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Metaphysics Matters
By Eric Weislogel on February 26, 2008 in Essay
Part One: Metaphysics as the Science of Presuppositions
R.G. Collingwood, in his An Essay on Metaphysics (1940), attempts to defend metaphysics from attacks upon it leveled by early analytic philosophers. To make his defense, Collingwood has to separate two Aristotelian propositions regarding "first philosophy." On page 11 of his text, Collingwood notes them:
1. Metaphysics is the science of pure being.
2. Metaphysics is the science which deals with the presuppositions underlying ordinary science.
Collingwood believes that in order to defend metaphysics one must deny Proposition 1 and properly understand Proposition 2. As an Aristotelian, I am dubious about Collingwood's skepticism regarding Proposition 1; as a postmodern, I am sympathetic to his Proposition 2. But for the moment, let's grant Collingwood his argument, that metaphysics properly understood is the uncovering and articulating the historical and contextual presuppositions without which we cannot think systematically at all, let alone engage in science.
What are our ruling presuppositions?
Part Two: Food, Not Nutrients
In an earlier post, I noted that my version of postmodern peripatetic ontology–a term that Collingwood would have us do without–would be based on such things as apples, things you find and sometimes eat. I contend that we run into trouble if we don't start with such things.
Michael Pollan, in his writing about food, gives us plenty of examples of such problems. Look, for instance, at his New York Times essay, "Unhappy Meals," from January 2007. Pollan shows us what we all ought already to know: whereas we used to eat "food" (for instance, apples), now we eat "nutrients" or else we try to avoid certain chemical elements that come in (what we used to easily call) "food."
More important than mere foods, the presence or absence of these invisible substances was now generally believed to confer health benefits on their eaters. Foods by comparison were coarse, old-fashioned and decidedly unscientific things — who could say what was in them, really? But nutrients — those chemical compounds and minerals in foods that nutritionists have deemed important to health — gleamed with the promise of scientific certainty; eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer and avoid chronic diseases.
This way of looking at our understanding of food is known as "nutritionism." Pollan warns us not to confuse "nutritionism" with "nutrition." Like any -ism, nutrionism is "not scientific subject but an ideology." He reminds us:
Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
And, like most ideologies, they would seem to require someone, some sort of avant garde, visionary, expert, or elite to interpret reality for us in terms of the ideology. In this case,
the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding food is indeed the nutrient. From this basic premise flow several others. Since nutrients, as compared with foods, are invisible and therefore slightly mysterious, it falls to the scientists (and to the journalists through whom the scientists speak) to explain the hidden reality of foods to us. To enter a world in which you dine on unseen nutrients, you need lots of expert help.
The experts will "help" us to think and act in terms of some dubious propositions:
that the sole purpose of eating is to maintain health (and not enjoyment, community, even worship)
that different foods are not really different if the same "nutrients" can be derived from them; so fish is beef is soy is chicken [note: does this not have the ring of the "ethics" of PETA's Ingrid Newkirk: "A rat is a pig is a boy is a dog. They are all mammals"?]
that processed food and whole or raw food are simply delivery systems for nutrients, with no essential difference between them
"Nutritionism" is a goldmine for manufacturers of what Pollan calls, "edible foodlike substances." Raw and whole foods are a commodity–you can't do much to a banana or avocado (not yet, anyway). But you can add all sorts of "nutrients" to cereal grains, tout their "healthfulness," and jack up the prices. Pollan writes,
So nutritionism is good for business. But is it good for us? You might think that a national fixation on nutrients would lead to measurable improvements in the public health. But for that to happen, the underlying nutritional science, as well as the policy recommendations (and the journalism) based on that science, would have to be sound. This has seldom been the case.
But, if this "value added" processing of what used to be food is both good for business and not so good for those of us who eat this stuff, the source of the trouble can be traced to the presuppositions under which we are operating here. There is a generic name for these sorts of ruling presuppositions: reductionism. Pollan writes (with emphasis added):
Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, an approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. "The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science," points out Marion Nestle, the New York University nutritionist, "is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet, and the diet out of the context of lifestyle."
If nutritional scientists know this, why do they do it anyway? Because a nutrient bias is built into the way science is done: scientists need individual variables they can isolate. Yet even the simplest food is a hopelessly complex thing to study, a virtual wilderness of chemical compounds, many of which exist in complex and dynamic relation to one another, and all of which together are in the process of changing from one state to another. So if you're a nutritional scientist, you do the only thing you can do, given the tools at your disposal: break the thing down into its component parts and study those one by one, even if that means ignoring complex interactions and contexts, as well as the fact that the whole may be more than, or just different from, the sum of its parts. This is what we mean by reductionist science.
Scientific reductionism is an undeniably powerful tool, but it can mislead us too, especially when applied to something as complex as, on the one side, a food, and on the other, a human eater. It encourages us to take a mechanistic view of that transaction: put in this nutrient; get out that physiological result. [But…] There is nothing very machinelike about the human eater, and so to think of food as simply fuel is wrong.
Not only wrong, but potentially dangerous. As Pollan notes:
Also, people don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain. Researchers have long believed, based on epidemiological comparisons of different populations, that a diet high in fruits and vegetables confers some protection against cancer. So naturally they ask, What nutrients in those plant foods are responsible for that effect? One hypothesis is that the antioxidants in fresh produce — compounds like beta carotene, lycopene, vitamin E, etc. — are the X factor. It makes good sense: these molecules (which plants produce to protect themselves from the highly reactive oxygen atoms produced in photosynthesis) vanquish the free radicals in our bodies, which can damage DNA and initiate cancers. At least that's how it seems to work in the test tube. Yet as soon as you remove these useful molecules from the context of the whole foods they're found in, as we've done in creating antioxidant supplements, they don't work at all. Indeed, in the case of beta carotene ingested as a supplement, scientists have discovered that it actually increases the risk of certain cancers. Big oops.
Reductionism and methodological analysis, powerful as they are, when jacked up into an ideology usually end up leading to the "big oops."
Part Three: Working Against Reductionism
So we need to be working against reductionism (emphasis on the "-ism" of course!) if we are to avoid certain tragic consequences. It is good that we engage in this work. It is good work.
E. F. Schumacher has given some thought to the notion of "good work." He writes (and you can find the essay from which I quote in Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood, edited by Claude Whitmyer (Paralax Press 1994, pp. 130-135.):
Traditional wisdom teaches that the function of work is at heart threefold: (1) to give a person a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; (2) to enable him to overcome his inborn egocentricity by joining with other people in a common task; and (3) to bring forth goods and services needed by all of us for a decent existence.
The trouble, says Schumacher, is that we seemed to have lost the ability to distinguish between good work and bad work. Why is that? Good work is the joy of life, but bad work is that which is "meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-wracking," that which makes a person "the servant of a machine or a system." But we've no right to expect good work when we have
been conditioned to believe that man himself is "nothing but" a somewhat complex physico-chemical system, "nothing but" a product of mindless evolution.
Schumacher writes (with emphasis added) that
it is interesting to note that the modern world takes a lot of care that the worker's body should not accidentally or otherwise be damaged. If it is damaged, the worker may claim compensation. But his soul and his spirit? If his work damages him, by reducing him to a robot–that is just too bad. Here we can see very clearly the crucial importance of metaphysics. Materialistic metaphysics, or the metaphysics of the doctrine of mindless evolution, does not attribute reality to anything but the physical body: why then bother about safety or health when it comes to such nebulous, unreal things as soul or spirit? We acknowledge, and understand the need for, the development of a person's body; but the development of his soul or spirit? Yes, education for the sake of enabling a man or woman to make a living; but education for the sake of leading them out of the dark wood of egocentricity, pettiness, and worldly ignorance? {…} Materialistic metaphysics, therefore, leaves no room for the idea of good work, that work is good for the worker. Anyone who says, "The worker needs work for the development and perfection of his soul," sounds like a fanciful dreamer, because materialistic metaphysics does not recognize any such need.
Schumacher argues that unless we alter our metaphysical presuppositions about human beings and about work, we will never really be able to distinguish good work from bad work, let alone be able to educate human persons for good work. Schumacher warns:
If we continue to teach that the human being is nothing but the outcome of a mindless, meaningless, and purposeless process of evolution, a process of "selection" for survival, that is to say, the outcome of nothing but utilitarianism–we only come to a utilitarian idea of work: that work is nothing but a more or less unpleasant necessity and the less there is of it the better.
Our ruling presuppositions will prevent us from learning the nature of humanity and of good work, unless we revisit them. And the presuppositions that Schumacher draws our attention to are just those of scientism, yet another dangerous "-ism" that prevents us from attaining a richer education.
Our ancestors knew about good work, but we cannot learn from them if we continue to treat them with friendly contempt–as pathetic illusionists who wasted their time worshipping nonexisting deities; and if we continue to treat traditional wisdom as a tissue of superstitious poetry, not to be taken seriously; and if we continue to take materialistic scientism as the one and only measure of progress.
Schumacher reminds us:
The best scientists know that science deals only with small isolated systems, showing how they work, and provides no basis whatsoever for comprehensive metaphysical doctrines like the doctrine of mindless evolution. But we nevertheless still teach the young that the modern theory of evolution is part of science and that it leaves no room for divine guidance or design, thus wantonly creating an apparent conflict between science and religion and causing untold confusion.
Not only do our guiding presuppositions make it difficult or impossible for us to know and pursue good work, those same presuppositions have created the illusion that there is a conflict between science and religion. Now this illusion has become a cash cow for certain faux-philosophers, dogmatic philosophasters who supplement their income by mass-marketing this set of narrow-minded presuppositions as if it had dropped from heaven ready-made (how's that for an ironic turn of events?!).
But this illusion has a cost for the rest of us: it damages our ability to seek and be provided with a full, rich, genuine, human education, an education that frees man from his ego, "so that the divine element in him can become active." This is not simply "philosophical fluff." And it has real world consequences.
"The world of work," as seen and indeed created by this modern metaphysics, is alas! a dreary place. Can higher education prepare people for it? How do you prepare people for a kind of serfdom? What human qualities are required for becoming efficient servants, machines, "systems," and bureaucracies? The world of work of today is the product of a hundred years of "de-skilling"–why take the trouble and incur the cost of letting people acquire the skills of a craftsman, when all that is wanted is a machine winder? The only skills worth acquiring are those which the system demands, and they are worthless outside the system. They have no survival value outside the system and therefore do not even confer the spirit of self-reliance. What does a machine winder do when (let us say) energy shortage stops his machine? Or a computer programmer without a computer?
I think there might be a corollary to Schumacher's point. Consider what has become of higher education. It is mainly a fragmented smorgasbord of disciplinary practices (defined with analytic rigor by breaking things into parts without context) that have their own set of "skills" that students must learn to be "competent." Think of how we train our philosophy students. Are they trained to become wise? Or are they taught a series of argumentative tactics and "research" skills that lead to a debilitating disdain of metaphysics–even as the very practices in which they are engaged are caught in the iron grip of the metaphysical presuppositions of scientism and reductionism? And, yes, that includes a lot of you "Continentalists" who have been Pavlovianly trained to attack at the very sound of the word "metaphysics," which, ironically, you take (rightly) to be at the root of scientism and reductionism!
Is Schumacher pessimistic? No, but a change is going to have to come:
Maybe higher education could be designed to lead to a different world of work–different from the one we have today. This, indeed, would be my most sincere hope. But how could this be as long as higher education clings to the metaphysics of materialist scientism and its doctrine of mindless evolution? It cannot be. Figs cannot grow on thistles. Good work cannot grow out of such metaphysics. To try to make it grow from such a base can do nothing but increase the prevailing confusion. The most urgent need of our time is and remains the need for metaphysical reconstruction, a supreme effort to bring clarity into out deepest convictions with regard to the questions: What is man? Where does he come from? and What is the purpose of his life?
The work we do, the "we" who are engaged in a transdisciplinary approach and a renewed quest for wisdom, think we are engaged in good work, work that takes us out of the safe-zone of our academic disciplines, out of the security (sometimes, at least) of our institutional regimentation, but that leads us to opportunities for enrichment, intellectual and spiritual growth, the development of our whole person, the chance to engage in collaborations and common tasks, and to bring forth a service to our fellow human beings who all too often are chained up in meaningless work they trained for in meaningless curricula at institutions that have lost their way. In our exploring and learning and teaching, we want whole food, solid food. This kind of intellectual and spiritual food, the food for which we offer our daily labor, our good work, this food will still have all its nutrients and constituent parts. How could it not? Transdisciplinarity requires the disciplines.
Howard Gardner's Five Minds for the Future, the specific cognitive abilities we will need to confront our common problems for a better future, include:
The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of
major schools of thought, including
science, mathematics, and history, and of
at least one professional craft.
The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to
integrate ideas from different disciplines
or spheres into a coherent whole and to
communicate that integration to others.
The Creating Mind: the capacity to
uncover and clarify new problems,
questions and phenomena.
The Respectful Mind: awareness of and
appreciation for differences among
human beings and human groups.
The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one's
responsibilities as a worker and as a
citizen.
Certainly we must have disciplined minds. But without synthesis, creativity, respect, and ethics, by reducing our mission as intellectuals, researchers, teachers, and students to the merely disciplinary, we allow our full humanity to recede from our horizon. [Listen to a provocative talk by Philip Clayton on minds for the future at the 2007 Metanexus Conference on iTunes.]
Seeking "whole food" does not mean avoiding "nutrients." Seeking wisdom does not mean denigrating knowledge. But we must not stop short. If we think "what is" can be reduced to this or that disciplinary knowledge, we do no more than generate yet another "-ism." We cut ourselves off from any hope of wholeness, any hope of wisdom.
Hope, not guarantee. A recovery of metaphysics means to move deftly and hopefully between the "foolishness" of thinking the whole is wholly inaccessible, and the "idolatry" of thinking that the whole is wholly articulable in some sort of "superdisciplinary" form. It is a fine line, and it is of vital importance to preserve this hope. That's why we do what we do.
What are you going to do?


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Home » Federal Republic of East Africa: Could this be the continent's most powerful country?
Federal Republic of East Africa: Could this be the continent's most powerful country?
By Joseph Kangethe on April 27, 2022 Regional Markets
Could East Africa Member states unite to form the most powerful federation in Africa? [Photo/EACJ]
The seven states of the East African Community could be examining the potential of overlooking these boundaries and forming one big federal union, the East African Federation!
The proposed capital city is Arusha, Tanzania, which is the current headquarters of the East African Community. Among the languages official languages suggested in the region will be English and Swahili
The gross domestic product for the region will sum up to US$250 billion, the fourth-largest in Africa and the 34th biggest globally
For the last 60 years, Africa has been bound by artificial boundaries that their colonizers placed to tell the extent of a country to another.
On one side, these boundaries have helped maintain sovereignty, but on the other side, they have restricted the free movement of people, goods and services, consequently restricting trade.
Why the EAC wants to create the Federal Republic of East Africa
The seven states of the East African Community could be examining the potential of overlooking these boundaries and forming one big federal union, the East African Federation! Could this manifest in reality, or is one imagination gone too far?
The East African federation is a proposed sovereign country composed of seven sovereign states; Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
East African Community to unite and form the East African Federation. [Photo/BBC]
Read: EAC: From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean!
With the recent addition of the DRC to the East African region, landlocked countries have found an alternative port of entry in the Atlantic Ocean. The swiftness of trade with two ports of entry and the region's strategic location will be incomparable to any other region on the continent.
Features of the East African Federation
The East African Federation would be the fourth largest country in both population and landmass, trailing after China, India and the United States. President Uhuru Kenyatta says that the federation would have over 300 million people.
The gross domestic product for the region will sum up to US$250 billion, the fourth-largest in Africa and the 34th biggest globally. Since the beginning of the last decade, East Africa has had the fastest growing economy globally. In 2019, the region's economy grew by about 5 per cent. If the federation continues with this growth rate, the new country would quickly become the biggest superpower in Africa.
The EAF would become Africa's largest superpower precisely because of the weaker nations surrounding the region. Among the languages official languages suggested in the region will be English and Swahili.
The proposed capital city is Arusha, Tanzania, which is the current headquarters of the East African Community. The proposed inclusive currency will be the East African shilling which has been debated as a common currency in the region for the last ten years.
Read: DRC and EAC: Who stands to gain more from the pact?
The formation of the EAF would be the biggest border change globally since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The creation of this federation is a possible reality considering the exceptional growth and unity in the current East African Community, which came into existence in 1999 with a treaty signed by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Upon its creation, EAC had four action plans:
A Custom Union agreement.
Creation of a common market.
Realization of a single currency area.
Formation of a political federation.
In 2007, Rwanda and Burundi joined the region, and the five states created a common market that has helped by a considerable margin to reduce food insecurity in the region.
The free movement of people, goods and services has boosted trade and strengthened people to people ties, enabling the community to harness the strength of each member state for the benefit of all.
The organs already set up include the East African Court of Justice, the East African Legislative Assembly, and sectoral committees on trade, finance, agriculture, defence, infrastructure, security, and education, among others.
What is slowing down the formation of the East African Federation?
However, the common market objective has experienced several hurdles as, quite often, the countries in the region have highly taxed goods from their neighbours to protect their local markets. For example, Kenya has locked Ugandan timber, milk, sugar and maize to protect its farmers.
East African Community to unite and form the East African Federation. [Photo/SocialGrep]
One of the mind-blowing projects in the region is the Standard gauge railway, which facilitates trade in the region. The Kenyan SGR project has successfully reduced the journey from the Indian Ocean to Uganda from 7 days to 17 hours.
Harmonizing fiscal and monetary policies in the seven countries to converge the currencies in East Africa into one is problematic for two reasons;
Each country in the region has its currency
Each currency continues to experience wildly fluctuating exchange rates
Another heavily weighted situation is whether the East African Community members will accept their loss of sovereignty and transition to a single nation. How will the leadership dynamics be distributed?
Read: DRC boosts EAC's population to 0.3 billion people
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Arsenal star wins best goal award for his scorpion kick goal against Crystal Palace
Arsenal's Olivier Giroud has won FIFA's Puskas award for the best goal this year
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Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud's goal against Crystal Palace on New Year's Day has been voted as the best goal of the year. Photo: Adam Davy/PA Wire.
Crystal Palace conceded the best goal in world football over the past 12 months.
That's according to a jury of club and international coaches, media representatives and fans, who have voted Arsenal striker Oliver Giroud's goal against Palace as the best goal of the year.
The Frenchman's scorpion kick goal on New Year's Day against Palace had been included as one of three strikes, shortlisted from an initial ten candidates, for FIFA's prestigious Puskas award.
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And last night (Monday), the Frenchman picked up the award, with his goal voted ahead of an overhead kick by South African goalkeeper Oscarine Masuluke, and Venezuelan teenager Deyna Castellanos, who scored straight from kick off during the U17 FIFA Women's World Cup last year.
Palace pair make Premier League top ten list
At the awards ceremony in London, Giroud thanked his team-mates and his family and said it was an honour to win the award, while he said he felt it was the best goal he had scored, even if he admitted he had "a lot of luck."
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Working with families has been my calling for as long as I can remember. Reaching my vocational goals involved a good amount of education and of course, life experience.
My undergraduate studies have included an Associate of Arts Degree from Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education in the Social Studies from Florida International University, Miami, Florida. I have also attended Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin Simmons University, Abilene, Texas in its Masters of Divinity in Pastoral Care degree program. I am a proud graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and have completed my Masters of Arts degree in Human Services: Marriage and Family Therapy in 2012. The focus of my graduate education was in Hispanic immigrant studies and the effects of deportation on Hispanic families.
I have also undergone advanced Spanish language training at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California – an outstanding learning institution that graduates many United Nations Interpreters. Having been raised in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida, I became bilingual at an early age. During these formative years of my life, I became fully immersed in the Latino culture having lived and played in this richly diverse setting. I am proud of my twenty-one years of service in the United States Air Force as a cryptologic linguist which included assignments as an Air Education and Training Command Master Instructor and as Chief, of Air Force Spanish Training at Goodfellow, Air Force Base, Texas. During and after my service in the Air Force, I was a contract Spanish language translator/interpreter for SCOLA, a non-profit educational organization that receives and re-transmits television programming from around the world in native languages. My work has been utilized by language training programs at Colleges, Universities, K-12 school programs and by the Federal government for language training and cultural enhancement. I was truly blessed to have also served as part of a medical missionary team to Ecuador. Last, and certainly not least, I am married to the former Ronda Poehls of Miles, Texas. Between us, we have been blessed with four daughters and are the proud grandparents of six grandchildren. Whew!


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'Cydney,' I have just told the spaniel, 'you had better enjoy this tin of dog food because it cost me £67.50.' I hear you ask, 'How on earth is this possible? Are you feeding foie gras to your cocker?' I might as well be. It would be cheaper than buying pet food in Streatham after Transport for London has run amok with a red line painter in a deserted street.
And so I pootled inside to buy the Lily's, not suspecting anything might be different. I selected her favourites, Goose and Duck, Beef and Potato -- are dogs meant to eat potato? -- and paid for them at the till. Then I put the carrier bag in the passenger side of the Fiat Panda and drove off.
The fine came through a week later. Contravention 46: stopped where prohibited on a red route or clearway.
Now, according to TfL's website, red routes are 'London's main roads and carry 30 per cent of the city's traffic'. Strange, then, that this red route is in a very quiet street where I have almost never encountered a single passing car.


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Commemoration of 27th anniversary of Plehan suffering
Sub, 06. Srpanj 2019. 20:56
On Tuesday, July 2nd - day when in 1992., the Franciscan monastery and parish church of St. Mark in Plehan were mined and destroyed to the ground – in Bosanska Posavina, in parish of Plehan, a commemoration was held.
On this occasion, in the evening hours in the newly built church in Plehan, the Holy Mass, together with the local guardian OFM Anto Tomas and OFM Ivan Ćurić, was led by the monastery vicar OFM Franjo Dalibor Stjepanović.
Well-suited readings that were read about suffering, but also about the joy of meeting the Lord, about which preacher Stjepanović spoke in his homily, was also significant.
On that occasion, the guardian Tomas, solemnly, in front of the returnees in this parish, signed a contract with Anto Jurišić, the director of Stanogradnja doo Odžak, who will build the monastery in Plehan, whose construction site and stone foundations, under the holy mass on Monday, July 8th at 18:00, will be blessed by the Archbishop of Vrhbosna, cardinal Vinko Puljić.
The great Franciscan Church of St. Mark in Plehan, the Serbian Army, after occupying Plehan, on July 2nd, 1992., mined with two tons of explosives. During the mining, the Franciscan monastery also fell, and in the days after this, the remains of the monastery and all the accompanying buildings were completely destroyed, as well as all the houses of the Catholic population, who had to flee before the war. After the return of the Franciscans to Plehan, every year on July 2nd, in the evening, the Mass Celebration mentions these great tragedies, for which no one has ever responded, and they pray that the Lord will heal all the wounds that this area has experienced and still experiences.
In the parish of Plehan, before the war, 8 120 Croats Catholics lived there, and today there are only 90, mostly elderly and helpless.
Pon, 15. Srp. 2019. 11:01
Anniversary of Franciscan school sisters
On Sunday, July 7th, in the monastery church of St. Bonaventura, 90 years of life and work of Franciscan sisters and the golden jubilee of 14 nuns, was celebrated.
Church blessing in Grbavica
In Sarajevo's part of town, Grbavica, on Saturday, July 6th, Archbishop of Vrhbosna, cardinal Vinko Puljić blessed a new parish church of the Jesuit parish of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
New president of HKD Napredak was elected
Croatian cultural society (HKD) Napredak, held in Sarajevo on July 6th, their 66th Main electing assembly where a so far member of society, dr. Nikola Čiča, was elected for president.
Sub, 06. Srp. 2019. 20:56
Holy Mass for the celebration of the patron of sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ
On Monday, July 1st, sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ, celebrated their patron, on which occasion there was a solemn Mass celebration led by cardinal Vinko Puljić.


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Every one of us is born with rhythm in our souls.
It is up to us to not let that rhythm get rusty, to attune the beats of our hearts to the movements of our bodies.
Colorful and happy entry. Nice one, Madhu!
This a gallery just up my alley …. Loads of tango – and dancing I can't get enough of.
Stunning photos. My pick of this temperamental and colorful .. and enjoyable gallery; the Rajasthani dancer. Love you headline for the post too..dream with your feet and the head image is funny and temperamentally.
I can go for rythm and dance any time. Nice series, Madhu.
OMG! Iwas actually thinking of writing that but I didn't coz I didn't want to go so strong on the destruction part of it!
You know Madhu as you get older your opportunities todance get less frequent, so the Marquez quote is very touching.
Lovely pics and I especially like the final quote – dance on Madhu!
Colourful and diverse gallery! Dancing was my life when I was young…now the Marquez quote goes straight to the point with me.
I love this post, thank you, Madhu!
The heavens dance and all minutae within, dance too.
All life is vibration and all vibration – life.
What an incredibly inspirational post, Madhu. Makes the foot start tapping just to look at these photographs.
Love this! My husband and I have "Friday Night Dance Parties" in our living room. Just the two of us with music and dancing. We are trying to keep the rhythm alive!
Awesome shots, Madhu! Excellent interpretation of the Dance Theme!
Wow! Beautiful, graceful, just full of life!
What an absolutely wonderful collection of dance photos and quotes! Great post!
I love the title and the many variations of how we can dream with our feet!
Beautiful collection! So true when you say that it is up to us to get that rhythm get rusty!
I doubt I could keep up, but I do enjoy rocking out – even if it's only in my head. Dance on, Madhu.
I love this last picture.
I'm not much of a dancer, but I like the message of this post.
I love the banner photo! What a great shot of the traffic cop!
happy post! i love the colors!
Dancing is also a sport 😀 fabulous photos collection @Madhu.
Awesome set of great photos.
You topped it! Gorgeous, Madhu!
Such a firm reminder of how not to silence and suppress the rhythm within ourselves. The Hindi Movie 'Jab We Met' always makes me feel how we all need to express our bubbling insides. Thanks for the great post!
I love that quote by Marquez, but yours is even better 😀 Terrific shots!
My daughter attempted to learn South Indian classical dance while we were living in Singapore. I think she did get the rudiments of it before transferring to the US for her college work. The grace exhibited comes from many years of practice, not a quick course.


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Scott Morrison indicated that he would now prefer to send any asylum seekers to Nauru rather than Manus Island - but stressed there are no transfers because no boats have arrived for 70 days. The Minister conceded that the situation inside the the Manus centre will remain dangerous until a resettlement arrangement is struck for those asylum seekers who are found to be refugees.
ELEANOR HALL: To politics back home now: the Immigration Minister today stopped short of guaranteeing the safety of the asylum seekers inside the Australian detention centre in Papua New Guinea.
Scott Morrison indicated that he would now prefer to send any asylum seekers to Nauru rather than Manus Island, but stressed there are no transfers because no boats have arrived for 70 days.
The Minister conceded that the situation inside the Manus centre will remain dangerous until a resettlement arrangement is struck for those asylum seekers who are found to be refugees.
But he blamed Labor for failing to put that in place, as political correspondent Louise Yaxley reports from Canberra.
LOUISE YAXLEY: A fortnight after the events that led to Reza Berati's death on Manus Island, Scott Morrison doesn't know who killed him or who fired shots, including the one that injured another asylum seeker.
A series of inquiries is underway into last month's violence and, after a meeting in Port Moresby on Saturday, Mr Morrison says they will be co-ordinated or synthesised.
SCOTT MORRISON: I believe the police investigation, the coronial inquiry, the other review that we have in place with Cornall will bring together all of this information. And I'm hopeful and confident that we will be able to determine what occurred on that night.
LOUISE YAXLEY: The Greens will push, though, for a Parliamentary inquiry into what happened on Manus Island. Christine Milne says the existing arrangement's not good enough.
CHRISTINE MILNE: There's a lot of evidence to suggest that there was a lot of local engagement in terms of the violence with particularly the Mobile Squad. And it's appalling, actually, that we had a situation where Reza Berati's body was left for so long without an appropriate post mortem.
LOUISE YAXLEY: This morning, when pressed by AM's Chris Uhlmann, Mr Morrison would not guarantee the safety of asylum seekers detained at Manus Island, but he highlights the change of contractors running the facility.
SCOTT MORRISON: It is critical with the changeover in the security arrangements we've put in place - I mean, all the service providers, particularly the two with direct involvement with those in the centres, those contracts have been discontinued by this Government. They were put in place by the previous government. And our new operators are in there now, doing the transition. And my level of confidence is growing.
CHRIS UHLMANN: But history shows us in detention centres in Australia that frustration will grow as long as there's no pathway out. Can you guarantee the safety of the people in that detention centre?
SCOTT MORRISON: Well, people, as I've said before: if they're going to cooperate with those who are looking after them and not engage in riotous behaviour, then obviously the risks that present significantly diminish.
LOUISE YAXLEY: The Minister does not rule out sending more people to Manus Island, but nor does he make it sound likely. And he makes the point there's not the same pressure to make the transfers now.
SCOTT MORRISON: We haven't had a boat in over 70 days. And when there are no boats coming; I don't have to send anyone.
CHRIS UHLMANN: But could you?
SCOTT MORRISON: Well, I can send people to both centres. I can particularly send them also to Nauru, where there is more spare capacity.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Scott Morrison insists the boats not arriving in Australia is due to the Coalition's policies.
SCOTT MORRISON: There are no boats coming and that's the point. Our policies are being successful.
And the reason we put in place particularly the maritime operations, which have been the key factor in stopping those boats over the last more than 70 days: that has relieved the pressure.
LOUISE YAXLEY: He says without the Coalition's policies, Manus Island would have been over-run last month.
But Labor's former Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, says the Government's focus on Operation Sovereign Borders doesn't give the previous government enough credit for reinstating the Manus Island deal.
CHRIS BOWEN: If the Government had a bit of... was a bit magnanimous about these things, they would acknowledge that. Instead they refuse to do that and they claim that all the reduction's down to their own policies - at the same time as refusing to tell us what those policies are. Refusing to be up front with the Australian people about what's actually happening on the seas.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Mr Morrison says Labor didn't negotiate the key element of that deal: the detail about how asylum seekers could be resettled.
SCOTT MORRISON: The resettlement arrangements with Papua New Guinea were a blank sheet of paper when it came to the previous government. All the detail, all the hard work has had to be done over the last five months. And there's a lot of hard work ahead.
CHRIS UHLMANN: That's a given. But do they have any of the processes to actually resettle people? Will they have to pass any of that through parliament? Will that take more time?
SCOTT MORRISON: Well, there may be some legislative changes and they're some of the details which are yet not completely nailed down.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Scott Morrison can't say how long it will take to finalise the resettlement plan. But in a bid to speed it up, he and the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, will be involved in monthly meetings with their PNG counterparts to work on it.
He says he expects real progress in the next few months.
ELEANOR HALL: Political correspondent Louise Yaxley in Canberra.


We will travel along the Kedron Brook Bikeway which is flat. There are toilets along the way, and toilets at Nudgee Road. There are 3 road crossings which are easy to negotiate. It is approximately 17 kms from Lanham Park to Nudgee Beach, where we will stop for coffee and then spend a moment at the beach before retracing our steps to Lanham Park.
Some of you who may have attended the Oct 2012 ride will recognise this one (which you should because it is the same). It's a good ride and is flat so we'll see you all there at 7.45 am.


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Q: Argument error when computing quadratic formula I am trying to compute the quadratic formula and place the results within an array before printing out the result:
function f(a, b, c)
    r1 = (-b+sqrt(complex(b^2-4*a*c)))/2.0*a
    r2 = (-b-sqrt(complex(b^2-4*a*c)))/2.0*a
    x = [r1][r2]
    println(x)
end

However I get the following error:
f(1, 2, 3)

ArgumentError: invalid index: -1.0 - 1.4142135623730951im of type ComplexF64

A: This code could look like this:
function f(a, b, c)
    Δsqrt = √(b^2-4a*c+0im)
    r1 = (-b+Δsqrt)/2a
    r2 = (-b-Δsqrt)/2a
    [r1, r2]  # or use tuple (r1, r2)
end

And some exaples:

julia> f(1,0,1)
2-element Vector{ComplexF64}:
 0.0 + 1.0im
 0.0 - 1.0im

julia> f(1,0,-1)
2-element Vector{ComplexF64}:
  1.0 + 0.0im
 -1.0 - 0.0im

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#ifndef _LANE_DETECTOR_HPP_
#define _LANE_DETECTOR_HPP_

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <environment/Interpreter.hpp>
#include <image_transport/image_transport.h>

#include <stdexcept>

#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>

#include <opencv/cvwimage.h>
#include <sensor_msgs/Image.h>
#include <cv_bridge/CvBridge.h>
#include <cv_bridge/cv_bridge.h>
#include <sensor_msgs/image_encodings.h>

#include "libsvm/svmWrapper.hpp"

#define WAIT_TIME 10
#define MAP_MAX 1000

class LaneDetector : public environment::Interpreter {
private:

	int debug_mode;
	int timeFunctions;
	std::string sub_topic_name, pub_topic_name;
	ros::NodeHandle nh_;

    std::string data_path;

	cv_bridge::CvImage cvi;
	sensor_msgs::CvBridge bridge;
	image_transport::ImageTransport it;
	image_transport::Publisher pub;
	image_transport::Subscriber sub;

	cv::Mat Image; // Raw image

	struct timeval tvalBefore, tvalAfter;
	double timeElapsed;
	double totalTimeElapsed;

	// Grass Removal
	SVM *svm;
	int kernel_size;

	// Image Processing Functions
	cv::Mat Preprocessing(cv::Mat &image);   // Image enhancement functions
	cv::Mat GrassRemoval(cv::Mat &image);    // Apply grass removal and return the image with grass removed
	cv::Mat ObstacleRemoval(cv::Mat &image); // Remove Obstacles and return the image with obstacles removed
	cv::Mat GetLaneBinary(cv::Mat &image);   // Detect lanes and return a binary image with Lanes only
	cv::Mat SeperateLanes(cv::Mat &image);   // Seperate the binary image into different lanes
	cv::Mat FixBrokenLanes(cv::Mat &image);  // Curve Fitting and Dilate to fix the broken lanes
	cv::Mat InversePerspectiveTransform(cv::Mat &image);  // Change the view to bird's eye view

	// Communication Functions
	void SubscribeImage(const sensor_msgs::ImageConstPtr& msg);       // Publish the Lane Binary Image
	void PublishLanes(cv::Mat &image);       // Publish the Lane Binary Image
	void setUpCommunication(); // Set up ros communication

public:
	LaneDetector(std::string _pub_topic_name, std::string _sub_topic_name, int _timeFunctions = 0, int _debugMode = 0);
	~LaneDetector();
	void interpret();
};

#endif /* _LANE_DETECTOR_HPP_ */

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As many as 4,000 family members from around the country are getting ready to come to Syracuse University to visit their students during Family Weekend 2008 — and more than a few might be packing Halloween costumes, Rockapella tickets or SU football fan gear as they prepare for the wide range of activities being offered Oct. 31-Nov. 2. With dozens of academic, social, athletic and cultural opportunities on the schedule, Family Weekend 2008 offers unprecedented opportunities for parents, siblings and other family members to engage with their students' SU experience.
Highlights of the weekend will include academic samplers, dean's breakfasts and classroom experiences with some of SU's leading scholars and teachers; "Trick or Treating with the Greeks" and Halloween activities for children on Friday night; the SU football game against Louisville and a variety of student performances on Saturday; and a Pulse performing arts series concert by top-selling a cappella group Rockapella on Sunday afternoon.
The Parents Office, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs, hosts Family Weekend in collaboration with offices, departments and recognized student organizations across campus. Most events are free of charge and open to all students and registered family members; some, including the football game and Rockapella concert, require paid tickets. Online registration for Family Weekend has closed, but families can still pay their $40 registration fee on arrival by visiting the Parents Place Hospitality Suite, located in the Panasci Lounge on the third floor of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. For a complete calendar of events and details about registration, parking, lodging, transportation and tickets, visit http://parents.syr.edu/FW2008.php.
Family Weekend fees support the dozens of no-fee events offered throughout the weekend, as well as the Parents Office's efforts to focus on the evolving needs of SU students and their families. A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Rockapella concert will be used for the Parents Office Special Needs fund, which supports students and families in times of crisis.
For more information about the Parents Office and its services, visit http://parents.syr.edu. To learn about the Pulse performing arts series, visit http://pulse.syr.edu. For more information about Family Weekend, call (315) 443- 1200.


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Ryan Adams – Self-Titled New Release
Home » New Releases » Ryan Adams – Self-Titled New Release
Posted on Aug 15, 2014 in New Releases
Read about Ryan Adams'new self-titled release and new clip
Ryan Adams Returns With Ryan Adams
It's been three years since his last release, Ashes and Fire.
Ryan Adams the album will come out September 9, and "Gimme Something Good" is the first taste, a rockier, fuller sound than his most recent past material. Now there's a new clip out:
Ryan Adams track list:
1. Gimme Something Good
2. Kim
3. Trouble
4. Am I Safe
5. My Wrecking Ball
6. Stay With Me
7. Shadows
8. Feels Like Fire
9. I Just Might
10. Tired Of Giving Up
11. Let Go
Tickets and details at PaxAmRecords.com
Sep 8/14 — Washington, DC — 9:30 Club
Oct 1/14 — Santa Barbara, CA — Arlington Theater
Oct 03/14 – San Francisco, CA – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Oct 05/14 — Portland, OR — Arlene Schnitzer Hall
Oct 06/14 — Seattle, WA — Paramount Ballroom
Oct 07/14 — Vancouver, BC — Orpheum Theater
Oct 09/14 — Edmonton, AB — Francis Winspear Theater
Oct 10/14 — Calgary, AB — Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Oct 12/14 — Winnipeg, AB — Burton Cummings Theater
Oct 13/14 — Minneapolis, MN — Northrop at the University of Minnesota
Oct 14/14 — Milwaukee, WI — Riverside Theater
Oct 16/14 — Chicago, IL — Chicago Theater
Oct 18/14 — Ames, IA — Stephens Auditorium @ Iowa State Center
Oct 19/14 — St. Louis, MO — Peabody Opera House
Oct 20/14 — Kansas City, MO — Uptown Theater
Nov 06/14 — Indianapolis, IN — Murat Theater
Nov 08/14 — Columbus, OH — Palace Theater
Nov 09/14 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore
Nov 11/14 — Cleveland, OH — Playhouse Square
Nov 18/14 —Boston, MA — Wang Theater
Nov 19/14 — Philadelphia (Upper Darby), PA — Tower Theater


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6 facial masks that help you get rid of unwanted facial hair - Indiscreet Beauty..
Turmeric has Indian origins and is used both in the kitchen, to spice the foods and in cosmetics, to remove facial hair.
Combine turmeric powder with water in order to obtain a paste that you eventually apply on the affected areas. After it has dried, you should remove the mask by using a cotton swab that was initially soaked in warm water. For optimum results you should repeat the treatment with regularity.
In a bowl, pour ½ glass of milk and add over it 6 tbsp of chickpea flour, 1 tbsp of turmeric and 1 tbsp of sour cream. Apply the mask on your face and leave it rest for about 25 minutes, then remove it by using a towel.
Make a paste by mixing the juice from 2-3 potatoes, 4 tbsp of lemon juice, 1 tbsp of honey and a small bowl of lentil puree. Once it becomes a paste, apply it in your face and remove gently after it has dried.
Apply the mask made of 1 tbsp of honey and several drops of lemon juice on your face and leave it rest for about 15 minutes. When it is dry, remove it with a towel. It is recommended to repeat the treatment several times a week in order to obtain positive results.
Make a wax by mixing 1 tbsp of sugar with 1 tbsp of honey and several drops of lemon juice. Heat the paste in the microwave for about 3 minutes, then leave it cool until you are able to apply it on your face without burning your skin. Remove your hair by pulling the mask in the opposite direction of hair growth.
Mix well a tbsp of sugar with a tbsp of flour and some white eggs. Apply the mask on the affected area and let it dry. Then, remove it by pulling it out the opposite direction of hair growth.


This exact article was published a year ago when iOS 7 was released. I have edited it where needed and republished it so you can be ready for tomorrow's upgrade to iOS 8.
As always there will be people from all of the above camps out there. You won't know what camp you'll be in until you install iOS 8 so it's important to prepare properly so you won't lose data and/or can downgrade back to iOS 7. If you upgrade, love it and don't experience a single issue, great. Then you'll have done all of the following for nothing but hey, better safe than sorry 🙂 Let's begin.
iCloud is very convenient (both for you and all those that potentially have access to your data) but in the case of an upgrade it has it's limitations. Once you upgrade, you can not downgrade and restore your data. The iCloud backup will not be compatible with an older iOS version so either stick with the latest or downgrade and lose all your stuff. If you backup to iTunes you have more flexibility to restore/recover data if needed and you can downgrade too.
Backing up to iTunes is easy and can be done even if you are already backing up to iCloud. Connect your phone to the computer and open iTunes. When your phone appears in the left column* right-click on it and select "Back Up". You can also click the "Back Up Now" button in the main window.
* If you do not see the left column (hidden by default in iTunes 11), go to the View menu and select "Show Sidebar".
You can encrypt your backup too, for instructions on that have a look here.
Once the backup is done, right-click on your phone in the sidebar again and select "Transfer Purchases". This will ensure that all your apps, music, TV shows etc. are saved to your computer.
Open iPhoto and import all the photos from your phone. For many the photos are the most important data on the phone so make sure you have them all stored in iPhoto.
When backups are made in close succession the previous backup is usually overwritten. To make sure your iOS6 backup is not lost when iOS7 backs up, locking a copy of it away in a zip file is a good idea.
5. On your iDevice, close all applications and turn off bluetooth.
6. Upgrade to iOS 8!
Chances are you'll love it and everything works fine. If for whatever reason you need to go back to iOS 7, unzip the file you created earlier and restore from that backup. Keep in mind that there are many developers out there still that have not updated their apps for iOS 8 so a crashing or strangely behaving app does not mean iOS 8 is causing problems. Check the support pages for the apps that are acting up and see if they support iOS 8 or if an update is on it's way. If you really rely on an app then check this before upgrading.
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Ask A Woman: Working At Bro Council
I used to work with Ray and I want to know what it's likefor you to work with him and the rest of the crew at "Bro Council HQ".
Is there a glass ceiling for women there? Do you guys really have platinum covered toilets? Can you help me to understand?
While I telecommute from my luxury office in scenic northern Vermont, I am more than happy to clear things up for you regarding Bro Council HQ. I'm just going to go ahead and assume you watch the Superbowl...I mean, you are reading this site, right?
Allow me to set the scene a bit for you:
It's February 1st, 2009. Jennifer Hudson is warming up her vocal chords, Bruce Springsteen is getting ready to prove to the world he's still the Boss, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are gearing up to crush (or...just barely hang on to enough of a lead against a strong 4th quarter offensive drive by...) the Arizona Cardinals. Ok, now that you're in memory mode, remember that Cash4Gold commercial starring MC Hammer and Ed McMahon?
That gold medallion of MC Hammer wearing a gold medallion? A gift bestowed upon him by the National Bro Council Office. Those gold golf clubs? Ray has a set in the corner behind his desk, which he sometimes polishes during business meetings, or when he's feeling particularly lost in thought. And the toilets, you ask? Well...maybe you should just watch the video.
Blingtastically yours,
Be sure to ask your own question to our panel of women here!
Written By Rachel
Rachel once gave a particularly confident guy a quadratic equation to solve, the solutions of which were the digits in her phone number.


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Carlos Santana Agrees to $60 Million Deal with Philadelphia Phillies
Posted on December 18, 2017 by Tom Castaneda
Carlos Santana is crossing state lines for a big paycheck…
The Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a three-year, $60 million deal with the 31-year-old professional baseball player and free agent first baseman, according to multiple reports.
Santana became the first to reach a deal among the nine free agents who last month rejected $17.4 million qualifying offers from their former teams.
Santana has played his entire Major League Baseball career with the Cleveland Indians, who acquired him in a 2009 trade from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Santana has developed into a consistent run producer, and after catching and playing third base, he has become one of the league's best fielding first basemen. He was a Gold Glove finalist this year.
The switch-hitter batted .259 with 23 homers and 79 RBIs last season for the American League Central champion Indians. He has a career .249 average with 174 home runs in eight seasons for Cleveland.
Santana will join a rebuilding Phillies lineup that also includes slugger Rhys Hoskins, outfielders Aaron Altherr, Nick Williams and Odubel Herrera, and third baseman Maikel Franco.
Nearly 150 of Santana's 571 at-bats last season came in the leadoff spot, and with a career on-base percentage of .365, he can help provide RBI opportunities for Philadelphia's other top hitters in the middle of the order.
Santana's departure is a big loss for Cleveland, which led the AL with 102 wins during the regular season but lost to the New York Yankees in a Division Series.
Santana has a .213 average with four homers and eight RBI in 21 career postseason games.
The addition of Santana would be the second major deal completed Friday by the Phillies, who also traded shortstop Freddy Galvis to the San Diego Padres in a move that likely opens the shortstop job for top prospect J.P. Crawford.
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This Is That
Travel Guide to Canada
Pat Kelly, Chris Kelly, Peter Oldring
Discover the majesty of Canada—or what the Internet calls "One of North America's Top Three Must-Visit Nations"—in this laugh-out-loud, farcical travel guide from the country's most celebrated comedy team, This Is That.
Have you always wanted to travel Canada, but but are fearful of wide open spaces? Are you planning your next Canadian holiday to visit the best strip malls in town? This Is That: Travel Guide to Canada will take you on an outrageous and unbelievable journey from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast. Presented in the familiar casing of a traditional travel guidebook—à la Lonely Planet or Rough Guide—This Is That will teach you how to navigate the twelve petting zoos of Etobicoke and how to avoid pickpockets in Kamloops. You'll learn that the city of Brandon, Manitoba, is closed for annual maintenance between July 12 and August 19 and that tipping your server in Swift Current is offensive. This unreal guide also includes essential travel tips, such as useful Canadian phrases to locate the bathroom, the best places to portage, and the most spectacular malls above sea level.
"If you only buy one travel book about Canada, this must be it. You WILL get lost without it."
CBC Radio One's award-winning satirical program This Is That was created by veteran comedians PAT KELLY and PETER OLDRING, and produced by CHRIS KELLY, who use the familiar sound of public radio as a platform for character bits and improvisational comedy. The CBC radio show has engaged audiences across the country and beyond with an acclaimed live show, podcast, and viral digital content. This Is That stories have been covered by Wall Street Journal, Boing Boing, Paste Magazine, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Devour, and more. This Is That's live show tour has played to sold out audiences; it will tour back across the country in January and February 2017.
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The checkerboard score and species distributions
The checkerboard score and species distributions Stone, Lewi; Roberts, Alan 1990-11-01 00:00:00 There has been an ongoing controversy over how to decide whether the distribution of species is "random" — i.e., whether it is not greatly different from what it would be if species did not interact. We recently showed (Roberts and Stone (1990)) that in the case of the Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides) avifauna, the number of islands shared by species pairs was incompatible with a "random" null hypothesis. However, it was difficult to determine the causes or direction of the community's exceptionality. In this paper, the latter problem is examined further. We use Diamond's (1975) notion of checkerboard distributions (originally developed as an indicator of competition) and construct a C -score statistic which quantifies "checkerboardedness". This statistic is based on the way two species might colonise a pair of islands; whenever each species colonises a different island this adds 1 to the C -score. Following Connor and Simberloff (1979) we generate a "control group" of random colonisation patterns (matrices), and use the C -score to determine their checkerboard characteristics. As an alternative mode of enquiry, we make slight alterations to the observed data, repeating this process many times so as to obtain another "control group". In both cases, when we compare the observed data for the Vanuatu avifauna and the Antillean bat communities with that given by their respective "control group", we find that these communities have significantly large checkerboard distributions, making implausible the hypothesis that their species distributions are a product of random colonisation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oecologia Springer Journals http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-checkerboard-score-and-species-distributions-FsofMnx0su
Stone, Lewi; Roberts, Alan
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Oecologia /
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Copyright © 1990 by Springer-Verlag
Life Sciences; Ecology; Plant Sciences
There has been an ongoing controversy over how to decide whether the distribution of species is "random" — i.e., whether it is not greatly different from what it would be if species did not interact. We recently showed (Roberts and Stone (1990)) that in the case of the Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides) avifauna, the number of islands shared by species pairs was incompatible with a "random" null hypothesis. However, it was difficult to determine the causes or direction of the community's exceptionality. In this paper, the latter problem is examined further. We use Diamond's (1975) notion of checkerboard distributions (originally developed as an indicator of competition) and construct a C -score statistic which quantifies "checkerboardedness". This statistic is based on the way two species might colonise a pair of islands; whenever each species colonises a different island this adds 1 to the C -score. Following Connor and Simberloff (1979) we generate a "control group" of random colonisation patterns (matrices), and use the C -score to determine their checkerboard characteristics. As an alternative mode of enquiry, we make slight alterations to the observed data, repeating this process many times so as to obtain another "control group". In both cases, when we compare the observed data for the Vanuatu avifauna and the Antillean bat communities with that given by their respective "control group", we find that these communities have significantly large checkerboard distributions, making implausible the hypothesis that their species distributions are a product of random colonisation.
Oecologia – Springer Journals
Stone, L., & Roberts, A. (1990). The checkerboard score and species distributions. Oecologia, 85(1), 74-79.
Stone, Lewi, and Alan Roberts. "The checkerboard score and species distributions." Oecologia 85.1 (1990): 74-79.


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Tristan Phipps
Classics Revisited: The Beatles - 'Revolver'
Released on August 5 1966, Revolver is considered by many to be The Beatles' finest work. In the latest instalment of our Classics Revisited series, Tristan Phipps unravels the story behind The Fab Four's iconic seventh studio album.
"We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
In a time where snubbing religion, convention, and the establishment is part and parcel of being the world's most famous pop star, a comment such as this simply could never make such a splash in this day and age. However, in 1966, John Lennon's words marked the occurrence of a seismic shift in popular music and culture. The Beatles were more than just four working class lads from Liverpool.
That is a fact that has never been called into question. However, in a post-war world, The Beatles became agents of change, agents of liberation, and leaders of an emerging counter-culture which inevitably became part of the mainstream. Books have been penned surrounding their impact, essays written arguing that the key to their success was Paul McCartney and his interest in London's underground art world, or Lennon's art college liberations, or George Harrison discovering his own spirituality, or Ringo Starr's, well, …sorry Ringo, you really were great though. The fact of the matter is that for The Beatles to change the world in the way that they did, factors of the political, cultural, and economic persuasion all came into play. In this writer's opinion, Revolver was a masterstroke, and crucial if not to the bands impact, but in the formation of their lasting legacy.
Perhaps to understand the impact of Revolver, we must first analyse what came before. Prior to The Beatles, popular music could be described as unimaginative. England had Cliff Richard: an acceptable face of popular music, Cliff was un-daring and friendly. America had a rock 'n' roll boom of its own. However, it was short lived, and its artists left as soon as they had arrived – some moving to bigger and better things in the world of film and cinema, and some were drafted into the army before dying on the toilet. Either way, music was run by the establishment. In the mainstream, music largely conformed to what was expected of it. Raw talent was there, but it would not breach the mainstream without an acceptable face.
The bands that preceded The Beatles often didn't write their own songs, nor play their own instruments: independent thoughts on freedom, love and spirituality were few and far between. Even The Beatles' early work, comparatively spritely yet harmless, was a breath of fresh air to many. But finally, four plucky, young lads were on the scene, who dared to do, and say, things their way. With an air of political and economic change sweeping over Britain following the introduction of Harold Wilson's new Labour government, finally returning a voice to the once prosperous north west, The Beatles were primed and ready, knowing the world was theirs for the taking.
"The world was waking up and listening to messages of enlightenment, previously confined to the underground"
As the years progressed, 'Beatlemania' set in. Extensive touring brought worldwide success, and the shattering of countless records. Taking America was hardly an obstacle, as The Beatles enjoyed unrivalled chart domination, as well as featuring in their own full-length feature films. The bar was high, and the quality never dropped. However, upon returning to the UK, the music scene had been revolutionised. Managers up and down the country had been scouting for "The Next Beatles": London had The Rolling Stones, Manchester had The Hollies, Liverpool adopted Gerry And The Pacemakers. Despite being the catalysts for this great change, The Fab Four themselves were in danger of losing their edge. Despite its adequate popularity, 1964 album Beatles For Sale marked a turning point. Exhausted by their own success and endless touring, John, George, and Ringo sought pastures new out of the city, leaving Paul alone in London. Perhaps it was here, the spring of 1965, where Paul spearheaded The Beatles revolution, where they once again reinvented the face of popular music.
While a myriad of factors lead The Beatles in their restructuring of the face of popular music once again, it was in a South West London where Paul discovered the trendy Indica bookshop and gallery. Having become friendly with Indica owner Peter Asher through dating his sister, Jane Asher, Paul is regarded as one of the Indica's first ever clients: helping Asher shift books in the early days as well as drawing up the flyers for their opening. Driven by an increasing desire to stay stimulated, Paul immersed himself in the heart of this underworld, absorbing influences from within the counter-culture, wherever they could be found.
"Revolver was a masterstroke, and crucial if not to the bands impact, but in the formation of their lasting legacy"
After weeks of immersion, Paul opened his new world up to John, the tricky, rebellious art-student. One evening, Paul took John along to the gallery and bookshop, where they stumbled across the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Psychologist turned author, Timothy Leary had fast become infamous in America, pioneering the use of LSD as a vehicle to free the self, mind and body – and had fast become a prominent figure in the counter-culture scene. Like a honey trap to John, who had been out of the city and out of artistic stimulation for too long, it was the opening few words that lead them to work on new track Mark X. This track, which later became Tomorrow Never Knows, was the first track from Revolver to be recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios.
"Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream."
And with those words, The Beatles changed the face of pop music forever. All of a sudden, powerful messages of spirituality had immersed themselves into the mainstream. Despite being stuck in a post-war slumber until relatively recently, the world was waking up and listening to messages of enlightenment, previously confined to the underground world. Lennon's lyrical exploration began to revolutionise The Beatles yet again, setting them apart from the hordes of musicians that attempted to follow their early 1960s success. By revolutionising the face of popular music and culture in the early 1960s, and becoming agents of liberation and voices of change, The Beatles had earned the adoration of their fan-base. With Revolver, the Fab Four began to express their own creative desires, however untraditional:
"She said, I know what it's like to be dead."
The opening lyric of Revolver hit She Said She Said was an immediate window into the mind of a Beatle at this time: they had reached stardom, worldwide fame, and even cracked the establishment that they had long sought to antagonise - by deservedly receiving an MBE. However, upon the release of Revolver, it was time to do things their way, evidently clear as themes of anti-materialism began to breach mainstream interest, alongside previously unrepresented ideas of Eastern spirituality. To an outsider, this could have been perceived as risking everything, but perhaps one of the most controversial, unique albums to date had become one of the most popular of theirs to date, firmly gripping the number one slots across the world for weeks.
Under McCartney's influence, John Lennon may have paved the way for a new Beatles era lyrically, but Paul had his own creative visions in the studio. Inspired by new instruments, ideas, and eastern influences, McCartney began to use the studio as an instrument of its own. By pioneering the use of tape manipulations and sampling, Paul had shown that, given the right attention and care, an album could be a work of art. This idea, potentially first confirmed with Revolver, but hinted at through Rubber Soul, ultimately paved the way for The Beatles' most iconic work: the creation of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A project that shattered every conceivable record, Sgt. Pepper… was a staggering hit, yet this success largely hinged on the techniques adopted and unorthodox themes so subtly integrated within Revolver. This chapter, however, ends here. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a mesmerising story for another day.
The Beatles pushed every conceivable boundary with Revolver. Challenging conventions with their lyrics, influences, and even how the studio should be used: nothing was off limit. It wasn't daring for daring's sake: it was simply time to do things their way.
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NBA:Heat's Big 3 gets 100-94 victory over Sixers to take 3-0 lead
Posted Apr 22, 2011	by Austin Tyler
The Sixers have played the Heat tough in the last two games, but the Heat has found a way to win behind the play of Chris Bosh. Dwayne Wade has been dealing with migraines since game two, but for game three he pulled out his biggest game of the series.
Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat.
Philadelphia was ready to welcome their Philadelphia 76ers (41-41) home for game three of their seven game series versus the Miami Heat (58-24). The Sixers have not got out of the first round since 2003 when they beat the New Orleans Hornets. They were looking to steal game three, but the Heat just seemed to be too much.
The Sixers put up a great fight to open the game as they jumped on the Heat and took a quick 13-4 lead. The Heat got within five after a LeBron James basket to make 15-10 with 5:39 left in the quarter.
Lou Williams and Tony Battie made back-to-back baskets to give the Sixers a 19-12 lead. With .35 seconds left in the first quarter Mike Bibby made a three-pointer to cut into the Sixers lead 26-21. Lou Williams answered with a three-pointer of his own to give the Sixers a 29-21 lead to end the quarter.
LeBron James scored the Heat's first four points of the second quarter to cut the Sixers lead down to four. Elton Brand made a jumper to give the Sixers a 38-31 lead before the Philadelphia took a timeout with 5:47 left in the half.
With the score 46-41, James Jones made back-to-back three-pointer to get the Heat with one 47-48. Elton Brand made a jumper to make 52-47, but a three-point play by Dwayne Wade put the Heat with two going into halftime down 52-50.
Miami jumped out to an early 56-52 lead when they scored the first six points of the third quarter that forced Philly to take a quick timeout. Jodie Meeks made a three-pointer coming out for the Sixers to get them within one, and Elton Brand gave them a one point lead with a layup. Meeks' three-pointer started the Sixers on a 12-0 run that was capped off with a Jrue Holiday three-pointer that gave them a 64-56 advantage.
The Sixers kept a nice run going as they held a 68-60 until a Dwayne Wade basket tied the game up at 68 points apiece. The game was tied up again at 70 points apiece on a pair of Wade free-throws, but the Sixers held onto the lead the rest of the way. Lou Williams made a jumper and Andre Iguodala made a free-throw to give the Sixers a 75-73 lead going into final period.
The Play of the game came in the third quarter when LeBron James crossed over Jrue Holiday and dished the ball to Wade on the corner for a dunk.
LeBron James made an early three-pointer and Chris Bosh made a jumper to give the Heat a 78-75 lead. The Heat held on to the lead as they pushed it to an 82-77 point lead when Wade made a layup. The Heat was up 84-79 and the Sixers called a timeout to try and slow them down.
Miami pushed their lead all the way to ten when LeBron James made a layup to make it 90-80. The Sixers battled back and got as close as 96-91 with 1:32 left in the game with a Thaddeus Young bucket. With .43 seconds left in the game Lou Williams made a three-pointer to cut the Heat's lead down to four. James Jones put the Heat at the 100 mark when he knocked down a pair of free-throws to close out the game.
The Heat got a big game from Dwayne Wade who almost had a triple-double with 32 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. LeBron James also had a big game with 24 points and 15 big rebounds to go along with six assists. Chris Bosh added 19 points and Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 10 points with eight rebounds.
Elton Brand led the Sixers in scoring with 21 points with 11 rebounds. Jrue Holiday scored 20 points with eight assists. Spencer Hawes scored 12 points, and Andre Iguodala chipped in with 10 points and also had 10 assists with five rebounds.
Thaddeus Young was not the leading scorer for the first time in this series as he only scored four points. The Sixers got a big boost from Lou Williams off the bench with 15 points.
The Heat will be looking to close this seven game series out in four on the road when the two teams will square off Sunday, April 24, 2011.


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Abington Firefighters IAFF Local 2080
The Abington Fire Fighters Local 2080 is a permanent firefighters union with 25 members, located in Abington, Massachusetts.
About Abington Firefighters Local 2080
The mission of the Abington Firefighters Local 2080, established on 27 August, 1971, is to improve the lives of our hard working men and women and to bring economic stability and equality to the workplace. To accomplish this mission we strive toward a cohesive professional relationship with the Town Of Abington to provide the best fire service possible to the citizens of Abington.
As first responders to various types of fires, public safety hazards, medical emergencies, natural disasters and terrorist acts, the Abington Firefighters Local 2080 protects the lives and property of the town's residents and visitors. The Department advances public safety through its fire prevention, investigation and education programs. The timely delivery of these services enables the Abington Firefighters Local 2080 to make significant contributions to the safety of the Town Of Abington and the surrounding communities.
Firefighters On the Defensive
Abington firefighters are using their training and taking a more cautious approach when responding to calls during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abington's first responders take cautious approach on the COVID-19 frontlines
A firefighter's instinct is to roll up to a call and rush towards the problem. But the rules have changed in recent weeks, as first responders find themselves on the front lines in the nation's battle with COVID-19.
"We're being much more defensive," said Abington Fire Chief John Nuttall. "We're used to rushing in and flooding the situation with manpower."
Today, when they arrive to check on a report of smoke or to investigate a fire alarm, only one or two firefighters are going in. And before they do, they're donning gloves, masks and a face shield.
"They're dressed up as if it's a medical call," Nuttal said. "We're assuming everybody has [the virus] because you have to."
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected hundreds of thousands nationally, including first responders. Abington has recorded 78 positive cases, with 63 currently active. Fortunately, for Abington's firefighters, who also serve as the town's paramedics, the squad has been able to remain healthy.
"We have transported a few that turned out to be positive later on," he said, adding that the department has had no exposures. "But we had all the appropriate personal protective equipment in place, so our people felt safe doing it."
Firefighter Justin Silva, Abington's EMS coordinator, said the department has been training for an outbreak like this for years.
"We've always been preparing for a pandemic, whether SARS or the swine flu," he said. "We've always had the mindset it could happen. This time it did happen."
As recently as last May the department had trained on how to properly put on and remove personal protective equipment, known as PPE. And when the virus started exploding in January, Abington firefighters quickly took a refresher course.
"We definitely owe it to the community to be prepared," said Silva.
To prevent residents from feeling alarmed when they arrive wearing protective equipment, the department recently posted photos of firefighters wearing the equipment on its Facebook page.
Despite the increase in COVID-19-related cases, Abington firefighters have actually seen a decrease in overall calls over the past month. With people working from home and businesses closed, there's been fewer motor vehicle accidents and false alarms. And in some cases, Nuttall said, people have been more reluctant to call 911 because they don't want to go to the emergency room.
"Everything has kind of slowed down in general," he said.
Firefighters are finding it tough to stay socially distant in the town's stations, where they rest, eat, and sleep in close quarters.
"We share a lot of common spaces. It's like trying to be socially distant with your own family in your own house," said Silva.
To protect everyone's health, Silva said every firefighter undergoes a health screening at least once a shift, and self-monitor when at home.
"We pay very close attention to everyone's health," he said.
Nuttall said firefighters are constantly cleaning the fire stations, including disinfecting commonly touched areas such as doorknobs, light switches and phone receivers every hour.
"The stations have never been cleaner," he said.
One key to the department's safety has been its supply of personal protective equipment — including face shields, masks, gloves. The department has received a shipment of materials from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency and currently has what it needs.
However, Silva added it was the town of Abington's generosity that put the town on good footing as the pandemic first broke.
"The community was super generous in donating masks, face shields, and even M95 masks," he said. Silva estimated that the department received around 20 M95 masks and 300 surgical masks from donors, as well as 20 faceshields from South Shore Vocational Technical High School.
"We're doing pretty good with our stock," said Chief Nuttall, adding, "but that could be wiped out immediately if we're not careful. This is why we're gearing up one person, maybe two, so we don't waste that gear if not needed."
Personal Protective Equipment to Fire and EMS Departments
An April 11 report in The Washington Post confirms what many IAFF affiliates and local jurisdictions have been experiencing firsthand for some time – that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has failed to secure, prioritize and deliver adequate supplies of N95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to fire and EMS departments.
Despite daily assurances from FEMA, the supply chain for these desperately needed resources is not reaching fire departments at the local level. The Post's report describes the chaotic and overlapping efforts to acquire and distribute medical supplies across the country as FEMA is routinely jumping into private transactions, either at the front end by overruling a purchase or seizing it when it's being transported to whatever hospital or state purchased it.
There is more than $95 billion in disaster relief available to FEMA to fight this pandemic, but instead of sending supplies to hot spots across the country or other municipalities in low or short supply, FEMA is delivering supplies to medical distributors for resale, and those distributors are marking up supplies to unaffordable price levels for jurisdictions.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently conducted a survey to measure shortages of COVID-19 emergency equipment. Responses were received from 213 cities across 41 states and Puerto Rico. Results shows that most cities do not have and cannot obtain adequate equipment and supplies needed.
91.5% (192) of the cities do not have an adequate supply of facemasks for their first responders (including police, fire and EMTs) and medical personnel.
88.2% (186) do not have an adequate supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) other than facemasks to protect these workers.
92.1% (186) do not have an adequate supply of test kits.
85% (164) do not have an adequate supply of ventilators for use by health facilities in their city or area.
62.4% (131) have not received emergency equipment or supplies from their state. Of those receiving help from their State, 84.6% (66) say it is not adequate to meet their needs.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take a toll on our members across the United States and Canada. Thousands have tested positive for the virus, at least three fire fighters have died in the line of duty, nearly 6,000 have been placed under quarantine and another 4,500 have been isolated, with numbers rising each day.
In March, the IAFF was assured that representatives from FEMA and the Health and Human Services Healthcare Resilience Task Force had established that fire and EMS agencies are at the same level of priority for PPE as hospitals and healthcare facilities. Yet by his own admission, the head of the COVID-19 Supply Chain Resilience Task Force, Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, fire and EMS agencies are not at that same level of priority.
In an April 4 White House Coronavirus Task Force Meeting, he said when referring to the distribution supply chain, "We're geographically aligning the supply chain … down to the county level … and then aligning it by priorities of point of care: public hospitals first, VA hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, first responders, acute care" – clearly not the same priority.
Per FEMA's plan, we advised affiliates to report inventory and PPE burn rates and to coordinate with local emergency management offices and state emergency management agencies on requests for PPE.
On April 10, the IAFF alerted local leaders to FEMA's failure deliver adequate PPE and urged affiliates to help us hold FEMA accountable by telling their story to local media about the dire need for supplies in your fire department.
The IAFF is available to help tell these stories of locals working without adequate PPE. Contact IAFF Director of Strategic Campaigns and Media Relations Doug Stern at dstern@iaff.org for assistance.
Stay updated on COVID-19 resources and guidance for IAFF members at www.iaff.org/coronavirus.
Passing of Retired Fire Captain Winthrop H. Patten
The Abington Fire Department regrets to announce the passing of retired Fire Captain Winthrop H. Patten.
Born in 1937, Win was appointed as a Call Firefighter in 1957, a Permanent Firefighter in 1961, Promoted to Lieutenant around 1967, and as Fire Captain in 1971.
Win retired in 1992 after 35 years of service to the residents of Abington.
During his career, Captain Patten was respected by those who worked with him, as well as the community of Abington that he prided himself on helping. Win was "old school" in his dedication to the fire service, and his attention to detail was the trademark of his being.
Win expected a lot from those under his command, but always had their back to keep them safe during dangerous and difficult times. Continuing to give long after his retirement, Win was always willing to assist as needed, working with local funeral homes, the Abington Food Bank, and other organizations.
Win will surely be missed, and when the time allows, a proper service and farewell will take place.