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Move over London and N.Y., there's a market shift going on
On June 26, 2008 · In Britain, Canada, Islam, Islamic Economics, Qatar, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Law, USA
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LONDON — The great struggle for supremacy in financial markets has moved to an eastern battlefield.
In the latest skirmish, New York has beaten back London in a tussle in the Gulf . NYSE Euronext has won a contract to build a cash and derivatives market in Qatar and the transatlantic exchange will take a quarter share of the Doha Securities Market. The London Stock Exchange had been the lead contender for the deal because the Qatar Investment Authority had amassed a 15-per-cent stake in the LSE.
It's a blow for the LSE, which is keen to spread its wings, having beaten off several takeover bids from America and Europe. But the LSE has only itself to blame. A key factor in the loss of the Qatari deal was lack of a presence in derivatives, an expertise the LSE failed to acquire in 2001, when the London Exchange allowed Euronext to purchase Liffe, London's premier financial futures market.
The continuing rivalry between New York and London is fascinating, but the intrigue that caused LSE shares to rise to a heady £20 ($38.84) has fallen away and the current price of £8 reflects a general belief that a takeover is unlikely.
While NYSE and Euronext are joined at the hip, Nasdaq is wedded to the Nordic OMX and the somewhat disappointed LSE is paired with Milan. Moreover, Qatar and Dubai together own 30 per cent of the LSE; these Emirates now hold the cards, another indication that the focus of investment activity is rapidly shifting from the established markets of the West to the emerging financial markets in the Gulf and the Far East.
Rivalry in the Gulf is intense, with Dubai setting the pace as the city state pump primes the financial service sector with commercial property and leisure developments.
Dubai needs these markets to succeed – it has virtually run out of oil. So far, the Dubai stock market is a tiddler, lacking sufficient liquidity because too much of the domestic capital is locked up by the state, or rather, the Emir and his family. Its neighbour, Abu Dhabi is also very active but still has the prop of significant oil reserves while Bahrain, which has been an established Gulf financial centre for several decades, has set out its stall as a centre for Islamic finance.
Qatar is trying to make up quickly for lost time; its wealth derives from the world's biggest gas field. But it lacks the relative sophistication and westernized culture of Dubai, which has been a magnet for professional service firms – lawyers, accountants and engineers who use the city as a hub for the region.
The question is whether the huge inflows of capital into the region from oil and gas revenues can be retained there or simply recycled and exported. According to Brad Bourland, economist at investment bank Jadwa, the oil revenues accruing to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait up until 2030 will total some $17-trillion (U.S.), assuming an oil price of $100 per barrel. During the 1980s, there was no infrastructure – financial, commercial or industrial – to absorb oil revenues and the money flew into U.S. treasury bills and dollar accounts in the U.S. and in Europe. Today, infrastructure expands at a colossal pace and the requirement for investment is huge. Saudi Arabia alone has $390-billion in projects under way, half in oil and gas, petrochemicals and power generation. The Gulf countries understand they need to earn more from their oil and gas endowment so they are expanding into chemicals, steel and other primary industries.
There are efforts to establish commodities markets in the Gulf and the Far East. Hong Kong has just announced plans to establish a fuel oil futures contract. Dubai Mercantile Exchange has already launched a sour crude futures contract with the help of Nymex, home to America's benchmark crude futures. Sour crude represents the majority of the world's oil and it is growing in dominance as the popular light, sweet crudes diminish in volume. The Dubai contract struggles to gain acceptance as Saudi Aramco is still unwilling to use it as a benchmark to price its own crude.
There is little doubt, however, of the logic that suggests the focus of oil trading will shift to the main suppliers as North Sea and U.S. supplies begin to dwindle. It's a challenge for London and New York, and attempts by the U.S. Congress to strangle the trade in futures out of fear that speculators are manipulating the oil price is dangerous and naive.
If the market is hamstrung in New York and London, it will move elsewhere and it now has somewhere else to go.


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Lin was raised in Guishan, Taoyuan, where he attended elementary school. He then enrolled at Wu-Ling Junior High School before graduating from .

Lin was a member of the Guishan Farmers' Association and led the . He was elected to the Guishan Township Council, then served on the Taoyuan County Council for two terms, from 1990 to 1998. He won the township's mayoral election later that year, and was reelected in 2002. Lin contested the 2004 legislative election as a Kuomintang candidate, and was seated to the Legislative Yuan as a representative of Taoyuan County. While a member of the Legislative Yuan, Lin drew attention to a budget proposed in 2005 for flood prevention. In 2007, the Liberty Times reported that Lin was considering leaving the Kuomintang, which he denied. After Taoyuan became a special municipality in 2014, he was elected to the first convocation of the Taoyuan City Council. During his first term, Lin raised questions about New Taipei residents dumping trash in Taoyuan. He was reelected to the Taoyuan City Council in 2018.

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Sturdy enough for even the roughest of care, it can enhance your rustic decor and will last for many years–whether you use it inside or outside.
Most log, timber frame and post and beam homes have an outdoor area—a screened in porch, a deck, a farmer's porch or a patio. And a porch, patio or deck needs furniture. Why not consider log furniture?
Add a rustic swing, glider or rocking chair to your outdoor space, to make it more fun. These moving pieces of furniture add to the cozy, homey feel of a wood home. And they just beg you to sit and chat for a while!
People who live in log or timber homes appreciate the outdoors. And so they often spend quite a bit of time outdoors on a porch or patio. In fact, most log homes do have a porch or patio of some kind.
Outdoor log furniture used on a log home deck helps bring the log theme outdoors and lends continuity to your rustic decor.
Weight – Before you start laughing, weight is an issue with outdoor furniture. Decks and patios can get pretty windy. Light weight outdoor furniture can get knocked over or be carried away by the wind. Good solid, log furniture will stay in place.
Solid – Log furniture is sturdy, and it will last for years with normal use.
Comfortable – With a cushion here and there, log furniture is very comfortable. And if it is used by heavy people, it will not get wobbly, like less sturdy outdoor furniture.
Beauty – This is probably the reason most people choose log furniture for their patio or porch. Its grains and colors are beautiful—just like the logs or timbers in your home!
Outdoor Living – Owners of log and timber homes often spend lots of time outdoors. We simply love nature and like to be outside. Using sturdy furniture outdoors gives you a place to relax and enjoy your surroundings and the views.
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Although if you have a large shed or garage space, it's always better to put outdoor furniture indoors during the winter. Furniture that will be on a porch is partially protected from the weather. It won't be directly in the rain or snow, but it can be subject to blowing moisture or direct sunlight.
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Is Jesus Our Hope Or A Means To It?
Hope – I really like that word. Even just saying the word makes me feel like I have a more positive expectation for what the future will hold.
It's interesting the different things people put their hope in. Some put their hope in money. Some in a relationship that they are expecting will give their life meaning. Some put their hope in the affirmation and recognition of those around them. We all have things that we are expecting to make us fulfilled. Most of the time these are things that aren't bad in and of themselves.
As followers of Christ, we have a different hope than the rest of the world.
Our hope is in Jesus. We rejoice, like Paul writes towards the end of Romans 7, that through Jesus our salvation will be complete and He will save us from our sin and this body of death. The problem is that we are prone to wander. We tend to put our hope in things other than Jesus.
This often happens over an extended period of time. We don't notice that our affections and expectations have shifted to something other than Jesus. This "hope in things other than Jesus" (let's call it what it is: idolatry) can be sneaky. I read a quote that basically said this, "The biggest obstacle in our lives is what we imagine our life is going to be like." The first time I read that I immediately realized that I had a problem.
What if life doesn't turn out the way I want it to?
What if my life doesn't even turn out decently well?
So many things could happen to me.
A near fatal accident to me or someone I love that changes the course of my life forever.
Or even a fatal accident, for that matter!
What if I don't live the long life that I imagine I will?
What if I never get the recognition that I want from others?
I know these are things that you can't think about all the time, but that quote made me realize that my hope wasn't actually in Jesus. My hope was in what I imagined Jesus was going to do for me. There were things that I thought were best for me and I expected Jesus to do them instead of trusting that He knew what was better for me.
Sometimes, I forget that He sees all of the present and all of the future, while I see only a very limited view of the present and cannot accurately interpret the past.
Hope in Jesus is this – no matter what happens, He is enough in every situation.
He is all-powerful and good. Not "good" because He is going to do what I imagine will make me happy, but "good" because He sees everything and knows how it's going to play out. He loves me and whatever happens to me has to first pass through that love. He will work out the painful things that happen in life for our good (Romans 8:28). Our hope was never meant to be placed in how this earthly life turns out, but in our eventual complete salvation in Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:19).
Can we praise God in painful seasons of life, like Paul and Job? Because that is real trust. That's when you know that all your hope is in Jesus.
This isn't easy. It takes God's grace to be able to trust Him, but there is freedom in it. Whatever we choose to put our hope in is what we are looking for to make this life worth living. And when it's in Jesus, we can be content in every situation like Paul.
Paul's life was difficult to say the least, but in that difficulty he experienced freedom beyond what most people experience.
Paul rejoiced in everything. Put him in jail and he's worshiping. Beat him and he thanks Jesus for the opportunity to suffer. His life was built on the Rock. Everything, except for Jesus, can be taken away. And if our hope is in anything besides Jesus, it's like building our house on the sand (Matthew 7:24-27); it's dangerous and it's sin.
So what do you have your hope placed in? Is there anything that if you didn't have it would make life not worth living? Is your hope placed in Jesus or are you hoping that through Jesus you will get the things you are really hoping for? Let's repent of our idols and choose to put all our hope in Jesus.


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Chapter 6: Theory
A- Arendt's political philosophy of Natality
B- Barfield's philosophy of the evolution of human consciousness
C- Post-Anthropocentric Theories
D- Matriculture Theory
E- Transpersonal Theory
F- Decolonizing Theory
G- Cultural Studies
H- Ecofeminist philosophy
1- Climate Change Adaptation
What is anthropogenic climate change?
What are the tipping points that could force runaway climate change?
What is the sixth mass extinction event?
Is climate change contributing to the mental health crisis?
What is the link between climate change and mass migrations?
What is the link between climate events and Dark Ages?
What are some other human dimensions of climate change adaptation?
Why is water protection a climate issue?
2- Deconstructing Necrophilia
Death of nature
Matricide
Loss of Cosmology
Silencing the Other
Passive citizenry
3- The Space In-Between
Reconnect with Nature
Know & Be Elementally
^ Dogon indigenous knowledge
Celebrate mothers
Imagine! Tell New Stories
Explore the Transpersonal
Flow with continuums
Learn transgressively
Becky's Story – Finding my Tree
Martin's Story – The Next Seven Generations
Willa's Story – Spiralling
Karlos's Story – Finding my Tribe
Engage politically
4- Natality
Natality: Regeneration
* Guna Yala: becoming by design
Natality: Matriculture
* Tamazight Matriculture in N.Africa
* Malta: Sky Mother cosmology at Mnajdra
Natality: Relationality
* Inuit Rituals of Reciprocity
Natality: Cosmology
* Buryatia: ensouling
Natality: Personhood
* Birthing and Midwifery in ancient Rome
* Eulogy for Mary John, Stoney Creek Woman & Carrier (Dene) Elder
Natality: Diversity
* Q'ero Praxis of Reciprocity
* The Himalayas: Durga, diversity and food sovereignty
Natality: Sharing
Natality – Governance
* Amazons of Africa and Asia
5- Matricultures
Elements of Matricultures
Mapping Indigenous Matricultures
Matricultures & Food Sovereignty
Theories of Matricultures & Matriarchies
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Adaptive capacity The ability of a system [human or natural] to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences. Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2, 2001. Third Assessment Report, Annex B: Glossary of Terms.
Afrocentrism Afrocentrism is a cultural theory that emerged in response to eurocentric/Orientalist racist attitudes about African people and their contributions to philosophy, science, history and culture. Afrocentric theory infers that humans originated in Africa, that first civilizations were in Africa, and that migrations flowed from Africa to other continents (Wolfstone, Mnajdra, p.4).
Agency Barad, viewing agency not as a noun, but as a process, uses the adjective 'agential.' Agential realism argues that agency is performed or enacted through embodied discourse, and that all matter is agential. In a recent interview, Barad declares that matter is living: "All matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers" (Dolphijn & van der Tuin, 2012a, np). In philosophy, agency is the capacity of a person to act with intention in the world. In sociology, an agent is an individual engaging with the social structure (a social actor). Synonyms: intentional, volitional.
Androcentric Male centred.
Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism is defined as the dualistic notion that humans are separate from and superior to nature (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.5). Regarding human beings at the centre of existence. (Oxford Canadian dictionary) Synonym: homocentric
Archaeomythology An interdisciplinary research method used to analyze cultures, both ancient and contemporary. This approach combines comparative archaeology, folklore, mythology, ethnography, history, linguistics and physical anthropology. Gimbutas pioneered the method. Harald Haarman has documented it. See also The Institute of Archaeomythology: http://www.archaeomythology.org.
Arctic Sea Ice Melt A highly sensitive tipping element with the smallest uncertainty. As sea-ice melts, it exposes a much darker ocean surface, which absorbs more radiation than white sea-ice so that the warming is amplified. This causes more rapid melting in summer and decreases ice formation in winter. Over the last 16 years ice cover during summer declined markedly. One model shows a nonlinear transition to a potential new stable state with no arctic sea-ice during summer within a few decades. Source: (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (2008, February 7). Tipping Elements In Earth's Climate System in Science Daily)
Biocultural Diversity Biocultural Diversity refers to the intersection of cultural, biological and linguistic diversity, which face the common threat of extinction due to neocolonialism and ecological imperialism. Biocultural diversity is critical to cultural continuity.
Boreal Forest dieback A tipping point with large uncertainty. The northern forests exhibit a complex interplay between tree physiology, permafrost and fire. A global mean warming of 3-5 degrees Celsius could lead to large-scale dieback of the boreal forests within 50 years. Under climate change the trees would be exposed to increasing water stress and peak summer heat and would be more vulnerable to diseases. Temperate tree species will remain excluded due to frost damage in still very cold winters. (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (2008, February 7). Tipping Elements In Earth's Climate System in Science Daily.)
Capitalism Capitalism is a system which favours the existence of capitalists. Capital is financial ownership of or investment in economic enterprises, denoting a distinctive form of private property. Capitalism is associated with industrialized or factory production with a free market for the exchange of money and commodities. Since the fall of communism, capitalist is the dominant economic system. Capitalist innovation tries to extract the maximum benefit from labour and thus produces wealth while deepening inequalities; it champions individualism while exercising autocratic power over labour. (New Keywords, 22-26)
Climate change adaptation (CAA) The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate or avoid harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In some natural systems, human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate and its effects. Source: IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I., M.L. Parry, et al.Eds., Cambridge University Press.
Climate Change Mitigation Actions taken to limit the magnitude and/or rate of climate change. Climate change mitigation involves reductions in human emissions of GHGs.
Collective unconscious Some of the psyche's contents are the result of specific individual experiences. But those contents that are generally shared with all members of the human race are called the collective unconscious. This is usually populated by universal archetypes that can emerge through dreams, visions, and fantasies. Jungian term synthesized from Mattoon (1981)& Daniels (2005).
Colonialism Colonialism is the strategy of appropriating another culture's land, identity and subjectivity in order to rule over its people (as subjects) by redefining them and writing their history from the colonizer's point of view. 'Colonial' not only means 'foreign'; it also means imposing and dominating. Political attack ads illustrate a contemporary microversion of colonialism in that a politician steals the identity of a political opponent and redefines that opponent in graphic, negative language in a way that disables the opponent from defining his/her own identity. See also Neocolonialism, Decolonization.
Conscious and unconscious Jung developed specific meanings as follows: conscious refers to what is under control of the ego. The unconscious refers to what is not under control of the ego. Most of the contents of the psyche are unconscious; in other words, we are often not aware of the deep motivations for our behaviours. Personal unconscious refers to experiences, thoughts, and memories that slip out of consciousness and become unconscious, including repressed memories and emotional complexes as well as elements that have not yet reached consciousness. The process of self-realization is to bring these contents into consciousness and integrate them. Jungian term synthesized from Mattoon (1981) and Daniels (2005).
Conscious Participation with Nature Owen Barfield's 'conscious participation' phase describes an emerging relationship in which humans consciously merge with nature to experience "a new level of unity" through the "systematic use of imagination" to integrate conscious and unconscious aspects of nature (Barfield, p.163). The "unity and coherence of nature depends on participation of one kind or another" (p.168). Humanity remembers to think symbolically "by valuing the Imagination as a mode of perception that brings knowledge…a way of knowing won through a total relationship" (Baring & Cashford, 1991, p.678). See also Owen Barfield in Foundations
Cosmology Cosmology lies intertwined with and beneath culture. Culture is specific to place and experience and thus relatively transitory, whereas cosmology lives on for much longer once it is established in the myths, legends, instincts and traditions of people. It is deep knowledge that is lived, embodied and often not articulated in linguistic form. Cosmology survives for millennia (Wolfstone, Mnajdra, p.3). Transitions from one belief system to another require a long process of change. Remnants of old beliefs are retained in myth and custom in spite of new technologies and cultural changes (Haarmann, 2007, p. 176).
Decolonization Decolonization, also known as anti-colonialism, is the intellectual, cultural and political process of resisting, exposing and interrupting colonialist power in all its forms, particularly the subtle, insidious forms of neocolonialism and eurocentrism. It is the agentic activity of enlivening postcolonial theory with a dignity-affirming bottom-up approach that transforms social relations (Dei, 2012, p.118) and reclaims the land, language and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. See also colonialism, neocolonialism. See Theory in Foundations.
Deconstruction Deconstruction is an analytical and theoretical method of exposing inequities, oppressions and exclusions in order to initiate change. It helps make visible the processes which (re)inscribe dominant discourses. It is useful for interrogating that which is assumed normal and which exerts a tremendous amount of power over understanding what is doable, speakable, understandable, believable, and ultimately, possible (Barrett, www.porosity.ca). Poststructural analysis is an epistemological tool for making visible particular assumptions and oppressions (i.e. anthropocentrism), how we to make visible privilege the human intellect and how to reconstitute binaries.
Disavowal Denial, negation and disavowal are three types of denialism. Disavowal involves radical splitting and a range of strategies that ensure that reality can be seen and not seen at one and the same time. Disavowal is often called turning a blind eye, but this description does not go far enough in distinguishing disavowal from negation. There are two key differences. First, with disavowal our more wish-fulfilling narcissistic part may have come under the sway of a more entrenched arrogant attitude that can exert a powerful hold on the psyche. Second, disavowal may be part of a more organized and enduring defensive structure, whereas negation is typically a more transitory defence against anxiety." (Weintrobe, p.38).
Dualism, duality Dualistic philosophy undergirds the oppression of nature by humans, as well as intersectional oppressions based on gender, race, ability and class. Descartes, the father of modern dualism, held that there are two kinds of existing things: physical and mental. He viewed the natural world as a vast machine, meaningless in itself and subject to control by humans. Since the eighteenth century, Cartesian dualism has dominated Western science, which favours materialism and reductionism.
Some of the binary oppositions produced by Western dualism are man/woman, culture/nature, thinking/feeling, mind/matter. The binaries are valuated differently insofar one part of the binary is deemed superior and orderly, while the other part of the binary is valuated as inferior and disorderly, and therefore located outside the sphere of influence. This dualistic paradigm is the foundation of hierarchal systems, including patriarchy, androcentrism and anthropocentrism (Wolfstone, Unitive Experience, 2014).
Ecocentrism Ecocentrism is defined as the nondual notion that humans are nature and are interdependent with all beings in the web of life. (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.5)
Ecofeminism Ecofeminism integrates radical feminist philosophy and environmental philosophy. Ecofeminism proposes three core premises:
1. The oppression of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected.
2. This is because patriarchal dualism places women and the concept 'Nature' in the same classification, which is deemed to be of less worth than the 'Culture/Masculine' classification.
3. Therefore any process that makes humanity more ecologically aware must also overcome the oppression of women.
Ecofeminism rejects neoliberal economics as inherently anthropocentric. See Foundations.
Ecological imperialism Ecological imperialism describes the ways in which the environments of colonized societies have been physically transformed by the experience of colonial occupation and neocolonialism. It altered ecologies and traditional subsistence patterns (Ashcroft, p.76) through 'development projects' such as dams, deforestation, causing degraded landscapes, famines and dependence on international aid for food. Ecological imperialism includes Western patenting of 'third world' plant and animal species, agricultural monocultures and introduction of GMO crops.
Elemental The elements are an onto-ethico-epistemology. Water, air and earth create the very materiality of the landscape; "wind, fire and water serve as transformative agents and catalysts of ecological change" (MacAuley, 2010, p.336). An elemental ethic points to collective responsibilities for both multi-centred and particular bodies of water, air and earth that sustain ecosystems (p.337). From a Jungian perspective, the elements conjure up mythical and material images, characterized as "archetypes, which are ideas or forms of thought emanating from the experiences of a people in such a way that they are powerfully present in the collective unconscious" (p.66). The elements are participatory; they keep each other balanced by their dynamic energies that create, transform and destroy, like Kali-Ma, and thus are inherent in the intra-action of regeneration (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.15). See also Foundation3
Emancipation in progress
Embodied Earth's elemental qualities in us are experience and stability. In epistemology, Earth provides insight on embodied existence and embeddedness in living ecosystems – the web of life. Embodied ways of knowing have the capacity to transform situations when we apply experiential knowledge, integrate sensory data and listen to the implicit. Experience is embodied knowledge.
Every natal comes to being by way of sexual reproduction and is in turn sexuate (Jantzen, p.150). Natals are rooted in embodied knowing through sexuality, birthing and nurturing new life where pain, ecstasy and joy intermingle in the everydayness of living. Feminist scholars have contributed significantly to embodied epistemology, but I also draw on Eugene Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit: "Our bodies sense themselves in living in our situations. Our bodies do our living. Our bodies are interaction in the environment…Our bodies don't lurk in isolation behind the five peepholes of perception" (Gendlin, 1992, p.345).
Empathy Empathy requires imagination – the capacity to imagine the feelings of the 'other'. Empathy with nature is the imaginal capacity to participate with nature emotionally, cognitively and ecologically.
Entanglement Entanglements occur when beings "emerge through and as part of their entangled intra-relating" (Barad, 2007, ix). Humans are intrinsically entangled with all beings and come to matter "through the world's iterative intra-activity – its performativity." (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.14).
Essentialism Essentialism is the assumption, based on dualistic philosophy, that groups, categories of classes of objects have defining features exclusive to all members of that category (Ashcroft, p.77). In binary opposites, one side is valuated as inferior to the other in order to justify paternalism or oppression. "Strategic essentialism" is a term coined by Gayatri Spivak to denote "a strategic use of positivist essentialism in a scrupulously visible political interest" (Spivak, 1985/1996, p. 214). It is used by a minority group acting on the basis of a shared identity in the public arena in the interests of unity during a struggle for equal rights. Spivak has subsequently disavowed the term because it has been misused.
Eurocentrism Eurocentrism is the conscious or unconscious assumption that european cultural values are normative or universal. By the 18th century, the collective construction of european superiority, accompanied by disdain for primitivism of non-european cultures, had led to a program of colonization that imposed european intellectual authority as well as colonialist institutions of education and governance. Eurocentrism is masked as a norm of civilization through Christianizing missionary activity, and by making English the universal language of math and aeronautics (Ashcroft, p.91f).
Food security in progress
Food sovereignty in progress
Hegemony Hegemony refers to the power of the ruling class to convince other classes that their interests are the interests of all, often not only through means of economic and political control but more subtly through the control of education and media.
Hierarchy A system by which groups of people or things are arranged in order of rank, grade, class of importance.
Holistic An elemental approach to holistic becoming improves on the Western dualistic model of holism in which body, mind and spirit are separate domains. A holistic onto-epistemology is indicated by narrators' learning activities that intra-act with the five elements – the dynamisms of cognition (Air), embodiment (Earth), relationality (Water), creativity (Fire) and transpersonal experience (Space) (Wolfstone, Becomiing Ecocentric, 2016, p.33).
Ideology Marx & Engel's held two distinct theories of ideology: (a) Relations between groups of unequal power that produce a state of false consciousness for those who live within its reality, where the illusion of reality serves the interests of the economic class with greater power. (b) All people have an ideology. It is the form by which we become conscious of our world and is always an incomplete and abstract worldview because it represents the view of one group, and does not represent all groups. (New Keywords, pp. 175-178)
Imaginary in progress
Imagination The exercise of imagination leads to knowledge because it contributes to meaning and opens the mind to insight (Barfield, p.171). It is involved in abstraction and symbol-making. For Barfield, language is related to nature; it is metaphorical and mythical because it reflects the true character of the universe (Myers, 1998, p.7-8). Jung's psychological interpretation of mythology as archetypes or metaphors experienced through the collective unconscious makes a significant contribution to Barfield's notion of participation through imagination (Barfield, p.154). Jung refers to active imagination as a method of introspection for observing the stream of interior images by uncritically focusing attention on some impressive but unintelligible dream image, or on a spontaneous visual impression, and observes or interacts with the changes taking place in it (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.12).
Indigeneity Indigeneity refers to an expanded, internationalized dimension of indigenousness; it recognizes that knowledge is derived from long-term habitation of a place that allows a people to reference their own established cultural, ecological and linguistic ways of knowing to resist the colonial imposition of external ideas and values ( Dei, p.34, 92). Spiritual knowing is a substructure of indigenous cultural knowledge that avoids the dualisms of sacred/secular and material/non-material (Dei, p.118). Local consciousness of one's existence is experienced individually and collectively, socially and ecologically.
Indigenous knowledges In progress. I use this term instead of "traditional ecological knowledges" (TEK).
Informal Learning My definition emerged from my Becoming Ecocentric study and differs from the OECD definition: Informal learning is intentional, but it is less organized, less structured and more experiential than nonformal learning; it may include self-directed, learner-centred and social learning activities that occur at multiple sites in the family, workplace and community (EUROSTAT cited by Werquin, 2007). (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.33).
Intentional See Agency
Intra-active becoming, intra-action Intra-action, a neologism introduced by Barad, challenges dualism. Intra-action contrasts with 'interaction', which assumes that there are separate individual agencies that precede their interaction and are constantly differentiating. Phenomena are not collections of humans and nonhumans; they are the condition of possibility of all beings, not merely as concepts, but in their materiality (Wolfstone, Becoming Ecocentric, 2016, p.14). See Foundations.
Matriarchy "A social system in which the dominant authority is held by women". M.Gimbutas. A social order where women are at the centre but do not subjugate men. In matriarchies, the focus shifts from sovereignty to archetype. Peggy Reeves Sanday. Heidi Goettner-Abendroth distinguishes matriarchy from patriarchy: In patriarchal societies, all social spheres are strictly separated and isolated in various institutions. That in turn creates elite groups and serves to enforce power interests. The result is domination and oppression.
Matricentric Centered around a mother or mothers. A matrilinear culture with women as the focus; in such a culture, there is usually an extended clan structure, with goods and status passed through the mother line. This culture does not presume the subordination of men, but rather a partnership between the sexes, and the expected division of labour determined by gender (Passman: 185). See also Matriculture.
Matriculture Matriculture refers to cultural traditions that valorize natality, in its literal and metaphoric meanings, and elevate mothering for its creative, spiritual, affective, educational and judicial contributions to cultural continuity (Wolfstone, 2014). Matriculture does not presume the subordination of men, but rather a partnership between the sexes, and the expected division of labour determined by gender (Passman, 1993, p.185). Women's role as carriers of the culture is highly valued. The scholarly evidence is mounting that matriculture preceded patriarchy, however it was not a universalism. See also Foundations.
Matrilineal A social organization in which ancestral descent and inheritance is traced through the mother line. Women are thus honoured but do not subjugate men.
Matrilocal Having the home territory of a matrilineal kin group
Matristic Pertaining to the mother in a spectrum that includes matriarchy, matrilineal, matrifocal and egalitarian. (J.Marler)
metaphor In progress
Monoculture In progress. Refer to Vandana Shiva and Luisa Maffi
Natality Natality (n. from Latin natalis; adj. natal) means 'pertaining to one's birth' or 'native' in reference to a place. Related words are native, nativity. (Canadian Oxford Dictionary). Synonyms: vitality, aliveness, animate, continuous birth. Refer to Foundations
naturecultures I use the term 'naturecultures' instead of 'social' to signify the participation and interdependence of all beings in community. "Naturecultures" was coined by Latour and explicated by Haraway (Puig, 2009, p.157).
Necrophilia Necrophilia (n. from Greek nekro – corpse; -philia – loving ) means morbid and erotic attraction to death or corpses. (Canadian Oxford Dictionary)
Neocolonialism Neocolonialism is a term that builds on the concept of imperialism as the last stage of capitalism. Although countries have achieved 'technical' independence, ex-colonial powers and the U.S., as a superpower, continue to play a decisive role through the IMF and WB, price fixing, multinational corporations, and educational institutions. Neocolonialism is more insidious and subtle than overt colonialism (Ashcroft, 2000, p.162f) and has resulted in globalization. Neocolonizers in Africa include multinational corporations as well as governments of China and Saudi Arabia investing in oil, minerals and food crops.
Nonduality A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
How can the divine Oneness be seen?
In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders, awe-inspiring miracles?
The Tao is not obliged to present itself in this way.
If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most
ordinary things.
— Lao Tsu
Onto-epistemology Onto-ethico-epistemology in its hyphenated sense captures something important about new materialism, and that is that what is in the world (ontology), what we know what is in the world (epistemology) cannot be separated as two separate things that do not affect one another (van der Tuin). That is, things emerge in the world and they are both shaped by what we know and material simultaneously, and even more we cannot think of them as separate. Finally, for both van der Tuin and Barad, embedded within this concept is that everything that emerges is embedded in politics, and while there is no inherent way of being ethical, there are choices that people make in specific special temporal consequences by which they had a role to play and should take partial responsibility (Newmaterialistscartographies, 2015, np).
Paradigm Paradigm means the systems of thought and action in a theoretical framework that denotes how a society understands and enacts reality and how it organizes itself in accordance with that reality. Paradigm is a stronger word than 'worldview' which describes the transient set of beliefs and values that affect our perception of reality. Paradigm is comprised of theories, generalizations and assumptions that support the application of thought to lived experience.
Paradigm shift Thomas Kuhn coined the term "paradigm shift" to refer to a comprehensive framework derived from a belief system about the nature of knowledge (epistemology) and existence (ontology). A paradigm shift is a revolutionary process whereby the world transitions from one framework to a replacement framework – creating the sense of different worlds or different civilizations. In the crisis phase, anomalies arise that the present paradigm cannot explain. In the transitional phase, the breakdown of the paradigm becomes universally accepted. The shift occurs not as a revision or transformation, but as a fundamental change that requires new language, new questions and new onto-epistemologies (Dietze, 2001, p.39). The Copernican Revolution is a good example of a paradigm shift. In order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus in Central Africa, a paradigm shift is underway regarding the treatment of dead bodies.
Patriarchy A form of ranked social organization in which male is the supreme authority in the private (family) and public (community, culture, government) spheres. It usually involves a patrilineal structure where goods and status pass through the father line. The Greek root arkhō means rule and thus emphasizes authority. Androcentric and masculinist are related terms which focus on male gender rather than paternal authority, and generally have phallocentric meanings.
Patrilineal A social organization in which ancestral descent and inheritance is traced through the father line.
Patrilocal Having the home territory of patrilineal kin groups
Patristic Pertaining to the father, in a spectrum that includes patriarchy, patrilineal, patrifocal and egalitarian.
political in progress. critical…hegemony… transgressive…agonism.. Disruption, deconstruction, Goal: emancipation
Postcolonial feminism Postcolonial feminism has strong ties with indigenous movements and wider postcolonial theory. It critiques sexist scholarship that projects a patriarchal cosmology and social structure on pre-colonial, indigenous cultures. It exposes and interrupts sexist models of neocolonialist practice that deny women their right to participate fully in the proposed social or economic models.
Postcolonial theory See Foundations
Postmodernity Postmodernity is a historical period after modernity which began with the Enlightenment and ended in the 1960s when cultural and social change are linked to changes in capitalism, and a shift in focus from production to consumption. Cultural changes specific to postmodernity include eclecticism, superficiality, loss of ideology, media saturation. Cultural theorists for the contemporary period include Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari and poststructuralists. There is a crisis of knowledge related to the widespread rejection of overarching and totalizing frameworks (metanarratives).
Praxis Praxis is an iterative practise of reflection, critique, political action and pedagogy with a goal of social transformation. It is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, practiced, embodied, or realised. Praxis may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. Praxis is a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, particularly Critical Theory.
Regeneration in progress
Relationality in progress
Religion Religion emerges from a culture's embodied relationship to nature and gives institutional form to the cosmological ideas that precede religion, and thus constrains the imagination. Today, world religions are transcultural in scope. Religions may retain some shamanic and pagan elements but regulate and formalize tenets of faith through conceptual solidity documented in text, institutionalized ritual, and priestly roles. Note: I do not use 'religion' or 'spiritual' to describe indigenous cultures whose cosmology and cultural traditions have not been recorded by them in a writing system devised for their language and their culture. Indigenous cultures, prior to the emergence of a 'religion', were nondualistic and did not separate the secular and sacred as dualistic tend to do. In indigenous traditions, theism is not required; pantheism or panentheism may exist in combination with animism and shamanism. It is pre-text and pre-religion, precluding documented texts and institutionalized religions, and is thus transmitted through oral tradition and the language of culture: myth, ritual, symbols and signs.
Resilience The ability of a system [human or natural] to resist, absorb, and recover from the effects of hazards in a timely and efficient manner, preserving or restoring its essential basic structures, functions and identity. Adapted from: UNISDR, 2009. Terminology: Basic terms of disaster risk reduction and IISD et al, 2007. Community-based Risk Screening – Adaptation and Livelihoods (CRiSTAL) User's Manual, Version 3.0. The ability of a human, natural phenomenon or material to recover from a shock, insult, or disturbance. (Wikipedia) It is the ability to cope with and/or adapt to long-term, systemic and secular change while maintaining or enhancing core properties. In communities, resilience is the organization's ability to survive a crisis and thrive in a world of uncertainty. Resilience is an acquired skill that builds capacity to adapt to the consequences of a catastrophe caused by natural or man-made disaster, including climate change, a terrorist attack, long-term power outage, or similar event. A sub-set of denomination that subscribes to the creed of a denomination but interprets it through unique rituals (i.e. immersion baptism) or cultural habits (i.e. dress-code, language) that distinguish them in their denomination. For example, General Conference Mennonites and Old Colony Mennonites are both sects within the denomination called Mennonite. Differences of belief are not substantive but they may be perceived as a splinter group or faction.
Self-Sufficiency The ability to supply one's needs for a commodity, especially food, from one's own resources. Independence. (Canadian Oxford Dictionary) personal or collective autonomy. Some first nations continue to be self-sufficient, never having given up their traditional ways of hunting and gathering food.
Separation alienation, apathy, estrangement, anxiety, anomie, confusion.
Spirituality I do not use this word because it has conflicting meanings. It often imposes colonialist nuances from the Christian dualism of Trinity and the secular dualism of body/mind/spirit.
States of consciousness There are several states of consciousness, including sleep, coma and waking. The relationship between the mind and the world can be altered using diverse means to move into an altered states of consciousness (ASC) which Jung called numinous experience. Some altered states occur naturally; some are caused by brain damage and some are induced, at will, through mind altering activities or psychoactive drugs. See table on Brain Activity in States of Consciousness in (Wolfstone, Unitive Experience, 2013, p.49).
Strategic essentialism "Strategic essentialism" is a term coined by Gayatri Spivak to denote "a strategic use of positivist essentialism in a scrupulously visible political interest" (Spivak, 1985/1996, p. 214); it is used by a minority group acting on the basis of a shared identity in the public arena in the interests of unity during a struggle for equal rights. Spivak has subsequently disavowed the term because it has been misused.
Subaltern Subaltern refers to peoples who have been silenced in the administration of colonial states which impose a false essentialist identity on the subaltern. According to Spivak, the subaltern is denied access to political forms of representation in hegemonic power structures.
Sustainability I do not use this word because it has conflicting meanings related to economics, ecology and human communities. It is complicit with anthropocentrism.
Symbology In progress. See also imaginary.
Theology Theology is the study (ology) of God (Theos), and relates to the God of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and B'hai). It is a scholarly (academic) approach that considers historical scholarship as well as recent research that is subject to peer review.
Transformation learning I discard the transformational learning theories of Mezirow, Dirkx and Boyd as lacking the capacity to address climate change. Their theories have been co-opted by the mainstream paradigm, are individualistic and uncritical.
Transgressive Transgressive refers to critical ways of being that intentionally go 'against the grain' of the dominant anthropocentric paradigm. Becoming ecocentric is transgressive in that it decolonizes nature by deconstructing the dominant stories of place and telling new place stories of deep, embodied intimacy – a "revolution of tenderness" (Somerville, Boff). George Sefa Dei's transgressive pedagogy does against the grain by decolonizing learning. I include transpersonal learning in transgressive learning because it goes against the grain of mainstream educational practice.
Transpersonal Jung used the term 'numinous' to describe nondual, unitive experience in which we let go of ego to engage with our unconscious. Jung regarded numinous experience as fundamental to understanding the individuation process because it is associated with archetypes. Imagination is essential to unitive experience in order to work with the collective unconscious. Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit is relevant because it explains how metaphors emerge from unitive experience and are carried forward and given form, through language. All natals are capable of numinous or unitive experience – of entering that place of no-space/no-time where we experience At-Oneness with All-that-is. All natals have the neurological capacity to experience nonduality in altered states of consciousness (Winkelman, 2011, p.271ff).
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Digital technologies make E. China's Hangzhou smarter
A man in Lin'an district, Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province scans a health QR code on a poster to apply for his own color-based QR code indicating personal health conditions, Feb. 15. Photo by Hu Jianhuan /People's Daily Online
By Jiang Nan, People's Daily
City Brain, a smart city system powered by cutting-edge technologies, such as big data and cloud computing, is making Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province a more intelligent city in terms of urban governance.
With the system, enterprises can transfer rental subsidies granted by the government to their employees in just two seconds, a process that used to take around 10 business days.
The City Brain was initially developed to tackle traffic congestion when Hangzhou firstly explored urban governance in digital methods in 2016. By sample analysis of vehicles and monitoring traffic data, the city innovatively introduced a "traffic delay index" that can make traffic lights smarter. The system improved the average speed of traffic flow by 15 percent, though the city has witnessed a net inflow of 1.2 million people and 400,000 vehicles, as well as a 20 percent decline in road areas caused by metro and other constructions in the recent three years.
Achieving an outstanding performance in reducing traffic congestion, the system later extended its reach to digital urban governance, with its innovative achievements being introduced to livelihood sectors, including urban community governance, culture and tourism, and health care.
For example, given the multi-dimensional integration of commercial and government data, visitors can access a park in 20 seconds, and check into a hotel in 30 seconds. Such service has been introduced to 163 tourist attractions and cultural venues, as well as 414 hotels. The city is also home to 603,000 "leave-and-pay" parking spots, freeing the drivers from queuing up to pay for the parking fees. Besides, a total of 254 hospitals in the city now offer "only pay once" service, benefiting over 32 million patients and involving a total expense of 1.5 billion yuan ($212 million).
"It only took 3 days for a couple and a young man in our company to rent their respective apartments, and both of the houses are spacious and have great exposure," Yu Jinzhu, assistant manager of Binjiang Property Management Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou's Jianggan district told People's Daily, who was quite satisfied when speaking of the experience of helping his non-local employees find proper apartments through a new type of government-business platform under the City Brain.
Such satisfaction came from the City Brain's excellent ability in data analysis, as data from 5 municipal-level departments has been shared with the system to guide the site selection of economical apartments and match the housing demand of different employees.
The city is also combining big data with grid management to make social governance more efficient and targeted.
In Hubin community of the city's Shangcheng district, the information of 10,736 apartments has been incorporated in a unified address database, and 689 senior citizens living alone are given special attention based on big data analysis. Once sudden and dramatic changes are spotted in electricity consumption and other data, the City Brain will inform relevant grid-controllers to go for inspection.
So far, the City Brain has been exploited by 96 government departments and 317 information system programs in Hangzhou, processing an average of 120 million pieces of data every day.
In the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic this year, the city responded quickly with digital approaches. The color-based QR code indicating health conditions, the digital platform facilitating work resumption, and the government-business platform it launched have all powered epidemic control and production resumption in digital means.
The number of patients received by major hospitals' fever clinics is also transmitted to the City Brain in real time, which served as important references for the city's epidemic prevention and control.
A staff member with the urban management bureau of Xiacheng district, Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, introduces the application of a new AI-based analysis system in urban management at a launch event, Nov. 21, 2019. Photo by Long Wei/People's Daily Online
A comprehensive urban management platform is put into use in Xiacheng district, Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province on April 29. The platform aims to build a smart commanding center by integrating sanitation, municipal affairs, order building, traffic management, parking service, greening and garbage sorting, and combining smart hardware such as autopilot vehicles with internet and AI technology. Besides, the platform is also connected with traffic police department, housing and urban development department, and neighborhood communities. Photo by Long Wei/People's Daily Online
A 5G driverless street sweeper under the urban management platform of Xiacheng district, Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, works on a sidewalk along Yan'an Road, April 29. Photo by Long Wei/People's Daily Online
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Puckett's Pond's Minnesota Twins 2018 Top-40 Prospects: #31-35
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BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 20: A Minnesota Twins cap and glove in the dug out before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards at on August 20, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
No. 34 Ernie De La Trinidad, OF, Fort Myers Miracle
Nate's Rank: 34, Gary's Rank: 35
19-year-old Ernie De La Trinidad is generally considered the "third guy" the Minnesota Twins received in the July deadline trade that sent Eduardo Escobar to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Twins also acquired OF Gabriel Maciel and RHP Jhoan Duran. Early reports suggest that the left-handed hitting corner outfielder may be more than the "throw-in" on that deal.
The D-Backs took a home-town kid with their 19th round pick in the 2017 draft. De La Trinidad, a native of Phoenix played for UNLV in 2017, producing a .361/.465/.559 slash line with five triples, seven homers and 30 RBI's. He transferred from Central Arizona College following a 2016 season where he slashed .399/.497/.622 in 49 games.
De La Trinidad spent his 2017 summer in Missoula of the Rookie League. There he hit a very respectable .297/.385/.510 in 92 at-bats, with 36 K's and 21 walks. He earned a 2018 promotion to Lower Class A Kane County of the Midwest League where he produced a 311/.403/.402 slash line with 8 home runs, 56 RBI's, 46 K's and 45 walks in 312 at-bats before the trade.
The Twins chose to assign De La Trinidad to advanced Single-A Fort Myers. He has excelled against competition averaging a half a year older than himself. In 39 at-bats, he has put together a line of .359/.435/.462, with 6 K's and 6 walks for the Miracle. At only 5′ 9″, 165 pounds, De La Trinidad has a career slugging percentage of .468. And at age 19, there should be more power coming as he matures. On defense this season, mostly right field, he has 9 outfield assists and 4 errors for a .974 fielding percentage. 72 walks in 543 at-bats are also promising at this stage in his development. De La Trinidad could climb quickly if he can carry those power numbers with him through future advances up the ladder.


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Q: Table thead background color not showing up when printing I am making a table that has sticky header and left column. It has thead, tbody and tfoot. I noticed that sometimes the background color for the thead does not show up. I want the thead to show on the top of every page when printing, but also to show its background-color.
Here is the whole "test.html" code that displays the problem in Chrome. Note: It needs a jquery reference.
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <title>Title of the document</title>

Here is a snippet of how it looks in print preview in chrome
Header on page 1

Header on page 2. Here we see that the text is there in white color, but the background color does not show.

Does anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks

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Justin Sloan
P.T. Hylton
Justice Earned: Age of Expansion - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Valerie's Elites Book 4) Kindle Edition
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What does it mean to fight for justice?
Valerie went to space to make a difference, to form alliances for the Etheric Federation, and to kick some major ass.
When she's put up against a massive enemy fleet with only the promise of a legendary weapon lost long ago, she has the chance to do all three. She and her Elites set off to show the galaxy that you don't mess with a vampire in space, but even more so--you don't mess with her friends.
Meanwhile, Kalan is right back where he started, in a place he'd hoped to never see again. But his imprisonment leads him and Wearl to a mystery whose answer could help Valerie and the Elites in their fight against the ultimate foe.
In this battle, Justice won't come easy. It must be earned.
ASIN  :  B07C282NNH
Publisher  :  LMBPN Publishing; 1st edition (8 April 2018)
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Justin Sloan is a full-time author, game writer, and screenwriter. With a focus on character motivation, he is passionate about point of view and diving deep into issues that resonate with the audience. It all started when his grandma had asked for a journal of his travels around the world, both with the Marines and via his graduate degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins.
Instead, Justin captured the sense of adventure and nostalgia in his books. Ultimately, he left government service behind and decided to make the leap to creative.
What followed was a career of writing video games, authoring and editing articles at Military.com, and publishing over 100 novels. He started on high-profile IP-based games with credits on such titles as Tales from the Borderlands, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Minecraft: Story Mode.
Justin has worked on Marvel and mobile games, and a TV hybrid AI show titled Rival Peak. His books are in such genres as military science fiction, epic fantasy, and thriller. On the screenwriting side, Justin has adapted novels, won contests, and optioned features and a television pilot to both indie and major studios.
Along with his time as a signals intelligence Marine, Justin has worked for the federal government, Federal Reserve Bank, taught martial arts, and can play three songs on the bagpipes. He studied creative writing at the Johns Hopkins MA program, and screenwriting at UCLA.
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P.T. Hylton lives in Eastern Tennessee where he spends his time hiking, reading, and absently plucking on a guitar.
He loves strong coffee, brown ale, and a good plot twist. He does his best writing when his beagle is snoring at his feet.
Walk The Line: A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Birth Of Magic Book 2)
N.D. Roberts
The Line Unbroken: A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Birth Of Magic Book 1)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keep on keeping on
Reviewed in Australia on 8 May 2018
Valerie's team is expanding and growing not only in numbers. I'm loving that there are characters who are outside of what the majority consider to be "sexual norms" and it is a natural part of the story, flowing smoothly. Now how long until the next book???
5.0 out of 5 stars They are fantastic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2018
I love all theses books. Have them on kindle an audio x
kevinmac5
5.0 out of 5 stars vampire kickass
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2018
Valerie and co another great adventure
G. L Day
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2018
great book, great series
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5.0 out of 5 stars This was fun!
Such a good read. Lots of action, well done story development. Some nice personal moments for our heroines, not too much, just well placed and nicely done. And I just loved the parts with Kalan and his Shimmer, specially that last scene by the end of the book. And that is no spoiler, or did you daubt for a minute that those are going to make it? Really? That's one of the things I love in the KG world, a fun ride where you can rely on our heros to make it, not matter what.
redheadedminx
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read that ties up loose ends while leaving you intrigued and wanting more
Reviewed in the United States on 19 April 2018
Exactly the kind of complex, interwoven tales within the greater story that I love and have come to expect from Justin Sloan, P.T. Hylton, and Michael Anderle. It's been an amazing ride following Valerie from her first introduction through her journey out into space, bringing justice to planets and systems she never dreamed existed. Through it all, she's grown and helped others grow as well: the mark of a great leader. Kalan and Wearl have also become favorites, and I fervently hope there will be more of their story to come as well! (After that ending, there'd BETTER be...Curiosity Mode: Engaged!)


Hi! My name is Jenna Hall and I will be your child's first grade teacher for the 2016-2017 school year. I look forward to having a fun and educational year with your child.
Here is a little information about me. I have lived in Phenix City all of my life attended Phenix City Public Schools. After graduating from Central High School, I went on to graduate from Troy University with both a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree. I have been teaching at Phenix City Elementary School for 11 years. I am the mother of a very active first grader who keeps me busy!
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Schiebel S-100 Camcopter deployed to help save refugees in Mediterranean Sea
The Unmanned Air System (UAS) Schiebel S-100 Camcopter has been deployed to help save the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea as part of an operation called Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).
Founded by Christopher and Regina Catrambone, MOAS is made up of a group of international humanitarians, security professionals, medical staff and experienced maritime operators who will help in preventing tragedies at sea.
Based in Malta, MOAS has a board of advisors made up of distinguished personalities from various sections of society, and it is dedicated to preventing loss of life at sea by offering aid, assistance and medical help to migrants who find themselves in distress while crossing the Mediterranean Sea in unsafe boats.
MOAS has started an operation called Phoenix, which will help avoid future tragedies at sea.
"The Phoenix vessel will carry out three operations in central Mediterranean between August and October this year, each lasting two to three weeks."
Phoenix is a 40m ship-borne aid station equipped with two 6m-long rigid inflatable boats onboard that respond to calls for assistance.
The ship launches the Schiebel S-100 Camcopter to monitor the seas from the sky and provide real-time intelligence to MOAS and the rescue coordination centres (RCC) to offer immediate assistance.
Operated by Schiebel personnel, the Camcopter is equipped with electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) cameras which helps in providing clear images in real-time, day and night, even under adverse weather conditions to locate people in need.
The Phoenix vessel will carry out three operations in central Mediterranean between August and October this year, each lasting two to three weeks.
Schiebel Group chairman Hans Georg Schiebel said: "We are very happy to provide this capability and our experience for MOAS to help people in need.
"With our combined effort we can save the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea and hopefully raise awareness for the situation of migrants worldwide."
Image: The 40m Phoenix is equipped with two 6m-long rigid inflatable boats on board that respond to calls for assistance. Photo: courtesy of MOAS and Schiebel.
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Q: NSPoint/NSRect from character in NSTextView So I am trying to get either an NSPoint or NSRect corresponding with the location of a specific character in an NSTextView. This is what I have so far (that isn't working very well, the results seem kind of unpredictable.
NSRange theTextRange = [[theTextView layoutManager] glyphRangeForCharacterRange:[theTextStorage editedRange] actualCharacterRange:NULL];
NSRect theTextRect = [[theTextView layoutManager] boundingRectForGlyphRange:theTextRange inTextContainer:[theTextView textContainer]];

A: The rect returned by boundingRectForGlyphRange:inTextContainer: is in container coordinates. You need to adjust for this if you want to get the rect relative to the text view:
NSRange theTextRange = [[textView layoutManager] glyphRangeForCharacterRange:textRange actualCharacterRange:NULL];
NSRect layoutRect = [[textView layoutManager] boundingRectForGlyphRange:theTextRange inTextContainer:[textView textContainer]];
NSPoint containerOrigin = [textView textContainerOrigin];
layoutRect.origin.x += containerOrigin.x;
layoutRect.origin.y += containerOrigin.y;

A: You can use mouse down event by NSPoint & NSRect
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

@interface ClickTextView : NSView {
    NSMutableArray *texts;
    NSPoint currentLocation;
    NSCell *cell;
}

@end

#import "ClickTextView.h"
@interface TextClip : NSObject
{

@public
    NSString *text;
    NSPoint location;
}

@end

@implementation TextClip @end

@implementation ClickTextView
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
    texts = [NSMutableArray new];
    cell = [[NSTextFieldCell alloc] initTextCell: @""];
    [cell setEditable: YES];
}

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect
{
    NSRect frame = rect;
    [[NSColor whiteColor] set];
    [NSBezierPath fillRect: rect];
    for (TextClip *clip in texts)
    {
        [cell setStringValue: clip->text];
        frame.origin = clip->location;
        [cell drawWithFrame: frame inView: self];
    }
}

- (void)mouseDown: (NSEvent*)theEvent
{
    currentLocation = [self convertPoint: [theEvent locationInWindow]
                                fromView: nil];
    NSText *fieldEditor = [[self window] fieldEditor: YES
                                           forObject: self];
    [cell endEditing: fieldEditor];
    [fieldEditor setString: @""];
    [cell setStringValue: @""];
    NSRect frame = {currentLocation, {400, 400}};
    [cell editWithFrame: frame
                 inView: self
                 editor: fieldEditor
               delegate: self
                  event: theEvent];
}
- (BOOL)isFlipped
{
    return YES;
}
- (void)textDidEndEditing: (NSNotification*)aNotification
{
    NSText *text = [aNotification object];
    TextClip *clip = [[TextClip alloc] init];
    clip->text = [[text string] copy];
    clip->location = currentLocation;
    [texts addObject: clip];
    [cell endEditing: text];
    [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
}
@end


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Sports & Recreation(Archives)
The Oilbarons' Great Season
BY TYLER KING — Email
So far, Fort McMurray's biggest sports team has gotten off to an historic start. The only remaining question is whether that start can result in an historic finish.
The Fort McMurray Oil Barons began the season with an unprecedented 14-0 record; shattering the team's previous franchise record of 10-0, set back in 1999.
It wasn't until their archrival Spruce Grove Saints managed to sneak by the MOB in a shootout 4-3, on a Sunday afternoon at the end of a tough three games in three days trip, that that historic start hit its first speed bump.
But overall, the Barons have found themselves commanding both the provincial and national standings for the vast majority of the year.
There's no one particular key to the team's dominating start. For most of the year, the team has been ranked in the top three provincially in both goals for and goals against.
The key to such a strong and deep corps of personnel can be traced back to last season's trade deadline on January 10, when head coach and GM Gord Thibodeau underwent perhaps one of the biggest roster makeovers the team has seen in years; jettisoning the vast majority of his veteran talent in exchange for players who would be able to help the team in 2013.
Those trades are clearly paying dividends today.
When he sent veteran forward Harry Hendrix to the Drumheller Dragons, a player was promised to the MOB in the off-season. This turned out to be the Dragons' leading scorer, veteran Ryan Bloom, who has been the pace leader of the MOB all season in points, immediately became an alternate captain on the squad, and has led the entire league in assists for pretty well the entire season.
When he sent WHL pickup Danny Gayle to the West Kelowna Warriors in B.C., fans couldn't have been sure what they'd get from the forward the MOB received in return, Jetlan Houcher. He'd had a fantastic minor hockey career in Lloydminster; but it hadn't translated into points at the junior A level.
Thibodeau insisted the key for Houcher was playing time. He was right. Houcher led the Barons in goals after January 10, and in the 2013-14 season has become one of the league's most feared forwards, not to mention the new team captain.
Finally, when Thibodeau sent captain Brock Maschmeyer to the Nanaimo Clippers, it shocked the vast majority of MOB fans. One of the best d-men in the league had been shipped across provinces, and all the Barons had gotten back was a younger forward named Kevin Miller out of Stony Plain.
Once again, Thibodeau knew exactly what he was getting. Miller developed at a rapid pace in his time with Fort McMurray into a fantastic two-way centre. This year, he has become both a dangerous shooter and sensational playmaker, and was quickly rewarded with a division one scholarship to Ohio State University.
One thing is certain; yet another entertaining playoff run is in the offing for Oil Barons fans, and there won't need to be any more rebuilding to make that possible.
Photo Captions:
A03I5929 - The MOB and the Notre Dame Hounds from Wilcox, Saskatchewan played an exhibition game to benefit the Dream a Dream 17 charity in memory of Mandy Schwartz, who played hockey for the Yale Bulldogs and died of cancer.
IMG 6121 - MOB Assistant Captain Alex Cromwell (right) and Ryan Donovan of the Notre Dame Hounds grew up together and have played hockey together since they were 8 years old in McKinney, Texas. Then they were opponents in the Dream-a-Dream 17 game as the MOB took on the Athol Murray Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League(SJHL).
Photography by Dan Lines
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Q: Using Ctypes to wrap .LIB files I need to control a device in python using Ctypes. However, the libraries that come with the device are compiled .LIB files, not .DLLs. Is it still possible to use Ctypes?

A: No. Not directly anyway. CTypes uses the dynamic linker (LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress) to work. You could wrap the LIB file in your own DLL possibly, but you won't be able to use Ctypes directly with the lib file.


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Q: Game idea "square or not" I have an idea of a quadrilateral / square  game, and am looking for help.
For the moment lets call it the "Square or Not " game.
Imagine we have a big stack of cards with on each
card some property of a square.
The properties have the following limitations:

*

*The property is valid for square.

*The property is valid for some quadrilateral that is not a square (so the property doesn't define the quadrilateral as a square)

*The property is expressable in a short sentence, and understandable for a twelf year old.(except maybe some geometrical terms, that can be explained in a booklet)

Examples of valid properties:

*

*the quadrilateral is a rectangle.

*the quadrilateral has a line of symmetry.

*a diagonal cuts the quadrilateral in two similar triangles.

*a bimedian cuts the quadrilateral in half (by area).

*the quadrilateral has at least one right angle.

*two adjecent sides have the same length.

*the two diagonals have the same length.

*the quadrilateral is convex.

Examples of invalid properties:

*

*a diagonal lies outside the quadrilateral (not valid for a square).

*the area of the circumscribed circle is twice the area of the inscribed circle (this implies the quadrilateral is a square).

the game (solitaire version)
The player picks at random a dozen property cards and must decide if a
quadrilateral with all these properties is nescesarily a square or not.
If it is a square: (Probably it is) - what is the minimal number of properties that needs to be removed so that the quadrilateral is not necesary a square?
What help I need:

*

*more properties of a square, (will later add my own list of properties)

*who could help me making this game (or a software version of it)


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Q: Request just hangs Request to get analyzer list just hangs. Specifically > return Client.ListAnalyzersAsync().Result
This ultimately calls an http client request.
My code is directly from the sample app. Still no love. Appreciate the help
Here is the default url in the LinquisticClient library
private const string DefaultServiceHost = "https://api.projectoxford.ai/linguistics/v1.0";
Here is the class  that I created
My call is to this method - Parse()
public static class LinguisticAnalyzer
{
    private static readonly LinguisticsClient Client = new LinguisticsClient("Removed_id");

    public static string Parse(string line)
    {
        // List analyzers
        Analyzer[] supportedAnalyzers = null;
        try
        {
            supportedAnalyzers = ListAnalyzers();
            var analyzersAsJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(supportedAnalyzers, Formatting.Indented, jsonSerializerSettings);
            Console.WriteLine("Supported analyzers: " + analyzersAsJson);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Failed to list supported analyzers: " + e.ToString());
            Environment.Exit(1);
        }

        // Analyze text with all available analyzers
        var analyzeTextRequest = new AnalyzeTextRequest()
        {
            Language = "en",
            AnalyzerIds = supportedAnalyzers.Select(analyzer => analyzer.Id).ToArray(),
            Text = line //"Welcome to Microsoft Linguistic Analysis!"
        };

        try
        {
            var analyzeTextResults = AnalyzeText(analyzeTextRequest);
            var resultsAsJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(analyzeTextResults, Formatting.Indented, jsonSerializerSettings);
            Console.WriteLine("Analyze text results: " + resultsAsJson);

            return resultsAsJson;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Failed to list supported analyzers: " + e.ToString());
            Environment.Exit(1);
        }

        return "";
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Default jsonserializer settings
    /// </summary>
    private static JsonSerializerSettings jsonSerializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings()
    {
        DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat,
        NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
        ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver()
    };

    /// <summary>
    /// List analyzers synchronously.
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>An array of supported analyzers.</returns>
    private static Analyzer[] ListAnalyzers()
    {
        try
        {
            return Client.ListAnalyzersAsync().Result;
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            throw new Exception("Failed to gather list of analyzers", exception as ClientException);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Analyze text synchronously.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="request">Analyze text request.</param>
    /// <returns>An array of analyze text result.</returns>
    private static AnalyzeTextResult[] AnalyzeText(AnalyzeTextRequest request)
    {
        try
        {
            return Client.AnalyzeTextAsync(request).Result;
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            throw new Exception("Failed to analyze text", exception as ClientException);
        }
    }

}

A: This turned out to be an issue with the C# client library, not the service itself.  More information can be found on GitHub.