indicates he has not repented, for repentance demands a cessation of sin. Repentance is a change of the will (Matt. 21:28-29) which is prompted by godly sorrow (2 Cor. 5:7) and is manifested in a changed manner of living (Matt. 3:8). Repentance also involves restitution—making right the wrongs one has committed to the extent that one is able to do so. One cannot embezzle money from his employer, obey the gospel, continue to embezzle and fail to pay back money previously stolen. One who so conducts himself has not repented, and neither has the man who is in an adulterous marriage and remains in it after being baptized.
The idea that one does not have to leave an adulterous union upon his obedience to the gospel is based on what some have called "The Pauline Exception", derived from a false construction of Paul's teaching on marriage in First Corinthians, chapter seven. Those who claim Paul made an exception to Jesus' teaching on divorce and remarriage are guilty of arraying Scripture against Scripture and Paul against Jesus. No such "exception" exists. In First Corinthians 7:1-7, Paul deals with the relationship of married persons to one another. He then goes on to deal with other marriage-related matters, including his advice for the unmarried (1 Cor. 7:8-9). He then directs his attention to those who are married and reiterates the Lord's teaching concerning marriage (1 Cor. 7:10-11).
Then, Paul says in verse 12, "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord." It is this statement from which many have conjured up the "Pauline Exception." But Paul is not offering his own advice or opinion. He affirms that the things he writes in this epistle are "the commandments of the Lord" (1 Cor. 14:37). Paul is not arraying himself against Christ, but is revealing something which Christ did not personally teach while He was on earth. That's the exact import of Jesus' statement to the apostles in John 14:26 and 16:13. He told them that when the Holy Spirit came, He would not only remind them of all things Christ had taught them, but would guide them "into all truth" which at that time they were "not able to bear." It is not possible that Jesus taught one thing about marriage and divorce and Paul taught another. Neither is it possible that the Holy Spirit would inspire Paul to contradict the teaching of Jesus. The further truth into which the apostles were guided would never contradict truth which Jesus taught while He was among them. That such a "Pauline Exception" does not exist is evident from the subsequent instructions Paul delineates for those in verses 12 through 16. The subject under consideration in these verses is one on which the Lord had not spoken while He was on earth—marriage between a believer and an unbeliever.
Then in verses 17-24, Paul applies the general principles he has just set forth concerning marriage to other relationships, saying, "as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk," and ends that section saying, "Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God." These two statements are also used by those who believe they see a "Pauline Exception" to Jesus' law of marriage in Matthew 19. But the key to understanding these statements is found in the phrase, "therein abide with God." None of the conditions which Paul treats in this section are sinful or unlawful. He says if one is called being a Gentile, he does not have to be circumcised, nor does one who is called as a Jew have to become a Gentile (v. 18). He applies that same principle to bond-servants and free men in verses 21 through 23, saying in verse 20, "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." Note carefully, that none of these relationships—servant, free, Jew or Gentile—are in themselves unlawful or sinful. But adultery is sinful and unlawful (Matt. 19:9; cf. Matt. 14:4), and Paul, who exploded the false doctrine that one may "continue in sin that grace may abound" (Rom. 6:1-2), would certainly not urge Christians to continue living in adultery. He simply applied the inspired principles he had given to Christians who are married to unbelievers to those in other civil relations. There is no such thing as a "Pauline Exception" to the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 19:9.
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Karen Dawn Blondel is a trusted and respected local community leader and longtime resident of public housing in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
She has been widely recognized and honored at the community, city and state level for her grassroots community organizing efforts and unwavering commitment to social justice issues. These have included housing equity, climate change, Hurricane Sandy recovery, environmental health, and COVID-19 preparedness, all of which directly affect local community residents and NYCHA residents, in particular.
Karen is an alumni member of the AmeriCorps Vista Program, the Red Hook Public Safety Corp, Friends of the Library, Red Hook NY Rising Committee, Red Hook Community Collaboration and the Red Hook West Tenant Association. Most recently, the Human Impacts Institute and NYC Department of Transportation declared her one of NYC's Climate Heroes. When NY State went on PAUSE, Karen partnered with the Red Hook Container Terminal and spearheaded the weekly distribution of fresh produce to Red Hook and Gowanus residents. She possesses an unparalleled level of motivation and breadth and depth of knowledge of local issues. She utilizes solution-driven approaches and educates herself on any and all aspects of a given problem.
Karen studied commercial cooking and catering in Ogden, Utah. She then went on to the NYSDOT Joint Urban Manpower Program as part of her NEW (Non-Traditional Employment for Women) apprenticeship where she trained as a computer aided designer and drafter, and construction inspector. She then became NICET (National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies in Highway Design) certified. She worked as a civil engineer assistant for several engineering firms including Ghandi, NAIK, and Hardesty & Hanover. Two years ago, she began working on the impacts of the Gowanus Canal remediation on NYCHA residents. Since that time, she has become certified in biomedical and behavioral research with human participants and completed the Coursera COVID-19 Contact Tracing Certification. She serves as a community liaison for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. And she is also a certified US Census field representative and data collector. In 2020, she founded the Public Housing Civic Association, a local community based nonprofit organization that gives voice to public housing residents as they address issues related to the built environment.


A passive subwoofer. With the hybrid reflex configuration. Twin tunnel to get the maximum out of that pair of chassis and cabinet. That's what You need for Your deepest frequencies.
Ein passiver subwoofer. Basierend auf die Hybrid-reflex Konfiguration. Doppelter Tunnel um das Beste aus dieser Kombination von Lautsprecher und Chassis herauszuholen.
Das ist, was für die tiefsten Frequenzen notwendig ist.
Un Subwoofer passivo. Basato sulla configurazione di reflex ibrido.
Doppio tunnel divergente per ottenere il massimo dalle componenti usate.
Questo è quello che Vi serve per le Vostre frequenze più basse.
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Gone to Cardiff so not a million miles away and likelihood of seeing her again is very slim!
So am currently carless - but have my eye on something so watch this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OI! get in-line, there is a queue you know!
So what Pontiac do you have your eye on? Pontiac Grand Prix?
As for the model, just picked a random model that's fairly new and could be used as a daily.
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WR Ray Grier of Belmont, NC, a USC target, committed to North Carolina Saturday. He visited USC for the Tennessee game last season and was favoring the Gamecocks in late December, but Mack Brown made a strong push once he arrived in Chapel Hill. He's the second receiver target who at one time was favoring USC but has committed elsewhere. Last week Ze'Vian Capers committed to Arkansas.
Per The State, USC coach Frank Martin and assistant Perry Clark had an in home visit Sunday with Columbia native 6-6 Christian Brown who attends Oak Hill Prep, VA. Brown attended USC's game against Arkansas Saturday while being home on a school break.
2022 2G 6-5 Jalen Carruth of Suwanee, GA reported an offer from Clemson.


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Visitors to Ghent University
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2018–2019. Albert Welter (University of Arizona)
Albert Welter's area of academic study is Chinese Buddhism, and he has published in the area of Japanese Buddhism as well. His main research focuses on the study of Buddhist texts in the transition from the late Tang (9th century) to the Song dynasty (10th to 13th centuries). In recent years, he has published Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism (Oxford, 2006), The Linji lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature (Oxford, 2008), and Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu: A Special Transmission within the Scriptures (Oxford, 2011), in addition to numerous articles. His work also encompasses Buddhist interactions with Neo-Confucianism and literati culture. He just finished a project on the social and institutional history of Buddhism as conceived through a text compiled in the early Song dynasty, Zanning's Topical History of the Buddhist Clergy, published by Cambria Press in 2018 (The Administration of Buddhism in China; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJKcl0ygU0). Stemming from this latter research interest, Professor Welter has also developed a broader interest in Chinese administrative policies toward religion, including Chinese notions of secularism and their impact on religious beliefs and practices, leading to a co-edited volume (with Jeffrey Newmark), Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere in China and Japan (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017). He recently received funding from the Khyentse Foundation for a project, "The Hangzhou Region and the Creation of East Asian Buddhism," in conjunction with Zhejiang University, the Hangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, and the Hangzhou Buddhist Academy. He also received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (with the support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation) for an international conference, "Creating the World of Chan/ Sŏn /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia." Before coming to the University of Arizona, Dr. Welter was based in Canada, where his research projects were regularly supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
As a visiting scholar at Ghent University, Dr. Welter delivered two lectures: "Integrating Buddhism into Chinese Culture or How Did Buddhism Become Chinese? Buddhist Junzi (法門君子) & The Administration of Buddhism." Within the framework of a lecture series integrated in the M.A. course 'Culture in Perspective: South and East Asia lecture', and "A New Look at Old Traditions: Reimagining East Asian Buddhism through Hangzhou" (part of Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies lecture series Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies). Watch his short video presentation on "Hangzhou's importance to East Asian Buddhism" on YouTube.
2018–2019. Lei Hanqing (Fudan University)
Hanqing Lei graduated from Fudan University in the School of Chinese Language and Literature. He was a visiting scholar at UC Irvine in 2011, and at the Research Institute of Zen at Hanazono University in Japan. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University, a researcher in the Institute of Chinese Folk Culture, and a Ph.D. student supervisor in Chinese philology, linguistics and applied linguistics. As a visiting scholar at the University of Ghent, his research topic is the study of Zen literature and language (especially the language of Zen in Tang and Song Dynasties). During the visit, he will consult European scholarship on Zen language and write article manuscripts on this topic.
April–June 2018. Dr. Li Gang (Turfan Academy)
Dr. Li Gang obtained his Ph.D. from Minzu University of China. A Xinjiang native, he is currently Associate Professor at Academia Turfanica and the English-language chief editor for the journal Turfan Studies. As a member of the Association for Chinese Ancient Ethnic Characters, his research engages with with old Uighur and Turkic documents.
At Ghent, Li Gang worked on the classification and decipherment of Uighur Buddhist documents and Uighur cave inscriptions, work that will be useful for both the study of Uighur philology and Uighur Buddhism.
May 2018. Stuart Young (Princeton University)
Dr. Stuart Young obtained his Ph.D. in Religious Studies in 2008 at the University of Princeton. He is associate professor at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His impressive work on material culture in medieval China and its links to Buddhism has attracted the attention of the academic world.
As a visiting scholar at the Ghent University, he was a featured lecturer of Doctoral school on "Buddhism and Silk Culture".
March–May 2018. Pu Chengzhong (Shanghai University, PRC)
Chengzhong Pu completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at SOAS, London University and did a one-year Post-doctorate with Professor Jonathan Silk at LIAS, Leiden University, followed by serving as an associate researcher for nearly a year at the Research Centre for Humanistic Buddhism, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a lecturer at Shanghai University.
As a visiting scholar at the Ghent University, his current research topic is "A Preliminary Study of the Shi'er you jing (十二游经)", trying to investigate this dubious Buddhist scripture through tracing some information in the text to Chinese Buddhist translations.
April 2018. Hong Xiuping (Nanjing University)
April 27, 2018: Dr. Hong Xiuping delivered a lecture (in Chinese) on the history of Chan. Provisional title: "从'心'义种种看南宗禅的特色"
[A variety of perspectives on the Southern Chan school's specificity, departing from the meanings of the character "Mind"]
Translation of the first two paragraphs:
After Buddhism spread from ancient India to China, it underwent an unceasing process of change. From the perspective of ideas and discourse, it is essential to look at the development of how Buddhism mixed with native Confucianist and Daoist ideas to form a Chinese Buddhism with Chinese characteristics. The Southern school of Chan Buddhism, founded by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, is a representative case of this Chinese Buddhism.
The Southern school of Chan took shape in the middle of the sinification of Buddhism and in the middle of the development of Chan. From the Chan doctrines of the "Five Chinese Patriarchs," the Chan lineage of Bodhidharma to Hongren, the meaning of the character "mind" continuously changed, exhibiting two tendencies. From the poems of Huineng and Shenxiu, we can discover the differences between the Northern and Southern Schools of Chan.
March 2018. Georgios Halkias (University of Hong Kong)
March 8, 2018: Dr. Halkias delivered a lecture on "The Shitro Ceremony and Lay Tantric Buddhism in Amdo, Qinghai Province"
Professional practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism belong either to the 'red sangha' (dge 'dun mar po) that includes celibate nuns and monks who wear the maroon robes, or the 'white sangha' (dge 'dun dkar po), a lay community of male and female tantrists or ngakpa(sngags pa / sngags ma; Skt. māntrin). The latter are also known as those who wear the 'white cloth' and have uncut 'braided hair' (gos dkar lcang lo can), two distinctive markers of lay, and usually non-celibate, tantric practitioners. It would be fair to say, that the ngakpaof Rebkong in the north-eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, are well known in the Tibetan cultural world for comprising the largest community of householder tantric practitioners. In this presentation, I will briefly introduce the history of the Rebkong community of ngakpas that belong to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, known as the Reb kong snangs mang (a group of tantrists from Rebkong), and share some audio-visual material and observations from my fieldwork participation in the ceremony of the '100 peaceful and wrathful deities,' the Shitro (zhi khro), that took place in June 2017 at the village of Shakarlung in the district of Rebkong.


In 2010, Temple Jeremiah established Circles of Giving as a way for congregants to help support the temple and its operations.
In 2015, we opened Circles of Giving to congregants and families who contribute $720 or more cumulatively throughout the year, above and beyond their dues. Since then, the list of those who contribute has grown. Every bit helps, and we are tremendously grateful to all those who participate.
Circles of Giving members will be listed in the Covenant and receive additional recognition throughout the year.
For more information, please contact Daniel Glassman, Executive Director, at 847.441.5760 ext. 102 or at daniel@templejeremiah.org.


Akshay Kumar plays Havildar Ishar Singh in Kesari.
The countdown to Kesari began today with a glimpse from the film, shared by superstar Akshay Kumar.
Kesari will release on March 21.
Akshay Kumar is back again to snip the versatility crown! "It's an unbelievable true story". The 2.0 actor also added that also added that he would be sharing "glimpses of Kesari" from Tuesday onwards, so be prepared for an eye-treat. Netizens have even predicted that the movie will be a blockbuster just by the looks of the poster while many commented that the film will before they have never seen before. This battle stood different as only 21 Sikhs, who were a part of the British India regiment protecting the forts of Lockhart and Gulistan on the border areas of Afghanistan, took on 10,000 Afghan soldiers, who attacked Saragarhi. It has been directed by Anurag Singh and jointly produced by Dharma Productions, Cape of Good Films and Azure Entertainment. Soon after its release, the post of Khiladi Kumar started getting a lot of positive replies for the first synopsis of Kesari. Ajay Devgn is also working on Sons of Sardaar, which is reportedly based on the same event.


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Pipes, Glens and Thistles: Maryville College Concert Choir and Ensemble present celebration of gratitude
April 4, 2012 April 4, 2012 Alexandria Rodriguez 0 Comments
"Pipes, Glens, and Thistles" is a performance by the Maryville College concert choir in order to show its gratitude. The performance, which took nearly two months to put together, is one the choir can be proud of. Photo courtesy of Pipes, Glens, and Thistles Facebook page
Anticipated to be one of the most memorable performances at Maryville College, "A Celebration of Gratitude" is a thankful recognition of those in support of the MC concert choir's preparation for its tour of Scotland. The musical prowess and vocal stamina of this elite group of students, 58 members strong, consistently thrills audiences to the peak of their aural senses.
The concert seeks to showcase the grandeur of the choir's gratitude by musically illustrating four main categories: faith, honoring religious traditions; Americana, honoring the music and stories of the early Americans who settled the land; heritage and culture, celebrating the music and culture of the Scottish and Irish settlers of East Tennessee; and lastly, light, love and laughter, to demonstrate the importance of health and well-being.
As said by this anonymous author, "No one who achieves success does so without the acknowledgement of the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
The concert choir will clearly try to portray this sentiment in its upcoming performance. The choir demonstrates just how obliged it is to the multiple families; friends; Maryville College faculty, staff and alumni; churches and new friends abroad which helped the choir gain the unique educational and performance opportunity of traveling abroad.
However, the path to this success was not without its toils. Careful planning facilitates any kind of work, and choir director and coordinator of choral music Stacey Wilner understands the grand effort it takes to put forth a performance of this caliber.
"The students have done a number of things to prepare for this trip, such as the Christmas Dinner: Feast of Song, additional performances by the ensembles at various locations and the Phone-a-thon, which set a record amount for the college," Wilner said.
In addition to fundraising, Wilner explained how the students also had to learn a variety of new repertoire for the performance as well.
"With approximately two months' preparation of fall repertoire and two-thirds new music, it has been a push to get it all ready," Wilner said.
Learning new music is a large feat in itself, let alone with the addition of the extra work that had to be done. Erin Carter, MC senior and concert choir vice president, and fellow senior Jade Watts, choir assistant, agree that preparation for this "Gratitude" performance has been a long and hectic process which, although possible, was overwhelming at times.
The pair of officers jointly explained how amazing the progress since J-term has been.
"It is only possible because we have a talented-enough group to pull off this performance" Watts said. Carter finished by saying, "Mrs. Wilner does a good job of keeping things smooth and the group moving forward."
Choir members and director alike are thrilled to present the audience with songs such as "Laudate Jehovam, Omnes Gentes" which feature student instrumentalists such as Adam Loo and David White.
Additionally, several songs feature languages like Gaelic, central to certain regions of Ireland and Scotland, and instruments like the bodhran, an Irish frame drum played by Kevin Krapf in "Geantrai" and "Mouth Music."
The performance opportunities presented to the students are once-in-a-lifetime experiences which must be cherished.
"The whole experience allows you to consciously appreciate every performance and deepen the ways that our personal gratitude can be expressed" Watts said.
Her fellow officer echoed that gratitude.
"We are using our God-given talents to express our big thank you," Carter said. "Choir has taught me respect for time and people behind the scenes and to realize the efforts behind putting a show together."
Wilner is very proud of her students and their hard work to make this performance the success that it will surely be.
"The experience of traveling and performing internationally will be life changing for the students," Wilner said. "They build a sense of global citizenship, gain the experience to be part of the national community, and grow strong as both musicians and people. And for these opportunities presented.
"We are truly grateful."
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Piri Piri is a sauce packed with flavourful heat and a lemony tanginess that works extremely well with all chicken dishes. The marinade also keeps the chicken juicy and moist and paired with fresh, organic veggies, this might well be the best chicken roast you ever had.
We use Organic chicken from Organics&Co, Korath province, and all vegetables are organic vegetables from the Royal Project Foundation in Thailand.
Roast the red bell peppers and the onion on a BBQ grill (for more smoky flavour) or in the oven at very high heat. They should be blackened on the outside but don't need to be cooked inside. Chop the peppers and the onions and add them to a food processor together with the garlic, vinegar, chillies, smoked paprika, oregano and pepper. Puree all ingredients into a smooth paste.
Transfer the puree to a small pot or pan and simmer for about 20 minutes. Let the sauce cool down to room temperature, then transfer it to the food processor once again. Add the lemon juice and zest and slowly pour in the olive oil while the processor is running.
Mix all ingredients for the chicken marinade and rub the chicken inside and outside. Wrap in plastic and leave to marinade in the fridge overnight.
Place the marinated chicken in a baking dish or pan and bake at 170 C to a core temperature of 75 C. For a medium sized chicken, this should take about 1 hour.
Season garlic cloves and onion chunks with salt and pepper and bake with chicken on the same roasting tray. Heat the butternut pumpkin puree. Season the broccolini with salt and pepper and a dash of olive oil and chargrill on a BBQ. The tips should burn lightly while the stems should still have a bite to them.
Place roasted chicken on a tray or board and arrange all vegetables around. Serve with additional piri piri sauce.


ARLINGTON, Va. – Two-hundred and twenty-two couples will attend the annual Marriage Jubilee Mass in Arlington, Sunday, October 14, with Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington. The couples attending are celebrating their 25th or 50th wedding anniversaries and were married in either 1968 or 1993.
When: Sunday, October 14, at 2:30 p.m.
"I am delighted," said Sylvia Cota. She and her husband, Jesus, who live in Chantilly, have been married for 50 years and are attending the Mass Sunday. She says it's hard to believe it's been that long. "Time has gone by so fast," she says. Sylvia says she and her husband have experienced several heartbreaks. Soon after they were married, Jesus' mother died, and he was left with 5 siblings to raise. Jesus' father was an alcoholic and could not raise the children. The kids ranged in age between 9- and 16-years-old. Sylvia and Jesus, who were 22 and 26, respectively, with a five-month-old daughter, took all 5 children in to live with them. "I had to be a mother very young, but there was no problem," she said. They all lived together in a two-bedroom apartment and later moved to a house with three bedrooms. "My husband converted a garage into a fourth bedroom," she said. "God has been with us all the time. He always provides," she says. Over the years, Sylvia has had breast cancer, thyroid cancer and several surgeries, but she says, "We kept going." When asked what the secret to a successful marriage is, Sylvia says she followed her mother's advice. "Respect each other. When you argue, do not use foul language and do not say things at the heat of the moment," she said. Also, Sylvia says wives should always accept an invitation from their husbands to do things. "My mother would say, if your husband invites you to do something, it is because he wants to be with you and share his life with you. Always say 'yes'," she says.
The Diocese of Arlington is home to an estimated population of more than 600,000 Catholics living in 21 counties and seven cities in central and northern Virginia. Parishioners live out their faith at 70 parishes and six missions, and more than 17,500 students attend 45 Catholic pre-schools, elementary and high schools.


Crypto Chain University has appointed John Kamara, the director of Global Gaming Africa, to champion technological arts in African countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
"Kamara, an esteemed member of the exclusive 'Ordre des Arts et Technologies', has the support of University to champion technological arts and provide educational value to Africa region," said Herbert Sim, founder of Crypto Chain University.
"In specific, the University is keen to explore opportunities for collaboration and partnerships with regards to the possibilities of the adoption of blockchain technologies into other universities' curriculum, to educate and equip students with the knowledge of this disruptive technology that will indefinitely be mass-adopted across industries," he added.
Mr. John Kamara is an experienced marketing, business growth and market acquisition executive, who has successfully delivered multi-million-dollar global initiatives and projects on and offline for over 15 years, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Over the past 3 years as an early investor in a number of successful altcoins, he has been involved in a number of blockchain and cryptocurrency projects.
He was recently a speaker at the blockchain summit in Nigeria and also an advisory team member on a number of ICO's in Europe and Africa.
He is also heavily involved in digital e-commerce and intra Africa trade projects on the blockchain and his experience in the business objective side of blockchain led him to develop the Blockchain Centre for Excellence Education in Nigeria in partnership with ITEX.
John Kamara is a founding member of Jamborow an AI-driven financial platform solving the problems of financial inclusion in West and East Africa.
He is also co-founder of Afrimart, the Intra-Africa trade platform using AI to drive match-making trade across the continent.


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BattleofNewOrleans.org
To take New Orleans looked deceptively easy, in reality, it was not. New Orleans was surrounded by swampy morass with narrow roads leading to it, which could be defended easily, if the defenders had enough warning. The key to taking New Orleans was to move fast and to attack from different directions to keep the defenders guessing. To move soldiers into position required a grueling 40 mile row from the British disembarkation point. Steamed powered warships were not to come into use till the 1840's, so the British couldn't steam up the Mississippi River as the Union navy would in 1862. To sail up the twisting Mississippi would have been dangerous, with becalming winds and sandbars . The mouth of the river is generally less than 14 feet deep, too shallow for the powerful British ships of the line. The British did try this starting the day Jan. 8th battle, but were repulsed by the forts on the river.
British uniforms of the War of 1812
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American uniforms of the War of 1812
Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers wield their sabers and lances during
a skirmish in the "Great Cavalry War." Ar eenactment of an 1812
military engagement. Dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were
trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills. However, usage altered
over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional cavalry units . The name is derived from a type of firearm (called a dragon) carried by dragoons of the French Army .
The British, after defeating Napoleon in 1814, were able to send much more men and material to the American theater. The British Commander of the North American station, Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane ( 1758 - 1832 ), a proud, stern, domineering Scot, planned to finish his operations in the Chesapeake where Washington had been burned in 1814 and turn the British attention to the Gulf coast, capture New Orleans and the Mississippi Valley, the grand strategy devised by Lord Castlereagh. The plan was to capture Mobile, march along the coast to Baton rouge, and from there seize New Orleans, then march up the Mississippi Valley. Cochrane's superiors, the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, approved of the plan.
HMS Victory an example of a British
ship of the line of the era
The British troops under Lieutenant General John Keane
( 1781 - 1844 ) from the Chesapeake rendezvoused with a force of British veterans from Europe in Negril Bay, Jamaica. This impressive fleet of over 60 ships, one of the largest amassed since the Spanish Armada made up of triple decked, 80 gun ships of the line, such as Cochrane's flagship the HMS Tonnant (captured from the French, Francis Scott Key wrote the American national anthem on her decks during the bombardment of Baltimore ), armed troops transports, frigates and sloops of war.
Here Cochrane awaited the squadron of Captain Robert Lloyd with HMS Plantagenent and two other ships, which were delayed at the Battle of Fayal ( Sept 26-27, 1814 ) in the Azores fighting American Clipper General Armstrong for about two weeks and delayed the British fleet longer in Negril Bay, giving Jackson time to reach New Orleans .
Cochrane departed November 26, before Pakenham and the remainder of the British forces had arrived to try to arrive in New Orleans before Jackson . Cochrane's planned for Gen. Robert Ross, who had taken Washington, to command the land forces, but his death at the hands of a sniper in Baltimore required him to replace Ross with Lt. Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham ( 1778 - 1814 ) , brother of the wife of the Duke of Wellington. At the age of 37 he was considered one of the best officers in the army.
Proclamation by Edward Nicholls of Aug 29, 1814
From Historical memoir of the war in West
Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 Latour
In August 1814, Cochrane sent Lt. Colonel Edward Nicholls , Known as "Fighting Nicholls"( 1779 - 1865 ) to Pensacola in Spanish held Florida an established a base with 2 ships and 100 troops and issued proclamations that all slaves who joined him would be free and Indians would regain their lands . He was also to attempt to recruit the Seminoles as allies against the United States. This was a clear violation of Spanish neutrality. The Seminoles would go to war with the United States from on an off from 1816 to 1858 in the Seminole Wars . However, the Spanish expected an American invasion at any time and armed the Red Sticks ( a faction of the Creek Indians ) and other Indians against the U.S. The British tried, yet failed to take Mobile in Sept.
Cochrane felt the fort defended Mobile was weak and sent a small force of 225 marines and Indians and naval squadron. One of the ships, the Hermes ran aground and the attack was called off. This was a costly defeat, since the land route from Mobile was the best invasion route. Jackson invaded Florida with a force of 4,000 regulars and Indian allies and reached Pensacola, which was defended by only about 500 men. Jackson attacked the town on Nov 7th and quickly seized the Spanish forts defending the city, forcing the British to sail away . This seriously disrupted the British plans for the Gulf and forced the British to target New Orleans directly, putting the British at a distinct disadvantage. By attacking overland and attacking New Orleans from the north with a British fleet off the coast it could be cut off from supplies. Now a frontal attack through swampy south Louisiana would be needed. Jackson departed Pensacola and returned to Mobile on November 19 and departed for New Orleans on November 22.
Map showing location of Barataria Bay and Grande Terre
and Cat island .
For a larger image, click here
British Captain Lockyer arrived off Grand Terre ( an island nest to Grand Isle ), the privateer base of Jean Lafitte in August, and delivered a letter from Colonel Nicholls which offered $30,000 and other inducements for permission to Barataria as a point of invasion and to use the Baratarians as guides to attack the city. Lafitte met the British officers himself and had a cordial dinner with them on his base and left them with the impression had agreed and needed two weeks to set his affairs in order. He decided to double cross the British and inform the Americans, which the British discovered when they returned two weeks later. Another avenue of invasion was out for the British.
Admiral Cochrane sailed from Negril Bay with an armada of 50 ships, the mood lighthearted and merry. Many of the officers had brought their wives along.
A complete civil governmental staff, with printing presses, were with them as well, to rule over 'the Crown Colony of Louisiana.' The British troops were composed of veterans from the war with Napoleon and the invasion of Washington and considered the best in the world. The American commander, Andrew Jackson had used up almost all of his ammunition and most of his flints in the Creek War (1813-14), which was effectively ended at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814 in central Alabama. The Baratarians under Jean Lafitte supplied the powder,flints,cannon balls and ship canister.
Map of New Orleans area in 1815. Bayou Bienvenu can be
seen to the right of New Orleans . Click map for a larger image .
Click to view a more detailed map
of British and American movements
Cochrane arrived at the Chandeleur Islands on December 8. He had proposed to attack New Orleans through Lake Pontchartrain and landing at Bayou St. John, just North of New Orleans, but the needed shallow draft ships he ordered for this operation did not arrive . The shallow pass to the lake, the Rigolets, required such boats. He and his officers then decided to land his forces on Bayou Bienvenu on the western end of Lake Borgne. From here it was hoped the troops could advance before a defense could be mounted. The armada then anchored near Cat Island near the mouth of Lake Borgue, about 70 miles from New Orleans. This was as close as the heavy ships and transports could go. The troops would have to be ferried from Cat Island to Pea Island at the mouth of the Pearl River just east of the Rigolets, a distance of 30 miles. From Pea Island the troops would have to be rowed another 30 miles to bayou bienvenue.
The Americans had 5 gunboats in the lake, which would have to be destroyed before the troops could be landed. These were defeated in a battle on Dec 14. This was a disaster for Jackson. Now he had no way of knowing where the British would land.
The British, expected to sweep aside the meager American force, seize the 'Beauty and Booty' of the rich trading port of New Orleans and with the Mississippi in their hands, separate the western states from the rest of the Union . The British expected the French and Spanish settlers and the large slave population of the sugar cane and cotton plantations, which the planned to free, would aid them in their conquest.
The British Invasion Force
a 93rd Highlander
Ninety-third Regiment—1,100 men
Highlanders, Lieutenant-colonel Dale 1,100 by regulations, all men of this regiment had to be 6 feet or taller
Fourth Regiment—750 men
King's Own, Lieutenant-colonel Brooks
Seventh Regiment—850 men
Royal Fusiliers, Lieutenant-colonel Blakency
British Light Dragoons
Fourteenth Regiment—350 men
Duchess of York's Own Light Dragoons made up of 2 Calvary squadrons Lieutenant-colonel Baker
Twenty-first Regiment—900 men
Royal Fusileers, Lieutenant-colonel Patterson
Fortieth Regiment—1,000 men
Somersetshire, Lieutenant-colonel H. Thornton
Forty-third Regiment—850 men
Monmouth Light Infantry, Lieutenant-colonel Patrickson
Forty-fourth Regiment—750 men
East Essex, Lieutenant-colonel Mullen
Eighty-fifth Regiment—650 men
Buck Volunteers, Lieutenant-colonel Wm. Thornton
Ninety-fifth Regiment—500 men
Rifle Corps, Major Mitchell
First Regiment—700 men
West India (colored), Lieutenant-colonel Whitby
Fifth Regiment—700 men
West India (colored), Lieutenant-colonel Hamilton
A detachment from the Sixty-second Regiment
350 men
Rocket Brigade, Artillery, Engineers, Sappers and Miners
1,500 men
Royal Marines and sailors from the fleet
men —————
Including artillerists, marines, and others, seamen of the ships' crews afloat, there were not fewer than eighteen thousand men, veterans in the service of their country in the lines of their respective callings, to complete the equipment of this powerful armada. To fight this force, Jackson would have a mixed force of regular soldiers, militia, Indians, Free Men of Color and Lafittes privateers numbering about 4,000.
(source The Battle of New Orleans, by Zachary F. Smith )
New Orleans before the invasion


Canadian sports gamers who prefer to EA Sports' NCAA Football franchise to Madden (more teams, more varied playbooks) are in for a treat.
A few CIS diehards over the years have used the NCAA game's create-a-school feature to create a video version of their favourite team. NCAA Football 10, which is due in stores July 134, ups the ante because its new create-a-school (TeamBuilder) function which allows users to make their creations available for download by other gamers, enabling head-to-head play. Ten gamers could each play as an OUA school in a single 10-team conference (insert joke about the Big Ten having 11 teams).
You can even upload the school's actual logo. The logical next step for the franchise is to make it possible for users to upload a school's fight song (you do not want to know how long I spent trying to find a NCAA team's fight song that somewhat sounded like Queen's College Colours).
EA Sports said in a recent press release that users created teams at a rate of "seven per minute" during the first two days that TeamBuilder was up and running. Naturally, that includes many re-creations of CIS teams, which could allow 10 gamers to play out the OUA season.
To see some of the teams available, go to easportsworld.com/en_US/ncaafootball/create_a_school and click on Browse Schools (you might need to download a new flash player, but it only takes seconds).
Search for teams from the "state" of Canada, and you'll have a treasure-trove. There are at least 15 versions of the Laval Rouge et Or, 10 of the Western Mustangs and six of the Calgary Dinos.
... and here is Guelph sophomore defensive back Jarryd Baines.
Nerds, the whole lot of you.
I dont know who made Queen's but the Recruiting pitches are all wrong... School prestige - B+? and fan base is a C?
Academic prestige A+, Campus Lifestyle A, Coach Experience A, Coach Prestige A, Championship Contender B+, Athletic Facilities C+ ahem, Fan Base A, Pro Factory A, Program Stability A, Program Tradition A+, TV Exposure A.
They use Nevada's offence. Quick, ask Dan Brannagan how he likes the Pistol offence.
this is so amazing ! couldnt be happier as a first year CIS player !


inquiry for today~ how can you be more fierce and wild and compassionate today?
On a true pilgrimage, we soon discover that the journey has its own rhythm and momentum. We realize, if our hearts are listening, that there are secret destinations that reveal themselves as our path unfolds. When we take off on a journey, we want to pack a map so we know where we are going. We want to have a guide which tells us which path to go and which turns to take.
The spiritual journey calls us out into the wild places where God is not tamed and domesticated. We are asked to release our agendas and discover the holy direction for our lives. When we yield, we allow a holy pause, notice where we are "forcing things," and then we can let them go. It is about smiling gently at all the inner desires that attempt to grasp control of our lives. When we do, we can give those feelings a compassionate gaze. We can allow each of them to dissolve into this endless embrace, yielding to the greater force at work within us.


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Defined Benefit
Regulator to give warnings about pension transfers
By Maria Espadinha
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is working on "giving timely warnings" about pension transfer risks to scheme members, after it admits that it should have acted sooner in the British Steel scandal.
In its response today (11 May) to the Work & Pensions select committee report into the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS), published in February, the watchdog revealed it is working with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pensions Advisory Service (Tpas) to address this issue.
The Pensions Regulator said: "To protect members in the future, we are working much more closely and proactively in partnership with the FCA and Tpas to provide joint information and to give timely warnings to members who may also be considering taking a transfer from a defined benefit scheme when it may not be in their interests to do so."
The regulator warned, however, that it cannot prevent members from exercising their right to a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV) to take advantage of the pension freedoms available to them.
"But we want to work with our partners to help ensure that members can make informed decisions," it said.
Plans for British Steel owner Tata Steel to merge with rival ThyssenKrupp were waylaid until a deal could be reached to offload Tata's liabilities in the pension fund.
The Pensions Regulator gave its formal approval to a regulated apportionment arrangement (RAA) in August.
As a result, steelworkers were given until 22 December to decide whether to move their defined benefit (DB) pension pots to a new plan being created, BSPS II, or stay in the current fund, to be moved to the lifeboat Pension Protection Fund.
The scheme has about 130,000 members of which 43,000 are deferred, meaning transferring out of their pension was an option for them.
FTAdviser reported in November that several steelworkers appeared to be transferring out their pensions after being lured by cheap deals by unregulated introducer firm Celtic Wealth Management & Financial Planning, which then referred the clients to advice firm Active Wealth.
In its response to the report, The Pensions Regulator recognised "uncertainty regarding the British Steel Pension Scheme's future may have contributed to the sharp rise in the level of CETVs requested".
The watchdog said that it worked with FCA and Tpas to ensure that all those members who had requested a CETV quote, but hadn't made a decision, received a joint letter via the trustee "making them aware of the potential impact of giving up guaranteed DB benefits for a more uncertain defined contribution (DC) return".
Additionally, the three organisations also sent a joint letter via the trustee to all those members who had recently transferred their scheme benefits to another registered pension arrangement, to ensure that members were aware of their options and where to go to for advice.
Nevertheless, The Pensions Regulator agrees that it "could have joined forces more quickly to reinforce these messages".
The regulator said: "The review of member communications will look at what more could have been done to help members make informed decisions on transferring out of a defined benefit scheme."
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Home circle held 19th May 2020.
Hi and Welcome to the blog!
Every physical séance needs preparation and the room itself has to be laid out with seating and positions that are visible to all of the members for the duration of the sitting.
Objects were placed on top of a long, central table. The objects were chosen according to the fact that they would and should not make any noise if not interacted with or touched.
EXPERIENCED members and medium arrived and took their seats in the closed room. The medium with closed eyes was able to relay information, in reference format, to the rest of the gathered séance. Personally relevant and detailed messages followed what were shorter periods of speech, used only for members' validations.
NOISES were collectively heard and seemed to be responsive, in that they were noted in patterns of two each time. In the first instance, the noise came from on top of where the objects had been placed on the table and then subsequently, another noise was heard from above where the members were sat. Later on in the séance, the same sound pattern was heard again.
MESSAGES came in from individuals in spirit to various recipient sitters. Each person listened only at first and then if they felt it resonated with them, could validate the information.
The medium depicted the appearance of an individual in spirit and referred to his love for comedy. Research has shown that according to his birth certificate, the individual believed to be that from the physical séance is a Marx who was born as Simon Marx in Alsace, then part of the Second French Empire. Due to his place of birth, he was known as "Frenchie", his parents were Simon Marrix and Johanna Haennchen Isaak, he later came to the U.S from France in 1880. It is recoded that he met Minnie in New York where he was working as a dance teacher. They married in 1884 and had six sons. One child passed in infancy and the other children were Leonard (Chico), born in 1887, Adolph (Harpo) in 1888, Julius (Groucho) in 1890, Milton (Gummo) in 1892, and Herbert (Zeppo) in 1901. Marx was an excellent pinochle player, a game he taught to his two oldest sons. In the séance, the gentleman in spirit mentioned his love for his children and an anniversary. Close to his heart, he kept his achievements and a fondness for laughter and good humour.
SUMMARY of the séance led to the earlier noises being discussed. There was no reason or physical cause that could substantiate why those sounds had been heard at that time in the séance. Messages were validated as relevant evidence according to the recipients who received them.


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Phil Angelotti takes over as TSI Group sales and marketing director
NORTH HAMPTON, N.H., 6 April 2008. TSI Group Inc. in North Hampton, N.H., is appointing Phil Angelotti as director of sales and marketing for the Braze West division, which comprises ADB Industries, CGR Technologies, and Thompson Industries.
All three companies are located in Southern California, creating the Braze West center of excellence in http://mae.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?article_id=322912 and electronic packaging.
"Growing our business is critical to remaining the leader in the brazing market," says Braze West President Kevin Rowan. "I believe that Phil will help us enhance our existing customer relationships and also create new ones."
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Q: Ninject constructor arguments for multiple bindings I have a simple class I use for processing notifications.
public class ApplePushNotifier : IApplePushNotifier
{
    public ApplePushNotifier(
        ILog log,
        IMessageRepository messageRepository,
        IUserRepository userRepository,
        CloudStorageAccount account,
        string certPath)
    {
        // yadda
    }

    // yadda
}

And a simple Ninject binding, which includes the string argument to locate a local certificate file:
kernel.Bind<IApplePushNotifier>().To<ApplePushNotifier>()
            .WithConstructorArgument("certPath",
                System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/bin/apns_universal.p12"));

This is obviously pretty basic, and everything has worked great. Now, I've added a second interface to that class:
public class ApplePushNotifier : IApplePushNotifier, IMessageProcessor

I can add a second binding like this:
kernel.Bind<IMessageProcessor>().To<ApplePushNotifier>()
            .WithConstructorArgument("certPath",
                System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/bin/apns_universal.p12"));

And that works too, but the duplicated constructor argument gives me hives. I tried adding an explicit self-binding like this:
        kernel.Bind<ApplePushNotifier>().To<ApplePushNotifier>()
            .WithConstructorArgument("certPath",
                System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/bin/apns_universal.p12"));
        kernel.Bind<IApplePushNotifier>().To<ApplePushNotifier>();
        kernel.Bind<IMessageProcessor>().To<ApplePushNotifier>();

But no dice - I get the old "No matching bindings are available" error.
Is there a way specify a constructor argument like this without either promoting it to a bindable type of it's own, or repeating it for every interface that class implements?

A: Depending on the nature of the inner workings of ApplePushNotifier then binding to a constant may help and would prevent repeating yourself.
    kernel.Bind<ApplePushNotifier>().ToSelf()
        .WithConstructorArgument("certPath", System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/bin/apns_universal.p12"));

    var applePushNotifier = Kernel.Get<ApplePushNotifier>();

    kernel.Bind<IApplePushNotifier>().ToConstant(applePushNotifier);
    kernel.Bind<IMessageProcessor>().ToConstant(applePushNotifier);

Hope it helps.

A: Just create only one binding for both service-interfaces:
kernel.Bind<IApplePushNotifier, IMessageProcessor>().To<ApplePushNotifier>()
    .WithConstructorArgument(
        "certPath", System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/bin/apns_universal.p12"))

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2016 ASIAN CHAMPS
AFL Asian Champs
The Vietnam Swans were delighted to see Western Bulldogs Premiership players Tom Liberatore and Luke Dahlhaus supporting the growth of footy in Asia at Saturday's successful AFL Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City!
It appears the clearly tongue-in-cheek article posted on our website on Thursday night prior to the tournament, which listed these two champions as emergencies for the Vietnam Swans has unfortunately been taken out of context by most sections of the Australian footy media – the boys were never actually going to play. Much to the surprise of AFL Asia, the Swans and all those present, Liberatore spent an entertaining 5 minutes on the field, helping out an undermanned Macau Lightning team in the Division 2 competition in their game against the Japan Goannas. Straight after kicking a left foot snap from inside the square, 'Libba immediately retired to the sidelines to cheer the team on, showing his class with what will go down as one of the most memorable goals in Asian Champs history!
The 500 men, women, ex-pat and local footballers from across Asia were absolutely delighted to see the Dogs champions at Asian Champs, who along with ex-AFL legends Andrew Embley from the West Coast Eagles and Brad Seymour from the Sydney Swans, generously gave their time to assist the development of Asia's aspiring footballers. We greatly appreciate the support they have shown towards our efforts to grow the game across Asia and highly commend the way all went about making themselves available for hundreds of photos and autographs from the record number of players, supporters and sponsors who attended the hugely successful tournament.
While we are disappointed the Australian footy media have chosen to focus on Libba's unique haircut rather than the excellent footy that was played across the Champs, including a great come from behind win to the Philippine Eagles to win their first ever title, the inaugural 3-team all-local player All-Asia Cup and the first ever women's AFL game to be played in Asia, we congratulate them on raising the profile of the mighty Vietnam Swans across Australia!
On behalf of the Asian football community we thank both Tom and Luke for their support of Asian Champs and being outstanding representatives for the AFL and the Western Bulldogs in Vietnam. We would have no hesitation in welcoming them back should they ever wish to further support the growth of Asian footy!
How Good's Footy in Asia!


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Plum (Joy Nash) on what it felt like to be physically in the presence of the Jennifer collective.
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Dan Er. Grigorescu, né le  à Bârlad (Roumanie) et mort le  à Aubervilliers, est un photographe et éditeur. Il est le fils du général Eremia Grigorescu et de Elena Negropontes. Il a réalisé un important travail photographique sur les œuvres monumentales de Constantin Brâncuşi à Târgu Jiu, présenté à la biennale de Venise de 1982.

Biographie
Élevé dans un univers cosmopolite, Dan Er. Grigorescu étudie à l'école primaire, au collège et au lycée Janson-de-Sailly à Paris, puis au lycée St Sava à Bucarest. Il intègre ensuite l'école militaire des officiers de réserve. Il est décoré pour sa participation aux combats autour de Bucarest entre 1942 et 1944.

À partir de 1945, Dan Er. Grigorescu parvient à mener sa carrière artistique et à travailler en free-lance, publiant plus d'une trentaine de livres et collaborant à des revues, malgré le système communiste répressif alors au pouvoir en Roumanie.

Il s'installe avec sa famille à Paris en 1974 et continue d'être un acteur de la vie culturelle européenne. Il anime en France des émissions radiophoniques régulières sur Free Europe, participe à des expositions internationales comme la Biennale de Venise où il présente son travail sur Târgu Jiu, lieu unique d'installation monumentales de Constantin Brâncuşi.

Dan Er. Grigorescu meurt en 1990 à Paris. Plusieurs expositions posthumes lui sont consacrées.
Depuis 2012, la Galerie Negropontes présente son travail, qui sert de toile de fond aux réalisations du designer Hervé Langlais.

Œuvres

Ouvrages
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Petru Comarnescu, Voronet, Verlag fur Fremdsprachige Literatur, Bucarest, 1957
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Gheorghe Focşa, Muzeul Satului (le musée du Village), Editura in limbi străine, Bucarest, 1958
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Aspects de la vie et de l'œuvre de Mihail Sadoveanu, ESPLA, Bucarest 1958
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Dans le Delta du Danube, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1966
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Paris, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1966 ; puis Hachette 1967
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Dan Hǎulicǎ, Brancusi ou l'anonymat du génie, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1967
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Rome, la synthèse d'une ville, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1970
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Dan Hǎulicǎ, Calder, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1971
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Venetia, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1971
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Florenţa, éditions Meridiane, Bucarest, 1974
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Valea Frumoasei, éditions Eminescu, Bucarest, 1975
 Dan Er. Grigorescu, Constantin Lucaci, Roma, editura Sport-Turism, Bucarest 1976

Expositions
 En 1972, exposition des photographies de Dan Er. Grigorescu à Rome
 En 1982, exposition des photographies de Dan Er. Grigorescu à la Biennale de Venise

Expositions posthumes
Des expositions posthumes ont été organisées autour de son œuvre :
 En 1992, exposition consacrée au delta du Danube, à l'Unesco, inaugurée par le Commandant Cousteau et servant de cadre aux débats écologiques à composante internationale
 En 1995, exposition consacrée à la « Roumanité » et à l'hérédité de Trajan, à l'Academia di Romania
 En 1997, exposition Moments et millénaires, au Centre Culturel Roumain
 En 2007, exposition Hommage au Général Eremia Grigorescu et son fils Dan Grigorescu, sous le Haut patronage du Ministère de la Défense, au Cercle militaire de Bucarest
 En 2008, exposition Rigueur et acuité dans le monde d'images de Dan Grigorescu à la Galerie Dialog à Bucarest ; exposition à Rome
 En 2012, exposition Portraits d'artistes parisiens à la Galerie Negropontes à Paris
 En 2014, présentation de 3 photographies de la Colonne sans Fin de Brancusi, issues du livre, au PAD Paris et au PAD Londres

Prix
Dan Er. Grigorescu a obtenu des prix pour ses livres lors de concours prestigieux :
 La médaille d'argent du concours de la Foire du livre de Leipzig pour l'album Delta du Danube, en 1957, et pour l'album Brancusi, en 1968
 La médaille d'or du Concours international du livre d'art de Washington pour l'album Voronet, en 1963
 Le prix du concours international de la Foire du livre de Leipzig pour l'album Paris

Il a également reçu l'Excellence FIAP (Fédération internationale de l'art photographique).

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Présentation de l'exposition l'Œil et l'Esprit par Dan Hǎulicǎ

Naissance en novembre 1917
Naissance à Bârlad
Photographe roumain du XXe siècle
Décès en février 1990
Décès à Aubervilliers
Décès à 72 ans

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Katy Tessman
mom | literacy champion | makerspace specialist | author
Stories That Go Beyond The Single Story Stereotypes And Celebrate Chinese American Culture
katytessman	#COVID-19, #OwnVoices, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, children's books, fiction, graphic novels	 May 11, 2020 May 12, 2020 3 Minutes
[originally published on MackinCommunity.com]
Stories entertain. Stories also teach. Having diverse literature available to students helps create a culture of understanding of each other. When students read books where they see characters like themselves, their family, and their culture being valued in the world, they feel a sense of belonging.
As people all over the country and the world find a "new normal" because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Asian-Americans are facing even greater uncertainty. A New York Times article reports racism is growing in the form of verbal and physical attacks as public officials appear "intent on calling the coronavirus "the Chinese virus," rejecting the World Health Organization's guidance against using geographic locations when naming illnesses"
When we are exposed to the single story, showing that people are one way (over and over again) it limits our understanding of who people truly are and creates stereotypes. We are lucky to be educators during a time when a wider variety of authors are sharing their stories. Listed below are five Chinese-American authors that have written several award-winning books for all readers. Introducing readers to diverse histories and traditions celebrates both our differences and our similarities. The titles listed below are available in digital e-books as well as print; these stories go beyond the single story and celebrate the Chinese-American culture.
Grace Lin's charming, engaging upper elementary fantasy-adventure series including WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON, STARRY RIVER OF THE SKY, and WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER is a wonderful escape. With Chinese folklore interwoven throughout the story, Lin's beautiful illustrations accompany the text throughout. Grace Lin is the award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of several children's books including Pacy Lin series and the Ling & Ting series, as well as picture books such as Big Bed for Little Snow and Big Mooncake for Little Star. Her newest book, MULAN : BEFORE THE SWORD is an original fantasy prequel to Disney's 2020 live-action Mulan film.
Gene Luen Yang is the award-winning graphic novelist of American Born Chinese, the two-volume series Boxers & Saints, and theAvatar: The Last Airbender series. Yang's wildly entertaining middle-grade Secret Coders six book series combines logic puzzles and basic coding instruction with a twist of mystery and maker education; the last three books in the series are entitled SECRET CODERS : 4 : ROBOTS & REPEATS, SECRET CODERS : 5 : POTIONS & PARAMETERS, and SECRET CODERS : 6 : MONSTERS & MODULES. Gene Luen Yang's most recent book is a graphic novel memoir called DRAGON HOOPS where he follows his Oakland, California Catholic high school's men's varsity basketball team over the course of one season. Interviews with the coach, and players chronicle the team's team's mysterious past, and its quest for the state championship.
Kelly Yang loves to write stories about gutsy girls and bold boys, immigration, poverty, and race. Yang's upper-elementary Front Desk Novel series is about a 10-year-old girl and her family who own a motel in California.FRONT DESK (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature) and THREE KEYS : A FRONT DESK NOVEL (due out September 12, 2020) are stories about the hilarious ups and downs of getting through turbulent times. Yang's realistic novel PARACHUTES is a modern immigrant story about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma. This novel for high schoolers is available at the end of May in trade hardcover and audio CD.
F. C. Yee is the author of two YA series that have received many accolades and praise. Yee's epic debut Genie Lo series, EPIC CRUSH OF GENIE LO and IRON WILL OF GENIE LO, is a combination of realistic high schooler's life with an odd supernatural world and Chinese folklore. Yee's fantasy Kyoshi series, RISE OF KYOSHI and THE SHADOW OF KYOSHI (due out on July 21, 2020) maps a heroine's brave journey from childhood to becoming her nation's most respected and longest-living Avatar.
Lenore Look is the award-winning author of numerous children's books including picture books BRUSH OF THE GODS, UNCLE PETER'S AMAZING CHINESE WEDDING, and LOVE AS STRONG AS GINGER Look is the author of two highly acclaimed early chapter book series. The beloved and hilarious Alvin Ho six-book series is about a Chinese-American second grade boy who is afraid of everything. Alvin's imagination runs wild with his family and best friend, who is a courageous red-headed girl who wears an eye patch. The Ruby Lu series (set in Seattle where Lenore grew up) is a three-book collection about a young Chinese-American girl who has lots of adventures at home and at school.
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Veteran Gamer funds $50M for AR/VR initiatives.
Two industry Veterans have all started a $50M venture capital fund to invest in early-stage virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality startups.
Former Chief Executive of PlayFirst and Tipatat Chennavasin, Former Head of Mobile game maker Big Head Mode, Marco DeMiroz have started the Venture Reality Fund.
The attempt is to fund innovative companies across a wide variety of sectors in the emerging VR, AR and MR. So they simply are part of what beats within the Augmented Reality word and Virtual Reality initiatives which are expected to become a $150 billion market just by 2020 according to tech advisor Digi-Capital.
"The best way to predict the future is to build it, the second best way is to fund it. We believe in the transformative powers of this new medium and want to help make VR, AR, and MR happen in the best way possible." the fund organizers said on their website.
Although there have been formation of funds from other sources so as to back up these New emerging market. One of them is the $10 million Presence Capital fund started in December.
DeMiroz was previously the CEO of Evolution Media Partners which had invested in JauntVR where he currently serves as a board observer. He is also a board member at the leading mobile marketing company Swrve and he is actively advising other bunch of media and tech firms within the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality world.
For Chennavasin, the experience is creating both interactive VR/AR and 360 video. He became convinced of the of the power vested in the VR when he accidentally cured himself of his real life fear of heights whe developing in VR. He had also Co-Founded a Mobile Game startup Big Head Mode where he was a CEO but later was sold out to PlayFirst so as to focus his mights on Virtual Reality. He was also the VR expert at Rothenberg Ventures and co-founder of the River New Frontier Accelerator Program.


J Ginseng Res. 2011 Nov;35(4):399-412. doi: 10.5142/jgr.2011.35.4.399.
Development of Reproducible EST-derived SSR Markers and Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Panax ginseng Cultivars and Related Species.
Choi HI1, Kim NH, Kim JH, Choi BS, Ahn IO, Lee JS, Yang TJ.
Department of Plant Science, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul 151-921, Korea.
Little is known about the genetics or genomics of Panax ginseng. In this study, we developed 70 expressed sequence tag-derived polymorphic simple sequence repeat markers by trials of 140 primer pairs. All of the 70 markers showed reproducible polymorphism among four Panax speciesand 19 of them were polymorphic in six P. ginseng cultivars. These markers segregated 1:2:1 manner of Mendelian inheritance in an F2 population of a cross between two P. ginseng cultivars, 'Yunpoong' and 'Chunpoong', indicating that these are reproducible and inheritable mappable markers. A phylogenetic analysis using the genotype data showed three distinctive groups: a P. ginseng-P. japonicus clade, P. notoginseng and P. quinquefolius, with similarity coefficients of 0.70. P. japonicus was intermingled with P. ginseng cultivars, indicating that both species have similar genetic backgrounds. P. ginseng cultivars were subdivided into three minor groups: an independent cultivar 'Chunpoong', a subgroup with three accessions including two cultivars, 'Gumpoong' and 'Yunpoong' and one landrace 'Hwangsook' and another subgroup with two accessions including one cultivar, 'Gopoong' and one landrace 'Jakyung'. Each primer pair produced 1 to 4 bands, indicating that the ginseng genome has a highly replicated paleopolyploid genome structure.
Allelic variations among individuals of a landrace and a cultivar. Denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was conducted for separation of PCR products using individual DNA and the GES0002 marker. (A) A total of 15 individuals of landrace 'Jakyung' were surveyed. Different genotypes were denoted as a-f and genotype d is shown as major. (B) A total of 20 individuals of cultivar 'Chunpoong' were surveyed. Only number 4 plant denoted by * shows heterozygous allele. L, DNA ladder; GES, ginseng expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat.
J Ginseng Res. 2011 Nov;35(4):399-412.
Non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of PCR products from nine Panax accessions using different markers, (A) GES0003, (B) GES0019, (C) PES0010 and (D) PES0034. Lanes 1-6 indicate P. ginseng accessions, Gumpoong (1), Hwangsook (2), Yunpoong (3), Chunpoong (4), Gopoong (5), Jakyung (6) and related Panax species, P. japonicus (7), P. quinquefolius (8), P. notoginseng (9). L, DNA ladder; GES, ginseng expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat; PES, Panax expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat.
Dendrogram of the nine Panax accessions, six P. ginseng accessions and three relative species. Phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the genotypes of 70 markers using unweighted pair group method with the arithmetic mean clustering analysis. Bootstrap values were calculated by 1,000 replications and only significant values were denoted on the branches.
Segregation of the polymorphic marker GES0019 in a F2 population between Yunpoong and Chunpoong. polymerase chain reaction products were separated by non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Lanes and L indicate DNA ladder; 1, Yunpoong; 2, Chunpoong. F2 population includes 51 F2 individuals. Y, C, and H indicate genotype of each F2 individual which is same with Yunpoong, Chunpoong, and Yunpoong/Chunpoong heterozygote, respectively. GES, ginseng expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat.